The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-14 00:00:00

BENSON'S WATCHES. " Perfection of mechanism." —Morning Post. Gold Silver 2to 50 guineas. Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, descrlp- Sive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. S 3 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London, E.C. Established 1749. T HEAT It.g -no YAL, HAYNIAIIKET. Les4ee, Mr. J. B. Buskstonc. THIS EVENING the performances will oommenoe with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messr s. C. Mathews, Buck stone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. C. Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins. After which, the new comedietta, HIS EXCELLENCY, in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mat hews will appear. And THE BOARDING SCHOOL. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCES S'SHarris THEATRE.— L es see, Mr. A. . THIS EVENING, will be performd HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Phelps. To conclude with BOWLED OUT. Commence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE - ROYAL. Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Reproduction of the powerful the Adelphi drama, "The Flowers of Forest." Eleventh week of the American Actress, Miss Julia Daly. THIS o,vl4.lfsllNG, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billinglon, Stuart, Eburne, C. J. Smith, Powell, Romer ; Miss Woolgar, K. Kelly, Mrs. Billington, Miss Laidlaw. After which, THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY. Mr. Paul Bedford and Miss Julia Daly. And GRIMSHAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSHAW. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes, 11. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Es. • Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, 18. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, e d. Acting Manager—Mr. Win. Smith. VRENCIZ PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Directeur, M. Talexy.—Lessee, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. EVERY EVENING. Madlle. Delphine Fix.—M. Paul Devaux. TO-NIGHT, L'HONNEUR EST SA.TISFAIT. And LES PATTES DE MOUCHE. Madlle. Delphine Fix and M. Paul Devaux. Orchestra Stalls, 7s. 6d. ; Balcony Stalls, ss. ; Pit, 25. - ; Gallery, Is. Private Boxes, from Two Guineas. Commence at 8. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wst. BATTY. In consequence of the immense success of the MID-DAY PERFORMANCE, ONE MORE will take place on Saturday. July 14, to commence at 2 o'clock. On Monday, July 9, 1860, and during the week , to com mence with the immensely successful Grand Historical Spectacle in Three Acts, entitled "FAIR ROSAMOND, or the AmAzovr CRUSADERS." To be followed by Scenes in the Cirque, supported by Madlles. De Berg, Monet, and Leontine ; Messrs. Fernando, L'Epine, F. Watson, and Herr Christoff, &c. &0., artistes of unequalled celebrity. Conclud ing with a Laughable Faroe. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti. CONCERTS.- CANTERB UR HALL THIS EVENING, C. H. GOUNOD UST.'S OPERA. FA First Time in this country. Faust Mr. Henry Herbert. Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard. Siobel Mrs. Anderson. Marg ue rite ..... Miss RusselL Conductor.... —Mr. Jonghmans. And selections from Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, Is, Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic). and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of Vocal and Instrugeslital Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.. —SUN OFFICE, JULY 14, MO. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 57—lowest this morning and during the night. 73—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.87; falling. WIND--SeuthWesterly ; moderate, with fine but sultry weather, and heavy clouds. It rained a little in the morn ing. - HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAT.—Morning,g9h. 38m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m, To-mounow.-Morning, 10h. 47m.—Afternoon, 11h. 24m, The supplementary little " lump - sum " of £443,896 in re our War with the Chinese was duly voted last night by the House of Commons when in Committee of Supply-0443,89 6 for repayment to the Indian Government. This was not done, however, without a good deal of time having been previously consumed in discussion. One member of the late and more than one member of the pre sent Government spoke several times before the matter could be settled satisfactorily. Lord JOHN MANNERS found it apparently quite impossible to discover the existence of any reason what ever for any war at all between the Chinese and ourselves. That the hon. member for Birmingham should be labouring under that humane bewilderment, we can perfectly well under stand. Mr. BRIGHT'S opposition to any war, under any circumstances, would be only in perfect keeping with his Utopian notions about the universal appli cability of the diplomatic anodyne of Arbitration. Mr. BRIGHT is a Quaker, and an advocate of the craven Arcadian cause of Peace-at-any-Price. His protest against any war, therefore, is only what is naturally to be expected. But that one who has been an administrator of the affairs of the country, an adviser of the Crown, a privy councillor of the SOVEREIGN, should, with a vivid recollection of that atrocious crime perpetrated upon the waters and banks of the Peiho by the Chinese miscreants there lying in treacherous ambuscade to open fire upon the sacrgd persons of the British and French Ambassadors—that Lord JOHN MANNERS should remain (within such a remembrance as that !) wholly unconvinced as to the existence of any necessity at all for the present war of retribution or expiation certainly does appear to us matter for very great astonishment. The noble lord elicited by his remarks yesterday in Committee the sentiments with which this war is regarded as unavoidable, entertained deliberately and con scientiously by the principal members of the present Administration. The Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer each in turn plainly enough announced the views with which this lamentable war has been accepted as a pa triotienecessity by her MAJESTY'S Government. And assuredly we exonerate the Ministers of the Crown from any blame whatever in reference to a war thrust upon their acceptance, or rather upon that of the country, actually before they could be deemed invested with the responsibilities of administration. This third, and let us hope final, war between the English and the Chinese, was simply in herited from their predecessors by the pre sent Government. It is simply an absurdity to blame them for carrying out loyally what had al ready been commenced. Especially when the crime demanding punishment at the hands of the two great powers of Western Europe was so flagrant and so note • no % that to have passed it by in silence and to have allowed its perpetrators to escape with imlunity would have been, in its turn, an act not less criminal than despicable. England had but one simple course to pursue in the matter, and that course, she is now pursuing, the matter is that we Our only anxiety in shall, this time, act so thoroughly in our mode of dealing -with the Chinese that the result will be a permane n t, an d not, as hitherto, a precarious pacification. Perhaps the m( )st interesting little epi so d e during the progress of the discussion yesterd ay i n Committee of S aPPIY was that which may be described as the ( :rot! ;sing of the foils between th e member for Sh eft eld and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the buttons were on the foils, et , iir: .j, te , i , . *., i. .„;-,.c.u - ,•,,,,.f r5i - 07M1N, . 