The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1852.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

tween Argentines ; that he requests General Urdinar-
rain aid the Entre-Biano forces to be conveyed to
their reviles with their arms; and, finally, that he
does set wish to see us devoured by anarchy."
To this die government returned an answer that
the ressiadea of hie Excellency General Urquiza
Ideppity nwerres sip:WM of szeiteraent and rancour ;
and thapettelaes of Bassos Ayres, which, without twin
war, doom peace, will heat with satisfactioo that it may
now WO, II with hosier. In virtue thereof, as soon as the
ggoovem~ument knows from its respective chiefs, that the
isssatsetmes troops have countermarched, and that all the
Itetre-Inses Aetna that tread this territory have retired to
the perseinsgs of Entre Rios, it will hasten to issue the cor-
Tosperediag orders; and, aftedim to the request of sour
Bandleasy, It will feel much sodded/on in remitting to
Entre-Bins the valiant Entre-Riaao division that exists in
this and Ent knew with each self-denial to asso-
ciate inett with tits results of the movement of the 11th ;
the gresessust loping that your Excellency will deign
M mew lest la the same transports that may con-
vey It, the bashed. of citizens of this province,
whom Y. B. t s ht At to transport to that of Entre-Rios
Is the Ines* of April, may he restored to their country
Imo pen hems; as also to order that the steamer Mercer
le this port, u soon as Y. E. no longer requires bad
Crwrs tempests( the forces referred to, to the province of
Entre Ries; The government of Buenos Ayres, moot
intestiest sir, that felt infinite complacency at observing
that this greet nest has not cost any ono a single tear, fees
met ises ea siessavieg that it tenniaates without the effusion
el • drop of blood, as became the nobleness of this
, the easrednem of its cause, and the invincible
farce ef a esesusasted popular set, which no power on
earth could new restrain. 'This government wishes Y. E.
the gveateet prosperity, and has the honour of saluting you
with its meat distinguished consideration.
An Mal despatch, dated San Nicolas, Sept. 20,
says
At this bear, quarter past 6 p.m., the compromise is ful-
filled, whisk General Urquisa bad contracted with the
province and the republic, of retiring from the political
eons, gad leaving the province of Buenos Ayres the free
mistress of its destinies. 11. E. embarked in the steamer
Merced, and set sail at the hour above mentioned. The
infaatry, artillery, and hawse go by water; and the
cavalry Is in march for Banta Fe, with destination to Entre
Bias General Urquiss hes placed in the hands of the
undersigned the sum of 11,74.1 dots. finals, amount of the
nemesaries with which he has been supplied by this neigh-
bourhood, which shall to-morrow be applied to their object.

The Iberia, with these mails, arrived at South-
ampton yesterday morning. Her dates are—Oib-
niter, Nov. 6; Cadiz, Nov. 7; Lisboa, Nov. 9 ;
Oporto, Nov. 10 ; Vigo, Nov. 10.
-The Senator Auto de Costa Cabral,
younger brother of Costa Cabral, has been murdered
at Vino.
The war of the bank against the government h
still an active one; the former presented its 18,000,000
rein in notes oa the 30th, under the abrogated law,
for amortisation, which the Junta do Credits Publico
refused ; while the Treaaury presented to the Junta the
9,000,000 reis under the decree to the account of the
bank, which, with their own quota and other small
sums, amounting in the whole to 30,915,000 rein, were
duly amortised on the 3rd, as well as 9,494,091 rein
in other papers of credit. The bank has also ad-
vertised authoritatively for all purchasers of national
property to pay the amount of their purchases into
the coffers of the bank, as if the directors were in
the exercise of ministerial functions._

Exchange, 54 ; discount of Lisbon bank notes, 3
per cent.
On the 9th inst., at Lisbon, a mutiny broke out
among the crow of the Melbourne screw emigrant
ship to Australia. One seaman was stabbed by
soother, and is not expected to live. The captain
and &Boers went on board the Inflexible, for
security, the captain of which sent his boats,
armed, and brought away Sve of the ringleaders
and put them in irons on board of his ship. The
Melbourne put into Lisbon leaky, with loss of all
three masts in moderate weather, u also did the
ship Typhoon, dismasted in a gale. Several of the
Melbourne's passengers have come home in the
Severn.

