The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-19 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA

By the Royal Mail steamship Tamar, arrived at South-
ampton, we have accounts, rid Callao and Panama, from
Australia, of fully a month later date than have hitherto
come to hand. Our Melbourne papers extend to the 3d
of July.

MBLBornifz, July I.—Gold was very dull at 44 per
ounce. Flour £35. Liquors steady. Beer and porter in
wood advancing. Coals £6 to £7. Gold receipts in June
£125,000. The Eagle sailed for England June 30, with
80,000 ounces of gold and 34,000 sovereigns. At Ballarat
population rapidly decreasing. The diggers were rushing
to the great new gold fields around Mount William and
on the Avoca.

The General Screw Company's steamship Crcesns was
still under repairs at Sydney, and no date for her de-
parture for England had been fixed. The Queen of the
South was to leave Melbourne for Southampton on the
20th of July, rid Cape Horn, and the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Norma, with the contract
mails by the overland route on the 23rd. Sir Charles
Hotham, the new Governor of Victoria, had arrived at
Melbourne, and had given great satisfaction to the colo-
nists. He had inspected the wharf at Port Phillip, and
manifested to the Chamber of Commerce a strong feeling
in favour of improving it.
With respect to the receipts of gold by the Government
escorts, the Argus, of July 1, has the subjoined :—" The
escorts from Mount Alexander and Ballarat arrived at the
Gold-office department of the Chief Commissioner of
Goldfields yesterday, at their appointed hours, at 5 o'clock,
bringing down 29,3560 z. sdwt. ; left at Geelong, 8,7660 z.
sdwt. : total, 38,6220 z. 10dwt."
_ The Charlotte Jane was loading for London with copper
for the English and Australian Company, and 60= copper
ore from the KapundtConipany.

a-4 D C

WARD, A'`.-

THE

WAR,

The main force of the tattle fleets s yet in the Gulf of
Finland, and the Admirals off Revel.
A Stockholm despatch of the 13th says :—" Our papers
state an allied force has landed at Ulricasborz, near Svea-
borg (Helsingfors), erected batteries, and destroyed a large
division of Russian gunboats, which the enemy thought
were safe in that harbour. The town was set on fire."
Official accounts have been received from Constantino-
ple, dated the Bth, which state that the entire expedition
against the Crimea sailed from Varna and Baltschik on
the 7th.
The French fleet left Varna on the sth, and the British
fleet left Baltschik on the 7th ; but they were expected to
arrive at their destination, on the coast of the Crimea, si-
multaneously, owing to the British steamers possessing
greater horse-power. The landing was expected to take
place between the 10th and the 12th. This is official.
The Sultan has issued &mans for the re-instalment of
the Princes Stirbey and Ghikas as Hospodars. This is
official.

Letters from Galatz state that the first division of the
expedition was seen off the Bilis mouth of the Danube on
the 9th of September, steering towards the Island of Adass.
A plenipotentiary from Prince Danilo of Montenegro is
at Constantinople, and offers submission to Austria for a
pecuniary consideration—namely, a yearly subsidy—Rus-
sia having withdrawn her subsidies.
DLNTZIC, Friday.—The Vulture left the British fleet at
Ledsund on the 13th, and has just arrived at this port.
The new fortifications at Bomarsund were being destroyed
by the engineers. The fleet was remarkably healthy.
The Royal George is ordered home.
On Thursday, advices were received, under date Elsinore,
September 10, announcing that the hired British trans-
ports, Herefordshire, True Briton, Edwin Fox, Hempsyke,
Belgravia, Clifton, Minden, and Walmer Castle, with the
French transports Brandon and Asmodee, had passed in
tow of English and French steamers, conveying the French
troops back to Calais. A telegraphic despatch from Niborg
states that the French ships Donauwerth, St. Louis, Tilsit,
Assyrienne, Andromaque, Cleopatre, and Laborieux, with
transports, have passed through the Belt with the troops
returning to France.

A despatch from Therapia of the 7th instant states that
the French and Turkish troops had set out from Varna on
the sth instant, and that the English fleet was to join
them at the Isle of Serpents. The entire army was in the
highest spirits.
The entry of the Anstrain forces into Moldavia, is ex-
pected to take place about the 20th instant. General Von
Paar is named Military Commandant, with his head-quar-
ters at Jassy. -

According to a telegraphic despatch from Dantzic, the
Russians had. evacuated Brailow and Galatz on the Ist
instant, and the Danube was free.

A letter from Vienna states that the greatest prepara-
tions were being made at Odessa, in anticipation of another
visit from the Allied fleets.

