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

BOMBARDMENT AND SURRENDER OF
BARCELONA.

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 inure than once postponed,
began at eleven o'clock on the morning of the 3a, and con-
tinued without interruption until two o'clock next morning.
Upwards of nine hundred shots were fired into the city.
Van Helen then suspended the bombardment, 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 deputatio❑ 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 Helen 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, and 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 board 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 :
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" 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 Morning 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 going on. It is said that
about 1,000 shells and shots were tired ; 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. 1 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 fire 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 punishment ;" 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
Constitutional 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 away,
rode by the mainmast. This damage was all done by 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 Beretta Junior, and the Sir Robert
Peel, under convoy of her Majesty's ship Harlequin, and
reached this point of the river on the Gth 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. The
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
j 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 commenced
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 18th I aban-
doned the wreck, nearly buried in the mud, and divided the
crew on board the two junks.
" P.S., Sept. 11.—Since writing so far, we have reached
within seven miles of Chin-Kiang-Foo (the 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 tunes, so intricate is the navigation of this
river."

QUICK PosT TO CHlNA.—Extract of a letter, dated
Macao, 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 Rornish cathe-
dral now erectinc, 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 iltended 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.

ROYAL LIVER THEATRE.
In consequence of the great success of her appearance at the
Liver, Mrs. FITZWILLI A NI ills been prevailed upon to
prolong her stay for TWO Nights inure.
Last Week of Mr. R. II W:KINS' Engagement.
rpinS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 20th, and
TO-MORROW (Wednesday) EVENING, the 21st
instant, the favourite English Comic Opera, called
THE PET OF THE PETTICOATS.
Paul.. Mrs. Fitzwillinm.
To be followed by the Farce of
THE DONCASTER ST. LEG.
Mr. Brown.. Mr. Hoskins
After which, the new Monopo _lie, called
THE BELLE OF THE - ()TEL;
OR, AMERICAN S ' CHES
In which Seven Peals will be ru by Mrs. Fitzwillinm.
The Entertainments will conclude with a new Drama, entitled

FAUST !
OR, THE DEMON OF THE DRACHENFELS
Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, `2.s. ; Gallery, 6d. (Number to Gallery
limited.)
Second Price : Boxes, 2i. ; Pit, Is. Doors to open at
Half-past Six, Performance to begin at Seven. Second
Price at Half-past Eight.

AMERICAN CIRCUS,
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT GHARLOTTE.
STREET. /
The Proprietors respectfully give ntitice, that they will
PROLONG THEIR STAY till,/FRIDAY next, after
which the Amphitheatre will 0 ITIVELY CLOSE.
THIS present TUESDAY E NING, the 20th instant,
the Performance will commence with
T'Chit, Chet'Cha, Ra-Ghan.
Mr. Sweeney in his Negro Extravaganzas.
Master Rivea in an Act, entitled A Purse for the
Mr. Decamp will introduce the Indian Pony. Osceola.
Three-fold Transformation Act, by Mr. LEVI NORTH?
entitled, Italy, France, and Spain.
Mr. Derious will introduce La Tranca Hispaniola.
Mr. Sands and Master Buckley in their Herculean Feats,
on two horses. Winner.
Posturing and Pyramids, by the Rivea Family.
The French Reaper, by Mr. Buckley.
VAULTING EXTRAORDINARY.
Fourth Appearance of Mr. AYMAR in his Daring Act.
Mademoiselle CAMILLE LEROUX in her much-ad'
mired'Act, entitled, THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY !
Magic Ladder, by Master R. Rivea.
Mr. J. L. NORTH will appear in his Grand Princilol
Act.
Sweeney with his Banjo, and Jack Vanbramer in a long
Island Break-down.
The whole to conclude with a Grand Gallopade.
Doors open at Half-past Six, First Music at Seven, Per-
formance in the Circle at Half-past Seven o'clock precisely.
Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls.—Gallery, 6d.

Ely Riberpool -(t-tanDarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1842•

