The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11,

FOREIGN

NE IN

T-1 I? A NTrly

I' 11th\ LJi

The ceremony of re-opening for Divine worship the
Church of St. Genevieve (late the Pantheon) took place
on Monday last week, with extraordinary pomp. What

to be the relics of the Saint had been torn
trom their shrine during the fury of the first Revolution

Were suPPos

de GrZ:ve in Pari

harbour of Honolulu ; at Lahaina there had been about
fifty, and at Hilo, about twenty-five, during the season.
The amount of oil and bone on board the ships already
reported Wag as follows :-11,329 lbs. sperm; 218,100 brls.
whale; 2,986,833 lbs. bone. O;i the 14th April the
American brig lsaa Howland, when in lat. 31 N., and lon.
150 E. about 300 miles N.N.E. of Guam, fell in with a
Japanese junk, destitute of cargo, the crew, four iu num-
ber, being nearly dead from want of food. The captain
rendered assistance and the men recovered. The junk
was out of her reckoning forty-nine days.
WEST INDIES.—From Kingston, Jamaica, we have ad-
vices to the 22d ult. The yellow fever was very bad at
Barbadoes and other Windward Island ports. A severe
shock of an earthquake was experienced in the island on
the 26th November, but no serious damage resulted there-
from. Smallpox was still very prevalent in different parts

of the island. The cholera was raging dreadfully at Nas-
sau ; and fears were entertained lest it should reach
Kingston. The Demerara papers state that fine rains
had fallen, but not sufficient to assist in sugar making.
Want of water in the trenches might, it was thought
shorten the crops. A public meeting had been held at
the city of St. John, in compliance with a requisition
from several merchants and planters, "to take into
consideration the injustice perpetrated by the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, in the appointment
of a person possessing no claim whatever upon the colony
to supersede the present treasurer of the island. '
At Barbadoes the yellow fever prevailed, and, though
of a milder kind, some few cases had proved fatal. A
Court of Vice-admiralty had been held for the trial of
twelve mutineers on board the barque Cleopatra, which
vessel had arrived, with the captain in irons, on the 15th
ultimo. All the prisoners were convicted, and two of the
ringleaders were sentenced to three years' hard labour,
and the others to one year hard labour. The Trinidad
Legislative Council met on the 6th ult. The Trinidadian
of the 20th ult. says, " Within the last fortnight the
weather has been very propitious for the approaching
crops." Rain had fallen at St. Lucia, but the injury
produced by the previous drought had been much too
serious to be repaired by the supply of moisture. The
canes were much stunted in growth, and nothing like
the supply of sugar calculated on would be produced. The
Tobago House of Assembly had determined upon
abolishing the export duties upon produce shipped
from that island, and substituting a tax upon land.
Hopes were entertained at Martinique that the fever
would soon subside. The inhabitants of the different
communes had voted an address to Louis Napoleon, while
President of the French Republic, in which they anti-
cipated their countrymen at home in heaping on him the
honours he has now secured.

We have dates from Porto Cabello to the 11th ult. A
few cases of fever had occurred among the shipping.
Business was unusually dull. Coffee, washed, was
selling at 11c. to 112 c., and unwashed, 10c. to 104 c.,
Ox hides were selling at 94-c. to 9-3-c. Cocoa, 20c. to 20ic.
American Flour was quoted at .Sl2 to $l3l-.
Accounts from Acapulco, of the 9th ult., state that a
severe earthquake was experienced there on the 4th, and
continuous shocks, though less severe, had been hourly
felt to the date of the advices. About thirty of the best
buildings had been ruined, some falling completely.

LIST OF PASSENGERS.--Mr. Power, Mr. Lucy, Mr.
Anderdon, Mr. C. Homan, Mr. W. H. Bell, Mr. M.
Meyer, Mr. Parker, Mr. S. Bache, Mr. F. Thierot, Mr.
Edwards, Mr. J. B. Bruyeres, Mr. A. H. Kent, Mr. T.
B. Hillyard, Mr. Binct, Mr. J. W. Gibb, Mr. J. Thomp-
son, Mr. H. Josephi, Mr. Burstall, Mr. Filstone, Mr.
Joseph, Major Kearney, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Travers,
Mr. D. Law, Mr. Duguesnay, Mr. Hall, Mr. Store!, Rev.
A. Zon Puttkanmer, Mr. J. Foley, Mr. E. R. Frechette,
Mr. D. Mullitt, Mr. R. Coats, Mr. S. Richardson, Mr.
T. Samuel and lady, Mr. J. W. Anderson, Mr. L. Brad-
shaw, Mr. T. E. Lamping, Mr. W. Young, Mr. John
Houghton, Mr. S. Nathan, Mr. Waley, Mr. Payne and
boy, Mr. Brasaw, Mr. Ladau, Mr. Lantaun, Mr. Teana,
Mr. It. D. Turcan, Mr. W. G. Gordon, and Mr. Peters.

