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

SOUTH AMERICA.

The news from Venezuela is to the 7th of Nov. The
assembly met at Caraccas on the Ist, and elected Senor Ber-
mudez president by a large majority. The cholera was raging
with great virulence at Valentia, but at Laguayra and Carac-
cas it had considerably abated.
We have news dated at Valparaiso, October 31; Lima, No-
vember 10; and Paita, November 15. The republic of Chile
continued peaceful, and its resources are being rapidly de-
veloped by a contented people. Manufactories were extending.
From Lima we have a report that Arequipa and some of the
southern cities of Peru had declared in favour of General
Vivanco.

Mr. Compton, British consul at Islay, was dead. In Bolivia
the Avila revolution had been put down, and the country was
again quiet. Trade was much more brisk in Valparaiso.
During the month of October Peru had exported 28,272 tons
of gttano. Our Callao correspondent, writing on November
10, gives a heartrending account of some of the horrors inci-
dent to the Chinese labour slave trade. An American ship
had recently arrived in port with a cargo of such miserable
beings, and it was found. that as many as 201 of them had
either died from sickness or committed suicide during the
voyage. Four thousand persons had been carried off in the
province of Pataz (Peru) by an epidemic classified .by the
physician as a.fever of a new type.

(Later by Telegraph.)
NEW Thus, THURSDAY, 20, EVENING.—Asia's news from
Europe has had no effect on this market, so far as cotton is
concerned. Breadstuffs of all kinds have, however, declined.
Money to-day was easy.. Exchange on London, 109.
NEW ORLEANS, 19th.—The Asia's advices have advanced
cotton ic. Sales to-day 24,000. Middling, 9c. Freights to
Liverpool, fc.
WAsumarox, 19th.--No election yet of speaker.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, 18111 DBC.
MONEY has become extremely abundant on call loans. There
were a few negotiations for large amounts, at a fraction under
7 per cent. It will be noted, however, that first-class paper
was still difficult to negotiate under 10 to 12 per cent. The
Bank statement showed a slightincrease of loans for the past
week, with a falling off in specie and deposits. In the Stock
Market there was more activity, with a slight advance in
price. The demand for exchange on Europe had been mode-
rate; rates, however, were firm. We quote':—London, 1081-
to 109; Paris, 5.171 to 5.211; Amsterdam, 411 to 411 ; Bre-
men, 781 to 78-I.
COTTON.—The demand has been only to a very moderate
extent, and prices were without change. The sales were esti-
, mated at 5,000 bales. Uplands : Very ordinary to middling,
7c. to 91c.; ordinary, Bikc. ; low middling,
sie.; good usid-
dling, 9-Ic.; fair to good fair and good, 10e. to 10Ic. and 10 c.;
middling fair, 9,1 c. ; fully fair, 101 c. Mobiles, Louisianas,
&c.: Ordinary to middling, 81c. to 9/e.; good ordinary, BiC.;
low middling, 91c.; good middling, 10e.; fair to good fair,
111 e. to llic. : middling fair, Ric.; fully fair, llic. ; good
and fine, Die.; to 12 *c.
Mr. W. P. Wright, in his circular of the 18th ult., states
that the receipts at the ports this week are the largest on re-
cord, being 144,000 bales, against 125,000 bales during the
cqrresponding week of 1852. The total is still 20,000 bales
behind that year, although 400,000 bales in advance of last
year. It is reported the frost. had done little or no injury,
and cotton had made to the top of the plant, as well as p) the
end of the branches. The prevailing estimate in the south is
now, and has been for the past two or three weeks, 3,500,000
bales.

BREADSTUFF& —Yesterday. there was more anxiety to sell,
and our. quotations show a reduction in prices during the week
of 18.1 e. -to 26c. per barrel. Wheat was in fair demand for
-shipment at last week's prices :—Southern white, 215 c. to
220 c. ; western white, 215 c. to 220 c. ; western red cad mixed,

