The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRITAItY 15, 1853.

FOREIGN NEWS.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA

The British and North American Royal Mail steamship
Europa, Neil Shannon commander, which arrived in this
port on Sunday afternoon, has brought intelligence from
New York to the Ist, and from Boston to the 2nd inst.
The Europa sailed from Boston on the 2d, at 2 10 p.m.,
and shortly afterwards passed the ships Charles Prague
and North America, bound in. She arrived at Halifax
on the 4th, at 1212, a.m., and, after embarking the mails,
&c., sailed again at 1 54, a.m. At 4 40, a.m., she passed
the steamer Canada, from Liverpool, bound to Halifax
and Boston. The Europa experienced contrary wind s
the whole passage, and arrived in the Mersey at 3 30,
p.m., on Sunday, after a fine run of 11 days 19 hours.
The Europa brought .8'200,000 in specie on freight, and
the following ninety-six passengers :—From Boston—
Miss Hensler, Mrs. Wagstaff, Mrs. Brooks and three
children, Mrs. Tobias and infant, Messrs. Morris and
brother, E. A. Ferguson, G. Cockburn, E. F. Von
Hunter, E. V. Cooper, E. W. Lockhart, C. Hensler, A.
Savage, H. Walton, C. Klingender, Bigelow, Holford,
Hughes, Riggs, E. Wirths, R. Hobbs, N. W. T. Root,
W. Kughley, J. Worthley, G. Laws, S. Svmon, L.
Samuel, T. Jefferson, A. G. Thompson, W. R. Benson,
C. A. Wilson, K. Miller, Mattussier, Bergue, St:
Oars, F. Clark, H. Morgan, G. C. Quck, P. Christie,
W. Lewis, H. Riche, Bernard Sutro, Chas. M. Conrad,
Danville, S. Meredith, Aug. Von Glahn, Swinton, Julien,
A. Gilmour, J. Ennis, J. Boyd, W. Magee. F. Crozier,
C. Kirkpatrick, T. Fotherby, W.Beard, S. Niel, Adams,
M'Cullough, W. Smale, J. Armstrong, S. M`Tavish, T.
Gilchrist, J. Hegan, W. M'Glinchey, and Brooks.—From
Halifax: Miss Nordbeck, Mr. Tobin and Lady, Mr.
Kenny jun., Captain Owens, Messrs. Thompson, Kenny,
C. Silver, A. Ritchie, Hutchinson, Dwyer, J. Hooker,
Woolner, M`Phelan, R. Kiddy, Murdock, B. Smith,
Howard, K. B. Forbes, Morriscey, Martin Skerry, Lydi.
aril, R. Sharpley, Boggs, and J. MlDonald.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, which sailed from
this port on the 16th, arrived at New York at 7, p.m., on
the 30th ult.

The screw-steamer City of Glasgow, which left Liver-
pool on the 9th, arrived at Philadelphia on the 31st ult.
She was to leave Philadelphia, on her return, on the sth
instant. _ _

The screw-steamer Andes was to leave New York for
this port on the 7th instant.
The steam-ship Georgia had arrived at New York with
the California mails, £'1,564,526 in specie on freight, and
£'300,000 in the hands of passengers.
The Senate, on the 27th ult., divided on the resolution
of Mr. Cass, " directing inquiry by the Committee on
Foreign Relations as to what action of the Senate, if any,
is necessary, in consequence of the qualifications added
to the Bulwer and Clayton Treaty," when the resolution
was adopted. . .

