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who double their income by continuing the war.
FOR WHAT ARE WU NOW FIGHTING ?
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TICALLY, thow2h not OSTENSIBLY, the parties to this tread-. If it is
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dered—and that distress is to be cruelly inflicted on all—can we hope
ior the sympathy of the world or the co-operation of the nations and
people of Europe?

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

(Front the Overland Jombay Times, Dec. 17.)
SUMMARY.—The Sonthal insurrection seems now
over, the last of the insurgents in the field have
been surrounded, and Kanoo, the only leader of
note yet remaining amongst them, has been cap-
tured. The troops, it is supposed, will be suffered
to return to quarters, the police being considered
sufficient from henceforth to maintain the peace.
The latest operations against them are of some inte-
rest, as being more decided and vigorous than most
of those dingpr4ce ;the..m. .04 the 20th of November
a body. of troope.were,deaketuhed to Roxfulungal,,
and though none were fours at this particular poin+-.,
their track was discovered by men sent up in the
trees. The troops pushed on and found themselves
all at once, to their surprise, in the centre of a great
encampment, with the cooking pots still on the fire,
and which had not been abandoned for above ten
minutes. The insurgents, to the amount of 1,500,
were scattered in parties of from 200 to 300 in the
brushwood all around, over a space of four or five
square miles in extent. The troops at length came
in contact with them, plunged into a tremendous
bamboo jungle, and drove the Sonthals before them.
They finished by burning from 20 to 25 villages,
and by showing the enemy that none of their fast-
nesses were impenetrable. On the 30th deta
ments were sent out by General Lloyd, if possible,
to capture the remaining insurgents, and in this
they were entirely successful, Ensign Allen having
arrived the following day with all the most impor-
tant prisoners in charge, Kanoo included.
We have since our last had uo disturbances of
any kind in any part of India. An expedition is
said to be in preparation against the robber chief
S‘tadut Khan, whose people still threw en to mo-
lest us.
A temporary tranquillity reigns in Oude, under
the fear on both sides that an uproar will be the
signal for coercion. The people of India at large
experience no such repugnance as is supposed to
the extinction cf indigenous administrations, from
the maintenance of which the majority suffer so'
fearfully ; but the minority, who, having the purse-
strings in their hands, can command the services of
mercenaries, whether with sword or pen, manage
to create or maintain the cry of injustice while
their victims are condemned to suffer in silence.
It is a great mistake to imagine casual outbreaks,
amongst the Mahomedan population, such as have
of late occurred at Lucknow, at Bolarum, and in
Malabar, the result of any concerted arrangement,
generalor
any
sympathy among the wrong-doers, or any
sentiment of religion common to them all.
Each of these can be traced to distinct local causes.
having not the slightest connection with or bearing
on each other. There is no class of the native com-
munity, whether Hindoo or Mahomedan, that feels
excited or affected by a common hope or common
grievance, that has the slightest sympathy or con-
cert with each other, or that need occasion the
smallest alarm of any extensive outbreak or gene-
ral
ingon any ground whatever. A country a
millionris
and a quarter of miles in area, occupied by
200,000,000 of people, must always require a vast
military force to keep it in order ; the most power-
ful weapons we can employ for the maintenance of
peace being good and wise measures of administra-
tion ; that justice and kindly consideration which
shows the evil-disposed that they have little
hopepeaittl escaping with impunity, convinces the
e that they are better under the Eng-
lish than under any other dominion, and that
the hardships or injuries they may occasionally
sustain are rarely the result of neglect, never of in-
tention. While every care should be bestowed in
keeping our army in the highest state of efficiency,
in case unhappily its services should be called upon,
it should be held a matter of paramount considera-
tion to endeavour to avoid requiring to call for it
at all. States as well as individuals should at all
times remember that by far the strongest chains we
before which those of the despot are as
The Rajpoot state of Oodeypore, one of the oldest
ccaolabwfoerbgse: are the bonds of affection.
and best governed in India, has been of late
threatened with civil war, in consequence of mis-
gs amongst the chiefs themselves, and
portion of them and their sovereign.
reTv4iiri ilscttatradin
About a year ago matters had reached such a
pass that the Rana applied for assistance to the
Political Agent of Meywar, Colonel George
usedLaw-
t he
every
turbulent entr eat
of their danger,
y that could be
r devised La-
wrence, c e
,
to
and all parties of the inexpediency of summoning
foreign aid to interfere with domestic misunder-
standings. The Rana was made aware at the same
time that were his entreaties persisted in they
who
convince
would be complied with, to prevent rebellion, but
only in the case of extremity, and even then with
the utmost reluctance. We had hoped that mat-
ters had by these means been got smoothed over,
when fresh rumours arose of interference, or, as some
will have it, of coercion. The Sovereign and his
chiefs agreed at last to submit their grievances to
English arbitrament, binding themselves to abide
by our decision, whatever that might be. The award
having been communicated to them, the Rana sub-
mitted with the most perfect integrity, but the
chiefs broke their pledge, and now desire that the
British Government should alter their judgment;
Although Sir H. Lawrence, who is supreme in the
Rajpootana States, is the last man to suffer their
independence to be interfered with where it can
be avoided, summoning British aid can in the long
run have but one reeult; Despot uati o eirea at-

