The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-17 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following is from the overland summary of
the Friend of India :
Ever since 1857, there has been serious discontent among
our subjects in Aram and the Indo-Chinese tribes on the
frontier. and it kr now manifested itself in a most serious
form. The outpost sanitarium of the Eastern Himalayas
is Cherrapoonjee, noted for one of the greatest rainfalls in
the world. It forms the centre, sad is the thief station of
the Jynteah hills. It lies immediately to the north of
Sylhet and east of Cachar, two fertile districts in which
there are at least a hundred Englishmen engaged in tee-
planting; aid where grants of land are being rapidly bought
up in fee simple. In 1835 the Rajah of Jynteab, India
Singh, finding he territory onprofitable, offered to give it
to us for a pension of is. 603 a month. Up to 1858 the
administration of that die rid was not conducted with-
out expense, and in that year, after deputing a member
of the board of revenue to the place, we impord a
house tax on the parr. new resisted were
punished, and the tax was paid. The 'roper
which was no novelty, !lad been made use of as a pretext
by the ex-rajah to stir up intrigues_ for his restoration to a
, bein bad
obeyel
li voluntarily surrendered. The order west forth
I r„a hvgeengsseg, to .IPaese, but it was mar
Ike keel official,' °bon oversight"' as ie nafvely
omf in the official mot. It is tens Bengal=
yarned, sad we seed not wondr- that the Jynterali
are once More in rebellion. The people of Jowl, &Jong
Tutor, Shimmy, An., have surrounded the sepey, ,
located at the &a-mentioned plane, and all the
in that pert of the country are only waiting for a favourable
opportunity to join them. The whole inhabitants of this 19
district. into which the territory is divided ars estimated
at only 40,000 covering aa area of 25 square miles. The
came of this rising is said to be the new tax lately imposed
upon them. But they say they would bare bees willing to
beer tbis quietly, bad it and been for other burden which
are still more grievous. Of these others they mention the
lawleesnaes and corruption of the petty officials sent amongst
the, who, they say, Boos them without merry ; the
dis-
regard shown to their principal men, and the fear they have ' ,
that government will force them to pay rent for their lark
When the rising took place there were not 600 troops in
the whole province, which is as large as Scotland. Major
Richardson is in command, and Major Rowlett, the civil
offices, has considerable influence with the people. _ 1
To add to thin difficulty, the independent Rajah of ;
pen/ has chosen this time to attack two of our sub
who are large remiodars. His K00k..., old anemia
ours, haveburned 28 house.and scalped 20 ryots. The
Puslihrilentr Assoollsoo, which merest; the unantutt 1
Ittalltil to troop
at mos addreeeed goventmenA
Some thomnal tmg troops were despatched hornblende-I
ingiesselle4sda.d Dame, the whole is be eommemiled by
Meanwhile the latestmews is that Major
taken the Jinni stockade With akm al 12
urger" Mri is still a third compliseriem Ameba fig-
thweassaweed, between which and Nepal mole Doles&
la its ~protected beauty, mast else be
Jgrem. this Indo-Chinese 'territory is ruleSesdritral
seM • - Unmoral ecromign. mamsd the
mew
Illemon and Deb Rajahs. The beim% as em
' biremeNen of the deitY, Mosta Illke.- is elestsdi
from Moe to time • mad we woe from panieldes,
Blrealem in 1867 only bey Oa sod by the far that a
new Deb Rajah Whoa mooed to be favour-
able to the cause of order Osage. As usual, our for-
bearing* has been mistaken for workmen, for the only pus-
lament we did inflict was in 1859 to 001011 the paymost of
la 2,000, the yearly rental for a tract of land in &mignon
enuendered4:Varren Hastings in 1779, when be was too
busy with mitten to.figbt the Bbootaahr. Still the
kidnapping British subjects has gone on, sad now one-
' mice will be really taken. A wing of the 10th Native In-
bar, sad UM men et her Majesty's 38th bare been sent so
Datiminfil-

• CRINA.

There is sic, political news of importance from
China eioept that already made known by the
telegraph respecting the threatened attack of the
Taeping rebels upon Shangbae.

SOUTH AUSTRALL&.

The South Australia's; Advertiser statee that the
imports into the colony during the year 1861
amounted in value to 1,976,0181., of which goods
to the value of 248,498/. were re-exported, leaving
1,727,520/. to represent the goods retained for
consumption in the colony. The exports of native
produce for the whole year, 1861 (exclusive of re-
exports of imported goods) amounted in value to
1,838,6391., being at the rate of more than 141.
per bead for every man, woman, and child in the
colony. The staple articles included in this
valuation were, bteadstuffs, 712,7891. ; minerals,
452,3971. ; wool, 411,2561. A balance of 262,1971.
represents all the other exports combined.