The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

FURTH THE ER SLONDONERIOUS L DOC OSS,K WA.REH OUS FROM PILFEES.RAGE, IN On Friday the 25th ult., a meeting of those interested in the colonial and foreign coffee trade was held at the Com mercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, for the purpose of receiv ing a report from the committee appointed to consider the best means to be adopted to redress serious grievances, to which the trade for a long period has been subjected. The chair was taken by Mr. Edwards. The CHAIRMAN said that the committee had bad inter views with the directors of the principal docks, who had promised every assistance in remedying the evil complained of. He moved that the report of the committee be read. The Hon. SECRETARY then read the following report : " That in pursuance of the desires of the trade, they have solicited and obtained interviews with the directors of the East and West India. the London, and the St. Katherine Dock Companies, and have laid before them statements of the losses constantly sustained, in consequence of the deli very weights of coffee being seriously short of the landing weights, on which payments are made, both for coffee and duty. They have also drawn the attention of the several di rectors to the great discrepancies which are shown in the delivery weights, and have ventured to express doubts as to whether such discrepancies can be solely the effect of natural causes. " That the directors of the several dock companies have declared their readiness to act in any manner which may be suggested, in order to prevent such losses, and to exercise the greatest care and vigilance, so that deficiencies may not be the result of want of attention, or any other cause -which such care and vigilance may prevent. • " That not any of the directors seem, however, to sub scribe to the opinion that any other cause than that of ab sorption by atmospheric influence has operated to produce the losses complained of. " That notwithstanding this conviction on the part of the directors, the committee cannot but retain their former opi nion, that many cases show discrepancies quite irreconci leable with such conclusion. and also that the business of weighing and tarring packages on landing is frequently car ried through so hastily as not to ensure proper security to the buyers ; and that many coffees are landed in packages not sufficiently strong to bear further transit, and which the directors of the dock companies state that they have no power to alter, but with the sanction of the importers, which, as entailing expense, is generally withheld. "Also that the fact of the trade being called on to pay duty on what does not exist, is unjust and unreasonable; and the committee feel assured that on a proper representa tion being made to the government, this grievance will be speedily remedied ; coffee being of the articles named in the Customs Act as subject to some deficiency from natural causes, and being kept in the custody of their officers in warehouses of special security. "The committee, therefore, suggest that a meeting of the trade be held to take into consideration the necessity of me morialising the government on the present mode of paying duties on coffee, and to devise any other means which may be considered likely to prevent loss to the party on whose account clearances are made ' • for which purpose the com mittee propose that a general meeting of the trade be held -at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, on Friday next, the 25th instant, at twelve for one precisely. " Edward Edwards, Chairman, " James C. Quick, Hon. Sec. " 21st Nov. 1842." Mr. Moffatt rose to move a resolution that the report be adopted. He expected no redress from the dock companies. and that government ought to be applied to, in order that the trade should not be charged on the landing weights. Re cently, in a parcel of five bales of Mocha coffee, there was a loss of 53 lbs. One balewas deficient, in another purchase he had made, of 27 lbs. Mr. Chenery and other parties spoke of great deficiencies, that could not arise from natural causes. The report was adopted. Mr. Condor had been thirty-two years in the trade, and in the last two or three years the decrease in the weight of bales of coffee had augmented. He moved a resolution in favour of applying to the First Lord of the Treasury against the levying of the duty on coffee at the landing weight. The resolution was carried, and the committee was strengthened by several parties of influence in the trade, to give weight to the representations to the government.' The thanks of the meeting were given to the committee, and the meeting then adjourned. A SCENE IN LISBON. A singular event has occurred here within the last week, (Nov. 25.) An inhabitant of Morocco, who had been for some months residing in Lisbon, intent, as it appears, merely on amusement, got himself involved in an unplea sant, though ludicrous affair, with the police authorities, arising entirely from a laughable mistake. He is a singu larly fine-looking man, with a large and portly, but symme trical person, muscular shoulders, and an expansive chest, not ill set off by the tight-fitting gaberdine descending from neck to heel, and the loosely-tied red sash that envelopes his haunches. A simple turban completes his attire, of which the folds of white linen that form its basis contrast most picturesquely with his clear olive complexion, and with the dark curls that cluster around a most manly forehead, eyes of singular lustre, a finely-formed aquiline nose, and all other features "to match." It was impossible to pass him by without notice, and he was universally recognized to be the handsomest man in Lisbon. After the true Oriental fashion, this singularly favoured Maroquino lived almost perpetually in the open air, taking up his stand in the fore noon in " Oold-street," " Silver-street," Bus Augusta, or some other leading thoroughfare. At some distance behind him were usually seen three other men, dressed in the same style, but less expensively, though all were plain in their attire. Whether these were followers or companions no one could tell ; but to those acquainted with Oriental customs the former was most probable, because they always kept apart at a respectful distance, eyeing, as if for protection, the movements of the chief figure in the picture •, and there was an air of personal dignity about the latter which told his superi ority at a glance. It was his wont to spend whole days thus, speculating on European customs, character, and manners and noting down the memorabilia of Lisbon life in the tablets of his memory. A few days since he was so employed in the Rua da Prata with his henchmen, as usual, at a distance from his elbow, when, growing fatigued with standing, and seeing a fine French-polished rosewood chair standing at the door of an upholsterer's shop, with an extremely neat and soft-cushioned seat, covered with silk damask, hospitably laid out there, as he thought, to comfort the nether man of any passing pilgrim, the Moroquino threw himself into it, stretching his legs out luxuriously, so as to block up the entire doorway, and then proceeded to scrape the mud off his shoes against the door post, by way of showing how duly he appreciated Lisbon notions of cleanliness. Of course, had the entrance to the shop not been as foul as all its fellows, he never could have mistaken the purpose for which the door-posts of Lisbon are divorced from scrubbing-brushes. Fired at the indignity, the shopkeeper rushed upon him, and inflicted upon him some severe blows with a heavy stick before the stranger was aware how his innocent act had been misinterpreted. Presently, however, his Moorish blood rose to boiling heat at the indignity ; he remembered how Lisbon and all Portugal had once belonged to his ancestors ; how the palace of the ancient Moorish kings at Cintra, with its socalcos, its fountains, and its albarradas, bad passed into the pos session of the Feringees ; how the castle of his fore fathers, on the stupendous Serra, although now a ruin, is the most extensive and majestic in Europe ; how, even in present times, the African Algarve had been wrested by his conntrymen from the sway of the degenerated Portu guese, and formed into the Empire of Morocco ; and over powered by these complicated feelings, and by the thought that a " Christian dog" was so far forgetful of all the feelings of hospitality as to insult him grossly on the threshold of his Louse, he raised the ear-piercing Algazarra, the war-shout of his country, which more than once appalled the soul of Al fonzo Henrique himself, and fell on his rude assailant. The tradesman, however, had the best of it. The cries of the belaboured Maroquino called several of the neighbours to gether, who fortunately interposed in time to save him from very serious injury, though not from a severe beating. The Moor was thrown on a sick bed. Here he cal led for pen and paper, and addressed a letter to Go mez de Castro, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The letter reached its destination, but was altogether unin intelligible, for the very sufficient reason that it was writ ten in Arabic. Several " learned Thebans" were applied to ; but, though the caligraphy was excellent, their answer was no more satisfactory than Dominic Sampson's " Prodigious !" A length a sort of an Orientalist was found, who managed to blunder through the letter, and discovered in the injured stranger no less a person than the Prince of Mogadore, bro , ther of the Emperor of Morocco ! The foreign Minister lost no time in communicating with him through an interpreter, procuring his testimonials, which left no doubt of the truth of his statement, and ascertaining that he had chosen to remain entirely incognito to consult his own convenience and that of the authorities. The Mi nister apologized for the indignities which had been offered to the prince, took him into his own house, and showed him every attention. SCOTCH Poop, LAws.—lt appears from a correspondence between Mr. Wallace and Sir R. Peel, in connexion with the memorial of the unemployed in Greenock, that the subject of the Sc o t c h P oor Law has been under the serious considera tion.i of the Government, and that " measures are in progress for nstituting a full and comprehensive inquiry into that sub ject, with a view to the amendment of the existing law." This is so far well, though, if the inquiry is only about to be ordered, there is no saving when the " amendment " in the law to which it is expected to lead will be accomplished, so as to yield its f ru it s t o our starving people. The letter of Sir R. Peel is altogether a very stave-off to the appeal of our unfortunate town's-people. The county gentlemen, we hope feel obliged to him for the hint he has given them, to exercise p . Tate benevol ence i n mee ti ng the emergency which has drisen.