The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

dissatir at Oa reed les front of Colonel Holmes s„
wry geed. aid ft toesempeeted, cakes delayed by the
smisionlieneweimme. is.. that thejunetke mans tab.
4th er SS keens. Omni Cortlandt leaving Isildieece tliejg,w7,
ere orb pleased to dad Iy this aixonnt that the SUM stray
state of Om 1p ase that awake searesly have been exposes
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bay was expected at the latter place about the 151.11....tha
date of his intended departure from the presidency has not
transpired, probably about the 10th. Major Browse, yd.
N. 1., died at Kotree of small pox, on the 7th of
the death of Lieut. Tolfrey, 4th N. 1., by his own knob, a
the same day at Kurrachee, doubted in my last, bin is;
n life.
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jungles of Boud by a wing of a native corps and h ""
r his
vend petty skirmishes have taken place in the district et Cbr
kapaud, and several of our impels have been killed esb
wounded by enunseen foe bid in the dense jungle times,
which they pass front place to place. A son has bun
unto the King of Nepaul, which has caused the greatemos•
throughout the state ;—and this constitute' all the mews
oeived from this quarter. The story about the bodkin,
of the princes, &c., by the brother of the Nizsea noss4
to be substantially correet! Captain Malcolm, moistest to
General Frau r, at Hyderabad, has left for his new ap •
ment at Jodhpore, carrying with him the good wishes d
nearly the whole population of the Nizam's capital. so,
disturbances took place betwixt the Hindoce and Mahon.
medans on the occasion of the last day of the Mobarsna
festival, when the latter would Nem to have pnrpossjy pis,4
a quarrel with the former. General Frazer u said to is
only waiting for the request to be preferred by the Is,.
when be wili at once dismiss the minister from office. -13
Dighton's name is still mixed up te:lt H.7derabad Asia
as much as ever; and the capital is the scene of broil,
betwixt rival clans, as usual. When is all thin
cease ? Lord Gough is still at Simla. It is pain*.
known that Sir W. Cotton succeeds him in tOs
commander.in-thiefship of India. Sir W. leaves Berotn
in April next to take up the appointment, his present stsi
accompanying hint. The lieutenant-govenor of the north.
west provinces was last heard of at Bareilly, whichetc, 114
left on the 18th December, on his tour through
&c. The Marquis of Tweeddale and family preZdn
by the Fox frigate (Commodore Blackwood) on the 15th of
the present month, the vessel first calling at Ballwin• la
is strange be should leave before the arrival of either sir S.
Pottinger or the new commander in chief. Mesas. C. Bop
J. J. Franklyn, and L. C. C. Rivett have hem ares...,l
sheriffs for the ensuing year at Calcutta, Madre', sad
bay, respectively. The expediency of abolishing the Ng,
altogether had been recommended. at all three Fir savvy,
by the press, and at Bombay by Su E. Perry. It keine
feet sinecure as far as duties are concerned, the whole rock
falling on the deputy. Sir E. Perry has pewee,
on a visit to Calcutta, its object being sham,
The Bishop of Bombay does not return to Us:
bay till April. The 28th Foot from Bombay, eta
4th from Madras, and the 21st from Bengal, 1,„
India for Ragland in this and next month. The 18th Sew
Irish are on their way from China to Calcutta, matii
42nd Madras Native Infantry have reached that
from the same quarter. Hong Kong is thus =ll7.
nutted of troops. The trial of Chief Justice Bell,
by order of Sir John Davis, on charges of
perence, has created the greatest surprise here. All mks
had the plea.ure of knowing the late Mr. S. Terry, cd gN
house of Higginson and Cardwell, of Bombay, will is
deeply grieved to hear of his demise, which Mk phase%
21st ult. He had formerly been of the Egyptiaa lead
Briggs and Co., and came to Bombay only three Matra
since. Hie retiring and unobtrusive manner had gained,
him a few friends, by whom his loss is much deplored. Es
has left a wife and three children behind him. I told yoi
in my last that an engineer had been granted by governs=
to assist in the tuition of destitute lads at the Polyteche
Institute: Mom then the boon has been canceled,
Sir Robert Oliver having intimated to government that Ai
services of Mr. Adie could not be dispensed with in the navy!
