The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

.0 proceed under escort

arrived in Alexandria on the evening of the
and sailed for Malta next morning.
left Falmouth on the 2d of
dria on the 18th, before day-bremi,
three days at Malta for the mail. The times
steaming from port to port were—Falmouth to Gibraltar,
4 days 204 hours; Gibraltar to Malta, 3 days 221 hours;

22d of January,

The Oriental, which
inuary, only arrived at Alexan-

having been detained

mails and 23 Indian passengers, on the 23d of January ;
Lord Jocelyn was in company, bearing despatches for the

government

On the evening of the 21st of January, the Cairo telegraph
►nd an overland courier had both announced to _Mehemet
Ali that `Llbrahitn.Pasha and his army had arrived at Ram-
P. large transport was loaded that night

ey, near Gaza

with provisions for the troops, which were stated to be in
great destitution and disorder. Next morning the Pasha's
steamer Nile, and the provision transport, were despatched
to Gaza to relieve the army, and return with Ibrahim to Alex-

iey's corvette had also sailed at the same
_yptian naval officers to Marmorice, to assist
in the conduct of the Turkish fleet to Constantinople.
It was industriously reported that Mehemet Ali had repaid
the 60,000 dollars, which he found in it on its arrival in
Alexandria ; but this is not true. Neither had he paid off
the Turkish fleet. The sailors had received one dollar each,
but were still owed three months' pay at their departure.

time with 30 E,

The plague had broken out in tiirje villages in the Delta,
and it was expected in Rosetta also. It continued in Alex-
andria, but had not increased there.

Arrangements are in progress for the dissolution of the
redif, or national guard of Alexandria, which, it is believed,
will take place on the Ist of Moharem, 12.57, the Turkish new
year's day, corresponding to our 20th of February.

- Commodore Nipier remained at Alexandria, waiting for
further orders. He had frequent interviews with the pasha,
respecting cemmercial relations, and the fulfilment of the
treaty of Balti-Liman, in which the pasha had made some
progress. He and the commodore agreed very well on the
practical points that came under discussion, and it was be-
lieved they would soon visit Cairo together.

UNITED STATES.
We bave received, since our last, our file of papers brought
by the Cambridge.

here is no Paper of later date than the Bth, of which we

were in possession previously, nor do the intermeditite pa-
pers contain any news of importance. Some discussion has
taken place in congress with respect to the application made
for the release of Mr. Al' Lead, who was seized by the au-

thorities of New York upon the charge of having been con-
cerned in destroying the steam-boat Caroline, in 1837, at the
period of the riots in Upper Canada. We have already, al-
luded to this case. Mr. FOrsyth, in his reply to the commu-
nication made by Mr. Fox> the British minister, expresses
his anxiety for the maintenance of amicable relations between
England and the United States, but professes himself unable
to recognise the validity of tti. demand. Mr. Fox, in reply
to the note of Mr. Forsyth, dated December 26, in which the
application for the release of M 'Leod is refu'ed, regrets the
refusal, and intimates that it, and the ill-treatment of
M'Leod, will lead to the most grave and serious conse-
quences. These documents gave rise to some rather angry
and excited speeches in congress. The Philadelphia Courier
states that the Baltimore Bank has failed.

A. WIDOW WANTED.—An extraordinary and ludicrous
scene took place on Tuesday morning, in Tower-street, at
the house of Mr. E. M. Stroud, stationer and patent ledger
maker, at the corner of Mark-lane. Mr. Stroud having oc-
casion for a housekeeper to superintend his domestic arrange-
ments, advertised for " a widow, or a widow and her daugh-
ter, lo take charge of the upper part of a tradesman's house,
and to cook for him." T' 'Pd

wages were stateu to be £3O per
annum, with coals, candles, &c., and application was directed
to be made, between eleven an three o'clock yesterday, at
No. 68, Tower-street. Before the clock struck eleven the

gan to arrive, and soon the street was rendered
impassable by the number of fair ones crowding towards the

midows

house, and in a few minutes Mr. Stroud's shop and parlour
were filled with women struggling to gain the attention of the
advertiser, and clamorously setting forth the qualifications
for the situation. A report soon got wind that Mr. Stroud
had advertised for a •wife, and people flocked from all quarters
to see the ladies in search of a husband. The widows, young,
-aged, and old, the thin And stout, the dark and the
is, others gaily attired, and many
continued to arrive, and were

fair, some in their v
poorly but dec

ly clad

th laughter and shouts from the mob, who gave
free vent to their jokes and ribaldry as the widows arrived
and departed. At length the confusion and noise became so
great, that a posse of the city police were sent for, who pre-
served a little better order, and afforded free ingress and
egress for the applicants.—Leeds Intelligences.

