The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-17 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

By our usual despatches in advance of tho over-
land mail, we have received news to the following
dates : Bombay, Feb. 17 ; Calcutta, Feb. 7 ; Madras,
Feb: 13 ;China, Jan. 30.
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The fOliowing items of intelligence are from the
summary of the Bombay Times:
"The Governor-General arrived at Calcutta on the
Vith ult. He is said to have approved generally of
the conduct of the commodore, but excepted to tho
abduction of the Burmese ship-of war. It now ap-
pears, however, that it was not on this account that
the Fox was fired upon. The Governor told him that
if he attempted to remove British property from Ran-
goon he would be assailed from the stockades; and
the commodore replied that if so much as a
pistol were discharged at him, he would level the
stockades,—and ho accordingly, when attacked,
kept his word. The Governor-General is said to be
most anxious to see and bring the Burmese to their
senses without resorting to hostilities, and to avoid a
war, if possible. Reinforcements and munitions are
meanwhile being despatcted in abundance to our
settlements on the frontier, and every preparation
made to repel assault, revenge insult, or enter on
hostilities, if necessary. No further steps have been
taken, so far as is known, by the Burmese, who
probably await to see what we propose. Ali Moored
has y ieldod to his fate without the necessity of a re-
sort to force, and the troops ordered to assemble at
Sukkur to coerce, if necessary, are now on their
way back to their cantonments. A proclama-
tion dated Rome, the 21st January, has been issued
by the commissioner under direction of the go-
vernment of India, promulgating the grounds of
our offence. When the Khyrpore Chief found that
he had got Sir Charles Napier fully into his toils,
and induced him to rob his brethren of their do-
minions with the view of extending his own, the
territory afterwards to be occupied by him was de-
fined by the treaty, of Nownahur, consisting of cer-
tain additions to that supposed previously his own.
The extent of this was described on a leaf of the
Koran : this he removed, and substituted another in
its plaoe, describing larger dominions as his, and
claiming a portion of that which had belonged to his
brethren, and ought on their fall to have become ours.
The fraud was fully established against him, and
ultimately admitted, and he is now stripped
of what in reality never was his--of the rairship or
chieftainship—the grounds of our quarrel; and re-
duced hereafter to the rank of a nobleman in the pos-
session of his hereditary estates. Tranquillity reigns
throughout India. Tho Governors and Commanders-
in-Chief of Madras and Bombay arc at these presi-
dencies respectively—the latter preparing for their
periodical migrations, which cost the state in outlay
some 5,0001. a year, in addition to the loss sustained
by interruption of public business.—Colonel Outram,
late Resident at &rods, returns to Europe by this
day's steamer, leaving under the displeasure of go-
vernment and carrying with him the respect and
esteem of all honourable men.—Trade both here and
at Calcutta continues dull and freights low, with a
large superfluous amount of shipping in both ports."

CALCUTTA, Flue 7.
The Overland Star says :—" There is one matter of
great social and public, private and general import-
ance, just now being agitated here, to which we
would draw attention. The proprietors and editors
of the Calcutta papets, justly thinking that they and
their property had been grossly wronged, injured,
and depreciated, by the recommendation of the
postal commission hay, to continue the high and
ruinous tax on the carriage of newspaper.' by the
public post, and knowing that the commissioner's
report, with the Governor-General's minutes and
recommendations, were going home by this mail,
have addressed a petition to his lordship, soli-
citing his favour in their behalf, and praying for his
influence and interference to remove or lighten the
present crushing tax upon knowledge, es far as it is
conveyed and diffused by the public journals."

