The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

Standard-office, Two o'clock p.m.

THE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-SHIP
PACIFIC.

The United States Mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain
Nye, which left New York on the 14th instant, was tele-
graphed off Holyhead this morning at half-past 10 o'clock.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

The departures for Australia from the port of London
during last week shew a decrease, but the vessels on the
average are of a larger class. Their total capacity was
4,273 tons. The shipments of manufactures and ordinary
merchandize have further diminished, and freights con-
tinue to decline.
AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
—At the Meeting it was stated that the Government had
determined to withdraw the contract, but to abstain from
enforcing a
penalty. A feeling prevailed adverse to a
Junction with the General Screw Company, and it was
agreed to receive the report of the directors, and to ap-
point a Committee to examine the affairs of the company
previously to any final step being adopted.
LONDON
changing Exchequer Bills for Exchequer Bonds terminates
and it may therefore be presumed that
9tnwtll lieb2es
tfhonndst
t.; have led to no result.
PENINSULAR MAn.s.—The steamer Madrid, with the
mails, arrived at Sauthampton at five o'clock this
abovemorning,
She left Gibraltar on the 14th, Cadiz 15th,
Lisboa 19th,
and Oporto and Vigo on the 20th instant.
Brings specie value £2,730, and 27 passengers.

AUSTRALIA.—The Epaminondas has arrived from
Adelaide ; she left on the 21st of January, The amount
of gold brought by this vessel is not positively known,
but reported to be to the value of £170,000.
The Cuthberts, from Sydney, January 13th, brings
6,000 ounces.
PARIS, MONDAY.—The Bourse was steady at the
opening, but towards the close funds declined. Three
per Cents closed 81 15 ' - Four-and-Half per Cents, 103.
No later news from Turkey.
PARIS, TUESDAY.—The Austrian Charge d'Affaires
at Berne has received orders to leave his post forthwith,
and return to Vienna as soon as he has notified the rup-
ture of diplomatic relations between Austria and Switzer-
land.

VIENNA, MAY 16-rx.—There are rumours of another
foreign loan, which the government is about to contract.
MADRID, MAY 18TH.—The political horizon was
never calmer.
Threes, 45g.

HOLLAND.—It is found that the Constitutional
party has lost twelve members, thus giving the present
Ministers a majority.

LONDON STOCK SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY.

NOON QUOTATIONS

THE FMIE/S.—Consols for Aecount, 1004 ; Ditto fcr
Money, 1004 4 4 ; Exchequer Bills L, June, 3 dis., par ;
Three and a Quarter per Cent., 1024 3.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonian, 704 ; East Lanca-
shire, 75 ; Great Western, 903 ; ,Leeds Northern, 163 ;
London and North Western, 118 ; London and South
Western, 90 ; Midland Stock. 743 ; North British, 354 ;
North Staffordshire, 13 124 ; York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick Preference, 9-k.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—TH IS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Great Southern and Western 6 per Cent. Pref.,
8 13-16ths ; London and North-Western, 1184- ; Eighths,
Pm.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
North Western, 81.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Vt e continue to receive very scanty supplies of any
thing either coastwise or from Ireland ; and those from
abroad up to Friday last, were limited in amount; since
then, however, numerous arrivals have entered this port
from the United States, the Black, the Mediterranean,
and Baltic seas, with several from the nearer ports of
Europe and France, containing a very abundant increase
of Wheat, Indian Corn, and Flour ; whilst the exports of
the week have been upon a modeaate scale only.
The Wheat and Flour trade this morning was dull at
Friday's prices. Spring Corn and Oatmeal have an up-
ward tendency, owing to the continued excessive dry
weather, as the crops are now requiring an accession of
moisture. In Indian Corn but little doing, but some few
French cargoes are selling.