The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1849.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

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delay had been caused by the extraordinary
forge of the wienesen, wleltdris said to have best the
meet violent for assay The amount of rain
fallen in aimed beyond precedent, and the floods
throughout India have base most destructive. /a one
inmarmo the rain and the flood have by their united
operation produced a most unexpected effect—the re-
nowned Fort of Wolters, with all its bomb-proof de-
pendencies, which had so long held out against all
tied@ of samilints, has melted away before the joint
attacks of the monsoon torrent and the Mood of the
Chines& On the 18th of August the rain began ;
building after building fell in rapid succession, and
on the 23rd the river had covered the whole country.
The floods gradually ascended the coarse of the rivers
at the rate, it is said, of about 70 miles a-day, and
had everywhere done much temporary damage.
The following is the letter of one correspondent:
BOMBAY, Oct. 3.
The monsoon has at length, to all appearance, ter-4
mioated, very little rain having fallen since the
deluge of the 17th, of which I gave particulars in my
last. We have had 118 inches diming the season,
the fall on the Mahabuleshwar bills having been
nearly three times as much. The whole of Western
India seems to have shared in the downpour of the
17th. On the oast at the cotton poet of Comptah, a
tremeodons hurricane occurred on the 18th, 17th, and
18th, wherebyeighteen large native boats, some laden
wi h cotton for Bombay, and others with specie, &e.,
from this port, wire completely wrecked, and pro-
, perty to the value of at least 10,0001. destroyed. Our
cotton dealers, who seldom or never think of insuring
their merchandise, are the sufferers by 'this storm.
Numerous other country craft have been wrecked along
the coast, and quantities of goods have been picked up
some little way out to sea. I have not heard of any
of our merchantmen having sustained damage, from
which it would appear that the storm was coa-
-1 fined to the coast, and did not extend any die-
tanoe out to sea. At Mulligan the river rose to a
great height, sweeping away the suspension bridge,
lead also a Hindoo temple on its bank, with several
men who were therein. At Surat the Taptee river
overflowed its banks, and on the 19th the water burst
into the city, forcing the inhabitants to fly before it.
People from the Dutch Bunder were obligedin
to
boats all over the road to a place in the centre of the
city, called Bhaga-tullao. From the Adawlut gate
down to the Racecourse gate, over all the gardens
where the European gentlemen live, it was one im-
mense sheet of water, to the depth of three or four
feet. The Dutch Bender was under water, where the
people and cattle had fled in their fright for safety.
A number of old houses had tumbled down, and the
destruction of property had been very great. At
Cambay the sea had risen to an unprecedented height,
and Femoral large boats had been thrown ashore and
there left high and dry some hundred of yards flan
their proper element, and there they must re-
main till some future monster tide comes to their
rescue. At Kaira and Ahmedabad there were tre-
mendous falls of rain, accompanied by thunder and
lightning. At Hyderabad, in the Heenan, on the
10th, the rain came down in cataracts, overflowing all
the tanks and well., and damaging a large number of
houses. On the 12th, the river Moose overflowed its
barks, and the water entering the city, washed away
the Begum Bazaar, entering the Residency compound.
At Hydrabad, in Scinde, it rained fearfully on the
17th, and numbers of houses and trees were blown
down by the storm.' On the 18th, a very heavy fall
of rain occurred at D‘lhi ; and on the 20. h Meerut
was visited by one of the severest storms of rain,
thunder, and lightning, which had been known for a
number of years. Throughout the Gooseerat the
bajree crops had been much damaged by the rain,
while the rice mops had been benefited by it.
Throughcut the country at large an abundant harvest
is expected, which will, as usual, enable the poor cul-
tivators to purchase some of our coarser cotton fabrics,
and thus a pretty extensive trade in them may be ex-
pected next month, after the conclusion of the Dewal-
lee holidays, which commence on the 15th instant and
last till the 20th, on which occasion the native desires
close their accounts, and worship their wealth, prepa-
ratory to commencing a new commercial year.
Very little has occurred in the Bombay presidency
requiring particular notice. A young ensign of
the 80th, named Bowers, has lately been tried at
Deems, for having been drank at a guard-mounting
parade—at least such was the charge; but be was
acquitted. Sir W. Oomm has taken up his billet at
Ceylon, watching the course of events, with an eye, it
lie said, to stepping into Sir William's shoes, or those
of Sir C. Napier, which I dare say be would prefer.
