The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

It is stated that the Chinese have concluded a com-
mercial treaty with the Americans upon the same terms
as that with England.
Dr. Lardner was stated, by the last accounts, to be at
Saratoga, a fast ionable American watering place, writing
letters for the New York Herald.
NAPLES.—An approaching eruption of Mount Vesu-
vius is feared, from the crater being full of burning lava,
and the surrounding springs quite dry.
THE OLDEST MINISTER IN THE WORLD.—The Rev.
Mr. Harvey, a baptist clergyman, 109 years of age, is
still living at Frankfurt, New York, and is engaged every
Sabbath in his profession !
AN UNFORTUNATE PURCHASE.—An Antwerp jour-
rtal states, that the British Queen will again be put up for
sale, and that if there should not be a bidding to the
amount of the estimate fixed by the Government survey-
ors, she will he broken up, and her materials be employed
in the construction of gun-boats.
YEAR CLOCKS.—A New York paper states that Mr.
Crane, of Newark, has invented a clock which goes for a
whole year, without being wound up more than once.
The improvements of the inventor consist in the novelty,
yet simplicity of the movements. There are but four
principal wheels.
WoLFF.—A letter received from Constantinople,
dated September 19 :—says, " I have this instant received
a letter from Persia, saving. Wolff writes from Bnkhara,
dated July 24 The Ameer has returned from Kohhan,
and presented me with a dress of honour, a horse and
one hundrAl tomauus, and I hope to set out in a few days
for Persia.' "

It appears by a letter from Vienna, of the 20th ult.,
that the Emperor of Austria has positively ordered the
suppression of lotteries in his states from the Ist of Ja•
nuary next. The persons who keep the lottery-offices,
and whose appointments were all for life, are to receive a
small pension and a sum of money out of the profits of
the lotteries for the present year.
DEATH OF AN INDIAN CHlEF.—Jocosot, the Sank
chief, who was presented to Queen Victoria, and her
Royal Court, a few weeks since, died of consumption, on
the 3rd inst., in Cleveland, Ohio, far from home and
relatives, but kindly provided for by a benevolent family
residing in Cleveland. He was 35 years of age. There
is every reason to believe he died of consumption, brought
on by the dissipations of civilised life.—New York Sun.
MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN AT CALAIS.—On Sun-
week a medical gentleman, named Thorne, was assas-
It i .at Calais, by M. Sullier, who is at the head of
e passport department. The two had been drinking
together, and they were seen through the window of
Sullier's office as if at play, when Dr. Thorne was observed
to fall, and was soon afterwards discovered mortally
wounded. He died in a few seconds. Sullier has been
anew ed.
THE BIBLE IN SARDINIA.—An officer in the Royal
Navy, in a letter to the Record, states that in making a
tour of the great Alps round Mont Blanc, with his family,
they were " stopped by the Custom-house officers at
St. Bemis (the first town you meet with on entering the
dominions of the King of Sardinia), where our Bible and
Book of Family Prayer were taken from us, telling us at
the same time, they were all Christians there, and that no
book was allowed admission into the dominions of the
King of Sardinia that was against Christianity. We told
them it was the word of God. They replied, it was writ-
ten by the Protestants. We rejoined that it was a correct
translation of the Word of God from the Hebrew and
the (reek. They replied that the Bible was altogether a
prohibited book, especially the Protestant Bible. We
demanded of them to show their authority for seizing our
English Bible, which, we said, was for the use of our
family ; they then showed us the copy of a circular to
the effect, dated the 18th of August last, written in Italian.
It was that day month (the 18th of September) they
seized our Bible. Seeing that it was in vain to make any
further resistance, we demanded of them a receipt for
our books, which they handed to us. We left them our
address at Geneva, in case the stir made about the in-
justice and ecclesiastical tyranny of the transaction night
"b induce the authorities to return our hooks, which 1 am
harpy to say they did, as we found our Bible, &c., again
at G: nova in about ten days after. I have since met with
an English family who have had their Bibles taken from
them, but as they made no resistance, and have demanded
no receipt, they have no hope of recovering them again ;
I find also the practice is continued of seizing every
111 Bible they can lay their hands on."
THE FRENCH AND TAHITIANS.—Long since Rome
saw with dislike the Protestant cause spreading in Tahiti ;
ad even in 1825 some fears were entertained there of
me interference by the Jesuits, for in that year Queen
rnare wrote to George the Fourth "soliciting the Bri-
tish protection, and asking his Majesty to regard them
with kindness for ever." Mr. Canning, in reply, declined
to comply with the request, but promised to afford " to
yourself and to your dominions all such protection as his
Majesty can grant to a friendly power at so remote a dis-
tance from his own kingdoms." The dethronement of
Charles X., and the expulsion of the elder Bourbons, for
a time dashed all the ambitious projects of the Jesuits,
and for a time Tahiti enjoyed peace and quiet. But this
was not long to continue, and in 1837, a letter was received
by Lord Palmerston, informing him that in direct contra-
vention of the laws of Tahiti, there were several French-
men .. deg er mincd tr, land ...a .--.;.: .. 4A. z.,a......2 ... .ri.
man Catholic missionaries." The law was quoted in this
communication, viz., " That no master or commander of
a vessel shall land any passenger without the special per-
mission of the government." Lord Palmerston ought
immediately to have taken means to prevent collision im-
pending, in consequence of the refusal to admit the priests
in 1836. Instead of this, he wrote a dry official letter to
Mr, Consul Pritchard. 19th July, 1837, in which he says :
Of course every government has a right to refuse to
any foreigners permission to reside within its dominions,
if the presence of such foreigners is considered hurtful to
the State; but if no such reason exists for requiring
foreigners to depart, it is contrary to the usual rules of
international hospitality to force them to leave a country
in which they may wish to take up their abode, provided
they do not infringe the laws of the lands." Accordingly
the plot thickened,' and on the 30th August, 1838, a French
frigate, commanded by M. Dupetit Thouars, together
with two other corvettes arrived, and demanded, in the
name of Louis Philippe, 2000 dollars as reparation " due
to a great Power and a VALIANT nation, gravely insulted,
and without provocation." It was after this attack that
Queen Pomare and her chiefs once more appealed to Great
Britain in a very touching letter. Lord Palmerston, how-
ever declined to its request, and the next step was to send
popish missionaries and pick a quarrel with the natives.
Their next step was, after waiting to observe how Lord
Palmerston would act, to send a buccaneering squadron
'and plunder the Queen. The third act in the drama was
to declare that Tahiti was to be under a protectorate. The
next act was to declare that Pomare had " ceased to reign,"
and the final act was to expel Mr. Pritchard, and in so
doing deprive the English missionaries of all official pro-
tection, and leave Tahiti in the hands of the Jesuits and
the unprincipled invaders. Such was the state to which
Tahiti had been reduced, when the natives goaded to mad.
ness took up arms on behalf of their outraged rights and
liberties. The Queen sought and found protection on
board an English vessel of war. But the French have
paid dearly for their cruelty. Every account that arrives,
serves to augment, rather than diminish the number of
the slain. The natives fought most gallantly, and defended
their intrenchrnents with no little skill. The French state
that they were assisted or instructed by Englishmen,
which is not improbable, but it would also appear that
but for a recreant Englishman the French would have
been still more roughly handled. Their suctet,s has been
very dubious, and had not the individual in question dis-
covered to them an unguarded pass, their defeat would
have been inevitable.—Record.

