The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

PHOTOGRAPHY.-J. ATKINSON, Importer
and Manufacturer of every article in the above Art,
has always in Stock some of the most approved Lenses and
Cameras, of all the various sizes; Glass Baths and Plates,
Collodion Cases, Matta, Passepartouts, Preservers, Cansons,
Paper, &c. Purchasers taught free of charge.

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IMPORTANT TO INTENDING ASSURERS:

pOLlClES'effected in the WESTERN LIFE
ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY, 3, Parlia-
ment-street, London, (Established 1842,) do not become void
through the temporary inability, from unforseen circum-
stances, of an Assurer to PAY A PREMIUM when it becomes
due, for by making application to the Directors he will be
allowed once (or oftener should the value of the Policy at the
time of application permit it), to have the privilege of SUS-
PENDING THE PAYMENT of that Premium (provided he
has already paid three whole Premiums at least on the Policy).
And his Policy wilt be endorsed to the effect that it continues
in force, as if the Premium omitted were paid, being however
charged with a debt equivalent to that Premium and its In-
terest at £5 per cent., which will be deducted from the
amount of the Policy when the Assured dies. The Policy
Holder shall, however, have it in his power to free his-Policy
from the debt at any time by paying the amount due.
The great advantage of this feature must at once be seen,
since it removes the usual objections to the ordinary system
of Life Assurance, by which an Assurer often loses all the
benefit he sought in paying regularly the Premiums for many
years on a Policy, because from temporary difficulties he is
unable to pay a Preiniurti when it becomes due, and the Po-
licy consequently lapses to. the Office.
The Directors of this Society are open to proposals for
Assurance to any amount.
The Society defrays the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical
Fees so that the Assured are subject to no charge beyond
the Premiums.
Attention is also invited to the rates of ANNUITY
GRANTED TO OLD LIVES, for which ample security is
provided by the large capital of the Society.
EXAMPLE :—.lOO cash-paid down. purchases—
An Annuity of .elO 4 0 to a-Male Life aged 60 payable as
SI 12 3 1 65 long
14 6 3 /f 70 as he
18 11 10 75 alive.
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half-yearly Annuity is paid six months after the purchase-
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defrayed by the Society.
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of affording Assurances, may be obtained, either by letter or
personal application to
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3, Clayton-square,
Agent for Liverpool and its Vicinity ;
or to the Actuary, ARTHUR SCRATCH LEY, M.A., F.R.S.A.,
3, Parliament-street, London, Author of a Treatise -(with
rules and tables) on

I.—Benefit Minding Societies.
2.—Freehold Land Societies.
3.—Tontine Associations.
4.—Savings Banks and Deposit Life Assurances.

s.—Emigi;tion Societies tinder the new act.
Also, " Observations oa Life Assurance Societies," and
" Instructions for the Enfranchisement of Copyhold and Life
Leasehold Property."
ACTIVE AGENTS WANTED.

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

TURKEY.

