INDIA.

Press, Volume VII, Issue 684, 7 January 1865, Page 4

INDIA.

The Times of India, of November 13, sup- 1 plies the following items of news: — 1 The Viceroy and Governor-General has I returned to his seat of Government, and hai J met his Legislative Council. His Excel- I lency's progress from Simla to Calcutta was £j worthy;of his exalted position, in keeping.?! with the spirit of the age, and thoroughly J Lawrence-like. When he halted, nothing | could exceed the grandeur of display which j waitedonhim, nor the political power and I influence ? which he wielded. When he % travelledjit was with the speed of the rail- | way train; and whether halting or in ;| motion, whether enjoying public pleasures. <j| or performing public duties, he was the eaey, M dignified, energetic and firm John Lawrence. "3 At Benares, his Excellency invested the. % Eajah of Bewah with the Star of India, on | which occasion he addressed the Eajah as | Maharajah Bughoraj, Chief of. J Eewah, —It is now upwards of forty years § since the British Government and the family J of your Highness have been hound together , \| hy treaties df friendship and mutual aid—r treaties which have proved beneficial to both % parties. The condudt of your Hignnesft during the commotion of 1857 secured the. I gooS'-wllt Mid favor of. the Gofernnient. I

Your Highness was faithful to J»ur engage ments, and acted the part of a tape and loya chief. As a Bajpoot your Higbjteas belong) to a race who have, from ancienw timee, beei distinguished for their valor end fidaUfcj under great temptations and faying circum stances, and I am am happy to] recognise xc you a chief who has worthily/ maintanec this noble reputation. For ypur service! during the mutiny your Hignness was rewarded by the grant of a considerable by I«ord Canning; and now per IVlajesi the illustrious Queen of Englaftd and India has selected you from among/ many grea chiefs to be one of the Knights of th Star of India, an order off the highgj dignity. In the name of the wueen and \ her Idfajesty's commands, I hero invest j< with the honorable insignia off the India, of which most exalted order % Majesty has been graciously pleased to a point you to be a Knight." Mahomed AH Khan, son of the Ameer < Cabool, writes from Tookistan—«All Tofkistan is up ; Sirdar Übdoolrahman, son |f XJfzal Khan, is marching with the Bokhap troops to attack the Ameer." A Syud, wjo was an eye-witness, gives particulars of tpe battle between the Eussians and KohanAs at Huzrot Sooltan. The Eussians made Jm assault on the fort and took it after hird fighting; two thousand Kohanees weretafeen prisoner* and four thousand failed. The Eussians set fire to eighteen towns near Huzrut Soolten, took the cities of Jumfcut and Seerom, about sixty miles from Huzrut, and the city of Oolyan, between Kasteur and Yarkund; they then advanced on T*ahkund and Kokau. . The entrance of the British force Bhootan dooars will take place aboutltne middle of December. The four-column fcrce will enter the dooars from our frontierfine, and push the Bhooteas before them intjf the hilly county of Bhootan proper, which is altogether rocky and barren, and Tfiolly dependent for the necessaries of life on the dooars. ; Colonel H.M. Durand, C.8., Secrettry to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, will sncceed Sir Eobert Montgomery, X.C.8., as Lieutenant-Govemorof the Punjaub. • ! . The cotton crop of this eeason m tne Horth-Western provinces is expected to yield 160,000,000 lbs. There is an increase in the area under cultivation over last season of 595,003 acres; and an increase of 66,|60,000 lbs. in the out-turn. The contract for the construction of the line of railway between Delhi and TJnmtsur, ibove 300 miles in length, has been conceded to Messrs Brassey, Wjthes afd frey, for aeum not exceeding £SJfXX)>OOO,5 J fXX) > OOO, or about 4515,000 per mile, and is to be com* menced immediately. * There is a rumor, which etui waats con finnation, that the European Artillery a Bellary have turned out in open mutiny burnt down the Adjutant's office andorderlj room, and entirety destroyed and doeumente therein. 