The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-08 00:00:00

The admiral has returned from Peiho and the Gulf of
Pe-che-lee ; his reception is said to have been good, and that
the emperor is anxious for peace. Lin is to be tried by some
Chinese commision, and I have no doubt will be sacrificed.
They want us to give up Chu,an and to take Lantao, opposite
to Macao, and they offer £2,000,000 sterling in cash. The
foree, it is believed, will winter here, all but a small detach-
of artillery and one European regiment to accompany the ad-
miral to Macao, where it is supposed peace will be concluded.
The troops are dreadfully sick ; quarters are taken, and they
are to leave the r sick, and come into town, when the rain
ceases, which we have had for some days. The Cameronians
have lost 30 men, the 18th about 24, the 49th about 15, and
the Volunteers about 24, the Artillery only one man, but have
been more sickly than any other. The Cameronians had
yesterday 545 men unfit for duty. This is a dreadful state
of things. Tnis island has been drained of supplies, instead
of their being obtained from the mainland. The admiral
goes to-day with Captain Elliott to Ningpo to try and recover
poor Captain Anstruther (Madras Artillery) and Mrs. Noble,
Capttlin Noble, and the crew of the Kite, who are all prison-
ers. The Viceroy has written to say that they shall all be
taken care of, and invited the admiral to treat, as the Prince's
guardian had been sent from Pekin for this purpose, as also
a relative of the emperor. Since writing this lam told that
all the troops at present here are to continue at this place
until after the winter.

INDIA.
(From the Bombay Gazette.)
The Indian intelligence for the past month possesses unu-
sual interest. The first important item is the surrender of
Dost Mahomed, the ex-ruler of Cabul, to our envoy at the
court of Schah Soojah, Sir W. M`Naghten. Thus, after a
struggle of two years' duration, we have finally established
our point, and Schah Soojah is undisputed master of the
throne of his ancestors.

The second item of importance is the Bath of the Maha-
rajah Kurruck Singh of Lahore, and that of his son, Nou-
Nahal Singh, by the fall of a beam in a gateway through
which be was proceeding to the river Ravee, to perform his
ablutions after his father's obsequies, as prescribed by the
Hindoo law. He has left no living heir, but we are informed
that one of his wives, in the third month of her pregnancy,
and that her mother has possession of the fort, and refuses
to give it up to Shere Singh, whom the Lahore Durbar pro-
claimed Sovereign of the Punjub on the 7th instant. We
believe that by a treaty entered into with Runjeet Singh, we
agreed to guarantee the lineal succession of his descendants
to the Guddee of the Punjaub ; and, in the event of the cor-
rectness of the report of the pregnancy of the Ranee, we
opine we shall be obliged to take her under our protection.
Shere Singh is the son of one of the wives of Runjeet, but
he was disowned by him from his birth, which happened in
1809. He is represented as being the idol of the Seikh army,
brave as the lion, whose cognoinen (Singh) he bears, but
cruel, sensual, and debauched.

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