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      are now very busy supplying drill officers to Persia * JTthey used to do to Mysore , and . lat erly to xfahore Some may view -with satisfaction that French intrigue in Persia matches Russian , but S who know the far . reaching nature , of French intrigues in the East do not look with particular satisfaction on the state ; of affairs m Persia , which enables France to get a footing on one side of India , as the Cdchin-China expedition will on the other . France has now an interest in China and Japan , and we have established a precedent for her interference in E <» ypt , for she will certainly claim the . right of sending troops to Cochin China through Egypt , as exercised the privilege 6 f sending to India during the late revolt . The passage of troops to India fromEnglarid through Suezhas , however , been lately suspended ^

      - ... . ___» , ... . _ - x-.. _ We think it would be a very useful measure for promoting a knowledge of Persia , if our Government would allow officers acquainted with Persian . return home through Persia , giving them extended leave and a small grant for expenses , and so likewise on the return . Thus we should always have both in India and England a considerable body of men acquainted with the country , ready to give advice to the authorities , and to be employed on any staff mission . A thousand' a year would supply twenty officers , and would be cheaply spent . _ .-. _ ¦ . ¦;¦ . ¦ . . ' . ' .. ^ , ,,, .. h ted Rebellion

      The telegrapon Thursday repoi —" no longer exists in Oude . " " Lord Clyde is indisposed , and proceeds to Simla for the season . " Proceeds to Simla ! How much and how little is there in those words ? Why hot proceed to Delhi , Lucknow , or Calcutta ? Because they are the'cities of the plague . Why to the hills ? Because the hills have the climate of England . Now Lord Clyde can get there , why not Lord Clyde ' s soldiers ? Because Lord Clyde can afford to travel by dawk , but as there is no railway to any of the hill stations in Bengal , Lord Clyde ' s soldiers must die by thousands in the pestiferous garrisons of the tropical climates . Mr . Mangles was examined before Mr ; Ewar t ' s Committee on Thursday .

      There are now in Calcutta no Ies 3 than twenty English barristers arid seventy attornies , in consequence of the large accession of numbers . In Calcutta , as the number of Englishwomen has considerably increased of late , a home is to be founded for those of good character' out of

      employment . : . The extension of English law in India is being seriously considered . Great dissensions prevail in Bengal between the converts and the missionaries . The former complain of the overbearing tyranny of the missionaries , who monopolise all patronage , get possession of the funds , and refuse to admit the co-operation of their black brethren . The Rev . Lai Bifliaree Day , a free church convert , has lately preached a sermon at Calcutta , affirming that the unchristian position of the missionaries is one of the principal causes of the non-success of missions .

      Last week a lot of Neilgherry coffee was sold in Mincing-lane . . Notwithstanding the extension of coffeo planting in Mysore , Wynaad , Coorg , the Neilgherries , and Shevaroys , we notice that there was lately a shipment of coffee from Ceylon to Madras . Under the old system of monopolistic administration , Madras used to send out coolies to the English planters in Ceylon , while the growth of coffee on the spot was neglected ; but now coffee planting is extending in the Madras presidency , and will furnish a large export trade . The planters , however , complain

      bitterly of the land tenures , as compared with Ceylon and other colonies , They are constantly liable , ¦ after planting waste land , to have claimants ,-tar ' t up and harass them with fictitious titles . Measures are now in progress for improving the navigation of the Sunclorbunds . Channel Creek has been surveyed and buoyed , and orders have been given to clear away'the trees , which now cumber the banks of the srnaller branches . With th'o help of the Mutlah Railway and these improvements , the neglected districts of the Sundorbunds may , nt length , receive attention .

      A he Khoja Muhomedan Company of Bombay , for carrying on a coinunission . ngoncy in England and Bombay , is making progross towards its establishment . Tho Khojas wish to ralso themselves to an equality of enterprise with the . Purseos . At this time the Bunk of Bengal has only 32 , 000 / . private deposits , although it hits the treasury business and tho issue of notes . The state of drunkenness in . Calcutta , and some other cities , is exciting attontion , and thoro arc demands for an incvoaao of spirit duties and liconso cmtios as a moans of raising municipal rovomie . In Bombay tho assessment of house property for municipal purposes is a shilling in the pound for 859 . In Calcutta , undor tho Into systom of government , a host of wrltors ami copyists was employed .

