The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

(From our Second Edition of Yesterday.)

The letters have arrived.
murderer has been executed.

Colonel Mackeson's

The frontier was comparatively tranquil. There
is nothing new from Burmah.
•CALCUTTA, OCT. 18th.

No commercial report owing to holidays.
The prospects of cotton goods market had im-
proved ; fears of bad crops dispelled. Freights
lower; more ships offering ; this with encouraging
advices of colonial produce received by the Bombay
will give an impulse to exports. Probable extent of
indigo crops estimated at 105,000 to 108,000.
Quality superior to late years.

BOMBAY.

Money easy.—lmport business very limited.
Greater activity expected after holidays than has
of late existed.

Metals steady. Cotton lower. Freights-12
12s. for vessels commencing loading, and £2 15s.
for vessels nearly ready for sailing to London and
Liverpool.
Shanghai had been taken almost without resis-
tance on the 7th September, and risings were
expected in other places in the district.
The rebels hold Amoy. Canton was threatened
and will probably change hands beftre the dis-
patch of the next mail.
The Tartar invasion of China begins to be talked
of. H. M. steamer Hermes was ordered to bring
down the survivors of the wrecked ship, Lady
Evelyn, bound to California. There were twenty
six Chinese and six Europeans ; about 240 perished.
Trade in China still depressed.
EGYPT.—ALEXANDRIA, 19TH.

Grain had fallen and risen Bs. to 10s. a quarter,
and prices wore on the rise, in consequence of
exports being limited.
Freights, 13s. Exchange, 100.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

We have received our dispatches from India and
China by the Overland Mail. The dates are—Cal-
cutta, Oct. 20 ; Madras, 24; Hong-Kong, 11; Sin-
gapore, 18 ; Bombay, 28 ; and Burmah, 8.
The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times :

We are in the receipt of intelligence from Bur-
mah up to the Bth instant, and although there is
not much iu the shape of news to be detailed, yet
the atrocities by the dacoits had not diminished.
It is supposed by those most capable of forming a
correct judgment, that as soon as the waters of the
Irrawaddy fall, the Burmese will take advantage of
the subsidence and attack us in force. The real
ruler at Ava is the prime minister, the brother of
the King, and neither he nor his party make, it is
said, any disguise of their hostile intentions. One
of the causes alleged for the immense increase of
dacoits in the neighbourhood of Pegu is, that the
last harvest of the ryots was not gathered in con-
sequence of our presence, and that therefore these
poor people have been driven ex necessitate to plun-
der. It is a pity if such be the case, but it is cheer-
ing to know that next season will remedy it. The
two Jesuits who were associated with the Burmese
commissioners in the conferences held atProme for
the signing of the treaty have arrived at Rangoon.
Their statements confirm all that has been hitherto
alleged regarding matters at Ava. The King is
surrounde by a war party, so powerful as to de-
prive him of independent action, and a tacit consent
has been wrung from him to permit hostilities to
be renewed with us ; consequently warlike prepa-
rations are being carried on extensively at Ava, and
December or'January next is the period fixed upon
to attack us. The ministers state that by that time
the Irrawaddy will be too low to admit of large
steamers navigating it, and that without their aid
the British forces cannot cope with the Burmese.
Sir John Cheape will evidently soon have an oppor-
tunity of distinguishing himself. The French cap-
tain, D'Oorguny, is still employed drilling the
Burmese. Latest accounts mention that a serious
disturbance has broken out in the gaol at Ran-
goon, but particulars have not yet been received.
The murderer of Colonel Mackeson was hung at
Peshawur on the Ist inst., and his body afterwards
burned, the ashes being thrown into a dirty water-
course. The murderer himself remained silent,
has implicated no one, and laughed and joked
with his guards to the latest moment of his life.
Matters on our north-west frontier still continue
portentous, and troops have been moved to Pe-
shawur; there has, however, been as yet no open
demonstration, but the want of organisation, and
of a leader whom they all can recognise, alone form
the grave objections to the hill tribes taking the
initiative. Reports of an intended disturbance
were rife at Rawul Pindee, and great fears seem
to have been entertained of an outbreak ; of course
the plunder of the cantonment was the fons et origo
of the intended incursion, but the capture of Nadir
Khan, the leader of the insurgents, reassured the
timid, and convinced them that there was nothing
to fear, and as troops have since been withdrawn
from the cantonments, we may reasonably con-
clude that all is quiet, at least for the present. It
is said, however, that the Governor-General has
expressed himself very warmly regarding the mea
sures adopted in the north-west, whiCh he con-
siders to have excited needless alarm, and that he
has administered a " wigging" to the authorities
of Peshawur.

