The Sun. — London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, you took upon you that office ?—No ; I told you be- thing equivalent to this in your four books 7—Such fore we are only expected to speak Teeth." is not said in the four books." I s , liot benevolence spoken of i n the four books ? " Then did your Excellency never study Chinese law ?—Never. --Y e s' What is benevolence ?—lf you desire men to "Did you never read the Chinese Code I—No." love you you must love them. If you do not wish " Did not your want of reading in Chinese law men to hate you, you must not hate them." make your judicial duties onerous ?—No." " Would not the saying of Confucius before re " Perhaps you were assisted by good secretaries ? tetrad to forbid punishment to criminals ?—The —Sometimes I was ; sometimes not." Taoli does not mean that." "Is there any class in China who know the code ? "Or revenging an injury 7—That would depend —Those who fail in our higher examinations often on the man." apply themselves to study law and other matters. " Would it not be wrong ?—Yes." They sometimes become our secretaries." "Does not this Taoli give an advantage to bad "Is it a proper;question to ask your Excellency people who commit injuries 7—The knowledge of - Vow much you paid your secretaries f—Usually 100 Taoli is nevertheless the better." taska month."—(33l.) " Why I—The object of our wishes is to come to " And what did they make by perquisite 7-300 a knowledge of Taoli." or 400 more.'" He afterwards withdrew this reply " Are murder, robbery, and adultery forbidden and substituted 30 or , 40, b ut t hi s was an after- in the four boo ks I—Not directly, but it results thought. The first was the true estimate. from the Taoli." "If these are influential in China, how does it " Your Excellency will excuse my importunity for we are t a lki ng upon matters foreign to our b e come necessary to punish so many ?—The good are in the majority. It is impossible for all to be Wt stern ideas. May I believe that it man who un good." derstands the four books an d th e fi ve c lassics is "You have spoken of benevolence as a part of thereby, and without any other study, fitted for Taoli ; is the benevolence you speak of merely a every publicoffice in China ?—From the very corn- condition of the mind, or is it a course of action mencement of the Chinese Empire it has .been the dictated from within f—Benevolence is Taoli— custom to depend entirely on the four books." Taoli is benevolence." "Do you never uponbecoming an officer readup He was evidently getting tired o f a l ec t ure w hi c h the duties of the office i—The high officers often usa had interested him at its co mmencemen t . I t was secretaries to look up such matters." necessary to drop the subject. We had many sub- I took up a Mantohou book,—" Can your Excel- sequent talks with him on th e same ma t ters, b ut he lensy speak or read Mantchou I—No. had evidently reconsidered the matter, and had " Nor the Cantonese dialect ?-- No." made up his mind to give us no further information. On a day subsequent to our last co nversa ti on we —No. I was educated at Pekin, as m y ancestors referred to a previous con versa ti on w hi c h h ad b een . t t dand 'd in errup e , said— Your were, and I speak only the language of Pekin." " Your Excellency said the other day that it was It would be impertinent in me to point the moral of this conversation. I t tells m ore of the inner work - not by your will th a t th e E ng li s h were excluded ings of the Chinese s y stem th anall that has hitherto from Canton city.—lt was th e w ill o f the Emperor and the people. been written on the subject. " Th e question remains, what is the " Taoli," " Who are the pe o pl e 7—Th e 100 surnames. Not only the gen t ry 7—Th e f ee li ng was no t which is the sole knowledge of thegoverning classes only that of the inhabit an t s o f th e c ity, but o f the o f China ? Ido not ask what is the exact English villages all round about. word which will convey the meaning of the corn- " What was that feeling based upon I—That you pound Chinese word. It is of small importance to must ask the people, you must not ask me. bumble practical inquirers whether we a re t o t rans - " There is no demonstration of such a feeling late it " true doctrine," " truth," or "reason," or now when know nothi ng a bout that. the " ultimate principle ," or the way of the uni- verse," or " the rule of right." ~ right." All this has b e en hen Capt. Pyns, the captain of the police, goes about sufficiently fought out bydreatny sophists and scho lastic pedants. My inquiry is whether thi s word say, 'We are glad to see you here, you preserve r " Thole is a term comprehending a cycle of k now - ou property l'— No answer. ledge whichwill tend to make the student an honest " Does your Excellency understand the two sys man, an intelligent officer, and an effi c i en t ' mag i s - tems of collecting duties as in exercise at Canton trate. and Shanghai, and would you think fit to give an opinion upon them ?—I do not know." I look in vain to all the European books on He returned of his own accord to the Canton Chinese philosophy for an answer to this question. topic. " Absolute truth," or " the ultimate principle," "It is not my city ; how could I let sou in ? conveys no tangible idea to the European mind. "But the treaty was express 7—l do not re- If we attempt to read the four books by the light member." of mere common sense we utterly fail to deduce I only cite this conversation to note that, any system of philosophy or even of ethics from although Yeh is willing, and indeed anxious, to them. I have toiled through the Latin translation have it reported that he adheres to the transparent of "Y King," and find it as unintelligible to me as fables he put forth in his State papers,- yet he will a sheet of algebraic signs would be to a man who enter into no discussion upon them. - has not learnt their meaning. I have no doubt ~ He afterwards - added of his own accord— however, that it is quite capable of explanation, "I did make preparations. A man would have and I suspect that under the tuition of a learned no sense who did not. It was not that my pre- Chinese doctor these to me nonsensical apophthegms parations were insufficient, nor that my soldiers about "the dragon " would resolve themselves into were cowardly, nor my officers were inefficient, but some fine-spun speculative system of cosmogony, only because your guns are so tremendous (li-hai)." producing itself in some fanciful moral philo sophy , one night Capt. Brooker beat to night quar t ers , some subtle web of objective truths, hung upon and we went down to forewarn Yeh, lest he should ridiculous atheistic conceits. I believe that, stolid, suffer by being startled from sleep by the sound of gaiuseeking, and matter-of-fact as they appear to heavy guns. He and his servant were already up us, there is an dice/30)1c in the mind of a Chinaman, a nd inquiring. Th e y h a d h ear d th e su dd en b ust l e that it is more generally diffused than we imagine, upon deck. Having been told that the men were and that it contributes greatly to the marvellous going to