The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received papers by the Overland
Moil frees India. The dame are u stated La the
telegraphic despatch published in Monday's Es
r, pith the exception of those from Cbioa, which
are to the eLd of Nov., and not Dec., as then stated.
Is constqmcce, it is presumtd, of some accident,
ws are without OUT letteTS, the papers having arrived
in the ordinary c 'woe, and been received through the
Post-office without the timid previous iatimstion of
the arrival or the anticipatory receipt of oar de-

spathes.
Tee following is from the summary of the Bum Loy
Tiers of flee. 17:
"Sir W. Gomm arrived at Calcutta on the 6th, and
was immediately sworn in as Conaneederin-Coiet
and Mmuher if Council. It was at first feared that
his commiasi,n had bete hitt behind him, and
the ceremony was accardiegly delayed—it was
afterwards found in the steamer. Sir Charles
Napier was by last accounts at Loodhillea
ea the 30th: be was said to propose being
at Ferosepore, the last nation in the Bengal pre-
sidency, on tee Sutlej, about the time the official
informattoo of the arrival of his succeesor might
be 1 inked for, so that be should be enabled to leave
the 11.n4a1 presidesey the moment be quitted
command. 'rho tidiegs would mach him about
the 16th (yeaterdey), so that it will require all the
haste be can make to reach Bombay in time for
the steamer of the 3rd of January. Should he do
so, he wilt meet an oil fellow-sold er, Sr John
Grey, is command at the presidency, and rests
base a fellow pueenger with another comrade,
Sir W. Cotten. A list et the courts-martial held
daring Sir C. Napier's administration, on Es-
',pan effi:ers end soldiers, shows us that is
eighteen months' time forty hie Atkas belonging
to the Bengal Army have been brought to trial:
fifteen of this have been ca.hiered, six dismissed,
or twenty in all removed from the army; seven have
lost rank, &au been suspended, two have been honour-
ably scquiued, and one acquitted. Of the &Adler.,
reeves have been scilaitted, and eixty-oine sentenced
to punishment: of toeye, three have been hanged,
and thirteen transported, the rest visited with various
grets of puniehment,inainly flogging and imprison-
ment.—Sir W. Cotten, the retiring Co amender-in-
t dint of 11 .inlay, has been incited toe public enter-
16,A:sent on the 31st fastest, and has accepted the
.tat ion ; has sucee-rstr, Sir J. Urey, looked tor about
t: • 21th, is dto be present. Sir George
Anderson, whose arrival at Ceylon was noticed
in our lost, coutinuid by our latest accounts
to r. aide the island as a private gentleman
—The Cioirernur-General was by last accounts
at Soojaopow, whither be bad gone with the
view of examining the spat fixed upon as the head
of the Beres Haab Canal. The indisposition of
i'.onel Napier, the engineer, Las, it is said,
(Wapiti the preparation of the estimates, so as to
prternt them being in a fit seats for his lordship's
eg.sideratton at tee time.—The Calcutta railway
operserms have ul.OO more conic to • dead stand-
soli in C 011214.100000 of the deity in the passing
hl the Act l,r enabling the ground to be provided;
the w.rk, which had been begun in anticipotion
of this, hail been pat a atop to. The embark-
ment at siots :Marsh, in the Bombay line, is
being proceeded with : the contracts fur the mat
of the line have not as yet been cicsed.—
Slr J. leje•blinv has, it is said, in contemplation the
erection at d endowment of a foandli' g hospital at his
own charge. The munificent knight lately cont.i.
bitted I,Stell. to the estabrishment of an obstetric in-
stitution, in the vicinage of the hospital which
bears his name, close by the Grant Medical Col-
lege,—llls Highness the Ouicisar of Baroda has
just appointed a Itesident at Bombay, deeming that
by this means his intercourse with genromeut may
be more satisfactorily managict than heretofore.
Three Primes concerned in two separate murders,
both of female?, were on Friday executed. Four
liojals (a set of Mahomedatui) convicted of assault
Mg and killing three men of • division of their
own caste at Stettin' on the I.lth November, have
been sentenced to death, and will be executed
to-morrow. On the 23rd ultimo, the town
of ltlauhnoin was nearly blown up, by the explo-
sion of two hundred casks of gunpowder, which
accidentally caught fire.—Sir 0. Berkeley, Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, reach( d Hydera-
bad, the capital of the Nizam's domitdone, on the
7th instant. The object of his visit is not known,
but can be shrewdly guessed at. The follow-
ing important paragraph appears in the Madras
Spectator, of the 29th ultimo: 'We learn from
Hyderabad, that the Resident, acting under instruc-
tions from Calcutta, has intimated to the Wiz tin, that
except the sum due to the Company's Government
be paid on the given day, all official inter-
course between their representative and his High-
ness must cease straightway. If this menace
is seriously meant, we presume that the Su
preme Government have readved on acting in the
event of default. It seems rather likely, however,
that they merely wish, by frightening him, to ensure
punctuality on the part of the Nissan Coupled with
Sir G. Berkeley's visit, and the movement of troops,
it is well calculated to produce such an effect
Tim Hon. Captain Carey, lt.N., returned by last
steamer, and resumed his appointment as private
secretary, ably fiiled during his absence by Captain
Henry, who now falls back on his previous appoint-
ment as aide-de-camp. The intelligence brought by
last mail of the sensation caused by the publication of
the Pope's Bull took us by surprise. Here christimuity
suffers most grievously from the disagreements of its
professors: the English and both Scotch churches
here, as at home, are split into factions; the catholic
church is more divided than any of them; and, as the
intending parties each threaten the other with per.
ditioo, the natives recommend them to convert each
other before they assail heathenism, and to be sgreed
as to what they themselves believe before endeavour-
ing to alter the creeds of others.' "

