The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia. ('apt.
F. !Showy, arrived at Southampton last night, with
dates from Gibraltar to the sth of April ; and
ILisbon, 9th; and Oporto, 10th; and landed her
mails, under charged Lieut.Jam•s Inglis, Admiralty
agent. 'Me revolution had not extended to Oporto
when the Iberia left. The members of the British
' embassy at Lisbon arc stated to believe that the revo-
lution in Portugal will be a most serious one. Al-
though Saldanha is the idol of the army. the Portu-
guese court do not fear him so much as has Antes
and Banderin, the former being at Mahn, and tho
latter at Saint Uhcs. At Gibraltar an action had
taken place between a Spanish guards costa, and
an English smuggler. The captain of the former
was killed, and two of the crew of the latter were
wounded. An angry dispute has arisen in rellW,
quenee. Mentes, the celebrated Ind!-tighter, died at
ICadiz. The Iberia brings 3,0001. specie.

INDIA AND CHINA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received, by express, our letters and
papers in anticipation of the Overland Mail from
India. The dates are :--Itombaty, March 17 ; Cat.
eutta, March 7 ; Madras, March 12; Cohmtho, March
14 ; Singapore, March 6 ; and Hong Kong, Feb. 27.
Our Bombay correspondent writes as fellows:—
BONBAY, MAMA 17.
The event of the present mail is the death of
Major-General Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, K.C.8.,
commanding the Sirhind division of the Bengal
army, which occurred suddenly at Umhalla on the
21st of February. The gallant officer was, it appears,
walking in his garden when he suddenly felt
ill, staggered against a tree, and, in a very
short time, was no more. By his death the
coloneley of the itfth Foot has become va-
cant. Sir W. Gomm, in announcing the death
of the gallant general to the army, concludes by
stating " the commander-inwhief mourns the loss of
an old and valued friend anal brother in arms." It is
thought Sir Colin Campbell may amerced darn on the
general staff of the Iktigal army. At the same sta-
tion on the 214th Feb., died Captain John Davey
Cunningham, of the Bengal Engineers, whose
" History of the Sikhs," published in 11419, gave
such aflame to the home authorities as to
mud. his removal from political employ at
Bhopaul. He was an upright, inhemaident,
man, and spoke his mind freely in his work, and
when did one who had the (satrape to utter un-
palatable truths ever escape the malice of those
whose midloings are exposed? Ile Mal been on
that time up to the present without any really remu-
nerative employment, but just before his death he
had been pwated to the charge of the Meerut division
of' public works—an appointment he was not destined
to join ; death had claimed him as its victim. At
Bombay, on the 11th inst.; died Dr. Fraser, surgeon
of the 6th N. 1., atter a service of nearly 211 years ;
and at Barrackpore, on the Sth, died Surgeon Pear-
son, of the Bengal army.--From Pisltawur we have
accounts of a daring outrage rommitted by MOM` ma-
rauders of the hills on a Miss Curling and Captain
Gnintham, of lI.M. MOM wham were out riding a few
miles from the cantonment. A few ruffians having
emerged from their hiding •plaee and laid hold of the
young lady's horse, the captain dismounted to make
them let go, when they set on him with their
swords, and cut him down, and then threw him into
• a ditch for dead, making off with the two horses.
The young lady returned on trot to the canton-
ments, and related what had happened, when
a party was slit out in Mardi of the wounded gen-
tleman, whom they discovered 'diarist lifeless where
he had been thrown, Ile was by last ndviees out of
danger, hut one of his hands had been obliged to ho
amputated, and he thus rendered a cripple for life.
Miss Curling was not injured fortunately by the
robbers, or the gallant captain might have bled to
death before assistance reached him. It' I mistake not
Captain Grantham was once before cut down in his
tent by robbers iu his !ilk's at Peshawar. Even in
the heart of the cantonments robberies were of fre-
quent occurrence, not unfrequently attended by
violence and murder, so that parties proceeding to a
distance could acareely look Mr anything but moles-
tation. The Delhi Gazelle gives the following scrap :
We hare received intelligence of a gallant skirmish, in
which the rear guard of Walsh's regiment, the 2nd l'un-
jaub Infantry, consisting of only I') sepoys and 1 l sumo,
repulsed the attack of not less than :Pe Wugeerees, horse
and tint. The regiment was marching tuna Nurree to
Buena, whoa they heard firing in the rear, and Lieut.
