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THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

We have received our despatches from India, China,
and Australia, by the overland mail. The dates are :
Calcutta, Feb. 19 ; Madras, Feb. 24 ; Bombay, Feb.
28 ; Shanghai, Feb. 4 ; Hong Bong, Feb. 11 ' • Sydney,
Jan. 25 ; Melbourne, Jan. 30 ; Adelaide, Feb. 2.

The following is from the summary of the Bombay
Times of Feb. 28 :

The intelligence which has come to hand from all parts
of India since the date of our last summary is of no mo-
ment. Burmah continues to be invested with dacoits,
and the district of Bassein is particularly disturbed by
them. There seems no doubt that this system of dacoity,
which is almost identical with guerilla warfare, has been
substituted for active operations by the Court of Ava,
who have been induced to adopt it at the recommenda-
tion of Captain (now General) D'Orgoni, the French
officer who has recently been drilling the Burmese
troops. We may now, however, hope that matters will
speedily be settled, as the general is on his way to Paris,
where his presence is demanded by the French Govern-
ment, to answer certain charges preferred against him
by the British minister. Prior to his departure from
Ava Captain D'Orgoni was elevated to the dignity of
Bogie, and made a general of the highest rank, by the
monarch of the Golden Foot. The ceremony came off
at the "Palace of Gold," all the nobility being present
on the occasion, and his Majesty, addressing Captain
D'Orgoni, most courteously told him that he had that
day been called to the Royal presence, in order to be in-
vested with titles which had never before been conferred
upon any European of any nation. A herald then react
the edict, setting forth the reasons which induced his
Majesty to confer such high dikfiity ¶upon a French
gentleman, and proclaimed him D'Orgoni Neh-Myo
The-ee-zah-ah, which, translated into English, means
" D'Orgoni, cousin of the Emperor, a man of handsome
appearance, and an unconquerable general." Three
golden vessels filled with silver were then presented
to the general, and the ceremony ended. Nothing what-
ever has transpired relative to the assassination of Capt.
Latter, nor have the proceedings of the court of inquiry,
which assembled to investigate the circumstances which
led to his murder, been published. The brevet for ser-
vices during the Burmese campaign has recently been
published by the Governor-General ; and we are sorry
to add that it is not generally considered to be as exten-
sive as it ought. Among the list of those on whom
honours and promotions have been conferred, it is with
regret we observe the omission of the name of Dr.
Montgomerie, the superintending surgeon attached to
the expedition. It would seem that the old leaven still
exists which excludes medical officers of the British army
and navy from those honours and distinctions which are
so justly their due, and which foreign Governments so
liberally bestow on their medical staff. In action, and
during those dreadful outbreaks of disease, the medical
men in Burmah performed their duty with that zeal and
fearlessness which so often characterise their profession,
and we say it advisedly that the exclusion from honours
of so meritorious and distinguished an officer as Dr.
Montgomerie was a slight to the entire body of medical
officers. It is now many years since the Austrian
Government wished to confer on Dr. Montgomerie an
order for his humanity in attending the officers and
crew of an Austrian vessel of war during a severe
visitation of cholera in Singapore, and it is said
on that occasion our Government refused to allow
him to accept it. When we mention we are indebted
to Dr. Montgomerie for the introduction of gutta percha,
(for which he has only been rewarded with a gold
medal,) we believe it will be allowed that he has
done more towards the advancement of civilisation

