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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

ttempt to ret

Man to treat, anti ha

of India) who had been kid-
napped ; but as the overtures were not grounded on the only
basis on which they can be listened to, they were met by an
intimation to that effect.

uropeans

" God save the Queen."
" Dated on board the steam-frigate Queen, in the Yan,
tze-Kiang river (off Woosung), the 24th of June, 1849.

"HENRY POTTINGER,
" Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary."

The name of Lieutenant Hewitt, R.M.,-on board the
Blonde, has been published as one of the two killed, his head
having cut off by a round shot.

The results of this victory have been remarkable. The
tTandarins in the two most fertile provinces of China were
dreadfulty alarmed lest Wang-chow-Foo and Nankin should
be taken and sacked, and the mouth of the Great Canal
seized. They sent a flying express for a son or some other
relation of Howqua, the old Hong merchant at Canton, in
order to interpret between them and the British. They ex-
hibited a wish to make terms, but whether with the object of
merely gaining time, does not appear certain. The approach
of the expedition to the mouth of the Great Canal and the
dangers that threaten Nankin would, it was thought, induce
the Emperor to make an equitable arrangement, but doubts
were still entertained of his being exactly informed of the
truth. The efforts of the Chinese authorities to make resis-
tance have hitherto been very great. A proclamation issued
by the Emperor in the beginning of June breathes the most
decided hostility to the " barbarians," but does not brag of
the valour of his generals and soldiers. This proclamation,
it ought to be remarked, is dated prior to the attack on
Shanghai.
g• It is worthy of re,..
busy - exciti

ark, that while Russia is described as
not only _......g the Chinese against the just de-
mands of Great Britain, but in assisting them with officers,
the United States and France have sent their ships-of-war
to watch our proceedings with that anomalous race, and, as
it is openly declared, with the intention of demanding all the
advantages that we may obtain by the expenditure of so
much blood and money. The American and French frigates
have sailed from the Canton river to the northern ports of
China, which their ships were never before permitted to

EST INDIA MAIL STEAMER ISIS

The Medway, royal mail steamer packet, Captain Smith,
(anxiously looked for,) arrived in Mount's Bay (Penzance)
on the morning of Thursday last. She left Vera Cruz on the
15th of September, Tampico on the 18th, New Orleans
(mouth of the Mississipi) on the 23rd, and Havana on the
Ist of October, bringing all the home mails, passengers,
1,500,000 dollars, cochineal, &c. The Medway arrived at
Nassau on the 3rd of October, where she found the Isis,
another of the enrimniiv'.

uaptam Lon.
Isis had touched on the reefs near Porto Rico on the
12th of September, after which she went to Turk's Island,
then took down the Jamaica mails, and at Port Royal re-
ceived all the repairs she needed, when she was surveyed and
pronounced in a safe condition to proceed to England.
She left Jamaica on the 26th of September called at Turk's
found the Tweed, Clyde, and Larne. The
~.iged mates with the Tweed, which latter went to
Jamaica, the Isis going on to Nassau, and joined the Med-
way on the 3rd of October, when both vessels started for
England, the Medway having orders to keep company with
the Isi.. 'lnd not lose sight of each other during the voyage,
They, however, encountered very boisterous
weather up to the 9th, when it came on a perfect gale. By
this time it was found unsafe to remain on board the Isis any

