The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

NEWS FROM INDIA.

The Calcutta mail has reached us, by which we are
placed in possession of papers from India of the 17th of
September, and from China of the 29th of July.
We learn by the Chinese papers that disturbances bad
again taken place at Canton. The English last year re-
paired the walls of the Company's garden, which had
been broken down at the fire in 1842. They put on a
gate, and were in the habit of walking, playing at quoits,
and otherwise amusing themselves. On the 15th of July
the Chinese endeavoured to force themselves into the
garden, but were opposed. Upon this they threw brick-
bats, and broke down the gate, compelling the English-
men to take refuge in a boat, in which they made their
escape to the Consulate. On the following evening a
party of Chinese went armed with brickbats, and at-
tempted to take possession of the other garden. Resist-
ance being offered, they commenced an indiscriminate
attack upon all the foreigners who came within their
reach. Several American gentlemen immediately armed
themselves, and drove them from the front of the facto-
ries. Still continuing to throw brickbats, they were fired
upon, and one man was killed and another wounded in
the arm, which ended the affair for the day. The Eng-
lish and American Consuls applied to the Chinese autho-
rities for a sufficient force to protect the rectifies, and a
message was sent to the American man of war at the
Bogue to request assistance. Intelligence of the 23th
informs us that no further rioting had taken place, nor
was any likely to occur at present, though it was quite
certain that the authorities at Canton were either unable
or unwilling to adopt measures sufficiently vigorous to
check the riotous disposition of the commonalty.
Exchange was heavy at 1 In or a small fraction above,
at ten months' date.
Commercial matters in China were dull. Cotton yarn
continued depressed as before. The iron market was
over-supplied. Opium was firm, being supported by the
smallness of the supply. In rice prices had given way.
In tea very little doing. The second and third crops are
said to have been destroyed by the late rains. Rate of
exchange on London, at six months' sight, 4s. 3d. per
dollar; Government bills, at 30 days' sight, 4s. 10d., in
liitle request. Freight to London and Liverpool, £3 per
ton of 50 feet.

The Hindostan arrived at Suez on the 24th September,
wish a considerable cargo of silk goods and about fifty
passengers. She sailed from Calcutta on the 18th of
September
We regret to learn the death of Lieutenant Mackintosh,
late Aide-de-Camp to Lord Ellenborough, and subse-
quently in charge of the Mysore princes. The gallant
officer died from the effects of fever. Captain M'Lean
succeeds the deceased lieutenant in charge of the Mysore
princes.

