The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-04 00:00:00

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.

By the arrival of time Mails we have 'reedited
tatters sad papers from Calcutta to Jose 30, and
from Bombay to July 9.

INDIA.

The Calcutta Englishman's Overland Mail, under
the heed " Money Market," says :—" There has
been generally a dull time since our last. The
Bank rates have not been altered and accommoda-
tion is obtained as required. Exchange evinces a
slight improvement and the produce market begins
to show a little more activity as the opening of the
rivers brings down produos. Securities also are
dull with a slightly downward tendency. The
share market is more active and all bank shock is
firm. Shares in Indigo Asexiation are looking
up, and generally there is a brisk business doing at
improving prices."
Acoording to the same journal, the last news
from the troubled quarter of Bhootan is that
Tampa Penlow has returned from Toengso to
Punakba, and joined the Ermlah in an inquiry into
the conduct of the Penlow of Pent for having
treated the British in a friendly spirit. He has
also entered into a consultation with regard
to offensive and defensive operations. The
Mann* has also opened his mouth on the
subject, and addressed a letter to the Dhurmraj
of Thibet, mentioning the visit of the English
mission and its conduct, and the belief of the Blio-
tanese that the mission were merely spies examining
the country ; he also stated his fears of invaaion,
and asked for asaistance. The Thibet Dhurmraj
replied that he knew the English were covetous of
the jungle tracts of Bhootan, and impious in their
desire to shed innocent blood. He, however, as-
sured the Bhotan chief that the English would not
invade his country, and, if they did, that he would
help him.
It is rumoured, says the Englishman, that Pro-
fessor Oldham is to make a survey of the coal-fields
of Assam next cold season. If found in paying quan-
tities, the probability is that the government will
at once place still greater restrictions on the already
far too rapidly increasing influx of settlers, which
has been found to tend greatly to hamper that
policy of "developing the resources" which the
government initiated, and to which it intends,
through evil report and good report, to adhere.

Recent letterb from Nagpore state that the Chief
Commissioner of the Central Provinces, having
been struck with the extent and richness of the
archnological remains scattered throughout his
satrapy, has founded an antiquarian society, which
it is proposed to affiliate to the Asiatic Society in
Bengal, in the same way as a somewhat similar so-
ciety was formed a short time ago in the Punjab.
With regard to Bhootan the Bombay Gazette

Uri :
It le sow stated that Sir John Lawrence will certainly
not seed a British force into Bhootan to tone: the country,
unless the Bboolias demand the fulfilment of the humiliat-
leg treaty they extorted from the Governor-General's
envoy ; and that the only method which the government of
India will adopt Marro the insult offend to Mr. Ede&
will be to seise the meaty of wrath didrien nevenient
to the frontier, whirr bare hitherto paid Liras to lihootao.
The Bombay Times says :
I Hie Eseellesey the Viceroy and Governor-General held
Darter at Simla on the 15th Jon for the reception of the
chiefs of the Hill States between the Sutlej and Junink
His eneffeney admired she &rambled chiefs in their
venreedir leagerge, with great fluency ►nd vigour. lo
cresequence of this the admonitions and counsels of the
gannior-grearal have found their way amongst the people
as they never would have done if they had been stammer-
lusty peraplusen and diluted by an interpreter. Hie ex-
cellency @amended their loyalty, sad instructed them bow
to inspire their defeadseta and pots with it.

