The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

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PRUSSIA—Since the receipt of the answer of the
Emperor Nicholas to the propositions of the Western
Powers, Prussia appears anxious to re-enter the European
concert, from which it had to a certain degree withdrawn.
With that view, she is said to have offered to sign a new
protocol, in which the note of Vienna of the 8t
should be em

former

The king
ce, and th

odied, as was the treaty of April, in a
nt drawn up and signed by the Conference.
and M. Manteuffel are at plain vari-
minister is getting out of favour for ex-
elief that Prussia cannot with safety set

herself up in opposition to the Western Powers. There
was a general rumour in Berlin that M. de Mantenffel was
about to retire from office, but this was contradicted by
his friends. Although moderate and tranquillizing writers
".". these differences will, like many

- them, come to nothing at the
last moment, it is not denied that the king has sent for, to
Putbus, M. de Bismark Schcenhausen, the representative
of Prussia at the Germanic Diet,who was in Pomerania
whose leaning towards Russia is a

.cter of public notoriety.—The Paris correspondent of
Je Globe, writing on Thursday, mentions a rumour that
the French government has received an intimation from
its ambassador at Berlin, that the King of Prussia has de-
clared in the most positive manner that he will persist in
;stem of neutrality that he has adopted, and that he
.ciders the evacuation of the principalities by Russia as
sufficient concession to the demands made by Prussia.
A letter from Berlin states that the Emperor of Russia
has informed his brother-in-law that if he will offer him-,
self as a mediator, and propose equitable conditions of
arrangement, he will accede to them. This is not at all
improbable, for the emperor knows that the King of
Prussia will propose only such conditions as shall have
been dictated to him by the Russian Cabinet.—A Berlin
despatch of the 6th affirms that M. Benkendorff has
waited personally on Prince Charles of Prussia, an avowed
partisan of Russian policy, to whom he was charged with
a letter from the Czar.

RllSSlA.—Letters from the south of Russia mention
that the Russians have thrown a bridge of boats across
the Dnieper, with the view apparently of facilitating the
transfer of masses of troops withdrawn from the Danubian
Principalities to the Crimea, now threatened by the Allies.
This bridge of boats has caused the accumulation of a
large number of craft laden with linseed and other pro-
duce, which are prevented from pursuing their voyage
down the river to the Russian ports on the Black Sea.
The Russian embassy at Vienna has received notice that
the greater part of the Russian army will have quitted
Moldavia by the 20th of September, and the remainder
by the beginning of October, unless hostile operations
should render a fresh concentration necessary. A. letter
of the 29th ult. from the Polish frontier, in the Presse of
Vienna, says :—" It is evident that Russia intends to re-
peat her acts of 1812 on a large scale. This year, in the
month of May, when the state of war was proclaimed, all
criminals, with the exception of assassins and political
prisoners, were completely amnestied. Their only duty is
to stay in certain places, under the vigilance of the mili-
tary authorities, and to set fire to the place they live in as
soon as the enemy shall make his appearance." Letters
from St. Petersburg of the 31st of August mention the
receipt of telegraphic accounts from Moscow, reporting
an immense fire, said to have destroyed 360 houses. The
letters of the Ist, however, say nothing further on the
subject.

