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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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

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

5. To heir 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 lifter 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. .

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