The founder of the institution is the editor of the Times, sai
people at once attribute Sir Robert's conduct to spite, is
the share that editor took in exposing the malpractices and
tyranny of the superintendent of the Isdiso navy. The
splendid passenger steamer Ajdaha, reached Bombay he
Wednesday. She was 76 days under steam and sail on he
way out, having been detained the remainder of the tier
coaling at Madeira and the Cape. She is at prevent a mkt
didly fitted-up boat, but it is not expected she will long is
main so. She came into harbour in such thorough trimths
she could have at once started wh wished to be sent
The wreck of the Indus steamer has been abandoned; al
her machinery was saved, and one boiler.—Col. Dough
78th Highlanders, lately commandant of this garrison, lave
this evening for England.—Nothing more has been heard c
Ragojee Bangria ; theGhaut Light Infantry are afterhins,te
he 'semi too 'cute for them—General Barr and family ma
Ahmedabad, the old general being • favourite whom s's'
goes. The 86th Foot have reached Deese, and the 7th sad
18th N. I. returned from Scinde to the presidency. I so
tinned some time since that coal beds had been discovered In
Lieut. Evans, assistant to the resident, at Mundlaine,
the river Nurhudda. An engineer from the dock-yard (21r
A. Johnstone) has been deputed by government to 011611
and report on the mineral, with a new to working the minas
should it be found that it can be laid down en Bombay
cheaper than from England. The coal is said to be hi
superior to that supplied from home. Lieut. Evens has
succeeded Captain French (lately appointed private secretes,
to Mr. Clerk) as political agent at Nimaur, and well he is.
eemprvemoulfibtit7hbey2uttahre
steNacoamtiyvemeaanbrepoozi.d intelligent man.
Bombay ThonetheLonsadoe

afrom which the reign of King Christian VII.
would have been one of the happiest epochs in the history
of the state, and which his late Majesty would unquestion-
ably have 'settled, as he would also have farther advanced
the free development of the public jurisdiction, had net
death interrupted him in his work, and thus indicated the
duty which Providenoe hut now assigned to the new sove-
reign. The faithful capital had perfect reliance and well
deuce, from the letter-patent of the 21st January, that the
King, well acquainted with the hopes and expectations of
the people, had resolved, not only to carry out the improve-
ments
begun by the government, but also the intended re- I
gulation of the public affairs of the state by his predecessor,
lc. To this speech his Majesty was pleased to reply :
I thank yon for your sympathy la the great Mellon which has
• Ice me and my country, end which nobody mu teel more deeply
than I de. I has already ezprrd in my leiter patent to my sub-
jects, tbat It shall be my fret sad most =Moue endeavour to folios the
example of my departed father—and especially to carry out the regu-
lations of the public relations, which in conjunction with my sog.
✓atios, he was in the act of putlinggnio execution when he wag be
upon Me sick bed. In that letter I hare decl wha in many re-
sped. the moment obliged and enabled me toared expresst ; and et truly
ea
l shall keepl my royal word, so truly, so conildently, do t
rely that
rlny peep
wall trkewlil
j, await,
porelritan.c: on
tttr KV, the rdes,o4uton wtrcell
that I ungraciously siTd affectionately dispoeed towards you and the
eity of Copenhagen.
We learn from some of the journals, as also from the offi-
cial answer from the Secretary of State to the deputation of
the Institutions of the island, that his Majesty, on account of
the multifarious urgent business of the state, has resolved
for the present not to receive any addresses of condolence or
on his accession. Thus, therefore, the address of the burgher
representatives, as well as one from the German duchies,
cannot for the present be presented to his Majesty.
dresses to the King from the states deputies of the Danish
islands now in Copenhagen, as well as that from the re-
spective Copenhagen burgher representatives, call for con-
stitutional, definite, and legal participation in the adminis-
tration of the affairs of the state, and demand that a com-
mission, consisting of men having the confidence of the
people, be summoned from tie various provinces of the
kingdom to draw up the project of a free constitution, which
shell then be submitted for final decision to the united states
of the government.
BR/UAL—Accounts have been received to the
18th of December from Bahia, by the Chanticleer. The
mercantile Latices are exceedingly bad. No sales could be
effected ; purchases almost suspended; and money and con-
fidence both equally wanting.

