The Express. — London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. (sr aLscritic rrLsaasys.) 801 IN. SAISRDAT. The *crew steam-ship Indiana, with 150 pas sengers and a ftill cargo, arrived this morning frowNew York. The adviees are anticipated. TELEGRAPHIC COHMCNICATION WITH INDII. Tb• hon. Par India Conroy have derreined upon great ly pecalary mitre, to tee Red des Telegraph. The rue will be shortly wide pbhe. 0. the If Jose, 1855, de Zest ledia Directors wire se Sabre le the remoter of Nt In —" la reply, the Conn of Metres drdro me to ewe that they would hi dirty Yr Med in the soccer of *important ■n taiketearg r Ilamt width yes bars sub titled, aa ea in its Ached marks, rat en brag me end or the completima of the he. M Alenewhis, would ►e tidy to estriae, In a Ramat welt, the repertiane which tr pronotere of the ladies Telegraph way err hr carrying In Ur work." Ifs et wreak= for theeansteatirgis te Air tibia Ins won obtained her the trairli end Igyptlea wswarnesta with the aid of the Fetelgwelles and Lord ardor de Wale. Nigerians an new an het he the for of the Atlantic oar, whir is of wore the anf hew length to lay a Ire he. Dante Ada—HrrepatA. ODELL IYOntiOnL Yaw Were mealy in tern that the asterism Gemara D'Orgoal hod pond bee* lireales sa b roan to Wis. This osoralag's Creity's) put loweglit as e keno be. Maresilles, @Ulnae list tie Owes* daring his Nay is that thy, lei opted lit west shift, um* norweriag Ii oilers. He ismihuly miens the total Matt of Bridle Pew la Wis. His scoonat of the project be tuna( Wont' from the Leigh Is me tall se to emu So seyoseitioa that he wet limesif stasseted with is Wrodsea gist by whir'it so may Imagoes hoes were Is ins bus sewitheil My ouromporiones iwpruelon is Ybe i s beet ea 1.~ awl that be is not wohludy, If he s r rafts Lehi riaihmen to earr blued, es a fouler to he nisi or as try le jartipto webs Nem the felthhl peal s of he &Imo Ert datiored, while at Mama" hot bo would sown art se kag as thou woe a pewibility inn Una to isettail—Paris correspandont of the B We (4 8 / a ssuwi) rtgaira at being able to commu n.* thus* lonsillgehos esepertlan the health of Sir Ed itlimdmr,,_ . _I al the mein* =Weir el lb. Bell : ..• uspossieue, Aqua IL godsg bus with Sir laaiesse, re ia wring awnworkellea. estiag his sat hum Wash, et isilhgehilm, I on waled le het ho hes beta wads. Awn the malt et owerwaer- Is bis Istetetlem. nil la ekes* ethyl ins& hos Id Ames ei sin Sho eglaisms of Ms =Mal ad *My he held that le I progruslag beards ro ,ma the be will shortly be sr Wei to rums his suseusi.—l rune* be., :ACOII BILL." Maas Olvouri.—Mr. Lumley, soya the Revue ham lhowah, to wires Signor Oeugtini from his iiimmt ot the Thane Italian Pena,' hes pain 40,000 1110 Ma *hick wu &sod for breech of contract. ;u. Orton ors ows ived day, on of rinp 25th and ition br ng of r the to say lcutta. eed at rebels, RS end whom Y from .ved in is well. >ps IX• is sup- illy lost sops all Acting he Earl e Pays, I a great Vienna ans, and I a very layed by At the at Irma It troops. o been is these a tribes he town. English n of the Trieste) e Persian MRDAT. 1 of East ad a full . Dates: altar, 16. tact with re in her ly. The ra on the ad Etna, rUNIS. It propels = of King r, when he mess Colo:, h railorsyn. e Napoleon quis Pala- Goo" tb• , who wag -EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS, FILIDAT EvaNtso. At thellourse the Route was firm at yesterday 'e s r ims, but with very little business doing. Rail- 1 w ays were better, in consequence of the weekly re- w ipts being more satisfactory. The Lyons fiction ' tan 12fr., and Southern and Northern, 7fr. 50e. ash Although it might be thought, from the tone of a pest circular front the Minister of the Interior of gig Mextesn Confederation, that hostilities with spin were anavoidsble and imminent, it appears slat M. (arrive, who, according to report, was to embark at once for Vera Crux, has not left France, sad that the Captain-General of Ilavanna is still waiting for final orders before sending out the projected expedition to the Gulf of Mexico. The sad affair of the shooting of an American ratlsesan by a sentinel in the Clichy prison, mist be freshly remembered. The American Ambassador wo gs a claim in behalf of his widow, for aa indents pity. A legal commission appointed by the Minis ter et Justice reported against this claim, but it is stated that the Emperor has nevertheless ordered fie payment of a SUM of 70,000 fr. to Madame Mwey, the widow. The Dowager Countess of Castle Stuart his insight an action for a malicious prosecution against MM. ("entice and Slunoury, tradesmen in Paris. It appears that the Countess, who lost her husband some months ago, ordered some mourning of the defendants, with whom she had frequently dealt before, and as she was about to embark at Marseilles for Rome on the 2nd of June last, eke and her cousin, Mr. Henry Bathurst, who was travelling with her, were arrested se a charge of having obtained the goods seder Mee pretences. Mr. Bathurst was released is the course of the day, but the countess was in• llMPlrited in two different prisons, and kept in lotedy thirty-six hours. When the proper gathorities of Marseilles investigated the charge they decided that there was not the remotest founda- OM for it. On the present occasion the public siaiater took a preliminary objection to the Countess et Castle Stuart's prosecution on the ground that it ell sot sufficiently appear that the examining usgistrates had decided the accusation against her 10 be false. This objection was overruled by the wart, sod the cause is to be heard upon the merits oa Taesday next. Thsjadgment of the Court of Tarbes acquitting tb• laUret Public of a charge of publishing false BM has been reversed by the Imperial Court of Tau, which finds the manager guilty of " publishing thlos news with good faith," and sentences him to • Bas of SOfr. and the out.. The imperial government Is extremely anxious to have it clearly established ma ceoposition of law that the mere enunciation in I unsissper of any fact not strictly true, although bet may be no malice in the publication, and although the matter stated may be innocuous, is on thdietable offence. It is clear that with this juris prodonce no paper can safely publish anything not authorised by a functionary, and this is what it is luta to come to. IL Baudelaire, the poet, was yesterday tried on a ether of having offended religion and decency by the pablication of a collection of poems, called " Lea nom do Mal." The court held that the incrimi- Wad passages were not irreligious, but that the pens numbered in the collection 20, 30,39, 80, 81 tali 87 were offensive to public decency, cud sen tmted M. Baudelaire to a fine of 300 fr. The pub. Min were fined 100 fr. The sappreuion of the dove passages is also ordered. The Journal de Rouen says : beater, the English police officer, has jut arrested an Wish lady in this city, and carried her of to England She Idler in the enjoyment of a pension from re East India Conroy r the widow of an officer in their service, but as Maud lately married, her pension Japer. Not being wiL lag, however, to ion it, she continued to draw. signing her areas widow, which constitutes t ► e crime of forgery, and is rower which ahe has besa arrested. It appears, hoa ry, that the proceeding. against her moat fall to the ground mbar ascond marriage becomes null and void from the fact d Ise ►usband being a married urn. She will, therefore, ere her title of widow, and her right to her pension as an& The Band of Berne states that the constructions sed repairs at the chateau of Arenemburg are being palled on with vigour. New furniture has arrived Gam Paris, and the rooms are thrown open to •iai tas. It is thought certain that the Emperor will tot visit the chateau this year. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1857. we so well twat 4 that I weaned with s little difficulty to go out spiv. Oa both them days • good number of the esway wore killed, sad oar lose was tome. what eovere too. " Ika; - e - not ;mother moment to ewe. Poor Battye'e death has brought extra work on ua all, and, as the enemy are making sorties, 103,101C111. real and aoinetiinea feigne d, they keep ua constantly on the alert, and harem us to a great extent. The weather is meet providentially and extraordi narily cool for the deie of year; it appear. almost se if it kept cool for us." THE MUTINIES IN IN-DTA. The following is an extract from a letter from an Artillery officer, dated Peshawar, June 26 : " We have teemed here a beentital 6-pounder hour bet tery, with 160 Eu►opsan. attached, the only battery in India in which the drivers we not natitee ; 74 ride and the rest sit on the gum and wanes ; in three weeks we pm• cured volunteers, taught Uwe' to ride, and trained 130 borne, we went 20 nem horses. " I will net now weary you with mare detail., but change the eabjeot. Ime always picturing to myself the horror of people et home when they bear of the successton of *tree'. ties perpetrated by the scoundrel &pops, end of the narrow serape we ham had of losing India. We dim:toed the 10th Irregular Cavalry bore, and then disbanded them for nut charging the ftlith Native Infantry, who were in open mutiny, when ordered to do so. We managed to net them doves, ae they ore °ailed, dismounted within 100 yards of the gam, sesta party to seise their horse* at their pickets, then commended them to lay down their arms, then sent searchers to relieve them of their paraphernalia, made them take of their mete, then ordered them to take off their boots. Fancy a meshy regiment bard at work taking off each others' boobs wader the Maumee of artillery ! Each man was then given 8 swam (12d.), the whole secured, marched off to the river side, when they are to be embarked in holds and sent down the Indus, where I expect every mother's son will have e chance *thing drowsed to the rapids. To-night we pick out bones to complete the battery front the disbanded eavithy. We had a night dorm • short time since; you know we (the ortillery) ell sleep at the gnus. I awoke end baud boom," booen ;' hearing gnat fired (for so it •esed) et regular intervals from the fort, we thought the city had risen, and a night alarm all through the oudonments was the consequenees; we were all at our rendezvous in no time. Tbk we; calmed by the explision of Nilo mines in the city is beeper a( a wedding. Well, nest morning the persona maceesed and those who worked at the mines were tied up and received each a fogging so they will not sally faggot la them times of drawer and treachery we don't bother our 'elves about the quirks et law, but hang, shoot, or flog sr air- CUMAIMICIS arks. We Mend !mammas hero. The Omura swears be will mastain " What a wonderful mercy the telegraph communication . _ . . . be. bees kept up la the Paaj;tr ; here i; isuse it we. put to: —A letter we. intercepted at Predee, which said, • Three madras of high reek (giving name.) at In council to morrow to decide what to do egairrat the English.' Tele graph mid, Let a spy Weed and report.' This we. dose, sad is a lbw urinates after the outlaws of the plot were beiter Lawmen. Telegraph age* 'Haag them Jl Woe Is MOM minutes wore they were bung. Short work." The following letter is from an officer of the Guides : "BEFORE TILE WALLS OF DELHI, Jura 11. " I wrote you lag 'south that the Guides were ordered doers to Bevel Piadee. On arriving thew we were ordered to Dad, when we now ere ; we arrived here ou the morn ing of the 9th, having secomplished a dietarice of 600 miles is 22 drys—not bad marching fur the middle of the hot weather. We got aa immense deal of praise, in the *hope of a long brigade order, iesutd by the new Commander-in-Chief. We had ;most frightful mach down, sa you can well sup pose, and for the first lime in ray life 1 found out the real meaning of the term ' roughing it.' The state of sinks here you will, no doubt, have heard of, and of the mutiny of the native troops. Delhi is strongly fortified, and hell by • large Ludy of mutineers, most probably 5,000 or more men. They are already quarrelling fear tally among themselves, and hanging and cutting each other down, each suspecting hie neighbour. However, • large body stand together; these have fortified the town of Delhi very strongly; they cubist of our artillerymen, ca miry, and savoys. On our side about 3,000 &popes= and or two regiments of Bengal European luailegve, • good strong fares of Horse and Font Artillery (European), the Obits, sad the Simon Battalion. Several 83th and Pun jabi regiments are on their way down front the Peshawar frontier, so that in • very short time we may wiped to have afore' aeons 16,000 men, with the six mileposts from Cal cutta. A battle we. fought the day before we joined head. quarters between our bruin and the mutineers ; the latter were in an intresehed camp some four miles from Delhi, on the Umballa rood, sad were driven bock into Delhi by our troops, after five boars' fight, with • loss of omen guns sod • great number of their men. Our kb, lam sorry to say, was very great but when one con ! sisters that the mutineers are all our own trained soldier, of every breach of the service it is not to be wondered at that they serve thengses well and about true with their samitets ; they will not, however, stand for • band-to-hand kid, bet fly inereediately. Our camp is now about a mile and • half from the walks of Delhi ; we have an miaowed position about half • stile farther on, in the shape of • largo bum ea the top of • high hill, which commands the city will; nest this house we have three batteries, which play on the city all day and sight ; for the protection of these batteries • force consisting of the (lades and the Simoor Battalion, together with three companies of the 60th Rifle's, are stationed near the batteries end in the close round about the house. The mutineers on their side have throe batteries playing on os all day and night too. • very few of them shuts come into camp, which is luckily too far away end partly protected by • bill , but on the house and all mood the bane when our advanced Nation Is, the round shot, bomb ;hello, end shrapnel are flying and bunting all day and night. Luckily the house is a splen didly built pucka (brick) one, and not only offer& shelter fee all our men, but stands the banging sod knocking about In gallant style, so that, although we are literally order fire all the twenty-four hours mend, still the cmual- Um newsy few,considering all things. The mutineers gene rally may out every afternoon with a couple of guns and some cavalry the greeter portion of them, however, being infantry. Tien gentletne,a come skirmishing op towards nue big house, between which and one part of the city is some very bay rocky ground, covered with brushwood; sneaking up behind the r the and otones these soolindrela come, and when near the house we have to sally out and drive them bock; on the atiornonn of the 9th, rho day we arrived, • leery large body of the villain. came sin, and we had some very ahsrp (*bangle drive them back. Poor young Batty, wen, I sat sorry to my, mortally wounded through the ete, the ban coming out at his beck. lie lived 21 hones only, and we buried him yesterday morning. A more gallant soldier never lived. Daly, our commandant, was cut through the boot, sod a slight scratch made on his instep. I was slightly wounded in two places —one a sword