The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-04 00:00:00

eiO% 1 tilt` ~,~n5 Murders in Sinde. A large kaplah of 300 camels was lately piundereu near Lecoo,an, but upon the whole the country is quiet. The troops at Kurra thee and Hyderabad are comparatively healthy. At the former station great improvements in every way have of late been going on. The revenues of the country are in the main turning out better than was anticipated ; and altogether a considerable share of prosperity- is exhibited. The total colleotion will in the present year probably amount to half a million sterling; the civil charges, including those of collec tion, to between 300,0001. and 400,0001. sterling. tut leen we have an army of 12,000 men to support of whom about 9,000 were raised avowedly for Sinde, these, consisting of ten men added to each company of each of the Native Infantry Regiments of the Bengal and Bombay army, not on field service in February, 1843, and of a rewly-raised regiment of Irregular Horse. The cost of the mili tary establishment in Sinde, in fact, will alone absorb more than its revenues—the civil charges fallin g on the general treasury of India. The expense of a large steam flotilla on the Indus not required for mercantile purposes, and of three or four steamers belonging to the Indian navy, c hiefly employed in plying between Bombay and Ran-ruchee, is itself no trifle. Your views and mine, however, differ on these matters, so I shall say no More about them. Sir Charles Napier, with his staff, left Kurrachee for the upper country on the 15th. It W as said that he intended to have an expedition sent into the Warree country, to avenge our mishap at Poolajee, had there been a sufficiency of troops at Sukkur or Shikarpore. This, unfortunately, there is not, both posts being disabled at present by sick "es4. At Kharighur, our extreme outposts, about two-thirds of the men are ill of fever. At Shikar pore of itself about one thousand men, belonging to the ith Native Infantry and 7th Cavalry, between seven hundred and eight hundred are in hospital. About three-fourths of the Horse Artillery are unfit for duty. At Sukkur the 78th Highlanders are about Seven hundred in hospital, and about seventy Et for duty. It is scarcely four months since it left Kurrachee—not yet a twelvemonth since it quitted tiornbay in the highest health. It will .be the third European regiment sent back from Sinde in the course of a twelvemonth so utterly disorganised by disease as to be ren dered, for a long period after its return, unservice able. The native infantry at Sukkur are also begin ning to suffer, though they have hitherto in a great Measure escaped. Curiously, the European officers have, throughout the season, been exempt from sick ness, as have also the natives of the country. The followin g l e tter from Shikarpore, which has just been published in the Delhi Gazette, gives a still more deplorable picture of the state of matters than soy which has reached •Bombay direct. It is the More valuable as coming from the pen of a Bengal officer, generally believed more in favour with the conquest of Sind than those of tlee minor presideney, who are. more ii‘timately acqu,trttA w ith the eou ntry : " shikarpor, , Nov. 12. 1844. " Dear Mr. Editor,—My da , oi-gook reminds me I have not written to you since the 23d ultimo, and I re gret I cannot give you now a much more ft:meting stun of our salubrity th,ii in ray last. I saw fie , remain- of the 69th It.gt!,,vn; on parade tun days since, under their adjutnia. irrot. , , being too earl.) them, and on inquiry tound they mustered 75 file. The 7th Cavalry manage to get two troops our for walking exercise every morning, but 1 observe he proportion of troopers among the riders is hut and I am told they could sett turn out an etlic.eot ti oop if one were required ; and moreover, that men of th, its had escaped b-ver fir 12 days, were again going- ioto hospital. The horse artillery ti ,op see the oily ones that seem to be improving-, tor the day before yesterd.ty I observed they had three guns out; one would have been their maxianun last month.. At Khanghur the sickness continues unsba:ed; Captain Smith, of the Ar tillery, who has just returned from thence, i. a daily sufferer from fever; Captain Tait, too, who has just left us, had it up to the moment of his starting. AL Sukkur, however, they seem to be still worse off than ours, lves, for the accounts from there are quite appaling, 700 ot the Highlanders are in hospital, and men dying daily, and 500 of each of the native corps, both of which are weak in strength, are also sick. Mr. Assistant-Surgeon Cannon is, we hear, again in arrest. Now the natives of the surrounding country unanimously declare this season to have been the most healthy one they have had for many years, so that we have a cheerful prospect in looking forward to next August, September, and October, which will in all probability annihilate the remains of the different corps here; bat perhaps that was the object of our . paternal Government in sending all the mutineer I th e fsiTZtls i to ol S l, inde? and yet the 64th are to go to Agra wise and judicious arrangement, thtis to I ff ," premium' for mutiny by withdrawing a corps "'Lich has three times been guilty of it from this detested tr"in !"ce, to the p re f erence o f o th er corps t h at hate be „'ed as quietly, respectfully, and orderly as ever 31- th a general strike, and who I am sure are heartily tl er ,; lll , e d they ever listened to the tempters that drew w 1 3 a r il :9r a sh ort t i me fr om their allegiance. Sir c ex pected up here to destroy Poolajee, but he will *rito e t l br Ylg his troops with him, I rather think. I will : har e s P°I. at the end of the . mouth, and until then, nter e l " BO PEEP." A s i n Y , t h t plar change has taken place in the politics the Ate:tiisuntjer aub; the leaders of the opposing parties, Raja Hera Singh on the one side, and ha °° v e ilt e b Sin gh, Lord of Jumbo°, on the other, who b ee ueen at deadly f eu d f o r a tw e lv e month p as t, h ave b eep reconciled to each other, and are now living Ti g l , n i ethe i in amity. Two causes. are assigned for this. 210 : . Year the general relief of the regiments of the s ome provinces has been carried into effect iie":°What differently from the usual practice, the re broiling-, regiments having been directed to be all eed-tg"tlnuaPretore those to be relieved were Permit' tr 0 -0 The last apparent accumulation of °TI the frontier occasioned great alarm ; this tantl rtuitoo.y the tr Y g 51 increased by the permission reluc rented to the Commander-in-Chief to inspect 11. (3 °(l) : s .at Loodianah, Balla, and Ferozepore. Sir ti Igh is e ar s kn ail it) bru s h . op the Selkiiki; has, in tile', ,1111:te,i 110 hj a Ptrt ; Uni tY 0 1 . expressnig himself on this point, and Pro °l).lll°n s era known at tile Lahore durhar. His z g r ess along the trontier river from the las to Fe and many instances through aeiseee eon- (d. Seikh s oil t hi s s id e o f t he Sutiedge will, of . derf llet inere ' L ' the alarm, so that it - will not be won the 41 Were th e urine no, at Lahore to advance wider read onited c hi efe to the banks of the Sucledge to be a n Yin case of em ergency. Th e f ear , t h ere f ore , o f t wo i mmediate i nvas i on from British I nd i a made the d is' ''lnghs re fl ect that in fighting together they were Q ac , 1 g the very thing we most desire.le-flyingat other's to try; settle in and settle the quarrel by seizing the coun b:o A nother r eason i s sa id to h ave b een t h e ex the atin n of the t reasury at Lahore, w h ere, i t i s sa i d, 4,0 Minister will scarely be able to muster funds b u te Ugh to Pay the troops their arrears. This has /../ oc casioned b y t h e un b oun d e d l av i s h ness o f e r i " „ ra S ingh from th e fi rst moment o f hi s l ast year ' s vfh'itnPll, and especially to the foolish facility with ieiz C h he suff ere d t h e treasures of the State to be e d on by G oo l a b S i ngh on his visit to Lahore in 8, Ptetnber. T he Lord of Jumboo is said to have 1 4 , 1 , 7°1301 . sterlin g o f accumu l ate d wea l t h i n hi s eere " 3, 4114 c an , b y t hi s means, readily command the iees of a rabble and mercenary army. Th diets e apprehension expressed that the unpaid sol leo rll6 Would r evo l t an d t h reaten the British frontier d,h, g ro undless. Whatever may b e H eera Si ng h' s a ` a lcultie s the case, Goolab Si ng h i s per f ec tl y r !re that were disturbance such as to incommode t ° Mak e i ts appearance, the Punjaub, with Jurn- Z e and its t reasures, would at once be seized on. synth no towtQeehie s fs may quarrel or arrange matt ers w i t h each hr a they b es t can ; they will f urn i s h us apolo hyoid gy for attacking them which they. can p roofs S ir Hardin ge h as g i v en such unequi voca l 1,4 1 ; of his d eterm i nat i on t o avo id war re2r eerve it is possible, w ith o ut dishonour, to he peace, that there is anyno fear of 4 44 0 seeking for excuses for attackin one: All to L lb t S on thi s point which g might have been li,e!'ll "rtainedtey those desirous of w i nn i ng laurels have dispelled b y t h e extent to which leave on For ate affairs" h as b een granted to military officers. four years this indulgence has been in a great v,_measure..withheld, and the result is that officers are t o .. s t aklng advantage of the privilege accorded them u nprecedent e d extent — an extent which never would have b een most permitteA had Government had the St r emote idea of a campaign in the course of the Year. cr eep You may assure t h e m i l i tary journals who nstantly arming the public with the cry of war torgsthe Punjaub, th a t war t h ere will be none with any Ye enemy on ou r b or d ers b e f ore this time next 4 t) if Sir H. Hardinge is spared. In Affghanistan, :711.We1l as i n t h e Punjaub, matters appear to be as fefn.,4ll3* More tranquillity. D os t M a h omed is mani "l.l? both able and willing to keep the peace ; there bee n some fighting in •Kohistan, in which th e -tee's Bon, Akram Khan, has been successful. LI L. A. Oit-riand sh thaoP ~ 11LC.,2i sic. 1. wijo, UP' affairs of contino priucipal )ur bonds full of tol roi -1 is kept s broke° a the tu'e occ - upled continues troops pore and g extent , :eption of of about iikarpore, Punjaub her, and ry of the t discon• )n India at since his to have f people , practical, ,pgst the Mention, in big the pro rovement ads—and e d more Lifer frail hopes ° I rule. t rid °I amount' L twelve' state of of Lora millions Nina es' ely corn' Ave it Mai° id is get' lers hale IRE 2. 