The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

We last night received, through Messrs. Willmer and
Smith, conveyed to Liverpool by express, exclusively

London Agent, Mr. W. H. Smith, of 192,
Strand, London, the Bombay Moanly Times, of the 26th

from the

of August

The dates brought. by this mail3are—Calcutta, 10th,
Scinde, 19th, and Bombay, 26th of August. From China
26th of June only.

The news from India is not of a remarkable' kind.
Tranquillity prevailed in the interior. An army of ob-
servation, was, it is said, to be formed on the Sutledge
and another in the neighbourhood of Gualior; both were
td be ready in the month of October. The new Com-
mander-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Gough, would, it was stated,
take the command of the former, and General Sir W.
Nott of the latter.

Lord Ellenborough,* whose presence in Calcutta had
produced the best results there, was, it is reported, to
come himself to the neighbourhood of Agra or Allahabad
in October, in order to direct the settlement of the Gua-
lior Government. _ _

Scinde was tranquil and likely to continue so, unless it
be disturbed by any measures ordered from London in
consequence of the misrepresentations which some blind
partisans sent to England from Bombay. Sir Charles
Napier had thus fat regulated that conquest. The troops
were healthy.

Shere Mahommed had fled to the Beloochee mountains,
from whence it was said he was contemplating an attack
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Arneers, made an attempt to rnai.it,in his own terri',.ory
against the usurpation of his uncle, UPtirad All, who has
contrived by various crooked arts to i'htain the favour of
the British and to aggrandize himself at the expense of all
the other Ameers ; but Ali Mahommed has been routed
by his uncle Mourad Ali, and he has also fled to the
mountains, where he has joined the partisans of Shere
Mahommed. It is said that after the rainy season the
various hill tribes bordering:on the plains, now subject to
the British and to Mourad Ali, will be induced to make
inroads, and to try to plunder the settlers, but it does not
seem expected that they will risk any battles for the ex-
pulsion of the British. General Simpson was coming
round to Bombay in the Queen steamer in order to
become second in command, and, perhaps,:successor to
Sir Charles Napier, whose health, it is said, requires
removal to the sea coast.

A most extraordinary discovery was effected in July
last, at Bombay, of a confederacy for plundering boats,
robbing ships, and smuggling goods. This gang had
existed for at least a quarter of a century in the most po-
pulous part of that town. They are also supposed to be
connected with the pirates and murderers who even now
so frequently commit the greatest atrocities within almost
the hail of the police and other authorities of that impor-
tant naval station. No discovery was ever made of the
gang until one of the accomplices gave a clue which led to
the seizure of their books, and to the development of the
whole system, which was organized in the most perfect
manner. The police were on the traces of the malefactors,
but it was feared that no conviction would take place, as
most of the police agents had been bribed by the gang,
and they were throwing every obstacle in the way of hav-
ing any of their accomplices punished.
An extraordinary court martial had been held at Poona!).
Two officers, a colonel and a major, had a dispute ; the
colonel soon afterwards offered to make up the quarrel,
but was told the whole" affair lad been sent up
n a complaint to the Government. The complaint
was referred to a court of inquiry, which decided
after having heard evidence that there were faults on
both sides. The Colonel then sent in a demand for a
court-martial on the Major, on the ground of his having
wilfully made a false and unfounded statement. The
Commander-in-Chief refused the demand and censured
the application as out of place, as the decision of the
court of inquiry was then under his consideration. The
Colonel reiterated the demand but no notice was taken of
it. Two months afterwards the colonel had the proceed-
ings, with his own, charges and letters, privately printed,
and sent to his friends. The pamphlet was shown to
the Major, who demanded a court martial, by which, after
the examination of the same witnesses, he was declared
honourably acquitted. .

This verdict, which was supposed to be contrary to the
evidence, has been much canvassed.