The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-11 00:00:00

SLAVERY IN TURKEY.

The toildWing rather original despatch appears in " the
Correspondence with Foreign Powers relative to the Slave
Trade :"

" VISCOUNT PONSONBY TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
" Therapis, Dec. 27, 1840.

"My Lord,—l have paid the greatest attention to your
Lordship's several instructions on the subject of slavery in
Turkey, with the hopes of arriving at some result that would
afford a chance of obtaining in any degree the object your
Lordship so earnestly desires to accomplish. I have men-
tioned the subject, and I have been heard with extreme as-
tonishment, accompanied with a smile, at a proposition for
destroying an institution closely interwoven with the frame
of society in this country, and intimately connected with the
law and with the habits, and even the religion, of all claSses
of the people, from the Sultan himself down to the lowest
peasant.
" The Sultans, for some centuries past, have never mar-
ried, and the imperial race is perpetuated by mothers who
are slaves.
" In all other families slaves may be, and often are, the
mothers of legitimatised children, who are in all respects as
much esteemed as those of legal wives.
" The admirals, the generals, the ministers of state, in
great part have been originally slaves. In most families a
slave enjoys the highest degree of confidence and influence
with the head of the house.
" To carry what your lordship desires into execution it
will be necessary to limit the law of succession to the crown
and alter the policy that has so long guided the Sultans in
hat respect, and also to change fundamentally the political
and civil institutions and laws and the domestic arrangements
of the people. Universal confusion would perhaps be the
consequence of such violent changes, and probably those
persons intended to be most benefitted by them would be the
greatest sufferers.
" The slaves are generally well protected against ill-treat-
ment by custom and the habits of the Turks, and by the in-
terests of masters and their religious duty, and perhaps
slaves in Turkey are not to be considered worse off than men
everywhere else who are placed by circumstances in a de-
pendent situation ; whilst, on the other hand, they may
attain, and constantly do enjoy, the highest dignities, the
greatest power, and largest share of wealth of any persons in
the empire.
" 1 think that all attempts to effect your Lordship's pur-
pose will fail, and I fear th ey might give offence if urged
forward with importunity.
I was asked, What would the
English Government think of the Sublime Porte if it was to
call upon the Sovereign of England and the people of Eng-
land to alter the fundamental law of their count.y, and
change its domestic habits and customs in order to please the
taste of the Turks I'
" I could perceive, in spite of the good-humoured polite-
ness with which this question was asked, that there was
something like wounded feeling in the speaker.
" The Turks may believe us to be their superiors in the
sciences, in arts, and in arms but they are very far from
hinking our wisdom or our morality greater than their own
" I have, &c.

" PONSON BY.
" The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. G.C.8., &c."

A spccial meeting of the proprietors of the Northern and
Eastern Railway was held, on Wednesday, at the London
Tavern, when resolutions were passed fot the disposal of
3,136 forfeited shares, and also for authorizing the directors
to borrow £155,000.

