The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1861.

thus be once more united, and at the grave of
esvorn they will formally pledge themselves in
the most public and solemn manner to recognise
and support the Kingdom his genius snd• courage
did so much to create.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

THE BANK OF FRANCE.
PARIS, FIUDAT MOINDIO.
' The Monikur of to-day publishes the usual
monthly return of the Bank of France, which
shows the following results as compared with the
May account :
Noises'.
Cash in hand l9l millions.
Treasury balance
Currents account
Dscsssas.
Bank notes 3l If
Bills discounted, not yetdue I
Advancee
The coin and bullion have increased about
800,0001. As there is also an increase of a million
and a quarter sterling in the private deposits, the
amount of notes in circulation has diminished to
the extent of 1,240,0001.

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we receive
advices from Calcutta to May 8; Madras, May 14.
There is no news of importance. The papers are
still discussing Mr. Laing's financial statement.
The following is from the Lune
of India:
Although the pressing necessity for aid from England to
the famine stricken districts has passed away, the liberality
which sent out 20,0001. as a fleet instalment is appreciated
here., And it may be required. At present even Bengal and
the most fertile parts of Madras feel the want of rain. The
famine still prevails as severely as ever in the districts of the
North-West and Punjab. Isis impossible to depend with any
certainty on the rains of July and subsequent months, and all
pad analogy in against the probability of • copious fall.
Should they fail the generosity of England will be sorely tried.
There have been two sense of affrays in the indigo dis-
tricts attended with loss of life. In one instance a native
deputy collector, who had gone to • subdivision of Jerson
to try a rent case, when attempting to disperse an illegal
assembly, was beaten and had to flee for his life. When
the magistrate, after investigating the case next morning,
tried to arrest the guilty parties, be and the police with bim
were attacked by the peasantry, and three men were killed
and three wounded. In another instance, while the hired ser-
vants of one of the Bengal Indigo Company's factories were
engaged in weeding • piece of land, part of which had been
decreed by the court as belonging to the factory, they were
attacked by an armed band of ryota, and one man was
speared to death. It appears from the report of one of the
special commissioners, that the rvota boldly declare they
have combined not to pay rents. to add to the difficulties
of the Bengal government, the Soathals have been led to
swum an uneasy attitude, on account of suits for the en-
harassment of their rents and preware exercised by the
money lenders.
Sir William Denison returned to Madras from
Calcutta on the 13th ult.

So far as is yet known, the volunteering for
the new regiments of the line, formed out of the
local European Corps, has been almost universal.
A gentleman has been appointed to report on
the districts in Bengal which are capable of pro-
ducing cotton.
It is reported that the Madras Chamber of Com-
merce has applied to government for the services
of a gentleman to visit the cotton districts.

Tel thousand Shane have, it is reported, emi-
grated into British Burniah, where they have been
allowed to settle.

CHINA.

There is very little news from China. The most
important fact of the fortnight is perhaps that
announced by telegraph, of the establishment of
the British and French embassies in Pekin. The
China Mail says :

The tags of both nations were hoisted in the capital on
the 26th Yar.a. On the 25th March M. de Bourhosion,
attended by an escort of gendarmes and artillery, and ac-
companied by Count Klececowsky and Baron de Northam,
his Secretaries of Legation, entered Pekin, and took up his
residence in the Tartar city, near that of the Russian am-
bamador. On the following day Mr. Brum, attended
by an escort of Sikh Cavalry, and accompanied by
Lientenant•Colonel Neale, his secretary, and Messrs. St.
Clair and Wyndham, attaches of legation, entered the capi-
tal, and took up his residence in the neighbourhood of the
other ambassadors. These proceedings appeared to IA
quietly viewed by the populace, and there was every pros-
pect of the foreign representatives meeting with a Wiese-
tory reception. M. de Bourhoulon's introduction to Prises
Kung was to take place on the following day ; Mr.
Bruce had already been introduced to that dignitary.
It has been resolved by the Chinese govern-
ment to open schools in Pekin for instruction in
the English tongue, and it is proposed to send • few Chinese
youths to England to acquire our language. By the lest
advice, there is no mention made of the Emperors return to
the capital, although that event is believed to be elms at
band. It appears that only a very few of the fine collec-
tion of books is the Imperial library of the Summer Palace
have been saved by Mr. Wade. Fortunately for themselves,the Chinese have three or four duplicates of this collection ;
so that in burning the Summer Palace Library the loss has
chiefly been our own.
In Japan matters were going on quietly.
From Tien-tain there is no news of any import-
ance. The forces stationed there were in good
health, and enjoying the return of spring.
The accounts from Shanghae have reference to
the fluctuations of the Imperialist and rebel cause.
The insurgents have recently made a move in the
direction of Hangkowe, it is supposed with a view
to take the various places we had marked out as
porta.

