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

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ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 20.—The Pacha is still " inflexi-
ble," and even " something more." On Monday he gave
audience to Rifat Bey officially, and received the ultimatum
of the four powers with his usual sang froid ; declaring that
he had no other answer than that he had already given, and
that if the envoy pleased he would give it to him in writing
at the moment. The next morning a courier arrived at the
harem with despatches from Beyrout, bringing intelligence
that the English squadron, with 6,000 Albanians, 10,000
English muskets and artillery, &c., on board, were arrived
at the coast of Syria, and about to land these formidable sup-
plies to rekindle the insurrection.
ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 20, quarter-past two o'clock.—
Two Austrian frigates
pave just arrived, and anchored along-
side the Bellerophon, outside the reef. The Turkish and
Egyptian fleet are all in motion, apparently putting them-
selves in order for " the last resort." The news of Com-
modore Napier's arrival at Beyrout with four men-of-war, a
corvette, and a Turkish line-of-battle ship, is confirmed.
Captain. Walker is said to he on board the last, but nothing
has yet been seen of the Arnauts on that part of the coast.
The despatch of Abbas Pasha, the Governor of Beyrout,
states that Commodore Napier summoned the town to sur-
render to the Sultan, and ordered Abbas Pasha and his
troops to acknowledge his authority, or evacuate Beyrout
forthwith. The governor, who is supported by a strong force
in the interior, replied, that he held the town for Mehemet
Ali, and that if Commodore Napier attempted to land a sin-
gle man, he would consider it as the commencement of hos-
tilities, and would act accordingly. It appears that nothing
further had occurred at the time the governor's courier came
away, Commodore Napier being apparently content with
having asserted the Sultan's authority, and probably also
having discovered that he came a month too late to avail
himself of the revolutionary tendencies in that quarter. So
things remain till the declaration of the Pasha's answer to
the ultimatum. • As far as I can learn from individuals of
character and intelligence who have travelled through that
district, both during and after the insurrection, there is not
the least likelihood of an effective revival of the revolt.
WEDNESDAY, Atm. 50.—Admiral Stopford arrived here,
in the Princess Charlotte, on Monday, and dropped anchor
beside the Bellerophen. lie is going through his quarantine.
The force at present in the outer waters consists of these
two men of war, the Daphne corvette, two Austrian frigates,
and two smaller vessels. The Cyclops, Hydra, and Alecto,
steamers, are also here. The first departs to-morrow for Con-
stantinople. The last arrived early this morning with the
Indian mail from Beyrout, and will leave to-morrow for
France. She might have sailed to-night, but the permission
to take in coals from the Ariadne store-ship was not granted
for some hours, and hence the delay till to-morrow in her
departure.
' COMMODORE NAPIER'S SUMMONS TO THE GOVERNOR OF

BEI-ROUT TO SURRENDER

COPY OF A LETTER TO N. MOORSE, ESQ., HER MAJESTY'S

CONSUL. AT BEYROUT

Sir,—l beg you ;ill communicate to the consuls of the
different powers, and the British merchants at Beyrout, that
Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have decided
that Syria is to be restored to the Porte. I have demanded
that the Turkish troops be put under my protection, and that
the arms be restored to the inhabitants of Lebanon. I trust
the governor will not provoke hostilities ; if he does, the re-
sponsibility of uselessly shedding blood, must be on his own
head.—l have the honor to be yours, &c,
CHARLES NAPIER, Commodore.

BEY ROUT, AUG. 23, 1810.—The Gorgon war steamer has
been cruising under the orders of Commodore Napier, for
the purpose of making reprisals of vessels belonging to the
Pacha of Egypt. She has succeeded in getting a store-ship
and a transport, with ammunition and provisions, and a very
pretty cutter yacht.
The town is quiet, and the Druses in the mountains. The
civilians have all fled from the town, which is abandoned to
the military. The British ships are so moored that one
broadside would send thousands of poor wretches into eter-
nity. The Castor and Magicienne are cruizing off the port
of Beyrout. _

MALTA, SEPT. 1, 1840.—The Sovereign transport, with
3,500 barrels, and the Index hired schooner, with other 2,500
barrels of gunpowder, loaded at the ordnance stores at Wool-
wich, arrived at Malta on Sunday last. The Phoenix steam-
frigate was despatched to Admiral Stopford this morning,
with the London letters to 15th August, brought yesterday
by the Acheron from Gibraltar. Not a word of local news.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LEVANT
(From the Supplement to the Malta Times.) . .

MALTA, SEPT. I.—The Alecto steam-packet arrived in
port last night at a quarter past nine, having left Beyrout on
the 23d. and Alexandria on the 27th, at half-past eleven,
a.m. She brings a mail from India, via the Persian Gulf,
despatches from Bombay on the 24th of July, and arrived
at Beyrout on the 23d ult. The mail of the Ist of July, via
Suez, had not arrived when the Alecto left Alexandria.
The accounts from Egypt are of a very warlike character.
Notwithstanding the French steamer Papin had arrived at
Alexandria, conveying an official intimation " that France
will not assist him by arms, and that there is no prospect of
any misunderstanding with England leading to hostilities,"
Mehemet Ali was as inflexible as ever, absolutely refusitv, to
listen to the terms proposed by the quadruple treaty, and re-
jecting them in tato, without even deigning to give an ex-
planation. He had intimated to Admiral Stopford, who had
arrived some days previously, that he was then ready to give
an official answer, and that he (the admiral) might act
thereon, without waiting until the expiration of the full time
allowed him for coining to a decision.
Commodore Napier had issued a proclamation calling upon
the Syrians to.rise in the cause of the Sultan, particularlitthat
part of them who had gone over to Abbas Paella, and lie Wquld
protect them ; but it does not appear that it hid the effegt, an-
ticipated. The following is a true copy transmitted by our
correspondent from Alexandria :
" Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, with the
Sultan, have decided that the rule of Mehemet Ali shall cease
in Syria, and I have been sent here with an advanced squa-
dron to assist in throwing off the yoke of the Pacha of Egypt.
" Syrians, you know that a luau scheriff has been issued
by the Sultan, securing the life and property of his subjects,
which is in full operation throughout the Turkish territories,
in addition to which the allied powers have agreed to recom-
mend to the Sultan to render your condition happy and pros-
perous, _

