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

) for money, and 87-1 to for ac-
to 11. India Stock 242 to 4. Ex-

Coupons

•e not so favou

Lble to-da

on Rotterdam 12 21; on Hamburg 13 61
t 148 to ; on Antwerp 12 11, all at three

acons►deral

fluctua-

but they closed the same

Colombian 22f to

per Cent

ham railways wer

to 13 premium
rth Midland Old Shares

,1 54 to + discount

EASTERN QUESTION

D LORD PONSONBY B

FOR FOREIGN

sliging aid of a Paris correspond-
s the following copy of a despatbh
dor at Constanti-

I to the British amb;

tions to that functionary, in exact
snts which we lately stated to pre-
relative to the exorbitant stretch of

the deposition and exeom-

The cautious verbiage in which
tip his recommendation to the
Itaie Rroclamation against the Viceroy,

la•.
rkable state paper

;overnment have taken into
the Sultan deprived Mehemet
; bearings of that act upon the

the course

reupon, have invited the repre-
, and Russia, at their court, ,to
governments that undoubtedly
asons which, according to your
the Sultan to take this step, and
this measure in no degree pre-

All, if he shOuld

iission to his sovereign ; on the other
)werful instrument of moral coercion

d be_ prolonged, and the

unfavourable to him, I

ake the recent exer-
ultan useful towards

,ettlement of pending

f her Majesty's government that
the representatives of the four
inople should be instructed to proceed to
and state to him that their respective
in pursuance of the stipulations of the seventh
annexed to the treaty of 15th
d to the Sultan that, if Me
)d make his submission to
tore the Turkish fleet,
Adana, Can-

iffre.; to

:he Sultan should not only rein-
la of Egypt, but should also give

iry tenure in that nachalic, according to the
itied in: the treaty of July, and liable, of

net Ali

esty's government have reason to hope that this
11 meet the concurrence of the Governments of
isia, and Russia, and your Excellency will ac-
e the steps pointed out in this despatch, as soon
'guts shall have received corresponding instruc-

d condescend to act upon this ad-
his four allies, it would be expedi-
,.

:e immediate steps for making his-gra-
s respect known to Mehemet Ali, and

I Sir Robert Stopforcl should afford the
t every facility which they may require

;ellencyLord Ponsonby, at

ension bridge has been opened at Friburg, in
It extends between two rocks, in the valley of
250 feet above the ground.—Ga-

a height of

.RY FECUNDITY.—The wife of Daniel
it Coghill, in Clayton, has lately been de-
he is only 19 years of age, and in the
sod a few months has given birth to

[am Powell, a brass-founder at Birmingham, bas
tted to the county prison at Warwick, for trial at
izes, charged with forging bills upon the bank of

kftwoods, Spooner, and Co

GLASGOW RAILWAY.—THE ALMOND
gnificentstructure, the most important

Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, is advancing
Ipletion. When finished, it will be one of the
-ks of the kind on any railway, consisting of up-
rty arches, which are connected by an earthen
t with another bridge of ten or a dozen arche

) which these arches tower forms not one
ngular features of the structure ; and when it is
that they are all constructed of substantial ma-
lea of the cost incurred in the erection may be
its present state, the viaduct presents a most
arance, exhibiting the work in all its stages of
ere the foundations of a pier may be discerned,
above the surface of the ground—there the
roken and unfinished, others perfect and com-
p their points to the sky, reminding the specta -
is of Palmyra. In other parts, the wood frames
arches are to be laid, connect tower with tower
thers again, the arch itself is completed, the
;d, and the bridge appears to be complete. The
es thus erected present a singular contrast to
ments of forced earth which are thrown up on
viaduct. Hundreds of carts are seen travers-
Tiage-way, and when arrived at the end, the
out of them,_ with little apparent regard to
imminent danger of the
eyed these works for the
er altqgether incredible that such ap-
tive operations should be intended to

'o one who had

Scottish St,

MODE OF • ESCAPING FROM PRISON.—On
an untried prisoner of the name of Alexan-
)wn by that of the " notorious Elshender,"
pe from Lanark jail, in which he was incar-
iminal charge. He was permitted to go into
Mme article, when, finding a rope, he tied it to
spade. which he also got hold of in the court.
the spade over the wall, twenty feet in height,
the spade to the other side of the cope, and
down to the bottom, which having gained, he
[ll for it, and has not since been seen or heard
ibed as a dangerous character, and is charged
to the cope-stone, when he easily ascended to
ny crimes, the conviction of any one of which
,e punishment of transportation. He broke
iii. and was captured only a short time ago at
re he was put into a school-room, his bands
back, and a couple of sentinels placed over
ing the cord against the chimney-piece, he
sengaging his hands, and immediately dashed
mv, and would have affected his escape; but

rted in pi

He held
_out even then,
1g to the

operation . of

fence of

puon (

t is fired

ithout the aid of gun-

d extra tim-
sel was blown
less time than it takes us to de-
ald it be with even the largest ship
aventor of this tremendous weapon of
ued admittance at the Treasury and Ad.
most nobly tefuses £lOO,OOO, which has
by Louis Philippe. Were he not one of
e, as well as one of the most gallant of
L officers, he would have accepted the
ficent offer,
especially when it is consi-
ent £30,000 in perfecting his invention.
ved Sir Sidney Smith does not revenge
antry for the wrong done him by its go-
e called attention to this subject because

g's mut

real; becauiW;.e

to get possession of the
Duld be at an end ; and

are persuaded that even for the sake of
anity the inventor's silence ought to be

I at any <

without alteration. Spanish
211 to fi; Portuguese Five pes
Three per Cents 211 to I. A slight ad-

:ed in Dutch and Beigian. stocks. - Dutch
3er Cents 49/ to 50/, the Five per Cents
a 97 to 9. Braziliau 73 to 5. Mexican

m 66 to 8, Great Western 12 to

South Western 50 to 1 per share. North
Shares 23 to 1, New 3 to 1, Brighton 13i to 4,

as on last

were 25 40 to 45 ; on

Consols

sellers for account. Indian
Di to 14. Exchequer Bills

;elgian stocks there was a tendency to ad-
manoeuvre perhaps to favour some Dutch
ii operption said to be in progress. Dutch
"ftnts were 50 to 1; the Five per
to Si. Brazilian 731 to 44.
y. Spanish Active
Portuguese Five per Cents 3.2 i

76 to 8, Great
outh Western 50 to ] per
23 to 2. the New 3 to 1,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

SYRIA

appeared in our second edition of Tuesday

, which comes

Ilm:ahim Paella i

of the

were formed in the upper position of
view of attacking at day-break the ad-
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