The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-13 00:00:00

IMPORTANT NEWS PROM INDIA.

An extraordinary express via Marseilles, has brought im-
portant intelligence from India to 28th October; and we ex-,
tract the following from the letter under that date of the
Bombay correspondent of the Morning' Post :
" Actounts have been received from the army of the Indus.
The Bombay troops left Cabul on the 18th ultimo, and were
expected tnreach Quetta about the 25th instant, when their
further progress would be contingent on the work to be done
in that. quarter in chastising the refractory chief of Kelat.
The Bolan pats, it was expected, would be blocked up with
snow, which would probably retard the march of our troops.
Colonel Herring, of the 37th regiment Bengal Native In-
fantry, was murdered about forty miles from Cabul, having
incautiously gone out for a walk without a sufficient escort.
" The forts of Joudpore, in Rajpootana, and in Kurnaul,
in the Deccan, are now in possession of ;he British troops,
both places having surrendered without a single shot having
been fired. The conduct of the chiefs of these two places
would seem to lave no doubt that there .must have,been a,
general intention on the part of the native princes to rise
against the British, in the event of the army having met with
a repulse in Atfghanistan. The discoveries at Kurnaul, which
was taken possession of by the Madras troops on the 6th
instant, are of a most extraordinary nature.
" Kurnaul is an independent Mahomedan principality in
the south of India, connected by ties and treaties with the
British. The fort of Kurnaul is about 120 miles south of
Hyderabad, and 270 north-west of Madras. It is- not yet
exactly known what were the more immediate causes which
constrained the British government to determine on despatch-
ing a military force into this territory. The event, however,
has shown that it was not without good reason. The troops
of the Nabob had been ten months in arrears, and had be-
come mutinous, and when our troops took possession of the
place, on the 6th instant, he was carried ()Why his own troops
(Patans and Rohillas,) who declared they would not give him
up till their arrears were paid.. .0n the fort being taken Tos-
session of the discoveries to which I have alluded were made.

" In the Zenana of the Nabob, which proves to be a per-
fect arsenal on an extensive scale—a place selected, no doubt;
from its sacredness from. intrusion—have been found con-
cealed between four and' five hundred pieces of Artillery, of
which fully one hundred were, in such a state. of e(inipinent-as
to be ready for active service inthe field at a few days' warn
ing.. Furnaces for,castingsuns and shot were also discovered.
The whole affair is of sdnincli interest, that I encloSe all the
particulars yet received here, in the accompanying extract of
the Madras Svctatot derived from' a.letter dated Knrnaul,
9th instant, Which has created a great sensation in this coun-
try, as it no doubt will in. EngFuld."
(Front the Times.)
Letters and journals from Calcutta to the 13th, and from
Bombay to the 28th of October have been received.
The fall of'.Ghiztiee, which decided the Afghan questiOn,.
had produced the most important impression upon that peo-
ple. In Burmali and Nepaul the effect was instantaneous.
Upon Persia it would be equally influential. All who, durint
the progress of our army to Cahn!, had calculated on its ex-
periencing reverses, and were prepared to take advantage of
them, and who had even assumed towards. us a bullying tone
and attitude, had all at once become our huMble-and excel-
lent neighbours, desirous of cultivating our friendship. Our
correspondent states that there was but too much reason for
suspecting that disaffection had generally subsisted among
the native chiefs, and that they would-have revolted, had our
army encountered defeat. The chastisement inflicted on
Sattara, Jnoudpore, and Khurnaul, the three states guilty of
malpractices, and the reduction of them to the condition of
helpless dependents, would prove a salutary lesson to all who
doubted British power.
Our accounts from Cabul came down to the close of the
month of Septeinber.- General Willshire, with the Bombay
division, marched on the 18th of that mouth, and was to pro-
ceed from 0 hiznce to Moostong, leaving Candahar to the
right. On their way they would depose the Khan of Killat,
as it had been ascertained that all the robberies, all the
starvation, and all the murders of which the army had been
the victims when .advancing, were committed by him, or at
his suggestion. The Bengal division, excepting that part of
it to be left in the county for the protection of the Schah, was
to leave shortly, for the upper provinces, and would be ac-
companied by Sir SOhn Keane as far as Attach..
All was satisfactory at Herat. Captain Pottinger had pre-
vailed on Kanarain to acquiesce in the treaty. Major Tod
was busily occupied with the fortifications.

