The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-20 00:00:00

'INDIA AND CHINA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.
We have received by express our dispatches from
India by the Overland Mail. The date from Bombay
is July 2, Calcutta July 2, Madras July 9, and Hong
Kong Jane 23. The following is the letter of our
correspondent:
BOMBAY, Jura 2.
The last mail front Bombay was dispatched by the
steamer Moozuffer on the 25th ult. My present letter
go.ts by express to Madras to meet the Calcutta
steamer Haddington at that port on her way to Suez.
Stirring events appear to be again approaching on
the north-west frontier of India, and you may expect
to hear of another campaign next cold season. The
conduct of Maharajah Goolaub Singh, of Cashmere,
throughout the late Sikh war, was at best auspicious
to a degree. He was called on by our goverment for
assistan-e against our enemies, and this he made a show
of affording by dispatching a strong divi.ion of his
army under Colonel Steinbach towards the scene of
operations. But you will remember that these
never came within miles of t' ose with whom they
were neugeolly seas to co-opesste,---on the contrary,
they arrived within some score or two milts of the
army of Share Singh, and there took ap a position,
which they maintained to the end, watching the pro-
gress of events; and it was rumoured at the time that
had our arms been unsuccessful they would have
joined the ranks of our opponents, and in all likeli-
hood completed our overthrow. The province of
Cashmere was bestowed by us on Goolaub Singh, on
condition of his paying a large portion of the indem-
nity exacted from the Seikhs to defray the expens:s
of the war of 18-16-413. Not a penny of this has, I
believe, ever been paid by him : the nen-fulfillment
by the Srikhs of this portion of the treaty of 1816
was one of the cams assigned by Lord Dalhousie
for annexing their country to our dominions in
April last. Rumour asserts that Goolaub Singh has
been detered in treasonable cot respondence with Dost
Mahomed against tv, and that he has been called on
to give up his artillery (100 guns) to us as a guaran-
tee of his peaceable intention.. Ilia answer is said to
have been that he himself le .d to objection t r com-
plying with cur request. but that his troops steu.ly
opposed thu measure. This is as much as to say we
must take their guns from them by f lye of arms.
It will not be lung before this is done if S'r Charles
Napier is allowed to have his will in the mat.er. If
the demand has been made, complied With it most
be, either by volu .•ary surrender nr compulsion; we
cannot allow ear will to be baulked in this ease, or '
hereafter any naive prince might urge the in-
tractibility of his army fur relining to accede to
any detnatuds It is. moreover, zeporttd that 1)-wt
Mahomed, of Cab el, is assembl ng a large force above
the Khyber Pa s, ready for a descent on Peshawur
so soon as opportunity offers, which he expects wil!
be when the troops now there are marched elf
towards Cashmere to enforce the droned made on
Goolaub Singh. The foregoing are as yet mere
rumours, hut they are supposed to derive strength
and probability from the following order, issued by
Brigadier Dundas, commondir g the troops at Praha-
wur, on the 11th inst. This may be merely a pre-
cautionary arrangement, bit' something certainly
must have transpired to induce the authorities to
issue it :

corps should be sent out to Bengal immediately, and
kept permanently in the country.
Sickness to a great extent prevails amorgat
the Europeans in the Lahore garrison. The
trial of Moolraj continued : he had entered on
his defence on the 11th June, the eleventh day
of the trial. Toe prosecution appears to have
established the fact that he had not in any way en-
deavouted to save our envoys from the fury of the
soldiery at Moolta.n, and it is therefore but reasonable
to suppose that he knew beforehand of their de:erred-
, naticn to murder them. Whether he could have
averted their fate had he chosen to try, lays to the
court to determine, and on this will depend tie cove-
rity or leniency of his pe nishment. A steamer had
reached the Bridge of Boats' near the Wozeerabad (on
the Chenaub) on the 14th of Jae°. Great complaints
ate made that shelter had no t up to this date been
provided for the tro Ts, amongst whom a large
amount of sickness prevai ed- -her Majesty's 29th
having 200 men in hospital.
A letter of the 15th June was r, tceived in B mbay
to-day containing the intell.gence of the death from
cholera, of Cap airs Cairns Threat. de of the lOtk
Bombay Native Infantry, l hi play Com. missary-geners
with the Bombay Column. The heat of tile weather wa
fearful, and nearly the whole of the Eu opeaus of th
force were ill in some way.
