The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1853.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND
MIDLAND RAILWAYS. •
CROXTON PARK RACES, Tuesday ant Wedwday, sth and
6th of April, 1853, Passengers will be Booked from London to Melton
and back, on the above days, by the Train leaving Euston Station at
6.0 a in. Tickets Issued on the sth will be available for returning
either on the same day, or on the 6th.
FARES FROM LONDON TO MELTON AND BACK.
FIRST CLASS. i SECOND CLASS.
235. Od. 17s 6d.
Omnibuses wit leave Melt n for Croxton Park on the arrival of
the Train, and will leave C oxton Park, in returning, in time for a
train from Melton at 6.45 p.m.
Fares from Ma on to Croxton Park and back, 53.
By Ord..r.
Derby, March 28, 1853.

STEAM 10 AUSTRALIA.

ENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING

COMPANY.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That this Company's Auxiliary Iron
Screw Steam-:Lip AIVIO, 1,850 tons, George Hyde, Commander, will
leave Southampton fur i.oRT PHILIP and SYDNEY on i 4 EDNES-
DAY, the 4th of May next.
The accommodation is of a superior descrip ion, and the cabins are
fully furnit•hed. Tht rates of passage money—After abin, first
class, 80%; Fore Cabin, second elev. 501. These rates are exclusive
of wines, beer, and spiritu us liquors, which, however, may be had
on beard at moderate prices. The ship will carry an experienced
surgeon.
Applications for passage to be made at the Company's Offices, 2,
Royal Exchange-buildb.gs ; and for freight and parcels, to Messrs.
Balfour, Laming, and Owen, 16, St. Mary-axe.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER MINING
COMPANY.
The Committee of Management HEREBY GIVE NoncE, that, in
pursuance of the Resolution of the Board of 17th December last,
they have allotted the remaining unappropriated Shares of the
Company among the Holders of such Shares as were Registe ed in
the Cost Book in the Mon h of January last pursuant to Notice, and
stamped with the Red Stamp. Such allotment is in the proportion
of Two Shares for every Five Shares so Registered and Stamped.
The Letters of Allotment will be issued at the Oillces of the Com-
Tany on Production-Of the sharers° Registered and Stamped, on or
befc•re SATURDAY, the 16th day of April, 1883 ; after which the right to
claim such Allotment will be
By codsidered as forfeited.
Order of the Board.
J. THOMPSON, Chairman.
Offices, 17, Gracechurch-street, 29th March, 1853.

THE MOUNT CARBON CHARTERED
COAL and IRON COMPANY, Fayette County, Virginia,

U.S.
The Company being Incorporated by Charter from the State Legis-
lature, no liability will be attached to the Shareholders beyond
the amount of shares.
Capital 1^0,0001., in 150,000 parts of li. each (of which 60,000/.
will be held in shares by the proprietors as part purchase of the
property), to be paid in full on allotment, without further call or
liability

OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by extraordinary express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our private cor-
respondence, and journals from Bombay to the Ist
March ; Calcutta, 19th Feb.; and Hong-Kong,
China, 11th Feb.

BOMBAY, MARCH 1.
The news from Burmah is up to the 14th Feb-
By the last mail, intelligence of an expedition of
boats under Captain Loch, of the Winchester,
being about to proceed after a notorious freebooter
and his followers, was dispatched to England. By
this opportunity it becomes our melancholy duty to
have to record the unfortunate termination of this
affair. It would appear that after disembarking at
Donnabeau, the force under Captain Loch was en
trapped into a heavy jungle. Here the enemy
made a determined stand, and being under cover,
whilst our . troops were exposed, they, by their
heavy fire, obliged the latter to withdraw to their
boats. Amongst those killed were the gallant
leader—George Grenville Loch (son of Mr. James
Loch, who sat many years for the Wick Boroughs
in Scotland) ; Lieutenant Kennedy, of. the Royal
Navy, belonging to her Majesty's ship Fox ; and
Captain Price, of the 67th Bengal Native Infantry.
The grenadier company of the latter regiment be-
haved most gallantly, covering the retreat of the
whole force. The remains of Captain Loch were
brought down to Rangoon by the Phlegethon, and.
were interred with military honourg. ou the morn-
ing of the Bth of February. His body was laid by
the side of poor young Dorin, of the 18th Royal
Irish, on the upper terrace of the Dagon pagodas
Three of our guns were left behind in the hands of
the enemy. It is stated in private letters from
Burmah that the guide of poor Captain Loch's
force had played us false. The following extract
of a letter to the Bombay Times gives a full ac-
count of this most unfortunate affair
_

