INDIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 10, 15 March 1851, Page 3

INDIA.

" The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship " Oriental" arrived at Suez on the 6th inst., with 52 passengers. The dates of the intelligence brought by this arrival are Bombay Sep. 17; Calcutta Sep. 7 ; Singapore Sep. 2 ; and Hongkong August 24. " There was a total dearth of events of political importance, and the profoundest tranquillity reigned throughout India. "■ The works on the Calcutta Railway had been at last commenced. " Sir Charles Napier was to have begun his homeward journey from Simla on the sth of November, and the Governor-General was expected to return from Konowur to Simla at the end of September. It was then expected that his lordship would visit the Punjaub. " According to a report, which was considered very doubtful, Sir H. Laurence was said to have fallen, during his travels in Cashmere, into the hands of a tribe who had detained him in captivity. " A mutiny had broken out among some of the Nizam's Native troops. " The cholera was still prevalent in Scinde, Mooltan, and some districts of India. " From Singapore we learn that Sir James Brooke had sailed for Siam on August the 3rd. " The Indian and Chinese seas are still infested with pirates. " The first expedition of the Dutch against Borneo has had but small success. " The intelligence from China is unimportant. We are glad to state that the health of the troops in Hong Kong was improving-. "The differences between the Chinese and Portuguese at Macao had not been arranged. " A sufficiency of rain had fallen in Bengal and the greater part of India, with the exception, however, of Bombay and Poonah."