The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

Despatches from India, in anticipation of the Ovcrland
Mail, have been received. The dates are—Calcutta, July
3 ; and Bombay, July 10.
The following is from the Bombay Times of June the
10th :

The rains, which at the dare of our last despatch had
been for three weeks in a great measure suspended, resumed
on the last day of the month, and from that to the present
date we have had two feet of fall. Already we have had in
all forty inches, or two-thirds of what is due to the monsoon ;
and though we are once more in the mi dle of fair weather,
we have every reason to expect at least our ordinary supply
Rice planting is now proceeding rapidly, and the agricul •
turist goes on favourably with every division of his labour.-
The Bengal government have been taking precautions
for protecting some jtxty miles of country along the line of
the railway in the neighbourhood of the Santa! Pergunnahs.
The Ssntals themselves seem all but starving, endeavouring
to sustain life on roots until the ripening of the wet weather
crops. They are generally believed to have hid their
weapons in the jungles, but at present it would be found
impossible from want of provisions to subsist a hundred
men on any given spot, and the arrangements in contem•
plation are precautionary, and not the result of any serious
apprehension:
The news from Central Asia is, as usual, of such a con-
fused and conflicting character, that the only thing to be
made of it is, that the Affghans are fighing amongst each
other, as they always are, and that we need give ourselves
no concern whatever about their quarrels. The magnificent
Persian armies around Herat are now set down at somewhere
about a couple of thousand men, and the princes and chiefs
are engaged in endeavouring to shoot, poison, or entrap
each other—enterprises in which every honest man will
wish them all success. The Cahn]. and Candahar brothers
are quarelling as diligently in 1856 as they were in 1836,
when we entered on the sagacious task of seek'ng to recon-
cile their differences, the moral of the whole being that
civilized countries, unless they wish to burn their fingers,
should leave this laud of Ishmaclites alone.
There have been some serious outbreaks in the Nizam's
dominions, and so long as his Highness is suffered to retain
in his service some forty thousand ruffianly mercenaries,
always in arrears, and ready to compensate themselves by
robbery, nothing but disorder is to be looked for.
The late disturbances in the northern districts of Madras
have disappeared, and throughout the British dominions
universal tra .quillity prevails.
We had oce eion to notice in our last the munificence of
Sir ,Tamsetjee Jejeebhoy, in having, since 1825, bestowed
close upon half a million sterling on chamity. It appears
that within about the same period a sum not greatly less
than this in amount has been bequeathed by voicing rich
Hindus for purposes of benevolence, nearly the whole of it
having been estranged from its intended uses by reason of
the informality of the deed of bequest, by the kindred of the
bequeathers.
A Natural History Society has just been established in
Bom'ay, the chief characteristic of which is that the monthly
meetings are to be accompanied by excursions, the members
bringing with them for discussion and examination the fruits
of their rambles. The most distinguished naturalist
amongst us, Dr. Leith, has accepted the office of honorary
president. The office of president is held by Dr. Don,
inspector general of hospitals, for twenty yesrs one of the
best known and popular members of the medical service.
The Governor General, who is still at Calcutta, has
directed that on Sunday, the 20th of July, public thanks-
giving shall be offered to Almighty God throughout
British India, fir his great goodness in restoring to
England and to all Europe the inestimableblessings of peace.
The Lieutenant General of Bengal, Mr. Halliday, was
to have left Calcutta on the 2nd instant, on a visit to some
of the stations in the interior.
Sir George Anson is about to proceed on a searching
inspection of the Bengal army, and will make Meerut his
principal place of residence during his stay in the Upper
Provinces, and thence march to the points to which he is
more especially anxious to direct his attention.
Lord Harris is at Madras, having opened the railway
officially at Arcot, a distance of seventy miles, on the 28th
of June.

Lord Elphinstone is about to proceed almost immediately
to the Deccan, where he purposes s ,journing for the
remainder of the monsoon. _

The Bombay bank has just declared a dividend for the
half year ending the 30th of June of fifty rupees per share,
being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.
Trade, as is usual, at this season, is quiet, but the market
for imports is firm. Money is easy; freights are dull and
lower, and exchange is favourable for remitters.

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—John M'Entyre was charged
for having assaulted police officer 44. The constable saw
the prisoner drunk, and going into one of the docks, which
he prevented him from entering, as he feared some acci-
dent, whereon the prisoner struck complainant and
knocked him down; he also kickel him.'""The prisoner
said he did not remember what happened. He was fined
fined 10s. and costs.

LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. P PRSIA, CAPTAIN
JIMISINS, FROM NEW YOBK.—Mr. C. Yank, Mr. John B.
Boyd, Mr. Albert Mathews and lady, Mr. A. Schwarzer,
Mr. P. llorwadh, Mr. WAdo and lady, Mr. MacKenzie
and lady, Jacob Abbott and lady. Mr. C.issin and lady, Mr.
S'za-,lady, and servant, Mr. Z M. Hidalgo, and lady,
Mr. Jose RPquelin and lady, Mr. W. J. Pust, Mr.
Charles Green, Mr. Haugensen, Mr. Charles Taylor,
Mr. Henry Foster, Mr. Charles Heess, Mr. S. Marto
Allgrett and two children, Mrs. J. P. Rattazza, Miss Verdi
and maid, Slr. J. Kingh, Mr. M. Lyn, Miss Elizabeth
Hooper, Mr. M'Mun, Mr. R-bert Leslie, Mr. F. B. Harris,
1 idy, and three children, Mr. Holland, Mr. Fo.bes, Mr.
Victor de Gonwal, Mr. W. B. Thompson and lady, Mr.
Gassiot, Mr. L. Sharp, Mr. Burden, lady, and daughter,
Mr. W. Lay, jug., Sir Allen M'Nab, daughter, and servant,
Hon. J. J. Roberts, Mr. R. Humphreys, Mrs.
Dorson, Mrs. L. Ridiali and servant, Mr. Oxley, Mr.
Rodewald, Miss Holland, Miss Stock, Mr. Gould and
son, Mr. J. F. Bernder and lady, Mrs. David-
son, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mademoiselle le Comtesse de
Couval, Mr. An,o Hero Tamaring, Mr. Alfred
CArtwrigbt, Mr. W. J. Harwood, Mr. Samuel Higgs,
Mr. L. Levi and lady, Mrs. G. Marston and child, Mr.
Edward Jacott, Mr. Ranson Just and servant, Mr. Pyke,
Mr. Thomas Peile, Mr. Andrew Wester, Mr. Alfred
Edmundson, Mr. Henry ROdewald, Mr. A. &burly, Mr.
James M. Calder, Mr. Eugene Langdon, Mr. A. de Pereda,
Mr. Orrell, Mr. B. Sidney Smith, Mr. Moore, Mr.
H. S. Dexter and lady, Lieutenant A. Crown, Mr. Frank
Field, Mr. Ottenheimer, Mr. E. Carrier' Mr. Aikin,
Mr. F. Von Loebbecke, Mr. Zangroniz, Mr. M. J. Wilson,
Mr. Eladio Rubina, Mr. H. Dubord, Mr. R. M. Gourdin,
Mr. William A. Gourdin, Mr. Thomas Machado,
Mr. Rodriquez, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Lange, Mr. D.
Dunlop, Mr. John 4. Dunlop, Mr. Schmidt, Mr.
Kerby, lady and two children, Mr. Heynernan, Mr. J.
Charlea White, Major General Home and servant,
Mr. Gourdin, Mr. L. F. Green, Mr. W. Mertens, Mr.
Aug. Adderley, Mr. J. George Anderson and lady, Mr.
John Jones, Mr. FLrnandev, Mr. H. E. Kirk, Mr. James
Harrison, Mr. William Wilkins, Mr. Voorhies, Mr. J. 11,
Kingston, Mr. H. J. Barbey, Mr. Kirbery, Mr.
Douglas D. Bannan, Mr. Duncan Kennedy, Mr. Cry-
senter Boves, Mr. R F. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Duncan
Gibb, junior, Mr. Dan. Kennedy, Mr. Wm. B. Feltman,
Mr. Flegenheimer, Mr. W. 11. Brown, Mr. D. W. Clarke,
Mr. Isaac Meyer, Mr. C. Thompson, Mr. George C. Kem-
hardt, Mr. Heard, Mr. W. Wilson, Mr. jOhn James, Mr.
Wilson, Mr.' Richard Barr, Mr. Themes I. Williams, Mr.
Mr. Jos. Bissicks, Mr. J. W, Scott, Mr. Alfred Sliner,
Mr. B. Corr, Mr. John L. Swift, Mr. Frederick Farrand,
Mr. Thornton, Mr. R. M. Claypole, Miss E. Williams,
Mrs. Gill and infant, Mr. William Oppermanne—Length
. of passage, 8 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes,