The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.

From the colamns of our Delhi contemporary we
gather the following items from Peshawar and the fron-
tier:—" We learn from
_Peshawar that Ghuzun Khan,
Chief of Keshkar, who some time since joined the
Swattees with 2,000 troops against the British, had been
in treaty with the authorities for the purpose of effect-
ing the capture of the Swat Chieftain; the latter, how-
ever, was too sharp for him, and on Ghuzan Khan pre-
senting himself, he found the tables turned, for he was
taken prisoner, and marched off to Swat, and the Kash-
kar troops returned to their villages. Late letters
(dated the 2d of April) mention the arrival of Major
Mackeson at Peshawur. The Swattees had gone back
to their villages and all was quiet. On the Ist instant
another outrage was committed near the village of
Muchnee by Darya Khan Momund, and about fifty of
his followers, on some eight or ten merchants travelling
with about 5,000 rupees worth of property towards
Kohut. One of the merchants was killed and three
wounded; the remainder returned to Peshawur and com-
plained to the commissioner of the outrage. An order
was sent to the Maliks of Muchnee to produce the
thieves. They replied that it was out of their power to
do so, as Darya Khan, who had been causing great dis-
turbances all over the district, was alone answerable for
the outrage. The Malaks were then ordered to be re-
least:d, and steps are about to be taken to apprehend
Darya Khan."
The Lahore Chronicle of th© 7th instant supplies the
following disheartening accounts of the stata of
matters :
" We regret much to hear that fresh troubles are
awaiting cur authorities, both political and military, at
Peshawar. It was known at the station on the 30th of
March, that in three days after the return of Brigadier
Campbell and his force from the northern extremity of
the valley, that the Momands and Swattees had
coalesced, and were assembling in considerable num-
bers, the teatsr under the leadership of their King, who
is also their high priest. It was reported that some of
them had seized the Raneezale Maulik, who had taken
the lead in effecting the settlement of the previ-
ous question' with Colonel Mackeson, plundered his
house and property, and told the friends and role-.
lions of the hostages in the hands of the commis-
sioner that they had better quit the country, as the sum
stipulated for as a fine should not be paid. It was given
out by these gentry that they proposed laying down a
different line of frontier to that marked out by our Go-
vernment! It was even believed they might bring
themselves to attack the post of Ia upoor Gurhee, held
by Lieutenant Lnmsden, of the Guides, and Lieutenant
Henderson, of the 31 Punjab Infantry, who quitted
Elazsrah about the 20th of March, and has been some
ten days in the Yoozufaaie country. As a matter of
course, Brigadier Campbell will have to go out again,
and we are much mistaken. if late events will not have
shown him that it will be the safest and most politic
plan to draw his sword, throw away the scabbard, and
give the Swattees, to begin with, such a lesson as will
last them half a generation at least.
Amongst our extracts will be found particulars of a
skirmish betwixt a detachment of
.the 4th Punjaub
Cavalry with come of the frontier police, and a party of
Kusranees, near Dere Fatah Khau, a town fifty miles
from Dera Ismael Khan, in which we had a jemedar
and three men killed, and three wounded. The town
had been plundered, and five of the police killed, and as
many wounded, on the 17th ult. Sir IL Lewrenee,
Colonel Napier, and Major Nicholson reached the eceno
of the skirmish on the 19th, and no doubt took active
measures for following up and securing those of the
marauders who might have fallen in their way.

MISCELLANEA.
Sir W. Gomm was looked for at Um
middle of the present month.
Bngal civil service.
Sir S. G. Smith has resigned the ~
observe, been ap-
The Rev. IL B. Burney has, balls about the
to Burmah.
72d Native
pointed chaplain to the Bengal
• infantry, has sue-
Colonel T. Palmer, that has proceeded
the divisional staff of the
forcee .
teed General llamilton cn •
Bengal army.
Captain S. C. Starkey, of the
Dr. R. J. Brassey
y and
aetired from the Bengal army,
7th Native Infantry,
' have
retired from the Bengal army.
