The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

HURRICANE AT MARSEILLES.

MARSEMIX3, Nov. 27.

A hurricane prevailed here last night which
caused some damage to the docks during the low
tide, but more serious mischief was caused in the
roadstead, where several ships parted from their
anchors and six of them were driven against the
quay. Two of these ships, the Panchisa and the
Escolastica, were Spanish vessels, laden with sugar
from the Havana. The other vessels wrecked were
a Marseilles merchantman, the Notre Dame de St.
Garde, bound for Gibraltar ; two Italian vessels,
the San Antonio Abbatti and the Giovanni, the
former bound for Civita Vecchia and the latter for
Barcelona ; and an Austrian vessel, the Anagram.,
bound for Trieste with a cargo of sugar. Seven
houses were partly thrown down by the violence of
the hurricane, and several persons killed.
The mail steamers which ought to have left yes-
terday were unable, in consequence of the weather,
to leave the port until this morning.

INDIA.
We have received papers from Bombay, dated
November 1; Calcutta, October 22 ; and Madras,

October 29.
The government of India in a long despatch bas
answered Sir Charles Wood's attack on the financial
department of Mr. Laing's budget. Admitting
some trifling errors, the policy of the budget is
vigorously defended.
The Bombay government has brought before
the governMent of India the urgent necessity
which exists for a branch line of electric
telegraph, diverging from the main line near
Dharwar and connecting it with the new port of
Sedasewghur and other important trading towns in
the district of North Caner& The local govern-
ment has represented the great desirableness of
having this branch line completed and ready for
use by the time when the cotton crop of the coming
season would be ready for conveyance down the
IGhats for shipment at Sedasewghur.
The subscriptions from Bengal to the Cotton
Districts Relief Fund now amount to 10,000/.—the
sum of 1,0001. being transmitted by this maiL A
public meeting was to be held in Calcutta on the
6th of this month, to appeal to public sympathy
more strongly and to organise a wide scheme of sub-
scription, such as was so successfully adopted
in the case of the famine in the North
Western Provinces. A permanent committee
will probably be nominated to stir up the native
community, who have as yet done little or
nothing, and to communicate with the Mofuasil
stations and native courts. The Cakutta English-
men says :—" We trust that whilst exercising to
the utmost their own spirit of charity and urging
the same duty upon their wealthy native neigh-
bours, the promoters of this organisation and the
public at large, Indian and English, will not lose
sight of the large reserve awaiting their legitimate
demands foe its application, in the surplus of the
Famine Relief Fund, which can in no other way
be so well and usefully applied."
Lord Elgin's health has not materially failed him.
He will no doubt (says the Madras Athessansa) be
greatly invigorated by the cold weather at Calcutta
and his approaching summer stay on the Hima-
layas. •
In its commercial summary tl,e Englishman says :
Esports, if we may judge frees the last few days, would
seem to be largely on the increase, and busy times are
expected by business men. The reins are now de-
cidedly breaking off, and were any proof of this
wanting it is afforded by the fact that within
the last two days we have been in direct communication
with Bombay by electric telegraph, the distance being, by
the route followed—vis., from Calcutta to Agra and thenoe
to Bombay, 1,1560 miles, no intermediate office receiving
the message. There can be no further doubt, then, with
maid to the out-tarn of the crops, which are stated to
be very good from all quarters connected with our
port. The enhanced value of money in Bombay
has had the double effect of raising the rate
of exchange and depressing the value of government secu-
rities here, of which latter a considerable ateouut is expec-
ted daily for diapceal in this market. Spite of the de-
pressing influences of the daily advancing price of money,
the market for paper is wonderfully strong, and there are
many purchasers who are waiting the opportunity to pur-
chase when the increased trade which invariably occurs at
this season of the year shall have depressed the Wads to a
lower point than at present exists.