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: cs a nos a7 lous racter to the stene, The houses, in themselves sufficiently erimes may appear to have orizinated sin a too eredutous mean, were decorate! with flags and preparations for the acceptanee of the false reports circulated by designing men.

tators. Vo all others io arms against the Government, we | : ail | . . ' | » ‘not be more profitably employed in Ircland than in Central #ture.

coming iamination. Tae roofs were tilled with spectators, hin hinags to De) }

i wromise unconditional pardon, aimnesty, and oblivion of 7

‘ é ' : ® 339° ae cirenlar rcad /ufences against ourselves, our Crown and dignity, on their

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' > Mt . ! Neary } ray roand the Greea was Kept by the regitmerts ef the varrisera, | rm turn to their homes and peace pursults. A flagstaff stoo] at the foot of the T { p! asuTe LEAs these terms of grace and auinesty ve batiee erect on the point of the estelre!, awaiting te unfolding | extended to all those who comply with their conditions be

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time over the city of Bombay. Ln the midst of the deepest silence Mr Young read the Proclamation iu Knylish, which wasaftorwards delivared in Makratu by the chief interprever, Mr. Wassewleo, Tne treops saluied, the bands played “God save the Queen,” and the oy staudards rose aifs that heisted

simultaneously to the summit of the flags

earnest desire to siimulate the peaceful industry of India, to!

resident therein, In their prosperity will be our strength,

in therr contentment our security, and in their gratituae oi best reward. And may the God of all power grant anto us, |

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on the cathedral, expanding at ones to the bre £2 and shew- ’ : | 4 umoncegcns ing the lions ef Hugiasd. Ou the lower flagstaff the Royal and to those in authority under us, strengt 1 to carry | wtandird hang listlessly, and it was net uniil the troops vad | ese Our Wishes for the good of our people. began to move, after the cheering and buonang of the Loyai —---—--- pinion

BUVes JAPAN. pang in the breast of the superstitiogs at that moment, who} , The United States steam frigate 1) reli hg Pi consoled themselves, however, with the thought that a siuilar Shangaae - ee October, from j en eset aceideat had not happ med 'to the flag cn the cathedral. med, = Ustey ne eee — a - — road * penne SN ek eas Mee aida tenes | Ae SURTS, 120 oficial announcement 0 _ the death of the ee en ee re “| Siogoun, or Emperor, at Yedo, on the 26th of September, an] as ths crow i dispersed frou sg “— A-dals ee was made by the Gove: nor of Nagasaki, The Siegoun was | a tae laminations were visivia In the Moreasing g:00l. | 36 years of age at his death, and had been ailing with dropsy | Trianehal arches had been thrown across the streets, not . 5

salutes bad been heard, that the embiem of Engtis!

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for some months, of which he died. Though rumours were |

oy vont, eee es, eee Upon | current that he committed suicide, by disembowelling him- | — of lights g PRS e tee SUE OR PF CoHHALES) | colf, according to a frequent Japanese custom, in conseqitence | danse cagaicagages maines, and quaint Gexiaes. oe Tela * | of some disputes and opposition respecting some of the pro- | ' rarvwirlie an. seu ah 4 { iyi a ; UMPRESS OF HINDOSTAN.” There were “ Barewoils| "sions in the treaties lately signed, this wos peremporily| > : ; , “ae | Genied by some of the officials. He had reigned 12 years, | to the Nast India Company ” and new hop 3 for the future} | + icine no heir, had adopted a successor, The French rs = i weet a ri a —— ee envoy, Baron Gros, who left Shanghae for Yedo early in chandeliers were hung from hous2 to house amid, festoons of} ov ' Pa > : light, and through mai the streets, glaring yellow, blue, and green ia the obscurity of a moonless nisht, crowds of people | in every walk of life flaunted gaily alung and ealivened th ] >