00 4t' , Ut, i n want td 3r are' mean' nent or vhethef 0 7 Co • 2.4 or; political . to. the e 17thr eir hill Cis tp(~ care' ircura' els hs. 4 in the arree t 4, too in the Lt with advav sots in' Y 01° ' A t woof f, who ) hoe other' as th e j ri for Princ e giv e a wn' )siti° r/ I harne' take ° I ghlf COT xe Two eta" )r) it 4 1301 ,eO l 7 3 - pec Oh. bet only ow° [oaf Kara an ds olis 4 00P.* ,uK g ~ :• . 1 11 A. V r , • 4 _ 0 • IT • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1344. y; . Y ;. t a. a The several rumours of expeditions to various parts ot the Clitalt:ry Seelhl pure ni;)rica:lothi. A tleeisailli plague is said to have broken out in Turkistan, and to have spread to Bameean, but has not yet ex tended beyond the Hindoo Bosh. The Chinese intelligence is of a character wholly commercial, and for details on this head I may refer you t thy, extracts from the papers. We have now seen enough of the Governor-General to feel assured that his policy will be most deter mieedly pacific. According to the accounts of the East India Company lately published, conjoined with the statements made by Sir Robert Peel in intro ducing the income-tax, on the 11th of March, 1842, there was, nine years since, an excess of income over expenditure amounting to a million and a half, and that wh Elleuborough left there was an ex cess (,f expenditure over income amounting to nearly a miliinn sterling. This fearful state of matters was brought about solely by the war policy of the last six years ; before the end of the year 1847 we may have a bah,nce in our favour at least as large as that which existed in 1835. Were this expended in peaceful improvements throughout the country, yielding, as these have been invariably found to do, a return in direct profit of from 10 to 25 per cent., the Company might add a half to its revenue before the expiry of its charter. Already are all the munificent and philanthropic projects which our wars beyond the Indus caused us to throw aside begun to be resumed. Mr. Thomason, Lieutenant-Governor of the north west provinces, has entered on a tour through the Dooab Rohilkend, the valley of Dehra, and the Hureenaeab districts. While secretary to Government, this distinguished individual was one of the most zealous supporters of the Dooab Canal scheme, which now, it is hoped, under his auspices as Lieutenant- Governor, will speedily be resumed. The canal, it may be remembered, will traverse a dis tance of 270 miles, and cost the Company about a quarter of a million sterling. It will supply with the means of irrigation eight millions of acres of fer tile ground, at present barren for the want of water, and relieve a population of above two millions from the terrors of famine recurring periodically. If the people of England knew how immeasurably desirable and profitable was peace, how enormous were the re sources the expenditure of the surplus revenue of India would develop in India itself, and how fear fully calamitous, how absolutely superfluous, have been nine-tenths of our most successful wars, the value of such a man as Hardinge would come to be appre ciated as it ought. (From the Bombay Times.) The only warlike event of any political importance which during the past month has attracted attention, is the continued disquietude of the southern Mahratta country, and some further outbreaks in Sawuut Warree, which have occasioned fresh demands on the Bombay army. The political charge being about to be Owed in the braids of Col. Ovans, resident at Sat t 7.111—C01. Outran) ruturn:fly to Bombay—the former ffieer Was made prisoner 4411 his way to Kelapore, and stili remains in the hands of the enemy. No further action has taken place since our last, but an army of some 7.000 or 8,000 are still moving about in divisions through the country. '['he fort of tiadurghur was surrendered to us without serious lighting. Disaf fection seems to be more extensively spread, and more difficult to lie put down, than was anticipated. An out break in the Sa wun:. 11 arree country—a very turbulent and unmanageable district adjoining Kolapore, has oc essioned scene loss of life. and compelled further de tachments to be sent dow n from Bombay. Her Majesty's 13th Regiment, ready for embarkation for England, is to be detained another year to garrison Bombay. Her Majesty's 40th remains till next year at Calcutta. The Seikh chiefs seem to have settled their own ciaarrels without interference, and the Pun jaub is, at the date of our latest intelligence, more Peaceful, and less likely to occasion collision than it has been at any time for the last twenty months— perhaps since the death of Kurruck Singh in Novem ber, 1840, Sir Henry Hardinge continues at Cal cutta, devoting himself to the domestic improvements of the country, the extension of education, and of the means of inland transport, and striving to increase the comforts of the private soldiers of the army. He is proceeding quietly and considerately in the work of government; a s yet his rule has passed nearly without censure, and the commendations he has earned are likely to increase. Being in all respects as unlike as possible to a predecessor whose policy we are assured he was sent out to pursue, he promises to be an eminently upright, useful, and energetic Governor-General. Should he be spared to us he may yet deserve infinitely higher praise. The most ardent lovers of- martial glory are beginning to despair of gaining laurels in the field, un der the present rule, unless our neighbours should force war upon us. Everything continues tranquil in Sinde. Sickness is on the increase both at Shikar pore and Sukkur. At the former place, out of about 1,400 troops, nearly 800 are unfit for duty; at the latter, 11. M.'s 78th have only 70 men out of nearly 900 fit for service. Hyderabad and Kurrachee con tinue healthy. Sir C. Napier left the latter place on the 15th ult. for the upper country. Cholera pre vails in some regiments of the Madras army in the Southern Mahratta country. The Commander-in- Chief of India left Simla on the 12th, and is now on a tour of inspection on the north-west frontier. H. M.'s 40th are on their way down the river to Cal cutta, where they will be detained for a twelve month to garrison Fort William. The left wing of the Queen's Royals have suddenly proceeded to the Sawunt Warree country on service; they are still very sickly. The cold season is proceeding very agreeably, and p•ace•an:i trAitquillity appear to pre v;il throtigiiout India at large. We have news from China to the 12th O:tober. Commerce appears to be extend , g, and the Chinese aversion to intercourse , aith foreigeers seems on the decrease. second day after this, before our fire had opened, the t chiefs of the insurgents came into camp ; the tenor of the arrangements made with them did not tran spire, but they left the same evening (that of the 10th), attended by a company of the Madros Rifles, and two of the 23d Madras N. 1., meant to occupy the fortress. On arriving at the gate, our troops were kept waiting for nearly four hours before admission could be ob tained. The delay appears to have been occaioned by Babajee Wurrekur, the refractory Kolapore Sirdar, with 500 of his followers. A light detachment of cavalry and infantry was sent in pursuit of the fugitives, but apparently without effect. The fort was found to be of great strength, the walls being built in a scarp rock, varying in altitude from 30 to 60 feet. Nine guns and two tumbrils, well stored with grape, were found in the fort. The rapid progress of our troops, connected with the conciliatory system of Colonel Outram, are said to have occasioned the surrender of the fort, which might, with the ample resources the enemy had at hand, have been maintained against as for a very considerable time. It was of much greater strength than Samunghur, and maintained by about 1,000 Ghudkurries, who had just before been joined by about 3,000 of the malcontents, who fled from Kolapore on our approach. Meanwhile circumstances, the nature of which has not transpired, occasioned the substitution of Colonel Ovens, resident at Sattarah, for Colonel Outran), as political agent in the Kolapore territory, which was, it is said, intended to be placed permanently under the supervision of the Sat tarah agency. Colonel Ovens, on proceeding to the scene of his future exertions, was waylaid on the 17th, and made prisoner by the insurgents. He was conveyed to a very strong fort near Kolapore, where be still remains, respectfully and kindly treated, but in captivity. General Delamotte's force left Batherghud on the 19th, on its way to Kolapore. A light detachment was sent out towards Paunalgund, with a view of obtaining the liberation of Colonel Ovens. The Kolapore territory lies chiefly above the range of hills which divide the Concan or lowlands along the sea shore from the table land of the Deccan.. It consists of a great plain, skirted on the western side by the moun tains, and studded with hills of that singular character which gives such picturesqueness to the western ghauts, and such military strength to the countries where they abound. They rise, in general, suddenly from the plains, attaining an altitude of 400 or 500 feet : they are precipitous towards the summit, only the base being covered with debris or detritus, and sloping gradually. At the top they are suddenly cut off, and exhibit a large expanse of perfectly smooth grass-covered summit, often many square miles in extent. The view from one of these plateaux presents the singular spectacle of a mul titude of islands sprung up from the plain, all similarly sliced off, and presenting precisely the same appearance at nearly equal elevations. The lower rock, where this exists, is for the most part trap, and the upper are in variably laterite---a formation little known to European geologists—which overspreads the greater part of the mountains from the extreme south-west of India for ten degrees north.