The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-02 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS

VIA TRIESTE.

(From the Daily News.)

Since the combination of the high-priced Journals
against the Daily News—a coalition as unwise as it
was disgraceful—we have succeeded in almost every
instance in anticipating our contemporaries in the pub-
lication of foreign and colonial news, with the single
exception of India intelligence. As respects the
Overland Mails, time was of course requisite
for the completion of arrangements, and the
establishment of agencies necessary to conduct
so extended a communication. The new year
however, has opened triumphantly for us and oar
subscribers, and we have succeeded in beating the Com-
bined, even with India news. The result is, that we are
now enabled, through the indefatigable exertions of
Lieut. Waghorn, to present our readers with full de-
tails of news from India received, ria Trieste, in
anticipation of the expresses by way of Marseilles.
Hitherto, when our daily contemporaries were fortu-
nate enough to anticipate us with India news, we have
made it an invariable practice to acknowledge the
journal from which our information has been de-
rived. In the present instance we have not been
treated with the same honesty. Knowing, from
experience, the wholesale practices of pirating from
our columns without acknowledgment, we took the
precaution, in our first issues, this morning, of altering
some few words in the summary of the Bombay Times.
Our plan has succeeded. We have yet seen only the
second editions of two of the Combined ; and the fact
is clear, that they have issued second editions, and
copied our India intelligence without having had the
decency to acknowledge that they had taken _it from
the Daily News.
As we have already said, our readers are indebted
to the energy and perseverance of Lieut. Waghorn
for this anticipation of the India MaiL The latest
dates are Calcutta, Nov. 22, and Bombay, Dec. 2:—
This mail was brought to Suez by the steamer
Victoria, together with the following. parsengers :
Mrs. Woodhouse, Mrs. Sutter and child, Mn'. Bell,
and child of Capt.Oiberne, Lieut.-Colonel Woodhouse,
Rev. G. F. Satter, T. James, Esq., Lieut. G. F. Duke,
Lieut. Bell, T. B. Jackson, Esq.. Lieut. G. Itennie,
Dr. Joaquim Pinto de Mayathas, and M. Jacina di
Silva Baptister.
The following is the summary of the Bombay Times:
The past fortnight has proved rather barren
of intelligence. The insurrection in Cashmere
is now fairly over : the Sheikh Eaten-alp-DERN
surrendered himself into our hands on the 31st of
October, and troops advancing on the lately disturbed
country were immediately ordered to return to
quarters. Sir JOHN LITTLER'S force commenced
their retrograde movement on the 4th, and
reached Lahore on the 12th—the General himself
having quitted them on the march, and proceeded
to Loodhiana. The troops sent from Femzepore to
occupy for a time the Seikh capital, moved out on the
9th, and took their way in the direction of the Sutle.j.
The brigade of Colonel Wheeler were at Sealkotc
the Jullundar Doab on the 10th. The Mooltan mis-
understandings seem fully arranged, and there
appears every reason to believe that the provi-
sions of the treaty of Umritsir will be satisfactorily
carried out, and our army within our own domi-
nions by January, 1847 ; a triumphant answer to the
cenaurers of the pacific policy now for the first time
tried in India, and likely to be gloriously saccesefuL
Scinde continues quiet. Rumours are rife of the
immediate retirement of Sir C. Napier from office.
According to one account he will quit Kurra-
chee on the 12th December ; according to another,
he will extend his stay till March : no one expects
that he will remain till the approach of the hot
season. The rumour mentioned in our last, that the
messengers bearing letters to her eon from the mother
of Meer Shandad had been pursued, arrested, and
stripped of their despatches, by order of the governor,
after he had given them a safe conduct to Surat,
proves authentic. This most extraordinary pro-
oeeding is supposed to have been resorted to
with a view of discovering some matters in
the letters of a parent which might criminate
the son, and help to eke out that singular species of
justification of the conquest of Scinde supposed to be
contained in the blackening of the character of the
Ameers ! The climate within the Delta continued cool
and healthy, but at Sukkur considerable sickness pre-
vailed. Three companies of artillery, one regiment of
cavalry, and five of infantry, are about to be with-
drawn from the coun leaving still behind a force of
about 15,000 men. When the expedition. 13,000
strong, moved on Bahawulpore in February, nine
thousand were sent from Bombay to join them, or
supply their places : none of these have hitherto
been withdrawn. The Bengal force which returned
to Upper India, were about six thousand five hun-
dred strong. The local corps having been doubled,
left a force, which still remains, on the Indus,
of nearly twenty-four thousand men. By the pro-
posed reduction of betwixt seven and eight thousand
it will still remain sixteen thousand strong. At this
it stood when the parliamentary returns, showing
that the country cost us nearly a million a year,
were made up : from November, 1845, to Novem-
ber, 1846, the military charges must have been
nearly doubled : the balance required to be
drawn from India will now once me... fall
back to about a million a year. The Fir....per
Cent. Loan, which this fearful drain has
created, is filling up slowly, and one of six per
cent. is talked of. The late ministry are said to have
been favourable to the restoration of the Ameers. The
Whigs are restrained from this by the order of the
Duke of Wellington, who backs out Lord Ellenbo-
rough and the Napiers in all things : and =ken
parliament interfere, a few years hence the
finances of India 7.ey nirr.i•li an excuse for the
increase, as they did in 1842 for the imposition of the
income tax. The Governor-General had by latest se-
counts reached Loodhiana on his way to the 'aline-
der Doab. The Commander-in-Chief had not yet
gaitted —The Governor of Madras was
ea his way back from Bangalore to the Neil-
hills. The Governor of Bombay has re-
turn 3 to the presidency; as also has Sir T.
McMahon. At the recommendation of the Court of
Nizamut Adawlut, the Deputy Governor of Bengal
has remitted the fine and imprisonment ordered to be
inflicted on the Editorof the MoslntoinChronicle by the
Commissioner of the Tenasserim Provinces. The new
minister at Hyderabad, in the Nizam's dominions, has
given much satisfaction by the manner in which he
has commenced his career. His salary is 30,0001. a
year, independent of as much more in the shape of