The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-03 00:00:00

SINDE.

Scanty and unimportant as are our tidings from Sinde,
they are more voluminous than those from any other
(planer of India. The results of the conquest now touch
us very nearly ; a pressure in the money market, of
alinost unprecedented severity, being ascribed to the
drain of specie, to the extent of nearly a million sterling
annually, required to pay the army necessary for the
maintenance of Young Egypt. This is the first, the
most prominent and permanent, of the blessings of open
ing the navigation of the unnavigable Indus for the
,hips of all nations, and courting the commerce of
countries which had none to confer. Our former dates
from Snkkur extended to the 28th, at which time the
Belooch battalion and Captain Bailey's battery—the
first of the long line of corps returning from Baha-
wLlpore—had arrived. The other corps came in in
succession, all well, and resumed their former quarters.
On the downward march of her Majesty's 17th it was
feared that Lieutenant Gardiner had been murdered. At
Bagoodrah he had one day at noon gone out shooting,
and was missing till next day. He had lost himself in
the jungle, when darkness overtook him. He was ex-
hausted, and slept all night on the ground. He descried
a village near him in the morning, and thither he re-
oaired and made known his wants. The people gave
milk and such bread as the country supplied, treated him
with kindness, showed every attention to his wants, and
then guided him to camp in safety. Uniform testimony
is borne to the honesty and kindness of the people in the
Bahawulpore dominions. Captain Brett's battery is sta-
tioned in the fortress of Bukkur; all the spare ammu-
nition is returned to store. General Hunter once more
takes command at Sukkur, Captain Bignell, 69th Ben-
gal N. 1., acting as Major of Brigade. The circumstance
a Bengal officer having command of a station now
entirely occupied—as it is in future intended to be—
by Bombay troops, has occasioned considerable dis-
cussion, and but for the personal popularity of the
;allant veteran himself might have caused more.
-itone embankments to protect the cantonments from the
'nundations of the river were being constructed ; and it
teemed to be considered that the large expenditure re-
quired for this would have been much more advantage-
Jusly made in removing the cantonments themselves
'rem the margin of the stream. Sir C. Napier. with his
.tall, reached Three on the 4th of April. He imme-
liately crossed over to the island of linkkur to inspect
tome alterations then being made on the forAeations
\Text morning he 1 ft for Hyderah .d, where he arrived on
he 7th by steam. C n the sth, the European portion of the
;ate "Indus field force" proeeed.d down the river in
iteamers:consistingolthe late .mpany Is, and I,tcompan
2d battalions of artillery and her M 86th Fa,t—
the guns being sent down in boats. Rowland's tri,or
IL A., the horses of the two batteries, and the 12th
and 18th N. 1., marched the same morning for Ily-
lerabad. The head -quarters of the 3d cavalry bait
Laken the place of the mounted porti, n of the Bun-
lelkund Legion, and were to be stationed at Khangur,
with outposts at Shahpoor, Meerpoor, &c. Th,
Tekranee and Janeedra freebooters last season trans-
ferred by Sir C. Napier from the hills to the plains,
were under the considerate management of Lieu
tenant Hamilton, turning out much better citizens than
-might have been expected. Sir C. Napier reached
liurrachee on the 15th, and seemed to have recovered
rum his fatigues. The officers and men wounded during
the late battles on the Sutlej having got easily and well
down the river, arrived at Bombay on the 26th and 27th.
twelve have died on the way, Colonel Ryan, of her Ma-
jesty's 50th, among the number; above two hundred
reached this presidency. Many of them are sick; the
hurts of most of them very severe. Every kindness and
attention has been shown them, and all the kindly and
4enerous sympathy accorded them of which they are so
eminently deserving. It is hoped that a considerable
portion of them may be sent home in the fine ship Here-
fJrdshire now in harbour. The last steamer for the sea-
son leaves next week for Kurrachee, from which time till
the end of the monsoon our communication with Sinde will
be closed. Some negotiations in which the Governor of
Sinde had been engaged with Ali Moored, were, it is said,
likely to open the eyes of his Excellency to the pecu
liarities of his Highness's character—if, indeed, the sup-
posed belief of the former in the virtues of the latter has
all along been anything more than a convenient pretence
tOr his own advantage. Sir C. Napier is a clear-headed
Ind an acute man enough ; and the infirmities of the
lihyrpoor Ameer too pre-eminent to be easily over-
looked. Had this discovery been admitted, his claims
on the Turban would never have been backed by us, and
there would have been no Mevanee or I)ubba—no
70,000/. of prize money, or 10,000/. a year of Governor's
salary for Sinde; and, it may be added, there would,
possibly, have been no mutinies in the Bengal army—no
sacrifice of 2,000 lives by sickness—no deficit of three
millions in the Company's revenues since 1842—and no
money crisis in India, where Company's paper was re-
fused for security, and discounts could scarcely be effected
at eleven per cent. We shall not pretend to strike the
balance as to which of the alternatives would have been
most advantageous.

