The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

CANADA.

The Canadian legislature is awaiting the result
of the negotiation between Sir Henry Ilulwer and
the United States government, in regard to a reci-
procity of trade. If this should prove ineffectual,
measures of a retaliatory character will be submitted
to the parliament. It is proposed to close.theyelland
Canal against American vessels bound to any port on
the Lakes, no obstacle being presented to those
which go direct from Lake Eric to the Ocean.
The bargain and sale of Sir Allan M'Nab is fully
asserted by the opposition journals, and thus far
has not met with a denial. Mr. Mackenzie has
announced his intention of bringing in a bill for the
abolishing of the Court of Chancery, and conferring
equity jurisdiction on the common law court, and
another for breaking up the monopoly of the legal
profession and allowing every man to plead in the
courts. Mr. Stanton, the late collector of Toronto,
has been cast in damages to the amount of 4,000
dollars for defalcation in the discharge of his duty.

[For Commercial Intelligence see laat page.)

INDIA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

By the overland mail we have the usual files, and
our correspondence in advance to the following dates :
Bombay, the 26th of May; Calcutta, the 13th; and
Madras the 17th of May.
Our correspondent writes as follows:
BOMBAY, MAT 26.
The mail which leaves this for England to-day
would, in the ordinary season, have been despatched
on the 3rd proximo. The usual mid-monthly mails
are suspended during the monsoon, and those of the
3rd of the month have to be sent off on the 26th of
the preceding month, a light despatch being for-
warded on the 6th of each month to Madras to meet
the mail from Calcutta, and thus make up as it best
may for the suspension of the mid-monthly mails of
June, July, and August.
The steam frigate Sesostris, with the mails of the
24th April, from London, reached this yesterday
afternoon, just in time to permit of replies being
sent to letters received by parties at the presidency.
It is currently rumoured and believed that the
Governor-General intends to return to Calcutta im-
mediately after the rains. The reason assigned for
this is that he has disapproved of some of the mea-
sures of the Bengal government; but it may be that
the real cause is his having received a strong hint
from his honourable masters that it would tend more
to their interests if he wandered less from home
than he has been in the habit of doing.
The noble marquis has, it is said, recommended
that the chief magistracy and post mastership at
Calcutta, each worth about 3,1H10/. pin. an num, shall not
as heretofore be confined entirely to the civil service.
It is most probable that these offices will be in future
conferred on gentlemen of the uncovenanted service
on a much reduced scale of salary.
A series of most destructive hurricanes have just
occurred to the south of Bombay between the line
and 15 deg. N. latitude. The first near Ceylon, and
another at Madras, in which no fewer than fifteen
vessels and eighteen human lives have been lost.
The following uecouut of the destruction caused by
these visitations is taken from a local paper:

On Friday, the 25th of April, the first symptoms of the
setting in of the S.W. monsoon made :their appearance, a
violent thunderstorm, a severe fall of rain, and heavy gale
of wind having then occurred. The ship, Colombo and
Aboukir were prevented by it from sailing, though ready
to put to sea. For five days the storm continued to rage,
and on the Ist of May the country brigs Algerine and Side-
cores Carolina broke from their moorings, ran ashore, and
soon became total wrecks : the brig Zoe soon afterwards
followed, and the Colombo, after dragging her anchors for
some distance, took the ground, beached ever, and was
speedily dashed to pieces, with the loss of seven of her crew.
These are all the particulars that have yet reached us, our
dates extending only to the Bth, at which date the gale
seems to have moderated We shall yet, we fear, have
many accounts of disaster to relate not yet known to us.
On the sth a furious hurricane visited Madras, and swept
across the Peninsula of India ; about eleven inches of rant
fell on the Coromandel coast within 21 hours, and nearly a
similar amount in the ceded districts. The appearance of the
tempest became manifest on the 28th, and from this date tho
weather continued threatening and squally: betwixt tho
2nd and sth 18.5 inches of rain fell, so as to relieve the suf.
fering from drought that had for some time prevailed. One
brig was driven on shore at the outset of the gale, and
dashed to pieces almost immediately as she struck : nine
brigs or native craft, of smaller size, were soon afterwards
wrecked, twelve were missing,—eleven men were drowned,
while heavy losses, the extent of which cannot as yet be as-
certained, occurred all along the coast to the north and
south. The mischief occasioned by the torrents ou shore
seems to have been very great indeed : foundations were un-
dermined, tanks burst, and roads cut up.

