INDIAN NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 7, 19 July 1845, Page 4

INDIAN NEWS.

lii India, Sir Charles Napier had again taken the field against the Pendarees, of the Indus, whom he defeated with considerable loss, besides rapturing 3£oo head of cattle. Major-General Hill, nephew of the late Rev. Rowland Hill, hail died at Madras. Sii* Thomas M'Mahon, the Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, had received intimation that in compliance with his own request, the period of his command at that Presidency, had been prolonged for another year. Sir Charles Napier, therefore, remains another year in Scinde. According to the latest accounts from the seal of insiurection at Kholapore, Col. Ovans was still in the hands of the insurgents, confined m he strong fortress of Prinilla. Though the fort of Batherghur was surrendered, after negociations, and not after an attack on the 10th November, yet the rebels, it is said, under Bappajee lieereke, mauaged to effect their escape in an opposite direction, and plundered a village, and then betook themselves to the ghauts. It is rumoured that the terms on which the occupation of this fort was secured, have been highly displeasing to government. In fact from fiist to last thete appeal s to have been so much mismanagement that but for the accessibility of the country and the favourable season of the year, and the ease with which reinforcements can l«e poured in, the most serious consequences might have been apprehended. The accounts from Sukhnr are infinitely distressing. That noble regiment, the 78th Highlanders, had actually 800 men in hospital ; the 4tb and 64th had each more than 100 ; and the artillery more than half their strength. D>sentry now succeeds the fever in many instances, and where this is the case the disease is generally fatal The last account from the southern Mahratta country state that the troops of Sawunt Waree, have joined the insurgents ; and there is, in short, no knowing to what extent the conspiracy is ramified, or what may be the result of the mismanagement by which the whole business has been so distinctly marked. But all parties concur in extolling the forsight which led Sir George Ai • thur to pour so large a force into the country, and the steady vigour of his measures. All that was vi'STnifjg to give effect to these measures was one n/an of talent and energy. Qhina. — The Governor of Hong Kong while on a visit to Macao, walking unattended, was beset by about thirty Chinamen, and narrowly escaped with his life. A formidable rebe^Jion had broken out at Formoso among the Chinese, and was spreading over the Fokien district. May r l la.— At Manilla, some disturbances had taken place in consequence of the British Consul forcibly ejecting a Spanish tailor who had intruded into Iris house, at a party given by him. Hej was thiown into prison by the Spanish authori-f ties, and with great difficulty obtained his releasei Tahiti.'— The news from Tahiti, Sandwich* Islands is not important. The Queen Pomare had been delivered of a son. A rumour was afloat at Tahiti that the French Government had refused to ratify Bruat's proceedings, but nothing certain was known. The Falcon, schooner, arrived in Sydney from Honolulu, on the Bth March, with 1808 bags sugar of superior quality, the produce of the Sand[wicli Islands.