The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

raw, Lieutenants Broome, Wroughton, Edwardes ;
and Nicolsoa had previously reached camp. Ths.y
proceeded upwards, and on tho 29th were at a
place called Thannah, which place thy had
reached on the 25th, but had been unable to
proceed, owing to heavy falls of rain during
the four days betwixt the former and latter
date. Thannah is but one march from the highest
point of the Peer Punjal pass leading into Cashmere.
Intelligence had been received that Shaikh Emaum-
ood-deen had quitted Cashmere in progress to join
Goolaub Singh ou the 24th. Faquecr Dolla Khan, the
chief a Rajouree, one of the leading characters in the
rebellion, had given himself up to Lieutenant
pa-T(1,5 ou the 17th at Naosheia, and been for-
et-9111A on to Lahore. The Seikh force under Shere
siegh, moving ) towards Cashmere from Lahore by
Mozatterah""l llartni x,lti ltd the western entrance
Of the valley, had been joined by Lieutenants Lums-
den and Nicholson, and were making good progress
towards the latter-named place ; and it was supposed
that the forces on the south and west of the valley
would make a simultaneous entry by the Fcer Punjal
and Poonch passes should the Sheikh Emaum-ood-
deen's conduct render it necessary. It would
appear that this chief had joined Colonel Law-
rence on the 30th of October, or otherwise
the advance of General Littler's force would
not have been countermanded. Sheikh Emaum-ood-
deen first visited Cashmere at the time Sheikh Goo-
laum Mohee-ood-deep was beseiged in Hurree Purvut
by the rebellious Seikh troops, who was Governor of
the province from 1810 to 1846. Emanm-ood-deen
was born in the Jullundur Duab, where he possesses
large jaghires. Ile is said in his youth to have been
a seller of shoes, and to owe his rise in the state to
the late Prince Nao Nehal Singh. Should he, as is
almost certain, have come in, there will be a cessation
of warlike movements towards Cashmere. The Ho-
orah district has been quieted and brought into order
by .a brother of Shere Singh's. The differences be-
twixt the NIVLITII of Maoltan have been finally settled
by that chief consenting to pay 35,0001. to the Lahore
Clovernment in liquidation dell State claims on his pro-
aince, and by a promise on his part to pay a fourth more
revenue than formerly to the Treasury. A considerable
portion of cauntry has been taken from him and made
over to Misr Bu2waun Singh, a relation or dependent
of the Prime Minister's. lie had been inv:sted with
full authority over his own portion of Mooltan, and
left Lahore on his return to his capital on the 31st
October, highly gratified with the result of his visit
.to the Barber. You will thus see that matters are
progressing favourably in the Punjaub, and that the
result of Lord Hardinge's policy is likely to turn out
what all lovers of peace and tranquillity would desire.
There can scarcely be a doubt that all the provisions
of the treaty of Umritsir will be fully carried out, and
that our troops will be back in their own provinces by
the beginning of 1847.
The 24th and 59th N. 1., the Bth Irregulars, and a
detachment of artillery, arc at Samba, in the Jamoo
territories, under Colonel Bird of the 24th; two com-
panies of the 41st, occupy the fort of Jusmeerghur,
and the remainder of the detachment under CoL
Sibbald, were encamped outside the walls of the for-
tress. A detachment of two companies of the 44th,
under Captain Goddard, were at Noorpoor in the
Doab. The artillery from Ferozeporo moved from
their camp outside the walls into Lahore on the 25th
October, the 3d Irregular and 6th Regular Cavalry,
remaining outside the town. All was quiet at the
capital. The weather was beautiful, and the health
of our troops good.
Nothing of consepience has been reported from the
Jullundur Doab. the 3Gth, 72nd, 46th, N.I. ; the
2nd Europeans, the 11th Regular, and the 16th Irre-
gular Cavalry, had all reached the frontiers, in pro-
gress to relieve the 50th, 2nd, and 11th N. 1., and the
let and sth Cavalry, which corps were to return to
the provinces. Several changes had been made in the
locations of the troops in the province.
The troubles in Affghanistan continue to increase.
The Ghilzaes, a chief of which tribe had been mur-
dered at the instigation of Ukhbar Khan, have de-
manded the surrender of the murderer—a tool of the
Wuzeer's. All the passes leading from Peshawur to
Cabool have been shut up, and traders were conse-
quently unable to carry on their traffic. These had
appealed in a body to Dost Mahomed, who had pro-
mised to do something shortly which would relieve
them of their difficulties. Altogether the country
was in a deplorable condition—not likely to be im-
proved by the conduct of the "arch fiend," who con-
tinued to suffer from a disease of the eyes.
