The Sun. — London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Le isee, Mr. J. B. Buckstons. THIS EVENINU will be performed THE WAY TO KEEP HIM. Hies ers. Buckstoue, Howe, arid Farren ; Mrs. C. Sinclair. After Which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Perm, Nena. Followed by A_ WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds. To conclude with A sKISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. Great Success. The New Comedy of EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. Supported by Mrs. 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, .1. 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 A LST F HE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clar O ke, T Ac, Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and Mr. Faradic. To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Miss E. Wilton. Commence at 7 o'clock. vANTERBURY HALL, Westmin s t er - roa d.— OPEN E VERY EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are ended for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &c., 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, X. L. Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Alb n. Mr. John G. Porde land E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce tnat in the month of October, _ A FINE ARTS GALLERY, now in course of construction, will be thrown open in eon flexion with the above Hall. THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, SEPT. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 70—highest since noon yesterday.' 59—lowest this morning and during the night. 71—this day at noon. _ _ _ BAROXETER-30'10. WIND, South-Easterly ; light, with fine weather. THE SUN. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858. . - The arrival of the Bombay and Calcutta mails, extracts from which appeared in our impression of yesterday, confirm the pleasing intelligence that the treaty of peace with China has not only been duly executed by the Celestial Commissioners, but that it has already been completely ratified by " the Brother of the Sun and Moon." In other words, that the EMPEROR himself has expressed his approval, and pledged himself to observe the oligations thereby enforced. This is a point of importance, inasmuch as our previous experience of the Chinese character proved that they would readily repudiate the authority of any subordinate officials if the slightest ad vantage could be gained by so doing. They cannot, however, ignore the sign-manual of the EMPEROR himself, or " rail his seal from off the bond." A new and powerful position is thus obtained, and one which, we trust, will never be abandoned through any weakness or vacillation on the part of British officials. A curious account is given by " the Times' Com missioner" of the manner in which KWAILIANG attempted to evade the execution of the indemnity clauses. They constituted a different document and the wily old Celestial thought he discovered a favourable chance of evading a payment that may materially lessen the drain of silver to China for some years to come. He grace fully waived it away as a matter of no consequence, but his skilful move was checked by the courteous but unbending firmness of Mr. LAT, who would not be denied, and eventually succeeded in obtaining the important signature. This specimen, at the very commencement of the Nonieate regime, indicates not only what may be iinticipated from our Chinese friends, but also the mode in which every attempt on their "part to aroid,fulfilling their liabilities must be dealt with. They may offer a " passive resistance", but will yield to the determined action of the " men of wrath," the quondam " devils" or " barbarians," which, by the way, the strangers are no longer to be termed. As yet we have not the exact terms of the treaty. It must in the first instance be submitted to her MAJESTY at Balmoral. That is a point of etiquette of which we cannot complain, however annoying it may appear Mr the time. Some little information has however leaked forth, which may be accepted cum graceo salis, and which we believe generally indi cates the nature of the all-important document. The North China Herald is the authority on which we must rely for the time being. It declares, as we stated yesterday, that the treaty contains fifty-six articles, or clauses, and briefly enumerates the more important topics. Thus the treaty of Nankin is confirmed, but the supple mentary treaty and general regulations—which have seldom, if ever, been acted on—are abrogated. The former, if fully, fairly, and honourably carried out, would have produced very valuable results. Its beneficial provisions were frittered away through the fraud of the Chinese authorities and the easiness of our own. There is, however, every reason to hope that no further complaints can be made under these very important points. Then we find that the teterrima causa mali—the absence of full and complete communication—will henceforth. be removed. Ministers may be sent to the Courts of St. James's and Pekin, who shall be received by the respective Secretaries of State on footings of perfect equality.' There are also provisions respecting Consuls and their official rank and dignity. These are matters which will probably ensure the due observance of the Treaty. Hitherto_ it was impossible to convey authentic information