The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS,

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man, at Moscow

It is said in some of the accounts from India, that Ge-
nerals Pollock and Nott have had some differences.

ntiquity of gambl

g is proved by dice having been
'hebes. We expect that's what

Government, it is said, have a bill prepared to fix the pa 3
ent of the poor 'rate in Ireland altogether upon the lanc

19 year

Moysey, vicar of Combe St. Nicholas,
the other day from the effect of tight lacing.

nsuing session of Par-

f Lord Ashley's Act

, to procure a

Lady Pollock, the lady of the hero of the Khyber Pass,was
born at Tain, and is the daughter of the late Mr. Sheriff Bar-
clay, of that town.--Elgin Courant.
WILTS RURAL POLICE.—At the Sessions at Devizes a
motion brought forward by Mr. Sotherton, M. P., for the
reduction of the police force was lost by a majority of 38 to 6.

The first of a series of meetings in behalf of the bicen-
tenary fund of the Irish Presbyterian Assembly, was held
in Belfast on Tuesday.

The efficient labour of the same horse on wood pavement,
when compared with a perfectly consolidated Macadamised
road, has been stated at 42 to 17.

On New-Year's day the steeple of the church of West
Zaandam, in Holland, fell and buried in its ruins a house
with a family of eight persons in it. All perished.
On a Irish tombstone Paddy talks about having " erected
this monument as a tribute of filial affection to the memory
of his dear wife.
It is not for nothing that Queen Victoria is called " The
Rose of England." The coronation took place on the anni-
versary of the day on which roses were first planted in Eng-
land, in 1522.

A man named John Taylor, aged 43, a labourer em-
ployed on the South-Eastern Railway, lost his life last
week by falling from Abbot's Cliff to some chalk and stones
below, at a depth of from 60 to 70 feet.

The number of pumping-engines in the Cornish mines re-
ported for the month of November is forty-three—the quan-
tity of coals consumed being 2650 tons, lifting, in the aggre-
gate, 25,000,000 tons of water ten fathoms high.
The returns made to the Salisbury registrar, for the cur-
rent quarter, of deaths which have taken place in the three
parishes in the city, exceed the usual average by about 50
per cent !

According to the Patriot, Mr. Joseph Sturge paid an
eminent barrister £5O to prepare the document, which
O'Connor and his tail would not allow to be read at the
late Birmingham Conference.

Mr. Thurston, billiard-table maker to the Queen, has just
finished a magnificent billiard-table for the Marqui's of Lans-
downe, built entirely from the timbers of the Royal George,
sunk at Spithead.

It is stated by the Hampshire Telegraph that Sir Charles
Metcalfe, who was recently Governor of Jamaica, is to pro-
ceed forthwith to Canada, as Governor-General of that pro-

v ince.
The old and highly respectable Banking House of Messrs.
Gibson, Wilson, and Co., of Kirkby Lonsdale, have re-
linquished their business in favour of the Lancaster Banking
Company.
THE EARL OF COVENTRY.—His lordship, after rallying
some time since, has again sunk into an almost helpless state.
An epileptic fit has drawn his mouth on one side, which ren-
ders articulation difficult.—Standard.
The letter of Earl Fitzwilliam, which we lately designated
—" A Slap at the League 4" was written at or near the time
that his Lordship gave notice to his tenants that he should
raise their rents.
The Gloucestershire Chronicle gives a clue to the mystery
•e of the Anti-Corn-Law League by Earl
the noble Earl, by the way, has considerable
:open)/ in the metropolis of mills." Murder will out.
Among the Chinese, February is considered as the most
fortunate months to be married in : it is the first moon in the
year, and the first month in the spring. They have seven
grounds for divorce—the fourth is talkativeness in women.
.o DESTROY .—Fry a sheet of brown paper (the
jarser the better it ny grease ; this the mice will eat, and
it will destroy a 1 Ills is safer, cheaper, and easier than

of the patron:;
Ducie. It is—'

To DESTROY MICF

any trap

A man, of the name of William Lippel, at Manchester,
after inflicting several severe wounds on a policeman, by
striking him with a gorge, drew a razor across his throat,
and died shortly afterwards of the wound.

On Wednesday last Mr. Wakley, the London coroner,
held an inquest on a girl, who died in consequence of having
madly drunk soma boiling water front the spout of a tea-
kettle.

On Tuesday last the town of Preston was visited by a
storm of thunder and lightning, when the chimney of Messrs.
liorrocks' factory was struck, and the outer course of bricks
was completely stripped off, like pealing the bark of a tree.

