The Express. — London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

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B T11111:1 Of Ma a Slam. cvm: e si r Ma V, V jr • • MIL Arstriti_ _ etrar i t:l --Aadi'ol; mower MOE WATER AT LONDON SEMI Ns. 1 1.1 It ma t armor ft. sr. LONDON, itATCRDAT OCTOBER 10. Ot r of the great evil of this Tatham mutiny great good must ultimately arise, if the stern teachings of experience are not thrown away upon those to whose wisdom is committed the responsible and arduous work of reconstituting our Eastern Empire. (Me thing at ad events seem too clear for argument, and that is that for • lengthened period we most be prepared to take into our own keeping the great majority of those offices both of civil and military trust which have been no Improvidently committed to native functionaries, and so grossly abused by native treachery. As far as regards the Bengal army system no one now doubts that it was from first to last • grand mistake, nor is there any danger that an error whose fatal results hare been so fearfully demonstrated will ever be repeated even by the most inveterate opponeats of change or the most blinded devotees of routine. But it is not the military system which is alone in fault if we wish to be safe in India, if we would preserve and perpetuate our supremacy there, it is absolutely necessary that a sweeping revolution should be eft. cted in the inferior branches of our civil administration. We can no longer entrust, in the same degree as we have hitherto done, the subordinate functions of government, or the working machinery of civil life, to the craft and plausibility of the native races. We must have • Large infusion of the Anglo-Saxon element, in the shape, not only of soldiers, but of civilians. Liber ally, frankly, and confidingly we have tried the other experiment, and it his proved a dead failure. We have tried to work a European Government by Asiatic agencies ; the Government of a conquering ee through the medium of the conquered; tho government of a people singularly truthful, straight. forward, and unsuspicious. by the most intriguing members of " degraded commuoities, withering under " the intluence of a corrupt half-civilisation." The result is before us. The Daily News publishes a very interesting communication from one well qualified by length ened experience and close observation to speak with some authority on this point. It is an opinion generally entertained in Calcutta—an opinion fully borne out by many ascertained bets and strongly corroborated by the Wilma geeba- Waifs of the ease—that this military mutiny dill riot break out without the active, though carefully disguised, complicity of the natives employed in the Civil Service of the Company. These best acquainted with the character of the natives and the history of the revolt, entertain no doubt that the precise infor mation evidently possessed by the mutineers as to the exact numbers of European troop., the quantity of ordnance, military stores, and treasures at the dif ferent stations, war principally supplied by the treachery of the natives holding responsible situa tions in Government offices. Apart from those in stances of proved complicity which have already been visited with prompt and terrible retribution, the more experienced European residents of British India argue from the known treachery and corruption of the native tinplopls in the ordinary routine of official life, to their probable ecrruption and treachery in the extraordinary crisis which has now overtaking'. They know their men, and they form their own con clusions. They know that for years these native officials have flattered and cajoled the co- Tenanted Civil Servants of the Company with whom they more immediately came in contact, into a firm reliance, even now only abandoned with the cotremest reluctance, on the fidelity and attach ment of all classes of the population. Number, of those official., by whom these representations were habitually made with every outward symptom of pro found conviction, must, as facts have since proved, have been habitually lying with the intention to betray. The utter untrustworthiness of these blindly trusted men was matter of common notoriety to every Englbibman in Bengal. " It had long ago " been proved," nays the Correspondent, " that " copies of any documents in the government or ▪ private offices in which natives were employed, had always been procurable through them, even v. from the secret minutes of the Supreme Commit " down to the most trifling document in a Lank or " house of business ; and that from this impure `source many nf the native eirip4nyils derived larger • incomes then would have secured the faithful " and threefold more efficient service of a well " educated European. Had half or even a " third part of the number of Europeans " been employed in thoir place, Government " would never hare been so foully betrayed, and, e had en insurreetios been attempted, they would " have had the services, even at the rate of one for " every three natives employed, of several thousand " faithful and gallant young Britons, equal in the " strife to fifty times the number of the false and " treacherous dastard. at present employed." It is nerdli vs to pursue the train of illustration further ; the tort luvion is obvious. As in the army, so in the civil administration of the Bengal Presidency, we shall be driv en, if we w ish to keep • firm getup on India, to substitute the reliable and incorrupt service of the Anglo-Salon for the unreliable and corrupt service of the Asiatic. To dispense altogether with native agency would, from financial and even from political cousidtrations, be in both ewes out of the ques tion ; but it will be a point of trite wisdom to contract the sphere of native service, both civil and military, into the narrowest compare that may be found compatible with a sound state of the Indian Exchequer, arid the safe absorption of those reifies. energies which, if not employed by ma may be directed air.Onst us, We would not be misunderstood. Nothing can be further from our intention than to deny the fact that, among the native servants of the Company, intelligent, upright, and honourable