The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN Li- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

INDIA AND CHINA.
3apers were received ou Thursday, in anticipa-

Lion of the Overland Mail. The latest dates are-
Nov. 28 ; Calcutta, Dec. 23; and Bombay, Jan. 2
Important events have just occurred in the :Punjaub
and Scinde. The Wuzeer Lall Singh having been sus-
pected of a treasonable connexion with the Cashmere in-
surgents, had the charge brought home to him by the
Sheik Emaum-ood-Deen, on the evidence of letters writ-
ten by the Wuzeer to him while in arms. The inquiries
were conducted in presence of a Commission, consisting
of Sikh chiefs and British officers—Mr. Currie and Cols.
Lawrence and Goldie being amongst the latter. It was
intimated to the Durbar, that should a convicted traitor
remain in power, we should be under the necessity of
ceasing to hold intercourse with the Government, and
Lall Singh was accordingly depdsed and removed, under
our protection, to Hindostan. Had he remained in his
own country his life would quickly have been sacrificed
to the indignation of the people. The government was
now intrusted to a commission of chiefs, and the question
pressed as to the arrangements contemplated by them on
our retirement. After much equivocation and delay it
was determined to ask of us to permit an army of 10,000
men to remain at Lahore during the minority of the Ma-
harajah, our commissioner virtually to exercise the func-
tions of Wuzeer. To this we assented, the Sikhs defray

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lution concludes by providing, that

ler that all

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Ilk victims may profit accordinfT to their necessities," the
entire sum of 10,400 francs, raised at Rouen, should be
invested in the public funds • that one-half of the interest
resulting from the same shall be employed in
low and high masses, at the rate of a franc
each of the former, and forty francs foi
and that the other half of tl

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The Duchess de Montpensier, now fifteen years of age, has been appointed—namely, Mr. Charles Sharthan Craw-
gives promise of an increase to the family .of Louis ford, son of Mr. William S. Crawford, M.P.
Philippe. . THE IRISH FAMINE.—The starved dogs are being
The price of flour and wheat has diminished in Paris. killed like vermin in several parts of this county, as these
At a late trial in Paris, M. Alexandre Dumas, the well- animals have attacked the bark of trees, bereft of their
known French litterrateur, said that in August he was usual sustenance.—Limerick Chronicle.
publishing five
three servants, and the railway, scarcely M. P., expressed a hope that " the prophecy which had
sufficed to bring him the proof-sheets. been addressed by the
.great poet Dryden to the ancestor
A correspondent of the Atlas states that Madame Laf- of the nobleman who presided at the meeting on the pre-
farge is about to be liberated. The matrimonial agent who II vious Thursday would be fulfilled. He forgot the pro-
brought about the unfortunate match has the hardihood phecy, but they all remembered it as well as he did !" .
to boast of it in his advertisements ; and on Tuesday last, A storm on Sunday week raged with great violence at
there appeared in all the Paris papers an announcement Ballyshannon. It was so violent during divine service in
from a- rival establishment (that of Madame St. Marc) the town that the officiating clergyman, the Rev. Mr.
_ setting forth that she has to dispose of " a young English Clemenger, had to conclude the service, and' dismiss the
I orphan, heiress to a splendid fortune'!" congregation. as his voice could not be heard.
POPERY IN FRANCE.—We are indebted to the Church
a and State Gazette
for directing public attention to a re-The guardians of Tuam workhouse have had, to call on
Captain Seton's company, 41st, to protect them from the
r markable occurrence in•the modern history of Popery—a violence of the clamorous crowd collected for -admission
if curious piece of priestcraft which has just been exhibited
and relief. Mr; Gannon, one of the guardians, sent a
t, in France. The disastrous whirlwind at Monville and hostile message to Mr. Blake, another of the board,
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r Malannay had reduced some hundreds of the survivors to which the latter refused to accept.
the utmost destitution, and in short to the verge of actual GALWAY GRATITUDE.—Mr. Comyn, in announcing his
*1
starvation. Under these circumstances the city of Rouen
resignation to the Galway electors, says : I retire, not
alone contributed for their relief the munificent sum of
because I despair of your support, but because dies
10,400 francs.. This fund was a
special of placed by the charitable
in the repeal party might open the way for the Whi,
atcitizens the disposal ofcommitteeecelesi-Ithe Whigs must be beaten at every sacrifice and at all
astics to carry out their benevolent intentions in detail. hazards."
c' The clerical committee, thus invested with the tempting
DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN GALWAY.—From every
trust, proceeded to administer it according to the follow-
e quarter of the country, we are literally besieged with the
ins characteristic resolution :—.` Seeing that, among the
heart-rending particu!ars of the progress of famine. A
ti i vcms of the above-kpentionerl calamitythere great
numbers of dead, for whom hitherto nothing has been
a cooly, has communicated- to us the loss of no less than
i done; that nevertheless it is but sheer justice that these eighteen lives from want and destitution ! And this is
should partake of the charity of the faithful, and that.
occurring in a few short days.—Tuam Herald.
prayers should be offered up for the welfare of their-souls ;
a ATTEMPT TO MURDER A POOR-RATE COLLECTOR.—A.
that thereby all the victims would benefit in exact pro- a letter from Monte, in Westmeath, states, that on Thurs-
•obber re portion to their wants by the succour accorded to them ; I day evening week, Mr. Patrick Balfe, poor-rate collector,
^,-,gl this, idea ought to be the more welcomed, seeing that I was tired at, near Moate, but, providentially, without

slightly

fatal effect: the ball, passing; through his hat
wounded.him on the back of the head. Mr. Balfe was re-
turning home in his car, accompanied by his son and

AWFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, Edwar
aged 50. Joseph Farrell, his son, aged 16, Chri
Flynn, 26, and Michael Hill, aged 23, went out it
from Malahide to fish, and when crossing the bar t
was upset, and the unfortunate men drowned. They have
all left families in a state of the utmost destitution, and it
is said they were forced out by hunger to look for some
fish.—Di'blin Mail.
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