The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our usual despatches in antici-
pation of the Overland Mail from India. The dates
arc: Calcutta, Aug. 7 ; Madras, Aug. 13 ; Bombay,
Aug. S; Hong Kong, July 24. Although this is not
• Bombay mail, and no palters have been received
from that city, we have received the following letter
from our correspondent :
BOMBAY, Ace. 5.
As an express leaves for Madras this evening with
letters for England, to meet the Calcutta steamer at
that port, I take the opportunity of sending you a
lbw Lines.—The English mail of the 7th July reached
as on the afternoon of the Ist inst., in 21 days 10
hours from London. By it we heard of the death,
at Suez, of Captain Gordon, late 78th, who had re-
cently exchanged to the 42nd Highlanders.—Captain
Sanders, Indian navy, lately commanding the vessels
in the Red Sea, has been compelled from ill-health
to proceed home ; poor titan, he has, it is feared,
staved a year too long in India.—The case of the
Oriental bank against its late head shroff and his
sureties has been decided against the former, both
judges (Sir E. Ferry and Sir W. Yardley)
agreeing that the defendants were not, by their
bond, liable for any loss arising from the mis-
demeanour of the subordinate shroffs or others,
in robbing from or forging notes or cheques
on the bank. The bank has in all lost nearly 10,0001.
The Bombay Bank has behaved well towards the
Oriental in the matter of the stolen notes, having
paid them the full amount of those still missing, on
the Oriental Bank depositing with it government
paper in shape of indemity.—The number of deaths
last month in Bombay was 903, of whom only 70
died from cholera, which has now nearly disappeared,
after an uninterrupted sojourn in the island of a
couple ,f vears.—The ship Scotia, with the overland
parcels of.24th June, arrived on the 28th ult.—lt is
reported that Lord Falkland returns to Bombay at
the end of next month, and that he afterwards pro-
ceeds to see the caves of Ellom or Ajanta.
'loolraj, the ex-Nizam of Mooltan, was, by last
accounts from Calcutta, on the point of death : a con-
spiracy to carry him off by force had shortly before
been detected. Consequent on this, he had been directed
to be removed front Fort William to Allahabad, hut
was too ill to be moved. Our ndvices from Scindo
only reach to the 20th ult., the post being retarded
five days, by heavy rain I presume. At Kurrachee a
very heavy full had been experienced betwixt the
oth and 7th,which had levelled many an old building
in the town. Throughout the country the people
and troops were healthy. The post from the North-
west had also fallen four days behind its fair weather
rate of travel, and the papers received supply no news
of importance. Thedifferentstations,exceptPeshawur,
were healthy ; at this latter the Europeans continued
to suffer considerably. Since the Ist of April,
1819. the Glst Foot had lost up to the end of June
last 8 officers and 165 men ; and the 98th Foot 1
officer and 111 men. Both corps are to be removed
after October next. Colonel llryne, late of the 53rd
Foot, died at Simla on the 29th ult. The Governor-
General's camp is to be formed et Umballa on the
lath October, and his lordship will probably take
Lucknow on his way back to Calcutta. Mr. Wood,
Calcutta agent to the Agra Bank, has resigned his
post. Government are about to provide for the wife
and family of the Seikh commandant murdered by a
European soldier (Itosney, of the 10th Foot), at
Umritsur. The murderer has been sentenced to bo
hung. New stations are about to be formed at
Attack and Dcenannggur in the Punjaub. A loco-
motive steam engine has reached ltoorkee in the
North-West provinces; it is to be called the Thomason,
in honour of the Lieutenant-Governor, and is to
be used on the canal.

The opium ease of Lukmeechand r. Lett Zomwar
Sing, of Kotah, for 107,0001. has been non-suited at
Agra, the latter party belonging to an independent
state.

The death of Major-General W. Minims, C.D.,
Bengal Artillery, commanding the l'uninub divi-
sion, is reported as having occurred at Lahore on the
20th July. Tho deceased general had been 48 years
in the army. Moolraj is not, it appears, so very ill
as was thought; he teas to leave Calcutta for Alluha-
bad by steam, on the 21;th July, a doctor (Tressidder)
was to accompany him; Lieut, itawlius and a Euro-
, pear guard in charge.

