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We have received our despatches from India
and China, a telegraphic summary of which ap-
peared last Monday in The Sun. The dates are—
Calcutta, Oct. 5 ; Bombay, Oct. 14 ; Shanghai,
Sept. 4 ; long Kong, Sept. 27 ; Singapore, Oct. 7.
The following is from the summary of the Bom-
bay Times :

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Nov. 15, 1854.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELL,IGEN GE.

The monsoon this season has been unusually pro-
tracted, the rains continuing nearly three weeks
longer than ordinary e betwixt the sth and 6th of
October, four inches fell in the course of sixteen
hours. The fair season has now set in, and we shall
probably not have a single shower for the next eight
months. The expedition sent out for the destiuction
of the villages on the Peshawur frontier appear to
have finished their work successfully, and they have
now returned tocamp. Overtures are being made it is
said by the Amcor of Cabul to regain our friendship
—the fatal error committed by him of invading the
Punjaub in 1849 has destroyed our confidence in his
judgment as well as in his influence amongst his
own people, and half a century will not be suffi-
cient to restore us to the terms in which we stood
with Affghanistan up to 1837, if such a thing should
ever indeed be possible. A party of the Russians
are said to have taken Kokan, a petty and bar-
barous principality on the borders of Bokhara.
Whether they amount to ten, a hundred, or ten
thousand does not appear, and the matter in no
way concerns us. The reports of Russian intrigue
and aggression obviously emanate from the Rus-
sians themselves—they increase their importance
by alarming the timid and credulous—they gratify
the appetite for the marvellous and obtain employ-
ment for the native politicals and spies who dis-
seminate them. No one would have greater cause
than the Czar to deplore an advance of the .Rus-
sians upon India, which would dispel the delusion
he wishes to maintain that we are vulnerable and
that he could harm us. There have been consider-
able disturbances in the Nizam's country. About
a thousand Rohillah mercenaries had been taken
into the employment of a refractory chief, who sup-
ported by this force bid defiance to the orders of
Government. Brigadier Mayne, with Capt. Abbott
as Brigade Major, and a detachment of the Hydera-
bad Con tingent,consisting of 300 troopers of the 2nd
Nizam's cavalry, two light field guns, two pieces of
heavy ordnance, and 400 infantry, marched out
from Aurungabad on the 20th to disperse the
enemy. Captain Macintire commanded the cavalry,
Captain Hare the infantry. The Rohillahs on
hearing of their purposes took possession of a strong
mud fort, with gates and bastions, at a place called
Sailoor, and thither their assailants marched, a dis-
tance of forty-five miles, without halting. On ar-
riving, instant submission and surrender of their
arms was demanded of the enemy ; this they de-
clined, on the plea that they were waiting for pay
from their employer, on receiving which they would
disperse. They were then informed that as they
had been in arms against the Government, had re-
fused to obey orders, and committed acts of vio-
lence against the people, no alternative would be
allowed them. Every effort having been in vain
tried to avoid bloodshed in bringing them to terms,
the field-pieces opened their fire, and this was re-
turned by matchlocks from within the fort,
when as night approached it was found indis-
pensable to wait for the arrival of the heavy
guns. Picquets were carefully set, and the
villagers agreed that should the Rohillahs
attempt to escape over night, the cottages
should be set fire to in the direction in which
they tied. About half-past 9, accordingly, Brigadier
Mayne was informed that they were on the move,
and immediately afterwards the nearest village was
seen to be in flames. Mayne's force was immedi-
ately in motion. The brigade major, Captain
Abbott, took command of some 20 troopers whom
he found harassing the rear of the enemy, who were
retiring rapidly and in excellent order. He twice
cut his way through them and back again, till dis-
abled by a wound which severed the bone and ar-
tery of his bridle arm. The slaughter was very
severe, and the dispersion complete. Every mem-
ber of the force seems to have behaved with the ut-
most gallantry and with all the humanity circum-
stances allowed, but these wretched cases of insur-
rection and slaughter must continue to bo of
incessant occurrence so long as the Nizam's Go-
vernment is carried on as at present. The ceded
districts are tranquil, and the resident, Mr. Bush-
by, proceeds early next month on a tour of inspec-
tion through them. Colonel Outram is about to
be transferred from Aden to succeed Col. Sleemsu
at Lucknow, one of the most lucrative and im-
