The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

FRANCE

(From the Morning Herald of Wednesday)
We have received from Paris the following memorandum,
declaratory of the course which the four powers have left it
free for Mehemet Ali to adopt, to obtain his reconciliation
with the Sultan :

"MEMORANDUM

" The instruction addressed to Lord Ponsonby, on the
15th of October last, at the close of a deliberation between
the plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and
Russia, has declared the opportunity which existed for the
representatives of the four courts at Constantinople being
authorised to announce to the Sablime Porte that their re-
spective governments, conformably to the stipulations of the
separate act annexed to the convention of the 15th July, be-
lieve it to be their duty to recommend strongly to the govern-
ment of his highness that in case Mehemet Ali should submit
without delay, and consent to restore the Ottoman fleet, and
withdraw his troops from the whole of Syria, from Adana,
from Arabia, and from the Holy Cities, his highness should
deign, not only to reinstal Mehemet Ali in his functions as
Pacha of Egypt, but, at the same time, to grant him the
hereditary investiture of the said pachalic, according to the
conditions established by the convention of the 15th of July,
it being clearly understood that this hereditary title might be
subject to be revoked if Mehemet Ali, or any of his suc-
cessors, should infringe the said conditions.
" The utility of addressing to the Sublime Porte a com-
munication conceived in tie sense set forth has been unani-
mously recognised by the four courts. Nevertheless, in order
still further to make apparent the just 'consideration due to
the rights of his highness, the Cabinet of Vienna has been of
opipion, that the advice which the representatives of the four
courts should be called upon to address the Divan, relative
to the reintegration of Mehemet Ali in the pachalic of Egypt,
ought not to be given at Constantinople until after Mehemet
Ali shall have begun by seeking favour (recourir en grace)
with his sovereign, and submitting himself to the decisions
of his highness.

" Taking into consideration that this opinion of the cabi-
net of Vienna serves to declare anew the respect which the
courts which signed the convention of the 15th July bear
towards the inviolability of the rights of sovereignty and in-
dependence of the Sultan; considering moreover the neces-
sity for bringing the present crisis of the Levant promptly
to a pacific solution, conformably to the true interests and
to the dignity of the Porte,—the plenipotentiaries of the said
courts have resolved with one common accord to adopt the
course indicated, in order that the return to favour and the
submission of Mehemet Ali might precede the friendly step
which the allied representatives will be charged to make to
dispose the Porte to grant its pardon to Mehemet Ali.
"-In this view, desiring as much as possible to accelerate
the moment in which these steps may be taken at Constanti-
nople, the plenipotentiaries of the four powers have consi-
dered it opportune to indicate, without the least delay, to
Mehemet Ali, the road which is yet open to him to return
to favour with his Sovereign, and to obtain his reintegration
in the pachalic of Egypt, notwithstanding the decisive events
which have declared themselves against him.
" In consequence, it has been agreed by a common accord
that Admiral Stopford should receive, to this effect, from the
government of her Britannic Majesty, the necessary instruc-
tions, which would be communicated to the plenipotentiaries
of the courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to be made
known to their cabinets.

" It has, moreover, been agreed to communicate to the
ambassador of the Sublime Porte, Chekib Effendi, the pre-
sent memorandum, as well as the instruction which is an-
nexed to it.
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"‘ London, Nov. 14, 1840."

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

NEW SOUTH WALES

We have received our files of the Sydney Gazette, and of
the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 4th of August, from
which we make the following extracts :