4, ----. .„ 'i - • ........,.. t 7<,,, THE STJN. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1880, but there were some home thrusts nevertheless. Mr. ROEBUCK'S remarks were in the spirit of what is called popularly virtuous indignation. "It was my fate," he said (fortuna felix!) " to sit on the bench opposite (below the gangway), under the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he delivered a speech that startled his hearers. I never listened to a speech that more enchained my attention, or more completely won my admiration and assent." At any direct reference like this to the past, one might think, Mr. GLADSTONE must wince rather painfully—for he must conjecture pretty ac curately what is coming ! He has spoken within the last few years upon such diarnetri- tally opposite sides upon such a very large variety of subjects! But in continuation of his rather cruel reminiscence, ouoth Mr. ROEBUCK yesterday : " The right hon. gentleman fulminated [then] against the then Administration for under taking a Chinese war. He pointed out how vain were the ends they sought, how mischievous the means. But the right hon. gentleman's change of place has been accompanied by a change of opinion, and now we find the same right hon. gentleman sup - porting the very vote which, on that occasion, he de scribed as a disgrace to the country. The words of that speech are still ringing in my ears. I remem ber turning to the right hon. gentleman after he sat down and presumptuously expressing my ad miration both of the sentiments he had uttered and the manner in which he had delivered them. Little did I think that within three years it would be my fate to sit opposite to the right hon. gentle man and find him the most eloquent supporter of this atrocious proceeding." Now, all this sounds, of course, wonderfully well—but viewed rationally the reasoning is alogether illogi cal and the deduction altogether preposterous. " The very vote," say you; Mr. ROEBUCK ?—the vote is wholly and entirely different. Besides which, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer observed in his well-tempered reply—" It may be that the war in 1857 was right and the present war is wrong ; or it may be that the present war is right and the war of 1857 was wrong ; or it may be that both are right, or it nay be that both are wrong." Laugh though the house might, and, in fact, did " consumedly "—almost in Homeric phrase, " inextinguishably "—the possibility is so nevertheless throughout. " The nature of the two wars is," as Mr. GLADSTONE had previously said," entirely distinct—their causes are wholly different." And in proof of the fact that the alterations are allowable, or, at the very least, recognisable, is it not undeniable that there are some (like Mr. BRIGHT for example, and Mr. ROEBUCK himself) who regard both wars as wrong —that there are others (like the Prime Minister, and, we believe, the country at large) who consider both wars to be right—while there are a sprinkling of others yet who come under the minor categories referred to in Mr. GLADSTONE'S suppositious alternatives? There is Mr. GLADSTONE himself, for example, as one who deems the last war wrong and the present war right ! However ironical the cheers, and however great the laughter, therefore, with which the enumeration of those alternatives by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was received by the House, the fact that they are not so entirely hy pothetical is clearly enough demonstrated. Besides —the actual vote then before the House in Com mittee of Supply was a retrospective vote, was a vote that no party could oppose, that no Cabinet could shirk with honour. Eng land has never yet, thank Heaven! sunk to the level, or rather to the depths of repudi ation. And so—as a matter of course, whatever might be said or thought by the captious or can tankerous—the House ended, we repeat, as a matter, of course, by voting this additional sum of £443,896, in respect to the past expenses of the Chinese War, for repayment to the Indian Government. Our future Sovereign is on his way to America We are all pleased, both on this side and on that of the Atlantic. May QUEEN'S weather go with him—not, however, leaving us, for we need it enough—and, youthful as he is, the novelty of a Prince of WALES crossing the Atlantic will fairly exemplify the novel interest which, within a co paratively short space of time, has been felt by this country in her colonies. Within the me mory of all of us, colonies were regarded as the lads in their teens of the maker country. They were not supposed to be capable of more than municipal government. They were the servants of the Colonial Secretary, and a stern master he often was, perhaps oftener an ill-informed and crotchetty one. The juvenile Englands kicked at control, and the pedagogue placed in charge of them adminis stered correction according to their self-importance, and to their means of making their wrath and re sentment known to the parent country ; and every now and then there was a scene. All knew better, indeed, since the successful vindication of principle by the United States than to think of taxing them again but, short of that, there was a kind of chronic ill-will kept up, by the pragmatical assumptions and vexatious intermeddling of the Colonial Secretary. Perhaps Lord GREY was the last of the pedagogue Foreign Secretaries. Since his time the change has been marked and rapid. Governments, - whether Whig or Tory, seem to have vied with each other in firmly maintaining colonial self-government in every thing local. The Governors, of whatever politics, have been expected to preserve, as the representatives of royalty at home, that com plete neutrality between contending parties which conciliates the cordial loyalty of all. And the instances are becoming rare in which Governors betray a bias. In the progress of the change, Lord JOHN RUSSELL and other states men often remarked—we are so governing them, that when able to separate from us they and we shall part with mutual good will. It would seem, however, that the more independeLt their action, the stronger becomes their attachment to the old fatherland. There can be no doubt that Cana dians are far more averse to separation from the British Crown—the only link, now, of union—than they ever were. We have not made ABSALOMS of our colonies by indulgence, but then it has been less indulgence than acknow ledgment of Rights. And at this moment they are all excitement in North America—and talk of spending £lOO,OOO as nothing—with the prospect of seeing the first-born son of their Sovereign, and therefore their future Sovereign. ..._ .