* Bordering with Kolapore on the west is the small territory of Sawunt Warree, in the province of Beejapore. It is about 40 miles. in length, extending from the Portuguese settlement at Goa, on the south, to the British possessions of Mahvan on the north, and in laud about 25 miles from the mountains. The general appearance of its surface is rocky and barren. The people are barbarous, fierce, and warlike, noted as rob bers and pirates from time immemorial. In 1838 we round ourselves compelled, for the fourth time within twenty years, to interfere in its affairs, so as to protect the chief from the insubordination of his subjects. At this time some of the disappointed having found refuge in the state of Gos, repeatedly made incursions into their native territory, and at one time got possession of the fort of Hunwuntghur, at another of Warren itself, blockading the passes, plundering travellers, and raising. reveeue an their OWli account. These disturbances were got under by the temperate tt(' judicious management of Mr. Spooner, whose removal wes unfortunately brought about in 1840 in consequence of some blundering in the execution of his orders, which occasioned such a loss oflives under such circumstances as to occasion a long and pain tUi inquiry, which not only caused the su,pensi.,ft of the eatical officer, but the dismissal Lieuteneet Gib ci trorn the service. Sinew then Mr. o,urtealty has been resident—a man of ability, but less successful in maintaining peace than his predecessor. Soon after the Kolapote insurrection came to a head, reports of dis contents in the Sawunt \Verret) country just described, began to gain currency. There seems to have been little in common betwixt the two countries further than this, that rebellion is often infectious ; and the disappointed, who may have fbw grievances to complain of, rise in arms in one country when they find their neighbours seeking redress in the field. But little cordiality ap pears to have existed between the occupant and heir of the throne. Phunde Savant, a chief who had in 1838 occasioned us much annoyance, having received some affront, real or imaginary, and taken umbrage at the proceedings of the court, raised his followers, and pro ceeded to plunder the country. He managed to get the young Prince, who bad also taken offence at something or another, into his hands, wishing to make it appear that he was acting with, and not against, the Govern ment, and merely wanted to get a larger share of the ad ministration for, the ruler's son. The lad, it is said, already heartily repents having given countenance to treason, and would willingly come in and do penance, but that he is afraid of punishment. Intelligence of these ,things having reached. Bombay, a wing of the Second Queen's Royals quartered at . Colabah were immediately dispatched for the scene of action on board the Akbar steamer. One half, of them had, shortly before, been in hospital : the moment it was an nounced to Colonel Carruthers that the wing was about to proceed on service, every man able to quit his cot volunteered. Many were found unfit—and some were allowed to proceed who were scarcely able to bear arms, in hopes that the sea air and change of scene might revive them. They will probably be left behind on the coast at Viagorla. Meanwhile, some small detachments of Sepoys had been attacked and roughly handled by the insurgents, somv five or six having been killed and fifteen or twenty, wounded. A treasure party about to proceed from Vingorla to Belgaum was stopped, all the escort that could . be afforded being consid ere d insufficient for its protectiom Some companies of the 23d Bengal N.I. were directed to return from Belgaum to Vingorla and Mr. Shaw, C. S., proceeded from Dharwar on pur pose to accompany the force. Major Benbow and Capt. Price, with 350 men of the Sawunt Warree local corps, made a forced march, with a view of surprising the in surgents—the result has not yet reached us. The 7th Bombay N. I. reached Vingorla from the Presidency on the 15th of November. There were now nearly m t r e o n o p o s f al l were a r s t l i l t) e t h o e n s i disaffected c b o e u n t r r e y q u ; r b e t . m B'o ore The Bombay army could supply no more ; her Ma jestv's 13th, on the eve of their departure for England, Fort George. ordered from Kurrachee to do garrison duty at ort George. The Madras . Government directed the 3d cavalry and etch N.I. to move on Kolapore by Hurryhur and Dharwar. The former left Bangalore on the 18th; the latter started on the 25th. Unfortunately cholera prevails in most of the villages on their route. The lines of the 35th M. N.I. are infested with it at Hurryhur, and considerable loss has been sustained from it amongst the European troops at Kolapore. Captain Mundell and Ensign Welt), of her Majesty's 22d, are the only officers that halfe as yet been carried off. There is scarcely more prospect at present, so far as we can see, of a speedy termination to these disturbances, than therre was two months since. The case, in fact, is one on which our information is exceedingly defective and incomplete. his said, however, that the i:isurgents have on the present occasion few real gri , vances, s,.vt: those of innovation, to complain of—innovation, not only well intended, but actually advantageous to them. The Raja of Sattarah, whose loyalty was at one time questioned by the ill-informed, has throughout acted with the utmost zeal and fidelity in our cause. - SOUTHERN MAIL RA T I'A COLT TRY. We gave in our last an account of the capture of the fort of Sumuugt , ur, the dispersion of this portion of the Kolapore insurgents, with the advance of our troops OR the capital, anti the ta‘deavour_. of Colonel Outran to bring matters to an amicable conclusion. At this date her Majesty's 22d, commanded by Colonel Poole, and a squadron ut tier Maj-st)'s 14th Dragoons, under com mand of Captain 'how, were encamped at Sattarah. They moved for Koliepore on Oct. 30, and arrived at the capita!, without accident or obstruction, on November 5.. .The 3d Madras L. 1., which left Bellary on the 11th, arrived at lielgautn on the 24th, in great strength, and in high e.pii•its and condition. They started, under the comivand of Colonel Williams, for the scene of action on the 25th, mustering 15 officers and 900 men. Colonel Wallace, now under the walls of Kolapore, contrived meanwhile to get the young chief and his mother out of the powor of their turbulent subjects, in whose hands they had been in a state of virtual durance, though os tensibly unconstrained. One company of the 21st Bom bay N.L, with some artillery, had been left in the ruined tort of Samunghur. The malcontents, on our advance, retired from Kolapore, and to the amount of about 3,000 men, proceeded to join the insurgents, who had, from the commencement of the outbreak, main tained themselves in Badurghur. A strong detachment was sent out in quest of them. It consisted of the 3d and 20th, and one company of the 23d M.N.1., three companies of the 21st 8.N.1., two of the 2d Bombay Europeans, two troops of the sth M.L.C., one troop of horse, and two companies of European foot artillery. This detachment, amounting to about 3,000 men, was commanded by General Delamotte. It halted five days within eight or ten miles of the position of the insurgents, while Colonel Outram was endeavouring to bring them to terms. On the 7th a detachment of the 21st 8.N.1., forming the advance of the force, on arriving at a hill about four miles from their previous encamp ment, found a body of the enemy in an attitude of oppo sition right on their line of march. About 400 men were pushed forward to disperse them, and having advanced without firing, a volley was poured in at the distance of about 130 yards, when the enemy broke and fled down the opposite side of the hill. They were pursued for about a mile and a half, when the recal was sounded, and the pursuers rejoined the column. From thirty to forty of the rebels are supposed to have been killed or wounded. On arriving at the new encamping ground the hills were tound to be covered with the enemy, who appeared in numbers not fewer than 1,000 to 1,200. A com pany of the Madras 23d N.I. (Rifles) were sent out to dislodge them ; when some apprehensions beginning to be entertained that they might be sur rounded and cut off, a company of the 21st Bombay N. I, was ordered to assist them. On arriving at the summit of the hill, both detachments speedily found themselves engaged with the enemy. The insurgents speedily gave way, and were f o r near l y t h ree m il es pur sedthrough a series of light breastworks and entrench ments, till they took refuge under the walls of Badur ghur. The pursuing detachment here established them selves under the last breastwork, and were next morning joined by Colonel Wallace with the remainder of the infantry. The insurgents having permitted us to esta blish ourselves, commenced a tire from a 6-pounder placed in one of the bastions ; this was hotly returned, and from sixty to seventy of the enemy were supposed to have suffered. Our camp was after this moved up to the position just referred to, held by Captain Prior's party, and here it was intended they should remain till the battering guns