The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

TIIE OVERLAND MAIL.

We boa. received, ria Marseilles, news from Bom-
bay i‘m January 3, and from Calcutta to Dec, 22.
The fidios Mg is from the general summary of the
josbay l'oaes of January 3rd.
Warlike rumours from the North-v.lst frontier
bps been current during the prod fortnight, origi-
nating in the murder of two of our uncovenanted
servants in the territories of a Chief named Jehan
issd Khan in the Ilarareh district. The unfortunate
Tioinu•• Mr. tame, and his assistant, Mr. Tapp, had
rime tim,mmial our boundaries in their excess of real '
I, the public rerviee: they were employed in the
roeintion of salt smuggling, and in spite of re-
r ,41 warnings persisted in going where they
seem to brie had no right to trespass. As soon
as the circumstance was made known to the
Khan he sailed upon Major Abbott, Political Agent
in the Ilatareli country. and expressed his regret at
who hail (slimmed. and offered to apprehend the
murderous. Time offer was accepted. on the under-
etanding that they should be given up in three stays.
The time had expired, mid they were still at large,
although a number of personslad been given up to
Major .thbott, none of a horn. it has been asrertained,
ati, thing 'whatever to do in the sad alfair. Nu
suspicion at present *Beetles itself to the Khan. but
kit, Wearer is thought to be implicated. The Khan,
ireful that we will hold him personally resismnsible,
has summoned the w ib.l tribes on the Is bank
tithe bolus to his assistance, and is now assembling
them round his capital of Umb.—There is a
woo general feeling that we 1.11:111 be in hostile'
collision with the 101 l tribes before long, and that,
t 0... at a point %here it was not anticipated. No-
thing h beam heard from Rangoon during the
past fortnight. llir !Majesty's steamer Hermes.
from the Cape, has gone to jinn Commodore Lam-
hot and it is said that Admiral Austen, in the
has proceeded to Iturittion. Tile pro-
babilities man to he that the governor of that
place, who has manifested a dmittree of boldness indi-
cative of risistanee to our demands, will use his in-
duence to persuade the king of the insolence of our
pretensions, and recommend a course of policy
which will render a war inevitable. A force is
now on its march (rout Kurraehee towards Upper
Seintle, in progress to attack Meer Ali Moo-
red of Kliyirpoor should he prove contumacious, and
refuse to surrender to us the territory he has so long
by fraudulent pretences'. The Steam has not
yet paid his debt to the East India Company. Ile
has up to ihelwesent time paid only 90,1100/. of the
laildrour/. due by him. This will cause further ern-
barnassment of his affairs. It is thought that further
time will be granted before proceeding to extremi-
e.. the seivestration of a portion of his domi-
nions. .Sem.munts from Called state that Mahomed
Khan has been seized and scut in to the Armor
Bost Malionsed Khan by Akram Khan. The Dust
would appear to he again in good health and
spirit., notwithstanding so many positive an-
&comments of his deu'h and burial-, and may
yet outlier another camp.mign against the British, if
we should he so unwise as to pass the Khyber again.
—Sir Robert lkirlow has completed his Lave:stip'.
6/11 into the charges brought forward by Lord El-
k:thorough against the proceedings in the mares-
tratis court at Agra in the ease of Lalla Joke Per-
iamb sail sent in his report to government. It will
probably be presented to parliament next February,
and form the nucleus of attack on the company's
civil administration of this country in time discuss ions
on the renewal of the charter next year.—A meet-
ing of the chief Rajpouts of Nlynpource has been
held to pat down the horrible custom of infanti-
cide formerly so prow:rent amongst that nation,
but which of late years hoe been well nigh extir-
pated. The camp of the Command( r-in-Chief of
India was on the right bank of the Jhelum, on the
war to the disturbed frontier, at the date of the last
dispatches received. Lord and Viscountess Falk-
land, Sir John Grey, and all the leading members
of the society of this presidency, except the Chief
Justice, arc now is Bombay. The Mackay. have
been found guilty of aggrasuted manslaughter, and
sentenced to be transported for lire to Vau Diemen 's
Land."

