The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

must engage them they
£lO per day demurra
in the town of

Lge after the first 10 days.

Lorse load, and, tliose who have

not stores of their- own, of storage of 2s. 6d. pei
week. In addition to all this, their goods, if

it ton per

carefully looked after, are most unceremoniously precipi-
tated into a sea of mud, which is almost the chief con-
stituent part of `the Queen's wharf.' New houses are
springing up every day, and the Americans are establish-
ing themselves here in considerable force. Adams and
Co.. the great American carriers, have opened a branch

operations in this quarter are likely to be very large.
The wool season is, strictly speaking, over' here, but a
few lots which have been delayed by the difficulty (still
existing, of obtaining `carriage' keep dribbling in from
distant statiogs, where it is probable parts of some few
' clips' will be detained till after the winter; But, even
after all has been brought down and shipped, it is the
almost universal opinion that the export of last ' clip' will
show an actual decrease as compared with that of the
previous one, instead of what the English manufacturers
require—a positive increase. A very large proportion,
too, of the wool this year is sent home in the grease.
Prices are higher here than those which ruled at the last
February sales in London ; but, considering the decrease
in this year's export, the almost universal prevalence of
the ' scab,' which continues to spread, and which must
materially affect the quality and pretty certainly also the
quantity of the coming ' clip' (the foot-rot, too, is becoming
prevalent), and considering also the large orders for manu-
factured goods which have been sent home from those
colonies, it is felt that an advance in price must still
take place in the English market. _

" there is little doing in tallow. Gold is very firm at
775. per ounce, and is only to be obtained in small quan-
tities even at that price. The various ' diggings' continue
to yield largely, but apparently not more than the colony
requires for remittance in return for imports of goods and
specie. The banks are charging two per cent. premium
for bills on London. They purcliam- draughts against
hypothecated gold or produce at par. Rents are very
high. A moderate-sized store lets readily at £2,000 per
annum, a respectable family house at £7OO, a four-roomed
cottage at £l5O to £2OO. The cry is still for emigrants,
but only for such as will work. Carpenters earn easily
20s to 25s per day, and bricklayers nearly as much ; and
any man may make lOs per day on the

AMERICA..
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA

By the British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Asia, Captain Lott, which arrived on Sunday, we
have advices from New York to the 21st ult.

The Asia sailed from New York at 040, p.m., on the
21st, and on the 28th, in lat. 60 46, lon. 28 26, passed the
steamer Arabia, hence for New York ; and at 1, a.m., on
Sunday, the Canada, hence for Boston. The Asia sighted
Holyhead at 6 20 a.m., on Sunday, and arrived in the
river at 9 56, a.m.
The steamer Arctic, which sailed from Liverpool on the
7th, arrived at New York at 8 10, a.m.,. on the 18th ult.
The Asia has brought 64 pa,ssengers, amongst whom is
Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P. ; and $236,000 in specie.
The steamer Hansa, from Bremen, arrived at New York
on the 20th ult., with machinery damaged. She had a
tedious passage of 21 days.
Reports had been received of the breaking out of yel-
low fever at Philadelphia, but in a very mild form. The
advance in the price of shipbuilding materials in the
United States shows that it now costs twenty-five per
cent. or more to build and equip a ship than it did a few
years back. _ _ _

Orders had been received at Portsmouth for the United
States squadron to proceed from the fishing coast to Phila-
delphia and Norfolk.
The Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Ministers had
filed in the state department a protest against the conduct
of Captain Ingraham, the commander of the frigate which
was at Smyrna at the time of Kossta's arrest.

The steam-ship Golden Age, which may shortly be ex-
pected here, had been out on a trial trip. She is fitted
up in a sumptuous style, and her breadth of beam gives
ample room for between-deck accommodations, and con-
duces very greatly to the comfort of her passengers. She
is 285 feet in length, 4.3 i feet- breadth of beam, has 32
feet depth of hold, and is 2,864 tons burthen. She has a
beam-engine of somewhat peculiar construction, the dia-
meter of whose cylinder is 85, inches, with twelve feet
length of stroke. The boilers are each forty feet in
length, and are fitted up with furnaces at each end, the
smoke-funnel ascending from the centre. By this arrange-
ment, it is claimed that economy in both space and fuel is
gained. During the experimental trip, the furnace-doors
stood open, while the shaft made fourteen-and-a-half
turns per minute, the vessel going at the rate of thirteen
knots. The hull of the ship is from the yard of Mr.
William H. Brown. The lower frames are of live oak,
and the top frames are of locust and cedar. The entire
vessel is double diagonally braced with iron-bars, five inches:
wide by three-quarters of an inch thick, and four feet
apart. She is celled with eight-inch plank ; the bilge-
kelsons are fourteen inches square, and planked outside
with six-inch plank. The steerage is fitted up with ac-
commodation for 600 passengers. The saloons are paneled
in rose, satin, and zebra woods, with crimson and gold
plush and rich hangings. In the upper saloon the sides
are finished in white and gold. In this saloon are the
two " family-rooms," labelled " Esperance" and "El
Dorado." One is finished in gold, the other in blue.
Accommodations are offered for one thousand passengers,
and, at an emergency, twelve hundred persons may find
reasonable quarters on board. There is a large safe on
board which is intended for the storage of gold-dust during
a voyage. In the purser's room is a smaller safe, for the
temporary security of smaller articles belonging to the
passengers. The crew numbers, when complete, one
hundred and twenty men. After the Age had passed the
light-ship she tacked and ran back to the Hook, when the
steam-ship Atlantic, which left port at noon, showed her-
self at about half-past one o'clock. Captain West sent his
vessel down to meet his new rival, and presently the Age
fell astern, for the purpose, as it afterwards appeared, of
giving the Atlantic a fair start and having a race. The
Atlantic having passed nearly a length ahead, the order
was given for the Age to put on steam, which she did
effectually, passing the Atlantic after a race of five or ten
minutes. The cutwater cast up but little spray, and the
ship's wake was quiet. She will leave New York for
Liverpool, whence she will sail for Australia, in connec-
tion with:the j' Golden Line," despatched by Messrs.
Millers and Thompson, and will form the pioneer of the
new line between the latter and the Pacific coast. For
the present her port will be Panama ; eventually, Aca-
pulco or San Francisco.
Advices from Mexico city to the 3d ult. state, that Santa
Anna had enjoined all who have suffered from Indian
depredations to present their claims to the city of Mexico.
He intended to demand restitution, under the treaty of
Guadaloupe Hidalgo. Men employed in digging the Tezcuco
canal had found a stone case, about half a yard long and
twelve inches wide, with a lid inlaid by means of well-
executed grooves, and which contained a variety. of Aztec
antiquities. These had been sent to the National Museum.
The Diario Official has a long article, bewailing the hor-
rible slaughter, incendiarism, and robberies of the Indians
in the States of Cohuila, Durango, and Sonora.