The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-29 00:00:00

BENGAL AND BEHAR.

Major Eyre, with threo guns and about 150
Europeans defeated the rebels under Kover
Sing on the 12th instant, and relieved the
Europeans who had been for some days be-
sieged in a small house at Arrab, and with the
aid of fifty Sikhs had gallantly defended them-
selves. Lover Sing has fled over the hill towards
Robtaa. On the 10th ho was at Akburtore Eteas
Rohaagurh ; his brother Amur Sing, was in the
hills flanking the grand trunk road, and in its
neighbourhood there is insecurity consequently ;
all quiet, however, between Bemires and Sher-
ghotty. Seven lees of treasure at Gya have been
brought into Calcutta by the collector, Mr. Alonzo
Money, with the aid of a few Europeans, and about
100 Sikh soldiers.

The stations of Chnprs, Chumparun, and Mo-
zuffurpore, which the civil officers had abandoned

by order of Mr. Taylor the Commissioner, have
been reoccupied, and tranquillity may soon be
restored. Since the twit mail left the sth Irregular
Cavalry in the Santhal district are en route to
Arab, it is known where they now are; a party
of the Dinapore mutineers has been heard of about
18 miles south-west of Murzapore, as making for
the Jumna somewhere about Callpee, with the in-
tentions probably of joining the Gwalior mutineers,
and ultimately the (hide's insargents.
Some Rewah troops-750 infantry, 300 cavalry
and 4 guns—had been detached by Political
Agent to intercept them if possible, either at the
Soheges Clint of the Jonse or at Soroe. In the
direction of Allahabad, the Kuttra Pass was de-
fended, and it is hoped that by the one force or
the other they may be attacked and dispersed.
MISCELLANEOUS. Lord Clarendon's message,
dated 13th July, to Consul at Marseilles, and Sir C.
R'ood's, dated 14th, to Consul at Cagliari, received.
' Upward of four handfed seamen and marines
and twenty officers of tier Majesty's frigates
Shannon and Pearl, have been formed into

a Naval Brigade, and detached to the Upper
Provioceo. The brigade is furnished with ten
60-pounders, and two or three field-pieces, taken
from the above vessels. All left Calcutta on the
18th inst. by steamer.
All quiet at Nappore and Hyderabad. By latest
accounts the I'unjaub quite tranquil. The 14th
Native Infantry at Helym, who refused to give up
their arms, destroyed. The 40th Native Infantry
and wing of 9th Cavalry mutinied at &allot., and
killed three or four officers, the majority find-
ing shelter in the fort. The mutineers were attacked
by Brigadier Nicholson on the 12th, and again on
the 16th, and hardly any escaped. Their spoil fell
into our hands.

The revenue in the Punjaub has been paid to the
last farthing, and the most loyal spirit prevails not
only among the Sikh soldiery, but the population
generally. The only apprehension is a failure of
funds. At the end of September or October, the
government will give its attention to this; mean-
while the local authorities have invited advances on
loan for one year at 6 per cent.—result not yet
reported.

G. F. EDMONSTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India.

RAVEN.

Trieste, 11.40, a.m., Monday.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
(BY StISNI.ttIINB ANII BRITIAH TELLOILAPIIII

TRIESTE, MONDAT,

The steamer Bombay arrived on the 28th of Sep-
tember, at 10.45 xm., in 119 hours from Alex-
andria. _ . -

ALEXANDRIA, !3trr. 23.

_ ,
The India and China mails leave to-day, with
dates from Calcutta to August 24; Madras, 28th;
Ceylon, let inst. • Hong Kong, August 8 ; Shanghai,
July 30. The itimbay mails left on the 12th of
August.
Large reinforcements would reach the camp be-
fore Delhi on the 20th. General Nicholson's column
was to join General Wilson's forces on the 13th,
General Havelock returned to ('awnpore on the
13th. . . _

The Ath Itolraa Cavalry, haring refused to pro-
ceed on serrive to Calcutta, had been disarmed.
A portion of tho 12th Bombay Native Infantry
has been disarmed._

A portion of the Joudpore Legion had mutinied at
Mount Aboo. - - -

The Native Artillery at Dumdum has been dis-
armed.

Lord Elgin was to leave Calcutta fur Chiva on the
25th inst.

Exchange at Bombay, 2e. ltd.
At Calcutta the market remained unchanged.
Government securities had again fallen. Freights
had declined. Exchange, 2.1. 2td. to td.
The Helens and Mooraforth had arrived at Hong
Kong with about 500 gunners, who were to be
despatched to Calcutta.
A declaration of blockade of Canton River was
issued by Admiral Seymour on the 4th August.
Exchange at Hong Kong,
At Shanghai a large business has been done in
imports. Silk was firm. Exchange, 6s. 101. to is.
Pnce4 of tea have advanced both at Shanghai and
at Amoy. .

At Madras government securities bad declined.
Freights were firm. Exchange, 2s. 2id. to id. for
document paper.

