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Mao& —Ossuasses & INS WATIZ AT LONDON AMOK NIB 104. Alharsoes. 4b. loamerimp—alimmft, illes.....Agawas. 400. LONDON. EATI7RDAY, DEC. 15. Ir now appeal% that the capital of China fell into our hands without • blow being struck in its defence. The latest authentic news by the last mail was dated Sept. 23, when the allied army was waiting for its heavy guns at about seven miles from Pekin. Eleven days appear to have been spent in preparations for an advance, and on the fourth • discursive movement was made in search of the Tartar army supposed to be near the city. Although the allied troops swept over a largo area, nothing but pickets of the enemy could be discovered. On the 6th the summer or country palace of the Emerson was attacked, the eunuchs in charge of it being easily overpowered, when the building was sacked, its treasures yielding on a sale nearly • hundred thousand dollars as prize money for the army. If the account given in the letter of an officer which we extract from the North China Mail is at all near the mark, the property wantonly destroyed by the soldiers, such as clocks and watches, rich drapery, mirrors, rolls of silk, and the like, must have been worth millions, and, as he observes, would have amounted to a large instalment of the indemnity claimed. On the evening of the 6th the allied generals repeated their demand for the surrender of the prisoners, and further required the delivery of the North Gate of Pekin into our hands. We hear nothing of the EMPtllli,ll in the communications that foil ,wed, and a report was already circulat ing in the camp that ho had fled to a northern palace. The local authorities having nothing but the safety of the city to care for, intimated at eon that all the prisoners who were in their power should be released, and on the Bth Mann. Palters and Lutli, with a French officer, and some private soldiers, were set at liberty and returned to the camp. In a day or two we shall learn on their own authority what they suffered in captivity. The indignities put upon them while in the hands of s as related in the camp letter in another column, are just such as we might expect from a general who, as a Tartar, beheies every stranger to be a natural enemy, and a, a Chinese has the invasion of his country to avenge. At Pekin they were harshly treated during the tint period of their imprisonment ; the subsequent improvement in their condition corre sponds in date with the tlig'.t of the Eisexaoa. Of the treatment of the missing English prisoners, Captains ANDLIISON and Ha tutios, Mr. Di: Non, nail, and Mr. MOWLBV. Messrs. PARKE: , and Locn knew nothing, but supposed th-in to be with Sail -114.1.111911N.,. army. Unless the authorities at Pekin have deceived oe--aad General will look to that—we fear -....111111111 eat the survivon may , Ilmi gaol Prince. If that is ea, their recovery !fir be delayed for a period painful to contem plate, since there is no reason to suppose that the people at Pekin have the least control over the Tartar General, or that he would be moved by any sufferings inflicted on them. The 13th of October was the term allowed by Sir Hors GIANT for the peaceful surrender or the assault of Pekin, and on the morning of that day, the siege guns being all in readiness to breach the walls, and the plan of the assault issued, a Chinese official whom we had known as the Hoppo of Canton, came out and announced that all our de ssands--that is, our demands on the city—were w eeded to, that no resistance would be made, sad the gate would be opened to us. The outer and inner gates and the ramparts were occupied by the Allies, and the flags of England and France waving aloft announced that Pekin was ours. The taking possession of Pekin is the last event in the narrative of this most extraor dinary campaign. The city is now completely in our power, and we can do what we like with it, short of coercing it to the point at which the people would withdraw and leave us without sup plies. And now that wo have got it, what thoughts are transmitted to us from the camp? It is the old story. " Diplomacy," says one writer dating from Pekin, " must " now take the place of war, and we shall watch " with great anxiety and doubt the successful " result" Another writer, who strongly insists on a " firm policy," says Whether we shall " treat before the release of the other prisoners is " not known. If SA-wwuxs►N remain obdurate, " notwithstanding the defeat of his army at all " points, we may have to do so, or the end will " never oome." We have taken the north gate, but the west we must sot touch, because it is hoped that by that Prince lirno, the PI- Roe's brother, may be induced to return to the city from which he has been frightened. So again of the Palace of Pekin ; we have destroyed one outside, but the En =SOWS city residence must be spared, lissaine its destruction, though deserved, would not only bring down the present Govern ment but prevent the organization of a new one under our protection, should it be desirable to take that course. We at home may talk glibly about destroying Pekin, temple by temple, palace by palace, and house by house, but soldiers in the field are obliged to look at facts and keep close to common sense. The state of the case is shortly this. Having taken Pekin we have nothing further to threaten the EXPIROII with. We cannot go in pursuit of the Tartar army ; even if it were otherwise