The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-27 00:00:00

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NIGTON DOCK CO ANY.
lEBY GIVEN, t Application is
made to ParHai t, in the ensuing
alter, amend, end, and enlarge, or
rowers and pro ions of an Act passed
th years of e reign of her present
la, intitul :` An Act to enable the
wany to e'alitl be sued in the name
icer oft said Company, and to ex-
the Doc s belonging to the said Com-
ipped q discharged therein, or on the
npany, from the payment of certain
_es to the Trustees of the Liverpool
and to /epeal the clause in the said recited Act
restraining the said Company, or any other person or persons,

Estate of the
Rates, Tolls

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make nrovisions for iegillati4 the use of the Dopki and
other Property belonging to the said Company, and for car-
rying on the business of the same ; and for more easy re-
v of the Rates, Tolls, and Duties which shall be
demanded by the said Company, either under the authority
of the said intended Act or otherwise, on all Vessels and
their Cargoes using their said Docks and other Property ;
and to enable the said Company to raise more money for the
purposes of their undertaking. And it is also proposed, by
the said intended Act, to incorporate the said Company with
power to hold Lands and levy Tolls on all Vessels using the

said Docks, or their cargoes, and with such other powers as
may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objects
of the said recited Act, and the general purposes of the said
Company.—Dated the ninth day of November, 1840.
JOHN NORTH,
Clerk of the said Company.

"NrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing Session,
for leave to bring in a Bill, or Bills, to alter and amend a
Local Act, passed in the twenty-first year of the reign of his
111ajesty King George the Second, intituled, " An Act for
" the building a Church in the Town of Liverpool, in the
" County Palatine of Lancaster, and for enlightening and
" cleansing the Streets of the said Town, and for keeping and
" maintaining a Nightly Watch there ;" And also another
Local Act, passed in the second year of the reign of his Ma-
jesty King George the Third, intituled, " Au,Act for build-
-.

" ing two new Churches, and providing Buri Places, with-
"in the Town of Liverpool, in the County alatine of Lan-
" caster, and for the better preserving the avements of the
" Streets in the said Town, and for ascertaining the Fares
" and Prices to be paid Carters, Carm, Hackney Coach-
" men, and Chairmen, and for regula,fing their behaviour
" within the said Town;" And also another Local Act, passed
in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his said Majesty King
George the Third, intituled, " An Act for enlarging and varying
" some of the powers contained in certain Acts of Parliament,
" relating to the Watching, Lighting, and Cleansing the Streets
" and other places within the Town of Liverpool, and for re-
' moving and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein."
And also another local Act passed in the Thirty ninth } ear of
the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, in-
tituled, " An Act to enlarge the term, and alter and enlarge
" the powers of several Acts relating to the Harbour of Li-
" verpool, and for making two additional Wet Docks and
" Piers, in or near the Port of Liverpool, and for renderin
" more safe and commodious the said Port and Docks."
And also another local Act passed in the Fifty-ninth year of
the reign of his said Majesty King George the Third, in-
tituled, " An Act for abolishing the payment of certain
" Tolls called Ingates and Outgates, collected at the several
" entrances into the Town of Liverpool, in the County of
" Lancaster, and of certain 'rolls and Stallage now pay-
" able in the Markets and Fairs there, and for granting
" other Tolls and Stallage in lieu thereof, and for the
" better regulation of the said Markets and Fairs."
And also another local Act passed in the first year of the
reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An
. .

_ -
"Act for reviving, extending, and varying the powers of an
"Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of his late Majesty
" King George the Third, for making and widening certain
" Streets, Passages, and Places in the Town of Liverpool, in.
" the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for several other pur-
" poses in the said Act mentioned, and also for further improv-
" ing the said Town." And also another local Act, passed in
the sixth year of the reign of his said Majesty King George
the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the better regulation of
" Buildings in the Town of Liverpool, in the County Palatine
"of Lancaster, and for authorizing the making of Bye-laws,
" Rules, and Regulations for Vessels frequenting the Docks,
" Basins, and Quays belonging to the Corporation there."
And also another local Act passed in the said sixth year
of the reign of his said Majesty King George the Fourth,
intituled, An Act for the further Improvement of the Port,
41 Harbour, and Town of Liverpool, and for altering, extend-

" ing, and amending the several Acts relatingthereiO." And
also another local Act passed in the seventh year of the
reign of his said Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled,
" An Act for widening and improving certain Streets in the
" Town of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
" for the further prevention of Nuisances and Annoyances in