The intellirnos fron7llemt is important. It is
now certain that 12,000 Persians have arrived from
Meshid to aid the Alikeyes in beleaguering the
citadel in which the son of Yar Mahommed
Khan still remains shut up. The name of
the Persian general who is at the head of
this army is uncertain, but it is supposed to
bo the Governor of Khonutan, and son of the
late Abbas Mints. Fifteen years have now
elapsed since Pottingar's defence of Herat against
the late King of Persia. There is every chance this
time of the success of the Kajars, who have taken
advantage of the disunion and anarchy existing in
Herat moo the Yar Mahommed's death, and have
just stepped in in good time between the contending
parties. They are ostensibly tho restorers of Atta
Mohammed's sons; but there is very little doubt
that they will annex Herat to their dominions in
the event of moms, of which there is every pro-
bability.

CAsuALTus by death in the armies of India since
the departure of the mail on the 9rd February :
Her Majesty's Troops.—Lieut.-Colonel Toinkina, eons-
mandini Royal Artillery in Chin., on the 29th Dec., 1861;
Lieut. Lugg, Royal Artillery, in China, on the 28th Dee.,
1861.

Madras.—Lient. Henry Bell, 2nd Native Veteran Bette-
lion, at rillttabiad,g Tie. 28th
,Ja:tdaiiiit.
Native
In-
fantry, oonunandi4 Hill Rangers, at Baa`alpore.

CHINA.

Tho Orerland Friend of ('Auto has tho following
A rebellion has broken out in the Bin-on district of Can-
ton province. On the 20th day of the 11th moon, the
officers engaged in collecting the taxes, found some who
had no means of paying, but instead of seizing these men,
they took their elder brothers into custody, especially the
richer ones, from whom they expected to obtain a good
deal of money as ransom. The inhabitants, however,
became enraged, and rose and killed the inngistrate of the
district. Troops are now on their way to the scene of dis-
turbance, to cumin. into the particulars of the murder,
rte. One of our Chinese correspondents has shire partially
corroborated this report, and gives fuller details. It was not
Chong, the district magistrate, who was killed, but his chief
subordinate ; whereupon Chung made primmer, of all the
literati of first and second rank ; one of whom, surnamed
Lite, examined as to the pi rpetration of the decd. was
tortured so severely that he died under the infliction. I. pon
this the villagers reopen maser, tied Chong to a tree, gave
him a certain number of blows with a bamboo, shaved off
his beard and eye-brows, and dismissed hint to tell his talc
to the deputy governor of the movince, killing seven police-
men who attempted to defend him,

We have been favoured with the following extract from
a letter dated Ningpo, 13th December, which confirms
sundry reports that have been current here during the past
ten days:
Business here is extremely dull from the heavy barter
transactions at your place, and the feet of a Canton pins-
, tical fleet being close to this. The pirates have given out
I that they are coming to this place and Chinghai, either to
plunder or receive ransom. The people are sending their
families and valuables into the country, and are in a great
ferment. At the request of the mandarins, her Majesty's
brig Contest has been detained here for a week, and may
be so longer. At Singkong, a place in Chusan, to the
south of Blackwell pauage, an engagement took piece on
Sunday last between the mandarins and the pirate junks,
13 in number, when nine of the former were taken, partly
it is said through treachery. Tho Ningpo and Shanghae
fleets
is coming here to try and settle mitten."

I °silty has not been particularly f ble, Ouvab.:flee
and the second pickings in Soffragam have yet to b
se-
eared. It is still impossible to estimate the seasons •rop
correctly ; on moat estates in good order, and w. are
happy to believe that includes the large majority, the ,ope
are better than last year, but from the failing of old .rd,
and the fact of estates not yielding in good average ..ars
the heavy returns of new properties in their full be ..ing
years, we do not expect the crop will equal that of IRV 0.50.
At the same time the foreign orders in the market for ',tire
descriptions will greatly reduce the quantity shippe, for
London direct. lhe blossom has not yet appeared e.cept
partially, but the weather has been favourable for it de-
velopment under good circumstances. In Colomb the
weather has been cold and occasionally ahowery an.' un-
seasonable. Cinnamon planters are putting their pa lens
in order alter a very fair cutting season. This plant ens
are looking particularly vigorous. Beyond the re-m, c tr-
ance of small pox in some of the towns the country • in
general healthy.