The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-20 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our despatches in anticipation of
the Overland Mail from India and China. The dates
are : Bombay, January 17 ; Calcutta, January 7, and
Cantor, December 28. The following is the summary
of theßomboy Times of January 17:

We have once more got rid of wars and rumours
of wars which were, but are now no longer, the in-
variable concomitants of the cold season. The
Emeritie revenue recusants having been chastised
and humbled, the force lately in the field under Col.
Bradshaw has returned to Peshawur, the Bombay
portion of it being by this time on its way to its own
presidency. The Fusiliers were to leave on the 30th
u.t.,the artilleryand Made Horse on New-year's Day,
the 19th N. I. when relived, and the 3.d about the
end of the pre sent month.—Drs. Campbell and Hooker
being now safe at Darjeeling, the insults and indigni-
ties they have suffered become known. It was, it
seems, for no fault of theirs that they were seized
oa and imprisoned ; the attack was as wanton
and unprovoked as it was cowardly and cruel.
It remains to be seen what chastisement we
shall deem requisite for the Sikkimites who
abused them.—A misunderstanding is said to have
arisen betwixt government and the ruler of
Bbyrpore, the faithless Ali Moolrad, the be-
trayer of the other Ameers. The nature of this
has not been made known; but that the Khyr.
pore chief could long speak the truth or act honestly,
is a thing not to be looked for.—The " Black Act"
agitation continues the theme of discussion. Rantisy
has now followed Calcutta in presenting a memorial
to government pointing out the Inadequacy of the
Company's courts, and adverting to the illegality of
parliament vesting the legislative council of India
with powers which royalty itsely never claims; and
the reforms in our tribunals have hitherto been
overlooked which were considered by the Charter Act
essential preliminaries to the extension of their juris-
diction.—Sir C. Napier, in reviewing the troops now
quartered at Lahore, has fulminated a general order
against the state of their discipline, such as is
without precedent in our military annals. Sir
Charles states that he never before in the course
of half • century of service witnessed such a scene,
and feels assured that in no other regiments of
the army could such misconduct have occurred.
He winds up by saying that troops in a state
of undircipline, such as some of the regiments
he reviewed, would in the field prove dangerous
to their friends and contemptible to their enemies.
—The governor-general is expected to leave Kur-
etches to-day or to-morrow, and to be in Bom-
bay about the 20th: he will remain here for two
or three days and no more, and most likely keep
himself strictly private—the more so as his host
and hostess, Lord and Lady Falkland, are at
present in deep mourning on the demise of the
Queen Dowager. The health of the noble mar-
quis is, we rejoice to lame, almost entirely restored :
he will after leaving us, take • short sea voy-
age, and then return to Calcutta, from whence
he will proceed to Simla as the hot season approaches.
—The ruler of Goozerat, his Highness the Guicowar
of Berets, is on his way to Bombay, to be presented
to the governor-general. Five steamboat* have been
despatched to bring down his attendant., amounting
to several thousands. While here, they will have
assigned to them the government house at
Malibu Point, the hot-weather residence of
the governor. He is about to propose that the
British government should afford a guarantee of
five per cent. on the portion of the Tenkaria and
Borado Railway, which pews through their domi-
nions—about one-half—he providing for that of the
half which passes through his own : making up, be-
sides, all deficiencies in the share list. The offer
see= a most liberal one ; pity it is to see the
Prince who makes it about to squander on a pil-
grimage to a village of prostitutes in the Dana
as much almost on elephants, horses, and women, or
gifts to the idle and the dissolute, as would cover
all the otitlay he proposes to incur in public
improvement. On the morning of the 6th the
ship Dartmouth was burnt, as is believed by in-
cendiaries, in Bombay harbour, being the seventh
in the port, and the math belonging to it, that has
thus perished within these eight years, the value
of property thus destroyed exceeding • quarter of a
sterling. Majors Edwards. and Nichol-
son, two of the *Seers who so eminently distin-
gnikmd themselves throughout the Punjasb war,
and sessived brevet rank, and the former a C. 8.-
ship, have been roadie, foe some days amongst us
and receiving the honors and attendees that are
their due. Major Edwards*, when he first beard of
the Mooltan murders, with a small handful of
undisciplined men crossed the Lidos and drove the
;way berme him. He gave battle to Mooing
on the 19th June, and again on the Ist Icily. &-
testa him, and drove rim into the town, and there
kept ion at bay, sad checked the iossrrectios
tar the army of Whisk arrived. Frt.= this
time as he ook a Indict share in all the stirring
sad movsossata of the time. Lieut. (sow
Mope) isholao When a Pang amigo, was one