The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

SUPPLE ME NT TO TJI2: tibet4poot ..)tailbarb. SECOND EDITION. STANDARD•OFFICE, MAY 23. Two o'cLocK, LIVERPOOL CORN MARRET.--Tms DAY. Since Friday the trade here has further improved for the leading articles of Wheat, Flour, Oatmeal, and Indian -;ern, in each of which a considerable business has been t.l'ansaeted ; the c o un t r y mar ket s , g enerally, respond to ;_ 42 8 amended state of things, but Mark-lane coming quiet 27 telegraph, we closed yesterday with somewhat less Armness. New York accounts to the 9th instant report an advance of 62ac. per barrel on Flour, 10e. to 15c. on Wheat, and 60 . per bushel on Indian Corn ; the stocks on the line of seaboard represented as light, liftle business doing for SZPert, and no apparent capability of shipments in ally tln!intity for a month or six weeks; at the same time r‘eeefs are quoted which leave a decided loss even at our lately increased cnrrehcies. Our week's supply is to a fair extent of Wheat, and Considerable of American Indian Corn and Flour ; of the last very little is arriving from New Orleans. The exports of Indian Corn continue upon a large scale, against a more general and extending Irish demand. , The market to-day was very quiet, the briskness which ha prevailed during the last few days having received a. Check by the advices from Mark-lane. Prices of Wheat and Flour were not quite so good as yesterday, but were t higher than on Friday last to the extent of 6 d. to ls. per Darrel on Flour. Jndian Corn was about ls. per quarter dearer, and Oatmeal ls. per load in advance o f Frida y 's rites.ln other articles no alteration, and but little airless doing. [By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION. CLOSE OF TIIE POLL. Smith (Conservative) Panel, (Liberal) Majority:tor Smith INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. TRIESTE, TUESDAY MouNtao.----The steamer Bombay arrived at 6.30 aan. The India mail arrived at Alexan dria on the 18th, with advices from Calcutta to the 20th 111 t., Madras 24th, Shanghai and Hong Kong March 12 th , 1 1ngapore 18th, Bombay 28th April, Sydney March 20th, Melbourne March 24th, Adelaide March 29th. The Ganges canal was opened on the Bth of April. It is asserted that Russia has concluded treaties with Persia, Bokhara, and Khiva. The articles of treaty be ?len Russia and Khiva are— the friends and enemies of the one state are to be the friends and enemies of the other. Russia will not interfere with the dominions of the Khan of Khiva. A Russian Ambassador is to reside 4 t Khiva. A subsidiary force is to be ke p t at Khiva of &MOO horsemen, officered and paid by Russia. Russian, Persian, Bokbaran, and Affghan slaves now in Khiva, are to be releaed on payment of their full value. R ussia is to build cantonments, and to maintain a force for twenty Years within the Khivan frontier. Dost Mahomed de mands, as the price of his alliance, 5,000 Russian troops a nd the necessary funds to recover Peshawur. Trade at Calcutta was dull. Exchange 2s. Id. Exchange at Shanghai ss. 10d Canton ss. 2d. The patriot army in China is advancing towards Pekin. „ The Americans have established friendly relation s with i.oe Japanese AUSTRALIA. Several large pieces of gold have been dug up at Balla nit, and the yield of the gold diggins is increasing. Business at Sydney was dull, and the markets over 'locked. Gold is in advance of the standard price. Prices of Fool advancing. Tallow had risen 4s. pet. cwt. THE WAR The Times' Paris correspondent writes,- -" I am assured that 80 pieces of artillery, of large calibre and of tremen. I l ene Power, were to be embarked yest erda y and the day oefore at Toulon and Marseilles ; they are said to be in tended for Sebastopol." It now seems certain that the plan of a combined attack IrS sea and land on that celebrated fortress and the Cri • %lea has been decided upon ; and that, in fact, we may Zpect to hear, at a short interval from each other, news of something very important taking place in the Baltic and Black Sea. The steamer Dauphin had arrived at Marseilles from the Levant, and it is said she is the be arer of despatches, of which nothing has as yet transpired, except that the news they contain is favourable. The Times Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the A„ rephion and Conflict brought into Mesnel eight prizes 'tom Windan and Liebau. He also reports the statement that Custaesvaern had been taken and destroyed, and 1,600 prisoners made. St. Petersburg letters of the 16th instant state that the blockade has been established at Riga. Large quantities of hemp and flax had meanwhile been shipped off. Commercial advices from St. Petersburg, of the 15th instant, say that the two American ships which had recently arrived, had sailed with cargoes, and two other foreign vessels had entered, making a total of thirteen since the opening of the navigation. The merchants were using active efforts to send away as much produce as pos \ale overland, but opinions were greatly divided as to the quantities which the means of transrort during the season x 'Bl allow of being despatched. The Times in a leading article ex p resses strong hopes S hat the present war will enable this country and its allies redress the wrongs inflicted by Russia on Sweden, and ' .O restore to the Monarchy provinces indisputably her own by every tie of history, of ra ce, and of religion, should Sweden snake common cause with England and France ;tablet Russia, the honour of th e latter would be pledged or her safety hereafter. ATHENB, MAY 12.—The approach of a French army there, announced on the 11th, by some officers who landed ere, which caused great sensation. VIENNA. MONDAY EVBNING.—It is credibly related Nutt when 'the levy of 95,000 men was communicated to 2 1 e representatives of Austria at foreign cou rts, it was bded that Austria had not relaxed its mediatorial policy, .t would always be ready to take further me asures for the re-establishment of peace, if consistent with the honour tud interest of Austria and the balance of power in 4I AR . PARIS, MONDAY.—Little doing at the Bo urse. Threes v 4 ooed at 68.6 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 981. Genoa letters report the suspension of the mercantile , 4 rM of Scaravaglio and Peloso, with liabi lities to the ez- T.ent of about £60,000. LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—Turs DA:r. NOON QUOTATIONS. 1 . 11 1133 FUNDS.—Consols for Account , 89 ; Ditto for r,Lenev, 89 8} 9f ; Bank Stock, 205; Exchequer-bills, L, dis. • Ditto, S 2 um • Three-and-a-Quarter p er Cent., 13 81 1 , • RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonians, b6}; Eastern Conn "es, 12; ; Great Western, 731 ; Lancashire and York shire, 60i ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 100}; London and North Western, 96; 6 ; London and South Western, 7P-, ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, ; Midland Stock, 58f ; North British, 31; North Jaffordshire, 114 ; South Eastern and Dover, 61i York, Newcatsle, and Berwick, 66 61. PORTION STOCKS—Russian, 954 6. NllNEs.—Agua Fria, a Crystal Palace, 64. BANNS.—Australian, 784; London Chartered, 20f. I ANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tnis DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 11; South Eastern Iltd Dover, 18 3-16 5-16. LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Anglesey, from Jamaica ; Kate, from Callao ; Edwin Forrest from New York— at Gravesend, 23rd instant. 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