Sir Charles Napier reached Simla on the evening
of the 16 h Juae, where were already assembled
Lords Dalhousie and Goueh, Sir If. Liut enre, and
Major Meeksson. Rumour asserts that the Gover-
nor-General is about summoning the supreme council
thither also for the present, and that the city of
palaces wilt not in future be the seat of government,
but that it will be established in the north-we stern pro-
vinces. Alas for Calcutta! all her glory will then haste
departed ! 'tVith such a mee'ing of the big wigs
as will preaer.tly have assembled at Simla, something
of importance must be associated: and this some-
thing is univc's illy believed to be the Cashmere
campaign. Sir C. Napier will, it is said, be at La-
hore by the middle of the present month (July), to
superintend the carrying out of the new Pacjaub
arrangements ; and, it he can, there is no doubt bat
he will ere bong have measures of his own equally
. s important as the se to look after. Lord Gough will
not qui.. India till S. ptember next. The gallant vete-
ran is in good health ; aid, though drawing near
threw-score years and ten, is said to have led off a bell
with the Comer au of 1/alhotrie on the 15th. Au official
dinner was to be given by the Governor-General to
Sir C. Napier on the 19th.
The hull if the ship Lowjee Family, an account
of the burning of which in Bombay harbour
went home in the Bombay Estes summary of
the 25th ult., continued to brim up to the morning
of the 29th, when the fire was at length put out.
The wreck bad been towed up to within a short
dis-
tance of the shore, near the ApAlo pier, and there
beached on the 26th. It was sold on the 28th for
1,170/., the purchaser hoping to realise at lees:. 2,0001.
by his bargain, The Lowjeo Family was the sixth
vessel which has been destroyed in our harbour in
seven years, the value of which cannot t are been far
short of 220,010/. Yet the system of paying tho
native seamen in advance is persisted in by our ship-
owners, well knowing, as they do, that :his is the
cause of the crime from which they suffer. Two
members of the tee; eantile community of llemb (yr
have died within the last week—Mr. Alex,, der
Forbes, of the house of Forbes and Co., on Wed-

Bernet from Brigade order; by Brigadier the lien. H nesday, the 27th, and Mr. Edward Parsons, of the
Dundee.. C. 8., Commanding.—Agreeably to orders received firm of Cardwell, Parsecs, and Ci.
the meth M.joe-General Sir Walter It Gilbert, K.O 8., ems- the 28.. h. The latter gentleman had on Thursday,
ul only been in
mending Punjaub division, the troops named in the margin India slurs
the 30th March, the former since 1814.
will be forma into a moveable 'column, and must he pre-
pared to march at a moment's notice.--Marchil g establish- The house of Forbes and Co. has b. C 3 singularly un-
mans, including carriage for the private baggage of °Moen fortunate in respect to the number of deaths emong
and men, to be agnecble to the scales laid down in 0 G. 0, its members dining the last live year., having lost
No. 30, of ;Its 2nd Welber, 18''4:—Major Fordvee's and in tint time De ela'ellmsen, and M.ierre. Baxter,
Major Bloods troops of bone artillery, Captain Turnbull's
C. Forbes, and A. Forbee. A first call of 3 rupees n
made, all per
bottery, a c mopany of sappers and pioneers; let Re invent.