THE SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.
The Royal Brazilian Mail packet Severn, Captain
Chapman, from the Brazils, B:e., arrived at South-
ampton yesterday. and landed her mails under the
charge of Lieutenant Newenharn, R.N., Admiralty
agent. The dates are: Buenos Ayres, Oct. 2nd; Monte
ideo, sth ; Rio de Janeiro, 15th, 7.50 a.m.; Bahia,
19th, 7 p.m.; Pernambuco. 22nd, 5.40 p.m.; St.
Vincent, 30th, 10.25 p.m.; Teneriffe, Nov. 4th, 10.30
; Madeira, 6th, 11.50 a.m.; Lisbon, 9th, 4.20
p.m.
The Severn brings 41 passenger. The freight on
board includes 5651. gold and 22,771 L diamonds.
The screw-steamer Forerunner, now overdue with
the mails from the west coast of Africa, arrived at
Teneriffe before the Brazilian packet Severn touched
there, but had not reached Madeira when the Severn
loft.
The Propontis, now overdue, with the Cape of
Good Hope mails, was hourly expected at St. Vincent
when the Severn left that island.
The screw•steamer Calcutta, which left Plymouth
on the 15th ult., with the Cape and Mauritius mails,
arrived at St. Vincent on the 28th, and left on the
30th ult.

THE RIVER NAVIGATION QUESTION.

The Provisional National Administration not
having been assumed by the Buenos Ayreans, the
new government has only a provincial character,
and cannot deal with international questions; hence,
as will be seen by the following message of the
new executive, the work of opening the navigation of
the great rivers has yet to be begun
- - -

Buvios Ayree, Sept. 28.

To the Renewable Chamber of RepreseniatWee.
For many years the opening of our interior rivers to
universal commerce has been regarded by all reflecting
men as a convenience, or rather a necessity, of our desert
countries. The intrusive administration in this province
hem fallen that recently declared it, and regulated it with a
view to a political state of existence which hem also dis-
appeared. This oceuoccurrencemay produce, especially
abroad, d.istrust or hesitation in this respect, which it is of
supreme importance to dissipate or prevent. Sines the
province of Buenos Ayres has resumed the full ezeseinel
of its sovereignty and rights, and since it is kw*
Bible that a national authority can exist so sown SI
might have been wishcl, it is important mew
while that the province declare itself on this pekes
la a solemn manner, and obligatory on itself, so to "ea.
It is true that the honourable chamber has already andel- '
wed this, on declaring in the manifest which it has issued,
that this province wishes the opening of the rivers ; but the
L 1 considers that, in a matter of this importance,
I:lll:lll4assilestation of a desire is not sufficient, so long
askissit entaverted into a law of the country, at least as
swards the River Parana, the only one upon which the
previnoe can legislate. But as this river bathes other po-
ling% if Will be necessary to understand with them as to
Rieuelpdeliene that are to be adopted in the ease. These
and men qf ether considerations, which the government
VW explain In due coarse, induce it to submit to the con-
eldieration of your honourable corporation the draft of law,
which it hes the honour to enclose."

Here follow the signatures and the draft of a law
opening the Parana under regulations to be agreed
upon with the littoral provinces.

i,.

iitiNA.

INDIA AND C

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE WAR WITH BURNIAII.

