INDIA.

Colonist, Volume V, Issue 470, 25 April 1862, Page 3

INDIA.

(From the Calcutta Englishman.)

There is a rumor (revived) of three companies of the 82nd being sent to Meerut shortly. It is to be hoped that this is only a rumor. To send a single soldier from Delhi just now would be dangerous. Every new comer remarks the disrespectful and, at times,insulting bearingof the Mahomedan population, and there has been of late more than one instance of direct insult offered to European ladies riding through the public streets. The murderer Moghul Beg has had a fair trial and full opportunity of proving his innocence. The case is, I believe, closed; and, if the finding of the lower court is upheld, the murderer will certainly end his miserable existence upon the gallows tree.

We understand that the Central Committee, within the last few days, have received not less than two hundred and fifty boxes of tea from various parts of India, for transmission to the Exhibition of 1862.

We learn from Rajshahve that the Maharajah of Cooch Behar intends shortly to visit Calcutta for the purpose of bidding adieu to the departing, and welcoming the coming Viceroy. The Maharajah will be accompanied by a numerous following, comprising a goodly number of cavalry and elephants. The government will be administered during his absence by the two dowager Maharanees who acted as regents during his minority. It has been for some time in contemplation to construct a canal for traffic and irrigation purposes from the Sutlej river to Putuala; and frequent and lengthy communications have taken place between the government and the Maharajah on the subject. Satisfactory arrangements have at length been made, and the Maharajah has consented to pay a moiety of the expense. Orders have been issued to commence upon the work without delay.

Letters from Saugor inform us of a suttee having taken place at Gayronee, in Central India. On this occasion the police were on the alert, and all concerned in it were arrested. We hope that an example made in them may deter others from participating of or encouraging the performance of so diabolical a ceremony.

Our Punjaub letters bring us the information that the Nawab of Maliar Kotelon and the Rajah Nubba have followed the examhle set them by the Rajah of Reweh, and have circulated among their people a notice pointing out the opportunity that now offers for the profitable extension of cotton cultivation, and urging upon the agricultural population within their respective territories the advantages to be derived from a more careful cultivation, and greater attention being paid to the picking and cleaning of the staple.