The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-01 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

The Overland Mail has brought intelligence from
Bombay to the 19th of July, Calcutta July 5, and China
May 15. The news is generally without interest, as no
event of importance had occurred in any part of the
British dominions in India, and the same may be said of
China. At Calcutta the exchange was brisk, large
transactions having taken place at Is Hid, at ten
months' date. The following summary is taken from
the Bombay Times of July 19
Young Egypt supplies the only news of any consider-
able importance on the present occasion. A tract of
country on the Western Bank of the Indus, recently
obtained in exchange from our ally Meer Ali Moored,
has been plundered by some of the tribes in the neigh-
bourhood, and it has been found necessary to send up a
wing of the 18th regiment of Bombay N. 1., under
Major Corsellis, for the :purpose of suppressing the dis-
turbance. No intelligence has arrived as to the result
of the expedition ; but rumours prevailed at Kur-
rachee that reinforcements were likely to be needed,
and if this be the case, the affair must be of a more seri-
ous nature than was at first imagined. The troops sta
tioned at the outpost at Shahpore have had a successful
chase after some cattle-stealing Beloochees. From the
above it will be seen that Sinde is not in the enjoyment
of complete tranquillity, and that it is not yet in a fit
state to be left to the exclusive guardianship of Captain
Brown and his police. Very great dissatisfaction has
been caused by the re-introduction of transit duties
a system of taxation denounced while practised by
the Ameers, and entirely abolished by Lord Ellen-
borough. The intelligence from the Punjaub relate
chiefly to the ravages of cholera, and the suppression of
the rebellion of Prince Peshora Singh. A design to
assassinate Baja Goolab Singh has been discovered, and
the supposed originator of the plot, after taking poison,
endeavoured, almost with his last breath, to fix the guilt
of complicity upon Sirdar Juwahir Sing, the Minister,
and Baja Lull Singh, Commander of the Forces ! The
troops still continue turbulent, and clamorous for in-
creased pay, gratuities, &c. From Caubul we learn
that Mahomed Ukhbar Khan is about to undertake a
pilgrimage to Mecca. Choler-A had shown itself at
Ghuznee and Jellalabad.—T4re is nothing of import-
ance from the Southern Mahratta country.--The troops
at Ferozepore have suffered a good deal from cholera,
and this terrible malady has this year:afflicted almost the
whole continent of India. In the Madras Presidency, and
at Bombay, Poona, &c., its ravages have been most ex-
tensive ; the netting in of the rainy season, however, will
doubtless now relieve us entirely of this calamitous vi-
sitation.

News from China to the 15th May has been received
since our last, but it comprises nothing of particular
moment.

SINDE.
Tbe intelligence received from Sinde since our last is
recent in date, and in many respects of very considerable
interest. It will be remembered that a short time since
a tract of country on the western bank of the Indus was
taken in exchange by the Governor of Slade from our
ally, Meer Ali Moored. This territory, situated about
80 miles above Sukkur, bad no sooner come into our pos-
session than it began to occasion trouble ; and about the
25th of June information reached Hyderabad that it
was being plundered by some of the neighbouring tribes,
and a wing of the 18th Regiment of Bombay Native
Infantry, under Major Corsellis, was at once ordered up in
steamers to a place called Kusmore, or Kismore, for the
purpose of affording protection to our new subjects in
that quarter. We have heard nothing as yet as to the
result of this expedition : we observe, however, from the
Bombay Witness, that it was rumoured reinforcements
would be required by Major Corsellis to enable him to
accomplish the object for which he set out. No trust-
worthy information has come to hand in reference to
the character of the enemy by whom the depreda-

tions have been carried on. At Shahpore, our farthest
advanced post, close to the Murree and Boogtie
hills, our troops also have not been allowed to re-
main idle. At this place was stationed (by General
Order of 18th March last) a force consisting of 100
sabres of the 7th Light Cavalry, and 200 of the infantry
of the Bundelkund Legion, under Captain R. Master,
with a small post gun. Early in June a report prevailed
that a further portion of the last named body was
" wanted" at Shahpore ; but we are not aware whether
any additional detachment was really sent up. The
cause of this rumour appears to have been a fresh exhi-
bition of unconquerable predatory propensities on the
part of a band of Boogties, who had made an inroad
and captured some three hundred head of cattle.
Captain Tabor, who was in command of the
Shahpore post, discovered and gave chase to
the Beloochees, and, after killing five horses
from over-work during the dour, succeeded in
recovering the stolen property. We have not heard of
any further foray at the outposts, and to all appearances
everything is now quiet in that direction. These stations
are not intended to be relieved till the sth of October, and
the same rule is to apply to the Lower Sinde posts at
Meerpore and Omerkote. It is said that the Sinde
Government has taken into its employ a great number of
Jakranees, who have been incorporated into the mounted
police, and it is said prove a useful acquisition to
that body. The rise of the Indus has been late
this season—the river having been on the 12th of
June no more than eight feet above low-water
mark. Once commenced, however, it increased
rapidly, and by the 22d it had reached a consi-
derable height and promised ere long to overflow the
whole country. Sickness has appeared—though not as
yet to any very serious extent—amongst the troops at
Sukkur and Shikkapore. About the middle of June,
cholera unfortunately broke out at the former place, and
for some time raged with considerable violence, the
number of deaths on the 20th—in the whole town—
having amounted to 42, out of which 33 were those of
natives and four Europeans. Strange to say, the dis-
ease manifested itself only in the Sudder bazaar, the
old city of Sukkur and the town of Roree remaining per-
fectly free from it. The inhabitants of the bazaar, in.
fluenced by alarm, fled, to the number of four hun-
dred to Roree, Shikkapore, and the villages in
the neighbourhood. The malady is said to have been of
a most malignant type, and similar in its characteristics
to that which has decimated the population of Lahore,
and created such fearful havoc in Peshawur and other
parts of the Punjaub. The latest accounts from Sukkur
to the 26th ult. intimate that cholera was then decreas-
ing, and that, singularly enough, it had not spread
beyond its original limits. Fevers have been very
prevalent both at Sukkur and Shikkapore. At the
latter place on the 15th June there were only two officers
of the 7th Light Cavalry—the commanding officer and
adjutant—off the sick list. Several of the officers have
been obliged to return to India on medical certificate,
The troops at Hyderabad appear to have continued ell
along in a tolerably healthy condition.