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      The Orient. India. This Fanatical Distur...

      King of Oude consented , with the sanction , or rath & at the compulsion , of the English , to deal vigorously -with , the rebels . Accordingly , the Mahomedan soldiers in the royal army were weeded by Captain Barlow Jrom their comrades , and the Mussulmen under Ameer . Ali were attacked . Mad with fanaticism , they- charged their enemies even up to the muzzles of the guns ; but they were also attacked in rear , and their leader , being killed , they were at length defeated , though not without great slaughter and a most obstinate resistance . Ameer is looked on as a

      martyr ; a mosque over his grave is talked of , and an outbreak is expected in Lucknow . In the meanwhile , the revenue has fallen to nothing , and Daryabad is utterly desolate . It is not impossible that this state of . things may lead to the annexation of Oude . An army of 16 , 000 Anglo-Indians , including three European regiments , has been collected in the frontier town of Cawnpore . Martial law has been proclaimed in . the Santal districts . The insurrection is not yet put down ; but it is thought the rebels will shortly yield .

      Herat—one of the most important towns in the East , commonly called " the gate of India , " because it offers the only practicable route for a large army passing from the north-west to the frontiers of India . —has been taken from its monarch , Mahomed Said , by the Persians , who , not improbably , have been acting in the interest of the Russians . The story of its capture , as told by the Times Bombay correspondent , is . like a chapter out . of an eastern romance : — " Mu-Ixomed Said , always a slave to his passions , had of late become more grossly abandoaed than ever , and was

      in an almost continual state of intoxication . His personal followers , availing themselves of his condition , perpetrated at their leisure and unrepressed all the crimes that can be committed by lawless men against the persons and the property of their neighbours . At last the evil became intolerable , and petitions from all ranks of the people were forwarded to Teheran , entreating the Shah to interfere for their protection , to dethrone Mahomed Said , and annex Herat to his own empire . The King assented , and despatched orders to an officer in his service ^—no > other than a Prince of

      the Royal Aflghan race of the Suddozyes , by name Yusuf—ta concert measures with the Persian resident at Herat for taking possession , of the city . All was easily arranged . The envoy was in the habit of riding out daily for considerable distances , attended by a large escort , and often returning after dark . One day he was joined by Yusuf with 4 , 000 horse ^ who accompanied him back to Herat . The gates , as usual , were opened to receive him . Yusuf and his men entered , despatched the guard , and , with the aid of the citizens , who were in the plot , possessed themselves of the treasury and the citadel . Mahomed Said , surprised over hie cup ? , was taken and imprisoned , and Prince Yusuf proclaimed himself chief , as vassal of the Shah . "

      A contest has been going on at Calcutta between the Indian Board of Control and the Legislative Council . The former ordered the latter to repeal certain clauses in a given act . The Council , resisting this dictation , ha 3 ref used to obey ; and it is pretty certain that that body is legally as well as morally right . The -mission to Ava has returned , without , however , as it ia thought , bringing any concessions from the King , who is still under the influence of the

      warlike heir apparent . The amalgamation of the Bengal Marines with the Indian navy . has been finally arranged , and will take place almost immediately . Trade at Bombay is still in a depressed condition , little or nothing improved since the departure of the last mail . Freights have slightly advanced . In the money-market , the scarcity which has been some time anticipated is beginning to be perceptible , and Government stock has slightly declined .

      CHINA . The rebellion appears neither to advance nor recede . From the north , we have no definite intelligence of the insurgents ; but in the Kwangsi arid Oonam provinces they are said to hold their ground , and their proximity occasions some anxiety in the Canton district , and materially injures trade . A disagreeable feeling has been aroused by a conte » t between the captain of an American vessel and tho authorities at Hong-Kong . Tho authorities asserted that they have power to punish offences committed on board American vessels in British possessions . Tho captain denied this right : committed some offence in

      defiance ; was arrested , examined at a police office , and remitted , to the criminal sessions . A very dreadful °£ ? w hm tftken P laco on ho rA tlb -e American ehip Waveriey , conveying Coolies from China to Peru . The captauvhaving died , the ship put into Manilla . Some disturbances ensued , and tho Chinese to tho S 3 « i f , urUundred »« <* fifty wore driven below , ?™? f a ^ a ™ -K " On thoir befog ' opened again Wo hundred and fifty-one men wer ? found dead The tea market has been aotivo at Hong-Kong ; rice iu dnTtC J n > "L ; bll i ™ P ° ^ Wo been' rather dull , though prices have been maintained . Money in Bcarco m native handa . '