land, where she

Isis excha

if possible

longer ; so after severe and dangerous work, the crew, &c
were transferred to the Medway, close at hand, all safe, with
the exception of one boy. This took place about thirty three
miles of Gibb's Hill, at noon. The Medway kept off and on
till next morning, the Isis still afloat, but the sea very high.
As soon as they could manage it, the Medway came as near
to the Isis as Prudent, when Captain Smith, Loney, and
several other officers went aboard the Isis, to examine and
see if it was possible to take her in tow; but all deemed it
dangerous to undertake it. However, Captain Smith was
unwilling to leave her, and determined to try and save her,
possible, by taking her in tow. He found from the reek-
, (the weather precluding any observations,) they were
,out twenty-eight miles from the southwest reefs, which
position it was thought prudent should be confirmed, as
breakers were seen a-head, by making the land (Bermuda.)
This they did about sunset, the Isis being in sight from the
mast-head. They returned to the place about where they
,upposed her to be, but could find no trace of her. They,
awever, remained till daylight next morning, (10 of Onto-
-,) when they found all the light articles floating about,
lcient proof of her having foundered during the night.
vay went into Barmuda, where she coaled. She
n on the 13th of October, and after a most tem-
ssage reached Fayal on the 25th, as the Belgium
ish Queen was leaving for England. The Med-
al about twenty-six hours after the British
stormy weather, which

The Med
sailed agi

ay left 1

Wueen, buti sne met with vex
obliged her to put into Mount's Bay

On the 24th of September the Medway
her way to the mouth of the Missiisipi.
that vessel's loss in the Gulf of Mexico ha
account of tl

w the Solway on

So the report of

sen from t 1

s of the Isis, and the fact of the Solway
laving met a violent hurricane on the 7th of September in
tia anlf

got out from England to Granada, after a fine
teen days, on the 22nd of September, when
weed received from her the out-mails and went on to
Turk's Islawd, exchanging routes with the Isis, and went on
lo Jamaica, the Isis coming in to Nassau. The Clyde and
Larne are also in Turk's Island. The Lee sailed for Belize
;Honduras) with mails on the 27th of September.

The Tha

passage of r

Monte Video papers of the 20th of August have arrived.
Rivera had, according to these, marched on the 17th from his
encampment,with a force of 1,200 men. The news during
the week fro m the army operations in Entre Rios is the con-
firmation of the retreat of General Urquiza before the
Uruguay array, towards the river Gualeguay. The progress
of Mr. G. J. R. Gordon on his way to Paraguay is advised
in the notice that he had crossed the river Yi on the sth of
that month. With respect to the preparations for war in the
Argentine Republic, it is stated everything promised a
formidable attack on Monte Video. It was, nevertheless,
expected that the mediation of the English and French
ministers would bring about a reconciliation without further
bloodshed on either side. The Monte Video papers appear
to be in favour of an immediate settlement of differences,
more, it would seem, from the fear of not being able to
maintain a successful opposition, than the desire to retire on
the principle of peacemakers. Nothing of interest in the
shape of commercial information is afforded by the present
arrival, but it may be gathered from some cursory remarks
made on the existing state of affairs, that the markets for
British manufactures were in the same depressed condition
as previously advised.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.—The last wreck of the Nigea
expedition has been extricated from the fatal river; and the
people at the Model Farm, with the relics of the property,
have been brought to Fernando Po. To the very last the
events have been such as to stamp the expedition with
rashness and cruelty ; even this supplemental expedition,
greatly reduced, and profiting by the experience of previous
disasters, suffered in proportion. Of eight or ten whites on
board, but two were not laid up in sickness, the commander
being one of the two. Again, it was a servant of the gentle-
man who warned Lord John Russell of the utter failure of
the expedition who helped to rescue the Wilberforce on re-
turning from its second voyage; a black boy, who had lear-
ned the use of the steam-engine on board Mr. Jamieson's
trading steamer, worked the engine of the Wilberforce as it
passed the Delta. The expedition has effected some disco-
. .

veries. It has wnich was told to its projec-
tors before it sailed from England, that the slave traffic
which it was equipped to suppress in the Bight of Biafra had
already ceased there; and that the legitimate commerce
which it was to introduce had been rising and flourishing in
the Bight for 20 years. It also discovered, what was told
to its projectors before it left England, that the site chosen
for an agricultural settlement could not be approached with-
out imminent risk to the lives of Europeans. Another no—
table achievement was made, that the expeditionswent up the
river about two-thirds of the distance previously ascended by
merchant vessels ; and its crowning feat is, that in attempt-
ing to carry out the plans of the African Civilization Society,
by carrying up merchandise, it has for the time expelled
honest commerce—the very thing that it was to establish !
What next ?—Spectator.