JANUARY 1, 18 6.,1

•
195 c. to 205 c. ; Canada, 216 c. to 220 c. Indian corn was 10 ot
2c. per bushel lower ; barley, 122 c. to 130 c. per 48 lbs. „de
PRovisioNs.-New mess pork was dull • sales were in 4
tit
at $l9 to 519,622 ; prime, $17,872 to $lB. 'Beef was With°l4
alteration ; the demand moderate. Butter had an uPrlio,
weFreß
asking rates
tendency ; New York State ranges from 25c. to 29c. ;
18c. to 21c. Cheese firm, at previous rates.
much:cetoffering.ten
1:--ereTow"Livneortpool
lb., 9•32 • flour per barrel, 45.; rosin ditto 4s. to 45.6 d• ;
goods, dieese, &c., per ton, 30s. to 40s. • grain, per ;Du el
11d.; beef, per tierce, 78. 6cl. to Bs. To London : Cheese, I;
ton, 40s. to 455.; flour, per barrel, 4s. 6d. • rosin and turPett,
time, per 280 lb., ss. to Os. 6d. • heavy goods, oil, &A, iC)s4
455.; beef, per tierce, Bs. 6d. to' 95.; grain, per bushel, '
To Havre: Cotton, square bales, per lb., lc. to lc.
NAVAL STORES. -The market was inactive.
,1 ere
TOBACCO.-Domestic was quiet, although firm, an
-
doing in Spanish tobacco. squaTrhee bfalllesZ.lfil),,gr

(Later by Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 18, 6 P.M.—Ashes—Small
farket ati
$7,50 for pots, and $8,50 for pearls, Cotton-3
changed; sales 2,800 bales, including 2,200 bales in try
from other ports to Europe. Flour—Common and ni`;;;;n:
grades have declined Os. to 121 e. ; sales 9,000 brls. ?71-000
Wheat steady ; a moderate demand for export ; sales, fce
bushels, at $1,90 to $1,95 for 3filwaukie clear, and sl.Pl'9sc,
red Ohio. Corn heavy ; sales, 30,000 bushels, at 20c. to for
for new Southern yellow and white, and 97e. to 98l'aull
Western mixed, in store and delivered. Oats plenty and Pro,
at 48c. to 52c. for State, and 52c. to 54c. for Western- to
to
visions—Pork dull and drooping; sales 350 barrels, at ',,200
19,25 for mess, and $17,50 for prime ; beef dull, sa'e'o for
barrels, at $9 to $lO for country prime, and $10,62 to SIQ and
ditto mess ; 100 barrels western beef hams sold at $14,5°,1111
1,000 tierces Ohio prime mess beef at $22. Cut meats
,ej,
and drooping. Butter and cheese quiet; prices unelWi'dli
NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 12.—The sales of cotton to-day
up 11,500 bales. Prices have declined ic. We quote taiddi
ha 6r'
at Sic. to Bic. Flour, $8,50 per barrel. Sterling evil
8.; per cent. premium.
DEc. 13.—Our cotton market is unchanged in ever.,, re'
spect. To-day's sales foot up 11,000 bales.

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE DONALD M'KAY.
THE royal mail ship Donald M'liay, Capt. Warner, belcalz•
ing to the Black Ball line of Australian packets, arrived °o
Friday, from Melbourne, from which port she sailed 00 the
3rd of October.
roll" of
She had on board 104,000 ounces of gold, of the
about £416,000, and 260 passengers.
tb
The Champion of the Seas, with the English mails o.•i e
sth July, arrived at Melbourne on the 26th of September. 11:e
mail ship of the 20th of June had not arrived.
The Defence, and Western Bride, from Liverpool, and tlee,
Lord Warriston,from Greenock, had also arrived at Melbouril
In its summary for England, the Melbourne Argus sag' ---
t
We firmly believe that we have seen the worst, and,
,tl5O,
henceforth, for a long time to come, we shall be enable°e
transmit accounts of a gradual arid solid improvement in ,4" e
financial and in the industrial condition of the colony.,
~ 750
month of September has been one of continued procPeriqb e
-
far as the yield from the various gold-fields is concerned.
..,a
amounts sent down by escort are steadily on the increase, a.'lo
'i t
the reports of our own correspondents and of gentlemen
have recently visited the diggings, and whose judgment ca°,e.
relied on, lead us to believe' that this increase will be 123°!11`ibe
tained. The season has been peculiarly favourable to I:
miner. Water has been abundant, but not in excess, 05;
generally the' case in the winter months, and the weather 11
never been so severe as to interrupt the operations. To the(l
opening up of the quartz reefs, the supply from which w°ilt'al
appear to be inexhaustible, and to the separation of the nlei,e
by means of machinery, the present satisfactory state of t'
escort returns must, however, be chiefly ascribed.
The Melbourne Age gives the following comparative quaff"
terly statement of gold produced in 1845, 1855 :-
1854. 1855.
Ounces. Ounces.
.. 188,246 ... 166,198
137,148 ... 176,742
176,310 ... 253,113,

