The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-07 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL

By the arrival of the above mail we have ad-

vice; from Bombay to April 13, and from Calcutta
to April 8.
Latest accounts from the famine-stricken districts
of Bengal, giving news up to the middle or end of
March, report, says the Times of India, a steady,
if not a rapid progress in the work of relief and
reconstruction.

Sir W. Mansfield has already left for the hills.
Many of the higher officers are also leaving, and
some of those attached to the Bengal government
have gone to Darjeeling. The Viceroy, it is said,
is detained by the famine report, hut was to leave
for Simla between the 15th and 20th of April.
The Hurdwar fair has commenced, and will be
visited by the Maharajah of Cashmere, who has
already reached the Punjab frontier on his way to
the sacred spot. Hundreds of thousands of pil-
grims have massed themselves in the neighbour-
hood of the town, and it is stated that cholera has
broken out amongst them.
There are now six daily postal deliveries in Cal-
cutta, and there will be a similar number inißom-
bay immediately the increased expenditure is sanc-
tioned.
The government of India has commenced pub-
lishing quarterly returns of the revenue and ex-
penditure of the empire. The statement just pub-
lished brings the accounts down to October 31,
1866.
The Governor-General has authorised the im-
mediate payment of the first instalment of the
Banda and Kirwee prize money, at the rate of 501.
a share.
It is said that instructions have been sent to
India to organise a grand hunting expedition in
the interior for the Duke of Edinburgh when
his Royal Highness visits Bombay in the Galatea.
Dr. Milman has been installed Bishop of
Calcutta.

It is a singular fact that wheat grown in the
neighbourhood of Chichester, in Sussex, is worth 10s. a
load more than wheat grown in the neighbourhood of
Winchester, in Hants, and the latter is worth 10e. a load
more than wheat grown in the neighbourhood of Salisbury,
in Wiltshire. This is owing to the quantity of flour
which the wheat of the different places yields. The go-
vernment has just purchase.] Chichester wheat at 19/. 10e.
• load for the Clarence Victualling Yard at Portsmouth.

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Steamers now cross the Atlantic in nine days,
and there is a steamer building for the North German
Lloyd's Company which will, it is expected, cross in eight
days. When the Pacific Railroad is completed, it will be
possible to reach San Francisco from England in a fort-
night. From thence it will be possible to reach Hong
Kong in three weeks. At present a person by travelling
eastward can reach Hong Kong in six weeks. Before long
a struggle will take place for the traffic of the far east,
which will either pass to Western Europe, over the
American continent, or along south-western Asia, as at
present. The dream of Columbus will possibly be verified,
that the western route is the way to the Indies, unless
railways are made along the banks of the Euphrates and
the Persian Gulf, and through Burmab to Canton.
Englishmen are now living who will probably travel to
China by rail, with the exception of creasing the British
Channel and the Dardanelles.

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