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

THE SON, LONDON, FRIDAILRVENING OCTORF,4It 30, 1846.

' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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OVERLAND MAIL

_INDIA.

Dispatches have been received by express from
Marseilles in anticipation of the overland mail, which
left Bombay on the Ist instant.
The intelligence thus brought is not of much po-
litical importance.

At Lahore everything remained quiet, the troops
were healthy, and were expecting an early visit
of inspection from the Governor-General. Lall
Singh betrayed great anxiety as the time for the de.
parture of the British forces approached.
From Caubul there were, as usual, rumours of in-
trigues and insurrections. A report that an English
army would invade Peshawur upon the arrival of the
cold season had produced much alarm, and it was
said that proposals for a treaty of alliance would be
made to Lord Ilardinge.
An insurrection had broken out in Cashmere, fo-
mented, it is reported, by the Lahore Durbar ; and a
force sent against the insurgents by Ghoolab Singh
had been defeated with some loss. Several English
officers who were visiting the country had been
seized, and would be detained as hostages, though no
fears were entertained for their safety.
Cholera was still raging in Sinde, and provisions
were so enormously scarce and dear that an absolute
famine was apprehended.

At Bombay there was no news. Trade was rather
dull, and all transactions on a very limited scale.
A volcano had appeared on Saddle Island in the
Red Sea.

The mail was carried from Bombay by the steam-
' ship Atalanta, which sailed at 6 P.M. on the Ist inst.,
and reached Suez on the 19th, at 10 A.M.
The express through Egypt left Suez an hour and
a half after the steamer's arrival, reached Cairo at
half-past five o'clock in the evening, and Alexandria
at five P.M. on the following day. Her Majesty's
ship Ardent sailed for Trieste with a portion of the
dispatches at half-pasttwelve o'clock at night, and
the Ariel, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, to which we are indebted for this intelli-
gence, started a quarter of an,hour afterwards. The
Ariel reached Marseilles at nine o'clock in the even-
ing of the 26th. On this occasion, therefore, it
would seem that the route by Marseilles has the ad-
vantage.

The intelligence from Egypt is not remarkable.
Mr. Murray, the newly-arrived Consul-General, had
left Alexandria for Cairo, where he was to be formally
presented to the Pacha. English shipping continued
to be so scarce that freights had reached a most ex-
travagant height, and the merchants were loudly
complaining. Corn and beans had risen rapidly in
price, in consequence of the late news from England,
as well as all other articles of consumption.

(From the Bombay Times, Oct. 1.)
Each succeeding mail makes us, as it must make the
English reader, aware, that under a thoroughly peace-
ful Administration there is, in the regions of non-intel-
ligence, beneath the lowest deep a lower still. We are
this month altogether devoid of subjects for relation,
though not without abundance for discussion. Those on
which diversity of opinion must occur are excluded from
that portion of our paper devoted to narrative, and which
thereby becomes nearly a blank. India at large is Iran-
' quil, and the general peace extends to each individual
province, whether of old or recent acquisition. The
cool season has set in in Scinde, and the climate at pre-
sent seems not only healthy, but agreeable. The natives
continue to suffer from extreme dearth and scarcity of
provisions. No reduction of the amount of troops on
the Indus has yet occurred, and the rumours regarding
it have been transformed into whispers of fresh military
movements. These aro understood to originate at Kurra-
chee, and to be disseminated to mislead as to the great
political changes now rapidly approaching. Some rob-
beries have occurred at Sultkur, and inroads of small
magnitude been made on the border. Our troops con-
tinue pretty healthy at Lahore and in the Funjaub—the
Governor-General taking pains to make the highly
peaceful nature of his policy, and his determined aversion
to war, be understood.
It is somewhat singular, that while assurances of the
resolute determination of the Governor-General to main-
tain peace throughout the British dominions reach us
from the best informed men at head-quarters, and while
all existing appearances bear out the general belief, re-
torts seem sedulously scattered around Kurrachee of
movements to the north—of a march on Bahawulpore,
or foray over the frontier—a little war somewhere, just
to show that a vast army is indispensable in Sinde, and
leaving it to be inferred that when troops are in the field
the presence of the Governor is indispensable.
It is understood that an order ha; been issued from
the supreme Government for the suspension of the con-
struction of public works on the Indus. The Sinde
horse and Belooch battalions, both a sort of independent
corps, have been incorporated with the Bombay army.
It must be recollected that there is scarcely a single
Sindian in either corps, though their designations would
lead to the inference that they were composed of na-
tives of the country. An additional battalion of the
first-named of the two is at present being raised in the
Deccan.

spread very industriously, that more men are required
on the Indus, above 15,000 being already 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 mystify 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 Sinde 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 nature 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 connected
with the supplies of the men, Sir C. Napier has issued
caustic and characteristic general orders of well-deserved
severity.

"BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF SINDE.
"Head-quarters, Kurrachee, Sept. 17, 1846.
" The court of inquiry on the complaint made
against the bakers shows that the men have not been
supported. I set 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 concur in that opinion.
Major Bleukins 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 thick 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.

