5 FEBRUARY 1870, Page 2

A telegram has been received by the Hudson's Bay Company

stating that Riel, the "General" of the insurgent" WInnipeggers," has been taken prisoner, and the authority of General Mactavish (Macdougall?) restored. Nothing is said, however, as to the parties who have thus intervened on the British aide, and no troops can have reached the Red River. According to the latest accounts, the Government of the Dominion is quite prepared to use force if necessary, in the spring, and will despatch the Royal Ottawa. Rifles to the Red River, but hopes to arrange matters through,the medium of Canadian ecclesiastics. Meanwhile, the settlers are quarrelling among each other, and it is not improbable. that Ridl has been arrested by them, as reported at Ottawa.