The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received by express from Marseilles our letters
from India, China, and E.).-ypt, in anticipation of the
Overland Mail of the 15th of October. The dates are from
Calcutta to the 3d, Madras to the Bth, and Bombay to the
15th of October • from Shanghae to the 12th, and from
Hong-Kong to die 29th of September, and from Alexandria
to the 9th instant.

The Governor-General of India had put off his departure
from the hills, and was not expected to reach Calcutta
until after the arrival of his successor. If this information
be correct—and we have it on good authority—it is tanta-
mount to an acknowledgment that the arrangements said
to have been contemplated with regard to Oude will not
for the present be entered upon.
In Scinde the commissioner had commenced his duties
It is intended to retain intact the military appointments
in civil offices of administration made by Sir Charles
Napier. The governor of Bombay will not visit Scinde
until about Christmas. A tender had been made by the
superintendent of the India navy for the conveyance of
mails by steam-vessels three times in the month between
Bombay and Kurrachee during the fine season.
There is nothing new from the north-west portion of
India. Mr. Lawrence had succeeded his brother, Col.
Lawrence, as resident in the Punjaub. Our authorities
were there on the alert in consequence of the approaching
festival of the Dassera, hitherto a season of frightful dis-
order among the Sikhs, but every precaution had been
taken, and no fears were entertained that the public peace
would be endangered.
Another rapid travesty had taken place in the charac-
ters of the drama at Nepaul. The personage who, within
the last few months, had undertaken the shifting parts of,
kingly pilgrim, invader of his former dominions, and more
recently, of state prisoner, had found means to out-ma-
nceuvre his adversaries, and to resume his crown. The
old Vizier had been confined in a tiger's cage. These
movements have not altered our relations with Nepaul, or
had any effect beyond the mountain range which is the
scene of their action.
The foundation-stone was about to be laid of a church
at Bombay, to be erected in memory of the officers and
men who perished in Aflghanistan.
Trade had, it appears, somewhat improved in the
presidences.

Another disaster had befallen the Indian navy. The
steamer Indus left Bombay, for Kurrachee, on the sth of
October, and on the 7th she struck on some rocks thirty
miles from Diu-head. A large hole was made in her
bottom. The crew and passengers are safe.
Our dates from Hongkong are to the 29th of Sep-
tember.

The state of affairs in Canton appeared more satisfac-
tory, and general quiet prevailed ; confidence seemed in a
great measure restored,—money was more easy, with
greater activity in trade. The prices in some articles had
improved, but in general imports were low. The colonial
government seemed to think well of the posture of affairs,
for tenders had been advertised for ships to convey the
42nd native regiment to Madras, and the 18th royal Irish
to Calcutta, leaving the colony with a part only of the
95th and the Ceylon rifles, which may be considered a
small garrison.
The French men-of-war, La Gloire and La Victorieuse,
reported by the last mail to have sailed north, were both
wrecked off the island of Ko-koon-to, off Corea, in lat.
35.47, long. 126.21, on the 10th of August, about 300
miles from Shanghae, to which place two boats were
despatched.

SPAIN.
The session of the Cortes met on the 15th instant,
when the Queen opened the Chambers with a speech
from the Throne. Her Majesty said "it was most satis-
factory to announce that the pending negotiations with
the Court of Rome—the presence of an apostolic delegate
in Spain powerfully contributing towards this result—are
approaching a happy termination, such as becomes the
paternal solicitude, and the well known enlightened cha-
racter of the common head of the church, and the piety
and feelings of a people eminently Catholic." Among
" the projects of admitted urgency" to be submitted, her
Majesty mentions " the means by which a definite and
suitable provision for the clergy and public worship has to
be regulated," and another which will determine the
privileges and frights of the press according to the safest
principles, and the best constitutional doctrines."
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On her Majesty passing through the streets, every one
remarked how thin, careworn, and even haggard she
looked ; and though, when she entered the Chamber, a
flush overspread her countenance, yet an expression of
sadness was still observable.

The display was, as usual, brilliant. Stars, uniforms,
embroideries, and ribands were in great abundance, and
the lace on Narvaez' coat alone, with his stars and dia-
monds, might have gone a good way towards paying a
half year's dividend of the Three per Cents.