A letter from Constantinople has been received
at Vienna, declaring that hostilities had been every-
where suspended in consequence of the severe
frost ; that sixty pieces of cannon had been disem-
, barked at Trebizond and Baroum ; and that Persia,
determined to remain neutral, had been fortifying
its Turkish frontiers. This letter also states that,
should the Affghans attempt to attack Kandahar,
Persia will offer her mediation. Khan Khiva, who
had fled into Bokhara, had called upon the neigh-
bouring Khans to assist in the war against Russia.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 25.—The convoying
steam squadron, which left the Bosphorus on the
7th, and returned on the 20th, pushed on as fast
as possible to Trebizond, at which place it arrived
on the 10th, in order to release the poor soldiers
from the crowded decks without delay. 5,000 men,
and a considerable quantity of stores, &c., were
safely. disembarked there. Prince Gortschakoff
returned to Bucharest on the-4th, and has pub-
lished a kind of apologetic explanatory bulletin. In
it he describes the retirement of the Turks from
the villages near. Kalafat, and their occupation by
his own troops, as a completed movement. If
such a document may be trusted, it would appear
that he has had enough of Kalafat for the present,
and has no immediate intention of attacking it.
Yesterday the legal confirmation of the betrothal
of the Sultan's eldest daughter, (Sultana Fathma,)
aged 14, to . Redschid Pasha's son, (Ali Galib,)
aged 21, was celebrated at the Sultan's palace with
much pomp. A long train of men, bearing on their
heads trays of fruits, flowers, brocades, jewels, &c.,.
as wedding presents, marched in procession from
Redschid Pasha's house. to the palace of the Sultan,
The sight was rather barbarous and queei than
pretty or imposing; but the sight of pretty Tur-
kish damsels, in gaudy Orientalized broughams,
in some sort repaid one. for a flounder throughtthe
filthy streets. By a happy arrangement, the pret-
tier the face, the more transparent is the veil ; the
plainer it is, the more opaque is the covering. This
is an- innovation and an improvement on Turkish
customs, and some are of opinion that it might be
imitated with advantage ino other countries. On
the same day were celebrated the first betrothals
of his Majesty's three remaining daughters with
the sans of high dignitaries, as follow :—The Sul-
tana Refilha to Ethem Pasha, son of the ex-Seras-
kier Mehemet Ali Pasha ; the Sultana Gemile to
Mahmond!Gelad-ed-din Pasha, son of the Grand
Master of the Artillery, Ahmet Fetlii Pasha ; and
the Sultana' Munire to Ilharni Pasha, son of Abbas
Pasha, Governor-general of Egypt. It must be
remembered= that these princesses are quite chil-
dren. There- is evidently an attempt to satisfy
both the great rival politicians in this scheme. It
is said that tile presents for these different mar-
riages will amount to 40,000,000 of" piastres, and
that RedschidTheha alone has spent' 6,000,000 in
jewellery, &c...
The Generallin-Chief of the Russian army in
Wallachia and Moldavia has issued a decree, com-
pelling merchants and others to take Russian pa-
per money, upon, pain of being considered rebels,
and who will be treated with accordingly.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL. OF THE CANADA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail
Steam-ship Canada,-Captain Stone, which arrived
on Sunday afternoon., we have intelligence from
New York to the 28th nit, and from Boston to the
Ist instant.

The Canada brought thirty-nine passengers and
$159,145 in specie owfreight.
The screw steam-ship Andes arrived at Boston
on thelst instant, from this port.
The Empire City had sailed from Aspinwall for
New York with $600,000 in gold dust.
A letter from Washington says that the Peru-
vian Giwernment have declined conforming- to
their agreement to settle with Captain MfCerren
for the• injuries sustained by him at the aineha
Islands—
The New York Herald scouts the idea of
Russian•agents beingengaged in inducing-persons
in the States to send out privateers, in the event
of a war -with Russia..

A dispatch from Wasbi !ii,-ton states that the
British and, French, Ministers had caned upon
Secretary Marcy fore the purpose of protesting
against the fitting out of Russian privateers in
the United States. It was also understood that
they informed the secretary that such vessels
would be treated as pirates by their respective
governments.. The reply of Secretary Marcy had
not been made public
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General: Cass had moved a resolution in the
Senate,." That while. the United States of America
are disposed to observe in a spirit of good faith
international obligations, they desire. a similar
observance of such obligations by all; the nations
of the•earth, and that they can never behold with
indifference the obliteration of independent states
by a third power,.because of the political freedom
of such states."•

