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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 551, 13 February 1858, Page 5

Insiaw Mails.—lt appears that a weekly communication with India is about to be established.' The main points of an arrangement are said to have been agreed between the Government and the Peninsula and Oriental Company/fogl mail to and from India four times a montlrmatead of twice, as at present. It is intended to effect this by making the dispatch of the mails to and from Bombay to alternate as regards with the departure of the mails to and from Calcutta, a plan which will bring four mails each way to Suez every month, the company undertaking to place such additional steamersonthe Marseilles and Alexandriastation as shall suffice to convey four mails per month, both outward and homeward, between those ports. It is hoped this important extension of the company's postal operations may be brought into effect early next year, and it will doubtless be shortly followed by a corresponding increase in the number of communications via Southampton.—Home News. Mr. W. J. Fox has been returned without opposition for Oldham. He does not appear to have solicited the electors, and was returned, !ik»> Mr. Bright, without being present at the election. A sum of £670 has been collected in aid of the widow and family of the late William Rodgers, who was executed recently at Liverpool for the murder of a seaman on board the barque Martha and Jane. The " Cambridge Independent" states that the entries this year—term having commenced —are not so large by about 100 as last year, so j many young men being gone to India. ■The publication of the news that Delhi had fallen produced immense excitement in all parts of the metropolis. The extent of the demand for the newspapers containing the Government telegraph was almost fabulous. In the theatres and other places of public amusement the announcement of the fall of Delhi was received with loud and prolonged cheering. Many of the'towns throughout the country likewise welcomed the news with a public demonstration of joy. It is a striking coincidence that Delhi fell into the possession of.the British forces on tlio aofck September, which was the anniversary of the battle of tko. A]yn* TW ..w----tory was achieved on the 20th September, 1854.