The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.
An announcement of the arrival of the India Mail,
with a brief summary of the news, appeared in
the Express of yesterday. We now supply particu-
lars of intelligence from files which have reached
us with dates from Calcutta, Sept. 8 ; Madras,
Sept. 12 ; Bombay, Sept. 13 ; Ceylon, Sept. 16; and
Hong Kong, August 28.

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(From the Bombay Times, Sept. 15.)
We continue, as for months past, to suffer from
scarcity of intelligence. We have letters from Scinde only
eight days old, but they are newsless. The country seems
generally pretty quiet, but the people continue to suffer
severely from scarcity. The unhealthiness of the chief sta-
tions is at length admitted by the Kurrachee Adrcrtiser,—
long understood to he the organ of the local government.
Everything is tranquil at Lahore, and peaceful and prosper-
ous in the Jullundur lloab; but no preparations have as yet
been announced for the withdrawal of the army, though we
are now within a few months of the time when we pledged
ourselves to retire—the end of the year. Lord Hardinge
and the Commander-in-Chief are expected about this time
to quit Simla and proceed on a tour of inspection
along the frontier. Colonel Lawrence, the Agent
for the Governor-general, has gone to Lahore. The rains
are now almost entirely over, the weather for six weeks back
having been singularly beautiful. The Governor of Bombay
and his family arc ab nit to proceed to Khandalla, for the
benefit of eK.nge of air; the Commander-in Chief and staff
remain at Ptionah. The Governor of Madras continues at
the Nedgherry Hills, so that by next month all the governors

India will
and
Tho nt
111 len gearyreil-dlif ofbepromises to be abein:lan::::
of grain in Bombay is so Lrgs that much lt,
stroyet before a new crop is admtted, fk.
exercise the closest and most capricious
the prices almost to famine rates.
SCINDE.—This province seems
tranquil,—the people suffering se„rerfit
lower Cholera had again shown itself in the low Nit
form very mild in comparison to that ftrraci,
it. The flood of the Indus was nearly at
its big
waters had spread over a surface unusually expag
We find the following in the .Frorramiser
of the 29th :—" Ilead-quarters, luarut,te
August 18, 1816.—N0. 3. The Idtjor.orte,
placed Lieutenant Moore under an arrest, yea%
took upon himself to divide his detachment al
part of it to Chutter for the purpose of agin„, of the Khan of Khelat ainst his Iliehnere„ also made a long and dgerous myth towel
and might have lost half his men and horn, tokil. The proceedings were contrary to order,.
Moore appears to have forgotten %ha no often
except the governor of this provinse, has a rig
detachments and occupy_ freak pate even yin"; yet Lieutenant Moore took upon hind:
far beyond the frontier, and without pennimm-
bility which the governor himself would not pre,, without leave from the pet rnorirenend.
knows his duty as a military man ever wrung,
troops under his command without orders. A ree tion of responsibility is the surest sitrit that tart know his business. The governor will for on,
this disobedience of orders, and Lieutenant k
return to hie duty. But should such again oblige the governor to uphold discipine, and
offender to a court-martial. Zeal excuses asse excuse of disobedience of orders, beams eery t
solves a military force, and turns an array a
The Khan of Khelat must protect his ova
Kyberies; if the latter choose to belL.ve like en must take the result.—C. J. NAPIEU, Zijc“,
mending the troops in Sc,nde."

SUfifil:fi.—A letter from Sukkur, dated
August, states that the weather had grown a
beginning of August the thermometer ranged
to 100 deg. within doors ; but it had lowered e
and in particular in the mornings, which we,
The Indus war very full, and had risen several it
four days •, the force with which it flowed I
Island of Bukkur and Sukkur was tremendous
however, looked upon as fa from king an cavil
the artillerymen were looking very ill when qui
the 7th Regiment Native Infantry, which h
Scinde in January with seventeen otfiein, had
eight present, many tieing absent on sirs meth
bay Gentleman's Oazctte, September 3.
