The Sun. — London, England, 1858-12-21 00:00:00

OPERATIONS IN OUDE. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) THE CAMP, PURSAIDEPORE, Nov. 14. Since the despatch of my last letter the steps for the re-establishment of British rule in Oude have been affording daily proofs of the sagacity with which they were taken. Amethie menaced by three columns, at once surrendered without a blow. The neighbouring talookdars have hastened to make submission, and to-day Beni Madho, whose strong holds we are rapidly approaching, has sent in to know what terms he may expect in case he yields to the Queen's authority. These results may not be appreciated at home by those who have not con sidered the subject, and who do not understand the country or . the people with whom we have to deal, but the Government will no doubt acccept them with profound satisfaction, for they will lead to the speedy pacification of the whole of this great pro vince. We must not be disappointed if desperate rebels still continue to escape our columns and to create sporadic troubles here and there, but these will soon become mere matters of police. The sove reignty of • India belongs to him who can establish hifthanniahs, or police stations, over the country, and we are rapidly re-creating those substantial tokens of our victories. But Oude is a country nearly as large as Ireland. It contains a popula tion of nearly s,ooo,ooo,—warlike, turbulent, and trained to arms. It is the mother of the Sepoys of Bengal. Its surface consists of a great plain, inter sected by rivers, full of swamps, and covered with dense jungles wherever the labour of man has not redeemed the soil from trees and thorns and pre pared it for fertile crops. In those jungles hun dreds of thousands of armed men could easily lie concealed, not, indeed, in great bodies, but in numbers sufficiently great to permit the coalition of two -or three parties to take place at any moment for the purposes of guerilla warfare. The crops of one kind or another, in their rich succession, could yield them food. The commissariat of the Sepoy is at hand in every field and in every pool of water. But it is only with the per mission of the chiefs who keep the jungle paths, and whose forts lie hid in their recesses, that men could find harbour and refuge in those natural asylums. The great Duke has given us a receipt for getting rid of jungles, and attacking forts and fortresses thereon, characterised by his own peculiar simplicity and grandeur. Ho proposed it appears by a passage in the last volume of his correspondence and despatches to cut the jungle away inch by inch. Well, if we adopted that plan and worked night and day for the next five-and-twenty years, we might expect Oude to be tolerably well cleared up to the Tcrai, except in places where the shoots had sprung up again from the stubborn roots. In the Jugdes pore jungle a square mile was considered enormous progress in the four-and-twenty hours, with thou sands of coolies at work. As to the Terai itself, no amount of labour that England could pay for would clear away the giant forests which clothe the lower slopes of the Himalayas and melt away into dismal swamps, and wastes of poisonous vegeta tion. If those Oude populations were fairly driven to hopeless resistance their efforts, though powerless against our rule, would be mighty in their influence on our finance, and. Oude would not be worth keeping on such terms. It is, therefore, a very great achievement for our Generals to have effected not only the reduction of the forts of some of the principal chiefs, hut to have gained the as sistance of those chiefs, in dismantling their own forts, disarming their own adherents and tenantry, and pacifying . their own 'districts. As great misconception has existed, or has been affected, in India with respect to our operations during the last summer, it may be as well to state - what the nature of these operations really was, and with what view they were undertaken. Oude had al ready been traversed by the columns under Franks, Lugard, and Grant, but they had made no perma nent impression. Their course had been compared - to that of cannon-balls, irresistible as they pass and leaving no trace behind, but cannon-balls do leave impressions, and the better image is that of the ship clearing the waters which, closing around it, soon efface all traces of the laboured wake. It became evident that the system of military promenades would produce no permanent effect, but up to the fall of Lucknow the Commander-in-Chief had no troops available for the establishment of mili tary posts, which were obviously necessary to utilise our toilsome marches, and to maintain our grip of the country. The capture of Lucknow and the re-establishment of our authority in its neigh bourhood, permitted the authorities to strengthen the hands of our generals by the enrolment of regi ments of military police, which would allow the Commander-in• Chief to place at the disposal of his lieutenants European soldiers, who would other wise have been employed on duties of police. While Major Bruce was organising this force of police our soldiers were not inactive, though it was absolutely essential to give them as little to do as possible during the fervid heats of summer. Bat Mann Sing, besieged by his countrymen at Fyza bad, became importunate for help. This great chief, whose family by force, fraud, and purchase had in two generations become proprietors of Vast extents of territory and thousands of villages, ren dered good service in the early part of the outbreak by sheltering all British fugitives whom he could get at, but for a long time subsequently he endea voured to pursue a doubtful neutrality, and obsti nately refused to come in to our camp. He actually fought against our garrison at Lucknow, and per haps what he saw there satisfiedhim that the " gora logue" could not be beaten. In June he declared openly for the " white people," and the rebels at once attacked him, shut him up, and by the middle of July had reduced him to straits in his fortress of Shahgunj. It became a point of honour and of policy on our part to extricate our ally. On the 22d of July Sir Hope . Grant was ordered to ad vance from Nuwabguni, a post 20 miles north-east of Lucknow, established early in May, and to move on Shahgunj. It was in the middle of the rains. At the same time Brigadier Berkeley crossed the . Ganges and established a post at Soraon. A general movement of troops followed. The 88th Regiment were sent from Cawnpore to Lucknow, the 79th Regiment from Futtehguhr, took the place, the Bth Regiment from Agra occupied Futtehguhr, and the sth Fusiliers marched from Calpee •to Allahabad. The Oude police took the place of the British troops who had marched to Shah gunj, but the disturbances in Behar and Azim ghur detained in those districts troops originally intended to operate in Oude, so that for some time Brigadier Berkeley was unable to make a forward movement from Soraon, and was obliged to content himself with taking Ticoul and Dehyn . At last the Ist Sikhs reached Allahabad, and Berkeley moved up to Pcrtabghur, near which, owing to the beginning of the illness which has unfortunately proved fatal to a very able officer, he handed over the command of the column to Brigadier Pinckney. In Behar the operations which were carried on were so 'far successful that by tho third week in October the province might be considered perfectly clear of he enemy. In Bundelcund the enrolment of a mili tary police similar to that of Oude has as yet been unsuccessful, and portions of the province are dis turbed, although great progress has been made in restoring it to order. The navigation of the Jumna has been opened, Calpee is garrisoned, Jaloun is held, and Liddell's column has been clearing the country between the Dessein and the Betwa. Gen. Whitlock operated to the west from Banda, and Brigadier-General Napier took the fort of Pouree, whither he moved to assist Brigadier Smith, de tached from the Rajpootana field force. In Oude the left bank af the Gogra was cleared, and, with the exception of the Byswarra country, there was no body of rebels in Oude beyond the force at Mithowlee and the westward. It was intended that Brigadier Troll') should drive Khan Ali Khan across the Gogra, establish him at Seetapore, and reduce the country around him, but for the pre sent that part of the combination is defeated or deferred. • Brigadier Troup has been held in check, near Seetapore, by a great concentration of all the rebels in the west of ()tide, who have availed themselves of his deficiency in cavalry