COMMERCIAL AND MONEY MARKETS.
NEW YORX, DEC. 29.

MONEY.—The stock market has a downward tendency,
but not more so than usual in holyday week. The money
market was easy, without any material change in the
rates. In exchange there has been a large amount of
sterling bills in the market, and the demand very mode-
rate. Prices in consequence are lower, and close flatly.
The business in continental was also small. We quote
bills on London 9i to 9 per cent. prem. ; Paris, f. 5.121
to f. 5.131, 60 days, and f. 5.10, short sight.
COTTON.—(Front the Shipping List, of December 29.)
—The sales for the past two days are only 800 bales, at a
decline of about one-fourth of a cent
e nad

s unfavourable advises having brought our market
nearly to a stand. The table below, compared with last
season, shows an increase in the receipts at all the ports
0f:406,832 bales, in the exports to Great Britain of 175,874
bales, to north of Europe 7,192 bales, to other foreign
ports 7,616 bales, and a decrease to France. of 36,028
bales ; leaving a total increase in the export from the
United States of 154,654 bales. The shipments to northern
ports are 13,372 bales less, and the stock on hand 223,426
more than last year. The stock in this port is 31,291
bales, against 54,893 bales last year

We quote

Atlantic
Ports.
none.
to 9

Florida. Gulf Ports
none, none.

Inferior
Low• to good ord
Low to good mid.... —
Mid. fair to fair 9— 91 —lO 10i 114
Fully fair to good fair nominal. nominal. nominal.
Total import since Ist instant 42,304 bales.
Export from Ist to 28th Dec., 1852, 17,304; 1851, 17,824.
EXPORT FROM THE .UNITED STATES.

Si to 9 8} to 9.

Since let of September, 1832 572,050 bales
Same time, 1831 417,396 „
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON,

Exports to Total Exports Stock, and
Receipts. Gt. Britain to For. Ports. onshipb'd
1832 1,244,205 449,927 572,050 560,092
1851 837,373 274,033 417,376 336,668
Increase 406,832 175,874 154,654 223,426
STOCK OF COTTON IN INTERIOR TOWNS NOT INCLUDED IN

THE RECEIPTS,

1852
Augusta and Hamburg, Dec. 1 30,841
Macon, Georgia, Dec. 1 8,749
Columbus, Georgia, Dec. 11 15,230
Rome, Georgia, Dec. 1 1,169
Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 13 12,167 .... 28,110
Memphis, Tennessee, Dec. 14 6,300 .... 5,310
(From W. P. Wright's Circular of December 29.)
On Monday the correspondence per Canada was re-
ceived, advising a decline for the week ending 10th Dec.
in Liverpool of id. to id., with small sales, and a feeling
generally prevalent that prices would still further recede.
The decline of nearly one penny sterling per lb. between
the 29th October and 10th December naturally attracts
some attention, it being so entirely contrary to the views
expressed by many well-informed Liverpool and Man-
chester merchants and brokers. Two months ago, when
middling Orleans were selling at 61c1. to 68d. in Liverpool,
and when there was a bare possibility of the crop being
limited at 2,800,000 bales, the substance of the corres-
pondence was to the effect that a crop of 3,00,000 bales
would be required to prevent a further advance in price,
and was actually necessary to meet the increased and in-
creasing consumption. How changed the tone adopted
by the very same parties in the correspondence just at
hand per Canada. Our crop is likely to result according
to their wishes ; hut, instead of 61d. being maintained as
the price for middling Orleans, it has already declined
below 51d., and we are gravely informed that sd. per lb.
will soon be reached, and very possibly even a lower
figure, and no doubt such would soon be a matter of fact
did the cotton now in transit belong to American shippers.
The future course of the Liverpool market will be watched
with much interest on this side, the great bulk of the
business, so far, this season, having been done on English
account. The sales on Monday and yesterday were only
to a small extent, at irregular prices. The total sales,
since the 20th instant, have been 11,000 bales ; and the
clearances in the same time have been—to Liverpool,
3,305 bales ; Bremen, 26 : total, 3,331 bales. The solu-
tion of the advance in Mobile and New Orleans, alluded
to in my last circular, appears to be in the fact that the
news per Arctic was telegraphed as id. decline, instead of
id. advance, the first causing some low sales ; and it was
the reaction from those low sales that was telegraphed to
us on the eve of the departure of the Niagara. With
regard to the crop, I am every week more confirmed in
my opinion that the present excessive estimates are based
solely upon the increase of receipts at the ports over last
year, and that a change will soon occur. Since the end of
November the cotton region has been visited by heavy and
continued rains, which will tend still more to injure the
quality of the remaining portion of the crop.
BREADSTUFFS.—FIour was in active demand, at an ad-
vance of gc. to 121 c. per barrel, up to the close of Friday,
when the telegraphic advices, per Canada, to the 11th
instant, from Liverpool, came to hand. On Monday
holders demanded an additional advance of 121-c. to 181 c.
per barrel, which was firmly resisted. Western Canal
sold at 85.56-1 to $5.681 per barrel ; Ohio and pure Ge-
nessee, =e5.75 to $6; common New York, &c., •'5.50;
Southern kinds, 85.681 to ; Canada, in bond, $5.75
to -B'6. Wheat was without material change, with but
little offering. Indian Corn in good demand, but with
increased receipts prices are lower.

EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN

AND IRELAND, SINCE IST SEPT., 1852

FLOUR. MEAL. WHEAT. CORN.
Brls. Brig. Bsl. Bsl.

366,284.. 3.. 2,407,261.. 56,600
Same time last year.. 365,156.. 1.680.. 927,029.. 275,467
PROVISIONS.—The pork market has advanced a trifle,
and, though firm, eloses without much buoyancy, with
more offering for sale, and a moderate demand. Beef is
very firm, and a little higher, with light receipts and a fair
demand. Lard is in better supply, and depressed. Cheese
is quite dull, at Bc. to 9c., the latter for choice.
IRox.—The market for Scotch pig is exceedingly firm,
and higher prices are now demanded. 500 to 600 tons
sold at £3O, and small lots at £3l to £'32.50, 6 months;
and 100 tons Irish wrought scrap, £36, less 4 per cent.
for cash. Common English bars are held at 865 ; and
refined 872 50 to £75.

FRElGHTS.—Qaotations for breadstuffs to Liverpool
have a downward tendency. The following are the closing
rates to that port:—Flour, 3s. sd. to 4s. ; rosin, 3s. 6d. ;
pork, 4s. 6d. •, beef, ss. 6d. ; wheat, 10d. to 10-id. ; cot-
ton, ; and Sea Island, id. To London : turpentine,
3s. 6d. ; rosin, 3s. 6d. ; and flour, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. To
Glasgow : tobacco, 4s. 6d. ; flour, 4s. 6d. ; and rice, 40s.
CHARLESTON, DEC. 27.
The sales of cotton to-day were 600 bales at 7ic. to 9c.,
showing a decline of kc. to ie. ; the market is unsettled.
KINGSTON, (JAMAICA,) DEC. 21.

The business done in imports, between the 10th and
21st instant, was very moderate, the trade merely pur-
chasing to supply their immediate wants. There is very
little rum in the market, and 22 proof is quoted at 2s. to
2s. 3d., in bond. Freights are dull.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.

There has been an unusual degree of activity. The
stock market has been steady. Money.continues easy, at
about 3 per cent. per month, on undoubted securities.
In the rates of exchange there is no variation. Sixty day
bills on London are quoted at 47 to 471, and on Paris,
4.90.

LEIPSIC.—A letter from Leipsic states that the cata-
logue of the book fair for this year at that place contains
6,764 new publications. Last year the number was only
5,700.

At CALCUTTA, some sensation has been created among
the native community by the baptism of a young widow
lady of the Tagore family, who was converted by the mere
reading of a bible given to her by a female relative now
dead.

