INDIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 190, 10 May 1860, Page 4

INDIA.

Indian news to the Tth Feb. has reached us. News from the convict settlement at the Andamans lias been received by the Englishman.

Lord Canning has ordered that prisoners of good conduct should be employed as guards; as a reward for continued good service, they were to receive a pardon after five years The number of convicts now amounts to 1332, of whom 996 are for life, and 336 for limited time. The health of the convicts has much improved, hut up to this time the deaths have amounted to 87 per cent. The newly arrived convicts are kept in irons. Government has sent a large supply of cattle to the islands, consisting of bulls, cows, goats, &c. A most' extraordinary disease, says the North West Gazette, has appeared among the natives inhabiting a portion of the Allahabad district, immediately on the opposite side of the river Jumna. It is. a kind of paralysis, and seems to have commenced so far back as 1857. When it attracted the notice of. Mr. Court, our indefatigable magistrate, there were some 3000 persons so affected. About three in every hundred were lame. A medical officer has been deputed to examine the complaint., and see if some remedy cannot be applied. It is said Jo have originated, most strangely, in a description of grain which the natives eat.

[From the Melbourne WeeJcly Herald .] Bombay, 25th January, 1860

The Terrai has been cleared of insurgents, and all the principal leaders are now in our hands. •

There is not a shade of doubt about the Nana’s and Balurao’s death. The fact lias been' set at rest by their families, who are at Bhootwul, under the protection of the Nepaulese authorities, who support and keep a sort of watch over them. In Bundlecund and Central India, the rebellion may also be considered suppressed ; its last embers having been trampled out by flying detachments. Ferozeshah is still in the jungles, hut he lias few followers, and must eventually either surrender or die of starvation.

Major Homier has also succeeded in sub duing the JFaghurs in Kattiawar. The expedition, against the Wuzerees has succeeded in reducing them to submission, and, it is believed, that the signal punishment they have just received will be sufficient to keep , them quiet for years. The viceroy continues his progress 'through the country. Accompanied by Lord Clyde, : he was ,to enter Umbailah on the 16th Ja-; nuary, in state —the troops at the station , turning out in full dress to receive their Excellencies. : A grand durbar was expected to be held on Wednesday, the 18th. A ball was ulso given by the . station to Lady Canning, and other grand doings were anticipated during the stay Of the viceregal court at Umballa, for about a week. The news of the death of Moantstuart JEI- - was received in Bombay with deep regret, especially by the natives, and the students. and ex-.students of the Elphinstone institution assembled in large numbers in the Town I-lall, on the 11th inst., for the purpose of expressing their sorrow at his death, and for doing honour to his memory, by a suitable token of their esteem and gratitude. It was resolved at the meeting that “ such token be a monument in the shape of a bust of the illustrious deceased, with a pedestal and suitable inscription, to be placed in the Victoria Museum and Gardens.” About 3000 rupees have been subscribed to carry into effect the above proposal. The Bombay Association have presented an. address of condolence to Lord Elphinstone, for the loss his lordship has sustained in the death of his uucle. The Right Hon. the Governor is suffering from fever, and has taken up his quarters ’at Malabar Point. The .weather has been exceedingly cold for the last few days, the thermometer sometimes sinking under 60°. The island is, however, I regret to say, unhealthy—fevers and acute intestine disorders being the prevailing diseases. The Commander-in-Chief continues to reside at the Presidency, and it is stated that die is to remain at the bead of the

jarroy until Lord Clyde vacates the Indian com* mand in favour of Sir Hugh Rose. Mails to India, China, and Australia. —The Time Tables of the India, China, and Australian mail packets for 1860 have just been issued, under the sanction of the Admiralty. They contain some important alterations. The contract- time for the transit of the Marseilles portion of. the mail through Egypt will be twenty-four hours, and for the Southampton portion forty-eight hours. The voyage between Southampton and Alexandria is to occupy thirteen days. The outward and homeward Australian mail, which will leave Sydney and Southampton respectively in March next, will touch at Point de Galle instead of Afauritius. The branch line between Aden and Mauritius will still be in connection with the Australian, packets. The contract time for the voyage between Aden and Mauritius will be 12 days. The Peuinsular and Oriental packets will be due at Southampton about the 2nd, 10th, 18th, and 25th of the month; and the Marseilles portion of the Eastern mails will reach London about six days before each of those dates. The post betweeu Sydney and London via Marseilles is to be 51 days, and the course of post between those two places will be 108 days. When the Australian telegraph is extended to King George’s Sound, and the India and Mediterranean telegraph system is completed, news will reach London from New Youth Wale 3 in 14 days.