The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-01 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received by express oar despatches in
antintpaties of the overland mail from India. The
dates are : Bombay Oct. 3, and Calcutta, Sept. 21.
The state of India is as satisfactory as could be
desired. Everywhere the most complete tranquillity
prevails, and even our unruly neighbours, the Abo-
des', have abstained from acts of violence.
The following is from the letter of oar correspon-
dent:
BOMBAY, Ocrr. 3.
The present mail is about as neweless a one as has
ever left eke shores of India—since the year 1838,
at any rate. Pates and quietness prevails through-
out the length and breadth of the land: even the Ni-
es= has become peacefully disposed; end the Affre-
, dees around Kohat have been inclined to do the
polite to their old antagonists—Captain Coke and his
irregulars, they having sent him word to evacuate
his post at Kohat by the 18th ult. (op to which
time he might do, without fear of molestation, we
presume), or they would pounce os him, and make
short work of him and his detachment. The polite-
ness of the offer cannot be denied, though the Mete-
dies mast, at the times of making it, have known it
would be rejected. It is probable that when the
Governor-General reaches Peshawar some arraogs.
meat will be entered on with these wild sons of the
mountains by which their fealty and friendship may
be secured at one-tenth the cost we are at present put
to to counteract their hostility. In this there would
be nothing degrading, while the saving of life would
be something to ne, putting monetary considerations
out of the question altogether.
Col. Hodgson, of the Ist Sikhl local infantry, is to
have the command of the ten corps—five infantry and
five cavalry—of the local force, with the allowances
of a second-class brigadier.—The excavation of the
Rechna Doab Canal is to be commenced on immedi-
ately. Upwards of three hundred and thirty
thousand pounds' worth of old coin—Namnk Shebat
rupees—is by this time on its way down to Bombay
to be re-coined. Heavy rain had fallen at and around
Waxeerabad about the middle of September, while a
drought prevailed over the north-west provinces of
India, where a sickly hot season is expected.
The 4th local infantry (llennis'e) expect to leave
Lahore for Leia, near Meehan, early in Oc-
tober.—lt is thought likely that Mr. Com-
missioner Pringle will remain some time longer in
Scinde,— and the natives, having heard thelrumour to
that effect, were everywhere rejoiced thereat. The
state of the Kurrachee Custom-house since the late
reduction (or rather breaking up) of the establish.
ment, at the head of which was Mr. John Mc Leod,
has given great dissatisfaction. H. M.'s Bth Foot
are to leave Kurrachee and Hydrabad for Dena in
November,—their place in Scinde being taken by the
83rd from Poona, whose place again is to be taken
by the 86th from Deem. The wings of the High-
landers at Aden and Bombay are to exchange
stations—head-quarters remaining at the former
place. The disputes betwixt Sir C. Napier
and the Governor-General are said to have
gone to such extreme lengths as to have compelled
the latter to complain to the home authorities,—who,
as a mark of their disapprobation of Sir Charles' con-
duct, are represented as having wished to refuse his
resignation, and in its stead issue a mandate for his
recall : from this they (the Indian home authorities)
are believed to have been deterred, from • wish not
to displease his Grace of Wellington, whose protjge
the hero of Meinee is believed to be. It is just poi-
slble there may be no foundation whatever for the
latter part of this story: the former portion is im-
plicitly believed in India.—The Niztoa is said to have
become reconciled to his minister.

The subjoined summary, from this morning'sl
Overland Times gives a brief outline of the events
of the pant uneven ful fortnight. The deaths in Bom-
bay during September were 1,002, of which only 135
were from cholera, and this pestilence may now be
said to be leaving the island.