At Nashville, on the 28th ult., property to the value of
41'80,000 was destroyed by fire. The New Orleans Pica-
yune, of the 23rd ult., says, " There has not, for a long
time past, been so great a scarcity of sailors in our city as
at present. It is almost impossible to obtain a crew for
Liverpool at any rate. Vessels are now lying off the
Point, ready for sea, but unable to obtain their comple-
ment of men, and have been lying, under similar circum-
stances, for three or four days past. At the same time
hands are plenty for New York and Boston, at the usual
prices." The extradition case of Kaine occupied the
attention of the Supreme Court on the 31st ultimo. The
judges could not agree. The prisoner was ordered to be
again brought before the court in April next.
THE JAPAN EXPEDITION.—The Boston Post publishes
the following extract from a letter received from a gentle-
man who had just returned to the United States from a
trip to China, relative to the feelings of the Japanese
toward the expedition expected from the United States :
—" I was informed by a gentleman, a native of Japan,
that the Emperor is ready for the American expedition.
He exhibited a letter to me. which he had just received
from one of his countrymen, then on the island of Jeddo.
The people kept a strict look-out all over the coast, and
their fires were already burning on the mountains in order
to be prepared in case the squadron should appear in the
night. One million of soldiers are ready and at hand.
The coast is all set with guns, while in the Bay of Jeddo,
where the fleet is expected, there are countless war-junks,
and the whole bay is surrounded by innumerable forts.
The expedition will find the Japanese much better sol-
diers than they anticipate. * * The presents
had better have been left at home. A trade will not soon
be opened with that country, except by force."
CALIFORNIA.—Advices from San Francisco are to the
Ist January. The steam-ship Oregon left that port on
the 30th December, with 81,821,387 in specie on freight.
High prices continued for all descriptions of provisions,
and the scarcity of the common necessaries of life in the
interior and among the mining population was bordering
upon a famine, and had caused considerable excitement
and alarm. Tremendous freshets had occurred in all the
rivers and streams in the State, which inundated every
town along their banks, and completely overflowed all the
lands in the valleys, destroying a great amount of pro-
perty, carrying away bridges, rendering ferries impassable,
breaking up the roads, and cutting off for a time all inter-
course between the miners and the sources from whence
they obtained their stocks of provisions. Great suffering
among the gold diggers was the consequence, and some
instances are recorded where individuals perished from
hunger. The shipment of treasure was not so large by
the last steamer from San Francisco as the previous ones,
but it was of sufficient amount, being upwards of
£1,800,000, to prove that the mines of California are far
from being exhausted. Snow had fallen to a great depth
upon and in the vicinity of the mountains, causing nume-
rous avalanches from the hill sides, and the breaking in of
roofs of houses.
A Panama paper of the 17th ult. says, " On Tuesday
the Ecuadorian national vessel, Hermosa Carmen, arrived
from Quayaquil with a cargo of thirty-two Jesuits, who
had been expelled by the Ecuadorian Government. They
were consigned to the governor of Panama, with the
request that he would put them through the isthmus and
out of the country with all commendable care and speed."
MEXICO.—A telegraphic communication, dated New
Orleans, 29th January, says, " We have received Tampico
dates to 19th January. Great excitement existed in con-
sequence of a rumour that two thousand Texans were
marching on Tamaulipas. Colonel Ruffin Roderiguez
and twenty-three men belonging to the National Guard
have been shot, Governor Reyso, of San Louis Potosi,
was assassinated while riding in his carriage. General
Casenova and Governor Cardenas have gone to Vera Cruz,
where a large number of prisoners have been sent."
WEST INDIES.—From Kingston, Jamaica, we have
advices to the 23rd ult. On the 19th a meeting of Slave
Abolitionists was held on Mr. Gordon's estate, near
Kingston. The agent of the Royal Steam Packet Com-
pany had been summoned before the magistrates for in-
fringing the laws relating to Sunday work, in having
ordered the coaling of a steamer on the Lord's day. The
Conway arrived on the 21st.
TAHlTl.—Advices from Tahiti state that the governor
of the French possessions was on the point of sending an
expedition against the Navigator Islands, to punish the
natives for the insult they had put upon the missionaries
and French traders.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, FEB. 1.
MONEY MARKET. There was a fair amount of
business at the Stock Board to-day, and in view of
the glowing accounts of the London money market,
the prices were well sustained. At the second board
stocks were dull and rates lower. The supply of
money on call continues large, with an active demand.
The range is five to seven per cent., with but few tran-
sactions below six per cent. First class short paper goes
at 51 to 6 per cent., and longer at 6 to 7 per cent. The
banks are doing all the good paper offered. Exchange on
England continues in demand at advancing rates, say
1092 to 1091 per cent. Bills on France, 51. 13c. to
sf. 121 c. The quantity of gold, &c., entered at the New
York Custom-house, during the month of January,
amounted to 5,849,548 dols. value.
COTTON.—To.day 1,400 bales were sold. The market
is steady. The sales yesterday were 1,700 bales, but did
not show any improvement in prices, which continue to
rule lc. to A-c. from the highest point. The New York
Herald, of the Ist instant, says, " The receipts continue
appalling, induced by prices two cents higher than ruled
all the sorts last season. If our planting friends will con-
tinue to pour out their supplies so recklessly, considering
that our ports are already overloaded, they must not ex-
pect to sustain prices abroad. We know it is difficult to
abstain from realizing, as the first cost from the abun-
dant corn crops is less than that of last year's; but it is
the only safety. Keep it out of sight until the trade can
reduce their heavy stock, or shipowners and speculators
will reap your harvest."
(From W. P. Wright's Circular of February I.)