men are to be found. We simply speak of the clan as a class, and so regarding them, there can bo unhappily no doubt of the general truth of the disparaging character which they have earned for themselves amongst those who are most familiar with India. The fact is that the pushing, restless, and adventurous clan who principally till the subordinate offices of our Indian administration are, in point of morality and respectability, by no means an average specimen of the Hindoo. It would 'be about as fair to select the police agents of Vienna and Milan as a fair type of the Austrians or the Lombards. Being what and as they are, it is plain that unless a clearance is effected no safe or satisfactory Government will be possible in India. ' Their removal will, of course, constitute a very con siderable demand for European service—a demand created not only by the public, bat also by the private, employers of the higher classes of skilled labour. As an immediate and most beneficial means of supplying the material for this ultimate demand, the correspondent suggests, almost in the same terms as ot hers have done before him, the formation of a body of gentlemen volunteers, to be enrolled, on the pro duction of satisfactory certificates, for a service of three years in India; to be provided with • free pas sage thither; and at the end of their period of ser vice to have the option of remaining in the country, under an engagement by Government that, as va cancies occur, they shall be employed in the public offices on the same terms ae the uncovenanted ser vants of the Company. The correspondent is of opinion that 3,000 respectable and educated men may be advantageously enrolled on such terms, it being certain thst if at the end of their military ser vice Government could not find employment for all of them, there are abundance of private establish ments that would. Without, of mune, committing ourselves to details, we cannot help recommending the general outline of this scheme to the earnest attention of the proper authorities. To us it seems admirably to combine the two objects of fur nishing a very efficient auxiliary to our regular forces in India, and a valuable method of providing for • most pressing exigency of our civil adminis tration. FUND FOR THE. RELIEF OF THE SUF• FERERS BY THE MUTINY IN INDIA. We are requested by the Lord Mayor to give publicity to the statement that the number of letters which are daily received by him from all parts of the kingdom, containing remittances in aid of this fund, is so great that two or three days must necessarily intervene between the despatch of the remittance and the receipt of the acknowledgment of the com mittee. fix Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 6. The Queen, the Prince Gannet, and the Prince Royal yen meant at Divine sarrice yesterday at the perish ober* of Crathia. la Miesamace sere LestyLCltsrehal, the Hoe. Floes MTV, the Duke of Artyll, Major-General the Hon. C. Oten sot Coked the H. C. Phipps. The Rev. A. Anderson performed the service. The Lard Mayor bad an Interview with the Chancellor of Oa Exchequer yeat,rday at his official reaklesce is Downing eirest. Cant NS late Metawl bad an interview with Mr. Seale levy Lebo.bin yesterday. Sir E. Head sad Mr. OM bans bad Woo interviews with the right hen. gentleman at ths Coiswisiwies. Dewlaps wags sent yesterday from the Colonial-DM. e to the Geyer. ~ of the North Alberto= Psoriases. Despatches were meshed dose the Governors of the Colonise on the West Coast of Africa. Him Excellency the Count Kichunnecgge, nano mho Misdate, et this roast, ham arrived at the essidente of the Memoveriaa Laredo', ia Grosvenor-Owe, from a Matt to Ms Moan i• Holames. His Excellency the Proairian Minister and the Osaalan Berneterff are expected in toss, in a few day& tram Be Witco. . . His Excellency tho Portuguese Miniater and the Counters de Larradio have tel town, on their way to Ger many, anwompuried by the beeretery to the Legation, Chime Mar d'Oliveirs Sara. The Countess of Clarendon left town lust evening ere the Grove, seer Watford. The Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Forester hays arrived at the Quren. Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Countess (Dowager) of Vernlam will leave lowa on Monday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon at the Grove, near Watford. Viscount and Viscountess Newport are staying on a visit with the Earl and Countess of Wilton at Heaton Moue, near Manchester. Lord and Lady Harry Vane leave town on Mon ay !or their war residraca, B►th Abbay, near Ilastiags. Lard Broughton arried in town a few days sin( teas Erboiok• Park, Wilts. marriage of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, eldest ma of Mr. sad Lady Charlotte Egerton, at Tartan Park, Ottoldro. to Ht. Lodi Maly itotketA. Wart daughter of to. Uri Amherst, Wilk& vas ism tams dace unavoidably posimmsd, will Mika place at Montreal, mar fkommasks, on Tbarsday amt. The liuke and Dachau of Sfontpenaier arrived at Tarin on the ith. The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the Previous of Canterbury wee yesterday Fomented in the Jima= Chambers, Westetiseter, by the Vicar-General, Dr. Towers Twine, ender a rottusimicie from his Grace the lard Arehilebee of Ceaterbeuy, Pauses end bletrvplinus, preen* to the ml al aril of %twiny, Nov. 7. _ _ The seam of University College, London, Paseley at Arts and Laws will commence next Tuesday, whim Prelims, Creasy, A.M., will deliver a lecture of " The Scholl& mind Praetkal Study of History." The vicar end churchwardens of St. Pancras have convened a meeting of the inhabitant. for Wtdessday neat, In sewed of the laden Relief Fund. The Bishop of London his presented the Her. Dr. fealkimg to the rectory of St. Mary Somerset, I pp.r Thermo seeest. Dr. :Mobbing was personally a stranger to the bishop, W we /library Gaultr) believe the appointment has been nods Airily in recognition of his Weli•10101111 literary zeal sad industry. . _ The wawa Ba!attars dinner will take place at the Loodoe Tavern, c the 26112, Sat lamas Scaziati, K.C.8., ha the awl, The carriage entrance into Hyde-park and Ken etagion-raolesA, dope to Kensington turnpike, le about to to removed see Women throw nearer town, the old pis Lewd, sad the barracks adjoining rentored to Church-lona, Kensingtce. The - Marquis of Westminster is building a palace at Foothill, from the designs of Mr. Bun, the Edinburgh architect. It is .total that arrangeteista hers been made by the Duke of %weleach for the rebuilding of Montagne Howe, Whitehall. The new edition of Lord Mac►ulay's " History of Eaglead," "reeked and corrected," will be Mood in 7 vols., ale e►illiege a .dome. Witia Aso Briarvirs.