The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The packet-ship New York, Captain Cropper, arrived at
this port yesterday morning, from New York, with papers
from that place to the 21st ultimo, being six days later than
those brought by the Virginian, and the receipt of which we
acknowledged in our last publication.
The New York Herald of the 16th gives a list of the ves-
sels then in that port, from which it appears there are seventy
ships, thirty-four barques, ninety-five brigs, and two hundred
and fifty schooners in the city, and sixty-one, of all classes,
lying at Brooklyn. One-third of these, it is stated, are
lying idle. " with no captains, no crew, no freights, and no
prospect of getting any for some time to come." Most of
the number are for sale, though there are no buyers in the
market. This leads to some reflections as to the probable
cause of so much stagnation in trade.
The packet-ship Sheridan arrived at New York on the 16th
ultimo, and the Great Western steamer on the 17th, with the
intelligence of the then proposed financial and commercial
code of the new British government. Nothing had been
heard of the Britannia at New York prior to the departure
of the packet.
The influence of the news from England was not very ap-
parent. Commercially, the state of affairs remained much
the same. Nothing appears to have arisen from Lord Ash-
burton's mission, though it is stated that Governor Fairfield
was about to convene the legislature of the State of Maine,
in consequence of despatches from his lordship, stating that
he was fully authorised to settle the boundary question, and
that there was every probability that this long disputed mat-
ter would soon be settled to the satisfaction of all parties.
The Herald, after discussing the relative merits of the
various ports in the country, as places for the departure of
the steamers for the West Indies, or any port in America,
gives a decided preference to Liverpool in every case.

The Hon. W. Lawrence, a representative in congress,
from Pennsylvania, died at his lodgings in Washington, on
the 17th ult. The appropriation bill was taken out of the
committee in the house of representatives, and reported for
final passage on the 18th. A very exciting debate took
place.
A grand ball had been given at Washington to Mr. Clay,
at which many of Lord Ashburton's suite were present.

The fine packet-ship Louis Philippe, trading between
Havre and New York, went ashore on the 14th ult., about
20 miles from Montank Point. She had 120 passengers on
board, all of whom were saved. The cargo consisted of
French dry goods, which it was expected would all be saved,
though in a damaged condition.
A much better feeling prevailed in the money market, and
the stock market was more buoyant. It is said that the new
English Tariff will be peculiarly beneficial to the western
states. The reduction on tallow, lard, beef, and pork alone
offers an immense outlet to those articles, of which the west
has a superabundance.
A vessel was taking in, at New York, a cargo of raw cot-
ton for Canton. It is a low-priced cotton, laid in at 5 and
6 cents per lb.
The latest news from Mexico states that the invasion of
Texas, on the part of the Mexicans, was only a small in-
vasion. General Arista was at Monterrey, four hundred
miles from the frontier of Texas. _ _

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General Rafael Vasquez, commander df the expedition to
Bexar, writes from the banks of the Rio Grande, under date
March 11th, and gives an account of his retreat, which was
effected without hindrance or molestation on the part of the
Texians. lie says that on his arrival near the Great River,
so exhausted were the horses of his men, that had they been
attacked, not more than forty of them would have been able
to join in the charge.

CHINA

CIRCULAR.
TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China has the pleasure
to announce to her Majesty's subjects in China, that the dis-
trict cities of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, distant respec-
tively 40, 20, and 30 miles from Ningpo, have been lately
visited and temporarily occupied by detachments of her Ma-
jesty's combined forces.

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The Chinese government having thrown garrisons into the
cities in question, and given out that the object in so doing
was to encourage (or perhaps, more correctly speaking, to
intimidate) the inhabitants of Ningpo and the surrounding
districts to withhold obedience to the British authorities, and
likewise to deter them, as far as possible, from furnishing
provisions and supplies, it was resolved by their Excellencies
the Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief, to take an
early opportunity of dislodging those garrisons ; and on the
weather (which had been extremely wet in the early part of
December) becoming frosty and favourable for operations,
the necessary arrangements were completed for carrying that
resolution into effect.

