Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-02-19
Foreign News.
GREAT BRITAIN.

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government, as matters of considerable
Importance will come under discussion.
A numerous deputation had waited on
Palmerston, to urge the immediate abo-
lition of church rates. They met with
such lukewarm encouragement that
they adopted indignant resolutions, and
pledged themselves to press forward an
independent bill on the subject.
Prince Frederick William of Prussia
had been invested with the Order of the
Garter.
The Leviathan had been pushed TWEEN
ty-fve feet off the ends of the launching
ways, and her cradles were being remov-
ed. She had over seventeen feet of
water under her, and was expected to
float on the 30th or 3lst ult.
The resolution pending before the
General Court of the East India Com
pany, deprecating the proposed change
in the government of India, was carried
by an almost unanimous vote.
The London Adrertissr asserts that
the Indian Bill will not be nearly so
sweeping as is generally believed, and
as at first intended. Ministers will con-
sent TO notifications in the measure, in
its progress through Parliament. and it
will not pass this year. If not with
drawn, it will be shelved at the end of
/ the session.
Heavy drafts of troops were under or
ders TO embark for India.
INDIA.
The correspondence from Calcutta to
December p adds nothing of import
ance to the telegraphic dispatches which
anticipated the mail.
The Times correspondent give a cir
cumstantial account of the Windham af-
fair. The facts do not differ from those
already before the public. The scenes
after Windham's defeat are said to have
been fearful. The hospitals were crowd
ed to sufocation. The enemy directed
their fire especially upon them, and it wa:
not till Sir Colin Campbell returned anl
= with dozen naughty words brough
e every man to his place, that order wa:
restored.
LONDON, Friday night.-Governmen
has received telegram from Malta an
nouncing All arrival from Bombay %
of January, at Suez. The news is of lit
tie Importance. Sir Colin Campbell va
still at Cawnpore at last advices, but wa
shortly expected to move westward witt
strong force. Sir James Outram, a
Alumbagh, attacked and defeated the en-
n envy on the 22d of December, capturing
four guns, with trihing loss. Gen. Re-
berts is appointed to command a fuI
= force in Rajupotana, which is assembling
: at Decca, and which is to march on +
: Nessarabad. No fresh disturbances ha
: occurred in any part of Deccan and Cen
t tral India. The Punjaub was tranquil
CHINA
/ The correspondent of the Times, writ
ing from Canton River, under date {
December l6, says that Yeh had return
ed an insolent answer to the ultimatul
Of the English and French Plenipoter
, tiaries, and mat the two forces would
! few days attack Canton. Lord Elgin
= demand was Of the most temperate cha
acter, asking for no more than that Il
treaty should be carried out-that Cal
~ ton should be put upon the same footir
II as other Treaty Ports, and in gales opei
n ed to Commerce-compensation give
Il, for damage done to British merchant
.r and occupation of Honan acquiesced
as material guaranty until all matte
- are settled. A letter from Hong Kor
y says that Yeh's answer to Lord Fig
, was couched in q sarcastic vein. He
al forms bis LOrdship that the question
treatment Of strangers at Canton b
., been settled by decree of the Emperc
that Sir George Bonham was made
., Baronet for respecting that decree, al
- recommends Lord Elgin to follow his c
ample and that as to the demand f
81 compensation, he, Yeh, has demand
- compensation Of the English Cover
- ment for the losses Uttered by the Cl
nese.
~ a few days before this answer was
ceived, Mr.. Reed, the American Coz
missioner, solicited an interview wi
On Yeh in the city. Yeh replied that
would meet him outside the city, but tt
no barbarian should set foot within t
ge limits of Canton.
ct. The Paris Pays publishes accour
P from Cochin China and Tonquin to Nc