The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-14 00:00:00

LOYAL P'AINCESS'S THEATRE, Under the - Mar agement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVEN r _AG !rail be presented Shakspere's Play of VITE 311N:RCHANT OF VENICE. Shylcek, Mr. C. Kean—Portia, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by tae Farce of DYING FOR LOVE. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU LANCE : Mr. sad Mrs. C. Matthews, Sic. After which, TILE DAUGHTER OF TILE GUADAL QUIVER. Per ea Nena. With HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. And ANY /L'ORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Messrs. H. Vandenhoff, Emery, Rogers, J. G. shore, and Barrett ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Weston, Miss Hate Saxon. After which the Lauri Family. To conclude with the Farce of TOO MUCH FOR GOOD NATURE, Messrs. J. Rogers, Emery, Miss B. Saxon. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborong,h. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS; Messrs.C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs, Selby, Miss Ternan. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. Willia m Cooke. This Grand Hippodramatic Temple of the World IS NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON, elegantly re-embellished and artistically decorated by Mr. Hurwitz, with new and ap propriate Act Drop, painted by Mr. F. Fenton, massive and elaborate Chandelier by Mr. Hinckley. Powerful Dramatic Company, comprising established favourites and additional artistes, Gem and Star Equestrians, together with the best and largest Stud of beautifully trained Horses in Europe. Notwithstanding the sum expended, the following is the scale of the reduced prices of admission : Dress Circle, 35. ; tipper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ' • Galleries, 6d. Private Boxes, from £1 is. to X? 25., and upwards. The opening piece, full of striking situations and effects, is a dramatised version of a tale in the Waverley Novels, by Mr. T. Townsend, entitled THE COVENANTERS ; or, The Battle of Bothwell Brig. Produced with new scenery, cos tumes, appointments, and properties, and in which the entire resources of this leviathan establishment are called into action. The Illustrations of all Nations in the Arena include the united strength of the First English, American, and Conti mental Professors of the Art of Equitation. To conclude with THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DIETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jong - ,hmans, Mr. Henshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, W. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Hackney . Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay —Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NoncE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the present month A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of constructien, will be thrown open in con• nezion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ocr. 14. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 55—lowest this m6rning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.22. WIND, Westerly; light and dull, with partial rain in the morning. THE SUN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1858. " The rose by any other name will smell as sweet," and it signifies little to a man deprived of his liberty whether the process be accomplished under the designation of slavery, penal servitude, immi gration, or transportation. The dreadful fact is but too clear. He is no longer his own master. His labour is mortgaged to another, who can sub ject him to any amount of ill-treatment—can flog or starve him at pleasure, ignore every social tie, and treat him as one of an inferior class of animals. This is serfdom, or slavery, or servitude in its worst form ; and it is to be regretted that France, under the name of " immigration," has adopted the atrocious system, which it had entered into solemn obliga tions to discountenance. Not only has it virtually sanctioned the iniqui- tous traffic, but it has endeavoured to bully a weaker Power, that perceived but too clearly the real nature of the new scheme ; because the Portu guese Government, faithful to its engagements, had taken possession of the Charles et Georges, and liberated the unfortunate victims of the artful dodge inaugurated by M. CHEVALIER French ships of war have been sent to the Tagus, and PEDRO 111. has been menaced with war, unless he consents to make an abject apology, where he was not in fault, and pay heavy damages to those who were permitted to escape far too easily. The arbitration of a friendly nation was at first refused, although the principle was first enunciated at the diplomatic meetings at Paris, although it 'was there determined that a third party should invariably be called to arbitrate and decide on this dispute before hostilities were commenced. M. WALEWSKI despised all such considerations, and sent French ships of war to threaten the capital of Portugal at the earliest moment, without waiting for explanation or accept ing the good effices of a disinterested party. The simple fact that every one of the quasi immigrants rejoiced in their rescue, and declared that they had not entered into any contract, ought alone to be decisive. It is absurd to say that a person brought up bound hand and foot, could, by any possibility, be regarded as a free agent, or re garded as a voluntary emigrant. The solemn farce might be enacted—the humbug perpetrated. It is, however, an act of justice to those engaged in the French slave trade to say that they did not add hypocrisy to their other crimes. They purchased their victims for ready money, and were not inclined to relinquish a single particle of their supposed rights. It is certain that those who were said to have entered into voluntary contracts were only too anxious to make their cscspe at any risk, and at any hardship. They, at all events, did not believe that they were free men about to obtain " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," or to be permitted to turn their labour to the best advantage. Look on it in whatever light we may, it is manifest that the Charles et Georges was a legitimate prize, and that the Portuguese vessel was not only justified in making the capture, but bound to do so. She had more than 100 sable emigrants on board, not one of whom was an x i ous to continue the voyage, but sought to make his escape as the greatest possible blessing that could be obtained. They had been dragged from their homes as prisoners to become voluntary emigrants, were sold at a stipulated price, and all the horrors of the middle Passage, during the worst periods of the slave trade, were re-enacted. Fortunately the Emperor himself has heard of the transaction, and M. IVALEwsici has no longer his own way. Louis NAPOLEON will per ceive at once that the dodge is too transparent, that it cannot deceive any unprejudiced person or disinterested person, and he will probably rebuke the unseemly and injudicious zeal of his indi screet Minister. Whatever may be his ulterior views, it is not exactly convenient that they should be forthwith developed, and the curtain lifted before the proper period. And therefore it may be anti cipated that the present difficulty will be overcome, and pacific relations re-established with Portugal , t CLU 1 4 M ,ti •.