The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

INDIA

b'e'have received, by extraordinary express from Mar-'
genies, our despatches in anticipation of the mails which
left Bombay on the Ist ult. They bring interesting in-
telligence. The affairs of Lahore were going on slowly ;
the Governor-General, haying regulated the government
of that country, and placed Colonel Lawrence as resident,
and Sir John Littler at the head of the British troops, left'
that capital on the 11th of January, and proceeded to the
protected Sikh States, and was expected to reach Puttee-
allah on Ihe Ist of February. Mr. J. Lawrence has been
named commissioner and superintendent of the Trans-
Sutlej provinces, and the-Major F. Mackeson of the Cis-
Sutlej districts.- It was not known if the Governor-Ge-
neral would proceed to Delhi or would return to Simla.
The latter-was supposed the more probable.
The Lahore army has been ordered to be reduced, and
Cortlandt's battalions were ordered to be disbanded.
Some of the old Sikh soldiers were unwilling to retire, but
the Durbar, of which Tej Singh is one of the most in-
fluential members, being supported by the British troops,
had enforoed their dismissal. The Lahore government
was resolved to limit its expenditure, yet its difficulties
were considerable, in consequence of the properties of the
government being held by persons unwilling to give up
their " jagbeers," or life-rents ; but government was
about to resume some of those " jagheers." The state of
the frontiers of Affghanistan was precarious, but the Bri-
tish agents were on the alert ; and even the Nazim of
Moultan had repressed some inroads of the Belooches.
The turbulent Akbar Khan had proceeded to attack the
chiefs of Candahar, who are his own relatives, and, ac-
cording to -the statement published in a Bombay paper of
the 27th of January, on good authority, he had succeeded
after some severe fighting, in capturing the chiefs, and in
making himself master of Candahar. It is said that the
Persian monarch was to be applied to on behalf of the
dispossessed, chiefs, but nothing positive is known on the
subject. The proceedings of this unprincipled vizier,
whose name must be ever infamous from his being the
promoter of the murder of Sir W. H. M`Naughten, ,are
likely to cause some commotion in Central Asia.
From Scinde nothing remarkable was known. Some
regiments of the Bombay troops had left it, on their return
to their own Presidency, as also a portion of her Majesty's
86th Regiment, and the whole of her Majesty's 17th Regt.
Sir C. Napier was to leave Kurrachee in the beginning of
February, and to proceed to Hyderabad. The reports re-
lative to his immediate removal had died away ; particu-
larly as it was stated that Sir W. Gomm, the present go-
vernor of the Mauritius, was to be the new commander-
in chief of the Bombay Presidency,
In the interior of India tranquillity prevailed. In the

larity were beginning to be permanently established. In
the Nizam's dominions there was considerable dissatisfac-

The new Minister has a difficult task to please the

conflicting factions

It is said that in consequence of the conquest of Lahore
the government of India feels itself strong enough to dimi-
nish the native armies, viz. of Bengal by 25,000 men, and
of Madras and Bombay by 5,000 each. This reduction is
to be effected by stopping all recruiting until the native
regiments are reduced from 1000 to 800 men each.

The government of India has ordered the completion of
the Ganges Canal, on which only £20,000 a-year used to
be bestowed. Henceforth for four years £250,000 will be
expended, by which means it is expected that within a
few years 8,000,000 of acres will be rendered productive.
There is another canal parallel to the Indus, which can be
opened from the Sutlej, and which will fertilise other ne-
glected districts. This canal was stopped by the govern-
ment of the Ameers, and can he opened with great advan-
tage, and at a very small expense. _

The new governor of Bombay, Mr. G. R. Clerk, had
arrived there on the 23 of January, and assumed the reins
of government. His first acts appear to give universal

satisfaction

The disturbances amonist the Goomsoors in the Khoond
are stated to be nearly put do*n, They were caused by
some wild fanatics, who imagineffitemselves called upon
to assert their rights to uphold humamsacrifices as a mode
of gaining the favour of the Deity.
There are no later advices from China.

Two convents in the Swiss canton of St. Gall, have been
convicted, under 'a recent statute, of giving soup to the
poor, and fined seven or eight florins each. This is Mal-
thusianism run mad.

