The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-24 00:00:00

" A kind cf icaclhas b2en made
to the river, and the clva'
morrow to Schwan, wh

y anti

w•e shaii

preparations 1 r crossing to
to Candahar. It is a horcible c;

healthy one.

It is not oitea ti.at

quarters."
We have received 'Jotters f:•ori the Guy,
15th ultimo.

" Tnis place contirmes very healthy, no all rem,,
The town is in cliar:re a cuief from 8 about
80 followers. _~.e of Persia has peen amusing himself
by puffin :7; lots to 2.e. t:i ; 23 cominii-a3aries were skinned alive,
and there have r2.ecuti NI'S since the time of Mahal:lA
Shah the Eur.v.,79 c INc ii, like those now carrying on. • Re-
port imp the King i.= on to Ll:ahan which is M an un-
setlel state, the tl,hAk At Islam or high priest there Lot
being on goo.-1 terms with the King, or with the governor, but
his great power anfi admit of his defying both. In
Carrack not a drop o:ri;,.e or spirits is allowed to be sold ;
the consequence is it is a healthy temperance island, and
many old drunk the Europeans are getting stout,
strong, and healti. so or'.: for doctors.

.
" FEB. Is.—Tiat: -.3, in consequence of Kourched
Pacha's having zonveret.ll.:.ezd, and demanded that the Bah-
reinees shoclu :texi:owlle:l4e sway. of Mehemet Ali, Pacha
of Egypt, are talking of 5,000 men and 800 regular
troops to take posseesio ci But they have
neither men ncr means o! at:,tiveyance ; no chance of their
coming to blows with Its. Oa the approach of the Nao.-kco;
or Vernal equinox, tht: t::: ..-.ve a fleece royal from ail
the clhefs of the countr,, Iv. 0 come down handsomely
or compound for tLeir itoc o,:hz so by loss of head, eyes,
•
ears, or something Ei.F2.

Ceylon papers to the
good deal of- dissatisfacz:.
which prevailed, and was
au Order in Council had re.t:
directin. that no future srl,
made. r!: less than £1

have bnu received. A
,e en cared by a report
to be well founded, t'at
zee- i.:;vernor from home,
..5....-dent land should've
.:as supposed to have

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been resolved upon to fey( ee: aorta Ausfrahan coloniza-
t' ri scheme, where tl.e c: !reel had been raised from
per acre. By rte so much higher still
a, ees)._-.., a sort of -.v. 3 field out to speculators or
emigrants : favour of So.:...;The cause pre-
tended for this arbitrary :1:11,:nce cannot, it is contended,
apply to Ceylon, wile:o speculators art not likely to be
tempted to engross large quantities of land by its cheapness
in the first instance, because to render is productive in almost
the only way in which it can become so, by the cultivation of
ciffee, large additional outlays of capital are yearly required
~.eyond the first cost, w12.-reas in South Australia the lands
are good for little e!v than pasturing sheep, and conse-
quently after Lae, test purchae of stock no further outlay is
calculated upon or has to be provided for. The high rate
fixed of 4:1 per acre would, therefore, have the tendency in
Ceylon of checking cultivation and discouraging settlers with
capital ; and even if pure:lasers could be found at the price,
they would naturally be much more difficult about the selec-
tion of the land, and take none that was not adapted by its
fertility to the purposes of planting, instead of, as at present,
caring little in a purche.se, or calculating upon one-fifth being
waste or wood land, which, however, could be made useful
for drying-grounds, stores, and other purposes. Thus, in
course of time, the government lands would come to be
merely the refuse of the whole, upon which speculators
would not venture. not only on account of the first high
price, but the larger amondt of capital and labour still which
would be requiGire for bringing into it,cultivation beyond
what would be necessary upon better soils. And these lands
thus lying waste would obstruct the general improvement of
the property around and about, by intersecting and making
difficult the communications with roads and markets.