~ 400 4 , :4 1 . ,•yrtg, „4. 4 ..Dito to- with all convenient speed. The EMPEROR maybe irri tated at the folly of his servants in too clearly acting on his designs, but that " irritatio f . cannot affect the general question, or furnish !egitimate cause of complaint against Portugal for refusing to sanction a revival of the slave trade, c lbeit under another name. We lately had. an Iron Duke, and the day mutt draw near when we shall have to erect a monu ment to the memory of an Iron Bishop also. Brave HARRY EXETER, now, we believe, in the eightieth year of his age, yet vieing in Bishoplike vigour with the memories of the aged warrior, and with the present feats of our LYNDHURSTS and our BROUGHAMS. What degenerate younkers, alas, are we by the side of these patriarchs of almost the third generation backwards ! We fighting our peddling battles over the remanets of old contro versies—we must seem to them but a set of eccle siastical and political pigmies. We heard but the other day that marvellous exhibition of intellectual vigour from Lord BROUGHAM, the ora tion at the inauguration of NEWTON'S statue, ranging with the might of middle-age vigour over the whole field of the higher mathematics, and yesterday almost as interesting and long a paper from him on Popular Literature ; and we all re member Lord LYNDHURST'S speeches of last session, and the lucid power with which he exposed the littleness and mischiefs of sanctimonious bigotry. And HARRY EXETER, too, he, on one of those occasions, was not wanting in his way. If there were aged veterans in the battle against bigotry, he showed himself as potent a veteran in the battle for it. We re member seeing him dash the wicked bill—" the accursed bill"—on the floor of the House of Lords —the bill which rpresumed to legalise marriages which, though GOD allowed them, HARRY of EXETER'S Church did not; and, boiling with the prelatical wrath of eighty summers, he anathema tised for ever all the heretics who should dare to enact such a measure, or to act upon it ; and the- Peers saw and trembled, and they threw out the accursed bill, and the sinners against the canons of HARRY'S Church still sit in their houses, married only in name, and their offspring, like those of Mede and Persian criminals, suffer with them, and are branded with the mark of their parents of concubinage—for concubinage it shall re main in the Court of HARRY of EXETER, and in the new Matrimonial Court, although it be registered as marriage in the Court of Heaven. And now again we read of the mighty HARRY, whose bigotry remains as " fresh and green" as ever, in the burial ground of Tiverton, exulting in efficient lines of demarcation between the dead in the Church of England and the dead in macovenanted mercy. Hard, indeed, did the Bishop fight for a wall and fence between them which human eyes could not look over, and which should secure the graves of those christened, and confirmed, and buried by the Anglican ritual, from being even seen by the Giaours who came to com mit their unhallowed dead to unhallowed earth on the other side of the wall. But in worldly Tiver ton common—that is, unclean or profane—sense was too strong for him, and Tiverton was the favoured town of a not very orthodox Premier, and the graceless Tivertonians got an act passed declaring for all England and for all time that Bishops in cemeteries must be satisfied with a suf ficient line of distinction between the dust and ashes of Churchmen and the dust and ashes of Dis senters ; and the Bishop, never to be vanquished, declares the very act which upsets him a vic tory, and thankfully accepting a line where he had demanded a wall, plants his foot on the line, as the ancients were wont to set their feet on the neck of the conquered, and says, Hitherto shall the infidel and the atheist come, but no further ! Possibly some of our readers may not have noticed the speech of the veteran prelate, and will hardly credit our assertion of his performing a:, eighty such feats of hardihood. Fourscore years, and a graveyard for a tribune, would soften most mor tals—most heroes even—into something like tenderness and sympathy with the lot of all. Here, then, are our Bishop's words :—" By the Deed of Consecration just executed, a certain portion of land has been set apart—set apart for ever—in which the Church's dead will be de cently interred, in which none but Christians can be buried, and that by the Church's ministers using the: solemn words of the Church's service ; while on the other part of this cemetery none can say what may be done, what idolatrous rites may not be performed. There is no law to prevent the idolater, the infidel, from entering there : they who blasphemed the name of Christ, and openly tri , upaph in their horrible impiety—they who make a boast of their rebellion against the God who made them—they who trample on the cross of Christ —one and all claim their right to put their dead into that ground, and to enact such scenes as are revolting to man—Christian man—to contemplate. There is no law, he repeated, to prevent the most revolting practices—the most disgusting deeds— from being there carried out. He trusted that there was no occasion to apprehend that such things would be attempted in that parish, still the possibility of the occurrence of such scenes existed there, while the Church may serenely take her stand upon her own ground, and, feeling confident in the impossibility of her consecrated soil being thus de seerated, she may place her foot upon her bond stones,'and say to blasphemy as it advances raging over the other ground, So far mayest thou come but no further.' " Thrice happy, then, the faithful, in the repose provided for their bones by their gentle shepherd ! He will die happier himself, of course, contemplat ing the storms of blasphemy which may rage around the consecrated enclosure, but which can no more pass the bond-stone than TAM O'SHANTER'S witches could pass the key-stone of the bridge. Meantime we must confess that we shall be content to be laid in any quiet grave convenient to our survivors, little caring which side the bond-stone they may place us, and little fearing that our coun trymen's sense of decency will permit the graves of the dead to be desecrated by unseemly deeds. As to " blasphemy" —we have our own notions respecting who are most guilty of that —whether those who put themselves in the place of GOD, or those who profane his name. As to " idolatry" we have also certain mental comparisons between those who worship wood and stone images and those who worship consecrated earth and bond stones. And as to " trampling on the Cross of CHRIST,"- we have again our own opinion as to whether the infidel, or the Priest who puts himself, practically, in the place of Christianity, is its worst enem y. And, lastly, as to Cemeteries, we are glad that even HARRY of EXETER can find nothing bet ter for dividing his countrymen in death, than such bigoted rhetoric as will, probably, next week be noticed in the columns or engravings of Punch. The Earl and Countess of Darnley have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Cobham Hall, near Gravesend. The Count Stadnicky has arrived at Fenton's Hotel from Paris. The Lord Chancellor, Lady Chelmsford, and the Hon. Miss Thesiger are the distinguished guests of Henry Whitmore, Esq., M. P., at Slinniside, near Bridg north. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. The following telegrams have been received ai Mr. Reuter's office : MARSEILLES, OCT. 13. Advice; received from Calcutta to Sept. 8 an. nounce new alarms. Troops were kept under arms. The Calcutta Englishman states that 7,000 in• surgents are in the province of Calcutta, but avoid ing engagements. Preparations are making to re• take the country. Letters express hopes that operations will be better conducted under direct Government. Company's Stock again declined. An insurrection at Ulwar (Ullyar ?) reported; and troops in revolt. The Rajahs who remained loyal had fled. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT, 14, The Imperial Law Gazette (Reichsgesetzblatt) publishes a prohibition to export into the Princi pality of Servia arms, materials for arms, and am munition, except in small quantities. and with the permission of Government. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING We hear as yet of no final decision on the Por tuguese question. The Cabinet met to-day at St. Cloud, the Emperor presiding in person. Some thing has no doubt been done by this. The Moniteur contains the following :—" Some journals have announced that the officers and privates on leave of absence have received orders to at once join their corps ; that assertion is quite erroneous." The civil marriage of the Duke de Malakoff with Mile. Sofia Valera de la Paniega was celebrated on Tuesday evening at the mairie of the Ist arrondisse ment, in presence of all the Ministers, a number of senators, general officers, and other distinguished personages. The religious ceremony was per formed the same night in the chapel of the palace of St. Cloud, in presence of the Emperor and Em press, Prince Jerome, Prince Napoleon, the Prin cess Mathilde, the Princes and Princesses Lucien and Joachim Murat, and a numerous and brilliant assemblage of high personages, composed of the great dignitaries of the State, the ministers, marshals, grand officers of the Crown, and the officers and ladies of the household of their Majes ties and of their Imperial Highnesses. The wit nesses for the bride and bridegroom on both occasions were those who had signed the marriage contract. The nuptial benediction was given by the Bishop of Nancy, first chaplain to the Emperor. After the religious ceremony all the distinguished company present assembled in the salons of the palace, to offer their congratulations to the happy couple. BOURSE, Oct. 13.—The market has been more settled, with a general improvement of prices, owing to a report that the Portuguese Cabinet had been changed, and that the difference about the vessel Charles Georges had been settled. Threes, after having been done at 73f. 45c., rallied to 73f. 50c. Mobilier varied from 940 f. to 955 f. ; Austrian in demand at 660 f. and 665 f. ; Orleans, 1,360 f. to 1,362 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 870 f. to 875 f. ; Northern, 972 f. 50c. to 975 f. ; and Southern, 590 f. to 597 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations : 41- per Cents. .... 95 80 Do. end month .. 96 10 I Credit Foncier 660 Belgian 3 per Cents. 73 45 Do. end month.... 73 65 Pieamontese (5) 92 7 Roman - Bank Shares 3lOO . Austrian Credit Mobilier 955 Do. Account Spanish Threes 46 25 Home Debt 4l 75 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern ' New ditto. Bl5 .. 815 Lyons and Mediterranean 872 50 .. 877 50 New ditto — .. Geneva — -- .. 642 50 Midi 590 .. 597 50 Western 615 .. 617 50 Eastern Grand Central — —.— Sardinian 455 .. 457 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money, 25f ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 95e. CHINA. We have received advices from Hong Kong, dated Aug. 24, The Overland Friend of China says :—" In our Blast we told of the visit of the Earl of Elgin and Sir Michael Seymour to Japan. At Japan the earl remains. Sir Michael returned to this port on the 20th inst., weak from the effects of recent fever. We need hardly say his presence is hailed with intense satisfaction, and there is some talk of a demonstration. " The French Ambassador, M. Le Baron Gros, and the American Minister, H.E. Mr. Reed, still remain at Shanghae, awaiting the arrival of the Chinese commissioners to settle the tariffs, &c. Of the Russians left by us at Tien-tsin we hear nothing. _ " The Namtow outrage has been avenged. Com modore Stewart and General Von Straubenzee landed some seven hundred men, took the town by escalade, and then sacked and burnt it. Much good is anticipated from the promptitude and com pleteness of the action, the only drawbacks being the lamented deaths of Captain Lambert, R.E., Lieutenant Danvers, 70th Bengal Native Infantry, and some half-dozen of the 59th Foot, Marines, and Blue Jackets. " Troubles at Ningpo still continue—created, is said, by causes similar to those told of a few months ago in connexion with fighting at Fuh chow-foo, viz., the bad faith of the Government in financial matters—paper money obtaining only a small per tentage of the amount promised. "Shanghae is crowded with ships, and no em ployment for them. The aggregate of tonnage there at the present time is in excess of the quan tity in all China during any month of the years 1851, 52, and 53—so showing the great attraction Shanghae possesses over other ports, and the neces sity for new places to trade to in China." Her Majesty's ship Pique arrived here from the north, and has sailed for England. Her Majesty's steamer Magicienne arrived here on the 19th inst. from Panama. Her Majesty's ship Nankin, Commodore Keith Stewart, left here for England this morning. Two Russian steamers and a gun-boat have lately arrived here from the south. His Imperial Majesty's steamer Audacieuse, with the chartered steamer Scotland in company, arrived from Shanghai on the 17th inst. The Audacieuse has gone up to Whampoa, as she requires to be docked. The Chinese are coming back by degrees to this place and Macao. TM'. EXPEDITION TO NAMT OW. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. His Excellency the Governor and Commander in -Chief, &c., &c., has received a despatch from his Excellency Major-General Sir Chas. T. Von Strau b enzee, K.C.8., commanding her Majesty' s t roops in China, reporting the result of an expedition to Namtow, where the Chinese Imperialist troops had fired upon the bea rers o f a fl ag o f t ruce , w h o were distributing the proclamation published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 31st ult. The despatch is herewith published for general information. (By order) W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, Aug. 13, 1858. Hong Kong, Aug. 13, 1858. Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Excel lency that, in consequence of a flag of t ruce f rom her Majesty's gunboat Starling having been fired upon by the Imperial troops at Namtow, when posting your Excellency's proclamation, I, in con junction with Commodore the Hon. Keith Stewart, decided upon visiting that place with an armed force, for the purpose of exacting retribution for the insult. On the 10th I embaxked with the Hon. the Commodore in the gunboat Starling, for Tyshan Bay, where the force was assembled. On the morning of the 11h,,the tide not serving till a late hour, as the gunboats were steaming to the shore, several shots were fired from a newly erected battery to the S.W. of the walled town of Namtow, and close to the beach, which was soon silenced by the admirable fire from the gunboats. The force—viz., Royal Artillery-3 officers, and 60 non-commissioned officers and men ; 59th Regi ment-6 officers, and 106 non-commissioned officers and men ; Royal Engineers -3 officers, and 20 non commissioned officers and men; Royal Marine Light Infantry-7 (5 ?) officers, and 130 (137 ?) non-commissioned officers and men ; 12th Mad ras Native Infantry-2 officers, and 100 non-com missioned officers and men ; Naval Brigade —about 200 (250 ?) officers and men—landed about 11 a.m. at the S.E. in the village of Namtow, where written notices were given to the people that so long as no hostile act was committed on their part, their village and property would be re spected, which was rigidly adhered to, though from every street as we approached the fort, a heavy fire of gingalls and matchlocks was kept up by the braves, who retreated as we advanced. By this we had one officer, Commander Madden, of her Ma jesty's ship Sanspareil, very dangerously wounded, three men killed, and about 12 wounded. The returns I have not yet received. About two o'clock p.m. the fort was taken by assault, the party being led by Commander Sau marez, of the Cormorant, accompanied by Captain Lambert, of the Royal Engineers, who was unhap pily mortally wounded by the accidental discharge of a firelock of the numerous men crowding up the ladder after him. His loss is deeply to be deplored. The wall gained, the enemy fled, leaving the fort almost untenanted; and those remaining having been ordered out, the place was given up to destruction, and the principal gates blown in. The force bivouacked in the fort that night, and were re-embarked the following morning, bringing away two large brass guns found in the battery near the water. A deputation from the inhabi tants of the village was received by Commodore the Hon. Keith Stewart and myself, and their petition, " that we should not burn their village," was granted. I to record the loss of another gallant officer, by the accidental discharge of a musket, as we were leaving the fort—Lieutenant Danvers, 70th B. N. Infantry.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, C. T. VON STRAUBENZEE, Commanding her Majesty's troops in China. His Excellency Sir John Bowring. The Friend of Chiva says of the casualties : Commander Madden was bringing his men into line on the beach, shortly after landing, when he was shot in the back from a gingall, the bullet appearing to have lodged in the lungs, without possibility of extraction. At last advice this much loved officer was doing well on board the Hercules hospital ship, and hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery. At first his position was most critical. Captain Lambert was getting on the wall as he was shot in the groin by one of the Nankin's seamen, struggling with a soldier to be first up the ladder. Only two ladders were planted, though some thirty were on the ground. At the next escalade there should be some order in the mode of ascent; but the Nankin will not be on the station then. Lieutenant Danvers was shot the day after the attack, by one of fourteen gun Lascars who did not know that his gun was capped—Lieut. Anderson having been careful some time before to direct the uncapping of the pieces. He was some thirty yards distant when the gun went off; the bullet tearing through his liver, and rendering him insen sible almost immediately. COMMERCIAL. EXCHANGE AND BULLION. HONG Kowa, AUGUST 23.—Oriental Bank Corporation. —On London 6 months' sight, 4s. 3d. On Calcutta 3 days' sight, 216 rs. per 100 dols. On Bombay, 3 days' sight, 216 rs. Gold leaves, 23 dots. 60c. per tael. Gold bar, 23 dols. 20c. per tad. Sycee silver, si per cent. prem. Other bills : On London, 6 months' sight, 45.4 d. to 4s. 4P. On Calcutta, 3 days' sight, 216 per 100 dols. On Bombay, 3 days' sight, 216 per 100 dols. INDIA. Advices from Calcutta to Sept. 8 have come to hand. The Englishman says :—" Taking a general view of our position, it must be admitted that since the setting in of the periodical rains the dispersion of the rebels is limited to a narrower circle than would have been the case at any other season of the year, and with the several columns now extended over the principal portions of the disaffected districts, we are in a position to exercise a greater check upon the movements of the enemy. The ensuing cold weather will no doubt see the end of the mutineers. "We learn that the Begum of Lucknow has offered to give up the Nana to the British Govern ment provided she is pardoned. We should be glad to hear that these terms have been accepted, an dthat the miscreant will be brought to justice at last. " It is currently reported that Sir John Lawrence is about to quit the Punjaub for England. His personal presence, after the great services he has rendered the State during the late crisis, will be warmly hailed by the people in England." The following telegrams from Allahabad have been published by the Government : " ALLAHABAD, SEPT. 1. " The telegrams received from Lucknow within the last day or two inform us that, on the 28th, the rebels were about throwing shot into our camp near Sultanpore ; on the morning of the 29th the cantonment was occupied without opposition. The rebels returned to Sussunpore, where 7,000 of them, with eight guns, are said to be assembled ; the cantonments were found destroyed." ALLAHABAD, SEPT. 2. " It is reported from Sultanpore in Onde that the aebels intend to fall back on Ameitt, the strong. hold of the rebel Raj Lal Nandosing, and partly on Mozager Nugger, which is about ten miles from Sultanpore. The Commissioner of Rohilcund writes that part of the Philloobhat force, about 500 strong, attacked the rebels at Sizsoona on the 30th ult., at 7 a.m., and took three guns, their ammunition, their camp, and three elephants. Tantia Tokee surrounded Juirapatam on the 26th ult., and is said to have full possession of it. Col. Lockhart's force is at Augur. ~ ALLAHABAD, SEPT. 6. "At Gwalior four Sepoys of the 25th Bombay N. 1., Hindoos of Oude, being