The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

INDIA

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
We have received letters and papers in anticipation of
the Overland Mail.

The dates of the intelligence brought by this arrival
are—Bombay, Au'ust 31; and Alexandria, September 23.
British India is profoundly tranquil ; and even Peshawur
has become as quiet and safe as the average of Indian
stations. A new pass is being surveyed to Kohat, which,
if found practicable for guns, will, it is stated, render our
communications with that post independent of the
Affreedies. Lord Dalhousie is still enjoying himself at
Chenee, a mountain village situated amongst the Hima-

layas, about 120 miles north-west of Simla.-Sir C. Napier
is expected to arrive at Bombay in November (vid the
Punjab and Scincie), on his way to Europe. Civil war
still rages in the Nizam's territories with varying fortune.
The defeat of the Nawaub of Elichpoor, reported by last
mail, was not so decisive as was at first anticipated. By
the last accounts the Nawaub had rallied his forces, and
on the 9th of August gained a considerable victory over
the Nizam's troops. The inhabitants of the country are
fighting for the Nawaub, who appears very popular. The
Nizam's household troops have again mutinied, on ac-
count of their long arrears of pay. His Highness is, it is
said, resorting to the most discreditable means for raising
money, by debasing his coinage and selling immunity for
crime to rich offenders.

The rainy season has been generally in Western India
an average one, but with some local exceptions. At Bom-
bay little more than half the usual average has fallen.
Lord Falkland is recovering from a severe attack of
fever. Sir Willoughby Cotton has also been suffering
from indisposition. _ _

The Bombay business season has opened promisingly ;
the price of cotton wool has risen 12r. or 14r. per candy,
but very little now remains in the market.

Business is just beginning to be resumed at the presi-
dency on the conclusion of the rains; commercial pros-
pects seem cheering. The Calcutta trade returns for
1849-50, just published, show an increase of one-seventh
on the imports and one-ninth on the exports of the pre'-
vious year.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.-The Holsteiners, on
the morning of the 29th, made an attack on Frederich-
stadt. At Suderstapel and both banks of the Eyder an
irregular cannonade continued throughout the day. At
five in the afternoon part of the town had been set on fire.
but up till ten at night had not been taken. Tonning was
occupied by the Holsteiners, who had made 217 prison-
ers. The King of Denmark bad left Copenhagen for
Hamburgh. The Kolner Zeitung, of Wednesday, has a
telegraphic despatch from Hamburgh of the 30th ultimo,
stating that the Schleswig-Holsteiners had attacked and
carried with the bayonet two of the entrenchments of
Frederichstadt. They took 14 pieces of artillery. It is
also stated that Frederichstadt is now surrounded on all
sides. A despatch dated Altona, October 2, has the fol-
lowing :—Yesterday, at 7, a.m., the Schleswig batteries
re-opened their fire on Fredrickstadt. At 11 o'clock the
attack was suspended, as a messenger bearing a flag of
truce came to Col. Von der Tann asking permission for
the garrison to withdraw to the north. The Danes being
unwilling to leave their cannon and arms as required, the
fire recommenced at 1 a.m. The Danish guns reply but
feebly to those of the assailants. The sound of firing, as
if to the north-east of Fredrickstadt was heard at Kiel, on
the afternoon of the Ist. It was thought probable that a
general engagement was commencing. Tonningen and
Garding having been again taken by the Danes, were re-
captured by the Holsteiners on the Ist.

After four years' labour, the great tunnel through
Mount Carioso, on the Florence and Leghorn Railway,
has just been completed.

Oporto letters of the 29th ultimo state that the wine
crops were being gathered with safety, and the vintage is
now expected to be a good one.
M. Poitevin, the well-known aeronaut, ascended on
Wednesday mounted on a live ostrich ! What will bal-
looning end in ?

The-Queen of the Belgians is too ill to be removed from
Ostend to Brussels, and great sympathy is felt for one
who is so universally respected.

CASSEL, OCT. 2.—The permanent committee having
protested strongly against the ordinance of Sept. 28, have
indicted the ministers on account of its issue, and demand
their immediate imprisonment.
The Holstein correspondent of the Times says that
during the late action between the Danes and Holsteiners,
at Missunde, while he was watching the Danish batteries,
a Jew pedlar was on the hill, with companions, offering
spy-glasses for sale, " dead bargains." _

The Pope's Government has contracted with a ship-
builder at Havre for the construction of a steam-frigate.
This is the wisest thing Pius IX. has yet done. There is
no telling how soon—unless the "Chair of St. Peter" is
to be upheld for ever by French bayonets—" his holiness"
may have occasion to ' cut his stick." In such an event,
it will be mighty convenient to have a steam-frigate all
his own, to make his escape in.
Advices from the Sandwich Islands reach to the 22nd
of June, and describe in the highest terms their rapidly
increasing prosperity. Liability to desertion continues to
cause the visits of whaling ships to be less frequent, but
the extraordinary growth of a more permanent commerce
in connexion with California, and indirectly with Austria,
New Zealand, Calcutta, China, and the Indian seas, ren-
dered this of no account.
A terrible accident occurred on Saturday night last in a
small village called Weiss, not far from Grez, whereby a
great number of lives were lost. The village in question
which is also called "'Saviour of the Meaddw," is a
favourite place'of pilgrimage at this time of the year, and
was more than ordinarily full on the dmr in question. The
weary pilgrims had all retired to rest; and were sound
asleep, when suddenly fire broke out behind a hayloft in
which were a couple of hundred persons at the time.
More than half of them are said to have perished in the
flames, which speedily communicated with the adjoining
houses ; and a high wind blowing at the time, half the
village was burnt down, and many more persons p,,rished.
The exact number is not yet known.