The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-01 00:00:00

foreign we only could learn of a sale of 70 bales fine on-
washer. Smyrna at 13c. per lb. six months.
FEEIGHTS.—There is but little offering at present for
Europe. The packets are now loading with good, engaged
some time ego. We quote:—To Liverpool : Cotton, 1.324,
to id.; flour and meal, 14. 9d. per barrel ; heavy goods, 20s.
to 2.55. per ton; grain in bulk, Lid. to lip. per bushel. To
London—Flour, 2s. per barrel ; oil take, ; turpentine,
2,. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per 28011 a. ; measurement goods, 20s. to
30.. per ten; heavy goods, oil, &c., 265. per ton; beef, so,
to 41. 61 per tierce. To Havre : Cotton, square hales, te.
per lb.; ashes, 6 dole. to 7 dole. per ton ; rice, 7 dots. per
ton ; quercitron bark, 8 dole. per ton; measurement goods,
8 dot,. per ton ; whalebone, &c., lc. per lb.
NEW ORLEAN., NIAE(.II 17.
Cotton is dull. The sales to-day were restricted to 4,000
bales. Tobacco: 600 hhthi. sold at 31c. to 6c. Ohio Flour
is at 3 dole. 90c. to 4 dots. Cern has declined 4c. ; 20,000
bushels sold at 4.3 c. to 47e. Mess pork is quiet at Ifalols. 60c.;
prime, 11 dols. Bacon and lard are unchouged. Whiskey
sells at 17;c.

INDIA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE BURMESE WAlt.
By our usual despatch in advance of the Overland
Mail, we have news to the following dates :—Bombay,
March 3; Calcutta, Feb. 21.
The following arc extracts from the summary of
the liontbayTintes:—
"The crisis that has overtaken us within the last
fortnight, illustrates the maxim that India in the
midst of peace is at war—t Fut we know not at any
time what a week or a month may bring forth. The
Irrawaddy, which now flows undisturbed and un-
occupied to the sea, will, before: a month expires,
bear a fleet of eight war steamers and an
army of eight thousand men on its bosom ; and
the cities of Rangoon and Martaban, now peace-
ful, fair, and flourishing, will be heaps of smok-
ing ruins—their inhabitants scattered, and the British
flag floating where they now stand. We mentioned
in our last the extreme anxiety of the Governor-
General to avoid conflict, and to accept of any ar-
rangement that could be made not inconsistent with
our safety and dignity to restore amicable relations
with Burmah; ho was said to have disapproved of
the abduction of the Burmese ship of war by Com-
modore Lambert, and to have offered to restore her;
but he insisted on justice being done to our injured
merchants. The proposition was treated with inso-
lence, and replied to through the hands of a common
labourer, and it became quite clear that all that wag
desired was to gain time—the Burmese sovereign had
no intention to comply in any way with our behests.
Our frontiers nearest to Burmah were ordered to
bs watched, and arrangements were accordingly
made to meet any sudden aggression that might
arise. H.M.'s Royal Irish were despatched by the
Precursor steamer from Calcutta to Moulmein, wh ero
they arrived in 73 hours, li.M.'s 80t11, from Dina-
pore, taking their place in Fort William. Two na-
tive corps and three companies of artillery were to
follow. A like force of artillery and native infantry
as that ordered from Calcutta, were to be provided
from Madras, being in all two European (ISth and
51st) and four native (38th and 67th Bengal
and 9tia and 35th Madras) corp., with four
companies of artillery, mostly Europeans, in
addition to those on board the Bombay
steamers. The 49th and 26th M.N.!. are
betwixt Moulmein and Mergui—they probably num-
ber about 1,2(N) men; so that in all we shall have
about 10,000 fighting men, independent of the ships'
crews, at our disposal. The entire force is to be
commanded by Major-Gen. Godwin, C. 8., of her
Majesty's army, who was present throughout tho
last Burmese war from 1825 to '27 ; with Brigadiers
Warren and Elliott to command the Bengal and
Madras bri respectively. Colonel Foord, of
the Mad m
xlicaes
rinny', be ii to in charge of the artillery,
and Prater, of the Bengal army, of the
engieners. On the 19th Feb., orders were received
at Wembley from the Governor-General for despatch
for the Bay of Bengal as speedily as pos.ible of all the
steamers which could be spared, and such is the high
condition of the Indian navy that on the 21th a
squadron, under the command of Captain Lynch,
consisting of the Fcroze (transformed from a packet
to a frigate) and the Nloozuffer, both 1,500 to and
500.1toree power, and the Sesostris frigate, wit the
troop steamer Berenice, of about 800 tone tech,
sailed from our harbour within five days time err
being aware that there was any chance of * ' g
required. The Zenobia was intended '' she
arrived in time from Aden. The tlucen now takes
her place ; and this, with the Medusa iron-steamer,
completes our armament. The steamers are, as
they were during the China war, supplied with Eu-
ropean artillerymen to work their guns. The Semi-
ramis, a frigate of 1,200 tons and 300-horse power,
from China, and the Hugh Lindsay, from Madras,
can be despatched if required. From Calcutta, the
Enterprise, Fire Queen, '1 enaaserim, and Phlegethon,
with the iron steamer Nemesis, are under orders.
The vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company, capable of trinsporting 1,000
men each, are available as troopships. While these
matters were being arranged, despatches were re-
ceived from Burmah professing a desire for
peace: the first condition was that we should
change the channel of communication to
Major Bogle, the commissioner, instead of
through Commodore Lambert; the arrogance of
dreaming of prescribing to us how we should con-
duct our arrangements sufficiently iudicated the
temper of the monarch, so our preparations were
pushed on. The squadron sails direct for Rangoon
sad Martaban, cities by the rivet side of 30,000 and
and 10,000 inhabitants respectively ; they are doomed
to be destroyed, and, as they are constructed chiefly
of wood, our first fire will set them in a blaze. Ale
have not leisure for a regular campaign, and should
matters not be completely settled by the middle of
May, the forces, after doing as much mischief as pos-
sible, will return to Bombay and Calcutta, to renew
werations in October. Be some it is surmised that
the river steamers will pia's& en as far as draught of
water will allow if requisite, continuing the war
without inter.uption, the fleet remaining at hand
throughout the rains. The Burmese government
will be compelled to recompense the British mer-
chants for the loss already occasioned them, to meet
all the charges of the war, and to admit hereafter a
British resident within their country. 'the indemnity
will most probably be exacted in the shape of a slice
of territory: should resistance beceino protracted, it
is sot improbable that we may annex as many of
their provinces as we desire—the foundation, in all
likelihood, of the acquirement of the whole magnifi-
cent peninsula; and on this oecaeion we seem
to have justice on our side, and to have acted
with extreme moderation. The troops formerly or-
dered to rendezvous at Sukkur have roturnca to
their cantonments, and all is quiet in Seinde.
Sir John Grey having lately suffered from a severe
attack of sickness, returns to England by this day's
*teenier. Brigadier-General A. Manson, C. 11.. Bom-
bay Artillery, died at the Preeiden4 on the 23rd
alt. Sir C. Campbell's force returned to l'cshawur
from Mitchnie on the 15th nit. Sir Henry Law-
rence had just visited the station. The tribes around
were as mischievously inclined as ever, and phin-
dered us whenever opportunity offered. India
throughout continues tranquil, but there are strange
rumours of an intended outbreak of the M.,144111; in
Malabar. Trade continues dull, and money abun-
dant
CALCUTTA, l'n, A.
The following, says the Benoot lteeka.,.. i.: the
substance of the intelligence brought by the Fire
Quein, which arrived yesterday from Nloulinein and
Rangoon river.
The Fire Queen left the Sandhcads on the 2sth
ult., and arrived off Rangoon river on the 3111)1 idem
at 10p.m. She went in the next day, and anchored
ahead of the Fox frigate at 2 p.m., and towed her
up Atha Ilasting's Sand, which is about four or tile
miles below Rangoon. On going up the river. on
rromiot the filet stockade. which is 10 or 15 milesmilesc
entrance, the steamer and frigate were tired
upon by which a man of the Fox was so MI arty
wounded that he afterwards died of the wound.
IThe fire was returned by the frigate with diet and
shell. The Tenamerim, in passing up the following
day was also tired upon, but without etiect, and the
Fire Queen in passing down. The Fire Quern
called off the entrance of Rangoon river, coming
back on the morning of the sth instant. The' Fez
frigate was then coming out in tow of the Tena.escrits.
The frigate was going on a cruise to Nei,mils for a
week, leaving the I'hlegethon and her Majesty's
ship Hermes to blockade the 'tampion river.
The same journal, in its general summary, under
date of Feb. 21, says:
"The Governor-General has ' plucked up a spirit
sad resolved that the Burmese shall no longer hold