4 vj The Qovenunent will ijTpm#| committee to inquire into Ifee sts* of j| i mooring! in the Port of Calcutja. Ira ing ships "will be introduced. I { Premchund Eoychund, who lately offered to Government the sum of two lakts of rupees fbr the erection of y liibrary in Bombay, has now offered anotl sr ansa of two lakhs for the erection of a which is to contain a large clockand a set'pf W-bells in connection, with, the Universify Library. f . / Thelteß* Gazette says: —Tub priests/of the Sikh Temple at Umtateur arlsaidto hive been horribly disgusted at |he want! of liberality shown by the Maharqah of Cjshmere and Jummoo. They thref out a slrat in the shapo of 300 rupees for ireworksJind 700 rupees as a nuzur, in the n>pe of caching a whale, at least, representing iome £10,000—when, to their intenfe horroj and disappointment, the only reftrn bestowed on Aem was a paltry 1300 Rupees!! The of Fateeala, who is sufficfoitly imcMnaed to have gone info townfin a buggy, made up for it by sending! 8000 rupees. The Saja of Jheen< was equally liberal; he walked barefooted rom the gate of the town to the Durbar, md pajeed a whole night there on the!bare marble floor. J f From we recere intelligence i&at tiie whole country is upj The conduct of the Ameer of Cabool towards hisjbrother Ulrnl Khan has exaßperated|the chiefs and Khans of Western Anghanisan, who have sent a requisition to the Amefer to release his brother U find, recall hie broner Auzim, and restore to them their portionlof thefpaternal property, and have him if their requisition is not complied vith ma month, they will attack him in CabJol and! dethrone "\tirn. I ; Bombay has lost one of in mostlenergetic, wealthy, public-spirited, ant benevolent citizens. The venerable Davit Sassbon,. head of the Jewish community of Western India, and a merchant prince of |wide-yorld reputation, died in the cityfof Poonaon the 5&. instant. In personal appearance, in private character, and in jpublic life, David Saeeoon was a most remarkable nian. Everything in his outward nan heightened bis dignity of presence ; he walked *'the prince* and thegreat man in Israel" tkathereall] was. He possessed the most complete eom| maud over linnigelf. and had formed ths strictest habits of lifp and of business ; m energy and perseverance he mus as mud more conspicuous thai others as in his Saullike stature. In ptblic life lie was ever foremost to engagef in any enterprise that proaaved to promole the weffiuce of his fellow-men, to ÜBdpve the city in which he dwelt, and tolfxtend the commerce; of the East ; he Md * large heart, and! hie liberality <ajad»aißtoleDoe were well proportioned to Jpjj coloeeal wealth. It woidd not W&mmf to ennnmate even his public beiflkctiOße: ho founde the Indnetrial Schoollfl[ )Btfi»mat*ry inAomb»y which beare lSfmm*, by * gift ef the premißei and a /-jjth'fn of 50,000 »eeß;

a Jewish synagogue in Bombay, and !j6lej 48l a school/in connection with it, both iphri of are ornaments i* the city, at a cost b 2(p,000 rupejßS; a magnificent General ploepal is now in course of construction in f*fcom for wMch he contributes the sum of /■]NMK> rupees; he has] built a synagogue i*Jk Bmaat a cost? of. 100,000 rupees; and hhtfi is a charity house for the infirm, \wi& i city, he conteribjuted 25,000 rupees; Sβ g ire 60,000 rupees «o build a Mechanics' pJisfc iite inJßombay; / 20,000 rupees for a ■jsfoei tower in the I new Victoria and gllbi rt Gardens; he subscribed yearly the STHn of 50,000 rupees nor the maintenance of pooi Jews in Bombay! Jerusalem, Bagdad, Busiora, and other places in which he was interested! But thesjTbenefactions, amounting |o nearly 700,000 rupees, are far from exhausting even his public charities, while his /private charity flowed in constant streams, and it is believed aggregated far mofe than his public benefactions. Bombay is now stretching the hand of liberality and relief to her sister city on the other side of India, recently so severely handled by the tempest. Contributions are flowing in from our citizens, and it is expected that the Calcutta Belief Fund will amount to some lakhs of rupees.