The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-18 00:00:00

Lancashire and Yorkshire, 671 I- 76i ;
Riding Union, 44d ; London
_Stock,
_lO5 44

Ditto
Stock
5-1 d ; Noi
19 7-16 f
Dutch Rhenish

d ; Sheffield Stock, 22 ; Midland
B 7 69 4 8 4; Newry and Enniskillen,
th British, 8 9-16 82 ; South Eastern,
9 5-16; York and North Midland, 271 ;
31d.

LIVERPOOL 0:W0318.-11e quarterly statement
of the Revenue shows a falling off in the Customs
receipts of the United Kingdom to the extent of
more than a third of a million. Liverpool has,
however, no share in this decline, the returns from
this port showing an increase of £83,246, being
from £799,917 in the quarter ended sth July, 1853,
and £883,163 in the corresponding quarter of 1854.
THE Fur DS.—The closing prices of Consols in
the London Stock Exchange are quoted yesterday
(Monday) at 92 9-16 to 11-16. This is the first
time we have noticed fluctuations in the funds
quoted less than an eighth. It is a refinement in
speculation more novel than commendable.
COTTON.—Trade during the week has been very
dull, and prices have receded about 1-16 d. per lb.
This depression is attributed to the unfavourable
weather which prevailed and the decline in the
Money Market affecting the manufacturers. The
sales during the week up to Friday amounted to
only 40,520 bales, of which 3,890 were taken on
speculation and 6,890 for export, leaving 29,740
for the trade. To-DAY the market was considerably
better, and, the weather being warm and sunny,
great confidence was manifest m the improvement
of the demand for consumption. The sales reached
8000 bales, of which about 3000 were on specula-
tion and for export. Quotations are not higher,
but the tendency is upward. The following is a
comparison of present rates with those of the
corresponding period last year :

1853. 1854.
New Orleans, midd1ing........, 64d. 5 5-18 d.
fair 7d. eid.
Uplands, middling
fair .

I SALES. IMPORTS.
HSCILIPTION. PRICES.: Week • Prey'. Week This
ending ously ending
Year. July 14
'July 14 this yr. July 14
570 15600
90 730 7083 393942
7480 254670
6 1 2030 140190 } 25712 76746,4 i 631010
7ii 20570 503960
6 660 26280 .... 19222, 16670
6 450 17150 1400 16284 10570
7 320; 18300 2111 23732' 22760
480 .... 409 210
1500 59450 1188' 31683, 57050
150, 3520 2023 2560
6290 490, 173010
4920 I '• • • 139572 189450
160 J

6 TUC li

Sea Island 8 Gr 20
Stained 4 8
Boweds 4
Mobile 4l
New Orleans. 3*
Pernams, &c. 6*
Bahia, &c. 6*
Maranharn 61
Demerara,&c
Egyptian 53 11
Com.W.L&c. 4} 5
Surat
Madras 3* 4

Bengal

974 3670

40520:12198601 37494'1395305 933950

PRODUCE.—The Sugar market during the week
has been very dull, and prices barely supported.
The same remark will also apply to Coffee, Rice,
and Tea ; but of the latter fine sorts were rather
dearer.—Saltpetre has been in fair demand, and for
Brimstone there was also rather more inquiry.
Palm Oil and Tallow have been in good demand,
and full prices have been obtained. To-DAY, a fair
amount of business has been done in Sugar, the
sales, including Saturday's transactions, comprising
200 hhds. Barbadoes at 31s. 6d. to 365. 6d., 30
hhds. grainy Demerara at 38s. 6d. to 405., 600
mats Mauritius, (price not reported,) 35 hhds.
Louisiana at 335. 3d., 830 boxes Havana at 325.
6d., and 800 bags Pernams at 295. 6d. to 30s. 6d.
per cwt.-450 puns. very inferior Cuba Molasses
have been sold from quay at 13s. 6d. per cwt.—
The sales in Coffee comprise 135 bags Laguayra at
555., 250 bags Ceara at 425. to 435., and 300 bags
Bahia at 445. 6d. to 455. 6d. per cwt.—The Tea
market is very quiet, and to effect sales lower prices
would require to be taken. Common Congou, of
sound quality, is nominally 104 d. to 11d. per lb.—
The business done in Rice is confined to 500 bags
new Arracan at lls., and 80 tees. Carolina at 18s.
per cwt.—We have also to notice 200 bags Black
Pepper at 42d., 50 bags Pimento at 5-1-d., 10 chests
Kurpah Indigo at 2s. per lb., and a small lot of
Shell Lac at 50s. per cwt.

WooL.—The transactions this week have been
affected by the announcement of six or seven more
failures in the Worsted trade, and the unfavourable
news received from the East at the commencement
of the week ; yet prices are still very firm. The
second series of sales of the new clip of Colonial
Wool commenced in London last Thursday ; there
was a fair attendance, and prices ranged about the
same as last May sales, except for Port Philip
combing flocks, which were ld. per lb. more. Irish
Wools are of ready sale at 11d. to 12d. Downs,
at 111 d. to 12id., are also in demand. Imports
for the week, 409 bales, viz., 225 Buenos Ayres,
111 Portugal, 6 United States, 51 Scotch, and 1.6
Irish.

