The Press.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

PAIRS.

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FOR GOVERN3IE2:T:
Mr. Tancred (L) FOR MR• COBDEN./ iwovois.
Mr. Blackburn (C)
Mr. Wyvill (L) Mr. Vansittart (C)
Mr. J. Duff (L) Mr. Freshfield (C)
Mr. Rumbold (L) Mr. Buck (C)
Sir J. Matheson (L) Sir G. Booth (L)
Mr. Bland (L) Captain Archdall (C)
Mr. Henchy (L) Mr. Percy (C)
Mr. Esmond (L) Mr. Goddard (C)
Mr. Deo), (L) Sir G. Forster (C)
Mr. Beamish (L) Mr. Baird (C)
Mr. Heathcote (L) Mr. Long (C)
Sir H. F. Davie ( L) Cobnel Forester (C)
Mr. Atherton (L) Mr. Lloyd Davies (C)
Mr. Colvile (C) Colonel Lowther (C)
Mr. Collier (L) Mr. Lushington ( C )
Mr. H. Baring (C) Sir Francis Baring (C)
Earl Grosvenor (L) Sir P. Egerton (C)
Colonel French (L) Mr, Montgomery (C)
Mr. Sergeant O'Brien (L) Mr. George (C )
Sir T. Acland (C) Sir W. Verner (C)
Sir R. Bulkeley) (L) Mr. T. P. Williams (C)
Mr. Foley (L) Mr. Wilson Patten (C)
Mr. De Vere (L) Mr. Burrowes ( C )
Mr. Heywood (L) Sir C. Burrell ((,)

MARCH 7, 1857.

(foreign anb (colonial 3attiligente.

CHINA, INDIA, AND THE EAST.

The overland mail—with dates from Hong Kong to
Jan. 15 ; Calcutta, Jan. 23 ; and Bombay, Feb. •
brings important intelligence from Canton. The
burning of the factories on December 14 had been
followed by the Chinese with an unsuccessful
attempt to retake Macao Passage Fort—(upwards of
sixty war junks attacked the fort; her Majesty's
ships Niger, Encounter, and Corromandel succeeded,
after a four hours' engagement, in driving back the
Chinese squadron)—by the capture of the mail
steamer Thistle and the murder of the entire crew
and passengers, and by a combination of the
Chinese bakers in Hong Kong to poison the English
inhabitants by mixing arsenic in the bread. The
rebel fleet had joined that of the Imperialists, and
upwards of six hundred war junks were collected in
the Canton river. The excitement of the Chinese at
Hong Kong, Singapore, and throughout every island
in the Chinese seas, was intense. Proclamations
filled every town and village, and were secretly circu-
lated at Macao and Hong Kong, calling upon all the
Celestial people to unite " for the extermination of
the barbarians." On the part of the English,
Admiral Seymour had retired from the Dutch Folly
Fort, first burning the suburbs of Canton, and was
awaiting reinforcements of troops and ships from
Singapore and Calcutta. Every precaution had been
taken to secure our position at Hong Kong and
Macao. At Hong Kong Sir John Bowring on the
6th of January had issued an ordinance declaring
the necessity of taking immediate and special means
for preserving the peace of the colony, and enacting
that any Chinaman found at large in Hong Kong,
elsewhere than in his own habitation, between the
hours of eight in the evening and sunrise, and with-
out a police pass, shall be liable to a fine, to impri-
sonment with hard labour, to whipping, or to the
stocks. By another section of the same ordi-
nance :

Every person lawfully acting as a sentry or patrol at any
time between the hour of eight in the evening and sunrise
is hereby authorised, whilst so acting, to fire upon, with
intent or effect to kill, any Chinaman whom he shall meet
with or discover abroad, and whom he shall have reason•
able ground to suspect of being so abroad for an improper
purpose, and who, being challenged by him, shall neglect
or refuse to make proper answer to his challenge.

