The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATU DAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1853

AMERICA.

The United Staten mail packet Herman arrived at
Cowes yesterday afternoon from New York, on her
way to Bremen. Her English and French mails,
pm,sengers, and cargo, were landed soon afterwards
at Southampton. Amongst her passengers was the
Ilea. Mr. .M'ltae, from South Carolina, the American
ambassador to Paris. The New York date of the
Herman is that of the telegraphic despatch brought
to England on Thursday by the Eglinton.

OPENING OF THE NEW YORK EXHIBITION.
The opening of the Gnat lishiloi!ion by the President,
and the public proceedings by which it wa. followed, were
eoorn•>ing public attention at New 'lurk when the Haman
left. _ . •

No event bad created so general and so profound an in.
West in the public mind, na this corerannial. The whole
city was alive with the interest and cult. mint which the
event occasioned. The ceremonies attending the arrival
arid public reception of the President of the Unite d States,
attracted the at ttation of the lower part of the town through-1
out the early part of the day. The streets were thronged
with eager spectator., noxious to catch a glimpse of the pia
ces.ittn by which ho was to be escort-d to the Crystal
Palate. An immense tide of travel tended towards that
building doling the whole lerenaon. The Stxtli-uveaste
cars um once a minsti, each car crowded to its utmost
capacity. Ties stages running to the vicinity or the build-
kg wine abo densely filled.
At an early hour the Palace was besieged by applicants
for admissioo. Stern officials guarded the tutrinces, and
infortne.t all who came that until 10 o'clock now hut eslii-
bitirs would he admitted. At 10, however, the jeelnas
gates unclose and red, and yellow, and white, end blue
invitations poured in at the different entrances. The
thismg, even then, was excessive. The omnibuses, the
ear., the haekney coaches, all poured forth th,ir live freight
at Forty-second-street, and ladies and gentlemen, at (-wry
degree of temperature, ascended the stairs that led to the
interior.
Within the Palace was even more impo►ing. Thorwald-
sen's roble series of tt Christ and his Apostles," in the
Danish section, attracted much deserved attention. Bright
balancer. flaunted trim the galleries—snits of out armour,
from the Tower of London, frowoederinily on the scene, as
If the spirit of antiquity was wroth within them at the con-
trast between our days, bright with intellei tun' progress,
■nd loose good old benighted times in which they saw ser-
vice. And over all, the great dome stretched its paint. d
canopy, joining together the diverging sores, es the build-
in.! orew together widely differmg nations.
The palace filled rapidly. At the iktersectians of the
nave?, and all beneath the dome, the floor was soon parti-
colourc das a garden with brilliant bonnets and silks. The
platform in the north have, which was to be the great scene
of interest for the day, began about this time tap be ani-
visited. Members of the Senate, guests invited by special
request, militia officers, and the preeiden- of the Crystal
Palace with his official staff, and a host of other persons too
distinguished ta be well known, made their appearance on
the boards.
The Exhibition was attended by men of all parties, clams,
and creeds. Bishop Wainwright, who off:ri ;I the opening'
prayer, being supported by the Roman Catholic Archbishop
Hughes, Mr. Prescott, the historian, Sir Charles Lyell, and
Lady Ellesmere and daughter, occupied positions near the
platform. Lord Ellesmere, who reached the city at an
early hour in the morning, having come express from
Quebec on purpose to attend the inauguration, was confined
to his room by a severe attack of the gout. Professor
Wilson, Mr. C. Wentworth Ditto, Mr. Duncan, and the
other gentlemen of the Royal Commission, were also upon
the platform. After the prayer, a choral, composed for the
occasion, was sung to the tune of " Old Hundred," by the
New York Sacred Harmonic Society, accompanied by the
National Guard Band, and members of other societies and
the organ.

INDIA AND CHINA.

.THE OVERLAND MAIL.

Our despatches in anticipation of the India mail
bring dates from Rangoon, 4th June; Calcutta, 16th
June ; Bombay, 20th June ; Hong Kong, 7th June.
The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times :

