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226 THE PRESS, MARCH 6, 1858.
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iThe despatch 'received at the India-house added as soon as the season is more advanced an attack
that Brigadier Walpole's column was at Ramgumma, made on Pekin •, this I think very probable, as by Court gob ffas4tan.
preparing to cross into Robileund ; that the rebel of this month they will have received such large --
chief,reinbfloercte-
Mahomed Faril, had been taken and hanged ; ments in India from England that y
will. b. e a Her Majesty the Queen and Court left town for
that the Punjaub and Scinde were tranquil ; and spare us some troops. Nothing short t a visit to head- Osborne on Monday last, where her Majesty will
(platters will, in the opinion of the folk here, convince the
[ that matters were looking well. remain for a few days.
Brother of the Sun and Moon that we are really in
on A most interesting deepatch to the Governor- earnest. Very little in the shape of looting has been done
by our people, though the French have been helping them-
His Excellency Bar
appointed Russian Minister at this Court, and ilia
Brunnow, the newts_
Ge
neral from Sir Colin Campbell, dated Futtyghur, selves most bountifully. Report says that two or three 0.4.
Jan. sth, 1858, and detailing the operations of the the seamen caught plundering have been flogged, and it Baronness Brunnow, are expected to arrive at
has put a atop to anithing of the kind. Two men and the Chesbam house on the 16th, from Belgium.
army under his command since the advance from boatswain of the Volcano have been killed. It appears The Duke of Newcastle left town on Tuesday for
Cawnpore, has been received and published. Sir that a paddle-box boat, with the master and crew, were away Clumber-park. He will not return to town until
Colin states that his lengthened stay at Cawnpore looking for a missing seaman, when they got agrounl, a early in April.
• junk under sail, having a fine breeze, peppered them,
ex
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke are
was of much benefit for the re establishment of shooting one man through the neck, who died instantly ; pected
authority. He then details his operations in the ad- another had his skull fractured, and has since died, while
in town about the middle of the present month, from
the poor boatswain was shot through the body, and died
Wimpole-hall, for the season.
Nance upon Futtyghur, describes the skirmish on the
yesterday; the doctors took out a bullet and a piece of iron
banks of the Kallee Nuddee, in which all the nail, but it was supposed that something more must have
troops engaged " behaved remarkably well," their remained in the wound. I hear that in consequence an Votittral.
only fault being a "too great eagerness to attack "; attack is about to take place on the junks at I, stsharn
Creek. I hope so. Not one of
Chine
se are such cowardly THE TREASURY AND HOUSEHOLD
a large amount of valuable stores, grain, and guns. and treacherous rascals. APPOINTMENTS.
Sir Colin states that he has ordered the destruction
• i • (From the Gazelle of Tuesday.)
of the Nawab's palace, and concludes : imp anO 6otootat ptitiitgenrt. Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, Feb. 26.
I think it right that not a stone should be left unturned, The Queen has been pleased to appoint George John,
in all the residences of the rebellious chiefs. They are FRANCE. Earl De la Warr, to be Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's
far more guilty than their misguided followers. The conspirators, Orsini, Rudio, and Pierri, con- Household, in the room of Jchn, Marquis of Breadalbane,
A brigad will proceed to-moow to sit two very
mutinous villages, at a distancerr cf somevi tweuty miles damned to death, and Gomez to penal servitude for K.T., resigned.
from Futtyghur. A garrison has been left at Myn- life, will, .it is believed, undergo their several The Queen has also been pleased to appoint the Right
poorie, consisting of her Majesty's 38th Foot, two field sentences. The following letter from Orsini to the Hon. Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, commonly
-
battery guns, and 200 Wall's Horse. This garrison will Emperor appeared in the M celled Viscount Newport
Moniteur report of the,
alejesty a Household, in, to be Vice
the room of the Right H L hamberlain of hoenr
furnish the escorts from Mynpoorie to Agra so long as trial : .
Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce, commonly
such precautions are necessary. To NAPOLEON HI., EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. called Lord Ernest Bruce, resigned.
I have intimated to Colonel Fraser, the Chief Commis- The depositions which I have made against myself in The Queen has been pleased to appoint to be Lords in
sinner, north-west provinces, that it is not expedient to the, course of the political proceedings which have been in- Waiting in ordinary to her Majesty--
leave a small detachment by itself at Etawab, but that stitnted on the occasion of the attempt of the 11th of James Walter, Earl of Verulam, in the room of James, Earl
that place should trust rather to the influence of the January are sufficient to send me to the scaffold, and I of Caithness, resigned.