His Excellency also assumes power to deport all per-
sons considered dangerous to the peace and good
order of the colony.
The American commodore and French admiral
bad landed strong bodies of seamen and marines for
the protection of their respective interests at Hong
Kong. Upon the whole, the position of affairs
tended rather to the advantage of the Chinese. We
bad been compelled to abandon Canton and the
Dutch Folly Fort. We were reduced wholly to the
defensive ; and in our own possessions to that extent
bad the Chinese authorities succeeded in rousing
the passions of the people, that a very general sense
of insecurity prevailed both at Hong Kong and
Singapore.
Whampoa had been abandoned by all foreign
shipping.
The Governor of Lin-timm had seized the central
opium depot, the property of foreign traders.
The Chinese Government at Pekin was reported to
have published an Imperial edict,• prohibiting all
trading with the English, closing the country to
English goods, suspending existing treaties, and
ordering the English to be attacked upon every
opportunity.
With respect to the Persian war, the intelligence
from Bushire up ;to the 17th of January states that
the troops had completely intreuched themselves,
and were unmolested. They were healthy, supplies
were plentiful, and powerful reinforcements were
leaving Bombay and Kurrachee for the Gulf. Gene-
ral Outram was expected to proceed to Bussorah.
The Paris Pays says :

According to the latest news from the Persian Gulf, an
armistice of three months has been concluded between
the Commander•in•Chief of the English troops and the
Persian Government. This armistice will begin on
March 1, 1k,57.
Dost Mohammed was still at Peshawur.
A new five-per-cent. loan was opened at Calcutta
on 16th Jan.

FRANCE.
THE NEUFCHATEL CONFERENCES.

The commission appointed to arrange the affairs
of Neufchatel held its first sitting on Thursday, in
the Cabinet of M. Walewsici, at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. Four :powers were represented at
it by Lord Cowley, Count Kisseleff, Baron Hubner,
and Count Walewski. The latter, as representative
of the power in whose capital the conference is held,
will have the direction of it.

Tho Plenipotentiaries of and Switzerland
will be admitted at a later period. M. Barnum will
represent Switzerland.
Tho project of law relative to the deletion of the
Duke de Malakoff bee been carried unanimously.

THE PRESS.

AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT.

The differences between the Courts of Turin and
Vienna do not arrange themselves. The corre-
spondence between Count Cavour and Count Buol
upon the subjects of the attacks upon Austria of the
Sardinian press has been published. Count Buol
complains bitterly of the licence of the Piedmontese
papers, and characterises the Alessandrian subscrip-
tion, the reception of deputations approving the
Piedmontese policy, and the erection of a monu-
ment to commemorate the deeds of the Sardinian
army, as " so many offensive demonstrations," and
calls upon Count Cavour to explain—

What measures he proposes to take to efface these
painful impressions, and what guarantees he can offer us
against the indefinite prolongation of a state of things so
diametrically opposed to the desire by which we are
animated of entertaining such relations with Piedmont as
best suit the interest of the two countries.

Count Cavour retorts that the Austrian press, though
submitted to a severe censorship, is most virulent in
its attack upon the King, Constitution, and states-
men of Sardinia, and replies seriatim to the otller
accusations of Count Buol.

An imperial ordunnance, dated Milan, Feb. 28,
announces that the resignation of Marshal Radetzky
has been accepted.
The Archduke Maximilian is officially appointed
Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian States.

General Count Giulay is invested with the military
command in Lombardy, Venice, Carinthia, and on
the coast.

SPA IN AND MEXICO.

The preparations for a grand expedition against
Mexico continue to be pressed forward with unabated
vigour. Ten thousand troops, it is repotted, will
form the expedition, with thirty vessels of war.
TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Intelligence has been received via Vienna, from
the Danubian principalities, stating that the delimi
tation of the frontier having been terminated, Mol-
davian troops bad, on the 20th, 21st, and 23rd of
February, garrisoned the towns of Bolgrad, Ismail,
and Reni.

Mehemet Bey, who served in the war of insurrec-
tion at Hungary, has set out for Circassia, where he
has been invited to act as Generalissimo.

Great agitation prevails in the Caucasus, and pre
parations are in progress against a Russian invasion
which is said to be imminent.

A despatch by submarine telegraph, dated Con-
stantinople, March 2, states :
The Grand Council approves the statutes of the Na.
tional Bank, and ratifies the concession to Mr. Wilkins.
PERSIA.
A treaty of peace between Persia and England was
signed at Paris on Tuesday last by Ferouk Kban and
Lord Cowley.

The last accounts from Teheran, by way of Russia,
state that the Shah had ratified the treaty of com-
merce concluded at Constantinople between Ferouk
Kban and the representative of the United States of
America. The rumour is that it authorises the
latter power to establish a diplomatic mission at
Teheran, and consulates at Teheran, Tauris, and
Buchir. Citizens of the United States, as regards
their commerce, are to be treated the same as those
of the most favoured nations. An Austrian agent,
Colonel Schindloker, had arrived at Teheran to nego-
tiate a similar treaty.