INDIA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 December 1862, Page 3

INDIA.

(From the Bombay Gazette.)

Latest dates from Cabool are to the 18th September. There had been no more fighting between the troops of the Ameer and those of Sultan Ahmed Jan. The Ameer had addressed Ahmed Jan, recommending a settlement. The proffered terms had been rejected by the latter. Tne arrival of Herat of a Persian Shazada, accompanied by 2000 sowars, a battalion of infantry, and two guns, had be«n announced. The Shazada styks himself the ambassador of Persia, at Ahmed Jan's Court.

An important disco very has been made by Mr. VI Lardy, of Calcuita, in the disposal of waste steam, which is calculated to reduce the expenditure of coal to a minimum.

His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of India has addressed a circular letter to all officers of regiments which mutinied in 1857, calling for a nominal and descriptive return of all the native officers and men who remained faithful to their standards, and did loyal service, and for informaton as to what has become of them, how they have been provided for, and what promotion and other rewards they have received in recognition of their fidelity to the British Government. The circular states that the information is required for the preparation of an elaborate work about to be published by order of Parliament.

Lord Elgin has notified his intention of presenting a prize, or prizes, lo the value of R?. 1000, to be competed for by the Calcutta Volunteers in the cold season of 1863-64.

Cholera has again broke out at Peshawur, in c bad form.

The Oude Gazette of Oct. 1, says :— " We have never heard of such gigantic gambling transactions in the army being so leniently treated as those of Simla have just been by Sir Hugh Rose. All India has been for days resounding with reports of enormous losses and gains at the card table at Simla, but do one believed that a brigadier would suffer himself to be fleeced to the tune of two and a-half lacs of rupees by a beardless subaltern Yet such has been the case, and Brigadier Christie, the gailant defender of Delhi, has, we hear, compounded for his heavy losses with Lieutenant or Ensign Ehon, A.D.C to the Commander-in-Chief, the winner, for j£sooo. The same youth, we hear, has also eased Captain Powell, of the Hays, of sixty thousand rupees. We can't say what portion of this money has been received, or is recoverable; but it appears Mr. Ellon thinks he has, upon the whole, made quite enough to enable him to go home, for a time at lrast. We have no sympathy whatever for Brigadier Christie, while of Captain Powell we have no hesitation in saying— serve him right, We have, however- to congratulate both Brigadier Christie and Captain Powell, as also their fellow players on their lucky escape from the fate which some few years ago overtook poor Captain D'Costa, a miserable gambler, whose books never showed more lhan 20,000r5. or 25,000r5. on either aide, and that it was not a Napier under whom they were found thus boldly defying the law.

The Nawaub of Lucknow has been convicted of forgery by the Commissioner ot Lucknow. He has been sentenced to a fine of 40,000 rupees, and to the forfeiture of all rank and title.

The Chief Justice of Calcutta has nominated Baboo Sumbhoonath Pundit to the vacant Judjreship of the High Court. The Chief Jnstice entertains a high opinion of the Pundit's professional abilities*

A regular mail communication has been established between Kurrachee, Muscat, Bonder, Abbas, Bushire, and Bagdad, every six weektf. " ' • ''-■■■'■'■■'■.

