The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.—The reception of the Prince de Chimay by
the Emperor has attracted some notice. The mission of
the Prince was to deliver a private note to the King of the
Belgians. It seems natural to connect this act of confi-
dence with the question now agitating Europe, and specu-
lations are indulged as to the probability of an Envoy of
equal rank being sent by Louis Napoleon, with a friendly
response to the son-in-law of Louis Philippe.
SPAIN.—A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, of the
sth instant states that on that day the Queen of Spain
gave birth to a daughter, and that both her Majesty and
the young princess were doing well. A telegraphic de-
spatch from Madrid, of the Bth inst., announces the death
of the new-born princess after a day's illness. This is re-
markable, AS•previons official despatches spoke of the child
as being of particularly healthy constitution.
PORTUGAL.—The Cortes were opened, in person, by the
King Regent, on the 2nd instant. Both houses have since
appointed pure ministerial committees to draw up replies
to the speech from the throne. M. Julio Gomes has been
reinstated as President of the House of Deputies by the
votes of the whole House, and the King Regent's con-
firmation ; and all the vice-presidents, secretaries, &c.,
are favourable to the Administration. Prince Leopold of
Saxe Coburg Gotha arrived by the last packet on a visit
to his brother, the King Regent, and is expected to pro-
ceed to Cadiz and Saville in the course of a few weeks.
There is no kind of foundation for the reports indus-
triously spread as to the probability of a change of
government or reaction in this country, which has,
apparently, every chance of a season of tranquillity. It
is stated that the young king is about to marry his
Coburg cousin, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium.
AUSTRIA.—The rumours of an intention on the part o;
the Emperor to visit Warsaw are still current at Vienna.
The acceptance by the Porte of the proposals of the Four
Powers reached Vienna on the 11th, and a courier was
despatched the next day (Thursday) for St. Petersburg,
where he is expected to arrive on the 18th.
SWEDEN.—A communication from Stockholm of the
20th ult. states that a commission of officers and engineers
had just left the capital to visit the different parts of the
coast, and to put all the military points in a state of de-
fence. The country every day declares itself more and
more against Russian policy, and has decided on making
its neutrality respected by force of arms in the event of
such a measure being provoked.
GIBRALTAR.—By the City of London steamer, arrived
at Southampton, we have accounts to the 2d inst. The
Gibraltar Chronicle of the 28th ult. contains the par-
ticulars of a disastrous accident which occurred at Malaga
on the 23rd ult. The roof of the barracks in the Plaza
de la Merced gave way and sunk down to the ground
floor through second and first stories. Two companies
and all the musicians of the corps were quartered in the
building, all of whom were buried in the ruins. When
the correspondent wrote, twenty-four persons, dead or
severely wounded, had been taken out, and it was appre-
hended that most of the others had perished. At the
early hour at which the accident happened it was very
dark, and it rained as fast as it could. The greatest con-
fusion prevailed, and the loud lamentations of the victims'
families, who hastened to the spot, greatly increased the
horror of the calamitous scene.—The screw steam-ship
Danube, five days and two hours from Liverpool, arrived
at Gibraltar on the 28th ult., and proceeded to Trieste.
The steamers Gregois, Frankfort, and Taurus left on the
night of the 27th ult. The last steamer arrived on the
27th, in seven days from Liverpool, bound to Malta, &c.
The screw-steamer Arno, five days and a half from Liver-
pool, arrived on the 29th ult., bound for Genoa. The
screw-steamer Genova left on the 28th ult., for Liverpool,
but put back in a damaged state, having run into and
sank the Spanish polacca brigantine Patriots, from Ferrol,
bound to Malaga, with a cargo of fish. The French war-
steamer Monteumza, four days from Toulon, arrived on
the 28th ult. Her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius was in
Gibraltar Bay when the City of London left.
RrSSIA.—It appears that, among the frigates riding at
anchor, in the Turkish fleet destroyed by the Russians at
Sinope, was a vessel belonging to the Pacha of Egypt,
officered by three English engineers and two English
stokers; this frigate was captured, and the engineers and
stokers, together with a great number of the crew, were
made prisoners by the Russians. They were taken to
Sebastopol, and thence transported to Odessa. Although
the engineers wore the uniform of officers, they were
treated as common Russian sailors, being kept in strict
confinement, with the allowance of 8i copecks silver, or
3d. per diem. On their arrival at Odessa the Consul-
General represented the facts to the authorities there, and
required that the chief engineer, at least, should be
treated as an officer and a gentleman, but to all his remon-
strances the authorities turned a deaf ear, and it was said
that all the prisoners were to be marched eighty miles into
the interior on foot. The Consul-General has reported
this case to our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, whose
remonstrances have been most energetic, but have met
with as little respect as those of the Consul-General.
WEST INDIES.—The West India mail arrived at South-
ampton on Sunday. Her dates are :—Jamaica, Dec. 26th ;
Trinidad, 24th; Barbados, 27th; St. Thomas's, 31st. She
has 47 emigrants, and on freight, $99,027 gold dust,
$452,353 silver, and $197,724 specie and usual freight.
The Atlas, from Liverpool, with emigrants, had been
towed into St. Thomas's, entirely dismasted, and forty-
seven of the emigrants had died of cholera. Cholera still
raged at St. Thomas's. Nothing of political interest had
occurred at Jamaica. In the markets no sales of import-
ance had taken place. Corn cheaper. Freights wanted.
Exchange, 90 days, per cent. prem. ;60 days, 1 per cent.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship America, Captain Lang, which arrived yesterday, we
have intelligence from New York to the 3d, and Boston
to the 4th instant.

