The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN,

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.
(From the Times.)

There has been an insurrection in Cashmere.
Gholab Singh is collecting an army for its suppres-
sion, and his success is considered certain.
The English officers who were reported to have
been murdered during the disturbance were really
only imprisoned, and have now returned in safety in
the Punjaub.
The Governor-General has required the Nizatn to
give up temporarily to the management of the Resi•
dent, territory worth 360,0001. per annum, to be re-
tained till his debt is liquidated. The Resident is
empowered to take military occupation of the districts
under requisition, unless they are peaceably given up
before the 15th of July.
The Wheel-tex Commission at Bombay has re-
sulted in the dismissal of several native officials.
The Chinese insurrection against the Tartar dynasty
continues to gain strength.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Reynard and some
other vessels have been totally wrecked, but without
loss of life.
The crew of the ship Larpent, wrecked on the
coast of Formosa, have, with the exception of three
that escaped, been all murdered by the piratical
natives.
The following is the letter of our correspondent,
dated Bombay, July 26 :
" The rumours (noticed in my last dispatch) of
an insurrection in Cashmere having proved fatal to
Gholab Singh and some British officers travelling
in his dominions, have fortunately turned out in-
correct, though not wholly without foundation.
It appears that some misunderstanding having
arisen between Gholab Singh and his highland
subjects, he foolishly attempted to coerce them with
a force inadequate to the purpose, and consequently
got well beaten. The officers reported to have been
murdered have returned to the Punjaub in safety ;
they were actually imprisoned for some time, though,
probably without any hostile motive. By the last
accounts Gholab was assembling an army, which was
to march on the 20th of July, for the purpose of
crushing the insurrection; his success was considered
certain. The rumours of Gholab Singh's death
affected the price of Government securities at Ca
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cutta. Thu; is little doubt that the consequences of
such an event would necessitate the annexation of his

dominions.

" The Nizam has been allowed another reprieve.
General Fraser received, on the 20th of June, a
dispatch from the Governor-General, demanding hat
the Nizsm should give up to the management of

he Resident, territory yielding a revenue of 36

lacs a year, to be held by him till the debt to the
Company be discharged, and should besides make
arrangements satisfactory to the Resident for the lu-
ture regular payment of the contingent, and appoint
a competent Minister. The language of the letter, in
adverting to the state of the Nizam's dominions, is
described as being exceedingly severe. On the 21st
the Resident communicated this dispatch to the
Nizam and requested an audience on the 24th,
but the Nizam succeeded in getting a later day,
the Ist of July, fixed for the interview. On
the 28th he appointed Sooraj 00l Moolk Minis-
ter. His project is to avoid the cession of terri-
tory by paying the Company's Government
annually in cash, until the debt is discharged, a sum
equivalent to the revenue of the territory proposed
to be sequestrated. The Nizam, it is said, if he
cannot pay the money, will passively resist ceding
territory. By the Governor-General's dispatch time
was given him to the 15th of July, when, in case of
his continuing refractory, the Resident is empowered
to take military occupation of the districts under
requisition. It is reported that, in pursuance with
his project, Sooraj 00l Moolk has offered the Resident
18 lacs down, and asked for four or five months' more
time for enabling him to make arrangements for se-
curing the payment of the remainder. In any case it
is probable that territory will be taken adequate to
the future regular payment of the contingent.
" The measures proposed by Lord Dalhousie will
certainly secure to the Company's Government the
payment of their just debt, but it is equally certain
that the separation of territory, and consequently of
revenue, will tend to accelerate to the ruin of the
State, to give permanency and increase to every
species of misery, and to exaggerate every disorder
that now prevails. It would be otherwise if the whole
country were taken under our temporary manage-
ment ; we should effect the good which the Nizam's
Government has no material for effecting. Nothing
short of putting his whole dominions in the hands of

trustees' can arrest the present rapidly increasing
deterioration of the country, both as regards its pro-
ductiveness and the character of its inhabitants.

