The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received the despatches from India and 1
China, of which a telegraphic summary appeared in
yesterday's Sun. 'lhe dates are—Calcutta, June
17 ; Bombay, June 27 ; Hong Kong, June 10 ;
Shanghai, to June 2.
In the Bombay Times, of June 22, we read
" The rains which commenced so early and so
auspiciously have for the past fortnight been alto-
gether suspended. The Chief of Toolsepore in Oude
having refused to submit himself to our authority and
threatened to give us trouble, the right wing of the
73d Bengal Native Infantry, the sth Irregulars, and
Captain Waldy's battery marched from Lucknow on
the 24th May. They were joined at Bolarampore
by the 22d Native Infantry and 38th Light In-
fantry and Whitley's battery. There they met Mr.
Wingfield, C.S., the Deputy Commissioner, who
having preceded the main body with the 38th and
sth, at once took possession of the place. The
troops, which were two years in arrears, offered no
opposition ; the chief himself fled ingloriously and
alone, seeking shelter some way in front—intend-
ing as was supposed to get within the Nepaul fron-
tier. The deputy commissioner, with a party
mounted on elephants, and irregulars, now dashed
on and overtook the object of their quest—their
approach having been concealed by a tremendous
deluge of rain—when he was surrounded and
captured without resistance, the force having re-
turned to quarters without the loss of a man. The
highest praise is everywhere considered due to
Mr. Wingfield, one of the young civilians whom
Sir Charles Napier in 1843 returned from Scinde
to the Governor-General as unfit for duty ; the
other, Mr. Riddell, is now Postmaster-General for
India. Throughout our newly-acquired territory
everything is as prosperous and orderly as in the
old provinces of the empire. The King, after hav-
ing got the length of Calcutta, seems to have found
his heart fail within him at the idea of leaving for
England. The Sontal insurrection seems once more
to have gone to sleep; the monsoon rains have
drowned out the flames of discontent if any such
existed, and throughout all parts of our empire the
most profound tranquillity prevails. Two officers,
Lieuts. Patterson and Tovey, have been dismissed'
the service, the one for calling the other a 'liar,
the other for assaulting his insulter.
" Another court-martial has lately occurred
amongst us, where the commander-in-chief tells the
members that the finding is opposed to the evidence.
A Lieut. Barnes had a quarrel with his superior
officer, Capt. Macleod, and on the latter being ap-
pointed to the command of the regiment, the former
asked to be relieved from serving under him. The
request was viewed by the commander-in-chief as
an act of insubordination—any officer on this prin-
ciple might request on any occasion to be relieved
from duty on the plea of a quarrel with his imme-
diate superior, bringing thereby discipline to an
end. The court acquitted Lieut. Barnes, and the
commander-in-chief very severely rebuked the court
and disapproved the sentence.
" Gen. Sir P. Grant assumed command of the
Madras army on the 10th inst., the firstcompany's
officer ever posted to the rank of commander-in-chief
in these armies, in which he had risen. His allow-
ancesare reduced by one-half under the new charter.
Mr. P. W. LeGeyt, the Bombay member of the Le-
gislative Council, has been on a visit to the Western
Presidency for the past two months, and is about to
return to Calcutta almost immediately. He was last
week entertained by the sirdars and nobility of the
Deccan at Poona. Great excitement has prevailed
within the past ten days at the presidency owing to
four Parsee students from the Elphinstone Insti-
tution having applied to the missionaries of the free
Church of Scotland for Christian instruction and
baptism, three of them have returned to their friends.
Lord Canning is at Calcutta, and the governors of
Madras and Bombay are, at the seats of their re-
spective governments.
" The Bombay money market has become easier,
and securities of all descriptions have given way.
Freights have declined, and the condition of the
import market is somewhat depressed."