The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

THE

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

FARCE.—The Journeyof the Emperor in the north

appears, says the Constitutionnel, to have been postponed,
and it is now almost certain that the Empress will accom-
pany him. It is stated that the Emperor will visit
Boulogne early in September. A telegraphic despatch
from Marseilles announces the departure of the Chaptal,
steam corvette, for Constatinople, having on board Rear-
Admiral. Lebarbier de Tinan, who replaces Vice-Admiral
Romain Desfosses in the command of the naval division of
the Levant. It appears from the reports which a great
number of Prefects have made to the Conseils G6n6raux,
that the fears which existed respecting the harvest are
altogether groundless. The quantity of grain this year is
of average amount, and the quality is excellent.
ITALY. A letter from Florence of the 16th inst.,
announces that 58 vessels laden with wheat, entered the
port of Leghorn, from the Ist to the 14th of August.
Nearly one-half of them were Greek vessels. On the 14th,
17 vessels, coming from the Black Sea, entered the
harbour, and three others on the 16th. There were eight
more in sight.

The poniificial government has recently published two
financial documents, which have excited much attention,
owing to the rare fact of publication of any kind, for the
court of Rome is not over partial to such things. The
first of the documents in question is called Bilancio
Generale della Pubblica Aministrazione del triennio dal
1845 al 1847,"—the budget, in fact, for those three years ;
and the other, " Tabella Preventiva per l'Esercizio del
1853," or the budget for 1853. The present triennal
statement of the Roman finances is full of inaccuracies,
and the accounts are far from regular. It results, never-
theless, from them, that, at the dose of the reign of
Gregory XVI., the annual revenue did not much exceed
7,000,000 of oman crowns, while the expenditure was
about 10,000,000, leaving a deficit of 3,000,000. But a
change has taken place since then. It is seen, from the
budget of 1853, presented by M. Galli, Minister of
Finance, and modified by the Consulta, that the expen-
diture has increased ; it now reaches the sum of
12,496,837 crowns, but the receipts have also increased
to 11,389,672 crowns, leaving a diminished deficit of about
1,346,125 crowns. The debt has unfortuately also aug-
mented. The annual interest, as shown by the budget of
1853, is 4,518,420 crowns, or more than £1,000,000
sterling, without including the interest on the last loan of
26,000,000 of francs, which is considered as the comple-
ment of the loan contracted in February, 1850, when the
Pope was at Portici, in the kingdom of Naples. Two of
the sums allotted for the expenses of the department of
the interior, 200,550 crowns, or about £40,000 are for the
police; and the item of special bonds relates to the main-
tenance of the Austrian army of occupation, which is
fixed at 36,000 florins per month for 12,000 infantry and
1,400 cavalry, exclusive of the expense of lodging, which
is paid by the communes ; so that the Austrian occupa-
tion cost the state 1,123,200 f. per annum, and the com-
nunes about as much more. As to the receipts, it has to
be observed, that the proceeds of the customs and the
farming of the salt and tobacco constitute nearly half the
revenue; and if managed by competent persons that
source of income would be much more profitable. The
government has found no other means of supplying the
deficit than by an augmentation of the property tax, and
that augmentation proceeds from an additional charge
over and above the dativa, and which amounts to two
months import, as if the year consisted of fourteen instead
of twelve months.

SWITZERLAND.—An extensive plan of fortification is to
be executed at Bellinzona without delay. The chief of the
Federal Military Department and several officers have ar-
rived, for the purpose of superintending the operations.
Companies of sappers from Vaud and other cantons, who
had been originally called out for drill, are to be empolyed
on these works.

