The Express. — London, England, 1858-01-15 00:00:00

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Many hearts beat in sympathy when they hear of the emotion of the Bishop of 01.701 D being so great as repeatedly to impede his utterance, while he was delivering his " message to the still and gazing multitude closely packed into the Church. There may be, and there is, no small wonder that such things remain to be done at this time of day—not only that eighteen cen turies after Christianity indicated the poor as the first object of preaching, the Church of England should be taking up the object as a new move ment, but also because the City Missions have been at work for a long coarse of years without any of the aid which might as well have been given them in the churches thirty years ago as now. More than one generation of Town Missionaries has passed away, humbly hoping that some good had been done, but having lived in pain and anxiety on account of the extreme smallness of the means they could command to meet overwhelming evils. Mia mians to the heathen at the ends of the earth bad all the advantages that could be given by public meetings, and services in all the churches and dial:* li ; whereas, the far more obligatory minion to the heathen in our own alleys, and the poor sufferers on our own door-steps, had only casual, limited, and private aid, for the most part. Now, suddenly, we see a vast change wrought by a concurrence of circumstances—this accession of a bishop who starts out of the uld beaten road of episcopal " propriety and precedent," and follows a short cut back to the antique position of the Christian bishop—the encroachments of ultramontane zeal—and the disclosure by the census of the position of the working classes in regard to the church. These and other incidents of the time have made our leading churchmen a sort of dissenters in spirit and energy, on a sudden. They know now something of the glowing atmosphere of tone in which our WE3LEYM and WHITVIELDS lived, and evidently feel a new life growing up within them selves now that they have seen rough faces kindle with holy emotion, and have found themselves sur rounded at last by the very midi.... which their commission directed them to obtain. It is a small matter that affairs do not go alte;,e ther smoothly. That is an inevitable drawback; and good sense and temper may reduce it to a very manageable one. There is as much party-spirit in the Church as elsewhere, while the interests sup posed to be at stake, on every side of every question, render tae zeal of tke disputants excessive. And the obstacles are various and numerous. We remember the respectable testimonies that were ranged on both aides of the question of opening St. Paul's to the public some years ago. We remember the frequent baffling of the inquiry whether Westminster Abbey could not be made more use of for popular purposes. These were symptoms of the difficulties which would arise whenever the time came,—if it were to come—when the Gospel should be preached to the poor : and it should disconcert nobody to find opposition in the way, and dissension among those who should act as brethren. The Low Church takes the alarm lest the High Churchmen should lead away the multitude, as in the old days; and a stickler here and there stands up for points of seek- Modica right which he thinks it virtuous to sustain at all risks; so we see the congregations warned by handbill against one of the preachers of the week ; and the Dissenters have Exeter-hall to themselves. It takes two parties to make a quarrel ; and it may be toped that no notice will be taken of any obstacles that can be peened over. A much more important consideration is that mis chief may be done, unwittingly, though not perhaps quite innocently, by the preachers themselves, full as their hearts may be of the kindliest emotions, and able as they may be to do justice to their thoughts and feelings by the akilfulnesv of their speech. It is a pity when such an opportunity as that of the last week or two is consigned to a man who cannot maks himself heard, or to one who reads badly, or to one who uses book language, and does not know bow to speak to plain men who understand only oollognial language; but there may be a worse misuse of the opportunity than in any of these cases. It may be strange to bishops and other eminent diviner is be addressed in the tone of advice about how to preach ; but it may possibly occur to them that a close acquaintance with the minds and ways of the men they desire to addressonay be worth as much to their object on the one hand as any clerical accomplishments on the other. This being our view, we will venture to counsel the= not to follow the ordinary practice of telling their hearers that the bliss of a future life is to com pensate to them for their sufferings from ponerty in this. A poor man is scarcely ever specially ad dressed by preacher* and religious teachers without b s i nt told this ; and the mischief which ensues is very great—sufficiently great, we should say, to counterbalance all the good that the new movement might otherwise do. " The poor " comprehended under the term by those who are not poor are at : 2 tHII DAILY •NEWS: LONI)( est sseyd.,4l72= 4d I a 00 GOMA MY imbed *leberal ave•—la seer feelbels.imi la Os •sabel laseefalle soda! Ihe .10. =NSW MI arewrs 0011113 TIM ta annuens •14 Aa orb rowel if r=the I is a by Wiry o*.rlned ass. awl TUN OILY DAILY 1111110 Sh IrEIMMIN ALL 000011011111 ADTI It is wisely lean.a•leal. 000 . 11.416 ,Z w ' yews Yea we ,e its =r ow ppa sae tarry taforamios. leerier le My. 