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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
RETURN OF HER MAJESTY AND THE
COURT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.
CowEs, Sen. 9.—This morning at the hour of
nine, the report of guns from the Castle and R.Y.S
batteries annonneed the return of her Majesty and
suite from their trip to the Channel Islands. Her
Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family were
onboard the Victoria and Albert steam-yacht, and were
attended by the Fairy yacht, and Black Eagle, and
Garland government steamers. Her Majesty did not,
as usual, land at the Trinity Wharf, East Cowes, but
proceeded to the more private landing place in Mede
Creek, to which place the royal property of Osborne
extends, and from thence proceeded immediately to
Osborne-house. We are happy to hear that the whole
of the royal party are well, and that no untoward
event marred the pleasure of the excursion, which
must have altogether been delightful, the weather
having been such as is usually enjoyed by her
Majesty during her progresses.

INDIA.

BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.

ARRIVAL tIF THE OVER-

LAND MAIL.

By an Extraordinary Express, which reached town
this morning, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, we
ale is reioipt of news from Bombay, 6th August;
Madras, 27th July; Calcutta, 23rd July; Delhi' 22nd
July, and Scinde, 20th July. The intelligence has been
received by a special steamer, which was dispatched
from Bombay rather unexpectedly in consequence of
the dangerous indisposition of the Governor. The
"Ackbar " arrived at Suez on the 27th ultimo, with
the following passengers:—Sir George Arthur, Bart,
Governor of Bombay; Lady Arthur; Captain Arthur;
Mrs. Martin; Captain Hunter; Lieutenant W. F.
Leeson; Lieutenant H. H. Hewett; and Doctor R. D.
Peek.

Mr. REID, the senior member of Council, has suc-
ceeded Sir GEORGE ARTIIUR in the temporary Go-
vernment of Bombay.
We are happy to say that cholera had entirely dis-
appeared from the camp at X urrachee, though it con-
tinued still to afflict the town. Sir CHARLES
NAPIER had ordered the fortifications to be
levelled, and the ditches to be filled up. The
pestilence appears to have followed the course
of the Indus, and was by last accounts deso-
lating Hyderabad, where the average number of
deaths was 800 daily. Fever had abated at Sukkur,
bat Her Majesty's 17th Regiment, which had suffered
severely, would, it was expected, return to India, and
from thence proceed to the Cape. Among the deaths
recorded in Scinde, we find the names of Lieut.
Campbell, 17th Native Infantry, and Capt. John
Napier, nephew and Military Secretary to the
Governor. It is now estimated that 10,000 indivi-
duals. including 500 Europeans were cut off by cholera
at Kurrachee between the 14th and 30th of June.

The Governor-General and Lord G wcii were
still at Simla. LORD HARDINGE had summoned to
his councils the political officers from the North-
West frontier. This, when taken in connection with
reports of an army to be assembled on the Sutlej, was
considered ominous of hostilities, to be undertaken as
soon as the cold season would permit of warlike ope-
rations. The troops at Lahore continued healthy, but
the state of matters in the Punjaub was unsatisfactory.
The Vizier,instead of consolidating his strength was do-
ing all in his power to become unpopular. It is reported
that MAHARAJAH GOOLAUB SINGH has refused payment
of the indemnity he had guaranteed on behalf of the
Lahore Durbar,and it was even said he had threatened
to resist any attempt we might make to compel
him to perform his engagements. He probably
expects assistance from the Mooltan Chief, who
is determined to assert his independence. The
Government of the QUEEN MOTHER and of LALL
SINGH at Lahore, was threatened by acts of violence.
The Akahalees, a band of notorious fanatics, were
collecting in the neighbourhood of the capital, and
fears were entertained of some sanguinary con-
flict, In fact,-the tranquillity prevailing, was solely
attributable to the presence of a British force,
and when this is withdrawn, as stipulated by
treaty, the spirit of turbulence now prevailing
throughout the kingdom generally will doubt-
less extend itself to Lahore. There are rumours of a
movement on the part of the Affghans under UCKBAR
KHAN, through the Kyber Pass, intended for the re-
covery of Peshawar, some years since conquered from
them by RUNJEET SINGH ; but these require con-
firmation, especially as DOST MAHoMED has shown a
pacific policy, and is anxious to maintain friendly re-
lations with our Government. _

