The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

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was enabled to publish, on Saturday, news from bate to the
9th January, inclusive. A merchant steamer, wi,ich left
Bombay for Sue:: on the 9th, brought an Indian mail, which
was conveyed from Alexandria to Marseilles by the Gorgon
packet, where it was landed on the night of the 22d instant.
The only intelligence from China is the announcement that
the British troops have talon Mancnowfow.
From Affghani,tan the latest news is of the sth of Decem-
ber. Col. M`Laren, who was sent to relieve General Sir R.
Sale, had failed in opening a way to him, so that his position
was exceedingly dangerous. lie was still surrounded by
Affghan hordes. There was a formidable renewal of the at-
tempt to cut off the British troops, but the assailants had
the worst of it.

On the 27th ult. the new protestant bishop of PalestiLe
made his public entry into the city of Jerusalem. His lord-
ship was well received by the authorities, who appeared to
entertain the greatest veneration for his venerable character.

MEDITERRANEAN

We have received advices from Beyrout of the first inst.,
giving a f❑ll account of the changes lately introduced by the
Seraskier in the government of Mount Lebanon. The dis-
position of the Emir Beschir was resolved upon at a secret
Divan, held on the 15th, under the presidency of Mustafa
Pasha. The Emir was arrested immediately afterwards, de-
prived of the Nishan Itikar, or insignia of his authority.
and, finally shipped in the Misri Bahri steamer for Constan-
tinople on the 18th. Omer Pasha, who was appointed
Governor of Lebanon in his stead,left Bryrout for Deil-el-
Kamar on the 16th, with 1,000 men, but he had not proceeded
beyond that town at the date of our last letters. Colonel
ROse returned on the Ist to Beyrout, from Jaffa, in the
Devastation, which sailed on the next day for Alexandria.
According to intelligence from Athens of the 10th ul-
timo. the National Bank commenced operations on the 3rd.
The Government had been for some time endeavouring to
collect funds to pay the interest of the loan, and had taken
up for the purpose 500,000 drachmas, constituting the reserve
of the War-cffice and various slims belonging to other de-
partments. M. Mavrocordato had accepted the embassy to
Constantinople. The return to Athens of M. Theocaris,
who had been specially sent for by the King, was considered
by many as the forerunner of the formation of a new Cabinet.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

By an arrival from the Cape of Good Hope we have Gra-
ham's-town papers to the 18th, and Cape Gazettes to the
20th, December. They contain very little news. The wheat
crops in the neighbourhood of the Kat river, Winterburg,
&c., promised to yield an abundant harvest, notwithstanding
the locusts had, in several places, caused some destruction.
The rust had been less prevalent this year. The Caffre tribes
were troublesome to the border farmers, whose list of " irre-
claimable " cattle were increasingweekly for presentment to
the magistrates. Nothing whatever is mentioned in these
papers of the occupation of Natalia by our troops, although
the governor's proclamation had been out some time.