" the said Town, -for the regulation of Weighing Machines,
" Weights, and Measures, and the establishment of a Fire
" Police therein." And also another local Act passed in the
fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King
William the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for amending the
proceedings and practice of the Court of Passage of the
" Borough of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancas-
" ter." And also another local Act passed in the session of
the fifth and sixth years of the reign of his said late Majesty
King William the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for altering,
" amending, and extending the powers and provisions of an Act
" ofthe sixth year ofhis late Majesty King George the Fourth,
" for the regulation of Buildings in the town of Liverpool, and
" for other purposes therein mentioned, and for granting
" further and additional powers for the improvement and
" regulation of the said town and the preservation of pro-
" perty therein from fires and otherwise." And also another
local Act passed in the session of the sixth and seventh years
of the reign of his said late Majesty King William the
Fourth, intituled, "An Act for extending and improving the
" maintenance of the Fire Police, in the borough of Liver-

" pool." And also another local Act, passed in the sixth
and seventh years of the reign of his said late Majesty King
William the -Fourth, intituled, " An Act to amend and ren-
dermore effectual an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of
the reign of his present Majesty, intituled "An Act for amend-
,.
ing the proceedings and practice of the Court of Passage
of the borough of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lan-
caster. And to repeal an Act passed in the twenty-fifth year
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second,
intituled " An Act for the more easy and speedy recovery of
" small debts in the town and port of Liverpool and liberties
" thereof, in the county palatine of Lancaster ; and to give
" further power for the recovery of small debts within the bo-
" rough of Liverpool." And also another local Act passed in
the first year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Vic-
toria, intituled " An Act for altering, amending, improving,
" and extending the provisions of certain Acts of Parliament
" relating to the town of Liverpool, in the county palatine
"of Lancaster." And also another local Act passed in the
first and second years of the reign of her present Majesty,
iutituled " An Act for amending certain Acts relating
" to the Civil Court of Record of the borough of Liver-