. ' . fe ’ September, would arrive there nearly at the time of the de- vate > ol es and he may be delayed longer than he cease of the Siogoun, and he may be Gelayed longer toan ae | ihad anticipated, in consequence of the funeral ceremonies. | >| — . r . > : >. . “!When the Governor of Nagasaki reported the demise to |

scene. The gates of the Fort, the bastions, si ravelines | Commodore Tattnall, the’commodore proposed to fire minute | mbroidered with flame-—the ships in the harbour sho: vee et ee ne 1s lad

oat ia the darkarss avail the blage of blue lights. Bombay |@2%8 fom the Powhattad, explaining the object and usnge had never seea suc a cele>ration, nor had its popalation, b ee ee eee oe eae it, er od os fond as Orieagals are of g! {cr and glare, evet celia aeieale | declined this mark of respect, s ying hat the cus om of the | Pit - = es {Japanese was to moura tm sieuce, Phe caolera, when cars| =~ ee ried off more thau 109 victims in Nagasaki in July and| Hig PROCLAMATION, | Aueust, had disappeared, and the city was very healthy. |

apyp Victoria, by the grac> of God, of the Uuited Kingdom of! Perhaps the unusual mortality had led the ¢ Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Colonies and Depen-/ unusual sanitary measures against malaria, | dencies thereof in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and/and lanes were swept and watered, and kept in a degree of } Australasia,-Queen, Defender of the Faith. Whereas, for divers weighty reasons, we lfive resolved, by and with the |

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cleanliness quite refreshing after going through the dirty

streets of Shanghae and Ticn-tsin. The people of Nagasak

wivice of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons in| are much pleased at the prospect of increased trade at their |

on F : } i i i Parliament assembled, to take upon eurselves the Govern-| port next year, when the treaties come into operation. ment e the territor.es 1a La lia heretofore administered in ee et ee ee eee | trust for us by the Honourable Fast India Company. Now } rin At I" TELEG i | y eae THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. |

therefore we do by these presents notify and declare that, |

by the advice and consent aforesaid, we have taken upon The question as to the replacing of the Atlantic Telegraph | ourselves the said Government, and we hereby ea! upon all | Cable is likely to be decided in a few days. The company | our subjects within the said territories to be faithful and to | have made application to the Government for a guarantee of | bear true alleziance. to us, our heirs and successors, and to| 4} per cent. on £537,000, subject to the same conditions as | submit themselves to the authority of those whom we may) tliat of the Red Sea line, and this has been backed by-mme- | hereafter from time to time see fit to appoint to administer | moria!s sigued by the leading firms, not only of London, but | the Government of our said territories, in our name and on | cf Manchester, Liverpool. Birmingham, Leeds, Halifex, our behalf. And we, reposing especial trast aad confidence | B i

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mn the loyalty, abi ity, and judement ot our right trusty and /1t fo Bo granted, contracts wii lininedintely be conciuded for | ae ie 7" = . pat Fes als eae ee,

well-beloved oousin and councillor, Charles Joha Viscount e, and any negoviations that may be thought desir-|

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said the American Government will subsequently be |

Canning, do hereby constitute and appoint him, the

Viseount Canning, to be our first Viceroy and Governor-| entered into ,No attempts can be made, wiih any prospect | General in and over our sail territorics, and to udatinister | of euceces, to lift the old eable until the return of ealm weather | the Goverrfment thereof in our name, and generaily to act in rilor May, an! even under the best cireum- | our name and on oar behalf, sudje to such orders and | stances, the expestations with regard to the operation are | regulations as he shail, from time to time, receive fi us not favorable: Meanwhile it has been definitely ascertained | through one of our principal Seeretaries of State. Asd we | that the existing damage is not at the shore end, The lay-| do hereby confirm in their several offizes, feted to a distance of 12 uil persons now employed in the service of the

East India Company, sabject to our future pleasure, and to | to be in a perfect condition foc electrical purposes: Experi-| such laws and regulations as may hereafter be enacted. We) ments lately undertaken by a person previously unconnected | hereby announce to the native princes of India that ali | with the enterprise strongly sapport the original inference, | treaties and engigements mide by them by or under the| that the main fault is about 270 miles from the Lrish coast, authority of the Honourable Kast india Company aro by us /at a depth probably of 900 fathoms. There is also a fau't | accepted, and will be scrupulously maintained ; and we jook on the other side, which is thought to be about 309 miles | for the like observance on their part. We desire no extension | from Newfoundland. Curren’s, however, still continue to} of our present terriforial possessions ; nd while we will, be received, although ofa kind so feeble and uncertain as to|

