The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-05 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA..

these trying times.
" Seven natives died last night out of two regiments." AO
From Hyderabad we regret to hear almost as utelaneho
tale. Every regiment has its hospital filled with sick. of
9th Bengal Cavalry have 375 on their siek list, and the vty
ber is daily increasing. There, moreover, they have not ,
cool weather beginning to be enjoyed at Sukkur • the elit
dreadfully hot in the day, and the nights cold and tamp f.
following is a late letter from that quarter i—
" Lower Sinde, Nov. 2, 1843?
" Sickness still prevails h ere to a very great extent, tiPt` tM
amongst oar own men, but a: so amongst the inhabitant:3 9'oi
country ; there is not a single family some of the 'mam!, 0
which arc not laid up; and numbers of children, tnti7
withstand the dire malaria, parish daily. A:season so ref? g
able for rain and sickness has Lot been known in Since,
years. The crops, which might otherwise in a manner ,r 4
compensated for these evils, have Ix len attacked by locustef,,
notwithstanding the fires kindled in every direction to
them off, these insects have commAt ed grievous damage; It
where they have once been allowed to settle down, searulot
vestige of cultivation has been left. The direction o?
flight was almost invariably from west: to east. The tr
Hyderabad are more sickly than ever ; en..e regiment, Iti
stand, mustered only 20 men yesterday."

AFFGHANISTAN.

(From the Delhi Gazette, Oct- 26.) 114.
In our last we gave a considerable amouist of • news oos
Central Asia, in which the position of Dost Iklahorael,Asi
may be considered to be correctly set forth. Distill' 01
home, his authority defied by his kinsmen, and resisted bi
nearest chiefs, his treasury empty, his troops lelo4oo
for want of pay,—nothing seems left him but the des
/lie
resource of some foreign expedition, by which he 'we- 101.
able to acquire an accession of wealth and territory, 0.5., if
ficient importance to raise him in the eyes of his vor"off
mediate subjects. He is only poor and despised beau°
nag 11
are rich from our spoils, and able to resist his po eisti
were he in a condition to recruit his finances, the
position of ruler and subject would be greatly iiltereiutbd
what it now is. The consciousness of this state 01
is inducing him to look now with more anxiety then
AAA
to direction of Peshawur, and although he migb,t
to gain but few proselytes at Caubul and its viciriotY, so
the people are gorged with plunder for some Ye.dbi,„
come and listless for the acquisition of mere, he riaifde
once a nucleus of an army were set in motion, be 'ittAtw
collect the tribes on either side as he passed down.
again, it is doubtful how far the Khyber tribes might 1.70.
dined to assist, viewing, as they doubtless do, Pest/001f
their own peculiar prey, and considering, as they Proof;
would do, any attempt by Dost Mahommed as that of
roe
terloper. A considerably strong opinion seems also to
Pd
in Caubul that the ruler of Bokhara is inclined td exte no,
dominions across the mountain chain, and that the Pecirdalrii
Upper Affghanistan would not be loth to submit to his ,
nation. 'the disunion which has arisen between fatb.,et et;
son seems against the latter being deputed to carry 0;0r
equally hostile views on Peshawur, though later °,410
would incline us to the belief, that Sirdar Mahommed iib
Khan had set out on such an expedition. The whole woo d
considerations only tend to show that the present tetiosj
sovereignty by the Ameer is very insecure, that the F°l:,ifor„,
affairs is entirely changed from what it was before vier
the land, and that the whole lace of it will be in a Vleit'se„il
security and disorder until some strong hand stul" It psi
coerce the people under a powerful Government.
,lio" tbs'
appear by the Candahar news that our surmises regal
preparations of Shere Mahommed have not been far 'l4
real state of affairs. He has been employing his time
the Western hill tribes to some purpose, and may, in thctor
state of the garrisons of Upper Slade, be induced to try ri
tune at least against the Shikarpore detachment.

