The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-30 00:00:00

mulgated, forbidding gentlemen belonging to the Com-
pany s service from being connected with joint-stock
speculations. As it is to such institutions that we owe
the existence of banks, insurance-offices, and steam
navigation companies, and the prospects of railways we
now enjoy, all these things must come to an end if the
order be enforced; and as the market will immediately be
glutted with stock, officers who have saved money and
thus disposed of it will be ruined to a illaß. There have
been some disturbances of small moment at Gwalior, as
well as amongst the Rohillahs on thefrontierof the Niz sm's
dominions. India generally is tranquil. The Governor-
General and Lord Gough are at Simla, whither Sir
Charles Napier was fast hastening. The gallant veteran
left Calcutta on the 22c1 of May ; he arrived at Benares
on the 2d instant, and left for Umballa the same even-
ing. This latter place he reached on the 13th, and was
to set out the next evening for the hills. Sir W. Gomm
who had been ordered by Ministers to quit the Mauri-
tius without delay and hasten to India to supersede Lord
Gough—for what else was he to do daring the three
months likely to intrevene betwixt his arrival and the
expiry of Lord Gough's term of service ?—quitted Port
Louis on the sth of May, and reached Calcutta on the
4th of June, in full hope that he would be immediately
sworn in as Commander-in-Chief. here he, to his dis-
may, became aware that his commission had been re-
called, and that his place had been tmonth before taken
by Sir C. Napier. There can now be no doubt that so
apprehensive of blunder were the Cabinet, that the mo-
ment they became aware that Lord Gough had taken
command in person they prepared for his supersession.
The panic occasioned by Cbillianisillucaused a second
nomination to be made, the more surely to. cut short
the late Commander-in-Chief's career. Should the
resignation of Sir W. Coton be aocepted, Sir W.
Gomm is expected to be 'appointed Commander in-
Chief, at Bombay. The Madr Cc. mander-in-Chief,
Sir G. Berkeley,' fs' said; -0 7 - 'et 4 .gned4A nonse-
to e
quence of Sir C. Napier being" It
"junior. Sir W.
Gomm is the youngest Lieutenant-General on the Army
List—so little is seniority thought of at the Horse-
Guards when a friend is to be served. The mail of the
24th of May is now hourly expected ; it will, it is be-
lieved, be brought to Aden by a sailing vessel. The
mail of the 7th of May reached Bombay on the 3d,
and Calcutta on the 10th of June, having made the
transit to the former place in the unprecedentedly short
space of 26, and to the latter in that of 34 days. Ben-
gal and Bombay appear, in the matter of weather,
to have changed places since last year. In 1848 our
south-west monsoon set in with a violence almost unpre-
cedented ; this season we have had a singular degree of
tranquillity on the first appearance of the rains. On the
other side, again, they have had storm after storm, with
as yet a very inadequate amount of fall. On the 12th
and 13th of May one of the most furious hurricanes
that has for many years been experienced visited
Chittagong and the districts immediately to the east
of Calcutta, and so along the north-esstern extremity of
the Bay of Bengal. The church, court-house, and com-
pany's salt stores, were much injured ; every vessel in
the river, 66 in number, was driven ashore or sunk, and
scarcely a roof or verandah left entire. The damage
done is estimated at above 100,0001. Another hurricane
at nearly the same date, occurred off the shores of
Arracan. Betwixt the 18th and 21st showers became
general all over the indigo districts. On the 26th
Calcutta was visited by alurious hurricane of wind and
a thunder-storm, which lasted from 10 P.M. to 4 .s.ar.,
tearing up trees, tumbling down light fabrics, and doing
an infinity of mischief This extended over Boolooa
and Santipore.