The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-05 00:00:00

iEYPORE.

BOMBAY, AUGUST 22.
By recent accounts from the Punjab, ;t appears that
the following are the subjects of discussion at present
between the British and Sikh Government—viz., a free
passage through the Punjab for our troops proceeding
either to or from Afghanistan ; an adjustment of boun-
daries between the Sikhs and Shah Sooja, on the side
of Peshawar and the Dera Jat ; the presence of the
Mahommedan force, which the Sikhs arc required by
treaty to maintain in the vicinity of Peshawar, for the
service of the Shah ; the punishment of Sultan Mo-
hamed Khan, for giving an asylum, contrary to his en.
gagements, to the Ghilzee fugitives, and when their
delivery was demanded allowing them to escape ; and
a revisal of the present rate of tolls levied by the
Sikh Government for the navigation of the Suticj and
Indus.
To the first of these demands the Konwar Noa
Nehal Sing, who, as our readers are aware, has usurped
his father's authority in the Government of the Punjab,
is supposed to be decidedly adverse, and to have offered
the strongest objections to the passage of any force ex-
ceeding a single regiment as an escort to occasional cr,n-
voys of stores and provisions.
Tne second object is intricate and difficult of ad-
justment without moderation on both sides, as the con-
quests of the Sikhs west of the Indus are not well
defined.
With regard to the third point, it is not supposed
they will offer any serious obstacles.
The revisal of the tolls is an important object, both
as affects the freedom and success of the navigation of
the Indus, and the extension of our commerce to Af-
ghanistan ; in respect to which we wait to see how the
question will be settled before we offer uny further
remarks.
The troops at Candahar are generally healthy.
An order was at one timo given for part of the 4th
company of the 2d battalion of artillery to move with
two 18-pounders to Ghuznee, but it was afterwards
countermanded.
CALCUTTA. JULY 30.—1 n our last we alluded to a
threatened attack upon Khelat, which we have since
learned is but ill prepared for a defence, the whole
force ava:labic for that purpose consisting of Lieute-
nant Lovcday and 30 men. Such carelessness of the
safety 'also important a post, the capital of Beloochistan,
amounts apparently to infatuation, and if the loss of the
place results from it, a very decided change, both of
men and measures will he called for in this part of the
country. Such a line of proceeding absolutely invites
the hostility which it is our object and interest to avert.
Since writing the above we have received accounts
on which every reliance may be placed by letters of the
3d of August from Ilydrabad, stating that Khelat had
positively fallen to the son of Mehrab Khan, and that
an European officer (supposed Lieutenant Loveday)
was wounded and a prisoner, while Shah Nuwaz was
missing, but whether dead, captured, or escaped, was
not known. The chief of the insurgents had issued a
summons to all the chiefs of Mekran to join him with
their forces to defend the-capital and Candabar.—Bona.
be!, Gazette, Aug. 11.
Intelligence from Hydrabad comes down to the 10th
of August, by which we learn that the circumstances of
Khelat were still considered uncertain, but that its cap-
ture was not believed in. 13y information from S

Major Thoresby, we hear, is still busily engaged at-
tempting to bring the country into some state of order,
and, rejecting harsh measures, has endeavoured by per-
suasion and good treatment to induce the plundering
vagabonds of the state to desist from their outrages.
We are sorry to learn that this praiseworthy inten-
tion has not met with success, nor was it to be expected
that it would, among so lawless a people.
The whole country requires clearing out, for, as fast
as one row is stifled another rises up, and the political
agent's situation we should think must be any but
an enviable one.

JULY 25.—8 y the bark Hannah, which arrived on
Wednesday last from Bencoolcn, which place she left
on the 18th of June, we learn that the Dutch were at
war with the Achinese, and had taken the coast as far

as Senkel.
" The brig Norfolk, Captain Pike, under Dutch co-
lours, arrived in the roads yesterday morning in great
distress, having, as we have been informed, expended
all her water and provisions, and lost four of her crew
in consequence of the bad weather, fatigue, and priva-

tion they had undergone.
" The Norfolk has brought the following news :—The
Achinese were engaged in a most sanguinary warfare
with the Dutch ; many small detachments of their
troops had been out off, and, although Senkel had been
taken, the Achinese were still making so determined a
resistance, that the issue of the contest was very doubt-
ful. The Dutch naval force consists of two frigates,
five armed schooners, one armed steamer, one steam
tug, and five transports.
" The Malays had adopted a new mode of warfare—
they planted barbed wooden staves in the ground during
the night, poisoned at the point, and thus greatly im-
peded the Dutch when they became assailants. In
open conflict they closed with great courage, crcese
in hand.
During the month of May the Dutch were carry-
ing on a hot war with the Achinese, and the loss of
both sides must be very great. The Dutch transport
Corsaire took in one trip 300 sick and wounded from
Beeroo to Tapanouli.
" The Dutch had taken the coast up as far as
Senkel, and every thing appeared quiet about the
middle of June."
AUGUST 15.—The insolence of the Dutch in Straits
Colony towards British subjects, which for many years
had been the subject of well-deserved complaint, has
now become more than ever intolerable. No opportu-
nity is ever emitted by them of maligning our character
as traders, and denouncing our ambition and tyranny
as a nation, amongst the inhabitants of those islands
around their settlement who, having little intercourse
with any other European nation, take their impressions
of England from the only quarter from which they can
receive them—the hostile, jealous, gnd malignant au-
thorities of Java ; no occasion is lost sight of
where they can annoy our merchantmen or insult
our flag with impunity. The Good Success, by which
our latest intelligence from China has just been re-
ceived, had the utmost difficulty on calling at Batavia
in receiving the supplies and assistance necessary for
her voyage, and was treated with an insolence at once,
and neglect under any circumstances, unusual, in a
state of amity unprecedented amongst civilized nations
towards each other. In these seas it was notorious,
that the Governor and leading men of the island bad
expressed the most hearty and cordial wishes for the
failure of the English expedition against China, and
done all they could to encourage Chinese hostility
against us, and maintain the delusion prevalent among
them, as to the impotence of our fleet and armies.
They tremble at the thought of trade being opened up
in the Eastern seas, and of their vilely misused mono-
poly of the commerce of Japan being lost to them. It
would be well, with such a force as that which England
now has in the Chinese seas, after the more immediate
objects of the expedition have been carried through,
that such a lesson were read to these gentry as 'would
make them mer.d their manners for some time to come
in all matters where English affairs are concerned.
With Burnvdi, too, we have some accounts to settle,
and some matters to clear up.

(From the Delhi Gazelle, July 15.)
From Quetta we have received the following interest-
ing letter, which contains an animatedaccount of an attack
upon the fort there, in which, as a matter of course, the
Bclochees got a sound thrashing. It, however, still
shows that our tenure is not so firmly established as we
could wish, and that although we have nothing to fear
from the enemy, our friends there may yet be harassed.
" JUTTEE MIRREE AT QUETTA, JUNE, 27, 1840.

—Here we arc all shut up in the Fort of Mirrec o
Quetta, and surrounded by about as treachercus and
cowardly a set of rascals as can be found from Constan-
tinople to the wall of China. Since the 21st we have
been on the qui vice. The first cause of all this was
the assemblage of a considerable body of Cakin, chiefly
Panizycs, Laranzyes, and Bozyes, under a Yagee Pa•
nizye chief named Guffoor. These had taken up their
quarters in a deep and narrow gorge nine or ten miles
north-east of our camp ; but their numbers had not in-
creased sufficiently to warrant in their opinion an attack
on even our small force, which consisted of about 230
of the Shab's Ist Infantry and ours Belooch gunners,
in all 250 untried men. The night of the 21st was
passed in watching by all, the ladies not even excepted,
for they, poor creatures, were too much frightened to
take rest, at two a.m. all being quiet. The next night
came on, and with it positive information from divers
quarters of the advance of the Kakurs to the number of
1,000. Pickets were planted all around. with instruc-
tions to fire on the approach of ar y large body, and
then to retire on the magazine and quarter-guard,
which adjoin one another, and, which we made our
standing point in the event of our pickets being obliged
a* ranged to the height of two
tfeoerteittilrefr.onSt,atnhdebags were a
treasure
was placed within the maga-
z was placed at the right front
ainnge.
le, andlle
the Pe-671)de ~underr at the left front angle,
supported by all the available infantry ; unfortu-
nately there ..vas a bazaar about one hundred
yards in frog'„ and several other buildings all
around, which would serve to shelter an enemy ; still
our position was the best we could find, as all the
magazinells there, and we could not possibly remove
the
,i
stores under three days, neither could we divide our
small Orce between it and any more eligible situation.
i dusk till midnight nothing more occurred to lead
was near, and we were begin-
rben a Sowar gallopped in and informed us of the move
u:intg°tsouPtZlei Itifileartebne}: had repented of their designs,
of the Lushliqr ; this man was followed by another, and