The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-04 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Nov. 13 (vi& Trieste).
Peace has been concluded between Russia and
Bukhara. The Russians are retiring from

Taschkend.

Disorder and anarchy still prevail at Cabool. ;
Colonel Phare (1) has gone on a special mission I
to the King of Birmah.
The famine in the Orissa districts continues with
but little abatement.
The crops in Central India are reported to be
promising.
Sir Bartle Frere held a grand durbar on October
29th, at Poonah. It was attended by the Princes
and Sirdars of the Dewan and South Maharattah
country. The next day the Sirdars presented his
Excellency with a life-size portrait of himself, to
be placed in the Council-hall of Poonah.
Her Majesty's ship Berbrice has been destroyed
by fire in the Persian Gulf. The crew were saved.
The Bombay Reclamation Company have re-
solved to wind up voluntarily. The government
have rejected propositions for the adjustment
of differences relating to the government claims.
Sir Joseph Arnould, in an elaborate judgment,
has decided in favour of Aga Khan as the head of
the Kojah community. Premchum Royghum has
been permitted, on an application from his trus-
t
tees to the High Court, to resume business as a
I merchant and broker.
Business has been resumed after the Denallee
holidays, but the markets are quiet, and there is
• but little doing. The weather is cool, and the
public health satisfactory.

(BY DIRECT ovERLA-vn TELEGRAPH.)
BOMBAY, Nov. 20, 5.45 P.M,

ahirtings, 7r. Cotton declining ; Dhollerah,
250 r. Exchange on London, 2a. Oid. Freights to
Liverpool, 17s. 6d.
CALCUTTA, Nov. 19.
Exchange on London, 2s. ON. Four per Cent.
Government Securities, 861 ; Five per Cent. ditto,
,1104 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 1092.
Freights to England, 375. 6d.

AMERICA.
(sr ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, Erm-mc.
Gold, 1411. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i.
6-20 United States' Bonds, 1081 ; Illinois, 118
Erie, 72i. Cotton, middling upland, 34c.

THE FISHERIES COMMISSION. —We stated a week
ago that a joint commission is about to be appointed byh
the British and French governments to investigate wit
the object of improving the fishery laws of the two coun-
tries. The commissioners on behalf of this country, we
understand, are likely to be the Right Hon. S. Cave, M.P..
Mr. G. Shaw Lcfevre, M.P. (who was a member of the
Deep Sea Fisheries Commisaion), Colonel Hominy (of the
Board of Customs), and Captain Bore (our naval attaché
at Paris).
Loss 011 A FISHING-BOAT AND THREE MEN IN
vs•CsArrxr.r..— The sea being rough in the Channelyester-
day afternoon, with a south-west wind, the fishing-boats
early ran to harbour. Among the latest was the punt
Argo, William Smith owner, which was running in for
Folkestone at about a quarter to four, when she broached
to, and the next sea sank her. The disaster was witnessed
from the shore ; and the drowning cries were heard in
another small boat near, but that boat was to leeward, and
the men in her had as much as they could do to hold their
own : they went back however over the spot, and saw some
of the boat's gear floating, but the men were gone. The
Argo was a new boat, only 17i feet long; and the men who
went down in her were William Smith, owner, forty-eight
years of age, unmarried; William Pbilpott, thirty-two;
and William Hall twenty-eight. The latter leaves a wife
and child. The bodies are expected soon to wash into
Esatwear Bay.