The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1851.

showing good reasons for so doing. This is to pre-
vent youngsters flying from their creditors. A large
majority of the regiments of the Bengal army are
said to be in favour of compulsory messes. A special
committee has been ordered to inquire into and
report on the sulject. The murderer of Lieutenant
Johnstone, of the sth Madras cavalry, has not yet
been discovered. Other officers' lives have been

threatened at Jaulnah, and altogether the affairs of
the cavalry at that station wear a serious aspect.
The rains have set in at Bombay very auspiciously,
and upwards of 25 inches have already been mea-
sured. Trade in cotton for export to China has been
pretty brisk of late, at advanced prices; for Liver-
pool very little has been doing, owing to the high
rates ruling. There is a large number of vessels in
harbour, most of which have been taken up for
Liverpool and China. A mail left on the ith per
Sesostris, but I fear it will not reach you before the
present one. No sign yet of the English mail of
24th May.
The Governor-General leaves Simla in the middle
of October, and will be at Calcutta by the middle of
December or beginning of January. A meeting of
the friends and admirers of Sir \V. R. Gilbert was
to have taken place at Calcutta on the 19th, to con-
sider on a fit method of testifying their admiration
of his conduct in the two Sikh campaigns.
Our Bengal papers come down to the 15th inst.
The committee on ship-burning were pursuing their
object with praiseworthy assiduity, but it was feared
nothing of moment would come of their investiga-
tions. Five Lascars of the crew of the late ship
Ariel have been sent up for trial, for incendiarism,
in the Supreme Court, and it is probable some dis-
closures may be made by them, which will lead to
an exposure of the whole system by which so many
of our best vessels have been destroyed. An act has
been passed by the Legislative Council of Calcutta,
suspending the allowance hitherto granted by the
state to the temple of Juggernauth. As a matter of
course, the native press has been loud in its denun-
ciations of the measure, one which ought to have
been adopted years and years ago. A grant
of three thousand pounds has been sanctioned
for the improvement of the Hedgelee embank-
ments; and a like sum has been granted to Dr.
O'Shaughnessy to enable him to carry on the electric
telegraph experiment. A rumour prevailed that ,1
Mr. Law, superintendent of police at Calcutta, wasl
about to resign. A plan for amalgamating the Mili-
tary and Orphan Funds under one paid management
is said to be in contemplation. l'he death of a Senor
Manuel Larruletta, a Spaniard, at one time factor to
the Philippine Company, and afterwards of the
house of Mackintosh and Co., and latterly collector
of river tolls on the Bhaugerutty, is reported as
having occurred at Jungyporc about the 18th May.
A tradesman named Lattey has applied to and been
granted permission by the Supreme Court to be en-
rolled in the list of grand jurors. A number of the
students of the Madressa College have been expelled
therefrom for insubordination. They have latterly

been petitioning government to re-adtitit them, but in
such a manner as to preclude their request from
being complied with. The Bishop of Calcutta had been
somewhat indisposed. A few conversions of Ilindoos
to Clwistianity are reported. Drawings of the ruins
near Gour are about to be taken, at the desire of the
Asiatic Society, by Captain Lagard, engineer at Ber-
hamper°. Part of the fund subscribed for a monu-
ment to the late Dr. Chalmers of Calcutta, is to be
appropriated to the endowment of a scholarship or
annual medal at the Medical College. It is believed
that in future the government uncovenanted assis-
tants will be allowed the boon of visiting England
on sick leave. Captain Melvin, Und N. 1., has inva-
lided, and is, it is reported, about to join the Calcutta
Englishman as one of its editors. l'he gallant cap-
tain was one of the Atfghan captives, and published
one of the best accounts of the events of those days
which have been given to the world, under the sig-
nature of "A Quondam Captain," in the paper of
which he is now about to assume joint editorship.—
It is said Sir L. Peel retires in next cold season, and
that he will be succeeded as chief justice by Sir I.
Colville.

Government has at length passed and promulgated
the :act for liquidating the claims of those who suf-
fered by the defalcations of Sir Thomas Turton in
the office of ecclesiastical registrar. It is Act No. 5
of For Relief of certain Sufferers by the
Insolvency of Sir Thomas Turton, Baronet. All
those whose claims are acknowledged are in the
A, li, C, and ]) schedules of the commission of inquiry,
and will be Judd off immediately at the government
treasury. To reimburse itself for this outlay, the
company makes itself heir to all estates lying in
the administrators hands unclaimed for fifteen years.

Those whose losses were seemingly hopclesi will
now recover them.