In my letter of the 17th April, I mentioned that
a very large iron steamer, the Falkland, built for the
navigation of the Indus by the East India Company,
had just been launched. I regret to state that this
fine vessel has been totally lost on the voyage
up to Kurrachee. She left this on the Ist May,
under convoy of the Berenice steamer, and on the
6th, when within 30 miles of her destination, she
was suddenly broken right in two by the swell
steed by the hurricane which had just taken place
to the southward, and sunk almost immediately in
deep water. Fortunately but one life was lost—that
of a quartermaster—all the rest having been saved
by the boats of the Berenice and Napier, which
were fortunately close at hand when the accident
occurred. The loss to government is about 20,0001.
The Falkland was the most beautiful vessel of her
class in this couutry, but was considered ill adapted
for the service for which she was designed. The
new iron steamer Indus, meant to have been des-
patched a few weeks atter the Falkland, has, since
the mishap to the latter, been ordered to be laid up
in ordinary at Bombay until November nest.
I regret to have to record the loss of another ves-
sel by fire in the Hooghly, On the 13th inst. the
clipper Ariel was burnt off the mouths of the
Hooghly, when cargo to the value of 100,0001. was de-
stroyed. The Buckinghamshire, Kurramany, Arda-
seer, and Ariel, have all been burnt in these seas
within a period of two months, and all, save the Ar-
dimmer, which is doubtful, have been destroyed by in-
cendiaries at a loss of little short of a quarter of a
million pounds sterling.
I regret to mention that cholera has been very
prevalent in Bombay of late, and has committed sad
ravages amongst the Europeans on board the
Ajdaha steam frigate in our harbour, where nearly
all the cases proved fatal, one midshipman and seven
European seamen having fallen victims to
this theadfid scourge of the human race. The epi-
demic disappeared immediately the Ajdaha was sent
to sea for change of air, she having since returned to
port with a clean bill of health. She has been for
some time provisioned and ready to start, if required,
with troops for the Cape. Her Majesty's 86th and
the Ist Bombay European Regiment (Fusiliers) now
at Poona, and Her 'Majesty's 18th Foot (Royal Irish),
at Calcutta, have been ordered, it is said, to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to reinforce Sir
Harry Smith, who seems to have got himself into
an ugly " tie with the Enifirs.
The following items of local news are taken from
the Bombay Times Orerland Summary of this date :
The Wheel Tax Commissioners have closed their labours
and given in their report. There is said to be no sufficient
ground for criminal action against any of the suspected
parties, but one of the culprits will, it is said, be allowed to
turn Queen's evidence, and strange disclosures may then be
looked for. None of the Europeans are said to be suspected
of dishonesty, but the extreme negligence is some things
exhibited by them, and derangement of their own pecuniary
affairs, is said to be represented as greatly tending to im-
keir the efficiency of the police establishment. Mr.
W. E. Frere has been appointed to enquire into
the affairs of the Settanee Joetabhaie, widow of
a banker at Baroda, who enjoyed the protection
of the British government, and left a heritage of nearly a
million sterling to two sons. The Settanee having cona•
planted of the mismanagement of her affairs by her man of
business, Baba Naftlay, VMS at once robbed by the wretch,
of her child, on the plea of its being spurious, and she her-
self placed under constraint, and stated to have been an
adultress, but never a mother. Having got possession of
the baby, he managed to delude his own government and
the British resident at the court into the belief that the Set-
tanee was what he termed her. Col. Outram, on his return
from Egypt a twelvemonth since, determined to institute a
searching scrutiny into the matter. He tint discovered the
• enormous corruption that had been resorted to,then convicted
. Baba Natilay tit fraud, established the theft, and afterwards
the genuineness of the child, and finally cleared the
L character of the widow of every imputation that had been
brought against her. Ultimately he instituted a minute