" Letters just received from Hyderabad state that
General Fraser had at last made up his mind regard-
ing Sooraj 00l Moolk's overtures for the payment of
the debt, and positively declined to accept his terms.
It is said that he would have gone beyond his discre-
tionary power had he accepted them, and it is certain
that Sooraj 00l Moolk's measures would have been
ruinous to the Nizam's Government, and subversive
of the general policy of the Governor-General, as laid
down is his letter.

" Sickness to an unusual extent prevails amongst
the troops quartered at the plain stations of the Pun-
jaub and Bengal.
"Much interest is felt in the senior Presidency
regarding the Adjutant-General's intention to intro-
duce messes throughout the Bengal army and to
render subscription to them compulsory on all.
" In Bombay the monsoon rains continue unusually
heavy. Though only half the season has elapsed
nearly the average quantity has already fallen. The
Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and nearly all the
heads of departments,' with the exception of the
Judges of the Supreme Court, are ruralising in the
Deccan. A very heavy criminal sessions terminated
on the 16th inst., one of the results of which was the
execution for murder on the 22d inst. of a low caste
palenkeen-bearer. Dorabjee Hormusj a, late ledger-
keeper, and Lall-Doss IVittall-Doss, late under
cashier in the Oriental Bank, were convicted of
having stolen Bombay Bank notes of the value of
95,900 rupees from the Oriental Bank, and sentenced
to seven years' tranaportatiun each. The former was
also found guilty of forgery, and sentenced to 14
years transportation.
" Mr. E. F. Danvers, the Second Magistrate of
Police in Bombay, has been suspended from office as
one of the results of the report of the commission that
sat lately in Bombay to investigate the frauds in the
wheel-tax department. Several native officials have
been dismissed from public employ on the same
ground., it is said that it is not at all unlikely that
one or two of the parties employed under the Super-
intendent of Police may be arraigned on a criminal
indictment before the Supreme Court for the promi-
nent part they played in the mismanagement of the
Wheel-tax funds.

" The sudden death by cholera of Mr. H. Cormack
and of Mr. W. C. Le Geyt has cast a gloom over the
community. Both gentlemen were partners in one
of the principal mercantile houses in Bombay, that
of Leckie and Co., and, though they were at the
time ninety miles apart, the former being at Poonah
and the latter at Bombay, they were both seized by
the same disease on the same °night, and both were
dead before sunrise.
" The new Small Cause Court has not yet come
into operation at Bombay. The pay of its senior
judge, who was to be a barrister, had been fixed at
only 1,200 rupees per mensem, and no member of
the Bombay bar could be found to give up his prac-
tice for so small a consideration. The barrister to
whom it was first offered stated that he could not accept
it under 2,000 rupees per mensem. The matter has
been referred to Calcutta, and it is probable that the
remuneration of the chief judge will be raised to
1,500 rupees per month, at which rate it is understood
that another barrister, Mr. W. Crawford, is willing
to accept it. It is rumoured
is that the shrievalty as at
present existing is to be abolished, and that a subdi-
vision of its duties to take place, the present
Deputy Sheriff being appointed permanent Sheriff
as regards the service of all processes, &c., connected
with the Supreme Court, while the superintendency
of the gaols is to be attached to the office of the
junior magistrate of police, with au increase of pay,
which will render his allowance about equal to those
of the second magistrate.
" The following is the latest from Hong-Kong on
the subject of the Chinese insurrection : The
Tartar Prime Minister, Sai-shang-ha, whose depar-
ture from the capital for the seat of war was men-
tioned in our last monthly summary, has halted on
the borders of the Hunan province (the one adjoining
Kwang- si), where he tells his lord and master that
he finds himself surrounded by rebels to sovereign
authority, whom it is necessary to put down before
proceeding further. Tah-tung-ha is said to be sick.
Of the other commissioner we hear nothing. Wu-
lantair, Lieutenant-General of Tartar troops at
Canton, left his garrison about a fortnight ago with
the intention of coalescing with the commissioners.
" The pretender Emperor is reported to be at pre-
sent stopping at Sin-chau, a departmental city of
Kwang si, having a water communication with Can-
ton, whence it is distant about 200 miles. In a letter
from one of his followers we find it stated that Teem-
teh is himself at the head of the rebel forces, whom
he led to victory in the middle term of the third
month of the present year,' (about two months ago,)
whenlo,ooo of the Government troops were destroyed,
being hemmed in a narrow pathway through a wood
in a mountain pass.' Having been duly proclaimed
Emperor, Teen-teh dates the commencement of his
reign from the month of September of last year, and
has publialed ;Au ulinauae, which his emissaries are