—The will of the Right Ref. Willl.m Skiener, D.D., Bishop of Aberdeen, was I proved la Loodoo, under 7,0001. pneoesity within the pro- Wore of Canterbury. Lieut.-Colonel 6. R. Warne, lith Dragoose, 10,000.. Dams Jams St. John Mildewy, of Dog merefiald Park, 36.0001. W. W. Lewd, Ext., of Witham Lodge, Esser, 45,0001. John Healy Notting, Esq., of Olosacwiter-terrace, Hyde-park, 31,0001. Thomas Nunn, Esq., of Lawfurd, 30,0001. Mrs. Dorothea Boyer, of Vitro& l i wroth, 23,0001., sad ham bequeathed to the Pastoral Aid, Society, Wischester Church building, Church Missionary sod Society for Propagatioa of the Gospel, 3001. each. The will of the law Right He. William Pole Tyleey, Baron Maryliceough, Viscount Welksley, Earl of Morniegton, Lae been administered to is the Loudest Prerogative Court. under a nominal rue —lllsistratid LOMA.* Non. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1857. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF TILE KENO OF PRUSSIA. The King of Prussia has had his fourth attack of apoplexy, and letters from Berlin say that his st►te is extremely critical. A bulletin published on Thursday says that the King had not passed a very good night, though fever had completely disappeared. A despatch dated last evening says:—. The health of the King has been rapidly getting worse during the last twenty-four hours. Great fears are enter. Mined for his life. All the members of the royal family are assembled at Potsdam." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (711011 OM 01111 PARIS, FRIDAY EVILYINO. The state train, which brought the Empress to Paris last night, left this morning for the Nlourme lon station to fetch the Emperor, who will leave the camp at noon to-morrow, and is expected in Paris at four. The breaking up of the camp will commence immediately after his Majesty'. departure. Two thousand men will leave for Paris to-morrow after noon, and special trains will start at short intervals afterwards with 2,000 more in each : so that by Monday 26,000 troops will have returned to Paris. Among the decorations distributed by the Emperor at the grand farewell review yesterday, one, which gave general satisfaction, was the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour given to General Camou of Crimean celebrity, who now commands the second division of the Guards. I have heard it affirmed in a quarter worthy of notice that an intrigue is going on: to place Joachim Murat at the head of the united Principalities, and that the scheme is so far advanced that the Princess Chika lately sent a telegraphic message to Jassy to say that the thing war u good as settled. This fact, according to what I am told, explains the moon for the greater cordiality between France and Austria, of which there have been symptoms within the last three or four days. The Austrian organs speak com placently of France, and say that the affair of the Principalities (in regard to which Austria till late had pronounced herself strongly in a sense against the union) must be re plated by mutual concession,. The suggested explanation of this altered tone is that A3atria gladly accepts a Murat in the Principalities, upon an assurance that the Muratist claims upon Naples shall be withdrawn, and that France will favour rather than thwart the maintenance of the present regime in Austrian Italy. I should be sorry to affirm that this version is absolutely true, but I can say this, upon reliable authority—that if it be true, Austria will have succeeded in an intrigue Which she set on foot when the Stuttgardt iater vin► was first determined upon. It is Irate certain that she then determined, if Foi ble, to bribe both Russia and France to give up their sympathies, each as they were, for Piedmont. The ,bribe to Russia was the union of the Prin cipalities, which Austria had hitherto opposed, and the bribe to France was to allow a French prince to govern those fair provinces which hitherto lave been totally exempt from French Influence. Has Austria succeeded? The Bourse continues under the influence of the discouraging financial news from London, America, and most towns in Europe. But the Itente, after having fallen several days successively, has recovered a little. It rose dc. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 67fr. 30c. and 67fr. 70c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. The railways again declined from 2fr. 30c. to Mr. In the subscription list of the &ivls for klanin's monument I observe the names of Lady Langdale and the Hon. Miss Jenny Bickersteth for 100 fr. each• THE PRLNCIPALITIES. JASSY, Orr. 6. On Sunday the Divan wu opened by the Metro politan. His speech, very moderate in tone, was favourably received. The most perfect order pre vailed. Several cries were uttered during the sit ting, and among them " Vise Moldavia!" " Vise the Porte!" " Vice the Friendly Powers !" but the favourite ay of all was " Vire the Autonomy of the Danubian Provinces!" On the same day the Prince Caimacan pawed a review of the troops. In the evening the town was illuminated, and there was a display of fireworks. The verification of the powers of the deputies took place on Monday. M. Bully, the Russian commissary, has returned to Bucharest. THE ARMY AT CHALONS. The Emperor has addressed to the army arembled at ClMona the following order of the day " Camp of Chalons, Oct. 8. "Soldieve,—The time we have spent together will not have been lost. Sour military Instruction hos been advanced, and the tide that unite no have been drawn yet tighter. " When Oaten! Bonaparte had concluded the glorious peace of Campo-Fermin, he hastened to send bark the mn -11111041 of Italy to the school of platoon and bettalinn, thus Gorr useful he