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LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1857.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

resolution of the supreme authority. Troops, for
instance; could have beeu setit to China from
Madras with the greatest vase. The safety of Hong
Kong was endangeied iu. order to Lave re:ponsibi-
lity. Lord Dalhousie would have had 10,000 men
afloat within a month afcer the-requisition realhed
Calcutta. One • regiment, the telegraph inforths
has at last teen-sent, but a reginaent c.in do little
more than garrison H n.;:Koii.g. •
" We have- had another mutiny more serious
than the ltist. The men of the 10th Native Infantry,
at M .orshedabad, • •he,ird— of the' disp'tite about
the caltridga paper,.. By Nay of . expressing their
feelings trey held a parade on their own account with
their arms. The Colonel coin manaing remonstrated
with the native officers, wiso;--as u-nal, adhered
after a passive fashion, to their superi-ors. The men,
hoWever, w,Te.still.refraebory, and hp called out a
regiment of cavalry, and two guns. The two arms
in India'seldotn coaleSce, and thec tvalry are usually
as' trii-liworthy as marines on board ship. The men
wer-i then ordered to ground their arms and return
to their barrack.: They agreed if the Colonel would
send away -his cavalry. The Colonel appears to
have dreaded the responsibility of an armed con-
the`' 'and acceded to the conditions,. fir which he
has been rebuked. It.ivas Undoubtedly a serious
error of judgment, as it was-Almost impossible that
the infantry should have ventured to attack the
guns, and there were 2,000 Irregulars within
40 miles. I can r2adily imagine, however, that an
old.offlcer would from humanity alone be unwilling.
to see his min regiment citt'to,pieces. Terrible as
the necessity may be, however I question if the
.difficulty will. be overcome without one severe ex-
ample. This cartridge question is travelling north-
'ward, and will excite every Sepoy regiment in
India, until in some station a determined Brigadier
gives the men the
_option, of obedience or death.
There is on this subject no weakness either with
GoVernthent or am- ng the public. Every man
feels to the bottom of his heart- that the safety of
the empire binges on the instant suppression of
mutiny in whatever shape it niay appear. Some
punishment will; I doubt not, be meted out to this
regiment. ' The papers have a story that the King
of Oude is at the bottom of it all. I need not say
-this is absurd.

on the 4th inst., Which will be found ,bellw, al corn
pared with the statement of the 11th nit., inserted in
our last, shows an increase in the amount of cash from
rupees 70,97,726-12.5 to rupees 80,55,118-11.9, and a
decrease of loans on deposit of Goverome;,t securities
from rupees 170,74,089.8-6 to rupees 154,58,016-10-0.

