The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The officers commanding, the three depot batta lions et Chatham gsrrison received orders from the War-office ou Saturday three ing them to hold in readine ail the availaMe non-commissioned offi— cers and men, under their respective commands, to embark during the present month for India, fur the purpo-e of reinforcing the regiments now serving in tho Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies. The three battalions can furnish upwards of 1,500 trJopi for India whenever the order for embarka tion may arrive. The whole of the troops at Chat ham now awaiting embarkation are eqqipped with the Enfield rifle. 17pwards of 1,600 recruit; enlisted during the past week for regiments serving in India ; this does not include the volunteers for the E Est India Com pany's European troops—nearly 4OO for the last named service haring been enrollad during the same period. The following Captains have accepted the ret're ment of 18s. per day :—Ralph Barton ' John Simpson, G. C. Macdonald , a nd George Brown. There are, however, still three vacancies on the retired list. The Diadem, 31, screw corvette, Capt. Moorsorn, C. 8., left Spithead on Saturday of ernoon on a cruise. The Victor Emmanuel, 91, new screw two-decker, was taken out of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Saturday, and will probably be taken out for trial this day. The 51. gun screw frigate Imperieuse takes the vacant place in the steam basin, to be ad vanced for the steam reserve. The Lady M'Naghten steamship, Captain Cow, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from Gibraltar with convicts whose terms of penal servitude have ex pired. She landed them and sailed for Deptford. It is reported that Vice-Admiral of the Blue Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., will succeed Admiral Lord Lyons in command of the Mediterranean sta tion, and that the Royal Sovereign, 131, will relieve the Royal Albert, 121, as flagship. The screw storeship Industry, laden with naval stores for Gibraltar and Malta, is ordered to sail from Woolwich to day. Master Commander Allen has removed his pen nant from the Banshee and resumed the command of the Vivid after repairs at Woolwich. The crew Imre been granted eight days' leave, prior to join ing RpeciAl service. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty : Thomas Warr, Second Master, to the St. Vincent; W. Nichol, Actlig,-Assistant-Surgeou, to the Vic tory ; and C. W. King, Clerk, to the Fisgard. FACILITIES FOR RECRUITING. The military authorities have addressed the fol lowing circular to the staff officers of pensioners in the several districts in the United Kingdom, with the v:ew of affording increased facilities for raising men for the Queen's army " War-office, Dec. 28. " Sir,—lt being considered advleal)le in the present emergency to raise men for the service of the regular army by all avai!able means, her Majestys GoVernment have determined for this purpose to require the aid of the pension staff; and I am accordingly to inform you that Lord Panmure r_ Ikons with confidence on your cordial co-operation and assistance in carrying out these views. " Beating orders will be tent to you, empowering your staff and quartermaster-sergeants, and such of the pen sioners in your district as are worthy of being selected for this duty, not exceeding six in a first-class, or four in a second-class district, with one at each of the out sta tions, where he can be eraphy ed with advantage—to raise recruits for her Majesty's service within the limits of your district. You will be pleased to instruct; the persons em p'oyed on this duty not to enlist militiamen, ex,:ept under the terms prescribed by the circulars from this depart ment, and to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Mu tiny Act as regards enlistment. " DUTIES.—I am to add that while employed on this duty you will act under the immediate orders of the General-Ctinmending-in-Chief, in the same manner as a sub-division officer on the recruiting service of the army, subject, by order of the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War, to the inspection and military control of the hal:Hating field officers of the recruiting districts within which your bead-quarters are situated. "REIVARD.—You will be allowed the reward of knotted under like circumstances to officers of the army. " AnEA. or RECRUITMENT.—The area of recruitment will be confined to the limits of the pension district su perintend° 1 by you. " VOLUNTEERS.—The Secretary of State for War wilt not demand the payment of the usual 18r. 6d. for a substitute from those Militia volunteers who, upon eril stment, shall declare themselves to belong to the Militia, provided that these men have attended one training with their regiment, or shall have been six months upon the r 11 of their respective regiments. " MODS OF PROCIIEDING.—The regiments for which the pensioners are to recruit will be intimated to you by the inspecting field officer of the district, who will also furnish you with full instructions as to the terms of enlistment (age, standard, bounty, and bringing money), and as to the transfer of recruits to the district head quarters, or to their re-pective regiments or depots, as the case may be. " CONDUCTING OF RECRUITS.—The recruits will be conducted 1, the head-quarters of the recruiting district by pensioners, who will be furnished with the usual routes, and will receive the usual allowance for such duty. " ADVANCES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES.—Tue district paymasters will be instructed to put themselves in com munication with the staff officers of pensioners within their districts, to make them the usual advances, to put them in possession of- the usual form of accountability, and to make monthly settlements with them. " RESPONSIBILITIES or SAME.—As a preliminary to cariyiog this project into execution, you will notify to this office your consent, and that of tho selected pen sioners, to being employed upon this duty ; which con sent, it is to be distinctly understood, will ixipose upon them the responsiblties to which all parson. employed on the recruiting service are subjected by the second clause of the Mutiny Act. " His lordship deems it right to dircet that you re mind the pensioners that, while the rsuiuneration for the enlistment of recruits who shall be intermediately approved is most ample, still there is a certain risk in recruiting operations, as the necessary principle in such matters is that no remuneration or individual expenses are sanctioned in the ease of recruits who do not pass medical examinat on. " It is contemplated to employ the sur,geone of the disembodied militia for the necessary me iin,l exami nation of the recruits, and that their remuneraiion be that sanctioned for such duty when performed by private practitioners ; but where there are no Militia surgeons a private medical piactitioner may be obtained on the usual terms. "I have, &c. B. HAWES." With the above the annexel instructions are forwarded : "Sir,—l am directed to request your attention to the following instructions, with reference to the circular of the 28th inst., relative to recruiting by pensioners. "1. In your selection for this object a preference is to be given to enrulled pensioners, but others may be taken if y4n know them to be particularly well adapted for the duty. Non-commissioned officers and privates with medals or honorary distinctions should also have a preference. " 2. None are to be selected but men of good character and trustworthy, a.lid you will warn them that in the event of their being found guilty of any fraudulent prac tice connected with these datiea they will be liable to buepension of pension, in addition to any other penalty that may be awarded. 3. You will furnish the inspecting field officer of the district with a list of the men whom you recommend for this duty, and who agree to undertake it : and in the event of their not being successful, or proving otherwise ineligible, you will sugge,t such changes among them from time-to time as you may think expedient. 