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

FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARD; MARKET.

The improvement in French Funds indicating a revived
feeling in the maintenance of peace, operated favourably on
the English market during the forenoon, and Consols after
opening weakly. buyers at 93i advanced to 93i ; subsequently
prices receded. on a pressure of sales, based on the afternoon
foreign letters, and closed at about the opening range. The
Railway market displayed more animation than has been
observed for some time past. and the advance which occurred
after hours on Saturday was in every instance supported.
Foreign general market ; Russians better. Australian
Land and Bank descriptions fully maintained former quo-
tations.

CLOS INO PRICES.
Consols, Account .. 1 93i tßank Stock 216 18
Do. Money.... I Excheq. Bills, L. &S 8 11 pm.
Three&QrperCents.. 94f

FOREIGN STOCKS.

Mexicans 233 4 Spanish Passives .... 41 1
Do. Threes
Spanish Deferred .... 423 1 Swedish
Do. Threes 2oi 3

RAILWAY SHARES.

Amberg.,Nottingham, London &N. Western 1021 4
and E. Junction 44 54 London do S. Western 75 7
Bristol and Exeter Manches., Sheff., and
Caledonian
Do. Preference .. Midland Stock
East Anglian
Eastern Counties .... 13 4 North British 3l 2
East Lancashire 62 4 Do. Preference
Eastern Union A
Ditto Band C — North Staffordshire.. 54 fi
Edinburgh & Glasgow Shrewsbury and Bir-
Great Northern B3l 41 mingham —
Do. A..... Do. L. &N. W. guar —
Do. 8..... S. Eastern and Dover 60 1
Great Western
Lanc.and Yorkshire. 64 4 Berwick .. 631 44
Do. Fifths 74 7 Do. Extension --
Leeds Northern — Do. Preference
London, Brighton, and York and N. Midland 46 7
South Coast 971 Bd, Do. Preference.. -
MINING SHARES.
Nugget
••
B. Australian —
Freehold .
Australasian
Colonial
Mariposa —

Noveau Monde
Registered
Cordeliera
Ave Maria
Carson's Creek
Port Philip

LAND SNARES.
Australian Agricultural 44 6 Peel River
S. Australian Invest. II I South Australian
B. American 75 80 N. B. Australian :..

CORN MARKET.

The supplies of English grain are small, but a few cargoes
of Foreign Wheat and some barrels of American Flour are
reported. The trade opened steady, but millers operating
cautiously, no advance is established; in Foreign fine qualities
are quite as dear; old dull at the late advance. Beans and
Peas are firm. The Corn trade closed flatly, but factors
remained firm at the prices of Monday. Town-made Flour
725. Beans and Peas unchanged. Oats 6d. to Is. lower.
American Flour Is. per barrel cheaper. Barley, except the
finest qualities, 6d. to Is. lower.

ARRIVALS.
English. Irish. Foreign.
Wheat 1397 24305
Barley 5OOB 4435
Oats lO3 5070 9470
Malt —
Beans
Peas 5BB 15
Flour ... 1146 320 sks &
.16760 brls.

No. 1628.]

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Qffice, Two o'clock, p.m.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

CONSTANTIWOPLE, JAN. 2.—The English steam-frigate
Retribution, despatched to Sebastopol, conveys an intima-
tion from the English and French Envoys that the fleets
are about to enter the Black Sea to protect the Turkish
territory from all aggression or hostile act, and gives that
notice to the Governor with the view of preventing any
collision with the Russian fleet. The English Ambas-
sador also formally demands the release of the two English
engineers of the Egyptian steam-ship captured by the
Russians

The Times' Vienna correspondent states that -the
Turkish note was presented to the conference at Vienna
on the 13th inst. It was approved and forwarded imme-
diately to St. Petersburg. The Porte requires that the
note shall be accepted or rejected within forty days from
• the 2d instant. If accepted, the Principalities are to be
evacuated within twenty days afterwards.
The Chronicle's Vienna correspondent, under date !St.
Petersburg, Bth inst., states that there were preliminary
indications of a rupture with France and England, and of
a recal of the Ambassadors from Paris and London. The
despatch adds that the above is authentic.
The. Post states that Austria and Prussia disavowed
the remonstrance of their envoys at Constantinople
against the entrance of the combined fleets into the Black
Sea, and blamed the envoys for their indiscretion. The
Post also says that the article in the semi-official Vienna
paper. Lloyd's, the gist of which was hostile to Russia,
was received by the public with great favour, and pro-
duced great sensation.
The Times, in a leading article, sums up the latest
telegraphic accounts from the seat of war, andlsays there
can be no doubt that events have occurred which approach
much more nearly to actual war between some of the great
powers of Europe than anything yet recorded.
No precise details of the battle of Citale have yet been
received; but the reports of the sanguinary character of
the struggle, and of the Turkish victory, have confirmed
the loss to the Russians of 5,000 killed and wounded.
ODESSA, DEC. 30.—Good descriptions of wheat are
worth 29 roubles the chetwert.

Telegraphic news from Odessa confirms the anticipated
fall in freights. Rates for grain receded from 255. per
quarter to 12s. 6d. This will operate favourably upon
the supplies of food to France, Italy, and elsewhere.
The Times' Paris correspondent, under date Monday
evening, writes : "It is asserted ou the authority of a
telegraphic despatch from Vienna that advices have been
received from St. Petersburg, of the Bth instant,
stating that the Emperor of Russia had behaved in such a
way on hearing of the resolution taken by the French and
English Governments to send their fleets into the Black
Sea, as to leave little doubt that he had made up his mind
to a rupture with those powers, whose Ambassadors would
therefore shortly leave St. Petersburg.