instigated by a Brah min to induce their regiment to join the Nana, in formed their officers, pretended to join the plot, were introduced to several conspirators, and in duced:them to come near the cantonments, and show to the Havildar Major a Perwannah from the Nana. As arranged beforehand, two officers appeared, and the conspiratomwere seized. Other arrests also have been made by the Political Agent at Gwalior, and the Perwannah, which bears date May last, is in his possessson. " Captain Nixon, the Bhurtpore political agent, proceeded to Ulwar on the nth ultimo, and was well received by the Thakoors and city people. The feelings of the Thakoors are greatly excited against the Mahomedan parties in consequence of their deceitful intention to appoint one of their own class to be killadar, and also to make the boy Rajah turn Mahomedan. Though a mere child, the Rajah is violently opposed to the Thakoors, and Captain Nixon apprehends mischief unless a European officer is deputed to Ulwar. " It is reported from the Punjaub that the men of the 62d and 69th Infantry had broken away from Mooltan. The Adjutant of the Bombay Fusi liers and four Artillerymen killed. No further particulars received. " From Sultanpore in Oude we hear that nearly all the rebels are at Judespore, twenty miles from Sultanpore, on the Lucknow road; they number about five thousand, and are said to have 8 guns. In the Fort of Amethee there are reported to be one thousand men and twenty-two guns. The rest of the rebels have gone either to their homes or to Byswara. The boats had arrived at Sultanpore, and the bridge would probably be ready by the 2d." COMMERCIAL. CALCUTTA, SEPT. 8. Exports.—The business in our market has progressed but rather slowly, caused, we regret to say, by limited sup plies from the interior. With the exception of old seeds, and to some extent of Benares sugar, the market is very lightly supplied. Imports.—The market has continued very favourable as regards mule twist, and prices of all counts with the excep tion of No. 50 have improved 2 to 3 pie; stocks in first hands are light._ • The Money Market continues easy, and accommodations are readily obtainable in the bazaar on good securities at 5 per cent., and even lower. There has been no change in the Bank of Bengal rates since the 19th ult. Government Securities have been rather dull since our laatZowing to some disposition shown by moral dealers to sell, and to the disappointment genearlly felt in. the 5 per cent. loan not yet being closed. There are at Present more sellers than buyers. EXCHANGE ON LONDON.—There was some business done before ;the last mail went out in American credits, at 2s. Oad.; since, at 2s. ON.; and latterly at 2s. Old., which may be considered the rate for first-class American paper and other credits. In Documents, much has not been done ; but they are now 2s. Old. to 2s. Otd. Treasury Bills have been sold at Is. 1 ltd. Some of the local banks have been open to draw at 2s. Old. during the past week. AUSTRALIA. We have received our letters and papers brought by the Royal mail steam-ship Columbian, which left Melbourne on the 16th of August. (From the Melbourne Herald.) Following our custom of preparing for the de spatch of the mail for Europe, we append our usual summary of events since the sailing of the last packet : Another wholly uneventful month : the single incident of a public kind which has marked it being the further prorogation of the Legislature from the 10th Aug. to the 10th Sept.—lo be then prorogued again for another month or six weeks! We shall probably have advanced well into October before the houses meet for the despatch of business. The delay arises solely from the deadlock into which affairs have been brought through the Council's rejection of the Ministerial measure of reform. No course is left open to the Ministry excepting that of patiently awaiting the result of the pending elections for the Council, in the room of the six members who first retire by rotation. Those elec tions cannot, according to the terms of the Consti tution Act, be taken sooner than October, because the first period of two years will not expire till then. The depressing effects of the protracted recess are felt, more or less, in every department of pub lic affairs. Our railways, for instance, are not pro gressing as spiritedly as they might be. Complaints of dulness and stagnation are heard everywhere— in commercial circles, in the agricultural districts, on the gold fields, and even (but with very little cause) amongst the squatters. One of the minor political incidents of the past month has been the return to Victoria of Mr. Wm. Nicholson, the introducer of the ballot into this country. Since the departure of the steamer. Emeu, with the July mail, the commerce of this colony has con tinued in an unsatisfactory condition, and very few transactions have taken place of sufficient import ance to improve the position of importers, or to give activity to trade. This extremely cheerless state of business affairs has been in part attributed to the irregularities which appear to be inseparable from the postal system which is at present recognised by the Home and Colonial Governments ; and we can scarcely hope that our local trade will fairly revive until this imperfect system is thoroughly reorganised. The advices which after vexatious delays reached us by the Victoria, and subsequently by the European, have not tended to restore confi dence ; inasmuch as they contain abundant evi dence that shippers in the United Kingdom had extended their foreign transactions, and had in creased their missions to this colony. The export returns for May and June exhibited a serious in crease in the declared values of consignments from British ports to Melbourne and Geelong, and we fear that the news of this unlooked-for augmenta tion will seriously affect quotations in this market. It is absolutely unaccountable that exporters should in the face of the most urgent and repeated remon strances, persist in following out a course which not only entails heavy losses upon them, but which likewise contributes to check the prosperity of this country. It has been emphatically declared, over and over again, that Victoria cannot absorb enor mous supplies of every variety of merchandise, and that our own importers are fully capable of esti mating the extent of our requirements. The works on the Geelong and Ballarat line, for which Messrs. Evans and Merry were 'the suc cessful tenderers, are to be commenced to-day. The Government has declined the offer of the Geelong Railway Compony to purchase the line on the terms proposed. In the letter announcing the determination of the Government to reject the pro posal of the company, the Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works assigns the following reasons :—First, Because the proposed terms are in excess of those proposed in December last ; second, because the assent of the parties interested in the sale of the property of the railway company (in number and value), has not been obtained ; third, because the liabilities of the company are not defi nitely ascertained and submitted to the Govern ment ; and, fourth, because the proposal to fix the value of the Government debentures bearing inte rest at six per cent. for 25 years at par in exchange for the railway property, is not equitable, and may be calculated to injure the rai,lway undertakings of the Government now in progress. The Hobson's Bay Company maintains the pros perity which has attended it since the opening of the branch to St. Kilda. The course of the perma nent way at the Melbourne end is being diverted in order that the awkward curve which occurs at the commencement of the line may be avoided. A new bridge has been thrown over the Yarra for the purpose of connecting the new work with the op posite bank. The traffic receipts of the company for the last four weeks have amounted to 4,6471. 