The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

stating that s banU of Montemolinists had entered
Canet de Mar, and carr!ed off the eon of the Alealde.
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CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 7.
The following is the ultimatum of the Porte for the
settlement of the lung-pending Persian question :-
1. A mutual withdrawal of all pecuniary claims save those
mentioned in article Yo. 1. Y. All d mendeneirs of the law
lands of Z•ehali to be ceded to the Sahlinee l'orte; the moun-
tainous part to the east of Guerand lo remain in the posses-
sion of Pt rsis. Persia will abandon its claims to the pro-
vince of Seleymardet. The town of kloharnmera, the
island of Iladhar, as well as the eastern bank of the Chatt-
ul-Areb, are guaranteed to Persia. Thu imperial government
alto azeoreis the tree navigation of the Chatt to l'ersian
veisdls. 3. The two contracting parties will abandon
all other territorial claims. „ A mixed commission will
/A soon as convenient determine the boundaries according to
the preceding article. 1. AU claims not included in No. 1,
WI Well MS et ream rights of pasturage. will bo equi ably de-
rided by a mixed commission. 5. The l'. men princes who
have taken refuge in Turkey will be taken under the pro-
tection of the Ottoman government. All other subjeets will
be reciprocally exchanged according to the treaty of Erse-
r row. 6. The duties to be paid by Persian uterehants will
be eleter.dined according to the treaty of Erzerount, dattel
ITi9. 7. The Imperial goverament will take the necessary
measures for the protection of Persian pilgrims. l'ersian
consuls may reside in all Turkish towns, except
thee. of /deem and Medics. They will have the same
privileges as other foreign consuls. Ottoman me:chants
residing in Persia will be on the same fuotiug as Vow of the
most fawned nation. 8. Troop; will be established along
the frontier to prevent the robberiee of cer.ain wild tribes.
Those tribes whose nationality is doubtful will be once for
all established within some territory of which they them-
selves shall have the choice. The tribes whose nationality
is known will be confined to the districts to which they natu-
rally belong. O. The stipulation of these different treaties
nut affected by the present convention will remain in vigour.
Ratifications will be exilianged within the two months after
the signatures have been attached. orsouncr if such 1 e found
possible."

Such is the ultimatum of the Porte, which appears
exceedingly just au' moderate. Rua ia seems to fear
that it wnl bo accepted by the government of the
Shah, and has therefore taken meusures to prevent
such a consummation. The foreign relations of the

Porto are, to the great joy of the northern powers,
becominz more and more complicated every day. M.
Oustenoft; the Russian minister, has just sent a strong
protest against the undue partiality which the Turk-
ish government has, in several recent circumstances,
shown for the constitutional cabinets of Europe.
The internancio has not ceased to importune
the Porte about the incorporation of Cracow.
But as Resehid I'asha will not abandon the
opinion which he at first expressed, and as ou the
other hand he cannot, unsupported, resist the attacks
of the Russian and Austrian representatives, he has
adopted a middle course, and appointed Rifaat Posha
to go on a special mission to Vienna, with full powers
to treat on that and other important affairs. The re-
ception of the Bey of Tunis at Paris has produced a
coldness between Baron de Bourqueney and the Porte;
whilst as to England, she is unrepresented. Turkey,
then, stands alone. The British rove: unent seem to
know nothing of all this, or, if they do, they are
most culpably inert.
The plague is advancing fast towards Trellizond,
and us the quarantine in that city is very badly ad-
ministered, a good deal of anxiety is felt both there
and at Constantinople.

BOMBAY. DEC. 16.