to head-quarters, or to know that the Emperor was made acquainted with the complaints and remonstrances justly preferred against the refusals to comply with our reasonable demands. But this is not all. British subjects are to be henceforth permitted to travel, either for pleasure or profit, in any part of China, and, as a matter of course, the Christian religion is to be tolerated, and its professors protected through out the Empire. Henceforward, therefore, the religious element must be excluded from all • questions. A pledge has been given of almost universal toleration ; and, therefore, the religious element, which might have been ren- dered a fertile source of discord, can no longer be so grol-sly perverted. Nine additional ports are to be thrown open ; the right is, however, suspended, so far as three of the number are concerned, it is only t o be granted "on the evacuation of its shores by the rebels." This may protract the terms beyond the period at present anticipated. In China an emeute can easily be excited, which may be dignified into a - rebellion. A great matter is that the official correspondence id to be conducted in English, so there can be no mistakes of interpretation. The contumelious term " I," or bal.barian, is also to be abandonded. This is more important than appears at first sight, much as the manifeetatiOli of official djares-ard •-.. z..;',/-P, ..i. • - ',.....„,- 2 .1 4-41? , 'ff ,..., ~-..,,_„....,.,,,,..„-..3 1 .-A • . ',..,...., litg':. ,q ; ', .-4 , - . 4- • - \ is Nte, - . • ..-..,zer • ..., :::,..,.::.,: Al t i c, "-5" . .;• . .t, .05."‘,.w" - .:". '.. , 444"N , . •• • mb,;,;.,s induced the general public to follow in a similar course. The Canton indemnity for losses is t be treated in a separate article. This was the matter which that agreeable old gentleman, KWAILIANG, attempted to ignore, but which ha-, been also con cluded, although the exact figure has not yet been published. It is, however, believed to be £2,000,000 sterling for England, and £1,200,000 for France; £3,200,000 altogether —a tolerably heavy penalty for the escapade of Mr. Commissioner YETI. Yesterday, it will doubtless have been observed 1 by the majority of our readers, we gave insertion to a very remarkable communication recently ad dressed by her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary o State for the Colonies to the Governor-General (HAMILTON) of the Leeward Islands—a docuraent not merely important, for inasmuch as it affects the particular interests of the Leeward Islands themselves, but most important as relating to the whole grand problem of The Self-Defence of the entire British Colonies. Very earnestly we trust that the eminently rea sonable suggestions thrown out in his letter to Governor HAMILTON (dated " Downing-street, July 21st, 1858"), may be but an impressive preliminary to the inauguration of a great system, affecting not merely the Leeward Islands, but all the fifty or sixty vast, and varied, and scattered Colonies owing allegiance to Queen VICTORIA'S sovereignty. These suggestions, it will have been perceived, have been elicited from the right hon. Baronet in consequence of the lamentable accounts received by him in re ference to the late riots at Antigua. An earlier Despatch from 15 .and 16 Downing-street had sup plied the Governor of the Leeward Islands with minute instructions in regard to the consequences of those deplorable occurrences. The communica tion here particularly referred to, and given in our I impression of yesterday, urges pointedly upon the attention of his Excellency a system once in vogue in those colonies, but somehow long since unhappily fallen into disuetude. Says Sir BUL WER LYTTON, " I desire to impress upon you, and through you upon the colony which you govern, the extreme importance of raising and maintaining from local resources, and by local efforts, such a *military . force as will by its presence guarantee the safety, dignity, and internal peace of the colony." As clearly demonstrative of the fact that, in writ ing thus, he is proposing nothing whatever that is unusual or unprecedented,_Sir EDWARD continues, " On reference to the records of past years I have observed that in many of the West Indian cola nies local corps wereestablished, and, as I believe, sufficiently kept up. It is with a feeling of mortifi cation that I perceive that these wise precautions have been laid aside under the impressions of a false economy." Consider, only for a moment the twofold advantages certain to accrue from the re vival of such a system of _local corps in the West Indies and elsewhere among all our gigantic and remote possessions. Hitherto we have been com pelled to weaken our military strength as one of the chief powers of the earth, by scattering far and wide over the surface of our stupendous empire throughout all :the detached portions in the eastern and the western hemispheres—in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia—small portions of our army, detachments, regiments, battalions, brigades—weakening the efficiency and strength of the whole by the separation of its constituent portions. It is for all the world like untying the bundle of the imperial forces. Together, the rods of power might, with Heaven's blessing, count rea sonably enough upon setting at defiance all human efforts at destruction. Separated—they arc ren