The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

(From the Calcutta Courier, of Sept. 24.)
GENERAL. ORDERS OF HIS EXCELLENCY THZ COMMANDER•

IN-CHIEF.

Head-quarters, Simla, Scpt. 7, 1838:
The Commander-in-Chief in India is pleased to make
the following promotions and appointments until her Ma-
jesty's pleasure shall be known :

4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Edward Scott to be
Captain by purchase, vice Grant who retires ; Cornet
W. Drysdale to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Scott,
promoted.
3d Foot—Lieutenant P. Dore to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Owen, deceased ; Ensign 0. H. S. Anson to
be Lieutenant, vice Dore, promoted.
13th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Havelock to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Kelly, deceased ; Ensign F. G.
Christie to be Lieutenant, vice Wade, appointed Adjutant ;
Lieutenant H. C. Wade to be Adjutant, vice Havelock,
promoted.

The Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to promote
the under-mentioned officer to the rank of Captain, by
Brevet, in the East Indies only :-
57th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Hill. from the 30th.
By order of the Commander-in Chief,
R. TORRENS, Major-General,
Adit.-Genl. to her Majesty's Forces in India
( From the Delhi Gazette of Sept. 12.)
LIST OF OFFICERS IN THE SERVICE OF SHAH SHOOJAH.
We have been favoured with the following, which we be-
lieve may be relied on, as a correct copy of the list of officers
in the service of Shah Shoojah-001-Moolk, the regiments they
belong to, and their present stations :
Colonel Simpson, Commanding the Force ; not joined,
still at Cuttack. Captain M'Sherry, Major of Brigade ;
Loodiana. - -
Horse Artillery—Captain Anderson,-Commandant ; re-
cruiting at Meerut. Lieut. Mills, Adjutant ; not joined.
Ist Regiment of Cavalry—Capt. J. Christie, Comman-
dant ; Loodiana. Lieut. P. Nicholson, Adjutant ; recruit-
ing in the Delhi provinces.
2d Cavalry—Captain Anderson, Commandant ; recruit-
ing at 13areilly. Cornet Moffat, Adjutant ; not joined.
Ist Regiment of Infantry—Captain Bean, Commandant ;
Lieutenant Halliday, Adjutant ; proceeding to join.
2d Infantry—Captain Macan, Commandant ; recruiting
at Delhi. Lieut. Codrington, Adjutant ; proceedingto join.
3d Infantry—Captain Handscombe, Commandant ; pro-
ceeding to join. Ensign Conolly, Adjutant ; Loodiana.
4th Infantry—Captain Beatson, Commandant ; Loo-
diana. Lieutenant Spence, Adjutant ; Loodiana.
sth Infantry—Captain Woodburn, Commandant ; Lieut.
Mack ean, Adjutant ; proceeding to join. Captain Johnson,
Paymaster and Commissariat Officer to the Force ; pro-
ceeding to join.
We understand that Major Pew, of the Artillery, is now
fitting out the heavy siege guns going with the army to
Candahar and Cabul, with camel-draught.
Colonel Hamilton has refused the command of Shah
Shoojah's force. It has now been offered to Lieut.-Colonel
Simpson, 19th Regiment of Native Infantry, commanding
in Cuttack.

