The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA.

The re pai of the directors of this company has
been lased. It will be remembered that In oessequeses
of the accident to the Stanley passenger steamer, b:11,1
Kr. Scott Rummell and tested on the Thames, it wr c
nearesary to used machinery overland to India, so as to save
time and replace the vessel in of working order as
soon as possible. Clifitail Wood, the agent and superin-
tendent, on the Bth February, reports the departure of the
Staeley on the 29th January from Kotree for Mooltan, tow-
lag two barges with 150 tons of cargo. The proper of
the six manager steamers erecting at Burracbee,
on contreet, by Messrs. Richardson, Duck, and
Co., has been greatly delayed by a defective ar-
rangement in connexion with the boiler'. So serious
was this difficulty considered by Captain Lidbetter,
the agent of the contractors, that he desgrimied their
chief engineer to England to confer with them ea the sub-
** The result has been that after coneelling the most
eminent authorities, they mint out, oralsad, the asesmuy
=to remedy the defects. The alterations are cos.
the Sir Charles Wood, and it is axpected that she
would be by this time ready for melee. The Sir Bartle
From is far advanced, and the engineers are engaged in
erecting her engines and adding the supplementary bailers.
The Sir Johe Lawrence is afloat, sod the carpenters are
engaged in putting up her cabin fittings. The Sir Chaska
Napier is ready for launching ; the John Jacob and the re-
maining steamer ars in course of erection. The levee
' " nate of 150 tons each are all completed and
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Forarsilarid their a;oommodation and gweend erreage.
moats are remildered well adi.pted for the object in view.
The tug steamer built by Mr. John Hamilton, inn., of
Liverpool, as formerly reported, are unequal to stem the
current of the male dream of the Indus ; and Capt. Wood
is now negotiating for the transfer of these vessels and the
smaller barges either to the Punjab government, or to the
Punjab Railway, with the view to their employment on the
upper rivers, for the navigation of which they see recoiled
to be well ada: Maiii.end
e. In the meantime, two of them e
several of the are being usefully employed in the
conveysoce of n' way material, and for other purposes.
The directors have the satisfaction to announce that they
have entered into an arrangement with her Ma-
May's government for the purchase of the four best
steamers of the government fleet now on the Index, for
46,0001., and an application has been made for the transfer
to the Indus Steam Flotilla of the workshops and other pro-
perty at Kotree and elsewhere, belonging to government ;
the -price of the steamers the Secretary of State for India
has agreed to take in shares or stock of the company. With
the view to give effect to the above arrangement, for com-
pleting the purchase of the workshops, if decided upon, and
for other purposes, a resolution will be submitted to the
meeting for authorising the directors, under the sanction of
the Secretary of State for India in Council, to raise the sum
of 1137,0001. additional capital, as and when the same shall
be required, guaranteed 5 per cent. interest under the terms
of the contract with the goverument, for or on account
of the Indus Steam Flotilla, by the issue of shares o
90L, to be converted into stock when the full
amount of 201. per share shall have been paid.
It was mentioned in the last report that the sum of 83.0001.
was being raisedj by the Niue of debentures bearing 5 per
oat. interest for five years, with the option of renewal fee
a further period of five years, or of conversion into lodize
Steam Flotilla shares or capital stock, at any time previous
to the expiration of these periods, and the directors have
now to report that the whole of this awn has been subscribed,
and the amount paid to the credit of the Secretary of State
for India in Council. The financial statement shows that
hem the commencement the sum of 283,8551. has been re-
ceived, and that 257,8041.65. 9d. has been expended, leaving
an available balance of 26,0601. Us. 3d. to the credit of the
undertakieg.

CONDBIENED MURDERM—The Home Secretary
lei= had under his consideration the oircumatames of the
Ishmael Jones, who was convicted at the recent
maims at WeL6poel North Wala, of the wilful murder of
his wife, the verdict, it may probably be rememband, helot
accompanied by • remmmin to mercy, thought
fit to advise the extendoa of the mercy of the crown, sod
the capital sentence will therefore be commuted to penal
servitude for life. A. notilication to that effect be,

forwarded to the governor of the comity gaol at Moat.
gomerv. The sentence of death peered upcm Hall tor the
murder of a gamekeeper near Oxford, aad upoe the slaw
boy, Patrick llevereux, for the murder of the crimp in
HAWK-highway, and in which cases the Home Secretary »-
spited the execution, will be commuted to penal servitude
for life. With regard to Clark, the murderer of Mr. Prater,
the tax collector of Newcastle, the special circutastanoss al
hie alleged insanity, as ascertained by the government medical
iaspeo or, leave it at present under harem catahheation as
to what course will be adopted in his agosaial come.
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