to harass his flanks and rear and to attack his baggage. Two regiments of cavalry have been ordered to his assistance, and the moment they reach him the gal lant officer will, no doubt, make a signal example of Prince Peroze Shah and Khan Bahadore Khan, with their ally of Mithowlee. But the successes gained by this column in action with the enemy have not been fruitless and its position prevents their getting into Rohilcund, w an ich dtliy: a trying tongn m raise uch disturbances in that provi nce , which denuded of troops. In the west of Oude Barker and Hale have swept the enemy from the open, and have taken ltooeah, Sundee, Biswah, and other places, gradually clearing, the banks of the Ganges, and resto rin g the civil p o wer in the dis trictbetween Lucknow and the frontieioolur the disturbed Our po sts were tolerably close around disturbed districts when the Commander-in-Chief took the field. Simultaneously almost the whole of our troops made a forward movement. Brigadier- General Douglas drove the rebels . out of the Jug despore jungle,hunted them into the Kyniore hills, slew upwards of 1,200 of them, and occupied their fastnesses ; thus restoring the important country about. Arrah, Dinapore, and P atna, to peace security. Brigadier Kelly watched the right bank of the Gomra, and swept the country between Azim ghur aneTanda. Brigadier Wetherell, advancing on the left flank of the chief, stormed RaMpOre Kusseah, while Major Bulwer pushed out to Poorwa, where, with 2,000 men, of whom only 400 or 500 were British troops, he repulsed Beni Madho, at the head of 15,000 -men. - ,Brigadier Evelegh,has, now joined, that force, and is on the west of the junglee of Shunkerpore, waiting to co-operate from that side should it be necessary to force Beni Madho to submission. The Commander-in-Chief pushed on towards Amcthie from the south, while Sir Hope Grant swept down upon that for tress from Shunkerpore, and Brigadier Wetherall moved from the south-east. So admirably was the combination timed that the three columns pitched their tents before the place at three differ ent sides almost to a minute of each other. The details of the subsequent events will be learned by those who may take the trouble of reading the nar rative of our operations which follows this brief resume. Already our enemies are reduced to three manageable bodies—one in the Setapore district, one in the Salone district, and the third at the other side of the Goomtee, and notably in the Buracch division. Of Central India I do not speak, as I know nothing of the movements of that military ignis fatuus, Tantia Topee, except that he has suc ceeded in crossing the Nerbudda, but there appears to be no reason to apprehend much mischief ; his fangs have been drawn or filed down pretty closely. Of course we cannot expect in every part of such a multiplicity of operations an equal measure of uniform success. The story of Lord Mark Kerr's march against Mahomed Hoosein and Rain Bux at Judgespore, on the river Manova, in the Goruckpore district, is as follows :—On the 26th of last month his lord ship, in compliance with orders he had received, left his quarters at Hurriah, with 250 of her Ma jesty's 13th Light Infantry, one troop Yeomanry Cavalry, one troop 6th Madras Cavalry, 50 sailors, 50 Madras Infantry, two guns, and a rocket car riage, and arrived before the enemy's position at daybreak. To his astonishment he discovered, on driving in the enemy's pickets, that he was in front of a fortification with faces 200 yards long by 150 broad, with regular curtains and bastions. Our guns opened on the place and shelled it as well as they could, but they were only 12-pounder howitzers and could not make much impression on the walls. Ram Bux with a large party, how ever, made a bolt from the fort and was chased across the river by the cavalry, but just as Lord Mark, finding it useless to continue his fire, began to prepare for his march back (as it would have been contrary to orders to attack a fort with a column unassisted by heavy guns), Mahomed Hoo sein, with two 9-pounders, emerged from the jungle in his rear, and threw himself across the road to Hurriah, opening at the same time a smart fire on the party. The column threw out a line of skirmishers of the 13th Light Infantry, under cover of which they retired by echellons of companies, and crossed the river with the guns, although menaced by Ram Bux's people in doing so. The road to Hurriah, on the other bank of the Manova, was gained, and our force re turned to their camp with 18 casualties, having driven off their assailants by the fire of the skir mishers of the rear guard, and by the front shown by the cavalry. Reinforcements will soon be poured into the district to dispose of Ram Bux and his followers, and Brigadier Kelly will also be put into a condition which will enable him to clear the banks of the Gogra very effectually. The effect of the affairs at Poorwah, Biswah, Rampore Kusseah, and Simree has been most beneficial, and, as there will be but little or no fighting now, I may as well give the details of one of those fights which hap pened nearest to oar column, being anticipated by the last mail and telegrams in all that I had to say respecting the others. I do so the more readily because Brigadier Wetherall's affair at Rampore Kusseah has been made the subject of some anim adversions. It seems that the gallant officer who took the place so bravely should, in the opinion of some, have waited for the advance of Sir Hope Grant, with whose aid he could undoubtedly have made the victory over the enemy much more com plete. Allowances, however, must be made for the natural desire of officers in command of columns to do whatever they can single-handed, and mono polise the glory. Brigadier Wetherell wrote, in. deed, to Sir Hope Grant to ask for his assistance, but, finding he could do the work himself, and that the General would not be up till next morning, he pushed on to the attack, in which, indeed, his lead ing files were already implicated. By the reports received Rampore Kusseah must have been a very formidable place to attack. It consisted of ayery strong entrenchment, constructed across the neck of a bend of the river Sam, with a line of six bas tions, connected by curtains, of a total length of 700 yards, within which was a sort of citadel in the midst of the densest jungle. Part of the works was swept by the fire of our outworks on the other side of the river. The approach to the place was most difficult, the jungle thick'and swampy, and in one place it was neeessary to construct a causeway before the troops could advance. The column ar rived before the place at 10 a.m. on the 3d of Nov. It consisted of her Majesty's 79th Regiment, under Col. Taylor, C.B. ; the Belooch Battalion, Col. Far quhar; the 9th Punjab Infantry, Capt. Thelwall ; two native cavalry regiments, Middleton's troop, and Le Mesurier's battery of Royal Artillery, two 8-inch howitzers, and two 8-inch mortars. Inside the works were 4,000 of the enemy, most of them sepoys of the 17th, 28th, and 52d Native Infantry, many of them dressed in red and wearing our uniform and carrying our arms. The heavy guns were put in position and played on the place soon after 10 o'clock, and under the fire the wing of the 9th Punjaub Infantry, under Captain Thelwall, ad vanced towards the works near the river. Here they were received by a heavy fire of grape, and Captain Thelwall, thinking he saw an opportunity of gaining great success by a rapid rush, instead of falling back on his supports, gave the word to his Sikhs to charge, and in a minute those hardy sol diers dashed into the intrenchment through the embrasures, capturing two guns, which they at once turned against the flying enemy. The sepoys rallied, and seeing that the Punjaubecs were few in number, made an attempt to drive them out, but two companies of the 79th and four companies of the Belooch battalion came up to the assistance of their comrades, and the attack was repulsed. Just as the reinforcements entered the place a large mine, containing B,ooolb. of powder, said to be the principal magazine, blew up and hurled some of our men into the air. As the body of a native was observed flying up in the blast, it is supposed that the mine was fired by a fusee. Colonel Farquhar was at the same time so severely wounded that his leg had to be amputated. But the enemy, who made one more attempt to recover their work, were now beaten, with the loss of 300 men, and fled through the jungles. The cavalry pursued them as well as they could, but no guns could be sent after them. In the pursuit