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

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PRussrak—Since the receipt of the answer of the
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concert, from which it had to a certain degree withdrawn.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 Bth August
should be embodied, as was the treaty of April, in a
former document drawn up and signed by the Conference.
The king and M. Manteuffel are at plain vari-
ance, and the minister is getting out of favour for ex-
pressing his belief that Prussia cannot with safety set
herself up in opposition to the Western Powers. There
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neral rumour in Berlin that M. de Mantenffel was
lbout to retire from office, but this was contradicted by
his friends. Although moderate and tranquillizing writers
endeavour to show that these differences will, like many
others that have preceded them, come to nothing at the
last moment, it is not denied that the king has sent for, to
Putbus, M. de Bismark Schaenhausen, the representative
of Prussia at the Germanic Diet, who was in Pomerania

with his family, and whose leaning towards Russia is a
matter of public notoriety.—The Paris correspondent of
the 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-

n the most positive manner that he will persist in
the system of neutrality that he has adopted, and that he

a 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 sth 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.

Rust:a/L.—Letters from the south of Russia mention
that the Russians have thrown a bridge of !)?ats. 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 exeeption 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 advises 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
835,000, at rates varying from 26 to 264, the greater part
at the latter rate. Business in freights was completely
paralyzed,

CANADA,—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
flanrishing. Ihe 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
alone for a foreign market. The Canadian, farmers last