The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1857. the reflecting portion of the community look with far more satisfaction to the mind and disposition of his younger brother, Oscar, Duke of Ostrogothic, who in almost all respects resembles his father. As Prince Charles, the Crown Prince, and probably by this time the Regent of Sweden and Norway, lately lost his only son, the infant Duke of Sudermannland, and his daughter are excluded by the terms of the constitution from the suc cession to the throne, Prince Oscar is in fact already the heir presumptive to the throne. As may easily be supposed, these changes in the hand that wields the sceptre of the neighbouring Scandinavian kingdom are watched with the greatest interest in Den- mark, where a large party is already formed in favour of the union of the Scandinavian kingdoms, and a still larger one for getting rid of the German Duchy out of the king dom of Denmark. The King of Denmark will, in the course of this month, visit both Jutland and Schleswig, and be absent from his insular dominions for about two or three weeks. THE PRINCIPALITIES. THE ELECTIONS IN MOLDAVIA. The following despatch from Jassy, dated Tuesday, the 15th of September, has been received: — Nine-tenths of the proprietors and clergy have voted in the new elections. A majority of these for the Union. AMERICA. The only news of importance is the great financial crisis in New York. Several banks have failed, and a vast number of commercial houses had suspended payments. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald remarks that the Administration " think it a little strange that England has never replied to the letter of Secretary Cass, relative to the rejection of the Dallas Clarendon Treaty. Perhaps their atten tion is too much occupied with other matters." From Mexico we learn that the revolutionist out break in Yucatan is successful. The revolutionists are of the Radical party. From the west coast of Mexico we learn that the British Consulate had been attacked by a party of the National Guard. Colonel Kennedy has been arrested at Belize. At Chili an amnesty law for political offences had been passed. The military expedition for Utah had been ordered to proceed to its destination. Dr. Forny frail ac cepted the appointment of superintendent of Indian affairs in Utah. General Harney or Colonel John son would have the command of the force. Ten companies had been despatched to Kansas to replace those ordered to Utah. The New York Times states that one-third of the force selected for the expedi tion had deserted. AUSTRALIA. The dates per Columbian are, Sydney, 18th July; Melbourne, 22nd. She has brought gold valued at 373,0001. Sydney sovereigns have been proclaimed a legal tender in Victoria. The production of gold is in creasing. The export to the 18th July, 1,499,800 ounces. At Buckland river about 300 Europeans had attacked 1,500 Chinese, and driven them into the bush. The ringleaders were in custody. The miners, both European and Chinese, had returned to their labours. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE BRITISH MINISTER AT LIMA. BY the late South American mails intelligence has been received of an attempt to assassinate Mr. S. E. Sulivan, the British Minister at Lima, on the even ing of the 11th of August last. It was first stated that Mr. Sulivan was alone when the act took place, and further that he had died. At the moment of leaving, Mr. Sulivan, though in a highly critical state, was not then dead. For the rest, we are enabled by means of a private letter to give authentic details of this sad occurrence. Mr. Sulivan was in the company of another gentleman, whose account of the trans action is as follows : Lima, Aug. !2, 7 a.m. The whole of Liens and Callao has been thrown into a state of utter consternation by a most dastardly attempt to assassinate my friend Mr. Sulivan, in his own house, last evening a little before seven. 1 fear it is an assassinatim, for the doctors give no hope of his recovery. We were dining comfortably together when the steward rushed in through the bedroom, followed by the assassin, into the office, calling out " Thieves !" and upon our jumping up and going towards the door we were met by the villain, who, without saying a word, placed a blunderbuss close to Mr. Stuivan's stomach and discharged it, and immediately started off the way he came in, without taking a single article. Mr. Sulivan staggered back into my arms, saying " He's killed me." Three pistol balls were taken out of his stomach and a haltounce ball was cut out of the fleshy part of his back. As you can judge, we have passed a dreadful night attending upon the sufferer, preparing him for the worst, and doing what was necessary as regards his last wishes in case the wounds are mortal. No reason can be assigned for the foul deed, for he had no personal enemies, and the general opinion is that