The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

XHIVA

The Delhi Gazette, July 8, says, that the halt of the Rus-
sians, if not their retrograde movement, continues to be con-
firmed by letters from various quarters. And this is authen-
tically said (we are almost afraid to use the word) to have
arisen from the remonstrances of the British authorities,
who, while they are using their most strenuous efforts to in-
duce the Khivans to give up their Russian slaves or captives,
and by so doing to remove the chief cause of quarrel as set
forth in the Russian declaration of war, have declared their
determination to oppose any further advance of the Auto-
crat's troops towards British India.
We are enabled to give a positive refutation to the reports
of the ill treatment of Lieutenant Young Abbot by the Khan
of Khiva. They seem to have had their origin in his move-
ments being closely watched : but, at the same time, he was
treated with the greatest consideration.
Lieutenant Abbott candidly told the Khan that the .Bri-
tish government could do nothing for him unless the Rus-
sian captives were given up ; and his journey to St. Peters-
burgh was merely to inform the British ambassador of certain
facts connected therewith ; and if the Russians are deter-
mined to conquer Khiva, the British government is equally
decided that they shall not hold possession of the country
after the captives are given up.
We are not able to give the reasons for Lieutenant Abbott's
return to Khiva at the present, but we know his mission has
established for us a friendly footing at Khiva, a place now
become of very considerable importance.
BOMBAY, JULY 23.—We have,
ADEN.
four or rive sets of despatches from Aden, of
since the 23d of May, had
considerable importance being
Mary Mitchieson, Junethat
the only one
by the
t at which reached us
the Arabs. This had beelitiitsho, lung informingthreatened, u s nf at
that t t
attackh ebry.
rison began to hope that the threat would not be put into
effect. Some 3000 were said to havewithprepared themselves for
the attack, which was repulsed e slaughter on the
side of the enemy, and with some woundslrat ad brur • only
on that of the garrison. Sickness had prevailednesAden
since the beginning of May ; and at present the garrison
is
excessively weakened by the extraordinary numbers
on the
hospital or invalid list. It is most sincerely to be desired
that the rumour that about £50,000 is to be expended on the
fortifications may prove true ; and that this may permit so
much of a retaliatory system to be gone into as may prevent
further attacks on the garrison, when the natives become as-
sured that they will always become requited in kind. We
begin to consider that we may now hope that, in respect to
the cession of Aden, and its retention by the Indian govern-
ment, the ridiculous European jealousies by which we have

been Bo long tormented may disappear, and that we may be
permitted to protect ourselves from injury and insult, by
chastising in good earnest the barbarian aggressor, and pro-
curing that peace and tranquility, which, not more on our
own account than for the benefit of the Arabs themselves, is
so particularly desired. Then, and not till then, will Aden
become of importance as a Red Sea trading port.