The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-30 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OF THE LOG

Dec. 16. Wind W. at 2 30. p. m. slipped moorings and
proceeded to sea—moderate breezes and fair weather.
17. Wind N. distance 196 miles, lat. 43. 09, lon 66. 39--
fresh breezes, and cloudy.
18. Wind S.W. at 10 a.m. arrived at Halifax,—morning
thick weather, with snow—afternoon light winds and clear
—2 30 p.m. started for Liverpool-3 30, saw the Britannia.
19. Wind N.W. distance 205 miles, lat. 44.48. lon. 58.57
fresh breezes and cloudy weather.
20. Wind W.N.W. distance 216 miles, lat. 15.09. lon. 53.
—53. strong gales and cloudy, with a heavy sea.
21. Wind W.N.W. distance 240 miles, lat. 45.56, lon 48.
—l4. strong, breezes and cloudy, with a heavy sea.
22. Wind N.E. and S.E. distance 223 miles, lat. 46 43, lon.
43—steady breezes and clear.
23. Wind S.S.W. distance 240 miles, lat, 47.14, lon 37.17.
fresh breezes; with a heavy northerly swell.
24. Wind W. distance 218 miles, lat, 48.52, lon, 31,33—
moderate breezes.
25. Wind W.S.W. distance 255 miles, lat. 49. 41, lon. 25.
10—strong breezes and squally.
26. Wind N.N.W. distance 266 miles, lat. 50. 18, lon. 18.
22, strong breezes and squally, with showers of hail and a

very heavy sea.
27. Wind N.W. distance 255 miles, lat. 5L 14, lon. 11. 42
—strong breezes with a heavy beam sea.
28. Wind N.N.W. running up Channel—light breezes and

clear. _ -
22. At 1, a.m. arrived at Liverpool

LIST OF PASSENGERS

From Boston to HaYax.—Messrs. T. B. Smith, Botsford,
Chandler, Jordan, Cobb, and Edw. Cunard, jun.

From Boston to Liverpool.—Messrs. E. Corrie, Wood-
maney, William Booth, Walter Colquhoun, J. Brailsford,
G. 13. lronside' William Rowe, Murdock, James Owen,
A. Currilleive, James Gilmore, J. M'Ktnnon, F. G. Moun-
tain, W. E. Logan, G. B. Tymes, H. Allen, and Edward
Fairelough.

From Halifax to Liverpool.—Captain Rooper, and Mr
Robert Pow.

We are enabled to state that the King of Prussia has con-
sented to become the arbitrator between France and England
upon the difficult and long-contested subject of the Por-
tendic claims.—Standard.

THANKSGIVING IN MASSACHUSETTS.—This day was a
great day in Massachusetts. It is estimated that at least
200 marriages took place between sunrise and sunset. In
the single town of Ware nine weddings came off.—New York
Herald.

THE TEA. TRADE, Dec. 2G.—The deliveries of tea laat
week were 316,7601 b, The market is flat, and since this
day week prices have fallen Id. to 2d. per lb., owing to the
further public sales which have taken place, besides more
being aunounced for next month.
NAVIGATION OF THE BALTIC.—The number of ships
that passed the Sound in November was—from the Baltic,
704 ; from the North Sea, 241. Of these the English were
12, from the North, and 323 from the Baltic, or 335 out of
1,005, or one-third of the whole.

STRANGE TALE.—Some few months ago one of our
townsmen left for America, in company with his wife. After
having set foot on the Eldorado of the went they found to
their unspeakable disappointment, that they had travelled
far without mending matters. They tramped over a great
part of America, till they were reduced to ask charity from
passing strangers. One day the husband asked charity of a
black gentleman, who, instead of giving bins any, offered
him 250 dollars for his wife. The offer was refused by the
husband with becoming indignation. The wife immediately
turned to him, and said, in an under tone, " Thou fool, take
t' brass, let me go, and then I'll come to thee." Entering
into the spirit of the dodge, he pocketed the money, and
bade farewell to his wife, with the understanding that she
would return to him directly. Three days afterwards he
saw his wife in her carriage, attended by black servants, and
had an interview with her. She told him to go home and
think no more about her, as she had found a good shop and
was determined to keep it. She still remains under the
influence of the black gentleman, and the disconsolate hus-
band returned to our town last week to tell his own misera-
ble tale, and to exhibit himself as a living proof of the trea-
chery and inconstauay of woman.—Leeds paper.

