INDIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 142, 9 December 1846, Page 4

INDIA.

By the Phantom we learn that all was quiet in India. The Seiks affairs were settled for the present, but it was supposed that without the greatest care insurrection would manifest itself in that part of the country. A report was in circulation after the arrival of the Phantom, that the whole staff of Sir H. Hardinge had been surprised when out hunting and murdered by the mounted Seiks. We have, however, been unable to authenticate this intelligence after the most careful inquiry. Sir George Arthur had tesigned the government of Bombay, and returned home with a fortune of five and a half lacs of rupees, ao.

quired in a government of five years, or about £55,000. It would seem that his old habits of acquisition had not deserted him. His health is said to have been in a most deplorable state, and that bis resignation has been compelled by a strong tendency to apoplexy. The speculation of horses from Sydney to India has proved a complete failure, principally, as we can learn, from the losses during thp transit and want of judgment in the selection. The faults described to us were having large flat feet, want of action, and inability to stand the climate. From this we should conjecture that they consisted principally of bay bred horses with a strong dash of the cart breed, about the very worst we should imagine to send to a country like India. Be that as it may, the character of the Australian horse is destroyed in Calcutta owing to the injudicious choice of horses sent up, and it 'vill take time to remove the prejudice. Of course our horses will suffer equally in estimation, however undeservedly.