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

LONDON, THURSDA Y

INDIA.

We have received via" Marseilles our letters and
papers by the overland nail. A telegraphic sum-
mary, viCt cl the intcilig,ence brought by this
arrival appeared in cur columns a day or two ago.
The following is the Itter of cur correspondent at
Bombay, dated September 1 :
" Gholab Singh has succeeded in putting down the
insurgent hill tribes in the north of his dominions.
Ha has communicated his success to the English au-
thorities, who have duly congratulated him on the
occasion. The report of Dhost Mahotned's death
appears to Lava been without foundation. That
Prince still seems nctively engaged in endeavours to
enlarge his dominions. He has taken advantage of
the death of Yak' riLhoined Khan of Herat (which
took place on the 4:h of June) to send his son ilyder
Khan with a large army to invade Herat by the
Buik•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 coarse 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 villagsa, 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 erevious. In Kurrachee most of the
barracks and otliaers' houses were either fallen down
or unsafe, and the troops were living in tents.
" Major-General Batine, 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
Buddee on the 31 of November, whence it will pro-
ceed by way of Rupur towards Peshawur. The Go-
vernor-General's camp is to be formed at Umballa on
the 15th of October ; his Lordship will then proceed
leisurely by Kalb, Saharunpoor, Deyra Dhoon,
Bareilly, Nainee Tal, and Almorah, and thence
. towards Calcutta. It is hoped that in passing he 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 deed. 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 adverted
for 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 Uowvah Ghent. In Bombay
contracts have been let for the line from Boree-
Bunder 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 ex[ension lines will be undertaken next
cold season, unless Government withholds its sanction.
"The IN.Tiz nn's dominions are in their usual state
of anarchy. A body of some hundreds of Rohillas
have lately been committing depredations near Nun-
droag. A force under Brigadier Mayne has, however,
been sent tagaiest 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.
Saorsj-001-Mota'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 vitt further crippling the Nizam'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 the Bed Sea, for the purpose of chas-
tising the Arabian tribes, who are openly protecting
the murderers of Captain Mike 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 the more distant Jouthelee tribe, which 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 season, left the
Deccan for Bombay, where they still remain ; but it
has now been decided in any case to do nothing till
the season opens.
" By the last advices from Aden the political agent
was still engaged in pursuing his negotiations with
the tribes in 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 Abdallee, his lawful sovereign, in order that jus-
ti3e 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 Abdallte, 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
protectionwit
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Unit. chief; the Sultan of Laledge, then reinforcements
to the garrison only will be required, and our opera-
tions will be vastly simplified.
"In t!-,e event of Captain Haynes' negotiations
proving successful; justice will be done upon the mur-
derers of Captain 11 ilae 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 employas. Frauds to the
extent of 70,0001. (oeariy seven lacy 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
been applicable to the Indian service forty years ago,
that while the English gentlemen at the heads of
offices are generally rather behiud the world than
otherwise, the native head clerks of their establish-
ment are usually buying land and houses and becom-
ing wealthy men. Tho same remark applies to the
European as well as the native subordinates of the
Commissariat and other similar departments.”—Timer.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CALCUTTA.
(From the Enyli+hman of August 19.)
Since uur issue of 1:1,1 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, coupled with the increasing
stocks of some lemding 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 tho most moderate previous value imparts to
them a want of buoyancy verging on a downward ten-
dency.

The import market has, duringithe last week, been in
a very unsatisfactory state, owing to the occurrence of
some failures among nuttve dollars of repute. These
unfortunate mishaps have created a feeling of consider-