" Inhabitants of Lebanon, you are more immediately under
my eye ; I call upon you to rise, and throw off the yoke under
which you are groaning. Troops, arms, ammunition, are
daily expected from Constantinople, and, in the meantime,
the Egyptian ships shall no longer insult your coast.
" Soldiers of the Sultan, who were treacherously led from
your houses to the burning sands of Egypt, and have been
since transported to Syria, I call upon you, in the name of
the great powers, to return to your allegiance. I have placed
two line-of-battle ships close to the Lazaretto where you are
encamped : put yourselves under my protection, and should
a single soldier of the Pacha approach you, he shall be
annihilated. _

" All past events will be forgotten, and your, arrears of
pay discharged by the Sultan, as also the arrears of any
soldier who may join the Sultan's standard.
" Syria." " CHARLES NAPIER, Commodore.
It is but right that we state that the highest naval autho-
rities in Malta affect to discredit this proclamation, and to
consider it very doubtful. _ _ . _

It is also said, upon unquestionable authority, that Capt.
Napier has taken some fifteen Egyptian vessels, most of them
small ; there was one, however, a frigate, used as a transport,
having troops on board, but only four guns were mounted.
It is thus seen that the communication between Beyrout, on
the coast of Syria, and Egypt, is entirely cut off.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY,

The Senlinelle of Toulon says, that a camp of 30,000 men
is about to be formed in the department of the Var, and that
notices to the inhabitants of numerous villages to be ready
to lodge troops have been issued.
A letter from Schiedam informs us that about half-past
nine o'clock the Exchange was suddenly perceived to be on
fire ; in spite of every effort the flames spread so rapidly that
in a few hours that fine building was reduced to ashes. It is
supposed that it was struck by lightning.—Dutch Paper.

The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort says :--" There is
now living at Moscow, the widow of a dealer in skins, who
has attained her 157th year. When 123 she married her fifth
husband. All her alliances have been prosperous and happy.
She is still in full possession of all her mental faculties. She
has never been attacked with any dangerous illness."
ST. PETERSBURGH, AUG. 25.—News has been received
from Tetlis, that at the end of June the whole of the upper
part of the celebrated mount Ararat, in Armenia, had sunk
down. For sonic days before the phenomenon a hollow
noise was heard in the interior of the mountain, which was
clearly perceived in all the neighbourhood of the settlement
on the extensive periphery of the mountains : it is said that
only a large village and an Armenian monastery, dependent
on the celebrated Etschmiadzin, are buried with their in-
habitants. We have not received the official accounts.

PIRATES AT THE HAVANNA H .—We learn that the pirates
who attacked and captured the Vernon had been tried and
sentenced to death at the Havannah prior to the sailing of
her Majesty's ship Comus, which vessel arrived at Port-
Royal on Thursday. They were to he shot the day after the
Comus sailed : the reason why they were sentenced to so
honourable a death is their having been, as is understood,
deserters from the Spanish marine service. The Comus saw
a suspicious-looking craft on her passage to the Havannah,
but, having the mail on board, was unable to -give chase.—
Jamaica Despatch, July 24.
HURRICANE AT PORTO RlCO.—Whilst the Spitfire was
at Porto Rico, on the night of the 16th, that place was vi-
sited by a very severe hurricane, which obliged Capt. Win-
nett to get out of the harbour, and stand out for sea. The
flashes of lightning were so vivid and frequent, that they en-
abled the captain to get out the steamer with safety, which
otherwise would have been a very precarious attempt. Our
readers must, no doubt, recollect that about the time men-
tioned there were some very strong breezes to windward,
and, to experienced eyes, the scuds which were seen from
Port-Royal towards that quarter plainly denoted bad wea-
ther to windward.—Jamaica Despatch, July 28.
A FEMALE USURER.—We find the following amusing
anecdote in one of the Bordeaux papers :—" A low stock-
jobbing usurer lately lent a young man of family 600 francs,
at 50 per cent, interest—i. e., he gave his client 300 francs in
hard cash, and received a bill for 600 francs, payable at 12
months' date. The usurer's wife, who had been haggling at
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then you need have given him nothing !"
THE BLEEDING IMPOSTOR.—A curious case of impos-
tore has been disclosed before the correctional tribunal at
Paris. A man was waiting, not many days since, in the
court, to be tried on a charge of assumed epileptic debility,
in order to extort money from the charitable, when he sud-
denly fell down on the floor, went into strong convulsions,
blood copiously gushed from his mouth, and, on his becom-
ing tranquil from exhaustion, he was forced to be removed to
the infirmary of his prison. There, on being closely watched,
it was found that he had acquired the faculty of retaining in
his stomach a considerable quantity of blood, which he could
at pleasure eject by the throat, and produce all the symptoms
of an involuntary rupture of important blood-vessels. His
arms had usually supplied him with blood, the veins being all
scarified with marks of innumerable bleedings, and he had
last resorted to his nose, an instrument being found concealed
on his person for scarifying the interior of that organ, and
which, it appears, he had made use of on the day in question,
shortly before being taken into court. He has been brought
up again, and condemned to one year's imprisonment.