In this market last week, business was almost suspended
and prices entirely nominal, the sales to Saturday evening
not exceeding 1,200 bales, at very irregular prices. Yester-
day, after the receipt of the Africa s letters, there was
more enquiry for the better grades, and the business of
the day resulted in sales of 1,800 bales. The quotations
are reduced to lc. to lc. per lb., from those given in my
last, but must be considered as nominal. The market is
yet far from being settled. Neither sellers nor buyers are
satisfied with the present position of the trade, and I
look for a dull market until we have further accounts
from Europe and the south. The reasons for this apathy
after a period of a steadily advancing market for the pre-
vious thirty days may be stated as follows :—The prices
recently ruling here were fully Id. to /d per lb. above
those current in Liverpool at the latest dates, which of
itself was sufficient to deter shipments ; the recent advices
clearly proving that the late abundance and cheapness of
money in England cannot reasonably be expected to con-
tinue, but the most cogent reason exists in the fact of the
increased receipts at the south, again, over the same weeks
last year, giving, as it does, more grounds for faith in the
larger estimates of crop, which are once more indulged in
at Mobile and New Orleans. Of the new crop, contrary
to general opinion, the receipts at the ports have again
become large ; the excess now amounts to 471,000 bales.
A further increase next week will follow, as we are advised
by telegraph from New Orleans and Mobile, that for the
week ending on Friday the receipts were respectively 22,000
and 58,000 bales, or a gain on the corresponding week
last year of 26,000 bales. This has occasioned much
wavering of opinion among the moderate crop parties,
and confirmed more and more those who look for a total
in excess of last year.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton

since the Ist of September last, as compared with the pre-
vious three years :

1853 1852 1851 1850
Receipts into the ports.. 1,820,000 1,349,000 1,254,000 1,216,000
Exports to Great Britain 746,000 452,000 379,000 349,000

France

126:000 16.1;000 173,000 127,000

.. . .
55 other for. ports 114,000 73,000 88,000 70,000
Total exports
Stock on hand . 616,000 509,000 590,000 533,000
Of which during the past week, included in the above :_.

_ . .
1853 1852 1851 1830
Receipts at the ports 125,000 85,000 103,000 91,000
Exports to Great Britain 56,000 25,000 34,000 27,000
„ France
__ ___

~ other for. ports 10,000 8,000 4,000 2,000
Total exports .
From which it will be seen that the excess in receipts now
amounts to 471,000 bales ; the increase in exports to Gt.
Britain, 29-1,000 ; other foreign ports, 41,000. Decrease
to France, 38,000. Total increase in exports, 297,000 bls.
BREADSTUFFS.—FIour has been in fair demand, and,
since Saturday, at rather stiffening rates ; namely, Wes-
tern Canal, 08'3,431 to $5,50 per barrel; Ohio and pure
Ger.essee, 43'5,56 to -55,814-; common New York, &C.,
; Southern kinds, 08'5,88 to S'64-; Canada in bond,
4'5,50 to 08'5,75. Wheat continues in fair demand, with
a firm market, at the following prices :—Genessee white,
130 c. to 135 c. per 601bs. ; Southern white, 126 c. to 130 c.;
Michigan and Ohio white, 130 c. to 133 c. ; Western red
and mixed, 115 c. to 125 c. ; Canada, in bond, 120 c. to 130 c.
Indian corn easier; to-day 31,000 bushels sold at, for
southern yellow, 69c. to 71c. ; white, 68c. to 72c. ; mixed,
72c. to 73c. per 561bs.
PROVISIONS.—A moderate local demand for pork, and
prices of mess are eas;er, and the supply increasing. Beef
is very firm, and in good request. Prime mess is firm, and
in fair demand. Lard is without change. Cheese is
steady, at Bc. to 9c.

NAVAL STORES.—Rosin and crude turpentine were
unaltered. 200 barrels spirits turpentine brought 741 c.
to 75c. per gallon.
IRON.—Scotch pig iron meets a moderate demand, but
no change can be noted in prices.
FREIGHTS.—The market is steady. To Liverpool,
cotton, 4-d. per pound ; flour, 3s. to 33. 3d. per barrel ;
grain, in bulk, 101. per bushel. To London, flour, 3s.
to 3s. 6d. per barrel; grain, in bulk, 10d. :per bushel.
To Havre, cotton, lc. per pound.
MOBILE, Jan. 29.—Receipts for the week, 22,000 bales.
Total excess at this place, 473,000 bales. Middling, Btc.
Freight to Liverpool, sd. Exchange on London, 8 per
cent.

