The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-01-17

quite a terra ineog"ito We learn also that tae 4th
| troop oil Horse Artillery, under Captain Lesson
| started from Que'ta on the 9th Of September for
| sooamsanee ria No ostung and Khelat, and was AZ
Sir lab. at the head of the pass, the following
day. They were to start sn tb. Both for Moostnnr
where they would be joined by $50 men Of Her Ws'
Jestys flst and the party weu!d then consist of 70
men, with two hewitsers Ct III. Attn iroop tive com.
oanies OF the 4i't, ard twenty-five Madras
SapPers and Miners. The march throueb
this almost unknown route is expected To
| occupy nearly two months, and the public
| will no doubt await tbs tidngs of its compile
ton with cons derAbie interest. The chiefs on the
road are suspected Of not being over and above
friendly to the und rtsking aud will probably show
disposition to obstruct the force in the march
| Since writing the above we have been favored
with the perusal OF anolher letter, dated Quetta,
the 3Oth of September, from which it appears that
Just as the baggage Of the officers and men Of Her
MaJesty's 40th Regiment was packed in readiness
10 move below the Bolan pass, orders arrived at
march to Candahar. The 2lst Native Infantry also
received similar instructions and will accompany
the 4oth. Mayor Boscawen, of the latter corps, is
en- route to Bombay, being about to retire from the
We are sorry to hear that Her Majesty's Hst
Regiment 10 suffering severly from sickness.-
Nearly one.fourth fthe men are in hospital. More
man 10 died during one week in September Bonn
The RICE CRoPs.-We are sorry to learn that
we rice crops in the vicinity of Calcutta will prove
,ah I TINS season if we have no rain within
few days. This will indeed be a calamity to The
poor ryots, a calamity which we sincerely pray
may be averted BY the interpretation of an aI-wise
Pro''dence.-Ca1estta Ch,isiiar Adpocaie
The encroachmssts Of the Seikhs unor the Cele,.
tiai Empire still continue, and have indeed reached
an extent likely to attract the attention Of the CEN
IRE Oh tne unverse t be not altogether absorbed by
= YtaP hor ho.:
For the present It may be, but Zorawar Singh and
his victorious Sekhs will hardly fail ere jonc IN
bring themselves distinctly enough to the notice Of
the Court Of Pekin They are not to be turned
from their course by the glozings of Commissioner
LIN, the treachery Of KesheB, or the powers Of
knang, Lieutenant General Of the Chinese forces,
and cousin to the God Of War Defeat alone will
tell upon them, consideration from which Captain
Elliott and our Canton Chiefs might draw very
valuable inference BY the latest accounts Zorawar
Singh continued to ad vance into Thibe driving the
armed and unarmsd inhabitants before him like
sheeP. de is now on the eastern side of TIE Nun
zorawar Lake, and having driven out the Deb and
ms forces has got possession Of Tukakote without
resistance This is large commercial town, in a
Nepaul! The whole OF the country marked in our
maps as Thlbet are governed by a Chinese viceroy
at Lassa. This functionary seems to take no steps
Tor the protection ofthe people nrused 10 his care
or 10 prevent the disme mberment Of the Celestial
Empire. The mountainous regions which he con-
trolls are said to be 800 miles in length, and Of
proportionate breadth, and of all Of which the
Seikhs are now virtually masters. With such an
example before US of the unwarlke and defeAc eless
habits OF the Chinese people, who would doubt the
issue OF march upon Pekin, or the expediency of
sven measure to bring to a speedy close our
d!iatory and expensive Chinese expedition,
Ukhbar.
Markets.
LONDON MONEY MARKEr, Dec. 6h.-Business was
SLACK In the stock markets today but they steady
with shade OF Improvement Consols for the account
closed SSa to ex dividend Exohequer Bills los to l2S
premium Bank Stock l64t to 1861 Three per Cents.
reduced, sSt Long Annuities (expiring January g.
1851 y !-i6 to3 and India Bonds, premium.
Our letters from Amsterdam, alludng Baron Roths-
chds interviews with the Finance Minister Of the Ha.
gue for the of capitazng the Belgian part of
believed that the Barons last proposition to give in
several insalment the of 95OOOO 900 FORMS from
which he would obtain from Belgium 100000 FORMS
IN hve per cent stock is further supposed though il
IS hard to say with what degree ofcerainty that these
terms are accepted the Government will use the money
IN canceng the old per stock and this supposi.
ton is used to explain peculiar Dutch stock
market The q pr cents have been buoy ant but the
per cents very nat and this is attributed to tina notion
that the Government will cancel them at par.
The indian papers contain the report the trade Of
Bombay by the Chamber OF Commerce, similar 10 that
already published Of Bengal thou the re-
suits are very Different since during the last five wears
the external commerce Of Bombay has rather
than otherwise. as shown In rupees by the following
table, where although the imports lsl exceed those
OF 1857 the average Of the whole FIVE years shows
deficiency as compared with the same year =