1 JANUARY 1859, Page 5

The news from India is good, but not prolific in

details. In Oude Bainie Madhoo has been driven out of Shunkerpore, his stronghold ; other talookdars have been gradually coming in ; their steps quickened by threats of confiscation. There is a more cheerful tone in the Indian correspondence ; and the procla- mation of the Queen is admitted to have bad a beneficial effect.