AUSTRALIA.

General Cameron arrived on the 30th of March
at Waitara, and proceeded on to Auckland. Major-
Garners! Pratt left Waiters on the 3rd of April, in
her Majesty's c.a. Victoria, and arrived at Mel-
bourne on the 12th of April. The Victoria, pre-
vious to leaving New Zealand, conveyed Governor
Brown from Auckland to Waiters, on the 30th of
March.

The official return of killed and wounded bad not
yet appeared. A correspondent of the Melbourne
Argueva list of such as were known :
Killed-
40th Regiment : Private R. Jeffrey Private J.
Watson, Private M. Roche ; Lieut. !'Naughton,
Royal Artillery. Wounded—Royal Artillery :J.
Radford, Sergeant Christy, slightly ; 40th Regi-
ment : Lieut. Rees, severely ; Lieut. Whelan,
slightly ; Private R. Carey, severely ; Private J.
Clonan, severely.
There was no change in the political situation at
Melbourne. Parliament had been engaged during
the month in discussing questions arising out of the
estimates. The house had voted a sum of 79,0001.
for immigration for the current year. Ministers
had assented to the second reading of the bill for
the abolition of the duty on gold, but had stated
that they would endeavour in committee to fix the
amount of duty at Is. per ounce, leaving the reduc-
tion to commence in 1862. It was thought this
proposition would be agreed to. Ministers had
introduced a bill for the better administration of
law on the gold fields. The bill to abolish state aid
to religion was to come on in a day or two. Major-
General Pratt had received the thanks of the house
for his services in the New Zealand war.
Of the gold fields the Melbourne Herald writes:

The total amount of gold brought to town by escort
during this year up to date has been 545,036 condo, which
at 41. per ounce would be worth 2,180,1441., Naiad 585,695
ounces for the corresponding period of hurt year, worth
2,342,7801. The shipments for the same periods amounted
to 601,138 ounces for 1861, valued at 2,404,552/. against
571,288 ounces, valued at 2.285,154/. During the pest
month the escorts have shown a slight falling off as com-
pared with last year, the numbers being 141,079 and 150,451
ounces respectively, while during the name period the ship-
ments showed a considerable excess, there having been
169,107 ounces expected hat month, instead of 124,849
ounces as in 1860.

There have been no new rushes of much importance dur-
ing the month, and with the exception of some floods, by
which a considerable amount of damage was done, nothing
baa occurred to interrupt the even tenor of life upon the
gold fields. The accounts from Mountain Creek are very
satisfactory, and the late supply of water has been taken
advantage of to wash • considerable amount of stuff, much
of which ham turned out extremely rich. The event of the
month, so far as the goldfields are concerned, has been the
attention which ham been paid to several new discoveries,
having for their object the utilisation of " tailings; as
quarts from which the gold has been partially extracted is
termed hr the gold miner. In our last summary we gave
an account of Mr. Porter's patented procem of abstracting
gold from quarts by Ca, from which so much was
then expected. Repeated trials of this prone. have since
been made with more or less nieces, and one or two other
processes have been brought into competition with it.

From Sydney we learn that the Upper House
was still further altering the Land Bills, so that
the government will probably abandon them.
An address had been voted in the Assembly for
60,0001. for assisted immigration.
At the meeting on April 24 of the Bank of New
South Wales a dividend of 15 per cent. was an-
nounced. It was decided to open an establishment
in New Zealand.

The South AnsUslian Parliament was opened on
April 26. The Governor's speech is of a cheering
character. He says :
I shall awn to be laid before you a despatch received
from the Duke of Newoutle, stating that her Majesty will
be advised to introduce a bill into the Imperial Parliament
to give her Majesty power to mane: to South Australia the
tract of land lying between our western boundary and the
eastern boundary of Western Australia ; and a/so, at some
future time, to extend this colony northward.