The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

STANDARD-OFFICE, MARLS 4, TEN, A.M.

(BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEgRAPIII

LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING.

COMMERCIAL.

Last price of Consols yesterday was 911 f for Money, and
911 .1- for the 11th. The payment of the instalment on the
new loan passed off without inconvenience.

LORD LIICAN AND THE CRIMEAN COMMISSION.
Lord Lyman, in a letter to the editor of the Times, says he
is desirous of relieving him from all alarm, by assuring him
that he has no intention of availing himself of the astuteness
of any county whatever, and that he does not anticipate any
necessity for extraneous assistance on exposing Sir John
Neill and Colonel Tullock, present or absent, as shall be least
disagreeable to them or him tearing to pieces those parts of
their prec►ous report as supposed to affect the cavalry, how•
over supported in the Times, or elsewhere.

THE WAR.

TERRIFIC STORM IN THE BLACK SEA.

The Boryathene has arrived at Marseilles, with Constanti-
nople advices of the 25th, and Crimea letters of the 23rd.
The Times' Constantinople correspondent reports a fearful
tempest on the previous Friday, occasioning much damage in
the Bosphorus and Golden Horn. The Alma and Dt.ris
suffered injuries. The Sylph ran aground in the flack Sea.
In the Crimea the cold was intense. Fort St. Paul had been
destroyed, and the Quarantine Fort was mined and would
shortly be blown up.

The English were prepared for the expedition to Asia.
General Williams is to be exchanged.

STRENGTH OP THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE
CRIMEA.

:The nominal strength of the Russians in the Crimea is
coinputed at 67,000 infantry, 19,000 cavalry and artillery, and
SQO guns.

The Russians have withdrawn all the maritime signals and
discontinued the use of lighthouses.

SIGNING THE PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE.

The Morning Post says, "The signing of the protocol
agreed to at Vienna indicates that after a week's conference
no new difficulties have arisen, and that as far as they have yet
gone the Envoys understand one another and are agreed- of
course there is great latitude for misunderstanding when the
details which this general agreement embodies come to be
discussed, and it is quite possible that Russia may yet take
exception to some of the demands made by the Western
Powers either in matter or in form; still the signing of this
document is an instalment towards the desired end --in fact,
It is good to a certain extent, but no further. With if
the question of the neutrality of the Black Sea the fate of
Nicolaieff will be decided ; but as this is involved in the third
point, and as the fifth was to be taken first, we may presume
that it bas not yet been discussed. We may shortly expect to
bear that definite progress has been made in some of its par-
ticulars. We will not be surprised if there prove to be little
difficulty in preventing the re-fortification of the Aland
Islands, and in arriving at a satisfactory definition of the posi-
tion of Russia in the Baltic. The boundaries of Russia and
of Turkey in Asia Minor will probably be settled by a com-
mission. Kars will naturally revert to its late owner. It is
not to be supposed that the allies will think of yielding in the
fourth condition- a point for which in all probability Russia
will strongly contend—namely, with the Greek Church, as this
Involves the whole matter in dispute. It would be absurd
Solemnity to lock Russia out of Turkey, then to present her
with the key." •
The Times says there is little doubt the cause of order and
justice speeds well at the Paris Conferences ; but as r 'wards
the alleged signature of the preliminaries of peace, it was a
Mistake. Nothing has happened but what everybody was
aware of last week -namely. that the Conferences had adopted
the proceedings of that at Vienna.