The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1853.

Standard Office, Two o'clock, p.m

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
The Times says : " The intelligence of the acceptance
J the Emperor of Russia of the proposals addressed to
mill by the conference of the four Powers at Vienna has been
~e°llfirmed by telegraphic despatches from all the capitals of
Europe. Nevertheless, there is still much that requires
explanation,ex both in the nature of the arrangement and in
extreme rapidity with which the news of it has
reached us from St. Petersburgh. The Times is informed
that the latest despatch from that city is dated the 3rd of
August. It reached Paris and London on the evening of
the 6th, and was published in the Moniteur of the 7th,
but the definitive communication of the Four Powers was
only transmitted from Vienna on the Ist, and unless the
Purport of that communication was already known by the
Russian Cabinet, it seems impossible that an answer to it
should have been received within three days, especially as
the Times is not aware that the Electric Telegraph ex-
tends beyond Warsaw, and all the communications pre-
viously received from St. Petersburgh have been five or
six days on the road. The Times learns, however, that no
doubt of the accuracy of this intelligence is entertained in
the highest quarters, and hopes that the rapidity with
which answer has been received may be taken as a proof
of the eagerness of the Russian Cabinet to extricate itself
from the isolated position in which it has stood since the
imperial army crossed the Pruth. The Times then
alludes to Lord Clarendon's declaration, on Monday night,
that the evacuation of the Principalities is a sine qua non;
and remarking that the events of the last few weeks
cannot fail to have taught Russia a lesson, concludes
by stating that, if her defeat be obtained by a bloodless
victory, this defeat is not the less signal, because it is due
to the moral ascendancy and perseverance of the other
great powers."

The Morning Post says: "The note dated St. Peters-
burg, August 3, cannot possibly be any reply to the pro-
posal which left Vienna on the 2nd,—we cannot expect a
reply to that letter before the 15th. It will probably be
found that the proposition now under conderation at St.
Petersburg, is—That Reschid Pacha shall address a note
to Count Nesselrode, transmitting the famous Firman,
which note shall be borne to St. Petersburg by a Turkish
-Envoy, upon whose arrival the Czar will at once order the
the
com
matter will be plete evacuation of the Danubian Principalities, and
in
an end. In the form of the note
concession is made to the anio r prop 24 of the Emperor
Nicholas but n the substance the independence and in-
tegrity of
roue
mined.hl Turkey are carefully stipulated for, and tho-
' We must, however, await the 15th."
convokedONSTATINOPLE, JULY 25.—A Grand Council was
on the 24th, which was attended by all the civil
war
and religious functionaries. Resolutions of the most
like character were adopted, but they lose all their
importance owing to the fact tht at that da of the conferences at Vienna was not known. to the result
LOMEARDY.—MarshaI Radetzky has forbidden the ex-
portation of corn from Lombardy and Venice.
ODESSA, JULY 29.—Further activity in the wheat
market—purchases for the week fully 110,000 quarters ;
prices are without alteration. 68,000 qrs. Indian corn
also taken. Scarcely a ship was to be had at Odessa or
Constantinople; and, for one on the way for the latter port,
110 s. per ton had been offered to the United Kingdom.
Since the demand for breadstuffs, during the Irish famine
in 1847, there has been no similar state of affairs, and a
reaction must be apprehended.
PARIS, MONDAY.—There was a rise of three francs to-
day at the Bourse on the lowest prices of Saturday.
Three closed, 791; Four and Halves, 104.10.—The Paris
papers considered that the acceptance by Russia of the
propositions from Vienna has put the Eastern question

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in a fair way of settlement, as there cannot be a doubt of
the consent of Turkey. _

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NOON QUOTATIONS,

Tnis DAY

Lancashire and Yorkshire, i 7 ; Leeds Northern, 15i ;
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