The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

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ti.AVIGATION of the DUDDON versus
wiarrznivEN and Et'llhlKat n-Ncric,,,, RATtwAy.....
....mew. of Broughton Were invltril by circular to attend at
.._0"--ggiga Mel, on Soitnnlay bun, foe the purpose of meeting a
:Low- atl I e railway directors, Who Were premelit tit explain the
agitg Ala tbe pany propmed to maw the Dinkion *Moat"
.ogoaogie to obtain the contumacy tithe resident. of geouglata4
Y..
There were prereat it
the pail Of the railway ealt-
hpfr. la, dinctm nal flans= ; Sr. Stephenson. engineer •
gO, Me, aceer, awl other gentlemon. It appears that, moo;
woartal Mann the iiihabltanta of ltramotiton to the foot. of ty.
ligry,ilor protection to the nargratinn of the Duoldnoi (of odd*
Wiveas amain in Aug-at laid), a clause wan inserted in the
„,,a parliament, to the following effect:—
~0 0 o matted, that the mid railway dull mom the Make
riforkfr,
*SO entbmarill to lecluth upon au ached embankment or
ie. whit ever the Conant...inner,. for executing the office of
Admiral may, in writing, water the band of the Pewretary
rjety, *ppm. 9(minable and proper part ed
ggs-it or open piling the said company eball eonstrust a
_,.....—R--...,*, . • • and be d enacted, that the
rairi, that deepen, atraighten, and secure by am wall• the main
isime. both above and lerlow the mid embankment. to ouch an es-
=la met econ.niwioners ...T, by writing tuidtr the hand of the
et tlm Admiralty, appoint, an that the navigation of the
pow
cowry may not be interrupted ; and the Bahl eta Walla .hall
bp keret kept by and at the expense of the company..
agog '
crowed.
craned upon the several toodeo by which the
wiry eight he crowed. The fire navigation of the ricer and the
*We the inhabitant• to have its MUT*, unimpeded. were ably
yawl by J. Sewer, lieu., J. Pootletbwaite, Erg., the Incumbent
Zimsacon i Mr. 11,1nneoW and other gentlemen. .1 diciden took
=
Omann
ar a motion be the deLutation. that "a nor! bridge (not a
arsiataidgej 11.041 rOaDeet the embanaliment, and that mod
bibrooeEtly r.dliray from Whitchal k n at I Bi. per ton per
ob.. the am negative.' by a huge mitiority. all'hat ulterior
plopeamp in Say to follow Mit decialon of the meeting we here
ostoglariled.

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lbw Prespieneft diveis, 147, Plesloeleset; Nel.un, 417, West
emit or tired has tits &Mbar, le, Argetillsoe. He* nt4treet.

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY, Fwrr ("Clock.
The overland mail, rid Marseilles, was delivered in
Wm this morning, bringing accounts from Hong
Log, he. 31 ; Calcutta, Feb. 9 ; Madras, Feb. 14 ;
Lm>M Feb. 16 ; and Ceylon, Feb. 18. This mail
teas brewed to Suez by the steamer Precursor,
with the following passengers :
egir
bßombay.—Capt. Baker, Capt. A. R. Dallas, P.
Perrot, Dr. D. G. Gordon. Lieut. G. Dickson.
From Adea.—Mr. and Mrs. Graham, Capt. Dallas.
From Chine—Mr. Leslie, Mr. G. Smith, Mr. Wilkinson,
Kr. Silverlork, Mr. Lena, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Dixwell.
From Ceylon.—Mews. Drone, Webb, Lamb, Tristram.
From Calcutta, for Suez.—Mr. Porten', Mr. ILunpton,
CS., Mr. M. Moffat, Mr. J. W. Garrett, C.S., Lieut. Nu• ,
gent, Mr. Mills, C.S., Mrs. Mills, Hon. Mrs. Erskine, Lieut.
Uhrrbarton, Capt. Hudson, Capt. evoker, and Mr. J.
Bellill.
For Malts.—Mr. T. C. Scott, C.S.
