The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Ocr. 21.
The Herald° says that the success of the Almanur
Railway is now assured. It will be finished at the
period fixed by the concession. The manager has
found means to place at 60 per cent., by way of de-
posit, the shares which were taken by an English
company, and these shares will only be thrown upon
the market when good prices can be obtained for
them.

There was a tumour to-day, for which, however,
there does not seem to be auy foundation, that MM.
Reyna° and Ordonez were about to retire from the
cabinet.

In answer to inquiries at the English embassy, it
is stated that no instructions have been received to
prepare for the arrival of Lord Howdcn.
According to reports in circulation, it will be very
difficult for the representatives of the Basque pro-
vinces and the government delegates to come to an
understanding upon the Enema" question.

MALTA, Omega 29.
Triton, with the Indian Mail on board, has
arrived three days at least before she was expected.
The usual bulletin accompanies.
I yesterday wrote by French steamer, detailing the
heavy gale that set in on Wednesday. Two bodies of
the sixteen lost from the Neapolitan and Austrian
vessels have washed ashore. The damage done by the
gale on shore will not be repaired under 2.5,0001., to at least
I hear, but it seems to me a very high figure.
Firebrand came in last evening from Corfu. The Ad-
miral arrived there on 19th (evening), and was to leave on
Tuesday next (20th) for this place; so we may expect them
by the end of next week. Scourge, steam frigate, will ac-
oompany the Admiral.
Sampson, steam frigate, was to have left Corfu on the
120th, for station at Constantinople.
Firebrand eteam•frigate will leave this port tomorrow
for the Gibraltar station. On her passage she assisted a
schooner, the Fairy, on shore near Cervi, and which vessel
the West, would not • , evidently hoping to Nee her
break up, when, without doubt, they would have plun-
dered her. . _

Shearsrater steamer was to leave the Corfu waters for
Malta on 21.1
.instant

• • The Lord Commissioner and his family bad arrived
at Corfu on the 18th, and was warmly received, all the
senato and employes going to the beach to receive him, and
accompanied him to his palace.
A conrt martial (says one report, a court of enquiry,
says another) has been held on Lieutenant Macdonald, of
the N ig-ship, officer of the watch at the time of her nearly
running over the Firebrand steamer. It terminated in •
full and entire acquittal of that officer.
The object of the Firebrand being ordered to Oibraltar,
is, I hear, to keep in check the Riff pirate', and people of
similar character, who have been again firing on our ships
approaching their shore too closely. fibs was speeially re-
gusted by his Ilsoelleary the Governor of Gibraltar.

TURKEY.
The following telegraphic despatch, dated Trieste,
25th Inst., was (says the Th,bata)received yesterday :
—" The Turkish loan is definitively refused. The
Bank is sending cash to France." „This despatch,"
adds the DAsto," does not bear the date from Con-
stantinople, but in all probability it corresponds with
the departure of the Austrian packtt, which should
have taken place on the 16th. Thus the govern-
ment of the Sultan, yielding to the pressure
exercised by the old Turkish party, has definitively
refused to recognise the contract entered into by its
representative in Paris. We shall soon ace what
will be the consequences of this deplorable resolution."

In the same journal we read
Letters from Vienna which have arrived thi. day in
Paris bring from Constantinople, by way of Belgrade, news
which is paid to be of posterior date to that received yeater-
thy by the French packet Lyeurgue. The importance of
this intelligence will be very great if it is confirmed. It is,
in fact, announced on the one hand, that an insurrection
has broken out at Constantinople ; and on the other, that
the French ambas,ador hsd lined a term of seven days for
the settlement of the difficulty, after which he would &-
I mend his musports, if the loan concluded at I'aria by its
representative were not ratified. We print th.se reports
without guaranteeing them, first, because we are unable to
verify the date whioh should he given to the letters; nod
nest, became we very much doubt that the post from Con.
atantinople by Belgrade could Ming news faster than our
steamer.

