The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL.

The express from Marseilles reached town at an early
hour on Thursday morning. It brings dates from Delhi of
the 19th, Calcutta of the 20th, Agra the 21st, and Madras
the 23rd of February ; and from Bombay of the Ist of
March. From China we have no advices later than the
12th of January, and they comprise no news of imoor_
tance. The Gwalior contingent had been organised, and
an augmentation of ten thousand men was about to be made
to the army of India for service in Scinde. Some discon-
tent had been manifested by some of the Bengal and Ma-
dras regiments, on their being ordered to proceed to
Scinde. The Governor-General was expected to return
to Calcutta on the 26th of February, the second anniver-
sary of his arrival in India. The Commander-in-Chief
is on a tour of inspection : the army of Gwalior, having
completed the duty prescribed for it, has dispersed to its
accustomed stations within the British territories. The
sovereignty of Scinde has in effect passed into our bends ;
the whole of its artillery is in British custody, and its
troops are commanded by British officers. Sir Charles
Napier has decided that the army of occupation shall not
he reduced below 15,000; for albeit Scinde is at present
quiet enough, the tranquility is evidently constrained, and
might not be durable in the absence of a sufficient check.
The acc,unt: from Gwalior are of only a few days' later
date than those which reached us la't month. Colonel
S.ubbs had been appointed Go% ernor of the fortre's, and
the Mahratta troops, 20,000 in number, had laid don,n
their arms. Tbe details brought by this mail, therefore,

are confined to those peaceful movements which almost
invariably succeed a great ,ictory ; relating chiefly to the
retirement and discersion of the invading army, the en-
thronement of the Maharajah, and the re-construction of
his Government. The ceremony of installation took place
on the 20th of January ; the Governor-General. Com-
mander-in-Chief, and the principal military and political
officers assisting at it. The chiefs and inhabitants appear
to have taken little interest in the matter, looking on in
sullen silence. Nineteen lacs of rupees k£190.000.) had
already been paid down towards the expenses of the war.
The army was reviewed on the 22nd, in the presence of
the Maharajah and his chiefs, and on the ensuing day the
Governor-General took his departure, accompanied by
General Grey and the left wing of the army. A strong
division, under General Littler, remains behind. On
February 17, everything continued quiet. A letter from
Kurrachee announces that Sir Robert Sale, whose health
had hitherto been proof against the privations and toils
which attached to his services at Cabool and Jellalabad,
had become indisposed, and would be compelled to leave
his regiment for the purpose of recruiting his shattered
strength. Little or nothing is known of the condition of
Aftghanistan.

DEATH OF THORWALDSEN.—The celebrated sculptor,
Thorwaldsen, died suddenly on the 25th of March. He
was taken ill in the theatre, Copenhagen, carried out, and
died immediately. He was 74 years old.
ESCAPE OF A CONVICT.—By accounts recently re-
ceived from Sydney, it appears that Thomas Sullivan, one
of the Custom-house robbers, who, in 1836, were tran-
sported for the offence with three others, had effected his
escape from that colony.
ALARMING RUMOUR.—We in our last gave Cape
news to the Ist of December, but have since received
some papers of earlier date, in one of which we regret
to observe mention of a report current in the settle-
ment, that her Majesty's brig-of-war Rapid, of ten guns,
Lieutenant-Commanding E. C. Earle, belonging to the
Cape station, had been sunk near Benguela, after a smart
fight with a Spanish slaver, and that every soul on board
had perished. Her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt had
been despatched to ascertain the precise circumstances.
The following officers were on board the Rapid :—Lieut.-
Commanding, E. C. Earle ; second master, W. Studwell;
assistant-surgeon, W. Maitland ; clerk in charge, H.
Niblett.—Calcutta Gazelle.

MURDER FROM JEALOUSY.—A man named J Ozenne,
a house painter, was tried last week at Rouen, on a
charge of having assassinated the widow Decouville, who
lived in the Rue au Lard, at Havre, during the year 1840.
The great suspicion against the prisoner was that, although
a .Harried man (his wife being about 20 years older than
himself) he professed a moat passionate regard for the wi-
dow; and, as he lived in an adjoining house, was known to
spend many of his hours in her company, and to have the
admission into her apartment by a private key to a door,
which was closed to all except himself. His passion was
under no control, and he had been heard to threaten that,
should she extend her favoured smiles to any one else he
would kill her. The body of this unhappy woman was
found one af':ernoon in the year 1840 in a wretched state
of mutilation in her own kitchen; the head was placed
against a wall, and the feet on the hearth stone—between
the legs was found a candle which had been burnt out—
the clothes of the deceased were destroyed by fire, and the
legs and thighs had been charred to a great extent. Ap-
pearances led to the supposition that the deceased had
been strangled and the body afterwards set on fire ; but as
no robbery had been committed, for even near the body
were found silver spoons and other things of vclue, an in-
ference was drawn that the murder was caused by jealou-
sy. Now it was notoriously known that Ozenne was jea-
lous of the deceased almost to madness, and was appre-
hended and examined : but proofs sufficient to warrant his
committal for trial were wanting, until an individual who
was in prison for debt wrote a letter to an official party
implicating him in the murder ; and the facts therein stat-
ed having been enquired into, Ozenne was put upon his
trial. There were several witnesses called, who deposed to
circumstances which left no doubt of the guilt of the pri-
soner, and on Saturday, after two days hearing, he was
convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour for life.