The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-22 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

The Overland Alail has arrived, with dates from
Bombay to the 15th, and Calcutta to the 7th of March.
The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times :—" The Honourable the Governor re-
turned from Sinde on board the Ajdaha on the
morning of the 3d inst. He leaves for the Maha-
buleshwar Hills about the 19th or 20th, and will
remain there for a month, when he will return to
the Presidency to receive his successor, Lord Falk.
land, expected to arrive about the 28th of April. The
regret for Mr. Clerk's departure is deep and general
throughout the community. Colonel Ashburnham
will, it is said, be the private secretary elect. Captain
French, the present private secretary, is expected to be
appointed Town-Major in place of Col. Seton, who re-
turns to En land on the Ist of April. Sir T. Turton has
resigned the offi,;e of Ecclesiastical Registrar to the
Supreme Court, Calcutta, the emoluments of which
have hitherto been betwixt 6,0001. and 8,0001. a year.
These are derived from a per centage, levied in the
name of fee, on the estates of persons dying intestate.
The Ecclesiastical Registrar and his assistant, not con -
tent with their emolument, have embarked in trade with
the money entrusted to their care, and lost very severely
by the Union Bank. The defalcations are said
to exceed 160,000/. When directed by the Chief
Justice to produce their books, and exhibit the
Government paper in which the money was said to
be invested, paper was borrowed from a native mer-
chant and exhibited as that belonging to the
registrar. It was immediately lodged by Sir Law-
rence Peel in the Treasury, when the fact just stated
became known by the party from whom it was
borrowed making application for his own. The
system of borrowing paper from the Union Bank,
for the purpose of deceit, seems to have been a re-
gular branch of business ! Mr. Sandes, a barrister,
has accepted the appointment resigned by Sir
T. Turton, on a salary of 2,5001. per an-
num. The unpopularity of the Commodore
Superintendent of the Indian Navy continues
universal and almost unbounded, as it well
may, when every successive week brings fresh in-
stances of tyranny and caprice before the world.
The company would save their character as well
as their cash, were they to provide for him a
baronetcy, and bribe him home by a pension of
10,0001., if they have not courage enough more
summarily to remove him. The climate of Sinde
seems to have undergone a sudden transition, and
the troops there this season seem to enjoy as good
if not better health than in any part of the Presi-
dency. The Commissioner, Mr. Pringle, has just
gone up the country on a tour of inspection. We
have no news whatever, though abundance of com-
munications, from the Indus. The steamer Con-
queror had, by the indomitable exertions of her
commander, Captain Christopher, surmounted the
difficulties at Kalabagh, and was on a fair way to
Attock. This, like the trip up the Sutlej, will
prove that it is possible, but in the last degree
expensive and inexpedient, to make use of
steamers above Sukkur. Profound tranquillity
reigns throughout the Punjaub. Sir Fre-
derick Currie was expected at Lahore about
the 7th March, when Mr. John Lawrence would take
his departure for the Jullundhur Doab. We this
season will receive 320,0001. land revenue, and
60,0001. of customs, from our own territory, or
380,0001. in all, though our exactions are less by a
third than were those of our predecessors. The
revenue surrey of the Panjaub was advancing rapidly;
that of the lands on the rivers' banks, yielding about
half a million a year, bad been completed; and the
whole would, it was hoped, be finished by May or June.
The turbulence in the hill. frontier provinces was in a
great measure subdued. Dr. Fleming had been de-
puted by Government to examine the coal formation
discovered by Captain Robertson, near Pind Dadun
Khan. Major Napier and Lieut. Hodgson were en-
gaged in the neighbourhood of Patthankote, some 15
miles below Noorpoor, putting the Hasseli Canal into
order. The Persian empire seems to be in a state of
complete disorganization : bands of armed insurgents
assembled everywhere, apparently for the purposes
of plunder, seem to defy the Royal arms; and cities
shut their gates, and refuse tribute to the King of
Kings. Yar Mahomed of Herat is said to be ravag-
ing Toorkistan, and committing great cruelties upon
the people. The Affghan Chiefs are, as usual, quarrel-
ling with, and plundering and attacking each other.
Haider Khan was in the Lumghan valley watching the
movements of Mahomed Shah Khan, who had nearly
carried away one of his guns. Operations had been in-
terfered with by a fall of snow. Another physico-geo-
graphical expedition has been organized, and instructed
to proceed to Kumaoon. Letters from the Nizam's
dominions inform us that his Highness had declined
seeing General Fraser when about to leave the
capital, and the Resident expressed no wish for the
observance of the customary civilities. The letter
or kureeta of Lo rd Dalhousie was simply
sent to his Highness by messenger : its
contents were unknown m all likelihood
to
have rejoin
spoken the
favourably
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a few empty compliments. National affairs continued
pretty much in the usual state, and are not supposed
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likely to improve while the British Resident supports
an untrustworthy and incapable minister. Com-
plaints are loud and general of the ill-treatment
received by British merchants at Ara at the hands of
the
King.
21st g Sir H. Blackwood quitted Maulmain on
the
.port as a site for a dockyard. Tranquillity
generally prevails throughout India. At Bom-
bay the cold season is advancing, the weather
continuing at
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moneypecu liarvleyryfine.
great
indeed. Trade colnthineucersimdiunlal:
though somewhat less so than formerly, and the
scarcity of
sessions have just begun : the calendar is a very
heavy one.