Dr. Shuttlewortb, Warden of New College, Oxford, is to
be the new Bishop of Chichester.

DONIESTIC INTELLIGENCE

Col. Thompson and his eldest son are avowed candidates
for the borough of Leicester at the next general election.—
Leicester Journal.

The Corn-law Repealers have oppointed a deputation from
their body to meet with an equal number of the Chartists,
in the hope of electing a reconciliation.—Scoltish Guardian.
It is generally understood, says the Lincolnshire Chronicle,
that the Solicitor-Gent ral will not return to Newark. The
election bills are not paid:
It is decided by the Poor-law Commissioners that guar-
dians of unions have no right to visit poorhouses when they
please, and that that right is vested alone in the board col-
lectively.—Lincoln Mercury.

Mrs. Eliza Walsh, proprietor of a large pawn-office in Cork,
was sentenced, by the recorder of that city, to two months'
imprisonment, for receiving in pledge two dozen pair of sto-
len gloves.

It is decided by the poor law commissioners that guardians
of unions have no right to visit poorhouses when they please,
and that that right is vested alone in the board collectively.—
Lincoln Mercary.
At the bazaar held at Shrubland-park, the seat of Sir W.
F. Middleton, in aid of the West Suffolk hospital, £lBl9 was
received and paid over to the funds of that institution.—Essex
Herald.

Mr. Gould, the eminent ornithologist, has just returned
from his excursions in the interior of Van Dieman's Land
and New South Wales, having been absent from this country
for a period of two years and four months.
It is perhaps not generally known; that persons of either
sex who are engaged as domestic servants under the royal fa-
mily, take an oath not to divulge anything connected with
the private habits of their master or mistress. So says a book
lately published.

There has been for some time in agitation amongst the
influential members of the episcopal church of Scotland, a
plan of collecting an episcopal college in Edinburgh, where a
course of study similar to that pursued in the English uni-
versities will be adopted.
We arc informed that a poor woman named Vincent, who
is 85 years of age, residing at St. John's-common, has re-
cently come into possession of £B,OOO, being a legacy be-
queathed to her by a relative. She had for many years sub-
sisted chiefly on charity, but she now talks of taking a farm.
—Brighton Gazette.

One evening last week, a boy about 14 years of age, the
son of Mr. Lockwood, corn miller, in Shude Mill, Sheffield,
accidentally fell into an old coal-pit in the Pondi. The pit
is about 14 yards in depth, and it was naturally expected that
the poor lad would have been seriously, if not fatally injured.
A collier was let down, who brought the boy up in his arms.
He was quite insensible when brought out, occasioned by
the foul air in the pit, butt was othertvise free from injury,
and on the following morning was as well as usual.

The Attorney-General is proceeding with rigour against
the warden of Mere College Lincoln, for the recovery of
£13,000 and interest, which that rev. gentleman has received
for the renewal of the Mere estate. This property is 800
acres of land, left to be divided among 12 honest men and
their families, together with a chaplain and reader. The
land is valued at £1,200 a year, and the warden has let it for
£32 a year, has appointed six poor men at £4 a year, and
£7 a year to a chaplain, and has taken £13,000 for the re-
newing of the lease for his life.—Lincoln Mercury.
The corporation of Welshpool are now at issue with the
magistrates of Montgomeryshire upon the subject of the
rural police force. The magistrates declare that they have
the power, and will enforce it, to abolish the local police
at Velshpool, and will compel the inhabitants to be assessed
to the country police, and to have no other officers. The
magistrates have got up a case upon the subject for the
opinion of the law officers of the Crown. The Poole town-
council have expressed their determination to oppose the
magistrates to the last.
The following distinguished officers have been selected for
the Good Service Pension, consequent on the abolition of
the sinecure office of Lieutenant-General of Marines, held
by the late Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, the pensions to com-
mence from the Ist of July last :—Admiral—Sir David
Gould, G.C.13. Captains—Thomas Searle (1808), C.B. ;
Richard Arthur (1810), C.B. ; Charles John Austen (1810),
and Jeremiah Coghlan (1810), C.B. Major-Generals of
Marines—George Elliot Vinicombe, and Sir John Boscawen
Savage, K.C.8., K.C.11. The marine pensions are in ad-
dition to those already bestowed upon officers of that gallant
corps.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Last week a most impudent rob-
bery of bank-notes, amounting to upwards of £:500, was
committed at the Victoria public-house, in the Liverpool-
road, Islington, kept by Mr. John Lowe. Mr. Richardson,
who had recently retired from keeping the Hare public-
house at Hackney. was lodging with Mr. Lowe, and had the
money in question, with other property, in a hair trunk in
one of the upper rooms. Some of the swell mob had got
scent of the property and made several attempts to sleep at
the house, but were told that there were no beds to spare.
They were not, however, to be easily frustrated in their de .
sign, and on Saturday Mr. Lowe received a forged letter
purporting to come from Messrs. Whitbread's brewery, re-
questing him to call there. Unfortunately, he at once com-
plied with the request. Mr. Richardson also was out at the
same time, and the coast being now clear, the thieves carried
off the money, one of the party having crept up stairs while
the others busied the servants in cooking mutton-chops.
THE WEST PENNARD CHEESE.—The Queen's cheese has
been removed from the place where it was made, and is now
in the care of Mr. Dunkerton, a respectable farmer of West
Pennard, who has assigned a neatly furnished parlour for its
reception. It took 16 men to safely convey it to its present
situation, where upwards of 1100 persons of every grade have
been to see it, and have recorded their names in a book kept
for that purpose. The cheese is_protected by a wire gauze in

