The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-31 00:00:00

INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by extraordinary express intelligence
from Bombay, Sept. 28; Madras, Sept. 14; Calcutta,
Sept. 18; Shanghae, Aug. 26; Canton, Sep. 9; Hong-
Kong, Sept. 11.

The Overland Bombay Times of Sept. 28, says :—" The
past fortnight has been a singularly uninteresting one.
On the 30th of August Colonel Cotton marched from
Peshawar, for the purpose of destroying some insurgent
villages to the north-west. The force consisted of Gor-
don's Seikhs, a battery of the mountain train, two com-
' panies of Her Majesty's 22nd, the 2nd company of the
Sappers, and the 9th Native Infantry ; or about 3,000 in
all. The rear was covered by the 13th Light Cavalry.
The villages were taken without opposition, and burnt to
the ground, the trees being afterwards destroyed and gar-
dens uprooted. These measures, severe as they seem, are
indispensable to check the marauding of ferocious border-
ers, who will require many years of castigation to bring
them to order or teach them forbearance from plunder.
Some of the usual disturbances in the Nizam's country
have just occurred. A' party of Rohillas, about 500 strong,
took the field and seized possession of a fort, in which
they seemed to propose to maintain themselves. Briga-
dier Mayne, with the right wing of the 2nd Cavalry, four
companies of the Infantry, and a few guns from the 2nd
Company Artillery, about 600 in all, left the cantonments
at Aurungabad on the evening of the 20th instant, and
arrived at Sailoor, the position of the Rohillas, forty miles
distant, at four o'clock next evening. The Rohillas, re-
fused, on being summoned, to surrender, and the briga-
dier, required to wait to bring up his heavy guns, pro-
posed to cannonade them as soon these arrived. In the
course of the night the enemy attempting to escape were
attacked and dispersed with great slaughter. Our ca-
sualties consisted of one man killed, and one officer and
ten men wounded, none of them severely.
" Throughout India at large profound tranquillity at
present appears to reign, British Burmagh forming no
exception. In Pegs even robberies appear to have ceased,
and the brother of the King of Ava is said to be on his
way to Calcutta at the head of an embassy to endeavour
to induce us to abandon the small territory from which
the royal family derives its title— willing to make any
concession if this can be obtained.

" Camps of exercise on the Chobham model have been
ordered to assemble during the cold season at Poonah and
at Kurrachee, and if our indefatigable commander-in-chief
could only be persuaded that there were other things as
indispensable as drill and discipline for the well-being of an
army—that attention to the habits, occupations, and moral
condition of the men was at least as important as that
bestowed upon their appearance, accoutrements, Ind dress,
he might confer blessings on those under him, and bene-
fits on the country he serves, the mere disciplinarian never
dreams of." CHINA.
The Overland China Mail of Sept. 11, says : —Sir J.
Bowring, M. de Bourboulon, and Mr. M'Clane, the British,
French, and United States Plenipotentiaries, have lately
had several consultations, here and at Macao, on the sub-
ject, it is understood, of the revisal of the treaties ; and
as they intend shortly to proceed to the north in the
Rattler and Powhatan, we should not be at all astonished
to learn ere they return, that they had attempted to go on
to Pekin.

Of Admiral Stirling's intentions the only thing known
is, that his Excellency, in the Winchester, with the En-
counter and Barracouta in company, was at the mouth of
the Yang-tsz'-kiang when the Lady Mary Wood passed,
waiting for the Styx, which was coaling at Shanghae;
and that as soon as she joined, the fleet was to proceed to
Japan, and thence, it is believed, to the north. Admiral
Laguerre, in the French frigate, La Jeanne d'Arc, was to
have joined the expedition, but his vessel was run ashore
on the north bank of the Yang-tsz'-kiang, through the
unskilfulness of an American pilot.
From Canton the news is still very melancholy, though
a slight glimmering of hope seems to break through the
darkness that quiet will speedily be restored, in the
neighbourhood of the provincial city at all events, through
dissensions in the rebel ranks, which have grown to such
a height,. that those to the east of the city lately rendered
their assistance to the Mandarins, in an attack on the
band__to the north; but their offer was declined. They

are all, however, beginning to feel discouraged by th
long-continued non-success, and destitution of suppli_u
On the east they have been dispersed, and a lea
tured ; in the north they have effected nothing ,
west they have been driven back by the braves belongine,
to the 98 villages who some time ago banded together in
self-defence ; and at the south they are fully occupied by
dissensions among themselves. The province itself, how-
ever, is still in a frightful state, and thousands of villagers
have joined the rebel ranks to save themselves from star-

wat it is not to be wondered at that the rebels
m the province now number not less than 100,000; and
by exactions from the peaceably-dis-
um they have already collected must amount
Illions of dollars.
•A letter from Stockholm, of the 13th, says,
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victims

