INDIA.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 828, 9 July 1853, Page 4

INDIA.

We have Bombay papers to tbe 14th March. A good deal of discussion had been excited by the removal of two of the Judges of the Sadder Adawlut Court, hy the Government' of Bombay, in consequence, as was alleged, of tbe notorious gambling propensities of one Judge, and the alleged corrupt conduct of tbe other, which charges, stated by the Bombay Gazette in the most direct manner, She two Judges did not meet to the satisfaction of th« Government. Tbe position taken by the Bombay Gazette was not that it bad just discovered these practices, but that it was merely openly saying what were topics of indignant comment in every company of Bombay. Tbe Burmese news is not latsr than tha' already received. There appears little doubt that peace will be shortly conclnded, in consequence of struggles for supreme power between the king and one of his brothers. It had been

reported that the British forces, in their advance j under Gennal Steel, from Prome, had met a repulse at the strong stockade of Sitang. But it tarns out that this was so far from being true, that they found Sitang quite deserted, the Burmese troops having evidently very recently evacuated the strong position, doubtless to join in the struggles at the capital.

Troubles in the North- West. — According to a recent number of the Lahore Chronicle, our old enemy Sadut Khan has made a hostile demonstration at the head of a thousand Momnnds, in consequence of which troops have been ordered up from Peshawur to reinforce the garrison at Shubkudr. It is suggested that the only effectual means of bringing this turbulent chief to his senses is a march upon Lalpoora, his principal town, and in this we are disposed to agree with our contemporary. — In another quarter Colonel Mackeson had succeeded in surprising the chief fortress belonging to the Cis-Indus Hoosunzyes, the tribes implicated in the tardily punished murder of Messrs. Came and Tapp. The adtance of the troops was over exceedingly difficult country, but the courage of the men and the energy of the officers overcame every obstacle. Of the loss inflicted on the enemy we have no means of judging, but there can be no doubt that for a time they will be inspired with a wholesome awe of our superior force, and perhaps be deterred from molesting us for at least one season. We. trust, however, that this success has not. been achieved as deariy as the cue gained over the Wuzerees, when Major Nicholson contrived to lose 23 men of the 4th Punjaub Infantry, who had somehow straggled from the main body. — Agra Messenger, January 15.

Jung Bahadoor a Refugee. — Jung Baliadoor, well known to the English reader as the great Nepauless Ambassador, is now a refugee in British territories. — Bombay Gazette, February 12.

A Wealthy Contractor. —We regret to record the death of Mr. Pestonjee Merjee, on the 17th instant, at Hydrabad, Deccan, in the 55 th year of his age. He had been a resident in his Highness the Nizam's dominion fox the last nineteen years, where be was employed in the capacity of " Contractor General," to bis Highness. At ihe time of his decease, the Nizam's Government, it is said, were indebted to him in the enormous sum of from from iorty to forty-five lacks of rupeei. —He was, from all accounts, a very charitable man —having erected for the accommodation of travellers " Dhurrumsallas " at Wurgaum, Kampolee, Bangunga, Simjars, Kewlah, Mahim, Dowla, and Tarrtgoor ; and "Towers of Silence" at Aurungabad, Bellapoor, Sholapoor and Hydrabad (Deccaa) —not to mention his daily alms to the poor, which are said to have been very liberally bestowed. —Poona Observer, 26. •

Februaay Affrays between Europeans and NaTrvEs. —Messrs. Waller, Nugent and Boswell, who were implicated with Mr. Finley in causing the death of a Durwan near Calcutta, have been acquitted: Mr. Finley has been convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months. Two officers of H. M. 29th Regiment, Lieutenants Walker and Perry, have been neatly involved in even a more disastrous quarrel with the natives in the neighbourhood of Dinapore, one native was shot accidentally, and in the consequent uproar two others weie shot in self defence, but the wounded men were recovering. —Bombay Gazette, January 29.