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fraurt.—The Emperor returned to St. Cloud from Plombit:res on 'Tuesday. There he will remain until he sets out for Cherbourg, The following purports to he the Imperial itinerary.

"Leave Paris 3d of August. Stop at Mantes, Evreux, and Lisieux. Ar- rive the same day at Caen, where a ball is to be given. Leave Caen the 4th; stop at Bayeux and Carentan ; arrive at Cherbourg. 5th, 6th, and 7th, remain at Cherbourg, where there will he a ball on the 7th. Embark for Brest on the 8th, after havino. attended Divine service. 9th, arrive at Brest. 10th and 11th, remain at Brest. 12th, departure from Brest. 13th, departure from Quimper, arrive at l'Orient. 14th, remain at l'Orient. 15th, leave l'Orient, attend Divine service at St. Anne d'Auray ; arrive at Yatmes. 16th, leave 'Vannes, arrive at Napoleonville. 17th, leave Napo- leonville, arrive at St. Brieue for a ball. 18th, arrive at St. Maio. 19th, arrive at Rennes. 20th, remain at Rennes. 21st, leave Rennes and arrive at Paris."

Before the Emperor left his country retreat he received a visit from Count Cavour, with whom he had a prolonged conference. The Opin- ion, a Ministerial journal at Turin, says that this visit is a political event.

"In the present condition of the general polities of Europe it not only confirms the bonds of alliance and friendship betwecu France and Piedmont, but it attests, moreover, that the relations between the two States, and po- litical matters, rendered convenient an interview of the President of the Piedniontese Council with the man who holds in his hands the destinies of France and of Europe. Count Cavour went to Plombieres not only to offer his homage to the Emperor Napoleon, but a political reason must have called him on the eve of the Cherbourg meeting, whilst the Conference of Paris has not yet arranged the question of the Principalities, whilst Austria adopts in Italy precautions every day more anxious and energetic, and the aversion of her Lombardo-Venetian subjects grows every day more invincible, and more solid the alliance between Piedmont and France. '

When Mademoiselle Eveillard and M. Emerat Chancellor of the French Consul at Jeddah arrived at Marseilles they were met by the Prefect who took the young lady to the Prefecture. She bears on her face the mark of a deep wound, extending from the ear to the mouth. M. Emerat, who is of small stature, is covered with wounds. He received a cut across the head from a yataghan, and two sabre cuts on his arms. His left hand is severely wounded, and is still enveloped in a bandage; his right hand is slightly wounded, and he received a ball in the leg. The Prefect shook hands with him and announced to him that the Emperor had con- ferred the cross of the Legion of Honour on him. M. Emerat is twenty- five years of age.

tI gium.—Tli e Belgium Chamber of Representatives began on Mon- • day a debate on the proposed fortifications of Antwerp. The Govern- ment proposal is that the enceinte shall be enlarged so as to include two new docks and building yards, and that some ill-placed works shall be destroyed, and others be substituted in better positions. General Bertin, the Minister of War, said there is no desire to be able to concentrate the whole army within the walls of Antwerp. The idea of the Government is, that in case of invasion, which is never absolutely unforeseen, the army should be enabled to keep the field as long as it could hold its ground successfully, and fall back, in case of need, upon Antwerp, which would then 'become the cernral and sole point of the national defence of the country. On the other side, M. Loos, burgomaster of Antwerp, contended that the whole defences should be enlarged so as thoroughly to protect the town. M. Thieffiy supported the same plan, referring to the defensive works of Paris as an illustration. The recent visit of the Count de Chambord to Brussels has called forth some comment. A letter from that city says— "The reception given by our King to the head of the elder branch of the house of Bourbon has astonished the entire political world in this city. The Count de Chambord has been received as a crowned head, insomuch as the King never pays a personal visit except to a crowned head. The King not only paid a visit to the Count the Chambord, but he took the Duke and Duchess de Brabant with him. Leopold and the Count de Chambord ad- dressed each other as cousins, and the Count addressed the Duchess de Bra- bant sometimes as Ma Cousinc, and sometimes as Marie. The general opinion is, that the King was glad of an opportunity to show that he is no party to the plena attributed to the Orkin,* family. The Tuileries, it h said, is much better disposed towards the Count the Chambord than towards the Count de Paris."

