The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-15 00:00:00

before the parliamentary committee, as he d
give evidence on any subject relating to India of
more value than that of any other half-dozen men in
England. Dr. Grant, personal surgeon to the Go..
vernor-General, has been appointed Secretary to tho
Bengal medical Board: for the present he remains
with the most noble—Surgeon MtKinnen acting for
him for the present in the board. S•irgeon J. Gill,
Madras army, has retired on 191/. a-year, and
Major Gill, of the same service, hai invalided. Some
alterations in the Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund
rules have been sanctioned from home—considered
very favourable to the members.

Lord and Lady Falkland reached Mahabuleshwox
on the evening of the 6th, where they will remain
till early in November, when it is expected they will
repair to the presidency to meet their noble relative,
Lord Fitzclarence. Young Captain Fitzclarenco has
resigned his berth on the Governor's stuff, and will,
it is expected, be employed on that of his uncle, to
which Captain Fellowes has already been nomi-
nated from home. General Staveley and the
geueral staff of the presidency will he in Born-
bay by the '27th, it is expected. Probably the gallant
general will return home on delivering over
the command of the army to the new Com-
mander-in-Chief, though nothing on the subject
has yet been broached in public. Three of-
ficers of the Bombay army are amongst the
casualties by this mail :—Superinfinding Surgeon
Monteliore, of the Northern division, at Ahmedabad,
on the 29th Sept.; Captain Clarkson, 12th N. 1., at
the same place, on the 6th inst. ; and Colonel J.
Cumming, Ist Europeans, on the 2nd Sept., on his
way to Australia for change of air. By the former
Dr. Straker comes into the Booed, consequent on Dr.
Gibb's retirement, and Drs. 'Woke and Scott become
superintending surgeons. Dr. Leith will, it is be.
lieved, be the new Secretary Medical Board in place
of Scott, and the Medical Storekeepership, vacated
by Rooks., has been offered to fir. Leggett, at Surat.
the Garrison Surgeoncy at this place will, in case
Leggett accepts the offer, be given to Dr. Winches-
ter, and Leith w.ll be succeeded in the Bombay
Garrison Surgeoncy by Dr. Arbuckle —at least as
it is expected. The ltight Rev. Dr. Hard-
ing and the Aretdeacon are at the
and so will all who can manage it by the
end of the next month. Though Sir E. Perr:t II time
of departure for England is now at hand, not a word
ham yet been heard of who is to be his successor. The
natives wished to have erected some testituunial in
his honour—a law class iu the Elphinstone College,
or a school of industry on a large scale,—tut the
learned knight could not with any consistency allow
them to do so, as he has on several public occasions
ridiculed the testimonial-giving mania now for many
years prevalent in Bombay. l'ity he should have
refused, however, fur a school of industry for the
tuition of the sons of the poor working classes in the
arts and manufactures has long been a desideratum;
the law class in the college would not have been of
one-fiftieth the value of the school. There are few
men who have deserved better at the hands of the
natives than Sir Erskine Perry—few who will more
be missed by all grades of society. Professor Patton
leaves by to-days Ceylon steamer for Europe on two
years' leave. lie has been very unwell, but has
rallied considerably, and will, it is hoped, speedily
recover. Colonel Moore, auditor-general, and Co.
military secretary to government, returned
by last mail to Bombay from Egypt, where they had
been on leave for change of air and recreation. Oar
railway progresses like mad, and it is xpected car.
lieges and trains will be running betwixt the fort
and Tanna (24 miles out of the 36) by the end of
January. The Buinbay Times has latterly been
filled with speculations on the new Charter Act, and
able suggestions for the improvement of the govern.
ment of India, which our legislators in parliament
would do well to study, but not a line of which I will
venture to say will even be read by three-fourths of the
gentlemen who amongst them constitute the wisdom
of the nation. What do they care for India or its people,
further than its finding employment for younger
suns, and nephews, and cousins, and friends, for
whom they care just as little. It is said that the
Rev. Mr. Reynolds, chaplain at Kirkee, has been
selected by the Board of Education to succeed Pro-
