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

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.
We have received our correspondence and files of
newspapers from India and Chiva. The dates are--
Calcutta, Feb. 8 ; Bombay, Feb. 17 ; and China,
Jan. 30.
(From the Overland Bombay Times, Feb. 17.)
Sumeater.—The Governor-General arrived at Cal-
cutta on the 29th ult. He is .said to have approved
generally of the conduct of the Commodore, but ex-
cepted to the abduction or the Burmese ship of war. If
DOW appears, however, that it was not on this account
that the Fox was fired upon. The governor told him
that if he attempted to remove British property from
Rangoon be would be assailed from the stockades; and
the commodore replied, that if so much as a pistol were
discharged at him, he would level the stockades, and
he accordingly when attacked, kept his word. The
Gevereor-General is slid to be most anxious to see and
!sting the Bur see'se to their senses without jesorting to
hostilities, and to avoid a war if possible. Reinforce-
mente end munitions are meanwhile being dispatched in '
abundance to our settle u. meots o the frontier, and every
preparation made to repel assault and revenge insult, or
eater upon hostilities it necessary. No further steps have
been tt,ken, so far as is kaoteu, by the Burmese , w to pro-
oarey await to see what we propose. Ali Moored bar
yielded to his fate without the nwe,ity of a resort to
force), mud the troops ordered to assemble at Sukkur, to
coerce if necessary, are now ou their way back to their
cautonments. A proclamation dated Rorer, the 2h: of
January, has beau issued by the commissioner under di-
rection of the Government of ludia, premulga wag the
grounds of our offeuoe. Jr is thus sot forth : When the
Khyrpore chief found that he had got' Sir Charles Na-
pier fully into his toils, and induced him is takeefrom
his brethren their dominions with the view of ex:ending
his own, the territory afterwards to be occupied by him
was defined by the treaty of Nownahur, consisting of
certain additions to that supposed previously his own.
The extent ofahis was described in a leaf of the Koran.
This he removed, and substituted another in its place,
describing larger dominions as his, and claiming a portion
of that which had belonged to his brethren, and ought on
their fall to have become ours. The freed was fully esta-
blished against him, and ultiMately admitted, and he is
now stripped of what in reality never was his—of the Rais-
ship or chieftainship—the grounds of oar quarrel, and re-
duced hereafter to the rank of a nobleman inthe possession
of his hereditary estates. There has been something like
a rebellion in the Portuguese territories of the Goa, occa-
sioned, it is said, by resistance to some unpopular taxes
lately imposed by the Governor. The troops were called
out, and some bloodshed ensued, and it was supposed at
one time that assistance would be required from us by
the Goanese authorities, their own army amounting in
all to about two thousand, and of those a thousand are
now in the field. The Punjaub continues tranquil, and
profound tranquillity prevails throughout all our do-
minions. On the 9th inst. a splendid meeting, presided
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
under 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 being instructed at the
School of Industry; there are amongst them 26 Hin-
doos, 21 Mahomedans, 3' Palettes, and 2 Portuguese
Christians. Twenty-seven are orphans—the parents of
the rest aro 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 Atrican 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 annum respectively. Some curious statis-
tics have of late been published in reference to the move-
ments of the governors and commanders irk 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 Mahabuleshwar, until lately in the domi-
nions of Setters, and nearly the worst place in the presi-
dency for the transaction of business. About as much more
is enjoyed at Poona; and this constitutes the tour. No
commander-in-chief ever was in Soinde 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, and 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 on 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 Outruns, 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 of the British pledge formally made in favour of
e 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 frighttul amount of cor-
ruption, in which Government servants seemed deeply
implicated. Desirous of purging the Augean stable and
redeeming our good name, he was considered by Go-
vernment to have gone too fur—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!
Wo shall watch with some interest the reception these
things meet with at home, and whether our anxiety for
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
sanction, 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.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

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CASUALTIES EY DEATH IN THE ARMIES OF INDIA. SINCE

THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL, FEB. 3
HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS.—Lieat.-Colonel Tonikins,
Commanding. R.A., in China, Dec. 29, 1851; Lieut.
Lugg, ILA., in China, Dec. 28,1851.
MADRAS.—Lieut. Henry 'Bell, 2d Native Veteran Bat-
talion, at Wallajahbad, Jan. 28.
BENGAL.—Carptain W. G. Don, 43d Regiment
Native Infantry, Commanding Mill Rangers, at
Baugulpore.
APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &C., ANNOUNCED SINCE

DISPATCH OF THE LAST OVERLAND MAIL, FEB. 3.
HER. MAJESTY'S TROOPS.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE.--Bth Foot—Ensign Macpherson
to England, via the Cape of Good Hope, for two years
from date of embarkation, at the recommendation of a
board of medical officers, subject to the confirmation of
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India. 78th
Foot—A board of medical officers, assembled at Aden,
having recemmended that Lieut. M. E. Smith may be
permitted to proceed to England for the recovery of his
health, his Excellency Lieut. General Sir John Grey,
grants leave of absence to that officer for one
year from the date of embarkation, subject to the con-
firmation of his Excellency the Commandera-nind:Cfohrietfwino
India. 83d Foot—Lieut. Metge, to England,
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.

