The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

vor, 3d Bengal c

Lieut. Hamilton, sth cavalry ; Capt. C. Troup, 48th B.
N. 1., and H. Johnson, 26th B. N. 1., reported killed, un-
certain, though they are missing.

Major Ehl
1., wounded.

:ed Poitinger andlieut. Houghton, 31st B. N

In the hands of the enemy.—Capt. Drummond ; Lieut. J.
B. Conolly, 20th B. N. I. ; Lieut. Lawrence, Bengal ca-
' g military secretary to envoy ; Capt. Sir A.
B. N. I.; Ensign Rose, 57th B. N. I.
minanding Jabuaz corps, murdered by
d Lieut. Patterson, severely

vairy, officia
Mackenzie,

Capt. Golding,
s men, at Ca

wounded,

CHINA:
'rom the Bombay Courie

Our intelligent

.om China is to the
_l3th December. Th

latest accounts from the expedition which had reached Macao
up to that date state that no event of importance had occurred
subsequent to the occupation of Ningpo. It was, however,
reported that a portion of the expedition had proceeded
against Hong-choo-foo. Sir. W. Parker and Sir Henry Pot-
tinger, when last beard of were at Chusan. The latter had
expressed an intention of returning to Hongkong, and his ar-
rival at that place was daily looked for. When the Falcon
left Macao on the 13th Dec., a vessel was in sight, supposed
to be her Majesty's ship Cruiser, with the plenipotentiary. It
was generally understood that immediately on Sir Henry's
arrival instructions would be issued for an advance against
Canton. The Chinese have committed repeated infringe-
ments of the truce by repairing the old and erecting new for-
tifications, as also by obstructing the navigation of the river
above Whampoa. Major-General Burrell and Captain Nias,
R.N., who have for some time been in command of her Ma-
at Hongkong, have been passive spectators of
Id have hereby incurred the most
'notentiary, who is known to

jesty's fore
these breaches of treaty,

have publicly expressed his-sense of their'rnisconduct.-
The arrival of Sir Henry would, therefore, be the prelude
to the immediate resumption of hostilities. There can be

at active

perations against Canton have taken

place long ere this, and that an entire stop has been put to
the export trade. It will, therefore, be many months before
another opportunity will offer to ship teas in any quantity for
Vineland. The greatest activity has been displayed by the
-4ers of her majesty's ships of war, in carrying out
of the admiral, for putting a stop to the Chinese
.sting trade, as also to that with Japan, Java, and Manilla,
iy seizing their junks, and bringing them into Kongkong
end r"---- "^-iy hundreds of all sin- "
and already been captured.
is offered to junks bona fide proceeding to the British settlt

commar
the oak

VIIU3SLI• J.,,,.,
upwards, have

trom twenty tons
No molestati

ments in the Straits

At Canton, on the 16th of November, everything remained
quiet, and teas were being shipped off without interruption.
But the high prices which we mentioned a fOrtnight since as
being paid for congou have not been maintained, and those
then valued at 35 taels niay now be had for 31 taels.
Trade was proceeding as usual in Canton on the 4th of De-
upon unfavourable terms. By forcing
- '9t tt

sales or manufactures upon an unwniwg marke _heir prices
are even lower now than before, and cotton also shows a ten-
dency to decline. Teas are about the same as last week, but
it is observed that this year's crop is generally of an inferior
quality. Large quantities of green teas are now being pre-
pared at Macao for the American market, a considerable por-
tion of these sorts of teas, as indeed of many others, being
now shipped from here instead of from Canton. The scar-
city of the circulating medium daily increases, and syce
silver is at par, whilst Mexican dollars arc of extremely diffi-
cult sale at 4 or 5 per cent. discount.

We'were, we learn, misinformed last week, when partially
attributing tie present scarcity of pillar dollars to the ship-
ment of the ransom money of Canton to Calcutta. The dol-
lars then received were mostly kept here for the use of the
expedition, and a considerable portion of them must have
again been circulated. The chief reason for this sudden
'iminution of 0- - doP

theses .cars may probably be soul,. in the
present troubled state of the country. when Spanish dollars,
as generally more current than sycee, and, besides, easily

kat,. ,u6v ly ao,i6ut, ancr iu provinces Oi Banton,
Fokien, and Chekeang, by the people. Another reason,
which would, however, not act with quite so sudden effect,
is the nearly total cessation of supply of this sort of dollars,
and their rapid des" • •
ti

Lek habit of Stamping them ; a measure resorted to by them
. ...

as bills of excl.

ge are endorsed by us, holding those whose
stamp is upon them responsible for the goodness of the metal.

