Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-17
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP AFRICA.


New York, April l6-The steamship Africa,
with Liverpool dates to the Sd inst, Is signulled
below from Sandy Hook.
Consols 80 3-la96 S-s 5000, 1000 of Indian
loan had been taken ut an Average Of96.
Politics were unimportant. American secu-
rites dull.
Sales of cotton for the week were %, 900 bales
$500 to spectators, and 800 to exporters, at
decline of IA to 3-s on inferior qualities, lisa
IA on middling; fair qualities unchanged. Clo-
sed dull; holders offer freely, but show diSPo-
sition to press sales; quotations are, uir Orleans
7 5-s, middllng "a; fair Mobile Z IA, mid
ding 5-s fair upland T. middling 6 I2. The
market was closed from the lst to the 9TH, on
account of the Easter holidays Manchester adj
vices continue uniavora0le. BreadStuffs dull.
DEMONSTRATION in the bank of England has
decreased eI05,00O. Breadstuffs dull. Rich
ardson, Spence & CO., report that the market
closed quiet, with no market since the sailing Of
the City of Washington. Provisions dull. Beef
dull but steady Pork steady Bacon dull; pri-
ces easier, but quotations unchanged. Lard
firm, bur advanced Isl quoting at 5oa52s- Ro.
sin steady Sugar declined cd. Coffee dull
with decline; inferior qualities declined, but pri-
ces easier; quotations unchanged. Carolina Rice
heavy.
The Atlantic Cable is being taken on board
the Niagara and Agamemnon rapidly. 1t will
be finished about the 10th of May. Some deed
sea experiments will be made before the final
attempt.
Fears are entertained for the African steamer
Gambia, now nearly month over due in Eng
land.
Tue relations Of France and Switzerland con-
tinue unsatisfactory, giving rise to uneasiness.
/ The Paris Bourse is losing buOyancy daily,
and is declining.
Spain is sending renforcements to the Gulf
of Mexico.
New measures for public safety have been or
ganiScd at Madrid.
The Bank of Holland has reduced the rate of
discount to 50 per cent. The official revenue
for the quarter ending March 3lSt, amounted to
twopnd half millions, and for the year TO four
and half millions, of pounds sterling.
The French Minister to Switzerland has again
insisted on having French COnsulS at Chnudc-
ford and Baslc
y reduction of the French Army WAS contcm-
plated, owing to the finances
Pelissier will go to London on the 18th of
April. Seven Crimean Generals will accom-
pnnv him, to be presented to the Queen.
The municipality of Paris was about to COM
mence a series of public improvements at cost
of nearly l60,O0O,U0O of francs. The Gov
eminent will contribute 9O00O,000 TO the fund
The FafTie urges the opposition of the Gov
ernmcnt to the usurpatiOn of peril by Eng
land
A new secret society called the Icarians had
been discovered Mt Troyes. Eight of its chiefs
were sentenced to a fine and Imprisonment
Vienna letter says the Emperor had asked
an explanation from Walewski, with reference
TO the publication of the pairs of the cores
pondence of Napoleon LIST, in the NO"ite"r-
The steamer Anglo Saxon will sail from Liv-
erpool on the 2lSt, for Quebec. After that,
steamer sails every fortnight for that port There
will he no intermediate steamer for Portland
1t is reported that the steamer Leviathan is
for sale in incomplete state
The ship Cerrc Gurdo sailed from Liverpool
for Philadelphia on the I'd inst.
LATEsT.-Owing TO the Holidays the London
papers do not contain the usual city articles.
APRIL 3d.-The Directors of the East India
Co. have called special meeting of proprietoTs
to consider the provisions of Lord Derby's Bill
for the Government of Iudia.