      EGYFT , XTC . An insurrection lias broken out in the Hedjaz in Arabia . The Arabs threaten to expel the Turks from the coasts of the Red Sea , and . demand that the English and French flags be pulled down , and all Europeans driven out of the country . Lord Canning , on his passage to India , has been received with , the utmost courtesy by Said Pasha . A race between an English , mare and an Arabian horse has resulted in the complete victory of the former . The Pasha has annulled his order for the prohibition , of the exportation of wheat and Indian corn , which will be permitted as heretofore . Prices of produce have fallen a little , in consequence of discouraging advices from Europe , and freights are now at 8 a . per quarter .

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      Letter From Constantinople. {From A Priv...

      LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE . { From a Private Correspondent . ) , December 17 tb , 1855 . The rainy season has now fairly commenced here . Lord Stratford has removed from his summer residence on the Bosphorus , and is domiciled at the English Embassy at Pera . " The narrow declivities , and ill-paved streets , are converted into dikes overflowing with mud , through which the hapless pedestrian wades ankle deep , jostled from side to Bide , now

      by Turkish porters , carrying immense talea of goods , & c , and anon by Arabas , a string of mules or camels conveying French commissariat stores . Should a vehicle approach in the opposite direction , the street is blocked up , and a great deal of manoeuvering is required to get the one past the other . The town has been remarkably quiet lately . Nothing has been heard of any midnight assaults or assassinations in the streets , and people begin to move out again after dark , as they were wont to do before the assassinations which occurred last month .

      Telegraphic communication with the Crimea is still cut off , the cable which crosses the" Black Sea from Kaliakra to Kazatch , being either broken or so far damaged as to render it useless . Despatches from England are in consequence sent from Constantinople to the Crimea by steam packet , and vice versa . It is stated that the telegraph between Constantinople and England is to be thrown open to the public shortly . Rumour says that twenty-one companies of artillery are under orders to return hoinp , and that they are to be sent to the Baltic for active service next spring .

      The English soldier out liere who does not trouble himself about that ignis falwis , the " Balance of Power , " asks , "What are we fighting for ? are we fighting for these lazy , dirty , ill-governed Turks ? if so , it is a waste of men and mioney . Eetter let the Russians take the country ; they cannot make it Worse , and may make it a great deal better . But we think England or France shoxild take it . " The post-office authorities at home would confer a great benefit on the British soldier serving out here , were they to issue post-office orders at the " British

      Army post-office , " at Pera . The recent arrangement , by which books may be sent from England by post , at the rate of twopence for each four ounces , applies almost exclusively to officers , as very few in the ranks are in a position to avail themselves of the benefit . On the other hand , the granting of postoffice orders would be an arrangement solely for the benefit of the soldier and his family at home . If this were the case , many a pound which is now spent in drinking and debauchery , would be sent home and go a great way towards making a happy home for friends left behind .

      The English Press And Ic0lonel Tubr. The...

      THE ENGLISH PRESS AND IC 0 LONEL TUBR . The Diritto—the brilliant representative of the liberals of Piedmont—has -the following : — " If we except three or four of the London journals , among which the Leader and tho Daily News are entitled to tho most honourable mentiou , tho other periodicals have either said nothing , or , still worao , attempted to justify tho conduct of Austria in the arrest of that distinguished soldier , Colonel Tiirr . "Hie calumnies circulated through-th o organs of the Vienna censorship wore piwsod over with no indignant comment . With tho coldest iiulifferenco and most cynical selfishness , reasons of right and public law , every regard for justice or humanity , were shelved in support of a bane ami dastard policy .

      "If the French press , in its present stato , wore worth consideration , wo should almoat say that , on this question , it adopted a more generous procodure . It did not fail iu energetic proteHts in favour of the ' victim . ' Tho Prcase , tlio Sitcic , and oven the Oharivari spoke out . Indeed , wo aro not aware that tho Paris prints moist dependent on tho Empire , attempted , like tho Morning : Post and tho Globe , with studied aophiarnB to discover any riglit on tho . part of AuBtria to commit an outrage on tho liberty of an officer employed in tho English service , and in a country ' not nubjeot to Auatrlau law . " In short , th « conduct of the Englinh proHH ia this affair calls for tho reprobation of all honest men who look with natuml aversion » nd diBgunt on tho

      anmiimption of brute force , and rightly feel for the sufferings of a brave soldier whose future mission was consecrated to the succour of the oppressed . " Now this despicable policy is another proof of the degeneracy of that press ; and to what it was reduced after England had entered upon a war of purely commercial interests of * which its own Government , constrained by that of France , persists in maintaining the exclusive character—that of the old policy and balance of power from which oppressed nations , and mankind , who combat for it , have nothing whatever to hope . " But -views like these are considered criminal ; yet the time may come when the English people will be reminded of them ; and in an hour when they would willingly have banished them from their minds . "

      Public Opinion In France. A Corresponden...

