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FRANCE.—The Emperor of the French has entertained his Royal guest the King of Sardinia after the approved fashion ; a visit to the Exhibi- tion, grand dinners at the Tuileries, a review of 35,000 men in the Champ de Mars, a ball at the Hotel de Ville, and a visit to the tomb of Napo- leon I. At the Exhibition, a grand concert was given, in which 4500 performers participated, with Felicien David and Berlioz as conductors. The review in the Champ de Mars was attended by the Empress: after the field manoeuvres, she joined the King and Emperor, and they passed down the front of the lines of soldiers, saluted with shouts of " Viva l'Empereur !" " Vive r Imperatrice! " Viva Victor Emmanuel!" " Viva la Saltdaigne !" The greatest novelty, and the most significant sight, was the Emperor's reception of four: newly-nominated Bishops—of Laval, Le Mims, Nismes, and Rodez—in the presence of the King of Sar- dinia. Each Bishop was introduced to the Emperor, and kneeling be- fore him, took an oath of fidelity, the same as that used under the old monarchy, on this occasion read by the Bishop of Nancy to each as fol- lows— " Bishop of —, you swear and promise to God, on the Holy Gospel, to maintain obedience and fidelity to his Majesty the Emperor. You also swear to attend no counsel, and to keep no league either at home or abroad, which may be contrary to public tranquillity ; and if, in your diocese or elsewhere, you learn that anything is being carried on to the prejudice of the state, you will make it known to his Majesty." The Emperor then took in his right hand the left hand of the Bishop ; who said, "I swear and promise this to God and the Emperor!" And the Emperor answered, "God give you grace so to do!' The mass having been concluded, the new prelates were conducted to.the White Saloon by the High Chamberlain, and were presented to the Emperor by the Minister of Public Worship ; they afterwards signed minutes of having taken the oath, and were complimented by the Emperor. It is said that the Emperor took the opportunity of the presence of the King of Sardinia to let the Pope know m a practical form that the Court of Rome must not expect to play any of the pranks in France which it has been doing in Tuscany and Austria. It is certain that the Pope's Nuncio, Monsignor Swami, did contemplate being absent on "urgent ecclesiastical affairs" during the King's visit, but at the last moment his Government found it necessary to order him to remain in Paris. The clergy who presented addresses to the " excommunicated " King on his route from Marseilles to Paris found themselves compelled to be parti- cularly civil to him. Not only the Pope's Nuncio but the Tuscan Mi- nister paid their obsequious homages to his Majesty when he received the Corps Diplomatique ; and the Moniteur, which, according to established usage, should have mentioned that the Nuncio presented the other Mi- nisters to his Majesty, overlooked him altogether.

France has lost two distinguished men—Count Mold, and Admiral Bruat.

Count Mold died suddenly, at Champlatreux, on Saturday, in his seventy-fifth year. He was sitting at dinner, with his daughter Madame De Laferte, her husband, and his granddaughter the Duchess d'Ayen, when he became suddenly pale ; a change came over his features ; his head drooped forward. The guests rose, but he begged them to be seated. He left the room leaning on the arm of his son-in-law, feeling mortally ill. The cure was sent for, and M. Nicolas, the Count's physician, who chanced to be present, did all he could to save his life. But the old statesman had only time to bless his children before he died. Count Mold was the son of Edouard Mathieu Mold, and grandson of Mathieu Mole, President of the Parliament of Paris during:the wars of the Fronde. Edouard Mathieu was executed during the Reign of Terror ; his son, a little child, escaped. When only twenty-five, he wrote an " Essai de Morale et de Politique " that pleased Napoleon. Just after the battle of Austerlitz, the Emperor saw him, and asked him what place he would like ; adding, " The only place for a Mole is in my Courts of Justice; what think you of the Cour Imperiale ? " M. Mold modestly dissented, suggesting a post in one of the branches of the executive administration. Napoleon thought a Parliamentary name out of place " in his prefec-

tures." But the young Mole plainly told the First Consul that his tribu- nals were not a magistracy, and that his administration " was the only institution of his system." Napoleon understood him, and appointed Mold Maitre des Requetes. Mold, elevated to the dignity of Count, subsequently filled the offices of Prefect of Dijon, Director-Gene- ral des Pouts et Ohaussees, Supreme Judge and Minister of Justice, and President of the Council of Regency. Louis the Eighteenth erased his name from the list of Peers presented by Talleyrand. On the return of Napoleon from Elba, he resumed the directorship of Roads and Bridges. After the revolution of July 1830, he was Louis Philippe's first Minister of Foreign .Affairs, and subsequently Prime Minister, until M. Guizot succeeded to power. The rest of his life was spent in retirement at Champlatrenx. Admiral Bruat, the first of French Admirals, died at sea, of suppressed gout, on his homeward passage from the Euxine. He was born at Col- mar, in 1796. When in command of the brig Adventure off Algiers, his ship ran aground, and he was taken prisoner, and confined until the French took the city. He was tried for losing his ship, and honourably acquitted. He became Captain in 1843, and Rear-Admiral in 1848. His subsequent service was in the Black Sea, and is pretty well known to our readers.