July
August ....
September

501,704 ... 596,853
501,704

Increase on the quarter

94,349

Increase on the year 132,314
A smart shock of au earthquake was experienced ill 116'
bourne on the.l7th of September. It occurred at 2.53 a•w"
and lasted . for about sixty-five seconds. The motion
vibratory, and the direction in which it travelled appear
to to be front the south-west to north-east. The air was Ca',7o
and hazy at the time, and the sky slightly overcast.
violent was the shock, that sound sleepers were awaken
from their slumbers; all moveable objects jingled and rattled,
and a low rumbling noise accompanied the tremor of t114.e
earth. The shock appears to have been felt sixty or serelVe
miles inland, and it seems most probable that it was
circumferential ripple of a great convulsion on some of tie
islands lying more to the southward in the Pacific—possibly
in New Zealand.

The Government Gazette has published a return of the
population of the colony of Victoria on the 30th of June;
1855, computed from the Registers of Births and Deaths and
the Returns of the Immigration Agent. The census returns
on the 26th April, 1854, showed the population to be at that
time 236,798. In the interim there have arrived by sea 99,301
souls, while the births have given an additional 11,556 souk"
The departures by sea during the same period have amounteu,
to 36,638, and the deaths to 7490; showing a net increase 01
66,729. This added to the 236,798 quoted above, will give,
total of 303,527 persons; the proportion borne by the nnue'
to females being nearly as 2 to 1, the former numbering
198,236, and the latter only 105,291,
Notwithstanding the numerous difficulties andimpediments
in the way, the inclosure and cultivation of the land of the.
colony of Victoria is advancing.
The shares in the new Colonial Bank have been taken
with a rapidity which testifies to the large amount of interest
which the mercantile and general public take in its success. a
The legislative council was not in session. It was prorogue
°
to the 4th proximo, when it is understood that it will be 100-
rogued for six weeks longer, in order to enable the represents"
tives for the new constituencies at the gold-fields to take then:.
seats. Eight new members will be directly chosen by these
who posess the franchise; and four will in addition be tinl/:
nated by his excellency on the recommendation of the digger'
generally. The elections will take place early in November'
There will be some difficulty in finding men possessing the
There
property qualification; and, as yet, there are iv
candidates in the field.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
The continued decrease of imports is exercising a beneficie.
influence, and holders of many descriptions of goods whichb:i
therto could only have been sold at a loss, are looking forwar
to the spring trade to enable them to realise at a profit. tPet:
culation has almost entirely ceased in oifr import market'
Business is purely of a legitimate character. Our merchn.,llie
have contented themselves for some months with doing h'„',e
in the way of pushing a trade, and biding their time to rca'"
for cash or for, credit to safe houses.
The demand for gold was brisk, and the price rose in cop:
sequence; 765. 3d. and 765. 6d. were the prices ruling at the
departure of the ship.
In wool the market is very active, and the demand in•exces°'
of supply. The shipments made this season have been con'
siderably in advance of those of former years, the actual in;
crease of 1855 over 1854 exceeding 14,740 bales; of scoured
and handwashed descriptions also by a largely increased ex-
port is reported.
Tallow : Beef, £35 to £3B ; mutton, £3B and upwards, ac-
cording to quality and condition. _

Hides : Country hides, 10s. to 12s. In the absence of op-
portunities to ship, town hides have been sold at prices in
favour of the buyer.

Freights to LOndon and Liverpool: On wool, id.;
355. ; hides, 455.

Labour : The first favourable symptoms of improvement are
a very great diminution in the numbers seeking employment,.
and the greater facility they find in obtaining it ; and altbouFb
the wages are low, in comparison to the former rates obtain'
able in Victoria, still there is employment at the rates quoted,
with the no distant prospect of wages materially getting better,'
as labour in the market gets scarcer.
Another favourable feature is the great demand lately sprung
up about the gold-fields for female servants, where they frq't3;
the
obtain a considerable advance upon the Melbourne rates, lot
all travelling expenses paid.
l Icaorurnietdryc.ouples are still much inquired after for stations ill

