Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-03-30
NEWS BY THE STEAMER CANADA.

NEWS BY THE STEAMER CANADA.
English Financial Reform The Bloody Battle
in Inda-Progress Of the Cholera The Mar
kets, &c.
The mail brought by the steamer Canada reach
ell New York on Sunday afternoon and is SAID
10 be usually large.
10 The Geographic dispatch giving summary
Of the news, The adverse tate OF Mr.. Cobden's pro-
zee, OF financial reform was mcn,ioned-the
amendment he offered being defeated hy Vote oi
275 10 rs. The Tunes says:
Even he Radcd papers admit that one ha II
OF the Is would not have valcd Tor the amendment
iithev had maoined il would have been carried.
AT his very moment, in some parts OF The coun-
nv. me soldier, oi the regiments VINO have been
discharged from false economy caused " an
anxious desire To meet The wishes u the people,
are being restored 10 ihe ranks, ard orders have
been issued from the Horse Guards 10 stop any
further discharge vi men, Two regiments, The
75lh and SIM are ordered 10 pvoceei 10 India, to
gelher with a considerable bCty ui men 10 recruit
tne ranks Of the 2irh loot. As Tar as Parliament
is concerned. The project Of Mr.. Golden IS dcc-
led upon"
The advocates Of protection, in England, are
making an efiorI 10 moot The question OF lax
on agriculture.
THE CHOLERA-Concern he Cholera,
Inc Times has The following Information:
The cholera, although i; re.apPeaEs in some
lucaliIieS al intervals, IS now decidedly on the
wane. The nur beT Of cases is nearly about
fourteen thousand, whereof about SIX thousand
have proved fatal, more than tour thousand have
recovered Wills, more than three THOUSAND are
under treatment, o. the result is not stated. 10
Scotland the Gscase appears now 10 be assuming
the form Of simple diarlhGa, The attacks OF the
later being now tour times as many as those OF
Asialic cholera The malaty has appeared in
The South al Ireland. and several taal cases have
occurred in Cork and Limerick. The weather
alter som. rigorous days Of cold and WIND, has
now become mid, and tic land generally is IN a
| tit STATE iof ,pr.ng sowing. The pubic health,
uptn The whole, i "a islaciory
| TIE GREAT BATTLE in INDlA.-We
copy almost entire he aulcls OF The Lundo
Times upon the recent disastrous victory Of Inc
| English IN lncia. Is interest, and the bold and
open admission that the British army has suffer.
cd in reputation as well as men, make II worth
| a careful perusal:
l. is useless to disguise from ourselves ha
The Intian news is & the most disastrous charac
Ter. Without wishing 10 lnin in the general shou
OF condemnation ui Lord Cough, echoed AROUND
US from every quarter, il cannot he denied lha
| there has been an absence Ct sicninc general
shin on The part q ne cGmmanieI-in-cheiw which
no mere animal courage can supply; and from
This serious deficiency nave accrnet loss o
life, and di.paraeement Of British presiigs in IL
dia. which can only be repaired ~ some splen
did and decisive baues over our warike enc
mis- The Skhs. Ey letters from Bombay 10 hi
ID February, We learn that the Citadel 81 Mool'al
! Surrendered al discretion On tic - January
am tue "a an, army under Geue.l Whsh vii
thus be enabled i join the grant division on hi
Jbeium. whose effective .rin:orcrments are, We
regret Ia saw but loo mucn needed.
On,he l2,h January, Lord Cough, al er hi
long interval al inactivity. was made aceuante,
win In TAI OF Atock, and Of he advance o
Chutter SINGH 10 Join Shere Singh, who was il
front al Lord Cough on he SCUM bank Of Jhe
lum, with an army Of 10000 10 40 600 men, an,
81 guns Being urged BY Major Mackcson, tn
political agent, 10 give me enemy bauls. Lof'
Cough sci his troops in motion and advanced
through The jungle On the l2h. He continue;
his march IN me l3'h ill later than noon, and
three o'clock had determined to crcamp Tor n
night, when some ii Inc ensm;'s round sho
! reached within he ground marked by the Enss'
flags. Whether his rri,aed Lord Cough, or N
duced him 10 fear that the Sikhs would surpris'
his encam pment and force him TO ballle, his lord
ship suddenly, without any previous reconnols
sance, resolved 10 anticipate him, and according
y formed his troops in line, and, deaf TO all re