The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-19 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received, at a late boar, our despatches in
anticipation of the Overland Mad from India. The
dates, as already announoed, are : Bombay, Sept. 17;
Calcutta, Sept. 7; Singapore, Sept. 2; and Hong.
Kong, Aug. 24.
We extract the following from the letter of our
correspondent:— _

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BOMBAY, Seer. 17.
The Hon. Mr. Tbontaaa, lieutenant-governor of
the Math-West Provinces, now at Simla, returns to
Agra, the meat of his government, by way of Rohil-
held j So that the Himalayas will soon be altogether
boated by the magnates of the land. Sir H. Pot.
Seger seems to be the only one of our great folk'
who likes his post best, as it is seldom ho ventures
fee from Madras. Sir G. Berkeley leaves Bangalore
fire Secunderabad and other stations on the 15th
maim*, and will probably be back at Madras by the
beginning or middle of December. Lord Falkland
gem to the Mahabuleshwar Hills in October, where
he remains till the end of December, when he returns
to Bombay. He has now almost recovered from his
late eerioae indisposition. Sir W. Cotton will be in
Bombay by the middle of next month. He will im-
mediately thereafter quit the command of the Bombay
army—the papers say for England, but I have beard
for Bengal, to assume command of the armies of
India, in succession to Sir C. Napier. Colonel Ske-
ane, Resident of Lucknow, shortly resigns. He will
be succeeded by Mr. IL Torrence, agent at Moot sheds-
bad for the governor-general, who will again be suc-
seeded by Colonel Warren, town-major at Fort
William. The deaths amongst the officers of the
army reported during the past fortnight are come-
roue. In addition to those given in this morn-
ing's Overland Times, I have to-day beard
of that of Lieutenant Procter, 21st Bombay N.L, at
Idoesurabad, on the Bth September. The caner of
the sadden death of Surgeon Ledingham, 83rd Foot,
ea the 14th, was disease of the heart. The Hon. Mr.
D. Bethune has given, or is about to give 10,000/,
towards the endowment of a native female school at
Gantt& ! What will the richnobles of England say to
donation of this nitinificenee, in such a cause P If the
hon. gentleman gets his money as easy ma a lord, he
at any rate bestows it like a prince.—The Simla fracas
has ended in the reprimand of Lieutenant Rose, for,
as Sir C. Napier says, not having " applied hie boasted
superior physical strength to the defence of hiss person
and his honour!" when thre-tened by Mr. Lang,
editor of the lllnfussilite se walloper, with a horse-
whipping. Lieutenant ROM had stated that Mr.
Lang bad been drunk at a ball, and drinking
" amongst the fiddlers." Mr. Lang called him a liar,
told him he would not give him the satiefection of a
gentleman, and that he would horsewhip him. Rose
seems to have applied for the protection of the
police, by a party of whom he was accordingly
escorted to the magistrate's court when binding over
Mr. Lto keep the peace ! For this unofficcr-like and
annan-like conduct, he was tried and found guilty,
sad justly so. Rose is said to be a big moo ; Lang
a wee bit body, whom Rose might put into his
breeches-pocket; but its na the body but the epeerit
within in men whilk make the man. Rose has lost
his staff birth and been remanded to his corps, and
serve him right. lint be is a young and a soft man,
and was most probably mit:advised in the affair.
Lang, I suspect, had better for the future keep out of
his way.—The results of the trials of the duellers and
their seconds, at Banda, have not yet transpired ; the
principals are believed to have been sentenced to dis-
missal from the service.—The survey of the Tankaria
end Baroda Railway by Mr. A. A. West, civil engi-
, neer, has been completed. It will cost nearly
150,0001. for the 42 miles, and the income derivable
from it will, it is estimated, give a dividend of 9 per
cent. Bombay Railway shares are changing hands at
13 per cent. discount. The first instalment of interest
from 17th August and 29th Dec., 1849 to 30th June,
,1850, has just been directed to be paid. The Calcutta
railway will, it is expected, be commenced on in
'November. Mr. John Torkingtoo, a railway con-
tractor, who has been here for some months for the
purpose. of estimating what he could contract for the
lane for, leaves for England by this evening's steamer.
