The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-04 00:00:00

iisster.
The following is from the Overland Bombay Times,

Nov. 1 :
SV,INIAUT —The mad-arrangements amongst oar eteamen,
eatieed in our last, have prevented the arrival of the mail of
the 24th Sept., due a week since, but not now expected for
a week to come, when it will probably arrive along with that
of the 7th October. Our news is somewhat more stirring
this mail than for many months past it has been. The
fitinde Hone, under the gallant Major Jacob, who have for
soma time been watching the northern marches, have had
an opportunity of earning unrivalled distinction. A party
of 133 sowers, under Lent. Merewether, having heard that
the hill men had come down in force and were threatening the
Tillages, proceeded in quest of them on the Ist of October,
and found 700 horse and foot strongly posted. Having
succeeded in drawing them into the plain, they ch
them with fearful slaughter, and compelled them to re re.
For two miles the pursuit wee continued, the enemy keep-
ing well together and refusing quarter ; at one time they
heed round and showed tight, while many instances of
single conflicts with the nommen occurred. A small party
of the Scinde Horse headed them as they approached the
hills, and cut off all hope of escape, when they at length
laid down their arms and surrendered themselves; not,
however, till about six hundred had been left dead
sped the field, the survivors of whom (120) bring all
Messilled. Two only escaped to bear the tidings into the
)sods, where 2,000 or 3,000 widows and orphans left
dltiteleeas now mooning the fight. Shabpore, near which
~eigege*is about thirty miles beyond the river Indus,
um* me• our frontier by friends at home. The
this missisieleation of the country *rams univer-
sal/hams& laribe. The governor of Bombay pro-
digal la &We. lophirs of the governor-general, about the
WI gear, to ess obi examine for himself. The opinions of a
sr of such spaiiag and experience as Mr. Clerk must
have the utast weight. Captain French, who has
accepted the pdimileamretarnhip, was for a long time one of
Colonel Outman sealants ; his intimacy with the country
eelpsegts will make his aid invaluable. Mr. Gordon, of
Odle lam flotilla, who has been a prisoner since April,
Merged with having unlawfully caused the death of some
Bidden, at Bakker, has arrived at Bombay to take his trial.
nYWLbolsde• esitain. The total eassuallosselly
,atioutel trade remain as it le, w [Snot euestid
• pep, by the abolition of the most annoy-
sod ebsorious imposts ; a deficiency likely
.le be much more than made up by the fruits
Oa first year' of an unfettered commerce will supply.
The affairs of the N kern seem 'n the same state of oonfusicin
they have been for years past ; and it is annoying, while
this is so severely censored by us, to reflect that his pecuniary
difficulties are chiefly occasioned by ourselves. The
ex-rajah of Ssttara, the discussion of whose affairs has made
so much noise at home, died at Benares on the 14th ult.,
in the fifth year of his age. He his left no children,
and was not allowed to adopt an heir ; so that there
will be an end of all agitation concerning him,
the more especially as the supplies sent home
will cease. The present as
is also childless, so that a few
years hence the raj will lapse to the British government as
lords paramount. India throughout is tranquil. The po-
vernor general has been on a visit to Naoodah, forty miles
north of Simla, deeper amongst the hills. He was to return
to his former quarters on the 24th, and leave on the 26th for
Omhalla, whence he will proceed to Saharunpore, Meerut,
and Cswnrore. He was expected to be at the latter place on
the 3rd November. He will spend twenty days at Lucknow
with the King of Oude, returning to Cawnpore on the 24th,
and proceeding thence to Allahabad, and so by steamer to
Calcutta, where he will be relieved by Lord Dalhousie
about the eni of the year. Lord Gough remains for the
present in the bills. The Marquis of Tweeddale is on the
ere of returning to Madras, whither his family have pre-
ceded him. The Governor of Bombay is at the flababulesh-
war-hill, on the eve of returning to Bombay ; and will pro-
need to Scinde some six weeks hence. Sir W. Cotton leaves
Poonah on Thursday next for Ahmednuggur, and will pro.
hably not return to the presidency till well on in December.
The lieutenant-governor of the north-west provinces has re-
turned to Agra. The European portion of the Bengal army,
having become notorious for insubordination, the commander-
in-chief has thong ht it advisable to resort to the utmost severity,
to put a stop to such a state of matters, and two eoldiere have
been shot to death at Meerut, one on the 19th, and another
on the 23rd of October; the former belonging to the Horse
Artillery, the latter to her Majesty's 9th Lancers, both for
having used violence to commissioned officers. We have
just closed an unusually hot October. No fewer than three
of our fire-elms steamers are at present in dock undergoing
repairs—the Victoria, the Sesostris, and the Zenobia. The
Indus, iron steamer, has been lost near Din Head, where
she had ran ashore on the morning of the 7th October, on
her way to Kurrachee. The passengers all escaped, and the
velure engines and boilers have been saved. She herself
, will, it ie said, prove a wreck. No explanation has been
given as to how she got übore in a place so much out of the

way.
With reference to the military executions noticed
in the 13ombay summary, our correspondent says :
" Two military executions have taken place at
Meerut. An artilleryman was shot to death on the
19th, for having struck an assistant-surgeon.
Fourteen men of her Majesty's 32nd were ordered as
him executioners ; they fired, but strange to say, only
one ball struck the unfortunate man, wounding him
in the thigh, when the provost-sergeant put an end
to his existence by shooting him through the head.
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The whole of the firing Party are in-confinement
- The - man seems,

for not doing their duly. a poor ma.
up to the moment of his eyes being blinded, to have
been confident that he would not be put to death. Mu!
what must havebeen his teelingswhen he heard of the
discharge of musketry and found himself wounded!—
how agonising the few momenta which intervened till
his life was taken by the provost-sergeant ! The
other, one of H.M. 9th Lancers, was shot on the 23rd,
. .

for throwing his cap in the face of his commanding
officer ! Examples are, of course, necessary, to en-
sure discipline in the army ; but the heart revolts at
the idea of life being taken for what in civil life
would be considered merely an assault, punishable
with a fine or short imprisonment."
Our correspondent also informs us that the Com-
pany's schooner Mahi returned to Bombay on the
29th, having in tow three out of eleven country craft,
captured in the Persian Gulf, with slaves on board,
by the sloop Elphinstone. The unfortunate, or rather
fortunate, human cargoes were liberated, a number of
them being sent to Bombay. A treaty has been en-
tered into by our resident at Bashire—Major Henn.'
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