The Sesostris, Nemesis, and Phlegethon steamers, carrying
about 700 men of all arms, and towing a number of boats,
weighed from their positions at Ningpo on the morning of the
27th of December, and proceeded up the river. The former
ship, owing to her greater draught of water, was obliged to
bring up about two-thirds of the way to Yuyao, off which
place the two smaller vessels anchored late in the afternoon,
when the troops landed immediately under the personal
directions of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh
Gough, K.C.8., and, having taken possession of a small
battery mounting four guns (which the Chinese had thrown
up to enfilade the approaching reach of the river, but which
they did not venture to defend), were lodged for the night in
a large temple or josshouse, situated on a hill which over-
looked the town at the distance of less than half a mile. At
daylight on the morning of the 28th his Excellency the naval
Commander-in-Chief disembarked with the seamen and ma-
rines, and preparations were made for escalading, when some
of the people came out and declared that the garrison (stated
to have consisted of 1,200 regulars, and an equal number of
militia) had quitted the town during the night, and that the
gates were open. Our troops, in one division, and the sea-
men and marines in another, accordingly marched in, and
aeparaed at the southern gate, to go round the town along
the ramparts. When the naval division had advanced part of
the way, a fire of jinjalls and matchlocks was opened on it by
a considerable body of Chinese soldiers, which had taken
post outside the walls, at a spot near the north-west angle,
where they were covered by a deep canal. It unavoidably
occupied some little time for her majesty's forces to gain
egress from the town by the northern gate, leading over the
canal, and in the interim the enemy had decamped across the
country. They were hotly pursued for seven or eight miles,
during which numbers of them threw away their arms and
heavy clothes. A. military position on which they retreated,
about five miles from Yuyao, was burned, and a very exten-
sive barrack (temple), close to that town, containing a maga-
zine of gunpowder, and great quantities of arms, clothing,
and other munitions of war, was subsequently set fire to and
utterly destroyed. Twenty-eight prisoners were taken,
amongst whom were several subordinate officers, and it is
believed that from 75 to 100 of the enemy were killed and
wounded during the affair. Had they only stood to allow her
majesty's forces to close with them, not a man could have
escaped; but their local knowledge of the roads, combined
with the fact of the whole country being knee-deep with fro-
zen snow (which covered up and concealed the paths), gave
them a decided advantage over their pursuers in their flight.
On the 29th the city was examined, and an immense pub-
lic granary of rice discovered, and given to the inhabitants
to carry away. On the 30th, the small steamers descended
the river, and rejoined the " Sesostris ;" the three vessels
anchored that afternoon on the nearest point to the city of
Tiskee, which lies between four and five miles from the left
bank, and which was found on the following morning (the
31st) to be deserted by the Chinese troops and all the civil
authorities. The public buildings were here destroyed, as
far as that could be done without endangering the town ; the
population were permitted to take the grain from the govern-
ment granary, which was very large and quite full of rice ;
and the combined forces having re-embarked, the steamers
returned to Ningpo on the evening of the 31st December.
It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary extreme gratifica-
tion to add, that not a single casuality occurred during these
movements. Mr. Midshipman Lock, of her Majesty's ship
Blenheim, was struck on the foot by a spent jinjall ball, but
fortunately escaped with a slight contusion. The cold was
intense during the whole period, the thermometer ranging at
night ten and twelve degrees below the freezing point ; but,
notwithstanding this fact, and the unavoidable exposure, the
troops, seamen, and marines, all came back in the highest
health and spirits.
An unfavourable break in the weather prevented the in-
tended movement on Funghwa being put into execution until
the 10th instant. On that morning the Phlegethon and Ne-
mesis started from Ningpo, and were brought up by a bridge
across the river about noon. The land forces, with the
Lieutenant-General commanding, here landed, whilst the
seamen and marines, under his Excellency the Admiral, went
some miles further up the river in boats. The two divisions
arrived simultaneously at the city of Fungewa about dusk,
and found it deserted by the Chinese authorities and troops.
The same steps as were adopted at Tsikee with regard to the
public buildings and granaries were next morning adopted
here, and the combined forces returned to the steamers on
the afternoon of the 11th, and to Ningpo early on the 12th
instant.

Although these operations are of no moment considered in
a military point of view, yet their moral and political effect
is highly important, and on that account Her Majesty's Ple-
nipotentiary deems it expedient to make the result of them
public. They evince our irresistible power, as well as extra-
ordinary forbearance so far as the people are concerned ; and
it has been ascertained, that such was the consternation on
the news of the descent on Yuayo reaching the provincial
capital of Hong-chow-foo (distant above 100 miles,) that
Imperial commissioners and other Chinese officers fled from
that city to Soochow, 90 miles further north.
The Phlegethon steamer and Bentinck brig of war have
just proceeded to examine and reconnoitre the bay of Hong-
chow-foo and the port of Chapoo.

