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THE OVERLAND MAIL.

term be applied to ships or officers arranging for
hostilities on the shores of the country meant to be
attacked, as fraught with danger. With the excep-
tion of what has just been given, we are absolutely
destitute of news. The most profound tranquillity
reigns throughout every part of India, and we have
not so much as a frontier disturbance to chronicle.
The cold weather is setting in everywhere, and
promises to be somewhat earlier than usual. The
Governor-General and Governors of the minor
Presidencies are at the seat of authority. Our
import market wears rather a quiet appearance, in
consequence of the approaching Dewallee holidays,
which commence on the 26th instant. The money
market has been easy, and no alteration has taken
place in the rates of interest ruling at the banks.
Government and other securities are dull of sale,
and quotations generally low. Freights have ad-
vanced and command very fair rates in consequence
of more vessels being required by Government for
the transport service.

We have received by Extraordinary Express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our despatches
from India, from which we make the following im-
portant exti acts :
(Prom the Overland Bombay Times of Oct. 17 )
SUMMARY.—AImost the only news for the past
fortnight we have to communicate is that connected
with the Persian Gulf expedition, and of this we
have scarcely anything to say more than has been
said already. The following revised list of the troops
and staff destined for the Gulf, should the expedi-
tion ever sail, will be found pretty nearly correct
—H.M. Gith from Belgaum, and the 2d Europeans
from Hydrabad. The 4th Rifles from Poona,
20th N. I. from Belgaum, the Relooch Battalion
from Hydrabad, and the 3d Cavalr7 from Rajkote.
Two hundred sabres of the Poona Horse, under
Cal. Tapp, from Seroor, and a like number of Sap-
pers and Miners, from Poona, under Major Hill.
Blake's Troop of Horse Artillery from Poona, and
Brett's Battery from Kurrachee—amounting in all
to about five thousand men. The staging of the
force is expected to depend on the nature of
the instructions from home by the mail now due
—this again depending on the reply given by
the Shah to our ultimatum, which we have
little doubt will be satisfactory. As none of the
troops have yet received marching orders, it
will be impossible for the expedition to sail be-
fore the middle of November. The staff, which
has already been pretty fully given, is as follows
:
General Stalker to command ; Colonel Leith, Adju-
tant General ' • Captain Collier, Assistant. Major
Pope —shouldhe not be prevented by the Kattiwar
inquiries now in progress—or, otherwise, Captain
Gordon, Lieutenants Grey and Le Strange (already
gone), and Thain will be as Assistants to take
charge of the Commissariat. The Quartermaster
General's department is under charge of Captain
Wray and Lieutenant Holland (already gone) ;
the Pay Department under Major Barr, and
Dr. M'Kenzie is to be at the head of the
Medical Staff. The force, if not very large, is as
compact and efficient-looking as need be desired,
and will, we have no doubt, perform to
'admiration any task that may be assigned to it.
Once before the walls of Herat, which we have not
the slightest dream of their ever being, they would
disperse a Persian mob of a hundred thousand like
chaff before them. We regret that some dozen
picked men, most expert in the use of Jacob's rifles,
should not have formed a part of the expedition.
We have no desire to see even a Persian killed in
the way of experiment, but to have shown them a
powder magazine blown up a mile away by a firelock
discharged from the arm would, we think, so have
confouned them that they would have thoughttwice
before troubling us again. Under the exaggeration
accompanying such a feat, by the time the tidings
reached the Shah, he would have felt uncomfort-
able in his Zenana, lest a shell might reach him
from the nearest frontier. If practice can now be
made as true at a mile as it used to be at 100 yards,
why should not the imagination stretch it out to a
league or a degree ? The thing as it stands seems
impossible; and if the seeming impossibility of
yesterday be transformed into the fact of to-day,
why should not that of to-morrow be realised as the
practice of nex t week? A number of additional ships
have within the past few days been taken up, but
the opinion still continues general, in the best in-
formed quarters, that there will be no fighting
after all. The fall of Herat seems at length to be
placed beyond all doubt—the wonder is that the
mystery about the matter should have been main-
tained so long. We are still without particulars,
and the amount of heroism, like that of slaughter,
on either side appears to be marvellously micro-
scopic. The orders from Downing-street are un-
derstood to have been that our ambassador at Con-
stantinople should open any communication re-
ceived from Teheran, transmitting the substance
of the contents to England by telegraph, and act-
ing on the orders that might be received in return.
These were to have been forwarded .by express
steamer to Alexandria, so as to overtake the
mail. As no express had arrived at Constantinople
at all, matters still remain in doubt, the impres-
sion prevalent from the first gaining ground
that the expedition will never sail. Meanwhile we
learn from the Gulf that the Resident at Bushire,
Captain Jones, has declined permitting the officers
of the Commissariat and Quartermaster General's
Department to land, as he could not be responsible
for their safety. To us it appears, indeed, rather
cool, that we should have thought of the
enemy suffering us to make arrangements in
his own country for an invasion. Our am-
bassador at Paris might safely warn off officers
sent to Calais or Boulogne to make prepara-
tions for the debarkation of a British army intended
for the subjugation of France. The local authorities
at these sea-ports would indeed have made short
