The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

INDIA.

Intelligence from Ca.cutta up to the 10th and
Bombay to the 19th of March has arrived, in antici-
pation of the overland
Lord Canning arrived at Calcutta on the 29th of
February, and ',AS immediately sworn in. Lord Dal-
housie had left previously, on the 6111, for Suez. In
replying to a farewell address from the inhabitants
of Calcutta, Lord Dalhousie observed, with respect to
"keeping the peace" in India:—

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It is not for me, gentlemen, to speak of the events and
the measures of past years. on which you have dwelt with
such favorable regard. lint it may he permitted to me
to look forward with Sou, and to express a hope that, as I
leave you, the prospect is fair and full of promise.
No prudent man, having any knowledge of Eastern
affairs, would ever venture to predict a prolonged continua•
tion of peace in India. We have learned by hard experience
how a difference with a native power, which seems at first
to be but the little cloud no bigger than a man's hand,
may rapidly darken and swellinto a storm of war, invclving
the whole empire in its gloo:n. We have lately seen how
in the very midst of us insurrection may rise like an ex-
halation from the earth, and how cruel violence,woi se titan
all the excesses of war, may be suddenly committel by
men who, to the very Ilay in which they broke out in their
frenzy of blood, have been regarded as a simple, harmless,
timid race,not by the Government alone, but even by those
who knew them best, who were dwelling among them, and
were their earliest victims.

Remembering these things, no pm& nt man will venture
to give you assurance of continued peace.
But we seem to have every reasonable ground for be-
lieving that tranquillity within and without is likely now to
prevail in India, and that thus fair scope will be given for
the prosecution of those projects of internal improvement
on which the Government has largely entered.
As to his future life Lord Da!housie

My only ambition long has been to accomplish the task
which lay before me here, and to bring it to a close with

APRIL 19, 1856.

honour and success. It has been permitted to me to do
80. I have played out mypart ; and, while I feel that in
Any case the principal act in the drams of my life is ended,
I shall be content if the curtain should drop now upon my
public course. Nearly thirteen years have passed away
since I first entered the service of the Crown. Through
all these yearn, with but one short interval, public employ.
ment of the heaviest responsibility and labour has been
imposed upon me. Tam wearied and worn, and have no
other thought or wish than to seek the retirement of which
I stand in need, and which is all I am now fit for.
The ex Governor-General arrived at Suez on the
2nd inst., embarked for Alexander on the Bth, and
reached Malta on the 11th.
The Santhal insure ection was apparently at an
end. a large number of the Santhals having accepted
employment on tha railways.
Tranquillity reigned for the present throughout
India. The settlement of Oude proceeded rapidly
and without disturbance; the troops of the King had
taken service under the new Government.

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
The Atrato, with dates from Mexico to the 18th
March, Panama 25th and Jamaica 27th, arrived
on Sunday with a ireight of 045,088 dollars.
The American steamer Osprey had been burnt off
Kingstown, Jamaica.
From Mexico we learn that the Government wa:
still unsettled. The attempt at counter revoltuion
was not yet put down. Tamariz had shut himself
up in Puebla. Comonfort had arrived before the
city with a strong force, and conducted the assault
on the 13th with great bravery. He had got posses-
sion of one-half of the town. In a few days it was
anticipated that the struggle would be at an end, as
the rebels were short of ammunition.
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.
By the arrival of the Persia on Monday, making
the quickest passage ever known, of nine days twelve
hors, we have dates from New York to the 2nd inst
Mr. Fillmore's chance of election as President ap•
paired very faint. The Kansas Democrats and the
$ townotbings repudiated him altogether. The latter
w)uld, it was generally believed, put forward Colonel
wont of California.
From Nicaragua we learn that Costa Rica had de-
clared war against General Walker, and had issued
an address calling on the people of Central America
to destroy the North American invaders.
The Knownothings' Massachusetts House of Re-
presentatives, by a constitutional vote, had refused to
adopt a resolution to amend the Constitution, so as
to pioliihit other than native-born citizens from
It 'Wing °thee in the State. The Maine Liquor Law
hid been declared unconstitutional, and taken off
fie statute-book, by the highest court of appeal in
Nev York.

