Polynesian., 1858-06-19
FOREIGN NEWS.

ed California dates June 4th New York to May 9TH,
Liverpool to April "a, Hong Kong, March S0
By the arrival of the clipper schooner VaquerO Capt
Newell, in SO days from Melbourne we have Austria
Ian dates to May IL.
We quote from papers received:
United Stntes.
The information received by the last mail about the
evacuation of Salt Lake by the Mormons confirmed
The Mormons have gone south and are encamped on
the plains meditatng which way to go next.
The Kansas question was settled in Congress on
Friday. The Conference Committees report was
agreed to in both branehes-in the Senate by a ma
jority of nine.
The President signed the Kansas bill on Monday;
so that affair is finally disposed of.
Gen. HOuston's resolution relative to the estab-
lishment of prOteetorate over Mexico was, after
some little debate, laid on the table
There is considerable agitation in Washington
with reference TO the Yrisarri treaty. 1t meets
with much opposition, and it is said it will not be
ratified unless the transit monopOlyis abolished
The President on Monday nominated judge Lo-
ring, Of Massachusetts, to the seat the bench of
the Court of Claims, made vacant by the death of
Judge Gilchrist.
The Brooklyn Common Council on Friday even
ing adopted report abolishing the voluntary Fire
Department system, and substituting paid one in
its place. The vote stood eighteen in favor of the
report to nine against it.
The emigration to Europe this spring promises
to be quite large. The steamships Arago and
Saxonia left this port Saturday, for Southampton
and Hamburg, the former with 305 and the latter
with 400 passengers.
The religious anniversaries of the season were
inaugurated on Sunday evening by the meeting of
the American Board of Foreign Missions Owing
to the financial revusion of the past winter def
cit in the cash of the various reformatory
and prOpagandist institutions of the country is gen
orally anticipated; but the balance sheet of the
American Board shows that its expenditures during
the past year have exceeded its receipts in the in
considerable sum of 81 1876 only.
The annual meeting of the Board of Foreign Mis-
siOns 20. ST. for the election of officers for the en-
suing year, was held Monday. in the Mission
House, corner of Reade and Centre Streets The
proceedings were private. We believe the present
members of the Board and officers were reelected
The anniversary meeting will be held this year at
New Orleans.
Europe.
The principal point of news is the presentation
to the British House of Commons of the budget,
showing an excess Of four millions sterling of ex-
penditures estimated receipts and recommend
ing the taxation of Irish whiskey and stamped
bankers checks.
On the 22d the Oaths bill was read second
time in the House of Lords, but Lord Derby an
nOuneed that he should continue to appOse that
portion of the measure which removes the Jewish
disabilities.
A bill was introduced and read the first time
abolishing the property qualifications of members
of Parliament.
The citizens of Manchester have given banquet
to Sir james Brooke, the Raiah of Sarawak the
motive being the development Of a trade with China
by way of BorneO. Sir James Brooke, in lengthy
speech, called upon the government to assume the
sovereignty he had obtained over the northwest
coast of BOrneO, and the London Times endorses
his views.
The operations on the Atlantic cable were going
actively forward. The steam frigate Niagara would
be compelled to leave her berth at Plymouth on the
high tide of May Is, or remain another month, as
her great draught Of water would prevent her get
ting out, except at the highest stages of the tide
The experiments with the paying-out maehin-
cry were giving general satisfaction.
The jury in the case of DR.. Bernard, charged as
as an accessory to the murders committed by Orsini
and others, returned a verdict of - Not Guilty.
The result was received with great cheering in
court and out and greeted with general satisfaction
throughout the country. Bernard was discharged
on'bail.
The notion that it is intended to make the Paris
Conference permanent Institution is corrObOrated
by private letters received from various quarters
Some of the German Powers have already taken
alarm at the idea of Conference meeting regularly
in Paris to settle the quarrels of Europe.
The London Times states that the adviees from
all the commercial centres of the Continent describe
a stagnatiOn Of business and general exercise of
caution such as, perhaps, has never previously
been witnessed to a similar extent.
At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society
in London, DIR. H. Rink, of Copenhagen, read q
paper the supposed discovery of the north coast
of Greenland, and an open polar sea by DIR. Kane.
DIR. Rink combatted the theories of the lamented
Arctic navigator.
Lord Howden had been removed from the En-
bassy at Madrid.
Late dates from the West Coast of Africa report
that DR.. Livingstone had left Sierra Leone for the
Cape of Good Hope.
India.
A further telegraph from Lucknow read in both
Houses of Parliament last night, announces that
on the 10Th of March the whole of that great city,
the last stronghold of the mutinous Sepoys was in
our possession; that the great landowners of
Dude had made their submission, and that the
townspeOple and villagers returning to their
occupations under the assurance Of protection. So
far nothing can be more encouraging than this in
teligence, but it must be added that the bulk of
the mutineers had escaped from the city, and that
they were making for Rohilcund so 900 in number,
with our victorious columns on their track.-Lon-
don Times, April Ia.
There is intelligence from Lucknow to the 22d
of March. On the both Brigadier Cambell's force
returned from the pursuit Of the enemy. On the
2Ist the Mobries, the retreat of Nena Sahib, was
stormed. He escaped, and a reward of 50,00e
rupees was offered foT his head. General Out
rams force had discovered and destroyed retreat
of the rebels in Lucknow, and the Prime Minister
is among those reported as killed. The fanatics
continued to fire on the British.
Rns<ia.
All import and export duties are to be increased
by five kopecs ruble from July /, the additional
revenue to be employed on the frontier railways.
The London Globe says It is positively stated at
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