The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-17 00:00:00

MARCH 17, 1852.

OVERLAND MAIL

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN THE ARMIES OF INDIA SINCE
THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL, FEB. 3

lIER MAJESTY'S Taoops.—Lieut.•Colonel Tomkins,
Commanding RA., in China, Dee. 29, 1851; L;eizt.
Lugg, ILA., in China, Dec. 28, 1851.
MADRAS.—Liaur. Henry 811, 2d Native Veteran Bat-
talion, at Wallsjalinad, Jan. 28.

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BENGAL.—Captain W. G. Don, 43d Regiment
Native, Infantry, Commanding Hill Rangers, Lt
Baugulpore.

CHINA.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &C,, ANNOUNCED SINCE
DISPATCH OF THE LAST OVERLAND MAIL, FEB, 3.
HER MAJESTY s TROOPS.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.-Bth Foot--Ensign mi acphersen
to England, via the Cape of Good Hope, for two years
from date of embarkation, at the recommendation of a
, assembled
board of medical officers, subject to the confirmation
toff
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India,
Aden,
Foot—A board of medical officers
having recemmended that Lieut. M. E. Smith may be
permitted to proceed to England for the
yeeovery of his
health, his Excellency Lieut. General Sir John Grey,
K.C.8., grants leave of absence to that officer for one
year from the date of embarkation, subject to the con-
firmation of his Excellency the C v
ommander-in-Chief in
India. 83d Foot—Lieut. Metge, to England, for two
years from date of embarkation, at the recommendation
of a board of medical officers, subject to the con-
firmation of his
Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
in India.