• _ _ Some thoughts will float in all our minds in recollecting the fact. We remember how the grandfather of the young Prince drove into rebel iion and alienated colonies which, but for the Tory stupidity of the day, might at this moment have been as cordially bound to England as Canada now is ; and we think of it all the more when we remember that he is to visit in person those former colonies, and to accept the hospitality of an elective, a citizen, a temporary 'Monarch. Too young, perhaps, he is yet to feel the " blue blood" chilled by the touch of a Supreme Magistrate, the creation of Universal Suffrage, and the Ballot Box, things he may have to witness in England. But, when w e look atf ceoni es in our vast colony, or rather assemb la g e North America, and see them THE SUN, LUINDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1860. so rapidly increasing in population, and wealth, and commerce, the question can but occur, will not this, or some future Prince of WALES, sustain a closer relation to the great colony than that of a visitor. If Her MAJESTY'S life be spared as .ong as her subjects hope it will, may not the nominal Prince of WALES become a real Prince of Canada, and be training for the administration of a free Empire by administering the affairs of a free colony ? Or, if it be thought that the heir ap parent to the Throne had better live in the midst of the central business of the Empire, may not some other member of the Royal Family become ,ho Viceroy of the North American Colonies ? And then other great colonies might be wishing :or similar honours; and, when the day of separa tion did arrive, which seems to become less and .ess thought of, or wished for by any party, then there would be the striking sight of the Anglo-Saxons, in different parts of the globe, united by similar institutions and ruled by members of the same family. We could almost wish the mother could have been spared to accompany the son. She, perhaps, herself might prefer that had nothing prevented. It would be far better than her ancestors running across, so often, to their little despotically governed State of Hanover. She would acquire no wrong tastes in her free colonies, and with what a burst of en thusiasm would her presence be greeted. Per haps, when the new eta of navigation, inau gurated by the Great Eastern, may have shortened, almost by half, the length of a voyage, and have relieved it of nearly all its discomforts, even a female Sovereign may be conveyed across the Atlantic in a floating palace, affording her as much accommodation as Bucking ham Palace itself. When the Great Eastern has taught us our lesson, we believe that the dangers, as well as the discomforts, of the deep will have been almost annihilated, and Royal voyages may then become both longer and more common. But our Prince is to visit a President. We hail with pleasure this event, too. Few Americans come to this country without acquiring some feel ing of respect, even of attachment, for our SOVE REIGN. They are, also, a people fond of honours from our aristocracy, though in theory averse to the thing. They wanted very much to have a " live Lord," as our Ambassador at Washington, even as one of the crowned heads of Europe had one of the same class. Why should not a " Lord" grace the Court of their PRESIDENT, as well as the Courts of Kings, Em perors, Czars, and Archdukes. They of Washing ton will be, we may be sure, highly delighted, and the great municipalities will hardly know how to exult enough. We hope they will one and all sub mit their addresses to the criticism of some friendly educated Englishman, or the poor young Prince will be in danger of having to outlive the reading of wordy scrolls of fustian, as long as a President's message in defence of the " domestic institution." But how will the PRINCE, young as he is, be able to forget that ugly fact—the domestic insti tution. Quitting the Canadian frontier, he will quite the land of the free, he will step into slave land—into the land whose courts of law pronounce that " the coloured man has no rights which the white man is bound to respect " into land, to any part of which the bloodhounds of slavery can follow the fugitive for freedom, and drag him back, guiltless of any crime but his birth, to " chains and slavery." Possibly he may not know enough of American politics to know what Mr. BUCHANAN is, and has been, as one of the last props of the hellish institution. He may not know how his treason to duty, how his frauds and violence through his select agents in Kansas, filled that territory with bloodshed and rapine; he may not know that Mr. BUCHANAN was the arch-filibuster of the Ostend conference, the proposer of the high wayman's policy in regard to Cuba, and that his hoary hairs are going down to the grave with the curses of more than three millions of men of like blood, of like relation to their Maker with himself, but on whom he has done his best to rivet his ac cursed chains for ever. While the Prince shakes hands with the President, can he forget that he takes the hand of a King of Slaves. A King who m refuses them all rights whatever. The Marchioness of Drogheda left town a few days since to join the noble marquis, who is on board his yacht at Kingstown. The noble marquis and marchioness purpose going on a cruise to Iceland shortly. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will receive a large party at Hatfield House to-day. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have left town to visit the family estates in Ireland. A marriage is arranged to take place between Mr. George Douglas Pennant, eldest son of Colonel the Hon. Douglas Pennant, M.P., and Miss Pamela Rushout, second daughter of Sir Charles Rushout, of Sezincote House, Gloucestershire. A marriage is also arranged between Colonel Charles Baring, of Crimean celebrity, and Miss Helen Graham, third daughter of the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Married, on Thursday last, at Great Marylebone Church, the Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill, second son of the Earl of Abergavenny, to Louisa Marianne, second daughter of Sir Charles Fitzßoy Maclean, Bart. The religious rite was celebrated by the Rev. Jacob Marshara, uncle of the bride. EXPORTS OF YARNS AND CALICOES.—There were exported from Hull in the month of May last 4,062,550 yards of plain and 3,091,263 yards of printed calicoes, 6,299,6881 b. of cotton yarns, 909,0431 b. of linen yarn, and 1,706,0891 b. of woollen and worsted yarn. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN VEGETABLES AND Fiturr.—There have bees imported into Hull within the last eight days 5,489 packages of potatoes, 12,553 packages of bilberries, 226 of gooseberries, 109 of carrots, 10,420 of cherries, 92 of cucumbers, 28 of onions, 1,175 of peas, 2 of cauliflowers, 57 of currants, and 258 of vegetables, and 375 of fruit unenumerated. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN.—Duty paid last week at Hull :—LII2 16s. on 2,256 qrs. of wheat; £145 16s. on 2,916 qrs. of barley ; £139 3s. on 2,783 qrs. of oats; £42 Is. on 841 qrs. of beans ; £69 3s. on 1,383 qrs. of peas ; 13 Ils: 3d. on 190 cwt. of wheat flour ; and 3s. 9d. on 10 cwt. of potato flour. DOCKYARD WORKMEN.—The number of artisans and labourers employed in the Royal dockyards, which was generally about 20,000 during the winter, has been under going a gradual reduction since February, and by the Ist of May was only 17,439. The Prefect of Police has issued an order inter dicting the playing of the game of billiards kuown by the name of Poule de Sebastopol" in the cafes of the depart ment of the Seine. MUSICAL TESTIMONIAL.—The officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Marines quartered at Woolwich, have presented a handsome silver testimonial to Mr. J. Smyth, the bandmaster of the corps, and his talented wife, a clever vocalist, as a slight testimony of their services at the concerts given weekly at the mess-room of the Artil lery by the officers to the gentry and their friends in the neighbourhood. Mr. Smyth was the conductor of the series of concerts, and his wife the principal vocalist.—Era. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS CHILD MURDER AT ROAD.