garchies, depend so entirely upon a series of happy
accidents, that they can never look for permanence,
and where Oriental chiefs, whether supreme or sub-
ordinate, contrive to make an uproar, or find it
impossible to keep the peace, an authority, humanly
speaking, omnipotent, steps in to compel that un-
attainable by other means. The Rana of Oodeyporo
is considered the most noble of all the Rajpoot
Chiefs, though his income and temporal emolu-
ments have long been inferior to his neighbours of
Jeypore and Joudpore. He is supposed to be de-
scended by the female line from Noushirvan the
Just, Shah of Persia at the birth of the Prophet,
and thus to come of the race of Hussein, son of Ali.
It is therefore his singular fortune to be held in al-
maolisst. equal
H. Lawrence,
Levearwernecneceb,ywitli a
viby
possible,Ala om
of
-
dpreserving the peace, is strengthening the posts in
the neighbourhood, and has recently requested her
Majesty's 83d to be brought up to its strength at
Deese, so that should this demonstration prove, as
Hindoos;s,f
is probable, the means of maintaining the peace, the
close of the administration of Lord Dalhousie will
have witnessed three cold seasons on end without
the occurrence of bloodshed. Oucle might be an-
nexed probably without the loss of a single life, so
as to afford no interruption of this blessed state of
things, so rotten is the administration, so ripe the
people for a change of masters. As the departure
of the Governor-General approaches, the thoughts
of nie.2,„of all classes and creeds, and in all quar-
ters, are being turneci as to bow the profound re-
spect universally entertained for this illustrious
statesman and truly great man may best be
manifested. In Bombay, which boasts of the
most enlightened native population of India,
addresses are already in process of preparation.
The annexation propensities of Lord Dalhousie,
were they such as his enemies at home so unwar-
rantably ascribe to him, would furnish no ground of
objection to him on the part of the Bombay commu-
nity. On no occasion do our natives here ever come
forward either as parties to petitions, memorials,
addresses, or other papers, or as speakers at public
meetings indigenous or mixed, without expressing
their deep and grateful sense of the blessings
experienced by them under the British Government,
and the immeastirable superiority of the existing
administration to any ever before known in India,
the foremost in this matter being the reformers,
who desire to see good made better, and labour
for the removal of those abuses every Englishman
admits. They have lost all patience with the
practices of pretended friends at home, who have
abandoned patriotism for the sake of party, and
whose praise or censure is allotted according as
their objects are the supposed friends or enemies of
the Court of Directors, without regard to truth or
merit. Lord Dalhousie, on this score, has become
an object of attack, and the Bombay Association,
the only body in India who gave a shilling for the
promotion of reform, and who within the space of
a few months sent home 1,0001. to their London
fellow-labourers, will not advance
,a single shilling
to promote the cause of faction, however ready they
may be to contribute to improvement. A singular
circumstance attended the thanksgiving at Bombay
desired by the Governor-General for our successes
in the Crimea. On the 2d of December the day
fixed upon, the Parsees of their own accord met in
the Town-hall to listen to a lecture on the freedom
and blessings of the British Government, contrasted
with the tyranny and oppression of Russia, drawn
up and delivered by one of their countrymen—
Dossabhoy Framjee. The lecture being concluded,
.the service of the day was wound up by the follow-
ing prayer, not only remarkable for its own excel-
lence and appropriateness, but doubly so as ono of
the first over delivered by a layman in public, and
in the ordinary conversational language of the
hearers, the Parsee worship being conducted, and
their sacred books being written, wholly in an un-
known tongue, unintelligible to the worshippers,
and very imperfectly understood by the great body
of the priesthood themselves :--
"0 Almighty God, let Thy shadow always fall where-
ever the British rule exists. Grant it, 0 God, success
in all its undertakings—vanquish by the aid of Thy
powerful hands all its enemies—and grant that its great-
ness may still rise, and its moral effects be spread over
a still greater portion of the world. Receive oar humble
acknowledgments, 0 Lord, for having placed us under
such a btn9ficent rule, and we pray to Thee to preserve
us under it. Grant, 0 Heaven, that the Government
over our head be actuated in ruling over us with still
greater kindness, and its effects be spread still wider.
4,) Almiclay Protector, preserve for ever, Recurs our
,Res and propertie=, as they now are—and grant that
the security may be still more strengthened. Be4ow,
0 Lord, a still more merciful heart to the Queen who
reigns over U 3 We pray to thee, 0 Almighty God, to
bless her armies with successes in the great war in which
they are ii)w engaged, and bring to a speeds, end the
great strife, by granting victory to those who have gone
to shed their blood in the right cause. Grant, 0
gracious God, that we may continue to live, as we now
do, with perfect security to ourselves, under the Govern-
n'; in which we now are, and that we may ever he
impressed with a grateful sense of the advantages which
we enjoy under thi, benign reign.—Amen."
A bill is at. present before the Legislative Council
to enable Hindoo widows to marry without sacri-
ficing their rights, and for legitimatising their
children, who, in the eye of the English law, are
at present considered bastards.
Lord Elphinstone continues his journey through
Guzerat ; lie is expected back a month hence.
We mentioned in our last that the court of
directors had sanctioned the building of a frigate
in Bombay at the cost of some hundred thousand
pounds, and the charge of some 50,000/. annually.
As the only people that wil benefit by this will be
the builders and store contractors,%the Treasury
would have been spared an enormous load, and
the jobbery been scarcely more transparent, had
20,3001., in lieu of profit, been bestowed upon the
gentry in question in the shape of gratuity.
We have just had one of those outrageous dis-
plays on thy part of the Second Judge of the Small
Cause Court of which our Bombay bench seems to
enjoy a monopoly, and which it is to he hoped will
secure its author, Mr. West's, removal from his
post.
Manackjee Cursetjeo has just been appointed
Sheriff of Bombay.
A native has just offered to subscribe 1,5001. to
the School of Industry ; two others have each
offered sites of the value of 5001., and it is expected
that within the next six mouths 5,0001. in all
may be subscribed, the interest of which, conjoined
with the grant made by the Court of Directors
some years ago, will from henceforth place the
establishment on a permanent footing, without
there being any occasion to appeal to the public.
The Government Central Museum is expected to
be ready for the reception of the public on New
Year's-day ;its formal inauguration will be deferred
till the return of Lord Elphinstone, and will pro-
bably take place when the Governor-General is
anaongst us.
Our money market is tighter, and the banks
have raised the rates of interest. Freights have
advanced, but we regret to be enable to report any
improvement in prices in our import market.