than the so called military occupation of half a dozen
Pegues. In Persia, as far as is known, matters continue
tranquil, but Government, for reasons best known to it-
self, vigilantly guards against any trustworthy informa-
tion being promulgated. No sooner had the Auckland
arrived with despatches from the Gulf, than a report was
circulated that the utmost peace and tranquillity pre-
vailed, and up to the departure of the last overland mail
it gained credence; but on the 16th inst. the Hon. Com-
pany's steamer Acbar sailed for the Gulf with sealed or-
ders. We of course cannot undertake to say upon what
special service she has proceeded, but prior to her de-
parture she took in all her stores and ammunition, and
mounted all her heavy guns. A small detachment of
European artillery also proceeded on board of her. A
gentleman, writing to us from Bushire, says, everything
in Persia seems tranquil outwardly, .but it is rumoured
that the politicals have discovered something which they
take the most stringent means to keep secret. We can-
not, however, place any reliance on the report that the
Acbar is likely to be actively engaged, and we incline to
the belief that the force and munitions of war which she
has on board aro intended to fortify some place, Karrick
perhaps. For had government believed her likely to be
actively engaged with an enemy, she would never, or
ought never to have been deepatched. The Acbar is rot-
ten fore and aft. When taking: on hspiiid her heavy re-
volving guns one of them went through the planks of her
deck, and were it not that her coals were nearly up to her
beams the piece of ordnance would havegone to the kelson
and not improbably through her bottom. To send such a
vessel to contend in close action with an enemy would be
criminal, as had she to fire all her guns at once she
would prove her own destroyer, and would literally blow
herself to pieces. The misunderstanding between the
English chargé d'affaires and the Persian ministers was
owing to a dispute concerning the rights of a private
individual who claimed our protection as a British
subject. Mr. Thomson at first did not succeed, and
lowered his flag in consequence ; upon which Prince
Dolgorouki, thinking it too good an opportunity to let
pass by, attempted to widen the breach by offering to
remit a crore of tomauns from the debt Persia owes his
master, provided the Shah would immediately send a
force of 30,000 men to attack Bagdad. The firmness of
Mr. Thomson in the end conquered, and amicable rela-
tions at present exist. No accounts have reached us re-
lative to the treaty said to be about being entered into
by Dost Mahomed, the Khan of Bokhara, and the Rus-
sian general at Khiva ; but it is said that the troops on
our north-west frontier are to be materially increased,
and that a reserve force is to be formed at Umballa on
Ferozepore. An anti-infanticide meeting, supplementary
to the recent meeting at Umritsur, has been held at
Mooltan. The natives, we are happy to add, readily
agreed to enter into arrangements similar to those agreed
to at Umritsur. Other meetings, for a like purpose, are
to be held at different cities, and we trust ere long we
shall have the pleasing task to record the crime of infan-
ticide in the Punjaub among the things that were. We
regret to state that in Lucknow matters have undergone
no improvement. A correspondent writing to the
Englishman, under date the Bth instant, says, under the
Government of the present ruler, Wajid Ally Shah,
whose apathy is ruinous to himself, the office of treasurer
is almost a sinecure. The financial affairs of the ruling
King and his country have been plunged into such
hopeless embarassment that scarcely any amount of
economy will ever redeem them. From Futtyghur
we learn with sorrow the death at that station, on
the 7th inst., of Colonel Mountain, C. 8., Adjutant-
General of her Majesty's forcos in the East Indies.
His death was caused by typhus fever, and he is lamented
by all who knew him. The post vacant by his demise
has been conferred upon Colonel Lugard, pending the
orders of the Horse Guards. His Honour the Lieu-
tenant Governor of the North-west Provinces opens in
person the Ganges
.Canal early in April next, and all
persons connected with that work have been directed to
repair to Roorkee to witness the ceremony. The North-
Western Bank of India has declared a dividend for the
last half-year at
.the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
From Madras we learn that vacancies in the direction of
the bank have been filled up. A change of system seems
to be necessary in the management of its affairs, as by
the Gazette it appears that the establishment has in its
vaults nearly 40 lakhs of rupees lying idle, This accu-
mulation has not arisen from want of a field for the em-
ployment of the money, but is owing to defects which
the directors arc expected to remedy. A skirmish had
taken place in the Nizam's country on the 29th ultimo,
between a squadron of the 4th Nizam's Cavalry, com-
manded by Lieutenant Fraser, and a body of Arabs, 18
of whom have been made prisoners, as well as a similar
number of Boodum Khan's horsemen. Brigadier Colin
Mackenzie has takei! nearly 5,000 prisoners, Arabs, Ro-
hillas, and Deckannie?. Intelligence from Calcutta an-
nounces the official reinstatement of Col. Outrarn to the
residency of Baroda. The gallant colonel is now on his
way to the scene of his former and future labours. He
will pass through Bombay era route, and he has already de-
clined an invitation to a public dinner which the inhabi-
tants of the presidencyinvited him to accept. The ship
Margaret Skelly was totally destroyed by fire on the 3d
instant at Calcutta, and there is too much reason to fear
she has been burned by her Lascar crew. After burn-
ing to the water's edge, the wreck sank. The Margaret
Skelly had on board a general cargo for the Straits, con-
sisting of opium, rice, gunny-bags, Sec., of which very
little has been saved. On the same day the brig Susan
struck on the oyster rock while in stays. Immediately
her sternpost came out, and the rudder became un-
shipped, and she sank, just giving time for all hands to
save themselves and allow two horses to swim ashore.
The captain s wife was picked up by a ship and landed
'
at Akyab. The ship was loaded with a most valuable
cargo, and there was a large amount of specie on board.
The Governor-General is at Calcutta. His Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief is on his annual tour of inspec-
tion, and left Futtyghur, en route to Bareilly on the
10th instant. A long correspondence has taken place
between the Council of Education at Calcutta and the
Bengal Government, from which we gather that the
council proposed to establish a new college in Berham-
poor, at a cost of 40,000 rs. per annum. The scheme
was transmitted to the Governor-General, who at once
sanctioned the establishment of the college on the same
basis as that of Kishnaghur, and authorised 20,000 rs.
per annum from the education funds to be appropriated
to its support. The Council of Education also brought
to the notice of' Government the difficulty of procuring
persons in India competent to hold professorships of
literature, and the Bengal Government have solicited the
Governor General to obtain the Court's sanction to com-
petent persons being sent out from England. The
Court will of course accede. Mr. H. Riddell has been
appointed Director General of Post-offices in India. Of
local matters we have not much to chronicle. The Hon.
Mr. Blanc has resigned the service and proceeds to Eng-
land this day. His place in council will be filled by

