Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-25


The LeDiathEa being launched.
New York, Jan. 24.-The royal mail
steamer Europa, which left Liverpool on the
9th inst, arrived here at 2 this morning.
The screw steamer Anglo-Saxon reached Liv-
erpool on the 7th.
| India.
The semi. monthly mail from India arrived
as Suez Jan. lst with later Calcutta dates.
Gen. Havelock died on the 25th OF Novem-
Der, from dysentery, brought on by exposure
and Anxiety.
On the 9th of November, an engagement
took place near Cav npore, between Gen,
Windham's division and the Cavalier mutt
neers, in which the British troops retreated
with the total loss Of the tents of three regi-
ments, three thousand in number which were
burned by the enemy. The Gath regiment is
reported to have been nearly cut up in the
encounter. The mutineers numbered more
than eight thousand men, completely organ
lied and equipped.
Sir Colin Campbell hearing of this disaster,
LETT Lucknow for Cawnpore, and, on the 7th
| of December came up with the mutineers and
| totally defeated them, capturing sixteen guns,
! twenty-six carriages and an immense quantity
OF ammunition, stores, &C., and the whole of
| their baggage. The British loss in this action
| was insignificant only one officer being killed
All the women, children, sick, &C., from
Lucknow, had arrived i'll safety at Allahabad,
The official report of the defence of Luck
now shows that the privations endured by the
heroic garrison, and particularly by the ladies,
were fearful in the extreme
Troops continued to arrive at Calcutta, and
among other vessels, the celebrated American
clipper Lightning had arrived out in passage
OF eghty-seven days from the Downs.
England.
Operations were resumed upon the Levia-
than on the 9th inst, with success, the vessel
being moved several feet. The proceedings
were continued daily up 10. the departure of
the Europa, the progress each day amounting
to eight or ten feet. The evening before the
Europa sailed the ship had only sixty four feet
more to be moved
1t is understood that bill, authorizing the
East India Company to raise a loan in Eng
land, will be introduced Immediately on the
ASSEMBLING of Parliament.
The returns of employment in the cotton
mills OF Manchester show a gratifying i'm
provenena The number of hands working
on full time was largely on the increase.
The Daily Ne'os says Lord Palmerston's
forthcoming India bill will transfer the direct
management of the affairs of India to Cabi-
net Minister. who is understood to be a peer,
and in whom all patronage, with one excep-
ton, is to be vested.
The European portion of the Iudian army
is to be greatly augm ented. The Daily Netos
intimates that Lord Clarendon is to be the
first Minister for India under the new arrange
ment.
Financiat.-Ihe London Money Market
continued to grow easier and there was still
daily influx Of gold to the Bank of England.
Under these influences, a further reduction
NJ ha 70 If ;,xbt
cent. took place the 7th. Consols closed
on the Sth at "a rs a 95 for money. The
discount houses of the joint stock Banks had
reduced their allowances for money to rates
ranging from three to five per cent.
On the Stock Exchange the average rate
for loans on Government securities was about
IL per cent, and further reduction in
the Bank rate was anticipated at an early
day. The failure of several heavy firms in
Dundee, Glasgow, and London are reported.
The Bank Of England returns, ending the
9Th, show an increase Of bullion of FL, $780,
600, the total amount held being El2, $40 ,O93,
an increase of over five and quarter pounds
in five weeks.
Mad'lle Rachelle, the great tragedienne,
died Jan. Sd at Cunnes.
There is great increase of confidence in
commercial circles at Paris. Trade at Lyons
had begun to revive, and better demand had
! sprung up in the silk market of the South.
The Empress Eugene was indisposed.
Belgian.
The banks of Belgium have reduced their
discountrates to per cent.
Spain.
| The Espana of Madrid, ex presses the opin-
ion that the Spanish government will contin-
ue firm in its refusal to give satisfaction to the
United States in the affair of the Ell Dorado,
since no insult had been committed, and that
! 1t VIII ehergetically reject the insulting prop
osition in relation to Cuba.
| Sardinia.
! Turin letters report considerable improve
ment In financial and commercial affairs.
Italy.
Shocks of an earthquake continued of al
most daily occurrence at Naples, but without
any serious results.
| Germany.
Field Marshal Radetsky is dead, and the
King OF Wirtemburg is reported very i'll.
| Prussia.
Accounts affirm that in consequence of the
continued i'll health of the King, the delegat-
ed powers of the Prince of Prussia, which
were originally conferred for three months,
and are now on the point of expiring, will be
renewed for a further period of nine months.
The Bank of Prussia had reduced its rate of
discount to IL per cent.
Turkey.
Redschid Pacha, Grand Vizier, is dead, of
apoplexy.
.4 China.
Very little news from China is telegraphed.
The steamer Adelaide, with the last detach-
nent of 500 marines on board, passed Singa-
pore on the I'd of December, and an attack on
Canton was expected to take place on her ar
rival. The Paris correspondent Of the Lon
don Times is positively informed that the
French Ambassador to the Court Of Pekin
has arranged, that, after the squadrons shall
have taken up position before Canton, a final
summons shall be addressed to the Chinese
Governments This formality was to have
taken place on the 10th of November. A DIS
patch from Paris to the Independence Beige as
serts that Instructions will be sent to the
French Admiralty oprevent French troops in
China from acting in concert with the Eng
lish, and that 800 men, recently sent out, are
in reality intended for demonstration agains
Cochin China. 1t is also said that Spain will
take part in this expedition.
Australia.
Melbourne dates are to Nov. 18th. BUSH
ness Of all kinds was much depressed
ExpIosisn and Loss Of Life.