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

THE itberpoot -taitbarb, SECOND EDITION. STANDARD-OFFICE, JAN. 1, Two P.M. Lin ELECTRIC SG INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.] LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING. Last price of Consols yesterday, 88.-1- A general absence of business and an extraordinary demand for money at the Bank and elsewhere, and lower prices Srom Paris, were the principal causes of the prevailing stillness. New settlements flied for February 11th and Consols closed for that period at 881. The whole of the £416,000 in gold, brought by the Donald kilay, is understood to have been purchased for transmission to the Bank of France. THE WAR. NEGOCIATIONS FOR PEACE. Count Nesselrode has addressed a circular note to the envoys of Russia at the chief foreign courts, dated St. Peters burg, Dec. 22. It states that the Emperor accepts the third point in the following sense :—That the principal of the right of Turkey to close the Straits be maintained ; that no warlike nag be admitted to the Black Sea save those of the naval forces of Turkey and Russia. The amount to be such as those two powers may think proper by a common understanding, without any ostensible participation of the other powers. The Czar has ordered a fresh appeal to be issued summon• ing the peasants of the crown domains to form fresh regiments of sharpshooters to defend holy Russia against the enemies of the orthodox faith. A new coinage of copper to the amount of three millions of silver roubles is ordered. The Minister of War has advertised for tenders for the supply of 130 complete mortar carriages and fittings for an Immense number of others. All are to be delivered early in the spring. 6,280 cwts. of ordnance are to be delivered at Archangel. The arsenal of St. Petersburg is ready to contract for the delivery of 200,000 lbs. of lead. Similar advertisements ap- pear daily in the Gazette. SUICIDE OF THE DUKE OF SOTOMAJOR. SPAIN.—The Duke of Sotomajor, formerly ambassador 4 London and Paris, committed suicide on the 26th of December at Madrid. He had been suffering for some years from violent attacks of gout. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—Noos Quay nowt. Tus Fusso.—Consols for litooquit, 884 8 ; Three pit Cents., 881 ; Exchequer-bills, L., 12 7 dis. ; 8., 10 7 dig. FOREIGN STOOKE.—TOIidah. 83. LIMOS EtroaL %11191311P001. Printed and pablistted br R. P. 'TitscKss. a Va. 7. Percy-stroet, at Ns. 4,6 t. Geonea-craceoL