—Glasgow Chronicle. _ ____ ............ RICHARD OAST number of the LER.—At length, as we learn from a late tion of the Queen's "Fleet i Papers," the late act for the regula tion The Fleet," has rison and the abolition of the prison of person of our be enesteemedcarried into effect with regard to the friend Richard Oastler. It appears that on the 12th of Nov from Lord Denman, in pursuance of a general war rantr i..(1 Chief Justice, Mr. Oastler was removed from the Flee and that he is now located i n rison to the Queen's Prison; room No. 2, staircase No. 10. Mr. Oastler was committed suit of Mr. Th ornhill, o n the 9tt'o the Fleet Prison at the me f ee December, 1840; so that he has been i ncarcerated f or than two years ; and as his means o f p a y ment are no greater now th h anthey were on at that time , it is to be hoped that Mr. Tho r nhill wilt soon be of opinion th at he has suffered sufficiently We observe that since Mr. Oastler 's removal he has taiAtili:essed his little " Fleeters" to Sir James Graham, Bart., i nstead of to Mr. Thornhill. We lay before our readers, on unquestio na bl e authority, the following appalling narration ; About the m ont h of No vember, 1840, a maroon of Sierra Leone was cau g ht in the act of adultery with the wi fe of the same a black man of Co lony. The black man killed the maroon on the spot by run ning him through the body. T he authorities were forthwit h made acquainted with the fact, and a correspondence took place with the native chief within whose district it-was corn _ 'Flitted. It was within a few miles of Sierra Leon Tee , and al most within the boundary line of t he colony. corres pondence terminated in allowing the offender to be tried by the native chief, although he was a British subject. In the end he was burned alive, and a great number of maroons went from Free Town to witness the horrid sight . They actually supplied a tar-barrel to assist in it! This unfortunate was an Ebo, a re-captured slave, and had resided many years in the colony, There must be official information of this fear ful transaction at the Colonial office, which some member of the House of Commons might, perhaps, obtain from the Government.—Anti-slavery Reporter. MELANCHOLY Loss ox LIFE.—From the very heavy rains which fell on the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday last, a great flood was occasioned in the river, over which, at the townland of Monree, a plank was thrown, which formed a footgo for persons crossing the stream. Unfortunately. no rail was attached to the plank—an oversight not at all unusual, little regard being paid to such convenience, until some accident occurs, and very frequently not even then. On Thursday, a young woman bad occasion to visi • • t Lurgan, and being afraid , in consequence of the great swell of the river, to cross the footway alone, she solicited the assistance of the equally unfortunate young man. Poor Donnelly was engaged at the time in washing his cart, at the edge of the river, and was easily induced to accede to her • parti cularly vetshes as she was a stranger , he , from frequent , habit, not being afraid. When they had proceeded a short way, he leading her by the hand, she became terrified by the flowing of the water, and seized him by the body for further pro tection, when, distressing to relate, both fll e into the cu rent to rise no more.—Beffast paper. HER MAJESTY, At a quarter past seve❑ o'clock on Saturday morning her Majesty left Walmer Castle in a close travelling carriage and four en route for Windsor. The Queen and his Royal High ness Prince Albert were escorted by a detachment of Hussars, and preceded by outriders in scarlet liveries. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal fol lowed in another carriage and four, and were attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Miss Skei rett. Ina third car riage were Vicountess Canning, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. Anson. The Grenadier Guards were drawn up near the drawbridge and saluted the Queen as her Majesty entered the carriage, and the Thunderer, at anchor off the Castle, fired a royal salute. At Canterbury great demonstrations greeted her Majesty. The Queen left the Fountain Hotel at nine o'clock, and pro ceeded by the most direct route to the Great Western Rail way station on her way to Windsor. On arriving in the interior of the station, her Majesty with Prince Albert alighted from her carriage, and proceeded to the waiting-room, followed by the attendants bearing the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. In this room ad ditional accommodation had been provided for her Majesty's special use. Her Majesty was met at the entrance to the waiting-room by Mr. Russell, M.P., chairman of the Board of Directors, and by Mr. Saunders, the secretary, and Mr. Clarke, the superintendent of the Company. Her Majesty remained for a few; minutes in the waiting-room before she proceeded on to Slough. At about 25 minutes past three, she came out, attended by Prince Albert, and followed by the attendants with the children. Her Majesty looked well, and walked with a firm and elastic step, not leaning on the Prince for support. She wore a pale pink bonnet trimmed with black lace, a black velvet mantle surmounted by a deep collar of Chinchilla fur, and a pale gray coloured silk dress. Imme diately afterwards, her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince, entered the elegant and costly carriage provided for her spe cial use by the Company. Before her Majesty entered, how ever, she saw the two children into the carriage, and com fortably settled. Not till then did she enter herself. Much pleasure was expresesd by the spectators at the ex cellent view they were able to obtain of the heir apparent and his illustrious sister. The former wore a round cap of purple velvet, with a broad band of gold, and was wrapped in a robe of Stuart tartan. The Princess Royal bad on a bonnet of the same colour as her Majesty. At half-past three, the train had started for Slough, being three-quarters of an hour after the carriages took up the escort at New Crsss. WINDSOR, SATURDAY EVENING. This afternoon, at twenty minutes past four o'clock, her Majesty and suite arrived at the Castle from Walmer, ac companied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, having tra velled from Paddington to Slough in the state carriage of the Great Western Railway Company. Her Majesty was escorted from the Slough station by a detachment of the 2d Life Guards. Her Majesty appeared in excellent health and spirits, and but very slightly fatigued by her lengthened journey. The loyal inhabitants of the town assembled in very considerable numbers in the High-street, and on Castle Hill. to greet her Majesty on her return from Kent. BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. (From the Newcastle Journal.) A very ' ()Teat sensation has ceen produced in this neigh bourhood by a most daring act of house-breaking and at tempted murder, which occurred on Sunday morning last, at Gateshead Low Fell, about three miles from this town. The situation of the premises is somewhat retired, lying more than a quarter of a mile from the Turnpike-road leading from Gateshead to Durham, in rather a wild mountainous district, overlooking the vale of Ravensworth. The only inmates of the house were an aged maiden lady, named Miss Robinson, her servant, Ruth Lawson, and a companion, named Miss Clarke, aged and very infirm. Miss Robinson is a lady of in dependent circumstances, nearly sixty years of age, living in Kell's-place. The house was one of two built together, with gardens in front, the back yard wall adjoining a field. The family retired to bed as usual at an early hour on Saturday night, Miss Robinson's bed-room being on the same floor with that occupied by the servant girl and Miss Clark, who slept together. It appears from the statement of the girl, Ruth Lawson, who has lived with Miss Robinson for about two years and a half, that at about four o'clock in the morn ing she was awoke by a noise in the house, when she heard , her mistress crying out, and thought she was unwell. She answered, "coming, coming," and instantly jumped out of bed, and went on to the stair-bead. She then saw a light in her mistress's bed-room, and heard the voice of a man talking to her mistress, telling her to " hold her tongue or it would be worse for her." On hearing this the girl was alarmed, and ran back into her bed-room, and closed the door after her. She then heard her mistress cry out " murder, mur der," as loud as she could, and, summoning her courage, she again ventured out, and entered her mistress's room, having heard the men, as she thought, go down stairs. On entering the room she found her mistress on the floor with her head in a pool of blood, and apparently in a dreadfully mangled condition. - Miss Robinson's account of what occurred is as follows : she states that about a quarter to four o'clock she was awoke by a noise in her bed-room, and when she looked up she saw a light, and two men were standing one on each side of her bed. One of them had a candle in his hand. The men had their faces blacked and their persons were disfigured by sack ing or canvas wrapper tied over their clothes. On looking up, one of them assumed a menacing attitude and said, " Y're money or y're life." Miss Robinson was horror struck, but she maintained her self-possession, and replied, " Oh, I'll give you all the money I have," and she was in the act of getting out of bed, when one of the men struck her behind the head with an iron pinch. She shouted out " murder " as loud as she was able, and it is probable that the men had heard the servant girl upon the stair-head, as they then left the room and made their escape from the house. On examining the lower apartments it was found that every place had been ransack'd. Drawers bad been examined, the silver candlesticks and chimney-piece ornaments removed, the piano-forte opened, and, indeed, every place searched where it might be supposed money would be placed. The only money thsy appear to have got was in the servant's box which stood in the kitchen, and from thence they took one sovereign, half a sovereign, and three shillings and sixpence in silver. Two men are now in custody charged with the offence. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT CALCUTTA. (From the accounts by the Overland Mail.) One of the most dreadful accidents that has ever been known in Calcutta occurred in the Old China Bazaar, on last Friday evening. Between the hours of four and five that evening, Mr. Hudson, son of Mr. N. Hudson, of the Supreme Court, had gone to a shop in the Old China Bazaar, a little beyond the place where hats are sold, and just at the north west angle of the road which runs into Doomtollah, for the purchase of gunpowder. Mr. Hudson was in a buggy, ac companied by two other gentlemen, who remained in' the vehicle at the shop-door, while Mr. Hudson entered to bargain for the article. The only surviving witness of the transaction is a boy belonging to an opposite shop, who could, from his position, look into the shop where Mr. Hudson was. and who saw some powder shown to him by the powder vender. He next observed Mr. Hudson thrust his hand into what he believes to have been an open barrel of gunpowder, and take out a handful of the contents. Mr. Hudson was then seen to raise his hand, as if to examine what he had taken out, and immediately after the boy saw a small blaze, produced, no doubt, by the ignition of the powder in Mr. Hudson's hand by contact with the lighted end of a cigar which he was smoking. It is believed, that as the powder in his hand blazed, Mr. Hudson jerked his hand instinctively, and thus communicated the fire to the barrel which stood near him. In an instant more the entire shop, with one or two other shops on each side adjoining, was blown up into the air, and masses of masonry, rubbish, and timbers, flew in all directions. All the inmates in the shop were buried in the ruins, toge ther with a number of passengers in the street, who were seriously, and many of them mortally, injured, and have since died. Mr. Hudson perished among the rest, and from the place and position in which he was found, which was just near the entrance of the ill-fated shop. his body being completely doubled up, with his face on his boots, it is be lieved, that notwithstending the blast from the powder, he made an effort to gain the street, but was intercepted by the fall of the ruins over him. The unfortunate young man's apparel was almost all destroyed by the blaze, and the only things found whole on him were his boots, a Prayer-book, which was in one of his pantaloon pockets, and a penknife and keys. The parts of his person which escaped disfigure ment were his face and feet. Immediately after the occur rence the police succeeded in clearing away a great portion of the ruins, and extricating several bodies. There were no less than 35 persons injured by this most dreadful occurrence, 12 of whom were found dead on the spot. There was one poor native found buried alive among the ruins with only his head above. He was extricated and removed to the hospital, and is expected to survive. A na tive woman, who was passing the street at the time, got her leg so seriously fractured by one of the timbers thrown up by the explosion as to require the amputation of that limb. The majority of those injured were scorched by the blaze. Of these no less than 22, inclusive of Mr. Hudson, are dead. and among the remaining 13 out of 35 in hospital, several were in a precarious state up to Saturday evening. A lady and child who were passing that way at the time, are said to have been thrown out of their palanquin by the shock, and are believed to have suffered serious injury ; but we have been unable to learn who they were, or the extent of their injury. The shock produced by the explosion was so great, as not only to have been felt in all the surrounding building, but in many at a distance. Some of the large houses in Rada Bazaar and Clive-street Ghat are said to have experienced it very severely. It ought to be stated, that the companions of Mr. Hudson most providentially escaped. The buggy horse at the first flash of the powder took fright and ran away, and thus put those in the buggy beyond the danger, which other wise they must have shared. An inquest was held by the coroner. The jury repaired to the Medical College to in spect the bodies, where few juries must have beheld a sight more painfully revolting than they did. There were 21 stiff and scorched up corpses laid out side by side, some of them presenting the most shocking appearance of disfigurement. Cod-fish is selling at Bath and Bristol, at 2d. a lb. Lady Alexandrina Vane, daughter of the Marquis of Lon donderry, is alarmingly ill of inflammation of the chest. The King of Prussia has given orders for the formation, in Berlin, of a winter garden, similar to that of Breslau, but on a more magnificent scale. It appears that coffee, the importation of the present season, is 25 per cent. cheaper than those of the last several years. The funds of the savings' bank at Richmond, Surrey, have been embezzled to the amount of £lO5O, by its secretary, Captain Bo'stead, a person who is highly connected, held other appointments, and is a captain in the Surrey militia. We understand there has been eight hundred pounds lodged in the Killarney Saving's Bank during the p ast week, by the poorer classes of the community. This is no b ad symp tomof the times.—Kerry Post It a that the Prince de Joinville (third son o f Kin g Louis r" hppe) is to be married immediately to a Brazilian Princess, and that his sister, the Princess Clementine of Or lean, is to b WORTHY 0 1 : g r a ll, l f Coburg, brot h er very shortly married to Prince Augustus of ml t r h A e T K in i N tig ...... of m P r o . rt E u v g a a n l. Evans, of Llwyn fynwent, Llan tenants on the presenatrch, has returned ten per cent. to his wasp reviously let at a tid last year's rental, though his land hood—he has, besides pu ler rate than any in the neighbour ' without any deductionasilo the buildings in thorough re pail,n that score.—Brecon paper. It is stated that about two years ago, the shares in the Rochdale Canal wer e worth about the opening of the Manchester and Leeds‘() each, but that since Railway, owing to the necessary reduction of the tolls arising tition, the dividends have been so much from the win g to reduced that the shares now fetch barely £4O each. UNEQUALLED SERVITUDE ON THE RIVE R Mr. —, the late boardi n g clerk for the St. Katherine Dock THAMES.— Company at Gravesend , duri n g nine years' residence " boarded," and frequently with unex p ecte d success there,to h employers, in an open boat , 17 fee t 10 in ches in length, no fewer than 20,710 vessels from foreign ports, in doing, which, he sailed, by correct calculation, no fewer than 29,790 miles, being a distance greater than once round the world. The gentleman alluded to as having performed this unequalled feat is still in the St. Katherine Dock Company's service, although in a different capacity. GAMING TRANSACTIONS. SMITH V. BOND. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, Landon.) T:)is was an action to recover certain penalties under the 10th Ann, for playing at a certain game called hazard. The statute enacted that all persons who lost money at gaming were entitled to recover it back by an action at law, provided they brought it within three months after their loss ; but in the event of their failing to do so, any common informer could bring the action ; and whatever penalties he recovered, one moiety was to be his, and the other was to go to the poor of the parish where the offence was committed, the penalties being the sum lost and three times its amount. Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Lush were for the plaintiff; Mr. Platt, Mr. Richards, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Butt conducted the defence. Mr. Lush opened the pleadings, and stated that the de claration contained ten counts, to all of which the defendant pleaded not guilty. Counsel on the part of the defendant requested that the witnesses on both sides should not be in court during the proceedings, which being acceded to, Mr. Thesiger addressed the jary on the part of the plaintiff and after (pointing out the penalties of the statute, said, without going into details, he would call witnesses before them to prove the infraction of it by the defendant. Mr. Benjamin Thompson examined by Mr. Kelly.—l know the defendant, Mr. Joseph Bond. I was in his em- ployment in the month of June last. He kept a house in St. James's-street, known as the " Junior St. James's Club." There was much play at French hazard there. It was car ried on in a room on the second floor, where there was a table for play, The defendant occasionally superintended. In his absence I did. The play was carried on mostly by counters, representing several sums of money. There was a bank, over which a groom-porter presided. His duty was to call the main and chance, and to receive and give money. His name was Norton. There was also another person of the name of Slarke who assisted. He is the defendant's (Mr. Bond's) nephew. The game of French Hazard is played with a box and dice. Being asked to explain how the game was played, he said.—`, If for instance, a player calls a main of seven, and throws five, he continues to throw until he either throws seven or five. If he throws the former first the bank draws the money, and in the latter the caster or thrower ; but if he throws crabs he throws out." (laughter.) Lord Abinger.—Pray what are crabs? Witness.—My lord, crabs are when you throw deuce, ace, or aces, and then the bank wins. I recollect a Mr. Breddell coming to the club on the 2d of June, 1841. He played at French hazard, and lost £7 in cash, and his draft for £2OO. He gave me the draft on a slip of paper. I waited on him the following morning, and he gave me a regular printed cheque on his bankers, the amount of which I received and paid over to Mr. Bond, the defendant. On the 11th of June, 1841, I recollect Captai❑ Courtenay coming to the house, and losing £lOO in cash, and on the 14th he came again and lost the same amount in cash, and also his draft on the London and Westminster Bank for £2OO, which I handed over to the defendant, and on the 26th of the same month he returned again, and on that occasion he lost £l7O in cash, and his cheque for £1,150, which were handed over to Mr. Bond, On the 29th of June. Mr. 'Fitzroy Stanhope came, and lost £5 in cash, and a £5O draft on Herries and Co., bankers, St. James's-street, but I do not know whether it was paid Or not. On the 10th of August subsequent I recollect Mr. Breddell coming again and losing £2OO, for which I received his cheque, which was paid the subsequent morning. On the 25th of August the Marquis of Conyngham came and lost £5OO, for which he gave his bill to Mr. Bond, which I heard was paid. On the 27th Lord Cantilupe lost £4OO, cash £2OO, and a bill for £2OO, which he held of the defend ant Bond. On the 29th General Churchill lost £5O, for which be gave a draft on his agents, Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, which:was paid. On the 3d of December the Marquis of Conyngham again visited the house and lost £5OO, for which he gave his bill. Cross-examined—l live at Chelsea on ray own means. I know not who the plaintiff is. I have not the slightest inte rest in the present inquiry. I know a person of the name of Fearon. I never applied to him to make false dice. The defendant and I had some differences. 