desir►ble we have not the force. We can hold the capital as long as we like as a material guarantee—of an augmented English income tax. To leave Pekin, we must either make terms with the old EIIPAKOR or set up a sew one, whom we must then protect. In any Gees we shall have to come to a treaty, and trust once more to Chinese faith. If we delay to do one of these things, that which is said to be happening in a province next to that of Pekin may teach us what we have to expect. Chinese Governments will start up on all hands, the empire will be broken up, and we way have to deal with five Emperors, make five treaties, appoint five ambse seders, resent five broaches of faith, and carry on five wars. (De Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Doc. 14. The Duchene of Cambridge mad Prime.. Diary, sanded by Lady Geraldine Somme. sad Lirat,Ookmal Purees, arrived yesterday afternoon cm s visit to her Majeity. The following visitors Mamie* arrived at the Oaeth 2b Duke of Atka. the Marva' of Chandos, Visecisat Sydney, Lad sad Leidy Chinehill, the Right Hon. We O. C. Lewis, sad the Right Hoe. Lieut• General and lAdy Alice Pi Is the *reeling her Majesty's dinner party included Primers Altos, Prhme Allred. the Princess of Leiningen, Priam Louis of Hems, Lord Melees Paget, Baron Vet Weaterweller, ad the vidtere wherarriesd in the sftersoas. The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner. Her Majesty's private teed afterwards performed in the drawing.r men. The tjuees, accempaaisd by Princess Alice, and Princess Mary of Canibridepe, drove out in an open carriage this morning, attended by Lord C. Fitsßoy. The Duchess et Cambridge also drove out sad visited the Duchess at Heat, at Frogmen. The Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred and Prins Loris of Hines, went out shooting. The Marquis of Cbandoe, Viseount Sydney, Lord Churchill, and, the Right Hon. Sir William Hayter, had the honour of sccompenying the Royal party. The Countem de Flahault was presented to her Majesty by the Duchess of Atholl, Lady-is-Waiting to the Queer. Lord Clarence Paget left the Castle far London. A meeting of the Connell of the Duchy of Cornwall was held yeiterday at the Duchy-001os, Buckingham•gate, St. Jamm's.park. There wen present the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir William Dunbar ; the Attorney-General, Si William John Alexander ; the Tromnrer, Colonel the Hoy. Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps ; the Duke of Newcastle ; sad the Secretary, Mr. James Robert Gardiner. Sir Charles Grey bad an interview with the Duke of New. castle yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day. An appeal from the Admiralty Court—" The Schwalbe" (part beard)—was concluded. Judgment was postponed. As appeal from the Admiralty Court—" The East Lothise—wee commenced. Inpnebes win received et the Colsola-office from the Goverson of the West India Islands. Caws= COIIWCIL. --13Etm mouses have been iasual for • Cabinet Osisacdl this afternoon, at Lord Palmeraton's affil rssidsass, is Down ing.street. His Royal Highuen; the Duke of Cambridge visited, es Genera Commanding-ia•Chiet, the Wellington Coflap yesterday._ Their Serene Highnesses the Prince awl Princess of Leiniagen have arrived at Howediile Hotel from visiting the Duchess of Kest at Frogmen. The Karl of St. Germans comes to town to-day from Port Ehot, OesearalL The noble sari gems to Windsor Cattle on ,Mosimy, to attend the Chapter of the Order of the Genet, am Lent Steward of her Majesty's Household. The Bed and Countess Stauhope have left town co a Olt to Lad and lady Harry Vase, at their seat at Batt* annex. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained a select elm!, at dinner lAA evening, at their mitlence in Berkeley- OVUM. Colonel and Lady Henrietta Ogilvy have arrived in town from Northamptonshire. Colonel Kemeys-Tyute, IL P., has arrived at Tonton's Hotel frogs Totten Ham, Somenetahire. The Hon. mud Rev. !Doug,las Gordon, together with his brothers t►e Has. Colonel Gordop and Mr. Arthur Goedoe, constantly attended the late Lord Aberdeen during his late Moots Rim lordship's only surriving brother and the ether members of his family in England were also pre sent at his decease. The screw ateamahip St. George, SO, Capt. the Hoe. Francis Egerton, from Portland, arrived yesterday at Plyinonth. It im reported there that his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who recently returned from the ('ape of Good Hoye in the frigate Euryalus es midshipmen, will join the et. George at Plytnonth on the liah of January, and that prvtioat to her cli port,,re all the ofikeri of his new ship will haws the honour of being ra..eLted to her Majesty the Queen id WiLdeor. CHINA. -.