The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received from Marseilles dispatches in
anticipation of the mail which left Bombay on the
17th ult. The intelligence they contain has been in
great measure supplied by the telegraphic dispatch
sent by way of Trieste, and published in The Sun of
Monday last.

The Governor-General was expected at Attock on
the 4th of March, and at Peshawur by the Bth or 9th.
His arrival was looked for at the frontier with hopes
that he will be able to devise measures for rendering
life and property more secure there than they are at
present. Outrages were almost daily committed by the
hill robbers even within musket-shot of the cantonment
of Peshawur. On the 19th of February Captain F.
Grantham of her Majesty's 98th Regiment, was set
upon and severely wounded by five hill robbers
(supposed to be Affreedees), while riding out at
Peshawur with a young lady, whose horse, as well
as his own, was carried off by the robbers. The
lady found her way back to the cantonments, when
a litter and some native troopers were dispatched
for Captain Grantham, who had been left for dead.
Captain Grantham was wounded in seven places,
and very severely, but hopes were entertained of his
recovery. An officer's servant was shot dead while
entering the city gate on the night of the 22d. A
scoundrel who was challenged by a sentry of the
Guide Corps fired on him, but was immediately cap-
tured, together with a trumpet he had stolen from the
Artillery, and nightly alarms are said to occur from
the lawless villains lurking about, who all carry fire-
arms and use them without scruple. At Kohat all
was quiet, though the tribes in the neighbourhood
were still quarrelling among themselves about the
black mail we propose to give for keeping the pass
open. Beyond Kohat, towards Bunnoo, 300 Wuz-
zarees have had a skirmish with the rear-guard of
Walsh's 2d Punjaub Regiment, the baggage of which
they in vain tried to capture. The mode of dealing
with these tribes has yet to be devised. It does not
appear that they are at present actuated by any hos-
tile motives beyond the mere love of plunder. Regular
military operations against them are clearly ineffec-
tual, but it was thought that the head man in each
village might be made answerable for outrages
committed within its boundaries, and that a well-
organised patrol of irregular horse, occupying
fortified posts at proper intervals among the passes,
and supported by the troops at Kohat, Peshawur, and
Attock, might, if organized on the footing of a police,
prove successful in checking their depredations. It
would be difficult to organize such a force without
the co-operation of Dost Mahomed ' • but negotiations
were, it is said, going on between the latter and Lord
Dalhousie, which will, it is hoped, result in the re-
establishment of amicable relations between the Aff-
gahns and the British Government. Lord Dalhousie
had called on Dhost Mahomed to deliver up to the
British authorities Sultan Mahomed Khan, the trea-
cherous Affghan who betrayed Colonel Lawrence and
his family into the hands of Chuttur Singh, at the
commencement of the late campaign, and good hopes
were entertained of the Governor-General's demands
being acceeded to.

Lord Dalhousie was expected at Simla about the
middle of May. During his tour he had made per-
manent the various stations in the Punjaub, and the
necessary buildings are to be erected at once.
Sir Dudley Hill, commanding the Sirhind division
of the Bengal army, died of apoplexy at Umballa on
the 26th of February, and Captain J. D. Cunningham,
author of " The History of the Seikhs," on the 28th,
at the same station.
Sir W. Gomm arrived at Delhi on the 4th of
March. The Indian Government have decided on
nominating an officer to conduct the prosecution of
Jotee Penshand. The trial, which is again postponed,
will be a monster one—the list of witnesses consider-
ably exceeding 200, and including a large number of
officers of high standing scattered over the whole ex-
tent of India.

Nothing farther has transpired regarding the
North-Western Bank frauds, but an' order prohibit-
ing military officers from taking any share whatever
in the management of joint-stock companies is said to
be about to be promulgated by order of the Court of
Directors.

From Nepaul there are accounts of Jung Baha-
dore's having narrowly escaped from a plot laid by
some of his relations and rivals in the Durbar for
his assassination. The Nizam lately appointed an
obscure person, one Gunneesh Row, as Minister, but
the Resident having objected to the nomination on
the score of his incompetency the appointment was
cancelled.

The ship Buckinghamshire- has been burnt at
Calcutta, it is supposed by her Lascar crew.
Peci Ibrahim Sahib Bahadur, the British agent at
Bahawutpore, where he did good service during the
Moultan campaign, is now at Bombay, on his way to
Europe and the Great Exhibition, and the Peninsular
and Oriental Company have advertised an additional
steamboat for the conveyance of those proceeding from
India to England on that occasion.

