The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-13 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. Great Success. The New Comedy of EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Dirs. A. Mellon (late Miss Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon, Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, E. Falconer, and Barrett, EVERY EVENING. To conclude with the New Farce, entitled TOO MUCH FOR GOOD NATURE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Kate Saxon. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NOTHING TO NURSE ; Mr. Swan borough, Mrs. Selby. After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c. Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss 31. Oliver and )Ir. Parselle. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Miss E. Wilton. Cot:menet., at 7 o'clock. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY ,EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance -of - Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dm, viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Direetor, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce that in the month of October, A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con nexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 12. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 71—highest since noon yesterday.: 66—lowest this morning and during the night. 74—this day at noon. BAROMETER-4017. WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with very fine hot weather. SEPT. 13. 76—highest since noon yesterday. 66—lowest this morning and during the night. 75—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30' 14. WIND, South-Westerly; light and clear. Between four and five months, in all human probability, must still elapse before the commence ment of the next Parliamentary session, before her MAJESTY'S Ministers are again brought face to face with her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Defeated and ' dispirited though the leaders of the Opposition were at the close of the last session, both in the Lords and in the Commons.4but particularly in the Commons—let the Cabinet of Lord DERBY rest perfectly well assured that those chagrined and discomfited leaders will begin the next session hopefully and eagerly on the " look-out" for the very first favourable opportunity. With them the recess will really and actually have been a time of leisure—a veritable long vacation in the fullest sig nificance of the words—a period of uninterrupted repose, during which their energies will have been revived, and their more sanguine anticipations re kindled. Meanwhile, as a thing quite inevitable, Ministers will have been all this autumn and winter, or, at any rate, during a principal part of it, fretted, worried, kept always more or less in a feverish state of anxiety by the toils and cares in separable from the office of administrators. A select few may be will have intermittently enjoyed rare and brief intervals of leisure—like that secured by the President of the Board of Trade through his " run" upon the continent immediately after the prorogation. But the majority of the Cabinet must by necessity be kept hard at work throughout the principal part of the recess, each over the perpetu ally accumulating papers of his own particular department. Solicitous in every way to acquit himself to the very best of his power of his supremely responsible duties as Prime Minister, the Earl of DERBY, it will be remembered, took betimes a residence so conveniently near to London that it might almost be called suburban ; at any rate, so agreeably contiguous to the seat of government that it involved no toilsome journeying 3 to and fro between dusty, brick-built Downing-street and the green country side. The FOREIGN SECRETARY might Possibly have enjoyed some momentary relaxation by going to Cherbourg one while and immediately kfterwards by proceeding up the Rhine another — but that all the while he was directly in the centre of the vortex of the wearisome whirl of Court etiquette. Having been involved in the same maelstrom of pomps and ceremonies in Warwick shire, the HOME SECRETARY, after evading the same giddy country dance of loyalty and royalty down at Leeds, is fated to relieve his chief of the courtly task of participating in the tedium of regal life at Balmoral. Meanwhile the COLONIAL SEC RETARY has, of all the thirteen Ministers of the Crown, been the most sedulously occupied in keep ing the government of his•sixty proconsulates well "in hand," besides bearing the additional strain upon his energies consequent upon the self-made necessity of organising ab initio the complicated ma chinery of his new colony of British C o l um bi a 31'otwithstanding the happy maintenance of perfect European tranquillity, the SECRETARY for WAR has had enough to do all this while in noting from afar off the closing of the Chinese struggle, and watching the progress of Lord CLYDE'S erratic endeavours to crush out the smouldering fire of the Indian rebellion, in being constantly prepared for any emergency nearer home by reason of the fanaticism here and there along the coasts of the Levant of various tribes of Mahometans—labo riouslv impecting at intervals all the while the barracks and depots of the army, with a view to their economic and sanitary reorganisation. Th e recently sworn-in fifth Secretary of State, the SECRETARY for INDIA, has had enough to do in the earlier stage of his ministerial labours—having, with a view to their more successful and tho rough accomplishment, vacate d his temporary abode as President of the hoard of Con trol, and afterwards as Commissioner for the affairs of Hindostan, at Cannon-roiv, to assume his place resolutely upon the vacant throne of JOHN COM.YANY, in Leadenhall-street, wielding from that Point, in th© name of his SovtnEiGN, the sceptre Me bid in the grasp, now of 4 --URITNGZEBE, now of TAXERLANE. The First Lord of the Admiralty, on his part, has been, according to the state of Pe 1 1 ( , • M 4 4, °AN '.. ; ll k *ar- .411 ;4 3 . 01, 4 4 0 , '44.11116L "Sr • ~/ .. N4 .7 ' •M 0 S Y;)7. ra , MO 3 ' . N., THE SUN. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1858. L O NDON &NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. 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CHARLES KEAN'S FAREWELL SEASON, as Manager of the ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, will commence on SATURDAY, the 2nd Oct. next, and conclude on Saturday, the 30th July. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, and Farren ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Ferea Nena. Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. weather, kept more or less agreeably or annoyingly upon shipboard, as a sailor-landsman, visiting ports, harbours, dockyards, and breakwaters, upon the old annual tour of inspection—with n episodical excursion in the train of her MAIESTY and his Royal Highness, during the visit P. id to her Im perial ally (France) by the Commons on board the Pera, and to our Imperial ally (the Emperor of 'FRANCE) by the QUEEN, on board the Victoria and Albert. The Lord Chancellor has been enabled I (only, however, provokingly enough at the close 'C'f of the hot season), to relieve himself of his ermiued robes and ambrosial wig, and to vacate his scat on the woolsack—the mere name of which is produe- ' tive of a sense of suffocation, at periods when the mercury is at very high degrees of Fahrenheit. The Chief Commissioner of Parks and Palaces has, we may be quite sure, according to custom, received from engineers and architects a variety of new plans, ground plans, sectional plans, and so forth, suggestive of nothing less than a perfect chaos of improvements. While the Chancellor of the Ex chequer has been worried, off and on, continually (also according to custom) by reference to him from one or other of the various administrative departments—amusing himself