INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 834, 8 July 1871, Page 2

INDIAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the " Englishman's Overland Mail." The certificate of the captain of the Veronica, lately burnt off Madras, has been suspended for six months, for improperly stowing oil and cotton together. The rate of mortality in Madras during last year was 18.05 per thousand, and of births 18.30 per thousand. The returns are evidently unreliable. Explorations are being carried on at Aden to obtain a supply of water from Artesiau wells. Insurance companies in India have declined to accept the lives of the officers of the Geological Department, owing to the exposure to which they are subjected. The native converts at Goa have refused admittance to the church to converts who were formerly of a low caste. One of the descendants of the King of Delhi has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment and fine for buy* ing slave girls at Benares. Cholera is at present raging very violently in Cashmere, especially at 1 Srinuggur. 1 Four native policemen have been a sound guilty of torture to extract* M fonfessiou, and murder, in the Cent*' jjj Provinces, and two of them have b# a B sentenced to death. 1 The American barque Sunbeam hw n been lost in the Rangoon river. || It is said in an official report oil ■ Education that throughout India only fl 1,960,000 attend schools, of whom fij 160,000 are taught English. pi Specimens of cotton grown at Jg Nicobar Island have been valued 9 from twenty to twenty-four pence pe r M Trade is quite at a standstill infl Persia, owing to cholera, small"P OX i|H and a general scarcity. 9 The Madras Government to grant lands in Coimbatore rent for some years, and afterwards at rents, to encourage the growth of mulberry trees, and tho cultivation o9B| the silkworm. fl| During the last year 1,098 ® e ®|H volunteered for service in India regiments ordered home. H

There has been another disturbance between the and Mohammeiitia at Bareilly, in which several were tilled and wounded on both sides. A Malay Rajah has been enlisting European loafers as soldiers at Singapore, to assist in attacking his neightouring chiefs. The ship, Isabella Brown was lost at jjjugor on' Monday. The crew were ill saved. The death of Captain W. Madan, l9tb Regiment, is announced at Bomof small-pox. J A native paper attributes the decay o fNative Princes to polygamy. An engine and thirty-two loaded coal trucks have been smashed to niecea by falling over a bridge on the Ltf cord line of the East Indian jjilway, after a collision with another una! train. I jord Mayo has had capital sport in (jjOudh jungles, having in three days jjjged six tigers, besides smaller 08. His Lordship and Lady Mayo ,rt> expected to meet on the 26th AprilLord Mayo has offered a prize Of 500 rupees for a Bengali novel illustrative of Hindoo social and domestic life. Sub-Engineer Colquhoun, of the Jladras P. W. Department has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, jnd 20,000 rupees fine, for fraud and falsifying his accounts. Messages by wire have been transmitted instantaneously between Kurrachee aud London by the Indo-Euro-pean Telegraph. Seven hundred and one villages have been proclaimed in the NorthWestern Provinces under the new law for the suppression of infanticide. At the end of March there were 287 Hindoos, 94 Christians, aud 82 Mohammedans' in the Subordinate Judicial and Executive Services in Lower Bengal. Suitors in Chittagong are said to lave a habit of setting fire to the houses ot the judges who decide Wast them, lie late raids by the Kookies from C'iiittagong Hills are said to have been for the purpose of obtaining human deads to burn over the dead body of their chiefs daughter. During March last, 108,022 bales of cotton were exported from Bombay. Cholera is reported to have broken out at Benares, chiefly owing to the dirty state of the city. The remains of an ancient Buddhist town have been discovered a few miles north of Hoti Murdan. During the past year only six natives wete converted to Christianity by the i Missions in the .North-"Western Provinces. The opinions of several distinguished medical officers in Calcutta have been fcifcen by the Indian Reform Association as to the minimum marriageable age of native girls. No less than eleven persons were killed by a hail-storm near Allahabad last week. The G-ovorment vessel Cesarwilch, on her way to England with cjndemned stores, is reported to have been lost off False Point. A native broker has been sentenced to two'years' imprisonment at Bombay for shipping bad cotton instead of good, as contracted for.

The through railway from Madras to Bombay was to have bean opened for traffic on the Ist of May. Both cholera and small-pox are still reported as raging at Bushire, and the people are dying of starvation. Gang robberies are again becoming more frequent in Upper India. A. caravan of pilgrims to Oaagawan, and another to Muttra, have both been plundered on the road, and several pilgrims wounded. The Maharajah of Travancore has requested permission to reorgnize and reform his native troops, and to be allowed more European officers. It it is reported that Eani Surnamoy of Cossimbazar, a lady who has spent large sums of money for the benefit of ber countrymen, has been recommended for the order of the Star of India.