The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-27 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 23d of
August, and from Calcutta to the 16th of August.

We take the following from the Calcutta English-
man of the 16th of August :
" From Bhootan we have the usual peace ru-
mours, but the preparations for renewing the cam-
paign continue, and there is little doubt that peace,
if made at all, will be made at Punakha. The Go-
vernment are now doing what should have long
since been done—recalling the troops from the un-
healthy posts in the Dooars. Since it is determined
to march into the interior of the country in the cold
season, there can no longer be any object in con-
tinuing to occupy them. The 11th Native Infantry,
by the last accounts received, had upwards of 400
men in hospital. The commander-in-chief appears
determined to put an end to the differences between
the military and civil officers on the frontier, and
the former have been directed to pay implicit
obedience to the requisitions and instructions of the
chief civil officer in the Bhootan Dooars, with respect
to the affairs of Bhootan, and to the provision of
carriage and supplies for troops marching to the
frontier or employed there.
" The proposal relative to the extension of the
Eastern Bengal Railway to Goalundo has been re-
ferred to the Home Government for final conside-
ration and orders.

The report of the Salt Water Lakes Commis-
sioners has been issued. The Committee has recom-
mended that everything asked for be conceded, and
the few conditions that are attached to these con-
cessions are fair to all parties. The commissioners
are of opinion that even if the lakes were merely
drained and the soil ordinarily drilled, and even as-
suming that the full estimated cost had to be paid
for the lands, the undertaking would still yield 5 per
cent. ; whereas, with the application of sewage, the
annual returns would be fully 10 per cent. The
Commissioners also state that some persons, and
among them Mr. Armstrong, think that the re-
claimed lands would yield as much as 30r. per acre,
and even more.

" The Government of India is about to move the
Secretary of state to select six gentlemen in England
to fill present and prospective vacancies in the Edu-
cational Department. One of these gentlemen, who
must be a high Cambridge wrangler, will be ap-
pointed to the chair of Natural Philosophy, on a
salary of £9OO, to be raised in the course of four
years to £1,200. The remaining five must be gra-
duates in honours of one or other of the Universities
in classics, mathematics, or physical science. They
will receive an immediate salary of £6OO, to be in-
creased in four years to one of £9OO. All these
officers will be required to pass the usual examina-
tion in one vernacular language before becoming
entitled to any increase of salary. These appoint-
ments are to be made at once, so as to enable the
selected candidates to arrive by the Ist January."
We take the following summary of news from the
Bombay Gazette of the 23d of August :
" During the last fortnight we have had a good
fall of rain in Bombay, the total registered for the
season being nearly 70 inches. Reports from the
up-country state that the rains have been tolerably
general, and in several places inundations have
taken place which have caused considerable destruc-
tion,to property. The state of the public health in
Bombay continues very satisfactory, and, notwith-
I standing tho sec, .riao a v 0.4-44,
weekly return shows the Total number to be only
380. The Bengal and Bombay Steamship Com-
pany have determined to despatch a steamer once a
month between Bombay and Suez vice versa, in
connection with steamers from Alexandria to Liver-
pool, for the conveyance of passengers and cotton.
" A rejoinder by Dr. Leith to the report of the
Army Sanitary Commission has been published. It
shows that the average rate of mortality during the
last 15 years in the Bombay army has been about 29
per mile.
" The line of railway between Calcutta and Delhi
was to be opened for through traffic on the 15th
inst., the last connecting link, the Jumna Bridge,
having been at last completed.
" Colonel Playfair, political resident at Zanzibar,
arrived in Boinbay on board her Majesty's steamer
Lyra, on the 14th inst. The Colonel intended to
have accompanied the Sultan to Zanzibar, who is to
pay a visit to this city next month, but was obliged
to leave on account of ill-health.
" Sad accounts continue to be received from
Bhootan of the health of the troops. Four officers
belonging to the 11th Native Infantry have died,
and seven others have been sent away sick. The
whole of the force suffered very severely, so that
the men left form merely a remnant of their former
corps. Authority has been given for raising two
Coolie corps of 500 each for service in Bhootan, to
be commanded by European officers. Preparations
are being made for active operations in Bhootan,
and a force of not less than 7,000 men, 1,000 of
whom are to be Europeans, is to be brought
together to invade that territory.
" It is reported that Sher Shah, supported by the
Akhoond of Swat, has risen in rebellion near Shree-
nuggur, in Cashmere.
" It was stated some time ago that the Rajah of
Dhulbhoom was accused of offering a human sacri-
fice to the goddess Rokinee, and was acquitted by
the tribunal before which he was brought for want
of evidence. The British authorities have since
destroyed the goddess.
" His Excellency the Viceroy is expected to leave
Simla for the plains next month, and on his way to
hold a grand durbar at Delhi. There is a rumour
that the Viceroy will visit Rajpootana during the
ensuing cold season.