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attempted with impunity, we shall sanction no encrvachment is in charge of Mr, Elenley, who is manufacturing an ap- on those of others. We shal! respect the rights, dignity, and | paratus such as his experience on the spot leads him to think honour of native princes as dur own, and we desire that they, 'may yet possibly lead to some results, but in no case could | as well as our own subjee's, should enjoy that prosperity and | there be a hope of achieving permanently any satisfactory | that social advancement which can only be secured by internal | com munication otherwise than by an entirely new line. peace and good government. We ho!d ourselves bound to! sidinldaldedbablbnnnilll ;

1. : : i RR Sa AN ai ee wt icy aie ink on arse Chaenmamecuimamaess) UH GALES IN THE ATLANTIC. obligations, by the blessing of A'mighty God, we shall’ Sutetps, Dee. 8.—The recent gales in the Atlantic have | faithfully and conscientiously fulfil. Firmly relying ourselves been the most fearful that have been encountered by ex-

on the truth of Christianity, and acknowledging with gratitude perienced seamen during many years. A master of a ship the solace of religion, we disclaim alike the right and the that has traded between the Pyne and Spain sixteen years, | desire to impose our convictions on any of our subjects. We winter and summer, Writes from Cartagena a letter that | declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none bein | 545 been received Sornigns, that he never encountered such | unywise favoured, none moles‘ed or disquieted, by reason of | ¥e3tber. {iis decks were swept, boats and bulwarks carried their religious faith or observances, but that all shall alike 2¥°Y> and he had to struggle with a tempest for 21 days, enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law; and we | S°°r!"2 his pumps going all the time. I regret tq state that, |

: a Fi >> ° cae a ae il si ikttee Al chitietibe wilatetn bec ce | do strictly charge and eujoin ali those who may bein authority | addition to the great quantity of shipping property known

permit no aggression upon our domivious er our riglits to be | be useless for any practical purpose. At present the currents | ss ]

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< a a . ‘ . }¢ k laat Be aon or war ¢ “+ 2 wer a nla ena veas } under us that they abstain from. all interference with the |‘® Ye en EBOED :At0 Be veral north-coantry ary 8 Minsigg, ° ¢ ® . , ° - - . 2 tr ¢ha , 66 ffi? , § ‘ONY mori: religious belief or worship of any 6f our subjects, on pain of “Lost of them were on the ** fall” voyage from America,

our highest displeasure. And it is our further will that, so | ——_—___« aces —___-

far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be SOR

ee eet a Acasa IMPORTANT FROM IRELAND. freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the

duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, POOVERY OF A SECRET SOCIETY-——APPREMENSION OF PIPTREN |

ability, and integrity, duly to discharge. We know and respect : MEMBERS. the feelings of attachment with which the natives of Iudia| Cork, Dec. 9.—At half-past eleven, this duy, fifteen pri-

regard the lands inherited by them from their ancestors, and | 800°TS charged with being members of an illegal society, ar- we desire to protect then in all rights couneeted therewith, | rived by the Bandon train, under the escort of a large party subject to the equitable demands of the State; and we wil! 2! poli o. They are al) young men, and of respectable posi- | that, generally in framing an! admioistering the law, duce tious in society. Twelve of them are from Skibbereen, and regard be paid to the ancient rights, usages, and customs ''re ‘rom entry, The captures were effected last night, | of India. We deeply lament the evils aud misery which | ¥? le most of the parties were in bed. They are members of

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have been brought upon [india by the acts of ambitiog. tie “ Pheosix Society,” and the informations have been | men, who have deceived their countryael by false reports, | *'VOrn aga vet them by one of their body, named Sullivan. and Jed them into open rebellion, Our power has been shown T! jcet of the society is said to have been for the purpose by the suppression of that rebellion in the field ; we desire ty | fobtatuiog an invasion of our country by American Filli- sow our mercy by pardoning the offences of thyse wko hay beter, ; been thus misled, but who desire to return to the path of (Comment by the London Star, 10th) | duty. Already in One province, with a view to stop th High trevsson! Arrest of the conspirators ! Fillibuster- | further effusion of blood, and to hasten the paciliestion of our ing juvasion of [reiand! These are the exclamatory words

