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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA AND CHINA.
(Frain the Times.) .
The Indian Mail to the 27th of August has arrived,
bringing letters and papers from Bombay to that date.
The intelligence which they communicate, though not of
a striking nature, is of considerable interest.
Sir Henry Harding. strived at Calcutta on the 23d of
July, and was immediately sworn into his high office. His
first act was to continue Mr. Btrd es Governor of Bengal.
On the next and subweguant shays he held Imo,e and dur-
bars, and het thus far gained golden Opinions from all
parties, slthoi there Ire WPM! who appear to doubt his
future proceedings, 1N being nearly connected with Lord
Ellenborough. The most extraordinary criticisme conti-
nue to be made on that noble lord and kit acts, which have
been characterised as the result of his caprices, although
any one who will take the trouble of examining the dates,
&c., it will moon become evident that the acts most con-
demned were all undertaken and carried into execution
with the privity and sanction of at least some members of
the British Government, although the Directors of the
East India Company may hay* bean supposed to have
been left in ignorance. Hence also the rumour got up by
a certain party in Bombay, though against all probability,
that Scinde and the Indus were once again to be placed
under the odious yoke of the Ameers.
Prior to his departure Lord Ellenborough was enter-
tained publicly by the officers of the army at Calcutta,
and he then declared that his chief regret on quitting In-
dia arose from his separation from the military service,
which he highly prized. He embarked on the Ist of
August on board the steamer Tenasaerim, and immedi-
ately started for Suez. Every effort was making to stop
the subscription got up to have a testimonial erected of
him.
The rainy season in the north-west provinces prevented
all military movements. It was stated at Agra, that Sir
H. Hardinge was about to undertake *journey to Allaha-
bad, whither the Lieutenant Governor of the north-
western provinces was about to proceed in order to meet
him. It appears probable that the new Governer-Gene-
ral will not content himself until he shall have visited the
principal stations in those provinces.
The popularity of Sir Henry Hardinge with the military
is likely to be increased, as it had been rumoured in Id-
dia, and as was said on good authority, that he was em-
powered to raise new regiments, to add one captain to
inch of the actual corps, and to reintroduce the punish-
ment of flogging into the native army. This last measure
appears to be considered imperative by the generality of
the officers, especially since the occurrence of the several
mutinies which have latterly disgraced the troops of Ma-
dras and Bengal.
The mutiny of the 64th Regiment of Bengal Infantry,
which had been repressed by the decided measures of
General Hunter, had produced the most stringent pro-
ceedings on the part of Sir Charles Napier, the Governor
of Scinde. The colours were taken from the regiment,
and the trial of the forty ringleaders of the mutiny was,
going on with the greatest care; it had commenced on
the 22d of July, at Sukkur, and a strong example would,
it was expected, be made of those who should be proved
guilty.
In consequence of the introduction of proper arrange-
' ments, and the erection of suitable buildings, there is not
near the former quantity of sickness in Scinde this sea-
son, though the 86th Regiment and two companies of
Artillery had lost several men.
- A small expedition sent to attack a fort called Bursho-
ree, thirty-six miles north-west of Khangur, had been
obliged by the great heat to retreat back to Kliatightne
Sheer Mahommed was still at large in the mountainous
district, but he was nut able to collect forces sufficient to
do injury.
The news from the Funjaub represents that country as
a prey to anarchy and confusion, and the lowest intrigues
of assassination and Blunder by the chiefs. Heera Singh
does not appear to be. fixed in his power, and expectation
was afloat of great commotions agitating the Sikhs in the
month of October next, at the time of the great Hindoo
festival of the Dusserah, when all the native states are in
the practice of making war against their enemies. The
British Indian Government is the chief object of the
Sikhs' hatred : and if credit can be given to the rumours
current on their frontiers, that spirit of hatred is fomented
by intrigues that take their oligin from Persia and Russia.
Dost Mohammed, and his infamously notorious son,
Akhbar Khan, have formed alliances (the latter a matri-
monial one) with Yar Mahommed, the usurper of the so-
vereignty of Herat, while they are also making arrange-
ments with Heera Singh for aiding the Sikhs in case of a
I conflict with the British, with a large army, in the hope of
ecTquering and plundering the north of India. These in-
triguesfutu:e policy of Sir Henry Hardinge ; for bees/Jeer pledged
are well known, and cannot fail to influence the
he may be to avoid a dispute with the Sikhs, circum-
stances more powerful than his promises are likely to
force him into a war.
' The rulers of Cabot, Kandahar, and Herat, are described
' as acting with more unanimity than ever known before,
and Heera Siegh, notwithstanding the difficulties of his
Government, is eager to side with, and to be supported by
those chieftains. It is. therefore, an absurdity to suppose
that in India the British Government can govern by a
merely passive system. There is by far more security In
the practice of rapist conquests,
slate submiasion. which ewes the natives

