The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY. Four o'clock.
OVERLAND FROM INDIA.
Accounts have arrived from India by express rio
Marseilles with news to the following dates : Bom-
bay, Nov. 16; Calcutta, Nov. 8 ; Madras, Nov. 13; and
Hong Kong, Oct. 30. The annexed is a list of the
Nasengers who proceeded to Suez from Bombay on
the 19th November, by the steamer Cleopatra:—
B. L. Jenkins, Esq., -Bombay Civil Service ; Lieutenant
8. Bashby, 33d Regiment Madras Native Infantry ; Liens.
T. C. Rigginson, her Majesty's 62d Regiment of Foot ; avid
C. J. Cromwell, Esq., merchant. To Aden—The Rev. G.
P. Badger and family.
The following is the list of passengers, per Lady
Mary Wood, who sailed on the 30th of October from
Hong Kong :
For England—Sir William Hoste, W. li. Medhurst, Esq.,
sad Captain G. Balfour. For Alexandria—E. Garrets, Esq.,
sad Bev. Joseph Gabet (2d ague).
For the following we are indebted to our morning
tentempo aies :
The news from the kingdom of Lahore and the new
kingdom of Jamoo represent them as both propped up
by the British troops. In Jamoo there are four armies
besides the troops of numerous mountain Rajahs. The
four armies are, first, thatof Gholab Singh, who is strug-
gling to obtain possession of his purchased sovereignty,
composed, as it is, of the most discordant materials;
second, the army (the strength of which is unknown)
of the Sheik Emauni-ood I)een, who, secure in the
vale of Cashmere, refuses to submit to Gholab; third,
the force under the Lahore general, Tej Singh, which
has gone on the (to them) most repugnant mission of
fighting for the traitor Gholab ; and, fourth, the two
British divisions commanded by Generals Littler and
Wheeler, who are in possession of Jamoo, the capital,
which they have undertaken to protect for Gholab
while ire himself is engaged in the field.
The position of Gholab is ludicrously critical. He
has no right or title to the sovereignty of the Hazarah
(or hill-country), save that he bought it from the
British, who were never in possession of it; and as he
is looked upon as a traitor by the Sikhs, and as an
infidel by the Mahomedans, he can have no hope, ex-
cept through his money (the spoils of Runjeet Singh's
treasury), and through the protection of the Bri-
tish. He has bought and paid for the Govern-
ment, but the hill tribes, who are Mahomedan,
refit! allegiance to him. The British authorities
cannot waste blood and treasure in putting him
in possession of mountain districts which he will not
be able to hold. He is 'aecoming daily more and
more embarrassed and indebted, and will have to
yield the rule of the newly acquired country to other
Petty sovereigns, who may, perhaps, pay him tribute
for a few seasons.
Sheik Emaum-ood-Deen, whose resources appear
not to be understood, has contrived by various shifts
to put off the day of surrender, until the snow
HI in November. The latest news from Sir John
Littler's force, which was encamped at Bukreewallah
Chat, on one side of the Chenab, and Brigadier
Wheeler on the other, is to the effect that they were
it disappointed of the non-surrender of the Sheik,
*eh ought to have been effected before the 30th,
be had not taken place. The united Lahore and
latish forces were delayed several days by heavy
Us.

The Governor-General has lately published extracts
from a dispatch of the Court of Directors, authorising
the erection of a column in Fort William, in com-
memoration of the late victories, and in honour of
those who fell during the campaign. Mai joiner is
to be encased, and otherwise ornamented, with metal
of the captured and surrendered Sikh guns.
Little more is known of the palace revolution at
Khatmandoo. The Maharanee and her party, to
whom the commotion gave the reins of government,
still continue to hold them, although it would ap-
pear that the Maharajah had at length ventured
from his hiding place. The lady, it seems, denies
having instigated the murder of the Choumatra Prime
Minister, his family, and party.
There is no other political news from Madras, but
the excitement consequent on the removal of the Sadder
judges had not passed away. An address, signed by
above 12,000 natives, protesting against the proceed-
ings of the executive, has been presented to one of
the displaced judges.
Sir Walter Scott, of her Majesty's 15th Hussars,
whose health had been in a most precarious state, was
rather improving.
The insurgent Polygar, in Cuddapab, whose cap-
ture was made known by the last mail, has, in his
confessions, implicated the leading men of the Nizam's
country as abettors of the revolt. This co-operation
on their part was before spoken of, but the best-
informed Europeans gave little credence to it, believing
that the Hyderabad government would scarcely run
the hazard of participation in a movement so impro-
bable of success. It does not appear that they were ,
suspected, even after the Polygar's aasertion, although
no doubt existed of his having the sympathy, at least,
of all the lawless spirits in the Deccan.