" 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 bailers.
" 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-commiscary-
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 in 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

Swindling to a most alarming extent is said to have
been discovered in those supplying the troops with meat,
false weights and improper steelyards having been made
use of fur the purposes of fraud. The bakers who sup-
plied the bread, again, appear to have been partly paid
in grain from the Government stores, higher prices
having been charged for this than those current in the
market; on both points severe general orders have been
issued by Sir C. Napier. It is said, that singular coun-
tervailing discoveries have been made, so that the parties
presently inculpated may prove innocent, and the blame
be further forwarded to other shoulders.
Lieutenant Balfour, of the Indian navy, had lately
been engaged in examining the channel betwixt Gisree
Bunder and the Indus. His report is favourable • and,
should the anticipations expressed in it be realised, the
advantages of having this line of communication, which
could be maintained throughout the year, opened up,
would be very great indeed.
Vast flights of locusts had made their appearance in
the neighbouring province of Lus, but happily had not
visited Sinde.
A general order had been published on the subject of
the relative precedence of the different denominations of
the Company's and the Queen's troops, the agitation of
which had occasioned many heartburnings and much
misunderstanding. At the funeral of the late Captain
John Napier, the Hon. Colonel Dundas, commanding
her Majesty's 60th, had given this corps the precedence
of Captain Rowland's troop of Horse Artillery, and, the
irregularity being pointed out, he insisted that the royal
army of all arms should on all occasions take the post
of honour. Singularly enough, a thing so perfectly
well established by a long series of general orders, em-
bodied in every military code for half a century, was
parsed on from hand to hand to the Commander-in-
Chief of all India—the Commander of the Forces in
Sinde, and the Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, being
equally competent to dispose of it, by simple reference
to regulations. According to these, Horse Artillery,
whether Company's or Queen's, take precedence of
Dragoons, and Foot Artillery of Infantry, so that had
Dragoons and Foot Artillery been present, her Majesty's
60th would have been placed three steps above the place
they were entitled to have occupied in relation to the
Horse Artillery. A good deal of truckling and tem-
porizing has unhappily made its appearance, and an in-
finity of ill-blood has been generated. The Honourable
Colonel Dundas, through whose ignorance of rule
and intemperateness of disposition all this has
arisen, has, in consequence, it is understood,
of family connexions and public influence,
escaped without censure. The BonAbay Govern-
ment, impressed with the monstrousness of permitting
the harmony which ought_to exist amongst all divisions
of the service to be thus interrupted, has ordered the
whole correspondence to be sent home. It is to be hoped
that there so gross a breach of discipline will be more
strictly dealt with than it has been in India.
The intelligence contained in our last of the arrival of
the Chief of M.oltan at Lahore turns out to be un-
founded. He has not as yet been prevailed on to come
in, nor is it likely he will readily permit himself to be so
without an abundant guarantee from us for his safety.
The report arose from the circumstance of another de-
el ienraq ue e t
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of the report formerly given, and contradicted, of the
death of Raja Lall Singh, is easily explained. Debate
had waxed so warm in council that Heera Singh and the
Wuzeer drew swords, and would have slain each other
inspection
but for the interference of others. The past fortnight
supplies not one syllable in the shape of news. The
will possibly
troops continue quiet and healthy near the Seikh capital,
itnoguer of
prepared to retire the moment trhde. prescribed term
about oit
our new frontier. Though notably
throng the states on
be has • never manifested the
quiet and uncommunicative,
occupationthtthis
tie ehxapvier e
starteds.
Lorodniah.ais
policy he h
frank and communicative as theto as deter-
minedslightest wish to conceal or mystify, and is peculiarly
to pursue. He means minutely to maintain the
to rumours of imagined pr.impending wars. He
balance
is anxious, apparently, to tranquillise and. calm the •
public
peace and insist on having it maintained; to give no coun-
mind ;
func-
tions of a Governor—the duties of a. people—are peace-
to impress it on the. community that the
ful : that be entertains no apprehension of the weakness
of the vast empire he rules, or the strength of its ene-
mies : that he will be the last to draw the sword—the i
last to sheath it after it has been drawn, until its stern
healthy, promising a station as
ever. The temperature was complained of as something
duties hare been fulfilled. The Jullundur Doab con-
tinues,as favourite,
only serious sufferers from this
degrees in tents. The
were those on the march ; in the cantonments it high, the thermometer ranging in the shade above 100
that the troops in
co.
the Doab will be relieved early in the weather,and
occa-
sioned nothing more than a little discomfort from noon
said
to three or four o'clock. It is
t could, we b •
be committed to Sir J. Littler. lelieve, elleve,
that the command between the Sutlej and the Bens will

-
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
exiiting 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 OR 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 25,000 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 of
Sir John Littler.
The army just referred to will, it is said, on its retire-
ment, relieve the troops in the Jullundur Doab, 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-
, truance of the present order of things ; these piping
times of peace are ruinous to the annalist.
(From the Bombay Telegraph.)
" The insurrection in Cashmere is headed by Shaikh
Etnam-ood-been, the son of the former governor of the
province; and it is asserted, notwithstanding the strong
denial of Raja Lall Singh, that the Lahore I)urbar 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 bill residence—for
the purpose, it is said by some, of taking measures to
`bring
Ernam-ood-Deep 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 Raja
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 Delhi Gazette of the 19th
instant, from which paper we take the following ex-
tract :

"' An urzee was received from Dewan Hakeem Rae,
stating that when he hurt iedly 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 cne 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 Hazareh letters we learn that the Mulkeea
people are continuing to make head against the authori-
ties of Ghoolab Singh, under the leadership of Moulvee
Zamun Alee. llewan lluree Chund is unable to leave
Ilurkishunghur. 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 are eh-

fall into no better hands.
BOMBAY, OCTOBER 1, 1846.
Rumours have most mysteriously sprung up, and wen

camped about five koz from tlao fort, liaja, Ghoolttb