The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

tiberpoot -)tanbarb. SECOND EDITION. STANDAED-OFFICE, JAN. 8, TEN, A.M. EZ,ECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.I LONDON, TITESDA.T MORNING. The last prices of Consols yesterday, 86'i ; money in active de:nand out of doors, but in the Stock Exchange a moderately good supply at 5 per cent. Last price of Consols for Account, 87} Penis, MoNDA.v.—The Funds closed 63 10 Money, and ;3 35 .account, being an advance of * or f. THE WAR. In a Council held at Constantinople on the 26th, the Divan decide! that a new and numerous army should be sent into Asia in the spring. The Euphrale arrived at Marseilles on Monday, and brings dates from Constantinople 31st, and Crimea, 29th of Decem ber. Despatches left at 1 p.m. Lett rs ffom General Williams, of Dec. Ist., announced his arrival at Gumri in good health. At Constantinople several Turkish officers and officials are under inquiry respecting the neglect in supplying Kars with proper munitions and provisions. There had been great pecu lation. The garrison of Kinburn is in good health, although shut in completely from the land side by Cossacks. No apprehen sions are entertained of an attack. BLOWING UP OF DOCKS AT SEBASTOPOL. One of the five celebrated docks in the Karabelnaia suburb of Sebastopol was de-r °fished by the explosion of French mines on the 22d ult. The massive fabric was almost instantly reduced to a heap of stones. No accidents occurred. About 3,000 lbs. of powder were used. Further demolitions would soon take place. The weather had been much milder. The men were enjoying their Christmas. The 4th division (bas its theatre. THE PEACE PROPOSITIONS. Private advices from St. Petersburg, dated Dec. 29, mention Esterliazy's arrival, and the question of an ultimatum was the subject of universal talk and of all kinds of rumours. It was understood that no answer was to be given for 15 days, and a Council of the Empire was to be appointed to examine and discuss the propositions. The Times expects from Russia neither a refusal nor an acceptance, but such a modified counter proposition as may give rise to negotiations, and enable her to play off upon us the devices of another mystification and another conference. The activity of the overland transit trade is said to have increased, and owing to the extraordinary number of horses employed in bringing imports from the Prussian frontier, the carriage back from Petersburg to Kowno had fallen to £6 per ton for hemp-flax and tallow. Government had contracted for 3,000 tons of lead ; its price bad greatly fallen. This article and sulphur were imported through Prussia, with no apparent interruption, to the astonishment of the Russians. Some of the principal merchants expect that the overland trade must at last he stopped. Exchange, 35d. and 11-16 d. Weather very mild. Goods were being sent to Archangel, in hopes of shipment before arrival of the blockading ships. THIRD EDITION. STANDARD -OFFICE, JAN. 8, TwEVE -~,-=-- AMERICA. ARIIIVAL OF THE BALTIC. Trot United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Capt. James Comstock, arrived in the Mersey at ten a.m. She was de tained by fog at the Bar for eight hours. She brought 60 passengers, and $360,000 in specie. The Baltic sailed from New York at 10 a.m. on the 27th alt., and the same day passed the Pacific hence for New York, 160 miles cast of Sandy Hook. On the 4th instant, passed a large screw steamer, bound west. The United States mail steam-ship Hermann. from South ampton, arrived at New York on the 20th ult. There was no organisation of the House of Representatives, owing to the impossibility to elect a Speaker. The last polling was as follows :—Banks, 101; Richardson, 72 ; Fuller, 31 ; Pennington, 4; Scattering, 7. Necessary to a c':oice, 108. The New York Herald says that the people of the United States are quietly settling upon great principl6s and measures by which they will be guided in the next contest for the Pre sidency. First—The Union against agitators and abolitionists. Second—The progress of the country by the annexation of Cuba, Mexico, and Central America. Third—The building up of a great naval and commercial power. Fourth—The restoration of a constitutional, uniform cur rency. Fifth—The re-organisation of the tariff, so as to give per. =llene, to foreign trade and home manufactures. Sixth—The final overthrow of every species of faction, and the enforcement of the constitution, as the only chart of our existence as a nation. