The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-12-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SOUTH AMERICA.--The Brazilian screw steamer Olinda, Captain Harem, has arrived at Cork, and her mails were received here on Saturday morning. The delay in her arrival has been caused by a slight derangement in her machinery, and a detention of five days in quarantine at Lisbon. She left Monte Video on the 4th, Rio Janerio on the 13th, Bahia the 18th, Pernambuco the 20th, St. Vincent the 29th ultimo, and Lisbon on the Bth instant. She brings dates from Buenos Ayres to the 29th October, forty-three passengers, and £7,726 in specie. On the Bth December the Olinda passed the British squadron of six sail near Lisbon. At Rio, the anxiety relative to European affairs had tended to affect business. Exchange closed at 27k to 274. Coffee firm. At Buenos Ayres the Ministry had not announced any definite programme of policy. Important reforms in the import and export tariff were pending in the Chamber of Representatives. Buenos Ayres remained tranquil, and business was reviving. Obligado had been elected Governor. Judicial proceedings had been commenced against the perpetrators of the murders committed during Roses' Government, and some executions had taken place. In Monte Video the only political occurrences of any moment were the death of General Lavallija, the Provisional Government Director, and the departure of Oribe for Spain. The accounts from the departments are satisfactory, as all of them have declared in favour of the existing Government. Government had disposed of one-half of the Customs' revenue to the former contractors. Under a decree of the 10th ult. the navigation of the interior rivers is open to the flags of all nations. In hides and tallow supplies continued stinted, with an improved tendency in prices. At Pernambuco business was limited : the sugar crop was very late. Exchange 27 to 27k. Money scarce, at -ten per cent. At Bahia exchange was quoted 27d. Freights had advanced. The crops of sugar will be very deficient. At Rio the shares of the New National Bank had been subscribed for with a feverish excitement, and maintained a premium of 10 per cent. The Emperor had granted a concession for a railway from Bahia to the River San Francisco. From Chili we learn that the Congress had closed its session, and the extraordinary powers granted to the Executive last year had expired. Congress had empowered the Government to enter into contracts with the company proposing to establish steam communication with Europe by way of the Straits of Magellan, A grant of $50,000 to General Bulness had been sanctioned by the Congress. The intelligence from Peru is important. Don Domingo Elias had raised an insurrection in the north, and seemed determined to upset the present Government. His first attempt at Tumbez failed, but the last accounts left him at the head of a fresh revolt at Chiclayo, near Lambayeque. General Torrico, the Minister of War, had gone with 300 troops to endeavour to put down the revolt. Hostilities have at last commenced between Bolivia and Peru. The Bolivian army in the south, headed by General Belzu, had passed the frontier of Peru. The movement appears to have astonished the Peruvians and roused them into sud