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The Moplabs on the Malabar coast were overtaken
on the 4th of September by the grenadier company
of her Majesty's 94th Foot and a detachment of the
39:h Native grenadiers; and as they would not sur-
render, but on the contrary seemed determined to sell
their lives dearly, they were bayonetted to a man, 61
of them being killed on the spot, the remaining one
being taken alive covered with wounds. Oar force
lost two Europeans and one Sepoy killed, and one
European mortally wounded. Major Dennis and
Lieutenant Vaughan, 94th, with several of their men
and a number of the Sepoys, were wounded. On
this cccaaion the " blacks a vied wi h their European
brethren in arms—all have been highly praised
by Sir G. Berkeley for their gallantry. Lieu-
tenant Partridge, of the 14th Madras Native Infantry,
has been dismissed the service for drunkenness.
The Madras troops are to occupy the Sanger and
Norbudda territories, while Bombay corps are per-
manently to garrison the station/. along the Malabar
coast as far down as Cochin. The Bengal regiments
now in the Sanger territories will thus be available
for service on the north-west frontier. The Hindoo
inhabitants of Madras are about to present a testi-
monial to Sir E. Gambier, Chief Justice, on his
approaching retirement from the bench. .he Rev.
Mr. Mahon has met with a serious accident by being
thrown from his carriage and having his arm
broken. Colonel Considin- Quartermaster-General
of the Madras army, has gone home on sick
leave. Lieutenants A. V. Layard and J. Hayter,
of the 23rd M.L.L, both died on the Bth September,
at Kamptee. The former was the youngest son of
the Rev. B. V. Layard, of Uffington, Lincolnshire.
Sir George Berkeley was to have visited Cannanore
late last month, front whence he would return to
Bangalore, and thence to Madras in the end of October.
The detachment of the 94th Foot returned to Canna-
nore on the 13th September—the wounded all doing
welL The latest date received from Madras is the
25th September, when the weather was anything
but agreeable, thoMh not particularly disagreeable=
and there was bat little sickness prevalent.
The Calcutta police inquiry has terminated, and
the commissioners have emit in their report to govern-
ment : it is expected to appear shortly in the go-
vernment Gazette, with the remarks of government
on its disclosures. No conjecture can be formed as to
the punishment which will be inflicted on the delin-
quents, for such they one and all (Mr. Hume alone
excepted) appear to be. Meanwhile Captain Hicks
and Major Birch have been remanded to theci=
uten ts, and one of the lesser culprits—Mr. M,
a deputy superintendent of police—has been called to
his final account, having died from enlargement of
the liver on the 20th Sept. Mr. W. Blunt, Cll.,
senior member of the Board of Customs, Opium, and
Salt, has been suspended the service pending the in-
vestigation he had himself solicited into his conduct.
The r—enmissioners in this case are Messrs. Harvey
and ' C.S. The Governs.-n---- ' 114

Gough, _- —...ornor-iteneral will .
it is said, return to Calcutta before 1851. The Hon.
Mr. Bethune has recommended the abolition of ex-
prt duties at Calcutta. Dr. Duff was about to
leave Calcutta for good in the end of September.
The government Gazett• of the 22nd ult., received
this morning, contains a draft of an " Act to Incorpo-
rate a Company for Building a Pier at Pdadras."—The
Hurkans of the 22nd gives the following extract of a
letter of 30th August irons Moulmein:
Yesterday the whole town was thrown Cato high excite-
seat by the daring attempt oa the part of a Burmese to
murder ear napes d espossainioner. It is asserted that the
ilinow, wilt an order passed by tbe commies'**,
letershsedi * revenge himself, to ensure which he called on
War Sigh with a petition, and armed with a bludgeon.