INDIA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE WAR WITH BURMAIL

We have received our usual despatches, in antici-
pation of the Overland Mail from India. 'flie dates
are—Bombay, Oct. 2; Calcutta, Sept. 20. Our
Bombay correspondent writes as follows :
BOMBAY, Oct. 2.
By next mail it is probable you may hear of some
hard fighting having tak •n place in Burmah. The
first movement of our troops was ordered to take
place on the Pith or 18th ultimo, on which date the
following troops were to have embarked in the small
steamers to be conveyed up to the Irrewaddy, where
they were to be transhipped to the Sesostris and
other larger vessels for transportation to PIOITIC:
H.M. 18th Royal Irish, ILM. 80th Foot, the 35th
M.N.1., a full company of Madras artillery, with a
bullock battery and two eight-inch iron howitzers,
and a strong party of Sappers and Miners,
under Brigadier Reynolds, 18th R.I. The General
was to accompany the brigade, and remain at Prume
for a few days, when, should all remain quiet,
ho would return to Rangoon and take up the follow-
ing, under Brigadier Elliot, Slat K. 0. L. 1., the
♦oth Bengal and 9th Madras N. 1., a company of
Bengal Artillery, and a farther detail of Sappers. It
was fully expected that the first brigade would meet
with very great resistance before entering Prome, a'
the Burmese were collected on the banks of the river
in great numbers, with a few guns placed in com-
manding positions. It is said that before this ad-
vance was ordered, the King of Ava had been
written to by the Governor-General while at Ran-
goon, stating that further hostilities might be
averted by his Majesty paying down 330,0001.,
1:40001. as indemnification for the losses sustained
by British subjects before the declaration of war, and
30,0001. per month for the expenses occurred since
April last. 180,0001. is an extremely moderate sum,
indeed, for war expenses, and would, I should think,
barely cover the outlay already incurred by us.
There seems to be no truth in the report that the
Governor-General intends revisiting Rangoon. On
the assembling of the troops at Promo it is believed
that the country up to that city will be declared an-
nexed to the British dominions, and preparations
made for an advauce on the capit.,l. The Hastings,
74, Winchester, 50, and Fox, 42, were lying off Ran-
goon ; the natives were not a little surprised at the
size of the former vessel. It is a pity these noble
specimens of our woodon walls cannot get up the Ir-
rawaddy as far as Promo at all events. The Ist
Madras Fusiliers, the 19th N. 1., the troop of Horse
Artillery, and the Sappers, had all reached Rangoon.
The Bengal brigade were on their way to Calcutta
for embarkation on the steamers Feroze and Moor-
suffer. These corps, with the 3th end 19th M.N.1.,
were to occupy Rangoon, Martaban, Bassein, and
Maulmain. The cavalry portion of the ltamghur
light infantry battalion is, it is said, to be sent over
to the seat of war—the whole battalion had some time
since volunteered for foreign service. Major W. H.
Budd has been appointed deputy commissary-
general to the army of Aye, and Dr. Pitt, field sur-
geon. The 68th N.I. left Calcutta for Kvouk Phyoo
on the 19th ult. to relieve the 3:h M.N.I. which
proceeds on to ltangoon. Mr. .11f'Mardo, mate of
the Fox, was accidentally drowned in the Rangoon
river by the upsetting of a canoe on the night of tho
9th ult. One of the handsomest and largest of the
bells captured at Rangoon has been presented to the
Governor General by the captors. Another bell,
weighing 758 lbs., valued at 1251., has just reached
Calcutta, consigned to Latter, Brother, and Co. Tho
climate at Rangoon was pleasant, and the lualth
of the troops good. Provisions were abundant, but
dear.

Brigadier-General Roberts reached Peshawur on
the 10th September. The Commissioner, Colonel
Maekeson, had itone out on a tour into the Hazarah
and Korat districts. The two outposts under Lunn-
den and Hardioge had united, and taken up a
position at Tungee, where a fort was being con-
structed. Hero they could keep watch over the dis-
affected: the Swateee, ?domande, Ensufzaiees, and
Afreedies were reported to be preparing to renew
the strife, and it was feared a force would shortly
have to take the field again to meet and dispel them.
On the 17th the 65th N.I. had 514 men in hos-
pital, and fully a third of the troops were unfit for
duty. Cholera had appeared amongst the 60th
Rides at Sullundhur.