exercise with the great guns, he quietly conceit of the national character. I believe there turned in again. He actually affected to be fast is in this people a habit of dreamy cogitation upon asleep while the 681 b. pivot gun was blazing away a self-generating system, and upon abstract truths, just over hs head, and the broadsides were shaking deducible from what they assume to be the laws of the ship from stem to stern. He had the impu the universe, and that they consider this the highest dente to declare next morning that he had slept occupation of the mind of man. They imagine that quite through the firing. they akne have this faculty, and that the barbarians One clay, after he had been sitting fanning him who are without it are scarcely thinking creatures. self for seven hours without saying a word, or even We see this cropping out at every footstep in their smoking a pipe, I asked him whether it did not dis to wns. Go into a shoemaker's shop and you find concert him to see every one else around him en • his walls adorned with mysterious characters— gaged in some occupation. H said "It did not very large golden characters at top, and scrolls of surprise him. He knew that the English were smaller writing pendent below. You expect that always busy; but such was not the Chinese this large character means the man's name, or, at custom." any rate, the sign of his shop ; b u t th e Chinese I asked him why he did not smoke ? scholar at your side informs you that it means, H e sa id, "The hot principle is in the ascend " May the pencil and the ink flow fragrantly." You ant." continue to imagine that the smaller characters There is in the day of these blue tropical seas one mean "Boots and shoes mended on the shortest hour of beauty, when the plain of waters is just notice." No, they mean "Ten thousand unities heaving to the light head breeze, and the only to all eternity." These things are nearly universal v i s ibl e o bj ect i s the red, roundsun, falling down the in China. The examples I have just cited I take western heavens so rapidly that it seems at last from 20 which I noted at Singapore. I believe that to drop, and quench in the reddened waters. Our every Chivaman above the condition of a Coolie captain chooses this cool healthy moment to put talks Taoli, or affects to talk Taoli, in his little way th e men t h roug h t h e i r exerc i se, an d Y e h , full of —not with that application of an affectation- of dinner, waddles upon deck and sits in a big ham learning to his trade which would induce an Eng- b oo chair,i with his two attendants behind him. lish shoemaker to register his podosokyan pumps, What a wild turmoil of well regulated confusion but from real reverence for " Taoli." immeliately takes place on board the Inflexible ! ' This preface is not to introduce any theory of Mr. Beaver', the first lieutenant, is dictating an my own upori. the subject of " Taoli," although, of ititerminabie series of manoeuvres, more rapidly, course, I have one, but only to explain the Um.- I believe, than man ever before talked ; 300 men portance of getting Yeh to talk upon the subject. are in perpetual motion, moving in every different "What does your Excellency mean by Taoli ? What you ought to do is Taoli ; what you ought not to do is not Taoli." " Has Taoli no more extended meaning ?—Taoli has the most comprehensive meaning—.-it compre hends everything. " " Does Taoli teach of a Creator 7—There are many Taoli. There is Heaven's Taoli, and earth's Taoli, and , man's Taoli." " Are these Taoli distinct 7—No ; they are all parts of one Taoli." " Can you explain to me what you mean by Heaven's Taoli I—lf the sun shines out it becomes hot." " It has relation only to the material heaven 7 " Tien' mesas properly only the material heaven, but it also means Shangti' (Upper Spirit), for, as it is not lawful to use his name lightly, we name him by his residence, which is in Tien." " One of our Christian sect uses the word 'Tien ohu,'—is that a Chinese word 7—lt is not a word known to the Chinese language." 'Your Excellency used the word Shangti'— what does that word mean ? Our people dispute about it ?—Shangti is a Shun, but Shun is not ne cessarily Sbangti, for the Shun are very many." " Have Shangti and Taoli any connexion ? When you discourse about Shangti you discourse about Taoli. Shangti and Taoli are one and the same thing." " Is Taoli a corporeal being I—ln things that are done by it it is a thing having body ; but when you discourse of it it is a thing having no body—it is a " principle." direction, but with purpose in their heads and speed in their hands and feet. In a few seconds the naked ship is clad in canvass. Another order, and before the expanded sails can feel the gently opposing zephyr she is again naked to her spars. Then a whistle, and a hoarse boatswain's call, and the bees swarm again. In a moment every gun is manned. Every man in that straining crowd seems to have a special work to do, knows it, and does it. Handspikes are worked with a will, the blue jackets heeding to the labour as though a real enemy were at our yardarm. The broadside guns are run in and out like children's gocarts, and the huge pivot-guns are spun round as though they were dummies of cork instead of mountain cast iron. But the captain's sharp eye is not always satisfied, and ever and anon comes a voice from the paddlebox, awarding extra drill to No. 2 or No. 5 of some designated gun for not being smart enough or for being in his wrong place. What is Yeh doing all this time ? Is he mark ing this orderly energy, this discipline, this zeal of art, this heartiness of work, this scene of a multitude in motion, with one object, and is he pondering over the lesson ? Not at all. T wo middies, Ilidden by the awning from the eye of the captain, are skylarking together, and the bigger one has just forced his smaller comrade- breech-fore most into a tub of water. Yeh is slyly watch. ing those scapegraces through the corner of his thin eyes, and when the young gentleman goes s )use into the full tub he chuckles, but immediately turns away his head, to hide the undignified enjoyment. Then in • a moment it is night. Twenty minutes after the sun is down nothing can Has teat body any visible form ?—No; it has no form. Different people have notions that it has different forms." " And do those people worship those forms ? Yes." "`Has Shangti any visible form t—Shangti is produced by the Yin and Yang, the Tai-chi—the male and female principle. It has no visible form. It has never been represented under any form." 4 ' Were there men in existence before this pro duction of the Shangti I—There were men. "Is there authority for this ?