4. The clothing of the enrollel men may be issued to them for this duty, and those who are not enrolled may be provided temporarily wi h any spare suits in store, on which there are no claims ; when the experi ment has been found successful sew clothing will be issued. "5. Tisis clothing should always be worn when these men enlist a recruit or bring him up for medicalinspec tion or to ise attested. "6. You must be careful that any advance made to these pension,: r 4 for the purpose of recruiting does not exceed a month's pension, in addition to any approval money you consider likely to be due to them. "7. Th e pay and marching allowance to a pensioner who brings ao enlisted recruit for intermediate or final approval will be the same as in the case of Militia staff similarly employed. " S. To prevent unnecessary medical inspections each of the pe n•ioners employed should be directed to sanely himself by personal inspection before enlis.ing a recruit that there are no visible impediments to his being p a , a ,d into the service. " 9 These pensioners sbou!d each be provided with a measuring tape, on which the nunianuin height is marked, and to avoid the chance of rejection care should be taken that ad recruits brought from a distance are at least a quarter of an inch above that standard. Capacity of attest natistal o be attended to, that recruits may not be rejected for being too slight. " 10. As many of the pension di.tricts are too far from the head-quarters of the inspecting field oflicir for recruits to be brought there without comiderable expense to the public, you will be informed by that offiztr whe ther there are any regiments or depots nearer to you which are in want of wen, and where recruits should be tsken in preference. "11. You will as much as possible relieve your staff. sergeant, and also the quartermaster. - ergeant, if you have one, from their other duties, in order to facilitate their obtaining recruits, but you wi:i make them aware that tho time thus placed at their disposal mutt be . z.m lou.ly devoted to that duty. " 12. To the other men - who are selected you will ex plain that, as no daily pay is assigned for recruiting, they will only be expected, by accepting that employment to exert themselves during their spare hours, when it may prove a source of profit to them, but that any wan t o f success on their part will lead to their services being dis continued, and others selected for the duty. " You will transmit a list of the men selected to this department, and also cause a copy thereof to 178 hang up in, your office, and you will inform the pensi-mers gene rally, on the first occasion of payment, that, though the privilege of enlisting recruits must be conligod to these, the whole of the force may prove useful as bringerS, and that for every recruit brought to any of the enlisters , and intermecitately or finally approved, you will be respon. Bible that tEey should receive the bringing money esta blished by regulation.—l have, &c. "B. HA:WES." MR. LANGSTON AND MR . . CARDWELL AT OXFORD The annual Druid? gathering took place in the Town-hall, Oxford, on Friday evening under the presidency of Mr. Johri Bacon. Mr. Langston and Mr. Cardwell, the city members, were pres ant, and Mr. C. Neate, late M.P. and Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford, the: Mayor, and many of the leading inhabitants of the city. The health of the city members having been drunk. Mr. LA.NGSTON returned thanks, remarktug that when he had the pleasure of addressing tha in on, a former occasion he assured them that he should feel it his duty, as their representative in Parlia ment, to do all that lay in his power to carry out a system of economy and retrenchment in the army and navy. At that time there was no apprebeitsion whatever of a European war • no one—he believed not even the ,Ministers of the Crown—bad any idea of what was likely to happen in India. it might appear to them a most extraordinary thing that the authorities in this country should h ave been so perfestly unprepared that an army con sisting of 100,000 men should break out into open mutiny without the Government having any knowledge of it. That such a state of things should exist was most extraordinary, The country had yet to learn what course the Govern ment pursued, and whether or not they had really done their duty ; but without further adverting to that subject the question to be decided was, on what principle was our Indian empire hereafter to be governed ? It was well known that her Ma jesty's Ministers bad announced their intention to propose a great alteration in the present system of administration iu that country, and he sincerely hoped that they would so well consider the question as to be able to propose a plan which would place the future Government of India on a firm and solid foundation. That subject would, no doubt, occupy so much of the time and attention of Parliament in the forthcoming session that he was greatly afraid the measure which Ministers had promised for a reform of the represent :Hon of the country, and which so many of his constituents were anxious to see effected would be necessarilypostponed. They had been assured by the Government that they would be prepared to introduce a measure having in view such an alteration in the national representation as, in their opinion, was desirable for the country at large. He sincerely hoped that such a measure would be brought forward, and although there was no chance of it being carried so far as to become the law of the land, no doubt the subject would be fully discussed and the Bill be laid upon the table of the house so that it might receive a careful consideration. (Hear, k'ar.) One other event had occurred during the past year which would, no doubt, be long re membered, besides the mutiny which bad taken place in India. That event was one of a very serious nature to the whole nation, because it had inflicted great losses upon persons connected with the trade of the country,—lie alluded to the difficulties and disasters: which had fallen upon the monetary and commercial classes. They were aware that that subject had been referred to a committee of the House of Commons, and as it was one in which his right hon. colleague (Mr. Cardwell) had taken a leading part no doubt he would be placed upon that committee. lie hoped their united labours would result in producing such a measure that hereafter the banking and commercial interests of the community would be placed upon a firmer and safer foundation. (Loud cheers.) The Right Hon. E. CARDWELL on risinc , met with a most enthusiastic reception, the chose.; fi otn all parts of the hall being again and again repeated. He said he returned them from the bottom or his heart his sincere thanks for the honour they had been kind enough to pay the members who repre sented them in Parliament,—to the chairman for the manner in which he had propcsed the toast, and to the company for the manner in which they had been kind enough to receive his name. It was, indeed, as the Chairman had truly told them, one of the principal characteristics of this noble people and this free Government that men exhibited all the properties which belonged to civil conflict on the occasions of conflict, but on occasions of peaceful intercourse they could all meet in a spit it of common friendship and individual feeling to discuss and consider those subjects which were the common property of Englishmen and the common interest of every subject of the Queen. (Cheer,..) The year which had passed had left upon the miud and heart of England deeper traces of sorrow than any year that we had ever ex perienced or had ever read of. He could not bear to dwell on those occurrences, and if he was able he would erase them from his memory, for.events had occurred which had not only afflicted but disgraced humanity. Let them rather turn to other things and other subjects which arose from the same transactions, and let them contemplate the magnanimous courage of their soldiers and the un paralleled fortitude displayed by English men and English women, which had been unexampled in all the nations of the world. (Loud cheers.) In former years there were no pages of our history on which we dwelt with more enthusiasm than those which recorded the victories of Clive and Wellesley—the days of Plessey and Assaye. That reminded him of some old lines he had learnt in his younger days which ran thus : " Shout, Britons, shout, " For the battle of Assaye ! " For that was a day, " When we stood on our way, " Like a lion turned at bay, " And the battle cry " Was Conquer or die.' " (Cheers.) But, had they not seen those painful, yea, harrowing events which had taken place in the year that had just closed. They should remember that a few men, scattered over a large district, had firmly held their own against the sudden mutiny of a united army, trained by ourselves iu the us ) of the weapons of Europe en warfare, and who had used them, above all and more than all, with a cruelty which unfortunately seemed to be the dis tinguishing character of Asiatic warfare. They should remember. also, that the city of Delhi was for several months besieged by an army scarcely so numerous as a garrison, while it was defended by a garrison far more powerful in point of num bers than the besieging army. Then, again, they had witnessed the advances of Havelock—(loud cheers)—when every day there was a conflict, and every conflict a victory. (Renewed sheers.) The names of those who bad accomplished those achieve ments had become household words on the hearths of every Englishman, and it was almost impossible to particularise in one speech the names of those who were now invested, in all time and history, with the