The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-28 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste on Saturday, in
158 hours from Alexandria. The India and China mails
were detained in Alexandria from the 16th to the 18th,
and the English steamer to take them on was expected to
arrive on the 18th, and therefore could not, at the earliest,
leave again before the 19th.

The ;dvices by this mail are from Calcutta, January 20 ;
Madras, January 25 ; Shanghai, December 31; Amoy,
January 4; Hongkong, January 11; Singapore, January
19 ; Penang, January 21 ; Galle and Bombay, January 28 ;
Burmah, January 12.
The Governor-General had gone six miles above Meaday,
fixed the boundary line, and taken possession of the coun-
try in the name of the Queen. He returned to Calcutta on
the 16th January.
A party of troops against dacoits having been led into
an ambush, 23 men and Captain Barry, of 71st Native
Infantry, were killed. Captain Phayre is to be sent as
Plenipotentiary on a special mission to Ava.
Trade in India is active. Exchange at Calcutta, 21.
From China we lenrn that the French expedition had
returned to Hong Kong from Nanking. Feention was
closely invested by the patriot army.
Exchange at Canton, 61; Shanghai, 63 ; Hong Kong, 5.
Therels no further news from the Persian Gulf.
It was asserted in India that the Russian army of the
Oxus had advanced within two days' march of Khiva.
It was also asserted that the Khans of Khiva and
Bokhara had been brought to terms by the Russians, and
that an alliance, offensive and defensive, had been con-
cluded between those chiefs, the Russians, and Dost
Mahomed.

These assertions, founded on Indian rumours, must be
received with great caution.

MDLLB. WAGNEB.—The Court of Queen's Bench was
occupied for three days last week with the case Lumley v.
Gye, in which the plaintiff sought damages against the
defendant for inducing Mdlle. Wagner, the vocalist, to
break her engagement. A verdict was entered for the
defendant, the jury having found that the defendant did
not know that the agreement between the plaintiff and
Mdlle. Wagner remained a binding agreement when he
entered into an agreement with her on the bth of April.
PUBLIC PROSECUTORS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Phillimore's
bill, to provide for the appointment of public prosecutors
and for the amendment of criminal procedure in England
and Wales, was printed. There are 19 sections in the
bill. It is proposed to divide the circuits of the judges of
assize into districts. The Lord Chancellor is to appoint,
for each district, one or more fit persons, being a barrister
of not less than ten years, as a public prosecutor. The
salary is not to exceed £l5OO a year, including travelling
expenses. Deputy public prosecutors may be appointed,
and assistant prosecutors in courts of quarter sessions, and
there may be deputy assistants. Further district agents
may be appointed. Magistrates may remand accused per-
sons .to take the opinion •of the public prosecutor. The
duties of the office are defined. •

PA.upEus.—From a return just published, it appears
that in 618 unions, &c., in England and Wales, 818,822
persons were relieved (in-door and out-door) on the Ist of
January, 1854, being an increase of 11,276 over the same
day in 1853. Of able-bodied paupers receiving relief
there were 136,049, being an increase of 8,430. An in-
crease of 210,118 is shown in the expense for the half-
year ending Michaelmas, 1853, as compared with the cor-
responding half-year of 1852.
Tun DUKE OF WELLINGTON and Napoleon were 45
years of age when they finished their military career in
the field at Waterloo. The youngest major-general in
our army at present (royalty excepted) is long past that
age, and there are only two full colonels who have not
attained it.

DEBILITATED CONSTITUTIONS.—The wonderful efficacy
of Holloway's Pills, and the good effects it hai produced on
patients suffering from diseases of the stomach, liver•coin-
plaints, bile, and indigestion, would appear incredible, if it
were not daily confirmed by proofs of the cures effected by
then r . The exhilarating properties et these inViduable pills
entirely banish all nervousness from the system, strengthen
the tone of the stomach, thereby promoting digestion • per-
sons suffering from dropsy should use Holloway's Pills, as
they are the most safe and certain remedy ever known for
that dreadful malady.
WORK FOR THE LEGISLATURE.—We are informed that
when a proprietary article becomes of sufficient celebrity, it
is the practice of some persons--whose apparent respecta-
bility throWs both the trade and the public off their guard—
to imitate these articles so closely that few persons can, from
the outside of the packet, tell the difference, but who evade
the law by having their own name in some way introduced as
the vendors. This has, in some cases, led to very serious
results, and it is hoped that a law will be shortly introduced
to put an end to this insidious and wide-spreading evil.
Among those articles which have been extensively imitated
we may mention Brande's Enamel, which has acquired such
a world-wide celebrity in the prevention of that distressing
malady the toothache. We understand that to guard against
these impositions, thegenuine article has the signature of the
original manufacturer, John Willis, (established in 1846,) on
the outside of each packet, without which none is genuine.
FRAMPTOX'S PILL OF HEALTII.—" For upwards of nine
years (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore Hill,
Middlesex), I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent
medicine. Iliad long previously been afflicted with headache
and indigestion; but a friend having induced me to make a
trial of Frampton's Pills, I now inform you that a few doses
gave me great relief; and during this long period of time I
have taken them in preference to any other medicine; and I
have the happiness of saying that 1 never had a better state of
health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg further
to add, that this medicine is in general use by my family, and
we know of nothing to equal it." In any case when an
aperient medicine is required, they need only be tried to be
universally adopted. Sold by all medicine vendors. Price
Is. lid. per box. See the name of "Thomas Prout, 229,
Strand, London," on the government stamp.
TREASURES OF NATURE.--It has been well remarked
that there is not au imperfection that flesh is heir to, for
which a remedy is not at hand, to discover which we have
only to search the vast laboratory of nature. A more apt
illustration cm scarcely be offered, than in the application of
a natural production, of American growth, namely, the Balm
of Columbia, in cases where the human head has been de-
prived of its 'ecoming and natural ornament. As a promoter
of growth, strengthener and restorer of the hair, C. and A.
Oldridge's Balm of Columbia is unrivalled, and in cases of
baldness its virtues are inestimable. The further advantages
of the Balm may be summed up in its freeing the hair from
scurf, producing a beautiful curl, preserving it from piema-
ture greyness, and its r. 2ccellent adaptation to the nunery,
which should never br without it. no climate destroys its
efficacy, and it has proved a most valuable article of trading
speculation.—Sold wholesale and retail by the proprietors,
13, Wellington-street North, Strand, London, and by most of
the respectable perfumers and medicine vendors, price3s. 6d.,
65., and Hs. per bottle; no other prices are gennine.N.B.
The public are requested to be on their guard against coun-
terfeits ' • ask for Oldridge's Baltn,l3, Wellington-street North,
Strand, London.