1 sued him. I never in the presence of Mr. Massey Stanley asked a person of the name of Smith to make false dice. The money which Capt. Courtenay lost he paid in Bank of England notes. I never was charged with not paying over to the defendant the amount of a dinner bill which Captain Duff paid. I did pay it over to the defendant in the coffee-room, along with £5 which Captain Duff had lost at hazard. Charles Andrew Breddell, Esq., of Eaton-square, Pimlico, corroborated the last witness, and produced the two cheques for £2OO, which he had lost at the defendant's house. Captain Courtnay was next called, and stated that he had only visited the house four times, and lost several hundred pounds, but had no precise recollection of losing the particu lar sum of £lOO, as stated in the declaration. A clerk from Cox and Greenwood proved the payment of the £5 cheque, on the part of General Churchill, to a person of the name of Starkie, the nephew of the defendant. The Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Cantilupe, and Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope were called, and not appearing, Mr. Platt addressed the jury on the part of the defendant, and contended that if even they believed Thompson, the plaintiff's witness, in point of law he could not recover, in asmuch as the declaration charged the defendant with re ceiving money for gambling in the parish of St. James's, whereas the payment of the money took place in the city, and he requested his lordship to reserve the point. His Lordship expressed a doubt how far the point would avail the defendant. The learned Counsel having concluded a most eloquent address, Lord Abinger most elaborately summed up the evidence. The jury, after half an hour's deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff on five counts in the declaration, and in pe nalties amounting to £3,508. REMOVAL OF DUST MOHAMED.—The 9th light cavalry marched from Ferozepore on the Ist instant, with orders not to proceed beyond Bhawulpore. The Dost's family and fol lowers are in progress from Loodianah, under escort of two ressalalis of the 6th irregular cavalry, to Ally Ghur and Allahabad, and it is rumoured that should Mahomed Akhbar not be given up by the chiefs about Cabul, the city will be entirely destroyed, and the Dost sent down to Chunar.— Indian Star, October 15. A COLOURED BARRISTER.—A gentleman of colour was recently called to the bar of the Middle Temple. His father is one of the senators in Jamaica, and possessed of a very large fortune, the bulk of which he entailed on his sou, who some time ago sailed from this country for Jamaica, where, from the excellence of his character and his great talents, we doubt not he will fill some of the first offices in the island. He was offered the appointment of stipendiary magistrate, but declined it, as he would thereby be prevented from being a senator. A CONFESSIONAL AWKWARDLY SITUATED.—In the ca thedral of Grigenti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the confessors and the scandal of the people, by the resort of th e cur i ous t o th e opposite point (which seems to have been discovered accidentally), until at length one listener having bad his curiosity somewhat over gratified by hearing his wife's avowal of her own infid e lity, this tell tale peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional. was removed. SALMON.—On Friday night, Mr. Adams, the superin tendentl of police, and three assistants, succeeded in taking ten "cribs" between Ross and Monmouth, in which were about fifty-four dead fish, most of them unseasonable. We have seen some of them at the city prison, and it is painful to witness the destruction occasioned by capturing the fish be fore they had spawned ; thousands of incipient salmon have thus been annihilated. One of the good fish found in the cribs weighed 291bs. ; and there was another unseasonable, which if left to the proper period would have reached 401bs. Several nets were likewise taken, and we understand that se veral of the river poachers will be summoned before the Monmouth magistrates.—Hereford Journal. A NICE POINT FOR THE L AWYERS. —A servant maid, named Mary Smith, was convicted, at the Cambridge Ses sions, the other day, of stealing two bottles of port wine, the property of her master, the Rev. Mr. Watson, of West Wrattling, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and hard labour. The jury had recommended her to mercy, on the ground of her previous good character. Mr. Gunning, who defended the prisoner, insisted that there was no such measure known to the law as a " bottle of wine," and that the indictment ought to have been in the usual form, " for stealing so many glass bottles and so many pints or other legal measures of wine." The court, without hearing the counsel for the prosecution, overruled the objection, and Mr. Gunning gave notice of his intention to bring a writ of error on the objection he had taken. CONVOCATION OF THE IRISH BISHOPS.—Under the fore going head the Dublin Post of Friday eveningsays :--His grace the primate has convened the bench of Bishops to meet this day with a view of considering the answer of the Cabinet to a statement laid before Sir Robert Peel, by his grace and cer tain other dignitaries of the Established Church in Ireland, on the subject of National education. We have reason to believe that the reply of the Cabinet to the remonstrance of his grace is of a nature by no means satisfactory to that per sonage and to the other clergymen who concur with his grace in opinion on the subject. We believe the answer of Sir James Graham, speaking the unanimous opinion of the Cabi net, is to this effect—namely, that not only will no change be made in the existing system, but that it will be carried into full effect to the very letter.' And we may add (quoth the sbove journal) as a corollary, that no moneys will be voted to any distinct association purporting to have similar educational objects in view." A paper, on which was written the following, was taken out of a bottle found at Shilly Bay on Thursday last. The bottle had been thrown on the beach some weeks previously Schooner Lexington, off Cape Hatteras, July 15, 1842. This morning, at half-past 2 a.m., it commenced blowing a strong north-wester, which increased to such a degree that I was certain that my vessel would not stand it. At 5 I tried the pumps, and found that she made 11 inches, she being an old vessel, worked in her joints. At h a lf- past 11 I deter mined to leave her with my crew (consistin g o f th ree men and myself) in our launch; but before leaving her sounded the pumps, and found she hadincreased the water in the hold to three feet. I write this and enclose it in a bottle, so that if we should not be saved, and the bottle be found, it may be known what became of the vessel and us. At I p.m. got into the boat with provisions and water sufficient for six days, having beforehand offered up a prayer to God to pro tect and save us. Wm. H. Morgan, captain; John Rider, mate."—(From the Bermuda Royal Gazette, Nov. 1.) SMOKE PREVENTION. TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. GENTLEMEN,—In sending you for insertion the inclosed advertisement respecting the infringement, by Mr. Joseph Williams, of my patent for admitting air to furnaces, I take the opportunity of thanking you for the liberal and favour able notice which you have taken, in the last week's Mer cury, of the effects you had witnessed at my furnace at the Clarence Dock. I beg to assure you, that lam no t t h e l ess obliged because, in the same editorial remarks, and with the view of placing the subject fully before the public, you have also given a favourable notice to what Mr. Joseph Williams has done in the steam packet Urgent, and even " at your own engine furnace in Lord-street," and at other place., seeing that such are but further illustrations of the value of the principle on which my mode of introducing air to the gases of a furnace is based—all such works of Mr. Joseph Williams being direct infringements of my patent, and, in some instances, being almost identical with my mode. In the admission of air to the furnace, the sole object of my patent (and, indeed, the only principle on which air can be effectually admitted) is the causing it to pass through one or more narrow apertures, in thin or small films, to the inflam mable gas issuing from the coals. The piracy of my patent by Mr. Joseph Williams is the mors unjustifiable, as it does not appear that he has any pa_ tent whatever, and that he is merely endeavouring to obtain business under pretence of carrying into execution a patent granted to Mr. Kurtz, of this town, although that gentleman, in the strongest and most indignant terms, has disclaimed its connexion with the mode adopted by Mr. Joseph Williams. Should you take any further notice of this matter, may I luggest your hinting at the propriety of parties asking to see Mr. Joseph Williams's patent, or the grounds on which he presumes to make any charge for patent right, before they suffer themselves, incautiously, to be made the instruments of injury to me or their patentees ? I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c., C. W. WILLIAMS. Liverpool, Nov. 30, 1842. INDIA, AFFGHANISTAN, AND CHINA. EXPRESS FROM MARSEILLES. (From Yesterday's Times.) Our ordinary modthlv express from Marseilles in antici pation of the Overland Mail reached us last night. It brings intelligence from Bombay to the Ist of November, and en tirely confirms the glorious news brought by the late inter mediate mail. The proceedings of the British armies in the neighbour hood of Cabul have been eminently successful. The whole of the British prisoners have been liberated from the hands of the Affghans. Their number was 31 officers, 9 ladies, and 12 children, with 51 European soldiers, 2 clerks, and 4 wo men, making in all 109 persons, who had suffered the hor rors of captivity from the 10th of January to the 21st and 27th of September. The names of the prisoners rescued will be found subjoined. The meeting between the veteran General Sale and hiswife and daughter is described as highly affecting. Oh the arrival of General Nott's division at Cabul, the re solution adopted by the British government to destroy all the Affghan strongholds was carried into execution. An expeditionary corps of about 4000 men was sent to demolish the strong forts of lstalif and Chareekar. On the 29th of September, General M'Caskill and Brigadiers Tulloch and Stacy, who commanded this force, were met by a strong body of Affghans, led on by Ameen Oola and sixteen of their most determined chiefs, who sought to defend lstalif. This town consisted of masses of houses built on the slope of a mountain, in the rear of which were lofty eminences shutting in a defile leading to Turkistan. The number