Thecotinnissioners sent from Simla to Lahore had succeeded
in obtaining a passage for the troops and a favourable scale
of duties on the merchandise transmitted by the Indus to the
marts of the Punjab. Unfortunately, however, the heir ap-
parent, Now-Nepal-Singb, who was anxious to take a part
in public affairs, and the prime minister, Dhian-Singh, were
at variance, and would in all probability resort to hostilities,
and thus render British interference necessary.
The accounts from Persia represented that country as in
the most detracted and deplorable condition. A revolt took
place against the Prince at Shiraz, which ended in his being
kept a close prisoner. The Schah was at Teheran in a very
lamentable state.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND, UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Durham Advertiser.)
At an Ordination held in the chapel at Auckland Castle
on Sunday last, the Bishop of Durham admitted the follow.
ng gentlemen into Holy Orders :

DEACONS.
William Skene, Licentiate in Theology, University College.
Durham.

Frederic Brewster Thompson, 8.A., University College,
Durham.
William Darnell, 8.A., University College, Oxford.
Christopher Abbott, St. Bees.
PRIESTS. " ,

George Brown, Licentiate in Theology, University College
Durham.
James Watson Hick, 8.A., University College, Durham,
William Mackey, Licentiate, in Theology, University Col.
lege, Durham.
John Cundill, 8.A.-' University College, Durham.
Francis Thompson, 8.A., University College, Durham.
John Thurlow, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge.
Thomas Garnett, 8.A., University College, Durham.

(From the Oxford Herald.)
On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred :
BACHELOR IN DIVINITY.
Rev: Isaac Williams, Fellow of Trinity College.
MASTERS OE ARTS.
Rev. Charles Thorp, Magdalen Hall.
Rev. Henry Teush-Hecker, Trinity College.
Rev. Francis George Jackson, Trinity College.
John Nash Tyndall, Wadham College.

BACHELORS OF ARTS.
St. John Mitchell, Edmund Hall.
William Andrew Faulknek, Magdalen Hall.
Thomas Grey Clarke, Queen's College.
Edward Penrose Hathaway, Queen's College.
Thomas Charles Price, Postmaster of Merton College.
Richard Joynes, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.
Geo. Carless Swayne, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.
Philip Howell Morgan, Scholar of Jesus College.
Henry Arthur Girand, Scholar of Worcester College.
John George Sheppard, Scholar of Wadham College.
John Savres, Scholar of Wadham College.
Henry Watson Fox, Wadham College.
Robert Mynors, University College.

Rev. J. H. Harding, B.A. to the Vicarage of Child's
Wickham, Gloucestershire, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. J. S. Hird ; patron, P. Bedwell, Esq.
Rev. John Davies, B.D. Rector of St..Pancras, Chichester,
to the Rectory of Gateshead, Duiham; patron, the Bishop
of Durham.

• Rev. William Hurst, B.A. to the Rectory of Boylstone,
Derbyshire, on his own petition, as patron.
Rev. H. J. Rose, B.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge,
and Rector of Houghton Conquest, to be one of the Rural
Deans of the Deanery of Bedford.
Rev. Dr. Ainger, Prebendary of Chester, and Perpetual
Curate of St. Bees, Cumberland, to be Rural Dean of the
District.

Rev. George Gray, of Maypole, to the Professorship of
Oriental Languages in the University of Glasgow.
Rev. T. D. Moore, Vicar of Aghadown, to be Prebendary
of Kingualor, and Rector of Athnowen, Ireland.
Rev. F. V. Lockwood, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge,
has been appointed Vice-Dean of the Cathedral of Canter-
bury for the ensuing year.

Mr. Charles Augustus Johnson, Commoner of Brazenose
College, of kin to the Founder, has been elected to the
Craven Scholarship, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Ryle,
of Ch. Cb.