(From the Colombo Observer.)
AGRA.
CABOOL.—The British troops proceed first to Skirka-
poor, on the Indus, from whence they enter Candahar in
two columns, and a third, composed of Sikhs, moves,
simultaneously, from Peshawar. The interview between
the Governor-General and Runjeet Singh does not take
place, in consequence of these movements, as was originally
designed,
There is the utmost animation among the officers at
Meerut, Kurnaul, &c., mixed with anxiety to be of the
expedition, either with their own corps or the new contin-
gent. This service is expected to be a good one, and similar
to the Nizam's• Colonel Smith, it is said, will receive
2,400 rupees per mensum ; his Brigade-Major, Captain
M'Sherry, 1,000 ; Adjutants and second in command,
500 ; and Sepoys six rupees monthly. Seven or eight
hundred men have already enlisted for the service, and
several officers have been appointed. Everything breathes
of war.—Agra Ukhbar, Aug. 11.
PREPARATION FOR THE CABOOL CAMPAIGN.—The
army intended for the expedition to Cabool, will, it is
now generally known, consist of twelve corps of native
infantry—viz., the 2d, sth, 16th, 27th, 28th, 31st, 35th,
37th, 42d, 43d, 48th, and 53d Regiments ; three corps
of European troops—the 3d and 13th Regiments of
the Royal army, and the European Regiment ; four regi-
ments of cavalry—the Queen's 16th, and the 2d, 3d,
and 4th Regiments of native cavalry ; two troops of
Horse Artillery ; two companies of Foot, and two compa-
nies of Sappers and Miners. In addition to this a consi-
derable body of Bombay troops will be employed, to the
number of 5,000, it is said, so that the expedition will be
on a far more extensive scale than was at one time sup-
posed. It has also transpired at head-quarters, notwith-
standing the strictest injunctions to secrecy, that a strong
reinforcement of European troops has been found indispen-
sable, and that a requisition has accordingly been made to
the home authorities to obtain it. As the requisition was
urgently made, it is said the troops are even now on their
passage out, and that they will proceed direct to and
ascend the Indus, and land either at Loodeeanah from
the Sutledge, or at Attoch, on the other river. This is
in every point of view a most excellent arrangement,
and a prodigious saving in time, money, and human
life, which would all be expended on the old route, will
be ensured in consequence of it. It is, however, main-
tained by some, that Great Britain is at the present
moment unable to spare a single soldier ; but this diffi-
culty will in all probability be got over by some Militia
regiments being raised, a measure at which Lord John
Russell more than hinted, as likely to be adopted, in the
debates on the Yeomanry force. But whatever resolution
the home authorities come to, it requires but very little
sagacity to see that the existence of our Indian Empire
must he, ere long, seriously endangered, if a considerable
augmentation of European troops does not take place.
The whole northern line of the Empire, from the extreme
left to Arracan, is more or less threatened or rather liable
to invasion. The Russians, Goorkhas, and Burmese, are
all opposed to us, and a successful hostile demonstration
of the first would be assuredly followed by the other two.
Letters from Cawnpoor announce the death of Captain
Satchwell, of the Commissiarat, of cholera.
Major Parsons, of the same department, has proceeded
to Sinilah to receive his instructions, in regard to the ap-
proaching campaign, from the Commander-in-Chief.

CALCUTTA.
RECRUITING.—We are very happy to hear the recruit-
ing for the purpose of augmenting the infantry regiments
by ten men per company is proceeding with great rapidity.
In addition to the corps at Barrackpore and Dinapore, we
learn that the 2d and 10th Regiments are getting forward
rapidly, while the 55th completed their strength by last
muster, and had not a man under five feet eight inches.—
The Englishman, Aug. 15.
THE NEW JUDGES OF THE SUDDER. DEWANNY AND NIZAMUT
ADAWLUT.
Messrs. William Blunt, John Fleming, Martin Reid, and Francis Curwen Smith, have been appointed Judges of the
Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut, in the room of
Mr. Nathaniel John Halhed, deerJased, and Messrs. Charles
Harding and David Carrnielaael Smyth, the former Judges
of thisCourti reslgned. We are sorry to add that Mr.
John Ross Hikhir:son, one of the Judges of that Court,
has been ever since his return from Hooghley, where he
went to give his testimony in the case of the soi-disant
Raja'; Pertab Chund, seriously indisposed, and departed
tliis life yesterday.—Bengal Hurkarti, Sept. 18.
(From the Madras Conservative, Sept. 7.)
We learn that orders have been issued for a wing of the
43d to relieve the Gth at Chicaeole and its outposts, and a
detachment of the 44th to the relief of the outposts fur-
nished by the 14th. Upon these prior arrangements having
effect, the Gth and 14th are to be forthwith equipped for
immediate movement—the 14th holding itself in readiness
for its relief by the 43d. The final destination of the 6th
and 14th is the Bengal station of Cuttack.
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The General Steam Navigation Company's steam
ship Rainbow arrived from Antwerp this morning in twenty
hours.

About eight o'clock on Monday evening a fire broke.
out in the premises of Messrs. Palmer and Co., builders,.
Long-lane, Bermondsey, and conipletelyguttcd them. About
nine o'clock another fire broke out on the premises of Mr.
Label!, sugar-refiner, King Edward-street, Mile End-road,
which also completely destroyed them. The property is
insured. There was a very indifferent supply of water at
this latter conflagration.