The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

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the Roduey, Gang,— ,rfui, vanguai
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e, Carysfort, Daphne, Dido, Medes,
her master, at Lazaretto, in Malta); at Malt
~ Asia, Hastings, Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, Confiance,
stearn•tender • the Implacable was on her way to Syria and
Malta. At Sidon, the Thunderer ; at Scandaroon, the Ma-
gicienne and Benbow ; at Acre, the Pique and Wasp ; the
Castor on her voyage to Malta, and the Calcutta, bound to
the Scorpion was passed off Cape de Gatt for the

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coast of Spain

The Jasseur having been refitted had left Gibraltar on a
cruise, on the 7th instant.

The Chapman, a Swedish frigate, was refitting at Gibral-
tar. •

Passengers per Oriental :—From Alexandria (originally
Bombay) to England, Messrs. R. Manley, R. Taynton,
Gibbard, Allan, Pugh, and Varnham ; Captain Tolland, Dr.
and Mrs. Stokes, Major Macneil, Mrs. Bettington, Mrs.
Ogle, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Forbes, with some servants and
children. From Alexandria to Malta; CounWalewsky, Mrs.
and Miss Mariotti, Messrs. Valbuzane andbanglais (origin--
ally from Bombay), Mr. Uuwin. From Malta to England,
Lady Wallace, Mrs. and two Misses Dunlop, Dr. Bowe,
Baron Capellen, Mr. J. and Mrs. Strachan, Maudsley, and
Meesrs. Locke and Green.

The Oriental encountered a gale of contrary wind 60 miles
S.W. of Ushant, when she proved her wonderful power,
speed, and liveliness, to the astonishment of every nautical
person on board.

It is already known that this steamer was detained to bring
from Alexandria the despatches of Commodore Napier, of a
treaty of peace having been signed between Great Britain and
Egypt. The negotiation commenced on the 24th. Our in-
formant states " that after two or three puts off," the affair
was finally settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two
o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately
drawn out. On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the
18th, Lieutenant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails)
proceeded into the harbour with a flag of truce, to ascertain
whether Mehemet Ali would permit him to land the mails,
and guarantee their safe conveyance across the country.
The reply is known, and what attention the Pacha paid to
their disembarkation, by sending one of his officers of state
to expedite the steamer's entering the harbour, to secure the
mails from molestation, and to promote their speedy trans-
mission. The steamer having taken a pilot on board, passed
up and anchored inside the lines of Turkish and Egyptian
fleets. On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son,
with a considerable number of the chief officers of state, ad-
mirals, and others, paid visits on board the Orientai, and ex-
pressed themselves delighted with her capabilities.
It was the impression, from letters received at Bombay
from China, that the admiral purposed an immediate advance
on or towards Pekin. Thee is nothing new from Persia.
The accounts of the crops all over India are represented as
favourable.

(From the Private Correspondence of the Malta Times,

Deember 1)

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 16.—My previous accounts of the
misgiving of Mehemet Ali, and the proceedings of the
French agents here, have in some degrre prepared you for
the disclosures this letter contains. The whole of the blood-
shed in Syria is owing to the malignant vanity and Satan
ambition of M. Thiers. I can state as a positive fact that
Mehemet Aii rejected the terms of the treaty of July at the
express desire of M. Cochelet, acting under instructions
from the foreign minister of France. lam also positively
. .

assured that about a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was going
to throw himself on the four powers, when M. Cochelet, in
a two hours' conversation, dissuaded him from this step.
On the 14th, 10th, and 11th instant additional and strong
manifestations of the same tendency took place in public.
I entirely exonerate M. Cochelet personally from anything
like imprudence or double treaty. He has been in a most
false position, and the antagonist principles personated at
Paris by the King and M. Thiers, find their analogous re-
presentatives at Alexandria, in M. Cochelet and Count
Walewsky. The former gentleman has all the chivalric pride
of an ancien efficier de l'ordonnance de I'Empereur, but he
has by far too much perspicuity of judgment to be carried
away by the seductive unreal dreams of the republic and the
empire. M. Cochelet has seen that the historian of the re-
volution has read and wrote history to no purpose. That
he has dashed off with the vigour and brilliancy of a Paul
Veronese the most vivid scenes of that awful tragedy, but
that the moral it inculcates has been lost on the delineator ;
the internal violence and foreign aggression go hand in hand ;
and that all the misfortunes of France have arisen from the
delusion that she could dictate to Europe.
M. Thiers, aware of M. Cochelet's moderation of charac-
ter

)axed him with honours and dignities, and sent his
friend M. de Walewsky, ex-proprietor of the Messager des
Chambres, to keep him up to the scratch. Count Walewsky
talks much, writes mighty fine despatches, and has, upon the
whole, more sense than his cousin Louis Napoleon at Bou-
logne. It is certainly a safer speculation to deal in dead
goose quills than in live eagles. Wisdom is the better part
of valour, talk breaks no bones, and if talk could have ac-
complished the ends of his Excellency the Count Walewsky,
Sir Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier would have
been sent to Davy's locker long ago.