The pelNfia writsesated, and while the commissioner was
=c is it, he was felled es the ground with •
blow. w wu mufti lipids sal spin. Thls
dome, OM nibs as of Owing du milimiuMlN for dad)

to the house of Capt. Impoy, to whom be surrendered him-
Self, saylog that he had killed the oommissioner. Ca
lillastragelsko• as he had ordered the "man to be es •
em tint house of the 001111Mt1111011•T whom he f •
still=eab bat attended by Dr. Marion. Thank God,
the in
isresorfleeicted tin not dangerous, altd the sownis
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A geed deal of sickness (fever) -Sae broken oat
mom* the keeps at Meehan, mesqwent on the
late flood:. The following extract from ifUtter of the
11th ult. gime the latest news I hare men from the
station :
The heat of the weather hare continues dreadful, mad the
water subsiding makes it very unhealthy ; nearly all the
Beropease laid op. 170 of the Rifles, 80 of the 9th NI,
and • member of thee/Boer% have fever. The stench
Is dradfel ! No air, ea/ at nightwe lie awake and are tor-
mented with maidlifles.• slrep is hapoesible The old bide-
elan, Abdul Fu Akbar, 300 years ego, says : From
Meehan to Bakker Ise eaves or eight months of the year
there blows a wind fulled the °Barti-oilmoom,' and next to
h —ll it is the honest plasm known I" A very true account
Tie Meantime of ilitie tl Rifles ea outpost at Lash have
nearly all the men risk Oliver, sod the worst month yet to
00•12.
The following is from the Bombay Tbnerloverland
of this morning
We have LAMA from Peshawar to the 14th ult., with a
report on the weather for the 'month of August. From this
letter we bare that the highest range of the thermometer
during the mouth had been 104 deg. at 4 p.m. the lowest,
at sunrise, 81 deg., the midday maximum 101 deg., the said.
night ditto 100 deg. The mouth had not, however, been
characterised, as would be supposed by the indications of the
therairmeter, by any unusual degree of hat over those
which had just preceded it ; it even showed that the met
fury did not range so high as it had done in May, Jane,
and July ; yet we regret to find that more fatal
elms of apoplexy had occurred amongst the Eu-
ropean troops during August than in any month
gDOII our oesapation of the province. la the middle of
the month there had been a sacemsdon of exceedingly
close gad suffocating nights, and in the space of
three days no fewer than twelve Europeans had died from
apoplexy of the longs alone; several of them having been
cut off in their barracks unknown to their comrades darin
the night, without having previously complained of anything
ailing them. During the entire month the casualties had
been thirty, of which twenty-six were Europeans, and four
natives. Of the former, two belongso to the 3rd company
Ist battalion, and one to the detachment Bengal Foot Artil-
lery, seven to the 61st Foot. three to the 3rd troop Bombay
Horse, and one to the Zed company let battalion Bombay
Foot Artillery, eight to the 60th Rifles, and four to the
Bombay Fusiliers. Of the latter, one each belonged to the
31st Bengal N. 1., 13th Bengal I. C., 9rd and 19th Bombay
N. I. The whole force consisted of 9.154 men, of whom
493 bad been on the sick list, or five and a half per
cent. The prevailing diseases had been biwel affections,
fevers, and opthahnia. At the date of our letters
sickness was on the decrease, both amongst the
natives and Europeans. The but weather had passed, and
the cold was setting in—the nights and mornings Lag
delightful, especially to these who had guff. red from the
previous heat. Throughout the 'ninth of August thunder-
storms with rain had been of frequent occurrence—the effect
of which in cooling the atmosphere had hien felt for several
days after their advent. Heavy rain fell on the 7th, 9u",
15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, and 29. b, and on several occasions
light showers had fallen. During the time it• was raining
on the 15th the thermometer had (alien 28 degrees in two
hours ! Daring the month there had been a beautiful dis-
play of brilliant meteors—rod, blue, and green—in the lower
regions of the atmosphere. As many as twenty had fre-
quently been counted in an hour. Their direction was prin-
cipally from north-west to south-east, but often to and from
other points of the compass. The following table will show
the strength of the several corps and detachments now at
Peshawar
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--Euroteins.-2ad troop 2n4 brig. Bengal H. A. 111 ;
3ri troop Bombay H. A., 131; 3rd co. lit ban Bengal F. A.,
69 ; detsehns.nt Bengal F. A . 211 ; 2nd 00. 1.. t batt. Dam-
bay F. A ,100 ; H.M. 60th Rifles, 862 H.M. 61st Foot, 830;
lit Bombay Fusiliers, 813.—Total, 3,117 men. Natives
Detail. Benicia H. A., 120; Details Bengal Foot A., 155;
let Bengal L. Cavalry, 502; 18th Bengal Irreg. Cavalry,
530 ; 2nd 11*r. Scinde Horse, 514 ; Bengal Sappers and
Miners, 90; Bombay Sappers and Mi. era. 129; 3rd Bom-
bay N 1., 899; 19th Bombay N. I , 937; 31st Bengal N. 1.,
896 ; 70th Bengal N 1., 605 ; Sciade Baggago C mpg, 660.
total Natives, 6,037. Total Europeans, 3,117. Grand
total, 9,154 men.

