The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived advice. from Bombay to March 28, and from
Calcutta to March 20.

• The Persian Gulf telegraph cable has been laid
down as far as Busbire. Colonel Stewart reported
to the Governor of Bombay on the 22nd March, by
telegram direct from Bushire through Kurrachee,
that the whole length of submarine cable en board
Use Tweed (373 miles) had been paid out from that
vessel in the most perfect order. All the party on
board the Tweed are reported well.
Since the 23rd March passenger trains have com-
menced running direct from Bombay to Poona and
Sholapore over tte Bhore Ghent incline. The
transit from Bombay to Poona now occupies eight
hours.

The through line of railway from Bombay to
Ahmedabad will not be opened for public traffic
until after the next monsoon. The entire line of
railway, from Mooltan to Umritair, will be open for
traffic in November next.

Cholera has made its appearance in the Bombay
Presidency, and is committing fearful ravages in
several districts.

It has been ordered by the Governor-General
that any persons who may have committed crimes
on foreign territory, and who have sought refuge in
the dounnious of British India, shall be returned to
their own government, and that an agreement be
made with the native governments for this rule to
be reciprocal. . . . .

The 'preliminary examination into the charges of
treason brought against the Umballah and Patna
conspirators who are accused of bolding treasonable
communication with and furnishing money and
arms to the Mulkab and Sittana fanatics, was com-
menced at Umbsllah on the 14th March before the
deputy commissioner, Captain Tighe.
It is stated, on the autbmity of a private letter,
that Bir Charles Wood has distinctly refused to
listen to any proposition for removing the seat of
government from Caloutta ; and that he will insist
on Calcutta being again made the headquarters of
the army.

" Attain in Affgbanistan (says the Bombay
Gazette) are looking very gloomy for the Ameer,
Sherd Ali Khan, who still remains at Cabool. His
brothers Auzim Khan and Afzul Khan are iu arms
against him, and the latter has threatened to
march his troops upon Cabool after the Nowroz, or
new year, unless certain Sirdars whom the Ameer
had detained in Cabool, with their troops, were
allowed to return immediately to Balkh, of whit*
province Afaul Khan is the ruler. The Ameer is
making preparations to defend himself against his
rebellious kinsmen, but the issue seems very doubt-
ful should they actually determine to attack him."
The government of Bombay has appointed a com-
mission, of which Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., is
president, to inquire into the healthful education
of the ebildren of European soldiers and others,
with a view to the removal of the children from the
schools at Bycullali to Poona or Poorundbur.
The Governor-General has appointed a committee,
of which Mr. H. H. Roberts, C. 8., is president,
for the purpose of reporting fully ou the present
state of gaol discipline in India, and upon the man-
agement and treatment of prisouera.
The government of India has granted &sufficiency
of gun metal for casting the equestrian statue of
the late Lord Canning, which was some time ago
subscribed for chiefly by the natives of Calcutta.

Menotti Garibaldi attended on Tuesday last at
the studio of the West London Photographic Company in
the Fulham-road, when a very characteristic and staring
likeness wea t►kes.

Ertsooret. Cueitoze.—ln consequence of the
death of the Bishop of Peterborough the Bishop of
Gloucester and Bristol will mass to be junior bishop of the
House of Lords, and Dr. Retold Browne, who was room-
anted a few days since to the bishopric of Ely, will become
the judo, bishop immediately after his installation in the
Cathedral Chervil of £l, us Theedey Dent, tae Mat inst..
and will attend to read prayers is the Bowe of Lords evi
day. The sew Bishop of Peterborough will not be entitled
to a seat in the Rome of Lords until a vacancy ocean in
some diocese other than Oanterbory, York, Laudon.
Dorlient, and Winchester.