The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-03 00:00:00

• ridsy.last wee-published a telegraphic message
via Trieste, in enticipatien of the Overland Mail.
We have now :rezeived our letters and parcels
via Marseilles. •.The • 'ng is the summary of
ludi te news sent, by oure' spondent at Bombay :-
4 'rho 'Calcutta purtione' Oils Burmese expeditionary
Cord left, the llooghly on t e 25th of March, the Madras
troops ethearked on board the Bombay squadron on the
eeth and 29th, and both divisions were expeae.
ti t° reit-
drzvous at Moulmein about the 4th or stre
It was intended that the force should start • or
fifteenalttes earlier, sod the delay that has taken, . is
much to be regretted, as the near approach of theenor-
soon and the neceesity of striking a blow before the set•
ung in of that season- retiders the loss of every day a
,matter, of, very serious motnent.
line' promptness' and vigour (says the Bombay
Times) of the Councils of the Governor-General are
said to have been chilled end damped by the Executive.
'I; -had • been resolved—why, it is not stated—to place
General Godwiu in charge of the expedition: Ile was
,he oldest Queen's officer available, and
.bad 'shared in,
the Bermes, war in 1824—reasons sufficieur, one would.
have supposed, why some , other should have bean ap-
poiotcd. Ile is -said -to leave debated and hesitated, been
eiversteto the sudden blow originally desired to be struck,
in favour of a, delay till October, and a war by land and
water commenced in due form.' • •
`! Bat there was another and a much more serious
cause of delay. ' The Bengal Sepoys- manifested the in-
to'dietatete thetr.officers, peculiar to the troops
.`lif-itrarepee,sideasey-s raid e'etueesiseas-tantiat f _foreign,
service. This embarrassment is, however, as. much toy
be attributed to the absurd system of enlistment pecu-
liar to the Bengal Presidency as to the want of proper
eultiterlike feeling in the men themselves. The armies of
-the Madras and,Bombay presidencies are- enlisted like
the Queen's army for—' general service,' but only six of
the i!'egiwenta of -the Bengal army are enlisted on these
.terms; the remainder, like our militia, are not liable to
'be -Ordered beyohd sea, and whenever the State requires
them to embark on foreign service teey
.are asked', to
volunteer. Four Bengal Native Infantry regiments
tvero required fonservice in Burmab. Tee first ordered
off was ono of the. -six general service regiments, the
67;h, and it embarked as.a matter of course; the five
other general service regiments were at too great a dis
tence from the coast tb be evailable•• three volunteer re-
giments •were therefore. wanted. ihe 38th Native In-
fantry had n'lX,h chaiacter as a 'volunteer corps. It
was paraded and *invited' to embark for service in
Burmab. The men_ flatly refused to do ao. It was
then ordered .to proceed by land,. and after much en-
treaty, 'from its officers was marched off by Chittagong.
Of course, the regiment could . not. arrive by land in
.tieSeatCa be •of any use •in the campaign, but it was
expected that the • Sepoys - would mutiny on the march,
on, wlaiph they. would he immediately disbanded. In the
meanwhile' no other Banal regiments have been asked
to volunteer, and -an additional regiment, the sth, has
been ordered'from Madras. Itis said that all future re-
cruits'fot the Bengal cutesy are to be enlisted for 'general
servicy;'; but, its addition to this, it should be enacted
that not mare than one-third of the. Sepoys of any regi-
ment should be '.high caste' men, and that the nous
eensmissiorted officers should be appointed (as in the
Bombay army), by merit* instead 'of by. 'auk,' or .se-
tdority. The caste exclusiveness of the Bengal Sepoys
renders them ,often difficult of management and prone
to eonabihatioe againet military authority and discipline,
and the appointmentof the non-commissioned Officers by
seniority :places decrepit old men, such as in the Bombay
ago have been superannuated, in those
army i
i9wposu_
lido
r longw
atcb, in all ether armies in the world, the
oaraot
smartest soldiers of a regiment are selected. The se-
niority system elSo excludes the principle of emulation,
and renders the Sepoys careless of gaining their officers'
approval. The only udvantsge of the system is a finan-
cial one. The pension list of the Bengal army is pro-
portionally much smaller' than 'that-of' Bombay. The
Sepoys of the former presidency are induced to remain
much longer with their 'regiments them they otherwise
would- by the certainty of succeeding to a commission
if ihea'only live long enough.
6' The tactics' of Sir Colin Campbell's last
frontier expedition have, as was fully expected, rendered
a second and More serious hill campaign necessary.
What ought to have been done in the cold weather must
now be (ffectvd. during the hottest and unhealthiest
season of the year: 'Oh for one hour of Dundee 'is the
present Cry' in India with reference to all military mat-
t-ere: Sir C. Campbell left Peshawur for the Eusufzaie
country on the 11th of March, with a force of 2,500 men,
consisting of the Ist troop, Ist Brigade, Horse Artillery,
under Captain Bald Win; head-quarters and 600 men of
her Mejesty'a 32d Regiment; a wing of the 6th Regie
[tient N.I. (Gooraas), under command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Troup; the 15th Irregular Cavalry (Fisher's);
and a company of Sappers and Miners. On the 20th
they are said to_ have been attacked by the enemy; the
fighting is stated to have lasted three hours, when the