mach into the records of the mildewy, through means of
whale such lkorful diselossuree are maid to have been made
chat the only emahe of clearing the British charaPter of the
suiplike new *Smelting to it will be the publication of the
when of the 'seers, which will we trust be called for be-
hill the yawns of pat:iAment.
TM affairs of the Oriental Bank here are the sub-
ject of much dimension at present. A series of for-
r• have, it is amid, been recently brought to light,
means of which large sums of money have been
yawed front this institution. Dorabjee Hominnien
ledger keeper of the bank, in cosi* at
a charge of being an accessory to the many of
notes to the value of 10,0001. in February last, is now
with having also committed theme forgeries;
charged full particulars arc not as vet made public.
Ono of these forgeries is a cheque for 2,0001., drawn
I this place,
in the name of W. Nicol and Co., of '
.
place, and desired by him to be cashed, which
it was accordingly, for his own benefit. The total
amount of the frauds will, it is understood, be fully
covered by the securities of those who committed
them, so that the hank will, it is believed, lose no-
thing by these nefarious transactions.
Lord Falkland left Bombay for the hills on the
17th inst, from whence he will proceed to tako up
his quarters at Daponce, near Poona, for the rainy
season, early in next month.
P.S. MAT 27.—The departure of the steamer
having been postponed till this morning enables me
to add a short postscript to my letter of yesterday.
We had last evening a severe storm of lightning and
thunder, attended by a light fall of rain, and the
weather this morning looks monsoonish. Water,
water, is the cey everywhere heard—that now pro-
curable being extremely scarce and bad. Lord Falk-
land and Sir John Grey, with their respective staffs,
do not leave the hills for Poona till the setting in of
the rains at the former place: the chief will probably
quit by the Sth proximo. Lady Falkland had been
oat on a pleasure trip to the celebrated hill fortress
of Pertaubghur. The Dhollera tramway has been
completed; the expense of the line, 41 miles in
length, with 40 trucks and bullocks, has been 4,3001.
or 1,0001. a mile. The entire merit of the tramway
is due to Captain George Fulljames, commanding the
Gooserat Irregular Horse. Captain d'Oyly Trevor
Compton, 29th Bombay Native Infantry, has suc-
ceeded Captain Leckie as superintendent of the Gal-
tower's contingent, and assistant to the political
agent in the Myhre Ciento ; and Surgeon Win-
chester has been transferred from the 2nd to the 6th
Native Infantry. Mr. Harkness, principal of the
Elphinstone College, has returned to his duty ; and
Mr. H. Green, who had been acting for hint, at
once proceeds to take up his new appointment of
Professor of English Literature in the new Poona
College.

Casualties by death in the armies of India and
Royal and Indian navies, announced since the departure of
the last mail on the 11th May.
H. M.'s Troops—Lieut. J. C. C. Macdougal, 87th regt.,
at Monghyr, on the 28th April ; Captain W. J. James, 84th
refit., at Hydralsad, on the Bth May.
Bombay Troops —CaptMo 8. V. W. Hart, 2nd Grenadier
N. 1., at Ootataunund, Ntilgherry 11114, un the 12th May;
Captain W. Tophain, 7th N. 1., at Ahmedabad, on the 18th
Ma
Ry.oyal Navy—Lieut. G. T. Aircy, R.N., commanding the
Hon. Company's steamer Pluto, at Singapore, on the 20th
April.
Indian Navy—Mr. Midshipman D. Quayle, of the Hon.
Company's steamer Ajdaha, off Bombay harbour, un the
17th May.

[For commercial intelligence see 'act page.]

Zbe Court.