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The eyes of multi good Bishop of Lox DON, who has be entering on his high funetion,at the great teak—the carrying the Gospe want it most. Many hearts beat in they hear of the emotion of the Bit being so great as repeatedly t utterance, while he was delivering h the still and gazing multitude do the Church. There may be, ant small wonder that each things rem at this time of day—not only the tunes after Christianity indicated t first object of preaching, the Chat should be taking up the object at meet, but also because the City been at work for a long course o any of the aid which might as given them in the churches thirty yt More than one generation of Town passed away, humbly hoping that been done, but having lived in pain account of the extreme smallness of could command to meet overwheltai Mona to the heathen at the earth had all the advantages t given by public :meting*, an, all the churches and chap U ; wl more obligatory minion to the heat alleys, and the poor sufferers on our had only casual, limited, and privet most part. Now, suddenly, we see wrought by a concurrence of circ accession :of a bishop who starts c beaten road of episcopal " propriety and follows a short cut back to the of the Christian bishop—tbe en ultramontane zeal—and the disclosui • of the position of the working clause the church. These and other incide have made our leading churchmen a • in spirit and energy, on a sadden. something of the glowing atmosphe which our WE3LEYM and W 1117710 evidently feel a new life growing t selves now that they have seen ronB with holy emotion, and have found i rounded at last by the very midi.. commission directed them to obtain. It is a small matter that affairs do ther smoothly. That is an inevits and good sense and temper may red manageable one. There is as on in the Church as elsewhere, while th posed to be at stake, on every side of render tae zeal of tke disputants eze obstacles are various and numerous. the respectable testimonies that were aides of the question of opening St public some years ago. We remen baffling of the inquity whether Wei could not be made more use of for p These were symptoms of the d, would arise whenever the ti it were to come—when the Gospel she to the poor : and it should disconcer opposition in the way, and diseenaic ••• who should act as brethren. Th e L c the alarm lest the High Chnrchm, away the multitude, as in the of stickler here and there stands up for r siastical right which he thinks it vir at all risks; so we see the congregat handbill against one of the preaches and the Dissenters have Exeter-hall It takes two parties to make a quart be hoped that no notice will be taken that can be passed over. A much more important considmt chief may be done, unwittingly perhaps quite innocently, by themselves, full as their hearts kindliest emotions, and able as the do justice to their thoughts and . Ili skilfulness of their speech. It is a an opportunity as that of the last consigned to a man who cannot mak or to one who reads badly, or to oat language, and does not know bow t men who understand only colloquia there may be a worse misuse of the o in any of these cases. It may be ate and other eminent divines is be addl.' of advice about how to preach ; but occur to them that a close acquain minds and waysof the men theydesirs be worth as much to their object ea any clerical accomplishments on ti being our view, we will venture t not to follow the ordinary praci their hearers that the blies of a futur pence to them for their sufferings in this. A poor man is scarcely eve dressed by preacher* and religious to I t being told this ; and the mischief very great—sufilciently great, we sl counterbalance all the good that the might otherwise do. " The poor " I t ander the term by those who are no THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1858. least se shrewd as anybody else ; and they see and feel that that bit of doctrine is not true ; and the con sequence of putting forward conspicuously ea untrue dogma is, that much besides is retorted with it. The preacher should be aware that where he pro bably sees only one class—" the poor "—that is, all who have no possessions, and whose living is preca rious, the members of that supposed class recog nise a gradation of ranks at lout as exten sive as the rich reckon over their heads. There are fewer gradations of rank between the Prince of the Blood and the small shopkeeper than there are between the small shopkeeper and the workhouse pauper. Now every shrewd man of all these ranks but the lowest knows perfectly well that it is human ignorance and fault that is answerable for any distressful degree of poverty ; and that it is impious to charge such suffering upon Providence ; and that it is simply deceptive for the rich and com fortable to bid the poor and comfortless be content with the exchange of welfare here for bliss here after. We speak as knowing that men think and say so. When the religious visitor has turned his or her back, after administering this " holy hope," the ordinary remark ia upon the cant of people who come from warm firesides and plentifuldinner tables, and bid the shivering and hungry be content, be cause of the good things in store after death. They are not so ignorant but that they have in their turn an apposite text to cite (from the Epistle of James, chap. ii. , ver. 15, 16) on such an occasion. Moreover, they may have chanced to hear when, how, and why that saying was uttered, which is regularly quoted in this connexion, " For ye have the poor always with you." It shows the spirit of letter worship in which many of us read the Bible, that those words are taken as a text for a sermon or conversation with " the poor," almost every day ; whereas, the fresh mind of the unso phisticated hearer perceive, at once that the saying was not a moral generalisation, but simply a re buking consideration addressed to JUDAS, who ob .. jetted to the honour paid to CHILIST on account of the oat, and in the name of the poor. " The poor ye have always with you ; but Me ye have not always." The prevalence of the distortion of this text, and the effect it produces oa the tempers of those who are addressed as " the poor," must be our excites for treating an♦ thing so obvious as if it needed ex planation. We may add, that such hearers are also shrewd enough to inquire what there really is about the poor in the New Testament, and they find that they are not told all. The only safe way is to put the real case before them ; to tell them that poverty, to the point of hunger and other destitution, was un known under the Jewish polity, se it is now in Mo hammedan countries, while unvisited by famine. They are not