The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-27 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our usual despatches in anticipa-
tion of the Overland Nlail from India. 'lice dates
are : Bombay, July 26: Calcutta, July 12. Our
Bombay correspondent writes as follows :
BOMBAY, Jrcr 26.

The English mail of the 2 lth June reached Born
bay on the 2lth inst., having been brought down by
the Hon. Company's schooner Mali. 'Where are all
our steamers stowed away, that we cannot afford two
a month for our mails? Better still, not a single
pared has been brought on, the vessel being too
small to convey them! They were all transferred
from the Peninsular and Oriental steamer to the
collier Scotia, which would leave Aden for Bombay
on the 20th, and may probably be here by the 4th
proximo! Really this is too tad. On an average
we pay one-third their value for carriage of the
parcels brought overland, yet they are given to us or
not in time, just as the authorities please! It is high
time the Suez line was taken out of the hands of the
Indian navy, and given to the Peninsular and ()rim-
tal Company. One of the steam-frigates, par excel-
lence, of our navy, yclept the Sesostris, left this on
the nth June, and reached Aden on the llth July!
This beats hollow anything we have ever experienced
—thirty-six days! The Auckland, if anything
a swifter vessel, left here on the sth July; when
she may get to Aden, no one will venture even to
eonjecture. Such are the vessels we have as mail
packets.—Since my last there has been rather a re-
vival of business in the Bombay import market, and
it is expected a greater amount of activity will pre.
vail during the present monsoon than has heretofore
been usual. In export of cotton little has been done
of late, the home market being considered unfavour-
able and that of China pretty, well supplied with the
raw material. Money is said to be abundant, and
readily obtainable on good security at easy terms.
The banks have been declaring dividends as follows:
Bombay Commercial, 7 per cent. ; Bombay
Bank, 61; Madras Bank, 10; Bengal Bank,
12 per cent. per annum. The Oriental Bank seems
to have been robbed and defrauded of late to an
enormous amount. Two of their late shroffs have
been convicted of forgery and robbery of notes, to
the value in all of upwards of 11,0001. ; viz., notes,
9,500/., forged cheque of W. Nicol and Co.'s, 2,0001.
Then there is another forged cheque of 1,1001., and
forged hoondies (native drafts) to the tune of 8,600!.
Of the notes stolen, 3,348.11. to 4,000/. have been re-
covered, out of which the reward of 1,000/. promised
fo' the detection and conviction of the robbers have
to be paid. Sir E Perry has been hard on the
bank management—many think unnecessarily so.
Any one can censure a bank management if he
chooses to do so—at some risk, however. A judge on
the bench should be careful in what he says, as he
is above the reach of time law, and his remarks may
do an infinite deal of harm to the bank itself, as well
as its enaploy,,s. Dining the past fortnight death
he. been busy in the presidency; of Bombay
particularly. The first cut off was Colonel Macon,
at the 6th N. 1., who died at Bombay on the 6th, of
apoplexy, after a couple of days illness. On the
16th died Major Lewis Brown, of the sth 80. N.L.1.,
political agent in the Myhre Caunta. He had re-
eeived a kick from a horse, which fractured his leg ;
lockjaw supervened, and carried him off. He was in
1840 shut up in the fort of Kahan, in Cutchee,
Upper Scinde, and maintained his post for four or
five months against hordes of the enemy. He finally
treated with them, and obtained permission to quit
the fortress and return to Scinde unmolested,—they
being but too glad to get quit of such -a determined
neighbour. For his gallantry he was appointed
a major and an A.D.C. to the Governor-General, and
has ever since been known as the hero of Kahun.—
On the 18th two of the partners of the firm of Leckie
and Co. died of cholera—Mr. Henry Cormack, at
Poona, and Mr. W. C. Le Oeyt, at Bombay, wahin-
e few hours of each other.—On the 2nd died Lieu-
tenant W. S. Baird, of the 23rd at Nusseera-

bad.—Major-General W. Gibson, Madras Army, died
at the Neilgherries on the 30th of June.—Of the
Bengal Army have died, Lieutenant Blair, 2nd Euro-
peans at Agra, and Ensign Williamson, 28th N. 1.,
at Pc:shawur.—The Rev. W. M. Dyne, S.C.L., at
Ghazeepore, on the 30th June.—Mr. Young, acting
master of the Indian navy, at Bombay, early yester-
day morning.
Something definite is at length about to take place
in the Nizam s affairs. We are about to appropriate
the Valley of Berar and some other portions of the
country, sufficient to yield a revenue which will
clear of in a few years the enormous sum of
money the Nizam is indebted to us. Soomj-00l-
Moolk, the former Prime Minister, has been rein-
stated in office. No doubt much to the dissatisfaction
of his sovereign, to whom he has always been re-
pugnant. The Governor-General has been taunted
and abused for having written to the Nizam in a
manner not to be mistaken : the dignity of
state has, forsooth, been compromised by its ruler
having written to an unprincipled spendthrift, that
unless our just claims were liquidated, we should
take effectual and immediate steps to pay ourselves.
The Madras papers teem with trash of this stamp.
The Nepaul conspirators have been banished for'
five years to Allahabad i and for allowing them to
be shut up in that fortress, the Earl of Dalhousie has
been nicknamed "The Gaoler of India."
The Lieut.-Governor of the North-west Provinces,
whois nowatSimlii,seems tohavc hadanarrow escape
from death. When driving along one of the readout
the hills, his horses took fright, and the honourable
gentleman was thrown down a steep some 200 feet
deep. Luckily he escaped being dashed to pieces,
. but he was severely cut and bruised. The governor-
general and commander-in-chief are at Simla : the
' former returns shortly to Calcutta, preparatory to
returning home. Sir W. Gomm is apparently
in gain-
' ing the good word of the Bengal army, by his impar-
tiality the distribution of his patronage and his
unflinching discharge of his duties.—A captain has
just been tried by general court-martial for being over
head and ears in debt, and for writing an impertinent