On the ,27th.ofFebruary, the immediate passage
of the•bill, authorising the building, of six first-
elass.steam•frigates was urged as highly necessary,
and:ultimately it was adopted; but in. the House
an unsuccessful effort was made, to. promote the
measure, and it therefore goes, to the bottom of
the long calendar of bills to be acted on in com-
mittee, and may not be reachedfor months.
The ship. Cornelius Grinnell which had arrived
at New York from this port,. reported, " That on
the 26th January, at noon, inlat. 48, lon. 32, saw
a vessel with the American, flag, union down;
went to her assistance, and, found her to be the
ship Columbiana of New York, Captain Stahl,
from New Orleans, bound, to Liverpool. On
rounding to under her lee,. saw that her decks had
been swept, that all her masts were gone, the bul—
warks much broken, and.. the men lashed to the.
pumps. The sea at the, time was running very
high, so much so that it was impossible to lower
the boat with any degree of safety ; consequently
hove the ship to under bare poles until four pan.,
next day, when the. weather moderating, we sue-.
seeded in getting , a boat near the ship,. and
hauled the captain, officers, and crew, sixteen, in
number, into the boat through the sea, by lines
made fast around, them, and from the boats to the
C. G. in the same manner, which was accomplished.
in two trips. The crew were in a very exhausted_
state from fatigue and exposure. On thefolloWing
Tuesday, 31st, about sunset, saw another dismasted
vessel with the. British flag, union down. Went
to her assistance, and succeeded in taking off the.
captain and crew, nine in number,, oi the brig
Frederick, Captain Parker, of Parsboro%
from HalifAx,. bound to Liverpool. It was dark at
:the and being comparatively moderate, very
little trouble or danger attended thecircumstanee."
On Thursday, the deputy-inspector Wooldridge,
oithe• customs, arrested the steward: of the British
steam-ship Africa, on a charge of being concerned
in the smuggling of a large quantity of lace goods
for an importing house in this city. The mer-
chant's store had been searehed, and the whole of
the goods are now under the supervision of Capt.
Rynders, deputy-surveyor, who had been assigned
by the collector for that special purpose. It is said
that a large amount of property has already been
seized.—New York Herald.

A letter from Easton; Pennsylvania, mentions
that a pilot-engine had been precipitated from the
rails of the Belvidere line down an embankment
into a river, severely injuring three persons. At
the French Opera-house, New Orleans, three per-
sons had been killed and upwards of fifty wounded
by the falling of the gallery. General Robert
Armstrong, formerly United States Consul at
Liverpool, had died at Washington. Two steamers,
one running on the Alabama river, and the other
on the Bybee river, had been destroyed. by fire. In
the Illinois Legislature a resolution had been
offered against the aggressive policy of the
Emperor of Russia ; the resolution concludes,
" Resolved that the governor be required to for-
ward to the aforesaid Czar a copy of the above
resolution."
CALIFORNIA.

The Northern Light had arrived at New York
with $BOO,OOO in gold-dust on freight, and later
advices from San Francisco, California. The
stringency in monetary affairs consequent on the
long drought, the small produce of the mines, and
the 'overburdened condition of the San Francisco
market had occasioned several heavy failures. The
sum of the liabilities was about $600,000, and the
assets $300,000. The late rains were causing more
confidence, though there was little prospect for
improvement in the price of goods. The same
influences had caused a slight fall in the prices of
real estate. The agent for the invaders of Lower
California had been busy in seeking for recruits in
San Joaquin and Toulumne counties. Rain, which
began on the 11th, continued till the 17th, when
began some weather colder than the oldest resi-
dents remember to have experienced. The rivers,
canals, and glutches had plenty of water for the
present, and the prospect was that the produce of
the mines for the next month would be very large.
Some of the rivers had become very high, and
many valuable dams, flumes, and mills had been
carried away, 14 gm eltyatod prtim

the mountains snow had fallen plentifully, and,
looking off to the east from San Francisco, the
white gowns of Monte Diablo and of the Santa
Clara Mountains could be seen. A destructive fire
had occurred at Placeville. The silver mine an-
nounced to have been discovered ninety miles east
of Monterey, in the mountains, is said to be very
promising: Some of the ore which had been tried
produced $4O from 100 pounds of ore. Hostilities
had occurred on the Klamath River between the
Indians and whites. Advices from Lower Cali-
fornia report that Walker, " president" of the
American invaders, continued to issue proclama-
tions. From the Sandwich-Islands we learn that
the small-pox had ceased its ravages. Owing to
false rumours, a run had taken place in the
banking-house of Adams and Co., but, as all claims
were promptly met, the excitement soon ceased.
Letters from Havana, of the 25th, report a
rumour to the effect that a negro insurrection had
occurred east of Cardenas. A change of troops
had been unexpectedly made at Puerto Principe.
In Havana all was quiet. Sugar was dull, through
the want of shipping. Freights to England were
quoted at five. guineas. Flour was scarce. Rice
and lard were improving.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

NEw You; FEB. 28.

