The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-17 00:00:00

At Scandaroon or thereabout.—Benhow, Zebra, Magicienne,
and Stromboli. •
Off Acre.—Revenge. •
Off Alexandria.—Asia, Ganges, Implacable, Cambridge,
Daphne, Dido.
At Tyre.—Castor, Hazard, and an Austrian corvette.
Gone to Malta.—Hastings, Cyclops.
We learn from the same journal that on the sands
outside Acre there was a cavalry camp of about 1000
strong, and that from appearances they seemed to be
making additional works in the town. It was not pro-
bable that any attempt would be made upon it for
some time, as the weather had already begun to be

somewhat boisterous.
The pitched battle with Ibrahim Pacha afforded
an excellent opportunity to show the bravery and
fidelity of the Turks. Ibrahim had taken up a very
strong position near Beyrout with 3000 men. Four
thousand Turks were sent against him, under the com-
mand of Selim Pacha, assisted by General Jockmuss,
Commodore Napier, and Col. Hodges. The attack
was so impetuous that in a few minutes Ibrahim was
completely routed. One thousand Egyptians were
made prisoners, and the rest were killed and wounded,
or took flight. With respect to the general war, it is
stated that the Egyptian army, at the most moderate
calculation, has lost 20,000 in killed, wounded, pri-
soners, and deserters.
The Malta Times furnishes us with the following
extracts of a letter, dated the 18th ultimo, from one of
the ships stationed off Beyrout, which will be found
interesting :
Since my last we have taken Sidon, Tyre, Kaifa, and in
fact are in possession of every place, except Beyrout, between
Tripoli and Sidon, Ibrahim, they say, is retiring on Bal-
bec ; and Osman Pacha got driven back by the mountaineers
and left with only 1,000 men. Soliman Pasha has retired
with a few men to about three hours distance, and considers
his cause almost desperate.
At Sidon, the Thunderer, Austrian Prince's frigate,
steamers Cyclops, Hydra, Gorgon, and Stromboli, battered
away for about two hours, then landed the troops at different
places to charge simultaneously. The Turks numbered
about 600, the Austrians 100, and the English 600. They
met with a sharp resistance, and had not the colonel com-
manding the besieged been killed, our troops would have been
nearly all destroyed; for they had manned the houses, and
bulleted our men with a fearful advantage. However, they
all laid down their arms when the colonel was killed, and we
became masters of the town. It was a hazardous affair, but
it succeeded well. The commodore led the shore-going at-
tack, and of course:it was done in a sailor-like style. I re-
gret to say the town was sacked, but not by the English.
We too had a little affair. A deserter came off and told us
he had been present at the placing of a train of 200 barrels of
powder beneath the old Venetian castle, to blow it up. Com-
mander Worth, Lieut. H. C. Schomberg, with three mids.,
and a mid. of the Hastings, volunteered to go and take it up,
and bring away the powder. They manned a barge, pinnace,
and gig, set off at daylight, and within pistol-shot of the ene-
my, succeeded in bringing off 30 barrels of powder, and pitch-
ing 70 overboard. In this daring exploit we lost only the
midshipman, Mr. Luscombe, and one seaman ; one seaman
and the deserter were slightly wounded. Whilst on shore,
our ships continued throwing shot to keep away the enemy,
and so admirably were they directed, that they passed within
three feet of our people's heads, who, however, knew there
was nothing to fear from such gunners as ours. The attempt
to remove the powder was renewed in the evening, but they
were better prepared, and kept up a tremendous fire, which
the balls from our ships little checked ; but they had the
effect of frightening the enemy, so that they could not take
aim, and no one was killed, though the boats were riddled.
The Edinburgh's boats assisted on this occasion and had
one man wounded. We got out 11 barrels more, and threw
some into the sea, then cut off the train, which led over a
bridge communicating with the town and castle. The same
night the mine was fired; indeed they blew one part of it up
before our boats left. This affair cost the enemy the loss of
sixty men, besides officers. The mine was intended as a sa-
lute to us, when we should get into the town, and immor-
talize us in its ruins.—The Benbow has been unfortunate.
She sent boats to land marines to take Tortosa, a castle near
Tripoli ; the boats grounded, with deep water between them
and the shore, and they encountered a heavy tire from be-
hind a wall, by which eight of the crew were killed and
eighteen wounded—a greater loss than at the taking of Sidon,
where we had only six killed and twenty wounded.
Mr. Cumming, mate, who led the Turks in the attack on
Sidon, and carried all before him, behaved so manfully as to
elicit the warmest commendations of Commodore Napier,
who has given an account of his conduct to the Admiralty
and recommended his promotion.

