The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

PORTLJOA L.

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The arrival, on Sunday evening, at SouthamPion',te
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation CornPaltd
ship Iberia, Captain Burney, R.N. commander,
brought intelligence from Gibraltar
of' the 4th, ,7,
9th, Cadiz, sth, and Vigo, 12th February.
Commodore Martin's experimental squadron bas,ua
the Tagus for the British Channel, having been reo9i
by the Home Government. The only ships of war
at Lisbon are the British steamer Dragon, aLd the Free
ch
steam-sloop Newton.
• The attempt to assassinate the Queen of Spain
produced great sensation; both the Portuguese Chao „be
hail unanimously voted messages of condolence ti"..
Spanish ministers.
Por'
Recruiting for the army was about to take place in -,be
tugal ; and artillery was ordered to be replaced in ~71,
forts, whence it was withdrawn after the civil war of 17ed
Lisbon exchanges for bills at three months are tki to
ut.
by this mail at 531 on London ; Amsterdam, 421;
burgh, 481. ; Paris, 528. Transactions had been le
limited, and with a small supply of London paper,
did not all find takers at 53t.
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The stock and share market was also dull, at 3,,,2101c
for Five per Cents. ; Four per Cents., 3% to 311 ; re,
of Portugal Shares, 118 to 115 milreis discount per PIO
These rates are for Lisbon bank notes, discountable at b;
per cent. ; Bank of Oporto shares were at 12 to 13 all'
premium per share, in metal.
Oporto letters mentioned that there was a slight tell;
dency to improvement in wine shipments, but, gene"te,
speaking, business was very bad, and much mistrust Pbe
veiled. The quality of the last vintage continues roe
highly extolled. The price of wine in Villanova an
neighbourhood continued to decline.

BRAZILS. IsLev,Ser.p
The Royal Mail steamship
Captain Vfi the
t cent, reached Southampton on Sunday, at noon,
,--liffote
"
monthly Brazilian and Rio de la Plata mails-74p
Buenos Ayres, January 14th; Monte Video, 7th ;
Janeiro, 14th ; Bahia, 18th ; Pernambuco, 21st;
Vincent's, Feb. Ist ; Teneriffe, 6th ; Funchal (Made'
Bth ; and Lisbon, 11th.
to The intelligence from the River Plate points
issra
expected downfall of the President Roses, who is "for
pressed by the insurgent troops of General UrquizB'oo
whom the Argentine province of Santa Fe pronollono
as soon as he (Urquiza) landed there; but the sea'
received are exceedingly contradictory. are
From Rio Janeiro, under date of the 14th ult., wA-„de
informed that the Brazilian government had conclurihe
treaty of limits and navigation of the Amazon with
republic of Peru. The financial state of the countrY
prosperous. The import and export revenue for last in
exceeded that of 1850 by 3,000 centos of reis. 111° g
continues most abundant; the rates of discount trot! of
to 4 per cent. The energetic means (spontaneous
rif
not) adopted by the Brazilian government have enti
suppressed the slave trade.
Business at Bahia and at Pernambuco had been
riously affected by the disturbed state of the country'

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INDIA AND CHINA.
INDIA.—By express, from Marseilles, which renr,.,er
this country on Saturday last, in anticipation of theto
land Mail, dispatches have been received from Bornbil. of
the 17th of January, and from Hong Kong to the 301 u
December.
The Burmese have acceded to the demands made - I,'lo„eit
British Government; but what these are does not Woo
to be known. The Governor of Rangoon, on when:llon
blame of the misunderstanding is thrown by " his" gcbof
footed majesty, has been recalled to Ava. All the the
of war, however, still remained off Rangoon, alttoe
British residents urged Commodore Lambert to ine'"„ace
the appointment of a consular agent in the town tg.`oll
tect their interests ; a requisition which, it is he" 9
will be compli Scide
matte
ed with. e
• Large forces are assembled at Roree, in Upper
but the object of their assemblage is at present m'l"t it
conjecture only ; as Ali Moorad, of Khyrpore, has n2.,ed
is said, the least intention of opposing us, but has Or
to bring his contingent to operate with us, if requireev
The Nizam has at last, it is said, effected the mnr,tg,, 0
of his jewels, but no further instalment of his debt to
has been paid off as yet. The petty chiefs in his don3lll
continue quarrelling with each other with impunity ISt
The Marquis of Dalhousie was at Cawnpore on the
instant, and is by this time back at Calcutta. ij
The ruler of Herat is said to have solicited ourbglr
prevent himself being deposed by Dost Mahomed ofd i 4
and that this is the cause of the assemblage of trete/al
Upper Scinde, whence they will proceed to Heratlilip,
Eusofzaie village under our protection, named Moelt rstr
was on Christmas Day attacked by a 'body of SOO hod,
men and 1,000 foot, but they received such a recee
to make them quickly turn tail and run for it. 11 the
James had been immediately sent to the assistance 00
villagers as soon as news of the attack reached us. riag
marauders, on this occasion, were from the neighbl
valley of Swat, the chief of which tribe has avoce
determination to attack us on our own ground. #ereg'
CHINA.—From Hong Kong the chief matter of itipeo
is the total destruction of nearly the whole of the C°ll9
part of the town, 470 to 500 houses having been coder,_
destroyed by fire on the night of the 28th. it is n", 06
stood to have arisen from the firing off of crackers., food
governor has ordered mat sheds to be erected, an beg Of
to be distributed among the needy. A good nuret
Chinese have, it is said, lost their lives. The n3°,sdor
lancholy result, however, is the deaths of Colonel
kyns and Lieut. Sugg, of the royal artillery. 1-Aott
vates of the same corps lie seriously wounded, and
Wilson, of the royal engineers, in a precarious state' 1f
party were employed in blowing up a house. The o,e f'
powder, from some cause, exploded sooner than ws',oo
petted, and while they were inside the building."' of
Kwangsi rebellion continues, but the reports conceri g
it are exceedingly contradictory.—The Canton marketibp
imports has been rather inactive. Tea, both at Shat:ol'
and Canton, has declined, and in both markets co
derable business in blacks has been done.
COMMERCIAL. Ifir
£2 ss. to .4'2 10s. ; for Liverpool, no vessel lying
don, BOMBAY.—Freights for England continue scarce. I.°, . te,
bag daf
nominal quotation is £2 ss. to .W 2 105. To China it tore°,
dined to 15ar. per candy.—Exchange : Since the deforg 110 d,
last mail exchange has begun to decline, and transaction 110'
been done as low as 2s. Id. It has since advanced to On'
On Calcutta it has advanced to 1 per cent. premium. On
217 r. per cent. dollar at 60 days' sight. sger:
A tO
CANTON.—Exchange on England: American creditso 0.00
done at, to a small extent, ss. 2d., but the rate dec 60.
ss. Old. and ss. The Oriental Bank drew a little Ittigliti
India. Company's accepted paper, 233 r. to 230 r. i;
£2 may be quoted as the rate. 50
Bank SHApNoes Abills,
documents, 5.2 to 5.3. India—Company's accepted Plool'
SHANGHAl.—Exchange
AgemeornicaEnncgrlaednidt:
s.ollriteontsal2 lAni.lneva
rupees to 235 rupees. Freights had declined to al
2 7s. 6d