panoply and reputation of heroes. But it was not martial courage alone which constituted the most striking achievment of this eventful year. Great as had been the victories of our soldiers in battle there was one other virtue that seemed to he the attribute of our race, which he thought had been exhibited in a still more remarkable degree. He meant the patient suffering, the Lan and steady endurance of those who, having no weapons in their hands —men, women, and children, who, when there was nothing for them but to endure the ex tremity of suff.,r:ng, still exhibited a power and dignity of character unexampled in the history of our country, and which was so eloquently ex preaed by the poet in the lines— " How sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong." He believed,,that example had not been lost upen the continent of Europe. Two years ago it was the fashion, and justly so, to run us down among the nations of Europe, but the example that had been exhibited during the year 1857 had, he believed, raised our country in their estimation by the quali ties which they had witnessed in our disorderei empire in the East. They nowsaw the Commander iu-Chief intrenched in the capital of the insur. cc tion, having joined his gallant comrades, and he was now awaiting the arrival of reinforcements. He hoped that those reinforcements, now rapidly arriving in India, would be sufficient to enable him t) restore order and re-establish our supreuialy in thenameof the Queen of England. (Cueers.) Those events Would indeed imp colleague had told of history fi le impost' upon them, as his hon. them a dutyof no ordinary mag- It le ; but he believed if they ransacked thepiges para.& , . Y would find it aduty ioci 10 the history were called .upon to .y a „ nearly 200,000,000 of people, ali en from rn from our itligien of the human race. They , and ar race, from our langurge, Eng'and. He would not taldilh among them a from i our laws, and to es :fc:t worthy of the name of to all the difficulties that would igu , : them by referring plishmeiat of that great uth r a t riBs in were two things which h e was sur ' e king, b 'A. e tt ac tirie . the approbation of all Engli:limenw°uld command a our policy. In the first pl ace , that it 3 w a thu bas:B of of all Governm , !nt, and should 1 ettlitpri iaerctttff duty ob ject, to promote the welfare and po, country and Vie people who li v ed in it ; Y an o d, th i e the second place, with regard to the subject of m u ligion, that while on the one hand they igiould not attempt - to prop %ate our pure and holy filth as Mahomet propagated his—that was by force and the sword—while they should scorn the bise policy ofattempting to preach a hollow and hypocritical profession of our opinions by unworthy influences, so, on the other hand, he be!ieved thatjustico and mercy and truth were the essential attributes of every wise and just Government, and were attri hutwalso which were inseparably connected with the religion which we professed. And it was in that spirit of justice, of mercy, and of truth that the Government of the Queen of England over 200,000,000 of an alien race must be administered., (Cheers.) His hon. colleagne'had alluded to ano ther subject which in the course of the past year : had brought . sorrow upon this land—he meant the collapse of the commercial community, which La i reduced great houses from apparent prosperity to immediate distress, and had been the means in some parts of the country of throwing honest work ing men out of their accustomed occupations, de priving them of the wages of their labour, and exposing them to those trials which had bean re current in our commercial history. But he hoped and believed that scarcely any district had been less affected by the calamity than the city and neighbourhood of Oxford, and he was sure that if the committee which had been appointed by Parlia ment to investigate the causes of that calamity should have it in their power to suggest any means by which its recurrence in the future could be pre vented, there were no persons who would more de serve encouragement than the honest tradesmen and labourers in their efforts to dtscourage to so called facilities of commerce, too readily afforded— than the citizens of Oxford whom he had then the honour to address. Let them hope that the Govern ment of the country might be effectually promoted in the yenr which was then opening, and that other nations, emulous of our commerce, would follow in the same course, and that their better government, where liberty was combined with loyalty and order, might be greatly extended over other nations of the I world. (Cheers.) He had lately had the privilege of - visiting a country which in the late war was our cordial ally—he referred to Sardinia, where institu tions similar to our own were working with succes', where our commercial policy had been adopted, and where, although bounded by France on the one side and Austria on the other,that commercial policy was firmly maintained. (The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheers.) LETTERS FROM INDIA. The following is from Calcutta. The refusal of government to avail itself of the offer to raise a troop of horse is a remarkable fact : You will have heard of the result of the applica tion made by the Indigo Planters' Association to government for compensation for losses during the rebellion. The reply is as stiff and heartless as most other things emanating from the government, and comes to this :—" The Governor-General in Council is not prepared to admit the claim which the sufferers by the late disturbances intend to pre fer." This short and sweet negative to men who have lost their all by the utter neglect, stupidity, and mismanagement of this government, is wore e than was generally expected, as it cannot be doubted for a moment that government, instead of losing, will benefit immensely by the rebellion, from the great number of confiscated estates, resumed Jygeers, discontinued pen9ions, &c. When it was seen how unable government was to protect pro perty, S-- offered his services, and proposed to raise 300 Sowers or Irregular Cavalry to act in concert with 50 Europeans or Sikhs, as you will see by the inclosed printed paper, copy of a letter which he adelresdel to the Hon. F. J. Halliday, the lieuttu tnt-governor. These Irregulars he proposed to raise from his ryots, whose rela tions b were known to him as respectable and trustworthy, and who had lands and interests in his own villages. And the objects he proposed were :-Ist. The capture of Babon Cowar Sing, and his brother Umar Sing. 2d. The capture of mutineers and disasters, a consi derable number of whom were lur king in his dis trict. 3d. The capture of prisoners who were liber ated by the mutineers ; and 4th, the general protec tion of the district from merauclers. Up to this date, three weeks after the proposal was sent in, no answer has been given to it, and the meantime Cower Sing and Umar Sing continue at large spreading terror and ruin wherever they go. All the remaining property of the Europeans has been reduced to ashes, and the fine districts of Behar and Shahabad continue in a state of anarchy and misery which it would be difficult to describe. The sth Irregular Cavalry, after beating and nearly destroying Capt. Rattray's Sikhs at Bore Gyah, lame to the Gyah station, looted it (a second Env), burnt the gaol, and came towards Doudnugu', looting all the country round without the le ist op position; they encamped six days at Doudnugur, burnt to the ground severalfactories, looted several villages, and the seventh day crossed the Soane, &c. Had " the Lieutenant-Governor accepted the proposal of S— in time , all this probably, or a great deal of it certainly, would have been averted • the sth Irregulars would not have crossed the goane unopposed as they did, and the chief rebels might, have been captured long ago. Instead of encour aging and appreciating the services, good feeling, and the co-operation of Europeans, they are all treated as S— has been ; not even an answer deigned to a highly meritorious proposal. I have described this as an example of how things are managed by Messrs. Halliday, Beadon, and Co. Although Delhi had fallen, or been re-taken, and Lucknow relieved, do not imagine things are get ting on better ; the whole country is under mined, and in one moment explode in a more fearful manner than the first explosion. We have lost the charm that kept the country down—the opinion, the esteem, the prestige is gone, because the governing classes have done all in their power to bring all Europeans out of the ser vice into contempt. Those "interlopers," the " sweepiegs of Europe" (as the native Government tutor and curator of the infant rayahs of Bengal styled them), the natives have been taught to de spise, and that feeling, which the civil service in particular has so sedulously et eated and encouraged, has now recoiled on the