The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

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and Calcutta to the 16th of September.
The utmost tranquility prevailed throughout India.
Mr. Pringle, of the civil service, has replaced Sir Chas.
Napier in Scinde with the rank of Commissioner. Bri-

gadier Dundas had command of the troops.
The Governor-General was to leave the bills early in
October, intending, it was said, to proceed, in the first
instance, to Cawnpoor, where be would have an interview
with the King of Oude, who would pass to the left bank
of the Ganges for that purpose; and it was believed that
Lord Hardinge intended on that occasion to come to an
arrangement with the King to induce him to make over
his regal authority, in order that efficient steps might be
taken to arrest the increasing disorganization and suffering
in those territories.
The measures said to be contemplated by the Governor-
General to induce his Majesty of Lucknow to make this
concession, were the offer of a handsome pension, secured
on a portion of the revenue of Oude upon condition that
he should cede all political authority into our hands, or
the alternative, on our part, of the withdrawal by pro-
clamation, of the support we had hitherto afforded him,
thus leaving his fate to be decided by his subjects.
No doubt whatever was entertained as to the sufficiency
of this latter measure, should it be resorted to. But no
such contingency was expected. It was not doubted but
that the king would accept the liberal terms of regal
wealth and pageantry which would be offered, since, ad-
dicted to luxury, he ill supports the cares of a distracted
and impoverished state, where the revenue has to be col-
lected by 50,000 bayonets.
It is affirmed also that arrangements are likewise in
contemplation with respect to the government of the
Nizam. It is, however, considered probable that the
measures likely to be enforced by Hyderabad would not
be of so decided a nature as in the case of Oude, from the
somewhat better character of the prince; and it was
thought fiat he would be permitted to retain his authority
upon certain liberal concessions to be made to his sub-
jects. But we are also told that no doubt our• interven-
tion would leave the prince with a still more circumscribed
territory, the cession of a further portion of which might
be expected in liquidation of a debt to our government of
thirty Lacs, and which it appears is likely to be consider-
ably increased before a settlement by payments of arrears
to his Arab mercinaries, whose disorderly proceedings
have compelled him twice during the last few months to
solicit our interference.
The news from the Punjaub continues, as before, to be
most satisfactory. Besides the imprisonment of the dis-
solute Itanoe, or Queen-mother, the instigator of the late
war, and who was still,.lt is said, engaged in every species
of intrigue against our authority, the Durbar have re-
cently issued two proclamations, one abolishing infanti-
cide and suttee, arid the other announcing the suppression
of forced labour. The imprisonment of the Queen, who
formerly went by the title of " The Sikh Mother," had
not produced the slightest popular commotion.
The eldest son of the Maharajah of Cashmere was on
his way to visit the Governor-General of Simla, to take
leave of his lordship in his father's name, preparatory to
Lord Herdinge's departure from India.
The Dacoit chief, Doongur Singh, had been captured in
Rajpootana, but not until a force of 6,000 men had taken
the fiehl in various directions against him.
Trade had somewhat improved, both at Calcutta and
Bombay.

