The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

BOMBAY MARKET, AUGUST 26.
EUROPEAN GOODS.

COTTON PIECE GOODS AND YARNS.—Maclapollams
and jacconets are in good demand at fair prices, but long

are not in much inquiry. Common bleached shirting;
are scarce, and have improved slightly in value. Prints
are low, and not inquired for. The yarn market is rather

flatter

BRITISH WOOLLEN GOODS.—The market continues
very depressed, and from present appearances we thing
little will be done for some time to come. In former
years at this season, the Marwarries generally commenced
operations, but this year they appear not to require any
addition to their stocks. Imports continue to arrive.
Freights continue very much depressed, and have slighty
declined since our last. Some vessels have been taken up

on speculation, for conveying emigrants to the Mauritius,
but we do not see how freighters are to clear their expen-
ses at the rates they have undertaken to land them at
Port Louis, the more especially as it is rumoured that the
local government are about to reduce the bonus.—Bom-
bay Price Current.

The railway from Vienna to Cologne is now open
throughout its whole length.

Lord and Lady Ashburton and family have arrived at
Naples. They intend to pass the Christmas at Rome,
and return home in April.

An injunction has been served upon Dr. Lardner, in
New York, at the suit of Professor Gourand, restraining
him from the use of the planetarium, which he advertised
he would tr,e in illustration of his lectures.
THE SULPHUR QUESTION.—The National annaunces
that the Sicilian sulphur question is terminated. The in-
demnity to the British merchants has been fixed by a
special commission at 130,000 Neapolitan ducats. '1 he
merchants demanded that this sum, which it was expected
would not be paid for several years, should bear an inte-
rest at six per cent. The Neapolitan government then
determined to pay in cash.
A BULL Fl HT FOR PIOUS Uses.—The Queen of
Spain and her sister were present, on the 13th, at a bull
fight, given for the object of procuring friends to build a
church at Chamberi, near Madrid. The sport was
magnificent. Eight bulls were killed, and twelve horses
remained on the ground gored and disembowelled. The
performance lasted three hours, and produced upwards of
£l,OOO.

Four thousand Austrians commanded by Count Ra-
detsky have, it is stated, entered the Papal territories to
reduce the spirit of republican insurrection which lately
manifested itself at Bologna and elsewhere. This inter-
vention is said to be the result of a j,int determination of
the Austrian and Peidmontese governments: but our

ments were made, does not inform the public on two very
material points—viz., whether this intervention has been
solicited by the Papal Cabinet, and whether France has
been consulted thereon ?

PASSAGE FROM INDIA DURING THE S.W. MONSOON.
—Abstract of the log of the steam-ship Hindostan, for-
warded by Captain Moresby :—" Left the Sand-heads,
Calcutta, for Suez, on the 12th of August, having the S
W. monsoon to st-- ' he whol'

..earn agains, .uring t. re passage
DISTANCE RUN, AND ACTUAL TIME UNDER STEAM.
Miles. Hours.
695 791
550 69
2.215 2851
1,327 169

Calcutta, Sand-heads, to Madras
Madras to Ceylon
Ceylon to Aden
Aden to Suez

4,787 603
Or _ I look upon this as an ordinary
monsoon voyage ; and my opinion is, that in the months
of June and July it will only differ a few hours more or
Iees.—ROBERT MORESBY, Commander.—Suez, Sept. 11,
1843."

5 days, 3 hours

The Trent steamer, with the West India mail, bringing
advices from Jamaica to the 23d of September, and from
the other islands to corresponding dates, has arrived, but
the news so received is not of prominent interest. It ap-
pears that the weather had been seasonable for the crops,
and that the plantations gave promise of a good harvest.
The Jamaica and Planters' Banks had held their half-
yearly meetings, the former declaring a dividend of 41 per
cent., and the latter a dividend of 5 per cent. The Ja-
maica Bank had suffered losses to the extent of £B,OOO,
during the last six months, and the reserve fund was
therefore, to a certain extent, trenched upon to maintain
the usual rate payable to the proprietors. The late fire at
Kingston still occupied the attention of the colonists, and
preparations were on foot for rebuilding the destroyed
portion of the city on a more convenient plan. Liberal
contributions continued to be received in aid of the suffer-
ers; and on the meeting of the House of Assembly,
shortly to take place, a vote of the public funds was ex-
pected to be one of the first measures discussed. At
Trinidad, Demerara, and Barbadoes, political matters
were not engaging much notice, and affairs in general ap-
peared to be moving in a quiet and peaceably way.
AN EXPENSIVE CANE.—The Duchess de Montijo, a
Spanish lady, whose daughter is about to be married to
the Duke of Berwick and Alba, has just sent to Madrid a
magnificent set of presents to her daughter and her fu-
ture son in-law. But the most curious and expensive
specimen of her taste is a Malay can- of great delicacy
and just proportions, in ornamenting which so liberal an
outlay of small diamonds, emeralds and amethysts has
been made, that the whole cost amounts to no less than
14,000 f. £560 sterling. The Duchess, on being reproach-
ed by one of her friends for this lavish waste of money
replied, " You are quite right ; the sum is considerable ;
but when one marries a daughter to a Duke of Berwick
and Alba one cannot hesitate about expense." In Rus-
sia, when a marriage takes place, the father of the bride
places in the hand of the son-in-law a stick, not thicker
however, than his thumb, with the liberal use of which
th e domestic felicity of the young couple is to he ar-
ranged. It is to be hoped that the Duchess de ,Montijo
had no such ideas present to her mind in selecting the
Malay cane as a present to her yendre. Let it rather be
supposed that the choice proceeds from her Irish souven-
airs, as she is the c' - ter of 11-