Government. But this, I am sure, will not alter the views of the present Go vernment. To conciliate the natives at any cost is the order of the day. To humble the Europeans and exalt the natives, in spite of all that bus happened, is the unmistakeable determinat . on of the presen , Government. Moonshee Ameer All was appointed deputy commissioner of the Patna division, and crated a Khan Bahadoor. A man who was deeply implic ,ted in tli• Patna conspiracy during the Purijaub war, and who was, together with other csnspirator4, imprisoned in Arm!), has lately he en appointed a magistrate of Sasseram and of the Shahabad district, and is shortly to receive a khelat (a robe of honour) from Government of 10,000 rupees value. His name is Shah Kuberoodeen. Another Mussulmau named Azemoodeen Hoosseien Khan has been entrusted ith the settlement of the confiscated es ates of Bator) Cower Sing, and in stead of settling the estates with the European suf ferers, the fellow is doing what is most congenial to his feelings, and excluding Christians ! Till when is this miserable infatuation to last? I fear till we have a Queen's Government, and the miserable civil service clique now in power is extincle I tru-t you will do what you can in England to get us compensation and a change of government, for we can expect not'ling good from the present one. Mr. W. Taylor, our late Wm miisioner of Patna, was suspended on the ostensible ground that he ordered the functionaries of Tirhoot and Gyah to leave their stations and concentrate at Patna, " when there was no ground for such ill judge cl panic." The fact is that there was imminent danger of losing their lives, and Mr. Taylor acted as every man of good judgment and humanity would have acted; but the real reason of his removal, awl I may say disgrace, was that he was very severe to the mu tineers and to the bad and dangerous •e le el Patna; and inputting down conspiracy and intrigue against Government, Mr. Taylor c irried the 1 tics into effect, and hung those who deserved it. Since his successor, Mr. Samuels, and his deputy, Arneer Ali, all such punishments have ceased. With this example no one dares to pun'sh the a dives. The following is from one of the first firms in Calcutta : Calcutta, Nov. 23. Operations are now being car, ied on according to the more ordinary rules of warfare,_ and vi c t or i es will be not only gained at less coit, but bet'er im proved than it was possible to do with the small and imperfect organised forces hitherto availald.. The want of cavalry has especially been felt, but it is now partially supplied. The pacification of the central provinces has been effected with inuchvigour and promptitude, and communications are already opened to the Upper Provinces, thongli we doubt if confidence is as yet sufficiently restored to indeco the wealthy natives t ► disinter their buried trea sures. The large body of mutineers we referred to on the 22d ult. as assembling at Banda, despair; eg probably of raising the Reweh country, cro seri to wards Oude, and suffered a complete rout on the the line of the Grand Trunk road. There are some !Wiles in Central India, but rasher, we apprehend see:al disturbances arnoug tribes who readily revert to a predatory life than political movements. • Apprehensions are entertaieed by some that the war must be followed by a famine. We trn4 that at the worst this evil will be paiti4l. We hear from reliable information, chiefly from net vs sources, that even iu the provinces whichhave b •en the chief seat of the disturbances the country has neither been rava g ed nor deserted, so the mischief is confined to the line of march of the mut:none l o o f rc o e t s i , d a:d though they have generally plundered all that was within their reach, the field of their depreCation s has been limited. There are said to be by troop very large stocks of grain in Bareilly, iu the norih culture Las de struction of pro this way i w s h a ie w h or h ko a no v .f e not been touched. The de- Indeed, ravaging a coutvry in undertaken gone on. has been very great, tut agri andhose discipline 11:d been ro laxed,g thewre a a t e t l onfo''at ruthless likely to a übd. powerful general than of a lawless soldiery. The writer has lately travelled through a considerible part of the country within 500 or t3OO miles of Cal crate, including the large cities of Mirzapore, Benares, Patna, and the fort' of Allahabad, gather ing from very many sources much information regarding the progress of the revolt and the actud state of affairs, and is strcngly confirmed in the geaeral views previously expressed in our circulars. The heart of the country never was in the rebellion, though in the central provinces our rule was looked upon universally as a thing of the past. The mu tineers threatened death to anysheltering Christians and to this must be ascribed the general refusal of villagers to shelter fugitives. The cruelties and rob bery, in the districts were the work of Goujars and I o.her ruffianly outcasts, who have been equally ready to plunder and murder sepoys when they were making off in small parties with their ill-gotten gains. Manifestations of ardent loyalty were not to be expected, and the predo minant feeling in the minds of most natives was, doubtless, the selfish desire to keep themselves out of harm's way, but had they entertained any hopes of ameliorating their condition by a revolution, the waste and greed of the Sepoy mutineers for plunder of all kinds will have convinced them of their error. Except in the immediate neighbourhood of the mutineers a man may safely pass now in almost any part of the country, carrying arms only as a pro tection against any casual plunderers who might be emboldened by the relaxation of the civil power to attack a defenceless traveller. The great difficulty will now be that of obtaining the means of trans port, the scarcity of which will not only exercise an injurious effect upon the trade of the Upper Pro vinces especially, but may lead to much suffering in districts where the crops may have been deficient. The struggle is, however, by no means over. Tee forces finally collected in Oude are very numerous and must be desperate. The numberless and inde scribable atrocities perpetrated by them forbid the offer of any terms, and it is a far more arduous task to deal with such a body than to defeat an army. We do not, however, share in the opinion that the pacification must necessarily be a work of years. With the means now available all will de pend on the policy adopted. Our conviction is that the power, usefulness, and prestige of Our name have been frittered away—we can find no better expression—by weak over-refined schemes of government ingeniously framed in the bureau by men far better skilled in weaving theories than in judging of men and thing 4. A dissertat'on on go vernment would be out of place here, but the inte rests of this country and of Great Britain alike' re quire that the policy under which so great a dis aster has taken place should be vigorouelyreviewe I. Why is there so marked a difference between the government of the Punjaub and that emanating from Calcutta ? The answer, we think, will be, that there the magnitude of the danger was recog nised, re ward andpunishment were pro mptly meted out, a lead was taken, the masses moved in our favour. Here the danger was, as fer as possible, ignored ; pardon and conciliation were talked of before our power was established, and a native lawyer of no local standing made to represent government at a time when nothing but the indo mitable courage of a small band of British troops could have saved the district and convinced the classes naturally averse to war and all violent change, that safety might yet be on the side of the exi-ting government. The difference is what - might be expected from the different systems and those who ate at the head of them. Much bidter and indiscriminating abuse has been pub!ished from this city, which meets little approval here, and far less in the Mofussil, where the condemnation of all parties is more justly levelled not only against individuals but against the system, and the principles upon which Indian government and re formation has been attempted, and statesmen and the public at home also will find much to reconsider in the opinions heretofore generally received on this subject. HOW TO GOVERN INDIA. (From the Times.) The Punjab has again set a nobje example to the rest of India. Sir John Lawrence—the man who crushed every sepoy in his own province and pro vided Sir Archdale Wilson with the means of achieving the like success at Delhi—has now taken the decisive step of liberating Christ;anity from its disabilities and relieving the profession of the Gos pel from stigma or prejudice with the limits of his government. Our Calcutta correspondence con tained on Friday last a notification issued by Mr. R. Montgomery, one of the officers engaged in the administration of