The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

PEKING

A spirit of discontent and rebellion has gained considera-
bly upon the inhabitants of the capital, and given rise to
the establishment of numerous illegal associations and bro-
therhoods in the very precincts of the palace. The report
of this state of things does not proceed from the pencil of a
misanthrope, but from the court itself, and may therefore
be considered as by no means exaggerated. Defiance of the
constituted authorities, robbery in open daylight, and ex-
cesses of every description, are the immediate consequences.
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Government is either too weak to oppose effective restraint,
or that the police is leagued with the outlaws. After
much search five persons have been discovered who had
joined themselves by an oath, besmearing their mouths and
swearing eternal fidelity to each other. Though they are
guilty of no other crime, they have been delivered over to
the tribunal of punishment, to be dealt with according to
the law, which denounces such proceedings. The Imperial
tombs have again been violated, much to the grief of old
Taoukwang. Little as we know about the Celestial Court,
there seems to be much agitation amongst the dense popula-
tion. At Moukden, the second capital, matters are by no
means better, as the translation of the following edict will
show. The riots there have been worse than at Birmingham,
but Celestial justice is summary—catch the criminals, whether
Chartists or common agitators, and if you cannot do so within
a specified time yOu must take the consequences. Trial,
sentence, and execution, are in this land synonymous terms.
We have received an Imperial edict to the following effect :

She and Ying Lave presented a memorial requesting to de-
grade some assistant magistrates for not keeping a proper
watch and the consetirent escape of some criminals, that they
may in future seize them in good earnest. It appears that
several persons, guilty of murder, through their negligence ab-
sconded, and sub: equently plotted together to the number of
several hundred men and acted as incendiaries at Moukden.
Eighteen of them have since been caught.—Pekin Gazelle.

C lIIN ESE TROOPS.

Nine Government junks and boats, some of them of large
size, filled with Chinese troops, have been lying in the inner
harbour for the last eight or ten days. Five arc anchored
near the Leen-yang temple on the race course, and four near
the house occupied by the establishment of Messrs. Turner
and Co.

Notwithstanding the Taoutae's proclamation, cargo has
not been sent from Canton for the ship laid on for Lisbon,
which has been dttained snore than two months for her
teas, &c.

The Provincial Government, it is said, are building 30
boats in Canton, under the direction of five Chinese boat-
builders hired in Macao. ney are to be double-banked, 28
oars on each side; ;ire to be well armed and equipped for the
service of capturing opium ships, brigs, and schooners. The
Chinese suspect the 1-aoutae is meditating some foul play, be-
cause he is building and putting the Portuguese oil their
guard by fair promises.— Canton Register, March 10.

INDIA.
(From the. Calcutta
Courier, April 16.)
The Madagascar steamer leaves us to-morrow morning
early—for the Straits and China. We hear her armament is
of the most complete and beautiful description, her large
guns over her stern and bow in particular. She is to he fol-
lowed in a week or two by the Queen ; 68 pounders will, no
doubt, soon thunder in the ears of the inhabitants of the Ce-
lestial Empire the true sense in which the power and gal-
lantry of the British ought to be viewed : the Enterprise fol-
lows her—also for the China expedition.
The Mermaid and the Head-quarters of her Majesty's
49th Regiment left Calcutta yesterday in prosecution of her
voyage to China. Sir J. G. Bremmer and the Stall leave in
the Madagascar steamer this day, and her Majesty's ship
Conway, with a division of the volunteers, sails from Cal-
cutta in about a week or ten days. The whole force will then.
have left, and we shall look with great interest for an account
of its proceedings.-7-Calevtla Englishman, April 17.
THE CI:INA EXPEDITION.
The transports Rustumsjee Cowagee and John Adam sailed
at day-light on Tuesday morning, with the Madras portion
of the expedition to the eastward, consisting of as follows :-
1 lieutenant-colonel, 2 captains, 6 lieutenants, 1 surgeon, 1
assistant-surgeon, 2 warrant officers, and 212 European ar-
tillery, 9 of the ordnance and commissariat departments, 8
native commissioned officers and 64 native artillery, 1 cap-
tain, 6 lieutenants, 1 assistant-surgeon, 1 warrant officer, 4
native commissioned, 10 European non-commissioned, 1 as-
sistant-apothecary, and 266 native non-commissioned and
rank and file sappers and miners, with 132 public followers.
—Bombay Times.