HeklOrti was sent back to make the nivessary dispositions.
He found that the enemy had made a dash in 61,11.115, of
carrying oft' the baggage, but the little party showed a Hem
front, anal held their ground. Lieutenant Eckhord or-
dered the advance sowers to right .and lit 011 the hanks of
the enemy, and throwing a few piles out in Irma as skir-
mishers, moved un through the lows. The enemy,flowever,
had no stomach fir lighting h r such rondo , and
made for the hills, their hornsi climbing the st,s-p paths
like goats. Having obtained a considerable elevation, they
halted, and prepared to nveive the exps,cted rush of our
trops, hut the latter were tau wary to fall into the trap.
Having defeated the object of the attack, the mar guard
were ordered to rejoin the headquarters of the regiment,
which they effected with the line of a /4101iL1t..1111111.10,, the
nsils being too distant to do farther execution, though the
bbullets occasionally pattered amongst the rocks through
which the small party were threading their way. Had they
attempted to stand on the defensive, insteiul of giving the
Wurverees the alternative aim tight, nu plunder, then, is
but little doubt that the result would have been very diffe-
rent.
It is high time these things were put a stop to, if
this be possible, either by Mir 111(1111N or by force of
i arms. The Govenuir-General waa to be at Peshawar
len the 9th or 10th inst., and would doubtless( call a
• meeting of the mountain chiefs and endeavour to pro-
cure their (Ai-operation in restraining the marauders of
their hills; but they appear to have no control over
them, and even if they had, would most likely not
exercise it so long as we keep bodies of our troops
amongst them: let us but withdraw our detutliments
from the pods at Kohut uudelsewhere and there can
• be nodoubtthe hill chiefs will for a trainer oonsidera-
tion guard the passes for us much more efficiently than
we can do so for ourselves. Let the trial be made;
if they prove treacherous, let them be rooted out at
once and effectually ; the half and half measures now
in rogue satisfy neither party • we are the greatest
sufferers of the two. Lord Ihilliousie will be wise to
take warning in time, he must by this time Net the
uselessness of half doing things—either pay (aye,
there's the rub, our dignity is offended by the word)
the hill people to behave themselves, or he must de-
termine un exterminating theta-41' he can, and
setting up strongholds thickly over the country
for our own protection. Humanity and roe-
! nomy alike point to the former course as the
better one of the two. An absurd rumour
has been spread by the MOitsdilite to the effect that
the noble Marquis had entered into negociationswith
Mid Mahomed of Cuhul to deliver up the Affghan
chief, Sultan Mahomed Khan, who, while Governor
of Peshawur under the Seikh dynasty, treacherously
delivered Colonel Lawrence and his family into the
hands of the enemy, in the end of 1847. The story
is not believed by any one as even being likely. How
have we behaved to the Cabool ruler that he should
be expected to do our bidding in this mat-
I ter, the traitor being his countryman? There in,
it would appear, very often foul play put in practice
•by the boatmen on the Suticj and Indus, when con-
veying passengers down those rivers to Kurruehcc—
such as wrecking the boats or burning them, in
order to enable them to plunder the kit—and an
officer of the 98th has lately been obliged to foot it
from Sukkur down, his bout having been destroyed
and everything it contained sunk an the Indus or
stolen. The commissioner was still in Upper &Sado,
as also Gen. Manson, by latest accounts. A force of
2 guns, a squadron of the 3d cavalry, and 2 companies
of the 35th N. 1., under Major Drummond, of the
former corps, left Nowgong on the '2lst January for
a fort named Alipoor, 12 miles distant, to expel an
usurper who had for five years kept the proper rule
out of the rajahship. The troops reached next da (
when the usurper lost heart and bolted. Butuakt7
kinutd is said to be in a disturbedstate. ;
and staff reached Delhi on the 4th, Sir W. Oilli*.ok
on the 6th, on his way to Calcutta. The lieutoiSlat. •
governor of the North-Weet Previnete returns:ooi •

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