The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-13 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our letters and papers in antici-
pation of the Overland Mail from India. The dates
are: Bombay, March 15; Calcutta, March 6; Hong-
Kong, Feb. 27.
Our Bombay correspondent writes u follows:
BOMBAY, Matzen 15.
Consequent on the dispatch of nearly all our
steamers fur Rangoon, the Indian navy has been
obliged to hire a small steamer from the Bombay
Steam Navigation Company to take on the present
mail to Aden; and as she is a vessel of comparatively
small power, she is to be dispatched two days before
the ordinary mail day, to ensure her reaching Aden
in time for the Calcutta boat. She leaves at ten
this morning, so that my news by her only extends
Ito that received up to yesterday evening. The mails ofi
lthe 24th January and 9th February readied us together
on the 9th inst. The Peninsular and 0. Company's
steamer Haddington left Suez on the Bth Feb. with
the first named dispatch, but had not proceeded more
than twenty miles when she broke her main shaft,
and of course was completely disabled from proceeds
ing on her voyage. The Ajdaha went out to her
assistance, and towed her back, taking her mail on
board: the passengers re-landed, and went to the
Suez hotel. Well, the Victoria is believed to have
been lying idle at Suez at the time ; but the mail was
kept on board the Ajdaha till that of the 9th Feb.
reached her on the 22nd—full a fortnight—when she
got up steam and started for Bombay.
Very little news has been received from Birk
since my last ; but that little tends to confirm the
belief that war there must be. The steamer Hermes
brought news of the Burmese having on the 19th
ult. fired on the brig Serpent, and of the boats of
that vessel having next morning proceeded well
manned, and destroyed the stockades from which
they had been assailed. The governor of Rangoon is
said to have written to the commodore, requesting
him, when next paying a visit to that port, to hoist a
flag, acquainting him whether his intentions were
pacific or otherwise ; should his visit boa ful one,
ho should not be molested while p ing
river; if warlike, than ho would be annihilated ! TMsa
are reported to be upwards of 20,000 men collected
at Rangoon, and along the road to Ave, who are to
dispute every inch of ground with us. The mouth
of the Bassein river has been fixed on as the place of
debarkation of the troops, all of whom will, it is ex-
pected, have reached by the 25th inst. The Bur-
mese are reported to be ravaging the country on our
side of the frontier, determined that we shall find
nothing to carry away with us or subsist on. The
Kind is believed to have invited his Majesty
i of Siam
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
to join him in opposing us, but it is highly mproba-
ble his appeal will be responded to. A notorious rob- (From the Bombay Tunes.)
BOMBAY, /Lawn 13.
her chief had been appointed to the command of the Tag Moray Mraturr.—But a short time had elapsed
troops at Mantaban. The Zenobia and Medusa since the date of our last report, and there has bees se
steamers have, since my last, proceeded to join the incident in our Money Market calling for remark, maim
remain quite in the same easy state. We observe from the
squadron, calling .at Mathes for troops. General
newspapers that there has been quite a commotion within
Godwin, C.D., arrived at Calcutta on the 3d, whence
he would embark for Ran the walls of the bank of Madras, and that the governor of
goon. A wing her
the Benighted has written an elaborate minute on the pro
,
Majeaty's 80th, from Dinsmore, had readied Fort ceedings of the institution, and has also recommended to the
William, to relieve the left wing 18th Royal Irish, court of directors the withdrawal of the charter. One of
althlu,,deesvent:orththeeresuareki,t,aftrinadonif tshebeit and allow of their proceeding to ids had quarters
Gthi:venaKrnadarasent 15271nPaktain
at Mountain. It has been stated that the authori-
ties at Calcutta were engaged feeling. the pulse " ;Wearier RIP, butaad inhitahtae f 8 52 ofeal
we s jobberyu in
ce t connection
eiu a of
of the 38th N. I. and another corps at Barrackpore, Directors will not add banking to their Other dealings. It
Y to whether or not they were likely to yrumbk if seems to us passing strange that the Bank of Madras, with
ordered on (service to Rangoon! Really this is die- three Government Directors, and some of than elected by
the proprietors also in the service of government, cannot be
graceful on the part of those in authority, and
sucoaducted,
stuocthitsombtjstthsceteion of
ase it
whioslint;:
the mat business
ought to attract the attention of the home authorities.
!The ides of being afraid to order &Foy' on service, planP to reprimand the Government Directors for allowingla
for fear they should say we will not badge an any alleged irregularities in place of running a muck at the
inch, is atrocious. The order for their embarkation much abused institution and moving the court to withdraw
should be given, and they told they would refuse the charter. The Government Security and Share Marketsremain quiet, and the following are the current quotations:—
obedience at their peril. The cause of' this "grum-
bling" lays in this : tbp men are not afraid to go Transfer Loan,
Fiv es
where ordered—indeed I verily believe they would gig gifts vo
3
go anywhere desiretl,—but they are naturally Co.'s Fives,
anxious that their families should be secured from Co.'s Fours,' at 88
want during their absence, and a pension in case Bombay Bank Shares et 15 per cent prem.
It their being killed on service. This latter, it
Orientalt Bank Corporation
appears, is not ensured to them to their satisfaction ; commercial Bank Shares, aatt
1: per cent prem.
per cent (Inlet.
hence the men are unwilling to peril their lives. Agra Bank Shares,
Ono of the Madras regiments is believed to have birowrs.—When we last wrote the Rolm holidays were
raised this objection also. Bat Government should in course of celebration. They terminated on the Bth
not for a moment listen to their refusal to proceed instant, so that the interval devoted to business has been
f i brief transaction,
on service unless on their own terms,: go they should very however, though not large, have
be made, or punished for mutiny', the authorities bbeeutnercsentl7esud into
toof aeofiutto'rnextt at tolerably sit,tlyirrriEm;
afterwards seeing that their families are cared and quantity during the last two days, the hexing arrived
prices on
presided for. They must not for a moment be allowed some descriptions of grey goods has been rather shaken.

guilty. The finding and sentence of this court martial will
be found amongst our military intelligence. Dr. Nichol-
son has been released from arrest by order of the com-
mander of the forces."

The Hyderabad correspondent of the Calcutta'
Englishman, writing on Feb. 22, says :
Lut night a sum of ten laths of rupees, left by Ulibtirja,
wu sent by Suraj-oul-Moolk to the resident. This is all
the Nisam bar u yet offered his minister towards the pay.
meat of the debt to the company, and although the
minister has been somewhat premature in conveying to the
resident that he would pay him thirty lakbs immediately,
all will go right in the end. The payment will
follow the necessity of the case, and if intburja's
funds are sufficiently ample, and the resident continues to
importune, the debt must be paid. The sum of ten Wills
now transmitted will go but a short way towards it. The
contingent has three months' arrears due to it, a sum of
something more than seven laths; the payment of this,
which is the more urgent demand, always excepting a se-
questration of territory being preferred, will reduce the
payment towards the debt to a sum of only three laths."