The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-20 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

(IT ELECTRIC TSLIORAPR
(FROM 0171 OWN couturonDzwr.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

The Ariel hoe arrived with the American mails,
&deices of the 7th, and 382,000 dollars for France.
She spoke the Harvest Queen, for Liverpo3l, and
the Hammonis, outward bound.

The American government have been informed
by the English Minister that the action of our
Minister in Mexico was without authority.

Oalignaei says :—" The reception at the Tuileries,
the night tefore last, was unuastel'y Wilford, u very nearly
all the p rooms entitled to attend made it a point to present
their respects to the Empress, end the general remark was
that never since the commencement of these Teeklay recep-
tions was there it numerous an assemblage at the palace,
Her Majesty walked round the several rooms, graciously
'peaking to the wino persons as she passel along, and dis-
playing a grace and tact that attracted universal admiration.
Prince Jerome and the Princesses Mathilde and Clothilde
were pres n'."
An official daily paper in the French language,
La liontteur Ottoman, is about to be published by the
Turkish government. The municipality of the siziammrete
of Porn and Galas also intends to crewe an official organ,
Le Monitenr Munimpal, which, it appo UM, will hive a 41110..
fold object explain and upholi the rota of the council,
and to ini isle the inhabitants of Pen Into the mysteries of
economy.
We read in the Levant Herald of the 11th

.• boxer Poch*, It we me correctly informed, Is duly ex-
pected bare from Bagdad to receive a high miner, command
on the Danube. Attract Pasha, Commander-In-Chief of the
army of Arablstan end Governor of Damascus, Is spoken
of as hie suromorr at Bagdad; ant if the favourable reports
we have renewed of this pasha's a imiaistrative sums. at
DiaIIMIIII be corrtri, the Porte mid heftily make a better
choice. Rifaat Paehe, sa-Govrtnx of Janina, will pro-
bably be the me governor of Damascus."

The Frankfort Journal of May 17 mentions the
death, at In r Ommetarg estate, of the Baron, Aosolme de
Baths hr.d, a sister of Baron L. de Rothaehlid, M.P.

We are glad to notice the arrival of a genuine
artist in Bombay. Mr. George Landeeer, the eon of the
talented engraver of the same name, an nephew of Sir
Edwin Lindseer, is sescoegtt ne. We bear that he proporet to
snake a sufficient stay to enable him to collect materiels for
future pictuto Bombay Standard.
A correspondent from the Sonthal Pergunnabs
%forma .he Calcutta Phenix that there ie jest now a great
' deereme in the deetrucion of human Hem by tigers sod
le Tara., Ste thirty of three fermiout animals base bcea de-
steuyed with' the pan six or eight months. But another
evil has just lamented itself in the chaps of elepham a ; them
animals bare ores roving sr large ahout the billy past of the
district, committal; all kinds of depretatione.
DEATH or COMMISSIONER YEH.—The celebrated
Maud min, Yeb, diet to C clout's on the evening of the 9th
ult. During the last three weeks he bad le n mime, and
had been* subject to sudden collapses, from which be,
however, wee wily motored, nor did he complain of any-
thing In particular, so that It teat hopimible to guess what
may have beat the muse of de .th. 'Re was jolly to the
lea (says the Beckons) and retained hia genuine Cheese
tyye of etrieism. So far from eagerly* from compauct lilt of
enectence, for liming, at the very lowest compatatios,
beheaded one hundred thowand fellow creature,. Lie only
regret seems to have b•en big inability to take the bees of all
tl'e rebels and their kindred!"
ME LATE SIR JAMSETJEE JESIEEEIIOT.—We
lean that the late Sir Jatateties Joefeethoy, a little before
hi. d.sith, yet apart a lam at 10,000 repeal f v the begat of
the incident Pate. el Persia, who ate compelled by the
Shah to pay a espimCon toe end we me inf ormed that his
pont hare rtavoted a sac of five lakht of raper to be ex-
pended during the first year aft( r the death of their father,
in the p !dorm noe of mligiontoerenion'et, ant for charitable
purpos to, such as the diet•ibution of throe slung the per,
denntiont to the priest', and eopportins religious places of
w..orehip of the Zornso'li!nr.—Sonstoev Gazette.

