The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

itilittpoot ttan`barb. SECOND EDITION. STANDARD -OFFICE, MARLS 4, TEN, A.M. (BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEgRAPIII LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING. COMMERCIAL. Last price of Consols yesterday was 911 f for Money, and 911 .1- for the 11th. The payment of the instalment on the new loan passed off without inconvenience. LORD LIICAN AND THE CRIMEAN COMMISSION. Lord Lyman, in a letter to the editor of the Times, says he is desirous of relieving him from all alarm, by assuring him that he has no intention of availing himself of the astuteness of any county whatever, and that he does not anticipate any necessity for extraneous assistance on exposing Sir John Neill and Colonel Tullock, present or absent, as shall be least disagreeable to them or him tearing to pieces those parts of their prec►ous report as supposed to affect the cavalry, how• over supported in the Times, or elsewhere. THE WAR. TERRIFIC STORM IN THE BLACK SEA. The Boryathene has arrived at Marseilles, with Constanti nople advices of the 25th, and Crimea letters of the 23rd. The Times' Constantinople correspondent reports a fearful tempest on the previous Friday, occasioning much damage in the Bosphorus and Golden Horn. The Alma and Dt.ris suffered injuries. The Sylph ran aground in the flack Sea. In the Crimea the cold was intense. Fort St. Paul had been destroyed, and the Quarantine Fort was mined and would shortly be blown up. The English were prepared for the expedition to Asia. General Williams is to be exchanged. STRENGTH OP THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. :The nominal strength of the Russians in the Crimea is coinputed at 67,000 infantry, 19,000 cavalry and artillery, and SQO guns. The Russians have withdrawn all the maritime signals and discontinued the use of lighthouses. SIGNING THE PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE. The Morning Post says, "The signing of the protocol agreed to at Vienna indicates that after a week's conference no new difficulties have arisen, and that as far as they have yet gone the Envoys understand one another and are agreed- of course there is great latitude for misunderstanding when the details which this general agreement embodies come to be discussed, and it is quite possible that Russia may yet take exception to some of the demands made by the Western Powers either in matter or in form; still the signing of this document is an instalment towards the desired end --in fact, It is good to a certain extent, but no further. With if the question of the neutrality of the Black Sea the fate of Nicolaieff will be decided ; but as this is involved in the third point, and as the fifth was to be taken first, we may presume that it bas not yet been discussed. We may shortly expect to bear that definite progress has been made in some of its par ticulars. We will not be surprised if there prove to be little difficulty in preventing the re-fortification of the Aland Islands, and in arriving at a satisfactory definition of the posi tion of Russia in the Baltic. The boundaries of Russia and of Turkey in Asia Minor will probably be settled by a com mission. Kars will naturally revert to its late owner. It is not to be supposed that the allies will think of yielding in the fourth condition- a point for which in all probability Russia will strongly contend—namely, with the Greek Church, as this Involves the whole matter in dispute. It would be absurd Solemnity to lock Russia out of Turkey, then to present her with the key." • The Times says there is little doubt the cause of order and justice speeds well at the Paris Conferences ; but as r 'wards the alleged signature of the preliminaries of peace, it was a Mistake. Nothing has happened but what everybody was aware of last week -namely. that the Conferences had adopted the proceedings of that at Vienna. THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. PAR/B, Monday.—ln opening the session the Emperor said, with reference to the Conferences, that the spirit of modera tion and equity which animates the Envoys must make us all hope for a favourable result ; nevertheless, let us await the •en of the Conferences with dignity, and let us be equally - . prepared, if it should be necessary, either to draw the sword or to extend the hand to those we had honourably fought. THIRD EDI TION. STANDARD -OFFICE, Ramat 4, Two P.M. LIVERPOOL COR.v ax-‘r‘rxr....B..—tHis DAY. In the anticipation of an immediate return of peace, the markets of the kingdom, during the past few days, have re lapsed into a state of complete imbecility. Farmers appear onsions to realise, and have been free sellers of Wheat at a decline, in many instances, of 3s. to 4s. per quarter. Foreign Wheat has not been so much pressed, many holders being of opinion that the present panic is not fully warranted by the circumstances of the trade, and that a higher range of prices than those now current will be necessary to bring tor% ard sufficient to carry us over the six months intervening from this period to next harvest. Here the trade since Friday has continued exceedingly dull in all its branches, and almost every article was obtainable on lower terms, without, leay.. ever, enabling sellers to progress except in the most limited extent. . The wind having been light and rather contrary, we have had few fresh arrivals into this port since the middle of last week. The addition consists chiefly in British and Irish Wheat, Oats and Oatmeal to a moderate amount, and of 2.700 quarters American Indian Corn; the weet's export of this last article exceeding the import by nearly 2,000 quarters. The market to day was very poorly attended by bt.sere. Wheat was 6d. per bushel, and Oats 2d per nushel loser OA the week. Thera was al,o a fall of Is. per barrel, and 2s. per sack on Flour; and a tall of ls. on Oatmeal. Indian Corn Is. per quarter lower ; and every article was dull of sale. (By Electric Telegraph.) LONDON STOCK EXCIIANGE.—Noow QtreTATtowe Consols foe Money, 91} 11; do. for Account 911 1; Three Per Cents., 921 1 ; Bank Stook, 214 15 ; Exchequer-bills. L., 1 pm. ; do., 8., 2 dis. Turkish, 96} ; new, 104. LIVERPOOL: Prirtcd•end - pltb.+rtwd b.! AcLes,„Ot Na. Y. Percy-etrect. art No. 4 St.. Gearget-c.lmult.