The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION

THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the
LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN
ARTISTS WILL OPEN on MONDAY next, at the Emit-
lIITION ROOMS, in Postoffice-place.
SAMUEL EGLINGTON,
Secretary to the Academy.
Postoffice-place, September 9, 1840.

EXHIBITION.
WILL SHORTLY CLOSE,

CAPTAIN SIBORN'S

MODEL OF THE BATTLE

OF WATERLOO.
THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF
WATERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION
at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater-
street, Bold-street.
Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad-
mission, One Shilling each.

MOVING

PANORAMA

TS NOW OPEN, in the large New Brick Building, erected
I on purpose, Newington-bridge, near Bold-street, and
next door to the Clarendon Hotel, Liverpool, LAI DLAW'S
celebrated PANORAMA of a Sail up the Bay and a Visit
round the City of NEW .YORK ; also a View of the Ship
HUDDERSFIELD saving the Crew of the HUSKISSON
STEAMER, and the late Fire at YORK MINSTER.
" The views of the Bay of New York add greatly to the in-
terest of those of the interior of the city, and the stay-at-
home traveller is conveyed, as if by a magic wishing cap, or
another Aladdin's Lamp, to the entrance of the Bay of New
York, and on his way up meets a fleet of outward-bound ships
of all nations, and after witnessing the entire city round and
round, returns to his friends as if from a bright vision of the
sun-lit city of the far west."—Brixtol Mercury, Jan. 8,1839.

Day inhibition punctually at One o'clock in the Even-
ing at Seven, and again at Half-past Eight o'clock. Boxes
Is 6d ; Pit ls ; Gallery 6d.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

THE GRAND BOMBARDMENT of ALGIERS will
take place THIS EVENING, (Friday,, unit MONDAY
next. To be repeated EVERY MONDAY and FRIDAY
during the Season; weather permitting. •
An excellent BRASS BAND in attendance every day.

Admittance, One Shilling

?THE First of a Series of PUBLIC FANCY DRESS
BALLS will be held, in the TEMPLARS' HALL, Great
George street, on MONDAY, the 12thbOctober.
The number of Tickets are limit .d. No money will be
received, or Tickets sold, at the Doors ; and no Masks or
Plain Dresses can be admitted.

Tickets, Refreshments included, Single, 55., Double, 7s. 6d.,
may be had at the Standard and Mercury-offices, and at the
principal Music Shops.
Dancing to commence at Nine o'clock.

4:be Zibtrpooi gPtantlarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1840.

We have received a copy of the Hamilton (U. C.)
Gazette of August 4. It does not contain any news
of importance that has not been anticipated by previ-
ous arrivals.

We have received copies of the Sydney Commercial
Journal and of the Sydney Gazette to the 7th of April,
inclusive. The affairs of New Zealand form the chief
topics of discussion in these papers. The Journal
stoutly maintains that the purchases of land that have
been made from the various chiefs of New Zealand are
invalid, inasmuch as they have been made without the
consent and approbation of the respective tribes, all of
whom possessed a common right to the territory.

We have elsewhere given copious extracts from the
papers and correspondence brought by the overland
mail, which left Bombay on the 23d of July. The
news from the east is highly important. The first part
of the expedition against China had sailed on the 30th
of May, and the remainder on the 2d of June,-under
convoy of the Wellesley, Cruiser, Algerine, and Con-
way, and the Queen and the Atalanta steamers. The
Melville. the Blonde, and two ships of war, passed the
Straits of Anjeer on the 10th of June, for China. The
English merchants still remained at Macao. The
Americans were preparing to leave Canton.

It is probable that the' united forces of the expedi-
tion would reach the Chinese seas about the 20th of
June. The naval force consists of the following ships
—viz., her Majesty's ship Melville, 74, bearing the Ad-
miral's flag ; the Wellesley, 74, bearing the Commo-
dore's flag ; the Blenheim, 74 ; the Blonde, 46 ; the
Druid 44 ; the Alligator, 28 ; the Volage, 26; the
Conway, 26; the Nimrod, 20; the Hyacinth, 18; the
Cruiser, 18 ; the Larne, 18 ; the Modeste, 18 ; the Py-
lades, 18 ; the Columbine, 1 ; the Orestes, 18 ; the
Algerine, 10 ; besides which there are the East India
Company's steam-ship Atalanta, the troop-ship Rattle-
snake, and 19 sail of transports. The amount of land
force is not stated. Additional transports had been
taken up at Calcutta, and fresh troops were ordered to
be embarked from Madras for China.

A correspondence had taken place between the Ame-
rican merchants and the Governor of Kwang Tung,
from which it appears that Lin treats with utter con-
tempt the rumours of an English expedition being sent
to China. The American merchants preferred a peti-
tion praying that their ships might be permitted to
proceed directly to Canton, to discharge and take in
cargoes, previmisly to the arrival of the British men-
of-war. In reply to this request, the acting prefect of
Canton ridicules the idea of a blockade of " the celes-
tial dynasty's ports and harbours," on the part of Eng-
land, as " analogous to an audacious falsehood," and

as "an egregious mistake." The petition was re-
turned to the merchants, without being .preserved in
the archives of Canton.

The latest accounts state that everything remained
perfectly quiet at Macao. The British merchants were
living there without molestation. Captain Elliot had
given them the most confident assurances that the sus-
pension of trade would not be of mucltlonger dura-
tion. The majority of the commercial bOdy, however,
attached very little importance to these assurances. A
partial resumption of the trade only was contemplated
by the most sanguine.

The plans of operations against China are not de-
tailed in any of the papers. Many conjectures were
prevalent on the subject. It was thought at Macao
that the first and principal object of British policy
would be to disabuse the Chinese government of their
ideas of security and power, by several simultaneous
and successful attacks upon their forts and other de:
fences. The fort at the Bogue, and other external
points of command upon the Canton river, would pro-
bably form the primary objects of attack. After these
operations, it was imagined that the next step would
be to demand immediate liberty of trade, on a satis-
factory footing, pending the negotiation at Pekin for
its final settlement on a safe and honourable basis.

The apprehensions entertained, at the commence-
ment of the year, in England, of a short supply of
tea, are not likely to be realised. Instead of 16 or 17
millions of pounds only, we are likely to be in the re-
ceipt of 22 millions, and, if there be available tonnage
in China to receive it, perhaps 24 or 25 millions may
be shipped before the commencement of hostilities.
It is stated that a Russian embassy was on its way
through Tartary from St. Petersburgh to Pekin. Its
arrival in China may lead to important results--results
which may be altogether unexpected and unprovided
for by Lord Palmerston.

The news from India is highly important. The re-
treat of the Russian force from Khiva is fully confirmed.

It was probable, however, that another attempt would
be made to organise a Russian force in that quarter.
The object of Russia, in her invasion of Khiva, is to
establish Russian influence on a firm basis in that
country, as a check on the influence which England
has obtained in Cabul. There can be no question as
to the ulterior designs of Russia in her aggressions on
the northern frontiers of our Indian empire.
Cho!era had made its appearance in Bombay about
the middle of May, but not under a very fatal type. In
the neighbouring town of Panwell 600 are said to have
perished of this malady in three weeks, and at Mahar
it swept away 300 victims.