THE RAILWAY WORKS IN TRK PL'Sl]Avn —Our
readers will perhaps be surprieed to leant that the railway
monks is the Punjaub have Fees—etvred. The monient
Sir John Ltwronegn inek is turned in Indio, the suptente
government end its advisers have
,suddenly discovered that
the line laid down by Mr. Brineon, end yr e Wien, ap-
proved of by Sir Jobs, is objectionsble.—Lahore Chromic's,
April 17.
CRIS: AN CANAL.—The commissioners have de-
cidet, for the present at loot, that this useful un'm'aking
shell be regonid to he former counties; and eciv mea-
sures arc in prognes for carrying out the debris a. a preli-
minary .tep.
DINITHESIA.—Yesterday a communication on the
Pithiest of this complaint wee addrersed from the Privy
Council OiLli to the hoods of guardians of the eerma
Wane and puiehes of the metropolis, requeMieg them to mo-
untain from the medical oniony of their =deur, sad inform
their lordelt'r, whether diphtheria Is new prevalent In ►ny
pert of their union., awl if so in NUM pub and to whet ex-
tent. If the divest he not sow prment, but shall hereafter
appear, their lordships request to be hifirmal of the fact.

INDIA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
THE EXECUTION OF TANTIA TOPEE.

BOMBAY, APRIL 26.
The event of the fortnight in India has been the
trial and execution of the far-famed Tantia Tope*.

He wu hanged at Sepree on the afternoon of the
18th instant. In my lut I conveyed to you the in-
formation that he had been captured; that Mann
Sing had surrendered; and that the forces of Fe-
_ .

roznbah and the Rao Sahib had been nearly de-

stroyed in the Seronge jangles. Mann Singh While

here offered his services, and those of his fol-
lowers, to secure the capture of Tantia Tepee, who, he

stated, was larking u a fugitive in the neighbourhood.
Major Meade accepted his aid, and on the 7111 inst.
Matta Sing came reeling into camp with the intel-
ligence that he had marked the game down. It
appears that he had met Tantia in an adjacent vil-
lage, and had left him under the pretext of going