Sir H. Lawrenos doss not leave Lahore for the
present. Sickness had diminished at Lahore, but still
prevailed to some extent at Wuzeei abed and else-
where.

The charge against Captain Gell, of tyrannoas con-
duct towards the Jam of the Jokeahs, would appear
to have been a just one, ae that officer has been
removed from his appointment of lieutenant of police
at Kurrachee, and remanded to his corps. The hill
tribes had made a foray into Upper Scinde, and
carried off some of our esmels. The Scinde Horse
were quickly on their track, but the robbers were
this time mounted, and so got off, though a number
of the an;mals were recovered.

The old blibjes, or Qu.en-mother, the last repre-
sentative • f the Holkare, died of cholera at Indore on
the 9th of Septemba, no medical assistsume being
afforded her. Although the residenly surgeon was on
the spot he was not informed of her illness. Mr. Ha-
milton, the resident at Indore, h ben appointed a
provisional member of the Connell of India ; who will
succeed him at the court of Indore is not known.

We add the following from cur Bombay correspon-
dent, which should have arrived by the last mail. It
contains many items of intell g. nee from various
parts of India which were not to be found in the
correspondence and papers which came last to hard :
BOMBAY, SIFT. 17, 1849.
The monsoon continues at Bombay as heavy as it did in
July last ; and to-day, while I write, rain is pouring down
in deluges. We have already had 112 inches this season,
and then is still little prospect of the weather clearing up.
Daring the present month 23 inches have fallen, and it Is
not improbable we mug have eight or ten lane. Since 1817
oar present season's fall hss only once been exceeded, 122
inches having' fallen in 1828. The dwellings of the indi-
gent classes are perfectly saturated, and numbers are daily
dying of • species of cholera superinduced by damp and the
cuureat food, the poor wretches entirely oul...isting on a
little haled rim, with perhaps a dried fish and a little
chilli. water. As many as twenty and thirty have been
cut facially for the past fortnight. In one compound, out
of aim men, six died, the oth-r three being still in hospital.
An unfortunate man, lamed King, formerly, I believe, a
captain is her Msjesty's 41st, but who was cashiered many
years sines from that corps, fell a victim to the disease
this morning. During the month of August the total
number of deaths in Bombay from all was 1,104—0 f
these 127 died from cholera, upwards of a sixth being pro-
bably seamen. This dreadful epidemic has this month also
cut off a number of Europeans of the Indian and mercantile
navies; net • single case having occurred seaman the
European soldiers on the island. The late dreadfully wet
weather will, it is feared, lay the Ties crops, which are
now nearly rips, and this cause their destruction.
Sickness to a great extent is almost sure to follow on the
',reeking up of the present rain ; indeed it has already
made its appearance.
The filthy old bulk Hastings, which first set the
cholera to work in the harbour, has been brought into dock
for repair, and to be cleaned. A filthier vessel, or one more
infested with vermin of every description, disgraces not
an navy in the world. Ste H. Lawrence has given
201. as a donation to the Pensioners' Fund at Bombay.
Upwards of 1,0002 have now been subsctibed, with annual
subscriptions amounting to 1601., and operations bars been
commenced. The two engineers through whose carelessness
the boilers of the 'Pam frigate Queen were destroyed on her
voyage to Aden, in May last, have been dismissed the service
by goverment.
A miserable affair has happened on the Malabar Coast, at
a place edited Munjerry, 12 miles from Callan. It would
seem that a gang of fanatic "Moplahs" bad been com-
mitting robberies end murders in the neighbourhoi.d, when
• party of the 6th Native Infantry was sent out alter them.