pool, and improving the proceedings thereof." And to
take powers to restrict the letting or using of cellars in
the said borough for habitation, where such occupancy
would be injurious to the health of the inhabitants, and in
other cases to secure that reasonable conveniences should be
attached to or provided in such cellars ; and to secure the
proper ventilation of backcourts hereafter to be made in the
.m.ll dw4linge to be let or used for halm-
re that reasonable conveniences shall be
attached to or provided in such dwellings; and also to enact
for the borough of Liverpool the powers, clauses, limitations,
penalties, and provisions of an act passed in the session of
the second and third years of the reign of her said Majesty,
intituled, " An act for further improving the police in and
near the metropolis," or such of them as may be deemed fit
and proper to be enacted in relation thereto. Dated this
ninth day of November, 1840.
RD. RADCLIFFE,
Town-Clerk of Liverpool, Solicitor.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing Ses-
sion, for leave to bring in a Bill, or for leave to introduce
Clauses into any Bill relating to the Liverpool Docks which
may be depending in Parliament in the next Session, for
exempting all Vessels entering into or departing from the
Port or Harbour of Liverpool, and consigned or trading to
or from the Port or Town of Runcorn, and not making use
of the Docks or Quays vested in the Trustees of the Liver-
pool Docks, and all Goods and Merchandise shipped or dis-
charged in or from any Vessel at the said Port or Town of
Runcorn, from payment of the Tonnage Rates and other
Rates and Duties now payable, or claimed to be payable, to
the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks, in respect of Vessels
coming into or going out of the Port or Harbour of Liver-
pool, and of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported from
Parts beyond the Seas, or brought Coastwise into the said
Port or Harbour of Liverpool, or exported thence to Parts
beyond the Seas or Coastwise, excepting such just Propor-
tion of the same last-mentioned Tonnage and other Rates
and Duties as Vessels consigned to or trading from the Port
or Town of Runcorn, or other the Goods and Merchandise
on board the same Vessels, ought to contribute and pay to-
wards the Maintenance of the Lights, Buoys, and Land
Marks established, or to be established, for the guidance
and security of Vessels entering into and going out of the
said Port ; and for such purposes, or any other purpose, for
which it may be necessary to alter, amend, explain, or re-
peal, so far as relates to Vessels so consigned or trading to
or from the said Port or Town of Runcorn, and the Goods
laden on board or discharged from the same, so many, or
such part or parts, of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned,
as enable the said Trustees of the Liverpool Docks to levy
and recover such Tonnage and other Rates and Duties (that
is to say) : An Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of
Queen Anne, intituled, " An Act for making a convenient
" Dock or Basin at Liverpoole, for the security of all Ships
" trading to and from the saidfort of Liverpoole :" another Act,
passed in the third year of the reign of King George the First,
intituled, " An Act for enlarging the time granted by an Act
" passed in the eighth year of the reign of her late Majesty
" Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for making a convenient
" Dock or Basin at Liverpoole, for security of all Ships
" trading to and from the said Port of Liverpoole :" another
Act, passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George
the Second, intituled, " An Act for enlarging the time
" granted by an Act passed in the• third year of the reign of
" his late Majesty King George, intituled, An Act for en-
" larging the time granted by an Act passed in the eighth
" year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, inti-
" tuled, An Act for making a convenient Dock or Basin at
" Liverpool, for the security of all Ships trading to and
" from the said Port of Liverpool ; and for enlarging the
" same, by making an additional Dock and building a Pier
" in the open Harbour there, and for enlightening the said
" Dock :" another Act, passed in the second year of the
reign of King George the Third, intituled, " An Act to
" enlarge the term and powers granted by an Act passed in
" the eleventh year of the reign of his late Majesty, for con-
" tinning several Acts relating to the Harbour of Liverpoole,
" and for enlarging the said Harbour by making an addi-
" tional Dock and building a Pier in the..open Harbour
" there, and for 'enlightening the said DOCk ; and for making
" another Dock, with proper Piers, in the said Harbour,
" and for erecting Lighthouses and other proper Lights in
" or near the Port of Liverpoole :" another Act, passed in
the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Third,
intituled, " An Act to enlarge the term and powers of seve-
" ral Acts relating to the Harbour of Liverpool, and for
" making two additional Docks and Piers in or near the
" Port of Liverpool :" another Act, passed in the thirty-
ninth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled,
" An Act to enlarge the term and alter and enlarge the
" powers of several Acts relating to the Harbour of Liver-
" pool, and for making two additional Wet Docks and Piers
" in or near the Port of Liverpool, and for rendering more
" safe and commodious the said Port and Docks :" another
Act, passed in the fifty-first year of the reign of King George
the Third, intituled, " An Act for the improvement of the
" Port and Town of Liverpool, and amending the several
" Acts relating to the Docks, Quays, and other Works be-
" lunging to the said Port :" another Act, passed in the
fifty-third year of the reign of King George the Third, inti-
tuled, " An Act to authorise the advancement of a certain
" Sum of Money, for carrying into effect the several Acts
" for the improvement of the Port and Town of Liverpool,
" and to amend the said Acts :" another Act, passed in the
fifty-ninth year of the reign of King George the Third, inti-
tuled, " An Act for improving the Lighthouse on the Isle
" bf Anglesea, belonging to the Trustees of the Liverpool
" Docks; and for further amending the Acts relating to the
" Docks and Harbour of Liverpool :" another Act, passed
in the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth,
intituled, " An Act for the further improvement of the
" Port, Harbour, and Town of Liverpool l;
and for altering,
extending, and amending the several Acts relating there-
" to :" another Act, passed in the ninth year of the reign of
King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act to enable the
"Trustees of the Liverpool Docks to raise a further Sum of
" Money :" another Act, passed in the said ninth year of
the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act
" to explain and amend two Acts of the fifty-first year of his
" late Majesty and the sixth year of his present Majesty, for
" the improvement of the Port, Harbour, and Town of Li-
" verpool ; and to authorise the Trustees of the Liverpool
" Docks to pay for certain Lands and Hereditaments, pur-
" chased under the said Acts :" and another Act, passed in
the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth,
intituled, " An Act for extending and amending the several
" Acts relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool."—
Dated this Sixth day of November, 1840. &
840.
VAREY,
Solicitors for the said Bill.
King-street, Manchester.

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tation, and to secu

TO THE
ELECTORS OF NORTH TOXTETH WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
ITHANK you most sincerely for the honour you have
conferred upon me in electing me one of your Represen-
tatives in the Town Council, and assure you that feel truly
grateful for the kindness and good feeling whit have been
manifested towards me. It shall be my study o endeavour
to merit a continuance of your favourable opi
I reflect with pride and satisfaction u the glorious
victory" which has been achieved, and congr ulate you, Gen-
tlemen, upon the result of the contest, wh ch has been one
entirely of principles.
To those friends who exerted themselves so indefatigably
in behalf of our cause, I tender my warmest acknowledg-
ments.

I avail myself of this opportunity to give the most unqua-
lified denial to a charge which has been brought against me,
of canvassing on the day of Mr. Currie's decease. As I
went home that evening, I called upon an old acquaintance,
who had always promised me his support in the event of my
becoming a Candidate for your Ward, to acquaint him of my
having consented to do so upon the present occasion. I nei-
ther called upon any other person, nor did I solicit a single
vote that day, though I was aware that Mr. Hechle, the
Chairman of the Reform Committee, accompanied by Mr.
M`Kee, were actively engaged, that morning, in making
arrangements for the Election.