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An official account from the t Admiralystat
•
Majesty's ship Royal Albert arrived at Malta oUiithe S
7th of January, all safe.
The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Captai n It.
L. Warren, left beerness on Saturday for the Downs,
to wait Admiralty orders.
The Royal George, 182 guns, screw steam-skip, Capt.
H. J. Codrington, C. 8., having bad her damage to as
chinery and defects repaired, has been put out of the
fitting-basin, Sheerness, to harbour moorings.
The Esk, 21, screw steam-corvette; Capt. T. T. Birch
is progressing rapidly in her refitment, and will shortly
be reported ready for immediate service.
The London, 90, Capt. A. Kuper, from the Mediterra-
nean, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. Sbe is to be
taken to the Devonport dockyard and fitted with all
speed to convey shot and shell to the Baltic, where she
will probably continue as a depot.
All ships preparing at Plymouth for service in the
Baltic are ordered to be ready by the Ist of March.
A considerable number of mechanics, principally Ship-
wrights and shipjoiners, at Sheerness yard, have de-
manded and obtained their discharge, for the purpose of
proceeding up the river Thames for employment at mer.
chant yards. The inducement is the high rate of wages
paid for job and taskwork by private builders compared
with the dockyard rate of prices for similar work.
The non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, Chatham, are under the instruction
of Captain T' s r Care in the use and working of
the electric telegrapn.
Lancaster's elliptical bore rifle has been issued to the
17th, 24th, 25th, and 26th companies of the Royal Sap-
pers and Miners ; the 24th company is the first for ser-
vice, supposed to be the Baltic.
An order has been issued from the War-office to the
military authorities at Chatham that the corps of the
Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners shall ha
furnished with their daily rations from the Commioariat
Department on the home stations, the same as the ca-
valry and line, commencing on the Ist of February.
An additional number of 40 sergeants and 40 prirates
of the Provisional Batalion, Chatham:are to be placed
under Capt. W. NoLt, 83d Regiment, for instruction in
the Enfield rifle practice.
The steam-vessel Avon, from Portsmouth, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday, with seamen and 50 boys, for
the steam-ship Brunswick, 90, Captain Yelverton.
Only 16 of the 100 shipwrights authorised hy. the Ad-
miralty on the sth inst. to be received at the Devonport
dockyard have as yet entered.
The hired sailing transport Bombay, Capt. Flamank,
from the Mediterranean, with 250 cases of muskets, ar-
rived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening. This ship
belongs to Mr. Dunbar ; she was originally employed lsy
the East India Company, and has been constantly occu-
pied in the East since the commencement of the war.
Having taken in ammunition and stores at Sheerness
and Portsmouth, she left Cork in April, 1854, witk the
14th Regiment, which were landed at Malta, and she
then proceeded to do duty at Constantinople as a store-
ship, and became for six weeks the residence of the late
Admiral Boxer. After the troops embarked for the
Crimea the Bombay conveyed sick from Varna to Scu-
tari, returning with healthy soldiers to Varna and back
again with sick to Scutari, where she was retained as a
floating hospital. In April, 1855, she conveyed stores
to Malta, and then took ammunition from Marseilles to
Kamiesh, where she remained until the day after the
fall of Sebastopol, when she went to Bujukdere and em-
barked 1,200 men of the Turkish Contingent, who landed
at St.. Paul'erneax -Kertch ; and the Bombay,--returning
to Scutari, took in shot and shell for Malta, when, there
not being sufficient store room, she discharged them at
Gibraltar, and left on the 26th of December for Eng-
land.