work with the matter, by_ making the intruders pri-
soners of war at once. Had the authorities at Bu-
shire acted in like manner they would have done
nothing more than what duty to their own Govern-
ment demanded, and a simple warning off the pre-
raises,tsitlaintye.e s
Te
be
eeoneu
construed
them,tcr
aupedta into
nnc
to
Jones
oal dna
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trae thend an
act cuoi
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eomas
sant necessity on the part of Persia, we are glad to
learn that the utmost politeness was shown to the
Osthaff ohffiotcherssidesit is pleasant personally bytehaesacnht t
chief men
observeenatthat
Bushire.
aavirs
,wattthaht
ptiehahl
rdteeeeci
svoußelegnl rris
publictsi mti
rio sheanhsyoccodohbaef
ae the
nn
regdogeferi
in By
by his those] resulthieh,
irritations
t existinga ti
o i s
have m i s uanr
arisen
which are apt to exacerbate hostilities or accele-
rate
make a recoisc;
lenient
difficualtft.erAcopnefirisciatnisofoilvceiari
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sent
b pa
receiving
rank and position,
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sbeel iyn
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make
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her dr
and courtesy require.
rpaent
igeehme
ee
dn t
the
hfeo rt he
utmostd e descent
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sas
fhr(o) smti ethfeormceenexof-
et
fprroomp o stehetoreinp
rank of the country
quwi
vrweasidteehn'tnaaontitdvheinog
re-
ceived warning to
their own Government, having met
but civility from the enemy. It is the powerless-
emnoeausksnetorfys
hPr
ve
er
ys isa afol or nteh
et hat
purposes permits
of
hh
ve
aFs
ieorho z; e
on
toe
has no right to examine the shores and
isbenooi
lguprydesired,t intotpy oe
lolfedte commencing portseooarwri
shouldigt
h 1
right
roaafn another without permission,
especially with war in view. The Feroze will be
wcdoli
hostilities,llnai
stioof aeul ore
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ao
toht e
whollyoa
rot
eros pnr
responsi-
bility refus-
ing swii
f
ground, and one which might most enormously
complicate • the quarrel, would devolve on us.
Persia at present seems to be altogether in
the wrong. The direct violation of the treaty
of 1853, which prevented her approaching
Herat, amply justifies hostilities, should we
choose to resort to them. On the other hand, an
attempt on our part to force a survey of her
shores avowedly for hostile purpose, is unjustifi-
able if resisted. If Captain Rennie can get his
soundings and his bearings taken quietly and with-
out objection, it is right and well ; if he is fired
upon or attacked he has nothing for it but to run
away. A single round of the Feroze's guns would
extinguish anything Persia could bring against us,
but then this would be an act of hostility on our
part which might bring us into trouble, and obtain
for our enemy allies and sympathies which it would
not be convenient for us to have to deal with. The
Shah, under these circumstances, would at once
compromise the previous question, in which he
stood alone, by ample and entire submission, and
stand on the new ground of defence, where he would
have abundance of supporters. We have infinite
confidence in the good sense and discretion of Capt.
Rennie, but it must not be forgotten that it was
the jealousy for the honour of the British flag
which brought on the battle of Navarino, and in-
flicted a blow on Turkey, from which he has never
yet recovered, and which we ought to have been
the last to strike ' • and the same thing involved us
prematurely withßurmall when Government were
most anxious to avoid a war. When the honour of
the British flag cannot be vindicated without a
violation of 'British policy, the safest thing is to
keep it out of the way of insult. In place of
having an extra war force in the Persian
Gulf when hostilities are impending
which dis-
cretion might avert or imprudence accelerate, the
wisest plan would be to have no more men-of-war
within sight than were sufficient to provide or se-
cure retreat for our friends or officials, or to convey
intelligence. In the case of Navarino, the Lord
Chancellor Eldon laid it down as a principle, that
to flourish a bludgeon as if with intention to strike,
perfectly warranted the party insulted to reply by
a blow ; and to draw up a fleet of line-of-battle
ships facing a similar one on their own shores,
as much justified the latter in firing into the
former as if the cannonade had been com-
menced on the other side. The present is an
English and not an Indian war, carried on as it
may be by a Bombay army, and it is one which
will be jealously watched from all parts of Europe.
One of the most terrible conflicts the world ever
saw entered on in the defence of the rights of na-
tions has just been closed. The warriors have
scarcely yet cooled from their harness, and what-
ever might be the exhaustion the
fight has pro-
duced, a war would be a much less difficult thing
now than it was supposed to 'be four years o. It There has only
is the policy of those who may get themselves Emancipation of Brussels, saysoverument measure,
A letter from Copenhagen,
freshly embroiled to have the question of right just been made known here a ga
day g
ago, and which
against us, and this can only be done by transferrit ig which was adopted twelve
On the 28th ult., the
the Persian quarrel from the ground on which it will produce the best effect.
of
the Princess Royal
present stands to that which a chance collisi4)n ;
with our ships might render tenable. That whir 3h ; the insignia of the
of:_the 9th, in the
anniversary of the birth
the
our and Prince
our enemies most desire it is our policy to avoiid, Order of the Elephant to
Caroline, the King restored
5 re-
and while we look on the recent interchange (sf Frederic of Holstein-Glu adbkoeur This act i
courtesies as alike gratifying and auspicious, vte garded as the prelude,to other st favour
gesasures
regard the presence of men-of-war,
whether the of the exiled princes. torork:

