LATEST INDIA AND CHINA NEWS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 54, 18 March 1843, Page 215

LATEST INDIA AND CHINA NEWS.

An extract from the Bombay Times of the 29 th of October informs us that the whole of the European prisoners taken by the Affghans (with the exception of Captain Byrave) have been recovered, and that Dost Mahomed Khan, his 1 wives* and family, and the wife and family of Mahomed Akbar Khan, and many Affghan chiefs, remain in the absolute power of the British Government. The Governor-General has, however, stated that when the British army returning from Afghanistan shall cross the Indus, the whole will be liberated. Accounts have been received in Hobart Town from Canton to the 20th December. A serious riot had taken place at Canton, " originating in a quarrel between some Lascars and a Chinese mob, concerning the shipping of some provisions for the ship Fort William ; the result of which was the destruction by fire of several stores in the English, Dutch, and Greek hongs, with a very large quantity of valuable merchandize and a large quantity of specie. A still more painful and grave charge against the Chinese, is the coldblooded murder of the ship-wrecked crews of the ships Nerbudda and Ann, on the island of Formosa, by the Chinese authorities. It appears, by the proclamation of Sir Henry Pottinger to the Chinese, that not less than two hundred and eighty-three individuals have been put to death, or perished through ill-treatment and starvation. The disturbances at Canton we look upon as a mere ebullition of popular feeling, arising from a jealousy and ill-feeling towards the English. Still it is difficult to conjecture what may be the result of che double untoward circumstances happening at such a critical period. Sir Henry Pottinger will find himself placed in a delicate position. His first determination, which he has already expressed, is to submit the facts of this atrocious affair to the immediate notice of the Emperor, through the imperial Commissioners, and to demand, in the name of his Soverign Queen Victoria, that the authors of this inhuman outrage may be brought to condign punishment."

Hobart Town Markets, March 3. — Fine flour at the mills, £14 to £15. Wheat, ss. to ss. 6d. ; barley, English, ss. 6d. to 65. ; Cape do., 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; oats, 4s. to 4s. 6d. ; hay (pressed), £4 10s. to JES, ditto (loose), £3 10s. to £4 ; straw, £2 10s. per ton ; Port Arthur coals, 16a. per ton delivered ; Sydney coals, 255. per ton ; South Port coals, 1 08. per ton ; she oak, 1 0s. per ton delivered ; gum wood, Bs. per ton do. Potatoes, £6 10s. to £1 10s. per ton ; cabbages, Is. per dozen ; young turnips, 2d. per bunch ; carrots, £4 per ton ; cauliflowers, none ; onions, £3 to £12 per ton ; apples, ss. to 10s. per bushel.

Gkbbnwich Hospital. — The number of pensioners in Greenwich Hospital at this time is 2,710, amongst whom there are 732 maimed, namely, with loss of right arm 12, left arm 8 — total 20 ; both legs 3, right leg 20, left leg 36-r total 68 ; eyes, both eyes 61, right eye 44, left eye 45 — total 150 ; ruptured on both sides 162, right aide 152, left side 175, umbilical s— total 494. . Grand total, 732.