THE CRIKEL.—The intelligence from the seat of war relates to past transactions • prominently to the Inkerman explosion, briefly described in telegraphic despatches a fortnight ago, and now stated in detail by the Commander-in-chief, in the following despatch to Lord Panmure, dated Sebastopol, November 17.

" My Lord—On the 15th instant, about three p.m., a terrific explosion shook the camp of the army, and spread heavy destruction in the immediate neighbourhood of its force. Even here, at head-quarters, two-and-a-half miles, perhaps, distant, it burst open and broke windows; all felt the power of it ; and the high column of smoke, with shells bursting in the midst and around it, told too well the cause, and showed the danger of all within its reach.

" It was not long before we were on the spot. To the sudden burst had succeeded a continued and dark drift of smoke, which told its tale of con- tinued fire and of danger : constant bursting of shells was going on ; and the ground was covered with bits of wood, musket-balls, and splinters of shells from the first heavy explosion, which had strewed the ground with destruction and killed and hurt very many people. " 100,000 pounds of powder had exploded in the French siege-train, set fire to all the stores there, and to our neighbouring English park, where all was fiercely burning; while the tendency of the light air at first threatened a second and as serious an accident from powder, not eighty yards off, for the roof of the building had been damaged and the door blown in by the shock. "Some general officers had fallen in and marched part of their divisions down, others sent some in fatigue, some with stretchers for the wounded— all exerted themselves,. with the French, with an energy and disregard of danger that was admirable. Blankets were taken to the exposed store, placed and wetted on the roof by water being passed up in buckets ; the doors were covered with wet blankets and sand-bags; and in a short time it was reported and looked safe, though the closeness of the fire and frequent explosions could not allow the feeling of security. Many detached though small fires were burning; and the ground of both the French' and English parks, a space of 150 yards across, was a mans of large fires, some of fuel, some of huts, some of gun-carriages, boxes, handspikes, and ropes.

"The fortunately light air had rather changed its dreetion, and by break- ing up and dragging away things a sort of lane was at last formed, the fires cut off, and gradually got under control, because confined to smaller though fierce fires, but manageable. " I saw every one working well, and I know that French and English took live shells from the neigbourhood of dinger to a more distant spot; and at a later period parties threw what earth the rocky-soil could give upon the fires, and helped much to subdue them. All was safe about. seven p. in., and a strong guard and working-party posted for the night.

"The army was under arms the following morning before daylight; and, everything being quiet, I ordered the divisions to turn in, and continue the working-parties in the roads, which I had counter-ordered for that morning. ""The exploded powder-store was situated in the ruins of some walls which had advantageously been made use of for the purpose of shelter ; it had been the store of supply to the French attack on the Malakoff front, and it contained the powder which had been brought back from their bat- teries. It is at the head of the ravine, which, as it gets towards Sebastopol, forms the steep and rocky valley of Elvin du Carenage.

"The. Light division was on the ground which it furet took up, in October 1854; the Rifles on the right, then the Seventh, the Thirty-third, and Twenty-third; on their left the Thirty-fourth Regiment, which subse- quently joined, was on the right front in advance and the vacating of a spot of ground the Sappers • camp enabled me When commanding the di- vision, to place the Artillery and Small-arm Brigade on the immediate right of the Rifles.

" The French subsequently brought their main siege-train and store to the position it has now for some time occupied. "Daylight showed the damage, of which I have given your Lordship an outline in another letter. But the more important and sad part is the loss of life, and the wounded who have suffered. One officer and 20 non-com- missioned officers and men killed ; 4 officers and 112 non-commissioned of- ficers and men wounded : with 7 missing,* show the sudden and fatal power of the shock, which not only destroyed in its immediate neighbourhood, but wounded, by shell and splinters, some at a distance of three-quarters of a mile.

"The loss of our allies is distressingly heavy.

