The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

By express from Marseilles despatches from India in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, which left Bombay on
the 3,1 of January, have been received.

The Times correspondent writes.—" The present cold
season promises to find us occupation for our armies all
along the line of the north-west, and most probably in
Burmah also, if we may judge from present appearances.
From Peshawur along to Dhera Ismael Khan, the tribes
are either in arms or preparing to take them up against,
us, and a general rising seems to be meditated. The
Khyrpore Ameer, too., seems inclined to rush on his fate.
Altogether the prospect of war being close at hand is
pretty certain, and it is the universal belief that stirring
events will occur during the-ensuing three months. On
the frontier a couple of skirmishes have already taken
place."

From the Hazareh country we hear of the butchery of
two British officers—Messrs. Clime and Tapp—by a b3dy
of Momunds. near a place called Moezuffergurh.
Troops of Upper Scinde were going to Keypoor, and a
reserve was forming at Hyderabad.

A fond deal of sickness prevailed at Hyderabad, prin-
cipally fever. The wing of her Majesty's 64th Regiment
had during their stay there lost seventeen men, seven
women, and twentv-six children. The river had fallen
unusually low, which had been the cause of the great pre-
valence of fever. The troops at Kurrachee were healthy,
while at Sukkur there was,much sickness.
D'nost Mohammed's health is re-establ'shed.

The I•l,zam had only paid £90,000 on account of the
£400.000 due, and cannot procure a greater sum. His
domains were in a state of anarchy, as were also those of
Oude.
A naval force had been collected at:Rangoon.

Lieutenant Colonel John G. Drummond, C. 8., quarter-
master general of the Bengal army, died at army head-
quarters on the Jhelum, on the llth of December, from a
paralytic stroke. The Governor General is slowly approach -
ing- Caleutta, where it. is expected he will arrive about the
15th of the present. month, although it was a few days ago
rumoured that he was about to retrace his steps towards
the Punjaub.

Lord -Stanley has been on a visit to Calcutta. His stay
in the palatial city was very short. His lordship is now
visiting the Uoper Provinces, and will come by the way of
the Indus to Bombay, and hence return to Europe..
Exports and imports were lively. Prices of goods with-
out alteration Cotton, 72-r. to 88r. per candy. Freight
to Liverpool, £2; London, £2 10s.

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Money cheap and abundant. Company's Five per Cent.
Loan, 103 - ; Four per Cent. ditto, 89. Bills on London,
six months, 2s. 24.

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.
It is reported that the Emperor of Russia has prohibited
the exportation of grain.

Prussia is engaged in making preparations for any events
of a warlike character that may result from the proceed-
ings of the French President.

A Republican wag chalked up the other night, in place
of the erased inscription, " Liberty, Fraternity, aad
Equality," " Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery."
A bookseller in Paris, on being asked the other day by
a customer for the New. French Constitution, replied that
he did not sell periodicals.

Such hns been the scarcity of English journals allowed
to enter France. that as much as 4s. has been offered for
a copy of the Times,

Licensed gambling is said to be in contemplation by
the French government; as it yields a large income, and
brings so maisy strangers to Paris.

The Belgian journals repeat a rumour of M. de Lamar.
tine being about to proceed to the East to take possession
of the estate presented to him by the Sultan.

Mrs. Howard, the lady who accompanied Louis Napo.
leon to Paris on his expedition for the Presidency, has
re,urned to London

M. de Morny, Louis Napoleon's right hand man, was
a refugee in Edinburgh ; and the Neva of that city states
that he took leave without paying his debts,
WEST INDIES.--Advices from Jamaica of January 1,
state that the cholera had increased, and that at Savannah-
le-Mer and Hanover it was most alarming.

General Leflo, one of the victims of the French coup
d'etat, has taken up his residence in Jersey. Generals
Chanearnier, Lamoriciere, and Bedeau are expected to
arrive in that island to reside.
Three weighing-machines, together with a number of
chandeliers, lamps, pier-glasses, and other articles, have
been ordered to be made in Birmingham for the Pasha of
Egypt.

Accounts from Spain to the 25th instant state that the
government has ordered a sum of 6.000 reals to be invested
calf of every child of poor parents born on the same
Infanta. The money, with interest, is to be
o the recipients on their coming of age.

On bel:

The courrier d' Athi,n,e*, relates that, as the body of a
gipsy was being interred in the cemetery in that city, a
noise was beard in the coffin, which- was immediately
opened, and, after some restoratives had been admirds.
tered, the supposed dead woman recovered sufficiently to
return to her home.

A lady, one Miss Lydia G. Hall, has recovered in an
action before the Supreme Court in sessions at Cambridge,
Massachussetts, 1400 dollars damage of the city of Lowell,

for injuries received by her in fa

ing upon .t

he icy si,

high bone was

iroken,

and she was confined to her bed for several month

Workmen are at present occupied at the 'collieries in
arranging the pavilion of Flora, formerly inhabited by
Mad'lle Adelaide. for the offices of the President of the
Republic. At this point is to be placed the office for the
electric telegraph, and here all the wires from the various
ministerial hotels, the council of state, the legislative
1"Iv, and ti

3ch. le senate are to meet.
The number of trees of liberty already cut down in
Paris and the banlieue is about twelve thousand. The