The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

meeting has just tat n place for the purpose of orge-416..
district schools throughout the presidency, ani —"11
aiding sod guiding the efforts of there already tf
existence, with the view of disseminating kimw,
ledge amongst the humbler class• a of the tem,.
silty. Of this, as of most of our eclueational rape, raw,
the most active promoter fa our Chief Jucice, Sir Eraki4
Perry.—Doctor Hunter, et Madras, is at present py.j.„.
ing the establishment of a School of Inoustry at that pre,
sidency, on the model of the Bombay tends:whoa:et , f lit
name, which latter, we tee glad to say, continues t, le,
per, end begins to produce fruits.-1 be eirovensorC , ~,g
of India is about this time at Peehawur, on a tour ct i 5;.,,,,,
tioa.—The Governor of Bombay has returned to the jetii,
deny from Mahaboleshwar, where he bad berg guy the
middle of September for the recovery of bit health : he ea.
peers to be entirely restored: he is at present residing at Peril!.
—Sir
i
—Sir O. Anderson has arrived at Ceylon, but nes not a yes
assumed the reins of government, having prceed,..l his eat.
°Aisne : the regret for his departure expressed by 0241
people of the Mauritius is deep and universl. "b„,
is no longer any doubt that Sir Charles lispier hr„.
a mon'h hence to Europe via Sande and 84,0.-"
The discussions regarding the value of his c.,,,,,,,,74
compel those in India to form an erimate of
services and character, where they are knows, a
different as possible from that which appr-rs to be e,,tee
ownietrovuallute.,,thgaemermlii.is:!.jyt['meatier a-e.
, and regret 1..
rently from fraternal pens, with which the LO::klollj'Aenili
dt aeill:aerdt u ar
t —the
home;m e
abound, are here made mover of ridicule eel j,,,.
To contrast with the refusal of the commander-in.eLief z
attend to the court's recommendation to merty ra 04
ease of Major Bertleman, we have !he rase 4
the Madras army of an officer convicted of kit
having boasted that he had reduced an innocent .tirl, a fer,er
pleseogcr to India, and then having been compelled to cc.
fess that the imputation was a slieer fall hood : he els
allowed to resign to escape a court martial, and there s ftit
permitted to es ithdra e his resiguatim ; and he is now tie
duty with his regiment, without any Idea being cetera:et;
of bringing him to justice.
Ensign Hunter, of the 24% Heaps! NJ., le,s been'.:
missed the service Pr failing to meet his h tbi' Ives, and !.!
prevarication on the subject. Lieutenant Ma leotard...
11.5.1.'628th, was in 1846 convicted of an (dresses of ',.it
description, but infinitely more aggravated ; he vise e„>
teoced to dismissal without airy reconseseudet.oa to 'cern.
but returned to his regiment without so much vs a rr,r;t
or exhortation by Lord Gough. A very FULCtssrui h,.;,,,,.
ascent, the first in India has just talon puree a, Cai.ace
a second is projected, when the aeronauts, who before we,
destitute ot instruments,wili be fully provided with the re re,
of pureuing scientific reseerches.—Commander 5,.,-y
week since, in the brig Palicurus, with the vie - -te,
the survey of the BI Usher c)nst, • very small Kira
has hitherto been examined by hydrniree`:,,r,

Taylor is at present engaged in a e,srvey 0 o'e
Cutch ; this is proposed to be carried round itu
Cambay, and so southward by Surat to Bombay.
of Cambay, whicl will be re-examined, w
purveyed by Csptain Ethersey fourteen y
A defalcation to the event of 12,016/.

172eniiseov;red oil the part of Major Angel'', in r
North Western Bank of iodic Major An,e1..4 c.

was shown two years since to haei been thd ••rt • .r.
extreme, but be had powerful hien& am net t
holders. Ho retained his appointment. and the p-r,
mutt was to have been looked for. The ellreo.

Dank give ttoir reasons for this measure is

cireala-r manifesto :

in consequence or the discovery of diticiecCie
by apparently fictitious entries in the books I me
detailed below, and mule under auth nits? tit M r
own :handwriting, to the extent et re. 1,12.5.0 i ••
sire or interest PI devils hilow • .

" The directors of the North' Western Bar 1, 'f to
deemed it imperstiveon them to sue cod Maiir

his *Ass ollectstary owl spat t have scot to

tart', Mr. C. B. Wood, to take charge t. ti
agency; have called their Musso.rie agent to ".t!
charge of the bank; and direct'," DfajcrAeg ti

" The directors have called on Major Atigai,'s eccui
be prepared to meet deticieheies to the eve-t Li tLe.,
they will also adopt every lawful measure to eceme t.
from ultimate Lou.

Period to Dec. 31, 1660.
Date, Debited to Ra. A.P. In. 111s.D Ft I‘. a.
Feb. 11,1843, London 27,271 11 6 2 10 20
. .

