The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

OVERLAND INDIA MAIL

(Fran the Mom., Honed.)
We have just received, by Extraordinary Express,
our tiles of papers from Calcutta of the 7th January;
Bombay, 15th February ; and China, 26th December
We subjoin extracts:

(From the Bombay Times of Jan. 13.)
Strensay.—One of those sudden alterations from peace
to war and war to peace—from • period of excitement to one
of apathy and repose, so characteristic of Oriental history—
has once more thrown on our hands • home dis-
patch almost wholly devoid of interest. The treaty with the
Sikhs, given in our last, was duly ratified betwixt Dhulleep
Singh and the Governor-General on Christmas-day; and the
two august personages just named were again to meet at
Lahore on New Year's-day. Four Sikh corps are being
raised, to form, with other troops, a frontier brigade at
Peshawur. under command of Captain Law, ence, of the 11th
Cavalry. Orders have been issued for the reduction of the
Scinde field force by about seven thousand men,
there to consist of two Europen and five native
infantry regiments, one of cavalry, and five batteries
of artillery. These are chiefly withdrawn from
Knrimehee. The frontier force has been strengthened ; and
than will remain behind from fourteen to seventeen thou-
sand men, regular end irregular, to do duty. The exams at
expenditure over revenue, which in 1846 is supposed to
amounted to nearly two tallow, will probably be reduced
to what. according to the parliamentary returns, it appears
to have been in 18444—considerably upwards of a million.
Sir C. Napier has been raised to the rank of Lieutenant.
General, and attached to the staff of India. No Commander-in
Chief having been appointed for Bombay, Sir T. McMahon,
who had taken out his passage by the steamer which leaves
a fortnight hence, has been prevailed on to remain for the
present in command. Rumour affirms that the Court of
Directors and Horse Guards are at issue on the subject. From
Cabool we learn that Ukhbar Khan, having in vain endea-
voured to persuade his father, Dan Mahnmed, from having
anything to say to the vakeel deputed to his court by the
Governor-General, had, through sheer wantonness, proceeded
to and plundered a village near Charekar. Our vakeel was
ordered to request of the old Ameer to use his best endea-
vours to have liberated and sent to India all those of the
late Cabool army who might be in captivity either in his
own dominions or those of surrounding countries. The
Nawaub AIWA', Mehemet' Khan, the instigator of the
lab dkarabiam fa the province of Bhopal, toecther with
toe esememgegolwith him in the insurrectionary movement,
km boa fostered to be imprisoned in the strong-hill for-
teem d Asseerghur.—The affairs of the Nizam's domiaions
are again relapsing into their former deplorable condition,
and will continue to do so unless our resident is authorised
to interfere more in them than heretofore. Fresh disturbances
have broken out among the Khonds of Goomsoor, conse-
quent on the measures punned by our agent for the sup-
pression of the barbarous sacrifices of human beings perio-
dically performed by them. The town of Madras has lately
been visited by cholera, but at the latest dates it was on
the decline. The country, with this exception, is healthy
throughout, and the weather cool and agreeable. The
Commandrr-in-Chief of India was present at the ceremony
the ratification of the new Lahore treaty at Bhairoowall
ea the 25th of December. It has not appeared
whether his lordship accompanies the Governor-Gene-
ral to Lahore, or returns to the provinces. The
battle of Feroushah was celebrated with spirit in his
amp on the 22nd. The Hon. Mr. Thomason, Lieute-
nant-governor of the North-western Provinces, quitted
Neemuch for Indere on the 28th ult. The Marquis of
Tweeddale returns to Madras on the 18th instant. Mr.
George Russell Clerk, our new governor, is expected at
Bombay about the 24th. He intended to proceed from Cal-
cutta to Ceylon by the steamer Hindostan ; and the Hon.
Company's steam-frigate Auckland has been dispatched
thither to bring him up. The Hon. Mr. Reid and tamp,