The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

(From the Times.)
70:1d5r.te
The state of India is as satilsfAaciAtoTrAy'll°6
desired. Everywhere the most complete trencluilti!..
prevails, and even our unruly neighbours, the 4a

deer, have abstained from acts of violence.
rd of
The latest act of politeness that we have heard d
in a public way is told of the Afredees, who seat wcirot
to Captain Coke on the 18th ult., that if be
did
withdraw his most advanced post in the Kobat, br
would come down and do the work of clearance
him.
The officers who were on their trial b 1 c°tlar•ti.
martial Lt Cawnpore at the departure of the last 113,,,y1(;
for having broken their acre t and fought a duel' P'.er
been sentenced to be cashiered. Sir Charles 1111Pliit
has pardoned Ensign Huxam, who was wounded'
Lieutenants White, Smith, and Lietchfield lose the
ir
commissions. '311115'

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A regiment among the Nizam's own II", \VI,.
dpg
mutinied and seized the Nizam's treasurer, bes

him with the butt-end of their muskets.
Her Majesty's 83d Regiment have received or,clurer°
to hold themselves in readiress to embark f°r

rachee.

)fticers, 53t

A court-martial, composed of naval 01") J-
Dt
lately on board the Hastings, to try Liell'v-Tilbe
Melvin cf the Indian rnlvy for drunkenness' ;41
charges were proved, and the sentence was diem"

