The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-14 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney papers to tI

6th of June have arrived, but

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tents were anticipated by the advices received
last week by another ship. Business appears to be still

their ci

guid state. the want of credit and -confidence pre-
vailing to an alarming extent, even among the best and
oldest merchants in the colony. An abstract of the
official accounts of the quarter's revenue, ending in March,
d been published, and from these accounts it seemed
revenue was £77,979 6s. Sd. The chief items in
e falling off occurred were imported spirits' im-
flice collection, and auction duty

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number of ships that passed the

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n August, 1843, was 2,369, vii,—From.the North
'rom the Baltic, 1,171. Of these the English
5, viz.—from the North Sea, 390 ; from the Baltic,

The Paris correspondent of the London Standard
states, that there will take place, in the course of the en-
suing month, an extraordinary creation of peers. The
list is already decided upon, and presents no fewer than
twenty-four names.

SPEED OF AMERICA); STEADIERS•—The steamers that
)1y between Kingston and Montreal, when passing through
he Cedar Rapids, runs at the rate of sixty miles an
lour The new steamer Knickerbocker, made her first
,rip from New York to Albany (160 miles) in seven hours

The New York papers contain accounts from the San -
wich Islands, which state that Admiral Thomas had ar-
rived at Honolulu, when he had annulled all the acts of
Captain Lord Paulet. They have also a notice from
Senor Granja, Mexican Consul-General there, that by
decree of the Mexican government the frontier custom-
houses of Taos in New Mexico, Paso del Norte and Pre-
sidio del Norte in Chihuahua, were entirely closed to
commerce.

MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. —This
event took place on the 4th of September last, at Rio de
Janeiro ; the Brazilian-Neapolitan squadron having ar-
rived the day before from Naples. Rio de Janeiro was
very gay on the occasion ; for, having been some time
looked for, almost all the respectable people in the empire
bad congregated to partake in the festivities and general
rejoicing. The city was illuminated at night, and fire-
works resounded through and bespangled the sky. Her
majesty's brother accompanied his sister ; and the Princess
Januaria, the emperor her brother. People began to
speculate on another princely wedding taking place.—
Globe.

The packet-ship Switzerland, brings dates from New
York to the 22d of October. The commercial advices
possess no peculiar novelty. The stocks were rather
heavy. The return of Mr. Ryan, one of the Illinois
commissioners, to Europe, is announced in the papers now
received, and great satisfaction expressed that he had
succeeded in the object of his mission for raising funds to
complete the Illinois and Michigan canal. The acces-
sion of Messrs. Barings, Hope, and Co., Maigniac Jar-
dine and Co., and Rothschild to the proposals made, was
accompanied, however, with certain conditions which have
to be ratified and carried into effect by the Governor of
the state of Illinois. In the meantime those houses have
agreed to advance 12 per cent. on the canal bonds held
by themselves, and on fulfilment of the conditions refer-
red to 191 per cent. more. It may be noted, however,
that probably not a cent. of the 121 per cent. will be so
advanced until the agent they have sent out shall have
reported. For the rest the compact of these houses is not
pretended to be binding on the other holders of these
canal bonds. But they reserve the option to themselves
of hereafter registering canal bonds to eight times the
amount of their actual subscription. That is, should
they see an advantage to be obtained they would purchase
in the market bonds held by those not parties to the pre-
sent scheme, and so increase their interest. The certifi-
cates represeuting the new advances are of course and of
right to take precedence in the order of payment of the
original canal bonds.

AFFRAY WiTll PIRATES.—A letter from on board her
Majesty's ship Dido, dated Hong Kong, July 21, gives an
account of a terrifick affray with pirates, off Borneo. It
appears that on the 18th of May, Lieut. Hunt, a mate, a
second master, 1 blue jackets, and four marines, started
from that ship to cruise off Date Point for pirates. On
the 20th, at 3 a.m., they fell in with two " proas," who
came down upon them unexpectedly ; however Lieut.
Kent swept his craft round, and they were then nearly
touching. What took place afterwards will be best de-
scribed in the words of the letter. " Lieut. Kent let fly
the 6-pounder, loaded with grape, right into her, with
great effect, and having taken the precaution to keep re-
duced charges on deck, the gun had no recoil, and she was
worked round nearly as quick as a musket. After the fourth
br fifth round the damage done to the pirate was really
frightful ; his two guns were capsized, the fighting-boards
were knocked up, and the mast and triangle cut away; he
then ceased firing. They immediately turned their atten-
tion to their friend on the left, who until now had had all
the fun to himself. They very soon served him pretty
much in the same way as they did the other. Seeing it
was all up with them many of the pirates jumped over-
board. They then went alongside, but on stepping on his
gunwale, up the remainder of the rascals sprung with the
intention of boarding, but with the butt end of the mus-
kets they were knocked down, and our proa was instantly
shoved off and pulled under his counter, when they gave
him such a dose of grape that all hands jumped over-
board ; some sank, others swam for the shore, and many
were shot in the water. When they took possession of
her they found 12 dead on deck, and several in the hold,
but being half full of water, they could only see part of
their bodies, It was now broad day-light, and they dis-
covered a large proa with two sampans pulling in from
seaward to the assistance of the first proa they had engaged
and crippled, which bad by this time drifted out of gun-
shot. The interpreter, Mr. Douglas, felt positive they
would attempt to board ; and our people got ready for
them. Lieutenant Hunt threw the guns and arms be-
longing to the prize overboard, and set her on fire, when
she almost instantly blew up. This alarmed the other
proa, who took his crippled companion in tow and made
off to sea ; and, although Lieutenant Hunt endeavoured
by every means in his power, by sails and sweeps, to get
bp with them, they effected their escape, to their great
mortification, and lost sight of them at sunset. The proa
first attacked is supposed not to have had a single man
left on board alive. Three days after this they found a
slave on shore, who had escaped from one of the proas
during the action. He said the two proas that attacked
the English had 50 men and two guns each ; and the large
one that came to their assistance was well armed, and had
100 men. They had the case tried in the Court at Since-
pore, and the Court have awarded £7OO prize money.