•ed that

We regret to hear that Lord Gillies has been obliged b
1 health to tender his resignation as a judge of the Cr

...;ourt of
zssion in Scotland. The vacancy upon the bench which the
retirement of the learned lord will occasion .has not, we be-
lieve, been as yet filled up ; but we have authority for stating
that Duncan Macneel, Esq., 'who has been appointed Lord
Advocate in the room of the late Sir 'William Rae, will be
succeeded in the office of Solicitor-General in Scotland by
Adam Anderson, Esq. The following appointments hay
also recently taken place :—C. J. Herries,'Eso..

Right_ Hon. John Charl

rrister-al

, in the room o
nant-Colonel Berkel

berries, will
the late Hon.

s been

an, .Il
successor in the office of Groom in Waiting to her Majesty
of General Sir William Lumley, G.C.8., who has resigned
Sir W. Lumley bad been for many years in the Royal House
hold.—Dimes.

Never during the last twenty years have Irish affairs at-
tracted less notice in England—where public attention is
almost more easily excited to Irish politics than to her own—
than during the last six months. Nay, the very discords of
our Dublin contemporaries are chiefly composed of discus-
sions on exclusively English questions, on Canadian policy,
and on the mightier themes of European interest—occasion-
ally relieved by polite controversies on the prices of fat oxen
and lean kine, and on the merits of this year's Ballyshannon
fair compared with last year, or by personally interesting
disquisitions on government patronage. Ireland is enjoying
repose, prosperity, and freedom from political agitation under
Lord de Grey's vice-royalty ; Dublin is once more exhibit-
ing the appearance of a metropolis of a great country; con
idence is generally felt throughout the island in the holy

Aosty,
ioderation, and nationality of government ; extensive plans
If agricultural improvement are in course of projection and
idoption by the great landed proprietors ; grievances where
they exist are quickly redressed without reference to local
politics, party spirit, or parliamentary influence, and en-
couragement is held out—not to violence, brutality, and
seditious democracy—but to merit, public service, and per-
sonal qualifications.—Herald.

r CAMBRIDGE.—A woman named
s on Saturday charged before the Mayor of
imbridge with the commission of several robberies of pro-
Tty belonging to members of different colleges. Mr. W.
' on, scholar of King's College: On Thursday after-
' missed a writing-desk, which had been placed on a
:ar the fireplace in his sitting-room. He had seen it
ut 1 o'clock on the same day, when be locked it. It
!d two £5 notes of Mortlock's bank, and two or
vereigns. On the same day, about 9 o'clock in the
he missed five silver teaspoons, which had been
laced in a cupboard in the sitting-room. The outer door
was unlocked. The cupboard had been broken open. The
desk produced was his property. Mr. W. S. Lewis, under-
graduate of Trinity College, stated that on Friday morning
he missed his dressing-case ; it bad been placed on a chest
of drawers in his rooms in the college ; be bad seen it safe
about half-past 1 o'clock the day before. The case produced
was his property. It had been forced open since he missed

contain(

it. The marks- on the case correspond with a screwdriver
found at the prisoner's house. Mr. Daniel Foggo, under-
graduate of St. John's, stated, that he went out on Friday,
about a quarter past 2 o'clock, and left his writing-desk
lying open on his table, with the upper flap of the desk
locked; he returned at 4 o'clock and the desk was gone.
That produced was his property. It was found in a ditch,
the upper flap having been broken open; missed also a silver
crucifix, which had been taken from his drawers. After

.... _.... .. ..—........._ __..-.
some further evidence had been adduced, the prisoner was
fully committed for trial.

THEATRE-110M, LIVERPOOI

FIRST WEEK OF THE WINTER SEASON

AIR. BROWNE, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lc
1,-1- the principal American Theatres, is engaged f
mited number of nights, and will appear THIS EVE
(Tuesday,) the Bth instant, in the Comedy of
WILD OATS.

