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

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some treachery was intended was great, but the result has
given them perfect confidence in the promises and cha-
racter of government. _ _

4. To allow them that the government bad confidence
in them, and had no fear or distrust of them. _

5. To hear all complaints or representations that ex-
isted ; many were made and examined into.
6. For the Governor to become acquainted with and
speak to the chiefs, giving praise to those who had shown
a readiness to serve the British. All these points enabled
the Governor• to form a general guess at the temper of the
Beloochee population.
There is no doubt, that in ordering the Governor of
Scinde to hold this meeting at such time as he judged
best, the Governor-General acted from a wise policy.
About 20,000 people were supposed to have been collected.
All were orderly in the extreme. They were kept divided,
as caution was necessary.
There was some sickness in Scinde, arising from the
heats, but not more than in other well-known parts of
India. Exposure to the sun had produced the deaths of
14 men of her Majesty's 86th Regiment, and of some
women and children.
Sir Charles Napier was at Kurrachee in the beginning
of June—a strong proof that nothing of striking impor-
tance was dreaded which could demand his presence in
any part of that province.
There was some excitement in the Cabinet of Gwalior
in consequence of the orders of the Supreme Government
to take possession of the flourishing Mahratta town of
Boorhanpore, and to imprison the father of the young
Queen Dowager of Gwalior, Tara Baee, as he was sup-
posed to be involved in certain intrigues ; but those or-
ders were countermanded after an explanation, and all
was peace and tranquillity there.
The abrupt recall of Lord Ellenborough had produced
a great sensation at Bombay, from which place alone in.
telligence has reached us. It was not known there what
course Lord Ellenborough intended to adopt. The news
of the recall is supposed to have reached him on the 14th
or 15th, and he might desire the Bentinck, then on the
point of starting for Suez, to wait a few hours for him.
It was supposed by others that his lordship would await
the arrival of Sir Henry Hardinge.
The news from China extends to the 26th of April.
The China authorities were disposed to act with perfect
good faith towards the British, and it was even said that
the Emperor was about to make arrangements whereby
the trade in opium would be legalised. Sir H. Pottinger
had passed several enactments, regulating the mode in
which British trade is to be carried on there. A. cargo of
tea from the northern ports had been despatched in the
Nautilus, Captain Gibson ; its weight was 246,5251 b.

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A new source of dissatisfaction- has been created at
Borneo. An expedition of two vessels—the Young Queen
and Anna, fitted out by the Hon. James Erskine Murray
and Mr. W. C. Bowra—had entered one of the rivers,
and endeavoured to establish commercial relations. They
were allowed to proceed up the Cotee River for a consi-
derable distance, when all their advances were rejected,
and they were assailed and fired upon by multitudes.
They attempted to get back, but were met by a fleet of
boats, and a conflict ensued, in which the Hon. J. E.
Murray and two sailors lost their lives. It is thought
that Sir Thomas Cochrane would have to order some
ships of war to go there to demand satisfaction.
The only part of India in which any kind of disturbance
existed was near Dharwar, where there were some bandits
collected ; but as public attention was called to them, they
would be speedily put down.
Mr. J. F. Davis, the new Governor of Hong Kong, ar-
rived at Sincapore on the 27th of !April, and sailed again
for Hong Kong on the 31st. Her Majesty's ship Corn-
wallis, with the flag of Sir W. Parker, was at Trincomalee
on the 27th of May. Her Majesty's ship Nimrod arrived
in Bombay on the 18th of June.
The Commercial news from Calcutta is on the whole
satisfactory. The indigo crop is not likely to prove a heavy
one, but rather the contrary. 330 boxes of quicksilver,
packed in bamboo and cases, had reached Calcutta from
China—a new feature in the trade, which is expected to
have an important effect on Rothschild's monopoly, and
caused an immediate fall in the price from 7 to 6 current
rupees per fy. seer. _ _ __ _

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Sir H. Hardinge was at Aden on the 4th of July, the
Hindostan having averaged 11 knots an hour from Suez.

AMERICA.

By the Great Western steamer, whose arrival is noticed
elsewhere, we have received New York papers to the 20th
ult., being five days later than those previously received.
Quiet has been restored at Philadelphia.
The Madisonian, by some very curious means, is
enabled to publish another President's Message and sun-
dry annexation documents, though the same were ordered
to be suppressed by the Senate, The Message is dated
May 16th, and in it the President urges, that, if Texas be
not then annexed to the United States, the opportunity
would be lost for ever; and, in order to influence the
senators in favour of the measure, he accompanies the
Message with several letters. or communications, " de-
rived from private sources." but not bearing any signa-
tures, which confidently declare, that, if the annexation
treaty be not ratified, Texas will ally herself with Eng-
land, and enter into a treaty of commerce, offensive and
defensive. There are also extracts from letters of Gene-
Houston, the President of Texas, and General Jackson,
upon the same subject. General Houston says, that if
annexation be refused, "it would then only be left for
the United States to expect that she (Texas) would seek
some other friend."

