The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

EGYPT.

Letters from Alexandria of the 7th stato that the
government of the Viceroy had formed a camp at a
short distance from the city, composed of chosen
troops, destined to succour Constantinople. All the
regiments ordered to join the camp had arrived.

SANDWICH ISLAND LETTERS to the le,th of April
report that the King had nominated as his succeeger to the
throne his son Lihoips.

INDIA AND CIIINA.

TILE OVERLAND MAIL.

TIIF: WAR IN BURNIAII.

A • n try of the following appeared in part of
out lave ....lon yesterday:
We I Lee received our journals and despatches in
szemire-hin of the Overland Mail. The dates are :-
11,,mthae. 31.9 23 ; Calcutta, May 5 ; Hong Kong,
April
Jrum the letter of our own correspondent and the
summary of the Orerlawl Bombay Times we obtain
the hilloeing particulars of the occurrences which
hoc taken place since the despatch of the previous
mil :
The Governor-General having, as formerly men-
cased, conceded to the Burmese some points in the
tnety which were most obnoxious to them and im-
mittrial toes, they have been allowed thirty days to
make up their minds on the remainder, at the termi-
c,tiaa of which it was expected they would be as
unable to come to any conclusion as ever. All the
lighter steamers meanwhile were being got in a
state of preparation for ascending the river to Ava,
an operation which, if performed ten months since,
mould have closed at once the war, the second part
M which we arc only now commencing. General
Godwin, it is said, has claimed and been allowed a
sum of two thousand rupees a month piece
April, ls:)2, in excess of pay anl allowances, to meet
his pers.mal expenses. Had he been dealt with as
the Chinese deal with their doctors, and had all his
emoluments cut from the time the war ought to have
been until that when it actually was concluded, we
might have been, by the end of May, 1853, some-
what nearer the termination of hostilities than we
arc. Since the affair of Heeling five thousand men
are said to have been enrolled as a militia at
Maulmein, to be called out in case of emer-
gency. Sir Frederick Currie, having terminated
his five years' term of councillor duty, has
left India for good, having been succeeded in
council by Mr. Secretary: Morin. General Sir
Hugh heeler has also left ; and Sir Joseph
Theckwell, having closed his term of' divisional
employment, is about to leave, after an almost un-
precedented amount of severe field service in India,
extending over a period of close on 20 years. India
at present enjoys and endures its usual hot season
tranquillity and discomfort. The Governor-General
and Governor of Madras continue at the scene of
their duties at their respective presidencies—the
Governor of Bombay at his customary place of re-
creation on the hills. The report laid before the
United States Congress on naval affairs some months
since has just been published, from which it appears
that America proposes relieving England of the
bulk of her Oriental commerce by establish-
ing direct steam communication betwixt Cali-
foraia and China, with a railway from New
York to the Pacific. We mentioned in our summary
of the 2sth ult. that they had intimated their deter-
mination to force Japan to open its ports to foreign
trade, and that the inevitable result of this must be
a Yankee settlement, a fort, troops, and territories
on the Chinese border—the germ, in fact, of another
Anglo-Saxon empire in the cast. The whole matter
has now become developed. America is determined
to share with England in the products and traffic of
India. and unless a more effective form of govern-
ment than that which we now possess is provided
us, our Transatlantic brethren will speedily come to
have the lion's share, and Manchester be left to cla-
mour not only fur cotton to supply her mills, but for
customers to buy her manufactures. The absurdi-
ties of the furlough regulations arc once more for
the twentieth time beginning to be agitated,
with a view to their alteration, and an excellent
illustration of the folly of the principle on which
they are based has just been afforded by tho return
of Professor Watson on sick leave to England, by
which he vacates his appointment. The reader will
recollect that a Company s officer on staff employ-
ment may obtain two or three years' leave when
sick, and that in this time he may range from the
Arctic to the Antarctic if he keeps between the
maridiani of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape
H&c ; if he goes westward of the former or east-
ward of the latter of these, he returns at once to his
regimental rank. In Australia, where he can gain
nothing but health—and that much less perfectly
than in England—and where a letter might not reach
him within six months of its despatch, were an emer-i
gency requiring his services to arise—he is safe. In
England, where he might be reached in twenty-six
days, and from which he might be back in fourteen
weeks after he was written for, and where three
months would do him as much good as a twelve-
month anywhere else, ho sacrifices everything but
his commession. Professors Girard and Peet fall
sick—the one proceeds to the Neilgherries, the
other to Australia—both receive part of their emolu-
ments during their absence, and resume their appoint.
ments on their return. Professor Watson falls sick
and is ordered to England—the moment he quits
Bombay he vacates his chair, and on his return he
finds his place occupied by another. The regulation
was made before the introduction of the overland

