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.22, 1659

THE DAN'S NEWS

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The India and China mails hay
ved
Alexandria. The dates ?from Calcutta ar-- at
taorteh to the
28th of January, and from Hong Kong
The retleels had, it is reported, made another
lath.
attempt to enter Rohilcund from Nepali:, bunotth it
er
was unsuccessful, and they were terribly cut
up by Her Majesty `.s 42nd Regiment. The 'reports
of the Calcutta Import Market are favo4zrable,
showing that a very. active laisiness was going
forward. There had been an improvement in
freights, and exchange Du },:ngland was quoted at
2s. Old. The -adviees from China report thf3
ic turn of Lord Elgin to •Shanghai, on the
fird of January. Some attackS having been made
upon. Europeans outside the city of Canton, a small
0014bined naval and land force. was despatched on
the Bth of January to the spot, when the enemy
was routed, andia small village destroyed. It Was
said that the diiturbance-had been instigated by
by the Imperial Govertment, Tradelvas dull o`i,

Hong Kong, but active at Shanxi, wiierd there
was a good demand for all imports, except metals.
Exchange had declined to 6s 4d for Bank-bills.
The price of Tea had advanced at all the ports,
and there was a reported decrease in the expor+A
of 2,500,0001b5. "At Shanghai Siks had adva-,,eod
in price. At Foo-choo there was a
ness going on in Tea. The Bombay mrls of the
25th January, and the Calcutta mail of the 14th
of January, via Marseilles, wr..,re delivered in
London yesterday. The P.,omby correspondent
of the Times says, that tte reduction of Oude sets
free a number of regiments. one 80th is already
in part at Cawa-pore, and the whole regiment will
soon be • concentrated there, eight regiments
will be sent home, four Itf the miiitary train.
The nth, 32nd, 64th, ?..nd 'nth are already officially
Mider orders for Eurore. The accounts of the
attack on Colonel Campbell's force, by 3,000
Rohillas, is not very complete. Brigadier Hills,
who was encalnped within four miles of the scene
of this suprise, sent up a detachment of his
brigade, and Colonel Ctanpbell who then
attacked the rebels. In the engagement, one
British oflizer, M‘Kinnon, ,3rd Regiment Hydra-
bad Infantry, is reported killed. Two other
officers were wounded, one mortally. 250 of the
enemy were left dead on the field. One account
says that our forces were obliged to retire. The
Roiiillas subsequently disbanded.
Letters received from St. Petersburgh, and dated
the '2oth inst., deny that up to the present time
any movement of troops to Poland has taken
flace, and it is confidently added, that none of the
ortresses have been armed. It is however stated,
.a.s a fact, that all sailors and marines on leave
received orders to hold themselves in readiness in
case they should be required. The soldiers on
furlough were about to receive
intimation

The official correspondence respecting the
Charles-et-Georges affair has been published ;
it comprises 67 despatches. It shews that Lord
Malmesbury directed the Admiralty to send a
small force to the Tagus to watch the French
squadron. His Lordship also pointed out lo the
Duke of Malakoff the great danger to which any
state departing from the concilatory protocol of
Paris,; and acting hastily against another'power,
under the impression of being wronged, must
expose the peace of Europe.
The Independeitee Beige is informed from Paris,
that Lord Cowley has remitted.to Count Walewski
a diplomatic note on the Italian question.
The English Cabinet is of ,opinion that all diffi-
oulties might and ought to be settled by diplo-
matic means.
The Emperor's speech has .not been published in
'the official journal of Rome.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
asserts, that Russia has intimated her determina-
tion to resist any attempt to prevent the union of
the Principalities, by force. •
The Neapolitan exiles left Cadiz on Saturday,
on board an American frigate.
The correspondet of the Times says, that the
object of the French Ambassador at Turin in
coming to Paris is, to take the Emperor's last in-
structions on the question with Piedmont, where
people are getting impatient and perhaps sus-
picious.

- In the House of Lords, last night, Lord Derby
stated that Sir Hugh,Storks the newly appointed
Lord High Commissioner Of the lonian Islands,
had arrived at Corfu, and that Mr. Gladstone had
already taken his departure for England. The
discussion upon lonian matters was conse-
quently postponed until the Ist of March. In
the House of Commons, Mr. Walpole introduced
his Church Rates Bill, by the provisions of which
he considers the character of the rate would be
changed from a compulsory to a voluntary one.
Sir J. Trelawney demanded for his Bill a formal
second reading.
Yesterday, an important and influential meeting
Was held at the Clarendon-rooms, the object being
the establishment of an Infant Orphan Asylum.
Some £7,000 are .required for the purpose, 14,000
of which has already been subscribed. The meet-
ing was very numerous, and a provisional com-
mittee was appointed. Samuel Holm(); •Esq.,
presided, and the Rev. Dr. McNeile, Archdeacon
Jones, &c., were the chief speakers.
At an adjourned meeting of the Birkenhead
Commissioners held yesterday, a petition was
adopted against the Mersey. Dock BilL The
grounds of the opposition are, that the Birkenhead
docks, if completed by the Dock Board and Cor-
poration, would be sufficient to meet the wants of
dock accommodation. A second petition against
the Wirral Waterworks Company's Bill was also
adopted.
Sir J.. W. Rawsden was, yesterday, elected a
member of Parliament for the West Riding of
Yorkshire, without opposition.