Mr. Browne

To conclude with
DON GIOVANNI.

THE INFANT SAPPHO

UNDER HER
_MAJETI"S B,e_PRINCE ALRE.R7

ESPECIAL PATRONAGE.
THIS extraordinary Child will have the honour of giving
THREE MUSICAL
,ENTERTAINMENTS, at flu
ROYAL ASSEMBLY Rooms, Great George-street, on MoN
DAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY EVENINGS, Nov_
14th, I6th, and IBth, at Eight o'clock, when she will sing a
variety of Italian, English, Scotch, and Irish Melodies,
including several of her own Compositions. Between the
songs of the Sappho, Mr. VINNING will perform some of
Mori's Pieces on the VIOLIN, accompanied by Miss AMELIA
VINNING on the PIANO-FORTE. The performance will
only occupy an hour. Tickets, 3s. Gallery, 2s. Children
and Schools, half-price. Tickets to be had at the principal
Music-shops.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have no vacancy for the services of " Critico."

We have no recollection of publishing the letter to which that
of " Vindex" is a reply

Several communications are postponed, in consequence of
the details of Indian and China intelligence requiring so
much of our space.

Our Radical contemporaries are levelling wrathful diatribes
at the head of the retiring Mayor. And for what? Mr.
Leigh is accused of having been chary of his " feeds."
This is the head and front of his offending. Perhaps we
are interfering unnecessarily with the subject; but we
make bold to say, that Mr. Leigh has entertained at
dinner as many, and more persons than any Mayor since
the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill, with one excep-
tion. This may be news to some of our brethren of the
Radical press, but it is nevertheless capable of proof.

ebt Eiberpoot g`2)taratarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1842

The cause of the deteriorated and still deteriorating
condition of the British labourer is a problem upon
n and the economist have of

which both the statestria

late exhausted their ingenuity

_ The increase of ma-
chinery, the mania for cheapness of production, the
corn-laws, the new poor-law, the currency—all these
have been dwelt upon as more or less conducive to
the result complained of by the working man, and
deplored by the philanthropist ; whilst one fertile
cause of the wide-spreading evil has, we submit, been
hitherto entirely overlooked, or, at all events, not
sufficiently considered.

It is impossible for any thinking man, residing in
or visiting frequently this great port, to pass along
the neighbourhood of its steam-docks without being
struck with the sight of the multitudes of half-clad
human beings whom every packet from the sister
island lands upon our quays. It is impossible during
the summer and autumnal months to enter Liver-
pool, from any point, without seeing the lanes crowded
with these immigrants, tramping, with reaping hook
or potatoe fork, to the farming districts around us.
Sturdy limbs they bring with them, though care is
marked upon their haggard and wild features. Indo-
mitable perseverance, too, they possess, or have put on
for the occasion; self-denial, the most rigid, charac-
terises every, movement towards the end for which
they have visited our lind. Onward they pass, from
village to village, from farmstead to farmstead ; and it
is not until the last sheaf is gathered from our fields,
or the last potatoe dug up from the furrow, that we
see them, still exhibiting the same weather-beaten,
tattered aspect, the same careworn features, the same

rigid parsimony, returning, troop by troop, to be once
—haply by the guardians of the poor
of Liverpool—to the mud cabins and the bogs from
which the summer and the prospect of gain enticed
them.

more transported

These wretched-looking beings bear

with them,

fast stitched up in some corner of their dilapidated gar-
ments, the winter comforts, the winter fuel, the warm
clothing for the aged and the schooling for the chil-
dren, of thousands upon thousands of the husbandinen.