The America has brought $145,433 specie on freight,
and 52 passengers.
PABSENGEBS.—Mrs. Hodge, Mr. George Beattie, Mr.
James Acshe, Mr. Heron, Mrs. Jas. Patton, Mr. rlntere,
Mr. Stephen, Mr. Pillsbury, Mr. Phiblerick, Mr. E. Mon-
seau, Mr. A. Tellier, Mr. L. Marchand and friend, Mr. A.
Duncan, Mr. James Douglas, Mr. A. Levesque, Mr. J.
Brunea, Mr. L. Bowan, Mr. Aglsvey and friend, Mr. F.
Lelands, Mr. Davies and friend, Mr. A. Kotte,Mr. Hobson
and lady, Mr. L. Lewis, Mr. H. Sevin, Mr. Thomas Shaw,
Mr. F. Claxton, Mr. J. Cord, Mr. John Durhan, Mr. J. C.
Collins, Mr. G. M. Fairchild, Mr. I.C. Smith, Mr. Stevenson,
Mr. Watkins, Mr. Stewart, Mr. De Vries, R.N., Mr. Allro
and lady, Mr. Combs, Mr. Murray, Mr. John Kendy, Mr.
Hooper, Mr. Alsop, Mr. Hepburn, Mr. Longmeade, Mr.
Muir, Mr. Steirs, Mr. Munroe, Mr. Baird, Mr. Slater, Mr.
Rodgerson, Capt. Hindmarsh.
The steam-ship Africa, from Liverpool, with advices to
the 17th December, arrived out at New York on the 30th
of the same month.

The screw-steamer Alps, from this port, arrived out at
Boston on the morning of the 30th December, after a
passage of fifteen days and a half.

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.