—That is what everybody says from ancient time ; it is said so in the books." "Is Shang:i Confucian t—lt is hinted at by Con fucius, but not explained. Shangti is a Taouist Taoli. he seen but the tall windsails glancing to and fro like ghosts in the gloaming. Yeh has gone down to drink tea and sleep ; remembering, as I believe, nothing of what he saw on deck, except only the whimsical face of the "small boy" who was forced backwards into the tub of water. On the ninth day of our voyage from Singapore we sighted the two pilot brigs which lie out of sight of land, but give notice of our approach to the S indheads. Then, having taken a pilot on board and pursued our course fur some hours, a distant streak of red sandy coast line (such as we may see on some of our own eastern coasts, but still more , like the first glimpse of Egypt from the Mediterra nean) vouched the land of Ind. Yeh was told this, and he went to bed. 67 Which is superior—Tai-chi or Shangti Next morning we steamed up the muddy Hooghley, with its low green banks like Essex, or "So that the Upper Spirit or Ruler is only a like the shores of the mouth of the Rhine—if the: `-stet- being, emanating from the ultimate laws of lands would only grow a few palm tree's- among nature ?—Yes. their other folia ge . I tr i e d to i nterest Y eh i n the , " What produced Tai•chi I—lt came of itself." customs of the Hindoos, and he listened so far as (Tzu-jan-rlijan.) to remark that the drowning of aged parents in this I deduce from this that the Roman Catholics river was a "strange Taoli." He had hear d of th e have chosen the best word for God. The y have Gan g es, and thought mighthtitm have igbt been betruet that wade a new word, whereas our Protestant mission- Ilan dynasty water brought a r inf rtheom arias have adopted a word known to the Chinese as r ti o i r is s, ri h v u e t r , l , o , r hi th l e ea c r o niu ron g a t t h io e n h o is f to t r h y e o C f h c in h e in se a Ehemhpaed the name of a created being. WeWesterns thoroughly." I as k e d, 4‘ H as Tai-chi any form ?—.lts form is a not a tt en de d ste rn to s such have a pro verb m v a e t r t b er t s h e a , t e whar e ateewveerre d i,s " Has any one seen Tai-chi f —No." circle divided into two parts—male and female. wotth d for a is moment,worth doingan said , h "Th a t is not He a form 1- then have agreed to represent it by that thought " How, then, do you know that it is of th at Chinese Taoli." He had never h eard that the Ganges was a sacred river. I talked t o hi m about C o . m. 71 The Confucian philosophy, therefore, recognises it with the h ope of inducing hi m t o go upon deck only nature self-produced, active, but wililess an l a nd look at it . l e sat and fann e d hi mself in the unintelligent. The disciples of Confucius tolerate ca bin, immova ble. the idea of the existence of ruling spirits born of Some of us were not sorry that he would not the operations of nature—the creatures, and not comp on deck. The distant approach to the City of the creato rs of the universe. In this way they are Palaces is not prepossessing. The river contracts able to engraft Taouism and Bhuddism upon Con- almost to the dimensions of our Thames at Mort unianiere. lake. Though the palms are still beautiful, the flat When Yob turns to the east and remains in con- landscape wants relief; recaionally a great, square, tetnpletion he is a doringfactor y -- own brother ritual creetiona nature, and not the Spi- brick-bililt, window nature in her best of nature. He is contempl tang to a dozen I could pick out in Derby —appears hor rid in the sun glare. A factory is not a picturesque I was anxious toalephaerentsomething of the practical object even in the glens of Glossop ; it always sug working of pu es , ii If a man who riaFT . I gests hard work and close breathing, and here in meet to talk Taoli does not s ;arching do Taoli, does any punishment Such a man would be very eaedn,t, arise to him 1— India that idea must be ahorrent even to the Chinese unities. The bungalows come in Would Shangti ptuelnii7,h, him I—The things Of heir s v e i t higher up, but the stains of mildew upon t Heaven how can we to pliister pillars hint of disrepair. That dead "Does your Excellency recollect a sa y in g of Con- Ilindoo floating past with four carrion birds g y fac i es: , ' That which you would' no t that anothe r perched uon him, drivin their heav beaks into s h ou ld do to you that do not to him I'—lt i s 00n_ the corruption, does not suggest absolute security ‘ andgood order. Y e h wou ld thi n k o f th e Canton fuciari Moll. I for g et the exact "Premien in the river heavy with dead bodies after one of his great bat_teeesap above. four books." "In our WestetuTaoli we have a more extended bo, l y, h, c h v owever, sees none of these flings ; every- Taeli s which commander" dutyapvte as forbids an c the steward,i seems to think it a shame offence. - It runs; 6 Do unto others everything that that a you would wish others to do to you. Is there any- and little l)4 miss the first sight of India, stratagems are tried to make him look. Once an exclamation made him turn his eyes upon a bungalow that was visible through a little port hole opposite to him. Mr. Alabaster asked him what he thought of it. "He was not thinking about it at all." There he sat ; not now like a statue of Bhudda, but a flabby mass of greasy, dis coloured nightshirt. At last, he was left quite alone, and—Oh, Vic tory !—one of the shipboys comes up and tells us that " the governor", has climbed up and is peer ing through the stern-ports. Let him peep in peace. If he were not a lump of mean artifice, he would come on deck like a man, and admire the glories of this great city. He might learn some thing by looking at Garden Reach, so crowded with great ships that such vessels of war as the Shannon, the Pearl, and the Roebuck have to be sought for. He would see a sight quite new to Chinese eyes in that great park which comes down to the river quay, a park larger than our Hyde Park, and in tersected with rides and drives broad as Rotten row, with monuments to Ochterlonies and Prin seps and Bentincks, and other names honoured in the East, and with its three aides of forts and palaces. In Fort-William, which occupies the ether side that strikes the river, so trim in its green embrasures, so white in its lines of barracks, so formidable with its heavy guns and zigzag ditches, he might note the difference between a barbarian and a Chinese fortification. The dis tant dome of Government-house only suggests the magnitude of the palace that occupies the opposite boundary of the park ; but somebody would have told him that the far away and long drawn line of great and lofty edifices, all columns and green verandahs, parallel to the river, are the private residences of merchants and civil servants, and that these last have earned for Calcutta the name of the City of Palaces. .Yeh, however, thinks it more to his dignity to peep stealthily out of the stern-ports, hoping that he has cozened his captors into the be lief that he has no sentiment but that of sublime in difference both to them and to their creations. So soon as the Inflexible dropped her anchor Major Herbert, to whose care Yeh had been as signed, came on board with a retinue of red-vested Hindoos—a glare of scarlet which much impressed the vulgar Chinamen. The old Mandarin, how ever, was not to be caught. He received the Major in his greasy coat, went on with his dinner, replied to his many bows with a carefully modulated courtesy, and decided that it would take three days to make his preparations for disembarking. This morning at daybreak Yeh