The Express. — 1864-04-07 (London, England)

LATIUM INTELLIGENCE.  INDIA.  THE BOMBAY MAIL. SERIOUS CHARACTER OF THE RECENT  WAR.  We have received Bombay papers, dated March 14.  The Bombay Gazette says it seems to be now certain that the recent war on the north-west frontier was not the isolated enterprise of some tribes of hardy mountaineers, but " was undertaken in concert with, and as the first act of a wide-spread Mussulman conspiracy against the English domination in India." Numerous arrests have been made by government iu Umballah, Patna, and even Calcutta, and it is expected that at the trials which are about to come off the whole history of the plot will be disclosed. It is expected that Sir Charles Trevelyan's budget will show a deficiency of at least half a million in the opium revenue.  The last steamers of the Persian Gulf Telegraph expedition have left Bombay for Cape Mussendom.  The Nawab of Rampore has resigned his seat in the Viceroy's Legislative Council. A duffadar (native officer) of the Poona Horse made a furious attack lately, on parade at Seroor, on the adjutant and the commandant of the regiment, both of whom he tried to cut down, but was himself run through the body by an English officer and killed before he bad done any mischief. Fanaticism is the only cause assigned for the attempted  ition.  Sir Hugh Rose has left Hawn! Pindee on a tour through Huzara, Cashmere, and Thibet, to Simla. The Viceroy will leave Calcutta early in April for the north-west, to open the railway as far as Ghareeabe.d, on which occasion there will be a grand banquet at Delhi The Star of India was presented to the Jeypore Chief at Ajmere, on the 10th inst., by General G. St. P. Lawrence, C. B. The new University of Bombay is to be built from the designs of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott. Sir Mordaunt Wells, who leaves Bombay for England by this mail, at the dinner given in his honour by the Bombay bar, denounced the present constitution of the Indian high courts, on account of the admission of untrained civilian judges to sit on the bench.  The Bombay Chamber of Commerce has presented a memorial to government, praying that there may be one common terminus for the two railways entering Bombay, or that, if this be impossible, the Great Indian Peninsula Company may be compelled to bring their line into the town on arches instead of at the level of the streets.  The friends and admirers of Mr. Robert Knight, the retiring editor of the Times of India, have started a subscription to present him with a purse, to show their approval of his conduct as a journalist. The contributions already amount to nearly a lac of rupees (10,0001.). The British government has applied to the Indian government for as much of its garrison strength as can be spared, to the extent of six regiments. The Indian government has determined that only two regiments can be spared. Captain Burton has succeeded in apprehending at Bareilly, Azeem Khan Hukeem, the murderer of his father at Kotab. The prisoner has been sent to Kotah for trial.  The Bombay Gazett€ says that in Bombay the tightness of the money market is again so great ea to cause fears that the commercial crisis of the last two months of 1863 will be surpassed in intensity by the crisis which is now approaching.  The cotton merchants of Mooltan refuse to send their cotton to the government screws, and are in great excitement on acoount of the act passed by the Bombay government for punishing the adulteration of cotton.  Large quantities of cotton are said to be oa the way down from tho north-west to Bombay this year.