cut arose my olds and lower part of my cheek, and the other acmes my loft hip, a little below the bone. Both cane sr, is denesseo, end healing up quickly. The way I got thin was Mis wee akurnishing along with a somber Of Ma, mil WI helped to pepper the male mews oat of the msky pm* very nearly down to the city walls, when mailiesipa very sharp to indeed wee directed en so from sorer plats Is front. I nulled on, ceiling on the men to follow. ASA, running up about 50 yards I suddenly cam up with of commandant and • few men honed to trent eta steep age of rocks (which formed • spheadlit beenstworl), end over which Daly was unable to scramb le, laving Om fiew ems to fume the pardon, so that my rein- Ihrsomenit wen AM what wee wanted. Even then we had sash a sharp des me us that it appeared doubtful whetter we meld meal& up the twasetwte* in the Mee of It, es the ridge d rocks aimed dews towards the enemy, sad was a Sitl• pemeraddenlos en ear side. Up the elope the many annosomelog,6iemedileir Om and then back again to teed. =lliowswes ad allots deliver a shot and weregettlng weer inset senelly. Tooter re minute, in that position erne seal dm& Is me sit, ao Daly and I drew our swords end mesa up ilme main with • hoorah ; • yell from behind loM us sir nem wets rrßsg us_ as quickly se they could ; the bents Mews am no ralidnida when their .ars he heat edam Adm oasis Immiht • score of them es Me deli eSsetion. In the mesmiless err nemenemilm 'Maw (Dilly) mid WOW IMPS sew end mike stimieheris bed we Imes mho mismebsred• ' NeMar, then woe no help fee It am snap is Ilmld k eni. lamb/hely as Jimmie, over I Ind tics rairds• et rig are Yew saming with a mob Mme; the ink • pa it Mew, saliently melted Is Marra deli bp b gra oad am* raised his ma i mil sea • *ebbe beek-berld eget, whisk had it tainmPall OM, =lli bore rolled top led ca. Roomer, my art pee Mk err te op boa end lead of crag at my fkisrl. I led jar there as eat into • geed. My pod swap cord tied sell, • deep mime seeds In the sled ; beam op gar bawls( been lesiviedly ad warmed alreeperms era arelf, m arced mess beaten dews and my Ms* bid open. Albs the Wow I bad my ion, save my Med ems arose re jbead, isdi wideb er tea awe le the shoo Mer, se I hod (tho ail beim very isiolt steels); at es ewe recent etas ma broad rig haw sad Debar him ism iss. As Ipt masa ea IMt • eat Jur bier my lip. Mr ma lea Ai it was Wrap terera. eed • rant elaretie •Mr Ma nail ti r•—• Mier slitable ;be ram alms er d o ted M lei big rail Ilia I • ty guar I, r I saga • air Irma Misr Me Mow I bad lid to robs aissi4 arm and need te Or; WI airsick. My swend ommin Men at the boa el Monist sad down somas the simidair a fends' geek, and le Y ea lb ha sir ao ere, toe • Isom Mend rue stork Ise Yr in • roast ; tble bara • maxi bit lieerseloalle Rile ems up. and der • ads nee Wag the _may rue ar dm IR bassieb. Yes dr I area her the pare baba et en rap air we. tat In Taylor end weer bse me er rs las up ad camel leek mewpaws up by the data aa TILE MUTINY AT AURUNGABAD. The following is from • gentleman at Ahmednug gur, dated June 28: " &tme three weeb ago there were serious apprehermlone of a rising and rebellion at ?dhow. It was a central poet-. lion too, so the Commander-in-Chief fitted out an expedition, to be called, 'the Doreen moveable Column, and it was despatched rid Nuggur. On arrival here some news reached us that the Nicam's Irregular Csvalry at Aurungabad were In a most unsatisfactory state, and Captain Abbott, com manding there, wrote here for eseiatance. . . . The first thirty miles on the Mkow road lie within my districts, alao on the Aurungabed road, so' that as the general had parti cularly requested that a civilian should accompany them, I was certain to have to do so. Oa the morning of Thursday week lest the general sent for monad said that the te.pe were to raareh towardtuturungebed the next moreing,lacontequenes of a most urgent requisition fur old from Capt. Abbott, and ho begged me to go oat with his assistant quartermatter-gc. neva that same evening as far as Etuenpore, and choose pitching ground, and make arnuagernenta for supplies, &e. Well, at 4 p.m. out we went, chose pitching ground, dug trcnehoa for watering cavalry borne, bent for all the suppliee available. The general had told are that he should march neat morning at 3 a.m., and at half-pan 6 we began to look out for the' army.' At about 10 up came Captain Mayne of the Hydrahad Contingent, lately commanding Aurungehad. He had come toescort Mrs. M-- and the other ladies from Atarnagabad, whore it was no longer sato for them to remain. They mat on to Naggur, and we got an express from the general, saying that fresh orders had arrived, and that the force wen to march In the old direction to Halogen. 80 we went in sharp, and Mayne mile with me. He went at mos to the general sad represented very strongly to him that, as he (Mayne) had been connected with the Contingent for fourteen years, sad bad been for six yearn commanding the very cavalry regiment which had mutiniol, awl again as he had only just left the arses of the row, ha felt himself competent to give an opinion on the subjectould most strongly advised that we should march at once on the place, smash the mutineers, end strike a decisive blow The general sent for orders to head.quarters, which arrived in two days, to the effect that Ito was to murk instanter on Au/marked. I went on to Eusanpors, Is my district, and managed to get supplies, and the force came ea in tho morn ing about seven. A flue sight—lf tk Dragoons first, then the general and his staff, thou the 28th Native Infantry, and , Captain Woolcombe's battery last, the rear brought up by a pontoon train, some 20 elvphanta, and the baggage, extending some two miles in length. Wo came on to John', and hero my ediscion ended, as the troops were now out of my district, and indoodoutof tliseempany't territories alele.ther, so I went to the general for orders. Mayne bad not arrived, and as no one WNW knew the road to Aunangated estopt spell the general asked rue to go on with them, which I was glad to do, as there were worse accounts from Captain Abbott. Daring the day ties general received another expreaa (me, Abbott, which made Lim determine to get on st ones by forced man hes. We got into Anrungehad at 10 am., and Abbott and his officers Caine out to meet us. Mayne had johns' tie just before. It was fortunatolya cool morning, or Man and horse would never have got through the work cut out fur them. Well, Abbott told us that things were in a moat uneatiefactory and critical mate ; that nine* the ladies had left the officers had lived barricaded in the ere-room, and that there was mvon to fear nut only the stanchness of the cavalry, but of the infantry and artik key aleo. He said that we wore quite unexpected, and that the beet thing would be to march up to the cavalry entrench matte at one and surprise them. The general cowented to do so at last. Wo found some good ramping ground for the force on the fuggur aide of the cantonments, and we marched on towards the mutineers' lined (let canlry picket). o Two rune and • squadron of the dragonna were left to guard the bridge in esee of a rising of the libiana's artillery or infant y, ant we went on up to the cavalry lines, which we remind at 12. A long line of white tents, with hones picketed in front &bowed um where they were, and the gener a l 'Av.:A over the grouted to ecleet r geed position. All the ottlero were of course with their regiment., re that in the general's staff were only hie Aideode-l'emp 3laedoneld, Deputy Adjutant-General Co Mayne, Abbott, and myself. The cavalry bugles were rounded, and men ordered to fall in on foot except their mounted (native) officer.. Abbott then redo pest them, and ordered the men who had re. maimed edible! to fall out of the ranks, leasing the muti neere in a body in front of their lines. The guns of Wool eombe's battery were then ordered to ho loaded with canis ter, end drown up within 30 yards, and the general, with Abbott and other tour of us, rode up to the ranks. Abbott was then ordered to speak athe men, and he did so, asking them their menu for disobeying orders and fir mtitlnyieg, reminding them that government never dreamt 14 attempt ing to make them change their religion and of the punish ment which meshed them. The mounted utiliser, • jemeder, who commanded thia troop, and who wee one of the principal inetigators of the affair, here broke out, 'it is not good; it is all Nee ' Abbott drew his pistol, and would have shot hint us be steed, fur speaking in rank is erivalent to epee mutiny; but the emend turned to him and raid, Captain Abbott, I desire that you will not fire on your own men.' 80 Abbott put up Me pistol and went on with hie harangue. After another minute the jemadar broke out again, • It is not true ; it is all Wee. Brothers ell, prime and lire Upon this, with a clash, out came all their pistols; and had they fired, we six must have fallen, as we were not five yards from them. My pistol, a revolver,. was in my haul in a moment, and as I was next to the jemedar I feel confident I could have shot him before Le had time to rein his. But a panic seined them, and they belied towards their lines, and we rode hack behind the mine. Waileembe had dismounted, and was pointing a gun at them himself ; the portfin won lighted, and one word was only wanted to blew every soul of them to the four winch and thus steno a decisive and terrible blow, which would never have been forgotten; but the word was not given. The general allowed them to get to their hone., end then, as they Mod in • group monntiug, some 260 yards off, Wooleorebe ran to another gun, armed end pointed it, and, lasing his patience at not being ordered to fire, sung out, • May I fire, sire If any answer was returned, certainly no order was given ; and the !meals got to their bores and were up an them and away inn moment. Then came the order to fire just as they were getting under cover of male build ings; some 20 shots were fired at them, but without effect, only killing SOWS few horses end a poor Ghorastalla. The dragoons were then unloved to charge, as the mutineers had by thin time cleared their lines, mil were drawn up in • line on a plain to au right, eat of shot at the guns. Forward went the 14th at • gallop, and the men of the let waited in line till the 14th were tolerably near them, and then broke up and each men turned his hone's heed, and die pened in every viable different direction. The dragoons caught and cut down sent. balf-dozen, and the rest got ewer Abbott joined the charge, and his horse being fresh, be managed to get up with one of the mutinous oases, who, seeing no chance of escape, put his sword between him teeth, dropped his reins, and held up his hands in token of suliessaiim and ae • sign for quarter. Abbott lowered his sword, and the brute, aa he pared him, drew ler pistol and fired it **night at his face. A motion of tlo horse saved hint, and he drew his pistol end tired two dude at the ruffian, but missed him. Ile was caught later in the day and hung next morning be fore all the troops. After the charge the net of the native cavalry were brought out, and there suspected were dis armed and placed in confinement, to await their trial by drumhead court-martial. Toward. the evening nearly 70 of them who had escaped were taken or given up, and this re deeed the number of those who have actually got away to about Si. The jeniadar who lied first drawn hie pistol was missing altogether, and no tidings could be got of him, W general was most anxious to enure him. li t a t d " le gum opened upon the rascals directly they drew their ere ens, not one could have twined, and • blow direct and de• delve would have been struck, and the mutiny in ell pro lthillty quelled in these parte at all event,. An were dis appointed at the reault, and part icularly as the general hail them so entirely at his mercy. " The following letter is from an officer late of the garrison of Delhi: "MEERUT, Jumt 18. "It I. fearful to think of the atrocities that have been committed. In different 'tenon., as hr as we can tell, 34 regiments oat of 74 have mutinied, in many instances mur dering their officers. Other regiments have been prevented riming by the presence of European soldiers, or by being ells wad while they have been meditating mutiny. Our troops moved rapidly and are before Delhi. We have had two en gagements and row smaller ones, in which we bare gamed very little loss, and have killed hundreds of the enemy. Our blood is reused. We have seem Minds, relations, mothers, wives, &Urea brutally murdered, and their bodies muti lated trightleffy. This algae, without the pluck which made us viekeiens over the Rasslarte, weld enable us, with Oak's serieleme, to he Theorises over these enemies. As the sleima charge (10 to 100), the word Is passed, ' maths, the ladies, remember the babies I' and everything else Wiles them. Hundreds are shot down or bayoneted. The &goys, it la tray fight Wm demos, but we are English l and they are natives. " Tb; "wig Ala is a Um I sooononly an, though thur are net entitled to to honottraLle a oar) were at a bridge with heavy muss in position and 4,000 atreag. Ovr com pany charged the puts and took assn. Mae gene were what the mutineers had taken from the Deihl magazine. We took on this OCCILNiaI Am heavy Motes, and have since taken twenty-sia. The mutineers are despersta, became they are fighting with halters round their necks. Ws are bettering away at Delhi, and troop. are arriving feat. Delhi once down the effelr is cruised. "The regiment. have an crowded there, so that we ffninh off the groateet part at cam. The awe who get there the better; it will save o. • great deal of trouble .Rerw•rds. I have not been fortunate enough to get to Delhi, though I have volunteered on all possible occasion,. When there has been a chance of dangeroua or important work the volunteer parties have been collator:funded or something has happened to prevent it. This place has been slightly fortified, and we have troops ready diy and night—pickets always out. lam doing duty with the Artillery division. The recruits are, argued with musketo, and are put on picket duty, We have • portion of the 6 /th Bilk* and 6th Carbineers, also 110010 volnnteers—in 01l about 1,000 men, officers included. The rest of the Rifles and Canbi•eers (Queen's troops) are at Delhi. You will get account, showing what has been done In greater detail than I can give you. "The Sikhs have proved useful, and we are raising Sikh regiments. The 1 lag have .nie of them proved staunch. There have miraculous escapes, and thous who have not lost a wife, a mother, or Meter, have loot all their property, as I did. I left Dohli with • shirt and • pair of trousers, and have nothing clot left ; but having escaped with my life, and blessed by knowing my best Mends eared, fun I think of what I devote/4f Little have I deserved ail the, and I hope that I at leaat feel gratitude to God. I fear this may not reach you by the neat mail. The &irks down country are closed, and we know nothing of what hes happened; we conclude favourably, however, as the 11th (Queen's) has just onion tip, we bear, near Ik4bi, and this looka as if arrangements had been made. We know that some of the troops have muti nied, nad in one instance murdered the whole of their offi cers in cold blood. Who could believe that the mon