The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-21 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov., 2Q.
The Neue Freussieeke Irresiz Zeitung of this even-
ing publishes the reply of the King to an address
expressing attachment from several districts of
Prussian-Saxony. His Majesty says :
"I shall continue to maintain the reorganization
of the military force. I have been misrepresented
in many quarters, and my words have been misun-
derstood.. I have sworn to uphold the constitution
received from my brother, his late Majesty, and I
shall conscientiously keep my oath in the sense ex-
pressed in my programme of November, I 85& But
it is also requisite to govern constitutionally so as
to promote the welfare of the country. The sove-
reign alone can do this in Prussia. The representa-
tives of the people should assist him by constitu-
tional co-operation in legislation, and not further
obstruct his government."

ELECTORAL HESSE.
CASSEL, Nov. ft
The members of the Diet were convoked to-day
for an extraordinary sitting.
The Government Commissioner, Herr Schuler,
read an ordinance of the Elector, adjourning the
Diet for an indefinite period.

THE GOLDEN FLEECE.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.

The Golden Fleece, from Calcutta on the 25th
May, has arrived here short of coals, and machinery
slightly damaged. She brings 60 passengers, of
whom the following were landed :—Lieutenanta
T. 0. Underwood, F. C. Keyser, F. Pearson,
Foord, and Salmon.

INDIA.

Our advioes from Calcutta come down to Oct.
18, from Madras to Oct. 23, and from Bombay to
Oct 27.

The Englishman's Weekly Mail of Oct. 18 gives
the following in its summary of news :

There has been no change worthy of remark since our
overland mall of the 22nd of September in our piece-goods
market, which is firm with very little business. Twist has,
however, advanced, and a considerable lot has been pur-
chased for Madras, consequent on a considerable rise esta-
blished in that market. For a fortnight all Calcutta was
out of town, and the markets seem scarcely to have defined
themselves since business once more became the order of the
day. Very little is doing, though there are certain signs
of. approaching activity. Reliable 'deices from Mireapore,
tie cotton depot for this side of India, estimate the stock
ii that city at from 75,000 to 80,000 bales. This is cer-
tainly by no mean a large stock. At the same time, &d-
-eices from Rewah sod Central India generally represent that
a very great increase in the breadth of land under cotton
cultivation has taken place, and that the crop about to be
gathered vastly exceeds even those ranted in the palmieet
cotton days of India. The export of this article
continues undiminished, and this state of things
will continue for some tuna longer, as large sni-
vels daily come in to Calcutta, and even so much as
51.:a. has been paid for freight to Liverpool. There has
been a considerable quantity of linseed and rice shipped
during the past week, and jute also is very brisk, caused
doubtless by the enhanced value of the article in the home
market. to other commodities there is a considerable
falling off.
Money is daily increasing in value, spite of the relief
given to the market by the bills drawn by the Secretary
of State for India on the Calcutta Treasury, which
have just put 45 lukhs of rupees into cir-
culation. There is not the slightest room for
doubt as to the sound policy of Mr. Wag's'
measure of placing all the treasury business of the country
it the management of the presidency banks, or that from
the increased facilities thereby given for moving about
money from place to place wherever produces to be
bought, the trade of the country will be immensely deve-
loped, tending more then anything else to humanise and
civilise that vast portion of the inhabitants of India who
have hitherto been hut rarely brought into contact with the
British merchants. The usurious rates demanded by the
shmffe and native bankers absolutely put a stop to any
activity in the internal trade of the country,
so that in a great measure the Calcutta merchant was at
the mercy of the natives for the comniuditiea ha required
to ship. However, the first ionovation and great blow to
the native system has taken place. By the facilities offered
by the branches of the Bank of Bengal, the merchants of
Calcutta are enabled to place funds at the disposal of their
agents in Dacca. Patna, Mirrapore, and Bowes, with the
greatest ease. Cotton, jute, in fact every article of export
will now, or shortly be purchased direct from the grower,
and be brought down in quantities, unadulterated
and of good quality, for the home markets. Moreover, from
every place where the branches have been established most
favourable reports of the working of the treasury under the
new regime have been received, so that Sir Charles Wood
will not find many supporters in his unfair and unwarrant-
able attack on every act of our late Finance Minister.
As a natural consequence of the Ma-eased value of money
the government funds have receded in price. No change
has been made in the rate by the Bank of Bengal, but both
in Bombay end Madras the market is very tight, and we
should not be taken by surprise were some advance to be
established at the next meeting of the board of directors.
The condition of the Lancashire operatives and their in-
creasing distress is nowhere watched with more anxiety or
sympathy than in India. From Calcutta some 9,0001. have
been remitted, and at Bombay excellent results have fol.
lowed upon a public meeting held to promote the subscrip-
tion in that presidency.
We have received a circular from the secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce calling a preliminary committee
meeting for Monday next, preparatory to a public meeting
for the inauguration of a fresh subscription.
As we have all along foretold, the Eastern district, and
frontier are givtog symptoms of renewed disturbance in the
comingeold weather, when the cessation of the rains and the
drying up of the inundation shall have facilitated the
movements of the rehab. The 21st Regiment Puojaub Na-
tive Infantry, now at Barrackpore, and which in the course
of the coming relief would base gone to Assam, has had
its departure expedited, and leaves the presidency by river
ateamen for that province about the middle of this month.
The conciliation policy which has been heretofore adopted
towards the sembeavage tribes in the disturbed Eastern die-
uicte has produced the fruit which it always bears iu Asia
—confidence of the Asiatic in his own power and prowess,
and a complete under-estimate of the real strength and re-
sources of the conciliator. . .

His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief will leave Simla
on the 3Oth instant for hi, cold weather tour through the '
Central India provinces. Letters from the military stations
to be visited bring accounts of • the preparations being
anxiously made it, all departments to feet the searching
examination and mutiny of hie Exoellehey.
Brigadier-General Showers left Calcutta on the IGth, for
a tour of inspection, visiting Julpigoree, Darjeeling, and the
adjacent military stations, and returning to the presidency
about the let of November.
The extensive competition in the passenger carriage round
the Cipe has produced an effect that has gradually been
increasing, in the general diminution of the comforts, con-
venience, and plenty which used, as a general rule, to pre-
vail in the passenger amide of the great shipowners on the
I London and Calcutta line. Year by year the complaints of
passengers by those ships increase in frequency ; so touch
so, indeed. as to lead us to a strong surmise that the big-
ship building has, as regards the passenger part of the
speculation, been overdone.

FRANCE.