dered liable to be snapped and broken with case by a power comparatively in every way quite insignifi cont—like reeds cracked in a twinkling, one by one, across the knee of a stripling. A bundle of sceptres that, bound together, might resist the might of a very giant—as they did in truth, not so very many years back, in the instance of the Great NAPOLEON. Let us hope that the hint judiciously thrown out by the Colonial Secretary will be hearkened to and acted upon by our various colonies—by the West Indies, by Canada, and so on through the whole wonderful catalogue. Local corps for the self-defence of each respective colony, will afford nobler evidences of civism and loyalty than any amount of moneys subscribed by way of warlike testimonials, or any number of regiments raised and sent to England for the general advantage of the empire. The adoption of the sagacious and patriotic recommendations of the Colonial Secretary will be like the organisation of a National Guard throughout the whole of our world-wide dominions. Coupled with the extension of the Electric Telegraph, it will go far to prevent the risk of any seriously disastrous surprise henceforth —even in the most remote and isolated of our colo nial possessions. The present position of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan ABDUL-MEDJID is calculated to arouse in his behalf, among the people of Western Europe, a sympathy almost amounting in cordiality to en thusiasm. He has frequently before now proved himself to be one capable of yielding to generous impulses. He has repeatedly shown himself to be the worthy son, in many respects, of a most worthy sire—a true son of the Sultan MAHMOUD, the suc cessor of SELIM. Continuing the liberal policy in augurated by his great paternal predecessor, ABDUL-MEDJID has aided in the development, to a considerable, extent, of the beneficial changes MAH MOUD had the consummate daring, as a Turk, to commence, in spite of every national prejudice. Throughout the previous years of his reign, almost uninterruptedly, the present SULTAN has been sus tained in these magnanimous efforts by a sage and resolute adviser, now withdrawn- from his councils by the close of a brilliant career of forty years' dura tion. Everybody will understand upon the instant that this illustrious councillor was no other than the late Prime Minister of the Sublime Porte—one of the greatest statesmen the Osmanli Rule has ever possessed the famous REDSCHID PACHA. Scarcely had death suddenly put an end to - the labours of that renowned administrator—closing those labours as prematurely as abruptly—when another sagacious adviser was withdrawn from that contiguous position, he also had occupied contem poraneously, though a Foreigner —a Christian, and an Englishman. As British Ambassador at the Porte for the better part of forty years, almost con secutively, Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFF had employed his immense, almost unrivalled, influence with the SULTAN for the advantage at once of Turkey and of England, and for the spread throughout the Osmanli dominions of the priceless blessings of civilisation. The protracted toils of this famous diplomatist came to an end alMost at the self-same time that the great Turkish administrator already mentioned disappeared from the public view—RED SCHID PACHA being carried to his tomb but just immediately prior to Lord STRATFORD'S return to his long-vacated seat inthe House of Lords. Pre cisely upon the morrow of those two most impor tant-events in the History of Turkey, the enormous pecun i ary liabilities entailed upon the Porte by the expenditure inevitable upon the prosecution of the late war,-a war raging during so many months within tt to limits of its own European and Asiatic frontier s--game down with one fell swoop upon the SULV.AN .for ultirtiato liquidation. An almost fatal necessity is thereupon at once apparent hraising yet r.,nother loan—a thi r d l oan withinta t a of N -eryconicracted i n t erva l— a supplemen tary loan, requiring to be paid before the other two ei:mbursed. This threateni ng , as its inevitablehave been r consequence, an economy t o w hi c h ae the creatures of the court are unaccus tomed—nur.ours are at once afloat, as to the ro or, at any rate, the po ss ibility, o f another ili of those infamous conspiracies with w hi c h p ann bab e t , f , the readers of Turkish annals are perfectly fami liar, but of which we have long hoped that the world might never witness the recurrence. A bowstring—a gang of eunuchs—a tumult in the harem—it was suggested by these sinister and mysterious whispers, might be the simple means of causing for those who would benefit by it a conve niently profitable revolution. ABDUL-MEDJID would be found one morning assassinated—and in his place would a new SULTAN—his brother ABDUL- Aziz. But immediately upon the first inkling of these dark rumours the proposed victim of the conspiracy all at once shows unmistakeably that in energy, hardly less than in liberality, ABDUL MEDJID is the undoubted offspring of the great MAUMOUD. The Prince reputed to be little else than an enervated voluptuary, suddenly, on the pressure of a great emergency, is bold, prompt, and outspoken. And, simultaneously with this manifestation of spirit by the reigning SULTAN, comes the dread announcement to the would-be conspirators that . the