of England ! In times now past, the harvest of the
farmer was the harvest also of his labourer, and of his
labourer's wife and children. The mowing time, the
hay time, the reaping and the gleaning, furnished to
the cottager the opportunity, and the only one, of
laying up a purse to supply the exigencies of sickness
or the rigours of winter. Now he lives under a

changed st,

eof things. The ill-paid slavery of the
lot in health. He toils through the
winter's snow and the driving rain; he ploughs and
he sows ; but when the change of seasons has brought
round the period in which his labour was once pro-
ductive labour, a band of strange men step between

fields is his

him and his hopes, and, because at less cost to the

fanner, they reap and secure

the harvest

The mea-

doors ripen for the scythe; the corn waves yellow for
the sickle; but lie and they who, with him, in time
past, looked forward with joy to that gladdening sight,
stand now, with folded arms, by their cheerless
threshold, whilst others gather in the harvest and bear
away the reward!

The irruption of a swarm of locusts, covering and
eating up the produce of his fertile fields, could not be
more disastrous to the hopes of the farmer than is this
irruption of migratory labour to the hopes of the
British husbandman. The existence of that once
contented and happy race of men is now, in too many
of our agricultural districts, but one long struggle
with the bitterness of poverty, unenlivened by even a
solitary gleam of joy's sunlight, which once visited his
cottage home, and brings with it the dreary pros-
pect of the workhouse as the probable refuge of his
declining years. Yet, does the stranger, who thus
snatches his comforts from his lips, enjoy himself that
good which he takes away ? Does the poor immi-
grant—and heaven forbid that upon his head an ill
feeling should rest, for that to which hard necessity
drives him !—does the poor Irish reaper fatten upon
the hard-earned store which he carries back to his
native bogs ? We fear not ! The spendthrift land-
lord, the griping middleman, the exacting priesthood,
and—worst extortioner of all—the selfish Agitator,
sweep away the gains for which their wretched serf
and dupe toils in a strange land, and for the want of
which the British husbandman starves in his native
fields, and occupies. at last, a union bastile and a

pauper's grave

Nor, is tha depreciation of the value of British
labour, caused by this continual influx of the semi-
pauper labour of Ireland, confined to the agricultural
In every large town throughout Great
Britain, that description of labour which is not
artisan labour is performed by an Irish population,
located in some filthy suburb, existing upon food
such as an Englishman would cast from him with

districts,

disgust, and working for a pittance upon which an
Englishman would vainly attempt to subsist. The
hands of Irishmen sink our sewers, pave our streets,
carry mortar and bricks for our buildings—perform,
in fact, the drudgery of labour, and subsist in content
upon its miserable remuneration—whilst able-bodied
Englishmen pine in our workhouses, or beg in our
In our manufacturing towns, they compose
nearly one-third of the working population, toiling in
the worst paid departments, and ever ready to grasp
at employment at still further reduced wages. As
artisans, they crowd the workshops of the slopseller,
the puffing upholsterer or cabinet-maker, the shoe-
maker, the tailor, and, in fact, the second and third-
rate professors of every branch of handicraft; and by
the production, by their low-priced labour, of trashy
commodities, added to the effect of their constant
pressure upon the market for employment, they have
not only caused a ruinous reduction in the price of
moderately-skilled labour, but they have aided mate-
rially in damaging the reputation of every British-
manufactured commodity, and in circumscribing the
demand for the services of the best-remunerated and
best-skilled labourer.

streets.

No direct legislative measure, it is true, can now
remove the effect which this hum DELUGE upon the
British market for labour has produced. No legisla-
tive measure ought, directly, to attempt it. Yet the
evil is palpable. Ireland—pauperised Ireland—is
fast pauperising Great Britain, and is fast PAPALISING
her too ! Her lower classes, as they sink into poverty,
are sinking at the same time into the arms of the same
blinding superstition which is professed by those who
are depressing the market for their labour, and who
re fast becoming the majority of her working popu-
Tell us of the spread of Popery amongst us—
of the increase of chapels, of nunneries, and of zno..
asterics, in this Protestant land ! Why here is the
rtile cause. Popery and poverty—twin curses, who

go ever hand in hand—are trampling down the demo-

the disa:

happy PROTESTANT ENGLAND; and

HI isgo-

LAND!