The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-15 00:00:00

iortherly swell

course, N. 83

distance, 247 in.
Remarks—moderate, witl

12.—Wind, easterly. variable ; course, N. 85 E. ; distance,
264 miles : lat. 50 26 N. ; long. 11 50 W. Remarks—light and
variable winds, with northerly swell; 6, Kerry Mountains
N.E. ; 8, Cape Clear Light N.E. 5 or 6 leagues.
13.—Wind, N.E. and northerly ; NOON, Tnskar, W. S.
22 miles ; distance run, 270 miles ; moderate and tine, run-
ning up channel ; 8 30, received pilot off Point Lynas ; mid-
night, passed Rock Lighthouse.

QUICK TRAVELLING.—The following is an account of the
time occupied by Mr. Clarke, a passenger in the Royal Mail
Steam-ship Acadia, Capt. Miller, in the journey from Paris
to New York. He left Paris the 31st July, at 5 p.m.,
reached Havre the Ist of August, at 10 a.m., left Havre at
10 p.m.-12 hours at Havre reached Southampton the 2d
August, at 9 a.m., left at 1 a.m.-4 hours at Southampton :

reached London at 5 p.m., left at 8 p.m.-3 hours at Lon-
don : reached Liverpool the 3d of August, at 7 a.m., left on
the 4th, at 5 p.m.-34 hours at Liverpool : reached Halifax
on the 15th of August, at 7 p.m., 10 hours off Halifax,
left at 11 p.m.-4 hours at Halifax : reached Boston on the
17th of August, at 8 a.m., left on the 17th, at 5 p.m.-9
hours at Boston : reached New York on the 18th of August,
at 7 a.m., making 398 hours from Paris to New York. the
distance exceeding 3,900 miles, which gives a rate of ten
miles an hour including stoppages, and over 12 miles an
hour, deducting 76 hours stoppages.

FROM OUR PARIS CORRL-

SPONDENT

TO THE. EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

DEAR STANDAnn,—YouIRV easily judge of the result o
the late disturbances in our metropolis. Hundreds of these
foolish fellows have been condemned to three years' and one
year's imprisonment. What did they want to be reformed?
They thought proper todictate to their employers, and insisted
upon working only ten hours instead of twelve per day, for
the same wages. To carry their object into execution, they
called upon all workmen in the various ateliers to join them
in their unreasonable demands. Those journeymen who work

by the piece refused to comply with their request : this the'
brought on these disgraceful ententes, which must evident':
shake the foundation of social order. -
The Moniteur Parisien has a most ridiculous account 0
fifty men, who rushed upon a sergeant called M. Aree:
whose factionnaire has been carried off by them, and he for
tunately rescued his gun ; and his corporal &fended the en
..nnpe of the .lard-house with his bayonet against fifty ammo

Inen. This pretended
Petit Carreau. The s

story has taken place in the street of
vane journal asserts that the sergeant

has been named a member of the Legion of Honour, in con.
sequence of his bravery displayed on the occasion. In the

evening a man on horseback presented himself in the streets
encouraging the people to take up arms against M. Thiers'
administration, but he was pursued by four horsemen all day.

fellow' had a steeple Chace through the various streets, en-
cumbered with soldiers, and happily escaped in the evening.
Such absurdities must evidently throw silent contempt on the
French government. A propos, the Eastern question is
assuming a most awful aspect in the circles of the hart ton.
Every one condemns the proceedings of Commodore Napier
towards Mehemet Ali Pasha. His line of conduct has been
a direct violation of the laws of nations. Seizing eleven
Egyptian vessels and a corvette before the ratification of the
treaty of July, anticipating it by two days, is certainly a
stigma on Lord Palmerstoti's blundering administration.
Certainly proceedings as such are not consonant with the
precepts of civilization : they are more barbarous than the
pretended barbarian whom they think to intimidate into sub-
mission. He is resolved to tight to the last drop of bis blood.
His motto is no surrender. What he has conquered by the
force of his arms he will defend to the last.
The King of Greece has sent M. Christicns to Constanti-
nople, for the purpose of insisting upon the old Turk. treating
his Majesty's Grecian subjects with less severity, and allowed
him but forty-eight hours to give M. Christi&s' an answer.
This summary demand is another thundering blow against
the Turkish government.

Lord Ponsonby has ordered from Malta 50,000 stands of
arms, to be given to the Egyptians to rise against their legi-
timate sovereign Mehemet Ali Pacha. I am apprehensive
that Commodore Napier and Lord Ponsonby, the one with
his inflammatory proclamation, and the other with his arms,
will find it a very difficult task to persuade the Egyptians to
evacuate Syria. They all declare for Mehemet, for no other
reason than because he defends the coran.
Spain has declared in favour of England. Madrid and
almost all the northern provinces are in open rebellion. Por-
tugal is following its revolutionary example; so the prophesy
of a French writer is about being realised, that the year 1840
would be a reign of queens and a year of war. If we direct
our attention to any part of the habitable globe, we shall find
the people at war.
I regret to say that the funds are again on the decline, as
well as the shares of the railway from Paris to Rouen.
U.
P.S.—lt is rumoured in the best-informed political circles
that Commodore Napier has seized a French trading vessel,
and that he was obliged to give to the captain a written apo-
logy for his hasty conduct. It is impossible to describe the
excitements that prevail through the metropolis in conse-
quence of Commodore Napier's proceedings. It is also hinted
that Louis Philippe had prevailed on the Queei, of Spain to
return to her dominions. She intended to take refuge in
France. Poor queen ! The French army is to be placed on
a war footing, and Paris is to be fortified without delay.
Paris, 12th Sept. 1840. H.
Rue de Bone.

Nsw MAGISTRATE.—On Saturday last, at the Salford
Sessions, John Grimshaw, of Audenshaw Lodge, Esq., qua-
lified as a magistrate for this county.