The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

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we banelot: "It is said mot Ise tkaa thirty lskbs
in bills have been r. tur,,e4 m C,11144,141M1C1P of Raja
and Irving's stoppage." We have since been informed
that a very small amount of bills have yet oome back ac-
cepted by Kelm. Reid, Irving and Co., and that though a
considerable amount will be returned within the neat ten
month., t►ers ars cenfident bogs" that no material low wi.l
eventally fall upon Calcutta.
Advice' from Hong-Kong are tothe 30th of October.
The P. and 0. at. Lady Mary Wood had arrived late
on the 17th of that month, with the mail of the
24th of August, from London.
At Canton all remained quiet. Sir John Davis had
left Hong-Kong in 1.1.M.'s steamer Vulture, on the Sib
inst., for Cochin China, on a special minion to that
court, accompanied by ll.M.'s ship Ringdove, and
only returned just before the departure of the mail.
Sir John had not succeeded in obtaining en interview
with the King of Cochin China, or admission to the
capital, Hue (about 1 I miles up the river), but nothing
could exceed the civility and attention, amounting al-
most to servility, shown to him by all the high au-
thorities. They were evidently under great alarm,
the cruet treatment of the French in April last being
fresh in their recollection.

His excellency spent seventeen days in endeavour-
ing to open negotiations. It must be observed, how-
ever, that it was the wet season on that coast ; the
country around was inundated, and during the whole
of the time the rain continued excessive. On the
23rd a typhoon was experienced, and Sir John and
Captain Macdougal were driven on shorn in their
boats, which afforded an opportunity to the manda-
rins for renewing their attentions, and supplying
them with every means of accommodation on shore.
Rear-Admiral Inglefield had sailed from Hon,r
Kong in her Majesty's ship Vernon, on the 20th of
October, for Manilla and the Straits. The old garri-
son, the 18th Royal Irish and the 42nd Madras Ns-
tive Infantry, were to embark early in November for

The markets for imports had been doll at Canton
daring the month of October, and the prices of most
of the staple articles had either receded or were
quite nominal, from the difficulty of effecting
sales except in barter. Money was becoming scarce,
and the rate of interest high. Teas had advanced in
price during the month about two taels on congous.
Green teas were arriving, and high prices paid in
consequence of short supply. Several ships bud left
since the 20th of October. The export of teas from
China to Great Britain from the let of July to the
date of the mail was black, 18,227,7101 be.;
green, 1,136,9601b5. ; total, 19,364,6701b5. The
export of silk would amount to 10,500 bales
' on the 30th; but it meta be borne in mind that neatly
all the fine silk will have been shipped cff front
Shanghae, whilst at the same time last year there re-
mained a large supply. The Canton market was bare.
and none was expected there from the interior.
Exchange on London was 4s. 4d. to 4s. 40. at six
months' sight ; East India Company's bills accepted,
214 to 2141. Freights, 51., with plenty of tonnage.
Our latest date from Shanghae is the 18th of Oct.
The market for imports was depressed. Freights
were 61. 10s. for tea, 71. for silk. _

From Amoy we have dates to the 22nd of October.
The intelligence was much to the same effect. The
market was deprt ss..d. and prices had given way.
The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times :

The cold season, without some hostile military move-
ment of magnitude in progress or in prospect., is in India
one of the most unusual of phenomena. At present all
around us is peace and contentment, without the whisper
of an intended expedition, or the shadow of a prospect
of hcstilities.—A further reduction of 60 men each
regiment on 150 native infantry corps curtails our muster
roll by 7,000 to 8.000, and reduces our expenditure by
some 60,0001. a year, yet leaving our army stronger by
46,000 in men, and needy 900 in officers, than it was
ten years since.—ln Scinde everything is trarquil, there
having beea no more forays on the border, sad the
troops healthy. The harvest has been a poor one, from
the scantiness of the inundation. Mr. Pelagic continues
at Kurrachee. where Mr. Clerk, Governor of Bombay,
and staff join him in the end of December.—The Panjaub
pre video us with no intelligence: all is quietneits, order,
and content. the sum of 110,0001., in old Sikh ropers,
has just arrived et Bombay, for the purpose of being
coined.—The governor-general received a farewell din-
ner at Simla on the 26th October, where he shortly
explained the policy he had pursued, and the position
in which we now stood. He pointed oat that now we
had no enemies to apprehend or combat with, and the pros-
pect of a long continued peace lay before us. His lordship is
at present at Lucknow there seems every reason to believe
that there will be no attempt made to invade the preroga-
tives either of the Nizam of the Deccan or King of Oudh—
that in fact we will hereafter devote to our own interests and
affairs a portion of that energy and attention we have here-
tofore so unnecessarily and unsatisfactorily bestowed on
those of our neighbours. It seems not unlikely th•it in both
cases some such system as that obtaining i■ the Punjauts
win be resorted to. It surely is far wiser that we should
teach the native chiefs to manage their own affairs
I with discretion and integrity than to strip them of power,
and degrade them, taking additional and superfluous bur-
' thens on our own already overloaded shoulders.—Matters
are settling down in the Goomsoor country.—The Madre'
journals continue to abuse the administration of the Marquis
of Tweeddale with equal energy and unanimity. His lord-
I ship's family have arrived at the seat of government. The
' rumour that the steamer Cleopatra, believed to have foundered
in the hurricane of the 18th April, was unseaworthy when she
left, seems to be without foundation. The Indus steamer,
stranded off Din, has betrom,• a trtal wreck. —A vbdeet storm
of wind and rain occurred all over Western India during the
first week of November as the Madras wet season set in. We
have generally unsettled weather for a few days at this pe-
riod of the year—such an occurrence as the present is almost'
unexampled. Rain during the fair season is a sad annoy-
ance to those who live in tents or in slightly thatched habi-
tations, through which it penetrates. Since the 7th we have
had cool, refesbing breezes, and a cloudless sky. The
Governor of Bombay leaves the hills to-day, and, taking I
boat at Mahar, visits the harbour of V.ziadroog on his way
down. He is expected here about the end of the week, and
visits Sciade sn December, The commender.in-chief has
gone from Poonah to Ahmednugger ; the bishop is on a vi-
sitation to Knrrachee.

The following casualties by death in the armies of
India since the departure of the mail of the lst of
November are reported in the Indian papers:
Her Majesty's Troops —En,ign Melloath, 25th Foot, at
Cananore, on the 23rd of October.
Bengal•—Lieutenant J. Eiltesrds, 30th Regiment, Adju-
tant of the 2ud Regiment Frontier Brigade, at Kangra, oat
the 20th of October; Lieutenant J. M. Swinton, 53rd Regi-
ment, at Chunar, on the 28th of October; Surgeon R.
.u•lntoeh, 424 d Regiment, at Delhi, on the 31st of October.