The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

EGYPT

His Highness Abbas Pasha has left Cairo for Benha,
town on the Damietta branch of the Nile, for change of
air, and to expedite the railway works, for the completion
of which he shows great solicitude. The materials for the
railroad are arriving fast from Glasgow, and they are for-
warded to the several parts of the country without delay,
so that there is every reason to hope that within two years
of this time the line between Alexandria and ,Cairo will
be completed.

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INDIA.

We gave last week the telegraphic despatch in anticipa-
tion of the overland mail from Bombay, to the 30th Dec.
The General-in-Chief was still at Rangoon, and Sir John
Cheape was commanding at Prome, lying on his oars, and
forbidden to move a step. There was no other sign of
life in the campaign than the constant arrival at Rangoon
of fresh troops from India, and the despatch of reinforce-
ments thence to Prome, where there was no enemy to
encounter. Nearly six weeks after the occupation of
Promo, and tour after the Burmese General had sur-
rendered himself to us, and reported that the Burmese
army near that town consisted of a rabble of 4,000 or
5,000 men, who were only waiting for the excuse of a few
shot from our guns to decamp, everything continued in
the same state of lethargic abeyance. About 1,100 men,
with two heavy guns, had been despatched on board the
Bentinck, Nerbudda, Damoda, and Mahanuddy, to oc-
cupy Pegu. One of these steamers had been sent pre-
viously to reconnoitre, and had returned with four war-
boats without finding it necessary to fire a shot. No re-
sistance could therefore be anticipated, but General God-
win had accompanied the detachment for the purpose of
chronicling its achievements in his usual style. Every-
thing was quiet at Proms and Rangoon.
It is not expected that the King of Ana will make any
bond fide overtures for peace until our forces are at least
as near to his capital as they were at the conclusion of the
last war. An Eastern prince or chief, even though he
should meditate no active resistance, usually considers it
a point of honour not to give in until his enemy is close
to his gates.
Lord Falkland has returned to Bombay from the Mali-
ableshsvur hills after his usual eight months' annual
absence from the seat of Government.
A letter from Manilla mentions the arrival there of the
famous Garibaldi, who defended Rome during the Presi-
dency of the Prince de Canino. Garibaldi, who com-
mands a merchant-vessel, sailed on the 9th of August for
China.

AUSTRALIA

A letter from Sydney, dated 30th August, says :
Population is now pouring in on us in earnest from all
quarters of the globe. The immigration from the United
Kingdom is very great, but Jonathan is invading our
shores in large numbers by way of San Francisco, while
Germany sends her sons from Hamburgh, Lubeck,
Bremen, and other ports on the North Sea. Neither is
the flowery empire behind in the general race which is at
present going on towards the Australian goldfields ;
several ship loads of Chinese have arrived from the port of
Amoy within these last few months, but these men are
mostly sent down, under indenture, to serve the colonists
as shepherds or general servants.
The diggings on this side continue in stain quo, for
want of population to develope them. The few that are
on the ground are earning 30a. a-day by only digging
about two feet down and nuggetting. The gold is of a
nuggetty character, similar to that from Mount Alex-
ander, and is now being brought to market in increasing
quantities.
Mount Alexander still continues to yield enormous
quantities of gold ; it is confidently asserted by some that
the yield is not less than 100,000 ounces per week ; if so,
it seems astounding that the diggings, within 10 months
of their first opening, should be producing at the rate of
about £20,000,000 per annum.

A new constitution of the colony is being prepared by
a select committee of the Legislature. Its main features
are to be a double Chamber—viz., a Legislative Assembly
elected by the people, of not less than 72, and an upper
house or Senate of not less than 21, appointed by the
Crown, two-thirds of whom must be gentlemen who have
been elected at any time to a seat in the Legislature ; the
revenues of the country to be controlled by the lower
house, and the two chambers to be styled the Parliament
of New South Wales.