The Press. — 1854-04-15 (London, England)

INDIA AND CHINA. An overland mail has arrived, but leaving the mad behind at Malta, on account of the breakdown of the Indus steamer. Some Indian journals and newspaper correspondence have, however, been for. warded with dates from Calcutta to the oth March; Madras, 11th March ; Shanghai, 15th February ; Hong-Kong, 25th February; Singapore, 14th Match; Penang, sth March: Bombay, 14th March. The electric telegraph had been nearly eftbcted between Calcutta and Agra. Nearly 120 miles of the East Indian Railway, from Calcutta to Raneegunge, were almost completed. The carriages, •&c., for the line are not, however, expected to arrive from home before June. The other works on the line beyond Hooghly are said to be progressing favourably. The station of Umballa is, it is said, likely speedily to be abandoned, and LoCidhiatia occupied ha its stead, there being a great scarcity of water at the former place. A cases of trim. con., in which the Rev. Mr. Bellew was plaintiff, and the on. Mr. Eden defendant, has terminated in damages to the extent of 5001. being awarded. Mrs. Bellew was twenty-right years old, her seducer (or, as his counsel said, the seduced gentleman) being only twenty three. Another case of similar complexion is to come before the Bombay Supreme Court in Jnne, in which Mr. J. R. Harlow, one of the leading merchants, is plaintiff, and Captain J. W. Henry, military secretary to the late and present Governor, is the defendant. Damages have been laid at 10,0001. The trial of Quartermaster Gillespie, of her Majesty's 98th Regiment, for the wilful murder of his native servant, had commenced in Calcutta. Several seizures of goods being imported into Calcutta under false manifests. have been made. One German house thereby lost goods to the value of 5,000/. The accounts from Burmah are of the 15th of February. The dacoits were still active and troublesome, and a Burmese army was said to be marching towards Pegu. A party sent out under Major Allen to mark out the boundary near Tonghoo was attacked by the Burmese, and a detachment of the Ist Madras Fusiliers was despatched to punish the marauders, when Captain Geils and Lieutenant Grant, of that regiment, were wounded ; but the enemy were repulsed with great slaughter. The most important news contained in the Chinese papers is the opening of Japan to the trade of the world within the present year. Orders, it is said, have already been forwarded to Manchester for goods suited to the Japan markets. Shanghai remained in possession of the anti-Imperialists, and was likely to continue so. Amoy was in the hands of the Emperor's troops ; but it was believed that they would be driven from it before long. The import trade of Hong-Kong and Shanghai was dull. The exports in tea were considerable. 'IU j  THE Commissioners for the Affairs of India have appointed the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Ashburton, John Shaw Lefevre, Esq., C. 8., the Rev. Henry Melvin, 8.D., principal of Haileybury College, and the Rev. Benjamin Jotted, fellow► and tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, to be a committee for the purpose of considering the best means of carrying out the clauses of the Government of India Act of last session under which admission to the College of Haileybury will hereafter be open to competition.