The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-12 00:00:00

PEKING.

A spirit of discontent and rebellion has gained considera-
bly upon the inhabitants of the capital, and given rise to
the establishment of numerous illegal associations and bro-
therhoods in the very precincts of the palace. The report
of this sfate of things does nut proceed from the pencil of a
misanthrope, but from the court itself, and may therefore
be Considered as by no means exaggerated. Defiance of the
constituted authorities, robbery in open daylight, and ex-
cesses of every description, are the immediate consequences.
The inference we must draw from this is, that. the Supreme
Government is either too weak to oppose effective restraint,
or that the police is leagued with the outlaws. After
much search rive. persons have been discovered who had
joined themselves by an oath, besmearing their mouths and
swearing eternal fidelity to each other. Though they are
guilty of no other crime, they have been delivered over to
the tribunal of punishment, to be dealt with according to
the law, which denounces such proceedings. The Imperial
tombs have again been violated, much to the grief of old
Taoukwang. Little as we know about the Celestial Court,
there seems to l;e much agitation amongst the dense popula.
tion. At Mouktlrn, the second capital, matters are by no
means better, as the translation of the following edict will
show. The riots there have been worse than at Birmingham,
butCelestialjustice is summary—catch the criminals, whether
Chartists or common agitators, and if you cannot do so within
a specified time you must take the consequences. Trial,
sentence, and execution, are in this land synonymous terms.
We have received an Imperial edict to the following effect :
She and Ying have presented a mernorial requesting to de-
grade some assistant magistrates for not keeping a proper
watch and the consequent escape of some criminals, that they
may in future sr.ize them in good earnest. It appears that
several persons, guilty of murder, through their negligenceab-
sconded, and subsequently plotted together to the number of
several hundred men and acted as incendiaries at NI ouktlen.
Eighteen of them have since been caught.—Pekin Gazelle.

CHINESE TROOPS.
Nine Government junks and boats, some of them of large
size, filled with Chinese troops, have been lying in the inner
harbour for the last eight or ten days. Five are anchored
near the Leen-fung temple on the race course, and four near
the house occupied by the establishment of Messrs. Turner
and Co._ _ _

Notwithstanding the Taoutae's proclamation, cargo has
not been sent from Canton for the ship laid on for Lisbon,
which has been detained more than two months for her
teas, &c.
The Provincial Government, it is said, are building 30
boats in Canton, tuitler the direction of live Chinese boat-
builders hired in Macao. They are to be double-banked, 28
oars on each side ; are to be well armed and equipped for the

`service of capturing citurn WO, brfgrond rchoonere. The
Chinese suspect the aouteo is meditating some foul play, be.
cause he is building and putting the Portuguese off their
guard by fair promises.—Canton Itegiater, March 10.

INDIA.

(From the Calcutta Courier, April 16.)

The Madagascar steamer leaves us to-morrow morning
early—for the Straits and China. We hear her armament is
of the incist complete and beautiful description, her large
guns over her stern and bow in particular. She is to be fol-
lowed in a week or two by the Queen; 68 pounders will, no
doubt, soon thunder in the cars of the inhabitants of the Ce-
lestial Empire the true sense in which the power and gal-
lantry of the British ought to be viewed : the Enterprise fol-
lows her—also for the China expedition.
The Mermaid and the Head-quarters of her Majesty's
49th Regiment left Calcutta yesterday in prosecution of her
voyage to China. Sir J. G. Bremmer and the Staff leave in
the Madagascar steamer this day, and her Majesty's ship
Conway, with a division of the volunteers, sails from Cal-
cutta in about a week or ten days. The whole force will then
have left, and we shall look with great interest for an account
of its proceedings.—Calcutta Englishman, April 17.