Dr. Clement Smith received a very severe wound in the arm from a sepoy armed With a tulwar, and several of our cavalry were killed and wounded. Inside the work the captors found 17 guns and 5 mortars, both mostly of small calibre, though there were some good pieces of brass and iron ; all of them were burst or rendered unserviceable. In addition they discovered a foun dry for casting cannon, an establishment for making gun-carriages, English circular saws included, and a laboratory for gunpowder. The colours of the 52d N.I. were taken by Duffadar Wallee Mahomed Khan, who slew the bearer in single combat. Bri gadier Wetherell speaks in the highest terms of Capt. Thelwall, Col. Taylor, Col. Farquhar, Major Le Mesurier, Capt. Briggs, and other officers, and of the conduct of the men (about 3,000) under his command. Our loss was—H.M.'s 79th, 2 killed 7 wounded; Belooch Battalion, 1 officer wounded, 1 killed, 14 wounded ; 9th Punjab N. 1., 4 killed, 30 wounded ; Ist Punjab Cavalry, 7 killed, 5 wounded, and one officer wounded. It will be seen from this that the heat of the fighting was borne by the Punjabees, and that the pursuit of the enemy by cavalry is a very dangerous service. Indeed, in every action of the campaign this has proved to be the case. When brought to bay the enemy fight individually like tigers, and some of our very best officers have fallen in conflict with isolated Sepoys or matchlockmen. As to the other matter alluded to, I must express a doubt whether it is good po licy always to send the Punjabees to the front, however agreeable it may. be to save our men from needless exposure. The Sikhs and Punjabees aro quite vain enough at present, and it is not politic to give ground for the reflections which may arise in their minds if they see that they, in most cases, are selected for forlorn hopes, assaulting columns, and long marches. I must now take up my story at the point where my last letter was brought to a close—the camp at Beylah, which the Commander-in-Chief reached by a forced ride on the morning of the 2d Nov. Here it was necessary to halt for some days, in order to allow the columns under Sir H. Grant and Wether ell to close up, as well as to give time for testing the effect of the proclamation on the neighbouring districts. The principal enemy of the Government in this quarter was ltajah Lall Madho Singh of Amethie, a Rajpoot of ancient family and large pos sesSions. His case was rather peculiar as regards his claims to consideration. At the annexation, or rather after it, when that most fatal and pernicious resettle ment of Oude took place, in which our officers played with estates and titles as if they were footballs, we took from the Rajah a very large portion of terri tory and ga ve it t o r ival claimants. The Rajah, no doubt, was incensed against us, but still, when the mutiny and revo lt b ro k e ou t, h e received the Eng lish refugees from Salon, and sheltered and for warded them, men, women, and children, in safety to Allahabad. While he was doing this the Go vernment was busy confiscating his property. If I am rightly informed, the authorities, without any proof, took it for granted that the Rajah was a rebel, and seized upon several lacs of rupees which he had at Benares, and to his applications for re dress he received in reply a summons to come in and surrender himself. Taking the ;circumstances into consideration, the Governor-General authorized Major Barrow, the Political Agent and Special Commissioner at the head-quarters Camp, to make the Amethie chief a liberal offer. He was informed that if he presented himself and made his submis sion either to the Chief Commissioner or to the Commander-in-Chief, the Government would gua rantee him his estates " the same as they were at the period of annexation ;" but that his fort must be surrendered, his guns given up, and his followers disarmed. Copies of the proclamation and amnesty were annexed that the Rajah might make their contents known to his followers. A stated period, giving ample time for the receipt of those docu ments, for consideration, and for his reply, was given to the Rajah. Whatever may be the reasons—and there are none which can be suggested without offence to the Administration—for the scanty supply of copies of the proclamation, it is sure that our officers have felt the want of those documents very greatly. It can scarcely be imagined that the servants of the Crown have deliberately set themselves in opposition to the expressed intentions of the Crown, and have sought to render the gracious intentions of the Queen of no avail. And yet it is certain that from all quarters complaints have been made of the want, or rather of the absence, of copies of the proclama tion. The Commander-in-Chief was not fur nished with any when he crossed into Oude, nor for some days afterwards were any sent to him ; indeed, I am not satisfied that he has any now. Very few were sent to Major Barrow, the Special Commissioner of Revenue with the head quarters. Captain Chamberlain, at Bungurmow, has had none at all ; and Ibelieve other officers have been in similar case. It is true that the necessity imposed on the Governor-General of keeping the nature of the proclamation secret till it was suffi ciently promulgated was a bar to the preparation of copies which would have been in the hands of natives. That necessity principally arose from his Excellency's desire that the Oude rebels should not know beforehand of the long term of grace accorded to them, but the moment the Ist of November was at hand the proclamation should have been fur nished to all the officers, civil and military, at out posts or in command over the 'country, and distri buted broadcast in thousands. It has, indeed, been asserted that the temper of some of the officers of the Government, old, valued, and distinguished servants of the defunct Company, is opposed to the largeness of the amnesty, and that they , have by their words and expressions evinced their repug nance to its provisions. But those words and ex pressions could not be accompanied , by overt acts without bringing on the perpetrators the heavy official punishment which their conduct in standing between the Throne and its subjects, and prevent ing the exercise of the highest prerogative of the Crown, merited—the severest official punishment and censure. It-will be credited with difficulty that a very distinguished officer of the Government, whose rank in the councils of the Indian empire.is of the very highest, actually suggested to one of the officers charged with the pacification of Oude that he should not send the proclamation till he had battered down the forts of the chiefs ; and yet he did so. Had a military officer so far contra vened the orders of his superior, nothing could save him from disgrace and the loss of his commis sion. The Queen's orders were that every rebel chief should on submission receive the benefits of the amnesty, which were to be made known to him by the proper officer. The suggestion of the Queen's servant was that the officer, before he obeyed the Queen's orders, was to disobey them, and when he had done what he was not to do he was to do that which made the amnesty an insult, a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. A more dis graceful suggestion could scarcely have been made to a man of honour ; one more ruinous to our reputa tion, more hurtful to our faith, certainly could not be imagined. Perhaps the Governor-General never heard of it, but the facts I have stated are not the less true. As it is, there are difficulties enough in our way. The copies which have been furnished are written in a fashionable Court Ordoo, which the common people in Oude will scarcely understand, full of Persian words and fine phraseology. It is as if Sir Bulwer Lytton were to euphrasise to the deni zens of St. Giles. We have heard that when the document was read in the fort of Amethie the people ridiculed it, and that they laughed at our promises. In fact, they have heard such breath ings of fire and slaughter for the last 12 months that they cannot give credence to this sudden spirit of forgiveness. They fear to drink the waters of this new found well of mercy. Besides, they well know that we never forgive murder or condone the shedding of blood. Under native rule it was com mon to pay fines to escape from punishment for murder, as in olden times at home. In Runjeet Singh's territories there was a scale according to which life might be taken at certain rates, and a man might enjoy the luxury of killing—just as one may now beat his policeman—if he could pay for it. Our