God save the Queen.
Dated on board Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, at sea, on
the 24th of January, 1b42.

HENRY POTTINGER,

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary

MISCELLANEOUS,

The Nottingham election committee have declared Sir J.
C. Hobbouse and Sir G. G. Larpent duly elected for that
borough.
Lord Auckland has been requested by his friends in India
to sit for his statue, to be placed beside those governors-
general who have preceded him.
The venerable Earl Grey was among the equestrians, on
Wednesday, on Constitution-hill, apparently in the enjoy-
ment of excellent health.

NEW MA GISTRATE FOR CHESHIRE.—The lord lieutenant
has placed on the commissio❑ of the peace for Cheshire,
Richard Orford, Esq., of High-lane, near Disley.

PUSEYISM.—The Bishop of Worcester has issued a letter
to the Rural Dean of Birmingham, in which he forbids the
public use of the term " Puseyite," as applicable to those en-
tertaining tractarian opinions.

We regret to learn that " crows feet" have been scattered
in the neighbourhood where the recent assemblage of nailors
took place, for the purpose of laming the horses of the troop-
ers, one of which was picked up in the town of Stourbridge,
having been brought to our office.—Worcester Chronicle.
ARTESIAN WELL AT GRENELLE.--The sand and clay,
which have so long rendered the water of the Artesian Well
thick and muddy, appear to be completely exhausted, and for
some weeks the flow has been uniformly as clear as well-
filtered river water.—Athenceum.

At a recent public dinner given at Brandenburgh the King
of Prussia spoke as follows :—" We can never regret the debt
of gratitude that Prussia owes to Russia. The Emperor of
Russia is not only my ally, but be is the best and most inti-
mate friend I have. I may add, that he is the real friend of
Prussia."

A statistical table of the cotton manufactures of the United
States shows an immense increase in the period between
1831 and 1840: that in capital having been 7,299,317 dols. ;
that in factories 198 ; spindles, 880,824 ; yards of cloth,
182,668,129; pounds of cotton, 45,095,824 ; value of manu-
factures, 18,280,143 dols. ; hands employed, 4,589; and
amount of wages paid, 857,912 dols. In the imports of cot-
ton goods there had been a corresponding decrease; the ge-
neral result showed that they had not increased with a de-
creasing and low tariff, while home manufacture had
increased 75 per cent., although the population had increased
but 334 per cent.

NEWSPAPER NOBODYISM.-A newspaper can, properly
speaking, personally insult no one ; it may traduce, it may
calumniate, it may injure, but it cannot personally insult,
because to personal insult two parties are wanting—the man
insulted, and the man insulting, and from whom, according
to the law of society, reparation is to be exacted. If a news-
paper misrepresents a man, he has his remedy in a contra-
diction, for which the press is always open ; if it vilifies or
otherwise injures him, he has his remedy in the courts of
law, with jaws ever gapins for us ; but nobody expects him,
society does not expect him, to look for any other remedy ;
it is a paper or an abstraction that he has to do with, and not
a man that can insult.—Standard.

The New Zealand papers to the 3d of December give a
mournful detail of the butchery of a Mrs. Robertson, her
child, and some attendants, at the Bay of Islands, the pre-
ceding week. A native, of the name of Makutu, was the
perpetrator of the horrid deed, and after having despatched
his victims—merely, it is supposed, for the sake of posses-
sing their clothes and some few moveables—fired their resi-
dence and left their bodies to burn. He escaped to his
tribe, but was pursued, and after a long and perilous nego-
tiation was delivered over to the parties who had investigated
the matter, and was at the date of these papers at Auckland,
in the hands of justice. There is no local news worth ex-
tracting.

The proposed commutation by the chancellor of the ex-
chequer of the railway passengers' tax, of one-eighth of a
penny per head per mile, to a general payment of 5 per cent.
on the gross receipts, is expected to cause a loss to some of
the great metropolitan lines, but to prove of the greatest be-
nefit to others, especially the Scotch, as the cheap carrying
lines having to compete with steam-boats have frequently
never realized any profit whatever. The alteration will,
moreover, it is thought, prove a great boon to the labouring
classes, as it will enable the companies to increase the ac-
commodation to the third-class passengers, and perhaps to
add a fourth class. The subject has excited much interest
among those concerned in railways, particularly the northern
lines, which are expected to derive the principal advantage.
AN HUSSAR KILLED IN DUBLIN. -On Monday morning
a soldier of the 10th royal hussars was thrown from his horse
while riding rapidly up Aungier-street ; falling backwards,
his head came violently in contact with the pavement, and
he was killed on the spot. The man was the hearer of some
some despatches, and going rather bard for street riding, a
dray appearing just before him as he passed Digges-street, he
pulled up suddenly, and threw his horse on his haunches.
The horse rose immediately but without his rider. The poor
fellow's brains were literally dashed out, and he never spoke
scarcely breathed—more. A verdict of accidental death was
returned.

