The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-23 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

I N D I A.
(From the Times.)
By our ordinary semi-monthly dispatch from Mar-
seilles, in anticipation of the overland mail, we have
received intelligence from Calcutta to the 2d, and from
Bombay to the Bth ult.
The intelligence is not important.
Disturbances still continued to prevail in the pro-
vince of Goomsoor, and human sacrifices were about
to be renewed there.
Tranquillity had not been restored in the States of
the Nizam. The plan to establish a bank there had
not succeeded.
At Bombay the rains had been remarkable, 42
inches had already fallen on the 3d ult.; that is more
than half the ordinary average, and there were two
months of the monsoon yet remaking. The fall in
different parts of the Deccan had not been so great.
Great apprehension was felt respecting the fate of
the Cleopatra steamer, which left Bombay on the 14th
of April, bound for Singapore. She encountered the
frightful hurricane of the 17th, 18th, and 19th of
April, and had not since been heard of.
The mails from London to the 7th of June ar-
rived at Bombay on the 6th ult.
The new Governor of Ceylon had reduced the
export duty on cinnamon to 21 per cent. A general
revision of the tariff was likewise reported.
They still speak of reducing the Indian army.
There are to be altogether 24 regiments of Euro-
pean infantry in the service of the Company.
From New South Wales we have advices to the
10th of April. The military force in that colony
was to be reduced to a single regiment, while two
were to be stationed in New Zealand, and two in
Van Diemen's Land. Orders had been received
to abandon the colony of North Australia, on which
it is said that 20,0001. had been already expended.
From South Australia we receive favourable re-
ports of progress bath in mining and agricultural
operations. The great complaint is want of hands,
and a petition was about to be forwarded to the
Colonial-office to assist in inducing emig ration.
An association has been formed in the colony to
oppose grants of land for ecclesiastical purposes, the
colonists being decidedly averse to what they term
the fatal principle of an alliance between Church and
State.

_......_.
We have received no intelligence from China of a
latter pate than by the previous mail, although the
liaddington waited at Point de Galle five days for
the steamer of that line, which did not make her
appearance.

We take the following summary of news from the
Bengal Hurkaru of July 2 :
" The time which has passed since the date of our
last dispatch, though it has produced the usual num-
ber of small topics for the discussion of the Indian
press, has given birth to no political event of suffi-
cient importance to cause an excitement when its
history is told in England.
" There has indeed been a revolution in Nepaul ;
but such things have been too common in that coun-
try of late to admit of a more quiet and bloodless
change of rulers being looked on even as a nine
days' wonder. '1 he history of this event is briefly as
follows :—The Maharaja, as our readers may re-
meniner, came some time ago to Benares, as much
perhaps, because it was inconvenient for him to stay at
Katmandoo, where his wife was supreme, as for the
purpose of performing his devotions in the sacred
river. After staying at Benares some time he left that
city, ostensibly fur the purpose of returning to his
capital. But it appears he never got further than to a
place called Segow lee, in the British territories, but
near the frontiers of Nepaul. Thence it seems he sent
messengers to Katmandoo, calling on the army and
the principal men of the country to imprison or kill
the Minister Jung Bahadoor, and all his family. On
this the chiefs assembled, and after consultation carne
to the conclusion that his Majesty was not of right
mind. They accordingly determined to depose him
and to place the heir apparent on the throne. This
resolution was immediately carried into effect, and a
letter was sent to the old King signed by all the prin-
cipal men, informing him of what had been done, re-
counting his misdeeds, censuring him for his with-
drawal from his people and country, and reprobating
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another, thus quietly effected, will in no way affect
the relations between the British Indian Government
and that of Nepaul.
" From the Punjaub we hear that the Governor-
General, seeing that the people of Hazareh are not
likely ever to submit quietly to the rule of Ghoolab
Singh, has permitted the restoration of that district to
the Lahore state, in exchange for another tract of
country. The Sovereign of Cashmere is said to be
well pleased with his bargain, being glad to be rid of
subjects so troublesome as the Hazareh people had
been and were likely to continue.
" The accounts from Peshawur continue to tell of
reform and retrenchment steadily and quietly carried
on under the auspices of Major George Lawrence.
General Ghoolab Singh, Povindeea, has been installed
Seikh Governor of the province.
" From Caubul the latest news received is to about
the middle of May. Dost Mahomed had returned
from his campaign among the insurgent Ghilzies, and
had boasted so vain-gloriously in open durbar of his
achievements in the field, that the sons of Mahomed
Zetnan Khan hod abruptly quitted the presence in
disgust. His Highness seems to have incurred the
displeasure of many of his chiefs, including his son
Wuzeer Ukbar Khan, by his supposed leaning to-
wards an alliance with the British. There are reports
of correspondence carried on betwixt the Ameer and
our authorities through the intervention of his brother
Sultan Mahomed Khan, at Peshawur, but of the
nature and objects of the various communications
little is yet known.
" The most important item of news from Aff-
ghanistan is of a quarrel betwixt the Ameer and the
Kuzzilbash tribe, ending, as it seems, in a fight.
The origin of this misunderstanding remains a
mystery, which the next accounts will probably clear
up. The Ameer entertained a vague suspicion and
mistrust of the tribe, but could not, or would not,
when challenged, put his fears into the shape of a
specific charge against any of them. He declared,
however, that if his suspicions were verified, he would
expel the whole tribe from Caubul. Subsequently,
the anger or distrust of the Ameer induced him to
order that certain deductions should be made from
the pay of the Kuzzilbash troops ; and it was
rumoured that he meditated an attack upon the
quarter of the town inhabited by the tribe, for the
purpose of destroying their forts. Finally, a note of
late date mentions that an affray had actually oc-
curred betwixt the Kuzzilbashes and the Caubulees,
two of the Ameer's sons taking part with the latter.
We shall probably learn more of this affair very
shortly. One Jan Fishan Khan, well known during
our Affghan campaigns, and now living in our terri-
tories, has been writing to his countrymen, calling
on them to prepare to repel an invasion of the British,
who, he said, would be among them in six months.
The Ameer had sent the intercepted letters to the
Resident at Pesbawur, and declared his conviction
that they were false.
" The robber chief, Doonghur Singh, whose rescue
and escape from the gaol at Agra created such a sen-
sation some time ago, and who has since been exer-
cising his vocation in Shekawattee and the neigh-
bouring territories, has lately performed an exploit
which throws iato the shade all his former achieve-
ments. At midnight on the 18th ult. a band of
armed men, many of them mounted on horses and
camels, surrounded and suddenly attacked the Mili-
tary Pay-office at Nusseerabad, lf,lting six of the
guard, and desperately wounding as many more.
They then forced open the treasure-chest and carried
off its contents—some 27,000 rupees. This took
place on the skirts of a cantonment where a regiment
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'ion of the rites of suttee anisdeahnsenlf-sacrifice by inFu-
mation in the state of Jhala.war, in the Hawroiee
Political Agency. It has also been stated that suttee
has been in a great measure suppressed by the influ-
ence of our officers in the ceded districts of the Jul
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The
At Hyderabad affairs remain in disorder, and it is
not easy to foresee how they are to be disentangled
without the active interference of the Supreme Go-
vernment.
" The affairs of the India General Steam Naviga-
tion Company have lately been the theme of much
discussion, originating in an informal meeting of
shareholders held on the 19th ult. The regular half-
yearly meeting is fixed for the 19th instant, and will,
it is to be horsed, place matters on a more satisfactory
footing.
" A draught Act has been promulgated, designed
to regulate coroners' juries in Calcutta. Hitherto it