rule has changed all that, and our law is blood for blood. The Sepoys who are conscious of crime, around whose hearts there is the brazen wall which forbids the words of mercy to enter, and who grow pale at the very thoughts of submission, leavening the whole mass, inspire them with dis trust and dread, and exercise a powerful influence over their comrades, and not only them, but the chiefs into whose service they have entered. While we were waiting at Beylah a bridge was prepared across the Sane for the passage of artil lcry dose to our camp, and spies were sent out to report on the state of the Fort of Amethie. It was reported that there were 30 guns mounted in the place, and that the garrison consisted of 5,000 sepoys and matchlockmen, who were all ready to fight. The ammunition was served out to the bat teries, and there were loud promises to stand by their guns to the last on the part of the artillery. men. We heard many stories of solemn ceremonies, oaths, and military sacraments to bind the garrison to a desperate resistance, and all the politicals but Major Barrow seemed confident that there would be a fight before the place fell. The force of which Lord Clyde took the more im mediate command by his presence at Beyla consisted only of 3,000 of all arms composed as follows : Head-quarters of No. 3 Field Battery, Royal Artil lery, 2 guns, 63 officers and men ; 23d Company Royal Engineers • head=quarters Carabineers, 217 officers and men; 54th, 501 rank and file ; a wing of the sth Fusiliers, 247 rank and file ; na tive artillery, 65; Engineers, 78 ; cavalry, 724 ; and infantry, 1,130. At Deolie there is an outpost with two guns, 28 Pathan Horse, 68 of H.M.'s 54th, and 245 Oudo Police Infantry. At Leowlie there are two guns, 50 Pathan Horse, 51 of H.M.'s 54th, and 208 of the Ist Sikh Infantry. There were also two heavy guns and some 10 and 8-inch. mortars and cohorns. The column under Wetherall, at Rampore Russea, was of about the same strength. That ad vancing under Sir Hope Grant by Pursaidepore from Sultanpore was stronger. So that the whole of the three corps, when united, would rather ex ceed 12,000 men (horse, foot, and artillery), provided in all points with pontoon trains, heavy guns, mor tars, field batteries, and horse artillery, each column a perfect little army in itself. In order to give the Rajah every fair play , no attempt was made to ap proach his fortress till the time came for his reply, and no move was made in his direction except by a party of the Carabineers, who went within 10 miles of the place to escort Captain Thompson in his mis sion to distribute the proclamation and to disarm the people. The latter seemed for the most part well disposed towards us. The general unfriendliness of the natives in the districts wherein our military operations have been conducted is unquestionable. Information has never been willingly or promptly afforded to our officers. When given it was extracted by bribes - , and then it is not always trustworthy, as the Military Train found to their cost the other day -near Jugdespore. On all sides, in every part of India; our generals complain of want of information, of want of sym pathy, of unfriendliness. Supplies are to be had because there is money to pay for them, but it is always incumbent on our officers to march with enormous quantities of provisions, the carriage of which absorbs all the transport of the country, and paralyzes traffic. In fact, transport is here, as in the Crimea, one great difficulty. Only the trained, intelligent, and able officers who are at the head of this Commissariat, and who carry on its duties in the field, could meet and overcome the obstacles which beset them at every path. As an instance of the derangement produced by this unhappy con test, just take this one fact. Allahabad is 120 miles from Cawnpore. There is a railway between the two cities ; the great stream of the Ganges flows past the walls of each, and they are further con nected by the Grand Trunk Road ; but wheat is sold at Cawnpore for 22 seers or 441 b the rupee, while at Allahabailit is sold for 201 b. to 221 b. the rupee— j ust double the price that it is 120 miles off. By the recent operations the navigation of the Ganges from Futtehghur has been set free, and it may be now considered open from Cawnpore down to Allahabad also, but most of the country boats have been col lected to serve as bridges or have been destroyed to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy. All the evils produced by this state of things is attributed to us by the people in their usual undis criminating way. They lay all the blame of high prices and troubled markets on the shoulders of the Government instead of on those of their rebellious countrymen. In Oude there is for some cause or other a settled passive antipathy to us. One of Sir Hope Grant's officers, Major Hume, -in his recent operations at Derriabad, reports in his despatch—" Great difficulty was ex perienced in obtaining any intelligence from the neighbouring villages, the entire population being I apparently friendly to the rebels. Around Per- tabgbur, however, provisions were brought in abundantly: revenue is being collected with ease, and the natives declared that they would give us every assistance in their power. From the 2d of November till the Bth the force under Lord Clyde remained at Bcylah, not quite inactive, for an in trenchment has been constructed on the plain, and an old walled enclosure over the river turned into a fort. Negotiations were going on all the time, and in spite of the dust and other disagremens of the camp this long halt did not hang very heavily on our hands. The army is now in the full enjoyment of the Indian winter. Like all else in this East of ours, its delights have been exaggerated, and its charms, viewed through the heats of summer, dis ordered livers, and the Oriental siroe , have been unduly and egregiously overcoloured. In the morning, soon after sunrise, there is a cool and pleasant air, at times keen and nipping enough. This lasts, perhaps, till 9 o'clock, after which it is even now a little too warm for pleasant exercise on foot or on horseback in the sun. I tried a crusty, slow tempered old thermometer, with a good dealof lead in his mercury, the other day at Allahabad, and at 2 p.m. it declared that the sun was 125 deg. on a bank in front of the Jumna. But it is not the heat which is so unpleasant ; indeed, the tempera ture in tents is quite bearable, and often agreeable. Soon after 10 o'clock the wind rises, which flutters the walls of the tent with a heavy flapping and a noise like the distant reverberations of great guns. With this breeze arises the all-permeating, inqui sitive, comfort -destroying dust. In feeble Oordoo the tent klassie is ordered to close the purdah or fly-which admitted light and air to your canvass house, and that individual slowly by an internal process eliminates his person, as though a mummy were unrolling itself by slow convulsions from the folds of cotton in which, covered head, body, and foot, he has been lying under the tent eaves, and executes the behest. But vain the effort to conceal yourself from the dust—in India at least non sine paver° fanza t It comes in at every chink, and in a few moments papers, clothes, and all within the tent look as if they had been at Epsom races. A fine, light coating of powdered eaith and subtle sand, and Lord knows what else, sweeps over your property, and renders contact with its gritty, harsh surface most disagreeable. Even when the breeze falls away in intervals, the dust, excited by the restless activity of men, horses, camels, bullocks, elephants, goats, and sheep, rises ever, and drifts over the camp. Towards evening the breeze dies away, and then there is another short, but pleisant period of the day, and the sun, like a disc of burnished copper, sets in the wall of haze and smoky vapour which bounds the horizon, and the short twilight dies away in abrupt dark ness ; but to enjoy those' scanty hours one must ride miles away from camp. It seems as though you never can reach the limits of the wide circle in which camp followers are swarming morning and evening, shovelling up the dust with their spiky toed, turned-up slippers, as though they liked it. They are, before and behind, and on each side of you, driving bullocks to or from water, cutting Frass, drawing water, cooking, lighting fires, guard ing elephants and camels on the feed, or washing themselves in the dirty ponds of stagnant water, their tents of all shapes and sizes and colours, from the regulation "pall" to a piece of