The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

INDIA.

There is very little news from the Bengal Presi-
dency, except complaints of the continued refusal
of the ryots in some of the lower districts to pay
their rents, and complaints of the protracted bad
weather and scarcity of provisions in the north-
western provinces. The vacancy in the Legislative
Council, caused by the death of Mr. Le Geyt, the
member for Bombay, has been filled up. Mr. C.
J. Erskine is the new member. Mr. Cecil Beadon,
foreign secretary to the Government of India, has
been nominated to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr. Wilson, but is to continue to perform
the duties of his secretaryship.
The decision in the Lucknow libel case—ad-
verted to in our last—has been against the Oude
Gazette—damages three thousand rupees and five
hundred costs, The action, it will be remembered,

was brought by Ram(lial, a native revenue collec-
tor, who had been accused of shocking cruelty and
extortion: A public subscription is opened to de-
fray the damages and cost. An Englishman in
Oude, whose name we do not find, but who is said

to have been connected with the Lucknow press,
has been summarily " deported" out of the pro-
vince by the Oude authorities, " for endeavouring
to instil sedition into the minds of the natives."
The Maharajah of Travancore is dead, and suc-
ceeded by his nephew.
It is rumoured that the Nizam of Hyderabad is
to have certain districts, which were annexed by

Lord Dalhousie, restored to him, in recognition o.

his loyalty during the rebellion. He will also have
presents of the value of a lac of rupees. In addi-
tion to this a debt which he owes the British Go-
vernment, amounting to a little over half a million
sterling, is to be cancelled, so that although tardy,
it cannot be said that our recognition of the Nizam's
loyalty during the great rebellion is unhandsome.
The reward which is to be conferred on his minister,
the enlightened Salar Jung, is however not consi-
dered equal to his merits, as only Its. 30,000—50 it
is reported—will be presented to him. Salar Jung
is the firm friend of the English.
The Indian Government have announced that
they will carry out the financial measures of the
late Mr. Wilson in all their integrity. A series of
instruction/ for the management, assessment, and
collection of the income tax, have been issued for
the guidance of all officials. The tax commission
and the assessors for Calcutta have been appointed.
The Legislative Council is chiefly occupied in
committee with the penal code, to be followed by
the Code of Criminal Procedure, after which they
will take up the License and Paper Currency Bills.
A commission has been appointed to draw up a
report on an organised system of native police for
all India. The members are Messrs. W. Robinson,
Madras; S. Wauchope, Calcutta; It. Temple, for
the Punjaub ; W. Court, for the North-west ; and
Lieut.-Colonel Bruce, for Oude.
Several "indignation" meetings have taken place
in the Upper Provinces, at which great dissatisfac-
tion was openly expressed against the Arms Bill
recently passed.
From Delhi late advices inform us that several
rebels who took a conspicuous part in the late
mutiny, including the murderer of Major Burton,
the political agent at Kotah, have been executed,
and more will follow.