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FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ----Another fatal accident,
resulting from the want of proper regulations in the
passing of trains through tunnels, occur' ed on the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway on Tuesday.
A. heavy coal train was proceeding through Clarborough
tunnel, four miles from Retford, on its way to the south,
followed by a light goods train. The tunnel being full
of steam, the driver of the latter did not perceive the
train before him, and dashed into it. His engine, after
smashing the guard's van to atoms, mounted on the top
of the coal train, and then turned over on its side. The
driver was killed on' the spot, and his body had not been
extricated on Tuesday night. The fireman was taken
up almost lifeless from the scalds and wounds he had re-
ceived. The guard, whose van was smashed, escaped,
he having got out to signal back the approaching train,
and sheltered himself in one of the niches in the side of
the tunnel. It was between three and four h,surs before
a passage could be opened on a single line of rails through
the immense mass of debris caused by the accident, and
the prostrate engine and other obstructions had not been
removed at a late llour on Tuesday night.

We have received by express fnlm Marseilles
despatches from India and China in anticipation of
the overland mail. The following summary of
intelligence is dated Bombay, March 14 :
The last fortnight has been unusually barren of
incident, but the little news there is is good. The
north-west frontier is quieter than it has been for
years, and the Delhi Gazette of the 22d of February
states that " Dost Mahomed has sent Jubbar Khan
as envoy to Major Edwardes, Commissioner of
Peshawur, to beg that bygones be bygones, that
the past should be forgiven, and to declare his
readiness to join us against the Russians, Persians,
and all other comers. The report requires con-
firmation, but it has not been contradicted, and is
not improbable. Dost Mahomed is one of the
shrewdest rulers in Asia ; he is well acquainted
with our power, and he cannot but see that the
policy of the Czar is at least as aggressive as our
own, and that, our troops and magazines, being
much near to Cabul than those of Russia can be
for many years to come, a quarrel with the British
is much more to be dreaded than one with Russia.
A close Affghan alliance would be much more ad-
vantageous to British India than a Persian one, for
were the Affghan passes closed, an invading army
could only enter by those debouchin, on Scinde,
and there it would have the army of Bombay on
its right flank, and that of the Punjab on its left,
and the great Indian desert in its front.
The news from Bunnell is not of so favourable a
character. An insurrection has broken out in the
province of Bassein, which has hitherto been the
only quiet portion of our Burmese acquisitions.
Immediately it was annexed the Commissioner,
'Major Fytch, with the assistance of Capt.. Rennie
of the Indian navy, a party of English seamen, and
his own native levies, cleared the province of the
enemy by a partisan campaign, which forms one of
the few brilliant episodes of the late Burmese war.
Since this no dacoit has dared to show himself in
Major Fytch's districts, cultivation has been unin-
terrupted, and the province is now the granary of
Pegue ; the late outbreak can, therefore, be only
attributed to political motives. A short time since
two Burmese noblemen, who had been formerly
employed in the province, arrived from Ava and
;et up the royal standard near its northern extre-
mity, and collected some hundreds of followers.
Major Fytch immediately went at them, with all
the force he could collect at Bassein, and by the last
accounts had beaten them, after some hard fighting,
in which he had cut down one of the chiefs himself,
hut the Burmese Governor effected his escape, and
was still at large in the jungles with a considerable
force. The withdrawal of the small garrison of
Bassein, which had accompanied the commissioner,
caused disturbances, in the vicinity, and gave rise
to apprehensions cf an attack on the town. Major
Fytch was accordingly summoned, and, on his ar-
rival it was ascertained that a body of the rebels
had been detached to attack the place, and were
within five hours' march of it. His return pre-
vented the attack, and on the following day he
marched against the enemy, whom, according to
the last accounts, he has again beaten. The mail
that left Bassein on :the 22d of January returned
on the 28th, having found the villages on both sides
of the creek, through which it usually passed, in
the hands of the Burmese ; the mails were accord-
ingly despatched by the river to Rangoon. A
company of the 19th Madras Native Infantry,
under the command of Lieutenant Shuldham, 26th
Madras Native Infantry, had fallen in with a strong
body of dacoits on their way to Bassein by water.
Lieutenant Shuldham landed his men, leaving a
native officer with a small party to protect the boats,
and attacked the dacoits and burnt their village,
before reaching which he had to march a long dis-
tance. On his return he found the subadar had
been attacked, but with his small party very gal-
lantly defended himself. A gang of some 200
dacoits, or 'patriots,' as some people are beginning
to call them, were committing outrages in the
southern part of the Dalla district, and four com-
panies of the Pegue Light Infantry had been sent
to look after them, and an armed party was
despatched in boats up the Bassein creek for the
same purpose, but the result of the combined ex-
pedition was not known. An army, under the
direction of the Court of Ava, is said to be ap-
proaching the frontier, and the Chronicle considers
that the end will be the subjugation of the entire
Burmese empire.
Private letters from Tonghoo announce a brush
between a detachment of Burmese regular troops and
our forces stationed there. Considerable loss is
said to have been sustained on both sides, and two
officers of the Ist Madras Fusiliers, Captain Geils
and Lieutenant Grant, were severely wounded.
The contest is said only to have been decided by
the bayonet. The latter collision was occasioned by
an attack on the party which is now engaged under
Major Allen in marking out the British boundary
near Tonghoo. A detachment of the Madras
Fusiliers (Europeans) went out to support them,
Ind routed the enemy after a severe encounter, in
which the latter showed unusual pluck, making a
hand-to-hand fight of it. Both the officers with
the detachment were wounded. According to some
accounts, the attack was not made by Burmese
;oldiers, but by the subjects of au independent
Shah Chief, through whose land our boundary
passes. In consequence of these collisions rumours
of disasters in Burmah became rife in the Calcutta
Bazaar, and' the people were asking, Who has
been killed in Burmah ?' The Bengal Ilurkaru of
the following day endeavoured to allay this appre-
hension :