—Fourteen of the crew of the barque AriadGe, wrecked
in the Bay of Bengal on the 6th or 7th August, have
reached Calcutta after enduriug for three weeks the
greatest suffering from hunger and thitst and fatigue.
The captain and several of the men have not been
heard of—it is feared they have perished.—Sir L.
Peel, Chief Justice at Calcutta, has been ill. He is
about to present a draft act to the legislative govel a-
ment to recompense those who have suffered from Sir
T. Tartan's defalcations out of the unclaimed estates
in possession of the Supreme Court.—The Maharajah
Dhulleep Singh has applied to be allowed to reside at
Futtyghur.—The French frigate Poursuivante has
been in dock since the 7th—she will be out again
by the end of the month.—The old merchantman Here-
fordshire has her officers, crew, and stores, on board,
and flies the tri-colour from the mainmast head, a
rather strange ensign for an English vessel. The
admiral and captain occupy the town residence of Mr.
Lumsde_ ,n secretary .to government. They are all
said to be favourites in society, as all naval strangers
of foreign rations always are here.— Commodore
Lnshington, comrnandet-in-chief, I. N., has been re-
ceiving a goodly share of abuse from the Telegraph
and Courier, and been strenuously defended in this
morning's Times. The gallant commodore not long
since (in July) discontinued the former paper, which
is alleged by his opponent to have been the moving
cause of all the obloquy attempted to be east on him!
—We have as yet:had only 47 inches of rain! Woe
betide the poor inhabitants; before May next there
will probably not be a mouthful of water procurable
on the island, unless dozens of other wells are sank.
Government will wait to see if any charitable rich
natives will relieve them of the expenses of the
If they do not, then the state must ; but they ;rill
likely not begin till March orApril !—During August
the deaths amounted to 1,366-350 of which were
from obolers.—Major-General D. Barr leaves Bel-
gium for Bombay today. His tour on the staff hes
expired, and he will, it is expected, shortly return to
England.— The lit Bombay_ Fusiliers have been
highly complimented by Sir W. Cotton at an inspec-
tion at Poona. A very talented young man, named
Deane, a private in the corps—who is said to have
contributed to Punch and a Scotch literary journel,
and from whose pen several prose pieces have ap.-
in a Bombay and a Poona yournal—was acci-
geentteally killed the other night by falling into a well
He was on the point of purchasing out of the army
and joining the Times in Bombay.—A rumour re-
velled at Delhi, on the 24th inst., that Sir H. Law-
rence, when on his way back from Cashmere, had been
captured by a tribe of independent mountaineers.
not far from Jima, but who do not own allegiance
to the Maharajah. If this be true, he must, of course,
pay a good round sum as ransom; that can be all they
want. Nothing of the event had however been heard
at Lahore, so it is most likely a mere idle gup ; it is to
be hoped se goat any rate—An uncovenanted service
bank is about to be formed at Lahore ; and the church-
going community are to have another clergyman al-
lowed them.—The force from Wuzerabad expect to be
removed from that station to Sealkote : the latter
consists of five companies 24th Foot, Baldwin's troop,
H. A., 63rd N. I, and head-quarters 6th Irregular
Cavalry, the former of the 21st, 32nd, and 34th N. L,
&s.—Another mutiny and more bloodaheed at Ryder-
abed ! Here are the particulars :
Hyderabad, Aug. 30.
Tetley before yesterday we had the nee:pasta end un-
used aceurrease of &mutiny suddenly braking out at Rum-
mel Ossrales, sad proceeding to the last extremity. It ap-
pears thanes two bands of linewsllabs under did eeeee cow
:sanders, be had dined two mouths' pay of four months'
Its to them la arrears; el the ressalaing two it is not cm-
tainlaxisois
knees he dermadel a remissise of them as
Meade a wee et weep while the Nino
ressamilisigsen bass, se telethon the payment was merely
etas isslausas aisqamd the proffer, what-
:Mt. sod estssmei Mii day; pars of the oth•T de-
aling
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paid la = s.
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shell ISO ad regimeat et Mkideds in the
mordleation
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vbe bed been diseharged het month by Shami-
ng Omsk fame to the deeellifilSdoll PIM to
rho PIIMMIt.n_ with Wm their cadre equipmests
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