The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

" GENERAL ORDERS.

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" SizaLA, SEPT. 30, 1842.
" The Governor-General announces to the army and to
the people of India the occupation of Ghuznee by Major-
General Nott on the 6th of September, and its entire de-
struction by the Candahar division of the army.
" Major-General Nott bad the satisfaction of releasing, in
the neighbourhood of Ghuznee, 327 Sepoys of the 27th Ben-
gal Native Infantry from the slavery to which they had been
reduced by the Affghans.
"The Governor-General likewise announces the complete
defeat of Mahomed Akhbar Khan at the head of 16,000 men,
at Tezeen,, on the 13th December, by Major-General Pol-
lock, and the occupation of Cabul by the troops under that
General on the 16th September.
" The British flag waves in triumph from the highest point
of the Balla Hissar.
"Thus have all past disasters been retrieved and avenged
on every scene on which they were sustained ; and repeated
victories in the field, and the capture of the cities and citadels
of Ghuznee and Cabul, have advanced the glory and esta-
blished the accustomed superiority of the British arms.
" The Governor-General has derived much satisfaction
from the report made by Major-General Pollock of the ad-
mirable conduct of the troops of his Majesty Maharajah
Shere Singh, acting in co-operation with the British army.
The Governor-General rejoices in this new proof of the
cordial good understanding which prevails between the British
Government and that of Lahore.
`• The report of Major-General Pollock leads the Governor-
General to expect, that long before this day all the British
prisoners taken by the Affghans will have been brought into
the General's camp; those who had been left near Cabul
were already at liberty.
" The Governor-General, in the name of the Government
and of all the people of India, offers to Major-General Pol-
lock and Major-General Nott, and all the officers and troops
under their respective commands, his grateful and heartfelt
acknowledgments for the important services they have per-
formed.
" The Governor-General directs that the recent successes
obtained by the armies in Affghanistan be fully made known
to all the troops at all those stations of the army, and that at
all those stations a salute of 21 guns be fired for the capture
of Ghuznee, and a similar salute for the capture of Cabul.
" J. P. WILLOUGHBY,
" Secretary to Government."
The British troops have evacuated Quetta, and retired be-
low the Bolan Pass.
In the interior of India tranquility and contentment pre-
vail, all dread of scarcity haring been removed by the abun-
dant rains of the monsoon.
The prospect of an advantageous trade with China had
raised the spirits of the merchants and growers of produce.
The Doab Canal was ordered to be resumed, and two lacs
have been given over for the purpose.
The Governor-General, after having so speedily established
pea a with China, and having effectually secured the north-
western frontier, will have henceforth to dedicate his atten-
tion to the consolidation of the empire and to its internal
improvements. There can henceforth be but little opposition
to those improvements even from the Mussulmans, for the
decided defeat of the Affghans proves that they are not fated
again to rule the East.
A merchant ship, the Eleanor, was set on fire near Alep-
pee. The vessel was consumed, and the Lascars are in
prison for trial.
In a postcript dated Sunday, Oct. 16, our correspondent
states that the steamer had been delayed in consequence of
the non-arrival of the express despatch on the sth by the
Governor-General from Simla. We have also received
copies of the official despatches from Generals Nott and Pol-
lock. General Nott had also made his appearance at Cabul
on the 10th of September, after having completed the de-
struction of Ghuznee, and performed his extraordinary
march through the enemy's country, and having routed an
army, and taken and demolished the renowned capital of
Ghilzee. Every hope appears to be entertained of the libe-
ration of the prisoners.

The payment of the money due by the Chinese is, it is
stated, to be effected in the following manner :—lmmediate
payment, 6.000,000 ; in 1843, 6,000,000 ; in 1844, 5,000,000 ;
in 1845, 4,000,000.
The Auckland steamer, from Nanking, may possibly ar-
rive at Suez before the Zenobia from Bombay, but it will not
bring the news of the final defeat of Akhbar Khan, who is,
as it is asserted, to be hanged, on the murder by him of Sir
W. Al4Naghten beidg fully proved.

The following document is interesting, as showing the
mode adopted by Sir H. Pottinger to show the Chinese their
erroneous policy :
"Pottinger, her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c.,
makes this clear exposition for the information of all the peo-
ple of the country.
" Under the canopy of heaven, and within the circumfe.
rence of earth, many are the different countries ; of the mul-
titude of these, not one is there that is not ruled by the Su-
preme Heavenly Father, nor are there any that is not bre-
thren of one family. Being then of one family, very plain is
it that they should hold friendly and brotherly intercourse
together' and not boast themselves one above another. But
England coming from the utmost west, has held intercourse