NEWS VIA CHINA INDIA.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 81, 25 July 1846, Page 3

NEWS VIA CHINA INDIA.

; By tlie Aniia, which arrived' yesterday from Whampoa> the 28t'« April-, and An;pT Ihe2dtb: M*a"y r «we are prsenfrd wrtlv India and China news;: and aJso £ng!bh' « In China, tb.ore is no bi-ig; en ex- , : 'traordiniiy. Ju linlin, rher- lias been; m'irecra , in in licir >f if^hii l ijj, c6nsmn«. 'jOiation ctevoutly to bp congra ulaied U"ori. ■ The authorities; ats seem to-hasvi^ been- sulfijcivntly bumped by ibesuecea* 'hcs of the British. The we copy 'fronrthfi Hongkong Uegister, of date us^ Uth •"" '' '" /

The Corn Law sliding scale is not abandoned, but is modified. It is, however, to come to an end in three The first year it will vary from 4s. to lOs., But the scale is such as to render it probable that seldom more than 43, duty will be paid,'that is to say six-pence per -bushel. ....-■ The duties are annulled on the importation of live stock, butchers' meat, potatoes, and all other vegetables, and on apples! Also, on Indian corn or majze, and.on buckwheat (a grain used, we believe, for fattening live stock, but chiefly in sowing for green food.) The duty on butter and cheese is not taken off, only .reduced. A loan is proposed to the owners of land, to enable them to improve their land. Taxes hitherto borne by the land .(bounty expenditure and the law of settlement) are to he charged on -the general revenue. No-fresh tax is proposed. The Premier is of opinionthat the increase of trade will repay all deficiencies arising from his repeal or diminution of'the present; duties on corn and other articles. The stanch old Tories are in a great rage, and threaten a dissolution of tf?arliament. Large sums were being voted for the employment of the people of Ireland in the erection of public works, and the exclusive taxes on the land were to be taken off, as in England. There are a great many converts to Sir R. Peel's Corn Law measure. Among the rest, one of its most stanch opposers in former days, Sir Thomas Lethbridge. The father of Sir Robert Peel always opposed the Corn Laws. But his son well knew that if he opposed them, he would never be Prime Minister, and be the associate of dukes and earls, nor his children intermarry with theirs as they have done. He has now accomplished his great object, and can afford to adopt his father's principles. A bill was about to be introduced to take off the remaining restrictions on the religion of the Roman Catholics. Friars, monks, &c, will soon be.seen in the streets of tbe towns of England, as in Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon, after this biM has passed. Religious houses, however, are to be registered, and visited by certain authorities. No Bills relating to Ecclesiastical Courts will be introduced the present session; Courts of Requests, to adjudicate all sums of .£2O, and under, are to be constituted throughout England. Messrs. G. and W. Ormond, of Bond Street, have received orders to supply 45,000 sets of accoutrement to the Board of Ordnance, for the use of the militia. The order is to be completed without delay. The Railways had been submitted to a Select Committee of fifteen member*. Oα the sth Feb. in the Lords, it was recommended that the payment of a deposit of one-tenth of the capital on Irish Railways should be suspended; that before the reading a Kail way Bill the first time, five per cent of the capital must have been deposited by the 6th February ; and that before the third readtng,ariotaer five per cent must hare been deposited. And that petitions for a Railway Bill should be received after the 23rd Febr nary. There is before the House of Lords a Bill progressing with rapidity, called " the Irish Drainage Bill." No doubt it contains a load to Irish landlords for the purpose of draining their estates. A Bill, was also introduced on the Ist February to build small piers and harbours in Ireland, to encourage its fisheries, at the sate of at least £10,000 a year. Another Bill was in progress to spend in Ireland £100,000 in Fever Hospitals. Another to authorise the Guardians of the Irish Poor-houses to grant relief to out-door paupers under limitations. On the night of the. 27th. January, when the Premier devulged his new. Tariff,,the House of Commons was crammed with the members;, and the spare seats with peers; among whom was Prince Alberc and the Duke of Cambridge. M. Guizot has now a great majority iv the Chamber of Paris, and peace is not likely to be disturbed between France and England. In Algeria, the French are suffering revereee. Ab-del-Kader, who wae lately represented ai a fugitive, attacked one of his pursuers, General Yussuf, and defeated him. • The latter had travelled eighty leaguee in pursuit. And General Levassier, with 2,500 men, who had gone out to. make a- razzia (that is, sack, kill, burn, and destroy the Arab people aa well ai soldiers,) had all perished in a snow storm. The French seem inclined to relinquish their, expedition against Madagascar. The bad news from Algeria seems to have brought them to their senses. The Americans seem fully bent on keeping Oregon, and yet say, there will be no war I What astonished England was, that the venerable ex-Presi-dent Quency Adams became an advocate for the annexation; and yet seemed to think there would be no war ! The London press, deprecates war, but it is evidently bent on taking it, as an alternative, rather than cede Oregon. Its great coolness on this subject is indicative of determination. And it seems to utter the calm determination of the nation. A paper of the 24th January, describes another agrarian' assassination at Tramore, in Tipperary, and Limerick as being in a state resembling anarchy by armed parties attacking-peaceable families in open day, and aftec robbing them, treating them with great barbarity. -

Tbe nnil to London from Egypt had again reached London by Trieste several daye before that via Marseilles. The Freech letters by this mail were sent to Paris from London before the mail had arrived at Marseilles.

The news of the late victories in India had reached England by this mail. . General Paridea had proceeded against the new Mexican-Government, with tbe intention of dissolving it. This was the Spanish General who chiefly caused the disposal of Santa Ansa. The new Government had, it seems, become too corrupt and imbecile for eaduraace.

The opinion of the Spectator -(7 Feb.) ie, that as the first allegation of the Times that the repeal of the Corn-laws would be moved very early in the Session by Sir Robert Peel inthe Commons, and the Duke in the Lord*, was 'belieyed in preference to tbe denial of the had caused the waiving by the question for a period till more news should arrive. The arrival in America of the news that repeal (or all but the repeal) was certain, would cause the American Legislatures-to sheath their swords, and cushion the Oregon affair in some way or another, because that though Jonais a great hero on occasion, he is-a still greater Free-trader, and loves the shop even better then military, glory.