FOOD DISTURBANCES IN SPAIN.—In Galicia the armed
force is constantly employed in repressing the disorders of
the peasantry from the dearness of corn ; but the govern-
ment has deposited quantities in the several prefectures to
be sold at the cost price.
A man, condemned to death by the court of assize of
the Ardeche, has petitioned the French minister of jus-
tice to permit him to undergo his punishment by inhaling
ether, as he understands that death by such means is
without pain.
The directors of lunatic asylums at Vienna are trying
the effect of music, singing, and dancing, upon their pa-
tients. A masked and costume ball was lately given in

lowed by concerts.
Another German theatre 'has become the prey of the
flames. On the evening of the 28th ult., a fire broke out,
just before the performance, at the theatre at Carlsruhe,
in the grand duchy of Baden, and at nine o'clock it was a
heap of ashes. Some lives were lost.
Wheat rose from two to three francs in the Paris market
on Wednesday, barley, rye, and oats rising in proportion.
Flour was sold at 110 fr. or 88s. per sack, with a tendency
to rise. The advices from Marseilles were less unfavour-
able, showing a slight fall. No further supplies; however,
are expected at that port from the Black Sea until next

SELF.RELIANCE.-We learn, by the Belfast Whig, that
Antrim is the only county in Ireland which ha.4"not touched
a farthing of the Government money. On the contrary,
besides' meeting their q)wn wants by their own exertions,
the iithabitants have'contributed largely in aid:of the suf-
ferers elsewhere, from funds collected by subscriptions, by
ladies' committees, *mars, and through other charitable
devices.

MORTALITY IN IRELAND.-At Coachford, the mortality
is so great that forty adults died in one day. During the
week ending on Monday, the Ist inst., 168 persons died
in Cork workhouse. From Clones, in Fermanagh, there
are very alarming accounts. Last week, the number of
deaths in the workhouse was not, on any day, less than
twenty ; and there are, it is said, scarcely as many healthy
persons in it as are sufficient to attend the sick.

SOWING OF THE SPRING CROPS.-Our selections pre-
sent the same gloomy aspect. Famine is still at work,
and many more deaths from starvation are reported in
Mayo, Clare, Cork, and other counties in the south and
west. We believe that great progress has been made, in
various counties, in sowing of the spring crops; but we
deeply regret to find, in Mayo, in parts of Tipperary, and
other counties, that the cultivation of the land is, even
yet, almost wholly neglected.—Dublin Post.
A Joint-stock Bakery commenced operations at Cork
on Wednesday, and in the course of the morning sold
9,6001b5. of bread, at the rate of 80. the 41b. loaf. The
price of bread at the private bakeries of Cork was, upon
the same day, 10d., 92d., and 91d. the 41b. loaf, of the
same description. Thus, the people of Cork, by a little
exertion of private enterprise, have accomplished a daily
saving of £56 or thereabouts, while the enterprising are
sure to realise a handsome dividend on their specula-
tion.

At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday,
a letter from Mr. John O'Connell to " my dear Ray," was
read as a substitute for the ordinary epistle of " the Li-
berator" himself, winding up with the time-honoured
hurrah for the " repeal of the accursed Union." The
rent for the week sunk to the lowest figure ever quoted
since the formation of the association, namely, £6, being
£2 less than the weekly salary allotted to the secretary.
The dismal announcement, oddly enough, was received
with laughter. The bubble has clean burst.

. THE GUN TRADE AGAIN !—`Wednesday being fair-day
the market was brisk Ten new establishments have been
opened; and the blunderbus sign has superseded several
others. There was an auction of all descriptions of fire
arms in the Main-street, and another at the corner of
Duckett-street, and, in fact, the usual business of the fair
lost all its interest, when compared with the anxiety
evinced by the country people to possess themselves of
arms. In a civilised country such a state of things is, to
say the least of it, frightful.—Tipperary
_Constitution.

CONVERSIONS FROM ROMAWISM.LAIORE PRIESTS
FROM ROME.—It will be gratifying to the friends of truth
to learn that another class of converts were received into
the communion of the United Church of England and Ire-
land in Soint Audeon's, Dublin, on Sunday last. Two of

the class are priests ; one of the'm is a and was edu-
cated at Rome for eight years, where he received his or-
dination at the hands of his holiness the pope, the late
Gregory the Sixteenth ; the other was educated in May-
nooth, and ordained by the most Rev. Doctor Murray,
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin.
WINDOW BREAKING.—On Wednesday evening four
young ruffians broke two panes of glass in the window of
Miss Kerner, in Patrick-street. Miss K., who was in the
shop at the time, immediately ran, and asked why they
did it. They replied, "To be taken." There was no po-
liceman present, but a gentleman went for one, by whom
they were " taken," and lodged in bridewell. In the
morning, however, they were discharged, and when

