The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-27 00:00:00

. ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — EXT RA H PRRFORMANCES, THURSDAY, 28th, sad SATURDAY, 30th January, 1858. TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), Jan. 27, IL TROYATORE. Conductor, Signor Arditi. To conclude with the Festival Divertissement, entitled L'HYMENEE. The State Festival Decorations will be retained. Prices :—Pit stalls, 12s 6d; boxes (to hold four persons), pit and one pair, 2/. 2s ; grand tier, 31. 3s ; two pair, U. 58.; three pair, 15s ; gallery boxes, lOs ; gallery stalls, 3s 6d ; pit, 3s 6d; gallery, 2s. Applications to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. _____----- servitude, and then only to a British onischpveincat. We lssettle ment, to share the fate of other should far rather receive as gues who had struggled for a noble, ta albeit honestan patr i ot s, unfortu nate cause, ' than any despot, aye, 0 tho ugh hi m . he " bore his blushing hono u e st ° h t i u As to the insulting and threatening demands of venal and restricted journalists, of toadying functionaries, or even of any government or coalition of !governments, we shall exclaim with old HORACE—. " Non ardor cilium prava jubentium " Nec vultus instanter tyranny Mende quatit solid a." We shall turn a deaf ear alike to their threats and blandishments, and still afford shelter and protection to every claimant who can fairly and reasonably claim it at our hands. And we tell those who are now most noisy in their demands that the time may come, as it has been heretofore, when they themselves would be the persons who ! would bitterly regret any unmanly or cowardly concessions on such a point. It is not very long since we declared that the EMPEROR himself was the last man who should sanction any subversion of the privilege by which he had largely profited, not merely in England, but in Switzerland. Can behave forgotten the noble self-devotion with which the republican authorities unawed by the threats of France, refused to de liver him up ? They were prepared to risk their last man_ and last shilling in such a cause—not for the man, but for the holy principle. Can he forget how he was treated in England, when, after invading France from her shores, on what was then, at least, little better than a filibustering expedition—after he had been tried by a French tribunal and condemned, and after a long deten tion was again enabled to avail himself of her hospitality ? It was that very protection that paved his way to his present elevation ; and it was from this country that he started on the expe dition that ended in his being successively a deputy of France, and then the President of the Republic, and eventually the Emperor of the French. How, then, could he with any consistency demand, or even wish for, a change ? He may take warning by the examples afforded by his immediate predecessors. CHARLES the Tenth had found shelter in England when Count of Anjou. He eventually ascended the French throne, and believing himself to be firmly seated, would gladly have had the privileges abolished of which he was eventually glad to avail himself. Louis PHILIPPE had also been a fugitive while a young man. He also ascended the throne of France; believed himself and his dynasty established, and was urgent for the expulsion of—his successor. Louis Nerowsoic has also been a fugitive in England ; is now, as he believes, safe, at all events for his own life time. Let, however, the moral sink deeply into his soul. He may be as CHARLES X., or LOUIS PHILIPPE, when he would deplore having tolerated the onslaught on British rights and public opinion, the value of which he once ear nestly advocated. This will appear from the fol lowing brief extracts. He states, as a fundamen tal law of individual liberty in England, that "No inhabitant of Great Britain (excepting con victs) can be expelled from the United Kingdom. Any infraction of this clause (the Habeas Corpus Act) would be visited with the severest penalties." • • • "There is in England ne public prosecutor, for the Attorney-General only intervenes in very ex traordinary cases. There is no doubt that many criminals escape justice from the want of such a functionary, but, on the other hand, personal liberty incurs less risk of being violated. But it is not merely the laws which protect the citizen ; it is the manner in which they are executed ; it is the manner in which the Government exercises its power. In England authority is never influenced by passion ; its proceedings are always moderate, always legal. In England those violations of a citizen's domicile so common in France, under the name of domiciliary visits, are unknown. In England the secrets of families are respected, and corre spondence remains intact. In England the first of all liberties, that of going where you please, is never disturbed, for there no one is asked for pass ' ports—passports, the oppressive invention of the Committee of Public Safety, which are an embar rassment and an obstacle to the peaceable citizen, but which are utterly powerless against those who wish to deceive the vigilance of authority." • " But then the accused would appeal to a power which has never been found wanting iu England when it is invoked for the protection of liberty— I mean public opinion. For it must be admitted, that however good the laws may be, the Govern ment might infringe them, or turn them to its ad vantage, if publicppinion were not ever ready to arrest it when it deviates into injustice. In truth, a law or a charter deprived of the general support of opinion would be a mere scrap of paper. But it becomes a sacred ark when the public interest guarantees all its words, and that to efface but one of them, or not to execute the whole, is for the Government a sentence of death." ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. — By command of Her MAJESTY. buses th© ' In honour of the Nuptials of her R o y al Highn PRINCESS ROYAL with his Royal Highness the Prince FREDERICK WILLIAM of PRUSSIA., FRIDAY next, Jan. 29, will be presented Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. With the FaXCO of THE SPITALFIBLDS WEA.VER. During the evening the National Anthem will be sung by Madame Clara Novell°, as listed by Mr. Benedict's Vocal Association of 300 voices and the Chorus of Her Majesty's Theatre. Conductor, Mr. Benedict. Admission to the pit (for which a limited 10s. 6d. num b e r of tickets will be issued Gallery stalls (reserv ed and numbered) 6s. Od. Gallery ..... .. ................ 3s. Od. Applications for ....... orchestra stalls, and tickets to be made at the Box-offic Bo the Theatre, and at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old nd-street. T EIEA TR E-R 0Y A 1.4, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, will be performed HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE, in which Mr. Leigh Murray will perform. After which, the new grand pantomime, LITTLE JACK ItORNER. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee--Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven', o'clock, with A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE, in which Mr. Buck atone will appear. After which, a new cemiC Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE SIM - PIPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD ; or, Harle quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclerc% ; Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. _Macka y ; Town, Mr. Charles Leclercq. