The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived advices from Bombay to the Bth of August,
and from Calcutta (by telegraph) to the sth
August.

The Viceroy and Governor General will leave
Simla in the beginning of October, and is expected
to be at Lahore on the 15th idem. Hia excellency
will be in Calcutta early in November.
His Eseellency. the Commander-in-Chief in India
will be in Calcutta in November accompanied by
the head-quarters, staff, and the heads of the mili-
tary departments with their office establishments.
"The latest intelligence from Affghanistan " (says
the Bombay Gatette) has mused considerable sur-
prise, as it is announced, upon what appears to be
trustworthy authority, that the Ameer and his re-
bellious brother, the Birder Mahomed Viral Khan,
have made friends, and it was expected that the
latter would accompany the Ameer on his return
to CabooL Each, however, appears to have •
wholesome dread of the other, and would probably
be glad to sacrifice something for amity and peace.
Sir Uslum Khan would seem to be now the only bar
to a complete understanding between the brothers.
Therehad been a rumour current that the Ameer
had fallen into an ambuscade and been treacherously
made • prisoner by his brother Ufzul Khan ; but
this has proved to have had no foundation in fact."
. .

" The most interesting and important intelligence
that we have to communicate to our home readers
in our present summary (says the Times of India)
relates to a resolution of the government of India,
financial department, on a gold currency for India.
The resolution is chiefly founded on a minute by
Sir Charles Trevelyan, proposing to introduce s
gold currency into India by declaring sovereigns
and half-sovereigns, according to the British and
Australian standard, to be a legal tender in India
at the rate of one sovereign for ten rupees, and re-
commending a modification of Act XIX. of 1861,
whereby currency notes would be exchangeable
for cola only, indeed of for coin and bullion, as
permitted by Section IX. of that act. The
resolution of the government of India directs
the publication of the minute for general infor-
mation, with an intimation that a despatch will be
addressed to the Secretary of State for India in
support of the recommendations contained in it,
and that in the event of his approval, it is proposed
to give legislative effect to those recommendations.
Sir Charles Trevelyan's minute is lengthy and
exhaustive."

The Bombay Gazette thus refers to this subject :
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Sir Charles frevelysa's minute as a gold currency for
India brings to a satisfactory close a discussion of which
most men were weary. The finance minister, disregarding
the circuturtanoe, on which so much stress has bees laid,
that the sovereign is actually worth a fraction over 10 ru-
pees, bee determined to make the English coin a legal
tender throughout British India at the tate of 10 rs., and thus
leave it to work its own way into circulation. It is
now geoarally allowed that this I. the most judicious
counts that could be taken ; and that, even should it fail.
the experiment L worth trying of making la useful and
beautiful a cola an the *Tavel:gel:rune& t throughout all the
dominions .o 1 the mown of Already measures
have been taken to have British and Auetralian sovereigns
coined of exactly the same value, and admitted indifferently
into **currency of the mother country and the colonies ;
sad, now that India is about to abandon the state of Isola-
ties is which she has hitherto bees placed by her exclusion
of gold end her adoption of a clumsy silver currency, there
esa remain no doubt that the sovereign will become the
favourite COW of commerce in all parts of the world. Is
fact, if China could be pareneded to imitate the example
India is now setting, there would soon be no other coin than
the sovereign recognised as a convenient medium for the
payment of large sums of money.
The Viceroy's letters to the Dhurm and Deb Raj
of Bhootan have reached their destination, and
caused much disturbance among the Bhootaneee.
The Dhurm and Deb Raj are friendly to the Bri-
tish government, but they have no control over
the Penlowe and Jung Peens : these stand out for
resistance, and promise the aid of the Thibetans and
of Jung Lishadoor. An officer is to be sent to ex-
amine the frontier of Bhootan towards Assam, to
ascertain what steps have been taken bytheßhooleai
towards strengthening their defences. Captain
Austin, of the Aden Bhootan mission, had been de-
puted to write a narrative of the ad ventures of the mill-
ston with an account of the country passed through.
The past Peulow of Pero, who treated Mr. Edeu
well, has been seized by the Toungso Penlow and
imprisoned in irons ; whilst his son, the present
Penlow of Paro, has rebelled and become the head
of a third party in Bhootan.
The Murrees have recently come down into the
plains, in the vicinity of Kusmore, within British
territory, and butchered four persons, whose only
crime was their relationship to the head of the
Ressaldar police there. The marauders were pur-
sued by the police and Scinde Horse, but only one
albs hand was killed.

Besides the Murree., the Bhoogtiee, of whose
pacification great hopes have from time to time been
held out, are also growing restless.
A company of gold cowers was recently detected
at Jugadree, which has supplied the whole of the
north-west with a gold currency for more than
eight years. A number of wealthy Mahajuns were
proved to be large shareholders. All implicated
have been brought to justice, and sentenced to
periods of imprisonment varying from five to ten
years : the Maliajun portion to a fine in addition
of Re. 40,000. it was brought out at the trial that
another gold-mohur manufacturing company was
doing an active business at Sealkote.
Mr. Latham, a civil engineer at Bombay, has
entered into negotiations with the government of
Goa and the Portuguese government at Lisbon, for
permission to be allowed to construct a line of light
railway from Pangim to the interior, for about
forty miles to the foot of the Ghent&
The Indian Peninsula Bank, the Bombay Pre-
sidency Bank, and the Bombay City Rink bad all
commenced operations in Bombay since the depar-
ture of the previous overland mail.
. . . .

The government gun foundry at Cossi pore is about
to be closed, it baring been determined that in
future no more guns shall be manufactured in
India, but that the supply shall be drawn from
Woolwich.

The government of Bengal, in accordance with
a resolution of the supreme government, has ap-
pointed a committee to report on the weights and
measures current in the Bengal Presidency, with
a view to bring them to a uniform imperial
standard.

Owing to a break in the submarine telegraph
cable of the Persian Gulf Line, it has been an-
nounced that no more messages will be sent by
that line beyond 0 wadur until further notice.
The Amberwitch has been despatched from Bom-
bay to pick up the cable and repair it.
A sanguinary affray between a number of
Chinese Coole's imported into Bombay by W.
Nicol and Company, and a number of town's
people, took place in Bombay on the sth August,
where two men were killed and a number of
persona were seriously injured.

Manaus Rzoarra.—This aquatics festival took
place yeeteeday is the promisee of as eisersoose cooooorse of
epee:store. la the remain there wes • pond display of
dremorhs.