INDIA.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 81, 14 August 1863, Page 3

INDIA.

Our files are to the 9th June

The Icing of Burinah is reported to have been murdered. This report is not confirmed.

The Report of the Kurrachee Chamber of Commerce for the year 1862-G3, states that the total value of the trade of that port for the year was five and a-half million sterling against about three million the previous year ; an increase of B(J£ per cent ; upwards of £1,300.000 of this increase is due to the export ot cotton, of which staple not a single bale was exported two years ago.

Latest advices from Cherra speak favorably respecting the re-establishment of peace. Nearly all the rebels have settled down again in their villages, and are either cultivating their fields, or working for the Government in the construction of roads. The authorities are reported to be exerting themselves in a praiseworthy manner to relieve the distresses of the destitute by finding employment for them, and are resolved toact generously by theee misguided rebels, until they have tided over the year of distress that must always follow such warfare as they have been engaged in. Although it has been a matter of chagrin in some quarters that the loss of life from actual conflict was greater on the part of our troops than on that of the enemy, there can be no doubt that, in reality, the Joss of the wretches that thought to harass us into relinquishing their country has, from various causes, far exceeded, in the aggregate, our returns of killed. There is

scarcely a house throughout the district that has not Jost one or more of its inmates; not a family of which some member has not either died during the revolt, or is not at this present nfoment dying from the long exposure in the jungles. In the settlement of Jovvai alone, no less than fifteen or twenty houses have become extinct; and the number in that single village of those that have died since the commencement of the revolt and in consequence of it, is set down by the natives at 600, or just onetenth of the entire population. The suffering in the other Jyntia villages may be calculated at the same rate. — Dacca News.

Some sensation has been produced liy the telegraphic orders from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, addressed to the Bombay Government, to fortify the Bombay Harbour without delay, and put it in a complete stato of defence. If these orders are connected with the apprehensions of a disruption of friendly relations with America, they have not been issued too soon. In the event of a war between the two countries, the Americans would direct (he best efforts of their navy for the injury of bur Briiish Indian commerce, more especially of our cotton trade ; and the injury that her clipper-built steamers. privateering in the Indian Oivnn svd Arabian Sea, might do to our shipping, may be learned from the destruction that has been wrought by the Alabama alone. Neither our Bombay harbour nor our Indian waters are at present in any stale, of security against the men of war ;md privateers of a belligerent power. The ship Morayshire lias arrived at Bombay, laden with Armstrong guns, and islanding HO pounders. — Bombay Gazdte, !Uh July By news from Cabool to 13th May. it appears that Dost Mahomed liar! sent a messenger to Shah Nawaz Klian. the present- ruler of H-'erat, asking him if he would ratify the terms agreed upon by the Hub Sultan Ahmed Jan The reply was that he had written to the King of Persia on his father's deaih, and. on the receipt of an .-inswer fVom the JShah, would c itninunicate his intentions with regH'd to the treaty to the Ameer. The Prince of Meshed was on his way to Hcerai, having left his troops at Ghorian, to co7idole with Shah Nawaz Kh/in on the occasion of his father's death. — Ibid.

Lieut. Jackson, who was tried by Court Martial at Mooltan for flogging his servant to death at Dera Ismail Khan, has been sentenced to penal servitude for four years. and his name has been struck off the rolls of the Royal Engineers from the 21st April la-t.

A Cotton Press Company lias been formed at Meerat. Its operations will ultimately be extended over the whole of the North West Provinces.

In the month of August next, extensive and numerous changes will take place in almost all the brandies of the administration, intending to assimilate it as much as possible to the state machinery as worked in England. The work of abolishing, re constructing and economising will he carried on under the guiding hand of Sir C. Trevelyan, by officials well trained and versed in English financial work.

The Bishop of Calcutta has propounded a scheme for establishing a Diocesan Board of Education to meet the wants of the lower class of Europeans that have increased so largely of lale years in Bewgal. Sir C- Trevelyan, and other influential official persons in Calcutta, are taking an active part in promoting it. A heavy fall of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, occurred in Bomhay on the 4th June. There are indications of an approaching fall still heavier. The monsoon may he considered to have set in.

There has been a decided improvement in the health of ihe town and island of Bombay during the past week. Cholera, however, is on the increase.

At the date of last advices, considerable excite, merit prevailed in Melbourne amongst sporting circles and the patrons of the P. li., as to a "stun ning mill," which was to coma off on Tuesday, the 2Stli ult, between Mat Hardy and Alf M'Laren. The fight was anticipated to be one of the most >'game" ever held in the colonies. Bell's Life in Victoria thus comments on i t : — " In the betting Mat is a decided favourite, but his opponent has, nevertheless, a host of admirers. Both are in ex. cellent condition. Mat has taken the greatest care of himself from the first moment the match was made ; and, unlike the condition he was in on the occasion of his first fight with Joe Kitchen, when he was as round as a dumpling, and as fat ii a a porpoise, he is now fit to sustain his character as a good, honest, game boxer, and should he win, an almost invincible one. Alf M'Laren has been doing his work at Lake Burumbeet, and, during the last week or so, has received the services of Bilj Cleghorn's experience in the art of training, and, by those who have seen him, Alf is reported to be in the very height of condition. No greater excitement has been caused, in this colony, by any "mill" since the fight for the championship between Curran and Sallars." An Irishman, who, two years ago, was employed in a lard and tallow factory, went into a Philadelphia jewellery store the other day, and purchased a set. of diamonds " wid the rale sparrikle," giving a check therefore for 7800 dollars. Patrick had followed the army, gathering the soap grease, and discounting officers 1 bills; and The jeweller learned, on presenting his cheque at the bank, that his name was good for four times the amount. — New York Tribune.