The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received by express from Marseilles our ad-
vices from India in anticipation of the arrival of die over-
land mail of the Ist of July from Calcutta. Our advices
from Bombay were by dauk to Madras. The dates thus
received are from Calcutta and Bombay to the Ist of July,
and Madras to the 9th of July.
Our military position in the Punjaub seems well se-
cured. There is no news from the north-west of India
of any prominent importance.
The intelligence from Moultan, as regards the opera-
tions of the district officers in the field, continues to be of
the most satisfactory character. The force under Lieut.
Edwardes amounts by these advices to nearly 6,000 men,
Mahomedans. The body is secure along the line of the
Indus, and has managed to gain possession or all the
means of passage in that part of the stream. It is said
that the Bunnoo Sikhs continue to join the standard of
the Dewan, but that the Patans and Beloochees stand
aloof; while, on the other hand, Colonel Cortlandt's dis-
trict force had been much strengthened by Belooch en-
listments, and Lieutenant Edwardes counted a strong
body of Patans. The forces of the rajah of Bhawalpoor
had already crossed the Gharree river into the insurgent
territory, but, not taking proper precautions, in their
eagerness for plunder, one of their parties had met a
stronger body of the enemy and was cut off. This dis-
aster spread alarm at first, from conflicting rumours which
got into circulation, but happily did not entail any mis-
chief, and subsequent accounts announce the capture of
four small towns on the western bank of the river. There
seemed every probability an advance would be made.
should further circumstances secure the probabilities of
success for a movement by the British district officers on
the centre of insurrection. The captive governor of Dee-
ra, Ghazee Khan, and another man of note on the side of
the insurgents, had been executed. The Dewan, on hear-
ing this news, is said to have sent 100 rupees to each of
their widows; and, apparently taking a hint of the fate
that might await himself, ')rdered a funeral pile to be
prepared for his family, to be used in the event of his fall;
evidently not more inclined, by these circumstances, to
sell his life cheap.
No less than 630 followers of the insurgent Gooroo.
Maharaj Singh, who took arms in the Punjaub, had sur-
rendered, and, by late accounts, were prisoners at Shung.
The property and arms of the fanatic Gooroo had been
secured, and he himself is reported to have been drowned.
Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice in Bengal, has sus-
pended Mr. Grant from his office of Master in Equity in
the Supreme Court at Calcutta, in consequence of that
functionary having been implicated in the transactions of
the Union Bank as one of its directors.
Some disturbances which had broken out among the
Bheels in the Mye Counts district of Guzerat—a still un-
settled portion of Western India—had been promptly
suppressed by the energy of the Political Agent, Captain
Wallace, who gave orders for the instant march to the
scene of riot of a sufficient body of troops.
Our correspondent at Hongkong writes as follows, under
date of June 14 :
" We have had a month of inactivity, and nothing to
disturb the general quiet at Canton and the other ports.
The Braganza arrived on the 16th inst.; the-next mail is