The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have
received files of papers from Bombay to the 28th
October, and from Calcutta to the 17th October.
We take the following from the Bombay

Gazette :
" The English mail of the 3d October had not
arrived up to the time of our going to press.
" Arrangements are now in progress for the re-
linquishment of office in January next of his Ex-
cellency Sir George Clerk, Governor of Bombay.
" The Governor-General was to leave Calcutta
for Allahabad and Agra on the 24th inst.
" The Commander-in-Chief is forming his camp
at Jallundur, whence he will march to make his
military inspection of the Punjaub.
" The Governor-General has officially notified
that all claims to prize money on account of booty
captured at Delhi, Lucknow, and in Pepa must be
submitted by the 31st December, 1861, after which
no claim will be received.
" A railway locomotive is actually on the soil of
the Punjaub. Locomotives, tenders, &c., have been
landed at Mooltan, and are on their road to Lahore.
The problem as to the time of their arrival may bo
worked out by professional actuaries from the fol-
lowing data;—Distance from Mooltan to Lahore,
215 miles ; number of feet in a mile, 5,280 ; average
rate of progress of locomotives,l&c,, 50 feet:per diem.
The carriages travel on moveable rails, and are
dragged by coolies.
" The Calcutta Gazette publishes a tabular
statement, showing the expenditure of the Public
Works Departments, under the several local
Governments for the year 1861-62, as sanctioned
by the Government of India. The whole estimated
expenditure chargeable to the British Governments,
exclusive of local charges, falls little short of three
and a quarter millions sterling.
" Orders have been received from Calcutta to the
effect that all adjutants, quarter-masters, and pay-
masters of regiments, who have volunteered for the
Staff Corps, are to vacate their appointments ; all
those who have already volunteered having the
option given them of re-considering the matter.
"'The official return of the number of deaths from
cholera during the recent visitation in Delhi places
it at 2,161.
" Colonel Baird Smith's Final Report on the
Famine, in two sections—first, supplementary
descriptive details ; second, remedial measures, has
been published by the Government of India. It is
a most important State paper, and will prove a per-
manent document.
" Lord Canning has published important resolu-
tions regarding the absolute sale of waste lands and
the redemption of land revenue. No reserve of
special rights to Government, or conditions of clear-
ance and cultivations. Grants not to exceed 3,000
acres. Price of unassessed lands not to be above
rs. Lands free from jungle not to be above 5 rs.
These rates to rule for five years. Parties redeem-
ing land revenue entirely free to follow their own
course with land redeemed.
" The Hon. Mr. Frere has returned from Se-
dashewghur, whither he went to meet the Governor
of Madras on the subject of the transfer of the trans-
fer of North Canara to the Bombay Presidency.
Sir Wm. Denison, says the Bombay Saturday
_Review, in his interview with the representative of
the Government of Bombay, is understood to have
stated that his Council is unanimously opposed
to the transfer of North Canara, and that he him-
self does not feel justified in running counter
to the opinion of his responsible and expe-
rienced colleagues. Why could he not have com-
municated this opinion without the public expense
of a meeting at Sedashewghur ?
" Cholera is making fearful ravages in Cabul--
the average mortality from this scourge is said to
be 300 daily. Among its victims is Sirdar Peer
Mahomed Khan, brother of the Ameer of Cabul.
" Major A. H. Burtis, of the Bombay Staff Corps,
has been gazetted commanding officer of the Bom-
bay Volunteer Rifles, vice Colonel G. H. Robinson,
C. 8., appointed Political Resident at Aden.
"We have just had the Elephanta storm, the
fifth act of the monsoon, accompanied with much
electricity and considerable rain.
" The health of the town and island of Bombay
is good."
The Times of India says :
" Mr. Cecil Beadon will, it is said, suoceed Mr. S.
P, Grant as Governor of Bengal.
" The average price of opium in Calcutta has
risen to 1,740 rs. a chest; Mr. Laing's estimate was
1,748.
"The double administration of the Adjutant-
General's department in Bengal, for the Queen's
troops and the Indian army, is about to be abolished.
" All claims to prize money on account of booty
captured at Delhi, Lucknow, and Pegu must be
submitted by the 31st December next, after which
none will be received,
" The official returns of the numbers of deaths by
cholera in the Delhi division states the total to be
2,161.
"H. M. 6th Royals, now at Barrackpore, and
H. H. 75th Regiment, now garrisoning Fort Wil-
liam, are to return to England during the next
cold season.
" The murderers of the late Mr. and Miss Jen-
nings, at Delhi, have been, it is said, apprehended
n Central India, and are under trial there.

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