The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TRADE WITH CHINA.
The following has been received at Lloyd's:—
" Board of Trade, Feb. 17, 1840.
" Mr. Le Marchant presents his compliments to the cLair-
man at Lloyd's, and by the president of this board, trans-
mits to him the enclosed copy of a letter from the president
to the chairman of the East India and China Association on
the subject of the importation of tea front the coast of
China.

" Board of Trade, Feb. 17, 1840.
" Sir,--Having understood from representations which
have been made to me, that much anxiety is felt by mer-
chants and others connected wi,h the tea trade, with respect
to the admission of tea brought to this country in British
bottoms from the coast of China, and having been in com-
munication with the Lords of the Treasury on this subject,
I beg to inform you that tea, water-borne at Canton, and
received on board the importing ship at the most convenient
place on the c( a •t, for the purpose of taking in her cargo, is
held to be imported from Canton, aud, therefore, admissible
for consumption in this country. I am, sir, your obedient
servant,

(Signed) " H. LABOUCHERE.
" To the Chairman of the East India and
China Association.' "

SWEDEN.
Letters from Stockholm of the 31st January state that the
ministry had in a body offered to resign, the opposition in
the Diet being so decidedly against them.

HANOVE R.
The Gazette of Hanover of the 12th contains a proclama-
tion from King Ernest, convoking the Chambers for the 19th
of March, stating that he recognises only the constitution of
1319, and calling on the corporations and colleges who have
hitherto abstained from voting, to proceed, without loss of
time, to the election of representatives.

TURKEY.
The Semaphore, of Marseilles, quotes the following ad-
vCgr,i,4'l-;;-• c.ustantinople, of the 27th ult. :
Russia, kaigland, Austria, and Prussia, for securing the ein::
tirety of the Ottoman empire, of the conclusion of which the
Porte has received official notice. The despatches brought
by the Odessa steam packet to M. de Bouteuieff must have
been of great importance, since the garrison of the town was
employed to break the ice in the port to make a passage out
for the vessel. Another Russian packet has arrived from
London, with letters for the Russian and English ambassa-
dors, who are living upon terms of the closest intimacy. Not
a day passes at either of the embassies of Russia, England,
Austria, and Prussia, without toasts being drunk to the suc-
cess of the quadruple alliance. They are in perpetual con-
ference and interchange of courtesies. Lord Ponsonby is
perfectly at ease about the Russian expedition into the
Khanat of Chiva, being fully convinced of the good
faith of the Emperor Nicholas. At the same time the return
of Kiamil Pacha from Egypt has put the European diploma-
tists into commotion, as they have been furnished with a copy
of a letter from Mehemet Aii to Khoshrew Pacha, in whicn
he states his firm resolution not to come to any compromise
under the most respectful and submissive language. The
French Ambassador has not yet received any satisfactory
answer to his demand of a Hatti-Scheriff, striking with the
Sultan's rebrobation the holy war raised in Africa without
his sanction.