INDIA. [From the Hobart Town Courier, Aug. 14.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 531, 4 September 1850, Page 3

INDIA. [From the Hobart Town Courier, Aug. 14.]

We have been favoured with Indian" journals to the 17th March ;, and our Mauritius papers have intelligence to the 22nd. The oldest .residents in Calcutta do not remember a more unhealthy season than that which has been ushered in under the auspices of 1 850. It is indeed most awful. The scourge of this year is the small pox, — a disease*whi6h, though not so sudden and so unexpected as cholera, is yet of so fearfully contagious a nature that the relatives and friends of the patient cannot administer to his wants or soothe his languishing pillow. The Singapore Free Press gives the following sumraaryof news to the Bth April, being rather later. " Mr. T. B. Swinhoe, the H. E. I. Company's Attorney, died on the Bth. Mr. Smoult has been appointed to act until the wishes of the Court of Directors are ascertained. The Dewan Moolraj is not to be sent to the Straits for the present. A Cashmerian ran a muck in Calcutta and killed four persons before he was secured. The Peniusular and Oriental Company has demanded the extravagant sum of 52,000 rupees for the conveyance of the Nepalese envoy and h\s suite to England. The cholera was committing great ravages in Calcutta. The small pox alone, according to the Friend of India, carries off above four hundred per week. Sir' Charles Napier has beep on a small expedition agaimt the hill tribes'near Peshawar,which does not seem to have been very decisive.