We hear but little from Meehan, but there sick-
ness was fortunately not over prevalent. Descend-
ing the Irides to Shikarpore and Sukkur, we find
half the troops laid up with fever, and every likeli-
hood of the Murree" descending from their hills to
take advantage of this for them auspicious state of
matters. The river had risen to a very considerable
height and inundated the country, and the exhalations
caused from the slimy deposits from the water
by a fierce san, were of course the prolific causes
of fevers and dysentry. At Hyderabad few deaths
bad latterly occurred; but every third man had been
sick or ailing. Coming down to Kurrachee, on the
sea-coast, we find sickness comparatively rare. A
collection of articles for home of SAnde manufac-
tures is being made by subscription. 'Major Shawe,
late of the '22nd N. 1., accused of having, in dis-
obedience of orders and in breach of military dis-
cipline, counselled the Khyrpore Amcor as to the
course he should adopt, has arrived in Bombay
under a-rest, in order to stand a court-martial.

I take the following notice of the Nizam's domi-
nions from the Times :

We take the following piece of information from a Hyde-
rabad (Deccan) letter published iu the Ca.eisaa Enigliehmius
of the loth Sept. Tho writer appears to us te take too fa-
vourable a view of the cue for the contingent—the news
for them seems too good to be true .—" The resident has
advertised that he will receive offers for bills on the places
where the contingent is cantoned. This manifests
but too palpably that the relations between the two
governments, especially in regard to the pay of the con-
tingent, are about to undergo a change, and one of two
results can alone follow. A general interference
or sequestration of territory, to such an extent that the
revenues thereof shall be competent to cover the pay of the
contingent.— It has always appeared to us that our own
government ehoald in the first place pay up the contingent,
and afterwards insist on repayment fruits the Niue* trea-
sury—troops cannot live without pity in the Deccan more
than anywhere else The account given by the corre-
spondent who supplies the above of the state of matters
at the capital, is deplorable. Several panics were
besieged in their own houses by bodies of Arab
mercenaries in the pay of their creditors. The
Minister seems the prime mover in these matters, and is
believed to be playing a game of fast and loose
with his royal muter which he dared not have at-
tempted bad he not reckoned on the support of the
British. Tho resident is said to hold him personally
in contempt, even while state policy requires that
ho should show him countenance in public matters. No
fewer than seven battles arc said to have been fought since
the transfer of Edlabad and Walloon from their old to new
muters—who had, we presume, offered a higher sum for
the governorships than those they superseded."
Lord Falkland leaves Poona on Monday for tho
Mahabuleshwar Hills: when his health may allow
him to return to Bombay is unknown. He may
perhaps take a run down in November to receive and
swear in to council Lord Fitselarenee. Dr. Gibb,

of the medical board, has retired, and goes home by
this evening's steamer. Thia brings Dr. Mouldier°
into the board, and gives Dr. Itooke a superintending
surgeoncy. Major Del Haste, deputy quartermaster-
general, has also retired, and leaves today. Make
Adams will succeed him. Mr. T. Ogilvy, Commie.
sioner at Sattarah, goes on leave to Egypt. Mr.
M. A. Coxon acting for him during his absence.
Lieut. J. Rennie, I. N., has gone round to Burraah
to take command of the Zenotia steam frigate, lately
left by Commander Ball, who died on his way home
I just after leaving Aden. Lieut. Constable goes on
sea yey to the Gulf of Arabia and Kuttiawar Coast, in
the Euphrates. The artilleryman (Duncan Mclnnes)
who killed the staff-sergeant of his company
I (Smith), at Belgaum on the nth August, has been
I sentenced to be hung. Mr. Sirens, chief magistrate
of police, goes to the hills on three months leave,
Mr. Rivet carrying on his duties. Tire barque
Runnymede has started for Australia with
about eighty emigrants. Another vessel follows
about the end of the month, if she gets a sufficient
number of passengers. 231 soldiers of whom 180
belong to the 88th foot, have applied for their dis-
charge, and will likely sail in the Ilamuody. Many
have bolted of late from Bombay, and are supposed
to have gone down to Cochin, there to await the
Iturinymede's arrival ; and a naught ruf special bailiffs
have also been sent to that port to try and put a stop
to the gallop of the swindlers. A number of the
Indian navy had deserted and the sloop Elphinatone
followed the vessel out to sea, brat only succeeded in
capturing one of the runaway Jacks. Six persons
who kept away from the Runnymede, till they
thought all the bailiff's had left her lust their
passage, she having got too fur out to sea, before
they left the shore to follow her—their kit is on
board! There is no truth whatever in tho reprt
noticed in my last, that Captain the lion. Byron
Corey, private secretary to the Governor, goes borne.
During the past month 829 deaths have occurred, of
which 19 only have been from cholera. This is
the lowest amount of mortality during any
month in Bombay, for a eery long time
past. The European community has lout twelve
during the month—chiefly soldiers and seamen. The
native petition un the Charter will, it is said, go horns
by next mail. A Bombay Association of Natives on
native grievances and wants has been some time in
existence.. but seems to be getting on slowly with
their work. Colonel Outrum, you will see, has
gained the day over the Bombay Government, as
far as it was possible for hire to do with a
Court, who openly avow that the authorities is
India must be supported, whetlfre riyht or wrong.
It is believed here that Colonel Sykes and a few
other directors have entered protests against the
decision of the Court in the matter; and we arc told
I that Parliament has called for all the papers con-
nected with it.

