The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.

We published Igst week in a second edition a telegraphic
dispatch in anticipation of the Indian Mail which bas since
arrived with dates from Bombay to Oct. 2, and from Cal-
cutta to Sept. 20.
The news from Burmah is to the 12th Sept. The troops
were all healthy and in good spirits. The first division of
the force destined to attack Prome was to move on the
18th, by which date all the reinforcements would have
arrived. The 2d division would leavQ about the Bth of
October,—the two amounting to about 7,000 men, of
whom one-half were Europeans.
The Burmese troops had burnt down Prome, and re-
tired to a strong stockaded position eight or ten miles
distant ; but it is said that they can only muster about
7.000 of all arms, and are almo,t destitute of artillery.
They would be attacked by the united force, while the
troops on board the flotilla push on and take the city. It
was supposed that about a fortnight would be occupied
in the move from Rangoon to Prome ; the fighting part
of the work was not thought likely to detain them long
on the way, and steam removed the difficulties and dangers
of advance.

It is said that the Goevrnor-General has given the King
of Burmah a second opportunity of obtaining peace
without sacrifice of territory, if he will meet the charges
of the war to the Ist of September, apologise for past
misconduct, and assure us of future good behaviour.
The North- West frontier of India is disturbed, and
more troops are on the wing to chastise the hill-men.
The Governor-General was at Calcutta, Sir Henry Pot-
tinger at Madras. Lord Falkland was about to proceed
from Poona to Mahabuleshwar.

Considerable excitement had arisen in military circles
on the removal of Major Shawe from the command of the
22d Native Infantry, stationed at Kurrachee, preparatory
to taking his trial by Court-martial, for counselling and
corresponding with Ali Moorad—just stripped by autho-
rity of the Home Government of a large portion of his
dominions—on the subject of his supposed wrongs.

EGYPT

The rise of the Nile this year has been below the average
height, and next year's crops will be affected by it, but
as the crop of Indian corn is expected to be very abund-
ant, the country will not suffer from scarcity. The Gov-
ernment, however, continues its suspension of the sales
of wheat, and prices have consequently risen very consi-
derably.
The railroad between Alexandria and Cairo is progres-
sing most satisfactorily, and much beyond the anticipations
of the most sanguine. The English engineers, stationed
at different places on the line, have enjoyed good health
throughout the hot season, and it is confidently expected
that a portion as far as the Nile will be completed by
next year.

THE TURKISH LOAN.—Advices from Constantinople
to the 18th ultimo state, that all questions regarding the
loan have been definitively adjusted, and that, although
its ratification is positively refused, the Sultan, in order
to indemnify the bondholders for the confidence they
have placed in him, has ordered a payment to be made to
them of 15,000 piastres, (£150,000,) or 71 per cent. on
the total subscription of £2,000,000. It is intimated,
also, that the wants of the state having been fully supplied
by the advances made by various public bodies and indi-
viduals in Turkey, no foreign loan of any kind will now
be raised. The amount of specie sent to England by the
two steamers which had lately left Constantinople is eon-
-sidered to be little short of £600,000.