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INDIA AND CHINA.

The Overlazd gall fetter In wild& Ina. • . ' 41116141
in town this morning, has been anticipated by the
intelligence which we yesterday published. To what
has already appeared, we now append some further
extracts from the files which have reached us.
Alluding to the prospects of the Indigo season, a
Calcutta paper speaks thus:— .
From all accounts it would appear that our Indigo friends
arc to have a very bad season—as bad, it not worse, than the
memorable year 1842, when the out-turn little exceeded
70,000 mannils. Whilst we sympathise with the sufferers on
this occasion, we consider a short crop will do no harm to the
trade ultimately, for it required something of the sort to
bring the article once more into favour at home, and insure
better prices for a couple of years to come.
Our planters in Bengil need be under no apprehension
that other countries wilt interfere with them, sad all they
have to look to is economy, for the consumption of Bengal
indigo continues as large as ever. Some good people are
alarmed at the large and lately increasing stocks of indigo
in Europe, but as pointed out to us by a commercial friend,
it appears they are now likely to decrease. If this be cor-
rect, and we have no reason to doubt, there is still some comfort
in view for the poor fellows who msy suffer by the disasters
of the present year ; and if rigid economy is used, Madras,
Java, and the rest of the world may go on increasing their
production to any extent they please, for the consumption of
the dye at low prices will keep pace, and as a surety fur this
we have the trade between Great Britain and China now
open to any extent, and our Australian Colonies having
cheapened wool so very much, both our cotton and woollen
manufactures, into whstever country they penetrate, root ,
out tho native loom. 1
The following review of the political state of
North Western India is from the Orerland Calcutta
Star:—

LAHORE —The approaching departure, according to treaty,
of the British army of protection gradually colours the com-
plexion of all events and trawaritious in this neighbourhood.
On one hand our government, apparently aware of the con-
sequences of the measure to which, nevertheless, it is
pledged, is doing the utmost to e ansididate its new posses-
sions, and strengthen their military defences unit communi-
cations. On the other, the Ranee and Lall Sing have become
considerably more obliging in demeanour to the British
representatives, going the lengths of regularly feasting the
officers of the protective force to an extent that s.-riot/sly
threatened the superannuation of some of them by
force of greasy condiments. The Sikh commander-
,in-chief himself looks with troubled eye upon the
misty future, and is reported to have taken advantage
of the d spatch of Sham Singles body fur cremation
into the British provinces, to transmit secretly treasure of
his own to the extent of 18 !aklas along with it. There are
also reports that distinct bodies of chiefs have petitioned the
British Government to save them the otherwise inevitable
disasters of military anarchy, by assuming the sovereignty of
the country. We have no expectation that this will be done
without a further cultivation of a parliamentary case, the
policy of the Indian cabinet being now too deeply involved
in reputation to permit a peaceful transition by embracing
the course of avowing error and rectifying it. The lives of
of our Punjaub prott,p4 are probably no/ deemed
worth so formal t retraetation, and mmeequenaly
we shall have the terms of the treaty complied
with on onr part to the letter and then—what will be, will
be. The Akalees, of whose extraordinary disappearance ac-
cording to rumour we took occasion to speak in a former
issue, have at this juncture come out of their chrysalides, and
are clustering simultaneously round Lahore, clamouring fur
their arrears of pay, but evidently awaiting the progress of
affairs. Dewan Moolraj, the Naomi of 3lieditan, after having
prolonged the negotiations with the Durbar to the extremest
stretch of which they are capable' rests upon his arms, and
the forces of the Durhar headed by Misr Bhugwan Sing
which hit crossed the frontier, are now faced by an army not
less numerous and much Letter equipped than themselves,
though hostilities are yet delayed. Of Goulab Sing we hear
as little as ever; the reports ,if his doings, rife at Lahore, be-
ing declared by good authority totally untrustworthy.
Over the surface of the country numerous little bubbles
of insurrections, blown sometimes by revenue tyrannies,
sometimes by dissatisfied soldiery, rise eta re now and then
to Slew, attract attention for a moment, and 'then burst into
nothingness, indicative only of a general fermentation in
the state. A rather serious mutiny occurred arming the
troops of Mehtab Singh, who, in canscipience of the late
Affielum demonstration had been ordered towards Peshawar.