Indian dominions, our Viceroy and Governor-General bas wich our New Bork contemporaries would put at the head held out the expectation of pardon, on certain terms, to the of a tel graphie despatch from Cork which we publish in | xreat Majority of those who in the late unhappy disturbances another column. But in this country we look at matters a have been guilty of offence against our Governmen’, and bas little more calmly, aud although arrests have certainly been | declared the punishment which will Le inflicted on those made, and the prisoners conveyed to Cork, we must remem- whose crimes place them beyond the reach of forgiveness, | ber that nothing has yet beea proved of a seditious or! We wre and confirm the Suid act of our Vi eroy and | treasonable character. Governor-General, and do further avsousee and preclaim as) = The news is, that in the course of yesterday an escort of

follows :—Qur clemency will be extended to all offenders, | police conveyed fifieeu individuals, members of an illegal ;

s.ve and except those who liave been or slvall be convicted of society, from Bandon to Cork. They are described as young naving directly taken part in the marler of British sahjects. ‘men holding a respectable position in society, twelve of whom With regard to sack the demands of just ce forbid the exercise |! belong to Skibhereen. There was a sworn information| a hea hava bis vle —— unin - ; a . ; ot i of ee Ree thore who have willingly given asylum to against them, given “by one Sullivan, who was a member of owing tier ‘ ; Suc r Whit ‘ 7a 2 ‘ Qt adv. ar ¢ nor icine ° mardeet, kong tiem tb eshvor who aay havo sete heir Do, ahd he raja goes tha the prnoners re accuse ra 3 g Je evo ame 23 ¢ eat 2 endeavoring d proiete : *. a a . a .; . ote evaranteed; but, ia oppotnting the penalty due to sach | a eee pital ge Sere er eee ee Areland, | 8 ced 5 cae See Sr Pee Oe saca the fillibusters of course being the adventurers of the United persons, full consideration will be given to the circumstances | States. At the first blush, sach a statement looks like an! der whi ey have beon induce: vir | al ie al - : = 7 w ered i ae — off their absurdity ; yet, remembering the tone and temper of such aj adlegtanee, and layge ludulgence will ve snown to those whose‘ man as Mr. Mitchell, whe has taken up his abode in America, |

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It is our royal | America. ull should be | sently, whatever may be its meaning or its import,

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' Providence, internal tranquility shall be restored, it is our | oe ; ; ¢ ‘ Providence, internal juuity ‘county gaol, on a charge of being connected with an illegal | janguishes, for the euemy are beaten. Fort after fort is

iwas held in Dublin on Saturday last, to make arrangements ‘fora general mecting of the landed gentry of Irclaad of |all parties, for the purpose of taking into consideration the | forees watching for

| defects of the Jaw for the protection of life abd property, , most creditable to his ge |and the amendments which should be sought for in the next | but mounte | session of Parliament.

‘he did not surrender up to them a greyhound which he had radford, Hull, Glasgow, Paisley and Norwich, Sup} osivug |!

‘having been reported to the police at Clara, a pursuit was

i will show an inerease of about £1,000,000, as compared with

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at ardent young patriots, allowing Letters from New Zealand mention a valuable discovery of their enthusiasm to go too far, may have communicated with toal in the acighboarhood of Auckland. : ,

their friends inthe United States, and may have inquired | Hachette, the publisher, has already paid Lamartine, this whether the services of Gen. Walker, of that country, would year, 250,000 franes (£14,000) for his montiily course of liter-

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| Letters from Rome state that the King of Prussia had become more feeble since his arrival im that city. The following dispatch, dated Cork, Thursdiry night, gives oe ee ee

a few extra particulars : | INDIA. “Fifteen young men were to-day committed to the Cork) The Correspondent of the Times says :— The campai

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‘society, called the ‘Phonix Club.’ They are principally) surrendered or captured, and the Begum is the only leader

promote works of public utility and improvement, and to s 1 : > ‘ ine ‘ udainister its Government for the benefit of all our subjects |

from Skibbereen and its neighborhood, and all seem to belong of jrportance left in Oude. Mithowlee was evacuated on to classes above the common peasantry, being well-dressed, ‘the 3d of November, after a short bombardment ; and Ame- intelligent looking, and apparently well educated. Their! thie, the strongest place in Oude, -on the following day. names are: Murty Downing, Jeremiah Doaovan, Murty The latter was menaced by Sir Hope Grant, and great re-

