The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-21 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

We have received by electric telegraph from
Trieste intelligence from Bombay of the 16th ult.
The only political news of importance was the
announcement of a mutiny in the 66'1 Native In-
fantry in the Punjaub, which, hoWever, was speedily
Checked by the arrival of other troops.
The disbanding of the Seikh contingent in the
l'Unjalth was determined on and carried into ex
ecution.

• The rest of India was profoundly tranquil.
The Governor-General had returned to Calcutta.
The commercial advices by this arrival announce
dulness in imports and a slow sale of English manu-
factures.
Cotton for England and China was in demand at
advanced prices.
Exchange on London—Six months' sight, 2s. per
rupee.

The steamer Mozuffir, which brought the mails
from Bombay, reached Suez on the 7ch of March,
With 129 passengers.—Times.

(From the Bombay Times.)
The news transmitted by the present mail is small
311 amount, and still smaller in importance, if we
except the painful intelligence just received from
Lihore of the mutinous spirit displayed on the Ist
and 2d instant by the 66th Bengal N. 1., forming the
Farrison cf Umritsir. Something of this sort amongst
the troops had been looked for for some time, and a
rew soldiers of one native regiment had been
Punished for disaffection, when it was hoped
the others had seen their error and the futility of
resistlng the orders of their Government. Un-
happily such was not the case with the 66th, and
the corps has subjected itself to the heaviest punish-
tent—a puuishtnent which the Commander-in-Chief
has publicly avowed his determination of inflicting on
all who forget the duty they owe to a Government
,Which has ever behaved, as he says, with liberality
towards them. The Guicowar of Baroda left Bom-
bay yesterday for Poona, after a stay of three weeks,
during which time he had seen and visited every-
thing and place worthy of note at the Presidency.
The ex-Maharaja Dhuleep Singh was at Meerut on
the 28th ult., on his way to his destination,
ekllyghur. All the state prisoners, including Chutter
and Shere Singh, and the ex-Dewan Moolraj, passed
through Delhi on the Ist instant. Everything con
tinned tranquil throughout the Punjaub. Sir C.
Napier
reached Rawul Pindee on the 20th, and was
expected at Peahawur by the end of January. The
recent unhappy event at Umritsir would most pro-
bably hurry him back to the capital sooner than he
had intended. The troops were every where, except
at Aloultan, in good health. All the Bombay corps
had left Peshawur and Moultan but the 3d Native
Itfantry,,which was to leave the former station on
the 29th ult. Sir 11. Lawrence and Sir
W. Gilbert were at Umritsir, taking such
steps as were considered necessary with the mu-
tineers. Orders had, consequent on the recent
onslaught of a party of Gooroos on a company of the
European fusiliers, been issued for the total and im-
Mediate disarming of the entire population of the
capital and province in general—a wise measure, but
Which will prove exceedingly difficult of being Cat-
ried into effect. The station of Wuzerabad is to be
übendoned, and Sealkote occupied as a military can- '
torment in its stead. The commissioner of Sinde
,Was'at I(urrachee. General Manson, C. 8., and staff,
had proceeded on a tour of inspection to Cutch. The
22c1 foot resumed their march from Roree for Feroze-
Pore on the 23d ult., and expected to reach their desti-
tution by the middle of March. The first portion
of the force intended for operations against the
Sikkim Raja left Darjeeling on the 27th ult.; the
remainder of the troops, amounting to upwards of
seven hundred men in all, were to follow immediately
after them. A mission from the ruler of Nepaul,
charged with letters and costly presents to her Ma-
jesty, is now on its way to Calcutta, where they take
Passage for Suez by the April steamer. S:r H. Dun-
das is now in Bombay ; he leaves for England by
text steamer. The Rev. G. Pigott, acting arch-
deacon of Bombay, has been compelled by ill-
health to return to England ; he leaves
this, day by the ship Aboukir. Sir T. E.
Tur ton, Bert., late ecclesiastical registrar
at Cslcuttz, has been sentenced to imprisonment for
two years under the penal clause of the Insolvent
Act, after the expiration of which he is to be allowed
the benefit of the said Act. The agitation against
the " Black Act" continues. The Hon. Mr. Bethune
having spoken rather too freely of the private cha-
racter of Captain D. L. Richardson, late principal of
the Calcutta Hindoo College, is about being prose-
cuted by that gentleman for libel. Captain Watt,
who commanded the party of the 43d Madras
:Native Infantry, which fled before a few score
of Moplahs on the Malabar coast, in August
last, has been sentenced by court-martial to be
placed at the bottom of the list of captains in his
. corps. There are said to be a large number of
Queen's and Company's officers now awaiting trial
for various offences in the Bengal presidency ; Sir
Charles Napier sparing none who may have the mis-
fortune to forget themselves. Among those under
arrest is Lieutenant-Colonel Ousley, late agent to the
Governor-General on the south-west frontier. A return
has just been published in the Calcutta Government
' Gazette, showing the revenues and civil charges of
the Bengal presidency for the years 1846-7, 47-48,
and 48-49. From this we learn that during those
years respectively the receipts were 10,248,2021.,
9,433,698,., and 9,817,837/. ; and the expenses of
collection 3,609,1251., 3,778,6281., and 3,724,3631.
Superintending Surgeon Rooke, of the Bombay
army, is about to retire from the service, owing to
continued ill-health ; and it is believed that an addi-
tional superintending-surgeon will be allowed to the
13oinbay presidency for the Rajpootana Field Force.
The " Railway. Staff" has arrived at Bombay,
and the greatest anxiety prevails amongst the
shareholders as to when operations are to be com-
tnenced. The treatment received by Mr. Chapman,
at the hands of the London Board of Directors of the
Company, has been viewed with the deepest disgust by
every shareholder who knew anything of that gentle-
man's abilities, and can appreciate the services ren-
dered by him to the company while in India. India
throughout continues tranquil and healthy, and the
clithate is cool and pleasant. Trade at Bombay
continues dull, with no immediate hope of its
revival.