The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

ONE MONTH LATER FROM AUSTRALIA.
We have received by ectraordinary express in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our private cor-
respondence and journals from Bombay to the 13111
February, Calcutta to the sth Feb., and Hong
Kong to the 28th Jan. By this arrival we have
received Adelaide papers (South Australia) to the
10th of January. The mail of the Bth of Januar
reached Bombay on the sth of Febiasiy.

BOMBAY, FEB. 12.
The mail leaves this presidency two days earlier
than the date announced for its departure, in con-
sequence of some of the usually bad arrangements
concerning the departure of the Calcutta steamer,
which vessel the Hon. Company's mail-packet from
Bombay has to meet at Aden. During the last
seven months there have been no fewer than five
mistakes in the departure from or arrival at Bom-
bay of the English mails. The great advantages
which Bombay ought to enjoy from her geograPl"
cal position with regard to England are almost
entirely lost, and all because the Honourable Com-
pany will persist in carrying the mails in their own
vessels, instead of making over the contract to the
Peninsular and Oriental, or some other private
company, as is done in every other part of tue
World. Owing to the present arrangement, by
which the mail is dispatched on the 12th instead
of the 14th, none of the up-country letters will
be in time. The notification of the change was
only made on the 10th, and to those, therefore,
at a greater distance than Poonah or Aln%
nugger it is perfectly useless. But even now ;t
is very doubtful whether the Hon. CoraPan,Y,s
steamer Queen, which takes the mail, will be aute
to overtake the Peninsular and Oriental Company s
steamer from Calcutta at Aden ; and in snob an
event, all the Bombay news by this opportanr,
will be a fortnight behind its time when it reaeoe'
London.
The latest news from Burmah is dated Jan.
and can hardly be said to be of any general interestd
although more stirring events have happea.ke
during the first month of peace than duringli:
twelve months' war under General Godwin. ,
news of a revolution in Ava, a report of wiouLe
b
went by the last mail, is confirmed ; and a Brit'
l
embassy, under charge of Colonel Handscombe),
the 40th Bengal Native Infantry, has been ae-
spatched to the capital, in order to negotiate a
treaty of peace with the authorities. The Frio°
Minister of the late King was foster-brother to the
latter, and seems to have usurped the throne mere
for the purpose of saving a portion of the Burnie°
empire from the British conquerors, than with s
view of satisfying his own ambition. The name f
the new King is Ming-de-Meny ; he is said to be
one of the most influential amongst the Burmese
nobles, and to be anxious for peace on any torri
The late King is said to be in prison at Ave., "ti
nothing certain can. be learned until we hear from
Colonel Handscombe's mission, now on its Way
Ava. The colonel was accompanied as far as
Meaday by a force of seven hundred men'
under the personal command of General Godwlli,;
At this place the majority of the troops will halt
until the result of the negotiations is knewli-t
A newspaper published at. Rangoon reports Oa',
the force under General Steel had met with a aei
tided repulse on attacking the strong stockade ?
Sitang ; but the report is not even alluded to In
the letters from the seat of war, such letters being
of a later date than the print referred to above'
Two boat expeditions have been dispatched into
the creeks near Donabew, in pursuit of some I
rauders, with whom the whole country is infested'
One of these expeditions had failed in its °bin?
and it found one of the creeks to be so strong la
stockaded as to be impassable for boats. The seemb
expedition under Captain George Grenville Lento'
of her Majesty's ship Winchester, was about . t
start when the latest news left, and was to collsl°
of 300 soldiers, and 100 seamen, in the boats of her
Majesty's ships Fox and Winchester, and her Ma
jesty's steamer Sphinx.
Throughout India the most profound peace reign,:
The north-west frontier is no exception to this rite.
The Governor-General is at Barrackpore, and ta'''es
his departure for Arracan very shortly. It is give,
out by a north-west paper that the Lieutenant
Governor of Agra is very shortly to proceed to LllOl,
now, with the view of making all the preliminary
arrangements for effecting a transfer of the King
Oude's territories from that sovereign to the ,Bri-
tish. It is said that the above prince has actually
applied to our Government to relieve him of 1'„
sovereignty, and to provide a liberal provision la"
the support of himself and family. The revenue
of the Oude state is said to by nearly a million anu'
a half sterling, even under the present manage"
ment ; under the East India Company it would ne
doubt very shortly amount to something like double
the above.

