The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-21 00:00:00

COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK

A fair averag e demand for Cotton to-day, and about 4,000
have been sold at steady and full market prices for American
descriptions. Sales of the week are 34,030 bales, of which
speculators take 5,000, and exporters 2,800, leaving 26,230
bales for consumers, being more than they have taken for
some time. Egyptians arc d. dearer this week; all other
kinds without change.

The Morning Post says, it is probable that Viscount Allen
will be elected to the vacant Mastership of Dulwich College.

On Monday night, at Glasgow, two cotton stores were de-
stroyed by fire with their valuable contents.

The Very Rev. Principal Macfarlane is to be proposed as
moderator of the ensuing General Assembly.
The effect of the Waltham poWder mills explosion was
sensibly felt at the town of Tonbridge, a distance of nearly
fifty miles.

On Wednesday week, a tinker, of Hansell, a married man,
murdered a woman with whom he was cohabiting, at Merthyr-
Tydfil.

Mr. Steele and Mr. O'Connell's eldest son are going out
to America, to agitate the repeal of the union there. The con-
tributions to the repeal association, last week, were £5OO.
The government has, it is understood, intimated to its
adherents among the potions, that they had better be pre-
pared to present in case of any secession.---elberdeen Herald.
Her Majesty's ship Druid has arrived from China, bring-
ing a further arrival of sycee silver on account of the ransom ;
it has been bought by the bank at 4s. 11 id. per ounce.

The quantity of malt used in the distilleries, in 1841, was
3,947,604 bushels ; in 1842, 3,796,961 bushels. The number
of barrels of beer exported to foreign countries in 1841 was
166,975 ; in 1842, 143,538.

Pastoral letters have been issued by the bishops, ordering
collections in the various Churches for providing religious in-
struction in conformity with the principles of the Church of
England, in China. _

The nomination of candidates for East Suffolk took place
on Tuesday, when the show of hands was in favour of Mr.
Adair, and:a poll was demanded for Lord Rendlesham. The
polling takes place on Friday and Saturday.

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MUTINY IN A WORKHOUSE.-At Brompton workhouse
(a branch establishment in the parish of St. George, London,)
on Saturday last a mutiny took place amongst the inmates,
which the master endeavouring "to quell was so severely
treated that he died the same evening.

Considerable alarm, which appears to be well-founded, is
at this moment prevalent in St. Giles's and other metropo-
litan parishes (Whitechapel and Kentish-town), in conse-
quence of the appearance of what is considered to be an epi-
demic of a very fatal nature.

On Tuesday, a child, three years old, residing in Parlia-
mentary-road, Glasgow, got hold of a table knife, and was
proceeding up stairs after its mother, when its foot slipped,
and the knife passed into its mouth, and, cutting some vital
part in the throat, produced almost instant death.
Another monomaniac, a French woman, was examined at
Bow-street on Saturday, on the charge of attempting to
gain an entrance into Buckingham Palace, for the purpose
of dethroning the queen. The insanity of the unfortunate
woman was fully established, and she was removed in cus-
tody.

"ROOF 01, DISTRESS.—A! the Lambeth-street (London),
police-office, the sitting magistrate read a letter from a young
man earnestly entreating to be committed to prison to save
himself from starvation. He stated himself to be the orphan
of a clergyman highly connected, and his account turned out
to be quite correct.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—A brace of partridges having
been started by a lady who was walking in the fields a few
days since, near High Roothing windmill, one of the birds,
in rising, flew against the sails of the mill, which were at the
time in motion, and instantly fell lifeless to the ground.—
Essex paper.
Aartt;sr OF A MURDERER.—On Tuesday last constable
Kearney arrested a man, named Murtha Walsh, on private
information, at Mountbolus, for the murder of a man, named
Cleary, about thirty years ago, on Buckley-hill, within a
quarter of a mile of Tullamore. He absconder; at the time,
and could not be heard of till now.—Leinster paper.

STATISTICS OF THE PORT OF DUBLIN.—The sum of
£Bl,OOO, the amount of the Customs collection for the port
of Dublin, during the month of March in the present year,
was composed of £29,000 for tea, £22.000 for sugar, £22,000
for tobacco, £3,000 for wine ; the remaining £4,000 was
contributed from the trifling duties now levied on the various
trifling articles rateable under the new tariff.

THIS SCOTTISH CHURCH.—We hear from a quarter which
leads us to give credit to the statement, that the government
intend to bring in a measure for settling the affairs of the kirk
a few days before the meeting of the general assembly. The
heads of the bill have been seen by parties in Scotland in-
terested in the matter, and we understand they are such as
will satisfy the " forty thieves," and the Glasgow " me-
morialists."—Glasgow Chronicle.