as best he may aver the bank-notes and halves of bank-notes sent to him by letters of the alphabet afflicted with. tender consciences. Such have been, or are among, the doings of her MAJESTY'S Ministers during the long vacation—the Lord Privy Seal having little or nothing to tease himself with officially, and the President of the Council, no Council over which to preside. It is to be hoped, however, that one and all of the members of the Cabinet will find time, before the turn of the year, to prepare themselves for the more serious work before them in the next L session of Parliament. IN addition to the Indian intelligence which ap peared in THE SUN of Saturday, another telegram was received at the India House at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, which will be found in another part of our impression this day. It gives more fully the information which we had previously published. It is almost needless to say that it is of a very satis factory character. Indeed, the rebellion has been so completely crushed, and the British supremacy so thoroughly vindicated, that the insurgents scarcely dare to resist an organised attack, however great the numerical odds in their favour. Should they venture to make a stand, they are invariably defeated with terrible loss of life, and, what is even more fatal to their hopes, of cannon and ammuni tion. Our officers and men have nobly maintained the British honour under circumstances of extensive difficulty. Every impediment was boldly encoun tered and successfully surmounted, every obstacle swept away by the conquering heroes. Meeting the enemy in the field was the least part of the danger. It was the indefatigable activity, under a burning sun and an adverse climate, with garments and accoutrements little suited for the task, that occa sioned the chief loss. The authorities at the Horse Guards were more formidable than their Indian opponents. The English dress was more fatal than the steel and lead of the mutineers. On Saturday we stated that " Sir HOPE GRANT had relieved Azimghur and occupied Fyzabad, where he was joined by MAUN SING." It now appears that he arrived at the latter town on the 29th July, " just in time to see the last boats of the rebels crossing the river." No opposition was attempted at Fyzabad, or anywhere along the route. The terrible lessons of British prowess had not been lost on the rebels, and they would not ven ture on a pitched battle, no matter how great the object to be attained. The Rajah, MAUN SING, who had so long temporised, and who, in the true " Vicar of Bray" spirit, was anxious to co-operate with the winning side, had been latterly assailed by the rebels, who distrusted the neutrality he professed. It would not, of course, answer - to permit even a doubtful auxiliary to be victimised. The example would be of vast consequence in Oudc, where there arc many zemindars and chiefs of the MAuN SING character, ready to join us if assured of ade quate protection and support, and unwilling, what ever may be their personal or private feelings, to array themselves against what they are convinced must eventually be the winning side. The devoted endurance displayed by our soldiers— we speak not merely of bravery, where all were brave, but the indefatigable exertion, the indomit able energy displayed, the rapid pursuit, which taught the insurgents that there was no rest for them—was of vast importance. It completed the conquest, established and increased the prestige acquired by these very men on the field of stricken fight, or in the daring escalade on quasi im pregnable. fortifications, garrisoned by ten times the number of the assailants. We cannot, perhaps, blame MAUN SING for his tardy adhesion to our cause. He wished to be assured not only that we would ultimately triumph, but also that we would enable him to sustain himself in his stronghold against any force that the Begum, or KOOR SING or his adherents, could bring against him and his posses sions. There was no great heroism displayed, but perhaps he acted as well as could reasonably be expected, and he certainly did not wait for the ter mination of the contest to offer his friendly pro fessions. His refusal to join our opponents brought their wrath on his head. He was seriously threat ened, and might have been placed in a very unpleasant position, but for the promptitude and energy displayed by Sir HOPE GRANT and his brave associates. On the 30th July, the day after the occupation of Fyzabad, he formally joined our ranks with his.followers. After that the merchants opened their shops and everything went on in accor dance with the ordinary routine during the piping times of peace at Fyzabad. The fort of Bypore was abandoned bs its garxison on the approach of Colonel BERKELEY'S column, and was being destroyed. g A supplementary message gives very satisfactory accounts of General ROBERTS'S progress. It had been stated that he was moving so as to cover Nusseerabad and Ajmcre. It is now reported that he came up with the Gwalior rebels, ten miles from " Nathwabya" (?), a palpable mistake of name, probably intended for Nus seerabad, or some place in its vicinity, and defeated them with heavy loss in killed, taking also their four guns and four ammunition waggons —the British'ca.sualties being few. A British steamer, the Burhampooter, had been fired at from the Oude bank of the Ganges, near Doondera, and at Kallikunkur. A party of military police under Captain DONNELY, however, promptly avenged the insult, and taught the rebels that such tricks were not to be ventured on with impunity. The police, it is said, behaved remarkably well. Several of their number were wounded, while thirty-one of the rebels were killed. This is the phase which the war (!) has now assumed. It will be speedily little more than an affair of police—having to encounter only fugitive parties of brigands and bandits, capable of doing although not of eff ec ti ng any act of political much mis chief, importance. We commented on Saturday on the news from China. It is no w only essential to enforce th e con ditions that bate bleu extortg frowthe Prother Of the Sun and Moon, and to ascertain that they are fully and fairly carried into execution. The de parture of Lord ELGIN and Baron GROS for Japan is the strongest evidence that every difficulty has been satisfactorily arranged. They are not the men to quit their posts while anything remaile , to be accomplished. THE , ROYAL COMMISSION AT PETER , . HEAD. , (From the Peterhead Sentinel.) As will be seen from our report, the Royal Com mission held their sittings at Peterhead on Tuesday and Wednesday last, in the Town-hall. The court was an open one, and many availed themselves of the opportunity of witnessing the interesting pro ceedings. At the council table were seated. the commissioners, and beyond them in the body of the hall were the witnesses. These latter attracted the marked attention of a spectator. Most of them were above the middle age—hardy, weather-beaten tars—the elite of the master mariners of the east coast of Scotland. Two or three Prussian and Norwegian ship captains completed the tale of witnesses. No one who sat for an hour in the council-hall, carefully noting the pro ceedings, but must have been struck with the dignified, impartial, yet frank withal, bearing of the commission. We have said on a former occasion that some on the commission were biassed in favour of a particular place ; that bias on Tuesday and Wednesday was sedulously . concealed. The evidence of the • witnesses was given with out hesitancy, forwardness, or shuffling. They evidently believed every word they uttered— they spoke from their convictions and experience. Although it is natural 'to suppose that those witnesses, natives of Peterhead, would strain, according to their temperament, in favour of their own locality, yet we are satisfied that they gave their testimony with as much impartiality in favour of Peterhead, as they were listened