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Fly JOHN ROBY, Esq., M.R.S.L. CONTENTS: The Goblin Builders. Siege of Lathom. Ctitheroe Castle; or, the Last, Windleshaw Abbey. of the Lacies. jThe Dule upo' Dun. Mab's Cross. 'Clegg Hall. The Prior of Burscough. !George Fox. The Eagle and Child. • Iliaven Castle. The Black Knight of Ashton. The Demon of the Well. Ito Gray Mao of the Wood, or The Mermaid of Martin Meer, the Secret Mi❑e. IThe Sands. The Fairies' Chapel. The Peal of Fouldry. The Abbot. of Whalley. George Marsh, the Martyr. Dr. Dee, the Astrologer. The Seer. The Earl of Tyrone. 'I be Lancashire Witches. Hog Non Tower. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1 The King and the Cliff. The Dead Man's Hand. The Lost Farm, or the Haunt ed Casket. The Maid's Stratagem, or the Captive Lover. The Skull House. Rivington Pike, or the Spectre Horseman. 3, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS THIS EVENING. JAN. 6 WM be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. 1.. Matthews; Hernia,, Mrs. Ni,bett ; Oberon, Madame Teo.: is ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Mar hall; Firs! Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASThE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Air. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mir•.lli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New Pantomime. On Friday, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to onstuence at Seven o'Clock. Tilkets and places for the Bon: to be taken of Mr. Grogan At the Bux-effiee, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may uc had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. Is. Private lioxt a to be had solely of Mr. And: ass, bookseller '67. New Ilund-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. peout pre-eminence acquired at this Theatre by the supe rierit! of the Pantzniiiicaf effects, is more than ever realized by the avulsing hit of the Reyal Pantomime. The most brillitut overflows have been attracted by the present Per formances. THIS EVENING, JAN. 6. Will lot represented a New Domestic Drama, entitled MARTHA WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. Martlaa Willis, Mrs. Henry Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime entitled HARLIIQUIN AND MY V LADY LEE ; OR, (MOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL•-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the unrivalled Artistes, the Belem) Family; Mr. Southby, do, Original Clo.sn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine : arid the astonishing Gyirnastinue, Signior Felix Carlo, from Fran cord's, at Paris, will perform : concluding with Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria. • 1i14.111 WATER AT LONIX)N BRIDGE TO.bI()RROW. 0 mtautes atter 1. L Evening 33 minutes after 1. The 1 üblication eft e Evening Edition of Tim Suit corn mou'eed 20 minutes after Three. 44; mi l1 *:" • 4. '4; 'Q r lnv LONDON: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1641. a Pro-Corn and an Anti-Corn-law candidate. Thi3 alteration puts an end to all prior engage. tr.ents, and leaves the electors at liberty to vote as they shall deem best for the public good. Scores of them preferring a Tory to Whig may have pledged their vote to Mr. GLADSTONE, who at the same time may desire to be represented by a sturdy Corn-law Repealer. The appearance of Mr. J. B. SMITH in the field puts an end to the promise they gave the Tory, and they cannot vote for a Pro-Corn-law man without breaking their first pledge, given, perhaps, to their own hearts and their children, and without being false to the one true faith of abolishing the Corn-laws. The electors of Walsall are arecalled asked to a onto decide sy for or against a bread-tax. They whether or not that hostility which now exists be tween the different classes shall grow into civil war. To them an appeal is made whether the manufac tures of England shall be permitted to flourish and make the empire great, or be doomed to decay. A more important question was never submitted to a constituency. Their decision wlll have great weight. It will give a heavy blow to the abolitionists, or it will carry terror to the hearts of the bread-taxers' It will convince the Ministers that they would not find adequate support in proposing the repeal of the Corn-laws, or that something must be done. If the decision be right it will most probably procure the abolition or some modification of the bread-tax during the next Session. They must not suppose that one Member can have no effect. If all the electors acted on that supposition no exertions would ever be made. The supposition is not correct. One sturdy, determined man, by dwelling incessantly on the subject, by making motions at proper times, by presenting and reading parts of petitions, may do a great deal. He gives courage to others, and gathers fresh spirit from their support, and he and they together may become a host. Let every elector of Walsall act in the great cause as if the entire abolition of the bread-tax depended on his single vote, and success will be certain. The result will have a powerful effect on public opinion, and the influence of public opinion over the actions of public men is paramount. Of the latter, the Morning Chronicle yesterday contained a me morable example. It announced the unconditional discharge of SARAH YOUNG, unjustly and ille gally imprisoned at Montnouth, at the . suit of one Dr. LYLE, for tithes. No legal steps appear to have been taken to procure her discharge ; but a public meeting was held at Monmouth, at which Dr. LYLE'S conduct was denounced, and the case was warmly taken up by the public journals. Public opinion procured her release. It softened the iron hearts of ecclesiastical proctors, and shook the well-braced nerves of an endowed parson. With such an example before the men of Walsall, they may be thoroughly convinced that the power of public opinion is unbounded ; and if they, by placing Mr. J. B. SMITH high above his antago nist on the poll, demonstrate to the whole empire that the town population is resolved to support only anti-bread-taxers, they will convince both the Mi nisters and the landowners of the necessity of abo lishing the bread-tax. It has been over and over again proved in the Anti-Corn-law journals, that the bread-tax annually dooms hundreds, and even thousands of our people to death by starvation. Every elector of Walsall who votes for a bread-taxer makes himself acces sory to the deliberate, wilful, and cruel murder of his countrymen. How can he look on the suffering crowd around him, asking for bread, and give a vote for a man who deliberately consigns them to misery and death ? The bread-tax is emphatically the poor man's question. It is also emphatically every mother's question. The unenfranchised of Walsall and the women of Walsall must attend to their own interest, and prove, though they have no votes, they have much power. Let them aid the League, besiege the electors, and supplicate and implore them not to consign them and their fami lies to misery and death by voting for a sugar taxer and a bread-taxer. If the non-electors do their duty they may work on the humanity of the electors, and contribute to the success of the Anti- Corn-law candidate. Let us in parting say a word to the League. I invites the electors of Walsall to give an honest vote, and return an anti-bread-taxer to Parliament. To do that many of the electors may disoblige landlords, customers, and friends. Let the League then at once promise to do all in its power to pro tect and reimburse every elector who may be co erced and injured on account of his vote. Let it immediately set on foot machinery for inquiring into instances of coercion, and holding up the would-be tyrants to public scorn. Depend on it the highest men in the land writhe under the honest expression of public opinion, and when the landlords and other wealthy and influential persons at Walsall are well convinced that they will be gibbeted in the public Journals if they attempt to coerce the votes of the electors, they will abstain, will leave them free, and will not dare to take any dirty vengeance on a tenant for the honest exercise of his right. If the hints which we have thrown out be followed up by those on the spot, we hope that the enthu siasm of the inhabitants may be kindled, and Mr, J. B. SMITH elected