The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL.

The papers brought by the Overland Mail ar-
rived in London last night.

The following is the " Overland Summary " from
the Bombay Telegraph of Septeniber 12 :
The very short period-vhich has' elapsed since
the departure of the last mail, which left Bombay
on the 30th ultimo, in some measure account for
the paucity of fresh intelligence. To begin with
Burmah, the peace of that province, which was
only declared a very few weeks ago, is, it would
seem, already on the eve ofa rupture. The last
accounts from Prome give out with confidence,
that Meeah Toon, the robber chief, is back in his
old quarters, and that he and other chiefs, have
been organizing a large force with which they were
to attack the British posts, and to harrass all the
inhabitants who had acknowledged allegiance to
the British Government. It has been deemed .
necessary by Sir John Cheape to strengthen
Prome, and IrM. 18th Royal Irish, who were at a
place called Shoedony, have been recalled to
Prome. The river Irawaddy is still rising,. and
the ,troops are apparently healthy. Opinions
are much divided as to the results of Meeah
,Toon's proposed insurrection ; but that he
intends harrassing both our outposts and our sub-
jects in Pegue, there seems to be but little doubt.
Moteover, the whole land is at present swarming
with dacoits. Every plunderer throtighout Bur-
mah proper, seems to have made the best of his
-Way into our newly ,acquired territories, and, it is
~Said that all the leaders ot* these gangs are work-
ng upon a regular system, which is dictated by..
'the Court at Ava. The plan they follow, is to lay
waste the whole of the 'country, and to harrass the
inhabitants to such. an ,extent that the
,latter must
sooner or later leave our dominions entirely, and
Cross the boundery' line which.
..we have ourselves
marked for the limits:Of the BUrmese doininions.
• In proof of these snrmises and statements, it is said
that there are no gangs above Medway,.and.that the
inhabitants of Northern Burmah enjoy perfect free-
dom from the visits of these ruffians. But whether
theSe robbers are working for themselves, .or for
. the Court of Ava, it amounts to -much the same
thing,- and sooner or later the nuisance Will have to
be ,put down with a very- strong arm. The like i-
hood of famine has in a great Measure disappeared,
The importation of rice from Bengal has been,
very large, and the same scarcity of provisions no
longer exists. At Moulmein three officers of the
.2nd Bengal Fusiliers are under arrest tOr assault-
ing, in his own house, an Armenian merchant who
`refused to supply them with wine.

t. From the North West Frontier we have nothing
new to communicate since the commencement of.
the month. For the present the Afreedees appear
to have dropped the liostile deMeanour which they
assumed towards us. Atour out postS near Pesh-
awar, false alarms semi 'to be the order of the day;
and there is a rmnehr• that so soon as the cold
weather sets in, a brigade is to take the field.
FROM ,CABoOT, AND THE OTHER-COUNTRIES• TO THE
NORTH WEST OF PESHAWAR, we have nothing new
to communicate. The report of Herat having
fallen to the Persian Army, is confirmed in some
of the Native papers in the North of India, as
' well as by some of the native news writers of the
English press. In% Bombay, it is spoken of
amongst the Mogul and- Mussuhnan population,
(all of whom have far better means than are at the
disposal of us, Anglo-rndians, for assertairiiug the
truth of such report) as a well known and possi-
- tivc 'fact. Whether the additional rumour of
several Russian officers being present with the
Persian Army, (as noted in our last Summary) be
correct or not, time will show, but we may mention.
that this is also .spoken of, by the -better informed
~of- the natives, as.being pOsSitivelY the case.

In the North West Provinces there is not nearly
so much Cholera as existed when the last mail left.
Nevertheless a good deal still exists at Cawnpore