The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Oriental Company's steam packet Iberia. Cap-
min J. Sown, arrived here this morning, and landed
her mails under the charge of Lieut. J. J. Wilkinson,
R.N., Admiralty agent, which were forwarded to
London by the next train. Her dates dates are :
Gibraltar, April 5 ; Cadiz, 6 ; Lisboa, 9; Oporto, 10;
Vigo, 10. She brings specie to the value of 2,9401.
Her cargo inclades a hyena and a wild cat, a present
from the Queen of Portugal to her Majesty.
Lisbon letters of the 9th state that Mr. Hislop has
accepted, without restriction, the government cindi-
tions for the formation of the Portuguese Railway,
and has obtained the contract, providing he can get
the sanction of the Cortes.

Exchange, M. Discount of notes of the Bank of
Lisbon, 21 per cent.
The skip Orestes, which left Gravesend a short
time since with the Australian mail, has pot into
Lisbon in a leaky condition. Her mail has been.
brought back to England in the Iberia.

INDIA AND CHINA,
THE OVERLAND MAIL..

The despatches in anticipation of the On /Hai id
Mail have arrived. The dates are—Calcutts,: Mar ch
5; Bombay, March 14; Madras, March 11); •and
China, Feb. 23.

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The following is a summary of the Bottsba y mss
The intelligence sent home from Burma last
mail came down to the 14th February. r ,dings
have since then reached us to the 23d ; br ,t they
afford us nothing more than an extension or con-
firmation of what had been formerly received.
The robber chief, Mesa Toon, who ow isioned so
much mischief, 'as, it is said, offered to
surrender himself, a price of 1,000 rupees being
set upon his head; and it has been *remarized that
it would be cheap at the money, if it coup . only be
( transferred to the shoulders of tho 13riti eh general.
There have been some disturbances in I ihawulpore,
; which have compelled us to lisp, .tch a force
from Sukkur for their suppression. The Nawab
has been deposed by his Peon' .e, or has ab-
dicated, on finding himself u ,table to main-
tain his ground, in favour of his brother,
Ilajee Mahomed, the rightful h.eir, late a prisoner
in lslamghur, who in vain 'setitioned the British
government for his release, ar A permis,ion to reside
as a subject in the coutv.ry which he now rules.
Nu act of disloyalty IV been committed by him
against us, and we n 4.11 in all likelihood ratify the
choice of the people, interfering merely to the extent
of preventing civil war. The Illee it pp&only
the oldest, but i's the only kgitimnie stia.ofinie
valued ally, th,.: late Nawab4,lll6.lfhint jus(lo4,
eated is a bast:rd who has set lip seielrby Zeira
influence. The hill people gm. our.:serth.
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f unurt ate quiet for the peseta, unit general Iran
preiails throughout India. The young
Maharajah of Gnalior was installed into office
with great pump and ceremony on the 19th
of February. The NIZILM of Hyderabad seems
anxious to hasten his fate. Overwhelmed with
debt, and unable to meet the claims of his chief cre-
ditor, the British government, ho is determined on
increasing his army, which already, exclusive of the
contingent, exceeds 60,000 men. The Governor-
General has, it is said, forwarded his ullimotime to
the resident, which it is supposed will include the
dismissal of a moiety of the mercenary force thus
being augmented. Much surprise has been ex-
perienced that no whisper should have u yet
reached as as to tho successors to the present
governors of lionamey and Madras. Sir Henry
Pottinger was sworn in on the 7th of April, and
Lord Falkland on the Ist of May, 1848, and at thess
dates respectively will the customary term of their
services expire. There iv no occasion fur their retir-
ing, however, till their successors ar.ive, and it is
not likely that either will quit his post until relieved.
The Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bombay
proceed to Nliehableshwar in the course of the
week. Two small detachments, amounting to
about a hundred men each, drawn from the
various European corps in the Presidency, have
been ordered to assemble on the hills and at
Poona, the one to be drilled under the immediate
inspection of his Excellency, the other to be taught
by a military instructor, who has just arrived, with
a view of introducing into their respective regiments
the instructions they have received. The Governor-
General has returned from British Burnish to Cal-
cutta. The Conimander-in-Chief of India has not

yet returned to Simla, from his inspections.
The meet notable incident that has occurred
daring the past fortnight is the removal of Messrs.
Le (icyt and Grant, two puisne judges in the
Company's Supreme Court the Sadder Adawlut,
from the bench, under circumstances of extreme
hardship and injustice. These things have fallen
out very opportunely for the cause of reform, and
in whichever way they are viewed will go far to
refute much of what his been net forth before the
parliamentary committees. An open or fair inquiry
is nut looked for here ou the part of government by
any one, and a petition, which will go home next
mail, is now being subscribed, praying for a parlia-
mentary committee to collect evidence on these
and other matters to be laid before parliament be-
fore the passing of the India Bill, and entreating
that this may he postponed till Dec., or passed only
for a single year.