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the eveningk6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Ice. 5. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes Upper Boxes . 3 0 Upper Boxes Pit Gallery 1 0 Gallery 0 6 OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be performed Shakspere's Play of • MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand corals Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor mack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Rattle ; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama, THE POOR STROLLERS, in which Madame Celeste, Mr. B. Webster, Paul Bedford, and Mr. Wright will perform. After which, a Mythological Extravaganza, entitled THE LOVES OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. Jupiter, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Cupid, Miss Marie Wilton ; Psyche, Miss Mary Keeley ; Venus, Mrs. Billing,ton. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. —Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.— Triumphant Success of Leigh Hunt's new play : Tide the Public Prom THIS EVENING, will be performed Leigh Hunt's new Play, LOVERS' AMAZEMENTS. Supported by Messrs. Charles Dillon, J. G. Shore ; Mesdames Charles Dillon and Woolgar. To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH ROOKIE, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU ADOUR ; or, Harlequin and the Ghebers of the Desert. Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White, Eliza Webb, Maria Teritan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ; Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Poynter, and J. L. Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites, Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses Malcolm and Lees. Gergeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans formation Scene. Doors open athalf-past 6, to commence at 7. A Morning Performance on Saturday next, to commence at half-past 2. In active preparation, a new and original Drama, by West land Marston, Esq. and a powerful Novelty. lox-offtee open gom 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creawick. THIS EVENING, will be performed PERILS BY LAND AND WAVE. After which, QUEEN MAB ; or Harlequin Romeo and Jolliet. Clown, by the Surrey Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Brad. bury. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of ilections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Bruaell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, Russell Grover, S. Tones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber nard ; Messrs. W. T. Critchaeld and E. Mackney. Piano forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, des., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGI7S'rITS BRAHAM will make his 2d appear ance THIS EYENING. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn., 0 min. aft. o—Even., 15 min. aft. 0 TO.Monnow—Morn. 50 min. aft. o—Even., 20 min. aft. 1 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAZ:DAVY 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 38—highest since noon yesterday. 38—lowest this morning and during the night. 44 —this day at noon. Benommvx% 30.03. WIND, S.S.E. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather.: ft 9) - -s; . " It suffices for us to note this fact, that in France, where such jealousy is shown of everything which touches equality and national honour, people do not attach themselves so religiously to personal liberty. The tranquillity of the citizen may be disturbed, his domicile may be violated, lie may be made to undergo for whole months a preventive imprisonment, personal guarantees may be despised, and a few generous men shall raise their voices, but public opinion will remain calm ;Ind impassable as long as no political passion is awakened. There lies the greatest reason for the violence of authority ; it can he arbitrary because there is no curb to check it. In England, on the contrary, political passions cease the moment a violation of common right is committed ; and this, because England is a country of legality, and France has not yet become se ; because England is a country solidly constituted, while France struggles turns for 40 years between revolutions and counter-revolutions, and the sanctity of principle has yet to be created there." After these unbiassed expressions of deliberate ,pinion, how can the EMPEROR lend himself to any attempt to set aside or alter matters which he has so eloquently eulogised. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1858. A morning contemporary, high in the confi dance of the Premier, announces ex cathedra its certainty that " the Government must, and will propose, on the opening of Parliament, a measure for the punishment of political assassins." This is a significant intimation, more especially when coupled with the threatening speeches against England on the other side of the Channel, and also the strangely consistent rumours as to diplomatic demands for the expulsion of certain political fugi tives, and the modification of the right of sanctuary in this country ! We cannot believe that Lord PA.LMERSTON could be so wanting to himself as to surrender for a moment, to any pressure however urgent, the sacred duty of hospitality hitherto freely exercised iu favour of every political Here and there, as our columns from time to refugee, no matter what may be the nature of his time attest, the boroughs are beginning to move. opinions, or under what standard he may array They should lose no time. The days before Par "himself. Should the Premier be so ill advised as Lament meets are numbered, and it can hardly be to make the attempt under any dictation, it will long after its meeting before the Premier will not only be the signal for the immediate hunch his Reform proposals. "Stay till then," overthrow of his Government but for his own some may say ; and we do not deny that some pe rmaneat exclusion from office. He might then, thing may be said for doing so. It is easier to Hi s Majesty the King of th e Belgians , their Roya, indeed " bid farewell, a. long Highnesses the Duke of Brabant and the Count 01 criticise the shortcomings of a Government pro greatness:' No future act could restore 't tl o le a p il ub li li i c s Flanders, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Ho henzollern Sigmariegen took leave of the Queen Jester confidence, forfeited by th e ti m id concession. N or f,-,r that kind of . criticism—than. to . diNte . with day, upon their return to the Continent. Her Royal is the time appropriat e Elii,ihness the Duchess of Kent arrived early at the Palace, to pay a visit to the King. The Prince and law. Although oflittl f e or pr:t yleaalit.e.ration in the freshness and interest on points with which we importance in are familiar. Still it would be of the greatest a and the Duke and Duchess of Saxe itself, it would be ascribed to fear C P o ri b n o c u e r s g s took r l u e s a s v i leave of his Majesty. aad be the service if, prior to the meeting of Parliament—if The King and the Belgian Princes were accompanied signal. for new demands, more urgently on, and more difficult to be resisted. insisted only a few days before, so much the better---good to the principal entrance of the Palace by the Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Royal Family, " Nolumus It is An line mutari." We shall not telling meetings could be held to inform the Mini and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court. surrender the smallest portion of our constitu- star and his aristocratic Cabinet that the country llisNlajesty,dwtihth e p the Duk f e ll o n f he ß n r z a , a l a ie n r t a , n, the te C r o t u a n k t i n o f rin tional rights to any Prince or Potentate on the Soeuld tolerate no shams. Ministers are like Flanders, leave o e a r Majesty, quitted Buckingham Palace witt face of the earth. One of the most cherished of I.7a,Y 3 ithey misinterpret our letting them alone- their r,uite in three f _ o f f the e G Queens ca d rr d ia e g rr es a , b e f s ey eor l t o e r d d b i y n and pro tro ublesome incident to a free constitution those rights is that of affording sanctuary to every a wa d it e i thm tn en t t he o L Queen, and L . ieut.