The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-11 00:00:00

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES.

MANCHESTER.—The improvement of last week is now more
general, the market being steadier, and the demand more
active. On Tuesday there was a better demand, whilst prices
were very firm, with an upward tendency ; and the same
features have continued to characterise the market since.
The present demand appears adequate to take off the produc-
tion, and stocks both of goods and yarns are light, and
especially so for the season. Prices still continue very low—
a matter of serious complaint amongst producers ; who, how-
ever, continue to show as little inclination as ever to reduce
the supply by the adoption of short time. Yarns have been
in pretty active demand all week, and for immediate delivery
rather higher rates are required. This is the case in 1110 Ft
descriptions for export. For India and China there has been

more inquiry, accompanied by increasing firmness. For the
Mediterranean and Germany there is also a pretty good
demand. Yarns for home use are more inquired for, and very
full prices are demanded ; but to obtain any advance, excepting
for low numbers, is a more difficult matter. Goods are more
inquired for, but buyers seem hardly prepared to give higher
rates, though full prices have in all cases to be paid. The
demand for shirtings for the China and India markets has
increased, and for immediate delivery higher rates are paid
pretty readily. Printing cloths of the heavier descriptions
are also in demand. T cloths and domestics are also in pretty
fair inquiry. The Greek houses still continue inactive.—
Manchester Courier.

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

MARSEILLES, Dec. 9.
The Sinai has arrived with advices from Constantinople to
the 29th ult., and from the Crimea to the 27th.
Despatches left at 9 a.m.
The Primauguet, with the remains of Admiral Bruat, has
arrived.
The Magellan has arrived with artillery and a detachment
of the Imperial Guard.

BERLIN, Dec. 9.
The Russian Government engineers are occupied in pre-
paring plans for fortifying Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Gen. Dehn is expected to preside over the Commission at
St. Petersburg, Gen. Todtleben over that at Moscow.

Despatches have been received, through Admiral Lyons,
from Capt. Sherard Osborn, of Her Majesty's steamer Vesu-
vius, detailing his operations off Gheisk, in the Sea of Azoff,
on the 3rd ult.

VIENNA, Dec. 6.
The Oesterreichische Correspondenz has the following :
The Odessa Imperial Commercial Bank has suspended its
cash payments.

Unpleasant scenes have occurred in consequence.
The Gendarmerie remind people that by refusing to take
banknotes they display animosity towards the Government.
The premium on silver is already 12 and 15 per cent.
The Frankfort Post Gazette publishes a letter from
Odessa of the 24th nit., stating that the Russian army in the
Crimea amounted to 180,000 men. The head-quarters of Gen.
Osten-Sacken were at Kamischli, on the plateau of the Belbek,
whence he directed the defence of the northern forts and of
the heights of Mackenzie. Gen. Liprandi, who is to observe
and defend the sources of the Belbek, was at Bakshiserai. The
general head-quarters of Prince Gortschakoff were at Simphe-
ropol, where the main body of the army, the corps of Grena-
diers, and eight regiments of heavy cavalry were quartered.
A strong detachment of the army was stationed near Eupato-
ria, another near Kertch, and the reserve, composed of 30,000
men, occupied Perekop. All those troops were in direct com-
munication with each other, and the roads leading to the
different head-quarters were kept in excellent repair by the
engineers.

BY ELECTRIC & INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.]
LONDON, Monday Night..

THE WAR.

The Times' Paris correspondent writes, that letters from
Oakasaki, in Japan, dated the 19th Sept., state that two
French frigates took possession, on the 3rd September, in the
name of the Allied Powers, of the island of Urup, in the
centre of the Russian trade in the Kuriles Archipelago; and
captured a Russian cutter, with a rich cargo of furs. They
changed the name of the island to that of the " Alliance.'
The French were well received by the Japanese.

The Times' Vienna correspondent states, on the 7th, that
winter had set in with unusual severity. Also that a letter,
in the Austrian Gazette, dated Nov. 27, says that winter had
set in with snow and hard frost General 'Anders, and large
bodies of troops from Otchakoff and Nicholaieff, will winter at
Odessa. Travellers state that Nicholaieff is greatly changed,
the fortifications being five versts from the city, at the con-
fluence of the Bug and Ingul. There are three rows of forti-
fications opposite the entrance, and 400 guns are in position.
Enormous barracks and hospitals are built. Eighty new
mortars are placed near Spasska. The old Admiralty is made
a star fort. Corn has risen greatly at Odessa.

The Times' Dantzic correspondent writes on the 6th, that
winter had set in unusually early, and with almost unprece-
dented scarcity. The failure of the crops had driven grain to
an enormous height. Several cargoes of rye had arrived,
causing a slight decline; also some few parcels of hemp and
tallow, considerable quantities of which are said to be on their
way. Timber, like the corn trade, was very dull, and potatoes
had risen enormously, owing to the manufacture of spirits from
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No later news from the Crimea

EMANCIPATION OF THE RUSSIAN SERFS.
The Daily News' Hamburg correspondent telegraphs this
day::—" The Czar stated privately that it is the intention of the
Russian government to effect the immediate emancipation of
the serfs of the empire. The emperor personally is favourable
to the measure, and the land-owning aristocracy, who have
been sounded, offer no opposition."