The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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ASCENT OF MOUNT OLYMPUS

PERILOUS POSITION

(From Me Churchman.)

During an ascent of Mount Olympus, which we made in
1831, our Turkish guide, anxious, if possible, to curtail the
fatigue and tedium of the way, ventured from the track
usually followed, and, just as we bad gained the first elbow
of the mountain, turned his small Tartar horse on to a ridge
of rock of about a couple of feet in width, which was bounded
on one side by the mountain, rising almost perpendicularly
thousands of feet above our heads, and on the other by a
sheer precipice descending to the depth of the valley, from
which we had been toiling upwards for two wears hours ;
while, as if to render the gloomy prospect still more appal-
ing, the hoarse echoes of a torrent, which was roaring and
tumbling among the masses of rock which had been storm-
riven from the mighty masses above and hurled into the
plain during countless centuries, came to the ear with a
sound that seemed almost supernatural. I followed next
after the guide, also mounted upon a Tartar * horse, which I
rode for the first time; and thus, in " Indian file," each after
each, our party (which consisted only of four individuals)
slowly, but confiding too entirely in the local knowledge of
the guide to feel any very painful alarm, trusted themselves
to the steep and narrow way. Surely the fabled bridge El-
Sirat, over which the Moslem is to pass to his paradise, must
be to the full as ample and convenient a pathway to a spirit,
as the road which we were so blindly folloWing proved to tra-
vellers of flesh and blood. Not a word was spoken, for each
had enough to do in looking to his own safety, with the ad-
ditional conviction that, even when he had done so, it was
still contingent on the safety of his companions, as the slight-
est false step of either of the animals would necessarily so
startle the rest, as at once to put all in the same position.
As we advanced, the crutch of my saddle was towards the
rock, and the wary animal I rode, with extraordinary in-
stinct, made it a point d'appnie, and leant towards the wall
of stone so closely, that, at each step he took, my knee came
in contact with the mountain. Thus we proceeded for about
two hundred yards, when suddenly the guide stopped his
horse, uttered an Inshallah ! which sounded rather like a yell
than an ejaculation of piety, and in the next instant informed
us that the ridge upon which we stood, or rather hung, was
at that point absorbed in the outline of the mountain, and
that we could pass no further. It was a frightful morneut,
as we sat each as though he had been suddenly stricken into
stone. The guide, with true Turkish apathy, or philosophy,
or re,ignation—call it what you will—calmly laid the bridle
upon the neck of his horse, folded his arms upon his breast,
and abandoned himself to his fate. The rest of the party
were powerless ; and for fell two minutes, which to me in
their duration appeared rather to have been two hours, we
remained upon that dizzy path, hopeless and motionless ;
when suddenly the horse of the guide, probably becoming
weary of his position, and meeting with no opposition from
is rider, turned like a goat upon the narrow ridge, and all
r he other animals, as if in obedience to the same instinct,
immediately, but with the utmost caution and precision, fol-
lowed the fearful example. No ! did I live for centuries, I
never could forget that moment. The unuttered prayer,
which as the Rev. Robert Montgomery beautifully describes
it, was "glanced up to heaven " at that instant, was surely
the most earnest of my life. My next look was below—there
brawled the torrent, and there lay the dark masses of rock,
heaving themselves up on all sides like monuments of ruin ;
and what increased the terror of the glance was the fact that
My foot hung over the chasm as we passed along, and that
the heavy folds of my riding dress, inflated by the sharp
breezes of the mountain side, were extended far beyond the
edge of the rock.
I feel that the anecdote, as an anecdote, is nothing; but
when I remember the sensation which I experienced as we
retraced that mountain path to the spot where we had en-
tered upon it, I can never sufficiently admire the mercy of
the great and beneficent Creator, who endowed the inferior
animals with an instinct so marvellous and so beautiful.

