INDIA.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 39, 5 February 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

INDIA.

(From the JSnr/lishman.) LadyElgex. — The Countess of Elgin takes her departure in the steamer Feroze on the 2Gth instant, for (Suez and England. 1). C. Archer, superintendent of the Eye Infirmary, accompanies her ladyship to England. Milttaky {Speculations. — A court of inquiry is to be held to investigate alleged malversations of certain officers with reference to the misuse of public money and labor, applied to the furtherance of their own private projects and speculations, chiefly as regards tea gardens and plantations, which have turned the heads of so many employed in the province of Assam. The charges put forward are very grave ; and, from papers which Aye have seen, we should not be at all surprised to see at least one officer's commission lost. The B'j'it Hussahs.- — In a general order, the Commander-in- Chief bids farewell to that fine regiment, the Bth (King's Jioyal Irish) Hussars, now inarching down en route home. To have landed in India sixty years ago — to have performed two terms of service here — to have fought England's battles so gloriously — is a past of which a regiment may well be proud. A more, popular regiment has never left India. Tin-: Fhoxttkr War. — We are favored with the following intelligence from the frontier : — Lalloo was attacked on the morning of the loth by the force from Umbeylah, which drove the enemy from all their' positions in excellent style. The enemy lost 300 men killed. Our loss very small. No officer's name mentioned as killed or wounded. Tl\e enemy is retreating. Bajt/ways. — There are -1-17 miles of the Madras railway open for traffic, and forty-seven stations. The number of persons employed is* 75 J- 5, viz.— Europeans, 17(5 ; East Indians, $63 ; and natives, 6969. On the Great Southern Indian Railway seventy-nine miles are open ; there are thirteen stations ; and the number of persons employed is 49-i<, viz., Europeans, 19 ; East Indians, 15 ; and Natives, 460. Otje Soldiers' Wives. — Certain charitable Jadies of Calcutta proceeded on Saturday to J?um Dum in order to supply the almost / <£e.stjyb;u.te women and children of the 2nd battalion,, 20th regiment, with clothing, flannel, money, &c. At about twelve o'clock they commenced to visit the barracks occupied by the married people, and inspected every room. The same ■ answer was received in nearly every room, thut ,food and warm clothing were required foi?i-he peeping children, the poor mothers seeming ;fcjQ care little for their own hardships, jbrowv root, port wine, &c, were given ,to the sickly- children. Lodge '■' 'Star, in, the East ", oa .evening, voted a donation of 230 rap'ep towards assist* ing these distressed Voraej*,, many of whose hvisbauda are ''Mason?, toeta : Mag # fcodge m each teMian, w$ tha* of ill© #??; feattpiiou h^vmg l?e's^ It is coiisofe'ng to "fia'i thsi 4$ ty® public at least," our soldiers' ttioMm are not forgottea, but there should be :,jj,o occasion whaieVGr^ fay aiiyiihi».g of j the land. "When England Heads men a^ ?Qa 4 figfei: her battles, she should at least c^l^ near arid dew to them are not <3 Wfff ™ Q>