The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-14 00:00:00

the St. Nichola

steamship Orizeba arrived at New Orleans, from
ruz, on the 28th ultimo. She brought no news of

The proposed Convention of the National Whigs of the
States is confirmed. It had been agreed to issue an ad-
dress to the people re-affirming the Baltimore resolutions
of 1852. No recommendation to be made to the National
Whig voters. The Free Democratics and the " Know
Nothings" have issued addresses, the object of the latter
being to kindle the patriotic spark in the bosom of the
voters. There had been a split amongst this party on the
question of the City nominations.

- An Abolition riot had occurred at Worcester, Mass., on
its being discovered that Mr. A. O. Batman, who had been
very active on the occasion of the arrest of Sims and
Burns, fugitive slaves, was stopping at one of the hotels.
An attempt at violence upon the person of Mr. Batman
was made, but the courage of the mob vanished at the
sight of his fire-arms. A warrant, on a charge of carrying
concealed arms, was then got out against him. When he
reached the railroad depot, a gang of negroes, who set
upon him, pelted, kicked, and beat him unmercifully.
A destructive fire occurred at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
28th ult. The loss of property was estimated at over a
million dollars.

The deposit required from the contractors of the Great
Pacific Railroad by the State of Texas not having been
paid, the project was expected to fall through.
_

A frightful accident, resulting in the deaths of 67 per-
sons, and in the wounding of 41 others, had occurred
through the negligence of a watchman on the Great
Western Railroad, near Chatham, on the Baptist Creek
Flats, by a passenger-train running into a gravel-train
during a fog. Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, who was in the
train, escaped uninjured. One locomotive was thrown
over to the right, the express car thrown over and crushing
the first and second class cars into mere splinters, demolish-
ing the next, and making a wreck of the third car, and
driving in the end of the fourth. The passengers in the last
cars escaped unhurt, or with slight bruises. Almost the
entire persons of the second-class cars were killed or
wounded : some cut in two, others with mangled heads
and bodies, and without limbs. The screams and groans
of the mangled were awful. Every effort was made by
the conductor and• passengers who were uninjured to
relieve the suffering; but, notwithstanding the almost
superhuman efforts to relieve them, all were not extricated
until more than four hours after the collision. Heaps of
the dead and wounded were found in the ruins, piled to-
gether in all imaginable shapes. One poor fellow was cut
out of the express car, his limbs hanging out of the side,
fifteen feet from the ground. One of the strangest fea-
tures of the accident is, that all the gravel-cars were
demolished and piled upon each other, with the tender of
the engine stove in. The conductor of the gravel-train
was on the rear car, with his signal-light, and a negro
boy at his side. The conductor saved himself by jumping ,
the negro was killed.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

NEW Yong, Ist November.

MoNET.—We have to report a continuance of that inacti-
vity of trade generally, which has prevailed during an
uninterrupted period of several months past. The commer-
cial community are obviously acting with great caution in
incurring new responsibilities, and the payments for the
ensuing six months must be comparatively light. The
pressure in the money market is unabated, and the banks,
as well as individuals, are beginning to feel the effects of
it. There are reports of the suspension of one or two
banks in the interior of this State, and, unless there is
some improvement in trade and finance ere long, there will,
it is feared, be many more suspensions among the banking
institutions of the country. Our old-established city banks
are in a sound and healthy condition ; the rates for money
range from one to three per cent. a month for prime to
second-class paper having three to six months to mature.;
No alteration in exchange, with a moderate business. We
quote bills on London : 91 to 91 per cent. premium ; Paris,
&c., f. 5.131 to f.5.12i sixty days, and f. 5.073 short sight ;.
Antwerp, f. 5.131; Amsterdam, 411 ; Hamburg, 361; Bre-
men, 793 to 791; Frankfort, 411 to 411 s.
COTTON.—We have no change to note in our market,
which continues dull at last quotations, say 94c. for mid-
dling Uplands, and 10c. for middling Orleans. Excepting
an occasional purchase forexport, the business doing here is,
for home use,and,owing to the lightness of the stock,prices
are sustained above the limits of English orders, and above
the parity of foreign markets. We fully confirm our views
as advised on the incoming crop, and although some com-
plaints of rain on the Atlantic border have reached us, we
find generally, in the advices from our correspondents, less.
disposition to indulge in low figures. No frost has yet
occurred, and the continuance of mild weather is favour-
able to the yield. If peace was restored, confidence would
be, and a crop of 3,250,000 bales would be all required ; if
the war is protracted, a crop of 2,930,000 bales may again
prove to be, as it was last year, a full supply.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF
COTTON.