INDIA-
On Saturday last we (Times) published 'a
tele-
graphic message from Trieste, in anticipation of the
Overland Mail. We have now re.:eivad our Indian
letters and papers by the Marseilles route. There
seem to be no advices from China by this arrival.
The following are cur correspondent' letters :
" BOMBAY, MARCH 19.
" The latest news that we have received from the
Persian Gtilf bears date the 25th of February.
When t' .e steamer which brought it left Bushire
prep-trations were making quietly but rapidly for
the despatch of a large portion of the force to attack
the Persian fortress of Mohamnaer th. This place is
situated on the right or northern bank of the river
Karoon, at the point where its waters join thoze of
the alreld'y united Euphrates and Tigris. Some 70
miles below, and by narrow and- difficult channels,
which however have been of late well surveyed, the
open sea of the Gulf is reached. Above Mohammerah
some 30 miles, and on the Euphrates, is the Turkish
town of Bussora h. Mohamm2rah, indeed, is afrontier
posy of Pcrsia, close upon the boundary line be-
tween the territories of the Shah and the Turkish
provinces of Arabia. Commanding, as it does, the
current of the Euphrates, the Persian force sta-
tioned there have been able to do us not little
damage by intercepting the supplies which our
commissariat officers at work among the Arab tribes
despatch down the river for conveyance to the
camp at Bushire. -Hence the resolution of
General Outram to attack and capture it while yet
'the remembrance of the rout at Khooshab is too
fresh in the minds of the Persian authbrities to
render an attack on Bushire probable. It is, ' more-
over, suegested as a motive for occupying fobam-
merah that, with the mouth of the Karoon thus
opened, an advance to Shuster and thence into the
interior of the country will. be • comparatively easy.
It is quite possible that this latter considerationhas.
had weight with the General, and that such an 'ad-
vance may be contemplated as an ulterior opera-
tion. But at present the question of siipplies is
the more pressing one to an army encamped in a
desert country, with a powerful enemy in its front ;
and the great Mesopotamian. highway as the prin-
cipal, almost the only, channel of such supplies,
must be cleared and kept clears For this purpose
Mohanomerah must be taken, and a sufficient force
left' in the place to prevent recapture. That done,
the remainder of the force must hurry back to its
camp at Bushire, to act on the offensive or defen-
sive as circumstances may require aga'nst the mass
of the Persian army that will have been by that
time got together to meet them.ni , . . .. •
“Tne defences of Mohamerah are reported as
formidable, and it is thought possible here that a
heavy loss on the side of the assailants will be at-
tendant upon their eapture.'ty the latest accounts
they were manned by 14,000 Persian troops, with
14 guns, some of whom were stationed in the forti-
fied town itself, the rest strongly intrenched in a
date grove outside. The town "will be assailed from
the river by the steamers, the Semiramis leading.
But the in•retichments in the date grove are not, I
believe, acces-ible by .the guns of the fleet, and
must be assaulted by the troops oti shore. The
portion of the force destined for this service, and of
which the embarkation at Bushire had commenced
at the date of the latest letters, consists of the 3d
troop of Horse Artillery, Captain Aitken's field-
battery (sent straight up to the.river's mouth with-
out being landed at Bushire), and, I believe, the
whole or the greater 'D'art of the follosing corps :
the 64th, 7Blh Highlanders, 2d Europeans, 4th
Rifles, 30th and 26th Native liifantry, and the
Light Battalion, with some Sappers and Miners.
Several regiments will-leave a company or compa-
nies in the camp, and there also remain behind
the 2d Beloochees,, the 23dNative Infantry, and
'the whole of the cavalry. When Mohammerah
shall have fallen Brigadier Hall will, I believe,
be placed in command of the fortress with the
two naive regiments forming his brigade, and
the rest of the troops will, as l have intimated
above, .be reconVeyed to Bu. hire with all speed.
At Burazjoon the site of the 'old camp, from which
they were frightened away at the sudden approach
of the English the day before the battle Of Khoo-
slab, the Persia/18 are again collecting in force.
Probably theGenetal will not be able to repeat the
blow that he so successfully dealt on the previous
occasion without a large accession of strength, which
he may await within his intrenchments undisquieted
while his communications by sea and river with
Turkish Arabia are recure.

LIABILITIES.
Proprietors' capital 407,00,000 0 0
Reserve fund
Current accounts 59,25,474 10 5
Cash credits undramn
Other claims ' 91,967 10 11.
Bank-notes and post-bills

Total
Co.'s rs. 3,41,39,86 I 8 0
. • ASSETS.

Government securities
Dues from Government 68,-99 15 :1
Mint Certificates, undue
Cash , 80,55,118 11 9
Loans on deposit of securities
Accounts of credit .on ditto
Government bills discOunted ..., 37,60,327 0 0
Mercantile bills, ditto " 10,83,685 3 5
Mad stock, ditto, 1,79,615 4 10

