The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-04 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 3.

Lori-pos.—On 'Change to-day the business in Produce
was dull : Tallow, 68s. on the spot ; Hemp, nominally
£72, but buyers at £7O ; Saltpetre, 3s. lower-50 tons to
arrive sold at 475. 6d. ; Scotch Pig Iron, 785.; Speltre sold
at £23 ss. ; Native Ceylon Coffee, about 1,500 bags sold
at 445. 6d. to 455.

THE WAR.

(From the Second Edition of the Morning Post.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.—A telegraphic despatch
from Berlin states that the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
arrived yesterday at Berlin, charged with an extraordinary
mission from the Czar to the King of Prussia.
The Chronicle's Paris correspondent writes that it was
believed on Saturday that the French army would be in-
creased by at least 150,000 men ; but nothing is officially
announced.

The Paris Moniteur states that 20,000 men have already
left Paris for the East.
The total number of French troops that have passed by
Malta is 3,514 men and 250 horses.
The number of English troops already arrived at Malta
is 422 officers and 11,577 non-commissioned officers and
privates.

The Inflexible was transporting Turkish troops to
Varna.

In Russia a second levy of one per cent. is• expected in
August. About 80,000 men from the reserves, and those
partially invalided, will, it is believed, also take the field.
The Divan at Teheran has formally announced the neu-
trality of Persia.
The report that the Russian fleet had left Sebastopol:is•
stated to be unfounded.

The state of trade last week in France is reported to be
very gloomy.
(From the Second Edition of the Times)

MALTA, MARCH 31sT.—The Rifle Brigade and, the 4th
Regt. embarked to-day on board the Golden Fleece, for'
Gallipoli. The 9th on board the Georgian, and detach-
ments of the 28th, 41st, and 49th, and the Ist company of
Sappers and Miners, on board the Cape of Good Hope,
have sailed for the same destination. Major-General Sir
G. Brown arrived on the 28th, and sails on the 31st for
Gallipoli,. The Caradoc has arrived from Constantinople
with Sir John Burgoyne, and leaves for Marseilles. The
combined fleets are to leave the Bosphorous on. the 24th
for Varna.

(From Me Second Edition of the Morning Chronicled
MALTA, MARCH 30.—The whole of the combined fleets
entered the Black Sea on the 24th ; their destination is
supposed. to be Varna. Coal is scarce.

GREECE.—The king and queen have left Athens for
the frontier.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—Tins DAY.

GRANBY HANDICAP.-5 to 4 on Bourton.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst Defiance, t.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-3 to 1 agst Royalist, t ;
6 to 1 agst Jonathan Martin ; 10 to 1 agst Annie Suther-
land; off; 10 to 1 agst Muscovite, off ; 18 to 1 agst Vingt-
un ; 12 to 1 agst Ariosto, t ; 20 to 1 agst Hunca Munca,
t ; 26t0 1 agst Shakspeare.
Ct(ET AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.-6 to 1 agst Orestes ;
101to.1 each agst Novice and Lysca.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.-4 to 1 each agst Roby and
Borendo, both t ; 7 to 1 agst Champagne, t.
CirEsTER Cur.-33 to 1 agst Duchess.of Lorraine, t.
DERBY.-6 to 1 agst Autocrat, t;8 to 1 agst Dervish,
off ;- 30 to 1 agst Acrobat, t ; 33 to 1 agst Andover, t ; 40
to It agst Papageus, t.