The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

OVER LAND MAIL

FROM CALCUTTA.

(From the Herald.)
We have received by Extraordinary Express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our files of papers
from
.Bombay of May 12 ; Calcutta, May 1 ; China,
April 25. By far the most important intelligence is
from the latter place, by which it will be seen that
the British authorities have, in 36 hours, assaulted
and taken all the principal forts at the Bogue and in
the Canton River, and after destroying the gateway,
and blowing up the magazines, spiked 827 pieces of
'l4'nen. Her Majesty's forces were about commenc-
ing an assault on Canton, when the Chinese Govern-
ment submitted to all the demands of her Majesty's
plenipotentiary without reserve, just in time to arrest
tne destruction of that city.
(From the Bombay Times of May 12.)
Soma[ CRY.—The space over which our present
°hservations extend is more limited than usual, and
quite as uninteresting as for many months past. The
'lon. Company's steamer Sesostris, which, at the date
It last dispatch, was feared to have been lost in
the hurricane of the 20th ult., has made her appear-
e; she suffered considerably, and seems to have
rgn in great danger, but happily accomplished
her voyage. The Buckinghamshire continues to
Lmake her way up the coast under jury-masts; we
°eve had no returns of losses beyond those formerly
enumerated. Tire Mermaid has now been almost
Wholly broken up, but a small portion of her cargo
having been saved. The Portuguese brig Indiana
Was driven ashore near Rutnagherry : her masts were
all gone, but the hull of the vessel seemed to have
abstained little damage. The gale appears to have
!leen singular in its character : it seems to have taken
its rise to the east and south of Ootacamund, about
!.° deg. N., and 76 deg. E. Here it blew with fury
from the 13th to the 18th, its violence being most
severe about the 15th. It can be traced north and
best for the space of about 1,300 miles : it travelled
°l'er the ocean from Cochin on the Malabar coast to
tkurrachee and Ahmedabad, and thence to Shikarpore
La Upper Sinde, in latitude 28 deg. N. by 68 deg. E.
At the first-named of these four places it raged on the
!ilt, at the second and third on the 23d, 24th, and at
e fourth on the 24th. Throughout its course
heavy falls of rain accompanied it even where these
are nearly unknown. The disturbances in the
'clornsoor districts seem for the present to be
Pella Brigadier Dyce has been succeeded
in the command of the troops in the country by
rigadier Campbell. There is nothing new
Lucknow. The conduct of the Resident,
1,.010nel Richmond, in promising their lives to the
4flghans who attempted to murder the Prime Mi-
nter, has been a source of considerable discussion.
he promise was given when the life of an individual
circumstances
on it : were it fallen from, the plea of the
irnUnastances under which it was made would as-
suredly not exempt us from the obloquy of having
broken faith : should it be acted on, two men will be
set free who avowedly intended to commit a murder.
f°
he Seikh trophy guns are about to be re-cast, to
.rlll a triumphal arch or column. A rumour—a
groundless one we hope—prevails that Lord Har-
d ilnge will quit India on the Ist of January, 1848
a and the Commander-in-Chief are now at Simla.
and
Will so continue during the hot season. Profound
bquillity continues throughout the Punjaub.
finder
Lawrence, following the example, and acting
"der the instructions of his namesake at Lahore, is
fllUtt*
mg in practice the same style of reform on the
ro
t 4 titter which has for some time been in progress at
~s." Capital. Accounts have been called for, so as to
'arulit an exact estimate to be made of the income
40,1
- expenditure of the Peshawur and Yoesoofzaie
13 -114 try. The troops are to have their arrears paid
LP to them, and are not likely again to be allowed
t°lan behind. The tax on the marriage of widows
(1,4 to be abolished. Colonel Khan Singh had been
erred
from the artillery, and the command trans-
hred to Elahee Buksh. Dest Mahomed continues
tie he operations against the Ghilzies ; the troubles of
Country seem to be abating, and it is not at pre-
sent more disturbed than at any time since we first
came acquainted with it—much less so most as..
liir
€'42llY than it was when in our possession, when
Qtd Palmerston assured the men of 'Tiverton that
fn Englishman might traverse it from end to end as
:arlessly as he could travel from one end of England
Ahtlie other. Cholera has been making sad havoc at
tnedabad, the latest victims amongst the European
g-rnraunity being Ensign Pitcairn and Miss Darby.
Honing
David Pollock, Chief Justice of Bombay, is
li!inning to recover from a dangerous attack of
er complaint, which at one time threatened to
pro
, le fatal to him. He is about to take a voyagev
viChina for change of air. There was a grand re-
ew by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir W. Cotton, of
the
troops constituting the Presidency division, on
he evening of the 10th; on the 11th the Governor,
the
ieornmander-in•Chief, and a large party of the
of the Presidency, visited the Dhurrunsalla (house
Jteneption for strangers), erected by Sir Jamsetjee
theieebhoy at Byculla. All testified their delight at
114 further act of munificence of the princely knight.
11
Akbar steamer, with the London mail of the 7th
)14 April, arrived on the 6th of May—the transit
st/ing been accomplished between the Post-office of
ei Martin-le-Grand and that of Bombay in twenty-
ght days twenty-one hours—by much the shortest
Jet effected.
kTwo atrocious murders have been committed by a
thal,ey sailor. On coming hack from sea he went to
ka house of a former mistress and was refused per-
issi°ll to reside with her. He left the house, and
hhc)rtly after returning found another man had taken
,n_a Place. Upon this he stabbed the man, who died
41 the spot ; wounded the woman, who died almost
14)tnediately afterwards ; injured a third and fourth,
°l)rie of whom lies in a dangerous state in the Jeejee-
hoy Hospital. The man at once permitted himself
t 0 be made a prisoner.
The sum subscribed towards the Irish Relief Fund
at liornbay amounts to 9,3001. Upwards of 22,0001.
have been collected throughout India.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Bi4_emualtiea by death in the armies of India reported
the departure of the mail of Ist May:—
54 (),m2AY.Ensign Pitcairn, Bth Reg., at Ahmedabad,
29th April.
ts44"As.—Lieut. Donald Tulloch, 2d European Regi-
-215 t, at sea on board the Arabia, off the Cape, on the
t Jan
lit, nary.
A. `l`lGAL.—Lieut. C. R. Aileman, 41st Regiment, at
0'43 on 13th April.

CALCUTTA.
1,6 (Prom the Bengal Hurharu of May 1.)
The Political news is of no importance.
ksn ere has been but little change since our last in the
lia:eet of commercial affairs. The market for exports
havi7etn very quiet, the extent of business transacted
~,i_oeen very moderate.
4,"'enange has had a continued upward tendency. Pre-
s,re' quotations for first class six months' bills on London
qd. to 2s. Old.
he rates of freight mentioned in our last have been
fined, and as some proportion of the available ton-
-14,7 tuls been taken up for China, present quotations are
ton-
-14,7 to undergo little reduction,