- We have received this morning by the regular mail a further batch of China papers. The following, from the North China Herald, refers to the northern rebellion : Great expectations have arisen with regard to th e reported revolt in the province of Shan-hai. There seems to be no doubt that a serious outbreak has really taken place in the provincial city of Tia-yuen, which is fast spreading over the whole province. The extortion and cruelty of the mandarins was as usual the muse of the rising, and, if report be true, no few of those official gentry have met the fate they richly deserve. Unheard-of oppression and most wanton cruelty must indeed have been practised to induce the inhabitant' of the next province to Chili to brave the imperial displeasure, while such an immense army of Tarter' is near at hand to punish them as soon as some patched up arrangement with the barbarians affords them time and opportunity to do so. Probably the success of the allies induced the people to take the law in their own hands ; but be that sa it may, there can be no doubt that the revolt in Shan -hei may be made of most valuable assistance to us at the North, now that things look so utterly bad, that every straw must be clutched at. Chinese down here assist that it is the intention of the Shan-hsi folk to elect their lender Emperor, and as soon as mosso warrants it, and when they have a large enough army, they intend searching on Pekin to gain possession at the imperial seals, to which the Chinese attach a veneration that we can form se idea oL So that the urdertunate Tartars, could the fillen-hed people be kept up to their intention, and some little aanietenee be granted them, will find themselves between two armies, one of which will effe :Welly prevent any supplies main from the north-west provinces from reaebiag the imperial camp. In the event of our occupation of Pekin during the winter nothing can be more fortunate than this outbreak in Shan-hsi. Once convince the insurgent. that we sympa thise with them and they will take care that supplies of all kinds, especially fuel, reach our quarters regularly. The fame of the afire as payers in hard cash and at remunera. tive prices has spread far and wide, and the Chinese people are only too anxious to have dealings with us if they eon get rid al Mandarin supervision. We shall be terribly hard premed for various supplies, especially firewood and char coal, during the winter campaign in the North, unless we mu by hook or by crook make friends with the Chinese. With a very alight posh the dissatisfaction now pervading Shan-d would spread over t►e provisoes of Chili, where the people have groaned for some time under the sway of the Tartan. Forced unremunerated labour has undoubtedly bad the 'renal effect on the patient people. Could they but me any ewe way by which they could overthrow the im• portal yoke, and be protected against the consequences of such a =ware, they would rise to-morrow, and people near the allied camps who now keep aloof from us would speedily corn* to our assistance, the conveyance of material to the front would be no longer difficult, and supplies of all kinds to any amount would reach us. The North China Herald has also the following statement : There are in the outlying countries to the north and west of China proper, vast muntries inhibited by Mongols and other tribes who are ruled by some forty-eight wangs or kings. These kings are feudal nasals of the Emperor of China, and the Tartars reigning at Pekin. The forty-eight waags are constantly, according to rotation, in attendance at the capital, when their sons have granted unto them the daughters of the Emperor as wives, and are further fa voured by the presentation of °floes of trust under the imperial sway. Of course the real object of all this is to bold the sea in honourable bondage at Pekin as a hostage for the fidelity of his father governing a district in Manchuria or towards the mountain boundary of Thibet. Wham the danger of a foreign attack ceased to be a joke at Pekin, and it was diesovered by the translations from English newspaper' and other documental constantly sent to the high authorities, that England had determined on send ing an armed forte to China, these eight-and-forty tributary kings were ordered to send every one of them ten thousand armed soldiers for the protection of the sovereign. They pry:sniped to obey, but reasoned justly with themselves that probably the troops so seat would never return, and that then their territories would be left defenceleu, so they sent a few men end massy promises, and the Emperor was compelled to send the most urgent and commanding despatches to them ; for when the forte were taken not one fifth of the proper number of Tartars had joined. In order to enable reinforcements to come up, the defence of Tien tsin was abandoned, and Ewell/sag wee seat down with orders to delay the barbarians by all the means in his power. He did his work beautifully, the reinforcement, la part arrived, the road to the capital was thought impreg nable, and the Chinese commissioner declined to seal the treaty be pretended to have made. nap ghee have near Tu'rg•ehow already astonished some of them nomadic Tartar soldiers, and if ever they get a chance to attack and defeat the army of San•ko-linein, the resources' of the Emperor with regard to an army are at an end, and the treachery of Kweiliang and the Chinese om riala have failed la its results. The China Mail observes that San-ko-lin-sin ix a Chinese hero : There is name in China at present about whom velum so much, and really know so little, as San-ko-lia-sin, the com mander of the Chinese force, in the north. Some people take refuge in flatly disbelieving that each a man exists ; and we have more then once been purely asked if there was any truth in the camp " shave" that he is an Irishman, ori (Melly called Sea Collinson, who deserted to the Chinese from our army some time ago, and has obtained high power amongst them. Among the Chinese, both south and north, he is r popular idol—the Wallace or William Tell of (shins. The Lawler in the streets of Canton is delighted with the rumour that "Chung