The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-20


THE SAILING OF THE GREAT EASTERN POSTPONED
New York, Sept 19.-The steamer Persia arri
we'd here this morning from Liverpool, with date!
of the 3rd inst. She broke her crank pin on the
9Th and had to be laid to TO make repair.
The Persia passed the steamers Arabia and City
of Manchester bound in.
GENERAL NEWS.
The latest accounts from Italy say that the adj
vance of the POntihcal troops into the Legations ap
peared to be imminent, although the loniteur Of
Bologna contradicts the rumored aggression.
The Roman Government rejects all reforms.
The sailing of the Great Eastern had been post
poned to the 10Th inst.
The Zurich Conference was expected to come to
an abrupt close.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-The sales to spectators
900 bales and for export 0O0 The market gene
rally closed with advancing tendency Fair and mid
ding Qualities have partially advanced i-lo Inferior
900 bales including 900 bales for speculation and
exPS The closes steady FaT Orleans @
Upland fair 7sd Middling 6%d. Some authorities say
prices have advanced 3D.; others say prices not quo
Breadstuhs-The market is dull and all qualities have
slightly declined. Corn is steady
Provisions-The market has declining tendency
MONEY MARKET.-Consols 95S@958 for money and
account.
American securities are generally unchanged
THE LATEST.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday, noon.-Coton closed firm. Sales
to-day estimated at s, 900 bales.
Breadsuifs close very dull.
Provisions all close very dull Sales have been unm-
portant.
Richardson Spence quote Breadsturs as follows Flour
is very dull, and quotations nominal at decline of
cd. per sack Sales at 9s 6dG1ls Wheat has declin.
ing tendency. Holders pressing the market, and
prices have declined 3D. Western red Is Cd ass. 3D.
white 9s. 19s Sd. Corn is steady mixed and yellow S.
Cd abs 3D.; white rs. ais Cd
LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET-Beefi is dull and hold
declined. Pork dull and quotations nominal Ba-
con closed heavy and holders pressing on the market
all qualities have slightly declined. Lard is dull but
prices steady Coffee is firm Rice is steady.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.-Rosin closed firm at an
for common Spirits Turpentine steady at 34s Cd.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday, noon.-Breadstufrs close very
dull Provisions, also, close very dull.
The sales have been unimportant.
Arrived, ship Golden STAR from New Orleans.
The Detention of the Persia-TerrIGc Storms
at Sea.
New YORK, Sept. ia passenger describes the
storm in which the Persia was disabled as of the
most terrific character. The crank pin was broken
on Monday evening at 10 o'clock when two DAYS
out. She clay to- until the next afternoon in the
hope that the storm would abate, but finding no
improvement, her commander put back for Cork.
After proceeding back one hundred miles, the
weather moderated and the breakage was repaired.
The steamer was then put about again, when
reaching the same latitude in which the disaster
occurred, she encountered another storm more ter
rife than the first, but she CALAMITY plougbed her
way through it uninjured excepting the crushing
of one of her wheel-nouses, and reached this port
in safety.
The Persia has the heaviest freight she ever
brought.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-General Lamar, ex-
minister to Costa RIGA and Nicaragua, who has
been on business here ever since his return from
Central America, left Washington to-day for his
home in Texas
No increase of our naval forces in the Pacific is
contemplated, in consequence of the San Juan
Island dispute.
Postmaster General Holt, who left the city to-
day for Kentucky, purposes being absent about two
weeks.
The late storm did much damage to the corn
crops of Maryland and Virginia