INDIA.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 601, 10 September 1853, Page 3

INDIA.

(From ihtJSingaporc Straits Times, June 17.)

Bombay advices to the 30th May state that Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the Commander-in-Chief, continued in a critical state of health, and it was believed that he would eventully be compelled to return to England. A general impression prevailed that Lord Falkland, the Governor of Bombay, would be recalled, and the dismissed Sudder Judges (Messrs. Grant and Le Greyt), be reinstated. The Parsee Knight, Sir Jatneetjee Jejeebby, had munificently offered the sum of one lahk of rupees for the formation and maintenance of a School of Arts. Preliminary arrangements for the Gas Company were complete, and it was confidently expected that the profits would amount to twenty-five per cent, on a capital of four lahks of rupees.

Calcutta news, received via Bombay, to .he 20th May, notices the departure of [the Pekin, steamer, for Suez, on May 17th, having on board Sir John Thackwell, whose ill state of health had compelled him to return to Europe. Cholera was raging at Calcutta with great virulence; between the 6th and 7th of May no less than eleven hundred persons died. The Sihk chieftains in durance at Fort William are, by order of the Governor-General, allowed to have the liberty of driving out every evening, until furthei orders, under a military escort. The Sihk Gooroo, and his disciple at Singapore, are kept close prisoners.

Burmah.— By the way of Bombay, intelligence has been received from the seat of war to the 12th of May. On May 9tb, the day fixed for adjusting the terms of the treaty, the Burmese Commissioners appeared ; they were informed that the conditions of the treaty arrangement were, that if the treaty was signed at once, the English authorities would draw the British line of frontier boundary six miles north of Toughoo; that, if they deferred signing, then the boundary line would be fixed six miles north of Meaday. To these proposals the Commissioners replied, that the war had been brought on by an imbecile King, and they thought it very hard for the present ruler to suffer for his predecessor; they then walked off, without signing the treaty. It would, therefore, seem as if negotiations were once more at an end, and that the Burmese had merely endeavoured to gain time in order to complete their preparations for further hostilities. It was said that arrangements were in progress for an advance on Ava, and that for this purpose all the small steamers were being collected. In the meantime the hot weather and disease, on the river particularly, were thinning and dispiriting the British forces. Captain E. D. Byng, of the Bengal Fusileers, died of coup de Boleii. Sir John Cheape was very ill, suffering from, a severe attack of dysentery. ■: The notorious robber-chief, Meah Troon, had escaped out of Pegu, and reached Burmah Proper; his conduct had been applauded by the Court of Ava, under whose auspices he was raising fresh troops.