The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-06-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JUNE

they were fortunately extinguished before any damage of
importance was done. The banking-house of Page,
Bacon, and Co., had been robbed of 53,000. New dis-
coveries of gold near Negro-bill were reported. The
agricultural prospects were in a very flattering condition.
The grand jury of the District Court of San Francisco had
ignored the bill brought against Captain Sampson, of the
steamer Independence, for manslaughter ; but said if they
had the power they would bring bills against the owners
and agents of the Vanderbilt line, on account of miserable
outfit, unseaworthiness, and other acts, and the unjusti.
fiable negligence which entailed the loss of 100 lives.
Three men were executed at Sacramento on the 28th
April, for murder. Their names were, Thompson, aged
25, a native of Southampton, and Stewart and Ackerman,
Americans. The two latter smoked cigars until they
mounted the scaffold.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MONEY MARKET, NEW YORK, May 24.—There were
moderate sales at the Stock-board, with little or no varia-
tion in price. The money market is becoming somewhat
easier every day. Loans on call 6 per cent. Foreign ex-
change is firm, with a moderate business doing. London,
109 to 110; Paris. 5.12/ to 5.131; Amsterdam, 41 to
414 ; Frankfort, 401 to 41; Bremen, 79i to 791 ; Ham-
burg, 364 to 36.; ; Antwerp, 5.15 to 5.161.
CoTToN.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular, of May
24.)—Since my circular of the 18th inst., we have received
Liverpool dates to the 7th inst., per Africa. The cotton
market there was firmer, and, in some cases, 1-16 d. per
lb. higher than on the Atlantic's departure on the 4th
inst. This news was not equal to the expectations of
holders of cotton in this city, who had generally expected
an advance of id. to id., and as many had been holding
for some weeks past in anticipation of better prices, some
of them, under the disappointment, offered their stocks
rather freely on Friday and Saturday last, and submitted
to a reduction of lc. to ic. per lb. in middling and good
middling qualities, while on the lower grades a greater
decline must be taken in order to effect sales; this ap-
plies more particularly to upland cotton, as being in
greater abundance. Orleans and Mobile, of good staple
and clean, are scarce, and are not offered lower. Yester-
day the business was only to a moderate extent, and
without further change in price ; buyers do not show any
spirit, and holdersare desirous of lesseningtheir stock some-
what. The excess in receipts now amounts to 249,000 bales.
The increase in exports to Great Britain is 67,000; France
7,000 ; other foreign ports, 2,000. Total increase in ex-
ports, 76,000 bales. The decline in the excess of receipts
this week is greater than was expected, and now stands at
249.000 bales. Next week some further slight reduction
may occur. The total last year at Charleston and Sa-
vannah was 11,500 bales, and it may not be reached
during the present week. The excess in export to Great
Britain is down to 67,000 bales, as compared with last
year. The number of vessels at present loading for Great
Britain is 70; last year, 81 ; year before, 90. To France
the export exceeds that of last year to date, 7,000 bales.
BREADSTUFFS.—The tone of the flour market latterly
has been much depressed, and there is a disposition on
the part of the trade to meet the foreign demand, without,
however, leading to any extensive transactions. Prices
are 64-c. to 12/c. per barrel below the quotations of this
day week, Wheat, with the exception of prime Genesse,
which is wanted for milling, is rather easier to buy. In-
dian corn dull, at a small decline from last week's prices.
PROVISIONS.—Pork is dull. The market is well sup.
plied with beef, and prices are heavy. Lard sells freely,
at 9/c. to 10c. for barrels.
FREIGHTS.—To Europe freights are dull. To Liver-
pool, for cotton, id. to 9.32 d. per lb. ; flour, Is. 9d. to
2s. per barrel; grain, in bulk, sd. to 5/d. per bushel. To
London, flour, ls. 9d. to 2s. per barrel. To Havre,
cotton, c. per lb. _ _

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New ORLEANS, May 21.—The receipts for the week
are 13,500 bales. Excess at this port 239,000 bales ;
excess at all the ports, by table of this date, 258,000
bales. Sales for the week 20,000 bales, closing firmly at
9Ac. to 10c. for middling. Stock 169,000 bales. May 23.
There is a better feeling to-day, and middlings are selling
at 10c. to 10.:c. per lb. The accounts per Africa are con-
strued as favourable.

MOBILE, May 20.—Sales for the week 7,000 bales
Receipts for the week 1,000 bales. Exports 1,600 bales.
Stock 36,000 bales. Middling cotton closing at 9.1 c.
Freight to Liverpool, 7-16 d per lb.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29.—There has been moderate
activity in general business since our last weekly reference
to the market, but without much deviatio❑ from the
prices then ruling. The number of arrivals from sea
during the week has been twenty-eight, of which one was
from Boston, two from Valparaiso, two from China, one
from Australia, one from Sandwich Islands, one from
Liverpool, three from other foreign ports. and seventeen
from Oregon and domestic coast ports. There has been
a fair jobbing business done for the local and interior
trades. The money market was very tight.

THE IRISH MEMBERS OF THE MINISTRY.

The following is a copy of the correspondence which
has taken place between Mr. Monsell, on the part of
himself and his Romanist colleagues in the ministry, and
the Earl of Aberdeen, on the subject of Lord John Rus-
sell's speech on the motion for an Irish Church Revenue
Appropriation Bill :

MR. MONSELL TO LORD ABERDEEN

25, Chapel street, Grosvenor-square, June 2.
My Lord,—l was not present in the House of Commons
on Tuesday night, and only learned from the newspapers
what had passed in the debate.

It appears that in the course of a discussion upon the
ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland, Lord John Russell,
who is the organ of the Government in the House of
Commons, spoke of the Roman Catholic Church in a
manner which could not fail to be most offensive to the
members of that communion. His Lordship described,
not individual members of the Roman Catholic Church,
but that church itself, " under the direction of its head,"
as hostile to free institutions and disloyal to civil govern-
ments, and, therefore, the qualification which his Lord-
ship added to his censure could not apply to any who,
like myself, are in deep and thorough unity of sentiment
and spirit with that church and its head.

No other Minister expressed dissent from the opinions
of his Lordship ; they have, therefore, gone forth as the
opinions of the Government, and of a Government pub-
licly professing such opinions I cannot with honour re-
main a member.

Of the votes given upon the question before the House
I do not complain; but sentiments so thoroughly hostile
to the civil equality of the communion to which I belong
I cannot pass by.

AcknoWledging, therefore, as I am on many accounts
bound to do, the great and consistent liberality of your
Lordship, and of many members of your Government,
and the great personal kindness which I have received at
your hands and theirs, I beg respectfully to tender my
resignation of the office which your Lordship has hitherto
thought me worthy to fill.

ram, my Lord, your obliged and faithful servant,
WILLIAM MONSELL

To the Earl of Aberdeen.