-Colonel POnsonby, victim I We shall not condescend to act as the up the steam fo r improvement, that we must get equerry in waiting to the Prince Consort, attended the work desired object. Cabinets all police of any State, or to hand over to the tender like routine i C King. t deM/doVa k n t k ier WDerye_i•Letpheeißßelagrioann do Minister, vei.n hi e Col. de mercies of despots, those who have had the any other unlees eat, maci will not undertake , Captain iurnell, and Lieutenant von Osten misfortune to incur their suspicions, which perhaps their existencethey know that their popularity, were also in attendants. , de e d bierische, proceeded to the Bricklayer9' would practically be to become parties to not asked for," is a ve P t 1 n upon it. "It is A rms e station illustrious of p thearStyouth-Eastern Railway, and loft ry convenient I w he n fo r Poser. legalised murder. We demand from] all Reform in any departme n t , rep,y I ior Prince Albert of Prussia, who obtain asylums in the British dominions ; Reform, is demanded. It seems every political 1 Their Royal_Hredigebinceksseoef Prussia, and Prince A.dal strict obedience to our laws. If they be guilty of ; polite to the country, implying a ev s e 1 •1 somewhat Pberr.tcoef Aprlbuesrstia,F attended r by Colonel von Schoulenburg, trace, they will be duly punished. But the Ministers are the country's servants 'lces th a t \A . djutant von Buddenbrock,. llofruarschal von Meyer &ny o inck, Captain de Case!, Captain von Maslow, Lieu tenant . question must be decided by a British or mixed it , ad that •f hut speak one '' and 1 • Ch " 1 , v, it would be pa,ace.o, are Lio,u., i t - - von RicAhofen, left Biniktrwhatu r- i , t coded Li Let the i a, an early hour yesterday mender:. 'Their and the penalty inflicted by the sentence 0; .. • cuuutry take our Go vern _ Royal Highn,sse- nave I,l:ot:ceded ,o bi ii, several of the a British judge. In no ca, 9e can they be sent out anent at its word. Tonne lant ports and towns in England. ' The Attorte -General as.o, Their Reyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of f t they have, in the first in- y ha s , we learn from \ - ru , eiia p r . of bhe oountry, except Bucks Advertiser and A 1 h Saxe , ince William of Baden, and the Duchess c to undergo a term of penal the y.es _ury News, just th , C o b urg, ev ",? n took leave of her Majesty the Queen in itance, been adjudged -u , g, on their return to the Continent. TIIE SON LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1858 received a very wholesome lesson on this point. The Hon. Member, it appears, had told some of his friends " that the feeling in favour of the Ballot is dying out." No doubt he spoke the truth in regard to the circle in which he has chiefly moved of late in Lord PALMERSTON'S Ministry, and perhaps there just in proportion as an approaching Reform Bill makes the Ballot more of a practical question, the feeling in favour of the Ballot is dying out. We will not mention names, but if we do not see some of Lord Pare MERSTON'S supporters do something more than give a silent vote for the Ballot, we and others shall be obliged to suspect that the next step will be to pair off on the question, and the next one to walk out of the house before the division is taken. The good folk of Aylesbury, however, have held a public meeting on the subject, and lest Sir RICHARD should be liable to any mistake, they passed a resolution expressing their satis faction that the QUEEN had referred in her Speech to the subject of Parliamentary Reform, and add that "at the same time this meeting desires to record its conviction that no extension of the Suffrage will be satisfactory unless it be accom panied by the Ballot." The Chairman was instructed to forward copies of the resolution to Sir RICHARD BETHELL, the borough member, and to the county members also. We commend the example of Aylesbury to every borough constitu ency in the kingdom. It is the most efficient way of dealing with Lord PALMEB,STON. He is com pelled, as all Ministers are, to look to the safety of his own supporters. If he knew that his ma jority would be dismissed at another election if they did not require the Ballot from him, even he, with some wry faces, and a backstairs' mes sage to the House of Lords, would grant it. Huddersfield, too, has done well. The meeting there was called by 480 requisitionists of standing in the town, and presided over by the Chief Con stable. Mr. ACRROYD, who succeeded in ousting Mr. COBDEN, has, we fear, no other political merit than that of Palmerstonism, which we take leave to tell him will not serve as a political character for ever. Resolutions, in favour of a rate•book suffrage, and the ballot, were enthusiastically carried, and two members demanded for the borough. Lord GODERICH was to be entrusted with the petition. It seems the advanced Liberals of Huddersfield prefer their old aristocratic mem ber to their new manufacturing one. This ad monishes us, at least, that some of the aristocracy are more trustworthy than some wool or cotton lords ; Yorkshire folk are long-headed and honest enough, and they would not leave their own class for a lord without good reason. We welcome Mr. COBDEN too, again, in his old character of Reformer on this occasion. His letter in defence of a suffrage as low as a rate book suffrage, is worthy of his old speeches in the popular cause. He bears the testimony of a long experience both as a master, and as a speaker at all kinds of public meetings, to the good sense and good feeling of the working men generally. He denies that Socialism has any considerable hold upon them, and says, truly enough, thatif they could influence legislation in that direction they would be amongst the first to suffer by it and to demand its repeal. He shows that where the suffrage is universal, as in Switzerland and Prussia, property is quite as much respected as it is here. He appeals to the impossibility of the multitude playing the part of hypocrites and traitors, al though of course it may be misled as well as the higher classes. His last remark is very just— "lf the working classes had votes they would be quite as conservative in their tendencies, after a little experience, as any other section of the community. They would not separate themselves from other classes, but range themselves under influential leaders, as they do now, for there is a fireside jealousy which prompts men to elect their chiefs from a higher class than their own. It is this tendency which leads the middle classes to prefer to follow a member of the aristocracy to one of their own order." WEST COAST OF AFEICA. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY ETENING. The North of Europe steam-packet ship Oscar Capt. Hawkesley, arrived here this afternoon from the West Coast of Africa. She left Fernando Po on the 31th, Bonny on the 15th, Lagos on the 25th, Accra on the 29th, Cape Coast on the 30th, Sierra Leone on Jan. 6, the Gambia on the 12th, and Madeira on the 21st, but did not call at Teneriffe. Her passengers are but three in number. Her cargo contains 200 ounces of gold, 37 bales of cotton, 700 casks of palm oil, 90 tusks of ivory, and a very large ostrich. The general health of the coast was good, but in the Bights of Benin and Biafra fogs were very prevalent, and the navigation was necessarily dan- gerous. The Consul at Fernando Po was about to proceed to the rivers, but was awaiting the arrival of a man of-war to take him there. The George, formerly part of the Niger expedi tion, was towed by the Oscar off Bonny. The former vessel had been attacked by the natives of the Ebo country, but she had not received any material damage. On the arrival of the Sunbeam at Fernando Po an attempt was to be made to relieve the wrecked crew of the Dayspring in the Ebo country. The Triton was at Sierra Leone ; the Hecla was at Lagos; and the Viper was at Madeira. The Propeller left Lars outwards o❑ tho 20th of December, and the Ethiope on the 22d. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The representation of " Hamlet" at this theatre last evening was signalised by a feature of peculiar interest —the appearance of Mrs. Charles Kean in the character of Queen Gertrude. This part had, on previous occa sions, been filled by Mrs. Ternan ; but, in consequence of the indisposition of that lady, it was undertaken by Mrs. Kean at a few hours' notice, and her admirable impersonation of the guilty mother of the Prince of Denmark enhanced the profound interest inspired by some of the most stiiking scenes of the tragedy. On Mr. Kean's performance it were quite superfluous to add a word of comment, but the signal support afforded by his accomplished partner is worthy of receiving notice, as tending to render the representation of Shak spare's greatest work at the Princess's the most attrac tive production of the season. DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL VISITORS. .iJ4vIEST NEWS. INDIA AND CHINA. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. We have received via Trieste files of papers from Calcutta to the 24th of December, Bom bay to the 29th of December, and Hong Kong to the 16th of December. The Bombay papers do not contain any additional news. We take the following from the Calcutta Eng lishman of the 24th of December : The last fortnight has not been fruitful in im portant news, but we send home official reports from various parts of the country, which show that our forces are taking the ascendant, and that the only formidable resistance now to be expected is in Oude. For the present the subjugation of that little kingdom is postponed. TheCOmmander-in- Chigf, it is understood, proceeds to Futtyghur to put down the revolted Nawab and his adherents, open the communication with the upper provinces, and trample out the smouldering fires of insurrec tion in Rohilcand. The country will then be clear for operations against Lucknow, in which be will be aided by Jung Bahadoor, at the head of 10,000 Nepaulese soldiers. The mutineers and rebels have concentrated at Lucknow ; they are preparing for a resolute defence, and, having no favour tt as to e peet from their en em y, w ill pro b a bl y long as possible. It is not antici pated by those who know the country that any serious resistance will be made in any other part of Oude, but the forts in which the chiefs and cliuckledars have been accustomed to ensconce themselves to resist their own King must be destroyed, and the possession of can non or any arms, except for sporting, must be strictly prohibited. Whether this can be ac complished during the present cold weather is very doubtful, and it will not be safe or prudent to keep the British soldiers in the field during another hot and rainy season, and it is therefore by no means improbable that another year will elapse before the British flag flies triumphant over every town and city in our Indian territories. At present, though not, as some of the English papers suppose, besieged in Calcutta, we are cut off from all regular communication with the west ern provinces. Occasionally a stray letter or news paper reaches us, but no more, and until the post is restored to its normal condition the natives will not recover their confidence in the stability of British rule. CAWNP ORE. We take the following interesting narrative of events at Cawnpore from letters published in the Calcutta Englishman : " CAMP, CAWNPORE, Nov. 30. " We arrived here on the 28th in time to preven a second massacre ; the Gwalior troops were attack ing the place, and it seems the affair was mis managed. Our positions without the entrenched camp were deserted without fighting on our side. Two of our guns were nearly taken ; the Naval Brigade, being without support, were obliged to leavethem ; the sudden advance of the enemy seems to have frightened our people. Windham, however ; drove them off, and took some guns ; the brutes . _ hearing of his (to them) unexpected arrival, bolted, but about 2,000 are said to be in the city, which we are shelling to-day—this is sad disappointment to us. We expected to get a few comforts on reach ing Cawnpore, and now we cannot get anything ; the rebels have possession of all. One of the mer chants, who brought things down to Cawnpore, has lost all his property, 10,000 rupees' worth. The enemy, it is said, are entrenching themselves close to the city—pluck is it not? Our position is pre- carious, with all the sick, wounded (1,500 ours alone), and ladies and children. The Chief, I be lieve, Will wait here for reinforcements, and get the ladies off to Allahabad at once. Ours is an immense camp, the followers, I may say, innumerable. Our line of march extended eight miles, and the x;ear guard, since leaving Lucknow, always came up next morning. Since my last to you we hare been doing great things, accoanta of which you have no doubt already read in the newspapers. We came back faster than we went from Alumbagh to Cawn- pore in two marches ; our last was 30 miles on the 28th, from 7 a.m. to I cannot tell you when the rear got in, but we in the advance got in at 7 p.m., and tired and hungry we were, but the Chief ordered the troops to push on, as we could firing at Cawnpore, an d a message h a d the Gwalior f orce h a d sud d en l y e sa i y )laCe. I have be en i n a h ar d-f ought haa attacked tr a ai hr ek h de e d a t v toh y battle, that much I can say, for the Sepoys defended Secuudra, most obstinately to the last, so much so that it was the opinion of all that, though we could take Lucknow, it would be. with heavy loss —a loss which cannot easily be replaced, and would have placed us in the power of the Gwalior force, which, by-the-bye, they must have cal culated on—hence this attack on Cawnpore. Now I will give all account of our doings. On the (i. e. in our up 12th column went j i n o s u t r . n w ey e ). r e a N ch ez e d t A d l a u y m ( la ilt h h I w 2 a t r dto attack Jellahabad, which we found deserted, and blew up th e old fort ; 14 th, marched onwards cautiously, making a long round, so as to avoid their batteries, &c. Near Lucknow the enemy appeare d—i. e. at a place ca ll e d D ill Khoosa, f ou r miles distance. Here our fighting com menced. The Artillery came into action first, when the enemy's guns were silenced. Our in fantry and cavalry cleared the ground, but Jack Paudies ran so fast that we did not come up to them. The Dill Khoosa, which is a fine-looking palace, in which the rebels were, was finely bat tered by our guns. Next th e enemy ma d e a stand in the Martiniere School ; their round shot hero killed a good number of our men, Many a round shot and bullet passed over my head. It was , a mercy to us the brutes had no shells, as their practice was good. We fired at the School, in which we could see the Jacks scudding along ; it is greatly injured; daylight let in many places. Here some guns were taken by us, but, as usual, our infantry and cavalry could not come up to charge the brutes, but kept up a running fire at them, and deadful potting from behind walls, &c. By 4 p.m. the school was clear, but the enemy oc cupied a village close by till near dark, when we took the place at the point of the bayonet, and set fire to it. The next day we occupied our ground, and had skirmishes with the enemy ; we were a couple of miles from the Residency, and all day delayed to throw dust in their eyes. The Chief determined on making a round again to get at it. Had we gone straight on, we would have found them well prepared to meet us. Next day we started on our grand excursion ; I cannot forget the caution and silence of that day ; the canal was crossed without opposition (it was our great sticking point in the straight course). On the Lucknow side the enemy were seen moving on as we advanced. All went on well till we reached Secundra, about a mile from the Residency. It is another palace building with strong pucko walls, and here the sepoys fought better than ever they did in their lives, but of course the brutes knew they were behind strong walls, and had no means of escape, as there was only one gate, and that towards us. Our guns fired long, making breaches, and trying to silence three guns which were doing us great mischief with round shot. Had they had shells our loss would have been double. The infan try were all lying down and firing—a constant blaze on both sides was kept up. When breaches were made, our men went in with cheers, and Jack Sepoys were slaughtered wholesale —in two places they lay five feet high ; some escaped by means of a rope ladder ; 1 ,700 and odd were counted of their dead, and burned in this place. Our loss was 450 killed and wounded. Poor Capt. Hardy was killed, Lieut. Ford welinded, and three. gunners killed, awl two mortally wounded ; fighting did not cease till ("oak. AbA s it 5 p.m. another large building was taken ; Peel's brigade breached the place. Captain Peel got a gun up to 10 feet of the wall, but suffered greatly ; he offered the Victoria Cross to his men if they brought the gun up. Sikhs and Highlanders charged with great cheering, but the Sepoys this time bolted. "DEC. I.—The Gwalior troops opened fire on us this morning. They having got the range of our camp, created great confusion. Our troops are . . now attacking them. The Royal Artillery has not been ordered out, but to be ready. The city is catching it ; Peel is firing rockets and shell into the place. To continue the journal of events. On the 17th, the greater part of the day, the artillery were driving away the enemy ; in the afternoon the mess-house, which is a strong place, and in which the Jacks were, was taken by us without much loss. The Sepoys were chased into Lucknow, and the road to the Residency opened. Havelock attacked from the rear. When it was known that the Residency people were re- lieved and the ladies all right, three cheers were given by the men. The 18th, 19th, and 20th we were employed shelling the Palace of Lucknow ; a deal of musketry firing was also taking place all around ; whenever there was a cover the Sepoys potted away from one of their guns, firing round shot, proving very troublesome, and we could not silence it—it lay in a hollow on the ground without its carriage, behind a number of mud walls. 21st and 22d, removing the ladies, sick, and wounded to Dill Khoosa, and retired at dusk on the 22d silently (and were not interrupted) to Dill Khoosa. 24th, marched to ilumbagh,saw no enemy. 0 utram's force came up on the 25th, and is to be left there. Have lock died of dysentry, and was buried at Alumbagh. 26th, halted; it is said we have more than 1,500 sick and wounded to carry. 27th, marched to Bunnee, 14 miles ; passed over the whole ground. 28th, . . forced march of 30 miles to Cawnpore ; the chief pushed on with artillery and cavalry. Ido not know how far it is true, but some say had we not arrived Cawnpore would have gone ; the bridge of boats certainly broke that night, and all communication would have been stopped." A. letter from one who was with the army at Lucknow, dated Cawnpore, Dec. 2, mentions that they were engaged with the enemy day and night from the 13th to the 23d ult. Another letter, dated the 4th of December, says : " Since the 27th ult. we have been in a state of close siege, and under an almost uninterrupted fire ot shot, shell, shrapnel, grape, jezail, balls and bullets. A foolish mistake was made in attacking the enemy on the 26th, before we were prepared for active hostilities, and a much more foolish and fatal error the day after in taking up the straggling camp at Chickendee into the city on its rear, and a dense cover between us and the enemy, which enabled them to advance and take up all the covers round our establishment, and pin us in so that to this moment we have been unable to drive them back ; their movements gave the enemy double the advantage they had achieved by their own desperate efforts. •` Our loss in officers and men has been grew In one charge, to take a couple of the enemy's big guns on the 27th, her Majesty's 64th Regiment lost their Colonel (General Wilson), Major Stirling, Captains M'Crea, Morphy, and Macpherson, and an attached officer, Mr. Gibbon, besides 70 men, and all because, instead of being supported after the charge was made, a retreat was ordered. . . . The Commander-in-Chief arrived on the even ing of the 20th, since which we have felt more con fidence and security." " CAWNPORE, Dec. 7.