Large sales of opium are advertised by the British Government
at Calcutta, to take place in the " agencies of Behar and Benares," front January to June inclusive. The quantity advertised is 18.932 chests; the upset price 400 rupees a chest; and no certificate will be granted except to cover such export." It was hoped before the notices
were issued, that the Government would have discontinued the sale of opium.
The merchants of Bombay, engaged in the opium-trade, have put forth a sort of manifesto, called "A Voice from the East," and addressed to " All Associations, Chambers of Commerce, Proprietors of India Stock, &c." setting forth the vast amount of property embarked in the opium-trade, the large revenue it yields to Government, the impolicy of sacrificing so valuable a commerce, and the necessity of aggressive or retaliatory measures on the Chinese.
The Madras Spectator of October 23d contains a despatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Dyce, reporting his proceedings, under the Kurnool Commissioners, against the Nawab of Kurnool, who refused to submit
to the British Government, and had taken refuge behind fortifications erected at the village of Zorapore—about a day's march from Kurnool. The Nawab refused all terms of surrender, and at the head of a body of Rohillas defended his position to the last. The place, however, was taken after a desperate struggle; his troops opposing the bayonet- charges of the British with the greatest valour, and fighting for some time hand to baud. The Nawab, with ninety-eight of his soldiers, were taken prisoners. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas White, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, was killed ; Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wright, of the same Regiment, dangerously wounded; Lieutenant Edmund John Yates, of the Thirty-tburth Light Infantry, danger- ously wounded—since dead; Lieutenant John Aneliterloney, of the Engineers, severely wounded. Eight European privates and ten Se- poys were wounded ; ten privates and eleven Sepoys killed or missing. A quantity of" treasure," with some horses and elephants, was secured. Accounts from Bombay, dated November 28th, mention troubles at Lahore. No Nehal Singh had caused his father's favourite, Chyte Singh, to be murdered, with several other chiefs of lesser note ; and had
imprisoned his father' old Ramjeet Singh's successor. The instigator of this murder and rebellion is Dhian Singh, who now rules the Pun- jaub in the name of No Nan!.
It would appear from the following intelligence received from Bom- bay, that the British conquest of Afghanistan is incomplete. " Ac- cording to the advices from Cahill to the e»d of October, a part of the army, which was commencing its return, bad not only received orders to halt, but to move onward in the opposite direction ; and the re- mainder of the forces received orders to remaia where they were for an indefinite period. The cause of this sudden change in affairs arose out of the movements of Dost Mahomed ; who, after making his escape after the capture of Glittznee, had proceeded to the other side of the Hindoo Koosh, where he had contracted alliances of marriage with the rulers of Knondoox and Khoolum, by whose aid and the inflnence he
was otherwise acquiring in Turkistan, it was discovered that he con- templated a reiMtry and rei,stablishment of his authority in Cabnl. It was reported that his son, A kbur Khan, had actually reached Gboree- bund, a mountain pass about sixty miles frem Cabmil ; where he had
raised a rehellbm—a task not dillicult to accomplish, as the sway of
Shalt So.•;jah was so wnpupuler tbot the cr!jcats SI ',II by Mut to collect the ta.rus ,m me till murdered by the p«ple. Df. Lord had commenced his journey on a mission to Koondooz, to reconcile matters between the Chiefs of that territory and Shall Soojah ; but on the receipt of intern-, genee of Dust Mahomed's movements, he retraced his steps. Upon his report a body of troops was immediately despatched to reinfbree the
corps which had before advanced; the whole then to push forward to Khoolum."
The Guiana Chronicle of 25th November, conspicuously prints the following—" We have just learned that his Excellency the Governor has received a despatch from the Colonial (Mice, disallowing certain resolutions of the Court of Policy respecting the introduction of agri- cultural labourers into this colony, front the INland.,; as her Majesty cannot sanction any expenditure being incurred on the principle of the Immigration Ordinance already disallowed, ami whish was disallowed. in consequence, as state al by the :Marquis of Normanby, of the proceed- ings of the Combined Court at its last sitting. Did we not say in truth, these men are ruining the Colony:"
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