The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The second edition of tke South African Commer-
cial
Advertiser of April 21, supplies the following
summary of news from that colony:
Since the Sarah Smith; started, on the 10th, the peace
then announced to the good of the people of England,
has become leas unpopular on the border, and promises to
fulfil the hope of the colonists at large. His Excellency
holds head-quarters at Graham's Town, making occasional
visits to the poste, where, as far as can be learned, he
finds all right. But frontier weather, for some genera-
tions, will be April weather, sun and shower, sometimes
bright as June, sometimes dark as December in the
north. Where two races so far asunder in colour,
custom, and language as the British settlers and
the Kaffir', glare upon each other across a narrow
stream, " permanent peace," " absolute security," are
idle words, unless there be a permanent establishment
of an absolutely invincible force to maintain a good under-
standing between the parties. If • saving fit abridge this
force too soon, as in 1819.50, there will be suck another
pull at John Bull's purse strings as will be enough to
bring on a fit of gout. Every wise man's son doth know
that in this present wicked world, the sword is peace, as
bolts and bars are security. Mankind have many good
qualities, but a profound respect for weakness is not one of
them. _ _

The investigation into the past and present condition of
the Kat River Settlement is in progress. The commis-
sioners sit with open doors in the midst of the people whose
conduct and affairs generally are the subjects of inquiry.
This gives great confidence to the welldisposed, as it is
highly creditable to the good sense and foresight of the
governor. No particulars have yet reached Cape Town.
The Natal commission followed the same course, also print-
ing the evidence from day to day, as fast as the press
could follow them. These open, frank, and fearleu pro-
ceedings have already produced a most beneficial effect on
the public mind.
As something was said of the central road board in last
summary, it way be mentioned that his Excellency hu ac-
cepted the resignation of the unofficial members, and re-
lieved
the official members from their labours as members,
with the exception of Captain Pilkington, to whom, how-
ever, he has administered a mild rebuke as an alterative.
This board, one of the most important in the colony, will
now, according to the proclamation of this morning, consist
of the following members :—Mr. Borcherda, Dr. Zones, and
Captain Pilkington, official; Mr. D. Breda, Mr. Landsberg,
and Mr. \Vent:a, unofficial. Without disparagement to
their predecessors, it may be said that a better selection
could not have been made with respect to personal character
and suitableness for the duties they have to discharge.
With respect to roads a very important discovery has
been announced on the Berg River, near the main road—a
deposit, namely, of a bed of rubble stone, of coarse gravel
mixed with clay, which " when once inundated becomes in
durated like the solid rock." The discovery is slue to Mr.
Manning, and Mr. Bain,;well known for research and disco-
very in South African rocks, gives it this character.
The people here are looking anxiously for the constitu-
tion which has been so long " looming in the future," and
which fell dead as the budget under the late ministry. Lord
Gray was warned in 1850 that there was danger in delay.
Ile tisuctl it so in more senses than one. But the Duke of
Newcastle rimy be assured that the danger of relay never
was so great, so certsin, so imminent, as at this moment.
The elements of the South African world require only a
alight mistake or two on the part of government to come
to one universal explosion. They may be referred to the
evidence of the Natal commission fur proof of this. What
is true of Natal is equally true of Caffraria and the whole
region round about. The neighbourhood of the colony and
the interior for many hundreds of miles are no longer held
by naked, ill-armed, or timid barbarians. Wherever yen
go the gun and the horse meet your eye, with thousands of
bo:1 men •ho know, or are fast learning, how to manage
both. To hell their own, the colonists must be united ;
and union can be effected only for such a purpose by the en-
joyment of political freedom, by the enjoyment of equal
rights, by mutual confidence between the governors and the
governed.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF Till•: ASIA.