Nor were we much less indebted to our sagacious animals
after our descent from Olympus into the plain, in the midst
of the most terrific storm of rain and thunder that I ever ex-
perienced, either before or since. The vapours from the
numerous torrents which intersect the
.rock-strewn desert—
for such it may fairly be termed—which stretches far away
from the foot of the giant mountain, lashed into fury by the
tempest, overflowed their channels, and created a dense fog
about us, which even the fierce lightnings failed to penetrate
—until a moving darkness gathered round us so dense that
we could not see beyond our saddles ; while the howling of
the storm was answered by the fierce roaring of the bears
which infest the neighbourhood, and house themselves among
the scattered rocks.
All choice of road was of course impossible ; but never-
theless, our guide, anxious to redeem his error of the morn-
ing, strove manfully for a weary hour to direct our steps •,
nor was it until his hope of success was fairly exhausted
that he suggested to us the expediency of laying the reins on
the neck of our several horses, and abandoning ourselves to
their guidance, only taking the precaution to keep up a con-
versation at the pitch of our voices, in order to prevent our
separating in the fog. We followed his advice, and ere ano-
ther half hour had elapsed we found ourselves in the bed of
an exhausted torrent, along which the weary animals crept
carefully, and which terminated within half a league of the
gates of Broussa.

' * These are the animals upon which the couriers perform
their rapid and dangerous journeys through Turkey.

_ offrom
DISCOVERY Or IMMENSE TREASURZ.—A.dvices
Chili affirm that the jewels and riches of the Temple
Sun hidden more than 300 years azo by the Peruvians fromt
he
the Spaniards, and worth £60,000,000 sterling, have been re.
covered near the Ceiro des Pasco.
Tn ILLNESS or TILE Qt'EEN DOIVAGER.The continued
illness of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the cauti-
ously worded but still alarming bulletins which are daily
issued, have created general apprehensions that Her Ma.
jesty is in a state which justifies serious apprehensions for
the result. We have reason to believe that such is really the
case. The symptoms indicative of disease of the lungs, to
obtain relief from which Her Majesty visited Germany fo r
the benefit of her native air two or three years since, with
considerable benefit, have again manifested themselves in a
more decided form. The accessions of fever and the fre-
quent recurrence of a distressing-cough, preventing sleep, so
essential to the exhausted patient, have reduced Her Ma-
jesty's system to a•state of extreme debilitude, We do not
snake this statement 'on. slight groUnds, and shall be ham y,
on the same authority 'on which we snake it, to announce
favourable change,—,ENtriing paper.

WI: 'rEll

COMPA

This action was tried before Justice Wightinan, at the
late Liverpool Assizes, when a verdict was found for the
plaintiffs, with :C(3362 damages.
Mr. Wortley now moved for a rule to show cause why that
verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had on the
ground of misdirection. Ile said the plaintiffs were eminent
machine-makers at Manchester, and had entered into a con-
tract with the Directors of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, to make for them ten engines, with their tenders, of the
best materials and workmanship, at the respective prices of
£1,830 and By the contract, the plaintiffs were to be
held liable for the engines during a month's trial, and while
they ran 1,000 miles. The engines were all delivered, were
tested according to the contract, and settled for with the ex-
ception of the above balance. Subsequent to the engines
having been accepted, the tire-box of the engine, called the
Panther, burst. According to the specification, that part of
the engine was to be 7-17ths of an inch thick, but this one
was found to be no more than 3-Piths. He did not impute
any fraud or carelessness to the plaintiffs, but he was prepared
to show at the trial that they had got some copper, which was
so Impregnated with some foreign matter, that by some che-
mical process, it had worn away by the oxygen of the water.
He contended at the time that he was at liberty to enter into
these particulars, but the counsel for the plaintiff objected
that by the terms of the contract the makers were released
from all liability the moment the engines were tested by run-
ning 1,000 miles, and the expiration of a month ; and his
lordship, upon being pressed, acceded to this view of the
matter. He contended that the meaning of the contract was
that the engines should be tested as to their working condition
and strength, and the defendants could not be concluded by
their acceptance of them, when, as in this case, they found
there had been a departure from the terms of the contract
and specification. When the engine burst it was found that
the boiler had iron fastenings, or rivets, in place of copper
ones. His lordship would have allowed him to go into that,
but he (Mr. W.) refused to enter upon any single part of his
case. He submitted that he was entitled to a rule.
The Court was of opinion that, according to the true
meaning of the contract, after the engines had been on trial
for one month, and had performed 1,000 miles, if they were
then perfect and accepted by the company, they were con-
cluded from all challenge afterwards. The contract was ful-
filled and the plaintiffs released. They were of opinion that
the learned judge was right, and therefore refused the rule.

BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS-

—Nov. 1

SWINDLING BY GHOST RAISING

George Bradley was indicted for obtaining money from
Mary Coburn, of Belfast,' under false pretences. The facts
of the case have already been fully before our readers. They
are briefly these :—The prisoner's sister (Millikin), already
convicted and transported for her share in the offence, so
wrought upon the credulity of the prosecutrix, through the
agency of a servant girl, her relation, that Lhe made her be-
lieve her house was haunted by the ghosts of her two deceased
brothers—one of whom she pretended to conjure up. She
promised to have the spirits " laid," for a certain sum; but
postponed the business, from time to time, till she obtained
upwards of £2OO from the victim of her schemes. After her
feigned death, the prisoner took up the remainder of the plot,
and, by pretending that he was entrusted to deliver to Mrs.
Coburn a quantity of plate, and other valuables, bequeathed
by another brother in New Orleans, also swindled her out
of a considerable sum. The facts were folly proved and the
prisoner convicted.
The barrister, in passing sentence, commented on the enor-
mity of the offence of which the prisoner had been guilty.
One of the justices on the bench had informed him that the
prisoner was brother to a woman named Milliken, who had
been convicted of a part of the same offence, and who had
been sentenced to seven years' transportation. He was dis-
posed to believe that the prisoner was the more guilty party,
and that he had received his full share of the plunder. The
other prisoner's sentence was a just one ; but the late lord
lieutenant, for reasons which were to him (the learned bar-
rister) altogether inexplicable—(for he had given his excel-
lency a report of the case, and represented it as one in which
mercy should not be extended)—had, in the exercise of his
prerogative, commuted that sentence to eighteen months'
imprisonment. However, under the circumstances of the
present case, he did not think that a more lenient punish-
ment would be advisable than that originally passed upon the
former culprit. The sentence of the court, therefore, was,
that he be transported for seven years.

EXTRAORDINARY FORGERIES

(From the American Journals received by the Acadia

Colonel Monroe Edwards has distinguished himself in a
manner to render him an object of interest on both sides of
the Atlantic. Therefore, we have throw together the follow-
ing facts in relation to his past life, dads, and misdoings :
Monroe Edwards is a man about 32 years of age, about five
feet seven inches and a half in height, rather well made, but
not very stout built, a sharp, keen, restless, voluptuous eye,
rather a low forehead, and is something of a coxcomb in his
dress. He was born in Sbelbyville, Kentucky, where his
father resided till recently. His father's name, we believe,
was Amos Russell Edwards. The old gentleman removed
some two or three years since to Texas, where he died soon
after. Of the early life of young Monroe Edwards we have
been able to learn but very little, except the rumour of a
forgery of his father's name for a trifling amount, and the
seduction of a young lady who was at a boarding-school in
Kentucky, and who has still a living victim of her shame to
nurse and take care of. There are other rumours of forgeries
of his in earlier life, but they want authentication. It was
after all the hard fighting in Texas was over, and after it was
well ascertained that there was no longer any danger to any
one who visited that country, that Monroe Edwards con-
descended to honour it with his presence. Of course he lo-
cated himself near the seat of government, and, with funds
furnished him by his father, continued to make quite a pas-
sable appearance in tolerably good society there for a time.
After the death of his father he evinced signs of wildness and
dissipation, which he had before contrived to keep hidden
from sight. One of these was an attempt to seduce a young
lady in Houston, which nearly cost him his life. Failing in
this be took up with a negro wench, and at last, by some
means, bought a black girl, 14 or 15 years of age, debauched
her, taught her the English language, and christened her Kitty
Clover. After this, finding himself getting low in funds, he
forged the title deeds to a valuable estate in Texas, and forged
a conveyance of the same to some person for about ten thou-
sand dollars. In this manoeuvre he was detected, and for
this he was held to bail, and whilst under bail, as we are in-
formed, made his escape from Texas, carrying the black girl,
Kitty Clover, along with him, dressed in boy's clothes. On
his return from Texas, he stayed some time in New Orleans,
where he was suspected also of a small forgery on one of the
banks, and more than suspected of a liaison with his land-
lord's wife. For these little foibles he felt himself under the
disagreeable necessity of removing his quarters, and soon
made the best of his way up the river to Cincinnati. Here
an entirely new idea seemed to strike him. He resolved to
work on the feelings of the abolitionists, and feeling desirous
of travelling to Europe he determined to do so, if possible, at
their expense. For this purpose, he manumitted the black
girl, Kitty Clover. He also caused a statement to be pub-
lished in some of the western papers, that Colonel Monroe
Edwards had manumitted two hundred of his slaves in Ken-

