The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

" 2: That they may take Government wheat, or not
take it, as they please.
"3. That the assistant-commissary-general be re-
sponsible that the Government wheat sold to the bakers
be perfectly clean, and at such prices below the lowest
market price as shall be arranged by me with the advice
of the collector at Kurrachee.
" 4.. That if any baker goes to the Commissariat-office
for wheat, and is put off by any of the people of the
commissariat, instead of being immediately served, as
the bakers complain that they have been, such baker is
to come immediately to me, having marked well the man
who put him off, and who shall learn the danger of op-
posing my exertions to protect the British soldiers from
being robbed and ill-treated by contractors and bakers.
" 5. If the bakers so assisted by the public make bad
bread, the commander of the station will be pleased to
report the same to me immediately, and I will try them,
as camp followers, by court-martial, and execute the
sentence, whatever it may be.
" 6. The present contract with the bakers is to be
torn up, and a new one made out, under the direction of
the court of inquiry and the assistant-commissary-
general, which contract is then to be submitted to me for
final sanction.

(Signed)

C. J. NAPIER, Governor,
_
" Major-General Commanding."
The quality of the bread supplied by the public
bakers having been complained of, the utmost efforts
were made for its improvement. It still coatinued bad,
and the bakers excused themselves that so long as they
were compelled to receive payment, not in cash, but in
grain issued from the Government stores, of worse qua-
lity and higher price than that to be had is the bazaar,
they could not make it better. On this coming to the
knowledge of the Major-General, the head of the Com-
missariat was severely blamed in orders, and directed to
pay in money, not in grain; to take care of the grain kept
in store by him, and to leave the bakers alone to prac-
tise where they thought fit.
Most men are somewhat unreasonable and tenacious
in matters of etiquette—none more so than civilians and
soldiers. It has been a standing rule in the army for
nearly half a century amongst all varieties of troops
holding her Majesty's commission, whether regular or
irregular, home or colonial—that horse artillery should
take precedence of dragoons, foot artillery and infantry;
and this was a matter with which no one ever dreamt of
meddling. At the funeral of Captain J. Napier, the
Hon. Colonel Dundas, who formerly got himself into
trouble while belonging to the household at home, for
some allusion made in public to her Majesty, having the
command of the day, ordered her Majesty's 60th, of
which he is senior officer, to take precedence of Row-
land's Horse Artillery. A great sensation was occa-
sioned on the spot by this very unusual proceeding and
most uncalled-for interruption to the harmony until then
existing amongst
,the troops. Somehow or other the
local commanders in-chief seemed averse to meddle with
the matter, though the regulations were so explicit that
it could be settled at once without any reference at all.
It was, however, sent on from hand to hand, till the
Commander-in-Chief of all India set the matter at rest
by the publication of the standing general orders on the
subject, Colonel Dundas escaping with the simple.repu-
diation of his acts. The irritation and ill-blood this has
occasioned in a community entirely military, will not
soon be got over or corrected. In Sinde the people con-
tinue to suffer severely from.scarcity of food. The addi-
tion of 2.5,000 made by us to the number of consumers,
while agriculture was checked by war, has transformed
the country from an exporting to an importing one, and
given it starvation instead of excess.
It is rumoured that the 60th Rifles will be sent to
Bengal, and I believe it is certain that her Majesty's
17th return home without delay; they have been sud-
denly cut up and wrecked by disease.
Some inroads on our frontier have of late been made
by the Hillmen, and numerous robberies have occurred
in the upper country. These are incidents which have
been common in Sinde from the time it was first peopled,
and are likely so to continue as long as it is inhabited by
semi-barbarians. They exercise no very material influ-
ence on the prospects of the State.
From Lahore we have tidings to the 12th September.
Matters in the capital continue exactly as they for
months have been. No preparations have as yet been
made for the withdrawal of the army, but it is scarcely
yet time, and not the slightest hint has yet been given
that they are to remain an hour beyond the time origi-
nally agreed on.
The rumour formerly noticed as to the murder of
Lall Singh appears to have arisen from the occasion of
a peculiarly warm debate at court, where the disputants
waxed so hot in argument as to draw their swords up n
each other.
Our troops continue healthy, and not a murmur is ever
heard from them of hardship or discomfort. Never did
an army of occupation steer so clear of collision and
misunderstanding, or stand so free of censure as that o
Sir John Littler.

The army just referred to will, it is said, on its retire-
ment, relieve the troops in the Jullundur lloab, and its
gallant chief command the troops betwixt the Beas and
the Sutlej. I have of late seen numerous letters from
Simla, and the writers in all cases mention that the Go-
vernor-General loses no opportunity of proclaiming the
highly pacific nature of his policy, and his determina-
tion neither to go to war himself, nor to suffer others to
fight where peace can with safety be maintained. De-
clarations of this nature, confirmed as they are by cor-
responding practice, gives the greatest confidence to
those anxious for the advancements, and willing to de-
vote their resources and energies thereunto, if at all
assured of the permanence of tranquillity permitting
their effects to become effective, The newswriters are
the only parties who have reason to complain of the con-
tinuance of the present order of things ; these piping
times of peace are ruinous to the annalist.
(From the Bombay Telegraph.)

