The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-31 00:00:00

INDIA, CHINA, AND

AUSTRALIA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our deepatehes in anticipation of
the Overland Mail, a summary of which appeared in
our edition of Thursday. The dates are : Calcutta, Feb.
24; Madras, 28; OW', March 3; Bombay, March
3; Shanghai, Feb. 8; Hong Kong, 15; Biogspore,
23; Sydney, Jan. 27 ; Melbourne, 31; ACelaide, Feb.
3 ; Mauritius, 18.

The following is from the nunnery of the Bombay
Times:

India continues tranquil throughout, with the
exception of some slight marauding on our frontier.
,On the 9th ultimo a robbery was committed by
about 200 hill men near Peshawar, on a camp close
by a police station, where some thirty peop:e • lost
their lives, the robbers escaping.—Oode and the
Nissues dominioos continue filled with disorder.—
The education despatch arrangements are beginning
to be pat in force, and forty thousand a year
will, it is said, henceforth be allowed for the supervi-
sion of an educational system, which has
hitherto oast more than eighty thousand altogether
—The Calcutta Military Board has been extin-
guished, and those of the other Presidencies are
about to encounter the same fate ; a separate depart-
meat for public works is to be brought into exist-
ence in their room. The Secretaryship in the Re-
venue Department is about to be abolished, and the
department itself to be conducted by three Commie-
missioners. Mr. Henry Young, the late Commis-
sioner of Customs has been appointed for the present
Revenue Secretary, in succession to the late Mr.
Ooldsmid, with a view to hie becoming Com-
missioner. A large body of reforms are io
process or in contemplation in the rural police, of
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which there is a force of 70,000 in the Bombay Pre-
sidency, in the Land Revenue, and the Customs and
other departments.—The first of the transports with
troops from Bombay for the Crimea left us on the
10th of January, and reached Sues on the Bth of Fe.
bruary, occupying twenty-nine days on the way.
The last of the 10th Hamars having been despatched,
steamers and transports left Bombay on the 24th to
carry the 12th leallefffl from Mangalore, and as they
have no such conveniences for shipment there as we
have here, they can scarcely well have got embarked
and be ready forma earlier than the 10thinet.. reach-
ing Sues on the 14th proximo, and Constantinople, at
the rate assigned, about the 7th of May, or about a
month later than by the Cape. The orders for
troops thibugh Egypt reached India early in No-
vember, and considering the immense amount of ton-
nage at this season always at our command, every
man that could have been spared might have been

embarked by New Year's Day, and ninety days on
the voyage to Gibraltar would have greatly exceeded
the average of time taken. With steamers in
readiness there to receive them on the Ist
of March, the whole of the troops might have been
in the Crimea by the Ist of April. The horses
just despatched through Egypt are undersised for
home service, they are unfitted for the climate of the
Crimea, and will have cost the country 2001. a piece
by the time they reach their destination. No blame
attaches to any one in India for these blunders, the
orders bomber's were peremptory.—The nomination
of Sir Henry Somerset to the Commander.in•Chief-

ship of Bombay, now daily expected, is a popular one.
The Governor-Otneral has left Calcutta for the
Neilgherry Hills. and is said to have asked permission
to return to England next year from this Basitarium
without revisitieg Bengal. Lords Harris and
Elphinstons are at their respective seats of Govern-
ment both in the enjoyment of good health.
Mr. P. W. Le Geyt left Bombay yesterday
for Calcutta, to take up the appointment of
Bombay Member of the Legislative Council
in succession to Mr. A. Malet, who goes into the
Bombay Council in place of Mr. Warden. Trade
is dull, and freights low.