dug'. an lbernian merchant,
Mr. Fitzpatric, well-known and respected at Malaga,
whose family shillelagh has more than once been heard of
at the fairs of Tradderee.

THE CAPTURE AND DEATH OF AN

ALLIGATOR

(From the Calcutta Star.)
A very large alligator was hooked and safely landed at
the Acra Farm on Saturday evening last. The hook,
which was a single barb and straight shank, about eleven
inches long, had entered the hack part of the right upper
jaw, and, passing round the cheek bone, came out above
the eye. It may be mentioned for the guidance of fisher-
men that the hook above described is far preferable to the
small grapnel-shaped affair which has been thought ne-
cessary for this game. But the probabilities are, that this
fellow would have taken any hook, for he was ravenous,
and it was not thought necessary even to float the bait,
but drawing it a few feet out of the water on the mud, two
hands were left to watch and report progress. When all
was quiet he came straight at it and made no bones about
it. The word was passed, and by the time he had rolled
himself over and over two or three times, some fifty hands
were hanging on to a 21 inch rope, and " pull devil, pull
baker" was the order of the day till he was safely housed,
a matter of no slight difficu ty, as may be supposed, con-
sidering that with his tail he could manage a range of
about 16 feet. He appeared to have remained perfectly
motionless during the night, being found in the morning
just as he was left. It may be mentioned, that the off
hind leg was gone at the first joint, that is, the foot was
wanting, or hand, for their extremities are much more
like hands than feet. There are five fingers, three of
which have large and long nails upon them, and the other
two are scaled to the very tip. He was maimed also in
the near fore flapper, and had evidently been in the wars.
They are known to fight desperately with each other about
their prey, and this one had been maimed for life without
a pension ; the stump was well rounded off, and the injury
not have been a recent one.
Some fortnight ago a child was taken away in this neigh-
bourhood by an alligator, while filling some water vessels,
and it was thought most probable it might be the monster

now under sentence. Gentlemen who amuse themselves
with firing ball at this kind of large game may save their
powder and lead. The trials made with a rifle show how
heavy the odds are against doing anything with them.
There was some difference of opinion as to whether a rifle
ball would pass through him, supposing it was not to
strike the scales. The first one fired with a view to this
experiment entered the side below the strong scales of the
back, and the brute took not the slightest notice of it ;
and a second, near the same spot, which seemed not to
trouble
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ten feet. He was now stirred up in tl rere with a long
pole, and he turned upon his
assailant with a ferocity
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easily ; he was round with the rapidity
being able to turn
re-
port, when he opened his jaws pto ittyheofir.ihriash ; the
closed them in his rage, was incredibly loud,extent,rtn and
tolerable idea of the enormous power of the jaws. dirve a
shot was now fired, with the view of finishinhi 'fthircl
pos-
sible ; and the aim was behind the large raisged mse'ales
the extreme end of the head, so as to break the spine., at
This would appear to have been done, for he turned upon
his back, and did not again recover his position. After a
fourth ball, and a most careful search for his heart with a
bayonet and a spear, a rope was passed over him and he
was dragged out, giving ever and anon sufficient warning
of the propriety of standing aloof. A fifth ball in the spine
appeared to settle him ; and on passing the tar along his
back he measured, to a nicety, sixteen feet six inches;
but his tail too had been curtailed eighteen inches less
than one caught in the same place about three years ago,
and of which a very perfect skeleton was made on the
farm, taken to England by Mr. Waterhouse, and depo-
sited in a museum in Yorkshire. With a heavy axe he
was now divided just abaft his hind legs. The next pro-
cess was an interesting one--the examination of the sto-
mach. It contained but little; portions of the skull of a
child, the thigh bones, some smaller ones, and the bones
of one hand, a quantity of straw, a large ball of hair, about
four feet of inch rope, and six or eight bangles, two or
three of which were of silver. Having cut off the head
and weighed it, it was found to he, to an ounce, 2 cwt.
The muscular action in the tail end, about G or 7 feet, was
extraordinary, for, on inserting a knife to expose the fat,
which here lies in thick layers, the whole mass, saving
only the chum;, was thrown into violent motion; and,
After perforrnii,:., • veral gyrations almost on end, struck
the ground with traordinary violence. This was the
effect of every insertion of the knife, and it could not have

The fat from the body was carefully taken off by native
operators, it being highly valued as an external applica-
tion for rheumatism, &c.