New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-08


PoRTLASD. Feb. 7.-The Canadian mail steam
ship Anglo-Saxon, Capt. Balantine, from Liver
pool at noon Thursday the oath, via Londonderry
Friday evening the 25th ut. has arrived at this
port. Her accounts are three days than those
by the Kedar at New York.
The Liverpool New York and Philadelphia mail
company's steamship Kangaroo. from New York,
whence she sailed on the 18th ult.. arrived at Liver
pool the 24th The Canadian mail steamship North
American arrived in the Mersey on the oath from
Portland, with advices thence to the 18th ult.
Commercial Intelligence
LIVERPOOL, Jan. Is, P. M.-The Brokers' Circu-
| lar reports the sales of Cotton the past week at
$1,000 bales, including $4,000 taken on speculation
and 1900 for export. The business opened buoy
antly at an advance of ID. which was subsequently,
lost, the market closing dn at last weeks rates.
To-day's business amounted to 5000 bales. of which
1000 were taken by spectators and exporters
the market closing quiet at the following quota
tons:
Fair Orleans."..... Sd. Middl'g Orleans. . I'D
| Fair Mobile. .... 72d. Middl'g Mobile. ..7Sd.
Fair Uplands. 7td.I Middl'g Upl'ds ,7ld
The stock of cotton in Liverpool figures up $685.
600 bales, of which 432 600 are American.
| Messrs. James Hewitt & Co. say the prices of
cotton declined l-l6d. to 3D., but that holders re-
| fuse to concede.
| LIVERPOOL, Jan. 25.-The weeks business in
breadstuffs closed dull and with a downward ten
dency.
Messrs. Richardson, Spence & Co., quote mixed
| Indian at 37s. Provisions closed quiet at un-
changed quotations.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-!The money market is without
change. Consols closed at 9la to 9l:.
The renewal of hostilities at Gaeta took pla ce
on the 22d, by heavy fire from the besieged.
The Sardinians promptly replied.
Later advices from China state that all was
quiet. The first ustallment of indemnity had been
paid.
Further by the Anglo-saxon.
PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 1.-THE steamer Anglo
Saxon, from Liverpool on the oath, and London
derry the 25th. brings the the following general
and political intelligence
A meeting of influential merchants was held in
the city of Manchester for the purpose of devising
measures to relieve the cotton trade from the
anxiety resulting from their dependence on Amer
| lea.
| Resolutions were passed, recommending meas
ures commensurate with the danger apprehended.
Several American vessels have registered at
Liverpool under the British flag, to enable them to
carry salt to South Carolina, and bring back cotton
| without fear of capture.
The French Government is making extraordinary
| military and naval preparations. Its excuse is
that Germany is menacing Denmark, and the recent
| speech of the King of Prussia.
Immense activity is being carried on at the Tou-
| Ion arsenal.
| The Government intends to send thrty.four ships
| to sea, with twenty steel clad frigates
| The Paris Bourse ruled steady. The per cent.
rentes closed at 6Tf. 45c.
| Advices from Copenhagen say the Danish Minis,
ter of Marine has ordered the equipment of twenty
two steamers by the 2lst of March next
Sandman troops are being dispatched to Abruzzc
and Caabria, where the reactionary movements
| were suppressed.
Gen Garibaldi asks fresh donations to enable
King Victor Emanuel to enfranchise the rest o
Italy.
Colonel Tarr has returned to Turin from vsi
| to Garibaldi. He says Gen. Garibaldi has sent
conciliatory message to Count Cavour and gave
up his attack on Venetia as being inexpedient
| Latest adyces from China by the overland mai
| at Alexandria, state that the rebels were rapidly
| gaining ground at Shanghae.