. .
a mahogany frame, surmounted' by a handsome crown ; it
measures 3i inches in diameter, and is 9 feet 4 inches in cir-
cumference; and when presented to Her Majesty, which
ceremony is not expected to take place for the next twelve
months, it is fully anticipated it will weigh half a ton. It is
now as sound as when first removed from the vat, and has
perfectly retained its octagonal shape.—Dorset Chronicle.
A CURIOUS FACT.—It has appeared in the public papers

tbat a hop-grower at Ash, near" Canterbury, had sold seven
aefes of hops to a London factor for Is, but it should be re-
collected the purchaser will have to pay the expence of pick-
ing, drying, &c., and also the duty; which together may
amount to no mean sum. We frequently hear how fickle
Dame Nature is at times in dispensing her favours. A small

i grower near Ma' stone, for some years past has grown such
scanty crops, t , after paying the expense of cultivation,
duty, picking';,., he has been paying 10s. per cwt. for his
own property, ?Which has kept him hitherto extremely poor.
This season he fortunately has a singularly luxuriant crop on
about eight aces, which it is calculated will realise about
£5OOO.
A SINGULAR CIIARACTER.—Compton, who was for seve-
ral years one of the keepers of the New Forest, and had a
house near the spot where Rufus was slain, was a most tin-
gular character. He was continually shooting, until he lost
his right-arm by his gun bursting; after which accident he
took to " bird-fancying. " At the rear of his dwelling was a
long garden, where he built an aviary. It was his habit
every morning to go with his breakfast-cloth, and shake the
crumbs from it, which brought various birds to the spot,
when the gentle creatures would rest on his arm (his only
one) and receive front his mouth their food. His " whistle'
was so familiar to them that they would come when they
heard it, and rest on his shoulder as well as his arm ; and it
is most extraordinary to record, that when he died (about
three years ago) several of the feathered tribe, of various co-
lours, were found lifeless in the garden.
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—On Saturday evening, a dis-
charged soldier, of the 65th regiment, of the name of James
Yool, arrived at Kilmarnock by one of the Glasgow coaches,
after an absence of nearly seventeen years, having been dur-
ing that period in the army. He was in indifferent health,
and sought his native town after enduring the fatigues of a
military life, ten years of which he had passed abroad, ex-
pecting to recruit his shattered health under the roof of a
widowed mother. On making inquiry for her residence, he
was told she had died about four months ago, which intelli-
gence so affected him, that he sat down at.the door of the inn
in a state of complete exhaustion. The inmates of the house
gave him a glass of spirits to refresh him ; and having no-
where to go, it was thought advisable to convey him to the
police-office until some connection of his could be found. In
the course of the evening, the house of a distant relation was
traced out, whence the way-worn invalid was conveyed ; but.
only to survive until the following evening. The deceased
had just a few days before received his discharge at Chatham,
and was entitled to sixpence per day of pension, which he.
was fated so briefly to enjoy.—Kilmarnock Journal.
THE ROYAL NURSERY.—Upwards of a hundred work-
men are actively employed in the left wing of Buckingham
Palace, preparing a suite of rooms for the royal nursery. The
splendid drawing.,room, breakfast-room, luncheon-room, and
wardrobe of Prince Albert, are appropriated to this all-im-
portant purpose. The suite of apartments, of which the
above form a part, were fitted up but a short time ago in a
most costly and beautiful style for the reception of the prince;
but the ruthless implements of the artizan, "who weighs not
matters such as these," are crashing away through ornamen-
tal ceiling, gilded festoons, and papers of the most varied
beauty and richness, for the accommodation of the expected
little stranger. His royal highness personally inspected the
alterations on Thursday last, and expressed himself to be
highly gratified with the rapid progress already made in the
furtherance of this desirable object. Similar alterations are
being carried on at Claremont.

DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.—On Saturday an inquest
was held at the Royal Free' Hospital, London, before Mr.
Wakley, on the body of Eliza Wilkinson, a domestic servant,
who was admitted into the hospital in the last stage of
exhaustion, under the following circumstances :—Eliza Jupp,
nurse in the hospital, being sworn, said that the deceased
came to the hospital in a cab, on Saturday, the 29th ult.,
at the same time as the other out-patients, and was admitted
by Mr. Gay, the surgeon. She told witness that she was
single, and 21 years of age, and that she had, about a fort-
night since, left her service, because the work was too much
for her health. She went home to her mother's, but her
mother was on a sick bed, and hersister lame. The deceased
not only could not be attended to there, but expended what
little money she had in her pocket to buy food for them, and
at last, having pawned the only thing on her back that she
could spare to procure them nourishment, she was obliged to
leave, in a state of great feebleness, to seek a refuge else-
where, and obtain medical aid. For this purpose, being very
ill, she went first to Guy's Hospital, and then to St.
Thomas's, and afterwards to,the London Hospital, in White-
chapel, but was refused medical aid or admission at all of,
thoseinstitutions, receivin., in answer to her applications that
she was incurable, and could not therefore be taken in. It
appeared that when she was dead the officers of the hospital
sent to the regular beadle and constable of the parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn, in which the death took place, but the
beadle declined to pay any attention to the information, and
refused to convey notice of the death to the coroner, because,
as he told the applicant, the magistrates had recently taken
away from the beadles.and constables in :Middlesex all remu-
neration for their trouble in giving notice to the coroner,
summoning the jury, collecting evidence, and attending
inquests. The consequence was, that, after a delay of four
days, a porter at the hospital was sent to the coroner's
office, with notice of the death, accompanied by the above
statement. The body by that time was in a high state of
decomposition, and in alluding to the circumstance, after
viewing the corpse, the coroner stated that such cases were
occurring continually in the metropolis, and that the poor
were, in consequence of the proceedings of the magistrates,
daily losing the protection which the inquest formerly afforded
them. Hannah Evans, a patient in the hospital, confirmed
the statement of the nurse. The deceased was very ill, and
in a state of the utmost feebleness, apparently from destitu-
tion. The surgeon stated that when the deceased came she
was in the utmost dread of being turned away, and pleaded
her illness and weakness in the most pitiable manner. She
had slight disease of the lungs, but, without doubt, want and
exhaustion caused her to sink beyond the power of recovery.
The coroner said to the jury, that in finding their verdict they
must be guided by the opinion of the surgeon as to the cause
of the death, and the fact that the deceased did not impeach
any one on account of the state to which she was reduced.
It was true that they hail it on her own statement that she
was, while in an almost dying state, refused admission into
hospitals, two of which had incomes of at least £40,000 a
year each, and therefore, apparently, ample means of pro-
viding for the care of sick and diseased applicants, bat the
power of-deciding against her admission was given to the
governors of those institutions by law, and their refusal
could not form a point of consideration in deciding on their
verdict. The jury, after a few moments' consideration, re-
turned a verdict that " Eliza Wilkinson died from disease of
the lungs, and that her death was accelerated by destitution
and want of sufficient nourishment."

7Ltbrrpool &tanbarb.

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, 23 ; 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, 18 ; 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, previously 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 much longer 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 --3 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 negociation at Pekin for
its final settlement on a safe and honourable basis.
The apprehensions entertained, at the commence-
ment of the yar, 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
he 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.
Cholera 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.

The news from Egypt will he found under its prpper
Lead. We announced, in our second edition of Tues-
ay, the commencement of operations on the part of

!ommodore Napier. The Malta journals inform us

that there was very little probability of the Paella's
agreeing to the terms proposed to him by the four

iowers. A courier extraordinary from Beyrout, with

lesliatches from Abbas Pacha for Mehemet Ali, had
•eached Alexandria on the 19th of August. These

.despatches announced that several ships of war, Turk-
ish and English, had arrived at Beyrout, with 6,000
Albanians on board, and that Commodore Napier, in
command of the squadron, had given Abbas Pacha
notice to quit Syria immediately, and withdraw into

gypt. He had demanded a respite of ten days to ask
nstructions of Mehemet Ali. The Viceroy replied

immediately to Abbas Pacha, that if the English should
attempt or favour a landing, or should proceed to any
act in the least hostile, he was to fire upon them. The
ultimatum of the four powers was presented to the
Pacha, on the 10th ultimo, by the four consuls of the
allied powers. The reply of the Pacha plainly intimated

that he had determined upon taking his stand in oppo-
sition to the demands made upon him. He told the
consuls that he had not seen any reason to change his

former determination—that he would cede nothing—
and that he was ready to defend himself against every

attack. his preparations for resistance were still going
on. He was strengthening all the fortifications and
supplying them with ammunition.
A letter, dated Alexandria, August 26, states that
the Pacha had given a definite answer in the negative
to the first proposition of the allied powers, and that

his affairs were daily assuming a more warlike appear-
ance. The same letter states that Commodore Napier
had actually commenced hostilities, by stopping two of
Mehemet Ali's transports—one containing ammuni-
tion, and the other provisions for
.the army of Abbas

Pacha. It is also said that he Lad detained a brig of
war bound with despatches from Alexandria to Syria.
The conduct of Commodore Napier is described as rash
and precipitate in the extreme. Such had been the
confusion and distress, produced by his proceedings,
that the greater part of the Christian population of
Beyrout had fled to the mountains.
The Turkish ships had been placed across the har-
bour at Alexandria, so as to answer as floating batte-
ries. The Pacha is said to have expressed his deter-
mination to blow up every one of these vessels rather
than surrender.