.ucky, and this act of apparent liberality was trumpeted

•
forth in all the papers on the northern seaboard, and made
the subject of laudatory comment at all the abolition lectures
in this and other cities and towns, and Colonel Edwards
himself held up as a burning and shining light among the
woolly heads, and a noble examble for all others to follow.
His bait having taken remarkably well, the Colonel the came
on to this place, put up at the City Hotel, and lived in fine
style with his black boy; who, by the bye, was Kitty Clover
still. Soon after he came here he introduced himself to Lewis
Tappan as the Colonel Edwards who had liberated 200 slaves
in the west ; and he also introduced Kitty Clover to Lewis
as his black Tom, who had a twin-sister in New Orleans so
like him that when the two were together nobody could tell
which from which. Lewis was highly delighted at the inter-
view, took Edwards and the wench round all the abolition
circles of the city, and introduced them to a great number
of decent white ladies and sympathising gentlemen. All

this was very well while it lasted, and went-. rio further. But
by and by the colonel (though where and how he obtained
the title of colonel nobody knows), talked of an act of great
injustice committed by the Texian government as he said,
in keeping some slaves brought direct from Africa, in viola-
tion of the laws of nations in relation thereto. He said he
was going to England to prevail on the British government
to make a demand of those slaves. and so forth. He also
hinted at being employed as a delegate from the Abolition
Society of this city to that of London to see into the case.
Finding that his hints were not sufficiently plain or readily
acted upon, he came out boldly, and asked for a loan of a
sum of money from the society of five thousand dollars, for
the purpose of proceeding to England to settle the business.
The reason he adduced for wanting so large a sum was the
necessity of keeping a carriage and waking a first-rate ap-
pearance. This modest request startled Lewis Tappan, who
then wrote to Cincinnati, and found out that no 200 slaves
had been liberated by the colonel. He wrote to Edwards,
who replied back angrily ; two or three sharp notes passed ;
the colonel demanded all his letters back ; but Lewis,
who keeps an office for looking after everybody's busi-
ness but his own, thought they might come into use
some day, and kept them. The colonel then raised the wind
somehow, and went to England in one of the Boston steamers,
taking Kitty Clover along with him. In London he forged let-
ters to Lord Brougham, Dan O'Connell, Earl Spancer, and
others, in the name of Daniel Webster, &c. He also forged
the names of Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Forsyth two letters of
introduction. From Brougham he got nothing ; from Dan
—the cunning Dan—he got £lO or £20., on the strength of
his affection for the negroes, one of whom was then with child
by him. From Earl Spencer be got £250.
After he arrived here it appears he went south to Phila-
delphia. The girl, Kitty Glover, lay at our Almshouse, and
then followed him to Philadelphia with his and her child.
He is suspected of committing other forgeries before those
in August, on Brown, Brothers, and Co., and Fletcher and
Alexander, and Co. ; but these are all that can be positively
traced to him at present. The particulars of the two forger-
ies, and the method by which lie was arrested, we have al-
ready stated in detail. But there is one very singular fact
which has not been stated. The letter which was sent to
him describing the funds forwarded for Fletcher and Co.,
was dated August 28th, and addressed to Alexandria, D.C.
He got this money August 30th ' • and on the Bth of Septem-
ber he or some one bought a bill of exchange on London for
Colonel Monroe Edwards, from the house of Prime, Ward,
and King, here, on Baring and Co., London, for £255, the
exact sum he borrowed of Lord Spencer. The bill of ex-
change was found in his trunk. This would appear as if the
fellow really had some spark of sensibility left in his heart ;
and his apparent desire to provide for the miserable wretch
he had seduced, and his mulatto child, caused him to remain
in Philadelphia, over Friday and Saturday. He intended to
go west and south on Saturday. He was arrested on Satur-
day. Had he gone he never would have been arrested.

