The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-16 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

By our usual express in anticipation of the Over-
land Mail, we have advice' dated Bombay, May 14;
Calcutta, May 3; Madre, May 9; Singapore, May
3 ; Hong Kong, April 24.
The following la the summary of tho Bombay
Times :

The Oovernor•Oeneral was expected at Skala on the 12th
whither Sir W. Gomm had ' ' him: tho Com-

May, *.
...uef will, it is mid, make Simla his place of
abode during the term of his service. Mr. Thornisou,
Governor of the North West Provinces, and Mr. J. Law-
rence, member of the Lahore Board of Administration, had
also arrived at the Hills, and multitudes were crowding
from the plains in quest of a cooler temperature.—The
report of the Post.ofßee Commirioners is now in the bands
of the Governor-General, the commissioners themselves,

after the lapse of a twelvemonth, dispersed: the noble
niarquis is said to have been armed with ample
powers to deal with the question, all the leading
facts connected with which have long been familiar
to the home authorities.—Accounts have been received

of the destruction by fire near Penang of the
ship Ardaseer, of Bombay ; on this occasion the conflagration
seems to have been accidental; there seems scarcely any
doubt that the destructiou of the Buckinghamshire and
Kurramany, both of which perished by fire during the past
six months in the Hooghly, was the work of incendiaries,
The Nuwab of Jhujhur, near Delhi, has broken through
the time-honoured custom of Indian nobles, of leaving all
business to their ministers and dependants, and is creditably
endeavouring to manage his immense estates himself. Ono
of the consequences is, that the parties thus thrown out of
power have raised a clamour of oppression and tyranny,
complaints arc made by the Jhujhur ryots of ill-usage, and
already have many arrived at the gates of the Governor-
General's agent with their complaints; when the estates
were under the government of a parcel of dependants and
agents, all appeared to go as smooth as a marriage bell. The
slide of the weather becomes at this season of the year
we of the most interesting topics of discussion; the atnia-
spheric perturbation all over India seems to have commenced
on the 17th of April, and matters are not likely to resume
their wonted serenity till after the monsoon. A violent
hailstorm had visited Meerut on the 28th of March, the
hailstones being the size of pigeons' eggs. On the 17th of
April, Delhi, Meerut, and the districts around, were visited
by a furious storm of thunder, lightning, rain and hail ; on
the same day a heavy shower of rain, accompanied by hail,
occurred at Hyderabad, in Sciatic, and a heavy shower fell
at Simla. The intense heat which had prevailed since
the end of March seems to have terminated when the
storms began; heavy showers began W pour down
all over Lower Bengal about the 23rd, and so con-
tinued for a week, the spring sowings having gone on
rapidly and cheeringly. On this occasion a violent hail-
storm visited Calcutta; no great damage, however, was oc-
casioned by it. Hail fell at Secunderabad on the 11th
April and 2nd May ; and on the 22nd April a hailstorm of
terrific violence occurred at Rungpore, near Calcutta, the
hailstones being as large as ducks' eggs. Nearly all the
fruit in the districts, hundreds of house., and a great num-
ber of trees were destroyed by it. On the 6th and 6th of
May showers and squalls prevailed all over Western India,
the barometer at Bombay having sunk so low as to lead to
the inference that there must have been a hurricane then
prevailing within SOO or 1,000 miles of us. The Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of Madras are at that Presidency;
the Commander-in-Chief of Bombay is at Mahabuleshwur.

