NEWS VIA CHINA. [From the Australian, July 7.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 103, 25 July 1846, Page 3

NEWS VIA CHINA. [From the Australian, July 7.]

By the Anita, which arrived yesterday, from Wharapoa the 28th April, and Anjer the 28th May, we are presented with India and China news ; and also English rumours to the 24th March. In China, there is nothing going oo extraordinary. In India, there has been negociation in lieu of fighting, a consummation devoutly to be congratulated upon. The authorities at Lahore seem to have been sufficiently humbled by the successes of the British. The following we copy from the Hongkong Register, of date the 14th April. [From the Englishman, Feb. 28.] Letters received to-day from the frontier state, that the treaty w«s already signed on the 9th instant. Thepprtioo* of the country

already mentioned in the two proclamation* are ceded, and the Sikhs agree to pay the expenses of the war, estimated at two crores of rupees, which are stated to be already packed at Lahore, where the Governor-General was expected to arrive and to receive the money on the 20th. Our letter says —" The country between the Sutlej and the Beas is the most fertile in the whole Punjaub ; it gives us tyro or three hill stations. The unfortunate Sikhs have been made to pay for their amusement. The territories confiscated on this side the Sutlej will yield twenty lakhs a year, and I think those between the Sutlej and the Beas twice as much." Another letter says—"TheKhalsas may make a disturbance again, but I fancy they will not fight, having had more than they liked at Hurekee; our loss has been very heavy certainly. In the despatch.of the Ferozeshuhr affair they put down the numbers of killed and wounded at 3,250, whereas a true account was 4,250! pretty well out of 15,000." We understand the terms of treaty between the Governor-General and the Sikh authorities were dictated under the walls of Lahore. The sum which the latter have agreed to pay as compensation for their late invasion of the British Territory, is equal to about £200,0001 a sum, we imagine, inadequate to reimburse us fully for our expenses. But it is good policy not to push a powerful enemy too far in money matters, especially as the sum was to be forthwith.

England. —The Oregon question is settled, so far as to be left to arbitration: which seemed to satisfy the people of England. The New Corn Laws have passed the House of Lords, by a large majority. The Great Liverpool steamer, 2,000 tqns, is lost off Cape Finisterre, crew and passengers saved. The Spanish soldiers sent by the Governor to protect the passengers, plundered them. The master of the steamer shot himself in despair. £100,000 or £150,000, have been voted for the relief of Ireland, in purchasing food for the famished districts. This is the tenor of the news reported in town by the Anita. When we calculate that the Corn' Law Bill could not have passed the House of Lords before the end of March, and that April, May, and June are rather short allowance for news to reach Sydney, not by Bengal, but by China and Anjer, we suspect that the news of the Bill having passed the Lords, means the Commons', and that the Oregon news means simply, that the projected Corn Law had satisfied England that the Americans would consent to arbitration, not that they had done so. With respect to the Indian news there is little to doubt its authenticity.