The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

INDIA.

The overland mail brings correspondence from Bombay
to the 15th, and from Calcutta to the Bth ultimo. There
is no China mail by this arrival. The letter of the Times'
correspondent at Calcutta states that the Santal rebellion
has not been subdued. The rebels are still in possession
of Beerbhoom, and are committing great depredations.
The Supreme Council has at last determined to act with
vigour. "Martial law is to be immediately proclaimed. 6,000
troops are to be permanently added to the force stationed in
Bengal. Half of them will be posted at Dinapore, Berham-
phore, and Barrackpore. The other half will be planted in
the centre of the disturbed district. Meanwhile, Gen. Lloyd,
with his force, is marching down the Grand Trunk-road, and
sweeping the Santals southwards. General Bird's force, sta-
tioned at and about Raneegunge, will intercept their flight,
and the savages, thus surrounded, must submit, or be exter-
minated. The cold weather has arrived, and the jungles can
be entered. Meanwile, an act, even more stringent than the
one applied to Malabar, will be passed for the Santals. The
entire tribe will be condemned for ten years to work out their
own subjugation. They will be required to open out by
forced labour the whole of their country, to carry broad roads
into the centre of their fastnesses, to clear the hill side of the
jungle, and to build bridges over the infinity of creeks. Such
a punishment, while it will live for ever in the history of the
tribe, will effectually prevent a second revolt."
The " religious war' in Oude is not ended. The fanatic
Moulavie has about 3,000 followers, a number equal to the
force collected by the Hindoos. He has declared himself an
Imam, and has performed a trick, which he calls a miracle,
in the sight of his troops. It consisted in filling an empty
box with gold, and had the effect of exciting the avarice as
well as the fanaticism of his soldiers.

Lord Dalhouise is 'on his way from Ootacamund to Rangoon,
but he is not, however, expected in Calcutta for a month.
The news of the fall of Sebastopol arrived in driblets, and
created therefore no excitement. Indian society, moreover,
is accustomed to battl.3s and sieges, and does not feel inclined
to scream over a loss of 2,000 men.

JAPAN.—Letters from Hokadadi, dated Sep. 19, announces
that on Sep. 3, two French frigates, f4ming part of the naval
expedition to the Kamschatka coasts, took possession, in the
name of the Allied Powers, of the Isle of Ouroup, the centre
of Russian commerce in the Kouriles Archipelago, and cap-
tured a Russian cutter laden with furs of great value. The
island has been christened the " Alliance." The old rules of
the Japanese empire against intercourse with strangers, which
have long since been relaxed for the English and Americans,
have now-for the first time been made to bend in favour of the
French flag. The Sibille, 50 gun frigate, on anchoring in
the port of Hokadadi, was hospitably received by the' local
authorities. A Japanese temple
.was placed at the disposition
of the Captain for the accommodation of his sick. Two French
sailors who died were buried with all the rites of the Roman
Catholic Church, amidst a crowd of natives, who looked on
with no ill-natured curiosity.