informed, but they ought to be, how the land reverted periodically, and what provision was made by the law for the support and aid of the I working classes and the helpless. They can ass for themselves that the evil in the case of Waive was the "sores:" and what they hear of tepees shows them the peculiarity of that class of cases. In short, what i needed is—the plain truth; and the plain truth is, that the real destitution in our society is nothing to be content with, or complacent about, and certainly not to be held out as any title to compen sation hereafter. The severest sufferings from po verty are not felt in the ordinary pauper claw, bat in one above it ; and in that class men have a lurking, if not a distinct consciousness, that those sufferings might be escaped by self-denial and prudence on their own part, and wisdom and liberality on the part of the employers of the poor, and more enlightenment all round. We quite agree with those of them who think it impious to say that the poor will be always with us, se we see them to-day ; and certainly not lees so to turn to another world for that rectification of the balance of human welfare which is pre cisely the task appointed to us on this earth. To preach in that way, we can confidently warn the clergy, will not do. Their message is one of promise to holiness, not to poverty. The god liness they have to recommend has the promise of the life that now is, they must remember; while there is nothing in the Bible which tells that poverty—the poverty of selfishness and ignorance on the one hand, and of recklessness and ignorance on the other—has any good promise in regard to a life to come. We must all take our share in the shame and sorrow of it. Till we put mode rate work , innocent pleasures, and competent instruction in the way of every member of our so ciety, we are answerable for the wastefulness and perversion which make up the great sum of oar poverty. If we countenance any attempt to throw as air of sanctity over such poverty we shall, as the least of the consequent evils, see the churches filled with such cant and hypocrisy as may exist among the classes addressed, while the honest men will turn away, and give up a coaxing "message" for what they will regard as sounder instruction. We cannot too earnestly entreat the attention of our roused clergy to a fact which we can guarantee, and in which the Religious Census of 1851 fully bears us out. What can it be more important to them to know than this popular view and its practical oon sequences on the reception of their preaching ? A report has reached us—we regret to add, from a reliable source—that u soon aa Mann Sing's adhesion to the insurgent cause in Oude became known, all the small Talookdare, who had hitherto stood aloof, hastened to make the beet terms they could for themselves with the rebels. It Is stated that, with a view to make their aeoemion the more acceptable, such of them as had previously oonoealed and protected European fugitives, de livered them up to the enemy, end that all our un fortunate countrymen and countrywomen thus sur rendered have been butahered.—Daily News. A letter from Rome of the 9th, says :—" Amongst the British members of this European congress are the Ditches' of St. Albans, the Doke of St. Albans and Lady Diana Deanelark, the Earls and Countesses of Albentaris, Dunraven, Portarllagton, and Somers, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Coventry, Lord Vernon, Sir John Bligh, Col. the Hon. H. Panty, Mr. David Lyon, Capt. and Lady Swan Grant Stage, lady Sophia des Yams., Lady Grey, Lady Margaret Beaumont, Right Hon. Sir James Stephen and Lady Stephen, Hon. Lady and Miss Dome, Mrs. Martin Smith, the Archdeacon of Coventry and Lady Erskine, Hon. Mr. end Mrs. Mills, Lady Marian Alford and Earl Browalow, Admiral the Hon. George and Mrs. Caven dish, Mr. end Mn Brinaley Sheridan, Lady Preakland Lewis, Lady Charlene, Wo/bs, the Ladles Hely-Hutchinsan, Sir Archibald Caryl:ell, Lady Julia ;Howard, Lady Proby, Admiral Sir Henry Mertia, Lady Rolle and Miss Somerset, Capt. and the Hoe. Mrs. Peel Davis., Sir Contts Lindsay, Lady and Miss Heed. Lord Hood has just returned to Eng land, and Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel have loft Rome kw Naples; the Duke If Hamilton has been detained at Nice by Illness in his may." A pamphlet, just published at Berlin, entitled "QMd tscissous nos ?" and which ham ncitad some ames tion, recommends Prods to join Austria and England in lir fakirs policy. The Belgian Afoniteur publishes a telegraphic despatch from the &Seam consul at. Tearlen, Matte( that the Emperor of Morocco hem prohibited the export of wool• We (Post) are happy to be able to state that both Major AUKS sad Capt. Aline, of Sir Colin Cempbell'a ataf who were Initialled beside the Commwder•ia-Chid whim beading the desperate aesult ea Shah Najjar* mosque at Lackatow, on the 16th November, ere deist well, though the 'woad of the hews vu so severe that he has lost lb lob THE LEAGUER OF LUCKNOW : THE MADRAS FUSILIERS. The official Despatches eontain a broad outline of the defence of Lucknow, a defence which will rank in history with the defence of Malta, or Rhodes, or Derry. The details of the picture have been left to be filled up by personal narratives of individuals among the besieged. The following extracts from a private letter are full of graphic touches, calculated to awaken the most lively emotions of pity and admiration. They fill up, too, a gap in the history, between the close of Brigadier Inglis's Report and the beginning of Sir Cohn Campbell's Despatch. The letter has assumed the form of a diary, kept up with intermissions from the day Havelock 's force entered the Residency till the final Exodus under Sir Colin Campbell. It realises to our imaginations the life endured for months by English men, women, and children, order incessant showers of musket and cannon balls from above, with occasional explosions of mines from below. Delicate ladies and tender infants were compelled to shelter themselves in holes in the earth ; and even there they were imperfectly , secured from the shot and shells, and not at all from the mines of the