COLONIAL.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—We have papers from
Adelaide to the 19th of September. The general intelli-
gence is satisfactory as to progress, without any particularity
of occurrence. The Australian Register gives an abstract
of receipts and expenditure for the quarter ending June 30,
1647. The "fixed" receipts are stated at 16,2761. in round
numbers ; the " fixed" expenditure, 13,7231. the quarterly
surplus was therefore 1,5631., or at the rate of 6,2131. per
annum. The clear customs receipts amounted to 12,9101.,
and the proceeds of the sale of crown lands to 8,0171. The
grand total of expenditure, fixed and casual, was, however,
29,0971., and of receipts no more than 26,8671. A sale of
1,662 acres of government lands took place on the 27th of
August, and realised 2,0861.

THE OVERLAND MAIL
FROM INDIA.

An outline of the following appeared in our last
evening's edition.
We have received our despatches and papers from
India. From Calcutta to the 21st of December, and
from Bombay to the let of January. At Bombay
the firm of Slam, Livingston, and Co. had stopped
payment, but it was hoped payments would be shortly
resumed. At Calcutta two more failures had occurred
—that of Messrs. Colville, Gilmore, and Co., and that
of B. T. Ford and Co. For faller particulars of thew
disasters we refer to oar money article.
Reports that the failures of large houses at Calcutta
had seriously affected the Union Bank, combined
with the intelligence from England, induced a requi-
sition to the directors to call a meeting without loss
of time and afford information on the state of the
institution. The proceedings will be found elsewhere.
Of political intelligence there is none of any special
moment, and for a complete summary we refer our
readers to the letter of our Bombay correspondent.
BOMBAY, Jere 1, 1848.
Another year bas passed away in peace and tranquillity,
and at the present date India from end to end, with the ex-
ception of the petty but harasAng forays in the Goomsoor
districts, enjoys the most profound repose. Lord Dalhousee
has by this time reached Madras in the steam frigate
Moozuffer, this vessel basing left Aden on the 19th ult. His
lordship intended spending a few days with his relations,
and would probably leave fee Calcutta about the sth, as 4
reach that city by the 9th or 10th. Lord Hardinge arrived
at tke seat of government on the 11th of December, haring
left it for the frontier on the 22nd of September, 1845. He
quitted it a baronet, and returns a peer, having, during his
absence, couquered and humbled the last fee to our rule on
our frontier. Would that other states within our terri-
tories were conquered as the Sikhs have been
their humiliation proving the greatest piece of good
fortune which could have happened to them. The
retiring ruler's career in India has been one of the
moat advantageous to the country since the days of Corn-
wallis. He found us outrunning our income by upwards of a
million a year, and leaves us with an annual balance in our
favour of double that amount. The reception Lord Her-
dinge met with from the inhabitants of the City of Palaces
was most enthusiastic. An address of ungretulation was
presented to him, and a meeting has been called to take into
consideration the best means of perpetuating his memory in
the land which it has been his constant endeavour to benefit.
One of his greatest triumphs has been the success which has
attended his efforts to procure the abolition of the barbarous
customs of suttee or female self-immolation on the funeral
piles of their dead husbands ; female infanticide, by which
thousands of infants were destroyed to avoid the expense
attendant on their betrothal, and the supposed dis-
grace attending an alliance celebrated in poverty ; sod
the time-hallowed custom of slave.dealing amongst the
native powers in or near our territory. On the
2nd of December Lord Hardinge by public notification
tendered his thanks to the Maharajas of Lahore and Gwalior,
the Niaam of Hyderabad, and twenty other independent
rajahs and chiefs of Upper and Central India, for having so
cordially seconded him in the putting down of these abo-
minable practices in their domineers ; and states that " he
confidently expects at no distant day to hear of the complete
renunciation of them in every state in alliance with, or under
the protection of, the paramount power of India." It is
confidently expected that Lord Dalhousie will follow in the
path for the last three years pursued by his predecessor ,•
and if our anticipations be realised, ere twenty years, should
the same honest course, be pursued, the country will be tra-
versed throughout by railroads, and the commerce of India
be increased a thousandfold. These are bright an-
ticipations : who shall say they may not be realised ? In
Bombay one firm—that of Messrs. Syers, Livingston, Coun.
and Co. has shut up, and it is expected that it will in a short
time re-open ; the necessity fur its suspending operations I WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Duchess of Cambridge
having been doubted. It is to be hoped the crisis has passed and Prince Frederick of Hesse took leave this morning d
by, and that such a blight may not again come over commas.- I the Queen and Prince Albert and the King and Qum d
vial matters. Nothing of interest has reached from the Pun- the Belgians. The Royal Duchess (ttSereneerided by
esLady A.