Moynehan, Daniel McCarthy, Jeremiah Drisseoll, Eugene | gigtence expected. The rajah is a brave man, and was McUarthy, Denis Downing, Timothy Dougan, Patrick Down-| known to have some 8000 troops and abont 20 pieces of artillery. His fort is two miles round, defended by an al-

ing, Jes. Stark, Thomas O’shea, Wm. O’Brien, Jeremiah Culnane, Denis Sullivan, and Timothy McCarthy. Three of post impassible jangle, and provisioned for some months, them are said to be clerks to a well known solicitor of high |The rajah, however, had no heart for the contest, and was, standing in Skibbereen ; another is a clerk ina brewery, and | besides, like all the rebel leaders, eaten up, bullied and in- all of them of Seme occupation or pursuit which indicates | suited by his sepoys. The Queen's amnesty promised him the possession of at least a good English education. What ife, the civil authorities added some consolatory phrase the nature of the evidence against them has been has vot | about his estates, and he surrendered himself. His followers transpired, as whatever investigation took place has been dispersed, and bundreds will accept the amnesty. Indeed, private, but there seems to be little doubt that, in the western} [ am told Southern Oude has made up its mind, and the point of the county of Cork, this illegal club or soviety | people are coming in daily. Mvery man on surrendering counts a great many members, aud the authorities there have | his arms receives a written pass, which entitles him to return been for the last few months on the gué vive. It appears! to hss native village and live in till called on by civil also that the prisoners are charged with illegal drilling, with authority. Of conrse he will . a ealtais enlunn bis firearms, pikes, and other weapons, so that their designs, | mischievous, and a Hindostanee will never stir unless he has however foolish and insane, must be of a treasonable and got arms. In Bhojore the same process is going on. Umur wicked character, and require the exercise of evergy and | Singh has been captured; some of his followers are comi

vigilance on the part of the authorities to suppress them be- in, and the remainder are wandering among the bills at

fore serious mischief may arise from them,” Rhotas, without leader, place or hope. Between Culeutta THE ARRESTS IN THE SOUTH. ; and Delhi the only rebel force left, more important than a

geet aoe ang acoits, is th; ich obeys, or disobeys, accordin The Cork Constitution states that a large number of | 8°"5 of dacoits, bas hie 7 co Fit be Thee a on , |to the humour of the hour, the orders of the Begum. is arrests will be effeeted in the course, of a few days. A - gg eh pegeet : «as ‘force is in a trap with Col. Troup on one side, Brigadier

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| brat h of the society is believed to be in existence at Clona | Roweraft on the other, the Gorgra in front, and the Nepau-

kilty, and the authorities are procuring information relative Hese Terai behind, They must yield or make a rush to Sats chidu, : ‘

ea leach “ ale cs iP ti nthe ae ate Ip bis view of placing them under the sur Colonel Troup, and make for Rohileand. They cannot raise Si that provinee again, and whatever they do are rather a MEETING OF LANDED PROPRIETORS, nuisance than a serious danger. Tantia Topee, who has It appears that a preliminary meeting of landel proprietors | crossed the Nerbad Ja, and by the last accounts reached the 'Tapee with his cavalry is far more formidable. The anda- cious dash by which he contrived to pass all the four field hing for him and ercss the Nerbudda is really neralship. Ue has, however, none d followers, and we have faced and conquered The meeting will be held in Dublin Mahratta leaders as able and ter times as powerful in the same region.. The only real danger lies in the possibility of his Ripponism In Kuna’s County.—From the King’s County reaching the neighbourhood-of Poonal. i am whole of that there is the following account of a visit by an armed party ee disaffected, and the Brahinins, deprived of ati fs Rit i ee ecuhacait abcla ‘y eae aie influence, and menaced by the Knam Commission in their of dtibvonmen :— A party of eight men, tree OF Wim | ccossions, are ready to follow anybody who promises them were armed with pistols, and the others with bludgeous, visited |". oop, f ¢edained the house of a man named Thomas Meelif, which is situate | ~ Ne as aa ie ae oy : : “T should consider the revolt, as a*national or military

about the middle of January next.