of its inhabi tants exceeded 15,000, who, from their defences and the difficulties of approach, considered their position unassaila ble. The great part of the plunder seized last January from the British was placed there, and the chiefs kept their wives and families in it, and many also of those who had escaped from Cabul had sought refuge there. The British troops soon made themselves masters of the town, driving the enemy before them with considerable slaughter. Two brass field= pieces were taken. The loss to the victors consisted in one officer (Lieutenant Evans, of Her Majesty's 41st Regiment) killed, and four wounded. The demolition of the forts was immediately begun. The expedition, after the destruction of Chareekar, was expected to return immediately to Cabul. The notorious Akhbar Khan was a wanderer in Kohistan. On learning that all the prisoners, save Captain Bygrave, whom he had in immediate attendance upon himself, bad been surrendered to the British anthorities, he came to the resolution of sending in that officer also. Captain Bygrave was allowed to join General Pollock's camp on taking a let ter from Akhbar Khan to the British General. That letter is stated merely to contain an inquiry as to what the British intended to do with his father and his family. It is further asserted that Akhbar Khan had lost all his influence with the Affghans, particularly since he had refused to place himself at their head during the battle of Tezeen, although called upon to do so. Tezeen was the battle fought on the 13th of September, and which decided the fate of Cabul. One of the duties performed by the British was the inter ment of the skeletons of those who had fallen during the fatal retreat of January last. The number did not exceed 400 or 500. Several of these melancholy remains were re cognizable. It is further stated, that very many of the na tive soldiers and of the Hindoos who had accompanied the troops during the fatal retreat, have come into the British cantonments. On the Ist of October, the Governor-General issued the proclamation from Simla, announcing the victories over the Affghans, and the intended evacuation of the country. The style, statements, and the principles of this important proclamation have been variously canvassed in India. The phraseology is stated to be suited rather to the. Asiatic than European taste; it cannot, however, fail to prove an im pressive lesson to all the native princes. The governor-general has published several other procla mations, and among them are those which confer honours and medals, &c., on the regiments employed at Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul, &c. One remarkable one is that which announces the termination of the war with China, and which directs the distribution of medals and other honours to the Indian soldiers and sailors employed in that campaign. The return of the British armies from Cabul to Peshawar was expected to begin about the 10th of October. The de struction of Cabul, and of the Bala Hissa, and also of the fort of Jellalabad, had been ordered. An attempt was made by Futteh Jung, the son of Schah Soojah, to place himself on the throne of Cabul at the time of the firing of the salute by the British troops on their colours being hoisted in the Bala Hissa. But this ruse is said to avail him little, and it was thought that he, like his three brothers, and many adherents of his family, would have to retreat with the armies, in order to lead a peaceable life as pensioners on the bounty of the Hon. Company. It was not known how the Affghans, who have had expe rience of the resolution of the British Government to avenge all acts of treachery, would conduct themselves during the retreat of the troops from Cabul to Peshawur. They are described as highly incensed with the Sikh soldiers who acted as auxiliaries to the British, and who, during their progress into the Affghan country, had indulged in their propensity for plunder to the utmost. It was stated that the Sikhs in tended to retain possession of the Khyber Pass, and to main tain it against the irruption of the Affghans. Of the French Generals in the Sikh service, there are but two now in active employ. Ventura was expected to arrive in India from France, while Avitabile and Court sought to obtain leave of absence from the Sikh Monarch. Avitabile, who had go verned Peshawur during some years, was in October re fused any furlough except for one month, which was to be spent at Lahore, and Court would not be allowed any leave of absence unless he left his son as a hostage for his return. It appeared, therefore, that the Sikhs anticipated a continu ance of the war with the Affghans after the retirement of the British troops. This anticipation is supposed to have con tributed to the immediate formation of the camp of reserve in Sirhind. The native festival, called the Dassorah, which took place in October, had passed over quiet in Lahore. Great preparations were making there for the visit which the Governor•Gcneral of India was about to make to Maharaja Shore Singh. In a special proclamation the Governor- General had ordered that Mr. Clerk, who had done signal service as Political Agent at Urnballa, should be appointed Envoy at the Court of Lahore, with the title of " Excel lency." The Sikh leader, Zorawar Singh, who had been defeated in his invasion of the 'Chinese territory of Thibet, had contrived to involve his government by his manoeuvres, and it would require some management to settle the matters in dispute between the old British allies the Sikhs, and the one lately formed in the Emperor of China. But little difficulty appeared to be expected in the march of the British from Peshawur to India, for the months of November, December, and January are represented as beau tiful for marching through the Punjaub. Among the tro phies which General Nott brings back to India are the cele brated sandal-wood gates which a Mabometan conqueror had taken away from an Indian temple, and which had, during nearly eight centuries, formed the chief ornament of his tomb at Ghuznee. What will be their next destination re mains unknown. . - The news of the ratification by the Chinese Emperor of the treaty of peace had reached India, and contributed to the general satisfaction. Trade was beginning to experience the results of the general activity. In the interior of India tranquillity prevailed. The dis turbances which threatened to create confusion in Bun delkund were, it was expected, about to cease, for all the in habitants of every part of that continent, including even the dissatisfied and bigotted Moslems, appeared impressed more than ever with a conviction of British superiority, and also of their total inability to make any effectual resistance. The Bombay troops had dismantled and abandoned Questa, and retired to the banks of the Indus. The moun taineers had attacked some of the stragglers in the Bolan pass, and killed Assistant-Surgeon Brickwell, who, from in disposition, was travelling in a litter, and did not keep up with the main body, _ _ _ A court-martial will, it is said, be holden on General Shel ton and Colonel Palmer, and four other officers, immediately on their return to India, . _ The Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief were expected to leave Simla towards the end of October, in order to meet the army of reserve and the other troops in the vici nity of the Sutledge. The burning of merchant ships continued. The Jessy was consumed at Calcutta, and the Belvidera at Singapore. The Madras monsoon has been favourable. Its effects were felt in heavy showers even at Bombay. The Company's sloop Coote was struck by lightning at four o'clock in the morning of the 31st of October. The da- wage was not great. One correspondent says—" There is a report that Akhbar Khan has been put to death, as also Ameen Oola Khan, his friend and adviser, but both want confirmation." A fifth Bombay ship has been destroyed by fire. The Belvidere, which has; it is supposed, been wilfully destroyed at Singapore, had pearls on board ; and she is insured to the extent of upwards of £lOO,OOO. LIST OF PRISONERS RELEASED ON THE 21sT OF SEPTEMBER, 1842. Major-General Shelton, Her Majesty's 44th Foot. Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, 27th B. N. I. Major Griffiths, 37th B. N. I. Captains.—Boyd, Commissariat; Johnson, Commissariat Schah Soojah's 26th N. 1 ; Barnett, 54th N. I. ; Souter, Her Majesty's 44th Foot ; Waller, 8.11. A. ; Alston, 27th N. I. ; Poett, 27th N. 1. ; Walsh, 52d M. N. I. ; Drummond, 3d B. L. C. Lieutenants.—Eyre, B. A. ; Airev, Her Majesty's 3d Buffs ; Warburton, B. A. S, S. F. ' • Webb, 38th M. N. I. S. S. F. ; Cr a wf or d, B. 2d N. I. S. S. F. • Mein, Her Majesty's 13th L. L.; H arr i s , 27th B. NN. I.; Melville, 54th B. N. 1. ; Evans, Her Majesty's 44th Foot. Ensigns.--Naughton, 31st B. N. I. ; Williams, 27th B. N. I. ; Nicholson, 27th B. N. I. Conductor Ryley, ordnance commissariat. Surgeon Magragh. Assistant-Surgeons Berwick and Thompson. Ladies.—Ladies Macnaghten and Sale; Mrs. Sturt and one child ; Mrs. Mainwaring, one child ; Mrs. Boyd, three children ; Mrs. Eyre, one child ; Mrs. Waller, two children ; Conductor Ryley's wife, three children ; Private Bourne's (13th L. I.) wife; wife of Sergeant Wade. Major Pottinger, B.A. ; Captain Lawrence. 11th L. C. ; Mackenzie, 48th M. N. F. ; Fallon and • Mr. Blewitt, clerks, not in the service. LIST OF PRISONERS BROUGHT OVER. Her Majesty's 44th Foot.—Sergeants Wedlock, Weir, Fair. Corporals Sumpter, Bevan. Drummers.—Higgins, Lovell, Branagan. Privates.—Burns, Cresham, Cronin, Driscoll, Derney, Duffy, Matthews, M'Dade, Marron, M'Carthy, M'Cabe, Nowlan, Robson, Seyburne, Shean, Tongue, Wilson, Du rant, Arch, Scott, Moore, Miller, Murphy, Marshall, Cox, Robinson, Brady, M'Glynn. Boys.—Grier, Milwood: Her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry.—Privates.—Binding, Murray, Magary, Monks, Maccullar, M'Connell, Duff. Bengal Horse Artillery.—Sergeants.—M'Nee, and Ire land. Gunners.