16 AUGUST 1856, Page 9

The Persia arrived at Liverpool last night, with advices from

New York to the 6th instant. The Persia made the quickest passage on record ; she came over in nine days. The House of Representatives had passed a bill appropriating 1,100,000 dollars for the repair of for- tifications on the seaboard and .Yorthern frontier ; and, concurrently with the Senate, had provided for the appointment of a Commissioner to run a boundary between Washington Territory and the British Posses- sions, under the Ashburton treaty. The President had decided not to employ the forces of the United States against the San Franciscan Vigi- lance Committee. Mr. Preston S. Brooks had been reelected, and had taken his seat; Mr. Herbert, who killed the waiter, had also reappeared in the House.