The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-18 00:00:00

Mate prisoners on their way from lteerhhonm to
Hazareebagh were roasted alive in the house in which
they had been locked up—the guard in charge went
away into the town of Covindporr, and during their
absence, by some means, the house took fire—the poor
wretches inside were manacled, and could not help
themselves, so they all perished in the Haws
The friends of the late Colonel Ogilvie—and they
embrace all who knew him—have resolved to meta
monument over his remains at Poona. Our non-
soon has proved an extremely favourable one as vat;
upwards of 30 inches of rain having already Olen.
During the past week it has been line, but we In,vo
again every appearance of wet weather. The mail
of the 24th May reached us on the 27th ult.; that
of the 7th June reached us nu the 2nd inst., in 24
days 13 hours from London—the quickest transit by
20 hours, on record.

A great number of deaths aro reported sines my
last. Mr. C. Tucker, Bengal C.S., one of the oidebt
members of the service, senior judge of the Caleima
Sudder Adawlut, on the 1/4th June; 1)r. A. Me.
Stuart, 24th 11.N.1., at Cherra Poonjee, on the rth
ult.; Lieut. J. It. Ciallwey, 12th M.N.1., at Mvs,,re,
on the 14th ; 1/r. A. Collins, at Lahore, on thelqih'
the Rev. Mr. Wollaston, London Nlis.ionaly Sotieh-
at Nlinutpore, on 10th; Captain D. R. I. Wade,
12th M.N.1., at Cochin, on the 17th; Mr. It. Temp-
ler, Ceylon C.S.; Mr. A. L. Melville, Bengal C.S.. at
Penang, on the 25th May ; Lieutenant W. F. Wil-
kinson, 21st 11.N.1., at Tannah, on the 2hh ult.;
Lieutenant and Riding-Master J. Randall, Bombay
Artillery ; Captain Cops, commander of the steamer
Enterprise ; Mr. J. H. Lakes, Mate 1.N., in Egypt,
on 11th April.
At Bombay there has been little of importance
stirring. Mr. Fenner, in command of the ;ma r
Falkland when she went down at sea. 1.,1
been tried and honourably acquitted of all 14:1c.,
not only so, but he, and his officers mod en-w,
have received the height of praise tOr their CO.:-
MSS and intrepidity on the occasion. The vessel was
too long by a third: in the swells or the s< a that
much of her was out of water and unsupported r..l,kh
caused her to break across the centre. Thus( isa..s

by Co tnntodoreLushinoon

rut together on the liank of the Indus at holm., hot
the exiwnse of doing so wns objected to: the
quence was, the company lost the first they attempted
to send up, which cost 15,0004 ! Splendid ceothany
this, Major P. K. Skinner has snectssled to the iso,t
of Judge Advocate General of the Bombay army.
Brigadier Foster Stalker, C. 11., now commanding in
ltajpootana, trill shortly, it is expected, he appoiatcd
to the general staff—in room, probably, of General
Auchmuty, whose tour on the stuff soon expires.
Captain J. Estridgc has been appointed garrison
engineer at Bombay, in succession to Crawthrd, ap-
pointed superintending engineer railway, &lull tucut.
The Rajah of Joonaghir, in Goozerat, died on the
Ifith Julie. His riches are said to be immense. He
will be succeeded by his brother, unless the story of
two of his queens being pregnant prove true : at
present it is believed to be untrue.
All hopes of prize money to the Punjaub army
may now, it is said, be thrown away, as the lawyers
at home are reported to have given it against them.
There may he plenty of law in their decision, but it
is questioned whether there be much justice. Sick-
ness has again made its appearance at Lahore.
Severe storms had occurred both here and ut tVuzeer-
abad and L'lnritsur, whereby houses and trees were
levelled with the ground. A clutch is about to be
eructed in the new cantonments at Mean Meer, near
the city of Lahore. At Peshawur the weather was
fearfully hot, and sickness (chiefly fevers and bowel-
complaints) very prevalent : the hospitals were filling
fast. All who could do so were flying to the hills to
escape the dreadful heat. Peshawur seems destined
to be the graveyard of thousands of Europeans, and
all because the doctors' recommendation in 1549, re-
garding the site for new cantonments, was not
attended to. Front Scinde we scarcely ever hear a
word: it is, as yet, tolerably free from ordinary sick-
ness, but, front cholera, numbers have died, both at
Kurrachee and Hydrabad.
Tlw (Montle Stqr thus writes on the subject of
affairs in the Deccan :

The only part of India which is not in perfect and cheer-
ing repose (not even &seeming our troublesome friends the
Alfreedies) is the Demi°, in which all continues to fall into
fearful anarchy, confusion, mud insolvency. The Arab troops
in his highness the Nizam's pay arc troublesome and mu-
tinous, his treasury empty from extravagance and misman-
agement, and his enunuous debt to the Company daily in-
creasing. The end must soon come, and it is rumoured
that the beginning of it is about to take place in the corn-
,pulsory cession of a large portion of his highness's heredi-
tary territory to the Company in liquidation of their just
claim upon him. This will be a temporary panacea for a
constitutiou superannuated and broken down, and a semi-
barbarous system of government, surrounded by compara-
tive civilisation and increasing prosperity and wealth, and
blessed with a great degree of security fur property and per-
son. The electric telegraph betwixt Calcutta and Kedgeree is
said to be in a fair way for early completion, and w ill, it is
supposed, be opened tor use in October nest. Several es-
teemed members of the European community have died
lately—Mr. Charles Tucker, senior judge of the Sadder
Court; Captain Alfred Cops, of the WC. steamer Enter-
prise; and Mrs. Mills, the wife of our chief magistrate.—
, Ihe rainy SV:IS011 has been long in arriving, but we believe
'it may now he considered to have fairly set in. It has been
pouring almost without intermission since last evening, and
looks likely to last.