Thursday evening came, they again presented themselves
to Miss Kerner, who was at her door, and told her that if
she did not give them 2d. they would break two more.
Terrified at the threat, Miss Kerner turned in to get the
shutters put up, but, just as she turned, she heard a crash,
and, on looking round, two other panes were gone. Is it
not intolerable that respectable ladies are to be annoyed
and alarmed in this way ?—Cork Constitution.
At the Cavan Assize's, on Tuesday, Rose M`Garry, aged
twenty-five years, was found guilty of causing the death
of her illegitimate child, John M`Garry, five years old, by
starvation. Sentence was not passed on the day of the
trial. The policeman who was examined at the trial said
that on the 29th January last he saw the unnatural mo-
ther setting plants in the garden near the house, and in-
quired from her when she had planted the gooseberry
bushes which he had pointed out to her, and she replied
that they had been planted there for some years previously

and he then turned them up and found the dead body of
the deceased buried under them at full length, covered
with a shirt and some cloth on its head, but without a
coffin ! found the other prisoners in the house, and on
making further search found milk, butter, and some meal
seeds steeped to make flummery ; the prisoner, Rose,
admitted that the deceased child was her illegitimate miff_

syring, and stated that it had died a natural death-:Oi a

decline,

REPEAL PROSPECTS.—It is currently reported that the
days of the Repeal Association are (wilfully and for a pur-
pose) numbered ; and that the whole fabric, which has

present ministry to office, will shortly only be remem-
bered As among the things that were. Many circum-
sauces have of late' combined to hasten this consumma-
tion, but the grand pretext for dissolution will be, of
course, the want of the funds necessary to 'conduct the
machinery of the association, the absence of which has
now reduced the working staff to a mere skeleton. The

general distress, too, and the impropriety of further
draw-
ing on the resources of the starving millions, will be urged
as strong reasons for the break-up of this once formida,
ble" confederacy. As an instance of the decline of its in-
fluence, owing to the empty state of the exchequer, it may

but abandoned by the Repeaters, and their 'opponents left
in undisputed possession of the field. At the sessions
now sitting the Conservatives have obtained a majority

number will considerably exceed 300. The reation is partly
attributable to the apathy and distrust created by the
memorable schism of July last.
GRIEVOUS SIGIIT.—Lord Dufferin and the Hon. Mr.
Boyle have visited Skibbereen for the purpose of taking a
collection made in Oxford for the distressed, and also to
see if the accounts of the destitution were correct. The

following is one scene which they witnessed in company
with the Rev. Mr. Townsend. We give it in the reverend
gentleman's own words :—" In the church-yard they saw
the mode of sepulture now common, of throwing the bo-
dies out of the shell into a pit, and covering them so
slightly that a few scrapes of a shovel soon laid bare the
abdomen of one that was the uppermost ! You may be
sure this sufficed for so far. We passed from these to the
place occupied by their more fortunate fellow-sufferers
from the workhouse. ""

lese had coffins. .ney were,
and the ends of one or two of

however, scarcely covered!
one tier of coffins (for then

ther in a gi

a pit being in progress of being filled by bodies from the
same house at the feet of these, and I asked why it was
left in that uncovered, unmade state ? The men employed
digging a lengthened pit, said that the persons employed
by the workhouse authorities had brought four bodies as
yet, and as they expected six more that evening, they
left the pit unfinished ! His Lora-' b a

zip ` never saw suc
sr Prilially melanch

was greater than even was represented."
SUPPLIES OF PROVlSlONS.—Notwithstanding the large

Ls of grain and

tiffs at t

ie various sea-

ports, there'is as yet no corresponding reduction in prices
of provisions, the speculators appearing still to have it all
their own way. The Mayo Constitution says :—" We
daily perceive a frightful rise in our markets. _ On laSt

Saturday oats rose to 15s. 6d. per cwt., and barley rated
at from 21s. to 255. 6d. per cwt, for seed. The scarcity
of seed threatens a further increase in prices, owing to
the demand which is made for grain. We believe there
were but half a dozen pigs offered for sale, and, what is

more est raortunary Lllll.
pearance of a fair, the poor farmers being most anxious
to dispose of their cattle, either to avoid paying rents or
to support themselves." The Limerick Chronicle and
the Derry Journal announced extensive importations at
each of those ports, without, however, causing any reac-
tion in favour of the consumer. " Thirty-four vessels,"
says the first-named journal, " arrived in this harbour