The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-22 00:00:00

FOREION-OFFICE DESPATCH.

The following Telegram was rewired at the
Foreign-021os, through Corfu, Jan. 22, 7.90 a.m.

JAR. 17.

The Candle arrived at Suez on the 14th instant,
bringing dates from Calcutta to 25th December,
Madras 29th December, Gallo 9th January, and
Hong Kong, 16th December, but no news of im-
pcetanoe. The East India Company's steamer Pun-
jaub also arrived at Suez on the 13th instant,
with Bombay dates to 29th December ; she left
the " Geroze " at Aden, coaling. A small force
from Delhi, under Colonel Seaton, encountered
a body of rebels at Guingeree, on the 15th
of December, took the guns, killed 150 men ;
we lost few men, and three officers. Again, on
the 11th December, the same column attacked
strong force of the enemy entrenched at Putalem,
near Futieghur, killed about six hundred of them,
including many chiefs took eleven guns with
their camp, and parted [pursuing f] the routed
enemy seven miles. Our loss was trifling, and
including only one officer killed.
Communication by post between Bombay and
Calcutta had been re-established, letters and papers
having been received.
The Southampton and Prince Albert, with
troops, had reached Bombay, 12th.
Lord Elgin's ultimatum was delivered to Yeb, who
shows no disposition to —•. The island of Sonan
was occupied without resistance on the 15th.
GREEN,
Acting Consul-General.
• Something omitted.

We (Timm) have received the following telegram
from our Malta correspondent, dated Malta, January
21, 7.30 a.m., and received from Corfu in advance of
the Indian mail.

" The Australian outward mails had arrived and
gone on.
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" ALEXANDRIA, JAx. 17.

" The India mails have arrived, with Slates from
Calcutta to the 24th of December, and Hong Kong
to the 16th.
" The Punjab has brought the mail from Bombay,
with intelligence to the 29th.

" The Furukabad rebels have been defeated in two
engagements, in the latter of which, on the 18th,
the dispersion of the enemy was complete. Their
guns were captared ; our low is trifling.
" No further intelligence from Oade.
"The 11th Oavalry mutinied on the lit of Decem-
ber. They were overtaken near Enmesh. Eleven
were killed, bat the remainder escaped.
" The 17th Native Infantry are under orders for
China.

" Exchange at Bombay, 2s. 2 2-3 d.
" At Calcutta, 2a. 20., for credits.
" CHINA.

"BLOCKADE OF THE CANTON RIVER.

"The French Admiral has proclaimed the block-
ade of the Canton river on the part of France. The
Island of Donau, opposite Canton, was occupied
on the 16th of December by the English and French
forces.

" The Chinese were allowed ten days to sooept an
ultimatum.

" Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. lid. ; Shanghai,
es. 40. to 611. 6d.
" At 3 p.m. a steamer with London mails has been
signalled?

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom ova °lnt

PARIS, THORSDAT Eviwino.
One of the items mentioned in the summary official
report of the short proceedings of the Corps Legis-
latif on the first day of the session, although it has
provoked little public notice, is of great importance,
and has not failed to awaken the attention of the
inhabitants of the faubourgs 3f Paris, whom it in an
especial manner ooncerns—l refer to the presentation
of a bill for calling out 100,000 recruits for the army.
Since the termination of the Crimean war, there has
been on various occasions a parade: of reductions--
announcements have been frequently made that

large numbers of men have received indefinite

furloughs ; but the public never knows when
these men are summoned back to the ranks.
It is now pretty dear that all the reserves are ex-

handed, and alarger force than usual is about to be
added to the army. The comment upon this, made
amongst the young men in the faubourgs, is this :
" Since the Emperor augments the army in time of
peace, it is plain he wants to get us out of the way,
and to send us to Algeria, to make railways at five
eons a day."
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The bill imposing upon every candidate for the
Corps Legislatif the obligation of taking the oath of
allegiance, as a qualification, has been laid before the
Council of State.

The Belgian government has agreed to allow a
French commission to sit in Belgium, to inquire into
the situation and pursuits of the refugees there, and
will compel witnesses to attend the commission and
give evidence.
The new bill concerning foreigners, which I said

yesterday had been presented to the Belgian
Ch►mbers, turns out to be merely a proposition to
continue the existing legislation until March 1,1861.
The Pays says that the trial of the regicides will
probably come on about the Bth or 10th of Feb. The
court will be presided over by M. Delangle, and M.
Chain d'Fst Ango will conduct the prosecution.
There is an excellent feuilleion in the Debate: Of
this day by M. Rigault, an eminent professor, re_
cently dismissed because he writes in the Antic des
Deux Mondes. M. °Tinier de Cassagnac's Merril,
and his notion of reviving literature by the aid of