The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-01 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL.

INTELLIGENCF FROM INDIA
AND CHINA.

Accounts have been received from Bombay of the
17th of September, being twenty days later than by
the last arrival, and from China to the 29th of July.
Tne papers possess little interest, In Sinde some
skirmishes had taken place, but they were of a very
trifling character. Captain MACKENZIE had been
successful in an attack upon some marauding Be-
looches.

Advices from Cabul mention that an engage
ment had taken place on the 2d August between
ACKBAR KHAN and AUBDOOL SUMMUND, in which
the former came off the victor, capturing among his
prisoners two generals of the enemy. The loss on
the side of the people of Cabul was estimated at
3,000, while that of the enemy was stated to Le
5,000, besides prisoners.
The papers announce the death of Lieutenant
MACKINTOSH, late Aide-de-Camp to Lord ELLEN.
BOROUGH, and subsequently in charge of the Mysore
princes. The gallant officer died from the effects of
fever.

Accounts from China state that disturbance& had
again taken place at Canton. The English last
year repaired the walls of the Company's garden,
which had been broken down at the fire in 1842.
They put on a gate, and were in the habit of walking,
playing at quoits, and otherwise amusing themselves.
On the 15th of July the Chinese endeavoured to force

themselves into the garden, but were opposed. Upon
this they threw brickbats, and broke down the gate,
compelling the Englishmen to take refuge in a boat,
in which they made their escape to the Con-
sulate. On the following evening a party of
Chinese want armed with brickbats, and attempted
to take possession of the other garden. Resistance
being offered, they commenced an indiscriminate
attack upon all the foreigners who came within their
reach. Several American gentlemen immediately
armed themselves, and drove them from the front of
the factories. Still continuing to throw brickbats,
they were fired upon, and one man killed, and an-
other wounded in the arm, which ended the affair for
the day. The English and American Consuls applied
to the Chinese authorities for a sufficient force to pro-

tect the factories, and a message was sent to the Ame-
rican man-of-war at the Bogue to request assistance.
Intelligence of the 21st informs us that no further
rioting had taken place, nor was any likely to occur
at present.

There were eighty-four . English merchantmen,
most of them of large burden, at Hong-Kong,
Whampoa, Macao, Amoy, Chusan, Ningpo, and
Shanghae. The number of American merchantmen
was sixteen ; of French one ; four Portuguese, nine
Spanish, one Danish, one Swedish, one Belgian, and
one Siamese. The English ships of war were thus
distributed :—At Hong-Kong, the Agincourt, 72,
Captain W. 11. Bruce, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, C.B. ; the Minden,
hospital-ship, Captain Quin; the Sapphire, Master-
Commanding Fittock ; the Spiteful, steamer, Com-
mander W. Maitland; the Vixen, steamer, Commander
Giffard ; the Hon. Company's steamer Proserpine,
Commander Hough, R.N. At Whampoa, the
Wolverine, 16, Commander H. G. Morris ; the
Pelican, 16, Commander P. Justice. At Chusan :
the Castor, 36, Captain Charles Graham; Wolf, 18,
Commander A. Vyner ; the Honourable Company's
steamer Medusa, Commander H. H. llewit, R.N.
At Amoy :--the Plover, surveying ship, Commander
R. Collinson ; the Young Hebe, schooner, Lieutenant
Commanding J. Bates. The French frigate Cleopatra'
50, Captain Cecille, was at Hong-Kong; the Alcmene,
32, Captain Duplex, at Canton ; the American frigate

Brandywine, Commodore Parker, was at Macao ;—the

St. Louis, 20, Commander Tilton, was at Whampoa ;
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the Perry, 14, Commander Keith, was at Hong-
Kong. The Portuguese brig of war, Tejo, was at
Macao. The latest dates at Hong-Kong from

