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

t4ke place, owing 70 the deeitable1es ct accumulatin9
9rgs reserve before the payment Of The dividends.
rived at New York On the 10th inst.
An Indian mail, with dates from Bombay to Dec. 4,
had arrived at Susz and woeld Is doe il London about
Dec. 70. -
Lucknow had been relieved. Sir Colin Campbell
Joined the fierce at Alumbagh Nov. IL. and on the 10th,
after . 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.
thcrity says that the relief of Luckaow was achieved
: With loss of only four c&cers killed and forty wounded.
The Government telegram says the army under the
CommsRder.'n'C Chief amounted to about 10000 men
amply ~sufacient to reduce Dude to entire Subsection
q tssk which will occupy th d for some months to
some Apasher dispatch places Sir Colin CamlbaIrs
\ force at 1000 men, N~@E ~
: The N.lwa sIlaSstss, under B1eadies Stuart, had
relieved Massrstsacs Disposed the Mehidpore rebels
and wasrlearing tfslHa Of insurgentsA ~
The aying colsmns, under Brigadier Showers and
Coils OUstoa and Tdderel, were securing Rohileond,
compHte success attending tLeir op~erstiona everywhere.
Keinfofcements we're pouring into India, and all
: alarm for the garrsons and outposts had ceased.
The East India Company's Dispatch states that Sir
ly 50 to interfere With the Performance Of his duty.
The Gwaior rebels had advanced to within. Is miles
OF Uawnpore, but dad agaia retired te C.lree. Gen.
Windham is stated to have marched to attack them.
Tweaty.four inferior members of the royal family
aud an influential rebel chief had been executed At
Delhi.
The Jodhpore Legion had been defeated with great
slaughter and the loss of all their guns. by Col. &C.
ard's forces. Col. Gerard, however, was killed.
All was quiet in the Punjaub.
The fort and town Of Sanger remained untouched,
but large parties Of rebels were in the surrounding dis
trict.
Bhsel disturbances in Khandeisch continued,
and a rising of some Bernds near Mooibole il reported.
At a banquet given by the Mayor Of Liverpool to the
Siamese ambassadors, MIR. 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 6 star.spangled banner
would, like the flag Of Great Britain. dip in the water
to 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 q migra-
ton before they are involved in the calamities of a war.
The Board of Trade returns for the month of No
yember show a falling off of nearly 1000, OOOk in the
exports as compared with the corresponding month last
year. q .4stfa liz .
FINANCIAL AFFAIRs.-In London on the 23d, the
funds were steady and firm, and the money market was
again easier. The various Joint stock banks lowered
their rate Of discount for best paper to 8 y cent. .
No new failures were reported. sr
On Thursday, the Oath, 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 ever 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 q cent.
The discount houses reduced their allowance to 81 %
cent. for money at call, and the joint stock banks re-
duced their allowance to > pr cent.
The Stock market was frm, but uninfnenced BY the
movement of the Bank, as the step had been fully an
~ticipated.
The following suspensions were announced W. G.
Haigh, of Bradford, largely Engaged in the wooden
trade Hands, Marcher l. Co, Dutch merchants at
Hull, and Stevenson, Vermehren l. Scott, merchants at
Newcastle. Messrs. T. B. Coddington 4 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
a million and a half of pounds.
The failure Of the great lithographic and artistic e.
sablish,nent of Armtz Il Co., of Dusseldorf, is announced.
The French Government had determined, after ma
ture dehberation, to work the gold mines discovered in
Upper Senegal.
A further reduction Of the French army had been de-
cided upon, and the Minister Of War had ordered three
hundred thousand renewable furloughs to be prepared.
Rumors were current Of contemplated changes in the
Ministry at the commencement of the year, but they
were not generally credited. ),
The French Customs receipts for the month of No
vember show.a falling of of eight hundred and seventy
six thousand francs. .". ~
The ccnve ntion concluded between France and Baden
for the construction of a massive bridge across the
Rhine, at Khicl, will, it is said, be sanctioned by the
German Diet. 4eum
1t is stated that the Emperor had approved Of the
provisions of a bill intended to be passed through the
Corps Legislatif early in the session, for restraining
gambling at the Bourse. 4 !
A mechanic in Lyons, made a bet last month, that
he would drink without becoming drunk City bottles of
wine in twenty hours, provided that he should he 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,
as 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. q
The crisis continued to be severely felt at Stockholm
The failures are amounted to upward Of thirty.
The Prussian Bank had reduced its rate of interest 4
81 per cent.
Near Holz Kirchen, a little village in Southern Ba
var;a, a secret society is situated for the purpose of exc
cutisg 8 strange kind of vengeance upon such men
generally, %clergymen, p%roprietors or government officials
as have become the objects Of popular dislike. A hum
bred Of them with ~blackened faces suddenly appear a
midnight about the house Of the object Of their atten
tions, raise a frightfal hue-and cry, discharge guns and
end by reading him a threatening rebuke, and dispensing
nobody knows where. An attempt is ON foot 10 discoyed
the members Of this singular association, and, in tb1
meantime, a company Of infantry has been sent to tn
scene Of their labors to overawe them. ~.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times says
The English and French Governments are trying +
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, which was on the point of being settled, y some
what complicated by the fact Of the Russian Covers
ment having re established military servitude on tn
g coast of the Crimea, razed the town Of ksoeisch,. an
SO forbidden the entrance 70 that port OF merchant sn'Pe
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