The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

INDIA

By Extraordinary Express Bombay papers and corre-
spondence to the 13th ult., brought by the Moozuffer
steamer, dispatched to Suez to convey the new Governor--
General (Lord Dalhousie) to Calcutta, have been received.
The news from India is not remarkable. Peace prevails
in the British territories. Lord Hardinge is proceeding
A .. ...sue to
attack Lucknow by a neighbouring rajah, and a fight took
place near Secunderapore, in which the plunder-loving
rajah was defeated, Oude may be looked upon as far
from being in a prosperous state. The Nizam's country
is still disturbed. The Nizam himself has occupied tents
outside the walls of Hydrabad ; his minister joined him,
but soon afterwards left the camp, which was deluged by
the rains. There appears to be an expectation prevalent
in that country of the approaching interference of the
British power to effect proper arrangements in its dis-
turbed, ill-governed, and oppressed districts. From
Scinde or Lahore there is no intelligence of importance.
There has been some heavy rain in Bombay, which has
cooled the atmosphere, and the cold season has set in. A
letter from Alexandria, dated 29th November, contains
the following gratifying and importitnt intelligence :

" By the Mo-oz'affer;a mail has been brought containing
commercial news of the first importance, from which it
would appear that, up to the date of sailing (the 12th inst.),
every house in Bombay had withstood the effects of the
disastrous news the previous mail had brought from Eng-
land, and there is every confidence that all would main-
tain their ground. Large remittances are going home to
support the tottering houses in England."

CALAMITOUS FIRE IN FRANCE.—The large manufac-
tory of M, Cumenge, of Salvages (Tarn), was burnt to
the ground on the night of the 6th instant. The premises
contained extensive paper works, a woollen thread factory,
and machinery for cork cutting, all of which were de-
stroyed. The loss is calculated at about 750,000 f. For-
tunately, the property was insured.
The Morning Post contains a marvellous paragraph
about Spanish wealth, in which it was stated that the
Duke of Albuquerque died so wealthy that the weighing
of his gold a silver occupied two hours each day for six
weeks. Amongst other things, there were 1.400 dozen
of plates, 500 great dishes, 700 little ones, and everything
else in proportion. There were also 76 silver ladders to
set things on the cupboard, which which were ascended by
little steps, like the altars in a great hall.
A few nights ago, between twelve and one o'clock, the
conductor of an omnibus, on his way home, found a little
boy, about seven years old, leaning against a post, and
crying bitterly that he had lost his mother. The conduc-
tor took the child with him to his own lodgings, and put
him to bed, promising to go with him in the morning in
search of his mother. At daybreak the conductor got up
with the purpose of carrying his benevolent intentions into
execution, but the boy had disappeared, taking with him
a watch and a sum of money which his kind host had de-
posited in a drawer on going to bed. The conductor went
to the commissary of police, and related his story, and
was then informed that within a month three robberies by
children under very nearly the same circumstances had
been committed.—Paris paper.
STEAM BOAT DISASTER.—The Philadelphia Daily
News, in a telegraphic despatch from Pittsburg, says :
" News has just reached here, by way of the Lakes, of a
sad catastrophe which happened on Lake Michigan, by
which nearly 200 human beings have been hurried into an
untimely grave. On Sunday morning last, the propeller
Phoenix, bound unto the Lakes, was discovered to be on
fire, when within 10 miles of Sheboygan. The fire broke

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with fearful rapidity. There were over two hundred pas-
sengers on board, and the scene was heartrending. Some
in desperation plunged into the lake—others in their wild
delirium rushed headlong into the flames. It was a har-
rowing spectacle, and humanity shudders at the recital of
it. Some thirty of the passengers succeeded in escaping
in the boats, and the rest either perished in the flames, or
were drowned. One hundred and fifty of the passengers
were German immigrants." The steamer Talisman, from
Cincinnati, bound to St. Louis, and the steamer Tempest,
bound down, came in contact, about daylight on the 19th
of November, at Devil's Island, by which the Talisman
was sunk, drowning over one hundred deck passengers.
No cabin passengers lost. The passengers and crew
(those saved) were taken off by the Tempest and landed
at St Louis.