LONDON,

busy distributing in various parts of the empire. In
Kiang- si, the province between Hunan and Fukien,
we hear that great demonstrations are made in his
favour. •
" The late severe weather has occasioned, much
damage to the shipping i❑ the China seas. Her
Majesty's ship Salamander has been severely injured
on her passage to Amoy. Two merchant ships have
been dismasted. The brig Velocipede and her
Majesty's steam sloop Reynard (which had gone to
her assistance) have been totally lost on the Pretas
shoals. The United States sloop of war Marion got
on shore on the coast of Formosa, and the Portuguee
corvette Dom Jono 11., and the Spanish frigate Viva
de l3ilboa, have both sustained damages from stress of
weather. A brig is reported to have been wrecked on the
Lima island, close to Hong-Kong, and all hands
murdered. While the American barque Antelope was
recently lying becalmed off the Island of Formosa
three English sailors managed to escape to her; they
turned out to be the sole survivors of the crew of
the barque Larpent, of Liverpool, lost off the coast of
Formosa on the 12th of September. The remainder
of the crew were murdered by the natives, without
the slightest provocation. From accounts given by
the shipwrecked men, it is considered probable that
the crews of the American barque Coquet and
British barque Kelpie shared the same fate. On this
subject the China Mail remarks that—

"‘ The extermination of every member of the
bloodthirsty cla❑ inhabiting the southern promontory
of Formosa would be but an act of justifiable yen•.
geance ; but in the face of the sickening feeling of
false humanity pervading a great number of our
senators at home, there is no prospect of any action
of this kind. * * * The day of retribution will
eventually come, And Gully, and the crews of the
Ann, the Nerbudda, and the Larpent, numbering
upwards of 200 souls, who have been brutally mas-
sacred in cold blood on those inhospitable shores,
must then be fearfully avenged.'
" The intelligence conveyed by every mail from
China affords sufficient proof that what has been done
towards the suppression of piracy in the Eastern
seas bears a very small proportion to what there still
remains to do in that particular. The complete ex-
termination of these wretches is a duty which, from
our position in Eastern commerce, we owe to civili-
zation, and if we do not perform it the Americans
shortly will. To those really acquainted with the
state of the Eastern Archipelago, nothing, in this age
of wonders, appears more extraordinary than the
unaccountable hallucinations laboured under by a
section in England who persist in ignoring the preva-
lence of piracy in the Eastern seas, notwithstanding
the direct and repeated evidence to the contrary
afforded once a month by the China mails."

