The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

CHINA

By the Overland, accounts have been received from
Hong Kong and Canton as late as the 26th July. A fire
had broken out at Canton, but by great exertions on the

part of the Chinese Governor and the English residents
and sailors, it was fortunately subdued without occasion-
ing much damage. The latest date from England was
April 6. A copy of the treaty brought home by Colonel
Malcolm is among the documents furnished, and em-
braces every apparent provision for a future amicable
understanding. As far as we can ascertain, the mer-
chants are highly satisfied with the treaty. Sir H. Pot-
finger had formally assumed the government of Hong
Kong on the 26th June; the city on the northern side of
the island being named after her Majesty, " Victoria."
A. Legislative Council was appointed, magistrates and
other civil officers had been installed, and the whole pos-
session seems so show signs of rapid growth.

Mention is made of the loss of a vessel believed not
before to have been noticed, viz., of the Alcmene, Capt.
Gilbraith, from Bombay to China, lost on Ceram Laut.
The crew and a considerable part of the cargo were saved,
and taken first to Banda by the Dutch war schooner Argo.
The Spanish governor of the Philippine Islands arrived
out on the 11th June.

INDIA.
The military news of the month does not possess much

interest.
The Hyderabad force had returned to that station.
There was a great paucity of European officers at Kur-
rachee and Sukker.
Lieut. Horne, the Adjutant of the 55th Regiment, was
drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Kbypore dis-
trict.

All officers on staff employ, belonging to corps in Sinde,
had been ordered to join their regiments.
The amount of prize-money at Hyderabad is likely to
prove very considerable.
The troops employed in Scinde at the end of June
amounted to about 16,000 men, and a wing of the 78th
and of the 2d Bombay Light Infantry had been sent to
Kurrachee from Bombay. _

A large force was stated to be assembling for duty in
the Pnnjaub, on account of recent disturbances there.

RUMOURED ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR
OF RUSSIA.—Both the Prussian Gazette and the Augs-
burg Gazelle make mention of an alleged attempt on the
life of the Emperor of Russia on the 19th ult. The for.
mer paper says that either a gun or pistol was fired at a
late hour in the evening close to the Imperial Chancery's
carriage when it was passing the Walliscbei suburbs. The
Augsburg Gazette says, " It is rumoured that twenty
shots were fired at the Emperor and his suite, and that by
a miracle nobody was wounded." The person who fired
had not been discovered.

GRAND RUNNING MATCH BETWEEN THE FOUR
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND. -This match, which has ex-
cited so much interest in the sporting world, came off at
Reading, on Monday last, in Sampson's cricket-ground.
The champions were—Wild and Byrom, from Lanca-
shire ; Maxwell, from Sheffield ; and Sheppard, from
Birmingham. The distance was one mile (three times
round the ground, and 19 yards added). Precisely at 3
o'clock the start for the first heat took place, which was
accomplished in 4 minutes anti 50 seconds—Sheppard
winning by 8 yards; Byrom, 2; Maxwell, 3; Wild, 4
The men having rested about three-quarters of an hour,
the second heat took place. Byrom took the lead once
round, when he was passed by Sheppard, who kept ahead
throughout, winning by about 7 yards; Byrom, 2; Wild,
3 ; Maxwell, 4. This heat was accomplished in 4 minutes
and 53 seconds.
EXECUTION AT STIRLING.—On Wednesday morning,
Allan Mair, who was convicted at last Circuit Court at
Stirling, of murdering an old woman eighty-five years of
age, his reputed wife, underwent the extreme penalty of
the law. The unfortunate man, who slept but little on
Tuesday night, was visited early on the following morn-
ing by the chaplain of the prison, and another clergyman,
with whom he spent a considerable time in devotional
exercises. Shortly before eight o'clock the magistrates
arrived in the hall of the prison, to which the prisoner
was brought, and where he engaged for some time in
prayer. His arms having been pinioned, the procession
moved slowly along to the scaffold, where part of a psalm
was sung and a prayer made on his behalf. He then
shook hands with those tr tund him, and after remaining
for a few minutes in pray er on the fail drop, he gave the
signal, and was imme, lately launched into eternity.
Mair was about 84 years of age,