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FOREIGN,
India and China news has been received by the Overland
Mail, which left Bombay ten days earlier than usual, to avoid
the monsoons. The dates are, Bombay, May 23; Caubul,
April 17-28; Calcutta, May 13; Ceylon, May 4; Macao,
April 4; Chusan, March 2; Lahore, April 2i; Madras, !lay.
14; and Singapore, April 19. The London Mail of. April 6
reached Bombay, by the Cleopatra on May 12, and would reach
Calcutta about the 21st, and Madras about the 19th of the
same month. The intelligence by this conveyance is, upon
the whole, very sat►sfactory.
From our army in Afghanistan the news is of a most
chewing character. General Pollock had arrived at Jellalabad,
relieving Sale and the heroic garrison of that fortress, on the
16th of April. Ile had experienced but little opposition on
his march, except from some roving tribes, who had only suc-
ceeded in cutting off a few camels; he had even been able,
when assured of Sale's safety, to detach a part of his forces to

the assistance of a friendly and. .
The destruction of tt.c Ghunzee garrison is confirmed by
the arrival at Jellalabad of a domestic of Colonel Palmer, who
reports that scarcely had they marched out of the citadel than
a hand of Ghazees overpowered them, and with the exception
of a few of the officers, butchered the whole garrison. The
death of Shah Soojah is confirmed. He fell by the hand of
Zemaun Khan, the brother of Dost Mahomed, Akbar Khan
has made a precipitate flight to the northward, carrying off the
prisoners heretofore confined at Lughtnan, under charge of Ma-
homed Shah Ghilzie, who treated them well. General El-
phinstone died on the 24th of April, and the Affghans had
agreed to send his body to Jellalabad.
Our news from Canton is to the 4th of April.
Ningpo had been attacked on the 18th of March by a Chi-
nese force, estimated at from 10,000 to 12,000 men. They
were allowed to enter the town without opposition, but upon
reaching the market-place were attacked on all sides by our
troops, and instantly routed. About 250 are said to have been
left dead on the field, while on our side not a single casualty
took place.
They state from Alexandria of the 20th, that Mehemet Ali
had promised the Sultan to send seven regiments of the line
into Syria, to assist in disarming the mountaineers. The
English brig Ontario had suffered a total wreck at Alexandria.
The Malta Times gives very interesting, but also very painful
accounts from 'Tripoli. The Arab leader, Abd-el-Gelil, and
his brother, Seif-el-Nasar, had been assassinated by order of
the Bey Askar Ali- Their heads were paraded through the
streets of Tripoli. then pickled, and sent off to Constantinople.
The most horrible cruelties are said to have been committed
by the Turks upon the Arabs. Three fine youths, children
to Seif-el-Nasar, and a :on of Abd-el-Gelil, the eldest not
more than 14 years of age, were all murdered. The unfor-
tunate Arab chiefs were betrayed to Askar Ali, and enticed to
a conference, on solemn promise and oaths of safety, when they
were traitorously butchered. But the ferocious joy of the Bey
at his sanguinary success was overclouded by the publication
of his official recal from Tripoli, which was hailed with uni-
versal enthusiasm by Europeans, :floors, Turks, and Arabs.
All the Europeans and all their Consuls are united in hostility

against the tyrant.
The Paris papers of Saturday make a great stir about a long
letter addressed by Captain Bouet, of the Nisus corvette, com-
manding the French naval station at Senegal, to the Courrier
Francois, concerning the affair of the ship Les Deux Sews.
In this extraordinary document Captain liouet declares him-
self a decided adversary to the conventions of 1831 and 1838
on the right of search, though he candidly admits that they
were hailed with confidence and joy by all those who sincerely
desired the abolition of the slave trade, and that they have
effectually contributed to so desirable an end.
The Moniteur of Saturday contains the following intelligence
from Madrid :—" By a decree, dated the 26th ult., the Army
of the North is dissolved. '1 he troops of which it was com-
posed are to pass under the command of the Captains-General
of the 10th Division (Navarre), and the 11th (the Basque pro-
vinces)."
