The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have intelligence from Calcutta of the Bth of January,
and from Bombay to the 6th of January.
Our Bombay correspondent, writing on the 16th, says the
insurrection among the Santals is at length completely quelled,
and the force employed in its suppression has been broken up.
A proclamation has been issued by the government announcing
these facts, and conveying the thanks of the civil authorities
to the officers employed on the service.
With regard to the future destiny of the kingdom of Onde,
and its annexation to the territories, or administration by. the
authorities, of the British empire, nothing certain is as yet
known. It is, however, reported that, as has been previously
asserted with confidence, the latter alternative is the one about
to be adopted, and that a letter of the Governor-General to
that effect has been already presented to the King by the
officer who had been officiating as resident during the absence
of General Outram. The sovereign, it is said, received the
mission that announced his coming degradation with womanish
tears and lanientations, and the usual expressions of Oriental
fatalism. The same report further states that, among the
people of Lucknow, the universal feeling was one of satisfac-
tion at the prospect of a change from the existing regime, and
that even the troops, though aware that they would be dis-
banded, and re-organised under a sterner discipline, were well
content, as certain of receiving their arrears of pay. It may
be doubted, however, whether all is likely to go off as quietly
as these accounts would lead us to expect. At any rate, it
would appear that the government, if not seriously apprehen-
sive of resistance, is determined to be upon its guard.
By the latest accounts from Peshawur all was quiet on the
frontier. _ _

From Cabul we have nothing further than an assertion, pro-
fessing to be made on good authority, that the Dost has no
intention whatever of taking possession of Candabar ; that, on
the contrary, he has most earnestly urged on his brothers and
nephews, the sovereigns of Southern Atfghanistan, the advisa-
bility of joining him in resisting the movement madd by the
Persians on Herat, and that the Caudahar chiefs are disposed
to agree to the propositions of the Ameer.
Of Burmese intelligence the principal item is a disastrous
fire at Rangoon, on the 19th December, resulting in so great
a destruction of property as to amount to absolute ruin of the
native trade of that rising town.
Lord Elphinstone is expected to-day on his return from his
tour in Guzuret and Kastiware.
Lord Canning is expected here about the 26th.
At Calicut, the sub-collector, Mr. Collett, has well nigh com-
pleted his investigation regarding Mr. Conoley's murder. No
fewer than 300 Moplas, including men, women and children,
have, we are told, been placed in confinement, as being more
or less implicated in the recent tragedy.

AUSTRALIA.
By the steamer Magdalena, which arrived at Southampton
on Saturday, we have received, via Callao and Panama, files
of Australian journals, containing intelligence from Mel-
bourne to the 20th of November, Sydney to the 14th, Adelaide
to the 13th.
The price of gold at Melbourne has declined, being quoted
at £3 14s. 6d.
The banks placed the rate of exchanges with England at
par, on the 19th of November.
The closing price of flour, on the 17th of November, at Gee-
long, was £49 to £5O per ton for Chilian. Business there was
rapidly improving.
At Adelaide flour was rising in price on the 13th of Nov.,
and is quoted at £55 to £6O.
From Sydney our advices are to the 14th of November.
Little was doing in the House. The Steam Postal Bill hav-
ing passed through committee may be considered as already
on the statute-book. The sum of £20,000 has been inserted
as the contribution of New South Wales towards a general
line for all Australia; but it is to be gathered from what the
Solicitor-General said, that this contribution will only be paid
towards a line of steamers via' Torres Straits, and that there
will be no co-operation for one Singapore and Melbourne.

THE PACIFIC.
The advices from Valparaiso are to the Ist ult. Everything
was peaceful. The extra session of Congress had been closed.
The Valparaiso and Santiago Railway had advanced in length.
The railroad proposed from Santiago to Talca, 200 miles, had
been preliminarily commenced. Agriculture was prosperous.
The yield of the mines for the year bad not been as large as
former years, excepting in copper. The new Custom-house
valuation of merchandise imported would take effect on the
Ist. On Christmas-day, Valparaiso was visited by a distress-
ing fire. It was near the San Francisco church, away from
the sea. Water was therefore scarce, and the houses being
frame buildings mostly, the flames made rapid progress. The
engines of the city laboured most assiduously. The captains
of ships of war, English, French, and American, sent men on
shore promptly and generously, to aid in checking the flames.
Ten or twelve edifices, however, were destroyed. And a more
distressing fact is the loss of five or six lives of foreign seamen
or citizens, who exposed themselves bravely to danger, in
order to arrest the devouring element. A new treaty bad
been formed with the United States. Freights :—For Ham-
burg: Hamburg brig Henriette, with saltpetre from Iquique,
£5. For Liverpool : British barque Wreath, copper ores from
Tocopilla, £4 178. 6d. ; British ship City of Kandy, copper
ores from Caldera, £4 155.; British barque Ursula, silver and
copper ores from Caldera, and saltpetre from Iquique, £4 ss.
The advices from Para contain little news. Public feeling
against Castillo appeared to be gaining ground, and it was
thought Echinique would be recalled. From Ecuador we have
nothing worth noticing.