Ctitox.—From Ceylon we learn that the governor, Sir
George Anderson had been suffering from an attack of
paralysis, ithich had induced him to ms's; over the go-
vernment to the Colonial Secretary, in order that he might
seek relief in a more temperate climate. In the Le_,lsla-
tive Council, a motion fixing the salary of future Governors
of the Colony at £,5000 instead of £6,000 per annum, was
carried by a majority of one.
ITALY.—The Giornale di Roma states that, on the 12th,
the Pope proceeded to Albano, in order to be present at the
inauguration of the magnificent new bridge just finished
there. His Holiness afterwards visited the works of two
other bridges now under construction, for the improve-
ment of the Forli road. On the return of the Pope to
Rome, the Portico of Raphael and the stairs of the Vatican
were lighted with gas for the first time. The Papal
Government has forbidden the exportation of wine until
the 30th of September, 1855.
GERMANY.—The attitude of the German Powers is
watched with deep interest. The last Prussian note has
not changed anything in the position of affairs, and Austria
and Prussia remain estranged, and liable at any moment
to come to an open rupture. There is some talk of re-
opening the Conference of Hamberg. Since that famous meet-
ing of the representatives of the small States of Germany, a
notable change has come over the opinions of many of the
Cabinet, and it is certain that Bavaria, Hanover, Baden,
and Darmstadt are prepared to side with Austria. Wur-
temberg is also so inclined, but the King finds great diffi-
culty in escaping from the bonds of relationship.
RIISSIA.—A despatch of the 23rd states that the Czar's
eldest son, the Grand Duke Alexander, had left St Peters-
burg to join the Guards on their march to Warsaw, their
new head-quarters. The same city is also the head-quar-
ters of the Grenadiers, under the General Rudiger, and of
the active army in Poland under Marshal Paskiewitsch.
A Vienna journal computes that, on the arrival of the
Guards at their destination, the troops concentrated on the
Austrian frontier will amount to 166,000 men, viz.,
80,000 Infantry of the Line, 48,000 infantry of the Guards,
22,000 Grenadiers, and 16,000 Cavalry, besides the usual
Proportion of artillery. _ _ _

thtzEcx.—A letter from Athens, of the 12th, says :
" General Mayran, Comminder of the French troops, re-
solved before leaving for the Black Sea to show Athens to
all his soldiers, and at the same time to show all his soldiers,
at Athens. On Monday last the entire brigade, with its
artillery, baggage, tools, and camp effects, together with
the English regiment, made a march, with bands playing
and flags flying, through the town, passing before the
Palace of the King. At the population assembled in the
streets, or in the windows of the houses, and greeted the
troops with every mark of sympathy. The principal in-
habitants of the Piraeus have resolved to give a banquet
and fit e to the General and his officers, and also to those
of the fleet, before their departure."
CAPE OP GOOD HOPE.—Her Majesty's paddle-wheel
steamer Dee, Lieut. Smith, arrived at Plymouth on Sun-
day afternoon, after a passage of 60 days from the Cape
of Good Hope. With the exception of some desultory
cases of cattle stealing by the Kaffers, the colony was per-
fectly tranquil. The copper mines in Namaqualand are
progressing favourably. Shares advanced in a few days
from ss. to £lO each. The copper mines in Walwish
Bay, belonging to Messrs. Dupaz and Co., are expected to
be still more profitable. The clipper-ship Flying Dragon,
from Ceylon, with a general cargo for London, ran into
Simon's Bay on the 3rd of August, burnt to the water's
edge, and was scuttled on the beach. She took fire at
midnight on the 31st of July, in latitude 36 S., about 200
miles from the Cape. At daylight the American ship
Uriel, of Boston, hove in sight and promised assistance ;
but, fearing he would vitiate his insurance policy by de-
viating from his course, the captain pursued his voyage.
The Dee left in Simon's Bay on the 30th of August,
H.M.S's Frolic, Hydra, and Penguin. At Ascension,
Sept. 20, the store-ship Tortoise ; at St. Vincent's, Oct.
6, the two steamers Wonga and Telegraph, from Glasgow,
for Australia ; and at Madeira, Oct. 19, the American
corvette Dane.

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