TUE Turkish Minister in London is promoted to the ranic
of Anibassador Extraordinary.
, vet
REPRESENTATION OF HEREFORD.—No candidate nas t
declared himself for the representation of Hereford, which, is presumed, will be rendered vacant through the bankruptcY
of Sir R. Price; but it is stated "on authority" that 30..,*
Robert Biddulph, of Ledbury, who formerly represented
Hereford in parliament, will again offer himself to the electes•
THE CASE oz Da. VAUGHAN.—Application was on Sato!:
day made to Mr. Baron Platt, at his private residence,
.14".
rescind the erder he had previously made for removing the
.proceedings against Dr. Vaughan by the churchwardens of
St. Matthew, Brixton, from the Central Criminal Court into
thelCourt'ofQUeen's Bench. The affidavits ou each side were
submitted to the judge, but he was not attended by counsel.
th beenathat
his
made Mr. Baron Platt said he had carefully considered the fresh
to the ts whichLadconclusion
would not, however, reseind the order he had made, but he
would direct that it should be stayed until the 11th of Janu-
ary, being the Ist day of Hilary Term, thereby giving the
formerin thdiesc case,isiod
was wrong. o
parties an. opportunity of making an application upon the
an he had come
subject to the full court.—Observer.
LIBERATION OF EDWARD MIIRRA.T.—ROME, Dec. 20...7"1
The case of Edward Murray, so much discussed in Englan
and elsewhere three years ago, and which then gave occasion
be sufficient to recall him to mind as the Englishman arrested
Lave
vteh the Britisheen
forgotten.
Governmentltiv
ftohratreopfeaHteisd Hreorholenssst,rawilicllesnorrtonth
at Ancona in 1849, chargeel with being associated 1,11ti1"
known assassins, and of having been an accomplice in '-
murder of Count Severino, for. which he was condemned to
the guillotine by the sacred tribunal of the Sacra Consuitt
which sentence would certainly have been carried into effeci
-had it not been averted by the energetic remonstrances °-
our consul, Mr. Freeborn, acting according to the inslolci
tions of the British Government, not on the principle °s
wishing to save the prisoner, if guilty, merely because he oTo
a British subject, but because the trial was, according
British ideas of justice, secret, inquisitorial, and unfair.
cod''
tnunicate. Papal Government was obstinate, and never would cod'.
tnunicate. the documents of the trial even to Sir Henri
• Bulwer, who, during his residence in Rome, endeavoured t,
,
procure them from Cardinal Antonelli ; but the Pope mit3a-
gated.the capital sentence to that of the galleys for life, an
subsequently to that of imprisonment for life in the Star.,
prison of Palliano, where Edward Murray was consequen!:
sent, after having_ confined at Ancona and Rome idr
nearly five years. Since that period exertions have not be?.
wanting in his behalf, and the charity of British visitors 'll
Rome has been abundant to his mother, an lonian by birth:
On Sunday nigitt, the 16th in,stalll, Murray was released
from prison and pent secretly to .Civita Vecchia, escorted WI
gendarme,;, there to be embarked 44:1 board the Frer el steamer
for Malta.— y NeWs.

JANUARY 1, 1856

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CHESHIRE AND WALES.

tined by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County
Palatine
*le of Chester. 2nd Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia.
Smart Evans, gent., to be Ensign.
the Li AG-srm has been placed on Salt Island, Holyhead, by
which\ erPool Steam-tug Company, as a signal to a tug-boat
the coast tnaY happen to pass, if wanted in the harbour or on
Th
ursday, Mr. Clarke delivered an interesting lecture
is la~annexion with the Bebingtou Mutual Improvement Society,
the school-room. of that place. The Rev. J. F. Franks oc-
eile!on the chair. The audience, which was very large, con-
ItiFl g the state of the weather, seemed highly pleased ; the
p!ect of the lecture being " England in the present day."
Cats
eek. TABli AND HOLYITEID RAILWAY.—The traffic for th,
Pareefll",ed December 23rd, 1855, was as follows : —Passengers
goDd £2,074 ss. 11d.; steam-boats, £m. ss. 6d.;
4,38i.e1,977 2s. Bd. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic,
Pared: 1,15. id- Corresponding week last year : —Passengers,
tl/42,031. £2,013 ss. 4d ; steam-boats: £374165. 3d. ; goods,
Os.ad'lld. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic, £4,051
Decrease, £7O 2s. sd.
Asil?
ULLY SUDDEN DEATIL—About a quarter past noon,
age Friday, John Moreton Fernihough, twenty-seven years of
Fe ' seaman, and son of Mrs. Fernihough, of the Tranmere
perel?' Hotel was crossing by the Tranmere steamer to Liver-
kid nt_°l:2e paid off, when he suddenly fell forward off his seat
and
acLpired. His body was brought to the Landing-stage,
ten lliquest held before the coroner, when, upon the testi-
' lff Mr. John Norris, surgeon. a verdict was returned of
Death from apoplexy, the result of natural causes."
Ci/EQ
dere CITHSDRA.L.—The services on Christmas-day
4,-17'61 attended, and in the afternoon the Cathedral was
fir'
crowded. In the morning, prayers were read by the
Ilauti% P. E.. Thurland, Precentor ; the lessons and the. Co.m-
eomion
,Service by the Rev. Canon Eaton, the Dean being
by thetu to Pastor house by illness The anthem, introduced
she l Symphony on the organ, was, " There were
Pnerds abiding in the fields," with the chorus " Glory to
f'" from Handers Messiah. The Lord Bishop preached
tri°lll Lalte i. 42 ; and afterwards took the principal part in
e administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
1p
the afternoon the anthem was " The people that walked
hedaljiness," with the chorus " For unto us a child is born,"
atteltdoMessiah. The other churches of the city were well
ESENTLTION.—The Sunday-school teachers in conneF-
-4' With Barnton Church, Northwich, held a meeting in their
th. V-room on Monday. last week, and invited the clergyman,
to' Rev. E. W. Burton, 8.A., to attend; their object being
eelllcesent to the church, through their pastor, a pair of than-
se„'ablets. The presentation was made by Mr. John Fergu-
-6,%, who, in a neat address, referred to the high claims of Mr.
kri,ou to the sympathy and gratitude of the people corn-
an-","ecl to his spiritual 'oversight. Mr. Burton responded in
of I.qutiress, which was occasionally interrupted by the strength
to:es emotions. Messrs. Astles, Antrobus, and Robinson
bb Dart in. the subsequent proceedings, and the meeting
1ia,,.°4, UP at about half-past eight o'clock. The tablets were
atroa in illuminated capitals, and exhibit a finish of style
wa't:ecution highly creditabloto the artist, Mr. S. P. Drink-

AS,
t, 'AULT/NO THE Poracs.—At the Birkenhead. Police-
ve, on Thursday, Thomas Benyon, a powerful-looking
o,s
It.o"lg' fellow, was charged with assaulting detective policeman
rtias°ll. • On Wednesday evening; the prisoner and another
st were fighting on a piece of waste ground between Whife-
,'
eet and Priory-street, when Hodson and Inspector Gun-
-87 interfered. The prisoner resisted them, and struck Hod-
: With something hard over the head, inflicting a severe
B:taid of an inch and a-half upon the forehead. The pri-
tler, in defence, said he was in liquor, and that Gunning
6„,elE him over tbe head with a stick. Gunning, however,
ogT'ed that he had struck the prisoner until he saw his brother
d„ser overpowered by him. Sir Edward Gist strongly con-
th;`,l3ecl the practice of police-officers carrying sticks, and said
f",.,‘ _,a staff would be a sufficient weapon of defence. Mr.
110-'lft said this was a brutal assault, and drunkenness was
th retise. ; The police must be protected in the execution of
r duty. Fined £2 and costs, or in default to be im-
p°nod for 21 days.
Spg
Orly SESSIONS AT BIEKENIEEAD.—A special sessions
Os held on Friday, in the Town-hall, Birkenhead, before
iNor-General Sir Edward Cust, J. D. Case,. Esq., J. R. Shaw,
n', and the Rev. M. Coxon. The Rev. Dr. Baylee appealed
hart the assessment of the new college, at Clanghton, which
itiu, been rated by the overseers at £540, on the ground that
eh" building was not as yet wholly occupied, and that the
aliel which was attached to the college could not. be in-
a tied in the assessment. The reverend gcnllemen expressed
take
that the college. the full possession of which would not
,e Place until October next, should be rated at a fair and
"ttable amount. The bench reduced the assessment to £350.
surveyors of highways of the township of Bevington
ge 'tirinnoned at the instance of Mr. William Hope Jones, a
etnan residing in that district, to show cause why the did
Pat Foxcover-lane in a proper state of repair. Mr.
s solicitor appeared on behalf of Mr. Jones. The 'c
c ase
,„! been before , the magistrates on two or three previous oc-
-I°,lls, and the surveyors urged that the road had never been
"Ned by the township. The evidence of a very old man,
allay n
recollection was heard in favour of the thoroughfare being
a Zays in his ron a public one ; and after considerable
p
tli.4lllnen the survyors consented to adot the road and pay
e costs,t the worke to be completed in two months.