—From the rough sketch I sent you you will have seen that from the in formation I had gleaned I expected we would be attacked simultaneously from two, if not from three sides—by the Nana and his brother Bhola Sahib, via Shevrajpore and Shewlee ; by Koor Singh, with a portion of the Gwalior and other troops from Calpee, via Akbarpore, Runnea, and Raipore ; and possibly by another column of the same force, via Gholumpore, Sahr, and Sirsoul. " On the morning of the 26th ult. General Windham advanced from his camp near a place called Dhubohlee, close to the canal, having heard that the enemy was moving on him from Runes, and met the advanced column at Bhowsee, near Pandna Nuddee, where a very severe conflict took place, which resulted in the repulse of the enemy, with great loss to them of men as well as of two howitzers and a brass gun (9 -pounder). After following up the enemy for some distance, their Sowars turned round to charge, when a detach ment of H.M. 34th Regiment immediately formed square, received the charge, and then poured in a murderous fire that rolled over each horse and rider, only one of the latter escaping out of some sixty. During this engagement Captain Day, of H.M. 88th Foot, while fighting with his men over a well, received a mortal wound from a bullet and fell into the well, from which his men failed to recover his body. Our troops fell back towards evening, and pitched their camp in the Jewle Plain, with a thick cover of trees and brushwood to the S.W. (the direction the enemy had retired in, and might at any moment be expected sud denly to open fire from), and a brick-kiln on the N.E., with the city to retreat through in case of need. This unguardedly-taken and dangerous position conducted to the disasters of the following day. Early in the morning D. and I rode out to this camp, and in conversation with some of the officers of H.M. 88th Foot, suggested that abetter position would be attained by moving the camp to the old ground just behind the canal, so as to have an open plain, with the canal Tor a barrier in front, and an open plain likewise to the rear. Our suggestion was at the time received with smiles, but in the evening, when we again met some of the said officers at the Hospital iu intrenchments, they recalled our remarks of the morning to mind, and said they had thought of us. No sooner had we returned to cantonments than we heard the sounds of fight, the enemy having opened from the above mentioned cover to the south-west of our camp. I do not believe any one can accurately describe the I fight and retreat of this forenoon. All I have been able to learn is that some officer informed the Gene ral that these intrenchments had been attacked and nearly taken by a body of the enemy. A retreat was ordered, her Majesty's 34th Foet being directed to fall behind the brick-kiln. Neither officers nor men knew where to find it I The news flew rapidly about the canton ments and oity that our force was worsted and on the retreat, and an overwhelming rush was made into the inner intrenchments, as resistless as the volume of water at the Falls of Niagara. Soldiers and Jacks, Europeans and natives, men, women, and children, camels, horses, and oxen poured in, in countless numbers, from 2 p.m. By nightfall the intrenched camp, with its motley assemblage of men and beasts, baggage, luggage, and 10,000 nondescript encumbrances, rivalled the chaos that existed before the fiat of creation went forth. As a matter of course, the entire of our advanced camp, with the exception, I believe, of a portion of H.M. 82d Regiment, fell into the hands of the enemy I Early the next morning, the 28th, the enemy (up to this time consisting of the Gwalior and other troops from Calpee, but now joined by the Nana Sahib, from Sewrajpore and his brother the Bhola Sahib from Sewlee, with their respective forces and guns, numbering with the Calpee troops, some 21,000 men and 56 guns), commenced advancing under the admirable covers they found in Le yet nude rnolished and half-destroyed bungalows and public buildings, until they formed a complete cordon around us, resting their right flank on the city and their left on the burial ground to the east of Kirk and Co.'s premises, and verging on the river. From their left and centre they opened a murderous and well supported fire of heavy and light guns, and kept closing on us under such fire, and the protection of the covers I have mentioned, until our out-pots were gradually driven in to within a few hundred yards of our own batteries. The Assembli.Rooms, with all they contained, consisting of 11,000 rounds of Enfield cartridges, the mess plate of some four Queen's corps, paymasters' chests and baggage un told of, officers and men, fell into the hands of the Philistines, who dislodged our men, but whom we could noi, in return dislodge, though not more, certainly, than 400 yards from our batteries. Between the Assembly Rooms and church (which they also occupied) the enemy placed severalguns in position, that worried us for several successive days. During the afternoon the 64th Que en ' s immortalised themselves. Captain Wright, with seine 30 men, held the Baptist Chapel on the road that leads to Kirk and Co.'s premises, and the old burial ground adjoining Duhan's Hotel. H e saw the enemy pressing on his outpost, and placing his few men in skirmishing order, opened fire on them. While thus engaged, a detachment of this "-Not a building has Loth spared this tim , 2. "1U p.m.-1 have just returned from tue en trenchments, where I heard that the Commander in-Chief pursued the fugitives 14 miles down the Calpee-road, and there pitchedhis camp. What his further movements are likely to be, no one seems corps, sent by the General to capture four guns able to say. Our force has made sad havoc of the that were in position beyond Kirk and Co.'s pre- flying enemy, capturing 16 guns and 26 carts of wises, on the turn of the road leading to Permit's ammunition. A great portion of the camp and Ghat, and doing dreadful mischief, came in sight, baggage we lost on the 27th ultimo is said to be consisting of about 200 or 250 men, commanded reco voted in state quo, as we left it ; but nothing by Colonel Nt ilson. Captain McCrea ‘ shouted to is said of the ammunition we abandoned. Wright to go forward as an advanced guard which l "Of Sir J. Outrams's position and movements he instantly did, pushing on until he reached we have no certain information. A rumour came the raised platform on the north of Kirk's bun- in three days ago, that the small detachment at galow, whence he distinctly saw the four guns in Bunnee-bridge, consisting of the Sappers and 27th position, and played on them with his rifles. Madras N. 1., had been cut off, and that the force at the Allumbagh w a s surroun d e d a nd b es i ege d. It Colonel Wilson's small force advanced by the is difficult to pronounc e an o pi n i on o f thi s re p o rt, road, and as they rounded the turning came full for it may be true, and yet I i nc li n e to think it one OD these guns, which immediately opened on them with heavy pours of musketry from the infantry of the not uncommon can ar d s ' se t a fl oa t by the idle and timorous, since I cannot tr a ce it to any supporting them, and numbering certainly not less than 2,500. With one terrific shout our thing like an authentic source. General Showers' column has not yet made its appearance, although •• brave fellows flung themselves on the guns, and three out of four were spiked in the twinkling of on the Ist it was reported to have arrived in our immediate vicinity, and was yesterday affirm e d to an eye, two by Captain McCrea, who, while en deavouring to spike a third, was cut down by the have been attacking the left flank of the enemy tulwars of the Golundazes. No support being sent from the direction of Newabgunge. to this gallant and small band of heroes, it could " Our accounts to-day from Allahabad show that not long hold the guns thus bravely and daringly the good folks there do not entertain any very captured 1 Colonel Wilson was mortally wounded strong feeling of security, and it is not impossible by a rifle bullet through the left breast ; he was they may receive a visit from portions of the Cal brought into camp by some of his men and died pee horde, since it has been recruiting extensively within 20 minutes. Captains McCrea and Morphy during the bygone week. were cut down at the guns. Major Stirling was "Dee. 9.