cloth or cotton stretched over a stick, placed across two posts, which enclose the camp like the suburbs of some great city, and the tumult of voices is like that which rises from the huge fair when the fun is at its highest. Towards evening, when each man of those thousands lights his individual fire to cook his meal, the smoke ascending from the ground till it is beyond the influence of the fires hangs in a well-defined mass, with a smooth horizontal line bounding its upper surface for miles over the ground, like a dense low lying rain cloud. As to the ground itself no plain or desert in Arabia'could look more bar ren than the soil which is trodden under so many feet, but all around us the dense masses of rich green foliage, the trees in every field, and the dim fretted outline of groves which hem the horizon show the fertility of the soil, which is evinced 11 the tall crops of coarse grain with which Oude is at present densely covered. Those crops or fields of corn (cates, as they are called in Anglo-Indian epeech) are excessively rich, varying in height from five to seven or eight feet, very close and thick, impassable to cavalry, difficult for infantry, and admirably adapted to afford cover to a fugitive enemy. Look out on the plain outside the camp, and you see fields of those cereals, interspersed with square patches of sandy soil of a pale yellow ish dun colour. In each field of growing crops there is a rude platform, on which sits patiently some man or boy all day to frighten away the birds by loud cries, or the animals by hurling stones against them. No fence or boundary hedge is visible ; a line of hard-baked earth, a few inches high, is the mark which divides one man's land from that of another. Clumps of trees dot the landscape, dark, dense, thick-stemmed, underneath which repose wearied animals andmen. The crops are gloriously . green, but it is strange to see all this greenness springing out of a bare, barren-looking sand. Grass there is none—no rich sward re freshes the eye, and up to the very edge of the cates there is still the sand. Of the fields which are not bearing crops now, many shine in the sun almost like glass, and on ?ooking at the surface you see that it is plastered smooth and slab. The process by which this is effected may be seen going on all over the country. It is simple ; a log of wood with a fine surface planed smooth is fastened to one or two oxen, a man holding on by the tail of one of the animals, or balancing himself, stands upright on this - log and dr:ves the cattle over the moistened surface of the field beneath which the young seed is lying. If long after the rains the soil is dry, water is sprinkled by hand, and the same process effected. The ploughing is more primitive—a mere scratching with a big pin fastened to two small oxen. Although there is no great reason to dread attack, all military precau tions are observed, and our pickets may be seen in distant topes around. The British subaltern on his pony is pretty sure to fill up a proportion of the part of the landscape devoted to animated nature, but far and wide, through field, and lea, and swamp, in jeel or forest, are spread the inevitable camp followers,—those locusts which nothing blights save peace with its blessed canker. Early on the morning of the sth the vakeel of the Rajah of Amethie came into camp with a letter to Major Barrow in reply to his summons to sur render, and to the Proclamation and amnesty. The Rajah expressed his delight at the Proclamation, and his readiness to submit, provided only that his estates were guaranteed to him and his religion and his honour respected. To the demand for the destruction of his fort and the disarmament of his followers and surrender of their arms, he rejoined that his fort had been used to protect Christian men, women, and children when in danger, and that his arms, which were very few, had been used for the same purpose. He expressed his gratification at the advent of the Queen's rule, and his readiness to obey her ; but the tenor of his messag e implied that he would not yield unless he were all owed to keep his fort and his arms ; and he indugled in some plaints respecting the seizure of his property. at Benares, and the re• fusal of all redress or explanation of the matter. Along with this missive there was a letter in the, form of a petition to the Governor-General of India. The Rajah had heard that the Lord Sahib had t arrived in camp, and imagined that Lord Canning.' had crossed into Oude in person. He declared that he had heard of his Excellency's arrival with plea sure, and that his mind was at more ease in conse quence, and then he went on to pray that the Gover nor-General would direct that his forts, his army, his religion, and honour should be protected. Un fortunately, honour with these Rajpoots is the possession of arms and forts. They consider them selves dishonoured if these be surrendered with out a shot, and one shot would often be re garded as sufficient. But, if that shot be fired, tie; victis. It is this they cannot or will not under stand. Our course under the circumstances is marked out by the dictates of State policy. It never can be permitted that any one of these feudal barons shall be suffered to dictate his terms to the Sove reign ; but when Rajah Lall Madho reminds us that his fort and his arms have sheltered and de fended our poor fugitives, and have saved European lives, he puts forth a plea to which we could not be deaf did not motives of State policy of imperious exigency deaden our ears. He has been informed that no further terms can be offered or concession made. And, indeed, his treatment is most liberal, though to a native it may seem narrow and impe rious. A certain time is again accorded to him, at the end of which his fort will be taken by force, and the terms of the proposition we have made to him be narrowed to death itself. Major Barrow, at the same time explained to the Vakeel most fully what were the intentions of the Governmeat, and the full extent of the generous conduct of the Crown, and sent him again to the Rajah. On the evening of the 7th the Rajah sent a letter to our camp, which was but a repetition of that addressed to Major Barrow in terms, but it was written on fine gilt paper and addressed to the Commander-in-Chief. Before the messenger arrived, however, our heavy guns were on their way towards Leolee, escorted by infantry and cavalry. The old soubadar sent by Major Bruce to Amethie reported that there were not more than 3,000 men in the place, but that the Rajah was evidently determined to make a fight if his guns and fort, or " his honour," as he calls those regal or baronial insignia, were not . guaranteed him. Lord Clyde's ultimatum had gone in, and he decided on taking no notice of this letter. Orders were issued for the march of the columns, which were ex pected under any circumstances, unless the" Rajarh THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY actually presented himself in our camp and made his submission. Nothing now remained but to compel this misguided chief to surrender what he so much valued. His demand that the General should see his Vakeel, was, no doubt, but an excuse to gain time. The General will not grant an interview to his Vakeel, nor will he now take any notice of his letters, for his Excellency has informed the Rajah that he must come in and make his submission, dismantle his fort, disarm and disband his followers, on which conditions alone he will receive the bene fits of the liberal offers made to him by the Govern ment. It is probable that the Rajah thinks he can adopt a middle course, although distinctly apprised that he will not be permitted to do so. He pro bably calculates on firing a few shots and making a show of resistance to save his • honour, and then surrendering to receive the advantages which are promised to him only on the condition of his not firing a shot. The Vakcel would on his return be able to inform the Rajah that our heavy artillery had actually crossed the Saae. The troops are in fine spirits, though reduced by sickness, sun-stroke, and casualties since the time I last saw some of them. They are well dresSed, and now the cold weather has arrived they are provided with excel lent protection for the head against coup de soleil. But—alas, those buts! how they do interfere with Utopia—there are some one or two points to be mentioned to you in confidence, which may as well be disposed of here and now, as I have time, not knowing when I may have so much leisure again. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 20. COURT OF PROBATE. AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) TUBBS V. PROUT AND OTHERS. This was a testamentary cause, in which issue had been joined upon a question arisini , out of the massacre at Cawnpore. A husband and wife hav ing both perished in that massacre the question in dispute was which of them had survived the other. On the motion of Dr. Pritchard his Lordship ordered the case to be tried before a special jury. FYSON V. WESTROPE AND OTHERS. This testamentary cause was tried during the last sitting, and resulted in a verdict establishing the validity of the will and codicils propounded by the plaintiffs. The codicil was disputed by Mr. West rope, a legatee under the original will, and by the heiress-at-law, who also disputed the will. An order having been made for the payment of costs by the defendants, Dr. Twiss, Q.C., for the heiress. at-law, moved for a limitation of that order to Mr. Westrope, on the ground that the heiress-at-law had been com pelled to appear ; that she had not imputed fraud to the parties propounding the will ; and that she had withdrawn her opposition as soon as Mr. West rope's opposition was withdrawn by his counsel, who had the chief conduct of the cause. Mr. D. D. Keane appeared for Mr. Westrope, and Dr. Deane, Q.C., for the executors. His Lordship said he would make an order, analogous to a rule nisi, callinc , upon the executors and upon Mr. Westrope, to show cause why the decree for the payment of costs should not be limited to Mr. Westrope. ALLEN V..ALLEN AND D'ARCY. Dr. Spinks, for the wife, moved for an order directing the petitioner, the husband, to give up to her the custody of one of the children, a boy aged 41 years. The wife was charged with adultery, which she denied. Dr. Deane, Q.C., appeared for the husband. Sir C. Cresswell thought that, after reading the wife's admission in her answer as to her own con duct, he could not interfere. BROOKES V. BROOKES. This was a petition by a wife for a judicial sepa tion on the ground of desertion. The husband did not appear. At the hearing before the Judge Ordinary sitting alone it appeared that seven or eight years ago an offer had been made by the husband to return to cohabitation, and an adjourn ment took place, as his lordship doubted whether the Divorce Act was so far retrospective in its operation as to apply to such a case. It had been held in " Cargill v. Cargill -that an offer to return to cohabitation made since the passing of the Act did not deprive the wife of her right to a separa tion. Dr. Wambey now submitted that the rule laid down in " Cargill v. Cargill" was applicable to a case like the present, and referred to Bishop on Marriage and Divorce for the purpose of showing that it had been held to be so applicable in the American courts. Sir C. Cresswell said he should be glad to have the assistance of the decisions of the American courts, although he must ask how many States had decided in one way, and how many , in another. The material question he had to solve in these cases was whether the separation was caused by the hus band's refusal to live with his wife, or by the wife's refusal to live with her husband. If the husband returned before the passing of the Act it seemed to him, at present, that the offence of desertion was not completed, but he would take time to consider he question. HOOKE V. HOOKE. Dr. Spinks, for the petitioner, moved for a " de cree of confrontation," for the purpose of procuring the attendance of Mrs. Hooke, the respondent, at the trial of the petition, and to be confronted with the witnessss who would be called to prove the adultery with which she , was charged. The ground of the application was that in the old ecclesiastical courts it was the practice to.make such orders. Mr. Brown opposed the motion, on the ground that the rules of practice of the ecclesiastical courts did not apply to petitions for a dissolution of mar riage, as those courts had no jurisdiction over those matters. Sir C. Cresswell said he had no means of enforc ing the order, and therefore must refuse to make it MARCHMONT V. MARCHMONT. This petition by a wife for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty was tried at the last sit ting, and resulted, it will be remembered, after a trial of eight da s ys, in a verdict for the petitioner. Mr. Sergeant Pigott now moved for a decree for a judicial separation. Mr. K. Macaulay, Q.C., for the respondent, in timated that it was his intention either to move for a new trial, or to appeal from his lordship's decree if it were now pronounced. After a short discussion as to the more convenient mode of proceeding, it was agreed, on the sugges tion of the learned judge, that the decree should be postponed until the motion for a new trial had been made. His lordship added that it would be more agreeable to him to have the original motion made for a new trial, as well as the argument before the full court. STUDDY V. STUDDY. Dr. Addams, Q.C., and Mr. Jones were counse. for the petitioner; Mr. K. Macaulay, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks for the respondent. This was a petition for a judicial separation on the ground of adultery. The respondent Major Studdy, had served many ears in India, and was a widower at the time of his marriage with the re spondent. He married the respondent, then a Miss Vere, in April, 1852, and resided with her at vari ous places in Devonshire until Oct., 1857. The re• ITective ages of the lady and gentlemen were sai to be about 50 and 40, and the lady had property to the amount of £5OO a year, which was settled upon her. In 1855 Major Studdy formed an adulterous connexion with a girl in his service named Jane Hodges. Differences having arisen between him and his wife with regard to the place of their resi dence, Major. Studdy not liking to live in such a se cluded place as Paignton,. and Mrs. Studdy, on the other hand, disliking society, they separated by mutual' consent in Oct. ,t 857. Since that period Major Studdy has renewed his connexion with Jane Hodges, and has cohabited with her as man and wife at Flora-place, Plymouth. On the part of Major Studdy the adultery charged was not disputed, tout it was contended that the cohabitation subsequent to 1855 had condoned the adultery of that year and that the consent of the wife to the separation, after she was aware of the previous adultery, raised a presumption that she agreed not to take advantage of a renewal of the adulterous intercourse by making it the foundation of a suit if the husband performed his part of the agreement by not interfering with her. Major Studdy also denied his wife's allegation that the consent to the separation had been obtained from her by coercion. Mr. Macaulay proposed to examine Major Studdy in order to prove that when Mrs. Studdy signed the agreement for the separation she was aware that the probable eonseuence of the separation would be a renewal of 'his intercourse with Hodges, but His Lordship held that Major Studdy's evidence was not admissible, as this was a suit founded -upon adultery. ' Mr. K. Macaulay afterwards applied to be al lowed to cross-examine Mrs. Studdy upon some of the allegations in her petition. His Lordship said he would allow Mrs. Studdy to be examined, but not cross-examined—at ally rate, in the first instance. Mr. K. Macaulay declined to call her. Witnesses on both sides having been examined, Sir C. Cress*ell took time to consider his decision. SITTINGS OF THE FULL COURT. His Lordship said he had some hope of obtaining the attendance of two judges for the purpose of proceeding with the cases set down for hearing before the full court, for two or three days before the commencement of next term, and perhaps for a day or two during the first week of term. _MIDDLES S. Dec. 20. The sittings of the Court for the December Gene ral Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middle sex, were resumed this morning, at the Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell,be - fore Mr. Pashley,Q. C., assistant judge ; Mr. Creasy, deputy ; and the following magistrates :—Mr.T.Cot terell, ex-sheriff; Mr. Goodhart,ditto ; Mr.Dimsdale, Mr. Thrupp, Capt. Morley, Mr. Hogarth, Mr. Dun nington Fletcher, Mr. H. Warner, and Mr. White, There were 58 prisoners for trial, 54 charged with felony, and 4 with misdemeanour. The courts were occupied during the day disposing of cases of lar ceny, in most of which the prisoners pleaded guilty. A melancholy illustration of " In the midst of life we are in death" occurred this morning. Mr. S Styles, plumber, of Norris-street, Haymarket, was attending the court on a