The British dominions, up to the latest account,
were tranquil. The Monsoon had proved a favour
it
-
able one, and the whole of western India had been
blessed with abundant rains.
The Nizam's territories continue in a wretched
state—the treasury exhausted, and a mutinous army.
General FRASER, the British resident, is an able and
an excellent man, but the local malady is beyond the
reach of any remedy he can administer. The me-
dical school at Bolarum, for the instruction of native
youth, lately abolished, is restored.
The Commander-in-Chief, Sir THOMAS 'M'Mallom,
has been dangerously ill at Poonah. The station was
unhealthy.
The death of MEER SOBDAR KHAN, one of the
Ex-Ameers of Scinde, is announced. He expired at
Dam Dum, near Calcutta. This is the third of these
unfortunate Princes who have been cut off since the
commencement of their captivity.
The appointment of Sir DAVID POLLOCK to the
Indian Bench was approvingly spoken of at Bombay.
Her Majesty's 88th Regiment are to move from Scinde
is Bombay.
Commercial news from Bombay is more favourable,
The money market was easier, and a brisk trade was
confidently expected. The proprietors of the Oriental
Bank being dissatisfied with the expenses and con-
duct of the home management, have resolved to put
an end to their London direction.
Tlat Times has news from the Mauritius to the 1 Ith
lulnfeceived by this opportunity. One of the most re-
markable circumstances mentioned is the expulsion by
Sir W. Gomm, the Governor of that island, of a Roman
Catholic priest, who, by his skill as a surgeon, per:
formed the Ciesarian operation on the body of ea dead

BOMBAY, sth Avocet., 1848.
The alarming and continued indisposition of our Gov-
ernor, Sir George Arthur, has at length induced him to attend
to the earnest solicitations of his family and medical advisers
that he would returg to his native land, them to seek for
that renovation of mind and body which a more genial clime
and the relinquishment of the cares of office are ntturally
expected to bring about. It would perhaps have been
well for Sir George and his family had the advice ten-
dered him some months since been accepted. His
constitution is said to be greatly undermined by his
late severe sickness, and it is thought that he has put
off for too long a period the measure he has been at
length compelled to adopt. I bear he intends residing for
some time in the south of France prior to returning to Eno-
land. Sir George Arthur was a man of the most indefati-
gable industry and strict integrity. He is said invariably to
have declined appending his name to any document which be
had not examined for himself, an that some notion may be
fiinned of the Herculean task he thus imposed upon himself.
His scrupulousness on this head was naturally somewhat dis-
tasteful to his colleagues, who fancied probable that it im-
plied a degree of suspicion as to their integrity and
uprightness ; if so, I think they did our Governor
an injustice. He wished to know everything far
himself, and took the most laborious method for attaining
his object. More able and upright colleagues could not be
desired by any Governor than it has been Sir George's good
fortune to have associated with him during his administration
of the government of Bombay, and, no doubt, he felt and ac-
knowledged their worth. Stormy debates in council are said
to have been of no unfrequent occurrence ; but as the meet-
ings of the members of the government here are invariably
held with closed doors, this is, of course. mere rumour. It
is well known that others could have performed a great part
of the task imposed by Sir George on himself, with as much,
if not more, ability than he was capable of bringing to
bear ea many subjects; yet still one 'cannot very mach
blame a man for conicientionsnees in the performance of

