The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-30 00:00:00

INDIA.

An extraordinary express from Marseilles has
brought news (received at that port by the Ariel from
Alexandria direct) from India, which has arrived in
anticipation of Lieut. Waghorn's dispatches by way
of Trieste, and the ordinary Overland Mail. The
Atalanta left Bombay on let Oct., and reached Suez
on the 19th with the following passengers :
Mrs. Shortt, Mrs. Dr. Bradley and child, Mrs. C. Stewart
and two children, Mrs. M. A. Arnott and three children,
Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Gordon and two children. Mrs. Pember-
ton and two children, Mrs. Coghlan and two children, Mrs.
Del lloqte, Mrs. Adams and two children; Major J. M.
Shorn, G. L. Farrant, Esq., A. Elphinston, Esq., Mr. H.
Esshaw, Rev. Mr. Pemberton, J. S. Davidson, Esq , Lieut.
Adams, Lieut. G. Leslie, Col. J. Shirref, Lieut J. E. Taylor,
Captain Shawe, Dr. W. Leggett, Dr. D. Buddo, Mrs. Eagan,
and M. F. Trueman.

Upon this occasion the rival routes :I'4 Marseilles
and Trieste have been fairly tried, and the former
Shown to have a d cidcd advantage. For the follow-
ing we are indebted to the columns of the Morning
Ifrraid :
The intelligence brought by this opportunity is not
of much political importance.

In the present state of India. we naturally advert,
in the first instance, to the condition of affairs in the
Punjaub, and there we find that everything remained
quiet, though apprehension was increasing, as the
time approached for the evacuation of Lahore by the
British troops. The army of occupation was to move
early
iin the cold season, to relieve the trcops at pre-
sent n the Jullundur Doab, when the Durbar would
be left to its own resources. It was generally
thought that it would be able to maintain itself
without the support of a British force, but
that in all human probability, ere many months,
British intervention would be again evoked.
The pacific policy which Lord Hardinge has
proclaimed, is a sufficient guarantee against further
hostility, unless tke security of our own frontier
should render it absolutely necessary. In that case
there will be an ample 'force under Sir John Littler,
between the Bess and the Sutlej, to overrun the
Punjaub in the course of a few days. The Chief of
Nlooltan had not visited Lahore, but his submission

was expected.
An insurrection had broken out in Cashmere,

headed by Emam-ood-decn, the son of a former
governor, fomented it was said bylhe Lahore Durbar.
A force sent against the insurgents by Gholab Singh
had been defeated with the loos of 400 men and all
his guns. Several English officers had been seized,
and would be detained as hostages, but no fears were
entertained for their safety. It was reported that the
hill chiefs had all risen against Gholab Singh, who
was taking active measures for reducing them to sub-
mission.

A rumour that a British army would invade Pesha-
war in the cold season had created considerable alarm
in Cabal, and it was rumoured that a treaty of alliance
would be proposed to the Governor-General.
We are sorry to find that cholera was still preva-
lent in Seinde, and that provisions were so scarce that
a famine was expected. Frauds of a most extensive
and mischievous nature, detected in the commissariat,
had called forth a general order from Sir Charles
Napier, in which he denounces each malpractices with
characteristic severity. Some inroads on the frontier
bad been made by the hillmen, and numerous rob-
beries had been committed in the upTer country ; but
these were matters of such ordinary occurrence as not
to be considered worthy of special notice. It was'
believed at Bombay drat Scinde would be imme-
diately incorporated with that presidency, and relieved
of an independent government and half its army, and
that Sir C. Napier had made his arrangements for re-
turning to England. The Belooch battalion and the
Scinde horse have been attached to the Bombay army,
and it was expected that the 60th Rifles would go to
Bengal, and that the 17th Reg. would be ordered to
this country.
At Bombay itself matters were dull, and commercial
transactions were on a very limited scale. The mon-
soon had been a favourable one, and abundance would
be the result; but fears were entertained that the
price of provisions would be kept up, by a monopoly
among the grain merchants, all over the country. It
was proposed to establish a joint stock company,
European and Native, in order to counteract the
operations of these parties, and thus diminish or
modify the oppression to which they give rise.
There is nothing of interest to report from Calcutta.
Money was plentiful, bat business was suspended, in
anticipation of the Doorgah Poojah, which was to
co-nmence in a few days. An arrival from Muscat
bad brought intelligence of the death of the Rev. T.
Brockman, an agent of the Royal Geographical
Society, who sunk under an attack of fever at Wadi
Beni Jabar, in Arabia. The American ship ArraTon
had been totally lost at the Sand-heads, crew saved.