PORTUGAL—Accounts have been received from Lisbon to
the 10th instant. The alteration projected by Government
in the organization and endowment of the Board of Public
Credit, had excited much alarm amongst the holders of
bonds of the internal debt, and petitions, signrd by 622 of
them, had been presented to the Chamber of Deputies against
the proposed measure. This arrival does not bring any fur-
ther information respecting the tariff negotiations.
MRS. Woon THE VOCALIST.—It is with sincere and
heartfelt pleasure that we are able to announce that the
wish expressed in our notice of this celebrated lady's remo-
val to a convent at York, has been fulfilled. We are autho-
rised to state that on Tuesday evening last she arrived at her
husband's residence, at Woolley Moor; the pain and anxiety
of being absent from husband and child being greater than
her religious enthusiasm.— Wakefield Journal.
POPISH BAZAAR.—A Bazaar has been held at Manches-
ter during the present week, the proceeds of which, it is sus-
pected, are to be devoted to the founding. of a monastery
in Leicestershire. The receipts of the two first days amoun-
ted to £537. Os. 3d. The Countess of Shrewsbury presided
at one of the stalls, assisted by the Misses Newton, daughters
of the Rev. Robert Newton, Wesleyan methodist minister;
the conversion of these ladies to popery caused some sense-
t the time.

STEEPLE-CHASE WITH HoasEE THAT HAD BEEN
HUNTED WITH THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS.—Ooe of the pret-
tiest chases of the season came off in the neighbourhood of
Hayes, on Wednesday last, for a sweepetakes of 2 sovs, with
a purse added, for horses standing within ten mites of Hayes
that have been hunted with her Majesty's stag-hounds.
Four came to the post :—Mr. Nicholson's Jack-the-Giant-
Killer (owner), Mr. T. Shackell's Kildare (Mr. F. Pomell),
Mr. Fagg's Dark Susan (Mr. Burge), Mr. Chantry's Stranger
(Mr. C. Oldaker.) Stranger took the lead for the first two
miles, when he was headed by Kildafe and Dark Susan over
three or four fences, but finding the pace too severe they re-
signed the lead to Stranger, who came in a very pretty win-
ner by several lengths. The beauty of the country drew
hundreds to the spot, who were well pleased with the day's
amusement.—London Paper.

erozepo're was all over,
LORD ELLENI3OROTJGH AND GENERAL NOTT.—(Extract
of a letter.)—General Nott seems a. soldier and a gentleman.
When the ceremony at F Nott went
after breakfast, to call on Lord Elleaborough ; and not
having beeu admitted, he was going await,
on leavidg hls card.
Lord Ellenborough sent hfter and brun
glit him back ; and
whilst Nott was standing in the tent, up came some one, and
shook him warmly by both hands " I am delighted
to see you, General Nott. This is, saying,
one of the happiest mo-
ments of my life." Nott looked at him from right to left,
but could not recognize him, as he replied, " Heally, I am
very glad to see you, whoever you are, ; but four years'
absence from India have changed the faces of my old friends,
that at this moment I do not remember you." "Never
mind, I am one of your friends; I am Lord Ellenborough."
—Standard.

few dAyil 1p hivi of ion in 4 gaNtii 1,041
ii,towtolo thypw pg a ;mem? lito.l youpit pmlisfanta
soroewbst uurlmialy wade their Orat looding in this ;hop of
Mr. Campbell, baker, at the head of Archibald-place, Lau,
riston, probably attracted by the sweets and confections which
it contained. Mr. Campbell cc ntrived to collect the greater
part of the fugitives into a large paper bag, and sent them
back to their owner.—Edinburgh paper.

PUNISHMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION—A letter from a
private soldier contains the following :—" If they (the con-
victs) misconduct themselves in the least before they get
their tickets, their masters can take them to any magistrate
for the least petty misdemeanour, and get them from 50 to
150 lashes, besides returning them to government; and if
they are found guilty again, they are sent to an ironed gang
for one, two, or three years, where I really think their con-
dition is worse than any African slave's ever was. They are
set to work at quarries, pulling and hewing stones, from day-
break till sunset, with heavy irons rivetted on their legs, and
a soldier placed over them; and if they refuse to do anything
he orders them ; or give him the slightest insolence or even
a sour look, the sentry can take them before the officer in
command and get them flogged, from 50 to 200, according to
the degree of the offence. If a convict makes the least at-
tempt to escape, or comes within ten paces of the sentry,
without his permission, he must fire at him, or stand the
consequence of a court-martial. Now, there is another class
of double-convicted felons—that is, those who, after being
in this ironed gang, are again found guilty of robbery. They
are then sentenced to seven or fourteen years, or life, to a
penal settlement, where they slave from morning till night,
and no recompense for their labour. Directly after our
regiment came to Sydney, I was sent on duty to Sockatoo
Island, where all the worst characters are sent to. It is
an island out in the centre of the straits, between New South
Wales and Van Dieman's Land. There are upwards of
300 prisoners on the island, and 42 soldiers to guard them.
They are divided in eight watches, and do duty the same as
on board of a ship. I arrived there on the 10th of July with
the detachment, and every thing went on very well till the
18th of September, when it was reported that the prisoners
intended to make a rush in the evening. We were immedi-
ately under arms, and every thing got ready to receive them,
but I expect that the prisoners saw we were aware of their
intentions, for they did not attempt anything that night; but
we were kept up all night and the following, but nothing
occurring, it was thought to be only a false alarm, and the
third night, we that were of the watch went to bed. I had
fallen asleep (being tired with my two nights' watch), and
dreaming of home and mild tang syne,' when I was awoke
by hearing a shot, and a call for the guard to turn out. We
instantly sprang up, seized our pieces, and went out, when
the first thing we saw was the prison door open, and about
half the prisoners out, rushing towards us, with pickaxes and
crowbars, and two pieces they had taken from the sentries
after having murdered them. We immediately formed and
fired at them a volley, which was very wrong, as we ought to
have commenced file-firing, as before we could load again
they were upon us, and we were obliged to come to the
charge. In the meantime some of the prisoners had got to
the powder magazine, right behind us, and exploded it,
killing seven of our men, and wounding a great many more;
but, thank God, I escaped in the confusion. The prisoners
rushed down to the wharf, slipped the cable of the ration-
boat lying there, but not more than 43 could get into it
before we were upon them, and they were obliged to put to
sea. We immediately charged the main body that was left,
and they very soon gave in. In a few days a detachment
of 50 came to relieve us, and we were sent up the country
after those that had escaped. We went through the bush in
the direction of Port Philip, for 200 miles. till at last we
got intelligence that they were encamped with some native
blacks, near Towrang. We instantly started off, and :thou,
twelve o'clock at night we found them. We immediately
surrounded them, and took them all prisoners to Woolloo-
mowlloo gaol, where they were tried, and 27 hung in less than
six days afler they were taken. We then marched to head-
quarters, where we were welcomed like so many warriors
returned from the fight."

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TUESDAY, APRIL 18.—Wind variable and light.
A RRlvan.—John Dunlop, Choate, from Mobile—Massachusets,
Wilson, from New Orleans—Daniel Video, Klein, from Amsterdam.
SAILED.—Ann, Greed, for Rio Janeiro—Nelson, Thompson, for
Carbonear—Syren, Bailie, and Prompt, Morton, for Montreal—
Calypso, Glass, for Quebec—Shaw, Hewitt; Donegal, Hodgson;
Trafalgar, Kennedy, and Elizabeth, Wilson, for Newfoundland and
Quebec—Susannah Collings, Quance. and Jenny Jones, for Con-
stantinople—Rapid, White, for Stettin —Marr, Morgan, for Ham-
burgh—Diana, Schoofer, for Embden—Thomas Tattersall, Maguire,
for Hammerfeast —Cadiz, Cumming, for Bilboa—Diana, Lindberg,
for Malta— Panope, Pipon, for Gibraltar—St. Cloud, Emerson, and
Hindoo, Porter, for New Orleaus—Vigilant, Simons, and Pro-
videntia, Deswelgh, for Ostend—Nyverheid, Lieveus, for Ostend
and Bruges.

Eliza Killick, Davies, hence at Gonaives
Devonia, Long, from Gibraltar, at Cadiz
Fernandez, Contente, and Dolores, Cove, hence at Lisbon
Douro, Smith, hence at Oporto
Emma Graham, Ferguson, and Ann Paley, Chapman, sailed from
Oporto for this port loth April

Experiment, ileatirerand. from Buenos Ayres, at Antwerp
Neptunus, Bakker, hence at Helvoet

John Denniston, from Mobile to this port, was spoken 12th
March, in lat. 28, long. 79

Acadia. from Mobile to this port, was spoken 18th March, in lal
34, long. 67

Royal Sovereign, (steamer) Brownless, hence for Batavia, was
spoken gth April

DINGLE, April 13.—Part of the stern of a vessel was washed on
shore hear Brandon Head, 1i th instant, marked " Barbara Ann, St.
John's, N.B, ;" also a bottle, with the name " Julien Bedoe" on
it, together with several pieces of wreck, apparently not long in
the water ; some fragments of spars, and pieces of sail, marked
" Maworth, maker, Liverpool," have also been picked up.
FALMOUTH, April 16.—The Dale, Farley, from Liverpool to New
Orleans, sprung a leak'and foundered about two miles off the Rock
of Lisbon 7th instant ; crew saved. The Fellowship, from Liver-
pool to Halifax, (out 35 days,) with damage, and intending to put
into the Western Islands to refit, was spoken 2nd instant, in lat.
38, long. 32, by the Sportsman, arrived off Falmouth.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19.—Wind S. light,

A a nivEn.—United States, Deccan, from New Orleans— Roseius,
Collins, and Liberty, Norton, from New York—Pembrokeshire Lass,
Davies, from Gallipoli—Prince of Wales, Stewart, from Corunna—
Wm. Rushton, Forster, from -Lisbon—Johauna Maria, from Dordt
—and Flora, Margenson train Rotterdam.

