The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER

e, was at Sierra Leone. The
•ood health. The United States

110, Commander Heseltin
1 squadron is reported in g

frigate Constitution was at Cape Coast Castle
United States frigate Marion at Monrovia.

squadron was assembling at Grand Bas
some disputes. The American brig

wrecked off Sierra Leone in a tornado, and the French
ship Louisiana was off .the Gambia, with no hopes of her
being saVed. The Liberian Government had received a
present of arms and military accoutrements from the
Emperor of the French. Matters at Cape Coast Castle
were more peaceable than reported by the previous mail,
the alarm of another Ashantee invasion having subsided:

1 Commerc

at Monrovia was rapidly increasir

trade on the coast

enerally was dull, owin

and the fresh outbreak at 'Lagos.

to the season

kr. Whitford, Firs

of the Faith, screw mail-packet, who, with a boat's crew,
was supposed to have been lost, but who had reached
Benin without provisions or water, has come home in the
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AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ANTI

ship, America, Capt. Shannon, we have intelligence from
New York to the 11th and from Boston to the 12th inst.
The America sailed from Boston, at 0.35, p.m., on the

12th, came "north-about;" made Tory Island,at 4 a.m.
and arrived in the Mersey at 11.30, p.m., on Saturday
after a fine run of ten and-a-quarter days.

$491,948 in gold and £7OO in silver on freight
The screw steamer Sarah Sands arrived at Quebec
this port, on the 11th inst.
The following are the stocks which had been redeemed

up to the Bth :LI-Stocks redeemable in 1862, $42,000 ; do.
1843, 23,500 ; do. 1856, $23,700 ; do. 1867, $298,850 ; do.
1868, $118,000; the whole amount redeemed in the week
being $506,050.
The Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church was holding its meetings iu New York. The most
interesting portion of the proceedings was a debate which
arose on a proposition of the Rev. Dr. Mason, of Indiana,
to the effect that the delegates re-express their good
feeling and sympathy for the delegation of divines from
the Church of England, and their desire for a more in-
timate interchange of opinion with the Established
Church of this country. The resolutions were adopted.
Miscellaneous accounts mention that the Woman's Con-
vention at Cleveland was a scene of great disorder, and
ended in a Mr. Nevins pulling the nose of Mr. Garrison,
which the latter did not resent. Father Gavazzi was
lecturing at Buffalo. At Providence a very destructive
fire had occurred. Rumours were current of heavy
forgeries on some extensive commercial houses in Boston,
but it was said the forged paper had all been met and the
matter hushed up.

Business at New Orleans had commenced to be brisk.
The whole number of interments for nineteen weeks was
10,960, of which 8,143 were fever cases. Letters mention
the continued prevalence of yellow fever in the interior of
the state.
The Star of the West had arrived with advises from San
Francisco to the 16th September, and $816,670 in specie
on freight. The John L. Stephens had sailed from San
Francisco with $1,362,473 in specie. Mining interests
continued in a prosperous condition, under the operation
of improved machinery. The silver mines of Arrizona, in
Sonora, had turned out to be of unparalleled richness.
The news had created great excitement among the inha-
bitants, and upwards of 1,000 men had left Guaymas and
Hormosilla for the mines. The quantity of quicksilver
shipped from San Francisco for the six months ending
June Bth exceeded 9,047 flasks. During January and
August 26,722 persons arrived at San Francisco. The
number of departures was 18,083, nearly all males. The
accounts of the merciless depredations of the Indians in
Sonora are truly startling and melancholy. The savages
were murdering the whites, including women and children;
wherever they could be found.
The Illinois had arrived at New York, with $1,218,811
in California gold dust on freight. The state of the
Isthmus of Panama was good, and the roods in fine tra-
velling condition.
The New York Herald says :—". We stated a few days
since that Messrs. James Sykes and Co., of Sheffield,
England, had concluded a contract for the construction o
a plank road and railroad across the Isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec. The plank road will be built first and put into
operation. This will be completed within the next twelve
months. As soon as the route is opened and operated in
this way, the laying of rails will commence, and be carried
through in the shortest possible time. Messrs. Baring
and other eminent English capitalists are at the bottom
of this movement, which is a guarantee that it will be
successful in every particular. This will be the shortest
route between New York and San Francisco, and that it
will be the favourite with the travelling public no
one at all acquainted with its advantages can for
a moment doubt. From New York to San Fran-
cisco, vid the Panama ronte, the distance is 4,992
miles ; rid Nicaragua, 4,531 miles ; rid Tehuantepec,
3,804 miles. From England to San Francisco, via
Panama, .the distance is 7,502 miles ; rid Nicaragua,
7,041; and rid Tehuantepec, 6,671 miles. The distance
from New York to San Frahcisco is, rid Tehuantepec,
1,188 miles nearer than Panama, and 727 miles nearer
than Nicaragua. The distance from England to San
Francisco, via Tehuantepec, is 831 miles less than by
Panama, and 370 miles less than by Nicaragua. New
Orleans is more favourably located in relation to this
route than any port of England, or the port of New York,
in the distance saved. From New Orleans to San Fran-
cisco, rid Tehuantepec, the distance is 1,801 miles less
than by Panama, and 1,063 miles less than by Nicaragua.
The geographical position of New Orleans is, therefore,
not only more favourable as regards the total distance,
but as regards distance saved."
The Mexican Legation at Washington had issued a
letter declaring that. the re-organization of the national
force of Mexico is for the purpose of defending the people
of that country against the attacks of the wild Indians on
the frontiers of the United States, who have not been re-
strained by the latter Government, in accordance with
the stipulations of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It is
positively denied that Santa Anna intends to employ this
great military force either for oppressing his, fellow-
countrymen or to make war upon a friendly power.
Letters from St. John's N. 8., report the loss of the
steam-ship Fairy Queen. Three ladies were drowned.
Accounts from Hayti state that fever had disappeared.
The country was in a quiet state, and advancing gradu-
ally to a more prosperous condition. Coffee was very
scarce, and had advanced to $lO5 per 1001bs. Haytien
currency.

