INDIA.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 196, 21 June 1860, Page 4

INDIA.

The empire continues to enjoy peace anc prosperity, and is rapidly recovering from the evil effects of the revolt Bundlecund has been cleared of rebels, and the Terai has been completely swept by the Nepaulese troops. The Viceroy has recommended that some special mark of attention should be bestowed on Jung Zlahadoor for his late services in the Terai. The Nepaul /‘riuee is very desirous that the famous //indoo temple at Ajoodie should be, made over to him ; and, it is gene' rally believed that his wishes will be granted Information has been received from Nepau that seventeen persons, with seven camel; laden with jewellery, bullion, and rich clothing have been arrested at a place called Bharlout.a, the property, it is supposed, of the deac jVana. It is also stated, that of all the womer who accompanied the nana into th.e forest! only two remain alive, many haying beer murdered for their jewellery. The GovernorGeneral has ordered the King of .Oud.e’i

jewels to be returned. They are said'fc. b& • f great value, the Lucknow mg them at three, crores of rupees ! A "painful: fact has just come to the knowledge" of the authorities, connected with the Cawnpore mas ane. Miss Wheeler, who was supposed to have drowned herself in a well, it appra s, is still alive. Ca; t. Harvey, snpecinteh lent of the department for the abolition of 7'huggee, has had communication with the unfortunate young lady, who is so utterly broken in spirit, that she entreats her friends not to seek to bring her back again, but to leave her to her wretched fate. Yet it were better surely foi the poor girl herself that her request should not be complied with. Time may oblk; rate the remembrance of even her sorrows; and it were no real kindness to In r to obey what wild wishes her present morbid nervousness of. feeling may suggest. It is necessary, too, that the government should vindicate its own dignity and justice by ascertaining the true particulars of this sad story, and punishing the guilty parties with relentless severity. Steps of no ordinary character should be adopted to restore Miss Wheeler once more into the bosom, if not of society, at all events of civilisation. Let her revelations be preserved inviolable, until after her death, or only such use made of them, as will suffice to correct mis-statements, and remove nib-impressions. Sir Hope Grant and the China expedition are dividing attention with the Honourable Mr. Wilson and his Financial Scheme.

Twenty-six vessels for transport have been taken up at Calcutta. Sngapore is to be the common rendezvous, whence a fleet of forty sail is expected to set out for China. As the expedition will last for two years, and preparations are being made for land operations on a great scale, most effective commissariat arrangements must be made. The campaign will certainly be one involving great expence, even if no war actually takes place. Two batteries of Armstrong guns, and four hundred and forty-seven officers and men left England in the Himalaya for China on the 16 January. As part of the European and nearly the whole of the native force lias yet to be shipped from India, I see no prospect of the beginning of actual operations before July. Mr, Wilson’s paper currency scheme has been submitted to tho Legislative Council. The following is its general outline. — “ The present issue of notes by the Bank of Bengal, the Bank of Madras, and the Bank of Bombay, is to cease. Commissioners are to be appointed to control the new issues of state notes which may be had for cash at all treasuries.

Notes issued from district treasuries will be convertble on demand at those treasuries, and at the presidency treasury also. Notes issued from the presidency treasuries will he convertible thereat alone, and will not be payable at district treasuries. As security against these notes, every treasury is to retain one-third the amount of its issue in cash : the remaining two-thirds are to be invested in Government securities.

The profits accruing from the issue are to belong to the state. There is to be a uniform state paper currency, the notes constituting a legal tender. They are to vary in amount from Rs. five to Rs. one thousand. India to be divided into circles. The notes issued in each circle to be also a legal tender at the Presidency of that circle. An Issue Commissioner to be appointed-for each presidency, and a Deputy Commissioner for each circle. These officers to bo responsible only to the (Home) Council for India—not to the Indian Government. The reserve of coin is to equal one-third of tho issue. Merchant’s bullion immediately exchangeable for notes on the Treasury. There is not to be a gold currency. We take the following from the Overland Athenaeum'of 23rd March:—

The Viceroy held a durbar at Peshawur on tlie 29th February, and one at Sealkote on the Bth March, when the Maharajah of Cashmere was received. There are rumours of disturbances in Cabul.

Many of the cultivators in the indigo districts of Bengal have risen against their employers. A notification has been issued by the Government, but it lia.s not restored

Sir H. Rose has been appointed Ccmmanderii>.Chief of Bombay,. The Viceroy’s progress is drawing to a close. He has held bis last durbar, and will now, according to statements from various 5 quarters, after a short rest at Simla, return to the seat of government at Calcutta, where it is likewise mentioned he will be joined bydkii Commander-in-Chief, Lord Clyde. liie Viceroy’s last display but one was. at where he delivered a most emphatic speed to the chiefs and principal native resident: who had been, summoned to meet him. Quite recently, as lie remarked, one of theii tribes had brought upon itself the vengeanci of the British power. . This was in allusion tc the expedition that had been undertaker against the Wuzeerees, some of whom hac murdered Capt. Mccham, of the Benga Artillery, while, he : was ; -(proceeding throUgl the Kohat Pass. The expedition was cofii manded by Brigadier General Chamberlaiu whose force consisted of five thousand tbre hundred fighting men. In forwarding' th despatdies Respecting it to the government o India, Sir R. Montgomery, the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, says:—“ The succes which has attended the operations is, in th opinion of the Lieutenant-Governor, remarka ble. Indeed, the insignificance of the los sustained, when compared with the result stamps-the character of the operations de:

cribetl, as’ 'unique" among expeditions of the Fort/'' The practical and moral results, excel those of any former expeditions; a whole tribe has been punished and humbled ; three of its leaders’have' fallen, a vast/quantity of property has been seized, and the whole encampment -of tlie enemy has fallen into the hands of our force. Meantime, while this signal lesson was being conveyed, agency was set on foot to collect every sort of information relative to the country and its people, and a map executed which will be invaluable for any future operations. Brigadier-General Chamberlain dwells with peculiar satisfaction on the friendly attitude of other tribes. This constitutes, in the opinion of the LieutenantGovernor, one of the most noticeable features in the affair. It is attributable, no doubt, as stated by the Brigadier-General Commanding, to the hearty aid of the Khans of our own territory who accompanied the force, and in this active sympathy tlie Lieutenant-Governor recognised the fruits of that considerate treatment which it has been the policy of the local government to maintain. Implicit reliance was placed on the word of the British officer by the chiefs of the tribes, through whose d imains the avenging force had of necessity to pass, that if no opposition was attempted, property would be respected ; and the curious spectacle was exhibited of the women and children of various tribes watering their flocks and herds in the same pool with the army which was passing . through with the avowed object of visiting their guilty neighbours and possible relations with signal retribution. The Viceroy’s last durbar was held at Sealkote, on the Bth instant, for tho reception of the Maharajah of Cashmere and the Chiefs of the Derajat.