a iirry-Armstrong, near Clara, on Saturday night last, clone movement, finally at an end but for our fatal experience of ions ys: nine o'clock. Two of those who had the pistols) 1 tive ignorance. Nobody can tell at any given moment nresented them at Meeliff, and threatened him with death if}, ° ‘

what any leader, however contemptible, or any class, how- ever beaten, may think itself competent to do. 18 men rose eee eee ee en es eae on us in Nagpore. The men of Chittagong had no chance 6 ree fo them, and gave them up pie oog Waere| even of life, and | terally did not know in what corner of the upon they took their departure. Soon after, the circumstance empire they were siestened. hs Sepoys at Mosllile cane have been perfectly aware ihat escape was impossible, yet

all these rose, and it is this ignorance which perpetuates dis-

his possession. The tnan being unable to resist their de- q rand

institated by them, which proved iueffectual, although several

houses were searched.” order. Any other race on earth, with its army anothilated,

Arnivit or Gop Seen Aearenataetiia Marco Polo bas cn Gzhting classes disarmed. aa its leaders hung, would at arrived with gold equal to £187,000 sterling. She left |*_, vents Postpone farther effort; bat theimen. whe Seas Malldiine ai the 210i: of Mabke ot © certain facts predicts the action of an Asiatic, is sure to be sacidouTbhe Ou tie 1 Or Oeptemver, wrong. Further war, however, seems impossible. Even

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sei CI eae a Ti wa al xe , . : . Typuus Fever has brokea out in Viewoa, and has assumed | [ndian ignorance cannot produce guns out of uothing, or any

sc: Jerals! tf sity - P on en 7 ry é goer : : ; : considerable intensity. army out of discontented priests, and we bave, I hope, at cnourabie | mics cut from Va.entia, and the portion tascn up was found! o . .

—— ee _ > “= (last enly to contend with disorginization. That may last @ i ¢ x “a iii : ii c r some months, especially in Busdeleund, where a population,

~~ &) ° always hcstile, has been exasperated by over taxation. SS | Gradually’ even this will settle down, and this year should CHARLOTTETOWN, PB. E. £, JANUARY 18, 1859./ see the final terminaticn of the Iudian revolt.”

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‘ : LORD CLYDE’S OPERATIONS IN OUDE—TNE FALL OF AMBTHIE. Examine Office, Tue Cawr, Pursarprronr, Noy. 9.-—At 4 o’clock this morn-

Turspay, Jan. 18, 1859. | ing the first bugle sounded. At 5 the column marched from 3eylad to Leowlie, 10 miles distant on the read to Amethie, Seca ; ; and reached the plain at ihe eastern angle and face of the layed the publication of our paper, in order to give our readers | work about 11 o’clock. About 12.30,as we were resting ina

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some portion of the news thus furnished. The British Mail | ope by a Hindoo temple, the sound of a heavy gun from the fort roused us all up; again, and again the sound of this

; shotted gun was heard, and some supposed that it was Sir latest English dates are to the Ist of January, Hope Grant actually attacking the place on bis own account, but the appearance of that qeieen ene in ony eh eee TT : eseort, enabled us to learn that the guns we had heard were SNGLISH NEWS. ‘fired upon him as he rode across the plain from his camp to , ' v.sit the Commander-in-Chief. Here was a new eomplication In London, on the Ist inst., consols closed at 963 a 963. —Lull Madho’s people had fired on our troops! The reply The account for the quarter's revenue to be made up to-day was decisive. If the Rajah did not come in before 10a. m. on the L0th, the British columns would assault the place. At the corresponding period of last year. 1 p. m. three British forees—one under Lord Clyde, the other

The avnual commercial reviews for the year 1858, so far as under Sir Hope Grant, and the third under Brigadier Wether- they have appeared, speak in favorable terms of the past year, all—had pitched their tents, one on each accessible face of the

The English Mail having arrived here last evening, we de-

Steamer Niagara arrived at Halifex on the 13tb inst. Our

‘and are hopetul for future prosperity. ‘defences of Amethie. The effect of this nee on the 0

The following are amongst the financial and commercial | Rajah’s Councils may be conceived. But 12 hours before he events of the year:—The notification by the Bank of England had been full of mighty airs; Le had been talking of his

|that they decline to discount for the discount brokers ; the | honour, of his losses, and of material guarantees. e made imposition ofa penny stamp on bankers’ cheques ; the reduction | ample submission in words; excused himself for the act of the

in the rate of interest on Exchequer Pills from 24d per day to | Sepoys, very ingeniously throwing the blame on us, who had

2d for the March, end 14 for the June issue; the laying down broken an agreement, and it only remained to see if he carried

and subsequent failure of the Atlantic Telegraph ; the con-| his promises into effect. That night, as we heard, he left the clusion of a commercial treaty with China ; and the partial | fort stealthily, and repaired to a village near at hand. He resumption of specie payments by the National Bank of Austria. neither told his followers of the negotiation, of the Procla-

The London Times considers the political occurrences of the | mation, nor of the amnesty. He said he dared not tell them.

