The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

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wander for Roses, of the truth of which notwithstanding the
contradictions of the former, there appears to be little doubt,
Lavelle, who, it is said, in pursuance of his grand plan, had
been for some time secretly despatching horses over to the
islands of the Parana sufficient to mount a division of. 600
men, who were to find the means for facilitating the move-
ment of the remainder of the expeditionary army, crossed
that river himself on the 23d of July at the head of 2,000
men into the province of Buenos Ayres, leaving the rest of
his troops under the command of Ramerez and Munez in ob-
servation upon the opposing army. On the 27th Rosas re-
ceived the intelligence of this invasion, and on the instant
gave orders to Pacheco, who was liberally supplied with
money for the purpose, to collect troops and attack the foe.
At the moment of being sent for Pacheco was at a ball, but
so urgent was the occasion deemed that only half an hour
was allowed him to prepare for his expedition. On his arri-
val in front of the enemy, who stood on the defensive, he
proceeded forthwith to the attack, although late in the even-
ing, and with a small river in front to cross ; the result of
which has been stated.
It is undeniable that this reverse alone so close to the
capital must make the position of Rosas extremely critical,
in addition to which it must be noticed that a body of 200
men are said to have deserted from Pacheco during the ac-
tion. This is the first serious example of disaffection in the
troops which had till then occurred, and as a party of some
strength was known to exist against him in Buenos Ayres
itself, his situation was likely to become more perilous still
with treachery both among the troops and people. In fact,
in those countries, it may be generally assumed tbatboth one
and the other will go with the strongest side.
That which contributed to make the position of Rosas
perhaps more irremediable, and which most must have en-
couraged the operations of the hostile forces against him, was
doubtless the revolt and separation of several of the pro-
vinces of the federative government. In the papers now re-
ceived the proclamations of the federal provinces of Salta,
Tucuman, Catamarca, and Cordova against him appear, with
their treaties of inter-alliance for mutual protection.

The approaching fall of Rosas, if his tall be destined, will
prove a welcome relief to the French, who have been so long
and so vainly blockading Buenos Ayres, and making war
upon him. It will be an opportune release for their squad-
ron at the precise moment when most needed, and, on the
supposition of war in Europe, most in danger.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORT PHILIP.

We have been favoured with the following extract of a
letter, dated " Melbourne, Porth Philip, 9th June :"
" This part of New Holland is admirably adapted for cul-
tivation, for dairying, and fattening cattle. Our soil, for the
most part, is rich in the extreme. Those people who have
been trading for years to New Zealand allow, upon examina-
tion, that our soil is superior to what is in general to be
found there, and that we have greatly the advantage in hav-
ing a comparatively clear and flat country to work upon ;
while at New Zealand, in the bottoms and ravines where the
good land is to be found, it is so thickly timbered that it
would require an outlay of £l5 to £2O an acre to clear it.
We are not subject to the scorching heats or droughts of the
Sydney side, nor the frosts of Van Dieman's Land, judging
from what has been experienced during the few years this
country has been settled ' • and surely, if we find that while
around Sydney and Van Dieman's Land they experience a
drought more severe than was ever before felt in these colo-
nies, so that their cattle are lean, starved, and dying, while
from Port Philip we send a supply to them of fat wethers
and bullocks,—surely this is sufficient to satisfy the most
incredulous that here will always be found a sufficiency of
rain for all purposes. To develope the resources of this co-
lony, we must have a constant and large supply of labour.
" Government are using us at present most abominably,
by appropriating our land fund for purposes that will in no
way benefit this colony. They have taken it to defray the
expense of colonising New Zealand. It has saved the Syd-
ney government from bankruptcy, and is now in part sup-
porting their jail and road-gangs, while our roads and streets
are left in the most horrid state of neglect. This must and
shall be altered. We will not sit by and see our pockets
picked, or ourselves made the dupes of any one. The wants
of Australia Felix, and its distance from Sydney, require
that it should be made a separate government. lam aware
that no one almost can believe the real state of this colony
to be so far progressed. Such rapidity of growth is unpre-
cedented in the annals of colonisation. But we shall agitate,
agitate, agitate, till government is compelled to own our
grievances, and restore us what they have robbed from our
pockets. Our land fund has already yielded upwards of
£200,000 ; the land to be sold this month will realise
£lOO,OOO at least ; and every two or three months there is a
larger addition to it. With such an accumulating fund
turned towards the purposes of immigration to this colony
exclusively, (as we have every right to claim,) what could
we not effect ? Labour is all we want, to drain the wealth
from the surrounding colonies.
" Wages in town average from £3 to £4 10s. a-week
for brickmakers, bricklayers, masons, plasterers, wrights,
painters, sawyers, smiths, &c., &c. In the country, farm
servants, shepherds, and stockkeepers get from £35 to £55
a-year, with board and lodging ; and when a man is married,
his wife can earn other £3O, besides board, &c., by becoming
dairywoman. as we are in great want of such at present.
" We are at present memorialising the Sydney council
and Sir George Gipps upon the necessity of allowing us a
resident judge and a supreme court at Melbourne ; and we
are about to send a petition to the home government, pray-
ing that Australia Felix be made a separate colony. I have
sent you a newspaper of to-day, in which you will find the
substance of both petitions, and shall by and bye send you a
statistical account of the colony, which is soon to be pub-
lished by one of our newspaper editors, a very clever fellow.
Melbourne (a lithograph of which will accompany the pam-
phlet) is beautifully situated on the banks of the river Yarra,
which is navigable to the town for vessels of 90 tons, a dis-
tance of six miles. Hobson's Bay, a large and spacious arm
of the sea, receives the waters of the Yarra at its most
northern point,- where stands Williamstown—the Greenock,
as I may style it, of our Melbourne Glasgow."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE IRWELL.-SEVEN

