The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

BOMBARDMENT OF SWEABORG.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT.
A supplement of the Invalide Russe of the 12th of Au-
gust publishes the continuation of the telegraphic account of
the bombardment of Sweaborg :
July 29 (Aug. 10), 2 10 p.m.—The fire of the enemy was
renewed with double intensity after 9 a.m. Up to noon their
fire was directed chiefly against the works on West Swartoe,
and the Nicholas battery on the island of Rantan, but with-
out success ; their cannonade was then again turned against
the fortress.

According to an approximate calculation about 3000 shots
were fired yesterday against Sandhamn Island; the firing
consisted chiefly in broasides or rplling fire.
To-day about 4800 shells were thrown into 'West Swartoe
and the Nicholas battery, which, to judge from their explosion,
were all of the weight of seven ponds.
7 6 p.m.—The cannonade of the enemy is weaker.
10 17 p.m.—The bombardment to-day has positively done
no damage, either to the fortifications or to the batteries or
guns. In these two days the conflagration destroyed some
buildings on the island of Stura-Ester-Swartoe.

TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
The Moniteur of Wednesday says that the Minister of War
has received the following despatch from General Pelissier :

CRIMEA, Al 7
It was necessary to continue the armistice demG•anl9dedl yes3fter-
day by the Russians from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m, today, for them to
carry away their dead.
The nearest return we could make gives
by nu
sthe
tfholelowisnsfans:
re-
sults :—Russians buried by the French, 2,129;
I,2oo—total 3,329.
The Moniteur adds these words :
The artillery has again opened fire against Sebastopol.
An error in a despatch led to the belief that another bom-
bardment had commenced.
That is not the case.
This fire is that of our guns. which, as has been aeon, has
powerfully contributed, since its recommencement, to facilitate

the works of the approaches directed against the ensemble of
the Malakhoff works.

The Moniteur makes the following observations 'upon Gen.
Pelissier's despatch, giving the number of Russians killed on
the 16th of August at 3,329 :
"The losses of the Russians on the 16th were, therefore,
much more considerable than the first despatches of General
Pelissier had led us to suppose. They assume a proportion
rarely exceeded in regular battles, yet we should not be sur-
prised, to judge from the news from St. Petersburg, if the
Russians should simply call the affair of the 16th a reconnais-
sance. The number of troops engaged, the materials brought
into the field by the Russians, their efforts to take again a position
which General Liprandi had occupied during the whole winter,
prove the importance they attached to being victorious."
VIENNA, Tuesday.
The Oesterreichische Correspondenz publishes news from
Constantinople of the 13th and 16th instant.

Omar Pasha had been invested with the order and insignia
of the Bath. _ _

ffewasiiill at Constantinople.

Advices from Trebizonde Of the ith of August state that
the postal communications between Kars and Erzeroum are
interrupted.
The Russians had advanced as far as Kapricio, on the road
to Erzeroum.

Ten thousand Bashi-Bazouks had arrived at Erzeroum.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

By the British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Asia, Captain Lott, which arrived at 8 p.m. on Saturday, we
have intelligence from Boston to the 15th, and by electric
telegraph from New York to the 16th ult. The Asia brought
182 passengers and $825,179 in specie. Early on the 16th she
passed the America going in to Boston, and exchanged signals
with the ship Troy, of Bristol, bound east. On the 21st ex-
changed signals with the ship Trinidad, also eastward bound,
and on the 24th passed a barque bound east, showing third
distinguishing penant No. 932. On Saturday afternoon, at
3 45, passed the U. S. mail steamer Atlantic, hence for New
York.

The steam-ship Empire City had arrived at New York, with
$904,480 worth of California gold dust. The John L. Stephens
had sailed from San Francisco with upwards of one million in
specie on freight.

Five men had been drowned in Niagara Falls. They were
rowing a boat, when one of the oars snapped, leaving them
helpless. The boat was carried down the stream into the
whirlpool and broken to pieces.
Intelligence had been received of the loss of the ship Gri-
minesia on a reef west of New Caledonia. She had on board
650 coolies from China, and a crew of 50 men, all of whom
perished, except seven, who were saved in a boat.
The state elections were proceeding, but the result was not
known. In some places the Kuow-nothings triumphed, and
in other places the Democrats. Neither, so far, claims any
decided advantage._

The crops were all in, and a controversy prevailed as to the
prices this year. The Herald says :—" The public mind, in
view of a large crop, is a little anxious to ascertain how to de-
termine its real value, and it looks with a vast deal of sus-
picion upon the speculators, and, indeed, upon all counsel on
the subject. Now, it occurs to us that there is no earthly
difficulty in settling upon general principles to guide us. We
have no idea that the famine prices of last year can be main-
tained. There is not warrant for such a conclusion to be
found, either in the abundance of our own supplies or in the
condition of things on the other side of the water."
Yellow fever prevailed extensively in Virginia, and a case
had occurred in Washington.
Debar, who murdered the ?Becher family, was lynched at
Milwauki, Wisconsin.
The Massachusetts Know-nothings had held a State Coun-
cil, and had virtually abandoned their organisation—at least
they had discarded the principles upon which the order in that
State was originally based.

