INDIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 53, 4 March 1846, Page 4

INDIA.

(From the Limehick Reporter)

Maduas, 9th. June, 1845.—The continental meteorologist, who predicted an unu.-ujliy warm s.ajort f.ir 1845, is qu:te right as far as Madras i« concerned for more grilling weather has not been known within the memory of that very respectable gentleman, the oldest inhabitant. All praise be to that enterprising and speculative generation, the Columbians, who supply us with ice at 2d per lb. ! apples 2s. a dox>-n, aud notiuns 'tarnation cheap, with other cooling commodities, which have kept us from evapoiaiin? iuto thin sir. Imagine the mean maximum temp.nture f.,r the last month in the shade to be 100° fohreinheit, and in the 6un 135°. with a breeze from a volcino, and you must feel how pleasing, an ice cream goes down. It's weather fit for any rash act, where there is no icicle «>r cooling powders. What has caused ths ( rrao:di. nary number of Court-martials which I can produ c during the last month but the heat. —.\, ulnar elss could, I am confident, make so many oiJkvrs and men forget that they held 'commission* Com the Liidye Queen, or commit themselves as they have done. \\ ho but a hot-headed man would send hid arm? down a precipice 110 fee:, surprise the enemy, and, thereby, finish a disagreeable and harassing warfare, without first feeling his way, and be assured tint the gallant act would be apprecia ed, or what comiimiee of even temperature-men but uould ovtrlook the act for the deed, yd they have sentenced tne brave Wallace to be suspended for six nunthi from all pay and rank as you w i,l perceive by fie papers 1 sent you. Brevet Captain Bercher, 4th lleguueat Bengal N 1., having felt the influence of the solar rays, has been guilty o f scandalous and infamous conduct in attributing to his commanding officer a disgusting and unnatural offence, for which n V a «\< - o aS , bee " cashiere d. Ensign Collins ood H.M 78th Highlanders got so vervdry, that to quench his thiret he had recourse to' s.'nw of the ardent, which was only adding fuel to firecashiered. Lientenants Crowther of the 63rd, and Glasbrook, of the 4th King', Own. have beea severely reprimanded for aLowing their systems to be irregular Lieut. Angus, of the 93th at Hong Kong challenged the Brigade Major at the station >• k W u- J° be, 80lel y tliro «g h the h*aU which row his blood beyond the fever point, and orwh lchhe(Leut^niiUß)had to P^ the point of janior Lieutenant. And imign Treucbard, for being impervious to Sol's nfur5 c ; 1 i?h Otl ffi" OrdS ' alkwi "S himself to be t ted H M I,IS u P- caß hiered_but it being ,ew,n , WaSU ' mCquaintedwitll «« the world, and consequently U)ay yet atlain R \ kh cZS H e,heLaSbeeUrCslo,cd - so &T for li.« ciime of the tun. : obfrv r ate - '"- the P engal P a r ers army of J?- iv-tion i 8 immediately to be formed on Hie wit ,;„!•' tl> be read y for a »y emergency With our pugnatioae neighbours the Seiks