The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC

TT may not be generally known, but I feel it my doty
to call the attention of the Public to a FACT, namely,

RICHMOND'S LIVERPOOL CLOTH HALL
iS the only WOOLLEN DRAPERY ESTABLISHMENT IN
LIVERPOOL conducted entirely on
CASH TERMS.
LOAF BREAD, At this Establishment all Goods are bought and sold
for NETT CASH, which is not the case in any other
POSSESSING THE REQUISITE PROPERTIES OF FLAVOUR Woollen House in this town, as it is an invariable rule
AND SWEETNESS. with Woollen Drapers to give credit for long or short
RGIBBONS feels it peculiarly his duty at the pre- periods, whereby they frequently meet with fearful, and
• sent time, when it is to be feared that Murrain has often ruinous, losses, from which J. RICHMOND, being
affected the Potatoe Crops considerably, to announce that entirely exempt,
he continues to make LOAF BREAD 'a leading article
below Houses
that give Credit; and it must be obvious to
in his business, the most scrupulous attention being paid all, that those who are enabled
to both Material and Manufacture, thus providing an
TO PURCHA
article unrivalled for flavour and sweetness. ASH
R. G. begs also to acquaint his Customers, that he has must have agr vantage by dealing with
commenced for the,..etasan to manufacture his far-famed lAN EN TIR - READY-MONEY HO USE.
Premises,
and the recent
trusts,
will
improve-
such,
Iml p
enabler ove-
Scoteh Bun, Shortbread, Pitcaithly Bannocks, Royal
J. R.'s S ex being now more than usually extensive,
Atboll, and other Cakes ; and solicits early application for J. '
such, to prevent the same disappointment which occurred
last Christmas.
R. G. has introduced a new Biscuit called the Queen's is
menum much c hh
e tooha
s varied
made
in
on enumerate,hi s
SURE Public confidence
Nursery Biscuit, which is extensively used by all the Isl
him to meet the increasing demands of his customers. To
first families in London, with every other kind of Fancy EVERY ARTICLE IS MARKED IN PLAIN
Biscuit. FIGURES THE LOWEST PRICE,
Scotch Oatmeal, Peameal, Pearl Barley, Rye Flour, a7:..1 Warranted Perfect, so as to protect those from impo-
and Frenchton Flour. sition who do not understand the real value of Woollen
EDINBURGH FLOUR, BREAD, AND FANCY Goods; and he feels confident that his system only re-
BISCUIT WAREHOUSE, quires to be better known to all who take Cash in their
11, LONDON-ROAD, LIVERPOOL. Pockets to cause them, for their own benefit, to avail
N.B.—Observe, nearly Opposite the Blind Asylum- themselves of the advantages which be o,Ters.
J. RICHMOND.
No. 3, PARADISE-STREET,
(Two doors from Church-street.)

GEORGE AND EAGLE HOTEL,
FE N WICK- STREET,
NEAR ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH.

OBSERVE!
RICHMOND'S LIVERPOOL CLOTH-HALL

TRIPE SUPPERS.
EORGE LATH AM respectfully announces to his
‘3r Friends and the Public, that his TRIPE SUPPERS
commenced on THURSDAY last, the 20th instant, and
will be continued every succeeding Thursday.
G. L. will he happy to undertake the Providing of Hot
and Cold COLLATIONS for Ship Launches, Soirees, Pic-
nic Parties, &c. on the shortest notice. Port and Sherry
WINES of the finest qualities, ICED CHAMPAGNE, Chi-
chester MILK PUNCII,BAS'S'S PALE ALE, London Bottled
PORTER, and prime HAVANA CIGARS.
LATHAM'S celoblated GAME PIES provided on the
shortest notice.--
Parties sending their own Game, may be supplied with
Game Pies.
The EAGLE and GEORGE HOTEL is conveniently si-
tuated within rive minutes' walk of the Pierheads, the
Theatres, &c., and is fitted up excellent BEDS,
PUBLIC and PRIVATE DINING and SITTING ROOMS for
PARTIES or FAMILIES, every attention being paid to the
I comfort of those who may honour the Eagle Hotel with n