On the Ist inst. Mr. Algernon Bathurst, from Winchester
College, was admitted a Scholar of New College.
On Thursday sc,nnight, the Rev. Thomas Twysden, M. A.
of Merton College, was instituted to the Rectory of East
A llington, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. W.Wells;
patroness, Mrs. Elizabeth Fortescue.

The Rev.W. S. Harris Brahatn, M. A. of Lincoln College,
has been presented, by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury,
to the Rectories of St. George and St. Mary Magdalen, Can-
terbury, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. F. Rouch,
M.A. of St. John's College, who has accepted the Vicarage
of Halstow, Kent.

A Grace has passed the Senate at Cambridge, allowing the
purchase of about 20,000 Geological specimens of Count
Munster, at the price of £5OO, from the Woodwardian fund.
J. Clark, B.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, has been
elected a Foundation Fellow of that Society.
Henry Brookland Mason, B.A. of Christ's College, Cam-
bridge, has been elected a Fellow of that College, on the
Foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines.

PROMOTIONS.

Rev. E. Bennett, M.A. late Scholar of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the Incumbency of the Chapel of St.
John's, Chittlehampton, Devon ; patron, Lord Rolle.
Rev. R. Rowe lintott, M.A. to the Vicarage of Herndon,
'Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John
Hyde, M.A. of St. Alban Hall, late Rector of St. Martin's,
in this city.

Rev. John Hill, to the Perpetual Curacy of Barlby, York-
shire ; patron, the Vicar of Hemingbrough.
Rev. Charles Ackland, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge,
to the Perpetual Curacy of Queenborough, Kent, vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. William Bowman ; patrons, the
Corporation of Queenborough.
Rev. R. R. Hughes, to the Vicarage of Kemmerton,
Gloucestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Goodman.
Rev. Wm. Cockcroft, of Manchester, to the Head Mas-
tership of Knutsford Free Grammar School.
Rev. Mr. Robinson, to the Chaplaincy of the Boston
Union Poor House.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
On the 23d ult. Charles Thornton, 8.A., of Clare Hall,
was elected a Bye Fellow of that Society.
CreossE SCHOLARSHIP.—On Thursday last Henry Bai-
ley, 8.A., of St. John's College, in this University, was
elected an University Scholar on the Crosse Foundation.
The Rev. Pelham Maitland, 8.A., of St. Peter's College,
in this University, has been presented, by the Rev. Dr.
Whittaker, vicar of Blackburn, to the incumbency of bt.
Peter's Church, Blackburn.

The rectories of St. George and St. Mary Magdalen, Can-
terbury, vacant by the Rev. P. Rouch's acceptance of the
vicarage. of Halstow, having passed the five senior minor
canons, have been conferred, by the Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury, upon the Rev. W. S. H. Braham, the next in
rotation.—Mr. B. was formerly of Trinity College, in this
University.
On the 28th ult. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough insti-
tuted the Rev. Richard Rowe Knott, M.A., to the vicarage
of Hellidon, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation
of the Rev. James Augustus Hessey. On the presentation
of Carsten Holthouse, Esq., the patron.
On the 3d inst. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough insti-
tuted the. Rev. James Mellor Brown, 8.A., to the rectory
of Isham Inferior, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the ces-
sion of the Rev. Henry Mursby, on the presentation of the
Lord Bishop of Lincoln, the patron.

The British government, we learn, has appointed Mr. G.
R. Porter as a commissioner, jointly with Mr. Bulwer and
Mr. M'Gregor, in the commercial negociations between
England and France. Mr. Porter, who is chief of the sta-
tistical department at the board of trade, is a man of great
experience, sound judgment, and conciliatory disposition. A
better choice could not have been made. The English go-
vernment, we have already stated, is desirous that the con-
ferences should be resumed immediately. Mr. Bulwer and
Mr. Porter, who have already shown an honourable zeal in
the affair, will not wait for Mr. M'Gregor. The latter was
to leave Naples on the 16th of November ; but, as he must
go to London to render an account of his mission, he can
scarcely reach Paris before the end of the present month.—
Galignani.

REV. HUGH M'NEILE AND HIS CALUMNIATORS.