PONTITGAL.---By the steam-ship Madrid, arrived at
Southampton on Thursday, we have dates from Gibraltar,
16th; Cadiz, 17th; Lisbon, 19th; Oporto, 20th and 21st
inst. Lisbon letters of the 19th announce the closing of
the Cortes on the 15th, by royal decree. The prospects
of the country were very unfavourable, owing to the rapid
and general spread of the grape disease ; the grape ship-
ments by the packets will not, it was expected, reach
more than 10 per cent. of the quantity usually shipped.
The screw-steamer, Albatross, was to leave Lisbon for Liver-
pool on the 19th. Two English frigates and a steamer
were off Lisbon on the 18th instant, steering south. •
AIISTRIA.—It is announced, under date of the 20th
instant, that the state of siege will forthwith be raised in
Austria, Venice and Lombardy. Count Buol, minister
for Foreign Affairs, gave a grand fete on the 18th, to
celebrate the birthday of the Emperor. All the ministers,
and a great number of dignitaries of state, were present.
RussiA.—A letter from Galatz, of the 12th inst. says:—
" A Russian commission arrived some days since at the
mouths of the Sulina, charged to examine the river, and
propose a plan for improving its entrance. A French
Colonel of Engineers, named Magna, has been for the last
eight days at Kunkowitza, a frontier town of Bulgaria,
near Galatz, directing the works of the fortifications. He
has recently made a journey throughout the whold of Bul-
garia for the same object."
TURKEY.—The news from Constantinople is brief and
not satisfactory. The attitude of Austria is a new sub-
ject of anxiety to the Porte. Any complication of affairs
is much to be dreaded at the present juncture, and the
movement of Austrian troops, on points contiguous to the
Turkish boundaries, is particularly calculated to delay an
understanding between Turkey and Russia.
Intelligence from Constantinople to the 19th inst., states
that an alteration is required by the Porte in the collec-
tive note, and Colonel Ruff was to start for Vienna, on the
20th, with the note as modified by the Turkish Ministry.
It is affirmed that the change is of a merely verbal charac-
ter, and will not affect the prospect of a definite agree-
ment.
A letter from Prince Ghika, dated Jassy, the 14th inst.,
contradicts certain rumours lately published respect-
ing him and his relations to the Porte. He says, that
having been desired by the Russian authorities to suspend
his relations and to stop the payment of tribute to the
Sultan, such acts being incompatible with the occupation
of Moldavia by the Russians, he merely transmitted the
letters containing these orders to the Ottoman Cabinet,
without any remarks of his own.
Morocco.—The imperial troops have obtained signal
advantages over the insurgents in the interior. Two of
the rebel chiefs have been captured, and decapitated at
Mequinez. The Emperor, who is still suffering, has sent
for his eldest son, who governs a large part of the empire.
On the coast there is a good deal of activity in com-
mercial affairs. A British steamer has arrived at Larache
for the purpose of exploring the rivers of Morocco.
An ambassador from Morocco is about to proceed to
London to settle some difficulties of a serious character
which just now exist between the governments of Great
Britain and Morocco.
AFRlcA.—Letters from the Western coast of Africa,
dated the 15th of June, give details as to the state of the
country. The condition of the French squadron was
good ; the number of captures for the repression of the
slave-trade had much diminished, and commercial rela-
tions continued to be established with the different tribes
of the coast. Several French merchant vessels had arrived
with cargoes suited to the country, and had met with a fa-
vourable market. The King of Benm, one of the most power-
ful on the coast, was on the point of entering on a war
with the King of Kosia ; but as the latter had claimed
French mediation, it was thought that hostilities would
be avoided.
MA-carrlns.—The intelligence from Mauritius respect-
ing Madagascar, is not favourable, the Queen still rules
with vigour, and is as rabid as ever against Christians and
Christianity. Her son, who is her Prime Minister and
secretary, is of milder mood, and softens down her decreees
in execution ; but the dangers and sufferings of the native
Christians are great and fearful.
The weather has continued favourable, abundant rains
having fallen at intervals ; and the coming crop in every
direction of the island wears a most favourable aspect, con-
firming the belief that the forthcoming harvest will exceed
175,000,0001 b. The new canes planted for 1854 have been
greatly favoured by the rains, so that without exaggeration
y estimate the crop of 1854 at about 200,000,000.
welNmDlA.—lntelligence has just been received by Overland
Mail from Bombay to the 20th ult.
ep e hasa
rs
tbeene
have
Ava appears smubaLsThione;Kfainming ofe
Pr°bceleininsedtarvwjedthinßtour
prevailed at his capital, and was attributed to the con-
tinuance of our blockade of the river, which prevented the
arrival of the usual supplies of rice from the lower pro-
vinces. He has set at liberty the British subjects who
had been carried prisoners to Ava.
The withdrawal of the blockade will not terminate the
famine at Ava as the King expects, for owing to the dis-
turbed state of the country there was no cultivation in the
lower provinces last season, and a scarcity prevails which
is only prevented from becoming a famine by large and in-
cessant importations of grain from Calcutta and Moulmein.
CAPE or GOOD HOPE.—By the Lady Jocelyn Mail
Screw Steam-Ship, arrived at Plymouth, on Friday, we
have intelligence to the 21st ult.
On the frontier everything remains quiet. Sir George
Clerk, the assistant High Commissioner, had reached
Graham's Town, on his way to the Sovereignty.
High prices continue to be given for improved breeds
of sheep. At Graff Reint, in the centre of the colony, two
large sales have recently taken place of improved imported
rams, which sold briskly at prices varying from 701. to 1301.
each.
The revenue continues to increase, and there will be,
apparently, a surplus in the year 1853 of 90,0001. or more
over the expenditure.
CHINA.—Our advices from Shanghai are to the 23rd of
June, but we have dates to the 30th by an American clip.
per, Flying Childers, touching at Woosung. The main
body of the insurgents still remains at Nankin, Chin-
kiang.foo, and on the northern banks of theYang-tse-kiang.
They had taken Tai-ping-foo, a city of great strength to
the westward of Nankin. No movement had been made
northward, or in the direction of Soochow and Shanghai.
The imperial foreign fleet had returned to Woosung.
Mr. Taylor, the American missionary, had returned to
Shanghai from visiting the insurgent General Loo at
CIUA-Uipg-f9Qa whq privircicti laitu gu tic) ;5.P.14, 'QII 14
•