Allies of Turkey, the Allies who fought for her and with her during the Crimean War, would not recognise any Ruler who ascended the Throne by means of any such dastardly and atrocious assassination. Doubtless the words of ABDUL MEDJID, the intimations received from Western Europe at Constantinople, have effectually scattered to the winds the dark and deadly clouds that were gathering over the SULTAN'S palace, and threatening to cut him off prematurely, in the very strength and flower of his manhood—for he is but now in his thirtY-fifth year, having been born in 1823. Let the Turkish courtiers of the old school lay these incidents well to heart, and muse over their inner meaning. - Let them rest assured that by committing any such atrocity as the murder of the son of MAHMOUD they would destroy not only their own hopes—they would seal the fate of Turkey. The " sick man" would then, indeed, be sick unto death, and the turbaned race would be driven back inexorably across the Bosphorus and the Dar danelles. GALWAY AND AMERICA.—The Prince Albert left Galway yesterday,on the arrival of the mails, with a full complement of passengers and goods. We are requested to state that the Commissioners to inquire into the charge against the Rev. R. T. West, curate of Boyne-hill, will meet at Maidenhead on the 24th inst., at 10 a.m., and not on the 23d, as stated in various papers. We are requested to state that the Royal Com missioners appointed to inquire into the state of the store and clothing depots at Weedon, Woolwich, and the Tower, will resume their investigations on Tuesday next, Sept. 21, in No. n Committee-room at the House of Commons. All persona desirous of giving evidence, or of aiding the inquiry, are requested to communicate with the Secretary, Mr. E. L. Dew, 13, Curzon-street, Mayfair. The Secretaries of the Cawnpore Memorial Church have announced that the Bishop of Calcutta, who is about to leave England for his diocese, has kindly under taken to make personal inquiries in India, with a view to determine the most eligible site for the proposed church, so as to carry out the designs of the promoters with as little delay as possible. The marriage of the Prince of Leiningen, lieu tenant R.N., with the Princess Marie of Baden, was cele brated at Carlsruhe on the 11th inst. ILLNESS OF LORD HARRIS.—We regret to state that Lord Harris, the Governor of the sister Presidency, who has been sojourning at Ootatamund on the Neilgherry hills for a change of air, has been seriously ill. It seems that his lordship 'having experienced a sudden chill, quite lost the use of his limbs. Dr. Saunderson, of Madras, having been telegraphed for, proceeded to the hills on Sa turday se'nnight. It is rather remarkable that only a day or two previous to the receipt of this intelligence in Madras the papers there were exulting in the proofs of vigour and ac tivity displayed by Lord Harris, who had distanced and " knocked up" all his attendants in the course of his moun tain exercises. Unhappily for his lordship, the tables are nowlturned. At the present moment all our Governors are absent from their respective capitals. Lord Canning is at Allahabad, Lord .Elphinstone at Dapoorie, and Lord Harris in the blue mountains. The Nam Spectator of the, 4th of August says :—" We learn with the deepest regret that the illness of Lord Harris is far more serious than was at first imagined, and excites the gravest apprehensions. His lordship was unfortunately drenched by a heavy shower of rain during a ride from Jackatalla ; and while taking a warm bath after his return to Ootacamund was seized with. paralysis. Late last evening we received the gratifying in telligence that it eight o'clock yesterday morning the Right Honourable the Governor was progressing favourably. Bombay Ga:ette. DEATH OF MR. POTBURY, AT LIVERPOOL.— VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.—The coroner's inquiry into the case of Richard Potbury, the young gentleman whose body was found on Sunday morning at the bottom of a. quarry in Everton, near Liverpool, was resumed, and completed yesterday. Mr. Imlach, who gave the result of a futher post-mortem examination, was of opinion thas death had not been caused by the deceased's falling into the quarry, but that asphyxia had preceded death. :Mr. M'lntyre was of opinion that violent asphyxia had preceded death. In reply to the coroner, Mr. M'lntyre said that the fall could not have produced the peculiar injuries which were manifested in the head and face of the deceased. Among the other evi dence adduced was that of a person named Amien, with whom Mr. Potbury had been drinking on Saturday even ing last, who stated that when they separated the deceased was perfectly capable of taking care of himself. Mrs. James, who lived near the quarry, stated that she heard sudden screams about 12 o'clock on Saturday night, and that the screams were over i n a momen t . J ames Thomas, who had measured the distance of the body from the base of the quarry, stated that-no man, either designedly or acci dentally, could have put himself into the position of the deceased by throwing himself from the top of the rock. A woman named Kissack, a beer-shop keeper, stated that the deceased was in her house in Rupert-street, on Saturday evening, and was the worse for liquor. The jury having retired to consider their verdict, returned soon afterwards with one to the effect that the deceased came to his death by wilful murder, committed by some person or persons unknown. TAY SALMON: FISHINGS.