The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

ARIkIVAL OF THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By Lieutenant Wazhorn's extraordinary a
Trieste, dispatches were received on Saturday from Bom-
bay to the 27th of August.
season had not then terrninat d, and until the

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favourable i-a'all parts of

agricultui pursuits were contented.
The Sikh Government was in a tottering st;te, for the
Queen-Mother and her paramour, the Wuzeer, Lall
SinAh, had no hold on the affections of the people. On
the contrary, those abandoned characters were looked
upon as traitors to their country, and the opportunity of
the withdrawal of t-
awaited by the Kha

other fanatics, in order to
avenge their wrongs on the present heads of tLe Lahore
Government. The British authorities were not idle in
making preparation for the approaching convulsion in the
Sikh territory. - Regiments were forming at Feroz-pore
and Umballa. for the purpose of absorbing some of the

best of the disbanded Sikh. soldiers. An army was also to
be ready on' the Sutltj and Beas to protect the British
frontiers, and in case of necessity to put down the Sikh revo-
lution. Lords H irdinge and Gpugh were at Simla. Gholah
Singh is reported to be in a very uns4tisfartory state, not
only on account of the turbulent chiefs over whom he ob-
tained the rule, by advancing large sums of money last
March, butalso from his own intrigues, which prevent
him from conforming with the promises of the treaty. It
was said that several British officers had been murdered
in his territory, and by his instigation, but the story is not
sufficiently authenticated to be implicitly relied on. The
Sikh province of Moultan is still at war with the Wuzeer
Lall Singh, and the Mahommedan grief of that fertile
district has been victorious in some rencontres with the

Sikh troops

Seinde is tranquil, and with the prospect of an abundant
harvest. The cholera, after having ravaged Kurrachee
and Hyderabad, was attacking the villages along the
Indus. There was some sickness at Sukkur, which
Caused the removal of her Majesty's 17th Regiment to
the sea coast.
There was a rumour circulated of the speedy retirement
from Scind,- of Sir Charles Napier, whose health is de-
scribed as seriously affected by the climate. Five regi-
ments were, it was said, to be removed from Scinde a
Boon as the fine weather set in. The probability existed,
however, of the occupation by the British of the city of
3loultan, which. from its locality, would form an excellent
emporium for British goods, and a corresponding capital
for the western part of India, in some degree resembling
Calcut a in the eastern division.
In Cahill an attempt has been made to enlist Dost Ma.
homed in another plot against the British. The agent in
this scheme bad come from Persia, but the old Dost was
too wary to expose himself again to the chances of a con-
flict with the British. particularly after the recent suc-
cesses at Lahore. His son, the notorious Ackbar Khan,
was not pleased with the pacific policy of his father, and
be war eager to have an opportunity of regaining posses-
sion of Peshawur and even of Cashmere. Intrigues and
counterplots were in full play at Cabot.
In the newly-acquired provinces of Jullunder and the
dooab of the Betts, the British troops have during six
months, been healthy. An attempt was made by the Bri-
tish resident at the Nizam's Court to arrange the pecu-
niary affairs of that country. Some refractory landhold-
ers have been compelled to give accounts of their demands,
and the lawless mercenaries, who have proved hitherto to
be such a curse to that state, have been disbanded or ex-
pelled from the Nizam's dominions.
The conquest of the Island of Bally, which is now at-
temp ed by the Dutch, continues to be the source of much
observation at Singapore. It appears to have the tacit
assent of the British Government.

An alarm prevailed at Aden, lit the beginning of Au-
gust, in consequence of a threatened attack on that for-
tress by some Arab chiefs.
The money market in Bambay had decidedly improved,
and favourable expectations were entertained of the busi.
mess of the season which was just opening. Discounts
bad been lowered, and exchange had fallen to Is. lld. to
ls. lldid. per rupee. The market for British manufac-
turers was quiet, and cotton had declined from two to three
rupees per candy, with limited transactions. Freights
bad slightly improved, and were last quoted at £2 10s. to
£2 15s. per ton to Liverpool. There are as yet no later
commercial advices from Calcutta.