the Punjab ; and admirably, be yond doubt, was the document min - dated both to expose the defects of our past policy ani to show the facilities of improvement. It deserves to be remarked that the ordinance, which we, shall pre sently describe, appeared more than four months ag), that is to say, before the prospects of the mu tineers had been visibly demolished by the capture of Delhi ; and that up to the date of our hat de spatches it had produced not a symptom of popular animosity. Sir John Lawrence, therefore, in act ing upon such principles, took couus_l only of hi , own true foresight and daring,' and his policy, even at this crisis of religious emotions, has been at tended with entire success. It is surprising how much, and yet how little, the decree really ordains. It conveys not the smallest menace to native faiths, and yeti t raises Christianity from depression. It offers a o favour, no bribes, no allurements to converts, but it pro allies that they shall not be sufferers for the sake o the truth. It carries no interference w i t h cas te prejudices, but it deprives caste pretensions of pre ference. "The system of caste, it says, "can no longer be permitted to rule in one services." The institutions eansetdhbeyyany are ; of th ß ey rah w m il notilnisin b may ay touc remain hed or threat precisely act of authority, but for the future they will not be allowed to govern the policy o f a Christian Administration. "Soldiers an d Government servants of every class must be entertained for their merits irrespective of creed, class, or caste." We should be utterly at a loss to imagine how such principles as these could be im peached, even by the most resolute advocates of traditionary policy, if the language of the docu ment before us did not reveal a fact of the most significant kind. The truth is that the "neutrality" hitherto professed by the Indian Government in religious matters has been no neutrality at all. True neutrality, it is evident, is expressed in the words above quoted ; but these avowedly introduce a policy unknown before. The old neutrality was a deliberate proscription of Christianity for the sake of keeping Hiudoos quiet. From a really neutral Government Christianity bad a right to expect exactly the same treatment as Brahroioism or Mahomediem, whereas it received nothing of the kind. It was placed under positive di sa d van t ages , and visited with political penalties. The state ments of Mr. Montgomery's circular leave no room for doubt or cavil upon the point. " The native Christians, as a body, have, with rare exceptions, been set aside. I know net one in the Punjab (to our disgrace be it said) in any employment under Government ; a proposition to employ them in the Public service six months ago would.assuredly hive been received with coldness and would not h lye been complied with." We should like very much to hear how such a policy as t is could be just fled even on those principles of indifference which have been described as constituting the Drily safe rule for the government of India. ehriisiia-pity h.s not been floated with "indifference ;" it has been v• - „earded with disfavour, and the simple proposal of Air. Montgomery to advance the interests of n ative Christians equally with those of Mshomedane and Illindoes in aspect of public employment under a Christian Government is not only announced as an impoe taut "change," but willprobably be regarded in some quarters as a peril ous and uuwarran:Abl e experiment. We must exp ress o ur decide .1 opinion p that the doctrines of justi ce no w recognised by the Government of the Punjab are not only—as nobody could deny—zighteous in themselves, but, directly calculated t 3 strengthens our position and esteb'ish our rule in the empire of India. If ever there was a oli co nvicted by its fr uits it is surely that which Paso opposed to the policy of Christian freedom we have p in our - Indian dominions. No argumen t s or into. rences can overrule or i nva lid a te th's one great fact, that after all our e ff orts i n th e way of deference 'and compromise we have failed so utterly in con vine' ng the natives of our i ntent i on s that they have at last risen against u s i n murderous feroci t y on the identical grounds whi c h we so l a b ou red to remove. The very principle s an d the ver y sy,tern which were devised and raliutained for the sole p ur p ose of preventing ies urre li on have at last bee n at- a 2 six months o f mutin y . tel led by an insurrecti )n o f the most desp er at e charactsr. Nor c in i t be sa id t hat a cen:ury of security may be se t off ainst Security was neve r our lot. There was no p sricd during this tim e a t which revo l ts w ere nosappre- Inucle7l. The expl os i on o f 1857 is but the final cat nstrophe of a sy stem wh i ch a l wa ys rendered ca t ,strophes probabl e . T he regu l a ting principle of Indian administration was th - e dread of Sepoy re bellien. If such and suc h i nnovat i ons were attempted the "native army" Of course the native army di ,cerne I its power its the apprehensions with which it i n spired its rulers, and the consequences have been wituessnl in the un limited concessions which were made to its preten sions, and made in vain. If an accurate list could have been anticipated, detected, or suppressed in India during the last 50 years it would be seen hew useless was our system ofpacification for any pue reat or little, which pose but that of encouraging the arrogance of the military Brahmins. We say, too, that these results were natural. How far the apprehensions of a `Hindoo for his caste were originally sincere we cannot pretend to determine, but we have at all events taken the very worst way to appease or remove them. In reality, as every Christian knows, they were ab solutely groundless. The fear of compulsory con version entertained or professed by Hindoos could never by any possibility have existed if the na ture of Christianity and the principles of Chris tian government had been fairly brought before their eyes. It would be as reasonable - to suspect us of cannibalism as of proselytism by force. Ignorance alone could have engendered these ter rors, and this ignorance we perpetuated by keep ing our religion out of sight. All that Hindoos saw was that we were afraid of their suspicions, and this itself was enough to give those suspicions currency. They might have believed in the es sential peacefulness of Christianity if they had been familiarised with its character, but they could not believe in the sincerity of rulers who, instead of professing and explaining their religion, were willing to disguise, and even discourage it, under terror of revolt. IZeligions differences they could not understand ; religious truth they were not permitted to comprehend ; and they credited us therefore with the only alternative which presented itself to their minds—the religious fanaticism of crusaders. The very problem before us could only have been created by a combination of unnatural im pressions. There is nothing to show that Hindoos under any other rulers, although those rulers were often bigoted professors of a proselytising creed, were ever troubled with these frantic alarms about their caste. There is no example in any other part of theglobe of the Briti Governtnent having been embarrassed by any fear on the part of a subject population that we should turn crusaders. In British India alone have Hindoos become rebels through religious agitation, and Protestant Chris tianity been charged with the attributes of Mahomedanism. Why should Lord Canning have been more an object of dread than Aurungzebe or Tippoo Sahib ? Why, should we, who never dreamt of crusading anywhere, and whose national faith would not admit the idea of compulsory baptism, be suspected of these terrible designs in our Indian Ealpire ? If we had been suspected of any poli ical aggressiveness the impression would have been natural enough. If Hindoos had always been ready to run mad upon the subject of their caele, we could not bedsurpriald at faring as other conquerors of India bad before us. The embar rassments, however, and the perils to which we were exposed'are so totally without warrant from prece dent, and so utterly opposed to the reality of things, that nothing but a false policy could ever have produced them. We first invested our own subjects with preponderant military power. We then showed ourselves perpetually anxious lest this power should be turned against us. When Brah minisna thus discerned its opportunity and claimed excessive consideration for caste prejudices, we de• ferred to these demands, as we must needs, under the circumstances, have deferred to any, until at length our constant deprecations produced anim pression of our insincerity, and we suffered under the imputation of designs which we never enter tained, but which we had been incessantly forced to disavow. This policy has no w borne its fruit. It has not secured the submission of the native army, the only object to which it was directed ; but it has invested us with a false and discreditable character, and his threatened the safety of our oriental empire. Certainly it is high time that such a policy should be changed. OUR MONETARY PROSPgCTS-PRODU CERS AND CONSUMERS. (From the Derbyshire Courier.) The I have e a v e nation e lse w c h o e m r e m r e e n f e c r e r s e t d h t e ows I y ohn e im a edh t i • ua l wc. B he s f sh:uaherdvpaiirtmnih. 