Gmow of x owN ooNassrowrurr.)
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITIIIII TNLINIREPR.)
"CAGLIARI, Barr. 27.
" ALEXANDRIA, BNrr. 27.
" The Pottinger, from Bombay, reached Sues lest
night, with intelligence to the 31st of August.
" General Havelock's force made a second advance
towards Luckoow on the 4th of August, but was
again obliged to fall back.
" There bare been two more engagements with
the rebels, in each of which the latter lost their gene.
. .

General Havelock returned to Cawnpore
the 13th.

" The latest advice, from Delhi are to the 12th
of August. The ineurgente continue to suffer defeat
in every encounter with our troops.
" General Nicholson hu reached the camp. His
column had arrived to within one day's march of
Delhi.

" At Agra, on the 7th of August, all remained
quiet.

" There is no intelligence from Lucknow, but the
garrison is believed still to be safe..

" General Lloyd has been suspended, and is to be
brought to trial.
" The Maharajah Goolab Singh died on the 2nd of
August.
The 26th Native Infantry mutinied at Meean
Meere, and murdered their commanding officer,
IMajor Spencer. The mutineers had fled, but were
intercepted and completely cut up.
"The mutiny in the 27th Bombay Infant y has
been entirely euppressod. Only 200 men of the
regiment had revolted, but another, being stationed
at Rutnagherri, has been disarmed.
"The 12th Bombay Native Infantry have been
disarmed at Numeerabad in consequence of their in-
subordination, and of the threatening attitude they
assumed while endeavouring to protect a trooper
of the let Lancers, who bad openly incited his com.
rades to mutiny. They did not proceed to active
violence.

" Martial law has been proclaimed at Belgaum,
and several Mahomedana who have bean melded
of treason have been executed.

" A plot to attack the 2nd Europeans on their
arrival at Belganm has been discovered. The
traitors were arrested and executed.

"At Mount Aboo fifty men of the Joudpore Lesion
mutinied on the 21st August. They were driven
away and had retreated towards Ennpoora.
" Central India continues tranquil.
. .

"The Hon. J. P. Grant hie been appointed
Lientenant•Oovernor at Allahabad.

"The Bth Madras Cavalry on their refusal to
proceed to Bengal, had been disarmed.
" A company of European Artillery had arrived
at Bombay from Bushire.
"The Banks have lowered their rate of interest,
but there is no improvement in Government
securities.

"The import market shows signs of improvement.
" Exchange, 2s. ltd. to Z. lid."

The following telegram was received at the
Foreign-office Sept. 28, 8.25 p.m., from British
Vice-Consul at Trieste, Sept. 28, 11.15 a.m. :

"ALEXANDRIA, Szr.r. 23.

" The Bengal reached Suez on the 21st inst., with
dates from Calcutta, 23rd August; Madras, 29th
August ; Galle, 2nd Sept. ; Aden, 14th Sept. The
dates from the North-West Provinces are the same as
those already received rid Bombay.
" Great anxiety is felt u to the fats of Lucknow,
where a thousand Europeans, a large proportion of
whom are women and children, are blockaded by
the rebels, under Nena Sahib.
. .

" The 6th and 90th Regiments are on their way
up the river to reinforce General Havelock's divl.
don, but it is doubtful whether the garrison of
Luckuow hu provisions to enable it to hold out.
"Lord Elgin hu made over the Shannon and
Pearl to the Indian government, and was about to
return to China in the Ave, chartered steamer.

"—Captain Peel, with 400 name*, and Jen 68.
pounders, left Calcutta, in a steamer towing Eats; on
the 18th August, for Allahabad.
" The dates from Hong Kong are to the 10th
August. On the 3rd August Admiral Seymour de-
clared the river and port of Canton to be placed to a
state of strict blockade. _ _ _ s _ _

" Freeitind;cigunners and drivers of the Royal
Artillery arrived by the troop-ships Nelms and
Mooraforth, and were to leave Hong Kong, for cal.
cutta, in her Majesty's ship Sampson, on the 12th e
August.
(Signed) "
RAVEN." "JOHN GREEN.
(Signed)

MARSEILLES, MorDAy.

The Bombay mail, with dates to the 31st of
August, has arrived here by the French steamer
which left Alexandria on the 21st instant.

Lieutenants Thomson and Delatosse, reported to
be dead, were alive at Cawnpore.
Major George and Major Thomas died of illness
and wounds at Agra on the 4th of August.
The mail leaves this evening at ten o'clock.—Post.

AN ESCAPE FROM THE MASSACRE AT DELHI.