" The reported murder by fanatics of Lieutenant
Campbell, of her Majesty's 90th Regiment, in Cash-
mere, turns out to be incorrect.
" Intelligence has been received of the loss of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Corea
and a private steamer, the Chanticleer, supposed to
have foundered in a typhoon on the coast of China
on the 30th of June. A country ship, the Fatty-
ool-aziz, with 250 pilgrims on board, has been lost
in the Hooghly.
"An insurrection is reported to have broken out
at Bhawulpoor, but nothing serious is expected to
result therefrom.
ic The Governor-General has authorized the rail-
way companies to receive currency notes of other
circles than those in which they are issued, if
ten-
dered by travellers in payment of railway fares, but
not for payment of carriage of merchandise.
Mr. Davis has been appointed to officiate as
Chief Commissioner of Oudh during the absence of
Mr. Wingfield, on leave.
"The foundation stone of the Poona Engineer-
ing College has been laid by his Excellency the
Governor.

"The Public Works Congress is to meet at
Poona in the course of a few days, and the revenue
commissioners, collectors, superintending engineers,
and other officers have been invited to attend.
" His Excellency Sir Bartle Frere holds a public
durbar to-day at Poona; at which the Sirdars of
the Deccan are expected to be present.
"The Bombay Legislative Council is sitting at
Poona, but the business hitherto transacted is of no
public interest.
" Mr. A. D. Sassoon will, it is said, be appointed
a member of the Legislative Council, in the room
of the late Mr. Juggonath Sunkersett.
"Mr. T. C. Anstey took his :seat-on the bench of
the High Court on the 13th inst. • - '
" It is expected that Major-General Colin Troup

representative from each of the reclamation com-
panies, has been appointed by Government to report
on the subject of over-bridges needed on the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway line passing through the
native town of Bombay.
"It is reported that the Bengal Sappers and
Miners are about to be reorganised on a verfliberal
footing. The numbers of both officers and men are
to be increased, and an ' instruction branch' formed
" A fatal accident recently occurred on the East
Indian Railway near Cawupore, by a passenger train
from Delhi coming into collision with another pas-
senger train from Calcutta. The drivers of both
the trains escaped with slight injuries, but two
Europeans and ten native 3 were killed upon the spot,
and many other persons injured.
" The recent disturbances adverted to in the
Cossyah hills have ended in the murder of the Rajah
of Mowigarn by a party of Cossyahs, who have since
been arrested by the police.
" His Highness the Maharajah of Rewah has
given £5OO to found a Rewah scholarship in Queen's
College, Benares ; and the Maharajah of Viziana-
gram has also subscribed £7OO to found a Viziana-
gram scholarship in the same college.
" A landslip has occurred on the bank of the river
at Canning-town, some 300 ft. in length and 150 ft.
in breadth.

" There has been a slight landslip on the Thall
ghaut, and also a falling of stone in one of the
tunnels on the Bhore ghaut.

Obituary.—Gen. Sir Stuart Corbett, at Nynee
Tal, and Lieut. G. P. Alston, R.A., at Ahnaedabhad,
on the 7th inst. ; Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, Bengal
Cavalry, Alipore, on the 3d inst. ; Capt. G. Richard..
son, Bth Native Infantry, at Surat ; and Lieut. -
Colonel Hawkins, R.A., at Kurrachee, on the 2d
instant."

The Cholera in the Mediterranean.

VALETTA, Sept. 22.