The Pigmy steamer went out of Portsmouth harbour
on Saturday morning with a mooring lump and a party of
rigger., to lift the raft and mortar which sank while
making a trial of the Rev. Mr. Bertlon's invention
on Friday last. The steamer, however, returned with-
out effecting the object, but they found the raft lying
bottom upwards with the mortar underneath. They
also discovered the body of the unfortunate man whe
was drowned, which was so entangled with the gear of
the raft that it could not be raised to the surface of the
water, and it still remains. The poor fellow was-gun-
ner's mate on board the Excellent. His naine is Robert
Charters, aged about 35. He leaves one child and a wife_
near her confinement. Another attempt will be made
to-day to rescue the body of the unfortunate man, and
to raise the rift and mortar. _ _ _

The following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :—Liestenant E. C. Syinono, to the
Charger ; Lieut. T. F. Bullock, to the Badger ; Lieut.
W. 11. Cutning, to the Lark ; F. L. Barrington, Mid-
shipman to the Blenheim ; W. V. E. Reynolds, Sur-
geon to the Tartarus ; John Fisher, Assistant-Surgeon
to the Centurion ; C. L. Cartwright, Assistant. Pa-
ymaster in charge of the Tartarus ; Richard Sainthill,
As.istant-Paymaster to the Duke of Wellington ; John
E. C. Sullivan, Acting Clerk to the Russell; William
Flood, Acting Clerk to the Tartarus.
The steam transport Cleopatra arrived in Cork bar-
hour on Thursday, and was expected to sail on Saturday
morning for the seat of war with the following draughts :
—7l men of the Ist Royals, 37. of the 30th Regiment,
18 of the 331, 20 of the 49th, 66 of the 50th, 20 of the
68th, and 100 of the 82d. They will be accompanied
by the 13 officers, and will be all under the command of
Captain Fitzgt raid, of the 68th.
Major Hickey, commanding the depot of the 69th
Regiment, in Kitt.eany, k' eaaaiead saviors to give
volunteers for the regiments in the Crime pc:witting
all such of his men as wished to proceed to the seat of
war to volunteer. The depot is at present 380 strong,
and so ready were the men to volunteer for active ser-
' vice that it is expected not 100 men will remain behind.
The Trusty, 14 guns, floating-battery, Capt. Frederick
A. Campbell, and the Thunder, fluating-battery, 14
guns, Captain George G. Randolph, are being fitted
with gutta percha speaking tubes leading from aft to
forward on the main gundeck, communicating with the
intended shot-proof look-out house on deck for the offi-
cer in command giving orders for piecing ship in time
of action, and for giving, from any given number of
guns, a concentrated broadside fire. Mr. Wm. Wolfe
Bonney, the inventor of this mode of communication
during action, has recently been engaged in superin-
tending the fitting of similar tubes to all the French
floating-batteries new fitting at the French Royal dock-

yards.
Second-Class-Surgeon Alexander Knox, M.D., sta-
tioned at Chatham, retires on half-pay.
The following is the probable staff of the headivarters
of the Royal Sappers and Miners at Chatham :—Colonel
Henry Sandham, R.E , Director of the establishment ;
Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, Assistant-Adjutant-General ;
Major Hassard, RE., Assistant Director of Field
Works ; Capt. H. D. Scott, R.E., Superintendent of
Survey Instructions ; Capt. Fitzroy Somer-et, Brigade-
Major ; Capt. F. E. Cox, R.E., Adjutant ' • Lieut. Lem-
priere, Adjutant of the party occupying huts ; Lieut.
Phillips, Instructor of Field Works. Quartermaster
Jenkins Jones remains at Woolwich ; Quartermaster
Thos. Connolly, Chatham ; Quartermaster Bradford to
that portion occupying the huts.