—My letter of the 7th inst. (the only shot. Captain McKinnon and Lieut. Gordon one up to that date I could manage to write corn (attached) were left on the field wounded. The posedly) will have given you full intelligence of former is said, and is believed, to have been hanged what transpired here from our first attack on the lay the villains on the gallows on which we used to enemy on the 26th ultimo to their incontinent re execute the rebels, and the latter to have been treat on Sunday night and Monday morning, in boundhands and feet to a cartwheel, and while thus two divisions, one under the Nana Sahib, towards helpless progged with bayonets, and otherwise Bithoor, the other under Koor Sing, 'towards ignominiously treated. Among the men the slaughter was fearcul, and many a poor wounded Calpee. Beyond recovering a major portion fellow was left to the tender mercies of the Pandies, of the camp and baggage we lost on the 27th, their being no bearers in attendance to carry the on the Jewee Plain, capturing 19 guns, 26 carts of ammunition, a quantity of grain, land sen decline to the front 1 The handful that did escape psi indomitable I cannot ascertain we have do ne m uch came in sad and sorrowful ! Though, through the immense herd of cattle, and taking some 15 pri indomitable valour and bull-dog pluck of Britons , damage to the mutineers who have effected a cun we that day resisted the enemy so as to keep him at those who fled to Bithoor and C a lp ee h ave re and two mortars, yet without a doubt the enemy had hay some 400 yards from our ramparts, and though ning and clean escape. This mornin g I l earn th a t our Rifles and blue-jackets did take thre 1 8 -pounders spectively recrossed the Gan ges an d J umn a. the best of it in every way. I can assure you our At Calpee, it is said, th e enemy ha ve a s t rong ly intrenchment sheltered many a heart that pulsated entrenched cam, well suppli e d w ith ammun iti o n and russet. His Excellency •is in camp on the with gloomy forebodings, until, towards evening , his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was seen to Jewee Plain, in front of th e c ity. B r i ga dier be approaching with his personal Staff. Grant, with one column, is aft er th e Bithoor fugitives, anc two columns have gone out on the " The enemy opened at about 6.45 a.m. of the Delhi road. The place is of necessity corn 29th, with a heavy crossfire from each flank, as pletely unsettled, the native city is in a state of well as from the centre, of shot, shell, grape, Ca- the utmost confnsion, and is reported to have suf.. nister, &c., which was cordially returned from our fered greatly at the hands of the enemy on this oc intrenchments, and the firing continued incessantly casion, though it escaped with impunity on the last. . the entire day. About 10 a.m., the Commander- It will, I apprehend, be very many days ere the in-Chief's force commenced crossing, and during natives return to their avocations, and business ie the day H. M. 53d arid, 93d, the 2d Punjab In- resumed. fantry, Horse Battery of six gu ns, Fo o t A rtiller y , "Dec. 10.—I h as t en to l e t you k now th a t with five guns, the 9th Lancers, Hodson's Horse, news has just come in that Brigadier Grant's Peel Battery of two 24-pounders, and an 8-inch ho column, that went from the Coromander-in-Chiere witzer, came across. In the evening a de t ac h me n t o f camp the night before l as t, a tt ac k e d t h e rebels a t the Madras Fusiliers and the sth Punjab Cavalry, Bithoor yesterday, committed great slaughter among with some of the ladies, children, and sick from them, captuted the entire of the staff of the Nana, Lucknow, came over. During the night a con - and took all the guns, am mun iti on , prov i s i on s, tinned file fire was kept up between our and the money, and property o f ev e ry d escr i pt i on that enemy's outposts. At 7 a.m. of the 30th, the had been removed t o Bith oor . It i s sa id, enemy's batteries again opened on us from the same many of the scoundrels have fled in terror into positions as the day before, and a new one to their Oude. Yesterday some of Sir J. Outram's trea' left flank which teazed us greatly, playing on the sure and camp came in, and he is said to be fol- General Hospital, and the tents and quarters of the lowing with his force. May he come across these Commissariat. The former was hit by several scoundrelly fugitives ! A Havildar of the rebel force was executed last evenin g w h o s t a t e d, w hen round shot. We replied in right good earnest , silencing the enemy's guns at times, but only for a examined, that the Nana was not here during all while, since, shifting position, they invariably portion of the time we were besieged, but re' opened on us again. During the day the residue malned at Bithoor—that his brother, the Bhalah of the troops and refugees from Lucknow crossed Sahib, reached Calpee on the 18th ult., and WO honoured with a salute of 21 guns on hi s arr ival the over, and during the night major portion of the —that he crossed his f orce th ere on th e 21 s t a! enormous baggage camp. On the Ist of December By Chief, with Surdial Pandy as General-in-Chief, and 10 we a r . e m c e . i the v e d enemy'sreinforcements batteries f openedrom Allahabad. fire and ours Tothea Topah second in command—that the rebel returned it. H.M. 93d Hi g hlanders ca p tured force consisted of little more than half of theGwalio r one and spiked two guns, which latter they were C on ti ngen t, some of S c i n di a ' s , Ll oy d' s own loyab unable to bring in. About 10 p.m. the enemy from Dinapore, a l arge b o dy o f m i sce ll an eon° attacking the outposts of her Majesty's 93d and troops from Furrackabad, fonr regiments sent bi n 53d, and were repulsed with great loss, a nd the the Nana, a number of men from Oude, and 4- ‘ . file firing on both sides lasted nearly all night. guns from Calpee, besides some sent by the Nana; At 6 a.m. of the 2d the enemy's batteries opened that the Rajah of Ghopalpore (in the Kutchvtest. again, and we responded,but the former were very ghur district), and the Zemindar of Tongrah, wit h soon quieted by 5 small mortars we got in position their men, were with the rebels ; and their tree" at the Gunge Battery, under the direction of Capt. sure consisted of Rs. 5,56,012-12-6—rather.Pre- Austin, whose fire was first-rate. Towards the cisely calculated, I should say, to define' th e afternoon an outer camp was formed, and the balance with such nicety. telegraphic communication with Futtehpore and " Duo. 11.