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that Mr. Marcy's demands upon the British government require, among other things, the recall of Mr. Crampton, or some other public act of equally signal satisfaction to the United States. The English discovery ship Resolute, one of the vessels composing Sir Edward Belcher's squadron, sent out in search of Sir John Franklin, and which, having become locked in the Polar ice, was abandoned by that officer. She was fallen in with by an American whaler, the captain of which took possession of her. Her value is estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. Captain Belcher was tried by a court martial for abandoning his ship; and, although not censured for his conduct, the tribunal to which he appealed did not justify it. The steamer Northern Light had been seized by the United States authorities, acting under instructions received from the President. The District Attorney, accompanied by his assistant, informed her captain and owners that if she left while under detention, they would be acting in violation of the laws, and they should be held responsible for their con duct. In defiance of his authority, however, they started with the officers on board. She met with no interruption till pass ing Governor's Island, when she was stopped by the United States revenue cutter Washington, vrlich brought her to, after firing three times with blank cart-idge. She was then boarded by some of the officers from th• cutter and anchored in the river between the Battery and jersey City, where she was lying when the Baltic sailed. Ni ne of the passenger' would be permitted to land until she was searched, for the purpose of discovering if she carries any concealed munitions of war for Nicaragua. We have intelligence, by telegraph, of the wreck of the steamer Crescent City, of and from New York for Havana and New Orleans. She went ashore on the Bahama Banks on the 7th ult., and will probably prove a total loss. The passengers, crew and baggage, and the mails were saved. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, 27TH Dsc. _ _ There has been an active demand to-day for Money, but no stringency. The payments of two days coming in one has in creased the demand for accommodations. Paper is in good demand and rather easier. Stocks have been dull without feature. Exchange has ruled lower. Bank Sterling has been sold at 81, and best bankers' signatures at 81 per cent., without large transactions at that figure. The supply of outside bills has been better and the demand moderate. Good commercial bilis sold at Bto 81 per cent. Francs, 5.22 k to 5.181. Cotton has been dull, but prices retain their steadiness. The prevailing estimate of this year's crop is 3,600,000 to 3,700,000 bales. Our quotations are as follows : NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION. Upland. Florida. Mobile. Ordinary Bl 8} /34 Middling Si 9* ge Middling Fair Fair lO 10 10f New Orleans and Texas Si Common and medium grades of flour advanced about qt. per bbl. Wheat sold only to a moderate extent, without change of importance in prices. Corn was lower, but tolera bly active, the market having closed at about 90c. a 91c. for Western mixed. —Pork was heavy. with moderate, sales. closing at rates in favour of purchasers:—Freights to Liverpool were tolerably active, and to the Continent rates continued quite steady. FOURTH EDITION. STANDARD-OFFICE, JAN 8, Two P.M. (By Electric Telegraph.) LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—NOON QUOTATIONS. THE FUNDS. — Consols for Money, 86 a 7 61—Account, so 7 ; Three per Cents., 871 ; Bank Stock, 2062 ; Ex chequer-bills, L., 4 9 dis. ; Ditto, S., 8 9 dis. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.--THIS DAY. Th(uth we noted a good arrival of Wheat, Flour, and In dian Corn, from America, for the week ending Friday last, nearly the whole came to hand before the end of December ; and having had few additional grain ships since then, the total supplies of the past seven days are insignificant, com pared with those previously received, most of which are now sold fre— the Quay or gone into warehouse, The str mgthening tone experienced here at the close of the week has been simultaneous with a similar stiffening tendency in other British and Irish markets,as regards Wheat; and though we have not had by any means an active demand here in the interval, prices continue fully supported, in the expec tation that millers, being much less freely supplied of late weeks with home growth, of which a considerable proportion comes out in inferior condition, will still have to resort largely to the outports ilk' their weekly requirements. Flour has ruled quiet but firm, and Indian Corn has not given way, not withstanding the demand is confined entirely to retail parcels for shipment. Thee e was a good attendance of buyers at this day's mar ket, with a fair inquiry for Wheat and Flour. Sales of the former were effected at an advance of about I.d. per 701b5.; and of the latter at 6d. per barrel dearer. Other articles were in little demand, at about last week's prices. Lerimiroot.i Printed sad pnblisbed by IL P. Tneonts, Y. Percy-otteet, at No. 4, et. Ooooseo.trossist.