CHINA.
The Advices from China are to the 27th of
February. The following is a letter, from Hong-
Kong, dated Feb. 27
The mail-steamer arrived here on the morning of
the 15th, bringing us dates_from England to the 24th of
December..
"Her Majesty's ship Enterprise, Captain Collinson,
ono of the vessels which left England in January, 1849,
in search of Sir John Franklin, arrived here on the 15th
instant. She made the ice in June last, but quitted in
August. She sails from this again early in April for
the Polar Seas. The Investigator was seen on the 4th of
August by her Majesty's sloop Plover westward of Point
Barrow.

" The noted pirate Chin'APoo, who was the chief in-
stigator of, and actor in, the murder in February, 1849,
on this island of Lieutenant da Costa, of the Royal En-
gineers, and Lieutenant Dwyer, of the Ceylon Rifles, and
for whose detection a reward of 1001. was offered, was
brought on board the Phlegethen steamer, lying off the
factories at Canton, and arrived here on the 16th. He
has been sufficiently identified, and is now in goal,
awaiting his trial next month.
" Pirates still abound in the neighbourhood, interfer-
ing greatly with the native trade.
" On the 22d Major-General Stavely, under warrant
from Prince Albert, invested his Excellency Governor
Bonham as Knight Commander of the Most Hon. Order
of the Bath.
" Major-General Stavely, Commander of the Forces,
leaves by this steamer for Bombay, to assume the im-
portant command which has been assigned to him in that
presidency. "
Since the Chinese holidays
there has been little ac-
tivity in import business either at Canton or Shanghai.
" Our advices from the latter place are not later than
to the 14th of February. A vessel that was to have left
on the 20th inst., with the Shanghai mail, has not
arrived.

" In both places there has been more demand for black
tea, and an advance of 1 to 1i taels has been paid. There
is at present less inquiry. The tots' export from China,
iof all descriptions to date, s 52,376,0001 h, against
47,100,0001 b. last year.
" Of silk from China the total is 16,300 bales, against
12,000 the previous year.
" Freights still continue very low. First class Ame-
rican vessels are loading for Engliad at 21. ss. Many
fast sailing American vessels are expected this season,
and unless British shipbuilders arouse and exert them-
selves, and produce vessels equal to compete with them,
the carrying trado will in a great measure fall into the
hands of the Americans. Her Majesty's ship Cleopatra
sailed to-day for Manilla.
" In Harbour--Her Majesty's screw-sloop Reynard;
her Majesty's ship Enterprise, and the surveying-vessel
Royalist repairing.
" Her Majesty's brig Pilot is at WhmPoa; the steamer
Phlegetbon, at Canton; her Majesty's brig Serpent, at
Amoy; and her Majesty's brig Contest, at Shanhai.
‘4 Our latest dates are—from England, Dec. 24;
United States, Dec. 13; Calcutta, Jan. 17; Bombay,
Jan. 18; Singapore, Feb. 5 ; Sydney, Dec. 5 ; and
Manilla, Feb. 11."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CANTON MARKET REPORT.
lIONG-KONG, FEB. 26.—Since the Chinese holidays
the transactions in our import market have been on a
limited scale, but we look shortly for more activity.
Cotton—The business dono in this article during the
month has been small. The quotations are, for Bom-
bay, 8.8 tads to 9.5 taels; Bengal, 9 tools to 9.5 taels;
Madras, 9.2 tools to 9.8 taels. About 9,000 bales have
changed hands. Stock about 40,500 bales against 36,000
bales at the same period 1850.
Cotton Yarn—Sales have been very moderate, and
prices show little alteration on last month. Nos. 16-24,
29 dolls. to ; Nos. 28-32, 32 dolls. to 34 dolls.; Nos.
38.42, 34 dolls. to 374 dolls.
Shirtings—O wing to large sales by the Chinese,
prices have declined, but importers are firm. Grays are
quoted, 2 dolls. 25c. to 3 dolls.; whites, 2 dolls, to 3 dolls.
10c.

Woollens—Spanish stripes quoted 90c, to 1 doll.; long
ells, about 5,000 pieces have been sold; assorted quoted,
7 dolls. to 7 dolls. 30c.; scarlet, 7 dolls. 50c.
Iron—Quotatio❑s aro for rod, 2 dolls. 35c. to 2 dolls.
50c.; bar, 1 doll. 90c. to 2 dolls. 10c.; round, 2 dolls. 70c.
to 4 dolls. 20c.; hoop, 2 dolls. 60c. to 2 dolls, 70c.
Tin Plates-9 dolls. to 9 dolls. 20c.
Cochineal-90 dolls, to 115 dolls.
Turkey Opium has declined to 330 dolls.