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

AUSTRIA-

A letter from Vienna, in the Breslau Gazette,
says :—" The attention of the government is now
actively devoted to the reorganisation of the
Danubian provinoes, and M. de Prokesch, on pro-
ceeding to Constantinople, will be provided with
special instructions on the point. The principal
political personages of those provinces are daily
arriving at Vienna, and, among others, Prince
Georg;Stourdza, the Dowarnick Cantacuzene, &c.,
who have already visited Count Buol, and requested
to be presented to the Emperor. The question to
be brought under consideration will be not only
the reorganisation of the principalities, but also
the fixing of their relations with the Porte."

A letter from Vienna of the 29th, in the Bourse
Gazette of Berlin, says :—" A despatch relative to
Neapolitan affairs was sent off yesterday to M. de
Hubner, in which Count Buol again speaks of the
moderation shown by the Western Powers, and
congratulates himself that the efforts of Austria
have succeeded in preventing fresh complications
in Italy. The affair of Naples appears therefore
to be terminated. Count de Trann was bearer of
the despatch."
Another letter from Vienna, in the same journal,
states that M. Rothschild, who has had the con-
cession of the Credit Mobilier Bank, has engaged
to issue the shares and make all the other arrange-
ments in such a manner as that the Bank may com-
mence its operations on the Ist January next.
A letter from Vienna, in Voss's Gazette of Ber-
lin, says :—" It is not true, as has been stated,
that the difference which has arisen between Aus-
tria and Piedmont, relative to the convents, is ter-
minated ; in fact, up to the present time there has
been no negotiation entered into on the subject,
and the cabinet of Vienna is not disposed to cancel
the measures which it has adopted. The affair
cannot therefore be brought to a settlement except
by the intervention of some mediating power.
France has declined that part, and the cabinet of
Turin has not yet applied to any other power."

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

( From the Bombay Times of Oct. 3.)

As the season opens the perennial disorders on
the highland border which the rains had suppressed
become resumed, and we begin once more to pay a
further instalment of the inevitable penalty of hav-
ing a mountain frontier at all. Late at night on
the Ist Sept. a force under Brigadier Chamberlain
marched from Peshawur. Henderson's Puujaub
infantry and three companies of Green's Regiment
first marched for 10 or 12 miles down the valley.
Passing into the first range of hills they traversed
the hollow where the village of Sunderbund stands,
then crowning the highest hill which overlooks Nus-
sem-ki-Gliun ee, they awaited the arrival of the
second detachment. This consisted of Cooke's
Rifles, with an artillery officer in charge of a supply of
gunpowder bags. They left about midnight, and
after a march of about 15 miles, reached their des-
tination and halted. The third column consisted
of the remainder of Green's Regiment, two mounted
guns under Lieutenant Sladen, and four guns of
the Peshawur mountain train. under Captain
Brougham ; they were commanded by Brigadier
Chamberlain in person. They marched in the
track of the firstLcolunan, and joined it two hours
before daybreak. This last body was followed at
an interval of some miles by two of Bruce's guns
and a detachment of Jacob's Cavalry under Cap-
tain Fraser. They were intended to cover the
descent of the main force down the slope of a
second range of hills. The Brigadier having
pushed on with two mountain train guns and
part of Green's Regiment, left 200 men of the
same corps with guns in the valley behind. The
attack on Nussem-ki-Ghurree was commenced a
little after daybreak, the enemy retiring from the
only tower of any considerable strength on the first
discharge of our artillery ; the village was then set
fire to by the infantry and burned. The village of
Sungur-Ghurre, on the crest of the hills on the
right, had meanwhile been destroyed by Major
Cooke, the enemy retiring before a shot was fired.
The mountaineers had prided themselves on the
impenetrability of their fastnesses and the impreg-
nability of their forts, and so admirable were our
arrangements that they were completely taken by
surprise. The strongholds were all blown up,
four hundred cattle were seized, and the crops
around destroyed. By mid-day the troops were all
on their return, followed by betwixt two or three
hundred of the enemy, on whom our guns were
from time to time directed. The force had suffered
much from heat and want of water. The total
force amounted to about a thousand men, of whom
eleven were killed and seven wounded—the enemy
are supposed to have had twenty-five killed or
wounded. While the British troops were thus
engaged, Khwaja Mahomed, a friendly Kuttuck
chief; entered the hills with some two hundred
men and destroyed several villages to the right of
Major Cooke's column. The village Nussem
was the great rendezvous of the thieves, and as
it was almost inaccessible directly, the garri-
son not calculating on the range of our guns, for-
got that it could be turned. There is yet a strong-
hold in the same direction still deeper in the
mountains, about to bo destroyed so soon as fresh
supplies of ammunition are received. The Santhal
insurrection is dying out. Disturbances at pre-
sent seem quieted in Oude, the malcontents not
being yet quite prepared to hurry on the impend-
ing annexation. All is tranquil throughout British
Burmah ; the Embassy has reached Ava, and
the King has appointed the new moon as the most
auspicious period for their reception. The dis tur-
bance in the Mahee Kaunta, mentioned in our last,
turned out, as we expected, a mere local squabble
of very small account. Mr. Connolly, collector in
Malabar, one of the most able and amiable members
of the service, and who had just been appointed
Provisional Member of Council, has been assassi-
nated in his own house, by a band of fanatic Moplahs.
Troops having been immediately summoned out,
the whole of the assassins, five in number, were
overtaken and destroyed. This is the second time
within these two years that the Madras Govern-
ment has been deprived by sudden death of the
services of the highest talent—just as it was about
to become available—the civil service boasted.
The great Mahomedan festival of the Mohurrum,
when the fanatics often excite themselves lo deeds
of violence, had nearly passed in perfect tran-
quillity, but for the exception Bolarturt affords.