The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-19 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have received our despatches from India and
_China by the Overland Mail. The dates are those
given in the Express of yesterday.
The following is from the summary of the Bombay
Times of Sept. 11:
The Santhal insurrection has nearly died oat. The
insurgents continue to spread over the country, but
outrages have ceased. lodia is tranquil throughout.
The Ava Embassy proceeds auspiciously. A favour-
able fall of rain promises to avert the apprehended
famine, and limit the calamity to a scarcity. Trade
is dull, and freights are low, almost beyond pre-
cedent.

The most gratifying intelligence of the past fort-
night is the improvement in the state of weather;
if the fall of rain at Bombay has been general,
we shall probably be relieved of the soourge of
famine—scarcity and dearth are inevitable. We can-
not look for anything like an average crop ; but the
pressure will, we trust, atop abort of starvation. The
Smiths' Insurrection is not yet entirely subdued, the
insurgents are still scattered over the country, but
the outrages with which their career commenced
have in a great measure ended. The hope of super-
natural aid has failed them. Their leader has been
captured. Seven thousand of thou engaged In the
outbreak have surrendered. They find that their
bows and arrows have not the slightest chance
against our musketry, and that any mesa of them how-
ever large, is scattered by any detachment of oar troops
however small. As the movement has thus become
as objectless as it is impotent, as the malcontents
are without a guide or a purpose, and as they find
themselves shot down or made prisoners whenever
they are overtaken, all idea of serious danger from
them has ceased. They are said to be endeavouring
to emigrate with their families deeper into the
mountain., in hopes of finding a place of refuge so
remote thatjustice will not reach them. Their re-
cent outrages cannot be overlooked, and the plan
formerly hinted at of deporting them wholesale to
British Burmah seems very likely to be fallen back
upoc.—We have heard of no disturbance since
our last on the North-West Frostier, and though we
can expect to be wholly free of outrages on the
highland line, these promise speedily to become re-
duced to petty raids and isolated lilting., universal
wherever a rich lowland stretches up to the base of
barren and impenetrable montaina.—The dissentients
in Oude have become suddenly reconciled, under the
apprehension of immediate annexation, awakened by
the appearance of the Military Secretary to the
Governor-General on a special mission to the Resi-
dent. The commotion was temporary and unex-
pected; its continuance or extension might have
hastened the crisis, which is not averted by its
disappearance.—ln British Burmah everything seems
tranquil, the usual emerge of the prisoners working
out of doors under a guard scarcely forming an
exception. The Embassy proceeds auspiciously on its
way to Ava, experiencing the warmest welcome as it
advance,. Apprehensions seem to be entertained by
the natives that the Golden Foot may decline what
is desired of him, and hostilities be resumed. His
Majesty luckily is not misled by the eloquence of the
peace party in England, for the excellent reason that
he is ignorant of its existence, and is perfectly
aware, from what he has seen, that when our
troops next take the field, Burmah, to its utmost
boundary, become. a British province.—We have
the usual disturbances in the Nizam's dominions,
though scarcely to the customary extent.—The chief
fighting in India is kept for the cold weather.—
There has been a trifling outbreak in the Rewa
Ceuta, a province belonging to the Guioowar, be-
tween a couple of rival sects of Mahomedans. The
Political Agent, Major Wallace, to avert bloodshed,
called out a couple of guns and 370 men from Ba-
rods, and the approach of such a force as this is likely
to prevent further mischief.—We noticed in our last the
caution the Court of Directors had found it necessary
to promulgate in reference to an establishment called
the " London and Eastern Bank," which claims to be
established by a special Royal Charter, its shareholders
enjoying limited liability. Both claims prove to be
purely imaginary, the bank is registered, se all
English Joint Stock Banks are required to be, under
the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria, and in this sense, but no
other, is a Corporation. The Act in question specially
provides for the u limited liability of all the share.'
holders. The Bank seems to admit the claim set forth,
in the advertisement to be groundless, the excuse is
that this was an inadvertence. The Court of Directors

have seen their servants so frightfuily plundered
by similar inadvertencies, that they did no
more than their duty in pointing out that the claims
of the B►nk to spec►al privileges were fictitious.
Should mischief hereafter accrue to parties supporting
the e3tablisliment, they will have themselves to thank
for it, after the warning the India House has given
them.—Mr.Marebmao. the founder of the Biased of

/tans, which for twenty years he conducted with 'him
most eminent success, has retired for good, with an
ample fortune, and will in all probability soon occupy
a public position at home.—Active movements hays
of late taken place in the Parsee community, with a
view to the improvement of the laws and institutions of
the caste, making them more worthy than they have
hitherto been of the position the most energetic body
of our natives enjoy. Their clergy have set them-
selves against all reform. When the church, stand-
ing on the frail foundations of the traditions of a
thousand years, sets itself up against the whole bey
of the population, acting under the enlightenment of
the hour, it is not difficult to see how the struggle
will end.—The government arrangements foe the
establishment of a museum are now completed,
the buildings are being prepared, and specimens
are being oollected ander the charge of a oom-
mines consisting of Dr. Impey, Chairman ; Pro-
fessor Fraser; Professor Sinclair; Mr. W. F. Hunter;
and Dr. Buie, Secretary and Curator. It is hoped
that the public may be admitted by Christmas.—The
Governor-General is understood to visit Burmah on
his return to Calcutta, and to remain with u till
February ; Lord Harris is on the Neilgberriee with
Lord Dalhouie ; Lord Elpbinstone is at Bombay.—
Trade is in a very depressed state, and freights have
still further gone down. There is no change in the
money market.