The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-11 00:00:00

maintained between the Nepaul government and the court of
Pekin, and though there is no means of ascertaining the jus-
tice of this surmise, every probability exists that such is the
case.; for, in 1815, when the British were at war with Ne-
paul, continual applications were made to China for protec-
tion and assistance, and now we are at war with China, and

are at the same time threatening Nepaul, it appears not un-
likely that some combination may take place between the two
powers against their common enemy.
SIAM.

Information has been received from Siam, via Singapore,
25th July. Affairs were proceeding in a very unsatis-
( manner. The King had monopolised the export of
rice, the grand staple of the country ; and the foreign mer-
chants had been subjected to much oppression and exaction,
under colour of the new law to suppress the opium traffic.
Thefts and robberies were of frequent occurrence. The ser-
vant of a European had been knocked down and robbed in
the middle of the town (Baukok) in open day, and redress
was refused. The King, who looks on the Emperor of
China as his immediate superior, and pays implicit homage
and obedience to his Celestial Majesty, had threatened, it
was reported, to extirpate all the European residents, when-
ever it should come to his ears that the English had seized a
single Chinese junk. Of course considerable apprehension
was entertained, and the presence of a British vessel was
thought very desirable in the present aspect of affairs.
WRECK OF THE " MANGALORE."—This vessel, from
China and Batavia, bound to England with a cargo of
1,300,000 lbs. of tea, struck on a shoal off the Island of Bil-
liton, on the 24th August last. She was got off, but after-
wards went down, the commander and crew having barely
time to escape in the ship's boats. The loss of this immense
quantity of tea, amounting to a 25th part of the total exports
of the year, will no doubt have some influence on prices in
the home market.
WRECK OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, AND STRANDING
OF THE OCEAN QUEEN.—Papers from Sidney, bring us in-
telligence of these two disasters, which took place near Flin-
der's Island, on the 10th and 11th July last. The former
vessel is a total wreck, but hopes of saving the latter are en-
tertained. No lives whatever were lost. The cargo of the
Ocean Queen will, it is thought, be to a considerable extent
uninjured. _ _ __ _

Loss OF THE CRESCENT.—To these casualties may be ad-
ded the loss of the Crescent, from Singapore, bound to Lon-
don. She struck on Greg's Shoal, near the island of Carra-
matta, on the 21st of August, succeeded in clearing the reef,
but leaked to so great an extent that she was abandoned.
She was observed to go down shortly after the captain and
crew had left her.

The Assam Tea Company appear to be proceeding pros-
perously. They are building a small vessel at Hourah, for
the purpose of running up the Assam river to the tea planta-
tions, and bringing cargoes of the herb to Calcutta. They
have also imported a saw-mill, intended for their settlement
in Assam.
MEXICO.

Her majesty's packet Crane, Lieut. Hill, has arrived. She
is from Tampico, Oct. 18 ; Vera Cruz, 20 ; Havana, Nov.
10. We apprehend she has brought not so large a freight as
was anticipated, having only 95,000 dollars. About 20,000
were shipped at Tampico. Our correspondents inform us
that it will fall to the good luck of the following packet, the
Star, Lieut. Smith, to receive the amazing freight of nearly
1,000,000 dollars. The Crane had only one passenger, a
miner
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accounts of Mexican affairs continue gloomy ; and it ap-
pears that a novel and extraordinary event has transpired,
which will doubtless tend to increase the agitation of that al-
ready distracted country. It is a scheme propounded by
the foreign secretary of state in Mexico, of instituting a
monarchial form of government. Such a measure, at such
a moment, can hardly be estimated as a judicious step.
Some have thought that its publication will prove fatal to
good order rather than promote it. In fact, at this moment,
it cannot be said that the least security exists there either
for life or property ; and many, even of the ostabished mer-
cantile houses, have pretty nearly finished winding up their
concerns,

e do not learn anything of the movements of the rebels
later or different than what has already been before the pub-
lic, but every arrival from Mexico will be anxiously looked
forward to, on account of the reported revolutionary climax
which is believed to.bc just about to commence.

The steam-packet Montrose, having on board the mails for
Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, has been de-
tained by a strong S. and S.S.W. gale prevailing throughout
the day, which likewise has deterred the Penguin, Lieut.
Luce, from sailing for Madeira and the Brazils. Passengers
by the latter, Messrs. Hayman and Chaves.