The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our dispatches from India and
China, by the Overlaid Mail. The dates are—Bece-
bay, May 27; Calcutta, May 19; Hong-Hoag,
May 10.
The following is from the summary of the Bombay
Thus of May 27:
India continues peaceful almost througliont. Some
inconsiderable disturbances, and one foul murder in
Burnish, constitute almost the sole exception to this
uninteresting state of things. Captain Madigan, of
her Majesty's 84th Foot, an officer of singularly quiet
and rode demeanour, having been employed in
erecting posts for the electric telegraph between
Donabew and Henzadah, in Pep, was on the 23rd of
April tied to a tree and speared to death, in revenge
for the 41XeCIIII011 of the son of one of the chiefs, who
bad been hung some months ago by order of the
deputy.commismoner. He was obviously mistaken
for a political officer, and, though in possession of
1,400 rupees, which was offered by himself aid by
hie servant if his life were spared, the murderers left
his property untouched, but refused to spare him.
Meanwhile the murderers of Captain Latter seem all
to have been discovered, and we shall probably now
have facts brought to light clearing away entirely the
aspersions cast on that officer at the time of his death,
and explaining to us in what manner these atrocities,
obviously planned by very different persons from those
who put them in execution, are brought to pass. We
were in our last able to give no more then a telegraphic
motile of a brilliant affair at Dersamund on 30th April,
where summary chastisement was inflicted by a
sink troop of cavalry and a company of infantry as
about two thousand hill robbers of the Terse tribe,
chiefly Goruksaies. The plus of the encounter is
about fifty-five miles west from !Collet, where Major
Coke, with a troop of the 4th Punjaub cavalry, sail
• company of the Ist Puojaub infantry were sts.
tioned. Foe two days it had been rumoured that the
enemy, to the amount of three thousand, had been col-
lecting in the hills with the view of attacking our
camp, and on the morning of the 30th, just after
breakfast, 2,000 of them were seen within half a mile
of tut, marching up and down beatiog their den me, bran-
dishing their swords, and discharging their match-
locks, with a view of enticing our troops out to attack
them. As the position they held was a strong one,
Major Coke resolved to wait until they abandoned it.
About eleven a portion of them began to come still
nearer to us, and were shortly close enough to fire
upon our pickets. The troop of cavalry under Major
Jacob and Captain Fraser now dashed out upos
them, cutting down eight on the spot, and
dispersing the remainder, who retired on their
mun body, and there seemed resolved on a
stand. A company of Coke's infantry now
advanced on them, and speedily sent them scampering
over the hill', subjected to total discomfiture, and
leaving fifteen dead behind them ; on our side there
was not a single casualty to deplore. The Hyderabad
country continues to be rent by internal dissensions,
to be brought to a conclusion only when the dynasty
of the Mum ceases to reign. After having de-
spatched the 10th Hussars and 12th Lancers, all
idea has been suspended of sending more men
from India to the Crimea this season. The
10th Dragoons were brought down from Meerut
to Kielcee, having been first marched fram
quarters about the new year, returned to cantonments
on the 19th January, and then started a second time
shortly after, nearly a two months' march, on par-
,pose for embarkation, reaching just in time to get six
'weeks of the roasting winds of the Deccan and be so
close on the south-west monsoon, that it was impos-
sible to embark them at all. In December when the
order for troops from India arrived, the Governor-
General had an army of 280,000 men at his disposal,
or about double that deemed adequate for the
tranquil maintenance of the country a few
years ago, when we had formidable enemies
in the midst of us and on all our borders. Of
these nearly 15,000 were Company's European
troops; 26,800, or nearly 7,000 more than the law
llows for India belonged to the Queen's army. Of
these 20,000 could have been spared without the
slightest difficulty or danger, and might by the Ist May
have been before Sebastopol, forming a heavier force
by a tenth than the whole British army now attack-
ing it, and consisting wholly of thoroughly seasoned
men, accustomed to field service, a fourth of them
at least within the last eight years sharers in
the laurels of a dozen of victories. In place of
sending off this magnificent army at once, we de-
epatclied some 1,200 cavalry, reserving, we presume,
the remainder of the force for the campaign of 1856
and.future years.

Casualties by death is India sines-4h' departure of the
mall oa the Ilth May, 1853.
ELK?* Troops.—Captaia J. Madigan, 84th Foot, new.
Masted by game Balinese dacoits on the 23rd April, at
Manyro in Burnish.
Bombay.—Surgeon Bloiham, at Bombay, on the 13th
instant.
Boagsl.—Captain B. T. Smalley, 61st N. 1., near Riwal
Pindee, on the 13th instant. Bargsoa Edward Mitchell, at
Calcutta, on the 9th May.