The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-04 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

I N D I A.

(Prom the Times.)
We received by express from Marseilles our letters
from India in anticipation of the overland mail of
the 30th of September. The dates thus received are
from Bombay to the 30i,h, Madras to the 20th, and
Calcutta to the 16th of September.
The utmost tranquillity prevailed throughout
India.

Mr. Pringle, of the civil service, had replaced Sir
Charles Napier in Sinde, with the rank of. Commis-
sioner. Brigadier Dundas had command of the
troops. Mr. Clerk, the Governor of Bombay, in-
tended to visit Sinde in November, to report upon the
provinces of the Lower Indus.
The Governor-General was to leave the hills early
in October, intending, it was said, to proceed in the
first instance to Cawnpoor, where he would have an
interview with the King of Oude, who would pass to
the left bank of the Ganges for that purpose ; and it
was believed that Lord Ilardinge intended on that
occasion to come to an arrangement with the King to
induce him to make over his regal authority, in order
that efficient steps
might be taken to arrest the
increasing disorganization and suffering in those
territories.

The measures said to be contemplated by the Go-
vernor• General to induce his Majesty of Lucknow to
make this concession, were the offer of a handsome
pension, secured on a portion of the revenues of
Oude, upon condition that he should cede all political
authority into our hands, or the alternative, on our
part, of the withdrawal by proclamation of the sup•
port we had hitherto afforded him, thus leaving his
fate to be decided by his subjects.
No doubt whatever was entertained as to the suffi-
ciency of this latter measure, should it be resorted
to. But no such contingency was expected, It was
not doubted but that the King would accept the libe-
ral terms of regal wealth and pageantry which would
be offered, since, addicted to luxury, he ill supports
the cares of a distracted and impoverished state,
where the revenue has to be collected by fifty thou-
snd bayonets.
It is affirmed also that arrangements are likewise
in contemplation with respect to the government of
the Nizam. It is, however, considered probable that
the measures likely to ba enforced at Hyderabad
would not be of so decided a nature as in the case of
Oude, from the somewhat better character of the
Prince ; and it was thought that he would be per-
mitted to retain his authority upon certain liberal
concessions to be made to his subjects. But we are
also told that no doubt our intervention would leave
the Prince with a still more circumscribed territory,
the cession of a further portion of which might be
expected in liquidation of a debt to our Government
of 30 lacs, and which it appears is likely to be con-
siderably increased before a settlement by payments
of arrears to his Arab mercenaries, whose disorderly
proceedings have compelled him twice during the last
few months to solicit our interference.

The news from the Punjaub continues, as before,
to be most satisfactory. Besides the imprisonment
of the dissolute Ranee, or Queen-Mother, the in-
stigator of the late war, and who was still, it is said,
engaged in every species of intrigue against our
authority, the Durbar have recently issued two pro •
clamations, one abolishing infanticide and suttee, and
the other announcing the suppression of forced labour.
The imprisonment of the Queen, who formerly went
by the title of " the Seikh Mother," had not produced
the slightest popular commotion.

The eldest son of the Alaharaja of Cashmere was
on his way to visit the Governor-General at Simla,
to take leave of his Lordship in his father's name
preparatory to Lord Hardinge's departure from
India.

The Dacoit chief Doongur Singh had been cap-
tured in Itajpootana, but not until a force of 6,000
men had taken the field in various directions against
him.

By general orders, dated " Simla, September 8,"
her Majesty's 21st and 28th Regiments were di-
rected to be held in readiness to embark for England.
Trade had somewhat improved, both at Calcutta and
Bombay.

Full commercial details will be found below.
From Alexandria our dates are to the 22d ult. They
announce the arrival of the Hon. East India Company's
steam-frigate Moozuffer, which left Kurrachee on the
Ist of October, arrived at Suez on the 17th, and had
brought to Egypt Lieutenant General Sir Charles
Napier, Lady Napier, Mrs. W. Napier and child,
Mrs. J. Napier and child, Captain Iv. Napier, Mr.
Graham, Mr. Harris, and Mrs. Hewitt. General
Napier and his family were at Cairo, where they in-
tended remaining for eight or ten days before going
to Alexandria.

The Hon. East India Company's steamer Semi-
ramis arrived at Suez on the 19th ult., with the
Bombay mail of the Ist ult. and seven passengers,
who proceeded on the 22d to Malta and Southampton
by the English steamer Ariel.

The following casualties by death in the armies of
India, since the departure of the mail of the 11 th of
September, are reported in the papers received by
this express :

Her Majesty's Troops—Quarter-Master Kneebone,
29th Foot, at Calcutta, on the 11th of September.
Bombay—Second Lieutenant 11. M. Gibb, Artil-
lery, at Kurrachee, on the 3d of September.
Madras—Lieutenant A. Barlow, 2d Native Veteran
Battalion, at Guntoor, on the 30th of August. Cap-
tain P. Ogilvie, 35th Regiment, at the presidency,
the 7th of September. Superintending Surgeon G.
Knox, at Coimbatore, on the 2d of September. Lieu-
tenant A. R. Stuart, 31st Regiment, at Ramnad, on
the 2d of September. Captain C. Rochford, 27th
Regiment, at the Cape of Good Hope, on the 9th of
July. Brigadier A. Cook, at Waltair, on the 13th
of September.

Bengal—Major-General George Cooper, com-
manding Dinapore division, at Digga, on the 27th of
August, Captain John Gilmore, Executive Engineer
Mhow and Neemuch divisions, at Mhow, on the 24th

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of August; Lieutenant C. T. Whiteford, 44th Regi-
ment, at Lucknow, on the 31st of August.
The mail of the 25th of August had reached Bom-
bay on the morning of the 25th of September, by the
steamer Atalanta.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY.
(From the Bombay Times.)
SEPTEMBER 30, 5 P.M.—The quiet rule of our
markets since the departure of the last mail affords
us little else to note on the present occasion than the
transactions that have had effect in them.
Imports are in much the same position as at the
date of our last. The business transacted has been
limited, except in cotton fabrics, in which it will be
seen an increased amount has been done, but on
terms, generally speaking, unsatisfactory to importers,
and present appearances do not indicate an early
change for the better. The fall of rain is still a little
under the average, and in the last day or two we have
had a further serious decline in the rate of exchange on
England, a circumstance that will tend still more to
embarrass the import market.
Cotton Manufactures—A good inquiry has existed
for shirting's, Madapollams, and jaconets, in the gray,
which importers have supplied with more freedom than
they did in the early part of the month, and a fair
amount of business has, therefore, resulted at the
extreme prices of last mail, and in some instances at a
slight advance, shirting and jaconot up to medium
quality being 2 annas per piece better now than they
then were. Longcloth, 40-inch, continues to be in-
quired for at previous prices, for dyeing, but domestic
is as yet dull. Course and heavy makes, of which
the few sales reported chiefly consist, are alone sale-
able, the absence of buyers for Persia causing fine
makes to be almost entirely neglected.
In bleached goods there is a fair inquiry for in-
ferior jaconet, as also a slight one for inferior Mada-
pollams, but the prices offered are still low, and trans-
actions therefore have been limited; the better quali
ties are comparatively neglected. Shirting also is
dull of sale, and very little has been done in it.
In dyed goods and prints sales have been very eon.