THE EASTERN DISPENSARY.
AT a SPECIAL MEETING of the COMMITTEE
of the EASTERN DISPENSARY, held on the
14th instant,
The Rev. FIELDING OULD in the Chair;

The Treasurer having called their attention to the state
of the Finances, by which it appeared that the debts due
from that Institution at the end of the current year would
amould to upwards of £7OO,
It was Retolved,—That an Appeal he made to the Pub-
lic, with a view of obtaining their assistance to liquidate
this heavy claim.
The following statement of facts is, therefore, submit-
ted to the consideration of the Inhabitants of this Town :
The number of Patients who a received Medical
Advice and Medicines at this pensary, from the year
1839 to the present time, upwards of 30,000, at the
cost only of about £2 , which sum includes the above-
mentioned debt, e small sum of Is. sd. per head.
T
veryh expenseswest
amountof everyconsistent sort havewit h
the been
ece reducednecessary
to thewants
of the Patients ; and unless the debt can be cleared off
and the subscriptions increased to upwards of £3OO, the
Committee must be under the painful necessity of closing
the Dispensary, to the great loss and discomfiture of the
Poor in the densely populated district in which it is
situated.
k i Poor
It
necessary to observe, that this Institution was not
established in opposition to the other Dispensaries, but to
co-operate with them in the charitable view of enabling
the Sick Poor to give Medical Advice and Medicines,
who otherwise would be compelled to go from the centre
of the Town to the North or South Dispensary, which
generally lost them a whole day.
Subscriptions and donations will be thankfully received
by the Treasurer, the Members of the Committee, at the
Dispensary, and at the different Newspaper offices.
ARTHUR HENDERSON,
Honorary Secretary and Treasurer.
Liverpool, 18th November, 1845.

DINNERS DAILY FROM TWELVE TO SIX.
DINNERS ALSO SENT OUT ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES

JULIUS MOTT and CO., in soliciting the support of
PRIVATE FAMILIES for their

NEW ESTABLISHMENT,
22, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET,

respectfully assure them that their OLD LONDON
GIN, at 10s. 6d. per GALLON,
will be found, in PURITY, STRENGTH, and RICH-
NESS OF FLAVOUR, entirely unequalled by anything
hitherto procurable in Liverpool, even at a much higher
price.
PURE BRITISH GIN is allowed to be the MOST
WHOLESOME of Spirits, when it is PURE, which, how-
ever, is not always the case. Mott and Co. beg to assure
their Friends that Policy as well as Principle would for-
bid them to practice any sort of adulteration, and they
are quite satisfied that the quality of their Gin will be its
own voucher in this respect.
Mott and Co. have recently obtained from their Dis-
tillers a new
COLONIAL BRANDY,
rectified in London from Colonial Fruit Spirit, which
they are offering at 16s. per Gallon. This Brandy will
be found little inferior in quality or strength to the real
French, and at HALF THE PRICE.
22, South Castle-street, Liverpool.

The Committee beg leave thankfully to acknowledge the
following donations :

1845.
Nov. I.—From the Committee of Liverpool
Register and Shipping . £s 0 0
It 12.—From John Formby, Esq... lO 0 0
~ 21.—R. H. Sherlock. Esq
~ ~ M. J. Whitty, Esq •• •
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TO:
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IeUEEIGN AND COLONIAL.

UNITED STATES.

(The subjoined is the most important part of the intelli-
gence brought by the steam-ships Great Britain and
Hibernia, which we published, together with much
fuller particulars, in second and third editions of the
STANDARD of Tuesday.]

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN

The Great Britain steam-shill,
anxion .ly looked for for several 0
at midnight on M
anticipat

mhoEe arrival has been
ys, came up the river
She did not, as was
2=311 ult., her ap-

