The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-20 00:00:00

INDIA.

We have received advices of a week's later date
from Bombay, viz., to Nov. 23.
The last mail announced that a soldier of the
6th Bengal Europeans had been shot, and the regi-
ment itself disbanded. Sir Hugh Rose's general
orders, confirming this news, have now been received.
They present a melancholy picture of the state of
indiscipline to which the sth had been reduced,
and the utter helplessness of the officers to
restore a healthy tone in the regiment. The
determination of the Commander-in-Chief to dis-
perse the mutineers through the remaining regi-
menta of the local army has caused much discus-
sion. "It appears moat imprudent," says the
Bombay Gazette, "to give these men the opportu-
nity of committing fresh mischief on a much more
widely extended scale ; and it is by no means
clear that other local regiment. are already
so free from all taint of disaffection as to
be exposed with impunity to the dangers of com-
panionship with irreclaimable mutineers."
Lord Canning *as to leave Calcutta on the
19th by rail for Rajmahal, whence be proceeds by
steamer to Benares, arriving at the latter city, it
was expected, in the first week of December. His
lordship goes from Benares to Jubbulpore.
The remonstranoes of Lancashire against the
Indian tariff of valuations have at last borne fruit.
The report of the Calcutta committee explicitly
condemns the Calcutta tariff of April last, as "in-
equitable in principle, and, ea regards many of the
chief articles of import, excessive in its valuations."
The committee, consisting of Messrs. Spooner,
Buller', and Eden, in a conference with the leading
firma of Calcutta, have decided unanimously in fa-
vour of the adoption of the following alterations :

1. Grey wire gouts to be valued by weight.-2. The
substitution of English weights for the Indian onto in
Customs calculations.-3. A uniform tariff for all India
upon the Bombay plan.-4. The exclusion from the tariff of
valuations of goods which do not readily admit of distbact
clarification.

The committee also recommend that • vast
number of articles of petty trade which bring
little revenue into the treasiuy, and hardly repay
the cost of collection, should be transferred to the
tree list.

We take the following from the Overland Friend
of India :

It will gatify the enthusiastic supporters of irrigation
canals for India in England to know that the Nizam of Hy-
derabad hes consented to cede to na all the land on the left
bank of the Oodavery. The navigation, hitherto hampered
by a 5 per cent. duty on all cargoes, will now be freed
by its abolition. The two southern of the assigned
district.'—Dharmeo and Bonbon, will be exchanged for all
el Beret that le not already ours. We shall thus be in
pommies of the richest cotton distriot fa India, which will
fa three years be opened up by the railway from Bombay to
limper*. The Nisam, however, still banish that we shall
merely hold Baru as we have held the four amigned dis-
tricts, in hunt to pay the. contingent. On any terms the
acquhdtion of the left beak of the Godavery and the whole
of Dune is a subject of congratulation.
The following ie the commercial report :

There has been bat little business done daring the fort-
night. The trade in piecogo.ods, owing to the combination
amongst the hasaar-dealers, u almost at a standstill. In
cotton bat little business has been dons, sad the pvioe hes
declined since the last mail left. The Nosey Market
tight, and the rates of discount have bees is ossesquence
raised. . _

We now quote cotton, Dbollerah, Rupee, U 7 to 118 ;
Broach Rupees 118 to 120 ; nod Ootnrewditee. Rupees
107 to 110.
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Froighte t. London, 91.16 x. ; Liverpool, 31., and Chins
rupees, 30 ply Gandy. The follow* is &bat of quotations :
Landon (Credit) six moth& Eight, 2s. 1 d. ; ditto Dant-
silents, six months' sight, 2s. Ifd. ; ditto Book rates, six
months' sight, 21. ld. ; Wont* three days' sight, 1001 per
cent. pm. ; Madras, 30 days sight, 99 per omit pm. ;
60 days sight, Its. 996 to 217 per 100 llols.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THITUDAT MONO.

The Moniteur contains a decree remitting all
condemnations which have been pronounced for
offences and for infractions of the law in con-
nexion with the press, and nullifying all prosecu-
tions which have been commenced.

The Constitutionnet publishes an article signed by
ita chief editor, M. Grandguillot, on the question of
Austria and Venetia.
M. Graudguillot states that solutions of that
question are everywhere sought after because it is
instinctively felt that a decisive crisis is approach-
ing. All Europe seems to have apprehensions for
the coming spring. He is convinced that the

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glom of the gown/In:lent of the Emperor will
itiow how to prevent a struggle henceforth without
Vily object. Tan situation of Austria in Venetia is
deplorable. Everything is possible in Venetia except
that which now exists. M. Grandguillot expresses
his conviction that Austria, who knows how pro-
vinces are gained, will also remember how they
are lost. Be believes that Baron von Schmerling
sees things in a different light from General Benedek,
and that the baron has already weighed the chances
of a new struggle.