Light Cavalry, Mode Irregular Hone, her Majesty's flotb share in the Bombay Railway has be
Rifles, her Maj-sty's 61st ; 31st end 70th Regiments Bengal who had not answered it by to-day teething all
Native Infantry, 3rd and 18th Bombay N rive Infantry. claim to the shares allotted them. Sir F. Collier,
admiral in these seas, is daily expewed here fromon the departure of there, there would only remain
the let Bombay European Fusiliers, the 13:h Bengal China, and is to be received with military honours on
Irregular Cavalry, and a company of foot artillery; landing. The retirement of Colonel Jervis, enief en-
in which case it certainly would not be ling before gineer, from the Board of Education at the weld-
old float lefahomed would be down on them. But so deney. has been announced. Two more professor-
long as the military councils of the state are in the ships, ono of midwifery and the other of medical
hands of Sir C. Napier, there reed be no fear of blun-
jurisprudence, have been instituted in the Grant
dering in this =tiler at all events; he knows too Medical College: who tee occupants of tle.‘ chairs are
well the duties of a commander to allow a garrison to be has not yet transpired. Her Majesty's steamer
too weak for its duties to be ler anywhere, much lnfltxiole starts on her homeward voyage on Wed-
snore at such a place as Perrhawur. A report wail
1 ni s lay next, the 4'h inst. The ship lend Dufferin,
current at Peshawur that numbere of the inbubitenta Captain Clarke, after two ineffectual turnip's to quit
were quitting the city for the purpose of joining the the port for Liverpool, in the second of which her
Dog. A letter of the 13:h June from Wuz erabad rudder wee broke, was on Tuesday lust towed into
states that an order had been received there to form harbour by the steamer Auckland. The weather was
the "4th troop lit brigade 11. A., the sth cavalry, extremely boisterous certainly, but several other yes-
Ler Majesty's 24th Foot, and the 25th and 60th eels quitted harbour in safety, and it has been &Aid,
N. I." into a moveable column, ready to start at a therefore, why the captain of the Lord Duffer iu could
moment's notice. So you see there is room for not also ga out. The monsoon up to the present
.peculation as to what these columns can be time has been a light one, only 23 inches of rain have
intended for. Considerable sickness had Fe- ing fallen : last year by the end of June upwards of
veiled amongst her Majesty's 60th Rifles at 411 inches had been measured. Poona is now the
Peshawar, acd her Majesty's 20th Foot at Wuzeera- centre of gaiety, and apparent'y our governor thinks
bad, but it happily was en the decrease. The ther- of or attends to but little else, for on all sides the
morneter at the former place, during nearly the whole complaint is hoard of the " delay of business."
month of May, ranged from 95 degrees to 109 degrees, CALCUTTA,
at 4pm. in a house. What must it have been in
The Calcatta Englishman says:
tents? At noon it ranged from 96 degrees to 108
Our latest advises from the Deccan mention that affair; at
degrees. It is wonderful, under these circumstances, Hydrobad have run into their cid course, and that there is
that the whole of the force was not laid up. The men apparently no mean. of extricating that government fr ,m its
were nearly all housed, but it was remarked that embarrassments. The only favourable news is that the con-
those in tents were the healthiest. The subjoined tingent has been paid it. arrears, an objecttwhich the Bent
extract from a letter of the 12th ult., from Peshawur, •evioriiit. josmheavaerrbaneeguemomusomm
uesttl,newC'vaesr, admeaar fro4on-
is interesting :
Her Majesty's 60th Rifles have all now moved into the hinting to pay these troops at regular penes. Tee Indian
government has suggested a Cession or assignment of tend-
garden house of Sultan Mshomed Khan. This is a very tory, but that is ame
beautiful-looking plan; a fine avenue of orange trees leads .sours to which the Siam is not likely
to accede.
up to a richly.painted dwelling. This is the princi- For some time past we have had no intelligence of what
pal part of the building, and forms their hospital. The
troops are located in • square behind, said to have Drenthe was going on among the hill tribes of Orion, but we have
at last received intelligence an which we have
abode of the Sultan's hundred wives. This does not an-
re
commodate the whole of the regiment, four companies reason to rely that Colonel Campbell has ?reigned his agency,
and is about to be succeeded by Major McLeod, of the 31st
having been obliged to pitch their tents to the right of the
house for want of room; but they are well sheltered under M. N. I. formerly employed in the Tennasserina pr .vinces.
It must be somewhat mortifying for the retiring officer to
or near trees, dc. Their number of sick has greatly in-
reflect that for two whole years, the leader of the rebellion,
creased of ice : the ether day they had 140 in hospital— Chokro Ilisaye, has defied all his attempts to capture him.
more than ever they have had since coming to the country,
The Chokro still continues at large, and by our latest ac-
havisg generally been about the healthiest regiment on the counts has been committing new outrages and causing fresh
establishment. The number is now decreasing very fast. bloolshed in Geonosur.
The arandiag medical committee has been reassembled, We expressed our opinion of Cul. Oomph, ll's meatauva at
" for the venoms' of examining into the cause of sickness
the time, and the course ot events fully justifle. us in wan-
in H.M.'s 60th Rifles." I am not aware of the conelasioa dering that his proceeding. have not at all compensated for
they have come to, as they are still sitting, but I believe that the wanton destruction which he, in conjunction with Lien.