Total Co.'s rs. 3,41,39,864 8 0

Shares.—A. downward - tendency in the value of. one
or two joint-stock companies' shares has led to' some
sales. Bank of Bengal shares are little inquired after
and slightly lower. Bengal Coal shares have further de
clined; the last sale having been effected at 1;100r.
eael. In others we have not bad much doing.
Government. Securities—The improved aspect' of the
money-mark-t has given more confidence to the dealers,
and, added. to the reduction of the Bank of Bengal rates,
the value-of the Four per Cents. had tradually crept up.
We now quote Company's Fours at 16r. Ba. to 16r. 2a.,
and Sicca Fours at 18r. to 18r. 8a Little doing in Fives
at 8 annas per cent. discount. Stock Receipts nomi-
nally at 15 per cent. discount. •
Exchange.—On London—For the present mail the
market opened at 23 2:1,e1 for bills of the Oriental and
other banks at &menthe! sight, and 2s 2 5-16 d. to 2s
2d for first-claSs credits at like sight, and ruled steadily
throughout at those figures ; while some bills for Akyab
account sold.as high. as 2s. pia., and in some instances
even at 2s. 21d. Bank bills at three months' sighthave
sold at 2s. 2d,to 2s 2htf. per rupee.
On China—The rates • have crept up slowly, the last
transaction having been done at 211 r. per $lOO.
On Manritius—We quote 53i cents per rupee, and on
Bombay 30 days' sight papers 2 per cent. •
Freights—Tonnage to a fair extent had been taken up
for London and Liverpool at almost the same rates as
those quoted in our last—i.e., 31. 15sjor the former and
31. 7s 6d for the latter place, cargo consisting' of rice,
seeds, and light goods in equal proportions ; but the ar-
rivals being numerous, it was expected .the market
would role lower. The receipt, however,. of orders from
-China by the Fiery Cross and Lightning on the 21 in-
stant for large shipments of rice caused much excitement,
and tonnage to the extent of 13,000 tons was taken up
at °nee for:that country at $1 a hag, a small quantity
only having been engaged at a slightly lower rate. The
ships taken up to load with rice, we understand, are.the
Acastus, the Good Hope, the Albion, the Bengal, the
Coringa, the Crescent, the City, the Bushire Merchant,
the Hanover, the Ariadne, the Rienzi, the Clasmerdon,
and the Swartbniore, to convey in all about 170,000
bags. One or two vesseli are loading for Australia, hav-
ing come under charter from that country. For America
the rate continues at $lO a ton, although many of the
ships now in our harbour have been chartered there and
sent out at 141. to 151. a ton. The Conrad, now under
repairs, is engaged to load with a cargO of timber for
Great Britain. The American ship Ocean Rover has
been taken un for Havre at 31. 12s 6d to carry rice only.
The ships Affaredy. Puguescin, Himalaya,.and Lafay-
"ette are fixed for France. The Jules and Aslai, for
Bombay, at 15r, per ton. For , the ,Mauritius a
,fair
amount of business was done at Ir. 4a. to Ir. 5.1. 6p. per
bag ; but the last two days the market bas assumed as
upward tendency, and.some business has been done at
Ir. Ba, per bag. It is expected emigration to the Man-
rains will soon be resumed.

" A at, ange and to some observers a very dis-
agreeable incident has -occurred in, the North-
west. '`'A few days since a chowkeydar, or vil7
lage policeman,- of Cawnpore ran up to an-
other in Futteghur and, gave him two chupat-
.6eS. • These - are indigestible little unleavened
cakes, the common food of the poorer classes.
He ordered him to maks ten more, and give
two to each of the five nearest •chowkeydars
with the same order. He was obeyed, and in a few
hours the whole country waz in commotion with
chowkeydars running about with these cakes. The
wave swept province af:er provitae3 with a speed at
which official orders never fly. The magistrates
were poWerless, and-the chupatties at this moment
are flying westward. Nol-ndy has the least idea,
whit it all means. • Some officers fancy it is.a cere-
mony intended to avert the cholera ; others hint
at-treason—a view encouraged by the native offi-
cials ; others talk of it as a trifle—a joke. For
myself, I believe it to be the act of some wealthy
fool in pursuance of a vow ; but its significance is
this':—There are some' 90,000 policemen in these
provinces. If they should perchance' imbibe dan-
gerous ideas, how perfect is their organisation.
"The annual reports contain, among other in-
formation, an account of the progress of Pegs. The
province is becoming prosperous., The people haVe
got rid of their notion that we were about to aban-.

The office of Director of the Topographical and
Statistical Depot of the War Department, vacant by
the demise of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Rust
Jervis, is not yet filled up. The deceased was edu-
cated at Addiscomb6, and after obt-tining the
highest honours at that military seminary of the
East India Company ly) was appointed to the Bom-
bay Engineers, with which service he was con-
nected until his retirement in November, 1854.
He was greatly distinguished for his geographical
knowledge and for his proficiency in Oriental lan-
guages, as well as being an accomplished European
linguist. Lieutenant-Colonel Jervis was a Fellovr
of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Linnean So-
ciety, Fellow of the Geographical, and Fellow cf
the Royal Asiatic Society, as well as a member of
other learned institutions on the continent

don the country, and are settling steadily to culti-
vation. The burmest, Karens, and Shans are
thronging into: the northern districts and the area
of cultivation has.iucreased by 135,060 acres in one
year. The export of rice has risen to 126.000 tons
more than the usual export of Calcutta. The trade,
which has sprung from nothing, has reached two
millions sterling. The revejue is 30 lakhs of rupees
(300,0001.), and the experitliture-not 20. There is

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 13.

