The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

AMERICA

The packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, which
left Nev. York on the Bth instant, arrived in the Mersey
about noon on Sunday last. .

The packet-ship Liverpool, Captain Eldridge, arrived
at New York on the 3rd, and the steamship Britannia,
Captain Hewitt, reached Boston on the afternoon of the
4th instant.

The principal subject of discussion in the New York
papers was the election in that city, which took place on
the 7th. The result was not certainly known when the
Patrick Henry sailed, but the general impression was,
that the entire Whig nominations for the city, and also
for the State Senatorship, had been successful.
A general improvement was visible in stocks, and the
sales on the 7th were to a large amount at advanced
prices. But little was doing in Exchanges. Bills on
London were held at 138 to 108. Money continued
abundant in all the chief cities.

The news by the steamer had induced holders of cotton
to ask higher prices, but no transactions of moment had
taken place. Nothing further had transpired regarding
the state of the crop. Flour was quoted at 4.75 for Ge-
nessve and 4.681 for Michigan. The market was looking

up.
It has already been mentioned that resolutions' have
been laid before the Canadian Parliament, on the subject
of the location to be adopted for the seat of government,
in substance recommending the selection of Montreal, and
that, in the legislative council, the government were
placed in a minority. A meeting was subsequently held
at Montreal, at which resolutions in favour of the re-
moval to that city were adopted, and the assembly called
upon their representatives to support the government on
flis question.

The advices from Mexico offer evidence that Santa
Anna was perversely embroiling himself on every side.
Troubles are growing up all around him. The British
minister had informed his countrymen, that all corres-
pondence with Mexico was broken off till he beard from
England. One writer says, "we may expect a British
fleet here soon," and another observes, "at present the
affair looks as if Santa Anna would soon have the English
thundering about his ears." Santa Anna seemed to be
of a similar opinion ; for it was said that he was about to
depart for Vera Cruz, "to put his fortifications there in a
fit state of defence against the attacks of the English."
The commissioners from Campeachy arrived at the capi-
tal on the 3d ult. ; but no arrangements were made with
them, and they were ordered to quit Mexico within forty-
eight hours. It was also rumoured that an angry corres-
pondence had taken place between the Mexican govern-
ment and the United States minister on the subject of the
annexation of Texas to the union. A. new tariff was about
to be issued, augmenting the duties to the extent of 60' per
cent. It was believed that a decree was forthcoming
which would prohibit foreigners from penetrating into the

aterior of the country.
The advices from Galveston are to-the 14th ult.

vertised to take place on the 14th in,tant, had excited al-
most universal discontent and reprobation.
There had been a total failure of the cotton crop on the
Brazos, Henry, and Colorado rivers, caused by a succes-
sion of heavy rains in the lower country. The planters in
the urper country were more fortunate. _

The pecan-nut crop (no inconsiderable source of re-
venue in Western Texas) will not amount to one-tenth of
that of last year. Corn was abundant everywhere; and
the little experimental crops of sugar, wheat, oats, and
tobacco had turned out well.

The passengers by the Madrid mail to Paris were at-
tacked and robbed by banditti on the 18th inst.
Mr. Macready is said to have netted 8,000 dollars by
his engagement at the Park Theatre, New York, and had
proceeded to Philadelphia.

The consecration of the cathedral of Versailles took
place on Sunday week. The building was commenced one
hundred years ago.