portant appointments under the Bengal Govern-
ment ; and the officer who three years since
was pronounced by Lord Falkland and his coun-
sellors so imprudent, intemperate, and ignorant
of his duties as to bo undeserving of political
employment, has within ten months had
conferred on him by the hands of the Governor-
General three of the most distinguished offices at
his disposal—that of Resident at Baroda, at Aden,
and in Oude. It is reported that the Governor-
General intends to visit Madras and the Neilgher-
ries in December or January, and retie early in
spring from an office he has administered so greatly
to his own honour and the public advantage. It
is said he will be succeeded by Lord Elgin, of whom
the highest hopes aro entertained. Lord Harris
has issued a second manifesto on the detection and
suppression of torture which is admitted to be
practised under the police at Madras, so that if
those who moved in the matter in Parliament did
not obtain a commission, they have, through the
vigour and impartiality of Lord Harris, not the
less secured their ends ; so much for the denounce-
ment of these rumours as slanders. The sittings
of the Sarawak Commission have closed. : Sir James
Brooke has been fully and honourably acquitted of
all the charges brought against him. His slan-
derers refused to appear as witnesses, and some of
those who subscribed the petition confessed that
they knew nothing as to the truth or falsehood of
the statements contained in it. This bottle of smoke
will cost the country some 10,0001. or 15,0001.
It is now affirmed that the Court's educational de-
spatch, of which so much has been made both
here and at home, is likely to prove a
pure piece
of claptrap to catch popular applause, the whole
being stultified by the clause which jobs the office
of minister of public instruction into the hands of
civilians, who whatever their abilities and excel-
lences, and they are many, are utterly disquali-
flied by the imperfections of their early education
and peculiarities of their subsequent occupation
for the office. The Bengal appointment is said
from the outset to have been meant by the Home
authorities for a son of Mr. B. Bayley,
at present
one of the India House directors, formerly acting
Governor-General. The Friend of India, usually
understood to express the views of Government,
and apparently paving the way for the Leadenhall-
street job, describes the functions of the new officer,
who will receive from 2,0001. to 4,0001. a year, as
simply that of register of suggestions for the use
of Government and the transmitter of Govern-
ment instructions on the subject, a sinecure which
any formalist of mediocrity could fill. We have
on former occasions stated that there is no man
belonging to the services at present competent pro-
perly to discharge the duties of Minister of Public
Instruction. .any such arrangement as that appa-
rently
in contemplation will stultify the whole
scheme, and it is to the people of England alone
we look for deliverance from the danger now im-
pending. Scores of men of the highest qualifica-
tions for the post may be had from home for the
price proposed to be given to those rendered by
circumstances inevitably unqualified. Let those who
may think such jobbery as this impossible, remem-
ber that it is not yet three years since the Gover-
nor-General was snubbed by the Court of Directors
for proposing to select postmasters on the ground
of qualification, and paying them in proportion to
their services. The Lords of Leadenhall-street in-
timated that such appointments as these should be
restricted to members of the Civil Service receiving
from 2,0001. to 4,0001. a year for professing to
attempt that which they could not perform, and
which men trained to the task would have per-
formedfpoarrtth ofin the
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just published an intimation of an exhibition of
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manufacturedreina Industrial Art AroofrdtAulcaattds from Madras
next
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presidency and neighbourhood, to take place
appears to be prospering, that proposed to be in part
endowed at Bombay by Sir Jamsetjee Jcejeebhoy
is under the consideration of a committeecommitteeexpectedto
give in a report some years hence. At Bombay a
Photographic Society has just been established
under very promising auspices, and a Joint Stock
Company is being brought into existence for the
purpose of establishing a Picture Gallery, Museum,
and Zoological Gardens, also with good hope of
success. In India such things depend entirely
upon the smiles of Government, on which the
public watch and wait, and at present, fortunately,
the heads of all our Governments are disposed to
foster as far as possible whatever tends to the public
good, A petition bile just been forwartled by a,

