The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The nacket-ship New York, Captain Cropper, arrived at
this port yesterday morning, from New York, with papers
from that place to the 21st ultimo, being six days later than
those brought by the Virginian, and the receipt of which we
acknowledged in our last publication.
The New York Herald of the 16th gives a list of the ves-
sels then in that port, from which it appears there are seventy
ships, thirty-four barques, ninety-five brigs, and two hundred
and fifty schooners in the city, and sixty-one, of all classes,
lying at Brooklyn. One-third of these, it is stated, are
lying idle. " with no captains, no crew, no freights, and no
prospect of getting any for some time to come." Most of
the number are for sale, though there are no buyers in the
market. This leads to some reflections as to the probable
cause of so much stagnation in trade.
The packet-ship Sheridan arrived at New York on the 16th
ultimo, and the Great Western steamer on the 17th, with the
intelligence of the then proposed financial and commercial
code of the new British government. Nothing had been
heard of the Britannia at New York prior to the departure
of the packet.
The influence of the news from England was not very ap-
parent. Commercially, the state of affairs remained much
the-same. Nothing appears to have arisen from Lord Ash-
burton's mission, though it is stated that Governor Fairfield
was about to convene the legislature of the State of Maine,
in consequence of despatches from his lordship, stating that
he was fully authorised to settle the boundary question, and
that there was every probability that this long disputed mat-
ter would soon be settled to the satisfaction of all parties.

The Herald, after discussing the relative merits of the
various ports in the country, as places for the departure of
the steamers for the West Indies, or any port in America,
gives a decided preference to Liverpool in every case.
The Hon. W. Lawrence, a representative in congress,
from Pennsylvania, died at his lodgings in Washington, on
the 17th ult. The appropriation bill was taken out of the
committee in the house of representatives, and reported for
final passage on the 18th. A very exciting debate took
place.
A grand ball had been given at Washington to Mr. Clay,
at which many of Lord Ashburton's suite were present.
The fine packet-ship Louis Philippe, trading between
Havre and New York, went ashore on the 14th ult., about
20 miles from Montank Point. She had 120 passengers on
board, all of whom were saved. The cargo consisted of
French dry goods, which it was expected would all be saved,
though in a damaged condition.
A much better feeling prevailed in the money market, and
the stock market was more buoyant. It is said that the new
English Tariff will be peculiarly beneficial to the western
states. The reduction on tallow, lard, beef, and pork alone
offers an immense outlet to those articles, of which the west
has a superabundance.
A. vessel was taking in, at New York, a cargo of raw cot-
ton for Canton. It is a low-priced cotton, laid in at 5 and
6 cents per lb.
The latest news from Mexico states that the invasion of
Texas, on the part of the Mexicans. was only a small in-
vasion. General Arista was at Monterrey, four hundred
miles from the frontier of Texas.

General Rafael Vasquez, commander of the expedition to
Bexar, writes from the banks of the Rio Grande, under date
March 11th, and gives an account of his retreat, which was
effected without hindrance or molestation on the part of the
Texians. He says that on his arrival near the Great River,
so exhausted were the horses of his men, that had they been
attacked, not more than forty of them would have been able
to join in the charge.

CHINA

CIRCULAR

TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China has the pleasure
to announce to her Majesty's subjects in China, that the dis-
trict cities of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, distant respec-
tively 40, 20, and 30 miles from Ningpo, have been lately
visited and temporarily occupied by detachments of her Ma-
jesty's combined forces.

_
The Chinese government having thrown garrisons into the
cities in question, and given out that the object in so doing
was to encourage (or perhaps, more correctly speaking, to
intimidate) the inhabitants of Ningpo and the surrounding
districts to withhold obedience to the British authorities, and
likewise to deter them, as far as possible, from furnishing
provisions and supplies, it was resolved by their Excellencies
the Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief, to take an
early opportunity of dislodging those garrisons; and on the
weather (which had been extremely wet in the early part of
December) becoming frosty and favourable for operations,
the necessary arrangements were completed for carrying that
resolution into effect.

