The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION•

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH.

The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul-
General Green was received at the Foreign•offlce'
August 7, 5.10 a. m.

ALEXANDRIA., Aug. 3, 1858

The steamer Bengal arrived at Suez from Calcutta,
and brings the following dates : Calcutta, July 2 ;
Madras, 10; Galle, 14; Aden, 26; Hoag Kong,
June 23.

On the Ist July the rebels were forty miles trom
Jeypore, near Lallsahoont, and General Hoberts's
force was only thirty-four miles distant from Jeypore
the same day.
The allied expedition in the Peiho has reached
Tiensin, from whence the last date is June 4.
No serious attempt was made by the Chinese to
impede the navigation of the river, and the gunboats
advanced to Tiensiu, which commands both river and
the great canal, without a mark of hostility. The
people supply provisions of excellent quality cheaply.
The English and French Ambassadors were living
on shore in a temple ; the Russians and American.;
had followed the Allies up the rivet; the second
officer of the emp-re, and the president of one of
the six koards of Government, bad art ived in Tiensin
to negotiate; they are invested with a title which
the interpreter describes to convey full powers, and
profess their readiness to treat on the demands
put forward in the letter to tho Prime Minister of
China, which bad been previously ignored. The
first interview was to take place on the 4th June,
after the departure of the steamer. The Cl.inese
continue to consider the proceedings as something
between peace and war, but not exactly one or the
other. H.M. ship Princess Royal is anchored off
Alexandria; the Colombo has been placed in quaran-
tine. Malta being subjected [have] ? to five days'
quarantine, in obedience to the decision of the Board
of Health of Constantinople, the Colombo obtains
pratique to-morrow, and leaves with homeward mails
on the sth instant.
Corfu, August 6, 9.45 p.m.

THE FETES AT CHERBOURG.
The Mon iteur of yesterday has the following :

CHERBOURG, August 5.
Yesterday, at balf.past seven in the evening, salutes
from all the ships and forts announced the arrival in the
roadstead of her Majesty the Queen of England. Imme-
diately afterwards his Excellency the Duke of Malakoff
came to pay homage to his Sovereign.
At eight o'clock the Emperor and Empress paid the
Queen a visit on board her yacht. Their Majesties did
not return to the Hotel of the Maritime Prefecture till ten
o'clock. _ .

To-day, at noon, her Majesty the Queen, accompanied
by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales' the Duke of Cam.
bridge, Lori Malmesbury, the Fret Lord of the Admiralty,
and a numerous suite, returned their Majesties' visit, and
partook of a dejeutter offered to them by the Emperor.
mAt two o'clock their Majesties and their august guests
drove in carriages to the heights of Roule to admire the
magnificent erctacle offered at that moment by the road-
stead of Cherbourg, covered with Bags and lit up by a mag-
nificent sunshine.
This evening a grand banqnet will unite their Imperial
and Royal Majesties, the Princes
.Lorda, Marshals, Minis-
ters, and other personages of? distinction, present at
Cherbourg.
CHERBOURG, Aug. 6.
Her Majesty, with the Royal Family and the
squadron, quitted Cherborg this day at noon under
a triple salute.
At the dinner on hoard the Bretagne last evening
the Emperor, in proposing the Queen's health, ex-
pressed his conviction that the visit of her Majesty
was calculated to place upon a still firmer basis the
alliance between the two countries.
After the banquet the fleets and fortifications
were illuminated. The French squadron saluted the
Queen, and a magnificent display of fireworks took
place.
The town was also brilliantly illuminated.
RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO ObBORNE.

The Victoria and Albert, with the Queen and
Cou►t on board, arrived at Osborne last evening, at
five o'clock, from Cherbourg. Her Majesty was
saluted by the squadron at Spithead and the flag-
ship in Portsmouth harbour.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

The following communication has been received,
addressed to the Pireetoni of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company

VALZNTIA, Friday Morning.
Electric communication is maintained perfectly.