The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

6th June, a (

prisoners, ten in number, notwitfistandii
tions and 'vigilance used to prevent eve

tercourse,

Nothing was fotind on the in

kh pay

to prove that adeep-laid plot had been organised. Se-
veral letters were found addressed to -the friends of the

prisoners, and one document, cont

lames of the

formation was

where their regiments were located
likewise obtained of two Sikhs, who were con(

led in a

Ghossain's house in the city, hay
a sum of 20,000 r., dedicated to purposes
the person of olio of the prisoners a 61c
Jemedar and sentries in charge of the
4aced in arrest on a suspicion of collusion

in their possession
^►f bribery. Upon
Ras found. The
uard have been

'A tragical event had occurred on board the Hon. Com-
•pany's cargo boat Kaleegunga, in tow,of the steamer Ber-
bampooter, at Patna. It appeared that•she left Allahabad
with 36 Sikh convicts with a very weak guard. The arms
.of the guard were piled between them and the convicts,
when at Patna, the latter having seized the firearms,
which were loaded, rose upon the guard, and a desperate

•conflict ensued. Two of the guard and two of the con-
victs were killed, and the convicts succeeded in running
the boat ashore and escaping. It appeared that the affair
took place in the day time, which renders it still more
extraordinary.

At Bombay the money market was easy. The import
.market was inactive, but considerable activity prevailed in
the cotton market, the purchases being made entirely for
exportation to England. Sortie manufedured goods were
in request; but for most descriptions ofiancy goods there
was no demand whatever. To Liverpool the freight was
£3 per ton. At Calcutta there was at one time an in-
creased activity in-the export market,.-which, however,
was checked. In the imports there was little change, un-
altered low prices riling with9utproducinpany excitement
to rouse purchasershrom their apathy, the less since the
:abundant stocks increased the efforts for realisation, which
-remain steadily resisted, the large home shipments during
:the month of April furnishing buyers with additional
seasons for a determined reserve to go into stocks. The
money market was «unaltered ; but the pressure in the
hamar continued unabated. In exchange there was an
unusually small amount of business done, and rates were
pushed as high as 2s. Ad. Freights for London had slightly
improved, but to Liverpool remained mudirthe same.
A furious hurricanz,ravaged the Putijaub-around Wu-
zeerabad on the 22tri iTune, unroofing houses, prostrating
trees, and leaving everything bare as it went.

,At Alexandria the .cholera is carrying ,off. 50 persons
daily, and at Cairo double the number. and throughout
the:Delta it exists more or less.

CHINA.
:Tile Peninsular and ;- Oriental Companyz-s steamer
Achilles arrived at Bombay on the 19th of July, with the
Chine.mails of the 23rd ofjune. Considerable sickness

prevailed at Hongkong, 'upwards of 100 of bee Majesty's
59th ,Regiment being in hospital at one time., tan the 13th
of June the barque Elizabeth Ainslie, from Calcutta, was
destroyed by fire, with 300 chests of opium and 1200 bags
of saltpetre on board. Governor Bonham kad arrived at
Shanghai, but nothing wore badtranspired relative to the
mission, of her Majesty's .slopp Reynard to Pakin, or
rather to•the Peiho. A repor4„ was current in Shanghai
at the departure of the mail, 'that the .Reynard had
grounded .on the bar at Tien-tsip,•and been fired into by
the Chinese: fears are entertained for her safety, but
apparently on insufficient grounds. The Chinese are in
cousideraWe excitement regarding this mission, and.zonae
foolish foreigners have been doing ',what they could to
increase their apprehensions.
The new governor of MacaooSerbor Da Cunha,"las
arrived in China, together with three -small ships of :war,
and about MO troops. Coinniunicatian have passed 'be-
tween him,..aad the Imperial 'Commissioner, but their
precise nature has not transpired. It •ie rumoured thet
he is instructed to demand the absolute cession of the
peninsula of ',Macao to the Portuguese, and the with-
drawal of allt:Chinese posts within a ,csrtain distance,
together withethe expense of the expedition. His force,
is, however, considered insufficient for, energetic coercive
measures, should his demands be refused.