The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT ro THE (i gi..int - tl,o'gt -),failbit.tV & 6.encral Commercial Mbutiscr. No. 1605.] [GRATIS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1853. Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH THE EASTERN QUESTION. The Times says : " The intelligence of the acceptance J the Emperor of Russia of the proposals addressed to mill by the conference of the four Powers at Vienna has been ~e ° l lf irmed by telegraphic despatches from all the capitals of Europe. Nevertheless, there is still much that requires explanation, e x both in the nature of the arrangement and in extreme rapidity with which the news of it has reached us from St. Petersburgh. The Times is informed that the latest despatch from that city is dated the 3rd of August. It reached Paris and London on the evening of the 6th, and was published in the Moniteur of the 7th, but the definitive communication of the Four Powers was only transmitted from Vienna on the Ist, and unless the Purport of that communication was already known by the Russian Cabinet, it seems impossible that an answer to it should have been received within three days, especially as the Times is not aware that the Electric Telegraph ex tends beyond Warsaw, and all the communications pre viously received from St. Petersburgh have been five or six days on the road. The Times learns, however, that no doubt of the accuracy of this intelligence is entertained in the highest quarters, and hopes that the rapidity with which answer has been received may be taken as a proof of the eagerness of the Russian Cabinet to extricate itself from the isolated position in which it has stood since the imperial army crossed the Pruth. The Times then alludes to Lord Clarendon's declaration, on Monday night, that the evacuation of the Principalities is a sine qua non; and remarking that the events of the last few weeks cannot fail to have taught Russia a lesson, concludes by stating that, if her defeat be obtained by a bloodless victory, this defeat is not the less signal, because it is due to the moral ascendancy and perseverance of the other great powers." The Morning Post says: "The note dated St. Peters burg, August 3, cannot possibly be any reply to the pro posal which left Vienna on the 2nd,—we cannot expect a reply to that letter before the 15th. It will probably be found that the proposition now under conderation at St. Petersburg, is —That Reschid Pacha shall address a note to Count Nesselrode, transmitting the famous Firman, which note shall be borne to St. Petersburg by a Turki s h -Envoy, upon whose arrival the Czar will at once order the the com matter will be plete evacuation of th e D anubian Principalities, and in an end. In the form of the note concession is made to the anio r prop 24 of the Emperor Nicholas but n the subst ance the independence and in tegrity of roue m ined. hl Turkey are carefully stipulated for, and tho ' We must, however, await the 15th." convok e d ONSTATINOP LE, JULY 25.—A Grand Council was on the 2 4th, which was a tt en d e d by all the civil war and religious function ar i es . R eso l ut i ons o f t h e most like character were adopted, but they lose all their importance owing to the fact tht at that da of the conferences at Vienna was not known. to the result LOMEARDY.—MarshaI Radetzky has forbidden the ex portation of corn from Lombardy and Venice. ODESSA, JULY 29.—Further activity in the wheat ma rket — purchases for the week fully 110,000 quarters ; prices are without alteration. 68,000 qrs. Indian corn also taken. Scarcely a ship was to be had at Odessa or Constantinople; and, for one on the way for the latter port, 110 s. per ton had been offered to the United Kingdom. Since the demand for breadstuffs, during the Irish famine in 1847, there has been no similar state of affairs, and a reaction must be apprehended. PARIS, MONDAY.—There was a rise of three francs to day at the Bourse on the lowest prices of Saturday. Three closed, 791; Four and Halves, 104.10.—The Paris papers considered that the accept ance by R uss i a o f the propositions from Vienna has put the Eastern question LIVERPOOL: Printed and Published every Tuesday, by the Propril STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, No. 4, St. G, in a fair way of settlement, as there cannot be a doubt of the consent of Turkey. _ ♦ LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.- NOON QUOTATIONS, Tnis DAY Lancashire and Yorkshire, i 7 ; Leeds Northern, 15i ; Ditto Extension No. 2, pm. ; Midland, 72 ; North Wes terns, 8i ; South Eastern and Dover, 211 ; York and Midland, 30f. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, .-THIS DAY, Of any kind of Grain produced coastwise and from Ireland, we continue to be very scantily supplied; and compared with the very abundant arrivals from abroad noted on Tuesday last, the imports into this place have fallen off considerably since ; those of Wheat, chiefly Baltic and American, forming little more than 8,000 quarters, with about 12,000 quarters of Indian Corn, nearly all of which is from the Black Sea, but of other Grain and Flour we have little to notice, and the exports of the week are small in amount. The more favourable news from the East, and the glo rious weather which has set in, have had a depressing effect upon the prices of Wheat and Flour, in which we quote a decline of 3d. per 701 b. on the former, of ls. 6d. per barrel on the latter, from the rates of last week. At this reduction there was a steady amount of business done to needy buyers of Wheat, but holders generally were firm. Oats and Oatmeal are quoted at former rates, but prices are merely nominal. In other articles little doing, and no alteration to notice. HER Imperial Highness the Duchess Catherine of Russia, the consort of his Serene Highness the Duke George of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, is expected to arrive in London shortly from the Continent. DEFACING THE COlN. — Another Government bill has been printed. It is to prevent the defacing of the current coin of the realm. It is declared that a practice has arisen of defacing the coin of the realm by stamping the same for advertising purposes. Any person stamping names or words on coin shall in England or Ireland be guilty of a misdemeanour, and in Scotland of a crime or offence, and liable to a fine or imprisonment, or fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court. A tender of coin so defaced is not to be a legal tender, and any person tendering or uttering such coin will be liable before two justices to for feit...and pay any sum not exceeding £2. UNSEALED CORRESPONDENCE.—Among other expe dients adopted to avoid the present high rates of Ocean postage, is the practice of sending letters across the sea by private hands unsealed. A person may convey a port manteau full of letters in this way without charge upon them for the transit service. A gentleman recently returned from a long residence at Port Natal, Africa, thus describes the extent to which this practice is carried by the inha bitants of the colony :—" To show their disposition to correspond, I will mention the fact that whenever a ship was about to sail with passengers home—for such the emigrant still looks upon Old England—they were pressed to take charge of numerous letters, and post them on their arrival. It was so on my leaving the colony ; and if the anxiety shown by the emigrants to get their letters ready for me could have been witnessed by the inhabitants of this their fatherland, it would have aroused sufficient feeling and determination to abolish this unwise tax on their correspondence. To avoid it, and still communicate with those they hold dear, I placed under my care num bers of letters unsealed, and written on sheets of paper without being folded, and the money given me to pur chase the penny stamp and post them to their various destinations. Now, who could or would refuse to do this ? Only reflect for a moment the secrets of family corres pondence to be thus exposed rather than lose an opportu nity of sending a line home ! Now, had there been an Ocean Penny Postage, I should not have been solicited to bring a single letter ; it would have been thought an imposition." etor, ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of No. 7, Percy-street, at the ;eorge's Crescent, Liverpool.—Tuesday, August 9, 1853.