The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

FORE: TI: AND COLONIAL.

INDIA

We have received news from Bombay to the 31st of Aug.
The troops under Edwardes were still in expectancy be-
fore Mooltan. The Ferozepore force, of about 7000 or
8000 men, which the last mail mentioned as having been
dispatched to their relief, was hourly expected to join them,
comprising two brigades of infantry, some cavalry, sap.
pers, and a siege train. Heavy firing had been heard in
the direction of Mooltan, in the line of one of the
columns. A Sikh auxiliary force was also on the march
from Lahore. We regret to add that there is news by
this mail of an insurrection, or something very like it, of
the Sikh troops in the mountain districts of the Hazerah,
a province of the Punjaub, where it appears an outbreak
had occurred, following but too closely the example set
at Mooltan, since the first act was the nrurder of Colonel
Canara, an European officer in

he Sikh service

The commercial advises from India by the overland
mail are more encouraging than any that have been re-
ceceived for'some time past. The gradual reduction in
the stocks of goods from Europe, and the small extent of
imports comparatively, were at length producing their
effects, although probably retarded in some degree by the
very low rates of exchange for remittances. The latter
circumstances, and the difficulty of getting what was con-
sidered safe paper, appear to be inducing shipments of
specie to some extent, which will probably give a better
return than bills. The indigo crop in Bengal is estimated
us likely to produce 115,000 or 120,000 maunds. The
operations of the manufacturer were in active progress,
and two-thirds of the crop were considered as secured.
There was a great deal of activity in the sugar market for
the purpose of remittance, but no increase in price had
taken place. The money market appears to be well sup-
plied, though great distrust still prevailed. Considerable
additional supplies of money were likely soon to be re-
ceived, the shippers of opium to China having lately made
large profits, for which Sycee silver would principally form
the returns.

FRANCA

A negro took his seat in the National Assembly, on
Thursday, as representative of Guadaloupe. Two negroes
and two mulattoes have been elected.

Prince Louis Buonaparte has decided to sit for Paris
in consequence, new elections will take place in the de
partments of the Yonne, the Charente Inferieure, thi
Moselle, and Corsica.

The Times states that a joint-stock company of 60
masters and 6,000 operatives, is being constituted in Paris,
to undertake the construction of the works on the Paris
and Lyons.

The committee appointed to consider the best means
of disposing of the property of Louis Philippe and his
family have reported against confiscation, but suggest the
sale of so much of it as shall be sufficient to liquidate all
just debts.

- THE VI STAGE NEAR PARIS.—The produce of grapes
is so abundant near Paris that the peasants fear to bring
any inferior quality inside the walls, lest they should not
sell for 6 centimes the two-pound weight, the amount of
entrance duty to which they are subject. The conse-
quence is that a regular fair of grapes is established out-
side the walls of Paris, to which the troops in particular
resort, and are to be seen loaded each with three pounds
weight, which they purchase for lid., and which are duty
free.

MORE RIOTS IN FRANCE.—Very unsatisfactory ac-
counts have been received from Lyons. At an early hour
on Tuesday morning, a certain number of Gardes Mobiles
of Lyons, whose corps has been recently dissolved, pre-
sented themselves at the prefecture, to demand the
month's pay which had, they said, been promised them.
Being allowed to enter the hotel, they possessed them-
selves of it, and kept the prefect in custody for three
quarters of an hour. Crowds assembled around the
building; but a regiment of dragoons, returning from
exercise, charged them, and drove them away, also clear-
ing the hotel and releasing the prefect. The vicinity of
the prefecture was then occupied militarily. The alarm
caused was so great that the shops in the vicinity were
closed. At half-past nine o'clock a group of twenty
gardes mobiles disarmed the two sentinels of the Mont
de Piete. They then attempted to force themselves into
the guard-house, but the men occupying it having barri-
caded themselves in it, they did not succeed. They,
however, broke all the windows. At ten o'clock two
hundred mobiles presented themselves at the Hotel de
Ville, with a red flag. Being charged by the soldiers,
they immediately dispersed. General Gemeau and his
staff, accompanied by an escort, traversed the city. At
eleven o'clock the Place de la Prefecture and the vicinity
were occupied by the military. Groups of the mobiles
were traversing the streets, and it was said that some of
them had gone to the Croix-Rousse.

