The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-18 00:00:00

INDIA.

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We have received advices froth India by t a
Overland Mail, dated Bombay, November 271 fin
Calcutta, November 18. ;
Cal-
The Viceroy presided at a great meeting' In ~f
cutta on the 6th November on behalf of the 5
ferers in the manufacturing districts of Lan Whir
and made a most earnest and effective speech. 0,
The Commander-in-Chief of India has been pr
strated by a sun stroke, but is now convalesceot..
The Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief of 113'516
have sent to the Secretary of State a recomraetiti;
tion to the effect that all officers of her Majesty
British army serving away from their regiruev"
any employment whatever in India, be called UPeffn
at once to elect between joining one of the Ste
Corps or vacating their appointments and rejoining
their regiments.
The progress of cholera among the men of tb;
93d Regiment at Peshawur has been arrested, b. 11.,
it has not yet been entirely stopped. The mortally;
among the officers of the 42d Highlanders has bee
considerable.
It is arranged that the camp of the GoverniT
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General will be formed at Agra in February el/a'
and that durbars will be held at Meerut, Delhi, °l3
Umballah. gent,

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The Ameer Dost Mahomed is still before 0
collecting troops in order to attack .Seeitti
Ahmed Jan.
The death of his Highness theiMaharajah of Fliti;
tialah, a prince to whom the British Govern°3beei,
are indebted for active assistance during the re
lion of 1857, is just announced. .a
His Excellency the Governor of Bombay tbo
foundation stone of the Victoria Museum ell oo
19th ult., and Lady Frere opened the garden
the same day. . of
The order of Government for the deraolitioefor
the ramparts of Bombay has been formaill or
nounced, and a commission is sitting forgoe siod
propriation of the land for public offices, schloi
hospitals. oitg
Kurrachee and other parts of Seinde have °OO/
been visited by locusts, which committed frigo
havoc amongst the vegetation. d Peft‘
The Government of India have sanctioned 0,01
sions for the destitute members of the per
family of Delhi to the extent of nearly Xl3°'
month. roertif
fhe first of the Messageries Imperiales' stew
the Imperatrice, reached Galle on her contract for
the 13th ult., with a complement of passenger
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India, China, and Ceylon. the
A European ship is reported wrecked e-cre
African coast below Cape Guardafui, and the
murdered by natives. n3O tellfs'
The American steamer Mississippi, of 2,-- .tionte
Captain Taylor, was lost in her passage froM
Video to Hong Kong—passengers and ereeBv4:l3ltoee,
The Duke of Lancaster (British ship) on; sings'
Captain Bolmano, with a cargo of rice fro" or the
pore to Shanghai, has been totally lost De
Island of Formosa. 1, 0 bee°
General Ward, of the Chinee service' Pa
killed while engaging the rebels. s obeli°
A hurricane has taken place at the -„eie,
Islands, attended with considerable loss di 'I
THE CASE OF GENERAL .21.P.N0

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(From the IVew York commercial ildvertls. er)• tit
As yet the government has made no sign as t° Wit on
awisll do in the case of General Nr'Neil. The following ',,,eg
a netw. correspondent the Columbus (o.);6risis6l-
- man for whom General I\i'Neil shot ten soya° 65
ago, and which was noticed in the Crisis,
home alive and well, and his wife before the aecitticillitll
those men, went to him (General WlsTeil) and pleaded IQtea
him to wait and see if he had been killed before he 0°1" o
those men, and the brute spurned her. I can Write 11
more:,
n The return of the missing man alive and well readileir
ofaither adds to nor takes from the atrocity of the Wiltrileot
the ten mcn, but it brings the matter home to the tt.
and most prejudiced comprehension,
(From the New York Tinies.) bed,
There can be no possible justification for such a but° 0
and our Government owes it to itself, to the countrY, filo
to the sentiment of the civilised world, to mark, 11 Iler
has returnof
prompt and distinct action, its reprobation of it. teeth
prompt asi
it has any such jurisdiction over General WNeil, or qii 0
the military organisation with wizich be is conected,
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will enable it to punish as its deserve. 9 this roost barbarro
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and inhuman act, we cannot say. But whatever poWecer,,
has in the case, direct or indirect, should be pronoPtlY er. 00
cised, not only to prevent the threatened retaliation 01 the
rebel President, but to to DIV' remo e from
v the thiliSU o'l°
damning stigma which such acts are calculated ,0
upon it.
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AsAtronl‘olmaerrs,ehilalsesatlleatsttenrbtsaaiynesd:
The I‘'alu. authorisation
he solicited to establish in different parts of Frano astr°'
nomical stations dependent upon the Paris Observator;
He left Paris some days back to examine come of the ocal;
ties of the South, the most favourably suited for the inat's
lation. of fresh astrouoglical Stationer" iltsaetriroinerw,
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