it is a political affair of the Vivanco party, at present in arms against the Castilla Government. Severe. persons have been seized, but it is not yet known whether they were of the party. The servants state that three other men remained in the . _ back passage during the affair. I have to be thankful that I myself escaped injury most unaccountably, for if the shot had been made a yard or two off some of the bullets must have touched me. The excitement is naturally very great here, for after this instance of coldblooded murder no one considers himself safe. It remains to be seen whether this will not be made a Government question between Great Britain and Peru. The gentleman who gives the above account is a merchant of considerable standing in Lima, and had frequently acted as secretary to Mr. Sulivan, with whom he was on very intimate terms. A despatch from Callao, August 12, 3 p.m., states that a Frenchman and a negru had just been arrested on suspicion of being accomplices in the assassination of Mr. Sulivan. There were not the slightest hopes of his recovering. A reward of 100 ounces had been offered for the apprehension of the murderers. Mr. Sulivan is a son of the Right Hon. Laurence Sulivan, brother in-law of the Premier, and formerly for many years Deputy-Secretary at War. He was appointed a clerk in the Foreign•otfice in 1832, and, after going through a long course of diplomatic employment, was appointed Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General in Chili in 1849, and transferred to Peru in 1853. 91 5 camp and rode up to the place with a small escort to advise the men to pay quietly; they fired on him, he charged into the suburbs, but getting entangled among the houses was obliged to retire with the loss of six men. The end of this affair was that the suburbs of the village were pillaged and burned by our men, one hundred of the villagers cut down, and the revenue, with a fine of 1,000 rupees besides, collected at the point of the bayonet. " I don't know," observes this officer, " whether " any other village will oppose me, but I fancy "not. The revenue is coming in, and heavy " fines are being paid in dogyed sullenness " wherever I go." This is but a solitary in stance—a straw in the air, but it is sufficient to indicate to us what we may expect to hear when our revenue collectors go round the Punjaub in November. And with this hazard staring us in the face we are flooding the plains of Bengal with Sikhs and Ghoorkas The Calcutta letters have arrived with dates to the Bth August. Nothing definite is stated regarding our position at Delhi, except that the city yet re mained in the hands of the mutineers. The following letter from Dinapore explains the catastrophe there : July 30, 6". m. . . We have just r Ived, n‘l3. have learnt very sal news. It seems a force :el t thi, by steamer the day before yes terday, consisting of about 330 men of the 10th and 37th, and 50 Sikhs bound for Arrali. They were landed abreast of the piece, marched up to it, and attacked the enemy. The result is most mournful to record. They were of course immensely outnumbered, and after bard fighting had to retreat, having suffered a fearful loss of about 200 killed arid wounded, among whom are 8 officers. The remnant made good their retreat to the steamer, and returned here about twelve o'clock to-day, bringing with them a great number of the wounded. The general sent 100 men and 2 guns away from hero today, so that only about 250 men and 4 guns now re main for the protection of this place. Everybody is cursing hisincapacity whose mismanagement has brought about these disasters. The Calcutta Englishman sums up the position of affairs as follows : It will be asked what are our present hopes and pro spects ? In the Punjaub mutiny has been quelled anti punished with a strong hand, but from its frontier throughout the north-west provinces law and government do not exist, and, except here and there an isolated garri son, the British power is for the time extinct. Delld has not fallen, nor is it believed that the little army which has dared to besiege the numbers collected there can :eke it without reinforcements. Agra is be- bevel', for we have no certain information, to have teen plundered, and the garrison to have retirej into the fort. Descending the Ganges, we hold nothing but ('awnpore, which is rPoccupied and held by General Neill. General Havelock advanced from that point to the relief of Lucknow, but has been opposed by so large a force that it is understood that he will have to wait for reinforcements, of which, according to the latest accounts, a small detachment has reached him. It is supposed that on his reaching Lucknow the garrison will be withdrawn, and Oude abandoned for the time, and that a force will be concentrated at some convenient point, to advance so soon as the season permits. Bengal and Behar would have been undisturbed had not the wretched blundering at Dinnpore enabled the mutineers there to escape, and to do much mischief. The revolt, which according to the latest English papers was declared by Mr. Vernon Smith in his place in Parliament to be entirely subdued, now includes at least 100,0Q0 men, and extends through whole kingdoms. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Sep'ember 15. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—THOMAS HARRISON, Kent, coal merchant—The WELSH TOTOSI LEAD and COPPER MINING COMPANY. BANKRUPTS. JAMES MELROSE and THOMAS EDWARD HUSSEY, Hatton•garden,)roofounders—JAMES CHANDLER, sen., Epsom. brewer—WM. EDWIN DEACON, Gosport, linendraper— GEORGE VINCENT, MiSlIeS, Essex, beethouse keeper—THOMAS DEAN, late of Staples Inn, Holborn, scrivener—AßßAHAM NASH, Everett-street, Brunswick-square. builder—THOMAS FRANCIS. Lamb•place, Kingsland•road. builder—JoHN HOPTON WYLD, Bristol, wine merchant—JOSEPH BLANEY SPENCER, Halifax, joiner. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ANDREW CURIE, Loch. winnoch—ANDßEW LANDELLS, Airdrie, draper—CHAS. WM; Edinburgh. spirit merchant—Jolla HUTCHINSON, Campbeltowil, contractor JOHN BUCHAN, Glasgow, accountant DAVID MACKIE, St. Andrew's, pIumber—ALEXANDER GREIG, Dundee, net man u facturer—J As. M uRDOCH, Glasgow, valuator—MOßlTZ FRAKENBERG, Glasgow, fancy-leather worker. Friday, Sept. 18. BANKRUPTS.—WILLIAM HACKS WEBSTER, Chipping On* gar, Essex, baker—GEoßGE HEAVEN, Chippenham, Wilts, cord. wainer—CHARLES WELCH, Wells, Somersetshire, innkeeper— JAMES NEWMAN, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, bookseller— THOMAS WHEELER, Hereford, miIIer—THOMAS GRATWICIC. Camherweli•green, cheesemonger—CHAßLES BROWN, Edgbss. ton-street, Birmingham, leather dealer—DANIEL Du rros, Liver. pool, grocer—ALEX. HARTHILL and JOHN MCKEAN, Hudders. tield, woollen merchants—JOHN LLOYD, Bryn Salwrn, Me. rionethahire, cattle salesman—JAMES WCARTNEV, South • Shields, provision merchant—THomAs FREAK, Deansrate, Manchester, draper. SCOTC H SEQUESTRATIONS.—GEORGE P tTETZ.ON, Bog. head, near Kirkintilloch, farmer—RowAN and COMPANY, Gl's , gow, engineers—WlLLlAM CRAIG, Glasgow, machine maker— Wrt.r.rase ELM, Dundee, ship broker. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE private letters from India published in the morning papers, though here and there containing a scrap of favourable intelligence, tell much that will give rise to grave apprehen dons. General Havelock's retreat to Cawn- pore is confirmed by a staff officer writing from Divapore August 3rd, the latest date received. "He has only 700 effective men left," he writes. " Both his force and Luckuow " look very fishy. I really should not wonder " if it does not end by losing Lucknow, Have " lock. and Agra." Then ho adds, "If they `` could only take Delhi, Havelock might be relieved," and concludes, " It is my private ' opinion that this place and A Ilahabad stand " a chance of being the only two places in our " occupation between Calcutta and the Pun " jaub, unless that Delhi force does some " thing quick." What we are doing at Delhi it is difficult to state. The tenor of all the letters is, that reinforcements are anxiously looked for. " Lawrence from Lucknow, Wheeler from Cawn pore, and Havelock from A Ilahabad," are mentioned as being possibly "on the road," These letters are dated from the 17th to the 26th of July, and their vain anticipa tions tell us too plainly how completely com munication is cut off, and each separate post surrounded by rebels. In the detail of the reinforcements expected is an announcement by an artillery officer which, if true in point of fact, may well give us just cause for the liveliest apprehension. " Gholab Singh," writes this officer on the 25th of July, "is going to sand us a lot of " his rabble." Taken in conjunction with the despatch of the Ghoorkas from Ne paul by Jung Behauder, this intelligence re minds us that of all military movements in connection with political events in India, the junction in the plains of Bengal of the troops of Jung Behauder with those of Gholab Singh was most dreaded by the late Sir Charles Napier. The folly and the fatuity of our Government appears beyond all comprehension. Have they forgotten the hunting expedition in 1847 ofJung Behauder, who came down from his hills with 20,000 men to " hunt tigers" forsooth, while Modkee and Ferozeshah were being con tested ? and do they not know that at a word from Gholab Singh every Sikh would be in arms against us? Mark, too, in the Punjaub that delicate test of public feeling the breeches pocket. The collection of revenue has commenced; is it paid freely? A letter from the north-western provinces and the Punjaub, in to-day's Times, tells us : An officer of irregular cavalry was sent out to collect the revenue, and he had no force with him but a squadron of his own regiment—about 120 sabres. lie pitched his T