" We believe that the official reports received from
Rangoon are calculated to set at rest all the apprehen-
sions which were engendered by the vague rumours afloat
yesterday. There has, as far as we can learn, been
neither death nor disaster in Pegue, and certainly no as-
sassination. An attack had begn made upon the party
making out the boundary near Tonghoo, and Captain
Geils and Lieutenant Grant, of the Ist Madras Fusi-
liers, had been wouuned, but no officers had been killed,
and the attacking party was repulsed with great slaugh-
ter. The Bassein outbreak, of which intelligence was
brought by the previous steamer, had been effectually
quelled, and all was quiet in that district."

Making every allowance for the exaggeration of
alarmists, it is evident that little progress has as
yet been made in establishing a state of peace and
security in our Burmese territories. The British
force occupying Pegue is maintained on a war foot-
ing, and is still, I believe, styled "the army of
Ava ;". it consists of 18 regiments of infantry, five
of which are British, 11 of Madras and Bengal
sepoys, and 2 (the Arracan Battalion and Pegue
Light Infantry) local ; 1 regiment of irregular
cavalry, 5 companies of artillery, and 4 of sappers
and miners,—altogether 18,000 or 19,000 men,
with 50 guns. These troops are divided among
five stations—Rangoon, Tonghoo, and Moulmein,
held by the Madras troops ; and Narringan and
Thayet Myoo, occupied by the Bengal portion of
the force. The two local' regiments occupy the
Tharawaddy district ; the garrison of Pegue is a,
detachment from the Rangoon force. The Ton-
ghoo force provides for the defence of Shoy-gyu,
and the Moulmein force furnishes detachments for
Bassein, Sitang, Tavoy, and Mergui.
Some fighting is going on at Abbas Bunder, in
the Persian Gulf. The authorities of that place
have offered to pay tribute to the Shah, but refuse
to allow the Persian troops to enter their town ;
they were accordingly attacked, but the Muscat
authorities immediately sent out three vessels and
2,000 men, under the command of Mahomed Ben
Salem, to the Assistance of Abbas, and large rein-
forcements were to follow. " The Chief of Abon-
jag" was also to render assistance to Abbas. The
Persians had been compelled to retreat, but had
returned with a larger force ; the fighting appears
to have recommenced, for the latest accounts from
Muscat report that distant cannonading had been
heard at sea in passing Abbas. Should the Per-
sians take part with Russia, these feuds may be
turned to some good account.
The trial of Quarter-Master Gillespie, of Her
Majesty's 98th Regiment, for the wilful murder
of his native servant, has commenced.
Colonel Gough, C. 8., and Brigadier-General
Tennant, G.C,8., were dangerously ill—the former
at Baverly, and the latter at Lahore. The head-
quarters of the Bengal Artillery are at length re-
moved from Dumdum, near Calcutta, to Meerut,
near Delhi.

The rapid progress of the Indian electric telegraph
reflects the highest credit on Dr. O'Shaughtiessy
and his staff; the telegraphic communication be-
tween Calcutta and the Punjab frontier at Loo-
diana will probably be completed before this
reaches England. Dr. O'Shaughnessy pledged
himself to the Governor-General to open all the
lines between Calcutta, Delhi, and Bombay, ex-
tending over 3,000 miles, for regular correspon-
dents, in two years from November, 1853, He
has now further pledged himself to the public, in a
letter to the Englishman, to resign his Office and
make room for some better man, if he does not
complete these lines within half the time, and at
20 per cent. under the estimated cost. In the
concluding passage of his letter he states that,

after having had "as extensive opportunities of
observation as any man has yet enjoyed, he knows
the English system of electric telegraph to be the
worst in construction, the worst in organisation,
and the very worst in practical working, of all
those adopted in Europe or America." lam con-
fident that competent persons, acquainted with
the modification of electric telegraphs used . in
America and Germany, will agree with the opinion
thus expressed by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, and I have
often been astonished that the marked inferiority
and enormous comparative cost of the English sys-
tem has not been authoritatively noticed.
Colonel Outram is now at Bombay, but leaves
for Baroda on the 17th inst. The Settanee Jeetab-
' how is dead. Her death having immediately fol-
lowed the reinstatement of her champion in the
Baroda Residency is of course vulgarly 'attributed
to poison ; but, as the Settanee had been indis-
posed for some weeks previously, there do not ap-
pear to be any reasonable grounds for such suspi-
cion.

Lord Elphiustone went, on the morning of March
13, by special train from Bombay to Callian, and
thus opened the railway line as far as that station,!
no train having ever heretofore gone the entire
length of Callian. Traffic along the line will now
commence almost immediately. The extended line
to Shahpore, 16 miles beyond Callian, has been
dommenced.
Lord Elphinstone and the Commander-in-Chief
are still at the Presidency.
Owing to the native holydays the general and
money market is low and dull.