The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise
ley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats,

EXPORTS.—
qrs.; Pease

loads; Flour, sack., 92
qrh , Barley, qr.; Beans, qrs.;
Corn, 85 qrs. , -tmeal, his.; Flour,
Coastwise. '
Oats, 6 qrs.

Wheat, 97 qrs. ;
131

Indian Corn,
barrels.

Rye, qrs.; Be
qrs.; Oatmeal,

Average pric
mat 475. Id.

of Grath, for the week endhng• Jan. 7, 1443
Barley 263. sd. ) Oats.. 175. 2d. I Rye.. 31s.

28s. Oti.l Pea

Aggregate average of t
Wheat 475. 4cl. I Barley (Os. gd. I Oat
Beans.. 29i. 4(1. Pea

Duty on For

Vheat 203.04. I Barley 10s. Od. I Oats .. . Os. Od. I Rye.. Ils. 6c
eans lls. 6n. I Pease.. His. 6d. Ind. Corn Os. Od. Motu

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
mat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I Rye '3s. 01
sus.. as. Od I Pease.. 2s. Od. I Indian Corn.. os. Od. I Flour 3s

Liverpool Averages, week ending Jan. 10, 1842.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
442 ; 1252
455. Id. Cs. Od. f 16s. yd. Os. Od. Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—TnuEE o'cLoc

The demand for Cotton to-day ha again been exceedingly
moderate, and barely 2000 bales have been sold, at prices not
quite equal to those obtained yesterday. The quantity offer-
ing is too heavy to keep the market steady with so moderate
a demand.

. .

' The antiquity of gambling ig proved by d ice having beer
found among the ruins of Thebes. We expect that's what
ruined it.

Government, it is said, have a bill prepared to fix the pay-
ment of the poor rate in Ireland altogether upon the land-
lords, in the same manner as the rent charge.
A young woman, of about 19 years of age, in the service
of the Rev. F. L. Moysey, vicar of Combe St. Nicholas,
near Chard, died the other day from the effect of tight lacing.
An attempt is to be made in the ensuing session of Par-
liament, on the part of the owners of collieries, to procure a
repeal, or an alteration, of Lord Ashley's Act.
Lady Pollock, the lady of the hero of the Khyber Pass,was
born at Tain, and is the daughter of the late Mr. Sheriff Bar-
clay, of that town.--E/gin Courant.
WILTS RURAL POLICE.-At the Sessions at Devizes a
motion brought forward by Mr. Sotherton, M. P., for the
reduction of the police force was lost by a majority of 38 to 6.
The first of a series of meetings in behalf of the bicen-
tenary fund of the Irish Presbyterian Assembly, was held
in Belfast on Tuesday.

The efficient labour of the same horse ou wood pavement,
when compared with a perfectly consolidated Macadamised
road, has been stated at 42 to 17.

On New-Year's day the steeple of the church of West
Zaandam, in Holland, fell and buried in its ruins a house
with a family of eight persons in it. All perished.

On a Irish tombstone Paddy talks about having " erected
is monument as a tribute of filial affection to the memory
his dear wife.

It is not for nothing that Queen Victoria is called " The
Rose of England." The coronation took place on the anni-
versary of the day on which roses were first planted in Eng-

A man named John Taylor, aged 43, a labourer em-
ployed on the South-Eastern Railway, lost his life last
week by falling from Abbot's Cliff to some chalk and stones
below, at a depth of from GO to 70 feet.

ng-engines in the Cornish mines r

ported for the month of November is forty-three—the quan-
tity of coals consumed being 2650 tons, lifting, in the aggre-
gate, 25,000,000 tons of water ten fathoms high.

Itigbans were observed
near the cantonment, and about Mabomed Khan's
in the minds of all but the envoy
remained unshaken. On arriving
er the bridge, they were met by Mahomed Akber _Khan,
Mahomed Shah Khan, Post Mahomed Khan, Khooda Bux
Khan, Azad Khan, and other chiefs, amongst whom was the
brother of Amencollah Khan, whose presence might have
been sufficient to convince Sir William that he had been
duped.

"The usual civilities having passed, the envoy presented
Akber Khan with a valuable Arab horse, which had only that
morning been purchased for 3,009 rupees. The whole party
then sat down near some rising ground, which partially con-
cealed them froth cantonments.