by a most triumphant majority. We have the greatest pleasure in laying before our readers the highly-important news from China, India, and Egypt, brought by the overland mail, and occupying our columns of this day. There required but this news to crown with complete success the Oriental policy of Lord P- ALMERSTON. A brief summary of the whole of this intelligence precedes the longer details, which are not more important than highly interesting. The returns of the Revenue, which will he found in another part of The Sun, are not so satisfactory as we could wish, but quite as satisfactory as we could expect. The scanty crop, with the high price, of sugar, has limited the consumption of that article, and of all other articles subject to excise and customs duties with which it is used. A high price Of corn, combined with low wages and lessened em ployment, has necessarily compelled the labouring classes to content themselves with bread and pota toes, considering themselves well off if they can get 'enough of the coarsest food to support existence, and has lessened the consumption of exciseable and foreign commodities. The revenue this quarter should, in consequence of the increase of tax wino, be much greater in amount than in the corresponding quarter of last year, the custom duties, however, are 398,399/. less, and the excise duties 589,095 more. But we cannot forget that the deficiency in the excise last quarter was attri buted to a peculiarity in making up the accounts ; and that a considerable sum properly belonging to the last quarter, must in consequence be reckoned in this. The taxes being not easily escaped from seem to have yielded the calculated increase, but the excise and customs duties, which men can easily shirk, have not answered the expectation of die CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. The worst feature we think of the whole is that, not withstanding the increase of taxation operating :for seven months, the revenue for the whole 'ear is 254,000/. less than for last year. 'We are afraid, from these facts, that th e pros perity of the empire has att a i ne d its extreme 'height, and that it is quite impossible for th e people t o continue to pay, as the Anti-Corn-late Circular ►tasteS, both the fund-holders' and the landlords' ta, amr provide for the Go vernment. Such a conditi o ' n of tale revenue augments our hopes of the abolition of the. bread-tax. One or other must be given up. Eitimr that tax must be abolished, or the Govern mint, the expenses of which have been of late ne •eogsari, ly much increased, must give up its revenue. In the . present state of our foreign relations and of tour pctipulation we do not believe it is possible much. to curtail the expense of the State ; and the concl usiori therefore we come to is, that the bread tax muji be abolished. The ,retL•ement of Mr. LYTTLETON has en tirely ch anged the character of the election for Walsall. IC is no longer a mere party contest be tween a I Vhig and a Tory, but a fair fight between CHINA, 114, AND EGYPT. despatch p b d t east fi, A bwi :tesii, d e,teoip m : imoffe i tr r hoto a t enhf l teai a tibl:h n isy, ssdepl that tnehhenrvoaseodsetroireoyn;b present o tt}i r y i etp s is a l oi shoulder st s au h ,, t( v ic e e ta r mv y n onhu most here evo ras: uwritingaep at people, for most had made up their minds that we shoul:i pt v isi e e r m y u s s o t obne. Blenheim,ho T u7s n e4 e d, iass t foa s Admiral tg o a st o says N gt possible.l,oe immediately, and that the Admiral will follow in a few days ; that a Commissioner has arrived there from Pekin of high rank, and of the blood Royal, for the purpose of negotiating. I suppose it will take a few months to get an answer from Calcutta, and perhaps the Admiral will await the orders of Lord Auckland. I really believe that all hostilities have ceased, but 1 very much fear that the business of bringing the nego tiations to a close will be protracted to a sad time by the Chinese, if they are not dealt with in a proper manner. It ought to be made their interest as well as ours to bring matters to a speedy close, and then we should all be on board ship fast enough. We shall be very uncomfortable here in winter. Not a house has a fireplace or the means of having one to give warmth. EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED CHUSAN HARBOUR. SEPT. 29, 18-10.—HON. COMPANY'S STEAMER MADAGASCAR. " I sit down to write you a few lines to give you an account of my trip up to the mouth of the Peiho, or Pekin liver ; from this place we had a very fine run up with fine weather, and arrived off that place on the 9th of August, the squadron consisting of the following ships :—the Wellesley, with his Excellency Rear- Ad miral G. Elliot, C.B. ; the Blonde, Modesto, Volage, Pylades, Madagascar steamer, and the Ernaad and Malcolm, with coals and provisions. On the 11th Cap tain C. Elliot, R.N., proceeded into the mouth of the river in the steamer, with the boats of all the men of war present, manned and armed, and on our arriving at the bar the steamer anchored, and the boats proceeded into the river with a flag of truce flying ; on their arri val off the forts at the entrance a mandarin boat pushed off to them and received the Admiral's letter, and after the expiration of six days, the time granted by his Ex cellency, a chop was received, stating the Emperor re quired ten days to consider, which time being agreed to, the squadron proceeded to the different islands in the Gulf of Pe-eke-lee to water and procure bullocks, the Ernaad transport proceeding with them. They succeeded very well in obtaining a supply, and returned to the anchorage by the 27th of August, the day ap pointed, and the imperial chop was sent off to the ships, and on the 30th an interview took place between Cap tain Elliot and Klie Shan, the Imperial Commissioner, who is the third man in the empire, a Mandarin of the first class, and red button, and ever since (that is, up to the time of our departure from the Pieho, on the 15th of September) negotiations have been going on, and, from all we can hear, it is generally believed that the Pleni potentiary is to proceed to Canton to meet Kbe Shan. and there to settle affairs, if possible. A portion of the troops remainlto bold this!place until matters:are finally settled. When the interview took place, Khe Shan, the imperial commissioner, gave the party a splendid breakfast. The Chinese Government are much alarmed at our being in possession of Chusan ; they do not like our being so near their capital, and they will endeavour to keep us to the southward. The island of Lantao is spoken of as the place most likely where the English will be settled at, but the Chinese would prefer our not having any settleuent at all. They have offered to punish Lin in an y wa y the English propose. The troops are very sickly at this place, and we are all looking out for a speedy settlement of affairs. Cap• tain Anstruther, of the Madras Artillery, was out sketching a short distance front the city of Chusan, and was seized by the Chinese and made prisoner ; he is now at a place called Ningpo, and well treated ; the authorities at that place have sent over to say they have twenty more prisoners, but whom they can be we cannot make out ; they say, if we will give up Chusan, they will give up the prisoners. The Alli gator had a brush with them at Amoy, and returned to this place ; the day after the affair 400 chests of opium were sold at very high prices indeed-1,184 dol lars a chest, so it is said ; the Chinese come on board the ships here to purchase, thinking we have conic here to sell opium only, and they will have the drug at all risks ; in fact, the smugglers benefit much by the war and they hope it may last. Supplies of all kinds, in the eating and drinking way are in great demand. The Indian Oak was wrecked on the Loo Choo Islands, crew all saved. The Niinrod man-of-war has.been sent - . . to bring them to this place, and is hourly expeeted. When at Pe-che-lee, I went into the Peiho, or Pekin River, with the steamer ; on our approach to the river, the forts, two miserable affairs, were manned with Chi nese soldiers. We had a flag of truce flying, and a man darin boat came off to us. When we anchored about a mile below the forts the whole of the beach was crowded with thousands of the inhabitants to see the steamer. They were quite astonished. The