The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO TIIE llturp.ool* , fauVarV 6.entrat Commercial glbertiaer. No. 16151 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 38, 1553 [GRATIS. Stcndard Office, Two o'clock, p.m MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGI Tuts D&T [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH NOON QUOTATIONS. Caledonian, 241; Eastern Counties, 11 1 ; Lancashi r e and Yorkshire, 611 ; London and North-Western, 1011 1 Sheffield, pref., 9. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGI NOON QUOTATIONS THE EASTERN QUESTION. ST. PETERSBURG.—The Journal of St. Petersburg —This Di the British .Amba,ssador had left that city. Sir Hamilton Seymo ur is announced to have left St. Petersburg, and to have arrived at Lubeck ; but the person intended to be named was Captain Hamilton, a bearer of despatches. VIENNA, OCT. 20. It is said that the Austrian Government had addressed a circular to its representatives abroad, assuring them of its strict neutrality in the Eastern Question. and of its intention to continue its East Lancashire, 15/ ; North Staffordshire, lit cus. South-Eastern and Dover, 17i ; York and North Mid. land, 221 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Prince Albert, from Hudson's Bay; Pelham, _from Sydney ; Duke of Richmond, from Portland Bay ; Crisp, from Algoa Bay—all at Gravesend 24th inst Aolus, from Punta Arenas—at Deal 24th inst mediation — eTen — a'fter --- tllie outbreak of hostilities. The Vienna paper Presse states absolutely that Menschikoff has left St. Petersburg to take command of the fleet in the Black Sea. Odessa accounts of the 12th inst. state that Menschikoff arrivedthereonthellth. Considerableuneasiness prevailed, and business was very limited. Freights were rather lower. ,st• Th. minnlip. of The Charlotte Jane brings £137,000 in gold from Aus tralia (Adelaide). The Pelham, from Sydney, brings gold, value £17,600. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Tms DAY. The receipts into this port, , during the weekending wheat, and other grain iron. dinarY• Although private houses had been convertea gra.naries, numbers of laden carts were still forced to re- mit of of coastwise, the arrivals are inconsiderable. Of ioreign Wheat and Flour, however, the import is extensive, prin cipally from the United States and Canada, and partly from the north and south of Europe and. Egypt. The rest of the arrivals being only moderate in amount, while main in the streets. Abbas Pacha has limited the exportation of grain from Egypt to 250,000 quarters. INDIA AND CHINA. TRIESTE, OCT. 24.—The Bombay steamer arrived at 11 8 - 11 1., in 120 hours from Alexandria. The Indian mail the exports of the week are increasingly large. The market, this morning, was very well attended, and a considerable amount of business was done at advanced prices upon almost all descriptions. Wheat may be quoted 3d. to 4d. per 701b5., and Flour 2s. per sack, and had arrived at Alexandria, with dates from Calcutta to the 20th of September ; Bombay, 28th ; Hong-Kong, 9th ; Sydney, July 28th ; Adelaide, Aug. Bth. Our Burmese acquisitions were in a state of war, being overrun by large bodies of armed men—said to exceed 14,000 in number—who occupied fortified positions, Whence they attacked our posts with occasional success. They were said to be instigated by the King of Ava. The re sumption of hostilities was considered inevitable. Mackeson has been assassinated by an Affgh an at 'esh avvur. Capt. Parker and Ensign Bosworth has been killed in an affair with Arabs in the Nizam's country. The trade in Calcutta was good. Exchange on London, 2s, id . The revolution in China still continued. At Amoy the Pnperialists had some success, but the patriot army had Invested the capital of Honan, on the Yellow River. The whole country was in a state of anarchy, and trade at a S tand. At Hong-Kong the Spanish dollar was at 6s. 6d. ls. to Is. 6d. per barrel above the rates of this day week. In Oats a fair business was doing at about ld. per bushel advance. Oatmeal ls. to ls. 6d. per load higher. Indian Corn was in good demand, and realised ls. to 2s. per quarter more money. Barley may be quoted ls., and Malt ls. to 2s. higher. Beans and Peas about ls. per quarter above the currency of this day week. EXCHANGE WARD.—A requisition to Charles Turner, Esq., to allow himself to be again put in nomination for the representation of Exchange Ward in the Town Coun cil, has received three hundred and sixty-eight signatures, comprising some of the first names in Liverpool. It will be presented to Mr. Turner to-morrow (Wednesday). AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.—Jas. M'lni - yre, a fireman be longing to the steam-ship Golden Age, was charged, yester day, with an aggravated assault on one of his comrades, on Sunday night last, in a bye street leading off Scot land-road. It appeared the prisoner had struck and severely wounded, in the eye, with the pivot end of a clasp knife, the complainant, who had nearly lost the sight of that organ by the severity of the wound. Pri soner, who said nothing beyond the admission that he was so stupidly drunk at the time that he had no recollection whatever of the occurrence, was ordered to pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two months. STABBING.—.Tohn Bevis, an old man, was charged, yes terday, with assaulting and stabbing Thomas Chapman, on the morning of Sunday, the 16th instant. It appeared that the complainant and prisoner, along with others, had arrived from America by the same ship on the previous day. Complainant, prisoner, and another man, named Millington, went to lodge in the house of one Kenney in Gloucester-street ; all of the three went to bed in the same room about eleven o'clock, complainant and Millington oc cupying one bed, while prisoner had a bed to himself. Shortly after midnight complainant was awoke by prisoner making a great noise and swearing. On being remon strated with, he pulled the bed-clothes off complainant, and cut him severely with a large clasp-knife on the right knee. Chapman had to be taken to the Northern Hospital, where the wound was dressed, and of that institution he still continued an inmate. The wound was stated not to be of a dangerous nature. Prisoner was committed for 4..L.1 -4 1 . t _ AUSTRALIA - - The constitutional committee of the legislative council of New South Wales had recommended the establishment of the Upper Chamber on the nominal system, and nega tived the proposal to make it executive.—Large quantities of gold continued to be found. PARIS, MONDAY. — The Bourse was steady. Threes' closed at 72 65 ; Four-and-Halves, 99 francs. HAMBURG, MONDAY. Discount raised to 5i per cent., with the prospect of a further rise. LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—Tais DAY NOON QUOTATIONS. Tim FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 91 ; Consols for Money, 91 ; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 92 ; Exchequer Bills, L and S, par 4 pm. RAILWAY SHARES.—London and North-Western, 1014 ; Midland, 58 I; North Stafford, 114; South-Eastern and Dover, 574 ; Caledonians, 494 4 ; .Easterb. Counties, 114 ; Great Northern, 75; Great Western, 79 84 94; North Midland, pref., 94. FOREIGN STOCK 4. :.—Mexican, 24 4 _ South Australian, 33i LAND SHARI Crystal Palac LIVERPOOL : Printed and Published every Tuesday, by the Proprietor, ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of No. 7, Percy-stree , at the STANDARD GRNF:RAT. PRINTING OFFICE, No. 4, St. George's Crescent, Liverpool.—Tuesday, October 18, 1853.