The overland mail from India, China, and Australia, arrived in
London yesterday afternoon. The latest dates are—Bombay, 28th September; H' ongkong, 9th September ; Port Phillip, 24th August.
The accounts from Burnish are not at all cheerful. Bands of armed men commonly called "Deceits," but really irregular soldiery, were stociaded in many places. Their aggregate number is said to be 14,000; probably exaggerated. Although strongly garrisoned by British troops, a town called Kaingain, or Khangyen, had been destroyed by a body of these fellows. The steamer Indus, going up the river, came upon "a complete nest of Deceits, a little below Kaingain." On seeing the steamer, they fled, and left their boats, which the Captain had not time to destroy. On reaching Kaingain„ Major Michin, commanding the garrison there, sent the Indus to cut off the Deceits, while he attacked them by land. About fifty boats were cut out, others sunk. Major Mi- chin attacked the Deceits higher up the creek ; the steamer went to as- sist him ; but the enemy gave them the slip, and repossessed themselves of several boats. Again the boats were retaken. Major Michin asked for reinforcements : before they could arrive, Kaingain had been burnt to the ground. An attack on Promo was expected, and a renewal of the war considered inevitable.
It is stated that a Frenchman is drilling the Burmese troops at Ava. He managed to get up the country on the pretext of commercial objects. Colonel Maekeson, a distinguished "Political" on the North-west frontier, has been assassinated in his office, by an Affgban. This is the third public servant who has been murdered within a few months in the Punjaub.
A more serious incident has occurred at Aurungabad, in the Nizam's territory. The Resident sent out a force to arrest a Rajah and a party of refractory Arabs. When summoned, the Arabs refused to surrender. A regular siege of their place of refuge took place ; the Rajah was taken alive, and his band exterminated; on our side, two officers, Captain Par- ker and Ensign Bosworth, and 20 Sepoys, were killed—two officers and 50 men wounded.
The news from China is not very precise ; but it is considered that the rebels have had great successes in the North, and that probably Pekin has by this time fallen into their hands.
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