The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, January 6.
Money is getting more plentiful, with a strong tendency for
lower rates of interest. Mercantile paper is in good request
at our quotations ; loans are easily obtained upon favourite
securities at the legal rates of interest. Foreign exchange has
been dull of late, with a downward tendency in rates. Bills
on London sold at 110 to 1191, with some at 110 i.
CorroN.—With a fair daily demand, the market, since onr
last report, perEnropa, on the 31st December, has advanced *c.
The sales of the 31st were 1800 bales; 2nd inst., 850; 3rd, 600;.
and to-day 3000. From New Orleans we have advices, per tele.
graph, to 3rd inst.; sales on that day, 7000 bales ; Liverpool
middling, 7ic., freight 15-32ds. From some cause, either
holding back on the part of planters, low rivers, or a less yield
than has been advised, the receipts continue on a moderate
scale: the total excess at all the ports, as made up at the latest
dates, by telegraph, at New Orleans, is only 59,000 bales. The
prospect, at last, of an established government in France will,
it is believed, lead, at the low prices current, to a material in-
creased consumption there, and here it is progressing with
rapid strides. Other
Atlantic. New Orleans. Gulf Ports.
Inferior _ 7/ to 72 to —7/ to
Ord. to good ord 8 to .... 8 to 8i .... 8 to 811-
Mid. to good mid.
Mid. fair to fair 0—
Fully fair to good do none. none. none.

B,IEADST,UFFS.—The flour market is dull.v Common state is
quoted S 4 43/c. ; fancy Genesee. S 4 75c. to .84 93/c. ; extra
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, S 5 to $5 25c. ; extra Genesee,
.85 to .85 75c. ; common to good brands Alexandria, Baltimore,
Brandywine, and Georgetown, S 4 37e. to S 4 50c..; and S 4 75c.
to S 5 25c. for fancy brands. Rye flour is S 8 50c. ; new buck-
wheat, 84 87c. to S 5, in brls. Corn meal is .83 25c., cash for
Jersey. There is some inquiry for wheat for export. Genesee
sells at 115 c. to 118 c. ; Ohio, red and mixed, 96c. to 100 c. ;
Michigan, 100 e. to 105 c. ; Canada. 105 c. to 107 c. ; southern
white, 108 c. Corn is in better demand ; 20,000 bhls. sold from
store at 65c. for mixed Western.

PROVISIONS.—The market presents the same inactive appear-
ance it has done for some time past. Mess pork is selling
slowly at .814 624 c. to 815 12hc. ; prime, 813 37ic. to .813 75c. ;
old and new clean pork, .816 ; and city prime mess at .815.
Beef is steady ; city mess, 89 50c. to 810 ; country, 88 25c. to
; prime country, .84 to 84 50c. ; and prime city 455 to S 5
50c. Beef hams are firm, with sales at 313 50c. to Sl3 75c.
Lard, 9c. to 94c. Cheese is firm at ChIC. to 7ic.
FREIGHTS are firm and more active for cotton, but there is
no change in other produce. Engagements to Liverpool have
been made of 500 to 600 bales of cotton, at 5-32 d to 3-16 d ;
flour is 9d; grain, 3d ; dead weight, 12s 6d to 15s; 200 shooks,
3s ; cheese, 20s ; rosin, 9d, &c. To London there is but little
doing. To Havre a considerable amount of cotton has been
shipped. The packets of the Bth and 16th instant are full at
c,
the steamer Franklin at c.

HAVANA, Dec. 30.—The new crop of Molasses was received
in small lots, and readi!y commanded 3 reels per keg for the
Southern markets. In freights nothing doing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—The heavy arrival of goods since
our review of November 15 have still further depressed our
market. In most of the staple articles the market is glutted,
and in quite a number a full year's supply is on hand. In the
money market the day has been unfavourable for business,
owing to the rain and the delivery of the mail, and we have no
change to notice in prices. There is a feeling among the
holders of goods of considerable firmness, on account of th
fact that but small shipments are expected, and the certaint
of a very large emigration from the Atlantic States.