UNITED STATES' COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.—The Ame
rican papers contain a statistical summary of the value of
the exports of produce and manufactures of the United
States for three years, during the periods of 1838, 1339, and-
-1841. The exports of the produce of the sea had declined
to 2,846,851 dollars, it having in the year 1838 been as high
as 3,175,576 dollars. The exports of the produce of the fo-
rest is alluded to as showing an increase, 1838 being stated
at 5,200,499 dollars, 1839 at 5.764,559 dollars, and 1841 at
6,264,852 dollars. Of agricultural produce, including the
raisin.' of crops and the breed of cattle, the exports are
stated at 9,105,514 dollars for 1838, 13,588,886 dollars for
1839, and 16,737,462 dollars for 1841. Of the tobacco crop
in 1838 the value exported was 7,392,029 dollars ; in 1839,
9,883,934 dollars ; and in 1841, 12,576,703 dollars. Of the
cotton crop, the value exported was 61,556,811 dollars in
1838 ; in 1839, 61,238,982 dollars ; and in 1841, 54,330,341
dollars. And the exports of manufactures are stated at
8,483,321 dollars for 1838 ; for 1839, 9,590,531 dollars ; and
for 1841, 6,481,502 dollars. Of these general amounts
England for herself and colonies took 850,540 barrels of
flour, 850,865 bushels of wheat, 324,709 bushels of Indian
corn, and 96,810 barrels of pork.
THE POPE AT SEA.—The Semophore de Marseilles, of
the 28th ult., contains some particulars of a visit of the Pope
on board the French Levant steamer Eante, at Civita Vecchia,
on the 19th ult. This vessel bad just entered the harbour
when his Holiness was sailing out in the brig of war of twelve
guns, and Si. Peter and St. Paul, escorted by the small
steamers lately constructed for his service in England. The
Pontifical flag was immediately hoisted on board the French
steamer, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Two hours after-
wards the Sovereign Pontiff, accompanied by a numerous
suite, composed of cardinals, prelates, and superior officers,
repaired on board the Dante. The Pope, after visiting the
vessel, conversed a long time with the officers of the staff and
the French Consul, commended the services rendered to re-
ligion by the Levant packets, who gave a free passage to the
missionaries and nuns of different orders, and extolled the
virtues of Louis Philippe and the piety of the Queen, whom
he pronounced to be a saint. A collection was next offered
to the Holy Father and his health drunk ; after which, every-
body on board was permitted to kiss his slipper, and another
salute of 21 rounds announced his departure. Before leaving
the steamer, Cardinal Fosti distributed, in the Pope's name,
, valuable medals and beads among the officers, and left a large
sum of money to be divided among the crew.
APPREHENSION OF AN ANTI-CORN-LAW MILLOWNER.
—On Monday, one of the anti-corn-law manufacturers of
Ashton, Mr. George Southern, of the firm of J. H. Southam
and Brothers, was arrested and taken before the magistrates
at Ashton. It appeared that Mr. Southam was chairman at
a meeting of turn-outs, on the 9th of August. The witness,
William Schofield, an operative spinner, said : " Pilling
proposed that none of us should resume work till we got a
fair day's wages for a fair day's labour. Mr. Southern put
the resolution to the meeting, and said that those who ap-
proved of the resolution must hold up their
.hands. He
then said, To the contrary,' after which, he said, Ladies
and gentlemen, it appears to be carried unanimously. He
said he was a Chartist, and was born a Chartist.—Mr. Hud-
son objected to this sort of evidence.—Witness: Pilling pro-
posed a resolution, that we must all go to Manchester, and
go to stop all the mills ; and as it was a rainy morning, they
had better go to breakfast, (those who had any to go to,) and
he would come again at ten o'clock. There was an amend-
ment proposed, to the effect, that we should go to Manches-
ter at once. Mr. Southam said, There is nothing like
time present. Do you go presently, and I will lead you up.'
Pilling then got up, and said, " Well, ladies and gentlemen,
as lam beaten, lam like to give in. You have got a cotton
master with you ; you cannot be much hurt. I'll go to
breakfast, and I'll follow you.' I left the meeting, and did
not go to Manchester. Mr. Southam said, that, if the peo-
ple would go for the repeal of the corn laws, he would stick
with them upon any question they would propose." Mr.
Southam was liberated on bail, himself in XlOO, and two
sureties in £5O each.

TIDE TABLE.
Days. Nrn. Elm. Height. Sundays, Holydays,
H. M. P. I.
7 FirstQuarter,6h.27m.mrn,
Tuesday 11 340 411 11
wearies 12 449 531 10 9 Jupiter sets 9h. 90m. even
Thursday 13 6la 656 10 5 Trans. King Edw. Con.
Friday .. 14 731 8 8 10 9
Saturday 15 838 9 0 11 10 Moon in Apogee 6h even.
Snnday.. 16 921 941 13 9 21st Sunday after Trinity
Monday .17 I 951 1U 16 14 3 Ethelreda.

DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND
DISEASE OF THE HEART.

Warren-street, corner of Russell-street.

WREKLY REPORT.—OCTOBER. 10.
Received Advice and Medicine 219 cases.
Relieved Spasmodic Asthma....
Spitting of Blood
Inflamation of the Lungs
Palpitation of the Heart
Incipient Phthisics
Confirmed Consumption
, ~; 1, •. • •

Cured

OSPITAL, OCT. 8.
REPORT.]
DISCHARGED.

