The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA,

We have received by extraordinary express from Mar-
seilles our letters from India in anticipation of the over-
land mail on the 15th of January. The dates so received
are from Calcutta to the 9th, Madras to the 14th, and
Bombay to the 16th of January. From China we have
intelligence down to the 30th of December last.
Lord Dalhousie, the new Governor - General, had
touched at Madras, and his arrival at Calcutta was hourly
expected when the mails left.

Among the last acts of Lord Hardinge's Government
was a notification, prohibiting, under the penalties of
imprisonment and confiscation of property, the perpetra—
tion of Suttee and infanticide in the territories of the
Punjaub. The notification further announced, that his-
Lordship bad directed his thanks to be expressed to the
Maharajah of Lahore, as well as to all those princes (23
in number, mentioned by name) who had co-operated
during the last three years with the British Government
in suppressing these cruel practices within their several
territories.

Another robber chief had been secured, named Ragojee-
Bangria, lately as noted in the south of India as Doongur
Singh had been in the north. This man, with a numerous
band, had infested for some time back the Concan and
eastern routes from Bombay. After many fruitless ef-
forts, he was captured by Lieutenant Gell, who, disguised
as a Brahmin, traced the freebooter to the celebrated
shrine of Punderpoor, and, getting sight of him while in
the act of ablution in one of the sacred tanks, entered and
effected his capture.
A smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Delhi on
the Ist of January.

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The Scinde prize-money was about to be distributed,
the Royal warrant and order of the Court of Directors to
that effect having reached India. By the present arrange-
ment Sir C. Napier will receive a 1-16th share, or about
£27,000. His claim to the share of Commander-in-
Chief, or one-eighth, is still held in abeyance, to be paid,
if admitted, out of the proceeds not yet distributed.
An announcement is made by the Calcutta Star, that
a column 150 feet in height is to be erected at Calcutta to
commemorate the victories in the Punjaub, and that the
captured Sikh guns are to be set up in it, muzzle to muz-
zle, in fluted compartments; the summit to be crowned
with three figures—Britannia and two native soldiers.
A resolution passed by the Governor-general in Coun-
cil, and dated the 31st of December, declares that cotton
shall henceforward be exempt from export duty through-
out India. It is hoped that the measure in question will
relieve the cotton trade of India. It must at least prove
an additional boon to the traders from India with China,
The late export duty of nine annas per Indian maund, of
cotton, at the rate of value some years back, is said to.
have been equivalent to a tax of from five to eight per cent.

Orders had been received in India from the court of
Directors for the remittance home of £500,000 sterling
in specie.

Our correspondent at Hongkong writes under date
Dec. 30

" We have this month to record a dreadful tragedy in
the horrid murder of six English gentlemen by the Chi-
nese, about three miles from Canton, on the sth of tnis
month. After church they went up the river, and landed
to take a quiet walk, and shortly after they found them-
selves attacked by a body of Chinese, and cut off from
their boat. In this attack one or two of the party fell;
the others, being overpowered, attempted to escape, but
were taken at one of the villages and confined, and, by
the evidence of the Chinese on the coroner's inquest, it
appears too true that, up to the morning of the 7th, they
were alive, when they were cruelly put to death. The
names of the gentlemen are—Mr. W. Rutter; Mr. Small,
Mr. Bellamy, Mr. Brown, Mr. Balkwill, and Mr. M` Carte.

A force was immediately sent to Canton and his Ex-
cellency Sir John Davis went up in the Thedalus to demand
redress. After much negotiation with Keying, four
Chinese were executed on the 21st instant, and eleven
were under trial. Sir John returned here on the 24th,
having given Keying to the 20th proximo for his final
answer to his demands. It is understood that steamers
have been sent for from Singapore, and men-of-war
ordered down from the coast, to be prepared should any
coercive measure be necessary. All, however, may end
in negotiation. It is to be hoped every advantage
will be taken of the present state of matters to secure
permanent security for the future, seeing that hitherto
nothing but deceit has been practised by Keying, who has
been unable to controul the Chinese, though making the
English authorities suppose he had the ability to do so..

expired.
SUDDEN DEATII.—On Saturday night, about nine
o'clock, John -Morris, seventy-three years of age, living
Horatio-place, went into a neighbour's house, appa-
rently in his usual health. Soon after, while handing his
snuff box to a female, he fell back in his chair and in-
.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday night, Ann Thomp-
son, aged sixty-four years, who resided in Back Bittern-
street, was crossing Park-lane, when a spring cart came
up, and the shaft striking her she was knocked down, and
the near wheel went over her body. She died on Sunday.
The horse was walking at the time. The driver and two
other men in the cart were taken into custody.
The great success of the introduction of Melton Mow-
bray pork-pies has given rise to the establishment of a
shop, in Commutation-row, for the sale of Birmingham
pies of the same material, which are not only excellent in
quality, but are made sufficiently small to suit every taste.
—See advertisement.
One of the splendid shops in Elliot-street, known as
Manifold Buildings, has been opened by Messrs. Hamilton
and Co. in the provision trade. The style is perfectly
novel in Liverpool, being a prototype of the metropolis.
The stock is abundant, various, and excellent,