landed. He is located for the present in Fort William, but a con venient house is being furnished for him some little way out of the city. Before he Went he presented Capt. Brooker with a written certificate of his pre sence and good treatment on board the Inflexible. This was done in a grave official manner, and Yeh, no doubt, thinks it a most valuable document. He is now in the best place in the whole world to teach a Mandarin a useful lesson. The Calcutta people seem to have a very general contempt for most things, but a special contempt for China. The in difference which Yeh laboriously feigns they honestly feel. Yeh would be a lion in London ; he will not attract more notice than a five-legged poodle in India. Perhaps you may allow me hereafter to say some thing in the way of generalising the facts here col lected, but here ends this episode to the Chinese expedition—an expedition which, whatever may be its direct claims to interest, has, by its inciden -61 operations, relieved Lucknow and saved India. El ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. DON GIOVANNI. TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), will be presented Mozart's chef d'oeuvre, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madlle. Titiens • Donna Elvira , Madlle. Ortolani ; Zerlina, Madlle. Piccolomini ; Don Giovanni, Sig. nor Beneventano (his first appearance this season); Leporello, Signor Belletti ; Masetto, Signor Aldighieri ; Il Commenda tore, Signor Vialetti ; and Don • Ottavio, Signor Giuglini. To increase the effect of the majestic final] of the Ist act, Including the chorus, " Viva la liberta," all the principal artistes of the estab ishment have consented to lend their assistance. In addition to the music restored las; year, Madlle. Titiens will sing the grand aria, " Crude le. Ah no mio bone," hitherto omitted. Conductor, Signor Bonetti. To conclude with the new Ballet Divertissement, by 31 Mascot, entitled FLEUR DES CHAMPS. The principal parts by Madlies. Pocchini, Annetta, and M. Durand. The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock. On Thursday, May 13, (Extra Night), will be repeated IL TROVATORE. Leonora, Wile. Titiens; Azucena, Madame Alboni (her 2d appearance this season); Manrico, Signor Giugliai ; Fer rando, Signor Vialetti ; and Ii Conte di Luna, Signor Aldi ghieri. Friday, May 14 (Extra Night), DON ,GIOVANNI will be repeated. A limited number of boxes have been resarved to the pub ic, price 21s. and 31s. 6d. each, which may be had at the Box-office at tho Theatre. rHEATRE ROYAL, EL AYMARIEET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with Shakespere's comedy of TWELFTH NIGHT. Sir Andrew Agueche-k, Mr. BuCkstone ; Viola. Mrs. Charles Young. After which a C'assical Extravaganza, entitled PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. Followed by JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. To conclude with MAKE YOUR WELLS hchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening). 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 .;pper Boxes._ P t ..... Gallery ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented MUSIC HATH CHARMS. After which KING LEAH.. King Lear, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with the new farce, entitlel SAMUEL IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. • THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be presented (for the fifth time at this theatre), the romantic musical drama of GUY MANNERING. Meg Merrilees, Madame Celeste ; Dandie Dinmont, Mr. B. Webster. To conclude with THAT BLESSED BABY, in whici Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. TRAND THEATRE. —Lessee and Directress, Miss S wauborough. —This Evening will be presented the COUNTRY SQUIRE, supported by Messrs. Emery, Belford, Charles, F. Seymour, Meagreson, Misses M. Oliver, M. Ternan, Portman, and Messrs. Selby. After which, the new burlesque of FRA DIAVOLO ; or, The Beauty and the Brigands. Fra Mayolo, Miss Swan borough ; Beppo, Mr. C. Young. Followed by a new Farce, YOUR LIKENESS, ONE SHILLING. Messrs. Charles Young, Ray, and Miss M. Ternan. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.--- OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow lag company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES . DUETS, viz. —Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzcy, Kiss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs, Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; 'ierr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Elenshaw, Si Toner, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr. Badzcy, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs. T. Sfaclagan, W. T. Critchtield, John G. Forde, and E. Hackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium, Master . Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock orecisely. Suppers, dre., until twelve o'clock. Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening. Mr. WOODHOUSE (by permission of Chlrles Kean, Egq.) will have the honour of introducing, every evening, his highly successful Performance on the new REGULATION DRUM. THE WE ATHER=SrIzq Orproms, MAY 9. lIIERMOMETER, IN TUE SHAM 57—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night, 37—this clay at noon. BAROMETER, 30.12—falling. Virigt, • South•Easterly; light, with fine weather. MAT 10. 59—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 63 —this day . at noon. BABOMETEB. 30.08. WIYD, S.E. ; light, with fine warm weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. RIB DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. 11 —Even., 0 min. aft. 0 To-Romlow —Morn., 5 min. aft. 12 —Even., 18 min aft. 12 kt•'-ft es Ci e -7 LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1858. The CANNING Despatch, it appears, is to l • made the pretext fur a vigorous onslaught on the Government. W e use the term pretext advisedly, for it is but too painfully notorious that the Pal merstonians are gre e dil y a i ming at the " loaves and fishes," their which they h ave fancied should be devoted to peculiar use, vainly supposing that the Independent Liberal members and the various constituencies will support them in the monstrous assumption, and thus render the modern " Vicar of Bray " the Minister of a, dozen Cabinets of different politics, a permaneni dictator. They may perhaps find that in-thttiri stance they are "reckoning without their host," and that however willingly the TAPERS and TADPOLES may join in the interested outcry, the Members of the House of Commons will refuse to march through Coventry with such a troop. There.is no act of Lord DERBY'S Government that will receive more commendation than the refusal to assent to the wholesale confiscation, the indiscriminate spoliation, indicated by Lord CANNING'S despatch. There was a wide distinc tion between the cases of the discontented inhabi tants of Oude, who had seen their lawful Sovereign dethroned and that which had been an independent kingdom coolly annexed, and that of the mutinous Sepoys, who had been unfaithful to their salt-, and the cold-blooded as , sassins and miscreants, who were not contented even with the