besiegers. The wounded were destitute of the most necessary medicines and dietetic comforts; even clean rags for their wounds were not to be had. Yet amid all these horrors benevolence triumphed over selfish terrors. When we think of the ladies walking the hospital, tending and sooth ing the sick under such circumstances, it is as if the days had indeed come back when angels walked the earth. Where all the men were brave, lit might appear invidious to dwell exclusively on the deeds and sufferings of a few. Bat the diary which we thus introduce to the reader's notice naturally dwells most frequently on the adventures of the writer's own regiment, the gallant and devoted Madras Fusiliers, the regiment of Neill. It was the proud though melancholy privilege of the writer to stand beside his beloved leader, whose inseparable companion he had been in Burmab, and throughout the perilous advance on Lucknow, when he fell, and to be the instrument of rescuing his body from the foe. To his letter we are indebted for the only account we have yet had of the Let days of the hero. The tale is simply told, yet deeply affecting. Who can forbear weeping when he thinks of the fiery Neill thoughtfully filling his box at Cawnpore with little luxuries for the women and children, and having it carried with him—along the lane hedged in by Sze which Havelock's force was a long day in passing through—when all the baggage was left behind. It will be a melancholy conso lation to his bereaved widow to learn that his last expressed wish on going into action was, that his friend, if he toll, would perform the task of breaking the sad news to her. There was an almost feminine tenderness in that daring spirit. Neill's regiment has shown itself very worthy of its leader, and has suffered correspondingly. According to one ao count, out of nearly 1,000 men who left Madras only some six months before, only 160 survived when Lucknow was relieved. Thirteen officers are dead or disabled. The valour and devotedness of the 300 at Thermopyhe does not =rpm' that of the Madras Fusiliers. Their colours were already emblazoned with the names of many a well•fought field—from Plessey and Arcot to Mehidpore and Pegii—bat a nobler blazon remains to be embroidered on them— the Drab and Oude campaign of 1867. It will be a privilege to be admitted to fill up the vacancies in their ranks, that ought not to be lightly granted. It would be affectation to suppress the name of the writer of the letter from which we here offer a few extracts. It Is Captain Spurgin, the tried and trusted friend of Neill throughout his Burmese campaigns, the military commander of the first armed steamer which ascended the Ganges above Allahabad, the officer whom Havelock recommended for a Majority. These facts speak for the man better than any words of ours could—, kindred spirit of Havelock and Neill—a truly Christian soldier. CITY OF LIICKNOW, Oar. Z. It is much I have to be thankful for. It is almost impossible to describe. God has indeed been merci ful to me; and your prayers and mine most have indeed been listened to. From the 9th hour of the morning of September 25 until 10 o'clock at night the whole foroe was under a blaze of fire, every inch of the road disputed ; and, as our casualties will show, a sad loss we have sustained. Instead of affording any great relief to this unfortunate garri son of Lucknow, au I am writing one week after our entrance, we are almost as badly off as the garrison cut off from oar baggage; no communication with Cawnpore, and with few supplies left; daily fight ing daily loss. My poor good friend General Neill fell almost tho last shot that was fired on the 25th ult. I was close to him. A wretched man shot him from the top of a house. He never spoke again, and could not have suffered a moment's pain. There was a gun between us at the time, but I got round and saved his body by carrying it into the entrenched camp on a gun , and it was buried by his own regiment the next ay. I am now attached to Brigadier Stisted, who succeeds to the command of the Ist Brigade. My poor friend Arnold has lost his leg and is in a dangerous state. Poor Bailey is ba dly wounded, and I fear the spine is touched, for he has lost the use of hie arms ; and a frightful number of the men, and sergeants—nearly one hundred. Poor Paken ham, too, was killed early in the day, and many many other friends whom you did not know. When it will be over nobody can tell. And the risks and the chances of each day make it sad to think of. And now I have to tell you of the loss of my poor boy. What has become of him I know not ; but he must have been killed on that dreadful night. I did not want him to come, but he said yes, he would come with me, and was afraid to stay behind when the baggage was left. All the other Coolies, and horsekeepers, &c., got in safely ; but the rebels fol lowed up our rear so closely that they cut off our sick and wounded, and at one time our heavy guns. The latter were recovered the next morning, but they burnt our wounded 6B they were in their doolies, and the bearers they either killed or pressed into their service to give information. Picture the horrors of that night for the poor wounded. Arnold, Bailey, and many others, all left till the next morn ing, until a regiment could go back and find them. Arnold was shot a second time in the same leg whilst in his dooly. It is useless to tell you of my hair-breadth escapes on that day, for everyone had the same. We are now living in a part of the Palace of Lucknow, bet such a scene of Wth, mixed up with costly things, it is impossible to imagine. The finest china of the latest pattern from Bond street, or some other fashionable tradespeople, used by the soldiers of the force, cookbor, or any one. Cookboys sitting on damask stools cooking the men's dinners ; shawls and ornaments all kicking about, no one being at the trouble to carry them for want of means ; and all this mixed up with dead bodies of Savoys, horses, camels, until the stench is so great we can scarcely sit—and no one to move all this filth. The men are all fighting, clearing the town, and the natives, with their abominable cute, refus ing