Anticipatory despatches of the India mail arrived in town this
after- noon, with news from Bombay to the 17th of December. The interesting points are few. Another plot had been found out at Lahore—fomented by the fugitive Ranee : the young Maharajah had been sent for safety to Futteghur. Lady Dalhousie is coming home ill, and Lord Dalhousie will accompany her as far as Suez. Sir Charles Napier was off to Peshawur ; and it is now said that he will stay in India "two or three years at least." Major Edwardes and Major Nicholson are coming home ; Major Edwards!! bearing with him to the feet of the Queen the veritable Koh-i-noor, about whose fate writers some time since speculated dubiously.
Two English gentlemen, Dr. Campbell, superintendent of the Sanita- rium at Darjeeling, and Dr. Hooker, a naturalist, and son of Sir Wil- liam, while out on a scientific tour in the Himalayas, had transgressed the frontier, and had been imprisoned by the Rajah of Sikkim, a petty moun- tain chief; but they would probably be recovered without bloodshed. The intelligence from China is two days later than the last The Co- lumbine, Fury, and Phlegethon, had destroyed the greater part of the piratical fleet under Shap-'ng-tzai, at the entrance of the Tonquin river : his grand fleet of 58 vessels, mounting 1,200 guns, and manned by 3,000 men, has been totally destroyed by fire. Shap-'ng-tzai escaped with 6 vessels and about 400 men ; but his power is now completely broken.
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