MEN DROWNED.

It is our melancholy and painful duty to record the most
extensively fatal accident that has occurred on the river Ir-
well, at least in the neighbourhood of this town, since twelve
workmen were drowned while crossing the river in a boat,
during the erection of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Bridge, in April, 1830.
The circumstances preceding and accompanying this melan-
choly catastrophe are the following :--
The Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company (the Old
Quay Company), as our Manchester readers are aware, have
had a number of men employed for some few weeks past, in
deepening the navigation of the river from the New Bailey
Bridge to Hunt's Bank. The earth, stones, and gravel got
up by excavation and dredging, were removed in an ice-boat
belonging to the company,—a square-sided boat about 30 feet
in length and fifteen feet in width, very shallow, being not
more than about two feet from the gunwale to the bottom.
This boat laden with gravel, &e., had proceeded on Monday
evening last from the place where the excavations were pro-
gressing to Throstle Nest, about two miles lower down the
river, where there is a weir, near the paper manufactory of
Messrs. Smith and Ingle. Yesterday morning, about six
o'clock, Captain Yates, the captain of one of the trading flats
on the river, then lying at Throstle Nest, and delivering ropes
and oakum to the paper manufactory, observed that the ice-
boat, which had been made fast the preceding night, before
the men left it, was drifting away. He accordingly hailed
one of the navigation company's flats also lying near, and
which indeed was used as a sleeping cabin by the company's
men, when staying at Throstle Nest. The captain of this flat,
Arnold Clare, immediately proceeded with three or four navi-
gators, to do what they could to stop the ice-boat from drift-
ing down the river, which was much swollen by the heavy
rains, and the current was running strong. Before they could
do any thing, however, the ice-boat had drifted upon the
weir. Captain Clare then put his flat to the other side of the
river, and moored her to a tree, and then got a small boat,
took a line to the ice-boat, and thereby attached the ice-
boat to the flat. Then he and three or four men, who
we understand had been sleeping on board his flat, to-
gether with four others who had just reached the place
from Manchester, got into the ice-boat, which was
still on the weir, and began very thoughtlessly and impru-
dently to lighten her, by throwing quantities of the earth
and gravel, with which she was laden, into the weir-hole.
The ice-boat thus becoming light, and there being, as we
have stated, a flood in the river in consequence of the rains,
the current dragged her onwards with so much force, that the
rope, by which the flat was attached to the tree, broke ; and,
of course, the ice-boat began her downward course over the
weir. There were then upon this boat, including Captain
Clare, nine men ; seven of whom attempted to save them-
selves by jumping into the small boat by which they had been
conveyed on board the ice-boat. Five of the seven succeeded
in getting into the boat ; but the other two, in their haste
and the confusion, fell into the river, and were, we believe,
immediately swept over the weir and drowned. The five
men in the small boat were also hurried over the weir; the
boat was capsized, and all the men were drowned. Two men
remained on board the ice-boat, having failed in getting into
the small boat in time ; they were carried over the weir, but
very fortunately the now lightened boat came up again and
righted, below the weir, and they, having clung fast to her,
were saved. The alarm and dismay that the shocking event
caused spread rapidly through the neighbourhood; and every
effort was made to recover the bodies without delay ; but we
understand that some time, elapsed before any of them were
taken out of the water, and up to last evening, we are in-
formed, only four had been found. They were got out of
the water about two hours after the accident, and were con-
veyed to the Britannia public-house, Ordsal-lane, Salford,
were they are now lying, and will remain, until the coroner's
inquest will be held.
All the unfortunate men were in the service of the Mersey
and Irwell Navigation Company ; all of them, with the ex-
ception of Captain Clare, were ' navigators" or excavators;
and all of them have left widows and one or more children,
save one man, a widower, who has left three orphans; ano-
ther has left a widow and eight children ; a third, a widow
and seven children. They all lived at Cadishead, a hamlet
in the township of Barton. The distress into which their
families have thus been plunged is better conceived than
described.—Manchester Guardian.