m New York on the

mitted the ten conspirators (who bad recently been tried
and found guilty) to appeal to the highest tribunals.
The Caledonia, Lott, arrived at Boston from Liverpool
on the 3rd instant, after a passage of 15 days.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—Miss M. 0. Beardmore, Miss
and Master Paget, Mr. J. C. Conway, Mr. Marsh and
servant, Rev. E. Huntingford, Mr. Palliser, Mr. John
Anderson, Miss E. Wright, Rev. Mr. Loughman, Mr.
G. Read, Mr. J. H. Platt, Miss Hart, Mr. Peabody, Mr.
Adlard, Miss Adlard and sister, Mr. W. H. Mors., Mr.
J. H. Cooper, Mr. Victor Gervain, Mr. J. Swift, Mr. P.
Harris and lady, Mr. E. Gedney, Mr. Charpless, lady,
and family, Mr. P. Nicol, Mr. N. Twiname, Mr. E.
Way, Mr. Hallin, Mr. J. Crugar, Mr. J. W. Kenworthy,
Mr. J. R. Moorwood and lady, Miss Hall, Mr. Park-
hurst and lady, Mr. L. C. Bliss, Mr. W. A. Wilkes and
lady, Mr. Terrance, Mr. Gerdes, Don D. de Ormarchear,
Mr. G. E. Castellon, Mr. H. Harrison, Mr. J. E. Mi-
vart, jun., Mr. A. Conneson, Mr. Thomas and nephew.