The Gazelle notifies the cessation of the blockade of
San Juan de Nicaragua.
DR. GRANT.—This estimable missionary to the Nesto-
rians died of the typhus fever on the 24th of April at
Mozul.
keret:Mß.—The Melpomene, -Sutherland, arrived at
Cove from Ichaboe, reports having left there two hundred
and forty vessels waiting for guano, forty of which had
arrived in one day !
RELIGION IN AMERICA.—Recent accounts describe
the Episcopal Church as being agitated by Tractarianism ;
the Romish community exerting every energy to suppress
the unauthorized reading of the Scriptures; the Mor-
monites falling into confusion, and their brother fanatics,
the Millerites, looking for the immediate end of the world.
INTEREST'S G DISCOVERY.—A letter from Nantes
states that a fishermen of Chinon has just found in a
. neighbouring canal a statue of gilt metal. It is in good
preservation, and is supposed to be of the time of the
Romans, one of their camps having been erected near
the spot.
The captain of the ship Amity, from London, with
three sailors, basing gone ashore on an island, Trinidad,
near the coast of Brazil, and being unable to regain the
vessel, their boat having swamped, they bad to continue
there twenty-three days, feeding on shell fish, &c. They
were rescued by an American ship.
SPAIN.—The Government is prepared against any at-
tempts at revolution. Orders have been issued to seize
and shoot all officers who are absent without leave. Mi-
nisters have declared that neither Don Carlos nor any of
his family shall be permitted to regain power in Spain.
The Chartists, however, and the party of Espartero, are
very sanguine as to their ultimate success.
DR. WoLFF.—Captain Grover has arrived from St.
Petersburgh, and we are informed that the Emperor of
Russia has kindly promised to do everything in his power
for the liberation of Dr. Wolff.—[A letter from Constan-
tinople, dated the 17th October, says, " I am happy to
be enabled to state on the hest authority, that advices
have been received of the arrival of Dr. Wolff at Meru,
on his way to Teheran."]
The German papers state that the Cathedral of Treves,
not content with the devotion excited by the holy gar-
ment in their possession, is now endeavouring to recover
one of the nails which transfixed the feet and hands of
our Saviour. It appears that this nail, which formerly
belonged to the Treasury of Treves, has fallen, it is not
very well known how, into the bands of the Prince Met-
ternich.
FALL or THE DOME OF A CHURCH.—The Abbe Cros,
of Cette, at the moment of the late storm in that town,
woo looi ups from the. trzwnr of 11;e linrrh flt the weather.
He saw a black cloud, which he at first thought proceeded
from a steam-boat ' - but perceiving vessels dashed together,
and the roofs of houses torn off, he hastened to descend.
He had not reached half way down, when the dome fell
behind him, and burst in the roof of the church.
BROBDIaNAGIAN HAILSTONES.—The Memorial d'
Aix informs its readers that the storm which burst over
that town, on Sunday week, was remarkable for the
strange phenomenon which was witnessed in an adjacent
commune. Hailstones of an incredible size fell in the
little district of Eguilles, one of which weighed as many
as ten pounds ! The rest were truly enormous. Luckily
the storm occurred in the night, so that nobody was ex-
posed to the pelting of these terrible cannon-balls from
the regions above.
STABBING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GAS.—At the
exhibition of the laughing gas by Professor Elliotson, at
Washington-hall, last evening, a sailor, under the effects
of the exhilaration, cut the rope with which be was con-
fined, rushed amongst the spectators. and, seizing another
sailor, gave him several severe and dangerous wounds
with a jack-knife. The wounded man was taken across
the street, and upon examination by physicians it was
found that a deep wound was inflicted under the shoulder,
and another in the back, near the vertebree. The sailors
were unknown to each other. The wounds are not con-
sidered mortal.—Boston Post.
AN OLD BlRD.—There is in the possession of one of
our old Dutch families of this city a parrot known to be
82 years old. This bird is now blind, but, notwithstand-
ing that, it can walk to any part of the house without dif-
ficulty, and recognizes the different members of the family
by their footsteps. It whistles tunes with great exactness
and is quite fond of sacred music. We are informed that
in early life this bird like most of its species, was a little
wild, and a good deal given to profane swearing. hut for
some time it has laid aside this habit, and, save occasional
fits of viciousness, is a staid, reputable, and exemplary
bird.—Albany Atlas.
A letter from Cettee, near Montpelier, gives an account
of a dreadful storm and whirlwind, which visited that
town on the 22nd October, and did a vast deal of damage.
The government establishment of engineers, a very large
building, was utterly destroyed, even the walls not being
left standing. The zinc roof of the building was carried
into she air, and broken into thousands of pieces, which
fell in different parts of the town, where they did a crest
deal of injury. Other large buildings were also destroyed,
- and the place is described as resembling a town which had
undergone the horrors of a siege. A storm prevailed in
the harbour that wrecked and sunk six or seven large
merchant v( ssels, besides a great number of fishing and
other boats. The number of persons who perished is cal-
culated at about 30.
ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA.—This noble steamer
reached this port on Wednesday morning. The political
news from our own Provinces, as well as from the United
States, relates chiefly to the pending elections. The first
member returned to the New Canadian Parliament was a
Conservative, and it is stated that things look well for
the Aminietration of the Governor General. In the
States the elections are rather in favour of the Whigs;
and the belief was begeining to gain ground that Mr.
Clay's election as President was certain. In speaking of
American Whigs, it must he borne in mind that that
party answers to the Conservatives in England. The
Presidency of Texas has devolved upon Mr. Anson Jones,
a decided opponent of the annexation of that State to
the other United States. The New York money market
was easy ; there was a good deal of speculation going on ;
but the cotton market was dull.
The case of Dr. Kalley appears now to have arrived at
something of a crisis. The Portuguese Government has
proposed to Lord Aberdeen to give a pecuniary compen-
sation (about £800) for the doctor's imprisonment of
170 days, admitting the illegality of the proceedings
against him ; but upon the condition that lie will imme-
diately withdraw from Madeira and the Portuguese do-
minions. Lord Aberdeen's answer has not yet been
received ; but in the meantime we learn that Dr. Kalley
has again proceeded to preach publicly against the Roman
Catholic religion in Funchal, and that a great ferment
has been the result. The charter tolerates every form of
worship in private, or within the confines of heterodox
churches erected within the Portuguese dominions, but it
most distinctly announces the Roman Catholic to be the
established religion of the state. If, therefore, Or. Kel-
ley will not consent to retire, he will certainly be put
down by a special law, which no effort of British diplo-
macy con prevent from passing.—Times.
The latest Quebec papers give particulars of outrages
committed by Irish vagabonds, who are using the election
season as a time for riot. The paper states that a mob,
variously estimated at from 300 to 600 persons, bearing
with them two blazing tar barrels, and shouting for
O'Connell and Repeal," parading the streets, breaking
the windows of every house in which no light was visible.
This destruction was, indiscriminate ; Ceiholics, Protes-
tants, Repealers, and Anti-Repeaters, suffered alike ; and
the windows of the Catholic Church, the Marines' and
Wesleyan chapels,
wherein no light could have been ex-
pected were demolished.
.Huge stones were. hurled for
this purpose of destruction n several instances breaking
y sash and panes. At Johnson s Tavern the damage inflicted
was very great, and so incensed was he, and that after
warning them to desist, lie fired and wounded one man in
three places, with small shot—a sailor of the Clio, we are
told. They returned here again at ten o'clock, menacing
his life, when he again fired, wounding another person.
Mr. Leek, at the Cove, also fired, and while preparing
to give a second shot, was knocked down by a stone
thrown at him. It is said that three persons have been
wounded but none seriously.