Mr. J. G. Lumsden. The ship Fortesque, which
recently left this port, with passengers and cargo
for Australia, sprang a leak and was obliged
to put in in distress to Colombo where the emigrants
have been landed. His Excellency Lord Frederick
Fitzclarence has administered a reprimand to Major
John Jacob, C. 8., of the Scinde Irregular Horse,
on account of his "Remarks on the Native Troops of
the Indian Army," which was published by us. The
following is the reproof :—" The attention of the Com-
mander-in-Chief having been drawn to a paper headed
Remarks on the Native Troops of the Indian Army,'
under the signature of John Jacob,' which appeared in
the Bombay Times newspaper of the 30th ultimo and the
Ist instant, and contains observations and, statements of
a most objectionable nature, relative to the organisation,
discipline, and order of the native army, his excellency
feels himself called upon to express his marked disap-
probation of the way in which Major Jacob has chosen
to make his opinion known to the public. All officers
have a perfect right to form opinions •n the organisation
and order of the army they may have the honour to
serve in ; but they are not to publish their opinions in
their official capacity. Major Jacob had full permission
to make any suggestions he might have conceived would
have been for the benefit of the army to the Commander-
in-Chief, and indeed he was called upon to do so by the
General Order No. 1, dated Ist June last. He had no
right, therefore, to reflect upon and censure nearly every
rule, regulation, and order framed by his superiors for
the administration of justice and discipline, and for the
well-being of the Bombay army—conduct, to say the
least of it, most unmilitary, and tending to sow discon-
tent in the native ranks, and thereby greatly wound the
discipline of the native corps. Grieved as his excellency
is to have been obliged to make the foregoing remarks,
his lordship is still more so in having to censure Maictr
Jacob for pointedly using the words &the-refuse,' as appli-
cable to the regimental officers, an expression as unfound-
ed in justice as it is insulting to that most excellent hard-
working portion of the army, composed as it is of offi-
cers full of zeal and assiduity, and whose thoughts and
wishes are to do their duty. To these soldier-like sen-
timents and feelings of the officers doing duty with
their corps the Commander-in-Chief can fully testify.
His lordship had the honour to make the personal ac-
quaintance of a large proportion of them within the last
year, and a more gentlemanlike, zealous, hard-working
set of officers does not exist. The Commander-in-Chief
deeply laments being forced to observe that the conduct
now so strongly condemned emanated from one who has
received (most justly) honours from his Sovereign, and
the approbation of the government he has the honour
and good fortune to serve." The launch of a new
steamer, called the Mountstuart Elphinstone, took place
on the 15th inst. She has been built for the proprietor
by the master builder of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, and it is a fact which speaks significantly of
the estimation in which the memory. of Mountstuart El-
phinstone is held, that we have received letters from
different natives begging of us not to neglect noticing
the launch in our overland summary, "in order that,"
as one states, " our former governor may know that
natives of this country do not forget him, although
more than a score of years have passed since he left our
shores." The steamer is intended for the coast trade,
and belongs to our respected fellow-citizen, Mr.
Cowasjee Jehangheer. Lord Elphinstone is in Bombay,
and his excellency the Commander-in-Chief at Poona,
where he recently proceeded to inspect the 3d European
Light Infantry, which has just been formed. We have
no particular change to notice in the state either of the
general or money market.