to by those commissioners whose foregone opinions we knew were in favour of Wick. Many of the witnesses from a distance were men of reputation, and known at the Admiralty. We mention them to show the weight of evidence. There was Captain Cargill, who managed his ship with so much credit during that terrible winter in the Black Sea, and had been honoured to pilot the Queen from London to Aberdeen. There was Cap tain Brock, presently shipping master at Aberdeen; Captain A. Hepburn, one of the town-council of Inverness ; Captain Shand, harbour master, Lossie mouth ; Captain Winchester, surveyor of shipping, Speymouth ; Captain M'Lean, joint tacksman, of Portsoy ; and Captain Matheson, of Banff, 10 years master of a* vessel from Fraserburgh, and two years in the London trade from Wick, and was thus enabled to judge of the merits of all the ports. To this list would have been added the Arctic voyager, Capt. Penny, had not bad health prevented his presence. Nis evidence, however, by letter, was adopted. Important evidence regarding the Pent land Frith was given by Mr. Wm. Young, a ship master belonging to this port, but whose home at one time was as much at Orkney ; he was selected by a prince of Denmark to pilot his ship among the Orkney Isles, and his apparently strong evi dence seemed to be appreciated by Capt. Washing ton. The deputation from Elgin, in behalf of the Lossiemouth Harbour, while urging their own case, gave forth no uncertain sound as to the advantage of a harbour of refuge at Peterhead for the trade of the Moray Firth ; and Mr. Gatherer stated that there were 10 vessels trading on the south side of the Frith to one on the opposite coast ; nay, that some would maintain the proportion was nearer twenty to one—strong and important evidence, though given fortuitously. To crown all, there happened to be present several Prussian and Nor wegian captains ; these men all spoke of Buchan ness as the point where they endeavoured to make land ; their reasons being the lighthouse on the promontory and the safe anchorage in the bay. They stated that ships coming from the Baltic had three points where they called for orders, namely, Grimsby, Leith, and Peterhead, but even when bound south they preferred Peterhead to either of the other two places. One of the Prussians had been " knocking" off and on our heads waiting for orders, and he stated that he knew of 12 other vessels that had to call for orders at Peterhead. LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. Falconer's comedy, "Extremes," has been found, as we predicted, to hit the popular humour. Where there was a melancholy series of scantily occupied benches, there is now a numerous and cheerful audience, who laugh at the jokes and applaud the sentiments in the new piece as none laugh and none applaud who do not thoroughly relish what they are witnessing. The return of Mr. Charles Young to Sadler's Wells would have caused a serious gap in the com pany had not the genial and accomplished Mrs. Alfred Mellon (late Miss Wool g,ar) most opportunely stepped in and taken upon herself the character of Miss Vayasour. She made her first appearance on Saturday, and,was hear tily welcomed. The comedy was followed by a farce, entitled " Too much for Good-nature," and the person whose benevolent propen sities are counteracted by adverse circumstances is Mi. Adolphus (Mr. Emery), a gentleman afflicted with a reputation for easiness of temperament. Towards his recently married wife he is so completely docile that he is reduced to a conditioh of domestic slavery, and on this account is not altogether sorry when the lady quits home for a few hours, and leaves him to the enjoyment of a file of newspapers and a bundle of cigars, smoking and reading being alike impossible under the iron sceptre wielded by the soft hand of Mrs. Adolphus (Miss Portman). His anticipations of the rare treat are, however, destroyed by his luckless character for good nature, which has reached the ears of the lodgers in the same house with himself. Mr. Spalding (Mr. Garden), a frantic mesmerist, insists on using Adolphus's room for a magnetic experiment on a young lady, which is to be un known to the mother of the subject and the wife of the experimentalist. Mr. Jaffier Jenkins (Mr. Rogers), a youth of a violently romantic turn, whose mock tragedy contributes much to the mirth occasioned by the piece, uses the same room that he may meet a certain Matilda Jane without the knowledge of her parent, the awful Mrs. Chummy (Mrs. 'Weston). Another intruder is Miss Precise (Mrs. Wallis), the aunt of Mrs. Adolphus, who bribes the maid Betty (Miss Kate Saxon) to secrete her in a chamber, that she may watch unobserved the con duct of the newly married man, and thus draw conclusions as to the happiness of her beloved niece. In consequence of this tangled chain of circumstances Mr. Adolphus, on the return of his better half, has no less than three ladies concealed on his premises, of whom two are pursued by angry mothers, while the jealousy of Mr. Jaffier Perkins has been so much aroused by a grateful embrace given to Mr. Adolphus by Matilda Jane that he adds a large instalment to the general riot. Mrs. Adolphus herself is not of a pacific tempera ment, and thus there is a general warfare, in which every body is pitted against everybody else, and which threatens to pass from a conflict of words to an interchange of blows and scratches. At last, however, the aunt, who has seen the whole progress of affairs from the beginning, emerges from her hiding-place, and prevents a general massacre by explaining that Mr. Adolphus is not so criminal as he ap pears to be. The storm subsides, but its rumbling has scarcely ceased when the curtain falls. _ _ _ Thefarce was capitally acted, and proved completely successful. MR. WARREN'S - WORKS AT TIIE ANTIPODES.- A letter, dated Whanganni, Wellington, New Zealand, the 17th of May last, says—" Mr. Warren's works nre read here by all classes with great interest, and at present the Lily and the Bee' is circulated from house to house. I read it with.Aneommon. delight. The idea is grand and benlifully sustained." 'NILE PROPOSED ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.— There is a hope, and a well-grounded hope too, that in the course of next summer the people of our great A mer i can d e p e ndencies will have their feelings gratified by a visit from some prominent member of the royal family, if not of the Queen and the Prince Consort. This much we are enabled to say already. We are also enabled to say that the loyal and affectionate sentiments which have prompted a request so unusual, and in some respects so courageous, are fully appreciated in the highest quarters. We believe, there fore, that we may prepare the public mind for something . like a royal progress in Canada in the good year of 18.59. Literary Ga:ette. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale and Mr. Gibbs, arrived at Edinburgh on Saturday morning by the night express from London, via Great I' orthern, North- Eastern, and North British railways. The express, which was duo at Edinburgh at 7.50, was 15 or 20 minutes behind time, and a telegraphic message was sent, on its arrival at Berwick-on-Tweed, to detain the mail train at Edinburgh for Aberdeen, which leaves at 8 o'clock, until the Prince's arrival. Although his Royal" Highness was generally ex tpheectehdoutor of f a h ss is t o h o r m ou iu l w E e . s din g b u m it egh unkn on his own j,oeuurndeN),e- very few had the pleasure of seem. - him. After a few minutes' delay in attaching the Royal saloon in which the Prince travelled to the north mail train, his Royal Highness resumed his journey north, proceeding by Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scottish Central and Scottish N or th-Eastern Railways, to Ferryhill Junction, Aberdeen, which he would reach about half-past two, and where a special train was to be in readi ness to proceed to Banchory, whence his Royal Highness would post to Balmoral. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, ac companied. by Col. Forster, the Deputy-Adjuant-General, has left town for Germany. VISITORS TO LONDON.—Devonians and others, who may, perchance, make a visit to the great metropolis, ' will, we are assured, find the Turk's Head Inn, King street, Holborn, one among the several good "Devonshire houses," of London. Mr. Colwill is a native of the "merry shire," and "draws it mild" in the solemn moment of the reckoning.—Western Times. SHIPS ORDERED HOME.—The following ships have been ord ere d home from the coast of Africa :—Hecla, 6, Comm an d er A p li n ; Alecto, 3, Co er Hunt ; and b C ee hi 4 ld t e hr rs ee , 12 y , con Comman ila cAn der E o rinburn_ ese 'ships have all LATEST NEWS. INDIA. The following telegram was received at the East India House on Saturday, ..nth September, 1858, at 7.30 p.m.:— From G. F. Edmonstone, Esq., to J. D. Dickinson Esq., India House, London. ALLAHABAD, AUG. 6. OUDE. The column under Sir Hope Grant reached Fyzabad on the 29th July, just in time to see the last boats of the rebels crossing the river. No opposition was attempted by the rebels, either at Fyzabad or during the march of the column to that city. Rajah Maun Sing joined the British camp at Fyzabad on the 30th July. The great bulk of the rebels who had been besieging Shah Gunj have retired across the Gogra, and the Bareilly division have rejoined the Begum, who i s with the Gondah Rajah. A portion of the rebels have gone towards Sultanpore. All is quiet. FYZABAD• The merchants reopened their shops and confi dence is being restored. The fort of Byspore was abandoned by its garrison on the approach of Colonel Berkeley's column, and is now being de stroyed. Benee Madhoo is said to be encamped near Kalikunkur, on the left bank of the Ganges. NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES. BENARES DIVISION. The Ghazepore district and frontier portion of the Azimburgh district are in a disturbed state ; the remainder of the division is quiet. The Goruck pore district is also settling down, the advance of our troops to Fyzabad having caused the retreat into Bareilly of most of the rebels who infested the Almorah pergunnah. ALLAHABAD DIVISION. This division generally is quite quiet. The . steamer Burhampooter, on its way downwards from Cawnpore, was fired on from the Oude bank of the Ganges,'Doondera, and at Kalikunkur. A party of Madras Sepoys have since destroyed the villages near Doondera, from which the firing proceeded. The Burhampooter having taken on board at Allahabad two 12-pounder howitzers and 130 mili tary police, under the command of Captain Donnely, proceed upwards again to search for and destroy the boats of the rebels. Twenty-two boats were captured. They were.opposed at Manikpore, where was collec ted a body of about 800 men with two guns. Captain Donnely landed his men, and, under fire of the howitzers, cleared the fort and three neighbouring villages. The police behaved remarkably well. Seven men were wounded, two severely. The rebels lost about 31 men killed. They are said to have been commanded by Benee Madhoo's brother, and were driven back on Kalikunkur. ROHILCUND DIVISION. A thannah in the Shajehanpore district has been• burned by a band of rebels from Oude. With this excoption, and the portion of the Phillibheet fron tier, which borders on the Oude territory, the re mainder of the division is tranquil. There is nothing of importance to communicate from the Agra, Meerut, and Kumaon Divisions. The Bhopal Division is much disturbed. The rebels between Betwa and Tessa rivers have in creased in number, and have made incursions in the Jaloun District. Jaloun itself is threatened by them. A detachment from Calpee has marched to its relief. JUBBULP ORE DIVISION. This division is setting down, though in the Demough District there are still several bodies of rebels. CENTRAL INDIA AND RAJPOOTANA. The fugitive rebels under Tauten, Topee and the Nawab of Banda, when last heard*:pf, had crossed into Meywar by a route impassable for guns. General Roberts was moving so as to cover Nus seerabad and Ajmere. Nothing new from Bengal, Punjaub, Naypore, or Hyderabad. G. F. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to Government of India, with the Governor-General. Supplement to Mr. Secretary Edmonstonc's Sum mary of the 6th August, 1858. In a telegraphic message from Sir R. Hamilton, dated the Bth of August, it is reported that General Roberts came up with the Gwalior rebels on the 14th, ten miles from Nathwabza (?), defeated them, took their four guns and four ammunition waggons. The enemy's loss severe in killed, the British casualties few. The enemy fled south. All quiet in the Bombay Presidency. 11. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, 12th August, 1858. V. AI ONTANAR O. Malta, 11th Sept., 1858, 6.42 a.m. THE CHINESE TREATY. (F#oaa yesterday's Moniteur.) The Baron Gros, writes to his Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs : " Tien-Tsin, July 7, 1858. " The treaty between France and China was signed on the 27th of June ; the Emperor of China ratified it on the 3d. of July. China is opened to Christianity and the commerce of the West. Diplo matic agents, with their families, may fix their residence in Pekin. The allies and the four pleni potentiaries will quit Tien-Tsin to-day or to-mor row." The French Consul at Malta writes to his Excel lency the Minister of Foreign Affairs : " Malta, Sept. 11. "M. Duchesne de Bellecour, first secretary of the French embassy in China, has arrived this day with the treaty, en route for France." FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The fact of the construction of a battering ship (vaisseau belier or vaisseau masse) was lately con tradicted by a Paris paper, but it is nevertheless true. A vessel of that kind, completely cased in iron, is now constructing at Cherbourg, under the direction of M. Joycux, sub-engineer of naval con structions. It is stated that, at the requeit of the Sultan, an inspector-general and three inspectors of the finance department are to be authorised to enter the Turkish service, to establish a proper system of keeping the public accounts throughout the Otto man Empire. A letter from London sayi that several Neapoli tan police agents have arrived there, and that their journey is connected with a discovery of fulminat ing shells or grenades. The discovery was made by the Neapolitan Custom-house officers. The shells are said to have been made in the form of fruit, and as such were attempted to be passed in. The Spanish Government intends to adopt rifled muskets in the army. A commission of Spanish officers has come here to study the arms used by the French troops. • - General Macmahon is expected to leave Paris next week for Algiers. Count de Morny is at Biarritz. M. Fould left Paris yesterday for Tarbes; thence he will go Biarritz.. The Emperor is to return to Paris for a day or two, previously to going to the camp of Chalons about the 20th. • The following private telegraphic despatches have been received : " MADRID, Sept. 11. " The Espana announces that the Ferrol squad ron will take on board the troops of the expedition destined to act against Morocco. General Prim is to command." " MARSEILLES, Sept. 11. "It is stated at Naples that France and Eng land have made known the definitive conditions on which intercourse will be resumed with the Go vernment of the Two Sicilies. The report was generally credited, and details were given in con firmation of its truth. A rumour of a change of ministry in Naples vas received with favour in that city, but the fact was considered doubtful." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. Yesterday evening the Cunard Royal Mail steam ship Arabia, Captain Stone, arrived in the Mersey from New York, with advices from thence to the Ist instant, the usual weekly mails, 71 passengers, and 289,680 dols. in specie on freight. . The screw steamship City of Baltimore, from this port, arrived at New York on the 30th ult. The United States mail steamship North Star, from Havre and Southampton, arrived on the, 30th. On the same day the Hamburg screw steamer Borussia, arrived at the same port from Hamburg and Southampton, having left the latter port at the same time as the North Star. • Leavenworth advices of the 29th have been re ceived per express to Booneville. Considerable excitement exists in Lawrence and Kansas City in consequence of recent arrivals from the gold regions of Pike's Peak, confirming the existence of ore in abundance in that locality. The company which went from Lawrence in June had met with good success. The gold found is similar to that of = Fraser River and California, Mr. Richards, who arrived at Kansas City on the 28th - , reports that, with yery little prospecting, satisfactory amounts were obtained. Two men, with inferior imple ments, washed out six hundred dollars in one week, in a small stream, fifty miles from Pike's Peak. A second Fraser River excitement is apprehended. There is no political news by this arrival at all interesting out of the States. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the British residents of New York was held on the 30th ult., in Niblo's Saloon, to commemorate the successful laying of the Atlantic cable. Mr. Archibald, the. British Consul, presided, and eloquent speeches were made by Dr. Beales, Dr. Thompson, Judge Clerke, and other distinguished gentleman. A series of resolutions were adopted, commending the action of all those who took part in the achieve ment, and expressing their determination to join with the citizens of New York in the grand cele bration of the Ist. The New York American State Council met at Albany on the 31st ult., and, after a good deal of palaver, agreed to hold a convention for the nomi nation of candidates for State offices, at Syracuse, on the Bth of September. The Republicans hold their convention at the same place on the same day. A destructive tornado recently visited several of the towns in Ulster county, destroying everything in its course, tearing up trees, demolishing build ings, fences, and blowing down dwellings. At Dewithille the houses of Mr. P. Smith and Mr. Hoyt were prostrated. Mrs. Hoyt and her three children were at the house of Mrs. Smith on a visit. Mrs. Hoyt was instantly killed, and Mrs. Smith so seriously injured that she died a few hours after. A lady named Hornbeck was also so injured that her life is despaired of. The three children of Mrs. Hoyt were badly hurt. The tornado passed on its course towards Smithville, but whether any more lives were lost or buildings destroyed we have not learned. A despatch from New Orleans states that the deaths from yellow fever on the 31st ult. were 92. The steam-ship General Rusk arrived at New Orleans on the 21st ult., from Brazos, Santiago, having on board one million dollars in specie, con signed to-various parties in that city. This is no doubt a portion of the conducts which lately came from Zacatecas, Mexico, by way of Matamoras. The usual outlets for the product of the Mexican mines being in the hands of the priests and rob bers, it has been forced to seek the northern frontier. The reporter of the New York Herald thus de 'scribes a huge wooden ship, building in New York for the Russian navy, which; according to his ac count, is being constructed very quietly : " The General Admiral, the largest wooden ship in the world, now building in the- yard of W. H. Webb, Esq., foot of Sixth-street, East River, in this city, for the Czar Alexander, is rapidly approaching to completion A recent visit to her shows that she is fully planked, and all the decks are laid. A portion of the outside and most of the inside works are painted, and the workmen are now engaged setting her head and putting on the carved work, which consists of an immense double-headed Russian eagle. The men are also engaged in fitting the large and heavy brass castings at the stern, which are intended for the propeller and shaft. Indeed, the centre hull of the ship is very nearly completed, and presents a fine opportunity for those interested or curious in such matters to examine one of the greatest ships ever built or designed by man. The General Admiral will be launched very soon, the ways' being in process of construction ; and, when launched, she will be taken te the Novelty Iron Works to receive her engines, boilers, &e. The parties interested in her construction keep matters so quiet that but little notice has been taken of her by the Press, and the public consequently know but little about her." With reference to the cotton crop the following advices lave been received in New York. A letter to the New Orleans Crescent, dated Pickens, Miss., August 20, says : "In regard to the cotton crop in this section of the country, up to a few days back, it looked well. The crops generally have had better prospects for a large yield than for several years past; but within the last few days I learn that the boll worm has commenced its ravages ; also the army or cotton worm has made its appearance on many plantations, and already destroyed 50 acres on one planta tion. Up to this time the boll worm has been the most destructive. Onk--of my neighbours informed me yesterday that they had destroyed half of the crop on many places, and are doing very g leat damage to his own cotton, as well as the army worm. I have just been over my place, and find that one field of 100 acres is cut short one-fourth, and the worm still at work, boring through full-grown bolls, a thing I have never known Wore. In the same field the array worm has made its appearance. Corn crops are generally good in this county. It rains about enough here fox the growing crops. "'Within the last week or ten days we have made con siderable inquiry as to the condition and prospects of the cotton crop in this section. From several neighbourhoods in the black lands we. have heard complaints of the boll worm. In the Walker Prairie, Uniontown, and Newbern neighbourhoods, the crop has already been seriously in jured ; and should the cloudy and showery weather which we had here for several days past have been experienced in the black lands, we shall expect to hear much more general complaints of the boll worm, and complaints also of the caterpillar, From the sandy lands there is considerable complaints of the rust. We have received most unfavour able reports from both the black and the sandy lands.-- Greensboro' (Ala.) Beacon, August 10. The steam ship Empire City arrived at New York on the 30th ult., from Havana with ad vices to the 24th ult. No decision has yet been given in the case of the American brig Nancy. The Captain-General had added greatly to lus popularity by a prompt suspension of two default ing, *officers of the Supreme Court of the island. Great joy was expressed on receipt of the news of the stiecess'of the Atlantic Telegraph, and even the suga mArkell was neglected during the ex:atm - fent whichringueci. Sugars were active at an advance. New crop tobacco sold at high rates. A correspondent at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, writing on the 12th ult., says :—" The health of the native population of this . port, strange to say, is not good, owing to the intercourse with fo7 reigners, who imprudently indulge in luxuries with which they are entirely ignorant, and diame trically opposite to their tastes and constitutions ; hence diarrhoea, cholera morbus, and yellow fever, whose contagious influences native and foreign con stitutions are subject to. The loss on board foreign vessels is severe, and many of the inhabitants have fallen victims to the scourge. The shipments of sugar and molasses have been very large this year, and leave but little on hand for export. Great pre caution is being observed here towards repelling foreign invasion." COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, AUG. There