The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-19 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Per,., Captain Jameson (Admiralty agent,
Lieutenant Cashmeres, R.N.), arrived at Southampton en
Saturday with the heavy portion of the India end China
mails. She Wt Alexandria on the 4th inst., Malta on the
Bth, and Gibraltar on the 13th. She brought home 124 pas-
sengers. Lord Lyons's squadron woe about to leave Malls
for a emir. Her Majesty's ship Curlew and the Portuguese
brig Pedro Nunm, Captain the Dole of Oporto, were at
Gibraltar. On the 7th the Pere signalled the Ripon and
Euximi steamers, on the 9th, the British brig Eupatorla ;
on the 10th, the barque Waterloo; on the 11th, the
mail-packet Colombo; on the 17th, the Alhambra end
La Plata mail-packets. On the outward voyage the
Pars experienced One weather. She received the
Marseilles portion of the India sad China math at Malta
from the Valetta, and delivered them et Alemsdria in 7 days
10 hours from the time they bad left the General Post-oaks
In Laudon. On the homeward peonage the Pere met with
bad weather. On the evening of the 14th inst., jut after
sunset, when the Pera was a few mile' south of the Berlins,
a brilliant meteor, of a pale colour, wee seen is the weft at
an elevation of about 25 degrees, traversing the sky from
south-weat to northeast ; it lasted several mooed& The
Egyptian railway is getting on slowly. Mr. Green, or
Green Bey, aa he is termed in Egypt, brother of our cap
ard there, and who has been at the head of the transit ad-
ministratios, has retired from °Moe. The Pasha has given
him • retiring present of 10,0001. The Isle of Perim, at the
entraeoe of the Red Sea, is rapidly being fortified by our
people. The flinibt, which wee obliged to pat back,
to Sues with the Australian mail, in stall there. Her screw
has got loose, end wee repaired once, but found not to therm.
She will have to be beached at Sore. Ihe mail which sunk in
the An, and afterwards recovered, is expected horse In the
Ripon, due to England on the 26th instant. The letters and
were being dried very carefully at Point de Galls.
papers were
in the centre of the boxes were not wetted moth,
but those around them were saturated. All but one box of
the specie sunk in the Ave bad been recovered, up to the
last amounts. It was feared that the Alma's shaft sunk in the
Ava could sot be fished up. One of her Majeety's ships was
at the wreck, and divers were very hwy. It la conch
lamented by passengers through Egypt that the transit
administration is not entirely In the hawk oldie
who would work the railroad far Immissoreastally Vreinll4
i-
Stably for the Pasha than is done by the present a/renamed.
The Duke of Oporto, who was at Gibraltar, had attended
a ball given by the Governor there. He also had dined
with the mess of the 48th Regiment. The duke had like-
wine visited the Norwegian corvette Ornea, at Gibraltar, to
inspect a new invention of the commas, by Baron Ferdi-
nand of Wedel Parleberg,• lisainant of the corvette. The
invention la celled a control .-sepses. It works during
several hours the coarse Mind every fifth minute, or
oftener. This inetrumest is about Ike elm end shape of an
ordinary compass, end as lavenders is a very simple but
beautiful cestriveme.

The Peres pasmagere leaded yesterday at Southamp-
ton. Amongst them were Lieutenant Graham, of the 23rd
Regiment, who warn at the relief of Lorimer, and at
the battle of Cawspore where he wee severely wounded in
the leg ; Captain Cassidy, of the 34th Regt., who fought
under Wyn, at Cawnpore, and was wounded in the
lac Captain Roche, of the 34th, who elm (might under
Wyndham at Cawnpore; Lieutenant Grant, of Bth Native
Infantry, who lost his thumb and forefinger, under Have.
lock, at the relief of Lucknow ; Captain Bacon, of the 3rd,
who was engaged in the defence of Agra, and in the pereedt
of the Rotel Contingent, in the battle near Agra, under
General Polwhell, and in the action near Ara, under
General Greathed ; Major Mansfield, of the 33rd Ker., who
was eide-de-camp to Wyndham in the three days' =t.n=
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with the Owalior contingent, and subsequently
camp to his brother, Sir W. Manadeld, and was wounded st
Caernpere on the 6th of December.

