The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The first of the regular mid-monthly mails, with advices
from Bombay to the 15th ult., arrived on Friday, and
brings intelligence from Lahore, where the government
of the queen-mother, and her brother, the Wuzeer, is in
a precarious state. Peshora Singh continues master at
Attock, on the Indus, and bas beaten some troops sent
against him. He has been joined by Tej Sing, the well-
known successor of General Avitabile as governor of Pes-
hawur, who is disgusted with the treatment which he and
his relatives and friends have received from the govern-
ment at Lahore. The wily old chief, Gle,olab Sing, has
contrived to get away, on leave, from Lahore, and has
retreated to Jamoo, where he is watching the course of
events, and regulating the r;eb of his intrigues for his fu-
ture advancement.

The Sickh soldiers are dissatisfied, and anxious to move
towards the banks of the Sutlej, as it to come to a conflict
with the British.

The Governor-General, Sir Henry llardinge, was to
quit Calcutta on the 23d of September. He embarks at
Barrackpoare, and will receive the last salute which Se-
rampore can give as a Danish settlement, for it is about
to be ceded immediately to the British authorities. The
results of his presence in the north-west provinces cannot
be fore'old ; some anticipate a settlement of the Lahore
question after the fashion of the Nizam's country or of
Oude ; but it is not possible to make such arrangements,
for the Sickh soldiers, an unruly race, will not yield unless
defeated in battle.
From Scinde little is known ; tranquillity prevails in its
districts. The small expelition to Kinmore, on the banks
of the Indus above Sukhur, has returned to Hydrabld.
Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee, whether the 2d
Regiment of Bengal Europeans was marching from Upper
Scinde, in order to secure its health on the subsiding of
the Indus.
There has been much talk respecting the letter written
by Lieutenant-Colonel Outran] to General W. Napier, in
which strong charges are brought against Sir Charles
Napier. Indignant at them, Sir C. Napier had asked for
a court-martin, either on himself or Colonel Outran],
which were both declined by the Governor-General, on
the ground that sue!) an investigation was not requisite,
and would lead to the production of evidence which the
nature of the service did not require to be made public.
The news from Afflhanistan is conflicting ; some repre-
senting Dhost Mahommed as embarrassed in his finances,
and unwilling to make war, while others contend that the
notorious Ackbar Khan, his son, and Wuzeer, was pre-
paring to move towards the Indus, and to seize Peshawur.
In the interior of India tranquillity prevails; the state
of the Nizam's dominions and also of Oude is described as
bordering on anarchy from the disorder of the finances.
Further details of the horrible crimes of the Ameers of
Scinde have come to light, greatly to the disgust of those
who upheld them as " innocent and injured princes."
The news from China comes down to the 10th of July,
and does not contain any remarkable fact. Trade was
dull at Canton and in the other four ports. The ship
CC, of London, was burned in the Chinese seas on the
21st ; crew saved by the Judith, of Liverpool.
The cholera, after having ravaged many places, was de-
creasing. The rains in some places overflowing, in others
particularly at Bombay, rather scant; the quantity fallen
in the last-named place was little more than 53 inches.