We have received a file of the Sydney Gazette to the
14th of May. These papers merely supply us with
intermediate dates.

By the royal mail steam-ship, Acadia,. Captain Mil-
ler, we have received New York papers to the 31st ul-
timo, Boston papers to the Ist, and Halifax papers to
the 3d, all dates inclusive. The Acadia arrived here
on Sunday, having accomplished the passage from
Boston in 13 clays and 20 hours. Owing to the pre-
vious arrival of the Garrick, in little more than 15 days
from New York, the news brought by the Acadia only .
extends over the space of four days later.
The principal topic of discussion in the American
papers is that of the election frauds. Our contempo-•
rary of the Journal has not found it convenient to en-
ter at length upon this subject. He merely remarks
that the charge " seems to rest on the sole authority of
the New York Herald." So far is this from being the
case that the charge rests solely upon a mass of docu-
mentary evidence, in the shape of affidavits, which oc-
cupy about six closely printed columns of the Herald.
A letter on this subject appears in the city article of the
London Times, which seeks to invalidate the statements
put forth in the New York Herald. The writer, how-
ever, does not attempt to rebut the evidence upon which
the whole case depends. He merely deprecates the
violent language in which the Herald indulges while
writing on the subject. The exaggerated tone of our
transatlantic contemporary has nothing to do with the
real merits of the case. The facts disclosed in the
evidence to which we have referred are quite sufficient
to satisfy any unprejudiced mind that frauds of the most
scandalous character have been committed in the
United States in the cloak of the ballot. The repub-
lican party in this country would be highly delighted if
they could obtain similar facilities for influencing our
general elections. They would not, for a moment,
hesitate to resort to the same tricks as those which have
been recently exposed in the United States. We
know the principles of the party too well to justify any
more favourable opinion of their political morality than

that which we have expressed.
The latest returns of the state elections appear to be
generally in favour of General Harrison, although the
faiends of Mr. Van Buren are still confident of suc-

The commercial and monetary intelligence from the
United States will he found in another column. The
rate of exchange upon England remained at 10t4- to
109. _ _ .

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The commissioners appointed by the United States'
Government to survey the disputed boundary had
completed their task, and were on their return. They
assert that the line claimed by the United States is the
true line.

There is no news whatever in the Halifax or Cana.
dian papers which have reached us.

The election of a Socinian to fill the office of mayor I
of one of the most thoroughly conservative boroughs I
in the kingdom has, as we anticipated, excited the re-
probation and disgust of a great majority of our fel-
low-townsmen. The members of the Church of Eng-
land feel it as a studied and gratuitous insult, and will
resent it accordingly. It is one added to the many
outrages which the council has already directed against
the established religion of the land. But in the minds
of a large and influential class of Protestant Dissent-
ers who, although liberals in politics, do not happen to
be enamoured of the Socinian principles of Mr. Tho-
mas Bolton, the election of tl►at gentleman has raised
a strong suspicion that a principle on which they have
hitherto existed—viz., the principle that religious opi-
nions form no test of fitness for political privileges—
may be carried to an extreme length. •Coupled with
this feeling is the consciousness that claims equally as
strong as those of Mr. Bolton have been overlooked in
the persons of individuals of their own religious opi-
nions; and that the direct tendency of this ultra libe-
ralism of the council is to establish as an axiom that,
in Whig-radical estimation, the worst religionist the bet-
ter politician, the better magistrate, or the better mayor !
We are ourselves quite of opinion with our dissent-
ing fellow-townsmen. Had a Socialist been in the
council, he must, on this principle, have been preferred
to the Socinian, Mr. Bolton ; had an open Infidel been
within their reach, the tyrant majority of the council
must have been delighted at the opportunity of dis-
playing their inordinate liberality in his election. Away
with those shackles_which the practical decency of our