The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

THE PEACE PROPOSITIONS.

Private advices from St. Petersburg, dated Dec. 29, mention
Esterliazy's arrival, and the question of an ultimatum was
the subject of universal talk and of all kinds of rumours. It
was understood that no answer was to be given for 15 days,
and a Council of the Empire was to be appointed to examine
and discuss the propositions.
The Times expects from Russia neither a refusal nor an

acceptance, but such a modified counter proposition as may
give rise to negotiations, and enable her to play off upon us
the devices of another mystification and another conference.

The activity of the overland transit trade is said to have
increased, and owing to the extraordinary number of horses
employed in bringing imports from the Prussian frontier, the
carriage back from Petersburg to Kowno had fallen to £6
per ton for hemp-flax and tallow. Government had contracted
for 3,000 tons of lead ; its price bad greatly fallen. This
article and sulphur were imported through Prussia, with no
apparent interruption, to the astonishment of the Russians.
Some of the principal merchants expect that the overland trade
must at last he stopped. Exchange, 35d. and 11-16 d. Weather
very mild. Goods were being sent to Archangel, in hopes of
shipment before arrival of the blockading ships.

THIRD EDITION.

STANDARD-OFFICE, JAN. 8, TwEVE

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AMERICA.

ARIIIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

Trot United States mail steam-ship Baltic, Capt. James
Comstock, arrived in the Mersey at ten a.m. She was de-
tained by fog at the Bar for eight hours. She brought 60
passengers, and $360,000 in specie.
The Baltic sailed from New York at 10 a.m. on the 27th
alt., and the same day passed the Pacific hence for New York,
160 miles cast of Sandy Hook. On the 4th instant, passed a
large screw steamer, bound west.
The United States mail steam-ship Hermann. from South-
ampton, arrived at New York on the 20th ult.
There was no organisation of the House of Representatives,
owing to the impossibility to elect a Speaker. The last polling
was as follows :—Banks, 101; Richardson, 72 ; Fuller, 31 ;
Pennington, 4; Scattering, 7. Necessary to a c':oice, 108.
The New York Herald says that the people of the United
States are quietly settling upon great principl6s and measures
by which they will be guided in the next contest for the Pre-
sidency.

First—The Union against agitators and abolitionists.

Second—The progress of the country by the annexation of
Cuba, Mexico, and Central America.
Third—The building up of a great naval and commercial
power.
Fourth—The restoration of a constitutional, uniform cur-
rency.
Fifth—The re-organisation of the tariff, so as to give per.
=llene, to foreign trade and home manufactures.
Sixth—The final overthrow of every species of faction, and
the enforcement of the constitution, as the only chart of our
existence as a nation.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald
states that Mr. Marcy's demands upon the British government
require, among other things, the recall of Mr. Crampton, or
some other public act of equally signal satisfaction to the
United States.
The English discovery ship Resolute, one of the vessels
composing Sir Edward Belcher's squadron, sent out in search
of Sir John Franklin, and which, having become locked in
the Polar ice, was abandoned by that officer. She was fallen
in with by an American whaler, the captain of which took
possession of her. Her value is estimated at one hundred
thousand dollars. Captain Belcher was tried by a court
martial for abandoning his ship; and, although not censured
for his conduct, the tribunal to which he appealed did not
justify it.
The steamer Northern Light had been seized by the United
States authorities, acting under instructions received from the
President. The District Attorney, accompanied by his
assistant, informed her captain and owners that if she left
while under detention, they would be acting in violation of
the laws, and they should be held responsible for their con-
duct. In defiance of his authority, however, they started with
the officers on board. She met with no interruption till pass-
ing Governor's Island, when she was stopped by the United
States revenue cutter Washington, vrlich brought her to,
after firing three times with blank cart-idge. She was then
boarded by some of the officers from th• cutter and anchored
in the river between the Battery and jersey City, where she
was lying when the Baltic sailed. Nine of the passenger'
would be permitted to land until she was searched, for the
purpose of discovering if she carries any concealed munitions
of war for Nicaragua.
We have intelligence, by telegraph, of the wreck of the
steamer Crescent City, of and from New York for Havana and
New Orleans. She went ashore on the Bahama Banks on the
7th ult., and will probably prove a total loss. The passengers,
crew and baggage, and the mails were saved.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, 27TH Dsc.
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There has been an active demand to-day for Money, but no
stringency. The payments of two days coming in one has in-
creased the demand for accommodations. Paper is in good
demand and rather easier.
Stocks have been dull without feature. Exchange has
ruled lower. Bank Sterling has been sold at 81, and best
bankers' signatures at 81 per cent., without large transactions
at that figure. The supply of outside bills has been better
and the demand moderate. Good commercial bilis sold at
Bto 81 per cent. Francs, 5.22 k to 5.181.
Cotton has been dull, but prices retain their steadiness.
The prevailing estimate of this year's crop is 3,600,000 to
3,700,000 bales. Our quotations are as follows :

NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION.
Upland. Florida. Mobile.
Ordinary Bl 8} /34
Middling Si 9* ge
Middling Fair
Fair lO 10 10f

New Orleans
and Texas
Si

Common and medium grades of flour advanced about qt.
per bbl. Wheat sold only to a moderate extent, without
change of importance in prices. Corn was lower, but tolera-
bly active, the market having closed at about 90c. a 91c. for
Western mixed. —Pork was heavy. with moderate, sales. closing
at rates in favour of purchasers:—Freights to Liverpool were
tolerably active, and to the Continent rates continued quite
steady.

FOURTH EDITION.

STANDARD-OFFICE, JAN 8, Two P.M.

(By Electric Telegraph.)

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.—NOON QUOTATIONS.
THE FUNDS.—Consols for Money, 86 a 7 61—Account,
so 7 ; Three per Cents., 871 ; Bank Stock, 2062 ; Ex-
chequer-bills, L., 4 9 dis. ; Ditto, S., 8 9 dis.