Bisnor's COLLEGE, CALCUTTA.—The Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel having requested its president,
the Archbishop of Canterbury, to nominate a professor of
Bishop's College in the place of Mr. Walter Kyte Coles,
deceased, his Grace has been pleased to appoint Mr.
George, Weideman, fellow of Catherine-hall, Cambridge.
"''''BRAZIL.—The following, from the agent at Falmouth,
was posted in the Exchange Newsroom on Sunday :
"The Brazilian minister at Monte Video had directed
the imperial naval commander to withhold the recognition
of the blockade of that port till the arrival of fresh instruc-
tions from the court at Rio. The French Consul-General
at Monte Video had posted in his office an official notice,
by order of his government, to the effect that the French
government required that Frenchmen should preserve the
same neutrality of attitude and conduct which France
herself wishes to maintain, and that the protection of the
national flag will be withheld from those who oppose."
THE Loss OF THE MEMNON.—We have much plea-
sure in announcing, that Lieutenant Edward Walter Agar
and Miss Dalzell (passengers), with the remainder of the
crew of the ill-fated Memnon, arrived safely at Aden on
the 9th of September. A letter received by the last mail
from Lieutenant Agar, dated " Aden, Sept. 13," after
describing their dreadful sufferings from thirst and the
heat of the sun, &c., confirmatory of the accounts already
published, goes on to state, that on the 2d, at noon, the
Hon. Company's brig of war Tigris (to all of them a
truly welcome sight) was seen rounding the Hulloola
point, with the preconcerted signal flying. About sunset
she anchored ; the unfortunate sufferers were speedily on
board, and in a few days happily landed at Aden.
" PROPERTY" IN AMERICA.—On Tuesday, at one
o'clock, an estate in Maryland, United States of America,
comprising about 12,470 acres, was put up for sale at the
Auction Mart. It was described to be rich in timber and
mineral rosources, and it was stated that a similar pro-
perty in England would be worth some hundred thou-
sands of pounds. It is bounded on the south by the
Chesopeake and Ohio canal, the Baltimore and Ohio
railway, and the river Potomac, and on the north by the
Great Western turnpike road from Baltimore and Wash-
ington to the Western States, and is only 17 days' jour-
ney from England. Some of the oak trees growing upon
it were 100 feet high and 60 feet from the lower limb, and
and the pines were 120 feet high. Not a single bidding
was offered, though the property had been most extensive-
ly advertised. To be sure not. Every man of sense
and honesty " repudiated" all idea of any such purchase.
—Morning paper.
IRON SHIP-BUILDING IN AMERICA.—Much aS we
have gone on increasing in the number of vessels built of
iron during the past twenty• five years, America seems to
be keeping up with us in the use of that material for ship-
building. Besides the number of steam-vessels now em-
ployed in that country, the Government fleet, which al-
ready embraces several iron ships of large tonnage, is now
shortly to be augmented by many additional large-size
vessels, and six iron revenue cutters—four to be fitted
with Hunter's submerged wheel, and two with Erickson's
propellers ; four of these vessels are for the Atlantic, one
for Lake Erie, and one for Ontario ; they are all 140 feet
long, 23 feet beam, and 10 feet deep in hold, will have
three masts, and be schooner rigged. The Government
are also building one iron vessel for the use of the topo-
graphical engineers, 96 feet long, 18 feet 6 inches beam,
and hold 8 feet, propelled by two of Hunter's submerged
wheels, 8 feet in diameter by 22 inches wide, and the pad-
dles 10 inches deep ; and at Erie an iron steam frigate is
being built of 700 tons burthen, and will be in operation
next season ; she will .be propelled by the common pad-
dle-wheel, with two inclined low-pressure engines. These
are all we are at present aware of as being in the course
of completion, which, however, taken into consideration
with the numerous iron ships which have been built in
this country (Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead, alone has
erected forty-five), and some on the continent, •
rat success which uniformly attends them as fast th.
t is more than problematical that an era has arrived in
the history of navigation, and that gradually,
the ancient material used in the construction 'of ships
give way to that universally distributed and most usefu.
element, iron, as insuring greater economy, speed, and
safety.

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DR. WOLFF'S MISSION TO BORIIARA.-Dr. Wolff
reached Constantinople on the 3rd instant, on his way to
Bokhara, to ascertain the fate of Lieut.-Colonel Stoddart
and Capt. Connolly. The object of his mission meets
with general sympathy in Constantinople.
Accounts have been received at Lloyds', from the Cape
of Good Hope, containing intelligence of a dreadful
storm on the night of the 26th of August, in and off the
coast of Algoa Bay, by which four valuable ships, valued
at between £300,000 and £400,000, were lost, as also seve-
ral lives. The first vessel lost was the Elizabeth Rowell,
of 320 tons. She weathered the storm for several hours,
but was at length driven a-shore, and shortly afterwards
went to pieces, her commander, Captain Wake, and his
crew, having saved themselves by taking to the long boat.
She had a miscellaneous cargo of considerable value.—
About midnight, during the raging of the storm, the bar-
que Seagull, 239, was seen to make for the bay, which she
ultimately reached, but suddenly foundered. and every
soul on board, fifteen in number, including the Captain,
Mr. Murray, perished. By this catastrophe, 10 widows
and 25 children were left destitute.—Another vessel, the
Laura, was also lost, with all hands, in Algoa Bay, dur-
ing the storm, the sea at the time running completely
over her, and dashing her with violence on the beach,
where in a few hours she went to pieces. This vessel
belonged to her ill-fated commander, Mr. Crockley, and
was from the port of Chester.—The Delhi, Mr. Byron
commander and owner, built at Shoreham, in 1833, was
also lost within a few miles of the spot where the Eiiza-
beth Rowell was wrecked, but the crew were saved. It
is feared, from the violence of the hurricane, that many
other vessels were lost. The Elizabeth Rowell was built
in 1839, at Sunderland, and the Seagull was launched at
Montrose, 1841.