      The writers are being superseded by the Government pribting press , and Captain Young , of the Engineers , has proposed to have maps and plans photographed , so as to get over the tardy and laborious copying in his department . To give some notion of the state of business under the old regime in Calcutta , we may observe that there are still nearly 6 , 000 peons employed ; that is to say , 5 , 968 persons employed as ticket porters , messengers , and footmen -in the Government offices , with salaries ranging / front 8 s . to 18 s . per month . In consequence of the rise of prices , Government has been obliged to raise the rate of pay , which is now from 12 s . to 20 s . per month . The . sooner the , number can be reduced by employing over-house telegraphs , as in London , Paris , and New York , the better . '

      A nabob , descendant of Tippoo Sultan , has petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court in Calcutta . His debts are £ 12 * 59 $ , his property nothing , and his allowance . £ 1 , 200 a year . We are sorry to learn that during the two years of the revolt , the Asiatic Society of Bengal has lost thirty-four members , has elected only two , and has now no more than ninety-three paying members .

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      INDIA . Advicks have been received from Calcutta to the 22 nd January . On the 26 th December , Lord Clyde took the fort of Burgu&iah , and on the 29 th he succeeded in overtaking the Begum ' s army , which he drove across the Raptee . Ten minor chiefs and a large number of Sepoys laid down their arms . Amongst the chiefs were Melindee Hoosein and the Nawab of Furruckabad . The latter has been sent to Cawnpore to be tried , and it is to be hoped he will meet the fate he so richly deserves .

      The last of the Oude rebels , the Begum , the Nana , and about 15 , 000 Sepoys , are now at the mercy of the Nepaulesej and it remains to be seen what kind of treatment they will receive at the hands of Jung Bahadoor . That potentate , it would appear , is not on the best terms with our Government . It is said that Lord Canning declines to accede to certain proposals for enlarging his territory . Our engineers are employed , in demolishing forts and clearing roads through Oude . The principal stations which are to have European garrisons are Lucknow , Fyzabad , Gondah , Roy , Bareilly , and Seetapore . and 78 th

      Her Majesty ' s 10 th , 84 th , 32 nd , Regiments , and the Military Train , arc under orders to return to England . The gallant naval brigade of the Pearl was expected in Calcutta the first week in January , and the Governor-General had greeted them from Allahabad with a complimentary general order . Lord Clyde , it is believed , will not remain another hot season in India , and Sir Hugh Rose and , General Mansfield are both mentioned to succeed him . The vacancies in the north-west will be filled up as follows : —Lieutenant-G-overhor of the North-western Provinces , Mr 1 . EdraOnstone . Ditto of Punjaub , Mr . Montgomery . Commissioner of Oude , Mr . Wingfield . Resident at Indore , Colonel Ramsay . Ditto at Katmaridhoo , Brigadier Colin Mackenzie . The foreign secretary ' s place in Calcutta is to be filled by Colonel Durand .

      The bodies of the individuals missing from the crew of the ship Satlej have been recovered . Mr . Pereira , a merchant who had shipped 50 chests of indigo on board the vessel , bought the hull for 1 , 800 rupees , and has succeeded in recovering some 30 xhests of his indigo . The community as usual has conic forward most liberally with subscriptions for the crow , and G , 000 rupees have been already collected . The steamers arc prowded with people going home , and will continue to bo so , more especially if , as rumour has it , furloughs arc to be issued in March . .. .

      By a telegram dated Suez , Feb . 21 , wo have some later hitelligerK ! e :- ~ A general order had been issued , containing tho announcement , by Lord Clyde that the campaign in which tho troops under his command have boon , engaged is closed , and that rebellion no longer exists in Oudo > Jung Balwuloor is stated to have issued a proclamation to tho efi ' oct that ; ho will surrender to tho British Government all insurgents found within his territory . Sir Hugh Roso is making active preparation for finally subduing tho Rohillas . Another tologram states that the , Nopauloso have applied for British troops to outer Nopaul , and that llorsford ' s brigade lias accordingly boon pushod across tho RaptcG . Lord Clydo is indifiposod , and nroeoods to Simla for tho season ,