BOMBAY COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Gazelle, July 25.)
Import Market—This market is considered closed at
present, the season not admitting conveniently of com-
munication with distant marts. What business there is
, consequently is either to supply local wants, or on spe-
culation for a rise in price. The fall of rain in and
around Bombay has been abundant and seasonable, and
the reports, so far, from the interior are encouraging for
the crops.
Metals—Our quotations for copper sheathing, bar
iron, steel and pig lead, are all rather improved. No sales
have been specially reported to us; but we hear of 500
cwt. of copper sheathing having been sold at 44ir. to
45r. per cwt. Our quotations generally are nominal.
Cotton Manufactures—There have been some con-
siderable transactions in these during the past month on
speculation. Grey Madapollams have been sold largely
to arrive—say 30,000 to 40,000 pieces from it. 14a. to
2r. 4a per piece. Grey Shirtings, 40 inches by 38 yards,
15,000 pieces, at 3r. 6a. to sr. Sa. T. Cloths, say 10,000
to 15,000 pieces, at 2r. Ba. to 3r. 4a. White Shirtings,
5,000 to 7,000 pieces at 3r. 10a. to 4r. 4a. Goozeratee
Chintzes, 4,000 pieces at 2r. 2a. to 2r. 3a. In other
cotton manufactured imports we do not hear of anything
doing. Subjoined is our usual list of sales reported from '
the 24th ult. to the 23d inst:—
Grey and Bleached Goods.
500 G. T. cloth ... 24 yds. 31 in. ...Rs.3 8 0
375 Ditto 24 yds. 30 in. ... 2 7 0
96 Grey drill ... 30 yds. 30 in. ... 5 6 0
1000 Ditto T. cloth... 24 yds. 30 in. 2 7 0
200 Swiss lappets ... 10 yds. 5-4 in. 2 5 0
150 Cold. allover lappets 10 yds. 5.4 in. ... 1 1 0
150 Gauze lappets ... ..• 213 0
Book Muains, Doriahs, Cambrics, &c.
400 Cold Sprigs ... 10 yds. 5-4 in. „113 0
Dyed, Printed, and Fancy Goods.
3,010 T. Red Scarfs ... 10 yds. 40 in. „ 2 5 0
200 Cold. Muslin . . 10 yds. 40 in. „ 1 9 0
1,000 T. Red Mulls ... 20 yds. 6 4 in. „ 5 9 0
3,012 dozens T. R. Handkerchiefs rs. 2 2 0 per doz.
1, 084 Ditto rs. 2 0 0 per doz.
Woollens—No sales reported, nor is there any de-
mand as yet.
Yarns—No. 20 Water has been in a little request.
Prices, except of No. 40 Water, are nearly as before,
30s. and 40s. Mule are lower also. Subjoined is a note
of all the sales of which we have heard:-
30,0001 b. water twist ... No. 20 to 7i as per lb.
5,0001 b. ditto ... No. 30 „ 8 11-61 „
3,0001 b. ditto ... No. 30 „
3,0001 b. ormage ... No. 40 ~ 11
4,0001 b. ••• ... No. 30-50 11A-
-6,0001b. ••• ... No. 40 „ 111
2,4001 b. T. red yarn ... No. 28
No. 40 „ it.
No. 50
Cochineal is still at market greatly in excess of the
demand. There has been a sale of a quantity (damaged)
at Ir. Sta. per lb., but the best is not worth more than lr.
I la. at present.
Saffron at present is in little demand, but on the
opening of the season is likely to be in good request.
Beer—Sales of Allsopp are making at from 65r. to
70r. per hhd., but the quantity for salo is limited, there
not having been any fresh sugplies since our last until a
couple of days ago, when 2001 hhds. arrived, but which
are not yet landed. But little of Bass remains on hand
unsold, and as only about 300 hhds. more are expected
of the last October brew, the price has been raised to
65r. wholesale, and 70r. retail, and about 70 hogsheads
have been sold at these rates. In other brands we hear
of Hodgson selling at 41r., and Thorn at 35r. per
hogshead.
Sundries-50 cwt. white lead, at 9r. per cwt.; 4 cases
Limata, at 2r. per corge; 1,000 reams foolscap, at hr.
Sa. per ream.

EXPORT MARKET.
Cotton has improved slightly in value since our last.
The demand for the English market is, however, quite
slack at present; and most of the purchases lately made
are for the China market.

