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It is quite as short between the termini.
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ORCE STER, WARWICK, and RUGBY
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P ARIS AND. LYONS RAILWAY..
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26th August, 1845.

(IHELMSFORD • and BURY RAILWAY.--
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of allotment have this day been posted:
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they were compelled, in nearly' every instance, to allot loss than-the
number required by, those parties whose applicatione were enter-
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this explanation as a sufficient apology for their requests not having
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EDWARD FEDER,
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OVERLAND

MAIL

By, Order,
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LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
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for Shares in this undertaking, that fhe allotment Is completed, and
that the letters of allocation have been this day posted. They at
the same time beg to express their regret that in consequence of the
very numerous applications that have been made, they were com-
pelled in every instance to redtice very considerable the claims of
those parties whose applications were entertained, and in many cases
to reject altogether the names of numerous applicants of the most
undoubted respectability.
The Committee trust that those persons who do not receive
letters of allotnient will accept this explanation as a sufficient
apology for their requests not having been complied with.

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
Britigh 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 liews of any consider-
able importance on the present scasion. A tract of
country on the Western Bank of the Indus, recently
obtained in exchange from our ally Meer Ali Moorad,
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 preytilsd at Kur-
raehee that reinforcements were likely tiObe needed,
and if this be the case, the affair mast be of traore seri-
ous nature than was at first imagihed. 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 tfier,exclusive. guardianship of Captain
Brown and his police. yerysreat _dissatisfaction has
been caused by the re-introduction of transit duties--
a system of taxation denounced while practised by
the Amcers, and entirelyfutielished by Lord Ellen-
borough. The intelligence. from the Punjaub relate
chiefly to the ravages of cholera, and the suppression of
the rebellion, nf3rince Peshora Singh. A design to
assassinate Rajmillab 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 Raja 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. CiiOfera had shown itself at
Ghuznee and Jellalabad.—T'h'ere 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 setting in of the rainy season, however, will
doubtless now relieve us entirely of this calamitous vi-
sitation.

Ry order,
W. H. INGRAM', Secretary.
22, Parliament-street, Angust 29, 1845.

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

SINDE.

The 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 Siade from our
ally, Meer Ali Moored. This territory, situated about
80 miles above Sukkur, had 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 Kmmore, 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 wag 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 rot been allowed to re-
main idle. At this place was statroned (by General
Order of 18th March last) a force consisting of 100
sabres of the 7th Light Cavalr,, and 200 of the infantry
of the Bundelkund Legion, coder Captain R. Master,
vtith a small pestpn. Early in June a report prevailed
that a further -portion of the !est named body was
" wanted "at Shahpere ; but we-we not aware whether
any additional detachment was really sent up. The
cause of this rumour appears to istveutieen a fresh exhi-
bition of unconquerable predatory rirropensities on the
part of a band of Boogties, who had made an inroad
and..captured some three hunlred head of cattle.
Captain. • • Tabor, who was it 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 thatkrection. These stations
are not intended to be relieved tilthe sth of October, and
the same rule is La apply to the Lower Sinde posts at
Meerpore and. Omerkote. It is said that the Sinde
Government has taken into its eimloy a great number of
Jakranees, who have been incorperated into the mounted
police, anti it is said prove a useful acquiiition to
that The rise of the Indus has been late
this season—the river having been on the 12th of
June, no more than eight filet above low-water
mrAr}C. Once commenced, hswever, it increased
'z'ar,,idly, and by the 22d it lad reached a consi-
derable height and promised e-e 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. Abort the middle of June
cholera unfortunately broke out tt the former place, and
for some time raged with considerable violence, the
number of deaths on the 20,1)—in the whole town—
having amounted to 42, out of which 33 were those of
natives and four, uropeans. Strange to say, the dis-
ease manifested itself only in the Sudder bazaar, the
old city of -IW.Eur and the town ce noree remaining per-
fectly free n 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 malugh 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 Pesbawur 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.
I The troops at Hyderabad appear to have continued all
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We have c:nly a' I vv' it emgof -intelligestiteCto rbcord
from this qUaiTer, but the information discloses_nothing
of particular importance- in a politie'arsPoint. of view.
The terrible malady which has this year-visited nearly
the whole of the Indian continent, and committed in
many places such frightful havoc, made.its appearance
at Belgaum and Kelapore as well as other districts of
the Southern Mahratta country, and occasioned. sad
ravages amongst the native inhabitants and'our sepoy
troops. The European officers, also, did not escape;
and on the 12th and 13th of June Lieutenant Carpen-
dale and Ensign Roberts, of the Bth Madras Native In-
fantry, fell victims to the disease. Soon 4fter, these
casualties, a heavy fall of rain—the first .burst of the
S.W. Monsoon—took place, and appears althost instan-
taneously to have arrested the progress of the epidemic.