to touch a single thing. I went to see Mrs. the morning after I got in, and was truly thankful to find her alive and well with a dear little child. Her friends at Madras had heard sfie was dead. She was so glad to see me, and good old Neill had brought a box of all kinds of things for the ladies, such as arrow -root, sago, candles, Bc. Bc., and some wine, all of w hi c h I had the great pleasure of distributing. And, fancy, the dear old regiment had subscribed at Cawnporo for the same good purpose : but their box has not yet come up with the heavy baggage, and I much fear the whole of the baggage has fallen into the rebels' hands, for we were obliged to leave it about four miles from Lucknow, and we have not heard of it since. The poor ladies expected to have left for Caweporo immediately after our arrival, and that was the intention ; but now it is as much as we can do to guard them here. I have also seen the —e, or, rather, —, for the poor woman has lag ly been confined, and her little baby died two days ago. All the ladies are living in little holes ; Mrs. has about six feet square for herself, nurse, and child; and they were all in daily fear of being blown up by these wretched rebels, who have mined underneath the garrison in all directions. There seems to be no help for it now but patience, and to wait for the English reinforcements. Our force is so small nothing more can really be done. Sir James Outram is here—a braver man never rode a horse. Ile headed nearly every charge on the 26th, and was slightly wounded. What am I to write or say to poor Mrs. Neill ? and he staked me, before we went into action, in case he fell, to do so. A painful duty, and I do it with a sad heart ; but it must be done. Oct. 6.—Thus more of our officers wounded: poor Groom very severely, thigh-bone broken by round shot, and I fear he will lose his leg i poor Fraser badly hit in the shoulder; and Galway slightly in the neck. Major Stephenson had a very narrow escape. A bullet passed through a door first and hit him on the stomach afterwards. Bat he will be well again soon. Several of the men also were wounded. I went to see poor Arnold and Bailey last night. The first cannot live more than a few hours. The scenes of this hospital are past belief. Two hundred and upwards lying side by side, sick and wounded, and our poor good ladies are walking about, bathing the heads and soothing the dying. May God bless them for it. Oct. B.—A severe attack upon our position this morning, and great loss of life. The enemy have undermined us in all directions, blowing up several of our men. We cannot get out of this horrid city. It mist us 809 casualties on the 26th to get in, and to attempt to get out with the women and children would cost us half our force. Oct. 18.—Well, another week has passed, and we are still shut up in this wretched palace, and from all accounts that reach us, no prost of getting out for the next three weeks at the least. Fortunately, ourprovisione, such as they are,last out well, but these gun bullocks are rather tough. —'m brother is here, doing duty with the 78th Highlanders, but is badly wounded, and has lost two of his fingers. I went to see him in the hospital yesterday, but he was aeleep. Bailey and Fraser are doing pretty well. Galway all right again ; Groom ve7 bad, and I much fear will not recover. Stephenson 's hurt has also turned out badly, and he looks very ill. No medicines, no wine, no comforts of any kind ; no clean rags even todremewotuida,sobut few can recover. The enemy still being determined, mining and throwing shells all about us. Oct. 19.—T0-day we get the Horne New. of the 28th August sent in, and in it your arrival at South ampton. Judge of my delight at hearing of your sae arrival. To-night I send off a few lines in a quill for you, addressed to Mrs. —, for her to forward, to tell you of my safety. How I hope it may reach you. Three of our men have had the Vic toria Cross awarded them by General Sir James Outran, and had Galway's name been sent in he would, I am sure, have had it too, for he gallantly threw a wounded sergeant over his shoulder and brought him out of the most murderous fire of grape and musketry. Grant was the first man into the garrison of lAA:know on the 25th September, and General Outram mentioned his name in Orders. In fact, both officers and men have behaved most splen didly, but all are sadly reduced in numbers. Poor Groom is very bad, and I fear cannot recover. Fraser ' and Bailey are doing better. Oct. 22.—Groom died yesterday. What a blow for his wife ! His child be had never seen. No sooner was his body removed from the hospital than Barclay was put in his place, badly wounded. We have now lost six officers killed and seven wounded —thirteen; but other regiments are equally unfortunate, especially the 76th Highlanders. Oar poor horses are now without grain, and little grass : some are starving. I was so grieved when my little note to you through Mrs. was not sent on Sunday last. The coolie could not go, so the third mail will leave, and no news from me. Oat. 27.—At last we have beard of a chance of a relief. A column from Delhi is now on its way to join another force at Cawnpore ; and we may now expect them here in a few days, so we are all in high spirits. We are all looking a little thin upn our living. I had the good hick to get about half a glsatfull of rum, a few days ago, which did me a world of good, for from the change of weather—not to cold—we have all been a little seedy from diarrhcea ; and the poor sick in hospital, those that have lost limbs, die rapidly. Oct. 29.—Captain Crommelin, one of our engineers, li t ; laid up with a bad ulcer on his foot, but nothing else the matter. Stephenson sent for me yesterday ; he is very unwell ; his wound doing badly. We ex 'poet our relief by the 10th of November. 1 1 Nov. 2.—Another sad morning. My friend, Ned Grant, is very seriously wounded. I have just re turned from hie side. He was shot in the stomach, and the ball must have touched the liver. It was eat out of the right side. I was with him soon after he was hit, but I am very uneasy about him ; and he thinks badly of himself. Stephenson is, I think, much worse to-day ; and, judging from his appear ' *no!, I don't think he can recover. Nov. 11.