-I
have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
ALEXANDER SMITH, Jun
Fairview-house, Nov. 20, 1840.

SIR GEORGE SINCLAIR.-We- are glad to be enabled to
contradict the paragraph which several of the Edinburgh pa-
pers have copied from the Inverness Courier of Wednesday
regarding Sir George Sinclair. So far from being laid up in
Thurso Castle, he was actually in Inverness on Tuesday, and
arrived in Edinburgh on Wednesday night.—Seottisli Stand-
ard.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—The following exraordinary
produce of one potato of a new species, termed the Prince
de Rohan, was raised in the garden of Archdeacon Buckle,
of Upway, in the present season. The root was divided into
six parts, which were planted at a distance of three feet from
each other in one row. The number of potatoes taken up
was ninety, and the weight 911bs. ! being in quantity upwards
of a bushel and a half. One of the roots weighed albs,
and several of them between 21bs. and 31bs. In the same
garden a cabbage of the Battersea species was cut, which
weighed, with the outward leaves, 1911b5., without the oht-
ward leaves, 131bs.—Sherborne Journal.
PREPARATIONS TO RECEIVE THE ROYAL INFANT.—
About three weeks since an order was transmitted from the
Board of Green Cloth to the upholsterers to Her Majesty to
design and make the cot and two baths for the expected scion
of her illustrious house. The talents and ingenuity of the
designer of the establishment, a distinguished French artiste,
were accordingly called into operation ; and a day or two af-
terwards a drawing was forwarded to the Palace for the in-
spection of her Majesty_ and her Royal Consort, who were
graciously pleased to signify their approval of the elegance
and taste, which had been displayed, and to order the com-
pletion of these most useful appendages of a nursery with all
possible despatch. On Tuesday night the cot was sent home ;
and a description of it will doubtless be interesting to the pub-
lic. The body of the cot is in the shape of that elegant marine
shell the nautilus, being a happy conception of the designer,
that the child of the " ocean queen" should enjoy its first slum-
bers and be cradled in a cot whose very form is emblamatic
of the main strength and glory of its " island home." The
frame work is of the choicest Spanish mahogany, and the
bottoms and sides padded and quilted in flutes ; the whole
of which, inside and out, is covered with rich green silk em-
broidered most splendidly with the white rose of England.
Between each rib is a circular rib of mahogany, the edges of
which are richly guilt. The cot swings between pillars of
mahogany standing on plinths, supported by four lions feet,
beautifully carved and guilt. The canopy is finely scolloped,
and hung with silk drapery of-the same design as the lining.
The whole is guilt, and surmounted with the royal crown, and
presents a tout ensemble at once classic and unique. The
baths are not yet finished, but are expedited as rapidly as
possible, and it is understood that one will be lined with silver
and the other with marble.—Morning Herald.
REMARKABLE PHENOMENON AT COMRIE.-011 Tuesday
evening, the 17th instant, between seven and eight o'clock,
an interesting appearance was observed in the sky, over this
place. From a semicircular small black cloud on the verge
of the restern horizon, at the point N.W. by W. all the other
clouds in view spun out into long dark straks, divergedlike
spokes from the nave of a wheel, and, after extending in al-
most unbroken lines over the whole sky, again converged in
an exactly similar form on another small, black semicircular
cloud in the opposite point of the horizon. At each focus
between the spokes the light of the aurora borealis was very
distinct, leaving no doubt as to the cause of this unusual ar-
rangement of the clouds, and contrasting beautifully with the
dark dresses of the present fleecy partners of these " merry
dancers." The western focus was at first very brilliant ; and
while it continued so, the other was more faint. By and by,
this relative brightness of the two ends was entirely reversed,
and the eastern had its " turn" of display for about half an
hour, after which the whole scene gradually broke up ; the
clouds, like soldiers relieved from the constraint of parade,
dispersing themselves into their usual amorphous groups
over the sky. This phenomenon establishes at least two
points in meteorology :-Ist, That the meridional lines of
clouds often observed in the daytime extending across the
heavens from north to south, as well as other directions,
without, of course, any visible display of the aurora, are
nevertheless the effect of this electrical or magnetic influence,
and not, as some have supposed, of currents in the air. 2d,
That the height at which the aurora occasionally displays its
fantastic gambols may coincide with, or extend to, that of
the clouds in the atmosphere, although at other times its
stage appears to be much more elevated. The writer of this
note, some years ago, had an opportunity of calculating the
altitude of the apex of a splendid auroral dome, consisting
entirely of lights of many various hues, that then appeared
near the zenith, The calculation was made from simultan-
eous observations, taken at Stirling and Comrie, and gave
the height at 113 miles above the surface of the earth.—
Scotsman.

