The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-27 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Despatches from Constantinople to the 15th, state that
the treaty between Austria and the Porte, stipulating the
eventual occupation of the Principalities by the former,
had just been signed.
The reasons of the late change in the Turkish ministry
are now fully understood. It appears that if Reschid
Pacha retires from the Foreign Office, it is solely on ac-
count of ill health and domestic afflictions, which incapa-
citate him for the routine of official duty. He remains,
however, at the council, and wholly directs the department
of foreign affairs, where Chekib Effendi is his deputy, and
not his substitute.
INDIA AND CHINA.

The steamer Bombay, Captain A. Olovisch, arrived at
Trieste, from Alexandria, at 51 a.m., on Saturday, in 111
hours. .ALEXANDRIA June 19.
,

The Candia leaves this day, with advices from Calcutta,
16th May ; Madras, 21st ; Hong Kong, 6th ; Singapore,
15th ; Penang, 18th ; Galle, 26th ; Bombay, 23rd ; Bur-
mah, 3rd.

The electric telegraph between Bombay and Calcutta
is completed.

On the 23rd of April a hurricane in Pegn caused much
loss of life and property.
Serious riots by Chinese have occurred at Singapore.
Exchange.—Shanghai, 68 ; Canton, 52.
AUSTRALIA.

The ship Prince of the Seas, 1450 tons, Captain Brown,
laden with wool and timber, was off the Lizard on Friday,
and landed a mail at Penzance. She has 20 cabin and 30
steerage passengers, and sailed from Sydney on the 25th
March, three days after the departure of the steam-ship
Chusan. Her passengers report that business was not
brisk at Sydney. Governor Fitzroy and suite were at
Port Curtis, to open that new settlement for the embarka-
tion of produce, where land had already been making a
high price, as much as £3OO having been given for small
water frontages. Labour is in great demand, especially
for agricultural purposes, and the settlement of respectable
families is much retarded through the deficiency of good
domestic servants. Labourers' wages, 10s. per day ;
painters' wages have recently risen from 12s. 6d. to 155.;
carpenters, 20s. and 255. ; stonemasons', 30s. • seamen, £9
to £lO per month. Those on board the Prince of the
Seas will receive £5O for the run to England. Some fears
are entertained of the safety of the colonies from attack
by the Russians. It is calculated that the banks hold
nearly £5,000,000 in specie.
The Nile was loading wool, and would leave Sydney
about the 7th of April.
The steam-ship Golden Age, running between Port
Philip and Sydney, had accomplished one passage in 40
hours. The Crcesus was hourly expected.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship Asia, Captain Lott, which reached here on Sunday,
we have intelligence from New York to the 14th instant.
The Asia left New York, at noon, on the 14th, and
arrived in the Mersey at 8 20, a.m., on Sunday morning,
after a run of about ten days and-a-alf. She brought 154
passengers, and $767,972 in specie on freight.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, Captain Harrison,
arrived at New York at nine, p.m. on the 13th, after a
passage of ten days and-a-half. The United States Mail
Steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived, hence, at New
York, at nine, p.m., on the 11th instant.

The brig Sayman had arrived at Portland, and reported
as follows :—"'On the 6th instant, lat. 37, lon. 70, 10, a.m.,
discovered, at considerable distance to leeward, what
appeared to be a steam-ship ; at 5, p.m., she was again
seen ; she looked like one of the Liverpool steamers, and
appeared to be abandoned; they bore down for her, but
the wind soon died away, and the fog shut down thick,
when they lost sight of her ; she was not to be seen the
next morning. Captain P. thinks it was the City of
Glasgow, but was not near enough to ascertain with
certainty."
Official despatches have been received at the Navy
Department, from Commodore Perry, confirming the
intelligence of the opening of the Japanese ports at a
future day.
A clergyman bad been arrested at Boston charged with
being engaged in the recent fugitive slave riot.
Rumours were beginning to prevail of the intention of
the Slave States to dissolve the Union.

The steam-ship, William Norris, recently launched at
New York, was to be put on the California line. This
vessel was constructed to run to. Europe in six days.
Captain Cornish, of the British ship Mohongo, had been
presented with a silver speaking-trumpet, for his kindness
towards the shipwrecked crew of the American ship Argo,
in April last.
President Pierce and several officials had been hung in
effigy at Westfield, Mass., by the Abolitionists. During
the ceremony. the church bells were tolled. The judge of
the Wisconsin Supreme Court had declared the Fugitive
Slave Law unconstitutional, and refused to convict.
Advices from Havana, to the Bth instant, mention that
it was rumoured in Havana, but not generally credited,
that the Spanish steamer Guadalquiver had an action with
two schooners off St. Jago de Cuba, which she captured
and carried into that port. All was quiet in Havana.
Preparations to resist an invasion continued to be made.
The steamship Orazaba had arrived at New Orleans
with advices from the City of Mexico to the sth. It is
reported that the Gadsden treaty had not been accepted
by Santa Anna, but returned to Washington with exten-
sive amendments. The British ship Challenge arrived at
Guayamas on the 24th May, from San Francisco, with the
380 men, mostly French, recently enlisted by the Mexican
Consul at San Francisco. A tremendous hurricane oc-
curred in the city of Mexico on the 19th ult., doing con-
siderable damage. A destructive hurricane had also been
experienced at San Luis Potosi.
Letters from Porto Rico, of the 27th May, state that
the gettting in of the crop was greatly retarded by heavy
rains. Freights to England £5 per ton.