The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-21 00:00:00

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

VIENNA, March 15.—The new propositions of
Russia are based on the maintenance of existing
treaties between Russia and the Porte. If this be
admitted, Russia will quit the principalities, pro-
vided that the combinal fleets quit the Black Sea
and the Bosphorus. Negoeiations will then be
resumed, in which the propositions of Prince
Menschikoff will form the base of a new convention
with the Porte, in which the four powers are to
participate. It is asserted that Austria and Prus-
sia were willing to agree to these terms, and that
Baron Bourqueney, on the part of France, thought
them worthy of consideration, but that Lord
Westmoreland insisted-on the revision of the exist-
ing treaties. It is also said that if the Western
powers reject these terms, Austria will consider
herself free from her engagement to them.
" VIENNA, SUNDAY MORNING. A Russian
courier,who arrived on the 16th,brought despatches
to the effect that Russia will positively refuse to
evacuate the Principalities. Something of extreme
importance was probably settled the day before
yesterday between this government and Prussia,
as a member of the Prussian Embassy went to
Orderberc, by-special train. This was after a con-
ference between Count Buol and the Prussian
Minister. The prohibition to export weapons from
Austria into the Turkish provinces is extended to
Moldavia and Wallachia.

CONSTANTINOPLE, March s.—The Sultan has
decreed the formation of two new armies, each of
30,000 regular troops, 15,000 irregular, and a train
of 45 guns to each pasha. The officers of the Vul-
can, which has just returned direct from Sebastopol,
observed not less than 10,000 men at work, throw-
ing up fortifications. Disturbances have taken
place at Jerusalem. The Latin patriarch, Valerga,
was expelled by the Greeks, and the French consul,
not having been seconded by the authorities,
felt it his duty to accompany him to Jaffa. The
Russian government is said to be making extraor-
dinary levies of seamen. A recent ukase obliges
all sons of free sailors, that are employed in the
merchant navy, to serve 15 years in the imperial
navy, from the date of the said ukase. Boys 15
years old are to enter the service immediately, and
those only eight years of age are to be placed at
the disposal of the Governor-general of Cronstadt,
who is to send them to nautical schools lately esta-
blished.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 9.—Yesterday (Bth)
a four hours' conference was held between the
English and French Ambassadors and Reschid
Pacha, touching the convention between the West-
ern Powers and Turkey. The chief points are :-
1. The Porte engages never to negotiate with
Russia without the intervention of the Western
Powers. 2. Amelioration of the condition of the
Christians. A separate treaty is annexed for the
following four points :-1. Abolition of the poll-
tax (haratasch). 2. Right of Christians to be
admitted as witnesses in judicial proceedings. 3.
Right to hold landed property, without distinction
of nationality or religion. 4. The civil rights of
the Christians admitted in the army and the civil
service. The destination of the English and French
rvrce ii to be left to the decision of the Sultan.
Russia has prohibited the exportation of corn from
Odessa. Turkey has also prohibited the exporta-
tion of cora. the Porte. is preparinc, an expedi-
tion to Greece.

A letter from Odessa, 22d ult., states that the
Russian fleet was still at Sebastopol, and did not
appear to be,- inclined to leave it. The Russians
were continuing to throw up works for the de-
fence of the place. They were also fortifying the
entrance of the Dnieper from Federovka to the
mouth of the Bug. Batteries had been organized
in the neighbourhood of the two fortresses of
Otchakow and Kilbouroune, the garrison of which
had been augmented. Works were also being
thrown up at Odessa, in order to protect the
town on the seaside ; but these defences are not
sufficient to defend the port against any serious
attak.

A telegraphic despatch, of the 11th instant,
from the banks of the Danube, says that the 3rd
brigade of the. Austrian troops in Dalmatia is to
consist of 20,000 men. Half of these forces will
arrive from Verona. It must not be forgotten
that Baron Jellachich, Ban of Croatia, can in a
week have 120,000 men under his orders.
From Bucharest, under the several dates of the
Ist and 4th instant, we learn of the arrival of
Gortschakoff; and of the existence of a report to
the effect that the Russians will begin to act on
the offensive about the 18th of the present month,
and cross the Danube on three points-01 tenitza,
Braila, and Giurgevo. A manifesto issued by the
Emperor Nicholas says :—" The Sultan, having
persisted in his obstinate course, France and
England are marching against Russia. We will
go forth in the name of the Holy Trinity to free
our fellow-believers from the yoke of the op-
pressors. Let the oppressed make comm cause
with us."