Sift 111.—The Archduke Maximilian is said to have partially me. ceeded at Vienna in his efforts to obtain an improved system of govern. merit for Lombardy. It is said, on authority evidently German, that he "has been permitted to appoint a commission composed of three members of each of the two central Italian congregations, and of other members chosen by the Minister of Finance. This commission is to revise the present system of taxation applied to the Lombardo-Venetian provinces, and to place it on a footing of equality with the taxes collected in the other provinces of the Austrian monarchy. In order to comprehend the importance of this measure it must be known that the rate of taxation ia Italy is quite different from that of the other provinces, and that, although the population of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces forma only a sixth of the entire population of the empire, it pays one-third of the revenue derived from the direct taxes." Such is the first concession. "In the second place, last year it was not possible to complete the con- tingent of the conscription, and a new levy was about to be called for. This was a subject of public mourning, for this measure would have comprised a great number of only sons and of married men, the only support of their families. The Emperor releases the country from this debt, and regards the contingent as complete." The direction of the arts at Milan and Venice is to be restored to the Italians. The Independents of Turin quotes a letter from Venice, giving an account of a demonstration which took place there on the 20th July, when a numerous party of Milanese arrived by train to witness a public festival. The letter states that they were received at the station by a vast crowd, who saluted them with cries of; "Our Milanese brethren for ever!" that the town was illuminated in the evening, and that banquets were held, at which the toast "Viva il Pieraonto ! " was frequently given. The trials at Salerno were closed on the 19th July. Capital sentenoe was passed upon seven—Nieotera, a Neapolitan; Sant Andrea, a Ro- man ; Gagliani, a Milanese; Giordano, Valletta, Martino, and La Sala, Neapolitans. Condemned to twenty-five years in irons—Giovanni Poggi, Francesco Poggi, Rotta, and other foreigners. Nine of the pri- soners are condemned to the Ergastolo. Many are acquitted, and placed at liberty. It is said that the capital sentence will not be executed, be- cause the King had surrendered the British and Sardinian subjects found on board the Cagliari, and the Neapolitan jurisprudence has always ad- mitted the principle that every one of the accused has a right to profit by the means of defence granted to others. The singular incidents of these trials were not at end with the passing of sentence. As soon as this had been done, the Attorney-General pro- duced a sealed official document, which was opened and read. It an- nounced that the execution of the seven prisoners condemned to death was suspended. Yet the next day the Minister of Grace and Justice, seeing one of the advocates of the prisoners in Naples, said " What ! you here and your clients in eapella ?" "Sir, the execution of the punish- ment has been suspended." " Suspended !" exclaimed the Minister; "go directly to Salerno, tell the Attorney-General to send a report of the trial, and you advocates go to the King and implore his Royal mercy." It is asked did the King suspend the sentences on, his own authority without informing his Ministers? gpti il.—The Queen of Spain is travelling through the Asturias and Gallicia. Her progress is said to resemble the passage of a caravan through the desert. There are 185 persons belonging to the serridumbre, or personal service of Royalty, exclusive of Ministers, their respective attendants, and the numerous public functionaries' who, from their posi- tion' are obliged to form part of the expedition. Among others are the Duchess Dowager of Alba Grand Mistress of the Robes (camerera mayor), the Governess of her Royal Highness the Infanta„ the Mar- chioness de Malpica, the Grand Equerry, the King's Aides-de-Camp, his Majesty's Majordomo, the Marquis of Alcanices, the Patriarch of the Indies, the Archbishop of Cuba, the Queen's confessor, physicians, and apothecaries, the piano masters ladies of honour and waiting women in the Queen, hairdressers, launcl;essess,porters ushers, chaplains, guards, halberdiers, head cooks, cooks' assistants, kitchen boys, nurse, and nurse's superintendents, a staff of secretaries, intendants, and assistants, &e. The journey and return will cost about 20,0001. The contractor for horses to the Madrid bullring supplies 30 animals for the couriers who precede the Queen's carriage, the horses in the Royal stables being all engaged.

