INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 746, 31 December 1859, Page 3

INDIA.

From the ' Englishman' of October 4, we take the following intelligence from the Indian Peninsula :—

The following is from Delhi, dated September 27,1859 :—

" Colonel Norman, adjutant-general of the Bengal army, goes home sick immediately. He leaves Simla on the 3rd proximo, and will probably proceed to England via the Cape, as the doctors recommended him. Just now Colonel Norman is about the last man the poor old Bengal army could have spared ; he was the connecting link between it and the Government, and his plac^ji will not be easily filled.

" The. Commander-in-Chief will be in Delhi about the 12th. Prom Delhi he will, after a very brief halt, go over to Meerut, and thence join his camp at Cawnpore. Head-quarters camp left on the night of the 25th. Lord Clyde will probably inspect the troops at Subathoo and Umballa, on his way down.

" There is a rumour abroad to the eftect that a number of Mahomedans, connected with the exKing of Delhi, will proceed immediately to Kurra* cheo, receiving 10 rupees (ten) subsistence allowance. Among these Mirza Elihee Buksh is reported to be included. The cause of this sudden movement is not precisely known, but it is highly probable that the frequoncy of tho attempts to create alarm by spreading false reports, known to be of Mahomedan origin, has something to do with, it. There can be little doubt of tho object of these reports, and they are eminently calculated to-un-settle men's minds. " It is therefore good policy to remove those poisons, who were always remarkable for their intriguing character. Any old resident of Delhi could point out a dozen such characters, now going about the city, and as tho authorities here issued another invitation for all Mahomedans to come in, it is, to say tho least of it, hazardous to keop these men in the midst of them."

It is reported from the borders of Nepaul that the Nairn's force is now starving; it consists of about 2,500 men; they depend at present on begging. The correspondent of the cLuckno\v Herald,' on the frontier, writes on the 28th September :-*-" The Nana is now at Deoghnr, and tho Begum one inarch beyond it. The Begum has 200 rebel sepoys, and the Nana 5000, with one howitzer. He has also a small body of cavalry, numbering 150 sabres, 40 elephants, do camels, and 12 palkees, in which his and Haiti Rao's families-nro convoyed. He has just made arrangements for the issue of threequarters of a seer of coarso rice and one chittack of dhol lam told that a brigado of Goorkas from ' IvJmtmandoo have arrived at Dlumg, with a vim to drive the insurgents from, the hills. Tho rebels frequently cross the border, and plunder the in''rt" bitants of lurwah Ivoosaha, where there is n <'£."' pany of sepoj;s belonging to one of tho tnlo^'j,^ "-Notification has been issued to n»l ']''''*>>" and others in Oude entitled to a p|*^ ** tiou to be given by Lord Canup'*'

at tho capital, desiring their attendance on tho 20th proximo." „ . „ We hear that tho Governor-General s stay m the Upper Provinces is to bo seven months, and. that the object of the journey is the recognition by tho Governor-General of many of the ncw_ tenures in Oudo, the reception of sovoral nativo princes ot tho Punjab and others, his direct intercourse with those who loyally lent their aid to uphold tho British power, and the personal acknowledgment ot those services, and for inspecting Delhi and Oudc. Wo (' Straits Times,' Oct. Ist) have been informed that 7000 troops were ready for embarkation at Calcutta for China, and ships were ready to sail ■with them, but on the evening the Lancefield left, a telegram was received, stating that owing to some cause (not explained) half of the troops would be kept in Bengal—but this requires confirmation. The first pile of the Madras pier was screwed on the 17th Seytember, in the presence of His Excellency Sir Charles Trevelyau and a large concourse of persons. _____