"I have &c W. J. CODEINGTON,

"General Commanding." The officer killed was DeputytAssistant-Commissary Yellen. The officers wounded were Lieutenants F. C. Roberta and W. J. Dawson, of the Artil- lery ; Deputy-Assistant-Commissary Hodde, of the Field Train Depart- ment ; and Lieutenant W. H. Eccles and Assistant-Surgeon Reade of the Rifle Brigade.

The act of wetting the roof and doors of the exposed powder-store is more particularly described by the correspondent of the Daily News— "Immediately after the first great explosion, when it was ascertained that the windmill itself—which forms our main magazine iu this part of the camp, and contains some hundred and eighty tons of powder—had escaped, General Straubenzee, who commands the brigade, hurried up to the tents of the Seventh Fusiliers, and asked if any of the men would volunteer to mount the wall of the mill and cover the roof with wet tarpaulins and blankets as a protection against the thickly flying sparks and burning wood. Now, the concussion had literally thrown the roof off the old building ; and there it stood in the very centre of the spreading flames, exposed every minute to a thousand chances of instantaneous destruction. Hardly anything could exceed the danger attending such a labour as the General • Six artillerymen since accounted for and alive.—W. C. 1 p. m. Nov. 17. proposed ; but, notwithstanding, Lieutenant Hope (senior) and twenty-five men at once responded to the Brigadier's appeal and proceeded to the pow- der-crammed building. A sergeant and some men of the Rifles, with also a party of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, were induced to accompany them ; and, within ten minutes from the first great blow-up, Mr. Hope was on the walls of the mill piling the wet coverings over the exposed powder-boxes- exploding shells and burning wood flying through the air in perfect storms

the while. Whilst the officer and some half-dozen of the men were thus employed, the remainder carried water to throw upon the blankets and bare rafters of the null, and in little more than half-an-hour this vast pile of pow- der was as well protected from the thickly flying sparks and rockets as it could be short of entire removal from the scene of the oonflagration."

The expedition to Kaffe, if ever contemplated, had been given up ; and the troops, after remaining ten days on board ship, had landed.

There is some talk of remodelling the army, by forming two corps, each composed of three divisions ; one corps to be placed under Sir Cohn Campbell, the other under Sir It. Eyre, The Staff of the Army now stands thus- Commander-in-ohief, Sir W. J. Codrington. Chief of the Staff, Major- General Windham. Light Division, Lord W. Paulet. Guards' .Division,

Lord Rokeby. Second Division, Major-General Barnard, late Chief of St. Third Division, Sir R. Eyre. Fourth Division, Major-General Garrett. Highland Division, Brigadier-General Cameron, pro tem. Quartermaster- General Colonel P;Herbert.

The Moniteur of Saturday published the following telegraphic despatch from Marshal Pelissier, the summary of which appeared in part of our last impression- " General d'Allonville having received information that large flocks, des- tined for the use of the Russian army, were collected near El-Toch, eight leagues North of Eupatoria, attempted to capture them by a coup de main, which perfectly succeeded. With this object in view, he sent in the direc- tion of El-Toth General Ali Pasha, commander of the Ottoman cavalry, with the Irregulars and some Turkish squadrons, as well as two French and two English squadrons. At the same time, he left the town with the remainder of the French and English troops, to support the operation. The English cavalry brigade advanced on Djollach, the French cavalry brigade on Tion-.

men ; De Failly's division, formerly the reserve, took up a position between Orta-Mame:i and Schiban. Meantime, GenerafAll Pasha advanced on El-.

Toch, meeting only a few Cossacks, whO fled on his approach, although sup- ported by a force of some squadrons. At 5 p. m. Ali Pasha sent word to Ge- neral d'Allonville that his operation had succeeded ; and at 9 o'clock he re- turned to Eupatoria, bringing with him 270 oxen, 3450 sheep, 50 horses, 10 camels, and 20 waggons, captured from the Russians." The Gazette of Tuesday contained a despatch from General Codrington, simply enclosing despatches from Brigadier-General Spencer and Lord: George Paget. General Spencer gives a circumstantial account of the operations of the troops at the siege of Kinburn; and of a reconnaissance undertaken by him, in conjunction with General Bazaine, towards the in- terior. The despatches from Lord George Paget describe recent recon- noitering movements from Eupatoria, and the capture of cattle, and are without general interest.

Tunxrev.—The chief intelligence from Turkey, like that from the Cri- mea relates to an event already communicated by the telegraph—Omar Pasha's successful movement in Mingrelia.

