The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-06 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have
received advice, from Bombay to March 13, and
from Calcutta to March 4.

The progress of the Viceroy still engroeses
public interest. His Excellency entered Delhi
with pomp and pageantry on the morning of the
3rd March. Mutter was visited on the 21st Feb-
ruary. Meerut was expecting a similar honour on
the 6th March.

The Comn;:ider-in-Chief of India at latest dates
was en route by Lohoo Ghat to Almon, Nynee
and Moradabad. From the latter place he was to
proceed to Meerut to meet the Vieeroy.
His Excellency the Governor of Bombay, accom-
panied by Lady Frere and staff, arrived at the
Presidency from Sudashewghur on the morning of
the sth March. His Excellency purposes visiting
Simi in the month of May neat.
His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of
Bombay arrived at the Presidency from his
northern tour on the 4th March, and proceeded to
, Poona by the evening train on the 10th March, ea
route to Mahableehwar.
Sir C. Trevelyan, it is rumoured, intends to
abolish the tax on salt raised in India, and increase
the duty on imported malt. He is gradually carrying
out his measures of economy and reduction of
public expenditure.
In the Legislative Council of his Excellency the
Viceroy and Governor-General on the 90th Feb.,
Mr. Harrington introduced a bill to provide for the
speedy adjudication of claims to waste lands, when
Sir Charles Trevelyan suggested that in order to
avoid the raising of such claims it would be an ex-
cellent plan that ail land supposed to belong to go-
vernment and considered desirable for sale should
be surveyed, in order that a good stock of waste
land for sale might always be in the market. He
considered that thia would be an effectual security
against the raising of private claims when the land
was, as the survey of the land would be, a matter of
local notoriety. He added that the practice had
generally obtained in Ceylon and had had, he be-
lieved, a most beneficial effect.
The total exports of cotton from the central pro-
vinces for this season, inclusive of the balance of
stock of the previous year reserved by speculators
in the hope of prime rising, may be calculated to
amount to from 20 to 22 millions of pounds (9,600
tons). This large raportation may be expected to
reach the seaboard before the close of the season—
about 6,000 tons for Bombay, 2,000 tons for Mirza-
pore and Calcutta, and 1,600 tons for Cuttack. The
present cotton cultivation of Mysore is estimated at
175,000 acres.
Intelligence from Jynteah to the 20th February
is to the effort that the country is tolerably
peaceful.
The British Indian Association of Calcutta has
held a meeting for the purpose of adopting an
address to Sir Charles Wood expressive of the re-
spect and gratitude of the native community for
hie wise and beneficent administration of Indian
affairs.

The Commissioners appointed to try Captain
Hurst, who lost the steamer Jason, have suspended
his certificate for a period of twelve months, and
ordered it to be given up for transmission to the
Board of Trade. He has protested against the
jurisdiction of the Court of Enquiry, and against
their decision, and threatens to have the question
broincht before the High Court on appeal.
It is currently rumoured in native society in Ben-
gal, that the infamous Nana of Bithoor is still
living, and that he visited Bemires last year for a
short time. Doubts are also entertained as to the
death of Bala Rao, who with Tantia Topee, fines-
moolla Khan, JAWILIIII Porsand, and the Nana,
directed the massacre of the Oawnpore garrison in
the boats.

Numbers of forged currency notes still continue
to be put into circulation at Bombay, and two cases
were under investigation by the police.
His Excellency Sir William Mansfield, at the
conclusion of the review parade of the 72nd High-
landers at Mow, in his address to that regi-
ment, declared them to be a pattern to the British

army.
That stupendous railway work, the Bhore Ghent
Incline, was to be fully completed by the contrac-
tor's agents, Messrs. Adamson and Clowser, on the
20th of March, and be ready to be opened for goods
traffic in the early part of April.
A committee has been appointed by government,
and certain rules passed for the future care and
maintenance of the garden containing the remains
of those who were massacred at Cawnpore in July,
1857. It is designated the "Memorial Garden,"
and it has been placed in charge of an European
custodian, underthe supervision of the committee.
There is a rumour that government, on the re-
commendation of his Excellency the Commander-
in-Chicf, intends to live full instead of half baits
to the officers of regiments stationed in Poona and
Bombay, to compensate them for the vast increase
in the rents of houses and prices of provisions in
the last five orris years.

