The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

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The rumours about the Persians having advanced to Herat
are without the least foundation. The King of Persia has
no faith in Yar Mohamed's promises, and refuses to have
aught to say to him. We do not know whether to believe
the report of Yar Mohamed having given in to the very terms
which Major Todd demanded of him or not, but we hope
it is true, and that we may congratulate the government upon
the possession of a strohghold, so far as the garrisoning of it
may place it in our power, which will assuredly do much
towards the tranquillizing the intermediate country between
Cabal and Candahar ; will not be without its good effects in
working out the pacification of Scinde ; be an effectual
check upon intrigue from Russia, and enable us to keep the
strictest surveillance upon the truckling Schah of Persia.

The Friend of India of the 27th, intimates the departure
of the supplementary expedition from Calcutta, under the
command of Sir Gordon Bremer, :and observes, that the
whole fleet may be expected to reach Canton by the beginning
of July. No information has been gleaned with regard to
the course intended to be pursued on its arrival, and the
opinions expressed on this point vary a good deal. On one
hand it is asserted that Pekin will be attacked—on another,
that Chusan will be re-captured. We certainly cannot see
the policy of the latter measure. The taking of Pekin would
demonstrate our strength in such a manner that the Celestial
Emperor himself, with all his bitter animosity against us,
and all his bragging and boasting, would be compelled to
solicit peace, and respect the power, barbarian though it
were, he was not able to conquer. It is the immoderate
insolence, and unbounded pride of the ruler, that we should
endeavour to reduce. Let him view with his own eyes the
force of a British assault, and the impotence of a Chinese
opposition, and we will answer for it he will be glad to
accept terms, even less advantageous to him than those which
were arranged between his high commissioner and our ple-
nipotentiary, and which have conduced to the immorta-
lisation of the latter. The rapidity with which all the pre-
parations for the despatch of the second expedition were
made, and the able and efficient manner in which every-
thins connected with it was managed, are highly creditable
to Sir Gordon Bremer. His stay at Calcutta did not exceed
a month.
We are not aware what the exact amount of the force is in-
tended to be. The whole of her majesty's 55th regiment,
with the exception of a few men which one of the transports
was obliged to return and disembark in consequence of inade-
quate accommodations, has proceeded to China from Calcutta,
and it is reported that the transport David Malcolm is to be
employed in the conveyance of seven officers and one hundred
and seventy-eight men of the Cameronians ; and that the
John Adams and Mermaid will be taken tip for nine officers
and two hundred and forty men of her majesty's 41st regmt.
It seems that an extensive river service is contemplated, as
the steamer's boats with some others, have been fitted up
with carronades, &c, for the purpose. The Phlegethon
steamer, which arrived at Calcutta from Ceylon on the 23d
May, it was said would be added to the force, and the Lady
William Bentinck, pilot brig, mounting 12 guns, and a clip-
per schooner armed with one carronade and four musque-
toons, have been already sent on. The Lady William Ben-
tinck left in tow of the Queen. The Madras troops are to
be commanded by Lieut.-Col. Elderton. Detachments of
the artillery and sappers, under Captain Pears and Lieuten-
ant Ouchterlony, are to proceed to complete the companies
in China. Her majesty 't; troop ship Jupiter is to convey
these troops, as well as the rifle company of the Ist N. 1.,
now at Masulipatam.

THE EMPEROR AND THE FALL OF THE
BOCCA TIGRIS.

At five o'clock on Of; 28th day of the second moon (20th
March, 1841), the imperial commands arrived in this pro-
vince, as follows :
" The English rebelling on a former occasion, and having
seized upon the fortresses of Shakuli and Taekuh, wounding
our high and subordinate officers and troopers, have caused
us to gnash our teeth with combined imprecations. We
therefore specially deputed Yihshan, Lungwan, and Yang-
fang to assemble from every quarter the efficient troops, and
to advance and exterminate the enemy. But now they have
attacked and destroyed the fortress of. Foomun (Bocce Ti-
gris), and have even recklessly dared to approach near to
the confines of the city, (Canton), creating vast confusion.
Being destitute of all reason, contemptuously regarding our
celestial dynasty, they have carried their unsubmissive re-
bellions to this extreme; and I, the Emperor, now swear,
that both powers shall not stand (one or the other must
conquer or die). Let Yihshan, Lungwan, and Yangfang, at
the time reckoned upon for their arrival, forthwith put in
order our patriotic troops, and with undivided effort seize
the English barbarians, and make an entire extermination
and end of the whole of them. Then will subside our wrath-
ful indignation. If the whole number of them be not thus
effectually destroyed, how shall I, the Emperor, be able to
answer to the gods of the heaven and the earth, and cherish
the hopes of our people ? Respect this."
Again have the imperial commands been received, as
follows : _

...._ .....
" The rebellious barbarians, having formerly seized upon
the forts of Shakuh and Tackuh, wounding our high and
subordinate officers and troops, was cause for still more in-
creased attention to rigorous means of defence. But on the
Bth day of the 2nd moon (February 28. 1841) these rebellious
barbarians destroyed our position of Foomun, evincing that
all the great officers of the said region were entirely in a
state of utter unpreparedness, and that the military affairs
of Kwangtung province were in a ruinous and unfit condi-
tion. Let the generals of the army, therefore, of this region,
together with the governor, lieutenant-governor, assistant-
generals literary chancellor, the judge, intendant of the cir-
cult (Taoutee), with the Foo, Chow, and Heen magistrates
12.eay nlldlisgraced from their rank, but retained in office until
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maackaeo, mupatrlichei3rod, ellBl
inlq.u,e, ncies by efficiency of effort.
Respect this.

Dost Mahommed Khan had reached Calcutta as a pri-
soner of war.
The King of Madagascar, expelled by his subjects, has
arrived at Calcutta to solicit British aid to reinstate him.
The Sesostris, two iron steamers, and the Larne, are
awaiting at Bombay the arrival of Sir H. Pottinger and Sir
W. Parker.