jaub or Affghanistan since last mail. Mr. John Lawrence Cadogan, Lady in Waiting) and his Highns lelft
bad assumed the duties of resident at Lahore till the arrival their departure from the Lancaster Tower in a curie's id
of Sir F. Currie. Brigadier Campbell is said to be about four, at half-put 10 o'clock, for Kew. General Wenge!d
being relieved by BrigadierWhish, in command of the troops Mr. R.Ormsby Gore attended her Royal Highness and Pr
ante
ies
of the division. Several of the chiets and girders of the Dar- Frederick to their carriage. The Duchess of Kent d
bar had had titles and honours conferred on them. The early this forenoon at the Castle from her residence, flee
Dewan Deena Nath had been wounded in the face by a more-house, to pay a visit to her Majesty The Earl to tas
Ake
ks,
remindar, who conceived himself insulted by him : the hurt of the King and Queen of the Belgians.
was trifling, and would seem to have been inflicted in a mo- deen left the Castle early. The Marquis and klarchiseeell
went of passion. The Dewan was, two days after the occur- Lansdowne took their departure this forenoon, **MO
Ili
O
rence, formally installed as rajah of Kalanoor. The sirdar for town, and the marchioness to proceed on a visit Si
Lena Singh is said to be about quitting the council and the Earl of Ilchester, at his seat in Dorsetabire. Madams as
country, and retiring to Bemires, to lay him down de Weyer left the Castle to-day. Colonel Beckley miss
by the holy Ganges to die the death of a de- at the Castle this morning, and has relieved General Wasp
votes. A fire had occurred in Colonel Lawrence's in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty.
quarters on the night of the Bth but
till con-
but was speedily The Queen's private baud attended in the Deeded
h
pat out by the soldiery—not,
Monday evening, and performed, among other pin%
siderable damage had been done. Colonel Lawrence had fantasia on airs composed by Prince Albert.
been entertained by the soldiers of the artillery prior to his At twelve o'clock, the King and Queen of the Ili
departure—the Sergeant-Major in the chair. Ay, Colonel s took their departure for the continent. nip QIN
M
Lawrence did not deem t insult humbled it accepting a fare- and Prince Albert accompanied their swot
wall dinner from the common soldiers—nor did the brigadier
royal entrance. The royal children aka eseisee _ l
vidisw
refuse to join in the expression of their grateful thanks by
these men towards one who bad ever shown himself a true Majesty and her Royal Consort. The ladies and gleilem
had all beena
friend to the soldier, who conducted himself as Briton
should do. The reliefs of the regiments Lady in Waiting, Lady Caroline Cocks, and the NM
of the royal household, including the VieWunten
Paget, Maids of Honour, the Master of the lionsaillale
effected. The Delhi Gazette gives the following account of
the movements of the expeditiou into the Benno° and Tank
Our Peshawur correellendut, who hod renamed from the Yeeeeet-
districts: equerry to the Queen, attended than aue
R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in airing, and
‘. .Goeiennerslo Woo:
sue camp, seeing that Ultras prase, so maim sea ben carriages and four by ere
Buckley, Equ igloo
entrance, where they were handed into oene4fixtheiresil,
evidently of • roving depseliu, NMI not &blotter than the Queen, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon,
go and see how a eikh way void ample pttbroeibker rather Waiting to Prince Albert. In another royal
over, the passes at Ipe=eselitetbsPennee and Tank districts,
west of the India, eat Uwe. Togior joined the ounp on the Queen of the Belgians, his Excellency Yoo
the 23rd of November, b=difour were la Marquise de Trueynies, Lady in-
ber *Mous, but we MUM lo so lob
ow Iwo et the tat Major de Moerkerke, in waiting on the King o
Lieut. L.de. tiufs miewrarijrZtathstentn... 8f.." i"). Weyer, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting to thef
ol•Qa Et
sel, de
instate, via. Dire regimental wowdrh
_thou ottoloiry, or troop Their Majesties and suite proceeded to the Siough •
of moo aehlteeTi wits I.IM maw the Dwi114441 ear- the Great Western Railway, and travelled to town by de
dare—altegether about KO am Beeares es Ilest tin gm, did than,
to any it us to
bee af see eppraftlea Nue was day afternoon by special train of the •
wufterigdirstel" tbatesuietulieast) tevisateewssyllial (teem sialhavlramals es Their Majesties_ and suite left for Calaissouth-rAwys6!,
=ga....14606116 6,0 severs was "mid bg, Is Is susgesei. owes Railway ; the train started shortly eta on
thein sued country .10_1_11*2 their private carriages' having been previously despatelletP.
