The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

I,by Government is deemed invidious. The departure of the
' Bth from Kurrachee leaves the station with only two regi-
ments of the line, and these, it is supposed, will be
heavily worked. The men of the " Belooch battalion,"
a Sindian levy, form a few of the petty guards. A wing of
the 2d Bengal European Regiment were under orders to
return to Sukkur on the 25th ult., marching to Kotree,
whence they would be conveyed to their destination by the
river steamers. The detacement of native infantry stationed
at Jerruck has been withdrawn; the duties of the post are
for the future to be performed by the Sinde baggage corps.
Lieut. 0. Hamilton, commissioner with the Belooch tribes on
the frontier, has obtained sick leave to Kurrachee, his duties
in the meantime devolving on the officer commanding the
outpost of Khangur. Lieut. Maclagan, of the Bengal Engi-
neers, has been ordered to take charge of the Executive
Engineer's department at Kurrachee. Lieut. Stanley re-
sunlid his duties as treasurer on the 16th October. Lieut.
Harding, of her Majesty's 22d Foot, has been appointed
assistant judge advocate; Ist Lieutenant Campbell, of the
Bengal Engineers, to be assistant superintendent of canals
and forests; Mr. Williams, of the Indus flotilla, to be an
assistant surveyor. Assistant-Surgeon Ward has been placed
in permanent medical charge of the Sinde Belooch corps.
Committees havelbeen assembled at Kurrachee and Hyderabad
for the purpose of reporting on the number of tents in store
at these stations. The medical superintendence of the Bengal
troops serving in Upper Sinde, and the medical depot at
Sukkur, have been transferred from the superintending
surgeon of the Sirhind division of the Bengal army to the
superintending surgeon of the Bombay establishment in
Sinde. The. following very high compliment has been paid
by Sir C. Napier to the gallant 86th Foot :
"Head-quarters, Kurrachee, Nov. 4, 1845.
" In consequence of the excellent behavior of the 86th Re-
giment, and at the request of Brigadier Douglas, Lieut.
Colonel Derinzy, and the captain of the company to which
private Arthur O'Neil belcngs, the Major-General command-
ing remits the remainder of that soldier's punishment, who
is to return to his duty. This act of mercy the Major Gene-
ral considers to be a great compliment to the 86th Regiment,
as he very much dislikes to pardon any man for a crime re-
sulting from intoxicatimi."
The Delhi Gazette intimates that the Governor was to
leave Kurrachee on a tour of .inspection the first week in
December.

We hear, by the way, that the proposition for an exchange
of territory with our ally, Meer Ali Moored, is now before
Government. The Ameer, it is said, is to get Meerrore and
Oobaroh, which are on the east side of the Indus, and border
on the Bhawulpore state, and the British are to have Kus-
more and the Boordee country on the west. We are told
that the 111-uzzarees have been driving away the people front
the frontier, and if this be the case another :` little war " may
perhaps be the consequence of the exchange.
The subjoined extract from a letter in the Friend of India
of the fith ultimo alThrds some useful information relative to
the Shikargahs, or hunting-grounds, about which so much
was said at the time of our negotiations! with the Ameers
of Sinde, anterior to the deposal of those. unfortunate
princes :
" These Shikargahs are now under the control of the
officer denominated superintendent of canals and forests, who
has a separate establishment for their conservance under a
ranger of forests. One of them, in the neighbourhood of
Hyderabad, has been, in the first place, as an experiment,
subjected to the treatment proposed to be adopted with re-
gard to all ; and this experiment has been eminently suc-
cessful, in so far as the return has more than covered the ex-
penditure. The sources of pecuniary return which these
forests supply are the large timber available for building
purposes; small and fallen wood, useful as firewood for the
steamers as well as for the public; the gum afforded by the
several species of acacia, and the bark of the acacia) and
mimosas, used for tanning, besides the excellent pasture, ob-
tained within the limits of the Shikargahs. The measures
pursued in their conservance consist chiefly in clearing away
the great amount of underwood, and fallen and decayed
timber, and removing trees from the more dense parts of the
Shikargah, with the regulation of the rented pasture lands,
and general superintendence of the forests, with a view to
their preservation from accidental or malicious injury, or un-
authorised destruction of timber. It is probable 'that the
benefits of the system, which has proved successful in the
experimental forest, will be extended to such of the others as
promise a similar measure of success, whilst the more worth-
less, which are scarcely deserving of a higher name than
jungle, may be restored to cultivation. It is also proposed to
attempt the cultivation of other useful forest trees not indi-
genous to Sinde or already existing in the Shikargaha."