thought it, even for old soldiers. to return ntly to the fundamental TWOS of theory. This lemma has not been forgotten : scarcely have you returned from a &Mom campaign before you have realously m anned the weeded study of evolution•, and you have inanrirated the camp of Chalons, which Is to earn as • school of manoeuvres for the whole array. The Impririal °mud will therefore always set a grad ezansple in this way, in peace as In war. Trained, dlsciplinsd, ready to undertake everything and rapport everything for the good of the coun try, the Oaard will be for the Line, from which ft proceed., • Jut object of emulation, and will contribute with it to pee wee iota t that old reputation of our immort•l plalsamee, vrhieh only succumbed to the mare of their glory and their triumphs, " NAPOLEON." Marshal Itaraimay who had a fall from hone at the camp et Chtilone, in consequence of the ani• mal suddenly starting, ems brought back to feria on Wed nesday. The gallant cfkoer appmrs to seller severely from the efforts of the accident, having fallen on ths Formal of hie &word. Bull fights in the Paris Hippodrome having been forbidden limo a good-natured boll •lightly Mounded the know d a pseudo-matador, the management has got up an eadtittket of intelligent ernes 1 The thing ia ea dreary as pass Is ; net so N. Janhia critique on the ezhibiti,n. With the exception of a water match on Loch Lemcad, the Thames has now all the stater sport. to itself. Os Monday the Temple Yacht Club have a sailing match from Oreenwich to Erith and back ; while ow Thursday Corps and Deal row from Putney to Mortlake for 251. a side. The fox-hunting world (says the liiuetrated Lon dor. New 9) has loot one of its principal masters in Earl Fimwilliam, whose stud and kennel have bad no superior w many years pmt. The former ;was full of the blood of Amodio, Don Quixote, sod Cervantes ; and fora mare by the last-named hone his lordship refused 1,000 guineas in the hunting-Bald. The esti latterly west very midi= into his kennel, and, in fact, during his twenty-four seasons as maitre, be has left everything to his celebrated huntsman, Tom &bright, who is just entering on his thirty-sixth m om at Milton, and is whipped into by a eon of George Carter, and a grandma of Mk Christian, It is rumoured that Milton and the Northamptonshire property are left to the Hon. George Fitswillisza, who will, no doubt, in that case become the mister of the hounds. IRON SHIPBCILDING.—The model of a Teasel eon setarted upon Mr, Jahn Clare's patent principle is now on exhibition at Loyd's. UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. (IT DATUM AID MAGNETIC TZLIGRATE4 LIVERPOOL, SATCIDAY. . • . The Royal Mail steam -alup Persia, Caption C. H. E. Judkins, which left Now York on the 30th ult., arrived in the Mersey at 8 a.m. She has brought 130 passengers, and 2001. sterling in specie on freight. She passed the Arabia hence on the let inst., and the Royal Mail steamer Asia on the 7th. The monetary affairs through the States are in a very unsettled state. At New York the negotiation of mercantile paper at bank and note•broken.' offices was extremely light tt and at very irregular rates; highest grades of paper were discounted at 2 to 3 per cent. per month, while very good endorsed notes changed hands at 6 to 6 per cent., and even at more exorbitant figures under peculiar circumstances. On the 29th a conference of the leading bank officers was held, which resulted in a resolution to recommend an immediate increase of loans and dis counts to the extent of 3 per cent. The Exchange market:both foreign and domestic, was very much deranged; it was difficult to sell sterling, especially produce bills, some of which were disposed of at 100, while bankers' brought 105 to 106 f. The Yew York Courier anti Inquirer of the 30th ear Thus far the suspension extend. to the Banks of Phila delphia, Lancaster, Pittsburg (the Bank of Pittsburg only excepted), Elultimore, Cumberland, Norfolk, Whose , and Wilmington, N.C., and the interior towns e yof those States, Providence, and all the pro banks. It will be obecaved that the suspension has been earliest in those places having a redundant bank circulation. This is the weak point in American banking, and one on which banks throughout the country generally fail. At New Orleans and St. Louis, where legiidation provide* for an en larged aped. beefs, their banks will not come into the mea sure of suspension. New Orleans ham 6,000.000 in specie against a circulation of 8,000,000; St. Louis has 3 000,000 In coin, to tout a limited circulation; while Illinois, 1 and Wisconsin are more inflated, their issues being= upon State bonds now depreciated 16 to 30 par_cant., instead of gold and silver. _ - . Various calls bad been made by the Western bankers for specie from New York to enable them to sustain themselves. The banking-house of E. J. Tinkham and Co., Chicago, had suspended payment on the 29tk. Messrs. I)arby and Barksdale, and Messrs. John J. Anderson and Co., suspended at St. Louis, temporarily only, it is believed, both houses having capital and established credit hitherto. Th Net; York Courier and Inquirer says: The euspended banks at Philadelphia sad Baltimore, are gradually nettling themselves down upon a non-specie currency, and movements fur the next twelve months will be t cgulatid, in the first piece, by the legitimate demands upon thole by their merchants, and, secondly by the moans and umeantes *mantlel to a restoration at an early day. Of • resamptiun there is ao hope under twelve months. Of exchange, the New York Shipping List says : On scommt of the unsettled state of money Oahe not much has been done for the Persia. There have been plenty of sellers of bills in the market from bankers sa well s• shipping firms, and we quote prime with a tarp range. The tranoectiona in continental balm have been very limited, but Salta have been coniadembly lower. We quote bills on Loudne, 4to 61. The bank statement was generally coital thar 1 a favourable one, although there was a slight reduction of the r.p,eio item owing to the liberal drafts made to sustain eastern banks. The returns do not include than from the Island City Bank—a small and weak institution which has gone into liquidation. When allowance is made for the absence of the report of this bank, the decrease in the deposita was only about 100,000 dollars. In Philadelphia, the governor of Pennsylvania has yielded to the solicitations of the financiers, and issued a proclamation, calling an extra session of the legislature, for the purpose of legalising the course of banks in that State, in suspending specie payment. The banks of Providence have resolved to suspend. We have received Ilavannah advice' to the 2.th ult. They report that the monetary affairs in Cuba are in a critical position. Sugars dull. The health of the island is good. Mexico, 22nd ult.