The contract for the weekly mail to Bombay has
been given to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Navigation Company ; and the new service between
Aden and Bombay will be commenced as soon as
the requisite number of ships can be brought out
from England and placed ea the Lea

THE POLISH

[ON.

The news circulated ; day or two sinoet that
the provisional government had ordered the msur-
gents to lay doWn their stmt, is now pretty gene-
rally believed to have been a mere Russia* inven-
tion. Idtalllgeece whieb Teethes us from various,
%natters mesas to indicate that the movement con-
tinues as actively as ever, and that the patriotic
forces are obtaining some successes. It is
even stated that the Russians, taking a les-
son from their enemy, are determined to
fight the Poles in their own manner. Ply-
ing columns are being organised, we learn,
composed of volunteers from the troops, who are
allowed a supplementary pay as well as additional
rations of brandy, meat, and bread. Peasants are
also englged to serve them as spies.
A communication from Cracow of the 2nd instant
says : _ .

The palatinate of Lublin is now in open revolt. On the
Nth vat, bares Morita amid Arrow, • Baran colonels
taking reinforeements to Othnes, threatened by beads a(
Wingers who had again formed after the combats of the
18th and 190, net is the hamlet el Baseawies, on Me
basks of the Vistula. • body of young. ISM who, alter havieff
armed the river, were proosedieg towards the Whiles.
where they were to metre farther maim They were
sossiely 250 to eggebee, sad the. Swim rise 1
I.COD. besides • &noires& of be =
tact their Ranks. The isms=
Whig tamed by the Orrin
two Arm, took Wage ia • vidsiso
after the above oombatirambel 4este the
and partially destroyed Ire. The' baniameleatbourst•••
in this pin" and for sic akaasied S. heap tieskramelli
anti at hey. Fearing that the Poles wieseemeatil
the night, the Uglier get 11400 Oil the
spite of the are at the pesinals for swireye the Pelee
1:C..1a the mew tine ask. eel& Bonier Es their boorboorLL
The Miter the. mind ea 48 of the laliebitents al the
cotters, and ' tied them ein by on. n =Luria=
enseenpnemr, Mader to err ass bled
the Polish shot. The fariagisidasly
_cam* bat the young
men, taking adman. al • favourable eggertanity while
theiiremies were %kb( irg= Mkt& ropmetzllially
and effected their this was
Ranier their
tunedrtry ea the perms* and, matt
reveg.ge, piled earth sad rubbish spinet the poets, thus
be ing the poet perm* at it wens, sire almost up to
theirnee& In • short rime eff el thsea von &ad I TG
colonel in the morning wished to remove all traces of this
horrible brutality: but an alarateres soddenly given and the
Bursae were obliged to Irk% sad • bead of reargente
oars" op, gave Chrisfsn burial to the murdered men.
. . . . _

The Austrian Gazetk states that 210 hones
belonging to Polish insurgents were sold by
suction at Cracow on the Slat nit. They were all
bought by Poles at very low prices, as no one would
bid against them.

FRANCE.