1:1=1 ift=tiletee>eaiaa. is.
....nniohi7. special train an hour in advance of their *Veda*
Edislobot oor owe onowOlo ism to art From this s
heeted for the departure. Mr. chairmen • lie
yeas sonoiwo eta owl Iwo boon the toil and chairman • Mr. M. L. Pritchard, the deputy-
-006 gobwLet" opool: Iwwwwwowle sense easuseisticall- imadini—ce .with royalty, the Bricklayersj'amArmse•
ti•evegneheorel,;
0110010....0 /OAbIS MP Powo 841440100 waggons. slid Jerk, a director ; and Mr. James Walter, chefs upenneef.
lesss,"'" au' eekti. Iniattrog sult,eir ant of the line ; received their Majesties. The royal ur
• to eintsrk•
and," MOM8.1"11INRW We liege& 171111,2110 n into the up the line, and we understand, e:preseal to Mr.
e
g
Oa sealkers gide et ow the co loosbedlog ation, his Majesty his geeirtneenet c"""... 6. diorlir. mew The awe— g"t
; travelled at the same speed as on ththeatoccasipwoionuosf
plain
wcrm
si
.eiesitthAreabi eater
el.efeeell sue tglieTirilLinefficiency and discipline of the railway oasis
able eel oraiodww. Oa the Other Ina ram
oar dam, kopower, .04 tb,—ibui"7lX °mu' thswil."l
ihepresidency.coapan T:Tohowe engine
two o'eldt
°ff
th. g" aid" bi aim dawn 11. P.P. • UM" A cabinet council was held at half-past
wawa owl me wee 04 emu, but oat wawathe residence of Lord John Avow
tbo ail woo modal Is *ova Two Ni. Wind so
in
afternoon, at .
present were Lad ow
as ors.
two *mobs almost lagesdble tbey could In Chtuhlet-place. The ministers
uis -of Lord
be /WM as for two 14s at g/Loomana that Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the marq _ _
lioolowoota=r lohoo w. with the_, Sir George Grey, Viwount Palmerston, Earl.
.tire 7
vkjeldeasereseieugl"lB. 'we ,1=1.1....,7°PeZ,7 Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of AUCkllnd,
below *MOW mow* ad admit astszx wise:nth' Wew, we house, Viscount
the Kamen • of Chuiricards,
assiseke, dualippi einsitso "pis* ate suaeocitee. the ]tight Ron, T. B. Allosuar.
frimiama Yowl -14owwwpwa"mrtbotolowiftwasa minigoomo to Campbell, the Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir John
evcrepstves,:nbj gr. Ferna•P'

LOSS OF THE STEAMER SCOTIA.
Respecting the lows of this vessel, which we
announced in our telegraphic despatch of yesterday, the
Malta rinses of Jan. 25 contains the following : "01
the morning of the 15th the Scotia was observed
lying in the Bay of Store much deeper in the water than
customary, consequently, as there was no one on board,
Capt. Williams, of the schooner Rhoda, lying at anchor
clam by, lowered his boat and went on board, accompanied
by a portion of his crew, when to his surprise he fund
that the water had risen 'so as to cover the ma•
chinery, and that it was fast increasing, which he
imagined must have been occasioned by a material
damage from • French brig which parted from ha
anchors and went foul of her on the night of the 11th
inst. Captain Williams did not leave the Scotia until ths
arrival of Captain Pereira, which took place shortly, when
consultation was held as to the expediency of running hum
shore in order if possible to save a wreck of the ill fated ship,
which was done by the sole exertions of the Rhoda's aro
and three or four of the Scotia's men. She was speedily ma
on the sandy beach and immediately parted asunder. Os
the following day a large portion of her wood work vw
sold by auction on the spot. The boilers and part of ha
engines were observed peering over the troubled waves, eai
will no doubt be ultimately recovered.