1);. 11 7,410 15 0 2 10
Do. 11 .•..Calacta 17,120 12 0 2 10 19
March 14....Calaatta 41,079 9 0 2 9 17

DJ. 27 ....LAW= 19;636 6 9 2 9 1

Principal ... 112,520 5 9
Interest 31.976 7 9

Total 144,496 7 6
" No credits have ever been given by the Cairuta L.
London agencies for these debits.
" By order of the trustees and D:rectors,
" WILLIAM FRITH, Agent in char:
The pertinacity with winds toe press of India are •
tome London journals of stating, in reference to nibs'
tam what they Lever stated or dreamt of, P ems
to withdraw attention from the occasional n:lusieni xis
by them to extravagance which no one dare di, .e
We are hostile to railway mismanagement, lied arse
d'esemination of the oatrageons deletions in ref. rent,
effects likely to be produced by them en the agricultur
distric:e
hundreds of miles, and we are called the enemies of roi.•
Our antagonists put words in our mouths we au 1...
then confute them, knowing that what we hove actual!.
is indisputable. We shall believe that it is intern`
,':tend the guarantee of five per cent to railways a.: -
India indefinitely, when we see it on effici authority.-.
till then ; if it b true, therscan be no Litticulty of pro ..
evidence of the fret ; that none is forthcoming is proof e..
to us that none exists. The Calcutta Legislative C
hays taken thirteen months to prepare an act to ,nablr
to be obtained possession of, and yet we ern told that
can be more satistactory man our progress: it is <;n•fe:
to those who are pail by the time expended—, re .1
remusierated by the work per:brined, it might be tutor
Bombay has of late been distinguishen tut the nu:-:
cod atrocity of the murders that have been to on
amongst us. At the July session•, a Pomp. se eas f
guilty of stsbbing with a knife a young more'• d PONE -
an advanced state of pregn.incy ; the died of the ammo!.
the murderer was hanged. At trot criminal unions of •
2nd, two men were tried and condemned for murder
was hanged—the other was reprieved on thy r.
tag precedMg his intended execution. They .L
entered the house of a kept mistress, by Co, I:ivenc Ot •
male friend—tied up her head with a feriae, sod etC.:
suffocation by sitting on her bosom. The wretches ,c
to have been from ten to fifteen minutes nectip:ed
murderous work, while the woman who adcu,;..: atm. 0.,
by her own account, bound on the floor. Tee rabbi r
sired to be perpetrated was then committed. While

sites were skiing, another murder, equany t

and atrrcious, occurred. A poor old wolaan,aa 01

;loosened some jewels: shit was enticed into a
ling-house' and while measuring out oil wa.
tacked by two Parsee., and strangled with a
rope. These three last murders all of •
°centred within a fortnight of each toner.
now • little breathing space; amongst horrors such
the strangulation of an infant by its mother is scare...lo-
- of notice, when three weeks since we find a C
done to death by two European sailors. We have • t!'
horsekeeper poisoned ; then four men butchered at
in a fit of fury by members of another religkui sect
court. esn poisoned, three othere narrowly escaping _,A.t.e+
by a couple of men for the sake of plunder; in
months nine human lives cruelly destroyed by murder,
and nearly forty individuals charred with murder
or u accomplices. The death of the Ctloaman c-
slanghter at Kilda were perpetrved in pas..im; tte
were cold blooded atroeties, perpetrated by the meet
means, for the most paltry motives. While
blood such as those under investigation, some fort
is promised us on the slaughter of the woman fon .1 a
month since, eat piecemeal, and strewed in fregm.nts
on the flats,—so that in reality for months on rod C.
a week has passed where some matter coed
murder cue has not been under investigation at tte
office.

PIeMAIM/I.—The great amount of sickness recent:y
veiling at Peehawur has induced us to revert to the
inns of a committee which woo assembled at th.it
March 1849, to examine and rep,rt upon a site for e cc.
meet in the neighbourhooa. This committee coat.w-,
I will be remembered, at Brigadier Cohn
president, with the superintending surgeons art il.t Liu
and Bombay column. (Drs. Dempster and Straker). C,
Goldie, Bengal Enginden, and Captain J. Raway.
Q. M. General, as member,. Having met, the CO
proceeded to examine the surrounding country, and r:a
on a tract of elevated lend near the village of Cue..
situated 'n a south-west direction from the old Sr
tenment, end to the west of the fort of Podium?:
chief reasons assigned by the committee for
this locality were—its central position, the c°!"
it possessed over the surrounding country—more
ticululy of the road lending to the lihyb. r
its vicinity to the Bala Hissu and aitY, ,
mitting of one portion of it being protected by the guns
former without the inconvenience of a too close pew°.
to the latter. The medical advantages lay in its
situation, its firm soil, and the abundance of water to he
all over the locality. Oa the desirablenan of the sow.;
sanitary point of view the medical members report:d at
length. In the first place, the neceseity of prohibition
irrigation within certain limits round the site of the ritel
tonment was pointed out. The distance my they, whf„
cures safety from the effects of meliria aeries liceor"-7.
circumstanced, some of which can only be scam'
ascertained after considerable local experience ; hut t.
such a stiff clay soil, and unlimited facility cf sirameiee .
land, as exist in the neighbourhood of Beaten:lr, the 0.
mitten considered two miles a prudent distance-48!
at least being deemed absolutely essential to tos be.'"
the troop., unless where any part of the city might isuteeo
betwixt them and the malatiou locality. In 111'43)eg
this, the most perfect drainage of the camp we' ;us
mended ; as also that the burial of the dead in a 31.t0z
cemetery lying betwixt the city and the site of the 0.
tonment, should be prohibited. An additional riensow.r.
tion of the spot selected was, that it bad been het,
I occupied by the Seikh troops, who were supposed t? dF
the advantages it afforded in a sanitary point "• add
Though the spot was comparatively small, still the
i tapes it otherwise presented cleerly pointed it est
ss
most eligible locality in the immediate neighhuarhee°l',
3
cantonmi nt. We are not aware *hi :ter sem a!:
(or the :roops have been built on this 1.:t0 or not. It.
have, and the system of draining receinmended
committee has been properly corned out, then tt t'
cidepaattiotnsha
esnitetenainaeleecdtedregharaidinlaigki.tis two :teralityiaa,
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