THE FAILURE OF MESSRS. KEASZEY, THE TANNERS,
OF BERMONDSEY .—Since the bankruptcy of Messrs. Wright,
the bankers of Heurietta-street, Covent-garden, no failure
has excited so much astonishment, or has been attended by
such melancholy results, as the failure of the Messrs. Keas-

ley, the tanners, in Long-lane, Bermondsey.. The firm was
considered the richest in that part of London, and the horses
and harness were exceeded by no house in town, or perhaps
the world. The Mes,rs. Keasley had for a long series of
years carried on one of the most extensive trades in Bermond-
sey, or within five miles of it. The liabilities of the firm are
•-•nsly stated, as amounting from £lOO,OOO. to £250,000.
-)orted to be Messrs. Streatfiehl and

The chief creditors are re

Lawrence, icy...._ .ers, of Lime-street, to the amount of
£17,000.; Mr. Sharp, currier, of Russell-street, Bermond-
sey, £7000,; the firm of Warren and Co., blacking-makers,
£20,000.; Messrs. Boucher and Mortimer, leather factors,
of the New Leather-market, Bermondsey, X 7000.; Mr. Vous-
ley, who keeps a public-house in Long-lane, £200., for a
check which he cashed, besides a large amount owing by the

nen who " used" his house
,ankruptey has caused is great, and h
11, or nearly all, the men. Messrs. I

"e consternation which this
placed out of employ
sley are also said to

SUSPICIOI9 CRAB.AcTEv..-7--On Saturday night, a man
ye his name George Southani, about twenty-bue ytarA
was received into custody at Leeds gaol under sus-
picious circumstances. He was dressed in a woman's gown,
apron, and cloak, with a black beaver bonnet and cap. It
teems that the prisoner had come down by the railway train
s far as Oakenshaw, when he got out and went into een-

of age,

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tlemen's retiring room instead of the ladies' room. On re-
seating himself he was told that he had got upon the train
lor York instead of that for Leeds, and in changing his seat
he demeaned himself so unseemly that his sex and disguise

were suspectea, ana one of the polidemen on eyeing him
closely observed his trovrsers and heavy boots below the skirts
of his gown. He was accordingly escorted to Leeds and
given into custody. We understand he has since confessed
that he belongs to Killingworth, Warwickshire, and that he
had bee❑ in custody at Rugby, on several charges of horse
stealing, and that he had been committed for ti ial at the War-
wickshire assizes, but that before his removal he effected his
escape and ran home, where he arrived even before his father
and mother, who had been attending his final examination,
and immediatelp put on his mother's apparel, and set off to
see a relative near H unslet ; but on his way was apprehended.
He stands remanded until his identity be established.

I'P.IAL OF LORD CARDIGAN FOR DUELLING.—The trial
of the Earl of Cardigan is properly a subject of great interest.
the case is one of the first impression, to borrow the techni-
no prosecution for a duel, unattended with fatal
having been, as we believe, instituted in mo-
ern times. The duty which tne noble judges will have to
discharge, is thus a difficult and a painful one. On the one
sand, they must decide the question of strict law, without
regard to what may be called the substantial justice of their
decision ; or, on the other side, they must virtually license
duelling, by deciding that its formalities, if fairly observed,
absolve from the guilt of attempted homicide—guilt about
which, in any other case titit that of duelling, there is no

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:onsequences 1
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A. court of justice is not.to
; public ; but even if the
rcely know how to foam a
which the question shall be dis-

wishes of

public had the Choi(
wish as to th
posed of

, assuming even all that has been stated in the, pre-
liminary proceeding to be fully proved. Nobody can be so
cruelly unjust as to desire the punishment of the defendant
for an act which, though illegal, has been, through a long pe-
riod, not merely sanctioned, but enforced, by the usages of
society ; yet all must earnestly desire that the supreme Court
ofjusticein the kingdom should give life and energy to a law
now slumbering in desuetude, by which, once awakened, the
senseless, savage, and unchristian practice of duelling would
doubtless be more effectually restrained than by any other
law which wisdom could devise. The affair, however, is
happily in the best hands, and we may hope that the august
tribunal before which Lord Cardigan is to appear, May find
some safe mode of-fecoticiling indulgence
(which in the caseis but justice) to his lordship, with such an affirmation of
the law as shall go far to put an end to duels.--Standard.