The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

Yeh the next day was sent on board the Inflexible,
and having been safely caged, Peh-kwei and the
Tartar general were reinstated in the city, under the
protection of the allied plenipotentiaries, in order
to preserve the city from being sacked by the
populace. British commissioners accompanied them,
and Canton was placed under a British Protectorate.
By the last accounts matters were settling down
in the city. Nothing is known of Lord Elgin's
future policy, but it is believed he will proceed to
Peiho "as early as possible." All was quiet along
the coasts.

THE KING OF DELHI.

The following is an extract from a letter written by
the wife of Major (then Captain) Hodson, from
Delhi :

There is a report which has been mischievously set
about, and may have mischievous consequences—viz., that
the King has the whole of his retinae, and has returned to
his own apartments in the palace. This is perfectly un-
true. I went with Mr. Saunders, the Civil Commissioner,
and his wife to see the unfortunate and guilty wretch. We
mounted a flight of stone steps, at the bottom and top of
which was a European sentry. A small low door opened
into a room, half of which was partitioned off with a grass
matting called chitac, behind which was a woman cooking
some atrocious compound. if I might judge from the smell.
In the other half was a native bedstead—i.e., a frame of
bamboo on four legs, with a grass rope strung across it ; on
this was lying and smoking a hookah an old man with a
long white beard; no other article of furniture whatever
was in the room, and I am almost ashamed to say that a
feeling of pity mingled with my disgust at seeing s man
recently lord of an Imperial city almost unparalleled for
riches and magnificence confined in • low, elate, dirty
room, which the lowest slave of his household would
scarcely have occupied, in the very palace where he bad
reigned supreme, with power of life and death, un-
trammelled by any law, within the precincts of a royal
residence as large as a considerable sized town ; streets,
galleries, towers, mosques, forts and gardens, a private and
a public hall of justice, and innumerable courts, passages,
and staircases. Its magnificence can only be equalled by
the atrocities which have been committed there. But to
go beet to the degraded King. The boy, datums Bukt,
repeated my name after Mr. Saunders. The old man
raised his head and looked at me, then muttered some-
thing I could not hear. and at the moment the boy, who had
been called from the opposite door, came and told me that
his mother, the Begum, wished to see me. Mrs. Saunders
then took possession of me, and we went on into a smaller,
darker, dirtier room than the first, in which were some
eight or ten women crowding round a common " charpoy."
or couch, on which was a dark, fat, shrewd, but sensual.
looking woman, to whom my attention was particularly
drawn. She took hold of my hand (I shuddered a little),
and told me that my husband was a great warrior; but
that if the King's life and her son's had not been promised
them by the Government the King was preparing a great
army which would have annihilated us. The other women
stood round in silence till her speech was finished, and
then crowded round, asking how many children I had, and
if they were all boys, examined my dress, and seemed par-
ticularly amused by my bonnet and parasol. They were,
with one exception, coarse, low-caste women, as devoid of
ornament as of beauty. Zeenat Mahal asked me (a great
honour, I found, which T did not appreciate) tosit down on
her bed, bat I declined, as it looked so dirty. Mr. Saun-
ders was much amused at my refusal, and told me it would
have been more than my life was worth six months before
to have done so, and I have no doubt of it.

I heard by the same mail from my brother him-
self, at the Camp Bewar, referring to an account
which he had sent me of the capture of the Princes,
but this has not reached me. He had on the pre-
vious day ridden ninety-four miles with a party of his
"horse," to carry despatches from Colonel Seaton to
the commander-in-chief through a hostile conntry.
This shows the use of light cavalry in India.—l re-
main your obedient servant,
GEORGE H. HODSON.
Cookbam Dean Parsonage, Maidenhead, Feb. 22.

THE. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE
EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

Tar•, trial of the prisoners charged with the atterrpt
to assassinate the Emperor of the French, on the
14th of last month, commenced on Thursday, before
the Assize Court of the Seine. The Procureur-
General, naming the prisoners-1. Felice Orsini,
a literary man, aged 29, born at Melilola (Boman
States), residing usually at London (England),
having lodged in Paris, in Rue Monthabor, No. 10 ;
9. Charles de Rudio, aged :25, professor of languages,
born at Belluno (Venetian States), residing usually
at. Nottingham (England), having lodged in Paris,
Rue Montmartre, No. 132, Hotel de France and
Champagne ; 3. Anthony Gomez, aged 29, servant,
born at Naples ;Italy), residing usually in England,
having lodged in Paris, Rue St. Honore, Hotel de
Saxe-Coburg ; 4. Joseph Andrew Pierri, professor of
languages, born at Lucca (Tuscany), residing usually
at Birmingham (England), having lodged in Paris,
Rue Montmartre, No. 132, Hotel de France sad
Champagne; 5. Simon Francis Bernard, formerly a
surgeon in the navy, born at Careassenne (Ande),