forts had three old guns mounted on sand bags, but they never expected that we should attempt to pass the bar, it being shal low. However, we managed to cross, and can say we are the only European vessel, and steamer, in the world that ever was in 'he river leading to the capital of the Celestial Empire. Durine: our stay at Pe-che-lee, we had a trip to the Great Wall of China with the Admiral. The end conies down into the sea about half a mile ! There is a fort on the end of it with a large tower. It is one of the most stupendous affairs I ever beheld. It appears about 30 feet high, and about the same width. It has a watch 7 tower about every mile on it. The land is very high in the vi cinity, some of the hills about 3,000 feet, and the wall goes completely over the tops of the mountains, and is seen as far as the eye can reach. It is impossible to say anything for certain regarding politics, but it is generally supposed the Chinese will come to terms. Our stopping their trade entirely, and the taking Chu san and the barrier forts at Macao, bring the Chinese Government into very low reputation with its own sub jects, and at this the Court at Pekin are much alarmed, fearing a revolution may break out. All junks are stopped and detained, but have in some instances been released again ; the whole coast is now in a complete state of blockade, but the inhabitants at Chusan ap pear to be coming in. Should our Government hold Chusan it will be a place of much importar'co ; the whole trade would be thrown in here ; the Pekin autho rities are well aware of this, and would rather do any thin t h an h a ve a protracteu war. Under these circum stances, I think matters will be soon settled. I have now given all the news that the time will admit of---the signal was only made half an hour ago that the vessel starts this evening, so I bring this to a close." OVERLAND MAIL FROM INDIA. (From the Times) We have received by extraordinary express from Marseilles letters and journals from Bombay up to the Ist of December, as well as advices from Alexandria to the 24th, and lettsrs and journals from Malta to the 28th. The intelligence from China is of the highest import ance—no less than the near settlement of the China question. Shortly after the capture of Chusan, 'Admiral Elliot, in proceeding to the Peiho river, was met by a manda rin of the third rank of the Chinese empire, though some accounts say by the Emperor himself, while others affirm that Admiral Elliot had arrived at Pekin, and had an audience of the Emperor. The Emperor has agreed to pay 3,900,000/. for the the expenses incurred by the British in making war ; other authorities state 2,000,000/. sterling as indemnity for the opium seized, and 1,000,000/. for the expenses of the war. The Emperor, either himself or through his officers, has expressed pacific intentions to the Ad mire', and he disavows the actions of his Commissioner Lin. This latter, indeed, has fallen into disgrace, and the Emperor offers to surrender him into the hands of the British, to be dealt with as they may think pro per. Two Commissioners were to be sent either to Canton or Ningpe, with full powers to negotiate a Treaty. Chusan is not to be given up until the Treaty be signed. The above intelligence, which is up to the Ist of October, was brought by her Majesty's ship Cruiser to Calcutta. No movement southward is expected from Chusan before Oct. 15. The Admiral was to leave Chusan for Ningpo in one of the steamers on Sept. 30. and the Blenheim was warping out for the same destination. The Emperor is greatly annoyed at our occupation of Chusan, and bis Minister hinted " that the Admiral's visit had prevented the march of fierce soldiers to re take the island." The Malacca papers have got up a story, that ac counts have been received there that our ships-of-war had taken the Boguc forts, and after forcing the pas• sage of the Bocce Tigris had proceeded to Canton. It is feared that this is not correct. Great complaints are made of the unhealthiness of •the mon in the expedition against Chusan ; the wea ther at this place is represented as cold and unhealthy. Mortality appears to prevail. Captain Stean, of her Majesty's 49th, had died. The fleet, however, was plentifully supplied with provisions. The intelligence from India is also highly important Our extraordinary express from Marseilles received this morning, brings intelligence from Alexandria to the 24th ult., on which day the Great Liverpool sailed with the Indian mails. Her trip from Falmouth to Alex andria is the shortest on record—viz., 14 days and one hour from port to port. 12 days and 11 hours only were spent at sea. The plague had appeared in Alexandria a month earlier than usual, and three deaths had been officially notified. The Indian mails and 18 passengers were landed at Suez on the 18th ult., and escorted across the Desert by a guard of 60 horsemen furnished by the Pacha to preserve them from the attacks of the Bedouin Arabs. who had lately become hostile and dangerdus, seizing the Pacha's stores, and attacking the pilgrims en route from Cairo to Mecca. Ibrahim Pacha was still with his army at Damascus, to which be had returned in ill health and beset by the mountaineers, hoping (it was be lieved) to avail himself of the Napier Convention to re turn to Egypt peaceably and by sea. Mehemet Ali had again written to Admiral Stopford on the 21st ult., and proposed to send another message to expedite the re urn of Ibrahim and his army. Sir Charles Smith had arrived in the Hydra at Alexandria on the 17th ult., and had an interview with the Pacha on the 19th and placed the Hydra at his service to convey his des patch to Marmorica on the 22d ult. Sir Charles left Alexandria in the Great Liverpool. Serious sickness had prevailed at Acre. The storm that visited the coast of Syria with such violence on the 2d and 3d ult. had produced an alarming scarcity at Beyrout and in the mountains, where the new Turkish Governor had recklessly stopped the supplies of grain arriving, and the mountaineers were again nearly driven into col lision with the authorities by desperation. No hope is entertained that the Porte will be able to govern Leba non, now that the population is re-armed. Mehemet Ali was still raising batteries and exercising his troops incessantly, and had given notice to the National Guards of Alexandria that they were to consider them selves his regular soldiers. At the same time he was making preparations for the better cultivation of his private estates, and had appointed his son, Said Bl.y, and his grandson. Abbas Pacha, to be resident admi nistrators in separate districts. CHINA. (From another Letter.) TINGIIAE, SEPT. 30. ! The Admiral has returned from Pcilio and the Gulf of Pe-the-lee ; his reception is said to have been good, and that the Emperor is anxious for peace. Lin is to in' tried by some Chinese commission, and I have no doubt will be sacrificed, They want us to give up Chusan and to take Liman, opposite to Macao, and they offer 2,000,000/. sterling in cash. The force it is believed will winter here, all but a small detachment of Artillery and one European regiment to accompany the Admiral to Macao, where it is supposed peace will be concluded. The troops are dreadfully sick ; quarters arc taken, and they are to leave their hill, and conic into town, when the rain ceases, which we have had for some days. The Cameronians have lost 30 the 18th about 24, the 49th about 15, and the Vo lunteers 24, the Artillery only one man, but have been more sickly than any ether. The Cameronians had yester day 545 men unfit for duty. This is a dreadful state of things. This island has been drained of supplies, in. stead of their being obtained from the mainland. The Admiral goes to-day with Captain Elliot to Ningpo to try and recover poor Captain Anstruther ( Madras Artillery) and Mrs. Noble, Captain Noble, and the crew of the Kite, who are all prisoners. The Viceroy has written to say that they shall all be taken care of, and invited the Admiral to treat, as the Prince's guar dian had been sent from Pekin for this purpose, as also a relative of the Emperor. You will bear front Macao the result sooner than we shall here. We have not one shop open in the city, nor a single article of food now to be purchased but from ships. Of paddy there are thousands and th ousan ds of maunds in the town, but fresh meat is