The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-06 00:00:00

INDIA.

On the arrival of the Bombay mail we have ad-
vices from Bombay to January 14, and from Cal-
cutta to January 5.
Sir John Lawrence arrived at Madras on the 9th
ult., but did not land on account of the heavy surf.
His nomination to the post of governor-general
pears to have given general satisfaction in India.
Immediately after his installation he will proceed
to Lahore to carry out the programme arranged by
Lord Elgin.
The frontier war, as already announced, is com-
pletely terminated, and the Times of India says
that all the objects for which it was undertaken have
been accomplished. " The Bonnever men," it adds,
" whose opposition caused us to turn aside from
our main object, and to subdue whom cost us thirty
officers and about seven hundred and forty men iu
killed and wounded, became as true and faithful
friends as they had been brave enemies, and actually
fought our final battle for us. The whole of the
Punjaub, and the district and border of Peshawur,
are perfectly quiet. The new ruler of Affghanistan
have given proof of a desire for a good understand-
ing between his country and British India. There
never was a time, perhaps, where there was less
cause for apprehension in regard to India than at
the present."
Sir Hugh Rose was expected at Peshawar, on the
30th Dec., to arrange for the location of the several
corps on their retiring from the frontier service. A
Camp of Eiercise will be formed at Rawul Pindee.
Sir Charles Trevelyan has gone on a tour to the
N.W. Provinces to recruit his health, which was
suffering from over-work.
Sir N. Chamberlain is improving in health.

General St. Patrick Lawrence, C. 8., Governor-
General's Agent for the Rajpootana States, has been
requested by Government to present the insignia of
the Star of India to H. H. the 111aharajah of Jey-
poor. The ceremony was to take place at Jeypoor
about the 20th ult.

Tho Government of India has formally recognised
Sirdar Shere Ali Khan as Ameer of Affghanistan.
It is stated that the Commander in Chief of India
has applied to the Government of India for an in-
crease in the native army.
The line of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central
India Railway Company from Surat to Bombay will
probably be opened for public traffic in the month
of March next.
The wife of a Brahmin in Meywar, unwilling to
go through the religious sacrifice of suttee, on the
death of her husband, was seized violently by her
relations, and tortured and burned. The parties
were seized.and sentenced by Mr. Eden, the poli-
tical agent, to transportation for periods of two and
three years.

PRESENT STATE OF HERRING FISHERIES.—The
trade of Great Britain has steadily risen since the beginning
of the century from about 100,000 to nearly 700,000 barrels,
the exports for most years being something like one-third.
In 1849, a year of remarkable abundance, the quantity of
cured herrings amounted to 1,151,979 barrels, 942,617
from the Scottish, and 209,362 from the English coast. In
1862 the total quantity wae746,518 barrels.—Afr. Mitchell's
Book on the herring.

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THE CRINOLINE STEEL TRAFFlC.—Crinolines
form an increasing item of railway traffic. Not.
loss than 100 tons of crinolines are carried over the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway weekly. Shef-
field is the principal seat of the manufacture—the fabrica-
tion of this delicate article giving employment to a large
number of its population. Taking the average weight of
each set of crinoline steel hoops at half a pound, the above
quantity of steel shows a production of about half a million
crinolines per week, independent of what passes from Shef-
field by other routes. The quantity of steel hoops thus
manufactured weekly to enlarge the seeming proportions
of the fair sex, if joined together in a continuous wire,
would almost compass the globe.—. Railway News.