The Orerland Calcutta Star, in its summary, says:
Since the departure of the last mail, there has been
scarcely en item of news stirring, of either political or social
intportance. Thu governor-general, commander-in chief,
and lieutenant.govt root N. W. provinces are at Simla, but
we notice in a morning paper a report, that Lord Dalhousie
purposes soon descending from the mountain fa4nesscs and
taking up his residence at Almorah, at the foot of the hills,
and where also he will have the advantage of a fine
climate and a beautiful station. Our railroad progresses,
notwithstanding the rainy season, and the Calcutta
terminus, as it is called, has been chosen, and the
necessary ground for its erection and that of the requisite
Mikes has been purchased at llowrah. It would seem that
there is still a chance of preserving the integrity of the
Nizant's territories, and satisfying, for a time at least, the
claims of the British government. Amongst other means
to which his Highness has been obliged to resort is, that of
pledging the Hyderabad jewels, for which we believe nego-
ciations are still pending between his Highness's counsel-
lors and some wealthy natives of this city: but both sides
are afraid to act without a guarantee from the Company's
government, sa each fears the other, and suspects him ton.
A divisional command has been placed at the disposal of
government by the lamented death, at Lahore, of Major
General Battine, who is succeeded by Colonel Costley.

The Englishnian of Aug. 7, with reference to the
Nizam, says :
We have ust been informed that the affair has been ar-
ranged as follows:
" The offer of Suraj-001-Moolk to pay the debt in four
months to the Company's government was finally accepted
by the resident on the 16th inst. Suraj-001-Moolk has
lodged with bim a sum of 24 lakhs of rupees ; and a further
sum of 16 lakhs, to make up 40 laks, is in course of payment.
If so much of the money be paid immediately by a govern-
ment without credit, and of dilapidated resources, credit
will be due to the arrangements which have effected it, and
the governor. general will in all probability give time for
payment of the rest when so much has been speedily done
to meet his lordship's demand.
"The Governor-General's letter is strenuous in his re-
commendation to the Nisam to dismiss his foreign troops,
and generally to retrench his expenditure, and that which
his lordship represents, and which should be most obvious
to his highness, that ruin must inevitably wait upon pro-
fligate expenditure, and the maintenance of a licentious
body of troops, in name only his servants, has awakened
vigilance, especially of the Arabs, who forbear for the
present the acts of violence pervading town and country,
which they have been long in the habit of committing. Be-
side' they are not unmindful of the danger which awaits them;
and I hear from one of the best sources of information,
that if required by the Company's Government to give
up the lauds of the Nisam, which they occupy as Talookdars,
as mortgagees of Jagheers, and as creditors of Talookdars,
they will resign them, and concentrate themselves in
Hyderabad,taking possession of the palaces of the Nisam and
his minister, in other words, their persons, and will then,
from this advantageous position, exact the justice they
claim, and demand hostages for the performance of engage-
ments that may be made with them. I not only rely upon
the source of my information, but I me in this the project
of men possessed of military experience. There are such
things as counter projects, and though counteraction, where
the opponents occuyiug the city can have the first start, is
difficult, it is not hopeless."

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CHINA AND THE INDIAN
ARCHIPELAGO.

HONG KONG.
Our correspondent writes :
HONG HONG, JULY 24.
In my letter of last month an opinion was
hazarded that, from appearances in the political
horizon, the security of Canton was greatly appre-
hended, and, although the present mail will not convey
information of such a result, the opinion has gained
ground that everything portends and appears to be
hastening such an event. The rebellion, so far from
being in any degree suppressed, makes headway,
threatening to swallow up the second capital of the
empire and the trade' metropolis of China, Canton.
General after general despatched against the in-
surgents has fallen a victim either to the sword of
the enemy or the wrath of the Emperor, for want of
success, and Seu himself has felt the displeasure of
the monarch, and been degraded three steps. Ar-
rangements have been made for his Excellency
Commissioner General Seu's departure from Canton
on the 23rd or to-day, with a force of throe thousand
men, to suppress the rebellion. Report, hoseever,
states that his chief strength and object are the
means at his disposal to buy off the insurgent