The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK,. FEB. 15.
MONEY.—The stock market closed firmly, with a fair
amount of business transacted. The money market is
tight at 54 to 7 per cent.; on first class paper 6 to 7.
Exchange on England was in moderate demand at 110 to
1104 per cent. Bills on France, f. 5.131 to f. 5.121.
COTTON.—The Cotton market is dull and heavy. Sales
600 bales.
(From TV. P. Wright's Circular, of Feb. 15.)
Yesterday we were in possession of Liverpool dates of
the 29th ult., per Niagara, advising a fair business for the
reek, with an advance in price of kd. to 3.161. per lb.
The business in this market during the past week has only
been to a small extent, at irregular prices, closing at a
reduction of 4r.. to ic. from my quotations of Sth instant.
The prices ruling must be considered nominal, as there is
no regular demand, and holders show a desire b reduce
their stocks. The total sales since Tuesday have been
5000 hales. There has been no foreign export of Cotton
during the past week. The receipts at the ports continue
upon an extensive scale ; during the past week they have
been 131,000 bales, against 117,000 bales in the corre-
sponding week last year. Next week they will again be
heavy, and exceed those of the same period last season,
further augmenting the excess, which is now 502,000
bales. The continuance of receipts upon such an enor-

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mous scale has not been without its effect upon the I sh.ot. Threeweeksago,lshot a wild horse, which was eaten
various markets in this country, for, as will be seen by at the mines by 50 diggers, who assisted us in eating it. We
reference to reports, a decline has been submitted to in I intend to remain here about a twelvemonth, and after that
each. The favourable accounts from Liverpool received time I believe we shall all be rich enough for all our born
by the last two steamers are nQt considered as likely to be days. This is g splendid climate, The overap warmth is as

in Denmark, on a bot June day. Generally speaking,'peoPld
here are in good health, but those who have weak CO
suffer much. A man from Hamburg is going about IC
posing upon people, by pretending to sell what be .o,l°
" eye water," at £1 per bottle. He drives a roaring Fader
and it is thought that he will soon have a bullet se a<
through his head. But a man who is careful, and does 111
mix himself up with quarrels, and behaves decently an
keeps on good terms with the people at the mines, no;
here live as peaceably as people do in our country. •
few months there will be an English functionary Col
back to his own country and then I will send you f.sotu•
you may come to Australia. When you get the money
you must come at once, whatever your position at 1103...
may be, for here something worth having is to be made,
that is all !"

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HORRIBLE HOMICIDE AT WABBIKGTON.—OA c
evening of the 3d ultimo, Mr. Edward Fuller was al
to enter the National Hotel ; he was met by James ;
Schaumberg, formerly of the United States Drageo,lll
who, without the exchange of any words, discharged
pistol at Mr. Fuller, wounding him severely in the rift
side. Mr. Fuller immediately retreated into the streP,,',
passing between the hackney carriages, and crossed OW
opposite side of the street, where he fell, and was the!
conveyed into the Waverley House. Physicians sve"
immediately sent for. The wound was pronounced Idleo'clock that evening to be in all probability mortal. .04.,,r"
Fuller was sensible up to that hour, and his family
in attendance upon him. Mr. Schaumberg, upon tri
Fuller's retreating, supposed, as we were informed' tits
his fire had taken no effect, pursued Mr. Fuller I:null:
the other side of the avenue, when, by the interference ,
bystanders and others, and upon the information tkel
Fuller had fallen, he retraced his steps to the hotel? 03`.,,
ascended to his room. He was arrested there shorty,
after by some officers. Much indignation at his condr
was expressed by the crowd who had congregated ate
doors and in the office of the hotel. Schaumberg
committed to jail for further examination, an offer to g"
bail being refused. The immediate cause of this unhappy
event was the appearance of large placards on Mendig
morning posted in the vicinity of all the hotels, head
"James W. Schaumberg a Liar, a Coward, and!,
Swindler," and which contained a statement tending to
show and prove Schaturberg to be guilty of lyiege'
cowardice and swindling, interspersed with many othr
opprobrious epithets. Schaumberg was indebted to gr'
Fuller, and ill-feeling had existed between them for
considerable time ; and whicli*on a former occasion, led
Schaumberg to make a ptzblieation concerning Fuller'
and Fuller to make a personals assault on Schaumberg'
The Bulletin's dispatch says, the ball is supposed to halle
passed through and lodged in the liver. If so, it 0,
mortal. Schaumberg is still in jail, where he was visited
this morning by nearly half the members, of the senate'
who all pledged their will to support him.