HAVANA, Jan. 29.—The cotton market is heavy to-
day, and lower pric.s would be accepted by holders.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 31.—Africa's accounts received. A
large business doing to-day at low prices, which are com-
pletely unsettled, but generally lc. to Ic. below Friday's
rates. Sales to-day, 2,750 bales.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 28.—Sales 10,000 bales, at ic.
decline ; strict middling quoted 9c. to 9ko. The week's busi-
ness foots up 49,000 bales. Jan. 29 : Receipts for the week,
58,000 bales. Total excess here, 483,000 bales. Sales for
the week, 49,000 hales. Middlings 91-c. per lb. Stock,
311,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, id. Exchange on
London, sid. per cent. Jan. 30 : The receipts of cotton
at this port to-day have reached 17,000 bales. Jan. 31 :
Africa's news received. Sales this morning have been
6,000 bales, at full prices.
Bosz•oN, Feb. 2.—Cotton is steady and sales to a fair
extent, at full prices. Flour is in moderate demand at
$5,75 for fancy Michigan, and $6 to $6,75 for extra ditto,
cash. Southern $6 per barrel, four months. Corn is
not so plentiful, and is more firm. Pork is selling in lots
at $lB for prime, $2O for mess, and 22 for clear. Beef
is steady at $12,50 to £l4 per barrel for 'Western mess.
Lard is more plenty, and has declined ; sales 111 c. to 12c.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. I.—The amount of business
transacted has not been large, yet we cannot report the
market as quiet ; indeed, all the movements are watched
with great anxiety, as the confidence is universal that a
short respite of the bad weather will occasion such a de-
mand for all descriptions of goods as will fully sustian
prices and open the door to speculation. Money is abun-
dant at 21 to 8 per cent. per month on first class securi-
ties, but little, comparatively, seeking investment.

FRANCE.—At the request of the Cardinal Archbishop
of Bordeaux, the Emperor has consented to stand god-
father to the new great bell of the cathedral of that city.
The Empress has also signified her intention to be god-
mother. M. Gautier, mayor of Bordeaux, and Mme. de
la Siegliere, wife of the first President of the Civil Tri-
bunal, have been directed to represent their Majesties
at the baptism of the bell.
An upholsterer, named Paul Ledra, was on Saturday
sentenced to a fine of 100 f. and six months' imprisonment,
for wearing afleur-de-lis in his button-hole and on his
shirt-bosom !
The editors of La Mode of Paris have been condemned
to a fine of 500 f. and one month's imprisonment, for pub-
lishing a piece of " false news," (copied from the Inde-
pendence Beige, to the effect that " Lucien Murat was
about to inhabit the Chateau de Neuilly, which he had
purchased last year for 1,400,000 f."
The St. Petersburgh Gazette, of the 28th of January,
announces the official appointment of M. de Kisselef to
the functions of Ambassador and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of Russia in Paris. A St. Petersburgh journal of
the 25th contains a lohg article on the possibility and the
consequences of a hostile landing in England. .

Since the more serious part of the community have
begun to fear that all is not folly in the idea of a possible
war, many are the anecdotes which have got loose—that
concerning M. Chapuy-Monlaville, at Marseilles, is the
best. The Emperor having been sufficientlyflagorna by
the man in office when taking his leave, proposed a re-
ward, a prgecture, an office of any kind. ' Let me be
prefect of London," said the flagorneur. " Accorde."
exclaimed Louis Napoleon, with a hearty shake of the
hand, and the bargain was concluded. On the truth of
this story you may rely.—Atlas.
An elaborate report to the Emperor from M. Bineau,
on the state of the national finances, appears in the
Moniteur. The Minister assures the Emperor that the
national receipts for the month of January, 1853, have
exceeded those of January, 1852, by more than eight and
a half millions of francs.