" The insurrection in Cashniere is-he-acted by Shaikh
Emam-ood-Deen, the son of the former governor of the
province; and it is asserted, notwithstanding the strong
denial of Raja Lall Singh, that the Lahore Durbar has
had something to do in the way of fomenting the dis-
turbances. It was at first stated that the Shaikh, on the
3d of September, attacked Raja Ghoolab Singh's troops
with 12,000 men, took them by surprise, and defeated
them, killing several personages of note. All the British
officers, save two, left Lahore on the commencement of
hostilities, and Lieutenant Edwardes proceeded from
Lahore to Jamoo—Ghoolab Singh's hill residence—for
the purpose, it is said by some, of taking measures to
bring Ernam-ood-Deen to reason.' The place at which
the battle took place,' observes the Delhi Gazette, is not
mentioned, but we presume that it must have been in
the neighbourhood of or beyond Poonch, as the tribes
of the valley of the Jhelum are especially named as
having joined Emam-ood-Deen, and they would hardly
have gone so far from their homes to encounter the
Maharaja's troops in the defiles leading to the Peer Pin-
jail pass.' It is said that in this engagement Ghoolab
Singh lost four hundred men, and all his guns. The
whole of the Hill chiefs are rumoured to have risen
against him, and to have acknowledged Emam-ood-Deen
as their leader, professing at the same time the utmost
anxiety to see us their rulers, but protesting against
their being made over to Ghoolab Singh.' The Baja
has taken active measures to retrieve this reverse—his
son having been sent off with a reinforcement of five
thousand men. The latest accounts respecting Cashmere
affairs are to be found in the Del/ti Gazette of the 10ili
instant, from which paper we take the following ex-
tract :

" An urzee was received from Dewan Hakeem Rae,
stating that when he hurriedly wrote his first letter re-
garding the battle between the troops of Ghoolab Singh
with Shaikh Emam-ood-Deen, he had stated the loss at
2,000 killed and wounded on both sides, he had not
obtained the full particulars; but that now he was able
to say, on pretty good information, that Shaikh Emam-
ood-deen having made cue march from Cashmere, was
attacked during the night by the troops of Raja Ghoolab
Singh. The Seikh being on his guard, defended him-
self stoutly, and about 200 people were killed on both
sides. Two officers of rank on the side of Ghoolab
Singh, and two officers of Shaikh Emam-ood-Deen, fell
in the conflict.
"'From llazareh letters wo learn that the Mulkeea
people are continuing to make head against the authori-
ties of Ghoolab Singh, under the leadership of Moulvee
Zamun Alee. Dewan Huree Chund is unable to leave
Hurkishunghur. Col. Outtum Singh had gone into the
camp of the insurgents to try and bring them to reason,
but they threatened to shoot him, and he was glad to re-
turn to the fort with his life. The Mulkeeas aro en-
camped gbout Aye hos from the fort, Aejit Ghoolab

spread very industriously, that more men are required
on the Indus, above 15,000 being alreaely there ; and
that a march to the northward, for what purpose no one
can comprehend, is in contemplation. It is supposed
that tales such as these are meant to my: tify and be-
wilder the public, it being generally understood that,
however secret the matters may be kept, the purposes
of the supreme Government are fixed, and that by a day
far from distant Sinde will be incorporated with the
Bombay Presidency, relieved of an independent Govern-
ment, and at least of half its army. The arrangements of
Sir C. Napier for his return to Europe are said to be in
a state of forwardness, his family being shortly expected
at Bombay to proceed by the Red Sea route. The cli-
mate of Sind© is at present pleasant and healthy, the
temperature cool and agreeable. There is, notwith-
standing, a large amount of sickness amongst the men of
her Majesty's 60th and 86th, naturally consequent on
the terrible visitation cholera lately made them; the
constitutions of those who happen to recover
from the malady always suffering to such an ex-
tent as to lay them in the last degree open
to other attacks. Frauds of a most extensive and
mischievous neture have been detected in the commis-
sariat. False steelyards and weights had been employed
in serving out provisions, by means of which the men had
been most enormously defrauded in the quantity they
ought to have received. A court-martial has occurred,
the results of which are not yet known, but it is under-
stood that the parties originally supposed implicated
have cleared themselves of the charges brought against
them. On this, as well as on another matter connecter':
with the supplies of the men, Sir C. Napier has issued
caustic and characteristic general orders of well-deserved
severity.
" BY lIIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SINDE.
"Headquarters, Kurrachee, Sept. 17, 1846.
" The court of inquiry on the complaint made
against the bakers shows that the men have not been
supported. Iset them to work with the object of getting
good bread for the soldiers, and to give these bakers the
full support of the Government, which they had not re-
ceived, but the very reverse. This is the opinion of the
court of inquiry, and I entirely co7cur in that opinion.
Major Blenkins made a contract with these men, which
they could not fulfil with justice to themselves. They
are to be paid immediately the money due to them, and
this payment is to be made in cash. lam quite at a loss
to conceive how Major Blenkins could think that I
would sanction his forcing the bakers to give a higher
price for Government wheat than the price paid in the
market. This would have at once defeated my exertion,
and the measure is unjust in itself. I therefore order—
" 1. That the bakers are to be paid in ready cash
weekly.