The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA

We have received Bombay papers of the 15th Septem-
ber, Calcutta 7th September, and Hong Kong to the 23d
August.

A considerable force is now assembled at Moultan, and
by the last advices was ready to commence the siege of that
fort. Moolraj, it is said, has resolved to sell his life, and
there is no doubt that he has some devoted followers who
will stand by him to the last. Various reports of the
Igth of Moultan have been circulated, the truth of
h will now soon be put to the test. That it is thought
despicable by those at last sent to reduce it
n the deliberation with which they are pro-

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and the power that they are preparing to bring
againdit. By the Delhi Gazette of the 6th we learn that
Moolraj is making great exertions to seduce the Sepoys of
the East India Company. That paper says,—" Endea-
vours to seduce the Sepoys of our own regiments are
ttempts made, his instruments being deser-
British army, who promise high pay and

Two Of these c

51st Native Infantry, who appeared to agree to take ser-
vice with the Dewan on fifteen rupees a-month. After a
induced the decoys to go with him to his tent,
iuietly slipped away to report to the officer of
his company what had occurred. The two men were
forthwith apprehended, and Aloolrars purwannahs found
on their persons. Several heads of cattle, and among
them some camels and an elephant of General Whist), had
been captured by the Dewan's foraging parties."
In Bombay there was some improvement in business,
and a large number of shares having been taken up in the

while I

proposed-Railway Company (Great Indian Peninsular

SeCond General Meeting of the Bombay St

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eld immediately after last mail left
and their affairs, not in an over-flourishing condition

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Governor remains in the Deccan, where, lately, the wea-
ther is described as having been extremely pleasant.
His lordship is expected at Bombay about the 15th
proximo. A steamer owned by natives is about to be
regularly put on the line between Bombay and the Persian
Gulf. The trade on this line, heretofore principally car-

tied on in small craft, called buglows, is very great, and
good judges are of opinion that it would support several

mers if well conducted.
alcutta suggests nothing to one's mind but the eve
ing Union Bank affair. The Bank makes no progre:

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that the leading men among the resident shareholders
have applied to Government for a special Act to wind up
the concern, and that the proposition is favourably enter-
tained, but that difficulties very apparent may still pre-
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vent the application of this remedy. The Bombay
inercial Bank is still without its four lacs of rupees

in that quarter, and a special agent is retained
cutta to look after the amount.
We Lear of the removal in custody of an assistant
surgeon, Mr. Daubeny, from Khotagherry to the Madras
Mresidenev, charged with murder.

ver:have cost money in the trans

tation of

the destruction of property, and the necessary
igainst future disturbance.
la Seas an English schooner has been cap-
Majesty's ship Childers, on a charge of

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tured by Her

A company for insuring the lives of horses is in opera-

tion in P-ar

A lump of pure gold, weighing 3,032 pennyweights,
was lately found in a mine belonging to Major Heiss,
in Virginia.

Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris, probably to ex-
plain that his late pamphlet. denouncing the revolution
and the republic, did not mean what it said.
EARLY LEVEE OF A MINISTER.—M. Dufare, Minister
of the Interior, gives audience (says the Constitutionnel)
at three in the morning ; and still the applicants for place
are not the less eager or less numerous.
On Thursday, the French Assembly divided on the im-
portant question of the election of President of the Re-
public, when the following was the unexpected result :
Number of votes, 819. In favour of the decree, 587 ;
against it, 232 ; majority, 355 ; consequently the election
will take place on the 10th of December. The result ex-
cited the greatest surprise.
An American paper states that the Jesuits driven from
Europe are flocking to the United States. Many of them
have come in the vessels recently arrived from Havre and
Bremen. It is stated that no less than five hundred of
them are now on their way from the Atlantic coast to the
West, and that their purpose is to found a community
beyond the Rocky Mountains.
At Munich, on the 18th instant, some serious riots oc-
curred in consequence of the brewers having raised the
price of beer. The rioters, in some instances soldiers,
went from brewery to brewery, and broke tables, chairs,
seats, glasses, windows, and whatever they could get at in
those houses where they refused to sell the beer half a
kreutzer less than the price hitherto existing.
The Daily News reports that on the 18th an insurrec-
tion had broken out against the Austrians at Milan, sad
that " Radetski had mined the palaces and the cathedral,
and threatened to blow them up. This did not, however,
prevent the exasperated people from attacking the mili-
tary. Several lives were lost, and the whole city rose in
arms. The tocsin was sounding from every tower, and
complete confusion prevailed." _