LI V EItPOOL. SUNDAY.
The Royal Mail steam-ship As;a,Cdpt. Lu:t, arrived
in the Mersey last night, with adviees front New York
to the 18th inst., 130 passengers, and 613,130 dole. in
specie. Her mails arrived in charge of I.ieut. Beddiek,
R.N., Admiralty agent. The Asia passed the United
States Mail steamer Franklin, outward bound, at 4.4,
a.m. on the 21st, and the screw steam-ship City of
Manchester at 3.:y0 p.m. on the 24th.
The screw steam-ship Genova sailed from (Inebee
on the 14th for this port.
The Now York papers of the 17th contain details
of the loss of the barque William and Mary, on a
sunken rock in one of those dangerous channels of
the Bahama Islands. Of two hundred pusengers
who left Liverpool in the William and Maly for
New Orleans, nut more than thirty were saved, the
remainder having gone down with her.
The New York Herald of the 18th says A
despatch from Buffalo states that a large building,
undergoing repairs in that city, caved in yesterday
afternoon, and buried some twenty of the wotkuiea,
together with the occupants of the upper stories,
beneath the ruins. Up to last accounts only live of
the unfortunate men had been taken out alive, end
three dead bodies recovered. As near us could be
ascertained, fifteen others were still underneath the
fallen bricks and timbers, in all of whom life was of
course extinct."

Our New York correspondent writes as follows:

NEW YORK, MAY Is.
The President is understood to have completed
his programme of diplomatic appointments, although
the names of the successful candidates have not been
officially announced. It reads as follows :—Ambas-
sador to England, James Buchanan ; France, John
A. Dix; Spain, Pierre Soule; Russia, Governor
Seymour; Mexico, James Gadsden; Prussia, not
known ; Chili, It. H. Mead. It is rumoured also
that the venerable American Consul in London, Mr.
Aspinwall, is to make way for a successor.
The now foreign ministers are mostly men of note,
but of various political characters and ttudencies.
Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, is an experienced
statesman, of fair abilities, rather conservative in
his tone of thought, and of such an advanced age as
to preclude any further political ambition. He will
manage the negotiations with England with skill,
temper, and moderation. General Dix, of New
York, is a man of brilliant parts and the most amia.
ble feelings, an abolitionist or rather free-soiler, in
principle, and of sound judgment in all public
affairs. M. Soule, of Louisiana, is a Filibuster
rather by association and repute than by anything that
he has either said or done, an eminent lawyer, an
eloquent speaker, and greatly to his discredit, a sup.
porter of slavery. That a man of the south, " nat.ire
and to the manner horn," should uphold the slave
system, is, perhaps, natural, but that a European
democrat, who fled from the tyranny of his own
country to find refuge in this, should encourage the
worst tyranny on the globe, is an inconsistency that
cannot be excused. Apart from this, there would be
a fine propriety in sending back to the despotisms of
the continent one of their own victims as a high re-
presentative of the Republic. Mr. Gadsden, who
goes to Mexico, is what is called at the south t,
fire-cater," that is, a rampant pro-slavery and seces-
sion orator. He is of the right stamp for bringing
Santa Anna to terms.
The new

...on has not yet developed its
foreign policy, so enigmatically announced in the
inaugural, nor is it possible to gather from the di.
plomatic appointments thus far, what it is likely to
be. Tho questions of immediate interest arc those
relating to the boundary of New Mexico, and the
recent movements of the French towards the
Sandwich Islands. Your readers are probably
aware that the commissioners chosen by the govern.

menta of the United States to run the— boun-
dary agreed upon by the treaty of Guade-
loupe Hidalgo disagreed as to the southern
and south-western line, that which separates Chi-
huahua. from New Mexico, one of them, Mr. Bart-
lett, having consented to a line, which the other, Mr.
Gray, who was ill at the time, afterwards refused to
recognise. Congress subsequently disapproved of
the action of Mr. Bartlett by withholding further
appropriations for the survey, and thu late Gover-
nor of New Mexico, Mr. Lane, proceeded to
assert the authority of the United States over the
territory included between the line determined by
Mr. Bartlett and another supposed line further south.
But the authorities of Chihuahua, backed by thou
of the general government of Mexico, refuse to accept
this summary interpretation of the treaty, and insist
that the line agreed upon by Mr. Bartlett, together
with the Mexican commissioners, is now, by the
article of the treaty itself, a part of the treaty.
The territory in dispute is about 34 miles wide
and 174 miles long, embracing the whole of what is
called the Mesilla Valley, and containing about 2,000
inhabitants, a mixed race of Spaniards, Indians, and
Yankees.
It is doubtful whether the Industrial Exposition
will be opened even on the Ist of June. Although
there are no lees than 4,000 men employed upon the
building, the work is not in such a state of forward-
ness as to warrant the managers in making a positive