On tho night of the 31st ult. Meerut 'experienced a
On the night of the 316
m
smart shock of an earthquake
the north-east.
12th Madras Native In-
Captain W. G. ohnqterwsse,
fantry, has been granted years'
medical leave to the
Cape.
We observe that Lieutanant James Buchanan of the
4th Madras Cavalry, has been granted a medical fur-
lough to Europe.
Rev. A. The A Kinlock, A. 8., Madras Ecclesiastical
Establishment, has been appointed chaplain at Ramptee.
Mr. W. G. Young has been appointed to officiate as
Under-Secretary to the Bengal Government, during the
absence of Mr. W. Seton Karr.
Mr. W. Chapman, head overseer of the Commissariat
Department at Madras, has had the commission of
lieutenant on the Veteran Establishment conferred on
him by the Court of Directors.
The rate of exchange for officers' family remittances,
840,, for the year 1852-53 has been fixed at 2s. the rupee
by the supremo government.
The post of inspector of prisons in the North-west
Provinces has been conferred on Mr. C. B. Thornhill,
the former incumbent, Mr. W. U. Woodcock having re-
signed the service.
Tho following officers of the Bengal army have inva-
lided : —Major T. Goddard, 44th Native Infantry, and
Captain F. J. Thomson, 2d European Fusileers. En-
sign R. S. Graves, 66th Native Infantry, has been
granted a medical furlough to Europe.
The 14th Madras Native Infantry, from Kulladghee,
was expected at Bellary by the 28th inst., when the Ist
Madras Native Infantry would march for Madras. The
hot weather had set in at Bellary, but the usual mango
showers had this reason been wanting.
The Madras papers announce the sudden death, on
the 27th ult., of Surgeon W. Thompson, of the 94th
Foot, acting Deputy Inspector-General of her IdajestY's
Hospitals. A coroner's inquest had sat on the bodb
but the decision of the jury had not become known.
The Englishman states that he has no doubt troops
from Bombay will ere long be called for to take , share
in the Burmese war. Wo do not doubt it, if i r°
found necessary to resume hostile operations after the
monsoon.
The Bengal Hurkaru of the 271 ult. tells
" that a
Mr. Lush-
sum of 50,000r5. has been sanctioned to enableessing
ington, the railway commissioner, to meet pressing
properties
taken de-
mands for payment of compensation for the '
taken for the railway."
ez,tte of the 25th
We observe by the Calcutta official gh" a.B , judge ad-
ult. that Lieut.-Colonel R. J.
IT.
Birch,
'as military
vocate genera!, has been directed to
Colonel Stuart's ab-
secretary to overnment during
Calcutta on the 23d,
sauce. Colonel Birch had reached
.inent.
and assumed charge of his new a letterP
P of the 31st ult.
Vi ALTAIR.—We gather from
al
had taken place there
hail _
from this station, that a fall of
about 2 P.M. on the 22d.
Th°stones were, we are told
than peas, although he
by the writer, not much larger - 6 much larger size had
been assured that others of
been picked op in tllO NII/14

The following officers of the Bengal army have been
granted furloughs to Europe:—Lieutenant-General C.
W. Hamilton; Brevet Major W. W. Apperley, 4th
Cavalry; Lieutenants—H. W. H. Coxe, 70th Native
Infantry; L. Pave, 431 Native Infantry; J. IL Bacx,vo,
56th Native Infantry; and W. W. H. Greatheatl.,
engineers—the three latter on medical certificate.
The Madras Spectator adverts to the singular fact of
Sir Richard Armstrong not having inspected the
regiments forming the brigade recently sent from that
presidency to Burmah, either individually or collectively.
The circumstance is certainly sufficiently strange, seeing
that the corps were encamped at Madras for at least a
week or ten days before their embarkation.