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

By the United States mail steam-ship Baltic,
Captain Comstock, we have intelligence from New
York to the 4th instant. The Baltic sailed from
New York on the 4th, but came to an anchor near
Sandy Hook, on account of a dense fog, until nine
a.m. on the sth. On the 9th, at five p.m., when
in lat. 46 30, lon. 47, in a fog, she ran into an open-
ing in an immense ice pack, filled with icebergs,
nad was unable to get out until Saturday at noon,
in lat. 44, lon. 48 40, having run a distance of
over 300 miles to the south and west, between a
large number of icebergs and large patches of
field ice. She arrived in the river at 2 30, a.m.,
on Sunday, On the 14th, at six a.m., she passed a
large steamer, bound W. ; on the 17th, at ten a.m„
signalized packet-ship Constellation, bound W. ;
on the lAtb, at one p.m., passed ship P. L. Gil-
, christ ; at 1 30 ship W. H. Harbeck ; at 2 30,
brig Dyson ; and at 3 45, packet-ship Underwriter.
The Baltic brought one hundred and eighteen
passengers, among whom was the Hon. F. Hincks,
Prime Minister of Canada, but no specie.
In the House of Representatives the official
correspondence between Secretary Marcy and Mr.
Clay, U.S. Minister to Peru, respecting the pro-
gress of negotiations with Peru for an abandon-
ment of her guano monopoly had been read. Mr.
Clay remarks that Peru depends entirely on the
funds raised by the sale of guano to pay the
interest on her national debt ; consequently it is
very doubtful whether she can be induced to either
lower the price of the article, sell one of the
Chincha Islands, or make any other arrangement
that would tend to benefit U.S. agriculturists to
any great degree. It is understood, says the
Iferald, that the President has instructed Mr.
Clay to demand full indemnity for past offences,
and added that, in case of a refusal, the Pacific
squadron will be ordered to Peru to enforce
satisfaction.
The Senate had passed the Nebraska Bill by a
large majority.
The building of the steamship William Norris,
' which is expected to cross the Atlantic in six
days, had been temporarily stopped. She had not
been sold to the Turkish Government. The un-
derwriters of the colossal ship Great Republic had
offered her -for public sale. The White Squall,
which was damaged by fire the same time as the
former ship, had been sold for $550.
The inhabitants of Troiillo were in a great
I
state of alarm in consequence of-successive shocks
of earthquakes, which- 'had continued for several
moras, The war was :still _going on between

Honduras and Guatemala, and the country was
overrun with robbers, to the great detriment of
the mercantile community and travellers ; conse-
quently trade was nearly at a standstill.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORZ, MARCH 5.
-TELE Money market is gradually assuming a morefavour-
dble condition, and stocks have improved from 5 to 12 per
cent. within the past thirty days. Exchange steady.
Bills on London, 1081 to 109 ; Paris, 5.15 to 5.131.
COTTON.—The Europa, with Liverpool dates to the
11th ult., arrived on the 25th ultimo ; and an active
impulse was given to prices, the day's sales reaching
nearly 6,000 bales, closing at 4c. advance. The business
of that week amounted to 16,336 bales, and on Monday
the quotations were advanced to ic., at which the
market was considered buoyant.

PROVISIONS in fair demand. The transactions in flour
have been chiefly for home use, but at declining prices.
The export trade is quite limited._._
PIG IRON.— A large quantity now held at higher prices.

NAVAL STORES in fair request.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool : Cotton, id. to 7-16 d. ; flour,
4s. ; heavy goods, 425. 6d.; grain, 15d. To London :
Flour, 4e. 6d ; measurement goods, 30s. to 355. ; heavy
goods, 455. to 50s. To Havre : Cotton, -2-c. ; measurement
goods, $l2 ; flour, 95c.; grain 24c.