The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

TURKEY.

According to a letter from Constantinople of the 7th ult. in
the Augsburg Gazette, it had been resolved, in full divan,
that Mehemet Ali should not be gratified by the dismissal of
Khosrew Pacha, who is acknowledged to be a man of such
capacity that it would be impossible to replace him. This
decision is said to have given great satisfaction to the ambas-
sadors, who consider that his dismissal, at the demand of
Mehemet Ali, would be an act of humiliation. " It was stated
at Constantinople," says this letter, " that Russia had de-
clared that she considered the conferences at Vienna as use-
less, as all the difficulties ought to be regarded as at an end by
the death of the sultan." Another letter of the 19th ult. in
the Carlsruhe Gazette, says the sultan was indisposed on the
preceding night, but that he had for some days previously,
shown himself at some of the Mosques, in company with the
Visier and the Sultana mother. The reforms introduced by
Mamoud had not been abandoned, but care was taken to re-
move from the interior of the palace, and the immediate ser-
vice of the Sultan, everything that could have displeased the
orthodox Mussulmans. The high :unctionaries who had been
placed in office by the influence of the Capitan Pasha had
been dismissed and banished from the capital.

EGYPT.
According to accounts from Alexandria of the 6th ult. given
by the Augburg Gazette, Mehemet Ali has accepted the me-
diation of the Great Powers, but has repeated his demand of
the inheritance of Egypt and Syria, as well as of the dismis-
sal of Khosrew Pasha.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Files of Sydney papers have again been received to-day to
the 23d April, but they add nothing to previous information.
The accounts of the new settlement at Port Philip continue
to be very favourable.
Papers from South Australia come down only to the 14th of
March. The " land fever" was still prevailing, and people
were madly aiming to increase their acres for the purpose of
jobbing and resale, rather than to apply all their means to
bring into cultivatioit what they already possessed a super-
fluity of. No sooner was some discovery of distant lands or
ports announced, that a rush commenced as to who should
be the first and lucky appropriators. Some details are given
of a hard-run contest of this kind between the agent of the
South Australian Company and a private association of spe-
culators in the colony for the possession of a place called
Boston Bay, which was reported to be a most eligible site for
a port. Whilst the agent was absent on a tour of inspection
of that distant locality, the association, with remarkable
promptitude, had obtained a sort of survey, and concluded a
bargain for the purchase, so that on his return the agent found
himself forestalled and the company disappointed. The same
trick had been served him previously in the case of the Mount
Barker district, so that the colonists had learned by experi-
ence of sharp practice to outwit their former master specula-
tors in this country. Nothing can show more clearly the ex-
tent of the speculation mania existing there than the fact
which is announced that £5O had been paid for eight acres
in this newly discovered spot at Boston Bay, which ten days
before had been purchased for £8 14s. The land in question,
it may be observed, could neither have been seen by buyer or
seller. In this way the colonists were frittering away the
small capitals carried out with a view to employment in the
sober pursuits of industry. The land delusion had, no doubt,
originated with, and been encouraged by, the parties em-
bared here in South Australian land speculations, who have
displayed much more activity in crying up and enhancing the
price of land with a view to realize profits and premiums than
to promote the growth or import of stock, and record in proof
of colonial prosperity the increasing export of wool or other
produce. The system is mull the same as has been wit-
nessed in the concoction of joint-stock bank and other
schemes in this country heretofore, in the prospectuses and
advertisements of the illusive advantages of which it was only
considered necessary in most instances to draw attention to
the fact that in other and similar undertakings the shares
mere at a premium more or less high and tempting.

A severe contest has been going on at Honiton within the
last few days between the Churchmen and the Dissenters,
respecting three propositions made by the former—viz., £5
for repairing the organ, the organist's salary, and the levy-
ing of 3d. in the pound for a new church-rate. The latter
exhibited their strongest virulence against the church and all
connected with it, and mustered in great numbers on the oc-
casion ; the show of hands was of course in favour of the
Dissenters. The churchwardens immediately demanded a
poll ; and the result was, that the opponents of the church
were beaten upon each proposition—the first by a majority
of 106, the second by a majority of 109, and the third by a
majority of 95.