AUSTRALIA

THE GOLD FIELDS.—The oldest gold field in New South
Wales is that of Ophir. That part which has been worked
is but a fraction of what may be termed the Canoblas
gold-fields. The Canoblas Mountain, which rises to the
height of a mile above the level of the sea, is the centre,
whence a large number of stream's, including the Sum-
merhill-creek, take their rise. All of these streams are
more or less auriferous. Gold has been found all along
§urnmerhill-creek, from its source at the Canoblas to its
junction with the Macquarie, but most abundant at Ophir
and Frederick's Valley, where the Wentworth diggings
are situate. The gold is nuggetty, and has been found in
lumps of 313. and 41b. weight. The Wentworth diggings
yield large quantities of very fine gold. The mining po-
pulation at Ophir, and in the creeks of Canoblas, does not
exceed 300, and these earn from 10s. to 603. a day. The
whole of the country around the Canoblas may be consi-
dered as a gold-field comparatively unexplored, and wait-
ing for population, capital, and machinery. The Turon
district is the richest and largest of the gold-fields of the
colony. Sofala, the town which in less than eighteen
months has risen out of the bush, is situate on the richest
part of•the Turon, about 25 miles north from Bathurst.
Fifteen miles above Sofula remunerative diggings were
opened at " the Gulf," and thence to the junction of the
river with the Macquarie, a distance of above 40 miles,
digging operations have been carried on with more or less
success. The gold is chiefly " dust," with a tolerable
number of nuggets and a few stray lumps, some of them
of 71b. weight. The yield of gold on the Turon has been,
in many instances, most extraordinary. In several cases
from 80 to 100 ounces per day, and for several days
together, have been obtained by parties of three and four;
while others took from 20 to 50 ounces. The gold has
been obtained in equal quantities in the bed of the river
and on the banks and slopes in its vicinity. Rich dry
diggings have recently been discovered on the slope of a
hill near Sofala. Along the Bathurst-road gold has been
found, and at Wyagden-bill, midway between the village
of.Wyagden and the Turon, " successful operations" have
been commenced. There are tracts of many miles extent
along the Turon, which, although known as auriferous,
are as yet untouched. The Braidwood diggings have
hitherto been confined to the Major and Bell's creeks,
about ten miles from Braidwood. The gold is here found
in the decomposed granite, at least so the local geologists
say. The diggers amount to 500, who earn quite as much
as the diggers on the Turon. About thirty miles north
of the Turon are the Meroo diggings. The gold is coarse,
with here and there large nuggets and lumps. The golden
reputation of the Meroo itself is, however, small in com-
parison to that of one of its tributary creeks, the Louisa,
on whose banks such enormous masses of the precious
metal have been found, and where the Great Nugget Vein
lies. The dry diggings in this locality extend for several
miles to Campbell's-creek. where from 40,000 to 50,000
miners might find profitable employment. This tract in-
cludes the diggings of Long-creek, the Dirt-holes, and the
Tambaroura, all renowned, but all yielding the palm to
the Louisa-creek, where Dr. Ker found his 1 cwt. of gold,
and Brennan his 271 b. lump, together with the largest
water-worn nugget that the world ever knew of, for it
weighed 157 ounces. There are about 1,500 miners on the
Meroo and Louisa creeks, at Long-creek, the Devil's-
hole, Pyramid-creek, Nuggetty-gully, Married-man's-
creek, and the Dirt-boles. Between the Turon and
the Pyramid lies the Tambaroura- creek. The yield
of gold is very large, since many of the claims yield
from two to twelve ounces a day. The number of miners
is computed at 1,000. The Hanging-rock, situate on the
Peel River, is a goldfield of established renown. The
Oaken-ville, Hurdle, and Oakey creeks, which flow into
the Peel, have been found to be rich in auriferous de-
posits, and a large tract of country in the vicinity presents
the same indications. There are about 200 diggers, who
are doing well. The last discovered diggings in New
South Wales are at Bingara on the Courangoura-creek,
which joins the Gwydir River, 70 miles to the north-west
of Tamworth. The gold appeared to lie in inexhaustible
abundance on all sides. It is nuggetty, coarse-grained,
and very little worn. At various places between the
Hanging-rock and Bingara gold has been found, in some
instances lying on the surface of the ground. There are
about 8,000 miners at work on all these various gold-
fields ; but the Sydney Empire is of opinion that not less
than 200,000 persons %would find profitable employment
on the large tracts of auriferous country, hitherto un-
worked, which the colony is known to possess. Besides
the established goldfields, there are various localities in
which gold is known to exist, but which have not as yet
been worked but by a stray " prospecting" party. Chief
. . _
among th

is the territory of the Abere;otribie -River' 40
miles south from Bathurst. Large quantities of gold have

Nance, not only in the river itself,
but at the Sounding-rock, and in the Tuenna, Mulgunnia,
Copeerhannia, and Mountain Run creeks. Gold has

1853.

