The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-26
ADDITIONAL FOREIGN NEWS.
THE AFKICA,s MAILS.

are received. The steamer left Liverpool at
o'clock Saturday morning the 7th inst.
The chief incident by this arrival is the an
neuncsment by Lord Palmerston of the eours'
which his government intends to pursue in conse
quence of their recent defeat ON the Chinese cues
tion As the state of the public business wouId
not permit IN immediate dissolution of Parlia.
ment, he proposed to dissolve the house 10 Msy
and until then 60 On With SUCH measures only a
call for immediate action: namely, the financial
estimates, and . temporary mutny act, leaving the
general question of taxation to be dealt with by
the new Parliament. With respect to the policy
which he would pursue towards China, until the
decision of the country should be taken, his ad.
ministration would continue to defend their rights
and improve their relations with China in q srm
but peaceful way and in conjunctions with Franc.
and he hoped with America, to SECURE an exten.
sion of commercial advantages. In the House Of
Lords a similar announcement was made by Earl
Granville.
GREAT BRITAIN
In the House of Commons on the pieht of the
9Th the Chancellor of the Echequer brought for.
ward his financial measures namely a reduction
OF the Income tax (for the year April, 1857 to
1889 from 1s I'D to i'd and 81 per pound; also in.
stead of Is I'd per pound duty ON tea he would
propose Is Sd, and precisely the same scale of
duty on sugar. These changes were carried by q
majority of 62 These changes take effect from
9th April, 1857, to 5.h April, 1858
Lord Palmerston has been invited to become a
member for the City of London; Liverpool has
sent him an address,
The Liverpool Mail speaking of the dissolution
of the ministry, says:
The real want of the country Is a u,inistrv
II os
broilMents-a ministry which will prom ote in Eng.
land social amsloraaons and the development Of
our industrial resources, while upholdins pacific
yet dignited policy abroad. Such ministry, we
cannot DOUBT, viii soon be formed from the Tory
ranks-a ministry Of which Lord Derby will be
the head-and which the country will insist shaI
have-what the last Derby Government never
had-a fair triaIr
PARIS, March 4.-The treaty between ENGLAND
aud Persia received yesterday the preliminary
signature CT the two negotiators ard tn iudyo
from the joy which the Persians opeuA show. its
provisions must be considered by them extremely
favorable to Persia.
In Italy and France the astronomers are beein.
ming seriously to speculate the chances Of a
collision between the earth. land an unexpected
comet. Professor Magrne, of Milan, closes q dis.
sertation on the matter with remark that sit
would not be wise to entertain any apprehension
Of what at best is butts mere possibility"
TURKEY.
The position of the Christians in the Turkish
prov inces is very dangerous one, and the effects
of the Haiti Humayoun beyond the Immediate
neighborhood of ConstAntinople are entirely illu-
sorry In the district of Dreweniske, in Bosnia,
the ayarice snd cruelty of the Turkish admini.tra-
tor, Reschld Bey, haYe led the population to de-
ternine on emigration. should their grievances not
be redressed. In the district of Maglais the Turk
sh judge lately killed the chief of the Christian
community with his own hand in the district of
Dradatsch, the judge Tohic Etfendt, also killed a
Clrstis4
Orders were received at Plymouth on Friday
morning, that Colonel Lemon, % servants, SO cor
porxls, and 1000 men of the Royal Marines, were
to bold themselves In readiness TO embark for
China.
PLYMOUTH, Thursday Orders have been re.
ceiyed here to-day to prepare with the utmost dis.
patch the Sauspariel, Himalaya, and other vessels
for the conveyance of reinforcements ammuui-
tion, &c to the China station.
HONG KONG, Jan 15-The Euglish Admiral
Sir M. Seymour, thought it advisable, on the l2 h
instant, to abandon the position he had taken up
in the garden of the old factories. After blowing
up the Dutch Folly Fort, which had hitherto been
the centre of his operations against the town, he
resolved to occupy only at Canton the fort known
TO strangers as the Birds-nest Fort Before leay-
ing the entrepchments he had dug, the admiral set
fre to the outskirts, which extended to tha West
sure, by isoating the walled town, renders it more
acces sible to the shells from squadron
1.-The fleet of the rebels had Joined that of the
lmperialists. to make common cause against the
English; 600 war junks have assembled in the
river. The Chinese seem determined to stop every
Inlet, by sinking unks at the different bars of the
Canton river.
'On the evening before the outskirts of Canton
were set fire to-an operation which cost the Eng
lish three killed and some wounded-a numerous
1rax,
er Eli Ma. which was going down the river, but
she ehGsped. The Chinese sent some 20 heavy
shots into her hull.
'On the 18th, the foreigners gave up the anchor.
age at Whampoa. The steamers which, protected
ty the ships of war, were towing away the float,
ing habitations of the English and Americans,
were not yet out of sight when the Chinese COM
meIced pilaging every ythiug left in the docks and
in the different houses situate on the waters edge
making no distinction of this or Of that nation
Hong Kong is under real panic, which in
creasss daily. The foreign residents of that colo.
ny have formed sort of militia and their patrols
shoot every Chinese who shows himself in the
street or on the roofs after at night.
when the mail left the whole European colony
Of Hong Kong appears to have been poisoned, and
the family OF Sir John Bowring especially were
suffering excrutiatinR agony. All the Chinese
bakers had fed. They are suspected of having
poisoned the whole community. Happily, no death
had rs yet ensued"
SINGAPORE, Jan. s.-Great alarm pre7ails at
the European colony of Singapore, in Consequence
OF the news from Canton and the excitement of
the native population OF the 100 900 inha habitants
of Singapore there are not 800 Europeans capable
OF bearing arms, and not more than 800 Sepoys-
All the other inhabitants are naturally their ene>
mics, and the Chinese who constitute eight tenths
of the population, threaten the Europeans with
fire and pillage. They have posted up placard
in the Chinese language, In different parts of the
town, offering 300 piastres for the head of the Go
vernon, or OF the Resident, the Judge, or Head of
the Police. This threat has not happily as vet,
been attended with any results. The foreigners
have armed themselves, aud keep vigilant watch
by night to protect their property.
PARIS MARCH At 10 said here that, In conse,
quence of the last news from China, the French
hset in those seas. under the command of Admir-
ais Guerin and Rigauit de Genoulity, will be re.
inforced by three ships of the line.
A private letter from st. Petersburg announces
that 1t was known in that city by special courier
that the Governor Of Russia. Siberia had spatch.
ed column of troops towards Kiakhta, on the
frontiers of China. It is added, that measures
has been adopted In agreement with the Court OF
Pekin.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post,
writing on Wednesday evening. says: "A travel
Ter who has just reached Paris states that he Jour.
neyed on board 4 steamer coming from the ca st 10
Marseies, which had on board several British sub
jscts who had been poisoned In China. Their Suf
fsrings continued It appears the poison admins
tered though eventually fatal is slow In Its opera.
tion Europeans we're leaving ail the settlements,
but the majority took refuge on board ship, and
have not proceeded homa."