The Edinburgh Courant has a letter from a lady
named Wood. the wife of Dr. Wood, • medical aka of the
38th Bengal Light Infantry, who barely escaped with her life
from Delhi, on the 11th of May. Mrs. Wood is now at
Simla with her beamed, who was severely wounded, having
his lower jaw nearly shot away. She was one of those Eng-
lish ladies and gentlemen who assembled at the flaptaff and
got away when all hope of the immediate euppression of the
sae over. „IN. Wood was placed in a palanquins
and Mrs. Wood mounted on horseback. They started in
oompany with Major Patterson and Mrs. Pate, who were
te • baggy, bat • few miles from Delhi. She says :
" Hands -ad savages from the neighbouring villages panel
upon es, armed with Immense sticks bound with Iron
nage, and swords, demanding all we poeseseed. We had
the boxes containing our few valuables with es—these
we were compelled to give up to these ruthless
plunderers, and, not edited with these, they robbed Mee.
Pelle of her bonnet and cape, also taking my dress,
leaving me only a thin white petticoat, besides making
us open our clothes, and insultingly searching our persons
for concealed articles; also a pillow and two sheets literally
soaked in blood ; breaking up the carriage and buggy before
us, and riding off with the horse', thus, by depriving us of
our conveyances, rendering our escape almost hopeless. Fran
day to day we crawled along, travelling at the rate of about
seven miles a night, begging food from village to vill
and dragging a sounded man with us who was utterly help-
less, sometimes receiving food and kindness from the -
lagers, at others insult on insult—drinking water &en the
puddles and dilates on the roadsides—shaping on the bare
ground, expesed to the burning eon and fiery wind of ea
Indian climate. With the ever present terror that our lives
were at stake—indeed, our lives were threatened several times
—we lived through it all. Our last day's journey on foot was
one of twenty milt., through soorchieg sandy plains, ha many
places covered with thorns. This journey Major P. and I
performed without shoes. Mine were worn out, and though
a native pair bad been given to me they hurt my feet Et
much I was obliged to take them off and carry theta.
After the gentlemen joined us our insulta sae fewer,
and attempts at violence were not on common ; still our
fatigues mad rough mode of travelling still continued. How-
ever, we bore up through it all till we reached Kerniug,
where we were most kindly and hospitably treated by young
Mr. ltigby there. Hero we stayed a work era we started for
the bills to recruit our exhausted strength. Thus have we
been made beggars. I had only attuned from England with
good—l may say handsome—outfit, and this jewels I have
__— ----se it.,,, trreaertta from deer, Mod

Ica were mania( ibeen peesesta front 'dew, kthilleiends, amt.
to be replaced again ; the others were purthusisith my own
hard-earned savings for 15 years pear. You will sea in this
way how heavy oar lows have been, and if soy of your
kind readers, after the perusal of my Pad tale, feel inclined to
assist ne in our (halm., I will not say how gratefully it will
be revolved." The Edinburgh Cbmaal pegs: "To add to the
hardship of the cape, we believe that so long as her Imsband.
Dr. Weed, holds no appointment (and from the nature of his
wound that may be no brief term), half his pay and *Bow-
erman are cut off, while by a late government order all offices
are now kept three months in arrears of pay."

New York is not likely to lack for amusements
this autumn. "The says a letter from that city,
"are full of 'anthem and weidern guests returning from the
watering places. This lms 'Non a new Still:111bn and full
hone.,, to the theatres. Fres:Alai is singing to enthusias-
tic audiences et the opera. Thalberg is Rivkin crowded
concerto. assisted by Vieustemps. lir. Murdoch
is playing at Burton's the wane characters that won
him en much favour at the Haymarket last year.
Laura Hesse in living on Mr. Tom Taylor's Isle play. Wsl-
La.., theatre is producing the moral drama of the llama
aux Canieleas—an expurgated edition. And at the Broad-
way Mr. Charles Mathews hes made his deent to one of the
largest and moat enthusiastic audience' that New York bee
wen for a long time. The greet success of this genUeman
will be gratifying to bin friends in London."
A letter from Paris says that the reverend re-
former, Father Lawrence, of the diocese of Tubes, ha issued
a circular, announcing the foundation of a new order. The
members are exaneively to belong to the putter half of
creation, and on admission are to make oath, " that they will
dined every dress or fashion in any way clashing with
mndeoty, or the piety of a Christian woman, such, for
instance as low dreams baguets that only cover the
of head, Bounces, crinolines, &e." The members
Are to restrict their wardrobes to eight or ten dress
at wet. They roust be attired to Mack while
attending the service of Holy Mother Church, and
must also make the engagement not to give any cashog
fleecy to their maids, on as to give them a taste for &maim
above thoir mans, a practice which " leads to wires of the
most varied description " Absolute reclusion is not, how-
ever, la rigor; the [Air essociateo may occasionally to
ball, or Ica-fight, but clad in the simplest of dresses. ne
members of the emaciation are to wear its insignia, consisting
of a medal, bearing the words "simplicity" and "modesty,
And suspended round the neck by a piece of cotton ribbon.
The rev. gentleman prontisee further details at an early dAy,
in which he intends giving retaliation, touching the dinner,
servants, carriages, ternitaie, kc.