Cower.. (From W. P. Wright's Circulard—
The more extensive operations in cotton last week in this
market prove that the accounts from Europe by the Pacific
and Europa are looked upon here as decidedly favourable.
We have had a good demand for cotton from exporters
and home consumers. Prices have had an upward
tendency all week, and the quotations- show an advance of
about c. per lb. since Tuesday last, Middling Uplands
cannot now be•bought under 10c. per lb.; nor middling
New Orleans under loic. per lb. Our stock of unsold
cotton is again very much reduced; there is little offered
in transitu from the South to Europe, for which a good
demand now prevails, at very full prices: The sales since
the 20th instant to•last evening have been:—For export,
8,464 bales ; home use, 4,334; speculation, 1,694 ; and in
tranaitu, 1,393: total, 15,885 bales. The export has been
as follows :—Liverpocl, 3,982 bales ; Havre, 70; Antwerp,
338 ; Hamburg, 119; Botterdam,4o2; Bremen, 27.: total,
4,939 bales. The deficit in receipts at the ports is again
augmented, and now amounts to 622,000 bales; the largest
figure attained this season, and caused by light receipts
in Charleston and Savannah during the past week. This
continued deficiency in receipts, as compared with last
year, is causing a general lack of confidence in estimates
for the total yield of over 2;800,000 bales.
The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the let September last, as compared with thepre-
vious three'years

1854. 1853. 1852. 1851.
Receipts at the Ports, 1,705,000 2,327,000 1,791,000 1,622,000
Exports to Gt. Britain, 516.000 912,000 623,000 509,000
France .. 183,000' 174,000 244,000 211,000
„ other For. POrts, 119,000 159,000 122,000 119,000
Total Exports .
Stock on hand 700,000 750,000 559,000 700,000

From which it will he seen that the decrease in receipts
litow amounts to 622,000 bales ; the decrease in exports to
Great Britain, 396,000; other foreign ports, 40,000. In-
crease to France, 9000. Total decrease in export, 427,000
bales.

Nsw YORK, FBA. 28, 6 P.M.—Cotton dull ; sales, 7,200
brlik; common to state $8,06 to $8,12 ; common to good
Ohio $8,25 ; southern lower ; sales, 1,000 brls. ; mixed to
good brands, $8,37 to $8,50. Wheat lower ; sales 21,800
bushels; Gennessee, $2 ; red Long Island, $1,85 1
southern red, $1,70;; white ditto, $1,87 to $1,90. Corn
lower; sales 2,400 bushels ; mixed, 88 cents ; white, 90 to
93 cents ; yellow, 88 cents. Pork better; sales 280 brls. ;
mess, $15,50 to $15,62.-; prime, $13,25 to $13,37. Beef
firm ; sales 240 brls. ; country mess; $9 to $11,50; prime,
$6; repacked Chicogo, $l4; prime mess firm, at $2l to
$25. Lard steady ; sales 300 brls. at 10 to lot cents.
Cut meats firm ; sales 140 tierces ;.hams, 81 to 9 cents ;
shoulders, 6; to 61 cents. Beef hams steady ; sales
50 hhds., at $l6. Coffee firm'; sales-425 bags ; Rio, 11;
to 11/ cents; Java, 131 cents. Iron firm; Scotch pig,
$39 to $4O. There was no change in the Money Market.
EXCRAISGE on London, BO days, remains at 104 to 109,
Bankers' Signatures, Paris, 5.164 to 5.131. Amsterdam,
41f to 411... Frankfort, 44 to 411. Bremen, 794 to 80.
Hamburg, 361, to 37. Antwerp, 5.164 to 5.15.

Fnuidiirs..:—No material alteration to notice. The
following are the ruling rates Liverpool: Cotton,
square bales, per lb. id. ; flour,. per bbl. 4s. ed. ; rosin,
4s. to 4s. ed..; heavy goods, per ton, 455.; grain, in
bulk, per bushel, 17d.