A letter dated Bombdlji Jan. J, says :
A distisehuseet at • place culled Mute, four miles from
the outpost of Shubkudr, and to the north-east of l)ubh,
where the force of Sir C. Campbell has for some time lain
ins, tire, was attacked by a large body of Momunds on the
Bth of December. Our party con.isted of • party of the
Ounde Corps, undi r Lieut. )liller, • detail of artillery
under Lieut. Simeon, and the 2nd Punjab Cavalry, the
whole commanded by Crpt. Jackson, of the latter corps.
The encwy are end to have numbered 4,000 foot and 100
horse, at the head of whom were two chiefs; one-fourth
these numb. r. would, probably, be nearer the true
strength the force of the enemy. They appear
to have thought of taking our men by surprise,
bat th. reception they met with quickly suede
tin m tly. ILe Lahore I ltrwaiele says :—" Their
object wis at first to turn the rear of the oil-
lair. and they seemed to heed but little. the firing of Lieu-
tenant Sinieou's guns, which opened upon them. They
how somewhat more alive to the attentions of •
party of the Guides, who were first posted near the ell-
taste. and then oecuying some oullalis to the rear, suebed
en th, lee Iny from one to another in excellent style. The
Momunds did not approve this pride of warfare, and
retreating much faster than they came on, at last ran out-
right. the genii doing good execution as they tied. In an
hour the plains were cleared of the enemy, who took up a
pootion on some low sendliills at no great distance, where
they remained all the afternoon, going off entirely towards
evening. They passed close enough to Shubkudr to admit
of the garrison opening their lire on them. The loss of
the )demands was variously estimated at from 8 to 12 killed
sad r. wounded. The Guides had one man slightly
wounded, and • sower of Jackson's Irregulars, who were
too late in the Reid to pursue the enemy with effect, was
struck on the head with a spent bell. It is said that two
of the chiefs of the Momunds, named Nawab Khan and
Shaikh Abdoola, were both in the fray. and bore them-
selves very gallantly. A round shot fell between the legs
of the hone of the latter, but did not induce him to moire
bow his then position." The force under Sir C. Camp-
bell had not been molested further than by small parties
of the enemy descending from the hill. on the camels and
tattle while out grazing, several of which they had suc-
ceeded in carrying off. The fort at I)ubb was pro-
ceeding rapidly, and till it was completed the general did
bet intend commencing offensive operations. The enemy
were coll. ling in large numbers iu his neighbourhood in
the bills. Ile had been reinforced by Wedler's troop of
bor., artillery and some revelry and infantry. A wing of
her Majesty's 83d, under Colonel Mansfield, while on its
way to join his camp bad been directed to proceed to Mute,
where they arrived on the Jtb. The force at l'eshawur
were on the alert night and day, and the whole of the ar-
tillery had been recalled to the station from their practice
ground at l'humkunic.

The first count of the indictment charged Mies
Mackay with having, on the Ith of October last, and
the five following days, in Beleepooruh, at Benares,
on one Helen Mackay, the child of the prisoner] dui
Mackay, maliciously and feloniously made divers as-
saults with a whip and hempen cords, giving her
mortal wounds and bruises in different parts of her
)oily, of which she languished from the 4th to the
ttth October, and then died. And it further charged
the male prisoner with liming been present at the
commission of this felony and murder, aiding and
aliening the female in it; and alleged that both did
thus kill and murder the child. The second count
alleged that both the prisoners, contriving and in-
tending to starve and murder the child, made several
assaults upon her from the Ith to the 9th October,
and emifined her in a room, and neglected, omitted.
or niipsd to give or suffer to be given sufficient meat
and drink for her sustenance, in consequence of
which she dicd, and the prisoners did thus feloni,-
Duly mu dt r her.

The (Areriaisel Star revs : "The Governor-General
ix sliml) approaching the presidency, where he will
arise übout the middle of next month. The com-
Dan ial and shipping communities of Calcutta com-
plain inueh of a slackness of business and the badness
of tic times, but as yet there have been no disasters
1in"14:-: the great houses of this city, and it is hoped
tlia. 11, year will terminate and the next progress
without much casualty. There are no 'domestic
avi oh. 11.11% IA in the services, or military occurrences
of imp...mime to record, if we except the death of
Litutesialit .Colonel I)rummond, C. 11., quarter-master-
ies, rd of our army, of which lamented event the
sou • it has just reached Calcutta."

‘t.ttrA by death in tin Armies of India since
Sh. • t Dreesibtr :
D. Tro.p..—notoot 0. A. Fr.tnklyn, 11th
D144..11., at Meerut, Dee. 1.4.
Itoma•y. --Captain T. Min•tem, 11th Native Infantry, at
Sh 11,e. 20,
1%'1,2 - Lwatenant•Colonel J. G. Drummond, C.D.,
Chart ~t• r•Uem nal, at Karlau, Dec. 11, Major lit:-
Prig 41..... • l4valry, at IN >rah, Lie. 13.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY, JAM. 2.
TiM MOIST Moixer.—We bare so elterstion to report
k trMobMOW nerll3l. The basks hays their re's of la.
Mat erl dimwit Wm nue Id usual at Ws pram
13•311r10t tw and other sreuritire :
Pm Pk* 11133.211 rut 1013.13, 3W t, 104; 13••• 1311144
1•3124411er 11,aen. 11131.31, 111,134 ; Oarapanra nut% I lin-36. add
101 al Target Imo. MI; limbs, W*oolloo.'o. 10. 103 Per
cent. prudent Oriental cant Ourporatket Sharer, 10 per rest pre-
mium; CodellOrlial Bork tiloarer, 11 pie rent. korrekt; Arra dank
tika•ta. I mom mamas; Urea lsduu Niguel .t &Wee) 3bAre.,
Rs. Si II pit shwa

