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

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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; Count Walewsky, Mrs.
and Miss Mariotti, Messrs. Valbuzane and Langlais (origin-
ally from Bombay), Mr. Unwin. 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
The negotiation commenced on the 24th. Our in-
tates " that after two or three puts off," the affair
y settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two
o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately
On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the
ant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails)

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drawn out
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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 Ezyptian
On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son,
of state, ad-

with a considerable number of the chief offic
mirals, and others, paidvisits 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. There is nothing new from Persia.
The accounts of the crops all over India are represented as

(From the Private Correspondence of the
December 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 Ali 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
out a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was going
.??1' on the four powers, when M. Cochelet, in
a two hours' conversation, dissuaded him from this step.
On the Bth, 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 officier de l'ordonnance de l'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, coaxed 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
y were sdmitted. The object of their visit is
x 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.
ily.what nobody could have predicted of a
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Amusingly enough, we are crusading in Syria for the legiti-
mate chief of Mussulmans ; 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

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 was 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 placing 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 Paella 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 qf England, and
trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending
hostilities, and then to Lot d Palinerston 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
Merchandise for the
Cattl

MIDLAND COUNTIES

Passengers for the week ending Dec
Merchandise for the same

MANCHESTER AND BOLTON.
[Length of line, 10 miles.]
parcels for the week endingDec.lo

Passengers and

Goods and coals

BRIGHTON RAILWAY
Ouse Viaduct, on the I
keyed by Mr. Maud

Thursday, the last arch of the
Jondon and Brighton Railway, was
e, the resident engineer of the centre

in the presence of the parties engaged
her 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
Ilayward'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

district of the r
on the work, tc

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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

used in the structure, indepen-
et of masonry, in the foundation
laid in the middle of

The first stone

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 MACIIINE.-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
aid that on the London and Blackwall line there

railway

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.
I3y 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 be 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 come here directly." In ten minutes
horn that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven
miles. (Hear, hear.) If the 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 TRADE.
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
If merchants and agents at our market here on Thursday,
' the cows lay a considerable amount of busi-
--,,ted, principally at former rat-- "

le of the

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' hands have increased there was no augmenta-
tion of prices.—Leeds Intethgencer.
The MARKET for METALS has remained very dull, the
only nominal change being a further decline in British cop-
per of ss. per ton.
The EXPORTATION of the PRECIOUS METALS has been
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 at Hull
for home consumption during the week ending Dec. 8
From Hamburg 512,179 lbs.
From Petersburg ..
From Odessa ........................ 1,829 lbs.

, 514,708 lbs.

1 JOURNAL OF THE

MONEY MARKET.

THURSDAY EVENING.—The Funds exhibit no particular
variation to-day, but there was little disposition for specula-
tion. Consols left off at 89k for the opening. Bank Stock
1, and it may be here noted that the prices of this
stock marked yesterday 1571 to 81,,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 ls. to 3s. premium.

15Gi to 7

Foreign Sectirities remain much as before, with the market
dull. Spanish Active with the Coupons were 244 to 4. Por-
tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) 34
to A, the One.and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes)
214 to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the
Five per Cents 98 to z. 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 101 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 14-4 to 11,
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 861
per cent. Payment is to take place as follows :
One-tenth on January 5, with an addition of 3 per cent.

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.
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 891 ; Bank Stock,
1561 to 1571: Exchequer-bills, ls. to 3s. premium ; India
Stock, 237 to 239 for the opening ; 3 per Cent. Reduced,
894; and 31 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 89k sellers for the opening.
Bank Stock 156-1 to 7/. 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 51k- to and Five per Cents 98/.
Belgian 97 to 9. Spanish Active with the Coupons 23 to 4.
P rtuguese Two and• a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives)
were 33* 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 9-1 to /, Blackwall 41 to 1.
South Eastern and Dover 16/ to 16, Eastern Counties 14*
to I discount.
COURT CIRCULAR.—FRIDAY.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Sussex called, yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the riding-
school, near the royal mews, yesterday.

Among the visiters al Buckingham Palace, yesterday,
were—Baron Biome' the Danish minister; the Bavarian mi-
nister and Baroness de Cetto, the Saxon minister, Earl of
Pembroke, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Lady Langdale, Lord
and Lady Sherborne, Lady Montgomery, Sir John Seale,
M.P., Sir John and Lady Brooke Pechell, General Sir R.
and Lady A. M. Dawson, and Mr. and Mrs. Petre.