his duties. Our Governor was of late' incapable of
attending to the multitudinous subjects constantly re-
quiring attention, ar,d it followed as a matter of course
that a considerable number, often those of vast importance,
were neglected by '"him, which other members of the Go-
vernment could have at once have disposed of; hence the
complaints so frequently and justly made of the tardiness
of our authorities. That the home authorities must have
been well satisfied with Sir George's mode of conducting
affairs, is, I think, pretty clear from the known fact of his
having had conferred on him the provisional Governor-
Generalship of India, in case any mishap should have be-
fallen, during the Sikh campaign, that able and gallant old
veteran who now presides with so much ability over the
destinies of Ilindostan—Lord Hardinge. The presidency
has certainly benefitted by Sir George Arthur's rule;
and though some few instances of his patronage have
given rise to censure, I believe he in this yelped
could hear comparison with most of his predecessors. Sir
George was not a lover of " balls and suppers," and in con-
sequence was not much in favour of those who remembered
the host itality of governors of some years back. The rarity
of government-house entertainments was a subject of remark
amongst all classes, and I must say with a great deal of truth.
This may have arisen from a distaste for such amusements,
as Sir George was of a pious turn of mind. He scarcely ever
visited places of public amusement, and was known to have
had a decided aversion to theatrical performances. His
character in private life is sail to be exemplary. He declined
all public demonstrations of respect en his departure, and
embarked in a quiet, unostentatious manner under the
usual salute from the garrison. The Honourable L. R.
Reid was sworn in as his temporary successor at three
o'clock this afternoon. Speculation is rife as to who
will be appointed ftom home, Sir H. Pottinger and
Sir George Clerk being mentioned as the likely parties.
They arc both men of large and varied experience in Indian
affairs, and would be hailed with delight to our shores. The
pro. tern. Governor had about a fortnight since a slight
attack, I believe, of the same ailment as that by which Sir
George Arthur has of late suffered so severely—determine-
' tion of blord to the head. The Commander-in-Chief has
also been indisposed, hut I am glad to say is all right again.
The Court of Directors have bestowed 500/. on Captain
Cruickshank, the engineer who constructed the caneeway
(Lady Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's) which connects the Island of
litembee w h Pandere, as a w.ark of their spprebatiu
of the skill displayed by him in its construction. Sir Robert
Oliver, Superintendent Indian Navy, is said to he about
having quarters constructed for himself in the dockyard, at
present the scene of so many improvements of the gallant
officer's own planning. A naval hospital is to be built for
the reception of seamen of the Royal and Company's navies,
in which all the young officers now " &Mowed to reside
on shore" on sick leave will be under the eye of the super
intendent and be properly looked after. Such a build-
ing has long been a desideratum. Estimates for the
fortification of the harbour have been handed in to
government by the chief engineer-250,0001. being the
sum stated as requisite for the purpose. Sir Erskine Pem
has resigned the vice-presidentship of the Bombay branch
Royal Asiatic Society, and Dr. James Bird been e!eeted in hie
stead.—Three vessels with detachments of the Bth Foot have
arrived—the Mutes of Cornwall and Portland, and the
Mary. Twenty officers, 502 non-cornd. rank and file, fifty-
six women, and sixty-nine childen in all. The only casualty
since leaving England occurred on the 3d instant in Fort
George, a man having been dr rimed in the tank in the
middle of the square. They all embarked for l'oonah today
under command of Major Oreathed. The monsoon has been
an exceedingly favourable one all over the country, and tee
crops everywhere are represented as in a flourishing
condition. Not less than eighty inches of rain have
fallen in Bombay up to this date—half as much
again as what fell last season. The weather has now un-
dergone a change, and it is probable we shall have but little
more rain this year. We cannot complain if we do not.
The cholera has found its way into Candeish, and places
seldom visited by it have had sad ravages committed in
them. The Bheel corps at Dhurrungoun has suffered pretty
severely. It has also re-appeared in the city of Poonah. At
present Bombay is quite free from the dire scourge--a bless-
ing to be in a great measure attributed to the cleansing of
the native town by the Conservancy Board—one of the
fruits of Sir George Arthur's rule.
The complaint of " no news from Madras" this month does
