The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-15 00:00:00

TRANSIT OF TROOPS VIA EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 4.
The following is an extract from the letter of a
Nile tourist :

"A detachment of the 69th Regiment, under com-
mand of Colonel hlackirdye' arrived here on the Ist
instant from Plymouth by the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's ahip Sultan.
" The officers of the 69th Regiment visited Alex-
andria the same day, in uniform, and enlivened the
dinner party at our hotel, to which the boisterous
weather confined to. This detachment left for Suez
on the 2nd. Nemesis, a new steamer, arrived here
to-day, bringing, besides specie and passengers, one
officer and 25 men, Royal Engineers, from Malta,
en route to India. The second-class carriages accom-
modate 30 mespomfortably, the rail goes 190 miles
from Alexandril and 50 from Cairo, where vans are
in readiness to convey the men six in each van; the
distance from No. 12 station to Suez is 25 miles.
_

" Refreshments are given to officers and men before
crossing the Nile, anal again at No. 12 station, the
present rail-terminus in the Desert. It is expected
that the rails will be laid down to Suez in three or
four months. A military hospital is to be estab-
lished at once at Suez for the reception of tick on
outward and homeward route."

The following testimonial was presented to the
commander of the Sultan steamer by the non-com-
missioned officers of the 69th Regiment:
Steam-ship Sultan, Alexandria, Dec. 1.
We, the undersigned non-commissioned officers of the 69th
Regiment, conveyed from Plymouth to Alexandria per the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship Sultan, en route to India, overland, beg most
respectfully to tender our thanks to Captain Neil Cook, the
commander, and to Mr. Maier, the purser of that vessel, for
the kindness evinced by them to us during our passage.
The arrangements of theme gentlemen are so complete in pro-
moting the comfort of those on board, that we have no hesi-
tation whatever in stating that such are not surpassed in any
other oompany's verde ; the provisions are excellent and
sufficient, and properly cooked . end, in short, everything is
so complete that more could not be desiderated. We heartily
wish the company every succor, and sincerely hope that
Captain Cook and Mr. Meaer may long enjoy good health,
and that their conduct will always be as satisfactory to them-
selves as it has been to us in this instance.
Thoe. B. Creech, Sergeant-Major 69th Regiment ;
W. Kinselaw, Quartermaster-Sergeant 69th Regi-
ment; James Whitcrofl, Colour-Sergeant 69th
Regiment; W. Poole, Colour-Sergeant 69th Regi-
ment; Charlet Marin, Colour-Sergeant; John Sin-
gleton Toomey, Mses-Senteant 69th Regiment ;
T. Griffith, WS. 69th Regiment; John Fahey,
Paymaster-Sergeant 69th Regiment; John Smith,
Colour-Sergeant 69th Regiment ; Geo. Sutherland,
D. R. C. 69th Regiment.

A BIGGERS/Hp THAN THE LErIATHAN.—Already
a bigger ship than the Leviathan has been projected fn
England—a ship to which the monster will, herself, appear
as a minnow. And this new monster is of special importance
to the citizens of New York, for, although It is proposed to
make her 8000, tons larger than the Leviathan, she la to sail
fester and thew lam water. An engineer of Liverpool, named
Clare, has come forward with propositionfor building an
iron screw and paddle steam-ship, by way of testing a prin-
ciple, 'ready the superior of the Leviathan. His experiment
is lobe Pried on a scale of startling magnitude, and be has
already exhibited his models, which are attracting the atten-
tion of adantific mem in England. He propose to build •
ship 1,000 feat in length, 70 feet berm, and only 30 feet from
deck to keel, making her perfectly Ile-bottomed, and her
sides nearly square. in rim she would be 30,000 tons, and
yet so light would be her draught of water that she could
sexily eater our harbour by way of Bandy Hook. It b stated
that Yr. Clare's proposals have received encouraging con-
sideration from the English government, and, if the first
of the Leviathan should prove succeseftd, there will,
don be an attempt made at once to build another
monster ski_p according to his plans.—New York fiesta.
THE PLUNDERED INDIAN TREASURIER.— A
Segal contemporary has compiled a list of the treasuries
which have been plundered by the rebels during the progress
of the ineeserecdon in the North-West Provisoes, Dude and
Hie= and estimates the lees, in specie, to the state at ten
starling. The following is the lid:—Treasuries
illlundred in the North-West Provinore Anaheim& ARM
Allyghar, Ajmer, Azinaghur, Bandsh, Detail, Serially,
Dijnoret. littutthe, Hudson, Bhoolundshuhur, Cawnpore,
Delhi, Domob, Etawsh, Futtebpore, Farruckabad, Gotha-
pme, Goorgson, Maser, !turmoils-we, Hushingsbad, Jim*
Jumper*, Jubbulpore, Jaloun, Knmaon, Moradabad, Myn-
pooris, Maths, Mundiab, Mozuffurunger, Nimar, Nursing-
= Nemeth* PaneeW, bohtuck, Btharanpore, Bhajr
Our Semis, end &saga% Treasuries Plundered in
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Lucknow, ibeespors, ilyzebad, !name, Baraiteb.
Tremolos Plundered in Hogel: Debar, Shababad, Sing-
Moose Haroreebang, Laharduigab, Mannbhoom.

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