The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

SCIXDE.

We have intelligence from Scinde down to the
22nd ult. General Robertson i.nd staff returned to
Kurrnchee on the 19th. Mr. Frere, the commissioner,
was at Shikarpore on the 15th. He was to leave
that evening for Jacoirtbad on the frontier, and re-
turn, ria Kusmore, to Sukkur, there to take steamer
for Hyderabad. Zi„iiiio/. has been sanctioned for the
construction of a pier and a custom-heuse at Ku-
maree. The ship Warata, with a wing of the 11th
N.I. on board, reached Kurrachee on the 2Uth ult.
She was to take the last portion of the 3rd Dragoons
home. The Herefordshire, Duke of Argyle, and
Earl of Balcarres, with the greater portion of that
gallant corps and the Bengal invalids, left on the
2nd, sth, aid 9th, respectively. Brigadier Roberts
had assumed the command of the station of Kurrachee
on the Ist. The left wing Ist Grenadier Native In-
fantry left for Surat on the 4th, and the right wing
of her Majesty's 63rd Foot for Hydrabad, by steamers
on the 18th, Colonel Swinburne commanding. The
weather had been stormy, but cool and pleasant, and
there was very little sickness prevailing anywhere in
the province. The Rev. Mr. Fletcher was up
country on u ministerial tour.
Passengers per llerefir.ldiire. Mesdames Yesbury,
Swinton, Sullivan, Hawke', Kauntzr, and 11 children ; Col.
Y,:rbury, Limes. Swinton, Sulliv.in, linwice9, Orme,
Mac Neill, Mackqueen, and White; C3rnets llupso.n, Pres-
ton, Chichester, Maned, and Esmond; Adjutant Kluntre,
Dr. Trousdell; 310 men, 19 women, and 34 children; head-
quarters 3rd Dragoons.
Per Duke of Argyle.—Captain Forbes and the Ron. H.
Monekvoi; Limits. Draper and Hodgson, Dr. Vi Vete-
rinary Surgeon Gardiner, 211 men, 10 women, 19 children,
ilrd Drarto.ms.
Pi r Earl of 1331cartes.—Six officers, OA invalids, 25
women, and 41.5 children, from her Majesty's r, g intents
serving in Bengal and the north-west.
BAHAWULPORE.

I some time since informed you of the Khan of
llahawulpore having cot tined his brother Hajee Khan
in a fortress in the desert, and keeping him a close
prisoner, and that Hajee had appealed to our govern-
ment to intercede with his brother to effect his res-

toration to liberty. The captive appears to have
effected this for himself; and to have raised a force of
some 4,000 men, with which he advanced from Khan-
pore to fight his illegitimate brother and oppressor
Sadik, Khan of Bahawulpore.

CHINA.

THE REBELLION,

Commissioner• General Sen, according to the Chin
Herald, of January hi, despairing of success, has
committed suicide,whilst, advancing on the Yangtze-
kiang, the main artery of the empire (the possession
of which enabled Sir Henry Pottinger to dictate
terms and bring the late war to a conclusion) the
rebels have seized upon Wueliang situated ou its
south bank, the capital of Hupeb, causing the
Shame° merchants to fly, and putting a stop
to all tkade. The next places to be attaektd
are Ilan yang and Kew kiang, the former
a place where large quantities of British manufac-
tures find a ready market. At every town and place
on the river, as far as Chin-kiang fog, the govern-
ment functionaries are in a state of consternation,
and Nan-king is the goal to which the insurgents
now express their determination to push on.
" Their superiority in skill," says the Herald, " their
numbers and determined character, cause us to con-
fess that our hopes of the rebel progress being arrested
begin to disappear.
The imminence of the danger is thoroughly felt by
the government; all the disposable troops from the
north and southeast aro ordered to hasten to the
defence of Nan-king and Kew-kiang, but the paucity
of soldiers in such a densely populated country must
excite surprise. The government of this enormous
country seems positively unable to bring together at
any one point a force of 40,000 meu—in fact, any-
thing deserving the name of an army, and the reason
assigned is the want of money.