The Dublin Evening Packet of Thursday gives an unqua-
lified contradiction to the statement, now going the round of
the papers, relative to the noble chief secretary for Ireland
being about to succeed Sir Charles Bagot as Governor of
Canada.

The Queen's duties received at this port for the year ended
the sth inst. amounted to upwards of one hundred and
seventy-six thonsand pounds, being an excess above the pre-
ceding year of eight thousand pounds.—Waterford Chro-
nicle.

TnE CucKoo.—A correspondent of the Hereford Times
states, that he and other persons, on Wednesday and Thurs.
day, the 22d and 23d ult., distinctly heard a cuckoo in a
plantation the property of Sir Velters Coalman, Bart., in
that county.

It gives us great pleasure to state, that, at the recent ordi-
nations by the Bishop of Chichester, his lordship presented
each of the deacons with a copy of Goode's invaluable work
on the .*.cript,res as the sole rule of faith and practice in the
Christian Church.

A letter from Van Dieman's Land, dated the 14th of July,
mentions the discovery of a very fine copper mine on the
estate of a Mr. Grant, near Fingal, and about seventy miles
from Launceston. It is said that copper is a product hitherto
unkown in that country.

..,ome of the Justices of Exeter decided last week tbat a
,lergyman is not exempt from turnpike toll on his way to
afficiate at a Union Workhouse, even though not engaged in
_erical duty. It is not stated whether the clergy-
man was the chaplain or one who performed occasional duty.
A Bactrian, or two-humped camel, which is of the species
much employad by the Chinese in land-carriage, and de-
signated by them the Tong-key-fo, or " c..mel with feet of
the wind," has just been added to the collection of animals in
the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park.
Mr. Thomas Blackburn, of Bentham, dined the last day
of the old year and the first day of the new one on new
potatoes grown in the open air. they were the f ourth crop
raised by him from the same ground during the present year,
and he has already planted the same patch of land with a
fifth.—Lan:aster Guardian.

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" In leaving the cantonments, Sir William expressed his
disappointment at the paucity of men on the ramparts, and
the apparent inertness of the garrison at such a critical
moment, saying, However, it is all of a piece with the
military arrangements throughout the siege.' On his leaving
the gate, only 16 troopers of the body-guard were in atten-
dance, but the remainder shortly afterwards joined, under
Lieutenant Le Geyt.
" Sir William now for the first time explained to the
officers who accompanied him, the objects of the present con-
ference, and Captain Lawrence was warned to be in readi-
ness to gallop to the Bala Hissar, to prepare the king for the
approach of a regiment.
"Apprehensions being expressed of the danger to which
the scheme might expose him, in case of treachery on the
part of Mahomed Akber, he replied, Dangerous it is; but
if it succeeds, it is worth all risks: the rebels have not ful-
filled even one article of the treaty, and I have no confidence
in them ; and if by it we can only save our honour, all will be
well. At any rate, I would rather suffer an hundred deaths,
than live the last six weeks over again.'
" Meanwhile, crowds of armed Affghans were observed
hovering near the cantonment, and about Mahomed Khan's
fort, causing misgivings in the minds of all but the envoy
himself, whose confidence remained unshaken. On arriving
near the -bridge, they were met by Mahomed Akber Khan,
Mahomed Shah Khan, Dost Mahomed Khan, Khooda Bux
Khan, Azad Khan, and other chiefs, amongst whom was the
brother of Amenoollah Khan, whose presence might have
been sufficient to convince Sir 'William that he had been
duped.

" The usual civilities having passed, the envoy presented
Akber Khan with a valuable Arab horse, which had only that
morning been purchased for 3,00 Q rupees. The whole party
then sat down near some rising ground, which partially con-
cealed them from cantonments.