On the 7th inst. three peculiarly-shaped vessels belonging
to the Pope approached the port. The look-out men took
them for fire-ships, and sent a warning shot which compelled
them to take a position at some distance ; when the truth
was known they were sdmitted. The object of their visit is
to fetch the six oriental alabaster columns which Mehemet
Ali is presenting to the Pope for the grand church of St.
Paul's extra mura, which was burned down some years ago.
This is certainly what nobody could have predicted of a
Mussulman. Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur ab
Amusingly enough, we are crusading in Syria for the legiti-
mate chief of Mussulunans ; and the successor of St. Peter is
adorning the church of St. Paul with gifts from an aspirant
to the Klalifat Shades of Saladin and Richard Coeur de
Lion. What say you to this?

The officers were presented on the Bth by M.Cochelet,

and when the audience terminated Mehemet Ali told him, in
the presence of all there assembled, that France w is the cause
of the present disastrous state of his affairs. M. Cochelet
attempted to soothe him, but without effect; and Mehemet
Ali said aloud, while playing trick-track with Moharrew
Bey, " I wanted either all war or all peace. To please
France I kept in my fleet, and I have had neither the fair
chances of war nor the certain benefits of peace."
On the 9th the Euphrate arrived with the news of the fall
of Acre, and the Pacha's disappointment knew no bounds.
He immediately despatched a courier overland to recall Ibra-
him Pacha from Syria, as well as the 6,000 men he had sent
from Cairo with the Druse Sheiks.
Count Walewsky immediately considered it his duty to visit
the old man twice a day to keep others away. On the 11th
Mehemet Ali told one of his most intimate and devoted Frank
friends that he had fully made up his mind, in spite of the
French, to throw himself into the arms of England, and
trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending
hostilities, and then to Lord Palmerston arranging with the
other three powers. This having come to Walewsky's ears.
he went to Artim Bey, and asked angrily if this was the case.
Artim Bey, like an expert Levantine dragoman, shuffled out
an excuse, and next day the French party here positively
denied the circumstance. You may, however, depend on the
currently-rumoured report, that M. Walewsky said to Mehe-
met Ali that this would cause a European war; on which
Mehemet Ali said, " I am old and must think of my chil-
dren."

The fleet have been disarmed of stores and even sails,
booms, and spars, and 60 of the crew are sent to the fortifi-
cations. Colonel Gulisse goes on with his preparations of
defence with furnaces for red hot shots, which, in the present
state of affairs, is quite ridiculous.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM.
The gross amount for conveyance of passengers,
parcels, mails, &c. for the week ending Dec.s. £9662 9 2
Merchandise for the same
Cattle

2235 19 5
264 9 8

£12,162 18 3

MIDLAND COUNTIES
Passengers for the week ending Dec. 5
Merchandise for the same

545 16 7
430 6 1

MANCHESTER AND BOLTON.
[Length of line, 10 miles.]
Passengers and parcelsfor the week endingDec.lo 361 15 1
Goods and coals 172 17 5

£534 12 6

BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—On Thursday, the last arch of the
Ouse Viaduct, on the London and Brighton Railway, was
keyed by Mr. Maude, the resident engineer of the centre
district of the railway, in the presence of the parties engaged
on the work, together with a considerable number of visitors
from Brighton and Lewes. The viaduct is built for the pur-
pose of carrying the railway over the valley through which
flows the river Ouse, and near the spot where that river
becomes navigable. It is about two miles and a half from
Hayward's Heath, and twenty from Brighton. The viaduct
consists of two abutments and 37 semicircular arches, of a
40 feet span, and varying in height from 48 to 96 feet. The
entire length of the viaduct is 1475 feet, or rather more than
a quarter of a mile, and the width of the railway is 28 feet.
Upwards of 11,000,000 bricks, made from the soil of the
neighbourhood, have been used in the structure, indepen-
dently of about 400,000 feet of masonry, in the foundation
and elsewhere. The first stone was laid in the middle of
May last year, so that this stupendous undertaking has been
completed in about 18 months. Most satisfactory accounts
continue to reach us`of the progress of the works throughout
the line.—Brighton Gazette.
RAILWAY TALKING MACHINE.—At the meeting held at
Blackburn last week, Mr. George Stephenson, the father of
railways, was present; and, in a speech in support of the
railway, said that on the London and Blackwall line there
was a talking machine, constructed with galvanic wires, by
means of which conversation could be carried on between
London and Blackwall with the greatest ease and precision.
By way of illustrating the efficiency of this talking machine,
Mr. Stephenson said that he went to the station in London
one day to inquire for one of his assistants. He was not
there, but the attendant said he would inquire if he were at
the other end of the line ; he did so" in a few seconds the
answer was, that he was not there. But about five minutes

afterwards:the talking machine informed him in London
that his assistant had arrived at the Blackwall terminus;
upon which he instructed the attendant to say, by the same
agency, " Tell him to dome here directly." In ten minutes
from that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven
miles. (Hear, hear.) If thi distance were 100 miles, the
conversation could be carried on just as readily ; for the com-
munication travelled at the rate of twenty miles a second.—
Blackburn Standard.

