The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

Ti
cial news :

to following are the leading features of our commer.

The advices received by the Cambria had not produced any
improvement in the general business of the Union—rather the
contrary. Towards the close of the week previous to the
Eurona's departure. however. it had resumed its former tone.

weather contributed to the languor of trade general.y
of the leading stocks were somewhat lower.

The money market was in a satisfactory condition, the
" commodity" being by no means scarce, and the rates

and prices bad receded slightly, as will be seen by the follow-
ing quotations :—Western Canal flour steady, at 84 12c. to .84
25c. per barrel ; Genessee prime wheat, 81 10c. to 81 12c. per
601 b •, Indian corn, round yellow, 60c. to 62c. ; Indian meal,
83 121 c. to .83 25c, per barrel. The demand for export gene-
rally was moderate.

The cotton market at New York and the other leading towns
has been very inactive; the sales were limited, and prices re-
cce ed for most descriptions as follows :—New Orleans and
Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 11i to 12 cents. per lb., or a fall of a
cent. Uplands and Florida mid. fair to fair, 10i to 11 cents.
per lb. The markets at New Orleans and New York had been
much unsettled by the Camblia's news, and this, coupled with
the announcement that the excess in receipts over last season
ted to 280,000 bales, brought down the prices to the
potations. The accounts from the griming crops are
11 unfavourable.

above a

generally,

isted for butter and cheese

Exchange on London was in good demand at 1101 to 110/ ;
Paris, 5 10 ; Hamhurgh, 36/ to 37 ; Bremen, 783. to 781.
CALIFORNIA.—By the El Dorado, arrived at New
York. we have advices from California to the 15th of
April. The steam-ships Panama and Isthmus left San-
Francisco on the 15th with nearly =2,000,000 in gold-
dust on reight, the former arriving at Panama on the
2nd ult. The mines generally were doing well, in both
the northern and southern districts. Rain had fallen in
great abundance, and large amounts of gold were being
taken out from the dirt thrown up during the dry season.
There had been more Lynching at the mines. Accounts
were daily arriving of new discoveries of auriferous mines
in different parts of the country. The weather had been
good, and the country was healthy. Letters from San
Francisco relative to the money-market state that it does
not present any feature of importance since our last
notice. Rates of interest are firmly high, and there is the
same difficulty in money accommodation. Some excite-
ment had lately prevailed there on the subject of private
coin, of which the currency in circulation principally con-
sists. On examination and settling by the United States
assayer, this has been found deficient in value from one
to ten per cent., in consequence of which all private issue
of coin, with the exception of Moffatt and Co.'s, who re-
deem thEirs at par, and have ceased further issue, was
refused to be received by bankers, &c., unless at fitting
discount.

It is rumoured that the young Emperor of Austria has
solicited in marriage the hand of the daughter of the
Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt.

A young French aeronaut, named Goddard, jun.
made a successful descent in a parachute, on Sunday, at
Paris. He went up from the Hippodrome in his father's
great balloon, and when at a great height, the parachute
was detached, descended very slowly, and ultimately felt
on the roof a house in the Rue de la Madeleine.

A great sensation has been created in Hungary by the
arrest of the Countess Teleky, and her companion Madame
Erdely, at Belfalvo. They have been ordered for trial by
a court-martial at Peterwarden. It is said that the
Countess has been the medium of a correspondence be-
tween the refugees in London and Asia Minor and their
partisans in Hungary. Some of this correspondence has
been se:zed.

The Frankfort Diet will not commence its proceedings
until the termination of the royal interview at Warsaw
and Olmutz. The Emperor of Russia and the King of
Prussia were to leave Warsaw on Tuesday, the 27th inst.
The two monarchs would separate at Oderberg, the
Emperor proceeding to Olmutz, and the King of Prussia

to Bvrlin, where he was to arrive on the '29th. 11:1;
Emperor has been particularly marked in his attentions
to the Kin?: of Prussia.

CALIFORNIA

-The estimated produce of gold dust for

flit first quarter of
.1851 is -W16.00,155 ; this" is taken as
a standard in estimating the amount for the year, the total
production would he $64.120,620. The favourable eir-
curntarices ❑nder which the mining was stated to be con-
ducted, according to the last advices, renders it probable
the annual return will not fall short of :R70.000,000. In
1839, Mr. NlTulloch estimated the entire annual produce
of the American, European. and Russo-Asiatic mines at
£6,000,000 sterling, or about 428,000,000 of the precious
metals.

SALDANHA'S AlimsTßA-.—We have news from Lisbon
up to the 231 i istant. All was quiet these up to that
date. Saldanha had succeeded in forming a ministry:—
President of the Council and War Department—Duke of
Saldanha. Home Department—Scnhor Prostana. }so-
gn Affairs—Senhor Jervis da Atouguia. Marine-
- - 7inance—Senhor Franzina. Justice
All of whom enjoy a fair reputation.
isfaetion prevails amone tl

111:,ryti
—Sent

A good deal of dis!

in consi-luence, of the intrusion of officers ; and they
openly avow that they did not take up arms to yield their
posts thi it en mies. It is evident from this arranze-

Uctiii or at Lisbon as was

while at °polio. The Queen is entirely powerlrss ; and
whatever the former resolves, the latter will ratify.
Hence the del-, rtnination of the I)nlie to be o,mniander
in Chief of the Army (an office vacated by the King upon
the overthrow of Count Thomar's Cabinet), which the
Queen cons( quently confirms, " in consideration of the
great merits of the Duke of Salanha."

EXTRAORDINARY MURDER IN BELGII'M.— In November
last, an extraordinary sensation Was created in B,dgium
!)y the announcement that Count Hippolvte Visart de
Bocartn6 nd his wife, both residing at Bury, in the
province of IL :insult, Lad been arrested on the charge of
having murdered the brother of the latter by means of

poison forcibly administered to him after dinner at their
cltireau on the 29th of that month. The investigations
of justice ended in both the accused being committed for
trial. The trial commenced before the Court of Assizes
of Mons, on Tuesday, and was continued on the foi!ow-
big day. It aiTvared from the indictment that the
Countess, altl.,:tigh the Count belonged to one of the
first families of Hainault, was the daughter of a retired
grocer. The Count, on marrying her, had not obtained
the fortune he expected, and latterly they were reduced
to great extretrities. It was then that the Count began

to Study the qualities of poisonous plants, and especially
of nicotine. Ile had admitted to his wife that he had
been preparing it " to do the business of Gustave," her
brother, on the succession to whose fortune, by his death,
all their hopes depended. On the day of the murder
several of the servants were sent out of the way on speci-
ous pretences ; one of them, however, heard Gustave cry
for help from the dining-room, where he had been dining
with the Count and his wife. It was then represented
that Gustave, who was found dead, had died of apoplexy,
but suspicion having been excited, an investigation took
place, and nicotine was found in his stomach, and was
proved to have been the cause of death. A number of
other suspicious circumstances also came out, tending to
fix the murder on the Count and Countess. The Countess
now admitted that her husband told her he had committed
the murder, of which, however, she knew no more from
her own knowledge than that she had seen her husband
knock Gustave down, when she became terrified and left
the room. She had been induced to conceal the matter
by the entreaties of her husband, and had washed away
the stains of the nicotine (which must have been forced
down Gustave'a throat) from her husband's clothes and
from the floor. At the conclusion of the Countess's ex-
amination the Court rose.