The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

import duties was named ; as was also the committee on the
sewers bill, on the motion of Mr. CHRISTOPHER.
After the presentation of some other petitions, the house
adjourned at 6 o'clock to Thursday.
The lamentable murder of Lord William Russell will, of
course suspend all important discussion for some days.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA.

A letter foom Bamearr,"&atecqebruary the Bth, states that
Dost Mahonaeanad met with a •cry inhospitable reception
at the court of Bokhara. His sons had attempted to escape,
but had been recaptured and brought back, and all his fol-
lowers sent off to Kooloum in a wretched plight, destitute
even of the common means of support. Jubbur Khan in-
tended, it was said, to make overtures to the British on
behalf of his brother. The winter was extremely cold on
the confines of Affghanistan, and proved particularly fatal
to the Hindoostanees. All idea of a Turkistan campaign
had been given up.
The Agra Ukhbar of the 7th of March, mentions on the
other hand, that our European troops in Cabul were suffering
severely from sickness. A large convoy then en route to
Jellalabad and Cabal, would, it was hoped, go far to restore
as it carried a plentiful supply of provisions not procurable
in the country.

Letters from Bushire to the 20th of February mention
that the ex-governor Sheik Hussein, bad commenced block-
ading the port of Bushire, in retaliation for his late sup-
pression by the court of Shiraz. It appears that he is
possessed of only one middling sized bungalow with about
50 men, yet the Persian government have not a vessel to
send against him. He is accordingly inflicting considerable
injury on the trade of the port. The Sir Robert Compton
had arrived at Bushire, also the Hon. Company's ship
Coote, which was acting as guardship for the protection of
British property.
An express from the political authorities of Bundelcund,
arrived at Seepree on the Ilth instant, directing Scindia's
reformed contingent to proceed with all possible haste to a
fort called Jignah, in which certain turbulent Thakoors have
taken shelter and openly defied the British agents. This
hill fort is represented as being of considerable strength, and
from the circumstance of these chiefs having shown every
determination to resist at all hazards, there is every pro-
bability that the fort will hold out until the guns and
howitzers of the contingent have made a proper impression
on it. We understand that the Bundelcund Legion had a
skirmish with and drove off a large body of men armed
with matchlocks. _ _

The contingent marched on the 12th instant, the day
Brigadier Anquetel was expected at Seepree.
A few days ago we published a piece of intelligence derived
from a correspondent in Arracan, to the effect that the Bur-
mese were stockading upon our side of the line of demarca-
tion. The following letter, received yesterday, gives some
further information upon the subject, and strips the affair of
its warlike character :
" ARRACAN FEB. 8, 1840.—Have just seen a letter from
an officer who has visited the post of Myee, and made par-
ticular inquiries into the native officer's report, anent the
Burmese being building a stockade on our side the mountains.
The report, like many others given in by natives, is found to
be an exaggeration. It is true that certain subjects of the
Golden Empire were on our side the boundary cutting tim-
ber, but it has not turned out equally correct that said timber
was then and there fashioned into the beams of a stockade,
though for what purpose the men were cutting timber has
not been explained. Now, although the Indian government
may, and certainly does not, require this timber for its own
particular wants at the present time, yet it is no less certain
that the Burmese hewers of wood' have not a shadow of
right to trespass on the domain of their too unsusceptible
neighbours, and do havoc on the forest without so much as
saying by your leave.'
" Again, the motive the Burmese may have for cutting this
timber remains a mystery ; that the timber is required for
transport does not appear probable, since the road is a mere
mountain tract, and carriage out of the question ; if, there-
fore, they do not intend building a stockade on the pass, I
cannot conceive what use they intend making of the timber ;
it cannot be supposed men would labour without an object in
view."