—The salmon fishings belonging to the Earls of Wemyss and Kinnoull were ex • posed to let by public roup, on Friday, and brought—the former £2,537, being an increase of £309 upon last year ; and the latter £B9 which is the same as in the previous season. The attendance of competitors was considerable, and the biddings brisk.—Daily GOING TOO FAST.—Apropos of the present " Examination" controversy, the following incident, which recently occurred in a scholastic establishment not far beyond the Forth, is both amusing and instructive :—The examination of the French class went on so vigorously, and so rapidly did the :well-primed pupils run off their answers, that the routine of questions was exhausted some what tmexpectedly before the expiry of the time allotted in this department. Nearly a quarter of an hour still remain ing, the " Master of the Ceremony" felt himself not a little disconcerted. What was to be done ? According to our informant, an intelligent foreigner, he hesitated for a moment, and, after looking first at his watch, and then at his equally well-wound-up pupils, he coolly recommenced his " paying-out" operation, and ran off asecond time the same string of duly prepared questions, only stopping shoat in his work of re-delivery, when the school-bell opportunely relieved all present from the perplexities of their position. —Caledonian Mercury. THE SOUND DUES.—The abolition of the Sound dues has increased the trade of the ports in the Baltic. At Stettin, for example, in the course of 1857 as many as 3,217 vessels, of 283,000 tons burden, entered in the course of last year, and the value of their imports was 28,000,000 thalers, 6,000,000 more than in the preceding year. THE LATE EXPLOSION.—A letter from Astrakan confirms the assertion that the quantity of gunpowder which exploded in the recent conflagration in that place was not less, as at first stated, than 6,000 ponds (96 tons), all of which was destined for the army of the Caucasus. ANOTHER NEW PLANET.—M. Babillet, of the Inititute, has written to the journals to state that M. Goldschmidt discovered on Saturday another new planet. From the observation.which he took, he found that it is in the constellation Aquarius, and that at five minutes to 11 the eoft discoveredl b o y r its right ascension was 38m. 425., and the southern dleletblinamatigonin magnitude. If . M. Goldschmidt, and is the fourth discovered in t he course 6 lf is min.the It tlth appearst t p o la b planet of the present year. STATE OF TRADE IN FRANCE.—No very material change has taken place in commercial affairs during the last week. The manufactories are by degrees resuming their ordinary state of activity, and they, continue to re ceive considerable orders both from the provinces and from abroad, but credit becomes re-established but slowly. The business now done is mostly for cash;and this want of con fidence restricts transactions. Many of the manufacturers complain of not being able to procure a sufficient number of worknien ; and in many cases some of them have been com pelled to refuse orders for which time could not be granted. The retail trade in Paris remains as it was last week. At Rouen andikiiiihaltsen,llsinessisrather limited, purchasers not willingly paying the advance which the manufacturers are compelled to demand from the undiminished price of the raw material. SEIZURE OF BETTING MEN AND BOOKS YESTER DAY AT LIVERPOOL.—A posse of Liverpool detectives entered notorious betting house in Elliot-street, and cap tured a large number of gamblers, and turf swindlers, who it is understood will be the against by the authorities. In illustration o f fhe extraordinary abundance of money in the Stock Exchange, we may. mention that a sum of £30,000 was lent yesterday for a fortnight on seowitY Pf ki. 61 1 Guaranteed Four Tler Cent, 6tock at the low rate of It per cent. per =MUD. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858 LATEST NEWS. AUSTRIA. PARIS, SEPT. 16 , The hope of an amnesty, to which the birth of a Prince Imperial had given rise in Austria, has not been realised, except in the case of a very few persons. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY M. de Belleoourt, the bearer of the treaty con cluded with China, has arrived at Marseilles. He was to remain in quarantine 48 hours. The ingenious plan of the Gazette de France for obtaining possession of the English ships of the line, in case a war should break out between Great Britain and France—by making a body of Zouaves and Chasseurs de Vincennes take them by boarding "—has drawn forth the following amusing exempli fication of the system from the Charivari :—" First of all, you take a three-decker like the Eylau or the Arcole, having 1,000 men as its crew. You then sup press the crew. But how, you may ask, is the vessel to be worked ? In the easiest way in the world. As you employ screw steamers, and as all that is required to manoeuvre such vessels is a stoker and a few men (so the Gazette declares), and as all the rest is sheer superfluity, you of course put aside what is not abso lutely necessary. In time of war, strict necessaries should alone be looked to. You consequently land the crew, with the exception of the said stoker