WESTMINSTER..—EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE
07 ABDUCTION, AND RAPE. --ROSa Bush; a servant,
21 years of age, and George Richard Clarke, aged
35, a foreman of bricklayers, deicribed as a Married
man, with.a family, were placed at the bar, charg-
ed with the abduction and rape of -Elizabeth Harris,
a very pretty and innocent-looking girl, not yet 14,
although apparently older, the daughter of 'an
opulent Jew Wesman :and clothier, carrying on
business at 30, Jaines-street, Buckingham-gate.
Mr. .Bleigh, barriSter, conducted the prosecution
on behalf of the Associate Institute for the Pro
tectiou of Women, and, in his opening, stated
that, accordiriff to h's instructions, a more
atrocious case of abduction and rape was never
brought before a court of justice. He then. went
into a brief statement of the facts as afterwards
proved in evidence, and dwelt with much feeling
upon the pain, 'anxiety, and anguish experienced
by the parents of, the girl at the calamity brought
upon her by the heartless and infamous conduct of
the prisoners.
Elizabeth Harris sworn—l am 14 the Ist of next
August. I first saw . the male prisoner some
months ago; he was employed at some new build.
inga near our house. He often talked to my
father at the door, and • sometimes spoke to me of
an evening at the shop when I was alone. The
female prisoner, Rosa, was our servant. On the
30th of March she asked me to go, with her for a
walk, and to see Mr. Clarke on the way. She first
took me to Kensington Barrack, where thought
he was at work, but we 'did 'not find hint, and I
then accompanied her to a house somewhere near
Notting-hill. A little girl opened the door, and
Rosa then took me up stairs to a back room on the
second floor. It was about nine 'o'clock at night
'when we arrived there. We bad 'been walking
about from three' in the afternoon—the time at
which flat my parents' house. There was a bed
in the room and we stayed there all night. I
wanted to go home, but Rosa would not let me.
wanted t ) go hOme the next morning, but she
still prevented me. In the course of that day'
(Tuesday) the prisoner Clarke came to the house.
Rosa had written a letter, as she told me, to him
to come. He came into the room about two or
three in the afternoon, and remained until nearly
.six on the following morning. I don't recollect
that he said anything. He taked a great deal to
Rosa. I asked him, when it came night-time,
whether he was going home, but he gave me no
answer. While be was there I again spoke to Rosa
about wanting to go home to my parents. I did
so more than once, but she told ine not to bother
her. We had something to eat. ' Clarke gave her
the money to fetch it. He went to bed in the room
between nine and ten o'clock. I was sitting on the
carpet near the fire at the time. 'He undressed
himself, but I did not see him undress. Rosa was
sitting with me on the carpet near-the fire. He
wanted' me to get into bed before he undressed, but
I refused. lie said "Betsy, get into bed ;" but
I would not. He did not before he was undress,d
pnt his hands upon me. He repeated his request,
while he was in bed, but I would not go.• Atter he
had said, " 'Betsy, come to bed," a great 'many
times, and I would not, he made me come to the
bedside. . He. did not get out of bed ; but he called
me to him, and I went to speak to him. Wiien I
went to the bedside; what he said to me, after again
asking me to come to bed, was, "That it would not
matter, because we should be married next week."
He did not at any other time talk about our being
married. I again replied that I -would not go to bed,
but he said I must. All this occupied about halt
an hour; and while I was by the bedside I called
to Rosa, but she would not answer. I called seve-
ral
times. He got me into bed. I was dressed.
I fell asleep at the side of the bed. I don't know
how I got on the bed in the first instance. I had
not been standing, but sitting on a chair, at the
side of the bed. I "don't know bow I got into the
bed. My first knowledge of being there was find-
ing him against me. I had not drank anything
that afternoon but tea. I had‘had nothing at all
else that day to drink. When I found myself in
bed my clothes were not on ; they had, been taken
off ; there was no light in the room ; thmre was no
fire there. Rosa was asleep on the carpet. I called
to her, but she did not answer. When I called
Rosa be spoke to me, and told me not to make a
noise. Witness here went on minutely to; describe
the capital offence charged, and added, I struggled,
and still kept calling out "'Rosa," but I obtained
no answer. I tried to get out of bed, but lie would
not let me. I. pulled him by the hair and arms,
but I could not get away from him. He held me
so that.l should not call; he held my mouth; he
put his hand over my_ mouth FO that I should not
call. Next morning he got up and went to his
work. Rosa was still lying on the carpet. I told
R•sa when she woke what had happened to me, and
she told me it was nomatter as I was going to be mar-
ried on Sunday. I cried, and told her I could not go
home after what had occurred. She said it was no
matter, I could see- my parents before I left Eng-
land. Clarke and Rosa bad told me that we were
going abroad to America directly after we were mar-
ried. He said he was going abroad when I 'was
sitting at his bedside. I afterwards asked 'Rosa
why she bad brought me there, when she replied,
" Because Clarke wanted to get married and go
away." I stayed at the house till Saturday. So
did Rosa. Clarke came again on Thursday after-
noon, but nothing improper then occurred. My
mother and a friend came on Saturday and fetched
me Wale, Clarke had fluor taken Any liberties