_year to have exercised little influence over the condition of He left them to find it out. ‘industry and trade, for the results of Lord Elgin’s treaties

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will only be felt after a considerable interval; and that PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASSAULT ON THE FAMOUS JUNGLE FORT notwithstending the cheapness of money, commerce has} OF AMETHIE, languished in consequence of the monetary erisis in 1857, or | Noy. 11.—On the morning of the 11th, at daybreak, all the rather by a necessary re-action from the previous system of troops of the three different columns were paraded, ready for overtrading. . /action, in front of their respective camps. But on the south- ‘The European Times says— Heaven was kind enough to ward and westward of the fort the enemy would have beheld bless us in the year now closed with a rich and abundant’ their sure allies extending far as the eye could reach. ‘There, harvest, and as cheap food is always a guarantee for the up to the parapets of the place, and entering the Rajah’s happiness as well as the health of a nation, it is at the same courtyard, were files dense and firm as iron of prickly thorn, time the surest incentive to sound trade. At present there adamantine shrub, and bamboo, set eolumn upon column, 80 are unmistakable symptoms of a revival’of commerce. At the! that wild beast or man could steal with difficulty through the

commencement of the year the rate of discount at the Bank of devious tracks. Far away to the horizon, and miles beyond - i 2 tk ake eae ar fant. <: oe : te St ae nash a : ; : =. | England was seven per cent. ; at the close it was two and a- jts visible line, spreading au’ growing wider and denser, lay

half, and the amount of gold in the coffers of the Bank is great this aafe refuge of the enemy. And they sought it. Hour beyond precedent. The price of every important article of after hour passed away in impatience, the troops standing to consuin ption bas been considerably cheapened, and the their arms, officers, booted and spurred, walking up and down conviction is forced on some reflecting minds that commercial the streets of the camp. The Rajah’s eaten P eee in the crisesare not altogether unmitigated evils.” fort, but still no news came from them. The Rajah himseif Phe Victoria Theatre, London, has been the scene of a fearful | was in camp-with Major Barrow, but could say nothing, except calamity, by which no less than sixteen human creatures, | that he knew nothing. What the Sepoys oak do he knew most of them young persons from fifteen years and upwards, ‘not, but he was of opinion they would a fight. At last it lost their lives. it occurred during the afternoon performance | was announced that if the Rajah’s servants had Wak returned on the day after Christmas. A cry of fire was raised, without, | at 9 o’cluck the assault on the place would be ordered forth- as it appears, any adequate cause, and those in the gallery with. Long before that hour arrived, a Sikh trooper rode into rushing to the door, overpowered thoss who were on the | our ear:y with the intelligence that the place was evacuated, landing, many of whom were precipitated over the balustrade, | and that not a soul was to be found but some old men and hence the disaster. Subsequent investigations showed geryants within the walls of Amethie that a boy in the boxes had a box of fusees in his pocket; these ; ignited, set his coat tail on fire, and indaced the masses above —_—= —_— to rush in wild despair towards the stairs, and produce the SPP TT r tragedy. The theatre, strange to say, was opened in the | : DESTSUSSES ae a ere evening, and the performance preceeded as if nothing serious|, FREDRICTON, Jan. 5.—A fire broke out in Beck’s Back had happened! | building at haif-past 1 o’clock this morning—supposed to be : ie “4 ‘ ‘the work of an incendiary—the wind blowi hurricane. Good service ene te anhiek desk lave.Jeni i pandiary—the wied blowing. bawieg ee eee - pot pyaar some have been The fire extended North, South and West, burning nine build- four other dabtanaicead plies at : ef ae ;, : » and ,ings in the most business part of the City. The loss in build- —e 5 at oe ings and goods is £8,000 or £10,000. About £5,000 insured The year of mutiny, 1857-8, cost the empire in round num-)in the St. John Office Agencies. The Central (Fredricton bers nine and a-half millions sterling. | Office) don’t lose a dollar. J. MysHrRa..

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