The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

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'OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA AND CHINA,

The intelligence received from our East India posses-
sions and China is all very satisfactory. Sinde is perfectly
quiet under the judiciuus and paternal government of
Sir CHARLES NAPIER ; and so much is he esteemed
even by the Beloochees, that above thirty thousand of
them held a conference with the gallant veteran with-
out the slightest irregularity. They parted on good
terms, and on good terms they will remain. The
acquisition of Sinde will do Sir C. NAPIER and Lord
ELLENBOROUGH immortal honour. The Punjaub is
still in the utmost confusion, but what the result may
be we have no means of ascertaining. We regret to
learn from the Hong-Kong Gazette, of the 23d of
April, that Commander the Hon. ERSKINE MURRAY,
who had proceeded with a couple of vessels to Borneo,
to form a settlement there, and to establish friendly
relations, was betrayed and treacherously murdered,
with several of his party, by the Sultan of Coti.
Little alteration had taken place in the state of the
markets since the last mail. A portion of the follow-
ing extracts appeared in part of our impression of
yesterday :

(From the Bombay Monthly Overland Times.)
SUMMARY.

The hot and rainy months are always the newsless ones in
India; field operations are never pursued then unless in
cases of extreme emergency, and communications by land
and sea become tardy and difficult. The rumours of the
muster of a grand army of from 60,000 to 80,000 on the Sutlej
have died away; and though it is still understood that
orders were given for the collection of 12,000 baggage camels
in Sinde, and stores for 50,000 men at Ferozepore, the fur-
ther report must either have arisen on insufficient founda-
tion, or the Governor-General, as his hour of danger be-
came known, must have abandoned his schemes of conquest.
The meeting of the Beloochee chiefs at Hyderabad on the
24th May has passed off very peaceably, with what good results
remains to be seen. Sickness has not increased with the
rapidity that was apprehended amongst the troops. The
Mahratta city and district of Boorhampoor has been quietly
taken possession of, no obstruction having been offered.
It is said to have been restored to the Mahrattas. Gwalior
continues tolerably quiet. The recent outbreak in the Pun-
jaub appears to have terminated for the present with the de-
feat and slaughter of Ittur Singh. The entrenchments at Fe-
rozepore have been heavily armed, but no other movement of
any moment had been heard of since our last. The. Bengal
troops continue sulky and discontented in Upper Sinde.
Gang robbery has been for some time past prevalent in the
Northern Concan and in some parts of the Deccan. The
practice of a system of opium adulteration in Bombay,
so extensive as to threaten infinite injury to the trade,
has just been disclosed. Intelligence from China ex-
tends to the Ist of May, but it is of little interest save
in a commercial point of view. The accounts of Lord
Ellenborough's recal reached Bombay on the 6th June, and
would be received in Calcutta by express on the 15th. The
determination of the Court of Directors occasioned some sur-
prise—but infinite relief—to the peace-loving portion of the
community. Cholera has prevailed amongst some of the
Madras troops to an extent almost unprecedented. A severe
storm was experienced at Calcutta on the 18th May,
while another of lesser violence visited Madras in June.
The monsoon set in at Bombay on the 4th of June, when
two inches of rain fell. No subsequent fall of any magni-
tude has occurred, and great inconvenience for want of wa-
ter has been felt in consequence.

SIDE.
Our intelligence from Sinde at the date of last month's
dispatch, extended to the 16th of May, and now comes down
to the 4th of June. The news of the month is much less in-
teresting than we had ventured to anticipate. The meeting
of the Beelooche chiefs at. Hyderabad on the 24th of May
went off very quietly : from 15,000 to 20,000, including at
tendants, are believed to have been presents from 30,000 to
35,000 were expected. The principal object of getting
them together is said to have been to warn them solemnly
against persisting in the territory-appropriating prac-
tices to which they have hitherto been occasionally addicted ;
spoliation requires to be practised on a large scale before it
becomes legitimate, and our new subjects are required to
attend to the precepts, not the practice, of their conquerors.
The Governor and his unruly guests are said to have parted
mutually pleased with each other. Her Majesty's hirthday
was celebrated at Khyrpore in a manner similar to that in
which it was kept at Hyderabad. The thermometer at Hy-
derabad ranged from 86 deg. to 110 deg. in the shade ; sick-
ness had not increased this year so fearfully as last at the
corresponding period. Her Majesty's 86th had lost fourteen
men very lately, of whom nine had fallen victims to strokes
of the sun.

From Kurrachee we have intelligence by boat to the 4th
4 June. His Excellency the Governor bad returned
thither on the Ist, from the meeting at Hyderabad. ➢ir.
John M‘Leod, late of the Bombay Land Revenue Depart-
ment, had been appointed Collector of Sea Customs for the
mouths of the Indus. The communication by sea betwixt
Bombay and Kurrachee will continue closed for some months
to come.

Our latest letters from Sukkur are to the 31st of
May. The Beelooches seem for the present to have sus-
pended their marauding operations around Shikarpore ;
we must of course pocket the affront of the repulse at
Foolajee, or be prepared for worse. The Bengal 64th were at
Shikarpore, still sulky and discontented. One sepoy had
lately shot another, and his comrades had refused to surrender
the murderer to justice. The mutineers were detained at
Sukkur. The 7th Cavalry, which had just come down from
Ferozepore, had crossed the Indus from Roree, and were
about to proceed to Shikarpore. General Hunter had arrived
on the 7th at Sukkur. and taken command. General Simp-
son continued at 'Shikarpore. Shere Mahomed was
said to have still a larger number of men and amount of
money at his disposal than could have been imagined. Sir
C. Napier was said to have solicited from Lord Ellenhorough
active employment in the Punjaub ; and to have proposed
moving a force into Mooltan simultaneously with the advance
of the main army on Lahore. The recal of the Governor-
General is likely to have given the death-blow, for the pre-
sent, to the system of general aggression and periodical war
known by the name of " Peace in Asia."