not hold good. An outbreak has taken place in the Cudda-
pah Collectorate, and skirmishes have taken place betwixt
our troops and the insurgents. A pensioned Poligar, resid-
ing in a place called Dooroor, having become refractory, a
party of police peons were sent to take him into custody, but
the Poligar assembled his adherents and put the peons to
death. He now marched at the head of his followers,
who are said to amount to about 9,000 men, to the
Tahesildar's treasury, which he plundered of 3001.,illtreating
the native officer in charge and his wife, and earning off his
daughter, with 1,0001. found in his possession. He also took
3,000/. from a merchant residing sn the village. All this
took place at a distance of sixty or seventy miles from
the collector's head-quarters, Cuddapah. The collector im-
mediately applied for a detachment of troops to pursue
the depredator, and by the following morning four com-
panies of aepoys, under command of Captain Nett, were on
their way. The insurgents were making for a hill fort some
fifty miles distant, and are said to have been promised as-
sistance by some petty Prince close by. The last accounts
received, state that Narisimma Reddee, the insurgent leader
and his party, were sorrounded by a party of 150 of the
Kudnool irregular horse, the infantry detachment being
eighteen miles off. If the horsemen could manage to hem
them in and prevent their escape till the sepoys came up, a
good account would soon be given of them. 400 Arabs are
said to be amongst the insurgents, and they had given out
that they intended plundering every town in the district.
Should they escape to any of the hill forts around, it will be
some time before they will be dispersed. Sure.-Gen. M'Leod
has left Madras for the Cape on sick leave. The residence of
the Marquis of Tweeddale on the Neilgherries is said to entail
an additional expense of 1,6001. per mensem on the shoulders
of government ! The 94th Foot are to be relieved from duty
at Aden and Moulmein, and turned over to the Bengal pre-
sidency. By latest accounts from Goomsoor it would appear
that a number of insurgents had been captured, bat they
had been again rescued from a party of our troops, who
narrowly escaped annihilation. Such is the fruit of the
driblet system now in vogue of scattering troop& in small
parties over a country with which they are unacquainted,
opposed too, as they are, by fire or ten times their number
of hardy insurgents.
If possible, affairs in the NiZRIII.6 territories are assuming
a worse position than ever. The state treasury has long
been as empty of cash as the ruler's cranium would= ,
to be of brains. Murders are perpetrated in the
within sight almost of the palace and the British Reddens",
yet no effectual measures are by us attempted to shirk as
glaring a state of anarchy and misrule. The Prince will see
listen to our Resident's advice, and constant referee ere are
being made to Calcutta as to the measures to be yearned,
without, apparently', any good results. The Bolr.rum Me-
dical School, lately abolished at the recommeadation of
General Fraser, the President, is said to be age:m about to
be restored, the Resident being. convinced thee the dodirdre
recommended by him had been injudicious. It is td W*l-
sided over by Dr. Maclean, the Residency eargemi, '
From the northwest provinces of liujia there is now
nothing to report. The two noble lords, Hardinge -and
Gough are at Simla, where it is rumoured the seatof the
Supreme Government will be for sometime located. There
is evidently an expectation of something requiring to be
done in the cold weather, either in the Cis or Trans-Sutlej
territory. Our troops expect shortly to leave the Punjaub,
but some notion must be entertained by the
Governor-General that they will ~/uickly bare to re-
turn or he would, I should think, never intend
Axing on remaining where the whole season. It
is said that he is about sumrce.ming his council from Calcutta
to join him. All the nortts-western politicala—Meese. John
Lawrence and Greathix'. Majors Lawrence, Mills, and
Meekesed—have all Prr/ceeded to a confab at Simla with his
lordship, which gives 'additional cause for suspeedngthat all's
not right on our frontier. The captured Sikh guns have
arrived at Beimees, where they were received with great
Pomp, the Mako-General, commandants of corps, and heads
of denartelelea, having gone out to meet them ;
a band of
one of the restive corps playing before them into camp.
The C'alistribo Cathedral is to be built within the fort.
Letter, patent have been passed under the public seal, eon-
stitu'dng and appointing the lion. Mesas. W. 0. Carr,
Ja:. Stark, and C. Temple, Esqrs., to act pr. visionally as
.:nief, senior prime, and second poisue, juit;:oes of Me
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prime Court.