The Journal of Saturday last contains a very singular
article in reference to the late trial of Hearne v.
Stowell. We allude to those portions of the article
which relate to the practice of the Romish Church,
and the authority of her priests in imposing penances.
The writer does not venture to call into question the
statements which we recently published respecting the
penances imposed upon "penitents" at the " stations"
in Ireland; but he very strongly asserts that these
statements have nothing to do with the merits of the
case under consideration. Nothing to do with the
case ! Why, they corroborate, to the very letter, the
statement put forth by Mr. Stowell. They chew that
such practices as crawling upon the bare knees on the
high road, are matters of constant occurrence in the
Church of Rome. They prove that the tale related
by Mr. Stowell, so far from being " incredible," was
strictly in accordance with notorious facts. They
elucidate the whole case, and prove the relevancy of
Mr. Stowell's remarks, while speaking of the abomina-
tions of Maynooth.
The method by which the Journal seeks to prove
that the practices to which we have alluded have
nothing to do with the case of Hearne v. Stowell is
extremely curious and original. Such penances may
be all very well, as the Journal remarks, in " the great
metropolitan cathedral of Catholicism at Rome," on the
floor of the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem, or by " the
springs which gush from the ruined shrines" of Ire-
land ; but it does not follow that it would be right—
that "it would be decent, or edifying, or orderly, to
kneel amid the scoffs of the unbelieving, or unsympathi-
sing, in the mud of a large town, in a Protestant
country." Here is a direct acknowledgment from the
organ of the Popish priests of Liverpool, that such
degrading and " incredible" practices as those de-
scribed in the statement which was put into the hands
of Mr. Stowell are actually imposed by the Church of
Rome. How are we to reconcile;this candid admission
with the jesuitical and evasive answers given by the
Romish priests who were examined on the trial.
What are we to think of their solemn denial, upon
oath, of all knowledge of such humiliating and deba-
sing practices ?

Rome is truly " semper eadem." She carries her
discipline into effect, to use the emphatic words of the
Journal, " rudely among the rude, courteously among
the polished." Where she obtains the supremacy, she
treats her deluded followers as slaves, imposing upon
them " burdens grievous to be borne ; " while she
consigns her enemies to the stake or the horrors of the
inquisition. Where the Church of Rome is under
subjection to the civil power she adopts a more con-
ciliating policy. Where she does not dare to fulminate
her anathemas, . she endeavours to gain her ends by
fawning and flattering. How admirably does she
adapt herself to circumstances ! Among the heathen
she multiplies her idolatrous practices ; among the
superstitious she imposes her degrading penances ; and
among the enlightened and civilised she puts on the
plausible mask of liberality.

The present position of Great Britain is eminently
critical. We are already at war with China, against
which empire a large proportion of our naval force has
been despatched. Russia is menacing the northern
frontier of our Indian empire, where the recent territo-
rial acquisitions of this country have tended to weaken
our power, and to multiply our difficulties. There is a
strong probability that we shall speedily be embroiled
with France and the Paella of Egypt. Our West In-
dian colonies, goaded as their inhabitants have been by
the cruel neglect and indifference of the home Govern-
ment, are in a very unsatisfactory state. The boundary
question is likely to involve us in a serious and pro-
tracted quarrel with the people of the United States.
The rebel factions of the Canadas are still panting for
an opportunity to throw off the yoke of Great Britain.
While our foreign and colonial relations are in this pre-
carious state, Ireland is all but:in a state of open rebel-
lion—thanks to the guilty connivance shown by the
present degraded administration towards the miscreant
who has obtained such an ascendancy over the irascible
race across the channel.

Thus surrounded by difficulties, what are the present
ministers doing to avert the consequences of their own
infatuated policy ? Literally, next to nothing. Our
navy—the grand source of our strength=has not been
for forty years past in so crippled and inefficient a
condition as it is at present.
This is far from being the condition of foreign pow-
ers. Even the Pacha of Egypt has about 300,000
men in his various armies. France has her armaments
on a gigantic scale. She is in a state of efficient and
acknowledg9d preparation for any emergency. Russia,
with her population of 50,000,000, has every means at
her disposal for carrying into execution her long che-
rished schemes of aggrandisement.

Why is England in her present difficult position ? Is
it not owing to the glaring imbecility of her Govern-
ment ? How much longer will the people of this great
empire tolerate this state of things ?

It must be a source of great consolation and en-
couragement to the Christian philanthropist to wit-
ness the annually increasing interest excited by mis-
sionary enterprise, and the efforts made for the diffu-
sion of the Holy Scriptures, and for the spread of reli-
gious instruction. A few years ago we remember that
St. Andrew's school-room, or the Institution in Slater-
street, was found large enough for the purposes of pub-
lic meetings in connexion with the various auxiliaries
to the religious societies. The Music Hall then became
requisite in order to accommodate the increasing audi-
ences. But latterly even the Amphitheatre has been
found inadequate in its diMensions to hold the thou-
sands who throng to these meetings. Already one
crowded meeting has been held in that building this
month—that of the friends of the Naval and Military
Bible Society ; while three others are announced to
take place in the same place in a few days—one in aid
of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews, another in aid of the Diocesan School Society,
and the third to promote the objects of the Collegiate
Institution. We are happy to add that these truly en-
couraging " signs of the times " are not confined to

Liverpool, but are witnessed in all the large towns in

the kingdom

The .11-orning Herald of yesterday contains a state-
ment of the most startling character, and one which, if
true, is likely to involve Lord Palmerston in difficulties
of a most serious description. Our metropolitan con_
temporary states that the quadruple treaty contains a
clause of which the following is the aubstance

" In case of need a Russian army will be directed
on Asia Minor, and placed so as to cover and secure the
capital of Turkey : BUT THE DARDANELLES AND
THE BOSPHORUS ARE TO BE CLOSED AGAINST

VESSELS OF WAR OF ALL NATIONS WHATSOEVER

This arrangement amounts to a complete surrender
of Turkey to the tender mercies of Russia. • Lord Pal-
merston, in acceding to such a stipulation, has either
been bamboozled and over-reached by Russian intrigue
and finesse, or he has been guilty of wilfully and trai-
torously compromising the honour and safety of this
country.