now no doubt, . even . ainong the opponents of an-
nexation, that Pegu in 20 years Will pay a revenue
such as in Asia is obtainable only from these rich
deltas. Great efforts are being made to introduce su-

An order has been received at Chatham by Col.
H. Jervis' Commandant of the Provisional Batta-
lion, direetif.g the depot of the 37th Regiment, on,)
of the colonial corps, to be held iu readiness to pro-
ceed to Chichester, for the purpose of joining tbcs
depot battalions under the comMand of Colonel C.
Elmhirst. The service companies of the 37th Re-
giment are now in Ceylon, that regiment having
left England in 1846.
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perior cotton, but I havenoanfidence in them. - A
native does not want to be told to-groW cotton. He
willgrow anything that will pay, and increase cultiva-

tionto any extent the momlnithe price rises. The
demand for jute doubled last year, and was provided
by the cultivators at once. It pa,d, and the native
prejudices" we are so fond of talking about never
sttind. in the way of their interest. I saw a Parsee,
a Brahmin, a Mehter (scavenger), and an English-
man all sitting on the same seat iu the railway the
other day, and all 'profoundly indifferent to the
outrage on their respective superstitions.

The Scorpion, 6, surveyingvessel, Master-Corn-
rnanding J. Parsons, Irons the West Itt dia station, has
been dismantled and stripped at Chatham, and ht.r
stores removed into the dockyard. She is intended
to be paid off into ordinary on Friday next.
Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenharn, C. 8., who,
it will be recollected, was Adjutant• General during
the Fitter part of the war in the Crimea, and who
has been appointed in the ssme capacity *to the
Military Expedition destined to act against China,
has departed for Hong Kong. Col. Wetherell, C. 8.,
.Quartermaster-General, also left for the seat of war
a few days back. Both officers were to have em-
barked at Marseilles on Sunday for Alexandria.
Two troops of the military train, recently arrived
at Woolwich from the -Curragh, under or lers for
China, were yesterday morning exercised at the long
range in the Arsenal-marsh, in a series of 3-pounds r
battery practice. The two remaining troops of the
corps at Woolwich were assembled on the Royal
Artillery-parade, and went through a course of car-
bine drill, under the direction of non-commissioned
officers of the Artillery. The whole of the Royal
Marine battalions were yesterday morning drawn
up in the barrack-square at head-quarters in dis-
tinct companies, and having been inspected by the
commandant, Colonel Brown, they were marched
to Woolwich-common, and were put through the
manceuvres of a field day's inspection. The troop-
ships Neleus and Mooresfort, at Woolwich, wero
yesterday morning officially surveyed prior to th
embarkation of the four companies of artillery f r
China. The vessels were pronounced well adapted
for the purpose, and have been engaged by Govern-
ment for six months certain, at the rate of 20s. per
ton monthly ; consequently, the Mooresfort, Capt.
Coulthurst, of 1,200 tons burden, is hired at 1,2001.
per mouth. She is fitted for the accommodation
14 officers, 280 rank and file, and six other passen-
gers, and is to carry abotit 300 tons of baggage,
brass guns,' and other war stores.
The Leaven and Slaney, gun-boats of the same
class as the Lee and Algerine, are now nearly com-
pleted, and will leave Woolwich during the present
week. The four vessels named are of intermediate
size, between the larger class of gunboats pre-
viously constructed and the smallest class of de-
spatch vessels. They will be found extremely use-
ful in shallow water, and several of the same class,
intended for the Chinese seivice, are now bui'ding
at private yards.
The Galatea, screw steam corvette, which was
commenced about twenty months since, is now in a