TUE PONJAUB.—EarIy in the month
gained currency that the Wuzeer Lall Singh ha
dered. It came from so good a source, and a,
nently probable, that it quickly gained general e
proves without any foundation whatever. The
Sir John Littler continues quiet and inactive at
We were bound by treaty to withdraw that 1)
the year. The General, it is slid, has write
government is gaining in strength daily, am'
no reason to apprehend the consul uencesof, erdd
drawal of the troops ; and it is understood the, am
cold we: Lt her there;will be a general move. Cal
agent Cr the Governor-General, has set out he
Lahore: Lords Hardinge and Gough were, it
stood, about to start on a tour of inspection.
native had to an unusual extent even during the
flowed its banks and the country near the cape
for a time pettishly submerged. Some of our a
amusing themselves with boating under the walk
dant crop was expected as the result of the filed
able change in the weather had occurred about it
August, when cool and refreshing breezeihad take
of the stifling sweating atmosphere which ha
since May. The force had throughout onion
health, and never were troops more
fur good conduct and order and propriety
composing the army of occupation at L
arrangements betwixt Government and th
Mooltan were on the point of being amicable is
firm and prudent proceedings of Colonel las
terms of the treaty arc said to be these :—The
180,0001. as a gift to the Lahore government; i
the latter to occupy all the forts of the former; t
of the state of the revenues of toe country Jan
every year at Lahore by the chief in peak
Bhugwan Singh should be permitted to retain
of the Mooltan territory he had acquired; a
whole tribute of the present year should health
up. The chief appeared to have assented to the
demurring only to the occupation Obis forth, u
himself to quit his own country on a visit to
He assembled all his chief officers, cot&
them for the assistance they had gives I
the late disturbances, and selected a large tote
pansy him. The Moonshee Jun Mull was seat
lion to intimate that arrangements had been ma
ception ; his personal safety was under Betel
and an honorary escort, under Dewaa Deena fi
out to meet him. He reached Lahore on the 204
was received with the customary honours. Bat
ranee', there is nogreat reason to imagine that Is
entrusted himself to the hands of his superiors

LAIIORE.—The following letter of the I
gust appears in the Ayra Chronicle of S
that month :

We have had a glorious change In the weather knee
week. The close calmy atmosphere which has stehde
since May, has given place to a refreshing caolnee,•
was positively coldish, I hope this is the warn t
weather. This change has not been produced by rag
have had very little for a month. It must have Wks
the however, judging from the sudden rise I
This river, which runs about half a mile from Lthars
flow its banks three or four days ago, and it now ens
of the city. As you stand on the parapet of the
the liaduhahee Musjesst, you see nothing before st
you but a vast sheet of water dotted with insulated pats
getation, groves of trees, and a faw of the tall as:
temples common hereabouts, while the bridge of ks
some weeks ago over the small stream which then ma t
now stands useless and unconnected in the midst of d
scene Is very striking, and partakes even of the sa
there is not much stirring. The quarrel ofthe Sikh p
the Maxim of Moulton is being amicably arranged. I
is expected to came to Lahore, and Dewan Deena Na
decant to start from this and escort him here, ended.
him to some agreement with the terms of the Durtor. Tk
tern has been brought about by the letters alebi—rd
to Rajah Tall Singh and Dewan 3loolraj on the subject.
selves, there would probably have been a year'squales
skirmisbee before the dispute would be settled. One el
meat has taken place between a party of Adelina is ;
Mooltan (not Aff(hans of the villages, but sailers um
• Military Officer of the Nazim's) and a detachment of M;
Singh's army, in which the latter was defeated, the MT
taken prisoner and the second In command killoi. 1
upon here as a sad blot on the fair fame of the Serharte
however, unfortunate with the Pennines on the busks:
have hitherto maintained a superiority over their Pat
ca the banks of the Indus. The mutinous regiment ore
to be re-organized, tae turned aside and encamped at
Prom this they have sent notice to the Government d
to be paid up and discharged, as they do
remain in the Sikh service any longer. Kober a
this from a body of mutineers, he it not! Fereral gear
been dispatched to restore them to subordination, but a
as yet, and sufficient means for their coercion have not
the disposal of these officers. Meanwhile the minima
the Fouj.i-klas, as the regiment is styled, have amt
the Governor-General requesting him to interfere el the
will probably do so, as the cause of the mutiny is ncoi
arenas—a matter in which the British Government
tine being done by the Durbar to their re-enlisted ed
Ilazareh country the Mabomedan tribes have rebels
new Soiereigh Maharajah Goolab Singh; and they ha'
successful as to base defeated his troops stationed thee
their commander with a few followers in a fortilistribi
also show symptoms of insurrection—instigated, rt use
late Sikh governor, who is prompted to thismane of e
worthy Prone Minister byre, who hates hie highwew of
hates, or ought to hate, the Prince of Darkens head
pretty
decided n.issive on this subject his readied
headquarters, front which the letters to the Rajah of b
more in the style of warning and rebuke than oroawl
present position of the Vixier, although the higbcst a
decidedly the most unenviable. He meat have sad fan
future. His pillow is not one of ranee,l7l warnat it
tlingh, the bazaar here is full of reports that he is prow
the British ; but I look upon these rePoct! I" 2"
Such an act of folly would be in opposite, to the
of the :Maharajah's life, which has been one of lax
where his interests were concerned, and of a well-fkw
; entitled to the name of wisdom in its war. It W
rq
brother of the Ranee's, who has lately been risii
young
onDe sent on a pilgrimage to Bemires. the is an in
on the part of the Visier, as the young ebid wash
looked up to by a number of discontented Sedan as
to his sister's favourite. This is one way of attar 8w
of the tion I The Ranee herself, by the way,
ha
religious of late, i. e., she distributes large somato the
poor people,
brother, who is unwell. He is expected, here 88'1:
Lawrence fs now on
osenri. money
tyrotoinGseinuya to
tobialdLgalenl
caller he or Major Lawrence wilt remain dared
British troops in Lahore. There is a report that err
camp next month, and start in Nevember. For the b
date I should be inclined to put the end of Decerobw, a
General will probably give the benefit of the presence
Army to the Sikh Government as long as eariantar
siouslyexprrneed resolution. But this ii etaoßnert
sure that Viscount Ilardinge himself has yet Mal uPw
time for our withdrawal.