Dtautark.—A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg, says, that intel" ligence from Copenhagen announces the suppression of the Ministry for affairs cemmon to the Danish Monarchy and the Duchies. M. Krieger is definitively appointed Minieter of Finance. M. Unsgaard succeeds him as Minister of the Interior, for Denmark alone. ainitturgrn.—Despatches have been received in Paris to the effect that the Turks, to the number of 3000, had attacked the Montenegrins on their own territory. Some men were killed. Prince Danilo found himself under the necessity of bringing up reinforcements. The Porte disavows these acts, and has signified to the Powers that it had sent for- mal orders to forbid any repetition of them, g fit kEll.—Advices from Constantinople state that the Minister of Police, Mehemet Pasha, has been sent to Candia on a special mission by his Government. The Minister is provided with fresh instructions. It was time. The Christians have preferred a petition to the Porte, con- taining the following series of accusations— "1. The Turks have assassinated Christians in the southern province without any motive. 2. They have violated and mutilated females in the satne province after having despoiled them of all they possessed. 3. They have illtreated and robbed all those who have been unfortunate enough to fall in with their bands, or have been surprised by them. 4. They mato particularly ill-treated in the most horrible manner the Bishop of Arcadia, who was proceeding from his usual residence to a place of greater security ; they stopped him on the road, and after taking away his clothes and morale, plucked out his beard, beat him, and left him on the ground in a most pitiable condition. 5. They have cut down or burnt the olive and other fruit trees in a great number of localities; and in other parts they have torn up the small trees and carried them away for their own use. 6. They have everywhere cut 'down the crops of the Christians in the fields, and destroyed what they could not carry away. 7. They have in many places ill-used the women .the.preseuce of their husbands, whom they bound hand and foot ; they have acted in a similar manner to a number of young or. Is both in towns and in the country. 8. They have carried off from the co." event of St. George 12,000 piastres in cash, and precious objects to the {-alue of 20,000 piastres more. 9. They have broken open the doors of the two churches of Rethymo, and on entering smashed the images, the lames, and other sacred objects, and having torn open tombs, took away the bones, and scattered them about."

They say they can no longer bear such treatment, and they pray that an end may be put to these atrocities. Some violence has been offered to the Christians at Alexandria, but the offenders were instantly arrested. The Sultan has granted a pension of 12,000 francs to Mademoiselle Eveillard, and has placed 250,000 francs at the disposal of the French Ambassador in Constantinople to be distributed to the French families who suffered most in the recent events in that town.

S.—Telegraphic despatches from Bombay to the 3d July arrived in London on Thursday. They consist of messages to the India House, the Foreign Office, and the newspapers, and contain several interesting details of the progress of our arms. The recapture of Gwalior is con- firmed. "On the 16th of June the Central India Field Force from the east, and the Sepree Brigade from the south, had concentrated round Owalior. On the 17th four guns were taken by the Seepree Brigade. On the 18th the flame of Jhansi was killed. On the 19th the town and Palace of Gwalior were taken by Sir Hugh Rose, after an action which lasted five hours and a half. The Fort was successfully stormed next day by a detachment of the 25th Bombay Native Infantry. Their brave leader, Lieutenant Rose (? Rice) was killed. A column of horse artillery and cavalry, under Brigadier General Napier, was sent in pursuit of the rebels ; and Colonel Riddell's column from Dholepore was directed by Sir Hugh Rose to cross the Chumbul and pursue the fugitives. The Brigadier General Napier overtook them on the 21st near Goura-Alipore, and the old Bombay road, defeated them, captured twenty-five guns, and cut up a considerable number. Tantia Tepee Maras and the Nawab of Banda have, it is be- lieved, escaped. Brigadier Napier has continued the pursuit towards dub- bulnore. On the 20th of June Sir Hugh Rose and Sir R. Hamilton con- cluded the Maharajah of Gwalior to his Palace. The streets through which they passed were lined by immense crowds who received the Maharajah with every appearance of attachment. The Balsa Baee, with the family of Scindia, returned under the escort of Sepree brigade, and are now in the Palace with the Maharajah. "The rebels from Gwalior, with Tantia Tepee, crossed the Chumbul, arrived at Sincemon on the 24th of June. On the 26th their numbers, with camp followers, were estimated at 15,000. They still retain a few small guns mounted on elephants. They appear undecided as to whether they

