Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-09
AFFAIRS IN INDIA AND CHINA.

AFFAIRS IN INDIA AND CHINA.
According TO the arrangement In force
when the mail left India, the forces COM
posing the Persian expedition should by
this time have arrived off Bushire. The
Bombay Times reports that the expedition
consisted Of twenty six sailing transports Or
an aggregate OF $4,000 IONS, Of three of the
P. and O. Company's steamships, the Chu-
san, Singapore, and Pattiuger besides three
lesser vessels of the Bombay Steam Nsvi-
cation Company. Of an aggregate burden, in
all, of thirty thousand tons, at freightage
charge of above thousand pounds day.
The lighting men in all would amount 10
about six thousand, without double this
number of camp followers. Admiral Sir
Henry Leeke, commander in chief of the
indian navy, had been authorized TO take
the command.
The Indian papers, notwithstanding the
comparative proximity to the scene, are IN.
able to speak confidently aad with detail re-
speciipg the progress of the siege of Herat,
in this contrasting broadly with the Bvus-
sells Journals, which from time to time re-
port tie capture of Herai, with the fullest
details. When the mail left it was gene
rally agreed at Bombay and Calcutta that
the town was not taken.
The Lahore Chronicle declares its belief
ia the reports of its Cabul correspondent,
who asserts the fall of Herat, and gives re-
ports from that place to Sept. 2S, when the
Shah had invested Shahzadah Mahomed Yu-
zaf with the governorsbip of the place, and
bas placed all the troops under his orders.
Six huLdred loads of cartridges in The mag
loss of life resulted from the accident
Food was very dear.
The news that an attempt has been made
to destroy the principal king Of Siam, has
reached US hy way Of Calcutta. The facts
will be learned from The following narrative
forwarded from Rangoon to a Calcutta CO.
temporary:
"The King Of Sam was invited, about
two months ago, to sn entertainment by one
of his richest subjects, Gu very grand
scale. The King at once accepted, though
il was not ib accordance with the national
customs for bis MAJESTY of Baukok TO accept
hospitalltles at the hands of any subject;
yet the grand seal, of the preparations in |
duced hla 10 commit, on this Occasion, a |
breach of royal etiqcette. The kings !
brother. however bad his suspicious about /
the entertainment and advised the king not |
TO 60, feeling certain that il was intended to
do some grieyous bodily harm, to hun. The
kings having accepted, did not like Iobetray
symptoms OF disrusi, perhaps without
cause, SO be resolved on an expedicnt, which
was 10 send, dressed in his usual royal at
tire, which may b. Presumed as prescribed
for such an occaspD, would be so bulky and
extensive as to geaIly conceal the person
courtier who vrJ much resembled the
King, in height, gure and face.
"Thc hour fxe by the King to 90 to the |
assembly was sbut midnight; the psuedo
King accordingly followed by the regal re- {
tainers and ma { the court. arrived at that |
hour, and was lpnce conducted to throne
prepared for hsInajesty. No sooner had /
he seated hiinsl than the whole affair blew o
up. destroyipglis man who had been un- il
fortunate enoel to be like the kim. and a
sever other Fsons who stood near the a
throne. ThuPsas the King of Slams life &
saved BY the isaclty OF bis brother, aud Fl
valuable life bis, for he is a yerv en- al
iightened maibr an Asiatic, aud can write v
a letter himseiu English. Whether this y
narrative, WIN is believed to be strictly er
true. has appred in the Cal cu,ta or other th
India papers,e writer Of these limos know. &C
eth not. 8,