The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-30 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

AND PRITDIN TILLEOZAT N.)

TRIESTE, 81.7NDAY Arremsoos.

The steamer America arrived here to-day at two
o'clock p.m., having left Alexandria on the 24th
March. The India mails were to leave Alexandria
to-day, with intelligence from Hong Kong to the
13th February, from Calcutta to the 23rd February,
from Madras to the let March, and from Bombay to
the sth March, including despatchea from lhothiro
to the 15th February.
On the Bth February a force under ticut.-General
Sir James Outram obtained a signal victory at
Khooshab over the Persians, commanded by Soojah-
001-moolk.

On the 3rd February the expeditionary force, con-
sisting of 419 cavalry, 4,300 infantry, and 18 guns,
left llushire. After a march of 41 hours it reached

the l'ersiumi

at lioorayjoun, distant

46 miles from llushire, upon which the enemy re-

treated from their

to the mountain's,

abandoning their stores and ammunition, all of which
were destroyed.
The British forces two days afterwards com-
menced their return march, in which they were dis-
turbed by an ineffectual night attack on the part of
the enemy. At daybreak the Persian army, about
six thousand strong, with five guns, was attacked
by British cavalry and artillery, and totally routed.
The enemy lost 700 killed, 100 prisoners, and two
guns were taken. Our total loss was 10 killed and
62 wounded. Lieutenant Fronkland was killed,
and Captain Forbes, Captain 31ockler, and I.ieut.
Oreentrcc were wounded. The expedition returned
to Bashire on the 10th of February.
There have been some disturbances in I'egu, which
were unimportant, but which led to a skirmish with
the hoop'.

The Madras Exhibition was opened very success-
fully by Lord Harris on the nth of February.
Meetings have been heldat Calcutta to petition par-
liament against the regulation of the new• peual code,
subjecting Europeans to the jurisdiction of the Com-
pany's courts.

-The Bombay import market wee steady; cotton
and oil weds were very firm. The money market
was unchanged ; goverunienteeturitioi were slightly
improved. Freights unaltered. Exchange, 21. ltd.

The Calcutta export market was without change ;
the import market very steady; freights looking
down. Exchange, 2s. 21d.
Money was scarce at Madras; imports were in
good demand; in exports transactions were limited,
owing to short supplies. Freights were firm. Ex-
change, 2s. I Id. to Id.
In China, with the exception of an attack on the
junks in Canton river, no further active operations
had taken place.
Admiral Sir H. Seymour was at Hong Kong,
waiting for reinforcements.
_ .

The trial of A-lum, the baker, and his fellow-pri-
soner, charged with poisoning the }laminar, inhabit-
ants of Hung Kong, rebuked in a verdict of not
Guilty.

A telegraphic message had been received at Bom-
bay from the authorities at Calcutta, that the Emperor
of China had sent orders to Yeh to conclude peace on
any terms. . . .

At Hong Kong, exchange was 4s. Bd. At Shanghai
imports were rather lower; the total silk settlements
were 70,000 bales, of which 67,600 had been left ;
prices advanced 10 dole. Exchange was 6s. id.

At Foochow there W(L'i a further advance in tea.
The import market was dull.
At Ceylon the exports of coffee from Oct. 1 were
230,000 eats. The pearl fishery was to commence
on Much 5, and was expected to be profitable.
In Mauritius, from excessive wet, the sugar crop
was 20,000 tons below estimate.

No intelligence had been received of the Oneida,
which Will expected at Sues from Melbourne with
the Australian mails.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(Flom ova oirs

PARIS, 61.1411 AT EVININO.

A great many political arrests have just been made
at Lyons of persons alleged to be members of a
secret society, formed for the purpose of promoting
the condidatute of the exile Itaspail at the general
election.

General Toddeben is expected at the Ituasian
embassy to await the arrival of the Grand Duke
Constantine.

Ferukh Khan is expected in Paris again next
week. It seems that his visit to London is of a
private character. He only took with him four per-
sons of his suite, But as soon as he receives from
Teheran the ratification of the treaty just concluded
he will go to England a second time, and will then
be accompanied by the whole personnel of his lega-
tion. It is expected that he will conclude in Lon-
don the negotiations already set on foot for com-
mercial treaties with several powers, and that be
will embark for Persia in the month of September.
M. Alexandre Dumas' first letter on the English
elections appears in the Presse of this evening. It
contains little more than extracts from the placards
which met his eye on arriving in London, and
teething whatever to interest an English reader, ex-
cept perhaps that he got out of his cab to inquire of
somebody in the street why Christian electors were
so earnestly calbd upon not to vote for Locke, and
received an amnia of the state of the Sunday ques-
tion which very much astonished him.
The Presse says in IN weekly commercial re-
view :

• •
Trade .bows a gradual tendency to revive from the state
of atrophy into which it hue Lmn plunged for many months.
Stocks have become so low that dealers can no longer post-
pone making purview., and the oonacquenco is that many
srticles which haw long been stagnant, have eeperienced a
sudden rise in priers The weireramWs ahoy* have begun to
show their spring patterns, and an active sale may be looked
for within the tint fortnight of April. Radnor is still
paralysed at Roues and Mulhouse, on account of the dear-
nese of raw mideriithi, but advice., from Roubaix
Si. Quentin, Rheims, and Amiens, sec satisfactory.
Woollen muffs nixed with cotton now come Into very
serleuavompetition with Rouen goods-so much so, that
' some of the Bolen houses are thinking of &mg-

Mg the serum of ter manufactures. Very few orders for
America have aa ye been received at Lyons, but most of the
feetories have woe in Land for sir weeks to supply the
Paris demand. The rise in raw silks is checked. Large
purchmes have been made in China silks at London, and this
commodity is now pretty abundant both at Lyons and Mar-
seilles. There in a considerable fall in leather in the Paris
market. Corn is again lower.

The Figaro, Tritroukt, Gazette de Paris, and
the Moir dm reside, have received notices of actions
foe libel on the part of M. Holstein, the manager of
the Gaits. These journals lately contained articles
asserting that a aew piece called L'Aretzgle, attri-
buted in the (Mite bills to MM. Amict, Bourgeois,
and Deanery, and which has met with very great
success, is a piracy. A cross action has been brought
against M. Holstein by 31. liugelmann, who claims