The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-12 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the overland mail, we have ad-
1., • from Bombay to July 12, and from Calcutta
Bombay t. June 26.

Hails ban fallen in great abundance all over India.
TI.. pissent season bids fair in thin respect to form
• p.arallel to that which succeeded the famine of
Imo; •: In •ome places the young rice plants,
tbs. •ugar cane, and the indigo plants have suffered

Tln• tutal fall ut rain iu liotukay atuoulatx to
,Loot 45 inches.

The Famine Relief eonimittees are performing
their labours well in the Nortli•West Pn.vinees.
Nearly 111,1100 people an• king daily fed with
....Led food in Delhi alone. and fully that number
iu tit, district are relieved iu the aanieway. About
I.issi poor widows obtain weekly relief in money,
the Delhi tiate. Otte thousand rupees a month
4re distributed to families of respectability now
n-,iticed to poverty, but ashamed to be seen seeking
barfly. About 10,U110 pentona are employed daily
iu ..anus kind of work by the Relief 'Society and
~..vernment. At Agra about 2,000 are daily
empl..vell on the relief worka, and on the Futteghur
branch .4 the Ganges Canal about 4,000. So in
other place*.

t:reat awl increasing distress; prevails in Pesha-
c ur. Villages are being depopulated.
Famine is said to exist in Cabul.
There is but little prospect of the Commander-
in Chief in India and the Head Quarters Stall of
the Army leaving Calcutta for the hills this year.
The Governor-General has called upon the local
goo, niments for returns showing the amount» to
be realiwsl from every source under the third see-
non id the Income Tax Act—namely, duty of
percent. for reproductive public cocks up to lst
August next ; and has asked for suaiwtions as to
the best mode of lisp lug of the amounts.
The Governor-I:metal has also called on the
local 6overnmenta for reports containing any img-
i,estions of alterations or amendment,' which the
practice of the past year has shown to be necessary
to the proper corking of acts 32 and 39 of 1800,
the object of the reference being to amend the
(onus anal machinery• for levying the income tax ;
departure from the principle of levying a direct
tax on incomes being contemplated, and no discus-
sion on such principle being allowed in the replies
to the reference.

The cash balances in the government Treasuries
.4 India at the end of April last were ;—Govern.
meet of India, Company's Ra., 2,89,19,909; Ren-
o!, 2,20,20,5f4 ; N.W. Provinces, 2,65,28,616 ;
Pun.*uh, 1,07,58,115 ; Mate, 2,486,724 ;
Itailliey, 3,12,55,230. Total Co. NRa. 14,28,69,178,
legaiust total in April, 1800, Co.'s Ra. 16,80,17,119;
au4 in 1859 Co.'s Rs. 10,70,70,203.
Shermakie the Somali chief, has been seized by
tli.• French, ;ad carried off to Suez, to be tried and
probably hanged on the charge of having been
ae.asiaory to the supposed murder of Mr. Lanibert,
the French consul, two years ago.
The Fo.uch continue to make themselves very
lu.y in every part of the Red Sea.
The King of Bokhara, worsted in an encounter
with the rebels, applied to the Rumians for aid,
atool the Russian geueral directed a large force to
ions:col to Itokliara. The opportunity has thus
occurred for the active interference of the Russians
in the political affairs of the states of Central Asia.
Dust Moiloonocol has given orders to his lieutenant,
Ufztal Kim', to give all possible aid to the rebels in
the event of the Ruanian. oxidating the other party.
The application of the Kurrachee Chamber of
Commerce for the establishment of a direct com-
munication between Suez and Kurrachee, and for
accelerating the mails between Bombay and the
latter place, has been rejected by the Secretary of
State fur India.

COM M ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CAIA;CITA, Jctr 5.
Aerviitles : Five.sorls,lialf per Ceot., I) to la
Five me C.K. 6to 6) dia. Four per Coot., 20 to Mil die.
F..sehoogo : Far elms at 6 months' sight, ?a. Ofd.
per ; Bombay, Rs. 90 (1 pie coot. dia.) Freight to
Lembo : Deadweight, X. 5. to 31. 10s. per tam ; jute,
:4/. ss. to M. 10s. per too ; seeds, M. 10s. pie loos.

MADRAS. JOLT 11.
44carittro Fivo.tol.a-HaN tor Cwt.. 111 le Zprunium ;
Fur pot Coot., 4 to 41 ditoottoll ; lour psi OWL, 181
doPoomot. Rsebabge : the Enka& kr dosemoist si
soouttoe sight, 21a. ON. pot It. TM& he Maenad :
Now, IL p.r too mike. X. 66. pre 6.a hilorell
liewormest) lens, 6 per =N. p alma Ikasymmirol
easy.