REPORT OF THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL OF BIRTHS,
DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND, IN 1840.—The
second annual report of the Registrar-General, which comes
down to June 30, 1840, has recently been published. The
population of England and Wales, to which the report exclu-
sively applies, is computed by the Registrar-General to have
been 15,666,800 on January 1, 1839. The population of the
United Kingdom was then about 27,267,814. It may now
amount to 27,771,200 persons, comprising 6,080,000 fencible
men, aged twenty and under sixty. Ireland possesies rather
less than one-third (thirty-two per cent.) of the entire popu-
lation. The population of France is about 31,370,000. The
report states that the numbers registered for England and
Wales in the year ending June 30, 1839, were :—Births,
480,540 ; death, 331,007 ; marriages, 121,083. The French
returns are only published down to the end of 1837, so that
we cannot compare the facts in the two countries. Of the
marriages 114,632 were solemnised according to the rites of
the Church of England; 10 by special license, 14,669 by li-
cense, and 76,328 by banns. In 22,657 instances the offici-
ating clergyman neglected to state whether the marriage was
by license or banns. Exclusive of these marriages, the mar-
riages by license were 16 in 100, so that nearly one in six of
the people go to the expense of a license. 6,451 marriages
were celebrated not according to the rites of the church;
4,654 in'registered places of worship, 1,564 in the registrar's
office, 73 between Quakers, andl6o between Jews. The re-
gistered places of worship increased in the year 1839 from
1,332 to 1,578; the marriages at these places rose from 2,976
in the first, to 4,654 in the second year, or more than fifty-
nine per cent. The marriages by the clergy of the church
were ninety-six per cent. of the whole in the first year ; nine-
ty-four per cent. in the second year, when the arrangements
of the dissenters had been partly completed. The proportion
of marriages in the year to the population was 1 in 129 ; ra-
ther below the average of 1821-30, which was lin 125. The
number of Jews in the country has never been ascertained :
it may be rated from the marriages (160) at 20,000, or rather
more than double the number of Quakers, if none be consi-
dered Friends who do not marry according to the rules of the
society. Seventy-six Quaker couples were married in the
first, and seventy-three in the second year ; so that, unless
celibacy is more common than in the general population, they
cannot exceed 10,000. 5628 men, and 16,414 women were
married under twenty-one years of age ; or of 1000, 40 men
and 135 women. The proportion of minors varied consider-
ably in different counties. In 4858 marriages the ages were
ascestained : more than half, namely, 2536 men, and 2527
women were between the ages of twenty and twenty-five ; at
twenty-five and under thirty, the men were 1150, the women
861; and 137 men and 65 women were above the age of fifty.
10,390 more boys were born than girls ; the boys were
245,465, the girls 235,075. In the metropolis, 26,180 boys,
and 25,045 girls were registered ; in Essex, Suffolk, and Nor-
folk, 14,991 boys, 14,50-1 girls ; in Kent, Surrey (except the
parts in the metropolis), Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire,
21,619 boys, 20,653 girls. The girls exceeded the boys in
gniurmlsb;ewr oonsltymionrtowlaoncdo,u7nBtBiebsor---ysß,
Beosdfogrds
irlsh.ireT, 1h8e92 boy a,1895
were the same in death ; for 169,112 males, and 161,895 fe-
malestolw females.
o died in the
T
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lisnvig
1044eaorlyinthe
malecoun-
try is rather greater than that of males.

POHNION INTRIdhIORNONr

FALL OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE.
(From the Morning Herald of Wednesday)
\Vs have just received by extraordinary express the fol-
lowing communication from our Paris correspondent :
" PARIS, MONDAY EVENING, Quarter to Nine.
" The official journal, the Messager, contains the follow
ing telegraphic despatch, which I hasten to send you by an
extraordinary express.: -7_ _ _ _

" TOULON, Nov. 22, Three o'clock.
(This despatch has not reached till this day, on account of
the state of the weather:)
" THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE

MARINE

" The English steamer the Phoenix, arrived at Malta the
12th, has announced the taking of St. Jean d'Acre.
" ` This news is given by the captain of the Eurotas.'
" The same paper further contains telegraphic despatches
from Algiers, explanatory of military movements, and the
welcome announcement that the Rhone has sensibly dimi-
nished, and that the Saone has considerably fallen.
" The evening papers contain no other news:
"ToirroNes, Monday Night, Half-past Eight.
" Before the telegraphic despatch came outshe RenfN,was
at 72f. 25c. three per cent. It is now at the same price."