Letters from New Granada state that the country en-
joyed tranquillity, although much agitation existed among
the people on account of the transition from the old to the
new constitution. The electoral question had given rise
to much discussion, which was carried on to rather an
alarming extent in some of the provinces. The question
of religion was also creating a good deal of dissatisfaction
among some parties, who could not reconcile themselves
to the change.
Gov. Barkly had not arrived at Jamaica by the 28th ult.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 11

MONEY.—The six per cent. U. S. loans of 1867-8 are
worth 122-1. The amount sent in for purchase by the
Treasury during the last week was $506,000, including
the several loans. The curtailment of loans by the banks
has thrown a large amount of good paper into the bro-
kers' hands for negotiation, the rates of discount on which
range from 1 to 12, and even 2 per cent. per month.
In foreign exchange the market is firm for sterling
bills, bankers' signatures, at 110 to 1091 • produce bills,
108 to 1091- ; France, 5 111- to 5 12f ; Amsterdam, 41
to 411 ; Hamburgh, 361 to 36} ; Bremen, 791 to 80,
COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular of Oct.
11.)—Our market has been sensibly affected by the ad-
vices per Arabia, not so much in price as in the cessation
of demand for export. The sales, which consist of only
4,500 bales, have been made chiefly to home consumers,
with occasional small parcels to fill freight engagements,
or positive orders. Holders still resist the efforts made
towards a lower scale of prices, and only sell when the
quotations annexed can be reali7ed ; the lower grades
must be considered nominal, they being difficult to move ;
nor can this be a matter of surprise when the Arabia
brings advices of sales of ordinary cotton, made in Liver-
pool, at about the date of her sailing, at prices below the
first cost in this market in May last, and which, if here
to-day, would sell within tc. of the price then paid The
export since the 4th of October has been, to Liverpool,
2,939 bales; Bremen, 233; Antwerp, 172. Total, 3,344
bales. Prices in this country are considerably higher than
any in Europe, whith may be accounted for in the belief
that the Turkish affair will very soon 'be peaceably dis-
posed of. Receipts at the port show a decrease, as com-
pared with last year, of 77,000 bales. The exports to
Great Britain during the past week have been but 4,000
bales, again 10,000 same week last season. The excess
since Ist September last is reduced to 3,000 bales. • The
accounts continue unfavourable as to the prospects of the
growing crop, and in some sections of South and North
Carolina a slight frost has already happened, not severe
enough, however, to hurt the plant.

The following is a statement of the movement in cotton
since the Ist of September last, as compared with the
previous three years : _

1853 1852 1851 1850.
Receipts at the ports 55,000 132,000 111,000 80,000
Exports to Great Britain 35,000 32,000 28,000 78,000
~ France l,OOO 6,000 13,000 14,000
„ other for. ports 9,000 5,000 1,000 13.000
Total exports 45,000 43,000 42,000 105,000
Stock on hand
BREA DsTuFrs.—There has been a good deal of irregu-
larity in prices of flour, but at the close a decline of 124 c.
per brl. was established. The prices of choice qualities of
wheat are fully maintained, whilst all others, with the
exception of red, which is scarce and in demand, can be
bought somewhat cheaper than last week. Indian corn
has advanced to the extent of 3c. to 4c. per bushel.
PROVISIONEL—Mess pork is steady, at $l7 laic. to $l7
25c. ; prime, $l3 874 e. to $14., Beef is firm, and good
lots are scarce. Lard steady, and in good demand. Cheese
rather lower.

IRON.—Holders are quite firm. There is a good inquiry
for Scotch pig, at $36 50c. to $37 50c., six months:
FRElGHTS.—Freights are rather heavy.. The current
rates are—To Liverpool : Cotton, 7-32 d. to 5-16 d. per lb. ;
flour, 2s. to 3s. 6d. per brl, ; grain, in bulk, 12d. to 13d.
per bush. To London : Flour, 46. to 46. 6d. per brl. ;
grain, in bulk, 14d. to 15d. per bush. To Havre : Cotton,
lc. per lb. ; flour, 80c. per brl. ; grain, in bags, 22c. per
bush.

NEW ORLEANS.—Receipts for the week ending Sep-
tember 30th, 10,470 bales. Exports : to Liverpool, 1,748
bales ; Havana, 40 ; Vera Cruz, 148. The market has pre-
sented very little activity. The sales generally indicate a
decline of c. from the rates current last week. The total
sales have been confined to 3,800 bales, of qualities ranging
from low middling to middling fair, taken for England,
France, &c. Freight to Liverpool, id. The receipts of
new crop thus far this season are 21,531 bales, against
99,970 bales to same date last year. Oct. 10.-1,600 baled
of cotton were sold to-day. The market is heavy and
lower. We quote middling at 91c. The receipts were
4,000 bales. Mess pork $l6 to $lB 50c. Freights are
dull. For. Liverpool they are asking =id.
CIIARLESTON.—Receipts for the week ending October
6th, 4,937 bales Up, and 69 S.I. No foreign export. The
market has been unsettled, and prices have exhibited a
good deal of irregularity, particularly in the lower quali-
ties, which comprise by far the greater portion of the re-
ceipts, and have been sold under last week's rates ; the
better grades en the contrary fully sustain former quota.