—As stated in the Sun of Thursday, Elizabeth Gough, the nursemaid in the service of Mr. Kent, the father of the murd ere d c hild , was t a k en i n t o cus tody on Tuesday, on suspicion of b e i ng implicated in this foul out rage, and was remanded till yesterday. Our Bristol correspondent proceeded to Road on that day, but was informed by the magistrates engaged in the investigation of the case that for the present they were of opinion that the ends of justice would be frustrated by the publicatio n o f th e ev id e nce. A t n o a t r h Y eir resol u ti on to inquiries by the b representation was respectfully made to the Bench that many great crimes had been detected by means of the publicity ir g , i w v o e r n ship t s o con duct the investigation in private. At the same time the Rev. R. Crawley, one of the acting magistrates, expressed his desire that it should be stated that strong hopes are entertained that the measures which have been and still are being taken will lead to the conviction of the perpetrators of this unparalleled outrage. The prisoner, Elizabeth Gough, was taken from Irenbridge to Road yesterday, and aas present during p art of the magiste rial conference. A out of door very general impression of h er innocence exists s, and, in fact, one of the po lice engaged in the investiga tion of the case stated his be lief that there was nothing to warrant her detention. Up to the present time the magistrates have taken the statements of every inmate of Mr. Kent's house, with the exception of Mrs. Kent and one of the daughters of Mr. Kent by h is former wife. The reason for these exceptions is stated to b e that in the opi nion of the medical attendant of the family an examination of Mrs. Ke n t, who is at present near her con finement, might endanger her life and that of her offspri n g , and in the case of Miss Kent she is said to be of so exceedingly ' nervous a temperament as to be unable to undergo the or deal of a judicial examination on this distressingly painful sub ject, r ri . N E Vyr 1 1..44 k-) The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : GENOA, JULY 13. A despatch from Cagliari states that the Nea politan steam corvette " Neloce," six guns, had gone over to Garibaldi. NAPLES, JULY 11. Tranquillity still prevails. PALERMO, JULY 13, The new Ministry has been formed. Signor Interdonato, Amari, the historian, and Signor Errante are among the members. The corvette Veloco has entered into dock. TURIN, JULY 13. News from Naples to the 10th state that the King had summoned the former Camarilla. It was believed that those devoted to the old regime would be again called to power. The population was unquiet. Ships were being armed, and troops sent to Messina. Pianelli commanded the citadel, where an out break had taken place among the troops, a portion of whom shouted " Louis I. for ever," and others Francis 11. for ever." Twelve soldiers had been wounded. LYONS, JULY 14. The trial of the prisoners for the murder of three ladies has been terminated by the following judg ments :—Joannon, Chretien, and Deschamps have been condemned to death, the woman Deschamps has been discharged, and the woman Chretien con demned to six years' imprisonment. HAMBURG, JULY 14. In yesterday's sitting of the Commonalty of Citizens, the Constitution, as proposed by the Senate, and with the alterations already known, was adopted by 116 against 23. VIENNA, JULY 13. From the explanations furnished by the Minister of Finance to the Committee of the Budget of the Council of the Empire, it results that, were the hopes for the maintenance of peace to be confirmed, the Government would make fresh reductions in the effective of the army with a view of confining the expenses of the war department to 80 millions of florins. By this economy, which would amount to 20 millions in the budget of the current year, the Minister of Finance would have the certainty of being able to present an equilibrium in the budget for 1861. GENOA, bILY 13 , Advices from Palermo to the Bth inst. state that the Africa, which stopped at the port of Palermo on the night of the 7th, was obliged to leave it in half an hour by order of Garibaldi. Upon learning this the Ministry sent in their resignations, which were accepted. This example was followed by the other autho- rities. VIENNA, JULY 13. It is stated here that Austria will send two vessels to the coast of Syria. The King of Sweden will be crowned as King of Norway on the 20th of this month, at Drontheim, with great solemnity. All the corps dipiomatique will be present at the coronation. PARIS, JULY 13 The Patric asserts that the withdrawal of the project of law on the exportation of rags is spoken of. The Constitutionnel contains an article by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, against the false rumours which are current concerning the acts and intentions of the Emperor, and stating that a treacherous conspiracy is being plotted by the parties of the old regime. This article recals that the malignity of these parties is endeavouring to sow mistrust between France and England, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, and Italy, by attributing false designs to the Emperor, who would treat such inventions with contempt, had they not unhappily found too ready a credence in Europe, thus encouraging a distrust which is injurious to the progress of affairs. Both England and France have agreed that in consideration of the mission of Fuad Pacha to Syria they will for the present abstain from direct interference. THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. By extraordinary express, in anticipatioi of the overland mail, we have received letters and papers from Calcutta And China. The dates are—Calcutta, June 4; Hong Kong, May 23. The following is from the Bengal Hurkaru : Since we last wrote the opposition to the income tax has been becoming louder and more vitupera tive at Madras, showing that the grounds of oppo sition are daily discovered to be weaker. Indeed the great argumenc against the tax seems now to be, that if it is carried, Madras will lose Sir Charles Trevelyan, who, it is acknowledged by all, even by his own supporters,:must go if Mr. Wilson's schemes are to become law. On the 26th ultimo Mr. Wilson brought up the report of the select committee on the Income Tax Bill, which had greatly altered the machinery of assessment. The principles upon which it was framed remained the same, with but slight altera tion. Bombay, it is said, has remonstrated against its not having been consulted directly with regard to the plan of the tax, although the opinions of the Punjaub and other provinces were asked. It has been explained that it was unne cessary to consult Bombay, which was repre sented by its own member in the Legislative Coun cil, whereas the non-regulation provinces, such as Oude and the Punjaub, were not. The only ob jectionable part of the bill is the double in come tax upon persons possessing property in this country and residing in England, and vice versa. It will fall solely upon English traders and investors in the soil, funds, and produce of India, not upon natives or pensioners of the Indian Government, for the latter are expressly exempted. It is, therefore, impolitic, on the ground that it keeps English capital and enterprise out of India, instead of attracting these, which are confessedly the great wants of the country. A far seeing states manship would submit to a little loss at first on this account, in order to secure the infinitely greater benefits which would accrue from the encourage ment of the closer connection of the mother coon; try with India. We hope that Mr. Wilson may st yield on this point. In his speech Mr. Wilson said that he had the fullest support of the Governor- General, who will, we trust, be as obstinate in this case for good as he has always hitherto been for evil. At the meeting of the Legislative Council on Saturday, the 2d inst., Mr. Wilson presented the report on the bill for licensing of arts, trades, and professions, and stated that no material alteration had effected in the bill in committee, but an addi tion had been made to it of very great