These they eluded, and took up • position in • strong
temple, and set their opponents at deflates. A strong
party of the 43rd was next sent out on the 27th August,
bat the commander, Bailin Wyse, not thinking himself
=snack to attack the marauders in the pagoda, •
detachment of the 43rd, under Captain Watts, went
to hisaisistance. There were now 120 Sep's, led by two
Ramps= oilloere,—the Moplahs being estimated at 30 or
40. agta Wyse and his party of 60 men advanced en the
temple, when half the maranden came cut to meet them,
armed with knives, spears, and matchlocks—fire of each
weapons. The Belays fucked! fired at random without
orders, sad all but tour turned tail and fled ! En-
sign Wyse sad his four supporters were immediately
cut to pieces, and the fanatic. returned to the
pagoda. Captain Watts in vain endeavoured to rally
the retreating Sepoye—his ;own detachment would not ap-
parently move against the enemy, so he was compelled to
marsh them down to the Cutcherry to guard the treasury
and the collector. Was anything more disgraceful ever
heard oft—the affair is wholly unaccountable. A detach-
ment of 200 of her Majesty's 94th, with two guns, was on
this news reaching Camisole immediately sent off to Mutt.
Jerry, which they would not reach before the 3rd inst., by
which time the Mopialts would of course have decamprW.
The 12th N. I. at Cannanore volunteered to go in plan of
the 94th, but though given all praise for their offer it was
not accepted. The steamer direct from Madras will doubt-
less convey home intelligence of how the affair ended. I
have never heretofore heard the Madras &port accused of
cowardice in front of an enemy, and cannot help thinking
there must have been some bungling in wry iog out the
expedition.
Noonan has been almost totally destroyed by an kande,
doe. The river Chenaub bunt its bounds and carried every
thing before it—laying the whole country for miles around
under water. There had been heavy rain about the middle
of August, which had caused a number of the domes and
mosques to fall in ; and on the 23rd the rise of the river com-
pleted the destruction of the celebrated fort of Mooltan,
which is now one mass of ruins. I subjoin the following
account of both occurrences from this morning's Otter/anal
Times. No news that l have seen has bran received from
the setae of destruction of later Gate than the 27th ult..
though Ulan up to the 2nd inst. ought to have reached
Bombay, and I dare say have been received by friends of the
I officers there; but as nothing has been published, wtissamiaj
presume matters zunained as at the date first men

The steamer Dwoka, hourly expected from Komi:lee, will
uo doubt bring tvp,biar perticulars.

DESTRUCTION OF MOOLTAN.
Moovraw, Aug. I&—We have been visited here by one
of **headset falls of rain remembered by the bloeltanees.
The remits have been mdansholy ; the town and fort, shat-
tered by shot. and shaken by the terrific explosion of the
301 k ea, 184$, have been greatly gut up, walls under-
min and seewal py people buried ander the rdni.
Tee d of the edited an so unsafe, that the officers and
are moving into tents, four of them having fallen
la. he men fa the Kanner Lot are also moved into torte,
as the ditch, being fall of water, melts the mud wall, and it
Ms slid down bodily in several as also has the counter-
scarp; sad the inner brisk is expected to go in s few
daps. The destruction to the fort has been very great, end
we an at present on an himikall around being flooded. The
4th Rifles lines are drowsed, end under water, and the men
are pitched on a small digs gresand user the cavalry. At
tan this morning we were all startled by what at fleet
was thought to be an earthquake, but it was soon dheovered
that Ike *pennons &me of the beautiful shrine of Bhawal uk,
(injured by our shot) bad fallen in with a noise like thunder :
fortmately the fakeers were all at a distance ; it is now a
heap denims. Another fell of rain will lay the
ria:see" feet ed Meehan flat: being built ea an old site, par-
tway keeisysembed in all directions, it is dangers to ride
about, die earth everywhere giving way. A major of artil
hey and Ids home were nearly swallowed up in one of these
immense lisseres, and several small tremens have been die-
sound to the peke agents by the ground °patine. The
stench and exhalation are most unplestant, and the flies
and insect* very annoying. Everyone now is anxiously
looking forward for the relief : the men, who have had no
furlough for two years, are as anxious to rejoin their families
as the officers, and it is greatly to ',admired thatao delay will
now take place. The order kettle general disarming of the Pus
janb has been proclaimed, and not come too early. The bands of
marauders as well as thugs in this neighbourhood suffer
few travellers to 'expo them. The engineers were getting
on famously with the repairs of the shattered wails, etc., of
the fort, when as order was suddenly sent to stop work—or
rather I understand the funds were wanting: the late
lamentable consequences are the result. Perhaps some of
your correspondents can tell you the amount expended on
the battered shrine a Shuns USN's, which has been re-
paired at the expanse of government (before the rain fell)
though not injured by oar guns. It is said fifteen thousand
rupees have been granted to the three saints ! at the recom-
mendation of the—Hero of Mooltan !