185? ei v Btai e snn ri dy differentp th ro e s p pe as c:s y fr e e a m r e t a h u o s s e e d which in apprehension is, we may hope, in a fair way of being entirely suppressed. But our home prospects pre sent many features of anxiety and doubt. The commercial storm has lulled. The wrecks of many edifices of commercial power and magnitude lie in ruins, and it will take years of patient toil and e e o n n e r v g u y l s t i o e nsu restorec h a them h a t t o t t their u g f o h r m w e state. h r ieh w we haveßy a pa-sed a great national loss is occasioned. Every one above the level of the shallow writer of the Times' city articles knows that the rise in the rate of discount, bad as it is in itself, is one of the minor evils of a large contraction of the circulating me dium. A far greater is the iuinous depreciation of the pr ice of all commodities. This an avowed arid necessary principle of the Bank Charter Act. Prices aro forced down in order to attract gold to the country in exchange ft!r our cheap goods. Now in our market of depreciated goods and produce the foreigner buys excellent bargains. Take, for exam ple, West India produce, which has, in some cases, depreciated more than 80 per cent. The foreigner buys this produce at its reduced price. lie benefits, the British producer or merchant loses. But if the process ul g ul f depreciation be traced out, it will appear that in reality scarcely any persons at home gain, the English people are in ß t Y er f e a s r te th d e i g n re p at r e e r du p e a t r i t on o . Nearly all may be classed among the p roducers.f This is the case w,th the great agricultural body. Out landed proprietors all belong to the class of pro ducers. The tenant farmer is an agent of the no bleman in raising and selling the produce of his estate. It is some time, indeed, before a deprecia tion of agricultural produce affec's a landlord. But it is plain that everything which lowers the value of the land itself, either to sell or to lot. The manufacturers in the busy hives of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Scotland belong to the producing class, and in general all persons engaged in business we directly_ or indirectly interested in the welfare of productive industry. Now all this large body of persons suffer by un natural depreciation of prices, such as that caused by a monetary crisis. They benefit to a trifling extent as _consumers. Their sugar, bread, and clothes may be cheaper. But they lose to a very groat extent by the diminution of their fair profits. In many cases there is a complete stagnation. Profits altogether cease. This is now the case with many of those who deal in articles of luxury --jewellers and artists. The working classes are seriously injured. Bread i s c h ea p. But their wages are reduced. In many cases they receive no,wages. Cheap food without mo ney to buy any is no help to the poor man, and h t h e country loses immensely by the cessation of labour. Ahundred thousand industrious and a bl e -bodied men cease to produce anything. They st ill c onsume. They must be maintained out of the out national re n st t o h c , k, a k o i r ll andtheirown iindustry u p s a t s i t y s a a v r i e ngs. But alltho c gear, er Bg and remain unproductive. There is a small class which gains by a deprecia tion. This ie the class which consumes, without producing. The person of fixed iirSome, the an nuitant, the pensioner, the Government official, gain by the low price of all they have to purchase. The fuudholder, provided ho be in no way con nected with the producing classes, gains. And above all, the trader in the money market, the capitalist, who watches the bank reserve, who knows /trough of the operation of the Bank Charter Act to foresee when the contraction of the cur rency will enhance the value of his article—to him Lim ruin of 00.111w0ra. 7 and ti, prootr,kinn of iirn ductive industry opens an abundant harvest. The Usurer, who by means of money dealers can take advantage of the artificial dearth of money created by Peel's Bills, gets his eight or nine per cent. for hji money, or bays securities depreciated below their honest worth. Thus the " hard calculator," a cunning, but often a very ignorant and narrow-minded creature, the drone of the indusrrious hive of England, obtains his thousands of profits, to enable him to do which the nation pet iolically loses millions. At this pre s,sut m•unent this process is in operation. Peel's Bibs litre turned us int) a nation of cannibals—one usurer devours a thousand industrious traders. TEN PRESS, THE PULPIT, AND THE PETTICOAT.—The first sprea•ls the the second spread religion, and the last spread:—ail Over the p.%vement. 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IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The V co-Chancel. ior, , Sir William Page Wood, granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevill, for imitatin "Du Barry's ltavalenta Arabica Food." PRICES OF SHARES. From the Official List. rUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN LONDON, FRID&Y, JAN. 1, 188. CANALS. Names of Companies. Ashtn &OWL Birming - ham Coventry.... Derby .. •• • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand ',lllicit Kennt & Ave Leeds &.Livrp Leicester ..•• Leicstr Loughborogh Macclesfield. Neath •• • • Oxford.... •. F.; Dividend 1 per A Annum. 93 71. p. ct. 40 41. iOO 11/. 100 6/. 15s. 100 21. pr. et. 10 6:. pr. ct. 100 78. 6d 40 68. GO 251. 00 51. 83 1/.55. 143 701 100 21. 103. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin .. •• •• . East Loudon Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction .... • • Do. New ...... Kent. •• .......... Lambeth. ............ New River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex • • .... Do. Do, ...... Name of Company. flungerfard....•• .... Southwark .......... Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo .. • . . . Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall ............ Name of Company Commercial ........•• Do. Preference East and West India.. Grand 3urry D. & Canal Do. Loan Notes .. .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .•• • • . • • •• • • St. Katharine ........ Southampton ........ Victoria •• •••••• •• • • Ditto New .• •• •• •• Name of Company. Albion .... • • • • •• •• •• Mlianc.a Bri;. and For. Ditto Marine ... • • • • Athenaeum • • • • •• •• • • Atlas ... Argue Life ....• • • • • • • nritish Commercial .. Church of England .. City of London •• • • Gen. Life Crown .............. Eagle Equity and Law...... European Life Family Endowment General Globe Gresham:Life Do. Do • Guardian ............ Imperial Fire......... Impzrial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Legal and General Life London London & Prov. Law• • Marine......... • • • • ..• Med. Ir_vlid & Gen. Life Minerva • • .. Monarch ............ New Equitable Pelican •• •• •• •• •• Phoenix Profesolona Life •..... Provident Life........ Rock Life...... •• Royal Exchange ...... Sun Fire •• Dd. Ditto Life ..... United Kingdom .... Universal Life .• • ..... Victoria Life •• Names of Companies. Teak Forest. Regent's.... 'Rochdale.... Stand &Work IStourbridge.. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & Birming. Warwick & Napton.. j IWorcstr & Birming. Wiits & Brki. WATER-WORKS. Dividend per An - num. Amount of Share. Pric o 51. per cnt. fit.per cat. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 41. peg cnt. 51. per cnt. 1,4 t. per cent. BRIDGE! Dividend per Annum. Amount of Skare. Paid. IN per cent.l 11. 12s. Od. 11. Bs. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. prceilt. 4%1. per mt. 4 per cent. 5/. Os per c. FRANCE CO. Dividend per Annum. 1 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. ii. p.c. & bs. 15s. Od. & bs 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& be. t/. per share 1/ IBs. ss. 5 per cent. 1/. 41. per cent. G per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent 121. per cent si. p. ct. &bs. 23 & 2s bons 21/. pet sh. 13. per share 18g. & bs. 4% per cent 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 6 , 4 per cent ct. 5/. per cent. Si. per cent. 12% per c. A p. c. & bs p.c & bs. i/. lis. 41. & bonus. 5/. & bonus. 51. & bonus. IiNT-sror,'K Dividend per Annum. ..£ s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 S. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. .