_ . . - -......-..
SIR ALEX. BURNES.. —Although the most intense anxiety
has been manifested on the subject, we have not been able
during the month to obtain any minute particulars of the fate
of the late Sir Alexander Burnes and his brother; no com-
munications containing details of any sort having, so far as
we can ascertain, reached India from our ill-fated countrymen
at Cabool. The melancholy fact, however, is confirmed by

we
a manifesto in the Persian language, an extract of whichhave seen, and which had been addressed by the khans of
Cabool to some of the subordinate chiefs. In this document
•

.u. wusaitug, an I. IIC ultra luesday
of the blessed month Ramazan (corresponding with the 2d
November last) they with other brave heroes, striving like
lions," carried by storm the house of Sikunder Burnes,
rushing from an ambush right and left, and put him to the
sword, together with some other Feringees of consideration,
and nearly 500 battalion men. The destruction of Sir Alex.
Burnes thus boasted of was evidently, therefore, the first re-
sult of a deliberative determination to exterminate the Ferin-
gees, by removing him who had at the same time the strong-
est hold of the Afghan people, as well as the highest and
8 I most t qual''• h;

prominent .diities amongst his own countrymen foA
checking the designs of the chiefs. How well they calculated
has been prayed by the event.

TRANQUILLITY RESTORED.—We may now fairly con-
gratulate the people of Ireland on the accession of the con-

. .
s-ervatives to office, and the consequent restoration of peace
to the most disturbed districts of the country. Tipperary—
.

twelve moots ago, was a literal aceitlania; a- field of

blood—has now become as tranquil and as orderly as any
portion of Ulster ever was pievious to the unhappy outburst

y spirit

: which, we trust, the on
7 quell. At tl
f this county on Frida

oing circuit of assize
opening of the court for the
last, the Right Hon.

.eßalladdresed the grand jury in the fullowing-term

Gentlemen bf th

unty of T

1 have t

nost in a single sentenc

is one of congrattilation-

urprising decrease of crime in this county: Gentle-
is truly gratifying to find the criminal calendar so
nd having had the calendars for the last three years
ie, I do say that the decrease of crime in this county
Is one of ;he most extraordinary facts in the statistics of
Ireland. In the spring assizes for IS-10, there were 125 for
trial, in 1841, there were 92, and now we have but nearly
one-half, namely, 56. When such_ is the improving condi-

tion, gentlemen, of your division of the county, I have only
afie topic to address you upon, and that, I am happy to say,
is one of congratulation. I find from your calendar that the

'rom the f

comparatively speaking, you have for trial,
:hink the assizes will be over in a few days. Gentlemen, th
_tills will now be sent up to you, and probably_ you will b

Di this attestation to tre government of the Earl De Grey
is enhanced by the circumstances that Mr. Justice Ball is
Roman Catholic—a Whig—and was elevated to the judicia
bench by the late administration.—Dublin Evening Mail,

-4.SSITUDES OF Forau— -A grey-haired blind olc
appeared on Friday before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlbo•
rough-street, London, who stated that his name was Robert
Matthew Annesley, and that he had been a solicitor, and was
an admitted member of the Inner Temple. He had at one
time a most lucrative business as a solicitor, and had al
been en-
' wort

ed in literary pursuits ; amongst other w—
,een sub-editor of " Tomlyn's Digest of the Laws," had
.ssisted in compiling the " Statutes at Large," and had also
contributed various articles to " Dr. Lardner's Cabinet
Cyclopwdia." His intense application to business had in-
jured his sight, and " it had at length pleased the Almighty
Disposer of all things to deprive him altogether of his vision •' and he was now with a wife and four children absolutely
`,lrving, not having tasted food for twenty-four hours. He
well known, he said, to the late Mr. Dyer, whose death great loss to him, and who had frequently, since his
relieved him. He had expected to be received as
Mr. Day's bounty for the
the will was thrown into Chancery,
—ight remain there it was impossible to say.
oenehers of the Temple had subscribed £3O for
.ciief, and he had also received a subscription from the
-.award, detaching parties Literary Fund; but these sums being exhausted, and he and
wawa at so great an expel'sa in his family starving,
Th ahhdeecnaaoputpslleiicdkaihnnigtnhitsoaentrespassaul
epndountmotbhteleiri bountysofoffid oc e_
Fitzpatrick,-ate
burnt down the night before,. and of former friends,is
2onflagration. The enemy, to state his c
waillsn,gs;
t f
tkeaatveurpy ashn
oirnceisasnagnet,tiore currents to iv,e.r
having perused, an m
agi
ti r..Hdaardftweriewka,rdwshcicohnsulthteedwol‘rltrh.
twenty-four hours, from which our men sustained the chief clerk, he ordered that a sovereign should be given
for the present relief of himself and
behind their growing defences; and, as it was de- him from the poor box,
) diminish the consumption of provisions within the family. The applicant, onhcehaorkinegd
wthitihs
eumneoxttpoenc,tetdhagtranirt.,
there
was reason to apprehend that the armed in- returned thanks in a, voice
''ould join in any attack made nus tr.-- o •
so
directed that he should be led out of court to

