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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

- The intelligence from India is also highly important.
Our extraordinary express from Marseilles received this
morning brings intelligence from Alexandria to the 24th ult.,
on which day the Great Liverpool sailed with the Indian
mails. Her trip from Falmouth to Alexandria is the shortest
on record—viz., 14 days and one hour from port to port. The
plague had appeared in Alexandria a month earlier than usual,
and three deaths had been officially notified. The Indian
mails and passengers were landed at Suez on the 12th ult.,
and escorted across the Desert by a guard of 60 horsemen.
furnished by the Pacha, to preserve them from the attacks of
the Bedouin Arabs, who have lately become hostile and dan-
gerous, seizing the Pacha's stores, and attacking the pilgrims
en route from Cairo to Mecca Ibrahim Pasha was still with
his army at Damascus, to which he had returned in very ill
health and beset by the mountaineers, hoping (it was believed)
to avail himself of the Napier convention to return to Egypt
peaceably and fly sea. Mehemet Ali had written again to
Admiral Stopford on the 21st ult., and proposed to send
another message. to expedite the return of Ibrahim and his
army. Sir Charles Smith had arrived in the Hydra at
Alexandria, on the 17th uit., and had an interview with the
Pacha on the 19th, and placed the Hydra at his service to
convey his dispatch to Marmorica on the 22d ult. Sir

Charles left Alexandria in the Great Liverpool. Serious
sickness had prevailed at Acre. The storm that visited the
coast of Syria with such violence on the 2d and 3d ult. bad
produced an alarming scarcity at Beyrout and in the moun-
tains, where the new Turkish governor had recklessly stop-
ped the supplies of grain arriving, and the mountaineers were
again nearly driven into collision with the authorities by dep.
peration. No hope is entertained that the Porte will be able
to govern Lebanon, now that the population is re-armed.
Mehemet Ali was still raising batteries and exercising his
troops incessantly, and had given notice to the National
Guards of Alexandria that they were to consider themselves

his regular soldiers. At the same time he was making prepa-
rations for the better cultivation of his private estates, and had
appointed ins son, Said Bey, and his grandson, Abbas Pacha,
to be resident administrators in separate districts.

CHUSAN

(From the Bombay Times.)
iefore our readers the following ex.
have just received, dated Chusau,
several others are much more full of particulars,

We hasten to pl
tract froln a letter

Scpt. 30

but the followi

contains the " head and front" of the news

from China

" Admiral Elliot arrived in the Wellesley on the 28th from
the Gulf of Pe-che-lee, as I before told you. The result of
his negociation, at the mouth of the Peho, with the third in
rank in the Chinese Empire, is not fully known ; but I may
say, that the Emperor is willing to apologise for the insult
inflicted upon Captain Elliot, and that his Excellency Lin is
to be punished in any way which we please. The chops were
couched in very civil language, containing none of the offen-
sive epithets so freely applied to Europeans on former occa-
sions. The Emperor had been kept in ignorance of Lin's
proceedings, but many of the nobles of the Court had perfect
information relative to the Viceroy's conduct at Canton. In
referring Admiral Elliot to Canton for the settlement of the

pute, the Emperor said, through his deputy

matters in
that Gra'
ceedingly unjust to condemn Lin without giving him a hear-
ing; besides, Lin's report is quite different from yours. I
will send plenipotentiaries to Canton to make proper in.:
quiries, and who afterwards will arrange with you there
This t

Lsonable cot

nay have been adopted for the pur-
the Admiral from the vicinity of the capital ;
but nevertheless the ex-

the men of war have care-

ave partially ex-

The Madag
cf the Pet

The fleet was plentifully sup-

%Wes, and fruits

Tinghae, to the

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Noble), and sonie Lasears,
at Ningpo, who treat them

are in the hand
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until the Chinese

of the Kit,

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knew nothing of the loss
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being prisoners of the Chinese

The following highly interesting extracts are from letters
of our correspondents with the China expedition :--
_

TINGHA.E (CHUSAN), SEPT. 28.—The sickness conti-
nues to increase daily. The 26th had 520 yesterday, and I
believe they have more to-day. Yesterday quarters for the
whole regiment, in empty houses in the city, were allotted.
This should have been done long ago, and much sickness. in
all probability, would have been spared. Our first casualty
among officers took place last night, in the death of poor
Captain Stean, of her Majesty's 49th regiment, who had only
been ill about a week, and prior to which he was looking as
well as possible.

" H -- has come back, but he says he found the admi-
ral and everybody in the ship very busy writing, to despatch
by the present opportunity, and he came away with the im-
pression that we should remain here at least five months
more. This is a sad blow to most people, for most had made
up their minds that we should be off the island very soon.
The admiral says the. whole of the troops must be housed as
• fast as possible. Report says that the Blenheim, 74, is to
go to Ningpo immediately, and that the admiral will follow
in a few days ;. that a commissioner has arrived there from
Pekin, of high rank, and of the blood royal, for the purpose
of negociating. I suE)pose it wilt take a few months to get
an answer from Calcutta, and perhaps the admiral will await
the orders of Lord Auckland. I really believe that all hos-
tilities have ceased ; but I very much fear that the business
of bringing the negotiations to a close will be protracted to
a sad time by the Chinese, if they are not dealt with in a pro-
per manner. We shall be very uncomfortable here in winter.
Not a house has a fireplace, or the means of having one, to
give warmth; nor is there such a thing as a pane of glass, to
admit light and keep out wind. The Chinese substitute a
thin paper for glass; but nothing of the kind is to be had
here, and all the old paper is broken, and instead of warming
themselves by a fire, they clothe themselves with cloak upon
cloak till they have a sufficient number to keep them warm,
and when they feel too warm, they take off one cloak at a
time till they feel comfortable."

Extract of a letter, dated Chusan Harbour, September 29,
Pa.—Hon. Company's steamer Madagascar :
" I sit down to write you a few lines to give you an account
of my trip to the mouth of the Peho, or Pekin river ; from
this place we had a very fine run up with fine weather, and
arrived off that plane on the 9th of August, the squadron con-
sisting of the following ships :—the Wellesley, with his Ex-
cellency Rear Admiral G. Elliott, C. 8.; the Blonde, Modeste,
Volage, Pylades, Madagascar steamer, and the Ernaud and
Malcolm, with coals and provisions. On the 11th Captain
C. Elliott, R.N., proceeded into the mouth of the river in
the steamer, with the boats of all the men of war present,
manned and armed, and on our arriving at the bar the
steamer anchored, and the boats proceeded into the river
with a flag of truce flying; on their arrival off the forts at
the entrance a mandarin boat pushed off to them and re-
ceived the Admiral's letter, and after the expiration of six
days, the time granted by his Excellency, a chop was received,
stating the Emperor required ten days to consider, which
time being agreed to, the squadron proceeded to the different
islands in the gulf of Pe chc-lee to water and procure bullocks,
the Ernaud transport proceeding with them. They succeeded
very well in obtaining a supply, and returned to the anchor-
age by the 27th of August, the day appointed, and theim-
perial
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ships, and on the 30th an in-
Captain Elliot and Khe Shan,
ssioner, who is the third man in the em-

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