The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

Parties varying from 50 to 200 men have been making fre-
quent excursions in different directions, for the purpose of
discovering armed men, but have always failed. Two officers
and four men on a foraging excursion were attacked, and
with difficulty escaped ; one Chinaman killed, and several
others wounded in-.the affray. Captain Anstruther, Madras
Artillery, was carried away prisoner to Ningpo whilst making
a survey of the country ; the wife and family of the cap-
tain since taken prisoners themselves. Sickness amongst the
troops on the increase and deaths more numerous. The
wreck of the Indian Oak, off the Lew Chew Islands, crew
and cargo saved, the natives there being so kind, that on the
Cruiser being sent to bring them back they refused to come,
as the natives were building them a junk out of the wreck.
The capture of 20 Europeans, one lady, and several Lascars
at Ningpo, reported to belong to the brig Kite, since sup-
posed to be the crew of some opium schooner wrecked ; the
assurances of the Ningpoites that they shall want for nothing,
and that they shall be given up as soon as the island of Chu-
san is vacated. The arrival of the Madagascar from Pe-che-
lee, with intelligence that the emperor is most anxious to
treat, and offering Lantao in exchange for Chusan.
Seven transports have been ordered to be in readiness for
sea, and it is supposed two regiments will be sent to take pos-
session of Lantao. Authentic intelligence has just arrived
concerning the prisoners at Ningpo, that they are the crew of
the Kite ;. Lieut. Douglas of the royal navy is amongst the
number. Advices have come to the admiral that one of the
head mandarins will be at Canton on the 18th proximo, for
the purpose of negociating, and it is supposed the admiral will
leave this for that place in a few days.

Sept. 30.
It appears that the Kite got on shore at Ningpo, and of
course the whole crew were captured.
The admiral is just outside the inner harbour, in the Wel-
lesley. The report that the whole land force will winter here
is gaining ground. A chop has been sent to the Ningpo
mandarins by the admiral about Anstruther : the answer has
not yet come. Tne reply, whatever it may be, will be a key
to the recent conference at Pe-che-lee. The Wellesley not
having come inside looks as if she was not destined to remain
here long ; however, nothing is known of the destination of
any of the naval people.

MACAO.
DEFEAT OF THE CHINESE.
(From the Canton Press, Aug. 8.)
On Tuesday last, her majesty's ships, Druid, Columbine,
Larne, Hyacinth, and Nimrod, anchored in these roads, and
left again on Thursday last, with the exception of her Ma-
jesty's ship Larne, the two former for the Bogue and Cap-
singmoon, the Hyacinth for the Broadway, and the Nimrod
for Chusan. The reports which we noticed last week as to
their probable movements have not been confirmed, but we
hail the entering of the Hyacinth into the Broadway as an
earnest that the blockade of the Canton river will hencefor-
ward be strictly enforced.

It is with the deepest sorrow we have to announce that a
British subject has probably fallen into the hands of the
Chinese, Mr. F. Stanton, formerly tutor to the sons of the
late Mr. R. Turner.