THE FALL OF HERAT.
(From the Delhi Gazette, Oct. 2.)

The fall of Herat is no longer questionable. The
annexed adv,ces from Cabul are of later date than
those published in. the Delhi Gazetie of the 13th
inst. Our chief agent informs us that the despatch,
unthr date the sth September, has been delayed
in consequence of "the temporary imprisonment
of the Kossid by the Ghilzie Tribe (now at war)."
Our second despatch from. Cabul is dated the 14th
of September : _ _

"Cabul, Sept. 5.

" When the commander of the Persian forces sur-
rounded Herat, Shazadah Mahoined Yasuf begged and
coaxed the inhabitants to keep quiet, and when the city
was taken, caused Esa Khan, ruler of Herat, to be
seized, murdered, and quartered, and the four portions
of his body to be suspended over the gates, and issued
a proclamation warning the inhabitants that the same
punishment would be awarded to all who refused to sub-
mit to the Persian authority.

" After the death of Esa Shan two spies of Shazadah
Mahomed Yusuf, professedly friends of Esa Khan, mur-
dered his two sons. More Persian troops are daily ar-
riving at Herat.
" The Persian troops at Furah (?) seized the governor
of that city, and sent him to Herat, whence he has been
forwarded to Persia, One hundred thousand Persians
are said to be in and about Herat.

