The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

MAR KE TS.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 27.—The market for beef is very firm.
and the saleszre to an average extent. The price at which
the supplemental government navy contract was taken yes-
terday is higher than in October by about 23s per tierce.
Pork is in moderate request, at .tteady prices. Au advance
of about 27s perftierce has been paid by the government for
their supplemental naval contract. The demand for bacon
continues to improve, but holders -meet buyers freely, hence
prices remain without alteration. The stock of lard is light,
-the transactions in consequence on the spot have been trifling,
-but to arrive several sales are reported, at 55s to 565. Cheese
sells readily, and when fine, extreme prices are made.

JAN. 30.—The butter market was .quiet, and only a limited
business was transacted last week:; the weather having be-
come mild has caused buyers to act with caution. Holders
are, however, tolerably firm, and bo alteration can be made
in the quotations. Waterford, Carrick, and Clonmel, 100 s to
104 s; :Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wexford, 1001 to 103 a; Belfast,
98s to 1015; Sligo, 96s to 20s; Limerick, S6s to 99s ; and
pickled .Cork 2nds, 97s per cwt. landed. Imported from
Ireland, from the 21st Januiry to the 27th January, 6826
firkins, 10 kegs, 238 crocks, 232 boxes, 237 barrels butter;
131 bales bacon; 5 hhds 17 tierces hams; 3 tierces 210 kegs
lard.

ST. J o rites 'MARKET.—Prices eurrent in this market :
Beef 1p• lb Os 5d toos7id;Peas
Mutton ...... 0 6 0 8 Peaches
Veal
Lamb, per qr.., 9 0 —2O 0 ,Melons 0 0— 0 0
Fresh Pork.... 0 6#— 0 0 Apricots
Cod Fish E 0— 0 0 Filberts 2 6 0 0
Bret
Haddock 0 5 0 0' Dato.Foreign 1 0— 1 6
Soles 0 3 0 6 Pines,For.cach. 0 0— 0 0
Salmon 3 0— 0 0' Do. Log 6 0— 0 0
Turbot 2 0— 0 0 Fowla,vcotsple. 2 8— 3 2
Fresh Butter 1 2 1 4 Ducks
Salt Ditto 0 10 1 1 Geese .... each 3 6 5 9
Lobsters .. each 2 0 -- 0 0 Turkeys
Eggs ..., v 124 10 0— 0 0 Hares
Potatoes.vpeck 1 3 L 7 Itabbits,v.cple. 1 10 2 0
Cucumbers each 1 0— 1 3 Grouse...., 0 0— 0 0
Damsons 0 0— 0 0 Partridges ~.. 3 0— 0 0
LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL If AMT.—Prices on Saturday :
Hay, old, *at 0a 7d @ 0811 'Potatoes, a. A. a. (1.
New 0 0— 0 0 Kemps 5 0— 5 6
Clover 0 7 0 9 Pink Eyes .. 5 2 0 0
Ditto, Green 0 0— 0 0 Cattle
Vetches
Straw, Wheat 0 4i— 0 sl,Carrots 32 0— 40 0
Oat
Barley

LIVERPOOL SHIPPING.

TUESDAY, JAN. 24.—Wind W., fresh.

ARRlVED.—Tuscarora,Tnrley,froinPhiladelphia—Auzusto
Stanablood, and Blondine, Daniel, Prince Edward's Island—
Sin Nombre, Logana,Seville—Brinante, Santander—Buoyant,
St:Thomas—Commodore (s.), Havre—Mnndagnes, Matanzas
—Eclipse, Ostend—Telesford, Euchezuria, and Prudencia,
Velasco, Bilboa—Alexander, Strang, St. John, N.B.

Victoria, at San Juan.
Narragansett, hence off Baltimore.
Arm Rose, Duncan, and David Brown, Bell, hence at ditto.
Susan G. Owens, hence at Charleston.
Columbine. Henderson, from Cardiff at Panama.
Roxburgh Castle, from Melbourne at Dcal, Jan. 24.
Stephen Glover, and Monsoon, hence at Boston.
Protection, of Plymouth, was wrecked near Figueira.
Keystone State, Hardie, and Arabia, Forrest, hence at
Savannah.

Stamboul, Smith, and Fitzjames, Hoyt, hence at N. Orleans.
WATERFORD, JAN. 21.- The Appleton, M`Donald, from
Mauritius, put in here to-day. She struck several times
above and below Creaden Head, but without apparent da-
mage, and had to run ashore on Ballyhach mud, in conse-
quence of her chain cables not being attached to the anchors.
She still remains aground.
NEW YORK, JAN. 10.—The Ella A. Clark, from New Orleans
for Liverpool, with cotton, has put in here in distress, leaky,
and, strained.—The Athens, from New York for Liverpool,
went ashore, 6th instant, on Nantucket Shoals : crew muti-
nous, and had deserted. She was got off on the 9th, and
taken into Sandy Point, Monomoy.—The Albean, from Bristol
for Norfolk, Va., went ashore in a snowstorm, Jan. 7, near
Cape Henry.—The Constitution, supposed to be from New
York for Havre, was passed, abandoned, by the Bellona.—
The Jenny Lind, which got ashore on Rialto Cove, when leav-
ing San Francisco, Dec. 12, has been sold.