The Khord tribes of Orissa have lately been causing
some disturbances, but through the energy of Captain
Macpherson all has again become tranquil. The
Governor-General quitted Simla on the 26th Oct.,
and would reach Loodhiana about the Bth Nov. The
Governor of Madras has not yet returned to the pre-
sidency; he has been on a visit to Bangalore, and in-
tends visiting Calicut, on the coast. The :Marchioness
of Tweeddale is shortly about to return to England
with her son, the Earl of Gifford. The Hon. Mr.
Reid returns to Bombay in a few days. The
Bishop of Bombay returned to the presi-
dency on the 6th. Sir David Pollock took
his seat on the Bombay bench as Chief
Justice on the 3rd, and is generally liked by all
around him.
The ship Elizabeth Walker, from Bombay to China,
has been totally destroyed by fire at sea; as usual, the
crew all escaped. Is it not singular that vessels never
take fire when they are out at sea out of reach of land ?
The circular from the London Board of Directors of the
Oriental Bank has given very general dissatisfaction
to the shareholders in India. Earthquakes and inun-
dations have been of frequent occurrence of late in
Bengal, the consequences of the latter having been
very disastrous. India generally is healthy ; and the
cola weather, which is just setting in, will keep it so,
most likely, for some time.

SCOME.—The intimation that two European and
five Native regiments, with nearly the whole of the regular
cavalry and artillery, are in the course of a few months to
be withdrawn from the Indus, is the principal item of intel-
ligence with which Sciude supplies us. As our frontier is
pretty much in the same condition now, as to strength and
tranquillity, that it has been for two years past, the infer-
ences to be deduced from this are, either that the force of
15,000 men hitherto maintained for its defence has been
superfluously strong, or that 7,000 to which .it is
about to be reduced must be dangerously weak.
The truth is not unlikely on the present occasion to lie
betwixt the two:—the financial difficulties from which we
at present are suffering, naturally lead to the contraction of
the drain through which a million sterling is annually drawn
to meet the deficiencies in Scinde; while the approaching
change in the political arrangements on the Indus will get
rid of the necessity of maintaining an enormous army to
enable a warlike governor to indulge his love of battle by
going forth into the wilderness or the mountains to see and
provoke some one to quarrel. 11.M.'s 17th is about to em-
bark for England; ll.M,'s 86th is understood to be on the
eve of its return to Bombay i while H.M.'s 60th Rifles are
said to be intended for service is Bengal : the three corps
are now at Kurrachee. The building of the barracks for
Europeans at Hydrabad still goes on, though it is now known
they are never likely to be occupied.
The following we give, though we cannot credit it: —The
mother of Meer Shaded, we are informed, recently applied
to Sir Charles Napier for permission to send four men on a
mission to her son. Permission seas granted—and by Sir
Charles's orders, the men were proviaed with purteannahs,
or passports of safe conduct, to Surat. More treacherous
than the conduct of Proteus to Bellerophon, was that of the
Governor of Scinde to the Royal lady whom he thus pre-
tended to oblige. The same officer who was directed to fur-
nish her messengers with the purwannsdm, was also instructed
to have these men narrowly and secretly watched; to have
them waylaid on the frontier of Scinde, carefully searched,
and then brought back to Hydrabad. These orders were
duly executed. About seven hundred rupees in money, and
some jewels, were found ba the men.
NIZAM'S DOM IN lON B.—After for a length of time stre-
nuously resisting the wishes of our government in the matter
of a change of ministry, his Highness the Nizam has at last
consented to the measure ; and what is of more conse-
quence still, has actually nominated and installed as prime
minister the nobleman of our choice—Sooraj-col-Moolk
a man whom he had shortly before charged " with a
design to bring the English down upon him," and posi-
tively declared that he of all others should never be at the
head of affairs. He has, however, wisely attended to our
request, and we learn from the Gentlemen's Gazette of the
14th instant, that the above-named nobleman has been
appointed to the pest of Dewan or Minister, " with full
powers to make such arrangements as to the latter might
appear bet for the extrication of the affairs of that state
front the diserfranisation into which they have fallen,
and especially from the financial embarrassments which
have nearly paralysed the functions of his government.
The Nuwaub, who is one of the nobles of the country,
u said to possess much administrative talent, and as he
I, always been considered as a man of honour and late-
grltY—entoying the confidence alike of his sovereign and
the people, as well as of the British representative—it is
hoped that he will be able to carry out those measures
which the interests of the Nizam, and the good of the
people imperatively demand, for the restoration of order
and commercial confidence, on a sound basis—but which his
predecessors have so lamentably failed in carrying into effect.
this appointment of a responsible minister, which was often
r
ged on his Highness by the British Resident, is, we un-
derstand, in accordance with the wishes of the government
of India. The Nuwaub was installed on the 7th instant in