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MM.'s 16th Lancers and the Khelat-i-Ohilzie corps, hswe
reached Calcutta; the former are to embark for England as
soon as tonnage can be procured for their transport. The
34th Bengal N.I. has been restored to the army list; their '
facings are to be scarlet. A new church called St. Stephen's,
was lately opened at Kidderpore, in presence of Sir Herbert '
Maddock and suite, and &large assemblage of the gentryand
inhabitants of the place. An assistant in one of the offices
in Calcutta, haying divulged to a newspaper editor the amount 1
of cash (eight-and-a-half millions sterling) in the treasury,
has been dismissed from his employment. The amount sub- !
scribed in Bengal towards the Irish relief fund up to 24th !
July amounted to 8,2501.
I have much pleasure in informing you that the statement
given in my last, from one of the Bombay papers, of the !
the number of victims from cholera at Kurrachee, turns out
to ba nearly double the actual amount. The 86th have lost
altogether 276 men, women, and children. Almost one of
the last victims to this dreadful scourge was Captain J.
Napier, 62nd Foot, Military Secretary to the Governor,whose
death was sincerely regretted by every one who had the
slightest acquaintance with him. He was the third '
European officer cut off at Kurrachee, the o'her two being
Captain Satan, of the Fusiliers, and Lieutenant Dawson, of
the 12th N. I. Lieutenant Campbell, of the 17th N. 1., hasbeen '
cut off by the same disease at Hydrabad, whither the fatal
scourge had slowly travelled up by the bed of the river.
Upwards of a hundred death. occurred in the town on the
first day of its appearance. The inhabitants es usual fled '
from the city. Fortunately our troops have in a great measure
escaped. Sir Charles Napier was adopting every sanatory
measure possible at Kurrachee: the walls of the town were
to be levelled and the ditch filled up—the town dealt
undergoing a thorough cleaning. The badness of the food
in the country is said to be the great cause of sickness, the
cultivation having diminished considerably within these few
years. A few cases of cholera still occurred in the town of
k arrachee, though of a less malignant character. The
17th Foot have suffered so dreadfully from fever, that it has,
I believe, been resolved to withdraw them from Ochs& as
soon as possible, and send them off either to the Cape
or to England. Here is another of her majesty's
carps rendered unserviceable by the climate of Bak-
kur, which Sir C. Napier has at home got the credit
of having rendered comparatively healthy by the erection of
the famous bond from that place to Shikarpoor to keep out
the waters of the inundation! The Bombay army may well
be proud of their conquest, when a European corps in to be
put hors de combat every second year of our occupation.
witness the Highlanders in 1844.
Another of the captive Ameers has paid the debt of na-
ture. Meer Sobdar, of Hydrabad, died at Dum-Dum, near
Calcutta, on the 9th July.
The state of affairs at Lahore is described as presenting
anything but a favourable appearance, and the preparations
for the evacuation of the country by our troops are said to
he about to be immediately set on foot. Our army will in
this case have returned to Hindostan by the end of October
oe middle of November; which is about the time rumour
gives nut for the assemblage of a large force in the north-west.
The discharged Seikh soldiers are in and around Lahore
in large numbers, and you may depend on it that
our evacuation of the Panjaub will he the signal for
the renewal of those lawless acts which first induced
us to intermeddle in its affairs, though a s' strong govern-
ment" Is as far as ever from being esta"lished. We are
bound to leave Lahore when requested to do so by the Dur-
bar. The Prime Minister is said to be an object of hatred to
the people, so that nothing short of infatuation can account
for his desire to be rid of for he will certainly be amongst
the first victims of the assassin's knife after our departure.
The people are reported to be desirous that we should take
the country hen our own hands altogether • and no wonder
that they should. But before this can happen, fresh provoca-
tion must be given, and a second campaign must take place.
All sorts of improbable reports were as usual in circulation
at the capital, which were tending to increase the anxiety of
the inhabitants alto future events. The Nazim of Mooltan
is said to be at last determined to resist the demands of the
Herber, and to have harangued his troops on the subject,
who were so enthusiastic in their protestations of obedience
to his will, that he presented to all the officers a pair of
golden bracelets, and to each infantry soldier a donation of
10s., and each man of the cavalry 20s. Our protege the
Maharajah of Caehmeer, Goolaub Singh, is reported to be
about to show his gratitude to us for favours conferred by
refv-eizg to?arform hi 4 part of the treaty, and rebid any at-
tempt to compel him to do so. This is extremely probable,
and exactly what might have been expected from the man
whom Lord Hardinge delighted to honour. Our troops at
the capital continue healthy.
Rumours of intended risings of the people in the Jullundur
Doab are becoming prevalent. Large quantities of military
stores were being accumulated by us at the Phullour maga-
zine, in case of any untoward circumstance occurring. It
was said Sir John Lit•ler was to be appointed permanently
to the Jullundur division—l presume on the retirement of
our troops from Lahore. Heavy rains had fallen all over the
province, which had proved by no means comfortable for
those who had not the good fortune to have a good roof over
their heads. The country is said to have been flooded—
which the inhabitants attribute to the pr.senee of the
English, such rain never having fallen before the present
season.