—I have not added anything to this since the 2nd. Our relief is assembling about three miles distant, and between this and the 20th I suppose it will take place. As you may imagine, lam very tired of this life, and very hungry too, for we have now been on half rations for a month, and not a drop of beer, or wine, or spirits. The consequence is our sick and wounded are doing very badly, and the whole wrier looking thin and wretched. Ned Grant is doing pretty well, though not out of danger; Fraser, Bailey, and Bartley, doing well; Stephenson sinking from weakness, I think; his wound, they say, still looks healthy. Nov. 14.--Sir Colin Campbell, and our relief, is advancing. They commence their operations to day. We are to assist them to-morrow. We are very badly provided with men, and they very weak from living so long on half rations, and without grog. But I trust all will be well, and that the relief of Lacknow will be effected this time. Nov. 213.—Three miles out of the , i7aiii7Ld city of Lncknow. God be praised ! We are relieved at last, and in the open again. I must leave the ac count of our getting out to my next, as I peat this at once to save your heart aching any more. Poor Ste phenson is gone : he died the morning after he was taken out of the city. Grant is a trifle better. I have not seen hint for a week. Poor Mrs. Banks! I took her out myself, she hanging on my arm, and her dear little baby in my arms. I was obliged to take her under the fire of large guns nearly all the way; but had to make her believe most of them were our own guns. I never felt so thankful as when she was in safety. I then returned to Lucknow, and came out with the garrison. I have got a small tent for her and a capital carriage. I was so jolly at being able to do so much for her. I know not our movements yet ; however, rumour says we are to remain here and hold oar own. My little note sent out in a quill was captured by the enemy. The Governors of King Edward the Sixth's Oratowar School, Chelmsford, we are informed, hare granted se extra week's holiday to the scholars, in consequence of the =untie of the Prisms Royal.— CAclnesford CArenkle. From lists published by the Sport it appears that thus are seventy-nina jockeys and forty-thus trainee of me-horses now in Franca, and that the grader part of both are English. The Sport states that a yacht club is about to be established in Paris for MI France by MM. de Oraniont and de Drettfile-tieneeterre, and that some hopes are entertained that an august patronage will be socorded to it. The Sport remarks that, in order to give the dab a chance of mosso, it will be necessary to modify in a liberal rpirit the maritimo regulations of Frames. The Grand Duke Louis, the eldest brother of the reigning Duke of Baden, +it dangerously ill. Bulktins pub hated et Carlaruhe on January 9 hold oat some hope that he may MOIST. The Tosslonnais says :—" Intelligence has been received hem that an expeditionary corps, composed of ma rines, is to be shortly despatched to China. These forces will be sent off skooltansonely from this port and from Brest." A despatch from Constantinople says that most tempsstaoss weather had prevailed to the Black Bea, and apprehensions were entertained of disasters. The greater number of the impels expected from that quarter had not arrived. Nur LIBEART or THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The Bineben at the Middle Temple are preparing to 111110 t WV binary; the It* of be e n le be the modes d the river tie proposal the bWditer ea the she el the Intrana haying been absodooed. Mr. H. R. /Anthem is the arehitect appointed to superintend the men& ef the beildleep. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS. AID 11ITIIII TRLSOIPAPI.) (11011 001 OWN PARIS, Fauui 3101N1110. An atrocious attempt was made lest evening upon the life of the Emperor, opposite the opera, in the Rue Lepelletier. Three grenades thrown at the Empress's carriage exploded. Happily each of their Majesties escaped with very slight scratches, but some persons in the crowd were killed, and others wounded. Gen. Roguet was amongst the wounded. Their Majesties witnessed the performance at the opera, and afterwards returned to the Tuilleries. The above appeared in the Daily News of this morning. The following telegrams have been since received: " PARIS, P R IMA; 8.30. " The Monitear gives the following detail :—On their Majesties arriving at the Opera, three explosions, coming from hollow projectiles, were heard. A con siderable number of persons, who were stationed before the theatre, including some soldiers of the escort and of the Guard of Paris, were wounded, two of them mortally. The hat of the Emperor was pierced by a projectile, and General Roguet, aide-de-camp to his Majesty, who was on the front of the carriage, was slightly wounded in the nape of the neck. Two footmen were also wounded. One of the horses in the carriage of his Majesty was killed, and the ourriage broken by the projectiles. Instruction has been given to make several arrests. At the Tuileries their Majesties found a great num ber of persons, amongst them the English ambas sador." " PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 15. . . " The lifoniteur speaks of the attempt to agouti nate the Emperor yesterday evening. The at tempt was made with hollow projectiles. A con siderable number of persona were wounded, two mortally. Neither the Emperor nor Emprese was touched. The hat of the Emperor was pierced, and General Roguet, who was in the carriage, slightly wounded. Two footmen were wounded, one horse killed, and the imperial carriage was broken by the projectiles. Various arrests have taken place." Another telegram says :—" The Emperor showed himself to the people at the doors of the Opera. house. He was received with enthusiastic cheering. He remained till the end of the opera. On his return at midnight, he was hailed by the enthusiastic cheers of an immense multitude, which was waiting for him in the streets." BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, FA/DAT MORNING. The Monifeur publishes the monthly returns of the Bank of France to yesterday, Jan.l4. We give the most important items, with the corresponding figures of last month in ►egard : Jan. Deo. Coin and bullion, Paris 70,900,076 .... 