The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

INDIA.
(From the Bombay Times of Oct. 16.)

SUMI4ARY.—At the long last our fair weather has
arrived, after a fall of nearly :ten feet of rail, nut
finally closing till the second week of October.
The incidents which have occurred ' throughout
India within_ the past fortnight are few and un-
important; for once we have a cold season opening
upon us without a rumour of war. The ac-
counts on the state of our finances, laid before the
Rouse of Commons in July, have jast been published,
Fnd give a view of matters sufficiently melancholy.
or the last ten years we have been spending conti-
nually from three quarters of a million to two millions
and a half beyond our means : we have extinguished
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neither the Government nor the country, the people of
England nor the people of India have gained one
single farthing, or were likely to have done so had all
that ever was expected from our campaigns been
realised. Against all and every one of our military
exploits have the Court of Directors stedfastly set
themselves—it is to her Majesty's Government and
the people of England, who give titles, pensions,
prize' money, votes of thanks in Parliament, and
general immunity to fighting Governors-General and
Commanders-in-Chief, that the whole is due. The
necessity of our position is one entirely of our. own
creation, and would never exist were those of our
rulers discountenanced who failed to preserve the
peace, and those only rewarded who advanced the
happiness and improvement of the country and
people.—The Governor General has been for some
time indisposed, and not having experienced the
benefits he anticipated from the mountain air, pro-
poses visiting Bombay about the beginning of the
year, with a view to change of air, or a sea voyage it
found necessary. The retirement of the Marquis of
Dalhousie at the present time would be matter of deep
and general regret, when there seems a prospect of
protracted peace, and some hope of the introduc-
tions of those improvements of which the
country stands so fearfully in need.—We have
now received' complete weather returns from all
parts of India, and rejoice to find that the season
has on the whole been an auspicious one; the crops
being for the most part plentiful.—Cholera continues
to prevail in Bombay, but is abating. —The Board of
Control is said to have refused to Madras a railway
guarantee similar to that conceded to Bombay. No
reasons for the declinature have been assigned.—The
Lord Bishop of Bombay returns by the pre-
sent steamer to Europe for the benefit of
his health ; he carries with him the affection,
respect, and esteem, of all who know him.
Whether as a missionary, archdeacon or bishop, Dr.
Carr has always manifested the meekness, humi-
lity, fervour and zeal, becoming a minister of the
Gospel—so pre-eminently becoming an apostle of
Christ in a heathen land.—The issue' of bank-
notes for five and ten rupees by the Mauritius
Government, at one shilling and tenpence to the
rupee, has been commented on. The paper currency,
with the whole of its subsidiary arrangements, is
unanimously approved of, but the depreciation of
the rupee, hitherto the general medium of circula-
tion, is what is condemned ; the Indian coin actually
containing more bullion than two English shillings.
—Sir Henry Pottinger and Lord Falkland are at
their respective seats of government —We have
scarcely a single line of intelligence from the
interior capable of bang worked into a narrative.
The Sirdars Chuttur and Shere Singh, with several
others, having fallen under suspicion of intending to
play us foul, have been seized and thrown into prison at
Lahore—Brigadier Douglas, 78th Highlanders, whose
serious illnesswas mentioned in;our last, died at Hydera-
load, Sinde, while on his way to Bombay. His place
as Brigadier commanding in Upper Shade has been
conferred on Brigadier Boileau, 22d Foot, now in
command of the Poona Brigade. Brigadier Derinzy,
*6th Foot, succeeds to the Poona command; Bri-
gadier Soppitt taking his place at Bombay as
commandant of the garrison. Dr. Montgomery,
late of the Bombay Medical Board, who has re-
tired from the service, and Supdrirrtending Surgeon J.
Doig, who has obtained medical furlough, return to
England by to day's steamer. Dr. Boyd, medical
storekeeper, has succeeded Dr. Doig as Presidency
superintending-surgeon ; and Dr. B. P. Rooke, gar-
rison surgeon, been appointed an officiating superin-
tending-surgeon, and posted to the southern division,
during the absence of Dr. Straker on field service at
Peshawur. Major Conway, C. 8., 22d Foot, has been
appointed Deputy Adjutant-General Queen's troops,
Bombay, during the absence of Lieutenant-General
Havelock, C. 8., on sick leave. Sir E. Perry has put
off his intended tour to the north-west till December.
(From the Bengal Hurkaru, of Oct. 6 )
SII6IBIART.—.We have another almost newsless mail
to dispatch. From no part of India have we infor-
mation of any recent and important event that might
give an interest to columns which now contain but
the monotonous chronicles of a country at peace in
itself and with all around it.
The long vacation of the Doorgah Poojab, which
kept all busiaess at a stand from the 2 Est ult. to the
2.d instant, has been greatly against the manufacture
of news.