we have fed mod been slam: too kind to could murder their own officers Horrible have been the atrocities—women snd children found dead, and bodies of officers hardly (and in one instance not) recognieable. Our batteries are play ing on the city and palace of Delhi. The sickness lands is awful; they have their dead and wounded all together, and the deeds is frightful, even outside. Two European deserters were cut down at the guns. One had dyed his lace, but be culled for mercy in Engli s h a nd w as in s thou sand pieces in a minute. Martial law had been declared, and we hang Nix or so every evening, moat of them the butchers who were engaged in the affray and had satiated here in murder and plunder. I rode out this morning to ace the bungalows and found nothing but heap of Wicks sad rubbish. Every bungalow here nearly wits burnt, and some people lost, I dare say, G,OOO or 10,000 ropes,—car riages, horses, furniture, everything gone. The moment the Sepoys here broke out thousands of villagers swarmed in and eartiol off everything. I eould write volumes, but horror and disgust stop me. It makes me sick at heart to think of hosing to trust native regiments again. This is a strange Astute in my Indian career. Bitterly have we been taught that if we teach our servants to fight and then go to sleep, they are sure to rebel. We have learnt how Indus must be ruled at the cost of many liven and the suffer ings of poor helpless women and children. By God's mercy it is no worse; and our arms have been successful on every occasion, notwithstanding the numbers are to the Sepoys about one to ten. We have a large force at Delhi, andthe Deihl people are dispirited at findong that though they attack ua by sorties day and night, still on every occasion it only decreases their numbers by hundreds. Our troops are as jolly as passible, and each man is mad to have his thrust at these devils—and such throats One man, 1 the other day bayoneted two men at once against • wall. lie sent a foot of the barrel into the first man, and bent it hke a vorkecrow. The bayonet is here. Various have been the feats of strength and bravery, One man shot four men oat of live who were coming to attack him, sad who loaded and fired at him as they advanced ; but he was a Rifleman, and had his hfinie. The native, cannot understand how their non drop at such en immense dis tance. They are very tine fellows, the 60th, as indeed ars all the Englugh wildirre. Ten of our English cavalry die permit 5,000 of the villagers. The feeling in the country is in our favour, and the people relish but little what the &Toys do, which is plunder and murder. Naturally enough , agriculteeists have little to gain and everything to let such acts." (Frora . the Brioto! Mt 'mfg.) Among the English gentlemen who have fallen victim, by the violence of the native troops in India during the mutiny, is Mr. Block, who perished at Sultanpcae, on the 911 of Joss, on which day the native troops stationed there rebelled. Mr. Block was, we believe, in the Bengal Civil Beerier. and • mon-in-law of Dr. Davey, of Nottlmage, The last Indian 'mail, which has brought home desolation to so many Englieh (=ibex, has conveyed also the news of the barbarous murder of a young officer from Clifton, the son of the lata Lieutenant-General Whisk. Mr. Whig, it news, was murdered—literally murdored—not by • mutinous _ . soldiery, but by some ban thief, whose object was plunder, end not to overthrow a foreign dynuty. It is our painful duty to announce that among the Englieh rarer. who have periehol in the Indian mutiny is Lout. Bright, of the 22nd Native Infantry, • eon of Robert Bright, KN. The regiment was stationed at Fyzabad, • town in the °entre of Omk, on a branch of the Ganges. On the Bth of Jane the native troops stationed there rose, and at once took possession of the battery, but, while not allowing the officers to approach, do not seem to have offered them any further violence. The officers then determined to endeavour to escape by boat, and were allowed quietly to embark. Mr. Bright, with several other officers., including the narrator of what followed, got into a boat and pushed off down the river without molestation. After they had gone ten mike, they came ,to an encampment of mutineers, who rushed out and fired on them, and then getting into some dingier chased them to an Island sad took three of them prieunere. The writer says "The Sergeant-Idejor, Lieute nant Bright, sad I were taken prisoners, and taken to the camp of the mutineers, who were men of the 17th and 37th Native Infantry and the 17th Irregular Cavalry. We were taken before the Soubatidar commanding the rebels. I don't know his name he was a Hindus, and belonged to the 17th Native Infantry. He wee olden men slightly made, about 3 feet 8 inches high, with grey hair, and no hair on his face, and dark complexion. He - asked us who we were; we re plied. He then appealed to the Musulmano on the Koran, and to the Hindus on the cow, not to injure us, and told no ' to go away. Two men of the 17th then stepped out and shot the sergeant-major and Lieutenant Bright. I was rescued by an artillerymen, and was hid in a sandal Begun gunge, and sent off in dieguke." It will be °burred that the unfortunate officer was not killed by his own men, but by the ' may of another regiment. Another letter say. of Mr. Bright's regiment The account of the mutiny of the 22nd regiment beak any romance; they guarded their officer. and their bungalows after mutinying, planed sentries over the magazines and all public property, sent out picket.' to pre vent the servants and townspeople from looting, and held a council of war, in which the cavalry (Fi e he r s Irregulars) proposed to kill the officers but the 22nd objected, and in formed the officers that they would be allowed to leave, and might take with them their private property, but nu public property, as that all belonged to the King of Oude. The officers uked fur boats. the rebel Commissary-Gem., a His. adder, was ordered to provide them. He did so, but merely small dingle*, so that they could only bring away a bundle each, and then they were presented with 300 re., which the rebels had taken from the tramuruchest to give them. When the °Moos tried to recall them to their duty, they respectful" enured them that they were now tinder the orders of their native officers, and that the Soubandar Iffejlir of the 22nd regiment had been appointed to the command of the station and that each corps had appointed one of their officers to be their chief." A few days Rime a letter was received from Dr. 'Vaughan, of Mitnitester, by a relative in this city, in which he says, "My noble-hearted son•in-law, Dr. Bench, is no more. Its and five of his personal friends were all shot in cold blood by the mutineers at Bareilly. Mrs. B. and her sister were net., 1 have mason to Shia, at Almon., up to the end of June; but my heart is aasioun and heavy on their account. We arc hoping they may get to Calcutta in the autumn and home in the spring. If say evil should betel th em 1 know not how we are over to lift up our heads again." We are entre the DOMICILS friends of Dr. Vaughan in this city, of which he le a native, will deeply sympathise with him in this unexpected calamity, and pray that his daughters may be restored to him again in peace and safety. The following remarks on the state of affairs in India are from the Journal des Daats: " greatest twasperatioa naiad the ?abets yelp in the I mop helm Dili, het it is kept wader by Owl Barred. The win mama of this eller, who holds in his beads the Aistishe et British Ise* cannot be blamed. A cheek ewstekeed by him beim the welts of Delhi would be atteagsd with incalealabte consequences end, in spite of the impatience created by the inevitable hog& of the °pastime, it is the tome of events sad not the gmeel that mast be asswerl. The petition of the British W ad mows mem The Milky of many native Mere bee are been .baby. Alike* we of their ragieesaM havejsieed the bmwrgests, ethos have bravely height hr the Bevil& mama We may mentima I. .teder: o h=t edema emeaweaded by O an ramel V Catboat, eseleilvely of inagelin or et attire ceadepwin de anis/ the hourgeate two weesewhes. The nitban, nesevrir, drir eepaintien, to expwierme the bleminge et vele tiressarate The Mate of the many wom b by Ge mmel Barnard is pertly favourable, pertly megiemembM. 