INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 922, 11 July 1871, Page 2

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

[ENGLISHMAN'S OVEKIAND MAIL, FROM APRIL 12 TO MAT 3.] ; The certificate of the captain of the Veronica, lately burnt at Madras, has been suspended for six months, for improperly stowing oil and cotton together. The rate of mortality in Madras daring last year was 18.05 per thousand, and of births 17.30 per thousand. The returns are evidently unreliable. Explorations are being carried on at Aden to obtain a supply of water from artesian wells. . Insurance companies in India have de* clined to accept the lives of officers of the Geological Department, owing to the exposure to which they are subjected. The native converts at Goa have refused admittance to the church to converts who were formerly of a low caste. One of the descendants of the King of Delhi has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment and fine for buying slave girls at Benares. Cholera is at present raging very violently in Cashmere, especially at Srinuggur. Four native policemen have been found guilty of torture to extract a confession, and murder, in the Central Provinces, and two of them have been sentenced to death. The American barque Sunbeam has been lost in the Rangoon river. It is said in an official report on Education that throughout India only 1,096,000 children "attend schools, of whom 166,000 are taught English. Specimens of cotton grown at the Nicobar Island have been valued at from 20 to 24 pence per pound. Trade is quite at a standstill in Persia, scarcity. The Madras Government propose to grant lands in Coimbatore rent-free for some years, and afterwards at low rents, to encourage the growth of the mulberry trees and the cultivation of the silkworm. During last year, 1098 men volunteered for service in India from regiments ordered; home. There has been another disturbance between the Hindoos and Muhammadans at Bareilly, in which several were killed and | wounded on both sides. A Malay Rajah has been enlisting European loafers as soldiers at Singapore, to assist in attacking his neighboring chiefs. The ship Isabella Brown was lost at Saugor on Monday. The crew were all saved. The death of Captain W. Madan, 49th Regiment, is announced at Bombay, of small-pox. A native paper attributes the decay of Native Princes to polygamy. , : An engine and thirty-two loaded coal trucks have been smashed to pieces by falling over a bridge on the new chord line of the East Indian Railway, after" a collision with another coal train. Lord Mayo has had capital sport in the Oudh Jungles, having in three days bagged six tigers, besides smaller game.:? His Lordship and Lady Mayo are expected to meet on the 26th April. Lord Mayo has offered a prize of 500 rupees for a Bengali novel illustrative of Hindoo social and domestic life. Sub-EngineerColquhoun, of the Madras P. W. Department, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, and 20,000 rupees fine, for fraud and falsifying hit), accounts. Messages by wire have been tran^ mitted instantaneously between Kurrachee and London by the Indo-European Tele graph. Seven hundred and one villages have been proclaimed in the North-Wertem

/ • • Province^ under the new law for the suppression of infanticide. At the end of March there were 287 Hindoos, 94 Christians, andß2Muhammadans in the Subordinate Judicial and Executive Service in Lower Bengal. Suitors in Chittagong are said to have a habit of setting fire to the houses of the judges who decide against them. The late raids by the Kookies from the Chittagong Hills are said to have been for the purpose of obtaining human heads to burn over the dead body of their chief's daughter. During March last, 108,022 bales of cotton were exported from Bombay. Cholera is reported to have broken out at Benares, chiefly owing to the dirty state of the city.;. The remains of an ancient Bhuddist town have been discovered a few miles north of Hoti Murdan. During the past year only six natives were converted to Christianity by the Missions in the North-Western Provinces. The opinions of several distinguished medical officers in Calcutta have been taken by the Indian Keform Association as to the minimum marriageable age of native girls. No less than eleven persons were killed by a hailstorm near Allahabad last week. The Government vessel Cesarewitch, on her way to England with condemned stores, is reported to have been lost off False Point. t A native broker has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Bombay for shipping bad cotton instead of good, as contracted for. The through railway from Madras to Bombay was to have been opened for traffic on the Ist of May. Both cholera and small-pox are still reported as raging at Bushire, and the people are dying of starvation. Gang robberies are again becoming more frequent in Upper India. A caravan of pilgrims to Gangawan, and another to Muttra, have both been plundered on the road, and several pilgrims wounded. The Maharajah of Travancore has requested permission to reorganize and rearm his native, troops, and to be allowed more European officers. It is reported that Bani Surnamoy, of Cossimbazar, a lady who has spent large sums of money for the benefit of her countrymen, has been recommended for the order of the Star of India.