The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

INDIA.

OF THE SONTAL INSUR-
RECTION.

We have reesived car despatches per Overland
Mail. Their dates are those indicated in our tele-
graphic despatch received cc Saturday, tad printed
in another solemn.
_

—it; follo;l;g7s.from the mummy of the Bombay
Timm of December 17: _ _

"The Boatel insurrection moms now over; the last
of the insurgents in the field have been surrounded,
and Banos, the only leader of note yet remaining
amooget them, hasbeen captured. The troops, it is
supposed will be suffered to return to quarters, the
police being considered sofileisat from henceforth to
maintain the peace. On the 20th of November •
body of troops were despatched to Roxadongal, and
though none were found at this particular point,
their track was discovered hymen mot up in the trees.
The troops pushed on and found themselves, all at
onoe to their surprise, in the centre of a great en-
campment with the cooking pots still on the fire,
and which had not been andesed for above ten
misates. The imams* to the amount of about
1,000, were scattered in parties of from 200 to 300 in
the brushwood all around, over a space of four or five
square mike in extent. The troops at length came
in contact with them, plasma into • tremendous
bamboo jangle, and drove the Boatels before them.
They finished by burning from twenty to twenty-
five villages, and by showing the enemy that none of
their fastnesses were impenetrable. On the 30th
detachments were sent out by General Lloyd, if
possible to capture the remaining insurgents, and in
this they were entirely miatessful, Ensign Allen
having arrived the following day with all the moat
important prisoners in charge, Eanoo included. We
have since our last had no distarbanoes of any kind
in any part of India.
" An expedition is said to be in preparation against
the robber chief Beata Khan, whose people still
threaten to molest as. _ _ _ _

porary. tranquillity reigns in Oude, under
the
fear
on both sides that an uproar will in the. signal
for cooreion.

"The Rajpoot state of Oodeypors, one of the oldest
and best governed in India, has been of late threatened
with civil war, in consequnce of misunderstandings
amoept the chiefs themselves, and betwixt a portion
of them and their sovereign. About a year ago
matters had reached such a peas that the Rana applied
for ansistanos to the political agent of Miry war,Colonel
George Lawrenoe. The sovereign and his chiefs
agreed at last to submit their grievanose to English
arbitrament, binding themselves to abide by our de-
cision, whatever that might be. The award having
been oommunicekd to them, the Rana submitted with
the most perfect integrity, but the chiefs broke their
pledge, and now desire that the British government
should alter its judgment.
Bir Henry Lawrence, with a view, if possible, of
preserving the pesos, is strengthening the posts in
the neighbourhood, and hu recently requested her
Majesty's 83rd to be brought up to its strength at
Deem.

A bill is at present before the Legislative Council to
suable Hiodoo widows to marry without sacrificing
their rights, and for legitimising their children, who,
in the eye of the Boghsh law, are at present °mai-
&red bastards. At present a poor girl, scarcely re-
leased from the nursery, may became a widow before
having men her lambast% and for the rest of her days
is not only cociswesed Os celibacy but to slavery.
Her hair immembs64 is eat off, else is stripped of her
ornaments, and sosned to perform the most de-
grading dredger, about the The proposed
aw, which te purely permissive' and may be
taken advantage of or neglected es is thought
fir, hie been petitioned agates& by a oonsi-
derable body of the wealthiest Hindoos in
Calcutta, on the ground that as practices prevailed
amongst them three thousand years ago, such as can-
nibals might blush for, they ought still to be pro-
tested and persevered in. The Hindoos of Bombay,
in a spirit more befitting the age in which they live,
and the character for good sense they have acquired,
are now petitioning for the passing of the law, which
we hope will be given effect to without loss of time.
A native has just offered to subscribe 1,6002. to the
School of Industry, two others have each offered sites
of the value of 6001., and it is expected that within
the next six months 6,0001 in all may be subscribed,
the interest of which, conjoined with the grant made
by the Court of Directors some years ago, will from
fist:ticeofgo,rthwittet
ttereesbeitabnlishiment on a permanent
any 000eaioti to appeal
to the public.

seatiose to live se we wow do, with perfect ewsurity to ote-
solves wader the goveraseat to which we sow are, sad that
we nay ever he Inoprineed with a gratafal saw of the
advantages which we enjoy ander this benign taiga. Lam."