COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE intelligence by the Overland Mail from Bombay
comes down to the 22nd of May. The expedition under
General Godwin against the Burmese arrived before
Martaban, a town in the neighbourhood of Rangoon,
on the morning of the 5th of April. The place was
immediately stormed and taken, with a very trifling
loss. Rangoon itself was carried by storm after two
days' fighting on the 12th and 13th. The list of
casualties amounted to 17 killed and 132 wounded; but
several officers and men died from the effects of the
climate. The slaughter among the Burmese seems to have
been immense, and the place, after its capture, was full
of dead bodies. The cholera had begun to rage among
the British troops, and a number of men had died.

There is no recent intelligence from Rangoon. Our
forces will remain there until the termination of the
rainy season; and should the war continue, additional
troops will be sent from Bombay, Bengal, and Madras.
At Bombay, two European and four native regiments
have been selected for this service. Sir Colin Campbell
has been again called forth with considerable forces
to act against the native tribes in the north-west.

A system of Thuggee has been discovered in the
Punjaub. Five hundred murderers have been found,
and the names of 320 rebellious Thugs obtained; 120
are in prison, and the majority have confessed the
crime. It is stated that the Nizam is willing to liquidate
his debt by a cession of territory.

The new governor of the Cape of Good Hope, General
Cathcart, arrived at King William's Town on the 7th
of April, and immediately assumed the command. Sir
Harry Smith left King William's Town on the following
day, and sailed from Cape Town for England, after
various demonstrations of respect from the principal
inhabitants.

Montreal has been visited with a most destructive
conflagration which has laid in ashes a considerable
number of buildings in the business part of the city.
The fire commenced at six o'clock in the morning, on
the 6th instant, at the corner of St. Peter and Lemoine
streets, in the carpenters' shop of J. Martin, which,
together with his residence, was quickly consumed, and
two of his children were burned to death; one died on
the spot, and the other in the course of the afternoon.
From this point, the fire advanced to old St. Andrew's
Church, which, together with the dwelling-house of
J. Mahony, and several outbuildings, was destroyed.
The fire then extended its ravages as far as Little
St. Joseph-street, where it was subdued. Several houses
facing the steamboat landings were consumed. The total
loss is estimated at £250,000 to £300,000.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

Mrs. Chisholm's second group meeting on Australian
Emigration was held on the evening of the 4th at
the Islington Bazaar. The room was crowded to excess.
Mrs. Chisholm remarked that it was of the greatest
importance to secure the clip of wool this year, as, in the
event of its being lost, thousands in Yorkshire would be
reduced to pauperism. Her suggestion was, that the
Yorkshire manufacturers should subscribe a certain
amount to send out boys (with the consent of their
parents) who were too young to obtain a licence for the
diggings. She urged all intending emigrants to examine
well the quality of the provisions of the vessels by which
they were to sail, and ascertain the names of the parties
who supplied the vessel. Emigrants paid their ready
money, and certainly ought to have good accommodation.
She strongly recommended persons not to go out
singly, but in parties of fifty; and if such a number
came to her she would get another fifty to join them.
As a sign that some attention was being paid to the
subject, Mrs. Chisholm mentioned that model ships were
being fitted up at Liverpool at the present time for the
conveyance of emigrants. There are now forty-four
vessels advertised in the "Post-office Packet List" to
take out private ship letter bags to Australia, and all of
which are to sail by the middle of July next. The
aggregate tonnage of these vessels amounts to above
30,000. Thirteen of these vessels are for Sydney and
twenty-two for Melbourne and Port Phillip.

Large vessels are weekly leaving the Broomielaw,
filled with passengers; and by the end of the season,
there is little doubt that a larger number of emigrants
will have left the Clyde than in any previous year. The
number of emigrants who have sailed from the various
ports on the river, up to the beginning of the month, is
6050. The destination of these persons, with the exception
of from two to three hundred, is North America.

     NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

The most remarkable piece of intelligence from
France, is the attack made by the President upon the
English press. The Paris Correspondents of the
Morning Chronicle, Daily News, and Morning
Advertiser, were called before the Minister of Police,
and informed that if the Journals with which they were
connected continued their injurious comments on the
conduct of the President, the French government
would hold them, the correspondents, as responsible,
and would expel them from France. The
correspondents had recourse to the English Ambassador,
who undertook to remonstrate with the French
authorities on the subject; but it appears that he has
not obtained any change in the determination of the
government.

A strange scene occurred in the Corps Législatif on
the 21st. "The President had sent to that body, for the
second time, his financial scheme for the ensuing year,
giving them to understand that by the new Constitution
they were bound to adopt it as a whole. But the
members felt enough of the spirit of freemen to venture
upon a discussion of the items placed before them for
approval. In an obscure part of the gallery of the
house—in the corner of one of the reserved tribunes, in
such a position as to be concealed as much as possible—
sat the President himself, to watch the proceedings
of his Chamber. A member urged objections to the
proposition to adopt a budget to which no amendments
could be made, and which must be taken as a whole
or be rejected altogether, when M. Billault said the
speaker was inveighing against the constitution; slight
murmurs were heard. Another speaker attacked the
budget, when a Councillor of State expressed his
astonishment that any one "could outrage the constitution
which had saved the country." A storm of
disapprobation arose; but, when it was at its
height, a note from the tenant of the obscure box
reached the hands of the chairman, and he read to the
astonished Assembly the opinion of the President, that
they were breaking their bounds. "On this a profound
sensation"—says the reporter for the English paper—
"a profound sensation pervaded the chamber, which
broke up in confusion."

The Emperor of Austria left Vienna on the 5th inst.,
with an immense retinue, on a tour through Hungary,
with the view, it would seem, of endeavouring to gain
popularity.

The Venice gazette publishes the following sentences,
pronounced by the military court-martial sitting at
Udino:—Claire Marchetti, the wife of Moretti,
condemned to four months' imprisonment and one day's
fasting per week, for high treason in the second degree;
Julian Pezzetta, a clergyman, to one year's imprisonment