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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.  FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE  INDIA  b'e'have received, by extraordinary express from Mar-' genies, our despatches in anticipation of the mails which left Bombay on the Ist ult. They bring interesting intelligence. The affairs of Lahore were going on slowly ; the Governor-General, haying 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 Putteeallah on Ihe Ist of February. Mr. J. Lawrence has been named commissioner and superintendent of the TransSutlej 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 reduced, and Cortlandt's battalions were ordered to be disbanded. Some of the old 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 enforoed their dismissal. The Lahore government was resolved to limit its expenditure, yet its difficulties were considerable, in consequence of the properties of the government being held by persons unwilling to give up their " jagbeers," 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 Moultan had repressed some inroads of the Belooches. 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  larity were beginning to be permanently established. In the Nizam's dominions there was considerable dissatisfac 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-year used to be bestowed. Henceforth for four years £250,000 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 he 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 amonist the Goomsoors in the Khoond are stated to be nearly put do*n, They were caused by some wild fanatics, who imagineffitemselves called upon to assert their rights to uphold humamsacrifices 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.