The epidemic has not declined during the week.
On the 17th the cases rose to 33 attacks and 20
deaths, and on the 19th to 35 attacks and 22 deaths.
On the following day they fell to 13 attacks and 18
deaths, but, on the next day, they rose again to 21
attacks and 18 deaths. The increase is chiefly owing
to fresh outbreaks at Vittoriosa and Teitun. The
former is one of the towns on the shores of thefilthy
dockyard creek, and the latter is suffering much
from want of work. The average number of cases
in Valetta has been, for some time past, about three
daily. To-day there were only two attacks, and the
accounts from such parts of the country as have
been received are more satisfactory.
On the 13th and 18th the island was visited by
storms of thunder and rain, but the hopes of an
amelioration in its sanitary condition to be derived
thereby have not been gratified. The coolweather
has not yet set in, and it is feared the epidemic will
not leave us until that period.
The total number of deaths among the troops, in-
cluding women and children, up to the 14th inst.,
was 115, out of about 150 to 160 attacks. Since
then several cases have occurred, especially in the
84th Regiment, which for a long time escaped the
disease entirely. Yesterday five cases manifested
themselves in' this regiment, and one in the Royal
Artillery.
The following are the returns of cholera cases in
the civil population since the 11th inst., the date of
my last communication

Attacks. Deaths. !Attacks. Deaths.
Sept. 12 ... 17 ... 9 Sept. 17 ... 33 ... 20
„ 13 ... 21. ... 10 ~ ... 25 ... 16
„ 14 ... 15 ... 16 19 ... 35 ... 22
„
• 15 ... 25 ... 14 „ 20 ... 13 ... 18
„ 16 ... 21 ... 13 „ 21 ... 21 ... 18

The accounts of the Cholera in the Levant are
more encouraging. It has disappeared from Alex-
andria, although it still lingers in Upper Egypt, on
account of which clean bills of health have not yet
been issued. The rise of the Nile above the ave-
rage height has gladdened all hearts, aid promises
a splendid cotton crop.
From Smyrna, Constantinople, Odessa, and other

ports, reassuring news is received. At Smyrna, ac-
corcung—to a—ietter----at the 18th instant, confi-
dence was being restored, the epidemic having
ceased for some days. A great deal of misery,
however, required to be relieved. At Constanti-
nople, where the disease had assumed the most
gigantic proportions, it is at present limited to a
few cases daily. From Odessa we learn that clean
bills of health are now issued from that port.

asionldereaed, b allut Greece,rs e believe,
very p uenet .
s
freCe ofrrfuem,
ch A
steamer, lately arrived .at Corfu from Brindisi,
feve
reported a case of cholera there.
The Malta Relief Fund, for the assistance of per-
sons suffering from the present visitation of cholera,
e reroenvtai ln
has lately received the munificent donation of £lOO
from Messrs. Burns and Maclver, of Liverpool, in
addition to a personal donation, on the part of Mr.
Maelver, of £5O.

We are informed on most unquestionable autho-
rity that a decided and undoubted case of Asiatic
cholera, with a fatal result, has occurred in South-
ampton. The victim was a man named Rose; about
30 years of age, residing in Brewhouse-court, Brew-
house-lane, who died on Sunday, about 36 hours
from his first attack, the symptoms at every stage
being those of the most virulent form of this dread-
ful disease. The unfortunate man himself dated
his illness having been engaged a few days previously
in cleaning out a very offensive cesspool. Another
case, that of a woman living in a different part of
thep ro v town, o
to w n,
be isA s
ialsoa t ic
cholera,reported
may
a y presentingnot
presage similara
n
symptoms. Although these cases, should they both
im-
mediate prevalence of the epidemic, they are suffi-
ciently alarming to call for vigilant and energetic
measures, without an hour's delay, on the part of
the local authorities, and, if necessary, the Govern-
ment itself. With a full consideration of the fact
that the town of Southampton is in direct commu-
nication, by means of the mail steamers, with the
Mediterranean, and only four days from Gibraltar,
where the cholera now prevails, and at which port
these steamers call, every possible sanitary precau-
tion should be at once taken to guard the health,
not only of the inhabitants of Southampton, but the
country at large.

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