For Southampton.—Capt. Satiric, Mr. B. Parry, Mr. R.
lairhman, Col. 'noes, Mrs. Dr. lowa and child, Col. Home,
Mrs. Home, Mr. Newsom, Mr. Matheson,Mr. T. W. Browne,
Col. Wake, Mrs. Col. Birrell and child, Capt. Donnuville,
Kr. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Gribbin, Dr. Macaulry, Col.
Walpole, Mrs. Walpole, Mr. Conic, Mrs. Conic, and child,
Kr. Sherrington, eapt. Crawford, Capt. Specs, Mr. Wynd-
ham, Mr. Gillon, Capt. Power. Capt. Bagot, Lieut. Pa) ne,
Capt. Jeffrey, Lieut. Street, Lieut. Evatt, Col. Harvey, Mrs.
Hervey, and Mr. Harman.
To Malta.—Mr. G. M. Swinton.
To Suer.—Mr. W. G. Davidson,
Lord J. Browne, brother of the Marquis of Sligo, a pass-
enger by the Precursor, from Calcutta, died on board of that
steamer the day before she reached Sues. Lord James had
been suffering extremely from dysentery, and was redased Is
a mere skeleton. His body was buried at Suez on the maw
ing of the Mk inst.
From China there is no news of much political
interest. A letter from Timor, dated Nov. 28,
1846, stater, " The captain, officers, and passenger* 1
of the Paul Jones were murdered by the crew, con-
sisting of English and natives, on her way to Syd-
ney: She was recaptured by a whaler, and the crew,
having confessed their crime, were brought to justice
before the Court of Batavia."
Trade in India was generally dull, though some-
what less so than at the date of the previous des-
tches. We quote the following from the Bombay
Times :
SCMMARY.—The announcement of the intended
reduction of the army contained in our last has for a
fortnight peg formed the subject of general specula-
tion. We have at present on the muster roll several
hundred officers and 70,000 men of all arms more
than we possessed when the Affghan war began.
Besides the reduction of 200 men from each sepoy
regiment, a number of irregular corps are to be alto-
gether broken up. To meet the current deficiencies
of the revenue, retrenchments to the extent of a mil-
lion and a half on our annual expenditure must
be effected. The Governor-General has directed
that labour at public works shall be suspended
on Sundays throughout India. A similar mea-
sere, three years aince, introduced by Sir
George Arthur into Bombay, has been eminently
suocessfuL Though the natives dislike our faith,
they despise us when they see us neglect the precepts
of the religion we profess. A general order to the
Scinde army has been published by Sir Charles
Napier, in which is embodied a defence of the con-
quest so full of erroneous statements that it has ex-
cited astonishment, notwithstanding the amount of
iascouracy to which we have been accustomed from
the same quarter. It has been replied to by the un-
answerable method of publishing some military
statistics, which prove the general order to be a
tissue of the most monstrous mis-statements. His
Excellency left Kurrachee for Hyderabad on the
4th, to tale a parting look of the unhappy fields
of Menace and Dubba. The rumours of his imme-
diate retirement from the government of the
country have, in some measure, ceased. We have
no intelligence whatever from our north-west frontier
or the Punjaub, where everything seems as tranquil
as possible. The Rajah Lill Singh, ex-minister,
has reached Agra, and been confined in the
fort. His family have accompanied him into exile,
but for the present are kept apart from him till
the pleasure of the Governor-General shall be
known. The state of affairs in Affghanistan would
seem to be improving. Akhbar Khan had returned
to Cahoot from Candahar, accompanied by one of
its sirdart. The Wuzeer's visit was one of friend-
ship to his relatives, and ad a hostile one. The re-
port that he had captured the city and taken his
uncles primulas tugs oat is have bean false. The
Ring of Bum& Ma Mew ameminelei by ewe of his
Wooagyees, who has =wiped die throne of Ave. The
murdered Prime was made liegent on the depoeition
te ltiert Tharawaddie, and mseeseded him on his de-
mise. Mr. Celan, the new commissioner of the
Ten maims, Isms to be gaining the
Pad wishes of the residents at Moulmein. The
exmlimfigisgar has left Calcutta for England—
it hmbeet, to seek redrew for his removal, at
_e of the Court of Directors. The dia-
Imieneas is the Goomeese districts still continue,
mg Arslehesseamk of beep Item the neighbouring
emintemats are being poured into the country.