AUSTRIA.— Intelligence was received at Vienna on the
Ist instant from Pesth up to midnight of the 28th
September. The murder on that day of Count Lamberg,
the newly-appointed commander-in-chief of all the troops
in Hungary, was the signal for open insurrection. The
Diet, on the 28th, unanimously passed a resolution, to the
effect that, in the absence of a government, it elected, as
a provisional one, the committee of six who were appointed
a fortnight before to aid Bathyani in war matters—such
committee to have unlimited and full powers. Up to
midnight the national guards were under arms, and great
excitement prevailed. _

WEST INnins.—By the royal mail steam-ship Medway,
which arrived at Southampton on Thursday, we learn
that, at St. Domingo, tranquillity was restored, the shop-
keepers were experiencing a return of demand, and gene-
ral business was assuming a favourable aspect. The pre-
vious accounts of the disturbances appear to have been
much exaggerated. In Jamaica business was exceedingly
depressed, which being partly attributed to a want of
currency, caused by the suspension of the Planters' Bank,
together with the restricted issues of the other banks,
the Commissioners of Public Accounts had met, and re-
commended the issuing of island cheques to the amount
of £50,000, under the act 5 Vic. chap. 55. It appears
that the revenue upon imports into Kingston, from sth
April to sth July last, had declined £10,502, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year.
In the Cape of Good Hope accounts received to the
30th of July, full confirmation is afforded of a fresh at-
tempt at insurrection by the Boer farmer Pretorius, whose
district was situated in the north-eastern fro itier, beyond
the Orange river. To resist his intended aggression on
British territory, troops had been marched for Bloem
Fontein, the place of residence of the English agent,
Major Warden, who was doing all he could to strengthen
his position until the arrival of reinforcements. The
latest intelligence from Major Warden was dated the 16th.
Sir Harry Smith left Cape Town on his way to the fron-
tier on the 29th. Before his departure he received an
address from the inhabitants, who express perfect confi-
dence in his ability to quell the disturbance. The only
alarm manifested is for the safety of Major Warden, who
with his small force it is feared may not be able to cope
with the superior numbers collected by Pretorius, should
the troops sent forward be delayed by bad roads and other
difficulties. Pretorius, it is stated, relies on some of the
native chiefs ; and Panda, of the Zoola tribe, is reckoned
among his supporters. On the other hand, the British
Governor anticipates the co-operation of Waterboer, Kok,
Moshesh, and others ; and under these circumstances, ,
with assistance from Natal, a speedy termination of dif-
ferences is looked for. The reward offered of £l,OOO for
the apprehension of Pretorius had been circulated
throughout the colonies.

The proprietors of many of the German newspapers
have determined not to publish their journals on Mon-
days, in order to allow their workmen full liberty to keep
the Sunday.
THE YOUNG IDEA IN GERMANY.—We learn from an
advertisement in the Kolner Zeitung that a shocking state
of anarchy prevails in the school of Muffendorf, a small
village in the vicinity of Cologne. The children, it ap-
pears, are so dreadfully exasperated against the school-
master that they would have done him some grievous
bodily harm, but for the protection of a gendarme and
policeman who attend during school hours.

- On the 24th ult. while the vicar of the parish of Es-
quilule, in the Pyrenees, was seated in the confessional
of his church, a young roan knelt before him as if to
confess, hut suddenly seized the vicar with one hand and
drew a pistol with the other. Before he could use the
weapon, however, several of the parishioners rushed to
the priests assistance and secured the assassin, who is
generally supposed to be mad.
FEMALE SERVANTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—A private
letter, dated Finnessflat, near Adelaide, South Australia,
28th February, 1848, states that the season, which was
about closing, had been a very good one, hut the scarcity
of farm servants, of both sexes, especially females, had
been a serious drawback to farm operations. The writer,
Mr. APHarg, had offered as much as 15s. per week with
rations for female servants, without being able to engage
any ' • the consequence was, that out of 200 mulch cows,
he had been obliged, for a period of six weeks, to turn
out between 30 and 40 every morning without milking
them. His servants, he adds, were quite knocked up
with being overworked, and the whole neighbourhood
was in the same state. Eventually he engaged an ordi-
nary seaman, a hardy Highlander, who had never milked
a cow before. He, however, turned out remarkably well.
Cheese was selling at £6O per ton, or 6d. per lb., and
salt butter at 10d. per lb. Draft horses were in demand,
and fetched as high as £4O each for good ones.