—We had no post from Calcutta yel ? Allahabad resumed. From this day to yesterday terday, and we have had none to-day, even from the enemy's fire slackened considerably, and al- Allahabad. The cause, of course, we do not kriolf. most ceased—occasional shells and round shot Communication by telegraph continues uninter; coming in at long and irregular intervals. To- rupted, but the instrument is steadily monopolise wards nightfall the ladies, child re n, and about f or serv i ce messages . W e h ear thi s morn i n g th il _ 400 sick and wounded, l e ft f o r Allahabad, with General D u p u i s an d his staff will leave to-morrow) a good escort. On the 4th the enemy sent by dawk, for Calcutta, it being decided that t he a fire-boat to destroy our bridge, but the head-quarters of the A r tillery are to be esta'alig l4 7 l set of the current turned it towards shore, there. His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and no mischief happened. At 9.10 a.m. march with a strong forceior Furrackabad to-0 1 ° r ; on the 6th the enemy fired one shell, and then row. A proper move i n t h e r i ght direction, sineeele ceased. Just one hour after, every battery and i s v it a lly essen ti a l we s h ou ld open the road with the gun from our entrenchment and the outer camp, utniost practicable s p ee d, f or th e importation cs°, as also the guns that had been sent out in diffe• grain from Bareilly and other adjoining distriett rent directions to bear on the enemy, op e ned fire I saw a letter this morn i ng from an officer of g simultaneously, and played briskly the liv e l ong [Lave 78th Highlander s , statin Sir J. Out's" n long day. The foe replied feebly enough, and did not purp ose to vacate the Alumbagh seemed paralysed. I have heard that several of diately, as the enemy were gathering round h ie their outposts were closely engaged with ours position, and evidenced a decided inclination t ° during the day, but I have not been abl e t o o b- give him, a meeting on the open field, which ie all Lain particulars. Shortly after 10 p.m. the t he enemy's extreme left flank a d vance d on our out- he wants, and th en our f o ll ows w ill re ad scoundrels a lesson." posts, and opened a murderous fire of ginjalls, rifles and grape, which our fellows replied to con (more for nearly two hours, and as briskly as they could load and 'fire. This was evidently an attempt to get possession of the bridge of boats, in which the rascals were thwarted. To day not a shot has been fired, but the enemy has retreated ; the arch fiend, the Nanao, with his bloodhounds, to Bithoor, via Sewrajpore, and the Gwalior force to the Calpee, where they have a strong entrenched camp, with a large supply of ammurition and russut, and where it is said strong reinforcements await them. His Excellency is in sharp pursuit after the latter body, and the general impression is he will over take and cut them off. I think this will not be the case, and I fear if the Commander-in- Chief should go too far in pursuit, a large body of the rebels will double between his force and us, and possibly occasion greater grief than the heavy loss we have but now undergone. The disadvan tage under which we have laboured is the utter ignorance of the surrounding country, and the innumerable covers every inch, and each one of which respectively are too well known to our ene mies, and right well have they advantaged by it, as will appear too patently to be gainsaid when a faithfu l account of our 11 days' close siege and a true statement of our casualties is published. That our officers and men of all arms of the service have individually and collectively fully maintained the character of British soldiers by the most deter mined pluck and self-sacrifice, is beyond the possi bility of being canvassed. None but those who have been personally present at siege the second of Came pore, can rightly estimate the amount of daring and valour shown, for they have vividly and momently for 11 long days and nights ivitnessed it. You and others will read in cold print what we have expe rienced. Yet there is one point on which our offi cers and men have, methinks, sadly erred, and it is in an overweening degree of selkeliance and con temptuous undervaluation of the enemy, who have indubitably shown us that they are by no means so contemptible or despicable as they have been as sumed to be. This error would have been fatal to us, judging from antecedents, had not his Excellency come to our aid just at the moment he did. We were in a sad dilemma, what ever may now be asserted to the country, and with the enemy surrounding us on all sides within 400 to 600 yards of our defences, in very strong force, gathering accessions daily much more rapidly than we could knock them over, and with no lack of artillery or men to serve their guns right well, I fear we should have been driven to extremities in 48 hours. CHINA. Nothing has yet been done beyond the draw'l i % the blockade closer round Canton. THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE QUE,BS OF °UDE. We take the following details from the Couri er of Paris of yesterday : " Her Majesty the Queen of Oude died at ° o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday. ha t " She suffered mu c h d ur i ng the whole of t th morning. Her Majesty was iu fact attacked 111 0 1 a very dangerous affection and a serious i n tern ho malady. She was advised to com e t o P ar is, u climate of France b e i n g muc h more f avou rs and the disease with whi c h s h e was affl i cte d 1)0 „d such as could be very ably treated by our P sicians. Av " Already the Queen had received the a` ia l of a woman of considerable ability, Ma u3- e) Lecharrier, the principal mid-wife (sago ferol i f ec i of the.: 1 - losince de la illaternite, who is call upon for her advice in special and peculiar cas7 l ; # After her Dr. Cabarras was admitted °, b e t presence of her Majesty, and h e considered . of f situation so serious as t o requ i re a con sulted with the principal medical celebrities. " During the most minut e i nves ti ga ti on , ° - t e the most scrupulous ca l cu l a ti ons w hi c h they mete to make, neith er th e m id w i fe nor, the physician were a ll owe d t o see the features 0' 11l Queen, her M a j es t y k eep i ng her face cons t3o veiled. Of `'Tne Hotel Lafitte was b es i ege d by a cloue' A tx curious and interested persons—modellers, ph ° o o grapher s , newsmongers , w h ose many e ff or t s to the Queen and the ladies of her suite were 0h o f unsuccessful. • The artist of the Illustrated LOS News was not more fortunate than others. eolr " The Queen died i n a f ew h ours a f ter the - 4 0 sultation, in which M. R ayer, t h e c hi e f p hYo'°' of the Emperor Napoleon, took part. rfe e ' " Her Majesty d epar t e d w i t h t h e mos t Pe t oy resignation. H er f ace was express i ve o f 01. 0 11 ordinary placidit y — so, at l east, sa id the ° e el individual who had seen her features. The C 21.1 of Oude was 53 years of age. rO ti " It is impossible to give any idea of the outbtibip of lam en t at i on, of the cr i es an d the sobbingpto proceeded frencl tsie persors in the suite of her r o Mai" y. The women especially wrung their g i gt io and hands, kneeling by turns around the bed wile, deceased an d u tt er i ng th e mos t h ea rt-rending c o r The spectators all were much affected at tbifs_or rowful scene, so little in harmony with our l'ev Hers and our customs, which are not quite s° pansiTe. ;n o" g) "Couriers and telegraphic messages were diately dispatched to England, and we are 0,., - (.6 ing here every moment General Mirza, the s° ' her late Majesty, fo' "Madame Papy, tint mistress of the th Lafitt-, is the c.niy person who had ago.' S he Queer' in one of her most painful moments. < jog had placed her head upon the pillow atter 1 19 'sbe applied mustard poultices to the sufferer. too thought that the Qu een was s l eep i ng u p to the of the commencement of her agony.