AmLama the peissageni were also Major and Mrs. Boileau
sad 4 children, Mrs. Coupe: and 2 children, Mrs. Aitken,
Mrs. Barlow and infant, Mrs. Ommaney and 2 daughters,
M. Kirk, Mtn. Maack, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. French and
her chi Wren, Mn. Graham and infant. Mrs. Bird and child,
Mrs. Lewin, and Mrs. Banks and infant.

Loss Ut LIES AT SL.—The Royal Mail steamer
Magdalena has brought home the missing Mexican mail. It
was thought • fortnight ego that the Mukaa packet Solent
bad bean detained at Havannah in quarantine; It appears,
however, that bed weather was the cause of her delay. She
met with a norther in the Gulf, during whisk suss min
were washed overboard from the bowsprit, As soon as
the accident hapooed the chief °Soar, Mr. Duero= ; the
second oflicer, r. Wilkins; the third, Mr. Stewart, and
two seamen, rushed to the mail boat on the port quarter,
manned her, and the was dropped into the water. One
et the seven men washed overboard was fortanately
washed on board again, two held on at • single round
NA-buoy, and kept themselves above water, and another was
able to swim. These three men were saved by the gallant
fellows who manned the mail boat ; the other three out of
the seven were drowned ; amongst them was the boatswain.
• subscription was raised on beard for hie widow. The
other two were single men. Had the starboard been the lee
side not one of the men would have been saved. No other
than the mail boat either would have been of say net It
was to her extreme buoyancy and height of gunnel, with the
help of Provident*, that the three men saved owe their Heel
and it was remarked at the time how much better It would be
to have snob boats on each quarter of the mall-packets, in-
stead of the Imlay but unusworthy gigs that are seen there,
WIFE MURDER AT ROCHESTER. Yefterd/y
morning • very deliberate murder wee committed in St.
Margaret's-street, Rochester, by • railway labourer named
Sumer. Turner and his wife lived in • small house at the
hark of the Telegraph beer shop. The lower part of the
house was occupied by a man named King. On Saturday
sight Tamer and his wife and a man named Taylor, with
wham Turner had for some tints suspected hie wife of a
criminal intimacy, wen drinking together at the beer-house.
Turner sad his wife returned home about 12 o'clock, but the
woman did not go to bed, having. as she stated, some ironing
to do. About four o'clock in the morning her husband got
up, and mewing has wife proceeded to the beer-shop, when
he found bar in the company of Taylor. He then west home
and ward until her return, which was about 6 o'clock. As
sena as she entered the room he knocked her down with •
poker, and than ant her throat with • razor. She died
hetantly. The poole in the lower part of the house,
aroused by the dieturbence, met Turner coming down stair;
severed with blood. He freely confessed his crime and
the motive which led to it, and proceeded with King to the
NW, station, when he gave himself mi. An inquest is to
hi add to-day.

017111101. TII MUSLIM.—Thin case was mo-
ther& before the borough vanistrates en Saturday Nat The
evilleans was chiefly corroborative of what had already been
shbood. One of the chief points in the additional testimony
was • statement made by Ann Vick, to whom the prisoner
said, in the mares of a conversation mopecting the murder,
" that it was not done by an air gun, but by
pgimingting powder and • bullet on • stick ; end he=
maks a thing to answer quo. purpose is half is hear."
Another witness (William nchoasid) deposed to tolewital •
am, dressed in the same manner the prisoner is prong to
Ore been droned on the night in guestioa, condo; hen the
&ranks of Video house a few in.& distant, about the thee
the reader Is alleged to have been committed, and that be
held enhis imminteeh before his face, apparently to avoid
The man was than going the direct road to
Pary-street, where the prisoner called at a hothouse
after midnight for • glass of ale. The case was farthits2-
*wend till to-day (Ifooday).