The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
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INDIA.
Bombiy journal of the 13th ult, have the fol-
lowing items of news : •
The Governor•Generil is in Calcutta.

His Excellency Sir Bartle From and Lady Frere are in
Bombay, the former actively pushing on the public works
of the presidency and the work of legislation.
The Commander-in-Chief of India reached Sensor on the
23rd December; and Jubbulpore on the 3rd idem.
The Commander-in• Chief of Bombay arrived in Ahme-
dabad on the 22nd December, and was to reach Deem on
the 2nd January. He is going on to Rajpootana and Mhow.
A gross outrage has been perpetrated on two British
officers of artillery by Sindia's retainers. The two officers
went to see the fort of Jbansi, and they were seised by
Bindle's men, pinioned, and marched into cantonments as
prisoners.
The appointment of Sir C. Trevelyan as Minister of
Finance baa given universal satiafactioe. A great Trevelyan
meeting was held in Madras on the nnd December.

Au experiment has been made of sending the Madras
portion of the English mail from Bombay via Beypore and
the Madras Railway. The result is that the whole of the
heaviest overland mail can be sent at once by steamer and
railway to Madras in three days lees time than the very
limited weight which can go by express can be sent by the
old route.

Dr. David Orierson, Deputy Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals, Poona division, Bombay army, died in Poona on the
6th January, of aneurism of the heart.
According to the Delhi Gazettes Cabul correspondence,
Dont Mahomed has a fair chance of taking Herat, which he
has invested on every side, having planted his batteries
opposite to the tire gates of the city, to as entirely to com-
mand them. The besieged are represented as being "very
much in want of everything, and cannot come out of the
oily without being taken prisoners, or deserting to the
Ameer's camp."

The oourt•martihl at Makatea on Lieutenant L. D. A.
Jackson. Royal Engineers, who is accused of having
flogged his servant to death, closed its proceedings on the
23rd December. The finding and sentence are not yet
known.

Mr. Maine has moved for leave in the Supreme Council
to introduce a bill (or conferring upon the high courts of
judicature in India the jurisdiction and powers vested in the
Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England. The
Secretary of State had requested the Governor-General to
introduce a measure conferring a jurisdiction on the high
courts in Calcutta similar to that exercised by the Divorce
Court in London.

The East India Railway is now open from Calcutta to
Beearea, a distance of five hundred and forty miles.
At the last Khundoba's festival in Negpore, hook-swing-
ing, till now so common, was forbidden. This prohibition
will doubtless extend to the whole province.
Four hundred and sixteen men of bar Majesty's 92nd
Gordon Highlanders recently volunteered for prolonged
service in this country on the regiment being ordered
home. This speaks well for the popularity of soldiering in

The Btnk of Bombay has declared a dividend of rupees
My-five per share, being at the rate of eleven per cent. per
annum, clear of income-tax, for the half•year *Wing 31st
December, 1862.

A very large increase in cotton cultivation took
place during the past year, but the crops have
sustained serious injury in some places by the want
of rain in the early part of the season, and in other
places by the storms in October.
The Calcutta Englishman of the 4th ult. says :
" We are glad indeed to state that travellers down
country by the Grand Trunk Road from the north-
west provinces to Calcutta, and who have arrived
within the last few days, state that the road
is, as they express it, ' actually swarming
with cotton.' Not only, it appears, are
long trains of carts laden with cotton to be
met with at short intervals along the road, but
in the villages, and at the Serais and other halting
places, enormous quantities of cotton are collected,
en route to Calcutta for exportation. This is cheer-
ing intelligence indeed, and gives more solid pro-
mise of real relief to the unfortunate operatives of
Lancashire than could pecuniary subscriptions of
the most liberal dimensions. It is to be hoped,
however, that the latter description of aid will not
,abate until a full supply of cotton shall have ren-
dered such benevolent action no longer necessary."

The Calcutta Englishman states that a Con-
federate privateer is cruising in the Bay of Bengal,
and that the commander stated to the captain of
the British ship Selim, which be brought to, that
he would catch and burn to the watar's edge every
vessel leaving Calcutta under the Federal flag.