wh a t we wan t for our men. The weather is coo l an d pleasant, but very damp. It, however, has r a i ne d f or some days• The scenery is beautiful beyond anything - I have ever see n, a nd the island is most richly cultivated, but John Chinaman thinks to starv e us , an d t h at i s not pleasant. Since thi writing this I am told that all the troops at present here are to continue at this place until after the winter. Parties varying from 50 to °OO men have been making Two officers and f our men on a f ora ging frequent ex c u rs i ons i n di ff erent di r ections, for the pur pose of disco ver i ng arme d men, b u t have always failed. excursion were attacked, and w i t h diffi cu l ty esca ped ; one Chinaman killed, and several others wounded in the affray. Capt. Anstruther, Madras Artillery, was carried away pri soner to Ningpo whilst making a survey of the country ; the wife and family of the Captain since taken prison ers themselves. Sickness amongst the troops on the increase, and deaths more numerous. The wreck of the Indian Oak, off the Loo Chop Islands, crew and cargo saved ; the natives there so kind, that on the Cruiser being sent to bring them back they refused to coin', as the natives were budding them a junk out of the wreck. The capture of t wenty E uropeans , on e lady, and several , Lasears at Ningr,a, reporte d to b e long to the brig Kite , since supposed to b e t h e crew o f so me opium schooner wrecked ; the a ssurances of t h e Ni n gpoites that they I shall want fur nothi ng, an d that t h e y shall be given up as soon as the island of Chusan is vacated. The arrival of the Madagascar from Pe-che-lee with intelligence that the Emperor is most anxious to treat, and offering Lantao iu exchange for Chusan. Several transports have been ordered to he in readi ness for sea, and it is supposed two regiments will be sent to take possession of Lantao. The following is extracted from the Malacca . Weekly Register, but we believe there is no truth in it : " We learn that a private letter has been received at this settlement by a Chinese gentleman from his , friends in China, conununicatiag the important intelli gence of her Majesty's ships of war having forced the passage of the Bocce Tigris, captured the Bogue Forts, TI I i SUN LON1)0N, WE ON E'S ;MY, J A NI_TAR V over whch the British ensign now floats triumphantly, end gone up towards Canton. Tikis intelligence, if true, will be the most decisive and important blow that has been struck since the commencement of hostilities. MACAO. DEFEAT OF THE CHINESE. (From the Canton Press, Aug. 8.) On Tuesday last her Majesty's ships Druid, Calum bine, Larne, Hyacinth, and Nimrod anchored in these roads, and left again on Thursday last, with the excep tion of her Majesty's ship Larne, the two former for the Bogus and Capsingrnoon. the Hyacinth for the Broad way, and the Nimrod for Chusan. The reports which we noticed last week as to their probable movements have not been confirmed, but we hail the entering of the Hyacinth into the Broadway as an earnest that the blockade of the Canton river will henceforward be strictly enforced. It is with the deepest sorrow we have to announce that a British subject has probably fallen into the hands of the Chinese. Mr. F. Stanton, formerly tutor to the sons of the late Mr. R. Turner, left his lodgings on Thursday morning, as is supposed, about 5 o'clock, to bathe in Casilla Bay, where he had made an appoint ment to meet with two friends, who, however, ou ar rival there, found him not, nor any traces of him. The most probable conjecture is that, in consequence of the rewards ()tiered by the Chinese authorities, for the cap turing or slaying Englishmen, he was, while on his way to Casilla Bay, in the twilight of the morning, surprised by Chinese and hurried away, and it is probable, at least so we hope, now on his way to Canton, there to be delivered over to the authorities for the promised reward. WALSALL ELECTION. The following address has been agreed to una nimously at a large meeting of the electors and others of Bolton, the Mayor in the chair, and transmitted to Mr. Dickson, the Chairman of the Walsall A n ti- Corn -law Association. We under stand that many other places in difFercnt parts of the kingdom are in motion, in order to follow th e spirited example of Bolton : " TO THE ELECTORS OF WALSALL. " We, the friends of the abolition of the Corn-laws, in Bolton, assembled at a p u bli c t ea party, a dd ress you on behalf of the great principle of justice —our devotion to which we arc here met to testify. " You will be called upon soon to arbitrate between the oppressor sad oppressed—between the sons of mo nopoly and the children of industry—between the wealthy few and the millions who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. Do we d ou b t t h at your ver dict 3 will be . just ? To doubt the result of the forth cominic struggle would be to question your title to the character of Englishmen, patriots, and Christians. " Our enemies have dared to make your borough the arena for fighting a great battle between the landlord aristocracy and the people—they have dared to ask you to support their unholy monopoly at the expense of your rights as citizens, as fathers, and employers. They ask you in fact to sacrifice your interests, to YiO• late your sacred duties, to forfeit the smiles of your ewn approving consciences, and the respect of your fellow. and all for what ?—that a few thousand alreadyo t ry richnn , landowners may luxuriate at the expense of the tears and sufferings of the people. This is the true character of the contest. " Prepare, then, electors of Walsall, for the holy it s triumphant issue , a nd most heartfelt sympathy for your sacrifices and lab ours will atteni. s t rug gle, and be as sured that our warmest wishes for ting of from 700 to (Agreed to unanimously , at a give you. 800 persons.) JAS. AREDIVSMITH, Mayor Bolton, Lancashire, Jan. 2, 1841. STATE OF --- !L"5 , n the Regent's CA NAL, &C.--It often hap ens that the ice i HE REGENTS THE ICE ON T Park is excellent, from p the exposed situation of the water. The Serpe nt i ne and the canal in St. James ' s Park are TiO longer safe. The ice has been excellent during the last six days. On T ues d ay the following were among the prin cipal performers, who introduced new evolutions which sur prised even adepts in the science :—Sir William Newton, Captain Trotter, Messrs. Chilton and shepherd. Among the other leaders were Lard Cantilupe, Mr. R. Gordon , Mr. Stately , and Mr. He nry Chilton. The circles are nightly prepared by watering. Prince Albert having joined the club, a diminutive gold skate is now being made for his Royal Highness to wear at the buttonhole of his coat. The usuel iwynia is one of silver. (From the Supplement to the Bombay Gazette of December 1.) Our Calcutta Papers of the 16th of November have arrived, and in a great measure confirm the news we gave from Chusan. The Emperor has received Admiral Elliot with distinction, and agreed to a treaty to be negotiated at Canton. 3,000,0001. is to be paid before Chusan is evacuated. In the meantime a letter has been received at Malacca, which states that our ships had forced the passage of the Bocce Tigris, captured the forts, and proceeded on to Canton. CH USA N. (From the Bombay Times.) We hasten to place before our readers the following extract from a letter we have just received, dated Chusan, Sept. 30. Several others are much more full of particulars, but the following contains the " head and front" of the news from China : " Admiral Elliot arrived in the Wellesley on the 28th from the Gulf of Pe-che-lee, as I before told you. The result of his negotiation, at the mouth of the Peiho, with the third in rank in the Chinese Empire, is not fully known ; but I may say, that the Emperor is willing to apologize for the insult inflicted upon Capt. Elliot, and that his Excellency Lin is to be punished in any way which we please. The chops were couched in very civil language, containing none of the offensive epithets so freely applied to Europeans on former oc casions. The Emperor had been kept in ignorance of Lin's proceedings, but many of the nobles of the Court had perfect information relative to the Viceroy's con duct at Canton. In referring Admiral Elliot to Can ton for the settlement of the matters in dispute, the Em peror said, through his deputy, that