ENGLISH NEWS
TO SEPTEMBER 26.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
(From the Borne News, September 19) The disastrous intelligence by the last mail from India and China produced a fall in the Funds. wlTheiy have since recovered. The French and English Governments have concerted for exacting retribution from the Chinese. Troops are already in motion.
The Great Eastern had left the Thames, and made her experimental trip with great success, when a steam explosion took place, which killed several persons, but did little damage to the vessel. Lord Clyde retires from the command of the Indian army at the close of this year. He will be succeeded by general Sir Hugh H.Rose.
The King of the Belgians has gone to visit Louis Napoleon at Biarritz. The meeting occasions much curiosity. Deputations from Tuscany, Modena, and Parma have been received by the King of Sardinia, who expressed his concurrence in their desire for annexation, and his determination to support it before the Great Powers.
The proceedings of the people and the new legislatures in Central Italy have been marked throughout with tranquillity and order. All attempts at democratic demonstrations have been suppressed. The French official journal states that the restoration of the dynasties in the States of Central Italy is a condition sine qua non of the Treaty of Villafranca. This an-
nouncement has not altered the demand of the Duchies for annexation to Sardinia.
The Legislatures of the Romagna have unanimously resolved to throw off the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. The French minister at Rome has advised the Pope to consent.
The conferences at Zurich have been suspended. The general amnesty granted by the $Jm per or Louis Napoleon has been extended to the Press, with reference to past warnings and offences. Bat there is to be no extension of the of the liberty of the Press in France.
It is said that the coast defences of France are to be immediately strengthened. The military force has been increased at Lille and Chalons.
The Paris Conference has resumed the consideration of Prince Couza's double election. The Porte recognises the double election on condition that it shall not be regarded as a precedent. It is generally believed on the Continent that a European Congress will be held, Schamyl, the hero of Circassia, has been taken prisoner, anu sent to St. Petersburg, The differences between Spain and Mor rocco have ended in a declaration of war on the part of Spain. The Emperor of Morocco is dead.
!J!he occurriejace of another boundary dis« tmte ' bettyeeu Bqgjand and "the * United $>tales 'is anticipate^. 1' Tlje latter' have taken possession of an island ,w ich commands the entrance to grazer's foyer. ""An Italian coiamittee lias been formed in London to assist the efforts oi their countryhien. ' 'Jfhe Doncaster S,U Lege^ has beeq w<)n
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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 220, 29 November 1859, Page 3
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467ENGLISH NEWS Colonist, Volume III, Issue 220, 29 November 1859, Page 3
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