The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

morning contained what is called
—riser, Buffalo, Feb. 14,

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3UENOS AYI

,e British Packet, published at Buenos Ayres, contains
number oe December 26, which is the latest date in

town, a more circumstantial narrative of the_engagement be-
tween the troops of Rosas and Lavalle than has hitherto
been published. There can now be no doubt that the defeat
of the latter was complete, and that he himself had a narrow
escape from being taken prisoner. Among the prisoners, a
list of the more noted of whom. is given by name, are to be
found some of the chief men of the party, called Unitarians,
so bitterly opposed to Rosas. It was General Pacheco who
commanded in the action against Lavalle, and not Oribe,
whose name was to the short account formerly given, and

so that t.

CHINA

and white power-loom cotton
hie, tkith there and at Chusan and
ks it was known that larg

lents were also

ieir way out from this country besides, it was appre-
ed that, even were the Canton market opened, there

over-supply of th

)ods a t first

cue merchants at Macao were exceedingly discontented that,
alder any circumstances, Captain Elliot should have been
flowed to take the chief direction of the expedition, which,
ipon the compulsory resignation of Admiral Elliot, necessa-
ily fell into his hands altogether; for though the command
f the naval forces devolved upon Commodore Bremer as a
of right, it does not appear t! he was invested with
shartd jointly b'
,em rer

diplomatic cpaci

although it could

isonable

ly that the admiral himse]
had arisen, should have 1

:If, in view of contingencies such

in; an account of the d

action of.the Fall,

_ slight glance at it will convince any one that
it is a Loan, and by no means a good one, got up by

tling who probably

'er saw the fall

e will point out

) this conclusion_
-1. The article was not written, although purporting to have
been, by the editor of the Birjralo Commercial Advertiser.
We know his style too well. lie never deals in such inflated
windy language as the account presents.
2. The extra purports to be dated at Buffalo on Sunday
evening at 4 o'clock, and it was received in this city last
• This could not be done.

3. "Biddle Tower and all the adjoining groundwork had
di4appeared."—Mr. Biddle never
.built a tower at the falls.
Some years ago he caused. ID be.. built a staircase on Goat's
Island, leading down to the falls, which goes by his name.
4. " The water made a subterraneous :passage, and burst
through the wall of Goat Island."--,-Absurd.
•5. "The hotel is gone. It-is believed-no lives have been
lost."—The last clause is correct; there can have been no
lives lost, because there was no hotel to be carried away. The
nearest hotel is the Clifton-house, far below the falls.

P.S. Since the above was in type the northern mail, only
ice this afternoon, has arrived, and brought us the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening, the latest which
-,:ted. The Albany papers of yesterday are silent
. The hoax was probably got up in this city
tranquillity of The Falls of Niagai

Ford a magnificent example of the
gressive excavation of a deep valley in a solid rock. That
river flows from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, the former lake
being 330 feet above the latter, and the distance between
theM being 32 miles. On flowing out of the upper lake the
river is almost on a level with its banks, so that if it should
rise perpendicularly eight or ten feet, it would lay under wa-
ter the adjacent flat country of Upper Canada on the west,
and of the state of New York on the east; The river, where
it issues, is aboutlhrce-quarters of a mile in width. Before
reaching the Fills it i propelled with great rapidity, being a
mile broad, about 25 feet deep, and having a descent of 50
feet in half a mile. An island at the very verge of the cata-
ract"divides it into two sheets of water: one of these, called
the Horseshoe Fall, is 600 yards wide, and 158 feet perpen-
dicular; the other, called the American Falls, is about 200
yards in width, and 164 feet in height. The breadth of
the island is about 500 yards. This great sheet of water
is precipitated over a ledge -of hard limestone, in horizo4-
•eater thickness

,elow which Ts.

and crumbles away more ra

calcareous rock forms an overhanging
,c-eting forty feet or more above the hollow space
The blasts of wind, charged with spray, which
e out of the pool into which this enormous ca
is projected, strike
disintegration is constant

gainst tl