The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

(One interest.)

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Warspite, 50, Captain
Lord John Hay, C.B. with Lord Ashburton and suite on
board, which was compelled to put back in consequence of
the gale from the westward, and which anchored on Saturday
morning in the Yarmouth roads, is still windbound, and un-
able to proceed on her voyage. For an hour or two yester-
day morning the wind was favourable, and blowing moder-
ately from the S.E., but suddenly it veered round to the
westward, from which point there was a heavy gale through.
out the day.—lntelligence has just been received that the
Warspite has lost one of her anchors and chain cables during
the late gales.

" LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.-011 rnonday the
half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this railway was
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Mr. William
Shadbolt in the chair. From the report it appeared that the
new works were progressing. Fifty-six new carriages on the
line were shortly to be replaced by others ofn far better con-
struction. The raising of the remaining £50,000, by the
issue of new shares or bonds, was at present delayed. Coin-
pared with the former half-year there was a saving in the
expenditure of £1,376 12s Bd. The balance of the traffic
department was £1,160, a sum too small to warrant a divi-
dend. The passenger traffic showed a decrease of 41,22,1:
and in amount of £1,635, compared with the preceding 1'34
year, but the Brighton tolls had increased to £987 /35 '
The directors, however, looked with confidence to the futon
when the Croydon, Brighton, and South-eastern lines should
be in a state of completion. The fares had been reds_
oe"c..d .i.t:,
9d, and 6d.f but no opinion could at present be formed of the
peared
result of the experiment. From the balance sheet it le , ~.,,
that, up to the 31st of December, the total cash re_e_v„e,.".,"f_".
4d. ,fl wl""h
been £966,239 4s 2d., leaving a balance in hand of: ily's".!"
The receipts for the half-year were £26,137
its. _.-!
ezz,524 lls
were the items—passengers, 737,916, and paYi, g--
Croydon toll, £2,052
d the exec t
nses reduced
The interests on bonds and shares, a" hmang been adopted ,
lls. sd. ; and Bright6t
the balance to £931 9s. 3d. The repor,tna 1-964 18s. Bd.
tion of Mr. Joshua
a lor, discussion took place on the no
to be holders of two
Field' as a new director, when
Mr. Stringer, to compel the directors .
liecation, but it was eytai-
hundred of the old shares as LI 9 .1
u-deratio that the directors
tually withdrawn under the cotnosithe
a resmofution was moved by
extent of one huudred
Entwisle ;and three ether
in future should each qualify was then:unanimously elec-
doirriegeitnoarlisnhtahreeg.roo.l;roe.
freMr.
re-elected; after which a vote
directors who had retired were otefdtiale
directors, and the meeting ad-
of thanks was passed to
journed. .
r TB AGENA.—The following are the par-
OUTRAGE AT vAcrous and cold-blooded affair, ahered
ticulars of this. r 9
:tguinlan, mate of hetiMajesty's Data;tie
from Mr. ll:Whose charge the Jane and Sarah arrived at
Charybdisi_The Jane and Sarah was employed by the Co.
Port Roya .
„, ernment to convey Colonel r. Watt
lumbian
" ` Englishman, and several n• t; ,- Gregg,'
' • '
and another a
,_ . ,
that on reat.hin,,,,their destination a arty of Car-
Zapote ;
soldiers forced their way on boa ' p
mona's
rd, and. after ran-
sackiog the vessel, carried off Colonel Gregg and his party as
prisoners. besides securing 14,000 dollars and other goods to
a considerable value, the property of the state. On reaching
the shore, the unfortunate prisoners were then tied up to a
tree and shot, beginning with the natives, each one being tied
by the inhuman butchers to the dead body of his companion !
On Colonel Gregg remonstrating, as we were informed, with
them, and asking them if they dared thus to murder a British
subject, they only shrugged up their shoulders, and said, they
would soon see that ! The party then fired, but the first vol-
ley only brought their unfortunate victim on his knees, when
some . of the soldiers stepped up and consummated their
bloody work. The other English passengers had their lives
spared, but were detained in custody. Shortly after, a large
sail appeared otl the coast; which suspecting to be a British
man-of-war, the marauders took to their boats, and disap-
peared.