We publish a circular in another column on the state
of the cotton trade. &c. _ _ _

The news from Mexico indicates great activity in pre-
paring for the renewal of hostilities with Texas, General
Santa Anna had again placed himself at the head of the
republic ; appointed a new secretary of war ; demanded
a levy of 30,000 men and four millions of dollars; ordered
General Woll to repair to the frontiers; and appointed
General Canalizo commander-in-chief of the army
destined against Texas.
By advices from Dominica, to the 23d June, we learn
that the insurrection had been quelled and the operation
of martial law suspended. The Governor had issued a
proclamation and amnesty to all, with the exception of
ringleaders, ninety of whom had been retained in prison
to undergo the decision of the laws, several hundred
having been discharged under the admonitory advice of
the Governor. The islands had been overwhelmed with
rains and floods, which had caused great damage to the
roads, &c. A singular discovery had been made, in,
taking a census of the island of Trinidad, of " two en-
campments of the aboriginal Indians of the island, be-
longing to a race perfectly distinct from any hitherto
known."

The coronation of King Oscar, of Sweden, is to take
place on the 21st of August.

The new comet has been seen at Bois le Duc with the
naked eye.
AN EXTENSIVE ORDER.—Previous to her departure
from Paris, Queen Christina left orders for the construc-
tion of a number of carriages for the service of the Spanish
court. No less than sixty-four of those vehicles have al-
ready passed through Bordeaux.
As a proof of the depression in the value of agricultural
property in Sydney, it has been remarked that the Sydney
Herald contains an advertisement to let a farm of 112
acres, and offering to make the person who will take it a
present of some cows into the bargain.
FRENCH REVOLUTION.—The fourteenth anniversary
of this revolution passed off quietly at Paris last week. A.
melancholy accident, however, occurred at the termina-
tion of the day's proceedings, a number of persons having
been trodden under foot by the crowd in the Place de la
Concorde, of whom three lost their lives.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH IN CANADA.—The Presbyte-
rian Synod of Canada, on the 6th ult., by a majority of 56
to 40, determined to maintain its connection with the Es-
tablished Church of Scotland. Some of its ministers--
it is said about 26—had in consequence seceded, and have
resolved to set up a rival institution, which they propose
to call " The Presbyterian Church of Canada."

ALLEGED PLOT TO MASSACRE THE CHRISTIANS AT
RHODES.—The Augsburg/I Gazette quotes a letter from
Smyrna, of the Ist ult., stating, in the most positive terms,
that in the island of Rhodes and other places the Turks
had formed a plot 'for the massacre of the Christians at
last Easter. The execution of the plot appears to have
been prevented by an accidental discovery.
FROST, WILLIAMS, AND JONES.—Our Monmouth
correspondent has received a letter from a friend in Hobart
Town, dated March 8, 1844, in which the writer states—
" I often see Frost, Williams, and Jones ; the former
lives a few doors from me, at a grocer's ; he is in the
counting-house; Williams is a constable; and Jones is a
guard to the mail!' The above may be relied on as cor-
rect.—Gloucester Journal.

A RELIC !—The Cathedral of Treves is in possession of
a vestment without seam, said to have been worn by
Christ. This precious garment is exposed to the faithful
once in every century, except when the Pope grants an
express permission. This permission has been accorded
by his holiness for this year, and the relic will be exhibited
from August 18 to September 30. The last regular exhi-
bition was in 1809.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF PILLS-
SIA.—It appears by an official bulletin, which reached
London on Thursday, from M. Bulow, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs in Prussia, that an assassin fired two bar-
rels of a double-barrelled pistol at the King, on the 26th
ultimo; one of the balls missed, but it is said that the
Queen, who was in the same carriage with his Alajesty,
would have been hit had she not, just at the moment,
leaned forward. The other ball struck the King on the
breast, but glanced off, leaving only a slight bruise.
STRANGE PROCEEDINGS AT TAHITI.—Our polite and
peaceable neighbours, the French, seem disposed to carry
matters in the Pacific with a mighty high hand. In fact,
things are come to a pretty pass already. Not content
with depriving poor Queen Pomare of her kingdom, and
converting her regal palace into a dwelling-house for his
own high mightiness, that terrible fire-eater Monsieur
d'Aubigny, a warrior of the Joinville or Jeune France
school, who makes war, as the Times says, " upon wo-
men in the family-way"--this doughty hero has at length
performed an exploit for which he must be appropriately
rewarded. The vapouring Gascon has actually had the
insolence to insult the Queen of Great Britain by arrest-
ing the person of her consul at Tahiti : here are his own
words in proof of the outrage :—" FRENCH ESTABLISH.
MENT IN OCEANIA.—A French sentinel has been attacked
in the night of the 2d and 3d of March. By way of re-
prisal I have seized one Pritchard" (no less a person
than the British consul,) " the only mover and daily in-
stigator of the excitement of the natives. His property
shall answer for every damage occasioned to our establish-
ments by the insurgents; and if French blood is shed,
every drop shall recoil upon his head." It is true that
Mr. Pritchard has since been released from arrest, and
that he has arrived in England ; but that is no atonement
for the outrage ' • and unless a proper and full atonement
shall be made, Captain Warner or somebody else must
teach Johnny Crapaud a lesson which he will not readily
forget.