The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-28 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

The Panther, with the mails from Calcutta and
China, arrived at Marseilles at 2 o'clock this
(Friday) afternoon.
The mails left for London at 5 p.m.
BOMBAY, sax. 10.
The Waghers have been severely beaten by Major
Nooner. The loss on our side was 16 killed and 40
wounded.

A large force in preparing for China, namely,
12,000 Europeans and 8,000 Bepoya.

AUSTRALIA.
ADEN, JAL 18.
MELBOURNE, Dzc. 19.

The Australian parliament met on the 29th of
November. The finaz.cial statement presented by
government showed a considerable retrenchment in
the expenditure.
A resolution concerning the Melbourne Mint, and
a motion for the payment of members, have passed
the Assembly. _ . .

Pußement has been adjourned for the holidays
until Jan. 10, and on its re-assembling the Land Bill
will be taken into consideration.

The Geelong Railway has been purchased by
government.
Government debentures for one million sterling
leave by this mail, together with the sealed mini-
mum price.
A mercantile panic prevails, and many failures
have taken place ; among them P. M. Tennant
King (commission works), W. and J. Pole Barge.
Tne banks are very stringent in making ad-
vances ; the warehouses are overstocked.
The following gold ships have sailed since the de-
parture of the last mail :—Dec. 7, the Saldanba, for
Liverpool, with 16,000 ounces; Deo. 8, the Rearm,
for London, with 14,000 ounces; Dec. 19, the
Malta (mail steamer), with 3,630 ounces, for London.

SYDNEY, Die. 18.

Parliament assembled on the 29th of November.
The budget proposed large reductions is the expen-
diture and a government subsidy for a European
telegraph.

A medal is shoat to be struck at the Paris Mint
to comatemorme the Moisture of the Treaty of Commerce
between England sad Fromm.

Prima Napoleon intends to celebrate the anniver-
sary of We tniniage on the 30th, by giviug • Gm in his hotel
la the Avenue Montaigne. The Emperor and Empress will,
it is thought, be proms'; sad part of the entertainment will
coasts& la the performance of 4 Joosur do I lit*, a oomedy
by Emile hairier, the principal character in which is to be
supported by Got, of the TtiktrePraniaia
A Mtlan letter says M. Alexandre Dumas re-
turned a tow days ago from Venetia, and Is busy here in
noting down the memorable events of Garibeldre fife, which
will be shortly gives to the public. No biography is more
adopted for rosesatie Meatostat than him, for it is one long
renews of real life.

THE Discovgaut or THS NEW PLANlT.—Yester-
day's Montour anitouncee that X. lesearbealt, the discoverer
of the now planet, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion
of Hamer. The masousetheent is prided by a report to
the Idasparie by M. Rooked, Minister of Public Instruction,
giving some amount of M. Lescerbanlr, and tatting forth his
claims to the distinctioe. It appears that in September net
M. Le Verner, the eminsnt director of the Obeervetory at
Paris, sent to the Acaderey of &WNW proofs of the suntan
of certain plszweary bodies near the sun, and
accounting for some apparent anomalies in the
motion of the earth and of Msroury. For the ve-
rification of these twit., width he bad arrived at
by celottistien, he reeemendeil r setweemers es MOW
titre study of the phenomena widish present themselves ea
the surface of the sou. Towards the end of December he
received a letter from M. Letharbault, a poor medical wart
living at Orgeres (Earsim-Leir), snnounaiag that an the
26th of March ha had observed a planet passiug across the
sun's disc. M. Le Varier visited his correspondent, and con.
?mord himself of the value of his obeervatione. M. Lamer.
haul; who wee passionately fond of astronomy; had devoted
the intervals of his practice to it, and had mode his own bp
strauteste, which were of setosiahtus accuracy.