The governor has been at the Presidency since the
27th ; he leaves in a few days for the hills, from
whence the whole aristocratic occupants of those
lofty regione will move to l'oonah a fortnight hence.—Dr.
Coburn, deputy assay master, Madras,:is expected at Hom-
iny, to assume temporary charge of the deputy assay mas-
tership, on the 22nd, displacing Dr. Coles, by whom the
acting appointment has been held since the 17th of April.—
The mail of the 7th April reached Bombay on the 4th May,
bringing replies to letters of the 3rd March, which had
reached London on the 2nd April : on the 4th April the
mail of the 7th March reached us, the shortness of the
month of February having alone on this occasion deprived
us of return of poet. Within the past ten months we have
received four mails from London under 28 days ; that of
the 4th May, 1840, reached us in 27 days 16 hours, the
23rd January in 25 days 17 hours, the 4th April, 1851, in
27 days 12 hours, and the 4th May in 26 days 11 hours. A
few years since, 31 days were considered the average of our
rapid transits, and the mails were determined to be
despatched from India on the 3rd, from London
on the 7th of each month, so as to secure return of
poet from England on all ordinary occasions—return both
ways was never dreamt of. From returns just published in
the Bombay Times, it appears that we have four steamers
which in forty-eight voyages—all they have for the past 1112
years performed—afforded average transits of u little over
29 days, occasional transits under 28, very few ever exceed.
ing 30 at the outside; so that, with the saving of a very
few hours on the whole line, we might have return of post
fur two-thirds of the year both ways.—Mr Mead, who fore
merly conducted the Madras Atheniewn, and has beau for a
twelvemonth conductor of the Delhi Gazette, has quitted
the latter paper to resume charge of the former, the con-
ductor
of which, Mr. Bruce, retiree from the service. Mr.
Sanders has taken charge of the Delhi Uazelle, and the
paper promises to be conducted with ability—it has
always been one of the most respectable and best
infurtned of our Indian journals. The Wheel Tax
Fraud Commission has closed its labours : the
only results likely to arise from these will be the dismissal
of a few native employis, the disclosure of the loss of
3,0001. to the public by the frauds of parties unknown, and
the exposure of an amount of laxity in business matters on
the part of various public servants of distinction almost in-
credible: on their part there is no evidence of fraud or 11l
intention of any sort, hut a sad exhibition of lack of discre-
tion. The robbers who plundered the Oriental Bank throe
months since have been discovered. On the evening of
Saturday, the Bth February, the head native cash keeper
stated that he counted the money, amounting to about
12,0001., of which '3,5001. were notes of the Bombay Bank.
They were locked up in the safe in the strong room as usual,
the Up being taken charge of by the European assistant
tommarer, who saw that the boxes were all in the
sera, but had no responsibility for their contents. Oa
morning, at ten o'clock, when the lank was
She notes were found wanting—the other cosh was
leeks were all found fast and right, and the keys
M disk proper places, with no appearance of either Lavin
Wm %Wm* with. The numbers of the notes were hip
nallablredeeetleed—the notes themselves were desired*
be stopped, whoa a panic arose, a run on the bank was
threatened, mad an iutimation was issued that all notes
would be NAM as usual—the Oriental Bank running the
risk of the Ism Suspicion attached to the native em-
yis: the bead cash keeper was dismissed, and Dorabjee
a Pamee also, in whom the utmost confidence
WM ted for a time to act in his stead. For
twe ninths =ore no clue to the robbery could lie dil-
emma, At last the emerkeres of the pollee got on
the leall: it was espouse to them that Dorabjee
Wsass bank setae ha~
_to dives of—an
ialliallew with him was ives4 whoa he said ,
that a party with whom he was eapalated was ,
pewersd et a esaidatable mewed et seise, of 'Odds be '
wi ge emit. Alter seems babes anewpwaseis, it '
wasewed fist the yenta who had awned the sheresaar
et means ad= dwell lying sash with lima to Ltssehlen
Iwlaereagorate would be emanded: Ms was
dose, whoa the amiss were Mai in his
rier lo
ll atone sesusod. sad is now in c , the
peat balk stele slots* sads ha been veneered, mad the
whale eisamelmee stew Minty are likely very
to bees= Mews. Dent is ainsmaoferntryY,
wad ostler Me he Iles , no
easpleisa ever he a =smut easing I. kin. For some
inmiths he hes bias Wag ilnei, sad entering into
' hawse haildies spesuistiens mit bsyid say money he
add hely law sae blyl, the resift imam manifest, his
spat hes boa esiabYrlM, saddest et sans will soon be
liftWilki. Ai MS lir haelewie, the Perms lave generally
berm the alley ighest ellawanict aseswest as, the present
mishap h alteiether oassesesstablo.

(For arreksis ate last per.]

MILITARY LNTELLIORSCE.

CALMAT:MD by death in the =Well of India, reported
since the departure of the mail an the 3rd of May. Bom-
bay Ts—Ensign A. G. Taw's, 26th N. 1., at Neemuch,
on the 6th of May. Bengal Troops—Major K. Campbell,
46th N. L. at Lahore, on the —.
Arrow/Mann, Fisomovioxii, die., &c. Es urn NIA-
/LITT'S Tioors, announced since dispatch of the last
Overland Mail, on the 3rd of May.—lnfantry--61st regt.
Lieut. T. Oabbert has obtained leave of absence to the
Murree Hills from 17th April to 15th Oct., on medical c er-
ti9cate.-75th do. Major E. Hickey and Lieut. A. S. Craig
have obtained leave of absence to Simla on medical certill:
tate, the former from 2nd May to 4th August, and the
latter from Ist May to 31st Oct.-78th do. (Highlanders)
Lieut. Macpherson, at the recommendation of a board of
medical coers, has obtained leave of absence for two years
to England from the date of embarkation at Aden.-86th
is. Lieut. Leet has obtained leave of absence on medical
certificate for two years to England, subject to the tear
mation of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in In-
dia. Captain Rawlins bas obtained leave of absence from
Ist May to 31st. Sept., to Belgaum on private affairs-96th
do. Lieut. T. W. Fellows has obtained leave of absence to
Simla from 13th May to 30th Sept.-98th do. Captain T.
H. Crawford has obtained leave of absence from 27th March
to 31st July, to enable hint to join.

CHINA AND THE INDIAN
ARCHIPELAGO.

The summary of the Orerlond liived of China,
dated Victoria, April 24, is as follows:

The disarrangement of trade in Southern China, conse-
quent upon continued terbelence in the Hwang-si and
Kwarsif-teng provi is now become of such magnitude
that the period appealseem, to hare arrived when it is necessary
for the representatives of foreign pewees resident in this
country to eater upon some correspondeace with the impe-
rial government upon the subject.
We mast judge of the orriousnese of the rebellion more
by the oonseqeences entailed than from the uncertain re-
ports from time to time reaching us. There are not many
in China who pores either the mesas or the inclination to
seek oat what is going en around them in the adjacent pro-
vinces ; and one of the great difficulties in arriving at the
actual state of things is the continued exaggeration of the
informants who bring that news principally which is
thought will most please the hearer, leaving truth to find its
way through the mass in such proportion as the auditor has
the ability to sift it.