—A. Hearn, Keane, Dulton. Surgeon Wade, baggage sergeant to the Cabul mission. LATEST FROM CHINA. (From the Ceylon Observer. Oct. 22.) We have received the Straits Messenger of the sth Octo ber, by this opportunity, and hasten to give the Chinese in telligence it contains : The steamer Auckland is just in from Hong-Kong the 27th ultimo. She brings the ratification of the treaty by the Emperor of China. Major Malcolm. secretary of legation, is on board, in charge of despatches to the Home Govern ment. The intelligence by the Auckand is, that the Emperor's written assent had been given to the treaty, with a trifling alteration in details. _ _ _ The first and second instalments bad been paid ; and mo ney appeared to be plentiful, from the ready manner in ,rhich the Chinese had come forward with the cash. The whole of the native troops are to be withdrawn from Chusan forthwith, and the island to be garrisoned by two regiments of European infantry, till the third instalment is paid up, for which the Emperor has two years allowed him to pay it in; after which period he will be charged five per cent. until he does pay it, while the troops will continue in possession. It was expected, howeVer, from the way in which the first two instalments were paid, that any length ened period would not be required by the Emperor. Major Malcolm will remain in England but a few days, when he will return with the Queen's approbation of the terms of the treaty. The Auckland will wait his return at Suez. We are informed that Sir Henry Pottinger made the Chinese authorities aware of the fact that the treaty would not be binding on our part until it had received the ratifica tion of the home government. Sickness prevailed to a very great extent both among the European seamen and soldiers, and they rejoiced at the pros pect of leaving so unhealthy a climate. We subjoin an extract from a private letter from Hong Kong, which does not altogether agree with the foregoing:— " The tidings by the Tenasserim, or Sesostris, whichever reached Singapore first, will have apprised you of the termi nation of hostilities with China, and made you acquainted with the general tenour of the treaty. Since then the treaty entered into between Sir Henry Pottinger and the Chinese commissioners has ben returned from Pekin, assented to by the emperor and his cabinet. The fleet will commence its move downward from Nankin about the middle of Septem ber, and I hope reach Hong Kong by the 15th of the ensuing month. There will be some little delay at Chusan, to land the stores and make the necessary arrangements for the offi cers to be left in commissariat charge." The Sincapore Free Press states that his celestial majesty had deferred to ratify the treaty until the sign manual of the Queen of Great Britain had been affixed to it. The British forces were still at Nankin when Major Malcolm, the bearer of the despatches, left for England. It is stated that, on the withdrawal of the forces, the troops to remain in China are to be placed under the command of Lord Saltoun. The Paris Messager of Friday night contains the following telegraphic despatches, received by the French Government during that day : " ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 12. " The Emperor of China has accepted the treaty of Au gust 29, and engaged to ratify it as soon as he shall have re ceived a notification of the ratification by her Britannic Ma jesty. lle proposes to send an ambassador to London. A steamer came direct from Nankin to Suez with this news. She had on board Mr. Malcolm, English secretary of Lega tion. The English fleet will winter at Chusan, where exten sive works are going on for improving the sanitary state of the island." " MALTA , Nov. 25. " The Emperor of China has given his adhesion to the treaty, but refused to sign before her Britannic Majesty. The motive for this refusal is based upon the exigencies of the etiquette observed in China. Nevertheless, the half of the first payment stipulated by the treaty has been received, and put on board the Blonde frigate, which sailed immediately. for England. The British land and sea forces were still at Nankin." THE INDIAN CAPTIVES. (From a correspondent of the Times.) The Delhi paper has just reached me, and I am thankful to see the fullest confirmation of the escape of the prisoners, and with many most interesting particulars regarding their release, which cannot but be acceptable to you. A narrow escape they had, poor souls, from the perfidy of Akhbar Khan, and from the force under Sultan Jan, which, after having been beaten by General Nott, pressed on to secure them, and failed only by two hours. Honour to Sir Richmond Shake speare ! with the devotion of a true knight he has rendered himself well deserving of his spurs, for had he not made a march of 90 miles at a stretch, there is too much reason to believe that the attempt at escape made by the prisoners would have failed, and their lives have paid the forfeit of their almost desperate effort. The particulars which follow I have from a letter from one of the officers delivered, who appears to have taken a very active part in the proceedings, and there can be no doubt therefore of their authenticity and correct ness. On the 25th of August, or when General Pollock's advance was made known at Cabul, the whole of the prisoners, sol diers as well as officers and ladies, with the exception of those I have before mentioned as having remained at Cabul, were despatched to Bameean, under an escort of infantry. By the way, offers of a lac of rupees were made to the commander of the party to desert with them to General Nott's force, which was known to be near Ghuznee. The danger was, however, apparently too great, or the chance of success too small, for the Affghan to listen to the proposal, and the party reached Bameean in safety, but in dreadful anxiky as to their even tual fate, Akhbar Khan having openly threatened all with slavery in Turkistan in the event of the British troops mov ing on the capital. The news of the fall of Ghuknee reached the sufferers on the 10th of September, and must have had a great effect on the chief with whom they were. The commandant who had accompanied them from Cabul requested a conference, and laying before them an order from Akhbar Khan for their instant march to Kooloom, informed them that he had been assured of 20,000 rupees and 1,000 rupees per month as a pension by Mooushee Mohnnhall, if he would take them to Cabul. This was instantly guaranteed by the officers acting as a committee for all the ladies and officers there ; and a paper was signed by all, pledging them selves to the payment. It seems to have been a matter in volving life and death—but, thank God, a successful alternative, to which there providentially occurred no hin drance. Having committed himself irretrievably with Akhbar Khan, the commandant Schah Mahomed hoisted his own flag on the fort, levied a contribution in a cafila from Turkistan to pay his men, deposed the Governor of the place, who was lukewarm in his cause, and set about preparations for defence of the post, in case Akhbar Khan, defeated at Cabul, should come to Bameean. The officers and ladies were in one fort, and the soldiers in ano ther, and on the 15th, the chiefs in the neighbourhood hav ing given every assistance and tendered allegiance, mean while, some of the officers went into the soldier's fort, and commenced its repair for defence. That day, however, came the joyful news of Akhbar Khan's defeat at Tezeen, and with one accord the whole party determined on taking advantage of the panic, and forcing their way to Cabul. On the next day Bameean was 10 miles behind, all being well and in high spirits; the next, a mountain ridge 13,000 feet high was crossed, and near the village of Karzar the gallant party was met by Sir Richmond Shakespeare and his cavalry, and were safe. What a meeting of joy must that have been ! What a flinging off for ever of weary despair, and hopelessness of de liverance! Two days after that their glad eyes rested once more on the British uniform and colours, and Sir Robert Sale, with a thousand cavalry and a thousand infantry and two guns, had insured their freedom. Though Sultan Jan's force had hovered near Sir Richmond and his party, they had not dared to attack it, and Sir Robert Sale's advance precluded any possibilty of an attempt on it. On the 21st, therefore, under welcome of one of the most joyous royal salutes that ever was fired, the captives entered General Pollock's camp, and once more breathed the air of freedom. WEST INDIES. The Solway, Captain Duncan, Royal Mail Packet Com pany's steamer, from the West Indies, cast anchor at South ampton on Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. She brings home 262,000 dollars and 17 passengers. The yellow fever had been very prevalent aboard, and at one time no less than 37 were on the sick list, including the captain and several of the officers. Several fell victims — viz., Mr. John Mitchell, a passenger, who was buried at Ber muda; a Frenchman, also a passenger, off Tampico; two firemen and three sailors belonging to the vessel. The Go vernor of Barbadoes, Sir Charles Grey, had also, according to advices received, been extremely ill of the fever, but had recovered. The duties of the vessel, in consequence of so much sickness, principally devolved upon the captain and third officer. The Solway experienced very tempestuous weather the whole voyage. The yellow fever had also raged-on board the Thames and Trent. Three deaths occurred in each. The Solway left St. Thomas's on the Bth of November for England, Bermuda on the 16th, and Faygl the 27th, arriving at Falmouth yesterday morning, where the mails were landed and despatched. The Dee, Trent, Tweed, and Forth were at St. Thomas's, but left on the same night as the Solway for various destina tions. The Thames was at Bermuda, but left on the 15th of No vember for St. Thomas's. Her Majesty's ships Spartan and Rover, the latter commanded by Captain Keele, late of this town. were also at Bermuda. The Solway was detained at Fayal twenty-four hours in consequence of a very heavy gale, which rendered it impossi ble that she could put out to sea. SPAIN. BARCELONA, Nov. 30. The English ship-of-war Formidable was wrecked yester day, near the mouth of the Llobregat. The Gassendi was sent this morning to take her off the sand-bank on which sbe was fixed. The success is uncertain ; but a part of the ma terial will be saved. Barcelona is about to capitulate with the regent. The junta has ordered the free corps to lay down their arms at Atarrazanas. CHINA.—It is a striking and even gratifying circumstance in the late victories that they have been divided between the two great branches of service with almost an honourable equality. In India the trophies belonged exclusively to the soldier. In China the fleet was the great arm; for, though the soldier largely was and effectually employed, the campaign, in its especial sense, was naval. The consequences, too, are equally characteristic; for, if the Indian victories are to reap anything, it will be territory • while, if the Chinese successes are to be substantiated, it will be in the shape of an extended commerce and navigation.