England were :—England, 6th May ; United States,
9th April ; Sydney, 3d May.
At Calcutta moiey was in great abundance.
Government securities had risen, in consequence, and
the Five per Cent. New Loan had changed hands at
10 per cent. premium. Exchange was heavy, at
11.10}5., or a small fraction above, at ten months' date.
Commercial matters in China were dull. Cotton
yarn continued depressed, as before. The iron market

was over supplied. Opium was firm, being supported
by the Smallness of the supply. In rice prices had
given way. In tea very little doing. The second
and third crops are said to have been destroyed by the
late rains. Rates of Exchange on London, at six
months' sight, 4s. 3d. per dollar ; Government bills,

at thirty days' sight, 4s:l od., in little request. Freight
to London and Liverpool, 31. per ton of fifty feet.
The Hindostan arrived at Suez on the 24th of
September, with a considerable cargo of silk goods,
and about fifty passengers ; she sailed from Calcutta
on the 18th of September.

THE PUNJAUB.
(From the Bengal .Hurkaru.)
AUTHENTIC NEWS FROM PESHAWAR, JULY 18.—The
soldiers of Peshawur have conducted themselves of late
in anything but an orderly way. They seem to have
cast off all restraint, which their dread of the principal
authorities had produced in them ; and make little of
plundering and ravaging the husbandmen and their
farms. In one of its mischievous excursions, a body of
these uncurbed pillagers assaulted, with brutal cruelty, a
domestic of Sirdar Peer Mahomed Khan, for offering re-
sistance to their escape with some of his property which
they had robbed him of ; but, notwithstanding, the free-
booters did not get off scot-free this once, their flight
was arrested by the timely interference of a large body
of the Sirdar 's servants ; they were presented to Tej
Singh for trial, and at his sentence now lie in prison. It
has been publicly prohibited to resort to compulsory
means to obtain the services of a Mussulman. Sultan
Mohammed has sent his family to Khohout—a removal,
which is looked upon by many as a preliminary step to
his inciting the people of tkis place to an insurrection.
Meean Übdool Ryman not having been discovered,
Synd Mahommed was called upon to explain matters
to Akbar Khan. The refusal on the part of the
Yuzzalbashes, with which Dost Mahommed's invita-
tion to them was met, gave high offence to the Dost, who,
after due consultation, determined on invading and driv-
ing them from the Affghan territories. The Kuzzul-
bashes, on receiving intimation of this resolution, sent
messengers to the Dost to say that they would not put
him to the trouble of attacking and forcing them to quit
the country, if he but paid them for the forts which, at
their individual expense, they had raised in his terri-
tories. The proposed condition was not acceded to, and
one of Dost Mahomod's sons has proceeded to give battle
to the Kuzzulbashes, while Akhbar Khan is about to
follow with one regiment of 14,000 regular Suwars, and
two of infantry, the latter under the command of
Kaol Lall.
LAHORE, JULY 19.—The Raja Sahib to-day sum-
moned the several artisans who had been engaged in the
late preparations for a war, and demanded of them a
statement of the amount of their respective manufac-
tures, and their expenditure for them, both which
accounts they having rendered to the entire satisfaction
of Raja Sahib, the tradesmen were rewarded, indepen-
dently of their dues, with a large sum of money from
his Majesty's coffers. An officer of the Baja Sahib,
who had shot a private through the heart, of which he
instantly died, was by his Majesty dismissed the service.
Four thousand rupees were given for the purchase of
grain for the horses of the troops, the last store having
been consumed. Soldiers were finally dispatched to seize
on Meeaun Single, who has perpetrated some very
serious crime, which, however, is not publicly known.
JULY 25. After a visit to the Maharaja, the
Raja Sahib attended the durbar. Rungoor Singh, the
brother of Leenah Singh, obtained this day the resident-
ship of Issurnuck, promising to pay monthly an amount
of 37,000 rs. as the revenues of the place. Jowahir
Singh has been slain by one of his own officers. This
man stopped a caravan of fat at Guggranwallah, and
when summoned by Jowahir, for reproof, he first
in-
sulted and then slew him, and fled hither for refue where he has been very favourably received by his Ma-
jesty. Thera had arisen a dispute between Rajas Goo-
lab Singh and Heerah Singh, from a difference
as
to the
settlement of the country of Jaffer Shah, which belongs
to the latter. Goolab Singh, on this, has turned the