THE BALL AT THE LIJXEMBOURG.—The grand ball
given by the senate to the emperor and empress took place
on Monday, last week, and was remarkable for its magnifi-
cence, The palace of the Luxembourg was transformed
from its habitual austerity of appearance into a vast series
of salons de fete, brilliant with lights, flowers, hangings,
gilding, and decorations. A gallery, formed by the old
Salle du Trone, the former chamber of peers, and another
large room, was made into a vast ball-room. Huge mir-
rors were placed in the recesses of each window, whilst
other glasses, encompassed with garlands of flowers, were
placed along the walls at both sides. In the centre
was erected a fountain decorated with flowers. During
the whole night, the waters, springing up from innu-
merable jets, sparkled in the blaze of light, and added a
most pleasing variety to the scene. Magnificent lustres
were suspended from the ceiling. At the end of the gal-
lery was raised an estrade, on which were placed two chairs
of state for their majesties. In the picture gallery was laid
out the supper-room for the emperor and the empress,
and which could accommodate upwards of two hundred
persons. For the first time, all the male portion of the
guests were attired only in court dresses, uniforms, or
official costumes. At ten o'clock, the emperor and empress,
after having had a reception of the diplomatic corps, left
the Tuileries, escorted by a detachment of cavalry. On
the arrival of the cortege at the Luxembourg, their ma-
jesties were received at the grand entrance by the president
of the senate, the vice-presidents, the members of the bureau
and the grand referendary, whilst behind, along the hall and
up the stairs, were ranged the senators. The empress was
dressed in white satin, trimmed with fringed ribbons. She
wore a magnificent pearl necklace, and had violets in her
hair. The eagerness of the ladies to behold her was ex-
traordinary, and amidst so many women remarkable for
beauty she undoubtedly shone forth pre-eminently. She
seemed in excellent spirits, and her cheek, in place of
being pale, as was observed at the ceremony of her mar-
riage at Notre Dame, had the clear bright colour of per-
fect health. In a few minutes after the entrance of the
imperial pair, the emperor descended from the estrade to
open the ball. It was not without difficulty that suf-
ficient space could be procured to allow the qua-
drille to be formed. The emperor danced with
Madame Troplong, the empress dancing with Count
Regnaud de St. Jean d'Angely, vice-president of the
senate. Their majesties then went arm in arm
through the rooms, and at half-past eleven proceeded to
the imperial supper-room, where they presided at a table
set out for 200 ladies, all admitted by special tickets.
During the night other ladies were likewise admitted to
sup in this room, other supper-rooms being disposed on
the ground-floor for the guests not so specially favoured.
At nearly half-past-twelve the emperor and empress with-
drew, and soon after a considerable portion of the guests
followed their example. The great majority, however,
remained later, and dancing was kept up with great spirit,
until five in the morning. Amongst the uniforms present,
that of a colonel of Nizam's irregular cavalry was much
remarked for its richness. A tolerable sprinkling of
English uniforms were present, but they chiefly belonged
to the militia.

The Moniteur records the following pediction, which
occurs in the address sent to the Emperor from a town
called Neuilly-Sur : "Blessed alike by heaven and
earth, your union, Sire, will be patriotically fruitful.
France will applaud the christening as unanimously as she
applauded the marriage. Your happiness as a father will
lay the foundation of the future destiny of the nation."

TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO.—With respect
to the struggle in Montenegro the accounts are meagre
and incomplete. Thus far the fortune of war has been
variable ; but the latest advices indicate that the Turkish
forces were successfully fighting their way towards the
capital of Montenegro, and their commander seemed to
entertain no doubt that he should be able in a few days
to obtain entire possession of the country. Russia is
gathering a strong force on the confines of Sweden, ap-
parently with a view of making a descent upon Wallachia,
and Austria has concentrated some 70,000 troops in Dal-
matia, as though she were inclined to interfere in the
struggle in Montenegro. In fact, says a Vienna corre-
spondent, Austria could not make more threatening pre-
parations if she had resolved on annihilating every Mos-
sulman in Europe, but he adds, that there are so many
cogent reasons for her not going to war that she will
certainly look again before she leaps. The correctness
of this opinion is corroborated by the Vienna Gazette,
which declares that the object of Austria is the protection
of her own frontier, the maintenance of the territorial
status quo, and the rights guaranteed by treaties, whilst
"every aggressive measure is foreign to her tendencies."
Hopes are entertained that the representations made to
the Porte by the Austrian government will be successful,
and that the Turko-Montenegrin differences will be
settled without further fighting. Telegraphic despatches
from Trieste state that the Montenegrins, under Prince
Daniel, had succeeded in cutting off the communications
between the forces of Omer Pacha, who was operating
from Spuss, and those of Reis Pacha, which had advanced
from Nikitsch. Another telegraphic despatch, apparently
of subsequent date, states that Omer Pacha had sent in
an ultimatum to Prince Daniel, requiring an answer by
January 31. In case of failure, the whole country would
then be militarily occupied. The line of the Pacha ex-
tended as far as to Kuschevi Moss, whence his troops
menaced the capital of Montenegro.
A private letter from Trieste, dated the 6th. says :
' The latest news from Montenegro, which reached this
place on the 4th instant by the steamer Dalmatia, is very
favourable for the Turks, Omer Pacha, after having sub-