The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION.

STANDARD•OFFICE, MAY 23. Two o'cLocK,

LIVERPOOL CORN MARRET.--Tms DAY.

Since Friday the trade here has further improved for
the leading articles of Wheat, Flour, Oatmeal, and Indian
-;ern, in each of which a considerable business has been
t.l'ansaeted ; the country markets, generally, respond to
;_428 amended state of things, but Mark-lane coming quiet
27 telegraph, we closed yesterday with somewhat less
Armness.
New York accounts to the 9th instant report an advance
of 62ac. per barrel on Flour, 10e. to 15c. on Wheat, and
60. per bushel on Indian Corn ; the stocks on the line of
seaboard represented as light, liftle business doing for
SZPert, and no apparent capability of shipments in ally
tln!intity for a month or six weeks; at the same time
r‘eeefs are quoted which leave a decided loss even at our
lately increased cnrrehcies.
Our week's supply is to a fair extent of Wheat, and
Considerable of American Indian Corn and Flour ; of the
last very little is arriving from New Orleans. The exports
of Indian Corn continue upon a large scale, against a more
general and extending Irish demand.
, The market to-day was very quiet, the briskness which
ha prevailed during the last few days having received a.
Check by the advices from Mark-lane. Prices of Wheat
and Flour were not quite so good as yesterday, but were
thigher than on Friday last to the extent of 6d. to ls. per
Darrel on Flour. Jndian Corn was about ls. per quarter
dearer, and Oatmeal ls. per load in advance of Friday's
rites.ln other articles no alteration, and but little
airless doing.
[By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION.

CLOSE OF TIIE POLL.
Smith (Conservative)
Panel, (Liberal)

Majority:tor Smith

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.

TRIESTE, TUESDAY MouNtao.----The steamer Bombay
arrived at 6.30 aan. The India mail arrived at Alexan-
dria on the 18th, with advices from Calcutta to the 20th
111 t., Madras 24th, Shanghai and Hong Kong March 12th,
11ngapore 18th, Bombay 28th April, Sydney March 20th,
Melbourne March 24th, Adelaide March 29th.
The Ganges canal was opened on the Bth of April.
It is asserted that Russia has concluded treaties with
Persia, Bokhara, and Khiva. The articles of treaty be-
?len Russia and Khiva are— the friends and enemies of
the one state are to be the friends and enemies of the
other. Russia will not interfere with the dominions of
the Khan of Khiva. A Russian Ambassador is to reside
4t Khiva. A subsidiary force is to be kept at Khiva of
&MOO horsemen, officered and paid by Russia. Russian,
Persian, Bokbaran, and Affghan slaves now in Khiva, are
to be releaed on payment of their full value. Russia is
to build cantonments, and to maintain a force for twenty
Years within the Khivan frontier. Dost Mahomed de-
mands, as the price of his alliance, 5,000 Russian troops
and the necessary funds to recover Peshawur.
Trade at Calcutta was dull. Exchange 2s. Id.
Exchange at Shanghai ss. 10d Canton ss. 2d.
The patriot army in China is advancing towards Pekin.
„ The Americans have established friendly relations with
i.oe Japanese

AUSTRALIA.
Several large pieces of gold have been dug up at Balla-
nit, and the yield of the gold diggins is increasing.
Business at Sydney was dull, and the markets over-
'locked.
Gold is in advance of the standard price. Prices of
Fool advancing. Tallow had risen 4s. pet. cwt.

THE WAR

The Times' Paris correspondent writes,- -" I am assured
that 80 pieces of artillery, of large calibre and of tremen.
Ilene Power, were to be embarked yesterday and the day
oefore at Toulon and Marseilles ; they are said to be in-
tended for Sebastopol."
It now seems certain that the plan of a combined attack
IrS sea and land on that celebrated fortress and the Cri-
• %lea has been decided upon ; and that, in fact, we may
Zpect to hear, at a short interval from each other, news
of something very important taking place in the Baltic
and Black Sea.
The steamer Dauphin had arrived at Marseilles from
the Levant, and it is said she is the bearer of despatches,
of which nothing has as yet transpired, except that the
news they contain is favourable.
The Times Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the
A„ rephion and Conflict brought into Mesnel eight prizes
'tom Windan and Liebau. He also reports the statement
that Custaesvaern had been taken and destroyed, and
1,600 prisoners made.
St. Petersburg letters of the 16th instant state that the
blockade has been established at Riga. Large quantities
of hemp and flax had meanwhile been shipped off.
Commercial advices from St. Petersburg, of the 15th
instant, say that the two American ships which had
recently arrived, had sailed with cargoes, and two other
foreign vessels had entered, making a total of thirteen
since the opening of the navigation. The merchants were
using active efforts to send away as much produce as pos-
\ale overland, but opinions were greatly divided as to the
quantities which the means of transrort during the season
x'Bl allow of being despatched.
The Times in a leading article expresses strong hopes
Shat the present war will enable this country and its allies
redress the wrongs inflicted by Russia on Sweden, and
'.O restore to the Monarchy provinces indisputably her
own by every tie of history, of race, and of religion, should
Sweden snake common cause with England and France
;tablet Russia, the honour of the latter would be pledged
or her safety hereafter.
ATHENB, MAY 12.—The approach of a French army
there,
announced on the 11th, by some officers who landed
ere, which caused great sensation.
VIENNA. MONDAY EVBNING.—It is credibly related
Nutt when 'the levy of 95,000 men was communicated to
21e representatives of Austria at foreign courts, it was
bded that Austria had not relaxed its mediatorial policy,
.t would always be ready to take further measures for
the re-establishment of peace, if consistent with the honour
tud interest of Austria and the balance of power in
4IAR.
PARIS, MONDAY.—Little doing at the Bourse. Threes
v4ooed at 68.6 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 981.
Genoa letters report the suspension of the mercantile
,4rM of Scaravaglio and Peloso, with liabilities to the ez-
T.ent of about £60,000.

LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—Turs DA:r.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
1.111133 FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 89 ; Ditto for
r,Lenev, 89 8} 9f ; Bank Stock, 205; Exchequer-bills, L,
dis. • Ditto, S 2 um • Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.,
13811, •
RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonians, b6}; Eastern Conn-
"es, 12; ; Great Western, 731 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 60i ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 100};
London and North Western, 96; 6 ; London and South
Western, 7P-, ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
; Midland Stock, 58f ; North British, 31; North
Jaffordshire, 114 ; South Eastern and Dover, 61i
York, Newcatsle, and Berwick, 66 61.
PORTION STOCKS—Russian, 954 6.
NllNEs.—Agua Fria, a
Crystal Palace, 64.
BANNS.—Australian, 784; London Chartered, 20f.

IANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tnis DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 11; South Eastern
Iltd Dover, 18 3-16 5-16.

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Anglesey, from Jamaica ; Kate, from Callao ; Edwin
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Maidstone, from Sydney—at Deal, 23rd instant.

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