The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-10 00:00:00

,d memorable 13th of Jant

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ranged with a young female, of the
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his Journey to
should not attempt to follow him on so stormy a day. Shortly
after the- girl arrived, and accustomed to the inclemency of
the weather, would listen to no caution and brook no delay.
She took the road and soon missed it, and became benumbed
and overcome with cold. When it was discovered that she
had not arrived at her destination, the whole inhabitants of
the countryside turned out in quest of her. After several
days of fruitless search, she was at last found frozen, in a
sitting posture, beside a stream, within a mile and a half of
the ferry of Kyle Sku. She appeared to have been in the
act of changing her stockings for a dry pair she carried with
her, when she was arrested by the hand of death ; and was
found with one hand holding her plaid about 'her head, and
the other resting as a support to her body upon her knee.
THE STORM.—LOSS OF LIFE.—At high water this morn-
ing, about half-past three, the tide, owing to the strong
northerly wind that lasted all the previous night, was so high
in the river Thames that the houses and wharfs on the banks
at Lambeth, Vauxhall, and several other places, were flooded
to an alarming extent. The houses in Upper and Lower
Fore-streets were inundated to the depth of upwards of ten
feet. And in consequence of the rapidity of the flood, aided
as it was by the wind, much damage was done to the numer-
ous vessels lying in the river, and also to the ground-floors
of the various houses, more especially to the premises be-
longing to Mr. Fleckney and Jr. Lancaster, publicans, whose
cellar stock has been severely injured. With such rapidity
did the tide overflow that the police were unable to get round
towards the river side to call up the parties. The overflow
in the nighbourhood of York-road was the highest ever
known, and boats took the place of the usual mode of con-
veyance. This was also the case at High and Broad-streets,
Lambeth. At Westminster-bridge the rapid current ren-
dered the lighters and other craft totally unmanageable, and
one man, name unknown, was thrown from the steerage of a
lighter by the concussion of the vessel with one of the wrecks,
and has not yet been found. The lighter, however, was,
after much tossing to and fro, brought to a mooring. The
amount of damage done to the small vessels lying up in the
river is very great. The inhabitants of the Belvidere-road,
at Bankside-road, at Bankside, also sustained much loss by
the overflowing of the river.—Times.
SCENE IN SELKIRK COURT.—On January 31st two men
belonging to Galashiels. John and Adam Dryden, brothers,
were tried, on a charge of day poaching, before Major Pott
and Sir James Russell, of Ashiestiel, when a scene occurred
certainly very uncommon in a court of justice. One of the
panels, Adam, sat with a stick in his hand, which he brand-
ished in a threatening manner towards the Court; keeping at
the same time his bonnet on his head. The superintendent
of police, seeing this, took it off, and laid hold of the stick,
when in an instant two fellows jumped from the gallery and
assisted the prisoner in struggling for the stick, which was
broken in the scuffle. One of the justices directed the offi-
cers to let the prisoner alone, who accordingly wore his bon-
net and kept the broken stick during the whole of the trial.
The result was, that the two prisoners were convicted in full
penalties with expenses, which not being forthcoming, Adam
was sentenced to two, and John to lour months' imprison-
ment. Upon this they both declared that all the officers of
Selkirk should not take them to gaol; and it was only after
a desperate struggle between them and the officers that they
were placed in a cell in the Council-house, where they im-
mediately commenced breaking the windows and furniture.
John Dryden was soon after dragged by the police towards
the gaol, the officers being followed by some hundreds, a
great part of whom seemed determined on his rescue • but he
was at length securely lodged in that strong-hold. 'The su-
perintendent of police then called out an additional force,
and having hound the other prisoner hand and foot, carried
him also to the gaol. It would appear that these despreradoes
have been educated in their lawless oocupation by their own
father, who is at present in Jedburgh gaol for illegal fishing,
and was not long ago a month in Selkirk prison for the same
le.—Caledonian Mercury.

NEW PATENT OMNIBUS.—A patent omnibus, constructeC
for the purpose of affording greater protection and conyeni.
ence to the public than are given by the vehicles now it
common use, has just been completed by Mr. Warburton, ot
the New-road. An experimental trip was made with it or
Saturday afternoon. The patent omnibus is about the usua
length, and has a coupe, over which the driver has his seat
Immediately behind the coupe is the portion of the omnibus
which constitutes its chief feature—this is a sort of railwal
carriage, with room for four persons, and is fitted up in suet
a manner that it can, at the pleasure of those seated in it, bi
made into four isolated compartments, each having its win
dow on the side of the carriage. The doors of this portioi
of the omnibus open like those of a private carriage, witl
this difference, they are necessary double for th«.