" Captain Lawrence having called attention to the num-
ber of inferior followers around them, with a view to their
being ordered to a distance, Mahomed Akber exclaimed,
' No ; they are all in the secret !' which words had scarcely
been uttered. when Sir William and his three companions
found themselves suddenly grasped firmly by the hands from
behind, whilst their swords and pistols were rudely snatched
away by the chiefs and their followers. The three officers
were immediately pulled forcibly along, and compelled to
mount on horseback, each behind a Giljye chief, escorted by
a number of armed retainers, who with difficulty repelled the
efforts of a crowd of fanatic Ghazees ; who on seeing the
affray, bad rushed to the spot, calling aloud for the blood
of the hated infidels, aiming at them desperate blows with
their long knives and other weapons, and only deterred from
firing by the fear of killing a chief. The unfortunate en-
voy was last seen struggling violently with Mahomed Akber,
' consternation and horror depicted on his countenance,'

" On their nearing Mahomed Khan's fort, renewed at-
tempts were made to assassinate the three captive officers by
the crowd there assembled. Captain Trevor, who was
seated behind Dost IVlabomed Khan, unhappily fell to the
ground, and was instantly slain. aptains Lawrence and
Mackenzie reached the fort in safety ; but the latter was
much bruised in various parts of his body, and both were
greatly exhausted from the excitement they had undergone.

At the entrance of the fort, a furious cut was aimed at
Capt. Mackenzie's head by a ruffian named Mollah Momin
which was warded off by Mahomed Shah Khan, that chief
receiving the blow on his own shoulder. Being taken into a
small room, they found themselves still in continual jeopardy,
from repeated assaults of the Ghazees without, who were with
the greatest difficulty restrained from shooting them through
the window; where the hand of some recent European vic-
tim (afterwards ascertained to be that of the envoy himself)
was insultingly held up to their view. Throughout this try-
ing scene, they received repeated assurances of protection
from the Giljye chiefs •, .but Amenoollah Khan coming in
gave vent to a torrent of angry abuse, and even threatened
to blow them from a gun. It is deserving of notice, that
amidst the congratulations which on all sides met the ear
of Mahomed Shah Khan on the events of the day, the soli-
tary voice of an aged Mullah was raised in condemnation of
the deed, which he solemnly pronounced to be ' foul,' and
calculated to cast a lasting disgrace on the religion of Maho-
med. At midnight they were removed to the house of Ma-
homed Akber Khan. As they passed throngh the streets of
Cabul, notwithstanding the excitement that had prevailed
throughout the day, it resembled a city of the dead ; nor did
they meet a single soul.
" By Akber Khali they were received courteously, and
were now informed for the first time by Capt. Skinner of the
murder of the envoy and Capt. Trevor. That Sir William
Macnaghten met his death at the hands of Mahomed Akber
himself there can be no reasonable doubt. The chief had
pledged himself to his coadjutors to seize the envoy that day,
and bring him into the city, when the chiefs hoped to have
been able to dictate their own terms, retaining, him as a
hostage for their fulfilment. Finding it impossible, from the
strenuous resistance Sir William offered, to carry him off
—influenced also by his tiger passions,
p alive,e:ta t
jaornidarteotgedtehteerTined not to disappoint the public ex-
efhevroocyi'osusowGnhagzieftesa, fewhy
whohuorms be-
and
drew a pistobl,y,
and the remembrance of his father's wrongs,—Mahomed
through the body, which was immediately
hackedf ore, an and
oe shot
pieceshi
the
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Publicly exposed in the Char Chouk, or principal mart. The
head was taken to the house of Nuwab Zuman Khan, where
it was triumphantly exhibited to Capt. Conolly.
" Such was the cruel fate oft Sir William Macnaghten, the
accomplished scholar, the. diinguished politician, and the
representative of Great Britain at the court of Shah Shooja-
00l Moolk."