" Captain Lawrence having called attention to the num-
ber of inferior followers around them, with a view to their
being ordered to a distance, Mahound Akber exclaimed,
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' No ; they are all in the secret =' which words had scarcely
soddenly
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hands companionsfrom
behind, whilst their swords and pistols were rudely snatched
away by the chiefs and their followers. The three officers
were immediately pulled forcibly along, and compelled to
mount on horseback, each behind a Giljye chief, escorted by
a number of armed retainers, who with difficulty repelled the
efforts of a crowd of fanatic Ghazees; who on seeing the
affray, had rushed to the spot, calling aloud for the blood
of the hated infidels, aiming at them desperate blows with
their long knives and other weapons, and only deterred from
firing by the fear of killing a chief. The unfortunate en-
voy was last seen struggling violently with Mahomed Akber,
' consternation and horror depicted on his countenance,'
" On their nearing Mahomed Khan's fort, renewed at-
tempts were made to assassinate the three captive officers by
the crowd there assembled. Captain Trevor, who was
seated behind Dost Mahomed Khan, unhappily fell to the
ground, and was instantly slain. Captains Lawrence and
Mackenzie reached the fort in safety; but the latter was
much braised in various parts of his body, and both were
greatly exhausted from the excitement they had undergone.
" At the entrance of the fort, a furious cut was aimed at
Capt. Mackenzie's head by a ruffian named Mollah Momin
which was warded off by Mabomed Shah Kban, that chief
receiving the blow on his own shoulder. Being taken into a
small room, they found themselves still in continual jeopardy,
from repeated assaults of the Ghazees without, who were with
the greatest difficulty restrained from shooting them through
the window ; where the hand of some recent European vic•
tim (afterwards ascertained to be that of the envoy himself)
was insultingly held up to their view. Throughout this try-
ing scene, they received repeated assurances of protection
from the Giljye chiefs; but Amenoollah Khan coming in
gave vent to a torrent of angry
• abuse, and even threatened
to blow them from a gun. It is deserving of notice, that
amidst the congratulations which on all sides met the ear
of Mahomed Shah Khan on the events of the day, the soli-
tary voice of an aged Mullah was raised in condemnation of
the deed, which he solemnly pronounced to be foul,' and
calculated to cast a lasting disgrace on the religion of Maho-
med. At midnight they
homed Akber Khan. As they passed through the streets of
Cabul, notwithstanding the excitement that had prevailed
throughout the day, it resembled a city of the dead; nor did

they meet a single soul.
" By Akber Khan they were received courteously, and
were now informed for the first time by Capt. Skinner of the
murder of the envoy and Capt. Trevor. That Sir William
?iacnaghten met his death at the hands of Mahomed Akber
himself there can be no reasonable doubt. The chief had
pledged himself to his coadjutors to seize the envoy that day,
and bring him into the city, when the chiefs hoped to have
been able to dictate their own terms, retaining him as a
hostage for their fulfilment. Finding it impossible, from the
strenuous resistance Sir William offered, to carry him off
alive, and yet determined not to disappoint the public ex-
pectation altogether,—influenced also by his tiger passions,
and the remembrance of his father's wrongs,—MahomedAkber drew a pistol, the envoy's own gift a few hours be-
fore, and shot him through the hody, which was immediately
hacked to pieces by the ferocious Ghazees, by whom the
dismembered trunk was afterwards carried to the city, and
publicly exposed in the Char Chouk, or principal mart. The
head was taken to the house of Nuwab Zuman Khan. where
it was triumphantly exhibited to Capt. Conolly.
" Such was the cruel fate of Sir William Macnaghten, the
accomplished scholar, the distinguished politician, and the
representative of Great Britain at the court of Shah Shooja-
00l Moolk."

CAPT. MACKENZIE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN ESCAPI

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and, although we hurried on
" As I mounted behind my captor, now my energetic de-
fKenafiderr,bteliceatzomwdoriencvreehaesmedenatr,ound us, the cries of ' Kill the
at a fast canter, it was with the utmost difficulty Gholam
Moyun-ood-deep, although assisted by one or two friends
or followers, could ward off and avoid the sword-cuts aimed
at me, the scals being afraid to fire, lest they should kill
my conductor. Indeed he was obliged to wheel his horse
round once and taking off his turban (the last appeal a
Mussulman,,can make', to implore them for God's sake to
respect the life of hids friend. At last, ascending a slippery
bank, the horse fell. My cap bad been snatched off, and I
now received a heavy blow on the head from a bludgeon,
which fortunately did not quite deprive me of my senses. I
had sufficient sense left to shoot a• head of the fallen horse,
where my protector with another man joined me, and,
clasping me in their arms, hurried me towards the wall of
Mahomed Khan's fort. How I reached the spot where
Mahomed Akber was receiving the gratulations of the mul-
titude I know not, but I remember a fanatic rushing upon
me and twisting his hand in my collar until I became ex-
hausted from suffocation. I must do Mahomed Akber the
justice to say, that finding the Ghazees bent on my slaugh-
ter, even after I had reached his stirrup, he drew his sword
and laid about him right manfully, for my conductor and
Meerzo Baoodeen Khan were obliged to press me up against
the wall, covering me .with their own bodies, and protesting
that no blow should reach me but through their persons.
Pride, however, overcame Mahomet Akber's sense of
courtesy, when he thought I was safe, for he then turned
round to me, and repeatedly said, in a tone of triumphant
will you!) he then rode off, and I was hurried to-
derision, ' Shuma moolk-i-ma me geered!' (You'll seize my
country,
wards the gate of the fort."