FOREIGN

MISCELLANEA

The effigy of Louis Napoleon is to figure on the postage
stamps instead of the female head of the republic.
A regiment of the garrison of Madrid revolted on the
night of the Bth. Three soldiers were shot on the 9th.
The Emperor of Russia has expressed his approbation
of Louis Napoleon's conduct, by sending him an order
usually given only to sovereigns, that of St. Andrew.
It is rumoured that Haschid Murat, the bravest son of
Schamyl, the celebrated Circassian chief, has surrendered
the fortress of Wnesprya to the Russians, and is himself
now a prisoner at Tiflis.

Letters from the Polish frontiers state that the late
events in France have caused corresponding movements
among the Russian troops in Poland. A large army of
Cossacks and artillery had been concentrated on the bor-
ders of the Grand Ducby of Posen.
The Emperor of Austria has ordered a monument of
Metastasio to be erected in Vienna, where the poet passed
the greatest part of his life, and composed all his works.
Metastasio was attached to the Court of Austria in qua-
lity of imperial poet.
Accounts from Rome announce, that a monster trial
had recently taken place in that city, in which fifty-four
prisoners were arraigned for being concerned in robbing
the Assaye-office three years ago. They were all con-
demned to the galleys for various periods.
_ _

Madrid advices, of the 12th instant, state that a new
decree had been issued, declaring pains and penalties
against the press for publishing false news, or using
improper expressions against public authorities; imme-
diate seizure for attacks on religion or morals ; and the
suspension of a journal after the third condemnation.
Advices from Rome inform us that the Pope affects the
greatest joy at the dashing exploits of Louis Napoleon,
and that he has instructed his clergy to offer up prayers
for his success as the saviour of his country. In order to
please the President, it is said the Pope was going to con-
vert two French bishops into cardinals.

A Spaniard, of the name of Francisco Nadal, has just
died at Algiers. aged 104 years and three months, having
been born in 1747. He enjoyed good health to the last;
walked about the town on his business, and smoked his
cigar with evident gusto. One of his peculiarities for the
last fifty years has been never to sleep in a bed, but
merely to stretch himself in his clothes on the shavings of
his workshop.
In consequence of the happy birth of a princess, the
Minister of Public Instruction at Madrid has ordered that
a degree of bachelor, licentiate, and doctor shall be con-
ferred gratis in every University—a eoneours to be opened
for that purpose. Analagous concessions are to be made
for the diplomas of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.—
The fall of snow has been so heavy in the Guadarama
mountains that no less than eighteen heavy laden dili-
gences end travelling waggons have been detained in the
high roads that pass through them.
A MUSICAL GENIUS.—The Opinion Republique says :
—" An extraordinary occurrence is now taking place at
the Theatre Italien,—a woman, a vocalist who alone pos-
sesses the power, attracting the public by showing the
variety of her talents in a most extraordinary manner.
One day she sings the parts of the deepest contralto ;
another day she sings, without effort, those of the highest
soprano. Now she shows herself a consummate trage-
dienne in Norma and Ernanis; again she is the joyous
Figlia del Reggimento, and the plaintive and tender
Sonnambula."

A FRENCH MAGISTRATE CAUGHT SIS/UGGLING.—An
amusing story is current of a gentleman holding a high
position in the Paris courts of law, who, recently on re-
turning with his wife to that city after a tour in Belgium,
was informed by the lady, who began to have some qualms
about the Custom-house officials, that she had a costly
Malines lace in her portmanteau. She desired her hus-
band to conceal it in his hat, in order to escape detection.
The worthy gentleman, in a state of great perplexity, and
vastly annoyed at the imprudence of his wife, at length
consented, crammed his hat over his ears, and, when
arrived at the station, handed his passport to the Custom-
house officials with an assumed air of indifference. When
his position' became known, he was treated with the pro-
foundest courtesy, and his baggage passed without exami-
nation ; but, as ill fortune would have it, the head of the
Custom-house,- and the commander of the local gendar-
merie, hearing of the arrival of sa distinguished a per-
sonage, came post haste to pay their respects. To their
polite salutatiorrthe judge, forgetting the lace, responded
by raising his hat, when, to his 'dismay, the contents
being liberated, he was enveloped, head and shoulders, as
with a marriage veil. The' offence was too public to be
overlooked, and the gentleman was detained until an
investigation could be made.