Wang" has become Emperor; and the peasants on the banks of the Peiho speak of him in terms of the highest praise. Even the merchants of Tientain, whose trade be has ruined, speak of him with admiration, awl make only the qualifying remark that he is ignorant of the power of foreign arms. flan.ko-lin-sin is in no way connected with the ruling dynasty in China. The ruling race is Manchu, sod be is of the Mongol, between whom and the Mancha' there bad always existed jea lousy, enmity, and differeooe, • state of matters fruitful of complications as regards the government of China. The Manchus have now the upper hand, and in order to secure their supremacy they intermarry with the Mongols, giving the sisters of their Mougol second wives to Mongol princes. flan-ko-lin-sin is the cousin of the Emperor, because he married the sister of one of the Emperor's Mongolian second wives. This does not give San-keslin•in any position in the Emperor's family, but it places him in a position where, according to Chinese customs, he can exercise a greet indu core ; and, in fact, be is the man who determines the posi tion which China shall assume towards foreign nations. r • •1 TER - EXPASSI3, ' SA T 9. leral iir Hoyt LATEST .-; • : we must accept the re an at the mercy of NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF MESSRS. PARKES AND LOCH. The second edition of the Times contains a letter from the camp at Pekin. We make the following extracts : The return of Parkes and Loch enables me to give you full information respecting their seizure and subsequent treatment, and of all that occurred to the English party until within a few minutes of the former taking place, though their account unfortunately still leave. us in doubt as to the way in which the remaining and larger number were eventually made prisoners. • • • As the Chinese officer bad spoken with great civility, and offered to show where his general was to be found, Parkes decided on trying to see him, and caked Loch to go with him, which he at once consented to do, and took with them one of Probyn's two Sikhs, carrying a white flag. They arranged with Lieutenant Anderson that they would return as quickly as possible, but that if they did not come soon lie had better not wait, and that if on attempting to move on he was attacked, he must act as he should think best under the circumstances. When they left the escort they were When by the officer round the corner of a field of standing millet, which com pletely shut them out of sight of their friends, and they almost immediately found themselves in front of about a hundred matchlockineu, who presented their weapons sod . . looked very much as if they were about to Are, when en officer an uut and prevented them. Passing through these they mime to a small must on the opposite side of which sat en dicer on horseback, who beck ,.ue.l to them to come over. As they would have had to dim. mount and get into a boat in order to do this, they hesitated but. &Li-rounded as they wore by this time by hundreds of men, remittance would Lave been useless, and they were NING, DEC. prep/log to obey whole they saw a number of 'pumas, evidently of high sank, coming towards them. Parkin soon discovered, from the way in which he was addressed, that one al Mau wee Ban-ko-linsia himself, sad he was pushing ferwswel to make his way ap to him when both he and Loeb weee violently seised, pushed forward, and forced down en their knees betas him. • Parkes was beginning to plated against sue treatment, and to explain the eirclunatanoes which bad led to their being there, when he was interrupted by &a ka-he-sin, and eked their names and position'. On Parkee mentioning his own earns, the Mon golian Prince, whom he describes as a stern, somewhat sinister-looking man, with strongly-narked features, indi cating considerable talent and much firmness, broke out in the most violent abuse of him, saying, among other things, that he attributed much of what was thee occurring to his evil influence, that he TM reopen aide for all the fighting and consequent misery which had taken place, and that, now that he had got him, he would make him suffer for it. He was proceeding in this strain, when a messenger galloped up, apparently with some important news, for he immediately rode off towards the front, accompanied by the greater num ber of his officers, while Parkes, Loch, and the Sikh orderly were taken into a tent, where their feet and arms were bound, the latter being brought behind their becks aid strongly tied together with ropes at the elbows and wrists. During the time San.ko-lin&in was abasing poor Parkes, the 'tenders by emphasised his remarks and prevailed any answer being made by cuffing the letter on the head whenever he attempted to make one, each blow being apparently a signal to those who surrounded Loeb, who on these occasions fared even worse than his com panion —his beardand hair being seizedby themeruffans, and his head pulled down and rubbed in the dust at the feet of Ban-ko-lin-sin's pony. The Prince before leaving had given an order, which was overheard by Parkes, desiring that their friends, together with the escort, • should be secured and sent to the rear. He sad Loch listened anxiously for the report Cl firearms, or some other sound which might let them know whether any struggle took place or not, but as they beard nothing they were inclined to hope they had started before the order was given, and managed to make