pointed day, but was detained until the afternoon of the
28th, to which date she has brought advices from the
United States, being nine days later than those received
by the packet.ship Rochester, which reached this port on
Sunday. The detention in the arrival of the Great Britain
was occasioned by the breaking of the arms of her screw,
the particulars of which we gave in our town edition. The extraordinary express in anticipation of the
The steam-ship Great Western, which left this port on Bombay mail of the 15th of October, reached London
the 11th October, arrived out at New York on the morn-
ing of the 28th ult., the day the Great Britain sailed. on Friday afternoon. It brings intelligence of the
butchery by the Sikh soldiery of Jowahir Singh, the
There was a good deal of speculation afloat in New Wuzeer. His death was the result of a deep laid plot,
York as to the actual posture of the negociations between and effected in the most deliberate manner. From the
our government and that of the United States, respecting
beginning of September the troops had begun to throng
the Oregon territory, and some uneasiness was manifested
towards Lahore, where their demands forced the Queen-
lest delay should breed discord. A general impression
Mother to quit the fort and to take the boy King
prevailed that a proposition to refer the whole matter to
Dhuleep into their camp. The Queen-Mother and her
arbitration bad:been refused by the States government, brother, the Wuzeer, bad endeavoured to appease their
and as the period approaches for the:meeting of Congress,
violent clamour, but on the 21st of September the Queen
the first week in December, there was some feverishness
got into a well-protected palanquin, went to the camp,
exhibited as to how the President would treat the topic
and was treated with respect by the soldiers. The boy-
in his message. The New York Courier and Enquirer King, with his uncle the Wuzeer, followed on a state
hazards a surmise that the message will not be less de-
elephant. On reaching the camp the division formerly
cided in maintaining the claim of that country to the
commanded by General Court received the King, and
whole of Oregon than was the inaugural message of the
led him near the teat in which his mother was resting.
President, to which exception was taken in this country.
They ordered the elephant's guide to cause the animal to
The Kingston (Canada) Chronicle says, that a splendid
kneel, and because he did not instantly do so, by a shot
formation of slate had been discovered within forty miles
in the side severely wounded him. The elephant knelt,
of the navigable communication of Lake Huron ; the
some soldiers approached and took the boy-King off,
quarry contains, it is said, slates of all dimensions and
and sent him to his mother. The elephant was then
thicknesses. Inexhaustible quantities of white marble
forced to rise, and when the animal stood up, several
had also been discovered a few miles below Kingston.
shots were fired at Jowahir Singh, who was still on its
Governor Brown, of Tennessee, delivered his inaugural
back. The affrighted Wuzeer attempted to parley and
address on the 14th ult. He says, that he always main-
made great promises, but the soldiers were irritated at
tained that the rates of the tariff were too high, its discri-
the reported death, by one of the Wuzeer's agents, of
minations unjust, and that it ought to be greatly reduced.
He looked forward with confidence to the next United Peshora Singh, and they speedily killed the Wuzeer.
Two of his favourites were soon after slain, and the three
States Congress to make impartial and honest alterations
bodies were burned. The Queen-Mother and her son,
in the tariff. He congratulated the Legislature on the
the King, remained prisoners in the camp for one night,
annexation of Texas, and the peaceful manner in which
but were permitted on the following day to return to the
it had been accomplished, and says, on the Oregon ques-
Palace. The troops wish Gholab Singh should become
tion,—" With the acquisition of Texas, and the succ,ess-
Wuzeer, but he has declined the dangerous honour.
ful maintenance of their title to Oregon, the States would
They are bewildered as to whom to trust the government
present a spectable of territorial grandeur unequalled in
to, and they have been obliged to request the Queen-
the world. He had unbounded confidence, that though
Mother to perform the duty until they can find a man
the States would not retain more of Oregon than they
that will satisfy their demands. They have several times
were fairly entitled to, they would never surrender one
threatened to depose Dhuleep (whose legitimacy as the
square acre of it to the unjust demand of any nation on
son of old Runjeet they stoutly deny), and to raise Dewa
the earth." I Singh, a son of Shere Singh, to the throne. One of the
From Aransas dates to the 12th ult. had been received
sources of their hatred to Jowahir Singh is stated to he
at New Orleans. The troops were well, and no move-
a rumour, which was believed, that he had applied for
meat has been made upon the Nueces. The Indians
aid to the British Government of India. This atrocity is
made an attack upon a settlement on Mission River, and
calculated to have some influence on the decision of the
drove off all the cattle. The inhabitants were so fortu- Governor-General.
nate as to escape. The attack is supposed to have been
The state of the Nizam's dominions was beginning to
instigated by a desire to avenge the late attempt upon the
life of the guide of the Texian Secretary of War to Cor-
excite alarm. Some instructions for the amelioration of
the administration of the revenue had been sent by the
pus Christi. Governor-General, which will, if rejected, be in all
A railroad from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Ca-
likelihood enforced by an army. The Nizam's troops
lifornia, exceeding 900 miles in length, is proposed.
have not been paid for 16 months.
LIST OF PASSENGERS. Burmagh is likely to be productive of scme remarkable
From Yew York.—Mr. E. Hope, Captain J. A.
events within a short time, in consequence of Thara-
Robertson, 82nd Regiment, Mr. D. Whitley,. Mr.NW..
Hodnett, Mr. G. F. Orde, Lady, and three children, Ir. waddle's wishing to name a favourite successor. His
W. B. Wedgewood, Mr. G. Tomes, Mrs. C. Whittaker, other sons object to this arrangement; the chief opponent
Mr. T. O'Connell. Mr. Tuckness, Mr. J. Al Cuthbert, is the Prince of Prome. Tharawaddie sent for him, but
Lieut. Davis, R. N., Mr. W. King, Mr. Williams, Mr. he would not attend his father's court. Tharawaddie
asked for
J. M'Call, Mr. Henry Ibbotson, Mr. Henry Cocker, and one of his own chiefs, named Woon, lately
Mr. Edwards.—Total 23. Governor at Rangoon, and upon that chief's appearance
I Tharawaddie accused hies of having visited the Prince of
Prome, and then speared him to death. The Prince of
Prome assembled forces, and was preparing to depose the
bloody tyrant Tharowaddie, who has already caused
several of those whom he suspected to be executed.
Amongst the deaths may be mentioned that of Schah
Zemaun, of Cabul, whose threats of invading India filled
Asia with hopes and fears 48 years ago. He was after-
wards dethroned by his brother and blinded, and lived
many years a dependent on British generocity. He died
of cholera at Loodiana last month.
The intelligence from China extends to the Ist of
September. It is principally confined to the dissatis-
faction of the colonists at Hong Kong, who complain of
being treated with injustice, and who have appealed for
redress to the home Government.
The fall of rain was very scant this season in the
Bombay presidency, and apprehensions of a famine were
entertained.
The Government Railway Commission had returned
from Burdv'an, and a bridge over the Hooglyat, or near
Calcutta, was talked of. The railway company was also
fairly under way. Mr. Stephenson was to leave Calcutta
about the end of the month, and proceed over the whole
of the line to the north-west provinces by way of Mirza-
pore and Benares, Agra, Delhi, Kurnaul, and the other
stations, to Ferozpore, returning by the Gauzes to Cal-
cutta, where he was expected early in March.
sew -