The American packet-ship Staffordshire, Captain Richard-
son, which left Liverpool for Boston on the 9th of Decem-
ber, was wrecked on Blonde Rock, south of Sea Island, on
the 30th ult. The first and second mates and "seventeen
seamen reached Cape Sable. The third mate, boatswain,
and twelve others were picked up and landed at Shelburne,
N.S. Captain Richardson and the remainder, about one
hundred and eighty persons, went down in the wreck im-
mediately after striking. The Staffordshire was built by
M`Kay, in June, 1851, for Enoch Train and Co.'s line of
Liverpool and Boston packets. She was a noble ship of
1,817 tons, and one of the finest vessels of the line. The
loss to the underwriters will be heavy. The number of
passengers on board was 146, children included, all of
whom were lost.
The Staffordshire is said to be insured for between
$90,000 and $lOO,OOO, in Boston and New York. Her
cargo was very large, and is estimated to be worth over
$300,000. A large portion of it was on Canadian ac-
count, and was probably insured in England.
The new clipper-ship Lightning, for Messrs. J. Baines
and Co.'s Black Ball Line of Australian packets, was suc-
cessfully launched at Boston on the 31st ult. She regis-
ters 2,200 tons, and will be commanded by Captain Forbes,
late of the Marco Polo.

By the latest advices ffom Boston we have accounts of
the deplorable sufferings of mariners during a recent
storm in the east. A large number of vessels had been
either wrecked completely or else dismasted and driven
ashore. The most melancholy portion of this sad intelli-
gence is that a great number of lives were known to have
been lost, and it was believed that some vessels had gone
down with all on board.

The United States Senate had appointed a Special Com-
mittee for the purpose of enquiring into and reporting
upon the cause of the great mortality on board emigrant
vessels.

The general proceedings in Congress had not been of
an important character. In the House the greater part
of the time had been consumed in presenting bills grant-
ing land by the whOlesale for railroad and other purposes.
The Committee on Ways and Means had reported bills
for the support of the army and navy, and for the trans-
portation of the mails in ocean steamers for the ensuing
fiscal year. A bill had been introduced by Mr. Bennett,
renewing his proposition made to the last Congress, to
grant lands to all the States for the construction of rail-
roads and the support of common schools.
The Captain-general of Cuba has issued a decree de-
claring his determination to suppress' the slave trade, but
authorising, as a substitute, the introduction into the
island of free Indian labourers, Asiatics or Spaniards.
The winter had thoroughly set in throughout the States.
A letter, dated Halifax, 3rd instant, says, " A violent
gale prevailed here on the 22nd ult., and morning of the
23rd, sinking and destroying a number of vessels at the
wharves in the harbour. The loss is computed at £20,000.
On the 26th, arrived the steamer Merlin, from New York,
with loss of boats. Sawa large ship southwest of Sambro,
dismasted, her deck being even with the water."
At Venezuela yellow-fever prevailed with great fatality
among the shipping. The new crop of coffee was more
than usually abundant. Sales were made at 11fc. Hides,
14c. per lb.
The Lake Woollen Mills at Ellington had been des-
troyed by fire.
The California had arrived at New Orleans with advices
from San Francisco to the 6th and 1,167,000 dlrs, in specie
and freight. Mining accounts were favourable. The Utah
Indians were committing depredations on the southern
parts of the state. The market, since the sailing of the
last steamer, had been quite active, and purchases for the
interior quite heavy; Rates generally remained unchanged.
Rio Coffee was jobbing at 25c. All descriptions of eastern
lumber were dull, and prices were drooping. The steamer
Illinois, with the mails and treasure, had sailed for New
York on the evening of the 26th. She had 1,250,000 dlrs.
in gold.
We have two weeks' later intelligence from New Mexico
There was some excitement at Santa Fe in relation to
various lawless acts committed by citizens of Mexico, and
the people were calling loudly for the settlement of the
Messila Valley boundary. An affray had occured at Santa
Fe, during which a much respected citizen of the place had
been shot by a desperate fellow.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JAN. 3.
STOCKS AND MONEY.—Stocks are firm, with a strong
tendency upwards ; New York Central 931 ; Michigan
Southern Bonds 97f ; Nicaragua Transit Co. 28 ; Reading
79k; Erie 79;. 'Money is easy and in geed demand, at