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SUMMARY AND REVIEW.

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THE Mail just arrived has brought little to interest the general reader. The engineers in Burmah are stated to be actively employed in erecting proper buildings at the principal stations. A good many of the boats dispersed by storm on the Sitang, as related in our publication of the 29th of June, have come into port. The loss of life has therefore been less than was apprehended, but it is feared that it is not inconsiderable. This is the sum and substance of the news from Burmah.

From the other side there is not much even of that misty and vapoury rumour which has lately had the effect of provoking a good deal of angry discussion, if it were productive of nothing else. In conformity with our recent practice, we shall quote verbatim et literatim the latest dish of reports prepared by the correspondents of the Delhi Gazette. As we are advocates for liberty of opinion, we shall leave our friends to help themselves to such parts as they may choose to appropriate. The following bears date Caubul, 30th April :

"You are already informed that the Russian and Persian agents, after having an interview with the khan of Khiva, visited the king of Bokhara, and have left that place for Herat. On this H.M., though still in his own palace, sent out his 'peshkhana,' or tents, and proclaimed that he was going to recover Bulkh from Sirdar Mahomed Afzul Khan, governor of the place, and son of the Ameer Dost Mahomed. There also had arrived a certain person from Hoorgunj at Bokhara. He was suspected as a spy of some Doulut or state, and therefore seized. H.M. asked him to give an account of himself, who he was, and from where and for what he had come. He was pinioned, but gave no satisfactory reply. On this the king ordered him to be hanged. The poor man never uttered a word. He struggled on the gibbet in such a manner that the rope was broken. However he breathed his last just as he fell to the ground. Since receiving the news of the king of Bokhara's preparations for Bulkh, the ameer has also been ordering reinforcements and warlike supplies for his son at Bulkh. It is whispered in respectable quarters, that the Sirdar Kohundil Khan of Candahar has conveyed secretly a letter from the king of Persia to Sirdar Soultan Mahomed Khan here, and has attached that chief to H.M., but this alliance has not been publicly proclaimed.

"There is also a rumour here that a new officer from the Russian camp had waited upon the khan of Khiva, with considerable presents, on the part of the emperor. He was kindly received, and dismissed with honour to go back to his country.

"The Russian and the Persian agents who had lately come to Herat, and negotiated with Mahomed Saeed Khan to leave Herat in their possession, and occupy Nishapoor in lieu of it while war was raging between Russia and Turkey, have been urging him to go on a mission to Candahar and Cabool. They have stated to him that the Candahar chiefs have long been attached to the Persian government, and therefore to Russia; that the ameer of Cabool has equally expressed his attachment to that government by means of agents through letters, but he at the same time sends his commu-, nications to the English government. They added that if Mabomed Saeed Khan was to go to Cabool, he would be no doubt quite able to sound the ameer and find to what side he really is mclined. However, neither the family of the Herat chief had gone to Nesha

NEWSPA

pore, leaving Herat in the united charge of the said agents, nor had he quitted it on his mission to Cabool, up to the day of our last advices from that quarter."

Under the date of Peshawur, 8th May, we find another bit of rumour, which we insert by way of tart and jelly to close the entertainment:

"There is a report that the Nazir Khairoollah Khan, agent of the Ameer, received a letter a few days ago from his master at Cabool, for the Commissioner here, and has sent his reply. At the same time the Nazir has been writing a diary of his travels and stay at Bokhara to give to the Commissioner, who will, it is said, forward the same to the Governor-General. Others say that the Afghan ambassador, after being a long time at Bokhara, has been requested by the Commissioner to pen a full account of the fate of the Saheban (Stoddart and Connolly) who were murdered by the merciless king of the Ozbegs in that city."

The reader will deal with the sweets as with the substantials-choose for himself.

A fearful case of outrage and murder is narrated in the Calcutta papers. A barque, named the Clarissa, left that port for Malacca, with about 170 persons

"Who left their country for their country's good."