BRAZIL—The South American Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steamer Bahiana, Captain Daniel Green, arrived on
Saturday with advices from Montevideo of the 24th of
July; Rio, the 9th; Bahia, 15th; Pernambuco, 17th;
Madeira, 30th of August ; Lisbon, the 3d inst. She has
brought on freight £38,109 10s. in gold, £922 in silver,
and £4,270 in diamonds. From Buenos Ayres we have
no intelligence of political importance. Everything was
quiet, and likely to continue so. Exchange on England
was quoted at 655. Freights were low. The news from
Montevideo is also devoid of interest. Her Majesty's ship
Vixen was at Montevideo, the Madagascar and Rifleman
at Rio, and the Express at Bahia. At Rio a new joint-
stock banking company had been formed with unlimited
responsibility on the part of the managers. The capital
is Rs. $6,000,000, in shares of $l,OOO each, not trans-
ferable until the whole be paid up, with the power of in.
creasing the amount to $12,000,000 when the interests of
the proprietors shall warrant such increase. Exchange on
England was quoted at 275. The Rio sugar market was
inactive. Inquiry existed for fair whites for southern
shipment. Some demand was experienced for Muscova-
does, but the ruling prices were too high for the Euro-
pean markets. The accounts of the growing crops were
favourable. The first arrivals were expected about the
end of September. The receipts of cotton continued to
improve. The reports of the forthcoming crop were that
it would be large. Sales were limited, prices being too
high for the European markets. Nothing was doing in
hides. The bank had reduced its rates of discount to 6
per cent. per annum for bills to mature on the 31st of
October ; and 8 per cent. for those beyond said date to six
months. In exchange but little had been done. The
transactions for the Bahiana were to the extent of about
£35,000, at rates varying from 26 to 264, the greater part
at the latter rate. Business in freights was completely
Paralyzed.

CA.NADA.--The wheat crop of Upper Canada will far
exceed that of any other year in its amount. According
to the Oswego Times, it is estimated that a third more
Was sown last year than the year before, and it all looks
flourishing. The surplus last year is estimated at 7,000,000
bushels; this year it is calculated the surplus will reach
12,000,000 bushels. Estimating the price at only $1 50e,
per bushel, it gives the farmers $18,000,000 for wheat
aloe! for 4 foreign market. The Canadian farmers Iflst

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FANDARD AND GVNVRAL CO

year enjoyed great prosperity, and this year bids fairly to
add largely to the contents of their coffers. Mr. Buchanan,
who is superintending the emigration department of
Quebec, writes that he never knew such a busy year as
this ; having applications from every section of the Cana-

e tting
_
sufficient labour-women to gather in the hay crop, and the
Wages offered so high as 6s. to 7s. per day for harvest
labourers. The number of emigrants landed to the Ist of
August was 12,000 over the number to the same period of
last year; and yet there is not a working man or woman
unemployed. The Toronto Colonist says :—" We are in-
formed that no less

plaining of

-.Lan eight persons have been admitted
into the lunatic asylum in a state of insanity, occasioned
by consuming quantities of camphor to prevent cholera.
Some of them carried.it about in their pockets, and kept
from time to time eating small quantities of it. Others
took it dissolved in brandy. In all cases where it was
taken in any n••- t, pro'

_ ..uy quantity it produced insanity. It is a fact
well known that a comparatively small quantity of
camphor will set a dog mad, and that he will soon after-
wards die."

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship America, Captain Ming, which arrived here yesterday
morning, we have intelligence from New York to the 29th
and Boston to the 30th ult., eighty-five passengers, and
$627,690 in specie.
On the 3d inst., about fifty miles to the westward of
Cape Race, she passed the steam-ship Africa, with the
mails hence of the 26th ult.

While the cholera was rapidly disappearing from the
west and the middle states, the south was beginning to
feel the effects of that fearful scourge, yellow fever.
Savannah appears to be the point which was most vio-
lently attacked, and there a panic prevailed, while at New
Orleans the disease progressed. At Key West it was
alarmingly bad, and at Charleston preparations were
making to open hospitals for the sick. Extensive fires
had occurred in various parts of the country. In Maine
fires were raging- with great fury, doing immense injury
to the timber and crops. A fire also raged on the-Catskell
Mountains. At Troy two or three hundred buildings
were destroyed. Waldoboro' had shared a sitnikbr fate.
Massachussets, New Hampshire, and Canada West, were
suffering from the sarce'calamity. A note-broker of Phila-
delphia absconded with $40,000 in paper entrusted to him
to negotiate, but was afterwards captured. The/ ship
Antwerp had arrived at New York, from Liverpecl, with
I ISO head of cattle. She only lost three sheen
e yr "fter he n•-•.-4- -

~„. une severe droughts experienced-
for years all over the north-west, rain had commenced, to
fall. O the 27th a terrific' tornado passed over the-city
of Louisville, blowing down- the Presbyterian Churc4
and causing the death of twenty-seven persons. A large
number were wounded. Fully one hundred buildings

were unroofed.
The Washington corres

point of the Courier arid

Inquirer says," I ascertain:that an important correspond-
ence has occurred between Secretary Buchanan and the
lritish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Clarendon
,sserts the British Territorial claims on Central Ame-
founded' on the Mosquito protectorate. Buchanan
them in two elaborate notes, and demands an
gal rcx-

British Secret

_—oquishment of the-protectorate. It is
understood that our government hawdetermined to adopt
decisive measures to obtain the complete evacuation of
Central America, m stipulated by the dayton and Bulwer
Convention."