importance. It would be remembered that one of the means by which it was proposed to improve the revenues of India was a tobacco tax, but the Government at that time had reserved the consideration of the best manner of levying it. They have at last come to the conclusion that the wisest and best mode in which they can impose this tax, which will least interfere with trade, and will enable the revenue to be collected at the smallest expense to Govern ment will be by a license tax; Government has therefore thought it proper to add special clauses to the License Bill to effect this. The Lieutenant Governor continues to misgovern Kishnaghur, for in no other district do the indigo disturbances, raised by missionaries and magistrates, and fomented by the police, continue to exist. The reason why planters cannot sow there as they do in other places is because there Mr. Herschell is still magistrate, in spite of the remonstrances of the Indigo Planters' Association. His proceedings have throughout been marked by the greatest vacillation, but the tendency of all of them has been in favour of the insurgent ryots and against the planter. He is acting, we are in formed, under the direct inspiration of Mr. Grant himself, and is observed often to delay deciding a case before him until the Calcutta post comes in. He has given up issuing perwanahs, but Mr. Grant has taken to them instead. Two of the deputy magistrates who had been appointed under the Indigo Contracts Act have been removed after a month's trial for deciding, as Mr. Grant thinks, too much in favour of the ryot. The conse quence of all this is that one-fourth of the indigo land of Kishnaghur district is still unsown, and will not now be sown this season ; the gaol is full to over flowing ; planters are getting decrees at the rate of Rs. 23 a beegah against refractory ryots in satisfac tion of which they are selling their houses and cattle for a third or a fourth of their true value, and all parties, both planters and ryots, are being ruined. In the neighbouring districts, thanks to the energy and good sense of the magistrates, all is quiet, and the plant has been sown as usual. Meanwhile the Indigo Commission is sitting. Three of the mi.Qionaries, Messrs. Schwa-, Lincke, and Bromsweth, who have been the chief source or all the accusations of oppression and outrage against the planters, have been examined, and the result has been that they have brought forward scarcely anything but hearsay evidence. There is no doubt that much good will issue from the appointment of this Commission, which is proving, what Mr. Hal liday long ago said it would prove, the wretched state of our courts and police. If these are remedied, and the power of extortion from both planter and ryot possessed by the zemindar fully understood and prevented, the " system," as it has been called, will be much improved. We hope, however, that the report will be better drawn up than that of the colonisation committee of the House of Com mons, which has failed to produce any effect, though that committee had at its disposal much more evi dence of the rottenness of the courts and police than the indigo commission has yet elicited. But, with Messrs. Seton-Karr and Temple on the com mission, we are sure that its report will at least be readable. By the mail of the 3d of May from England we learn that the European portion of the Indian army is to be reduced to 60,000. We trust that before such reduction is made a large number of native troops may be dispensed with, and the new taxes may be working easily. Those who cry " peace, peace," in India just now cannot read the signs of the times. Lord Clyde, who cautiously, surely, and quietly did the work which was entrusted to him, instead of, like Lord Gough, imperilling India by his rash ness in a single battle, goes home with a reputation which will be done justice to by history, however much it may now be dimmed by the froth and foam raised by some who seek to pander to the worst pas sions of the Indian army, by imputing to him an ex pression which he denies that he ever made use of, and which, even if he had, might easily be explained in such a way as to obtain the acquiescence of those whom it is supposed to have so much reflected on. Lord Clyde has done nothing to forfeit the respect with which his character has been hitherto regarded, and he will receive that approval and reward which he merits from a Queen and country who appealed to him in their hour of danger, and whose appeal he so immediately and readily responded to. What , ever faults may be imputed to him were not his own. Sir Hugh Rose, who succeeds to Lord Clyde, has arrived at Calcutta. He is succeeded at Bombay by General Mansfield. The money market still continues abundant. On the Ist inst. the Bank of Bengal again reduced its rates 1 per cent. all round. Business is so dull of all kinds that the inland Ganges steamers are directing their attention to the Berhampooter and Assam from pure lack of freight. 51- per Cent. Paper is at 3-12 pm., 5 per Cents. 3-4 dis., 4 per Cents 16-8 dis. Freights, £3 2s 6d to £3 10s. Exchange, 2s id to 2s Id. CHINA. The Overland China Mail (Hong-Kong, May 23), says : Sir Hope Grant still remains in Hong-Kong, but preparations are making for his departure north ward on the 30th of this month. Ganeral Sir Robert Napier has already 4eft. The continued delay of Lord Elgin excites dis appointment ; and it seems doubtful whether mili tary operations can effect much, or almost any thing, this year. A great part of the British force is in movement for Chusan, where it is supposed 'that it is to rendezvous. The French force is re ported to be about to rendezvous at Che-foo, on the coast of Shan-tung and in the Gulf of Pechelee; and there will be also a station for British stores and troops on the opposite side of the Gulf. It is whispered that Sir Hope Grant may, perhaps, oc cupy Tien-tsin before he attempts to take the Taku forts. No apparent change has occurred in the position of diplomatic affairs, except that Kweiliang has been made senior guardian to the heir apparent, and it is rumoured that another Mantehu of high rank has been appointed to deal with foreign affairs. A confidential correspondent, in a position to obtain good information, writes to us :—" The reports I get from Pekin are to the effect that the defences of the Taku forts are very substantial, and that the Chinese have been practising in gunnery till they fire with great precision." This is borne out by a visit of H.I.M.S. Forbin to the Gulf of Pechelee, which has reported that an extensive line of fortifications has been erected on the banks of the Peiho from its mouth upwards. It also appears from the Pekin Gazette that trenches Or rifl e pits are to be used by the Chinese, and from their own invention. If an attempt is made to take the Taku forts there will doubtless be some hard fighting ; and we are not altogether convinced that even the present force (weakened as it is by the consciousness of a bad cause) will be able to take them. What the effects of another effectual resistance at Taku woull be at the ports cannot be surmised. At present the prevailing sentiment at Canton is clearly in favour of peace, among officers and people, residents of the city and of the country. The island of Chusan has been placed in charge of an allied commission, composed of Mr. Hughes, of her Majesty's consular service, - M. de Merhens, attach 6 to the French legation, and Captain Gritfon, Royal Marines. They have published proclamations, inti mating their authority, and forbidding any one to establish himself at Ting-hai without their per mission. We are sorry to have to report that the