The Express. — 1861-05-06 (London, England)

INDIA.  THE BOMBAY MAIL.  By the arrival of the overland mail we have advicee and papers from Bombay to April 12, and from Calcutta to April 3. We extract the following summary of news from the Bombay Gazette : India is quiet ; and the best interests of the empire are in a state of ptugror. The great evil, with which the material welfare of a large portion of the people of the land has co long been premed remains unabated. The famine still prevails and extends.' The distress has not yet come to the worst. The European resources have been nearly exhausted, while the wealthy natives, as a class, have as yet lamentably failed in their natural duty towards their famishing fellow. countrymen. There has been a pretty general fall of rain in the North West.  The Indian penal code which was to h►ve come into operation next mouth has been postponed until next January. Everything is settled in Sikkim, and the troops were expected back by the end of last month. The country is still kept in ignorance of the details of the amalgamation scheme, except as these are revealed in the radical changes which are very gradually and cautiously being made in the military service. The committee's report went home by the last Calcutta mail. The branch of the public service which is tremblin_g most in view of its apprehended fate ie the India navy. The service is considered doomed : and as suspicions are like bats which fly in the dark, all aorta of rumours are afloat as to its pro. bible fate.  One of the /Own family of state prisoners, Prince Bootoobudeen, was most barbarously and brutally murdered on Sunday evening. the 31st ult., at hi house, in Gartien.reach, Calcutta. The Englishman states that the murdered man was in the habit of sleeping on a charpoy in the north-east comer of his verandah, whichts on the north side of the home. Two bearers slept a short distance in the nine verandah, and the moonshee in the room immediately below. At about eleven o'clock, Inspector Wanton was informed by one of these bearers that the Prince bad bad a fit of apoplexy, and was bleeding profusely from the nom. He accompanied tho bearer to the house, and the moment he amended the steps to the verandah, was met by the moon'bee, who told him it was no case of sickness, but one of murder. The unfortunate man was lying Maul on his hack on the floor, and his mangled remains preeented an appalling sight. He seems to have been sleeping on his face and to have had several severe blows dealt him on the back of his neck first, with a kitchen chopper. He would then appear to have turned round and to have received 'limner blows on his face. His upper and lower jaw, his teeth, his lips, his tongue, his DC4I3, were all brutally and mercilessly backed with a blunt and heavy butcher's chopper. The instrument was found under his body, which was stretched at frill length, with a small dessert knife by its side. Two of the windows of the house were foundopen to encourage the idea that the deed wee that of outsiders. Very fortunately, however, the inspector had come at once to the spot, and did not hesitate to secure the two bearers and the moonshee. The durzee and the melee have since been arrested, and from the confessions of some of these men, there remains no doubt that the moonshee and donee were the principals, and all the others more or lees concerned in the atrocious murder. The emitlim motive wee plunder.