The New York herald., 1870-12-19
NEWS FROM ASIA.
Interesting Reports from India,
China and Japan.
Material Progress, Civilization and
Religion.

BY the European mail at this port we received our
newspaper iss from British India, China and Japan.
The dates are:-Calcutta October 26 Shanghae.
October IL; Hong Kong, October H. and Yokohama,
October Is. The journals supply the following in.
teresiing news reports from each 0f the countries
namcd:-
1t ID thought, says the Calcutta Enoatshnaan that
another financial crisis Is imminent in Bombay.
owing to the number Of redrafts that are being sent
back for losses Oh shipments Of cotton by natives.
Captain Halpln had arrived at Singapore to make
arrangements Tor laying the cable to Aust ralia,
China and Japan.
The railway bridge over the Sutlei river csmplet.
ing through railway communication between Cal
cutta ana Lahore. was opened In state by the Ma.
harajah OF Putteala on the 10Th Of October.
Business has been rather more active during the
week In Calcutta, especially in jute, SILK and rice
and iregnts have risen In consequence from five to
ten shillings per ton.
The proposed new Insolvent act for India is with
few alterations, an adaptation OF the new English
Bankruptcy act
A telegram from Madras reports October 25) that
mail train on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Extension has plunged headoDg INTO river swollen
by floods but no particulars have as yet been re-
ceived.
Five classes for the instruction Of officers in field
telegraphy and signalling with lights nj night are to
be opened in different parts OF India.
Major MacMahon, British political agent at Man.
dalay, was ordered 10 return to the King or Burmah
the order OF the lsaway conferred on him by hi9
Ma esty, and reprinanded for accepting it without
permission" OF her Majesty the Queen OF England.
The death rate in the Central Provinces OF India
during August was 1.6 per 1000. l0S persons were
Killed by snake bite and wild beasts.
The prospects Of the crops In the Central Pro.
vinces are still very favorable, but the cattle disease
Is spreading rapidly.
During the month OF August the deaths in the
Northwestern Provinces were at the rate of ten per
cent OF the population.
The new Burmese Governor at Bnamo has abol.
ished all restrictions on trade between Europeans
and natives.
The India General Steam Navigation Company IN
lend 10 despatch steamers to ply on the Irrawaddy
10r the trade between Upper Bnrmah and Rangoon.
Colonel Fisher Lieutenant Colonel Hills Major de
Bude, Captain Galway and Lieutenant Chapman
f0rm a committee appointed to report on the best
gun for mountain warfare in India. Two bronze
muzzleOaders and two steel muzzle- oaders with
fifty rounds each, arc to be sent by long and rapid
marches straight across the hills from Jutogh 10
MuSs0oree, not following the roads but practising
on the way.
M. Esquer, Judge OF Pondichcrry, published new
work on Caste, Lies Castles dams L'indcn
Mr.. Drew. Geelogist to the Maharajah OF Cash
mere, was sent to Gght to inquire into the clrcun-
stances Of Mr.. Haywards (he explorer) DEATH
Lord ana Lady Napier and the Commander-in-
Chief returned 10 Madras for the cold weather.
The Bishop OF Calcutta left Cochin for Beypore
No fewer than five cases Of INSTRUMENTATION and
striking superior officers by British soldiers were
published IN general orders in one week.
A guide to Indian music was published at Bom-
bay Dy Mr. NusserwanJec Dorabjee ApyaKiltIar.
FIGHTING THE TIGER.
From the Calcutta EnGlishnsen. oct. 70.
The V1ceroy rcmaiueu at Jeypore as the guest OF
the Maharaah TIL the 18th instant paying visits 10
all the principal buildings ana establishments in the
city, among which the School OF Arts, under Dr. Do
Febeck Is The most conspicuous and twice going out
tiger shooting, on one occasion bagglng two tigers,
and OH the Olher one
The death OF the queen mother OF BurmaI took
place In the palace at Mandalay.
Nga-pay, says the RaugoOn Gazette the chief aa-
wiser OF the Mengoon Mcntha during his late rebel
lion, ana for whose apprehension a handsome re-.
ward was offered by the British government was
cleverly captured by Mr.. p. b. Doyle Superln.
tendent OF Police q few days since.
The King Of Bokhara wrote to the Russian General,
in nlorming him that Shahur Subj had been taken Uy
Sirdar UDdoolabman Khan. The General sent an
encouraging letter 10 the Srdar. He also 'congra-
tulated The King on the achevement.n
From Nee-a.gaa, Japan, we hear that the rica
crop of the province OF Echlgo promises extremely
wai this year, ana that great hopes are formed OF
tne bSnebt likely 10 accrue therelr0m, pctn 10 tne
ioreign and native interests o. that port.
II was stwed In Yokohama that the steamer Delhi
VIII take diieos for Europe through the Suez Canal
tne ntst OF the Seasons export OF silkworm cards.
The statistics OF trade for the six months ending
the 39tn June, complleo uy the Hiogo and osaka
Chamber OF Commerce. Present 50 remarkabe an
increase, both IN exports ana imports, when COM
pared with the returns OF the corresponding period
last year, that they were regarded a5 highly en-
Couraelng.
A correspondent at Shanyhae, China, writes as
toli0ws:-Ihe literary examinations at HanEchow
closed on the 10th OF the present Chinese month,
and the 10000 Candidates are now rapidly dispensing