The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

The news by this mail is of rather more importances°o
interest than the overland mail has brought for sal'
months. The Punjaub is again in commotion. A red
°'.
broke out, and Heera Singh, the Rajah, and Je
Pundit, have been killed. As usual, there are several sc
counts of the cause, &c., but the following is said to
most authentic :—From the very ill feeling that has
isted for some time between the mother of the Mahara/gl
and Heera Singh, an explosion was looked for, sooner'
later, as inevitable. She applied to Heera Singh for son"
command of trust for her brother, and was backed in be
demand so warmly by the council of the army, usual,
;
such occasions, that Heera got alarmed, and put off L„,,
matter until next day, before daylight of which he was ',I
his way, with SOO troops, to some place in the vicinity,
Jumboo. The Khalsa troops in Lahore, on hearing tbli,
pursued him, and, on coming up, killed him, Jells Poa
dit, and several others of the Rajah's adherents. If.'
heads of the Rajah and Jella Pundit were brought toe,
hore, and carried in procession round the streets. 1`:
next day salutes were fired, and the mother of the lga°,,••
rajah held a durhar. The English government had, it virb
believed, no idea of interfering in this instance, (thong,,
the time may not be far off when it will be obliged tol
so,) not being in the slightest bound to assist or orb°
either party or ministry.
A revolution had taken place also in Nepaul, but 01
the circumstances it is generally believed that it rasa
got-up affair. The Rajah had promised to abdicate 1'
favour of his son. When the time came he refused, .°0
which the son, assisted by some chiefs, deposed bl,I;
The new Rajah is only 17 years old and an idiot.
Government would be compelled to interfere. The
however, was expected to be one of diplomacy rathertb
of arms.
The news from Scinde is still unfavourable.
Highlanders at Sukkur were still dying off. Upwards
200 men, women, and children, had perished since tb
arrival. They were to be removed immediately.
There had been rather a serious disturbance at Hi
kong, in consequence of a registration decree issued
Government, which was resisted by the Europeans, o
in an address to council styled it as " iniquitous,
Crary, unconstitutional, and despotic." A good deal
bickering was the result between Government and tw
Europeans, as the former refused to answer the addres4
Three thousand Chinese left the island, and at last
ty
Government deemed it fit " to amend and modify
registration ordinance. There were still, however, OP
articles in the " modified" decree which were objection,.:
able; for instance, that of obliging all Chinese vessels P
report themselves immediately, and to register their PI,
sengers within 24 hours. The consequence of this
that while Macao is crowded with junks, few or 1:1°P it
have come to Hongkong. Most of the Chinese who le'',
the island had, however, returned. The report that °jig
Emperor had abdicated in favour of a near relation
totally without confirmation.
The supercession of Colonel Outram is altogether (I„e'
nied by the Delhi Gazelle of the 24th ultimo. It 0';
scribes, " on competent authority," the act to have bete
purely voluntary on his part, as from the beginning ',I
had undertaken the duty of inquiring into the causes ;
the disturbances in the Mahratta country as merelY
temporary affair, having been promised by his own Or,
vernment some lucrative position in the Baroda .Ore°l
dency, and that he declined the office of permanent Burg
pean agent of the Kolapore country, offered him by Sir
Arthur, subject, of course, to the approval of the sopreo,o
government. The Bombay papers speak of his going
Europe by this mail.
The non-arrival of the ships Runnymede and Brittniff
the former from Lcndon with recruits, and the latteit
from Sydney, with a detachment of her Majesty's flo
regiment, and nine officers, together with all the ra „,
plate is causing great uneasiness, and great fears are ea
tertained for their safety. The Company's steamer VII;
terprise had been sent in search of them. Some ofl
ex-Ameers of Scinde proceeded by the Hindostan to Div

rope.
The first opium sale was held on the 6th ult.; td
prices were lower than was expected ; the average,e,
Patna being about 1,235 rupees, and the Benares ltu'"ce
the largest sale of Indigo ever held in India took Piao
the day before the departure of the mail. 1,683 che'
were sold, and the prices were uncommonly good. .4
The imports and exports at Calcutta had not vat'l't,
since the previous advices. Money continued abundanj
The transactions in sugar were limited, but the dero94,
for silk goods continued. Freights to Liverpool £3los

The Bill for extending the Birkenhead railway frog Grange-lane to Bridge-end, has passed the Stand'
Orders Committee.

The Valparaiso, which was driven on shore 04
Formby during the recent disastrous gale, has been
off and brought into dock.
01
FOREIGN AID SOCIETY.—On Sunday last the
£45 9s. was collected at St. Jude's Church, in aid of
society, after a sermon by the Worshipful and Rev.
Raikes, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese.
Wet 1'
g,
DEATH OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.—This
known reverend gentleman, one of the canons of St,
Paul's, died on Sunday morning, after an illness of sever
months, in the 73d year of his age.
Aletter has been received from Mr. Wainwright by a Ilt;
spectable firm in this town stating that "all goods
bonded warehouses which have not paid duty will op.
pay, on delivery from warehouse, such duty as the erti
cle may be subject to at the time of delivery."
1° THE CONVICT DALMAS.—It now appears that 0
no
man, convicted of the dreadful murder of a female
,'"„i
Battersea Bridge, is to be transported for life, as, dullr,
his confinement at Millbank Penitentiary, he has not ei
hibited any symptoms of insanity.

Mr. De la Rue, professor of music, at Hampstead,viiiir
brutally murdered and robbed of his watch and other 4
tides on Friday night on bis way home. He was foafi,
lying dead almost immediately afterwards, but the rake
ans have not been yet captured, though there is a c
which will lead to their discovery.

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A'
ELFCTIONS.—On Thursday, W. H. P. Carew, •••• V
of
was returned unopposed for East Cornwall in the room
its
Lord liot. On Friday, Christopher Tower, Esq.
returned for Buckinghamshire. All the members ci filo
f to,
ministry who have had to resign their seats in con
quence of changing their offices in the government 10
been returned unopposed.