£ s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 .PANIES. Amount of Share. £ s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 4/ 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 lioo 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 I) 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 G 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 ANKS. Amount of Share. Dividend per 1 Annum 51. Os. 17s. 281. 121. 103 1/. Hs. 7s. 0,1. £ s. d. 100 all Z s. d. Stock. too - 6 0 too 0 0 5 0 0 Ftock. 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 Paid. s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 1:5 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 a'l 4 0 0 47 5 (; 50 0 0 20 0 0 39 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Paid. Name of Company. Bank of Egypt Bank oi*London . British North American Ch Bk. Ina. Aust & Ch, City .. Colonial Commercial of London. Eng. Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus . Do. New London and County Lon. & Eastn. Bti kg. C. London Joint-Stock Londn and Westminstr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto, New . •• • • Ditto ditto National Bank •.. •• New 'oath Wales Orientai Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New.— • •• • • lonian.... •• South Australia • • Union of Australia•• • • Ditto . Union of Hamburg— Union of London Unity Mutual Western Bank oe Londe. 10i. per eent.l 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 71, p. c. & bs. 4'. per cent. 5/. per cent. ft 18/. per cent. 3% per cent. 23 per cent. 18 per cent. 16pe.&1.4 ' 0, 57. per cent. 20'. per gent. 1.01. per cent.' V. I). ct.Scbs. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 10/. per cent. 111. per cent. 1 [ SZ. per cent! X N. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 20 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 ,100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 0 20 0 o 20 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 X 3. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 . 0 0 5 000 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22 10 0 II 15 t 0 0 25 0 0 .15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Price. Name of Company, Dividend Amount of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .-_______. Rank of Scotl an d £ s. d. £ s. d. .... 71. per cent 100 C 0 100 0 0 187/0s British Linen Comp any 81. per cent.. lOO 0 0 100 0 0 210/0s Caledonian Bank ...• . 8/. per cent. 10 04) 210 031 15s City of Glasgow Bask Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -i Os Clydesdale Bank .... 59/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 ill 7s Cammercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 220/ 0 Eastern Bank.... •• -6/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10/ Os Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3%1. p cent. 5 0 50031 1 ls National Bank •• G% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 179, 10 Northof Scotland Bank 5/.per cent 20 0 0 210 05/ 103 Royal Bank of Scott. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 140,'s Union Bank of Scot. .. 81. par cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 741 Os Western 8ank........ 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -/ 0 Alliance Fire and We.. 85( /.pr cent. 100 0- 0 11 0 0 171 Os British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 011 its Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite.. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 41 Os Co'onial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 071 7s Edinburgh Life Insur. 51. oor cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 281 Os Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.a0r cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 41 ls Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 06/ 15s National Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 0 1119 s North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 37/ Os Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/ 13s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 021 17s Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11 133 Standard Life .. .. - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 , 7 0 0 271 53 BAS-LIGIIT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- --- £ a. d. £ 8. d. British Provincial .... 71. per cent 20 0 0 all 23 Brighton ••••..•• .• .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 - - City of London ...... 2i. per cent. 150 0 0 1 (30 0 0 Equitable-. •• •• .. •• .. 2/. 50 0 0 all - European .... . - - Great Central .....• .. 81. pe r cen t 10 0 0 - 11 1 % Imperial .. • • ........ 10/. per cent. s 0 0 0 - TO Ditto New - 50 0 0 12 10 G Ditto Debentures - Ste , ck 100 0 0 200 Do. Continental Isteap. 31 ss. 50 0 0 42 15 0 Do. Do. 2d Cap. 4/. Ins. 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Do. Do. 3d Cap. 4/. 108. 50 0 0 43 10 0 Do. Do. 4th Cap. 31, 50 0 0 41 0 0 - Indeuenient * ....., - .4 i. 4 Pho3nll ..• Ratclifn. •• •..•••• •• 5/. 20 0 0 16 0 0 - Surrey Consumers United General ...• •• 16s Od per sh. 50 0 0 - 20 Westminster Chartered 7 per cent 50 0 0 - 50 Ditto, New ...• •..• - 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Western A - Ditto 11 MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount - Name of Compaq. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ 8. d. .£ s. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .• 10 0 0 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. ~• 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam sea •• .. •• .• •• 5%. ref cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - AuctiBn Mart.• •• .• •• 14/per cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian Aalcultma - 25 0 0 19 0 0 254 Australian Trust •• .. 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Austrai tan Itoyal Mait - 10 0 0 all 214 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 _ Canada ... •• •• .. St. per cent 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. pet cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5/.per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - I) tto, 6 per cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 :.2. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1876 6/. per cent. Stock (00 0 0 - Crystal Palace • .... 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 all 1!y Ditto Prefefence.... 71 pr. cent 5 0 0 5 0 0 41i, Crys. Palace of France - * 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 351. per cent - ' - - Electric Telegraph .. W. per cent. Stock. 00 0 C - Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all Ihi Eug.&lris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 5/ per cent. 100 0 0 I'o 0 0 - Dittc Now ........ - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11. .00 0 0 so 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 15 0 0 all - Gen.SicainNavigation 1 01. per et. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 314 Iludson's 8ay........ 5/. per cen t. Stock Stock - flungarford .........„ 2 5 3 , 100 0 0 all - Loa. tie. &N.i. Mauso. - 10 0 0 all - London Reversionary 5/, per cent. 15 0 4 ' all - Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all - Nat. Discount Comp.. - 25 0 0 50 0 3% N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. Si. per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all - North of Europe, Stn. *I. per cent. 20 0 0,17 10 0 - Price'sPatentCand. Co - 29 0 0 1 all - Peel Itiver.Land&Mln. ' - 50 0 all 2 1 4 Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all Ditto New - 50 0 0 10 0 0 1514 Reversionary Int. Soc 43“. pr cent 100 0 0 all Ditto New •••• • • •• ( 1 / 2 /. pr cent 130 0 0 20 0 0 ..._ 1 : 0 Yal Mail Steam...• U. p. share. !00 0 0 SC 0 G - Scott6h Aus. Invest. Si.l per cent. 1 0 0 411 - iouili A ustralian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all 34% Trust and Loan Comp. 75 ~. pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 Vaa Diemen's Land• • 103. 