The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

with the sum paid to the English it is as '3
to 10; and there
is only the name of fighting, without the hope of victory ; it
iopt plans in accordance with circumstances,

is better to

and put an everlasting stop to war.
The 4,200,000 taels, the first payment made of this year
has been collected from the funds of the treasurer and salt-
commissioners of the three provinces of Che-keang, Keang-
soo, and Ganhwuy ; which will be repaid by the duties on
the merchants and people.
We wait to receive the Imperial will, that we may send
post haste orders (to the treasurers and salt-commissioners)
to be respectfully obeyed.

said barbarians begged that Hongkong might be
conferred on them as a place of residence. They also re-
- - 'allowed to trade at Kwangchow, Funchow,
Ningpo, and Shanghae. The Shewei Han-

quested to

Heamun (Moy),

ling and his colleagues, as the barbarians had already built
houses on Hongkong, and yet could beg for favour, granted
that they might dwell there. With reference to Kwang-
chow and the other four places, they must be considered too
many ; as to the regulations of the trade as well as the duties,
they should early be consulted and decid

When clear and explicit questions are asked, it is authen-
ticated that the said barbarians answered, " We consider
Hongkong as our dwelling-place, and we must have Kwang-
Ind the others, in all five places, as ports of trade; but
nnot be allowed, then neither Moy, Ningpo, Hinhae,
ae, Topoo, Paoyshan, nor Hekeang will be delivered
up, neither will our forces retire. As we want trade at all
those places, it is absolutely necessary that resident consuls
should be appointed to superintend affairs, to restrain the
barbarians (English) and prevent disturbances. The duties
shall be paid according to the regulations of China; and when
the duties are settled there shall be no delay in the •payment.
" Further, when we traded at Canton, the whole trade was
in the hands of the mandarin Hong merchants, and we were
exposed to their extortions, and the injuries we suffered were
not small. Hereafter, we desire to choose our own mer-
chants, that trade may be conducted equitably ; and the en-
tire duties are to be paid through the consuls to the Hoppo,
and not to pass through the hands of the Hong merchants,
in order that their extortions may be prevented;" and so
'orth.

The said Shewei again represented, that from the five
places, Kwangchow, &c., some should be conducted ; but the
said barbarian obstinately refused. I, your servant, have
examined and found, that with reference to the Said foreigners
dwelling on Hong-kong, and going to trade in the provinces
of Fokien and Hekeang, the Imperial will has already been
received, with permission as to what they have requested
about trading at the five places named, although the compa-
rison is great ; but as they have taken and kept possession of
Amoy and other places, which are not yet given up, and as
they still hold Hongkong, Golongsoo, and have not retired,
it will be a difficult matter to get them back.

If we again prepare our armies to maintain those places, it
is a difficult matter to engage with them on the waters.
Though near to each others we have been idle (there has not
been any fighting) for many days; and as to those places
which they have taken and keep possession of, will it not be
allowed them to return to us our territory, and allow them
to trade, since they are willing respectfully to pay the duties ?
Just now, they are sensible and repent of their errors, and
are obedient as if driven by the wind, and when again united
in mutual friendship, benevolence, and truth, all things will
go on well. And since they will guard their own market,
and surround and protect the sea boundaries, there will not
be any necessity for recourse to our interference, which will
be to the advantage of the country.

We request the Imperial will may be sent down to the
Governors and Lieutenant Governors of each of the three
provinces, to examine clearly into the duties and trading re-
gulations of the Controller of Maritime Customs in the pro-
vinces of Canton ; and consult about the management of
affairs, and fix them on a secure basis.

3. That which the said barbarians have requested with re-
ference to the officers of China—to have ceremonial inter-
course upon an equality ; and the barbarians who have been
made captives, and the Chinese traitors, who have been se-
duced (into the service, &c., of the English), the release of
all these they most earnestly solicit.