shall Jeypore or Churpore. A flying column under General Roberts,

from Nusseerabad, advanced towards Jeypore on die 27th of June. It is stated that the first intelligence of the movements of the rebels caused great excitement at Jeypore, which has since greatly subsided. Brigadier Showers had marched to Futtehpore Sikri on the 26th June. He was to be reinforced by a detachment returning to Agra. In order to be ready to prevent any attempt of the rebels to penetrate into Bombay a flying column was in progress of organization at Mhow.

From Oude we hear of a victory obtained by Sir Hope Grant over the rebels at Nawabgunge on the 13th. June. It is thus described in a letter from Lucknow, June 15, published by the Times.

"Since I wrote to you on Sunday, General Grant has made a good ex- ample of a large body of the rebels at Nawabgunge (Boree Bunkee). Of the fact you will have heard by telegraph, but some of the details may interest you, which I briefly give you. Our force—the two brigades of Rifles, 90th, 5th Punjab, 18 guns, and some 1500 cavalry—left Churhut at 11 at night, came to the bridge across the nullah before daylight, and here the action commenced. The enemy defended the bridge with two guns. Our fire soon silenced them, and the rifle skirmishers did the rest. The enemy fled pre- cipitately towards the jungle on this side, and when they had secured their retreat turned and sent in an ill-directed fire of grape and round shot. Our guns replied, and they retreated altogether, leaving one gun. This party did not lose many men. In the meantime their guns opened on the right, and all the mobs who were in the topes round Nawabgunge advanced and

attacked in front, our right, and rear, all at once. Some of these did not fight at all, but others showed great pluck, and stood to their guns obsti-

nately. One body for an hour and a half stood their ground, in perfectly open ground, within 400 yards of our guns, which were firing grape and round shot. The rebel loss here was very great ; all their gunners were killed. A _party of infantry stood in the open against two com- panies of the Rifles, and received their charge without running ; they were all either bayonetted or killed with clubbed muskets. Some forty footmen received a charge of the 7th Hussars, who rolled them all over; all but one man got up again, but the Hussars came back and killed the whole of them. I mention these instances to show you with what determination some part of the rebels fought. Their loss has been con-

sequently heavy, and is estimated at 600 and six excellent guns. The fight lasted from half-past 4 to half-past 7 a. m. The rebels were utterly. routed,

and have fled across the Gogra, at Bairam Ghaut. Our loss was six killed andthirty wounded, I believe ; but, alas ! the sun afterwards, I hear, knocked over a number of men. There seems to have been some mistake in keeping the Hussars exposed, for they lost a number of men. There was no long

pursuit, and General Grant was most careful of his men ; but these new men—some of them—do not know what it is even to get into a tope of trees.

The engagement was most creditable to our troops, for they were actually surrounded by 20,000 of the enemy, who evidently relied on their numbers. Some chiefs are killed and wounded. This engagement will have a good effect, I hope." The notorious Moulvie, Ahmedoole Fahkan, of Fyzabad and Lucknow, has been killed in the Shahjehanpore district, at Pawean, which place he had attacked with 5000 men.

