The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE INDIAN BUDGET.
(Ixurra's TELNAILAII.)
BOMBAY, MAT 12.
Mr. Laing introduced his budget in the Legis-
lative Council on the 27th of April. The army is
to be reduced to 200,000 men. The budget shows
a reduction of 3,600,0001. in the expenditure and
au increase of 2,000,0001. in the revenue. Mr.
Laing proposes to raise 500,0001. by taxation
through the local governments. These three opera-
tions balance the finances and leave • surplus of
250,0001. There is to be no new loan on account
of increased expenditure for public works. Local
legislative councils are to be established. The
import duties on cotton, yarn, and twist
are to be lowered to 5 per cent. The income
tax is pronounced to be a failure, and is to be
abandoned._ The license tax is to be withdrawn.

The Scinde Railway was opened to Kotree yes-
terday by commission.
The army amalgamation order has been pub-
lished, and received with intense hostility. The
European rank and tile volunteer freely. The
officers steal aloof.

An important official plan for the peaceable re-
tirement of 1,000 supernumerary officers has been
surreptitiously published in Calcutta. It will now
be hard for the plan to be adopted.
Oeneral Congrece died at Simla on the 29th of
April. Major Atkinson has died at Umbellah of
apoplexy. Captain Boddani, of the Bombay Engi-
neers, died on the 2nd inst.
_

It .is rumoured that the es-King of Oude is
dead.

The following telegrams were received M the
India-office yesterday :

INDIA.
CALCUTTA. MAY 8.
►ROM THR COMMANDIR,IN-CHIT.

The volunteering of the Bengal European army
for the line is most successful amongst the soldiers
of all arms ; it is almost universal.

The comuiandant and a large number of officers
of artillery have volunteered, and a sufficient
number of cavalry and infantry officers have volun-
teered for the six new regiments.
In the Bombay Presidency, volunteering for the
line is proceeding with equal success. Mr. Le.ing's
financial statement fur 1801.62 has given very ge-
neral satisfaction.
Bombay Castle, May 11.

CALCUTTA, Mir 11.

Some excitement has prevailed in the Southal
Pergunnahs, owing to preasurefrorn money-lenders;
the excitement was confined to one or two places,
but no outbreak. Some posts have been strength-
ened by the police as a precaution.
The pearls of Maharanee Chunda have been sent
to England, in charge of Captain Reudie (1), who
left in the steamer of the 9th inst.
Orders have been issued for the reduction of the
native army to 155 battalions, making a total
strength of about 110,000 of all ranks, showing a
reduction of 64,000 from all the Presidencies, and
a saving of one million darling.
Funds.—Fives at 4r. 4a. to 4r. Ba. die. ; Five-
and-a-Half at Ir. 4a. to Jr. Os. prem. Alexandria,
May 28 ; Malta, June 1, 1 a.m.—Laart prices :
Fives, die. ; Five-and-a-Half, Ito 11 prem.

ITALY.
TURIN, Jun 3, Ema.
On Sunday Count Cavour Fussed a restless night.
He was bled this evening for the sixth time, and is
now better.

His physicians declare his illness to be a very mild
form of typhus fever, without any alarming
symptoms.

ROME, Ma 29.
The fife of St. Philip Neri, the founder of the
Oratory and the patron saint of Rome, was made
the occasion for au extraordinary papal demonstra-
tion, with a view to get up a little popularity for
his Holiness, of which he stands greatly in need.
The famous state coach, built for Leon Xll.'s
coronatiou at • cost of 8,000/. sterling, which no
Pope has used for the last fifteen years, was fur-
bished up for the purpose of conveying Pius IX.
in state to the principal shrine of the saint. The
procession was altogether on a grand gala style,
and, pursuant to old but long disused etiquette, the
Popes cross-bearer rode before him ou a white
mule, richly capariaoned. Popular enthusiasm was
organised by the police, but so awkwardly, that
the artifice was transparent, and provoked general
laughter. Two brigades of agents, each about 40
strong, waylaid the procession at different points,
waved little white and yellow fags, cried " Viva
Pio Nono," and then ran forward to be ready to
do duty again. Among the masses, although there
was much curiosity to see the old coach
and the white mule, not the slightest political
feeling was manifested. It was at one time in-
tended that the coach should be drawn by the
populace, but General de Goyon requested that
this farce should not be performed, lest it should
provoke a counter-demonstration.
Apropos of Leon Xll.'s coach, its history is
curious. During the revolution of 1849 it was
brought out into the Piazza of the Capitol for the
purpose of being burnt, just as Louis Philippe's
throne was buret in Paris in 1848. But a by-
stander, who wished to save the carriage, rushed to
the church of Ara-Cwli, and brought away the
celebrated Seem Bambino—a wooden image of the
infantJeaus—which he threw into the vehicle, at
the same time telling the populaoe that the Bam-
bino would thenceforth be the owner of it. The
Roman mob, which, with all its revolutionary ten-
dencies, is highly conservative in the matter of
griven images, at once ratified this impromptu
livery of amain, mid decided that the Pope's coach
should be wad instead of a hackney carriage to
convey the Seer° Bambino to !Alvin women, for
their comfort and consolation. Since 1849 this
gorgeous carriage, with the Bambino in it, has
been frequently seen drawn up at the doors of the
most miserable houses in Rome.

It is probable that on June 2, the day fixed on
by Count Cavour for the great national Italian
fete, there will he no stir of any kind in Rome.
The French general (De (ioyon) having said that he
shall watch any manifestation on that day, the
people, with that wonderful pliancy which they
combine with perseverance, have resolved to cele-
brate the fi'lte on the 4th, which being the anniver-
sary of the battle of Magenta, gives them an excuse.