P.S. The G. S. S. S. Harbinger reached Madras
on tho 23rd Sept. Captain A. A. Lighton, 3.lth
M.N.1.. has obtained leave to the Cape and New
South Wales; as also has Lima. S. W. Jervis,
30th M.N.I. Assistant Surgeon A. Grant, the
Governor General's medical attendant, is, it is said,
to be secretary to the Medical Board—an office ivies-
rMbly I believe, hitherto held by a surgeon.

[Vet Coasmerti al [sten*ewe see pege 4.,

AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS.

The following items of intelligence respecting tho
Australian gold diggings have come to hand by re-
cent arrivals :

Tire Antnenomnir Dieortens.—Tuna Creek and its
diggings aro begionaing to attract the attewiun of the
Bathurst gold buyers, a few of whom visit the place periodi-
cally for the prosecution of their mercantile pursuits.
Several rather large samples have lately reached Bathurst
in this manner. Messi s. Samuel and Co., and Mr. Curtis,
watchmaker, are the principal buyers. From a circum-
stance related to us a few evenings ago, it appears that the
trickery practised at the Victoria diggings, which has lately
been exposed by the Argus, is not unkwien on our side of
the country. A gold buyer from Omelburn, whose name
we are prevented (roes rahlishing by n prudent regard for
the provisio ,s of the libel law, was not eery long since de-
tected at Tuena Creek, 'n the commission of a piece of
' cheatery, whilst in the act of weighing gold. The Lem
of his gold-scales was so constructed that it could
be moved a notch from the centre, thus converting
it into a species of steelard, by giving it a long
arm and a short one. The gain to the forcer and
consequent loss to the seller in the transaction of even a
moderately extensive business, would thus be considerable.
The delinquent, we are informed, was speedily hooted of
the diggings, where he has not ventured to re-appear. As
we have 13;fore stated, the best security to the digger
against fraud is the possession of a set of adjusted weights
and scales, the cost of which would not probably exceed
his loss in selling a large parcel to a fraudulent purchaser.
If the diggers generally were to take this precaution, dis-
honest buyers would grow chary of ri.king their reputation
by such malpractices. Die Therm diggings aro steadily
but slowly progressing, and from the tenor of the latest
accounts, require nothing so much as labour to place them
in a respectable position amongst our most remune-
rative gold fields. In proof of this assertion, it is only
necessary to state that all the steady workers aro doing
very well, making at the least very goad wages,
whilst same of them may he classed amongst the lucky
diggers. A person at "Marks Point, named Larkbans,
I with his party, has been making 4 on. of gold per day.
Mr. Lee's party from 2 ounces to 3 ounces, and others
equally well. Mr. William Brown has lately hit upon a
rich spot between Marks' Point awl Fox's station, and is
doing a very fair stroke." One old man, whose name we
did not learn, has made 10 ounces of geld during the last
fortnight by his own labour. In fact, it appears that the
country about Tuena and Copperhania Cre, ks has only
been scratched. Few holes have been dug of any consider-
able depth, and tunnelling has not been attempted. Many
of the diggers follow their pursuit rather as en amusement
than otherwise, spending half their time in idleness, and a
few of them in dissipation. Several good holes have lately
been rescued on Mr. Smith's purchased land, Turns Creek,
and there arc many promising points still untouched. Al-
together there aro about 40 diggers at work irside his
boundary line, whilst the remaining 140 to 150 are digging
upon government lands. At Limestone Hut, near the
source of Copperhania Creek ; there are about a doses
men employed, who aro making good wages, and a few
are digging near the junction of Little-Bread Creek with