Dr. Straker, superintending surgeon, and presideat of the
medical committee, has recommended that every second Dyoe, effected of the system he found in operation inasmuch,
as his measures have been hitherto so m:adirectedas to have
tree in the orchard to the right of the Wureersbagh effected absolutely nothing toward the permanent moppets-
be cut down, and the lower branches of all the other trees
lion of the rite of human sacrifice.
lopped off; the place to be kept free from weeds, &T., and no
Our government has lately published an important docu-
ment irrigation to be allowed than what really is necessary. ment, a " Memoir of the Statistics of the Nomura Pro-
This has been approved of by the brigadier, and ordered by educes," showing the e ,tent, the population, the revenue and.
him to he carried into effect by the quartermaster of the the cultivation ot eaeL The result is that a territory containing
eons. The pendalls for the Fusffiren are now getting on 1 71,986 square miles ha. a population of 23,199,6b8, of which
last, and will soon be ready for them. The 3rd troop Horse nearly 2.31 s is em plowed in agriculture. The land revenue
Artillery and Turnbull's battery have removed from .
drawn annually beom that h rri•ory is Co.'s Its. 4,06,36,763,
Wunterabagh, and are encamped for the present to the
lor about four ar'iilions of pounds sterling. The other items
right of Major Lawrence's house ; they are to occupy the old
of revenue are small, perhaps in all amonntibg to another
Sikh lines, which will also soon be ready for their reception. million, so Om this fertile country with a larger population
The following officers proceeded on sick certificate the day than that to'. Great Britain, yields little more than e. tenth of
before yesterday for Kurrachee—l understand they go down
its revenue ; and yet it is acknowledged that the co-.eatry
by Attock:—Msjor Mignon, Ist Bombay E. Rept. Fusiliers; I has been severely, perhaps oppressively toted. II ere is
Dr. Dearlove ; Ensign Shaw, of the Baggage Corps; and
Ensign Napier, 3rd B.egt. N.I. I ample room for advanct meat, and good encouregemr at to
railway speculators, whose plans if coined our, will fahleate
Throughout the Punjaub everything apparently I progress more than can in aay other. meaner be effected. It
Pt
vgvilnetatintoaenfemw
offer, and the disbanded soldiery now lurking about in
continues quiet and peaceable ; but let opportunity may be hoped, otert,isatia oihnedriatinurs areminen-ro- - I
yile a body of statistical inf•irmation which wit! throw great
idleness would again spring up into activity before P.
i.ght upon the condition and prospects of the whale lediar.
ten local corps to keep the country, I fear is an erro-
we knew where we were: The measure of raising peninsula,
The Englishman hears from Tirhoot that the indigo eul-
mins one: may it prove no worse ! The Sikh eel- i„iyaotciwtiv that district
It ng its stated, however. that' enlyaren
this
lut year
;sr Loretto: of about
diery hate us with the most bitter hatred, and yet' en
11a0n5d,0reAweluret giekaarired, all the inferior soils being rejected.
The crop is stated to be very fine, though hitherto back-
wweerearneotepossenlisttgedthoefmonueosipaerrekurofbnaantnioenre, asspiirfittheoyr
back-
patriotism. It is said they will fight for whoever I ward, but the recent rains are bringing it fast forward. The
pays them best : it is to be hoped we may not, to our Koontirs are a failure as yet.
sew, find it otherwise. Why not have added the Concerning the new Sikh contingent, the same
same number of regular co ita to the army, if that paper says:
was all we could afford ? The addition of at least We ,confess ourselves extremely sceptecal as to the policy
thirty infantry and ten irregular cavalry
.corps is im-
of ce,nfidinit the keeping of any 9oftl'on of the Punjaub to
the new Sikh contiegeat. The q°.estion 1.,
have we any
perutively neeessery, and the sooner it is made the
adequate security that these ref!, sent, will he faithful to
better. If we annex province after province to our the salt they have undertaken to eat? Oar deliberate opinion
then
dominions, a corresponding increase must be made 'co is, that we have net ;
our army to maintain them in tranquillity. Now probabilitiesareatin favour ot their betraying us. It • usual
a and
eal '.ramayt : on
andthseee contrary
howfai
t,h.faul alt
faithfully
we are probably on the eve of ano,:ner war to say "Look it
his held the provinvot which have from time to time been
of annexation, farther in advance of our already added to the Britit'll dominions. Why should not a similar
result be anticipated in the present instance, and a Sikh overgrown territories, and still our regular
army remelts unaugmeuted. More European contingent be es ready to hold the Punjaub in subjection to