The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

junk is lying, and

To extend the journey, the
pleasure-seeker should visit the picturesque city of
Chester, with its complete circle of ancient walls,
its quaint buildings and singular rows, and the
Roodee, which forms a natural amphitheatre.
ects of interest to

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Liverpool, howev
the stranger, in its magnificent docks and shipping,
its handsome public buildings, of which St. George's
Hall is unrivalled in Europe, and the attractions of

has many 01

Zoological Gardens

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The Emperor and Empress were to have
left on Wednesday for the Batty Bowies, but the expected
departure did not take place, nor is it any longer expected
for the present. Her Majesty's peculiar state of health,
it is said, would render the journey unadvisable.
Exaggerations apart, the numbers of conspirators against
the life of the Emperor, discovered by the police, are sur-
prisingly great. More arrests have been made, and such
a clue to the ramifications of the secret society, or socie-
ties, has been found that there is little doubt of the ability
which the police possess to lay their hands on the greater

portion of the members.

- The Constitutionnel and the Pays hare both made up
their minds that there can be no war, for the reason that

the Russ,
formality

,o-Turkish question is now reduced to a point of

SPAIN.—M. Alejandro Castro, who had gone to La
Granja with the President of the Council, suddenly re-
turned to the Royal residence, and it was inferred from
this circumstance that the import3nt questions which now
occupy so much public attention would not be adjusted in
the next Cabinet Council. If any serious Ministerial
crisis should occur, the Queen would probably entrust the
re-construction of the Cabinet to Count de San Luis.

PO RTU GAL.—ThePeninsular and 0 rientalCompany's
steamship Madrid, Captain Weeks, arrived at Southamp-
ton on Sunday with the usual Peninsula Mails, and dates
from Gibraltar, the 14th; Cadiz, the 15th; Lisbon, the
19th ; Oporto, the 20th ; and Vigo, the 21st instant.
When the Madrid left Lisbon, on the 19th, Her Majesty's
steam-sloop Bloodhound, Captain Christian, from the
coast of Africa, was coaling in the Tagus, en route for
Portsmouth. Thore was no other foreign vessel of war in
port. A Royal decree had decided that the Cortes should
remain open until the sth of August, when little doubt
ed that the money bills, &e., would have passed the
The Queen and Court had taken up their

upper house

Adelaide is more than two months overdue, and even her
successor, the Victoria, is a week behind her time.
" With some few exceptions there are no private letters
in Sydney of later date than October,,being those brought
out by the Melbourne. in many instances our merchants
find themselves in the strange position of having received
goods without the invoices, the latter having been trans-
mitted by the steamer's mails under the full expectation
that they would come to hand long before the cargoes—a
process just the reverse of what has happened. But the
merchandise being in urgent demand, sales are effected at
conjectural prices, good care being taken, however, to
leave an ample margin for profit, whatever the invoice
prices may turn out to be. Indeed, the disproportion
between the demands of our market and its supplies, in
almost every description of goods, was never so great and
so trying as it is at this moment. Hard goods and soft
goods, luxuries and necessaries, articles for eating and
drinking, articles for wearing and using, at the minimum
of stock and the maximum of price. Advances on cost
price in England, taken not partially but generally, not as
the exceptions of trade, but as its rule, were never so
enormous as now. Our commercial report of yesterday
quotes rates of advance as high as 100, 150, 200, 300, 400,
and even 2,400 per cent. These gigantic profits are
coupled with the favourite quickness of return, the tran-
sactions resulting, not from any mania of speculation, but
from a sober estimate of the actual wants of the market for
daily consumption.

"The gold produce of New South Wales continues
steady, averaging, when compared with the whole number
of persons engaged in digging, about an ounce per week
per man. Large nuggets, weighed by the ounce or the
pound, are the prizes of the lucky few. The average suc-
cess is just now at the medium point, which best consorts
with the general welfare of the colony—neither so great as
seriously to disturb the ordinary pursuits of industry, nor
so small as to discourage the diggers as a body. The
colonists are still strongly of opinion that the auriferous
developments of New South Wales are only in their
infancy, and that as our population increases, though the
average produce per man may not much exceed what it is
at present, the aggregate produce of the colony will infi-
nitely surpass anything heretofore realised."
The Adelaide advices received at Sydney were to the
9th of April. A return of the trade of the colony during
the quarter ending. the 25th of March showed imports
amounting to £440,328, and exports of the value of
£954,760, of which £663,447 was gold that had been
brought overland from Melbourne. The markets were
very firm, and the last quotation of Burnt Burrs shares
was 1341. The Shaxamaxon had sailed for Swansea on the
4th of April with 14,108 ounces of gold, valued at £50,000.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Africa, Captain Harrison, which arrived on Sunday,
we have intelligence from New York to the 13th instant.
The Africa sailed from New York at 0 10, p.m., on the
13th, and came " north about." On the 23d, at 7 11,
a.m., she passed Tory Island; at 8 45, p.m., passed the
steamer Niagara, hence for Boston ; and arrived in the
Mersey at 5 40, a.m., on Sunday, having made the run in
10 days 11 hours and 34 minutes.

The Africa has brought 80 passengers, and '8'877,933
in specie.