Our Summary of intelligence—which ought to ex-
tend from the 23rd of May to the 20th of June—has
been somewhat broken.by the irregular branch mail of
the 31st ult., sent round by Ceylon. As we did not
send supplies to our ordinary readers by this, we
shall now take up our narrative where we left it off
by commencing as usual with Burmah. Notwith-
standing the extreme liberality of the Governor-Ge-
neral in conceding to the Burmese everything at
which they took offence, the commissioners have
refused to sign the treaty, and they left for the
capital on the 10th of May. A steamer, with a gun-
boat in tow, which expected to pass them on the
river, was immediately despatched for Meaday, the
place we were willing to yield to them, but which
we would now retain. The robber chief,
Meea-loon, had fled from Pegn, and proceeded
to Burmah Proper, where he was said to have
been received with great honour by the Sove-
reign. It seemed somewhat uncertain how we should
next proceed, although the river boats had all for
some time been getting in readiness. The idea
seemed to be that there would be no advance on
Ava—that we should maintain our position and
punish the enemy should he annoy us, without
caring a straw whether a treaty—which would be
observed by the Burmese monarch only when it
suited him—existed or not. The newspapers in
India, slanderously affirmed to be in continual
antagonism with government, have been loud and
unanimous in their approbation of Lord Dalhousie's
papers regarding Burnish, which have just been
published—opposed on many points as these are to
the opinions generally entertained. Four-fifths of
the measures, both of the present and late Gover-
nors-General, have met with the warm approval of I
two-thirds of the newspapers. What English admi-
nistration, save the present, could ever say as much?
The discussions in reference to Surat affairs have
awakened with fresh vigour in Bombay, and it is
now very obvious thattheseandotherkindred matters
can only be cleared up by a local commission, such
as forms the prayer of two separate petitions pub-
lished in this day's issue.—The annoyance which the
management of the affairs of Baroda has of late years
occasioned, and the scandals to which our connexion
with it have given rise, has at last determined the
government at home to make over the charge of
Guzerat to Bengal ; and the arrangement, deeply
as it reflects on the local authorities, seems an emi-
nently wise one. For thirty years has our name
been tarnished and our face been blackened by oar
counexion with that most corrupt of adminie-
trations ; it has been the source of countless broils
and innumerable slanders, and the wretched system
of hushing up and concealment constantly resorted
to, especially since the case of General Ballantyne,
has impressed on the public mind ineradicably
the conviction that we have not been at all so
clean-handed as we ought. The alienation of the
State from our supervision will relieve us at
all, events of suspicion, and before the chan-
nels of Khutput are fairly opened up with
Calcutta, the dynasty of the Guicowar may,
through the misconduct of the present sovereign,
have ceased to reign. This will probably prove the
solution of the mystery attendant on the apparently
conflicting reports that Colonel Outram would be
restored to his former office, and he would be em-
ployed under the Bengal government. The two con-
tingencies will not hereafter be incompatible, but
may be brought about at once. Highly as we ap-
prove of the measure independently and by itself, it
forms, in connexion with the qualified apology of
the Court of Directors for the Bombay govern-
ment, a specimen of that miserable drivelling and
temporising which characterise our adminis-
tration altogether. "Oh, you are not at all to
blame," says the Secret Committee, " neither is Col.
Outram, whom you condemned. It is very true you
have managed Baroda so badly that we must estrange
it from your hands, and pass it into those of an
authority twelve hundred miles away; but don't
take this the least to heart—you will all be al-
lowed to remain out your natural term of ser-
vice, and your honourable President gets an extra
year just to soothe his feelings."—We have to re-
gret the loss of our junior magistrate of police, Mr.
Itivett, who was a few days since suddenly cut off.—
The Governor-General and Sir Henry Pottinger con-
tinue at Calcutta and Madras respectively. Lord
Falkland is at Poona, where also are the Commander-
in-Chief and Junior Member of Council, Mr. Bell,
the latter too being severely indisposed. The only
member of government at the Presidency is Mr.
Blanc, who also suffers from indisposition, and
on whose shoulders thus devolve the whole
duties of the administration. Had Lord Falkland
been a member of a mercantile firm, he would of
course have returned to head-quarters the moment
the establishment felt shod-handed. As it is he
takes his ease at Poona, accompanied by two of the
ablest secretaries under him, leaving matters to look
after themselves at the scat of government us they
best may. Why should he not, after having received
au evidence of the countenance of the authorities,

such as Nlountatuart Elphinstone and Jonathan
Duncan alone could boast of P—The Commander-in-
Chief of Bombay has for some time past been in a
very alarming state of health, but is now getting
better.—The Commander-in-Chief of India, Sir W.
Gomm, is said to have ordered the discontinuance of
the improved system of drill and discipline
recommended by his lordship. The monsoon I
—which held off nearly ten days longer than 1
usual, and was not preceded by the thunder-
storms
which usually herald it in has just
burst upon us with unusual violence, nearly twenty
inches of rain having failed betwixt the Bth nod'
20th, with every appearance of continuance. The
fall has not as yet extend, d into the interior, and at
Poona they are complaining of hen• and drought.
We are looking forward with unusual anxiety for
the advent of the mail of the 24th May, now nearly
due, and which will bring us intelligence of the in-
tentions of ministers regarding India. Trade coa-
-1 tinues dull.