Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-15
From Europe.
pIscoURAGING NEWS FROM INDIA.

DISCoURAGING NEWS FROM INDIA.
SANDY Hook, July 8. The royal mail steam
ship Africa from Liverpool has passed thus point.
Advices from India state that Shehjehanpore
had been relieved.
The news from China is unimportant.
The new India Bill has passed to second
reading on the British House of Commons.
Parliamentary proceedings are generally I'M
important. The government was gaining large
majorities during the progress of the new India
bill.
Prince Napoleon is constituted Minister of
Algeria, and remains at home.
The debates in the British Parliament on the
French free-labor scheme excited considerable
Indignation in France.
A fire in Dantzic destroyed fifty five houses,
warehouses. etc. Loss one million thalers.
1t is reported that Spain has applied to France
for support against the British pressure in the
matter of the slave trade around the coast of
Cuba. The application met with encourage
ment
The Calcutta mail of May Is has been tele-
graphed. Little progress had been made against
the rebels
p;s small conspiracy had been discovered in the
The Rajah Of Shunda, in Nagpore had re-
belled.
Hong Kong dates are of May 5, but the news
are unimportant
General distrust prevailed in Canton.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The pestentlal condition of the river Thames
was the prominent topic in London. The new
Houses of Parliament were SO much affected by
it as to seriously impair the health of the mem,
bers.
Adviees from SPAN state that M. Lafragus,
the Mexican minister, had received dispatches
from the constitutional government of Juarez,
approving his refusal to acknowledge the tempo
rary government of Zuloaga, and requesting
him to renew his protest against all Conventions
concluded by Spain with the Zuloagan govern
ment. M. Lafragua had in consequence sent a
note in this sense to the Mexican representatives
to European powers.
A letter from Beyrout, Syria, mentions out
RACES committed by priests upon an American
missionary named Dodd. The American Con-
sui at Beyrout was seeking redress.
Shocks of earthquakes continued to occur at
Naples. Tremendous hurricanes had also oc-
cuared, and at Sala fifty houses had been de-
molished and many people killed.
Several villages had also been destroyed by a
deluge of rain.
The Calcutta import market on the 18th had
improved. Produce was dull The money mar
ket was unchanged.
Dates from Hong Kong are of May s. There
was much uneasiness at Canton, and the inhab-
ltants were deserving the city The export mar
ker at Shanghai was inactive. Silks had de-
clincd 20 taels
A private letter from India in the Daily Nacs
says the people at home are too sanguine of a
speedy termination of the mutiny-we have not
enough force.
Mr. Bright confesses that his object is to
abolish the Indian Empire
Shahjehanpore had been relieved, but was
subsequently threatened by Nena Saba Sahilla
Lucknow was threatened by 20 900 men under
the Begun, during Gen. Grants absence
Colin Campbell had crossed the Gauges The
heat was intense.
The troops ut Lucknow were unhealthy and
the garrison reduced to 1000 Infantry.
omer. Leigh crossed Gavzdes and menaced the
Bombay route.
The rebels had commenced an attack upon
Jungepore, and troops were Fastening to his
relief.
A conspiracy had been developed in the 4th
Native Infantry in the Punjaub and the ring
leaders hung
Several skirmishes are reported. The Ralah
of Shunda on the Hyderabad had rebelled.