Mess Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Princess
Royal, accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, with the Duke de Brabant, the Count do Flandres,
and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, visited the Exhibi-
tion of the Works of Industry of all Nations on Saturday
morning, arriving at the Exhibition at 25 minutes before
10 o'clock. The royal suite consisted of the lion. Amelia
Mans,. Madame de Montanelos, Ocneral Wemyss, Colonel
Boaverie, and Count Albert de Briey. The l'rince of
Wales and Prince Alfred (attended by Mr. Birch) and the
Duchess of Kent, with the Prince of Leiningen (attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Caliper), also
visited the Exhibition on Saturday morning. The Queen
sad Prince Albert and the King of the Belgians returned
to Backingham Palace at a quarter before 11 o'clock.
The Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leiningen visited
the Queen on Saturday at Buckingham Palace, and partook
of luncheon with her :Majesty and Prince Albert, and the
King of the Belgians.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prin-
ce. Mice, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, with
the Duke de Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and the
Princess Charlotte of Belgium left Buckingham Palace, at a
quarter past two o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, for
Osborne, Isle of Wight. The royal suite consisted of the
Viscountess Canning, lion. Lucy Kerr, Madame de Mont-
autos, Miss Hildyard, Lieut.-colonel lion. C. B. Phipps,
the master of the household, General Wemyss, Colonel
Bonverie, Mr. Birch, Colonel de Moerkerke, Count Albert
be Briey, and Sir Robert Carswell. Her Majesty and the
royal circle were conducted to their carriages by the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
the Earl of Morley, Viscount Clifden, Mr. R. Ormsby
Oars and Colonel Wyldc. The Queen and the royal party
and suite quitted the palace in six carriages, a detachment
of the Hussars forming the escort to the Nine Elm station
of the South Western railway. A special train conveyed
her Majesty, the Prince, the King of the Belgians, and
suite to Gosport.
OSBORNE, Sesuar, J raiz 29.
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by his btsjesty
the King of the Belgians, the Prince of Wales and
Prince. Royal, and the uc de Brabant and Comte
de 'teatime, and Prince. Charlotte of Belgium, left
London soon atter two o'clock p.m. yesterday, and arrived
at Gosport about five o'clock. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness and their illustrious guests were attended by Lady
Canning, the Lady in Waiting ; the lion. Min Kerr,
Mehl of Honour ; the Countess of Montanclos, Lady In
Waiting to the Princess Charlotte ; Colonel de Moerkerke,
Count de Briey, and by. Oeneral Wessyss and Colonel Bea-
ver., Equernia in Waiting; Colonel the llon.C. B. Phipps,
Major-General Bowles, Master of the Household, Sir R.
Carswell, Mr. Birch, and Miss Hildyard. The royal party
and suite crossed from Gosport in the Fairy, royal yacht,
commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitsclarence, and arrived at
Osborne shout six o'clock, p.m.
There were no additions to the Royal dinner party rm.
terday. Her Majesty and his Royal highness,
by their illustrious guests, and by the Prince 0n.1=12
Princess Royal, walked early this morning in the pooh
sad park of Osborne.
The Queen and Prince, the King of the Belgians,
and the Prince of Wales and Princess Royal, and the Oen-
tlemen in Waiting of the Royal household, attended divine
service at Osborne this forenoon. The lter. T. Protberoe
performed the service.
The Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leiningen, went
to Esher on Saturday, and visited the French Royal
Family.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Prince of
Leiningen, and attended by Indy Augusta Bruce end Lord
James Murray, honored her Kappety's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening.

A deputation from the Belfast Water Commissioners,
consisting of Profess= Stevelly, Doctor McGee, Alderman
Poets, Mr. Lindsay, and Mr. Memory, accompanied by
Mr. Tennant, had an interview with Sir William
Somerville, on Saturday, at the Irish Office.
Mr. George F. Bowen had an interview on Saturday with
Earl Grey at the Colonial Mee.

APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Charles Livio has been ap-
pointed her Majesty's Consul at Wiborg, is Russia, in the
room of Mr. Marcus Wright, resigned. Mr. Alexander
M'Crae is appointed Chief Postmaster for the colony of
Victoria (late Port Philip). Mr. John Daly is appointed
Administrator-General of the Supreme Court in British
Guiana. Stephen Rice, Esq., is appointed a member of the
Executive Council of Prince Edward's Island. Augustus
Louis. Esq., is appointed a Member of Council at the
Mauritius. Thomas Hutton and Francis Swanssy,
are appointed members of the Legislative Coma at the
Oeld Comt.—Obeerrer.

CHARGES OF MALVESSATION AGAINST PLIILIC
OrrICIIIII AT LIVZSPOOL. —A=sadent says: Con-
siderable excitement has been hers by Ism very
extraordinary disskansaa made this week be the doh com-
mittee relative to alleged abuses mei smakenatiees ~ft
the Alms employed k the hit sereyer's depertneset-
These practices are metal I. bees been seeds& en be lease
yews peat ; and a sab•ammillee kolas ambled to take '
such steps in the make as meg be deemed mint advisable.
It is stated that the Wyk( emi mhos et heads= hes been
• general ; and that pemembem seeekei the hi IMNsat of
their solarise, be some imbues se meek us 11001. a year, al-
though Onset her their skies the whole summer ; one
SIM wise hod in MT, uppers in the books as having been
hag angler& deem le II bin widow continuing to re-
ed., hr illmsosi larbrits WOW even alter she had sur-
vive a emend lurked ; seetber era received wages and
skis aseney, sad even his funeral expenses, seventeen
awls biro his death ; bakers, joiners, tailors, and
ram amid le be wholly unit sad lecenspetent, hare been
Wiled et WO salaries, es hares= and clerks ; and mere
bele boss been paid Ma. a week whim set on pleasure ex-
maim be several weeks together. The surstlia created
awes an classes is Liverpool by thee diesisemes is sot to
be duarflowl ; sad the most intense satiety is maniksted as
as posesdhip white the Town Osumi will institute
whim lie merellselp report cams Win Ihsta.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The Crystal Palace presented on Saturday its usual
&pentanes upon that, the chosen day of the select. The
attendance wee rather short of preceding Saturdays, and the
temperature was all the more pleasant in consequence. Her
Majesty, Priam Albert, and the King of the Belgians, with
the usual suite, arrived shortly after nine o'clock, and the
Duchess of Kent, and the Duke and Duchess of Nenumn,
at a later hoar. The first visit of the royal party was paid
to the French department, where they carefully examined
the numerous and beautiful bronzes, with which the public
are so familiar, and afterwards proceeded to the depart-
ment of foreign furniture. On rotunda( to the nave,sowae time
was spent in examining the large mosaic exhibited by Lord
Foley. The visit was concluded by sa inspection of the gold and
silver plate in the British gallery. Her Majesty also
inspected the black diamond from Bahia, which is certainly
not very attractive, being much inferior in lustre and quite
as dark in colour as our own black diamonds. The attend-