Mr. John Colvin, late judge of the Sudder Adaw-
lut and commissioner for the Tenasserim provinces,
has been appointed lieutenant-governor of the
north west provinces, in the place of the late Mr.
Thomason. Some disturbances have taken place
in Allyghur, Moradabad, &c. &c., attended with
slight loss of life. The intelligence of the death of
Sir Charles Napier has been received with general
sorrow in India, although from previous reports all
were prepared for the sad announcement; a spe-
cial meeting has been hell at Kurrachee, presided
over by Mr. Frere, the commissioner in Scinde,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the
best means of recording the estimation in which
the late general was held. Her Majesty's Bth regi •
ment has been traucferred to the Bengal establish-
lishment, and ordered to proceed to Agra. The
troops of the horse artillery hare, been ordered to
stand fast until next year, so that the reiiek.., ordered
by Sir Frederick Fitzclarence will not take plite,o
in this particular branch of the service. There is
also a rumour that her Majesty's 64th foot
is to Proceed to Peshawur. His excellency the
commander-in-chief holds his military camp at
Poena, ala Chobham, next month. The new mer-
cantile bank gets on flourishingly. Meer Jaffer
Ali Khan, son-in-law of the late Nawab of Surat,
goes to England this day to support his claims
against an alleged unjust division of the property of
the late Nawab of Surat. Trade is slack, but the
money market is easy.

THE WAR IN BURMAH.
Our correspondent writes on the ono- "---"L •
It is i taw Bang of Burmah had
pu vfo -death, and his eldest son placed in
durance—they being all for war with us ; and that
the younger son, a man of peace, had been placed
on the throne. These reports do not seem to be
worth much either way. The country continued
to be overrun with dacoits, and the people oppres-
sed thereby to desperation. Of the 150 prisoners
who escaped from the gaol at Kyoung, near Ran-
goon, some one third had been retaken. Daring
attempts at robbery had been made in Rangoon ;
and executions of dacoits were of frequent occur-
rence. Nearly the whole of Prome had been
inundated by the river, and boats had to be used
for several days. The pay of the troops was much
in arrear at Prome, and loud complaints were being
made. Lieut, Miasey had quite recovered from his
wounds. The Rangoon Chronicle of the Bth inst.
says ;

The burden of the intelligence from the stations
up the river, brought by the Nerbuddah, is still the
dacoits. The village of Thako, between Myeeaday
and Promo, was attacked and plundered by these
marauding villains; whereupon Sir John Cheap
detached a company of her majesty's 51st L. 1., and
two companies of the 35th Madras N. 1., to its
protection. They were conveyed up there by the
Damoodah, which seems to have had some active
work cut for her during the past month, having
made three trips to Myeeaday since the 14th of
last month.

This account proceeds to detail the dispositions
for the attack—the fight and the route of the
dacoits, and execution of their leader.
We have heard of a gallant affair between a
cutter of the Enterprise, under midshipman Rean,
and five loungs of dacoits.
The steamer Queen has returned from the Per-
sian Gulf, but nothing in the shape of news
seems to have been received by her. Something

of importance was, I am told, looked for by the
Persian community here, as to the attitude the
Shah would assume in the event of Russia actually
declaring war against Turkey. One of their num-
ber remarked to a European gentleman, to whom
he was talking :—" It is all well for the Padishah
to pretend to side with Russia; but, as a Mahom-
etan, he dare not fight against Mahometans, and
if war does break out the Persians will, as a matter
of course, be found on the side of the Turks."