Monsan LaoisLarion.—An instance of the extreme ac-
curacy with which modern Acts of Parliament are framed,
may be seen by an act relative to highways and turnpike
roads. By the 6th sect. a penalty of £5O is imposed upon
such surveyors and clerks to the commissioners, as shall con-
ceal any matter directed by this Act to be inquired into, and
it is provided that the same shall be recovered by action in
one of the Courts at Westminster, where the offence shall be
committed in England, and " in the Great Sessions of the
Principality of Wales, in case the offence shall be committed
in Wales." It is plain that the Solon who framed this Act
has not yet found out that under an Act passed nearly ten
years ago, (1 Wm. 4. c. 70.) the Court of Great Sessions was
abolished.—Merthyr Guardian.

THE PENNY PosT aiG SC II EME.—We have heard that mi-
nisters are so completely " at sea" as to how they are to carry
the postage clap-trap into effect, that they are about to offer
a premium of £2OO for the best plan of bringing it into ope-
ration. One of the points on which they are unable to agree
is, as to whether or not the postage shall be required to be
paid in advance, and if so, whether by stamped writing pa-
per, or stamped covers. The postmaster-general and seve-
ral of his dependants are, we perceive, enjoying themselves
at the moors or elsewhere, so that the mechanical prepara-
tions for the new bill have hitherto made but little progress.
—Standard.

THE CIIARTISTS.—Potts, the chartist, who had put in
his shop window in Troub • age a dish of bullets, labelled
" Tory Pills," was bailed out from Fisherton gaol on Wed-
nesday week. On Monday his shop was found closed, and
it was suspected he had absconded. His bail, becoming
alarmed, went in search of him, and overtook him at War-
minster, whence they brought him back, watching him du-
ring the night ; but Potts waa wider awake than his guards,
for he managed to give them the slip, and was off again. The
bail went to the Radical Association, offering to let him re-
main at large if they would guarantee to them one half the
amount in which they were bound ; but this was refused ;
and they again went in pursuit of their dishonest friend, whom
they ultimately found secreted up a chimney, in a house at
Conigree. The bail, being determined not to be again left
in suspense, took Potts to Fisherton gaol, where he will re-
main confined until the next assizes.—Devises Gazette.

HEARTRENDING SCENE AND PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—
We have to record one of the most providential escapes from
drowning that perhaps ever occurred. On Wednesday even-
ing last, at seven o'clock, a little girl, about twelve years of
age, daughter of Mr Illingworth, wharfinger, of this place,
whilst standing near the edge of the wharf, fell into the ri-
ver, and owing to t:,e strong current caused by the late rains,
was immediately carried away by the stream. Her father,
who was standing by, was unable to render her any assistance,
there being no boat at hand. He immediately ran to the
Common Staith, but there his efforts were unavailing, and
his child borne away apparently to certain death. Mr. Il-
lingworth, along with others, instantly went to Mr. Ask-
ham's wharf, and the child having been buoyed up by her
clothes, and having floated near the edge, they were enabled
by boat-hooks, to catch hold of her, and thus, by Divine as-
sistance, to rescue her from a watery grave. It is utterly
impossible to imagine more agonised feelings than those
which the agonised father must have endured while thus
witnessing his child borne on the bosom of the waters with-
out being able to snatch it from destruction, or the greater
transports of joy and thankfulness which he must have felt
when his child was restored to his arms.—Doncaster
Chronicle.

OPENING OF THE BUTE Docks.—The inhabitants of Car-
diff are anticipating a splendid demonstration on the day
when the magnificent new docks, now nearly completed by
the Marquis of Buth, will be opened for trade. The day is
not yet precisely fixed ; but whenever it comes, there can be
no doubt of its being signalized by no common display of pub-
lic intregt. A handsome subscription has been raised for
prizes in boat races fireworks, and other public entertain-
ments i
; and it is intended to invite the Noble Marquis to
public dinner on the occasion. A grand procession will be
Cformed to accompany his Lordship from his residence at the
astle to the port, to superintend the ceremony of the open-
ing the sea-lock gates for the first time. These truly mag-
nificent Docks are calculated to increase the trade of the
port to an extent not easily defined. The length of the great
inner basin is 1400 yards, and its width 200 feet, containing
an area of more
than 18 acres of water surface, and furnish-
ing accommodation for 300 vessels of all classes. The width
of the entrance-lock is 36 feet, admitting ships of from 500
to 600 tons burthen ; and the great sea-gates are 45 feet in
width, with 17 feet water at neap tides, and 32 feet at spring
tides, admitting ships to an outer basin having an area of about
an acre and a half. The execution of the whole work is of the
most substantial and ornamental character. The masonry
and carpentry do infinite credit to the contractors, and the
timber of which the three pair of lock-gates are constructed
is the choicest heart of oak that our forests can furnish.--
Welshrnan,