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Hibernia arrived in the river
on Tuesday morning, soon after 11 o clock, with advices
from New York to the 31st ult. inclusive, being three
days later than those brought by the Great Britain.
The Hibernia left Boston on the Ist inst. and Halifax
on the sth, at seven P If, during a thick fog, touched on
the southernmost point of Cape Race, was immediately
backed off, and, as a precautionary measure, taken into
St. Johns Newfoundland, when it was found she was very
little injured, and in two days she proceeded on her
voyage. This of course sufficiently accounts for the delay
in the arrival of the vessel. The greatest credit is given
by the passengers to the commander and his crew, for
their seamanlike conduct.
It was rumoured that Mr. Packenham, the British Mi-
nister at Washington, finding there is little hone of ad-
justing the Oregon question, has proposed to leave the
whole territory in its present position for twenty years,
under the joint protection of England and the States, and
with the stipulation that at the end of that period its then
inhabitants may attach themselves to either country, or
erect themselves into an independent sovereignty as they
may prefer. The New York papers hope that this ru-
mour will prove authentic. We don't believe there is
any ground for it. The wish is, no doubt, on the part of
our transatlantic neighbours father to the thought.
Much excitement still existed relative to the Mormons,
who are represented as " squatting" down in large num-
bers in various parts of the country and helping them-
selves to cattle and any moveable property that they met
with.
The New York Courier publishes a letter from the
Hon. Caleb Cushing, their late Minister to China, rela-
tive to the claim of English bondholders upon California,
in which he states that the hypothecation of 100,00 O,COO
of acres of land in California, Texas. Chihuahua, New
Mexico, and Senora, is permanent until the wholedebt
be paid, and the right of locating the deferred bonds in
California, Texas, Chihuahua, and New Mexico, also con-
tinues until these are paid, it being a condition inserted
in the bonds.

INDIA AND CHINA

LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston.—Mr. John
Campbell and lady, Miss Cripps, Mr. G. Duxberrv, and
servant, Mr. J. C. Bates, Mr. Lisart Thomas, Mr. Mose-
ley, Mr. Leod, R. Rierry, Mr. E. G. Roberts, W. H.
Richards, Mr. 0. A. Norris, Mr. J. E. Kendall, Mr. J.
Scott, Mr. W. Cripps, Mr. J. Cripps, Mr. A. Sellers,
Lt. Col. G. Everett, and two servants, Alr. G. Homan,
Mr. Bellhouse, Mr. H. Stowell, Le Coant Oremond d'
Obrante and servant, Mr. G. Virtue, Mr. W. Rogers,
Mr. H. Schondoff, Mr. Smith, Mr. G. Gebson, Mr.
Fisher, Mr. H. Coggell, Mr. A. Colville, Mr. W. Webb,
Mr. W. Corbett, Jas. Bowden, Rev. Mr. M'Leod, Mr.
Graham, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr. Bottomley, Dr. E. A.
Kettridge, Mr. M'Kenzie, Mr. Baker, Mr. Lune.
From Halifax.—Mr J. Outram, P. S. Archibald, Miss
Greay, Mr Mann, W. Colville, Capt. Fitzherbert, Col.
Kerby, 12 non-commissioned officers.
From Newfoundland.—Lt. Bailey, Mr. Bloomfield.
Total, 66.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

The steam-ship Great Western, B. R. Mathews, com-
mander, which left the wharf, New York, at twenty mi-
nutes past two on the 6th instant, reached this port on
Friday morning, at two o'clock, having made the passage

All accounts from Pennsylvania concur i❑ the opinion 1
that the interest on the state debt, which falls due on the
Ist of February, will be promptly paid.
A. dreadful fire has occurred at the Dardanelles, by
which 600 houses, shops, &c., besides two mosques, a
synagogue, and a public bath, have been destroyed.
An edict was promulgated on the 23rd ult., by order
of Mehemet Ali, prohibiting the exportation of grain or
pulse from the ports of Egypt.
A grand scheme is talked of in Holland, being no less
than the draining up of the Zuyder Zee, the whole of
which was dry laud a few centuries ago.
The police of Brussels, says the Brussels Gazette, last
week made a seizure, at the shop of a charcutier, of 70
kilogrammes of horse flesh, in a state of putrefacti, n,
which had been prepared for making Bolognasausages.
A letter from Christiansand, in Norway, of the 26th
ult., say s :—During the violent tempests which have pre-
vailed on our coast, without interruption, for more than a
fortnight, more than eleven pilots have lost their lives in
attempting to board vessels in want of their aid.
THE POTATO CROP IN CANADA.—The American pa-
pers publish a government order, dated Montreal, Octo-
ber 18th, authorising the import of potatoes, free of duty,
from any other British possession in north America, in
consequence of the failure of the potato crop in that pro-
vince.