APT. MACKENZIES ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN ESCAPE

" As I mounted behind my captor, now my energetic de-
fender, the crowd increased around us, the cries of ' Kill the
Kafir' became more vehement, and, although we hurried on
at a fast canter, it was with the utmost difficulty Gholam
Moyun-ood-deen,
although assisted by one or two friends
or followers, could ward off and avoid the sword-cuts aimed
at me, the scals being afraid to fire, lest they should kill
my conductor. Indd he was obliged to wheel his horse
round once and, taking off his turban (the last appeal a
Mussulman'can make), to implore them for God's sake to
respect the life of his friend. At last, ascending a slippery
bank, the horse fell. My cap had been snatched off, and I
now received a heavy blow on the head from a bludgeon,
which fortunately did not quite deprive me of my senses. I
had sufficient sense left to shoot a-head of the fallen horse,
where my protector with another man joined me, and,
clasping me in their arms, hurried me towards the wall of
Mahomed Khan's fort. How I reached the spot where
Mahomed Akber was receiving the gratulations of the mul-
titude I know not, but I remember a fanatic rushing upon
me and twisting his hand in my collar until I became iex-
hausted. from sufrocatum. I must do Mahomed Akber the
Justice to say, that finding the Ghazees bent on my slaugh-
ter, even after I had reached his stirrup, he drew his sword
and laid about him right manfully, for my conductor and
Meerzo Baoodeen Khan were obliged to press me up against
the wall covering me with their own bodies, and protesting
that no blow should reach me but through their persons.
" Pride, however, overcame Mahomet Akber's sense of
courtesy, when he thought I was safe, for he then turned
round to me, and repeatedly said, in a tone of triumphant
derision, Shuma inoolk-i-ma me geered !' (You'll seize my
country, will you !) he then rode off, and I was hurried to-
wards the gate of the fort."

HOW THE ENVOY'S MURDER WAS AVENGED

" The body-guard bad only got a few hundred yards from
the gate in their progress to the scene of conference, when
they suddenly faced about and came galloping back, several
shots being fired at them in their retreat. Lieut. Le Geyt,
in passing through the gate, exclaimed that the env?), had
been carried off, and it was believed that, finding
his men
would not advance to the rescue, he came back for assistance.
But the intelligence he brought, instead of rousing our leaders
to instant action, seemed to paralyse their faculties ; and,
although it was evident that our envoy had been basely en-
trapped, if not actually murdered, before our very gate, and
though even now crowds of Affghans, horse and foot, were
seen passing and repassing to and fro in hostile array, be-
tween Mahomed's Fort and the place of meeting, not a gun
was opened upon them ; not a soldier was stirred from his
post ; no sortie was treachery
was
nyotevoennly
was
ho ug
no ht
effort;
was allowed to triumph in open day ; the murder of
meaacdheer to
of a Bri-
tish
envoy was perpetrated in the face and within musket-
shot of a British army . and
avenge the dastardly deed, but the body was left lying on
the plain to be mangled and insulted, and finally carried off
to be paraded in the Public market by a ruffianly mob of
fanatical barbarians."

„
ANECDOTE Or OLD SIR ROWLAND WYNN.—Not a cen-
tury ago, there lived in Northgate, in this town, a fashionable
staymaker, named Barber. Now in those days, this impor-
tant part of a lady's dress was more stout and formidable than
even at the present time, indispensibly requiring a” try on"
before it could be pronounced complete. One fine morn-
ing, Jonathan took horse and rode over to Nostell for that
purpose. Meeting then with (as he supposed), a hanger-on
about the house, he called out " here, my man—take care of
my horse whilst I try
a pair of stays on Lady Wynn, and I
will give you sixpence," to which the man at once acceded.
He then proceeded to the house, where after concluding his
errand, he was departing down the staircase, when her lady-
ship accidentally
approached the window just at the time
and called out in great astonishment—" bless me, whose
horse is Sir Rowland leading about." The staymaker im-
mediately perceiving his mistake, ran out, and with many
bows and scrapes, and a hundred apologies endeavoured to
explain the matter. " No, no," said Sir Rowland, " Mr.
Barber, you promised roe sixpence, and as it is the first that
I ever earned in my life, I will have it." The sixpence was
then paid, and Jonathan departed, glad to have escaped so
easily.—Wakefield Journal.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JAN. 14
[WEEKLY UEPORT.]

Accidents ...... ........ 19 Cured to
Medical and Surgical cases Attending as Out Patients
Upon recommendation ..... 23 Irregular
_ Died
Total
.. ,

Rem ... 42 1
aining
.........
in the Hospital . . 81

House Visiters,
-----
R. B. B. H. Blundell and Daniel Neilson, Esqrs.
Treasurer R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. Wni
Hughes House-Surgeon, Mr. Parker.

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, JAN. li

DISCIIARGED
ADMITTED.
In-patients cured ........ 20 In-patients
37
Relieved and at own. request 6 Out-patients
Made Out-patients ....* o Casuals dnring the last weelc__6

Irregula.
Dead . .

Apothecary, .Mr W. Burgess.
House Visiters, Wm. Houghton and Chas. Turner, Esqrs.
House Surgeon . ...... Mr. Brandreth.
E. W. JACKSON, Treasurer,