The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have received our letters and papers by the
Overland Mail, under date of Bombay, October 12 ;
Calcutta, October 1.
The Bombay Gazette gives the following outlines
of intelligence :
"The English mail of the 18th September arrived
in Bombay on the 10th October.
" Sir George Russell Clerk has resigned the Go-
vernment of Bombay, and his resignation has been
accepted. Reasons not yet known.
," Lord Canning will not leave India till March,
1862.

" The Government of India have granted lands
to the native commissioned and non-commissioned
officers in their respective villages whose services
have been dispensed with in consequence of the
reduction of the native army.
" Cholera has been making awful ravages at Can-
dahar. Eight thousand persons fell victims to it
in 18 days.
" The Russian Government continues its gradual
preparations for occupying Independent Tartary.
" Mr. R. Temple is to be the Chief Commissioner
of the Government Paper Currency, which will
come into operation next January.

" Instructions have been issued to all the Secre-
tariats not to send up new propositions to the
Legislative Council of India until the changes con-
templated by the Governor-General in Council in
the constitution thereof are effected.

The same journal remarks :
" The Bombay Chamber of Commerce very pro-
perly feels itself aggrieved by the Home Govern-
ment granting special privileges to the Manchester
Cotton Company which are not accorded to private
enterprise. The fact is that some of our enterprising
merchants applied for land at the part of Sada-
sewghur as soon as it was decided by Government
to establish a port at that place ; but notwithstand-
ing these previous applications, the Secretary of
S tate for India has ordered the local government not to
dispose of the land at the port until the agents of the
Cotton Company shall first have had an opportunity
of selecting sites for a cotton gin factory, press
houses, offices, and stores. This is very properly
regarded and characterised by the Chambers as an
unwarrantable and partial exercise of authority by
the Secretary of State for India,' and the Chamber
has met and formally protested against it. The
Chamber maintains that Government lands which
may be for sale should be submitted:to public compe-
tition in parcels at different periods of time after
due notice by advertisement; and very rightly ob-
serves that, in this way, the highest price would be
obtained, and complaints of undue preference would
be avoided. Resolutions embracing the views above
stated have been passed by the Chamber, and trans-
mitted to Government, with a request that they may
be forwarded to the Right Hon. the Secretary of
State for India in Council. Surely the Manchester
Company has done nothing in connection with the
promotion and extension of the cotton trade of this
country, to establish any claim on the Government
to special privileges. The merchants .of Bombay
have done all that has been done in this way. If
any parties, therefore, have any claims to special
privileges, it is they. They have just grounds for
their complaints and protest; we are glad that they
have promptly and formally made them ; and we
trust that Government will act in reference to them
with that wisdom which is without partiality."