10s. sd. The Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company, whose works were commenced on the Ist July, have got to work in earnest, and in a few months an important portion of their permanent way will no doubt be finished. IMMIGRATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET. The balance of colonial arrivals and departures for the last four months has added some 9,000 souls to our population. The subjoined figures indicate the proportion which the immigration and emigra tion bear to each other : Arrived. Departed. April May June July August 7 - 695 260 13,567 5,181 Deduct departed Nett immigration 8,386 THE MAIL SERVICE. It will be seen by the following letter, that our ndustrious fellow-citizen, Mr. Councillor Bowden, had got into the Red Sea, but we are glad to say, had - not joined Pharaoh and his host. His sugges tions with regard to our mail service are deserving of consideration, and we need offer no apology for publishing his characteristic letter entire : " Steamship European, "In the Red Sea, about 500 miles up, Saturday 28th June, 1858. "Dear , I have got this length safe and sound, but do not expect to reach Suez before Tuesday night, the 29th instant, and Southampton about 14th to 15th proximo, a week after the regular time. We were thirty-six hours at King George's Sound, three and a-half days at Gall e , an d t wo clear days at Aden. This vessel is first-rate, but the engines being direct actio n , w h enever any thing has to be done, we h ave t o s t op. O ur detention at Galle and Ade n was par tl y ow i ng to a crank-pin, made at Sydney, having to be taken out and refitted. A very good lot of passengers. W e kept a newspap er go i ng , for ten numbers, during the cool weather, The Daily Reckoning,' had one c oncer t, a f arce , and a judge . -and-jury trial. The latter was a breach of promise case ; I was leading counsel for the plaintiff, and Captain P ar fitt fO r d e f e ndant, with one junior each; Piper was judge; and it caused great amusement. Aden is a fearfully hot place, and our experience of th e R e d Sea, ditto, ditto. "About mail communication by this route.—lt would appear that a weekly line from England, as far as Aden, would answer best, both for India and Australia; and I have heard enough on this voyage to be convinced that it would answer Australia better to have the following changes inade:—l find that we can have a line, once a fortnight, between Galle and Sydney—time, 28 days—for £150,000 per annum of subsidy; or between Suez and Sydney, fortnightly—time 41 days—for £lBO,OOO per annum. The route would be—Aden, Diego Garcia, King George's Sound, Melbourne, Sydney.; -and by an arrangement with Mauritius, a fort nightly mail might be rum from that island to Galle, meeting the Australian mails both ways, at Diego Garcia and thereby enabling us to maintain our &communication with India. Quick passages can be made b this route, to and from Australia, with more certainty than via Galle. This is owing to the prevailing winds. " The Emeu would be behind her time with you, and the Victoria had a very long run to Suez, and would be very much behind. This steamer will also probably be a week behind. Such a state of things cannot continue, as it will only increase the dissatisfaction already felt. Look at the route on the map, and see if -- and. you can support it in the Chamber of Commerce. The Herald will, no doubt, lend its aid ; and if Dr. Evans will take it up in Parliament, as Postmaster-General, it will be of great assistance. " I write under great dis advantages, owing to the great heat, 91 degs. in the shade, and the vibra tion of the ship. I have been quite unable to keep a journal, or, in fact, to do anything. " Australia should go in for a fortnightly mail ; it would suit both for passengers and corre spondence. --" I hope that you and all friends have been well since I left. Pray remember me kindly to all who inquire, and believe me, sincerely yours, " ROBERT BOWDEN." OUR GOLD. The continuance of summer weather through much of what has hitherto been deemed the wettest period of the year., has had a very preju dicial effect on mining operations. The last fort night, however, has witnessed a most welcome change in the weather, and the heavy rains that have fallen have enabled the miners to make up a little for lost time. So injurious was the long continued drought at some of the gold-fields—the Ovens, for instance—that in the face of the know ledge of the existence of numerous paying deposits, the miners had to leave for other localities, poorer in auriferous wealth, but richer in the means to make that wealth available. There is a falling off visible in both the escort and shipping returns for the month, as compared with last year, but it will be perceived that during the last fortnight our escort quantities exceed those of the corresponding fortnight of 1856 and 1857. The following quantities in ounces have been brought to Melbourne by the Go vernment escorts since the date of our last summary : ESCORTS SINCE LAST SUMMARY. 1858. 1857. 1856. Week ended July 17 44,084 36.035 52,215 July 24 45,227 58,217 31,881 July 31 36,387 47,978 54,888 Aug. 7 57,520 58,124 37,463 Aug. 14 49,103 44,930 64,835 232,321 245,284 214,292 The following ships have sailed with gold freights since the date of our last summary : July 15—Emeu, for Suez July 23—Atalanta for Hong Kong. 13,962 July 24—Agincourt , for London 70,780 Aug..lo—Lincolnshire, for London 105,712 Small shipments. 243 207,539 Amount shipped from Jan. 1 to July 13, 1858..1,407,619 Total amount .. 1,615,158 Three nuggets, of the aggregate value of X 14,000, were being exhibited in Melbourne, previous to being shipped. These were taken out in the Bal larat: district, and were about to be shipped to London. They are respectively named the " Wel come," the "Little Welcome," and the " Nil des perandum." The first-named specimen, of pure gold, weighs over 2,100 ounces, and is of singular form, far eclipsing the glories of the once celebrated " Blanche Barkly" nugget. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. The following vessels have arrived from British ports since the date of our last summary :—Electric, Weinhalt, from Liverpool ; Queen of the Seas, Gardner, from Lon don; Broomielaw, Blyth, from Leith; Gertrude, Roberts, from Liverpool ; julindur,oßilton, from London ; Hannah Nicholson, Rooke, from Whitehaven ; John Cootle, Hal lowell, from London ; Rienzi, Stevens, from Dublin ; Donald M‘Kay, Tobin, from Liverpool; Siroceo, Flood, from Liverpool; Clutha, Broadfoot, from Glasgow; Orwell, from London ; Salem, Watt, from Liverpool ; Africa, Shadwell, from Liverpool ; Kent, Brine, from London ; Cyclone, Dodgson, from London. ADELAIDE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 14TH AUGUST.—Business during the week has presented no movement of any consequence. Whether it is owing to the frequent exchanges of advices by private telegrams from shipper to con signee, I cannot say, but the flour market has been remarkably steady, and may be quoted from £ 17 10e. to £lB ss. ; wheat, 7s. 9d. ; bran, Is. 7d. to ls. Bd. Considerable quantities of imported pro duce have been disposed of at auction. Messrs. Wickstead sold yellow counters (sound), at £3l 15s. ; do. (damaged), £24 2s. 6d. to £29 17s. 6d. crystals, £32 10s. to £36 12s. 6d. In general news there is never much occurring here, but as you have already had the particulars of Mr. Bathurst's in solvency, and of his committal, it may be inte resting to know how his trial proceeds. After a full investigation the result is his conviction on the charge of fraudulent pretences and conceal ment of his estate. The sentence of the Court is, however, for the present deferred. I may also mention that Mr. Gregory's brother (Charles) and two of his party proceeded to join Mr. Babbage, whose despatches give a favourable account of the country he is exploring. SANDHURST. 14TH AuGusT.--At the adjourned inquest on Loeman's five more witnesses were examined to day, whose evidence tends strongly to implicate Von See. The inquiry is adjourned till Monday, and as a large number of witnesses have yet to be examined, it is not expected a verdict can be re turned till about the middle of the week. Gold closed to-day at same price, with a tendency a gain to move upwards, and general business is some what brisker. Miss Provost makes her first appearance here to-night, and considerable num bers appear moving in the direction of the theatre while this despatch is being written. Adelaide papers of the 12th inst. state that a banquet was given to Mr. Gregory at White's As sembly Rooms on the 7th. The chair was occupied by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. The Gover nor was present, and a large number of influential colonists. In the course of the evening, Mr. Gre gory was presented with a congratulatory address by the Mayor, John Lazar, Esq., on behalf of Adelaide Corporation. In his address, in response to the toast of his health, Mr. Gregory stated that on arriving within 200 miles of Adelaide he came upon one of the most magnificent countries he had seen in Australia, and that nearly the whole of the eountruvrithin one Ininarpa miles of Adelaide was fenced in. The advices from Sydney extend to August 11. The Legislative Assembly has adopted a resolution in favour of the conveyance of immigrants into the interior at the public expense. The Assembly has recently voted the sum of .£712,000 for the extension of railways to Penrith, Picton, and Singleton, by a majority of five to one. It is understood that the new lines will be proceeded with immediately. This sum is expected to pro. vide for 60 miles of new railway, 20 to the south and as much to the north and west. Mr. Gabriella has been negotiating with the Government to secure the contract for these works on behalf of Sir Samuel Morton Peto, but has only partially succeeded. The colonial contractors are natually jealous of the arrival of such an over-shadowing celebrity as Sir S. M. Peto, and there has been a great deal of underhand manoeuvring to discourage him from adventuring here ; yet the incompe tence of our local contractors to undertake any great works is too glaring to be denied, and in Victoria, where the Government has patronised that theyn o t class, they are muddling along very unsatisfactorily. But our build ers an d b r i c kl ayers, ifhave skill and capital, have votes, and that is a conside ration which a Cabinet that leans on the support of the democracy cannot afford to depts . e. So to compromise matters the work is to be divided. One. third of it is to be thrown open at once to satisfy the colonial contractors, and a message is to be sent to Sir S. M. Peto, that he may have the other 40 miles if he likes. The Electoral Bill may be said to have passed through committee of the whole house. Manhood suffrage him been adopted with a roideutiary qua,- lifieation of six months in one district. Voting by ballot has been confirmed as an essential part of the bill. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING. The Tagus steam s hip, C ap t a i n Christian, _has arrived, with mails from Gibraltar to the sth inst. ; Cadiz, 6th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Oporto and Vigo, 10th. She has 28 passengers, £B3B in specie, and cargo of fruit, eggs, wine, &c. Gibraltar exchanges on London, 50 ; Paris, 528 ; Marseilles, 530 ; Genoa, 531. Her Majesty's ship Vulture arrived at Gibraltar on the sth. The French ships of war Donawerth and Auster litz were at anchor at Lisbon. Having neglected to fire a salute when the King was afloat, explana tions were required of the French Minister. The omission was declared to be involuntary, the cap tains being absent from their ships at the time, and, as they were both subsequently presented to his Majesty, their explanations were held to be satisfactory. , Exchanges at Lisbon closed at 532- on London, 528 on Paris, 48 on Hamburg, 421 on Amsterdam, 527 on Genoa. No alteration in stocks and shares. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. The Cape Moniteur of August 25 contains intelli gence four days later than that by the mail packet Athens, which arrived here on the 4th inst. Them are no further advices of Governor Sir George Grey's progress on the frontier. The steam troopship Simoom, Commander John M. Cook, arrived in Simon's Bay August 24 from Calcutta with a number of invalids and with passen gers for the Cape, including Captain Lucas, 73d Regiment. The steamers Golden Fleece, United Kingdom, Tweedside, and Abeona, and sailing ship Cos patrick, from Calcutta, were expected at the Cape en route for London. The screw steamer Scotia, Captain Bell, from Amoy, with Coolies for Havannah, arrived in Simon's Bay on the 24th of August. The Jacobus Marthinus and the Pantaloon, with patent fuel, from Swansea ; the bark Nautile, from Havre ; the Caroline Elizabeth, from London ; the Valkyrien, from Copenhagen ; and the Inglebay and the General Wilshire, from Kooria Mooria, with guano, were at the Cape. The brigs Glenaen and Basileia, and the clipper ship Lightning were on the berth for London. - Advices from the Mauritius state that there was a scarcity of sugar for shipment, and that many vessels had left little more