The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

TRADE OF QUEBEC.

The following is the usual comparative statement of arri-
vals, tonnage, and passengers, at the port of Quebec, in the
years 1841 and 1842 :
Vessels. Tonnage. Passengers.
Oct. 28, 1841 .... 1240 420,687 28,279
Oct. 28, 1842 .... 851 302,824 44,388

Difference....

117,863

1G,109

The schooners from the lower ports are not included in
the above statement; and in the total of passengers, the
cabin and steerage are added together.
Comparative statement of the arrivals and tonnage from
the lower ports in the years 1841 and 1844 :
Vessels. Tonnage.
Oct. 28, 1841 .... 96 5386
Oct. 28, 1842 B5 5968

Here again a most serious falling,oiiin the Canada trade is
shown, notwithstanding the greater number of emigrants
arrived out.

The following statistics will serve to show the importance
of the lake commerce, being the exports of flour, pork, and
wheat, from the port of Cleveland, in vessels, during the
week ending Oct. 1, 1842 :
Bris fir. Brls prk. Bus wht.
United States ports
Canadian ports...

23,422

55,835

Dollars.
Value of flour, pork, and wheat to U. S. ports 88,220.79
17 79 79 ~ Canada

Dollars 119,803.37
For a single week, and one port only, this seems a very con-
siderable return; and if Canada loses a part of its lake trade
through the new restrictions, it will be questionable whether
the loss to its merchants may not counterbalance any proba-
ble gain to its agriculturists.

THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.—The day after Lord Nor-
manby made his speech in the House of Lords in vindication
of his administration in Ireland a member of the upper house
called on Lord Wellesley,—" Well, my Lord, your friend
Lord Nor manby couered himself last night with laurels."
" Yes, indeed ; and where do you think he gathered them ?"
" Can't say, indeed." "In the groves of Blarney." .

A gentleman informs us that he purchased in our market,
on Wednesday last, a prime joint of beef, weighing
for Gs. that is, at about 41d. per pound. The Birmingham
Advertiser states the prices in the carcase market in that
town to be—prime beef, 4d ; inferior, 3d., by the side or
quarter. side. Mutton. 4d.; superior, 4d. Lamb, sd.
Veal, 5d.-- Worcester Flerald.
One of the junior clerks of the London Joint Stock Bank
has decamped with £19,715, the amount of cheques received
by him from other banks on Saturday. He shortly after-
wards, however, repented of what he had done, for we learn
from the Times of Wednesday, that shortly after he abscond-
ed he wrote to a friend upon the subject, expressing his re-
gret at what he had done, and his willingness to restore the
property, and in answer thereto an advertisement from his
friend appeared in the Times, urging him to do so without
delay. Whether, however, he waited to see that advertise-
ment appears uncertain, as it is not at all known where he
is; but at all events, in the course of the latter part of Tues-
day the sum of £19,415 was sent by him to one of his friends,
who forthwith delivered the same into the hands of Ambrose
Moore, one of the directors, and Mr. Pollard, the manager
of the bank, about nine o'clock. The amount advertised as
stolen is £19,715, consequently there still remains a deficiency
of £3OO unaccounted for. Cot
EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP IN A COAL FIT.--TWO
MEN BURNT.—On Tuesday evening last, two brothers, of
the name of Jones, were let down a pit, which is called the
Dead Work, near to Old Park, to work during the night,
and after they were let down, those who had been working
in the day (the engine man and all) went home ; but, la-
mentable to say, at about nine o'clock, just as they were
beginning.to work, the sulphuric vapour fired, and they were
both very badly burnt, though one of them, Thomas Jones,
was not F 0 much injured about the body as his brother, from
the circumstance of his having two flannel waistcoats on,
whilst his brother had but one, yet he is sadly disfigured in
his face, and his hands and arms are scorched sadly. What
made the accident more distressing was that, there being no
one on the pit bank during the night to hear their cries for
help, they were obliged to endure their pain in their pit
furnace till five o'clock the following morning (when the
people came to their work), when they were drawn up,
groaning, and seemingly but half alive. Hopes are enter-
tained that they will yet recover.—Shrewsbury Paper.
THE •RECTOR OF FENITON'S CASE.—On Monday the
Judicial Copatnittee of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Coun-
cil held a meeting in the Council Chamber. The lords
present were the Bishop of London, Lord Campbell, the
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and Dr. Lusbington, judge
of the Admiralty Court. An appeal from the Arches' Court
of Canterbury, "The Rev. Henry Erskine Head, clerk,
rector of the rectory and parish church of Feniton, Devon,
v. Ralpij Sanders, of the city of Exeter, gentleman, promo-
ting the office of the judge," came on for hearing. The
'Queen's Advocate was heard for the appellant. The appellant
had been cited in the Arches' Court for writing and publish-
ing a certain letter in the Western Times on the 21st day of
August, 1841, the said letter being headed " A View of the
Duplicity of the present System of Episcopal Ministration,
in a letter addressed to the parishioners of Fenition, Devon,
occasioned by the Bishop of Exeter's circular on confirmation,
by Henry Erskine Head, rector of Feniton, Devon." Mr.
Cockburn, Queen's counsel, followed on the same side. Dr.
Addams was heard for the respondent. Their lordships at
the conclusion of the case deferred giving judgment.
THE ScorriSu CONVOCATION.—The convocation sepa-
rated at Edinburgh on Thursday night, after a meeting to
which the public was admitted. The tangible result of their
deliberations is the adoption of two sets of resolutions. The
first series consists in a general declaration of adherence to
the views they have hitherto entertained in reference to the
incompatibility of the law as interpreted by the civil courts
with the fundamental principles of the Church of Scotland.
it is signed by 427 ministers. The second accompanies a
similar protest, with a declaration of the expediency of an
immediate appeal to government and the legislature on the
subject, and an expression of the determination of those
who concur in it at once to resign the civil advantages which
they now hold, if no measure such as they declare to be in-
dispensable be granted. There are 324 adherents to this set
of resolutions, 21 of whom, however, qualify their adherence
by explaining that it is only after a reasonable time that they,
will hold the silence of the legislature as rendering it impera-
tive upon them, on the ground of christian expediency, to
leave the establishment. We refrain from remark on these
important resolutions in the meantime, simply expressing
our regret that so extreme a course should have appeared
advisable to so large a section of the members of the Scottish
establishment.