SAlLED.—Arkwright. Dambrell, for Ascension—Peruvian, Pit-
ketqly, for Bombay—William Wright, Curlet, for Jamaica—Mary
Barry, Searle, for Trinidad—ilibernia (steamer), Judkins, for
Halifax and Boston—Maria Brennan, Milligan, for Montreal—
Florence, Decker, for Havana—Gesina Johanna, Lukens; Maria
Anna, Hagedorn ; Magdalena, Buining; Hillechiena Catherina,
Mooi; Groot Lankum, De Weerd, and Catherina Lypkeus, Menke.
ma, for Narva.

H.M.S. Alfred. (50) and Patridge, (10) from Rio Janeiro, at Monte
Video, previous to 11th February
Dorcas. Dailey, hence at Malta
. _

Oriental, Christmas, sailed from Smyrna for this port 19th Marc}
Auguste, Von Kirkhove, hence at Terneuse
Violet, hence for Demerara, was spoken in lat. 48, long. 10.
Britannia, (steamer) hence for Halifax, was spoken 12th April, al
8 a.m. in lat. 47, long. 31

Janet, Hutchinson, from Valparaiso and Milford at this port
The Mary Worrall was to sail in about fourteen days for Swansea
In lat. 3321, about 7 miles from the land, and about 33 miles nortl
of Tapucalmo Reef, discovered a reef not laid down in any chart
The next day arrived at Valparaiso.

THURSDAY, APKIL 20.—Wind S.S.E.
ARRIVED.—Isaac Allerton, Torry, from New Orleans—Robert
Kerr, Agnew, from Mobile—Franconia, Crabtree. from Savannal
—Nailer, from Maranham—Genessee, Jacks, from New Orleans—
Charles, Jenkins, from Waterford—Trifle, Williams, and Brilliant,
Dick, from Fowey—Gratitude, Lloyd, from Plymouth—Maria,
Lewis, from Newport—and Ocean, Hopkins, from Swansea.

Woodstock, from Charleston, at this port ; sailed 17th Marct
On gth April, in lat. 48, long. 21, spoke the Oromocto, hence to SI
John, N.B. On 13th, in lat. 4g, long. 13, spoke the St. Lawrenc(
hence to Boston.

Franconia, Crabtree, from Savannah, at this port, in 30 days.
On 2nd April, in lat. 43, long. 58, spoke the Fingalton, bound
to the westward. On 14th April, in lat. 49, long. 13, spoke the
Thistle, nound to the east. On ltith, in lat. 61, long. to, spoke the
Dauntless, from Apalachicola to Liverpool, with foremast sprung.
Bootle, Campbell, from Monte Video, at Cove
Adirondack, hence to Mobile, was spoken in lat. 19, long. 67
Fair Acadian, Loaciman, hence at St. John, N.B.
Fanny & Jane, Lovering, hence at Messina
Mary Holland, Plower, hence for Valparaiso, off the Smalls 14th
instant

Wm. Rushton, from Lisbon, has not arrived, as reported yester
day.

STROMNESg, April 10.—The Isabella, Robertson, from Liverpool
to Stettin, which got on the rocks at Hellya 2 ird ultimo, has dis.
charged her cargo, and has been put on the patent slip to repair.
PILNZANCE, April 17.—The Helena, Gialts, from Rotterdam to
Liverpool, which sunk 13th instant, about a mile from the shore,
has been weighed, and brought within 100 fathoms.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 20.

Wind at Holyhead S.E. light breeze at 6 a.m.; S.S.W. gentle
breeze at 9 a m. and 12 at noon, and S.W. fresh breeze in the
evening.

Off Holyhead, at 8 am. No. 2437, Creole, Bk, from Savannah
1323, Europe, A.S. at g a.m. from New York, and 0840, Prompt, 13k
at p.m. yesterday, outward bound.

Off Great Ormahead, at I p.m. No. 3M4, F.mma Graham, brig,
from Oporto, and 6183, John Denniston, at 2 p.m. from Mobile.
Several vessels inward bound.

AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED
Into Liverpool, from the 11th to the 17th inst. inclusive.
FROM IRELAND.
Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lamb
1213 130 5340 28 135 400
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