The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
The Overland Mail has arrived, bringing dates from
Calcutta to the Ist, Madras to the 9th, and Bombay to
the Ist June.
At Lahore, General Khan Singh, of the Sikh Artillery,
had been discovered heading a plot to allure our Sepoys
from their allegiance, and had been hanged by order of
the Resident, along with a Moonshee of the Ranee, simi-
larly implicated. It was expected that important infor-
mation would be gleaned from a third culprit, who had
been reprieved at the gallows on that condition. About
twenty other persons were in custody on the same charge.
The engineers were occupied in raising a parapet around
the whole inner edge of the rampart at Lahore, and by
every possible means strengthening and isolating the
works occupied by the troops. A large magazine of arms
in the city, furnished of old by Runjeet Singh, had been
undermined by order of the Resident, and blown up. It
was said that the populace had begun to help themselves
to arms from that arsenal. The strictest garrison duty
was being maintained, and every officer had been called in
from the districts. There are no grounds of serious alarm
as to the ultimate issue of affairs at the Sikh capital.

INDIA.
We have received by express from Marseilles our ad-
vices from India in anticipation of the overland mail of
the 19th of June. The dates thus received are—from
Calcutta to the Bth, Madras to the 10th. and Bombay to
the 19th of June.
This mail brings the satisfactory intelligence of decided
successes, on two separate occasions, by the Sikh troops

ad irregulars underthe British district Officers, over con-

siderable- bodies of the Mooltan rebels. To explain this
news in detail, we must premise that the force under
Lieutenant Edwardes, alluded to in our advices by the
former mail, had early advanced with success some dis-
tance into the Mooltan districts and occupied Leia, where
the gallant lieutenant met intelligence of the death of his
friends at Mooltan and orders from Lahore to recross the
Indus, and to content himself with securing his position
in the Bunnoo provinces. dlis Sikh force, which at first
was greatly weakened by desertion, he subsequently re-
organized by enlistments of Patans and Mussulmans.
The Rajah of Bhawalpore also had rendered important
service in co-operating in favour of the corps, and had
given a check to a party of the enemy sent against it.
Subsequently, a body of lately enlisted Patans, whom
Lieutenant Edwardes had detached to attack one of the
petty chiefs, ably performed that service taking the
enemy's only gun, and putting the hostile body to flight
with some loss. After this Lieutenant Edwardes joined
Colonel Cortlandt, commanding in a contiguous district
of the Dera, and who had also been able to enlist a good
number of Patans in his corps. A second engagement
took place on the same day (20th May), this move-
ment was effected, and its success, on our part, was deci-
sive. The enemy suffered great slaughter, with the loss
of two guns and five swivel pieces ; their chief was killed,
and one of second note taken prisoner. The corps under
the British officers now hold possession of the forts of
the Dera and the line of the Indus. The enemy's force
in the field at present consists of about 3000 men and
eight guns ; while that of Edwardes and Cortlandt com-
prise three mixed Sikh regiments, 1000 Irregular Horse,
eight guns, and 20 swivel pieces. Their levies are said to
have fought bravely, to be under good control, and show
no disposition to fraternize with the rebels. A small body
of Beloochees, under one of their chiefs, had joined the
English standard and done excellent service.