The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY IN INDIA.

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The subjoined is an extract of a letter from a non• commis-
sioned cfficer of the 22d Regiment, to some of his friends in
Clonmel. It gives a very melancholy account of the ravages
which the cholera has made in that corps :
" Camp Kurrachee, 22d April, 1842.
" Since I wrote to you about this day mo ith, the Almighty
has been pleased to lay a very heavy hand on this regiment, in
the shape of cholera. We have now in the short space of one
month laid in the cold grave our band-master, sergeant-major,
three sergeants, and 130 men, 12 women, and about 20 young
children, not speaking of the proportion of the other European
corps in garrison buried. I wrote to you a supplementary
letter last month, when I found things were getting better
with the right wing, as I was afraid if I wrote about it, it
would make you uneasy. The next day it broke out amongst
us. To bury nine men -a day was our allowance, and that with-
out coffins, only tied in a sheet, and three in some graves. We
had to fly from the barracks into camp, half way to the sea.
We soon, in the middle of a desert, raised a grave-yard. We
fled from that place to the sea-shore, where we got great benefit
from the sea-bathing, and buried very few. We were then
ordered to join the head-quarter camp, where it was again as
bad as ever. One hundred and sixty recruits from England
having joined, it whipped them off very fast. The doctor
made a report that the knocking about of the regiment has
kept the disease up, so we marched into the wretched barracks
here yesterday, but we now appear to be on the mending hand,
though we still have it amongst us ; but please God it will soon
wear'away. It was very singular that all the officers escaped
I almost gave up all hope of ever seeing any of you again, but I
hope for the best."

QUICK PASSAGE.—We have just seen a gentleman
who arrived at Blackwell, this morning, from Granton Pier,
by the Prince of Wales new iron steam-ship, in the unprece-
dented short period of 361/2 hours, being the quickest voyage
that has ever yet been made by steam between Leith and Lon-
don. We understand the Prince of Wales was built by these
eminentengineers, Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, of Glasgow.
CLAIM OF TIIE BARON DE BODE.—On Saturday
the long-pending claim of the Baron Clement de Bode was
brought to a close before the Commissioners, Messrs. Fraser,
Williams, and Smyrke, and the Jury appointed to inquire into
the claim. The whole of the evidence was got through on
Friday, and on the evening of that day Mr. Commissioner
Fraser commenced summing up; but owing to the numerous
allegations contained in the petition of the Baron, he was
obliged to adjown the Court, and resumed his summing up on
Saturday morning. He concluded at three o'clock in the after-
noon, at which hour the Jury retired, and, having found the
Baron's title to be good, returned into Court at six o'clock,
awarding the Baron 9,106,650 francs, or 364,2601., being the
sum, with interest, to which they thought he was entitled for
the loss of his estate in Alsace. The amount claimed, with in-
terest, by the Baron, was 1,600,0001.
THE PRINCESS ROYAL STEAMER.—LIVERPOOL
AND GLascow.—There is now running between Liverpool
and Glasgow a beautiful steamer, for the conveyance of pas-
sengers, called the Princess Royal. She left the Mersey the
Were must be a vacancy before the close of the
other day at, four, p.m., and reached Glasgow four hours in ad-
vance of the mail. This is not a solitary instance of the rapid
conveyance of the metropolitan journals to Glasgow by this
steamer. She has frequently gratified the public of that city
with highly important London news hours in advance of the
moil. We understand she is splendidly fitted up, and is one of
the fastest steamers on the station. The Glasgow Chronicle
of the 15th says, "We have been again to-day put in possession
of the London journals hours before the arrival of the mail, by
the attention or the agent of this splendid steamer. In addi-
tion to this we received by her a file of American papers,
brought by the Aca.iia. ( Halifax steamer), which arrived at.
Liverpool yesterday, after a splendid run across the Atlantic of
less than 11 days."
READING ELECTION.—We have heard it reported
several times during the past week that an election for this
Iborough will take place very early in July, and many persons
are found to give credence to this statement. It is at present
'a most unlikely thing that Mr. Roebuck's Committee can pro-
to examine and report on the Reading and other election►
t in so short a time, and in the present temper of the
ccue"eoe:ass:.l;r2irrit will be allowed to boroughs impeached of cor-
in fact, perfectly impossible to predict, with
reasonableqhjtagtriosu,nds of certainty, when an election will take
there can .e no doubt whatever. The Conservatives
are prepared for a contest, and only anxious for its speedy
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