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

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.—The popularity of the Emperor has increased
with the difficulties of his position. On his first public
appearance after the arrival of the Russian courier, on
Tuesday, he was much cheered.—The ball at the Tuileries
on Monday was very brilliantly attended. Between 3,000
and 4,000 persons were present, and the number of foreign
uniforms was considerable. Among the English officers
was Lord Gough. The members of the diplomatic corps,
including M. de Bisseleff, the Russian Ambassador, were
present. The Emperor conversed some time with M. de
ICisseleff. The ball was opened by the Emperor and
Empress, his Majesty dancing with Lady Cowley, and the
Empress with Lord Cowley.—The Paris Moniteur pub-
lishes a report, addressed by the Finance Minister to the
Emperor, giving a financial account of 1853. It shows
that, though the budget of that year had been voted with
a deficit of 34,000,000 f., and that it had, moreover, since
opened a supplementary credit of 64,000,000 E, by which
the deficit was apparently increased to 98,000,000 f ? still,
by cancelling credits to the extent of about 20,000,000 E,
and by the excess of revenue of 74,000,000., this deficit of
98,000,000 f. will be reduced to one of 4,000,000 f. The
budget of 1855, which is at this moment under the
examination of the State Council, will leave no deficit.—
The Empress Eugenie having been prescribed exercise, she
had a pair of skates made fitted with wheels,, and on these
she skims the polished floors of the salons in the Tuileries.

Spine.--The Gens. Manuel de la Concha and O'Donnell
have been exiled to the Canaries, Gen. Jose Concha to the
Balearic Islands, and General Armero to Leon. This was
known on the 18th ; and it was to the general astonish-
ment that the next day's Gazette was silent on the sub-
ject. Some supposed that the government hesitated;
others, that they waited to see banished generals fairly
out of Spain ; and others, again, that there was a screw
loose in the Ministry, and a new crisis. The resignation.
of several officers had also been accepted. The Minister
of Justice had been removed, and the Minister of Finance
placed in his stead. M. Zaragoza had been replaced as
Governor of Madrid by M. Quinto. On the 19th the
other political arrests were spoken of. It was said that
Baron de Meer will be dismissed from the Presidency of
the Supreme Court of War and Marine for his hostile vote
in the senate. It is also reported that General Lersundi
will be sent away. Advices from Cadiz state that the
British brig Brothers, from Bristol, and the Russian brig
Juno, from Liverpool, both laden with iron rails for
Genoa, had been wrecked on the coast of Conil.
AusrßrA.—Forty thousand troops (Austrian), under
Lieut. Field Marshal Clam Gallas, have been ordered to
Hungary forthwith:
RUSSIA.—The excitement in St. Petersburg, when it
became known that the Western Powers had taken com-
mand of the Black Sea, to the exclusion of the Russian
flag, was, as may be supposed, exceedingly great. Letters
from St. Petersburg say The armaments throughout
the whole Empire surpass all belief. The organization of
all the reserve battalions has been ordered. The Cologne
Gazette has the following from St Petersburg, of the
17th :—" In addition to the order given to the persons
belonging to the army who had obtained leave of absence
to immediately join their corps, an Imperial ukase directs
all sailors to return by March 15th to the vessels of the
Baltic fleet, in the ports of Cronstadt, Revel, and Swer-
borg. A special order concerning the distribution of the
vessels of the fleet is to be published by the Grand Duke
Constantine." We learn from Warsaw, under date of
the 20th, that the Ist corps d'artnie of infantry, com-
manded by General Paniutin, received on the 6th orders
to hold itself in readiness to leave. The army of occupa-
tion of the kingdom of Poland is at present 43,000 strong ;
and the garrisons are occupied by an additional force of
24,000 men.
GIBBALTIB.—We have accounts to the 16th inst. The
screw-steamer British Queen, seven days from Liverpool,
arrived on the 13th, and proceeded to Constantinople on
the 14th. The Astrologer, from the Levant, arrived on
the 14th, and sailed for Liverpool on the 15th. The British
bark Cockerilos, bound to Cork, put into Gibraltar on the
12th to repair damages sustained in a heavy gale off Cape
St. Vincent. A French frigate in tow of a steamer passed
the Straits of Gibraltar on the 14th to the westward. The
screw steamer Arabian, seven days from Malta, arrived on
the 14th and cleared for Liverpool. The Melita, from the
Levant, arrived on the 15th, and left on the 16th for
Liverpool. She had been in contact with the schooner
Tiphyo off Jersey. At Gibraltar exchange on London was
quoted 51k, Spanish pillared dollars 4 per cent. premium.
EAST INnfEs.—Papers from Bombay to the 29th of Dec
have been received. Advices from Burmah to the 3d
ult. state that, for some days previously, rumours were
afloat of a conspiracy having been detected at Rangoon. It
was, says the Bombay Times, determined that, at the full
or the moon, (22d tdt.,) 500 men, armed with knives, were
to mix with the large mass of worshippers who, at that pe-
riod, visit the Pagoda, which, in our possession, serves the
double purpose of a fortress and place of worship. They
Were to seize upon the fortress, overcome the garrison, and
fire a gun as the signal of success, upon which their fel-
low-conspirators were to fire the commissariat godown,
and, taking advantage of the confusion which the confla-
gration would cause, massacre the troops, and plunder the
city ; but information was given to the authorities, and,
on the day of the expected outbreak, fifty men of H.M.
80th Regiment, and a company of the 9th Madras Native
Infantry embarked on board the steamer Nemesis, with
the avowed intention of attacking some dacoits, but as
soon as darkness came on they disembarked, and pro-
ceeded suietly to occupy the commissariat godown. The
different guards were all doubled, artillery were posted, a
double supply of ammunition was served out, the muskets
of all the soldiers were loaded, and everything put in rea-
diness ; but these preparations seemed to alarm the con-
spirators, for the expected outbreak did not occur. The
next morning eighty men of the 80th marched to Kern-
mendine, and took seven prisoners and some stands of
arms. It is said that a governor for Rangoon, in case of
the success of the outbreak, had been sent from Ava, but
that he decamped on hearing of the plot being detected,
and that his robes of office were found in the Bazaar. Some
people appear to despise this conspiracy, but the extensive
preparations which the Government made for the occasion
tend to prove that there was cause for alarm. The Gover-
nor-General left Calcutta for Pegu on the 9th inst., intend-
ing to return about the 18th proximo. The health of Sir
John Cheape, who commands the forces in Burmah, is
very precarious ' • while suffering from illness, he fell from
a window and fractured his collar-bone. Accounts have
reached us of the murder of Naib Mahomed loosen, for
many years the confidential adviser of Nusseer Khan,
Meer of Khelat. It is also alleged that Dost Mahomed, of
Kabool, is encamped at Candahar, with a large army. It
is not known for what purpose he has left the seat of his
government. A large body of Persian troops have marched
from Shirax to Bushire, which port has been blockaded by
the Hon. Company's sloop Clive. The Rajah of Nagpore
died on the 11th without natural heirs ; and, as the British
Government had steadily refused to allow him to adopt a
successor, the whole of the magnificent valley of Berar
lapses into the possession of the paramount authority.
The ship Alfred struck on a reef ahont thirty miles north
of Bimlipatam. She was got off, and her commander let
her drift down opposite Bimlipatam ; the troops and pas-
sengers were all disembarked. During the absence of
Lord Dalhousie in Burmah, the Hon. Joseph Alexander
Dorin, first ordinary member of the Council of India, has
been nominated President of the Council and Governor of
Bengal. Lord Elphinstone, our new Governor, reached
our shores on the evening of the 25th, and assumed the
reins of office the next day. The ex-Governor, Lord Falk-
land, returns home by the present mail.
WEST INDIES ...The Medway arrived at Southampton
on Friday, with advices from St. Thomas to the 7th inst:
The yellow fever was again commencing at St. Thomas',
and that island. with some of the surrounding smaller
islands, was likewise being frightfully ravaged by cholera.
Up to the sailing of the Medway, 791 deaths had occurred
in St. Thomas' alone. The proposed removal of troops
from several of the West India islands was creating great
dissatisfaction, and in some places considerable alarm
among the inhabitants.
CHINA.-There has been no very reliable intelligence
about the progress of the rebels since last dispatch of the
mail. A report, however, was brought from Shanghai by
the Lady Mary Wood, that, after being defeated by the
imperialists at Sinchow, in Pecheelee, the insurgent army
continued to advance, and had at the end of October
reached Jinkew, about sixty miles from Pekin. Pekin is
presumed to be well garrisoned, and its stores of rice are
sufficient for three years' consumption. Of other provinces
we learn that Kiangsi and Ngan-hwui are now quiet, mat-
ters proceeding in their usual course, as if they had never
been infested by rebels, who, that is, bands claiming to
belong to the Nanking body, are now committing ravages
in Hupih; their object, according to the accounts we have
received, being mainly plunder, They came near without
entering the capital of the province, but set fire to a city
to the west of it. About 300 of the orderly inhabitants
have been recently slain by the rebels ; and about 100 of
their spies have been taken and put to death by the impe-
rial troops since their arrival. _

