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ittlIf.—The Emperor is still at Plombieres. It seems doubtful whether he will return before the fetes of the 15th August. Prince Na- m

polecat has gone to Limoges to be present at an exhibition of the pro- ducts of twelve departments. He was received with great enthusiasm, and as he rode through the streets the car was greeted by the exclama- tions of the crowd, Comets it resemble a son cede ! C' est is portrait vivant de r.EMPeradr. The effect produced by this likeness upon the population cannot be described and can scarcely be understood. The show was ex- tremely well attended. These things are becoming fashionable in France. It is stated that the office of Director-General of Public Safety will be revived, and be attached, as before, to the Department of the Interior.

There is a talk of another conspiracy in Paris, and Italians are said to have been arrested.

The new Minister of the Interior has relaxed the passport regulations. M. Delangle has informed the prefect of the Pas de Calais, " That under existing circumstances he sees no inconvenience in the reesta- blishment of the facilities on the same footing as in time past ; that is to say, on condition that the persons applying for the purpose of availing themselves of this indulgence shall be admitted to embark and disem- bark by exhibiting excursion tickets, or permissions to embark granted by the authorities of Boulogne and Calais." This is a concession to the shopkeepers of Calais and Boulogne. Dieppe will share the privilege.

The new plan for the Government of Algeria is to be like Mr. Bright's plan for India in one particular—the office of Governor-General is in time to be abolished ; and Algeria is to be divided into departments, each ruled by a Prefect as in France.

NIIItitt.—The Cortes is to be dissolved shortly. The Espana, which continues its ludicrous bravado about the power of Spain, says that "in an extraordinary Cabinet Council, held in presence of the Queen, the note by which the Spanish Ministry will demand explanations from the English Cabinet relative to the offensive language employed by Lord Malmesbury towards Spain, was read. That this note shall possess all the dignity and energy which become a nation of such glorious antece- dents as ours is required by the gratuitous and unjust nature of the accusation, and by the dignity of the Spanish name."

Bumark.—The Danish Cabinet has spared the German Bund the trouble of moving troops into the Duchies. It has accepted what may be called the ultimatum of the Bund. This has been done at the cost of a ministerial crisis and the sacrifice of Colonel Andrae the Minister of Finance. The Cabinet was divided on the question of the competency of the German Diet in the dispute between Denmark and Germany. Colonel Andrae, the Minister of Finances, was violently opposed to any such recognition. As, however, he was not supported by his colleagues, and the King, who presided at the Council of Ministers, emphatically said, "this can never be," he immediately tendered his resignation, which was accepted. The crisis is now terminated, and the Cabinet reconstructed. M. Hall, the President of the Council, takes the foreign affairs ad in- terim, and M. Krieger, the Minister of the Interior for the Kingdom, undertakes in addition the difficult post of Minister of Finances. Another version of the story is that the Danish Court has proposed further negotiations.

untmgru.—Disturbances still continue on the frontier, and the Montenegrins are armed for resistance. On the 27th June, the Russian Consul went with a large suite from Ragusa, by way of Cattaro, to Cet- tinye. On his arrival in that diminutive capital, he paid 27,000 ducats, as three years' subsidy, into the hands of Prince Daniel, and gave Mirko, his brother, a Russian order. Two Russian and three French naval officers accompanied the Consul.

%UT kni.—Very painful news has arrived from the Red Sea and from Candle. In both places there have been massacres of Christians.