In the interior of India tranquillity prevails. The
Nizam's Government is undergoing a filvourable
change. He has at length named as Dewan, or
Minister, the native nobleman whom the British
Resident had previously proposed, but to whom the
Nizam had refused to grant powers. The new
minister is Sooraj-001-Moolk, and is described as'
being possessed of great administrative qualities.
From Bombay we learn that the new Chief justice,
Sir David Pollock, was sworn into office under a
salute of seventeen guns from the battery, on the fore-
noon of the 3rd of November, in presence of a nume-
rous assemblage of European and native gentlemen,
congregated to witness the ceremony. The whole pf
the gentlemen of the bar WOO present, dressed ni
their robes. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
Bombay returned to the presidency from Mahabu-
leshwur on the 6th, in the enjoyment of good health.
Archdeacon Jeffreys was to leave for England by the
steamer of the let of March. Her Majesty's 22nd had
been suffering fearfully from fever in the Colabah bar-
racks. We take the following from the Telegraph:
" We continue to receive most melancholy accounts of the
state of her Majesty's 22.1 Regiment in the barracks at Co-
labah. The hospital, as well as five tents pitched outside, is
full of sick; and the total number of sufferers from fever
now amounts to no fewer than 183. Besides this, there is
scarcely a man really well in the barracks. The number of
admissions into the hospital daily
.is 2-5, and the men de-
scribe the fever to be the same m form, duration, amt
severity as that from which they suffered at Sukkur. The
total strength of the companies at Colabah is 650 men, and
there were 750 admissions and re-admissions from fever
during the past month. At the last weekly health inspect
. tion of the so:diers by the surgeon of the regiment, only
24 men of the Grenadier company paraded, and
those sickly, the remainder being still all in hospital.
On the 15th of August last this company, in strength about
100, marched out of Poonah in perfect bealth and efficiency,
and were admitted by all to be as fine a body of men as any
in her Majesty's service. The families of the soldiers suffer
in the same degree as the men ; even children at the breast,
we hear, are afflicted with fever and ague. At this moment
the small Female Hospital appropriated to the reception and
treatment of sick women and children of the 221 and Queen's
Depot, is crowded with inmateQ. The space available is said
to be extremely small. There is only one room, 30 feet by
14; and in this contracted space, women during their
arcouchement have likewise to be accommodated. Attached
to this miserable building, there is neither kitchen, lavatory,
nor other conveniei,ce.
" The order for the removal to Poonah of her Majesty's
22d Regiment having been received, the bulk of the corps
will now take their departure with all possible dispatch.
Such is the condition of the regiment that although govern-
ment was urgently desirous to retain 500 men for garrison
duty, that number could not possibly be allowed to remain
behind: 400 were as many as could be permitted to stay.
The subscriptions to the new loan in Bombay are
said to amount to 10 leas ; but sums subscribed in the
interior were not known. They are supposed to be,
at least, equal to the former amot&t.

From China the news is interesting. A conflict
had taken place between the Chinese and Portuguese
at Macao, in relation to fiscal and general regula-
tions, in the course of which several of the Chinese
"fast boats" had been burned and sunk. Order had
been restored in consequence of the firmness of the
Portuguese Governor.
The Chinese have always looked upon the Portu-
guese as tenants-at-will, and denied their right to
exercise authority over the sons of Ham, resident
within the settlement, who own subjection only to
their own Mandarins. The attempt to saddle them
with taxes for the support of the Portuguese govern-
ment was, firmly resisted—many of the traders pre-
ferring to remove their goods and leave their
shops empty to paying the income tax. The
same passive resistance has not characterised others of
their countrymen, the owners of the fast passage-boats
employed on the river. The sum of a dollar a month
was propescd to be raised from each of those
running to and from Macao, the amount to be
applied to keeping their wnarf in repair. Along
with this a system of registration was to be intro
duced, in order to have some check on the lawless
fellows who occasionally join themselves with the
boatmen. Senhor Joao Muria Ferreira do Amaral,
upon the first refusal to obey his order, seized two
fast-boats, and made prisoners of the men on board.