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The Royal Albert is ordered to prepare to receive £OO
troops on her arrival at Portsmouth, for which port she
is to leave Sheerness to-morrow early. Her cabins are
being fitted and furnished to receive Rear-Admiral Sir
Edmund Lyons, G.C.8., who, on the arrival of this ship
in the Black Sea, will shift his flag over from the Aga-
memnon. Mess traps, beds, bedding, &c., for the
troops, are being drawn from the victualling stores.
The Royal Albert is at present short of her complement
of A.B.'s ; nearly 500 of these will be supplied to her at
Portsmouth by draughts from the ships returned from
the Baltic. 100 first and second-class boys were sent
on board her yesterday from the Waterloo. A number
of these boys are perfectly capable of doing duty as
gunners and gunners' mates.
We learn by electric telegraph from Plymouth that
the screw steam-frigate Curacoa 30, Captain the Hon.
F. F. Hastings, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday afternoon. She will go to the dock-
yard for repair.
The Salamander' 6, paddle steanz•sloop, Commander
Priest, went into Portsmouth harbour-yesterday to be
paid off.
The Lizard steam-vessel, in charge (pro tent.) of Lieu-
tenant Thomas D. Christopher, of the Waterloo, will
accompany the Royal Albert to Portsmouth, and return
with supernumeraries.
The Nankin is progressing fast in her equipment.

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HOME LIFE IN RUSSIA.
By a RUSSIAN Itiont.n.
Revised by the Editor of "Revelations of Siberia."
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manners arid en,torns of the Russian people.''—Observer
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By LEONCJ DE LAVERGNE.
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large body of tho most respectable native inhabi-
tants of Bombay, praying that on the approaching
vacancy the office of senior magistrate of police
shall be conferred on a barrister, or on some one
possessed of some acquaintance with the law he
administers, the salary being 3,0001. a-year. The
office for the past thirty years has been con-
fined to members of the Civil Service, wholly
unacquainted with English law, whose average
tenure of office has during that period been
considerably short of four years ; the blunders
into which they otherwise might have fallen
have for the most part been avoided through
the intervention of the Court of Petty Sessions,
the assessor of which was until of late a barris-
ter. This office was some months since abolished,
when the parties now petitioning remonstrated
against its abolition. The junior and third magis-
tracies have always been considered perquisites of
the Governor to be conferred on any party not able
to secure a livelihood by other means—they have
never been held by any one possessed of the slightest
legal knowledge or judicial experience ; and this is
a fair specimen of the attention paid to the admi-
nistration of justice even in those places which are
immediately under the eye of Europeans. If such
things happen at the Presidency, the state of the
districts may be conjectured. The deposits to the
Western India Irrigation scheme are now being
paid up, and should there be any defaulters, of
which there is little prospect, the applications for
shares in excess of the whole amount of the capi-
tal are more thon enough to make up the defi-
ciency. Government are understood to be most
heartily in favour of the scheme. The Governor-
, General is at Calcutta, and Lord Harris at Madras.
Our own Governor leaves Bombay for Mahablesh-
war on Monday afternoon, returning to the presi-
dency in the third week of November. The state
of the money market remains unchanged, and the
business in the general market is steady and pro-
mising.

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E GYPT -
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 4.
The reported sickness of his Highness the Vice-
roy, and which caused so much grief to his subjects,
proved to be of a very trifling nature. On his re-
turn, ho was in possession of his usual health and
activity, both of body and mind. He leaves for
Cairo on the 9ch, at the head of 12,000 c,f his
troops, and intends marching, if not the whole
distance, at least that portion of the road from
Kafr-Lais. From Cairo he will proceed to the
upper country.
The Barago is not to be completed for the present.
The centre caisson of the Bennah bridge has
sunk two feet, which will impede the finishing of
the railway to Cairo, and require no little engineer-.
ing skill to replace.
Considerable rain has fallen here ' • and upon the
desert, between Cairo and Suez, it has been very
heavy. In Cairo itself trees have been blown
down upon the Esbekear.
The Turkish frigate Feizi Bahri arrived from
Tripoli on the 2d, and will convey troops to Con-
stantinople.
The Sardinian frigate Eurydice arrived yesterday,
conveying hither the new Sardinian Consul-General,
Signor Gobbi.
Prices of grain have gone considerably higher
since the arrival of the Austrian mail of the 2d.
Freights may be quoted ss. to ss. 6d. for orders.
Exchange, 974 to 98.
Lord and Lady Haddo left for Rosetta on Tues-
day last. His lordship will afterwards proceed to
Cairo. His health, unfortunately, is, unimproved.

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