The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-04 00:00:00

Murders in Sinde. A large kaplah of 300 camels
was lately piundereu near Lecoo,an, but upon the
whole the country is quiet. The troops at Kurra-
thee and Hyderabad are comparatively healthy. At
the former station great improvements in every way
have of late been going on. The revenues of the
country are in the main turning out better than was
anticipated ; and altogether a considerable share of
prosperity- is exhibited. The total colleotion will in
the present year probably amount to half a million
sterling; the civil charges, including those of collec-
tion, to between 300,0001. and 400,0001. sterling.
tut leen we have an army of 12,000 men to support
of whom about 9,000 were raised avowedly for Sinde,
these, consisting of ten men added to each company
of each of the Native Infantry Regiments of the
Bengal and Bombay army, not on field service in
February, 1843, and of a rewly-raised regiment
of Irregular Horse. The cost of the mili-
tary establishment in Sinde, in fact, will alone
absorb more than its revenues—the civil charges
falling on the general treasury of India.
The expense of a large steam flotilla on the
Indus not required for mercantile purposes, and of
three or four steamers belonging to the Indian navy,
chiefly employed in plying between Bombay and
Ran-ruchee, is itself no trifle. Your views and mine,
however, differ on these matters, so I shall say no
More about them. Sir Charles Napier, with his staff,
left Kurrachee for the upper country on the 15th. It
Was said that he intended to have an expedition sent
into the Warree country, to avenge our mishap at
Poolajee, had there been a sufficiency of troops at
Sukkur or Shikarpore. This, unfortunately, there
is not, both posts being disabled at present by sick-
"es4. At Kharighur, our extreme outposts, about
two-thirds of the men are ill of fever. At Shikar-
pore of itself about one thousand men, belonging to
the ith Native Infantry and 7th Cavalry, between
seven hundred and eight hundred are in hospital.
About three-fourths of the Horse Artillery are unfit
for duty. At Sukkur the 78th Highlanders are
about Seven hundred in hospital, and about seventy
Et for duty. It is scarcely four months since it left
Kurrachee—not yet a twelvemonth since it quitted
tiornbay in the highest health. It will .be
the third European regiment sent back from
Sinde in the course of a twelvemonth so
utterly disorganised by disease as to be ren-
dered, for a long period after its return, unservice-
able. The native infantry at Sukkur are also begin-
ning to suffer, though they have hitherto in a great
Measure escaped. Curiously, the European officers
have, throughout the season, been exempt from sick-
ness, as have also the natives of the country.
The following letter from Shikarpore, which has
just been published in the Delhi Gazette, gives a still
more deplorable picture of the state of matters than
soy which has reached •Bombay direct. It is the
More valuable as coming from the pen of a Bengal
officer, generally believed more in favour with the
conquest of Sind than those of tlee minor presideney,
who are. more ii‘timately acqu,trttA w ith the eou ntry :
" shikarpor, , Nov. 12. 1844.
" Dear Mr. Editor,—My da,oi-gook reminds me I
have not written to you since the 23d ultimo, and I re-
gret I cannot give you now a much more ft:meting stun
of our salubrity th,ii in ray last. I saw fie, remain- of
the 69th It.gt!,,vn; on parade tun days since, under
their adjutnia. irrot.,, being too earl.)
them, and on inquiry tound they mustered 75 file. The
7th Cavalry manage to get two troops our for walking
exercise every morning, but 1 observe he proportion
of troopers among the riders is hut and I am
told they could sett turn out an etlic.eot ti oop if one
were required ; and moreover, that men of th, its
had escaped b-ver fir 12 days, were again going- ioto
hospital. The horse artillery ti ,op see the oily ones
that seem to be improving-, tor the day before yesterd.ty
I observed they had three guns out; one would have
been their maxianun last month.. At Khanghur the
sickness continues unsba:ed; Captain Smith, of the Ar-
tillery, who has just returned from thence, i. a daily
sufferer from fever; Captain Tait, too, who has just left
us, had it up to the moment of his starting. AL Sukkur,
however, they seem to be still worse off than ours, lves,
for the accounts from there are quite appaling, 700 ot
the Highlanders are in hospital, and men dying daily,
and 500 of each of the native corps, both of which are
weak in strength, are also sick. Mr. Assistant-Surgeon
Cannon is, we hear, again in arrest. Now the natives
of the surrounding country unanimously declare this
season to have been the most healthy one they have had
for many years, so that we have a cheerful prospect in
looking forward to next August, September, and October,
which will in all probability annihilate the remains of the
different corps here; bat perhaps that was the object of
our
.paternal Government in sending all the mutineer
IthefsiTZtlsitoolSl,inde? and yet the 64th are to go to Agra
wise and judicious arrangement, thtis to
Iff," premium' for mutiny by withdrawing a corps
"'Lich has three times been guilty of it from this detested
tr"in !"ce, to the preference of other corps that hate be-
„'ed as quietly, respectfully, and orderly as ever
31- th a general strike, and who I am sure are heartily
tler,;lll,ed they ever listened to the tempters that drew
w
13 aril:9r a short time from their allegiance. Sir c
expected up here to destroy Poolajee, but
he will
*ritoe tlbrYlg his troops with him, I rather think. I will:
hare sP°I. at the end of the. mouth, and until then,
nterel " BO PEEP."