The Times correspondent in Mingrelia furnishes an account of the bat- tle on the Ingour ; .which took place on the 6th, not the 6th of November, as reported in the official telegraphic despatches. The march of the army through the forests and swamps that extend between the Godava and the Ingour presented great difficulties. The correspondent referred to joined the advancing troops beyond the Godava, and found them "a miscella- neous multitude straggling by devious paths through the tangled under- wood, or ploughing their way through deep mud." "There were infantry and cavalry in long lines winding between the magnificent oak and beechtrees of which the forest is composed ; Abasiane on wiry ponies dodging in and out, and getting past everybody ; mules and pack-horses, in awkward predicaments, stopping up the road, on whose de- voted heads were showered an immense variety of oaths by their drivers, who in their turn were sworn at by the rest of the world. There were some batteries of artillery, which looked so hopelessly embedded that no- thing short of British energy, as impersonated in the young Englishman who commanded, could have extricated them. There were broken-down baggage-waggons and broken-down mules, and everything but broken-down men. Here and there a Pasha was squatted by the roadside, indulging in his nargilhe, enjoying his kief,' and watching placidly the exertions of his troops." The whole force—the numbers of which are not given—arrived on the right bank of the Ingour on the 4th November, and Omar Pasha reached their camp on the 3d. The enemy were posted on the left bank, covering the forts. Their right, supported by the fort of Ruohi, and Covered with wood, faced the river at a point where its 1)4 was two hundred yards broad, but where the stream was much narrower. Their centre was posted behind an intrenchment, opposite another predicable crossing. The left held a ford still further down the river. Opposite the fort of Ruchi, by the direction of Omar Pasha, the Turks threw up two batteries, on the night of the 4th, with the view of occupying the attention of the enemy by their fire, while be crossed the river lower down. This movement was successfully accomplished on the 6th. One column, headed by Rifles under Colonel Ballard, the whole commanded by COlonel Bimmonds,_ effected the passage of the river and attacked the intrenchment; while Osman Pasha, with a second column, in the face of a heavy fire, and in spite of a strong current, forded the stream lower down, and routed the enemy at the point of the bayonet. Colonel Simmonds carried the intrenchment, and the Russians fled, leav- ing behind eve guns. Here, however, his aide-de-camp, Captain Dy- mock, was killed at the head of his battalion. Routed at the points as- sailed, the enemy evacuated the fort of Ruchi, and retired in the direction of Kutais. The Turkish loss is estimated at 400 killed and wounded.. The Russian loss is not estimated, but it is stated that there were 300 dead on the field.

It is reported, although not on good authority, that there arc reasons for believing that the Russians under General Mouravief have recrossed the Arpachai. The rumour of that General's insanity turns out to be un- founded. Selim Pasha has arrived at Erzeroumwhere, it is said, he will be joined by 12,000 regulars : but this statement is not believed at Constantinople.

Cholera made its appearance at Scutari in the middle of November. Between the 14th and 17th there were seventy-five deaths from cholera in the hospital, including the following officers—Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals Dr. M'Gregor, Acting Assistant-Surgeon Wood, and Dis- penser Beveridge. The German patients were very numerous. When the mail left, on the 19th, the epidemic was diminishing. The total number of sick in the Scutari hospitals on the 18th November was 1203; wounded, 25.

Mra. Willoughby Moore, the widow of Colonel Moore, who perished in the troop-ship Europa, rather than escape and leave his men behind, died at Scutari, of dysentery,. on Thursday week. She was- acting there as Lady Superintendent of the officers' hospital.

PRUSSIA. —The Prussian Chambers were. opened by the King in person on Thursday, and the following " extract" from his speech was received yesterday by telegraph from Berlin. "Gentlemen—The conflict between several European Powers is not yet at an end. Our fatherland, however, oontinum to be the abode of peace. I trust in God that it will remain so, and that I shall succeed in pre- serving the honour and standing of Prussia without inflicting upon oar country the heavy sacrifices of war.

"I am proud to say that I know of no people so well prepared for weer or DONE ready for sacrifices, than my own, whenever its honour or illiterate. am. really in danger. This proud consciousness, however, imposes upon me the duty, while abiding faithfully by obligations already contratted, not to enter- into further engagements, the political and military liabilitiesof which are not to be estimated beforehand.