wilful and deliberate murder of our unfortunate countrywomen who fell into their hands. The latter should be treated with the most stringent severity, while the former should receive every. consideration, and more especially when there were any redeeming circumstances in their favour, treated with the utmost leniency. Lord CANNING did not sufficiently discriminate be tween these cases. His policy was. calculated to drive men to desperation; depriving them of their property, unless theycould prove to the satisfaction of his Commissioners that they were completely inno cent, or had done something. to merit not merely pardon, but reward. Such a course was calcu latteod d tsop drive might otherwise su b m it, in n an wh dt o o indefinitely pr o t rac t th e desperation,, t e i men, contest, adding enormously to the expense and loss of life during its progress. Had the Government sanctioned these proceed ings they would have become accomplices, consti tuting Lord CANNING a despot as absolute as any that over swayed with iron hand the destinies of the Eastern Hemisphere. It was an impe rative duty to arrest his reckless path, and that they have done so firmly, but at the same time so temperately, gives additional cause for rejoicing in the substitution of Lord DERRY for Lord PALMERSTON, and of Lord ELLENEOROUOR for Mr. VERNON SMITH. We can easily conceive the vexation of the ex- Ministers at the exposure of the grave mistake into which their pet protegee permitted himself to be betrayed. When Lord CANNING was perhaps the most u n p opu l ar a d m i n i s t ra t or, w h en every journal was cast i ng the most unequ i vocal censure on his p rocee di ngs, and the T i mes was launching almost daily thunders at his devoted head, he was sustained and supported by Lord PALMERSTON and his coadjutors. But the Leviathan has, according to its usual custom, performed another daring act of " grand and lofty tumbling,' showing the unblushing tergiver sation of which it is capable. Can any reader of the Times forget its energetic denunciation of Lord CANNING, or conceive how it can justify its present servile adulation. The position of " THE CERBERIIS CLUB" might give some inkling as to the reasons, but it is still difficult to understand how any public journal can be so totally indif ferent to the voice of public opinion on which it must depend. Men may for a time blow hot and cold with impunity, but retributive justice must eventually fall on those guilty of such reckless conduct. The meeting of hungry expectants at Cam bridge House, yesterday (Sunday, of all days in the week. !), shows tlie lengths to which the Palinerstonians are inclined to go. Provided they cm achieve office they care not by what means it m4y be attained, or through what dirt they may beidragged in their progress. They think that " the end justifies the means," and their organs of the fourth estate have shown them delves to be equally reckless. The really important and influential meeting of 120 sincere and consistent Liberals, last week, may be fairly set off against the Sabbath-day demonstration of . the Palmerstonians. That meeting indicated the true feeling of those who, after all, are the real arbiters between the Govern ment and the Paimerstortian opposition. . They are not disposed to sacrifice their political cha racter for the sake of reinstating the veteran Viscount, or bringing in the Ministry, who, not withstanding their prepared promises, had not even prepared the Reform Bill, BO long and so antionsly looked for by the people of the United Kingdom. What course will be taken by the independent Liberal members respecting the factious opposition which it appears is to be founded on the recent despatch of Lord CANNING ? That is a truly inte resting question, for on it will rest the last hope of the ex - Ministers during the present session. Judging from the feeling displayed at the meeting on Wednesday last these gentlemen are by no means anxious to displace Lord DERBY for the purpose of putting in Lord PALMERSTON, who, under such circumstances, would be more likely than ever to display petulant contumely towards every malcontent. They gave him rot merely a fair trial, but generous support so long as lie was maintaining an English policy. But the despot-loving Lord CLARENDON, by his truckling subserviency, inflicted irreparable damage on the Cabinet, to which neither Mr. V. Suers, Sir C. WOOD, nor Sir G. C. LEWIS brought mach favour. The extraordinary greediness of the iin meiiate followers, which grasped at everything that fell vacant, did not strengthen the Ministers _conniving at such a system, and perhaps there was nothing that occasioned greater disgust than the appointment of the brother-in-law of the Hon• WILLIAM COWPER to the situation vacated by the death of the late Mr. CoProox. The Liberals' were justly discontented at the entire syatem-pursuee, towards them, Although as numerous. as either the Palinerstonians or the Russellites, they were grossly neglected. By a sort o f P ar li amentary fiction Lor d PALMER STON assumed that they were bound to regard him as their recognised leader, whose dictates they were bound to obey, although he neither pro moted th e measures on w hi c h th e y h a d se t their hearts, given them their fair share of influence or promotion, or even treated them w ith common civility, whenever t h ey d eeme d it right to exhibit an inconvenient interroga tory. R ow then could h© suppose that they would still obey his orders or act in obedi ence to his slightest hint ? Lord DERBY has displayed far more liberality than the soi disant ]ibaral PA L3l ERSTON. He has dropped the Conspiracy " bill, has rescued Fuld demanded compensation for the injured engineers from Naples has saved Mr. HODGE from judicial murder has averted the wholesale confiscation of the soil of Oade —given an unexceptionable budget, which even the Times has been compelled to applaud, and surrendered the property qualification as a first instalment of the reform which he intends to ietroduce at the commencement of next cession. Disinterested and unprejudiced men :will weigh these matters, and compare them with the " sayings and doings" of the former Cabinet ; and should the representatives of the. l people not understand the true state of the popular feeling, they will receive a lesson on the appeal to the country; that will unquestionably take place in the event of any factious movement or factious vote. To-night a grave question indeed will come before the House of Commons. The Oaths Bill itself is trivial in comparison with it. Whether our constituencies shall be held qualified to judge who is fit . to represent them, and whether the great principle of religious equality shall be ex tended to Jews, are weighty questions ; but they are insignificant in comparison with that which the House of Lords has wilfully raised upon them —What is the ultimate authority in the realm ? If the House of Commons shirks meeting this question now, then surely every constituency in the Kingdom ought to memorialise her MAJESTY to dissolve at once a Parliament ignominiously below the demands of the crisis—for a crisis it is. We