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

THE GHILZIS COUNTRY

We have no very recent copious or authentic information.
The entire success of the affair between Cabool and Kelat-i-
Gbilzi4, on the 6th May, when six thousand of the enemy
were dispersed by a mere handful of our troops, afforded
them doubtless a very salutary lesson : on which the more
recent operation of Cola Wallace in capturing and blowing
up the principal stronghold of Marro, the rebel chief, will be
a valuable improvement. Sweeping and determined measures
have been essential, and the carrying out of these have been
intrusted to firm and vigorous hands.

EGY PT

ALEXANDRIA, Avousr 20.—The Pacha is still " inflexi-
ble," and even " something more." On Monday he gave
audknce to RUM Bey officially, and received the ultimatum
of the four powers with his usual sang froid ; declaring that
he bad 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 have 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 be 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 insure ection, there is not
the least likelihood of an effective revival of the revolt.
WEDNESDAY, Au&. M.—Admiral Stopford arrived here,
in the Princess Charlotte, on Monday, and dropped anchor
beside the Bellerophen. He 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 TILE GOVERNOR OP

BEYROUT TO SURRENDER..
COPY OF A LETTER TO N. MOORSE, ESQ., TIER MAJESTY'S

CONSUL AT BEYROUT

Sir,—l beg you will V 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.

BEYILOUT, AUG. 23, 1840.—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 refusing to
listen to the terms proposed by the quadruple treaty, and re-
jecting them in tot°, 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 coming to a decision.

Commodore Napier had issued a proclamation calling upon
the Syrians to rise in the cause of the Sultan, particularly that
part of them who had gone over to Abbas Pacha, and he would
protect them ; but it does not appear that it had the effect 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 hatti 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, arc
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 Sentinelle 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. PETERSDURGH, AUG. 25.—News has been received
from Teflis, that at the end of June the whole of the upper
part of the celebrated mount Ararat, in Armenia, had sunk
down. For some 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 Etschtniadzin, 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 be 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 Rtco.—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.
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THE BLEEDING IMPOSTOR.—A curious ease Of impos-
tnre 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
shortly before being taken into court. He has been brought
which, it appears,
had made use of on the day in question,
up again, and condemned to one year's imprisonmsnt.

Dr. Shuttleworth, Warden of New College, Oxford, it to
be tho new Biabop of Chichester.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'clock

THE UNITED STATES

OUTBREAK IN MEXICO

By the Adirondack, which arrived here this morning, we
have received New York papers of the 20th ult., two days
later than those brought by the Great:Western. Late and
important intelligence had been received at New Orleans
from Mexico. The dates from Metamoras were to the Ist of
August, and from Mexico to the 23d of July. A sudden
outbreak of the federalists had taken place at the capital,
which put the public buildings and the person of the Presi•
dent in the.possession of the insurgents.
Urrea, the late republican leader had escaped the dungeon
of the inquisition, and roused the people, and attacked and
carried the city of Mexico, making Bustamente prisoner.
Bustamente subsequently got his liberty, and called the
Centralists to his rescue. Upwards of 300 men are said to
have perished during the e'meute.
On hearing of these occurrences in the capital, Santa
Anna left Vera Cruz immediately for:Mexico.
Generals Wall, Condea, and Canalizo, had left Metamoras
for the city of Mexico. Metamoras was left in a very de-
fenceless state. Arista, who was expected there, was said to
have left Tampico for the capital. All this is said to be glo-
rious news for Texas.

According to the latest accounts, Urrea had still possession
of the palace and public places. Santa Anna was eager in his
proffers of assistance to the government, but was informed
that the revolutionists could be subdued without his aid. He
remained at Puella. Many of Urrea's followers were about
to throw themselves upon the leniency of the government,
fearing the result of their operations, but were told that none
need be expected, but that the sword should determine the
result. The government could not think of any kind of ca-
pitulation whatever.
It was stated that New Mexico had declared in favour of
Texas, with the Commandant-General Amije at their head.
Troops were said to be pouring in from all directions. to
the assistance of Bustamente.