The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN MAIL&

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.-MALTA, DEC.
23.—The Nyanza left at 6 ►m., and the Poonah leaves at
noon to-day. The former may be expected at MazeeMes
on the evening of the 25th bit., and the latter at South-
ampton on the let J►nuary.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL . —MALTA, DEC. 23. —The
Bangalore, from Southampton 12th inst., arrived on the
21st at 9 a.m., and left at 4 p.m. for Alexandria. The
Pera, from Marseilles 20th hut., arrived on the 22nd at
5 p.m., and left at 11 p.m. for Alexandria.

BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL.--GIBRALTAB, Die. 23.
—The Ceylon leaves at 9 a.m., all well ; she may be ex-
pected at Southampton on the 28th iruit.
QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 24.—The Cunard extra
steam-ship Aleppo, from New York, arrived here at 8.43
a.m. to-day with 121 passengers. She landed despatches
and 36 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9 a.m. ;
all well.

Among the company recently arrived at Rome
are Lord and Lady Beaumont, Hon. Miles Stapleton, Mr.
and Mrs. Brio Smith and family, Lady Norris and family,
Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish, Mrs. Hall and family,
Sir C. Hartley, and Colonel and Mrs. G. Wilkinson. The
new Austrian Ambassador, Count Crieslll, has just arrived
at the Hotel di Roma.

The Cork Examiner states that the remittances to
Ireland from emigrants to their friends are beginning to
assume something like the proportions they bore five or
six years ago. During the American war the &benne' of
many at the Beene of action, and the inadequate rate of
exchange, caused the transmission of money to Ireland to
sink to almost nothing, prepaid passage tickets forming
the staple of the gifts from the other aide. Now, how-
ever, numerous money orders are passing through the
different Irish banks from Irish• Americana to their rela-
tives in this country.

The Rev. J. 0 Neal, Vicar-General in the Roman
Catholic Church, says that among the catholic clergy of
London there is only one bearing the name of Father
O'Connor. He has for more than four years been confined
to his room by palsy, and had he been in possession of his
health and strength would have been among the first to
protest against all sedition, practices on the part of catho-
lies, or any subjects of her Majesty.
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In consequence of the weekly communication
with India, by the new contract with the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, the Australian mail will leave London
every four weeks, and not on the 20th of the month, aa at
present. The first Australian mail under the new con-
tract will be sent from London on the 14th of March.
Sydney, in New South Wales, will have 12 days to answer
correspondence, and Melbourne, in Victoria, 18 days. The
course of post to Australia, by way of Marseilles, will be
16 weeks. In the mouth of August next there will be two
Australian mails made up in London.
Tns Darr or INDIA.—The debt of India stood
at 344 million pounds in 1840, and at Shin 1858. The
mutiny raised it to 98 millions in 1880. t may now be
taken at a hundred millions, or lees than two years' in-
come, a much smaller proportion than in any other country.
The *huge for interest has ineresaed from 1,595,7781. in
1840 to 4,482,3851. in 1885—a quarter of a century. The
interest, all round, is thu 44 par eent.—• moderate rate
for the East, oonsiderg ithat there imperial guarantee
exises.—Pricad of .lisid4s,-Nov. 14.