forward state. Her keel has been laid down, and
her ribs are nearly completed.
The gunboat Algerine, under orders for China,
having been adjusted at Greenhithe, came up to
Woolwich, and proceeded yesterday morning thence
for Plymouth. The Lee, Woodcock, and Watch,
ful, gunboats, having completed their arrangernen s
sailed yesterday from Woolwich for Green-
hithe,
to regulate compasses,gerine at Plymouth, whither
sea,
they are ordered,
prior to their departure for the voyage.
The Transport .Board, estaVisued for the late
war, was abolished on the 31st ult , but the duties
of the department will be carried on by Captain
William Drew, of the Trinity Board, who is still
retained as " Director of Tran..torts."
The following appointments were mode at the Adm.
ralty yesterday afternoon :
Mate-.T. W. Simeon to the Cordelia.
Surgeons—Dr. J. W. Reid (B) to the Belleisle ;
John E. Hamilton, to the Vestlvius.
Staff-Surgeon—Dr. Alex. Armstrong, to the Belleisle.
Assistant-Surgeons—John Little, to the Belleisle ;
C. H. Slaughter (acting), to ditto ; R. L. B. Reid (act.
lug), to the Vesuvius.
Medical Inspector—Dr. Alex. M‘Sechnie; to
,the
Belleisle.

"But where at the present moment we are to
look for reinforcements on any large scale it is by
no means easy to . say. The army of the Western
Presidency has done much, but it was thought that
if aided in some of its stations by troops from Ben-
gal or Madras it might do a little more yet. The
3d Europeans, a lately raised regiment which has
never yet.seen service, is lying at Poonah. It lately
received orders to march to Bombay, for embarxa-
tion, and was already on the way when an officer of
the Quartermaster- General's Department was sent
up in hot haste with counter orders, and the corps
returned to its cantonments. It appears that the
Ist Madras Fusiliers; who were to have replaced
their Bombay brethren at Poonah, could not, it-
was thought by the Madras authorities, be spared
from their own Presidency. And without being re-
placed the Bombay regiment could not well be re-
moved, for its withdrawal would not leave a single
European infantry corps in the Presidency lower
than Deesa in the north, with the exception of the
wing of the 36th stationed in Bombay. We are
sending, then, no more European infantry from
Bombay, though the 14th Light Dragoons are gone,
or going, their last squadron leaving the harbour
to-morrow. Their place is partly supplied by a
wing of the 12th Lancers, of whom part have ar-
rived from Madras, and others are daily expected.
In such another affair as that of Khooshab the
14th will have ample field to add amp her to
their many laurels. The charge cif the 3d Cavalry
on that occasion, of which I wrote in my last, has
called forth the admiration of a Bengal officer, who
cites it in proof of what horsemen, well led, can do
against infantry. . After describing the formation
of the Persian square as excellent, steady, and un-
touched by artillery, he proceeds (in a letter to a
Calcutta paper), with so vivid a description of the
charge—of which he had merely heard from eye-
witnesses, not seen himself—that I am tempted to
extract it :

CONIMEACIAL INTELLIGENCE.

REPORT OF THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKET FROM

THE STH TO THE 18TH OF MARCH.
(From the Bombay Times )
The overland mail from London of the 10th of Feb.,
per Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Ganges, reached. Bombay on the morning of the 9th inst,
Our money market during the past fortnight has be-
come very much easier, and the banks in consequence
have reduced their rates of interest 1 per cent. all round,
and the rates now rule from 7 to 9 per cent., but money
is obtainable under these rates in tie bazaar.

We have to report a further rise in Four per Cent.
paper, which we noN (pot° 84, and Fives par. Our
local stocks to some extent have also improved in value.

IMPORTS.

