The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

by. Mr. Hume, Mr.

Una division it was negatived by a majority of

62 over 27 voices

Two other amendments on the bill were also moved,
but negatived without a division.

&fter the bill had been gone through

Major LAYARD proposed to add to the bill a clause,
enacting, that at the expiration of three years from the
passing of the act, any person, who should have served
10 years in the infantry and 12 years in the cavalry, artil-
lery, or ordnance, should be entitled to its benefit.

he clause, on the

le Sovereign had the pow

le the service of the men at any time.

After this staters,

Major LAYARi withdrew hi

The house then resumed ; and the report was brought
up, and ordered to be taken into consideration after the

The other orders c
the house adjourned

S the day were then disposed of, and

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

INDIA EXPRESS FROM

MARSEILLES,

The semi-monthly despatches, in anticipation of the

lligence—happily now usual—of the
.11ity in our Indian provinces ; yet

,)revatenG

of tranqw

out in various district

rhere is evidently much dissatisfaction prevalent in
The Queen-Mother and others are busy in in-
A conspiracy has been discovered, which had
ect the murder of Tej Singh, who is looked upon

Lahore.

for its ob

as the friend of the British. The queen-Mother andher
son Dhuleep were about to proceed upon a pilgrimage,
but prevented by the interference of the British Resident,

affected

The exactions of, some of the native princes are pro-
ducing great dissatisfaction, and render probable
afurther

incree-of our Indian Empire. Cashmere and Monßan,
as well as Lahore, are likely ere long to belong to the

under the yoke of their native Rajahs and Naz

There is said to be a great scarcity of money at Cabin
Dost Mahomed remained there in quiet, while hi
and son, the notorious Akhbar, was restless, and hurryi
from one place to another, as if agitated by some power
ful motive

north-west provinces on a tour of inspection. The-Com-
mander-in-Chief was at Saharampoor, whither it was
thought the Governor-General would proceed, on his
_ _

route to the hlk, before the commen,

ment of t

season. His rep
months more.

From Scinde there is nothing new. Sir Charles Napier
was at Hyderabad, and Scinde was as tranquil as any pro-
vinc,e of India, notwithstanding the withdrawal of the
great portion of the Bombay regiments which had been
stationed there.

The reduction of the army was going forward. Two
hundred Sepoys and 25 native officers were to be struck
off the rolls of each native regiment of infantry. The ca-
valry and irregulars will be also reduced ; so that the nu-

merical strength will be lessened by about 10,000 men.
Her Majesty's 9th, 17th, 39th, and 63d Regiments are
also returning to Europe.
The 'Five per Cent. Loan still continued open, although
it was said that upwards of £3,000,000 sterling had been
subscribed. It is thought that when the Treasury has
abundant cash a plan of reducing the debt and interest
will be adopted.

By order of the Governor-General the cessation of all
kinds of official labour on Sunday has been effected.
Even the native durbars have been laid aside on that day
in various places

The Niz'am's dominions are still in confusion

the rural,
vailed.

istricts

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