Coulldwable sickness prevails amongst those al-
ready located in the district. It is said that Major
General Welsh and his staff are about proceeding
to the scene of disturbance, to carry on effective
=for its suppression. General Cubbon, com-
et Mysore, has, it is said, had an inter-
** with the Rajah, and presented him with *
Ildhr from our government, recommending some
amides of importance in the administration of his
affairs, which have been promised to be attended to.
The *Maharajah of Repaid is about returning to
his capital from Benares, where he has been
for some time on a pilgrimage. The only daughter
of the late Nawaub of Bhopal has been placed on
the throne of her ancestors by our Resident at
ell 5,
In-
Mr.
Hamilton. The ceremony was an imposing
ma at its conclusion a Khilnt was conferred
r Begum from the Governor-Oe-
Lord Hardinge was expected to reach Meerut
dace the middle of the present month. Lord
was at latest dates at Kurnaul, and the
of the North-west Provinces at Malvra.
Pb,elne Military Member of the Council
fit been compelled to retire from India in
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consequence of bad health ; he returns to England
by the Cape. As an officer, General Pollock has
never met with a tithe of the applause he deserved.
The smallness of the sacrifice of life which oc-

ruffed to his army on their way from Peehawur to
Cabool has been accepted as an evidence of the ease
of the enterprise instead of the consummate skill
and caution of the general. The manoeuvres by
which the Khyber, Tezeen, and Khnord Cabool
Passes were forced in the face of a triumphant and
furious enemy, find no parallels, save in the career
of the Duke of Wellington, in the military annals
of our couivry. A sword, value 300 guineas, has
been voted to Sir Harry Smith by the community
of Calcutta, in token of their estimation of the

services rendered the country by him in the late
Sikh campaign. The gallant general quits India
fur England immediately. The Bombay Poly-
technic Institute is now organised, the governor,
Mr. Clerk, having consented to become patron; Sir
David Pollock, 17.11.5., chief justice, to be president.
The overland mail of the 7th of January, once more
five days behind her time, came into harbour on
Sunday evening. The weather continues extremely
cold, and in various parts of the Bombay presidency
there has within the last fortnight been ice on the
shallow pools. Trade continues dull. The late
opium gambling transactions have been pronounced
illegal.

The following is the letter of our Bombay cor-
respondent:
BOMBAY, Fen. 10, 1847.
The news of the past fortnight is meagre and un-
important, which may be taken to mean that wars and
rumours of wars have ceased, and that the length and
breadth of India enjoys almost profound tranquillity. The
tidy exception to this of late new state of matters is the dis-
turbance now existing in the Rhona districts of Goomsoor,
where I regret to say blood has been shed on both sides. The
Government of Madras has, however, determined on putting
down the rebellion with a high hand, and is dispatching
troops front all the surrounding cantonments to the
scene of disturbance, Major General Walsh being
directed to repair to the spot to carry out measures for
the reetonsment of peace as speedily as possible. The
Khond tribes never think of mi eting our troops in
open loft their pray being to lay in ambush and surprise
sad est er edi rasa Angolan m may come in their way, sod
then elude oar regimes by flying to the hills, whither they
know our soldiers will not attempt to follow them. Under
each circumstances it is impossible to predict when the time
of tranquillity may again COMO around. The leader of the
insurrection is one Chokra Bialiye, at one time reported
dead, or dangerously wounded. It turns out that neither
was the case, he being alive and well—boasting, it is said, to
his people in the mountains, that he had defeated our troops
in the plains, but that for the present he should refrain from
following up his success! Report says that the second leader
has been negotiating with our officers to deliver himself into
our hands, offering as a peace-offering to write to his father, the
Cholera, and to induce him to suspend hostilities and re-
store order in the diswiet. This is the only way in
which the tranquillization of the country can be expected to
be effected, as in the bandit warfare in which our troops are
engaged success is promblematical. The hill tribes of the
