The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-20 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following summary of news in the Bombay
Times, extending from the Bth to the 23a1 of July,
comprises everything that is material in the news
from India.

Hie Excellency the Vicerby and Governor-
General ia expected in Calcutta by the first week
in November.

The Commander-in-Chief will not leave India in
October neat, as has been stated ; not till the
ensuing spring will he take his departure.
The head-quarters of the Bombay government
and army are at Poona, where the Legislative
Council of the governor will meet on the 28th inst.
A telegram announcing the arrival at Oalle of the
steamer Rangoon from Suez, with the English
mails of the 27th June, reached us at the moment
of going to press.
The government of India has sanctioned the
building of a government house in Poona, on the
site at Gunneeh Khindee, chosen by hie excellency
Sir Bartle Prete.

The Marie Catharine, Captain Ma.urios, from
Bordeaux to Bombay, was totally wrecked off the
entrance to Bombay harbour on the 15th July.
A letter received in Cabool from the Ameer on
the 28th July, from the scene of war, states that
Birders Mahomed Allee Khan and Mahomed Ruf-
fed( Khan were to march for action against Ufzul
Khan on the 21st Mohurrum (27th June).
The Hill tribes have shown no willingness to mix
themselves up in the Cabool quarrels.
The Aasam authorities have suspended all com-
munications with Bhootan, and have stopped all
payments of Dooar revenues. Ambarree and Fal-
lacottah have been annexed to the British domi-
nions, and the civil and military authorities have
been instructed to be on the alert.

The Dhurm Raj of Bhootan having been in-
formed, at a recent meeting of the Durbar, of the
non-payment of the subsidy by the English go-
vernment for the Dooars of !imam, directed that
his forts should be put in order, bie army recruited,
and a demand made on the British for the Dooar
revenue.

The Rangoon papers mention a rumour that the
King of Burmah was making preparations for war
with the English on a grand male.
An asylum has been granted at Rawul Pindee to
Sirdar Auzim Khan, who will be supported by the
British government until matters are settled in
CabooL

It is stated that Sir Charles Wood contemplates
striking off all the majors on the cadres of regi-
ments.

All staff corpe lieutenant-colonels are to be re-
moved from their cadre on promotion, thus giving
the step to their respective regiments.
The exodus from the new line and cavalry regi-
ments has commenced, many officers reverting to
the cadre and to their former positions in the
locals.

Jhaneie is to be denuded of its. European troops,
and Peshawur to lose one of its cavalry regiments.
Instructions have been sent by the Secretary of
State to the Gorernor.General of India, that no
ships of war of the belligerent powers in Europe
be permitted to enter any port in the East with
prizes, and that the system of neutrality be strictly
carried out.

Captain Lance has been ordered to organise a
force in Kooch Behar and Meerut, so disciplined
that it can cc-operate with the British in any affair
that may occur on the Assam frontier.
The paper currency system is to be introduced
into the Pnnjanb on the lst August

The Governor-General has ordered that the
resumption of the temple property in Meywar,
proposed by Colonel Eden, shall not be prooeeded
with at present.
The Lahore Light Horse is to be disbanded. It
is also stated that the 42nd, 43rd, aid 44th Bengal
N. I. will be broken up.
Mr. Ayrtou's scheme for a railway from the
Nerbudda to Indore has met with the sanction of
the Maharajah Holkar.
The Sanitary Commission for Bengal has under
oonsiderstion general questions connected with the
construction and management of lunatic asylums
in India.

The Guicowar of Baroda is said to have opened
• correspondence with the Brif.sh Resident on the
subject of having his army placed on a similar
footing with the Nixam's Hyderabad Contingent.
His Excellency the Governor of Bombay has no-
minated the Honourable the ddvocate•General of
Bombay to be an additional member of his Excel-
lency's Legislative Council.

The incream in the extent of land under cotton
cultivation in ficinde during the last year was
33,236 acres.
A practice existing among the Indore police of
selling female prisoners has attracted the attention
of the authorities, and an inquiry has been ordered.
The King of Portugal has conferred on the Hon.
Rnatomjee Jamsetjee Jejeebboy the title of Knight
of the Order of Torres and Eepada, to be accom-
panied by a valuable state sword.
The Governor-General of India has declined to
order a census of the Prinjaub, on the ground that
the people may misinterpret its object.
Immense flights of locusts have passed over the
North West and Punjaub.
The Back Bay Reclamation Company (Bombay)
was formally registered oe the 18th July.
Birder Goolab Sing, a relative of his Highness
Duleep Bing, is a guest of his Excellency the
Governor of Bombay at Poona.
Two wealthy merchants of Ahmedabad have
been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for
bribing an electric telegraph signaller.
The monsoon has prevailed with unusual vio-
lence during the past week. Many ships that had
put to sea have been compelled to return. We
have had about 45 inches of rain.
Good accounts are received of the state of the
crops from every quarter, and of the general health
of the country.
The Bombay Gazette says :

Wednesday, the 6th of July, was • great day for Elmira.
lace In perticalar, and for the province of Mysore is metal
The filet locomotive and train of railway carriages laden
with a human freight in the shape of a regiment of soldiers,
arrived at half-past 10 o'clock at night, having traversed the
whole line in safety, and than planed Bangalore within 12
hews of Madras and those facilities at the disposal of the
public as mart 0061111)1de to the general eoavenietice sod
mater's' prosperity. Though this was not the day for the
'formal opining of the lima for traffic sad the coming of the
bath net publicly advertised, still the fact was pretty gene.
'nay Wow., end the crowds of people of all chew who
patiently waited souse five or six hours to be ambled to
wheel the advent of the train showed that great and gene-
ral interest was felt on the ornalloa.
A lbtter from Luckuow of July 6 says :
A telsineadous flight of locusts purl over a portion of
Lacemaw, at 6 o'clock iltb mareing ; they came from the
4w
'set. soon severed the trees sad Arabs, Seeding on
their sues. The mailmen made a terrible noise all mooed
lie them away, bat they WIN as platitudes Isla tem i
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