The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-08 00:00:00

NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION
Uplands. Florida.

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EXPORT FROM THE UNITED STATES

Since Ist September, 1353
Same time, 1353 2,438,440 „
Export from Ist to 21st July, 1854, 14,393 ; 1833, 21,995
BREADSTIIFFB.—Prices of all descriptions of flow
the highest grades, have improved durl

f 12ic. to 25c. per barrel,
are very moderate, and there is an increasing de-
mand for home use and the Eastern States. Common
qualities of wheat have advanced sc. to 10c. per bushel.
Shipping parcels of Indian corn are 2c. to 3c. per bushel
higher than on the 18th July.
PROVISIONS.—Mess pork remains without change.
Lard is in fair demand. Beef is quiet, without change in
price. Prime mess beef is in small stock. Butter is in
fair demand.

week to the exie

The sup-

I-um—There are few or no bars on the markA. For
Scotch pig there is a moderate demand at previoas rates,
with sales of 400 to 500 tons at $4O to $4l, six months.
NAVAL STORES.—There is a very small stock of turpen-
tine. Tar is quiet, while rosin is very plenty and unsale-
able.

FREIGHTS.—The market to Great Britain continues
depressed, and lower rates have again been accepted.
There is a good supply of tonnage offering, with but little
freight. To Liverpool, grain in ship bags, 31-d. ; rosin,
Is. ; flour, le. • lard, Hs to 12s. per ton ; cotton, 7-32 to
id. per lb. London, flour, per brl., 2s. • turpentine and
'
rosin, per 2801b5., 2s • measurement goods, per ton, 30s ;
heavy goods, 17s. 6d. to 228. ; beef, per tree., 4s. ; oil cake,
per ton, 20s. to 22s 6d.; grain, per bush., 7d.
SAN FRANCISCO, JULY I.—The same depression which
has been the complaint in commercial circles for the past
year is still felt, and the excess on hand is sufficient to
prevent a permanent rally in prices. No encouragement
for further shipments can be offered, as the entire business
community base their hopes on better times upon the
cessation or limitation of supplies from the Atlantic border.
The dry goods market exhibits no improvement, with a
prospect of light sales for the next two months. Hard-
ware market heavy, with an over supply. Money is some-
what scarce. Bank interest 3 per cent. per month. Good
paper is done at 31 to 41 per cent. Short loans at sto 6
per cent. Heavy sums on unexceptionable security, for
long periods, at 21 to per cent. The shipments of gold
from California for the first six months of 1854 amounted
to $24,725,581 74c.: during the same period of 1853,
$28,989,552 74c.

THE WAR.

OPERATIONS ON THE DANUBE,

SINCE the passage of the Danube on the 7th ofJuly, the
Turks have occupied themselves in strengthening their
position on the north side, and the Russians make no
attempt to interrupt their proceedings.
The position opposite Rutschuk occupied by the Turks
is a very strong one. It is an island of about three miles
long, and half a mile broad, formed by a small creek,
which is only fordable at some difficult and marshy ground
to the left. The Russians partly dismantled their bridge
across this creek at Slobosia. It is now repaired, and the
Turks are forming a strong tete-de-pont, for which the
situation is well adapted. Another bridge and tete-de-
pont have been made at Giurgevo, where the creek rejoins
the Danube. The Egyptian troops who threw up the
parapet of the tete-de-pont use their spades and pickaxes
with a hearty goodwill. They make a great noise when
at work, but get through more than the silent Turks.
There is a proposition of forming a bridge of boats
across the Danube immediately in front of Rustehuk.
There are plenty of boats, but very little timber, and it
will take a month to collect all the stores and complete
the bridge ; but it is not necessary to delay advancing till
the bridge is finished, for if the Turkish army was to meet
with a check in Wallachia, and be compelled to retire, they
could always hold their ground opposite Rustchuk long
enough to permit their guns and stores being brought to
the south side of the Danube in boats.

The Sappers have been sent to Giurgevo to assist in the
;litications there ; so a portion of the English army has
; last crossed the Danube.

An amtuin,, incident occurred on the 15th ult. at
Rustchuk. Col. Iskander Beg, a distinguished cavalry
officer in the Turkish service, was reconnoitering with
four cr five men at some disiance from Slobpsia ; he
espied an infantry sentry of the enemy's, and thought, he
could manage to capture him. As they approached, the
colonel's orderly suggested that there were some more
soldiers behind the sentry, and they might possibly be
caught themselves. The colonel, however, was not to be
deterred, and continued advancing. Suddenly a puff of
wind came, and the sentries commenced a series of gyra-
tory movements which had never been described in any
drill book with which Iskander Beg was acquainted.
Nothing daunted-by this extraordinary performance, he
dashed up sword in hand, and discovered about twenty
Russian greatcoats and caps, cleverly stuffed with straw,
and placed on sticks so as to revolve with the wind. No
quarter was shown : one prisoner only being brought into
camp by a dragoon, which moved the laughter even of the
sedate Turks. The Turks sometimes amuse themselves
with similar devices, and at Silistria many a hundred
Minie balls were fired at caps without any heads in them,
which appeared over the Turkish parapets.
_ _ _

The Russian army is in a deplorable state of disease,
and this is mainly attributable to forced marches during
the tremendous heat. The Russian sick-list amounts to
32 per cent., while that of the sober Turks does not -
more than 15 or 13 per cent. It is believed on the Lowei
Danube that by the end of this month (July) the allies
will march into Wallachia from Turtukai Oltenitza. The
Wallachians at Bucharest are preparing and repairing
their houses for the reception of the Turks, " their deli-
verers." In spite of all that has been said and written to
the contrary, the Russians are about to evacuate Wal-
lachia, for they are sending back their heavy artillery,
munitions of war, and even provisions, from Bucharest.
A siege train of 95 guns passed through Galatz on the Bth
and 9th of July. General Uschakoff still occupies Tultsba,
and the pontoon bridge near Isaktchi was standing on the
9th. Great dissatisfaction is expressed by our troops, who
are left in utter ennui and listlessness in the camp at
Deono ; and every little incident, however trivial, is seized
on with avidity;by both officers and men, in their ends-.:-
your to break the intolerable monotony by which tbeir
lives are beset.

AUSTRIAN FRONTIER,

So far as merely peaceful military move:nents can be
taken as evidence of the, fact, Austria seems thoroughly
in earnest: From these it is clear that a voluntary evacu-
ation of the Principalities by the Russians is not expected,
and an uneasy
.watchfulness is still kept up by the irre-
solute, if not suspicious, conduct of Russia. To meet the
probabilities of these combined soirees of uneasiness,
increased. precautions are taken. The army in Galicia
now consists of 160,000; that in Transylvania of 170,000
men. The reserve army, placed en echelon, in two corps,
will be about 70,000 strong.. Thus the whole army con-
centrated for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of
.Turkey and the political independence of Austria, consists
of 403,000 men, but as the support of 'Prussia cannot be
fully depended on, another 100,000 men will be raised.
The army in Italy and in garrison in the other parts of
the empire may amount to about 200,000 men, so that the
Austrian forces will soon amount to 650,000 or 700,000
men. In the meantime, the argument becomes general
in Austrian circles, that the maintenance of so enormous
an army in a state of inactivity, within their own frontiers,
is ruinous to the national finances, and detrimental to the
may.. While these opinions are whispered, relative to
their own operations, very undisguised and uncompli-
mentary comments are being stated in reference to the
continued inactivity of the allied armies.

RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE OPPOSING
ARMIES.

The Soldaten FreundOFtile29th ult. contains infor-
mation from the enemy's comp, which gives great insight
into their plans. The civil governors of Podolia, Bessa-
rabia, and Cherson' have received orders to get in the
crops with all possible speed, " because an army of 300,000
men will, soon be concentrated in those provinces." If
the account given by the Soldaten Freund be correct, ao