Another report stated, that Yar Mahommed had driven
away the Persians, who contemplated an attack on his city.
It was said also that the Wullee of Kiloloom was prepar•
ing at the head of a considerable, force to invade the do-
minions of Dost Mahommed. The cause of the dispute
is said to be the abduction of a youth of great beauty, who
belonged to the Wullee, but whom the Dost detained since
last year, when he came on a visit to Cabul.
In Gwalior there were some intrigues respecting the
command of the Jhinsee troops, who had mutinied against
their chief, Bulevunt Rao, on account of his great oppres-
sion. It was said that an uncle of the young Maharajah
would obtain the command.

Bunklekund was tranquil, and great praise was be-
stowed on the police battalions, and especially on the por-
tion of them under the orders of Major Ferris, for their
activity and energy in putting down the disturbances, and
arresting the numerous Dacoits that used to infest those
districts, before the measures introduced by Lord Ellen-
borough led to those favourable results.
The succession to the throne of Holkar, at Indore, has
been settled by the elevation to it of a son of Bhow Hol-
kar, who had married a daughter of Hurree Rao Holkar.
The young Maharajah bad assumed the name of Tookajee
Holkah, and promises well. He is described as a manly
boy and has conciliated the good-will of the people.
boy,-and
arrival in Bombay of Sir Henry t'ottinger from
China has been the signal of great rejoicings. He was
welcomed with addresses, and with dinners, balls, &c.
The Chamber of Commerce presented an Address, to which
his Excellency returned a most remarkable answr, in
which the late proceedings and negotiations in China are
reviewed. This document is worthy of great attention,
as placing the question of the opium trade in a fair light
Sir Henry Pottinger embarked at Bombay on the 27th
of August, on his return to Europe.
There has been considerable discussion respecting the
cruel mode in which some of the Coolies who were sent
back from the Mauritius to Bombay had been put on
board, without any comforts, or even the common neces-
saries for the voyage. One of them died, and the coro-
ner's jury warmly expressed their dissatisfaction at the
manner in which he had been put on board.
The ship Royal Admiral, which sailed from Newport on
the 16th of March, with coals from Aden, being forced by
stress of weather to come to Bombay, was wrecked on the
rocks at the entrance of that harbour on the 25th of July.
The news from China does not come down later than
the 21st of June, and was brought to Bombay by the
steamer Driver, on board of which Sir H. Pottinger
arrived there. Great dissatisfaction was expressed at the
ameddling of i
th tch eh Frenchi na . andtis
mentioned
Americans
that
Sir settled
H. po t tn_
ger, prior to his departure, had introduced his successor,
Mr. Davis, to Keying, when they held a conversation
without the aid of an interpreter. This is considered a
great advantage.

There was Considerable satisfaction felt in Bombay in
consequence of the mails from London having arrived
there in twenty-eight days and sixteen hours, and it was
expected that the voyage would be performed in much less
time by powerful vessels when placed on that station.