Another correspondent of the same journal,
days later, says—
The slides behave very civilly towards us. but !..."
with great independence : they have a large b
ut hBr,
allowed to enter the city, except by permission, +.88.,
within ten miles round in two days they Can card
to tight against us. The town people say they are Tel
the British troops here, and that they never enloYew
quietude before, although I fancy there is atill a greator
going on, of which we have little notions Vere,
upper eases. Of. Lawrence arrived here us toeamongst:
i
and the }taw appear to be in grand:on-pate
say they will be dead In less than a week after
ied ear
b y
drawn. lam living in part of the hhouseoccup.
Kurruck Singh, in moons surrounded by mirnws az?ti
kinds. The heat is seldom less than lea elega
wind (at night espeeisili), owing to the heat fives
walla, so that we lie kackuir lend gasping tor brew...'ll
frunigmht,thleikietny.shesh.outA all
thewa
manly act of Men, and sees- ternrel ate and earare
have a good mess, band, and ask club, an by these Ili
we manage to get over the time. All the I,6mo:ft:- !
rate, and no one knows any one, except in In:,
races are to take place here in the mid, lk
of
being the great festival of the &Idol
1887"(11„
they will muster from all the remote cornet..
toeffir,,,thme e.Jinly
this
itsrirdmic teconint_t_ean
I
capital, and no doubt swayer their disbanded scPo?.%
attend; in ease there is to be a row it will owary•ly,
festival continues for. ten days. The whole of the
for the relief, which we expect here shortlY. zwi
the latter end of October ; and they sty that wf....47
but I fancy the news is too good to be true: !d;,..
forward young shaver, and is frequentle seen n
Sowdars after him. Ile caught a little boy the ottie;
his eye out with his thumb as a punishment. I eil
a few days ago tor murdering We son a he e
take care of his own neck. The Ranee onierd..o_,7

paintedth,ffifibrent colours, and placed on donkey with
wont' towards the tail, and eerier by a few salt Sepoys to the
ees they met with outside or the wateirtien they put a rope
op,a cis neck and quietly drew him left there kicking
gad widen be did for nearly twenty minutes. Vl,c stood
oda Rate and saw the whole affair. He has now been hanging for
gerisst eight days, and is to m position until rota
'. ttrZlicakrle, -7.1701! JR": rgidthdrA°
Zef,, days ago, but from what cause I don't know.—Agra Caro-
na*, SW- 2.
(From the Calcutta Star, Sept. 7.)
A few days ago we were " frightened from our propriety"
by the intelligence, through the_Dellq Gazeqe, that Lall
singh had been assassinated while riding out in the morn.
beg. The date of the event was put down for the 18th, but
it ultimately turned out that there was not the slightest
foundation for the event. Subsequently a correspondent of
a friend of a daily pi ner. here wrote from the Jullundur
Dab to say that Lalt Si:ltrh had been " fiddled at last."