It appears, however, that the voyage did not suit the views of the convicts, and they took an opportunity of rising on the officers and crew. The captain and some others were killed. The mate, with a few of the persons aboard, managed to escape in one of the boats, and made their way to Rangoon. Two days after the outbreak, the ship was run upon the Tenasserim coast, where the convicts, now the chief authorities, landed, compelling the Sepoys and Lascars to accompany them. Some of the Lascars escaped to the vessel, under cover of night, and put to sea. A ship from Moulmein fell in with the ill-fated Clarissa, took possession of her, and carried her to Amherst. Measures, apparently somewhat inefficient, have been taken for apprehending the convicts, who, it seems, are driving their trade briskly, having taken forcible possession of a village, and killed some twenty of the inhabitants. Further particulars will be found in another part of our paper.

The following pretty story may be accepted as a companion for that just told. The scene is the country of the Nizam, where such things are common :—

"One hundred and fifty Rohillas made prisoners by the contingent, having been convicted of crimes committed by them individually, besides the general depredations of the body, were sentenced to imprisonment, and for that purpose were delivered over to the Killidar of Juctyal. They broke their fetters, seized the weapons of their guards, wounded fourteen of them, and have escaped. The Resident is making inquiries in the matter."

At Bombay, the scarcity of water and the bad quality of that which is procurable continue to be standing topics of complaint. This Presidency, as well as the others, is most barren in the article of news.

Singapore seldom furnishes anything very exciting, but it has departed, for once, from its usual pacific character, as the following report from thence testifies :

66 There have been some very dangerous riots at Singapore, in consequence of which much life and property have been destroyed. The Chinese, generally speaking, are possessed of a decided clannish feeling, which makes them ever ready to sacrifice much, if not all, to the imaginary reputation and prosperity of their clan. An ill-feeling which has lately been prevalent among the Tewchew, Macao, Keb, and even Hyla Chinese against the Hokein, led to the disastrous results which we are about to describe. The rising was directed against the Hokien in general, but particularly against the feads of the Gee Hin Hoëy, who, assisted by the influential men of their clan (Hokien), ill treated with impunity the other clans. The first outbreak happened at the bridge, near Ellenborough's Buildings, where only Hokiens are living, who attacked, beat, and threw into the river three Tewchews. The second at Teluk-Ayer, occupied by an overwhelming majority of Hokiens, and there three Tewchews' shops were ransacked of all their contents. Shortly after the Tewchew temple in Philip Street was

attacked. Such deeds, in the opinion of the injured parties, called for reprisals, and Hokien houses and shops were attacked and pillaged in all directions on Saturday last. Both clans were afterwards armed, and called out a number of desperate men, who commenced assassinating wherever they met an enemy. Opposite the Opium farm in Teluk-Ayer, the first victim fell, the second near Purvis-bridge. Fifty-four houses in the Tangling district belonging to Tewchews were burned, and a number of the inhabitants who attempted to escape, after having concealed themselves for twelve hours, were attacked and one man killed, near Mr. Nassim's hill. The Tewchew village, on the Serrangoon road, was completely destroyed. And thus the conflagration became general. Rice, the only food of the people in the interior, who are all Tewchews, becoming scarce, and all supplies being captured by the Hokiens located on the outskirts of the town, the exasperations became general, and a literal massacre took place. The whole of the European inhabitants enrolled themselves as special constables, and with their assistance, and that of the military, the local authorities were enabled after two or three days to quell the riot. The following statement will give an idea of the extent of the disturbances:

Killed (rioters buried at the dead-house) . . . . . . .
Ditto (rioters buried in various parts of the island)
Assassinations (estimated on good authorities)
Wounded

15

70

400

....

220

Of China there is nothing to report, save that all Shanghae is quiet.

Here we must conclude. If our Summary be not prolific in matters of great dignity, or of very amusing character, it is at least not deficient in such things as form the staple of melodramatic authors, and the delight of the audiences whom they attract. The continent, the high seas, and an island therein, have all contributed to replenish the cup of horror, and render it respectably full, if not overflowingly so. Such news is not precisely that which we could wish to chronicle, but we can place before our readers only such viands as we can obtain; and if they be neither very palatable nor very wholesome, the fault is not ours.

CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN THE ARMIES F INDIA, REPORTED SINCE OUR LAST PUPICATION.

H.M.'S TROOPS.-Lieut. R. C. Sladen, H.M.'s 98th regt., at Fort William, May 20.