—The charter of the new Tehu antepec company requires them to finish ten leagues of the railroad every year. The dykes of the Cratzacoaccos and Ventosa are to be completed the first year. The Canard steam ship Jura had arrived at St. John's, New Brunswick, for troops. The money market at Now York is quite unset tled, owing to the panic. Stocks have declined. Foreign exchange is much depressed. Cotton receipts quite light. Breadstuff prices irregular. The provision market firmer. Freights unchanged. THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE INDIAN' MUTINY. The Presse, referring probably to an extraordinary change in the tone of the Medals within the last week, re specting the affairs of India, says: " We have never associated ourselves with the continually swelling concert of attacks and maledictions against England, which we fed at the prefect moment in a por tion of the French press—a spectacle, which in our opinion is quite out of keeping with French generosity. We have never in any way attempted to deny the faults and vices of the English government in the East Indies. Neither have we underrated the gravity of the present crisis. We believe that England is now euffering one of the greatest trials that hat ever befallen hot; and we believe this, like every other trial which a nation suffers, to be well deserved. lint can it Le said that England has com mitted any extraordinary mime.? She has governed badly and nnjnstly, and she suffers the consequences. But what are the fiscal exactions of the English in India compared to the monstrous horrors of the Spanish conquest in America ? People talk of nationalities, ►nd they do nut re- Bret that the enemies of the English were themselves originally invaders in India. They forget also that there was a Unto whew France divined the empire of India with England. Further, they sem not to know that we ourselves hold our dominion in Africa by prechely a similar title to that of the English in Asia, and that all the invectives which they hurl against English usurpation is applicable to our conquests In Algeria. It is yore possible that if we were unfortunate in Algeria, the English journal. would speak of us in a similar manner, but that is no reason why we should set them a bad example." "We (Cambridge Independent) have heard that there to soma intention of reiluc-ting Lord Macaulay to honour the corporation of Cambridge by accepting the office— almost honorary—of High Steward." Thia office has become vacant by the death of Earl Fitzwillinte. . . . . . On Thursday evening Dr. Livingstone delivered an address in the Friends' Meeting-house, Kendal, on the objects of his travels and discoveries in Central Africa. The meeting-bows was crowded, and numbers wet away m elds to obtain &di:minion. In addition to Dr. Livingetone were present Profeesor Sedgwick and Sir John Richardson, the Arctic navigator. Frofessor Sedgwick mad* an intermit in Reed'. TIIE NIGHTINGALE FUND.—In reply to a letter inquiring " What has become of the large stun collected for the purpose of erecting a memorial of the cervices of Miril Nightingale," Mr. S. C. Hell ear, that the money collected— amounting to 41,1 , 511. 70. 44. (since augmented by other subscriptions) —was nn the 20th of June paid into the hands o f fi ea cruces., appointed by Mice Nightingale to re ceive it. They inveeted the rum in government secorille., bearing interest. Unhappily the elate of Miss Nightingale's heath does not, as yet, enable her to apply that fund to the purpwe for which it was raised—and for which purpose alone she consented to receive it.—" to establish an institution for the training, sontonancs, and protection of nureee and Imemital attyndents." A report, accompanied by a balance client of receipts and expenditure, has born published by direction of the committee. . v. FOItEtON-OFFICE, SEPT. 14.—The Queen has been gracinualy plowed to appoint George Betivenuto Mathew, Eut., nor be: Majesty's Omani-Omni fur the Remiss ports in the Black Sea, to be ber Majesty's Cowell- General for the Russian Porta in to. Black Sea end in the Pea of Azuff. Oct. B.—The Queen has been pleased to nnprov. of Don)oaquin de Eaglet as Coneol-Contersl at Sierra Lewis fur her Majesty the Queen of Spain.—Getactts. LIITTERB FROM INDIA. We give a place to the following letter as illus trative of the views of many of the mercantile community in Calcutta, of which the writer is a leading member. CALCUTTA, 13th August. The London Mail of the 10th July arrived this afternoon, and I was much gratified, on reading your letter of the 3rd, to M., on finding that you heA taken suck a correct view of the outbreak at Meerut and Delhi, which you looked upon as only the commencement d a general movement against the corrupt government of this country. It is only three days since I wrote to you by last mil, and in that small in• tervel most sinister accounts have continued to reach us from the Motorail, from quarters that had hitherto remained tranquil. . . . The grand trunk road is in the hands of the mutineers above Raneegunge, so that no top country Hake have came In for several days. The greatest anxiety Is therefore Mt for the safety of the different station', as they are almost all quite unprotected. The mutineers may now be said to be almost at our doom, and large bodies have been seen routing down by land aa well as by water ; an attack in therefore ex pected on Calcutta shortly, perhaps during the Mohurrum, and great preparations are in progress to meet the occasion. Bailors from the ships In the