The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

INDIA.

Advicee by the Overland Mail are, front Bombay
to the ST* January, and from Calcutta, by tole-
graph to Bombay, to the 25th. The following is
from the Bombay Ga:ette :
The English mail of the 18th December did not arrive in
Bombay tell the. 20th Jemmy. The mail steamer China
wee detained sight days at Sum, in consequence of the
lkeekfig down' f the Sultan with the Marseilles portion of
the Ella for Bombay. The same steamer brought us
Isserion Mel to the 26th December.
The sad intelligence of the death of the Prince Consort
has gawked universal and sincere grief for the loss which
bar Oasis= Mutest y, the Royal Family, and the British
melee km emteiead, and an unexampled manifestation of
opmgethy, affection, and loyalty for the widowed Queen,
and el anxiety on her behalf. The whole community has
pee Ye mourning.
On the 24th of January the largest concourse of citizens
ever eisembled in this city met at the Town-lull, and
inanimonaly, cordially, and mournfully voted as address of
eoedidenee to her Majesty. Business was suspended for the
day Mkongbout the city.
The immagnration meeting of the Legislative Branch of
thera=thisOsnnell. Inektuted in aozorda.noe with the act
of took glass on the 22nd of January, in the
Town-hen. Excellency the Hon. the Governer and
Provident al the Come, Sir Gawp Rummell Clerk, K. 0.13.,
K. 5.1., took kis seat prouisely at 11 o'clock. On his Excel.
limey's right were Lieut.-General Sir William B. Mansfield,
K.C.8., Commandevin•Chisf of the -Bombay Army, and
hosed Member of Council ; the Hon. M. R. Westropp,
Acting Advocate General; his Highness Abdool DoolairKban
Abdool Kheir Khan, Nawab of &veneer • the Hoe. Mr
hadhoorow Wittul Virichoorkur, the Hon. Bustomjse Jam.
set* Jeejeebboy ;on the President's left were the Hon. H.
W. Beeves, Third Member of Council ; the Hon. W. E.
Frees, Fourth Member of Council ; the Hon. W. B. Trio.
team ; the Hoe. Shot Prembbhai Hemabhai, City Deputy
Magistrate and Nuggursett of Ahmedabad ; and the Hon.
jageomith Sunkersett, of Bombay. Mr. Shaw Stewart, Ace-
' ing Judicial Secretary to Government, officiated as Sesrenui
to the CounciL
The annual meeting of the Bombay Auxiliary to the
British and Foreign Bible Society was held in the Town.
hall on the 24th January.
Prince Kumroodiu, of the house of Mysore, grandson of
Prince Gholam Mammal, and third in descent from the
famous Tippoo Sultan, has been found guilty of an at-
tempted fraud on the Bank of Bengal, in trying to gem off a
fu. 10 note which he had defaced as a note for Its. 1,000,
and has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with
labour in Alipone gaol.
A letter from the Secretary to the Government of India
addressed to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal,
has jot been published, severely censuring the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal on the course taker' by Lim with refe-
mote to the dispute between the ryota and European land-
holders in Lower Bengal.
The government of India has ordered the disbandment of
eight more regiments of the Madras army ; and Sir Hope
Grant,m Commander-in-Chief of the Madras army, has pro-
to Calcutta to coder with the Viceroy on the sub-

lout.
The government of India ;has ordered the emotion el a
second wire between Calcutta and Bombay. The railway
company will be allowed to open their telegraph live to the
public, and private companies to establish lines where they
please.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIDAIXT, FEB. la.-PROMOTIONS AND AP-
rownDens.—Coptaiss : C. P. Schonberg, to the Edin-
burgh, vice D'Eyncoort, whose period of service has expired ;
T. P. Thompson, to the Cumberland, vice Schonberg ; and
J. B. Marsh, to the Imauni. vice Mellersh.
Commander B. B. Creyke, promoted to the rank of cap-
tain on the retired list.
Lientenanta : W. Stewart, and E. M. Dayrell, to the Im-
perious., additional for dispeed.
Maxtor H. G. Swainson, from the Wellesley, to the Indus,
for service in the Rattlesnake.
Acting Snood Master J. E. Gage, to be additional to the
Indus, for service in the Lee.
Chief Engineer P. Wood. from the Cumberland, to the
Imam, for service in the Rattlesnake.
Engineers : J. Phillips, cionfirmed as second•chise assistant
engineer in the Clio; and G. Elliott, acting second-clam
resistant engineer, to the Lidus, for service in the Ma-
gicienne.

