The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL,

(From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.)

We last night received, through Messrs. Willmer and
Smith, conveyed to Liverpool by express, exclusively
from their London Agent, Mr. W. H. Smith, of 192,
Strand, London, the Bombay Monthly Times, of the 26th
of August.

The dates brought by this mail are—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
to 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.

Sciode was tranquil and likely to continue so, unless it
be disturbed by any ►neasures 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 Mabommed had fled to the Beloochee mountains,
from whence iewas said he was contemplating an attack
on some of the posts of the British troops. Ali Mahom-
pied, a young man of talent, and a relative of the ex-
Ameers, made an attempt to maintain his own territory
against the usurpation of his uncle, Mourad Ali, who has
contrived by various crooked arts to obtain the favour of
the British and to aggrandize himself at the expense of all
the other Atneers ; but Ali Mohammed 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,
hut 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 Fad been sent up
in 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 :ond censured
the application as out of place, as the decision of the
court of inquiry was then under his consideration. The

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who demanded a court martial, by which, after
the examination of the same witnesses, he was declared
honOurabl7 acquitted.
This verdict, which was supposed to be contrary to the
evidence, bus been smell canvassed.