A sin Y,
th tplar change has taken place in the politics
the Ate:tiisuntjer aub; the leaders of the opposing parties,
Raja Hera Singh on the one side, and
ha°°veilteb Singh, Lord of Jumbo°, on the other, who
bee ueen at deadly feud for a twelvemonth past, have
beep
reconciled to each other, and are now living
Tigl,niethei in amity. Two causes. are assigned for this.
210:. Year the general relief of the regiments of the
some
provinces has been carried into effect
iie":°What differently from the usual practice, the re-
broiling-, regiments having been directed to be all
eed-tg"tlnuaPretore those to be relieved were Permit'
tr 0-0 The last apparent accumulation of
°TI the frontier occasioned great alarm ; this
tantl rtuitoo.y
the trY g 51 increased by the permission reluc-
rented to the Commander-in-Chief to inspect
11. (3°(l):s.at Loodianah, Balla, and Ferozepore. Sir
ti Igh is ears kn ail it) brush .
op the Selkiiki; has, in tile', ,1111:te,i 110
hjaPtrt;UnitY 01. expressnig himself on this point, and
Pro °l).lll°ns era known at tile Lahore durhar. His
zgress along the trontier river from the las to Fe-
and many instances through aeiseee-
eon- (d. Seikhs oil this side of the Sutiedge will, of
.derfllet inere'L' the alarm, so that it- will not be won-
the 41 Were the urine no, at Lahore to advance wider
readonited chiefe to the banks of the Sucledge to be
an Yin case of emergency. The fear, therefore, of
twoimmediate invasion from British India made the
d is' ''lnghs reflect that in fighting together they were
Qac
,1g the very thing we most desire.le-flyingat other'sto
try; settle in and settle the quarrel by seizing the coun-
b:o Another reason is said to have been the ex-
the atinn of the treasury at Lahore, where, it is said,
4,0 Minister will scarely be able to muster funds
buteUgh to
Pay the troops their arrears. This has
/../ occasioned by the unbounded lavishness of
eri"„ra Singh from the first moment of his last year's
vfh'itnPll, and especially to the foolish facility with
ieizCh he suffered the treasures of the State to be
ed on by Goolab Singh on his visit to Lahore in
8, Ptetnber. The Lord of Jumboo is said to have
14,1,7°1301. sterling of accumulated wealth in his
eere
"3,4114 can, by this means, readily command the
iees of a rabble and mercenary army.
Th
diets e apprehension expressed that the unpaid sol-
leo
rll6 Would revolt and threaten the British frontier
d,h, groundless. Whatever may be Heera Singh's
a`alculties
the case, Goolab Singh is perfectly
r!re that were disturbance such as to incommode
t° Make its appearance, the Punjaub, with Jurn-
Zeand its treasures, would at once be seized on.
synth
no towtQeehiesfs may quarrel or arrange matters with
each hr a
they best can ; they will furnish us
apolo
hyoid gy for attacking them which they. can
proofs Sir Hardinge has given such unequivocal
1,41; of his determination to avoid war
re2reerve it is possible, without dishonour, to
he peace, that there is
anyno fear of
4440 seeking for excuses for attackin one: All
toLlb tS on this point which g
might have been
li,e!'ll
"rtainedtey those desirous of winning laurels have
dispelled by the extent to which leave on
For
ate affairs" has been granted to military officers.
four years this indulgence has been in a great
v,_measure..withheld, and the result is that officers are
to
..staklng advantage of the privilege accorded them
unprecedented extent—an extent which never
would have been
most permitteA had Government had the
St remote idea of a campaign in the course of the
Year.
creep You may assure the military journals who
nstantly arming the public with the cry of war
torgsthe Punjaub, that war there will be none with any
Ye enemy on our borders before this time next
4t) if Sir H. Hardinge is spared. In Affghanistan,
:711.We1l as in the Punjaub, matters appear to be as-
fefn.,4ll3* More tranquillity. Dost Mahomed is mani-
"l.l? both able and willing to keep the peace ; there
been
some fighting in •Kohistan, in which the
-tee's Bon, Akram Khan, has been successful.