granting all which you say to be true, it would be exceedingly unjust to condemn Lin without giving him a hearing ; besides, Lin's report is quite different from yours. I will send ple nipotentiaries to Canton to make more inquiries, sad who afterwards will arrange with you there.' This course may have been adopted for the purpose of removing the Admiral from the vicinity of the capital ; in that the Emperor has succeeded, but nevertheless, the expedi tion has effected something ; the men of war have care fully surveyed the Gulf of Pc-the-lee, and have partially explored the mouth of the Peiho. The Madagascar steam-vessel crossed the bar at the mouth of the Peiho, and ascended the river for about two miles. The vessel created great astonishment in the minds of the people congregated on the banks and on the neighbouring hills. In the gulf the weather was clear and cool, the thermo meter falling as low as 60. The fleet was plentifully supplied with sheep, bullocks, vegetables, and fruits ; among the latter were excellent pears and apples. " The David Malcolm and the Ernaad are bringing down sheep and bullocks, which will be truly acceptable to us. The Isabella Robertson has arrived. I have not yet received any letters or papers from her. The Kite, armed vessel, was sent under the command of Lieutenant Douglas, soon after the taking of Tinghae, to the mouth of the Yang-tse-Keang, for the purpose of surveying ; it is supposed that she has been wrecked, as the Lieutenant in charge, the Captain's wife (Mrs. Noble) and some lascars, are in the hands of the Chinese, at Ningpo, who treat them and Captain Anstruther also with kindness ; until the Chinese informed us of the circumstance, we knew nothing of the loss of the Kite. That the vessel has been wrecked, I believe, is a❑ in ference only, from the fact of the Lieutenant and others being prisoners of the Chinese." The following highly interesting extracts are from letters of our correspondents with the China expe dition : ___ ~... . .... " TINGHAE (CHUSAN),SEPT. 28. " The sickness continues to increase daily. The otith had 520 yesterday, and I believe they have more to day. Yesterday quarters for the whole regiment in empty houses in the city were allotted. This should have been done long ago, and much sickness in all pro bability would have been spared. Our first casualty among officers took place last night in the death of poor Captain Stean, of her Majesty's 49th Regiment, who who had only been ill about a week, and prior to which he was looking as well as possible. H--- has come back, but he says he found the FIGHT AT THE BARRIER. It will be; seep: from the circular copied below, ad dressed by Captain Smith to the British subjects resi dent here, that his Excellency the Governor informed him that the Taoutae had left Macao on the llth of this month for the sole purpose of laying before the Vice roy Lin the strongest demands for the releaseof Mr. Stan ton. On Monday, the 17th, the Taoutae returned, but without Mr. Stanton, and we are informed that the only answer he gave was, that it was impossible that Mr. Stanton could be liberated, be not having been seized on Portuguese territory, and that besides he, the Taoutae, had brought with him a number of sol diers to assist the Portuguese in driving away the En glish. It was known before, and we stated it last week, that strong additions had been made to the fortifications at the barrier, and to the number of the garrison there, and a great many boats filled with sol diers were on Tuesday seen to pass through the inner harbour towards the barrier, where also were stationed eight war-junks, which before had been anchored oppo site the town of Macao. The Hon. Company's steamer, Enterprise, left the road here for Capsing moon soon after the return of the Taoutao was known, and returned on Tuesday, in company with her Ma jesty's ship Druid, and towing the transport Nazaruth Schuh, having the Bengal Velunteers on board. From the Taoutae's answer it was evident that the Chinese had hostile intentions towards the English resident in Macao, and there seemed but the alternative of quietly awaiting the attack or to check them by falling upun them first. On Wednesday morning, the 19th, her Majesty's ships Hyacinth and Larne were seen getting under way, standing towards Fisherman s Bay, and the Bengal Volunteers were embarked on board the steamer, whilst we saw nine boats filled with marines and sailors leave the Druid, and following in the same direction as the Hyacinth and Larne. The weather was favourable, u light southerly breeze wafting the ships very soon to a favourable position r4ght in front of the barrier and the fortifications there, a dis tance of only abuut 600 yards. At about haltpast one o'clock the Hyacinth began the cannonade, which was answered by the Chinese from their fort, or rather breastwork. consisting of pyramids of sandbags, having each a foundation of about nine yards square, and upon which the 82-pounders made little or no impression. The Chinese had altogether 24 guns in the embrasures of this fortifications, 15 of which were pointed towards the ships, but their fire was very soon silenced by the Hyacinth and Larne, after the guns had been only thrice fired. The neck of land on which the barrier is built is just there only about 100 yards wide, and close to die land on the inside were anchored the eight junks already mentioned, of which from the ships only • the masts could be' seen; the hulls being hid and in a eeat measure •sheltered frOni shot by the land. There was besides, on this side of the barrier, and on territory hitherto considered as subject to Portuguese jurisdiction; a joss -house, or temple, where there were several cannon, from which a brisk tire was kept up upon the ships, and it was ob served that these guns carried farther than those from the junks, many of whose shot fell short of the ships. Though several balls passed over the ships, they re ceived no injury in their hulls, but a few balls passed through the awning and 'sails of the Hyacinth. After the engagement had begun, the garrison at the joss-house was zeMliareed. by_ about 300 Chinese soldiers, who marched to it from the town of Macao. There was be sides a considerable encampment filled with soldiers just behind the barrier, and sheltered by a sandhill, and it is supposed that there must altogether have been about 2,000 Chinese soldiers on the spot, of whom a consider, able proportion were • armed with matchlocks. The distance from the barrier to Macao being Scarcely two miles the whole of the engagement was witnessed from the town, and numerous spectators, Chinese as well as Portuguese and foreigners, crowned the adjacent heights. From half-past one until about halt-past three o'clock the ships kept up a heavy fire upon the fort and the junks behind, which was latterly only faintly answered from the junks, but with more spirit from the joss-house. Parties of soldiers were seen running to and fro between the barrier and the joss -house, often interrupted in their course by the shot passing over them or ploughing up the ground near them, when they would cower down, or creep along on all fours. Twice are saw them remove a dead or wounded soldier. At about half-past two the English troops began to be landed on the beach at some distance from and on the Chinese side of the fort. Some Chinese soldiers here favoured by the rising ground, crept and fired upon the parties landing, but a field-piece was brought on shore and planted on the height, and a sharp fire kept up from it upon the Chinese encampment below, upon the junks, and latterly also upon the joss-house, which by the positive orders from Captain Smith had till then been spared, as being considered on neutral ground ; but when the firing from it continued, all pretence to neutrality of course ceased, and a great number of soldiers were soon seen flying out of it and from some matsbeds, through which a few balls were sent, and running back to Macao. At a little after 4, all the troops being landed, (180 sipahis, 120 marines, and 80 seamen, commanded by Captain Alec, of the Bengal Volunteers), they marched upon the fort, which they found deserted, but a fire, when already in the fort, was opened upon them from the junks and the joss -house, which was soon silenced by the musketry from the volunteers. 