summons as a traverse juror, and just before the business commenced he went over to the Green Man public-house and called for three penny-worth of brandy with cold water. As he was in the act of raising the glass to his mouth he staggered and fell down dead. Mr. Teb butt, the landlord of the house, rendered every as sistance, and the unfortunate man was immediately removed to the hospital, but life was gone. It was stated that it was through disease of the heart. SURREY SESSIONS, Dec. 20. The December adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court house, Newington-causeway, before J. G. Johnson, Esq., chairman ; T. Tilson, Esq., deputy chairman, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar contained the names of 54 prisoners' for trial-48 for felony and six for misdemeanour. The charges are of the usual nature tried at these sessions. There are three for embezzlement, several for robbing employers, shoplifting, housebreaking, and street robberies. There is one singular charge, which is likely to take up the time of the Court. A prisoner named Mat thews will be indicted by the parish authorities of St. Saviour's, Southwark, for leaving the dead body of an infant exposed on the steps of Southwark bridge. The child was illegitimate, and was left in the prisoner's care at his house at Woolwich, where it died. In the early part of November he brought up the dead body, and left it exposed on the steps of the bridge. The offence was traced to him, and he was committed for trial for the misde meanour. On the names of the grand jurybeing called over three of them were fined £5 each for not being in attendance at the time. The Court expressed its de termination to enforce all such fines, as great in convenience was experienced by their non-attend ance at the time specified in their summonses. The grand jury having been sworn, the chairman addressed them as to the nature of their duties, urging them as to the necessity of examining all the witnesses at the back of - the bills before they ignored any ; also to send into court for the origi nal depositions, should they have any doubt. They would then perceive whether the witnesses spoke ,he truth. John Dennis, 20, a clerk in the employ of Mr. Swan, pen and quill merchant, 49, High-street, Borough, was indicted for embezzling various sums of money belonging to his master. Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Mr. Lilley de fended the prisoner, who pleaded guilty. Mr. Lilley hoped that the Court would show some leniency towards the prisoner, who sincerely regretted having committed himself, and placed himself in.so disgraceful a position. Mr. Robinson, on the part of the prosecutor, re commended him to mercy, when The Chairman sentenced him to 21 days' impri sonment. James M‘Mahon, 22, was indicted for obtaining a shilling from Sergeant William Kelly, Ist Royal Surrey Militia, by means of false pretences. Mr. Robinson prosecuted. Sergeant Kelly said, that on the 26th of last month he enlisted the prisoner at Wandsworth for the 60th Rifles. Witness asked him whether he had enlisted before and been rejected, whichhe answered in the negative, and he gave him the shilling. He since ascertained that he had enlisted in the dragoons, and had been rejected. Sergeant Storer said he had enlisted the prisoner on the 20th of October, when he was rejected as unfit for the service. He obtained a shilling and a day's pay from him at that time. On the 26th of November witness apprehended him in the Rose and Crown. Police-constable, 142 V, proved the prisoner to be a constant associate of thieves, and he had been twice convicted. The jury found him guilty, and the court sen tenced him to six months hard labour. John Atkinson, 33, assistant to Mr. Walker, wholesale grocer and tea dealer, Blackman-street, pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly £lOO. The prisoner had been nearly two years in the prosecutor's service, as shopman and traveller. It was his duty to collect orders and money from the customers, and account for the same daily on his return. home. Latterly he had been very irregular, which caused inquiries to be made among the customers, and he was found to have embezzled over £lOO. Mr. Charnoek appeared for the prosecution. The Chairman observed that depredations by confidential servants had become so prevalent, that the court must pass a keavier punishment on the guilty parties than heretofore. He sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' hard labour at Wandsworth. Elizabeth Tatton, 30, pleaded guilty to stealing a tray from the hop of Mr. Wood, Charlotte terrace, New-cut, Lambeth. It appeared that on Friday afternoon, the 26th ult., the prisoner visited Mr. Wood's shop, and after she had left the tray was missed. She was taken into custody for attempting to rob another shop, when the tray was found in her possession, as well as a piece of red cloth and braid, stolen from Mr. Ackerman. She had also some spoons, stolen from the Lowther-arcade. The Court sentenced her to four months' hard labour. Elizabeth Young pleaded guilty to stealing a bonnet and other articles, the property of Catherine Jones. Having been previously convicted at these sessions, The Chairman sentenced her to twelve months' hard labour. George Weller, 33, was indicted for stealing a copper, the property of John Stone. The prosecutor, a coffee-house-keeper in Lambeth walk, said he knew the prisoner, and on the even ing of the 4th he lent him the keys of the wash h*use. Previous to that he had seen the copper safe, and nobody else had been there. Shortly afterwards he saw the back gate open and missed the copper, and it had not since been found. George Richardson, of Sydenham, said that on the 15th he found a piece of pipe, which he knew had belonged to the prisoner, in the copper hole, which led his apprehension. Police•constable 66 L said that the yard door had been broken open, and he found in the wash house a jemmy, which had been used for the purpose. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the copper or the jemmy, and The jury acquitted him. id POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 20 WESTMINSTER.—ExTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF SWINDLING AT CHELSEA.—This extraordinary case was brmight to a close before Mr. Paynter. Mr. Lewis, jun., again appeared for the prosecu tor, and Mr. Solomon for the prisoners, Thomas Higgins and George Davis, who were surrendered by their bail. Mr. Charles Gruneberg's evidence having been read over, Mr. Lewis said that a very important circum stance kid occurred since the prisoners had been liberated on bail, which being new matter, he must request the magistrate's permission to add to the deposition of Mr. Denis, builder, the execution creditor to whom these bills had been. given, as detailed on a previous examination. Before proceeding to the additional testimony it may be as well to remind the reader that the whole of Mr. Gruneberg's furniture was unlawfully swept off by Higgins, and conveyed to his house upon a £3OO bill of sale, for which Mr. Gruneberg never received any value. Mr. Denis sworn, said—On the 19th the prisoner Higgins called on me alone, and asked me if I had sent an officer down to his house to try and get an execution in on Gruneberg's goods. 1 told him I had not, and I did not think it proper to take any steps without the advice of my solicitor. He then said that if I would send an officer down on the Saturday he would let him in to take away the goods. Mr. Lewis (addressing the magistrate)—You see, sir, this is the of of my being so indulgent as to consent to this man's being set at large on moderate bail. Mr. Solomon—l assure you, sir, he was not act ing under my advice. Mr. Paynter—l should think not, for be could not have done anything more injurious to his case. Cross-examined by Mr. Solomon—Higgins asked if I had sent a man, because one had got over the railings. Did not say I had not better send any one down, because the goods were secured. lam quite clear he told me to come and take away the goods. Mr. Solomon—And why did not you do it under your execution ? Mr. Denis—Because I am . not at present quite fool enough to do such a thing. I did not feel j..us tified in doing it. Mr. Solomon- -- . But you were the execution etc ditor, and never t r;ot your money. Mr. Denis—l did not feel that I should be doing right in touching them. When Higgins requested the hsund an officer to seize the goods, I told him I wc uld not do anything without the advice of my soli, citor. I went to him, and he told me I had bette. r let the matter