LATEST FROM INDIA

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 564, 10 September 1851, Page 3

LATEST FROM INDIA

(From the " >St,ind' I HI oi Tdsnnnu," August 18 "I Tm Governor -General had concluded us Punjab visitation. Sir William Gonnn was at Sm la. ,_Tlie Punjab wtis tranquil, and the amusements of

Goolab S/ng weie coiiiiaed principa'ly to feting bis English vibitots. At Pesha«ur tlie Afrepdies weie still tioublesome. The Governor-General is represented to be much pleas, d at the change in the command of the army. There weie fewer court medals, but the remarks on them were stronger than ever. The Commercial Gazette of the 28th April announces the arrival at Calcutta of the P. and O. C. steamer, the Ei in, destined with the Lady Mary Wood for the China line, which was to be opened on the 11th of May. A Court of Enquiry was sitting at Gwaloir, to investigate certain cbarges bnfaght against Captain Close, 63th N.I. A Cucus has been established at Calcutta. Eight lakhs of rupees have been expended out of capital stock of W. W. Bank. It appears that the defalcations of Major Angelo amount to 140.520 Rupees. The Roy. Professor Street, and Lieutenant 11. P. Sale, the youngest son of the late Sir Robert Sale, were both dead. The latter was out shooting, and fell fiom a precipice. — Doctor Alexander Chalmers, one of the Bengal Piesidency Surgeons, was also dead. Brigadier C. 12. Cowan, C.8., is appointed, to the command of the Sirhinrl division, consequent on the death of Sir Dudley Hill. The presents received by the Governor-General from Goolab Sing had all been sold by auction. The rum issued to the soldiery by order of the Go-vernor-Geneial is now reduced by water to 24 degrees below proof. Mi . W. D. Brown Las been appointed Belgian Consul at Alcyab. A board was appointed on tbe 19th May, to inquire into the cause of tbe recent disasters by fiie in the poit. The Movitlr Meitim; or the IlrvDUs.— A meeting came off with eclat on Sunday at 4 p.m. in tbe hall of the Onental Seminary, for the ostensible purpose of taking into consideration the plans and measures to be adopted for the re-conveision of such Hindu childien as have apostatised from their national religion — Hinduism. The conference was numerously attended by all denominations of Hindus, <c The young Bengal " included, and we observed Raja Kali Kristo Babadoor, Baboo Aushotus Deb, Baboo Goury Churun Bhattechargee, editor of the Bhashnr, and a good number of tbe native gentry, together with a large collection of boisterous and blustering pundits present on the occasion. The Cbitporp road from Gurrunhutta to Burtolah, was lined on two sides with vehicles of divers descriptions, and the hall of the Institution shone with laced turbans, and caps, and many others of Indian fashion now in vogue, and was thronged to suffocation, llaja Hadna Canto Deb Bahadoor was iv the chair. The ceremony of investing Sir James Thomson with the insignia of the order of Knight Commander of the Bath came off with gieat eclat at the Government House.