The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

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NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Ashes, better. Cotton is heavy;
sales, 800 bales.. Flour, better ; State, $7;87 to $8,37;
Ohio, $8,50 to $9; Southern, better. Wheat, better;
sales, 2,000 bushels. Corn, better ; sales, 70,000 bushels ;
mixed, 90c. to 901 c. ; yellow, 92c. to 93c. Pork, better ;
mess, $13,50 t 0,513,75. Beef, firm. Lard"; firmer.
NEW ORLB4XS, Dec. 2.—The cotton, market is un-
changed. The sales to-day were 3,500 bales. For mess
pork prices are considerably lower, 900 .barrels, received
from New Ybrk per steamer, sold for• $lB. Freights are
firm. Sterling• exchange is quoted at 8• to 8 per cent.
premium.

Fus.NcE.—On Wednesday, for the first time since the
opening of the campaign in the Crimea, the Empe-
ror visited the Opera in Paris. Admiral Hamelin, in
consequence- of the recent dignity conferred on him,
is to return to France, with Rear Admiral Count
Bouet Willaumez and the other officers of his staff, and
Vice-Admiral Bruat is to take the command of the French
naval forces in the Black Sea. The Baltic and Mediter-
ranean, squadrons are to be formed ,into one, under the
name of the Mediterranean squadron. At Lyons and
Marseilles, without waiting for the decision of the
Roman See, the fete of the Immaculate Conception
was celebrated on the Bth with:great pomp. Lyons was
illuminated at night ; Bengal lights from time to time
rose in the sky, and balloons filled with fireworks were
let off. At Marseilles the fete-commenced in the morning,
with a procession, which lasted for two hours, of the statue
of the Virgin, which was escorted by detachments from
the garrison. At night the streets were illuminated, and
a great crowd thronged the streets. The fete was to con-
tinue the next day.

SPAIN.—The Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived.
General Ros de Olano was. generally spoken of as likely
to be the new Minister of Marine in the room, of M.
Salazar; General Prim and M. Corradi were also men-.
tioned. A conspiracy at Cuba has been suppressed. Two.
United States packets have been seized at Havana, for
having conveyed arms and seditious proclamations.
ITALY.—A telegraphic despatch from Rome announces
that on Sunday last, the Pope, officiating at St, Peter's,
promulgated the decree which delares that the Immacu-
late Conception is an article of faith of the Church, and
that whoever denies it is a heretic. Two hundred bishops
were present on the occasion, and, in the words of the an-
nouncement, " Rome was intoxicated with joy."
RusslA.--The Empress of Russia is reported to be
dying. It was not even certain that she was alive when
the last Vienna account was transmitted from St. Peters-
burg. The barrage of the approaches to Riga Harbour,
by sinking masses of stone, has been so effectual that even
merchant vessels drawing an ordinary depth of water
cannot enter or depart with cargoes, and all such vessels
must be loaded and unloaded outside this artificial bar
destined to prevent the approach of hostile cruisers.

GIBRALTAR.—The steamer Iberia arrived at South-
ampton, on Saturday night, with dates frOm Gibraltar to
the Bth, and Lisbon the 11th instant, £28,000 in specie,
and the usual cargo. Among the passengers were several
wounded officers from Balaklava. A number of trans-
ports had passed Gibraltar to the eastward.
BRAZIL.—The Great Western arrived at Southampton
on Saturday afternoon, with advices from Buenos Ayres
to the 2nd, Monte Video the 6th, Rio to the 14th, and
Pernambuco to the 24th November, and from Lisbon to
the 11th December, and i:3,475 in gold on freight. At
Buenos Ayres all was quiet. Business was very languid.
At Paraguay a dispute had taken place between the
Americans and the President,in consequence of which the