0. the one head, the soma et great brit whisk flied the troops hr gawk bat then the N ig = i t &set to commas'. The min will er.ioately Aghast the NIP Wedges, aid it elli predate than and almises •4 0 %••• Inr esure lnird •• • lissaig eat This is per epmeLaLzaweeed le the E very the haft Os et proves that the the first matelot of surbelos, raw simmusit tormis the alliewire. This is the most Important feature of the latest negro, awl it would be UldOa not to acknowledge that a sensible haprovoment hes taken piece in the prosgeete of the Company." COLONEL NEILL AT ALLAIIANAD. ' The following is an extract of a I;;;;ircint Allahabad, from Colonel Neill, dated 30th June, 1857. " I have driven all the insurgents away from about this. On the 16th I gave them a greet smashing. Got two Fusiliers killed, sad young Bailey, a gallant officer, severely wounded, as also some of our men, ono of whom ham sines died ; but all will do well, young Bailey included, I hope. I have no animals to drag my gene, and no way of getting far out of the tort; be sides, the fearful heat made it sudden death to the European soldiers to move without tents. However, what I did had the effect of striking great terror into them ell. They were seined with a panic. took to euanelling moon; thentselvee, and went off, leaving the two guns they Lad got on the night of the mutiny and many arms. It hes been a great blow. Authority is re-established, and we have been settling down things wonderfully. A form is to he collected here, and I ant getting oil ready fur their movement. I Lava nut been able as yet to send a single man towards Cawnpere. I had no carriage, no moans of moving a men out; everything bad Leen destroyed. The road from this to Cawnpore Is in the bends of the enemy. No food to Le procured, as I Imes born belplem, with Cawupore only 120 miles off to relieve it. The awful heat, too,eme against me. Cert a in death, movingtroope , without or with only a few tents along that road ; halide., I could not Isere title, the most important fortress in India, insecure. To cover all, cholera attacked um with fearful virulence. Within three days there were 121 cases in the Fusiliers alone, and 07 death.. I we. so exhaueted for • few days, I wee obliged to lie down constantly, and only able to get up when the attacks were going on, and then I was obliged to sit down on the batteries to give toy orders and direction.; but I always had the greatest confidence in my self, although I felt almost dying, as it were, at times, from complete exhaustion. Yet I kept up heart, and here I am, thank God, as well ea ever. The cholera has now entirely loft us. It was caused by the executive filth which I felted had been allowed to accumulcto here. I have been much galled at not being able to pu4o on troops to Cawnpore, but in a few hour., 400 Europeans, 2 guns, 300 Stiikhs, and the few cavalry! have, start, and will heve to tight their way along the road. They have to carry ell their provisions with them. This party will Le backed up by others, which will keep open the communication, as I feel certain it will get on to Cawneore. I do not myself leave this. I send Major Renard in command, with orders end instructions, and if he acts up to them all will be right." LAW INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Men Mr. Commioutioner Fine.) 'MR ROYAL SCRIM GARDENS. Today was appointed for hearing a petition for winding up the affairs of the above company under the 6th and 6th Vic., for winding up joint-stock oampaniee. Mr. Roxburgh appeared in support of the petition, and Mated that the company was formed in Starch, 1856, end it wee proposed that the capital should be 40,000/ to be rained on 4,000 Amnia of lig. each, with a cull of 21. per share • 3,743 shams had been eutiecribed for and 3,2-56 bed been paid up, thus making a capital of 33,546/. The undertaking was cotunicnred but entirely failed, the working expenses being more than the receipt., and the whole of the capital had in the words of the act been "lost, ex hausted, or become unavailable." The farts were verified by the secretary, and he (Mr. Roxburgh) did not think that under the curometanres there mut , ' be any opposition to an order being made in then...it manner. Mr. eitapplo appeared for eon* altarsholdomt, and objected to the petittun on the ground that the petitioner having paid up hi* ahem., was not in & position to present a petition vadat Ws act. Mr. Ltostmrgh was heard In reply, and contended that if that wee the construction to be put on the act, it would be impossible to say who could present a petition: supposing all the nhareholders had paid up no one could present it. His Honour overruled the objection. Alter inane further discussion, in which it wee urged that en adjournment should take place, on the ground that the statements in the petition were not rnrreet, and that there wan no ground for saying that the onsets were unavailnble, Ilia Honour said, that under all the rircumntamen, hr felt inclined to grant a reasonable delay, mu that the general shareholders might iuire into the farts. Mr. !Roxburgh urg ed that such a couree ought not to be taken, especially as there was no affidavit, or the slightest evidence to contradict the allegation In the petition, end the greatest evil night be done by delay, se an action bed been brought against the onespsny Red judgment might be taken out almost imme diately. The gardens were now open and money was being taken daily, and, therefore en official liquidator ought to be appointed. On the 13th of August the company was nerved with three writs, and those creditors would be entitled. pro bably, on Monday to other executions. The shareloAdera could not In any way be prejudiced by the order being made. His Honour ultimately bald that the case should be ad journed till Thursday next. The directors have called a general meeting of the share holders fur Tuesday, the 2.51.14, to take the matter into con sideration. THE POLICE COURTS. TIIIS DAY. MANSION-HOTSE. Henry rntkins, • cab driver, was charged before Sir J. Musgrove, by police constable J. Fisher, No. 672, with furiou.ly driving his cab while in a state of intoxication. The officer said that whilot on duty last night, in Bishopegate-street, the prisoner, who was driving a cob at • moat furioue rate, passed him. He called nut to him to pull up, but the prisoner paid no attention, and continued his courne till be nu against a heavy waggon, which impeded his progress. !kestrel persons had hair-breadth escapes from being run down by him. The prisoner made no defence. Sir J. Musgrove .aid he considered that the prisoner had been guilty of the grossest misconduct, for he hail not only risked his own life but had perilled the existence of many passengers in the public streets and thorough fares. He did not think that any fine he could inflict would be an adequate punishment for the offence proved mildest the prisoner, and he should therefore sentence him to 14 days' imprisonment. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. KORREKT AT THE PANTHEON, OXPOKE.BTREET. This day, ANNe Taylor, a respectably dressed middle-aged female was charged with stealing various articles from the stalls at the Pantheon, Oxford -street. Elizabeth Campion laid that elle was taking care of a stall belonging to a young woman named Charlotte Whitney, when, while she wee looking for an article she heard a hoop fell from the voanter. She looked round, and saw the pvianner going away. At the same moment she missed a lady's morocco leather reticule. She followed the prisoner, and mewled her of bevies taken it. She denied that she had, but, on being pressed to produce it she gave it up. Mr. Bo.don—What is the va l ue o f it Complaimmt—Ten mbillinp and sixpence, sir. The policeman who had the prisoner in custody produced a pair of golealteA and a morocco box she had in her pos- session which had been taken from other stalls. The prisoner observed that the article was caught by her shawl. Thomas Brown, the porter, said that the manager of the Pantheon wished the charge to be dealt with summarily. Mr. Hendon wilted the prisoner if she wue guilty? The prisoner replied that rho was innocent. On which, Mr. Hendon observed that she must go for trial. After some consideration, The carne back and pleaded guilty. fthe was cent for Mx month' to the Rouse of Correction. CLERKENWELL ARTAIILT NT A CONSTAIILIi ON A OT.NTLTMAN• One of the constables of the Great Nortbern ---- ZiWay, of the name of Buckle, appeared before Mr.Tyrwhitt, in answer to a RIIIIMOIM charging him with violently wanking Mr. Barnet George . Barfield, • COIIIIMIRCiii traveller, residing at East The complainant stated that on Monday Met he came up with Ms wife from Barnet in the morning, and baring some business to transact, his wife went into the ladies' waiting-room. He was near the gateway, when be began to look bark, upon which the defendant said. "You have no business on the platform." He replied that he could not leave, that he had just come by the nein nod that he was waiting for a lady, whereupon the defendant said he should pat him off. He replied that he should not go away, when the defendant took hold of him by . the enllar, and pushed him from the company', pre mores. When he said he (the complainant) should go he poeitively refused to do so. Mr. Howland said he saw the complainant inside the gate, After convening with him feminine time the defendant took hold ..f Mr. Barfield, and thrust him rudely from tho company'. premites. The defendant in reply to the charge said hie orders were that when en excursion train was expected no person was to be admitted on the platform in consequence of the nume rous robberies that had taken place. Ile saw Mr. Barfield push by one of the policemen at the gate ' and when be told him he could not pass he turned hie hark to the wall, refuted to say what he wanted, and dared him to touch him. He then gently walked him outside the gate. Kr. Wiliam., the inspector , said he was in the superin tendent's office when Mr. Barfield complained. He was then asked whether he said anything to the constable about wait ing for a lady, when he replied in the negative. Mr. Tyrwhitt, in discharging the ease, said it was a great pity the complainant did not show his seamen ticket or say ha was waiting for • lady. Cotturrome.—The Poet-Laureate, Mr. A. Tenny son, is at present staying at Tent Lodge, where he will re wain about a month. We regret to hear that he in not at the reseal time to very good health.—Kendal Mercury, THE LATE LORD COVE TETV-A-f. (From Caligann's Messenger.) • A strange case has just been tried before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, in which a poor woman named Batty, with of a sued l farmer of the Gingule, was the plainti ff , an t{ M. Charles Seguin, yyurcksen of a portion of the pniperiy of the Earl of Devon, duroased is Pant in 133.5, the defendent. The eireumstancee which led to the suit were, according to the plaintiffa counsel, the following :—Towarde the end of the last entury a young Englishoin fled from hricountry and took up Lie residence in the village of St. Chastely, in the Gironde. This person wes at find known •inly by the name of Thorium, but afterwards ho called himself the citizen Courtenay, and was in reality, he afterwards declered, no other than the Esel of Devon. When the Terror burst over France, the meaner, being still at the v.llege, WWI with several other persons arrested and impri• seined in the convent of Demme. There he Lituself poised elf as an Iriehrum, and never sunned his title. He, how ever, inspired a young woman sleeted Marguerite Titan with an interest for him, and she not only supplied Lite with linen and many delicacies, but in the end by her knowledge of the persons in the country succeeded in procuring his liberation. The young woman being well looking and of grid chorsvter Courtney married her. Two children were born of this union—one, a eon, who afterwards became a sailor, and who lost his life at sea; end the other • girl, who in the COUCLAO of thee married a farmer named Batty, and who is the plain tiff in the present amine. But going back to the time when Courtenay and his wife were still united, it appears that after the poem of Amiens, when great animosity was felt against the English, the husband thought it advisable to leave France, pruirdeiug to return when the times were calmer. He promised to send money regularly to hit wife, and shortly after his departure she received a letter trots him, then in America, announcing the transmission of 800 f. for her cup port ;_ that sum however, never nine to band, end the wife was always a nd the impreeeion that the perigee to whom it had horn entrusted had turned it to his (Asa use. Year. rolled On and nothing more war beard of the fugitive. The wife, after bringing up her children humbly, at last elpirett, and the daughter married as stated above. Thirty yearn after the departure of Courtenav, the daughter received one day an anonymous letter in Englieb, informiog her that her * lather was dead, that he had left a large fortune, and that she certainly bed • right to it, as being his only surviving child. Madame Batty, conceiving the letter to he a hoax, win unwilling to interfere, but the neighbour who had translated the letter fur her urged Ler not to neglect a chance which might, in the end. put her in possession of an independence. A sort of agent, named Falempin, undertook to invest Tete the meter, and even wrote to the English consul at Bonle tux for information, but nothing CAWe of it. Nearly ten yeses after, a person front I'arie having to visit on business the part of the country in which Madame Batty lived, heard of the story and thought it worth white making an inquiry. Acoordingly, when he returned to Paris he ascertained that the Earl oe Devon had returned to England in ISIS, and, after taking possession of his largo estate., had fixed his residence at Parts, in the Place Vendome, where he had a splendidly forniehed hotel. In Ifni he purchased the estate of Brinell, five leagues from l'arie, on the road to Corbeil, and then seemed content to live in the west retired manner, one part of the )e tr in Paris, and the rest at his country seat. He MAW noon° but bin agent, named Woods. and the two:daughters of that person. He at het died, leaves; the greater portion of his property toWooda's children, who, atuen,g other acts, sold Dimwit to M. Dellex front whom it parsed afterwards into the hmde of M. Seguin, the defendant in the present ease. When the person who has heard in the country of Mine. Batty's claim com menced making his inquiries, all the, property left by the diveased etrl bad been disposed of and nothing war available but