mean s.
dams Pan tea.—A far arouses of badness has bees dame
limbs Übe Iset hatslolot, althostis our ionic 'tinhorn hunt Mbar -
war snail:l shankt. The arrivals or ?nob supplies hasp tees vary
My. Prism Ps oleos all ileseripthes snainuo unreettnerative.
Gan 1.011. Curra.—The heavy, shah se In Hog , 40 ia., euousands •
starlet, eh fly in eduequoixe of the wart ity of ilosevUos; bat de-
scriptor up toll its ore but liste shed for
Btaaeaaa hotsv:soo, up to do rivd 'cry dill; "tattle. of he ski
71 nod eassaud a rood inquiry.
revere Oneto.—slot hod mulls end be etweine are heavy in
reek. and enamel laud. inoluay. Zebu and 0111110 drosses isossaus
dad.

Correa Tans. —Mule ham NM, In pm! ingnirc, awl primer have
dilddly advanced nu Nos. 20 an.l 40 to 60. The demand for lb@ beet
quality IA lend, and We, al oak. have Men made at our extreme quo-
tation ; among tab. cc, • parml of mi ban,. la water there his be. n
no abaft* in valor, meepting hi a, the pries of which ban • I6htly
advanced. 160 bales water taut, 20.i105. nab, No.. 16, IS, 20, 34,
and 24, at ana. 3 11•16 ter lb. Ito balm wasp ggiu, y'allM. each,
No. 20, at ana ri : N 0.30, at ans. 7 0-16 per lb. 90 bake watertwot,
'3oollw. each. No. 311, at Ana 7 11.16 per lb. 130 bales mule tale% goo
lbs. eich. No. 40, at am. 6; No. 30. at an% 61; No. 4a, at aim 7.
100 ha'm m,.k twld. NAM. rack% Nees :0, at ana. W ; No. SO, at rias.
Cif at and RI per lb. KO bike mule twat. ZOOM.. earn,
No. 20, at ana 01; No. 30, at Me. GI ; No. 40, at ans. 71; No.. nt
al ; no. 00, At um. II ; No. 70 At an.. 11 per lb. 40 bAh • mule
PIM% I.lollle. each, Nu. V. at 7f per lb. 99 Miro mak laid, hinlb.
r icb, No. 40, at env. 7 per lb. 20 halm mule twid, agelbs. each. No.
40, at an.. 7i ine lb.
Mum —Mange i. In gin di th man.!. while, as the °dm ham!, 'ft,.
key Mad is very difficult of auk. and baa slightly receded to value,
acme but the bed imAlitti• are naleable.
Woomain • -Ater a long period of neglect, are at length teltinoing
to ba notated by the dealers in a languid way. About 600 peers smr-
lot hat Moth have lieunt purchmera, but at prima very much lower
than throe • Web i 1 la t seam..

higrira.—Konlwi barr.rte in gond demimod. Swedish bars hays a
little receded in value. shirts and hoop. are without mango In
and have a invlerate Miurr).
Vo•ls. Sword. -rancor dull, both b.:cached and brown. Twat.
of all dew nptionv Ana, se are older opirao rf turpentine, while 01 of
lloonoll Is In prt•ol Armand. Condo r• in demand. but twins la Manor
dull 0( male. LAM corn, bl.o lc paint, Se. Su. per .wt.
sr. atw.—Craaey m lake! common, o irk.; in bottle with bot
little inquiry. Lim, in bode., in good inquiry ;ha unorm. very ibilL
100 cameo of ,tin, 13 .qpuire bottles c eb, I.e. per cam; JON ilium!,
!Venni brandy. er. per ikwen.
.—lttiutrol dull, and ha+ declined :hie. to 37r.; Tollicherry
co.itinties wilbout change, at Sr.e to 3.3% per randy.