will not, however, believe, till after the debate of to-night, that the representatives of England can fail to assert the rights of the nation, as distin guished from those of the small hereditary body which now assumes the Dictatorship, and which contemptuously refuses to acknowledge the sove reignty of the nation. The three or four last Governments have all promised or talked of a Reform Bill ; but of what impor tance is it to reform the representation, or of what avail would it be, if when reformed, the Lords are to be allowed to put an absolute VETO on the oft-repeated, and more and more loudly repeated demands of the nation. It will become' a question of the most urgent im portance, how to reform the Upper House. At the present day it can never be tolerated that a body of men, having no qualification whatever, but that of being " their father's sons," " the tenth transmitters—it may be—of a foolish face" —that these men shall overrule for ever the deci sions of men possessing qualifications for which a. million or more of their contemporaries have held them worthy to be their representatives and legis lators. The Lords themselves, we repeat, have raised a great constitutional question, and the Commons owe it to the country to take the decision into their own hands. Every consideration demands this at their hands. There is, first, their own too long and . too courteous forbearance. From the beginning we have been indignant at the crotcheti ness, or must we say the meanness, of Lord JonN RUSSELL in allowing the oaths in regard to the Jews to be made the subject of a Bill. It was one of his bits of petty personal conceit ; he thought he could manage the peers, and they have only showed how glad they were to have an opportunity of snubbing him, and religious liberty, and the Lower House together.. However, the concession to the vanity of the Peers was the same ; thus far the . Co mmons have humbly bowed to them—if they yield again, it will not be bowing but cringing► There is, next, the perseverance in insult on the part of the Upp3r House. In one form or another for twenty-five years the Commons of England have pronounced Jaws qualified to sit with them, and the majority of Lords against their admission, is, if we rightly remember, greater than ever. In every form it has been sought to smooth the matter to their Lordships ; bills directly for the object, bills including it in more general objects, a wholly new oath with the objectionable clause omitted, an oath retaining it, with a special exemption for the Jews—all modes have been tried, but nothing will do. Perversity, bigotry, pride, dull obstinacy— we sincerely wish we could think more respectfully of the majority of England's Peers—have still continued do defy the intelligence of the nation as expressed in the House of Commons. A hundred names the ignoti, the vulgus of the Peerage—for assuredly there is a numerous vulgar amongst the Peers as amongst other classes.. —rush to every division against the Jews, just to reveal to the public once a year the ignobility of our peerage. And these uttarly insignificant men, merely because many of their fathers were men of mark, are able to compel the House of Commons to perform political penance to them once a year ! Is it to be tolerated that a few, a very few, peers of ability should year after year entrench themselves for party purposes behind embankments formed of the very mud of the peerage, and thus successfully fortify themselves against the country by mate rials which reason, argument, and genius can never breach. Again, there is the aggravation of the case, that the question is a House of Commons one. It is not merely for a great principle that the Commons contend with the Lords, but for thtir o wn right, moral right to say the least, to decide on the qualifications of the people's representa tives. The Commons, fresh from the hustings, have sent to the Lords their last de mand for Jewish emancipation by a larger majority than ever. It must, therefore, be the demand of the country ; indeed, at all times, the elected representatives of the people must be presumed to have the best knowledge of what is a faithful representation of the people ; yet the Lords have presumed, notwithstanding repeated protests, to take the keys of the House of Commons into their own hands, as well as those of their own House. What, then, ought to be done? The Lords have had already every opportunity for repent .ance, and they refuse to repent. Arguments are now completely Exhausted ; considerate treat ment of a Conservative Ministry by an immense Liberal majority has had no weight ; considera tions of Statesmanship so forcibly, yet kindly, pressed by Lord GREY, wore all thrown away; the clause which embodied the demand of twenty ' five years was stolidly, wilfully, proudly erased from the Bill. We think it undignified for the CJUIMOI3S, under these circumstances, even to de mand a conference with the Lords. The result must be foreknown. It would be inviting one more insult. The only procedure worthy of the Commons would he to treat the emasculated bill, as they would a money-bill altered by the . Lords, by ordering Mr. SPEAKER to kick it out of the House. Such a course would raise the house incalculably in the eyes of the nation, and of all Europe and the world. It wouli proclaim that we were not the slaves of a titled aristocracy, but a self governed nation of freemen. Shou!cl the House, however, unable to free itself from red-tapism, humble themselves to a con ference, we trust that, on its own part, it will appoint tome sturdy JOHN BRTGIITS, as well 'as (to Lords) pliant JOHN ltussEu.s. A❑ unwonted tone mu't be taken by the managers fir the Commons. They must inform the Lords that the Lower House feels itself, and the people it represents, insulted; that no compromise can now be thought of; that they are determined to assort the principle that to the national will, steadily expressed for a long succession of years, both Lords and Commons must give way ; and that the Commons intend to seat Baron ROTHSCHILD—with the Lords if asp prefer it, if not, without them. The Lords ought also to be informed that if common-sense and reason are not sufficient to make the two Houses work harmoniously, other means must be devised. We have always thought that the harmonising device, peculiar, so far as we know, to the Norwegian Constitution is a really admirable one. The Norwegians have an Upper House, styled—how appropriate would be the untranslated name to our own—the Lagthing ; if the Lagthing declines for three years to pass a measure sent up to it annually by the Lower House, the measure becomes law, the Lagthing and the Crown notwithstanding. There is surely reason in this under a representative Constitution. We commend the plan to the consideration of our Reform Bill makers. The House of Lords plainly needs reform, even more than the House of Commons. It threatens to be come a simple obstruction. If not vanquished on the Jew Bill, it will most certainly take courage from the precedent, and we shall have the revolt ing spectacle of a few partizan Lords, with a long tail of hereditary dunces, year