Jeddah is a port on the Red Sea inhabited by a fanatical population and the place of landing for Mecca Pilgrims. On the 15th June the people suddenly rose and massacred all the Christians they could lay hands on. First they attacked the English Consul, Mr. Page, hacked him to pieces, plundered his house, and tore down his flag. Next they assailed M. Eveilard, the French Consul. Here they met with re- sistance. The Consul was killed, but his wife slew the assassin. Her daughter and servants fought desperately, and although wounded, the former escaped into the house of the Turkish Lieutenant. No fewer than forty-five persons were slain. The next morning some Greeks swain off to the Cyclops, a British war-steamer, and told the horrible tale. Cap- tain Pullen sent in two armed boats, but the people stoned them, and their crews had to fire vales and withdraw. The crew of the Cyclops volunteered to storm the town, but the Governor said that if a shot were fired all the Christians who had been saved and sheltered would be sac- rificed. Five days elapsed, and then Namik Pasha appeared with 800 men from Mecca. He restored order in some degree. The crew of the Cyclops landed with French and English colours, and, assisted by a guard of Turkish infantry, buried the slain with military honours. On the 23d the Cyclops returned to Suez with twenty-three fugitives, the remnants of the Christians at Jeddah.

Some impute this atrocity to pure fanaticism, excited by a Moslem who said he had seen the triumph of the rebels at Delhi. Others find trading Jealousies at the bottom of it ' - and one story is that it was partly caused by the hauling down of the Ottoman flag which had been unlawfully hoisted on an Anglo-Indian vesseL

A. telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, dated July 14, states that a General officer of the Turkish army has been ordered to proceed im- mediately to Jeddah, as Imperial Commissioner, with directions to punish the guilty persons according to martial-law. Intelligence from Athens states, that a terrible reaction by the Mus- sulmans against the Christians has taken place in Candia. The Euro- pean Consulates in Candia and the Catholic Church had been attacked, and the Christians were quitting the city.

511 H.—Telegraphic despatches from Bombay to the 19th and Alla- habad to the 10th June, and the fuller despatches of the Calcutta mail of the 3d June have come to hand. They are extremely interesting.

The most salient incident is the defeat of Scindia by the Gwalior fugi- tives thus related by Mr. Edmonstone through the telegraph. The Maharajah of Gwalior is now a fugitive at Agra. The main body of

the Calpee fugitives with Tantia Tepee, the Ranee of Jhansi, and the Na" wab of Banda, fled 'firat to Indoorkee, where they were joined by Ewer Dowlut Sing and Rahim Ali, with about 1500 men and a few light guns; they then decided to march on Gwalior, which they did rapidly, so as to allow Scindia but little time for preparation. They reached Gwalior on the 1st of June ; their numbers are believed to have been about 5000 in- fantry and 800 cavalry, with a few small guns. Scindia went out to the cantonments to oppose them with 1000 cavalry, 2000 infantry, and 30 ram. No sooner, however, had the action commenced, than one of Scindia a ca- valry regiments went over en masse to the enemy ; a large proportion of the rest of his army followed the example, and the remainder fled precipitately, with the exception of the Maharajah's body guard, who fought most gal. lantly, and brought off Soindia safe from the field, losing, however, 300 of their own number. The Maharajah, with his Dewan, linker Bow, and. some thirty of his sirdars, fled vid Dholporo to Agra, which ' ich he reached on the 2d of June. The family of the Maharajah escaped to Nurwar, but his palace is plundered, and the fort is said to be in the hands of the rebels. The bulk of the Calpee force has marched on Gwalior. Sir Hugh Rose will direct operations. Brigadier Smith's brigade will cooperate from Sepree, and a demonstration is to be made from Agra in the direction of Dholpore. Tile rebels are said to have proclaimed the Nana as Peishwa, and Tends Tepee as chief under him. The prisoners at Gwalior had been released." In a supplemental despatch, he states that "the force under Brigadier Showers, from Agra, accompanied by his Highness Scindia, had arrived at Dholpore on the 12th of June, and would join the column from Calpee on the following day at Saasowlee. The Brigadier from Jhanai would also concentrate at that point by the 17th of June, and a combined movement would then be made against Gwalior. Her Highness Balezabae ,e with the family of Scindia, arrived in safety at Oojein from Gwalior. About 500 of her troops have since mutinied at Oojein, and seized the magazine and 10 guns." Mr. Anderson, the Bombay Secretary states, that " with the view of se- curing the north-eastern frontier of this Presidency from the inroad of rebels on their expulsion from Gwalior, the important positions of Mhow, Poonab, and Nusseerabad have been strengthened. A wing of her Ma- jesty's Ninety-second Highlanders has been despatched from Bombay by rail and bullock train to Mhow, and two more companies of Highlanders and some Artillery will follow. A company of European Infantry is posted at Indere, and reinforcements will be thrown forward from Mhow for the protection of that capital."