Captain Hollins, of the United States frigate Cyane,
had been arrested and held to bail by one of the sufferers
by the bombardment of Greytown.
A letter from a person on board the- Collins' steamer
Arctic,-says, " In overhauling the machinery of the Arctic,
since her attempted triel trip on Saturday last, it is found
that new difficulties have presented themselves, which
will prevent her malting the new application of the
" Wetherell patent" until her return from Liverpool. The
invention has cost too much labour now to run the risk of
any failure, and Mr. Collins, by the advice•of the consult-
ing engineers and the makers of the machinery, Messrs.
Stillman and Aken, has consented to have the tubes,
through which the new steam travels, enamelled, which
was not done-before. This will obviate the possibility of
any accident, especially such a one as happened on Satur-
day last, and by which twemen were badly injured. On
the return of the Arctic from Liverpool, the new ma-
chinery will take but a few days to have•it in running
order, and she will then proceed to Bostcni where she
intends remaining two days."

From the British provinces we learn thatrpending the
action of the British and Colonial Legislatures on the
„ the river St. Lairence will be free to
Jrican vessels to navigate. The government-house at
Alifax N.S., was recently partially destroyed by fire.
he cholera was rapidly abating at St. John,. N. 8., at last

3rocity treaty,

alcounts, and business was reviving.
We have brief advices from Mexico city to the 29th ult.
Count Raousset de Bonlbon had been sentenced to be
shot on the 19th inst., together with several other French
Another government victory is reported to have
,een gained on the 7th. A famine was prevailing at
'hilmahua and Chiapas, and many persons had died from
.•-- The crops in half the states were; almost total

The government was en the point of adopting
—.sures for the relief of the sufferers, and private
subscriptions were being taken up for the same purpose.
The- Indian troubles in Durango had, been• momentarily
checked. Armed bands of Indians, however, had ap-
peared in other districts, committing many depredations,
and causing the inhabitants to flee for their-lives. Dis-
cont silt and revolution-were spreading alarmingly through-
out the country. The government was exercising strict
censorship over the press, and preventing the publication
of actual facts which made the least allusion to the go-
vernment. The cholera and fever had nearly disappeared
in Vera Cruz, the city of Mexico, and other places where
_ging violently. Several conspirators had
sted by order of the government, among whom

it had been ra
be(

were several prominent men. -
"Are have advices from Havana to the 21st ult. The
Captain General had issued a tranquillizing proclamation
respecting the insurrection in Spain. The sugar market
had been less active, owing to the disposition to hold for
further advices. White sold in small lots at $3-i- to $4l
per quintal, and some bright yellow at $3l. There was
no molasses: last sales at 3 rs. per keg;: Muscovado, 4 rs.
to 42 rs. per keg. Freights dull. Exehange on London
13 t 0.131. The Captain-General had paid to Don Manuel
Christobel de Seayas the sum of $1;264 for apprehending
in the Mariel district 174 newly landed negroes, being at
the rate of $lO each for males,.s6 for females, and $3 for
children. This payment will doubtless have a beneficial
effect in assisting the suppression of the slave trade.
Among the deaths reported in the California papers is
that of ;James Beatty, of Liverpool, who was drowned on
the 14th July, at the mouth of Rough and Ready Creek,
Tuolumne river.

In Venezuela the revolution appeared to be progressing,
several provinces having pronounced in favour of Paez.
Monagas was said to be without cash or credit.
On the 21st ult. there were 130 cases of yellow fever,
under treatment at New Orleans.