Russia, ever sleepless, appears to have her eyes open to the
probable results of the projected British expedition to China.
Letters from St.
Petersburgh of the Bth ultimo state that, in
a few weeks, a. mission was about to be sent to the Emperor
to the court of Pekin:.—Llonitay Times, April 11.
THE CIIINJk hX!'EDITIOX.—It appears
.from general
orders, that spirits will not be issued as rations to the Euro-
pean troops, but in thereof each man will receive a com-
pensation of 3 rupees 2 annas per mensern—the canteen
system will be established on board, but no man will be
allowed to purchase a greater quantity of spirits than two
drams a day.
The European commissioned officers are to have four
months' advance of pay and allowances, and the troops two
months.'—Bengal IbirAarn, April 16th.
(Front the Madras Herald! April 4.)
We are happy, to learn, on the authority of a contemporary,
that the Left Wing of the 15th Hussars, under the command
of Sir Walter Scott, arrived safely at Bangalore on the 31st
ultimo. .

SPAIN.
FALL OF NIOR

MORELLA, MAY orella has fallen.
The prisoners lune ju,,t been marched out, after delivering
up their arms on the .41acis. The numbers are as follows,
viz., officers, 163; ripe i,, 2114 ; total, 2277 ; to which are to
be added filly taken prisoners last night in endeavouring to
escape, making ati.;;;rtlier '2877—5a1,• about 3000, for I urn
sure many esespell _

• -- • •-••• .... .
The cannonade from upwards of forty pieces of artillery,
of heavy calibre, lasted three days and nights, doing great
damage to the town and castle. The artillery was remark-
ably well served, and the engineer department was conducted
in the best possible manner.

Yesterday morning, at about half-past four-o'clock, a four-
teen-inch shell was thrown into the highest part of the castle,
and a tremendous explosion immediately took place. A few
hours afterwards a Cat list officer cast himself over the wall
of the town, and although be was fired upon, managed to
escape to our camp. lie stated that the effect of the explo-
sion was to kill the commandant-general of artillery, and
about fifty men— the governor of the castle being likewise
severely wounded. There were also about forty men wound-
ed by this explosion.
The consequence was that the garrison of the castle bad
become panic-stricken, and there had been a mutiny of a

/ lIt4L- COAST- PO- ! UNITED TOTAL
DESCRIPTION.
LAND. WISE. REIGN. STATES.
Wheat QTS. 2: 643 2007 2005 i 4676
Barley Qrs. 30 540 1 570
Malt Qrs. 15 877 I 892
Oats
Rye Qrs. 1 1
Beans
122
yea.s.. - rS. ~-
, 27
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
^ (
Indian Corn
Rapeseed
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 3121 3124 I
Flout . Sacks 5 30a 3115
Ditto . Brls. . I 1 9546 9546
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coaqs% i,e, Oats, 226 qrs.; Oatmeal
504 loads.

3124
395
9s4ti
Oats, 22E qrs.; Oatmeal,

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, qrs. ; Oats, 203 qrs. ; Pease, 18
qrs. ; Flour, 1569 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 2508 qrs. ; Barley, 69
Rye, 40 qrs. ' • Indian Corn, 1155 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 552 loads ;
Flour, 19 sacks.—Coastwise. Wheat, 2613 qrs.; Barley, 696 qrs. ;
Oats, 113 qrs. ; Pease, 39 qrs. lndiau Coru, 13 qrs. ; Oatmeal,
293 loads; Flour, Bs7 sacks, 2012 brls.
Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 29, 1840.
Wheat 675.10 d. I Barley.. 375. Od. Oats.. 275. 16. I Rye .. 375. 36.
Beans.. 445. 6d. I Pease, 413. 1 Id.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 68s. 3d. I Barley.. 38a. sd. I Oats.. 263. Sit. Rye.. 375. 2d.
Beans .. 435. 10d. I Pease .. 415. lid.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheatl6s. 84. Barley 45.10 d. Oats .... 7s. 9d. Rye .. us. Od
Beans, ss. Off. I Pease. Bs. Oil. I I Indian Corn 45.10 d. Flourios. Oid
Liverpool Averages, week ending and June, 1849.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. Pease.
Qr 5..... 840 229 260
Prices.. 435. Ild. Os. Od. 1 275. 9d. 50s. Oti. I Os. Oil.

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE—YESTERDAY.
At our market this morning the supplies of English Wheat
were exceedingly small, and having experienced a good de-
mand from our millers, a clearance was effected of this arti-
cle at an advance of fully Is. per qr. on the quotations of
Monday last. For free foreign Wheat there was little in-
quiry, and sales were with difficulty effected at last week's
prices; in bonded Wheat we did not hear of a single trans-
action. Flour, both of town and country manufacture, met
a slow sale at previous rates. Of Barley the receipts were
moderate, and a limited extent of business was done in this
grain at former prices. The arrivals of Oats during the past
week, as well as the supplies fresh up this morning, have
been very small ; in consequence of which factors held for
higher prices, and the finest qualities in some instances re-
alised an improvement of about 6d. per qr. ; the trade on the
whole was firm at last Monday's currency. Beans and Peas
were scarce, and quite as dear as before.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY, JUNE g.—Wind S.S.E.