The rebels who were driven out of the Jugdespore jungles made for Ghazeepore. Frustrated in their attempts on that place, one portion went southward, plundering and burning all villages whose inhabitants they suppose to be well affected ; while "several large parties," crossing the Ganges made for Oude, burning the property of the Government and "plundering several large towns by the way.' Nearly all the rebels seem to make for Oude or to be driven there. Brigadier Rowcroft, Major Cox, and a native chief, have defeated Mo- hamed Hussein in the Gorruckpore district, captured all his camp-equi- , and driven him into Oude. We read of disturbances in the Ba- y district, " excitement " on the southern frontier of the Agra dis- bid, and on the frontier of Allahabad. The Rajah of Mynpoorie has surrendered on the promise that his life should be spared. The station of Gya has been reinforced by 300 Madras Rifles. Her Majesty's 77th Regiment, 599 strong, had arrived from Australia, and will be immediately moved up to Dinaporo. A wing of the 2d battalion 60th Rifles has been sent to Dacca, Central India.

The Governor-General, on receiving Lord Ellenborough's despatch, issued a proclamation, giving amnesty to all but murderers.

Lord Ellenborough's despatch is said to have been unanimously con- demned. The Friend of India, a strenuous opponent of Lord Canning, thus speaks of it.

" Thus far the President appears to have fulfilled his duty well. He had mitigated without recalling the obnoxious menace. He had expressed in terms not to be mistaken the diaepproval of her Majesty. He had hinted not ambiguously at the policy which must hereafter be followed with the landholders of Oude ; but Nature, who has bestowed upon Lord Ellen- borough no stinted measure of her choicest gifts, has denied him the minor attributes of prudence and good taste. He has inserted in the despatch words condemning the annexation of Oude, and, though as out of place as a diatribe against Hengist, they were in the Secret Committee at least simply silly. Secrecy, however, is not in the character of the intellectual charla- tan. The paper was shown to Mr. Bright, was hawked about over the clubs, and at last published for both Houses. A proceeding more thoroughly opposed to all maxims of policy, to the most common and necessary eti- quette of Governments, we never remember to have seen. We utterly abominate the Oude proclamation. It is to us the most perfect example of what Arthur Helps is wont to call the tyranny of weakness. An official condemnation was required, but sooner than that condemnation should be published, we would have endured another year of administrative anarchy. The publication is a direct attack, not on Lord Canning, which matters no- thing, but ou the authority of the Governor-General, which is essential to the empire. It proclaims at once to every native that a menace or a pro- mise from the Governor-General of India may be made of none effect. How is pence ever to be secured if the word of the Government for good or for evil la not to be absolutely sacred ? The natives distrust our proclama- tions already. Liars themselves, they believe official words to be only in- struments to conceal official thought. Lord Ellenborough has contrived to add one additional distrust—to prove that, even when true, the words may be ineffectual. As for the evil so much dwelt on in England of telling the Oude men they are patriots, it is little in comparison. The Sepovs do not fight for patriotism, or the landholders either. They think themselves already in the right, and no approval uttered by a Kaffir Peer is likely to increase much the happy quiescence of their consciences. But the evil of publicly upsetting such an order, of teaching men in arms that the menaces of their rulers are mere talk, cannot be exaggerated. Nor, to revert to the personal aspect of the question, can we perceive the manliness of publishing such a censure, while declining the responsibility of recall. The Oude pro- clamation was ground sufficient for the removal of Lord Canning. It would have been ground sufficient for the removal of his father. But, gladly as we should hail the accession of Sir John Lawrence to supreme power, we cannot, as Englishmen, commend the man who, afraid to dismiss a servant, insults him into resignation. Lord Canning may hold on in spite of the despatch, but its intention is as manifest as its imprudence."

The Press Act expired on the 13th of June, without a remark in the Legislative Council. Some curious incidents are mentioned in the Indian letters brought by an earlier arrival. Among others this almost incredible story is told- " Colonel Stratton, of her Majesty's 77th, just arrived from Australia, marched his men to Dumdum, eight miles, with their stocks on. An hour after he and his instructor in rifle practice were both dead of apoplexy." The kind of weather in which this amazing act was done is thus de- scribed.