RusiriUG- of the Charleston Blockade by a Livefool Stbameb.— Wo have aaram to re?ord a large arrival of cotton from the Southern States, and another successful running of the blockade of the Charleston port, by one of the screw steamers belonging to this port. The screw steamer, Minna, Upton, sailed from London m tae latter end of April, and efier skillful mancßuver'■ng on the p-rrtof lie?capifiin, succeeded in evrdmg the vi-n'-'nee of the United States squadron stationed^ at the entrance of Charleston b ir, and entered in safety. Her cargo consi :ted of H»unltions of war, ammunitions, medicines, medical stores, and appliances, &c., which proved a great boon to the blockaded port. Having remained in Charleston harbor until a favorable opportunity presented itself for escape, and having received a large cargo of cotton on English account, she again succeeded in geting free of the men of war on the "look out," and reached the harbor of Nassau, New Providence )the principal port of rendesvous of thenumerous steamers and ships engaged in "running the blockade," and the nearest neutral port to the Confederate seaports) when, having coaled, she sailed for Liverpool on the 30th ultj, and reached the Mersey yesterday mormng, after a capital run of 21 days. The risk incurred ill running the blockades, both into and out ot Charleston, will be more than compensated for by tbe profits realised. Not taking into account the proceeds of the outward cargo (which, at the prices ruling at Charleston must have been very large) her cargo of Charleston cotton brought to Liver{ o >1, at the present high rates, must be worlh between L70.0C3 and LBO,OOO. She brought 1,046 bales. The following British steamships (engaged in the trade between JMas3au and Charleston) were in Nassau when the Minna left — the Anglia, the Scotia, the Stanley, the Pacific, and the Herald ; the ships Sophia and Eoscoe, and the brigs Mary and Aramingo, engaged in the same trade. — Liverpool Courier. The Ambkicajt Wab and Ci/TDE-BtntT SteaMEEB. — The screw steamer Columbia, built and owned by Messrs. Denny Brothers, of Dumbarton, has been captured off the Bahamas, with a cargo of 40 Armstrong guns and carriages, several thousand rifles, and a large cargo of military stores. The official report states that when seized she was 15 miles from Abaco. The Fingal, s.s., formerly the property of Messrs. D. Hutchenson & Co.,and which successfully ran the blockade, has been converted into an iron-clad ram by the Confedrates. She is described by the Federals as carrying two 1001 b. rifled guns, four 501 b. rifled guns, six 10-inch columbiads, two 24-pounders for grape and canister — in all 14 heavy pieces. In shape she is like the Merrimae, but with much less draught of water ; she is heavy armoured, and her portholes are protected by heavy wrought iron lids, so arranged as to close at the recoil of every gun. She has a massive beak at each end, and is, moreover, provided with a scalding apparatus to repel any attempt to board her. Her commander is a daring man — Pembroke Jones, formerly of U. S. Navy. — English Paper. Heerihgs. — On two nights last week there were such immense shoals of herrings of? tlie north-east coast, that the number brought into Whitby Harbor on the two following mornings amounted at a low computation to nearly 3,000,CJ0, realizing above £3,000. — Illustrated London News.

Me. Goldwih Smith on oub Colonial Policy. — Kecent correspondence respecting the affaire of New Zealand gives Mr. Goldnin Smith an opportunity of reverting to his old theme, and insisting that England shall break the connection which exists between her and her dependencies, and shall stand again, after 300 hundred years of colonial dominion, alone in the world. The particular instance on which he now relies to prove the evil of colonial possessions, and the necessity of abandoning them, is the great expense incurred at the preesent time in keeping up a garrison in New Zealand. While we are suffering under • V«r income tax and exposed to the ambition of France, while we have toe defence of Canada on our hands and a cotton famine to cripple our resources, " we are keeping up an army of 6000 or 6000 men at an expense of at least half a million to protect the colonists of New Zealand against a horde of savages whose nmnber does not exceed that of the colouists themselves." While we bear this burden the colonists refused to tax themselves to defend their own homes, and even taunt us with avarice because we complain of these unrecompensed and unceasing exactions. We lelieve tbia is the sum of Mr. Goldwin Smith 'B letter,- and w« have no desire to deny that the grievance is substantial. Tho whole oystem of using British trcops in the local wars of tho colonies, calls for serious consideration on the part of the home government. "We »Te sure, however, that if the total cost of the New Zealand garrisons during the last 20 years were placed betore the English people, they would not grudge the amount when they called to mind that by this outlay they had established their race in one of the finest regions of the globe, and given it a new life in the Southern hemisphere. We fully agree that now, when the colonists have increased in numbers and wealth, and the Maories are receeding before them, tho time has come for the former to take upon themselves the duties of local defence. The Duke of Newcastle has, indeed, told them as much, and though Colonial Ministers are the most limid of mankind, he will no doubt act upon the principle he has enunciated. In that case what will tho colonists do? We believe they will acquiesce entirely in the justice of the new arrangement, and take upon themselves the duties which devolve upon them. Wherever we have treated the c Monies with justice and firmness, and abandoned the old system of alternate bullying and coaxing, we have increased the good will with which these distant communities regard tbeir former home. So. in spite of the expense which New Zealand now exacts from us, or which we force on New Zealand, we do not think it likely that England will abandon the colony, and leave its scattered population of Englishmen to the mercy of foreign nations. To us, and, we believe, to all but an insignificant section of Englishmen, the system by which regions divided by the half of the circurnferance of the globe give a common citizenship, by which the native of eny part of a great federation has a career open to him in all, is a fabric of civilisation not lightly to be broken up. We feel sure that the time is not near when the emigrant to Tasmania or the Cape will have to bid adieu to the name of Englishman, and abandon for ever the birthright of his race — Times.

