The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

colony li

tiovernment
of the latter wit
ports of the colony

found near the surface. about 16 miles from Cape

and hopes are entertained of real coal being found unde
neat h.

Sir Rolwrt Peel s

crew-steamer has returr

her first trip to Natal. She entered and came out of the
bay without the least difficulty. She brought down sam-
ples of sugar grown there, and put up in bags of native
manufacture; it is pronounced to be of first-rate quality.
Cane-planting was being commenced on a large scale.
The state of the colony is described as very prosperous.
The native but-tax had been paid with cheerfulness, to
the amount of £9,500 in cash. Intelligence
vereignty is also very favourable. Mr. C

from the So
een has

confirmed as a British resident. The farmers are turning
their attention to wool-growing, for which the country is
said to be admirably adapted.

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INDIA OVERLAND MAIL

Intelligence has been received by Overland Mail from
Bombay to the 15th, and Calcutta to the 7th September.
Trade has been brisk at Bombay for the last fortnight,

and the money market continues very easy. The rains
are nearly over, but the active season is scarcely yet

commenced.
CALCUTTA.—Trade still maintained a healthy com-
plexion, and consumption continued to progress favour-
ably, although the prices of several articles of colonial
produce are less satisfactory than the shippers anticipated.
Our export market remained rather quiet until towards
the close of the month, when the rates of freight, and an
unexpected fall in the figure of exchange, stimulated ship-
pers to increased activity. Sugar has experienced an ac-
tive demand, with an advance of 4to 8 alias. Stocks are
much reduced. Saltpetre remains comparatively neg-
lected, and rice almost wholly so for the British market.
The improved tone in our import market has continued.
In cotton piece goods the demand has increased with firm
and generally improved prices, while in many cases stocks
are decreasing and the supplies light. The intelligence
of the large amount of bills drawn by the Court of Direc-
tors on the Bengal Treasury had the effect of disturbing
the rate of exchange, which, after the departure of the
last mail, stood at 2s. Old. to 2s. (IV., declined to 2s. 3ad.
for first-class credits, and 2s. 01d. for good documents,
with a downward tendency. Money continues plentiful,
and procurable on easy terms, viz., from 5 to 8 per cent.
per annum.
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Notwithstanding the recent negociations, the north-
west frontier of India was again in a disturbed state.
The hill tribes continue to make descents on our villages,
killing all they meet, and carrying off the villagers' cattle
to the hills. A force was ordered out from Peshawur on
the 18th of August, and, after remaining some days in the
field, returned to camp without being able to fall in with
the enemy.

Trsi BiYAMESE WAR.—From Bombay we learn that no
material chance had taken place in the state of matters
in Burmah. The preparations for an immediate advance
on Prome by the Irrawaddy were nearly completed. The
steamers, with flat bottomed boats in tow, were immedi-
ately to take up 2000 men, and " to return for a detach-
ment of similar strength and so on, as long as the river
was practicable." Captain Tarlton's flotilla, consisting
of the Medusa, Phlegethnn, Pluto, Prosernine, Nemesis,
and Nahanuddy, with the boats of the Fox, Nozuffer,
and Sphynx, were all stationed up the Irrawaddy near
abcut Prome. The necessary preparations for the advance
of the land column were in progress ; each corps and
department had been called on for a return of the amount
of carriage it would require, and large numbers of elephants
and bullocks were being purchased and collected to meet
the requisitions sent in. It was reported that an expedi-
tion would shortly be dispatched from Rangoon to dis-
perse the Burmese force at Beling, which had so frequently
disturbed the garrison of Martaban. Little was known
for certain regarding the amount and disposition of the
Burmese forces. It is said that the land column would
not be ready to advance for Rangoon much before the Ist
of January, 1853.
Since the departure of the last mail from Bombay the
Governor-General's orders for the brigading of the army
of Ava have appeared in the Government Gazette of Fort
William and Fort tit. George, and such of the troops in
orders as had not already sailed were hastening towards
the points of embarkation. The reinforcements for the
troops in Burmah were on a scale altogether unexpected,
and would swell General Godwin's force to five brigades
of infantry, each composed of one European and two
native regiments, making, with the Sappers and three
batteries of artillery, a land force of about 16,000 m en.
In addition to these, the flotilla was to muster about 3000
fighting men, with the most powerful artilley ever yet
employed in land or river warfare. No cavalry had been
as yet provided, the nature of the country having been
supposed to preclude the use of that arm. It was, how-
ever, con•aidered likely that this omission would be recti-
fied by the despatch of a small quota of native cavalry.