of time bargain speculation going on in the Bazaar, and prices
have consequently been subjected to fluctuations. Quota-
tions for Patna in the Bazaar were yesterday Co.'s Rs. 1,020
INDIA.- AND CHINA. to 1,022 per chest. Benares is nominal, there being none
from the first sale left in the godowns.
Our money market remains with scarcely any alteration.
;es
We have received our correspondence and fi of Previous rates of interest at the Bank of Bengal are main-
newspapers from India and China. The dates are- ) tamed but in other quarters it is said rather more stringent
Calcutta, Feb. 8 ; Bombay, Feb. 17; and China, ' rates are not unfrequently imposed; and altogether there is
Jan. 30. still considerable difficulty felt in respect to financial matters,
,(From the Overland Bombay Times, Feb. 17.) both here and throughout the country, amongst all classes.
In the Bazaar amongst the Marwarrie dealers there is hardly
SITXMARY.-The Governor-General arrived at Cal-
way
improvement whatever. The several houses which gave
cutta on the 29th ult., He is said to have approved
generally of the conduct of the Commodore, but ex- others ysowmiedit'ew months . backt havenaontdbieneL supplantedinfluence.
e fly
cepted to the abduction of the Burmese chi pof war. It lowing are thenypprerseetnetnsiounotaoti
wealthons for Government Securities:
now appears, however, that it was not on this account Transfer Five per Cents.q Rs., 3to 3-8-0 prem. ; New Fives,
that the Fox was fired upon. The governor told him , 2-8-0 to 3-0-0 prem. ; Sicca ditto, 2-8-0 to 3-0-0 discount,
that if be attempted to remove British property from I Company's Rs. ; Four per Cent., 13 to 13-8.0 discount; Sicca
Rangoon he would ba assailed from the stockades; and , Re. ditto, 15-8-0 to In-0-0 discount; Bank of Bengal shares
! are quoted Company' •
' 3- , ;,) prom.; Agra Bank (500 paid
R 24( ''
the commodore replied, that if so much as a pistol were I
up), Company
di-charged no biro, he would teed the stockades, and e26t o 23 e-,ch.Rs. 490 to 493; Bonded Warehouse shares,
he accordingly when attacked kept his word. The The import market has continued dull, and had ever since
Governor-General is said to be most anxious to see and the departure of the
terolr
sales are
notwithstanding. which,
bring the Burmese to their senses without .resorting to however, a large amounv
hostilities, and to avoid a war if possible. Reinforce- goods and mule twist. Prices setearehreported,
ifboth mvpaireicae.
ments and, munitions are meanwhile being dispatched in tam during the period under notiwee.ut little,
Low reed any,
shirt-
abundance to our settlements on the frontier, and every ings have not been quite so readily sold as they were;y while
preparation made to repel assault and revenge insult, or medium q_aalities appear to have come into rather better
enter upon hostilities if necessary. No further steps have favour. Forty-five inch and wider goods have been saleable
to a moderate extent. Grey madapollarns have moved off
been taken, so far as is known, by the Burmese, who pro-
lesshfreely than they did, although oably await" to sea what we propose. Ali Moored has t
ded.
j, prises can hardly be said
yielded to hie fate without the necessity of a resort to tottenavraethreerrotreealy dispoaseelleot77 btoth grey and white, have
force, and the troops ordered to assemole at Sulikur, to Bleached goods are almost stationaryathe late current rates.
in h' e
W it
coerce if necessary, are now on their way back to their figured shirtings are saleable to a fair extent. w value.
hite twills
cantonments. A proclamation dated Roree, the 21st of continue much neglected. Low white shirtin
January, has been issued by the commissioner under di- moveable at former miserable low prices. whit: are only
m reain of the Government of India, promulgating the lams bring hardly so much as greys. White cambri-licada arP°*l-
grounds of our offence. It is thus set forth:- When the no sort of demand. The sales of Turkey red goods
haveebe inn
Khyrpore chief found that he had go; Sir Charles Na- considerable, but without any amendment in value. p -eeta
pier fully into his toile, and induced him to take from sell very badly, and the chief buyers at present are the Ne-
his brethren their dominions with the view of extending Paul and Cabal dealers, who buy mostly in a retail fashion,
and make but little impression on the enormous stocks of this
his own, the territory afterwards to be occupied by him c
hlass of goods. Woollens are getting out of season ; and they
was defined by the treaty of Nownahur, consisting of
badly all through.
certain additions to that supposed previously his own. have sold S
very Scotch fabrics have attracted a little more atten-
The extent of this was deeeribed on a leaf of the Koran, tion, and the sales of mulls and lappets reported are con-
This he removed, and substituted .another in its place, siderable. Book muslins at present are quiet, and likely to
describing larger dominions as his, and clairnieg a portion remain so until business with the Burmese is again resumed.
of that which had belonged to his brethren, and ought on Male twist has sold to a fair extent. 20's and 30's are
their fall totaveht.cbme ours. The fraud was fully este- rather lower; other Nos. continue without much change,
Wished against him, and ultimately admitted, and he is
vwehrivledtuhlel tendencyrnrk of 60's is upwards. Coloured yarns are
now stripped of what in reality never was his-of the Reis- miserably low priezzeadmsto remains
adreiffiecxueleet
Lit sale at our late
ship or chieftairtehip-the grounds of our quarrel, and re- Metals continue at about former low value, with abundant
dticed hereafter to the rank of a nobleman in the possession supplies. Copper, however, is rather more valuable during
of his hereditary estates. There has beau something like the past few days. Speller is dull, and again down in value.
a rebellion in the Portuguese territories of the Goa, coca- Exchange has fallen 4or 5 per cent. since the last mail
sinned, it is said, by resistance In some unpopular taxes left. Current rates for the present dispatch are as follows:
lately imposed by the Governor. The troops were called -First-class credits, 2s. o%d. to 2s. id. per rupee; ditto
