The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-08 00:00:00

INDIA.

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By the arrival of the Bombay mail we.
re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the I.2th of
February, and from Calcutta to the 3d of February.
We have telegraphic advices from Calcutta to the
10th of February, have _

We take the following summary of news from the
Bombay Gazette of the 12th of February :
n The English mail of the 18th of January arrived
in Bombay on the 9th of February. Since the de-
parture of our last Bombay mail we have also re-
ceived the English mails of the 26th of December,
the 3d and 10th of January.
" The public mourning for his Royal Highness
the late Prince Consort was, by Government noti-
fication, closed on Feb. 10, when 60 minutes guns
were fired from the Fort, and the flag, which had
been hoisted half-mast high, was drooped.
" The various communities in this Presidency
have given public expression to their regret for the
death of the Prince Consort, and their sympathy
with the Royal family, and have offered public
prayers for her Gracious Majesty the Queen.
" The news of the pacific settlement of the Awe'
rican difficulty' has given very great, but, Per"
haps, not altogether disinterested satisfaction i°
India. There is great excitement in our coact'
market.

"His Excellency Sir George Clerk is suffering i°
health, and his return to England may take place
sooner than has been generally expected. Public
opinion selects Sir William Mansfield as the best
.
successor to Sir George Clerk in the Government of
this Presidency.
" The Khassias in the Jyntiah hills, joined by the
Luckysie people in the Tipperah hills, and a nur°-
ber of the late Hon. East Company's mutineers'
have risen, with the avowed intention of taking
Sylhet. Forces have been despatched to put thell
down. An officer of the rank of Brigadier
probably be sent to assume the command of all tbg
troops in Assam and the contiguous districts.
" The resolution of the Government of India'
creating the Chief Commissionership of British
Burmah, was published in Calcutta on the 31st ai,
January. The salary of the Chief Commissioner is
fixed at 50,000 rupees a year; and those of the
Commissioners of the three divisions—the Pegti,;
Tenasserim, and Arracan Divisions—at 30,00 u
rupees a year each.
"The new Legislative Councils in India are oil
engaged in the important work of legislation.
"Major-General R. W. Honner, C. 8., of her
Majesty's Bombay Army, has been appointed to net
as Political Resident at Aden.
"The- formal transfer of North Canara to the
BombaY Government will be immediately made.
" The cash balances have attained a higher figure
at this moment than at any previous period, amours
t'
ing to something like £18,000,000 sterling.
" The Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Armies
was to leave Peshawur on the 30th of January f°l'
Mooltan.

" Major Patrick Stewart has been chosen by the
Governor-General to go as special envoy to 0°
Court of the Shah of Persia for the purpose of en,
tering into negotiations for the extension of the
London and Bagdad line of telegraph, by wag °f
Teheran to Kurrachee.
" Mr. Muir, member of the Sudder Board of lir
venue, has been appointed Chief Commissioner °f
the newly constituted Central Province.
" The orders for the re-organisation of the Tel
graph Department have been published. The SW'
will in future consist of one Director-General, thre°
directors, 15 superintendents, 15 assistant superig
tendents, and 100 inspectors.
" The Hon. Mr. Laing has been suffering froo
indisposition, and has left Calcutta on a journey vp
country.
,sf

" His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief °/
Madras left Madras for Calclatta on Jan. 28 tfi°
afford his advice to the Supreme Government
the subject of the changes and. improvements,
frtary and financial, which it is intended to introduce
in the military force of the nadras Presidency.
" The Governor-General has requested the opinioll
,of the several Governments on the subject of pot
tines made by native- Zemindars, Vakeels,
others, praying that the Secretary of State for India
should be requested to make one of the vernacular
languages of India the court language of the 001
high courts about to be cotablichod.
" Plumbago, closely resembling the English, bat/
been discovered in large quantities at Sonah by P
Thompson, Civil Assistant-Surgeon, Goorgaon• It°
analysis gave :—in grains, 1,000 ; water, 43.64;
salts soluble in water, 0.80 ; sulphates, 0.45
: cbla
rides, 0.34; sesquioxide of iron, 32.94; carbonate
of lime, 8.37 ; silica and alumina, 129.8 g ; carbnof
784.52.
" Dr. C. G. Wiehe has been appointed Inspeete.l:
General of Prisons in the Bombay Presidency,

succession to Dr. Ogilvie, deceased.
" Mr. Arthur E. D. Grey, Judicial Assistant t°
the Commissioner in Scinde, has'been appointed
Under-Secretary to Government, with the view c
his being placed in charge of the office of secretor,
to the legislative branch of the Bombay Council.
" The Russians are building a cantonment
Tashkund, much to the annoyance of the King °