is rather more activity in money to-day. Some of the lenders at low rates are calling in their, loans, and the general feeling is that we shall not have quite as easy a market in September as we have had in July and August. In bank circles there has been some uneasiness expressed at the extent to which the loan column has swelled, and at the withdrawal of deposits ; a curtailment, at least for the present, is generally expected. Exchange on Europe is higher, there being a large demand for bills from the Ha vannah merchants this mail. A good business has been done in sterling at 1091, and some of the bankers are hold ing at 1091. We quote bills on Paris 5 dols. 12c. to 5 dols. 111 c. The steamer which sails to-morrow will pro bably take about half a million in specie. The Stock Exchange opened dull this morning, with some excess of sellers over buyers. It seems that of all the purchases which have lately been made, and which have caused a general advance of three to four per cent., not five per cent. were on account of the outside public. The public is holding itself entirely aloof from the operations of our stock-market. All the purchases which have been made have been by brokers for their own account. COTTON.—The sales embraced about 1,500 bales, closing at about Ic. per lb. advance. Messrs. T. L. and D. W. Calcott, in their circular, to go by tho Arabia to-morrow, remark as follows estimate sake of 24th to 30th inst., both in. elusive, at 6,500 bales, of which 1,500 for export, balance home use and on speculation. " In Transitu.—We note dales of 1,850 bales, all invoiced from New Orleans, and quote on the basis of 15,320. Freights, ordinary, 91c. ; ' fully do.,' 10c. ; good ordi nar y, ; low middling, 111 c. The amount now offering is very small, and held for, higher prices. " Growing Crop.—The advices of the past week are not satisfactory. The best accounts we have•received are from the Atlantic States, but even these are by no means flat tering, as in some sections theboll worm and rust are doing considerable damage, and the weather for some weeks past has been wet, and consequently unfavourable for maturing the crop. From Alabama the complaints of rust and boll worm are very general, and the weather warm and showery. From New Orleans the accounts are conflicting, some par ties laying stress on the injury in Mississippi from worms, while others express the opinion that the damage thus far is trilling. In Texas the crop in the uplands is suffering materially from a severe drought. We find the opinion now general that the crop will not realise the anticipations based on its luxuriant appearance last month, and that to secure a good average yield will require better weather than now prevails, and a late frost. SPORTING NOTES. THE ST. LEGER. The St. Leger excitement is gradually approaching its culminating point. Already are the streets of Doncaster echoing to the arrivals of man and beast, and by the time these notes are placed before the public the majority of the racing visitors will be located in the town. All persons agree that a meeting of surpassing success will be cele brated, and the lodging-house keepers are quite joyful at the increasing demand which is being made for sleeping accommodation. Taking all things into consideration—the sunny fineness of the weather and the interest which the principal events excite—people are justified in anticipating a meeting which will be marked by incidents of pleasantness and importance. The withdrawal of Fitzßoland, and the introduction of Volta into the betting, have contributed to sustain the curiosity with which the great event is regarded. Scott's lot, however, engrosses nearly all attention, and people are not a little perplexed to understand the movements which depressed Toxopholite and forced up Volta in the betting. The premier's horse never had a great reputation for stout ness, and although he inherited his sire's speed, it is supposed that he lacks those staying powers which are essential to constitute a good horse. These noti6ns, which are widely entertained by thepublic, were strengthened by Tox's Derby running, for„at the hill, he died away, to nothing, and they received some confirmation, by the des perate ssruggle which he was compelled to make at Ascot to get out of Mentmore's way. The fact, too, of his being amiss at Goodwood is not likely to diminish the hostility of his backers, who argue plausibly enough that an infirm horse is not the most trustworthy for a great race like the St. Leger. As a set-off, however, they have all John Scott's skill and experience, and I confess that I should not like to be against a horse with which John fancies he can win a St. Leger. Volta must have done something in pri vate to cause the strong demonstration which was made in her favour on Friday last. The mare's running this year has been more than respectable, and perhaps Mr. Nichols may renew with her his Newminster and Wenlock triumphs. If any animal from Whitewall win the St. Leger that animal will be Toxopholite. The Sunday Times states that the cherry jacket of Sir Joseph Hawley will not be absent from the race, but that it will be borne on the back of Eclipse. In this case, it certainly does seem probable that Sir Joseph may yet win the three great events of the year. That Eclipse has sound recommendations is undeniable, for it must not be forgotten that he once ran a dead heat with Beadsman, and that he once beat Fitz Roland. The horse is now reported well, and should he really be the property of Sir Joseph, it must be conceded that the "lucky baronet," in purchasing him, has exercised tactics worthy of him in his Ban and Aphrodite days. Tupgill rests its hopes on The Hadji and Gildermire. The former is entitled to notice on account of his Derby running, but it must be confessed that his subsequent per formance with Duneany at Manchester was not calculated to produce a very high opinion of his racing merit. If Gildermire figured in her true form at York, and if Go verness be not sent to the post in better trim than she was in at Goodwood, the two Oaks mares can have little chance of playing a prominent part in the St. Leger encounter. I shall not, however, be surprised to see Gildermire make a much more respectable figure on the Doncaster Town Moor than she did on the Knavesmire at York. The retrogression of East Langton has been ominous enough, and it does not say much for his reported trial with the broken down Fitz Roland. East Langton seemed to me a sound useful little horse, but he never appeared to .possess first-class pretensions. Taking the most favour able view of his chance, I cannot deem him good enough to win a St. Leger, albeit Knight of St. George, Saucebox, and Warlock prove that a second-rate horse may now and then " do" a first-rate thing. Within the last three days Sunbeam has been placed under suspicion, and it is even said that Blanche of Middlebie has taken the shine out of her in trial. For Sunbeam, however, I shall entertain a strong partiality, despite the damaging reports which are in circulation about her. She is a slapping, fine mare, and the flat course is likely to suit her. Mr. T. Parr has been nursing and saving Kelpie, on purposefor this race, b u t th e S qu i re of Wantage does not, I oPine,yosess another Saucebox. I shall not refer to the other animals likely to go to the post, butlishall at once give my preference to TOXOPHILITE AND ECLIPSE. The Handicaps and the minor races do not require elabo rate discussion. The field for the Great Yorkshire will be very limited, and really I do not see anything likely to inter fere with the chances of Zuyder Zee and Scribbler. Merryman and Cavendish are the principal nominations for the Champagne Stakes, and if they meet much interest will be excited My choice will fall on Merryman. For the Revival Plate I shall select New Brighton and Shafto. Princess of Orange and Evelyn appear to be as note worthy as anything amongst the entries for the Doncaster Plate. For the Portland Plate the following lot is worth standing :—Kestrel, Lord of Lorn, Duneany, Garnish, and Fusee. When the entries for the Cup are placed before me I will briefly refer to them. A FRESH MAN. DONCASTER, SEPT. 12.