The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

CHINA

CANTON, DEC. 14, 1844.—Since ours of the 13th ult.
our market has remained very dull and inactive ; a greater
or more general depression has rarely been felt here. The
very low rates of imports have prevented importers press-
ing sales, and the high prices demanded for teas have, in
some degree, limited operations therein. Imports :—Of
raw cotton sales have been few, although deliveries have
been very large, and the stock of Bombay greatly dimi-
nished. Shirtings :—Grays are taken off freely, but
vrldtes remain, with large increasing stocks. Metals and
tin plates disposable ; holders are more firm, hut stocks
are too large to admit of early improvement. Opium :
In Patna there has been considerable fluctuation, with a
final improvement. The present demand is steady for
consumption, without speculation.—Woollens of every
description pat take largely of the general depression, and
transactions have been very limited; but as stocks are
not heavy (excepting camlets), some improvement at this
season may be looked for in exports. Silk continues to
be shipped freely at Shanghae ; here nothing is doing.
Our season's total export will reach or exceed 1,000 bales.
Tea export has been large, being to date in forty-one
vessels, Pampero included, Black, 16,337,1461b5. ; Green,
3,124,5251b5.; total, 19,761,6711b5.

In the Times' list of deaths, on Tuesday last, we find
the following ;—" Barbarously murdered, by a band of
hired Daboits, at his house, Furreedabad, Juanpore, on
the night of the 15th of last December, Mr. James Bar-
wise, indigo planter, formerly of Margate, but for the last
18 years a resident of Juanpore. They seem to have gone
to the house with the matured design of murder. After
cutting up the body, they left without touching a single
article."

FRANCE.—The Bigorre, of the 25th ult., says :—" The
day before yesterday, as a peasant, who lived in a house
at a short distance trem Luz, was occupied in clearing a
cross-road of the snow which blocked it up, he was
attacked by an enormous bear. The peasant opposed a
vain resistance with his spade, and in a few minutes his
head and one of his arms was devoured under the eyes of
his afflicted family, who were standing at the door of the
house without the means of rescuing him from the fero-
cious beast."
THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—In consequence of the
communications in many parts of France being blocked
up with snow, the Minister of War has decided that the
call upon the conscripts of the reserve, who were to join
their respective corps in the month of March, is to be
deferred till April. Accounts from the Doubs represent
the cold as continuing with all its intensity in that
country. The river is entirely frozen over, and the win-
ter has in all respects been as severe as that of 1829-1830.
The birds continue to flock from the north, and two wild
swans have been shot on the Plain of Champdivers. The
wolves prowl about the dwellings of man, and two chil-
dren have been carried off by them.
Papers from Mauritius to the 24th of December have
arrived. The money-market appears to continue in an
embarrassed condition, and the rate for commercial dis-
counts was 9to 12 per cent. per annum. The late sales
of sugar and molasses had gone at rather improved prices
for the middling and inferior qualities, with a good dispo-
sition to purchase. The lowest quotation for sugar was
4 dols. 75c., and the highest 7 dole. 7c., and upwards of
10,200 bags had been sold at these prices. Molasses had
fetched from 3 dole. 50c. to 4 dols. 25c. Treasury bills
on hand at 30 days' sight were 4 to 5 premium ; and pri-
vate bills at 90 days' sight, par.
SWITZERLAND.—The sittings of the Diet continue,
and nearly every member who has spoken, Romanist as
well as Lutheran, has expressed himself strongly in
favour of the expulsion of the Jesuits. On the Ist inst.,
the Diet divided on the question " that the Jesuits he
expelled the Confederation," when the numbers stood
thus—for the expulsion, 10 cantons and 2 half cantons ;
against it, 8 cantons and 2 half cantons. Two cantons
(St. Gall and Geneva) declined voting, but recommended
that the cantons in which the Jesuits bad established
themselves should be called upon to remove them. This
decision leaves the matter unsettled, for a majority con-
sisting of at least 12 cantons is necessary to render valid
any vote.

THE REV. DR. WoLFF.—A. letter has been received
from Dr. Wolff, (dated Erzercum, Jan. 17th, addressed
to Captain Grover, in which the writer gives an account
of the following atrocities committed in Bokhara :—" As
long as that horrid fellow Abd-00l Samet Khan is at Bok-
hara, nothing will be of any use. Every Englishman's
fate is sealed—he must die. The following persons have
been murdered at Bokhara :—Lieut. Wyburn, of the
Indian Navy; Lieut.-Col. Stoddart; Captain Conolly ;
one whom they call Freshaw ; II Cavaliera Naselli ; a
German ; five Englishmen, outside Icharr-Joo ; a Toor.
coman, who came to Bokhara to attempt the escape of
Colonel Stoddart; Ephraim, a Jew, from Mesked, who
was sent to Bokhara to make inquiries about Captain
Conolly ; and a Turkish officer." The Doctor gives a
melancholy account of the misery he endured on the
journey from Bokhara until his arrival at Erzeroum.
IcuaboE.—Advices have been received at Glasgow,
from Ichaboe, to the 3d January. The Thunderbolt had
returned to the island. The accounts state, that, on the
day above-mentioned, an attempt was made to break up
the monopoly which had been established by a body of
ship-charterers and supercargoes, who had established
themselves on the island, and were carrying on a brisk
trade in guano, shipping it for themselves, and selling it
to others on the spot. About 2,000 men raised the flag
of freedom, rallied round a leader, and commenced with
picks and shovels to supply their respective ships, work-
ing vigorously, and without interruption, for several
hours. At last an armed party from the Thunderbolt
steam-frigate was landed and took possession of the pit
where theywere digging. The commander of the fi igate had
ordered all work to be suspended until the affair was in-
I vestigated.

DISCOVERY OF A NEW ISLAND IN THE PAcigic.—
The New York Courier and Inquirer publishes the fol-
lowing account of the discovery of a new island in the Pa-
cific Ocean, by Captain Simmons, of the brigantine Faith :
—" Captain Simmons was on his way from Sydney to
Valparaiso, and, after leaving Otaheite, first saw it on the
31st of October, 1843. Seen from the deck of the vessel,
the island had the appearance of a mass of rocks, but a
nearer approach showed it to be an island, covered with
cocoa-nut trees, with thick underbush. When convinced
that it was an island, Captain Simmons supposed it might
be one already known, and at first mistook it for Caris-
foot. To be sure, however, he lowered his boat and at-
tempted to land, but was prevented by a reef of black coral
rocks, with heavy breakers, which surrounded the island.
He went completely round it, however, and found it to be
about six miles in circumference. At a short distance
from it he found no sounding in sixty fathoms of water.
After examining it for two or three hours, as thoroughly
as he deemed necessary, he steered for Carisfoot, accord-
ing to his reckoning, made it in the course of a few hours,
and passed to the south of it. A large lagoon was in the
middle of the island, which seemed to be rich and fertile.
On reaching Valparaiso, where he remained for some
months, he waited upon the commander of the British
squadron, and informed him of the discovery. He exa-
mined the most recent English charts, but no indication
of such an island was to be found. It is situated in the
track from Otaheite to Valparaiso, in south latitude 21
degrees and 10 minutes, and west longitude 138 degrees
54 minutes. He named it the Isle of Faith, from his
vessel."