after year, thwarting all liberal legislation, and especially every Eccle siastical reform, on which the hearts of the people are set. We warn the Lords that, as the Com mons have overthrown the titled dictator in their own house, so they will overthrow the titled and hereditary dictatorship of " another place." Upon the occasion of the recent anniversary dinner in aid of the Royal Literary Fund, the Noble - Viscount who occupied the chair, Lord PALMERSTON, incidentally referred to what must certainly be regarded as a rather notable circum• stance in the history of Literature. It was in giving the customary loyal toast—The Queen — that the ex-Premier reminded the assembled men of-letters and their convivial symp9.thisers that her present most gracious MAJESTY was the first English Sovereign who had, by investing an Author with the dignity of the Peerage, admitted to participation in the highest rewards within the :Lilt of the Crown the cultivators of the fields of literature. Hitherto the bauble of a coronet has never been dreamt of as a recompense to a great writer in this country. Baron MACAULA.Y is the first, and, up to this account, the only literary noble admitted to "the other place," the Upper House of Parliament. Upon the opposite shores of the Channel they had in this, too, managed things much better, and very differently. M. VICTOR HUGO, a poet-novelist, was long ago made Viscomte by King Louis PIIILIPPE; It is re corded, moreover, of the first Emperor—Na.vo- LEON the Great—that he had said of CORNEILLE, " If be had lived in my time I would have made him a Prince." There is, of course, very little in the distribution of these honours. They are mere symbols—symbols, too, that have often and often been abused and misapplied. [Everybody remem bers the Roman horse who was made a senator and fed out of a golden manger.] Yet, as one poet has said— "Men are but children of a larger growth," and as another has written— " The child's the father of the man ;" so at every time of life there is real nted,. appa rently, of Toys—if only in r e w ar d an d recompense. And certainly the toys of adults, if we come to examine into them are, all things considered, as various and fantastic as those manufactured for the younger occupants of the nursery. They range from diadems and sceptres down through many a nice gradation to clasps and medals, to a bit of ribbon in a button-hole, and even for that matter, actually to two or three letters of the alphabet. How many are there who have striven bard for years and years simply to the end that they might be dubbed 14LP.,-N.e. or LL.D., or what-not : precisely in the same ambitious mood in which Mr. NATXANIEL WINKLE or Mr. AUGUSTUS SNODGRASS may have first aspired to have the magic M.P.C. upon the brass buttons of their blue dress coats, or Mr. SAMUEL PICKWICK himself the still granderinitial-title of G.C.M.P.C. It must be particularly borne in mind, moreover, .that the. covetted prizes of the social system are merely the fruits of old-world institutions. Some of them are Of very recent organisation. There is the Legion of Honour, founded by the First Consul at the beginning of the present cen tury. There is Qat Victoria Cross, originated only the other day by the reigning Sovereign. We may laugh at these things as intrinsically very frivolous. But they mean a vast deal more than a morsel of bronze or of silver, a coin or a :tar. For them, death is braved under its most terrible aspects. The insignia have a priceless significance. Nevertheless, reverting from these comparatively minor and generally more attain able rewards to the original subject of our remarks —the admission of men of letters into the ranks of the Peerage—it may be cursorily observed that hitherto literature has done very well without this very magnificent and overwhelming recognition of it by the aristocracy. And no wonder—for what grander dignity, what more majestic title, what more august glory could possibly belong to the name and the fame of the chiefs in the grand bead-roll of literature ? What order of knight hood, what grade of nobility, what heraldic emblazonment could by any imaginable contri vance enhance the greatness of the memory of men like HOMER, like DANTE, like SIIIKSPERII. Never theless one delights all the while to remember that the Emperor CHARLES picked up the brush of TITIAN—one does not very willingly forego an apocryphal a belief in the pleasant dream that FRANCIS the FIRST supported in his arms the dying form of LEONARDO. Not that in either instance the dignity of the great artist was in any way enhanced—simply only that it was very signally recognised. And so it i 3 110 W with re ference to the encircling of the forehead of a bookman like TIIOMAS Lord MACAULAY with a baron's coronet. The historian might say as a famous lawyer did once (meaning Lord TEURLOW) when taunted with his plebeian origin, "My Lords, I must say the peersge solicited me, not I the peerage." The honour appertains more to the House of Peers than to a scholar who is ad mitted within it. Still the inauguration in this instance of our distinguished national annalist, a system in the distribution of the an eeveet signal event so far evidence noteworthyh that at titlesp tl e ia r f t e it ot constitutesifyi'ewnobility, i th s e most could well be afforded of the etri ndee andiistin n distinct recognition e by the State of the intrinsic dignity of the most elevated, because the most purely intellectual of all the professions—that of literature. "The Narrative of the Defence of Lucknow, by a Staff Officer, published by Smith, Eld er, and Co., Cornhill, is from the pan of C a pt a i n T. F. Wilson, 13th 8.N.1., who was Assistant-Adjutant- General during the whole of the mornorable defence of Lncknow to its final relief. We are informed that a meeting was held at Cam bridge House yeAterday, at %bleb it was resolved t• move a Resolution in the House of Commons on Thins di.y nix:, upon the subject of the Despatch from Lord El:enborough censuring the issue of Lord Canning's Proclatua.ion to the people of Oude. and that this Reso lution will have the concurrence of Lord John Russell and the principal members of the so-called Peelite rty.--7Tirnes _ - The Bishop of Ext:ter completed his eightieth year on Thursday, May 6, and he is reported to be in good health and spirits. Eighty is not an uncommon age in Devonshire. Miss Burdett Coutts has signified her irtention through Mr. JAn Cueetharn, M.P., to contribute a donation of 2001, and to give an annual subser6 tion of 1001. to the Linca,hire Cotton Supply Associaticn. THE AMERICAN MAILS. —LxvitnrooL, Saturday.