stand at present as it was. Higgins called at my house again on Saturday night, but. I did not see him. My servant heard part of wl Lat was said. Re-examined by Mr. Lewis—l declined to seize the goods while tLte matter was under investigation at this court. Mr. Solomon -L--You were very foolish ; you were the execution credit or. Mr. Lewis—lt's a good job you didn't. They. would have set up their bill of sale, have said that you had seized thei r furniture, and got you into a law suit. The depositions in the charge of conspiracy were then completed, and -.the second case proceeded with against Davis for ut to ring the cheque for S.S. The second case h aving been completed, and the whole of the witness, 3s bound over—with the ex ception of Mrs. Grun eberg, who was stated to be labouring under very serious illness through the proceedings to which prisoner's conduct had given rise—Mr. Lewis said he had to ask that Higgins's bail should be increased in consequence of his hav ing used his liberty in a most improper way. Mr. Payntcr said he had a good mind not to take bail at all; he had thought that to a certain extent Higgins was the tool of Davis, but he now began to think the other way. Ile would not take bail unless a positive und eft aking were given that no further steps should be taken to oppress Mr. Grune bergM. r. Solomon said tl iat nothing of the sort should be done. Higgins hod asked him previously whe ther he should go to the execution creditor (Mr. Denis), when he told him he certainly should not. Higgins's bail was increased to two sums of £BO, with which he was u nprovided, and he was sent to gaol in default. Davis was bailed as before, but some retainers of the S,keriff of Middlesex hovered about the court to escort him to a debtor's prison upon his liberation. Both prisoners stand ally committed for trial at the Central Criminal Cou rt. WORSHIP-STREET.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —A respectable-looking, middle-aged person,n amed Catherine Wray, house] tceper at a tavern in Union street, Spitalfields, was placed before Mr. Hammill upon a charge having attempted self-destruction with laudanum. It appeared that on Sunday night a young lady named Marshall, who was on a visit at the house, found her sick and ill, :Ind sinking into a state of insensibility; and a small bottle which had con tained laudanum being found, it was gathered from her that she had taken the contents of it, but she afterwards expressed sorrow for what she had done. Miss Marshall walked her about to prevent her falling asleep until tl ie arrival of a surgeon, when more active measures were resorted to to counteract the effects of the drug. The only reason that could be assigned for her conduct was that she fancied, without any foundation, that she was blamed for some losses that had recently occurred in the house. Policeman 178 H produced a bottle labelled "laudanum," and said that the prisoner told Wan she had been in the habit of taking a little occa sionally as a remedy for a. cough, but that on this occasion she had taken the whole. It was consi dered probable that the excessive quantity had operated so as to occasion speedy sickness and the ejection of the greater part of the poison from the stomach, and thereby prevented a fatal result. Her employer stated that he had latterly sus tained some losses, -which caused him to make some alterations in his arrangements, but he had never entertained the slightest syspicion of his house keeper, who was the widow of a friend of 25 years' standing, the companion of his daughter, and he would receive lin- back and protect her. She was discharged with that understanding. COUNTRY MA_RICETS. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—DEc. 18. At the market this morning there was a liberal supply of, home-grown wheat, for which the demand was steady at late rates. In foreign and south country samples scarcely anything doing. Most other articles maintained former rates, there being a bettor demand generally. C 0 LCHE ST Wheat, white 42s to 48s I red 38s to 44s Barley 3os to 44s Oats 23s to 30s 'ER—DEc. 18. Beans, Mazagan 35s to 38s Middle & small 40s to 443 White peas 425 to 44s Grey 40s to 420 NOTTINGHAM—DEC. 18. At this day's market there was rather a less supply of wheat, and sales were effected at the quotations of Saturclaf which were fully maintained. Barley dull, with the turn in favour of the buyer. Oats, beans, and peas nominally un altered. NORTHAMPTON—DEC. 18 The market continues quiet, but prices arc about sup ported in the few transactions recorded this week. Barley —4os per qr for malting, and for grinding 28s to 30s per 30 stone. YORK-Dm. 18. With a liberal supply of wheat from the growers, white samples sold at 40s to 445, and red 37s to 40s per 36 stone. There was an average quantity of barley, and prices were the turn in favour of the buyer ; malting samples being disposed of at 30s to 335, and grinding 27s to 30s per qr. Oats a small show, at late rates. Beans were about We same-42s to 44s per 38 stone. KIRK LDY—DEc. 18. TI supplies of wheat and barley Sales slow, at is to 2s per clr° There has been limit, to-day, but large of oath. lower. Wheat (0). First.... 38s Od Second.. 46s Od Third .. 508 Od Barley (0). Od —s Od —s Od Oats (M. —s Od —s Od —s Od Oats (N). 18s Od 22s Od 24s Od Wheat (N). Barley (N). First.... 34s Od 24s Od Second.. 42s Od 308 Od Third .. 45s Od 32s Od CORK—DEo. 18. The following were the quotations this morning :—Ite; ( 1 wheat, 15s Od to 20s; white, 19s Od to 20s 6d; barley lOs 0 to 14s Od; oats, lOs Gd to 12s Gd. COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at .ET—DEc. 20. the close .f the market.) s. d. Tanfield Moor Butes..l2 6 Wyl;un l5 6 Holywell l5 6 Iletton Main.... l4 0 Walls End. s. a. Whitworth 15 ! Lumley Nixon's Merthyr 21 un Powell's Duffryn Steam 21 0 :, 12—Sold, 11. Ships at marke The Killarney correspondent of the Dublin _Evert' lag Mail has ascertained that the Phenix Club was eStlr bhshed in Kerry, by a person engaged in the Ballingar r i cabbage-garden of 1848. BIRTHS. CLIFFORD.—On the 17th inst., at Ugbrooke, the Loaf Clifford, of a son and daughter. METREUN.—On the 17th inst., at Leamington, the o° ll ' Mrs. St. John Methuen, of a daughter. MONRO.—On the 16th inst., at 13, Cavendish-square) t ll6 wife of Dr. Monro, of a son. Pimars.—On the 16th inst., at Dringhouses, near -I.orlc ' the wife of the Rev. Gilbert H. Philips, of a daughter. WELLS.—On the 19th inst., at Christ Church, Oxford, ti ll/ wife of the Very Rev, the Dean of Wells, of a son. WILBRAILAM.-011 the 19th inst., at Farncombe, ne st Godalming, the wife of R. W. • Wilbraham, Esq., of 6 son. MARRIAGES. - - HAMILTON—GLOVER.—At Philipstown, King's coutillP on Saturday, the 18th inst., by the Rev. William Little', rector of Philipstown, Edward Hamilton, F.R.C.5. 0 4 Resident Surgeon Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin, of Eliza, only surviving child of John L. Glover, M.D ., Philipatown. YOUNG—FLIDGATE.—On the 18th inst., at All Sarno; Church, Knightsbridge, Charles Waring, second son to Henry Young, Esq., of Sudbury Grove, Middlese%! t Augusta Emma, second daughter of Francis Flade e ' Esq., barrister-at-law. DEATHS. BURNABY-GREENE.—On the 15th inst., at Long:PO 1 1, 1i ; Hants, at the close of her 97th year, Mrs. Ann Don't'''. Burnaby-Greene. Qv& DENISON.—On the 10th Sept., at Government House, l eo ney, Ellen, aged six; and, on the 4th of Oct., C has aged three—children of Sir W. Denison, K.C.B. LAMBERT.—On the 17th inst., at Aston House, Oxfo shire, Sir Henry John Lambert, Bart., aged 67. LEARMONTIL—On the 17th inst., at 6 7 Moray-place, OP- burgh, John Learmonth, Esq., of Dean. /34 POLTIMORE.—At Poltimore-park, Devonshire, in the year of his age, the Right Hon. George Warwick, ll° Poltimore, deeply and universally regretted. SANDERS.—On the 16th inst., at Pembroke-square? 1 ,.„1; sington, the Rev. Bradfield Sanders, M.A., St. rev" College, Cambridge, aged 55. itJh SMITIL—On the 18th inst., in his 90th year, Chas. Sm Esq., of 31, Osnaburgh-street, Regent's-park. Stre et, the 15th inst., at Bath, the Rev. M.A., aged 62. o iir WHITE.—On the 18th inst., suddenly, at Teddington of Dr. Andrew White, Deputy Inspector-General of A r Hospitals. WIGHTMAN.—On the 15th inst., at York, W. Wigh l2:ll°' Esq., 8.A., Oxon, aged 9a LONDON . : Printed and Published by MURDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N°• of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COun t ; Middlesex, Tuesday, December 21, 1868. 1] LAN 0' or *ever on W Is. 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