There is very little news from Scinde, as usual.
The weather was cool and pleasant, and but little
sickness of any kind prevalent—cholera had almost
disappeared at Kurrachee, but Major Edward
Townsend, of the 83rd Foot, had died from the
disease on the 2nd inst. The deaths of Mr. Klophell,
band-master of the 22nd Native Infantry, and an
European sergeant of Engineers, named Eccles, are
also reported as having occurred at Lukkur.
We learn from the Punjaub of the death of Lieut.
Hay, commanding one of the irregular batteries, at
Kohat, on the 7th inst. A good deal of feverprevailed
amongst the troops at the station. A great portion
of the thatched barracks of her Majesty's 3rd Dra-
goons at Wuzeerabad were destroyed by fire on the
evening of the 10th instant ; the men will now have
to live in tents during the hot and rainy weather till
fresh ones can be erected. The Jullundhur police
have succeeded in capturing the runaway Wuzeer of
the Jcswun Rajah, who had in July, 1849, escaped
from gaol and made his way to the Kangra hills.
He had been convicted of being a rebel, and sen-
tenced to 14 years' incarceration, and on his escape a
reward of 500/. was offered by the Board of Admi-
nistration for his re-capture. rhe Lahore Chronicle
of the 11th inst. gives the following:—The
wretched murderer belonged to the 10th toot, and
was secured by a party of-his corps while frantically
hacking and hewing at the gallows close by, on
which most probably his corpse will ere long swing
as an expiation of his offence against the laws.—Up
to the latest accounts received the Sikh corps con-
tinued quiet and orderly • the command had been as-
sumed by Captain Marshall;: and Mr. Denison,
assistant commissioner, and the officer in charge of
the troops, had paid a visit of condolence to the son
of the murdered- Jewun Singh, a compliment from
Europeans always highly appreciated by natives.
A report was this morning spread throughout Lahore,
that a mutiny bad occurred at lituritsir among the Sikh
corps of Jewun Singh, a distinguished officer who has done
good service to the British government, both before and
since the annexation. We are happy to say that there is
no truth in the report, but regret much to add that Jewun
Singh himself has fallen a victim to the fury of a drunken
European soldier. The particulars are these: Yesterday
morning, the 10th of June, a corporal's party was sent
from Govind,gurh into the town of L mritsir to look for two
European soldiers of the Fort garrison, who were absent
without leave. On passing the gate guard, the corporal
requested the native officer to detain the absentees if
they should pass that way. Shortly after the men came,
they were stopped and taken in the guard room, when
one of them became furious, seised a sword and threat-
ened the guard. Jewun Singh, the commandant, hap-
pening to be there, endeavoured to appease him, on
which the fellow rushed at the commandant and inflicted
such a severe wound over the neck that he died a few
minutes after. The guard made a close prisoner of the
other European, but appear not to have hurt him, although
they were greatly enraged. The whole of Jewun Singh's
regiment was naturally much excited, for he was greatly
beloved by them. He was an excellent officer, and while
commanding his regiment, the only durbar one at Umritsir
during the war, not only himself remained faithful, but on
one occasion seized and summarily confined in irons, a sub-
adar and part of one company that proposed to)oin Sher°
Singh. To him in a great measure may be attributed the
perfect peace that subsisted at Cmritair throughout the in-
surrection. Government rewarded him by trebling his
pay and giving him a handsome sword aud drew of honour.
1 his news reached Lahore yesterday evening ; the intelli-
gence of this morning is that everything is perfectly quiet
and that no sort of disturbance is expected, though the
eiti-
zena as well as the soldiers deeply sympathise with the family
of the murdered officer.

On the 22nd of May an extraordinary fall of ice
occurred near Bangalore, during a storm of thunder,
lightning, and rain; the hailstones which at tint
made their appearance were about the size of limes
and oranges, but broke through the tiles and roofs of
houses, and destroyed gardens and fruit trees. Some
of the hailstones found next morning were as large
as goose eggs, some as big as pumpkins; one block,
found in a dry well, measured four feet and a half
in length, three in breadth, and one and a half in
thickness. It was probably the result of the cemen-
tation of several of the smaller pieces into one lump,
although the fall of pieces of ice of this size is not
unfrequent in India. In the reign of Tippoo
Sultan a piece was found the size of an elephant,

which took several days to melt; in 1826, a piece of
similar size fell in Candeish ; in 1838, a block of
ice, apparently a mass of cemented hailstones, was
found near Dharwar, measuring 20 feet in circum-
ference. The shower of meteors, formerly mentioned
' as having been seen on the evening of Easter Sunday
at Bombay, Poona, Kolapore, and Cawripore, is de-
scribed as having been visible at Slukarpore, in
Upper Scinde, is let. 28 deg. N., lon. 69 deg. E., or
over an area of eleven degrees from north to south,
and ten from east to west—nearly 700 miles in each
direction, the largest expanse wo can remember of,
over which any meteor or set of meteors of well as-
certained identity has been observed. A movement
amongst the mercantile community has taken place
at Calcutta, with the view of placing British and
American vessels trading with the port on a more
equal footing than they at present occupy. No
report has as yet been made by the committee
appointed to inquire into the causes and cure of
ship-burning. The report of the auditors on
the affairs of the Agra Bank has been published:
the scrutiny they seem to have undergone appears to
have been most searching, and the results are in the
last degree satisfactory. Nothing further in reference
to the Oriental Bank frauds has been published since
our last: the abuse heaped on the officers of the
bank is said to have emanated from parties whose
ground of offence with them arises from the reverse
of the negligence in looking after the bank's assets
ascribed to them. It is generally believed in well-
informed quarters that the defalcations will be fully
covered by the securities. Some interest has been
manifested as to the effects likely to be produced on
the earthworks of the railway by the burst of the
monsoon, and it is satisfactory to learn that they
have suffered no material injury from a total fall of
twenty-four inches, six of which fell in eight hours'
time, an event of very unusual occurrence, even for
Bombay. The criminal sessions commence next
week : the calendar is an unusually heavy one.

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• OSBORNE. NfoxnaT, iri.v 28.
Her -Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Duchess of Kent,
attended Divine Ssrvice yesterday moruikg at Whipping-
ham Church.

The usual suite was in attendance on the Queen and
Prince, and Lady Augusta Bruce, lady in waiting, in attend-
ance on the Duchess of Kent.

The Service was performed by the Hon. and Rev. F. P.
Bouverie.

Fir James Clark arrived in the afternoon from London.

Earl Granville remained on a visit. nod had the honour
with Sir Jamea Clark, of being included in the royal party
at dinner.

Mr. Lemaitre had an interview with Lord John Russell,
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Earl Granville arrived in town yesterday from Osborne.
The Marquis of Lansdowne returned to town yesterday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the North American Colunim.

Mr. Hume, is now at Brighton, whither he
has gone to try the benefit of a change of air.