The Press. — London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, MARCH 27, 1858. by the Sikhs' camp; the walls are very much de stroyed in souls places, particularly the Moree Bastion, nearly opposite Hindoo Rao's house, and the little mosque, where our bastions were. Old Delhi, which is about a quarter of a mile trom the new city, is, they say, full of Mahomedans, most of them Ghazies. All outside the walls are miser able little mosques and Mussulman burial-grounds. On Wednesday the Nawab of Nijjur was hung ; it is a great shame the horrid old King is not hanged also, since he gave out fort:,-four poor Europeans to be murdered ; many of them were hid in the purlieus of the palace. On Thursday morning I drove with Captain G— to see our camp and cantonments ; all the houses are burnt and destroyed. I saw the Flag Staff, and Captain G— told me when they came there they found a cartful of skeletons, which they burie d. He showed me the burial-ground where they buried all the soldiers, and he had just marked out a new one as the old one was full of our poor soldiers. The ground all about our camp and Hindoo Rao's house is very broken, covered with very large stones and a prickly bush, which afforded a capital cover for the enemy, who used to come out in swarms the first month and try to drive our troops from that position. We had two bastions close to Hindoo Rao's house occupied by Ghoorkas and the Rifles. The old mosque is marked all over with round shot and shells, and so near the walls that when oar men used to sing there the enemy could hear them. The ground is rather high on which Hindoo Rao's house stands ; it forms a sort of ridge, from which ycu look down on one side into the city, and on the other on our cantonments ; all the trees are broken and injured by the shot, and the ground marked by shells. The dead stillness was quite painful, and it did not seem as if such dreadful scenes had been enacted there so lately. Captain G--- showed me a room in this house where the killed and woundea had been brought after an en gagement, and said he had often seen it swimming with blood and echoing with the screams of the dying and wounded. I saw Sir Theophilus Met calfe the other day; he is held in great dread here by the natives, and is every day trying and hanging all he can catch. The room in which poor Miss Jennings, her father, and Miss Clifford were killed is now a messioom, and the stains of Miss Jennings' blood and the hacks of the swords are to be seen on the walls. The whole city teems with horrors; there is scarcely a house in which some horrible scene has not taken place. I would raze the place to the ground; it is too fearful, and the atrocities too horrible ever again to be a place for happiness. As I drove with Captain and Mrs. G— they kept say ing, ' Here is the place where so many poor people were massacred, and this is the house where So.and- So was murdered, and here poor young Fagan was cut down.'" It may not be generally known that the King of Delhi beguiled the cares of State by poetical effusions. The following verses in the Hindustani language were composed by him during his short reign. They have been received, with an English translation, from Colonel Burn, late Military Gover nor of Delhi : Dila qhviit-i-hagg par kar to nazar, Nazatu ki juti Nazarit xa sir. Oh, heart! see the strength of the right ! The Christian M beaten with his own shoe. liachh kara Rhin ne kiyie our na Rits ne; Augrez ko tabah kiln kartns ne. Nothing could be done either by Russia or Rome ; • The English are rained by the cartridge. Fauj ne Muir ghirii hai, nind ga i Ji kityinit timbre.; subh gayit 3a sham ma. The troop surrounded, sleep and rest are gone ; Death is decided; it does little signify whether it comes in the morning or evening. comalee; the day was fine, with a light breeze and smooth sea. At ebout five p.m. the coast of Ceylon was sig:.te,l on the starboard bow. Shortly after sunset, about half•past seven, the cap tain imagined he must be nearing the port, and ac cordingly altered the course a point towards the shore. A light was there visible, and it appeared as if there were a settlement of some kind on the coast. Half an hour had not elapsed after this had been done before a large rock was visible immediately in the course of the ship. The ladies at this time were sitting on deck, the gentlemen walking up and down, or smoking on the forecastle. All of a sudden they were roused from their occupations by cries, imme diately following one another, of "Hard starboard," " Stop her." The words were scarcely out of the captain's mouth before the ship struck on the rock, and there remained hard and fast. It was now just eight p.m., was quite dark, and as any notion of getting the ship off, or indeed of saving her if she slid off the rock, was speedily put an end to by the terrible damage she had received, arrange ments were at once made to secure the lives of the passengers. The ladies and other passen gers were placed in boats, which were ordered to keep clear of the wreck on the