INDIA.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 568, 24 September 1851, Page 3

INDIA.

We find in the Sydney Herald the following abstract of news from India (received via Singapore) to the end of June. Although there is not any political intelligence of much importance, it will be seen that the general news presents several features of considerable interest. The Governoi-General had narrowly escaped death fiom a fall down a piccipicc, a fate which we, with much regiet, have to report as having befallen Lieutenant Sale, the son of the late distinguished Sir Robeit Sale. There were rumours that Lord Ilardinge was about to be le-invested with the adinmistiation of the Government, but the grounds for this statement appear to be but vague. i'lom the draft of a brief Bill which has been published in the Calcutta Gazelle, we leain that the Indian Government at length intend to withdraw altogether from its connexion with Juggernaut.

The I' dian Marine Insurance offices hid been aroused fr .in their apathy in inspect to tho pievailing ctimp of ship-buining, and hail offeied 10,0(10 nipeps for the discovery of the parties concerned in the recent caws. Several of the officps have oomp to the resolution of docl ning underwriting except to vessels- navmated by Europeans, a restitution which, notwithstanding tho strong suspicions attached to the Lasc.us, doe« not appp.iv to be approved of. The Government had appointed a special Committee to inquire into the recent disasters by fue. j Calcutta was suffering severely from the intense heat j and scarcity of rain. The Chronicle remaiks, ''If this weather is to last some ten or twelve days longer the city is likely (o he one vast hospital." The thermometer ivas ranging from 9R to 102 in the shade, with a good dpil of wind " of about the quality and temperature of a f mace blast." Three regiments had heen instructed to hold themselves in readiness to pioceed to the Cape of Good Hope. Au attempt was being made hy the military authorities to substitute porter and beer for the spirits in use by the troop?, and to which much of the mortality amonsr them was attributed. The Governor-General had advised the Com t of Directors to send out 1000 Loo-she ids of &le> a id 1500 hogsheads of porter, with this object. The native community of the Madras Presidency had been thrown into tbi» highest state of excitement by the conversion to Christianity of a young Brahmin named Streenevassa Ch.iree. The \ oung man was educated at tho Madras University, where tha Hible it» not admitted, but accidentally fell in with some treatises on Cluistian tlipologv- These works took so stiong a hold of hi* mind, that he determined to make a public profession of Christianity, and, in spite of the dissuasions of his relatives, persisted m his resolution. A great anti-missionary movement had been set on foot at Seram pore. A large mpeting of the oithodox Hindoos of Calcutta had been held at the Oriental Seminary, to devise somo expedient for resisting the encroachments of the missionaiit'S. It was agreed that a form of purification which should enable thohp who Lad embiaced Christianity to return to their ancestral creed wns the mock practical expedient for the purpose, and they weie determined to bring the question to an immediate Ksue. It was agreed, however, nem. con. that any attmnpf to prfvent the rising generation of natives acquiring English would be as absurd as useless. Oneindividaal having suggested that it would be better to fibanlon the pursuit of English knowledge than endanger the orthodoxy of their families, was promptly told°that if English did not lead to Heaven, it did to wealth, and the argument was accepted as conclusive. The assembled pundits admitted that the plan suggested for the recovery of tho lapsed wa3 perfectly feasible; it would, however, have to be submitted for appioval to the most learned men iv different paits of the country.