The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-11 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

Calcutta journal' of the 9th ult. contain two
important orders issued by the government. By
the Bret the Punjab is raised into a Lieutenant.
Governorship :

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.

ALLAHABAD, JAN 1, 1869.

Under authority received from her Majesty's Secretary
of State for India, the Right Hon. the Viceroy and
Governor-General is pleased to resolve that • separate
lieutenant governorship for the territuriee on the extreme
northern frontier of her Majesty's India empire shall be
established; and that the Punjab, the tracts commonly railed
the Trans-flutlej States," the " Cie-flutlej States," and
the "Delhi Territory," shall form the jurisdiction of the
boatesant-goer rnor.
G. F. EDMONSTOIYE. Beerttiry to the
Government of !edit, with the Governor-
Oessenl."
The second order decrees the disarming of the
whole of Upper India :

ALLAHABAD, Du. 21, 1868.

The Right Ron. the Governor-Geseral has been pleased
to extend the provisions of sections I, 2, and 5, Act
XXVIII., 1857, to the North-Western Provinces of the
Bengal Presidency.
His lordship having resolved on disarming such parts of
thoespravintes se be to the north of the rivets Jun= and
Ranges, hes farther been pleased under seethe 24, Act
XXVIII., 1851, to authorise a general search and seizure of
arm' by the megisMutes and collectors within the tract above
specified. The maiistrate and collector may delegate the
same authority to any officer of his erablialunent of a rank
not lower than a Jemadar.

By order of his Excellency the Eight Hon. the Governor-
General. _ _ _

W. MUIR, flocroiory to Governowat, N.W.P.

CHINA.

In the summary of the general news given by the
Overload 11,i4oed of Chiooo, of Dee. 30, we read :
Another fortnight hal elapsed without a word being laud
d the Earl of Elgin's mese up the Yanirtuwldeng.
The French nnilussador, Baron Ores. la Wall in Bong
Kong, residing almost altogether now on board H. 1.11.8.
Andadonse.

Oar Governor' Btr John Bowing, whom deptrturo for
Manila was mentioned in oar last summary, IoR that place
on the 201 h inst. to H.M.S.& Magicienne, bound to Borneo,
thence to the Southern Phillipplass, and back to Meath,
where, from about tit() middle of wait month, his excellency,
it is said, will remain until his kMlth is fully restored, or the
t expeced recall reaches hire.
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ofprovincial mitten there Is not much to report beyond •
growing opinion that the province of Kwatigteng is In a fair
way to secede from the government of o.ag before
im =ter, whose.storise eta. trit;traeraincwhamveonbteben.
and already morettnlatten six-tenths of the pro:
vines ere in rebel possession.
The insurteetion about Ningpa is reported at en end—cut
ant with the szecationees knife. _ _

At Cantos matters eoniinueieseefol. It is now certain
that the feIIOII.II tea orop will ha scant, and for the sight oe
ten chops of aecond-dees Congo= left in this octerter,
holders are asking egregious prices. Ruropran fabrics
ere in good demand. Such figures for Idsochestie
goods have not been known for • long thee. Nor is a scent
tee crop confined to Cantos. From all China the export will
be, some say, 26 per sent. less than it was last year. Not
that the production has been leer, but the crop' were bought
up In demos by agents travelling for the Runtime rid
Kiachte omelet. The Wynead, 620 to and Dora, 150
irsarde the only ships despatched from Whampea for
Rs since our lest report; while the Daring, 1,000 toes,
Don Quixote, 1,430 taw, hare been Use only vessels fat
America in the sem period.
London. From Fe-ohey-lbo, the Spirit of the Age has been sent to
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From t3ltatigtses the Amiens, 511 tons, /Mar, 755 lona.
and John lustowman, 600 tons, have oleo 1-ft for Louden.
and for New York, front the some port, the Oscar, 600 tons,
Isaac Janes, 840 tone, and CUMIN Back, 7110 tons ; the
Nicolas 1., Rosales ship of 600 tons, clewing for Cronstadt.
Total export from China, westward, daring the fortnight,
soy, to Knalsnd, 4000 tons; to the United State; 4,600
tons; to Russia, 600 tons.