O'fiel to 2s. Id. per rupee.
out, and some bloodshed ensued, and it was supposed at documents, 2s. .
Freights-Tonnage continues more than ample for the
one time that assistance would be required from us by
wants of the port, although many of the first-class large ships
the Goaneme authoritiea their own .army amounting i
have taken their departure. Quotations are--Sugar to Lon-
all to about two thousand, and of these a thousaneiarn
ndw in the field. The Punjaub continues tranquil, and e don, 1/. 17s. 6d. to 2/. ; Rice, 21. ss. to 21. 102 ; Saltpetre,
Ti. 10s. ; Oilseeds, 2/. ss. to 21. I0e.; Hides, 2/. 10s. to
profound tranquillity prevails throughout all our do- 21. 12s. 6d.; Jute, 21. ss, to 21. 7s. 6d. per ton.
minion.. On Me 9:-.11 iris. a splendid me.lNg, pi.,,,.; i.
over by the Governor, took place in the Town Hall on
the presentation of prizes to the most distinguished of
the alumni of the Elphinstone College. There were
above 2,000 persons assembled in the room, of whom
1,500 were pupils at the various seminaries in the island
unaer Government. The chairman of the Board of
Education, Sir Erskine Perry, reviewed the progress of
education, and stated that when the first professors of
the Elphinstone College, of whom one-Principal Hark-
ness-was present, arrived twenty years ago, they were
obliged to lecture to empty benches-their only want
was pupils. By a report recent.y published there appear
at present to be 51 apprentices beipg instructed at the
School of Industry; there are amongst them 26 fin-
does, 21 Ilahomeilans, 3 Parsees, and 2 Portuguese
Christians. Twenty-seven are orphans-the parents of
the rest are in a large number of cases absent from
Bombay.
At the last meeting of the Bombay Geographical So-
ciety a paper was read by Mr. John Smith on the dis-
coveries made by the East African missionaries of what
appear to be the sources of the Nile. This mysterious
river is said to arise from two lakes, one of which is of
great dimensions nearly under the Line, and they seem
fed by the melting snows of the gigantic range, which
rises to the altitude of 22,000 feet at least, close by. The
description of this long-looked-for locality coincides
exactly with that given of it by Ptolemy 2,000 years ago.
The new Small Cause Court at Bombay has now been
fully established, though not yet in operation. Messrs.
Crawford, Johnson, and West are the judges, on 1,8001.
and 1,2001, per 'minim respectively. Some curious statis-
tics have of late been published in reference to the move-
ments of the governors and commanders in chief of Bom-
bay, with the presidency, staff, and attendant subordi-
nates. When en what is called " a tour of inspection,"
from two to three months are spent by them at the Cool-
hill station of Mahebuleshwar, until lately in the demi-
pions of Sattara, and nearly the worst place in the presi-
dency for the transaction of business. About as much more
isenjoyed at Poona; and this constitutes the tour. No
commander-in-chief ever was in Scinde since it became
ours; and the northern and southern divisions of the
army have not once been visited since 1837. The direct
loss in travelling allowances on these journeys of plea-
sure amounts to about 5,0001. a year; and the State pays
in all about 30,0001. a year for the services of a couple
of gentlemen who spend eight months of the year at
Mahabuleshwar or Poona, and might, for all the use
they are, take out the remaining four where they
pleased. ' Their chief function seems at the present to be
the retardation of business, by breaking up all the public
establishments during their wanderings, and requiring
the form of reference to be gone through. The custom
has been going on for years, anti now-a-days seems to
have reached its height. It will, we trust, show the
people at home that if' we take no harm from governors
and commanders-in-chief, who spend their time in
amusing themselves, we would be none the worse were
we deprived of them altogether. The Calcutta jour-
nalists have memorialised the Court of Directors
against the enactment of a law conformable with the
recommendations of the Post-office Commission, which
continue newspaper postages at the present excessive
charges, and impose a postage en English newspapers
equivalent to their exclusion from the interior altoge-
ther. The ship Kelso, a Bombay and Calcutta trader,
was destroyed by fire off "Calcutta on the 24-25th ult.,
the origin of the fire having on this occasion been purely
accidental.
Colonel Outram, late resident at Baroda, returns home
on sick leave, and in official disfavour, by to-day's
steamer, carrying with him the homage and respect of
all honourable men. Our readers are already aware of
the circumstances out of which the displeasure of Go-
vernment has arisen-having, in standing up for the ful-
filment oC Cie Bii-Lbh pledge foresella meee in levee: u.
a lady who has been robbed of her only son, stripped of
her fortune, and maligned by miscreants who have con-
fessed their crimes, discovered a frightful amount of cor-
ruption, in which Government servants seemed deeply
implica'ed. Desirous of purgieg the Augeau stable and
redeeming our good name, he was considered by Go-
vernment to have gone too far-such inquiries were
troublesome-misdoings of this sort were better hushed
up-the wrongs of an injured lady of rank, of a house
that enjoyed our protection, not worthy of our notice!
We shall watch with some interest the reception these
things meet with at nome, and whether our anxiety fur
the welfare and good government of India is confined to
the construction of roads supposed likely to supply Lan-
cashire with cheaper cotton, while we suffer a blot to
rest upon our name, and wrongs to be inflicted by our
aenction, which must ruin our character and influence in
native eyes for ever. This question has caused Baroda
politics to be more deeply inquired into than they other-
wise would have been. We believe the hands of the
heads of departments in these matters to have all along
been clean. We now await the production of papers
before Parliament, which will, we trust, be insisted on
before the present session is over.

