The Press. — 1855-08-04 (London, England)

INDIA AND CHINA. The papers arid letters in advance of the Overland Mail reached London on Thursday. Their contents are not of much importance. The embassy to Ave was attracting considerable attention at Calcutta, the object of which was to convey to the King some valuable presents from his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, among which were to be a carriage, • buggy, and six beautiful Arab horses. The latter, it was thought, would be highly prized, on Recount of their novelty, none having been seen before in the Burmese territory. Major Phayre was the commissioner selected for the honour of presentation, who, with a num,rous retinue, would leave Rangoon upon his mission, in the steamer Zesobia, about the begining of J uly. I'egu was perfectly tranquil. Six out of the seven murderers of Captain Madigan, of her Majesty's 84th Regiment, had been left for execution, the remaining one having saved his life by turning Queen's evidence. The Com m ander. in- Chief of India had, it was said, applied to Government to permit officers of the Indian army to volunteer for service in the Crimea. It was also rumoured that it had been decided to send a force from that country to cooperate with our troops at the seat of war. The Madras railway wis expected to be opened in a few months. His Excellency the Governor-General woo at Neilgherries, and it was believed would remain there until October.  From China we learn that the Imperialists had driven the insurgents entirely from Canton, having previously captured a great number, whom they immediately decapitated. At Shanghae all was quiet. The rebeli had taken possession of one or two important towns in the north, but they had suffered several defe►ts, which left the balance of victory in favour of the Imperialists. Her Majesty's ship Rattler had been busy among the pirates. On the 2sth of May a pirate fleet of six boats was destroyed, five captured vessels released, about thirty pirates killed, and four made prisoners by the boats.  MR. STOTiOR'S CABE was brought before the Melbourne Legislative Council by the Colonial Secreuuy on the 18th of April, when a motion was made for the appointment of a select committee, to take into consideration his claim for compensation. That gentleman, pleaded the secretary, had been appointed in England to a judgeship in the colony, and had been put to considerable expense in taking his passage, but upon reaching their shores found that his appointment had been cancelled before his arrival. It was a hard case, inaeed, that he should have to bear the whole of the expenses of the passage to the colony, and of his detention in the colony, besides the loss of the profits of his profession in England. At all events, whatever might the issue of the motion, it was due to Mr. Stonor that the question should b• raised, and it was by his own desire that the matter was submitted to the house for their opinion. The motion was. however, negatived without a division, Mr. Chapman being the principal speaker against it. The Lon. member inquired—  Who had done the wrong? The Colonial office, no doubt. Who then should pay Mr. Stoner the compensittion ? Certainly the Colonial-office. The Colonial Minister should go to the House of Commons, and there state that he had made a mistake, Anil ask for a sum of money to compensate Mr. Stonor, but to come there to seek it—to a house not implicated in the appointment, and whicb had done no wrong—was an absurdity. There had beeu three wrongdoings in this cue—the wrong done in the appointment, and the wrong done to Mr. Stonor in his removal, and there was the wrong done to the colony also. It might be fairly proposed, as an intendment to the motion, that this house apply to Mr. Stonor (or compensation doe to injury done to the colony ; that course would he quite al reasonable as for Mr. Stonor to apply to them for cow pensatton.