AUSTRALIA.—The Hurricane arrived at Portsmouth on
Tuesday, with advices from Melbourne to the 3rd Nov.,
and 64,000 ounces in gold on freight. The Great Britain
had arrived out in 65 days. During the greater part of the
passage she had contrary winds. The letters and papers
from Port Philip reach to the end of October, and are
about a fortnight later than those previously received.
Their contents are satisfactory, both as regards the supply
of gold, which was coming in freely from the mines, and
the general state of the import markets, prices in a large
majority of cases being still remunerative. As regards
colonial produce, wool was ls. 4(1. to Is. Bd., but tallow
was not offered, the prospects of war between England and
Russia having already exercised a considerable influence.
The quotation for gold was 765. 6d. Flour was £3O per
ton, and oats 9s. to lls. per bushel. The anticipated
increase in the duty on spirits had not yet taken place.
The last advices from England had been brought by the
Great Britain, which had made the passage in sixty-five
days, but the number of letters was not large. She was
to sail on her return passage on the 3rd of December,
and may, therefore, perhaps be expected in the course of a
fortnight. The mismanagement of the ocean postal ser-
vice by the home authorities was still an angry topic with
all classes. The steamer Cleopatra cleared out from Ade-
laide on the 16th October, for Liverpool, with 18,829
ounces of gold and 346 tons of copper on board. From
Van Diemen's Land by this arrival the dates are to the
1941.9 f October, A subscription list had been filled for
£IO,OOG as a reward to any person who should discover an
attractive gold field. The Fingal deposits still yielded
amotugs, but what was wanted was a field that
might comp* with those of Victoria.