announcement of the day of inauguration: -
The appointment of the commissioners on the part
of the English government is a manifestation of in-
terest in the subject which has produced a lively
sensation here, and which will be duly acknowledged
at the proper time. Handsome apartments in the
principal hotel of the city are prepared for their
reception.
An arrival from Jamaica, May Bth, brings accounts
of an excitement produced in Kingston by the
escape of two Charleston slaves, who secreted them-
selves on board the steamer El Paraguay, which
stopped at that port, and afterwards put into King-
ston for coals. One of them, named Hardy, was the
son of his master, and the other was a capital me-
chanic. As soon as the fact of their being on
board was known, the authorities sent an
officer to the vessel to demand their re-
lease, and the demand was instantly complied
with by the captain. The men were examined be-
fore the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Leake, and the
American Consul, Mr. Harrison, told a plain straight-
forward story of the manner of their escape, ex-
pressed their strong desire for freedom, and to re-
main in Jamaica, and were then set free amid the
shouts and acclamations of the multitudes gathered
on the outside of the Court-house. The whole pro-
ceeding reflects great honour upon the magistrates
as well as the people of Kingston, though it will ex-
cite a strong counterblast from the slave.shambles
of the south.
From Mexico we have news to the sth of May.
Santa Anna has organised his government, and
made his domestic and foreign appointments. En-
closed is his decree of organisation of his ministry :
Lucas Alaman is at the head. Sr. Fornel is Minister
of War ; Sr. Bares ditto for Justice and Ecclesiastical
concerns ; Sr. Haro y Tamariz for Finance. Minis-
ters to foreign powers have been appointed. Al-
monte to the United States; Sr. Castello y Sanzas for
England ; Manuel Larrainzar, present 'Minister at
Washington, fur Rome ; Ramon Pachea for France;
and Buennventiorn Vivo, Minister for Spain. This
Vivo was captain of a vessel a few years since,
trading between Havana and Vera Cruz, and latterly
he was Consul at Havana for Mexico.
A decree of the 23rd ult. completely annihilates
the freedom of the press, as much so as the laws of
I Spain or France. It is also significant that is the
re-organisation of the army, no honour or employ-
ment is given to any one who surrendered to the
Americans in 1847.
Arista, who has been ousted, is on his way to
England.
(For

Paie 4)

ARENDELL COPPER MINES.—At the special meet-
ing on Thursday, the 2Gth inst., the accounts shored
Balance last account, 4,0151. 10s. Id., and further to capdsis
301.-4,051/. 10s. Id. Mine cost, February, 1131. 21. act;
March, 1101. 9s. Ild. ; sundries, February and Maras
69/. 9s. 4d. ; leaving balance in favour of mine,3,751/.35.5di
The committee determined on erecting a steam•engine im-
mediately. Josiah Ritchins, Esq., of Tavistock, was aP•
pointed the consulting and managing director ; Mr. Mat.
thews, of the Devon Great Consols, the consulting engineer
to the company. A new board cf directors, consisting of 13
of the shareholders, was elected.
VERY STRANGE, IF TRUE.—The North British
Daily Mad has the following under the title id' " Remark-
able Occurrance :"—A little girl had hi r left eye so com-
pletely covered with a white speck that it was rendered
sightless. A few days since, while amusing herself shoat
doors, a dove descended from a neighbouring dwelling-
house, and, as if in search of food, removed the specie wad
its bill, without causing the slightest injury, so that ever
since the vision of the girl has been perfect.

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

1111 i WAR WITH BURMAN.

We hxt received our journals and despatches in
ant:cipation of the overland mail. The dates are:—
we:bay, April 21; Calcutta, April 21; Hoag Kong,
it.
,t
tar limvlmy correspondent's letter is u follows :
BOMBAY, Arum 28.

