The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1850-04-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE OVERLAND MAIL.  (From the Times.) We have receivcd by express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our usual India letters and papers.—The dates are—Bombay 2d March, and Calcutta 20th February. By these accounts it appears that a very uneasy feeling continues to prevail throughout and concerning the Punjaub. The late assassinations at Lahore and Peshawur, together with reported attempts elsewhere, have given rise to the impression that the Sikhs, unable to get up a fight with us in the open field, are resorting to the system of private assassination. On the 2d of February about I,ODO men of the Affnedie tribes attacked the camp of a party of Sappers employed in mak ng a road through the hills between Peshawur and Kohat, at a pass about 18 miles from the former; 12 of our men were killed, six wounded, and the camp plundered. To avenge this massacre, a strong force under Colonel Bradshaw, with the Commander-in-chief and Sir C. Campbell in company, marched from Peshawur on the 9th, notice having been previously given that the villages of the offenders would be always thus avenged. The force returned on the 14th, having been completely succssful. Six villages and a great number of the enemy have been destroyed. There was a good deal of skirmishing on the 10th and 11th, and also in returning through the passes on the 13th. Our loss is—Ensign W. H. Lit well, 31st Native Infantry, killed; Lieutenant T. W. Hilliard, 23,1 Native Infantry, and four Europeans, severely wounded. Coke's Punjaub Infantry have behaved well, and suffered severely. Sir C. Napier was to leave Peshawur about the 17th.  Murder and robbery are rife at Peshawur. Two artillerymen were set upon and killed on the night of the 6th of February, about 500 or 600 yards outside the fort. The thieves are frequently shot at, but only one has hitherto been shot. The north-western papers report disturbances at Wusseerabad and Umritsur, and anticipate them in the neighbourhood of Bunnoo. A gunpowder plot is said to have been discovered at Lahore. Attempts to assassinate the Deputy Collector of Deena Nuggur, and Mr. Blythe, Assistant Commissioner at Buttala, are reported. Both gentlemen are said to have been wounded, and some of the attendants of the first killed.  The Sikhim affair is happily ended. The troops engaged in it have returned to Darjeeling. We have annexed the Rajah's possessions on this side of the Great Runjeet river, yielding an annual revenue of £1,600. The £6OO per annum he has hitherto been allowed on account of the cession of Darjeeling, will be henceforth withheld,, and the Rajah's contumacy will be therefore punished by the loss of £2,200 of annual revenue.  In Scinde, charges have been preferred against All Morad Ameer, of Khyrpoor, for forgery, in interpolating the treaty entered into between himself and the British Government in such manner as to enlarge the boundaries of the territories assigned him by such treaty, at the expense of the adjoining portion of the East India Company's territory. A commission has been appointed for investigating the matter. There has been a serious disturbance in the northern province of the Nizam's dominions, in which the town of Mulkapore and the neighbouring villages have been burned to the ground. The government of India have at length resolved on adopting a comprehensive scheme of national education.  There is a probability of the great gun at Berja,poor (the largest in the world) becoming one of the ornaments of the London parks, a proposition for its removal to England being now before the Bombay government. The Governor-General reached Point de Gaffe on the 7th of February, and started for Singapore on the 9th. Trade at Bombay continues dull, and money scarce.  The Agra and United Service Bank has declared a dividend for the last six months of last year at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum. The Delhi Bank has declared a dividend at the same rate as above; and the North West Bank of India one of six per cent.