The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-26 00:00:00

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FILANCE.—The Emperor, who had lei.
week to fetch the Empress from the Pyrennees, returned
to the Tuileries on Thursday. The Senekzelle of Toulon
mentions the expected arrival in that port of soma hun-
dreds of Russian prisoners, who will be employed aVeduced
wages in the extensive works now going on there. It has
been definitively decided that a harbour of refuge, capable
of receiving the largest vessels of the'state;-.shall be con-
structed at Boulogne-sur-Mer. The site of the port will be
at the village of Chatillon, which is at the south-west of
Boulogne. Mr. Soule,late.Ainerican Ambassador at Madrid,
arrived at Toulouse on the 17th, accompanied by Mr.
Sickles, the United States Secretary of Legation at Lon-
don. Mr. Soule's extraordinary flight from the, Madrid
police has not been explained.
HOLLAND.—The States-General were opened on Mon-
day, by the King. His Majesty declared, in the course of
his speech, his great satisfaction that the neutrality which
had been scrupulously observed was respected, . and that
the Government of Holland continued to receive from all
foreign powers marks of amity and friendship.

SPAlN.—Letters from Spain give unsatisfactory ac-
counts of the state of things at Madrid on the -13th. It
seems to be certain that much uneasiness prevailed in the
public mind, owing to an expectation that a, rising was
imminent. According to some accounts, but for active
precautions, there would certainly have been an ,eriteute,
and several arrests were made. A telegraphic._ despatch
from Bayonne, dated Monday, states that the- police had
searched a house where they expected to find Mr. Soule.
How it happened that the police were authorized to hunt
for the Americah minister, and with what object, is not
explained.

BELGIUM.—The Belgian Moniteur of the ]AItIL inst.
announces the termination of the ministerial erisis•in the
following terms.:—" OU Sunday the King presided at a
council of the ministers ; after the council the• ministers
consented to withdraw their resignation." The King of
the Belgians left Brusseli on Monday. According to the
Emancipation, his Majesty is going into Prussia and
Austria, but the Independance states that the King is
going incognito into Switzerland, and will proceed as far
as the Lake of Como.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA

By the British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Europa, Captain Shannon, which arrived, on Satur-
day, we have intelligence from New York to the 14th, and
Boston to the 13th instant. She also brought eighty pas-
sengers and 529,089 dollars on freight.
The royal mail steamer Africa arrived hence at New
York on the 7th instant; the screw-steamer Glasgow,
from the Clyde, on the 11th; and the St. Louis, from
Havre, on the 12th.

A Washington correspondent announces that a Cabinet
Council was held on the 11th to discuss some important
despatches from the American commissioner at the Sand-
wich Islands.

It is asserted in one of the New York papers that a
Liverpool house is about to run a line of screw-steamers
between New York and Havre, and will be prepared to
commence on the 18th November. A negro had been
burnt at Montgomery, Alabama, for murdering his mas-

ter. The Catherine-Augusta, a vessel of aboul 400
had sailed from New York on a secret expedition. She
was loaded with a large number of muskets and ammu-
nition, and had rather a suspicious sort of crew. The
screw-steamer Benjamin Franklin was nearly ready to
sail on a similar expedition. These vessels are said to be
fitted out by parties hostile to Santa Anna.
The Charleston papers give detailed accounts of the
first of the terrific autumnal storms which annually
ravage the Atlantic coast from Florida to Nova Scotia.
The gale, which was of unexampled fury, continued for
thirty-six hours, and destroyed an immense amount of
property. Cholera was raging at Columbia, Pennsylvania.
Throughout the State of Maine the "Fusionist" party
had been successful in electing their candidates for local
councils. All hopes of getting the steamship Franklin
afloat had been abandoned.

The steamship Star of the West had arrived at New
York from San Juan, with advices from San Francisco to
the 16th August, and 1,022,000 dollars. The Oregon had
left with 1,005,176 dollars on freight for New York. The
Isthmus was in a remarkably healthy state, and the tran-
sit of the passengers was made in thirty-five hours. H.M.
schooner Bermuda and the mail steamer Magdalena were
at San Juan. The California markets continued much
depressed. It is mentioned that the Hock Farm digger
tribe of Indians had dwindled away in a very few years
from 500 to 15. Speaking of the Russian squadron in the
Pacific, a San Francisco paper says, "A whole fleet could
not prOuce more commotion on our coast than does the
Russian frigate Diana. Rumour has had it that she was
enterinc, the Heads with a whole train of prizes almost
every day' for the past fortnight; then it was reported she
and an English vessel were chasing each other, off San
Diego; and again, it was alleged she was to sail for Sitka.
By the arrival of the Restless, we learn that she eluded
the British frigate that followed her out of the harbour of
Honolulu, turned upon her course, and put into port
again, where she no sooner received the news of the decla-
ration of war than she set sail again." The news from
the various parts of the mining regions is encouraging,
though the want of water was operating against the
miners. New diggings had been discovered about eighty
miles from Santa Barbara. Bidwell, a mountain town,
had been totally destroyed by fire.
A duel had occurred at San Francisco, in which one
party was shot through the hand with a Colt's revolver,
and the other dangerously wounded in the side. The
Mariposa Chronicle states that a subterranean pass has
been found through the Sierra Navada. The discoverer
says that, having heard of such a pass, he had vainly ex-
plored for it until, as he was undressing to take a shower-
bath from a mountain torrent, a guest of wind sweeping
away the misty spray, disclosed the entrance to a cavern.
Summoning his companions, they entered it with lighted
torches. The appearance of the place as they proceeded
was magnificent. Suddenly they came upon an Indian
track, which caused them some fear. They followed the
track until they felt a fresh current of air blowing upon
them. Turning a sharp angle they suddenly came face to
face with two tall and manly.looking Indians, whose faces
displayed at once astonishment and rage. They, however,
after some conversation, became more friendly, and gave
the explorers directions how to proceed. They were great
medicine men of their tribe, and were returning home
through the pass. The explorers, after walking for about
four days, emerged at the other side of the mountain, hav-
ing on their passage crossed a yawning abyss by means of
petrified logs, at the bottom of which they discovered a
mass of human bones.