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theffraial-aKrr°iNvaed'
24th of November.
,JhArisi
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g3ioo.g—
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ot
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rlosmth
Eoofgltahoed month
e
We alluded last month to the destructive fire that had
occurred here, and to the death of Colonel Tomkyns,
and Lieutenant Lugg, of the Royal Artillery. Lieut.
Wilson, of the Royal Engineers, and the two gunners
who were in a precarious state, are quite out of danger
and recovering rapidly.
Respecting the Kwangsi rebellion, reports, as usual,
are rife. Seu, Governor of Canton, is still absent. Be
has invited all loyal subjects to come forward with their
contributions to defray the military expellees of the ex-
pedition, and motives of interest or of fear will no doubt
induce most of them to respond to the appeal.
All is quiet at Canton, and the inhabitants seem to
have no apprehension of the rebels approaching nearer
and creating disturbance.

From Shanghai we have accounts to the 22d of
the month. A formidable piratical fleet in the neigh-
bourhood of Ningpo causes much apprehension to
the people and Government of that district. The
Mandarins and the chief of the pirates have had
an interview, but negotiations were broken off in
consequence of the latter refusing to show the respect
due to the Governor of the district. Her Majesty's brig
Contest, at the recoest of the Chinese authorities, was
stationed at Ningpo. Her Majesty's steamer Spyux ar-
rived at Shanghai from this on the 15th, and afterwards
proceeded to Ningpo to relieve the Contest and to ren-
der such assistance as may be necessary.
The emigration of Chinese to California is greatly on
the increase. During the past month six vessels have
e,iiled; 10 are preparing to leave, and more are required.
Many who had previously emigrated have returned with
substantial proofs of their success, and the Chinese are
not slow in following the example of their countrymen
when money is the inducement.
Seventeen American whalers hare lately arrived in
our harbour. The fishing during the past season has
been unprofitable.

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In imports a fair business has been doing at rather
improved ratem. At Shanghai the market continues
dull. In tea there has been little alteration. Rather
lower prices have been paid at Shanghai. About 75 to
80 chops Congou it, all have been settled. The excess
of export compared wits last year is little more than
4,000,000ib. For silk the demand in the north had be-
come more active, and prices had adveeced 4 to 5 par
cent. In the export to this time the decrease is equal to
1,390 bales.

In Harbour—Her Majesty's ship Hastings. Her
Majesty's surveying-vessel Royalist, lately arrived.
Captain Bates. when surveying near one of the Phil-
lipino Islands had a very narrow escape of being cut off
with his boat's crew by eight large piratical prahus
which gave chase for five miles.
At Whampoa—Her Majesty's steamer Salamander.
At Canton—Her Majesty's steamer Nemesis.
At Amoy—The brig Lily.
At Ningpa—Her Majesty's brig Contest, and tha
steamer Spuynx.

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The latest dates from England are to the 24th of No-
vember; Calcutta, December 8; Bombay, December 18;
Sydney, October 20; Manilla, December 13; and Sin-
gapore, January 5.
Y.S. We have just rk•ceived advices from Can ton,
mentioning that a report was-current of a battle having
bl.en fought between the Imperial troops and the rebels,
and of the former, in particular, having suffered severely.
It has caused some uneasiness among the Chinese.
Wore the provincial city of Kwangsi to fall into the
hands of the rebels, Canton might be placed in some
jeopardy.