one hand and of the shore on the other. On the wreck they could not hope to remain with safety, and the breakers on the beach precluded ail hope of executing a landing with any reasonable prospect of success. In this situation the night was passed, and when daylight broke the boats with tie ladies pulled for Trinco malee, about twelve miles distant, which they suc ceeded in reaching, while the others attempted the coast, upon which they successfully landed. The moment the sad intelligence reached the au thorities there, a steamer was at once despatched to the scene of the wreck, but too late to render much assistance. Yet the conduct of the British residents at Ceylon is spoken of in the highest terms ; every care which generous interest could lavish on the unfortunate passengers was bestowed upon them, their comfort insured in every possible way, and they were despatched by the first steamer to Suez, en route to Southampton, where it is to be hoped they will shortly and in safety arrive. The Ava has since gone down, and only a few empty boxes, which it appears the native servants on board the Ava had plundered in the excitement, were washed on shore. A strict investigation will he instituted into the sin,gulAr loss of this fine vessel. The Ava had on board a new shaft for the steamer Alma, which remains at Aden, waiting for it, before she can resume her work on the line. The loss of the Ava is a parallel to that of the Erin, which took place more than a twelvemonth ago, and concerning which little inquiry appears to have been made by the Company. ortigu aub 6olonial jatelligentt. FIZAICCE. THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR. The Moniteur of Wednesday contains the follow ing Imperial decree : His Excellency the Marshal Duc de Malakoff is ap pointed our Ambassador to her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in place of M. the Count de Persigny, whose resignation is accepted. The French papers, in criticising the appointment, express their hopes that it will be accepted with satisfaction in England. THE WRECK OF THE " KVA." A BRIEF description of the loss of this flue steamer has appeared trom the pen of one of the passengers on board. It appears that the Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the morning of the 10di of February. On board of her were Lady Inglis, the wife of the general late commanding at Lucknow, and her three chil dren; General Michell, bound for Bombay; Colonel Greaihed, the hero of the Ddbi flying column ; Cap. tam James, the saviour of the Lucknow garrison ; and many other ladies and gentlemen lately besieged there. Altogether the passengers numbered up wards of sixty. Alter the Ava left Calcutta it tran. spired that she was engaged on the part of Govern ment to take up treasure at 3ladras, and convey it to Trincomalee, thus making a deviation from her course. She arrived at bladras at four p.m. of the 14tb of January, took in some more passengers— chiefly ladies and children—and the treasure, and left for Trincomalee at the same hour on the lath. At ten a.m. on the 10th the ship was running about eleven knots and a half in the hour for Trio. • Ruaeia and Turkey, or Room, may be considered to indicate the leading Christian and Mahomedan Powers. TURKEY. The Augsburg Gazette states that France and England are agreed upon the following points :-1. The Porte must repress the insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2. It must faithfully execute the Hatti-Hountayoum. Shnuld these requisitions be complied with, it will not be necessary to consult the Paris Conference on the subject; but if otherwise, th,: Conference will be formally called upon to settle the question. ITALY. SENTENCE ON DEATH ON MAZZINI. A despatch from Genoa, dated March 20, in the Moniteur, says : The court of Genoa hay this day given judgment in the political trials which took place in consequence of the events ofJone last. Tiienty.nine prisoners are acquitted; nine sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment (with hard labour); one to thirteen years', seven to twelve years', ten to ten years', and one to seven years' imprisonment. Mazzini and five others, who were tried in their absence, and are in contempt of court, are sentenced to death. NAPLES. In consequence of the note delivered by the British Government, not only had Watt, the engi neer, whose mind had become effected, been liberated, but the King has given orders that the trial of Park should proceed with all possible despatch, in order that he might be speedily set at liberty, and enabled to return to England with his fellow•prisoner. Watt has already arrived in England, and Park is at present residing in the house of the British Consul at Naples. CHINA. Canton dates are toieb:ls: Canton was quiet. America and Russia had joined the alliance, and a course of common action has been agreed upon. The tour representatives were about to proceed to a rendezvous at Shanghai. Trade had reopened at Canton, and the site of the new factories had been marked out. The Chinese