The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-13 00:00:00

THE E X PRESS.

also now opened to the north with Tares, and supplies for
my force have pat come in from that district; and the dal
communications are also opened between this and Sanger.
We expect to hear shortly of the capture of Shah-
prh.
Brigadier Stuart, at Chindary, is besieging a very
strong rebel fort, which may resist some time.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
CALCUTTA, Mama 8.
It will perhaps be scarcely credited that on the
night of the 2nd inst. there was a panic in Calcutta
similar to the one that occurred on the famous
" pink Sunday." Monday, the let, was • great
Windoo festival, the Hoolee, during which it is the
custom of the lower orders of Hindoos to indulge in
all kinds of excesses. It is usual on the first of
each month to send detachments from Barrackpore
to relieve the guards in Fort William. It was re-
ported to General Heaney that the men had been
overheard using seditious language, and that there
was a project on foot to make an attempt on the
Fort at the time of the relief, when the relieving
guard and the guard to be relieved would have the
opportunity of uniting. The Rajah of Rampart,
who had arrived by the last steamer from England,
and who had been arrested a few days previously,
was to have been rescued, and a regular sack of the
city was of course to ensue. Arms were to
have been supplied by a Nawab living in
the suburbs. Late at night the volunteer
Crwere sum:mooed from their beds, and, to their
ate credit, assembled to a man at the appointed
rendezvous in an incredibly short time. But the
alarm canoed by this proceeding kept Calcutta awake
all night, and has again created a deplorable feeling
of insecurity. Every one exclaims at the idiotic
Barrackpore,
keeping four unarmed native regiments at
me, drawing their full pay, doing nothing
but hatching plots, and requiring a royal regiment
and • field battery to keep them in order. These
&pays have had their muskets and bayonets taken
away, but it is well known that they have their native
swords and other weapons in their hats. Govern-
ment House is still guarded by these well-fed
scoundrels armed with ramrods. Her Majesty's
19th Regiment, nowgrilling in tents at Barrackpore,
might be far better employed with Sir Colin Camp-
bell than having to watch a set of unfettered cut-
throats. Though an attempt on Calcutta would of
course be speedily put down, any disturbance of the
kind would cause incalculable mischief. Two cense-
quinces peculiarly Indian would immediately
ensue. Exaggerated stories would circulate in the
districts, which would excite the ill-disposed and
raise up swarms of Daooits and Budmashee, who
would make the isolated European planters and
others who are scattered about Bengal their first
victims. The better classes of Soignee., who are
clerks, agents, or broken, and who are indeed indis-
pensable to every merchant's office, would either
fear to come to their offices, or gladly seizing, as they
invariably do, any plea for absenting themselves
from their duties, would temporarily cause an almost
entire cessation of business.

The trial of the King of Delhi still proceeds. The
evidence of some of the witnesses is worthy of note.
That of Lieutenant Martineau, who is a first-rate I
linguist, confirms what his laws:, been said of the
deafneee of government to all warning. Lieutenant
Martineau commanded a musketry depot of instrac-
tion, and in frequent conversations with men of
different regiments had convincing proof of their
discontented and even mutinous disposition. He
duly reported these conversations to headquarters,
but no notice whatever was taken. Another witness
disclosed that an Abyssinian had been employed by
the King of Delhi to convey letters to the King of
Persia, proposing an &Wino:* for expelling the
British from India, and that the aggression on
Herat was in consequence of this correspondence.
Several witnesses deposed that months before the
mutiny broke out it was generall believed in Delhi
that the Persian' would invade India, and that the
entire British Indian army was waiting bat • signal
o revolt. One result of this trial will be to show
what slender hope there is of the European ever
obtaining the confidence or sympathy. of the natives.
It will prove that an organised conspiracy can go on
for months under our very noses, and that not a
native will be found to betray it ; that in short we are
looked upon by all classes as a common enemy ; and
that the boasted benefits of our European govern-
ment, far from being appreciated, would be gladly
exchanged for the tyranny and oppression of a Ma-
hommedan despotism.
The King of Dude has been endeavouring to obtain
release from " durance vile " by means of
the law. His legal adviser, Mr. Newmarch, ap-
plied to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas
corpus to issue to Colonel Cavanagh, the town major
and royal gaoler, to bring upthe bodyof Suckut Roy,
Dewan of the ex-King. In the event of this ai-
"ration being =woeful a similar one was to have
been made for the King himself. But the Chief
Justice refused the writ. The King is most closely
guarded in the fort, and not a scrap of food is
allowed to be taken to him until it has
been carefully examined. Similar precautions
are of course taken with the prime minister and
arch-intriguer, Ali Nnckee Khan, in whose hands
the King is believed to be a mere tool. Delhi is no
longer to be the chief town of the North-West ; a
civil engineer is already engaged in levelling its
galls and filling in its ditches, and it has been de-
termined to deprive it of the benefits of a railway,
the direction of which his been changed accordingly,
and will now run through Allyghur and Meerut,
which latter pleas will in future be our northern
metropolis. The Andaman Islands will probably,
for the future, be the royal residence of the King of
Delhi. A notification from Government, dated let
March, appoints "Dr. J. P. Walker, of the Bengal
Medical Establishment, to be superintendent
of the settlement of Port Blair, in the Andaman
Islands." Dr. Walker is vested with full powers of a
Commissioner to try all persons accused of any
heinous crime whatever. The Hon. Compeny's
steamer Semiramis has already taken a batch of
Sepoy convicts and a large quantity of stores to the
penal settlement.
The tide of public opinion is turning here, as
in England, in favour of the Company. The ap-
pointment of Lord G. Paget, and the K.C.B.ship
of Colonel Phipps, have been received by the
Company's servants, civil and military, with a
derisive shout of laughter. They are accepted as a
foretaste of the jobbery that may be expected from
Cabinet and Horse Guards, and they indicate
respectively the estimate that the Home Govern-
ment form of the valve of the Indian army and the
merit of its heroes.

P.S. The Agra convoy, escorted by Tomb's troop.
of HOTIMI Artillery, two companies of her Majesty's
82nd and Bth Irregular Cavalry, arrived at Cawn-
pore on the 23rd February. The last batch of
ladies reached Allababad on the 4th March.

THE MED]

MALTA, Aran, S.
The fleet under Lard Lyons will wait the arrival
of the new Governor.

The following is an extract of a letter from Tri-
poli, dated Apnl 1, 1865:
The celebrated chieftain °home is dead. Raving
recently come into this regency, the Pacha sent a
force against him, commanded by the lieutenant-
governor, and an engagement took place last week,
near (Madames, when the Schiek fell dead, nobly
lighting to the last for the cause of his country's
independence, as he understood IL The country will
now be restored to that tranquillity which it no
greatly needs."

TURKEY.
According to the lut accounts from Constanti-
nople, the project of a loan of five millions sterling,
which hu been long in contemplation, has been
again started. This loan, which it will be endea-
voured to negotiate in Europe, is necessary to enable
the Porte to carry out the fieancial projects with
which it has lately been occupied. It remains to be
seen whether Turkey is prepared to offer the ne-
cessary guarantees, and whether the new minister
of finance will be more fortunate than his prede-
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