FRANCE.
(From the Morning Herald of Wednesday.)
We have received from Paris the following memorandum,
declaratory of the course which the four powers have left it
free for Mehemet Ali to adopt, to obtain his reconciliation
with the Sultan :

"MEMORANDUM

"The instruction addressed to Lord Ponsonby, on the
15th of October last, at the close of a deliberation between
the plenipotentiaries of Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, and
Russia, has declared the opportunity which existed for the
representatives of the four courts at Constantinople being
authorised to announce to the Sablime Porte that their re-
spective governments, conformably to the stipulations of the
separate act annexed to the convention of the 15th July, be-
lieve it to be their duty to recommend strongly to the govern-
ment of his highness that in case Mehemet Ali should submit
without delay, and consent to restore the Ottoman fleet, and
withdraw his troops from the whole of Syria, from Adana,
from Arabia, and from the Holy Cities, his highness should
deign, not only to reinstal Mehemet Ali in his functions as
Pacha of Egypt, but, at the same time, to grant him the
hereditary investiture of the said pachalic, according to the
conditions established by the convention of the 15th of July,
it being clearly understood that this hereditary title might be
snbject to be revoked if Mehemet Ali, or any of his suc-
cessors, should infringe the said conditions.
"The utility of addressing to the Sublime Porte a com-
munication conceived in the sense set forth has been unani-
mously recognised by the four courts. Nevertheless, in order
still further to make apparent the just consideration due to
the rights of his highness, the Cabinet of Vienna has been of
opinion, that' the advice which the representatives of the four
courts should be called upon to address the Divan, relative
to the reintegration of Mehemet Ali in the pachalic of Egypt,
ought not to be given at Constantinople until after Mehemet
Ali shall have begun by seeking favour (recourir en grace)
with his sovereign, and submitting himself to the decisions
of his highness.
" Taking into consideration that this opinion of the cabi-
net of Vienna serves to declare anew the respect which the
courts which signed the convention of the 15th July bear
towards the inviolability of the rights of, sovereignty and in-
dependence of the Sultan; considering moreover the neces-
sity for bringing the present crisis of the Levant promptly
to a pacific solution, conformably to the true interests and
to the dignity of the Porte,—the plenipotentiaries of the said
courts have resolved with one common accord to adopt the
course indicated, in order that the return to favour and the
submission of Mehemet Ali might precede the friendly step
which the allied representatives will be charged to make to
dispoie the Porte to grant its pardon to Mehemet Ali.
" In this view, desiring as much as possible to accelerate
the moment in which these steps may be taken at Constanti-
nople, the plenipotentiaries of the four powers have consi-
dered it opportune to indicate, without the least delay, to
Mehemet All, the road which is yet open to him to return
to favour with his Sovereign, and to obtain his reintegration
in the pachalic of Egypt, notwithstanding the decisive events
which have declared themselves against him.
" In consequence, it has been agreed by a common accord
that Admiral Stopford should receive, to this effect, from the
government of her Britannic Majesty, the necessary instruc-
tions, which would be communicated to the plenipotentiaries
of the courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to be made
known to their cabinets.

" It has, moreover, been agreed to communicate to the
ambassador of the Sublime Porte, Chekib Effendi, the pre-
sent memorandum, as well as the instruction which is an-
nexed to it.
" London, Nov. 14, 1840."

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW SOUTH WALES

We have received our files of the Sydney Gazelle, and of
the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 4th of August, from
which we make the following extracts :

ENGAGEMENT AND DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF HER MAJES-