" Mabomed Hussnm Khan, a Yakeel sent by the
Shah, having returned with letters from Dost Mahomed,
ambassador, another, Dadur Khan, a man of great im-
portance, has arrived at Kandahar, accompanied by 500
horsemen. On presenting his despatches Dust Ma-
homed became greatly troubled, and immediately had a
private interview with the emissary, who is said to have
warned the Dost that it would be prudent for him to
submit to the wishes of the Shah, as he, the Dost, could
never hope to be his equal, and that he never could bring
forces equal to those of the Shah. A few days after-
wards the Shah's emissary was despatched with unusual
marks of respect from the Dost.
"The Dost is in great distress for money, and the
troops being unpaid are almost in a state of mutiny at
Kandahar. Famine prices are paid for food.
"Such is the distress, that 900 picked horsemen have.
been appointed to keep watch to prevent the troops de-
serting to the Persians at Herat.
"The Khyberees committed some outrages on Futteh
Khan, who went to Peshawur as Vakeel from Dost Ma-
homed to the British government.

"Dost Mahomed was in consequence very angry, and
had ordered the stoppage of the pay of his Sirdars, &c.,
but he has now recalled the order and directed arrears to
be made good.
"Goolam Hydur Khan, eldest son of the Post, is on
his way to Cabul from Kandahar. Sbadoolla Khan,
nephew of Post Mahomed, having quarrelled with his
uncle, has fled to Herat, and his example is about to be
followed by Sumshooden Khan, another nephew of Dost
Mahomed. Treachery is also at work amongst the
cLiefs."

" Cabul, Sept. 14.

"There is a great famine in Herat—wheat is selling
at two seers per rupee, and it is even difficult to procure
it at this rate. Persian troops are daily pouring in from
Musheed, and one body of 10,000 men under a chief,
named Kaheen, has advanced to a place named Furra,
where be is encamped.
"Dolt Mahomed was about to lave Kandahar for
Cabul, when he received intelligence that a large sum of
money, eight lakbs of rupees, had been despatched to
him by the British Government, which induced him to
change his mind and resolve to stay at Kandahar to pay
up his troops and tranquillise the people. Dost Mahomet
having q.uarrelled with his brothers, Sirdar Sooltas
Mahomed Khan and Sirdar Peer Mahomed Khan, he
ordered them t leave Candahar and proceed to Oahu!,
and news has reached this place that they are about to
arrive—many of their followers have come on the 9th
inst. They were ordereJ away from Cabul in conse-
quence of intriguing to prevent a good understanding
between Dost Mahomed aid the Kandaharees. It is
said that, since their departur,i, affairs have progressed
most favourably for the Dost, who threatens to punish
severely all offences, whether committed by his eons,
or Sirdars, or any one else, and having been assured of
British support, has assumed a boW air, and declared
his intention of meeting the Persian■ manfully and de-
claring his independence whatever be th. 4 consequences.
His eons are highly pleased with his determination.
A report has come from Khiva that til'e ruler of
Bukhara has written to Sirdar Mahomed Ufzvl Khan,
governor of Khiva, stating it to be his intention to go
en a pilgrimage to the tomb of Emam Jaffir (iv the
Khiva territory) accompanied by an army, and advis-
ing Mahomed Ufzul Khan to withdraw his forces td'
prevent a collision. Mahomed Ufzul Kfa❑ has replied
that he will not permit the Bokhara troops to enter
his territories, and that if it is the intention of the
Bukhara. King to invade the country, be should give
notice in order that Mahomed Ufzul Khan might pre-
pare for his reception, but that if his intentions are
peaceable he may come with a small and suitable
escort, when Ufzul Khan will himself provide all thirgs
necessary to show honour and respect to his visitors."
—Lahore Chronicle, Sept. 24.

Cabul, Sept. 20.