ROMAN CATHOLICS IN CHlNA.—Extract of a letter
from Hong Kong, July 24 :—" There is a splendid Ca-
tholic Church here, with seven or eight Jesuits—ltalian,
French, Spanish, and Chinese! About seven or eight
masses every day, commencing at half-past five, the last
being about nine. It is a glorious sight on a morning. at
a place two years ago entirely uninhabited—now streets
rising and great edifices forming—to see a Catholic church
completed, and the religion of the state, the Anglicans
left to pray, as they best may in a mat hut. It is not the
last that I exult at, but it is odd, and it argues little life
for so potent a body to be so badly off. But to see in
the Catholic church realised the very dream of Tom
Moore, as related in his ' Travels of an Irish gentleman'
—to see kneeling on its peerless areas a representative of
every nation under Heaven—English, Spanish, French,
Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Lascars, and various nations
of India, in their picturesque costumes, Chinese, &c.,
whites, blacks, tawny, copper, and all colours under
which the form of man has ever appeared, soldiers and
civilians, excites a feeling more than I can express. To
behold the altar successively occupied by men of different
nations and languages, and to behold all equally inter-
ested—equally attentive—equally collected, and busied
about the same thing, displays an unity which those who
differ from us have no idea of. It shows the wisdom of
the church in adhering to an ancient tongue in her
liturgy ; for what language would you make use of here,
where not two of the congregation can convesse with one
another ?"—Tablet—(a Roman Catholic Paper.)

Loss OF THE STEAMER SARAH BARNES, AND OF
SIXTEEN LIVE s.—On the 24th ult. at noon, she crossed
the Galveston bar for this port. On the next morning,
the 25th, a considerable leak was discovered in her hold.
All the pumps were set, but they were able to keep her
free but for a short time only. At nine o'clock a.m., when
about seventy-five miles from Galveston, it having been
found that the water was gaining on the pumps, and that
both wind and sea were increasing, the Captain deter-
mined to run her into the Sabine river ; but, believing the
accomplishment of even this doubtful, from the rapid
manner in which the leak increased, he concluded to run
on the nearest shore. He directed her course accordingly,
the whole crew and passengers being in the meantime en-
gaged in baling her out. At half-past two o'clock, p.m.
the water, notwithstanding their exertions, had ascended
to the fires and the engine. Further efforts to counteract
the leak were therefore unavailing, and to save their lives
became the concern of all on board. They then set about
making rafts of the cotton bales, four bales to a raft, and
lashed together some spars for other rafts. She was now
sinking rapidly; the lead was heaved, and there were
found six fathoms of water. There was no confusion or
complaining; all seemed to be impressed with their peril-
ous position, and to save their lives was the object that
engrossed their attention. Orders were given to cast off
the boat's painter, and while doing this she sunk, it being
then forty-five minutes past four o'clock in the afternoon.
There were on board alto ether thirty souls ; of these
eighteen went on the rafts and twelve took the boat. Of
the former about five were saved, after drifting about three
days and three nights. Two of them landed on Galveston
Island and the other three on Bolivar point. Of the lat-
ter but three perished, who were passengers, two males
and a female, and they were lost in the breakers in landing
from the boat on the 26th.—New York Sun..