BENGAL.-Capt. W. E. Andrews, 73rd N.I., at Agra,
May 22; Surg. W. Gerrard, at Futtehghur, May 16;
Capt. T. Riddell, 60th N.I., at Mussoorie, May 23;
Lieut. S. W. S. Stokes, Art., at Asnee, May 26,
MADRAS.-Lieut. W. T. Byam, 7th L.C., at Saugor,
May 6; 2nd Lieut. G. W. Onslow, Art., at Cape Town,
Mar. 8; Lieut. C. H. Phillips, Art., at Streepermatoor,
May 24; Lieut. A. S. Surtees, 41st N.I., at sea, on board
the steamer Mauritius, May 17; Maj.-Gen. J. James, at
George Hotel, Devonport, aged 63, July 5.

BOMBAY.-Lieut. G. G. Murray, 3rd Eur. regt., at Panwell, May 23.

BURMA H.

RANGOON.

THE following is an extract from a letter dated 5th May:"A good many of the boats of 36th M.N.I. and company of artillery which were dispersed by the storm of the 23rd April have reached Sitang. There are missing of 36th Lieut. Shortland, the two sergeants, and forty to fifty native officers and sepoys; also eight or ten of the European artillery.'

It is gratifying to find that after all this catastrophe has not been attended with the awful loss of life which was at first apprehended; still the number of men who have perished is large, unless some of those still reported should eventually turn up, which we sincerely hope they may.

THE LATE HURRICANE.-We regret to say, from late authentic information received from Pegu, that there is every reason to believe that Lieutenant Shortland and about eighty men of the 36th M.N.I. and two Europeans of the artillery have perished in the late hurricane, in the Sitang.

We hear that the last that was seen of Lieut. Shortland was standing in deep water with the waves breaking over his head: a label bearing his name, which appears to have been washed off a box and floated on shore, has been brought to Pegu.-Chronicle, May 13.

The following is from a Rangoon correspondent, dated the 20th May:

The only news I have to send you by this opportunity is, that a committee has been formed here for the collection of articles for the Great Paris Exhibition. Unfortunately there is nothing to collect which may claim a place at the exhibition on the score of superior workmanship or particular ingenuity, but there are plenty of articles which will be very interesting on account of their novelty, and if the Calcutta secretary allows the committee here any latitude, the Burmese contribution will not be the worst.

"The weather is very trying, and no ppearance of the rains yet, though they ought to have set in by this time. The heat produces a certain lassitude, which seems to have affected even the dacoits, for we have not heard of them for some time past. Letters from. the upper part of the country report all quiet, and the native troops in pretty good health. The engineers are everywhere at full work, and buildings are springing up at all the principal places as if by magic. A few years hence the inlad stations will not be the worst in India. I have no further int rence to communicate, and therefore refer you to the pape ich 1 send under separate cover. If you allow a good mar the lively imagination of the editors, and an ample discoun hat is called 'facts,' you may attach credence to the rest."

The Rangoon Chronicle c inquiry was to have been h Paulang flat, for strik but that Mr. Fretwell nation, which not be court of inquiry, and diately dismissed th the steam Flotilla, to the Superintend encroach upon th

The followir day, May 3rd budget thi re II tir

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mentions that a court of well, Commander of the rter, his superior officer, ipation tendered his resighe refused to attend the sequence summarily and immeCapt. Brooking, Commandant of self thought it as well to apologise ne for so far forgetting himself as to prerogative.

MEA-DAY.

our Burmah correspondent, dated Meaood news, you will receive a most excellent The river has risen and fallen again considerably if we may believe that respectable person, the we shall have a very rainy season this year. I e as healthy as the present hot season has turned ser, though hot and trying, is decidedly favourable to n of the health, much more so, as far as my expes, than swampy Bengal. It is quite a mistake to Pegu is a damp and swampy place: a more dry climate Mea-day could not be the dust storms almost equal rozpore. Of sport there is very little just now, and the too hot even for its most ardent votaries. There is still arty in the district under Major Allen, marking out the The opening sentence of this letter must plead as my or its brevity.'

THAYET MYOO.

