The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by extraordinary express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our correspond-
ence and files of newspapers from India and China.
The dates are—Calcutta, Oct. 18 ; Bombay, Oct.
28 ; Madras, Oct. 22 ; and China, Oct. 11.
The following is a list of passengers by the Hon.
Company's steamer Acbar to Suez and Bombay :
Mrs. Glasse, Mrs. Trevelyan, and a child, and two
native servants ; his Highness, Meer Jaffer Ali Khan,
Bahadoor of Surat, and Mirza Ali Acbar Khan, Baha-
door, with seven native servants ; Mrs. Fuljames, and a
child of Mr. Stewart under five years, and a native ser-
vant ; Captain R. H. Fenwick, A. M. Murray, Esq.,
Brevet Captain C. F. North, Major and Mrs. Brooks,
Captain K. Jopp, J. G. Lumsden, Esq., and a native.
servant; and E. Elsam, Esq. Second class—Cumroodm.
To Aden—Joosub bin Abdool Khaluchk.

(From the Overland Bombay Times, Oct. 28.)
GENERAL SIIMMARY.—We are in the receipt of
intelligence from Burmah up to the Bth instant,
and although there is not much in the shape of news
to be detailed, yet the atrocities by the Dacoits
had not diminished. It is supposed by those most
capable of forming a correct judgment, that as
soon as the waters of the Irrawaddy fall, the Bur-
mese will take advantage of the subsidence, and
attack us in force. The real ruler at Ava is the
Prime Minister, the brother of the King ; and
neither he nor his party make, it is said, any dis-
guise of their hostile intentions. One of the causes
alleged for the immense increase of the dacoits in
the neighbourhood of Pegu is, that the last harvest
of the ryots was not gathered in in consequence of
our presence, and that therefore these poor people
have been driven ex necessitate to plunder ; it is a
pity if such be the case, but it is cheering to know
that next season will remedy it. The two Jesuits
who were associated with the Burmese commissioners
in the conferences held at Prome for the signing of
the treaty have arrived at Rangoon. Their state-
ments confirm all that has been hitherto alleged
regarding matters at Ava. The King is surrounded
with a war party, so powerful as to deprive him of
independent action, and a tacit consent has been
wrung from him to permit hostilities to be renewed
with us ; consequently warlike preparations are
being carried on extensively at Ava, and December
or January next is the period fixed upon to attack
us. The Ministers state that by that time the
Irrawaddy will be too low to admit of large steamers
navigating it, and that without their aid the
British forces cannot cope with the Burmese.
Sir John Cheape will evidently soon have an oppor-
tunity of distinguishing himself. The French Cap-
tain d'Oorguny is still employed drilling the Bur-
mese. Latest accounts mention that a serious dis-
turbance has broken out in the, gaol at Rangoon,
but particulars have not yet been received. The
murderer of Colonel Mackeson was hung at Pesha-
war on the Ist inst., and. his body afterwards
burned, the ashes being thrown into a dirty water-
course. The natives did not attend the execution,
it being considered among them unholy to stand
tamely by and see a champion of the faith put to
death, and not attempt a rescue. The Ackhoon of
Swat, on hearing of the execution of his disciple,
and the indignity shown to his remains, made what
is called " Waz" in his mosque, reading from a
religious Mahomedan work a certain selection which
showed that all the faithful going to Mecca, whe-
ther perishing by shipwreck or by fire at sea, are
immediately received into Paradise, and so the
assassin of the Feringee Mackeson having been
put to death whilst engaged on a purer mis-
sion than a pilgrimage to Mecca, has been taken
to the abode of the faithful. It is also said
that the Ackhoon told his disciples that the ashes
of his martyred follower, although thrown into a
canal by us, will be turned into antimony and
used by the -louris in paradise. As for the mur-
derer himself, he remained silent, and has im-
plicated no one ; he laughed and joked with his
guards to the latest moment of his life, and passed
into the next world, sustained and buoyed up to
the last with all that false and fatal security which
the wretched doctrines of Islamism engender.
Matters on our North-West frontier still continue
portentous, and troops have been moved to Pesha-
wur ; there has, however, been as yet no open de-
monstration, but the want of organisation, and of
a leader whom they all can recognise, alone form
the grave objections to the hill tribes taking the
initiative. Reports of an intended disturbance
were rife at Rawul Pindee, and great fears seem
to have been entertained of an outbreak ' • of
course the plunder of the cantonment was the
fons et origo of the intended incursion ; but
the capture of Nadir Khan, the leader o the
insurgents, reassured the timid and convinced
them that there was nothing to fear, and as
troops have since been withdrawn from the canton-
