The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our journals and dispatches in
in anticipation.
Oct.of the Overland
ta, Oct. Mail. T 7
; he
Hong-
dates
are—Bombay, 16 ;
song, Sept. 28.
The following is the letter of our Bombay cor-
respondent :

BOMBAY, OCT. 16.

The whole of the first division, mentioned in my
last as under orders to move up to Prome, had
left Rangoon by the 26th September, accompanied
by General Godwin, Admiral Austen, Commodore
Lambert, Sir John Cheape, and Brigadier Elliott,
with nearly all the heads of departments ; Ran-
goon being left in charge of Brigadier-General
Steele. The 80th Foot, mbarked in the small
steamers on the 16th, the 18th Royal Irish betwixt
the 19th and 21st, the native corps, Artillery, and
Sappers, betwixt the 21st and 26th. The admiral
had hoisted his flag in the Pluto ; General Godwin
and the Commodore are in the Prosperine. The
rain poured in torrents during the week ending
26th ult., and it was feared cholera would. break
olat amongst the troops exposed to the weather in
the small steamers. They were to be transhipped
in the Irrawaddy to the larger frigates Sesostris,
Fire Queen, Enterprise, besides the smaller vessels
Pluto, Phlegethon, PrOserpine, Medusa, and Maha-
nuddy, the rendezvous being at Yanchm, Chu-Nah.
The rumour ran that a vast force had been assem-
bled at Prome to give them a warm reception,
while other accounts stated that it was not impro-
ble a messenger from the King of Ava would await
their arrival to make terms. General Godwin
would return. to Rangoon from Prome if all re-
mained quiet, and take up the second division,
under General Steele (the 51st Foot, the 49th, and.
67th Bengal Native Infantry, the 9th Madras Na-
tive Infantry, two companies of sappers, and the
Horse Artillery) about the 15th instant. Whether
they would go up by steam, or overland by Shuy-
gain and Tonghoo, was not known ; but Colonel
Bogle was collecting large numbers of elephants,
bullocks, and carts, at Moulmein. The first divi-
sion expected to reach Prome on the 4th instant, so
that by next mail something exciting may be trans-
mitted khome. It is believed that the annexation

