The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-08 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL

We have received adrices from Bombay to Feb.
14.

The Viceroy and Gocernor-General of India is
remaining in Calcutta. His excellency, on a
morning walk a few weeks since, was pursued by a
wild buffalo that bad broken loose from the Cal-
cutta cattle show, and escaped from its attack by
his fleetness as a runner.

His Excellency Sir Hugh RO6B has been invited
to Calcutta by the Viceroy, to confer on military
matters of importance. His excellency was in
Pesbawur at latest dates.

The Viceroy is summoning to his counsels those
who formerly were cc►workers with him in the
Punjab. General G. St. P. Lawrence, C.B.
governor-general's agent for the Rajpootana
states, has been summoned to Calcutta to confer
with the Viceroy on important matters connected
with the affairs of Rajpootana. Great changes are
in contemplation with regard to the political juris-
diction over that part of the country.
General G. St. P. Lawrence, C. 8., Sir Herbert
Edwardea, C. 8., and Colonel Durand, C. 8., are
spoken of as candidates for the lieutenant-
governorship of the Punjab.
The beat section of the Persian Gulf telegraph is
completed. It extends from Guadur to Malcolm's
Inlet, Cape Mussendom. On the 9th ult. a message
was so transmitted from the last-named place to
the former as to show that the 359 miles of cable
successfully laid i•i the first section was in good
condition. The extension of the line to Bushire
was to be commenced in a week, and everything
gives promise of a successful and speedy termina-
tion of the work ia the Persian Gulf. Within two
months, probably, there will be an uninterrupted
telegraphic communication between Great Britain
and India.

We have to announce the completion of another
great public work—the Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India Railway. The whole length of the
line was travelled on the 9th inst. by Colonel J.
Pitt Kennedy, the engineer-in-chief. The line was
expected to be opened on the Ist of this month.

Great suffering has been produced amongst the
poorer classes in Bombay by the unprecedented rise
in the price of provisions.
A sanitary commission has been formed in Ben-
gal by government notification, " to consider and
afford advice and assistance in all matters relating
to the health of the army, and to supervise the
gradual introduction of sanitary improvements in
barracks, hospitals, and stations, as well as in towns
in proximity to military stations in the Bengal
presidency." Similar boards are to be formed at
Madras and Bombay.
The act for the prevention of the adulteration of
cotton in the Bombay presidency came into opera-
tion on the Ist ult.

Favourable accounts arc received from all parts
of the country of the general health and industry.
The past season has been unusually cold throughout
India.

(arum's na.mums.)
AMERICA.
LATEST FROM MOBILE.

The Richmond Examiner of the 20th February
says :
" The following despatch was received at the
War Department last night :

" ' Mobile, Feb. 19, 2 p.m.
" ' General S. Cooper, kc.,—Farragut has not re-
newed his attack on Grant's Pass. His fleet lies off
the pass iu the Sound. The weather is too bad for
action. Sherman's corps is not advancing down
the Mobile and Ohio road. No landing has yet
been reported in the direction of Pascagould.
" ' D. H. Manur, Major-General.'

"An official despatch was also received in the
course of the day, which reduces the enemy's demon-
stration at Quitman to a very unimportant affair.
Former despatches overrated the enemy's force.
General Maury repotted yesterday that he had
made a close reconnaissance of the enemy's force at
that point (which is about 100 miles from Mobile),
and that it did not number more than a thousand
men. The whole was probably some raid on some
trestle work of the Mobile and Ohio railroad."

HOLSTEIN.
ALTONA, llmicii 7, Errsinc.
Two officers and 20 Danish soldiers landed yester-
day at the village of Heiligenbaien, in Holstein, it
is supposed, for the purpose of reconnoitring.