82,697,109 Ditto ditto branch banks Bills di.cmnted, Pule 292,119,080 .... 269,908,201 Ditto branch banks Notes in circulation, Paris Ditto branch banks Treasury deposits Private deposits, Paris 144,078,672 .... 123,384,369 Ditto branch banks Advanced on public ostatritiee 24,092,700 .... 18,932,436 Ditto by branch banks Advanosd on railway @sanitise 37,043,358 .... 21,117,200 Ditto by branch banks The coin and bullion stand now at 10,050,0001., being 814,0001. more than at the date of the last return. In the interim, however, a much larger total was temporarily attained. The circulation is now 23,2.50,0001., or nearly 2,000,0001. sterling more than in December. This increase is principally caused by a great addition to the b lls discounted. (PlOll OLT& OWN PARIS, TIMIDLY EVININO. A Constantinople letter of the 6th, received in Paris to-day, states that the Porte, in ratifying the Danube navigation treaty concluded at Vienna, has made certain reserves, the principal object of which is to recognise the right of the Congress to recon sider the question. This is quite right, and it will probably turn out, whenever the Congress meets, that the Vienna journals which represent that it will only have to register (prns dre rade) what has been done, are put ting : forth pretensions which no diplomatist will seriously maintain. Nevertheless the ratification of the treaty by the Sultan being thought to be an act of uncalled-for complaisance towards Austria produced a bad effect at Constantinople, and there was a moment when it was thought that the rela tions between the Cabinet and the French Embassy would be affected by it. This apprehension wee, however, not realised. At the date of this letter Reschid Pacha was stillliving, and M. Thonvenel was on the best possible terms with him. The Bourse has improved a shade in consequence of the lowering of the discount of the Bank of England. There were violent fluctuations in Mobilier, the highest price of the day being 935 fr., and the lowest 885 fr. It left off at 915 fr., with a rise after the late immense fall of 10fr. Railways were better, and rose from sfr. to 10fr. The Emperor has been to Fontainebleau to-day. M. Dapin made a speech to-day in the Court of Cassafion for the first time since his appointment to the office of Procnrenr-General of that Supreme Court. Although the question on which he spoke— one which has been much disputed, relating to the law of husband and wife—was extremely recondite, and not of a nature to interest a general audience, there was a very great crowd attracted by curiosity, to hear the ex-President of the Legislative Assembly and the prince of French lawyers in his old familiar tribune. He spoke for two hours and a half, and with all the energy of a younger man. I shall ex plain shortly the nature of the case, which is one of general interest, when the judgment is given on Saturday next. The of air of the Thnrneyssen bankruptcy, which some time since excited so much sensation in con nexion with the Credit Mobilier, came on again yesterday, on appeal before the Imperial Court. The " conclusions" of M. Chain d'Est Ange, Procureur- General, were that as the deed on which M. Auguste Thurneyssen relied to show that the partnership btween him and his nephew Charles bad never been published, it was nnU and void, and that conse quently he was, as the Tribunal of Commerce had decided, his nephew's partner, and responsible for the enormous deficit (about 16,000,000 fr.) left by him. With respect to M. George Thurneyssen, son of M. Auguste, the substitute came to the conclu sion that he was not a partner of Charles, but aim - ply his clerk, with an interest in his operations, an d that therefore the judgment of the tribunal respect.. ing him ought to be confirmed. The court an nounced that it would deliver judgment on Saturday. The Emperor, in plain clothes, and accompanied by some persons of his household, left the Tuileries yesterday in a carriage, and proceeded to the hotel of the Prince de Chimay, on the Choi Malatya* to visit the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, who bad arrived in themorning in Paris. SPAIN. A despatch from Paris says :—" The Spanish mi nistry has tendered its resignation in consequence of the nomination of M. Bravo Murillo. The resigna tion had not yet been accepted. The cabinet will retain office if the Queen shall consent to dis solve the Cortes." LATER FROM INDIA. EAST INDIA HOUSE DESPATCH. The subjoined telegram was received at the East India House this afternoon. It will be observed that it tarnishes only Bombay news. The last telegram from Bombay stated that the tele graphic communisation between that place and Bengal bad been ',interrupted. This may explain the absence of intelligence from Oude or Cawnpore. "TO SIB JAMES MELVILL, EAST INDIA-HOUSE. " The garrison of Futtehpore, pressed by insur gents, bee abandoned part of their entrenchments, and has taken up another and more secure position. " A column from Delhi, under Colonel Seaton, at tacked a body of insurgents at Genigre [Genowree ?] on the Neemuddy (?) River, and defeated them, kill ing 160, and taking three guns out of four. Three Alegre were killed and one wounded on our side. Brigadier Whitlock's column had arrived at Secunderabad on December 14, en route for Vigor. The insurgents in the neighbourhood of Jubbnlpore, were attacked on the 25th of November by a detachment of the 47th Madras Native Infantry without any decisive result. Reinforcements were &avenging to Jabbulpore. " The Rajah of Amjheera and his Minister have been tried and sentenced to death. The Minister has been hanged. The sentence on the rajah awaits the confirmation of the gevernment of India. Other executions have also taken place. Punjaub, Scinde, and Bombay all qaiet. No far- Bheel depredations are reported, and quiet pre vails:generally. _ " H. L. ANDERSON, " Secretary to Government. " Bombay, Dec. 24." " Malta, Jan. 14, 1858. (Per