The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-05 00:00:00

ARRIVALS FROM LUCKNOW.

The steamer Indus, Captain Evans (Admiralty
agent, Lieutenant Gibbon, R.N.), arrived at Southampton
on Saturday, with the heavy portion of the India and China
mail. She left Alexandria, March 20th; Malta, 24th; and
Gibraltar. March 28th. Amongst her cargo were 1,149 cues
of silk, and specie to the value of 86,2131. From her we
learn that 22 deaths had occurred among the Europeans
shut up in Bangor. Captain Hersey, long supposed killed,
had arrived in disguise at Lohaghat. Lady Canning was
going to the Neilgherry Rills. R.M.'s 6th Regiment had
strived at Calcutta, and were quartered in the fort. The
64th Regiment had left Calcutta to join the Commander-in-
Chief. Some Bengal Sepoys had been landed at Canton ;
they had volunteered for service in China. The mails and
passengers by the Indus were detained in crossing the
Isthmus of Sues in consequence of the inefficiency of an
engine on the Egyptian railway. The Indus conveyed from
Alexandria to Malta the Russian Prince Obelenski and
General Isetkoff ; also the Egyptian Colonel, Selim Effendi.
The Indus landed at Southampton 41 first-class passengers
and 16 children. Amongst the former were General
and Mrs. Yaldwin, Captain Gossett, LE., and
Lieutenants Doger and Griffiths, R.N. The following
passengers belonged to the old Lucknow garrison, and were

at the famous siege from the commencemenhvis.' the
widow of Captain Radcliffe, 7th British Light Cavalry, and
two children; the widow of Lieutenant Duhwood, 48th
British Native Infantry, and two children; the widow of
Mr. Cooper, But India Company's service, and two chil-
dren; Captain and Mra. Gennep, Captain Rutrgler, and
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Clarke. The following grangers be-
longed to General Havelock's relieving force—viz., Captain
Johnson, Major North, Lieutenants Dekker and Birch.
Lieutenant Delafore was ono of the only two persons who
escaped the horrible massacre of Cawnpore ordered by Nana
Sahib. He is a floe looking young man, but he declares
that he has only a dim recollection of the scenes of the mas-
sacre, or how he escaped. His mind appears to have been
affected through the horrors he witnesed at the massacre and
the excitement of his deliverance. His faculties seam now,
however, completely restored.

A letter from Berlin of the let, in the Nord, of
Brussels, mays For some time peat the ladies of this
capital have been in the habit of assembling about noon in
the alleys of Thiergerten, where the Princess Frederick
William has been in the habit of taking her rides on horse-
back. For some days past the ladies have, however, been
doomed to di appointment, u the equestrian exercises of the
illustrious amazon have been interdicted by her physicians
for some months to come. Soon after Easter the Prince and
Princes Frederick William will pay visits to the courts of
Deus; Weimar, Gotha, &a In May the Princess of
Pnusla will go to Carlaruhe to be present at the oonfine-
meat of her daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden."

The military household of the Emperor Alexander
is composed of aides de reap, adjutants general, end
generals. Ile has 77 aides de camp, amongst whom there
are 46 colonels., 2 Heater att-colonals, 11 chefs d'esoadron, 3
captains, and 1 captain-lieutenant dike navy; 101 adjutants
gateral, and 41 generals—making the military household
altogether amidst of 219 Milan. It was never at any former
period so nen:mamas.
A letter from Paris says :—" We must not
omit to mention the rtithotion we experienced on
hearing Miss Belie this week in a private *Ansa the fadtion-
able world. This young lady is unknown to the Parisian
public, but she is evidently destined to achieve fame wherever
her exquisite school and pleasing quality of voice are heard.
We confer we never listened to so young an artist who
executed with so much ease and taste the difficulties of her
art. Miss Bslfe is a singer as we understood singing in the
days of Malibran and Persieni."
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At the date of the last amounts a number of Ger-
m= missionaries were shortly expected to entre at Natal
from Europe, to engage in the missionary work among the
Zulus on the llnivuti River. _

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY ICAFFIEB.—A few days
ago, Mr. Warden, whilst riding across the
i Karroo observed
as a Kaffir walking up to him in • cringing way, f to beg ;
and, supposing the 111412 to want something. he pulled up his
hone and waited. The fellow came up with a limping gait, sad
at last placed himself immediately at the head of the horse, when
three others sprung out of ambush, surrounded him, and
demanded his money. Lie saw that he had no help, and
that it would be useless to offer any resistanoe ; so he took
out his ports-ssormste, which bad two compartments, ens for
gold and the other for silver. There WWI a great quantity of
silver in it, which the Kaffire snatched at immediately, and
it fell out on the ground. They all four made • scramble
for It, and Mr. Warden immediately galloped off with the
gold.—Ceps Argus, Feb. 20.
WRECK OF A FRENCH VESSEL.—The Cape papers
report the wreck of the French ship Auguste in St. Frauds'
Bay. She was quits a new vessel, not having been launched
*even months, and was on her homeward voyage from St.
Denis to Marseilles, with a cargo of sugar and general mer-
chandise. Nothing extraordinary happened until the morn-
ing of the 22nd inst., when, about 3 • m., at a time when
the captain thought he was imam thirty or forty miles from
the land, to his dismay and the consternation of all on board,
the reel " smack" the outermost reef of rocks W.S.W. of
St. Francis' Bay, and gradually drifted in further to the
shore. AU hands remained on board until 5 o'clock, when
the order was given to get out the beat. This was acne-
plished,and two men had already got Into it, when •Issavy sea
struck the ship, causing her to part from the boat, which
effected • landing about two miles to the westward. Almost
immediately after this the feel broke up and parted from
under the seventeen men. An attempt was made to reach
the shore by swimming, and out of the seventeen, nine men
including the captain succeeded, and, much exhausted,
gained • footing on the beach. The remaining eight were
drowned. Every attention was shown to the survivors by
Captain Boys, and it was the intention of the vice-consul at
Port Elisabeth to bring specially to the notice of the French
goveament the commendable aoudad of that gentleman,
who had, on other coossiona, rendered satesial service to
sailors wrecked on that part of the east.
FIRES IN THE Mtraorowa.—Last night, shortly
before nine o'clock, a are happened la the premises belonging
to Mr. Francis, linendraper and silk mere, No. 6, Boling-
breoke-row, nets the Camberwell-gate, at the furthermost
end of the Walworth-road. The Sr. was discovered by •
policeman of the P division who noticed smoke pouring
forth from the lower part the building. This convinced
him that the place was to &mei, although the residents had
left only a few minutes perviowely. The engines were
quickly in attendance, but the fire was not subdued till the
prmisies of Mr. Francis were nearly destroyed, and those of
Mr. Palmer and Mr. Wall were severely damaged by fire and
water. The property was hue in d the Sun Fire-office.
Another Sr. took place in the premises of Mr. Chandler, •
russia-mat dealer, No. 6, Waterloo-road. The inmates
escaped by means of • ladder. The damage done wee con-
siderable.