The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA

By the United States mail steamer Baltic, ;Captain
Comstock. which arrived in the river shortly before ten
o'clock on Sunday morning, we have advices from'New
York to the'Sth instant.
The Baltic was detained off the bar for about four
hours. She brought twenty-eight passengers, and has
made a very-rapid passage.
The steam-ship Niagara arrived at Boston on the
inst. The City of Glasgow screw-steamer arrived at'Phila-
delphia on the 2nd inst. The Crescent City had arrived
at New York with dates from California to the Ist of:De-
cember, Chagres to the 27th, and Kingston (Jamaica) to
the 31st ult. She had on freight 51,500,000 in gold dust,
and a large amount in the hands of passengers. A specie
train was attacked seven miles out of Panama by a party
of sixteen men, well armed, who succeeded in taking
5100,000, which was, however, nearly all recovered. The
steam-ship 'Oregon arrived at Panama on the l3th Nov.,
with 2,000,000 in gold dust on freight, and 1,000,000 in
the hands of passengers. The dry season was setting in
at Chagres, and the place was becoming more healthy.
From the mines we learn that many persons had
purchased winter supplies with the intention of passing
that season at the dry diggings in the mountains. The
disappearance of cholera at Sacramento city Cad caused-a
revival of business. The rainy reason commenced on the
19th of November. Many new veins of ore had been dis-
covered. Agriculture was in a flourishing condition.

new branch of commercial activity had bier
at San Francisco—that of fitting out whalin,
regular line of sailing packets had been established betwee
San Francisco and Panama, touching at Rcalejo. The
miners in the frontier region of El Dorado and
counties laboured under much apprehension of
Indians, some murders haviig taken place.
The arrivals had been heavy, and immense qua

)rnmenced

:olveras
hostile

;ities of

goods thrown on t

he mart

The Courier ani

wirer announces that offici

ligence has been received at Washington, stating that the
British government had directed its azents to suopend
the collection of duties at San Juan or Graytosvn, in Ni-

caragua,

Advices to the.3lstailt. from Kingstown, Jamaica, hive
come to hand. The,Great Western arrived on the Nth
on the north side of the island.

The cholera continued to rage with violence at Montagu
Bay and Falmouth, but in Kingstown, Port Royal, and

Spanish Town it had disappeared

royal mail -steam-ship Merlin had arrived at New
with advices from St. Thomas's to the 29th, and

Bermuda to thy,.,

26th ult

The steam-ship Philadkphia arrived at New Orleans on
the Ist instant with 240 ffl e n who had been employed to
work on the Panama railroad. •
The report of the declaration of war between St.
Salvador and Honduras is confirmed. Mr. Chatfield had
intimated that the British Government. would interfere.
Advices from Mexico city to the 16th ult. mention a

report that
meetine of the French creditors of Mexico
at which the Minister of theTr(

Arista was r

had been held,
s present. He

,sury w

expressed a p

ality for the French creditors

as they

bed not oppressed the republ

means of usurious loar:s

and fraudulent contract

The intelligence from I
reported to have taken pla
the whites were defeated wi

atan is serious

A battle i

th the Indians, in which

om the United States is gene-
specially, business was

rally satisfact(
brisk. The money market was activ
The market for securities was advancin
In the breads

w York,

ff market

s not much

5 dols. 1

dol. 22C

to the B
!en done

,
to fair, 14kc. to 14kc. per lb., or a r
There is no change worthy of no
Provisions dull, arid prices
For exchange on London
enced, at 110} to 1101 ; Paris

in f reights

good demand has been experi
5 11 ; Hamburgb, 37 to 371.

The City of Glasgow
on the 26th ult. The at

steamer arrived at Philadelphia

zens were making

preparations to rec
wander

llant corn:
pioneer of a line of

the City and her

is to Great Britain

room _
iro Madrid of t

Bth state that d

ances had tat

lonia, against the tax

of commune
M. Soler, t
Similar diso

The posts of
collector of

le city gu:

re tax, w

province