Kokan, about 600 miles from our frontier.
" The Bombay Government has sanctioned a D3e
of rupees for the Central Museum, to be called the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
"A remarkable trial is now proceeding in the
Supreme Court, styled the Maharaj Libel Case,' in
which the doctrines of the most gross sect of the
Hindoo religion are being exposed. Jt is excitia
the greatest amount of public interest.
The health of the town and island is at preseot
below par. The weather for some days has bee°
unusually hot, but is becoming cooler.
"Obituary.—Mr. E. N. Coombe, Captain R. lir'
Leeds, Mr. F. C. Seymour, Major Barclay Laws°l3'
Mr. Alexander Fielding, Mr. J. H. Hutchinson."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the Times of ludia, Fcb. 12.)
The English mail of the of January, with telegrarad°
up to the 10th, arrived on the 28th idem, the latter bringing
the welcome intelligence of the peaceful settlement of °le
dispute with the Northern States of America. BY tb
Jeddo, from Suez, which arrived here on the Ist inst., 11;
received London papers of the 10th. ult., confirming 011 f
previous telegrams; and late on the 9th inst. the rasa °,
the 18th ult. arrived, putting us in possession telegrappl°
news via Alexandria up to the 25th ult.
oery
-
Money-market—ln the open market money is now 0
easy; in the bazaar, however, it is still scarce, and 15°
high. The bank rates are unchanged.
Government securities have here responded to the advane
at home. Fours are now worth 90 ; Fives, 101 i; and Fives'
and-a-Half, 108.
n2:3:11.3.186dan.
tok
2pia.puldi:4;
now
x2csh. aonigde.
;hfia has
sat gain_eas gls loc ha
it
el yr
eaddi
tvsa,
documents, 2s. op to 2s. 15.165.
Imports—We have no improvement to report in any ‘94,
our staple articles of import since our last. Piece goods 01
all makes still continue unaccountably depressed, and price-4
show no symptoms of rallying. On the receipt of the neo
of the peaceful settlement of our dispute with the Northell/'
States of America, and the consequent advance in
value of cotton at Liverpool, which reached this on the
28th ult., it was but natural to expect some improvementill
our market. Such, however, has not been the 0'50:
11
Throughout the entire fortnight the inquiry for goods ,'
been dull and lifeless ; the transactions, therefore, are ag9l
very limited, and rates show little variation from those °,l r
the previous fortnight. Unless a marked increase in demo
takes place before long, we have little hopes of witnessWg 4,
higher range of prices during the present:teason ; the 1:s
verse, indeed, is more likely to lie the erlse, as prices '3!''
sustained entirely by the firtnnesiolders.
CALCUTTA, Fan. 10. A,C
Socurities=Five-and .ti-Half per Clits./ 81 to 812
4
4 .
Four Ree&its., 10. to 101 dis.
Exchange on London for first-class credits at six months
sight, 24: 11-16 d. per rupee. Otl•
Freight to London, dead weight, £3 10s. to £3 175-
per ton ; jute and seeds, per ton. 5
MADRAS, Far.
Securities —Five. and -a- II al f per Cents., 61 pm.; rlae
per Cents., 4 dis. ; Four per Cents., 111 pm.
Exchange on England, for documenVills at six months
sight, 2s. lid. per rupee.
Freight to London—Light goods, XI to £5 10s, per ton:
dead weight, £ll5 to £2' per ton. t•
Interest on Government loans at the rate of 7 per cent'
per annum; Illoney -market easy.

THE WooLLEN TRADE.—Messrs. Quinn
Dennison, woollen cloth merehantii, Leeds have suspended
payment and called their creditors together. The ineetiug
will be held• to-day. The firm was chiefly engaged in al°
Irish trade.