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

ItHIVA

The Delhi Gazette, July 8, says, that the halt of the Rus-
sians, if not their retrograde movement, continues to
con-
firmed by letters from various quarters. And this is
authen-
tically said (we are almost afraid to use the word)tohate
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-
minedi to conquer Khiva, the British government is equally
tidedtheaapttitvhees areysha given p
shall not possession of the country
after the
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 fderrieanbdielyirnfopootrintagncaet. Khiva, a place now
become of very considerable

BOMBAY, JULY 23.—W ADEN.
ate liave, since the 23d of May, had
four or five sets of e-
beingies from Aden, the only one of
Diary
m ite h i
e Bn n , importance
j n
nesPthat which
. reached us by the
lOthinforming us of an attack by
long threatened, that the the Arabs. This had beeii so'
gar-
rison began to hope that thetntibrnevat would not be put into
prepared themselves for
effect. Some 3000 were said
the attack, which was repulsed wiwtehu!nredat slaughter on the
had
and. bruises
. only
rnetvailed in. Aden
side of the enemy, and with some
the garrison is
on that of the garrison. Sickness
to be desired
since the beginning of May; and at presPe
excessively weakened by the extraordinary numbers on the
hospital or invalid list. It is most sincerely
that the rumour that about £50,000 is to be expendedmay on the
fortifications may prove true ; and that this permit so
much of a retaliatory system to be gone into as ma
further attacks on the garrison, when the natives becomeyre`ean,t
cured that they will always become requited in kind NV,.
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 'so 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.