Since I last addressed you two English overland
mails have been received at Bombay, that of the 24th
October on the 7th, and that of the 7th November
yesterday at noon. Yesterday was the regular day of
desp.ach fromßombay, but of course it was well known
that tho mail would not start till to-day at the earliest,
.and every one was on the look-out fora notice to that
'effect, but none was issued during yesterday till late in
!the evening, and then it was intimated that the mails
would be finelly closed this morning at 10 o'clock,—
thus patting it out of the power of many mercantile
men, who had quitted the fort at 5 last evening, and
would not return to business till the hour of post,
from taking any advantage of the delay. I had
depended on having till 3 to-day to give you the
news of the fortnight, but am obliged to make a
short letter of it on the above account, and
I suspect the indignation of the public of
Bombay is general on the want of common
courtesy exhibited in this instance by the authorities:
happily such lapses arc not of very frequent occur-
rence—they are not the less annoying when they do
occur. The chief items of interest I have to relate
are the detection of correspondence of a treasonable
neture which had passed betwixt the Prime Minister
at Lahore and the rebel Cashmerian ruler Shaikh
Emaum-ood-decn ; the extraordinary opium sale at
Calcutta on the 30th Nov.; and the demi-official
acknowledgment of the treachery practised on the
messengers of the widow of one of the Seinde Ameers
to her son, now a state prisoner in the castle of Surat.
The accounts of the former of the three received at
Bombay are meagre in the extreme—the fact that such
correspondence has come to light is nearly all that is
known on the subject. The Governor-General's Secre-
tary, Mr. Carrie,has been sent to the capital, doubt-
less to inquire into the affair, when, should the
guilt of the minister be apparent, he will immediately
be dealt with as he deserves. His object in insti-
gating the Cashmere ruler to rebellion was, of course,
to annoy his rival, Maharajah Goolaub Singh, by
making his new province as troublesome as possible.
The present and late vuzeers were always irreconci-
leable enemies, and it has all along been thought that
Lull Singh was at the bottom of the Cashmere disturb-
ances. His motives must have been purely malicious,
as it could have made no difference to him who was
ruler of that province. Consequent on the detection
of the above treachery, the Shaikh Emaum-ooeldeen
was forbidden to cross the Ravee, or come near the
capital. You will remember that he was given over
byCol. Lawrence to the Seikh commander, Sirdar Tej
Singh, to be conducted to Lahore, when he gave him-
self up to us on the 31st October : they had reached
the Ravee when orders were received that the Cash-
merian ex-ruler was to remain on the opposite
bank. The Sirdar reached the capital on the 27th
November. It is not to be supposed that Rajah
Loll Singh will quietly. submit to the de-
gradation about to be inflicted on him—viz.,
removal from the head of affairs; or that Shaikh
Emaum-ood-deen will quietly remain where he has
been commanded to stay till further orders, aware, as
he must be, that the punishment inflicted on his
brother traitor will in all probability extend also to
himself ; so that you need not be surprised if, ere a
month, accounts from the Punjaub should again be
bloody. The minister is the favourite paramour of
the queen-mother, and has many adherents in Lahore ;
and I think the diplomacy of Mr. Carrie will have to
be very nicely guided to enable him to perform Lord
Hardinge's wishes without causing tumult and blood-
shed. I ortunately, Colonel Lawrence had returned to
the capital just in time to render him every assistance,
or, perhaps, to entrust the entire management of the
affair into the agent's bands, which is the more
likely. Should it be so, we may rest assured that
evetything will be done for the best, as the
colonel thoroughly understands those he will
have to deal with, which Mr. Carrie could
not be expected to do. It has been stated
that the latter is the bearer of a new treaty to
the Durbar, one clause of which is, that a British sub-
sidiary force shall permanently remain in the country,
near the capital : at least, I suppose, till the govern-
ment is able safely to dispense with their services;
this force to consist of two European and six native
infantry corps, with a strong body of cavalry and
artillery. This is probable, though uncertain. The
province of Cashmere had been traversed by Colonel
Lawrence, who describes the people as miserably
poor. Our troops expected to leave their cantonments
in the city of Lahore about the 18th or 20th Dec., on
their return to Ferozepore, halting for a time a
couple of marches from the capital, to observe the
effect produced on our departure, ere we quitted the
country—it is to be hoped for ever. I should think,
however, that they' will not move till the affair of
the minister is settled. They were healthy, and in
high spirits at the prospect of returning to their
own provinces. The Governor-General was at
Hosimearpoor, where he had gone to witness the
fair annually held, and to encourage the people of
the surrounding country to assemble for the purposes
of trade. It had, however, proved a complete failure,
and the governor-general was about proceeding to
Jullundur, the chief town in the Lomb. He had been
joined by Sir John Littler, from Loodhiana, who is
said to be about returning to I.ahore immediately.
The force which proceeded under Brigadier Wheeler
towards Cashmere had returned to Ferozepore, and
been broken up to their stations in our provinces,
their places having been supplied hr fresh troops from
India. The brigadier himself hail returned to Jul-
hinder.