The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-30 00:00:00

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

THE WAR.
The Chronicle's correspondent, under date Constanti-
nople, May 20, states that the Agamemnon and Charle-
magne, and several other ships of the allied fleets, arrived
off Kaffa-in the Crimea on the 10th, and demanded the
delivery of the Russian ships, amongst them two frigates,
and, upon oe that harbour for two dayg.
Other accounts sate that the town and harbour of Kaffa
were destroyed.
VIENNA, MONDAY.—The adhesion o the Germanic
Confederation to the Austro-Prussian trty is secured.
A committee has been appointed by the Frankfort Diet to
prepare the documents of adhesion.
Silistria was still in Turkish hands on the 25th.

THE GREEK INSURRECTION.
The Paris Moniteur of Monday says that government
has received very satisfactory news from Epirus and Mace-
donia. In Epirus all the villages coerced into insurrection
had submitted to Fuad Effendi.
The St. Petersburg Naval Gazette says that on tip
12th April the corvette Ariadne, 12 guns, and the brig
Orphei, 6 guns, were, by order of the Russian Ambassador
at Vienna, given as a present to the Greek government,
with everything on board.
It is stated at Berlin that the English and French
envoys in that capital have notified to the Austrian and
Prussian governments that the English and French
troops will occupy Greece, in order to preserve the throne
for King Otho and the Bavarian dynasty. The same
notification has been made to the Bavarian government.
The French division under General Forey will not go to
Greece, but proceed straight to Constantinople. Another
division will occupy Greece.
The Times considers the occupation of Greece as the
most humane and effectual measure that could be taken
for putting an end to the intrigues of the court of Athens
and to the disturbances on the Turkish frontier.

PARIS, MONDAY.—Funds closed 70.40, and 96.1-.
The Times city article says :—" The advices from
Venice and Trieste mention several mercantile failures,
which had occasioned a want of confidence.

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LONDON STOCK & SHARE MARKET.—THIS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
FUNDS.—Consols for Account and Money, 90 *; Ex-
chequer Bills (advertised), 314 dis. ; Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 901 / 4.
FOREIGN STOCKS.—Mexicans, 241.
RAILWAY SHARES.—Caledonians, 561 ; Ditto, Pre-
ference, 94 ; Eastern Counties, 12* ; Great Northern,
88i, A 73 ; Great Western, 75 1 ; Leeds Northern, 12/ ;
London and North Western, 97i 8 71 81 ; London and
South Western, 781; Midland Stock, 501- 60; North
British, 33 f ; North Staffordshire, 13 ; South Eastern
and Dover, 62/ 1/ ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 661.
MINES.—Agua Fria, 11.
LAND SHARES.—Agricultural, 461 ; Peel River, 6/.
Crystal Palace, 61.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE .—This DA.T.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61f ; London and North
Western, 91; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 20;
South-Eastern, 182; Whitehaven Junction,7l3.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tale DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Caledonians, 28i ; Driffields, ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 611; Midland, 591 ; York and North Midland,
24.

LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Anna Macallister sailed from Cronstadt for Glou-
cester on the 22nd instant.
The Royal Shepherdess has arrived from Adelaide; the
quantity of gold on board not known.
Marmion, from Havanna; "Incline, from Altarlo ; Mary
Bibby, from Demerara ; Marchioness of Douro, from
Singapore ; Forfarshire, from Callao ; Jane and Barbara,
from Sierra Leone ; Jane Gibson, from Porto Rico--all
at Gravesend the 29th instant.

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