The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

INDIA.

Everything continues quiet on the Bhootan fron-
tier, though there are rumours of preparations on the
part of the Bhooteas to attack the Dooars after the
rains. The Government of India have, it is said,
determined to send a native agent, but not an ac-
credited one, with the Kokance envoy, to ascertain
the real state of affairs in Central Asia, with refe-
rence to the alleged movements of Russia.

The Bengal Chamber of Commerce have met and
discussed the half-yearly report of their committee.
The President, in his speech, referred to the success
of the Indo-European telegraph, and the extremely
unsatisfactory working of the line between Kurra-
chee and Calcutta, which bids fair, unless greatly
improved, to deprive • India of much of the benefit
of rapid communication with London.

The Englishman says that the depression pervad-
ing the money market has, under the influence of a
succession of unfavourable news from Bombay, be-
come greater since its last despatch. All kinds of
stock, except government paper, had receded still
further.

The Madras Athenteum, of the 14th June, says :
" No new taxes, it is believed, will be had recourse
to in lieu of the export duties and loan which Sir
Charles and his conncil have refused to sanction.
Mr. Massey will wait to see what the outturn of the
first year's revenue will be without replacing the
income tax. It has been suggested that the opium
returns might be increased, so as to make both ends
meet, by throwing only a limited quantity into the
market. If so, the financial crisis may pass over,
but otherwise, with the Bhootan war most likely to
last during the current year, and very possibly
longer, there will be a certain deficit to qncounter,
and probably a large one."

With regard to the coffee crop in Ceylon, the
Colombo Observer of June 17 says :

" We have been seriously taken to task for what is called
our persistent exaggeration of the probable outturn of the
Ceylon coffee crop. All we can say is, that Could we be
actuated by any motive save a simple desire to ascertain and
state the truth, we should underrate rather than overrate
the quantity of coffee Ceylon is likely to throw on the
markets of the world. But our real interest as well as
our undoubted duty is to give, on the best evidence we can
procure, the most correct information possible. It was the
reports of planters who ought to know which led us at an
early period of the season to anticipate the round million
of cwts. As soon as we became aware that so much de-
struction was committed by fierce winds, we made a large
deduction, and brought down our figure to 850,000 cwts.
To this estimate we must adhere. Up to June Bth the ex-
ports were 682,000, and we shall be very much surprised
and disappointed indeed if in the course of four months
(less eight days) the balance of 168,000 cwts., or at the rate
of as much per month as we shipped in the past fortnight
is not made up. There ordinary sized ships sailing each
fortnight will amply suffice, and certainly with the array
of shipping still in our roadstead, many of them loaded to
a great extent, we have little doubt that 850,000 of both
kinds of coffee will be made up.