The news just received from Burmah comes down
to tiw Ist of April from Prome, and the Nth from
p4egoon. Captain Phayre, our commissioner, and
cs,wesielure Lambert, had returned to Prome on 30th
Nardi train Nhaday, without having succeeded in
iediaing the Burmese coinniissioners to accede te the
mate oti, r, al them. The Burmese ambassadors, ac-
euniiiiiied by war boats and about a thousand
followed them on the 31st, and au interview
was again to take place on the 4th April. The Bur-
mese had been very civil and submissive at Nlcaday,
but wishe2 to insist on our quitting Promo and
its neighbourhood before they would enter into
negotiations with us. A certain time had
bean given them by the commissioner, which
had passed by without their accepting the treaty,
when he returned to Prome as already stated, and
was followed be them. A march on Ave is said to
have been determined on, to commence in a fortnight,
orsbout the 15th April, but it was thought they
would, when they found us in earnest, give in at the
lost moment, and so prevent us moving on their
capital. The intelligence last received by the MOOO
suffer at Calcutta was very disagreeable, but as yet
wants cootirmation. Au extra had been issued by
the RII Chronick stating that the garrison of
Boling had been attacked by the Burmese and cut up
to a man. This, however, has been contradicted by
the secretary to the government of India, who states
that later intelligence than that contained in the
extra had been received from Rangoon, in which no
certain information of any such disaster hav-
ing occurred was mentioned. Matters, how-
ever, were not considered at all so satis-
factory as could be wished, and accordingly
four companies, 320 rank and file and 11 officers, 2nd
Bengal European Fusiliers, under Capt. H. Macken-
zie, were ordered to embark immediately, about the
lthh, from Fort William for Moulmein, the remainder
of the corps to follow as speedily as possible. Other
troops are spoken of as under orders to follow, and
it is thought that another brigade from Madras will
be ordered off if our treaty should be refused by the
Burmese. Indeed, it is the general opinion that the
war is only now about to commence in earnest, and
that it will end in the annexation of the entire
country. The enemy at and around Boling are said
to have taken heart at our inactivity, and it is sup-
peed the celebrated chief, Meah Toon, has found
means of joining them.
29th had been ordered down again from
Dinapore to Fort William to relieve the 2nd Fusi-
liers, and be at hand for embarkation for Rangoon,
shoal! they be required. l'rome was almost bare of
provisions of all sorts, and it was thought a month
would elapse before our force could move on Ava.
Same 16,00 g Burmese soldiers were believed to be in
the neighbourhood of Meaday, but to route these
would be merely the work of an hour. The weather
at Promo was fearfully hot, and cholera was carry-
Mg off some half dozen European soldiers daily.
General Stacie's force at Tonghoo was being housed,
and was very healthy. The general was about to
leave for Rangoon, to reassume command of that
place. The cantonment of Shuy-gees was also
healthy, and Lieutenant Ingrain, of the Bengal
Fusiliers, was engaged in erecting defences around
it. Brigadier Williams is to command at Tonghoo,
and was daily expected, for which place he had left,
accompanied by Major Hill and the head quarters
of the Madras Fusiliers. The lit M. N. I. was sta-
tioned at Sitang, and was busy erecting houses for
themselves. A great scarcity of food prevailed in
Pegu, and the people were suffering much in cones-
ouence. Colonel Bogle had returned to Maulmein ;
Captain Berdmore and Lieutenant Holmes, political.,
were to be stationed at Shay-geen and Sitang. All
seems to have been quiet at and in the neighbour-
hood of Rangoon, and the troops healthy. Lieutenant
Cockburn, 18th Royal Irish, and Lieutenant Raw-
lins, 44th B. N. L, died of the wounds received at
Donabew; Lieutenant Williams, 07th N. 1., of cho-
lera; and Surgeon Lawson, of the Proserpine, at
Donabew.

BOMBAY.

The Great Indian Peninsula Railway was opened
with all becoming pomp on the afternoon of the
16tb. Almost every one at the presidency from
the members of council down to the clerks
in the various offices, were present—there were
to be seen representative of nearly every na-
tion on the face of the globe, in every
variety of costume—and the tout ensemble was
magnificent. The whole line was crowded with
spectators—every window and balcony in the native
town was thronged—assembled to see the " aug ke
gharry " (fire carriage) start. Ever since the 18th
tauusands of natives have been backwards and
fia wards betwixt Mahirn, Tannah, and Bombay—
many for the novelty of the thing—and two passenger
trains now run daily betwixt these places. An ex-
tension of the line twelve miles, to a place called
Sizahpore, has been &sectioned, and contracts for its
construction have already been invited. Before five
years have elapsed oar line will, I have no doubt,
have ascended the ghauts into the Deccan. Al-
ready. have railway share advanced to seventeen
premium Fr share, or thirty-four per cent, and there
are dozens of speculators eagerly buying them up
whenever they get the chance. Lord Falkland, Lord
Fiuclareace, and all' the other notables of the land,
except the judges of the Supreme Court, continue on
the hills enjoying the mountain air, while all who
cannot follow their example are sweltering by the
nes shore. The governor is said to be now quite
well.

