12 FEBRUARY 1842, Page 10

A correspondent, on whom we can rely, has favoured us

with some interesting information as to the navigation of the Indus and the British craft now on it. Sir Alexander Burnes had thougbt.that a vessel of four feet water might always ascend it in safety ; bat it is -- found by experience that one drawing more than three feet water is useless, from the perpetual shifting of the river's bed and chan- nel, and the peculiar formation of its bars. Vessels of that draught have ascended to Loodieana on the Sutledge, and could reach Kalabagh on the Attock branch : the Rava branch is navigable to Lahore ; and the Cheenab is believed to be navigable to a considerable distance from its junction with the main stream near Moultann. There are at present only three steam-vessels, all of iron, on the Indus — the Comet, Planet, and Satellite ; the first of forty-horse, the others of sixty- horse power. They draw thirty-six inches of water. A smaller vessel, the Meteor, is under repair at Bombay. Two of the Euphrates steamers, of fifty and forty-horse power have been ordered to Bom- bay, most probably for the Indus. The communication between Bom- bay and Kunatchee is kept open by the Indus steamer ; but it draws too much water for the river.