A DASHING EXPLOIT. otber
Intimation was sent home by the last mail of setae
serious disturbances which had broken out at IChetilybli
Shekawattee, where an elderly Ranee, of unpronona:,
name, had collected 5,000 matchlock-men, and taken Pegiottell
of the tort, expelling the mother of the infant Raja it Isl
Singh, to whom the stronghold of right belonged. sbe
stated too that Major Forster, with a detachment of tke.derffe
kawattee Brigade, was about to take measures for the
of the fortress and the punishment of the offenders. do f fuel
now enabled to give particulars of :the insurrection, an vie/ 11,
proceedings adopted by the gallant Illajor with the d
quelling it, which he succeeded in doing after a long an in t'
contested engagement with the enemy, terminating if
capture of the town and fort of Khetrie. behr •
It appears that Ham Nath Perohif, the &under °lin. fore-
of the minor Sovereign of Khetrie,abler
from:his appointment, and his place occupied by ,„h urgelieo
who was supported by a very large assembly of UJ Al
These, to the number of about 5,000, took up their Ale;
in the pass, town, and fort. On the 21st of Octobetwo et;
Forster, who had been encamped at Siaghana witl2 010001
guns, three companies of infantry, and two 'surfs:4.o
cavalry, proceeded towards Kotepootlee, for the of
seizing a fort in that neighbourhood, of which our 0.005.
rebels had gained possession. On the approach ot
the insurgents evacuated their position and fled, leayin(rfro
them six pieces of artillery which they had brotlq
was eje,ctede
Khetrie. The fort was dismantled and blown up, and
port'
Forster proceeded to Dadta, where he also dislodged a V:
of rebels ; and the haunts of the principal leaders (of
about eight were captured) were then destroyed. On t.,1500
November he marched to Khetrie, and attacked the into"
of insurgents, when a gallant and decisive action took risre:e
Major Forster's force consisted 0f*260 foot and 60 h..° atetv
09,
the Shekawattee brigade, with three guns; and 900 r ge
lock-men and 80 horse, belonging to Jeypore, with fot4l,i.to
The enemy are said to have mustered 6,500 men. e 19.1;
was a very strong one, situated on a steep emineneo'iles..,,
feet high, and approached by a difficult defile five o'o
length. Both the fort and pass were occupied hY,:vthenig lt
eats in considerable numbers, but they were soon u'id
cy
he ia:ter, and obliged to take refuge in their streingb,°,li f°krt
was jave..led, without delay. After some heavy Set be fed,
short time, t,:ey capitulated, promising to evacuatejoaers 5,
within six hours, During the night most of them
and on the evening of the next day Major Forster tsbah)
session of the place. Amonst those who fled was tile Ilion' 4
Kanai Ram, the leader and chief instigator of the rob Js
11,75
of the light companies of the brigade, aided by
Ouring the attack on the fort, Captain Forster, at ovg
str wet, stir
strongly occupied 'by the insurgents, who a
of matchlock-men, directed his steps to the town, loifeJ.o
to g,id,
defend it with vigour. They were obliged, here °an d Pi'of
way, and were eventually driven out with great loss, &feral
sued to the hills. The victory was completed by the
tbeleftbo
a strong body of men stationed on an eminence to bier, O,
the town, and commanded by a bold and courageous ,e ancl
seemed determined to maintain his position to the IsaV oasoeb"
fount,
indeed, on the conclusion of the conflict, was
the number of the slain.
es to
Several other chiefs of note fell during the enw's'
sonie.tio,
among them the nephew of the Dhabye. The 04 on be
ppeared rer
our side are stated as 2 killed and 42 wounded; eil'ed.
part of the rebels 16 killed and upwards of 80 wennirited
skilful and masterly manner in which the above sP.ouatis gyn
was conducted is worthy of all praise. The coneslit_t 05.0.00
lantry of Captain Forster, in the stormin, of th
is, in particular, highly spoken of ; and to ins. &lye'',
bravery the very satisfactory termination of the nas.l°,l deg
and ably. executed enterprise is doubtless in 'v° sow
attributable.