Ermine, 9.10 p.m.) " Prom V. G. Montanus." azscurroN ez PAIIILIY. PAISLEY, TJECIISDAY. To-day the execution of John Thomson. lately convicted of the murder,t, by poisoning with prussic aci d, of • girl, named Agnes Montgomery, • millworker, in Eagleeltam (a village about ten miles south of Glasgow), took place in Paisley. From the heartless manner in which the murder was committed, there was not the slishtest attempt in any quarter to petition for • ramie don of his sentence, and the criminal aooordingly at the outset was induced to confess his guilt in general terms. The *Reeser& devoted himself with great earnestness to reli gions exerolies, in which he was assisted by Messrs. Wilson and Altkin, ministers of the established church of England in Paisley, and Mr. Smith, the chaplain of the prison. He appeared at • loss to assign any definite reason for administering the prussic add, and made contradictory statements on thir point. Till within • day or two of his execution, he preserved the same firmness with which he had conducad himself during the trial ; but, in the comae of Tuesday, he became restless and unsettled. On Wednes day, several of his relations visited the prison, but he mimed to see them. _ . . few Minutes before eight o'clock, Thomson was con ducted from the condemned cell into the court hail, when he was pinioned. The prison garb bad previously been removed, and he now appeared in a neat suit of black, which had been presented to him by the magistrates. lie was deathly pale, and seemed to have nerved himself with great effort, making no reply to the clergyman who accompanied him, and dually through the vestibule of the mart, and emending r= with his eyes closed. Cala-raft, two town officers, the clergymen, the magistrates, &c., took their places behind, and he was immediately placed on the drop, and the cep drawn over his face. Here an unfortunate delay took place, Calcraft discovering that he could not affix his rope to the beam properly without the aid of a pair of steps, which, after much unseemly bustle, were obtained, and puled from hand to hand to the drop. The Rev. Mr. Wilson, who wen standing close beside the drop, then offered up a dint but fervent prayer, the prisoner standing motionless es a statue. The drop t fell, and in about three minutes life appeared to be extinct. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed with regard to the manner in which Caleraft performed his functions, the bolt being withdrawn so suddenly, without signed of any kind, that the clergyman and several others had a narrow escape from being precipitated into the opening in which the dying wretch was struggling. After hanging half IR hour the body was cut down, and was subsequently buried with in Tlte crowd, which hada the prison. with great decorum, ex cept at the close, when Calcraft was hooted, then began to disperse, and in a short time the streets had resumed their oseel Ice =to Thmamm's confession of guilt in connexion with the &gleam murder, we learn that since Lis trial he stated that when only nine years of age he drowned a boy in a quarry hole at Tsrbmt, into which he intentionally ited hiza.—Manchate Gwortiiam. A PABY•HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE.-THREE PERSONS BURNS!) IV -OW H. EIBTER, Twritsnne. On Tuesday night last the inmates of Fouth-hill Farm, in the parish of Withyoombe, Somerset. were awokeand alarmed by the report of a gnu On Former Hayes, gen., descending the la irs , followed by his younger son and a lad, they discovered the hones to be on fire, and that a loaded gun kept over the mantelpiece bad exploded from the heat. They succeeded in reaching the front door, the key of which was usuelly left in the lock, but not findin it, it is supposed they returned to look for it. An elder s.n, with his wife, reached this door won after, but on finding it locked the son renamed, jumped out of a window, and burst 27 the dwr d miuuclNl' lino Tre T l e ad h , iB w w h if o l l:ar e ;etr v e h ate l d " M m t: an inner room, on seeing the door opm, rushed through the fire and sand himself. Farmer Hayes, and his younger I son are supposed to have returned to the room of the sereent girt for the key of the door, which the latter had taken up stairs with her, and both of them, together with the Offilitlt. girl, perished in the ruins. The key was fond about the person of the servant-girl when dug out ;it was very unusual for her to take it out of the lock at night, and why she did so on this occasion cannot be conjectured. Every particle od the furniture and clothes were enturnmed, se also several corn-ricks adjoining the house. We hear that the property was not insured. Tin ROYAL MARRIAGE.—HULL.—The Mayor of Hull will give a dinner to the members of the corporation ma the day of the marriakte of the Prince's Royal.—Lasne.— At a meeting celled by the Mayor yesterday, it wee me mowed that the ocomion would be celebest.d there by a procession ;that the military stationed at the twrracks wou.kt fire afro &joie on the moor ; that a public, dinner at • ma somab.e price would be provided ; and that the Leeds Rational Recreation Society had arranged for a concert, to which the working classes would be admitted for sixpence— ' • number having been subscribed for at fat. each, to enable Chia to be does without loos.---SHUFFIILD.—The town council on Wednesday derided to present a congratulatory "Adms to her Mojeaty, end also to raise a subrcription for the purpose of providing for every necessitous family in the town the mons of rejoicing in Ma event. A committee was appointed to carry this into effect. It is expected that the entuant nalined will enable the committee to present to each poor busily the sam of 3e. or 4a. MULL Pura.- On Siouan Tautusaar, Jaw. 14.—Adadorrao at mynas', 741; dila% by by dabs% 19l ; to& vidiora 932. la; win Es fort you ant Thi Par The time Fund , severe. sad AL - 16 7 . plainti the de 11rI in the and in in add A end were Land) Mr was n nothil OW. not p noted — iiii ear Ha b sold c csalg at the low a wits. bather hie fa mi. ihil ry Mr after came Mi wonli — i i ; Bugg , The, tlon 1 Irk" uoe thot 674 had kno keel tlitt love pL mo me C I