Additional accounts from Alexandria of the 7th instant
state that the mortality among the cattle still continued, and
it was calculated that upwards of 200,000 oxen had already
died. The Pasha and his son experienced the greatest diffi-
culty in ploughing and sowing the lands, and were obliged to
employ for that purpose their own horses, those of the cavalry
and artillery, and a number of camels. Mehemet Ali, on
that occasion, caused a chief, named Shell Beled, to be de-
capitated for neglect of duty, and Ibrahim treated with
similar rigour several of his stewards who had not attended
to his instructions. On the 28th ult., an artilleryman be-
longing to the garrison of Aboukir was removed to the
Lazaretto of Alexandria, where he soon died of plague.
Three other soldiers of the same regiment having been like-
wise taken ill, were placed in quarentine, and commissioners
were sent to Aboukir to inquire into the nature of their
malady. The sanatory regulations were enforced with ex-
treme rigour. The officers of the Lazaretto and hospital
being ordered to remain constantly at their posts and not
communicate with the city, the latter had all resigned their
situations. The Russian sanatory commission sent from
Odessa, under the direction of M. Wartsblio, was still at
Alexandria. They intended to try the exPeriment of puri-
fyin, goods and merchandise by means of heat. Pestiferous
articles were to be exposed, in rooms or stores, to different
degrees of temperature, and, after remaining there a certain
time, they were to be placed on individuals in order to ascer-
tain if this process had been effective in destroying the con-
tagion. The Russian Consul, it appears, intended to ask
Mehemet Ali, on his return, to allow the commissioners to
make the experiment on some capital convicts. A rich coal-
mine had been discovered near Cosseir.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOT, STAkDARD

SIR,—Mr. Rushton having, in reply to a note addressed
to him by me respecting the proceedings in the Liverpool
Police-court on Monday the 19th instant, in the case of
Sergeant-Major Whitebread, stated as follows :—" I have
therefore to inform you that I did not pronounce you guilty,
but that I advised Sergeant Whitebread to tell the whole
truth to his superior officers ; and that I merely repeated a
portion of the evidence given by the officer and sergeant
examined." Now, as this Aatement goes far to impugn the
correctness of your reporter as to the most offensive portion.
of the language imputed by him to Mr. Rushton, and as the
remarks attributed to that magistrate is calculated to inflict
the most serious injury on my future prospects, it is incum-
bent on me to ascertain whether your reporter is or is not
satisfied with the correctness of his notes. The bearer will
wait an answer. _

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
JAMES HOPE

Lancaster Castle, 213th Dec., 1842

[We had not an opportunity. and if we bad we should not
have availed ourselves of it, of giving a verbal reply to the
above note from Adjutant Hope. We do not see that the
passaga here given from Mr. Rushton's note at all im-
pugns, but rather that it confirms, the correctness of our
report. As to the remarks of Mr. Rushton inflicting
" the most serious injury" to the future prospects of Ad-
jutant Hope—with that we have nothing to do. The case
was correctly reported; and if Adjutant Hope feels ag-
grieved at its publication, however unfortunate it may be
for him, we cannot help it.]

[Yesterday (Thursday) we received the following addi-
tional note from Adjutant Hope :
Sir,—As the injury done to my character by the statement
of the Liverpool Police-court procedings, in the case of Ser-
geant-Major Whitebread on the 19th instant, has been GREAT
BEYOND WHAT language can express, I beg to remark that
nothing can possibly repair that injury but the most full and
explicit acknowledgement of the error on the part of the Po-
lice-court, and yourself can remove it. I have been informed
that Sergeant Christian denies the language imputed to him,
written correctly or not, is best known to those who were
present at his examination.
I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
JAMES HOPE.

28th December. 1812.
[We do not exactly comprehend what Adjutant Hope here
demands, and we are inclined to think that he scarcely knows
himself. But if he means to require us to acknowledge some
error, which he neither specifies nor shews to have been
committed by us, we can only say he has mistaken our
character. We repeat that our report of the case against
Sergeant Whitbread was correct in every part. As to Sergeant
Christian denying " the language imputed to him," we ha
his ipsissima verba.]