ments, we may reasonably conclude that all is
quiet, at least for the present. It is said, how-
ever, that the Governor General has expressed
himself very warmly regarding the measures
adopted ix the not th-west, which he considers to
have excited needless alarm, and that lie has ad-
ministered a " wigging " to the authorities at Pe-
shawur.
Mr. John Colvin, late judge of the Sudder
Adawlut, and commissioner for the Tenassarim
Provinces, &c., has been appointed Lieutenant
Governor of the North-West Provinces, in the
place of the late Mr. Thomason. This appoint-
ment appears to have given general satisfaction,
and we make no doubt of his realising the high
hopes entertained of him. Some disturbances have
taken place in Allygurh, Moradabad, &c., attended
with slight loss of life, but such are always to
be expected during the Mussuhnan Mohurrum,
and the outbreaks, or rather fights we allude to,
were all in honour of Hassein and Hoossein. In
Lucknow matters are precisely in the same state
as they were at the date of our last summary, the
only item of intelligence to record being that Colonel
Sleeman had been fired at, providentially without
effect, by some religious'bigot during the Mohurrum,
who has escaped. No details have yet transpired,
but it is generally thoughtjthat a mere outburst of
fanaticism, consequent on the celebration of the
Mohurrum, occasioned the attempt. It is with
deep regret that we announce the death by drown-
ing of the family of Mr. Arthur Malet, the chief
secretary to the Bombay Government. Mr. Malet
left Bombay to join the right honourable the
Governor at Mahabuleshwur, in the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steamer Achilles,
which conveyed him en route as far as the
entrance of the River Mhar, where he re-em-
barked in a native boat manned with the syrang,
and a part of the crew of the commodore's barge
sent out for his accommodation. It was supposed
that these men were well acquainted with the
navigation of the river, but unfortunately the boat
struck on a rock at the entrance of the bar, at
seven in the evening, and became a total wreck.
Melancholy to relate, Mrs. Malet, her daughter,
and two native servants were drowned, together
with most of the crew. Mr. Malet himself seems
to have been saved by a miracle, being washed
to the shore with one of the planks of the wrecked
boat, to which he had clung. This melancholy
catastrophe has cast a gloom over society, as a
more sudden severance from life and all its joys
has seldom bseierneyvitnessed. The intelligence of
the death of
with general sorrow
all were
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prepared Indi a
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in r;nde, for the purr.
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over by ere, the commis-
cs(i)enTriclieration the best means o recordingseofta,,ktinhge eisuttio-
mation in which the late general was held. The
expected advent of Lord Elphinstone as Governor
in Bombay is hailed with delight • any change in
the presidentship of the Bombay Council would at
the present moment prove acceptable, but the
name of Elphinstone has many charms for the in-
habitants of Western India. We have but little ,
more to detail ; her Majesty's Bth Regiment
has
roedb
been transferred to the Bengal establishment and troop
ordered to proceed to Agra. The sof the
y standLfoarsdt
r
Horse Artillery have been oelrdire
until next year, so that the relief ordered t
rde
Frederick Fitzclaronce will not take place in this
particular branch of the service. There is also ato proceed
rumour that her Majesty's 64th Foot is p
to Peshawur. His Excellency holds his military
camp at Poonah, ala Chobham, next month. The
new Mercantile Bank gets on flourishingly, and if
one may deduce future from its present success it
will prove an extremely happy speculation.
A committee assembled yesterday on board the
steamer Ajdaha, and it is expected that she will

be condemned, having been found on inspection

rotten fore and aft. Meer Jaffer, Ali Khan son-in

law of th.. late Mawab of Surat, goes to England
this day; to support his claims against an alleged
unjust division of the property of the late Nawab

of -Surat. Trade is slack, hat the money market

is easy,

( Front the Overland Bengal Burkaru, Oct. 18.)
Public attention, which has hitherto been
absorbed by the affairs of Burmah, has sud-
denly been drawn towards another quarter—
the North-Neat. The intelligence which has
been received during the last ten days is ex-
ceedingly unsatisfactory, for although it appears
that the alarm created by the movements among
the hill tribes has needlessly been exaggerated still
it shows that something is brewing and that we
cannot keep too watchful an eye over the proceed-
ings of those troublesome hordes, who already have
criven us a great deal of annoyance,
and whom
nothing but a decisive blow will bring into submis-
sion. It, been supposed that Colonel Macke-
.
son's murder was only the prelude to more tragical