from the service.
Lord Falkland is now at the Mahablesvor
and is still reported to be sick. Sir Will°1);g the
Cotton, Commander-in-Chief, who has been
w,f3 tely
Deccan for some time, is coming down imule
preparatory to his proceeding to Europe. Sin))
It is said that Sir Charles Napier will leave bey
about the sth cf November next. his escort lies whq
warned that his Excellency will proceed to 13°1'
by way of Sinde.
(From the Chronicle.) gy oer
We have received by extraordinary elg;ebOi
private dispatches and files of papers, from .1'
to the 3d of Oct., and Calcutta to the 21st of Sept b 0,5
The London mail of the 7th August, via 13°11) the
reached Madras, Agri, Delhi, and Meerut, eat.
15th, and Lahore and Calcutta on the 18th`tibs
The mail of the 24th August reached Bomhalvj
steamer Atalanta, on the 23d Sept. That of tlie
Sept. is expected to arrive to-morrow.
@Rohl OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) nO4
BOMBAY, OCT. 3.—We still continue to ls";cee,
of a character calculated to interest, or even to e';eb
the attention of people at home. In the rtitlin-tor
and throughout the whole line of frontier the °tete
is tranquil—not even our troublesome neigb,;,-tof
the Afredees having fired a shot or cut tbr"-set
late. This state of quiescence, though Pettisoln;
is decidedly wrong in the opinion o'eil A for
of the Bengaleee, who are spelling harrfg vi'
a slight winter campaign at Kohat and "-10 t
cinity, in order to quell the marauders, sP,sel
whom Brigadier Campbell made his uninceeeicele
move last year. But I think I may safely Pit:, to
that our rulers know better by this time tThol•
engage in such a profitless undertaking. Lord tee t,
housie is still at Cheenee, in the Kunawar
close upon the Chinese frontiers. I hear it stet
upon good authority too—that his Lordship is ,00
to give orders to open up a road direct Or o/
Ladak, for the purposes of traffic. In my next lebet iE
be
able to give you some precise particulars ;
A Ins
the fact is as I state, the step is important and v 3 al
Indeed I see no reason why we should not cyst etas
a trade with China by this roate, just in the ,01
' way that the Moscow and St. Petersburgh csr°ln'irg
do annually, going through Siberia, and retur-ttes
laden with furs, tea, silks, and spices. These are Off
ore
' sources of prosperity in India, and to these "jtool
Dalhousie
directs his attention. In Cashmere'
Lagef
there is a great mart open, which Sir „ry 5t
rence is now engaged in examining. In mY
mentioned a report bruited about by the Dell" cured
retie, to the effect that Sir Henry had been cePbie
by some of the hill tribes, and held for ransom flit!
was quite untrue, as I indicated the almost cer'-
of its being so at the time. The following stave)
respecting the matter is taken from a Lahore Psi)er
printed in the Persian language : doted
" His Highness Maharaja Goolab Singh °rag the
that no Sepoys were to have leave of absence, deat;
people of Challus were in insurrection, and ha t of
tied off about fifteen hundred of the inhabitahe:
Hushoorah. On several occasions the 1111ja
has swept their country with fire and sweruely
now fancying that they have an opportunity of %goo.
ingc themselves, they have appeared- in ;rot%
ireola Singh speaks with contempt of the insnt'3on
, declares that they must have been instigate' tend
assisted by some of the neighbouring chiefs, and th,r.et3Tlle
to take signal vengeance
, upon Dea concer wad
Maharaja, however, considersit absolutely neette
to take measures fur securing the safety of Sir
wbjeb
Lawrence, who is travelling in the very districts fi
are the scene of the outbreak. For this purr'e'
his be,t troofs
rum Singh has been ordered to get ready
and haste to Hushoorah, where he is to remaintelleitt
arrival of Sir Henry on his way back from Gilgit,
whom he would then escort to Cashmere. The le,er
were to take with them provisions for forty doV• esj
or five thousand men were ordered to be levied fn'''
Hoes tributary rajas, who were to move on Chn11111„ ref'
Kurnah, as soon as Sir Henry Lawrence bad het_e;.,es'o
cued. Kale Khan, the commandant of the 1%11,117 cf
artillery, has boasted that he will take the 1°-
Challus in two day:.,."
Cashmere is becoming a most interesting eee-,011
both to us in India and to people at home, net cent
by reason of its association with those n 300; the
appendages called shawls, and its having bee,- of
summer retreat of the Mogul Emperor, but 1115°,3ee5
account of its political importance, and the Cll,.etliets
that lie concealed, amidst the obscurity of
events, of its becoming eventually an English
vince. ter
The only part of India that does not present f`hlbil
fectly tranquil aspect is where the Nizam 80,1 ;:io:
his own, and where the most disgraceful sn'ir" 10'
ous anarchy prevails. It was only in ,T,lstoi,e
communication that I drew attention to the
of Hyderabad ; and I might again—were it ...air
the space and trouble repeat the ne-bees
tion. The Minister, Ham Bunsh, hay liet
permitted to resume his suspended functionq
only on condition of paying 15,0001. to some °
wretches who are about the Nizam's Courant of
course this species of bribe must be screwed it
the unhappy natives, and that speedily too, or :16: cr
will be lost money, for the I'eshkar's tenure e',,,-t!'r
is not worth a month's purchase, and his stitel; to
will most assuredly not buy him , out. In addict s 6
this source of trouble, the troops are constantly
state of mutiny for their pay. The line eel'
regulars,l in the pay of one of the nobles (Shnr°'' the
on rah) mutinied for their pay in August, arieciresig'
Nizatn naturally asked how much they were in wept"'
to which Shums-001-Omrah replied, " One 11'001
your Majesty." The Kingly rejoinder vvfo, "for 9v,
dissatisfied rascals they must be I Alutin9 (AO"
arrear of six months ! Why, my Dowanmee rod
have been three years without their pay, end'setos
eqnudiet they are I" All this, however, must colli lee
i
The Company's debt, amountin to twelve teel
(20,0000, must be met by Christmas, or else, 55-yoli
say— But I neither believe, nor would lisv,
to credit the statement, that Lord Dalhousie 'I; ss
pared to seize any part of the Nizam's territerie are
security for or in payment of this debt. leeeilill
tolerably quiet and happy "ever awaiting the °3iree'
of the Akbar with her " y manificent
tailed Bashaw," who is coming down in betere ell
Aden. The military and civil authorities
prepared to do Bahadour Jung the honours 'fhag 3`
place, and a garrison order for salutes 11iig9" 695
honour, &c., &c., has been issued. If his -11
njan
goes home vie the Indus and through the °/I,'"
our people will require to keep a close wate-11.A"
him, for more reasons than one. There is °lii! col
Moored Khan of Khyrpore as discontented ilsa-ross`
be, and a few words of consolation from the .I';',iert
lion-eater might very easily be dropped.
this is mere speculative gup, as we call talk ilel.ean"
A naval court-martial has sentenced
Melvin, of the Indian navy, to dismissal for ar%tter
ness. In my last I narrated the circumstance' "a 0°
dant on the loss of the ship Mary Florence, 9/3 e et.
capture of the master's wife, together with 31-1100 Fe
the crew, by the Africans inhabiting the coast to
Guardafui. I now bring this melancholy oil
termination,
termination, by copying from the Te/egile tOf
Courier overland summary the following stater
facts respecting this shipwreck : A talelitf;;
" Letters from Aden, brought down by the on-
complete the details which were necessary to let'-eaboe,,,
renders aware of the fate of the crew who Wer,oe,,,vte'Pg
doned, together with his unfortunate wife, by 01.1
Short, the master of the doomed vessel. It gliVteica;
that the humanity of Captain Haines, the P;
agent at Aden, prompted him to dispatch Y;e„tlg tb,„-
war to the air! of these poor people, without O°T: oion-
orders of the Government here, and the E'lr,tillogelti.
was dispatched with the assistant to the
ib
to see what could be done in the way of effec".Th
ransom from the Africans. In the meantitueolooblat
Company's slpop Mahi had encountered the `"),°;0 o'er°
laden with coals for Aden, on board of which ohof the
the chief mate of the Mary Florence, and st,l, c;vere tee
crew as had escaped from their captors. The). ed fr°-
ceivcd on beard the Mahi, and it was •
ascertain, d Dire:
their narrative that the savages had at first tresity; be."
Short and the captive crew with tolerable hum htl';
some time after the departure of the poor War
band, who had left her in her misery, theY ariir; eaße,
whole of the party to their shoes and turned tnetbat ift
upon the beach; in trying to escape in a boot co at
there, the sufferings of Mrs. Short were put sT %deb°
death ; the unfortunate woman was down"