(nom on ONE 0091

PARIB, BLIVIDAT Evnrma
The Courrier du Diniatiehe publishes a despatch
upon the Polish question from Fart Russell to Lord
Napier' dated the 2nd of March, which it deseribes
as new and authentic. The Chewier du Divisanche
does not think that Prince Gortachakoff has given
any official answer to this despatch ; but from what
has transpired of conversations between him and
Lord Napier, it would appear that the language of
the cabinet of St. Petersburg, more particularly of
late, is net of a nature to discourage those who hop
for equitable and spontaneous coneemsions on the
part of the Emperor Alexander.
The Nation affirms (and there are statements in
other quarters to the same effect) that the despatch
in question has now nothing more than an historical
interest, and that it has been abandoned by Lord
Russell himself. Negotiations, the initiative of
which was taken by Francs, speedily showed the
head of the London Foreign-office that his views,
so far as they took the treaties of 1815 for their
basis, were not shared either at Paris or Vienna.
The Patios proceeds to report the story already
told, that new proposals made since the return of
Prince de Metternich to Paris are to be drawn up
by Austria on behalf of the three powers. It
will be remembered that M. Billault, in
his speech on Polish affairs in the Senate,
very emphatically repudiated the position
that the treaties of 1.815 contained a remedy for
the present condition of Poland, and therefore the
present assertions of the Nation ale worth atten-
tion. I observe, however, that the France, while
'peaking of fresh negotiations as being on foot,
says that the information relative to them is very
contradictory ; and it admits—so far justifying
Lord Russell's despatch—that, however much the
treaties of 1815 may require modification so far as
regards Poland, " they constitute the one and only
stand-point upon which it is possible to take any
diplomatic action whatever."
The quarrel between Liingiewicz and Mieroelawski,
is lamentable evidence of the dissensions which
afflict the friends of Poland. From the tone of
the clerical prints here, I infer that Langiewicz is
the champion of the Catholic and feudal party ;
and that Mieroelawski is obnoxious because be is
connected with French and Italian liberals; the
Gazette de France stigmatises him as "the Polish
Blanqui."
News has arrived that Colonel d'Auvergne, the
head of General Foray's staff, has broken his leg by
a fall from his horse. His duty with the army of
Mexico is taken provisionally by Colonel Maslow.
Colonel d'Auvergne is • well-known officer, and
was with General Foray as chief of his staff both
in the Crimea and in Italy.
A letter to the Bishop of Orleans on the events
in Poland, by M. Anatole de la Forge, has been
seized to-day at the publisher'sand at several book-
sellers'.
The Bocuse hes been doll. Rente fellloc. and 5e.,
and there was very little business done. The only
material change in other securities wee a rise of
17.50 in the Southern Railway.

ATIIDIPTED Muumuu in Birni-Yrain. —ln con-
sequoias at an announcement that a mortar riseerag of
inequable, with Pored would she plus in Hyde-part an
Sunday shampoos, between 2 and 3 o'clock yesterday about
2,000 neperablydreseed persons,. amongst whom wen
many women and a number of foragers *rambled on the
open epees of ground in the perk adjacent to the Marble.
arra, the scene of the late Garibrdian riots. Shortly
before 2 o'clock a large body of police, under the emaniaad
of Superintendent liaanant, wen marched into the park,
acid, being told off in pain, proceeded to patrol the posed.
All attempte at appointing • chairman and eddtaritg tie
crowd were frustrated by the police, who were porempeory
ia their truer to allow any sack psoceediap to take phew
Ris-wmontrio AID Itl-1101181110 CRAP:MIL --At.
question involving aossidarable Interest to the ries sod spies
trade generally boa lately bees discured at the public males
in Mincing-lane, and was spin taken up mere warmly on
Wednesday last. The chintmaterice comprised of is, that
within a recast period nose d the wheel companies her
bre mrsavouring to ninths.' a inch autos of e
the buyer of certain goods for re. weighing, raboserelM
within the prompt, such charge having reaps hitherto
been included in the consolidated rate, which is paid by the
fm or whir, sad that great i1100•11(101•BC41 and delay
had erase from enforcing the enlist claim. In
making this extra charm the wharf comperes
intimate that they get no adequate return from
the importer for the neceseurtime and trouble tbat Is taken
whatever a " cleersece" is made, and that the only source
from white they era seek compensatias is the buyer, who
wants the geode delivered. This certainly Is extremely
unfau, and the trade are acting perfectly right is refusing
such unreagoaable demands. It was remarked that the new
charge might be paid forthwith, and recovered by ea
action against the wharf companies in the county court ; bat
Mr. CB. Kelhiun, who was the first to bring the subject
forward, replied with moth fines. "that we ought net
go to law ia • eatery like this," and that these nottlurs
ass la more properly to be regulated by the " Obeyer" sf
Coramererf— which obssrvatior ware loudly steered by the
room. Hero the affair dropped, with the 'Worming
that the attempt of the wharf compered in grades to fie
them Aerie, woe the buyer wee to he strongly nada.—
Vie Ureter.
An enormous whale has just been cast ashore at
Dunkirk in • violent gale. It TIMIAMPAIS over 100 feet in
length. Its death struggle on the mode Imbed two boars.
CRYSTAL. PLUM.. HALF-A-CROWN DAY
.
SATURDAY, Arum 4. Adraissioos on payment, 1,277 ;
ditto by mare tidier. 1,934 ; total, 3,211.
Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vent+ his Mesas pries of Wens Mown hens as to tl •
asnal week Maseroso's TM Y sasetemed thereon always
pod EMI a Mold Is packets by late seenta.—tauvartimesset.l