of the province of Pegu will be proclaimed on our
force gaining possession of Prome—a letter being
sent to the King announcing the fact, and once
more offering him terms, which, should he refuse,
he must abide the consequences. The sth M.N.1.,
the head quarters sth battalion Artillery, the Ist
Madras European Fusiliers, and large detachments
for the native regiments, had reached Rangoon.
The detachment 80th Foot from Moulmein had
joined head quarters before they left for Prome.
The Rattler steamer is placed as guardship at
Bassein. The 51st Foot and 9th M.N.I. were to
be relieved from Bassein by the Ist Madras Fusi-
liers and 19th M.N.I. The Ist Bengal European
Fusiliers left Calcutta by the steamers Sphinx,
Feroze, and Moozuffer on the 29th September, and
it is rumoured that the 2d Europeans now on
their way from Agra to Fort William, will follow
them to Rangoon ; if so, there will then be six
European corps in Burmah, viz., the 18th, 51st, and
80th Queen's, and the Ist and 2d Bengal, and Ist
Madras Fusiliers—close on 6,000 men, I should sup-
pose. Dr. Morgan, of her Majesty's frigate Fox,
died at Rangoon, of cholera, on the 23d September.
There are now in the Burmese waters the following,
vessels : Her Majesty's ship, Hastings ; her Ma-
jesty's frigate, Fox ; her Majesty's frigate Win-
chester; her ajesty's steamer, Sphinx ; her Ma-
jesty's steamer, Rattler • Honourable Company's
steamers Feroze, Moozuffer, Sesostris Zenobia,
Berenice, Nemesis, Hugh Lindsay, Fire Queen,
Pluto, Phlegethon, Proserpine, Medusa, Mahal
nuddy, Enterprise, and a couple of other smaller
ones ; the schooners Spy, Ann, and Henzie Queen;
with upwards of twenty-five transports. Two new
ships, the Granville and Hougoumont, of 700 and
981 tons, were launched at Moulmein, and a steam
frigate named the Malacca, is being built for the
royal navy. It was rumoured that a body of 40,000
Burmans intended attacking Rangoon on the night
of the 30th or 31st ult., they having heard of the
departure of the first division of our troops for
Prome. The story was looked upon as a very un-
likely one, but all proper precautions had neverthe-
less been taken to prevent surprise and to give the
fools a warm reception should they attempt to mo-
le* ,us. A strong party of marines and sailors
from the Winchester had been put on board the '
surveying brig Krishna, lying off a place called
Duzendawn, where the ex-governor of Pegu had
taken refuge, as a party of Burmans from Pegu had
threatened to attack the "Afton and. him
A number of Burmese havin taken up a position
in a village not far from Martaban,' several boats
were dispatched from the Zenobia steamer and
schooner Pegu to put them to the rout. The fol-
lowing account of the operation is copied from the
Maulmain Times of the 13th September :—A Ran-
goon correspondent of a Calcutta paper, evidently
no,wing nothing of the affair, would have people
believe " the Bombay officer" in command of the
Zenobia butchered poor unoffending people of the
country for want of something else to do.
AUGUST 31, 1852.—The boats of the Hon. Com-
pany's steam-frigate Zenobia proceeded about 28
miles above Martaban to reconnoitre, having re-
ceived information that 300 of the enemy were en-
camped at a village named Ketturbee. The boats
arrived in company with the schooner Pegu abreast
of the village, about half-past 4 p.m., on the Ist of
September, the second cutter was ordered to pull
a-head of the other boats, and endeavoured to ob-
tain the strength of their position : she had not
proceeded far before the Burmese opened a sharp
fire with jingalls and muskets, which was quickly
returned from the cutter, pinnace, and schooner.
The Burmese kept it up with great spirit, and the
direction of their fire was very good ; first they
fired a continuation of jingall balls, and then
knocked out of their houses, and fired volleys of
musketry. at the boats and schooner. About forty
minutes elapsed before they slackened their fire,
when the Zenobia's second cutter and pinnace
pulled for the stockade, landed and burnt the vii- i
lage to the ground. An immense quantity of am-
munition was found and destroyed ; the explosions
from the ball cartridge making it exceedingly dan-
gerous for the men getting fire to the houses. The
stockade abreast of the river was about 300 yards
in length, about 10 feet high, and about 3 feet thick,
with a trench cut inside. The stockade contained
300 men, and if properly handled would have taken
a much greater force to have reduced it. We have
every reason to believe a greater number were
killed. Owing to the boats landing the men so
quickly, the Burmese had not time to drag away
the whole of their killed, and wounded. The sphe-
rical case shell fired by the artillerymen of the Ze-
nobia, on board the Pegu, must have done great exe-
cution, as it was seen to burst in among crowds of
men, the boats were wily riddled with musket balls,
ti/ c. , but fortunately not a single man was hurt ; the
schooner's crew had some remarkable escapes, her
gunner's hat was shot through with a jingall ball,
and immediately afterwards the sleeve of his coat
was torn away. The schooner's mainboom was shot
through in one or two places, both jib guns, and
some of her running rigging. The boats of the
Zenobia returned on Wednesday evening to their
ship, and the schooner Pegu to her anchorage off
the el-00c. The fatigue and exposure that both
officers and sailors underwent, was very great, the
men being on their oars nearly the whole of the
time, and constantly wet through. Mr. Boudvill
was also present with his boats, Nos. 1,5, and 9,
and rendered great assistance. Eighteen canoes
were captured in all.
There has been very little news from the Punjaub
since my last. One of the few chiefs on the fron-
tier who remained true to us, having thereby drawn
0„.11 himself and his tribe the enmity of the hill
ti,',beß, who were said to be about pouncing on him,
ru. applied for protection, and it was believed a
force would r doutfromPeshawur to his
assistance. _ p ocee
at Lahore _ Sir H. Lawrence was expected back
eson had on the 2nd or 3rd inst. Colonel Mack-
The 43ica: t returned to Peshawur at latest dates.
little. 1,1 in the country had diminished but
reached BombSaeinde not a word of intelligence has
repeating. ThYo since dispatch of last mail worth
hourly expected steamer with news to the 12th is
from bad to vi-„,so ii:ll.Watters continue to progress
eightthe Nizam's dominions. The
Contingent are
Izonths in arrear of wages,
with at present small
of receiving their pay
from the Nizam's govent'sentvind
our
own
appa-
rently have no notion of do*
Party squabbles run higheAgatt.
e needful for them.
!he capital, but
distracts rival overt
we interfere not. In the
nors think nothing of having a ay at
for the fun of the thing. The Governeat_Goteher, just
mains alWalcutta, in "royal seclusion," as ore of ral -
papers has it. His Lordship does not wish, to
be pes_
e
tered personally by every one who think,
Re has
claims to any vacant appointment, and h
there-
fore directed that all
glashall be
apptlica,tions for suchas
throu
made officially, in
secretary. This seems to inhag_ve given offencePtrieve
his exciu-
Ditchers, who accordingly call out about the
her sojourn in the
:S1 aiveiliiit. The Marchioness of Dalhousie is said to
IlaT der- great benefit from
de. Sir W. Gomm has, after all, as if
quid wanes, gone to Chence, to spend
in quiet away from
Simla. The 10th
ve Infantry had reached Calcutta for
i for Burmah. The 2d European Fusi
'ailY expected. The young chief
of Dhul-
ex-Mahara Lahore—a
J
boy of
age, who has, since our annexation of
the country of the Five Rivers, been under charge.
of Dr. Login—has, it is said, embraced Christianity
in private, and will soon do so in public. He has

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