PORTSMOUTH, F. 18.
The firing 'from Captain Cowper Coles' model
cupola shield has, so far, been attended with the most satis-
factory results, bat as the experiments are intended to
determine several matters of detail, the firing will be
resumed and continued until it has answered every purpose.
The Coquette, 5, screw steam vessel, was towed up the
harbour this afternoon, and placed in the first-class steam
reserve.
The Chanticleer, 17, mew sloop, Commander Charles
Stirling, hex gone down to Osborne to relieve the Vigilant,
5, screw vessel, Commander J. W. Pike, which has returned
to Spitbead.
The Sidon, 22, paddle frigate, Captain R. B. Crawford,
is to be paid off ou Thursday next.

CHATHAM, FIB. 18.
The works connected with the building of the
large iron armour-plated frigate Royal Oak. rd. 1.000 horse-
power, under construction at this dockyard, are beie; prose-
cuted with the utmost vigour, nearly 600 mechanics and
workmen being employed on her, the Admiralty being de-
sirous of having her completed and launched by the earliest
possible date. Already the whole of the exterior planking,
on which the huge armour-plates will be hung, has been
fixed in its place, and the shipwrights are now engaged in
planking the interior of the skip. The armour-plates will
be of a maximum thickness of 43 inches ou the broadsides,
gradually tapering to three nod two iuches iu the least ex-
posed parte, the armour-plates completely enveloping the
visual from stem to stern. The interior tad exterior plank-
ing, together with the timbers, will give a thickness of 29
inches of timber, exclusive of the armour-plates. The ex-
terior planking is 83 inches in thickness, and is of teak, the
juices from which are found to he less injurious to the iron
plates than the acid from oak-planking. A large workshop
n now in course of erection ou the port side of the slip on
which the Royal Oak is building, for the reception of the
powerful steam machinery required for preparing the plates
which will cover the frigates sides. The screw aperture
generally found on board steamers of war will be partially
dispensed with in the Royal Oak, as it is ouly intended to
raise the screw as high as the main deck, thus allowing
means to be adopted for strengthening the after portion of
the ship.

THE CONDITION or MINES.—WHITEIIALL, FEB. 17.
—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Lord Kionaird, K.T., the Hon. Polka Egerton, Nicholas
Kendall, Esq., Henry Austin Bruce, Fag., John Bt. Aubyn,
Eaq., John Davis Ferguson Davie, Esq., Edward Holdlam
Greenhow, Esq., M.D.; sod Philip Henry Holland, Esq., to
be her Majesty's commissioners to inquire lota the condition
of all mine.' in Great Britain to which the provisions of the
Act' 3 sod 24 Viet., a 151, do not apply, with reference to
the health and safety of parsons employed in such ntines.
Gazette.
EXPIANUONK AT THE TUNBRIDGE POWDER MILL..
—At about half-past 11 o'clock on the forenoon of Monday,
the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Tunbridge were
POLAND. fearfully alarmed by two tremendous explosions, the one
it
BBERLAU, PER 18. immediately following the other. It wm at owe concluded
that some dreadful catastrophe had happened at the powder
Mgr. Felinski, the new Archbishop of Warsaw,
has delivered an allocution, in which he urges the i
1 mills belonging to Mesa's. Curtis sod Harvey, especially as
at a tirie when the workpsoplo might be supposed to
people of Warsaw to abstain from singing hymns ' be engaged on the premises. Numbers accordingly hastened
which give offence to the'government, but to pray thither, when a scene of destruction met their view, Nos. 1
for their country. The Archbishop said: "If any and 2 mills being in ruins.
wytareunhaiippr,, however,.l to odd
power whatever were to prohibit you from praying
perswsl
for oury country, I would exhort you not to obey. I diiad. ne, "plosions arose from the accidental discharge
The Schksiache Zeitung of Breslau publishes ed sr some et the combustible, material, manufactured on a
' lettere!: reswcarrt eXichwrrest irelYlookeruurn as most vi.
letter from Warsaw, in which it is asserted, on an- premiss—South Eastern Gazelle.

" Washington, Feb. 4.
"The cabinet is in session, and it is reported
that the subject under consideration is a communi-
cation received from the rebels under a flag of
truce. Its nature is of course unknown.
" Private letters from Archbishop Hughes and
Thurlow Weed, just received by Secretary Seward,
give a very hopeful view of our cause in England
and Franca."

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