harbour, under naval offline% now man the guns in Fort William ; Lieut. Carew, of the In dian navy le at Barrackpore commanding a field battery also maimed by millers. The volunteer guard is being increased by the addition of a battery of artillery, the members of which are being regularly and actively drilled. The Infantry and Cavalry are also drilled every morning by their regimental officer, besides private drill in the afternoon, which most of them voluntarily undergo in private, so that they are already considered ae of no email value for our defence. The Cavalry continue to patrol every night, and the Infantry to mount guard in different parts of the town. This volunteer corps, together with the sailors and the few European troops which are to be retained in Calcutta, are a match for many thou sands of the rebels, should a rising or an attack take place. Disparity of number+ is not to be feared, as Colonel Neill peeved at Beams, when he dispersed or slaughtered 2,600 armed Sspoye and Sowers with 198 European soldiers and three field pieces; and again, by Major Byre, last week, near mg* when lee defeated the Dinapore mutineers, reinforced by Comer Singh and hie rabble, with 150 men of the Madras Fusiliers (Europeans) and some artillery, about 100 men. The natives bungle in their arrangements, se we have all along tnown them to do, whenever spent and order are wanted. It is only by cunning and dissimulation, by treachery and perjury that they have overreached us. But unfortunately they have proved very powerful against the host of incapable', who hold or held responsible situations In this country, and our real danger lies in the imbecility of our rulers. Our police in Calcutta, proverbially corrupt, and well known to be unfit for any good purpose, has added treachery to its other qualities, and several win ners of it have just been detected in league with the conspi rators, a pollee Jemadar among others. The man was tried by • • • whose obtuseness could not see anything In the evidence, but that the man bad used language calculated to lead toe breach of the peace, and contented himself by imposing a fine of 20 rupees. Government, however, have quashed these proceedings, and had the man tried by court martial. He is lately to be banged in & day et two. This will show you what incompetent men we have in most important situations. The other magistrates are even worse, more ignorant, and quite as incompetent. The anxiety, therefore, we feel arises only from the stamp of man who have power at prevent. Amen Alin, the %%thee' of the Budder Dewanny, bee just been appointed by Halliday assistant to the commissioner of Shababsd, on a salary of 1,500 rupees per month. They my ho was earning 4,000 rupees per month at the Budder. Is It to be supposed that he sundae the difference to a sense of duty P Neither Mr. Halliday nor tke public can be duped on that point, so that conjectures are 404 SA to the true motives of this appointment, so extraordinary at a time when all Mr homedeas iaspire the greatest mistrust. . . August 23. Since 'nibbling the enclosed things have gone from had to Tone, but a ray of hope has gladdened no since Sir Cohn Campbell's arrival, as he is the only man among our rulers who can see the mismanagement which hes brought these disasters upon us, and Lae the courage to undertake reform and to adopt energetic measures. But halms turned into per sonal rummies those who are high in power and authority. Hs has therefore a difficult teak before Lim. He must defect three enemies before he can hope to defeat the rebels. TEE DEFENCE OF BENARES. The following interesting letter is written by the ion of Major Peddie, of Stirling : Seism, August 21, 1857. Dear Mother,—l have jut received four newspapers from papa, but no letters this time, so that some of those black blackguards must have got hold of them. I hope this will reach you, an no doubt you are quite anxious enough already ere this time. We are safer here in Bewares (or at haat as ask) as in Calcutta or London. We have been throwing up entrenchments., which might almost be called fortifications, they are so strong. As there were no military engineers here, I had, by request of Brigadier Gordon, command ing, to commence and carry on the works, and m to throw them up at a rate that rather sato= the old Indians hereabouts. They have given me no end of praise. The works ere now in charge of two peilitary engineers, who arrived the other day from Calcutta,lut it to more than probable they will have to move on in a day or two, and then I will be "Commander-in-chief" awn. The works are on a high isolated mound, bounded on three sides by the rivers Ganges and Burns, the banks of which are precipitous, the 4th aide has been defended by 24-pounder, IS-pounder, 12-pounder, and 6-pounder betterem, with three 10-inch mortars. These batteries command the river, the city of nfOlft., and the approaches to the works. l'rovi. pions for 600 men have been already stored, sufficient to bat one and a half years. Barracks are being erected, and an there is one main poeition, with two lines of outworks, the place can be defended: by either 400 or 5,000 men, as in the event of oar having only the first number, the outworka could be given up, and yet the enemy would Fain no advantage thereby. The only fear now is that they will not oome near as they know oar strength. We have had' some beautiful {intents with the guns and mortars. The entrenchments ere at present occupied with 200 of the 37th ' Queen' s) and about SOO of the faithful Sikhs—they are men that refused to join with the reel of their regiment on the night of the mutiny here. They are fine fellows ; one of them saved his Colonel's life. We have also forty men of the Madras Artillery. In the event of • row, all the troops (about 400) would come down from the station, which is 31 mite distant. There is so little danger here now that none of the troop, ero detained on their way from Calcutta, but pushed on at once towards Cawnporo and Lucknow. I went out the other night with 2.50 men end two guns that were sent along the Grand Trunk ]toad to intercept the Denspore mutineers, but they heard of our coming, and bolted acmes country, where the guns could not follow them quirk enough, so we missed them. All the railway works are at a complete stand still for the present. But we will soon be pushing them on again. Another two months will settle all this part of the country as far up as Futteh pore. The Delhi Imams, will take longer, as it is such a distance for troops to march. The accounts from Delhi this morning are good—the mutineers' powder manufactory, with 50 art ifioevs, has been blown up. I had a lot of the sth Fusiliers up here during the other day—they were on their way to Allahabad. I find I must dose, as the bags will close in a few minutes. I have acrawlal this in great harts. A. the arrival of the papers wail the fi rst Intimation 1 had of the Bombay line being open, I had not calculated on being able to send yen a line this time." THE BRITISH FORCES IN AND EN ROETE TO lain/L.