We have received our journals and despatches in
anticipation of the Overland Mail. The dates are—
Bombay, Oct. 16; Calcutta, Oct. 7; Hong Kong,
Sept. 28.
The following is the letter of our Bombay cor-
respondent:
BOMBAY, Ocr. 16.
Tho whole of the first division, mentioned in my
last as under orders to move up to Promo, had left
Rangoon by the 26th September, accompanied by
General Godwin, Admiral Austen, C. mmodore Lam-
bert, Sir John Cheape, and Brigadier Elliott, with
nearly all the heads of departments; Rangoon being
left in charge of Brigadier-General Steele. The
80th Foot embarked in the small steamers on the
16th, the 18th Royal Irish betwixt the 19th and 21st,
the native corps, Artillery, and Sappers, betwixt the
21st and 26th. The admiral bad hoisted his flag in
the Pluto; General Godwin and the commodore are
in the Preeerpine. The rain poured in torrents during
the week ending 26th ult., and it was feared cholera
would break out amongst the troops exposed to the
weather in the 'small steamers. They were to be
transhipped in the Irrawaddy to the larger frigates
isoostrts, Fire Queen, Enterprise, besides the smaller I
vessels Pluto, I'hlegethon, Proserpine, Medusa, and
Mahauuddy, the rendezvous being at Yanchin Chu-
ilfah. Tho rumour ran that a vast force had
been assembled at Prome to give them a warm r veep.
Use, while other accounts stated that it was not im-
proble a messenger front the King of Ave would
await their arrival to make terms. General Godwin
would return to Rangoon from Prome if all remained
grist, and take up the second division under
Steele (the 51st Font, the 40th, and
17th Bengal Native Infantry, the 9th Madras Native
Latantry, 2 companies of sappers, andthe Horse Artil-
lery) about the 13th instant. Whether they would
coup by steam, or overland by Sltuygain and Ton-
pluo, was not known; but Colonel Bogle was col-
luting large numbers of elephants, bullocks, and
arts, at Moulmein. Tho first division expected to
Nan* Promo by the 4th inst., so that by next mail
Something exerting may be transmitted home. It is
believed that the annexation of the province of Pegu
will bo proclaimed on our force gaining possession of
Prome —a letter being sent to the king announcing
the fact, and once more offering him terms, which
should he refuse he must abide the consequences.
The sth M.N.1., the head quarters sth batt. Artillery,
the Ist Madras European Fusiliers, and large detach-
ments for the native regiments, had reached Ran-
goon. The detachment 80th Foot from Moulmein
had joined head quarters before they left for home.
The Battler steamer is placed as guardship at
Bassein. The 51st Foot and 9th were
to relieved from Bassein by the Ist Madras
Fusiliers and 19th M.N.I. The Ist Bengal Euro-
pean Fusiliers left Calcutta by the steamers
Sphinx, Feroze' and Moozuffer on the 29th Sept.
and it is rumoured that the 2nd Europeans, now on
their way from Agra to Fort William, will follow
them to Rangoon ;if so, there will then be six Eu-
ropean corps in Burmah, viz., the 18th, 51st, and
80th Queen's, and the Ist and 2nd Bengal, and Ist
Madras fusiliers—elose on 6,000 men, I should sup-
_

pose. Dr. Morgan, of her Majesty's frigate, Fox,
died at Rangoon, of cholera, on the 23rd September.
There are now in the Burmese waters the following
vessels :—lier Majesty's ship, Hastings; her Mu-
jeaty's frigate, Fox ; her • Majesty's frigate, Win-
duster ; her Majesty's steamer, Sphinx ; her Ma-
jesty's steamer, Rattler ; Honourable Company's
steamers Feroze, Moozuffer, Sesestris, Zenobia,
Berenice, Nemesis, Hugh Lindsay, Fire Queen,
Pluto, rhlegethon, Proserpine, liedusa, Mahe-
middy, Enterprise, and a couple of other smaller ones;
the schooners Spy, Ann, and Henzie Queen ; with
upwards of twenty five transports. Two new ships,
the Granville and Hougoumont, of 700 and 981 tons,
were launched at Moulmein, and a steam frigate
mimed the Malacca, is being built for the royal navy.
It was rumoured that a body of 40,000
Burmans intended attacking Rangoon oa the night
of the 30th or 31st ult., they having heard of the
departure of the first division of our troops for
Prams, The story was looked upon as a very un-
likely one, but all proper precautions had neverthe-
less been taken to
.prevent surprise and to give the
Ws a warm reception should they attempt to molest
ea. A strong party of marines and sailors from the
Winchester had been put on board the surveying
brig Krishna, lying off a place called Puzendawn,
where the ex-governor of Pegu had taken refuge, se
a party of Burmans from Pep had threatened to
attack the place and carry him off. A number of
Busse having taken up a position in a village not
far from Martaban, several boats were dispatched
from the Zenobia steamer and schooner Pegu to put
them to the rout.

