The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-11 00:00:00

BELOOCHISTAN

I am happy to inform you, that Captain Brown has been
enabled to make his retreat from the perilous position at
Kahun, where he was so long cooped up, and that he is now
in safety in Shikarpore. The great loss sustained by the
Murrees, or Hill Belooches, in their conflict on the mountain
pass of Surtof, with the force of Major Clibborne, had had
its effect on their subsequent proceedings; for they after-
wards offered no molestation to the fortress of Kahun, and
seemed inclined for peace rather than for a renewal of hosti-
lities. They were accordingly, on Captain Brown's receiv-
ing instructions to use his best endeavours to come to terms
with them for his safe conduct from the place, by no means
difficult to treat with ; and he marched out of Kahun with
his whole detachment, his single gun, arms, and baggage,
escorted by a nephew of the Murree chief and thirty Be-
looches, and without meeting with the slightest molestation
or annoyance. The generosity exhibited by these indepen-
dent mountaineers ectuld not have been surpassed by the
most liberal action of civilised warfare. Lower Sinde is now
perfectly tranquil.

TE SIS.
There have recently beeHn many reports of the treacherous
conduct of this people—how far true it is impossible to say ;
but, from the character they have ever borne, not at all un-
likely to be so. It is alleged that an emissary from the
Lahore government was found dead at Mussoorie, with let-
ters on his person addressed to the chiefs of the moun-
taineers, and of a tendency to incite them to league against the
British. They are said to be in league with Nepaul—to have
assisted Dost Mahommed with money, for the purpose of
raising troops, hooudies for this purpose, to the amount of
fifteen lakhs, being reported to have been intercepted, and to
be pursuing an underhand and deceptive system of policy in
Toorkistan.

Rumours that Lord Auckland is about to send a force into
Lahore, to punish them for their treac4aerous conduct, have
also been current, and it is probable it may shortly be neces-
sary to take this step. The old king, Kurruk Sing, is said
to be on his death-bed, and the affairs of the state are entirely
carried on by Now Nehal Sing and the chief councillor. -
The acceptation of terms by the Nepaulese will, of course,
preclude the necessity of a recourse to hostilities on the part
of the British, unless, indeed, they should endeavour to se-
cede from their compact, which, from their organization of a
force to meet this contingency, appears to be thought altoge-
ther impossible, particularly as one of the articles of agree-
ment binds them to pay certain sums as indemnification for
their outrages, and the expenses which, on their account,
have been incurred by government. It has been, moreover,
for some time suspected that a correspondence has been

maintained between the -Nepani government and the court of
Pekin, and though there is no means of ascertaining the jus.
tice of this surmise, every probability exists that such is the
case ; for, in 1815, when the British were at war with Ne-
paul, continual applications were made to China for protec-
tion and assistance, and now we are at war with China, and
are at the same time threatening Nepaul, it appears not un-
likely that some combination may take place between the two
powers against their common enemy.
_ _ SIAM.

Information has been received from Siam, via Singapore,
to the 25th July. Affairs were proceeding in a very unsatis-
factory manner. The King had monopolised the export of
rice, the grand staple of the country ; and the foreign mer-
chants had been subjected to much oppression and exaction,
under colour of the new law to suppress the opium traffic.
Thefts and robberies were of frequent occurrence. The ser-
vant of a European had been knocked down and robbed in
the middle of the town (Baukok) in open day, and redress
was refused. The King, who looks on the Emperor of
China as his immediate superior, and pays implicit homage
and obedience to his Celestial Majesty, had threatened, it
was reported, to extirpate all the European residents, when-
ever it should come to his ears that the English had seized a
single Chinese junk. Of course considerable apprehension
was entertained, and the presence of a British vessel was
thought very desirable in the present aspect of affairs.
WRECK OF THE " MANGALORE."—This vessel, from
China and Batavia, bound to England with a cargo of
1,300,000 lbs. of tea, struck on a shoal off the Island of Bil-
liton, on the 24th August last. She was got off, but after-
wards went down, the commander and crew having barely
time to escape in the ship's boats. The loss of this immense
quantity of tea, amounting to a 25th part of the total exports
of the year, will no doubt have some influence on prices in
the home market.

WRECK OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH, AND STRANDING
OF THE OCEAN QUEEN.—Papers from Sidney, bring us in-
telligence of these two disasters, which took place near Flin-
der's Island, on the 10th and 11th July last. The former
vessel is a total wreck, but hopes of saving the latter are en-
tertained. No lives whatever were lost. The cargo of the
Ocean Queen will, it is thought, be to a considerable extent
uninjured.
Loss or THE CRESCENT.—To these casualties may be ad-
ded the loss of the Crescent, from Singapore, bound to Lon-
don. She struck on Greg's Shoal, near the island of Carra-
matta, on the 21st of August, succeeded in clearing the reef,
but leaked to so great an extent that she was abandoned.
She was observed to go down shortly after the captain and
crew had left her.

The Assam Tea Company appear to be proceeding pros-
perously. They are building a small vessel at Hourah, for
the purpose of running up the Assam river to the tea planta-
tions, and bringing cargoes of the herb to Calcutta. They
have also imported a saw-mill,,,intended for their settlement
in Assam.