—We are enabled, ater careful research, to ye...A our readers with a tabular statement of the force in India up to the end of September, and the force which, sine:2l . 7 . but, hoe been deepatched to the three presidencies We also append a statement of the number of &teepee= in the serviee of the East India Company, and the num ber of native troops disbanded and mutinied. From this it will appose that in Bengal about the time of the mutiny there were 21,988 Queen's troops ; in Madras, 1,312; and in Bombay, 4,259; besides the 16,353 European troops in the service of the East India Company. Since May there have been sent to Lituttal 19,994 troops grail anni ; to Madras 2,213 troops, and to Bombay, 4,615. While we estimate the troops or dered for service in China and at the Mauritius as "in India," we have not placed the six regiments expected from the Cape ae ea rook. These may be estimated at about 4,000 men.—Press. b.IIOOTING A FELLOW-SERVANT.—On Sunday afternoon hot s young woman named Ellen Warne', livings, servant to Mr. Horatio Howlett, former, of 'tented, was shot at and rather seriously wounded by a bey named Wil horn Simmer& her fellow-servant. It seeing that during the afternoon the two bed been playing in the kitchen, and the romping having become somewhat boisterous, the girl playittUy struck Stemmed a sharp blow with a stick. Ile became infuriated. rushed out of the room, and returned directly with a gun, and declared be would shoot her, and hitting ite.rerteined with the ramrod that the gun was loaded he deliberately took aim at her. The gill became alarmed and ran b&ind a pump which wee in the kitchen, thinking to hide herself, but the young villain immediately fired, and though most of the charge was lodged in the pump, a considereble pottion took effect in the girl's arm. The people of the how* became alarmed, assistance was rendered to the note Brainard girl, and was given into the custody of the county police. Oa Monday he was examined before the maw;mime. et the Shirehull, and was remanded till Saturday neat.—Norfolk News. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Economist observesthat the most important cause of monetary disturbance at the present moment is the condition of things in the United States. It is estimated that in this country AMOridill railway and other similar se curities are held to an amount of between eighty and one hundred million! sterling. "No doubt them are held chiefly as investments, and beyond the gloom and anxiety which the state of those securities are now in, they will not probably create much effect upon our market here ; and so it is probable that the greater portion will revive after the present panto, there may not be much ultimate for occa sioned by them. But it is certain that those who in this country are connected with the trade of the United Stater, will bo induced to dispose of securities which they hold in this market, in order to sustain the demand upon them from the other side of the Atlantic, and which will be leas or more permanent according as that crisis continues for a shorter or longer period. It le impossible to look at these three causos of demand upon our Anancial resources without feeling that, independent of any temporary causes which may affect the Bank returns, and which may counsel a farther rise in the rate of Bank discount, there are sufficiently grave eonsidera. tions of a more permanent character, to induce us to apprehend • farther pressure in our money market." The Press betrays considerable annoyance at the late speech of Major Beredord at Headingham. It regrets much to find that Kr. Beredord has "joined that clique which, professing to prefer their country to their party, prove at once that they are ignorant of the true interests of their country, and entirely misconceive the character of their party. We confess that we are surprised, and as grieved as surprised, to learn that Mr. Beredord considers that in order to be a true patriot he must cease to be a faithful conservative. No leader of that great connexion, nor OM its humblest member, hoe ever given occasion to its opponents to impute to it that unwra p:dons partisanship which Is willing to realise ' political capi tal' out of the sufferings and disasters of their country. We ' " recommend Mr. Boresford to reed spin ths sentiments of those eminent men upon whose ssgacity and integrity the conservatives of the kingdom repose with loyal confidence; and we are sure that the regret he will feel at the injustice which be has done to them will in no way be compensated by the approbation of the ministry or the adulation of their journals." The Saturday Review continues to urge the per. nianent and general establishment of volunteer corps. "Thera would be no difilculty," our cotemporary thinks, " and no very embarrassing expense, in keeping such a force em. bodied for a month In the year, either continuously or from time to time, as the convenience of the members of the °ape and the nature of their other occupations might require. In many regiments a whole month's continuous embodiment would probably be very may. A large proportion, indeed, of the more effluent classes of society would greatly enjoy such a variation on the eatablished autumnal holiday, and a few weeks' encampment at Aldershott or on Dartmoor would quicken the circulation and