The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-14 00:00:00

LetEsT INTELuozNoi

THE OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have
advicas from Madras to the 15th of August, and
from Ceylon to the 17th of August.
The mail brings but little news. India is tran-
quil (says the Makers) and prosperous throughout
her wide borders. Fruitful rains fall abundantly,
and the husbandman looks forward with compla-
cency to reap the ample harvest due to his in-
dustry.
People in Calcutta have been very sceptical as to
the identity of the man supposed to be Nana Sahib,
and their scepticism seems now to have grown into
positive disbelief. The Englishman says
We recently extracted from the Tines of !Relicts very
lengthy detailed account of the capture of the Nana,
and the statement. made by those who have come forward
to speak to his identity, the whole far too loeg for an over-
land paper. The same paper bee also the following :—" We
are glad to be abis to relieve the public of all further near-
Minty concerning the Naos. The blind Brahmin
has become Queen's evidence, and ideatified the
Nana himself. This information reached us yesterday
Rajpootana." Judging from the photographs we have
seen, we should be inclined to dunk that they have got his
brother, Baba Butt, an older man, and, according to des-
cription, considerably more like the photographs we have
men than the Nana himself. We are, moreover, rather is
a digit-sky an to how the blind Brahoir could identify the
arch rebel, unless the smell of a living traitor is en power-
fully pleasant to the Brahmin as that of s dead one was to
Louis XI. Anyhow it is now generally believed, even by
the government, that the prisoner is not the Nana, one of
the evidences of this feeling on the part of the authorities
being the fact that the detachment of the 28th sent to
Ajmeer has been withdrawn.
Upon this subject the Ilurkant says

The excitement ccesequeot on the captare of the man
said to be the Nana has quite subsided at Numeerabad,
Ajmer, and in the surrounding ,wintry, Led everything is
as quiet me could possibly be wished. The prisoner is
believed not to be the Nana after all, and the authorities,
appear to b 3 of the same opinion, if we may judge from the
following extract from Brigade Orders by Brigadier Young-
hustend, C. 8., commanding et Numeersbad, dated the 28th
July, 1863:—" The additional company of the 28th Itegi-
meat, detached to Ajmeer, being no longer required them
it will rejoin regimental headquarters."
The same paper refers in the following terms to
the treatment of the Sikh troops enlisted for service
in Ceylon :

Tberittel breach of faith manifested io the shameful
treatment of the Sikhs euliated for service in Ceylon con-
tinues to draw indignant comments from the public press.
There is not the slightest doubt that this regiment we
Weed ander false pretences. It cookers of fighting Sikhs,
not of Machete, the low cane that will undertake almost
anything for money. At lout 200 of these men, or one-
fifth of its entire strength, are old @oldie's, and fought at
Delhi and Luckoow. It must be remembered that they
are not mere labourers, bat rather small farmers and
employers of labour. Their disgust, therefore, at being de-
prived of their arras, and compelled to work like common
coolies as the roads, may readily be imagined. When first
ordered to break stones, they naturally refused to do so, and
only gave in after they had been put for some time on hall
rations, and their pay stopped. But how can the govern-
ment expect ever to raise another corps for foreign service ?
This hurtles' act of treachery will not easily be forgotton.
It I the first time the Indian government has deliberately
broken faith with its people, and it is fervently to be hoped
that the experiment will not be repeated.

On Wednesday, the 29th July, the foundation-
stone of the new college, which is to be the scene
of the future educational efforts of the Native youth
of the district of Moorshedabad, was laid at
Berhampore by the Lieutenant-Governor. There
was a large ooncourse of natives present, and the
proceedings paused off with much spirit.
The cholera is raging in the districts of Behar
and Shahabad. It has also broken out iu the gaol
at Patna, but timely precautions and skilful treat-
ment have reduced the mortality to a minimum.
The prisoners were to be removed from the gaol
into tents.

The Womb° Observer of the 17th August heads
its summary in the following manner, and says
that it thereby indicates very fairly the principal
items of news :—" Opening of the Legislative
Council—Financial Prosperity of the Colony—
Surplus of 132,6001.—Progress of the Railway—
Unprecedented Export of Coffee : probable Out-
turn for the Season 780,000 cwts.—Return to
India of the Pioneers engaged for the Ceylon
Government"