could be brought up, provided the enemy, in the mean time, should not have consi dered it advisable to surrender at discretion. The SINDE. Young Egypt continues this month, as last, to supply a very small amount of intelligence—the deficiency au gurs well for the state of the country. Sir C. Napier left Kurrachee, with his staff, for the upper country, on the 15th ; he was to take the sanatorium at Ahmed- Khau-ka-Tanda on his way, and hence to proceed to Sukkur and Shikarpore. A kaffila of nearly 300 camels was lately plundered near Sehwan. The troops at Kur rachee and Hyderabad, with the adjoining minor posts, are eminently healthy. At the former place public im provements continue to advance rapidly. Specimens of baysalt and saltpetre have of late been sent from Sinde to Bombay, equal in quality to any which can be pro duced in India—saleable, it is said, at infinitely lower prices. Sulphur ores have also been found, and glazed tiles and pottery are promised to be furnished us, such as cannot be manufactured by the native potteries here. The art of vitreous glazing has been long practised in Sinde ; it is unknown to Western India, where they paint or varnish their wares. Orders have been received from home to detain her Majesty's 13th and 40th another year in India ' • this is very provoking to men who looked forward to an immediate return home after 20 years' service. The cotirt-martial on Colonel Mosely, of the 64th, had concluded its proceedings ; its deci• sion has not been made known. Sickness to a deplorable extent prevailed at Shikarpore and Sukkur. At Khau gur, near the former place, 100 men were ill of fever ; the convalescents recovering very slowly. Between 700 and 800 men are in hospital at Shikarpore, where the whole force consisted of a cavalry and an infantry regi ment, and a troop of horse artillery ; the last of these was hors de combat altogether. The 78th Highlanders, at Sukkur, had only 70 men•fit for duty; above 700 were in hospital. The fever was said to have been produced by their marching up the country at an improper season. Her Majesty's 13th also suffered severely from a similar cause. The accidents of climate seem to be defied—it is a (pity they could not be disarmed by the Governor. The natives are beginning to suffer, though to an in finitely less extent than the Europeans ; the officers had in a great measure escaped. Dr. Dry, of the Madras service, at Shikarpore; Captain Browne, of her Majesty's 78th, at Sukkur ; and Dr. Barnes, of her Majesty's 86th, in charge of her Majesty's 13th, at Kurrachee, had died in the course of the month. Much of the indis position from which the privates sufter, and officers are. exempted, must be ascribed to the misplacement or bad condition of the cantonments. THE PUNJAUB. Something lik tranquillity has at length made its ap pearance in the Putijaub. The heads of .the rival fac tions hare become permanently reconciled ; Goolab Singh, the Lord of Jumbo°, with eight Millions sterling of accumulated wealth in his treasury, is no longer the opponent of Government. The country is comparatively quiet, and though as yet no master-mind has appeared fit to wield at will that fierce democracy,'" in case of fres,h oliscontents arising, it is not improbable that, with * .The very name of this singular and very abundant for mation is omitted in the indexes of Lyell, Beebe, &c. It is minutely described in various papers Clarke, Mr. Cole, and others, in the Madras Litentiy-jransactions, as also in the Asiatic Society's Journal, &c. It is considered the most important and valuable of our iron ores. It is ochery brown, soft when first dug, and full of hematite. the fear of the Affghans on the one side, and the Eng lish on the other, the Seikh chiefs, wearied NI ith nearly two years of almost incessant bloodshed and intestine quarrel, may feel desirous of endeavouring to preserve the peace. Sir Henry Hardinge exhibits no disposition to attack any of our neighbours without provocation— or to conquer new countries without justification. Our home contemporaries, who boast of the pre-eminent ex cellency of their information, and the vast value of their vaticinations, and who, ever since the reserve army as sembled in Sirhind, have been assuring us that in a few months more the flag of England would wave on the citadel of the Seikh capital—will find that they have still to bide their time. Let them not despair : if they pro phecy long enough they are sure to be right at last. The Punjaub will some time or other be ours if we find it worth taking, or are furnished with a Governor• Gen eral sufficiently warlike to overlook in the love of Con quering the price or justice of a conquest. AFFGHANISTAN. News from Affghanistan continues confused and un certain. It seems evident that Dost Ilahommed is perfectly able to collect the revenues, and maintain the government in peace—a state of matters which never obtained for a single month while the Shah Soojah had five thousand British troops to help him on. The Ameer seems to have adopted " the silent system," which was so anxiously and so ineffectually st iven after by a late ruler in India. There had been some fighting in Kohis tan, in which Akram Khan had been successful. The Candahar Sirdars are still, it is said, apprehensive of the presence of our armies in Sinde--not apparently aware that our occupation of their country was more injurious to us than to them. The history of the period f►om 1839 to 1842 must have become forgotten by the time a British army seeks again to ascend the Bolan or the Khyber Pass. Nothing had been heard at Caubul from Dr. Wolff, though it was known that he had long since left Bokhara. It seems generally believed that there is some sort .of communication in progress be tween our Government and the Caubul Sirdar, and that should any misunderstanding occur with the Seikhs, such as to lead to our advance on the Punjaub, Dost Mahommed would gladly lend us his aid on the side of Peshawur. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. NORTH-WEST PROVINCES. We learn that Major-General Sir John M'Caskill, K.C.8., will shortly succeed to the command of the sta tion of Cawnpore, on the departure of that gallant and esteemed officer, Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.8., who is about to proceed on leave. Major-Ge neral Sir Robert Dick, K.C.8., has arrived at Meerut on his way to assume command of the Cawnpore divi sion.—Delhi Gazette, Nor. 22. FUTTEGHUR, Nov. I 8.—" You will be sorry to hear that the locusts are still hovering about us, paying us almost daily visits. The natives zay that Ghausya, the dacoit, has crossed the Ganges."—lbid. MISCELLANEOUS. BolVlLLY.—Thefollowingis a list of the deaths amongst the officers of the three Presidencies, reported since the dispatch of last mail : . . TIER MAJESTY'S TROOPS. — Assistant-Surgeon G. W. Barnes, M.D., 86th Foot ; Capt. S. G. Mundell and Ensign G. Weld, 22d Foot ; Capt. C. W. James, 50th Foot ; Capt. A. W. Browne, 78th Highlanders. BounAY.—Lieut.-Col. C. Davies, 2d European L. I. ; Capt. J. H. Chalmers, 4th N. I. ; Lieut. A. Austin, 3th N.I. BENGAL. —Capt. R. N. Maclean, 2d Grdrs. N. 1.; Capt. C. Mellish, 10th L. C. ; Capt. F. E. Manning, 18th Grdrs. ; Capt. R. Alcock, 46th N. I. MADRAS.—Mejor-General M. Riddell ; Cornet W. Leslie, 6th L. C. ; Captain E. L. Durant, 3d N. L. I. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Davies, of the 2d Eu ropean L. 1., died Oct. 1, of injuries sustained by the bursting of both barrels of his fowling-piece. Ile had that morning written home to announce his intention of retiring from the service. The - steam frigate Semiramis, which arrived on Thursday, left Kurrachee on the forenoon of Sunday hst. Owing to the scarcity of coal in Bombay. she re .•eivA orders to sail down. She experienced nothing Out light baffling winds, which often dwindled down into calms of many hours' duration. She got up her steam on approaching Bombay, and on the whole has made a most excellent passage. Yesterday forenoon the Semi ramis received orders to proceed once more to Kurra chee, and she starts, we understand, this morning, for the purpose of bringing down a portion of her Majesty's 13th L. 1., which the Sesostris And Pluto may be unable to accuminodate.—Bombay Times, Nov. 30. A notice was issued yesterday stating that no tenders are required at present for the convey ance to England of her Majesty's 13th Regiment, which is expected from Kurrachee. The want of European troops in the garrison of Bombay is such, that after the de parture of the wing of the Queen's there was not a suffi cient number to form guards for the Mint and Castle. Luckily the company, of her Majesty's 17th Regiment, which came from Ahmednuggur and was destined for Aden, arrived: their departure is not to take place by the next steamer for the Red Sea, as it has been post poned until another opportunity. The Queen's have left upwards of 100 men sick at Colabah.—Gent/eman's Gazette, Nov. 29. Captain James Henry Chalmers, of the Rifle Regi ment, Native Infantry, Commandant of the marine bat talion, died at Bombay, Nov. 23. He had served in India twenty-six years. THE LATE MR. BAINDRIDGE.—We are deeply grieved to notice the death of Charles Hardy Bainbridge, Esq., oue of the solicitors of the Supreme Court. The de clining health of Mr. Bainbridge for many months, in some measure prepared his friends for the melancholy event, which took place on the evening of the 18th inst. Mr. B. enjoyed, fo. the last six years, a lucrative and highly respectable practice, as a solicitor, in partnership with the late Mr. Patch, and was followed to the grave, Tuesday evening, by a large number of both branches of his profession, and of the principal mer chants of Bombay, his friends and clients.—Bombay Courier. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY COMMERCIAL RETROSPECT. BOMBAY, DEC, 2. Curia. —We have received accounts from China to the 10th Oct., by the Anonyma, which arrived here on the evening of the 27th of November. Letters from Calcutta give intelligence of two days later date. The following extract from a letter of the 26th September gives so clear an account of the state of the market as to save us the trouble of any narrative of our own:—" Our Opium Market has been in a gradually declining state for some weeks, the legitimate demand has been limited, and the speculative demand has entirely ceased in con sequence of the heavy loss incurred on the numerous time bargains recently entered into, few of which were contracted for at less than 800 dolls., or have been cleared at less than 40 dolls. per chest. Our present prices are, f , e. New Patna, 745 dolls.; New Benares, 720 dolls.; and Malwa, 740 dolls. The Cowasjee Family and Kelpie are shortly expected, and we therefore cannot calculate upon any material or permanent improvement in prices. In Malwa, any rise in price must be wholly nominal, for there is actually none good here, and the Chinamen have almost ceased to attend to the article. The report here is that the new crop of Malwa will not fall far short of 30,000 chests, and that some has been already contracted fur at 1,200 and 1,300 rupees. If the crop is really so large, prices must rule low even supposing the quality to be good. The crop of Bengal is also, we hear, large ; and altoge ther we think that prices in China must present an ave r ige fur next season considerably lower than that of the present year. The Cotton market is very flat. Old stapl.: will hardly find purchasers at any price. The quotation fir new Bombay is, taels 6. 5 at 7. 5 ; Bengal Laois, 6. Exchange on England, 4s. 3d. Freight to England, 41." Intelligence from Canton had been re ceived of anything but a pacific nature. Two European firms had made arrangements for building factories on the site of the old ones ; their intentions had been, how ever, frustrated by the threats of the Chinese. A party connected with opium smuggling had been secured and were taken in cages to the city. The smugglers are said to have been well punished by one party ; while on the other hand it is affirmed they were liberated, as the con tents of the chests were so metamorphosed that not an ounce of drug did they contain. An edict issued by Keying, the Imperial Commissioner, respecting a native of Tsing-yuen, who was shot dead by an American, is worthy of perusal—it will be found amongst our extracts. The American Ambassador was requested to deliver up the murderer in order that he might be punished by death according to usage. There seems still to be a great want of confidence on the part of the Chinese to wards their European mercantile brethren. Discontent and insubordination are now as prevalent among the Chinese in the . city of Canton as they have ever been. The tea-men of Canton have issued a circular to the foreign merchants with respect to prices for the present year's crop. The circular is much too lengthy to be given entire, but we subjoin an extract or two ; " Whsreas the grand principles for conducting com merce are sincerity, truth, and justice, and the necessary and important requisites for preparing tea all depend on the seasons of heaven and human strength, the product depending upon whether the season has been favourable or adverse, and the price, whether high or .low, being ruled by the state of the market ; this is what each and all quietly made their account for, and it is unnecessary , to dilate upon it. Of late years, in selecting W 0 0 .43 teas fir your honourable countries, you have not only c h osen leaf,th every t you finest sorts of stillspring mor e leaf, desired small theleaf; Ro-kau and and tender Woo-ning teas, each one striving with another who should be the first to contract for them. Hence the Chinese merchants have hurried with their baggage to the hills, and the people o those places have seen them crowding thither like bees. This is the reason why the price of tea is so exorbitantly high. The hardships and difficulties endured by the Chinese merchants in thus redoubling their haste in bringing forward the teas, and in their hurried journeys to assist and urge on its trans ports, have all been disregarded by them. Formerly the Wei). e teas began to arrive successively in the 9th and 10th month, but now they have at length come to arrive in the sth an,' 6th month, each one following another like a string of f i sh . Thi s is all owing to the universal desire for gain. How could we know that all you honourable merchants should change your former way, and become so crafty and deceitful, merely choosing a few tens of chops of the most superior Wocaning teas, and forthwith desi s ti ng (f rom purchasing), causing people to feel the most anxi ous an d painful suspense—the misery of those who look to the corner of the walls and who sigh after painted prunes. Ilow is it that tea:which has been `fixed ' when offered f a. delivery has been rejected and all at once pronounced, unequal to the muster, rejecting it without any proof, and forcing it back? Your minds are solely bent on your own advantage, and therefore you desire to injure others. We consider that the tea called 'Sparrow's tongue' has: a tongue indeed, but it cannot speak for itself; that the under leaf, 'Living Fragrance,' has indeed a fragrance. hich dues not relish such disparagement, Had you a thousand hills and ten thousand Waters, where you might select your teas, we yet fear you would not find them excellent,' and that each successive season would witness the deliv er y t o you b y the dealers of goods that had been previously settled for. The former tea' (you would say) was better. then, and you would not. take it, and would for your own convenience return what had been already agreed upon. It is .diflicult to submit voluntarily to things of this nature. Besides the Woo ning sorts of teas surpass six hundred in number, but you would not be satisfied with myriads. You 'blow upon the hair of the skin. to look for sores,' and what fault is there for which y ou may notframe a pretence ? In former years among all the Woo-e teas there were but a few chops usually rejected ; the former dealers and preparers of tea possessed sin cerity and good faith, and that in no small measure. How, let us ask, can the price of the Ning teas be reduced so much ?. You are all joined in making this the custom, and habitually practise it, which we think is inconsistent with all reason, and will not be agreed to. Formerly the price was fixed when the tea was shown to the merchant ; they did not point to a deer and say it was a horse,' they had not the slightest tinge of such principles. How could they deceive them by giving them a fish's eye for a pearl,' or a streaked pebble for a precious stone ? And how is it that the Chinese merchants were formerly so simple and are now become so knowing ?'" The Government of Macao are said to be literally in solvent. The troops who garrison the city have been unpaid since April last. The Friend of China of the 31st August notices the total wreck of the American ship Convoy, on the island of Luconia, on the Ist Aug. The schooner Osprey, arrived at Hong-Kong on the 24th Sept., reports having fallen in, on the sth of July, with an extensive reef, in lat. 31 N., long. 144 50 E. The London Mail of the Bth August reached Hong-Kong on the Bth October— two months between London and Victoria. DEATH OF CAPT. SCOTT, LATE OF THE SHIP EARL OF CLARE.—Accounts received this week from China, we regret to say, announce the death, after a short illness, of Captain James Scott, of the ship Earl of Clare, et the Blenheim Reach, on the 3d of October. Captain Scott, who stood first on the list of country captains, had been 24 years in the service. He was well known and very much respected here by all engaged in the China trade, and in private fits greatly esteemed. His family, who were with him in China, are now on their return, in the ship Buckinghamshire, to Bombay. THE BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.) BOMBAY, DEC. 2.—The celebration of the newellee holi days during the early part of the past month, put a stop, as usual, to all active commercial operations, and when busi ness about the 10th ult. was again resumed, the dealers evinced no inclination to make extensive purchases. Cer tain transactions—noticed more particularly below--exer cised a most prejudicial effect on the market for piece goods, while twist, metals, and almost every description of imports, were dull of sale, and with few exceptions declined in value. Business has latterly been done to some extent, but prices have not rallied, and still continue, generally speaking, ex tremely low. It is to be hoped, however, that as the depres sion, in the principal instances, has been owing to a temporary cause, trade will soon exhibit a more promising aspect. Metals.—Transactions have been limited, and fresh impor tations having taken place, prices have in one or two cases suffered still further reduction. We quote one small sale of sheathing copper at 52 rupees per cwt., but nothing else has been done at so high a rate, and 44 rupees is now the best price that can be obtained for the article. South American has also been disposed of at 40 rupees, but 45 and 46 rupees is the present rate. Tile, however, has improved in value, 484 rupees per cwt. having been refused for it. In iron, British tar and nail rod are both lower than before. Quick silver has declined somewhat ; but lead, steel, spelter, and tin plates, remain without alteration. We subjoin a few sales : Copper 9O cwt. sheathing 100 ditto 10* ditto 300 South American at 49 Iron 9O tons Swedish bar ...... at 48i per candy. 200 tons English bar 420 cwt. square nail rod at 30 461 bundles sheet at 6 per cwt. 300 cwt. hoop Spelter 5OO cwt at 15 Tin Plates ...100 boxes Orsidue We have also been apprised of sales of 3,064 cwt. Iron.