Opium—The Achilles steamer from Hong-Kong 23d
June reached this on the 19th inst., and brought ad-
vices of an advance in price of about 210 dolls. per chest
on Malwa opium. The latest dates from Shanghai are
to the 7th of June, when Malwa was quoted 723 dolls.
per chest. It is reported sales had been made as high as
725 dolls. Up to the 20th of May there had been large
sales and deliveries at Woosung, prices 510 dolls, to 525
dolls., but about the 26th of May a sudden reaction took
place, and prices in the course of a fortnight had risen
to above quotations of 720 dolls. to 725 dolls. The rise
was quite unlooked for, and the cause is generally be-
lieved to be the disturbed state of some of the districts in
the interior, which enables the dealers to pass the opium
to the large cities, where it is consumed without being
subjected to the irregular and heavy fees exacted by the
Chinese mandarins and Customs officials.
The Sassoon Family, from this, with 1,075 chests, was
known to be close to Woosung on the 7th of June, and
the Bride, from this on the 16th of June, with 1,056
chests, might give possibly some check to the upward
tendency of prices; but the stock of Malwa at Woosung
on the 7th of June was much reduced, it only amounting
to about 400 chests.
The price in this market has risen at once from
1,115 r. to 1,210 r. to 1,230 r., and will most likely very
shortly be above 5,300 r. The stock here is 4,627 chests.
Passes have been taken out this season for 21,137 chests
against 15,881 to the same period in 1850. The imports
are to Bombay, 20,967 chests against 15,699 to same
period in 1850.
The schooner Arienis is loading for Woosung direct,
and will take about 607 chests, to be laden by three
firms. The Sir Herbert Compton and the Sidney will
probably be laid on for the same destination.
Freights—These have again declined, and we quote
rates at present as nominal, to London and Liverpool
say 21. ss. to 21. 10s. per ton. To Liverpool, however,
they have in the interim been as low as 30s. To China
something is doing at, say 13r. to 15r. per candy.
Money Market and Exchange—Money continues easy
as usual at this season of the year, and public securities
and stocks in general are improving in value. Since our
last the Bank of Bombay has declared a dividend from
the profits of its last half-year's business at the rate of
6} per cent. per annum. The Commercial Bank, 7 per
cent. We quote exchange on London, at six months
after sight, 2s. Old. to 2s. Oil per rupee; at 30 days'
sight, ls. Below are more detailed quotations:_
EXCHANGE.
London, 6 months' sight, 2s. od. per rupee.
Bank Rates, 2s. 01
Ditto, 3 months' sight, ls.
Ditto, 2 months' sight, ls.
Ditto, 1 month's sight, Is. I Id.
Calcutta, at 60 days' 1001 per cent.
Ditto, at 30 days' 1004
Ditto, sight 1011
Madras, 30 days' Par.
Ditto, sight 10011
China, 60 days' 218
BANK AND OTHER.SHARES,
Bombay Bank 1,000, 61 per cent. 21 per cent. prem.
Oriental Bank 500, 7 ditto, 10 ditto dis., sales
Commercial Bank 500, 7 ditto, 11 ditto, ditto.
Agra Bank 5OO, 8 ditto, 1 per cent. prem.
Apollo Press Com 12,500, 1,500 per share, R. 16,000
Cola ba Press Com 7,000, 1,500 par share, R. 16,000
Co!aha Land Com lO,OOO, 420 per share, R. 7,000
Bombay 51,, am
NavigationCouti. 500, none-50 per cent. discount.
Great Ind. Pen.
Railway Com 27r. 4a. 5-25 r.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Five per Cent. Transfer Loan Re. 116 per 100 Siccas.
Five per Cent. Loan, 1825.26 108 „ Noml.
Five per Cent. Loan, 1829.30 1071 Noml.
Five per Cent. Loan, 1841.42 105 to 105 - „
Fouryeur
perper CCeennrt..LLeoaann:
1835-361832-3 9
3
9261 to 93
Four per Cent. Loan, 1842 43 92 to 93

FREIGHTS.
To London ... 21. ss. to 21. 10s. per ton. Nominal.
To Liverpool „. 2/. ss. to 21. 103, per ton. „