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

POLL BOOK,

%Ve are glad to find that a complete list of the voters
polled for the election of Sixteen Councillors for this
Borough, on the 2d of November, is already in the
hands of the printers, and will be immediately pub-
lished. It will skew the duplicate qualifications of
the voters, and the wards in which they polled. The
list has been examined with the polling papers in the
possession of the Mayor. It will be found of great
value as a book of reference, and will prove of great
service in carrying on the canvass for the ensuing
year.

Ebt therPoot &tan Darb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1840

By the arrival of the Great Liverpool, from the Me-
diterranean, we have received files of Bombay papers
to the 30th of September, of Malta papers to the 31st
of October, and of Gibraltar papers to the 26th of
October. Their contents have, however, been antici-
pated by the arrival of the overland mail from India.
The London mails of the 30th of September and the
sth October, for India, Egypt, and Syria, still re-
mained at Malta waiting instructions as to their dis-
posal. We copy from the Malta Times of the 31st
ultimo the following account of the operations of the
combined fleets of the allies off the coast of Syria.

Beyrout, 22d October, 1840.

DEAR SlR,—Since closing my last, Tripoli, Tortosa, and
Latakia, have been quietly evacuated by the enemy, the three
castles of the first named place were mined and fired, but one
only succeeded in exploding. A report having reached the
admiral that Acre had been evacuated, the Phoenix was de-
spatched to ascertain the truth, and on the 20th having com-
municated with the Revenge, at anchor off Kaifa, and taken
on board Captain Waldegrave at 4 p.m., proceeded to recon-
noitre the place, which was very soon ascertained not to have
been evacuated, as on the approach of the steamer to within
a mile of the town, the whole of the batteries opened on her,
to which she quickly replied, and after half an hour's smart
cannonading, and the service having been fully performed,
she returned to this place yesterday morning. Acre appears
to be strongly fortified, as from 50 to 60 guns were engaged
by tiring on the Phoenix, and appear to have been well served,
as many of the shot passed over and near, and, but from her
lowness in the water, she must have been hulled repeatedly.
The Talbot and one Austrian steamer arrived from Constan-
tinople yesterday with troops, and the Hastings sailed for
Malta, and this morning the Vanguard arrived. 3,000
Turkish troops (part of which have arrived and the com-
mander on their passage here) make the first detachment of
the 10,000 corning. The whole coast from Latakia to Cape
' Bianca near Acre is quietly in our possesion. The marines
belonging to the ships are all re-embarked, and only the
supernumeraries remain on shore, and are divided between
this and Sidon. The squadron still continue very sickly ;
Lieut. Penny of the Gorgon is dead, and was buried here
yesterday with military honours. Lord Fred. Kerr is ap-
pointed to the Gorgon in his stead. Sir C. Smith has
established his head-quarters here, and all are busily em-
ployed in organising the Turks. Most of the Egyptian
prisoners arc embarked in transports, and will shortly leave
for Cyprus.

The following is the present distribution of the fleet :

At Beyrout.—Princess Charlotte, Powerful, Edinburgh,
Bellerophon, Vanguard, Talbot, Gorgon, Wasp, Hydra,
(since arrived at Malta), Phoenix and Confiance, Austrian
and Turkish admirals and squadron, a Russian schooner,
and Brilliante French corvette.
At Sidon.—Thunderer.--Thunderer, Pique and an Austrian
frigate.
At Tortola,—Carysfort,