" The attitude which Prussia, Austria, and the German. Confederation, have assumed by common consent, gives a solid security for the further maintenance of that independent position which, with upright good wishes for all, and an impartial appreciation of circumstances, is equally conducive to the attainment of an equitable and lasting peace: It is reported that the servants of Herr Niebuhr and General Von Ger- lach have been in the habit of stealing copies of telegraphic despatches and other documents,. forwarded to the Prussian Foreign Office from St. Petersburg by Count Munster, and of making a market of their contents, through the medium of a retired. Landwchr officer, who sold them to the French Ambassador. Among the papers seized at the house of Von 6erlach's servant, it is said, is the copy of a journal kept by his master registering the daily vacillations of the King on the subject of the Eastern question. But, lest secrets should become public, the Court have decided not to proceed against the thieves. It is stated that Von Gerlach.kept a private spy upon the Prince of Prussia last summer, when the Prince made a tour of inspection in Westphalia, and that a copy of his report was laid before the King.

DIINDIARH.—General Canrobert arrived at. Copenhagen on Saturday last, in an English steamer. He was.reeeived on. landing by the military commandant of Copenhagen. An aide-de-camp of the King. was in wait- ing for him with a Court carriage. The crowd saluted the General with warm acclamations. On Monday, he was conveyed in a state carriage to the Palace; where ho had an audience of the...King. In the evening. a grand banquet was given in his honour.

General Canrobert embarked at noon on Thursday, in. the steamer Schleswig, for Kiel. He was accompanied to the Customhouse by the King's Aide-de-camp, and was enthusiastically cheered by the assembled multitude.

Russte.—Accounts from Russia published in the French and German journals, and repeated in our own, state that recruiting is difficult, and the internal situation by no means agreeable. But these statements must lie received with caution. The ]ironiteur prints the following extract. "Frankfort, Nov. 20.—The letters received here by Russian or Polish fa- mines from the interior of Russia all agree in affirming the existence in Poland and Russia of a profound discontent, provoked by the war, and the endless miseries which it has caused throughout the length and breadth of the empire. The militia were assembled under the-promise that they. should not quit their provinces: nevertheless, they are sent away far from their firesides; and accordingly they appear resolved to avenge themselves for the extra fatigue and privation imposed upon them, by committing all sorts of disorders in the various places through which they pass. The insurrectional movements which have taken place upon many points of the Ukraine are of a more serious character then has been generally supposed. It has been found necessary to despatch artillery and troops against the malcontents."

" The recruiting for the Russian army," says the Gazette de Iromigs- berg, "meets with great difficulties; the peculiar maladies of the summer baying carried off many young people and enfeebled others, and several haring either taken refuge in Prussia or concealed themselves in the in- terior."

ITALY. —The Pope in an allocution addressed to the Secret Consistory on the 3d November, communicated to his venerable brothers, with "'the greatest joy," the principal points in the Concordat. The fashion in which he refers to the capital concessions of the civil to the spiritual power may be gathered from this instance- " As the Roman Pontiff, Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, and Successor of the Blessed Prince of the Apostles, has of Divine right &priority of honour and jurisdiction throughout the entire Church, this Catholic dogma has been expressed in most precise terms in the act itself; and theplenipotentiaries have discarded from it, radically eliminated and banished, the opinion— false, perverse, fatal, and entirely contrary to this Divine priority of its rights—an opinion always condemned and proscribed by the Apostolic See— according to which the placeat or the exequatur of the civil' government should be obtained for what concerns spiritual things and ecclesiastical af- fairs. Therefore it has been ruled, that the mutual relations of the Bishops of the Austrian States, and those of their clergy, and of the faithful popula- tion with our Apostolic See, in all that regards spiritual matters and eccle- siastical affiairs, should be perfectly free, without ever being subjected to any royal authority of any kind whatever."

ITNITED STATES.—The Baltic arrived at Liverpool on Monday, with advises from New York to the 14th instant.