rebels in the Canton province have again been successful, the money for buying them up having not been forth coming on the day it was promised. They imme diately attacked a force of mandarin soldiers, and killed or took prisoners 500 of them, together with a number of war boats. Troops have been ordered up to meet them from another part of the province ; Ibut before these can arrive the marauders may commit much injury, and they have already de stroyed some of the new tea. There are thousands of refugees in Canton from the disturbed districts, and both Chinese and foreign merchants have come forward to their relief. in the North also the rebels have obtained some success. They have forced the Imperialists to raise the siege of Nanking, have captured much of their arms, and have compelled them to disperse. At Swatow, Mr. M'Cann, a European in the Chinese customs service, has been murdered by six Cantonese carpenters, who attacked him with their axes, and quickly dispatched him. It is said that this act was perpetrated in revenge for his having enforced the duty on some opium in which they were concerned. _ _ _ There is no change to notice either in our com mercial or political relations with the Chinese Em pire. Business, usually dull at this season, this year displays unwonted inactivity. In Hong Kong the amount of business during the fortnight has been on a very limited scale. A large amount of business has been transacted in Exchange for the outgoing mail. Government requirements having put about £400,000 of 30 days' sight Treasury Bills on the market, they were taken at 4s. 94d. to 4s. 10d. against Mexican or South American dollars weighed at tls. 7.1.7. Bank paper has been sold as high as 4s. 10d. Closing prices, however, do not rule higher than 4s. Ned. to 4s. 91d. First-class Bills are quoted 4s. 91d. to 4s. 10d. Bombay and Calcutta rule alike rs. 27.8 to 229 per 100 dols. Sycee, 6 per cent., and Bar Silver, 8 per cent. prem. Gold Leaf, 23 dols. 35e. In Canton, business is in a most unsatisfactory condition, in consequence of the gradual approach and reported successes of the insurgents. Exchange was firm at 6 7 for bank bills, 6 8 for first-class credits, and 6 81 for paper with documents at tached. The tendency was, if anything, down ward. Contrary to the general rule, Shanghae Exchange will no doubt be influenced by the Hong Kong market, owing to Government operations here, and from all accounts the downward tendency noticed was only arrested by accounts of extreme firmness in Canton. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 13. The following is the account of the Bank o France for the month ending Thursday, July 12 : DEBTOR. July. June. F. C. F. C. Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0 Ditto, New .'... .. . Profits in addition to Capi tal (Art. 8, Law of June 9, 1857) 1,510,527 65 1,510,527 65 Reserve of the Bank , New Reserve Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0 Notes in circulation 787,406,325 0 743,938,925 0 Bank-notes to order..... 7,262,436 56 7, 156,289 20 Receipts payable at sight 11,311,458 0 11,167,805 0 Treasury account current creditor Sundry accounts current 197,641,945 63 209,651,926 63 Ditto with branch banks 32,620,057 0 39,380,995 0 Dividends payable 5 ,46 6, 766 7 5 564,624 75 Discts. sundry interests 5,852,723 54 1,964,755 21 Commission on deposits 1,574,190 40 10,123,34 5 13 Re-discounted the last six months Surplus on bills overdue 625 73 29,571 93 Sundries Total 1,391,932,438 97 1,365,350,135 23 CREDITO% June. July. Cash in hand Cash in the branch banks. 372,958,946 0 378,150,114 0 Commercial bills overdue. 459,617 9 217,284 63 Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 221,783,352 16 200,293,618 88 Do. in the branch banks 270,157,075 0 237,470,680 0 Advanced on deposit of bullion. Do. by the branch banks 2,564,700 0 1,949,100 0 2,538,300 0 1,313,700 0 Do. on Fronchpublic secu rities Do. by the branch banks 14,872,000 0 14,486,400 0 Do. on railway securities 93,182,400 0 79,062,200 0 Do. by the branch banks 28,884,450 0 29,138,550 0 Do. on Cr6dit Foncier Scrip 630,400 0 593,300 0 Do. on branch banks Scrip 433,100 0 294,300 0 Do. to the State on agree ment of June 30, 1848 35,000,000 0* 40,000,000 0 overn. stock reserved 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Hotel and num. of Bank Landed property of branch banks 6,388,548 0 6,394,172 0 Expenses of management 171,352 47 1,924,407 22 Sundries Relates Immobilisees (law of 9 June, 1857) Total 1,391,982,438 97 1,365,350,135 23 ---- * Difference from last statement, five millions, BOURSE, July 13.—The market still remains with very little business doing ; but Threes are firm at 69. The following are the last quotations per per Cents ... 07 25 Credit Foncier 873 75 Do end month.... Belgian 4i, 97 5 0 3 per Cents Do. end mcnth 69 15 Roman .......... 50 79 25 Bank Shares 2800 Austrian ........ Credit Mobilier 713 75 Spanish Threes.... 48 Do. Account 713 50 Home Debt ...... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1370 .. 1373 75 Northern New ditto BB2 50 .. 880 Lyons and Mediterranean 897 50 .. 807 50 Geneva ......... • • 38) Southern Western .. Eastern Sardinian 403 75 .. 402 50 Austrian Lombard THE RELIEF OF LUCKNO TV. Painted by T. J. BARKER. Before the exhibition of this important and na , tional picture shall have closed—while it is yet on view for a limited period longer at the iittle gal lery (No, 5, Waterloo-place), whither it has during the past few months attracted crowds of admiring spectators—we would earnestly recommend every lover of high art and of the loftiest heroism whi may not yet have seen this remarkable painting, to visit the Messrs. Agnews' Gallery betimes, and cast one glance, however fleeting, at Mr. Barker's unquestiondule masterpiece. It is impossible, we conceive, for even the most phlegmatic amongst us to look without profound emotion at this affecting representation of the crowning incident in the suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion. The distinguished artist, Mr. Jones Barker, has often before now demonstrated his abilities. The eminent art-publishers, the Messrs. Agnew and Sons, of Manchester, have often shown their enterprise. But, in the present instance, it is no exaggeration whatever to assert that both artist and art-publishers have altogether surpassed them selves. The commission received by the painter from the publishers was in itself somewhat extraordi nary. It was nothing less than the portraiture, upon a grand scale, of that ever-memorable occurrence which at length brought to its historic climax the tragie events of our avenging war against the Ben gal mutineers. This incident was the final Relief of Lucknow on the 17th of November, 1857, when there met under the walls of the mess-house so many of the lat..n typoo ef our Amglo-Sason Chivalry ! In the background of the picture the deadly contest be tween the royal troops and the sepoy rebels is still raging—though the triumph of the English is already virtually accomplished. The domes and pinnacles of the stately buildings of Lucknow, the minarets of the Chuter Munsil, and the Kaiser bagh, lend to the scene here depicted all the charms and graces of oriental architecture. Glimpses are caught too, here and there, of the noble and beautiful luxuriance of tropical vegetation. The radiance of the eastern sunlight suffuses the whole of the gorgeous and picturesque spec tacle. Elephant, and camel, and war-horse— the tawny Hindoo, the fantastic Sikh, and the blue-eyed and fair-haired Englishman, grouped together in the foreground impart a sin gular diversity to the whole of this most strik ing pictorial representation. As for the