noes up to four o'clock was exceedingly slender, not ex-
ceeding 6 or 7,000, quite& solitude in such a vast building.
From that hour the ticket holders began to pour In, and
made up the nrunben which will be found below. Even
with snch small numbers the want of ♦entilation was sadly
felt, the temperature rising to 80 degrees in the main
avenues, while it ass 90 degrees in the galleries. It is
quite clear that something must be done before the dog
days, and a very simple operation is all that will be
necessary. A passage for the external air must
be made through the machinery in motion room,
and out on the other side, and the glass must be re-
moved from the meshes in the refreshment court. That
was the original plea, and would secure a strong current of
fresh air without any of those expensive expedients such as
tunnels and shafts, which have proved comparative failures
in other places. The number of rigors, as taken by the
police, was 11,371.

Cash Account, June 28.
Season tickets
At the doors

Total reeeipb £1,807 12 0

CIVIC ENTERTAINMENT TO TIIE ROYAL COY-

✓testogias.—On Saturday evening, the Lord Mayor
entertained at dinner the royal commissioners, the
executive committee, the contractors, various heads of de-
partments, and other notabilities connected with the Great
Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations. The company
assembled in the Egyptian Hall, where coven were laid
for 200. Tbe:following were among the guests: Lord J. Rus-
sell and the lion. Miss Elizabeth Lyster, Earl and Countess
Rosse, Berl Granville, Lord and Lady Londesborough,
Lord and Lady Overatone, Baron Dupin, Monsieur Beuffel
(Minister of Commerce of France), Mr. and Mrs. W.
Cubitt, the Hon. Hugh and Lady Sarah Cholmondeley,
M Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Baring, .P., Chevalier de Burg,
Mr. Piney, M.P., Hon. Sir E. Cust, Chairman of the East
India Company, and Mrs. Shepperd, Sir J. Weir Hogg,
Lady Hogg, and Miss liogg ; Monsieur and Madame Ka-
minski, and Mr. Masterman, M.l'. Various toasts having
been drunk and responded to, the company separated soon
after II o'clock. _ . .

DEvoN Pour, JUNE 29.—A large number of per-
sons connected with the Devonport Dockyard having ob-
tained leave for fourteen days, for four of which they are to
receive their pay as if at work, left on Friday by the Ajax
(Irish packet steamer) for London, to visit the Great Exhi-
bition. By en arrangement with the London and South
\Vestern Railway, the Irish steamers are enabled to secure
a large portion of the passengers from Devonport and Ply-
mouth for London. Notwithstanding, by the South Devon,
the Bristol and Exeter, and the Great Western Railways,
there is direct railway communication with London ; the
coat of the journics up and back, via Southampton, being
much less, and the time nothing material greater. The
steamer, leaving Plymouth in the evening, arrives at
Southampton the next morning in time for the train,
arriving in London about half-past 9in the morning. It is
stated that the Ajax on Friday had more than 200 pas-
'engem of this description, who have all taken tickets for
returning by the same route.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 29.—The ships in harbour and
at Spithead dressed ship yesterday at 8 am., and at noon,
with the platform battery, fired royal salutes in honour of
the anniversary of her Majesty's coronation. The dock-
yard was closed on the same account, and nearly 600 per-
sons belonging to it availed themselves of the opportunity
to visit the Great Exhibition. The townspeople celebrate
the event by a holiday to-morrow (this day).