ROUTE TO INDIA.

A little pamphlet, emanating from Mr. Waghorn, has
recently been published, which contains, in a concise
form, much information necessary for travellers to India
by the overland route. Three routes are indicated,
namely, that by the steamers of the Peninsula and Orien-
tal Company ; that through France by steamers from
Marseilles direct to Alexandria, or stopping at Civita
Vecchia ; and that by Ostend, up the Rhine on to Trieste,
and thence to Alexandria. Every step to be taken in
each case is circumstantially pointed out, with the corres-
ponding expenses exactly calculated • and tables are
added, which will be found of great utility in showing the
arrival and departures of French steam-packets in the
different ports of the Mediterranean, with the distances,
fares, and rates of postage, &c. set forth in a very com-
plete manner. Similar information is given as regards
Lloyd's packets trom Trieste, and all the latest regula-
tions respecting the Bombay Government steamers. Ap-
pended to the " Guide" portion of the little work are
some practical observations on the state of the arrange-
ments-for forwarding the overland mail, and suggestions
for its acceleration, which, coming from one who has so
large an experience on the subject, and has done so much
towards the establishment of the present system, are
entitled to attention. The proposal made by Mr. Wag-
born for the acceleration of the mail is, that on the
Calcutta line the East India Company should set aside
one of the steamers to run between Calcutta, Madras,
Ceylon, Aden, and Suez, in those months when the
Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamers do not, until
a third steamer is put upon the line by that company, ac-
cording to their agreement. On the Bombay line it is
suggested that the departures should take place on the
26th and 11th of every month, and the eight steamers of
the East India Company, which are named as being avail-
able, should be devoted to the service, and divide between
Bombay and Aden, those at Aden to be in readiness to
take the mail on immediately to Suez to prevent stoppage
for coal. It is further proposed that the mails be for-
warded at once in .he quickest way, without reference to
passengers,to Alexandria. whence Her Majesty's steamers,
warned 12 hours in advance of thd' arrival of the mail by
the Pasha's telegraph, should convey them straight to
Marseilles, the stoppage at Malta being dispensed with,
except in cases of adverse weather. The transmission of
letters and passengers by the Peninsula and Oriental
Company via Southampton, would continue as before,
touching at Malta and Gibraltar. By such means it is
calculated nearly 10 days would be gained, and 11 times
out of 12 the letters would arrive in England in time to
be answered by the ensuing mail.
With regard to the China line, the writer of the pam-
phlet recommends the adoption of the plan proposed by
Air. Wise, a gentleman who has devoted much time to
the subject. A table is the course to be
given laying taken
by steamers, starting from Hong Kong and touching at
Pulo Laboan, Singapore, Malacca, Penang, Ceylon, and
thence to Aden and Suez, pursuing the usualroute of the
overland mail. The route thus laid down, it is calculated,
may be performed, all stoppages included, in 59 days, and
this interval of time will neser be affected by the mon-
soons, as they do not at any period become. advei se
winds.