Cotton Piece Goods.—Since the despatch of last mail
very little business has been transacted in our market,
owing to the intervention of the Holee holidays, which
caused all doing to be suspended for a week. The mar-
ket remains firm at last quotations.

Fancy G-oods.—The market has been dull, except for
articles of low qualities.
Cotton Yarns.—This article is dull, and no sales have
been effected, with the exception of 100 bales. The
market, however, is soon expected to resume an active
appearance.
Metals.—An improvement has taken place in all de-
scriptions except Swedish bar iron. We quote. British
bar at 351 r. to 36r., and Swedi h bar at 60r. to 65r. per
candy. ,Spelter is in good demand, as also pig lead, of
which latter the stock is very light.

" 6 When Forbes, who commanded this regiment, gave
the order to charge, he and his adjutant, young Moore,
placed themselves in front of the 6th troop, which was
the one directly opposite the nearest face of the square.
The other Moore, Malcolmson, and Spens came the least
thing behind, riding knee to knee, with spurs in their
horses' flanks, as if racing after a hog. In rear of them
rushed the dark troopers of the 3J, mad to avenge the
death of poor Malet at Bushire. In spite of steel, fire,
and bullets they tore down upon the nearest face of the
devoted square. As they approached, Forbes was shc.t
through the thigh, and Spen s horse was wounded, but
unheeding they swept onward. Demoted by the flashes
and the fire and the noise and crackle of the musketry,
the younger Moore's horse swerved as they came up.
Dropping his sword from his hand and letting it hang
by the knot at his wrist, he caught up the reins in both
hands, screwed his bead straight, and then coolly, as if
riding at a fence, leapt him at the square. If, therefore,
any man, can be said to have been first, the younger
Moore is that man. Of course the horse fell stone dead
upon bayonets ; so did his brother's, ridden with equal
courage and determination. The elder Moore-18 stone
in weight, and aft. Tin. or thereabOuts in height—cut his
1 way out on foot, Malcolmson took one foot out of his
stirrup when he saw his brother officer down and un-
armed (for his sword had been broken to pieces by the
fall), and, holding on to that, the younger Moore escaped.
The barrier once broken, and the entrance once made,
in and through it poured the avenging troopers.
Oa and over everything they rode, till, getting
clear out, they reformed on the other side—wheeled
and swept back—a second wave of ruin. • Out of 500
Persian soldiers of the Ist Regular Regiment of Fars,
who composed that fated square, only 20 escaped to tell
the tale of its destruction. Thus the 3d Light Cavalry,
to use their own phrase, gave our enemies a jewab
(answer) for the death of Malet Sakib Babadur.'
" We have no local news of importance.
" Money is plentiful, and the banks have reduced
their rates of discount a further one per cent.
" Exchange on England, 2s. lid.'
" CALCUTTA, MARCH 8.
"I have little to tell you of the war beyond this :
—The Sdindian recently stated that a force had
been ordered to rendezvous at Shikarpore, on its
way to Quetta. The names of the regiments were
given with a most circumstantial minuteness, and
tor a moment the statement was believed. The
Seim dian,.for reasons well understood on the spot,
has excellent information, and rarely publishes an
erroneous report. In this ca-e, however, he has
been misinformed. I am positively assured that
no such orders have been issued. The Government
of India maintains a rigid and most injurious
secrecy in regard to all the operations of the war.
The frank policy of Lord Dalhousie has been aban-
doned, and the smallest facts are concealed as care-
fully as if the Persian Court were in communication'
with the Indian press. This mystification is a
symptom of the weakness beginning to be felt in
every department of Government. There is a want
of courage, or, if you will, of audacity, in every

