The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-23 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'Cvock.
INDIA.

OVERLAND MAIL.

(From the Morning Herald.)

We have jest received, by Extraordinary Ex-
press, the Calcutta mail of the Bth of December,
with papers from Bombay of the 15th of December ;
Madras, 18th December; and China 26th of No-
vember. The intelligence from Calcutta, Madras, and
China, is unimportant. A summary of the news from
Bombay we subjoin_

(From the Bombay Times of Dec. 15.)
The late arrival of the two last mails from England has
thrown our publishing arrangements into confusion. The I
dispatch of the steamer of the lot of December was deferred
to the 2nd, in hopes that the disp itches from Englend of the
24th of October, whets ought to have been here in 35 days
at the longest, would be in time for a reply. They
did not reach till the 7th, a eaccession of *ad-
dents having kept them ten days behind their
time. The mail of the 7th of November had not been
signalled when we went to press (four, a.m.,lsth December).
The news of the past fortnight continues in the main unim-
portant. The Pianjaub remains tranquil, and the British
army it is said will march in the course of the present week
from Lahore. It is rumoured that it will make a halt some
march or two from the capital, to watch the immediate results
of its retirement, before falling hack on Ferozepore. It is pro-
bable that for some time to come a strong force will be main-
tained at our principal frontier stations. Just as it was sup-
posed the most satisfactory conclusion had been atf aieed, ft
n stated that unquestionable evidence has transpired of there
having been an underatanding betwixt the Rajah Tall Singh,
Wuzeer at Lahore, and Sheikh Emaum-nod-deen, the
Cashmerian insurgent leader with the purples of
keeping Goolah Singh from t acing possession of his new
dominion. Should this prove well grounded, it win
materially affect the concluding portion of our arrangements.
The proposed fair in the Jullundur Doab appears to have
turned out • failure. Lord Hardingo is still within our
lately acquired dominions, in progress to the westward.—
Lord Gough has by this time lett Simla for Umballa,
not intending at present to visit the Jullundur Doab. The
lieutenant-governor of the north-west provinces was last
heard of at Nusseerabad, in progress to Ajmere. Sir
George Pollock has returned from the Cape to Calcutta,
and the legislative council of India., dormant during
his absence, as once more in a state of activity. Some
most extraordinary iostances of gambling in opium
have occurred in the course of the month. The Bom-
bay bargains are usuct.y n_ade c,,ntiugeutly on Cal-
cutta quotations of the government sales. To raise these,
rival speculators bid till 13.0001. was offered for chests
usually disposed of for 1591., the bidding being so
arranged that no male could be effected that day. Govern-
meet have made it a subject of special notification, and large
fortunes depend on the results. A hurricane of unusual
violence, by which much lose has been occasioned to the
shippieg interests, occurred at Madras on the 25th November.
Similar visitations at this season of the year are fre-
quent on the eastern side of India, from Calcutta
to the line; they are almost unknown in the Arabian
sea, on the western shore of the Peninsula. The
celebrated slave girl Mangle, of Lahore, and Rajah
Reerah Singh. brother of the Ranee, are now in our terri-
tories, on a pilgrimage to Ben Iftß, to bathe themselves in
the waters of the holy Ganges; as is also, we believe,
the Maharajah of Nepaul. No authentic intelligence
has as yet been received as to who is likely to be Go-
vernor of Bombay; Lord Dalhousie and Lord Elgin
are both spoken of, the former with considerable con-
fidence. The lion. Mr. Reid, acting governor, hoe re-
turned with his family from K andallah, and has been at Patell
since the 29th ult. Considerable sickness prevails in dif-
ferent parts of the country, though not of a very fatal kind.
The weather is becoming cool and pleasant.
Casualties by death in the armies of India reported
since the departure of the mail of 2nd December :
Madras—Lieutenant A. Clerk, Bth Regiment, at Kale-
pore, on the 2nd December. Lieutenant R. Taylor, 49th
Regiment, at Madras, on the 22nd November, Lieutenant
W. R. Studdy, 15th Regiment, accidentally killed, at Can-
emote, on the 18th November. Ensign Clint, 9th Regi
meet, accidentally drowned at Hareptee.
Bengal—Captain IL Walker, Invalids, at Ape, on the
17th of November. Captain C. H. R. Christie, Pith cavalry,
at Mozufferpore, on the 29th of October. Lieut.-Coined
W.
W. H. Earle, 39th Regiment, at Berhampore, on the L$
of November,

THE. BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the CUmber eJ Comilowre Orerlasd PritV Curren I.)
6.1144 T, Use. 13.—The dulness which prevailed in oar import
market at the elate dour bat brine h m continued unabated through-
out the fortnight TM Uncertainty as to the regale of the Cnleutta
°Pr= sale, which tbsminterrupted all legitimate business, can warmly,
Yet be said to be removed. The annexed extract from the Ca/rutin
Mar of December 1, will show the natute of the measures adopted be
the "sellers for account" in the opium time-bargains, to defeat the
operations of their opponents, and erred the propose of the govern-
ment sale. How far, hi...e'er, the wpm,a• of their plan mar
+etmpllsh the object contemplated and be lexully sufficient to quash
lew time-bargains in which thee were involved. Sr,re to b, a matter
of doubt, involving legal questions of no rruall difficulty, and which