The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

INDIA.

The dates by the Ovealand mail are,—From Calcutta to the
22d Oct., Bombay, 2d Nov., and Hongkong, 15th Oct.
The Bombay Times says :—" The disturbances in Oude
ebb and flow as occasion presents itself. The King, having
issued a vigorous proclamation, has proceeded against the dis-
turbers of the peace, and is said to have got the Mohamme-
dan high priest on his side. Attempts are being made to
prevent the Mohammedans from endeavouring to reconstruct
a mosque within the sacred ground of the Hindus, the build-
ing proposed to be restored not having existed for ages. The
irritation on both sides has reached such a pitch that there is
as little hope of suppressing it by conciliation as by intimida-
tion. In the apprehension of a religious war eighteen guns,
with artillery, have been ordered to be got in readiness for im-
mediate service. These movements excite but little interest :
the fate of Oude is certain and well deserved. For the sake
of its people, it must be passed into other hands. Peace con-
tinues to prevail in British Burmah."
Considerable discussion has occurred in reference to the
attack made on Brigadier Mackenzie by the men of the Nizam's
3d cavalry, on his having attempted to get rid of the riotous
proceedings attending the Mohurrum. The Nawab of the
Carnatic died at Madras, on the 7th ultimo, and one of the
most audacious and mean-spirited swindlers amongst the
royal races of India, has thus ceased to cheat his credi-
tors. The want of rain prevalent throughout India during
the months of August and September, have, in many
parts of the country, been in some degree compensated
by unusual falls in October, which have considerably
improved the prospects of the husbandry. At Bombay
we have experienced none of that good fortune which has
descended on the provinces around, the chronicles of which
we have seen nightly written in the sky. The cold weather
seems now to have fairly set in over all Western India, and
we are without any appearance, for the present, of those storms
which usually make their appearance in the first week of
November. We have of late had two peculiarly striking
examples of those storms of simultaneous occurrence which now
begin to attract the attention of meteorologists. The first of
these prevailed betwixt the 9th and 16th of. September, when
storms occurred at very nearly the same dates in the Crimea,
all over the north-west of India, across the southern part of
the peninsular from the Malabar to the Coromandel
ober The second
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so on across the bay to the capital of B
of Oct , when we had
took place betwixt the lOta and 13t
violent
storms with hail and
et provinces,dtl:uiideralon and thunder-storms
the Punjab frontier;
heavy rains in
from Bangalore across Nellore and south to Madras, with very
severe weather in Ceylon. The two crises were chiefly mani-
fested at Bombay by an unusual depression of the barometer,
and magnificent displays of thunder-clouds.
BO3IBAY, November Ist.—There is no improvement what-
ever in the state of our import market. Tonnage is abundant,
but freights are low, and several large ships on the berth for
England are loading very slowly. To Liverpool, we quote
£2 7s. 6d. to £2 10s., and to London £2 15s. to £2 17s. 6d. for
cotton, with ss. more for seeds. Exchange on England for
the past fortnight ruled a shade lower than reported in our
last, and the bulk of business done may be quoted 2s, 1 7-16 d.
to 2s. lid. for China and first-class credit, and 2s. 1 9-1641. to
2s. lid. for documents.
CALCUTTA.—AII business being suspended during the pre-
sent week, in consequence of the annual Doorgah Poojah holi-
days, we have no remarks to offer, either as regards our export
or import markets, which remain in the same position as last
reported.