Mr. Dunlap, the president of the bank of the United States,
has replied to a request from a large number of English share-
holders calling for a statement of the actual condition of the
bank. In his answer he assures them, that an investigation
into the affairs of the bank, which has been in progress for a
considerable time, will soon be brought to a close, " when
the stock-holders in Europe and the United States will re-
ceive all the information necessary to form an accurate opi-
nion of the actual condition of the institution."
BOMBAY.—gThereoarroef tßhormeebaryes;idoennec,esthfoerctahsetlea,ccsoitmuamteod-
datio°nm of
within the fort, has been long disused and appropriated to
government offices ; a second, at Malabar Point, is intended
as a retreat in the hut weather ; Parell, the third, being the
mansion most usually occupied. Though not built in a com-
manding position, Parell is very prettily situated in the midst
of gardens, having a rich back-ground of wood, while from
the upper windows the eye, after ranging over these luxuri-
ant groves, catches a view of the sea, and is carried away to
more remote regions by the waving outline of distant hills
melting into the soft haze, until it effaces all their details.
Parell was originally a college of Jesuits ; and after so many
alterations and improvements that its original occupants
would be puzzled to recognize it, it is now rendered worthy
gardensof the purposes
of
Parell to
awrheicpherfietcitslydeicated* * * * * The
Italian,
with their fountains
and cypress trees. Though regular, they are not sufficiently
stiff to offend the eye; the nature of the ground and of the
building, which runs out at right angles, preventing the for-
mality from being carried beyond its just limit. The society
sence of the ladies of the governor's family, who have re,-
of Bombay enjoys the great advantage arising from the pre-
dered themselves most deservedly popular, by the frequency
and agreeableness of their entertainments, and the kind at-
tention which they pay to every invited guest. The slight
forms that are kept up at government houses are just suffi-
cient to give a somewhat courtly air to these parties, without
depriving them of their sociability. Morning visitors are re-
ceived once a week, and on these occasions Parell assumes a
very gay appearance. The band is stationed in the hall be-
low, playing occasionally the most popular compositions of
the day ; while its pillared verandah is filled with lieveried
servants, handsomely dressed- in scarlet, white, and gold.
The ample staircases are lined with flowers ; and as the car-
riages drive up, the aides-de-tong and other military resident
guests are in readiness to receive, the visitors,'to usher them
up stairs, and introduce them to the ladies of the family.—
Asiatic Journal.

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