Allens Indian Mail (Newspaper) - April 23, 1866, London, Middlesex ALLEN'S AND OFFICIAL GAZETTE FROM BRITISH & FOREIGN & ALL PARTS OF THE EAST. THIS PAPER INDIAN IS WOW Vol. 714.] 23, 1866. M. Military Prospects in India Shipping and Madias Shipping and Miscellaneous Shipping and Commercia Ovy Shipping and reported at the India Office British Regiments Stationed in India Stocks and 289 200 291 295 296 296 296 297 298 303 305 305 306 306 307 30, DATES OP 22 Madras 24 Burmah Feb. 20 2S Ceylon 17 China (Hong 1 MAILS TO The Mails to made up in in hs On the at 6 via Marseilles and to nil parts of On the 4th, at 8 via to and On the 10th, at 6 via to and On the 12th, at 8 via to Bombay and Provinces for tetters to Madras and Lower Provinces of the 18th, at 6 via Marseilles and to all parts of On the 20th, at 8 to and On the at 6 via to and On the 27th, at 8 via to and Provinces for letters to Madras and Lower Provinces of When any of the above dates on the Mails via Southampton are made up on the previous and those via Marseilles on the following BATES OF Via % 1 02., Is. 8d. Every portion of au oz. afterwards an additional Is. 8d. Via | 6d....... Every portion of an oz. afterwards an additional Is. Via 4 3d. 8 Each succeeding 4 01., 3d. Via 4 2d.......8 3d. Each succeeding 4 &c. Via 4 Is. Each succeeding 8 Is. Via 4 8 8d. Each succeeding 8 8d. A French line of mail packets now leaves Marseilles on the 19th of every month for Postage for letters and papers to India and China the tame as is charged by the mail via Letters intended to be forwarded by packets mast be specially addressed French nail packet from may not exceed 3 lbs. in or be of greater dimensions titan 24 inches in length or 12 inches in width or IH ill CASKS lit SUMMARY AND We have received our usual files of papers by the Bombay with dates from Bombay to the 28th of and from Calcutta to the 24th of that The latest from is also the most Mr. Massey made his financial statement to the Indian Council on the 24th Only an outline of his budget was known in The actual deficit for last year is although the opium revenue has yielded above Sir C. Trevelyan's Mr. Massey assumes that opium will produce in 18GG-7. A small deficit of is expected for the ensuing the gross revenue being taken at and the expenditure at The cash balance is of which Mr. Massey sets aside for public more particularly improved The mill tary charges are to remain at the same amount as last but certain reductions in the forces are to be The land tax will produce more than last No new taxes are levied but the export duty on saltpetre is reduced to 3 per ad As the revenue is generally Mr. Massey's budget will probably bo approved by public though many persons are surprised after a whole year's opportunity to study Indian Mr. Massey has only taken a negative The Viceroy was to leave Calcutta for Simla on the 9th of The first instalment of the has been paid to the It is officially reported that the cattle disease now spreading in British Burmah is identical with the from which our cattle are suffering at The it has frequently occurred in An interesting correspondence upon cholera has been published at by the the disease is very prevalent among the The French Government addressed a series of questions to the French at which through the Secretary to the Government of submitted to the President of the Sanitary Commission of The object of these questions was to obtain as much accurate tion as possible concerning the haunts and ravages of cholera in British so that the Conference at Constantinople might be if to trace the spread of the scourge and devise effective measures for its The popular belief that the Delta of the Ganges is one permanent source of says the Times of has caused it to be singled out for special while the bills of health and history of the various pilgrim ships proceeding from Indian ports to tbo shrines of Arabia aro also to bo closely as it is believed that if not tho are at least some of the most constant channels whereby the plague is conveyed from place to The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs asks the Bombay Government whether cholera prevailed at any of tho ports of Western India when tho pilgrim ships sailed for Arabia last Dr. President of the Sanitary states that cholera did so but cannot say whether or not it made its appearance on the outward as such particulars can only be learned at the ports of It is truo that cholera did make its appearance in several but then these may have caught it at or any of tho Arabian and not at that from which they originally This point will doubtless be set at rest reports of the consuls and .at various places where pilgrims froni India were While Dr. Leith knows of no case of cholera on the voyage to he thinks it extremely desirable that there should bo a legally appointed officer to seo that none affected witn contagious disease are allowed to the Act of 1858 leaving no such power in tho hands of the shipping With regard to cholera in the Bombay it is stated never to have been since registration was with the exception of a few months in 1848 and 1849, tho rate of mortality having fluctuated without any apparent In the army it has made its appearance to a greater or less degree at all European soldiers suffering most as the heat renders them more liable to attack and less able to bear up against it. The progress of cholera at and is and we find that in almost doctors differ as to the the One thing seems it must have travelled to Sind bjS lying between that