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUEGEONS.—The following gen.
tlemen having undergone thenecespary examinations for
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 6th inst.
Messrs. William Garlick, Leeds ; Richard Westropp
Saunders, Tinto ; Nathaniel Stevenson, Bayswater ;
Thomas Edwin Edwards, St. Mary's Hospital, Padding.
ton ; Whatly Barrette, Bath ; Thomas Ruttledge, Lon-
don Hospital ; George Evan Farr, Woolwich ; Joseph
Knutsford ;
eCo hcAi lcur f I Middleham ; George
saac William Pauli, Ox.
Fisher, Manchester; George Brown Payne,
BGaetoer,gensEindotouotand.soTpti,
ford ; Henry ivans, Blaenant ; Joseph John Pope,
Mornington-crescent; and David Michael, Swallow; •
APOTIIECARIEW-TIALL.—The following are the names
of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
!science and practice of medicine and received ceriificaten
ta practice on Thursday, the 4th April :—Frederick
ARobson, Peninsular and Oriental
be
Companyrcrcim,: i e
ServicHopee
; Thomas James Woodhouse ; Her.
bert James, Merthyr Tydfil ; Robert Benson Lewis,
Bradford, York ; Henry Skaife, Easingwold, York ;
George Edmundson, Cockcroft, Middleham, York;
William Wittman Thompsor, 13agnor, Sussex; John
Masters, jun., Ilminster ; William Slocombe Grainger,
Bradford Abbote, near Sherborne ; Henry John
Edwards, Bampton, Devon.

The next vacancy among ilie "Active" flag officers
will occasion the promotion-of Captain M'Dougall,
the Superintendent of Packets at Southampton.
This officer has also a good service pension. Next
to Captain M'Dougall, Captain Michael Quin will
be promoted, thereby placing three good service
pensions at the disposal of Sir Charles Wood—viZ.,
those of Captains Lapidge, Slaughter, and Quin.
The Transit iron steam troopship, Commander
Ennis Chambers, having reshipped her provisio•is
and stores, re-embarked her troops from the Berne-
rophon hulk yesterday morning, and will drop out
of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead this morning
to reship her ammunition, and if the weather is
favourable she wilt weigh and proceed /o China.
The opinion of tbe Lords of the Admiralty on the
evidence furnished by the Court of Inquiry, held on
Good Friday, was promulgated on board yesterday,
and acquits the commander and master from all 1
blame in the accident which has caused the ship's •
detention. •
Cordelia, 11, screw, commissioned at Devonport
by Co,nmander Vernon on Saturday, is to have, a
complement of officers anct men.
Surprise, 4, screw dispatch vessel, Commander •
Ciesswell, was paid wages on Saturday, and was to
have sailed from Devonport yesterd ty for China,
but was prevented by the boisterOus state of the
weather.
The Himalaya iron steam troopship, Commander
Haswell, hauled alongside Portsmouth dockyard
jetty yesterday, in readiness to embark her troops
for China to-morrow.
We have received letters from our Malta corre-
spondent to the 9th April. The movements of ships '
of war are limited-to the departure on the 31st of
-March fur Messina, and r,tirrii otitho Ch April, of
H.M. steam gunboat Osprey H. M. steam frigate
Centaur left on the 4th for Palermo to relieve the
Malacca, ordered to England, which latter arrived
at Malta on the Bth, last from Messina. The steam
corvette Desperate left on the sth for the coast of •
Syria. 'The ships of war in Malta harbour were
under orders to leave on the 13th of April for the
eastward, to meet the squadron under Admiral
Lord Lyons, who will, it is stated, reach Mal. a
about the 21st, and remain at Malta for not more
than a month, when most of the vessels will be de-
spatched to England to be paid off. H.M. steam
corvettes Sphynx, on her way to Eng!a,nd from
Malta, has on board a beautiful piece of brass ord-
nance of about 201 b. calibre, of peculiar workman-
ship, the carriage being most exquisitely carved, as
a present from the Sultan to her Majesty Queen Vic-
toria. The Peniusular and Oriental Company's steam-
packet Perla arrived from Southampton on the 28th
March. The Euxine, belonging to the same company,
arrived from Marseilles on the 31st ult. The Pet a,
and Euxine left on the 31st for Alexandria. Th 9
.lEtna • steamer arrived from Alexandria on the
29th of March, and left for Southampton ou the
same day without the mail by the Oneida, front
Australia, which vessel had not reached Suez. Tile
Jura, with the mails by the Simla, arrived front ,
Alexandria on the .31st. The Minna screw steamer
arrived from London and Gibraltar on the 2d,
bringing Major Savage, wife, and son ; Lientenants
Bond and Thomas; Ensigns Allen and Burke ;
138 non-commissioned officers and privates, eight
•
women, and eight children, who left in her
Corfu on the 3d with Lieut. Hall, who embarked
at Malta.
.From Corfu the Mime, will proceed to
Odessa.