The last Overland Mail has brought dates from
Bombay to the 11th of May.

The kingdom of Oude has been much disturbed, and
the British troops stationed there have met with a
disaster in supporting the king against his rebellious
subjects. A detachment under the command of Captain
Wilson, sent against a refractory Zemindar who occupied
a strong position, was repulsed on the 29th of March,
with the loss of Lieutenant Elderton, who was killed,
and seventy-five men killed and wounded. During the
following night the enemy evacuated the fort, passing
unharmed through the King of Oude's troops. The fort
was taken possession of and destroyed.

The Governor-General had left Calcutta for Simla, for
the benefit of his health, which had suffered much from
the climate and from over-exertion.

The practice of Thuggism is not extinct in India. It
has recently been discovered that Lieutenant Brockman
of the 50th regiment, who was missing after the battle
of Moodkee, was murdered by a party of Thugs, who
came upon him while he was resting himself by the side
of a well, on his way to overtake his regiment.

A Suttee had occurred in the neighbourhood of
Bombay. The husband was 60 and the widow about 22;
yet, though they were of low caste, her self-sacrifice was
not only voluntary, but in opposition to her family and
friends. All who were known to be present were tried
by the district judge, and nineteen or twenty people
were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, from
ten to two years.

There are advices from the West Indies to the latter
end of May.

The drought which had so long prevailed was giving
way, and there had been seasonable rains in several of
the islands. In Antigua, however, the drought
continued, and it was proposed to hold a general fast and
offer up prayers for the mitigation of the calamity. In
Jamaica the cultivation of cotton was occupying much
attention. In Trinidad considerable excitement has
been caused by the discovery of gold in several parts of
the island.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

We noticed in our last number the first preliminary
meeting of intending Emigrants on Mrs. Chisholm's
Plan. A second took place on the 1st instant, and was
numerously attended by intending emigrants, whose
intelligent and respectable appearance was highly
gratifying. Mrs. Chisholm informed them that since the
last meeting she had received communications from
persons about to accompany them to the colonies, one of
whom had a capital of £350, another £6000, another
£4000, and five others having from £200 to £400, each.
To such persons the society could only afford assistance
in the way of advice, but she thought it right to
mention the matter to the meeting, as these capitalists would
no doubt be anxious to secure the services of persons
seeking for employment who would be going out by the
same ship. Mrs. Chisholm read some interesting letters
from emigrants in Australia, and mentioned that many
sums of money lent by herself and her friends to assist
persons to emigrate, had been faithfully repaid.

On the same day a meeting was held at St. Martin's
Hall, with the object of taking measures to Improve the
Condition of Emigrants, and to protect them in the
voyage to the colonies south of the equator. The Earl
of Harrowby took the chair; supported by the Bishop
of Norwich, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. A. Stafford, M.P.,
Mr. Napier, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Mackenzie (vicar of St.
Martin's), Rev. Dr. Childs, the Rev. J. Anderson, and
other clergymen and gentlemen interested in colonisation
and the general improvement of the condition of
the poor. Resolutions were passed, to the effect that
every body of emigrants should be accompanied by a
chaplain or lay-teacher; that each ship should be
furnished with books and maps, and with tools and
materials for manual employment; and that all contributions
for these objects should be confided to the committee of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, formed
last year to provide a fund for the religious instruction
of the emigrants.

A large party of Young Female Emigrants, sixty-one
in number, sent out to Australia under the auspices of
Mr. Sidney Herbert's Society, embarked on the 26th,
in the Northumberland, bound for Port Phillip. They
consisted almost entirely of needlewomen, and most of
them have been inmates of the "Home," and have
received certificates of good conduct while domiciled there.
There were three who had paid for their passage, but
went under the care and protection of the Society. The
girls having been mustered, were presented with their
credentials, with copies of the rules of the ship, and
instructions and hints for their future conduct, drawn up
on the part of the Society. The former arrangements
as to needlework and instruction will be observed, and a
supply of little articles of luxury, such as preserved
milk, &c., similar to that provided on board the other
ships, has been duly laid in. A whimsical piece of folly
came to light during the muster. One girl was absent,
and on her name being repeatedly called, a companion
of hers, also an emigrant, came forward and informed
the committee that although her friend had quite made
up her mind to go, and although she had herself
provided and packed her outfit, yet that at Blackwall she
had changed her mind, because—the noise of the steamer
frightened her! Most of the girls were deeply affected,
but they soon recovered their cheerfulness. Altogether,
both as regards the accommodation for the voyage, and
the appearance and character of the girls themselves, we
believe that the expedition appears to have departed
with most favourable prospects.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE new Electoral Law having been voted, and the Greek affair having subsided, France has been rehearsing
all the month a political comedy called Money, without any of the wit or humour of its English
namesake—in fact, an extremely dull affair. The President has been asking for more salary, and the Assembly
has been disputing his claim; but what are called his services to the "party of order" have prevailed, and ten
thousand pounds a month has been voted as "costs of representation" to the salary originally assigned him
of twenty-four thousand pounds a year. The result had been doubtful up to the close of a long debate, when
it was determined at last by a few short, sharp sentences, like the cuts of a sabre, from the ordinarily
silent Changarnier. The beginning of the end would thus appear to have arrived.

A piratical expedition to Cuba, undertaken by a party of American adventurers, headed by a Spanish
soldier of fortune, has been the single exciting event of transatlantic politics. But it turned out a somewhat
absurd one. For the gallant Lopez and his two thousand companions, after storming and sacking a very
small town, made off with all possible speed, as compactly as they could, and left the stocks and the gallows
to pick up the stragglers. It is not impossible, however, that this contemptible affair may have some serious
results in checking the friendly intercourse between America and Spain.

Germany does not better her deplorable condition. Prussia and Austria have been bidding for the favour
of Nicholas, and Prussia has signalised a reported success at St. Petersburg by a crusade against her liberal
press at home. There is the same lamentable tale to tell of Italy. Completed outrages on property and
person, throughout the Papal States, alternate with attempted outrages on mind and intellect; and whether