COMMERCIAL REPORT.
THE CALCUTTA MARKET.,
The Government express, with London dates to
the 24th
and the
Oriental arrived on the morning of the 31st inst.,'
_
Oriental steamer, with the bulk of the mail, was anchored off
town about twelve o'clock on the following day
Amount of bills drawn by the East Indiaa
Ccmlpany on
this Presidency from the Bth to the 23d
December was
77,7351. 14s. 10d., at 2s. per rupee. One or two further
failures were announced.
Respecting exports from this there is 'not much change to
note. A large quantit of indigo was, ever, shipped in
the course of last month,
g
nd 4,334 chests for
France. The shipments of sugar
chests of which were for Great Britain, a
were on a most moderate
, reaching to 111°37491 chests, 8,816
y entforward was consider-
able,scale. Of raw silk the quantity
and shipments to some- liali2'silk piece goods, business has
tie.t-teent are still in progress. In
torahs, and indeed all kinds of
continued on a limited scale. Saltpetre has been in exten.
eica, whilst for other parts very
little demand has show
sive request for North
itself. Anni
Shipments of rice to Great
Britain havecontinued
on
s
a most ample scale. Lac dye has
g
only been shipped to moderate extent, but there has been
more freedom shown
regarding shell lac,both for Great Britain
Americ safflower is out of season, and very little
business has been
and North done. Hides have been freely shipped to
Great Britain, and rather a large amount of trausactions for
North America,
•
as well as other places, has taken place.
Exports of linseed have been chiefly confined to Great
and the United States. Mustard seed hag been
_
dto England. Castor oil appears to have
than usual. Of jute,6o 835 maun
d less attention
attracted
A go
were shipped to Great Britain in January. ..on has been
,-.,-- h has gone forward, but only a small porti
largely shipped shiPpe
%Ate
' I sent to England.
be held on the
I The second opium sale of the season will A good deal
1 loth blatant. Since the last sale there has been

i of time bargain speculation going on in the Bazaar, and prices
have consequently been subjected to fluctuations. Quota-
s Lions for Patna in the Bazaar were yesterday Co.'s Rs, taeagy,
Ito 4022 per chest. Benares is nominal, there being none's,.
1 from the first sale left in the godowns.
Oar money market remains with scarcely any alteration., ,
I Previous rates of interest at the Bank of Bengal are main- ;
tained but in other quarters it is said rather more stringent
.:
rates are not unfrequently imposed ; and altogether there is.
still considerable difficulty feltin respect to financial matters,.
both here and. throughout the country, amongst all classes.
In the Bazaar amongst the tiarwarrie dealers there is hardkyi
,:i
any improvement whateves. The several houses which gaval
way some few months back have not been supplanted by
ep
; quotations
others with any pretension to wealth and influence. The f 01...
lowingompan arey,s t
Rs.hresent
for Government Securities:
Transfer Five. er Cents. Rs., 3 to t=B-0 prem. ; -New }lves,.
tFoolu6r-poe_roCd
2-8-0 to 3-0-oprem. ; Sicca- ditto, 2-8-0 to 3-0-0 , discount,
C
t; oßla3n-k8- discount;oofßenal shSaiccresa
Rs. ditto, 15.8.0
are quoted Company's Rs. 2,400 prem.; Agra Bank (500 paid.
up), Company's Rs. 490 to 495 ; Bonded Warehouse shares,
Cent.,
discount;
Y2O to 230 each.
The import market has continued dull, and had ever since
the departure of the overland mail, notwithstanding which,
however, a large amount of sales are reported, both in piece
goods and mule twist. Prices chew but little, if any, varia-
tion during the period under notice. Low reed grey shirt-
ings have not been quite so readily sold as they were; while
medium qualities .appear to-have come into rather better
favour. Forty lice inch and wider goods have been saleable
to a moderate extent. Grey rnadapsilams have moved off
less freely than they did, although Priem' can hardly be :ma-
to have retrograded. Jaeonets, uoth grey and white, have
been rather freely disposed of ,at the late current rates.
Bleached goods are almost stationary inn sss„ White
figured shirtings are saleable to a fair extent. White twills
continue much neglected. Low white shirtings are only
moveable at former miserable low prices. White madapol3-:
lams bring hardly so much as greys. White cambrics are in
no sort of demand. The sales of Turkey red goods have been
considerable, but without any amendment in value. print,
l sell very badly, and the chief buyers at present are the Ne-
' peal and Cabul dealers, who buy mostly in a retail fa.shion,
[ and make but little impression on the enormous stocks of this
class of goods. Woollens are getting out of season; and they
have sold very badly all through.
Light Scotch fabrics have attracted a little more atten-
tion, and the sales of mulls and lappets reported are con-
siderable. Book muslins at present are quiet, and likely to.
remain so until business with the Burmese is again resumed.
Mule twist has sold to a fair extent. 20's and 30's are
rather lower; other Nos. continue without much change,
while the tendency of 60's is upwards. Coloured yarns are
very dull. Turkey red remains difficult of sale at our late
miserably low prices, and stocks are exceedingly heavy.
Metals continue at about former low value, with abundant
supplies. Copper, however, is rather more valuable during
the past few days. Spelter is dull, and again down in value.
Exchange has fallen 4 or 5 per cent. since the last mail
left. Current rates for the present dispatch are as follows:
—First-class credits, 2s. 034 d. to 2s. id. per rupee; ditto
documents, 2s. o%d. to 2s. Id. per rupee.
- Freights—Tonnage continues more than ample for the
wants of the port, although many of the first-class large ships
have taken their departure. Quotations are—Sugar to Lon-
don, 11. 17s. 6d. to 2/. ; Rice, 21. ss. to 21. lOs ; Saltpetre,
2/. 12s. ed. ; Jute, 2/. ss. to 2/. 7s. Gd. per ton.
1/. 10s. ; Oilseeds, 21. ss. to 21.. 10s.; Hides, 21. 10s. to