We, your servants, .have examined, and found, that with
reference to equal official intercourse, it may be unreservedly
granted ; and as the affairs with the foreigners are finished
(hits war onticarn IlAcs vs..ier.r.are _ _ _

kt.m., Luc l,uavuc,a way ma() De released, by which
harmony and good understanding will be strengthened •, for
a state of peace will bring repose and gladness, and overthrow
factious parties; these matters may be allowed to proceed,
and we have left them to the Shewei, without discussing
them.

Cape of Good Hope papers to November 6, have been re-
ceived. The boers, or Duch farmers, on the Orange river
were becoming restless, and, in imitation of their compatriots
at Natal, disposed to assert their independence of British
government and control. The rebellious affair is sufficiently
ridiculous, and much of the nature of what is styled a storm
in a tea-pot.

Mauritius papers to the 14th of October are remarkably
barren of matter even of local interest. It is stated, and ap-
pears to be complained of, that the Queen of Madagascar bad
prohibited the emigration of her subjects to other countries.
The rigorous measures adopted with this are said to have
seriously, embarrassed commerce and especially the masters
•

Lady Alacnaghten, Lady Sale, and the other unfortunate
prisoners just released from Cabul, have addressed a letter of
thianks to Sir Richmond Shakspeare, " for the promptitude
with which he led a body of kuzzilbasla horsemen to their
assistance at a most critical period, to whose timely arrival
amongst them at Kaloo, it may he chiefly attributed that
their flight from Bameean was not intercepted."

THE CATTLE-MARKET OF PARTS.—The Moniteur de la
Propriele states, that during the year 1842 there were offered
for sale at the markets of Paris, 141,649 oxen, 16,131 cows,
and 923,384 sheep. Of these were returned to their owners
as unsaleable at any price, 13,753 oxen, 1,415 cows, and
182,152 sheep. The average price during the year was, 11
sous the pound for ox-beef, 91 sous for cow-beef, and 111
sous for mutton.

Sydney papers to the 29th of August, three days later than
the last arrival, were received to-day at the North and South
American Coffee-house. They do not, however, contain in-
telligence of any particular, interest. The prospectus of a
singular undertaking had been published there by Major
Sullivan, formerly a police magistrate at the River William
in the colony. It purports to be for the establishment of a
" British colony on the island of New Caledonia, situated
in the South Pacific Ocean." Great advantages are held out
as likely to result from the project, inasmuch as it would
prove an " important sea-port in the direct line of com-
munication to China and India, whenever the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans may be joined at the isthmus of Darien."
THE REVENEE.—We have seen a list of the shipments of
the principal Oporto houses for the year 1842, which fully
confirms the opinion that it is the non-settlement of the
Portuguese tariff that has greatly caused the deficiency in the
Customs revenue for the quarter just terminated. The total
quantity shipped has been, it appears, 24,981 pipes. The
article of wine alone will, it is expected, account for about
£380,000 of the deficiency, and the remainder may be attri-

buted to coffee. The settlement of the Portuguese treaty
will, therefore, it is expected, throw a large amount into the
Treasury, when it really takes effect. It is satisfactory to
perceive, that while one deficiency, that of the Excise, has
been in a great measure explained away, this one of the
Customs is considered merely temporary.—Times.
MADAME LAFFARGE.—A letter of the 30th ult., from
Montpelier, alluding to a report that had been current that
Madame Laffarge had escaped from prison,—" She still re-
mains in her cell, confining herself to her bed, in order to
avoid putting on the prison dress. Her health is better, and
her appetite so far improved, that she no longer restrains
herself to chocolate, which was for a length of time her only
food. Midlle. Grouvelle, who is expiating her meddling in
political plots in the same prison, is not in as good a state of
health as Madame Laffarge. On the eve of her discharge,
the term of her imprisonment having „nearly expired, she has
fallen into a torpor which creates some alarm. She has for
some time refused to change her dress, and remains perfectly
mute and immoveable in spite of all the kind and judicious
means taken by the Sisters of Charity. who have charge of
•
her to excite her to animation."