in thirteen days six hours. She brought fifty-too pas-
sengers, a list of whom we subjoin.
The relations between the United States and England
formed still the great topic of conversation in all circles.
On all bands the question was asked, what would be the•
temper of the President's message, and of the debates in
the approaching meeting of Congress. The Union—a
newspaper published at Washington, under the auspices
of the President and his cabinet—maintains, in the most
unequivocal terms, the absolute right of the United States
to the whole of the Oregon territory, down to the Russian
line ; and the New York Herald states, that the manner
in which the declaration is made, reveals that it is a posi-
tive, though informal, communication of the President
and his cabinet, previous to the opening of Congress.
The Herald then continues as follows The present
government of the United States, then, has fairly taken
up its position on the Oregon question, declaring it to
have the best title to that territory, from the Mexican
boundary on the south, to the Russian line on the north,
thus excluding the British claim to any portion of that
region. Such a declaration brings our government, it will
be at once perceived, into immediate collision with Eng-
land, and the result no one can foretell. The interest and
importance therefore of the coming session of Congress
and of the Parliament of England are increased to an ex-
tent not easily to be exaggerated. Indeed, nest within
the last quarter of a century have we had a crisis at which
more interest has attached to the proceedings of the legis-
lative bodies of both countries. We are in the commence-
ment of a new era. Daily the nations of Europe are
undergoing change, and forming new relations. France
and England, former rivals on land and water, are now
united in the closest brotherhood, and appear to be alarm-
ed at the progress of the United States, and the influence
which this country is destined to exert upon the destinies
of the world hereafter. Every thing is in the womb of
the future. We must wait with patience and fear on both
sides of the water."
Quotations for stocks had declined slightly. Sterling
exchange closed firm at St to 9 per cent. premium. The
demand on the morning the steamer sailed had been very
good, hut the rates had fallen off since the previous day
about per cent. There had been a decline in prices at
the New York cotton market since the arrival of the Ca-
ledonia, and the market was very inactive.
All was quiet at Texas. Emigration from the States
and Europe was increasing, and the culture of cotton and
sugar was spreading.
C kN ADA.—There is no particular news of importance
from Canada. The health of the Governor-General con-
tinues comparatively good, and he regularly attends to his
official duties. The influx of emigrants into the province
has this year been large, and the increased wants of Eng-
land, in the shape of breadstnffs, will still further increase
the arrivals next year.
Intelligence from Port-au-Prince to the 17th of October
had been received. On the 12th the President issued a
decree prohibiting all relations with the insurgents of the
eastern portion of the island. The ports and shore of the
East are declared closed to foreign commerce. All ships
engaged in contravention of this order are to be confis-
cated, and all persons prosecuted as smugglers. Every
Haytian engaged in relations of commerce or other rela-
tions with the insurgents is declared an accomplice in the
revolt. Foreigners resident in the republic for a like
offence shall be banished, and shall lose besides the right
of patent for every establishment allowed them in the
island. Letters and merchandise from the proscribed
district, whether in Haytian or foreign vessels, shall be
confiscated to the profit of the State. Several merchants
bad been ordered to leave Port-au-Prince instanter, and
a report prevailed on the 16th of October that all French-
men were also ordered to leave. The President had or-
dered that there be no more executions, and had per-