The news from Herat, as stated by one party partial to
the Kaj ars, continues to confirm the intelligence of its
fall published in yosr paper of the 17th of June last, and
by another hostile to them keeps Herat still besieged.
Until despatches, addressed to the Ameer, do come
from Herat, for the information of the governor here,
no decisive credence can be placed on what is so un-
settled at present. We expect news from that quarter
direct in a short time.
Two messengers from Candahar have come to Cabul,
and report the arrival of another Persian agent at the
court of the Ameer, who openly told him in reply to
his demand that he will neither give up Candahar to
the late chiefs, Sirdar Rabmdil Khan, &c., nor go back
to Cabul.
We learn from the same source that Shahzabad Maho-
med Yusuf has advanced from Herat in the direction of
Frah with. a large body of the Persian troops which has
compelled Nusroollah Khan to disappear.
The Governor of Musbid is pouring in supplies of all
sorts to the Persian camp. Several detachments, under
the command of the various Persian chiefs, as Raza
Koolee Khan, and Mahomed Hoosain Khan, &c., have
moved to reinforce the Persians in the direction of Moi
manah, Seestac, and Frail.
The news has also come, via Kandahar, that there
were rumours in the Persian camp at Herat that the
Shah had ordered an army of 50,000 men to be
stationed at the Bunder-Abooshur (Persian Gulf), and
the force of Bunduri Aabbas has been withdrawn to the
capital.
The ex-Chiefs ofPeshawur are suspected by the Ameer
to be the cause of dissension between him and the ex-
Chiefs of Candahar, and will therefore be directed to re-
turn to Cabul.
Five Russian officers have arrived in the Court of the
Shah, and are soon expected before Herat.
The Ameer has received communications from Pesha-
wur that the British Government is going to send an
expedition to the Persian Gulf, and to occupy the Isle of
Karrack, and that they have received intimation from
the home au, horities to lend pecuniary aid to theAmeer.
This has caused his Highness great joy.

CALCUTTA.
(Front the Bengal Burhant of Oct. 8 )

Our last despatch was dated the 22d ultimo, and
since then nothing has come to pass of any great
public consequence, save and except Lord Can-
nin,i's notification that he has received the sanction
of the home authorities to adopt the necessary
measures in order to publish a quarterly statement
of the revenue of the country, together with the
probable amount of prospective expenditure, in-
cluding a statement of the amount of cash in the
local treasuries throughout India made up to a
particular day.
Since the above was in type the Gazette has ap-
peared containing a Government notification stating
that on the 31st of July the amount of cash balance
in the Government treasuries throughout India
was Co.'s rs. 12,84,55,357, say nearly thirteen
millions sterling.
FREIGIITS.—There has been a slight rise on rates
homeward in consequence of some vessels being engaged
to start before the holidays. As tonnage has consider
ably increased by recent arrivals, and the market being
lightly supplied with exportable produce, there is every
probability of the rates coming down after the holidays.
AlowxY MAIMET.—Bank of Bengal,—Discouot on
private bills and notes (3 months), 5 per cent. ; on go-
vernment acceptances, ditto, 3 per cent. Interest on
deposit of Company's paper, 4 per cent. ; on open cash
credit accounts, 5 per cent. ; on deposit of metals, &C.,
5 per cent.
RATES Or E.7-CIIANGE.—A,gency Bills at 6 months'
sight, 2 1 to 2la ; Agency Bills with documents at 6
ditto, 2 1g to 2 lA ; Navy Bills, 3 days' sight, and Bank
of England post bills, at sight, 111 to 2.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 14.
The Royal Mail Company's steam ship La Plata,
' Captain C. G. Weller, arrived this evening at half-
past seven o'clock, from the West Indies, with the
usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Irwin, RN.,
Admiralty agent.
On her outward voyage the La Plata experienced
constant easterly winds, and for several days blow-
ing hard, with a heavy head sea.
The latest dates brought by the La Plata are :
Santa Martha Oct. 26' Barbadoes
G reytown 2O Jacmel
Nassau
Colon 24 St. Kitt's
Demerara
Trinidad
Carthagena
Jamaica
Grenada 26 i
The following are passengers by the La Plata :
Sir C. Elliott., lady, and daughter, from Trinidad ;
Lieutenant Collington, RA., and lady, from Bar-
badoes ; Mr. J. Ussher, her Britannic Majesty's
consul general at Hayti, from Jacmel.
The La Plata brings on freight :-83,719 dols.,
383,368 1011, gold dust, 155,726 dols gold in bars,
158,814 dols. silver in bars, 440 serous of cochineal,
4,800 pearls, 100 bales of bark, 102 bags of cocoa,
8 packages of India-rubber, 12 casks of ginger,
1 case of tortoise shell, 1 case of cigars. 36 cases of
succades, 1 cask of beeswax, 40 bales of sarsaparilla,
and a general cargo, consisting of 50 packages of
sundries.
Her Majesty's ships of war at the various West
India Islands and Naval Stations, at the date of the
most recent advice :—Arachne, off Barbadoes on
the 27th Oct. ; Termagant, Amphion, and Falcon,
at Jamaica, all ready for sea at the same date.
The Euryalus was spoken by the packet, off Jacmel,
on the 28th ult., all well on board. She was last
from Port-au-Prince. Mariner at Belize on the
17th. At Grey Town.—Her Majesty's ships Orion,
Imperieuse, Arrogant, Intrepid, and Pioneer.
Victor expected from Jamaica. Archer had sailed
for Honduras. Imperieuse • was about to sail for
Corn Island with his Majesty the King of Mos-
quito on board. Cossack was daily expected from
Colon. _

