The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

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MAILS.
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will be mime up en the evening of the 23rd June.
The overland closed mails, rift Marseilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, lmlia, Hong-hong, Sc., will be made up on the
evening of the 34th Jane.
The resits fur Vigo, Oporto? Lisbon, Madeira, Csadlx, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of tb 27th June.
The mauls for New Sabath Waleo, Van (airman's Land, and New
Zealand will be made up oh the evening of the 10th June.
The mails for the West Csast of Africa and Madeira will he made
up on the evening of the ;Kith June.
The Wee India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nauman, Havanna,
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including those for Alsdeira, Jamie, Garthagen sianta Martha,
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Nicaragua, will be made up on the evening of the lot July.
The mails for the Bruits, the River Plato, Mews Val." Pernarn-
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evening of the 4th July.
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toe, will be made upon the morning of the Illath July.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the
Stamp•o:tice, during 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
,E.sued to the Alorniny Iterated, Morning Chronicle, ant
Morning Post, ALL PUT TtIOETHInt.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Event's/ 1.:44°n,
TUB EXPRESS 778.714
Which was more, we believe, than wets) issued either to
the Glebe or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22.
THE arrival of the Calcutta despatches of the
Bth of May have made us better acquainted with
the origin and aspect of the insurrection in the
southern districts of the Punjaub. It is a matter
of grave regret that fuller and more authentic details
do not confirm the impressions conveyed by the
original rumour. The disturbance has been neither
trivial nor accidental. The infriugement of our laws
and the insult to our authority have been extreme and
premeditated; and at present the probabilities are in
favour of the belief that the revolt in Moultan must be
regarded as another of those instances so common in
Asiatic history—of a lung-concerted conspiracy sud-
denly and somewhat prematurely brought to a crisis.
The public are already aware that this disastrous
collision has arisen out of the transfer of the district
of Moulton from the poesession of the DEWAN
MOOLIUJ to the custody of the Lahore Durbar, or
virtually to the control of the Indian government in
whose hands the stripling, Maharajah, is a mere
puppet. DEWAN MOOLRAJ was the viceroy of Moul-
tan previous to the campaign of the Sutlej, and
from various considerations Lord HARDINGE was led
to confirm him in his authority, in spite of the ma-
chinations of that arch•scoundrel of the north-western
countries the Rajah Lat. SING it. The systematic reforms
d COI. LAWRENCE have rendered it essential that in
the same country there should not be a diversity of
codes of adminis•ration, and, acting upon these views,
&negotiation was opened and concluded with 9iOOL-
11.Al for the peaceable absorption of his fief into the
general system of the I'unjaub. Mr. VAN': AGNEW,
of the Bengal Civil Service, and I.ieut. ANDER.-ON,
of the Bombay European Fusiliers—two young
officers of high promise and, as the event has proved,
worthy scions of a service which has produced
BURNES, M'SAUGHTEN, BROADIOOT, and CLARK—
were deputed to Moultan to carry the treaty into
effect. They left Lahore on the sth of April, with
an escort of 300 Sikh troops, and completed
the distance of 200 miles of bad and desert road,
to the city of Moultan, in eleven days, or on the itith
of April. On the day succeeding their arrival the
revolt occurred. The two commissioners were at first
savagely attacked. They then threw themselves
into a gurree, or small village fort, and prepared
to hold out until succour could reach them from
Bahawulpore, or from the troops with Lieutenant
EDWARDS in the l)erajat. There cannot be a question
that, had these 301) Sikh followers remained faithful,
this could have been accomplished, for although the
hostile garrison who held the strong fortress of
Moultan kept up a vigorous cannonade, Beakers upon
the little party in the gurree were not serious. On the
20th April a grand attack was made by the rebels
upon the two officers and their escort ; and this attack
appears to have been the signal for the simultaneous
mutiny of the whole of the 300 Sikh soldiers. The
catastrophe was then speedily accomplished. Lieut.
ANDER.sON was already disabled by his wounds ; Mr.
VANS AGNEW defended himself for a short time
against tremendous odds, and in common with his
companion was overpowered and slain in the true
fashion of eastern treachery.
These are the ascertained facts of the revolt : how
far they are the offspring of any widely-organised
scheme of rebellion remaii.s to be seen. The unanimous
and critical desertion of the Sikh escort is acircumstance
exceedingly full of suspicion; and, taken in conjunc-
tion with intelligence of the sympathising movements
in various quarters of the Sikh territory, lends coun-
tenance to the belief that the standard of the seditious
DEWAN will be the rallying point for all those despe-
rate bands of miscreants who were neither extin-
guished nor overawed by the terrible defeats at
Moodkee and sobraon. It is unliuky that the theatre
of the war should be so well adapted to their pur-
pose. The military position of Moulton is one of the
strongest in the north-west of 1 idia. It was attempted
once or twice by Hyrum Small without success;
and when at last, in 1818, it did fall into his hands,
it was at the cost of great efforts and 1,000
men. It must not be supposed, however, that
it possesses any advantages of defence which
cannot be speedily overcome by the skill
and daring of our modern corps of artillery. Kote
Kangra, another Punjaub stronghold, currently
described as impregnable, has too recently surren-
dered to us at discretion to justify any uneasiness as
to the result of an expedition against this southern
citadel.
The first impressions of the Lahore resident, Sir
FRED. CURRIE, appear to have corresponded with
those in England. He held the outbreak to be the
madness of a few fanatics: valise quent intelligence
corrected this misapprehension. He then ordered the
immediate advance of a considerable body of troops
from the ample garrisons of Lahore and Feroze-
pore. The ascertained death of the political agents
materially modified these orders, and the latest
intelligence represents the whole army as still
in quarters, and the improbability that any important
military measures can be taken until the departure
of the hot season. The prudence of this measure will
scarcely be doubted by those who know anything of
the fatal influences of the monsoon months upon a
European force carrying on operations in the field
under the meridian of the Indus. Until the march-
ing orders were revoked the colonel of her Majesty's
10th, now at Lahore, reckoned upon the loss of half
his men by climate before he could accomplish the
distance of 200 miles in twenty-two marches. And
yet whenever these brave fellows of the 10th do
come up a al% the motley host at Moulton they will
nA nil to do their duty; for it must be recorded to
their honour that wixe the news of the eatbrenk
reached Lahore, every man of the regiment who wee