1,01ie54
The Croce di Savoia announces that the Mare.l.o9o'
Falletti di Barolo had married, at Rome, her libr"
..„4l
Silvio Pellico. r tiri4
M. de Lamartine has addressed a letter to the •/°. a v-
„tip 0
de Sagne-et-Loire, in which heexpresses his intel4o'
refuse any invitation to offer himself as a candid
the legislative body.

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Algiers journals speak of a fresh outbreak on th'os'
of the Cheriff Bou-Bagherla, which was so serious,"
necessitate the sending out a considerable body of
# b°
troops to oppose him. 1,0,,
SWITZERLAND.—The Swiss journals mention tPfro, so
Government of the republic is in a state of great al%
account of a new note which has been sent to it "of
French Government, insisting upon the expulsion"
French Refugees.

THE " GAROTTE" SYSTEM.—On Friday night oe/
about ten o'clock, an attack was made by three roe" The
foreign sailor in the Waterloo-road, in this town'
poor fellow was nearly strangled by his assailantsi fto:,
contrived, however, to get his throat for a mon3o, OP;
their grasp, and screamed out, when a police-offietbera;
up, and the ruffians scampered off, taking v 74,1100
however, a large bundle of wearing apparel, of vi",-eri
had robbed their victim. This description of reu-d. Of
becoming alarmingly frequent in the neighboutbootlloo
FATHER GAYA Z Z I.—We are informed that t ele
Gavazzi will, on Monday morning next, at half-Pes„ to
o'clock, deliver a lecture in this town, the proeeeu'i4
A 0 „0.
devoted to the relief of the survivors of the ,4; re'"oo
their widows and orphans, and the sufferers by the 014
awful catastrophe which resulted from the burstie.goPe
Holmfirth Reservoir. This excellent proposal orul 0110
with M. Grenata ; and was readily adopted by ty,t-re
rable Padre. The appeal is one which we are stem ,d(1
be warmly responded to in Liverpool ; as the obje,c.,o
already have awakened all the kindest sympat'hiltolitili
most active benevolence of every class of the inbfl" to
It is hoped that one of the largest rooms in the Ai
may be obtained, gratuitously, for the occasion-
STATUE OF THE LATE LORD GEORGE BENTIN.fe -j0
statue recently erected to the memory of the aulttl,'
ceased nobleman, by his friends and political 0,01010
Cavendish-square, has been uncovered for PI-Wet:AO
The figure is of bronze, something larger than for
dressed in modern costume, viz., frock coat, 1"10°°:,0
Wellington boots, and straps, with a cloak hangingo ,
from his shoulders. The likeness is very good, t
being directly towards the right front, as if about 4 0900
dress an assembly, whilst the right hand bold ro 11
~et
papers in a raised position, the left being turnett, 14;ie
backwards, and holding the cloak a little above tri,ilearitl,
It is fixed on a square pedestal, of beautifully-Pc"..,` ote, 1),/,
Aberdeen granite, on a foundation of the sans 0e
about eight feet high. All the sides are plain, e:;pti°,ll9
front one, upon which the following simple ins aeo
deeply engraved :—" William George Frederick Lia
Bentinck, born MDCCCII, died MDCCCXLVI'.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, F°l3/1?
,01
oft? Compared with last week there was a larger supg,,rs j
but fewer sheep at this day's market. The nurn,r„,rel
were 2,266 of the former, and 5,023 of the latter. o.,'"cy
in fair attendance, but the demand and prices PaL,
were much the same as on this day se'nnight. Prin%: P
met a ready sale at fully former terms. Mutton be; 017
was the turn dearer. The general currency for bee,
to sd. ; Mutton, 52d. to 60. per lb. sinking the offal

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LIVERPOOL:
TUESDAY, FEB. 17, 1852'ts6l
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED A,
EVERY TUESDAY 111 0 It„cor,,g,
By THE PROPRIETOR, ROBERT PEARSON Tri.„`" 41(ir
OF No. 47, CANNING-STREET, AT voonvp
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