THE GOLD OF CALIFORNIA—NEW YORK, OCT. 11.—
We have now in this city specimens of California gold.
It was rumoured here that the real metal was as scarce
and dubious as that of the Wicklow mountains, which, ac-
cording to Moore, " all over the surface shines." But it
has proved no delusion in California. It has reached us
in a tangible, visible, solid form, and large quantities, and
so it is conceded that the " golden age," if we ever had
any, is about to recommence in a metallic form. If we
had but a ship canal or railway across the Isthmus of Pa-
nama, we would see strange movements in the world.
A correspondent of the Morning Post, writing on the
morality of the inhabitants of Turin, gives the following
advertisement as a specimen, from the Concordia of the
7th instant :—" Wanted, a Nurse.—The Signora Mar-
chesa Siffanti di San Bartolomeo is in want of a young
healthy wet nurse, and, in order to avoid the possibility
of any future loss of milk, she must be unmarried. Her
services will be required for the nourishment of a small
litter of five thorough-bred English spaniels, the mater-
nal bitch having died in giving them birth. The Mar-
chioness would stipulate, as an essential condition, that
the nurse should reside in her Excellency's house ; her
salary will be one hundred francs per month. She will
be allowed chocolate in the morning, she will take her
breakfast with the Marchioness, her dinner with the ser-
vants, and will be required to sleep with the dogs."
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Accounts to the 9th of Sep-
tember, communicate the important fact, that his Excel-
lency, Sir H. Smith, had reached the disaffected Boers,
at Borm Plaas, and bad given them battle on the 29th of
August. After three hours sharp contest, he defeated
them with great loss. We regret to add that Sir H.
Smith was wounded in the knee, and his horse killed un-
der him. Five other officers were also wounded. Strongly
posted at Boem-Plate, on the opposite bank of the Orange
River, the rebels must have been able to make a most
stout resistance, the loss of the troops being 46 killed and
wounded, exclusive of seven officers wounded, one mor-
tally, and others dangerously. The proportion of officers
wounded, is very large, and shows hard fighting. The
troops engaged belonged to the reserved battalions of the
45th and 91st regiments—the Rifle Brigade, and the Cape
Mounted Rifles. The rebels loss was also very severe, 49
having been counted dead on the field of battle, and about
150 are supposed to have been wounded. The day after
the fight Sir Harry Smith published a manitesto, warning
the disaffected, and threatening them with the most severe
punishment if they permitted themselves to be led away
by Pretorius. This man, it appears, bad been appointed
to an official situation in the disturbed districts, took
advantage of his position to excite opposition to the form
of administrative government, which Sir Harry Smith had
given them. Succeeding in this, he contrived to gather
from 700 to 1000 desperate men, who have now received
a severe chastisement. It would appear, however, that
some of the rebels are men of substance, for Sir Harry
Smith warns them that if they persist in their misconduct,
the large sums of money which they have in the colony
shall be confiscated to pay the expense to which the
government has been put, and as far as possible to reim-
burse those who have already been sufferers through their
violence. The native chiefs are faithful to the government,
and we have no doubt that Sir Harry Smith will soon be
able to put an end to this unfortunate outbreak.
MAN OVER NIAGARA FALLS.—At about sundown on
the Ist instant a man was carried over the Falls ; who he
was is not known. From his management of the sail-boat
in which he came down the river, I think he was not well
acquainted with the current of the Rapids. His dress and
appearance indicated respectability; and after he got into
the rapids his self-possession was most extraordinary. His
boat was a very good one—decked over on the bow, and I
should think would carry three or four tons. From what
I learn of a sail-boat having been seen below Black Rock,
coming down, I think it is from there or Buffalo. No
other than a person unacquainted with the current above
the Rapids, would venture so near them. I was on the
head of Goat Island when I first discovered the boat—
then nearly half a mile below the foot of Navy Island, and
nearly two miles above the Falls. There seemed to be
two in the boat. It was directed toward the American
shore—the wind blowing from this shore, and still the sail
was standing. Being well acquainted with the river, I re-
garded the position of the boat as extraordinary and ha-
zardous, and watched it with intense anxiety. Soon I
discovered the motion of an oar, and from the changing
direction of the boat concluded it had but one. While
constantly approaching nearer and nearer the Rapids, I
could discover it was gaining the American shore, and
by the time it had got near the first fall in the Rapids,
ebout half a mile above Goat Island. it was directly above
the island. There it was turned up the rive'', and for
some time the wind kept it nearly stationary. The only
hope seemed to be to come directly to Goat island, and
whether I should run half a mile to give alarm, or remain

to assist, in the event the boat attempted to make the
island, was a painful doubt. But soon the boat was again
turned toward the American shore. Then it was certain
it must go down the American Rapids. I ran for the
bridge—saw and informed a gentleman and lady just leav-
ing the island, but they seemed unable to reply or move.
I rallied a man at the toll-gate—we ran to the main bridge
in time to see the boat just before it got to the first large
fall in the Rapids. Then I saw but one man—he stand-
ing at the stern with his oar, changing the course of the
boat down the current, and as it plunged over he sat
down. I was astonished to see the boat rise with the
mast and sail standing, and the man again erect. directing
the boat toward shore. As he came to the next and to
each succeeding fall he sat down, and then would rise and
apply his oar in the intermediate current. Still there was
hope that he would come near enough to the pier to jump,
but in a moment it was gone. knother, that he might
jump upon a rock near the bridge, but the current dashed
him from it under the bridge, breaking the mast. Again
he rose on the opposite side. Taking his oar, and pointing
his boat toward the main shore, he cried, `• Had I better
jump from the boat ?" We could not answer, for either
seemed certain destruction. Within a few rods of the
falls the boat struck a rock, turned over, and lodged. He
appeared to crawl from under it, and swam with the oar
in his hand till he went over the precipice. Without the
power to render any assistance—for half an hour watching
a strong man struggling with every nerve for life, yet
dopmed with almost the certainty of destiny to an imme-
diate and awful death, still hoping with every effort for
his deliverance—caused an intensity of excitement I pray
God never again to experience. The Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser says, it has been ascertained that the person
who was carried over the Falls was Richard Leedom, a
shoemaker of that city, aged about 38. He was without a
family.

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