The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

THE SUN,

LONIIOM,

N 1) I A.

We have' Ze calved via Marseilles our letters and
papers by tNit overland mail. A telegraphic sum-
mary, via a'rieste, of tho intelligence brought by. this
arrival appeared in our columns a day or two ago.
The following is the letter of our correspondent at
Bombay, dated September 1:
" Ghoiab Sin,gh has succeeded in putting down the
insurgent hill t e ibes in the north of his dominions.
He has commuinicated his succo2s to the English au-
thorities, who have duly con gratuleted him on the
occasion. The report of Dbost Mahomed's death
appears to Irave been without foundation. That
Prince still seams actively engaged in endeavours to
enlarge hi 3 dominions. He has taken acivinitage of
the death of Year Mahomed Khan of Herat (which
took place on the 4th of June) to send his son Hyder
Khan with a large army to invade Herat by the
Bulk-hill route. It is considered likely that the
young Khan will ask for, and probably obtain, the
aid of Persia in repelling the invasion,
" The entire course of the Indus and its tributa-
ries has been visited by heavy rains and unprece-
dented floods ; the latter have swept away some hun-
dreds of villages, and occasioned much destruction of
life and property. In Sinde—generally a rainless
climate—more rain has fallen in the last 20 days
than is supposed to have fallen during the whole of
the 20 years previous. In Kurrachee most of the
barracks and officers' houses were either fallen down
or unsafe, and the troops were living in tents.
" Major-General Batinc, a veteran of 47 years'
standing, commanding the cis-Jhelum division, died
at Lahore on the 21st of July.
" The Commander-in-Chief's camp is to form at
I3uddee on the 3d of November, whence it will pro-
ceed by way of Rupur towards Peshawur. The Go-
aernor-General's camp is to be formed at Umballa on
the 15th of October; his Lordship will then proceed
leisurely by Kalka, Saharunpoor, Deyra Dhoon,
Bareilly, Nainee Tal, and Almorah, and thence
towards Calcutta. It is hoped that in passing be will
find time to visit the King of Oude's dominions,
which are in nearly as disturbed a state as those of
the Nizam. The levelling to the ground of the innu-
merable mud forts dispersed throughout the country
is most urgently to be desired.
" The Hon. Mr. D. Bethune, law commissioner at
Calcutta, is dead. It is supposed that he will be suc-
ceeded by Sir Erskine Perry, Chief Justice of Bom-
bay, should the latter be disposed to accept of the
appointment.
" The Bengal Railway Company have advertised
,`'or tenders for the construction of the second section
of their line, viz., from Pandova to Raneegunge,
which will complete the experimental undertaking
upon which the expenditure of a million sterling was
sanctioned by the Court of Directors. An extended
survey of the country beyond Burdwan is in con-
templation, with the view of settling the question as
to the ultimate direction of the line. The site for the
terminus at Howvah has been decided on. It be-
longed to Captain Oakes, from whom the Company
have purchased it for about 70,000 rupees, and is
situated close to the Howvah Ghent. In Bombay
contracts have been let for the line from Boree-
Bander to a place called Persid Point, on the other
side of the Tannawater. About 10 miles remain to
be contracted for to complete the experimental line
sanctioned by the East India Company. A survey of
the proposed extension lines will be undertaken next
cold season, unless Government withholds its sanction.
"The Nizam's dominions are in their usual state
of anarchy. A body of seine hundreds of Rohillas
have lately been committing depredations near Nun-
droag. A force under Brigadier Mayne has, however,
been sent against them. The Arab mercenaries,
alarmed at the Governor-General's recommendation

