The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

QUICK Post To CHINA.—Extract of a letter, dated
Macau, September 18, 1842 :—" I owe you an acknowledg.
ment of your very kind and friendly letter, of the 28th of
May, which reached me among the earliest of that month's
overland—viz., on the 4th of August, which was only 60 days
after their despatch from London—the quickest post on re-
cord to this part of the world, considering the whole was
brought from Bombay to this in a .sailing vessel."
REMARKABLE STREAM.-At the bottom of a wood be-
longing to W. Turton, Esq., of Knowlton, in Flintshire, is
a rill of water which empties itself into the river Dee, and
when a person strides across it he is in the kingdom of Eng-
land, the principality of Wales, in the provinces of Canter-
bury and York, and the dioceses of Chester and Lichfield
and Coventry, in the counties of Flint and Salop, in two
townships, and in the ground of Mr. Turton and his
neighbour.

FUDGE ! —lt is rumoured, that within these few days a
letter has been received by her Majesty from the King of the
French, strongly recommending the recognition of the Pope
as the head of the church, stating as a reason for such extra-
ordinary counsel, the universal peace at present prevailing
throughout the world. As might have been expected, it is
said to have created a great sensation in the Palace. We
have also heard that the Pope is expected to consecrate in
person, of course with unusual splendour, the Romish cathe-
dral now erecting in the neighbourhood of Westminster-
abbey.—Edinburgh Witness.
Loss OF LIFE IN A COLLIERY.—A melancholy accident
occurred yesterday week at Fenwick Colliery near Belford,
by which two young men (brothers) lost their lives. Five
persons were working in the pit at the time, and from the ac-
count of the three survivors, it appears that suddenly an un-
usual noise was heard, and on turning to discover from
whence it came, they were horror-struck on seeing the
colliery rapidly filling with water, occasioned, it is supposed,
by one of the men having unguardedly encroached upon the
division between them and a long disused part of the works.
Three of them immediately rau and seized hold of a rope,
whereby they reached the top. The remaining two unhappily
perished.—Newcastle Journal.

RAILWAY COMMUNICATION TO HOLYHEAD. The Ches-
ter Chronicle says, " In the ensuing session we hope to see
a Bill passed by the legislature to form a railway from the
station a Chester, running through the coal and mineral dis-
tricts of North Wales to Wrexham, plans of which were
lodged on the 30th ult. at the proper offices ; and though this
railway is principally intended for the local trnffic of our
neighbourhood, it will be an imortant step in advance of the
route to Holphead, as it will pass through the suburbs of
Chester, crossing the river Dee, and run about four miles in
the direct line to Holyhead ; and we are happy to add, we
have every reason to believe the parties engaged in this under-
taking have the ability to accomplish their object, in which
they have our good wishes."

IMPORTANT TO COUNTRY ATTORNEYS : SESSIONS AP-
PEALS AND PROSECUTIONS.---It is of considerable import-
ance to our professional readers that they should be made
aware of a recent decision in the Court of Queen's Bench
materially affecting the course of quarter sessions practice.
In the case of "The Queen against Long, Esq.," which is
reported in the last number of the Queen's Bench Reports,
by Messrs. Adolphus and Ellis (new series), just published,
the judge of that court decided, that where a court of quarter
sessions, acting under the authority of a statute, makes an
order for the payment of costs must be by the act of the
court, and must be completed before the court is dissolved,
by the termination of the sessions; and that any taxation of
cost which takes place after the final close of the sessions is
inoperative. It therefore follows, that all attorneys who have
any appeal, prosecution, or other business at any court of
quarter sessions having power to award and tax costs, must
take care that those costs are taxed, and the order for pay-
ment perfected during the continuance of the same sessions
at which they are ordered, otherwise the order for the pay-
ment of them will be of not effect.