toughen the muscles not much lees effectually than a Swim or Scotch tour. The habits of that section of the community from which such a force would be re cruited are anything but effeminate. Indeed we doubt whether they are not to the full as hardy as those off soldiers in barracks. Country gentlemen, the better kind of tenant formes, and a very large proportion of the younger mem bers of the mercantile and professional chases, would be only too glad to join in such a scheme ; and they would, wo do not at all doubt, form a force which, though it might not come up to the full standard of military criticism, would oppose a very formidable obstacle to any invader, and on an emergency set the whole of the regular army at liberty for foreign operations." The United Service da:ette says " Fifteen years ago, the Afghans maa.eaed, in the depth of winter, some 13,000 British soldiers, sepoys, and camp-followers. An army of retribution was immediately formed, and meetings were held all over the country, to raise subscriptions for the prisoners and families of the victims. The excellent Bishop of Calcutta, Dr. Wilson, either presided at the principal meeting, or attended to support • resolution. What was his exclamation when the cruelties of the Afghans had been vividly portrayed ? ' The troops are assembling to take vengeance on these Afghans—only let us get at 'eto Here was a simple question of vengeance ; there was nothing to fear from sparing an Allah= se there is item showing mercy to a Sappy, yet the pions bishop —one of the moot amiable of prelates--could not restrain the expression of bit hope of inflicting retributive punishment. Only let us get at 'am:'—We should like to see that pas sage inscribed on every leaner until the whole of the offend ing native army of Bengal has fallen beneath the the and steel of the English soldier." _ _ The Leader has heard of the departure for India of twenty-nine ladies, In one packet, and observes The more women go out, the more soldiers must follow to protect them ; so serious is the inconvenience, that it is 'quo MU/ an arbitrary act to bless a positive order against the embarka tion of women for India during disturbances. When a woman fought a gun in Rodney's flagship, he told her she was a tine creature, but a peat nuisance. Fine creatures _ and—pardon us—great nuisances, are the ladies who now go out to Bombay, Madras, or Calcutta. We doubt whether Queen Durghutti herself, of the Maw kingdom of Gurrah, would be wormed in the camp of Havelock, although she was a brave champion of the Rin dooe against their Mohammedan invaders, wore armour, slook;burnished lance, plucked arrows from her bosom without fainting, and at last died in the field. Bat the young girls bound for the East are not Darghuttia or Maids of Sa ragossa. They carry to India only so many forms of grace, bloom, and dolicacy, within cool circles of crinoline ; and at a glimpse of their white throats the knives of a hundred Nana Sahibs would be sharpened for another licentious butchery. Let them think of the worst that might happen." The John Buis regrets that so many statesmen of mark, should, at such a moment as this, be shut out et the government. "If Lord Derby, Lord Grey, Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord John Russell, Mr. Disraeli, Lord Elienborough, and others whom we could name, were all of the same politics, we might regret their being among the Outs, but presume that the Ins bad men of equal calibre to cope with them. But these names are the flower of whig and tory, and it cannot therefore bo a healthy state of things which debars the Queen and the country of their services. We acknowledge the advantages of government by party: but if you have for s time no party, you cannot hare government by party. The principles which draw men into parties will always exist, but the line of party demarcation often becomes from accidental circuin stenos' confused or obliterated. Then is the time, when a pressing danger calls for It, that separated statesmen may fairly be asked to abandon their jealousies, and to give up to mankind what party has usually exacted." Before his secession to the management of the Olympic, Mr. Robson had made certain provincial engage ments which he cannot break under a heavy penalty. lie accordingly ahortly leaves town to fulfil them; when a new comedy, with the leading part for Mrs. Stirling, will be produced. Mr. Wigan is at Scarborough, and is stated to be I slowly recover*. The Opera Buff& will be opened next month et the St. James's Theatre. Mr. Rogers (of Windsor theatricals notoriety) previous to his departure for America, will take a foreirell benefit, at which Mr. Robson will sasiet, at the Strsod Theatre. _ _ Mr. Kean re-opens the Princess's on Monday night with the Iciopsf, which has not yet attained the usual "run" of revivals at that house. A literal translation of Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet will be represented at the °Non, Paris, in December. The management of the Italian Opera at Paris announces, sa the most extraordinary novelty of their seas= of 185748, the representation of a now opera, by Rossini, entitled Lis Curios, decidente. The theatrical papers of Paris gravely announce that Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, the author of " Jack Sheppard," bat been over to see the version of that piece produced at the Porte St. Marna, and has expressed his high approbation at the manner in which it ta acted—especially by Madame Laurent, who personates Jack. FINE ARTS.—llowever popular opinion may be divided as to the merits of the Pre-Rafaclitee, there can be no doubt as to their energy. Last year they started an ex hibition of their own, and attracted the attention of all the lending cognoscenti in art. • Now the principal members have enrolled themselves together under the title of the Junior Etching Club, nod are setting busily to work at this other branch ct their profession. Among the names, we find those of Millsio L Luard, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Harwell, Marti. neet 4 }Wildly. C. Keene, Severn A. wis, and S. son The The Soc i e ty as yet butini nfan cy but we shall watch sad chronicle its proviso. •