The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-23 00:00:00

THIS EVENING,

lion-eftle op-n from Eleven till Four.
Siage Manager, Mr. W. West.

HIGH WATER Al 'LON DON BRIDGE.

TUE WEATUER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER. 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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50 —lowest this morning and during the night.
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• In con:equence ol• the Immense success of the Equestrian Ladies'
Fete, it will be repeated, the Scenes of the Circle being performed
and conducted ex•ilusively by the highly talented Female Artists of
the Establishment.
To conclude with Fitzball's popular Melodrama, entitled WAR-
DOCK LE SSEI.:AO

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To Rio :low— Morning 28 min. after 3 Evening 44 min. after 3

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1850.

It is somewhat amusing to observe the ingenious
contrivances of the oriental newspapers to render
their broadsheets interesting, or, at any rate, readable,
in the absence of all important intelligence. A strik-
ing specimen of their skill under such emergencies
has been afforded by the journals brought by the
overland mail from Bombay and Calcutta. Every
conceivable, we had almost said every inconceivable,
theme has been dilated upon, which could at all be re-
garded as admitting of expatiating commentaries.
Whatever scraps of information were capable of
being gathered together in reference to the
remote provinces of Hindostan have been
scrupulously recorded; so that the absence of
war or insurrection in those countries does not wholly
appear, with the quidnuncs, to militate against their
attractiveness. From Kashmir we learn, for example,
that the old chieftain, GROLAB SlaGm, restored to his
pristine health, is dispensing the hospitality of that
district to various Europeans of distinction. From
the Punjaub we glean no intelligence of any import-
ance. From Peshawur little beyond accounts of the
prevailing pestilence, and comments on the weather,
in as far as it is likely to affect vegetation.
From the central provinces arrive, bit by
bit., particulars of the la'est movements made
by the Usbegs and the Affghans, such, for instance,
as the sojourn of AZEEM KHAN near Balkh, and the
continued activity of the Wullee of Khooloom. Ex-
pectation still continues as to the course likely to be
pursued towards the Afreedes by the Government—
the only occupations of the army having been re
stricted to the examination of the passes connecting
together Kohat and Peshawur. It would appear
that in Jullundur the annoyance felt by the cultiva-
tors at the stringent conduct of the subordinate offi-
cials employed in the revenue survey, had been forgot-
ten for awhile in the general gratification experienced
at the capture of a party of coiners by one of the
local magistracy, the delight derived from that cir-
cumstance being enhanced by the fact that these
same coiners bad most ingeniously imitated the Com-
pany's rupee, and thereby, through their agents in
the different Indian cities, committed enormous de-
predations. Among the news received from Lahore,
the most noticeable is the resumption of jogheers
claimed by the principal sirdars under the ancient
dynasty, and the abolition of the chowkedarree-tax,
an imposition which had led to little else than ex-
tortion.

Besides these general fragments of information, the
dispatches from Ilindostan contain intelligence of a
personal character of the most various description.
Scarcely anything is related as to the movements of
his Excellency the Governor-General, beyond the
fact that his vice-regal court still remains at Simla,
while he himself, accompanied by the Marchioness of
DALTIOUSIE,II9.3 proceeded on his trip to liumtwur. Ad-
ditional particulars are furnished by the Indian jour-
nalist in reference to the melancholy suicide of
Colonel KING, late of the 14th Light Dragoons; and
a variety of court-martials are likewise mentioned
as attracting a large amount of public ob-
servation. Conspicuous among these is the court-
martial on Lieutenant LITCHFORD for Sghting a duel
with the adjutant of the 48th Native Infantry; and
one on Lieutenant Rosa, for applying to the civil
power for protection against a threat of being horse•
whipped, made against bith by the editor of the
Mofussilite. Together with these unfortunate inci-
dents are mentioned the cashiering of Lieutenant
BRADFORD, of the Artillery, and the approaching
trial of Major PHILLIPS, of the 7th Light Cavalry,
at Jullundur. Various rumours of official changes
are also given by the Calcutta press as having
been prevalent. Most of these, however, are already
proved to be erroneous, such as the reports that Mr.
HENRY TORRENS was about to succeed Colonel
SLEEMAN in the Lucknow Residency ; that Sir
HENRY ELLIOTT was about to replace Mr. THOMASON
as Lieutenant-Governor of Agra, and that the
Lieutenant• Governorship of Bengal, under an en-
tirely new arrangement, was about to be conferred on
Mr. HALLIDAY. These and several other whispered
changes served to entertain the gobemouches of Hin-
dostan.

With the earliest dispatches from England would
reach our oriental possessions the intelligence
that Sir WILLIAM GOMM had been appointed,
as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian army, Sir
CHARLES NAPIER'S successor. That appointment will,
we doubt not, cause as much satisfaction throughout
our military forces in Asia as it has done already
throughout the minis of all reflective observers in the
mother country. It will place those splendid forces at
the command of Sir WILLIAM Gomm in their highest
state of efficiency, the army having been brought to
that desirable condition by the tact, the
genius, and the untiring energy of that illustrious
soldier, the conqueror of Sinde.: Experience indeed hes
shown that no arrangement could have been made
better calculated to secure tho improvement of the
British Indian forces than the coLference of the
supreme military authority upon Sir CHARLES NA-
PIER immediately that the veteran hero of Sobraon
and Goojerat had departed homewards from the scene
of his many glorious achievements. A disciplinarian I

so strict as the ex-Governor of Sinde was rendered
I a manner requisite in superintending an
army whose recent triumphs might have induced
energetic and vigilgnt CommAnder-
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