The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-21 00:00:00

OVER LAND MAIL

INDIA.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

We have received files of papers from India in an-
ticipation of the Overland Mail, from Bombay to the
15th, and Calcutta to the 7th of March.
(From the Bombay Times.)

SUMMARY.—The Honourable the Governor re.
turned from Scinde on board the Ajdaha on the
morning of the 3d inst. He leaves for the Mahe- 1
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 aria 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 England on the Ist of April. Sir T. Turton has
resigned the office 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 150,000/. 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 2,500/. 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 Stride
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, out 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 survey of the Punjaub 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 hilt• 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 tne Royal arms; and citivs
shut their gates, and refuse tribute to the King of
Kings. Yar Mahomed of Herat is said to be ravag-
ing Toorkistan, and commit ing great cruelties u} on
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 - Lord Dalhousie was simply
sent to his Highness by messenger : its
contents were unknown —in all likelihood
a tew empty compliments. Nat:onal atiairs continued
pretty much in the usual state, and are not supposed
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 Ava at the hands of
the King. Sir H. Blackwood quitted Maulinain on
the 21st ult., to rejoin the Fox at Amherst.
Ile is said to have spoken favourably of that
port as a site for a doekyard. Tranquillity
generally prevails throughout India. At Boni-
bay the cold season is advancing, the weather
continuing peculiarly fine. Trade continues dull,
though somewhat less so than formerly, and the
scarcity of money very great indeed. The ci inainal
sessions have just begun : the calendar is a very
heavy one.

REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOM-
BAY MARKETS,
FROM THE 2D TO Tax 14TH MARCH INCLUSIVE.
Tuesday Afternoon, Five o'clock, March IS, 1848.
During the greater
part of the past fortnight the
tightness in the Mone3, M. rket, mentioned in our last
report, and the distrust cons
an or ,s 4 in
uP thereon, continued
to prevail, and the transactions n
smog kinds of imports
wet eon a most limited scale. ince the coaimence-
ment of this week, however, we
to be able
happy to
and a
to state that a better tune has prevailed, ha
now that we have
pretty general feeling seems to exist3rev
look
got over the worst, and may
thrs the native
forward to a revival in business so soon confidently
holidays which will commence in two or
and
continue for about a week, are brought to three
days,
encouraging accounts from England by the hiei The
showing that panic had totally subsided there ands Inta.l'
,gts.eg
promise of a safe and gradual return to a sound and
healthy state of commerce, had some effect in imparting
the eomparitive buoyancy now felt in our market; but the
feeling had its rise more immediately in the conviction that
of most kinds of staple goods stocks were very bare, while
the supplies that had gone forward to the interior were
on a much smaller scale than had been the case in past
seasons; and that, consequently, dealers must employ
themselves before the setting of the monsoon. On the
other hand, the accounts of the cotton market in England
being of a nature to encourage shippers, a slight im-
provement on the previously declining market for that
article appears to have manifested itself, and further
purchases have been made by natives for shipment
under Government advances. In Calcutta, too, we are
glad to perceive that a considerably better feeling pre-
vailed at the date of our last advices in the market for
imports.
CoTToN PIECE GOODS.--The transactions for the past
fortnight, upitvtiothough limited, are not more so than those of
vail for
aotaus one, while the inquiry then stated to pre-
pollaras, j * qualitiesne of low grey goods, such as Mada-
tinues, and all
are
and 40-inch shirting', still con-
fair inquiry exiartne scarce. In bleached goods, too, a
quality, and an
advance
shirting and jacconets of low
former, of from t on previous rates for the
established. "to four annas per piece, has been
FutIGHTs.-0 wing to the few arrivals since the date
of our last report, added to the desire manifested by
native holders to ship cotton the Government ad- I
pool gradual] i use from 41. ss. to
vance, freights for Liver
were entered into j
4,/. 12s. 6d., at which rate eng'aae
previous to the arrival of the igastirireant'al
Cottonsl Ihiiirket in
accounts received or the The favourable
caused a further impetus, and England 1
London we quote 41. 155.;. and China Rsa.bleenpaid For 1
which rate engagements have been made. 9 per Candy, at I
EXCHANGES.—Owing to the scarcity of m
,v
advance has taken place, and Batik paper at s' " ' ~n
•sight ilas been newottated at is. 100. to Is. 1-01itirn..Zs'e
tor privaa lit shipping documents, Is. ; 1
1,. i IV. may be considered the rate. On Calcutta,
Bank or Bengal Poet Bills have been negotiated at
sight Back paper is Its. par;
our quotation for 30 days'
On China, for 60 days' sight Rs. 206 per 100 dollars. -. j
NIONEr MARKET.—Bank Stocks continue low, and a
further decline has taken place in some instances, as will
be seen from our quotations. Government Securities,
on the other hand, have advanced somewhat, their cheap-
ness having induced the Shroffs to buy to some extent
for the purpose of remitting to Calcutta.

CALCUTTA. •
(From tke Calcutta Star of March 7.)
Our budget is rather fuller than it has been for