Exports to Total Exports Stock on
Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For Ports. Hand, &c,
1854.... 207,516 55,388 96,850 912,289
1853.... 173,166 57,370 79,702 161,629
Increase 34,350 17,148 30,660
Decrease 1,982

BREADSYIIFES.—The market for State and Western
flour opened heavy, with a somewhat diminished demand,
caused by the high prices ruling, a slight decline on the
low grades was established. The reduction was recovered,
and the fluctuations since have been unimportant. The
receipts, though still remarkably light for the season, have
slightly increased. , -There has been no inquiry for export
to Great Britain, but private letters per Pacific, from well-
informed parties, state that, in view of the barrenness of
supply in the Liverpool, as well as the other principal
British markets, it is by no means improbable that prices
will attain to a point admitting of a demand from this
side during the autumn. For Canada flour the market
has ruled firm, with a fair demand both for export to the
British provinces and for home use. The supply of wheaf
continues very light, but, the demand being restricted by'
the extreme high prices asked, the market closes with'
rather less tone than at the date of our last. The coral
market opened rather easier ' • but a portion of the decline
was recovered. The demand has been active for export!
to Great Britain, with a fair distilling inquiry.
PROVISIONS.—The demand for Western pork has conti-
nued quite active and with less pressing on the market, an
advance of 121 c. to 25c. on mess has been obtained:
Other descriptions are without important change. The
monthly report of stock will be completed to-day, and the
total quantity of all kinds, it is the general belief, will foot
up between 65,000 and 70,000 barrels. The market for
beef is without material variation, the demand and supply
being alike light, the market closing steady. Prime mess,
beef continues scarce, and at $25 is demanded. Lard has
been more active, and the market is a shade firmer.
Butter continues in fair request. Cheese is in good request.
DRY GOODS.—The country is well off, and the people of
the interior are able to pay for all they have purchased.
The imports for several weeks past have fallen off mate-
rially. The orders which have gone abroad are extremely
light, and the prospect is that in a few months business
will assume a profitable position. Prices of almost all
kinds of staple goods are better than they were in August,
which is highly encouraging.
NAVAL STOREB.—There is a fair demand for tnrpentine,
at rather better rates. Spirits of turpentine has been less
active without any change in price. Common rosin is not
readily taken at over $2, unless for extra heavy; stock
here very light. Tar is quiet, and in small stock.
IRON.—The market continues very quiet with sales of '
Scotch pig at $32 to $34, 6 mos., and $3O to 32, for cash,
according to quality and quantity.
CoAL.—Foreign is in good supply and dull. Hard is
without change.
FREIGHTS.—The market to Great Britain was a trifle
firmer, owing to the increased amount of corn offering.
The ..fferings of general freight continued light, and
except for grain, there is no quotable advance in rates.
The engagements to Liverpool included 120,000 bushels of
corn at 3}d. to 5d., in bulk and ship's bags, closing at
about 41-d. to 5d.; shoulders, oil, and tallow, 12s. 6d.;
cheese, 15s. ; apples, 3s. ; and 500 bales of cotton, d. To
London, oil cake, 15s. to 16s. ; tallow and leather cloth,
155.; turpentine, ls. 9d. To Havre, lard, whalebone, and
some hops, ic. ; corn, 10c.; provisions, 371 c. per barrel.
CHARLESTON, OCT. 31.—Eight hundred and fifty bales
of cotton were sold here to-day at prices ranging from
7c. to 93-c.
NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 31.—There is an active demand
for cotton at previous rates. The sales to-day amounted
to 5,500 bales. Middling is quoted at 9c.