The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-03 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA,

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
We have received our despatches, beoe by go
Overload Mail from India. The dates and 4we
graphic summary. of _the news having applem a
the Ezpren of Thursday last, we now give dolt
lowing summary from the Bombay now. of 06
tober 2 :

4, As the season opens, the peretnial distedai it
the highland border which the rains had
become resumed, and we begin once mote to pen
farther instalment of the inevitable penalty et
a mountain frontier at all. L‘te at night ft ths
of September, a force under Brigadier Chant,iii
from Peshawar. Heudetiosh p
Infantry and three companies of Green's yogi
first marched for tea or twelve miles down the ,g.,.
Paining into the first range of hills, they trails
haw where the village of Sunderbunditandii tha
crowning the highest bill which overlooks NsaasF
°hums, they awaited the snivel of the sexed 4.
tachment. This consisted of Cooke's Rifles aigi
Artillery officer in charge of a supply of ode
bags. They left about midnight, mid after 411824
of shoat fifteen miles, reached their daaa
halted. The third column eossistedof the

of Green's regiment, two mounted gnes—ulor. Lot
Blades, and four guns of the Peshawar Xing*
Train under Captain Brougham ; they gashes sow
winded by Brigadier ,Chamberlain is peyote i
marched in the track of the first colas', oak*
it two hours before daybreak. This leer bay
to
followed at an interval of some miles by two
Breoeje gins and a detachment of heft Oak
under :Captain Fraser. They were Inteeki
cover the descent of the main force ins tb
slope of • second range of hills. The Bripii,
hewing puehed on with two nrinutain trale-remai
part of Greens Regiment, left two lisse4iisd
the gam corps with guns in the valley bekiat llt
attack on Nossum-ki-Ohurree was commode lisb
;awe daybreak, the enemy retiring from tie 44
.tower of any considerable strength cc tivire
charge of our artillery ; the village yes tbeNtbs
to by the infantry and burned. The village act
her-Cihurree, on the crest of the hills on the tip,
had meanwhile been destroyed by Major Casks,*
enemy retiring before a shot was tired. Thom&
Wooers had prided themselves on the impel**.
lity of their fastnesses and impregnability el uq
forts, end so admirable were our arrangements th•
they were completely taken by surprise, Tie
holds were all blown up, 400 mule were Watt,/
the crops around destroyed. By mid-day theft"
were all on their ream followed by betwixt hue
three hundred of the enemy,on whom oar pima
from time to time directed. The tures bid oho
mach from heat and want of water. Tim Welles

amounted to about a thousand ineu, of whinging

were killed and seven wounded—the enemy psi.
posed to have had twenty-five killed ce rte rii
While the British from; were thus engaged,Kl
Mahooned, a friendly Khuttnek chief, attend
hills with some two hundred men mod dear*,
veral /tillers to the right of Major Cockerel's
The village of Nussem was the great reskinea I
the thieves, and as it was almost inaeosnibledinde
the garrison, not calculating on the range alms%
forgot that it could be turned. There is yet a erne
hold in the same direction, still deeper in dirk*
tains, about to be destroyed so soon as fresh wind
ammunition are received. Throw, hoot the Bulbul
proving).., tke frontier always excepted, met*
teems tranquil and prosperous. The Sembilan?*
don iedying out,and from the great difficeltpiptiq
at the worst of the criminals, the enormous hke
that mast follow the punishment of the elids d
those engaged, and the meuurelem anounti My
se well se fanaticism manifer ed throughout,
went seems seems anxious to deal as lightly as paiiievidi
the insurgents. Disturbances at present eserapieni
in Onde, the malcontents not yet being pits papusi
to harry on the impending annexation. Allis tow]
throughout British Barmali, the Basks, be
reached Ava, and the King has appointed the see
moon se the moat auspicious period for their nap
two. The disturbance in the Melee Kau% me.
timed in our last, turned out as we emeeedo
mere local squabble of very small want. As al
guess osa be formed in India bow large a *AV
aeon a small spark may kindle, Major Vialless sal
wisely in summoning from Breda a force sob'
to crush any amount of insubordination. Ter Arti
levy marched fifty miles in forty-60A commie
hours, a warning for the future of how quiskek
means of suppressing revolt can be brought ti he
on the spot. A miserable calamity has omen i
the Madras Presidency. Mr. Cooolly, Cotkenre
Malabar, one of the most able and amiable eselbell
of the service, and who had jut been beenaa:t
Provisional Member of Council, has been
in his own house, by a bend of fanatic Mirk
This raceii of Arab descent, they number lasi
fifty. thousand, and under the impels d
religious real have been accustomed. ....k
years past to burst forth and AMP!
and destroy whoever they could nest vik
the destruction of the infidel forming the mod teinit
means of securing them a place io Paradim. Oath
present occasion they selected a single entitle ski
the people of their own race voluntarily offemile
weeds for the dilietion of the murderers, sons
tery hangs around the whole affair. divested. s
ri
.of the nasal characteristics of Mopah
Troops having been immediately summoned NO
whole of the assueins, five in number, none
taken and destroyed. At the gnat Maim&
festival of the Mohurrum, when fanatics ofiesma
themselves to deeds of violence, BrigedierMachen
commanding at that state" had sued ao...„Wis
such as might exempt Europeans from the leeks
noise-making deemed essential on the atria
A procession with the usual acoolopiaiasa
pealing in apparent bravado near his perk!!
were compelled by him to return. They sena!
have fallen amongst a set of angry epuits, giad_lj
an opportunity of avenging a personal quasi, sr.
a furious band shortly afterwards mind seekk,f
Brigadier, cutting !gin with their swords, oti
tug him only when they believed him deed.
severely wounded over the head, arms, and bole
is still recovering, and is now considered oat elk!
ger. His assailants have been secured, sod Ilk
their trial. With the exception of them isolalsdLili
of violence, due to individual causes, and whirl let
no evidence of general disquietude or &on
peace and prosperity reign, as they have long
throughout our - dominions. The military fain
dons against Persia, Egypt, or Affghsekr"":
which some of our home oontemporaria seeirL•
wildered, never had any existence save in imelks7j.
Our rainy season is apparently over ' • the silew„";
thunder storms of the end of the week being, d"
be feared, the Elephants heralding in oar fair kt
thee. Our reins have been so deficient everywhere Isw
in the Ponjaub, that there is great reason to IFit
heed one of those periodical famines which arr.
us once every twelve or fifteen years, and of obillur,
last marred in 1838. In Bombay, where halters;
lion of people depend for their supplies of kitir
wells fed by the rains, the sufferings for the cutlelit
first necessary of life must by the mootb of
become tearful. A plan has been for nine y'sels_
fore government for obtaining supplies by pipesl2::
a mountain hollow twelve miles off, and °l'',
intendent of repairs of the Board of CeneserMst
at present in England on 1,2001. a year, 101Vrg t
quails on the subject ; when he returns we
lt
probably have the fruit of his investigatione
stead of sending a sick engineer home sr,o;i
to learn and recover his health, ",...."
imported one vigorous and instructed we i
,Pr"
have had oar water pipes laid down a good
years earlier than they are likely torlaird
the existing arrangements, to the saving
m u . 4A.
hundreds or thousands of human leeLa
counts have just been received of the Ices of the
Bt. Abbe on a coral reef north of Pdadagesoltri_ll. .4,.
had been about a hundred miles mispluelac:..L
captain's shuts, though correctly laid down
Tksl;
of the Admiralty for the past [MY Ysan" wait
the /meth or fifth vessel that has within so l-