We give to-day some further notices of the earthquake
of the 31st ult. Simla seems the northernmost point
from which accounts have been received—Lucknow the
southernmost; so that, so far as we at present know, it
has extended from about 27 to 31 deg., and from 77 to
81 deg. east and west, or about 300 miles each way. It
is said to have occurred at the same moment at Lucknow,
Meerut, and Mussoorie; and if this be the case, the line
connecting these points together will be that of emana-
tion.

The Atlicnaum informs us that sentence of a year's
imprisonment in the gaol at Madras had been passed on
Lieutenant O'Brien- and Ensign reacocke, 84th Foot,
who had been convicted of having caused the death of
an old woman by running her down in the streets of
Trichinopoly sometime back; and that they were on
their way down to the' presidency to undergo their
punishment. The young gentlemen must have been
found guilty of very gross carelessness indeed—of cul-
pable homicide in fact—before such a severe sentence
was passed on them. Had the
anything
rold creature
could
througheen called aofficers
accident,
or which
n accident, the would
h e r
decentlyde at
have b
have escaped punishment; not an excuse could, it seems,
be brought fcrward in their favour, and they have ac-
cordingly been very properly punished for their care-
lessness, as a warning to others that people's lives are
not wantonly to be trifled with. Sir C. Napier's Sukbur
order of the 21st November, 1842, would well apply in
this case:—" Gentlemen as well as beggars may, if they
like, ride to the devil when they get on horseback, but
neither gentlemen, nor beggars, have a right to send
other people there, which will be the case if furious
riding be allowed in the camp or bazaar."
theThMeattahsens66epysuominwfohromn embarkingsusth foratthes rmpißriotevaih on
evinced
theby
31st ult. gave sufficient refutation to the calumnious re-
ports spread from Calcutta of their unwillingness to
and at the same time beg to state proceed on foreign service.
Whenantdhaerreengsutolnatsi
etearteh rejoiced ewj oei et%
sever
re
believed hear it,
in the rumour referred to.
army regarding wound pensions
fa-
milies of those sepoys who sould faalslsoines,a-ctsiheen:ilL:itthlfeotnthee
enemy were explained to the ltyadr
ninetviemrarteefdosthedeirtodgeosi,rbeotto employedmbeerel beyond seas; they
expressed
clear tao wish
them. t have
The
mattersic in madethe columns
tchoelcaubtotav em-mentioned ecd,hron
paper the rumour first appeared, admits havin of
farwlehsisnlyh
pointed out the faults of both the Bengal and
eepoys, and pays the Bombay army the followingadres
ex-
tremely gratifying compliment:—" And if we had bad
opportunity, or rather occasion, to speak of the Bombay
troops, as we have of those of the two Eastern Presiden-
cies, we should not have shrunk from the duty." No, good
brother, you never have had, nor never will have, an op-
portunity of saying that the Bombay sepoy has refused
to go where he is bid—of that you may be certain; our
men, if not all high caste, aro at any rate of high mili-
tary principle.
The Bengal Burkaru of the 4th instant contains the
following aceount of a severe storm which took place at
Calcutta on the evening of Saturday, the 3d. We regret
to learn that the Rev. Mr. Weideman, professor of
Bishop's College, was drowned in the storm while cross-
ing the river:—
, " A singularly severe north-wester visited Calcutta
this evening, at about twenty minutes past six. It came
on so suddenly, and with such tremendous violence, that
we fear we shall have to record some accidents to the
shipping. In the midst of this violent storm of thunder,
lightning, and rain, we consulted a sympiesometsr, an
aneroid, and a common barometer, and found them
all rising and indicating fine weather! The atmosphere,
which was sultry and heavy enough a minute or two
before the storm, is now delightfully cool and elastic.
The Electric Telegraph of this evening reports the fol-
lowing Half-past 6, r ar., Calcutta—A furious squall
from the south. Barometer rose from 29.800 to 29.995.
Very vivid lightning. Diamond Harbour reported the
squall severe; much thunder and lightning; no rain.'"