The Auckland, steam frigate, arrived yesterday •
morning with the English mail of the 24th March.
She had taken ten days to tumble across from Aden,
and the Calcutta steamer had taken ten Liam Sues to
that port, having broken her main shaft on the 9th,
two days after leaving. There is consequently no
time left for any one away from the presidency to
answer letters received by. this opportunity; the
Auckland should have arrived by the 23rd at
the latest. The papers of India continue to
discuss the question of the ex-Sodder judges
with warmth—and are determined that the
ease shall not rat till it is taken up at home. Mr.
Grant goes home, I believe, by this evening's steamer;
and, strange to say, will be accompanied by Mr. IL
D. Luard, who has been suspended from the service
by the government. Mr. Grant and Mr. Le Geyt
have been addressed by natives of all ranks and from
all parts of the country in terms of respect and con-
dolence' and may well be proud of the testimonials
thus bestowed on them, so far as an be known, un-
solicited by them. Luard's suspension seems to tell
more against the government than did the removal
of Grant and Le Geyt from the Budder, and shows
Plainly that they are afraid of open investigation.
The native attorneys in the Sudder Court having
presented Mr. Grant with an address, government
have told him he could not retain it except in con-
travention of some clause or other of the regulations.
The Steam Navigation Company have sold the
steamer Dwarka for VW- The Cee3PanY is
about to build a larger vessel in her stead.
The Bombay has been chartered by government
on behalf of the vizier of his -Highness the
l'aeha of Egypt. for 0001. a month:Ails supplied by
charterer), to convey him and hie „suite to Bahrein,
Muscat, Adea, Mocha, and Suez. The vizier has in
his train four female slaves—two anniesians and two
Nubians—who are, it is currently reported and be-
lieved, to be presented to the Imaum of Muscat, who
in exchange will give a pair of the best mares; and
these latter are intended, as the story goes, as a pre-
sent for Queen Victoria. The chief magistrate
having heard of the slaves being on board the
steamer Bombay, thought it his duty to issue a war-
rant to have them brought ashore again ; but he was
warned from the secretariat not to interfere in the
matter, as the four ladies were the wives of the vizier.
l'his is htlieved to be untrue, and the natives wonder
not a little at the fact of our permitting the slave
trade to be carried on under our very noses--uay, in
steamer hired by ourselves. But I presume poli-
tical reasons interfere to prevent us acting as we
would wish: it is unlikely that the Queen of Free-
dom will accept of a present purchased by the liberty
of four of her own sex. A young lieutenant of the