Upon this the boatmen set about collecting and or-
ganising a large mob of their countrymen, who
landed in the inner harbour, and commenced
a violent attack, opening a fire upon the Portu-
guese from a four-pounder they had brought
with them. The governor thereupon ordered
out the troops, who speedily dispersed the
assailants, killing ten or twelve of them, and destroy-
ing all their fast-boats, of which ten were burned and
eight sunk. The Chinese then resorted to a favourite
manoeuvre of theirs, to close their shops in the bazaar,
to starve out the enemy. But tae determination of
the governor speedily overcame this difficulty, for ho
announced that if by a given time the bazaar was not
opened and furnished with supplies, he would fire
upon and destroy it. This had the desired effect, and
all was again quiet.

According to the following, which is given as an
*act from a letter, said to be written by an officer
a Sir J. Littler's staff, and received in Bombay when
tte mail was closing, the troops advancing on Cash-
are had been ordered to fall back, in consequence, it
tas supp‘e.ed, of a satisfactory conclusion of the ar-
angements with the insurgents.
" The bricale under Brigadier Wheeler, C.B , marched
Gm the right bank of the Chenab towards Bheembur, on
he p"waine of the 31st October, and at the same time the
de, with division head-quarters, commenced crossing
enter; the 12th Native Infantry and .ith troop Ist brigade
me Artillery, crossed on the 31,t; next ally the 2el COM..
• 6th battalion Artillery, with No. 9 light field battery,
ademweel, and were marching to camp, when an order
as received directing them to tetras& The 424 Regiment
tl4 Infantry ‘48.4 stopped in the act of crossing, and
'arched back to camp. No doubt Sir John Littler has had
Pa tant and satkfactory news from Colonel Lawrence,
Mahwe hop , ha, been able to arrange matters between
arajah GoolabSingh and Sheik Emaum-00-deen. Should
is be the ease, we may look forward to the evacuation of
e Punisub by our troops before New Year's-day. It is a
14 tract of country about Sealkote and westward in the
tins of Illieemur, the climate in October very peasant
tents, nights cold, with a bracing wind and cheering
wof the snow-capped mountains to the north. It is
Tbahle that Coo dirmsion will fall back on Lahore, via
utzetrabad."
411 Singh, who is Vizier at Lahore by tho per-
ission of the British, lately succeeded in bringing to
t capital the Nazira of Moultan, from whom he
ed in obtaining promissory notes to a large
aunt; he then bestowed various honours on the
timm, and gave him leave to go home, where it is
table he will speedily contrive some means of
oidia
g Ltte payment of the notes.
Lae Presence of the British troops can alone pre-

de te..o'te":".-- • ayZ- •
serve the the kingdom of Lahore from breaking in
many little states, such as existed 40 years ago, be-
fore old Runjeet, the Lion of Lahore, subjugated
them. -
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The Governor-General left the hills at the end of
41
last mouth to pay a visit to the Jullunder Dooab.
He has a splendid force in and about the Punjab,
espable, if needs be, to put down the most formid-
able outbreak should any occur--though the unsettled
state of Affghanistan affords little probability of any
hostile demonstration from that quarter. The safety
of Lords Elphinstone and Arthur Hay, the Hon.
Captain Hardinge, and other gentlemen who were
supposed to have been seized and murdered by the
Cashmerees, has been proved by their return to Simla
after an unmolested and interesting tour among the
hills and valleys of that beautiful region.
The latest news from Cabool is to the 24th August,
bat of no great moment. The country seems in a
most.miserable condition, with, as the Delhi Ga:elte's
[ correspondent says, an impotent ruler, a cruel
Wuzeer, a starring army, and merchants ruined by the
plunder of their kafilas." The marriage of Akhbar
Khan with the daughter of Yar Mahomed of Herat
had been celebrated with as much pomp and fes-
tivity as the poor court of Cabool could corn-
[ pass. Ent the bridegroom was afflicted with sore
I eyes, which made him more than usually irritable,
and the fruits of certain evil deeds of his were now
springing forth in the shape of an insurrection
among the Ghilzies ; and thus, partly from bodily
suffering, and partly from the mental pain arising
from his father's reproaches, and the maledictions of
the people, the time must have been one of anything
but pleasure or happiness to Akhbar Khan.
From Scinde there is no news of importance. Sir
Charles Napier was at Kurrachee, where the climate
was pleasant. Preparations are going forward for the
removal of five native regiments from Scinde in the,
course of January or February next, unless their
presence should be required by any disturbance with-
out the frontiers. It will speak volumes for the
system of Sir C. Napier, if, after the settlement
of the Punjaub, such a large force can be removed
from Sciatic without any disturbance being created
there. Sir Charles presented colours on the 4th of
November to the Ist Bombay Fusileers. His address
was most effective.
There is nothing important eon,—
Calcutta.