" Kooken, like Surat, seems this season destined to be the
victim alternately of tire and water—of the British artillery
and the naiads. What Whish was so long of diming, and
then performed but imperfectly, the waters of the Chenaub
have accomplished noiselessly and without difficulty. On
the 23rd ultimo the river, breaking through all restraint,
Caine pouring into the ditch, when the greater part of the
bastions, a large portion of the wall, and the whole of the
counterecarp, tumbled In. The fanne-brays was immedi-
ately filled with water, and nearly the whole of the huts in
the sepey lines fell down. Two companies of the 9th N. I.
have lost all their musical instruments, arms, and accoutre-
ments. The W bad esdgah, where the rifts were
quartered, came tumbling about their ears, and compelled
them to seek refuge in the fort, the only place for miles
' around not under water. On the evening of the 24. h,
the flood at last made its way into the citadel,
and rendered Mooltan nearly as unsafe a place of
residence as it was in December, though from a
totally different cause. The horses of the artillery had
escaped drowning by swimming and wading to an elevation
some way off ; end for miles around the whole country was
one magnificent lake, studded with innumerable islands, on
which the people and their live stock sought refuge—bears
and rafts be log the only means of communication. Serious
apprehensions began to be entertained that if the waters of
the 11 iced did no- subside immediately, the severest privations
might be apprehended, if fearful sickness dil not ensue. We
trust that some careful chronicler will be !mind to give us
all particulars of the rise, duration, subsidence, and influence
of this most memorable find, and to determine whether with-
in the period referred to by history or tradition, any similar
phenomenon was ever known to have occurred. The fact of
stately structures being built within the reach of the over-
flowing water, and of these having remained for a long lam
of time uninjured, indicates that floods of this rent are of very
rare occurrence. The swallow never builds on the sash
window or opening casement, and mankind erect no struc-
tures where there remains any chance of their being washe d
away. A large overflow of water was said to have occurred
some fourteen years ago, occasioned by the bursting of a
hund, which continued ever after to be carefully attended
to by Modraj : there seems no reason to suppose that an
such catastrophe was ever known in Mooltan as the present."
Sickness continues at both Lahore and Peshawur. At the
(firmer Dr. G. Thompson, Horse Artillery, and at the latter
Brevet-C dl. M'Leod, C 8., 61st Foot (the tooth officer of
this regiment who has been cut off since June) have died,
their diseases having been apoplexy and chronic dysentery.
The colony around L Ihore has been inundated, end the
cantonment of Sbahpore has been swept away by an over-
flow of the river Jhelum. We may shortly expect to hear
of Scinde (upper) having been under water, the flo.d pro-
bably occurring about the Ist or 2nd inst., as the torrent
seemed to flow towards the sea at the rate of 70 miles a day.
Sir H. Lawrence had almost completely recover. d from his
illness, and hod abandoned the intention of s. eking chaire
of air in Cashmere. The affirmation that Goolaub Singh had
never been requested to give op his artillery has been re-
peated, with every appearance of authority, by the Bombay
Tema, so It is intended by the big-wigs that it should be
implicitly believed.
The Bombay government are said to have administered a
severe rebuke to the Imaum of Muscat, for having, either
directly violated the slave-prevention treaty entered into by
him, or suffered others to do so with impunity. A gentle.
man named 11. C. Harrow, of Hydrabad (Deccan), com-
mitted suicide on the 21st August, while on his way to Ma-
dras. His remains were interred at Pulicat—Soonj onl-
Moolk, lately in disgrace with the litmus, is in hopes of being
reinstated as Prime Minister.—Another officer has died at
Joulnah, Lieut. F , 33rd M. N. 1., making the sixth in
the course of the month of August His widow only sur-
vived him a fortnight, when she also was cut ..ff. The station
was a scene of mourning, and a day of humiliation before the
Almighty had been set apart —The ship Pncebr, Csptain
Hodder, belonging to Mr. D. Dunbar, of Limehouse, was
wrecked near Eskapillay, on the Madras coast, on the 28th
August —A dreadful accident occurred at Trichinopoly, on
the 21st August, by which betwixt threes and four hundred
persons were killed. For penicillin, I refer you to the
pspen.—l take no notice of Bengal, and you will receive
much later news direct than I could send you.—C .ptain
8. Tabor, 7th Bengal Cavalry, died at Juliundhun on
the 21st August.
