The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the above mail we have ad-
vice, from Bombay to August 9, and from Cal-
cutta to August 2.
The Bombay Gazette says that the rumoured
intention of the home government to despatch an
expedition to Abyssinia has given rise to especial
interest in Bombay, that presidency being likely
to be called upon to equip the troops of the expe-
dition, if undertaken. "It is stated (adds the
Gazette), that the Bombay arsenal is fully prepared,
if required by the home government, to meet with
the greatest promptitude any call for that end.
We believe we are correct in stating that the
BADEN. ;general feeling throughout the Bombay presidency,
CARLSRUHE, Sys?. 5. I and, indeed, throughout India generally, is, that
The Grand Duke of Baden opened the Baden' our honour and prestige imperatively call upon unto
Diet to-day. His highness said that if the form of chastisethosesemi-barbarousnativesofAbyasiniain a
the national union of South Germany to the North ' summary manner."
German Confederation had not yet been discovered! The Amboy Gazette says that it has been fa-
still great progress had been achieved towards that voured with the perusal of a letter from Aden
end. The measures which had been adopted with by the last steamer, from which it makes the
that object in view were—The military treaties for following extract :
the general defence concluded with Prussia, the 1 Colonel Merewether has just returned from Massowah
adoption of the military system of the Northern and b ings accounts of the Abyssinian captives up to June.
All comuiuniestion between them rod Theodoras is
States by the Stuttgard Conference of delegates
from the Southern States, and the subsequent cut off bY the
favourable for Inn in coos.'
quenee more or Lein:loners. Merewether
understanding on the military question agreed Upon,peet„ t„, heir of Theodora,- g, boa himself bar
by the South German sovereigns. .1 drink, for the affairs of his oia have bosoms ea ea-
The speech from the throne further represents settled, that the sceptre seems passing away from hie
gr.isp, and he has sought the solace of the potation-godto
the customs parliament as the normal repreaenta-
to " drown dollWe still expect that • Sntish
tive assembly of the whole of Germany.
I force will be despatched to Abysainia, and there are not •
few of us here who hope to see field service on the plateau
of Gondar.
The Delhi Gazette gives the fallowing particulars
of a " fatal march " from Gwalior. "On the morn-
ing of the 15th July the regiment received orders
to hold itself in readiness to move the same even-
ing. The men were at once put on fatigue duty,
and had to carry their cots and traps to some dis-
tance in the sun to be ready for packing, and only
came off fatigue duty on the second bugle for
parade sounding at 5.45 p.m. A little after six the
regiment marched out of cantonments, leaving
nearly all the cots behind them in consequence of
there being no carriage ready. The old story.
When the regiment left there were only four bhees-
tees, to supply the whole corps with water, two of
whom ran away before they had proceeded a mile
and a half. There was not a single doolie or cart
for the sick with the column. The men, thoroughly
fatigued with the day's work, kept falling out, and
there was no one to help them or to give them
water except the two bheestees. They reached
camp about eight o'clock, where they found no
camp pitched, and no arrangements. Later in the
night the dailies arrived, and were taken back to
look for the stragglers, two of whom were found in
a dying state, and died before they arrived in camp.
A oolour sergeant was found dead in the jungle
next morning, and four more privates died in the
camp hospital, all from sun-stroke or heat apoplexy.
The quartermaster and the assistant-surgeon were
sent on to the camping ground at twelve in the
day ; when they arrived there, of course there was
nothing for them to do, no camp being up. Both
these officers were knocked up by exposure to the
sun, and are both suffering from it still. A court of
inquiry has been ordered to investigate the matter."
The annual meeting of the proprietors of the
Bank of Bombay was held on Monday, sth Au-
gust, on which occasion the directors' report of
the state of affairs of the bank up to the 30th
IJune last was read. From this statement it
appeared that, after the payment of the bank's
liabilities, there would only remain " a balance
of Ra. 61,49,006 in favour of the ilarelloitiers,
to represent a capital estimated in February last
at Rs. 1,04,50,000." On the same occasion it was
unanimously resolved to call on government to in-
stitute a thorough inquiry into the affairs of the
bank. The scheme for the amalgamation of the
banks of Bombay and Bengal has been definitely
abandoned, and the organisation of the new bank
of Bombay is vigorously being prosecuted ; the ap-
plications for shares in the new bank increase every
day, the number applied fur up to August 6th
being 15,150.
The Poona branch of the Bank of Bombay is
expected to lose between 20,000/. and 30,0001.,
principally on forged government securities. A
large number of the forgers are already in the
hands of the police.
The Friend of India says it is glad to learn
that the widow of Dr. Cotton has entrusted the
execution of the literary part of the good bishop's
memoirs and correspondence to Professor E. B.
Cowell. The Rev. Mr. Cowie, whose intercourse
with the bishop was so intimate for a time, will
assist.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.
VIENNA, Barr. 5, Eszmmi.
The New Free Press of this evening says that the
reply of the Hungarian delegates to the proposals
of the Austrian members of the Conference on
Common Affairs lays stress upon the overburdened
state of the Hungarian finances, and maintains the
first amount proposed by them as the Hungarian
portion of the State debt.
The mediatory proposals of the ministry fix the
amount of the debt to be borne by Hungary at
35,000,000 florins.