than half full. Several were waiting for cargoes for the Australian markets. RAISING THE GREAT BELL AT WESTMINSTER. " Big Ben," or rather " Royal Victoria," as the great bell at the new palace at Westminster is new designated, was safely landed in its final destination this morning about half-past two o'clock ! As soon as the bell made its appearance in the clock-room, the workmen received the new arrival_ with their hearty cheers. We have to congratulate Mr. Quorn and his fellow-labourers on the success of the operation. STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN . GALWAY AND AMERICA: From an advertisement in another column it will be seen that it is proposed to give an enlarged and permanent character to the steam transit lately established between Galway and America, and a prospectus of the Atlantic and Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, with a capital of £500,000, in £lO shares, has been issued for the purpose. The service is to be weekly, and the principal ad vantages set forth by the promoters are, that it will save one or two days to all passengers, and owing to its telegraphic facilities will enable messages to pass between London and Washington in about six days ; that the dangers of the Channel are avoided; that there will be a saving of insurance as well as of wear and tear from the reduced sea distance; that the Governments on both sides of the Atlantic will be likely to grant mail contracts ; and that the requisite vessels, owing to the serious depression in the value of steam-ships, can be purch ase d f or ex tremely small sums. ore than a third of the capital is stated to have been already subscribed. IRONMASTE.RS' QUARTERLY MEETING WOLVERIIAM PTON, WEDNESDAY. The quarterly meeting of the Ironmasters of this district was held in this town this afternoon ; the attendance of the trade was scarcely up to the average, and as regards the business transacted, it must be looked upon as having been a quiet quarter day. To some extent this may have been attribut able to the circumstance of their being no specula tive purchases of iron, and an inclination on the part of consumers not to enter into heavy contracts pending the slow progress which trade is making towards recovery. Shippers of iron are actuated by much the same disposition. There are no large continental orders in ; and a similar remark applies to the American trade. It must be noticed, how ever, that the American firms, who have an.exten sive connexion in that quarter, are now receiving orders by every packet ; as a natural consequence these are not large—there being no longer the dis tinctive line between the spring andfall trade wh:ell formerly existed. It was- pretty evident, however , that notwithstanding the comparative quietude which prevailed to-day, the tone of the assembly was good, and a conviction very generally prevailed that the trade is in a better position than it was a few weeks ago. Under-selling of good brands of finished iron has declined, and the great bulk of the firms have sufficient orders to keep the melts and forges in full operation. Pig-iron is rather improving in price, A good many sales of hot-blast iron teat place to-day, at from 2s. 6d. to ss. per ton hisner than would have been given a month ago, .gd, so far as we could learn, the demand is sufficient to prevent parties stacking pigs, thou - li, for the present, it i s n o t pro bable that there vi I be any addition to the num ber of furnaces in blast. The Wolverhampton factors report that the coun try trade is better, and to-day accounts were very punctually paid. The colliery strike has not yet terminated ; but in the district west of Dudley, towards Brierley hill, the men are returning to their work gradu ally. At present they are engaged getting the pits in order, and will most lik e l y commence drawing in a week. The Oldbury men are, it is said, dis posed to accept the reduction, conscious of the use lessness of further resistance. It is expected they will go in next week. Lord and Lady Foley will shortly leave Worksop Manor for the Continent. The Marquis and Marchioness Zalbura and family have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel from Spain. Tho Earl and Countess of Durham are shortly expected in town, from Lambton Castle, Durham. RETURN OF THE COURT FROM BALMORAL.—It is now arranged that the Court will leave Balmoral on Tuesday morning, the 19th inst. The Royal party will post to Banchory, and there start by the Deeside Railway at half-past twelve p.m., reaching Ferryhill Junction (Scottish North - Eastern), at one. Luncheon, involving a halt of half - an-hour, will be taken at Stonehaven. After a further brief stoppage at Forfar, and another at Perth, her Majesty will reach Edinburgh about six p.m.—Edin burgh Advertiser. VISIT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO LORD DERBY. .—At a time when every journal in the country, with the single exception of the Morning Post, ridiculed the idea of Lord John Russell paying a visit to Lord Derby, at the seat of the latter at Knowsley, we affirmed that Lord John Russell had received and accepted an invitation to visit the Conservative Premier at the place in question. We also stated that Lord John would be Lord Derby's guest about the middle :of this week. We can now state that Lord John will, to-day or to-morrow, become an inmate of Knowsley, and that his visit to the Tory Prime Minister will be ex tended over a period of several days.—.3lorni9lgAdvertiser. ILLNESS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—His Grace the Archbishop of York, who was to have preached the sermon at the approaching consecration of the parish church of Doncaster, has been obliged to decline that duty in consequence of his feeble state of health. As a result of the step which his Grace has been compelled to adopt, the consecration sermon will be preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. FORTIFICATIONS AT GRAVESEND.---On Tuesday contracts were issued by the Government for the construc tion of the new fortifications and buildings at Gravesend and Tilbury Fort. In the course of the month the Terrace pier and gardens at Gravesend will pass into the hands of Government, when the contemplated works to facilit ate the lauding and embarkation of troops at this port will be immediately commenced. Contracts were also issued for the construction of a breakwater in front of the redoubt at Eastbourne. THE HOME INDIAN DEBT. A suggestion has been made that it would be a great convenience to the public if the management of the Home Indian debt were, under the new G overnment arrangements to be handed over to the Bank of England. The question is likely to receive proper consideration from the India Council, and the probability is that there will be no disposition to raise any objection, unless it should be found that it will be more economical to contium the business at the India house, ~J Tia be rec per on bee an 3 sun Sta issti bus ste[ join abo latt pre ton aces my, tens Thi An] in Jun at I: 2d - 't,o 1 Et. su: 3i 3 / 1\;"( Lo