INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 164, 25 February 1854, Page 9

INDIA.

The reported resignation of the Governor General is contradicted. The Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the north-western provinces, the lion. James Thomason, died on the 3rd of October ; Mr. John llussell Colvin succeeds.

Accounts from Burmah still represent that country as infected with numbers of the so-called Dacoits; but instead of being ill-armed and cowardly robbers, as the meaning of the word signifies, they move in large bodies and are well equipped. The English troops have no command over the country beyond the reach of their guns, while several large villages in their vicinity are in the possession of the Dacoits. A Frenchman, Captain D'Oigony, who escaped from British surveillance, is disciplining the Burmese army. Further measures appear unavoidable to secure the provinces annexed by the British Government.

A Railway from Calcutta to Peshawur was to he commenced without delay. The Court of Directors had determined to expend two millions sterling per annum in the extension of railways. "There is every probability," says the Delhi Gazette, " of seeing a locomotive at Delhi before the end of 1858."

Colonel Mackesou, a distinguished East India Company " political," has been assassinated by an Afghan. The murderer was hung at Peshiiwur on the Ist of Oct., and his body binned. The Eastern Star states that this murder^ was commit ted at the instigation of Saadut Khan, " the evil genius of the Peshawar frontier," and is one of the first acts of a conspiracy, fomented by that chief; troops had been ordered up for the protection of the frontier. The Englishman reports the death of Captain Mamvaring by cholera; aud further states that

this disease is not at all diminishing along the line of the Ganges. The Calcutta monthly mail of the 24th of June last has been totally lost, by the vessel carrying it foundering ;it sea. The Calcutta Christian Advocate states that the Persian cities of Shiiaz and Chusan had been destroyed by an earthquake. 15,000 bodies had been interred, and a pestilence was dreaded. The earthquake, which lasted two hours, had dried up the river Ispahan ; and the crops and fruit of the country around had been devoured by locusts. It was reported that the plague had broken out at Khorassan.

Russian Intrigues in the East.—The Shah of Persia h;id suddenly quitted Teheran with 30,000 cavalry, 1,000 pieces of cannon, and 3,000 camels, evidently on an expedition conceited with Russia. Intelligence from Khiva had been received to the effect that a Russian force had arrived within a few inarches of the Russian frontier, under pretext of punishing the king of Bokhara and Khan of Khiva, for an alleged offence. Several Russians had been arrested at Delhi, and some Russians had been refused permission to travel in India.