The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY.

The Marriages (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and
passed.—The Insolvent Debtors' Compensation Bill
passed through Committee. Report on Monday, (yester-
day.)—On the order of the day being read for the further
consideration of the Charitable Donations and Bequests
(Ireland) Bill, Sir J. GRAHAM brought up some amend-
ments, which having been agreed to, the Bill was ordered
to be read a third time on Monday.
The Debtors and Creditors Bill was read a third time
and passed.—The report on the Transfer of Property Bill
was brought up and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be
read a third time on Monday, (yesterday.) The Arms
(Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The
house then adjourned.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA AND CHINA.

The news brought from India by the Bombay mail of
the 19th of June is of considerable interest.
The intelligence from the Punjaub represents that coun-
try in as disturbed a state as ever. Dhulup Singh, the
boy King,'
has been dangerously ill of the small-pox and
his Prime Minister and his mother, yet a young woman,
are said to have been discovered intriguing, to the great
dissatisfaction of the Sikh troops, who rule in that country
and wait but an occasion to create another revolution to
their own profit. The defeat and death of Ittur Singh and
Casbmeera Singh, who attempted to upset the power of
Heera Singh, has for a time consolidated the power of the
Prime Minister. Peshora Singh, who fled from the battle
and surrendered himself a prisoner, was said to have been
killed ; this report excited the Sikh soldiers, who were not
pacified until the prisoner was shown to them. The ut-
most care was taken on the British frontiers to prevent
any collision with the Sikhs ; but as yet no satisfaction has
been given for their invasion of the British territories after
the defeat of Uttur Singh. The report respecting the as-
sembling a large army on the Sutlej had died away, al-
though some warlike preparations were making, such as
the collection of camels in Scinde, and of military stores
at Ferozepore. It is well to be prepared, for if the popu-
lar stories are to be believed, the Sikhs are anxious for an
opportunity of invading India, and plundering its wealthy
towns, and of course measuring arms with the British
troops. _ _

Tile state of Scinde is highly satisfactory, and promises
to become much more so.

One of the chief sources of curiosity subsequent to the
departure of the last mail from Bombay for Europe, was
the meeting of the Beloochee Chiefs at Hydrabad. The
meeting was convoked by the orders of Lord Ellenbo-
rough, and under the careful arrangements of Sir Charles
Napier, passed over quietly.
There is no doubt that the inhabitants of Scinde, who
have begun to feel the benefit of a good and regular go-
vernment, are far more contented than many of the poli-
ticians of England are willing to suppose. Their property
is secured to them, if they are peaceable and do not in-
trigue against the British government. The cultivators of
the soil are not subject to the former cruel exactions, and
they are allowed a full scope for their industry.
The population of the banks of the Indus does not now
amount to a tithe of those who in ancient times cultivated
its soil, and yet, few as they are in number, they were
lately oppressed ten times more than the people even of
other Indian states. The removal of the Ameers is re-
presented as a most decided blessing to the present race
of Scindians, who require but a few years experience of
British rule to become active and industrious. The sys-
tem of the Ameers depopulated the country, and rank ve-
goation is consequently luxuriating there, and causing a
malaria destructive of life. Some time must be required
to accustom the inhabitants to the present government,
and then they will increase and multiply the products
which a most fertile soil can bear, and the country will
become healthful, as it formerly was.
The great assembly of Beloochees at Hydrabad on the
24th of May had several objects :-
1. To cause all these wild chiefs to make their allegi-
ance personally. They had many of them done so before,
but it was in the midst of the confusion and hurry of war,
and some had since been suspected of being unfaithful.
2. Numbers had not made their salaam from fear. Re-
peatedly a " longer day " for this had been given ; but it
was time to be more decided, and the 24th of May (the
Queen's birth-day) was chosen as the last. The effect
was excellent ; 1,600 came in who had never before sub-
mitted. They made their salaam, and received their
jaghirs.

- '..3 iTo try the fealty of the chiefs, and see if they really
felt confidence in the government, and would obey orders.
They 4114 lip, Tice Proof waa complete, Their fear that