The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

INDIA.

Correspondence dated Calcutta, September 13, gives
us the following information. At the meeting of the
Govenior-General and the Commander-in-chief, at Cawn.
je,re, the last (Jude campaign will be finally decided on.
" It will be a small affair, flying columns, chiefly of
Sikhs, penetrating into Nev e! in all directions, in pur-
suit of the 6,000 nbels still lurking in the lower hills.
Jung Bahadoor could drive them out if he pleased, but
it AVVIIIs he has scruples which the gift of A strip of ter-
ritory four milea wide by 21M) long, extending from
Ooruckiaire to l'hillibheet, does not settle° to ttttt ve.
Sonic large gangs in Bundelcund are ALIO very trouble-
some, and it was deemed necewiary is few days since to
concentrate 4.(U) or 5,000 men at Sangor. They are,
however, of no real importance. As soon as these ope-
rations are completed the native troops, or military
police, in Oude will he reduced to about men,let.s
than half the number employed before the mutinies.
The reduction is expedient, but it must not be formt-
ten that these reductions save nothing except Care
wages—the smallest item of military expenditure. The
noires of the regiments still exists, and the officers must
be prieridi.sl for.
Another and a very much larger reduction has been
made on paper, nothing less than that of the Bengal
Army. By an immensely long general order, issued on
the 13th ult., some 00 regiuienta cease to exist. Four-
teen are reanned. but some of these are very weak, and
will probably be reduced to seven. The order, how-
ever, is merely on paper. The discharged reginienta—
, the 2nd Greniuliera excepted—discharged themselves,
and the relief to the State will only be the pay of about
$OO men of all ranks. The her of officers is, <4
course, unaffected; and regimental promotion goes on in
corps which have ceased to exist. There are some 2'30,000
native soldiers in our pay.
I It is reported that Sir Trevelyan has reon 11111 l ended
the entire dissolutien of the native alley of Madras, leav-
ing nothing but a Ninon highly-trained European force of
22.000 military police.
Two regiments of Queen's troops, the fiTtli and the
Buffs, have been ordered to China, it is supposed to
protect Shanghai. Iler Majesty's !Kith was ordered, but
the order was recalled at the eleventh hour, to the
disgust of NAHA of the officers, who had sold their
furniture and horses. Some Sikh regiments will also, it
is rumoured, be sent, but I question if any formal de-
mand has yet been made upon them.
Tim discharged Europeans are leaving the port at the
rate of about a thousand a week. The Maggie Miller,
which carried the first batch, grounded in the river.
Fortunately, no lives were lost, and the inen were trans-
ferred to the Inkennann without lunch suffering.
A public wetting was held in Calcutta to protest
against the license tax. The meeting was unusually well
attended by representatives of every class affected by
the bill.
The rumours respecting the recall of Lord Canning
have been repeated at Calcutta; but it seems to he be-
lieved by his Lordship's friends that there is no disposi-
tion at Leine to send out a new Governor-General.