The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

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Me, May

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treatment of the Bun,
give Akhbar Khan his !need of praise as Dooranee can bc
Lady Sale's letters do speak in praise of her gaoler 3, and th
heroism displayed by this lady and her companions is a fittiu,
pendant to the honourable, gallant, and honoured conduct!)

Sir Robert and his braveCOinpani:

It is only wonderful

the ladies have survived the hardships they na,,
six weeks, says one of the letters, not one of the party change',
his or her clothes night or day. Men, women, and children
were huddled all into the same room, many of the men woune
ed, ill, and frost-bitten, and some of the females close
child-birth. Almost every menial office was obliged to b.
performed by themselves, and they had but the grcu►:d and
their scanty clothes to rest upon; subsequently a few comforts
were obtained, such as a plank upon a couple of old kajawahs,
serving for " bed and board," couch, and table, all in one.
General Elphinstone is also described as being in a state of
great bodily and mental anguish. It is with the greatest
anxiety we look for further particulars of the fates of the un-
fortunates.

THE MARCH FROM CABUL.—(From the Agra Ukhbar,
May s.)—The report that Akhbar Khan had taken his pri-
soners with him is, we are glad to say on good authority,
unfounded. On his Sight he made them over to the charge
of a chief upon whom he could rely, and who afterwards was
murdered. The chief into whose power they then fell was,
it is said, disposed to treat for their ransom. There is,
therefore, a cheering prospect of their being eventually re-
stored to us. which we confess we despaired of as long as
they were in the clutches of Akhbar Khan, whose avarice,
keen as it might have been, would have been a weak passion,
compared with what be must have felt from his wounds,
defeat, and the total ruin of his cause. This relates only to
the prisoners at Lughman and the neighbouring forts ; those
at Cabul have probably equal chances of safety, if a careful
negotiation be set on foot. They are, we understand, more
numerous than is supposed ; numbers of Sepoys and camp-
followers having found their way back from the fatal march
to Khoord Cabul. Of these, it is said several were sold to
the Usbecs—a report which we had some time ago, and
which is so far cor firmed by this revival of it. The expense
of supporting any number of this class lends strength to the
report. . . _

MISCELLANEOUS

s of the works of the nev'
xpetted that in two months the firs

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houses of

The freedom of the city of Edinburgh has been conferred
on Dwarkanath Tagore, of Calcutta, a wealthy Brahmin,
landowner, merchant, and philanthropist.

The Admiralty has not the Power to stop the half-pay of
any officer in the navy, except under an order from the In-
solvent Debtors' Court.

Mr. Gregory, the gentleman who has been officially en-
gaged in Manchester enquiring into the origin of the present
insurrectionary movement, has been commissioned to visit
Stockport.

FEEDING Fl GS.-It may be useful to state, that it is very
injurious to feed pigs with any preparation of the water in
which potatoes have been boiled. Potato water should be
thrown away, as it is poisonous to the porcine tribe.

The sportsmen complain that thoueh there is abundance
of birds in this part of the country they are very wild, and
that a man must walk a good way before he bags a respect-
able lot.—Essex Standard.

An accident occurred on Friday, in Evers and Martins
colliery, at Parkhead, near Dudley, by the sudden fall of a
body of coal, whereby one man was killed on the spot, and
two others so badly hurt that one of them has died since.—
Birmingham Advertiser.

A species of gourd, known to botanists by the name of
cucurbita leucantlia lagenaria, has this year attained au
extraordinary size at the Jardin des Plantes. This plant,
which assumes the form of a bottle pressed closely in at the
neck and swelling out below, is 40 centimetres in diameter,
and 60 in height. As it still continues to grow, it is not
improbable that it may reach half a metre in diametre, and
two-thirds in height.
THE POPE AND MR. O'CONNELL.—We some time since
announced, upon the authority of our private correspondent,
that his Holiness Gregory XVI had sent to the Liberator of
Ireland a splendid gold cross and medal, as a testimony of
the estimation in which the head of the Catholic Church
regards her most distinguished lay subjects in this country.
The Univers of Saturday has the following paragraph in
reference to this subject :—" Mr. Cullen, the Director of the
Irish College in lime, now on his way to Ireland, had been
charged to present to Mr. O'Connell those gifts of the Holy
Father.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.

CLAsstei.ThiMayor of StaffOrd has issued
a proclamation against the disturbers of the public peace in
that district, which he learnedly heads Victoria Rex !

hip the British Queen, which sailed
rota Antwerp on Thursday for New York, called off South-
ampton on Saturday, to receive mails and passengers. She
sailed the same tide for New York.
INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Thursday night, the Ist instant,
the inhabitants of Collyweston, near Stamford, were aroused
from their slumbers by the cry of " Fire !" It turned out
that an oat-stack belonging to Mr. Thomas Stokes, butcher
and farmer, of that place, was in flames. The stack was
standing in an inclosure called the Slate-pit Close, near the
village, and contained about 30 quarters of oats, the produce
of six acres of land. The fire was discovered between ten
and eleven o'clock ; and, although every exertion was made
to extinguish it, the whole stack was consumed. There is
no doubt that it was the work of an incendiary, and a reward
of £2O has been offered to any party who may bring the
offender to justice. Suspicion attaches to a bad character
residing in the village.—,Stamford Mercury.
To PRESERVE GREEN PEAS,--TO preserve green peas for
the table until Christmas, shell them and put them into
boiling water, give them two or three warms only, and pour
them into a cullender. When the water is completely drained
off, turn them out on a cloth, spread on a dresser to dry
them. From this cloth transfer them to another till they
are perfectly free from moisture. Then bottle them in wide-
mouthed bottles, leaving sufficient room to pour clarified
mutton suet, one inch thick, on the top; cork them tightly,
and rosin the corks, and keep them in a cellar or in the earth.
When used, boil them until they are tender with a bit of
butter, a spoonful of sugar, and some mint.—Correspondent
of the Gardener's Chronicle.

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