The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-15 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

We have received by the overland mail, vid Mar-
seilles, our despatches from Calcutta, April 10 ;
Madras, April 16; and Hong Kong, March 30.
As stated in the telegraphic anticipation of the
mail, the intelligence it brings from the disturbed
districts of In is not more recent than the full
accounts received last week from Bombay. The
Calcutta papers accordingly have scarcely any in-
terest beyond that which arises from their reflecting
the state of opinion in that capital. The Surkaru,
in its overland summary, says:
An eventful period has elapsed sines the last mail left
India. In the height of setistection induced by the triumphs
achieved by our forces, at Lucknow, we had been somewhat
over-sanguine in our anticipations of oonsequent advantage.
True we have driven the enemy from their great stronghold,
but we have scattered them to wage fresh war spinet us in
numerous doccird bodies, under circumstances giving them
consideably the edventige. The system of desultory war-
fare, to which the rebels will have recourse now, is tradi-
tional with theta. To us, under say conditions, a guerilla
war would be most undesirable ; but under the
conditions attaching to such a contest here and now,
it is absolutely prejudicial. The hot weather is
just setting in; sad during the neat five months, in a climate
where exposure is ordinarily deemed to mean death, our
troops have the brunt and the thick of their harassing and
hastardone work Sill to do. The district of Rehileund,
which may now be regarded as the territory of rebellion,
is so situate with regard to the British posesseksa in
India, that from thence strong attacks say be continually
organised, end simultaneously made upon our most im.
portant poets, which surround it on all sides. And this will no
doubt last long enough to cost us coulderable pains, enormous
expense, and a terrible es:Alice of life, fa the hospital sod the
field. The feeling is general that it would haw been the wiser
determination, after the relief of the LllCkllollgarriacm, to have
deferred the reduction of Cede for a thee, leaving an easy
road open thither for the mutineers, end to have devoted
every present energy to the establishment of order within our
own original dominions. Yet this opinion is the opposite
of the feeling which was almost universal when Sir Colin's
rescue of our beleaguered counbytemi from the hands of their
cruel foe. at Luckuow set people thinking about the best
uses to be made of the large forces pouring into the country.
It is thought that our position is little better than it wee, if,
indeed, even so favourable.

The text of Lord Canning's Onde Proclamation
had not transpired at Calcutta, but all its leading
features were known. The Hurkartt, which pub-
lishes a summary of its provisions, says of the con-
fiscating clause :
The vision of this 1D0111171115 has been questioned, on the
ground of its sweeping severity on the sorest point of an
Aaiatio's feelings—hla property.
The Calcutta Placenix ooncludes its review of the
state of things with this remarkable avowal :
In conclusion, we have only to Anne that the temper of
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the people of till country has new been so excited against
any former rulers so it is now against the British. There is
no use in concealing the fact that we see regarded by most
classes of natives with feelings of religious and national
hatred. India must, indeed, for a long roll of years be held
by the awed.