The Wurtaburgh Gazelle, of the 3rd, states that the King
of Prussia intends going to St. Petersburg on the 26th June.
His Majesty's absence from his dominions will be about a
month, at the end of which time he will return, and visit
the provinces of the Rhine, to be present at the grand
reviews of his arm, which are to take place early in August.
The Prussian court will then reside alternately at Cologne,
Coblentz, Dusseldorf, Munster, and at the royal. castle of
Stobzenfels. The Kings of Bavaria, of Wirteoiberg, of
Hanover, of the Belgians, the Emperor of Russia, several
Archdukes, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and some
German and French princes, have, it is said, received invi-
tationsto join his Majesty of Prussia on this occasion. The
resolution of the Prussian minister concerning the rela-
tive posaion.of the Bishop of Jerusalem and the evangelical
Prussian church, has not been favourable to that clergy, who
has received orders to abstain from holding any discussions
on the Anglican church.

In consequence of the great fall in the corn-markets, the
bakers in Bath have lowered their bread id. per quartern.
The bobbin-net trade, which was so extensive in Leicester-
shire in 1829, has now become nearly extinct.
Cambric for handkerchiefs has begun to be manufactured
in the north of Ireland to a considerable extent.

The Bishop of Lichfield is rapidly sinking, and very faint
hopes are held out of his recovery.

Mr. Justice Cresswell was knighted by her Majesty at the
levee on Wednesday.
The Northern and Eastern Railway is to be opened
throughout on Monday week.
The public opening of the South-Eastern Railway to Tun-
bridge is fixed for the 26th instant. The directors go down
on the 19th.

Stamford was agitated on Thursday by an awful occur-
rence, the death of Mr. T. Boyfield, under-steward to the
Marquis of Exeter. He fell down dead in Burghley Park,
without any known previous illness.
The Government of Bavaria has just issued an order pro-
hibiting the homoepathic system of treatment in all hospitals,
prisons, and other establishments, until further and satisfac-
tory information shall be procured as to its efficacy.
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ADVANTAGES OF WATER-TIGHT BULK HEA Hs.---These
are shown by the,follovring account of the Nemesis, iron war
steamer :—" January 15. The Blenheim sails with Sir H.
Pottinger to Macao, and the Admiral proceeds to Chusan in
the Nemesis, which right arm of our force has a large hole
in her bottom and requires to be hove down."—Bombay
Times, March 23.

THE M.P. FOR THE MONTROSE BURGHS.—HAPPY Lo-
CATION.—A Welsh contemporary very aptly places the
election of Joseph Hume among several notices of quack
medicines.

CHRIST CHURCH, CHELTENHAM.—The Rev. A. Boyd,
M.A. has communicated to the trustees of Christ Church
his intention of permanently accepting the Incumbency of
that church.

ALTERATION OF CIRCUITS.—In addition to the alteration
in the Northern Circuit, the judges have determined to take
Warwickshire from the Midland Circuit, and attach it to the
Oxford Circuit ; and take Shropshire, Herefordshire, and
Monmouthshire, from the Oxford Circuit, and attach them
to one of the Welsh Circuits.
THE TIMBER DUTIES.—It is understood to be the inten-
tion of government, in the new tariff regulations with respect
to colonial timber, to allow all such timber as may arrive in
this country before the 10th of October next, to have a privi-
lege equivalent to that of bonding, whether such timber may
be deposited in bonding yards, or may be received in ports
in which no such yards exist.

CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.-It has just been decided at
Bristol, by Sir Charles Wetherell, the recorder, that publi-
cans suffering not only card playing, but bagatelle, and the
like, although not for money or money's worth, are liable to
the penalties imposed by theialehouse act of parliament.
The duty on indigo is to be reduced to 2s. per cwt. on fo-
reign, and Is. per cwt. on colonial. The present duty is 3d.
per lb. ; and the reduction to Is. per cwt., which is less than
one-eigth of a penny per lb., will be a considerable boon
both to the manufacturing interest of England and the agri-
cultural interest of India.