By a telegraphic despatch we learn that Schamyl has
gained a brilliant victory over the Russian forces in the
vicinity of Wiflis. The Russians lost many men, seven
guns, 3,000 tents, and all their baggage, with many horses
and waggons. All the provisions and ammunition of the
Russians fell into the hands of the victors. The Russians,
under Prince Bebutoff, are retreating in forced marches
from Kntais and Kars to Tiflis.

CONSTANTINOPLZ, Sept. 7.—The storm which has
raged for some days in the Black Sea has ceased. On the
4th all the troops had embarked. The whole fleet con-
sists of 600 sail. On the 4th the Ist division of the fleet
sailed in the direction of Sebastopol. The strength of
the army is pO,OOO men. On the 4th Marshal St. Arnaud
sailed on board the Charlemagne.
JASSY, Sept. B.—The Russians are quitting Moldavia
with all possible speed. It is said that the Turks have
entered Fokschany.

A correspondent writes from Odessa to the Cologne
Gazette of the 31st ult. :—Last Friday the English war
steamer Retribution ran in right under the guns of the
battery, vilrrying a Rag of truce. 'Word was immediately
sent to General Aumekoff. leanwhile, the attitude taken
up by the audacious Retribution excited much uneasiness.
The adjutant of the commandant went out in a boat and
received a letter sent by Admiral Dumlas to the governor,
requiring the remaining officers of the Tiger. .The
officers, nineteen in number, were next day forthcoming,
and the Retribution having received them put to sea,
greatly to the satisfaction of the people here.
Letters from Constantinople of the 4th state that a
caravan bound to Persia had been carried off by a corps
of Russian cavalry.

A rupture between Turkey and Persia is considered
imminent by the inhabitants of the provinces on the
borders of the latter state. Advices from Constantinople
of the 7th instant state that on the 25th the Turkish
minister retired from Teheran to Erzecoum, and that
there is a complete rupture between the Porte and Persia.

THE RUSSIAN REPLY TO THE AUSTRIAN
AND PRUSSIAN NOTES.

Tyra Independance Beige contains the following ac-
count of the Russian ;reply to the Austrian and Prussian
notes

" The despatch of Count Nesselrode refers, in the first
place, to the negotiations which have taken ?place since the
Austro-Prnssian gonimations.

Russia,' it says, has assented to the greatest part of
the concessions demanded, solely out of regard to the
interests of Austria and Prussia. In acceding to the
evacuation of the principalities she has abandoned her
military position in Turkey and Eurepe, which permits
her enemies to employ their forces against her in Asia,
and upon the tertitory of Russia. She has not put for-
ward any reciprocal claim ; she has been content with
expressing the •views she entertained when Austria indi-
cated the guarantees which she was able to offer, on her
side, to Russia. She is convinced that it was not possible
for Austria to give to her the assurance of an armistice,
but she did desire' o know beforehand if, after the evacu-
ation of the principalities, Austria would or would not
separate herself :from the coalition which has been formed
for the purpose of humiliating Russia. Further, Russia
has declared herself willing to negotiate upon the basis
of the protocol of Vienna of the 9th of April.
" 'Austria has.not made any.direct reply to Russia in
relation to these propositions ; but she immediately ad-
dressed herself to the Western Powers, upon whom she
made her decision to depend, although it could not be ex-
pected that they would be ready to enter upon the path
of conciliation, seeing that they have allied themselves
together intorderto enfeeble Russia 'by a prolonged war.
This has been confirmed by communications made by the
Austrian Ambassador to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg--
that is to say, by the Austrian note Of the 10th August.
" The conditions required by the Western Powers are
unacceptable in respect to their substance (teneur), as well
as in form, principally because that, according to the
avowal of the French Government itself, what they exact
with the ostensible purpose of maintaining the European
equilibrium is ,nothing less than the destruction of the
Russian marine and the power of Russia in the Black Sea.
" Austria, in recommending these conditions, has
added that the Western Powers have still reserved the
right to make others, which renders it perfectly useless
to submit them to a detailed examination. Besides, even
if they should not be changed, their acceptation would
lead it to be supposed that Russia is reduced by war to
the last degree of exhaustion. Although the Emperor
has adhered to the principles enunciated in the protocol
of Vienna, he cannot enlarge the meaning of it as much
,as others have done, because the immense sacrifices which
Russia has made in the :interests of Austria and Prussia
would remain without any 'compensation. In the place
of finding in those concessions a motive for redeeming
:those obligations, Austen has drawn •closer its alliance
with the enemies of Russia.
" 'Consequently, the Emperor infinitely regrets that
:he has not been able to accept the last overtures made by
Austria. He considers that he has made every concession
compatible with the honour-of Russia, and, as he has not
withdrawn any of these advantages, it only remains for
him to do the same as his ,enemies—that is, to try.the
eventualities of war in order to arrive at some solid basis
ofinegotiations for peace.
" 'The Emperor has directed his General-in-Chief to
repass the :Pruth with his troops from strategic motives,
and Russia ,will keep herself upon the defensive within
her frontiers, :until more equitable .conditions are offered
to her. The Emperor, on his aide, will avoid increasing
the,cornplicatious of the war, but he will repel with the
greatest energy all attacks against him, from whatever
quarter they may proceed."