David. To recover that estate was consequently the °lied of the present action. The whole can turned on the one point—was Thomas Couetney who married Marguerite Titan the same pert on as the Earl of Devon, who expired in Paris. In support oftthe affirmative, the teemed for the plaintiff declared that Courtenay, the fugitive, at first called himself Thomas, but afterwards Wit ham, When euleepuently. he had gained more confidence in the state of pnblie affairs in Franco, he added to his name the title of earl, and a nate of hand was pr o d uc ed i n cour t for the aunt of 4 13 fr., dated the year X, signed Ly Courtney, with his title added to the name. The writing of this docu ment was alleged to bear some eimilitude to that of the holograph will of the deceased eel. In addi tion, for the plaintiff were produced letters from per sons who still lived, and who had had been prisoners with Thomas Courtenity at the time of the Ter ror, declaring that he had in intimate conver sations asserted himself to be the Earl of Devon. For the defendant, it was alleged that all the as *artists' relative to the residence of the Earl of I)evon in Paris, his sube.equent death, and his leaving his property to the children of Woods, were perfectly correct. But beyond that point, the case of the plaintiff hod no foundation what ever. The Christian name of the earl was William, whereas the other had not only called himself Theca., but signed that name to the documents produced. In additem, when Mine. Batty was about to be 'leveled, she had to produce her certificate of birth, and in it she is declared to be the daughter of Thomas Courtney, who had biomel made at the moron the declaration of her birth, declaring himself to be an Irishman. She also produced the certificate of her father's decease; and if that document was authentic, hew could any claim apply to the property of Lord Courtney, who wan living many years afterwards ? The only thing that appeared incentestible in the case was that the plaintiff was cerhunly the daughter of Thomas Courtena but not one particle of evidence was forthcoming to identi that person with William Courtenay, the deceased ear The court, after a short deliberation, declared that the identity was not proved, and consequently tenanted the plaintiff, condemning her to costs. IIOW ARE TFORAWYS ROUSES TO BE BUILT IN EDINBURGH? Under this title, the Rey. Dr. Begg writes a letter to the Lord Provost, in which he rays To build work men', boners with advantage, they must of course be built in quantities. Land, plans, contracts, all can be goteleapea if got wholesale, and if well aired, dry, comforteble, well situated workmen's houaes could thus be erected and sold to each workman at wholesale price, au immense object would be gained. The property investment companies have been extremely useful, especially to the elan above the working men; but inasmuch as they have not, like the English and Irish societies, done anything in the way of buying land or building additional homes, they Lave, by increasing the number of purchasers, only raised the value of all the second-rate property at present in existence. They have not an yet gone by any means to the root of the mischief, nor can they ever du so upon the pre sent plan. They have been moot valuable in teaching and encouraging frugality and forethought in many of our cili a/me, and in acting as a kind of bankers for managing the money of their members; but their full utility and value will only be discovered, as well as that of the savings banks, when a scheme is set on foot for anneunding the whole city with new clutters of comfortable and suitable houses, which the people may have it in their power to buy by meant of the existing machinery form-cumulating money. Now, what I pro pore is to raise a capital for this express purpose. Two friends of mine have offered to advance 100/. each with this view; I shell advent.° another; and if forty or fifty men in Edin burgh will do the aurae—in other words, if 4,000/. or 6,0001. can be railed for this express purpose, I think I see how the entire ground-floor of our society m, s h, in due time be ele vated above the present level of de ation. Let this money be advanced upon the principle of limited liability, and let the issue be tested and each subscriber be allowed to retire Ether* j b any lees of funds at the end of the first, and of every sue csieding operation—let the funds be banded over to a com mittee of first-class men of skill arid experience— let them begin by erectiog a number of houses upon the most approved plan, say from forty to fifty, in the moat dense neighbourhoods of working men—let them houses be cold to the workmen in retail at cost price, after calculating all expenses—let the men, by means of Ravings banks and in vestment companies, purchaese them—let the capital thus ex tricated, be again immediately removed to another locality, and the same operation repeated ; and let this be done again and again until the whole neceasitim of the working classes of Edinburgh are supplied, or until they have learned the art of combination for the aeromplishment of such an object as to be independent of help." A WATERSPOCT BELOW Qugar.c.—The Rev. L. Proula, prim of St. Eleanor, county of hewer, writes to the James! de ()xebec a very graphic description of a waterspout which devastated hie parish, and of which be was an eye witness. A large and dark cloud was overhanging the plate on Sunday forenoon, 18th July, when a noire as that of the sea in a storm, gave warning of the approach of something unusual. Soon the cloud seemed to buret, letting fall to wer& the earth a Ping train, somewhat in the shape of a funnel, with the email end turned downwards. It revolved rapidly, hissing like escaping steam, and swinging to and fro, and imitating the contortions of a snake. When the small end reached the ground it lifted and carried away in its revolving impetus whatever it came in contact with. Boards, timber, stones, and portions of houses were whirled in the air and thrown at a distance with a fearful report. Several houses were thus rimed to the ground. Ono horse and three cows were drawn by the power of auction to the waterspout, and after being raised high in the air, were let gradually down; they escaped uninjured, and were only covered with mud. Five carte were carried to • great height, and thrown across some fields into the woods, being scusahed by the fall. Large trees, such as maples, have been up rooted, and removed a distanoe of tire acres. This phe nomenon, although disastrous and awful, must, however, have been a sublime sight, which it is granted to very few, especially In Canada, ever to witness. MAeTER WATERLOO; A somewhat curious case isabout to be submitted to the Ci vil Tribunal of Amsterdam : An inhabitant of that city presented himself on the 18th Jane last at the office of the registry of births, and stated that having had a child born that day, the annivereary of the battle of Waterloo, he had given it the names of Peter Henry Waterloo, and wished him to be so registered. The official remarked that Waterloo was not a regular Christian name, and that consequently it mug be eeneideeed as a surname i he therefore declined to register thst name on the ground that by Article 63 of the Datil Civil Code no one can change or add to his surname without the authorisation of the King. The Other of the child hes taken legal proceed ings to compel the registration of the names he has chosen, and the decWon of the tribunal is looked, forward to wits inbred. 11 1 11 i li 1 ;1 it ! .\ ii 1 \ 0 ' lb k _ . .. ~., ~.., i l a ' :,...- r J . . ~. .1 4 1 1 • it I . H T. I i ' IL' i . ..r. I ;i • I ; Ifr • ' ) i iit • ,li