INDIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 454, 8 December 1849, Page 4

INDIA.

On looking through some Ceylon papers received last week, we notice a General Order from Sir W. E. Gilbert, the officer commanding in the Punja>_\ which looks as if we were to have a little more fighting. A division consisting of two troops of Horse Artillery, Ist regiment Light Cavalry, the Scinde Irregular Horse, H. M.'s 6lst, the 31st, and 70th regiments Bengal Infantry, and the 3rd and 19th Bombay Infantry, received orders on the 24th June to be ready to march at a moment* notice. Intelligence from Cabool of a warlike nature was said to be received, and it was supposed that these troops were to be sent to secure the Kybar Pass. In consequence of the appointment of Sir Charles Napier as Commander-in-Chief in India, Sir W. Cotton, theCommander of the Forces in Bombay, who is senior to Sir Charles, had resigned. It was reported that Sir G. Berkely, who commands in Madras, and is also senior to Sir Charles, had also resigned, but that was not correct, His Excellency having simply remonstrated with the home authorities. ■ _ The Bank of Benares, a Joint Stock Company, had been defrauded (there is no other word for it) by some of the Directors of thirty lacks of rupees, or £300,000. Colonel Pew, the Managing Director had absconded. It was supposed that several of the Directors had placed themselves within reach of the criminal law. — SydneyMorningHcrald, Nov.s.