for their extradition, are collecting from all quarters
• at Hyderabad, to watch the course of events, mean-
while they are on their good behaviour, and are con-
.
ducting themselves in an unusually orderly manner.
Sooraj-001-Moolk's arrangements for putting off the
rainy day by borrowing money at ruinous terms on
assignments of revenue for the payment of the debt
seem to have been attended with more success than
any of the similar schemes of his predecessors. He has
already lodged with the Resident bills for nearly half
the amount of the debt, and promises to pay the ba-
lance by October. The diversion of so large a sum
from the usual purposes of Government can only have
the effect of still further crippling the Nizem's
finances, and commensurately increasing every species
of disorder to which their present disorganized state
has given rise.
"Ensign Scott, of the 48th Madras Native In-
fantry, has perished, together with about twenty
coolies, by the wreck of the ship Randolph, from Ma-
dras with coolies for the Mauritius.
" During the past month considerable excitement
has prevailed throughout the Bombay Presidency
regarding the contemplated dispatch of an expedi-
tionary force to tha Red Sea, for the purpose of chas-
tising the Arabian tribes, who are openly protecting
the murderers of Captein Milne and other British
subjects. Orders had been received from the Court
of Directors to demand and, if necessary, to enforce
the surrender 'of the murderers, who had left the ter-
ritories of their sovereigns, the Sultans of Laledge
and other chiefs of the Abdallee, and had taken re-
fuge with Coe more distant Jouthelee tribe, v. hick had
openly protected them. At first negotiations ap-
peared to hold out no chance of success, and the aspect
of affairs seemed very warlike. Troops were warned
for service, and the Governor and the Commander-
in-Chief, at the height of the Poona seesoa, left the
Decc.an for Boinbay, where they still remain ; but it
has now been decided in any case to do nothing till
the season epees.
" By the last advices from Aden the political agent
was still engaged in pursuing his negotiations with
the tribes iu the interior, and his prospects of success
were more promising than before. The great object
in view is to persuade the chiefs of the Jouthelee to
deliver up the murderer of Captain Milne, who has
taken refuge with that tribe, and been openly and
avowedly protected in their territory, to the chiefs of
the Abdailee, his lawful sovereign, in order that jus-
tice may be done upon him according to his own laws.
With this demand the Jouthelee has declared himself
willing to comply, but the delivering up of a guest is
so repugnant to Arab principles, that direct compli-
ance is hardly to be expected. More probably the
chiefs will artfully place the assassin within the reach
of the Abdallee, and if the latter fail to take advan-
tage of the opportunity to seize the culprit, then the
former will avow himself free from the responsibility,
and the onus will be shifted to the other.
" In this state of affairs, the Government cannot
finally determine on its course. If the Jouthelee chief
assumes an hostile attitude, an expeditionary force
will be immediately organised and transported to
Arabia as soon as the season will permit, but if the
Jouthelee be exonerated from participation in the
tw)rietitnecttihoen ofA surroundhave only
Aden, to dealand
their chief, the Sultan of Laledge, then reinforcements
btidles.tiesseastsriinb'eann,dhicwhe
to the garrison only will be required, and our opera-
tions will be vastly simplified.
" In the event of Captain Hayilies' negotiations
successful, justice will be done upon the mur-
derers of Captain Lillie and of the European seamen,
and the whole matter will be brought to a peaceful
termination.
" Errors to a considerable amount have been disco-
vered in the accounts of the Bengal Medical Fund
with Government. Similar errors in the books of the
Government Savings. bank at Bombay have occasioned
the dismissal of nearly all its employes. Frauds to the
extent of 70,0001. (nearly seven Ines of rupees) have
been discovered in the opium agent's department at
Bombay, and there are numerous similar abuses in
other departments. Discoveries of this nature are
becoming painfully frequent. The evil is in most
cases due to the dishonesty of subordinates only. I
am aware of no case in which the head of an office
has ever been suspected of anything worse than a
want of efficient supervision, and in many cases such
absence of effectual supervision is rather the fault of
the system than of the individual. The frequent
changes of office incidental to a seniority system of
promotion, in which a single vacancy may change
the heads of half-a-dozen offices just when those who
held them were becoming acquainted with their
duties ; the complicated method in which the accounts
of most departments have been hitherto kept, assisted
in some measure perhaps by the relaxing effect of the
climate on European constitutions, all conduce to
place the great, majority of Anglo-India officials in
the hands of the native or uncovenanted assistant, who '
is a fixture at the heed of their office establishment
to an extent unprecedented in England and most de-
trimental to the interests of the public service. It is
a common remark, which probably would not have
heen applicable to the Indian service forty years ago,
that while the English gentlemen at the heads of
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CALCUTTA.
(From the Enyli+hman of August 19.)
Since our issue of 10,,t mail our export market has
exhibited but little change, business continuing to be
carried on, without spirit, to a moderate extent, and
with that reserve which the unsatisfactory complexion
of mercantile home affairs, couplal with the increasing
stocks of some leading staple in our bazaar, fully jus-
tify; and although we cannot report any general decline
in prices, we have to state that the readiness to meet
offers on the most moderate previous value imparts to
them a want of buoyancy verging on a downward ten-
dency.
The import naarliet has, during the last week, been in
a wry unsatisfactory state, owing to the occurrence of
some failures among native dealers of repute. These
unfortunate mishaps have created a feeling of consider-