•
AR al vsn . Laura, , from the Cape of Good Hope—Grass-
hopper, Lez, from Messina—Black-eyed-Susan, Watkins, front
Marseilles—Vigilant, , from Ostend—Nordshon,
from Danzic—Auguste, , from Ostend—John Schnley,
from Charlestown—Duncan, ——, from St. John, N.B. ; sailed
14th May—Jane, , from Seville- Pursuit, -- from St.
John, N.ll.—llareison Chilton, M'Gregor, from Savannah.
SAlL.m.—lda Cornelia, Schink, for Amsterdam and Harlingen—
Herald. Myers, for Baltimore—Maria, Krohn, and Holfnung, Soag,
for Elsinore—ldee, Cooper, for Haromerfest—Valerosa, Mora, for
Havana.—Maria, Moller, for Iceland—United States, Barr, and
Thomas P. Cope, Miercken, for Philadelphia—Ranger, Merrill, for
Portland—Otte Sotlekende, Petersen, for Stavanger—Martha, Mar-
tin, for Alexaudretta and Beirut—Minerva, Adams, for Virginia—
Bairam. Woolner, for Constantinople, &c.--Troy, Hawes, for
Dordt—New York, Barstow, for New York—Pouline, Schrewbeg,
foe Ostend—Phoenix, Maak, for Rostock—and Agnes, Muir, for
St. Petersburg.

Loudon, Benn, from Calcuttaat this port. On 23rd May, in
p. rn.
Russell, CapeC
Bruce,le Clear
from bearing
New
York
leagues, spoke the Great
lat. 33, long. 36, spoke the Pliceni.x
I;e'vr-naul!unec:otraaokt-thls port
On sth
di inst.
Western, (steamer) from Bristol t(..,
at
Wm.
r3no.
May. The Mary, had sailed for Paraia,
was to sail the next day for Paraiba. The Eskn the Golden Fleece,
days for Liverpool • would sail in a few
Kingston, -, from Bonny, at this port ; sailed
from Fernando Po sth April. The Kingston confirms therdApril, and
the destruction of the Thomas Parsons on the 25th Feb,•eport of
the people oil board. The doctor of the John Taylor was and all
being on board the time. Three Thomas Parsons at the
of the
crew were saved being on shore.
The Wilson, Heap, hence for Montreal, at Whitehaven, maki •
ng
two inches of water per hour
Fenella, Wakeham, and Don Juan, Shires, cleared at Gibraltar
for Liverpool 27th May
Earl of Errol, Wade • Providence, Hutchison ; Astley, staff
Ing,
and Elizabeth, France:hence at St. Petersburg
Julie, Alwardt, d • nd Erbgrossherzog Paul, Stredeman, hence at
Warnemunde
Countess, Garrett, and St. Anthony, Woherg, hence at Kiel
Salust, Mane, hence at Brake
Jantina Engelina, Eblin,T, hence at Helvoet
Cleopatra, , from Trinidad for this port, at Dublin
Propoutis, Wise, hence at Cadiz
Pioneer, of Plymouth, for this port, off Cape St. Vincent, 23rd ult.
Fairy Queen, of this port, for Belfast, off ditto ditto
Litherlaud, , hence to Singapore, was spoken sth April, in
lat. '23 S. long. 25 W.
Kate, Barrett, hence for Rotterdam, off Dungeness
Diadem, Todd, sailed from Leghorn for this port 23rd May, and
Mary Walker, for Pembroke 27th May
Clementina, Wootten, hence at Malaga

A very large oblong cluster of dark spots are now to be
seen trarersing the solar disc, not far from the sun's centre.
They present a most beautiful and elegant appearance through
a telescope.

MoonE.—The origin of Lalla Rookh wa3 an application
made to Moore, by Messrs. Longman and Co., to write t'or
them an epic poem, in which there should be no alinsion to
the ancient classical authors; they being responsible for the
highest sum ever given for an epic poem. Mr. Perry, it was
agreed, should decide the amount, which was fixed at 3,000
guineas.—Literary World.
We regret to state that Mr. llorsman has been returned
for Cockerniouth. This result has been -occasioned, as we
learn from a person on the spot, by the fact of General
Wyndham having declined, when he took possession of his
property at Cockermouth, to comply with the urgent request
then made to him to become a candidate for the representa-
tion of -the borough on the first vacancy. In consequence of
this refusal many of the electors, who would otherwise have
supported General Wyndham, became committed ; but this
difficulty will not operate on a future occasion, so that we
may confidently add Coekebe rmroeustchuteod
f ro h
the list of
Whig plaicgesgrasp_
which,
at a general election, will
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