LONDON, Jan. 13.—1 t blew a terrible gale from S,S.W. from two
till eight o'clock this morning, with heavy rain. and has continued
to blow violently throughout the day, with heavy squalls_
MILFORD, Jan. 12.—A vessel was seen at dusk last evening about
three miles to the southward of the Bishop's, apparently aban-
doned, with only one mast standing; a pilot boat has been sent in
search of her.

SUNDAY. JANUARY 15.—Wind N.W. fresh.
ARRlVED.—Britannia, (steamer) Hewitt, from Boston and Halifax
—Huma, Smardon, from Malaga—and Mastery, from Smyrna.

St. Petersburg, Trask, from New Orleans, that was on shore on
Jordan Flats, was got off last night, and brought in, full of water.
The Schooner Isabella, of Belfast, bound to Runcorn, laden with
pipe clay, &c. was wrecked on West Hoyle, on Friday night last.
PWLLIIELY, Jan, 14.—The Dove, of Cork, for Liverpool, was
driven on shore last night, and is sunk a good deal in the sand.
The Waterlily, from Liverpool for Falmouth, and Elizabeth, of
Cork, for Liverpool, were also driven on shore. The crews are all
saved.

WEXFORD, Jan. 13.—The Santon. Huxtable, from Calcutta to
Liverpool, was driven on shore last night in Ballyteague Bay,
where she lies on her beam ends, with her deck to the sea : captain
and three men drowned.

DEAL, Jan. 3.—The Barbara, from Moulmein, remains with
windlass cut in two.

PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 13.—The Wanderer, from Ipswich for Liver-
pool, is riding in Longstone harbour, with windlass broken
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 13.—1 t blew a tremendous gale last night and
this morning from W.S.W. accompanied with heavy rain, hail and
lightning. The Ga lway Packet, from Merseilles for Liverpool,
arrived in Cutwater, with sails blown from the bolt ropes.

MONDAY, JANUARY 16.—Wind N.N.W..
ARRlVED.—Floraville, —, from Rio Jandeiro—and Mary,
, from Newry.

SAlLED.—Caroline, Gray, for the Cape of Good Hope —Roscius,
Collins. and Sheffield, Allen, for N. York—Susquehana, Miercken,
for Philadelphia—Swanton, Devonport, for New Orleans—and
Ellen German. Cumming, for Laguira.
Caledonia, (steamer) hence for Halifax, was spoken 6th instant,
at p a.m. 18 miles to the westward of Cape Clear, all well.
Michigan, hence at New Orleans
William & Elizabeth, Pilcher, hence and Barbadoes, at ditto
Caledonia, from London, ditto
Delia Walker, Corndy, from St. Thomas, at Mobile
lanthe, Porter,": om Jamaica, ditto
Colchester, Withers, from Hull, at Charleston
Alexander, Leeds, hence at Baltimore
Sheridan, De Peyster, and South America, Bailey, hence at New
York

John Cumming, from Savaunah, that was on shore in Bootle
Bay, was got off last night, with loss of rudder and docked
Peter & Mary, from Youghall, at Waterford, for Liverpool, with
loss of anchor and cable
Royal Saxon, Crawford, from China, at Cove ; sailed from the
Cape 28th Nov. The Guisachan from Calcutta to Liverpool, put
into the Cape dismasted, and would discharge part of her cargo.
ABEtinovEY, I sth J an.—A vessei was totally wrecked during
the late gale, about six miles north of this port, and it is feared all
the crew perished ; part of the cargo (hides) has been washed on
shore

CovE, Jan. is.—lt blew a tremendous gale last night from S.S.E.
which shifted this morning to the westward, and still continues.
The Royal Saxon got foul of the Siren, from Monte Video, and
carried away the latter's bowsprit

Pelham Clinton, Griffiths, from Newport, at Beaumaris for Li
verpool, with loss of foreyard

WARREN POINT, Jan..l4.—The David, M'Dowell, from Deme
rara, put into Carlingford Loch 12th instant, with windlass broken.
Pwrd.ußci, Jan 14.—The steamer Dolphin, Jones, of Liver.
pool, is on shore on the beach at Portynllaen. considerably injured.
ABERAYBON, Jan. 14.—The Paquet de Bilboa, from Liverpool to
Cadiz, Was driven on shore this morning to the southward of
Aberystwith, where she now lies high and dry ; crew saved.
NE's, ORLEANS, Dec. 4.—The Prince Albert, Murphy, from
Liverpool to Tampico, was totally wrecked on the south side of
Tampico Bar 2gth Nov. ; crew and part of the cargo saved.