,

TIIE PUNJAUB.
Our news from Lahore extends from theist to the
24th of June, and possesses some interest. The ravages
of the cholera, the rebellion of Prince PesliVra Siugh,
the continued insubordination of tho troops, and recent
attempt to assassinate Baja Golaub Singh—aro the
chief points which attract attention. With' „respect to
the- first, it would seem that the maladYlin,tbe city of
Lahore itself has of late considerably abated, the deaths,
whi h at one time amounted to between six and seven
hundred daily,hav,ing decreased in number to from 20 to
30. The disease, however, appears to'be still committing
great havoc in other parts of the Panjaub. Ndr has
it been confined to the Seikh side of the Punjaub. It
broke out about.the middle
,of June at the British station
of Ferozepore, and did considerable mischief amongst
both the European and native troops. Many of the men
of her Majesty's 62A regiment fell victims to the dread-
ful disease. To return, however, to our Lahore news.
On the Ist of June (as we stated in a previous 'number)
intelligence arrived that Prince Peshora Singh, whose
insurrectionary movements had already occasioned no
little alarm, had surprised with a superior force a party
conveying Government treasure to Peshawar, and after
, a short conflict, succeeded in capturing the,prize; *hick
Junsounted to about six lakhs of rupees (60;0004
`receipt of this information, orders were at once issued for
.the preparation of a force to prcceed to Seeslkote against
the Prince, and a body of troops, it would seem,
soon afterwards marched on this service. About
the sth a letter appears to have been received from Pe-
shora Singh by the Khalsas, intimating that " poverty
alone had driven him to the course he was now pursuing,
and that, if a provision suitable to bis rank was made,
he would immediately desist ; at any rate, he hoped for
the support of the troops.". The Khalsas, in 'reply,
offered him an asylum in their camp ; which however
he, of course, had no idea of accepting. He now en-
sconced himself in Seealkote, and made preparationlor
a stout resistance. He seems to have been in possession
of a considerable sum of money, which, it was said, had
been sent him by the nephew of Baja Golaub Singh.
On the arrival of the troops, a deputation waited
on him, to recommend that he should restore the
money he had plundered, and " pay up the arrears
due by him." To this advice a reply was' given to the
effect that " necessity had alone compelled him to do as
he had done, and that poverty now compelled him to
keep the 'Money." The negotiation having thtls re-
sulted unsuccessfully, it was resolved to attack Seealkote,
and the troops accordingly commenced an assault on
that place. The Prince, however, sallied out, at the
head of a strong force, and put them to the 'rout, loin*
100 of his own men, and killing thrice that number of
his assailants. After this somewhat startling manifes-
tation of his prowess, another deputation waited on him
—and on this occasion with greater success. The
Prince agreed to surrender the treasure ; and Sirdur
Juwahir Sing withdrew the troops from Seealkote. It
appears that the prince has been removed from this phy-e
to a jagheer of equal value at Munkeera ; and the state
troops, after making arrangements for the Government
of the district, returned to Lahore, which city they
reached on the 20th of June.
We observe that an idea has latterly become again
pretty generally prevalent, that an invasion of the Seikh
empire is in contemplation by the British Indian Govern-
ment. We see nothing in the present state of affairs
that supplies the least ground for this conclusiOn.

AFFGIIANISTAN.

We have accounts from Caubul to the 23d of
May, but the intelligence is of minor importance,
Cholera would appear to have kokett..out both at
Ghuznee and Jellalabad. Mahomed Akhbar
re-
turned from this latter place on the 13th of May, and was
received at Caubul by his father, the Dost, with every
manifestation of joy. Soon after his arrival he appears to
have communicated his intention•of proceeding on a pil-
grimage to Mecca, and by the last accounts. the Meer
Hajee, together with Mahomed Shah Khan Ghilzie an
Azeez Khan Ghilzie, and the requisite number of at-
tendants, were preparing to accompany him. The Dost,
it would appear, does not approve of this step. Intima-
tion has reached Caubul of the intention of the King of
Bokara to invade and appropriate the territory of the
Wullee of Khooloom ; and Dost 7%homed, with th
view of averting this result, had dispatched a private
employe as ambassador to " his ilajesty," with instruct •
lions to dissuade him, if possible, from the enterprise. A
private council was summon€d on the 18th to deliberate,
as it was said, upon some letters that had been received
from the British authorities.