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,d measures, nr' or permuting the women and enable him to recover himselt.
to withdraw, next of excluding all strangers and removed, weut away thauking the worthy
c persons, and finally of getting rid, a$ far as it was kindness.
1

The poor man having been
gistrate for his

COIIIMPON TANI

catl2 tho fittoltion of

uthoritki to

„
very danierous but common practice of boys throwinit
stones in sonic of the leading thorouabfures of the town,
(Great Homer-street in particular,) and is desirous of
seeing the police using a little more energy in suppressing
the nuisance.

We can afford to disregard the paltry spleen exhibited by
" Fair Play."
" Q in a Corner" on Tuesday.
Had not "J. W." better let the subject alone
events, we cannot find room for his letter to

IMP -2Litnrpool &tan Dart

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1842

At all

The afflicting duty is imposed upon us of laying
before our readers the intelligence brought by the last
overland mail from India. The particulars will he
found fully detailed in our columns ; and upon the
heart of every Englishman this awful legacy of Whig
misgovernment—whether viewed in relation to the

bloodshed which has already occurred, the stain which

it has fastened upon the British arms, or the calamities
of which it may, with too great certainty, be looked
.s a forerunner—must fall with crushing and
paralyzing weight. Upon the faction, whose insane
and selfish policy has drawn down upon the security
of our Indian empire so disastrous a shock, and which
has sacrificed the lives of so many of its gallant defen-
ders, the universal voice of Great Britain will surely be
raised in a tone of indignation, Which ought to compel
every thing which bears the name of a Whig statesman
to hide his head for ever from the sight of men to
whom the honour of their country, and the blood of
their fellow countrymen, are not as dust in the balance,
when weighed against the paltry considerations of
place and pa) I

The Morning Herald, the Chronicle, and the Post,
we must state, give far more gloomy particulars; and
repOrt the massacre of the whole of 'the Cabool army,

amounting to nearly 6,000 men, and the capture of 14
ladies—the wives of-British officers,—a calamity, how-
ever, which we fervently pray has not occurred. There

can be no question, however, with respect to the cha-
racter of the policy of the government which, confes-

edly, has placed our East Indian possessions in a po-
sition of unexampled difficulty. The Conservative
statesmen and the Conservative press of the country
have denounced, throughout, the iniquitous course pur-
sued by Lord Auckland and the Itidia Board, with

respect to this Affghanistan war ; and, even so late as
on Tuesday evening last, in the House of Commons,
the very disasters which have since been made known,
and the mis-government which has led to them, were
touched upon with a distinctness, almost prophetic, by
our valued representative Sir Howard Douglas. These
disasters, we repeat, may be exaggerated. We trust
they are; but if they be so—if our gallant army in
Affghanistan is not as yet annihilated—the thanks of
Great Britain are due to the undaunted courage of our
soldiers, and to the protection of an overruling Provi-
dence, but not to any virtue or care of the selfish faction
which has wantonly and madly placed them in peril.

In accordance with our promise, we now proceed to

point out a few of those injurious practices to which,
we maintain, is to be attributed, in part, the deterio-
rated reputation of British manufactured goods in fo-
reign markets. And, first, we will take—as one, in the
production and export of which, from the quantity of
manual labour which enters into its competition, it is
of essential importance that the manufacturers of Great
Britain should maintain a high position—the article of
PRINTED CALICOES. Of this description of goods,
and of dyed calicoes, to which our remarks will also
apply, we exported last year, as will be seen by a re-
ference to Burn's Commercial Glance, 278,748,275
yards; and by a comparison of this quantity with the
export of plain calicoes for the same year, which was
366,946,452 yards, it will be seen that printed goods
arc perhaps the most valuable of all our exports of
manufactured cottons. To enable us to bring the sub-
ject clearly before our readers, it will be necessary, to
trace this manufacture through its entire process—
from the loom into the hands of the foreign consu-
..4l er.