'Flie Chinese still on board the junks tried to save themselves by leaping into the water, where many, it is supposed, were killed. Two of the guns in the fort (they were very large and heavy, in bulk equal to 32-pounder car runadea, though bored for 18 pounders only) were dis abled, the carriage of the one being splintered, and the other broken to pieces by a shot. All the guns were spiked, and everything else in the fort destroyed and burnt. A powder magazine blew up, and two men, we are sorry to say, were severely hurt by the explosion. The Chinese encampment was next burnt, and in fact everything found on that side of the font destroyed, with the exeptton of the junks, which escaped being burnt from there being no boats available to get at diem. Many of them were, however,so much injured by shot that they will probably never float again. The joss-house, from which the liveliest fire had been kept up, escaped destruction, as being on neutral ground, very much to the disappointment of the assailants, who could only by the strictest orders be restrained from attacking it sword in hand. Indeed, during this affair, Captain Smith seems to have been most anxious not to violate in the slightest degree the neutrality of the territory of Macao, although the Chi nese had no such scruples, for not only was the joss house on this side of the barrier, and therefore on Por iuguese ground, but the greatest part of the soldiers that occupied it, marched to it from the town of Macao itself. The English had four men badly and two slightly wounded ; a marine had his arm shattered by a ball, and had to_submit to amputeion of the limb ; another wais shot in the body, and two, as we have already said, badly injured by the explosion of the powder magazine. The loss of the Chinese cannot be known with any de gree of certainty. Those connected with their manda rins state it at only four killed, but other statements are about 50 or 60 killed, and double that number wounded, and are probably more correct. One shot was seen to strike a tanka boat plying between the junks, and pul led by two women ; the boat was shivered to pieces, and nothing was seen of the poor women, who, it is possible, however, may have escaped, they being all ex pert swimmers. We hear that the Chinese soldiers ascribe their de feat to the cowardice of their officers, who they say were the first to run away, and that they were there fore obliged to follow their example. What the result of this affair raay be it is difficult to foresee, but we hope, that having received this severe lesson, the Chinese will hereafter refrain from troubling Macao. The Chinese population here has been very quiet ever since, with the exception of many families removing. The Taoutae, it was rumoured, had disappeared since the fight, but we learn he is now at Casablanca. The Keun•min-foo and Tao-tang have alsa left Macao. The lollowing letter was circulated on Monday lag : " MACAO, AUG. 17. " Sir,---As the British community residing in Macao taunt be deeply interested in the fate of Mr. Stanton, lately seized by the Chinese, I have now to request you will be pleased to make known to them, that assurances have been received from the Governor of Macao by her Mjesty's officers that the Taoutae, yih, left 1\14(303 at seven V.M.on the l lth inst., fur the sole purpose of laying before the Viceroy Lin the strongest demands for the release of the aforesaid British subject ; and his Excellency has been kind enough to state that he will known at the earliest period the result of this I have, &c. fll l(C officer's misLsion. " H. " Commanding the Blockading Squadron. " To , Rig., and other British subjects in Macao." An attempt was made, a few days since, to set fire to the transport Nazaruth Schab, but detected in time to prevent injury. A man had mixed among a crowd of boats, which were at the time alongside, and was ob served to throw something overboard, but it was only after great exertion that the incendiary was secured. When become aware that he had been detected, and that the boats were being lowered to seize him, he jumped into the water, and, diving under the bottom of the ship. reappeared on the other side. For some time he eluded the grasp of his pursuers by diving and hiding among the Chinese boats, but he was at last taken, and is now in irons on board the Druid. (From the Bombay Gazette.) The Indian intelligence for the past mouth possesses unusual interest. The first important item is the sur render of Dost Mahomed, the ex-ruler of Cahn!, to our envoy at the Court of Shah Soojah, Sir W. M'Nagh ten. Thus, after a struggle of two years' duration, we have finally established our point, and Shah Soojah is undisputed master of the throne of his ancestors. The second item of importance is the death of the Maharajah Kurruck Singh of Lahore, and that of his son, Nou-Nahal Singh, by the fall of a beam in a gate way through which he was proceeding to the river Ra vec, to perform his ablutions after his father's obsequies, as prescribed by the Hindoo law. He has left no living heir, but we are informed that one of his wives is in the third month of her pregnancy, and that her mother has possession of the fort, and refuses to give it up to Shere Singh, whom the Lahore Durbar proclaimed Sovereign of the Punjaub on the 7th inst. We believe that by a treaty entered into with Runjeet Singh, we agreed to guarantee the lineal succession of his descendants to the Guddee of the Punjaub ; and, in the event of the correctness of the report ;:of the pregnancy of the Ranee, we opine we shall be obliged to take her under our protection. Shere Singh is the son of one of the wives of Runjeet, but he was disowned by him from his birth, which happened in 1809. He is represented as being the idol of the Seikh army, brave as the lion, whose cognomen (Singh) he bears, but cruel, sensual, and debauched. He was appointed Governor of Cashmere, by Runjeet, who, notwithstandinghis alleged illegitimacy, took him into favour, but he behaved so ill there, and managed his government so miserably, that he was recalled in disgrace, anal for some years has been in obscurity. The sudden death of the heir to the throne has called him before the world again, but we are very doubtful whether our Government will recognise his title to the throne of the Seikhs. A very large army is assembled at Ferozepoor, and the Seikhs themselves are reported to have assembled a force at Rampoor. On all points the British star appears to be in the ascendancy, the troubles in Scinde are fast sub siding, and ouly one melancholy catastrophe cast a gloom over the news from that quarter. Poor Lieut. Loveday, the gallant defender of Khelat, had been conveyed as a prisoner within the camp of Nusseer Khan to the at tack of our post of Dadur. After sacking that town and making an unsuccessful attempt on the British in trenched camp, which was a mile from the town, the advance of a force under Major Boscawen of her Ma jesty's 40th Regiment caused the enemy to retreat. In the pursuit, the body of poor Loieday, the late political agent, with the head almost severed from the trunk. was found chained to a kujawah (a sort of camel chair). His servant was weeping over him. He was quite warm, and the poor fellow said his master had just been killed by al Sower on the alarm of the approach of the 40th. Thus fell a gallant young fellow, cruelly murdered in the moment when the shouts of his victorious coun trymen must have resounded in his cars, and pro mised him a speedy liberation from his severe and protracted sufferings. His only clothing when found was a pair of drawers. We have no doubt that General Nott will make an example of his murderers, as he is now master of Khelat, which he marched into without any opposition. Since be has occupied it, which was on the 4th of November, the place has been quite tranquil, the townspeople have re turned,. and the shops anti bazaar; have been opened. Nusseer Khan is reported to be near Llehree with a host of Beloochees, but nothing certain is known of his movements. He is followed by Major Boscawen's force, who, it is to be hoped, will give a good account of him and his rabble followers. The Nepaulese, it is said, have again been threaten ing our frontier, and keeping our Envoy, Mr. Hodg son, a prisoner in his house, and that they have 28,000 men ready to rush down on Katmandoo, being instigated by the Chinese to attack us. However, this