ARRIVAL OF EARL ST. GERMANS.-0O Thursday
forenoon the Prince Arthur;packet, from Holyhead, with
the Earl St. Germani on board, arrived at Kingstown.
There were in waiting, Judge Keatinge and Sir Thomas
Esnionde, as Privy Councillors ; Captain Cust and other
aides-de-camp ; and Mr. Brewster, Attorney-General.
At one o'clock the Lord. Lieutenant proceeded from the
private apartments to the council chamber, attended by
the principal officers of state. At the council table were
the Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Chief Justice, and
Li-ut. General Sir Edward Blakeney; Lords Justices,

who remained covered, whilst the other privy councillors,
as well

as the Lord Lieutenant

were uncovered

oaths having been administered by Mr. Marmion Savage,
and subscribed by the Lord Lieutenant, the ex-Chancellor
Blackburne read the Queen's letter, appointing the noble
earl to the office of Viceroy. The Archbishop of Dublin
delivered the Sword of State ; Sir William Betham
invested him with the Collar and Chain of the Order of
St. Patrick, and then the Lords Justices uncovered and
vacated their seats, upon which his Excellency put on his
hat and sat at the head of the Council Board. The room
was then ordered to be cleared, after which his Excel-
lency held his first Privy Council in Dublin Castle.
There was no demonstration of any kind on the part of
the persons assembled at Kingstown or Dublin, who
merely evinced curiosity to see the-new Lord Lieutenant.
Earl St. Germans left Dublin on Saturday and is expected
to return the begining of next month.

ECCLESIASTICAL.

DIOCESE OF CHESTER

ORDINATION.—The Lord Bishop of Chester will hold
an Ordination in the Cathedral at Chester on Sunday,
the 20th February, the Examination for which will com.
mence on Thursday morning, the 17th, at ten o'clock,
PREFERMENT.—The Rev. T. J. Rawson to the,Stipen-

diary Curacy of St. Thomas's Church, Eccleston, in the
parish of Prescot, in the county of Lancaster, on the
nomination of the Rev. G. T. Mostyn, the Incumbent.

VACANCY.—The Perpetual Curacy of Bollington, in the
parish of Prestbury, in the county of Chester, by resigna-
tion of the Rev. W. Pearson. Patron, Vicar of Prestbury.
Value, £174.

The Bishop has granted a license for the performance of
Divine Services in a room situate on the west side of
Grenville-street South, Liverpool, at the instance of the
Rev. W. Pollock, Tncumhent of St. Mark's,

The Bishop bas renewed the license for Divine Services
in the new church at Claughton-cum- Grange for another
year, before the expiration of which, it is hoped, that
arrangements will be made for its consecration.

CONSECRATIONS.—The new Church of St. Philip,
Chorley, in the parish of Wilmslow, Cheshire, is to be
consecrated on Wednesday, at half-past one p.m. The
new Church of St. John the Divine, Fairfield, in the
parish of West Derby, Liverpool, on Friday next. The
Bishop will preach on both occasions.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. G. D. Adams, to the Vicarage of East Budleigh,
Devon.

Rev. G. L. Allen, 8.A., of Queen's College, to the
Chaplaincy of Dessa, H.E.I.C.S.
Rev. W. Anderson, 8.A., to the Curacy of Dunvalin,
archdiocese of Dublin.

Rev. C
London.

Andrews, to the Curacy of St. Pancras,

Rev. R. B. Baker, to be Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of Meath. _ _

Re,;. J. Barlow, to the First Curacy of Queenstown.
Rev. E. S. Croft, to the Curacy of Wooton Fitzpaine,
Dorset.

Rev. E. Davidson' to be Lecturer of the Gallygear
Charity, and Clerical Superintendent of the Schools.
Rev. P. V. M. Filleul, 8.A., to be Fellow and Sub-
Warden of Christ's College, Tasmania.
Rev. W. F. Fisher, to the Chaplaincy of Mooradabad
and Mainee Tal, H.E.I.C.S.
Rev. W. Fraser, to the Curacy of Tormoham and
Cockington, Devon. _

Rev:(

Galway, to the Rectory of Lower Badoney,

diocese of Derry.
Rev. C. D. Hamilton, to the Chapla
H.E.I.C.S.

of Caw:

L. Isaac, Rector of Pirton, to the Rural

Deanery of Pershore, diocese of Worcester.
Rev. W. J. Jay, to the Chaplaincy of Futtehgurh,
H.E.I.C.S.

iinvan, to the Chaplaincy of Lucknovv

H.E.1.0

Rev. W. Lawson, of St. Michael's, Limerick, to the
Curacy of R,atlikeale
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, H.E.I.C.S

C. Moxon, Curate of South Ferriby, Lincoln-
shire, to the Vicarage of Elsham.
....Rev, S. T. Preston, to the Rectory of Brandon Parva,