The chief topic occupying the attention of the journals appears to have been the state of the relations with England, the reinforcement of the British West India squadron, and the affairs of Central America. The tone of the journals is by no means so violent as some persons in this country anticipated : indeed, several take a view of the whole matter pretty much in the spirit of the majority of British journals, making due allowance for the difference of style. It is admitted that there is a war element in the United States ; but the chance of war is considered very alight, unless the Pierce Administration should foment the angry feeling. Some of the journals deny that " there is anything in the addition which England is reported to have made to her naval forces in the American seas which would warrant the idea that she means even to offend by that act the jealousy " of the American Government. " There is not the slightest evidence that the Btitlsh fleet is intended to menace us on any ground." "Not one of the questions between the two Governments is important enough to warrant any serious misunderstanding." Others say that the movement of the British fleet is looked upon at Washington with indigna- tion, "if not as an incipient step towards a hostile set." In consequence, Commodore Paulding, " a farm but discreet officer," had been summoned by empress to the capital, and had been ordered to proceed at once to San Jima de Nicaragua in his flag-ship- the Potomac ; and naval preparations of all kinds had been hastened. While some'of the journals deny point- blank that there has been any "harsh or insolent" correspondence be- tween the two Governments, the reputed organ of Mr. Cushing says- " The annual message will necessarily show that England has been pur- suing towards the United States, for months past, a course of insolence and bluster, and of assumption of the right to manage our affairs at home and abroad, wbieh will rouse against. her, in December next, the deep animosity of every. American with really an American heart in his breast." " If it is the purpose of the British Government," says the New York Courier and 1iaquerer, "to make a demonstration in support of their preten- sions in Central America, serious work may be expected. Our position is suet that we should be obliged in that case to support' the Filibusters on both coasts against them European invaders-. Let but the word be given by the Government, and thousands of gallant and adventurous spirits will rush to the standard of the latter to repel the arrogance of foreign intervention : one thousand men are already organized in California to support Walker ; and thousands more in- all parts of the country are eager to join Kinney the moment the interdict of our Government, which stamps his enterprise with illegality, is removed: The Mosquito protectorate is an obsolete idea, and so is the notion of any sort of an European protectorate over Greytown and the

great line of overland between the two oceans:" It is stated that Mr. Mercy has made the following propositions to the British Government-

" 1. The treaty of 1850 binds-the United States anitGreat Britain equally not to colonise, fortify„, or in any respect acquire on appropriate Central America or any part of it. The American Government is bound by that, stipulation not to seek to annex those states, or to• subvert their inde- pendence. This obligation will be faithfully observed.

" 2. The obligation is mutual. It has been violated by Great Britain in. oecupying the Bay Islands, and in refusing to surrender, by a distinct act of the Government., the protectorate formerly asserted and exercised over the Mosquito coast. " 3. A perfectly good understanding between. the countries requires that these causes of disagreement should be removed. To that end, this Govern- ment proposes the disoontinuance of the above colony and the formal re- linquishment of the protectorate. As an alternative to the rejection of these propositions, this Government would consider herself released from the equivalent obligations, and would proceed to treat with the Governments.of the Central American States precisely as if the treaty had not been formed."

• The " Filibuster" Walker has succeeded in obtaining possession of Granada; a town of some importance on the Pacific side of Nicaragua ; and has,- with other. Californian. adventurers, organized a kind of govern- ment there. Kinney is still at Greytown, wanting in men and means. his to these " illegal" movements that the New York Courier and In- quirer refers. The New York Skipping List says that the' alarmists of Wall Street have endeavoured to make a little capital out of what they call the belli- gerent attitude of England towards the United' States, but that their efforts have not been attended with very flattering results. It thinks there will hardly be war between the United States and England while bread is so much desired abroad.

INDIA AND Cniare.—The summary of the overland mail arrived by telegraph' on-Wednesday: The latest dates are—Hongkong, October 15; Bombay, November 2. "The Boatels are still in rebellion. Much rain has fallen the Bombay Presidency. Business is suspended; on. account. of the holidays. The Chi- nese Imperialists have been defeated by the Patriots near Chin. Keang Foo."

New Zmaseice.—Private advises from New Zealand have reached us down to the 5th August. At that date the settlement of New Plymouth was under some apprehension from the effects of a quarrel among the Natives in that district. About a year ago, a Native chief, Kattatore, shot a chief of the Puketapu tribe, who was engaged in laying out certain lands which he proposed to sell to the Europeans, and to which Kattatore had advanced claims. Since that time, Kattatore has remained fortified in hispah, subjected to a sort of siege by the relatives of the deceased. This uneasy state of things, and the gathering numbers of the Natives, called for interference on the part of the Government, and Colonel Wynyard went down to effect a settlement of the dispute, if possible. But he failed. Troops were ordered from Wellington, to protect the European population and property. At the latest dates they had not left Welling- ton, although a large iron barrack had arrived from Melbourne for their reception. Kattatore had summoned the tribes immediately to the South of the settlement to his assistance ; while Mr. Turton, the Wesleyan minister, had appealed to the Ngatimaniaputo tribe for the protection of the settlement in the absence of the soldiers. Mr. Charles Brown, Super- intendent of the settlement, bad. gone to Auckland to urge the despatch of the troops forthwith.