—Bar and bundle, at 24 rupees per candy, and 3,000 cwt. sheet (damaged) at 4i rupees per cwt. Cotton Manufactures.—Soon after the termination of the holidays, and resumption of business, rumours gained ground that a partial failure of the grain crops had taken place in Malwa, and that Calcutta piece goods, newly imported there, were underselling those from Bombay ; and it was also stated that, owing to this state of affairs, orders which had been sent here had been withdrawn or greatly contracted in extent. Influenced, it is supposed, by these reports, one or two extensive holders forced their goods suddenly on the market—a course which necessarily occasioned a consider able reduction in the prices of many fabrics, and which, had not the major part of the importers kept firm, must have been attended with even more serious effects. Grey Mada pollaina and long-cloths of tine qualities are at present in fair demand, at about previous rates, but the low and mid dling descriptions are cheaper. Grey domestics pave been sold to a limited extent; but jaconets are quite neglected, and sales of them to any amount are impracticable, even at a serious reduction. All sorts of bleached goods are in very limited demand, and have declined in value. For Turkey red goods there has been some demand, and transactions in them have taken place at fair rates. Prints are in rather bet ter request, but the prices obtainable are still extremely low. Yarns.—The market has been dull throughout the month, and prices of most numbers, both of mule and water, have given way, as will be perceived by a reference to our quota tions. Turkey red yarn has been sold at 1-6-3 at 1-9-0 rs., and we note a sale of orange so low as 10i annas per lb. Mule Twist, No 20 ... 10,4001 b. at 6i to 6i as. 15,200 ... 2,000 ... 6, • 30 ... 15,200 ... 38 ... 600 ,8} 40 ~. 29,600 ... 22,000 ... tit to 8i as. 50 ... 12,300 ... 10 • 6,400 ... 9i 60 ... 3,000 ... 12 70 ... 500 ... 14 Water Twist, N 0.20 ... 15,200 ... 6g 2,400 ... 6 15,200 ... 45,200 ... 8 16,000 ... 20 at 34 ... 6,600 ... tit t Turkey Red Yarn ... ' 4,000 ... 1 6 3 re. 40 to 50 ... 3,200 ... 1 9 0 Orange ... 10,000 ... 010 6 Sewing thread ...' 1,000 ... 3 30 pr grose. Woollens have been in moderate request, but lower rates have, nevertheless, been accepted by holders. A sale of 986* yards, at 1.6-0 rs. per yard, has been reported to us for publication. Marine Stores are still without demand, and prices, with the exception of those of pitch and coal tar, which have both receded, remain as they were at the date of our last publication. Cochineal is in request, and the market firm. We have been informed of a sale of 3,0991 b. at 2irs. per lb., and 2-13 rs. has, we hear, been since refused. - - 30 ... Saffron is in better request than last month. The following transactions have taken place :- 1 case at 28i rupees. 2401 b. at 23i to 244 rupees. Bottles retain last month's prices; 300 gross of quarts have been sold at rs. per dozen, and 1,146 dozens of pints at 14 annas ;55 gross of the latter have also been disposed of at 13A annas. Beer.—We have no transactions to record, and but little can be done till the arrival of the October brew, the stocks on hand being extremely small. We requote last month's rates for all brands. Spirits.--A sale of 28 hhds. of brandy at 2i rs. per gallon has been reported; also one of 100 gallons of gin at 2 rs. 14 an. per gallon. Stocks continue light. EASTERN PRODUCE. Cottou.—Prices have further given way since the depar ture of the last mail. Broach and Surat being 7 re. to 9 re. ; Dollera, Ir. to 2 ; Oomrawattee. 3 rs. to 5 ; Barsee, 5 re., and Compla, 3 rs. lower than before.. We have been ap. prised of purchases of 1,000 bales of Broach at 81 re., and 300 bales of Surat at 82k rs. per candy. The unfavourable state of both the English and China markets has produced this reduction, and the nature of our latest advices from the last-named quarter gives reason to expect a still further de &oaf Coffee.—There is no alteration to notice in the price e any variety. Elephants' Teeth.—We repeat last month's quotations, with the exception of that for large teeth, 140 maunds of which have been purchased at rates varying from 87 re. to 88 per maund. Opium—Has declined very considerably since our last, the present price being only 1,175 rs. per cheat, while last menth's rates were 1,410 I& to 1;420. Pepper.—There is still no bhutcol/ in the market, and the price of Malabar is a trifle lower than before. Wool.—The high rate mentioned in our last is still main tained, and purchases have been made to some extent. A considerable quantity was seized in the early part of the month at the Custom-house, and on being put up to sale by auction realised the high prices of 143 rs. per candy. FREIGHTS. Freights have risen since our last, ansl may now be quoted at 31. 10s. to London, and 31. 7s. 6d. to Liverpool. To China the rate is rs. 15 to 16 per candy. Tenders were a few days since invited for the convayance to England of her Majesty's 13th Regiment, but the exigencies of the public service ren dering it necessary that the corps should remain for the pre sent in India, the vessels which had tendered were left to seek other employment. This caused freights, which had mean while advanced, to decline again to a trifling extent. MONEY MARKET. There is no change whatever to notice in the prices of the different Government securities, which may still be quoted as under : Five per Cent. Loan of 1825-26 Four par Cent. Loan of 1832-33 .... ... ... 109 to 110 re. 105 106 Four per Cent. Loan of 1835-36 ... 991j—100 Five per. Cent. Loan of 1841-42 ... 110 11% Four per Cent. Loan of 1842-43 ... 99e —lOO EXCHANGE. Exchange on England has altered but little since our last, the present rates being, for six months' bills, at Is. 9id. to Is. 9id., and for 30 days' bill Is. 9id. to Is. 90. A few transactions in the former, however, have taken place at Is. 10d. On Calcutta exchange is at 99*, and on Madras 99 14 0 at 60 days' sight. BA.NKS. The shares of the Bombay Bank have risen a little in va lue, the , present quotation being 53 per cent. premium. Shares of the Bank of Western India are quoted at 43 per cent. BULLION. Sovereigns, each 11 to 111 rupees. Bank of England notes, per aE j FREIGHTS. The current rates noted below, but there is not much cargo offering either for Great Britain or China. To London , 3l. 10s. To Liverpool .. , .. . 3/. 7s. 6d. To Clyde No ship. . To China To ditto, opium per clipper 3 to 4 ars. IiXCIIANGES. London, 6 months' sight I Is. 9i-d. to Is. 10d. Ditto, 30 days' sight Calcutta, GO days' sight Ditto, 30 days' sight Madras, 60 days' sight , 991 do. Ditto, at sight , lOl do. Canton, 6C! days' 5ight.....,....,•..,..... 221 do. * The stock at the date of . the latest intelligence w as esti mated at 150,000 bales . Yncea were quite nominal • PRICES OF BULLION Sovereigns, each Bank of England notes, per £ Spanish dollars, 'per 100 • German crowns, per 100 Sycee silver, per 100 tolas Gold leaf, per tola BANK OF. BOMBAY. DISCOUNT. 11ri. 2a. ;111 ' 1 'Airs. 2a. 226 to 227irs. 216 to 217 N. 104 rs. 17 to 17 ire. On Government bills, above 30 days, 4 per cent. On Government bills, within 30 days, :3 per cent. On private bills, at or within three months, 6 per cent. INTEREST. On loans, and cash credit accounts on deposit of Govern ment notes, 5 per cent. • Ditto, on deposit of bullion, 54 per cent. Ditto, on deposit of me t a l s , and other goods, 6 per cent. Bank Shares-52 to 53 rs. per cent. premium. Last divi dend, 7 per cent. Payments, January and July. The Bombay Bank takes charge of Government Securi ties, Bank and other Stock Certincates, and realises interest and dividends on such as are payable in Bombay, for consti tuents. Parties discounting bills may take them up at any period prior to their maturity, and the Bank will refund the dis count tbr the unexpired portion of the time such bills may have to run. Post-bills, ranted payable at three days' sight, free of charge, and bills payable at 4Jalcutta, Madras, and Agra, granted at the rate of_exchange of the day. STATE OF THE MARKET AT CHUSAN. (From the'Friend of China, Sept. 14.) From Chusan we have received a full report of the state at the market on the 20th of August. The prices in Ningpo at that date were very similar, but the business .of the port quite trifling, certainly not sufficient to warrant the expen sive consular establishment to which our correspondent " Vinde - x " refers in our issue to-day. So long as Chusan is in our possession, Ningpo will be a place of limited commerce. Merchants prefer .Chusan as a place of residence,. and from the contiguity of the other port, they can at all times cross in a few: hours and satisfy themselves of the state of the market. Buyers also appear •to give•a preference to the Chusan market, probably because they, be bribing or smug gling, save a large portion of the import duties. IMPORTS. C,orroN Gent's. • Long Cloth, bleached Stock moderate and saleable Long Cloth grey The goods. in first hands are not more that 2,500 pea, of an indifferent quality. Better fabrics are in demand. American Domestics, 32 yard pcs. At present the market is quite bare of this description of goods. Those ex-Thomas Crisp and Andromache brought a trifle above the quotation. American Drills ...... Drs. 3, — None in first hands. A moderate shipment, say 806 pas., would be placed readily. Cotton Yarns, No. 16 Thisis the nominal price, with little doing, and at present there is no prospect of an improvement. Cotton Chintz Small parcels have been sold at our quotations, but the market is languid, with large stocks. WOOLLENS. Long Ells, asserted colours ... Drs. 7.60 to B. scarlet Saleable, especially the latter. Spanish Stripes... There is some inquiry for Spanish-Stripes, and favourite colours are saleable at about quotation. Comblets, assorted colours Very little doing at present. . Broad Cloth... per Yard Drs. 9, Drs. 