The Sesostris, Nemesis, and Phlegethon steamers, carrying
about 700 men of all arms, and towing a number of boats,
weighed from their positions at Ningpo on the morning of the
27th of December, and proceeded up the river. The former
ship, owing to her greater draught of water, was obliged to
bring up about two-thirds of the way to Yuyao, off which
place the two smaller vessels anchored late in the afternoon,
when the troops landed immediately under the personal
directions of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh
Gough, K.C.8., and, having taken possession of a small
battery mounting four guns (which the Chinese had thrown
up to enfilade the approaching reach of the river, but which
they did not venture to defend), were lodged for the night in
a large temple or josshouse, situated on a hill which over-
looked the town at the distance of less than half a mile. At
daylight on the morning of the 28th his Excellency the naval
Commander-in-Chief disembarked with the seamen and ma-
rines, and preparations were made for escalading, when some
of the people came out and declared that the garrison (stated
to have consisted of 1,200 regulars, and an equal number of
militia) had quitted the town during the night, and that the
gates were open. Our troops, in one division, and the sea-
men and marines in another, accordingly marched in, and
separaed at the southern gate, to go round the town along
the ramparts. When the naval division had advanced part of
the Way, a fire of jinjalls and matchlocks was opened on it by
a considerable body of Chinese soldiers, which had taken
post outside the walls, at a spot near the north-west angle,
where they were covered by a deep canal. It unavoidably
occupied some little time for her majesty's forces to gain
egress from the town by the northern gate, leading over the
canal, and in the interim the enemy had decamped across the
country. They were hotly pursued for seven or eight miles,
during which numbers of them threw away their arms and
heavy clothes. A. military position on which they retreated,
about five miles from Yuyao, was burned, and a very eaten,
sive barrack (temple), close to that town, containing a maga-
zine of gunpowder, and great quantities of arms, clothing,
and other munitions of war, was subsequently set fire to and
utterly destroyed. Twenty-eight prisoners were taken,
amongst whom were several subordinate officers, and it is
believed that from 75 to 100 of the enemy were killed and
wounded during the affair. Had they only stood to allow her
majesty's forces to close with them, not a man could have
escaped; but their local knowledge of the roads, combined
with the fact of the whole country being knee-deep with fro-
zen snow (which covered up and concealed the paths), gave
them a decided advantage over their pursuers in their flight.
On the 29th the city was examined, and an immense pub-
lic granary of rice discovered, and given to the inhabitants
to carry away. On the 30th, the small steamers descended
the river, and rejoined the " Sesostris ;" the three vessels
anchored that afternoon on the nearest point to the city of
Tiskee, which lies between four and five miles from the left
bank, and which was found on the following morning (the
31st) to be deserted by the Chinese troops and all the civil
authorities. The public buildings were here destroyed, as
far as that could be done without endangering the town ; the
population were permitted to take the grain from the govern-
ment granary, which was very large and quite full of rice ;
and the combined forces having re-embarked, the steamers
returned to Ningpo on the evening of the 31st December.
It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary extreme gratifica-
tion to add, that not a single casuality occurred during these
movements. Mr. Midshipman Lock, of her Majesty s ship
Blenheim, was struck on the foot by a spent jinjall ball, but
fortunately escaped with a slight contusion. The cold was
intense during the whole period, the thermometer ranging at
night ten and twelve degrees below the freezing point ; but,
notwithstanding this fact, and the unavoidable exposure, the
troops, seamen, and marines, all came back in the highest
health and spirits. _ _

An unfavOurable break in the weather prevented the in-
tended movement on Funghwa being put into execution until
the 10th instant. On that morning the Phlegethon and Ne-
mesis started from Ningpo, and were brought up by a bridge
across the river about noon. The land forces, with the
Lieutenant-General commanding, here landed, whilst the
seamen and marines, under his Excellency the Admiral, went
some miles further up the river in boats. The two divisions
arrived simultaneously at the city of Fungewa about dusk,
and found it deserted by the Chinese authorities and troops.
The same steps as were adopted at Tsikee with regard to the
public buildings and granaries were next morning adopted
here, and the combined forces returned to the steamers on
the afternoon of the 11th, and to Ningpo early on the 12th
instant.

Although these operations are of no moment considered in
a military point of view, yet their moral and political effect
is highly important, and on that account Her Majesty's Ple-
nipotentiary deems it expedient to make the result of them
public. They evince our irresistible power, as well as extra-
ordinary forbearance so far as the people are concerned; and
it has been ascertained, that such was the consternation on
the news of the descent on Yuayo reaching the provincial
capital of Hong-chow-foo (distant above 100 miles,) that
Imperial commissioners and other Chinese officers fled from
that city to Soochow, 90 miles further north.

The Phlegethon steamer and Bentinck brig of war have
just proceeded to examine and reconnoitre the bay of Hong-
chow-foo and the port of Chapoo.

God save the Queen

Dated on board Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, at sea, on
the 24th of January, 1842.

HENRY POTTINGER,
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary

THE TARIFF,

-PRICES OF MEAT ABROAD

We have pleasure in laying before our readers the result of
some enquiries which we have felt it to be our duty to make,
as to the prices of meat on the continent at this moment,
more particularly in Belgium and on the coast of France ;
from whence it is anticipated by some that large quantities
of meat will be sent to the English market. We are most'
glad to find that the anticipations, which we before expressed,
are well founded, that no mischief can possibly arise to Bri-
tish agriculture by the proposed alteration of the tariff, as
each of the countries, which is referred to, is an importing,
not an exporting, country, and the distance of Hamburgh
and the interior of Germany, from whence meat might be
obtained at a rather cheaper cost, renders it impossible to
import it to England except at an additional cost, which will,
together with the duty, cause a price to the English consum-
ers little short—if any—of that which they now pay.
BOULOGNE.
Beef at present sevenpence per lb., of good quality.
Gravy beef fivepence.
Butchers supply a family with meat at sixpence halfpenny.
Small quantities are charged sevenpence.
No beef is fed in that part of France ; the principal supply
comes from Belgium, and the week before last the price of
beef from thence rose a halfpenny per lb. There may be an
importation for a short time to England, but that will be
checked by the necessary increase of prices, as there is a de-
ficiency rather than a superabundance of meat in those coun-
tries.

In Ireland much better meat can be bought at fourpence
halfpenny than is bought at Boulogne at sixpence halfpenny
and sevenpence. The prices of meat here mentioned are
according to the French pound of 17 ounces, but the English
of 16 ounces has in it much more of nutrition.
At Hamburgh beef is selling at sd. per lb.
BELGIUM.

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25 centimes ; or
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