The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-27 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the overland mail we receive
advices from Calcutta to May 22, and from Madras
to May 28. There is very little news. The Go-
vernment had published an analysis of the sums
assigned to the various presidencies and provinces
for public works during the current year. The
whole sum sanctioned is £3,370,000 in the propor-
tion of £640,000 to Madras, £630,000 to the North
Western Provinces, £520,000 to the Punjab,
£510,000 to Bengal, £500,000 to Bombay, £190,000
to Oude, £lOO,OOO to Pegu, and the remainder in
small sums to Nagpore, Hyderabad, Coorg, Tenas-
serim, and the Straits Settlements. Besides this
total a sum of £82,500 is held in reserve for future
claims, £305,000 is reserved for railway and tele-
graph charges, and the local funds for local works
are estimated at half a million. The approximate
distribution of expenditure among the guaranteed
railway and irrigation companies in the current
year will. be—to Bengal £2,400,000, to Bombay
£1,850,000, to Madras £980,000, to the North West
Provinces, £750,000, and to the Punjab £220,000,
or £6,200,000 in all.

An attempt has been made to construct
abandonedctarailway
out of local capital alone. The scheme
by the Oude Railway Company for want of a
guarantee, of a line from Cawnpore to Lucknow,
has been taken up by three Christian merchants,
and several of the great native landholders in
Oude. Government has promised land and every
assistance short of a guarantee. Thecsatpriiettasl
isi
is
fixed at half a million sterling, in 20,000 shares of
£25 each.
said Thteo
havepos i position
undergoneion of affairsn
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change.indigo
districts
It is reported that the Governor of Madras has
for the present abandoned his intention of residing
on the hills.
The Madras Government has declined to appoint
a gentleman to proceed to the cotton districts, as
unnecessary, but promises to improve the roads as
much as the funds at its disposal will permit.
The Calcutta papers by this arrival state
then
Mr. Laing had gone to sea, in consequence of ill
health ; but we learn from a later source that he
arrived at Penang in the Government steamer
Australian on the 24th of May, andhad
nearly recovered from his late dangerous illness.
Moro business has been doing during the past
few days, and shippers show more disposition to
operate.
At the banks money is still obtainable at previous
rates.

Freights to England are excessively languid ;
although no material decline has yet taken place,
the tendency is decidedly downward.

CHINA.

From China we have news from Hong Kong to
May 11; Shanghai, May 4. There is scarcely an
event of any importance to record, except the
taking of liankow by the rebels, already mentioned
by telegraph.

There is little in the way of political news to
record for the past fortnight . The Prince of
Kung acts for China in matters political, and every-
thing he has hitherto said or done in relation to
ourselves shows him desirous to take circumstances
as they were arrested at the end of the late cam-
paign, and make the very best of them that he can.
It is somewhat to be feared that the Emperor and
his anti-foreign advisers are sadly dispirited, and
cannot muster courage to return to the capital.
There is every reason to believe that the presence of a
foreign army under the walls of Pekin was never
contemplated by the Emperor of China even as a
remote possibility, and the blow we have inflicted
upon his pride, in thus cruelly and clearly exposing
his long•eherished self-delusion, has proved so sick-