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

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEB

INDIA.
THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our despatches in anticipation of
the Overland Mail limn ladia. The dates ars:—
B3rabay, Jan. 3, and Caloatta, Deo. 22.

The following is the summary of the Bombay
Thaes :

The past fortnight has been a somewhat stirring
one. The Rajah of Sikkim has released Drs.
Campbell and Hooker from confinement, and
permitted them to return to Darjeeling,—
though up to the 17th ultimo they had cot
reached that station. Troops at the same time
continue to move on Sikkim, to exact an account
of his misdeed..—Colonel Lester her been ordered
out with the Sylhet light infantry against a tribe
called the Kooks, inhabiting the frontier, who
had been ravaging the plains. They are supposed
to have been is quest of prisoners to sacrifice over
the reusing of their departed chief, their custom
being to immolate an individual for every year
the chief bad lived. Colonel Bradshaw, with
a force of 2,500 men, as stated in last overland, has
gone oat to Peshawar to bring some refractory
villagers, who had refased to pay tribute, into
• , On trigide..4
vi of Bunghao saluted-In a ,:i•s—MIW
flanked by two large spurs from the mountains.
The eaemy were believed to be about two thousand
strong. They were attacked on the morning of the
11th: they offered a stoat and obstinate re-
sistance of five boars' duration, when they were com-
pelled to retire. They were Ken like goats
wending up a covered path in the escarpment
of the hills, where no shot could reach them. The
village was then set fire to, when several females who
had hid themselves nearly perished in the fiames.
We had five killed and seventeen wounded, chiefly by
large stones thrown from the heights with wonderful
force and precision. The enemy are said to have
lost above one bandied ; they ware seen returning
to the rain of the village after our departure. On
the 12th the head man came in and sued for pardon,
paying the revenue of the past year, and promising
good conduct for the future. On •this 13th the force
again moved on to punish some others of the
refractory. Oa approaching the village., which
seemed determined to hell out, the villagers ap-
proached the camp during the &Aims, and stoned
and reviled the s3ntries. On the morning of the 14th
three villager, which were of great natural strength,
were attacked; after a stout resistance, the enemy was
driven out and the buildings set fire to and razed. A
general submission was expected to ensile. These bor-
der-men have rarely heretofore paid tribute till com-
pelled at, the point of the sword ; the utter futility of
resistance will probably teach them prudence and sub-
mission fur the future.—For the past fortnight an un-
usual degree of excitement has prevailed at the metro-
polis on the subject of what is termed "The Black
Act." It deprives Europeans of the privilege reserved
to them by pediment. of being tried exclusively
by Queens courts of justice, and by English law,
and places them hereafter in the hands of the
judges of the Company's courts, administering
native law alone, and that in general indiffer-
ently, and of native juries, always ready to avenge
themselves on their white fellow-subjects. The
Charter Act gives the Supreme Council the power
of repealing all acts of parliament save the Mutiny
Acts passed herons 1633; and, would those who are
now engaged at home agitating against the re-
newel of the clatter, and denouncing the gum-
runt of the East India Company, turn their at-
tention to the misdoiegs of the imperial govern-
ment and legislature, they might render ten
thousand tithes the service to India they will ever
by any other means afford. The Governor-general

sin at present free himself of the cootroluof
council by quitting Calcutta : in the provinces he
hu by himself the authority of governor-ineouncl.
The Legislative Council of India can annul the statute
book back to Magna Caarta : the President of the
Board of Control can compel the secret committee to
subscribe any documer t he desires,or the document may
be enforced by himself alone, without their subscrip-
tion; and he can conceal u..y facts he desires to with-
hold, or delude parliament to any extent he plums,
by such garbled blue bwks as those repeatedly
presented since 1838,—0n the plea that disclosure
might injure the public service. Turki itself
can boast of no more perfectly organized system
of oppression than that thus devised by the first
reform parliament. The Governor-General is
expected at Bombay a fortnight hence, and all
sorts of congratulations await his reception.—Sir
Charles Napier remains at Lahore, where Sir
W. R. Gilbert and fir IL M. Elliot respectively
were invested on the sth ult. with the insignia
of a Grand CAnpanion and Civil Knight Comman-
der of the Order of the Bath.—Madras is suffering
from extreme drought and the fear of famine.—
Bombay was on the 26:h ult. visited by two slight
shocks of earthquake. Cholera is abating : the
weather Las at length bzeorne cold.—Mr. I.
Caldecott, astronomer to the Rajab of Travancore,
died at Trivandrum on the night of the 161 ult.—
The London Mail of the 2lth Nov. only reached us
yesterday evening; it was brought down from Aden
by the steam-frigate Auckland, which took nearly
thirteen days on the way."
The resent mail etudes home bat little news from
Clacutta.

Ike Darjef ling and Sikkim affair had lost some of
its interest, partly from its novelty haying worn off,
arid partly b. cause it is known tha.. the captive doc-
tors have boon set at liberty and arrived ado at
Darjeeling.

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