their taupe. After having been kept in the tent for a short time, hey were told that Ban-ko-linsin had determined to band them over to the Prince of 1 as being civil prisoners, and that they were about to be taken to him. They were accordingly all three put into • cart and driven some dia. lance beyond Tung-clam along the great paved road leading to Pekin, but the Prince not being at the place it was thought he was, and their guard being unable to learn any. thing as to his whereabouts, they were taken about three miles back again, and brought before a man darin of high rank, holding an important command in the army, who subjected them to • long and wearisome examination. Parkes, of course, es being the only one of the three who understood and spoke Chinese, was always spokannan, but they were tall, more par ticularly the two Englishmen, once more exposed to the same brutal and degrading treatment as they had been when before ; indeed nothing appeared to be left undone by this man which, in his estimation, was likely to be considered by than most offensive and insulting. He bullied Parkes in every possible way, and, at last, so exhausted his patience that he told Loch he must feign faintness in order to avoid farther questioning and ill-treatment. His rear, fortunately, succeeded, and they were allowed a short respite, but not for any length of time ; they were soon brought before him again, when his language became so violent, and the conduct of thoee who crowded about them unchecked by him so threatening, that Parkes felt persuaded the scene would only end by their being ordered out for execution. Whilst he was still engaged in abusing them • stir sud denly took place among the crowd, some communication was made to him, and a mend panic seemed to come over him and most of his officers, for they mounted their puke and started off in all baste ; the time primal were at the suns time hurried out into the yard by those who remained with loud shouts and threats, and Parkas told Loch that he feared it was ell over with them, and that he must prepare for the wont. To their great relief, however, at this moment • cart was tepidly driven up ; they and the Sikh were thrown into it, a couple of officers followed, and they weal off at a trot, along the road to Pekin. According to their alculation, it must have been between 2 and 3 in the afternoon when they started, and they did not reach Pekin until about sunset ; they suffered much during the journey, from the tightness of the ropes with which their hands and feet were bound, and the awkward and confined position in which they were compelled to lie ; the cart also being without springy jolted over the rough road in such a manner as at times to cause them exquisite pain in every joint. Their guardians appeared to enjoy their ad. feringa, and occasionally, probably to afford themselves sense amusement during so long a ride, pulled their anus backwards and upwards, as if to see whether it gave them much additional pain; they relieved them also of any little articles of jewellery they happened to have on them, such as studs or wrist buttons. On entering Pekin they were taken direct to the Hsing. poo, or board of punishment, the principal prison of the town, and placed in a small court, from which, after a short interval, Parkes was called into a room in which were some examining officers, asked a few unimportant questions, and then loaded with a heavy set of chains and removed to one of the wards in which criminal, of every description were confined, there being no less than 72 in that is which he now found himself. Loch was next summoned, treated in precisely the same way, and placed in a ward apart from Parkes, in which were 56 wretched prisoners, who bailed his entrance with the most horrible shouts and yells it was possible to conceive; the poor Sikh wee, like the others, heavily chained and imprisoned in • imps. rate ward. At midnight Parkes was roused up for another examination, and taken before five officers, who quell. timed him most closely respecting the strength of the English and French armies, made most particular in quiries as to whether the English government, or at all events he himself had not many friends inside Pekin, and whether he bad not frequently managed to pay visits to the capital, and penetrate within its walls. After com pletely wearying him out, he war allowed to return to his wretched prison and get • little rest. For three successive days were these ;useless and annoying examinations con tinued, in the course of which he occasionally met with a good deal of rough usage, and every description of insult. Lxh had to undergo but one of them, they having probably satisfied themselves at that one that he did not know their language. On the third day Parkes was pot into • small ward by him self, separated by bars from the larger one, about eight feet square, with three gaolers in it constantly watching him. On the fourth day he received • visit from Hang-ke, who said he had come to gondola with him on his unfortunate position, which, however, he endeavoured to prove was entirely of his own bringing about. After some civil speeches he left, promising to see him agaia. This was on the 22nd, and on the 26th he paid him a second visit, on which occasion he ►ssumed a bullying tone, and talked very big, saying that the Great Council had decided in favour of war ; conduct ing himself altogether is such a manner that Parkes at