(From ace Overland Bombay Telegraplc Feb. 28.)
During the past fortnight there has been very little
news of any general interest to our home readers to com-
municate through the columns of our overland summary—
in fact we scarcely ever remember such a total dearth of
intelligence as the Indian papers- have exhibited since
the mail of the 14th February left these shores. People
in this country are now much more interested in what
is going on in the Black Sea or in Persia than in
Burmah, or in the countries beyond the Bolan and
Kyber Passes. It is to
.be presumed that the latest in-
telligence received from the Persian Gulf by the Bombay
Government is not of a warlike nature, for her Majesty's
86th (Royal County Down) Regiment (which has been
kept halted at the Falkland Bonder near Panwell, for
upwards of six weeks en route to Kurrachee, pending
the receipt of news respecting the intention of the Shah
of Persia), did on Sunday night, at a late hour, receive
instructions to embark forthwith in the Honourable
Company's steam-frigate Ajdaha, for Kurrachee—its des-
tination in the due course of annual reliefs. The A jdaha,
with her Majesty's 86th on board, will proceed to her
destination either to-morrow evening or Thursday morn-
ing. We have not yet heard whether the regiments (the
3d and 27th Native Infantry) which were detained at
Poona pending the receipt of news from the Gulf, have
yet been ordered to march to their respective stations,
but we presume that if not already, they will very soon
receive the route to move.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN INDIA, SINCE THE DEPAR-

TURE OF THE MAIL ON THE 14TH FEBRUARY.

HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS —Colonel Mountain, adjutant
general Queen's troops, of typhus fever, at Futtyghur, ou
the Bth February. Assistant• Surgeon Christopher Flood,
her Majesty's 12th Royal Lancers, at Chittoor, on the 4th
February.
BOMBAY.—Lieutenant H. Pitcairn, of the 25th Regi-
ment Native Infantry, at Ahmedabad, on the Bth Feb.
MADRAS.—Captain Horatio Thomas Tapp, 14th Regi-
ment Native Infantry, at Bellary, on the 30th January.
Assistant-Surgeon George Gibson Holmes, of cholera, at
Trichinopoly. on the 6th February.