INDIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 264, 1 May 1860, Page 3

INDIA.

We (Sydney Herald) have Bombay papers to the 25th of February.

Mr. Wilson's Budget was brought before the Legislative Council on the 17th. The Bombay^ Times says, " It'is, as was to be expected, a compromise." The Viceroy continues his progress northwards, having reached Lahore at the date of last advices from that city. Tho Maharajah Itungbeer Sing of Cashmere was to meet him afc Wuzeerbad on the 22 nd, when liis lordship will proceed by dak to Peshawur, visiting Simlah about the middle of April via Kangra and Belaspore. On Sunday, the 12th instant (says the Bombay Times), we received the gratifying intelligence thafc the cable had been successfully laid' between Kurrachee and Aden, and but for some interruption of tho line between Alexandria and the latter port we should now be receiving English news within five or seven days of the despatch. The nature and locality of the interruption on the Ked Sea have not yet transpired. The only news of interest from Central India is fche execution of Hurkishen Singh, Hurkaru of the infamous Koer Sing of Arrah notoriety. The bodies' of marauders who follow the Fortunes of Feroze Shah and others in the jungle districts afc the junction of the Soane with the Ganges, melt away at first sight of troops in their neighborhood, to re-appear as soon as they are withdrawn. The movement will eventually wear itself out, however, by a watchful repression of every rising. Hurkishen Sing was hanged at Judgeapore on the 30th ultimo. The report of Unraer Singh's death is confirmed. Ram Kishen Sing (a brotlier of Hurkishen) and three other mutineers, await their fate in prison, and the former mil most probably sent across the kala pani. Our last issue announced the surrender of Captain Mecham's murderers by the Wuzurees of the Kabyl Khail. The leader of the punehayet, by whom this dastardly murder was perpetrated—Mehabufc Khlan— was brought into Bunnoo, bound hand and foot by the members of his own tribe, on fche 22nd ultimo, having been seized by a body of Wuzerees some fifty miles within the hills The man made a clear confession of his crime, and has met the fate he so richly merited without exciting the sympathy even of his own clansmen. He was taken to the spot vt here the murder was committed, and there hanged.

An improbable story of the treason of his Highnesa the Maharajah Holkm* of Indore and the mutiny of tho native infantry stationed afc his capital, found its way into the local Press the other day, from the columns of the Poona Observer. The whole affair, which was most circumstantially and graphically written, is represented by Sir Richmond Shakespear, the Political Agent at Indore, as a hoax.

A letter received hy a Calcutta contemporary from Kundul, narrates a terrible invasion of our territory by the Kookees, a barbarous tribe inhabiting the Tip* pet ah hills, to the south of the districts of Silket and Cuchar. We cannot but hope that the attrocities said to have been committed are exaggerated, for anything more terrible than the narration as it stands is inconceivable. Upwards of a thousand persons aro said to have beeri- massacred in two days. Neither age nor sex was spared, and the victims were subjected to cruelties of the most heUish imagination. The cause of fche 3 ffJS'iffl^^ele Pedtrd.y perhaps go further ■X solution of the matter. A wing of the'Nuraipora Battahon Tow D 2 esa and the clubmen, burkuudauze a„I latteeals of the neighboring Zemindars, moved upon" the district, but too late to do mor«th*n witne« the destruction caused by the raid.