& following is from Thayet-Myoo, 16th May, 1854 :— Ve are here still in a state of confusion yet of monotony, of mfort and at the same time of the most perfect quiet. This et has been slightly varied by the arrival of the 8th Irregular valry, and by one or two sinister reports, which have ended in ke. The weather has continued intensely hot, and though we ve occasionally been cheered by the gathering of clouds, yet the eat has not yet been dissipated by a shower. Last year the rains commenced (at Prome) on the 24th of May. We hope to be equally fortunate this year. It is no light matter to inhale an atmosphere always above, sometimes considerably exceeding, 100 degrees. The human frame can bear a great deal, but, unsustained |

by any heroic feeling, by the consciousness of even tacit service to one's country, it cannot long bear such an atmosphere as this. Lovely as Burmah is to the eye, she is in every other respect much below par. She resembles a beautiful but empty-minded woman, who attracts you by her personal charms, but on conversing with whom You start, for soul is wanting there.'

Barren indeed is the feeling to which a lengthened acquaintance with this country engenders."

BENGAL.

MATERIALS FOR THE RAILWAY-WOOD AND IRON. The Railway Company is unceasing in its efforts to obtain materials in this country. The rise in freights, the coming war, the increase in the price of iron, and, above all, the vast scale on which their operations must speedily be conducted, all render the discovery of materials in India itself a matter of primary importance. We cannot continue for ever bringing creosoted sleepers for 1,000 miles of railway over 16,000 miles of sea. We cannot always pay a freight on iron bars, which increases their prime cost nearly 12 per cent. The difficulty becomes an absurdity, when we know that India is teeming with iron ore, that many of its forests cover counties, and that the finest teak country in the world is numbered among its provinces. As for iron, we weary of recording the localities in which it may be found. In the museum of the Asiatic Society are specimens from more than a hundred different places,-from Burdwan and Nellore, Demawend in the Himalayas and the Nizam's country, from Porto Novo and Mergui, from Bundlecund and Nagpore; Jubbulpore, also, offers special facilities for its production. It is now more than a quarter of a century since Captain Franklin, surveyor to the mines of Saugor and Bundlecund, reported on the existence of iron ore in this locality.

That officer examined six mines, and found that with the native system of smelting and refining, which we have often described, the produce amounted to 40 per cent. of the ore. This system, too, was rendered more than usually inefficient by the niggardliness of the traders. They would not pay for labour, and their employés, ill fed, and thoroughly discontented, worked as ill and as little as they dared. The supplies of charcoal sometimes failed. The miners could not afford the time to pick the ore, the bellowsmen were careless, and in fact, everything proceeded in the slovenly ineffectual method, to which Anglo-Indians become only too fully accustomed. The cost of this iron was twelve annas per maund, or £2 sterling a ton. The purest specimens of all, however, the iron hammered until it is rendered fit for cooking utensils, costs infinitely more. So heavy is the loss on successive reductions, that even with machinery, Capt. Franklin estimated that iron fit for a suspension bridge would cost some £18 per ton, a price no company could possibly afford to pay. The iron, however, need not be purified to this degree for railway purposes, and the advantage of this locality consists in the boundless quantity which can be raised, and the neighbourhood of coal mines, from which thousands of maunds of coal can be obtained at two annas a maund. We have noticed already the mines of Kumaon, and we believe it is the opinion of Col. Cantley that ores richer than the richest of the Scottish ores are scattered through the Himalayas.

Specimens from several localities have been collected at Roorkee College, plans have been submitted for the importation of machinery and Swedish artisans; and in short every thing has been done that could be done-on paper. There is an absence of practical effort to carry out these plans, which appears to indicate a deficiency either of stimulus or means. Captain Franklin, in the report from which we have quoted, elaborated a most comprehensive scheme, submitted estimates, and imagined that he was about to create iron-works at Jubbulpore. Projector, plan, and estimates have all alike disappeared. The iron alone remains, as abundant, as accessible, and as much required as it was a quarter of a century ago.

The case is the same with timber. Endless information has been collected. The Sudder Boards of the lower and upper provinces, have addressed queries to their subordinates, which, if fairly answered, will almost enable the railway company to count the logs in the Terai of Nepal, and other forest districts. Colonel Cautley has prepared accounts of the specific value of every description of wood: the cost of every log is accurately ascertained. Boards are writing, collectors are replying, scientific ngineers are reporting, and the railway imports its sleepers from England, or buys them from speculators, who do not read reports, but who send men with axes to hew. The forests of Sumbhulpore are coming down before the energy of one of these men.

There is enough information in existence. We now wish to see it applied to some practical object.-Friend of India.