, fessor Green (who is about being transferred to Item-
bay) as professor of literature in the Poona College—
of course retaining his clerical appointment as well.
The old tub frigate Auckland, which left on the
14th September with the bulk of the mails for Eng-
land, reached Aden on the morning of the 2stb, after
the Hindoostan had left for Suez —so she had to
push on with her charge herself. It is not expected
that she reached Suez in time for her packets to be
sent on with the Bengal mail—so they would have
to lay a fortnight in Egypt. Splendid mail (mai)
arrangements these. Of course, everybody at the
presidency sent their letters by the Achilles, on the
15th September, which got to Men on the 25th.
three days before the Calcutta steamer. The
officer R.N. on board the Ilindoostan (which left
Aden a couple of hours after the Auckland mast
have been visible had a proper look out been kept at
the Shum-Shum signal station) is reported to have
rather hurried the departure of the vessel than
attended to the request of the Aden political agent
for her detention for a few hours : if so, he ought to
be put on the retired list instanter. Lieut. Taylor,
LN., has completed the survey of the Gulf of Catch,
after eighteen months labour, and returned to Boms
bay. Mr. T. J. A. Scott, the secretary to our rail.
way, has returned from England, whither he had
gone some months back on business and for the
benefit of a change of air. The murderer, Duncan
M'lnnes, who killed Sergeant Smith, was hung at
Belgaum on the 4th instant. He confessed his
crime, and on the drop implored all tho European
soldiers to keep from drink, as the fire water had
brought hint to an ignominious end. Trade con-
tinued brisk, and the money market completely
glutted.
F.S. At Umritsir and Lahore the native troops
appear to have suffered more than the European
soldiers from sickness. The entire 9th N.I. were
hid up, the band mustering as strong on parade Si
the battalion. At Cawnpore the 70th Foot and 48th
N.L had 200 each in hospital ; while at Dacca the
38th N. 1., the corps which refused to go on bard
ship to Burmah, was utterly disorganised and deci-
mated by fever. They could barely find men enough
he a rear and quarter guard every other day; the
hospital and lines wore crowded with dead and sick
—no one could help his neighbour. The treasure
chest was full—the men could not take their pay,
and all the pay sergeants were sick. An establish-
ment for training engineers, similar to that at Boor-
km, is about to be brought into being at Lahore
under Colonel Napier, by the Board of Administra-
tion. Colonel Hawkins, Commissary-General Bengal
Army, is about to proceed home on medical fur-
lough; and Mr. R. E. Cunliffe, C.S., to resign the
service. The Kalabagh coal has been tested, and
found to be tolerably good. An iron ore, a mixture of
carbonate of iron and lime, like ankeritc —2O per cent.
of the former and GO of the latter—has also been found
in the same locality. The Rev. J. A. Sharman, of the
Benares mission died in that city on the 30th Scpto
deeply regretted by a host of friends. Sir John
Littler was to have left Darjeeling for Calcutta on
the Ist October. He had materially improved in
health. The Kirk Session of St. Andrew's, at Cal-
cutta, has memorialised the Court of Directors for
additional presbyterian ministers for Bengal.
Dr. Straker has refused promotion to the board, and
Dr. Edwards will therefore take his seat as third
member. Dr. Rooke goes to l'oona as Superintend-
ing Surgeon, and Dr. Scott to the northern division.
Dr. Leith his refused the board secretaryship, which
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=same, mail steamer, just signalled, will not be
in before 6 p.m. Sthoor Keith.

CHINA.
The Overland Friend of China supplies the folloW•
ing news in its general summary :
We have again the usual monthly amount :Im-
port of battles fought between the government and
insurgent forces—sanguinary by account, but boot-
less in apparent result. Governor-General Sen still
remains at Woo-chow (Wu-chau) in Kwangsi. ich
has returned to Canton, and Pihk-wci (of Barbarian
discussion notoriety), has proceeded northward, some
say to Peking, others to confer with Sac.shanglll
in Hunan. Tien-teh (or what is left of him
after decapitation by our contemporary of the
Mail) still maintains a position at Iling-nganA
place not far distant from Kwei-lin-fu in the north-,
east quarter of Kwangsi, and would appear to
constant communication with evilly disposed opiritil