The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

I N I) I A.

The express from Marseilles, with despatches from
India and Egypt, in anticipation of the Overland Mail,
which left Bombay on the 2d, reached London on Satur-
day.
India is at peace except at two points, viz., the Boogtie
frontiers and the Goomsoor countFy.
The Boogties are a lawless, plur ' resoling in
the mountainous districts of th ikarp e, in
North Scinde. According to thei its. they, at
the end of September, came down plains, with the
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object of plundering the peaceful inlitants, who reside
there under the protection of the British. This horde of
plunderers amounted to about 700 men ; they assailed
some of the fortified towns, but were repulsed with loss.
Between the Boogties and Jakranees a deadly feud subsists;
the latter have become steady adherents of the British.
They acted as spies on their enemies. The Scinde Horse,
which is commanded by Major Jacob, was put in requi-
sition and a detachment of 183 troopers, under the orders
of Lieutenant Alerewether, proceeded to expel the
invaders. The Boogties, who were encamped in a thick
jungle, on seeing the Scinde Horse moving towards the
mountains, thought they were retreating, and hastened to
attack them. A daring conflict ensued; the short mus-
ketoons of the cavalry did great execution, and numbers
of the enemy fell. Lieutena-it Merewcther and his
soldiers frequently offered quarter, but the desperate
Boogties would not accept it, and it was not until nearly
three-fourths of the 700 were slain that the remainder gave
in a d became prisoners. This dashing affair took place
on the Ist of October, the day of the departure of Sir
Charles Napier from Scinde. The destruction of the
Boogties is considered to be sufficient to insure quiet on
the frontiers. Nevertheless a report was circulated at
Kurrachee that some of the remaining Boogties had per-
suaded other tribes to come down from the mountains.
and to avenge the deaths of their brothers. This report
is not confirmed.

Scinde generally continues tranquil. The new civil
governor, Mr. Pringle. was busy in procuring reports
from the officers administering the various districts.
These reports are, it is said, to be laid before the governor
of Bombay on his arrival in Kurrachee, which is to take
Once in the month of December.
The Goomsoor country remains in the same unsatisfac-
tory state as before.

An attempt was made at the end of September to seize
the person of the notorious chief, Chokra Bissaye, but he
got early notice of the movement of the detachment sent
against him, and escaped. It is said that a force is to be
sent from Madras to control a refractory rajah in the di-
rection of the Goomsoor country.
From Afghanistan the news is not of interest. Dost
Mahommed is employed in settling the dispute among his
sons. The new vizier, Haider Khan, has made some
changes in the pay of the troops, and introduced men of
an inferior class into the service.
Much interest was attached to the visit which Lord
Hardinge was about to pay to the King of Oude. His
lordship, while moving towards Calcutta, was, in Novem-
ber, to meet the King, and to spend some days at Luck-
now.

The much-talked of ex-Rnjah of Sattara died at Be-
nares on the 14th of Octeber. His obsequies were per-
formed there with pomp. He has left no children, and
his brother now enjoys the sovereignty of Sattara without
any rival to dispute his title. He, too, is childless, and
his dominions are likely to lapse in a short time once
more into the dominions of the Hon. Company.
The loss of the steamer Indus near Diu on the 7th of
October has awakened public attention to the ineffective
state of the Indian navy. The Indus ran on a ledge of
rocks, where means were found to save her engines, but
she has since sunk in deep water, and is, it is feared,
totally lost. From various sources intelligence has been
learned of the Cleopatra having been foundered in April
last.

The London mails of Sept. 24 had not arrived in Bom-
bay on the 2nd Nov. Great disappointment was felt.

The influenza is raging with virulence at Paris, Per-
pignan, Montpellier, &c. • at Toulouse no less than 15,000
persons are stated to be ill.
On the 17th of November, at Berlin, the first Jewish
licentiate, and practical physician, Dr. Remak, took his
degree in the medical faculty of the university.
Intelligence has been received of the death of Dr. Car-
nana, Romish Bishop.' of Malta. At the age of 16, the
then yming Carnana, hawked vegetables about on a
donkey ; he died at the age of 89.
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Madame de Contade, of Paris, who last year undertook
for a wager to dance at three balls, on three successive
nights, in three different countries, the places chosen
being Paris, Brighton, and Brussels, is now crippled in all
her limbs from imprudent bathing in the sea.
It is now some time since the idea of employing ether
as a propelling force was suggested. A mechanic at Paris
has reduced the theory to practice, by the erection of a
machine which is now in full operation as a glass-cutting
factory. Its power is equal to that of twenty horses.
Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, has arrived in Vienna,
and has had several conferences with M. Negrelli on the
construction of the projected canal across the Isthmus of
Suez. They were expected shortly to set out together for
Egy
The Council-general of the Seine has passed a formal
vote on the question of free trade, declaring that it is of
opinion that, in the present state of things, the protection
of national industry ought to be maintained ; but it at
the same time considers that the customs' question calls
for revision and improvement.
SWITZERLAND.—The French papers of Wednesday
furnish us with the important information that the leagued
cantons have submitted, and that consequently the civil
war is over in Switzerland. It will, therefore, now de-
pend on diplomacy whether peace will be lasting, or
grounds laid for future strife and contention.
A somewhat remarkable undertaking is at this moment
in progress in Sweden—that of lowering the waters of the
great lake of Oleron to the extent of twelve feet. This
operation has become necessary, in consequence of the
construction of a railway from Stockholm to Gothenburg.
It will cause upwards of 10,000 acres to be brought into
cultivation. _ _

Fresh disturbances have broken out at Leghorn ; an
arrested rioter stabbed the corporal of the guard, killing
him on the spot. The populace assembled before the
prison and demanded that the prisoner should be given up
to them, that they might avenge the death of the soldier.
The terrified man avowed that he had been paid to com-
mit the crime. The people at once attributed it to the
retrograde party, and, ptoceeding to the house of the for-
mer commissary of police surrounded it, shouting, "Dort';;
with the partizans of Austria! Down with the Jesuits I
They then broke into the house, destroyed the furniture,
and burnt all the papers they could find. The timely in-
terference of M. Ricci prevented other disasters.
Tux Port's LIBERALITY.—Much is said in the present
day of the Pope's liberality : but it would seem, from the
following extract from a speech of " Ills Holiness," re-
cently delivered, that he does not seem disposed to abate
one jot of the unreasonable claims which have invariablY,
been put forward by the Ronaish church. "I thank you
said he, "for your good intentions, and as regards the
public welfare, I esteem them of value. It was for the
public good that since my elevation to the Pontifical
throne I have, in accordance with the councils inspired by
God, accomplished all that I could .; 'and I am still ready,
with the assistance of God, to do all for the future, with-
out, however, retrenching in any degree the sovereignty
•of the Pontificate ; and, inasmuch as I received i, full and
entire from my predecessors, so shall I transmit this sa-
cred deposit to my successors. I have three millions of
.suNecta as witnesses."