There cannot be much differeZcfr of opinion as to Lall
Singh's ultimate fate if he continues at Lahore after the
British force shall have quitted it. According to the
latest reports, he is very busily engaged in paying up
the disbanded troops welt the money that is coming in
from the provinces, and it is said that he is acquiring popu-
larity be the discharge of these arrears. Dewan Moolraj
continues negotiating. In his latest protocol he states him-
self a be willing to pay the balance of eighteen lakhs re-
quired he the durbar, and to admit officers appointed by the
durbar to the command of forts within his jurisdiction, but
he asks, as a counter-agreement, the consent of the durbar
to credit him with the value of the stores and monitions of
war in those forts as a set off against the claim. The Dewan
still claims English interference and arbitration. From
feesbawur it would appear that the Yoosoofzaie insurrection
had been entirely put down, and that Share Singh was
on the batik of the Attock, preparing to follow up
his success by a pursuit of the ringleader, Ureulla
Khan, when he received a summons to appear at Lahore,
giving up charge of his forces and functions to Chittur
Singh. lie announced his readiness to obey the recta, and •
stated that a number of officers of his, who had been long
awry from court, were desirous to pay their respects at the
royal lere'e along with himself, a loyal yearning that was SSSS
over-rudely chilled by orders to them to return to their I
duties at Peshawar. Matters are evidently in states quo:
all eves being directed to the British movements, and all ,
effort; to the fabrication of excuses for consuming time till '
the retirement of the British army leaves the " strong
government" to manifest its capabilities. Major Lawrence
as busy in the Jullundur Doab, and Major M`Gregor has
woceeled thither to join him, the representative at the
Durbar being Mr. John Lawrence, brother nf the agent.
TILE JCLLUNDUR DOAB.—Seldom or ever have the
quarters hurriedly occupied by troops in a newly-acquired
territory received such commendations as those that have
been bestowed on alnicst every station in the Juilundur
Dab. Should the present season afford anything
like an average specimen of its climate, it seems
likely that our new territory will supply one vast sana-
torium
to the European troops on the North-West i
frontier. It is said that Loodianah is no longer to be main-
tained as a military post of any consideration—that station
being about to be advanced to Philoor, one of the lately-ac-
iuired fortresses. 90,000/. had arrived about the middle of
twist to pay the batta of the troops. The farmers were ex-
tending cultivation in all directions, andlands which for a lotz
lapse of years had been wasted, were be ginning to he crop
again, under the as experienced from our presence t at
the husbandman will be fully protected, and enjoy the fruits
of his labours. A slight disturbance had occurred be-
twixt the country people and the men of the 10th irregular
cavalry, brought on by the grasseutters of the latter hav-
ing extended their operations into private property. It
was easily suppressed, and so grateful do the people appear
for our interference, so happy under our protection, that
we are everywhere regarded with feelings of the utmost
kindness and affection. A survey of the rivea Bess was
in progress, with a view of selecting the most eligible
place that could be found for the construction of a bridge
to permit the Lahore force to return within the Doab, as
well perhaps as to enable the troops in the Doab to ad-
vance on the capital at a moment's notice should occasion
require.—The Jamoo chief is said to be strengthening his
army;
the rumours that he entertains hostile intentions to-
wards us are as yet unsupported. It is probably not in his
nature to remain long on terms with any one without some
dreams of treachery towards them. In Cashmere there
appear to have been some slight disturbances,—most proba-
bly not greater than those which occur continually, though
we now hear more of them front our closer proximity to the
place of their occurrence. The rumours of troops mustering
in strength on the frontier appear to have been extremely
exaggerated; they are once more passing away. They seem
to have arisen from the usual reliefs being made on a some-
what extended scale ; and from the embodyment of a couple
of new regiments, obviously intended to assist in absorbing
the disbanded Sikh soldiers. —Bombay Times, Sept. 15.
AI:G. 22.—Three days ago there was a very current re-
port here that Lall Sing had been shot, but I am happy to
say it was a false one, and the only foundation for it was
that sonic native banker had had it in a letter from Lahore.
General Littler, however, writes that as the Durbar is daily
becoming more strong there will be little danger in remov-
ing the troops. The Governor-General is determined on
withdrawing them in the cold weather, happen what will ;
and Abercrombie, the executive engineer, has been for some
days past surveying the banks of the Bess to form a perma-
nent bridge of boats at a suitable spot; so the Lahore force
will come into this Doab in all probability. Every thing is
so quiet here that no cause seems to exist for the prevalent
reports regarding the formation of au army in this Loeb in
the cold weather, and no preparation is being made either in
the collection of grain or carriage. Letters received yester-
day from Simla still state that we are all to be relieved.—
Mofriesilite, Aug. 28.
JAMOO.—It would appear from the return of the
Gover of the Hasareh province to Lahore, that the boundaries
between the sovereignties of Lahore and Jamoo have been
demarcated by commission. We have not, however, had
any formal announcement to that effect. The Star stated,
a few days ago, that a commission consisting of Mr. Vans
Agnew, of the Civil Service, and Captain Cunningham, of
the Engineers, had been appointed to lay down the boun-
daries between Golaub Singh's territories and our own, and
also between Golaub Singh and the Tartars. The whole of
the tales current about the time the last mail was de-
spatched, of differences between the British and Golauh
Singh, and the latter's running restive ou being called upon
to fulfil the stipulated conditions to which he had previously
subscribed—are (we have reason to believe) without the
smallest foundation, Several of our young officers have
been touring through his states in various directions, on
pleasure parties, or with scientific objects in view, and have
heed uniformly treated with consideration and kindness.