ARRIVAL OF THE WOUNDED FROM THE

SUTLEJ.

On Sunday and Monday the steamers Victoria,
Berenice, and Medusa, arrived from Kurrachee, bringing
with them five officers and upwards of 200 men who had
',een more or less sevt rely wounded during our late
operations on the Sutlej. Many seemed to cuff r from
sickness as well as from the hurts they had received ;
some were sadly maimed indeed, and all were objects of
the most heartfelt and generous sympathy. It was sad
to see fine young men, in the prime of life, disabled of
a leg or an arm, or cut up in the face and person, as so
many were. Save in the cases supplied by Sinde, w.
'cave long be n out of the way of such things, and cus-
tom luckily comes not to aid in reconciling us to th
Every care and attention was bestowed on "
they are, we beli-ve, likely to be fort-
.nPra, and
first-rate vessel for tht,ir conve-
.nate in having a
-. hoe. A goo many had died on the jou—
..iey—andonc ie t wasm rEtnarkabled that the, most of tho-
been hurt in tv ~e who did so were men who had
lost an ar lower extrernities— w tho who had only
.-.4 or so did well.—Bombay limes, April 29,

Aollo.nUeltEEuS
roiplsTeaßn etaNnldßAJe.
The failureF native house.
combined with the prevalence of rumours as to the insta-
bility of other establishments, has tended to create a
very uneasy feeling amongst the mercantile public during
the last week or so. We hope. however, that the cis
trust which has been apparent will not be long exhibited,
and that, above all, parties will be cautious how they attach
credit to idle reports, which are the natural offspring of
unfounded alarm, and cannot be too strongly deprecated.
The scarcity of money is a temporary evil, azd will soon
right itself ; but were anything in the shape of a " panic"
to occur, it might be productive of most disastrous
effects, which would not be easily or quickly remedied.
—Bombay limes, April 16.
The paragraphs which recently appeared in this paper
and the Bombay Times, respecting the failures in Bona
bay, and the scarcity of money, have occasioned some
alarm in the country; numerous letters on the subject.
have been received, inquiring the names of the firms
that have stopped payment. Only one European house,
Messrs. W. and T. Edmend and Co., and one native
firm, Pestonjee Cursetjee Moody, have. These, we re-
gret to say, have been unable to meet their engagements,
and althoug the scarcity of money continues to be se.
verely felt, and the banks have not reduced their rates
of discount and interest, we have heard from those who
are fully competent to speak on the subject, thatever.ry
firm in Bombay is now in a condition to fulfil all their
;times.—Bombay
engagements in these trying
Gentle-
man's Gazette, April 24.

NEY MARKET.
CALCUTTA 1110,.
(COMMERCIALFromtheBom
blayN
Times,
ersJ:L MawGEI.N) C E'
the tightness then existing. This is attrtbu •
t
Since our last issue our market has rela.xedtaawgeooind
part
tl
to
money from Benares and other places naturally seekinghe
most profitable locality, and in part, also, to a readier rate of
ad payment for imports. The opium speculators have rea-
resultn to expect also remittances from China; and the general
circles.has been a more satisfactory state in the money
Government securities have profited by this change, and
may be quoted at 1 per cent more favourableothe seler.
Exchange is about oWurelstqnotation., 2s. Id. to 2s. 141.,
obtained
oilnit
some
atqeu.
We
but to Ttebaettetxerternatt.es.
believe a farthing more has been
Bank Stock is more inquired aftnero,
EFltiNvl%elEplierTeSeEnCt.7pErTelmr.s..
Transfer Stock PaperG°v
Bombay Five per Cent. ...
... prem. 4,21 8
to 3
05
0 to 1 0
Old Sicca Five ditto, according to
numb, rs ... ...
...
...
Prem. 1 0 to 3 oNew Company's Five per Cent. ... prem. 4 0 to 4 4
Third, 4 ditto ... ... discount 6 8 to 7 8
New Company's 4 ditto ... discount 4 8 to 5 0
BANK SHARES.
pa.
Bengal Bank ... ... 4.000 Com
prem ny's
2, R6ooup ees
to 2,650
Union Bank ... ... 1,000 190 to 19.5 200
Agra Bank ... ... SJO „ 280 290
500 S old 190 200
North-Western Ba.:li ..
clew 100 130
Oriental ?a i., • . 1,0;1,0 (500 raid) 180 200

PRICE OF BULLION, &C
Company's Rupees.
Sycce silver ... 104 12 0 to 105 0 0 per 100 sa.wt.
China gold bars ... 15 8 oto 16 3 0 per sa. wt.
Gold dust ... 15 8 oto 16 8 0 ditto.
Spanish dollars ... 221 10 oto 221 12 0 per 100.
Mexican dollars ... 221 0 0 to 221 4 0 ditto.
Sovereigns 11 3 6to 11 4 6 ditto.
Madras gold mohurs 16 4 oto 16 8 0 ditto.
—Bova/ Hut ktvw, evening edition, April 18.