—Britannia. The ex-ministers, as was expected, lay claim to all the merit of the success in China !! Lord Palmerston's organs have held an almost daily controversy with the Conservative press on this topic since the overland rymil arrived ; and though signally beaten in detail at all points, still press for ward to " the fray" with matchless assurance. The subject is too bulky to handle this week; but we must return to it in our next, in order to give our readers a fresh and amusing sample of the hollowness and coolness of the pretensions of the supporters of the defunct administration. When the wretched mismanagement of the Chinese war by the Whigs is borne in mind—mismanagement extending over two years —one would have thought that China was the last ground in the world on which they would have attempted to make a stand ; but the very fact exposes the weakness of their posi tion more exclusively than columns of argument. TALES OF HORROR.—We find the following horrid details in an lowa paper, and it strikes us as it does one of our con temporaries, as the " most extraordinary and cruel relation of circumstances that ever went forth in type :"—" An old man lived alone, and had forbidden a daughter, who lived near, and her husband, or even their children, ever to ap proach his place, on account merely of some whimsical pique that the old man had taken against his child. One morning the inhuman being found his grandchild, under three years of age, climbing upon his garden rail, and he deliberatedly went for a rifle and shot the boy dead. The victim fell inside the fence. The old man reloaded and sat watching. Not long after, the mother came seeking the child, and the minute she touched her father's garden rail, as she did with a shriek the instant she pereeided her dead child, the old brute shot her in the temple and killed her stone dead on the spot. The hoary maniac (as be is now accounted) shot the father also when he came, and he is now in prison to answer for the three murders. A FLIGHT or JUDICIAL FANCY.—Some months ago Ho race Pagaud, clerk in the Comptroller's-office at Mississippi, decamped from Jackson, after having forged certain warrants on the treasury to the amount of 70.000 dollars, and was af terwards arrested at Buffalo, New York. Governor Tucker demanded the fugitive, and sent an agent to receive him, who visited Buffalo and took the prisoner in charge. On his re turn down the Mississippi river, a writ of habeas corpus w a s granted at St. Louis, commanding the agent of the state to produce the prisoner before the court, together with the cause of his detention. It seems that the agent had no warrant against the prisoner, n or any evidence to hold him in c us t o dy, except what was called a " sheriff's receipt." When this was exhibited, on the return of the writ, the judge of the Criminal Court of St. Louis became quite fanciful, and is said to have spoken thus :—" No flower of competent proof nor oasis of legal suspicion gladdens the bewildered eye, but over the immense plain the bleakness of idl e con jecture in silence reigns. A sheriff's receipt ! Tell it not in Westminster Hall, breathe it not in the Court of Co rrec ti on of Errors in New York, but thunder it 'n the streets of St. Petersburgh and Constantinople—that congenial atmosphere of despotism —that a free citizen of the United States is sought to be hur ried from one extremity of the Union to the other, by the questionable authority of a sheriff's receipt in one of the ob scure counties of New York. Posterity will not believe it ; and the court, therefore, orders the clerk to record it at once, and will pause until it is done."—American paper. ear Ribtrpool g9tantarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1842 In another column 'will be found as full details as we have found it practicable to publish, of the intelli gence brought by the overland mail from China and India. Fresh successes have been obtained in Affgha nistan, and his IMperial Majesty of China has paid the first instalment of 6,000,000 dollars, and proposes, it is said, to " send an Ambassador to London." This will no doubt have an important effect in preserving friendly relations with England. The Emperor, as will he seen, has consented to ratify the treaty so soon as he is in formed it has received the ratification of her Majesty Queen Victoria. It was not our intention to return to the subject of the Corporation Schools until after the meeting of the Council to-morrow, nor even then, unless that move ment had taken place, which we deprecated on Friday, and which since that we have good reason to expect will not now be attempted. For the sake, however, of our contemporary of the Journal, we are induced to forego our intention, in order to enlighten him as to the meaning of those words in our article on which he comments, and which he honestly declares are incom prehensible to him. Thus speaks the Journal:— " So much for ' Ficlus Achates'—now for the Standard itself : " ' As the report has reached us, the object in view is to admit the children of Romish parents to the benefit of an education purely secular, throwing religious instruction over board altogether, and not requiring of them to read the Bible either in the authorised or the Douay version. Against this or any similar proposal, wholly irrespective of details, (and details are also hinted at, on which the Radical party, in and out of the Council, and their conservative supporters, are not likely to agree,) we enter at once a strenuous and uncompro mising protest. Our duty to God, towards our neighbours and ourselves, demands this protest at our hands. We must magnify God's Holy Word ourselves, and teach it diligently to our own children. And this forbids us, for ever, to be consenting parties to the exclusion of any other child, or adult, from the hopes and blessings with which that Word abounds. 'Tis not that we grudge to the Roman Catholic child (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we do) the utmost benefits of a secular education—but, in order to that, we cannot become partakers of the sin of his priest, by consenting to the barter of the child's birthright for a mess of pottage. The hardship to which the child is exposed is not fairly chargeable upon us, who are eager to give him both scriptural and secular instruction, but lies en tirely at the door of the priest, who compels his victim to refuse both, because he fears and hates the Word of God. And they do not affect to conceal that their hostility is, to the free use of the Holy Scriptures, even in their ow n Douay version of them, without note or comment. This is the avowed cause of the absence of such Romish children as have been withdrawn from the schools. 'Tis not that we have turned them out, but that the priests would not allow them to come in.' " " What the Standard means by the words we have put in Italic type, we honestly declare is incomprehensible to us. If he does not " grudge to the Roman Catholic child the utmost benefits of a secular education," why does he refuse to give it? If he imposes, as the condition of education, that it must cease to be a Catholic, which it must if it come to be instructed as a Protestant, how can he say that it is a slander to say that he refuses secular education to a Catho lic? How can he be said fairly to offer that which he couples with an impossible condition ? How can he " partake of the sin of the priest," if be takes no notice of the priest ? Will the child be more a Catholic if he comes to the school than if he does not? The logic, if logic it may be called, is this— he will give them no education but such as he knows they will not take ;,.and that he calls not grudging them educa tion." We have quoted the passage in full, with our con temporary's comment, the rather that it contains the turning point of the whole controversy on the subject of national religion in the general, and national educa tion in particular, between Romanism and ourselves. Our principles as Protestants, and 'our duty as Christians, oblige us, at all hazards, to promote, by every means in our power, the knowledge of God's revealed Will, as contained in the Scriptures of Truth. The second article of the Popish creed (to which every beneficed ecclesiastic in the Romish Church is bound by oath) effectually opposes this, by annexing what it knows to be an impossible condition (we thank the Journal for the phrase) to the interpretation or recep tion of them—viz., the unanimous consent of the fa thers. We cannot, then, lower in our own children, their estimation of the word of God, as would be the case if they saw us aiding and abetting the sworn ene mies of that Word, in withholding it from the children their own subjects and slaves. The authority of God's holy Word we maintain to be paramount and supreme; by no power on earth, whether of Church, Pope, or Potentate can it be superseded or set aside. For this we contend,—on this we insist. It is not a matter of choice or opinion with us, it is a sacred deposit held in trust for the children of the country, of all sorts and conditions, and we dare not surrender it without a struggle and a protest. The law of the land makes the highest court of judicature in the realm the guardian of the minor, to secure to him his rights and privileges intact, and in due time to make him acquainted with, and put him in possession of them. In obedience to a higher law, and in connexion with a more enduring inheritance, we insist on the use of the Bible in our schools, and must continue to do so, without regard to consequences. But where it can be done without compromise of duty, or surrender of truth, we are prepared to go to the utmost to meet the prejudices of such as differ from us ; indeed, we have done so, by waiving our preferences for the catechism and formularies of our Church, to gratify, where we can do so, those who object. Where, however, the Word of God is concerned, we have no arbitration given to us; our duty is plain and peremptory. We have no choice, but discharge it. This the Journal calls an impossible condition. Who has made it im possible ? God, on the one side, has made it impos sible for us to surrender the use of his Word. While the Romish priest, on the other, opposing and exalting himself against God, forbids his poor victims to ap proach or taste it, and compels them to forego the benefits even of a good secular education, fearing the power of that very Truth—for it is the truth that makes men free. This is the meaning of our words ; and we are persuaded that many of our readers, of less acuteness than the writer in the Journal, were at no loss in arriving at it. But it did not suit our con temporary to understand us, his object being to defend the enormity which we would expose : hence he is so dim-sighted. And truly the defence is worthy and characteristic of the tactique of Romanism, whose policy it is adroitly to transfer to her opponent the imputation of practices and crimes, that are wholly and exclusively chargeable upon herself. So much for ourselves. And now, a word upon the Journal's strictures on the letter of our correspondent, " Fidus Achates," since we scarcely think he will put forth a finger himself to touch the flimsy frostwork of transparent sophistry by which he has been assailed. " Fidus Achates" must