interest excited in the beholder's mind —in order to form some adequate notion of its inten sity, it is only requisite to bear in mind what is the actual incident he here depicted. It is tha meeting upon that famous 17th of Novem ber of Havelock, and Outram, and Campbell. Sir Colin (now Lord Clyde) has just—at the most critical juncture—brought relief at last to the beleaguered city, having fought his way thither (to the rescue) at the head of his heroic little army all the way from Allumbagh. He is grasping the hand of Sir Henry Havelock, who, worn, and pale, and haggard, has rushed forward to meet his comrade, to give him in that simple hand grasp the friend's welcome and the soldier's greeting. Within three days, recollect, from that moment of their meeting Havelock died under the effects of absolute exhaustion ! And as Sir Colin stands there (in profile), with his head uncovered, look ing with melancholy interest into the pale face of that dauntless brother-in-arms he has hastened to aid in his last extremity, he seems almost to be gazing upon HaTelockthrough a mournful presen timent. Between them—lifting his cap to the old Highland chief, and betraying in the action the broad brow and inflexible aspect of the Bayard of the Anglo-Indian army—stands Sir James Outram, who has but just been conducted from the Residence to the place of meeting, under the walls of the Mess-house, by Kavanagh ! Upon ' one side of this central group appears Lord Chelmsford's son-in-law, the brave Sir John Inglis—upon the other is Mansfield. These two are exchanging animated signs of mutual recognition. Near the latter, tightening the girth of his grey charger and at the same time looking round at the cluster of warrior chieftains, is the Hon. Adrian Hope, the very beau ideal of a hand some young soldier Englishman. Between Hope and Mansfield, half in shadow, but instantly recognisable if only from the resemblance of his features to those of his illustrious father, Sir Robert, one marks with a painful inte rest the youthful leader of the naval brigade so soon to perish prematurely in the midst of his early fame, Captain Sir William Peel, R.N., K.C.B. Seated some of them on horseback, standing others among them on foot, are Greathead and Norman, Roberts and Alison, Russell and Baird, Hope Grant, and Patrick Stewart. Yonder is the Syce holding the white Arab of the Commander-in-Chief— the Syce himself clad in his grass - green shoulder cloth and his rich crimson cummer bund. Further back are other portraits—not yet particularized. There is Probyn, there Watson, there Johnstone, each of them mounted, and ar rayed in the uniform of the Indian irregulars. Pro minently in the foreground—to the right as we look at the picture is stretched at full length a wounded Highlander with a comrade bending over him, helping a bheestee to squeeze water from one of the skins over the cadaverous brow of the wounded—while to the left is a motley group in the midst of which are seen some ferocious Asiatics fighting over loot with the fury of so many fiends, a cam.3l screaming close beside them from the an guish of a gunshot wounds. As a work of art, Mr . Barker's Picture of the Relief of Lucknow is emi nently beautiful. As an authentic record -upon can vas—thanks to the numerous original sketches take pro'a e upon the spot by Mr. ,Lundgren—of a s!; ene er o f t e found historical interest, the painting .ruprnalsus reliable. Our contemporary the re, on gested last month that the original picr should be purchased view at 5, Waterloo-place, trust that this ad , for the nation. Very heartily tmhierambeleansutzesNtvieoncamnacyo' civiganitiyuv'a'eolly b . e realised. In suggestion o ffer our congratu co.rn.mpleet,i,on_of this great lations upon the successful work to the eminent artisti and_ am.auanri.a munificent Jones Barker, and to the enterprising from whom the comm i ss ionw ,h a rm s o rec a eived, the well known firm of the Messrs. S Agnew and Sons, of Manchester. WORSHIP- STREET POLICE• COURT.—M r.. J ohn y Henr Barker has been appointed to the office o f magis trate a t the Worship - street court, in the room of Mr. D'Eyncouri. LITERATURE. BENTLEY'S STANDARD NOVELS. Rita : an Autobiography. New Edition. It is very agreeable to fi:-Al this superior fiction included in Mr. Bentley's list of cheap books. The story is very interesting, and there is a vast amount of talent displayed in the delineations and descrip tions throughout. The whole work is far better than the usual run of novels, and it was well received at the time of its appearance, besides having since been extensively circulated in the libraries about the country, where it is a general favourite. Rita is a charming heroine. She exer cises a peculiar fascination over us from the period of the first of her reminiscences until the last of them. She tells us "my very earliest recollection of home is the fourth storey of a house in a dusky street in Paris. We moved afterwards to a brighter apartment near the Champs Elysees, but it is with this gloomy abode that the first joys and sorrows of my childhood are associated." This was a typi cal dwelling, for until we take leave of her the unhappy maiden is beset with cares and environed by difficulties. But she possessed a brave spirit and a trusting heart. She would fight on, though the struggle was so great that it might have over whelmed any one much less a young girl; and at last she triumphed over her enemies, and was able to rest in the evening after a hard day's toil. The interest of the story becomes most exciting when, after her mother's death, Rita is surrounded by snares and pitfalls. Well might her poor mother have shuddered on her deathbed at the prospect before her child. She however took hope at last, and said to her daughter, "I think God will not let you come to harm, dearest Rita, if you ask Him." In this blessed assurance she passed away. " Her cold hand lay in mine, and her face was towards that glorious sun that was breaking in the eastern sky." Her wretched husband returned when his unhappy victim was removed from the misery of enduring his insults, and bearing the torments he inflicted upon her. He had written to say he should return when all fear of infection was over, and as Rita was arranging the bed of death the door was thrown open suddenly, "My father, covered with dust, stood before me. Curse these servants. I've been ringing for an hour. What does it mean ? I'll have them all—why, what's the matter—where, where is your mother ?' I drew back the shroud. There she lies at rest, and beyond this world's cruel wrongs." The grief which the reprobate man felt was soon over, and he recommenced a course which plunged his daughter into a state of misery which could not have been excelled. The passage which relates the flight of Rita, and her subsequent desertion of Lord Rawdon, is most ex citing, and quite of the old school of romance. Doubtless, in her fitful life, Rita made many mis takes and committed many errors ; but, on the whole, she comported herself in a manner not often witnessed in such trying scenes, and she might congratulate herself at last on having passed through such fiery ordeals unscathed, and having surmounted such apparently insuperable obstacles. This tale is vividly related throughout ; there is a spirit and an energy infused into its pages which joined to the striking events recorded, and the skill with which many of the dramatis persona are sketched, renders it a prize for those who seek in the lottery of the libraries for something enter taining. There is little doubt that many will like to obtain a permanent possession of so delightful a, work, and therefore its cheap republication