1 moan..
for my to favourolde aecooto fr vra Chins, the
mark. t too become very oteadr, and peen have advanced. Nearly
the purehaiwy w trlc have bees for er.ina ; little or wetting hu
been doog to the Lagthdi market. Seem : -21111 boles; Ithollem. at
11 to. per ensile ; 11.0 dr., el do.; 200 do., 6: do. ; 100 do,
re. d,, tie do.; 110 do., St ailo. ; 100 do., al do.; en., ;
li• 14.1..17 ea. ; 100 do., 07 d ; 100 J. a) do. ' • 200 do ,Y, do.;
isO lulne "rivals, 07 is do. ; 'too do., Si dr. ; 73 eeeutiedi Mangalore
(all rural). 76 do.; 1110 do.. 72 do.; lon do, 7s do.
Ortvw..--11,• market les been gotta:ding and is sow rather dull
—prim. nice declined to 1,11.10 rt.. ut 1,0 per chest.
I'lasduer. Eme.and there la but lltt,e ..drone, while there is a
lons amount of One me. lo L•vierydrl. 71.; to London, IL Its per
ton. To Chia; rupee* 1.; at 17 per null,.
Eseneet.. on Lapland tam bet 'actuating Warms In IJ. ssd
9s. I, J. Tn• pones.% opiatetton• are la. 1,,L per rape.. Oa teleut•a
rue* have deci.nel to o ann. teem. Os tuna :he rates ate rupees
:la at :17 pr lOW dollar at So days' iodic
Tint Bonner Moser MattMdf.—Friday evening, Jan.
7, P.v.n.inere In Linton, at .is mon he sight, pee re., 2r Id., for
document Sin ; sit m nth,' might. per to. 2a. IN. t0.t0.l 11.164.1.• w
testa hills. Os Ca.eutti, at 60 iya sued, per 160 sea., :Ott •n 3
day: oiled, per liht oisht, per 100 rot., 1011. On wires,
at 30 davit* oleht, per :lel r, 9) ; at sigl.t, per 1(0 ru,99.. Os Chins,
at 110 days' right, per 100 tin% 217 re.
CALCUTTA, Ilene. 22.
By the Ilowttbay ceps ss which arrived on the 17th inst.,
sy r puma dtrp•tten whlch cam• to hand seat day, and by the !
Erin, leak" arrived the mate afWv non, we were pot in toomorn -a
of London !titers to the 6th !Savers or, with imereantile tutsfligrrae
of a moat unwitstretory nature, 10602 bm dcniped any duipooiti I.
whieh previously ea sled ow mare LIA live lama,r in our export
mat bit, and thrown a complete plot over it, further .ppravatei by
men untarsirted rim i• trio, hot Under Out combination a/ untoward
eimsmsten to, mast huding staples bane taken a downward leaden/.
eta a onyoryt of its further eatenatou. Usw 0.10 bee been awn
unelected eves at teemed peters Carats have been adoring et Ito
1 et...1.-cline, without attracting buyer.. Irides have experience! but
limited "airy at the mese looser ntes. Liateed la In dinuntoheil
atoms I. and the keg of the lower quallka are 1 totenses ranee
Illuoterd mad awtlrw to be taken freely at well aute? red pekes.
Our siatieipatlono al a eantasoitoe of the dryer/ion In oar market
aw cotton OM, Kona. have, we are sorry to say, lawn tar manse&
War marks ie, it pooeible, mew than it was, and another Winn .d
some importance in the !Walt boo tended t augni• nt the depression.
Grey and white *Sunnite hem been pt iced to a her extent, hat at
lower valor. ISmbrico and twills are dull, and also lower hi value.
The wino of *oriels have been heavy at former value. Lappets and
Übe/ fancy muollos have commanded a fair demand. Book mu .11n.
have met with •lianted milady, the expeditiori 41 Itatagoon doubt. ca
acting ari a temporary etinrk to this hiss la of the trade. and
elliataes is teat and lame s lours are more depressed, and sales ef
them almotit Isipsactienbie. The baldness done is mule twat,
only Irmo moderate, wl It a farther 611 of front 1 to 7 per morab.
Cooper U a little belt. 1. Iron remain. deprtamed. Speller hot
aliantly men way is valise. lead to wit..out rep et of sale.
rani tbe ea t of Ire week, eschew with Loodon remained mu- h
melt was when the prisMome mall left within the bon two Jaya, bum.
OW?, rants bays gone doers ta 9-2-0 he credit, and 2.2 k to 141 fin
iloroment paper.
Our M sty Market has oboes so eigno of improvement, and west
of easlidiusi Son" the ksisling feature amongst Hamar deskre. Magee
rates renam unchanged, but in ill ether chanson of capital ins( re.
serve mill pin vale.
Yreteliteraprrirared a trradicl rite, eatending to 11.., and is some
VP.. per t but wants the lard few day. tb.y have again
receded fully 101