In another column we have given a report from
our own correspondent, of the committal of the man,
Misters, for an attempted murder at Ludlow. We allude
to the subject here, only to caution our contemporaries
in that neighbourhood, not to fall into the error which
caused the postponement of the trial of Bolam at New-
castle. The anxiety to publish news is very praise-
worthy as a matter of business, but when it has a

tendency to engender prejudice against an untried pri-
soner, it is little less than criminal. By the laws of
England, every man is presumed to be innocent till he
is proved to be guilty.

MOORFIELDS ScnooL.—We understand that a sermon
will be preached on Sunday next, at St. Nicholas's church,
in behalf of this excellent institution, when the Mayor and
other members of the council will be present.
FANCY BALLS.—AII that the imagination can pourtray of
the graceful and beautiful is no where so vividly realized as
in the fancy dress ball. When promenading the ball-room,
and making the acquaintance of high-born dames, gallant
knights, and noble cavaliers, we feel transported to fairy
land, with fancy wandering amid the enchanting scenes and
gorgeous display of the regions of romance. It appears from
an advertisement that some of our townsmen have deter-
mined to enliven " the good old town" during the winter
season with a series of these balls.
THEATRE ROYAL.—We direct the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of the Theatre Royal. Very conside-
rable attractions are announced.

PICTURE OF ADAM AND EVE.—We strongly recommend
an immediate visit to this exhibition. It will amply repay
the trouble.

LAIDLAW'S PANORAMA.—This magnificent exhibition
continues to attract crowds of visitors. We are not surprised
to find that it has given universal satisfaction. The " burn-
ing of York Minster " has been pronounced by competent
judges a first-rate work of art.
CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY.—The committees for
the months of August and September voted grants for eight
additional clergymen and one lay assistant. The society now
aids 275 incumbents, having under their charge an aggregate
population of 2,025,456 ; or each, on an average, the chat=
of i,365 souls, while the average amount of their incomes is
only £162; and 135 of these incumbents are without par-
sonage houses. Previous to the aid of the society, only 309
clergymen were engaged in the pastoral care of the above-
stated population. The existing grants are to provide
stipends for 290 clergymen and 45 lay assistants, at a charge
to the society, when all the appointments shall be made by
the incumbents, of 26,106 per annum. 221 clergymen and
40 lay assistants are now supported in their important labours
by the society, at a charge of £20,341 per annum.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE
JEWS.—It will be seen from the advertisement, that the
twenty-first anniversary of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society
for Promoting Christianity among the Jews will be held, on
Monday evening next, at the Amphitheatre. As a great
number of eminent ministers are expected to attend, to
address the meeting, the proceedings will be of a highly
interesting character. The annual sermons in aid of the
society will he preached, on Sunday next, in several of the
churches in Liverpool and its neighbourhood.
THE CHESTER AND BIRKENIIEAD RAILWAY.—We are
informed that several of the directors of this railway, and
their friends, purpose to make a preparatory trip from Ches-
ter to Birkenhead this day, and that they will probably arrive
at the latter place about three in the afternoon. The general
opening will not take place for some days. A fine station-
house has been built at the terminus in Birkenhead, and the
whole of the works on the line are on the eve of completion,
in a style not to be surpassed by any other line of railway.

ADMIRABLE CONDUCT OF THE CAPTAIY OF A RIVER
STEAMER.—A few evenings ago, as the Birkenhead steamer,
the " James," belonging to Mr. Willoughby, got to this side
of the water, and the passengers were making their way
across another steam-boat to the slip at George's pier, an
elderly man, apparently a farmer, and his wife, of whom he
had hold, fell together from the plank between the two ves-
sels, into the water. A strong tide was running at the time;
the night was very dark ; and they got under the paddle-
wheel, to the great alarm of the passengers. The captain of
the boat, Thomas Bennett, a tine-looking, tall young man,
who was standing at the gangway handing out the passengers,
immediately, and at great risk to himself, got into the water,
and succeeded after great exertion in saving the parties, who
but for his prompt assistance would have been drowned.
They were hauled up through the paddle-box, to the great
satisfaction of all who were present, and who loudly cheered
Bennett for his praiseworthy conduct. He received a con-
tusion of one of his legs in saving them ; and though the cir-
cumstance, which he makes no boast of, and the particulars
of 'which we derived from another party, is some days old, its
authenticity can be vouched for ; and *e trust thc-rTitmane
Society will give it their best consideration, with a view to the
encouragement of similar exertions in future on our river, in
which human life is often almost unavoidably placed in peril.

