The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-03-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.  ll,i A  We have.received; by eifraordinary express from Marseilles, our despatctes in anticipation of the mails which left,BombayAn,..the Ist ult. They bring interesting in-. telligence. The affairs of Lahore were going en slowly ; the Governor-General, having regulated the government of that. country, and placed Colonel Lawrence as resident, and Sir John Littler at the head of the,British troops; left that capital_on..the .11th of January, and_proceeded to the protected Sikh States, and was expected to reach Putteetilli,h7oti the Ist Of-February: 'lll-r: jr."l:ziwiefice'has been' named commissioner and superintendent of the TransSutiej provinces, and the Major F. Mackeson of the CisSutlej districts. It was not known if the Governor-General would proceed to Delhi or would return to Simla. The latter was supposed the more probable, The' Lahore army has been ordered to be redueid, and Cortlandt's battalions were ordered to be disbanded. Some of the edd.Sikh soldiers were unwilling to'retire, but the Durbar, of which Tej Singh is one of the most influential members, being supported by the British troops, had enforced their dismissal. The Lahore government was resolved to limit its expenditure, yet its difficulties were considerable, in consequence of the properties of the gOvernrnent beini held by persons unwilling to giVe tip their " jagheers, ' or life-rents ; but government was about to resume some of those " jagheers!! The state of the frontiers of Affghanistan was precarious, but the British agents were on the alert ; and even the Nazim of Moulton had repressed some inroads of the-Beiooches. The turbulent Akbar Khan had proceeded to attack the chiefs of Candahar, who are his own relatives, and, according to -the statement published in a Bombay paper of the 27th of January, on good authority, he had succeeded after some severe fighting, in capturing the chiefs, and in making himself master of Candahar. It is said that the Persian monarch was to be applied to on behalf of the dispossessed chiefs, but nothing positive is known on the subject. The proceedings of this unprincipled vizier, whose name must be ever infamous from his being the promoter of the murder of Sir W. H. M`Naughten, are likely to cause some commotion in Central Asia. From Scinde nothing remarkable was known. Some regiments of the Bombay troops had left it, on their return to their own Presidency, as also a portion of her Majesty's 86th Regiment, and the whole of her Majesty's 17th Regt. Sir C. Napier was to leave Kurrachee in the beginning of February, and to proceed to Hyderabad. The reports relative to his immediate removal had died away ; particularly as it was stated that Sir W. Gomm, the present governor of the Mauritius, was to be the new commanderin chief of the Bombay Presidency.  In the interior of India tranqUillity prevailed. In the once-distracted provinces of Bundelkund order and regularity were beginning to be permanently established. In the Nizam's dominions there was considerable dissatisfaction. The new Minister has a difficult task to please the conflicting factions. _ _  It is said that in consequence of the conquest of Lahore the government of India feels itself strong enough to diminish the native armies, viz. of Bengal by 25,000 men, and of Madras and Bombay by 5,000 each. This reduction is to be effected by stopping all recruiting until the native regiments are reduced from 1000 to 800 men each. The government of India has ordered the completion of the Ganges Canal, on which only £20,000 a-vear used to be bestowed. Henceforth for four years 4'256,000 will be expended, by which means it is expected that within a few years 8,000,000 of acres will be rendered productive. There is another canal parallel to the Indus, which can be opened from the Sutlej, and which will fertilise other neglected districts. This canal was stopped by the government of the Ameers, and can be opened with great advantage, and at a very small expense. The new governor of Bombay, Mr. G. R. Clerk, had arrived there on the 23 of January, and assumed the reins of government. His first acts appear to give universal satisfaction.  The disturbances amongst the Goomsoors in the Khoond are stated to be nearly put down. They wew caused by some wild fanatics, who imagined themselves called upon to assert their rights to uphold human sacrifices as a mode of gaining the favour of the Deity. There are no later advices from China.  Two convents in the Swiss canton of St. Gall, have been. convicted, under a recent statute, of giving soup to the poor, and fined seven or eight florins each. This is Malthusianism run mad,