100 0 0 2B 10 0 - 6 per cent. £ O OO5 6 per cent. 7 1 - X a. d MJLITIA RIO?' AT BURNLEY. Between eight and nine o'clock on New Year's eve, a number of men belonging to the Dublin Militia, now lying in the Burnley barracks, corn tnerced a disturbance in the town. We understand that it had been bounty day, and they had spent a good deal of time iu beer-houses. Most of them ere in a state of intoxication, and when they turned into the streets they becane violent, attacking in discriminately all who came within their reach. The picket, with the assistance of the police, got a num ber of them to the barracks. Shortly after, the picket returned, and, di v idi ng, visited several parts - of the town. The more serious part of the disturb. ante then began. The conduct of the several divi sions of the picket was of a much more violent charac er than that of the men who had been taken to the barracks. One of the windows in front of the Thorn Inn was completely smashed ; several panes in the windows of the market arid smoking rooms of the Bull Inn were broken. These winds a s front Market-street, and exhibited lights, and in many parts of the front streets where this was the case the windows were broken. One gentlema , a, who was sitting in the smoking room of the Bull Inn, very narrowly escaped a thrust from the bayonet with which the window pane was broken. In Yorkshire street, a young man, named Nutt er B arr i tt, who was returning home with his father, about half-past ten o'clock, was stabbed in the shoulder and hip. Another young man, a collier, in the employ of the Cliviger Coal Company, was wounded in several places in the head, and be t we.'n the thigh and body. During the disturbance in Yorkshire-street, Mr. John Berry, butcher, whose shop faces the entrance of the street, had his front window completely smashed. One of the inhabitant s had taken refuge in his shop, and was followed by the militia, who drove their bayonets into the door, and then broke the window. A man, whose name we could not learn, further than that he goes by the alias of " Toathree," was stabbed at the top of New Mar ket-street. A considerable quantity of blood on the pavement marks the place. We have heard of se veral others having been wounded; we do not learn, however, that any of the wounds are dangerous. T helpicket returned to the barracks about 11 o'clock,' but we understand that a considerable force turned out armed, about one o'clock in the morning, to fetch in stragglers. The town was much excited yesterday morning. The magistrates met at the Court-house, at 11 o'clock on Friday forenoon, to deliberate upon the means to be adopted to prevent a recurrence of the disgraceful scenes of Thur:day night Captain Mac lonald, the officer, in col:nu:teed of the militia, was present. The reporter was not admitted, but we learn from good authority that the officer ac knowledged that the men were most unruly and nearly unmanageable. Had it not been for the assistance of Mr. Carsewell, the superintendent of police (whose conduct under the circumstances the captain highly extolled), and the force under him, it is highly probable th a t muc h more serious conse quences would have ensued. After the disgraceful conduit of the militia in the town, from one to two hundred of the inhabitants, armed with blud geons and other we pons, proceeded up Westgate, in the direction of the barracks, apparently bent on attacking the militia. They were met by Mr. G. Hansfield, magistrate, Mr. Cars ewe ll , and others, and dissuaded from their purpose. The bayonetting and smashing of windows was much more extensive than was at first supposed. Fifteen or sixteen persons appeared at the court-house w hil e the magistrates were sitting, wh o h a d been more or less injured by the bayonet. One Irian was stabbed in the head and hand in Westgate ; after making his escape they pursued him, and when not aEle to come up with him they threw their bayonets after him, one of which he secured. The conduct of the militia is described . as perfectly wild ; they howled, struck their bayonets in the causeway, and one of them sharpened his bayonet on a door step, calling to his comrades to do the same, and give it to the English. A number of the militia have been in jured, and it is stated, will be handed over to a court-martial as soon as they are recovered. The men are to be confined to barracks.--Manchester Guardian. Country Markets. DALICRITH GRAIN MARKET—JAN. 1. Qrs. Best. Current. Infeno t 446 Wheat 43s 3d ..... ... 35s 0 3 d......... 22 s 61 17/oi - Oats 263 6d 2ls OAd lB Od 1.J50 Barley 33 s Od ......... 25d 6 1 21 •6d ........ 45 Peas & bean s 39 s 01 36s . 6d IIADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—JAIL 1. wnicaT. I BARLEY I OATs. I ss4NR. First ................... 468 Od 34g 61 1 27s Od 1 37s Od Second ................. • 383 5d I 27s 8d / 22s 2d j 34 9d Third .................... 29s Od 1 22s 0,1 119 s 6d 1 31s Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 719 qrs., 599 sold OP ~ barley ~ 1076 qrs,lo64isold /1 , oats ~ 424 qrs., 417 sold ~ ~ beans ~ 9J qrs., 80 sold AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Whoat, V. 18 5 3-12ths 1 Barley, ...1. 7 8 1-12thu Oats, ... 11. 2 2 3-12ths I Beaus, .....11. 14 9 9-12th ABERDEEN-JAN. 1. Potato oats 19s Od to 20s Od 1 melba er bushel Common oats 14s Od t o 18 s 6d Bore 23s Od to 25s Od 1 531bs i Barley 23s Od to 25s*Od Wheat, red (spring)3os Od to 33s Od , white 2Bs Od t o 44 s Od 1 621bs „ Oatmeal 15s Od to 1 sOd per boll. Flour 38s Od to 39s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 8d I Butter, p lb. a 10d t o is 0.1 Mutton, per lb. Ed to 8d Eggs, p doz. is Od to is 4d Lamb, do., Os 6d to Os &I. 1 Heus, p pair 3s Od to 3s 6d Veal, per lb ... 6d to Os Si I Chickens,do.2s Od to 28 611 Pork, perlb...oB Od to Os Od Ducks, do., 1 s 6d to 2, Od Salmon, per lb Os Od 1 Ducklings,do2 s Od t o 2 s 61 Grouse, per brace.„...os to Os Turkeys, eac h 3 s Od to 33 6 d Tallow, p stone, Os to —s 01 Potatoes, pr pock, —d to 12d Rabbits, each • ail to 9d. Butter for exportation (present cure) perscwt....Bos to —s Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. Flour, 141b....0s Od to 2s 2d I Barley flour,l4lb.Os to i s 8d Oatmeal Os Od t o i s 7d ~ dust, Beremeal, —.Os Od to is Gd I , per lb 2d to 2id Poasemeal... O s Od t o 2 s 4d Sids, 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 4-Ib. 10af...6d. I 2-Ib. 10af...3d. DUBLIN. JAN. 1. W T e h r e e r p e ea vr t a o s u a r q p u o o o t r at o i t o t n e : d o a f n T e e u , e b s d u a t y a . very firm market. White wheat, 28. Oct to 29s Oil ; rod ditto, 24s 01 to 27e 61; ditto new, —3 0,1; barley, malting, 15s to 18s 6d; grind ing, —a to —s ; oats, old, 12s 6d to 15s; ditto, new, —s Od to —s 01; oatmeal, 14s to 15s 6d; bere, new, 14s to 15s 01 ; rapes, d, 23s Od to 25s Od per brl ; bakers' flour, Bs Od to 2LB 04 per cwt; Indian corn, 31s 01 to 32a 61 per 4 , 30 lbs. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2. STOCK EXCITANGE.—In the Liverpool Stock Exchange there was nothing doing to-day, and prices must be looked upon as merely nominal. Caledonian, 42i 3 4 . —Holyhea, , Iii, 18 1 -6—Loudon and N. Westerns, 99} t—Ditto (i shares), 12—East Lancashire, 921—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 95i dis.—Sheffields, 4q—Midlands, 924- -North Easten, Berwick, 24g—South Easterns, 2li 2—Grand Trunk r of Canada, 12i—Great Western, 58. MANCHESTER, JAN. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE—There was .au active demand, and there was a larger business than usual for the day of the week. Sheffields, 394 Midlando, 92 i—Eastern Coun ties, 12—Trunks, 13—Dovers ' 21 13-16 - Lomlons, 98i — East Lancashire, 924—Leeds, 94 i—Great.Luzembourg, 8 —Canadas, new, p. 1, '(HAM, JAN. 2. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Business in the market generally improved, though few transactions took place. Great Western Birmingham Prof , 9—North Staffordshire, 2t d Great Western Birmingham Guaranteed, 69 70. LEEDS, JAN. 2. STOOL EXOSANOE.—The market to-day again active. Midlands, 92A—North Eastern (Leeds), 2 7i—Dovers, 21i —Eastern Counties, 12—London and South-Western 96 —North Eastern, (York), 43• A 43,f A — Ditto (Berwick), 2.4g—Eastern Union B, 7i. • BIRTHS. COCHRAN —On the Ist in4t., at Swakeleys, near Uxbridge, the wife of Captain Thomas Cochran, R.N., of a son. ELLICE— On the Ist inst., at 18, Wilton-crescent the wife of Robert Ellice, Esq., of a son. , HUSSEY—On the 2d inst., st 53, Lower Grosvenor -street, the Zlon. Mrs. Hussey, of a son. MORES—On the 2d iust., at Fern Lodge, Clapham-park, the wifo of Edward Henry M oses, E sq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. HOBHOUSE --BRODRICK -On the Ist inst., at S. Cathbert'a Church, Wells, the Rev. E tinund Hobhouse, vicar o f S. Peters in-the-East, Oxford second s econ d son of the late Right Hon. Henry Hubhouse, of Hadspen, Somerset, to Mazy Elizabeth, second daughter of the late General the lion. John Brodrick. DEATHS"! BENNETT—On the let inst., Mr. Edwin Bennett, of the House of Lords, aged 40. BARTLETT—On the 31st ult., Mr. John Bartlett, of 83, Drury-lane, aged 77. FELLOWES—On the 30th ult., at Langstone Cottage, near Havant, Sir James Fellow - es, F.R.S., L. and E., aged 86, FROST —On the 31st ult., at Clapham, the Rev. R. Frost, late Clerical Secretary to the British and Foregn Bible Society, aged 58. MARTIN—On the Ist inst., at 24, Beaufoy-terrace, Maida• vale, Captain James Martin, 11 .E.1.C.5., aged 76. SLYNNER—On the 31st ult., at his rosidence32 Morti• leer-street, Cavendi,h-squaro, Robert Skynner, Esq., conveyancer, aged 74. _ LoNDON ; Printe,i i'utn:4l - 1.3t1 by 'II.Z.IiLIA) of No, 112, Strand, PiloLer, at 77,4; Sun Oti.ce, No 112, Strand, in tbe Procinot of tho 3avoy, in the corm' y of Alicialesux, Monday, January 4, 1.6Q8. rHI SeN LONDON, MONDAY EVEXING, JA,NtT I ARY 4, 1858 Pric 8S 19D Paid Paid. Price. Price Price. Price. 49 IA 365 125 74 277