KEEPING THE WORD OF PROMISE TO THE EAR
—An elderly Portuguese lady, having pledged herself to
make a pilgrimage to a distant shrine, barefoot, her friends
persuaded her that fatigue would prove fatal. She per-
sisted, however, in going to the shrine, and in going
barefoot; but she went in a sedan chair!
THE PASHA AND THE PORTRAIT.--The portrait of
Queen Victoria was presented to the Pasha, at Cairo, on
the 24th ult., by the British Consul, Colonel Barnett.
That functionary was met at the entrance of the citadel
by an entire regiment under arms, and Artim Bey and
Edhem Bey introduced him to Mehemet Ali, who stood
up to receive the picture, and raised it to his head as a
mark of respect. The gift of Her Majesty appeared to
have produced a deep impression on the Egyptians.
THE POTATO CROP IN THE STATES.—The New York
Herald has the following relative to the potato disease :
—" In all those sections where the disease prevailed last
year, little or none of it has been experienced the present
year, or at least we hear no complaint. In Canada, Nova
Scotia, and perhaps a part of Maine, where it did not go
last year, it has this year been quite destructive. The
brought has made the crop a short one in most parts of
' the country, but not the potato disease."
THE BRITISH TROOPS AG AIN REPULSED AT NEW ZEA-
LAND.—The Indian Mail brings also news of a third re-
pulse of the British force by the New Zealanders, in
which Lieutenant Philpotts, of her Majesty's ship
Hazard, and Captain Grant, of her Majesty's 58th Regi-
ment, were killed. Lieutenant Beattie, of the 99th Regi-
ment, died of his wounds. Tha action took place on the
Ist of July, in an attempt to take John Heki's pah by
storm. The force was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel
Despard ; it consisted of nearly 500 men, one-fourth of
whom were either killed or wounded.
AN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING CITY.—The ten
manufacturing companies of Lowell consume annually
12,000 tons of coal, 3,070 cords of wood, 75,549 gallons
of sperm, and 19,000 of other oil. Of the whole popula-
tion of Lowell, 6,320 females and 2,915 males, togethtr
9,235, are employed as operatives, either in tho mills or
connected with other mechanical employments. There
are 33 mills and about 650 houses belonging to the cor-
porations. The capital invested in manufacturing and
mechanical enterprises is 12,000,000 dollars. There are
made in Lowell every week 1,459,150 yards of cloth, or
75,868,000 yards per year. The cotton worked up every
year is 61,100 bales. The printed calicoes made annually
amount to 14,000,000 yards. The payment annually
amounts to more than 1,500,000 dollars, and the annual
profit of this immense business has been estimated at the
same amount, or at about 121 per cent.
WEST INDIES.—The 'West India papers received by
the Thames give a cheering view of the prospect of affairs
in those localities. The addresses of the leading autho-
rities of Jamaica and Barbadoes on the opening of the
Legislative Assemblies both refer with satisfaction to the
position and progress of trade in their districts. The
sugar crop at Jamaica is said to have been good, and the
result of Coolie labour was, as far as at present tested,
beneficial to the estates on which it had been employed.
Railways were still attracting attention in the West
Indies, not only in respect to those started for the im-
provement of conveyance in Jamaica, but also in behalf
of those connected with Barbadoes, Trinidad, and
Demerara. According to the address delivered at the
opening of the Legislative Council of Barbadoes, the
treasury of that island is in an easy and comfortable
condition. A want of rain bad been experienced, which
p
called forth some complaints from the lanters.
M mmp
ONTE VlDEo.—lonrtant advices from Monte Video
are published in the Toulon lournals, of the 16th instant
It is stated that the Duconedic, which bad arrived there
positive intelligence that
abandon the siege of that
fromorib e Ablaodnte been Video,
compelled
city. Rosas had declared war against France and
England ; and it was reported that he had already taken
possession of several trading vessels of the two countries.
Since the arrival of the Ducouedic a report has been
current in Toulon that Admiral Leine, who is in com-
mand of the French squadron in the Plata, has sent to
require from the Government a reinforcement ,of ships,
swaiytsh, vAeirra.l
Atiheobudseavnidne, ltroopslate
English d'Affaires at Buenos. The Globe, of Saturday,
Ayres, is arrived at Paris. He has had an audience of
M. Guizot. It is reported that Mr. Mandeville is
authorized by itosas to make proposals to the French and
English Governments for the adjustment of the present
troubles in the Rio de la Plata."