"The sun has been more deadly than the enemy. As if to try the endu- rance of Englishmen to the utmost, the season has been such as has not been known since 1833. Those who know Bengal will understand it when I say that on the 15th instant, one clergyman in Calcutta buried forty-eight Englishmen, chiefly sailors. In one ship the captain, chief mate, and twenty-six men had all apoplexy at once. Nine men from Fort William were 'buried one morning from the eame cause. Her Majesty's 19th, at Barrackpore, who are nearly all under cover, and who are most carefully looked after, have 200 men unfit for duty from immense boils. All over the country paragraph after paragraph announces the deaths of so ninny men at such a place from apoplexy. Fortunately the rains are setting an, and in a month it will be comparatively cool." Husun Ushkeree, a prophet, deeply implicated in the Delhi treasons, was hung on the 29th May. The Delhi Gazette states that two of the murderers of a Mrs. Matthews had been hanged at that city. They were principals in the act, and it was elicited in evidence at their trial that they had stripped the deceased, who was a very old woman, naked, and covered her with straw, to which they set fire.

41g. .—Advices from the Peiho River come down to the 21st May.

It appears that the Plenipotentiaries arrived in the Gulf of Pecheli on the 14th April, the Russian being the first at the rendezvous. Lord Elgin had with him a line-of-battle-ship, a frigate, and four gun-boats. Baron Gross had two corvettes and three gun-boats. It was hoped that with this force the forts would be attacked and the river opened. Tan, the Governor-General of the province, and other Mandarins, appeared on the scene to act as commissioners, but they were found to be without powers. On the 29th April the Nimrod, Cormorant, Coromandel, and Slaney, with three French gun-boats, were put across the bar, the water being too shallow for other vessels. Orders were issued for small arm men to be in readiness to land. But the expected attack did not then come off.

"It appeared that the Ambassadors had called on the naval authorities to act, and that the latter had declined, in consequence of the smallness of the force. To us, who had inspected the so-called forts from every point of view, with many of their embrasures containing flags instead of guns, and their scanty garrison, of which the largest computation at that time amounted to only. 500 men, this refusal to act seemed incredible."

Every day has increased the force of the Chinese in men and guns. On our aide, the number of English vessels was raised to fifteen/ the French to ten. The Russians had one small steamer, and the Americans two huge frigates and a tender in the gulf. The long delay in com- mencing operations is imputed to the French Admiral. At last, a forms sufficient had assembled ; and on the 20th May the attack was made. The despatch of Admiral Seymour giving an account of that and preceding operations has been published, and from it we extract some passages. "From the arrival of the Ambassadors on the 14th April the Chinese have used every exertion to strengthen the forte at the entrance of the Peiho earthworks, sand-bag batteries, .and parapets for the heavy gingalls, have been erected on both sides for a distance of nearly a mile in length, upon which eighty-seven guns in position were visible, and the whole shore had been piled to oppose a landing. As the channel is only about 200 yards wide, and runs within 400 yards of the shore, these defences presented a formidable appearance. Two strong mud batteries, mounting respectively the river, in a position to command our advance. In the rear, several entrenched camps were visible, defended by flanking bastions,, and it was

known that large bodies of troops had arrived from Pekin. All the forts and the camps were covered with the various coloured flags, under which the troops of the eight banners,' as the Tartar soldiers are styled, range themselves." Tan was then summoned to deliver up the forts in two hours.