The slave question continued as violent as ever, and Vir.
ginia was arming. _

, „,
The Emigration Commissioners of New York, in order to
prevent the frauds practised on emigrants newly arrived, by
the lodging:house keepers, agents, runners, &c., the principal
portion of whom are Irishmen, have established a depot at the
Battery, Castle-gardens, where large concerts have usually
been held. The consequence has been, that all the parties
affected by this arrangement have held a large meeting in
New York, protesting against the proceedings of the com-
missioners, on the ground that many thousands of people will
be deprived of their daily bread. It is quite evident that the
Irish have improved on the impudence of the Yankees.
The news from Mexico intimates the speedy downfal of
Santa Anna. The revolutionists were stated to be within
four leagues of Vera Cruz. The conducta from the city of
Mexico, with a convoy of government troops, had stopped at
Puerto National, with a view of giving battle to the revolu-
tionists. It was rumoured at the latest moment that the con-
ducta which left Mexico on the 18th of July, for Vera Cruz,
with $1,500,000, had been taken by the revolutionists. In the
engagement which ensued fifty of the government troops were
killed, and of the remainder 300 had gone over to Alvarez.
The Delta has private letters from Mexico, which state that
arrests were being made daily in the city of Mexico— as many
as sixty having been arrested on one day. Among the prisoners
were two Americans. A great conspiracy is said to have been
discovered by the police, while searching for criminals, in a
convent which had been subjected to inquisition, and several
priests were arrested. Guanajuata, it was rumoured, was in
the hands of the revolutionists. General Blanco had gone out
to fight Comonfert, the revolutionary leader.
A consular and commercial treaty has been celebrated be-
tween Great Britain and Chili. The internal condition of
Peru is reported as being highly unfavourable. It is said
that Paraguay has not only opened her internal rivers to the
Brazilian flag, but to the flags of all foreign nations.
The first constituent assembly of the newly-erected state of
Panama met on the 15th of July, and elected Francisco
Fabrega as president, and Blas Arosemena as vice-president.
It has been ascertained that there is no difference between
the elevation of the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, conse-
quently, there will be no difficulty in constructing a canal, if
the other impediments are overcome. The American papers
remark that it is singular that a similar idea in ancient
times prevented Corinth being connected with the Pelopon-
nesus.

Advices from Havana, to the Bth, mention that all Creoles
who had become citizens of the United States, had received
notice to quit the island._

Account's from Porto Rico, received in Havana, reported
the deaths of 15,000 (?) persons from yellow fever.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, August 14.
MoNEY.—The Bank statement for the week past showed a
very uniform movement in the items of loans, specie, circulation,
and deposits. It was thought that the enlarged loans would
add a stimulus to the importation of foreign dry goods. Ex-
change on Europe had a downward tendency, brought about
by the foreign demand for breadstuffs and cotton, reduced
shipments of gold, &c. On Paris, Antwerp, and Frankfort,
the rates were firm. On other points the market was fully
supplied, namely, London, 60 days, 1092 to 1098 ; Ditto, short
sight, 1101 to 1101.
COTTON.—The market was firm, at previous rates, but the
transactions had been only to a moderate extent. Holders
declined selling at present prices. The sales for the week
were estimated at 7,000 bales. Uplands, very ordinary to
middling, 81c. to 11-Ic. ; fair to good fair and good, 121 c. to
131 c. ; Mobiles, Louisianas, Sr.c., ordinary to middling, 9c. to
111 c. ; fair to good fair, 131 c. to 14e.
Messrs. Talcott, in their circular, dated New York, August
15th, state :—" The season is now approaching when the
crop accounts' will be interesting. Since our last, of 16th
ult., the fluctuations in prices have been unimportant. The
market has been sustained by the light stocks remaining in
this and the other ports of the United States, barely sufficient
to meet the daily requirements of a fair home demand, and a
moderate inquiry for export. The Baltic's advices from
Liverpool, of 27th ult., were more favourable than anticipated.
Holders have since offered sparingly, anticipating a gradual
improvement in the Liverpool market as the stock diminishes.
At southern ports the business doing, as is usual at this period
of the season, is very limited. The total receipts at the ports
of the growth of the past season will exceed the estimates of
May and June, and probably reach 2,825,000 to 2,850,000
bales, leaving in the interior fully 250,000 bales to be for-
warded when the rivers become navigable."
BREADSTUFFS.—The demand for flour was moderate, with-
out any material change in price. Wheat remained steady.
Corn was in good supply, and rates rather lower.
PROVISIONB.—Pork was in good request. Beef continued
steady. Ohio butter 15c. to 18c., and State 19c. to 22c.
Cheese Sc. to Ric.

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool : Cotton, 5-32 d. to 3-16 d. ; flour,
per bbl., ls. ; rosin, ditto, Is. ; heavy goods, per ton, 15s. to
; grain, per bushel, 4d. To London : Flour, ls. 3d. ;
grain, si-d. ; rosin and turpentine, per 280 lbs., ls. 6d. ;
heavy goods, oil, &c., 15s. to 20s. To Havre : Cotton, le.

By Electric Telegraph.
BOSTON, AUGUST 15.—Lebanon, (5.5.,) from Liverpool,
arrived at New York this morning at seven o'clock.
NEW Yonx, AUGUST 16, P.M.—European news, per
America, at Halifax, was published here this forenoon. Ex-
change on London has advanced one to one-and-a-half. Corn
and wheat are dearer. Cotton dull ; sales of the three past
days 3,000 bales. Money market to-day is easy.
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 15, P.M.—Lebanon's advices re-
ceived. Cotton unchanged ; sales to-day 500 bales.