Mynpotirie garrison on the one side, and the last arrange- shall submit to my fate without asking for pardon, both George Augustus Frederick Charles, Earl of Sheffield, in the
ments made by me in the Cawnpore district on the because I will not humiliate myself before him who has room of Thomas, Lord Camois, resigned.
other. That arrangement consists of a moveable column William Henry, Viscount Strathallan, in the room of George,
I destroyed in the bud the liberty of my unhappy country,
which is now being organised by Brigadier Inglis, at and because, in the situation in which lam now placed; . f.ord Rivers, resigned.
Cawnpore, for the purpose of marching about the district death for me will be a relief. Henry Francis, Lord Polwarth, in the room of Henry Man.
tiers. Lord Waternark, resigned.
in aid of the civil power. Being near the close of my career, I wish, however, to Edward, Lord Crofton, in the room of George, Lord de Teller,
Having reached this point, and the communication make a last effort to assist Italy, whose independence has resigned.
being fairly established between Calcutta and Agra, I hitherto made me pass through so many perils and submit William Bateman, Lord Bateman, in the room of Frederick
await your lordship's further instructions.-! have, &c., Temple, I oral Buttering and Clatiebnye, resigned.
to every sacrifice. She is the constant object of all my
C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in-Chief, affections, and it is that ideas hick I wish to set forth in Richard Henry Fitz Roy, Lord Raglan, in the room of Richard,
c Of general intelligence from India there is none the words which I address to your Majesty. T,ord Cremorne, resigned.
of any importance, beyond a sad cocfirmation of the In order to maintain the balance of power in Europe it BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, Feb. 26.
massacre of Captain Orr, Sir M. Jackson, Lieute- is necessary to render Italy independent, or to tighten the The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Most Hon.
Bnownlow Marquis of K.G., to be Lord Steward
nant Barnes, and Sergeant Morton, who were cruelly chains by which Austria holds her in bondage. Shall I
of her Majesty's Household, Exeter,in the froom of the Right
put to death the day Sir Colin Campbell entered ask that for her deliverance the
_ blood of Frenchmen shall
Hon. Edward Granville, Earl of St. Germans, G.C.8.,
be shed for the Italians? No, I do not go so far as that.
Lucknow.
Italy asks that France shall not intervene against her. and resigaed• . .
Three ladies are known to be yet alive in Luck- The
.Queen has also
. been pleased to appoint the Right
now, where they are confined in one small room, but that France shall not allow Germany to support Austria in
the struggles in which she may perhaps be soon engaged. Hon. Claude Hamilton (commonly called Lord Claude.
1 protected by a vakeel. Two of them are the widows This is precisely what your Majesty can do, if you are so
of officers who have fallen ; but it is supposed that inclined ;on your will, therefore, depends the welfare or Hamilton)
ftothbeßT.rehast uHrer of her Majesty's
George Augustus Constantine
Household, in
they have not beard of the death of' their husbands. the misfortune of my country,—the life or death of a nation
A letter from one of those has reched its destine- to which Europe is in a great measure indebted for her
tion ;it was affecting to find that the writer had lost civilisation.
all note of the passage of time, asking when it would
be Christmas. As soon as Sir James Outram became
aware of the facts he offered the rebels 15,000/. for
their ransom, which Lord Canning immediately
doubled.
CHINA. Such is the prayer which from my cell I dare to address
to your Majesty, not despairingmy but that feeble voice Valentine
Ma'eaty to restore to ltal may be heard; I beseech. your j .
in y
the independence which her children lost 1549 through
the very fault of the French. Let your Majesty call to
mind that the Italians, among whom was my father, joy- be
fully shed their blood for Napoleon the Great, wherever he
The naval official despatches upon the operations pleased to lead them ; that they were faithful to him until
at Canton have also been published. Sir Michael
Seymour states the allied forces to have consisted tranquillity his fall ; and that, so long as Italy is not independent, the
of Europe and that of your Majesty will always tP74H_hiloeiaTi
jnoehpses m
(commonlyo
igcalledonEarlof M ntolugraguve), oigned.
Queen has also been
Majesty's
George-Cecil-Weld
y's Ho
useho
Augustul pleased appoint the Right
Forester to be Controller of her
in the room of the Right Hon.
Brow no (commonly called Viscount
Augustus
Castlerosse ), resigned.'''een
%Verret:Rix, Feb. 27.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
pegged under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ins
land unto the Right Hon. Sir Frederic Thesiger, Knt.,
Chancellor of that part of the said United Kingdom called
Great Britain, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
of—Troops, 800; Royal Marines, 2,1()0 ; Navel Bri- be vain illusions. begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Chelms-
- Bade, 1,829 ; French Naval Brigade, 950. Total, May your Majesty not reject the last prayer of a patriot ford, of Chelmsford, in the county of Essex.
