Foreign News.

Colonist, Issue 6, 10 November 1857, Page 3

Foreign News.

UNITED STATES. By way of Liverpool, we have news from New York to the sth of August, of which the Times of the 1 7th gives the following precis: — . The President and some of the Ministers being absent from Washington, there is little news from that place. The correspondent of the New York Herald writes that the administration intend immediately to increase the United States African squadron. It had in those waters three sloops of war, carrying only 50 gans, while the treaty required RO. The movement is said to be made with reference to suppressing the African slave trade, largely on the increase, and to pi'omote commeroe. The correspondent, writing oil the 3rd instant, says, " Lord Napier had a long interview yesterday with General Cass relative to this subject, and also with reference to England's complicate.'! affairs in the East, and to ascertain General Cass's views on this, to him, serious question." The State department had been officially advised of the passage of an Act by the Venezuelan Congress imposing an additional or subsidiary contribution of 10 per cent, upon the duties collected at the various Custom-houses of the republic from and after the Ist of July last. A meeting of the citizens of the Fifth and Eighth Wards, New York, had been held for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for the organization of a Law and Order or Vigilance Committee. A similar committee was said to have existed for some tirna past in the Ninth Ward. The United States' frigate Roanoake had arrived at New York from Aspinwall with 204 filibusters, part of Walker's army. One of them had died on the passage, and twenty-seven had to be sent to the hospital. Lewisburg, Virginia, had been visited by a hailstorm, which for extent and destruction was without precedent in that part of the country. The whole of the vegetable and growing crops were nearly annihilated. Some of the hailstones measured five inches in circumference. The rolling-mills of the Cambria Iron Company near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, had been destroyedby fire, causing a loss of from 60,000 to 70,000 dollars. There was insurance on the property to the amount of 51,000 dollars. It was reported from New Orleans that Senator Rusk, of Taxas, had committed suicide by shooting himself. Advices from Vera Cruz are to the 21st ultimo, and from the city of Mexico to the 17th ultimo. The elections continued to be favorable to Comonfort. A revolutionary movement at Jalapa in the interest of Santa Anna was said' to be causing the Government much uneasiness. The apprehended Spanish invasion caused serious alarm, and the governors of the various provinces had been ordered to hold the National Guard in readiness. About 100 tons of rock had fallen from one precipice on Goat Island, Niagara Falls, about 300 feet below the British Falls, injuring three or four persons underneath; one, it was feared, fatally so. The. Toronto Globe reports that a daring and successful robbery had been perpetrated in the back office of the Bank of Upper Canada, and cash to the amount of J-1000 been carried off. A clerk .named William Waldon, who had plundered the South Yorkshire Railway and River Don Coal Company of ,£9OO, and absconded in the screw steamer Canadian, hence to Quebec, had been arrested at Toronto by the detectives who were sent on his track. He is to be brought back in the steamer from Quebec on the 15th instant. The payment of the Spanish and English claims had been renewed. Touching- the resumption of payment, the Estandarte says the Government was solely influenced therein by a sense of justice, and not at all by the actual state of " international relations." The English claim of 240,000 dollars had been officially recognised.