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

SQUADRON

(All these vessels are supposed to be already before China.)
1. At China, on the 19th of May, her Majesty's ships,
Druid, 44 guns, Hyacinth, 18, and Volage, 26.
2. Left Singapore with despatches for :llacao, on the 19th
of May, her Majesty's ship, Alligator, 28 guns,
3. Sailed from Singapore, on the 30th of May, with
steamers and transports, her Majesty's ships Wellesley, 74
guns, (bearing the flag of the commodore,) Cruizer, 18, and
Algerine, 10.
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4. Was to sail on the 4th of June, her Majesty's ship
Conway, 26, from Singapore. Remaining at Singapore, to
take on the April mail at the same date, the Larne. 18.
5. Were spoken in the Anjeer channel, on the 10th of
June, on their way to China direct, her Majesty's ships
Melville, 74 (bearing the flag of the admiral commander-in-
chief), Blonde, 46, Modeste, 18, and Pylades, 18.
6. Undei orders for sailing from the Cape to China, on the
25th of April, her Majesty's ships Columbine, 18, Nimrod,
20, Blenheim, 74, and Orestes, 18.
It does not appear that tke Herald, Pelorus, Favourite,
Andromache. and the Pique, as 'Was originally stated, will
form any part of the Chinese expedition ; the Pique, indeed,
is now off Alexandria. The Pelorus got on shore at Port
Essington, in a gale of wind.

ADMIRAL ELLIOTTS SQUADRON FROM THE CAPE

CALCUTTA, June 23,

We have also the pleasure to advise you, that Admiral
Elliott is probably by this time in the Chinese seas. The
Modeste, 18, detached from his squadron, having delivered
despatches for Calcutta to the Eudora, fro►n Hobart Town,
arrived to-day, which vessel spoke the Modeste on the 12th
inst., in lat. 12, long. 90 east.

DEPARTURE OF THE DIVISION OF THE FLEET FOR CIII-
NA, UNDER THE COMMODORE, FROM SING ',PORE.
On Saturday forenoon, the 30th of May, her Majesty's
ships Wellesley. Cruiser, and Algerine, troop-ship Rattle-
snake, and the Hon. Company's steamer Atalanta, with 16
sail of transport vessels, got under weigh for China, present-
ing a fine and animating spectacle as they steered out of the
roads in three divisions, with one of her Majesty's ships at
the head of each. They were followed next day by the
steamers Queen and Madagascar, into the former of which
the staff from the Marion, which has been damaged, had
been transferred ; of the two ships of war remaining in the
roads, the Conway will, we understand, move forwards in
the course of the day, the Larne waiting to take on the
April mail, which may now now be expected almost daily to
arrive from Calcutta, by the steamer Enterprise. No day
has been fixed yet for the departure of the rest of the trans-
ports.

THE DESTINATION OF TIIE EXPEDITION AND POINT OF

ATTACK

It has been very generally surmised that the preliminary
operation of the expedition will be to batter down the Bogue
forts ; and we believe there is no doubt that such are the in-
structions of Sir Bremer Gordon. But we understand the
campaign to be ogened by also taking possession of Macao
at the same time, we presume under some arrangements
effected at home betwee►► the British and Portuguese govern-
ments.

Lord Macartney's opinion was, " that the English should
take forcible possession of Macao, because the Portuguese
held it on terms at once useless and degrading ;" but an act
of this kind the government will not commit.
The occupation of Chusals and other places on the coast
will be, it is thought, the next act in the drama ; but if effici-
ent garrisons are to be left at these places, will not the
force be too much weakened to make an attempt on Pekin,
which is considered by many to be in contemplation ?
To occupy the islands, or some towns on the coast, will not,
we feel perfectly assured, be sufficient to alarm the imperial
court—nothing short of a march on Pekin will arouse the im-
perial government. We think the present force competent
to this, providing we content ourselves with garrisoning Ma-
cao, and leaving a small naval force there, without occupying
other positions on the coast. For the success of such an en-
terprise, however, it is absolutely necessary that our force
should be at the mouth of Pei Ho or north river long before
the approach of winter.

- . (From the Bombay Times, July 22.)
FROM THE NORTH WEST PROVINCES.
The accounts of the conduct and condition of Schah Soo-
jah continue the same as formerly—that his habits are those
of a haughty, silly, sensual, confirmed reprobate, totally un-
worthy of British countenance or protection ; who, the mo-
ment that our forces were withdrawn from the country, would
become the deserved victim of his own outraged subjects, by
whom he is held in equal hatred and derision.

FROI.I lIERAT.
By letters from Herat we learn that all was quiet down to
the 3d of June, and that an excellent harvest was expected in
the country around ; the grain had got into ear, and was be-
-ginning to ripen. Col. Stoddart continued to be a prisoner.
Dost Mohamed had been relieved from restraint, and his
daughter had been received into the harem of the Ameer.
The Russian retreat was believed in at Herat, but had not
been ascertained. No wonder, then, that we in Bombay
know little of the affairs of Khiva.