was re ported some time ago, and some of the Calcutta Papers seem to throw doubts on its authenticity. We have very little news from Burmah or the Straits. Oar pro ceedings in China appear to have struck them with awe. Aden has been exempt from attack for some months, and the fortifications are being strengthened, which is a proof that it is intended to ha retained in perpetuity. The climate agrees with Europeans, but the native troops suffer much from scurvy, brought on as it is said from want of good vegetables. There is no domestic news of any importance. The army still continues over worked, and stands wolully in need of an addition to its numbers. Events have shown that 'nothing but a large army cantoned in Scinde can keep it quiet. In the event of an European war breaking out, there is not, we believe, one of her Majesty's ships of war, except the Childers and Cruiser (which are both at Calcutta), be tween this and China, while the French have two or three ships of war in these seas, to which we have nothing to oppose but our armed steamers, and they arc constantly employed carrying the mails between Bombay and Suez. Since writing the above we find that Khelat was occupied without resistance on the 4th of November, by General Nott's force. i EVENI:-.4G E,, voyages, and is ascribed principally to the good effect; • of the better quality of caal employed on the present trip. Capt. Engledue brought a letter to the Pacha from the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Compa* acknowledging their sense of obligation which he had con' (erred on them, in common with ell their countrymen 'crested in the free, safe, and speedy intercourse With India, by the liberal protection he had granted to their enterprise at such a crisis. The letter was accom panie d by presents of some valuable varieties of young 01)1', t ,,' e trees and strawberry plants, specimens of presets'eP4 fruits of every kind that England could furni,b, "n u some splendid fresh turbot and salmon brought out 4 ' ice. The Pacha wa; much pleased with these token ° of acknowledgment, and was particularly struck with the line condition of the fish, brought 3,000 miles, and still as fresh as if just caught. The wonder rail through the place, and even the very cooks were coq' vineed of the suporiority of steani navigation io tb 6 hands of the Inglese. We have to regret the early appearance of the pbg i r ' here. Two " suspicious cases" occurred last week' two private soldiers of the 20th Regiment, one in th e Egyptian fleet, and ot.e on shore. Then came official notification of a decided case on the 1601- .4 boy who died in the vicinity of the Paella's magarines the western harbour. The following day aeother death from plague was notified as occurring in the ¶.201b refs' meat. Again, on the 21st inst., a third death %vas ar flounced at R ssel can (beside the Palace) of an artiO! employed in the arsenal. Tue disease has set in year a month before the time of its appearance 110, season, and it is feared that in the crowded state ° I the city serious consequences may ensue before it roa r its course. These occurrences will also have a depressing effi gi on travelling and commercial intercourse in the 111ed: i terranean. The quarantin e at Malta will b e increao to twenty-five days, the rapid steam communication br tween Egypt and England deprived of half the adca tage that justly attaches to it. It is a disgrace to oic v l!zation that these tediou s imp e di m ent s t o f r ee inte t :i. , course should be still suff e red to exi s t, when it is mitted by every medical man who knows anything ab oll ', , the plague or its symptoms, that two d a ys are qui" ,, sufficient to allow the peculiar appearances to &yell themselves in anybody seized with th e di seas e. 9 1 . fact of its never being carried into the holy cities by te e t i of thousands of pil gr i ms annua ll y , nor i n t o P ers ia, 1341 t ., across the desert an y w h ere , nor even i nto U pper EgYr the grand route of the Nile, ought to convince every ' Jr ,' telligent mind that it is an affair of locality. The dangerous state of affairs in Syria still claims CO r o if siderable attention, both on th e p ar t o f t h e P ac h a and the allied forces. Sir Charles Smith arrived here Hydra steamer on the 17th inst., and had an intervi e 'i with the Paella on the morning et the 19th. &bl e d : quently to the ceremo n i a l o f p i pes an d co ff ee , t h e a tten a nts were ordered to withd raw , an d t h e rema i n i n g Pf tion of their intercourse was carried on in halve!, al t Turks express it, which is not precisely equivalent o• tete-a-tete, for there is the Draeutnan's head and tone; in addition. Three subjects of the I -3 , c'ia's cony( roan, have, however, transpired—the continuous mischief(); intermeddliog with. Russia in his affairs, to which br e , tributes the greater part of the opposition his pacifinP. r o , positions have experienced at C o n s t an ti no ple ; thes l3l, ing and shuffling co n d uc t o f F rance , w ith w hi c h be d now heartily disgusted ; and lastly, the very peculiarr sition in which Ibrahim Pacha is compelled to 0 14 t. despite the wishes of ev e ryb o dy to t h e contrary . / . 1 1 0 had just received inform a ti on , t h roug h t h e 131 41 .; Vice-Consul, that the stat e o f di sor d er st ill p reva iliolf l o i Syria was attributed by the Allies to the prolonged stsi Ibrahim at Damascus :-44 But how can he or I help:i concluded Mehemet Ali, when your Admiral stops. ' sends back my messenger who bore the ordet for IbA him's return ?" It appears that the Peelle and Si c o Smith agreed upon this point, and the good result 1 been, that yesterday the Hyd: a was d es p a t c h e d to 4 Admiral, at Marmorica, with a letter from the Mieil l " Boghos Bey, of which the following is a translation ALEXANDRIA, D ec . 21 , iB4O. ' " Monsieur l'Arairal,—Your Excellency will ! perceived, on perusing the letter addressed !Ai I d ," ‘- Viceroy my master to his Hi g h ness th e Gran',, that we had been indirectly informed by ar, ovetllfr • despatch, dated the last days of R a m azan , that Highness Ibrahim Pacha proposed to effect his rote l` from Damascus on th e 3d or 4th o f Ch avra l ( t he ;'" a ll • or 27th of Novembe r ), an d t o re. enter Egypt 14' 0 his army. This news has, it appears, been furtherell firmed by advises received by your Excellency, a l T il t consequence of which you have thought proper, Morts'e hi , Atniral, to send back to Alexandria Ilamid Bey. conformably to the clauses of the convention cent:W o g ! with Commodo re N ap i er , h a d b een f orwarde d to 1. 0 Excellency with d es p atc h es f or hi s Hi g h ne i s IttrAb i " Mr. Larking having made known to me, that, the cording to the information forwarded to him 14 cb , steam-boat which brought General Si r Ch ar l e s Sa l. r . H to Alexandria, that the state of rebellion in whioll i g r tain parts of Lebanon still cont i nue d aga i nst t h e 80' r e • ; rity of the Sublime Po r t e was attr ib uted to the cu. longed sojourn of the Egyptian Genwal-in-Chief at mascus, and having further expressed to me his optt y that it would be proper to forward to his Hi g linesiP' ls ,V;` him Paella a repetition of the o r d er t o evacua t e s7 r o f. I hastened to submit this inform a ti on to t h e Vite. l ,lo : :. His Highness having been pleased to take it int o 1, ' I consideration, has ordered m e t o sta t e t o yone ~„ I lency that the communication by land with Syria is I pletely interrupted in consequence of the state of aO ll lO in which that province is plunged at present ; and th i e hr e ' appears to him impossible to keep his Highness Id him Pacha au courant by that route, of the re' r e, of the late negotiations. His Highness also minds your Excellency, that the return of Hernia 'a (who was previously charged to forward his order, the General-in-Chi e f) h a d l e f t hi m no other res oer p no other means of communication. Consideriu6l existence of these di ffi culties, the Vi cero y w i s h es (' f di apprehensions of Mr. Larking are well founded, an i your Excellency still possesses any means of comin e. ,,l) citing with the head-quarters of the Egyptian Gee er ,d that you would be pleased, Mo ns i eur l'A m i ra l , t o se n d a steam-boat to Constantinople t o carry anew to Si'd Hamid Bey, together with the English officer wilt' be charged by your Excellency to second hint is mission to Ibrahim Paella. 