to collect his men. Instead, however, of doing so,
he rode straight to the British camp and gave the
necessary information. He then returned to the
village, and lay down with the man he had betrayed,
to have a little sleep. At a given signal, the Sepoys
of the 9th Native Infantry rushed in and seized
Tantia almost before he was thoroughly awake.
No reeistacce was offered, and the Pindaree leader
was carried in irons into Sepree. On hie arrival
here be was at once placed in charge of a strong
guard, and every precaution taken to prevent either
escape or rescue. On the 16th instant he was
brought to court-martial. The charges upon which
he was arraigned were confined to rebellion and
opposing the British government by force of arms.
The court did not long deliberate; and it soon became
known all over the camp that he was to perish
on the scaffold. At 6 p.m. on the evening of the 18th
instant he was conveyed to the place of execution in
a dhooly, guarded by a company of the 3rd Bengal
Infantry
.(Europeans). After a delay of about
twenty minutes, the charges, finding, and sentence
were read in English ; a native translation having
been previously read to the prisoner. When re-
, quested to mount the platform he did so without
assistance, evincing neither hesitation nor apprehen-
goo. He died without a struggle, and had it not
been for his cruelties and his crimes, his stoicism
might have been admired.
Tantia Topee was a Brahmin of the Dekkan,
having been born in the zillab of Ahmednoggur.
He attached himself at an early age to the court of
the late Peishws, Bajee Rao, and was from his
boyhood the constant companion of Dhuar-
doo Punt, of Bidhoor, commonly called the
Nana Sahib. He was well skilled in mili.
dry tactics, and had made the old predatory
system of Mahratta warfare his study. His age
has been variously estimated, but his general ap-
pearance did not betoken it to be more than forty
years. As I have already supplied you with his
portrait, I need not now describe his personal ap-
pearance. From the hour of his capture to that of
his death be betrayed no symptoms of either trepi-
dation or despondency. He seemed to feel that the
end was come; and at was easy to perceive in his
general demeanour that he was quite prepared to
yield up the life he had hazarded ripen the cast of
the die. Revolting as were his crimes, he attempted
neither palliation nor extenuat ion. He gave no mercy,
and he sued for none; stern and relentless to the
last, he yielded up his life without a murmur or a
struggle, betraying as little symptoms of nature
or humanity on the scaffold at Sepree, as he
had done by the well at Cawnpore. Ile denied
having taken any part in the massacre; bat it is
well known that he commanded on the occasion one
of the divisions of the Nana Sahib's army. His
exploits were more numerous and dashing than those
of any of the other rebel leaders. He led the Owes
lior Contingent in person when Wyndham's camp
was burnt in November,lBs7. Sustaining, however,
a severe repulse at the hands of Sir Colin Campbell,
and losing sixteen of his guns, he domed the Jumna,
and fell back upon Calpee. But here he did not
remain long. Intelligence of the victorious entry
of Sir Hugh Rose into Central India, the relief of
Sanger, the fall of Garrakota, and the perilous pod-
tionof the Ranee of Jhanaie' induced him to evacuate
Calpee, and march southward. On the Ist April,
1868, he first crafted swords with Sir H. Ruse on the
banks of the Betwa, and his troops were driven in
disorder by only a handful of the Centel India Field
Force from under the very battlements of the
beleaguered city. He also commanded at Agra, and
sustained a severe repulse at the hands of Brigadier-
General Greathend. In the course of twelve months
he fought twenty pitched battle', viz.:—The Betwa,
Koonch, ergagemcnts before Calpee, Gwalior, Kota
ke-Serai, Sangermer, Bodwarra, Kotarra, Incite
Gowlie, Sindwa, Kurrai, Rajpoor, Oodeypoor, Per-
tambargh, 1)hoosa, Burrache, Zeerapoor, Koorhans,
and Seronge. In every one of these engagements be
was defeated, with the loam of guns innumerable and
hundreds of his followers. During the whole period
he bad only two successes—one at °wilier and one
at Diangurgh ; and on both occasions they were
over native troops, who, instead of opposing him,
ranged themselves under his banners. Setting
aside his skirmishes, he encountered in suc-
cessive engagements more than a dozen of
our best British general officers and brigadiers.
His first vanquisher was Ortathead, and he was
succeeded by Rose, Napier, Michel, Roberts, Smith,
Parke, ])e Said, Showers, Belden, Somerset, Hor-
ner, and Rich, who worsted the Pindaree leader
wherever they encountered him. His success lay
in the celerity of his marches, his knowledge of the
country, and the freebooting manner he adopted to
obtain supplies. He carried along with him neither
baggage nor commissariat, compelling the countries
through which he passed to provide him with every.
thing that his army required. His betrayer, Mann
Sing, is not held in very high estimation, although
be carries himself with a lofty air enough at Se.
pees, his capital city. He is described as being
fine looking man, standing upwards of six feet high.
When he reached our camp he appeared to have un-
dergone a great deal of hardship, his habiliments
looking rather worn. He has a long black beard,
with a very sharp block eye. lie had on his
head a red poggrie, on his back one of those thick
' padded coats, all ornamented with sewing in gold
thread, and on his legs a pair of silk pantaloons the
worse for wear. His arms consisted of a fine brad
of pistols gold mounted, a doable-barrelled rifle,
with one of Dine° country-made swords. He bad
200 followers, but 20 only come in along with him,
all of them fine,big, strapping fellows, to all appear-
, anus likely men for anything.
1 On the Nepeul frontier the position of the rebels
is even worse than it is in Central India. They
have been repulsed wherever our troops encountered
them. The Bingowlee rebels crossed the Suar.e, and
entered the southern pergunnah of Mireepore on the
3rd instant. They proceeded via Manche., and
descended the north side of the Ky.monore
range on the 4th, and were plundering the
country on the 7th. Lieutenant Knyvett, with
the Mirzapore Police Cavalry, attacked and de-
stroyed eighty of them. The rebels have not remised
to the first range of hills. Those under Bala Rso
and the Nana were still between the fine and second
range of hills, suffering greatly from scarcity d
food. The Segura was still further back. Colnael,
Kelly intended proceeding to Tuleuli to act Will
Colonel Roes against the rebels. The Gouda bluish
and Museeerbsd Brigade had gone weeteud.
After being repulsed by Brigadier Hereford, is
front of Toolseopoor, the rebels crept westwards.
under the hills, and attacked the police post of Due'
bounce. The police being in a defensible pains*
were stile to hold their own. They then threatened
the Kurnaon Battalion under Major Ramey, at
Musha, on the 4th and sth, and appear to hereineked
up into several parties, three of which hare barn
into the plaint.. They have been joined by a second
and third party, and probably altogether fluid
2,000 under, it is said, Banes Mandoo, Hurdut
of Bounden, the Goode Rajah. and Ranee Sing, ci
Burns. Sir Hope Grant has advanced in pew° I
the Gogra, and is able to direct from Fyzsbad ths
operations of the English army.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)
••••••
WORSHIP-STREIT.
N`\f Lf WI A LI. INSIID Ylf TVIILLII.
. .

J e.. .11•Ca.e4y, • laboster, ere charged with the follow-
er dAditanUy aemelt ern N,. Jabs Onetba,landlotd of the
Home Tames, at the came of the Hackeety-road.
Coo-plume* produced • piers .4 ramie, weighing at least
41"... and HON thet rewarder SPOINSOOII be heani a die-
airionte u Ide taproom. food the delesdant taking
blow.. volt the gnat of other ertoesoce, and
ll* 1 Lam totted. The append to excite a very
Mater freasg, SR the cowardly fallow picked op
the angle la qesolbue, sad mon thin be world do • wriose
het milt r. Complaisant after • tape of beauty
p,,trer., west to the WINN dour, trod hie hand, sad amino-
rosertl to porno himself of it, but is the straggle defendant
tesuired to gift it tato hit who( head, and tam dealt •
beery blow we the crows f waseeme bead, canner It to
Need profmely. Ormt Mit stir wee esbeepasstly expen•
ie• on poll,/ the *tome.

