The Express. — 1862-08-22 (London, England)

THE OVERLAND MAIL.  INDIA.  The following is from the summary of the (Bombay) Times of India of the 26th July :  The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Behar, with the English mails of the 3rd July, arrived in harbour on the afternoon of the 23rd idem. This is the quickest transit of the mails on record.  The Bombay Legislative Council commenced its second seasion at Poonah on the 15th inst., his Excellency Sir Bartle Frere presiding. The pilot who wrecked the Beechworth in Bombay hardour has been suspended for six months from rank, pay, and allowances.  With the exception of four, the whole of the ships of the Indian navy have been put out of commission. The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court at Bombay terminated on the 19th July. Two men were convicted of murder, and have been sentenced to be executed. Colonel Phayre, Chief Commissioner in Pegu, is about to visit the court of Ave, to demand satidaction for the murder of Lieutenant Balked, one of hie assistants, by Burmese subject& A lieutenant of the Punjab police is under close arrest for having ordered a man suspected of theft to be flogged to death.  A marine court of inquiry has been held at Bombay to inveetigate;ithe circumstances attending the loss of the ship James Pilkington on tho 17th of June last. The master and chief mate had previously sailed for England. Government has authorised leave and passage money beindgmuted to all officers of the Indian navy for whom there is no employment in India. It is expected that a considerable reinforcement of troops for the North of China will shortly be despatched from Wk.  The French have purchased for the sum of ten thousand dollars a place called Obok, near Ras Bir, just outside the Straits of Babelmandeti.  Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, is at the Neilgherry hills. Major KIM Gough, V.C., of the 19th Humus, attempted suicide a few days ago at Lucknow by shooting himself, but is expected to recover from his wound. Civilian judges have been appointed to ten new Small Cause Courts in the Madras Presidency on 1401. each per month.  The Calcutta Division of the new High Court met tot the first time on the 7th July, Si, Barnes Peacock presiding. The Madras government intend trying experiments for growing the quininelielding cinchona from seed in the oollectorates of the East Coast and Salem.  The trial of the Rao Sahib at Cawnpore, for the murder of Europeans during the mutiny, has been adjourned on account of the prisoner's indisposition. The camp of the Ameer Dad Mehemet of Cabool, reached Waahew on the 23rd Jane. Furrailt wee closely besieged. Three Manila men of the crew of theßombay country ship Futtay Ahem rose upon the captain and officers whilst on the voyage from Calcutta to Singapore, and nearly sucoeeded in taking the yawl, but were beaten off, and 020 of their number shot dead by the captain (Mitchell). Captain Swedes, (paymaster Gth Inniskilling (Dragoons), has been found guilty on every count of the charges on which he was tried by court-martial at Mhow, and sentenced to be cashiered—which sentence has been confirmed by General Sir Hugh Rose. There are indications of a partial failure of the monsoon this year in some of the districts of the Bombay Presi• dairy, the rain still holding off in all the collectorates except Khandeish.  It is rumoured that Lieut. Hughes, the assistant superintendent of police in the Thyetmyo district in Yegu, together with an officer of the 60th Rifles and a small escort, have been waylaid and murdered on the Burmese frontier.  The camps of the Governor-General of India and theCommender-in-Chief are to be formed at Agra early in November mixt.  The tribes of the Jynteah country in Assam are again heooraing troublesome. They hare recently killed eight men of a party of sepoys, put the rest to flight, and carried off their arms and ammunition.  EidilVo9ll ire still being made to recover mauve from the sunken wreck of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ave, lost near Trincomalee upwards of two years ago. 2,8001. in spade has been recently brought up by the English divers.  A report has reached Ca/eutta from Nepaul, that the notorious rebel leader Farm Shah was killed some six weeks ago by some Goorka robbers, while he was wandering in the Nepaul hills in the guise of ajoqueer or religious mendicant.  The ship Wadiatool Rahimon, Captain J. P. Grant, was wracked near Burnes on the southern 00iSt, within sixty miles of Bombay, on the sth of July, whilst proceeding from that port to Singapore. It is again skated in the north-west papers that the infamous Nana Sahib, of Bithoor, is alive, and resides is or near to Ilhootan, and that his family are now on their way to Blicatan from Became . _  ---- --The Ceylon paean mention that the Jimmies.les lmperigee are now engaged in the construction of vast docks at Bum, capable of containing steamers of the largest else.