In the meantime "no event of special importance has occurred in Oude." It is, therefore, not considered specially important that "the Kapoorthulla Rajah of the Jullundur Doab has arrived with about 1200 infantry and 5000 cavalry, and will be employed in the first instance in establishing order in the Poorwa district." Where the Moulvie was, cannot be ascertained, accounts of the movements of that personage con- tradicting each other. Sir Colin Campbell arrived at Allahabad on the 9th of June.

In Behar Sir Edward Lugard had driven the rebels out of the jungles. Deprived of cover they moved up to the Ganges and threatened °ha- zeepore ; but menanced by the force there, and pressed in rear by Sir Edward they betook themselves again to the South. In Bundlecund General Whitelock has captured Tirohan, a fort belonging to Narain Row. "On the approach of General Whitelock the rebel troops melted away, and Narain Row surrendered himself. Thirty-eight new brass guns, 800 stand of muskets, a crore of rupees in cash, and much i valuable property were found in his fort." In the Gorruckpore district Colonel Rowcroft and Mr. Commissioner Wingfield, still held Mahomed Hossein and his rebels at bay. Mr. An- derson says that "the decisive blow struck at Nurgoond Kopal has over- awed the disaffected in the Southern Mahratta country, and no further disturbances are anticipated in that quarter. The chief of Nurgoond was, on conviction of rebellion, and the murder of Mr. Manson, exe- cuted at Belgaum on the 12th of June." Some of the minor incidents recorded are curious.

A body of rebels plundering in the Deal, have been beaten by the Tabsel I

of Caimgange. The Nawab of Rampore has defeated the rebels at Is- lamighur, and taken three out of their five guns. On the 3d of June a small band of rebels, with two guns, attacked Raat, in the Humeerpore district, but were defeated, with the loss of their two guns, by a force sent by the Chirkaree Rajah. Their leader, Martun Rao Tauha, was also killed, with twenty-five of his men. In the Punjaub "thirteen commissioned and non-commissioned native officers of the Fourth Native Infantry were blown away from guns at Jullundur on the 1st of June by sentence of a military court. On the 2d of June some mutineers crossed the Ravee, and, being joined by the Poorbeca labourers on the canal, plundered the bazaar at Madhopore, burnt a Euro- pean clerk, killed his wife and child, and wounded two other children. They were beaten off, and while recrossing the river a few were killed and a number drowned ; 2.50 of these men have since been arrested by the Maharajah of Cashmere." In general the rebels are very active. Large bands hover round Allahabad, at Soraon, at Gopeegunge, at a place a little west of Mirzapore. They are met by small flying columns, but we have few troops to send, and enemies in our own cantonments. Thus, on the 23d of May, the six new barracks at Allahabad were burnt by incen- diaries not yet traced. Two Europeans only were burnt, but the men are houseless, and the incident created a panic not easily allayed. The Calcutta papers urgently demand reinforcements from England. The Trurkarn says- " Let not the British public deceive itself or be deceived by any com- munications from this country. We want more men from England. It is no longer the case of a great struggle, in which the energy of our men might compensate their fewness, and perhaps the skill of a single com- mander bring home a glorious decision from a hard-fought field. It is no longer the case of a struggle which can, in its nature, be decided thus by any great conflict whatever. Is it expected that our forces, in this climate, at this season, for two-thirds of the Indian year can patrol half India, keep the communications open, maintain the security of trade, repress a uni- versal guerilla warfare, or even make head against it, and to show a front wherever it may choose to break out ? Are those forces able to remain et once an army in order to avoid being destroyed, and yet to become a police in order that the Indian Empire may avoid falling into chaos ?"

