The Press.
London, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

AMERICA.

There is no political intelligence of any impor-
tance. The Government of the United States are
waiting to receive intelligence of the ratification of
the treaty between Great Britain and Honduras
before they take any further steps with respect to
the Dallas-Clarendon Convention.

A strong body of troops was to be sent to Utah.
It was rumoured that General Walker had escaped
from Nicaragua, and had taken refuge in some town
on the Pacific.
INDIA AND CHINA.

The Indian intelligence is, on the whole, satis-
factory. The mutinous feeling of the Sepoys was
gradually subsiding. The Jemadar of the guard
and the sepoy of the 34th who attempted to assassi-
nate Lieutenant Baugh had both been hanged, and
died confessing their crime and admitting the
justice of the sentence.

Some slight symptoms of disturbance had been
exhibited at Umbella, and the empty European
barracks, with the native infantry hospital, had been
burned down.

Goolab Singh was reported to be dead; and, in
consequence of "the train of events not being clearly
foreseen " in Cachnere, British officers at Peshawar
were forbidden to enter the State.
The discovery of coaNin Scinde, upon the Vera
Plain, about twenty-eight miles from Kotree, is con-
firmed.

The British town of Bassein, in Pegu, had been
burned to the ground. Not a house was saved.
The notorious outlaw of Oude, Fuzil Ali, who so
lately murdered Mr. Boileau, was surprised on the
Nepaul frontier by a company of the 3rd Infantry,
and, with four of his gang, shot dead in the
struggle.
From China there is no warlike news of impor-
tance. Boat engagements with junks were constantly
occurring up and down the coast, and several sail of
junk had been destroyed with great gallantry by the
boats of the Sampson, Hamel, Sybille, Nankin, and
Auckland. The Chinese upon each occasion appear to
have fought well, and to have displayed very creditable
knowledge both of seamanship and gunnery. In one
of these boat expeditions against a fleet of war junks
cruising in Deep Bay for the purpose of cutting off
supplies from Hong Kong, a series of important
Government despatches were taken on board the
"flag junk." A correspondent of the Times states
the result of the examination lof the MSS. as
follows :

The poisoning case "is referred to approvingly, but
not so as to implicate the poisoners or to clear them, but
the burning of the st .re of the Englishman who, after
their arrest, bought the poisoner's bread and biscuit bakery,
and accepted the contracts by which the " devil soldiery "
are fed, is the anbject first of a despatch approving the plan,
and, when suet essful, of another avowing and glorying in
it. Assassinations, kidnappings, capture of vessels, are in
like manner planned beforehand, and boasted of after exe-
cution. Attempts to commit them and other crimes—
among which may be mentioned one to destroy a steamer,
and several to blow up the buildings and magazines of
Victoria with gunpowder—are freely talked of, and their
failure or postponement fully explained. The pains which
leb, as you know, has been taking of late to soothe public
feeling at Canton into a belief that the " devils are broken"
and "rubbed down," and suing for "leave to ask pardon,"
are also explained. His exchequer is empty! From the
beginning of these troubles he had been obliged to depend
upon his " braves," as the " people and gentry " were dis-
inclined to bear the brunt of the action. But the " braves'.
were not volunteers, and his donations were immense.
Further, considerable sums had been lavished on the
taking of heads, for the service was a perilous one. To
meet all these demands, forced or else voluntary subscrip-
tions were offered to the choice of the discerning public ;
and the result was answerable, but only for a season. The
money is all gone. The " Canton Committee " can no
longer pay even for heads. In vain their economy; in
vain the reduction of reward from 100 to 30 tads) and lower

JUNE 6, 1857.

still ; in vain their obstinate refusal to pay more for a ser-
vioe which the " braves " represent as too dangerous for a
"brave " to undertake at less than double the amount !
they have been at length compelled to suspend their pay-
ments altogether; and the adroitness of Yeh has been put
in requisition to cover the act of insolvency with the
cloak of magnanimoas compassion for the woes with
which the rude and obdurate barbarians have so long been
punished.
The successes of the rebels both in the north
and south provinces were reported to be very great,
and from the impoverished state of the public
treasury, and the large arrear of pay owing to the
imperialist troops, it was considered doubtful
whether they would not desert in a body to the
rebels :

It is now confirmed—what before was vaguely ru-
moured—that the rebels of Kiangsi are in possession of
the Chang-Ituh-Shan pass, which commands the only
road from that province into the fertile and rich maritime
province of Che-Keing; that the western part of that of
FUltien is in their hands, together with the mountain
passes which lead into Kiiingsi; that Kweiling-fn, the
capital of Kwingsi, so long besieged in vain by the " God-
worshippers " at the beginning of their rising in that their
native province, has at length yielded itself, and become
" a possession," and that two of their chiefs have actually
established themselves in the north of Kwangtung itself,
while a third, their formidable Le, at the head of some
tIO,IKIO men, who have followed him from Kwangsi into
that province, has taken several of its southern cities, and
from the easternmost, Tekheng now threatens a visit to
Canton itself, the capital of the province.— Times cor.
So great was the pressure felt at Shanghai that the
Chinese Government, it was reported, had legalised
the importation of opium by fixing a duty of twelve
taels a chest.

The horrible murder at Hong Kong of Mr.
Markwich, one of the oldest members of the British
mercantile community, was reported.
H.M.S. Raleigh was only very slightly injured by
striking on the rocks off Macao, and by no means in
danger of total loss.