INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 852, 22 August 1871, Page 3

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From "The Englishman's Overland Mail.")

Earthquakes were felt at Nynee Tal Landour, Meerut, and Agra on the night of the 22nd May. The Shah of Persia objects to pay anything for the services of the Indian officers who had been placed at his disposal to drill his troops. Lord Napier lectured on " Painting in India" at Madras on the 19th May. Six hundred and eighty-five miles of the Singapur and Hongkong cable had been successfully laid on the 25th May. Captain Purcell, of H. M.'s 12th Regiment, was accidentally killed by a fall from his horse on his way home from the ball given by Lord Mayo on the Queen's Birthday.

The metallic oxide discovered in the "Central Provinces is being generally used in this country by railways and building firms in preference to English paints. Throughout the greater part of India the weather has been most unusual, storms and cool winds nearly every day instead of the intense heat general in May. The crops have suffered in somo parts ; but, on the whole, the country has been much benefited.

The fund subscribed by the Sirdars of Deccan for a memorial of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, amounting to 30,000 rupees, is to be devoted to the establishment of a fellowship at the University and the endowment of a Female Normal School at Poona.

An attempt was made by a native carpenter to poison some of the boys at Mr Mark's school at Mandalay, but fortunately without any fatal result. Another petition to Parliament on the Finance of India is being signed by the natives at Madras.

Mr Blandford has discovered valuable seams of coal at a depth of 41 feet in the G-odavery district. A Hindu in Bombay has summoned his fellow caste men under the penal code for defamation, for excluding him from caste for marrying a widow. The mail from Calcutta to Darjiling and Assam was robbed at Durgraghat on the 13th instant.

The Russians have forbidden all importations of goods from India to Bokhara, and ordered the holders of any goods to dispose of them within twelve months.