The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

'TIE OVERLAND MAIL.

(ny ELscrue TzLtoutrir rant' TRIESTE.)

We have received by Electric Telegraph, ri4
Trieste. [Oakes from Bombay, Feb. 17 ; Calcutta,
Feb. M; and Hong Kong, Jun. 29.
The Hindoctan, a ith the Indian mail, arrived at
Suez on the 4th of March, with about seventy pas-
The lionihav journals announce the unconditional
surrender of t'ho Fort Dhareor in the Simon's do-
minions on the 4th of February, and give a report
that a portion of the Princes territory has been
auntie user to the government of the East Indian
Compiny as equivalent fur the debt of 60,0001.
due to it.
In the Punjaub, 450 miles of canals, nearly half a
million acres, were under construction. Lord Hal-
housie is occupied with education in the Punjaub.
The sum of 10,000/. sterling has been stolen Out of
the coffers of the Oriental Bank.
The tioveenor-General was in Ituwul-Pindee on
the 31st of January, en route to Peshawur; the
Commander-in-chief was at Agra on the Bth of Feb-
ruary. The Governors and Commanders-in-Chief of
Bombay and Madras were at their respective resi-
dences.
The Calcutta papers announce the arrival of the
three prisoners, Sikh-Sirdars, on their way to Sin-
gapore ; the proposed erection of houses of refuge
on the Sang or Island for shipwrecked mariners ; the
sentence of death upon the murderer Very, and the
arrival of the Oriental steanwr on the Ist of
February with the English mails of the 24th of
December.
The China papers confirm the intelligence of the
death of Commissioner . Keying had fallen into
disgrace at the Chinese court, for showing a predilec-
thin to Europeans. Fears were entertained of a new
Chinese insurrection in the disturbed provinces.
'llw state of health of the troops ut Hong Kong
had improved. A smuggling company of great
extent had been discovered at bhangluie.
The China Herald announces the discovery
of an interesting race of Jews in the interior of the
country, 350 mik-s from Pekin, by some missionuriesi
of the London society.
Commercial affairs had improved at Bombay. The
import nuirket was brisk, but no increase in price*
'floe high prices in cotton apparently made purcha-
sers hold buck : there is no change in other articles.
The money market was somewhat improved.
Freights from liondsty to Liverpool and London
were sought for at from 21. 2s. Gd. to 21. 55., with un
upward tendency.
Exchange on London at six months sight, 2 to 21,
per rupee.
Maxey was scarce at Calcutta, but prospects were
better. The Bengal Bank still discounts at 11 per
cent. Indigo somewluit better. Prices of opium
falling. Freights improved, especially for sugar, for
which, to London, they were at the rate of 3/.176.6d.
per ton. Exchange, six mouths' right, 2; to 2; per
1111KA%
Commertial affairs in China are looking up gene-
rally. Transactions were limited.
When the Austiian boat sailed, the Ripon, from
England, had not arrived at Alexandria to axe the
pasta iigers.
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MADEIILt AND THE C.k.NARIES.

PLYMOUTH, Maucu 15.

The Brilliant, Captain Culbeck, Sladcira packet,
came alongside the pier of the Great Western Dodo, at '
this port. at about half-pat 12 last night. She left Madeira
on the tat instant, and etwouutercd calm+ and head-winds
the whole of the voyage. She was in right of the Eddy-
stone 00 Thursday, but was unable to come into port.
Iter mails from the Canaries, Tencritfe Madeira, &r.,
put on beard the Devonshire, Dublin and London steam-
veast, on Friday morning, and they were lauded in Ply-
mouth at three o'clock. and were forwarded to London by
the ordinary mail train, e sic o'clock.
Ths Bnlictut hying. the ltun. Capt. J. de Blaquierc and
his two aervants, and Mimi Guerin. She brings some very
valuable and intensting contributions for the Great Eaht-
bifion, consisting of manufactures from the native woods of
Madeira. rpcimrns of natural productions, and a very
beautiful painting of a banana tree, the work of an English
lady resident in Madeira. She brought also a quantity
.of
green peas. which were quite as perfect as those of English
growth will b. in July. These were consigned to Mr.
Uholson, the agent at l'lrmouth fur the Brilliant, as wen
almi a quantity of very choice Imuanas.
The 'Milling fell in with the Bentinck mail packet at
Santa Crux an the 113th of February, and at Jos Palmas,
the chief town of the Grand Canary, on the ?2nd February
she found the inhabitants in a state of considerable alarm
and apprehension eitisi d by the prevalamee there of a very
malignant ty pc of the rearkt fever. The weather at Ma-
deira during the winter had been unusually boisterous, but
the island was generally healthy.

TUE ErSPECTED MriDER AT BRIXTON, NEAR
Puraturrm.—On Friday, William Howe, the person
charged with the murder f John Bunker, a farm servant-
boy, at Brixton, by hanging hint on a tree, was brought
before the magistrates for examinathon. The coroner's jury
had found a verdict of wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown. Several of the witnesses who had
been summoned harbor the coroner's jury, were again
examined, and repeated their testimony, the substance of
which has been given in our columns. On Saturday
the court adjourned, and Rowe was remanded to Monday
neat, the 2ith lust.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT ABERDEEN.--The eheMiCni

and as halts premises at Aberdeen, occupied by Mr. Miller,
near the gas works, at the Links, were burned down on
Wednesday night. Several hundred barrels of tar, and
large quantities of asphalts., besides the other chemical sub-
stances, were destroyed. 'The flames were so immense that
for miles round the spot a pin might have been picked up.
The damage sustained is said to amount to upwards of
15,0001.—Montrom .Staadard.

COMMAND OF THE ARTILLERY AT ROICO SONG.
—Lieut.-Colonel Tosakyna, 4th battalion 8.A., is to pro-
ceed to Chiu.i next month, by the overland route, to amume
the command of the Artillery at Hong Kong, in succosaion
to the late Lient.-Colonel Novett.