The Governor General continues at Chief, in Renew=
till about the end of October, when he proceeds to Lahore
by Hoshistpore and Umritsir : thence to Puhawur, return-
ing to Simla about the 25th November. He will in the
course of the year have nearly swept the circle of the British
dominions in the east, He in January ttavelled from
Lahore by Mooltan and through Undo to Bom-
bay. He thence proceeded to Ceylon and Sin-
gsporii, returning to Calcutta by way of Penang
and Moulmein He continues in excellent health,
and is not lik-ly to leave us we imagine till hie term of
service ia completed. The Governor of Bombe, has just
gone to the hills for the restoration of his health, not
having yet got entirely round from the effects of the
attack of the 28th July. Sir Charles Napier beeves for
Eastland rice Calcotte, about the time the Marquis of
D Anomie returns to Simla. A magnificent ma
nument, subscribed for by his native admirers is just
being eonstructed to the memory of the late Rajah of
Sattarah, in the shape of a tunnel enabling traffic to pass
through a range of hills to the low country in place of
taking the circett of the ridge. It 1.200 feet in length, 22
in height, and 30 in width. From Zensibar we learn that
some Ftenahmen had arrived with a view of establishing
sugar mills in the territories of H. H. the Immure of
Muscat, but that the principal party, by unwisely sleeping
in the jungles, had caught fever and died. Govern-
ment are anxious to send an cape 'Won to explore
the N.W. portion of Africa from Berbera inland: Lieute-
nant Cruttettdeo, EN., has been offered charge, but de-
clined it. The captain of the ship Mary Florence, lost off
Cape Guardatui on the 23ed of June, having been sent to
Aden at the expense of government to see alter the
mate and the missing portion of his craw, proceeded
straight to England without making any inquiries
into the matter, though his wife was one of the
absent. She had been, as it turned out, drowned in
endeavouring to return to the ship. The conduct of
the captain is allowed on all hands to have been most
disgraceful ; his wi's are said to have been imoaired.—Major
General Barr, late in command of the southern division of
the Bombay army, has just reached Bombay, and returns to
Europa for good by the steamer of the 3rd of November,
having been tory-four years inlndis.—A Bengal commiagariat
contractor, lately charged with extensive frauds on go-
vernineat, fa about to sue the government for an out-
standing balance of a million and a third due on his Le-
trouts on the Affghen and Sikh wart The question as
to whether the Brengel line of railway is to be a doable
or a single one has been referred to the home authori-
ties the former having been shown impracticable it returns
are desired, the latter will, it is supposed, be conceded. The
cone ,et for the first section has been given to MOWS. Elms-
lie and Co., London, represented by the local firm of Ma-
melt, Barn and Co., builders, Calcutta. A letter of Mr.
Colleting Nicholson, secretary to the Loudon Board of
the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, published in the
London Tones, speaks of there being no intention to stop
railways till the sealed resources of India are opened up.
It takes five years to get thirty miles arranged for here,
and about as much more to have it constructed: how
long will it take to provide us with a thousand miles? The
Court refuse for the present to gusrantee more than half a
million, and capitalists refuse to stir witboat a guarantee ;
when the breaking of the soil will begin, remains to be
seen. Mr. Nicholson disputes the accuracy of the Bombay
prices current, he taking one view of the manner in which
quotations should be given, Bombay brokers another—they
sum at one on facts : —his unities on our misquotations
is ajuegle—his assertion that the Bombay Time, is the
organ of a disappointed party, iv a mis-statement. The
report current at the date of last despatch that Sir H.
Lurrenee had been taken prisoner by the Cashmere'',
proves wholly without foundation.—One event, says the
Cakutto Overkind Star,. though of importance to but a
section of the community, his occupied a good deal of public
attention and proved the cause of considerable discussions in
the jounsils of this presidency. We allude to the petition
made by the dissenters for a portion of the barisl-grounds
allotted by government for interment purposes. A spot so
' ludicrously small was granted, that the dissenters declined its
acceptance, and there us talk of purchasing some other as a
public cemetery, with a proprietary right as eh meholders
independent of all state intervention. Out of the tor-
uspondence on the subject has arisen a question
as to the title of dissenters to bury in ground consecrated by
a bishop of the established chinch. Oar prelate has even
gone so far as to menace undertakers who shall assist at any
funeral rites not performed by a clergyman of the establish-
neat !—showing that Mammonetlil bolds place in the hearts
of our pastors, because the whole thing turns on a dreaded
diminution of burial fees should the petition be counte-
nanced." The Settanee Joetabhase, of Baroda, has been
fully exculpated of all the charges brought against her,
and her mangos' has confessed his guilt. Her child,
proved to have been genuine, is acknowledged to
have been stolen, and believed to have been poisoned ;
sad now, if justice may be looked for anywhere in India,
might she, according to Hindu law and customs, to be per-
emitted to adopt another. What fresh sufferings or mortifi-
lotions may be in store for her, remains to be seen : her
heritage is too ample to permit us to suppose that justice
will be done herd her native friends can prevent it. All
eyes are turned to Colonel Ontram and the Bombay govern-
meat, as the arbiters of bee fate.—The rains are now all bat
over—the Elephants is impending. Oa this tido of Indio
they have been moat deficient, end severe privation is cep
prehended.—A discussion, which will appear at hems inn-
pier, is at present in progress amongst the newspapers
at Bombay. The copyright of the Bombay Times having
been sold for 7,5001. on Its having been shown that on an
investment of 2,8001. some 20,0001. had been received, as
esti profits within ten years, an attempt wee made to
lye , the sale by one of the proprietors of the Tele-
Inept mid Courier, who npresented that the editor of
the limes, during whose administration this had oc-
oarred, was about to leave for Europe. This hay-