district have not as yet joined those of the plain—neither is
it expected that they will, though they do not refuse their
brethren of the plains • refuge when worsted below the
mountains. The most profound tranquillity obtains at Labors
and the surrounding country, with the exemtion of Hazareh,
where you will remember dieaffection has long existed, and
where Lieutenant Lowden has for some time been engaged
endeavouring to restore order. Ile has, however, as yet been
unsuccessful, and latest &deices announce that • battle had
taken place betwixt the rebels and the Such troops under
Sirdar Goolaub Singh, near a place called Mullakot, in
which the former had been worsted and dispersed. Our
agent, Lieutenant Lumsden, was said to be engsg
in erecting a fort at the place, which is one of the
principal towns of the district, tut doubts exist as to the
truth of the report. Mr. John Lawrence is reported, by the
native news-writer, to have arrived at Mullakot; but whether
this is a mistake for Capt. G. St. P. Lawrence having
reached Wuzeerabad, en route for Peshaw ur, I cannot dis-
cover. The reinforcements ordered from Lahore to the aid
of Lieut. Lumsden have been countermanded, so that the re-
bellion must be in a fair way of being subdued. A large
body of troops (Sundae) is about to be sent to Peshawar,
under General Goolaela S,ng Povindeca, (Your reader' must
not get confused with these names, but remember that
neither of the Goolaub Sings above mentioned is the Goolaub
Singh of Jamoo.) It was at one time intended to dispatch the
10th Foot and some hone artillery with the Seikh force, but
the intention happily has been abandoned—our autho-
rities not wishing to risk the chance of collision betwixt our
troops and the wild and irritable inhabitants of the Khyber
Pass and surrounding parts. There can, however, be little
doubt that ere long some European troops will be pushed on
to Peshawar in aid of the natives, unless Captain Lawrence,
our agent at that plsce, should confirm the heretofore-enter.
tained opinion that the station is unhealthy and unsuited to
the European constitution. Our vakeel, who had just re-
turned from Cahoot with a number of rescued slaves, who
had been made such on the annihilation of our army in
1342, has left in progress for Hindostan. The number of
those rescued has not been stated. It was at one time
stated that General Cournandt, of the Seikh service, had
been, or was about to be, dismissed; such, however, hes not I
been the case, as we Bnd him ordered to cross the Indus into
the Bunnoo and Tank districts to gather the revenue due
by the tifilatiMmts, but refined payment by them. His
force is to consist of four regiments of infantry and two
troops of artillery. He was to be accompanied by Lieutenant'
Edwardes in the character of excesses-repressor-general to
the Seikh troops ! The expedition was to have started on
the Ist Feb. Colonel Lawrence is thus showing his wisdom
in having one atilt own agents sent with every detachment
of the Durbin troops sent out, and would seem to make no
scruple in letting it be known why ho does so. Native
troops acting under our authority without our superintend-
ence, would probably—nay, almost to a certainty—run riot.
The Nazim of Meehan has fully succeeded in expelling the
the &leech marauders from his territories, and would seem
to be acting fairly and honestly by his sovereign, as at present
he would not dare, even were he inclined, to do otherwise.
Our presence in Lahore itself is looked on with the greatest
pleasure by the people of the country throughout. The
measures of Colonel Lawrence have riven the highest satis-
faction, both to his own Government and the Durbar, and
whatever he orders or recommends is law. Wherever re-
trenchmeats can be made without detriment to the state,
they are unhesitatingly carried into effect. The ex-Minister
has reached Agra, and been confined in the fort, in close
contiguity to the room where lie the gates of Somnauth and
club of Mahmoud of Ghuznee. His family have accompanied
him. but are not allowed to share his captivity, till Lord
Hardinge's orders on the subject should be received. His
paramour the Ranee, at Lahore, would seem to have thought
but little of him since his fall. The captive still protests his
innocence, and says that a day will come when our Govern-
ment will discover their error! Sir J. Littler has been ap-
pointed. Commander of the Punjaub and Jullundur
disisioa, his head-quarters being in the latter.
