The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA

We have received a telegraphic despatch from Trieste in
anticipation of the Overland Mail.
The steamer Oriental arrived at Suez from Calcutta on
the Ist, carrying 63 passengers, and the mails from 13om-
bay of the 17th December, Calcutta of the 7th December,
Singapore of the 6th December, and Hong Kong of the
24th .Nwv,..mber.

The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout India.
A trifling encounter took place at the Kohat frontier be-
tween the British troops, under Major Taylor, and the
Wuzeer ; the latter were repulsed by the British troops,
and only one wounded. On the 31st of November, the
Governor-General set out from Amar Kullen to proceed
to Lemdarmeer. Malignant fever and dysentery are de-
cimating the troops in the Punjab. Sir Charles Napier
was expected at Bombay on the 3rd of January. Sir Wm.
Gomm arrived at Calcutta on the 6th of December. The
negotiations respecting the Calcutta railroad have come
to a standstill. The directors of the Marat Bank have
suspended their secretary, Marir Angelo, and perempto-
rily summoned the Nazim to pay hia debt to England, on
or before the Ist day of December. Sir Wm. Anderson,
the governor, has arrived in Ceylon. Java is tranquil.
Piracies are still being perpetrated. Siam is tranquil, but
apprehensions existed as to its future state. The King:is
constructing a fort. Sundry vessels had gone ashore and
been wrecked in the S.W. Violent rains had fallen in
the interior. The Legislative Council passed a vote
against the transport of convcts in the colony. The
Donna Maria, Portuguese frigate, exploded at Macao ;
200 persons were killed.—Trade Report : Bombay market
brisk, with considerable supplies, and lower prices. Ex-
change on London, 2s. 2d. ; freightage to Liverpool,
£2 10s.

CALUUTTA COMIKERCIAL.
Export market very brisk. A good harvest is expected. In-
digo and sugar command high prices. Salpetre and raw silk
are firm ; much was doing in imports, especially in Lancashire
invoices. The sugar harvest has been had in Siam. Cotton is
much in demand at Canton, and commands high prices.
Exchange on England.-56.0-id. to ss. 2d.i Freights, 2s.

CHINA

Cotton in pieces not in usual demand of the season,
market choked, and prices going down. Opium was go-
ng down ; the stock on hand is small and bad, and
prim low.

The following horrible story appears in the Colonial
Standa✓d—" A traveller from St. Thomas in the East,
who passed through Yallah's Bay yesterday. has related
to us a state of things in that locality which are perfectly
frightful, hut which, for public good, we feel bound to
publish. He assures us that, in passing through Yallah's,
be observed a human head detached from its body dragged
along the high road by a doe, and that, on remarking this
awful circumstanc2. to an official gentleman of the parish,
be was told that it was by no means a solitary case of
horror, for ;hat in Yallah's Bay there had been the corpse
of a person who died from cholera lying for ten days;
that the dogs and hogs were running in and out with
piece,: of flesh in their mot.ths, and not a human being
had courage to approach the building, even for the pur-
pose of consuming it with oe,"