The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC. ~,....40j1V
By the United States Mail steam-ship Baltic, LAI:A.
Comstock, which arrived early on Friday, we have inlio
gence from New York to the 10th instant. She
brought 87 passengers, and upwards of a million in °Y
on freight. pp
The Niagara (s), from Liverpool, arrived at Boer/31/
the 9th instant.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury had
beellere
issued. The imports for the fiscal year of 1853 le
$267,978,647, and the exports `230,462,260.
. the
A Treasury report presented to Congress containfL.,
proposed alterations in the Tariff, referred to by the 11'..
sident in his message. The free list is to be enlarged
such an extent that- it will affect the annual revenue,
the amount of $8,000,000. All dutiable articles are te,:
25 per cent. or 100 per cent. All such articles as are irt:
ded in the highest duty-bearing list, and he free list,
to be specified. Those not so named are to bear au
r.
valorem duty, duty, except, perhaps, the article iron.
By telegraph from Boston we learn that Mesere'v.. '
Cunningham and Co. had suspended payment, with P-
bilities estimated at upwards of 150,000 dollars.
~ht Were
The receipts of cotton at the southern Po. jot
441,000 bales short of the receipts for the same time
year. 014°6
The steamer Crescent City had arrived at osif
from Havana with advices to the 6th instant. I";;,nie-
Captain-General arrived there on the 2d, and was
diately installed.
Two steamers had arrived at New Orleans from
nia with 16 day's later news.
The steamers George Law and Star of the Westi,syoth
from San Francisco on the 15th ult., for New York,
about $3,000,000 in gold dust on freight. the
In consequence of the wires being out of 07;;Z:dyt
details of the Californian news had not been recr"'
New York.

AUSTRALIA. pe the
The last files of papers received from Australia for
statistical returns of the colony of New South AV''''''sv'iag
the year 1852. The total population was 208,254, sheioB6
an increase over the previous year of not more than liirge
I—a circumstance only to be accounted for by thence ,
numbers drawn away to the neighbouring Pt°v'ionar
Victoria, since an increase took place of 23,218 byre„„we
gration, and 7,886 by births. Of this total, 015
males, and 99,567 females. Among the iintin6:-.3,074,
brought out at the public expense during the Yearl„o
were Protestants, 1,862 Roman Catholics, and 1,v3-4403
other denominations. The number of existing Inert'
on the 31st of December was —on land 330, for an 'lO
gate of £186,008 ; on wool 69, for 1:79,610 ; on live '
101, for £129,958. Of letters by post the nuutherbeisl
1,117,777, and of newspapers 1,023,678, the receip
£18,174 against an expenditure of £25,304 a al'f; tbe
caused by the increased price of forage and lab°7.,',.pla°
duringThthee
department in the previous year having realized a the
gie InBe
g 5 1 . nyueamrb we
r
oas f
nearlyacres of nearly £2,000. As regards the rate of wages, ,tli: -003
a falling off of 22,000 from the preceding Ye`11.6,0,34
suon under cropcent jai 'sle3' °'64io
the total, 75,942 were wheat, 18,609 Indian Oro, POO'
barley, and 1,629 oats. The remainder consisted 'five -
toes, tobacco, grasses, &c. In the cultivation of the and
there has been a rapid increase since its introduetic2iejog
the number of acres now amounts to 1,090, Prod total, °
92,744 gallons of wine, and 1,581 of brandy
of live stock were 123,404 horses, 1,495,984 hone' over
78,559 pigs, and 7,707,917 sheep, being an increaseio the
the previous year greater in proportion than that 389
population, and showing head of horned cattle, an oe
sheep, to every man, woman and child in the COIO% 000
number of sheep slaughtered in the 12 nienlodoeini
292,000, together with 74,194 horned cattle, :„Pr•reasSE
147,947 cwt. of tallow, valued at £146,811, an„„.'",%tiaaTg"
nearly 60,000 cwt. over the preceding year. '-'-"Le '76 9'"'
of wool exported was 11,086,9741bs , valued at X6ed f,' ith
being a decrease of about 25 per cent. as en.'ll:ilre on
1851 ; but the woollen cloth manufactured tnre' thaftye
was 234,378 yards, or nearly 44,000 yards In°Juce 13s,
any former occasion. With respect to the P,..14,50%."jaich
fisheries, the estimate of the oil exportedilfgol4,
an increase of £8,685. From the export „„Th-be '',est
amounted to 818,751 ounces, no conclusion. "; the
to the quantity produced in the colony, snln,,, the elt'
ret —g
proportion of that sent away was obtained 17,,,ri
bouring province of Victoria, The niantlfae"iisllunell; 1
give a total of 2 distilleries, 1 rectifying se tab 1 ba,
breweries, 2 sugar refineries, 16 soap, 9 Walks, rk;
salt, and 7 woollen cloth factories, 4 roPef— gaavitLasa—
nenes, 4 potteries, 5 salting establishments' 78 0"
and 1 smelting establishment, together with or
of
flour mills. The imports in 1852 were £1,91,'-'''"
increase
the rate of about £9 per head, being au beg
£331,505, and the exports £4,604,034, vessels,2 per f
oro
Of shipping the entries inward were 721_ioniag
tonnage of 197,366, and the clearances 701, of a wa.4
of 175,960. The number of vessels built in the ye's:.o one
23, of an average of 64 tons, being a decrease ~0
s,neeteii "01
vessel. Of general revenue the amount en
terra
£376,084, being an increase of £98,356, and of
,nies
£238,502 being an increase of £33,.994. r:061,
crown larids amounted to £55,808 against £64,425 cot.
when an increase suddenly occurred of about 100 Per
fete°
which is in
CATS are freely quoted at Geelong%
at
£1 per head for a cart-load of them.
_now
with mice, at 50s. a-head. A Mr. HitehnneK gua--
TnE Briocic MONUMENT, TOIIONTp. T;itoe, vprer
erected to General Brock, on Qt.leetnstnn_
Canada, in 1824,
political bigot in 1840 (who Placed within a qoriel;
v
't determined to raise ano 131
having been desi-ecl ibtyeigthoole atet.—°fol
gunpowder), was
t TOW"'
William Thomas, an English architect residinga _
tone
was selected. On the 13th of last October the firstf:est
and a competition having been invited, a design a tp,
was laid by Colonel Donald Macdonell, when, f
an' ad
other interesting incidents, a touching address
Brothe°'
~
s
on the part of the Indians, some of whom
not
.-‘
said they, pardon this our rude speech : comr—iber add
d
Brock in the American war, wherein he fell. "
are 3
to your own eloquent address. And let us fur,
ever,
our sincere thanks to our pale-faced friends, who ka„,,,vrd
taken such deep interest in our welfare. The "
God has entered our savage hearts ; you taughtens
join-
aside the tomahawk and cultivate the land for le;„ male
tenance ; you showed us the way of eternal life.
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now truly expect that the pale face and the red 93,,n0 be
meet together at God's right hand." The Agin rof
the
executed in stone, 16 feet high. The whole heigni'
monument, including the statue, is 185 feet.