once saw that he was in hopes of intimidating him, pro bably with • view to obtaining his insistence in some matter connected with the negotiations. He gave him no encouragement, however, and Hang-he left him without giving him any intimation of what he really wanted. Two days afterwards lie same again, and spoke in a vary different tone. The Prince of Kong, be said, was most anxious to make peace, as well as friendly inclined towards Parkes; he was extremely desirous that he should write a letter to Lord Elgin to this effect, and let him know at the same time that be was well, happy, and well treated. He further suggested, that if he were to ray in his letter that the Prince was an excellent man of business and an enlightened statesman it would be agree able to his feelings and pouibly the means of improving his (Parkes's) present position. Parkes told him that, not having the pleasure of knowing the prince, it was unfortunately impossible for hint to say that he was what Hang-ke represented him to be, though be dad no doubt it was perfectly true, and that, as regiuded himself, as lie use neither happy nor well treated, lie should certainly sot say that he was either the use or the other. To this Hang-ke replied that the prince bad only Jost heard how he had been treated, and immediately resolved to have his chains removed, which should be done without lose of time. Parkes said this was not enough ; the best and wisest course for the prince to pursue would be, as they had been imprisoned wrousfully, to set himself and Loch at liberty at once, but if he would nut do this he ought I to take them out of prison and let them have proper ac. oonirnoslation. Hang-ke undertook that this should be r , • ve • -;-.... •. 5,1860 t 14 ...A' c, dane as regarded hissed. Vet eat Loch should also be liberated—impossible, it was useless to think of it. Parkes then said that sa they had been taken together, so they most be liberated together, or no letter to Lord Elgin would they get out of him. Hang•ke, as he expected, said he would ems what could be done, and the next day, to Loch's peat surprise and still greater joy, Puttee without his chains, and accompanied by Hang-ke, walked into his ward ; his own chains were immediately taken off, and they were removed to the Kaoumean Temple situate in the north of the city where they re mained until the day on which they were finally est at liberty, being treated during this latter period of their imprisonment as well in every re spect as they had been badly in the former. There is one fact connected with their prison life which I cannot help thinking worthy of very prominent notice. I mean the extreme kindness shown to them by the Chinese prisms:a Parkes and Loch, and not only they, but the other prisoners all speak of this in the warmest terms. It appears from the same letter that the other prisoners had been confined in various district towns iu the neighbourhood of the capital, and it had been found impossible to trace any one of them. It was the impression of the writer that Hang-ke, by whom Messrs. Parkes and Loch were released, was himself ignorant of the whereabouts of the others. INDIA.. MUTINY IN A EUROPEAN REGIMENT IN INDIA -THE REGIMENT DISBANDED. We have received advices this morning from Bombay to Nov. 16. The most painful piece of intelligence which the mail furnishes is a mutiny in the sth Bengal Euro peans. Sir Hugh Rose had expressed his intention to go to Dinapore and inspect the regiment, and it would seem as if some fresh mutinous symptoms were manifested on parade, for a telegram from Calcutta informs us that on the morning of the 12th ult. one soldier of the sth was shot, and the regiment itself disbanded. The Bombay Gazette of November 10 says : Would that this terrible punishment of the worst crime • soldier can oommit had been indicted by Lord Clyde last year. We should then have been spared the humiliating spectacle of 10,000 Europeans deserting at once the standard of their country, and leaving behind them • legacy of disaffection from which we shall never again in India be wholly free, till one or two such memorable examples as Sir Hugh Ease has Just given by the disband ment of the bth Bengal Europeans have convinced the army that the military authorities are deter mined, at whatever cost, to maintain discipline, and crush disloyalty. If one needed a proof of the rottenness of the whole Bengal army, with the noble exception of the artillery, it would be found in the necessity which has imposed itself on Sir Hugh Rose of punishing with death and the supreme military disgrace of distandonment an offence against which but • fortnight before he had, gently but firmly, warned the troops under his command. The wise and generous words of the order in which Sir Hugh commemorated the bravery of Sergeant Macniminie, and warned the Sth Europeans of the danger of listening to mis guided councils, and suffering themselves to be seduced from the path of duty, seem to have had no weight with the men of this unfortunate regiment. There mast have been a thoroughly bad spirit amongst them—a spirit fatal to discipline, and most dangerous to the state, for, when a standing army is persuaded that upon itself alone depends the whole fabric of government, the n►tion which main tains that army is not far removed from • state of either anarchy or military despotism. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING, The MoiAkur contains a decree organising the Ministry of the Interior into two departments under The offioe of secretary-general to the ministry is suppressed. The Moniteur also contains the appointment of eight prefects and several councillors of state. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY. The Wiener Zeitung of to-day contains four im perial autograph letters, dated the 13th instant. The first relieves Count Goluchowski of his func tions as Minister of the Interior. The second appoints Baron Schmerling Minister of the Inte rior. The third nominates Herr von Planer Minister of Finances. The fourth confers the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen on Counts Rechberg and Goluchowski. HUNGARY. PESTH, Dsc. 12. The declaration addressed by the Comitats Com mittee to the Chancellor of Hungary, contains, be sides the four points already announced, an urgent request that the enlistment of soldiers and the tobacco monopoly may be suspended until the decision of the Diet has been taken on these questions. VIENNA, Fumy. The Ott Deutsche Post, in a leading article, says : " The accumulation of arms and ammunition in Moldavia and Wallachia and the orenization of foreign legions in Italy are to be attributed to an extensive scheme which partly aims at the separa tion of these provinces from the Porte, and partly at a rising of several other nationalities." Not only a Hungarian but a Polish legion has been organized. In view of this state of things Russia has depatched a threatening declaration to Prince Couza, and has concentrated 12,000 men in Bessarabia. The same journal also publishes accounts from Perth, according to which some Hungarian and Polish soldiers fraternised while drinking spirits together in a coffee-house, and made a demonstra tion in favour of their nationalities. They also tore the yellow and black stripes off their trousers. They were carried to prison by a military patrol. The Austrian Gazette publishes a despatch from Perth, dated 11th inet., announcing that some in habitants of that city had resolved on submitting an address to the Chancellor, which had also been communicated to the other comitats for their ac ceptance. This address contains the following points :-1. The convocation of the Hungarian Diet at the earliest possible period on the basis of the electoral law of 1848 ; 2. The promulgation of the press law of 1848 ; 3. The collecdon of taxes due to be suspended until the assembling of the Diet ; 4. No judges but those elected by the people to hold office in the different comitats. PgSTFI, DKr. U. _ . . . Last night it was necessary to iiiiilyTorinilitiry assistance against the so styled Adlerjtiger, who caused disturbances. Order was soon re-esta blished. The Adlerjager, or Engle-hunters, are peewit.' who pull down and demolish the imperial arms wherever fixed. THE SIEGE OF OAETA. . . . . NAPLES, Dre 14. For the last three days hostilitiei againstGa;ta have been suspended. It is hoped that an early success will attend the efforts of diplomacy to arrive at a peaceable arrangement. AMERICAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY NOON. The Royal Mail steamship Canada has sailed for New York with 202,000 t. in specie. Baron de Boloastel, first secretary of the French legation at Berlin, has been the victim of a robbery to the extent of 6,000 fr., and all the crows and decorations which he possessed. The whole of the claim. , on Garibaldi, on account of the British Legiou, La% e been met by the Sardir.ten gov,rnineot. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom octa own loonzaronmen.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVI24INO. The Pays and Petrie, in their " Latest New ,," glorify the pamphlet " L'Empereur Francois Joseph et l'Europe," at the same time denying that it has anything of an " inspired or authorisc4'. character. It is, as I told you yesterday, but the avant courier of another of greater calibre, to which it says " ditto " by anticipation. Two pamphlets likely to produce a sensation have just appeared on the liberal reforms Mau. gurated in France on November 24 : the one is a " Letter to the Senate," by the well-known Count d'Hausaonville, and the other "The Constitution of 1862 and the Decree of November 24," by M. Ldonce de Lavergne. An important electoral question, which made considerable stir in several departments a few months ago, is to be brought before the Council of State. The organic law of 1862 stipulates that k. tween the issuing of a writ for any election and the opening of the poll there must be an interval of twenty days at the least. Until this year it ells always understood that this provision applied to the municipal elections and those of the councils. general, as well as to the elections of members of the legislative body. The reason of the thing is the same in both cases, for it is obvious that Wl lees a reasonable time be allowed, the electors eau have no opportunity of selecting and supporting candidates really of their own choice. The candi date patronised by authority, who has his placards all ready and a staff of functionaries in every commune to canvass for him, must, of necessity, always succeed if the election be hurried on so rapidly as to give the opposition no time for organisation. Nevertheless the government has lately pretended that the enactment in question applies only to the Corps Legislatif, and at the last election for the council general of the Gironde the prefect only gave