2nd European Light Infantry named Reid has been
severely injured by a tiger while out shooting ueu
Be'gaunt : he is, however, doing well.
Trade during the past fortnight has been dull,
dealers not wishing to lay in any heavy stock, owing
to the approach of the monsoon. Freights have risen
to 41. ss. per ton to Liverpool. Exchange has ad-
vanced considerably-2s. lid. for six months' sight
bills on Baring Brothers, being the rate of the day.
BENGAL AND THE NORTH-WEST
PROVINCES.
There is very little news to communicate from
these quarters by the present opportunity. Lord
Dalhousie was at Calcutta, but it s probable he will
almost immediately proceed i
to Rangoon, to hold per-
sonal conference with the authorities in Burmah as
to future measures. Sir W. Gomm had returned to
Simla on the 4th, thence to watch over our opera-
tions ! Strange that the gallant old general should
persist in remaining away from the seat of govern-
ment at such a time as the present—unless, indeed,
as is currently believed, ho received a hint from the
Governor-General, that his room would be prefer-
able to his company at the council table ! A wing of
the 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers was to leave
Fort William for Rangoon immediately by the steam
frigate Moozuffer—and further reinforcements have
probably. are now been ordered off. Tho population
of the city of Benares amounts to 186,000 souls—
that of the district to 666,000. A sergeant of the
2nd Bengal Europeans blew out his brains in Fort
William on the 14th inst. ; he had been out on leave,
and returned an hour after roll-call, and it is thought
fear of the consequences induced him to put an
end to his existence. Young Ensign Sandham,
who has recently narrowly escaped cashier-
leg for ill-using some natives, is said to be
again in arrest for striking a sergeant of his
corps; if so, his fate is sealed, and justly so. The
minister recently appointed to the court of the
Sovereign of Delhi, has been dismissed by his royal
master. All the regiments present at Mooltan, Chil-
humans, and Goojerat, are to bear the names of
these places on their colours, &c., in addition to the
word Punjaub. A native brig was destroyed by fire
at Calcutta on the 11th inst. A hunting party in
Bhcerboom is said to have killed twenty tigers and
six rhinoceroses, and speared nineteen hogs, a tole-
rably good bag. Tho late Mr. Hedger is said to
have left to his native cash-keeper a sum of 1,200 t.,
and a pension of 361. a year. A branch of the Agra
and United Service Bank is about to be established
at Lahore. Three European children are reported
to have been seen at the Nicobars by the crew of the
ship Colonel Burney, they being doubtless the sole
survivors of some vessel cast on that inhospitable
shore. Government will no doubt take immediate
steps to gain possession of the poor little unfortu-
nates. A man named Durger, a seaman on board the
steamer Proserpinc, employed on the Irrawaddy, find-
ing his end drawing near, confessed to having been
the murderer of the man Moire at the Calcutta ice-
house some time back, for which a lad named Very had
been hung, and another named Tiger Ned had been
transported for life, these two having been merely
accessories before the fact. The claim of Jotee Per-
saud for 50,000 f. advanced at Cahoot to Major By-
grave seems not yet to have been allowed by govern-
ment—the more to their shame, be it said, as the
Lalla was the only party who endeavoured to assist
our authorities with cash when they stood sorely in
need of help. The amount realised at the last opium
sale at Calcutta was 343,7121. A considerable
amount of sickness prevailed at Delhi, but it was
hoped the change just experienced in the weather
would tend to allazoiLd Mr. Lushington is to be re-
moved from the of revenue to the office of

accountant-general, the present occupant, Mr. Walker,
being about to proceed to the Cape : Mr. Grote is
to succeed Mr. Lusbington as secretary to the
Revenue Board. Captain a. A. Cooke, who had
been placed on the half-pay list, petitioned the
Court of Directors to be transferred to the invalids,
but his petition has been rejected ; his case is said to
be a very pitiable one. The natives of Calcutta who
were averse to the rules of the government Hindoo
College, have determined to establish a college for
themselves, and have engaged Captains Richardson
and Palmer, and Mesars. Grisenthwaite and Kirk-
patrick as teachers for the higher departments.
Captain R. Morrieson, of the Rajpootaua Political
Agency, is to have charge of the young R_lsjah of
Bhurtpore daring his minority. Brigadier Hewitt,
from Mooltan, reached Agra on the 13th instant. A
grand ball had been given to the Lieutenant-Governor
and Miss Thomason by Brigadier Lloyd and the
officers of Agra.
MADRAS.

Sir Henry Pottinger is to remain as Governor till
the expiry of the present charter. The Bishop of
Madras intended making a tour to Mercara, and re-
turning to the Neilgherry Hills ; whether his lord-
ship had or had not resolution to quit the cool re-
treat he enjoyed in the mountains does not appear.
Lieutenant Grmme, of the Madras army, who had
caused the death of a native by kicking him, has
been sentenced to be suspended for six months; and
a portion of this has been remitted, u it appeared
the lieutenant was generally a mild-tempered man,
and the kick inflicted on the deceased wu so without
the least intention of hurting him. Rear-Admiral
Sir F. Pellew, in the Winchester, reached Madras
on the 11th inst., the frigate being in tow of the
steamer Styx. Mr. White, collector of Nellore
and Gallo, died on the Ist inst. Mr. C.
M. Teed has been elected a director of the Bank of
Madras in the room of Mr. James Thompson. A
gentleman, named W. E. Maxwell, has sent 101. from
Bellary to Captain Bider', to be given to the native
boatmen who so nobly exerted themselves during the
late storm to save the lives of the shipwrecked sea-
men. The works on the river Kistnah are being got
on with rapidly, upwards of 4,000 workmen being
employed thereon. The aricut will, however, barely
be completed before the setting in of the monsoon.
The transport Sir George Seymour had reached
Madras with invalids from Bormah. Upwards of a
scum of poor fellows had died of cholera on the
voyage across. A Mr. J. H. Kendrick is constructing
a short line of electric telegraph from the observatory
•to the master attendant's °flies on the beach.