INDIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 25.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 843, 31 August 1853, Page 4

INDIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, July 25.]

We take following from a S\nga\)OTe paper of June 17th. It appears that the Durrnab war instead of bsing ceuled, as was expected, is in as cnsath'actory a state as ever. A march on Aya s which ought to have h nen performed last year, :a now deemed unavoidable. Bombay ad/ices to the 30tb of May state that Lord Frederick Fiisclarence, the coramander-in-chief, continued in a critical state of health, and it was believed that ha would eventually be cornfelled to return to England. A general impression prDvaiied that Lord Falkland, the Governor of Bombay, m>uld be recalled, and the dismissed Sudder.Jedges (Messrs, Grant and Le Gsyt) b? re-instated. The Parsee Knight, Sir Jamsetjee Je^eebhoy had munificently ouer^d ths aum of one j lakh cf rapss3 for ths formation and mamie- ; nance of a School cf Arts. Preliminary arrangemento a c or the gas company wera complete, and it vrzs confidently expected that the profits would amount So 25 per cent, oa a capital of four hkhs cf rapeec. Calcutta aews received via Bombay to 20th of llaj, notices the departure of ths PJan, steamer, for Sues, on May l'/ih, having on board Sir John Tbalkwell, whose ili Gtate of health had compelled him to return to Eutope. Cholera was raging ct Calcutta with violence ; between the 'itb and 7th of May no leco than 700 persona clied. The Sikh chieftains in durance at Fort I William ore, by order of the Governor-Generel, allowed to have tba liberty of driving out every evening, until further orders, under a military escort. The Sikh Gooroo and his disciple at Singapore are kept close prisoners. The Maeox from this port reached Calcutta on May 16th, the American ship Albatross, on I tha 19th.

. Bcriiah. —By the way of Eombay intelligence has been received from the 3eat of war to the 12th of May. On May 9th, ths day fised for adjusting the terms of the treaty, ths Burmese Commissioners appeared; they were informed that the conditions of the treaty arrangement were that if tba treaty was signed at once the English authorities would draw the British line of frontier boundary six miles north of Tonghoo, that if they deferred signing, then -the boundary line wonld be fixed six miles north of Meaday. To these proposals the Commissioners replied that the war bad been brought on by an imbecile king, and they thought it very hard for the present ruler to suffer for his predecessor ; they then walked off without signing the treaty. It would, therefore, seem as if negotiations were once more at an end, and that the Burmese had merely endeavoured to gain time in order to complete their preparations for further hostilities. It is said that arrangements were in progress for an advance on Ava, and that for this purpose all the small steamers were being collected. In the meantime, the hot weather and disease, on the river particularly, were thinning and dispiritiug the British forces. Captain E. D. Byng, of the Bengal Fusileers, died of coup de soleiK Sir John Cbeape was very ill, suffering from a severe attack of dysentery. The notorious robber chief Meah Toon bad escaped out of Pegu, and reached Burmah Proper; his conduct had been applauded by the Court of Ava, under whose cuspices he was raising fresh troops.