communication, when Australia was unknown to
us, and return of post from England could not be de-
pended on in less than a twelvemonth, and the Cape
was the only place of resort ; it was half-way, and
was therefore preferable to the whole way
home ; and in India we must be content if our
arrangements are not more than half a century be-
hind the world. We have just received full parti-
culars of the loss of the brig Arienis, wrecked in the
island of Engano, near Java, in January, 1432. Her
crew were detained for a twelvemonth on the island,
during which time the captain and first officer, the
only Europeans of the party, died. Sir Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy has made over 10,0001. to government.
foe the purpose of endowing a school of design ; and
a large donation is forwarded by this day's steamer,
by Hamlet, the famous banker, to the funds of the
London East India Reform Society. Our railway
passenger traffic continues undiminished, from 800
to 1,000 natives proceeding daily along the line.
Mr. Le Geyt, who was removed in March last from
his seat on the Budder bench—for what reason
no one knows—proceeds to-morrow to take
his place on the bench at Poona, an appoint-
ment of similar responsibility but somewhat
lower emoluments. An outline of the evidence taken
before the committees on Indian affairs in March
last, I, s just been published by the Madras Atha-
swum, and will probably reach the people of Eng-
land by this circuit of 16,000 miles. From the dim-
cussiocs in the newspapers up to the Nth April,
it is quite clear that nothing was known in London
of the revelaticms that had been made in the com-
mittee rooms in Westminster the month before. Sir
Erskine Perry's appearance as champion of the far-
famed Nursoo Punt, of the Baroda Blue Book, has
occasioned considerable astonishment to his friends.
A great deal has been written in the course of the
month oa the grievances of the Indian Navy—a ser-
vice the emoluments and honours allowed to which
are being steadily decreased in proportion as its
duties and responsibilities multiply, and which ought
either to bo extinguished at once, or to be placed on
that footing in -relation to the army on which
it so groundlessly professes to stand. We have just
beard of the death, at New Goa, of Mr. Stapylton,
late of her Majesty's 10th Hussars, and of Mr. Gib-
son, at llhoolia, formerly of the King's Own, two
melancholy illustrations of the brief interval which
usually elapses betwixt officers quitting the army
under a cloud, and leaving the world. Beautiful
specimens of a Goerat lion and lioness, presents
from Sir Erskine Perry to the London Zoological
Society, are now being exhibited at Bombay. Those
who are fond of the great and wonderful had an op-
portunity of seeing, at the Asiatic Society's last
mocthly meeting, the remains of at least seven
species of elephants; the crania of the two existing
species, the African and Indian elephants; parts
of the skeleton and the great tusks of the Mam-
moth ; teeth and parts of the jaws of other species
from the Island of Perim and the Sewalik Hills, as
well as remains of mastodons—of the hexa protodon,

or hippopotamus with six front teeth, and other
animals whose races have long departed. Nor
should we forget also the remains of another race
who have away—the Grecian sculptures. It
is but a sticrriPMime since the society's museum was
enriched by a number of beautiful specimens of
Greek art from the nits of a Buddhist temple close
to Pesbawur, and now there is a collection from a
Buddhist building just discovered on the banks of
the Indus close to lerruck, in Lower Seinde. Thus
de WI trace the infusion of Grecian taste, if not of

Grecian workmanship, along the course which Alex-
ander took, from the Attock downwards to the sea.
Amongst the passengers who return to England
by this day's steamer, we observe the name
of Commander Campbell of the Indian Navy, who
has just returned from Burmah, suffering from severe
indisposition. Captain Campbell has now been for
24 years in India, and during this period few officers
have shared more largely in survey or in general
active service. Employed on the Euphrates, on the
Indus, in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and China,
and in all cases with distinction, he is one of the
mot scientific and accomplished officers in the Com-
pany's employment. In ,larch, 1852, he proceeded
in command of the Sesoetris to Burmah, and has
there continued ever since. He distinguished himself
in the destruction of the stockades on the Irrawaddy,
which he assaulted with red-hot shot, being the first,
we believe, who ever discharged those fearful mis-
siles from eight-inch guns from on board a steamer.
With the largest and most arduous division of the
duties imposed upon them, the Indian navy has here,
as elsewhere, come off with the smallest share of
honours and of requital, and we have been told that
Captain Campbell, a man of the plainest and least
expecsive habits, returns to Bombay fully a hundred
pounds poorer than he left it. A second petition
from the Bombay. Association and other native
inhabitants of this Presidency goes home by this
day's mail, praying for a committee on the spot,
and for various other mattets, not referred to in
their previous petition. It is marked by that
tone of remarkable good Bence and moderation which
has characterised all the Bombay proceedings ; and
the astonishment of tho people at home must bo not
that the natives ask so much, but that they demand
so little—considering what they are entitled to ex-
pect from a country which pretends to govern India
solely for the good of its inhabitants. The fact is
eminently instructive, as demonstrative of the right
feeling and proper appreciation of the question of our
East India fellow-subjects, who clearly ask for no
more power than they can be surely entrusted with,
or than they mean to exercise for the good of their
countrymen. Altogether the market is unusually
inactive, even for this season of the year.