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

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 judicious 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.EnsKINE 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 newsiess ones in
India; field operations are never pursued then unless hi
cases of extreme emergency, and communications by land
and sea become tardy and difficult. The rumours of the
Truster 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 op 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 Bombaj, 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.