The advices from Nicaragua mention that Chamorro re-
mained strongly fortified in the Palaza of Granada with
about 600 men, and Castillon still continued the siege with
a force numbering near 3,000 men.
An Anglo-French squadron sailed from Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, on the 29th July, in search of the Rus-
sian ships. They stood away westward after leaving the
islands. The ships forming the squadron were H.M.
steamer Virago, The President, Amphitrite, and Pique
frigates, H.I.M. ships La Forte, Eurydice, L'Artemisa, and
L'Orligado, carrying altogether 258 guns. During the
stay of the squadron at Honolulu his Majesty of the Sand-
wich Islands made an excursion on board the Virago, every
honour being paid to him, salutes being fired, and the
yardsmanned. His Majesty announced his determination
of enforcing a strict neutrality during the present war.
CIIAILLESTON, SEPT. B.—We are in the midst of a heavy
N. E. gale, which has been blowing for twelve hours with-
out appearance of moderating. Extreme loss to the rice
crop must ensue from the excessive rise of the tides.
Most of the rice plantations are necessarily overflown, and
being in the midst of the harvest, a large portion of the
rice already cut, but still in the fields, will be lost, besides
much damage to the portion standing, from being under
water when ripe. The probable extent of the damage will
not be ascertained for a couple of weeks, but it must be
serious, affecting both the quantity and quality of one of
the most promising crops (up to yesterday) ever known.
Sea Islands will be greatly injured by the blow, and con-
tinued fall of rain, which will cause the dropping of the
nearly matured cotton to a large extent. Should an early
frost in October follow this disaster, instead of the very
large crop anticipated of at least 40,000 bags, the supply
may be cut down to under 30,000 bags, or even less.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW Yons, 12th September.

MoNEr.—There is no change in the rates for bills on
London and Paris. There can be no essential improve-
ment in the money market for sixty days. Exchange on
London, 1091 to 109 k ; Paris, 6.114 to 5.121 ; Frankfort,
414 to 411 ; Bremen, 784 to 781; Hamburg, 361 to 364;
Antwerp, 5.114 to 5.131.

COTTON.—The total sales since our last, exclusive of
shipments from first hands, do not exceed 2,500 bales
The market has been very irregular, and in some instances.
a reduction of to ie. has been conceded. The
New York Price Current publishes the official statement
of the cotton crop for 1853-54. The total amounts to
2,927,608 bales, or 335,274 less than the one preceding. The
export to Great Britain has been 1,603,750 bales, being a
decrease of 133,110 as compared with last year. To France
374,058 bales, decrease 52,670. To north of Europe,
165,172 bales, decrease, 6,004. To other foreign ports,
176,178, decrease 17,468. Total export, 2,319,148 bales ;
decrease, as compared with last year, 209,252 bales. The
quantity taken for consumption in the United ttates is
606,769 bales, or 64,240 less than last year. The amount
on hand in the ports of the United States, including
Augusta and Hamburg, as well as Boston, &c., is 133,856
bales, against 135,643 bales last year. The stock on hand
in the usual shipping ports is 116,727 bales, against last
year 107,304.
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BREADSTUFF/3.-11e demand for flour is moderate, and
prices favour the buyer. Wheat is rather dull : millers,
expecting larger receipts, are unwilling to pay the ask-
ing rates.

PROVISIONS.—Mess pork sold at $14,50 to $14,871
Beef is steady in demand. Lard has been inactive
Butter arrives freely.

FRElGHTS.—Freights are without any material altera-
tion : the engagements are light. To Liverpool : Tobacco,
per hhd., 16s. ; cotton, id. ; rosin, 74d. to 9d. ; heavy
goods, 7s. 6d. to 10s. ; grain, 3-id. to 4d.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 9.—The cotton market is dull.
The sales to-day were 700 bales. Flour is firm : Ohio is
quoted at $7, 76c.