INDIA.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 48, 26 February 1864, Page 6

INDIA.

',-...■ t?* om the Bombay oag6tt6 t .ifsLn. 14.) In-fiiture, we understand, there will A be a fleet of ten of Her J&aje'sty's yes* •ißels of war employed in tbe Indian j ;-'Beas.Y' : -.' , ;. ;.vv ■; ;"-:,■■ ..: .. Oriental Com-steamer-Eangpon, which iyeoently • ran ashore .': in-. JS-ont Bay, 1 outside of Aden, has been extrioated •from ,hCT perilous position, and readied ; (2-alie, [M.routoa Calcutta, on tbo 9th. 3?ki $ovibmnent of India baa -for*? i jnattyxeoognise&Siydai? Shete Aii Khaii as Ameere of Afghanistan, ? ,: It'is stated tbat tbe Obmmander-in- : XM&£ of India lias applied to tlie Qo*vernment of India for an increase in --the 'native army. ~ The enhanced price of tbe necessaries of life, coupled witli tbe increasing , scarcity of labor,lß beginning to be felt -very, unpleasantly in Bombay, The - whole or the carpenters and joiners in '.-ihe employ of the -Peninsular and Oriental Coinpanyat Mazagon recently struck for a higher rate of pay, and many of them, we- believe, are still refractory, although large concessions have been made. On Priday, the crews of the various 'pilot-boats! signi- - fled their intention of doing no more work until their pay was raised. The matter has since been compromised* A bishop pulling down a cross w4th bis own hands in a cathedral church, and casting this, symbol of Christianity vfrbm Mm with every sympton of abhorrence, is ; a spectacle . more startling than edifying to the outside world. .On the Sunday after Christmas Day, Bishop Harding is reported to have thus acted during the service at St. Thomas's Cathedral ; and his conduct in the matter appears to us worthy of . praise rather, than blame. There is a marked tendency, on the part of some ofthe Bombay clergy to introduce here the formularies, upholstery, and other furniture of Puseyism. The Puseyites of the first generation were worthy of all men's respect, because they represented the most vigorous intellect, as well as nearly all the zeal and earnest- ' neess of the church, and to their effects must be ascribed a real revival of religion in England. Their successors have made Puseyism a mere synonym for symbolism of a most trivial charac- "' ter, which finds favour with none but old women of one sex and young women of the other. "Well, the Bom- ; bay Puseyites, though quite aware that "the bishop has the greatest contempt . for all that sort of thing, had the audacity to insult him, when he came to preach at the cathedral, by sticking a big cross over his chair, and sewing a smaller cross upon the cloth of the communiontable. Inthe circumstances, the bishop'was, we think, right in showing openly his indignation at the impertinence of his clergy by defacing one cross and tearing away the other. There are some who speak of the act as irreverent, but they forget that the cross which offended the bishop's eye was not the symbol of the Christian religion, but the badge of a party in the Church. The wife of a Brahmin in Meywar, unwilling to go through the religious sacrifice of suttee, on the death of her husband, was seized violently by her relations, and tortured and burned. The parties were seized and sentenced by Mr. Eden, the political agent, to transportation for periods of two and thi'ee years. /The Marian Moore has arrived with 1*75 miles of the Persian Grulf submarine cable. The line of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company from Surat to Bombay will probably be opened for public traffic iv the month of March next. On the evening of Wednesday, 23 rd nit., the Lord Bishop of Bombay deliveredanaddresstoacrowded audience, chiefly of educaaed natives, in the hail of the Money Institution, on the untenableness of pure theism. The Honorable Rustomjee Jamjetjee Jeejebhoy has made a donation of 150,000 rupees, £15,000. to enable five natives of India to qualify themselves in England to practise in this country as barristers-at-law. -..j. The latest accounts from the northwest frontier show that affairs there liave taken a somewhat pacific turn. The villages of .L/alloo and Umfreyla ' were taken without any officer being killed or wounder, the. enemy suffering severely. Major James has come to terms of peace with the Bonair tribe, and they do not interfere with our passage to Mulka, which is still occupied by the Hindoostanees, while the Bajouries and others who had come to their aid had fled. On the morning of the sth inst., a party of Momand robbers made ( a raid near the post of Shubkuddur, in - the Doaba tract of the Peshawur district, fifteen miles north of Peshawur ; a force' went out after them from Port ! Michnie, under the command of Cap- .';. tain Earle: The cavalry charged when within about 500 yards of the enemy, .not giving the infantry time to come ' .up.; The Cavalry was led by Lieutenant Bislop, of the 6th Bengal Cavalry ; be cut down the men, but was killed iwith a bullet hitting him in the lung. Sixteen of the enemy were wounded,! and eight killed ; the only other loss j on bur side was a , sowar who was wounded. 2,000 budmashes have collected -inside the bills to make another attempt, and a movable column, having with it three guns, has gone out from here to watch them. G-eneral Cham- 1 berlain's wound obligee! him to give * command of the Punjab Irregular : Porce to Colonel Wylde, ofthe Gruides, ' ' while G-eneral G-arvock assumed com- , mand of the Eusofsai Field Forco, and .'_ commenced his reign by parading all "' the' troops, distributing orders of merit - and suitable speeches to" the different regiments which had distinguished themselves. G-eneral Chamberlain has left the camp, and is improving in i - health. . _ J