NORTHERN Hi
[WEEKLY
•
ADMITTED.
Accidents l3 Cured
Medical and Surgical cases Attending asOut Patients
Upon recommendation
- Died..
Total
Remaining in the Hospital . . 7'

House Visiters. John Lightbody and Charles Inman, Esqrs.
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. Wrn. Hughes.-House-Surgeon Mr. Parker,

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON TILE IST OP OCTOBER, 1842.
(From the United Service Journal.)
[Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which
the Dep6t of the Regiment is stationed.]
Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 40th Foot—Bombay; Chatham
2d Ditto—Windsor 41st— Madras ; Chatham
Royal 11. Guards—Regent's Park 42d—Cephalonia ; Stirling
Ist Dragn Gds.—Canada; York 43d—Canada; Enniskillen
2nd—Nottingham 44th—Bengal; Chatham
3d—Birmingham 45th—Cork
4th—Dublin . 46th—Barbadoes ; Tempiemore
sth—Dublin
47th—Berbice ; Castlebar
6th—Glasgow 48th—Gibraltar; Guernsey
7th—Cahir 49th—China; Chatham
Ist Dragoons—Manchester 50th—Bengal; Chatham
2d—Exeter 51st—N. South Wales; Chatham
3d—Bengal ; Maidstone 52d .New Brunswick ; Athlone
4th—Canterbury 53d—Edinburgh
6th—Piershill 54th—Belfast
7th Hussars—Canada, York 55th—China ; Chatham
Bth—Hounslow 56th—Birr
9th Lancers—Bengal ; Maidst. 57th—Madras ; Chatham
10th Hussars—Ballincollig 58th—Dublin
11th Light Dragoons, York 59th—Trinidad; Jersey
12th Lancers—Dublin 6oth(ist battalon .) Manchester
13th Light Dragoons—lpswich (2d batt.)—Jamaica; Dublin
14th—Bombay ; Maidstone 61 st—Newcastle -on -Tyne
15th Hussars—Madras ; M'stone 62d—Bengal ; Chatham
16th Lancers—Bengal; M'stone 63d—Madras; Chatbam
17th Lancers--Leeds 64th—America; Nenagli
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 65th—Manchester
W ellington Barracks 66th—Glasgow
(2d batt.)—Canada 67th—Canada; Youghall
Cobatt.)—Manchester 68th—Canada ; Chester
Coldstream Guards-ost bat.) 69th—New Brunswick ; Fermoy.
Portman-street. 70th—Canada; Waterford
Scotch Fusileer Grds—(lst batt) 71st—Canada; Isle of Wight
St. George's Barracks 72d—Blackburn
(2d batt.)—Tower 73d—Newport
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 74th—Canada; Cashel
(2d batt.)—Canada; Charles F. 75th—C. of G. Hope ; Chatham
2d Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 76th—Halifax , Newry
3d—Bengal ; Chatham 77th—Corfu , Sheerness
4th—Madras; Chatham 78th—Bombay; Chatham
sth—Gibraltar ; Kilkenny 7gth—Gibraltar ; Aberdeen
6th—Gosport 80th—N. S. Wales; Chatham
7th—Gibraltar; Dover 81st—Antigua; Athlone
nth—Dublin 82d—Jamaica; Boyle
83d—Canada ; Armagh
9th—Bengal; Chatham
loth—Bengal; Chatham 94th—Madras; Chatham
ith—Weedon. 85th—Canada; Limerick
1
12th—Mauritius; Weedon 86th—Bombay ; Chatham
87th—Mauritius; "lull
14th—Canag da
13th—Benal; ;
Londonderry ChathamBBth—lVlalta ; Longford
15th—Windsor 89th—Canada; Naas
16th—Portsmouth 90th—Ceylon ; Drogheda
17th—Aden ; Chatham g 1 st—Cape & St. Ilelen a ; I .W.
92d—I3arbadoes ; Dundee
1 sith—Chin a ; Chatham
19th—Malta; Brighton gad—Canada; Paisley
20th—Bermuda; Isle of Wight 94th—Bombay; Chatham
21st—Bengal; Chatham 95th—Ceylon; Chatham
22d—Bombay; Chatham 96th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham
23d—Canada ; Isle of Wight 97th—Zante ; Dover
24th—Davenport
98th—China ; Brecon
25th—C. Good Hope ; Chatham 9901—Chatham
26th—China ;d
Hope ; Mulling Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist batt)—Malta
27th—C. Goo
ar (2cl batt.)—Halifax, N.S.
pesgt.—Dernerara, &c
28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham IColonialsinCor
29th—Bombay ; Chatham tW. d. R
30th—Halifax; Galway 2nd—Jamaica
3d—Sierra Leone
31st—Bengal; Chatham
Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon
32d—Leeds
33d—St. Vincent; Waterford Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape
34th—Weedon of Good Hope.
35th—Mauritius ; Clonmel R. Canadian Rifle Reg.—Canada
36th—Limerick Royal Newfd. Veteran Company
37th—Dublin —Newfoundland
1 38th—Corfu; Hull Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta
i 39th--Madras ; Chatham St. Helena Regt,—St. Helena.