_„
—Ditractoat begged to to forgives as aroma* at • wits and
limey fatally (tat eadeat as hi. inertias&
Mr. HanuaW, bowsrae„ obiervat that seek Wales as tits
wra freqvaistly fraught with coasreneatse eat indicated till
wow taw afar Moir indiction, sad ha would not la say way
dal with tbe rase UMW the lap• of • weak enabled Mt.
Or tithe to &poem as to the Fool:ails mutt.
Itraisaded acoardlasly.
THAMES.
man PIitoOLINO.
Ms Maw, a reopsaistil. -looking mesa, bombs do ter
smarms of a karlaara, w.. breast% balm Ni. Stualatt
slanted with measles; 71b. of hap ssestabsered
Mr Joba Pinny, • Castosa-borta eat be tamer
ard tha chip 84atiansiN in the blades He* =reap,
a
sad, whit. nuniareksi the assell, be he
rat r-,luest to theupper part ef lie VIONI. awl at
As back be Saul her bole, of *ere eemeeleg. nose
of the bowie were WI of t!: *Be ether bed Yost
oo ley tab oat. Hs said or tbe .11to time year
bass r vita ha replied la earn/oh% sad ha um
seised tb• Apse sad tote ter prisoner tato restady. Tie
prisoner sit. es • nes= at Calcutta, sod bed het
smilerthe Atoned ell tbe voyage. The Tubas a awl duly
wee the don temetbee aniewit to 'lda
ireT:egbrietser, aelesce, said be eras very wry distlielri
Masa& 'tibia she Kota of the near Ins. TV
c were IA le the =bet by various sad ha
aq feeliebly pet them behind the watar-daist. wllb We la-
Narkset presoatlng then to het friend, es they time as

Sidief Ira that ha etaht sot pee ha r Wet
$l.
pelt, the value of se4 duty stoa the aeon. The mall
wee

WANDSWORTH.
s1,101:1•11 CATIVIII Or • IMO lITULTIL
• dirty•lookag meddle-Nod mom who per the aimed
/mt. leer,, wee placed la the dock heawe Na. Dynan oft
• cheep of smiling a deg, value U., the peepertimelist
William Phillips, a elmeedatinger, of Bridgeroad,
The le romance deposed that about three o'clock oft Thum-
day alternom be had his attention drawn to the primmer,
who we. wall up and down in front of his shop with •
Amok dog al to a string. Witness's dog was in the
habit of running about, and he suspected that hie intentions
were to steal it. He watched him, and saw him go over to
the curter, and walk op and down. Another
dog came up, but he kicked that away, end
directly witneeis dog appeared, he andasesored to
entice it to him. The prisoner put his hands In him heck
coat peke, and theft threw something oft the mead. The
dog picked it up. He west on a little farther, sad eft down.
Hs again endeavoured to Intim the dog to him, mad whoa It
came near him he tried to catch hold of it, but the dog
picapet back. Witness then watched him round the
owner, and wee just in time to see him dipping the
siring off his own dog and putting It round his..
He immediately went up and collared him. The
mistier them asked him what good it would do him by
giving him into custody, end said he had no Madness to
Weeks with a man getting his hying. He told him he
was ettempling to ideal his deg, and he should give him
into custody. He found a piece of dirty liver in his
hand, and he also threw another item away. The dog
was • 41ack and tan Sneer, and he bad refined 2.1. for It.
The prisoner wished to know if it was worth so much
money why be allowed It to run about.
The prisecutor said it would run about for perm if there
were not such possess ea him to steal it.
The prams denied steeling the dog cr having it in his pot-
Oftekill. The liver be had for his own dog, andtbe other one
followed him. It wee the grit time hiked ever been charged
sad he hoped hie worship would her leskates he Gould 1111111

Polke-constable Moth said ho took the prionmor into ciee-
lady, and on marthing him at the statics he fond SWIM
little MO of liver is hie back coat pocket. He elm food •
noosoem dam book containing • umber of nahmeme,
which be believed were thme whose doge bad bra Ohm
noose after being stolen. Ile went to the 's abbess is
Cairolino-street, Weettninster•road, aid le hood • little
dog tied up, end it tad • collar mead it, bearing
the name of T. Reeve, Ilangeriord Market." He went to
Enneterford Market in pnie clothowith the dig, sad directly
Mr. Reeve taw it be said It wee his dog, smd sommiditha
a steeling it, sod told him be summed be had sew come
for • reward. Wltse s istonsed him that he wee • constable,
sod the man wee in custody who bed had it in his posoansies.
If,. Darman remanded the primmer, who declared the dog
bikes* to him.