The French Government papers publish the following tele-
graphic despatches :—" From Algiers, June 25.—'fhe Beni
natiasser, a large tribe near Cherchell, and the. Bighas near
Miliana, have made their submission. The whale chain from
the Arach to Cherchell is ours. Nearly the whole of the pro-
vince of Titery has submitted. The chiefs are on their way to
Algiers. General Changarnier has made new progress in the
west of Sidi-Embarrak. The internal trade is considerable at
Blidah."
We have advices from Lisbon to the 27th of June. Neither
the slave-trade nor commercial treaty were signed, but
the two Plenipotentiaries had come to a better unerstand-
ing, and there was little doubt of the treaties being forwarded
signed within a week or a Lrtnight. The Duke of Palmella
will immediately join the Administration as Foreign Secretary
and President of the Council. The remit of the elections was
an immense msjority for the Government.
BMW,' SY--7CIZADE—c;OIVLMERCE.
From Parliamentary Paper, it appears that the net home
consumption of hard soap in Great Britain, which was
87,300,5-151bs: in 1632, h s Increased to 117,661,8761b5. for the
year 1841.
At Galway the markets still continue to fall, and notwith-
standing the reasonable price of provisions, the people, owing
to their distress, have not the means to purchase, and are al-
together without employment.
At Halifax, Leeds, and Manchester, trade during the past
week Las been altogether at a stop; at Bradford and Roch-
dale steady and fair ; at Huddersfield there has been improve-
ment, but at Leicester depression still continues, and many
hands have been thrown out of employ.
LAW AND POL.XCE.
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The ninety -thi7cf session of the Central Criminal Court, corn-
silencing to-day, has ninety- seven cases for trial, of which three
are for intent to murder,and two for rape. The case of Nicholas
Suisse, the valet de chambre to the late Marquis of Hertford,
will, it is said, occupy two days,
From an account of the state of her Majesty's Gaol of New-
gate at the present moment, it appears there are two within
it under sentence of death, and thirty-one for transportation.
Two of the more heavy cases of murder were adjudged at
Clout-Act on Thursday, at the aittiege of the Special Commis-
sion in Tipperary. Patrick Byrne, charged with the murder
of Mr. Hall, was found guilty, and sentenced to death; Kent,
his suppled accomplice, was acquitted. Timothy Woods was
also found guilty of the murder of Michael Laffan, at Pallas
and ordered to be hung.
:GlTErtiiii,lT AND SCIENTIFIC.
M. de Sismondi, the celebrated historian, died on the 25th
ult., at his country seat, near Geneva, in the 69th sear of
his age.
Thalberg will give concerts at the fall of the year, at most of
the principal towns in the kingdom, and a series of dramatic
performances at various places will be also given by Grisi and
Mario.
The South Australian Society have vested thanks to Lieut.
Puller, R. N. , for the vast benefit he has conferred upon the
colony by the discovery of a navigable entrance into the river
Murray from Encounter Bay ; thereby opening a maritime
communication with the large tract of country watered by the
rivers Darling and Murray.
4:olOrlitT—ra.suxoNAßliz.
His Majesty King Leopold intends embarking at Woolwich
Dockyard so-morrow for Ostend.
A marriage is on the tapis between the son of Sir Sandford
Graham and the Hon. Miss Maynard, the daughter of Viscount
and Viscountess Maynard.
The Fox Club dined on Saturday at Lovegrove's Hotel,
Blackwall.
Tie Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of Downshire, and
several other Noblemen, gave fish dinners last week at Love-
grove's.
The Countess of Jersey left town on Saturday for Cambridge.
E•irl Fortescue has returned to town from Castle Hill, Devon.
Lord Wharncliffe left town on Saturday . for Worley Hall,
near Sheffield.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday for
Cambridge.
The Right Hon. Sir R. and Lady Peel left town on Satur-
day for South Park, near Tonbridge Wells, on a visit to Sir
H. and Lady Emily Hardinge, who have invited the Right
Hon. J. W. Croker and a select party to meet the Right lion.
Baronet.