Crinoline does not always carry a death-warrant. Happily th*t flexible circle sometime serves other purposes than that of bringing about the death of the wearer. A correspondent of the Unniee Advertiser, in Stratheden, testifies to the following incident: — " The other day, as a party of ladies were ascending one of our noted hills colled The Buck, they startled a coyey of grouse, one of which took refuge under the crinoline worn by a young lady. This so alarmed the damsel that she fell to the ground, and the bird having beeu smothered, was afterwards picked up dead." Another illustration of the accidental advantages of crinoline was furnished a few days ago at the ruina of Kenilworth Castle, where a young lady, rambling about the old walls with a party of friends, fell over a precipice into the adjacent gnrdens, ahoightof 50 feet. Under ordinary circumstances she must inevitably have been killed ; but as she descended, her crinoline caught in the luxuriant ivy, and broke her fall. On being taken up 6he was found to nave sustained but little injury.

A few Sundays past the lady of Mr. A. F. Thistlethwayte, lessee of the shootings of Lochluichart, a lady once celebrate. 1 under another name, addressed the congregation of the church of Garve in Scotland. There was a great crowd of visitors, including m9ny pedestrians ; and the address is described as having been delivered in a calm, earnest, and affectionate manner. The lady ended with a short extemporaneous prayer. — Some News.

Early marriages are largely increasing in England. The returns for 1841 s'uow tliat of men married 4.38 were under age, while in 1800 the proportion had risen to 6.35. Of the women married in 1841, the proportion under age was 13.29, and in 1860 it had sprung up to 19.35. Every year above 3000 girls are married under 18, and above 30,000 are married under 21. Within the last 20 years marriages have not increased much more than 40 per cent., but the number of persons who have married under age hr-.d increased 100 per cent. In the straw plait ard lrce manufacturing districts, where £ > many girls rre errly enabled to c ,m something like an independence, a fourth of ;' ose who marry, marry un< c: age.— lbid.

Blondin is a humorist, as everybody who has witnessed his comicrl feintß on t v o Hgii rope may have observed. The most character -,ie instance we have heard of his humours id h ; s coolness, is an anecdote of one of h'sexVoits at Ni 3 -nva. He was carrying a nervous man on l'.s brck over the Falls, and the man showt 1 bo much unersiness that Blondin said to Mm very calmly, "I must request you to sit quiet, or I shall have to put you uown." Hero was a horrible joke. Conceive being put down on a rope over Niagara by way of relieving one's nerves ! — IbicL A deputation of ladies in Vienna recently solicited permission to bring a torch-light proceo " a to the empress ; but aiter cnvr.ssing the projeci. it was declined from the fear that tlio 1 dies' crinolines would take fire. — Ibid

The Napoleonic porcelain in its primal condition is not materially different from common potters's clay. The governess of tho Princo Imperial read his youthful royal highness a lesson tho other day on the necessity of" behaving prettily." The next day Bhe declined to accede to one of his irregular wishes, when ho immediately threatened her with, "If you don't giyeSbie what I waist, I'll wftko faeea at people \ *'<i-Xhdi

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