The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.-THE OVERLAND MAIL

(From yesterday's Time:.)
We have received by express from Marseilles our
despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mail, which
left Bombay on the 17th ult. This mail also brings ns
intelligence from llong Kong to the 30th of March, from
Calcutta and Singapore to the 6th, and from Madras to
the 13th of April.
The most, important incident of the fortnight 07
which this news extends has been the announcement
the entire extinction of all hopes of the introduction
railway communication into Bengal for the present, th
sum of £1,000,000 (the limit of the guarantee) being
considered inadequate to the construction of a sufficient
length of line to yield a paying traffic. It is expected
that the construction of the first section of the Bombay
Railway, the only undertaking of the kind now extant in
India, will be commenced at the close of the approaching
monsoon. _

Another atrocity has been committed by the Affreedees
near Kohat. Dr. Healy, of the Bengal army, lately
posted to the Ist Punjab Cavalry, now stationed at Ko-
hat, was proceeding to join that regiment by the eastern
pass, which was supposed to be still open; when on the
20th of March, within a few miles of Kohat, he was set
upon by the bill men, his groom and grass-cutter were
killed on the spot, and himself so severely wounded that
he died immediately after reaching Koliat, , whither he
was carried by Captain Daly. who went to look after him
with a party the moment he heard of the attack. The
fatal wound was a gash in the skull eight inches long.
A detachment of the Bengal army, consisting of a wing
of the 10th Native Infantry and two guns, has met with
a reverse in Oude ; they had been ordered to aid the .
king of Oude's forces in coercing a refractory Zemindar,
who had taken refuge in a fort named Beitab, where he
successfully resisted the attack of the combined forces..
Our loss consisted of Lieutenant E. D. Elderton and 10
men of the 10th Native Infantry killed, and 25 wounded ;.
of our artillery. 11 men and 1 gun ; and 70 men of the
king of Oude's troops. The garrison lost only eight
men, and evacuated the fort during the night of the 29th.
of March. _ _ _

Sir C. Napier has been lately much indisposed. In
confirming the sentence of a court-martial held on a field
officer, who had entered into a correspondence concerning
an order issued by a superior authority, instead of at once
obeying it, Sir Charles remarks, " those who imagine this
army is a debating society will find themselves very much
mistaken."

The Nizam's dominions were in their usual state ; the
rest of India is tranquil.
An error in excess has ocmrred in the distribution of
the Scinde prize money ; the overdrawn amount has been
ordered to be refunded in six monthly instalments. It is
stated that Sir C. Napier's share of the sum to be re-
funded will amount to £2OOO.

Mr. Hamilton, the resident at Indore, has been most
fully and honourably acquitted of the charge preferred
against him by his assistant, Captain Harris, whose con-
duct in the matter is most strongly condemned by the
governor-general. Captain Harris is dismissed from his
civil appointment, and remanded to his regiment.
Five of the native subordinates of the Suddur court at
Agra have been tried, and convicted of corrupt practices,
and sentenced, three to four years' imprisonment, one to
three years', and one to two years'.
Cholera has broken nut with virulence in the European
artillery barracks at Bombay. The second battalion of
artillery, now in these barracks, are to be moved thence
into tents pitched for them on the esplanade of the fort.
Trade for export at Bombay continued dull, with no
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immediate hope of improvement. Freights only £1 18s.
to £2 to Liverpool, and £2 ss. to London, and still de-
clining.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—BOMBAY.—There has
been considerably more business done in the import mar-
ket since the date of our last (April 3) than during the
previous fortnight ; it has been large for this season of the
year as respects Manchester goods, and we must add that
prices of these last have not given way further for the
present. Foreign and up-country dealers have appeared
in this market in fewer numbers than usual throughout
the entire season, and latterly there has been no specula-
tion in the bazaar. Stocks in general are large, and we
consider that only a month of the fair season now remains
for business.