We presume it is not at us that Mr. Christopher
Bushell pointed, on Wednesday last, when he talked
of dictation being exercised towards gentlemen who
differed from what have certainly, ever, been our
opinions upon the education question, and what we
can remember—and we have not greatly to fatigue our
memory in remembering—as being his own declared
opinions, and no doubt his sincerely-entertained opi-
nions, so far as he knew his own mind, upon that
question. We have never presumed to entertain any
such dictatorial powers as those alluded to by the
member for Abercromby Ward. We impeach no
man's sincerity who differs from us, upon the subject
of the system of education to be carried out in the
Corporation Schools; and we do not now impeach
Mr. Bushell's sincerity, or his wisdom. But, how-
ever averse we may he to dictate, or to be dictated to,
and however averse Mr. Bushell may be to be the
object of our censure or of any other party's censure,
we shall not allow ourselves to be deprived of the li-
berty of telling a gentleman, whose past actions and
declared sentiments have always led us to believe that
he was " one of us," that we have ceased to regard
him as a consistent and faithful member of the party
to which it is our pride to belong.
We can quite appreciate the sincerity and the purity
of motive of some gentlemen, of Conservative and
otherwise sound principles, whose names we are sorry
to observe in the list of the minority at Wednesday's
Council meeting. From some of these gentlemen, no
inflated professions have emanated in time past. They
came into the Council unfettered by such professions.
They owe their seats in the Council to no such pro-
fessions ; and they can vindicate the course which they
have pursued, upon the broad ground that it has been
shaped by a sincere conviction, of long standing, and
perfectly consonant with the tenor of their past pro-
fessions and opinions. Gf Mr. Bushell can we say
this ? We fear not. It will be a matter of infinite
difficulty, we are satisfied, to reconcile his present to
his past course, upon the question of education—to
reconcile himself with himself ; and however delicate
he may be in making the comparison, he must not
complain of us if, despite of any imputation which we
may incur of being guilty of dictation, we make the
attempt.

At the present moment, however, we shall refrain
from doing so. It would be cruel towards Mr.
Bushell, however well merited, on his part, that cruelty
on ours. We refrain, too, the more readily, because
we see—and that circumstance does not add much to
the respect in which we would wish to hold him—that
Mr. Bushell is, at present, scarcely at ease with him-
self, with respect to the position which he has chosen
to occupy : for although advocating, to their full ex-
tent, the principles involved in the amendment of Mr.
G. H. Lawrence, he voted, we observe, against that
amendment, sheltering himself in an unworthy evasion
—for in no other light can his own little scheme be
viewed. If there is an insuperable objection—to a
man who has advocated different principles—in the
one scheme, there is equal objection in the other; and
there is this in favour of Mr. Lawrence's, that with its
adoption the requirements of the law may possibly be
recognised, whilst with that of Mr. Bushell they never
can.

Upon one point we would make a suggestion to
Mr. Bushell. We admire the liberality with which he
offered the aid of his purse, to afford scriptural edu-
' cation to such of the children of the poor as might be
dispossessed of the advantages, at present afforded
them, by the adoption of any " liberal" scheme of
secular education, or the abandonment, by the Council,
of the office of providing education at all. We would
gladly see such benevolence assume a tangible shape;
and we would suggest a course in which it might flow,
and at the same time produce peace with regard to this
much-agitated question. Let Mr. Bushell leave the
Corporation Schools in their present legal system of
management, and display his liberality by subscribing
his promised hundred pounds towards the secular
schools which he would have established. No doubt
he would find abundance of " liberal " friends who
would aid him in so excellent a work ! We should
like, at least, to see the experiment tried.

It was very vulgar in Mr. David Hodgson—so at
least thinks Mr. Blackburn—to sneer, in his speech on
Wednesday se'nnight, at the profession or trade of an
opponent. What a pity that Mr. Blackburn and his
party have never before made this notable discovery !
We have heard gentlemen, in the council and out of
it,—" thinking men" and other men,—talk about
grains and barm, double XX and single X ; and ima-
gine all the time that they were supremely witty; but
to talk of senna or rhubarb, it appears, is course be-
yond expression. A brewer, a lawyer, or a tradesman
of any description, is a fitting mark for the refined sar-
casm of an Earle or a Blackburn to shoot at; but a
surgeon and apothecary, a pestle or a mortar, gallipots,
potions, pills, powders, and other appendages and ap-
pliances of the healing art, are sacred things, and must
not be jested withal !

We can agree, to some extent, with Mr. Blackburn
with respect to the inviolability of his own profession—
that physic, like edged tools, should not be lightly
handled. All poets and philosophers have recognized
the axial calling which the worthy councillor pursues..
Even the enemy of mankind, we are told by the wise
and witty Coleridge, was struck, when

" He saw an apothecary on a white horse,
Pursuing his avocations,"
with a lively sense of the sublimity of his profession;
for, though " he laughed," it was because

" it put him in mind
Of DEATII, in the Revelations."

But there have been a few—and those not by any means
coarse or vulgar writers—who could see nothing more
sublime and sacred in a gallipot, than a tundish or a
gimlet. Shakspeare, the immortal, has painted an
apothecary—a lean, starved wretch—who is anything
but an amiable character. John Dryden, we believe—
glorious John—asks—
" What 's expected from a horse,
With an apothecary on its back ?"
a significant intimation that he bad no overpowering
respect for the profession: After all, therefore, the
world is divided upon this point ; and a witty or a
daring wight, who happens to bold an opinion opposed