TY'S SHIP FAVOURITE, BY THE INHABITANTd OF
TONGA, ONE CF THE SOUTH SER ISLANDS.
(From the Sydney Gazette.)
It is with feelings of the moseheartfelt regret, that we an-
nounce the death, or rather the murder, of this veteran and
gallant officer, which took place on Wednesday, the 24th of
June last, while attempting to take the Heathen Stockade of
Bea, in the island of Tongataboo, in the South Seas. In
former publications we have given the greater part of this
gentleman's history—we have expatiated on his slow advance,
which advance was so well deserved from his long and ardu-
ous services—and now it is our melancholy task to record
his death while in the gallant performance of his duty. We
have at least one pleasure in the performance of our melan-
choly task, which is to inform the world that Captain Croker
died as he had lived—a true British sailor—his sword in
his hand, and his heart where a Briton's ought to be (we
mean in the right place), while with his last expiring gasp he
commanded his men to do their duty. The following is an
account of the particulars as full and true as the hurried
manner in which we had to collect them would admit :
On the arrival of H. M. S. Favorite at the island of Ton-
gataboo, a letter was sent on board to the commander, Capt.
Croker, from the missionaries residing on the island, inform-
ing him that the heathen natives were at war with them, and
soliciting his assistance. On receipt of which information
he mustered the hands on board the Favorite, and told them
that he had received such a communication, and that he had
not the power to command them to go on shore, but would
leave it to themselves to volunteer, which of them would ac-
company him. A'great number of the crew at once volun-
teered, and three guns, consisting of two six-pounders and
one twelve-pounder were taken on shore, and conveyed
to a short distance in the interior, on the rise of a hill
which commanded a full view of the heathen stockade.
On their arrival at the above place, a female messenger
was despatched to the stockade for the purpose of effecting a
truce with the natives within the stockade. During her ab-
sence, King George, accompanied by about three hundred of
his soldiers (missionary tribe, as they call themselves) ar-
rived at the spot for the purpose of assisting the• British. On
the return of the woman, the flag of truce was hoisted within
the stockade, and a few minutes afterwards a Welshman who
goes under the name of "Jemmy the Devil," and who, al-
though a white man and a British subject, is the ruler and
ringleader of these unfortunate heathens, made his appear-
ance, and was hailed by Capt. Croker with " Well, Jemmy,
I am glad to find that you are willing to come to amicable.
terms—what can Ido for you ?" " Oh!" says Jemmy in
return, "You can do a deal for me if you like ;" evidently
meaning that it would have been all over with him if he got
into the clutches of Captain Croker. That gentleman then
informed him that the only terms of peace that could be
made, would be to level both heathen and missionary forts to
the ground. The Welshman then said that he could not
consent to that until he had consulted several of the chiefs,
whose answer he would return in half an hour. To this
Captain Croker acceded, and waited with patience the time
appointed at the gate of the Heathen fort. At length, hav-
ing waited past the appointed time, and getting impatient, he
knocked at the gate with the hilt of his sword several times,
and received no answer to his repeated summons; he then
struck through the door with his sword, wnich, on withdraw-
ing, he found covered with blood. Captain Croker then
flourished his sword over his head, and ordered his men to
advance with their guns. They immediately advanced within
the distance of one hundred yards from the gate of the
stockade, thinking that they would frighten the inmates by
doing so, instead of which they immediately commenced
firing a volley of musketry through the numerous loop-holes
of the fortification. As soon as the firing commenced,
" King George" and his army decamped, saying that they
were going round to besiege the fort on the other side.
Captain Croker finding the musketry too strong to enable
his men to stand to their guns, ordered them to advance with
their bridges and scaling ladders for the purpose of crossing
the trench and beseiging the fort. Immediately after giving
this order Captain Croker received a shot in his leg, and
staggered a few paces to the rear, at the same time calling on
his men to behave themselves like British seamen. At this
time several of his party were wounded and two men killed,
when a shot struck him in the left breast, and he staggered
into the arms of one of his crew, exclaiming " Fight on,
and do your duty as British seamen." As the person into
whose arms he had fallen was carrying
him to the rear, he
said feebly, " Lay me down, and go fight." Having ut-
tered these words, this gallant officer fell back and expired.
The survivors finding the musketry so strong, and having
lost their commander, were obliged at last to retreat, and
leave their guns, carrying with them their dead and wounded,
the former of which they afterwards interred. In the even-
ing the savages from the fort issued out, and took possession
of the guns and ammunition left behind by the crew of the
Favourite, which they have erected for the defence of their
stockade. Our space will not allow us to prolong our report
at present; the following is a list of the killed and wounded :
Killed—Walter Croker, Esq., Commander ; the Quarter
Master, and the Gunner's mate.—Wounded—Mr. Dunlop,
first Lieutenant, and 19 of the crew.