Lord Minto left Florence for Rome on the 29th ult.
The typhus fever has appeared in the English fleet in
the Tagus, and several men have already died.
The King of Sweden has ordered all Russian and Irish
ships to be examined on their arrival, ILA they should
have cholera or fever patients on board.
Jenny Lind has sung thrice at the Berlin Opera, where
she made her rcputetion. The King sent for her to his
box, and made her a very handsome present.
Tvssowski, the ex-dictator of Cracow, is now giving
lessons at New York in the German, French, Italian,
and Latin tongues.
By an Imperial ordonnance recently issued, the use of
the Polish language is suppressed at the University of
Cracow, where henceforth German only is to be used.
Silt JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.—Private letters
have been received from Fort York, Hudson's Bay, an-
nouncing the safe arrival of the detachment of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, who left England on the Ist et June
last, to be engaged as a boat party in search of Sir John
Franklin and his gallant company. The party will winter
near Fort York, and in the spring of the year pursue their
search after the missing voyagers, should no intelligence
of the Erebus and Terror reach any of the settlements of
the Company before that time.
THE AFFAIRS OF SWITZERLAND.—The Journal des
.D6bats, in its leading article, states that, although war
has not yet broken out in Switzerland, it must not be
concluded that events are favourable peace. " Such a
hope," says the Derbats, "is not permitted to us. The
letters we have received this morning from Berne would
have destroyed our last illusions, had we preserved any. The
resolutions adopted by the Diet in the sitting of the 24th,
the,plaeing 50,000 troops under arms, the terms of the mis-
sion given to Gen. Dufour,—all these facts amount to a
real declaration of war, and in the present excitement of
the public mind a war declared is equivalent to a war
commenced. That military operations have not already
commenced, is the result of a prepared plan. The radical
army is not ready to enter the field ; and, if it were, it
would not commence, as its interest demands a delay of a
few days.
IMPORTANT FROM SWITZERLAND.—The deputies of
the Sonderbund have quitted the Diet and Berne. This
event has now become notoriously public. Thus the last
thread which held back a catastrophe long foreseen, and
ready to burst forth at any moment, is broken; and, pro-
bably, blood has already been shed. The circumstances
which immediately preceded the last attempts made by
the deputies of the Sonderbond to avert this disaster and
save Switzerland from its effects, show their endeavours
to bring about a reconciliation consistent with honour
and security, the disdain with which the Radicals re-
ceived these advances, their manifest wilfulness to decide
by force of arms a quarrel which themselves have pro-
voked. It was understood that General Defour had fixed
the 4th of November for the commencement of hostili-
ties. It was apprehended that a collision between the
Vaudois and Valaisians was imminent, as the parties were
merely divided by a bridge. The Austrians still occupy
Ferrara, and show no disposition to leave it. An armed
interference in the affairs of Switzerland by Austria and
France j 3 ioolied upon as being now inevitable by most of
the journals.
THE AMERICAN OOVERNMENT AND THE REPUDIATING
STATES.—It has been repeatedly urged that the Govern-
ment of America representing the Union is not the Go-
vernment representing the indebted parties, and that,
consequently, any applications on this subject to the
Cabinet of Washington must assume the aspect of im-
pertinent demands upon a party whose own integrity
should have raised it above all liability to such annoyances.
The Federal Government, which alone enters into any
relations with foreign states, has, it is said, always dis-
charged its obligations with fidelity and punctuality, and
thus preserved what alone can be termed the national
credit of the country. Now. this is not the case. The
very debt which the United States of America in their
confederate or corporate capacity should have paid with
the most religious care still remains undischarged. There
is lying before us at this moment a dollar note, issued ac-
cording to a resolution of Congress, and bearing date the
14th of January, 1779 !•s_--a period when Cornwallis was
still supuosed invincible by Washington himself, and when
that great commander was writing to Congress that a
handful of British in York town were still "an over-
match for the main army of these States," and that
" under the existing circumstances it would be vain to
expect from the troops another campaign !" The money
which was raised upon these promissory notes, super-
scribed as those of the " United States of orth America,"
which kept together the famishing and half-clad volun-
teers of Washington, and enabled America to secure its
independence, by outliving the desire of England to pro-
long the war, has never been repaid. Many thousands of
these notes are still in English hands, as valueless as the
scrip of a Mississippi railroad. The question has been
repeatedly brought before Congress, and as repeatedly
eluded by some delicate adroitness, implying very clearly
that, in the opinion of the audience, too little could not
be said upon the subject.—Times.
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS AS FREE LABOURERS IN
AUSTRALIA.—The last papers from New South Wales
give the details of an attempt to procure immigrants from
the South-sea Islands for the supply of labour in that
colony, by Mr. Boyd, of Sydney. The experiment is an
interesting one, and appears to have been successful, so
far as it was tried. Mr. Boyd despatched a vessel to the
South Sea, with instructions to the captain to call at as
many islands as possible, so that he might satisfy
himself not only as to the people most fitted for the
wants of the colonists,but also as to the number likely to
be procured. In due time the vessel returned with 65 of
the natives of the New Hebrides group (distant about
three weeks' sail from Sidney), of various ages, from 14
to 25, while the general accounts given of the cruise were
such as to warrant an expectation of satisfactory and ex-
tensive results. Mr. Boyd's wish was. that in the first
instance only 50 should be engaged, but so eager were
these people to be taken on board, that it was only
through the authority of their Chiefs that their number
could be limited, the explanation of this desire for removal
being that the inhabitants of the Coral Islands are in a
condition during upwards of eight months of the year,
little short of starvation. With respect to the habits of
the people, and their fitness for the occupations of civilized
life, it is stated, that although cannibalism and infanticide
prevail amongst them to a fearful extent, they manifest
in their intercouse with strangers a very great degree of
tractability and intelligence ; and hence it is considered
that their vices may be attributed rather to the influence
of the sufferings to which they are periodically exposed
than to any ineradicable peculiarity. The expense of
introducing them is about £8 per man, and Mr. Boyd's
intention is to employ them as shepherds. At the same
time, from the description given of them, it would seem
that they might easily he instructed for other services.

IHELAN D.

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The simultaneous collection for the national tribute to
the memory of O'Connell will be made in all the parishes
of Ireland on Sunday next, the 14th instant.
On Saturday, a man of the name of William Flinn was
slain by a dagger wound inflicted in a faction fight at
Tewtownhamilton.
Mr. John Mason, who lately held a situation of ac-
countant at the Board of Works, in Ireland, at a salary of
.E. 300 per annum, has been brought up at the Dublin
Police-office, charged with embeziling :CB,OOO.
The Skibbereen workhouse, built for 800, is shut—
holding 1,310 paupers within its walls, and incapable of
holding any more. The beggary of that vast and deplo-
rable district must look elsewhere. It will increase four-
fold in a few imam