The Times correspondent at Calcutta is equally impressive on that most important element in the campaign, the weather.

" For twenty years no such season has been known. The little rains fell a fortnight before their time, and then ceased i and the land is one hue steam bath. At Calpee the thermometer in tents s 134° ; in Jugdospore it IX 130° ; and in Lower Bengal, within the reach of the sea breeze, it is 126'. In Calcutta, in a house hermetically sealed against the light, and with the punkah going, it stands steadily at 98'. Sickness is all but universal. The smallpox is bursting out here and there, half the European community bawl

fevers, and a moiety of the other half only escape the curse by an infliction which, though not unhealthy, is even more unendurable—innumerable boils. In Allahabai, out of 1,600 Europeans not 900 are fit for duty, and the number of deaths from " apoplexy' —that is, sunstroke—exceeds the mortality from all other sources. In the midst of all this there are regi- ments in which the stock is maintained, and in which punkahs paid for by Government are forbidden. This is a fact. The Royal Artillery are losing men at the rate of 14 per cent per annum exclusive of fighting casual- ties. Again, the men are now dressed in light-coloured cotton cloth, capital stuff to resist the climate; but their heads are still unprotected. They receive, it is true, a white cover for their caps, but it is no protection, except so far as its colour is concerned. No planter or engineer who had to be out in the sun would wear such a thing except over the Bola tepee,' the only hat for this climate, which Sir C. Napier advocated till he was sick, and which costs just six annas. I am diffuse on this point intentionally. Routine and the sun together are beating us, and I was told this morning that with all the reinforcements and recruits sent out we cannot muster even now 26,000 effective Europeans. By October a third of them will be off duty, for, though the soldiers do not get apoplexy in barracks, they do get liver complaint and low debilitating fevers."

The ;Wend of India states that the Barrackporo Sepoy regiments are to be disbanded at the rate of thirty men per week. Those who prefer to remain in the service are to go to China.

1r#ill a .—The latest dates from Hongkong is the 23d May ; the latest from the Peiho, where Lord Elgin was, is the 29th April. " The allied fleet, consisting of nineteen vessels of war, was at anchor eleven miles from the mouth of the Poiho, and 140 from Pekin. The yes- eels were separated by a mud bank from the Chinese forts which guard the mouth of the river, and which mount about eighty guns. The gun-boats had reconnoitred. Six days had been allowed to the Chinese for an answer from Pekin, and before that period an officer of proper rank had been de- puted to meet the Plenipotentiaries; but there was very little hope of a peaceful solution of difficulties, and the Sampsou had been sent to Hong- kong for reinforcements."

The Sampson had taken up two gun-boats. The reason why these were sent fbr was that the English despatch boats with the fleet stuck on the bar, while the French gun-boats easily passed over. The 59th Infantry had not left Hongkong. Two Bengal Native Regiments, the 65th and 47th, and 900 French Marines had arrived at Hongkong.

talrunia.—Accounts from San Francisco state that the whole floating population is on the move for New Caledonia. Already upwards of 2000 have started. They journey not only by sea but over- land, a new route through a country abounding in gran; and game, having been struck out, which occupies only eighteen days in the tran- sit. Speculators were buying up horses, mules, and cattle to drive to the new El Dorado. It is estimated that during the summer 50,000 persons will emigrate northwards. The Times correspondent says- " A very large immigration to the new mines is expected from the Ca- nadas and from the Western United States overland ; and if the means of cheap transit by way of Panama existed, no doubt a vast emigration would set in for this coast from Europe, particularly from Germany and France. The new gold country being British territory will favour emigration from these countries. In fact, so disgusted have Americans become by the mis- government of California, that most of them, even, who are going to the north give a preference to the country on this account. They feel they will have greater security of life and property, greater order, and better management generally. Of this preference they make no secret."

Some difficulty is anticipated from the disposition shown by Governor Douglas, who is a factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, to insist on retaining all the trade in the hands of his company. He has issued a proclamation prohibiting all trade by unauthorized persons.