The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-11-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

INDIA.  We have intelligence by overland mail from Calcutta, Oct. 4 ; Bombay, Oct. 14 ; Burmah, Sept. 19 ; and Hong Kong, Sept. 27. Our advices from Burmah are to the 19th ultimo. The whole of the country on the eastern side of the Irrawaddy is in the hands of the dacoits or patriots, who have pillaged and burned most of the towns in the district. On the other side of the river the garrisons of small towns have been attacked, and the towns themselves given to the flames. The adroitness of these robbers is remarkable; they invariably employ stratagem, make a sham attack on the garrison to distract attention and keep its defenders employed, while their main body plunder the town; they then betake themselves to their boats, which they propel through the water at a speed defying capture, and so escape. As to the Ryots, they are dependent upon us, but we afford them no assistance : they are plundered by the dacoits, and we do not protect them, and the robber chiefs have taken advantage of our supineness to point out to them that the policy which we pursued in 1825 will be next year repeated by us, that in fact we will then evacuate the country, when those who have now transferred their allegance to the British Sircar will be left to the mercy of the government which they abandoned, and then the court of Ava will inflict summary punishment upon them. Thus is the fidelity of our newly-acquired subjects jeopardised, while many that would otherwise join us are deterred from doing so. Nor does there appear any possibility of exterminating those marauders in our own possessions. No sooner are they I worsted by us than they retreat beyond our frontier, whither we cannot follow them ; nor can we starve them or the court at Ava into submission, as all their supplies come from the northward ; so that, viewing the matter in an impartial manner, and bearing in mind that these robbers are numbered by thousands, there is but one course to be pursued—Ava must be conquered. There seems nothing else for it ; willing or unwilling, the advance is forced on us, and there is no retreating. The whole of Pogu is to constitute hereafter one division, to the command of which Sir John Cheape has been nominated. An attack is anticipated from `Teal Toon's followers at Henzada, and troops have been sent from Rangoon to that station; a necessary step, perhaps, but yet to be deplored, as the garrison at Rangoon has thereby been weakened. Captain James, the Deputy Commissioner at Peshawur, has offered a reward of 5000 rupees for the detection of any of the accomplices in Colonel Mackeson's murder. It is said that either Colonel Outram or Major Edwardes will be appointed to the Commissionership now vacant in the North-west. Orders have been issued for the immediate march from Rawul Pindee to Pesliawur of six companies of her Majesty's 22nd Foot, the 4th Regiment N. I. and the m Irregular Cavalry, It is t 7 reported that a Russian army had advanced within ten marches rches of Oorgune, the commercial capital of Khiva, and that the Khans of Khiva and Bokhara had headed their troops to resist the enemy. .It is said that the Russians avow their object to be, the subjugation of the country, and that the neutrality of Dost Mahomined of Cabal, has been purchased. The Shah of Persia, too, has assembled a large army in the valley of Sooltania, which is to operate against the Turks. The Hon. James Thomason, Lieut. Governor of the North-west Provinces, died on the 27th ult. Accounts from Bhawulpoor represent a lamentable state of affairs in the dominions of our old ally the deceased Bhawul Khan. Colonel Low, C. 8., has taken his seat as third ordinary member of the Council in the room of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, deceased, and this is the only item of intelligence from the Eastern presidency. Lord and Lady Falkland are at the Hills ; his lordship, it is said, will not leave Bombay until after the arrival of his successor. Lord Frederick Fitzclarence is still in Poona, and purposes making an extensive tour in the ensuing cold weather. General Stavely has proceeded to Madras understood, will leave India by the Barham in to take up. the command of that army ; Sir Richard Armstrong, Decemberit next. Bombay," has been started, and the shares are at a premium of 4 per cent. The state of trade is dull and depressed, but money is abundant. g A new bank, to be called the " Mercantile Bank of