(From the Bombay Times, Oct. 1.)
Each succeeding mail makes us, as it must make the Eng-
lish reader, aware, that under a thoroughly peaceful Ad-
ministration there is, in the regions of non-intelligence, be-
neath ',he lowest deep, a lower still. We are this month
altogether devoid of subjects for relation, though not with-
out abundance for discuasion. Throe on which diversity of
opinio.i must occur are excluded from that portion of our
paper devotni to narrative, and which thereby becomes
nearly a Ulan}. India at larpe is tranquil, and the general
peace extends to each individual province, whether of old
or recent acquisition. The cool season has set in in Scinde,
and the climate at present seems not only healthy but
agreeable. The natives continue to suffer from extreme
dearth and scarcity of provisions. No reduction of the
amount of troops on the Indus has yet occurred, and the
rumours regarding it have been transformed into whispers
of fresh mli.ary movements. These are understood to
originate at Kurachee, and'to be disseminated to mislead as
to the great political changes now rapidly approaching.
Some robberies have occurred at Sukkur, and inroads of
small magnitude been made on the bonier. Our troops
continue pretty healthy at Lahore and in the Punjaub—the
Oovernnr-General taking pains to make the highly peaceful
nature of his policy, and his determ'ned aversion to war, be
understood.
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It is somewhat singular, that while assurances of the re-
solute determination of the Governor-General to maintsin
peace throughout the British dominions reach us from the
beet informed men at head-quarters, and wlrle all existing
appearances bear out the general belief, reports seem sedu-
lously scattered around Kurachee of movements to the
north—of a march on Babawulpore, or foray over the fron-
tier—a little war somewhere, just to show that a vast army
is indispensable in Scinde, and leaving it to be inferred that
when troops are in the field the presence of the Governor
is indispensable.
It is understood that an order has been issued from the su-
preme government for the suspension of the construction of
public works on the Indus. The Scinde horse and Belooch '
battalions, both a sort of independent corps, have been in-
corporated with the Bombay army. It must be recollected
that there is scarcely a single Seindian in either corps,
though their designations would lead to the inference that
they were composed of natives of the country. An addi-
tional battalion of the first named of the two is at present
being raised in the Deccan.
Swindling to a moat alarming extent is said to have been
discovered in those supplying the troops with meat, false
weights and improper steelyards having been made use of
for the purposes of fraud. The bakers who supplied the
bread, again, appear to have been partly paid in grain
from the Government stores, higher prices having been
charged for this than those current in the market; on both
points severe general orders have been issued by Sir C.
Napier. It is said, that singular countervailing discoveries
have been made, so that the parties presently inculpated
may prove innocent, and the blame be further forwaried to
other shoulders.

Lieutenant Balfour, of the Indian navy, had lately been
engaged in examining the channel between Gisree Bander
and the Indus. His report is favourable ; and should,
the anticipations expressed in it be realised, the advan-
tages of having this line of communication, which could be
maintained throughout the year, opened up, would be very
great indeed.
Vast flights of locusts had made their appearance in the
neighbouring province of Lus, but happily had not visited
Scinde.

A general order had been published on the subject of the
relative precedence of the different denominations of the
Company's and the Queen's trcopn, the a. itotion of which
had occasioned many heart-burnings and much misunder-
standing. At the funeral of the late Captain Joh Napier,
the Hon. Colonel Dundee, commanding her Majesty's 60th,
had given this corps the precedence of Captain Howland's
troop of Horse Artillery, and, the irregularity being pointed
out, he insisted that the royal army of all arms should en all
occasions take the post of honour. Singularly enough, a
thing so perfectly well established by a long series of general
orders embodied in every military code for half a century,
was order,
on from hand to bend to the Commander-in-
Chief of all India ; the Commander of the Forces in Sande,
and the Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, being equally

competent to dispose of it, by simple refeience toregula-
tions. According to these, Horse Artillery, whether Com-
pany's or Queen's, take precedence of Dragoons, and Foot
Artillery of Infantry, so that had Dragoons and Foot
Artillery been present, her Majesty's 60th would have
been placed three steps above the place they were entitled
to have occupied in relation to the Horse Artillery.
A good deal of truckling and temporising has unhap-
pily made its appearance, and an infinity of ill-blood
has been generated. The HouJarable Colonel Dundas,
through whose ignorance of rule and intemperateness
of disposition all this has arisen, has, in consequence,
it is understood, of family connexions and public in-
fluence, escaped without censure. The Bombay go-
vernment, impressed with the monstrousness of permitting
the harmony which ought to exist amongst all divisions of
the service to be thus interrupted, has ordered the whole
correspondence to be sent home. It is to be hoped that there
so gross a breach of discipline will be more strictly dealt with
than it has been in India.
The intelligence contained in our last, of the arrival of the
Chief of Moulton at Lahore, turns out to be unfounded. He
has not as yet been prevailed on to come in, nor is it likely
be will readily permit himself to be so without an abundant
guarantee from us for his safety. The report arose from the
circumstance of another delinquent of the same name, but
lesser note, having come in to make his peace with the
Durbar. The origin of the report formerly given, and con-
tradicted, of the death of Rajah Lal Singh, is easily explained.
Debate had waxed so warm in council that Heera Singh and
the Wuzeer drew swords, and would have slain each other
but for the interference of others. The past fortnight sup-
plies not one syllable in the shape of news. The
troops continue quiet and healthy near the Sikh capital,
prepared to retire the moment the prescribed term of
occupation expires. Lord Hardinge will possibly about
this time have started on his tour of inspection through
the states on our new frontier. Though notably
quiet and uncommunicative, he has never manifested the
slightest wish to conceal or mystify, and is peculiarly frank
and communicate as to the policy he has determided to pur-
sue. He means minutely to maintain the peace and insist
on having it maintained; to give uo countenance to ru-
mours of imagined or impending war. He is ansiou, appa-
rently, to tranquillize and calm the public mind ; to impress
it on the community that the functions of a Goveruor—the
duties of a people—are peaceful : that he entertains no ap-
prehension of the weakness of the vast empire he rules, or
the strength of its enemies ; that he will be the last to draw
the sword—the last to sheath it after it has been drawn,