The first operation which we shall notice is the pro-
duction of the piece of cloth in the gray state. The
length of the piece of 7-Bth printing cloth should be
283 to 29 yards, and of 9-Bths 241 to 25 yards ; these
goods, when printed, requiring to measure, respec-
tively, 283 and 24.4. yards. By practices, however,
which we need not describe, they are made to come
from the loom 30 and 31, and 25 to 263 yards long;.
and the manufacturer is enabled to take " a fent "
from each piece, varying in length from 1 to 2,3- yards.
In the operations of bleaching and printing the pieces
are considerably stretched, and the printer is enabled
to take off art additional "printed fent," still deliver-
ing the article to the shipper about 29 yards long. By
the shipper these goods are frequently calendered, in
which operation they are further lengthened and the
width consequently decreased; by the maker-up they
are stretched in "hooking," and very frequently are only
made up in yards of 36 instead of 37 inches, stretched
measure, the result of all which processes enables ano-
ther printed fent to be taken off, whilst the goods, in
nine cases out of ten, go out to the foreign consumer

short of the measure which is marked upon them !

Let us examine the effect of these tricky practices.
In the first place the gray "fent." is brought into
competition in the home market, at a reduced price,
with the cloth in the piece. In the same way the
printed " fent" is brought into competition with the
printed piece. It is well known that the sale of both
plain and printed calicoes, in the home retail market, is
seriously injured by this competition ; and we have a
right to ask from what motives does the manufactu-
rer pursue so baneful a course ? Why, in the name of
common sense, manufacture a piece of goods two or
three yards longer than it is required to be, and sell
the " fent " torn off for less than it ought to be worth
if attached to the piece ? We can divine no reason for
this strange anomaly, unless it be that the weaver re-
ceives no additional wages on account of the additional
length of the piece that comes from his loom; that the
"job printer" receives no additional price for printing;
and that the exporter pursues the suicidal course of
imagining that the fraud practised upon the foreign
consumer will not rebound in injury to the general
trade of the kingdom, in his time. Unless some one,
or all these motives exist, this mutilation of goods is
manifestly a piece of downright folly on the part of the
manufacturer, the printer, and the exporter.
It cannot, we may remark, be urged that the prac-

Lice in question, to the extent to which it is at present
carried on, is an. indispensible one to the trade. We

can remember when it was comparatively unknown.
When the duty upon printed calicoes existed every
piece exported went out its full measure, the excise not
allowing more than ten inches. to. be torn off for a-pat-
The home trade in printed goods was then, we

. _
have no hesitation in saying, a more satisfactory one,
and the foreign trade more honestly conducted,—ex-
cept to the extent that both were affected by the frauds
which were practised by the printer upon the excise.
Passing over this part of the subject, however, which
is of comparatively trifling consideration, let us come
to the more general view of the subject. We will
suppose, then, that an exporter receives an order for
a few thousand pieces of printed calicoes of some
given style, in the best colours and upon the best cloth,
for any foreign market—say a three or four-coloured

print, at 16s. or
.18s the piece. To execute this order
the printer has rollers engraved and blocks cut ; and
at the end of a month or six weeks the goods are upon
their way to the foreign market. Having despatched
these, however, he sets his machinery and blocks to

the production of the same patterns, originally in per-
manent colours, in fleeting or otherwise inferior co-
lours, and upon an inferior cloth, which are sent into
the same foreign market to which his former order
was despatched, to compete with those goods, at a re-
duciion of two to fi►•e shillings the piece; and here 'it

must be borne in mind that the difference in appear-
ance between permanent and fleeting colours is not one
which the foreign consumer can readily detect, being,
in fact, often to the advantage of the latter. It may
be urged, however, that the exporter will secure his
patterns, by binding the printer to forward no similar
or lower-priced
conduct his business on so suicidal a principle.
goods to the same market; and that the
calico printer who exports on his own account will not
Be it
so ; but then, within six weeks after the original order
has been executed, the
"pirate" haS got hold of the
same patterns ; has got his rollers and his blocks ready;
or, dispensing with the latter more expensive process,