      From Central India wo loam that Tnntla Topoo ' s roar guard was overtaken by tho force undor Brigadier Holmes , at Soekur , on the Slat of January . Tho robel loss was 100 killed , besides a number of horses and floo stand of arms . Tantla Topoo was making 1 for Uoukanoor ox * Joudliporo on llio 20 th of January j columns woro iu hut pursuit uudur tho uuvurul

      commands of Brigadiers Honner , Parke , Hoknes , Showers , and Michel . .. THK PARDONED SEPOTSi The correspondent of the -Times thus describes the prevailing opinion among these men : ^— " Seven hundred Sepoys , have come in under the amnesty . They all , when questioned , tell the same story . They say they have thrown their stake and lost , and they now expect to be re-employed by the Company . When told that this is out of the question , they reply , ' Oh , that is to-day ' s talk ; by and by you will be attacked by the Nepaulese , or the Sikhs , or somebody , and then you must employ us . ' And so they march off quite cheerful to their villages , where they have all lands , and where they are generally very successful cultivators . It is a strange country . Numbers of the bravest men / in the new police levies are Sepoys who have fought against us , been beaten , grown huge beards , and are now fighting on our side . " .

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      CHINA . Lord Elgin returned to Shanghai on the 1 st inst ., after a successful expedition , up the Yang-tze-Kiang as far as Hankow , in lat . 3033 N ., long . 11413 EDuring his stay there the river fell so much that the Furious and Cruiser were unable to make their way do w n , and had to be left behind at Kin-kiang , near the mouth of the Poyang lake , some 460 miles from Shanghai . There they will have to remain till next spring . " At Nankin the expedition was fired upon by the Chinese rebels who occupied the forts , and Lord Elgin had a harrow escape from a round shot ; the forts were engaged and silenced in half-ani-hour . Hankow is a fine city , containing a million of inhabitants . Lord Elgin paid a visit of state to Kewan , the governor of two provinces , and the expedition returned to Shanghai . At Canton fresh disturbances have taken place . On the 8 th Jan . a body of our troops , 700 strong , were out exercising , some miles from Canton , near a village called Shek-tsing , and on their return were fired upon by a party of Braves . A few Chinese were killed , and our troops returned slowly towards Canton , folio wed for some distance by . the Braves . There -was no loss x > f life on our side . After three days spentin organisingan expedition the village was attacked by our gunboats and troops , about 2 , 000 strong . There . were two heavy batteries defending the approaches , but a simultaneous attack on both sides carried the place without loss . The batteries and village were destroyed , and some fifty or sixty of the Braves killed . JFrom documents which have been intercepted lately , it appears that the Braves are not acting from mere hatred to foreigners , but are encouraged by the -high authorities , at Pekin . THE CITY OF HANKOW ; The following description is by a gentleman who accompanied Lord Elgin ' s expedition : — ' ? Hankow possesses singular advantages as a mercantile emporium . To judge from the number of junks we saw there , a brisk , junk trade must even now be carried on above it . The productions of Hunan , among which are . tea , coal , iron , indigo , oil ; those of Tcz'huen , of wliich sugar , insect wax , copper , tin , lead , drugs , tobacco , are some of the items ; and the cotton , hemp , flax , and silk of Hupeh itself—all collect there , besides furs from the Tliibetian provinces , porcelain from Kiangsi , and many minor productions . There 16 an air of real business in the streets , which are comparatively clean and Spacious , and in the shops , which arc handsome and well supplied . It must bo remembered that Hankow is only beginning to recover from a conflagration by which , iwo years ago , it was utterly and ; entirely destroyed . This vitality is a hopeful symptom , and there can "be ho doubt that the people would only bo too glad to see Europeans settle themselves there for the purposes of trade . This is , at present , almost tho only point at which wo could hopo to find any great demand for our homo manufactures . No one knows hotter than youfsolf tho nature of tho com- ' petition against which our merchants and manufacturers winhavo to contend , and they cannot bo too careful in considering tho peculiar requirements of tho trade , and in commoncing operations with caution and judgment . 1 was surprised nt tho quantity of European goods 1 saw at Hankow ; some of the shops wore entirely dovotod to tho sale of articles of foreign manufacture , as their sign-boards statod . At ono moment a label with ' extra suporflrio ladies ' habit clot !) ' upon it met your oyo rat anothor you made acqutuntanco with Duncan Brown , manufacturer , DiukIoo , ' Manchosttir , ' in a largo bluo stamp , ' attracted your nolico . I do not , howovor , enter into dolalls upon this subject— -although I took somo troublo to obtain thorn—partly because 1 am not satisfied with tho A'ilablo nuturo . of ' my inlbrniu- ' tion , and partly because thoro will bo plenty ol'iimo befbru tho rivor Ja oponoil , to go more at largo into tho qiiuMtioii . "

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      . TJo . 467 , Mabch 5- 1859 . 1 THE tEAfSft ? I 3

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 5, 1859, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2284/page/25/