The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-29 00:00:00

COMMERC lAL.

CAPE TOWN, Avo. 19.
FREIONTB:—TO London and Liverpool : Wine, 451.
Wool, Id. per lb. ; do. per steamer, lid. and 10 per cent.
Skins,6l. 6s. per 1,000. Hides, 50s. per ton. Dead
weight, 603. per ton. Measurement, 70s. per ton ; do. per
steamer, 41. and 10 per cent. To St. Helena, 305.; to 355.
per ton. To India, 40s. per ton ; do. per ateamer, 61.
SWARM—Cape of Good Hope Bank. 96/. ; South Afri-
can Bank, 661. 10s. ; Colonial Bank, 501. ; Union Bank,
81.; Eastern Province Bank. 351. ; Frontier Commercial
and Agricultural, 33/. ; Port Elisabeth Bank, 201. ;
Oraaff-Iteinet Bank, 141.105. ; Purl Bank, 61.55.

INDIA AND CHINA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

A summary of the following appeared in our im-
pression of yesterday :
We have received our journals and despatches in
anticipation of the Overland Mail. The dates are :
Bombay, August 30; Calcutta, August 20; Hong
Kong, August 5.
The letter of our Bombay correspondent is nal
follows :

BOMBAY, Avousr 30.

Lord Falkland has been suffering slightly from in-
disposition. His lordship. and family, and staff, pro-
ceed to Mahabuleshwar in October, where they will
probably remain till December. The commander-
in-chief continues to enjoy tolerably good health, and
may be seen daily witnessing the drilling of the
detachments on the plain at Poona. His lordship
has prohibited regimental balls being given, as he
justly considers them the fruitful source of indebted-
ness to the officers, the cost of these often amounting
to from 151. to 201. to each gentleman present with
the corps. Lord Frederick secs no objection to sub-
scription and station balls, the cost of which falls
light on each subscriber, and is said to have headed
one list himself for a ball, shortly to come off. The
commander-in-chief will, it is reported, make a grand
tour of inspection after the close of the rains; if he
does, he will rather astonish some of the folks at the
stations he visits—or, perhaps, it is more correct to
say, he will be astonished by them. The official
rank of lieutenant has been conferred on Mr. Scri-
vener, the superintendent of European schools in this
presidency. The news of the loss of the mail of 24th
June will have reached you long ere this does ; the
badness of the arrangements for the transmission of
our mails has at length aroused the good people
of Bombay, and a public meeting has been
called for Saturday next, to see and have
matters mended by some means or other. The
way in which we have been used by the honourable
company in mail matters has been disgraceful in the
extreme, and it is high time their conveyance should
be taken out of their hands and given to some other
oompany not honourable, but which will honestly
perform the work for which they are paid. The
vessels of the Indian navy fit to carry mails have
dwindled down to two—the Feroze and the Acbar,
and the former is away on service in Butmah. Mr.
Robertson, assistant collector of customs, and Major
&obi ,e 29th Native Infantry, proceed to Men by
this day's steamer, to inquire into the cause of a very
large deficiency said to exist in the Treasury under
the charge of the political agent there. The Penin-
snlar and Oriental Company has been allowed 1,6001.
for the conveyance of two mails from Aden to Bom-
bay and once vice versa. 2,4001.-had been claimed.
Captain Rudd, sth Native Infantry, has retired from
the service; as also has Captain Treasure, of the
11th Native Infantry, and Captain Belleau, of the
24th. Mr. W. Brookfield was on the Ist inst. sworn
into office as clerk of the Insolvent Court, and Mr.
A. Remington as puisne judge sadder adawlut, in
'which he had for some time been acting. During
the month of July 1,154 deaths took place in Bom-
bay, of which 17 were from amongst the European
community. Dr. Ramsay died at Poona on the 13th
inst.

Mr. Henry Young, collector of customs, now on
sick leave at the Cape, has quite recovered, and
intends returning to his duty by the ship Owen
Glendower. The ltajah of Dhoar quitted Poona for
Ahmednuggar on the 30th July, under a salute : his
Highness does not, after all, it seems, intend paying
a visit to the presidency—at ell events not for the
present. A weekly newspaper, to be called the
Oriental News, is to be commenced on the 4th inst.
Dr. Green, who arrived at Bombay on the 31st July,
sent out to superintend the construction of the
electric telegraph, has opened an office in the fort,
and taken a number of boys from the Byculla School
into training. Sir G. R. Clerk is again set down as
oar future governor. Nearly all the secretaries
are at present at Dapoorio with the governor, and
something very mysterious and important appears
Ito be engaging the attention of the government.
Mr. Luars has not been restored to the service as
every one believes he was ordered to be, the reason
why my Lord Falkland alone can tell. The founda-
tion stone of a steam engine for the Colaba Press
Company was laid on the 4th August, in the pre-
sence of John Parsons, Esq., the chairman, and the
directors of the company; Mr. D. Campbell, the
engineer, delivered a neat and appropriate speech on
the occasion. Surgeon Nicholson, of the 6th Native
Infantry, who was tried at Hyderabad on a charge
of having been drunk when called to visit a sick
child, has been honourably acquitted of the charge,
and those who preferred it been virtually repre-
mended by the Commander-in-Chief. Capt. 'Murray,

83rd foot, is to command the Queen's depot atat Ker.
rachee till the arrival of Colonel Wellesley at that
station. The 64th foot is to go to Be!gain. their
place in Scinde to be taken by the 2nd European
Light Infantry. The wings of the let Fusiliers at
Aden and Bombay are to change station.. Lisa.
tenant G. L. Mille, 14th Native lowan-, is
about to be posted to the Mulwa Contiligent.
The court which tried Major Ottley at the Neil-
gherries has, I observe, been ordered to re-assemble,
most probably to revise finding or sentence. Then)
has been much squabbling of late betwixt the bench
of justices, and the Board of Conservancy, as to the
advisability of allowing newspaper reporters to be
present at the meetings, and have access to ail the
records of these bodies. Mr. John Connors, the pro.
prietor of the Gazette, stood up manfully, and in true
English style, for the right* of his cloth, and has
gained the day, it being ruled by the bench that re.
presentative* of the press were entitled to ho present
at all meetings of public bodies, &c. The Bombay
Steam Navigation Company has declared a dividend
of 5 per cent. ow its reduced capitaL The young
man Ballaram Gunput, whose conversion and bap.
tism by the Rev. Mr. Price, a few months back,
caused such a stir amongst the native community, a
fortnight since, took it into his head to join the ranks
of the Faithful, and was accordingly publicly admitted
as a follower of Mahomed. A few days afterwards
he committed suicide by swallowing a large
quantity of arsenic. Surgeon Gillundere has
been appointed to medical charge, Ist Grena-
diers, and Assistant-Surgeon Gilbert to that of 2lth
Native Infantry. Up to date we have only had
about 573 inches of rain, and fears are entertained of
a defective monsoon. Business has partially re.
opened since 18th inet., and the port is in some mea-
sure open, as boats are beginning to quit the barbour
for the coast. Money continues ahead ott. Freights
have fluctuated greatly: to London they are now
quoted at 31., to Liverpool 2s. 6d. higher; wbile for
Australia 5/. to 71. a ton is obtainable.