There is a vacancy in the representation of Dublin Uni-
versity, in consequence of the elevation of Mr. Lefroy to a
judgeship.
FALL OF CHALK ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—A great
deal of excitement was caused in the City on Thursday morn-
ing, by the statement that during the night a large fall of chalk
had taken place at the Mersthain cutting, about eighteen miles
from London, which at present impedes the traffic ; but it
was expected in the course of the day a passage would be
made for the trains. Fortunately the discovery was made in
sufficient time to inform the conductors of both the up and
down trains, and not the least accident, therefore, occurred
beyond the falling of the chalk.
CAPTAIN ELLior —We turn with reluctance to an unfor-
tunate individual, the chief author of the Chinese war, and
the grand manager of our inconclusive operations—who has
perhaps by this time slunk into England. Captain Elliot is
sufficiently punished by finding himself here, and he may
read the opinion which his countrymen and the history of his
country have passed upon him in the countenance of the first
Englishman he meets. It is not often that a man, whose for-
tune it has been to act in the name of England, has failed so
signally to accomplish the great ends for which the force of
this nation was placed in his grasp ; but the late superinten-
dent found the bolts too heavy for him. Nevertheless, while
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lffihiasrlwtvreoearslfreothnlrae Elliots in the republic of Texas. The late pleni-
potentiary was outwitted by the oldest people upon earth ;
we trust he may be more fortunate in. his negociations with
the newest.

Wheat QrS. I 10062 4 1 172
Barley Qrs. 163 6267
Malt
7431 3741
Qrs.
Oats
Rye Qrs.!

Beans Qrs. 103 1994
Pease Qrs. 8
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn
Rapeseed Qrs.

Oatmeal
Flour ..
Ditto ...

9188 60422
2145 i 8575
1 3471
7439

)789 3836
836 844

Loads 6294 4 i 6293
Sacks, 1790 3414 130 534;4
. Brls.l I 6296 t 2006 , 2302

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Whcat. 1717 qrs. ; Bar.
ley, qrs.; Oats, 3480 qrs. ; Oatmeal, dggd Ids.; Flour, d2O sacks,

EXPOILTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Oats, 40
qrs.; Pease, qr.; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ;
Flour, 31 sks., 66 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 537 qrs. ; Rye, qrs.;
Indian Corn, qrs.—Coastwise. Wheat, 1027 qrs. ; Barley, 27
qrs.; Malt, 70 qrs.; Oats, 10 qrs. ; Beans, 145 qrs. ; Pease, 33
qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, 17 Ids.; Flour, 254 sacks,
1253 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the weed endino; Oct. 29, IS/1.
Wheat.. 645. sd. I Barley 31s. 7d. I Oats.. 225. 0,1. I Rye.. 395. ad,
Beans.. 40s. 4d. I Pease.. 38s.

Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat.. 625. pd:Tßarley :Qs. 2d. I Oats.. 21s. / Id. I Rye.. 375. lid
Beans.. 40s. l ld. Pease.. 393. led.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.

Wheat24s.Sd.
Barley Its. 1 Oats .. .15s. 3d. Rye.. 14s. Oil
I Beans 9s. 6d. Pease.. nxt: e. I Ind. Corn Os. 0(1.I Flour I4s. 10

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... ss. Od. I Barley.. as. 6d. I Oats ..3s. Od. I Rye.... 3s. Od
Beans.. 3s. I Pease.. 3s. I Indian Corn.. us. oa. I Flour.. 3s. Od.
Liverpool Averages, week ending Nov. 2, 1841.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Beans. Pease.
Qrs I 548 34 43
Prices 565. lid. 28s. 2d. 325. 4d. 1 Os. gd. Os. Od

bLIGENCE

N.W., Fair.