MUSIC.

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AGRICULTURAL HALL, LIILINOTON.

In addition to the two great " Pant* Week"
performs* of the Messiah at Entamhell, then was a
third at the above locality on Saturday evade& which
eindear of effect might be compared with *her of the
others. The Agricultural Hall at Islington, regarded ris a
musk hall, greatly moods in magnitude any other band-
ies of the mos kid M Leedom ; sod, filled b the doors
with • greet senititude, it had much of the mot and
*poise aspect of the centre transept of the Crys-
tal Peace during a Hand/Ilan performance. This nether
is momearily 'Medd with the immunises so dins re-
marked in the came of the Crystal Palace ; the power end
' distinonses of the musical bounds are lessened by the huge
space, through which they diffuse thauselve• The
chorus sad instrumental orchestra on Saturday evening
were seven hundred strong ; the same sumetted dreseth,
but not the same effective strength, as that of the aimed
Harmonic Society's tuneful host in Exeter-hall. The
choruses were lees resonant end consequestly lees Imprenive;
bat this defect was not so much felt in the soles. The vented
the principal singers, and even the words/4*min, were Will
heard, a proof of the excellent acouileal properties of the
building. But, nevertheless, in ranee up great chord
performances than, it will be necessery to *reams me-
Mandy the strength of the choir.
Bat setting side this deficiency of strength, caused by
the magnitude of the locality, the performed, me excel-
lent, and well deserved the setinuiames desessonnied by
the vast nimbly of auditors. The pried* *ems wipe
lfdlle. Parma, *drum fisinton-Dolby, lir. Sims Beeves,
sad XL Weiss; to wham were added Xis Yea Norden, /13e,
Fanny Midden, sad Mr. Suchet-Chaniplon. Yda3a Peespa's
elem, brilliant voile rang through the wide ezpseinand fail
upon the we of the audience sa Clara Novello.e seed to do
at the Crystal Palen ; sad a similar offset cif pewee and
distinctness was produced by Mr. Sims Beene. Both these
*gem wars moat vehemently applauded, fer,the saiintes
gannarethained expression to their fed i sad
ware attempted, het (very properly sot *Lit
sbr Yither. Indent* Sainton-Dolby sad Mr. Weds eime
admirably as unit sod wen received with the warmth
they so well damn. The charms were extremely wall
snug ; for the voices, though death* hs
n' were el excellent it ; and
they Mr . *Bethel." able dine-tin with preakien sad
One thing sin we have Si :add. Three* his end
meet the oratorio was properly divided late he three
scoirding to Eluvial.' own design ; no sthitrary
farm' not* of division, such as we had to enneplaks
last week, having bean kindeoed.