There has been very little news from the Punjaub
since my last. One of the few chiefs on the frontier
who remained true to us having thereby drawn on
himself and hie tribe the enmity of the hill tribes,
who were said to be about pouncing on him, had ap-
plied for protection, and it was believed a force
would proceed out from Peshawar to his assistance.
Sir H. Lawrence was expected back at Lahore on
the 2nd or 3rd inst. Colonel Mackeson had not re-
turned to Peshawar at latest dates. The sickness in
the country bad diminished but little. From &lode
not a word of intelligence has reached Bombay since
despatch of last mail worth repeating. The steamer
with news to the 12th is hourly expected. Matters
continue to progress from bad to worse in the Nizam's
dominions. The Contingent are eight months in ar-
rears of wages, with at present small hopes of receiv-
ing their pay from the Nizam's government, and our
own apparently have no notion of doing the need-
ful for tin. Party @Tabbies run higher daily at
the capital, but still we interfere not. In the districts
rival governors think nothing of having a fly at each
other, just for the fun of the thing. The Governor-
General remains at Calcutta, in "royal seclusion," as
one of the papars has it. His lordship does not wish
to be pate personally by every. one who thinks
he has claims to any vacant appointment, and has
therefore directed that all applications for such shall
be made officially, in writing, through his private
secretary. This seems to have given offence to the
Ditchers,who accordingly call out about his exclusive-
ness. The Marchioness Dalhousie is said to have
derived great benefit from her sojourn in the Cinna-
mon Isle. Sir W. Gomm has after all, as if to spite
the quid news, gone to Chance to spend a short tame
in quiet away from Biala. The 10th Bengal Native
Infantry, had reached Calcutta for embarkation
for Burma the 2nd European Fusiliers were daily
expected. The young chief Dhulleep Sing, ex-
Maharajah of Lahare—a boy of nearly 16 years of
age, who has since our annexation of the country of
the Five Rivers, been under charge of Dr. Login—
has, it is said, embraced Christianity in private, and
will soon do so in public. He has been to church at
Meerut with the worthy doctor, and thereupon the
Ho/assails has rated him and the government
soundly, but molt ridiculously as most people think,
the former for having inveigled the affections of the
child (fifteen years old I) and got him to renounce the
faith of his ancestors, and the latter for allowing the
doctor to perpetrate such a heinous crime. By the
newspaper writer the event is calculated to irritate
against us every native potentate in India, and God
knows what may not be the result of their wrath !
Anything more ridiculous than the article in the
usually sensible and ably conducted Meerut
journal cannot be cenceavect. The attorneys
of Calcutta have formed an association amongst
themselves for the purpose of getting up a
law library worthy of their body--and many hun-
dreds of pounds have been subscribed by them. The
new church at Roorkee has been finished, and was
opened for public worship on the 20th September.
The trooper who shot in April, 1831, Lieutenant and
Adjutant Johnstone, of the 3rd Madre@ Cavalry, at
Janina, has been tried, found 'guilty, and sentenced
to be hung: the sentence has been commuted to
transportation for life. Lieutenant F. Hardy, 75th
Foot, died of &Dior* at Umballa on the 3rd October.

Brigadier• General Breton has been pliCedii;;;;:
mend of the Sirhind division, and Brigadier Boileau
in charge of the station of Rawnl Pindee. Colonel
Franklyn, 84th Foot, to be a 2nd clue brigadier in
command of Trichinopoly. Captain Darroch, 81st
Foot, to be Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-
General to the army of Ava. The editor
of the Iliend of India, Mr. Marsham, goes home in
I ;annoy next : it is to be hoped he may be examined