The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-22 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the above mail ws have advicea
from Bombay to March 29, and from Calcutta to
March 23.

The Bombay Gazet',:. says that Mr. Maiwey's
licence tax has brought down upon his head the
scorn and indignation of all India except that
upper ten thousand who are exempted from its
operation, and that the measure is not redeemed
by a single good feature.

The Times of India writes in the following
terms :

The policy of borrowing cheap English capital to pay the
cost of permanent barracks and irrigation works, meets
with universal approval throughout India, but very gene-
ral disappointment exists with regard to Mr. Massey's
budget, so far as it depended upon his own proposals and
arrangement.. The numerous and important adjustments
and corrections which Mr. Massey had to include in his
statement, and the aspect of uncertainty thereby cast
over the national accounts, are probably due
to inefficiency in the financial department, and pertly
also to the irregularities inseparable from making up the
account in eleven months instead of twelve. But Mr.
Massey in conjunction with the Supreme Council, must
bear the full responsibility for the retrograde step of in-
creasing the export duty on grain; and still more dis-
tinctly does the Finance Minister Mend responsible for
the groat mismanagement of the schedules of his new
licence tax. Had the classification of incomes under the
act been reasonable, the country would have acquiesced in
the tax without an audible murmur, and the impost might
easily have been made to bring in between one and two mil-
lions sterling per annum. By Mr. Massey's own calculation,
his scheme will only produce half a millton,while his having
included under the tax persons whose incomes range
from re. 17 to 42 per menaem (201. to MI . per annum) has
aroused against the act a determined opposition from per
sons of all classes. Tho impression gains ground that Mr.
Massey as a Finance Minister will come to be regarded as
a failure.

We read in the Calcutta Englishman of
March 23:

The merchants of Rangoon have spoken out in an ad-
dress to Colonel Phayre on the English relations with
Burmah proper. Their views deserve attention. It is sag-
gestive of what must happen in that quarter that the King
will not fulfil the treaty of 1862, will not give satisfaction
for the murder of one British subject, and the destruction
of the property belonging to many others, and will not
enter into any new engagements with the English.
This barbarian obstinacy ran only lead to one result, •
short campaign which shall advance our frontier to the
borders of Yunan, and rescue a million of people from •
state of indescribable anarchy and confusion. The latest
accounts from Moindalay represent the government of the
King as a reign of terror ; wholesale executions of rebels,
real or supposed, being the order of the day.

The Roman catholics of Bombay have presented
a farewell address to Dr. Steins, the Roman
catholic bishop of the diocese, on the occasion of
his promotion to the archbishopric of Calcutta. It
is also proposed to commemorate his name by call-
ing the college to be erected in Bombay Archbishop
Steins' College.
Madras has declined to entertain the proposal for
a state bank for all India; but the negotiations
between Bombay and Bengal continue. A tele-
gram from Calcutta states that the Bank of Bengal
will not alter its first proposal. This is not likely,
it is said, to delay a settlement, for upon the re-
ceipt of postal details from Calcutta it is expected
thedirectors of the Bombay Bank will call a meeting
of shareholders, and ask their consent to the
amalgamation.

THE Mammas roe HULL.—A meeting of the
Hull Reform League was held at their rooms in Lowgate
on Thursday evening, " to consider the position of the
borough members in reference to the tea meeting on Mr.
Coleridge's motion ; and also to consider the propriety of
holding a public meeting during the recess." The chair-
man, Mr. G. L. King, in opening the proceedings, said the
borough members had no right to vote for Mr. Gladstone's
amendment, after taking part in opposing him previously.
He (the chairman) would rather have seen them voting
against the amendment ; it would have been more con-
sistent. The Rev. R. Thompson endorsed the chair-
man's remarks, and moved a series of resolutions,
expressing a want of confidence in the sincerity
of the present ministry with regard to reform ;
condemning the Reform Bill ; expressing disappoint-
ment at the pert taken by tte borough members ; request-
ing them to do all in their power to abolish the " restric-
tions ;" and expressing confidence in Mr. Gladstone and
Mr. Bright. Mr. Arthur, a working man, seconded the
resolutions, and expressed his opinion that Mr. Clay was
• " political trickster," and that he had got Mr. Nor-
wood to act with him, so as to cover his own motives.
Mr. Clay bad advocated reform when there was no
prospect of a Reform Bill passing, but be deserted them
when there was. The resolutions were carried unani-
mously, and it was resolved that copies of them be
sent to the borough members. and to Mesa's. Gladstone
and Bright. The consideration of the proposed public
meeting was deferred, as it was felt that the more influen-
tial portion of the liberal party in Hull would not support
them at present.
The twentioth annual conference of Sunday
schools in South Lancashire was held on Friday, in the
Baptist Chapel, King-street, Oldham; Mr. J. Purr. one
of the borough members, in the chair. There was a nu-
mertme attendance of delegates from towns in Lancashire,
Yorkshire, and Derbyshire.