"Captain Loch, R.N., with a force of one nundred
and eighty seamen and marines of her Majesty's ships
Fox, Winchester, and Sphinx, together with 350 out of
the 67th Bengal Native Infantry, under Major Minchin,
attacked Mea Toon on the 3d February, at a place fifteen
miles from Donnabeau. They were met at one of the
outworks of the stronghold, thrown up on the bank of a
steep nullah, by the Dacoits, repulsed and driven back
with a loss of two guns, their baggage, two officers and
fifteen men killed and left on the field, and about seventy
men wounded, who were brought off. During the whole
of the retreat they were hard pressed by the enemy, land
had much difficulty in bringing off the wounded. Cap-
tain Loch was among the wounded, and has since died,
as well as several others who were brought off ; some
are wounded in three or four places. The Dacoits were
concealed in the trees and thick jungle, and scarcely one
was seen. It has thrown quite a gloom over the place.
" An expedition, naval and military, the former under
the command of Captain Loch, C. 8., the latter under
Major Minchin, 67th Bengal Native Infantry, was formed
for the purpose of attacking Meer Toon,' the celebrated
bandit chief, who had esconced himself in a stronghold
some fifteen miles inland, from Donabew.' The naval
brigade was 140 strong, composed of the men and boats
of her Majesty's ships Winchester, Fox, and Sphinx.
The military force consisted of the sepoys of the 67th
Bengal Native Infantry, about 350 strong. About the
Ist Feb. they arrived at Donabew ; on the 3d, after a
fatiguing mach, the guides told Captain Loch they were
in front of an outpost of the enemy. At this time the
jungle was very dense, and the path so narrow, that two
men could not walk abreast ; scarcely had the guides
done speaking, when a tremendous fire was opened on
them—Lieutenant Kennedy, Ist of the Fox, was shot
dead,- as also several men ; Captain Loch then waved his
sword and shouted to the men to follow him, when down
he fell, shot dead—the ball drove his watch into his in-
testines. I should never finish writing the disasters that
befel, if I were to enumerate each and every particular,
sufficient to say, the force was driven back with the fol-
lowing loss :—Two guns (spiked), Captain Lock killed,
Lieutenant Kenedy killed (left on the field). Officers
wounded : J. X. Bushnell, lieutenant, Winchester ; H.
A. Hinde, mate, Winchester, severely (right hand and
left arm ; C. F. Wilson, mate, Winchester, very se-
verely (through the neck) ; Lieutenant Glover, of the
Sphinx, severely under the eye. Seamen and marines
killed, five (two left dead on the field) ; seamen and
marines wounded, almost all severely, many in three or
four places, 43.
Total officers and men killed
Ditto wounded 5l

