The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

ARRIYAL OF THE AMERICA,

By the British and North Amercian royal mail fitcam-sLip
America, Captain.Wickman, which reached this port yester-
day afternoon, we have intelligence from Boston.,to.the aOth
ult., and facia New York, (by telegraph, via likdi.fax), to, the
31st. She brought no. specie.
The royal;raall stezur,ship Arabia arrived Halifax. zu the
31st ult.

In the.Sennte,..on the 28th ult., Mr. Cass d'elh-ered: a speech
on the Central! American affairs, and use strong. language
denunciatory of the positions assumed by tine. British. Govern-
ment. Mr.- Clayton spoke in a similar strain, and!cp.4ated do-
cuments.: to. show that the British vice-consul; was the real
governorf. of Mosquito. In the House of. Representatives a
motis»,- . declaring "any agitation of the-slavery quft..tion un-
wiseand unjust to• a portion of the American people., injurious
to every. section, and ought not to Le countenanced," was
adopted by a majority of one.
Tha, lash ballot for Speaker stood ar,follows.:.—Banks, 99;
Orr,
.693:Fulter' 34; Seat ping, S. Necessary to a choice, 106.
ixlviees haul been received from California to the sth ult.
Nlearly $2;000,000 were en route bouNew-York. The mining
news is.of an encouraging nature.
Letters from Havana report.that General Concha was about
to .return to Havana, to receive tl:.title.of Cunt of Havana.
His.succe&sor was expected to be General
On the departure of the stearn,ship Northern Light from
New York for San Juan, she was boarded by the police in search
Of filibusters, but none were found;
A. filibustering expedition of 500: men is reported to have
landed at San Blas, Lower. California. Fillibusters were
leaving the United State& every day to join Walker in
Nicaragua.
New York harbour and the North. anti East rivers were filled
with large masses of floating ice,, and it was only the most-
powerful steamers that couldcommunicate with Long Islaudi
and New Jersey.
From Mexico we learn: that the municipal council composed
by Alvarez had been dissolved, and new members elected.:
Haro y Tamirez, with, large body of followers, was laying
siege to Puebla.
Fourteen persons. had been drowned by the capsizing:of a
schooner in Chesapeake Bay.
Governor Walker, of New OrleanS, had died. _

It is stated that the Hon. R. M. Dallas had been offered the
post of ambassador. to London, in place of Mr. Buchanan,
who wishes to retire, and had accepted it.
Daniel Galbraith and Angus Gillespie, who had been in
prison at Baal% in default of bail, for enlisting• soldiers fer
the British service, had been released on giving bonds to
appear before the Rochester Court.
A body of fugitive slaves having taken refuge. in. a house at
Cincinnati, the police-officers attempted to enter the house.
The slaves fired, and wounded some of the spectators. Find-
ing escape impossible, one of the women cut the throats of her
three children. Six of the fugitives were. taken, but eight
escaped.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, January 30.

Money continues in good demand, and the rates are well
supported. Exchange on England was in moderate demand,
at 1071 to 1081 and 1081 per cent, Bills on Prance were
quoted f 5 20 to f 5 26f.
COTTON.—There was a good demand for shipment at the
full previous prices, up to the 23rd ult., but since then the
market has been very quiet, and sales are with difficulty
effected, although, in consequence of the reduced stock, no
change in actual quotations can be noted. The sales are esti-
mated at 17,000 bales in the two weeks.
PROVISIONS.—The European news, per Africa and Baltic,
received last week, had the effect to depress the provision
market still more. The transactions for export consequent
upon the advices from Europe have been very limited, the
shippers being disinclined to operate under the present peace-
able feeling and unfavourable state of the money market
abroad. The greater part of the meats going forward are
shipped from first hands under advance.
BREADSTUFFS.—There has been little doing in flour, in
consequence of the snowstorm which had prevailed. The
transactions were made at an improvement in price of 25c.
per barrel on the quotations a fortnight previous. Wheat was
in steady demand at previous rates. Indian corn was without
change.

Freights were scarcely so firm, there being less activity. The
rates were: To Liverpool—for cotton, 7-33 d to Id. per lb. ;
grain, nd. to £3ld. per bushel; flour, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. per bar-
rel. To Havre—cotton, dc. per lh. ; grain, nominally, 20c. per
bushel; flour, 70c. per barrel. To London—flour, 3s. 9d. to
4s. per barrel ; grain, 11d. to ls. per bushel.
Nsw ORLEANS, Jan. 25.—The receipt of the Baltic's advises

[PEnnttAitv 12, 1866.

here completely unsettled our cotton market, and no sales. ,Wel
made to-day. The sales yesterday amounted to 7,000 Dll,
~r,
Corn, 70c. Jan. 29.—Sales of cotton to-day, up to noon, I,vvy
bales ; demand fair, prices unchanged.

(By Electric Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Cotton active and firm. Breadstuffi
firm ; unchanged prices, but tend upwards. Market to-U.'
for fancy stocks, dull. Money market easier. Freight east!'"
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.—Sales: cotton, 7,000 bales; fir'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—N0 speaker elected.