Elle United States district attorney, in New York,
ba I entered a nol. pros. as against certain parties
su 'posed to be interested in the Crimean enlist-
me .tS.

the steamer Arctic had returned to New York,
af,er a cruise of forty nine days in search of the
Pacific. No news or traces of her.

THE KING OF PRUSSIA, at a recent family dinner
Charlotienburgh, gave the health of "Ices Nu-
v...aux Fiancées," adding that he would not mention
names, as every one could easily guess. It is be-
lieved at Berlin that the official announcement of the
engagement of Prince Frederick William to the
Princes, Royal of England will not be long delayed.
THE CEREMONY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE IMPERIAL
PRINCE in Paris, is reported a, fixed for the 9th June.
In this solemnity the same forms will be observed as
r. re adopted in the baptism of the King of Rome.
The religious ceremony will talc,- place at Notre Dame,
at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the young prince
will be afterwards taken to St. Cloud. The Emperor
and Empress, on their part, will attend a grand ban.
gnet at the Hotel de Ville, to be followed by a splendid
fe!,e. Other fetes will be given in succession at Ver-
sailles, St. Cloud, and in other imperial residences.
IRE VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN Hato, one of the
Sandwich Wands, threatens complete destruction to
the town. An immense girt am of lava is slowly
coming down from the crater :

The stream ( writes a correspondent of a Californian
paper on In, c. ) comes in great force, some two miles a
week. Three or four miles will bring it through the woods.
It follows water channels, dries up aqueous matter, and
firms tiery cascades of terrible sublimity. It heads straight
down upon us, anti nothing but the hand of Omnipotence
call save our town and bay. Our expulsion seems every
day more and mole a solemn reality Molten fires are
gleaming, trees are falling, the jungle is consuming, rivers
are boiling and ascending in steam clouds. Onward,
one 1%1 rtili the burning deluge—slowly, sullenly, relent•
lea-ly, ant %%itli resistless force. I hope to be able to give
7,'n a full a!eoutit in time. I'S. A man died this morning
fr at falba; into the boiling water near the fused lava
stream.

IltastA, it is believed, is about to conclude a Con-
e) at v..to Rome. it is not at all anticipated that
the eror Alexander will accept the Austrian Con-
csdat fora model. M. de Kisseleff will negotiate
the new Concordat at Home.

THE PRESS.

gout Anb lasilion.

Her Majesty held a levee on Tuesday, at which
Sefer Paella (General Roscielsk), Baron Cotta, and
Baron Bose, were presented in the diplomatic circle.
In the evening the Queen visited the Italian Opera.

Her Majesty on Wednesday inspected the invalids
in the military hospital at Chatham, visited the
Adelphi Theatre on Thursday evening, and left town
for Aldershott camp on Friday. Her Majesty slept
at the camp last night, and returns to town this
afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with
Prince Etiw•ard of Saxe Weimar, attended the levee
on Tuesday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Haymarket Theatre on Tuesday, and the Italian
Opera on Thuzsday evening.

Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, the Commander-in-
Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, has been invited
by the Queen to be her guest on board the royal
yacht at the review.
The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady
Augusta Poulett have arrived in St. James's-square,
from Rahy Castle, Durham.
The Earl and Countess of Stamford and War-
rington arrived in Hill-street on Monday evening,
from Enville-hall, Staffordshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family
will not arrive at Montague lou,e, Whitehall, until
the middle of next month.
Count Cavour was hourly expected to arrived at
at the Coburg hotel, Charles-street, Groivenor•square,
trom Paris. Ccunt Eynard de Cavour, nephew
of his Excellency, accompanies the Count as private
secretary.