2.60. The stock is moderate and sales making in dark colours, black and blue. . . •.. MITALS. Iron. None in the market. •Nominal quotation in bar Drs. 3.5. THEUNITED STATES AND CHINA We have received the following copy of the official notification relative to the negotiation and signing of the treaty lately concluded by the United States with China, which Mr. Cushing has dispatched to his Government " United States Legation, Macao, July 4. " The Minister of the United States has the pleasure to announce that, yesterday, at Wanghi, he concluded and signed with the Imperial Commissioner. Keying a treaty of peace, amity, and commerce between the United. States and China. " The terms of the treaty, which will in due time be made public by the proper authorities, are sueh, he is happy to say, as he believes will confirm the good under standing which already exists between the two Govern ments, and, if ratified, prove beneficial to the commerce and interests of the citizens and subjects of both countries. " The Minister of the United States congratulates his countrymen on this event, and offers them, on this happy anniversary of the independence of their country, his hearty wishes for their health and prosperity, and joins them in their aspirations for the continued peace, wel fare, and glory of the United States." PORTUGAL. . - We have received letters f rom our Lisbon correspon dent of the 25th of December. The efforts made to sustain the funds at the prices quoted at our last dates have proved ineffectual. The Five per' Cent. Scrip of the home debt - had fallen, on the 17th instant, from 71 to 65, and up to the 25th no sales at a higher price had been made. The rage for the formation of capitalist companies still continued. A new Company, with a capital, on paper, of 20,000 contos, upwards of four millions and a half sterling, had sprung up in one day, and gone through all th e s t ages of its in corporation in twenty-four hours after the submission of the project to the Sovereign. It is to be feared that these speculations arise too much out of emergencies in the money market, and others of a political kind, to afford indications of a healthy state of things either in finances or politics. Mr. Tozer, the English gentleman who has been im prisoned iu various gaols and fortresses in Lisbon, Caimbra, and Oporto on a charge of aiding and abetting the designs of the persons implicated in the late revolt, has been brought to trial, after as incarceration of up wards of nine months, and acquitted. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSEtS, DEC. 31.—The average price of Wheat last week was 16f. 71c., and that Of Eye 10f. 43e. per hectolitre. • There is no alteration in the duties on importation and exportation. Their Majesties arrived yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, by a special train from Valenciennes. The Senate adjourned indefinitely on the 31st, after having voted the project of law relative to the treaty with the Zollverein. A correspondent at Paris informs us, that if no com mercial arrangement should immediately take place be tween Belgium and France, it is at least reciprocally and amicably agreed that the status quo shall continue.— Courier Beige. BRUSSELS, JAN. I.—The Moniteur Beige, of this day, contains the official promulgation of the treaty with the Zollverein, with his Majesty's sanction. A Sur "Ber."—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay a wager, on the Presidential e l ec ti on , w i t h any eligible young man, viz., that if Polk were elected, she was the winner, and should have her opponent for a husband ; but if Polk were defeated, then her opponent was the winner, and would be entitled to have her for a wife NOVEL ARTICLE or IMPORT PROM AIISTRALIA....- We have been shown some candied peaches from Sydney, which are said to be the first which have reached Eng land from our Australian colonies. They are quite equal in flavour to the French dried plums, and a much finer fruit. --Manchester Guardian. Tn FREE CHURCH COLLEGE.—Lord Jeffrey has addresied the following letter to the editor of the Scots man :---"Sir,—My attention having been called (for the first time this morning) to a statement in your paper of last Wednesday, with reference to a report of my having been one of the munificent contributors to the projecttd college of the Free Church, I am bound to disclaim the credit of any such splendid liberality, and to state that I have not subscribed anything to that undertaking.. It will be obliging in you, therefor e , t o men ti on th e fact in your next publication. I am, Sir, &c., F. thIFFRItY.- 24, Morray-pleioe, Dec. 17. ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRIAI4 AMBASSADOR.—We have to annouiace the arrival in this country of his Ex cellency Count, Maurice Dietrichsen, the newly accre dited Ambassisdor from Austria to the British Court, who reached Chandos House, .aecompanied by his Countess, at a late hour on Tuesday night, travelling via Brussels from Vienna. His Excellency will have an audience of her Majesty on Monday next, to present his credentials. The investiture of the Knights of St. Patrick is postponed from to-day, the 4th, to Monday, the 6th of January. • - FORGERY AT 'BEIM—An audacious forgery was committed on the bank of Messrs. Oakes, and Co., in Bury, last week, by a person employed as clerk to the Norwich and London Direct Railway Company, named Boning, from. London. He had obtained leave of ab sence to spend Christmas with his friends, and some sur prise was excited by his not returning at the time ap pointed. On the, bank book being examined, an entry was found of a payment of 1021. for which the directors had given no ori3er, 'and on inquiry it was found that the money had been paid to Boning on a cheque bearing forged signatur es of Mr. Eagle, Mr. Prigg, and Mr. Beard, three of the directors of the company.—Chelten ham Chronicle. LIABILITY OT TITHES AND CHARITABLE INSTITU TIONS TO BE ItATED.—On Thursday a meeting of the churchwardens and overseers of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, was held in the vestry-room of the church, for the purpose of making a rate towards the relief of the poor, when two very important points were mooted, viz., that of rati mg the stipend of the rector, and which affects every lip ring in the city of London ; the other point, relative to the rating of charitable property, which also' affects every charitable institution iu the kingdom. The, Rev. Mr. Horton, the rector, remon strated against. this attempt to diminish his stipend, which was only 4 00 L, out of which he was compelled by law to pay a esnraate 150/. If his income were thus re duced, he should apply-to Parliament for an increase of his stipend. After , some discussion, in the course of which it was stated that counsel's opinion had been taken on the point, and that they bad pronounced the stipend of the clergynit in to be legally rateable, it was moved and carried that. the Rev. Mr. Ilorton's stipend be rated at only 1501. per annum. The next question of rating Bethlem Hospital was then considered. The opinions of counsel taken oat this point were directly opposite. Mr. Gutch, the solicitor to the parish, read the judgment given by Lord Denman in the case of the Quaker school at Croydon Gibe try which was v. the Inhabitants of Croydon), an d Precisely in point to Bethlem Hospital, and in that case Lord Denman laid it down that the ratal was good. The Governors themselves knew from their own counsel whom they had employed to defend the ap peals, that the y were liable. It wan ultimately agreed that a case sh( mid be drawn up, embodying the whole of the points, t o be laid, if possible,' before her Majesty's Attorney-Gen nal, or some other eminent Queen's coun sel, for his °pi) non, for the future guidance of the pariah officers, THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT. TO THE SOCIETY OF Cl.l. lIKS OF THE UNIONS OF THE NORTMALN DISTRIC OF ENGLAND. In complying with your request that I should furnish in detail the plan of national poor-law relief suggested by me at our meetings during the past year, in order that its bearings might be considered with reference to the suggested Bill, as introduced into the House of Com mons at the close of the last session by Sir James Grea ham, intituled " A Bill to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Parochial Settlement, and to the Re s moval of the Poor;" I am fully aware of the great re sponsibility and difficulties attendant on the course of any one attempting an alteration of existing laws, or opposing settled opinions and fixed prejudices. I will premise that it has now become a maxim of our coma tution that no poor person in England shall exist in want for a longer period than his requireinents shall become known to the proper authorities for the relief of the poor. To trace down the lees of settlement and relief from Henry the Eighth to the present time, which I at first contemplated (and which laws have made this maxim), is rendered unnecessary by the able report which since your request I have had placed in my hands from Committee appointed by the town council of the borough of Leicester. It were a work of supererogation again to travel over ground so well occupied by that report; and I proceed to the statement of facts •connected with (Air union of Stockport, and to the plan suggested, which has been' so favourably received by a body of gentlemen connected as you are with a population of several mil lions, and with the principal manufacturina districts of the north of England, Under the laws so ably traced by the Leicester re port, the borough of Stockport has grown up from small ville, and become a populous manufacturinc , dis trict, containing 60,000 inhabitants. For the purposes of the poor-laws it is divided into: five districts or townships, each maintaining its own' poor—namely, Stockport, Heaton