perceive that his letter has told, and done good service, even by the uneasiness our contemporary displays to get rid of it. The quotation, especially, from the charge of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, with the emphatic endorse ment of Rector Brooks, is singularly felicitous and appropriate, and must be considered as decisive of the question with all sound churchmen. We refer all • candid reader to the extract copied into the Journal, and venture to say he will not find in it the leas t warrant for the explanation appended. The truth the weight of the argument was felt—its application by " Fidus Achates," to the case at issue, was obvious" — and therefore the endeavour to explain it away. The Journal remarks, after making the citation from the letter :—" Now, observe, the expedient ' against which the Archbishop and Rector are arguing, is the universal severance of religious from secular instrue:, Lion, and particularly as involving their own flock. The words of the Rector are as follows :—`, He (the Archbishop) was speaking of the difficulty of finding any system which might be introduced into a s chool so that the children of all denominations of Christians might be led to approve of it." Where, then, is the ground of the qualifying limit assigned in the commen t of our contemporary, and particularly in the words which we have taken the liberty to print in Italics ? Of Mr. M'Neile the Journal writes, "The former person we may safely leave." In this we fully concur. It is much the safer plan (we say nothing of its candour or honesty) for the Journal and his friends to leave Mr. M'Neile alone, than to attempt either to gainsay his facts, or to rebut his arguments. Why did he not give in full Mr. M`Neile's words from the letter of " Fidus Achates," or the extract from the Judge's Charge to the Grand Jury of the county of Leicester ? Doubtless, he had good reasons for the suppression. But our article is already too long, and so, for the present, we will, after our contemporary's example, though for a different reason, take leave of him. In our publication of Tuesday last, we invited the Liverpool Journal to point out to us, in a definite and practical shape, " the source and mode of w or king of the- promised increased demand for our manufacture d goods, consequent upon a free trade in corn ; the probable extent to which we shall exchange mant t " factured goods for such corn ; and whether this nev i state of things is to be accompanied by any reduction in the wages of the manufacturing producer." It will be admitted, we think, that these questions e mbrace the heart of the mystery which is just now agitating the minds of men. Our contemporary admits the fairness with which they are put ; and we, therefore, at once proceed to examine the solution with which h e has furnished us, preserving the division which he ha s made of the subject into three points. First, then, with respect to " the source and mode of working of the promised increased demand for our manufactured goods consequent upon a free trade it corn." We fully anticipated, in an explanation upo n this point, that an advocate of concession to th e foreign grower of corn would be prepared to shew tha t concessions in return would be made in the tariffs of foreign countries—that they would receive our mann" factured goods on terms which would enable us to meet the native manufacturer in his own markets. This plea of the free trader, hmYever, the Journal throws overboard, at all events so far as the corn' growing countries of Europe are concerned. The se countries will not now exchange with us upon suc h terms ; and we are told, therefore, that it is to Americ a that we must chiefly look for our supplies of corn, and our increased demand for manufactured goods. Turn, then, to America, who, we are told by th e Journal, would reduce her tariff and prostrate her own manufactures to receive ours in exchange for her corn. We regard such a conclusion as one not yet proved; but let that pass. "We should," says the Journal) " look to the United States for a greatly augmente d demand for our manufactures," as the result of a fre e trade in corn. "If we freely received the flour of th e United States, whenever the difference in price was such as to pay the charge of transporting it to a place of shipment, and thence across the Atlantic, a very grea t importation of flour, and a very grea t ex p or t a tion 01, manufactured goods to pay for it, would take place i n ordinary years." Undoubtedly, we should receive such great importations, and precisely as here pointed out, and only as here pointed out. We should receive then' when the corn growing countries of Europe could not supply us cheaper. And when would that event bar pen ? The continent of Europe can, we ,believe, i n average years, raise corn at a much lower rate than the United States; and it surely never entered into the imagination of a free trader, that Great Britain could discriminate in favour of any particular country, whil st legislating upon this great question. Nor would America discriminate in favour of British manufacturers whilst reducing her tariff. We mus t compete in her markets, too, with the European mann' facturer, as she competes with the European grower h i , ours. The profitable character of both the export an d import transactions must depend, therefore, uP° n , cheapness of production somewhere cheapness 01 manufacturing production at home, and of agricultur al production in the corn countries of Europe ; and thu s we come at once to the instrument by which alone cheapness of production can be arrived at,--vi°'' reduced wages to the labourer. But then it is said we enable the merchant to receive corn at all times, as a safe remittance. We place th e trade in foreign corn in the hands of " general mer" chants," to be carried on, as a regular trade, " accord' ing to the only safe rule of commerce—the judicious apportionment of calculable supply to calculable de mand." Admitted that such a state of things, and , above all, the absence of gambling speculation, would be an advantage worthy of risking something to arriv e at. But is not this almost beside the point which we have in hand? for we are not now arguing the question as to the comparative merits of a fixed duty a nd 3 sliding scale. Let us see, however, how far the ittl" portation of corn can be placed upon this safe footing' The first effect of the opening of the British ports , as proposed by the free traders, would undoubtedly be, as predicted by the Journal, large exportations of manufactures, and large importations of corn. Pr° - bably the next would be the glutting of foreign market s with goods, and of British markets with breadstuff for the foreign agriculturist can no more wear all the clothing which we send him for his produce than the manufacturer can eat all the corn he receives for his calicoes and woollens. Under ordinary circumstances , such a state of things would correct itself, and the apportionment, in both articles, of "calculable supply to calculable demand " take place. But corn is not al l ordinary article. Harvests fluctuate constantly,—ar e one year good in one country and deficient in another, or good in all and deficient in all ; and unless we con!. speculate upon such an absurdity as the probability 01 merchants sending out assorted cargoes of goods to barter with whatever nation chanced to have a surplu s of corn, we can have no such safe trade in that a rticle as theorists dream about. There always has been gambling and uncertainty in the corn trade—period s of glut and of comparative scarcity,—and there always will be, whether with a sliding scale, a fixed duty, or no duty. But to return to the question more immediately il l hand, and from which the Journal has, somewh at adroitly led us, let us see what are his conclusions a s to the mode in which the manufacturer is to be affected . He is to have multiplied " nearly all the extant modes of disposing of his manufactures ;" but he anticipates no reduction of duties in his favour except in th e United States. He will receive, however, some acces sion of demand from the markets of Europe, created by the prosperity which the opening of the British, corn markets has conferred upon the agriculture of Europe, but measured by his ability to compete ivit h i the protected industry of the native manufacturer; Oa that demand will most probably be confined, or nearly so, to the raw materials of manufacture—yarns, twist, &c., our least profitable articles of export. And with respect to America, conceding the possibility that she may meet us with some mitigation of the stringency her tariff, it is obvious that any greatiy increased cool' merce with her is contingent upon her ability to com pete, as a corn-grower, with Europe ; the extent to which she may be willing to depress her native maw.'" factures, and our own ability to compete with th e manufacturers of other countries. In Europe, which will principally supply us with corn, we have only the worst possible trade in return—a trade in raw materials , carried on in the face of competition, aided by highly protective duties ; and in America, which may supply us with a portion of our wants, we re ceive only a m arket shared by and subject to competition with the sane countries who now meet us there, and in many articles are our successful opponents. And what does the manufacturer give up for these somewhat questionable additions to his export trade? 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Hanzmoad. 1-11 S present TUESDAY EVENING, the 6th instant, I will be produced the last new Play of LOVE'S SACRIFICE. • After which, the Comedy, in Two Acts, called • SKETCHES 1N INDIA. To conclude with the Comic Ballet, called ADVENTURES IN THE DARK, BY THE BOLENO FAMILY. - TO CORRESPONDENTS. We will forward the suggestion of " Anti-Humbug " to tile author of the letters alluded to. Can our correspondent who writes in refutation of the Anti- Corn-Law fallacies favour us with a call. We are obliged to postpone the letter on the management of the Egremont Ferry. From a circular, copies of which were distributed at the popish chapels in this town on Sunday, we find that Sun day next is fixed upon for the collection of the O'Connell tribute in Liverpool. Several correspondents have requested us to advocate the appointment of Monday, the 26th instant, as a general holiday. No' doubt a general day of thanksgiving will be -set apart by government, and we have no wish to interfere with their arrangements. " J. R. de M." calls the attention of the authorities to the much-wanted convenience of a flagged ,pathway across Mount-pleasant from the end of Hope-street, which being a great thoroughfare, and the road macadamized and of unusual breadth, is, during the greater part of the year, a source of great annoyance.