4 ; " Your Excellency is in a position to form It A' `I D I idea of the actual state of things in Syri a , an d 1 brg l- 0 will do me the honour to transmit to me, as sone ; possible, your opinion on this importr,nt point., to th es e r that we may promptly conform t o i t our u l ter i o r 1 ) f ceedings. I avail myself with eagerness, Monsieur l'Are t 4 - 1 , of this occasion to offer to y our E xce ll ency the al' sion of my high consideration a tze., " BOVHOS JOUSSOLIe . " To his Excellency Admiral Sie Robert Stopforii, Colnmander-in- Chief of her Brittinnic Majest, , l l Naval Forces in the Meditertnneata." 10 1 f It would appear that Cornmodoya, Xipier's cooven t g , for the evacuation of'Syria is . in s rif er way o f f,iang ° , l O tied out after all, although it is freely dewily cad by allied authorities "as an act of insbiardinati cea." ft The Paella's two steant-hoats 'aid a corvette bop had orders to hold themselves in readiness to take ,d board the sick and wound e d, w h o i t was ispee'de were at Gaza, but by a courier recently arrived h e el learn that not a single man of IbraVitia's army , reached that fortress. A s f ar a ' s we can ho is still at Damascus, whither hr, had returned all his army, after haying suffered considerablY health fiom hi s r ecen t attempt to penetrate southrflrnil He was very ' ill before the 'march commenced, i e i r i •J was obliged to travel i n a lktter. His attendancgLg hint down on the road two or three tinier', fnn w o - t , he was dead, hut by the faest "accounts he still v • vived, though much reduced by dropsy and recent tacks of dysentery. The state of Damascus is e 'd to he truly lamentable at this crisis. " The reig n o f • terror" was established there, and accuaatioai treason brought destruction on the heads of numb e c e The commercial houses at Cairo in em:respondl o r with the disaffected or suspected had been closed ;,.. ( 1 a little suf fi ced to compromise a man. R e port - ' 1 , ( 1 been spread that Seheriff Pacha had been inassOfili I by the inhabitants of Damascus, and that I‘l.' lll ; ',,a Achtnet Pacha had deserted Ibrahim's standard w it 500 men, but these two assertions are di!;cov e ' j f to be without foundation. The report, hov wevet' the sufferings of the Turkish troops at Acr, and other garrisons from dysentery, and similar cause% e too true, and it was et one time a n o p en qu est i o u 0 " j ther any British soldier or marine should lir ; l e ft on l en ,. in Syri a . By th e l as t a rriv a l s , th e hosolt a l at o leo contained only 101 patients, and the deaths had front eight or ten a-day to one or two. e j I translate the following letter, whie.'d has just sirr iv e ill in Alexandria ; though the date is r. ot very rece nt, t ot it contains interesting news to us.. H owever , n ow IP the blockade has been official!Y raised by the Porte , may daily expect to hear more, i mportant i nte lli ge nce Beyrout, Dec. 9, 18 40. 0 . . v , " On the 2a and 30. 'inst., we had here a tempes t o t violent, that it threw upon the, coast eleven merellob vessels of the tour try—not one European. Among . t o number were three from Alexandria, laden with ec r and just arrive d {. The cargoes are a ll lo s t. Snel l storm is not on record for the last eighty-five y ell. The Austrian corvette La Lipsia has been serind e o daniager!,, and was obliged, in the ensuing calm, 0 g o take' in tow by an E ng li s h s t eamer t o b e re pairee , d , Miremoricit. In the Bay of Acre, at Kaiffa, the 1 /% °1 ; 0 hrft brig of w ar Z e b ra h a d b een d r i ven on shore, she still li es w i t h out h ope o f b e i ng h e lp e d off ; nerd A ll companion, the Pique, had her masts carriee, awaY• o r the Arab barque s a nd heats in our road an d har d bo o ll have been destroyed without a single exe,Qption, a ° 01% the coasts whence the news has reachr.al us have fared similar calamities. le 6 ' " By these shipwrecks, we are les:t in a seriono r ` to o ciency of grain, and, but for the univt.l to-day ( 11 vessels laden with corn from Alex an d r i a , the W I. " ['- would have been felt both in t orcn i au d on the in ov e e , thins ; and we should, perhaps, I,, ave h a d nn inEu r , r bei tion on the part of the mountaineers, deprived, n o * he ir are, of supplies of grain from Jala au d Kaiffa by t irlic new Governors, for reasons whi..th not Jody knows. INDIA MAILS. The Cleopatra steamer left Bombay on the Ist, at 8 p. In, and arrived at Suez on the 18th, at 3 p. m., with mails, and the following passengers :—Colonel Sergeant, Lieut.-Col. Smyth, Major and Mrs. Hook, Captain R. Farquhar, Lieutenants Beachcroft, Law rence, and Hume, Mrs. Grey and two children, Messrs. E. P. Thompson, G. Parbury, and John Mylne, and the Right Rev. Dr. Connor, all of whom, except the last, arrived at Malta in the Great Liver pool, and, with the exception of Lieutenant• Colonel Smyth (who landed at Malta,) proceed on by her to Southampton, and likewise Sir William Eden, Bart., who came from the coast of Syria and Egypt. The Berenice steamer arrived at Bombay, No vember 22, from Suez the Ist, and Aden the 12th, without mails. The London mails for India of November 30th and December 4th were landed at Alexandria on the 17th and sent on immediately to Suez. BOMBAY, DEC. I, 1840. November has been an important month in India. The points of highest interest are four—viz., Affghan istan, Scinde, Lahore, and China. In Affghanistan the attempts of Dost Mahomed to master that country have failed. He was totally de feated on the 2d of November, by Major-General Sir Robert Sale, and having escaped from the battle, he fled to Cabul, and surrendered himself to the British Envoy (Sir W. M‘Naghten). Several excellent officers have fallen in the conflicts—viz., Captain Conolly, Dr. Lord, Lieutenant Broadfoot, and Lieutenant Crispin, and others were wot.nded. The surrender of the Dost will, it is hoped, secure peace to Schah Soojah. In Scinde there has been some fighting. Misseer, the young King of Beloochistan, with 5,000 men, at tacked, plundered, and burnt Dadur, in sight of an en trenched camp of 400 British Sepoys, who dared not hazard themselve out of their fortified position. The Beloochees took their plunder to the hills, but before they left Dadur one of their chiefs, who had the care of Lieutienaut Loveday, the late British political agent in Khelat, bad him murdered beside a tree, to which he was tied as a prisoner. In Lahore, Maharajah Kurruck Singh, the son and successor to the far-famed Runject, died on the sth, as it is said, of the effects of poison and bad treatment. One of his wives and some female attendants were burnt with his body. His son and heir, Nou-Nehal Singh, a violent opponent of the British, on returning from the funeral met with an accident ; the great beam of one of the gates fell on the elephant on which he was riding, killed one of his friends, and so severely injured the young king, that he lived but a few hours. His death has lessened the risk of war in Lahore. Shore Singh, an illegitimate son of Itunjeet, has been raised to the throne. The British troops continue in the neighbourhood, and peace is thereby secured. There have been rumours current of an impending war. wits► the Nepaulese, but they are discredited. The Khelat jewels have been sold for little more than 5,0001. The great anxiety is about the chances of war in Europe. The underwriters demand war premiums, from fear of its having broken out. EGYPT. ALI.AANDIIIA, DEC. 23. The Great Liverpool arrived here at sunset on the evening of the 16th instant, after performing the quick est voyage on record between England and Egypt. Captain Engledue left Falmouth at live o'clock in the afternoon of the 2d instant, arrived at Gibraltar at eight o'clock in the morning of the 7th instant, departed at six o'clock in the afternoon, arrived at Malta at six o'clock r.m. of the 11th (a four days' run), left Malta at ten o'clock P.M. next day, and arrived off Alexandria at six o'clock r.m. on the 16th. The sun had set, and no pilot would venture out, otherwise the steamer might have entered the harbour the same evening. The total time was days and one hour between Falmouth and Alexandria, of which 12 days 11 hours were spent at sea , a nd 88 hours in the harbours of Gibraltar and Malta. This is a great improvement on the previous