The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

MISSIONER.

Bombay journals of October 28 have been re-
ceived this morning.
Arrangements were in progress for the relinquish-
ment of office in January next of his Excellency
Sir George Clerk, Governor of Bombay.

The Governor-General was to leave Calcutta for
Allahabad and Agra on the 24th inst.
The Commander-in-Chief is forming his camp at
Jullundur, whence he will march to make his
military inspection of the Punjaub.
The Governor-General has officially notified that
all claims to prise money on account of booty cap-
tured at Delhi, Lucknow, and in Pegu, must be
submitted by the 31st December, 1861, after which
no claims will be received.

The Hon. Mr. Frere has returned from Bedas-
hewghnr, whither he went to meet the Governor
of Madras, on the subject of the transfer of North
Cann to the Bombay Presidency. Sir Win. Deni-
son (says the Bombay Saturday Review) in his in-
terview with the representative of the government
of Bombay, is understood to have stated that his
council is unanimously opposed to the transfer of
North Carters, and that he himself doss not feel
justified in running counter to the opinion of his
responsible and experienced colleagues.
Cholera is making fearful ravages in Cabool ;
the average mortality from this scourge is said to
be three hundred daily. Amongst its victims is
Sirdar Peer Mahomed Khan, brother of the Ameer
of Cabool.

Major A. H. Curtis, of the Bombay Staff
Corps, has been gazetted as Commanding Officer
of the Bombay Volunteer Rifles, vice Colonel G.
H. Roberts.

The government have granted 100 acres of land
in Umritsur to Mr. H. Cope for the purpose of
experiments on the cultivation of flax and rearing
of silk-worms.

Mr. Cecil Beadon will succeed Mr. J. P. Grant
in the government of Bengal.
By means of the electric telegraph we have ad-
vices from Calcutta to Oct. 25. Lord Canning has
published important resolutions regarding the abso-
lute sale of waste lands and the redemption of
land revenue. There is to be no reserve of special
rights to government on condition of clearance and
cultivation. The grants are not to exceed three
thousand acres. The price of unaseessed lands is
not to be above two and a half rupees ; lands free
from jungle not to be above five rupees. These
rates to rule for five years. Parties redeeming
land revenue will be entirely free to follow their
own course with land redeemed.

The Calcutta Eng/Watson, of October 17, says :

We have for this mail, and shall have for the sUcceediog
cue, absolutely nothing to report in say matters of com-
merce, for our annual holiday is upon as; all public
often, beaks, and commercial houses an closed,
and sio kiss. transactions ive possible for yet
another tea Jaye to come. The amounte from
up country are all full of rain, and nothing but rain—
that is, whet cur letters can reach us—for in malty plains
aommunicatioes ere so seriously interrupted se to reader
the arrival of the deka grit, a matter of hap-bawd. Here,
however, we mess to have mini nearly, if not quite, to
the end of the rains, and may look forward to the commoner

meet of the dry, tuid, a little later, the cold eseses.

PRUSSIA.

A Berlin letter, of Monday, says that the
Chamber is not to be asked for the expenses of the
late coronation. The King will pay them out of
his private purse, and for this purpose will effect •
loan of 2,000,000 thalers.