— The British and North American Mail steamship Niagara sailed from the Mersey this afternoon for Hal fax and 11 - Aton .with the weekly mails, 108 passengers, and a full cargo of manufactured goods. MONDAY E'V'ENING, - MAY 10, 1858 LITEST 'NEWS. INDIA AND CHINA. CORFU, MAY 9, 10 A.. AZ. The Calcutta and China mails have arrived, with dates from Calcutta to April 9 ; Madras, 16 ; Ceylon, 19 ; Hongkong, March 30. On the Bth of April a strong force marched for Bareilly. A hot weather campaign in Rohllgund is con sidered inevitable. The 13th Regiment, sent to relieve Azimghur, had a severe fight, in which 25 casualties occurred. Seaton had encountered and beaten the rebels. on the ith, taking three guns. - Lucknow is perfectly tranquil ; not a single armed man to be seen. The 4th Bengal Light Cavalry, 160 strong, has been brought to a court-martial at Umballah, 60 sentenced to be hanged, the remainder transported for life. At Calcutta imports met a better demand, at advancing prices. The supplies of produce were small, and transactions checked by high prices. Tho money market continued in a healthy posi tion. Exchange, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. for credits, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. for documents. At Madras imports continued in fair inquiry. Exchange, 2s. Oid. for credits. CHINA. All continued quiet in China. Lord Eldon bad reached Ningpo. Admiral Seymour left Hong Kong on the 21st of March, it is believed for Shanghai. General Straubenzee had returned to Canton. Exchange at Hong Kong, 4s. 9id. SHANGHAI, MA.ROE 7. The import market had been brisk ; silks firmer : prices of tea also fully maintained. EGYPT. The East India's Company's frigate Punjab,_ with with the Persia transport in tow, arrived at Suez on the 4th inst. to convey cavalryhorses purchased in Egypt. The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul- General Green was received at the Foreign-office May 9, 5 p.m. : ALEXANDRIA, MAY 6. The steamer Bengal arrived at Suez on the 4th instant from Calcutta ; she brings no later ne wt from India than that received last mail from Boni• bay. There is nothing of importance from Gina. The Ron. Company's steamer Punjab and trawl p Drt Persian have arrived:at Suez from Sorge' [quart, for horses I]. From Acting-Consul General Green. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY. Already a delay has t a k en p l ace in themeeiing of the Conferences. The 20th of May is now spokea of as the period for convening the plenipotentiaries. Fuad Pacha, The Turkish Envoy, has reached Ber• lin. His Excellency will be in Paris on the 11th. .The labours of the Legislative Chambers dosed .oterday, after voting the bill for public improvs • *tits of Paris. It is remarkable that 42 membere voted against this measure--a very large minority.'" and many spoke against the bill. It is stated that M. Thiers is about to follo?v the example of M. Guizot, and publish his memoirs. will be a single volume, of 400 pages, entitled 4 " Simple Notes, pa r Ad o lph e Thi ers, ex - Ministre. BOURSE, May 8. —The following were the closing quotations :- 4i per Cents 93 40 Do. end month — 3 per Cent. ..... 69 85 Do. end month 69 90 Bank Shares 3100 Credit Mobilier 755 Do. Account 750 Credit Fonder Belgian 4 Piedmontese (5) . — Roman 9l Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt . .—. RAILWAYS.. Orleans . .. 1270 Northern New Ditto 7674 Lyon and Mediteran. 777 New Ditto •• Geneva . -Fox CASH. Midi Western 606 Strasburg Grand Central Sardinian 685 Austrian SPAIN. MADRID, Saturday.—The Government hita dis• missed two-and-twenty corregidors. An early convocation of the Cortes is spoken of. AMERICA. By ELECTRIC TELEGIRAPH. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 11 A.M. We have received the following despatch per the Africa from New York, conveying intelligence to the afternoon of the 28th ult.:— " The stockmarket was inactive , _ but prices were steady and firm. Illi no i s Central Bond; 81i ; Ne' York Centrals , 881 ; Erie Railroad, 241. Flour unchanged. neat and corn d u ll. Mess pork lower. " Washington advices of the 28th report that tho expedition for the survey of the Atrato river been successful. " A telegram from New Orleans to the evening of the 27th states that cotton was firmer, at 11i9! to 11/c. for middling ;. sto c k i n por t , 335,000 bales receipts at southern ports, 64,000 bales in•excesa• Freights to Liverpo o l 9-16 tis of a penny. Sterling exchange, 1074 to 1081. " QUEBEC, APRIL 28. " The ship Pride, of Canada, is on shor e o n Red Island. Steamers have proceeded to her assistance. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, SIIiIDAY NIGHT. The Royal mail steamship Africa, Captain IC Shannon, arrived in the Mersey a t 10 p . m . , w ith the usual mail from the United States and the British North American provinces. Her New York advices are to the 28th ultimo. She has brought, besides the mails, 135 passes hers, and $4,000 in specie. She passed the Kangaroo, — April 29th, froth Glasgow ; Mary and Ariel, from Southaimptehr May 7th. The Canada arrived at Boston on the 24th of April. It is announced from Washingtou that the Government will . call upon Congress for authority to borrow 30 millions of dollars, a por tion of which is to be applied to the redemption of outstanding Treasury notes. Both Houses'of Con gross were engaged in discussing Kansas affairs, but no important decision had taken place. Caledonian advices to the sth ult., received pl . . Moses Taylor, which brought nearly a million and . a half dollars. M ar k e t s qu i et, and prices withou t much change. Money easy. From Central America we learn that a con Yell: tion had been agreed upon between Costa Rica 5 0 d Nicaragua, that all steamers or property captured by either power during the Walker war should be disposed of for their mutual benefit. Important news has been received from Peru, announcing the termination of the revolutionerf struggle under Genet al Vivanco. The money market at New York was easier, and well supplied, and on all commanded 3 to 5 per cent. Stocks were firm, with an upward tendency, ex change dull. London, 108 to 109. Paris, 5.15 to 5.14 Cotton was quiet, b u t h e ld f i rmly at previous quotations. The recent cold weather reported to have injured the crop. Breadstuffs in moderate demand, at rather eaglet rates. Provisions very active, chiefly by specula tors. Ashes steady, with a good export demand. Freights firm, with an advancing tendency. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING. The steamer Colombo, Capt. Field, has wife" with the Calcutta and China mails. She left .Alef audria April 20, Malta April 28, Gibraltar May 0 . The Colombo spoke, April 28, lat. 36.38 N., 1011 k 13 E , brig Nelson ; 26th, off Cape Bon,. steamier Indus and brig Allandale ; May 4; screw steame r B-11ona, off Cape St. Vincent ; Btb, screw steamer Alhambra, off Usti ant. The Colombo brings 119 passengers, includim.g Mhjor Roper and Lieutenant Innes, from Delhi ; Maj )r and Mrs. -Marriott, Lieutenant and Mrs' Svpiit, Dr. and Mrs. Fayrer and child, Mr. an d Mrs. Sinclair, Miss Birch, Mrs. Gall, Mrs. Graham' and child, Dr. Campbell, Lieutenant Barclay, and Mr. Geoffroi, from Luckuow. She has also 12,147'; in specie, 508 bales and 68 cases of silk, and gene's' . cargo. The Sultan, steamer, with Bombay mails of th e 26th ult., from Souk hanapton, arrived at Gibraltar at 9 a.m., on tL• Ist inst. The Brechin Castle, of Glasgow, had put into Gibraltar to repair damages, having been in colb sion with the Elizabeth, of South Suields, 60 mile~ N. W. of Tarifa. Exchanges at Gibraltar were, 49i 9n Lonslors Pat is 29, Genoa 533, M arse ill es 530. ''