The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-22 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

The following is from the summary of the
(Bombay) Times of India of the 26th July :

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Behar, with the
English mails of the 3rd July, arrived in harbour on the
afternoon of the 23rd idem. This is the quickest transit
of the mails on record.

The Bombay Legislative Council commenced its second
seasion at Poonah on the 15th inst., his Excellency Sir
Bartle Frere presiding.
The pilot who wrecked the Beechworth in Bombay har-
dour has been suspended for six months from rank, pay,
and allowances.

With the exception of four, the whole of the ships of
the Indian navy have been put out of commission.
The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court at Bombay
terminated on the 19th July. Two men were convicted of
murder, and have been sentenced to be executed.
Colonel Phayre, Chief Commissioner in Pegu, is about to
visit the court of Ave, to demand satidaction for the
murder of Lieutenant Balked, one of hie assistants, by
Burmese subject&
A lieutenant of the Punjab police is under close arrest for
having ordered a man suspected of theft to be flogged to
death.

A marine court of inquiry has been held at Bombay to
inveetigate;ithe circumstances attending the loss of the
ship James Pilkington on tho 17th of June last. The master
and chief mate had previously sailed for England.
Government has authorised leave and passage money
beindgmuted to all officers of the Indian navy for whom
there is no employment in India.
It is expected that a considerable reinforcement of troops
for the North of China will shortly be despatched from
Wk.

The French have purchased for the sum of ten thousand
dollars a place called Obok, near Ras Bir, just outside the
Straits of Babelmandeti.

Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, is at the Neil-
gherry hills.
Major KIM Gough, V.C., of the 19th Humus, attempted
suicide a few days ago at Lucknow by shooting himself,
but is expected to recover from his wound.
Civilian judges have been appointed to ten new Small
Cause Courts in the Madras Presidency on 1401. each per
month.

The Calcutta Division of the new High Court met tot
the first time on the 7th July, Si, Barnes Peacock presiding.
The Madras government intend trying experiments for
growing the quininelielding cinchona from seed in the
oollectorates of the East Coast and Salem.

The trial of the Rao Sahib at Cawnpore, for the murder
of Europeans during the mutiny, has been adjourned on
account of the prisoner's indisposition.
The camp of the Ameer Dad Mehemet of Cabool,
reached Waahew on the 23rd Jane. Furrailt wee closely
besieged.
Three Manila men of the crew of theßombay country ship
Futtay Ahem rose upon the captain and officers whilst on
the voyage from Calcutta to Singapore, and nearly suc-
oeeded in taking the yawl, but were beaten off, and 020 of
their number shot dead by the captain (Mitchell).
Captain Swedes, (paymaster Gth Inniskilling (Dragoons),
has been found guilty on every count of the charges on
which he was tried by court-martial at Mhow, and sen-
tenced to be cashiered—which sentence has been confirmed
by General Sir Hugh Rose.
There are indications of a partial failure of the monsoon
this year in some of the districts of the Bombay Presi•
dairy, the rain still holding off in all the collectorates
except Khandeish.

It is rumoured that Lieut. Hughes, the assistant superin-
tendent of police in the Thyetmyo district in Yegu, together
with an officer of the 60th Rifles and a small escort, have
been waylaid and murdered on the Burmese frontier.

The camps of the Governor-General of India and theCom-
mender-in-Chief are to be formed at Agra early in Novem-
ber mixt.

The tribes of the Jynteah country in Assam are again
heooraing troublesome. They hare recently killed eight
men of a party of sepoys, put the rest to flight, and carried
off their arms and ammunition.

EidilVo9ll ire still being made to recover mauve from
the sunken wreck of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Ave, lost near Trincomalee upwards of two years ago.
2,8001. in spade has been recently brought up by the English
divers.

A report has reached Ca/eutta from Nepaul, that the
notorious rebel leader Farm Shah was killed some six weeks
ago by some Goorka robbers, while he was wandering in
the Nepaul hills in the guise of ajoqueer or religious men-
dicant.

The ship Wadiatool Rahimon, Captain J. P. Grant, was
wracked near Burnes on the southern 00iSt, within sixty
miles of Bombay, on the sth of July, whilst proceeding
from that port to Singapore.
It is again skated in the north-west papers that the in-
famous Nana Sahib, of Bithoor, is alive, and resides is or
near to Ilhootan, and that his family are now on their way
to Blicatan from Became . _

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The Ceylon paean mention that the Jimmies.les lm-
perigee are now engaged in the construction of vast docks
at Bum, capable of containing steamers of the largest else.