The Union Company's Cape Royal Mail ateani-
ship Norseman, Captain W. Ladds, R.N.R., ar-
rived at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon, from
Cape Town, March 19 ; St. Helena, March 27 ; and
Ascension, March 31. She brings 127 passengers,
the usual mails from Ascension, St. Helena, the
South African colonies, Mauritius, and Point de
Galle, and the following cargo :—Two packages of
coin from the Cape, and two packages of coin from
St. Helens; 778 bales of wool, 772 bags of coffee,
1,450 bags of copper ore, 28 bales of skins, 600
hides, 2'B cams of ostrich feathers, 69 casks of
skins, 65 casks of sea lion oil, 228 packages of ivory,
34 packages of rhinoceros horns, 15 cases and 30
casks of wine, 101 packages of oil, and sundries.
At the Cape the parliament was summoned to
meet in Cape Town for the despatch of business on
April 13. Many of the measures for cutting down
the public expenditure, proposed by the retrench-
ment committee, are being generally condemned in
the colony, particularly those involving the dimi-
nishing the existing facilities for the administra-
tion of justice, by the discontinuing the holding of
circuit courts in certain divisions, and the aboli-
tion of those held periodically by the magistrates.
A rumour continued to prevail in the colony that
his Excellency Sir P. E. Wodelsouse was likely to
remain there as governor for a second term of
years. His opening speech at the coming session
was being looked forward to with interest, specula-
tions being indulged in as to whether it would be
somewhat more conciliatory to the parliament
than that addressed to the members in January
last. During the past month the position of the
church in the colony arising out of the decision
of the Privy Council in the case of the Bishop of
Natal had continued to attract a good deal of
attention, and several parochial meetings of
churchmen had been held with a view of petition-
ing her Majesty and the Imperial Parliament
upon the subject. Great differences of opinion,
however, prevailed as to the proper solution of
those existing difficulties, the high and low church
parties being apparently pretty equally matched.
No satisfactory determination was looked forward
to in the colony, but a good deal of anxiety
was felt as to the action which may be
taken in the imperial Parliament. Throughout
the South African colonies the weather has
been unusually favourable for the season.
The rains had set in early, and had fallen plenti-
fully in some districts which of late years had suf-
fered much from droughts. In the country dis-
tricts there were very hopeful signs of progress.
Crops had turned out very favourably, and the
prices were such as to enable the agriculturists in
some measure to make up for the late bad seasons.
Trade prospects were generally encouraging ; the
chief requirement for further prosperity was con-
sidered to be a greater cultivation of cereals among
the farmers. The Algua Bay wool season had been
delayed by the drought, and cattle sickness, which
had prevailed in the eastern provinces, but since
the fall of rain transport was becoming active, and
large quantities of wool had already arrived in the
Bay, and freights were expected to rise. The
financial prospects of the colony were showing a
very favourable aspect.
Dr. Colenao was preaching in different p arta
of the diocese to crowded congregations, and
laiwastyThere had been lorae
thoughtto begrowinfurtinhoca h voouraatzugm,ngttk h
the natives on the north-western frontier. The Da-
' marts and Namatuas had committed several at-
' tacks upon each other, involving a more than
usual amount of slaughter and bloodshed, but
leading to no definite result generally. Some
of the colonial travelling traders ,had been
robbed of their goods there, and one or two had
been murdered. There was still a talk of a renewal
' of hostilities between the Orange Free State and
the Basatos, but it was possible the dispute might
be settled without an actual resort to war.

