The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste on the 23d, at
eight a.m., in 112 hours from Alexandria.
The India Mail has been in Alexandria since the 15th,
with advices from Calcutta 14th July ; Madras, 21st;
Shanghai, 28th June ; Canton, 4th July ; Hongkong, 6th

July ; Singapore, 14th July ; Bombay, 20th July.
The King of Oude has offered to the English Govern-
ment 12,000 infantry, 1,000 horses, and 100 guns. Russian
agents are intriguing in Caboul. Trials are being made
on the Bengal Railway.
Trade in India dull. Exchange at Shanghai, (3s. Bd. ;
Canton, 6s. OW. Freights at Alexandria, 3s. per qr.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28,

LONDON.—On 'Change business generally dull. 3,000
bags low Rice sold at former prices. 800 boxes Havana
Sugar brought 28s. 6d. to 30s. 6d. Tallow fiat at 665. 6d.
to 665. 9d. on the spot ; 675. 3d. last three months. Lin-
seed Oil 345. 3d. to 345. 6d. Pig Iron 82s. 61 to 82s. 9d.
Indigo sales fixed for 10th October.

At Antwerp, on Saturday, the stock of Wheat was
short, and little offering. The market both there and at
Amsterdam was firm.

THE

W A R

No later teleg

raphic news from the Baltic or the East

Details of the fire

I Varna are give

It was ye

destructive, and numbers of the inhabitants are reduced
to beggary. The French troops exerted themselves im-
mensely, and stopped the progress of the fire. The last
accounts are more satisfactory. The health of the troops

was improving, and the prospect of active work at Sebal
topol revived the spirits of officers and men.

A telegr

.phic despatch from Czernowitz, of the 20th

says tne Itussians were retreating precipitately across tue
Prnth, and that thousands of carts had gone to transport
the sick and wounded.

PARIS.

'russia will join

but the number of deaths is very considerable

THE BALTIC.
CAPTURE OF BOMARSUND,

When the Russians surrendered, the French troops an

English marines lined the way from the fortress down t

drums and fifes playing national tunes

A council of war was held on the 18th, and it was rc
ported that Abo and Hango are the.next fortresses to b

visited

INDIA AND CHINA

The letters have arrived. There is no additional polit
cal news of interest from India.

The ship Nugent, with the head-quarters of the 26th
Madras Native Infantry, was missing; it was feared she
had been blown on the Andaman Islands.

The rumours respecting Russian intrigues in India now
attract little attention.

BOMBAY, JULY 19.—N0 change in money. Import
market closed. An improvement in trade was expected.
Prospect of crops good. Freights, £4 2s. 6d. to £4 7s. 6d.
CHINA, JULY 16.—Nothing had been heard of the
Russian fleet. The Pekin Gazette acknowledges the
formidable character of the insurrection. 40,000 rebels
had gone northwards from Nankin. The Abergeldie,
Rapid, and Hygeia had been lost—the latter had 500
emigrants on board, 370 of whom were left on the wreck,
and were supposed to have perished from starvation.
Freight from Shanghai to London, £7 10s. for teas ;
£9 for silk, at which rate the D. Brown, American clipper,
is loading for London. At Canton, freight to England,
£6 to £7.