The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-10-31 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE OVERLAND MAIL.  (From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.) We last night received, through Messrs. Wilimer and Smith, conveyed to Liverpool by express, exclusively from their London Agent, Mr. W. H. Smith, of 192, Strand, London, the Bombay Monthly Times, of the 26th of August.  The dates brought by this mail,' are—Calcutta, 10th, Scinde, 19th, and Bombay, 26th of August. From China 26th of June only.  The news from India is not of a remarkable kind. Tranquillity prevailed in the interior. An army of observation, was, it is said, to be formed on the Sutledge and another in the neighbourhood of Gualior ; both were to be ready in the month of October. The new Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hugh Gough, would, it was stated, take the command of the former, and General Sir W. Nott of the latter.  Lord Ellenborough, whose presence in Calcutta had produced the best results there, was, it is reported, to come himself to the neighbourhood of Agra or Allahabad in October, in order to direct the settlement of the Gualior Government. _ _  Scinde was tranquil and likely to continue so, unless it be disturbed by any measures ordered from London in consequence of the misrepresentations which some blind partisans sent to England from Bombay. Sir Charles Napier had thus fat regulated that conquest. The troops were healthy.  Shere Mahommed had fled to the Beloochee mountains, from whence it was said he was contemplating an attack on some of the posts of the British troops. Ali Mahommed, a young man of talent, and a relative of the exAmeers, made an attempt to maintain his own territory against the usurpation of his uncle, Mourad Ali, who has contrived by various crooked arts to obtain the favour of the British and to aggrandize himself at the expense of all the other Ameers ; but Ali Mahommed has been routed by his uncle Mourad Ali, and he has also fled to the where he has joined the partisans of Shere It is said that after the rainy season the  mount  Alahommed  various hill tribes borderintron the plains, now subject to the British and to Mourad Ali, will be induced to make inroads, and to try to plunder the settlers, but it does not seem expected that they will risk any battles for the expulsion of the British. General Simpson was coming round to Bombay in the Queen steamer in order to become second in command, and, perhaps,: successor to Sir Charles Napier, whose health, it is said, requires removal to the sea coast.  A most extraordinary discovery was effected in July last, at Bombay, of a confederacy for plundering boats, robbing ships, and smuggling goods. This gang had existed for at least a quarter of a century in the most populous part of that town. They are also supposed to be connected with the pirates and murderers who even now so frequently commit the greatest atrocities.within almost the hail of the police and other authorities of that important naval station. No discovery was ever made of the gang until one of the accomplices gave a clue which led to seizure of their books, and to the development of the "^h was organized in the most perfect  hole system, which was org  ine pollee were on the traces of the malefactors, but it was feared that no conviction would take place, as most of the police agents had been bribed by the gang, and they were throwing every obstacle in the way of having any of their accomplices punished. An extraordinary court martial had been held at Poona!). Two officers, a colonel and a major, had a dispute; the colonel soon afterwards offered to make up the quarrel, but was told the whole affair lad been sent up in a complaint to the Government. The complaint was referred to a court of inquiry, which decided after having heard evidence that there were faults on both sides. The Colonel then sent in a demand for a 'urt-martial on the Major, on the ground of his having •lly made a false and unfounded statement. The ler-in-Chief refused the demand and censured the application as out of place, as the decision of the court of inquiry was then under his consideration. The Colonel reiterated the demand but no notice was taken of it. Two months afterwards the colonel had the proceedings, with his own charges and letters, privately printed, and sent to his friends. The pamphlet was shown to the Major, who demanded a court martial, by which, after the examination of the same witnesses, he was declared honourably acquitted. This verdict, which was supposed to be contrary to the evidence, has been much canvassed.  Commanc