THN Hon. AUBERON HERBERT ON REFORM.—
The Hon. Auberon Herbert, brother to the Earl of Car.
narvon, has supplemented his address at Newport last
week by • letter, dated the 114th inst., to the chairman of
his committee. In concluding, he says :—" I have only
Ito express again to you my deep regret at
the pain which I must have caused to you and others. I
ought not to have come to Newport in the Lrst place until
I knew my own mind better; but all my antecedents were
conservative, and I became not unnaturally a conservative
myself. . . If I have injured them (his friends) I
have injured myself also. I have renounced the prospect
of a seat in parliament, I have severed myself from those
who were willing and able to assist me in a political
weer, and in something less than twenty.four hours
during my stay at Newport I lost more friendships, forfeited
more confidence than I shall probably ever find again in
m life.. . . One word in reference to a question
wee asked me c Monday. . . . One thing I
ma at least promise, that, if we are no longer to tight
together, under no circumstances shall we ever fight against
seek other in Newport."
RENEWAL UI TEI NORTHMOOR-ORREN CHURCH
DDITURBANCES.—We regret to have to record another most
Zaful occurrence which took place in this church yea-
Kcithe : About te
rch, uingo'flu hisoclr hand a
the Rev. Jam
large wes entered.
ooden cross,
muttering a sort of prayer, being accompanied by the
woman Cottey, who for some Sundays past has been
almost the only attendant at this church. For some
time they remained in the church alone, with the ex-
ception of Richards, the bellman ; but in about a quarter
of an hour afterwards a crowd of about forty persons,
men and women, chiefly of the labouring class, came to
the church in a body, preceded by three or four persons
who were covered with paper hangings, ho. Mr. Hunt
was then reading prayers, but upon observing these persons
he at once discontinued, and ordered them outside. They
moved outside the door, which was closed against them,
and locked. They at once commenced kicking at the door,
which was soon opened, and they re-entered the church,
and ran from seat to seat, creating a great disturbance.
Some of the men, who appeared to he intoxicated, smoked
their pipet, and handed to one another two jars of
cider, which were soon emptied, Mr. Hunt being first
invited to partake of their contents. The rev. gentle-
man walked down the aisle, and asked one or two of the
most respectable persons to leave the church, and
announced that be should not continue the service. No
person moved, and as Mr. Hunt returned towards the com-
munion table • rotten egg was thrown at his hack, his coat
being covered with the nastiness. This evoked shouts of
laughter, which were renewed upon the entry of •
woman holding in her hand • long toasting fork, having
on the top of it a piece of bacon, which she asked Mr.
Hunt to partake of. Some women then went
over to the woman Cottey, who sat in one corner
of the church, near the harmonium, and dragged
her from her seat, then threw her down in the
aisle, and, assisted by others, nearly tore all her clothes
in pieces, besides beating her. This dreadful arena was
aggravated by several eggs being thrown at Mr. Hunt, who
had been seated, but had rose up, shouting " They will
murder her," he. He then beat a precipitate retreat from
the church, followed by a mob of persons, who continued
to throw eggs and stones at him until he took refuge in the
house closely adjacent, in which he has recently lived.
The wo.-ian t'ottey followed him thither in a state of half
nudity, and bearing signs of great ill-treatment, and they
locked themselves inside, the mob remaining outside
shouting and yelling to a frightful extent for some time,
when they gradually dispersed. It need hardly Le stated
that no policeman was present.— Western body Pero.
PROPOSED UNIVNRBITT SWIMMING RAC/.—The
genial warmth of the weather induces us (says the Spurt-
ing Lift) to make a suggestion, which might have seemed
unseasonable enough a week or two ago. There is no de-
nying that the universities have conduced largely to pope
-
!arising one of the must useful and pleasurable branches of
phyrical education by their annual bast nue, and we
would respectfully submit that Oxford and Cambridge
should endeavour to do the same for an even more bears
ficial, though comparatively neglected, pastime. The
athletes of the Cam and the Isis contend for mastery in
almost every manly. sport and exercise except one—swim-
ming. In some quiet reach of the Thames, unhsunted by
unruly steamboats and lazy barges, where the yehbly had
of the translucent river can be seen as you glide along,
could not • swimming match he organised for the rowing
season between Light Blue and Dark Blue?
THE EDMUND/3 AND BROUGHAM CAKE.—Some in-
accuracies have recently slivered with respect to this
matter. The suit was instituted by Mr. Leonard Edmunds
against Mr. William Brougham, the brother of Lord
Brougham, and not against his lordship. It is now said
that the ease has been compromised by the defendant pay-
ing Mr. Edmunds 5,0001, not 11,0001., as has been erro-
neously stated. The matter: will, however, come on (by
order) before Vice-Chancellor Stuart on Wednesday next,
when (be exact terms of the oomprondae will he made
public.-0/obt.