AIISTRIA.
VIENNA, arm 5, EVENING.
Baron von Beust has instructed the Austrian
representative in Munich to declare that inter-
ference in the affairs of the South German States
was never the subject of discussion at Salzburg.

SWITZERLAND.
. . BERNE, sere. 5.

The Japanese ambassadors were re.ieived this
morning by the President and Council of the Swiss
Confederation in their official capacity. The inter-
view lasted a quarter of an hour.

THE PATE OP DR. LIVINGSTONE.

The Times of India writes as follows respecting
Dr. Livingstone :

We find that t Colonel R. L. Playfair, the former consul
at Zanzibar, did not reach that place as he hoped to have
done about three months ago. He was ill on his arrival at
the Seychelles, and, though he started on the voyage from
thence, he was obliged to return. It is probable that Al-
geria, to which country he is now appointed as wain', is
' the only place where he could enjoy tolerable health. His
successor, Mr. Churchill, will probably receive some cor-
roboration or disproof of the report of Dr. Livingstone's
death before the search expedition arrives at Zanzibar.
About this time or a little later there would be due at
Quilt* one of the regular caravans from Tanginika, con-
siderably to the north-west of Nyasa Lake ; and as Ujige,
a place in that district, is the first station which Dr.
Livingstone had distinctly planned to visit, after cross-
ing the lake, the arrival of this caravan and the
news which it might bring of the traveller would
'go far to set at rest, one way or the other, the
anxious apprehensions of the civilized world respecting
him. To that place were forwarded, according to due
arrangements by Dr. Seaward, late acting consul at Zan-
zibar, a quantity of draught animals and stores. Dr.
. Livingstone would be certain to acknowledge, by means of
the caravan to which we have alluded, the receipt of these
goods, and we believe had agreed to write from there, but
had not promised to write before he did arrive at that
remote station. Hence, if the repeated stories of the
*Mick upon him by the Mates are false, there is as yet
fair ground to hope that the indomitable explorer may
have straggled through to the north-west lake according to
his first plan. The statements made both by the Johanna
men and the sepoya are all more or less incoherent
and improbable. The despatch or letter which the
Bombay sepoys averred had been sent by a certain caravan
has never been remised, and the leader to whom it would
have been entrusted has denied all knowledge of such •
letter, after being croes-examined in every way. The
negative evidence, so far as it goes, is decidedly in favour
of Dr. Livingstone being alive; the positive evidence
against that hope consists of nothing beyond the state-
ment of the men who have left him and the known fero-
city of the Mathes.

The Tasmanian, which took out the West India,
Pacific, and Australian mails on the 2nd inst., will be the
first West India packet that will land her homeward mails
at Plymouth. She will be due there on the 12th pro:.
Her mails will °mast of those from the West Indies,
the Spanish Main, and Central and South America.
STRANDING or TEL SHIP MERCHANT PRINCE
NEAR BONBAT.—We regret to report that the ship Mar-
chant Prince is ashore on the Chou! Khadoo reef, a few
miles to the southward of Bombay harbour, on the spot
where the Zenobis was wrecked last year, and close to the
I wreck of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Jeddo. She went ashore between 10 and 11 o'clock on the
morning of August 7, moderate monsoon weather prevail-
ing. The Kennery and Alibmigh lifeboats put off to her
assistance, as well as a number of native craft from the
I villages in the neighbourhood : their aid, however, was not
required, as the ship was found embedded in the mud,
and the sea was comparatively calm. The Merchant
Prince was • vessel of 1,745 tons, belonging to Messrs.
William Allison and Co., of Paisley. She left Glasgow
for Bombay on April 22, with a cargo of orals, con-
signed to Messrs. Ewart, Latham and Co. The cargo is
fully insured, and it is believed that the vessel is also
insured.—Texes of _lndia, August 8.
HEALTH azwroaan BT Do BARRY'S FOOD TO TDB
'returns, nerves, lungs, and liver of aid sad you'd.
dyayspda iladlgastlaa), conallystAno, diarrhoea, scidity, =
oohs, aaaralala, Imam* palpitation, sleeplessness, debility
Irwin f, cough, asthma, levers, consumption, low spirits. 80,000
annual cures which had related all nearinea. including that of
OD Holiness the Pope.—Ties, at IA i fd.: lib., fa. Vd. !D. ;
141 D 401,—Da Barry sod Co., 77, lagaataltreat, Lowden oho at
Si,icacherelselgreel Cat sad 154, owoosseist;
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