"No answer having been returned to the summons by ten o'clock, the signal agreed upon was made and the gun-boats advanced m the prescribed order,

led by the Cormorant. The Chinese opened fire immediately, and the signal to engage was made a few minutes afterwards from the Blaney. By the time all the vessels had anchored in their respective stations, the effects of our well-directed fire had became very apparent. The first fort was entirely dismantled and abandoned, and the second partially so, while those on the north side had been completely subdued by the Cormorant and two English gun-boats. At the short range within which we engaged, every shot told, and many of the massive embrasures of mud were levellei by shells. At the end of an hour and a quarter the enemy's fire ceased. The landing

parties were then pushed on shore, the one for the north forts under the orders of Captain Sir F. Nicholson and Captain Leveque, and that for the south forts under Captains Hall and Reynaud, Flag Captains, the Royal Ma- rines on each side being commanded by Major Robert Boyle and First Lieu- tenant M`Callum. Owing to the destructive fire from the gunboats, but lit- tle opposition was made to our landing, and the Chinese troops were observed moving offin masses while our people were in the boats. The flags of the al- lied powers soon replaced those of the Chinese. On the south side 200 large gingalls were found in position near the landing place, on an embankment. Having obtained possession' the dismantling of the works was commenced, and field-pieces landed for the protection of the forces against the possible attacks of the Chinese. Shortly after the landing our gallant allies sus- tained a melancholy and heavy loss of men, killed and wounded, by the accidental explosion of a magazine. Wheu all the vessels had taken up their positions a bold attempt was made to send down upon them a long ar- ray of junks, filled with straw in flames, and drawn across the river; but they fortunately grounded, and, though the people guiding them down the river with ropes made great efforts to get them off, a few shells from the Bustard drove them away, and the vessels burnt out without doing any damage. Much skill and labour had been expended in the construction of these forts. The guns were much better east, and not so unwieldy as those in the Canton River, and were better equipped in every respect. They had good canister shot, and the hollow 8-inch shot appeared imitations from our own. There were several English guns in the batteiies. Directions were now sent to Captain Sir F. Nicolson and Capitaine Leveque to advance and capture the two forts up the river, which had kept up a smart fire. This movement was successfully executed, under the supporting fire from the Bustard, Staunch, and Opossum. Several intrenched camps were also de- stroyed. The Chinese stood well to their guns, notwithstanding shot, shell, and rockets were flying thickly around them. Most of the gun-boats were hulled, some several times, while boats, spars, and rigging were cut by round shot, grape, and gingen balls. This signal success, alter the Chinese had ample time to fortify their position, and were confident of their strength, may probably have a greater moral effect on the Chinese government than if we had attacked them in the first instance, when they were less prepared."

The advance was carried as far as Takeo where a barrier of junks filled with combustibles extended across the river, and similar obstruc- tions were observed higher up. Here the outpost on that side was established.

Our loss in these operations was five killed, and sixteen wounded. The loss of the French was six killed and sixty-one wounded. The Admiral states that he was making arrangements for a further advance up the river to Tientsin, a town eighty miles from Pekin.

At Canton there had been a skirmish with certain "braves," but the accounts of the affair are too confused and contradictory to be under- stood. One thing is clear : it was not creditable to the allies.

ti54 if.—Advices from the Frazer River to the middle of' June have been received via San Francisco. Two steamers had begun to run up and down the Frazer River with the sanction of Governor Douglas. The war-ship Satellite was stationed at the river's mouth to prevent unlicensed boats from going up, and to stop all boats carrying spirituous liquors. Governor Douglas and Captain Prevost of the Satellite had gone up the river, appointed customhouse-officers to prevent illegal trading, and had chosen magistrates from among the diggers to keep the peace. "The Hudson's Bay Company is pursuing a conciliatory course, and keeping favour successfully." The goods of Americans convicted of illegal trading had been confiscated. The miners were allowed to carry full supplies for themselves. The yield of gold, notwithstanding the height of the waters, is good. The average is from ten to sixteen dollars a day, while "big strikes" amounting to 250 dollars, are sometimes re- ported. The gold is obtained by washing upon the bars of the rivers. The implements used are of the rudest kind—in one instance the trunk of a tree perforated by an "iron spoon." Provisions were very expensive. The Indians were quiet and engaged in gold digging themselves, or in taming high wages as guides and helps.

