The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-08-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LATER FROM EUROPE.


The steamer niagara arrived on the 18th inst,
with Liverpool dates to the 1st. The Cotton mar
kct was firm. with Il small decline on lower grades.
Advccs from China are to the first of June and
contains full accounts of the capture of the forts in
the BehO.
Negotiations having failed, the Chinese were at
tackled on the 10Th May by the English and
French, and the forts captured with much loss.
The Chinese fought well. Ninety-eight guns were
captured The loss of the enemy is supposed to
be very heavy.
The trial Of Sacrno, Baron Ncotera, and others,
charged with revolutionary attempt last year,
had resulted in seven prisoners being condemned
to death, several others to twenty-five years in
irons, to less severe pcnaltcs and many were
set at liberty. Orders had been received to sus-
pend sentence of death, and it was thought the
sentence would not lie carried into effect.
I'm the House of Lords Lord Lyndhurst called
attention to the right of search question, and asked
for the correspondence relative to the negotiations
OH the subject with the United States.
Lord MaImcsbury said that an arrangement cal
culatcd to put stop to the traffic i'll slaves under
the cover of the American flag, and at the same
time to avoid all causes Of misunderstanding be-
tween the two nations, was i'll course of preparation
and would, he believed, accomplish the desired
object
Not only docs the London Times openly advo-
cate the annexation Of Cuba by the United States,
and demonstrates the advantages that would result
to Great Britain from such change; but the Lon
don Morning Herald, the rcputed organ of the
Dayby Cabinet, and the mGuthpiece of conservatism
in England, openly advocates the acquisition by the
United States of portion Of Mexico, and the es-
adjustment OF Il protcctoratc, proposed by Gen.
Houston, over the Mexican Republic, in such form
and to such extent as should be necessary to
secure to the Union good ncghborh0ud, and to
the people Of Mexico the benefit of an orderly and
wei-regulated republican government.
Adyiccs from Bombay to the Sd have been
ccved. The rccapturc of Bombay is confirmed,
and the fugitives have been hcmmed i'll by the
British. The British gained brilliant victory
near Lucknow. The rebels lost six hundred men
in the engagement.
TIE Sun IN INDIA-Sm6crings Of the British
iSoldicr~.-Thc London Times Bombay CORES
ponucnt says:
81 do not often write of the weather, but it is at
this moment the most important element in the
campaign. For twenty years such season has
been known. The little rains fell a fortnight be-
fore their timc and then ceased and the land is
huge steam bath At Calpee, the Thermometer in
tents is l34 degrees; in Judgesgorc it is $50 de-
grccs; and in Lower Bengal, within reach of the
sea breeze, it is 120. In Calcutta in house her
meically scaled against the admission of light and
with the punkah going it stands steadily at So de-
grecs. Sickness is all but universal. The small
pox is bursting out here and there, half the Eu-
ropcan community have fevcrs and moiety of the
other half only escape the by an infiction,
though not unhealthy, is more unbearable
-inumcrable boils In Allahabad, out of 900
Europeans, not 900 are fit for duty, and the num-
Der of deaths from 'apoplcxy"-that is sun-strokc
exceeds the mortality from all sources"