The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND MAIL

By an extraordinary express, which reached town on
Thursday, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we are
in receipt of news from Bombay, to 6th August ; Madras,
27th July ; Calcutta, 23rd July ; Delhi, 22nd July, and
Scinde, 20th July. The intelligence has been received
by a special steamer, which was despatched from Bombay
rather unexpectedly in consequenceof the dangerous in-
disposition of the Governor. The Ackbar arrived at
Suez on the 27th ultimo, with the following passengers :
Sir George Arthur, Bart., Governor ,of Bombay; Lady
Arthur; Captain Arthur; Mrs. Martin; Captain Hun-
ter ; Lieutenant W. F. Leeson; Lieutenant D. H.
Hewett ; and Doctor R. D. Peele. Mr. Reid, the senior
member of the Council, has succeeded Sir George Arthur
in the temporary government of Bombay.
We are happy to say that cholera had disap-peared from
the camp at Kurrachee, though it continued still to afflict
the town. Sic C. Napier had ordered the fortifications to be
levelled, and the ditches to be filled up. The pestilence
appears to have followed the course of the Indus, and wqs
by last accounts desolating Hyderabad, where the average
number of deaths was 800 daily. Fever had abated at
Sukkur, but her Majesty's 17th Regiment, which had
suffered severely, would, it was expected, return to India,
and from thence proceed to the Cape. Among the deaths
recorded in Scinde, we find the names of Lieut Campbell.
17th Native Infantry, and Capt. John Napier, nephew
and Military Secretary to the Governor. It is now esti-
mated that 10,000 individuals, including 500 Eueopeans,
were cut off by cholera at Kurrachee between the 14th and
30th of June.

The Governor-General and Lord Gough were still at
Simla. Lord Hardinge had summoned to his councils
the political officers from the North-West frontier. This,
when taken in connection with reports of an army to be
assembled on the Sutlej, was considered ominous of hos-
tilities, to be undertaken as soon as the cold season would
permit of warlike operations. The troops at Lahore con-
tinued healthy, but the state of matters in the Panjaub
was unsatisfactory. The Vizier, instead of consolidating
his strength was doing all in his pswer to become unpo-
pular. It is reported that Maharajah Goolaub Singh had
refused payment of the indemnity he bad guaranteed on
behalf of the Lahore Durbar, and it was even said that he
had threatened to resist any attempt we might make to
compel him to perform his engagements. He probably
expects assistance from the Moultan Chief, who is deter-
miced to assert his independence. The government of
the Queen Mother and of Lall Singh at Lahore, was
threatened by acts of violenee. The Akahalees, a band
of notorious fanatics, were collecting in the neighbour-
hood of the capital, and fears were entertained of some
sanguinary conflict. In fact, the tranquility prevailing
was solely attributable to the presence of a British force,
and when this is withdrawn, as stipulated by treaty, the
spirit of turbulence now prevailing throughout the king-
dom generally will doubtless extend itself to Lahore.
There are rumours of a movement on the part of the Aff-
ghans under Uckbar Khan, through the Kyber Pass,
intended for the recovery of Peshawar, some years since
conquered from them by Runjeet Singh ; but these re-
quire confirmation, especially as Dost Mahomed has
shown a pacific policy, and is anxious to maintain friendly
relations with our government.
The British dominions, up to the latest account, were
tranquil. The Monsoon had proved a favourable one,
and the whole of western India had been blessed with
abundant rains.

The Nizam's territories continue in a wretched state—
the treasury exhausted, and a mutinous aamy, General
Fraser, the British resident, is an able and an excellent
man, but the local malady is beyond the reach of any re-
medy he can administer. The medical school at Bolarum
for the instruction of native youth, lately abolished, is
restored.

The Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thomas M'Alahon, has
en dangerously ill at Poonah. The station was un-

The death of Meer Sobdar Khan, one of the Ex-Ameers
of Scinde, is announced. He expired at Dam Dum, near
Calcutta. This is the third of these unfortunate princes
who have been cut off since the commencement of their
captivity.

The Calcutta journals describe a most extraordinary
act of plunder in the centre of that capital. Sixteen men,
well armed, entered a goldsmith and banker's shop,
wounded several people, and then retired with their spoils.
The police of that city had not discovered the perpetra-
tors. It was openly stated that the shopkeepers there
paid " Black Mail" to escape from being attacked. This
is an astonishing admission in the British capital of India.
A new crime had been found out in Bombay. A gang
of hardened ruffians poisoned a number of Buffaloes, then
brought the carcases, which they sold to the butchers in
the public market, to be disposed of as meat at the hot-
test season of the year. They were to be tried at the
next criminal sessions.

Commercial news from Borbbay is more favourable.
The money market was easier, and a brisk trade was con-
fidently expected. The proprietors of the Oriental Bank
being dissatisfied with the expenses and conduct of the
borne management, have resolved to put an end to their
London direction. . . .

The Times has news from the Mauritius to the 11th
July, received by this opportunity. One of the most rp-
markable circumstances mentioned is the expulsion by
Sir W. Gom, the governor of that island, of a Roman
Catholic priest, who, by his skill as a surgeon, performed
the Caesarian operation on the body of a dead woman, and
saved her child, which survived 24 hours. The newspa-
pers of that colony are loud in their denunciations of this
sentence. The affair has produced a sensation in the
Mauritius.

The Ackbar brings intelligence of an attack made on
kden by the Arabs, who marched in force outside the
They were repelled by the garrison with a loss to
enemy of 2 killed and many wounded. A more seri-
ous collision was looked for the same nicht, but no ap-
prehension was entertained. The Arabs would pay dearly
for their temerity.