declared the successor of his father through in-
trigues in the Zenana. The rightful heir is Hajee
Mahomed, who has until lately been imprisoned by
his illegitimate brother, but is now at liberty, and,
at the head of a considerable force, is endeavouring
to regain his rights. Five hundred miles of the
Bhawulpore territory borders upon our north-west
frontier, and this flame once lighted in a land
where thousands of the disturbed Khalsa soldiers
are without employment, will, it is to be feared,
give employment to our troops from Mooltan and
Shikarpoore.
In the Punjaub and North-west provinces all is
at present quiet.
The Nizam's country is, as usual, in a disturbed
state. The Governor-General has written a letter
tolls Highness, to the effect that the present state
of affairs cannot be allowed to continue. The state
of the kingdom of Oudh is very little better than
that of the Deccan, and popular report has it that
Lord Dalhousie will, if he remains another year in
India, annex the dominions of Oudh to the British
territory. It is confidently asserted that such will
be done at the express desire and wish of the King
himself.
At Madras the European and native inhabitants
are getting up a testimonial to the late Duke of
Wellington. Sir. Henry Pottinger, Sir Charles
Rawlinson, and Sir Richard Armstrong have each
put their names down for very large amounts.
In Bombay the question of-the overland mail
arrangements is exciting a considerable degree of
public attention.
The Governor-General is still at Calcutta, al-
though we expect to hear of his having started for
Arracan every day. Sir Henry Pottinger is at
Madras, and Lord Falkland at Bombay. Lord
Frederick Fitzclarence is severely indisposed at the
presidency—he is suffering from gout and a swelling
of the head and face. The Great Indian Peninsu-
lar Railway is to be opened from Bombay to Tannah
on Saturday, the 2d of April, by his lordship the
Governor, and on Monday, the 4th, the line will
be opened for passenger traffic to Tannah. The
goods trains will not commence running until Oc-
tober next—after the rainy season is over.
The state of trade has not improved since the
departure of the last mail ; in fact, rather the re-
verse. This depression may be accounted for partly
by the decline in the rate of exchange, and by the
number of previous purchases.
The rates of exchanged declined to 2s. Old. per
rupee for Baring's credit, but have since advanced
to 2s. Oid. ; but local bills, 2s. id. to 2s. lid. and
for bills secured by shipping documents, s. lid.
to 2s. lid.
Freights are still high at 3/. 17s. 6d. to 4/. per
ton.
But little business has been done in cotton, as
the new crop from the north has not yet come for-
ward. Omerawutty and Dhollera has been sold at
Rs. 95 to 97 per candy.
There has been a fearful conflagration at Ran-
goon. A correspondent writing to the Hurkaru
says that " Rangoon is a place of desolation and
death just now. The dockyard buildings and
others to a very considerable extent, have been
completely destroyed by fire ; while the small-pox
is causing havoc as great among living beings.
The appearance of prosperity and improvement
which so lately marked this place is now succeeded
by barrenness and misery. Captain Sparks is doing
all to restore the inhabitants to something like the
comforts which they have lost, but one man can do
little under such circumstances. One of the con-
sequences of the fire is that somehow or another it
has thrown the whole of the official arrangements
into a state of confusion."