authorities receive the duties. The sepoy 70th Regiment had arrived, and was quartered within the walls of Canton. Yeh, a prisoner on board the Inflexible, was at Hong• Kong on the 15th of l'Abruary, on his way to Calcutta. Respecting the loss of life, during the attack on Canton, the Times correspondent says I have taken Rome pains to ascertain the loss suffered by the Chinese during the bombardment and the storm. We have all the official returns of the first day in our possession, and no account that I have seen places the deaths during the whole operations higher than 20j. The correspondent of the Daily Newa, on the other hand, makes the following estimate : At a guess, and nothing more, except judging by the number of dead bodies l have seen, I shoal i say the Chinese lost about a thousand killed during the bombard ment and the attack. If this loss of lite is weighed against the increased prosperity that will without doubt be seen and felt in the city, after a short period of the rule of the Western powers, I think that the must prejudiced must admit that the course taken has been the most humane. Official documents have been discovered, in which it appears that Yeh, during the short period of three months put to death no less than the enormous number of 2(t,00 U human beings. This is a fact beyond doubt, the docu ments taken showing the name of every man and woman and for what they were executed. THE NEW MEDICAL BILL. Tiffs measure has been prepared by the Board of Health, and but for the change of Government would have been brought in by the President of the Board. The principal features of the proposed bill are the following :- 1. The present legally constituted examining bodies in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, to be re enacted as the " Examining Authority " under the Act for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, not to be touched in their several rights of giving titles of honour; but their certificates, if purporting to confer any claim to registration as "legally qualified practitioner," to be subject to regulation as under 2. A Council to be established, as nearly as may be, re presentative of all interests concerned, taking as a b asis (but subject to modification in detail) Mr. Headlam's pro posal that it should consist of seventeen delegates from the different examining bodies, with six members appointed by the Crown. 3. The Council to have the right of attendance by its members or by deputy at any examination held for the pur poses of the act. 4. The Council to have power, after One public notice, and with the approval of her Majesty in Council, to make orders and regulations as follows : a. As to the form of keeping the general register and such special registers as may be kept ; and as to the pay ment of registration fee by admitted candidates. b. Fixing, in respect of age, study, knowledge, and ex amination, the conditions under which the future candidate shall be admissible to the medical profession as a qualified medical practitioner. c. Determining, in respect of the several examining boards of the United Kingdom, what share may be fulfilled by the certificate of each of them acting separately or by the cer tificate of two or more of them acting conjointly, as con tributory to the total certification which shall give ad mission to the register. d. Disallowing the future certificates of any board which shall conduct its examinations inefficiently ur irregularly. e. Establishing, or causing to be established, examination in particular branches of knowledge, professional or preli minary, where erratigments for such examination shall not have been otherwise sufficiently provided. 5. The Council to have power to disregister persons con victed of crime or guilty of infamous conduct in any profes sional capacity. 0. The register and its titles to be protected from falsifi cation ; and non-r e gistered persons to be excluded from professional privileges. 7. Every r - egister — ed person to be entitled to practise ac cording to Kis qualifications in any part of the United Kingdom. THE UNEMPLOYED SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS had an interview on Saturday last with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. C. S. Butler, M.P., introduced the deputation. IL memorial was presented, setting forth the decline of prices for Spitalfields goods, many of which had during the last few years fallen to one-half their former price, a result which the memorialists at tributed chiefly to foreign competition. The me morial prayed for an Act of Parliament for the establishment of local boards of trade. Mr. Henley said that though he sympathised deeply with the distress of the memorialists, he could not hold out any hope that the Government would make any alteration in the laws. All Governments had tried to induce the foreigner to lower his tariff, but to no purpose. He would send an answer to the me morial. Atter the Rev. John Patteson and other gentlemen had urged the objects of the petition, the deputation withdrew, 299