ENGAGEMENT AND DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF HER MAJES
•
TV'S SHIP FAVOURITE, By THE
TONGA, ONE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.
(From the Sydney Gazette.)
It is with feelings of the most heartfelt regret, that we an-
nounce the death, or rather the murder, of this veteran and
gallant officer, which took place on Wednesday, the 24th of
June last, while attempting to take the Heathen Stockade of
Bea, in the island of Tongataboo, in the South Seas. In
former publications we have given the greater part of this
gentleman's history—we have expatiated on his slow advance,
which advance was so well deserved from his long and ardu-
ous services—and now it is our melancholy task to record
his death while in the gallant performance of his duty. We
have at least one pleasure in the performance of our melan-
choly task, which is to inform the world that Captain Croker
died as he had lived—a true British sailor—his sword in
his hand, and his heart where a Briton's ought to be (we
mean in the right place), while with his last expiring gasp he
commanded his men to do their duty. The following is an
sccount of the particulars as full and true as the hurried
manner in which we had to collect them would admit :
On the arrival of H. M. S. Favorite at the island of Ton-
gataboo, a letter was sent on board to the commander, Capt.
Croker, from the missionaries residing on the island, inform-
ing him that the heathen natives were at war with them, and
soliciting his assistance. On receipt of which information
he mustered the hands on board the Favorite, and told them
that he had received such a communication, and that he had
not the power to command them to go on shore, but would
leave it to themselves to volunteer, which of them would ac-
company him. A great number of the crew at once volun-
teered, and three guns, consisting of two six-pounders and
one twelve-pounder were taken on shore, and conveyed
to a short distance in the interior, on the rise of a hill
which commanded a full view of the heathen stockade.
On their arrival at the above place, a female messenger
was despatched to the stockade for the purpose of effecting a
truce with the natives within the stockade. During her ab-
sence, King George, accompanied by about three hundred of
his soldiers (missionary tribe, as they call themselves) ar-
rived at the spot for the purpose of assisting the British. On
the return of the woman, the flag of truce was hoisted within
the stockade, and a few minutes afterwards a Welshman who
goes under the name of " Jeinrny the Devil," and who, al-
though a white man and a British subject, is the ruler and
ringleader of these unfortunate heathens, made his appear-
ance, and was hailed by Capt. Croker with "Well, Jemmy,
I am glad to find that you are willing to come to amicable
terms—what can Ido for you ?" " Oh!" says Jemmy in
return, " You can do a deal for me if you like ;" evidently
meaning that it would have been all over with him if he got
into the clutches of Captain Croker. That gentleman then
informed him that the only terms of peace that could be
made, would be to level both heathen and missionary forts to
the ground. The Welshman then said that he could not
consent to that until he bad consulted several of the chiefs,
whose answer he would return in half an hour. To this
Captain Croker acceded, and waited with patience the time
appointed at the gate of the Heathen fort. At length, hav-
ing waited past the appointed time, and getting impatient, he
knocked at the gate with the hilt of his sword several times,
and received no answer to his repeated summons; he then
struck through the door with his sword, wnich, on withdraw-
ing, he found covered with blood. Captain Croker then
flourished his sword over his head, and ordered his men to
advance with their guns. They immediately advanced within
the distance of one hundred yards from the gate of the
stockade, thinking that they would frighten the inmates by
doing so, instead of which they immediately commenced
firing a volley of musketry through the numerous loop-holes
of the fortification. As soon as the firing commenced,
" King George" and his army decamped, saying that they
were going round to besiege the fort on the other side.
Captain Croker finding the musketry too strong to enable
his men to stand to their guns, ordered them to advance with
their. bridges and scaling ladders for the purpose of crossing
the trench and beseiging the fort. Immediately after giving
this order Captain Croker received a shot in his leg, and
staggered a few paces to the rear, at the same time calling on
his men to behave themselves like British seamen. At this
time several of his party were wounded and two men killed,
when a shot struck him in the left breast, and he staggered
into the arms of one of his crew, exclaiming " Fight on,
and do your duty as British seamen." As the person into
whose arms he had fallen was carrying him to the rear, he
said feebly, " Lay me down, and go fight." Having ut-
tered these words, this gallant officer fell back and expired.
The survivors finding the musketry so strong, and having
lost their commander, were obliged at last to retreat, and
leave their guns, carrying with them their dead and wounded,
the former of which they afterwards interred. In the even-
ing the savages from the fort issued out, and took possession
of the guns and ammunition left behind by the crew of the
Favourite, which they have erected for the defence of their
stockade. Our space will not allow us to prolong our report
at present; the following is a list of the killed and wounded :
Killed—Walter Croker, Esq., Commander ; the Quarter
Master, and the Gunner's mate.— Wounded—Mr. Dunlop,
first Lieutenant, and 19 of the crew,

INHABITANTS OF

THE CROPS.—Reports from all parts of the interior, speak
of the crops of the ensuing harvest, as likely to be more
plentiful than those of many years previous, from the luxu-
riant appearance of the wheat fields. By a person who has
is
visited most of the principal districts where wheat grown,
we learn that the quantity of land now sending forth its green
blades of the wheat plant, is beyond all imagination, and
should the summer set in gradually, there will not be only an
early harvest, but the average return per acre must prove
incredible, and astonish the weak minds of monopolizers in
this universal article of consumption.
Her Majesty's ship Favourite touched at the island of
Euramanga, and obtained the remains of the unfortunate
individuals Messrs. Williams and llarris, who were mas-
sacred on that island, and conveyed them to Upolo, one of
the Navigator Islands, at which place Mrs. Williams and
family reside, where they were interred.
IIoBAET TOWN.—We have received Hobart Town papers
up to the middle of July, but they are almost devoid of inte-
rest. They had received news from Sydney up to the 19th
of June, and seem to have been prepared for the Ordnance
Bill, only greatly modified. The weather had for the last two
days been very fine in Hobart Town, but before that period
a considerable quantity of rain and snow had fallen. On
Sunday night the thermometer fell to 31, and, to quote the
words of Murray's Review, " there was the severest frost
we ever witnessed near this town, the ice being nearly an
inch thick in some places." The following are the markets,
as taken from Murray's Review of the 14th instant :
THE MARKETS.—There is little or no change since our la7t,
either here or at Launceston. The average price of wheat
may he taken at 135., but as two ships from Valparaiso have
arrived fully laden, and others are expected, the Sydney pur-
chasers have directed their agents here to buy no more at
present, and it is most probable that there will be a consider-
able fall, The late rains have caused every article of mar-
ket produce in season, to be in abundance at low prices. Po-
tatoes (best) Bs. per cwt. ; tea, £8 per chest ; sugar, from
£26 to £32 per ton ; pork, £7 the barrel. Other articles of
foreign produce as before.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
From South Australia the dates are to the middle of July.
Here also colonial revenues are in disorder, the excess of ex-
penditure over revenue for the last year being calculated at
£45,000. The number of vessels which had entered Port
Adelaide and Encounter Bay during the year, during the six
months previous, is stated at 108, of the tonnage of 20,153.
Of these 20 direct from this country, the remainder from
Sydney, Port Lincoln, India, &e. The total tonnage of the
first half of last year was 21,109. In August, 1839, the popu-
lation was estimated at 8,250, but is now supposed to exceed

13,000. In the urns month hut year the sheep In the colony
wero calculated at 58,000, horned cattle at 6,250, horses 520,
pigs 1,000, and goats 180. The sheep now are estimated at
150,000, horned cattle 10,000, horses 1,000. On the increase
of stock and the promotion of agriculture the existence of
the colony no less than its prosperity may be said to depend.
The people, however, seem more anxious and noisy about
municipal corporation bills than about material improvements.