bilk-nen were beaten off, -The loss is said to have been
considerable on both aides, 100 killed and wounded—we
have no further particuliirs. It is. stated by the Delhi
Gazette that Sir Colin Campbell bas applied for more
troops from Peshawar, to enable himeo take a stronger
force with him against the hostile trines in the Eueuf-
zein districts.
ail ever :..the alienatiori from the ho`p`ell'elises Nstatzteemt'he i'arniniolia are in a worse and more
ordi-
nary purposes of the state of the sums required for pay-
ing off in part the debt due to the company has, as wLu,
anticipated, increased every species of disorder which
arose, from the nonpayment of the N:zam's troops; the
rendered
theseilnd Mutineers, as 'they are called, have
d property in Hyderabad so insecure,
that a large number or the more wealthy inhabitants of
the city have taken refuge within the limits of the pre-
his
skit ncy. The Minister has avowed inability to pay
the conting
in the habit .of procuring 6hoondiea' from
continent. He tells, the Resident that heretofore
he has been
Sahookars, and reimbursing, them by.
assignments on the
revenues; but, as the Taioolidars will not pay the Sa-
hookers, the Sahoultars will not any longer give him
‘""dits! This is 611 true, but is not a wise confes-
sion. It ie stated thet tircNizsm intends, for the future,
to dispense with a:Minister; and has asked the British
Government to provide him with five English officers to
superintend the Colleetion of his revenue.
a The Hydera-
bad State (says the Madras Athenum ) is in articulo
mortis.; Our duty
.of preservation is pearly at an end.
" The fieanciaL difficulties of the country are bringing,
everything to a dead lock. The Government is ouly
sharing in the
ruin- efever y rivate interest. Nobody is
paid, the contingent is close pon•stven months in arrear,
and not a rupee- is forthcoming. The great money-
lenders are either annihilated, or on the verge of it,. and
the credit of the Statia is at the last gasp. The Nrzam
cannot be made to understand his real position. Soorsj-
col-Moollt has survived his influence with the Resident
as ',tell as with the Nizem. Be may be as well kept on,
however, as not. .It is .sestrcely worth while to change
the actors just as the curtain is about to fall. In the
provinces anarchy rules without a cheek. The Bo-
hillss are in posiession of all the roads, and the travellers
and vil'agers are plundered without mercy. Of late
They have token to•nirder-the Company's Sepoys going
and returning on furlough, which is a sure sign that the
Jew is unknown and Government unmixed fon An as-
surance on the existence of the Hyderabad dynasty till
December, 1852, could only be done 'at a high premium,
tee re•k being decidedly ha.zartious..
" The assertion that Lord Felkland had received by
he last snail a prii,ate intimation that the Court of Di-
rectors would be unable to -support him in the Baroda
business, and would probably be under the necessity of
maniere hiusehes'beett most confidently reiterated by
two of the Bombay papers. I mention the report as
being prevalent, and generally believed, but I am as-
sured un good authority that it is without foundation.
The scandals in reference to official corruption in connec-
tion with Baroda Continue 'to excite public attention to
a painful degree. The kcal papers are daily full'ot the
subject. The following is from the Bombay Times, the
most moderate in its tone of treating the subject of any
of the Bombay papers:—
"' The Bombay newspapers continue as warm as ever
on the subject of the corruptness of the subordinates of
the Secretariat, and the extreme misconduct of Govern-
ment in -connexion with Baroda affairs. Above a
quarter of a million sterling is known to have been sent
from Barochs to Bembay fur the purpose of influencing
the decisions of Government, and it is reasoned that it
the keen, scented and close :fisted men of business who
paid such sumsas these had found they were throwing
away their money, they „would have discontinued the
practice on discovering its fruitlessness—the fact of
their perieveranee showing that they at all events are
satisfied that they have made a profitable bargain. Go-
vernment have for ten years been aware that scandals
on these subjects Were universal against them and their
servants; yet, with the single exception of the inquiriei
miller Sir George Atthur in 1843, they have always
endeavoured to bemystify and huddle up Matters, to die-
Countenance ieguiry, and patronize the most notorious of
his negotiations. " .

COMMERCIAL. INTELLIGENCE.
REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY

MARKETS.
FROM THE 3D :OF MARCH TO THE 2D OF APRIL

t
glper
cent, prem.
current at this INCLUSIVE.
sea.son.
usually
can
bi 3 ar et continues very easy, and accom-
modation The me,ey_m_ k
arrived by, obtainedthe. at rates much under those
aAjdahst, 'Acul
England and China, lLarge
es, qa un
and
thili iselstae: of f bul-
lionrom
u r rse nLtegn
money
wiachrniaa;nbtal7zd likely.
uidp oioe prevailing abundance of
give place to the lightness
quotations
at lotyi4o.ltnha of rrul eut
securitiestis
period of the year. The
are:—
New Fives,
1188249173402
8,
Sjcca Fives,
Co:
sieea Fours, 1802.33 at 941
Transfer I,,ari ..• ..• at 116 nominal.
s Fours, 1835-36
Bombay Bs,nlc Shares . ~.. at per cent prem
Oriental Bank Corporation Shares at 19
Commercial Bank Shares ... at 5 per cent.
Agra Bank Shares ... at 7 per cent. prem.
Bank of. Madras Shares.. ... at 16 per cent. prem.
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