5,679. He then details the operations described in on the steps of the scaffold ! May you deliver my country, The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
and the blessings of 25 000 000 citizens willfollow you to be passed under the G
our last issue, and states our loss in killed and
posterity 1 FE
LICE , reat Seal, granting the dignity of a
ORSINI. baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
wounded to have amounted to a total of 15 killed and Prison of Mazes, Feb. 11. land unto the Right Hon. William Goodenough Hayter, of
113 wounded. The Moniteur publishes an ordonnance dated 211th South-hill Park, in the county of Berke, anti to the heirs
The following extract is from a private letter, re- February, which decrees the end of the butchers' male of his body lawfully begotten.
ceived in Plymouth, dated Hong Kong, January 14, monopoly in Paris after the 31st March.
1858 : March 1.
Generals Changarnier and Bedeau have received The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
Canton was taken previously to the departure of the last permission to return to France. General Changer• be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appoint-
, mail, so that event is known to you; but only fancy the nier has declined to accept it. ing the Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey, Earl of Derby, the
sequel—we have nabbedold Yeh, the Lieutenant Governor PRUSSIA. Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Henry George Charles
(or Civil ), the Tartar general, and Ido not know how many The King, it is reported, will not resume the royal Gordon Lennox, Esq. (commonly called Lord Henry
of the big mandarins. Old Yeh was making off in the dress
authority upon the close of the period for which
of a coolie, when in trying to escape (ruin some sailors he
. Charles Gordon Lennox ), Thomas Edward Taylor,
1 . ran right into the arms of Captain Key, of the Sanspareil,
who having had information was seeking with a party of the
naval brigade to find the old scoundrel. He is now on those powers have been delegated to the Prince of
Prussia.
DENMARK.
board the littlexible, at the Rogue, and will probably be The Ministerial crisis at Copenhagen has come to Esq., and Henry Whitmore, Esq., to be Commissioners
for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of
Great Britain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting to the Right
removed to the Belleisle ; report, however, sends him to an end. The Ministers are agreed upon the course Hon. Benjamin Disraeli the Offices of Chaucellor and
Singapore, but this I do not believe—at all events he is not
to come here for fear of a rising among the Chiaese—who,
by the way, exceed the present European population,
soldiers included, at the rate of about seventy to one.
With Yea, our people dropped upon dollars and liar silver
he tune of about 70,0001. to 80,0001.—not a bad haul.
At present things appear to be quite settled at Canton. Mehmed Rushi. to be adopted with reference to the German Diet.
TURKEY.
Ahmed Pasha, brother-in law to and a great confi-
dant of the Sultan: has died suddenly. His post of
Master-General of the Ordnance has been filled by
Under-Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer.
The Queen has also been pleased to grant the office of
Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to John Inglis, Esq ,
Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
to t AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Feb. 26.
Her Majesty having bun graciously pleased to deliver
The Billerm, with two 13-inch and two 111 inch mortars, is The conflicts and troubles in the Herzegovina the custody of the seals of *he Duchy and County Palatine
expected here to-morrow • the Racehorse leaves on Monday, were causing some apprehension at Constantinople. of Lancaster to the Most Noble James, Duke of Montrose,
and the Senile on Thursday next for England. I rather M. de Thouvenel has held many conferences with the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of
.Lancaster was
think the latter vessel will be paid off at Plymouth. The
Comma arrived at Shanghai to-day, and will in all proba-
bility leave for home next week. The Platte is expected the Minister of Russia.
AMERICA.
The Kansas question and the Avis Islands guano this day, by her Majesty's command, administered to him
accordingly.
MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, Feb. 26.
here from the same place in the course of a week or so, • The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
affair occupied the Legislature at Washington.
In the House of Representatives the special
II and she also goes home; the Nankin, 1 hear, is also likely
to leave. A great many of the ships are either down or Kansas Right Hon. John W.illiain, Earl of. Sandwienth,
Master of her Majesty a Buckboands. in the room
owning down from the river next week. The admiral is Committee had adopted a resolution instinct-
expected here to-morrow. and will remain with us a day ing the chairman to procure from the State Depart- rftesigighnt
eHdon. John George Brabazon, Earl of flessborotofoutchbehe,
or two. Lord Elgin is still on board the Furious up the anent the census and registry of votes taken in The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
river. Rumour says that should matters not be settled, Kansas, in accordance with law. Right Hon. Charles John, Lord Colville of Cairo's, to be