CASUALTII.B by death in the armies of India, re-
tlet:ald sines the departure of the mail on the 2nd
bee.
Bssoki Tsoore —Major D. C Bader, iscasisaseltss Sad
Rte. Paajaah C.vsley, at Peshawar, at the 17th Nov. Mr.
S. Peak, Rains Nester, 10th Vett Cavalry, at Labors, en
the 9th Nov. Last. R. Illsonla, Vistas. Battalioe,lata
%dial, Nestor of the Hors. ArtillevSe hi Monst. on the 4th
Dec Cape. W. B. Jamie, Mk N. 1.1., at 13 wesekpore,
on the 27ie Nov. Lost Cot. Wastes, C.D., is ligroot, on
tits 8:k Ost.

COMMERCIAL INTILLIORIIICE.
ROM/SAT. MONDAT Kcanino, Doc. 17.
Mousy is sow la puling empost, and the " Massetary
Typhoon," a • foseigas emirs porary lwely styled the
pow.ure which usually It lista is Wombs, about this seams
cf the year, blows with smoldered, force. Tim basks
IMO NUM our lilt ►dvaacd their rate of interest another
out per Mr.. inc t►ey aro saderstood to hams full es'
employ meet for their hoods. Cadet such a rats of satton
it is to be 'opened that all securities have • downward
Modesty, and are difficult of este. Qaotations of the day
may be named at- Trawler Lou, re. 110; dicta Fans.
ItrI; dins lours, 83; Company's Fives, 88 ; Co/spumy'.
Few, S. Bank of Bombay Shun, 19 premise; OM-
satol Bask 5i.,.., 171 to 1$ diaconal ; Commercial Bask
Shane, 11 to 13 di 000 tat; Agra Bank Shares, 1 discount.
The stock of th's latter institatiots is generally ossuming •
fen pandas is the market, and, so soon sa the few remaining
shores still in tio bands of sprculwors are bought up by bona
fide isinsten, we have no doubt tiIO shares will advance to •