The same journal observes :
The report has sew goes forth from Simla with some
show of authority, that the commander-in.ellief, Sir Hugh
Bole, will leave India in Gabber. Of corns there is mute
sprieulatiou as to who will be his enoosesor in office. His
excellency and the members of the Imperial Council will
return to Caketta in the odd ewer for legislative
work. It is probable that, en route, his excellency will
carry oat a programmes, which he is known to have prepared,
for ore or two brief sittings of the council, and • eerie@ of
durbars La the provinces. The ietimatim that Lady
Lawmen will arrive in India in November text is retorted
as an assurance of the vieerey's intrados to stay his whole
term of office in the coaster if his health permit.
The Bombay Times contains also the following
account of an accident on the Great Indian Penin-
sular Railway :
The morning pausimpr up-train from Kumar", from
which place it started at 3 a.m. se the 27th June, met
with a serious accideet at 4.30 a.m. about four miles from
literals, on the Madded side, and about 10 miles from
Cellian. The train consisted of me first-clam three
see:led-clam and eight third-class carriages, and two
breaks, the whole of which were totally mashed.
with the exception of two third clim carriages and the
rear break. The engine toppled over on her aide, and
was partly buried I. the mod. The mocidsat resulted
is the lees of 15 lives, satires, all realm Eighteen proms
have bees seriously injured, ammo( whom woe a Euro.
peso fireman of the name of Bump, who lied his
thigh fractured, the rest being Bisdoes. One native
female had both her arms broken; and Joseph Prime,
a European guard, led one of his OM A Porte.
gases, as inspector of water cranes, was severely in-
jured in the cheekbone. The mooed guard of the train,
Codes, received several severe bruises. The driver of
the train reamed unhurt. The immediate muse of the un-
fortunate occurnmes was the washing away by the rains of
the earthwork over a culvert. The moment the catastrophe
ocentred, Mr. P. Grope, superintendent's clerk at the Elio-
sawnl dation, who was a passenger, jumped out of the car-
riage, and ran to the Titwalla station to telegraph for moist-
ince. This be did at some permed risk, for the water
covered the line. A number of convicts, who were in cue
of the third-class earring's, escaped without injury.
' "The great Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, Bom-
bay," says the Bombay Times, " is fairly launched,
and under auspices that are unprecedented in the his-
tory of commerce. The shares were allotted on the
2nd inst., and have already risen in the market to
a premium of re. 30,000. On the Sib instant, 400
shares which had been reserved for government,
but subsequently declined, were pet up to public
auction. The offer of such a large number of shares
to public competition was in keeping with the
public spirit that has all along been evinced by the
promote!' of the scheme, the Hon. M. Scott and
Messrs. Gavin Steele and Cowasjee Jehangir.
The sale was one of the most remarkable sights

Tau ENFltlit'S or MILTIOO AND THE INKJET- lever presented in the oommercial world. The
TANTS OF POLIBIA. —The Empress of Metier:). happening W original priori of the shares of the company was
be at Puebla oo her birthday addressed the followiog letter
I fixed et n. 10.000. The first share sold at the
to the prefect of that town :—"Sir.—l am happy to fled
myself at Puebla no the first birthday which I pass far (rem auction was knocked down at a premium of
my old country. Such a day u for all a day of finnhailol6oa,
re.. 25,000. The lowest price realised at the
and those recollections would be for me moat painful
the affection, attentions, sad proofs of sympathy of which ; sale was rs. 24,000 premium, and the highest
lam the o'nject at Puebla did sot remind me that lam !R 35,000. The average profit on the shares
is my new country in the midst of my own people. Sur-
rounded by friends, and aotompealed by my Wowed ha- twain re. 26,345 per share, and the aggregate profit
Amid. I have so lasers for nohow sad I eve ra. 1,06,00,000, or 1,060,0001. The company thus
thanks to " who bee /meg" me thee far, by starts with a reserve fund of 50 cent. on its
to Him fervent prayers for the happiesee of a country whichper
Yto be heeosforth my own. Loot since united in sympa- proposed capital. The enterprise is one of the
thy with the Mexicaaa, I am so sew by more powerful and' greatest magnitude, and it is in the hands of
our
sweeter bond., those of gratitude. It is say desire, air, that
the poor of thin city should share the joy I feel in being rablest and wealthiest Mimeos. The scheme itself
smoept you. I thwrofer• seed you 7.ooo.,_Mastrt2,_from_. and the results of the public sale of shares on the
mapiyuu.pureeth.•
riinYououswillamadsavotwehrtherawkwatto awe repairs they ,
6th Mat, afford a striking illustration of the wealth
The poor who are nowdeprived of that asylem veal thee be and public spirit of this great city, and an indica-
able to return to it. .teen, MmaN'ir le Pmf!'t, lion of the commercial career on which it has en-
countrywomen of Puebla that they possess my affective and
always will do so. Cimatorra." tered."