Norris, Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley. Stockport . being the township originally located, has b ecome b u il t ' up, and the population has extended into the adjacent, townships of Heaton Norris, Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley. Stockport township has the largest amount of poor, and from its local position and from giving the name to the district, it has also the disadvantage of paying for all casual paupers ; its neighbouring townships receive all the advantages of the tradeof Stockport, without any of the disadvantages. The' poor-laws have been intended as a national ar rangement, and have become part of our constitution ; but the method devised n) our ancestors to carry these laws into operation, was through the medium of arbi trary local divisions called parishes. These parishes have in many cases been sub-di v id e d into smaller arbi trary divisions called townships ;, andby the *Poor-law Amendment Act these parishes and townships havebeen: united into larger districts called unions ; but in these: unions the relief of the poor of each township is kept, strictly separate, and each township is exclusively charged with the expenditure caused by the relief of its, own particular paupers. By thus localising the charges of maintaining the poor,: whether in parishes or townships, much misery has been: and still is caused. Boards of guardians will act on , different principles : some pauperise whole districts ;: others depopulate them. Landowners cause the surplus population to migrate. Manufacturers, in time of com mercial distress, .send back again this originally agri cultural surplus population. Local authorities, as it were, shoulder the miserable wretch requiring relief out. of their locality; and struggles in each district are con-I tinually carried on through the medium of assistant overseers, relieving officers, removal officers, magistrates clerks; attorneys, and barristers-at-law, in reference to pauper settlements; which struggles entail an enormous expense on the parishioners; and all this to prevent the necessity of a few shillings being given in time of need to a pauper by one set of local authorities called Over seers, which according to law declared through all the mazes of legal teehnicality, ought to be given by the, overseers of another locality. And as the relief in dis puted cases is generally given unwillingly (it may be said as a general rule, with great parsimony), miserable is the wretch who awaits the decision of a parish law suit, to ascertain by what parish his necessary relief must be given. What is the real remedy? Is it. by destroying all settlements but that of birth? or by changing the birth settlement by a settlement to b e acquired from time to time by a five years' residence in any other parish? This would merely continue the evil s o f the present system; nay, if possible, it would aggravate them. ' It would cause the landowner to pull down every cottage on his estate not absolutely required for his own labourer. It' would be a premium for cruelty. It would `confer . different settlements by the mere result of the - accident of birth, on different members of the same family—(a family of eight children might each have a ,different birth-settlement); and lastly, by this legislative altera tion of existing settlements, in would cause one town ship to gain that which it would cause another townsbip to lose; and this without any sufficient reason, without compensation in any way. The present law of settlement is well ascertained. There are no difficulties ROW, save those as to the facts; - and those which arise from technicalities. Remove the technical objections as soon as pos ible. This may he done; but the facts, in case of dispute, will always have to be settled by evidence, and this therefore you cannot settle by Act . of Parliament. Not one appeal in ten at the present day is decided on the merits. But few set tlements are disputed on a difference of opinion as to what the merits are; technical objections, and those only, are tke questions decided by the courts. And I hold it to be a disgrace to our Legislature, and to the parties who expound the Acts of the Legislature, that every advantage is given in our courts of law to tech nical objections. The rule of the courts of law is not, Is the prisoner guilty ? or, Is the pauper really settled ? but, Is the commitment technically worded, or the examinations a perfect specimen of special pleading ? If after hearing a long, learned, and elaborate address from counsel, proving that according to law certain words omitted ought to have been inserted in commits ment or order of removal, the Court of Queen's Bench or quarter sessions, agreeing in opinion with the advoa cate, were to send the commitment or order back to the magistrate for correction, or correct it by one of its own officers, there would be no premium for technical objections—justice would be done ; but much business would be abolished, and criminals would not escape, nor parishes be mulcted, as they do and are at present. What, then, is the real remedy, the humane and Christian-like remedy, for the evils of the present sys tem ? It is to make the relief of the poor purely na tional—to make every part of England where a poor ' man may reside really and truly his home—to prevent removal officers by law separating him • from the place • where his happiest days have been spent—to make the relieving officer the real messenger of charity—to relieve distress when and as soon as it arises—and to banish for ever those insane struggles and legal tights to decide • from which local purse the necessary relief must be • abstracted. And how is this to be done ? By abolishing the poor's-rate altogether, and placing the relief' of the poor upon the Consolidated Fund. The army and navy are kept out of this fund, and why should not the poor ? The poor are caused by distress, agricultural and corns mercial. In times of distress the Legislature is always appealed to, and professes to be able to give a remedy ; and surely for the purposes of this letter we may take it for granted, that the Legislature is more or less answer able for the continuance of distress. It will be granted that no imlividual township can in itself hare any power to cause, avert, or prevent national distress. Stockport cannot cause or prevent distress as regards Heaton- Norris, nor the converse. No one township, therefore, ought to be detrimented by local distress. The law of settlement was caused by a desire to prevent hordes of beggars from rambling across the country. and maraud ing without warrant. The destruction of it in the pre sent day would prevent theta from rambling in the same way with warrant, accompanied by official parties, at • immense expense to the parishes concerned. To such a comprehensive plan as a general abolish ment of the poors'-rate, and with it the law of settle ment, I know there will be a horde of objectors. The parish officer's occupation, who ferrets out settlements, would be gone, and he is generally the clever man in each union. His hostility would be roused against any . such plan. The removal . officer, who journeys with, paupers from Land's End to Scotland, would be dis pensed with; would his evidence be in favour of such a plan ? The magistrate's clerk, who receives now very large fees for the examinations and removal orders, would find his fees diminished; and lie is a person of no slight influence. The attorney-at-law, who conducts the appeals and sessions business incident thereon, would be minus his bill ; and I am not one to underrate the influence which the attorneys have in this country. The barrister-at-law, who only receives a fee after the case is fairly launched in court, would have no appeal busi ness. And let any one attend the Yorkshire sessions for ones appeal-day, and see the entry of settlement appeals at Pontefract, and then ask if the barristers, as a class, can be sufficiently patriotic to abandon settlement liti-. gation? I do not mean to say all the before.mentionea . 'in dividuals will oppose a comprehensive measure beneficial to their country. There are individuals at all times' ready to come out from their class, and advocate views detrimental to their class-interests. But in classes class-interests will predominate; and it may fairly be inferred that all those classes will oppose a general and comprehensive view of the subject. There are several ways of objecting to an alteration. I will endeavour to deal with those which I can anti cipate. Ist. It will be said, bow can you make it a national charge, and at the seine time have a local distribution of the relief ? 2d. At present, the comparative expense to some townships is light, and N. by should they lose the present. advantage ? The first objection, which is in reality the only one, is placed first and will first be replied to ; as, if that can„ be disposed of, none other nerd be feared. That pauperism is a national evil, not a local one. f ew will dispute. That nn local district, arbitrarily f anne d by a brook or accidental mere stone can have aT A y e ff ect in the prevention of pauperism or its causea, will be by few denied. The propriety of a national charge there fore results; and now comes the question how a local • administration of them can be free firm injustice. It may be done by a staff of officers comprising about one-half of the officers already employed. The Excise and Customs are managed lit able and competent per sons. The army and navy are paid by properly ap pointed parties. Every department of Government has , its efficient management ; and there is no reason why the administration of the vele-laws should not be a 'de partment of Government, and be equally well managed. The unions remaining as at present, and changed' as circumstances may require (u-efnlrtess alone being th guide), the following others wvuld be requisite:—A pa' a . * O4