The gallant General was about proceeding, on leave,
to Simla, passing through the Doll on his way.
The troops are all snugly quartered; a new canton.
meat outside the town at Anarkullee having been re-
ported on, barracks are about to be erected for four or Ave
regiments and all the artillery. Nothing of any imminence
has occurred in the Jullundur Doab, where the troops were
very healthy, though complaints of the lowness of the site of
cantonments at the town of Jullundur had been made—they
being entirely surrounded with water on a late occasion of
henry rain.—Seinde is almost as barren of news as every other
part of India.—A party of Jacob's Hone had fallen in with
a gang of robbers when seated at meals. A nullah lay las
twist the two, in crossing which several of the is/Velare
were unhorsed, but the remainder, in number shoat
twelve or font teen, gallantly dashed up the op-
posite bank into the midst of the marauders, who, to
the number of about a hundred and fifty, took to their
horses and fled, leaving several dead en the ground, with
the whole of their booty, and a number of guns (match-locks,
I mean), and other warlike implements. The old general
has deservedly complimented the party on their success ;
and, though the order has not yet been published in Bom-
bay, there can be small doubt that it is ens of his own
pecu'iar compositions, with, perhaps, a distant allusion to
tke contre-temps of the 3rd Cavalry in December last. Sir
Charles left Kurrschee for Hyderabsdon the 4th inst., accom-
panied by his family—kw wW wpm is not known. The
party was expected at its destination on the 7th. The wea-
ther at Hyderabad was very cold, ice a quarter of an
inch in thickset@ being found on water expend during the
night. At Kurrachee also the weather wee piercing—the
thermometer falling to within eight degrees of freezing
point. The steamer with the remains of Meer Numeer
%ban, one of the ex-Aumers, who died at Baneekpore, sear
Calcutta, wee expected to reach Hyderabad ea the 6th, to be
consigned to the tombs of his ancestors. An order has been
issued by the governor, in which a Captain Curling has been
appointed deputy collector in the Hydrabad eolleetorate,vice
Capt. Jones, Ac. A question as to the date of Capt. Carliam's
commission has been asked. He was one of the men said
to be relatives of Sir Charles, called by the governor to Scinde
after its conquest. The one in question was in the service
of Moored Ally, of Rhymer', and as he held no Queen's or
Company's commission be should have been styled Mr.,"
which is all I can see wrong in the matter, as Sir Charles has
an undoubted right to appoint whoever he likes. A curious
statement has been made by the Delhi Gazette, to the effect
that the non-payment of the Scinde prise mossy hr Imes
owing to Sir Charles having claimed one-eighth el the while
as his share, in plate of the usual proportion of weals,
teenth. Surely there must be • mistake is this ism-
tion. Hie lawful share amounts to 35,0001., that which
he is said to have claimed, to double this sum.
The Nizam's country is an anomaly amongst the states of
India. It seems destined to continue one of the meet mis-
governed principalities in our dominions, which is the Ism
excumble, inasmuch as we have a resident at the court, who
requires but authority to interfere, when he would he able
to do so effectually. The Bohillas have been at their:4B,l,track
of plunder to maintain themselves, foe all there is a
British contingent in the country. It it • disgrace
to our government that each things should be allowed.
The governor-general is en big way to Meerut he is ex-
pected to return to Calcutta by November next. The com-
mander-In-chief is also en roots to Meerut, from ethane he
proceeds to Simile—The Bishop of Madras has been reopen-
mended to return to England, owing to bed health.—The
sailor named Cole. who murdered an Arab, at Bamorels, is
the end of 1845, has at length been tried at Bagdad, end
sentenced to seven years' transportation. Doubts are
again entertained of the legality of the trial.—The
death of Dr. J. Murray, of the Bengal army, has been
reported as having taken place in the end of
.January,
on his way to Induce. I have seen • letter from lum of the
7th February, oontradicting the report and 'tentacle the