METALS.—There is nothing important to com-
municate this week in the Metal market. The
advance proposed at the Ironmasters' preliminary
meeting was confirmed at their general quarterly
meeting on Thursday last, when a large business
was done in manufactured Iron. Other metals
continue without change in price. Scotch Pig
Iron was depressed during the past week, owing
to forced sales, but has since partially recovered its
tone.

POLAND, AND ITS RELATION TO RUSSIA.

LECTURE LAST NIGHT.

LAST night, a lecture was delivered at the Royal Insti-
tution, in Colquitt-street, by M. Zaba, a Polish gentleman,
on the subject, so interesting at the present time, of
" Poland : its condition, social and political, and its history,
with regard to its relations with Russia." The meeting,
it was announced, would take place under the auspices
of the Mayor. There was a crowded and intellectual
assemblage ; and precisely at the appointed hour his
Worship, accompanied by his lady ; J. A. Tinne, Esq., and
lady, and others, entered, amidst applause, into the lec-
ture hall.
The MA.you took the chair. He said that he had much
pleasure in complying with the request of M. Zaba to pre-
side at that meeting, inasmuch as he had been presented
to him by Lord Harrowby, for whom he was sure that
every one connected with this community had a high
esteem—(applause),—considering that he had so faith-
fully and so many years represented us in the
Commons' House of Parliament. He was sure that
all would feel a request that he made with respect
to any friend that he had. He should read them the first
paragraph of his letter, and then present to them M. Zaba :
The bearer, M. Zaba, is a most respectable gentleman,
who is about to deliver a lecture in several of the consider-
able towns in connexion with Polish history, to bring the
public mind in familiarity with such topics, when the
question of Poland may be one of interest in the settle-
ment of Europe." (Applause.)
M. Z.sne. was then introduced, and struck at once ore
rotundo into his discourse. He is evidently a most intel-
lectual man, of enthusiastic temperament, and possessing
the most charming manner as a lecturer. After express-
ing the satisfaction which he felt in delivering a discourse
on a subject so dear to him in this, the second town in
the kingdom, he said that , he did not wish to appeal
to their passions, but to address their judgment and
convictions. To do this he should have occasion to refer
to the political career of Poland, that he might be able to
show that she had manifested the strongest anxiety at
different times to give expansion to liberal ideas, to pro-
mote the cause of freedom, and the cause and interest of
humanity at large. If he succeeded in showing them by
some historical facts that the tendency of Polish society
was favourable to that great end, he was sure that their
interest and favour in the re-establishment of Poland
would be strengthened. (Applause.) It was true that
it would be difficult for him to do justice to so vast a sub-
ject within the limits of a single address. At this very
moment, when Europe found herself threatened with the
overgrown ambition of Russia, there existed a universal
idea that some efficient measure should be adopted to
check its progress, and to check its spirit of restlessness,
that it might not disturb the harmony and peace of
Europe. (Applause.) Some were for submitting to local
interests ; others to benevolence and resignation ; but
if we were to follow them, the greatest injury
would be inflicted upon the dignity of the human
character, for such would be selfishness in its ugliest
form. As to difficulties, the voice of justice pointed out
to man how to diminish the pressure or to remove them
altogether. (Applause.) Two powerful countries, once
separated by mutual jealousy, were now united, and Provi-
dence had assigned to Great Britain and France the high
office of being the champions of insulted justice. (Loud
applause.) It was, therefore, of importance that Great
Britain should be acquainted with all the circumstances
which might be of importance in the circle of European
politics. He maintained the establishment of Poland as
one of the means to secure the peace and progress of
every desirable improvement. (Applause.) In order,
therefore, to prove that Poland was at all times in har-
mony with the principles upheld in this country, he
should call their attention first to her early history.
The beginning of Poland, like the history of almost every
other country, was lost in obscurity, but it began to
emerge at the end of the tenth century, when Christianity
was introduced. And there was this peculiarity in it, it
came from the West ; whereas that of the Muscovite and
the Mongol was from the East,—so that the two empires
of Poland and Russia, in regard to their ideas, were per=
fectly distinct, and that difference was stamped through
all their subsequent idea. He should divide the history of
Poland into four distinct periods. The first, the absolute
monarchy, which extended from the ninth century to the
middle of the fourteenth ; the second period represented
the constitutional monarchy of the Jagellons, which lasted
till the second half of the sixteenth century ; the third
period was an elective monarchy, which began in 1572 and
existed till 1768 ; and the fourth was that in which the
Poles sought to redress all their social grievances, and to
free Poland from foreign influence : that began in 1768,
and had continued up to the present date. (Applause.)
Zaba then proceeded to consider the characteristics
of these various periods. The first, he said, was the war-
like, and yet the principle of humanity was shown then
as throughout all their history; for as early as the 12th
century, Poland was the only country that gave shelter to
the persecuted and then cruelly-treated Jews, (Applause.)