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Jid being constrained and forced to
what is requested ; it is but one time of bitterness and trouble
but the ease, repose, and peace may be reckoned on for ever,
' e two provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang
tire, but the empire will be held altogether in
As to those items in the report relating to
improper, and require furthet consideration :
s the barbarian ships are willing to leave the Chang
river, and are also willing to retire from Chaoupaou-hill, that
which they have before requested relative to a free trade at
five ports, the country of Foochow must be excluded; per-
mission to trade thither cannot by any means be granted, but
another port may be exchanged for it; they may be allowed
to trade, coming and going, at the four ports—Canton, Amoy,
Ningpo, and Shinghae.

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—now,

" As to the matter of the Hong merchants' debts, the said
great ministers must necessarily accommodate themselves to
circumstances, and in a perspicuous edict (explain the matter
thus to the English)

" The said nation has traded with China for more than
200 years, and heretofore all has been harmony and good
will, and the trade has always been transacted by barter and
money ; but as the Hong merchants and yourselves have be-
tween you mutually transacted the affairs of trade, our public
officers have hitherto never examined into or troubled them-
selves about the trade. The affairs of the rise and fall in
prices, whether low or high, are very petty, trifling matters.
Further, our speech and language are unintelligible to each
other, and, most decidedly, the district officers will not be
able to manage the matter.

" Hereafter the Chinese merchants at all the ports will
adopt extraordinary modes of giving trouble and cheating,
even to cutting, i. e., demanding excessive discounts, when
there will be no hindrance or fear of laying a clear statement
before the district officers, who will certainly punish the said
merchant (delinquent) ; decidedly there will be no indulgence
shown. As to the £6,000,000, it is proper that I should give
them, by which my sincerity and good faith will be manifest,
and they are to be collected from the salt commissioners and
provincial treasuries of the three provinces of Chekeang,
Keangsoo, and Gabwuy, the richest supplying the deficiencies
of the poorest. As to correspondence being conducted on
terms of perfect equality between the officers of the two go-
vernments, and the barbarians who have been made captives
and the Chinese who have • been seduced (into the employ of
the English)—l grant all these supplicated favours; let the
—.eased, and I order that all the matters (the
just mentioned) be allowed, which have been re.

captives be r-1
three

quested.
" Further, with reference to what is contained in the
report about sealing; the said barbarians do not require
your seal as proof, but the imperial seal of the empire to be
fixed as a guarantee (of the treaty); so I shall not fait in
dignity, and the feelings of my imperial station will not be
lost.

" Before I have disseminated my imperial rescript& to each
of the dependencies of China, all sealed with the imperial
seal of the empire; and I order that my rescripts be sent
under a flying seal with the despatches from the Board of the

Civil-office, and they are to be forwarded in this ceremonious
manner, that the clauses which had been clearly reported

may be properly managed

"From the time of this settlement the said great minister
must specially report to the emperor, behaving with perfect
sincerity ; of the things supplicated there are none which have
not been granted.
"From this epoch of a thorough free trade, there should
be everlasting peace and harmony; your nation should also
treat us with mutual, perfect sincerity; and certainly not
again commence military operations, in direct opposition to
heavenly principles; for not only have you already caused
troubles and confusion in many provinces, but you must
again come, seeking causes of quarrel and war; and just so,
the coast and territories of the provinces of Canton, Fuhkeeu,
Teawan (Formosa), Chekeang, Keanguan, Shantung, Chile,
and Shunteen (Peking), the barbarian vessels of war are not
allowed to enter and frequent.
" Since, at this time, we are at peace, of the officers and
troops in each province, there are some that should be sent
away and others detained. We have already consulted, as
to the ancient cities of China, signal pyramids and batteries ;
and it is proper that they should all be rebuilt successively,
according to former custom. These have not been of modern
erection; but they were built for the purpose of guarding
against and seizing the pirate, and were not established to
guard against the said barbarians ; and we certainly must not
incoherently and disorderly produce suspicion and apprehen-
sion in those distant provinces which have not yet beard of
or possess a full knowledge of the Peace :—if any of your
(barbarian) ships abruptly enter and are suddenly attacked,
you must not make this a cause of screening yourselves, bor-
rowing pretences, and mouthing.

"The whole of the above matters are wholly in the deep
consideration and extreme care of the said minister and his
colleagues ; let them be wholly true and sincere indeliberating
and deciding, and so for ever put an end to the risings of war
and there must not be the least misconception or mlsunder
standing. This is not an affair or time to be idle,-or to di
miss the matter in a hurried

_.gard it with
and serious attention reA