INDIA AND CHINA.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 567, 19 March 1851, Page 4

INDIA AND CHINA.

By tho Royal Shepherdess, arriving at Adelaide, news had been received from Singapore to the 12th December, and from the South Australian journals we are enabled to make tho following extracts :—

Si am is in a frightful state, and a revolution is daily expected; tho English • residents were systematically insulted, and the Bombay and Madras merchants were about to abandon the country. The tyrant had employed six thousand men to build him a fort. Sir James Brooke was expected to return shortly. Ixdi.v.—The Governor-General and lady had visited Peshawar and Simla. The Bishop of Calcutta was to visit Singapore. The steamer Reynard, with the Bishop of Victoria on board, had returned from Loochoo, to which place she.carried a despatch of I.ord Palmerston, demanding reparation for beating Dr Bettelheim a .missionary, and insulting his wife. There was a grand interview, an apolooy made, and better behaviour promised,, This was the first steamer that had visit- ; ,ed.Loochoo. Golab Sing, Rajah of Cashmere, had sent to the Great 'Exhibition a present of manufactures valued at from 75,000 :to 100,000 rupees. Tho gilayn

of the electric telegraph was being briskly proceeded with at Calcutta, and preparations were making for commencing the railway. There was great sickness among the"troops at Lahore. Sir Charles Napier had ••cut" the Governor-General.

Tho Calcutta journals appear to be chiefly occupied with reports of courtsmartial, and animadversions on the loose system pursued in some of the judicial proceedings of Mofussil courts. A dinner had been given to Sir James Thompson, the Inspector-General of Hospital, on his preferment to tho honor ofaK. C. B.

The foundation-stone had been laid of Mr. Bethuuc's Institution for tho Education of Native Females, the honourable founder having devoted the sum of 40,000 rupees as the nucleus of a fund for the establishment. Freights to London—Sugar, £3 ss. to £3 10s.; rice, £3 17s. 6d. to £4;— and to Liverpool 10s. higher. Exchange—First class Bills, six.months credits, 2 !__- to 3 U ; Treasury Bills, 30 days, 2 0... to 2 oj_-; sovereigns each 104 to 10-5.

In Bombay several atrocious murders had been committed, in. which Europeans and Natives were concerned.

Jung Bahadoor, the Nepaulese Ambassador, had returned from Europe, and was feasted and feted by the heads of society at Bombay.

From Ceylon we learn that Governor Sir George Anderson had arrived having, as before reported, in obedience to a despatch from Earl Grey, to proceed at once to Ceylon, left Mauritius in the ship Buckinghamshire, and reached Golumbo 7th November. But/Mr. Hawes, the uuder-secretaiy, had intimated that he should remain at Mauritius until his successor, Captain Higgiason, arrived, and had delayed to forward the Royal Commission, empowering Sir George to assume the Governorship of Ceylon. The consequence was Sir George could not act, and the power remained in the hands of Mr. M'Arthy, the Lieutenant-Gover-nor.

Lord Torrington having in one of his

official dispatches stated that the members of the bar at Kandy refused to defend the unfortunate priest Kadopolle Uranse, no less than five proctors have publicly declared the averment to be fu Is c.

The Manila journals contain little news. Prices were as follows: —Sugar, Ist white, 2nd do, to 5,75 dollars. Current clayed 3i dollars. Pampanga 3 dollars. Zebu 2i dollars. Zlonglo 2i dollars. Taal 2* to 3J dollars, but the prices of all unclayed sorts likely to advance.

Coffee, none in the market, last sale \o_ dols.

Exchange, 6 months, private bills 4s Bd, Bank and Treasury at 30 d. St. at 4s did to 4s 6d.

The Java Couranto gives an account of depredations committed by piratical prahus, and the unsuccessful efforts of the authorities to prevent their atrocities. Fifteen large prahus had made an attack on the Island of Bowcan, and notwithstanding a three-days' resistance on the part of the population, led by the Assistant Resident and the Regent, had succeeded iv plundering seven villages, arid killing and carrying away many of the inhabitants. Search hail been made in the Java Seas by the Government, but the offenders could not be found.

The crop of sugar had proved to be on the whole a fair average one, notwithstanding the unusual dryness of the season ; but for next year's produce fears were entertained, in consequence of the young canes having died or suffered considerably from drought.

The crop of coffee would be close on 50,000 tons, and the prospects for next year were very good.

The China papers mention a visit of Admiral Austen to Canton in the H. C. steamer Phlegethon, which vessel the Admiral and his family were obliged to quit prematurely, owing to her having got on the rocks below Canton, and had three holes made in her bottom.

Exchange had further risen to 5s and os Id at Canton, aud 5s 2d to 5s 3d at Shanghae.

The price of ordinary teas continued high, but superior descriptions were obtained at a comparatively low price. By the arrival of the Au-ritja we have news from Singapore to the 31st December. We have only room for a general summary : —

Mr. Fast, a Swedish missionary, had been murdered at the River Nim.

Cholera was raging at Hainan. A force often thousand robbers had also congregated in the neighbourhood. H. M. S. Herald, Capt. Kellett, one of tho Discovery Ships, was at Hong Kong on the 19th December.

Sir Jamesetjeo Jcejecbhoy has bestowed a pension of £20 per annum on the widow of Lieut. Waghorn. Lieut.-Col. Curtis, C. 8., of the 37th N. 1., has been bought out for the sum of 30,000 rupees. Major Bartleman had been cashiered for attempting to seduce a brother officer's wife.

Sir J tunes Brooke had been unsuccess ful in his mission to Siam.

A Mr. Right was making trips in a balloon, but was not supported very liberally.

The Bombay Times notices the arrival in Bombay of a native who, forty-five years ago, was moonsheo to Sir Arthur Wellesley, now the Duko.