The intelligence from Barcelona, which comes down by the
help of the French telegraph, to the 12th instant, announces
the reduction of the place. The bombardment from the fort
of Monjuich, which had been more than once postponed,
began at eleven o'clock on the morning of the 3d, and con-
tinued without interruption until two o'clock next morning.
Upwards of nine hundred shots were fired into the city.
Van Haien then suspended the hombardinent, and called
upon the authorities to surrender ; allowing them six hours
to disarm the revolutionary corps. During the night, the
mob threw off all restraint, and broke open the Town -house.
seizinp the treasure of the municipality, besides robbing the
houses of the wealthier inhabitants. It is estimated that as
much as 200,000 dollars was thus carried off. In the morn-
ing, the inhabitants elected a new representative junta ; who,
after presiding at the disarmament of " the force that still
opposed the general welfare," sent out a deputation to in-
form the Captain-general that order was restored, and that
he might enter the city with his troops. The junta then
addressed a short proclamation to the people, exhorting them
to be tranquil, and to "expect every thing from his High-
ness, the Regent of the kingdom;" took measures to secure
the public safety ; and announced their own resignation.
The gates were opened, and Van Halen entered the city with
his troops, at five o'clock in the afternoon.
The city suffered materially, but the amount of damage.
and the number of victims were not accurately ascertained.
The houses of a square on which the Municipality stands
were particularly damaged, arid fires had broken out in diffe-
rent quarters, which were not extinguished on the sth. The
crews of the French ships of war had, by the direction of the
Consul, landed their engines, and were rendering every
assistance. The house of the French Consul had also sus-
tained some injury. Before the commencement of the bom-
bardment, the soldiers of the militia proceeded in a body
towards the French ship, on hoard of which their officers had
sought refuge, and fiercely demanded their surrender; but
the commander ordered them immediately to depart, threat-
ening to repel them by force if they did not obey his injunc-
tion. The correspondent of the Times describes the desolate
appearance of the place :

' " The aspect that Barcelona presents is, it would appear
from the accounts which reach the refugees here, formerly
inhabitants of that place, of the most melancholy kind: the
pavement torn up in the streets, for the purpose of forming
barricades ; the woollen and cotton goods taken from the
warehouses of the merchants, and heaped up in piles to
deaden the effect of the shells and round shots; beds, mat-
tresses, and every description of household furniture which
could be put to a similar use, are employed for the purpose
of forming some shelter against those terrible missiles."
The correspondent of the Morninu Post thus describes the
scene :

" BARCELONA, DEC. 6.—The bombardment, thank God,
is at an end ; and of the 50,000 to 60,000 persons who fled
from the city on the 2d instant, when it was known that the
firing would commence on the following day, two-thirds have
returned; The city presented a melancholy appearance on
3d, with the shops shut up, and the streets deserted, except
by the resisting rabble. Some of the coffee-houses, however,
were open during the day and in the evening, and they were
crowded with persons, who were sitting as tranquilly as if
nothing extraordinary had been goirr, on. It is said that
about 1,000 shells and shots were tirecr; but, if so, they must
have been purposely ill-directed, for the damage, except in a
few places, is very trifling for such a quantity of projectiles,
and a very few lives indeed have been lost. You may sup-
pose that there was no serious intention on the 3d of doing
much damage, when I tell you that the gas lamps were
lighted as usual in the evening, and not a lamplighter was
injured. In the course of the night, indeed, a few lamps
were broken, but that was all. I had rather an awkward
visitor myself in a cannon ball which fell down my chimney,
but it rolled in the most harmless manner near my feet.
The greatest damage was at the Hotel de Ville, a portion of
the inside of which was burnt. I saw four houses burning
at once, but the tire was soon put out. There is not so great
a feeling of irritation here against the Regent as might have
been expected. The truth is, that the respectable inhabitants
were as anxious as himself to put down mob rule."
Accounts have been received directly from Barcelona to
the 9th. The French papers have talked of daily executions
of insurgents; it appears that 200 of the more violent were
given up to "condign punishmest ;" but only one execution
had actually taken place, that of a captain of volunteers, nick-
named Carcana.
The mystery in which the origin of the insurrection was at
first involved is now gradually disappearing. The suspicious
and meddling part taken in the affair by the French Consul,
the lying telegraphic despatches transmitted to Paris, and the
lamentations of the Government journals on the failure of the
conspiracy, showed that others besides the Christinos and
Republicans were mixed up in this atrocious scheme. The
Madrid Gazette of the Bth leaves no doubt on the subject.
It positively states that it was got up in Paris, and implicates
in the plot the French Consul of Barcelona. The Barcelona
Constitucional confirms the statement, and openly accuses a
" certain Consul " with having been instrumental in creating
the revolt.

NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER YANG-TSE-KIANG

The following letter, dated Yang-tse-Kiang River, August
23d, 1842, from Captain Ord, of the brig Liverpool, will be
found to contain many important and interesting particulars
relative to this river:—
" I left Amoy on the 21st May for Chusan, and after a
very severe dead beat along a coast and through channels
very little known, and almost without charts, with the ex-
ception of a rough sketch chart, I at length arrived safely at
the latter place on the 11th June. I completed loading Bth
July, and proceeded to join the convoy lying in the outer
harbour ; here my misfortunes commenced. Among the
Chusan Islands the navigation is the most intricate of any
part of the globe, the currents running with fearful rapidity
and in whirlpools, and rendering ships totally unmanagea-
ble, on account of which the accidents that have happened
are too lengthy for this letter. On the evening of the Bth
I was obliged to anchor in 28 fathoms in a dangerous part to
avoid being driven by the currents on the rocks, where the
ship and cargo would have been totally lost. At 10 p.m.
the best bower parted ; came to again with the small bower
close on the rocks. The windlass having been carried ,
rode by the mainmast. This damage was all done byaway the
rush of the tide, there being but little wind. • I fired signals
of distress, which were promptly answered by her Majesty's
ship Thalia, and by several transports, who sent about 70
hands. At four a.m. on the 9th, when the tide ceased, we
succeeded in getting the small bower, but not until heaving
off one of the arms, which had hooked a rock. After losing
another stream anchor and hawser, got into safe anchorage
by six a.m. We proceeded with the convoy on the 10th,
and after a quick and fine passage arrived at Woosung, in
this river, on the 14th of July, where we remained quiet
until the 4th of this present month, when we received orders
from the senior naval officer at Woosung to proceed to Nan-
kin, in company with the Baretta Junior, and the Sir Robert
Peel, under convoy of her Majesty's ship Harlequin, and
reached this point of the river on the fitli inst. It is about
50 miles above Woosung, and about 100 from Nankin. It
is the most dangerous part of the river, with rapid tides and
shifting banks, so that the channel is very uncertain. .'he
width of the river, at this point, from shore to shore, is about
20 miles. It is now my painful duty to give you an account
of the loss of the ship. On the day in question, steering
after her Majesty's ship Harlequin, we observed her sud-
denly ground. The Liverpool's anchor was immediately let
go, and in turning round she grounded also. The two other
transports, being a little more astern, dropped their anchors
also, and avoided the bank, which is not correctly laid down
on the chart. We had immediate assistance from the trans-
ports, and when the ship was once again swinging to the
stream the capstan gave way, and the bare end of the hawser
being passed, slipped, and the ship was then immediately
forced on the bank again, and all efforts to get her off failed.
In the meantime her Majesty's ship Harlequin had got off.
On the Bth, blowing strong with a swell, the vessel strained
a good deal and became leaky ; on the 10th we comfirenced
discharging the cargo into the junks on the ebb and throwing
overboard on the flood, as they could not then lay alongside.
We toiled incessantly, day and night, with every possible
assistance; but on the 11th I was convinced the ship would
become a wreck, there being six feet water in the hold and
both pumps constantly going. I then, with the assistance
of a number of hands from her Majesty's ship Harlequin,
commenced saving and putting on board the junks every
valuable article either to owners or underwriters. At this
period the ship had broken her back. On the 18tli I aban-
doned the wreck, nearly buried in the mud, and divided the
cre,v on board the two junks.
p,S., Sept. /I.—Since writing so far, we have reached
within seven miles of Chin-Kiang-Foo tthe last taken place
by the English), 45 miles from Nankin. Peace is now con-
cluded, and the fleet leave on the 12th inst. The whole of
the fleet, consisting of seven sail, have been on shore some
three or four times, so intricate is the navigation of this
river."