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"Mee LMd intelligenos from Central Agfa is elated the
the Jane from °shook sad is highly impaelost. On the
14th Web, littiter Jamssi.the Orragaimionse of Regiment,
»mind a letter froth Baehr Nalsomed Buffo* Lea, as-
amain' that on the Ind Jens a phrased battle had been
fought at Baegab, near Demessa, between the Amegr's
troops, who were 30,000 strong. ebb 46 gam, met
his brother lishornrid Abel Shea, who forms amounted
to about the same number of men end 90 gas. Abel
Khan wag defeated with the loss of 2,000 met kilo&
4,000 taken prisoners, and a peat portion of his artillery
and amp equipage. The AISIONed army bed about 2,000
manaltim. The defeated Birder escaped, and was, by bet
amounts, asking for Balkh. Mahomed Ulm Khan,
another rebellious brother of ties Amber of Oabool,
who had to dy from Boomer in Nay last, after
sofferlog a most ignominious defeat, la still lying
perdu at Hamel Modes, within the British territories.
The great bottle of the Ind Jane appeals to have been
eommenced by the artillery out both sides, which kept
pounding away for several hours until the troops became
impatient and closed with each other in a hand-to-haled
encounter with the sword and dagger, which very speedily
brought the contest to as hone. Both armies fought des-
perately, but victory declared for the Ames of Cahoot,
and some two or three thousand of Afoul Khan's men
went over to his brother; the remainder retreating
in wild disorder, leaving their rum and everything
they could not carry behind them. The victory was rasa-
plots, and the Amser hag celebrated it with great rot obing.
sad illumination in his capital of ClabooL The neck of the
rebellion seems to be fairly broken, sad it Is probable there
will now be pease in Affslaseistan for some time to come,
as the from brought midget the Amser by both his brothels
are either destroyed or for the most part amsigmasted with
has owe troops. Share Mohamed Alli has exhibited =eh