Sir Henry Pottinger is at his seat of Government'
Lord Falkland is at present in Bombay. Thehlatri
rgeoteusrntos
to
ohe
BMoamhbaabylesilraorrd
steamer of the Ist of May. His lords
Herillstonext month,
and
the last few weeks of his sojourn in India " time
manner as he has spent two-thirds of his tire;
since he has been Governor of Bombay—awaY frle
the proper scene of his-duties. According to um
evidence lately given before the Indian committee!
emh a:k
ptrh
these pleasures trips will have cost the State sour_
39,0001. during the five years of his lordship's 34,
ministration. Every one is now anxiously waiting
to see who our new Governor is to be, and all hold
that some one better qualified than Lord Falhhul
for the post will be appointed. Natives and Ear'
peans—the servants of the oompany, as well at
merchants, lawyers, &c.—are agreed in wishing tliat
some person of Indian experience should be 50.„9",
out to rule over an Indian presidency. The disc d.
upon the Baroda Blue Books is still earri-e,a.
on by the local press, and public opinion
greatly against the gross mismanagement of Bar
matters as exhibited in these volumes. It is sw.
gular with what avidity these Blue Books are Of;
chased and read by the natives, and how the 15,"
acts of the Bombay Government, more particulari
their dismissal of Colonel Outram, are canvass
amongst the more enlightened portion of the cora-
munity. All cry out that a governor who under-
stands India is the crying want of this most le,:
naged presidency. The nomination of either 0'
G. Clerk, Sir George Anderson, or any other Of,
of local experience, would certainly be looked 11170117
as a blessing of which Western India stands wile

in need. -
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence is suffering fr°sl,.:
severe attack of gout and fever. Our new puffs
judge, judge, Sir Charles Jackson, and his family, arrfi-
here, from Calcutta, on the Ist inst. A nieetingf
was held on the 31st ultimo, for the purpo,seA°-
contributing to a memorial to the Duke of v":,
lington. The ship Governor Higginson was
tirely destroyed by fire in the Madras roads asll°`"
time ago.
The Government Gazette Extraordinary on th©
29th ult. re-published a notification in the file'
cial department by the Government of
dated the 22d, intimating that the Five per emir
Transfer Loan, compriLung the book debt of toef
10th of August, 1835, th.e book debt of the 15t-hf,
January, 1836, and the promissory notes of
th
loan, dated the 31st December, 1834, will be eiwi
charged on the 23d of April, 1854. This notic° °f
payment will be considered equal to a tenderll
payment on the above date, from which period aci
interest is to cease. All proprietors of the stookkle
the above loan will be permitted, on or before tua
22d of July next, to subscribe the amount int° r
new loan, to bear interest at the rate of 4 Pet.
cent. In consequence of closing the Five per Cel,
Transfer Loan, the value of Government securiti
and of shares in the' Bombay Bank, Orieirs
Bank Corporation, Commercial and Agra Batt';',,,'
have risen, and large profits have been secured. '4'
Tradas
e
all the banks upon their Government paper.
is brisk, and a considerable amount of business D
been transacted since the last mail.
The Money Market is animated, but exchaN
has a downward tendency owing to the China 11:5_
not having brought the quantity of paper expet73l;
and principal shipments going on here having for
previously drawn for. The rates of the dayar°
Baring's credit 2s. 1.0., and best local drafts 21:
lid, per rupee at six months' sight, on Engl3l4o
Exchange on China is Rs. 219 to 220 per dra.,-Ln.4
at 60 days' sight ; and on Calcutta, at Re- 994 L"-
Rs. 100, at 60 days' sight. 4.,,n to
Freights keep up at 3/. 15s. to 4/. per --- r
London and Liverpool, and a vessel has been obi'''.

tared to China at Its. 201 per candy.
At Calcutta the Exchange according to the aitieds,
accounts is, for first-class credits, 2s. Id. to 2s. ler
per rupee; documents, 2s. id. to 2s. IV' the
rupee. The following are the freight rates of ;
day at Calcutta :—To London : Sugar, 3/- 75*
saltpetre, 3/. ; rice, 3/. 17s. 6d. ; jute and sotto
3/. to 3/. 2s. 6d. ; hides, 3/. 10s. ;
shellac, 3/. ; lac dye, N. 15s. To Mauritius; '1`519
Co.'s Rs. nominal per bag, payable there. at
cents, per rupee. To China : Opium, drs. i° 10
per chest; cotton, drs. 3 to 3 25 per bale.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN THE ARMIES OF INDIA. SI:S°S
THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL ON THE 29T11 014..
:8
Her Majesty's Troops.—Lieut. Martin, 11.31
78th Highlanders, at Malta, on the 17th Dec"
1852; Lieut. Westropp, H.M.'s 51st egt.,
Poonamallee. on the
Bombay.—Cadet H. G. Fraser, at Atfeh,
4th Jan.
Madras.—Lieut. W. Dallas, Horse A rtillerlf,
Madras, on the 28th January, of cholera; Surge°