—The following horses have arrived :—Prioress, Babylon, Artless, Jordan, Young Hope ful, Crafton, Scribbler, Mentmore, North Lincoln, Vulcan, Adulation, The Co ur i er , Farmer's Son, Gainester, Beau, Prelude, Haresfoot, filly by Teddington out of Maid of Masham, Pandora, Compromise, Ignoramus, Vedette, Night Ranger, Volatile, Shafto, Dumfries, Zitella, Mon tague, Minnie, Cavendish, Layton, Julia, Eclip se , Queens town, Flitch, eta, Maggie, Massacre, Antidote, Quick silver, Lady Rohallion, Lance, Turret, Cannie Bairn, Kelpie, Fisherm an , Saunterer, Tournament, M err y man, Press Forward, Harry, Senorita filly, Lottery, Proud Preston Peg, Lady Alice, Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing (3 yrs), Syllabus, Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing (5 yrs), Cox wold, Archduchess, colt by Hernandez (4 yrs), Ditto, Bashi Bazouk, Malachite, Gladiator, Prince of Denmark, Hesperithusa, Leukothia, Ellerdale's dam filly, Ellerdale filly, Empty lounce Miss Jersey, Mrs. St owe , D uncany, A Polley, Barbata filly, Broadlands, Gift, and Peggy Taft. The ground is in first rate condition. MALTON.—About 30 horses leave here by special train this day (Monday) at 11.30. TATTERSALL'S, SATURDAY. ST. LEGER. 3to 1 agst Toxophilite (taken freely) 7to 1 agst The Hadji (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Volta (taken) 9to 1 agst Eclipse (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Governess (taken) 12 to 1 agst Sunbeam (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Blanche of Middlcbie (offered) 20 to 1 agst East Langton (offered) 60 to 1 agst Knight of Kars (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Mentmore (taken) 1000 to 10 agst The Farmer's Son (taken) GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Prioress (taken) 10 to 1 agst Scribbler (taken) 100 to 8 agst Ethioritin (taken) CHAMPAGNE STAKES. sto 4 agst Merryman (taken) 7to 2 agst Cavendish (offered) 6to 1 agst Malachite (offered) -CESAREWITCIr. 100 to 6 agst Roman Candle (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Rocket (offered) 50 to 1 agst Melissa (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Beadsman (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 40 to 1 agst Volta (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Goelette (taken) The American ship Harvest has just arrived at Cowes with' a cargo of timber, consisting o f th e f ancy and woods m o ade thefAne nca,s passageuch aacsromssaptlhee, &c. T beuti h a eH ful arves in eleven days. DEATH OF THOMAS ASSIIETON SMITH, ESQ.— This gentleman, the proprietor of the rich and extensive slate quarries of Llanberis, expired at 10 o'clock on Thurs day evening,at his Welsh resid ence , V aynol, situated on the banks of the Menai, near. Bangor. He had been gra dually s inking under th e i n fi rm i t i es of age for some time. but was in sufficient health to drive to Port Dinorwvic, whence the slates are shipped, about a week ago. Mr. Smith was well known as the greatest foxhunter and most daring rider in England. For many years he was leader of the Melton Hunt, and his ambition was to have the best mounted huntsmen and whippers-in in the kingdom. His keenness and prowess as a huntsman earned for him the title of the "British Nimrod." His inimitable stud and celebrated pack of foxhounds were principally kept at his seat at Tedworth, in Hampshire, where he passed most of his time ; but when in the Principality he regularly visited the quarries and manifested the liveliest interest in the wel fare of those he employed. Although quick in temper, he was equally prompt in warm and generous impulses, and his_ loss_ will be felt severely by many among the thousands of workmen he employed. The political principles of Mr. Smith were of the old Conservative school, and he repre sented-Carnarvonshire formerly for some years. He was the builder of the largest-sized and greatest number of yachts oluny one private person in England. On the news of his death reaching Carnarvon the flag of the Royal Welsh Yacht Club, of which ho was Commodore, was hoisted half- mas t hi g h , and ot h er t o k ens o f respect shown to his memory, . THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Up to a late hour on Saturday night the elec trician had been unable to discover the precise locality where the interruption of the electric cur rent takes place. In the letter writtcn by Mr. Whitehouse, the late electrician of the company, that gentleman holds out the hope that the damage which has taken place would be found to be but at a short distance from the shore, and could easily be repaired by the substitution of the larger cable intended for the shore end of the telegraph. Thie heavy portion of the cable, weighing about six tong to the mile, or rather more than six times the weight of the line which has already been laid, is at present lying at Keyham. It was not taken on. board the Agamemnon, for so improbable seemed the chance of the successful submergence of the cable that it was not deemed necessary to send the shore end to Valentia until the result of the second attempt was ascertained. As soon as the commu nication had been established, orders where sent for the shipment of the shore end, and the Bilbos steamer was sent to Keyham to take it round to Valentin. While engaged in putting the cable on board a message was unexpectedly received to dis continue the process, and leave it still at Keyham. This message was, we understand, forwarded from Valentin, as it was found by the electrical tests which were applied that the interruption of the commu nication was not within such a distance of the shore as would admit of the fault being remedied by the substitution of the heavier cable. The shore end of the telegraph is that which is most exposed to the action of the sea, and with respect to which the greatest fears were entertained by the public ; but it turns out that this portion is perfects and that the defective part is at a point much further distant from the land. To many persons it will, appear impossible, by any mechanical or scien tific arrangement, to ascertain the spot at which the continuity of an electric current may cease. It is difficult enough to conceive the practicability of transmitting an electric spark along two or three thousand miles of wire, or even through a much shorter distance. But this is done every day, and we have less doubt that the subtle fluid which starts from London will reach Edinburgh, or the place to which it is directed, than that the railway train will reach it 4 prescribed terminus. But to ascertain the spot at which the lightnine , leaves its track and escapes into the depths of the Atlantic, is a task which would appear to be even more difficult than for the manager at Euston station to learn, with out the aid of telegraph or other communication, the place where the express train had left the line by some unhappy accident, after it had started on its journey to the north. Strange as it may seem, the electrician has the power of ascertaining, by means of the electric fluid itself, the locality of the tiny outlet by which it escapes into the sea. Some time since a most ingenious piece of mechanism wag made, by which the electricity could be weighed, the fluid being made to act upon a magnet ; and this, upon the end of a nicely-pointed steelyards would tell with accuracy the weight of the current transmitted from the other end of the wire at along distance. Following out this experiment, we be lieve first shown by Professor Faraday, at the Royal Institution, other electricians have arranged a very sensitive piece of machinery, by which the amount of resistance opposed to the passage