INDIA NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 30, 27 December 1845, Page 4

INDIA NEWS.

By the arrival of H. M. Frigate Castor, we hare I received newt from India to the 23rd September, |

BOMBAY. Sir W. W. Burton was reported to be in a delicate stale of health. place dining the ensuing cold season in the superior Commissariat Grades. If Colouel Burlton go home* w hich i* probable, he v ill be succeeded by Colonel Parsons; but in the event of Colonel Bnrlton coming up the country, which is still more probable, Colonel Paikons will proceed to ihe Piesidency, as Deputy Commissar) Cieneral, Government having resolved in consequence of pressing recommendations to that effect fiutn home, on rescinding Me nice little job perpetrated on Colonel .Havvkin's return from China, by which tiiat oflicer was piovided by Lord ElJenberough with a betth iv the metropolis. How Colonel Stuart could lend himself to the same it is diflkult to say, but he did so, and has regretted it ever since, if we are not misinformed. Delhi Gazette, July 30.

Cholera.— Drinking.—-From a ifcrostfepoor letter in the Delhi Gazette, we take the annexed paragraph, which show* that the ravages of the Cholera are decreasing there. It aiso affords another proof that the expression of Sir Charles Napier respecting " drinking " it not to be taken in the sense attributed to it bj our Bombay co temporaries :— | ,

Ferozepore, July 21, 1845. As we hare lately been visited by a dreadful scourge, Cholera, in its worst form ; which ha* made sad havoc among the Eui oceans and N*. tivesof this once hoalthy station, itnw be interesting to the numerous readers of )our valuable Journal, to know how matters stand in this cantonment. lam happy, to. be able to inform you that this awful disease i» greatly on the decrease, although there ate still occasional traces of it in her Majesys 62nd Foot, and the European Artillery. lam convinced that the disease is caused among the Europeans in a great measure by the spirit (mm it can hardly be called) which they are in the habit of drinking.—R.Fokster,M.D. Bombay Gazette. t- JVTe-Innrg--aisa-tecetTtfd-^roni licngal of the late Earthquake, from JVJymensing, dated July 28. ' - - " At half past four o'clock this morning we experienced one of those awful convulsions of nature, commonly called an earthquak*!: there' were two distinct shocks, the first of which wa«V a slight one, but the second, which followed in abo'if haJf a minute, was one of the severest s ocks I have ever experienced, after a tolerably long residence in this land of phenomena j it wa* unattended, however, with any of that rumbling noise usually heard upon such occasions. The direction appeared to be from E. to W., or perhaps from S. E. to N. W., and the house rocked backwards and forwards with Bnch violence, as to create, 1 assure \on, not a little alarm. Some are complaining, this morning of having felt * considerable degree of sea sickliest; but as for myself, like a man who instinctively feels a pain in his neck on seeing a criminal hung, I underwent a most vivid sensation of being swallowed up on a whosesale scale." The other of the same date, from Pub'aa,isa» follows :— " Supposing that it may be of service to your scientific readers, I beg to forward you the following statement, vouehingjfor its authenticity. " I awoke,in what 1 supposed was the middle of last night, and after walking about the ve»*anjiah of my Bungalow, for a few minutes, I laid down upon a hard sofa in my sitting room, and having as 1 remarked to imself, slept uninterruptedly since eight in the evening, 1 had no inclination whatever to sleep again, and wa* so> much disinclined, that it was only the absence of a light which prevented my-takingabooktoread; the moon at the full, now or nearly so, I believe,, was only obscured by flying masses of light clouds, rendering the night quite clear and bright, and the wind, which was blowing rather hard from the South East,, after! had lain dowir for about a_ tluanei^oJLai^hmur; sttttdeM?"nn led. AniTa comparative dead stillness ensued for a few minutes j when as I was lying on my bark, I suddenly heard the roof of my Bungalow make a loud cracking nojse, as if agitated by a powerful gust ot wind- and then I could distinct!) sway to and fro, a* if I may say the hands of a giant had seized the strong saul wood posts, and naspnllitiff them backwards and forwards } puzzled at this, I had not tune to rise before I felt the sofa,, which 1 state was a hard and strong one, shake and tremble in a manner I cannot' describe, ami in the same moment lam convinced that tha ground rocked and undulated from West to East, with a rolling moti.m, a§ if at sea, shaking my sola and moving me upon it. The Bungalow agmn making the loud crack, cracking noise, when all became still, and, in a few minute* the leaves ot a large tree near my Bungalow began to rattle in the breeze, and I sang out for my sei vant lustil), and opening the doorwentout in a state of rather uncomfortable perturbation, iv fact, although I never before experienced an earthquake, my immediaate impression was, that it was one; my servant had been fast asleep, and did not notice an) thing unusual j in a few minutes aftertt Bids, the morning broke, and I found that 1 must have awoke within an hour of daylight. J "I am the more particular in describing this, as from the time the shock took place, and the unusual hour for people to be awake at, it is possible that I may not find believers for my story; and people may be inclined to say that I- was*' dreaming; as, indeed, I have mentioned it to several this morning, but can gain no additional proof beyond the evidence of my own semes, of whicbj however, I am as positive as I am of my Wing at this moment engaged in writing an apcount of it for the edification of all true {believers." ' ' We hope that others will follow the examples which these correspondents- have Set. and favor us with their reporUj. giving the time "of the occurrence, the place of observation, and the duration and direction of the shocks as accmately as they can.