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM PACKET
COMPANY.—The shareholders in this company held their
meeting on Wednesday in London, at which a dividend of
31 per cent. for the six months ending the Ist ult., or at the
rate of 7 per cent. per annum, was declared. The directors
in their report, a luminous and well-digested document,
congratulate their constituency on being enabled, by the
steady increase of the traffic of the company, to maintain the
rate of dividend they had before paid, and this at a period
when all other establishments of a similar character have
complained of a diminution of receipts from the unsatisfac-
tory_ condition of commerce. The company's fleet is repre-
rnetsd to be so complete, including the new iron steam-ship,
!nraha, that for the future there will, it is hoped, be no
necessityservica for the assistance of chartered vessels to carry on the
increase
discre-
tionarythe
areth the insurance
covered
o forX 213804, 02 00,
and whichl
8 4 .
for the additional
ward mails to Ind: rvce of calling at Falmouth for the out-
the Company £2,000 theper
Government have consented to pay
rannum, so long as it shall last ; and
as a boon, on the other hand, the Government has released
the Company on liberal terms
communication betweenfrom keeping up the semi-
monthly Malta and the lonian Isles,
since it proVed to be a very unproductive branch. The re-
port then alludes to the departure of thellindostan, which,
from the advice the directors have received of her passage
out, made way to the Cape de Verde from Gibraltar, a dis-
tance of 1,569 miles, in 163 hours, havingthe Bth October, and was expected to be at arrivedaltt there on
December. The Bentinck, the sister vessel,
will, it
ias said,early in
launched about January next. The the total amount e
be
capi-
tal invested, and paid up, is set forth at £432,838, theand
instalments not yet called foramount to £141,812.

P-% 1 v. 4.,

' LADY SALt.

(From the Globe.)
The British nation, which has heard with admiration of
the heroic courage of Lady Sale—worthy to be the wife of
the hero of Jellalabad—and which, as with one heart, has
sympathised with her under the anxieties, privations, and
sufferings she has endured in her captivity—would have re-
garded the triumph of the British arms as incomplete, had
that admirable woman and her companions been left, even
for a period however short, in what we may term her glori-
ous bondage—a bondage illuminated by her heroism, and
ennobled more than Spartan devotion to her country !
There is something peculiarly touching. in the incident
alluded to in the communication made by General Pollock to
the Governor-General, of the release of the prisoners, and
their approach to the camp. "The whole of the European
prisoners are now quite free from the hands of Mahomed
Akbar, except Captain Bygrave. I will make my official re-
port on the subject whenever they reach my camp, which no
doubt will be to-morrow. I sent a lightly equipped force
under Sir Robert Sale to meet them ; and the whole of the
party as with him."
The honour of a special escort was well conceived. To
place that guard of honour under the command of Sir Ro-
bert Sale, the husband of the peerless woman who, from the
prison of her tyrant, found means to communicate with her
husband, and exhort him to hold his post to the last extre-
mity—both now found the reward of their bravery and devo-
tion in the meeting thus appropriately arranged.
Who cap tell the influence which Lady Sale's letter to ber
husband--while with difficulty sustaining the drooping spi-
rits of his troops under their privations and sufferings within
the walls of Jellallabad—had upon the successful termination
of the war? Had Sir R. Sale evacuated Jellallabad in pur-
suance of the orders be received, instead of bravely daring to
dispute their necessity, and to postpone their execution,
Cabal might yet be in possession of Mahoraed Akhbar, and
the remnant of the British army within the Indus. What-
ever honours and rewards may be conferred by the Sovereign
and the country on the brave commanders of this eventful
expedition, Lady Sale must not be forgotten ; for she has
well merited a grateful recognition by both.