The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

ItuKEIGN AND COLONIAL.

OVERLAND MAIL.

The lates dates are—Calcutta, October 22 ; Ceylon, 19 ;
China—Macao, August 24 ; Chusan, August 12 ; and
Hong Kong, Sept. I.—Delhi, October 23 ; Lahore, Oct.
14; Madras, Oct. 24 •, Manilla, August 10.—Scinde—
Kurrachee, Sept. 7, and Hydrabad, August 7 ; Sincapore,
September 26.
The London mail of the 7th of September reached Bom-
bay, per Cleopatra, on the 12th, Madras and Agra on the
19th, Calcutta and Delhi on the 20th, and Ceylon on the
17th of October.
The news is not very important. The troubles in the
Southern Mabratta country have greatly abated in the
course of the month. The Fort Samulghar `,a3 taken by
storm by the force under General Delamotte on the 13th
ultimo. Our troops met with little opposition, the enemy
having fled at their approach. Nearly 600 of the Mah-
Mahrattas fell in the course of the operations against
them, and about as many more prisoners were taken by
us. Our own casualties were insignificant ; two English
officers were killed, and one died of cholera in the course
of the siege ; betwixt 20 and 30 men were killed or wound-
ed. The army since then has marched to Kolapose, the
capital of the disturbed district.

Tranquility reigns throughout British India. The
commercial intelligence from Bombay is extremely unfa-
vourable. Trade has not for many years been known to
be so dull as at present. The low rate of exchange effec-
tually prevents merchants accepting the terms offered by
buyers. The importations of British manufactures have
been very excessive, while op the other hand there have
in the past month been no exports, but the stock lies dead
in the hands of the merchants. Fever prevailing at Hong
Kong.
The ship Ceylon, D. Ferguson, master, from London
to Bombay, was lost on the Ist of October, on the north-
ernmost reef of the Laccadives, which even on the best
charts are marked 18 miles too much to the eastward.
The captain and crew arrived safe in Bombay. No blame
is attributable to them. The ship Brilliant, from Cal-
cutta to Bombay, was lost on the 16th of October on the
point of Saugur Sands the crew were saved.
From Bombay the chief points are the conviction of
the infamous Aloo Paroo, for being implicated in burning
the merchant ship Belvedere in Singapore harbour. This
scoundrel appears to have made a practice of burning ships
which he had insured, and of which five or six were de-
stroyed within four years.

Another subject of interest in Bombay arose from the
commitment for trial at the December criminal sessions
of Thomas Braithwaite, the master of the ship Neptune,
from Liverpool. He, it appears, treated the steward with
great cruelty, and actually gave upwards of 200 lashes to
a French lad on board for some supposed offence. The
case of this boy was brought forward by a French mer-
chant, named Boussac, who received every assistance from
the magistrates. The French Consular Agent is a mere
nonentity, having been born and educated at Aleppo. The
trial of Braithwaite, for his cruelty, was loudly demanded
by the public of that Presidency.
EXCHANGE.—Money is abundant, but the rates of ex-
change are very unsatisfactory. The principal transac-
tions on London by the present mail have been made at
ls. 9id. to ls. 101. at six months, and Is. 9id at 30 days'
sight.
FREIGHTS.—The current rates are noted in our quota-
tions, but owing to the low state of the export market
freights are not easily obtained. To China nothing is
doing : to London, £3; to Liverpool, 3; to Clyde, no
ship ; to China, no quotation ; to Ditto, opium, per clip-
per, 3 to 4 dollars.
EXCHANGES.—London, 6 months' sight, Is. 9id. to
ls. 10d.; Ditto, 30 days' sight, Is. 9id. ; Calcutta, 60
days' sight, Rs. 991: Canton, 60 days' sight, Rs 217 a
220 per 100 Spanish dollars.

UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship Montezuma, Cap.
Lowlier, arrived at this port, on Saturday evening, from
New York, with advices one day later than those by the
steamer, which, however, contain no intelligence, except-
ing an extract from a Vera Cruz letter, dated October
28th, which states, that an angry correspondence was
taking place between the American Minister and the
Mexican Government relative to Texas, and another
similar correspondence between Santa Anna and the
Chamber. The Montezuma made the run in twenty and
a-half days.
SPAlN.—Latest advices from Madrid represent that
city as perfectly tranquil, and from the official bulletins
published by the Government, it would appear that the
insurrection in Navarre and Arrazon had been completely
suppressed. The Three per Cents, closed at 30 for cash,
and 30i, at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 211 at 60
days. Letters from Bayonne, of the 2d inst., state, that
General Iturbe, who had been arrested in Guipuzcoa and
conveyed to Vittoria, had been sent off thence to Logrono,
to be tried by the Military Commission. General Iturbe
had led a most retired life in his native village since the
downfall of Espartero, and taken no part in political af-
fairs. The eldest son of General Zurbano had also been
moved to Logrono.
THE BONES OF STODDART AND CONOLLY.--The
Delhi Gazelle says that Dr. Wolff succeeded in discover-
ing the bones of these unfortunate men, and that he is re-
turning with them to England.
TOLERATION IN. FRANCE.—Several booksellers and
printers in Paris have been rigorously prosecuted for
selling religious Protestant tracts. The jury, however,
would not consider the contents offensive, and acquitted
the vendors.

The possibility of connecting the Danube with the
Black Sea, by a means of a canal along the Turkish terri-
tory, has been finally announced by the well-known
engineer Birago. The cost is estimated at 1,500,000
florins.

AWFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN LISBON..—OR the
21st ult., a little before dawn, a fire broke out in a large
house in the Rua da Magdalena, in Lisbon, by which
thirteen persons lost their lives. The lower part of the
stairs being in flames escape in that way was impossible,
and the distracted inmates of the several floors rushed to
the windows and cried loudly for assistance. The neigh-
bourhood was soon roused, and the parish bell was rung,
but by mistake 16 strokes' were tolled instead of 14, so
that the engines went to the wrong district, and an hour
was lost, during which the flames gained ground. The
most heartrending cries came from the windows. Three
persons escaped from the first floor by means of sheets
tied together, and others of the family passed from the
balconies to the next house. Others let themselves down
by a rope. Some on the upper floor jumped out of the
windows and were killed on the spot. On the second
floor was a wealthy shopkeeper, named Palhares, his
wife, four children, and three servants. He himself was
killed in leaping out, and all the others of his family
perished in the flames. On the third floor lived Pedras,
another shopkeeper, with his sister, a clerk, and a man-
servant. No ladders sufficiently long could be procured.
A Frenchman, named Manette, went up a short ladder,
and saved a young girl who leaped into his arms. A
Portuguese, Ramires, imitated the example, but not suc-
cessfully. Miss Pedras, in attempting to leap down into
his arms, missed her aim, and falling into the street was
killed. A portion of her petticoat which he had caught
as she fell remained in his hand. At this time the second
floor bad given way, and the whole of the Pelhares family
had perished. A shoemaker, who lived in the garret,
escaped by the roof with his family, but returning for
something he perished in the flames. The number of
known victims is thirteen ;—ten burnt alive, and three
killed in leaping from the windows.