The following is a summary of commercial news
from Valparaiso.
During the fortnight ending September 13 but
few commercial transactions bad taken place, owing
to the festivities. The imports during the same
period had been extensive, and from all parts of
the world.

Jottons were dull, with large stocks on hand ;
woollen plentiful, with large sales ; linen and silk
goods abundant. With small sales of Chili produce
silver in bars brought 10 dols. 37c. per mark on
shore. Copper in bars, none in market. Hides
none in market. Flour stock small, and sales for
local consumption only at 10 dols. 25 c. to 10 dols.
50 c. for Southern, and 10 doh. 50 c. to 10 dols.
75 c. for best Santiago brands—six months. Coals
plentiful without sales, and prices tending down-
wards ; last quotations for English, 13 dols. to
14 dols. Nitrate of soda from Iquique is held at
2 dols. 37 c. to 2 dols. 50 c. ,but no sales had been
eflected.

Freights.—Ores from Caldera to Swansea 4/. to
4/. 2s. 6d. ; from Coquimbo to Boston, 18 dols. ;
guano from Chinchas to Great Britain, 3/. 15s.
to 4/.

From Peru we learn that an attempt to surprise
the barracks at Tacna, with a view to revolution,
had been suppressed.
The news from the West Indies is not important.

From Demerara we learn that the Registration
Bill had passed the Legislature after much discus-
sion. The Demerara Boyal Gazette says:—
" Tbe weather has been fine during the fortnight,
with occasional showers, just the sort of weather that
gladdens the heart of the planter at this season of
the year. The estates are now busily occupied in
gathering in and manufacturing the sugar crop.
The yield is far better than was anticipated in the
early part of this year, and we have heard of some
new fields producing as much as three hogsheads
per acr•. The average, however, is very much be-
low that quantity.
" The exports during the past fortnight consisted
of sugar, 1,85 t) hhds.,!lol trcs., 730 brls., 500 bags,
and 47 hhd. foreign ; rum, 1,106 puncheons, 68
hhd., 37 brls, and 22 puncheons foreign ; molas3es,
969 puncheons, 6 brls.; timber, 483 logs ; 13,750
cocoanuts ; and 43 pieces of letterwood.
" The harbour is crowded with shipping, and
there are lying here, waiting for cargoes, no less
than 60 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of
17,765 tons. Freights are consequently exceed-
ingly low, ranging from Is. to is. 3d. for sugar."
In Trinidad the weather had again set in wet.
Some of the planters bad engaged to deliver their
coming crops of sugar at $4 per 19016. The mar-
ket was heavily stocked with general imports from
the Uhited States.

The West India colonial journals are entirely
barren of news. _

The yellow fever has committed many ravages
at Martinique.
In Grenada the crops promised better results
than were at one time anticipated. The stores
of the merchants were well stocked with pro-
vi6ons.