INDIA.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 431, 10 December 1861, Page 3

INDIA.

From the Overland Summary of the Bomhay .Gazette, of the 27th September, we Quote as follows :—

The past fornight has not been signalised by any remarkable events. Prosperity, political, social, agricultural, and commercial, has reigned throughout the land.

. It is to be noted, with great thankfulness, that the famine, which rested so sorely upon the r.otth-west provinces, has been removed.

Cholera has been raging with great fa-tality..'-It is stated.to have ceased at Meean

Meer on the I3th inst. Although it broke put at Umritsir, the means promptly employed for checking it were completely successful. At Meean Meer it first showed itself en the 6ih August. The strength ofthebrigade in European non-commissioned officers and men was then 2162. ■ On the 13th instant, the strength stood at 1679.

In little more than a month there were thus 483 deaths amongst the men, besides one officer (Colonel Irby), one officers'wife and child, twenty-three European women, and twenty-five children; in all five hundred and thirty-four deaths from choleia amongst Europeans alone. The rate of deaths among the non-commissioned officeis and men comprising the whole force is rather more than 22 prr cent, on the total strength. The 94th have- suffeied the mos', their loss being about 32 per cent, or nearly one-third of the wing; while the, 51st have lost 25 per cent., of cne-fourth. of the regiment. The deaths among the European Cavalry are equal to 14J per cent.; in the Royal Artillery 9|; and in the Bengal 6£ per cent. Her Highness the Bahadshaw Bagutn of Surat, the first widow of the late Nawab, died last week. By her death the Government will effect a saving of twenty thousand rupees per annum, which had been settled upon her by the late Court of Directors of the East India Company. • ■■•

The Dcccan .Herald is informed that his Excellency Sir George Clerk in the first week of October will proceed to the new port of Sudaseughur to meet there Sir William Denison, the Governor of Madras, for the purpose of receiving over the province of Oanaia, which is to be annexed, from this Presidency to that of Madras.

. NEW AMERICAN GENERALS. The following sketches of the commanders of the Northern forces are supplied by our Boston correspondent, whose letter is curiously-illustrative of the tone of public feeling in the 'American Athens':— ' ■ ■. ■' '■~*..■'■ General Fremont*—There is one crop that will be abundant with us in this year 1861, and we may have a second one, and perhaps a third, as ' war is a terrible man-eater. I mean the crop of generals. Two new ones have just been, made, completing nearly a dozen since the war began. They are John C. Fremont and N. P. Banks. General Fremont? has a regular military education, and has seen much service of a nature to make him a good commander in this way. He is in his 49th year. It is expected that he will be appointed to the command of that great force which Government is rapidly organising in the North-west, and to which will be intrusted the task of sweeping the South-west Secessionists into the Gulf of Mexico. This force, which is to operate both on land and on the great rivers of the west, will act I in unison with a combined naval and military force in the Mexican Gnli', and the two will do up the work appointed for them after the Naseby fashion —not negligently. General Fremont hates the leaders of the rebels, as well personally as politically, and this will make him all the more efficient as one of the principal actors in the grand process of crushing them out of life. He'll hammer them as Charles Martel hammered the Saracens at Tours. Old Bluclier's bitter hatred of Napoleon was of more service to the allies than the Austrian alliance, and the same sort of feeling will tell in our conflict.

General Banks is in his 46th year. He has had no experience in the field, but while Governor of Massachusetts he paid much attention to military matters; and to his labors in behalf of our volunteer militia the effectiveness of that force is principally due. He is a superior man as an organiser and administrator, and has few equals in the country as an executive officer. Government knows this, and wishes to make him quartermaster general, but he preferred a more active post, and so he goes into the field at the head of a division as major-general. There had been a report that Msjor-General Butler was to be recalled fiom Eastern Virginia, and to be appointed to the command at Baltimore, while General Banks should take General Butler's place at the head of the troops in Eastern Virginia ; but it is not confirmed-

General M'Clelland is In his thirty-fifth year. He is a regular soldier, a Philadelphian by birth, a graduate of West Point, and was distinguished for his services in the Mexican war, in several of the battles in which he was engaged. He was a member of the commission which our Government sent to the Crimea and Northern Europe at the time of the Russian war; and he wrote a report on the * Organisation of European Armies and the Operations of the Wal'.' In 1857 he left the army and became connected with leading railroad companies. On the breaking out of the war he was tendered a Major-General's commission by the Governor of Pennsylvania, boon after this he was made a Major-General in the Federal army, and has command of the department of Ohio, comprising the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, with portions of Virginia and Pennsylvania.. He ranks next to Major-General Scott.

General Butler is 43 years old. He is a Yankee, being a native of New Hampshire, though a resident of Massachusetts. A lawyer by profession, lie knows nothing of military matters save what it was possible for him to learn on the tented fields of the Massachusetts militia; but the boldness and ' dash' that he has exhibited since he entered tho service have convinced the public that he has military qualities, and his promotion from a Massachusetts brigadier-general to a major-general-ship in the United States army is universally approved. He is one of the most successful lawyers of the North, and in politics a democrat; and so little of an anti-slavery man, that he was the Breckinridge candidate for Governor of Massachusetts last year. He is an absolute original—in appearance, in manners, in his professions, and in his opinions; and unless he should greatly change, or should be early killed or disabled, he will prove himself an original in the field. I have known him for years, and I cannot say.that I over saw or read of a person with whom I could compare him — Post.