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER--We learn from private
letters that the dubious aspect of Lahore politics has deter-
mined the stay of the Governor-General in the neighbour-
hood of that country. The political officers have accord•
ingly prepared to lecate themselves at Simla during the
ensuing year. Lord Hardinge proposes to tour through the
Jullunder Doab and along our frontier, holding a grand fair
at Hooshearpore (eviler, wide-awake town), and it is not
improbable that his lordship will follow up with success a
consolidating and peace policy, if the sequence of events
across the Sutlej do not compel a recurrence to arms. We
have heard nothing further of the expected army of observa-
tion, the reports concerning which we noted last mail; but
we have confidence in Lord Hardinge, that he will not hazard
a second campaign like that of 1845-46. There has been a
slight disturbance at Ferozepore between the Hindoos and
Mshomrnedans of some corps there, in which blood
was drawn and life lost ; but we believe the matter
has been fully inquired into and the causes of disunion
removed, as well as the promoters of the disturbance traced.
At Loodianah we have probably been saved by an individual
accident front a repetition of the dreadful loss of life which
the last mail we see has occasioned ouch a sensation in
Btu/land. The debris of the unfortunate 50th (Queen's)
not finding sufficient accommodation in their own quarters,
and the Horse Artillery being now cantoned at Umballah, a
general order was issued to fit up the former hospital of the
Horse Artillery for the use of the 50th. It appears the
preparations went on for some time, when on the 12th
August the falling of a pillar, which killed a mason employed
on the repairs, seems for the first time to have suggested the
necessity of an examination into the trustworthiness of the
materials constituting the original buildiug. A committee
was ordered to report, and they reported that the building
" should be condemned as totally rotten an 4 unserviceable."
AITGUANISTAN.—The reconciliation of the Ameer
Dost Maliomed and his son has been followed by consider-
able devotion to business on the part of both, and events have
furnished them with business enough. The chronicler of
the Delhi Gazette reports that the Ameer held a general
muster of his troops, and to ensure attendance circulated an
unofficial rumour that its object was to pay up their arrears.
Whether the review was brilliant or otherwise the deponent
does not testify, but the rumour appears to have been the
cause of serious disturbance. Finding their pay not forth-
coming, the artillery seized their commander Shah
Mahommed Khan, as a hostage for the performance I
of what they considered a promise, and the, mutiny
assumed a formidable appearance. Force was at first
sought to be resorted to, to crush the demonstration, but the
infantry were found to be as refractory as the artillery, and
concession as the alternative was then attempted. A sum of
money was forwarded to the artillery and a solemn promise
with it, that their arrears should be discharged within the
following month. The measure wassuccessful, but the next
day the infantry followed the example of the artillery and
mutinied for pay I. They too achieved success, the Araeer
being compelled to borrow money for partial discharge of
the arrears. And there the matter rests, till the Ameer's
peomiasery notes fall due. There is some mysterious
hint Fit en about a negotiation endeavoured to be
opened by the Ameer with the British, a thing we
apprehend considerably more likely than any nego-
tiation with the Persian sovereign. The source from which
we draw, which will be found in another column, talks
about the Ameer wishing the British to be 011 the same
terms kith hint as Shah Soojah, and says that he (the
Ameer) " is most willing to receive similar support on the
same conditions, being most anxious to enter into a treaty
by which he might derive some benefit." We have little
doubt ,d the sincerity of the Ameer in such a wish, seeing
the !ite.e of his treasory as above evidenced. What a Whig
Itrdstry and a llobhouse Board of Control may see fit to
cio with Central-Asian relations, remains for the
womb of time to show. The notorious Ameenoo-
lah has been released at the intercession of the
Candaliar eirdare, and so has Sultan Jan Khan;
both nc.aies familiar to the readers of the numberless vo-
lumes generated by the Affghan campaign. A vakeel from
Balkh 11:d presented himself at Cabal on behalf of his master
Attalek Beg, begging assistance against the Bokhara tyrant.
At first the Amcer fought shy of a specific answer, but on
being pr.,sed stated that two of his sons were going to the
nautili countries, and that when they had accomplished
the work they had to do in that neighbourhood, they would
proceed to otter their services to the Balkh state, if requisite.

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