DREADFUL MURDER NEAR BRISTOL.—On Tuesday last
an inquest was held at the Dolphin, Marlborough-street, on
the.body of James Pearce, employed as a watchman at a gar-
den at Upper Easton, who met his death from injuries re-
ceived at St. George's, where a prisoner was rescued from
him by four men not yet in custody.—Andrew Gough, jun.,
son of the proprietor of the garden, deposed—Chi Sunday,
the 16th of August, about two o'clock in the morning. I
caught a man named John Thomas, a brickmaker, who lives
at Easton, stealing apples from my father's garden ; having
taken him, 1 procured the assistance of the deceased, who
was a night constable in the neighbourhood, and we went to
St. Philip's police station, where they declined to take him
in, as the offence had been conmiitted in the county of
Gloucester, and they had no room. Intending to take him
to the Hanham station, we proceeded that way, the prisoner,
not handcuffed, walking between us. 'We were near the
school at Redfield about four o'clock, when two men, James
Porter and William Thomas came up. Porter took up a
large stone, and struck the deceased several times on the
back of his head, saying, he would dash his brains out if we
did not let him go. William Thomas also struck the de-
ceased with his fists about the head. The deceased was twice
knocked down by the blows. Then the prisoner's father
came up and took the deceased away from the prisoner.
Witness continued to hold him, and Porter, who had kept
the stone in his hand, came up and struck him ou the facet
as-did Thomas also with his fists. They continued to beat
them till they were near the George and Dragon, when
Henry Fussell and George Underhill came to their assist.,
ance, and drove away Thomas and Porter ; the deceased then
again took charge of the prisoner, but the prisoner's father
came up and dragged him away and he escaped. The pri-
soner's father then caught hold of the deceased and threw'
him on his back, beating his head repeatedly against the
ground. Deceased was then in a very sickly state, but did
not bleed. On the following Tuesday I saw him again; he
was then very ill, and continued to get worse till he died.--
Several other witnesses having been called, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of WILFUL MURDER against John Thomas,
the elder, William Thomas, and James Porter, and against
John Thomas, the younger, as an accessory. The parties
are not yet in custody.
THE WELSH AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—On Friday
last, the annual meeting of the Welsh Branch of the Liver-
pool Auxiliary Bible Society, was held in the Music-hall,
Bold-street. The Rev. Robert Davies, M.A., the President
of the Society, in the chair. The proceeeings were wholly in
the Welsh language. The spacious room was quite full-
The chairman, in opening the business of the meeting, re-
ferred to the peculiar obligations of the natives of the princi-
pality of Wales for their high advantages ; he considered it as
peculiar to that nation, that they were more thoroughly
furnished with copies of the Holy Scriptures, than any other
people on earth, for a supply of copies of the Holy Scriptures
commensurate, or nearly so with the number of the inha-
bitants, had been obtained. In round numbers the inha-
bitants of the principality amount to 800,000. The Bible
Society has printed 441,479 copies of the Welsh Scriptures
in the course of 36 years ; if to these is added the number
published by the Christian Knowledge Society, and by pri-
rate printers, and when it is borne in mind that a large
number of the inhabitants of the principality are provided
with the English Scriptures, the conclusion may be fairly
drawn that the inhabitants of Wales are more fully and cony'
pletely furnished with the Holy Scriptures than any other
nation on the globe. This is a ground of lively gratitude.
It, therefore, was the duty of a people so honoured and so
blessed to spare no exertions to communicate to others the
advantages they have themselves abundantly possessed•
The chairman then called upon The secretary, Mr; David
Lewis, to read the report, and the treasurer, Mr. David
Davies, to read a statement of the accounts. The report
was highly interesting in its general character, but what was
most gratifying was the fact, that this branch, in the last
year, had collected £422 17s. 5d., and after paying £62 17s-
-5d., for Bibles and Testaments, to supply the immediate
wants of the Welsh in Liverpool, and for incidental expenses,
the society was enabled to remit to the Parent Society, for

its foreign purposes the sum of £360. The adoption of the
report was moved by the Rev. Jeffrey Davies, the Welsh
lecturer, at St. Paul's Church ; and seconded in a most
effective and instructive address by the Rev. Thomas

Phillips, one of the secretaries of the'Parent Society. The
other resolutions were moved and seconded'by the Rev. Win-
Thomas, Henry Rees, Daniel Jones, John Hughes, Danie 4
Griffiths, and Mr. Hugh Jones, in most interesting and
exciting addresses.

CHAitnE OF RAPE.—At the Borough Court, Bolton, on
Monday last, George Jackson, an engineer in the service of
the trustees of the late Ellis Fletcher, Esq. at Clifton, was
charged with having committed a rape on Margaret, wife of
James Lever, Fairfield-street, Manchester, a married
woman, 36 years of age. According to the statement of the
prosecutrix, on last Saturday three weeks, her husband
was absent from home on a drunken spree. She had some
business to transact at Worsley, and for that purpose went
there by the two o'clock train. llaving finished her bu'
ness, she went in search of her husband to the Spindle-point
public-house in Kersley, and there found him in compaq
with other men, in liquor. He escaped, and five or 511
others went off along with him. She went out after them'
and saw the prisoner, who asked her if she knew the men
that had gone with her husband, and she said she did not:
The prisoner then told her, that they were gamblers and
robbers. She said, " Then they will rob him ; where etc
they likely to come out at.?" The prisoner replied, "At
the Red Cat." This is a publi,•-house on the road betwee?
Manchester and the Lane Ends in Bolton. She said,
" Where is that ?" and the prisoner pointed out the rid
across the moss. She said to him that she was amongst
enemies, and she wished she had a protector. The prisoner
then said he would protect her, and go with her to the Reu,
Cat ; and, about eight o'clock in the evening, they set• on,
across the moss. On arriving at the Red Cat, she treated
him to a glass of rum and water, but could not meet wIL"
her husband. He then proposed to see her back again oU t°,
the Manchester-road, and, as they were returning, threw r
down, and injured her side (she being pregnant), by falbs4
against a piece of rock. He then, whilst she was in Olt
helpless state, committed the diabolical act. The prisoner
was committed for trial for the capital offence. The case
not heard sooner, on account of the weak state of halm "
Mrs. Lever.