Tine POILTSMOIITH MAGISTRATES 'lave convicted a yr-
son in heavy penalties for having inveigled a seaman from
the royal navy, and induced him to enter on board a mer-
chant ship.

MALAY TaßanaErrs OF CnoLnni.---Travellers •who
nave arrivea trom pfun rep,..4,
cures of the cholera have been made by some Malay sea-
men at Cadiz. There have been more cures by the Malays
than by all the Spanish doctors. The Malay method of
treating cholera is most peculiar. They pinch up the
skin in round 'balls, and then rub the surrounding parts
where the skin is stretched to its utmost tension.

SOMETHING LINE A WASPS' NEST.-Mr. 391114141Th0mp.
son, grocer, of Bawtry, Yorkshire, lately took out of a
treacle puncheon, on opening the lid, a garden spade three
times filled with wasps. The barrel was left unopened
during the whole summer, and the wasps had crept in at a
email hole left uncorked at the top.
CHILD MUNDER.—A woman named Ann Parker was
brought up at the Marylebone Court on Tuesday, charged
with attempting to murder her children. The prisoner
had thrown one child into the Regent's-canal, and was
about to fling in another, when a policeman came up and
rescued the child already in. The woman, who said she
came from Essex, and had been deserted by her husband,
avowed her intention of destroying herself also. She was
committed for trial.
A.GHICULTURA.I. STATISTICS.-At the meeting of the
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, held at Falmouth last
week, a very interesting communication was made to the
meeting by Mr. Charles Fox, who stated that among the
school productions there was one by a pupil teacher. It
was an agricultural survey of the parish of Constantine, as
far as related to a statistical statement of the corn and
green crops. In a parish of between 6,000 and 7,000 acres
this lad had given a very accurate statement of the breadth
of land sown with wheat, barley, oats, turnips, mangold-
wtutzel, and carrots. He showed that in this large parish
there were 305 acres of wheat, 625 of barley, and 351 acres
of green crops. Mr. Fox mentioned this to show that it
was not so difficult to get an accurate statistical account of
agricultural produce throughout the-county as some people
imagined.
. A RELIC or A DUEL.—In making some excavations in
the court yard of a house in the Rue d'Antin, a few days
ago, some workmen discovered a piece of an old and large
sword, on which were the letters " emours." As it was near
this spot that the Dukes de Beaufort and de Nemours, and
according to the custom of the time, four friends of each,
fought a duel on the 30th of July, 1652, it is supposed that
the sword may have been that of the Duke de Nemours.
"Brother-in-Law, what a shameful affair this is ! Let ns
forget the past, and be good friends !" " Ah, scoundrel !"
cried Nemours, " I must either kill you, or you must kill
me." And at the same moment he impetuously attacked
Beaufort. The latter defended himself, 'and in a short
time killed his adversary. Two of the seconds of Beaufort
—d'Hericonrt and de Als—viere killed by Villars and
d'Uzerches, friends of Ner4OUrs, The other puties in the
duel were slightly wounded,

JADIERCIAL

BIRTHS,

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IIIA2RIAGES, and .DEATHS

BIRTHS

On the 30th ult., in Bedford-square, London, the wife
of the Rev. Thomas Nolan, of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Abbott's Moss, Cheshire, the Hon.
Mrs. Cholmondeley, of a daughter. _

On the 7th inst.Yat New Biighton, the wife of Captain
Frederick Rainsford, of a son.
On the 7th inst., at Edinburgh, the Duchess of Mon-
trose, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., the wife of Mr. W. B. Dummill, of
Gabriel's-hill, Maidstone, Kent, of a slaughter.
On the 10th instant, Adeline, infant daughter of Mr.
Thomas Briscale, Huskisson-street.
On the 14th inst., at Kensington-terrace, the wife of
Mr. John Parry, coachmaker, of this town, of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., the wife of Mr. W. Lenon, Mount
Vernon. street, of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., of Asiatic Cholera, at Old Chester-
road, Tranmere, Cheshire, Charlotte Sarah, youngest
daughter of Lieut. J. T. Lamb, R.N.

On the 16th inst., Mrs. Jaines Lyon, Bevington-hill,
of a son.

On the 17th inst., aged 3 years ar.d 8 months, Fanny
daughter of Mr. William Holmes. Richmond-row.