The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have already published a communication in
421ticip1tion of the Overland Mail. The following
are the details

INDIA

A bi-monthly communication is to be established
forthwith between Rangoon and Calcutta, by the
steamers Tenasserim, Sesostris, and Fire Queen.
The Shah of Persia is reported to have left
Teherancannon,
with 30.000 cavalry, and 1,000 pieces of
vaonon, and 3,000 camels loaded with ammuni-
-4°ll, to operate against Turkey in concert with
assia.
The Governor-General was still at Calcutta, and
Sir
,;, William Gomm was at Delhi on the 18th •of
November.
T• he following summary is extracted from the
ijotnbay Times of Nov. 28 :
During the past fortnight matters have remained
• statu quo at Burmah. The Governor-General
448 announced the intention of the government
`0 maintain henceforth a bi-monthly steam corn-
kurxication between Rangoon and Calcutta, and of
course the seaports en route. The vessels to be
employed are the Tenasserim, the Fire Queen and
the Sesostris, and the communication is to be main-
tained throughout all seasons of the year. The
establishment of a regular communication between
Caldutta and the Eastern shores of the Bay of Ben-
gal cannot fail to be highly beneficial in a commer-
cial point of view.
From our north-west frontier we learn that a
force, consisting of a light field battery, two coin-
Aanies of sappers, her Majesty's 22nd regiment,
the 20th Native Infantry, the 66th Ghoorkas, and
the 7th Irregular Cavalry, the whole under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Cotton, of her
Majesty's 22nd Foot, marched from Peshawur on
the 9th inst. towards the Kohat pass, in order to
try what effect the demonstration will have on the
Afreedes, in inducing them to permit us
to build a fort near Muttneeu. The
brigade is to be so disposed that it will blockade
the pass while the fort is building, the site for
Which has been selected at Bazeed Kheed, a
locality six miles to the southward of, or
nearer to, the mouth of the pass than Muttunee.
It is expected that some skirmishing will take place,
in which case the Afreedes will learn a lesson in
the most effectual manner an Afreede can be
taught. Nothing whatever has transpired relative
to the causes which led to Colonel Mackeson's
Murder.
It is said that the Shah of Persia has left Te-
heran with his army. Great anxiety regarding
this movement had been felt in Persia, and by the
latest accounts the royal army was seen passing
Tabriz. Some fears were also entertained for the
safety of his majesty's person. The Shah has dis-
patched an envoy to Cabul on a mission to Dost
Mahomed, prefaced, it is said, by a declaration,
pointing out the benefits which will accrue to both
parties from friendship and unity. No doubts are
entertained but that this mission has reference to
the course to be pursued by the Dost in the event
of war between Russia and Turkey. We mention-
ed in a former summary that a Russian army
had marched en route to Khiva. We now hear of its
arrival at that place, having first stormed the for-
tress of Ahmetzee.
.The affairs of Bahawulpoor are represented as
getting from bad to worse, the Khan not only de-
cling to liberate the Minister, Shaw Newaz-ood-
deen, as recommended by our government, but
marking his animosity towards us by rejoicing at
our misfortunes. The governor-general is still at
Calcutta, but it is expected he will shortly visit
Pegue. Should there be war, his lordship will, of
course, remain at Calcutta. His excellency, Sir
W. Gomm, was at Delhi on the 18th inst., but has
proceeded towards Meerut. The only other item
of intelligence we have to record is the appoint-
of Viscount Melville, K.C,8., to command the Sir-
bind division, in the room of the late General
Godwin, C.B.
• We learn that serious discontent has been en-
gendered among the men of the Nizam's con-
tingent at Hyderabad, owing to the means resorted
to reduce its numerical strength by transferring
those whose services are no longer required, to
Pegue.
It is four painful duty to announce that some-
thing very like a famine prevails in all the northern
districts of the Madras presidency, owing to the
'vant of rain, the monsoon having almost confined
itself entirely to the southern coast. It is stated
that the export of grain from the northern ports
had almost entirely ceased. In Cuddapah rice had
risen more than 100 per cent., and in many places
• stringent ameliorative measures are enforced by
the collectors.
Lord Falkland is expected to return to Bom-
bay during the commencement of next month, and
leaves India, it is understood, early in January.
The intelligence of the restoration of Colonel
Outram to the appointment of resident at Baroda,
which is confirmed by Calcutta papers just received
has given, we may say, universal satisfaction ; but
._he has yet to war against corrupt intrigue. An
investigation in now in progress to ascertain
through what post-office medium it has occurred
that a document connected with the affairs of
Barado had been abstracted by the friends of the
Guicowar, on its way to the governor-general Lord

• Falkland:
We have just now among us the Rajah of Dhar,
Who has been lionizing it through Bombay for the
-Past ten or twelve days, visiting most of our public
institutions.
The Hon. Company's new corvette, the Falkland,
was launched with the customary honors on the
16th instant. This corvette is to carry 12 guns,
and measures 108 feet 9 inches between the perpen-
diculars ; length all over, 133 feet 9 inches ; breadth
moulded, 31 feet 6 inches ; breadth extreme, 32
feet 4 inches; depth in hold, 14 feet; burthen, in
tons (old measurement), 494 59-91ths. She has
been commissioned as a second•class sloop, and the
command of her has been given to Commander Ste-
phens. As we anticipated, the Ajdaha has been
found rotten fore and aft ; she is to be dismantled,
and her rigging, &c., returned into store.
Cholera in Bombay is on the decrease ; it has
made its appearance among the men of the 4th re-
giment of Native Infantry, who are on their march
to Poonah, but not to an alarming extent; the
total number of cases reported as having occurred
on our island during the past fifteen days amounts
to but 166.
The money-market is quiet, and trade is not very
brisk.

CHINA
The. following is from a letter dated Hongkong
November 11 :
tember ma
The steamer with the 24th of Se pi
keeps out.
There has been an increase of sickness in the
garrison, but nothing of a severe nature
; otherwise
the colony is healthy.
From Shanghai our dates are to the 2d inst.,
per Lady ill ary Wood.
There is no new feature to report in the pro-'
ceedings of the Imperial and insurgent troops.
Constant fighting is going on, With little result on
either side. The losses of the Imperialists have
been considerable, while the insurgents have suf-
fered little, which gives them confidence. The Im-
perialists have received large reinforcements, and
were estimated, of all kinds, at about 14,000, and.
the foreign vessels hitherto employed at Chin-
kiang-foo have come down to assist. The fleet of
junks, which passed throagh here on the 13th of
September, ordered by the Taoutae, we learn, was
seen close to Woosung, and unless the insurgents
receive assistance ftom Nankin, it is doubtful if
they will be able to hold the city for any length of
time against such a force.
The ex-Taoutae Samqua seems to be in difficulty
from want of money, and has been unwarrantably
exposing himself in the foreign settlement, enter-
ing with 200 armed followers, and attempting to
force himself upon Her Britannic Majesty' Con-
sul without due notice, but was obliged to with-
draw.
The proceedings of his Excellency the American
Commissioner and the American Vice-Consul, as
regards neutrality, are considered somewhat equi-
vocal, and the rebel chief has addressed a letter
on the subject.
The payment of the duties during the capture
of Shanghai, and the present collection of them, are
being agitated by the foreign authorities and
Imperial Government, and causing some excite
went, as appears in the North China Herald.
The latest news from the north received at
Shanghai, contained in the Pekin Gazette of the
3rd October, mention the safe arrival at Teen-sten
of the 800,000 peculs of rice from Chekiang pro-
vince. The Mongols in the park at Pekin consist