The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-12 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

[From the British and Indian Observer of yesterday.]
We yesterday received, by the Forbes, Bom-
bay Papers to the 6th of December; and during the week,
Bengal to the 15th of November :
The Comniander-in-Chief of Bombay; accompaied by his
suite; left the Presidency on the 3d of December for the
Northern Districts. His Excelleny proceeded overland to
Bassein, from whence -he was to embark on board the piliot
brig Palinurus, for Surat, and was not expected back before
March or April.

[Bombay Courier,- December 6.1
An unusual degree of activity has prevailed in our cotton
market during the last two or three weeks ; and since the arri-
val of the Columbia from Liverpool, a rise in the price of about
10 rupees per candy has taken place.
The present prices may be quoted as under :

Fair -Surat or broach cotton, per candy of 7 cwt., 138 to 140
rupees; Bowonaghur, or China market, 124 to 126' do. ;
Dakras, 116-to 118 do. _ _

Exchange on London, 6 month's sight, ls. Bid. Per rupee.
The vessels ferming the expedition against the Burmahs,
encountered a smart gale from the Southward, which drove
them into four fathoms water in the Huneen Gutta ; before
they could secure the vessels, the wind choped round from
northward and blew them out again; but they were all safe off
Cox's Bazar, when the Dianah, steam-boat, left them on the
Bth, at four p. m., with the exception of the Research, which
had not been heard off after the gale on the 4th. She is the
H. C. new surveying vessel comrnalitlaby Captain Crawford,
and must have, been sadly crowded, having besides her own
crew, 200 troops and six officers on board; but being a strong
new ship, it is to be hoped she is safe. • .
Captain Baker, the POlitical Agent, who proceeded with the
expedition against the Burmahs, having returned in the Diana,
make us suppose that affairs there will not be settled so amica-
bly as we had reason at first to imagine, but the result we hope
shortly to be able to lay before our readers. Lieut.-colonel
Shapland, C. 8., who as senior ()Nicer commands the expedition,
left Cox's Bazar some days previous to the arrival of the troops.
—( Bengal Hark, Nov. 14.)
The Commander-in-Chief, Sir. Edward Paget, was to have
left Cawnpore on the 25th of October, on a tour of inspection
through the upper provinces.

Air. Adam had arrived at Bombay on the 12th of November.
His health had been much improved by the voyage. It was
expected that he would leave Bombay early in llacember' and
return overland to Calcutta, via Poonah, 'Arungabad and Jey-
poor to the Bengal provinces.
Sir Charles G. Metcalf, Bart. Resident at Ilydrabad, had
been so seriously indisposed that he was obliged to leave Hy-
drabad, for Calcutta, to obtain the best medical advice. The
Government yacht had been sent from Calcutta for him early
in November.

The following letter revoking the license of the Calcutta,
Journal will be perused with much interest, both by the advo-
cates for anti against the freedom of the press it is very im-
portant just now, as is likely to become a subject of discussion
in Parliament.

DO .A 1 CSS IS. JOHN FRANCIS SANDYS, JOHN PALMER, GEO.
BALLARD, and PETER STONE D'ItOZAILIO.
[General Department.
Gentlemen—You were apprized by my official letters of the
13th of July and 3d of September last, of the sentiments en-
tertained by the Governor-General in .Council in regard to the
repeated violation on the part of the conductors of the Calcutta.
Journal of the rules established by government for the regula-
tion of the periodical press.
- The Editor of the Calcutta Journal, notwithstanding those
communications, has since by the republication in successive
numbers of that newspaper, of numerous extracts from a
pamphlet published in England, revived the discussion of to-
pics which had before been officially prohibited, and has main-
tained and enforced opinions and principles which, as applicable
to the state of this country, the Governor-General in Council
had repeatedly discouraged and reprobated; the extracts them-
selves so published containing numerous-passages which are in
direct violation of the rules prescribed by Government under
date the sth of April last. .
The Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council has in con-
sequence this day been pleased to resolve, that the licence
granted by Government on the 18th of April, 1823, authorising
and empowering John Francis Sandys and Peter Stone D'Ro-
zario, to print and publish in Calcutta a newspaper called " the
Calcutta Journal, of politics, and general literature," and
supplement thereto issued on Sundays entitled and called " Neuf
Weed y.Register and General Advertiser" for the stations of
the interior, with heads of the latest intelligence published as a
.supplement to the country edition of the Calcutta Journal,
" shall be revoked and recalled, and you are hereby apprised
and respectively required to take notice that the said license is
resumed, revoked and recalled accordingly."
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient humble Servant,
W. 13. BAYLE Y,-
.
Chief Secretary to Government.
Council Chamber, Nov: 6_, 1823.

By the Bombay-Papers we learn, that the Government have
taken into consideration plans to facilitate the internal in-
tercourse of India ; and that instead of the mails being car-
ried by running men, horses are to be employed. We copy
the following from the Bombay Gazette of the lUth of 'Novem-
ber last.

" A plan is under experiment for mounting the dawl., In the
Ene of communication with Calcutta, to be conveyed at the
rate of eight English miles an hour on the average. We are
not aware of the existence of any difficulty to the success of the
measure, and to its prosecution even during the monsoon ; and
entertain no doubt that when the riders shall have been trained
to their duty, and the machine brought to its regular operation,
that between many of the stages, if not the whole, the dawk
may be conveyed at the rate of ten miles an. hour; which. tak-
ing the distance to be run at 1,200• miles, gives only six days,
us the period within which the correspondence can be carried on
between the two Presidencies : a facility of intercourse involv-
ing advantages of no ordinary consideration, equally of a poli-
tical and commercial nature."

INDIAN BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIIITIIS.

3ladras.—At Belgaum, the 14th of October, the lady of
.Major F. W. Wilson, of the 2d bat. 2d regt., of a daughter.—
At Quilon, on the 16th of October, the lady of Lieut. Stuart,
2d bat. lit regt. NJ., of a daughter.—At Madras, on the 24th
of October, the lady of J. M. Heath, Esq., of a daughter.—At
Madras, on the sth of November, the lady of W. Par, Esc., of
a son.—At Dinapore, on the 21st of October, the lady of Lieut.
Col. Frederick Richards, commanding 2d bat. 23d regt. N. 1.,
of a Col., Calcutta, on the 23d 'of October, the lady
of F. Paschaud, Esq. of a daughter.—At Ilaztaree Baug, on
the 27th of October, the lady of Captain 11. L. Playfair, of a
daughter.—On the Bth of October, the lady of Cul. Edwards,
of his Majesty's 14th Foot, of a daughter.. .