The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-01-20

Au tuuiuu ulAii, WIN oates from BOMBAY to UeC. 4,
had arrived at Suez and would be due in London about
Dec. 70.
Lucknow bad been relieved. Sir Colin Campbell
Joined the fierce at Alumbsgh Nov. IL, and on the 10Th,
after a series of severe struggles with the enemy, the
garrison OF Lucknow was relieved. On the following
day the sick and wounded, and the women and chill.
dren, were sent under escort to Cawnpore. One au.
thority says that the relief Of Lucknow was achieved
With a loss Of only four officers killed and forty wounded.
The Government telegram says the army under the
Couanapder-in Chief amounted to about 20, 900 men
amply sufficient TO reduce Dude to entire subjection-
{ task which will occupy tn M for some months to
come Another dispatch places Sir Colin Campbell
force at Il, 1000 men. 49,
The Malws field force, under Brigadier Stuart, had
relieved Musserabad. dispersed the Mehidpore rebels,
and was clearing Mslwa Of insurgents.
The flying columns, under Brigadier Showers and
Coils. Cotton and T,dderel, were securing Rohileund,
complete success attending tLeir operations everywhere.
Reinforcements were pouring into India, and all
alarm for the garrisons aud outposts had ceased.
The East India Companys dispatch states that Sir
C>iin Clmpsell was slightly wounded. but not sufficient
ly so TO interfere with the performance of his duty.
The Gwalior rebels had advanced to within Is miles
OF CawnPore, but had again retired to Calpee. Gen.
Windhsm is stated to have marched TO attack them.
Twenty.four inferior members of the royal family
and an influential rebel chief had been executed at
Delhi.
The ~Jodhpore Legion had been defeated with great
SiauEUtST Ii Ii ibSS OF III IceiF guns, OV NOl, Ge-
rards forces. Col. Gerard, however, was killed.
All was quiet in the Puujaub.
The fort and town Of Sanger remained untouched,
but large parties OF rebels were in the surrounding dis.
.rict.
The Bheel disturbances IN khandeisch continued,
and 3 rising Of some Bernds near Moo 1hole is rep ported.
At a banquet given by the Mayor of Liverpool to the
Siamesc ambassadors, Mr.. Beverly Tucker, the United
States Consul IN that town, WAS one Of the speakers.
he congratulated the assembly on the glorious news
from India, and trusted that the triumph of English
arms would be complete, because it was the triumph of
civilization. He said he had no doubt whatever that
there was an immense trade to be developed with Siam,
and he felt assured that the star spsngled banner
would, like the flag of Great Britain, dip in the water
70 the vessels OF Siam approaching the great republic Of
America.
The London Times again reviews the Mormon diff
Guilty, and the Government plans for their suppression.
1t hopes that the Mormons will decide upon a migra.
lion before they are involved in the calamities of a war.
The Board of Trade returns for the month of No.
:ember show a falling off Of nearly 1000, O0OL. in the
exports as compared with the corresponding month last
gear.
FINANCIAL AFrAIRs.-In London on the 23d, the
FUNDS were steady and firm. and the money market was
again easier. The various Joint stock banks lowered
sheir rate of discount for best paper to 8 y cent.
No new failures were reported.
On Thursday, the 24th, the Bank of England reduced
their rate of discount from ten to eight per cent, and
simultaneously with this movement repayment was made
Of the two millions Of over issue. After the reduction
Of the rate, there was an active demand fer money at
the Bank. In the discount market, choice bills were
negotiated at II p cent.
The discount houses reduced their allowance TO 6! y
cent. for money at call, and the joint stock banks re-
duced their allowance to ) per cent.
The Stock market was trm, but uninAnenced By the
moyemt ut of the Bank, as the step had been fully an
ticipated.
The following suspensions were announced W. G..
Haigh, Of Bradford, largely 'ngaged in the wooden
trade Hands, Marcher Il Co Dutch merchants at
Hull, and Stevenson, Vermehren 4 Scott, merchants at
Newcastle. Messrs. T.. B. Coddington T. Co iron mer-
chants, Liverpool and New York, resumed payment.
The returns of the Bank of England for the week
ending Dec. %, show an increase in bullion Of nearly
\ million and a half of pounds.
The failure Of the great photographic and artistic es-
adjustment of Armtz Il Co., of Dusseldorf, is announced.
The French Government had determined, after ma
ture deliberation, to work the gold mines discovered in
II per Senegal.
A further reduction of the French army had been de.
eided upon, and the Minister Of War had ordered three
hundred thousand renewable surloughs to be prepared.
Rumors were current Of contemplated changes in the
Ministry at the commencement of the year, but they
were no: generally credited.
The French Customs receipts for the month Of No
7ember show.a falling Of Of eight hundred and seventy
aix thousand francs.
The convention concluded between France and Baden
LOT u CoIletE OCtltAi u q UTlUSS dcgUSS II
Rhine, at Khicl, will, it is said, be sanctioned by the
German Diet.
1t is stated that the Emperor had approved Of the
provisions of q bill intended to be passed through the
Corps LegIslatif early IN the session, for restraining
gambling at the Bourse.
A mechanic in Lyons, made a bet last month, that
lie you'd drink without becoming drunk City bottles OF
vine in twenty hours, provided that he should be allow.
ed three hours for s.eer. On Sunday, the tenth ult
he gained his bet, apparently without any great incon.
venience. This beats the lager beer drinkers.
Details are published Of the effects of the late earth.
quake in various parts of Italy. The first accounts prove
"a usual, TO have been exaggerated but, nevertheless
a number Of buildings in various places were destroyed
and many lives los. Full particulars had not reached
Naples at the latest dates, nor had any communication
been received from Sicily, as the telegraph had been de
stroyed by the earthquake.
The crisis continued to be severely felt at Stockholm
The failures are amounted TO upward of thirty.
The Prussian Bank he'd reduced its rate of interest K
81 per cent.
Near Holz kirchen, a little village in Southern Ba
varia, a secret society is situated for the purpose Of exc
cutting 8 strange kind Of vengeance upon such men
generally elergymen, p%roprietors or government officials
Is have becone the objects Of popular dislike. A hun
dred Of them with plackened faces suddenly appear a
midnight about the house of the object Of their atten
sious, raise a %frightful hue-and cry, discharge guns and
end by reading him a threatening rebuke, and dispensing
nobody knows where. An attempt is on foot to discoye
:he members Of this singular association, and, in tb
meantime, a company of infantry has been sent to tn
scene of their iabors to overawe them.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times says
The English and French Governments are trying t
effect a settlement between Spain and the United State
on the subject of the frigate Ferrolana.'
The question about the Russian ports in the Blacl
Sea. wilch was Oh the point Of being settled, IS some
what complicated by the fact Of the Russian Govern
ment having re established military servitude on tn
coast of tue Crimea, RACED the town Of kame'sch' an
forbidden the entrance to that port OF merchant Snip
as before the war.
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