P.B. No post in yet-3, p.m.—detained no doubt by the
dreadfully heavy rain which has fallen since yesterday. At
6 this morning our total fall for the season was 110 05 inches.
From that hour up to 2 p.m.—eight hours—the enormous
quantity of 6.16 inches have fallen, making in all 115.20
inches. It it continues at this rate we will nave to employ
boats in the streets. A good deal of thunder and lightning
all day.
[For markets see last page.]

BOMBAY ORIENTAL BANIL—The ordinary annual
meeting of the Oriental Bank in Bombay, was held on the
15th ult. ; and altnough it wee expected that a large at-
tendance of shareholders would have been present, we were
sorry to observe that only a very smell number a sembled at
the hour fur business. The directon took occasion to revert
to the position of the bank, and in doing so, to assure the
shareholders that considerable progress had been made in
rearming the balances on overdue balls and credits re-
sulting from the crisis of 1847-8; and that the provision
made from current profits had up to this time proved sufficient
to meet all ascertained losses; also that the business of the
bank is in a very healthy state, and the reserved fund of
112,0001. (or 11,20,000 Re.) still remains untouched as at
last annual balance. It was farther remarked by the directors
in their address, that the debility of Colonel Pew, Mr. Rich-
mond, and others, and the presumed loss by those transac-
tions, wero grossly exaggerated; and in evidence thereof, a
statement of those accounts was laid before the altar. holeers,
from which it appears that the amount due by Colonel Pew
is under four lace of rupees (in place of 10 lees as stated in
the newspepers), and that the security held by the bank will
in allprobabdity fully cover the debt; while the sum due by
Mr. Richmond (magnified into four and a half laced rupees)
is no more than Re. 12,000! and that the saute was written
off to profit and loos in September, 1848 ! At the sutgestion
of the dir, ctors, an additional audit of local wets was re-
solved on, and two shareholders were named by the meeting
for that duty. Mr. Henry Young, our respected collector of
customs, was appointed a director in the room of Mr. Grant,
who went out by rotation ; and as no ether native gentle-
man was put forward in the en m of Juggonath Sunkeraint,
Esq., whose time had also expired, that gentleman was re-
elected.

THE BERMONDSEY MORDER.—DiSCOVERY OF
moan or• O'Coristoree Paorearr.—On Monday last Man-
ning particularly el. sired to have an interview with Mr.
Sinus, his solicitor, as he had some important communica-
tion to make to him. A special order from the visiting
magistrates being required, Mr. Bina wee unable to visit
his late client until yesterday. Shortly after ten o'clock the
interview took place in the pretence of the deputy governor
and two turnkeys. Manning seemed much pleased to see
his attorney, and thanked him for the activity he had dis-
played in defending him. Re made no allusion to the sen-
tence, but gave some important information relative to some
shares which belosgei to O'Connor, end which were de-
stroyed by Mrs. Manning on the evening after the murder
was committed. The shares were of considerable value, and
their worth will, no doubt, be restored by the railway
company that issued them. Mre. Manning burnt them in
the ►ack kitchen with several old ;miters and some
rags. Manning told Mr. Sinn' that he wishedO'Connor's exe-
cutors to know the fact, as the property might be restored to
them. Last evening Mr. Biwa communicated with them,
giving a particular description of the shares, with hiann'ng's
statement respecting them. While conversing with Mr.
Binns, Manning seemed in excellent spirits, and appeared
quite reigned to the awful fate that awaits him. He still
asserts that bit wife perpetrated the crime, and that he as-
sisted in disposing of the body. Yesterday afternoon, by
the advice of Mr. Binns, Manning wrote an affecting letter
to his wife, appealing to her feelings, and calling upon her to
confess everything connected with the dreadful crime. He
exhorts her to tell the truth and rely upon forgiveness from
her Maker. The letter was handed to her in the evening
by the female turnkey, and for some time she refused to read
it. She however perused it, and requested to be furnished
with writing materials, for the purpose of answering her
husband's letter.