the Abercrombie, whoa* fortunes are on about a par with
their neighbours of tho Limestone Hut. An isolated party
may also be seen here and there slong the banks of the
river, but so fir as can be ascertained, their earnings are
scarcely worth recording. Of course, diggers are as fond of
grog at Deena Creek as elsewhere, win provision is ROW
making to supply their wants in this particular commodity.
Two public houses are is course of erection by Messrs.
Morrie and Marks, both ooulburn people, who have already
made application for their licenses. Mr. Asaistant.Commis.
donee Zouch left the Turon in the early part of last week,
for the purpose of taking charge of the Abercrombie
du-
trier, and is daily experceil at Turns Creek, where ihe cam-
mistioner's quarters are for the present to be need.
Hitherto the licenses have been collected by Sergeant Hip.
I well, of the mounted pollee. For the past month upwards
of eighty were obtained.
MouNearcr Rue DlGOlNolll.—Little has been ssid about
the Mountain Run Diggings, for the simple reason that,
Incept to the diggers themselves, little has been known. At
present they embrace the country watered, or perhaps
rather, drained, by the Mountain Run. Brown's and Calula
Creeks. Hitherto, Brown's Creek only has been known in
connexion with the production of gold, tint the diggers have
never been very numerous upon it, a!thoogh a few have
done well in that locality. At present the thirster* have
migrated to the Mountain Run Creek, where there are
about fifty at work, the mast of whom are making good
wages, •Id some of them something more. One individual
iuformed us that himself, a man, and a little boy, had fre-
quently made as much as 2 on. or gold per day. The Moun-
tain Run Creek is a tributary of Brown's Creek, and the
spot where the men are now at work is about a mile
front the junction. There are a few parties also at work
upon Calula
i Creek, where gold has recently been found.
stab
Many other n the vicinity have been described to as
as highly auriferous, more or less gold being found in every
panful of earth subjected to the washing process, and in
some places of a coarse description. It hue's° been found
in the neighbourhood of the Three Brothers, in lumps is
large as beans, the country thereabouts ptewnting an ex-
ternal appearance very similar to that about the Dirt Holes
and Tainbaroor.t. The principal didiculty experienced at
present in working the Mountain Run digging: is the shun.
dance of water, which springs upon them hetore the diggers
have sunk to any considerable depth. The discoveries
being almost weekly made in every direction, and about
which, after the first announcement, little more is heard,
affird abundant evidence of an almost boundless gold Held
in these di.triete, which, for the present, must remain very
partially dest loped for want of a population. or until the
greater glories of our principal diggings have shed a portion
of their lustre.

A VETFRAN TRUMPF.TER.—WiIIem Keigbtley,
the present trumpet-major of the Royal llorse Guards, hes
been attached to that regiment upwards of 46 ran, having
been attested to the same in 1806. Ile is the old,st scr,itig
soldier in the army. He was at the battle of Vittoria in
the Star 1813, and was appointed trumpet major to the
corps in 1816. Ile, moreover, was acting state trumpeter
at the funeral of King George 111., nt Windsor, in
Jauoary,lB2o, as also at the proclamations, coronations,
and funerals of the two bUCCeiliVe monarchs, George IV.
and William IV., respectively, and performed a similar
office at the oclamation of her present Must Gracious Ms-
jests' Queen Victoria. He also signalised the moment at
which the late Archbishop of Canterbury imposed the
crown of England upon the brow of our Queen in West-
minster Abbey. on the 28th of June, 1838. The trumpet-
mayor is in hie 65th year.