An article in the Moniteur, on the subject of the
Hotel Dieu, was evidently written by she Prefect
of the Seine himself on the spur of the moment
when the Emperor's Vichy letter first met his eye. ,
It betrays vexation and surprise, and is, in point
of fact, a respectful reply to the imperial censure.
Although it metal:int by saying that the Prefect of
the Seine will, "before long," be in a position to
fulfil the generous intentions of the Emperor, the
whole scope of the article goes to show that nothing
is yet decided, either with regard to the site or the
plan of the new hospital to bear the old sacred
name of the Hotel Dieu, and that, in point
of fact, Peeing that the hospital service
of Paris has been of late considerably augmented,
there is no great hurry about the erection of a
monument which, although it is to be dedicated to
suffering humanity, is only urgently wanted as an
ornament to the metropolis, and an additional ray
of glory for the crown of Napoleon. The main
excuses of M. Reutemann for the delay with which
he is impliedly charged are that a committee of
inquiry has long been sitting, and, with a view to
introduce every modern perfection into the new
Hotel Dien, has collected hospital statistics from all
parts of Europe ; that it is extremely difficult
to find a site without either spoiling the
symmetry of the approaches to the cathedral of
Notre Dame, or removing the hospital too far from
its present central position. But while all these
questions are under consideration, Pd. Hausmann
(for I presume him to be the author of the article)
says that the present Hotel Dieu has been provi-
sionally enfaiged, and that at this moment the
hospitals of Paris take° together make up double
the number of beds which they did when the pro-
ject of demolishing the present Hotel Dieu and
building another was first started. At the same
time the removal of certain hospitals from parts
of Paris where land is dear to suburban
districts which are more healthy has been a means
of supplying funds which will materially aid in
the construction of the new Hotel Dien. This
article must increase the difficulty which I am
sure your readers must have already felt in seeing
any reasonable connexion between delaying the
completion of the Opera, now in a very advanced
stage, and hastening the erection of the Hotel
Dieu, the foundation stone of which is not yet
laid. It is not, you will observe, proposed to
transfer any funds from the Opera to the hospital.
The Vichy " idea," confessed by its august author
t) have " no practical advantage," but only a
" moral " one, is, as I submit, not merely senti-
mental and ostentatious, but substantially unwise
and mischievous. If, which few are disposed to
dispute, the new Opera is in itself a good thing, by
all means let it be completed out of band. Con-
tractors, artists, musicians, neighbouring proprie-
tors, have made their calculations upon the assump-
tion that the works would go on according to a pre-
conceived plan. To delay them by such an un-
certain measure as the erection of another building
in regard to which nothing is decided, can only do
harm and lead to waste of capital and labour.
The Moniteur is compelled to make the amends
honorable for a flagrant illegality which it committed
the other day in publishing a report of the Advo-
cate General's speech in the affair of the poly-
graph correspondents. The law says that no
report of press prosecutions shall be published
save the judgment alone, and in the eye
of the law the Moniteur is a newspaper just
like any other. The editor of the official journal
has now been reminded of this fact by the Precursor
Imperial, who sent for him to the parquet, and
called his attention to the decree of Feb. 17, 1852.
The Moniteur in now making this announcement is
careful to add, with a view of giving the authorities
credit for impartiality, that the same course ban
often been taken with regard to other journals. So
it has sometimes ; but other journals have been
more often warned or prosecuted for such offences.
The precedent now made is, however, a valuable one,
and may perhaps be found embarrassing some day,
for the Monifeur is in the constant habit of
setting itself above law. It has been pointed
out over and over again that political articles
in the non-official part of the Moniteur ought to
be signed by the writers of them, but they never
are. Before it was made legal to publish reports of
debates in the Senate the Moniteur now and then,
arbitrarily and capriciously, took upon itself to
give particular speeches. A series of precedents
had taught the public to believe that the Moniteur
was irresponsible to the common law, and now we
find, upon its own confession, that it is in reality
just in the same case with any ordinary newspaper.

determinatica. military skill. and personal comscre—virtnee
that ant always appreciated by a seeal-harbarena peopla snob
aa he has been called upon to rule over.

SPAIN.

The Contemportiodio of Madrid gives the follow-
ing particulars relating to the conspiracy at Hayti
mentioned in a telegraphic despatch :
The riling which has just been 'impressed at Putt.-
Principe had ramifications In the northern part al the
General Oge-Longuefasse, the principal instigator,
Whig beet summered to Polito-Principe to give an ac-
count a/ his conduct, mewed from Oape Hayti's' on the
kith Jane, on finding bizimelf deserted lw all his moan-
pliee• He vas declared a traitor cad outlawed by •
decree of President Gerard dated 22nd Jane. General
tranquillity antiwar to prevail at Hayti ; as to the pro-
visos of Santa Domino, the Haytian authorities maintain
the severest measures for provost/lig the Dominic's' from
punier to Santo Domingo by Hayti, and for intercepting ell
intercourse Wilma the rebels mid the liaytianie for the
trade in tobacco and cattle.

(irCilltlVll TELSOILAML)

The name of the stockbroker who committed
suicide last week was Michelin. He was not in-
sane, as reported, bat destroyed himself on account
of domestic unhappiness. The Temps compl►ins,
and mentions the fact as an illustration of the

state of the French press in 1864, that the news
was published exclusively by the semi-otticial
journal the Pays, while the other newspapers were
"invited" by the director of the press to say
nothing about it.
The Pays proposes to show to-morrow that the
facts and figures put forward in the House of Com-
mons by Mr. Layard on the Mexican question are
"a prodigy of inaccuracy and misrepresentation."
M. Rouber, with his family, is now at Milan.
At the house of Count Vimercati, at ifirabellino,
ihe bad an interview with Prince Humbert.
A journal devoted to cookery, and called the
Gastropki/e, ban been started at Angers. The editor
is the head cook at the hostelry of the Chevy,' Blanc
lin that old town.
The Bourse was heavy at the close. Rente fell
bc. and Mobilier Ur.

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