( From the Overland Bombay Summary, March 1.)
We gave in our last intelligence from Burmah,
down to the 26th January, at which date expedi.
tions had been dispatched to the neighbourhood of
Donabew in pursuit of the marauders, and General
Steele was making a sweep round Pegu. The
rumour that the last-named officer had suffered a
reverse proves groundless • and we have now tid-
ings .of considerable importance down to the 14th
of February. Peace counsels continue in the
ascendant at Ava, the ruler whose insolence occa-
sioned the rupture is in the hands of his brother,
who administers affairs in his stead. Commission-
ers were on their way from the capital to meet us,
and to arrange terms of peace such as we should
dictate. It was said that we insisted on having
Alien of the highest rank, if not the Sovereign him-
self, to deal with, before we would condescend to
treat—a wise determination. It is only through
their own humiliation that barbarians can be con-
vinced of the power of their enemies. It was at
the same time believed that our aid would be
applied for by one of the contending factions
against the other so uniform is the course of ,
events in the East. Though the war was thus over,
so far as the Sovereign was concerned, we were
engaged in constant conflicts with the robber
bands infesting the country ; more formidable to
us than our encounters with the regular army.
The chief who so annoyed our troops at Pegu
has surrendered himself to General Steele, and is
by this time in our hands at Martaban. The
steamer Phlegethon, with a body of seamen and
marines, dispatched against the robber chief Mea
Toon, found it impossible to effect anything, and
returned without results. Three hundred of the
67th Bengal Native Infantry, under command of
Major Minchiu, with a strong naval force under
Captain Loch, were now dispatched on a second
expedition, when they got inveigled into the
jungle, and wont up a long narrow creek, were
fired upon from behind the banks by the enemy,
and were compelled to withdraw in haste, under
cover of the sepoys. Captain Loch and Lieut.
Kennedy, of the Royal Navy, under Captain Price,
of the 67th, having fallen, three of our guns were
left behind. It was relieved the guide had played
us false. An expedition had meanwhile been
sent up the Bassein river, under Capt. Rennie, of
the Sesostris, which proved eminently successful,
and was attended by the most brilliant results.
The men, with three guns, having landed, under
Captain Rennie, pushed across the country in
pursuit of the enemy, whom they managed to
bring to bay, and at the distance of 50 yards
met them with such a discharge of grape and
cannister as to lay 50 of them on the plain, at
once scattering the rest in all directions. The
Governor General is said to have selected Cape
Negaris, a place long celebrated as a sanitarium,
in place of Rangoon, as our future shipping port.
We mentioned in our last the gallant capture of
the stockade which obstructed the Aeng Pass ;
this has since then been garrisoned by a hundred
men from the 68th Native Infantry, under Captain
Barclay, and a similar number from the Arracan
Local Battalion. The position is nearly 5,000 feet
above the level of the sea, and so cold at night that
blankets are required to be sent to the men. It
looks down, on the one side, on the Bay of Bengal;
from the other, a vast stretch of the basin of the
Irrawaddy is visible. Since then the Tunghoo Pass
had been seized and garrisoned by us, and this re-
duces the communication between Proms and the
coast, through the mountain ridges and plains of
Arracan, to three days. A detachment of the 18th
Royal Irish, under Major Edwards, has been dis-
patched from Proms to form a junction with Major
Maling, advancing from the other side. They were
expected to meet on the 27th, and a daily post was
thereafter to be established with Calcutta. All the
Royal troops had retired from the neighbourhood
of our outposts, and fallen back on Ava, with a
view, as was supposed, 'of sharing in the domestic
dissensions in progress around the capital, or defend-
ing the frontier from the attacks with which it is
said to be threatened from the eastward. Rangoon
had been visited by a tremendous conflagration.,
which had nearly swept away the building yards,
the commissariat, and a large portion of the town.
The city has from its foundation been subject to in-
cessant fires, and will probably now be rebuilt by
us, with some material less inflammable than wood.
Small-pox was committing sad ravages amongst the
inhabitants, and the introduction of vaccination
will probably be one of the first of the great
blessings they will experience at the hands of the
British Government. We subjoin some extracts
from letters just received from Rangoon. A deadly
feier rages along the north-west frontier of the
Punjaub, which, so far as the enemy is concerned,
is at present in the enjoyment of unusual tranquil-
lity. The Maharajah of Gwalior has come of age,
and splendid festivities are being arranged in con-
templation of the event. The great commissariat
contractor, Lalla Jotee Pursaud, has resolved to
expend 10,0001. on the construction of a building
for the accommodation of pilgrims at Saugor. The
weather at Bombay has become unusually hot for
March, the atmosphere being muggy, hot, and dis-
agreeable. The Governor is still at the Presidency,
as is also the Commander-in-Chief ; the latter is
suffering severely from swelling in the face. Both
are expected to proceed a fortnight hence to the
highlands of Mahabuleshwar. The Governor-
General is in Arracan, Sir H. Pottn ger at Madras.
The Commander-in-Chiefi of India is inspecting the
troops in the North-West Provinces. The Bombay
Railway is expected to be opened on the 4th of
April, Trade continues prosperous ; the shares;