The reports from the gold district had produced effects in California described as a "vast commotion," a "fever," a "mania," an "universal stampede" northwards. A letter from San Francisco, June 21, gives a glimpse of the state of the country.

"San Francisco looks like a raining city—just as she seemed ten years ago. Her streets are alive with red, blue, and grey-shirted men—rough, stalwart fellows, ranging about in squads with picks, shovels, pans, blankets, and primitive little rockers on their shoulders. Almost a decade has passed since such scenes were witnessed here. Shopkeepers are overrun with cus- tomers they have never dreamt of seeing at their counters. This is the grand purchasing point of all sorts of miners' supplies, for the vast hordes of people congregating here from every part of California, bound for Puget Bound. Fully 12,000 persons have departed for the land of promise in the last two months, and probably the actual total is not less than 15,000. That the next two months will carry off an equal number there is no guestion, and it is safe to assume, from all .present appearances, that the entire exodus from California during the first six months of the Frazer River fever will reach the enormous figure of 40,000. The rapidity and extent of this emigration hasnever been paralleled. The arrivals by up-river steamers in San Francisco during the last week have averaged five hundred nightly of the Frazer River-bound, and St is safe to say that the departures from this city for the north have reached the same daily average. Those who have lately travelled througli the moun- tains say that the principal roads in the interior present an appearance simi- lar to the retreat of a routed army. Stages, express waggons, and vehicles of every character, are called into requisition for the immediate emergency, and all are crammed, while whole battalions are pressing forward on horse or muleback and on foot. Of course, the shipments of merchandise from Ban Francisco are very large, to keep pace with this almost instantaneous thirty-three and sixteen guns, had been also constructed about 1000 yards emigration of thousands to a region totally =supplied with the commodities necessary for their use and sustenance. The mania is by no means limited to miners, but seems to have operated with inflaming power on all classes alike. Even newspaper men, the most inveterate and pertinacious of all, are about leaving in considerable numbers. A lively lousiness has been doing within the last few days in the hardware and clothing lines, as well as by the vendors of groceries and provisions. Almost all from the interior require a new fit out, in whole or in part. Revolvers, rifles, shot-guns and knives, pickaxes' shovels and hoes, rocker-iron drills and rifle-boxes, flan- nel shirts, thick coats and pants, water-boots, oil-cloths and waterproof clothes-bags, and a thousand other articles too numerous to mention 'have been in demand. So great is the rush, that although numerous sidling.. vessels are up for Fraser River, yet hundreds will be unable to obtain imme- diate passage, and we learn that hundreds more are waiting at Sacramento and Stockton for conveyance to this city."

According to the latest intelligence from Washington, General Scott has issued preparatory orders for all the available troops on the Atlantic seaboard to be ready to reinforce the army in Washington territory. This is partly done in consequence of the aggressive movements of the Indians. But we must remember that the Washington territory is on the borders of British Columbia.

Itt it I'll f5.—The City of Washington arrived at Liverpool, on

Thursday, with advices from New York to the 17th July.

There is little news of general interest. The great heat at Washing- ton, and indeed all over the country, had seriously affected health. Gene.. nil Cass has been much indisposed. Mr. Forsyth, Minister to Mexico, broke off negotiations with the de facto Government of Zuluago because that chief levied a forced loan. He has been sustained by the Washing- ton Cabinet, and, it is said, directed to return home with the legation.

Advices from Utah to the 18th June state that the conditions agreed upon at the conference between Governor Cumming, the Peace Com- missioners, and the heads of the Mormon Church, are, that the troops shall enter the city without opposition ; that the civil officers shall be permitted to perform their duties without interruption ; and that uncon- ditional obedience shall be paid to the laws of the land ; while on the other hand past offences are to be forgiven, as was stated in the Presi- dent's proclamation. All the houses in the city had been closed against both civil officers and strangers, except one, which was occupied by the Governor and his family. Everybody else was obliged to sleep in the waggons or on the ground.