(From the Dablin Evening Mail.)
Accustomed as we are to the infamous expedients of the
Ministerial press, we thought we could regard their worst
misrepresentations with a comparatively equal degree of con-
tempt ; but we confess we were penetrated with feelings of
disgust and horror, stronger than have been called forth by
any political slander since the time of Lord Norbury's assas
sivation, in reading the following paragraph in the govern-
ment
paper of Saturday night t

"INCITEMENT TO MURDER THE QUEEN
" To do the ministers of the Established Church in Eng-
land only common justice, it Must be confessed that they are
by no means behind the most benevolent of their Irish breth-
ren in audacity and treason. Nl`Neile (but he's a "native,"
we believe, although located in England, certainly a brother-
in-lain of little Tommy Magee; the Icrlehdeaton) has been
holding forth in Lancashire. at apublia meeting, over which
LOrd Kenyon presided.
.We shall give tin extract from the
Speech ; it is hideous as A.whial ; but to one passage we must
invite particular attention. It is the most extraordinary and
atrocious declaration of the necessity of murdering the Sove-
reign that ever dropped from a traitor's lip. His words are
these :

"What peace so long as that woman Jezebel lives ?" The
sentsnce was applauded to the echo—but we must give the
extract in full

" But, my lord, it is said that ministers of the, gospel
should not intermeddle with things of this kind ; that they
should be ministers of peace, promoters of peace. We hear
this on every side. All who are anxious to get rid of our
advocacy, because they feel they cannot answer our argu-
ments—(cheers)—endeavour to put us down by professing
vast concern.about our spirituality. (A laugh.) 'Ministers
of peace! Where is this found, I would ask ? Where are
we called ministers of peace ? Not in the Scriptures. What
a strange 'delusion is abroad. (Hear.) There is no such
thing in the Bible. We are ambassadors' for Christ. And
what did Christ say ? Think you that I came to send peace
on earth? I tell you nay, but rather a sword.' A swordl
'DoubtlesS it is a word: We..possess, indeed, a peace the.
world knows nothing-of. He said to his followers,- ' Peace
I leave with you. My. peace I gisie-'unto you. Not as the
world gii7eth, give 1 unto you. Let not your hearts be trou-
bled, neither be ye afraid. We have a peace within : but as
to our ministry, it is A. sword, and not peace. It cannot be-
'peace, while the world is under the power of the'deirit, who
is the enemy of all righteousness. Wbast peace, so long as
that woman, Jezebel, lives? (Loud eheerst.) 'lt cannot be
pOsSible till peace comes in its ptoper scriptural place !...' The
wisdom that cometh from above is rtitst rune, then peace=
able' (Cheers.) When the world shall be pure, then the
ministers of the church will be men of peace. But while:the'
world is corrupt, I-say, my lord,' we are men of War. (Ali-
• plane.)' Our MaSter has given us a• sword. His ministry
was a sword, piercing through many hearts ; and the minis-
try of every -faithful follower of his is a sword—a sword that
cometh in contact with the great abscess of man's corrup-
tion ; and there cannot be peace while there is this leaven of
iniquity inthe world." (Cheers.)
• What could have been the objeet of a falsehood so enor-
mous, so palpable, so self-detected ? Nobody could beliete
it—no human creature ever did, or ever could, or ever can,
take such a meaning out 'of words as plainly directed not
against our gracious queen, as this scandalous charge of
treason is directed agaLrist the pious, learned, and loyal
Hugh M'Neile.• What then, we repeat, could have been the
object of the paragraph in question ? It plainly was not to
mislead—for no reasonable creature ever had a mind so ob-
tuse as to be misled by it ; it is " gross as a mountain, open,
palpable"—plain, downright, unsophisticated. We can di-
vine the object, and that without much studying. The mas-
ters of the government exact from their slaves a " black-
mail" of calumny on every advocate of Protestantism. The
dues must be paid, if not in meal, in malt—if not in calum-
nies wearing the garb of probability, in calumnies stark-
naked. No matter how indecent the exposure, the obscene
thing has to be sent out—the imperious tyrant brooks no
excuse. Every Protestant advocate must -be slandered, or
at least the willingness to slander must be exhibited at the
stated time. Ah ! to what dirty offices the patronage of
Rome compels her proteges!