STATE OF UtADE.
LEEDS.—Two foggy market days have prevented an ex-
tensive business being done in the Cloth Halls since our
last, but we are glad to learn, notwithstanding, that the ma-
nufacturers are doing a fair trade, and that the dressers are
fully as busy as is usual at this season of the year.
BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a numerous attendance
of merchants and agents at our market here on Thursday,
and in the course of the day a considerable amount of busi-
ness was transacted, principally at former rates. In the yarn
market the transactions were more numerous than of late,
and pi ices steady. The wool market participated in the
improvement that was perceptible in the other branches of
the trade. More sales were effected, but, as the stocks in
the staplers' bands have increased there was no augmenta-
tion of prices.—Leeds Intelligencer.
The MARKET for METALS has remained very dull. the
only nominal change being a further decline in British cop-
per_ia
of ss. per ton.
The EXPORTATION of the PRECIOUS METALS has
only to the amount of 35,000 ounces of silver to Hamburgh,
and to Ceylon 150 ounces of gold.
IMPORTS OF WOOL.—Quantity of Wool entered
for home consumption during the week ending Dec. 8 .
From Hamburg 512 , 100 0 t Hulleen
lbss. b
From Petersburg
829 lbs.bs.
From Odessa l,

514,708 lbs

JOURNAL .OF Till

MONEY MARKET.

TIIURSDAY EVENING.—The Funds exhibit no particular
variation to-day, but there was little disposition for specula-
tion. Consols left off at 89* for the opening. Bank Stock
1561 to 74, and it may be here noted that the prices of this
stock marked yesterday 1574 to 84, were the prices for time
and not for money. Exchequer Bills, in consequence of
some rather considerable sales towards the close of -business,
declined to Is. to 3s. premium.
Foreign Securities remain much as before, with the market
dull. Spanish Active with the Coupons were 240 to 4. Por-
tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fires) 34
to 4, the One•and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes)
21a to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the
Five per Cents 98 to 4. Belgian 97 to 9. Brazilian 71 to 3.
Mexican 29 to 4. Colombian 254 to 6.
London and Birmingham Railways were 79 to 81, Great
Western 23 to 4, the Half Shares 104 to 11 premium. South
Western 534 to 44 per share. Gosport 34 to 44 premium.
North Midland 27 to 5, the New Shares 3 to 2, Manchester
and Birmingham 14 to 12, Eastern Counties 144 to 14,
Blackwall 44 to 4, Brighton 9 to 84 discount.
FRIDAY EVENING.—The foreign papers received yester-
day state that a new Russian loan is about to be brought for-
ward, and the letters of this morning from Amsterdam fur-
nish some particulars of the terms on which the contract for
it has been made, in which the house of Hope and Co. of
that city appear to be largely concerned. These letters state
that the loan is for 25,000,000 silver rubles, at a price of 864
per cent. _ Payment is to take place as follows :

One-atenth on January 5, with an addition of 3 per cent
• a

interest.
Four-tenths on January 31, with an addition of 4 per cent

interest.
Five` tenths on February 28, with an addition of 5 per cent
•

interest

The interest is to run from the Ist of last August, and will
therefore leave a small profit of two months' interest. Cal-
culating at the present rate of 38 stivers per ruble (whereas
40 stivers per ruble are to be paid), the new Four per
Cent. stock will stand the subscribers in 90 per cent. A
The English stocks have been nearly stationary all day,
and the only variation in the prices was that of buyer or
seller. Consols for the account leave off 89/ ; Bank Stock,
156} to 157} : Exchequer-bills, ls. to 3s. premium ; India
Stock, 237 to 239 for the opening; 3 per Cent. Reduced,
891; and 3} per Cent. Reduced, 98.
SATURDAY EVENING.—The funds have been heavy all
day, and although very little business was doing yet the ten-
dency of prices was evidently downwards, which may be at-
tributed to the loans actually contracted and the reports of
ethers about to be, the pressure of which upon a money mar-
ket before and now in a state of suffering may not be lightly
estimated. C nsols declined to 894 sellers for the opening.
Bank Stock 156} to 71. Exchequer Bills Is to 3s premium.
Foreign securities generally were affected by the same
cause which operated on the home stocks. Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents left off at 51} to /, and Five per Cents 98}.
Belgian 97 to 9. Spanish Active with the Coupons 234 to 4.
P rtuguese Two and. a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives)
were 331 to 4, the One-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called
Threes) 21/ to 2. Brazilian 71 to 2.
London and Birmingham Railways were 80 to 2, Great
Western 22 to 3, the Half Shares 9 to 10, Gosport 3 to 4
premium. South Western 53 to 4 per share. North Midland
24 to 2, the New 2 to 1, Brighton 9} to 1, Blackwall 4/ to 4.
South Eastern and Dover 16} to 16, Eastern Counties 144
to 4 discount.