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY

The following letter has appeared in the columns of a
contemporary :

" TO THE REV. JOSEPH WOLFF

" Meerut, Sept. 18, 1843

. •
" REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,—I have just perused
your letter of the 2d of July last, in which you so notlly
offer to proceed to Bokhara, for the purpose of procuring
the release of those enterprising officers, Colonel Stoddart
and Captain Conolly, both of whom I had once the plea-
sure to know personally, and with the latter of whom I
was on the most friendly and intimate terms. Had it been
my good fortune to be present in England when your let-
ter first appeared, I should not have hesitated for an in-
stant to accept the invitation which you gave to any Bri-
tish officer to accompany you ; and I feel assured we could

ave manag• d between us to raise sufficient money for thL
Even now, if I am not unhappily too late, I
offer myself as your companion ; and I have just despatched
a letter to the secretary of the relief committee, urging
that a sufficient sum may be placed at your disposal to use
in any'case of necessity ; and I am not without hope that
my suggestion may be attended to.
" Though not enjoying the pleasure of your personal
acquaintance, I am sufficiently acquainted with your cha-
racter to feel confident that you are of all men the most
likely to succeed in the object you at present have in view.
I heard much of you when you were in India from our
mutual friends Darcy Todd and poor Arthur Conolly him-
self. My own name may be not quite unknown to you,
as one of those British officers who fell into the hands of
Akbar Khan in the retreat from Cabul, in January, 1842,
and who, after a captivity of more than eight months,
experienced so wonderful and unlooked-for a deliverance
when on the point of being carried into Turkistan with
their wives and families. The remembrance of my own
most providential liberation arms me with all the neces-
sary confidence and resolution for joining in this effort in
behalf of my less fortunate countrymen, who are still,
perhaps, languishing in a miserable imprisonment at Bok-
hara. To be in the most remote degree instrumental in
their deliverance I should esteem the greatest happiness
that could befal me, and, if when this letter shall reach
your hands, no more suitable companion should have
offered himself, we might perhaps manage to meet each
other at Bombay or some other place, thence to proceed
by whatever route shall seem to you most feasible. I
should not despair of reaching Bokhara in safety by the
route of Cabul, because I know that both Dost Mahomed
Khan, and his son, Mahomed Akbar, are interested in
the fate of Stoddart, with whom they were once shut up
in the same prison at Bokhara, and formed a personal
friendship in consequence. They would therefore be likely
to afford every facility to such a journey as you contem-
plate, and they might even feel some gratification in seeing
one who had been so recently a prisoner in their hands
appearing with so much confidence amongst them again,
and trusting to their feelings of humanity. The Khiva
route, however, which you propose, seems the most free
from risk, and easiest of accomplishment to one starting
direct from England.
" I will now tell you all I have been able to learn about
our two captive countrymen.
" The last authentic intelligence was contained in two
letters from Arthur Conolly himself to his brother John,
then a hostage at Cabal, in the summer of 1842, in which
he drew a melancholy picture of their situation in a pri-
son at Bokhara. For four months they had no change of
raiment, their dungeon was in a most filthy and unwhole-
some state, and teemed with vermin to a degree that ren-
dered life a burden. Stoddart was reduced to a skeleton,
and his body was covered with putrid sores. They had
with great difficulty prevailed on one of their keepers to
represent their wretched condition to the King, and were
then awaiting his reply, having committed themselves to
God, in the full assurance that unless soon released, death
must shortly terminate their sufferings. The King was
always described to us by the Affghans as a horrid and
merciless tyrant, being subject to fits of insanity, during
the continuance of which all around him trembled for
their lives. This picture of him may be overcharged, but
if true it is almost destructive of hope.
" You have, of course, heard the story derived through
Colonel Sheil, from a Persian who professed to have ac-
tually seen the graves in which Stoddart and Conolly had
been buried. This story has, however, been contradicted
by two highly respectable Jews, both of whom I know
intimately, and whom I believe to be honest, upright
men. They have received letters from friends at Bokhara
mentioning both officers as still alive ; and information
has been received from other quarters that the two graves
were those of two servants who had offended the King.
There was a popular belief at the time of their execution
that they were British officers, and this may have been
what misled Colonel Sheil's informant.
" Since writing the foregoing, I have received a reply
to my application from the Cabul Relief Committee, who
regret that they are debarred by the rules of the fund
from placing any money at your disposal, but expressing
their readiness to assist your undertaking to the utmost
of their power.
" Should my public duty in this country interfere with
the private wishes I have here expressed, you will still
believe I take the greatest interest in your proceedings,
and shall rejoice with all my heart to hear of your suc-
cess. God be with you, my dear Sir.
" Believe me yours, very faithfully,
" VINCENT EYRE,
" Lieutenant of the Horse Artillery."

purpose

A very successful herring fishing has sprung up in Loch-
fine this week, and the produce has been transshipped
from this port, per steamers, to Liverpool, Manchester,
The fishermen were taken quite by