ROYAL NUPTIALS-MARRIAGE MANIA.

(From the Argus)

Parliament will be called together for the dispatch of busi-
ness probably on the 14th of January, but the precise day
will be fixed by the Privy Council, who are summoned to at-
tend her Majesty for that purpose at Windsor Castle on.
Monday next. It will not be later than the 16th ; there are
private and particular reasons why it should not be longer
delayed. Our readers know that we always speak "by the
card."

The alterations in her Majesty's private apartments at
Buckingham Palace are all to be completed before the 25th of
January ; they will cost about three thousand pounds, and
combine the connection of a suite with two dressing-rooms,
ante-rooms, private breakfast and drawing-rooms, so con-
structed that the royal couple may pass to and fro without
observation.. The decorations of the private dressing-room
will be very splendid, and are to be completed at an expense
of six hundred pounds. -
Her Majesty, we regret to state, has not enjoyed her
usual health and .spirits for some days pasthaving relin-
quished her usual exercise, and, with only one exception,
avoiding appearance in public. The Castle gossips attribute
this to ennui, arising from the absence of her princely lover.
The officials say that her Majesty is- much chagrined at the
supineness of her ministers in affairs du cteur, Lord Mel-
bourne having shown no disposition to accelerate a much de-
sired event. We give these on dits as we hear them. We
'believe the truth to be, that her Majesty, like most of her
subjects, has been suffering from slight indisposition, arising
from cold, brought on by the inclemency of the season. We
are, however, happy to say that the Queen was considered
convalescent on Saturday morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent will almost im-
mediately 'resume her separate residence at Kensington
Palace, and occasionally at Claremont.
The announcement of a royal marriage has induced cer-
tain high contracting parties—peers of the realm, belles of
noble paternity, and dowagers of distinguished note—to
proclaim their intentions to unite hand and heart at the same
time and shrine with her youthful Majesty..
Lord Dinorbeu-!is, .wes lsear, ,to espouse Miss Smith, ,the
lovely sister of the,P;inces of capna .; his lordship. will, it
is sain, settle £4,QoQ.pepapatim on his bride, as a marriage
portion.
The Lord Viscount Itbiingtom is shortly .to he allied to the
amiable and highly accomplished Lady Dover..
LOrd Palinerston.is also. to lead to the hymeneal altar the
Dowager Countess Cowper, sister to Lord Viscount Mel-
hokum!: The noble lady has a joilittue of 3,000 per annum ;
this ./ony-anticipated event was to have taken place last Tues-
day, but it is deferred to the 21st, that being the shortest day,
and dedicated, to St. Thomas. The Countess Cowper has
obtained her Majesty's permission to merge her superior title
in that of the Viscount, her future husband.
The Hon. Richard Watson, brother to Lord Sondes, has
solicited and obtained the promise of the fair band of Miss
Quin, daughter to Lord George Quin, and niece to the Mar-
quis of Headfort and Earl Spencer.
There is no truth in the following paragraph which has
been going the round of the daily ,papers :
" It is also reported that a noble marquis, recently become
a widower, already contemplates a union with the only
daughter of one of our noble dukes."

The parties here alluded to are the Marquis of Salisbury
and Mademoiselle D'Este, and we repeat that there is no
foundation for the report.
The Earl of Ashburnham, it is said, will return from Scot-
land (where he has now been some months on a visit to the
Marquis of Breadalbane) a thriving wooer. His lordship is
a bachelor, and the fair lady who hath inclined her ear most
seriously to his gentle suit, rumour informs us, is the sister
of the noble Marchioness.

There is also a very general report abroad that the Earl of
Liverpool is to be 'lifted to Mrs. Mytton, the widow of the
eccentric Jack Mytton, of sporting celebrity. The lady is of
highly-respectable connexions.
It is rumoured that Lord Melbourne, in imitation of his
Royal mistress, is about to be married. This may in some
manner, perhaps, account for the moping, melancholy state,
not unlike that of a lovesick swain, in which his lordship has
lately been remarked to indulge.