CHINA. ci !OW
following The elegy upon the late -°-
his
Cele
sioner pen Lin is said to be from theof
tial Majesty himself :
" AN IMPERIAL EDICT.—The great statesman, ,h
sen preserved an undeviating line of rectitude, and ").ei'
ciples of probity and uprightness were rooted i°: -
ture. In manner, he was plain and affable, and ,11:5r5.0.„„°!
ress of heart was even eminently displayed. In t""
Kea-King, having been honoured by an Imperial exatoroori
t„g 0 tir
he was raised from the rank of Han-lin (the
graduate) to a seat in the Cabinet. We, upon com•-,„ bto-'
throne, and observing his patriotic spirit, his dispatch 11 pre;
near, and his extensive and varied experience, ordered ha:sift&
sence about the Imperial person, in which capacity he rredeloeita
for upwards of ten years without a single instance °' rioter'
Last year we sent him to the province of Ho-nan to sure'seser
the embarking operations on the Yellow River in the ,th b 0„
hoo district, which were conducted and completed 01 a t°
usual zeal and energy. Our Council then recon,mendirli-or
take his age into consideration, and being fully ewer° iith;t4o
tore with hire was en the dewy, we granted biw °lb'

The following are atiflitional eNtracts from the
Bombay and Canton papets:—
. DREADFUL SICKNERS IN SINDE.
(From the liam4ay Cot trier.)
The state of the troops at Sukkur isnd Shikarpore, instead of
improving, as we thought some time aro,9',
is, we regret evess
sively to hear, gettiag worse and worse ; it'would appear that
the fever is positively on the increase; the state of the Arta'
lery, especially, is most deplorable ; and we c erdiany join
is
the hope of one of our correspondents that Govern,men.t will be
induced by these public representations, if not by Lhost• which
have been made officially, to adopt some speedy moan s f°r
saving the lives of the remainder of the two unfortunate 01°,
panies. They can be of no use in their present state, and:tie
facility wish which they might be conveyed to Kurachee otigiv
surely to bean inducement to allow them that only chance of thei'(
being preserved to the service. The apathy ss;high has been eller
in supplying the station with additional mitdical aid is really
most discreditable to Government, and,refieets on every ineiv
her whose business it should have been to obviate by timell
assistance the frightful results of sheer carelessness and neglect.
'That Sukkur will be found` altogether unfitted for a EuroPer,
station must be sufficiently clear, and we only hope that
experience derived from the fate of the unfortunates who ha"
been sent to deposit their bones in such a Golgotha will hs/e
the effect of opening the eyes of the authorities, dearly as it hat
been bought. We had entertained some hopes that Shikar:
pore, being beyond the line of jungle, more open to the solw,
and less exposed to the malaria of the immediate neighbourt
hood of the river, would have proved a more advantageous 100
than Sukkur in point of sanatory considerations, but the,
appears very little difference in the proportionate number °I
sick in both stations.
(From the Delhi Gazette, Nov. 15.)
" Sukkur, Nov. 5, 1843. t
" The state of the Sukkur brigade is, I hope, at its worst, a_
least there are very few men now left sto go into hospi '
and from all I hear the average number of all grades per OP;
any at muster on the lit of November, 1543, may be tag
se
at. 10; but you must bear in mind that molly of theser,
totally unfit for more than standing
,sentry, and many 17,i
equal to that. All regiments are the same. Not one °i,
af the six medical men have been able to leave tiheto,
beds for the last three days. Every guard has been rtsdece!,l
the very lowest, all orderlies, as far as possible, withdravref.:;
death is beginning to make rapid strides amongst the nal/it,
40, or about, I think, of the two companies of Europeats
tillery, out of 180, have already been carried off, and the 1"
mainder look more like ghosts than living beings. ire
" Of officers, who possibly are of the least consideratielpe
have only, by God's providence, lost ode ; fifteen itiave %et
away in different directions on sick certificate, and I sesro
some five or six more will leave shortly, as soon as die doett
are able to make out the certificates ; at Shikarpore the thwi
company and the detachment of Chamberlain's Horse srhe',4
believe, no better. Only two officers at the statieel ".101
escaped. This I write, being certainly not an exalt eras
statement of a Bengal brigade in an enemy's country, whigte
others may say to the contrary. This sickness commenced.
August, and the only assistance we have-had from our •y.
provinces, after repeated applications, has been one assistro
surgeon, sick the day he arrived, about the 30th of Odom,.
and, I think, two native doctors ; neglected by our own
sidency, we have to thank Sir C. Napier for his timely Or;
ance in sending us two medical officers, who, I regret to ,1 „
are both very ill, and we have accounts of another having
Hyderabad, although they can ill spare him, being just tl!Ls
as we are. Sir C. Napier has also issued a very hanans
order to the medical officers for their attention and exertion