The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-06 00:00:00

INDIA MAILS.

The Cleopatra steamer left Bombay on the Ist, at
8 p. In, and arrived at Suez on the 18th, at 3 p. m.,
with mails, and the following passengers :—Colonel
Sergeant, Lieut.-Col. Smyth, Major and Mrs. Hook,
Captain R. Farquhar, Lieutenants Beachcroft, Law-
rence, and Hume, Mrs. Grey and two children,
Messrs. E. P. Thompson, G. Parbury, and John
Mylne, and the Right Rev. Dr. Connor, all of whom,
except the last, arrived at Malta in the Great Liver-
pool, and, with the exception of Lieutenant• Colonel
Smyth (who landed at Malta,) proceed on by her to
Southampton, and likewise Sir William Eden, Bart.,
who came from the coast of Syria and Egypt.
The Berenice steamer arrived at Bombay, No-
vember 22, from Suez the Ist, and Aden the 12th,
without mails.
The London mails for India of November 30th and
December 4th were landed at Alexandria on the 17th
and sent on immediately to Suez.

BOMBAY, DEC. I, 1840.

November has been an important month in India.
The points of highest interest are four—viz., Affghan-
istan, Scinde, Lahore, and China.

In Affghanistan the attempts of Dost Mahomed to
master that country have failed. He was totally de-
feated on the 2d of November, by Major-General Sir
Robert Sale, and having escaped from the battle, he
fled to Cabul, and surrendered himself to the British
Envoy (Sir W. M‘Naghten). Several excellent officers
have fallen in the conflicts—viz., Captain Conolly, Dr.
Lord, Lieutenant Broadfoot, and Lieutenant Crispin,
and others were wot.nded. The surrender of the Dost
will, it is hoped, secure peace to Schah Soojah.
In Scinde there has been some fighting. Misseer,
the young King of Beloochistan, with 5,000 men, at-
tacked, plundered, and burnt Dadur, in sight of an en-
trenched camp of 400 British Sepoys, who dared not
hazard themselve out of their fortified position. The
Beloochees took their plunder to the hills, but before
they left Dadur one of their chiefs, who had the care of
Lieutienaut Loveday, the late British political agent
in Khelat, bad him murdered beside a tree, to which
he was tied as a prisoner.

In Lahore, Maharajah Kurruck Singh, the son and
successor to the far-famed Runject, died on the sth,
as it is said, of the effects of poison and bad treatment.
One of his wives and some female attendants were burnt
with his body. His son and heir, Nou-Nehal Singh, a
violent opponent of the British, on returning from the
funeral met with an accident ; the great beam of one of
the gates fell on the elephant on which he was riding,
killed one of his friends, and so severely injured the
young king, that he lived but a few hours. His death
has lessened the risk of war in Lahore. Shore Singh,
an illegitimate son of Itunjeet, has been raised to the
throne.

The British troops continue in the neighbourhood,
and peace is thereby secured.

There have been rumours current of an impending
war. wits► the Nepaulese, but they are discredited.
The Khelat jewels have been sold for little more
than 5,0001.

The great anxiety is about the chances of war in
Europe. The underwriters demand war premiums,
from fear of its having broken out.

EGYPT.

ALI.AANDIIIA, DEC. 23.
The Great Liverpool arrived here at sunset on the
evening of the 16th instant, after performing the quick-
est voyage on record between England and Egypt.
Captain Engledue left Falmouth at live o'clock in the
afternoon of the 2d instant, arrived at Gibraltar at eight
o'clock in the morning of the 7th instant, departed at
six o'clock in the afternoon, arrived at Malta at six
o'clock r.m. of the 11th (a four days' run), left Malta at
ten o'clock P.M. next day, and arrived off Alexandria at
six o'clock r.m. on the 16th. The sun had set, and no
pilot would venture out, otherwise the steamer might
have entered the harbour the same evening. The total
time was days and one hour between Falmouth and
Alexandria, of which 12 days 11 hours were spent at
sea, and 88 hours in the harbours of Gibraltar and
Malta. This is a great improvement on the previous