It would appear to have subsided, but large desertions are
reported as taking place from the effective strength of the
detachment; the men secretly retiring to the neighbourhood
of the capital. At a time when matters point so decisively
to a change of some sort or ante her, it is useless to indulge
• in sp..cuimions, es;accia'ly its there is not the slightest data on
which to found them.
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PESHAWUR.—An iosurrcetion, believed to h, very for-
midable in character, has broken out in this district among
the Toosufzeics, to the suppression of which the Sikh
governor, Shere Singh, has given his hest attention, but
with what effimt is not certainly known. Reports of battles
and blo-ely slaughter are extensively dealt in at Lahore on
the subject, but without any respectable foundation. Ukbar
Khan is still thought to have a hankering after these pro-
vinces, and to be awaiting the development of events de-
pendant on the retirement of the British, to put his darling
project into execution. His course of ambition, however,
does not seem to run very smooth, to judge by the account
given of late proceedings at Cabul.
AFFOHANISTAN.—In the extracts, we gave last mail from
the Delhi Gazette, it will be recollected that a Persian envoy
from the Shah had found his way to Cahill rift Herat, with
the view of organising a confedemey of all true Mus.clmans
against the invasive propensities of the British, and that one
object of his mission was to prevail upon Dost Mahemmed to
collect a largo army of the tait'aful for co-operation with such
troops as should be found necessary from Persia and else-
where. The arrival of the envoy was the signal far intestinal
discord iii the capital ; the Ameer prudently declining to
plunge headlong into any peiicy that would involve 'him
with a powerful neighbour, whose arm he had al-
ready felt on dubious promises of uncertain support
front so distant a quarter. The Wuzetr, Ukhbar Khan,
who on the other band had earned a reputation (such as it
was) by the events of the Cabul campaign, eagerly entered
into the Persian scheme and committed himself to the
closest intimacy with the Envoy. Tne family of the Dust
divided Raiff into part:es between the father and the brother
—a body of neutrals under Mahomed Zuntaun Khan and
Abloodalubbar Khan watched the proceedings of both
parties, without embracing either; and every appearance of
dispute and anarchy occurring, the old Ameer was obliged
to resort to an artifice, relying upon his personal po-
pularity
and the dislike entertained for his son's pre- I
dominant qualities, to turn the scale against his fac-
fon, and restore something like authority to his
councils. Feigning unconquerable disgust with the little
respect paid to him during these discussions, he declared
his intention of throwing up the cares of government and
retiring to Mecca, leaving to the chiefs the responsibility of
governing the country at the crisis and electing his successor.
In this declaration he was supported by more than one in-
thiential chief, who announced their intention to accompany
him to, and share in, his solitude. Acting _pon his an-
nouncement, the Dost closed himself up in his private apart-
ments, holding no Durbar for an unusual length of time,
but apparently with little effect on Mahomed Ukhbar,
who continued to closet himself with the Envoy, and
lavish his hospitality upon him. Although a this
period the confidence of the Envoy was sought by an
old countryman of his, the Kuzzilbash Sirdar, Khan Shereen
Khan, who partially opened his eye to the real position of
Mahomed Ukhbar in the country, it is difficult to say how
1, long this state of suspended relations would have continued
to exist, had not the outburst of an insurrection among the
Ohilzves, cecasioned by one of Mehemet:ll:Wit:3es atroaties,
brought matters to an issue. The detail given of this insur-
rection is as follows. Mahomed Ukhbar having obtained
the mediation of Agars Khan, Ohilzye, to arrange his dif-
ference, with Mut' Afzaol Khan, the Sinlar of Gundamuck,
forwarded through him the sacred pledge of amity, a sealed
Koran, to the Meer and obtained thereby an interview
and an opparent settlement. He soon after, however,
procured through au instrument, a Baruakaje chief of the
narae of Mousse Khan, that the credulous Meer should be
made away with, under circumstances of the grossest
treachery. The intelligence of this breach of faith reached
the ears of Azees Khan and indignant at the insult to him-
self, on whose mediation, the Meer had resigned his
suspicions of Ukhbar's faith, he roused the country
in his neighbourhood, denouncing the Wuzecr in the
most opprobrious terms, breaking up all the communi-
cations to the capital and seizing the Government property
wherever it presented itself. On receiving, in Cabal, the
news of this outbreak, the Wuzeer, ox his own responsi-
bility, ordered out troops to suppress it, hut the commanders
refused to quit the capital without permission of the Ameer.