      PUBLIC OPINION IN FRANCE . A correspondent , wjao is in a position to be correctly informed , writes us from Paris : — "Believe me there is not a particle of truth in the notion of French jealousy of British operations in Asia Minor , and of rejoicings here at the fall of Kara . What is true is , that a very general impression prevails here that there are points of difference between the two governments , and that these differences might become obstacles . In England , you are all for war at any price . You are for war , it is said , because you fancy you have played a very secondary part in

      the contest hitherto , and you are determined upon a grand revanche , to reconquer your compromised prestige and your damaged influence . For you , then , the war is no longer a question of general interest , but of exclusively national and British interests . In France , on the contrary , we desire peace . We desire it for several reasons . In the first place , as you know very well , the war has never been very popular with us , whatever may have been pretended . We have never understood its necessity or its importance , and since , as before , the taking of Sebastopol , the results have appeared to us liardly equal to the sacrifice and to the cost . Now that the honour of our

      arms is safe , all the considerations drawn from the state of our finances , our food crisis , and our political and economical situation , have assumed a force and an intensity to-which the Government could not be insensible . Indeed , the Government itself is tired of the war , and , I believe , has lately had some explanations with yeur Cabinet on the subject . The Emperor is believed to have held to Lord Palmerston language of this kind : — ' For my own part , I consider the objects of the war attained . I have done both for the principles engaged , and for the general interests , moi-e than could have been demanded of France . If Russia accepts rational conditions , we must conclude ; if you are for going further , I

      cannot undertake to follow you . France has no interest in crushing Russia , whom she considers still essential to the equilibrium of Europe . The English Alliance is not eternal , and , in case of eventual conflict , we might have need of Russia . If the cabinet of St . Petersburg will not yield , and if wo must recommence the war , take Cronstadt , and occupy St . Petersburg : I ana ready to inarch ; but then for these new and heavier sacrifices , I must have compensations ; now these compensations aro the Rhine and Belgium . ' I simply report to you what is said here , and what seems at least probable . The fact is , that if the wa » must go on and spread , our government cannot afford to play the part of Don Quixote . To do so would be its ruin and confusion . The lanr

      guage ascribed to it in its recent communications with your government ( and , I repeat , it has at least the air of probability ) , is generally approved ; it in considered a natural resumption of the policy of the first Empire . The old Imperialists , the vieux de la vieille , and all the ardent partisans of tho government , are enchanted ; but as to tho government itself , I am inclined to believe that it feels tho want of peace , and would prefer it . "

      Continental Notes. Peace Mosrncts. Pnino...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . peace mosrncTs . PniNOK GoimoiiAKOFF , tho Russian Ambassador ut Vienna , io said to have proposed to Count Buol that Bhips of w »\ r of nil nations Bhould bo excluded from tho Black Sea , except those «/ Russia and Turkey , and that it should bo loft" to those two Powers to decide tho amount of force which each might require . Count Buol communicated this proposal to the roproBontativott of France and England , but took no further notico of it . Tho Russian diplomatist twice brought forward Iub HuggoBtion , which of courae emanated direct

      from tho Czar ; "but it in « oedloaa to » ay that it had recoived no attention . Of tho character of Priuco GortaohakofF , tUo Times Vienna correspondent given Homo particular *! : — "Tho Prince , " ho ob » ervos , "in ono of tho moat rewolute olmuipiona of tho old Muhoovito party , and carries the flag of ltueaia remarkably high . Ho is not likely to approve of tho propouition » which have just been sent to Russia , and it is therefore tho wiflh of AuKtria that tho Emperor Alexander Bhould bare an opportunity of oxaniiuing into their moritii boforo they aro communicated to hia ropireBentative « t thin Court , who atill proclaims tho rosolvo of

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 5, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05011856/page/8/