THE CROPS.—Reports from all parts of the interior, speak
of the crops of the ensuing harvest, as likely to be mere
plentiful than those of many years previous, from the luxu-
riant appearance of the wheat fields. By a person who has
visited most of the principal districts where wheat is grown,
we learn that the quantity of land now sending forth its green
blades of the wheat plant, is beyond all imagination, and
should the summer set in gradually, there will not be only an
early harvest, but the average return per acre must prove
incredible, and astonish the weak minds of monopolizers in
this universal article of consumption.
ller Majesty's ship Favourite touched at the island of
Euramanga, and obtained the remains of the unfortunate
individuals Messrs. 'Williams and Harris, who were mas-
sacred on that island, and conveyed them to Upolo, one of
the Navigator Islands, at which place Mrs. Williams and
family reside, where they were interred.
HOBART TOWN.—We have received Hobart Town papers
up to the middle of July, but they are almost devoid of inte-
rest., They had received news from Sydney up to the 19th
of June, and seem to have been prepared for the Ordnance
Bill, only greatly modified. The weether had for the last two
days been very fine in Hobart Town, but before that period
a considerable quantity of rain and snow had fallen. On
Sunday night the thermometer fell to 31, and, to quote the
words of Murray's Review, " there was the severest frost
we ever witnessed near this town, the ice being nearly an
inch thick in some places." The following are the markets,
as taken from Murray's Review of the 14th instant :
THE MaaKETs.—There is little or no change since our last,
either here or at Launceston. The average price of wheat
may he taken at 135., but as two ships from 'Valparaiso have
arrived fully laden, and others are expected, the Sydney pur-
chasers have directed their agents here to buy no more at
present, and it is most probable that there will be a consider-
able fall, The late rains have caused every article of mar-
ket produce in season, to be in abundance at low prices. Po-
tatoes (best) Bs. per cwt. ; tea, £8 per chest • sugar, from
£26 to £32 per ton ; pork, £7 the barrel. Other articles of
foreign produce as before.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
From South Australia the dates are.to the middle of July.
Here also colonial revenues are in disorder, the excess of ex-
penditure over revenue for the last year being calculated at
£15,000. The number of vessels which had entered Port
Adelaide and Encounter Bay during the year, during the six
months previous, is stated at 108, of the tonnage of 20,153.
Of these 20 direct from this country, the remainder from
Sydney, Port Lincoln, India, &c. The total tonnage of the
first half of last year was 21,109. In August, 1839, the popu-
lation was estimated at 8,250, but is now supposed to exceed

MOO, In the Kim month last year the miseep in the Alloy
were calculated at hB,OOO, horned Battle at 6AO, horses 520,
pigs 1,000, and goats 180. The sheep now are estimated at
150,000, horned cattle 10,000, horses 1,000. On the increase
of stock and the promotion of agriculture the existence of
the colony no less than its prosperity may be said to depend.
The people, however, seem more anxious and noisy about
municipal corporation bills than about material improvements.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

Extract of a letter from Jamaica :—" The greatest exertions
are making here to place the Apostles Battery, Fort Augusta,
and all the other forts round the island, in a complete state
of defence, and in adapting their parapets to the traversing
platforms on which the guns have been lately mounted. A
steamer has been placed at the disposal of the island engineer
(whose zeal and exertions nothing can exceed), to enable him
more effectively personally to superintend these preparations.
Chain, shell, shot, carcasses, and Congreve rockets, have
been in large quantities conveyed to all the works, and there
is no doubt but that an enemy approaching the coast of
Jamaica will be warmly received. A reinforcement of two
companies of artillery are daily expected.
NAPOLEON'S REMAINS.—A letter from one of the officers
of the Astrolabe, written on September the 7th, while that
ship was still at St. Helena, says :—" An English brig of war
has bean sent here, witn commissioners, to be present at the
exhumation of the remains of the emperor. All the prepa-
rations for delivering them up to the French are ready. We
saw near the tomb a tent, under which all the apparatus for
raising them waerfraced. It is hoped that the body may be
withdrawn without removing the immense block of granite
which covers the grave, as the English wish to preserve the
tomb as it is. They hope that the deserted sepulchre may
still attract, if not numerous pilgrims, at least some persons
desirous of viewing the spot where lay the man of such uni-
versal fame. I saw the funeral car which is to convey the
body from the tomb to James-town. It is oblong, and co-
vered with a dome, supported on tour columns, surmounted
by a funereal plume. It is entirely covered with black cloth,
ornamented with drapery in crape. It will be drawn by four
horses, dressed in funereal housings."

NEW ZEALAND.—The following is a copy of a letter from
Dr. Dorset, dated Port Nicholson, April 29, 1840 :—" I
have nothing to tell you in the way of news. We have now
settled down into a regular community, and I suspect my
adventures are all over. Enclosed I send you the first
[second, the first was published here] number of the New
Zealand newspaper, in which you will see better than I can
tell you our flourishing state and prospects. Every one is
sanguine in the extreme, The eighth part, No. 29, town
acre only, held by a Mr. Shan, has been sold for one hun-
dred pounds : such is the confidence people have in the place
succeeding. Sir George Sinclair's son, a few days after his
arrival, sold five sections for thirteen hundred guineas, and
he is now heartily sorry for the sale, the buyer of them de-
claring they are worth £lO,OOO, as they are mostly low num-
bers. Sections below No. 10 are not to be bought for one
thousand pounds. The Tory sails to-morrow for Sydney at
break of day."