pro mises to be a valuable appearance. .0 The Oldest of the Old World, By Sophia May Eckley. Bentley. The record of a lady's wanderings amid the ruins of Thebes and Memphis, or even through the streets of Jerusalem, and by the desolate shores of the Dead Sea, present little positive novelty in these adventurous and stirring times. Still, it is never totally uninteresting to meet with a fresh and simply-written account of a traveller's impressions when first visiting the scenes and localities ennobled and consecrated by history, sacred and profane, by the memories of the great ones of old, and by the masters of song, in whose verse their names and deeds have been recorded. The route taken by our authoress was one which offered the greatest at tractions to a cultivated and intelligent mind, stored with the recollections of the past. Starting from Leghorn, and passing by Naples, Pompeii, and Sicily, the travellers paused at Malta, visited the Cathedral and the Library of the Knights, and the other curiosities of the island. Thence they proceeded to Cairo, and explored the marvels of Egypt; afterwards travelling through the Holy Land, an account of which occupies a g ood share of the volume. Constantinople, Rhodes, and Athens formed part of their homeward journey, and at the conclusion of six months they were once more in Italy, having visited " the oldest of the Old World" in that brief interval of time. The work is written in a clear and easy style, and the strong religious convictions of the author cause her to in troduce reflections drawn from the sacred writings, which will render her work all the more attractive to a large number of our readers. There is nothing very new or striking in the volume, as it tells an often-told tale, but it is especially suited for young people, to whom it offers an agreeable mixture of pleasant reading and historical information. THE MADRAS IRRIGATION COMPANY. The Cotton Supply Association have addressed the following memorial to the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Batt., M.P., &c., her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council : " Sheweth—That the correspondence between the Secre tary of State for India in Council, and the Madras Irriga tion and Canal Company, subsequent to the presentation of their former memorial to the Secretary of State for India in Council, on the 16th day of April last, regarding the pro posal made by that company to raise, in England, sufficient capital to construct throughout the Province of Orissa and the adjacent territories, works of irrigation and means of water transport, has been brought to the notice of your memorialists, who have given to the same the most careful consideration. " That, looking to the extensive natural capabilities of the territories in question, for producing a large and con tinuous supply of cotton to this country, if provided with the proposed works ; and consislering, also, the important and additional fact that such works will, when executed, form the most convenient and advantageous outlet to the coast for the produce of other districts notoriously adapted to the growth of that article, your memorialists view with considerable interest the proceedings of a company seeking, without material aid from Government to open up to the consumers of cotton in England a field of future supply of so large and so promising a character ; and they respect fully, but firmly, submit that it is of vital importance that the most prompt and liberal encouragement and sup port should be freely given by Government to such an enterprise, not only on account of its own peculiar merits, but because its success will inevitably be the means of attracting to the rapid and complete development of the resources of India, and the consequent benefit of England, the surplus capital of the latter country ; and by thus securing the social and material welfare of the former, create firm and lasting feelings of loyalty on the part of the native population, based upon their prosperity and contentment. " That their perusal of the correspondence before ad verted to, has produced in the minds of your memorialists feelings of deep regret and disappointment, inasmuch as they cannot view the reference of the Govern ment of India at Calcutta, therein proposed, for the pur pose of transferring to that distant authority negotiations which have already taken up4nuch time in this country, and should be concluded here, otherwise than unnecessary —productive, at best, of indefinite delay, and calculated to check if not wholly prevent the future flow of British capi tal into India; for it is manifest that English promoters and directors of undertakings for the improvement of that country, will not, at their own expense and risk, enter into an uncertain negotiation to be carried on by the unsatisfac tory medium of written correspondence, and to resu lt o nly a s . e terms in an arrangement with a subordinate and distant portion of the Government, upon which it would be unsafe to at. tempt to raise capital in this country. c "That your memorialists submit that thes which the Secretary of State for India in Council has, 'after f u l to consideration, suggested as fit and proper form the basis of an arrangement with the Madras such the that company, and as they are willing to procur necessary funds nor necessary that such thereon, it is neither desirable delayed, much ar rangement should be further less than the • whole matter should be re-opened and rediscussed between that company in England and the Government of Calcutta in the mode proposed, the more especially as the only item of such term s in respect of which it can b e cons i • dered essential that local knowledge should be brought ro per settlement, to bear for its roper 1- Will even then be left for the derision of the Legislative Council at Calcutta. And your memori alists are informed that the fullest information, - reg arding the views of the whole of the local authorities in India., upon the general question of entrusting to private companies works of irrigation, is now in possession of her majesty's Government. That your memorialists are firmly persuaded that it is no t only for the good of India, but also to the direct pecu niary interest of Government that the works now under consideration should be forthwith carried out by private enterprise, and that it is wholly impossible for the former to undertake their construction without prejudice to those other works, for the speedy execution of which they now stand pledged, and irrespective of numerous projects of great magnitude urgently required for the general govern ment and advancement of the country. " Your memorialists therefore most respectfully pray, "That the Right Honourable Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council will forthwith conclude with the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company an arrange ment for the construction by the latter of works of irriga tion and water transit in the province of Orissa, and adja cent districts, based upon the terms which have been mutually considered proper for that purpose without referring the same to the Government of India at Calcutta, and, " That he will also afford to such company every encou ragement and support necessary to enable them to carry out those important works with success. " And your memorialists will ever pray, &c. " Signed at a meeting of the Executive Committee held at the offices of the Cotton Supply Association, Manches ter, on Tuesday, July 10, 1860. _ " JOITN difEETHAM, President, "EDMUND ASHWORTH, Vice-President, "G. R. HAYWOOD, Secretary." 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