six days' notice of the elections for the canton of Branne. M. Brisson, the independent candidate, who was of course defeated, protested against the election for illegality. The council of the prefec ture decided against him, but he has now appealed to the Council of State, and is supported by some very strong "reasons" signed by three leading members of the Bordeaux bar. Last February a M. Asseline, a Frenchman, having lost, or, at least, professed to have lost, groat deal of money at the roulette-table at Monad. wrote a civil note to the manager of the gaming tables stating that he was cleaned out, and would be greatly obk,..d by the loan of 1,000 fr., which he would pay in Paris on March 10. The manager at once complied with the request, receiving his note of hand as security. When the bill became due it was dishonoured, and the drawer offered 400 fr. down to have it renewed, threatening, in case of refusal, to set up the defence that it was given for an illegal purpose. The holder, however, determined to risk au action, and the Court of Paris this day decided that the circumstances did not sufficiently show that the money was lent for the purpose. of gambling, but rather to enable the unlucky gambler to go home ; and they gave a ver dict for the plaintiff for principal, interest, and costa. This morning the Tribunal of Correctional Police found M. Roger (heretofore called Roger de Beauvoir) guilty of assuming a name and nobiliary particle to which he had no right, and, allowing the benefit of extenuating circumstances, sentenced him to pay a fine of 100 fr. The Critique Prancaise announces in its pro gramme that it means to review foreign as well as French books, being of opinion that the leading feature of the times in which we live is the tendency of peoples to draw closer to each other. The Bourse was a little more active than yester day, but the movement is attributed exclusively to the variations of the last few days, and must not be taken to indicate any essential change in the situation. The Rente fell sc. for cash, and rose 10c. for account, closing at GBfr. 70c. and 68fr. 90c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. The Orleans Railway (again the favourite) rose 3fr. 75c. ; Southern, 2fr. 50c. ; and Eastern, lfr. 25c. Western fell lfr. 25c., and Lyons and Northern were without change. SYRIA. (nor our ows comapornar.) BEYROUT, D. 3. In more than one of my letters I have referred to the unsatisfactory state of affairs at Damascus. The accounts from that town have for many weeks given so very little hope of re-establishing anything like order in the place, that the commissioners of the five European Powers decided upon going there and judging for themselves regarding the present state of &Stein. They left Beyrout together on Thursday last, the 29th ult., and were to reach their destination early on Saturday. The Chris ' tians of Damascus who escaped at the massacre and managed to fly to Beyrout, and who were after wards induced to return to their native place, have since nearly all come back here. Some of them who have lost vast amounts of property declare that sooner than go back to the place they will beg their bread in the streets of Beyrout, for that the Moslems threaten them openly with another and a more wholesale massacre as soon as Syria is free from foreign troops. The trials of the Druse sheiks are still going ou. A few days ago evidence most damaging to syed Bey Djonblat (the great sheik who is called " the purse of the Drums, as being the wealthiest of their nation) was given by a Turkish captain who was present at Mfiktara, the feudal residence of the sheik, during a great part of the disturbauoes. It would appear from this witness that, although Syed Bey Drub Lit did really save several Chris tians' his doing so was but a blind for his other acts, and that—as you may remember I have all along said—he was the chief moving power which incited the Lebanon massacres of which you have heard so much. Much to the surprise of everybody, a Turkish man of war which arrived here the other day landed the complete material fur establishing tele graphic communication between this place and Damascus. The poles are to be placed :thong the new rued which a French joint stock company has been engaged iu making fur some two years back, and which is already nearly completed as far as the valley of Ccelo Syria. Two months hence, provided always that Fuad Pasha, or one like him, is at the head of affairs in Syria, we shall have a telegraph, and a year hence a good road, all the way between Beyrout and Damascus. Talking of the latter place, a somewhat extraor dinary circumstance has taken' place there within the last few days. The Turkish governmetit very properly ordered all the inhabitants to be disarmod, but to the surprise of every one included iu the order Abd-el-Kader and his Algerian followers, who behaved so., well during the I massacre, and who saved so mai.) , of the Christian inhabitants. Abel-el-Kader Het unnaturativ looks upon this in the light of a gratuitous iusnit, and all the Europeans 1 have heard speak on the sub jest agree with him. Re refused to aih , w hi+ to 10Vtl up their anus, and has referred the matter to Fuad l'aeha, who, strange to my, has decided that even in the case of the Algerians there nine. be no exception made. 1 hear that a final appeal will he made by the Emir to the E:novraii com missioners, and if he fails in übtainn., %list he I i