of the electricity by . the conducting wire may be correctly ascer tained. The amount of resistance offered through the whole length of the Atlantic cable, or even one half of it, is something very much larger than any which can be marked by the delicate machinery hitherto employed upon sherter distances of wire. The consequence is, that the electricians have not yet been able satis factorily to ascertain the place where the cable is defective. Of one thing, however, they are certain, that is, that the fault does not occur within 20 or 30 miles of the land, and we are informed that within the first two or three hundred miles' the continuity is still perfect and complete. Beyond this distance all is still doubt and uncertainty, and it is idle at present to speculate upon the subject. Should the defect be found to exist in the deep parts of the sea, the public must be content to hear that for the present the Atlantic Telegraph is a failure' It will not be possible to raise the sunken portion of the wire, or repair it, when laid in great depths . Within a few miles of the shore the wire may be under-run •, but when it has been sunk at the depth of two or three miles below the surface, the great length of cable which would be suspended, and the resistance which the water would give to its rising would produce a strain upon the wire much greater, than its strength would bear. A cable which would be strong enough to sustain its own weight while sinking, might not possess the requisite strength t° admit of its being hauled up through the water. Observer. THE SEIZURE OF A JEWISH CHILD AT BOLOGNA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The London Committee of Deputies of the British Jews have received a memorial, verified by the signatures of the several Jewish authorities is 21 of the principal towns of Sardinia, and also s letter from the President of the Council of the Jewis Community of Turin, translations of which are sent herewith. The Board of Deputies depute me, as its presi' dent, to solicit the favour of your giving insertion to to the foregoing documents in The Sun, in the hope thereby to prevent the recurrence of an event so utterly opposed to the spirit of the age. I am, &c., MOSES MONTEFIORE• East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate, Sept. 8. COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE ISRAELITE COW MUNITY OF TURIN, Turin, 19th August, 1858. To the President of the General Administrative Direction of the Israelites of London. Sir,—The undersigned president, after having obtained the signature of all the representatives of the Israelite coin' munities in the kingdom to the memorial which he annexe' to this despatch, to the number of 24 copies, hastens t ° transmit it to you, sir, entreating you to take into year most serious consideration the importance of this document , and so to interest yourself that the salutary effects may re" suit therefrom which are contemplated. Notwithstanding the solicitude employed, it was not pos.: sible to obtain sooner the said copies properly signed, and tt is for this reason that this letter has been delayed until the present time ; nevertheless, the properdiligence has notbee o wanting with the Government to obtain its intervention: for the good success of the undertaking (pratique), an d there is already a proof of the interest which it takes therein, inasmuch as the. said memorial was forthwith inserted in the official journal of the kingdom. Confiding, then, in the efficacious co-operation of the venerable boards so worthily presided over by you, sir, tO obtain ample justice in regard to a' matter of such great importance to our co-religionists in several states of Eu rope, the undersigned president has the honour to subscribe himself, with sentiments of the highest esteem and sincere consideration, The President of the Council of the Israelite Community of Turin, your very humble and devoted servant, lomanuel Levy, secretary. MARCO Folio. [Translation from the French.] Gentlemen, —A cruel and barbarous scene was enacted a month ago in the house of one of our brethren, at Bologna , named Mortara, a respectable and worthy man, the father of a family, professing the Jewish religion. A child, six yearn old, has been violently torn from its parents, under the pre tence that it had been baptised by a Christian maid-servan t two years previously, and all the entreaties and supplications offered by the parents to the authorities have to the present moment proved unavailing, either to recover the child, or to learn anything of its fate. The history of the past unfortunately records many ea c , 5 similar to that of Mr. Mortara. But times have change d, and the civil and pOlitical conditions of several European States permits us now at least to express our abhorrence of these deeds of cruelty which are still committed in some parts of the civilised 'world, in the name of religion, b3' ignorant and fanatical ministers. It becomes, therefore, au obvious duty, in the present instance, that we should avail ourselves of the universal press to appeal to all mankind against acts which violate the most sacred rights of paternity in its dearest affections ; and that we should en deavour by all possible means not only to obtain redress for the outrage in question, but to prevent the re-enactment of such an event, affording protection_ to our co-ro gionists whose lot may be cast ln countries where the laws are powerless against such horrible occurrences. I; has appeared to us natural that the first appeal shoal" emanate from this state of Italy, where complete religious liberty is sanctioned by the law, and earnestly and unifornilY enforced by the Government. Hence the councils of all the principal Jewish communities in the Sardinian states hav e united to raise their voice, through the medium of the press, against the iniquitous act just consummated at Bologna' They are sensible that such a protest may well cast a mo mentary disgrace on the Government which tolerates or encourages such acts, but would fail to exer c i se any perma nent benficial effects unless followed up by vigorous mea sures through other more powerful agencies ; therefore, while on the other hand the representatives of the Jewish Sardinian communities are exerting themselves to make known to the whole world the enormity whi ch has been practised upon the Mortara family at Bolognn , and while -they are endeavouring to induce the Sardini a° Government to remonstrate with the court of Rome, so as to restore, as far as possible, tranquillity and peace t° the unhappy family, they, on the other hand, deem it Pro" per, in the interest of civilisation, and with the view' t' remedy the evil, to make the present appeal to the 11 013 i members of the Central Consistory of the Israelites France, as well as to the chief of the administration of ili a Jews of London, in the hope that they may take into their serious consideration the importance of the event above de scribed, and use the great influence which they deserved l y possess with their respective governments, with the vior secure some guarantee that at Rome, as elsewhere, nob o dy , shall be permitted with impunity to disturb the liappine,t and order of Jewish families, and this in the name of a lid gion which proclaims itself as being founded on the Fou basis of humanity and brotherly love. BOILER EXPLOSION.—The village of Thorflag near bolt, Norfolk, has been the scene of a shocking ac, cl o . - dent, a steam boiler in the foundry of M r . J. Mann, hav' il b exploded and killed a lad named Cooper, who, with three_ other persons, was on the premis es a t th e time the Blaster occurred. The poor youth, who was in his 15th year , 4 'l frightfully bruised and scalded; and his clothes could V s be removed without bringing away with them pieces ef,_., flesh. Death terminated his sufferings on Thurou',7 evening. ; THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1858 an GI de