and the few men. After that, you fill the whole vessel with Zouaves and Chasseurs de Vincennes. You can afford to do so, as you have land forces incom parably stronger than the British army. Then the stoker gets up the steam, and down you dash on the very first English vessel you see. You at once get close to her, as you easily can by means of your steam, and the Zouaves and others jump on her deck, and in the twink ling of an eye she is captured. This plan is so triumphant that at first on hearing it a man remains quite overcome with astonishment, and it is only afterwards that some objections occur to him. For instance, it mi g ht so occur th a t no English s hi p of the line was close at hand waiting to be boarded ; that one should be sought for perhaps for several days ; and that during the cruise the Zouaves and Chasseurs might be affected with sea-sickhess, which little incident would not exactly render them better prepared for the assault. It might so happen, too, that the English Vessel might use her screw to avoid the encounter, for if steam is to aid one party in obtaining the attack, it ought to serve the other to avoid the conflict. There are several other objections to be made, but we pass them over in silence, because the inventor of the new plafi of boarding by means of Zouaves would be capable, in order to punish us, of going still farther, and might propose to place a squadron of cavalry on board." Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Place Vendome. Bounst, September 15.—1 t being option-day for shares, efforts were made to push up prices in order to decide the buyers of premiums to accept their bargains. Threes have been done at 73f. 20c., and are now 73f. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 965 f. to 959 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 697 f. 50c. to 695 f. ; Orleans, 1,440 f. to 1,432 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 862 f. 50c. to 857 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 765 f. to 762 f. 50c. ; Northern, 1,012 f. 50c. to 1005 f. ; and Southern, 612 f. 50c. to 607 f. 50c. The market became rather less buoyant towards the close, when the following were the last quotations :-- 4f per Cents. 95 50 Do. end month .. ^ 3 per Cents. 72 85 Do. end month.... 73 15 Bank Shares...... 3150 Crticlit Fonder 670 Belgian 41 — Piedmontese (5) Roman 92 75 Austrian Credit Mobilier 952 60 Do. Account " 967 50 Spanish Threes — Home Debt 39 63 RAILWAYS. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto B4O .. 845 Lyons and. Mediterranean 857 50 .. 856 25 New ditto --- .. -,- Geneva 650 —. .. 650 Midi 605 .. 610 Western . 652 50 .. 652 60 Eastern Grand Central ._ .. ....._ Sardinian 475 .. 468 75 Austrian 690 .. 692 50 THE EAST. Intelligence from Alexandria of the 7th confirms the news that Said Pacha has intimidated by his energy the party of the fanatical Mussulmans. Several Ulemas have been banished, and several paellas and boys sent to the galleys for peculation. s , s evera l journals," says the Nord, " have spoken of the discovery of a conspiracy at Constantnople for deposing the Sultan, and placing his brother Abdul Aziz on the throne, and of the intervention on the subject of the representatives of the great Powers. One of our Paris correspondents states that there is no truth in all this ; but what is true is that Abdul Aziz is the personification of the olde the rk raishio regime, of all and that hi s a ccess i on wou ld b projects of ref orm , an d Tu cosequently of the T reaty of Paris. The present situation is a difficult one, but it is not altogether power by faithfully executing the hatti-hou mayoun." A Paris letter in the Nord says •--" M. Sabatier, who . has been sent t o J eddah, is to• await the arrival of the French corvette the Duchayla, before con cluding any arrangements respecting the repara tions and indemnities demanded by the French Government for the murder of the French consul, his wife, and other persons. If full satisfaction be not accorded, the captain of the Duchayla has full powers to bombard the town. It is believed, how ever, that this measure will not be necessary ; the reports of consul s f rom the principal towns of Tur key stating that the bombardment of the English has created a profound impression on the Mussul mans." RUSSIA. A letter, from St. Petersburg, in the Debats, says :—" Bakon Frankel, a banker at Warsaw, and M. Homberg, l of Paris, have submitted to the Go vernment a financial plan destined to furnish the capital necessary for the emancipation of the pea sants. According to 'it a bank of issue would be established with a capital equal to the indemnity which is to be paid to the proprietors. Notes of 100 roubles each for all the communes will be delivered to a central administration, named by the Government and composed of proprietors, which will issue an equal number of central notes of 75 roubles each, and secured by mortgage on. the communal lands. The 25 per cent. forming tho difference between the central and the communal notes will remain in the hands of the administra tion, and the revenue which they produce will be, distributed to the proprietors. The notes will be withdrawn from circulation by means of a sinking fund, which will bear interest, and secure 'to those having a right to it a certain revenue. The mort gage debts of the proprietors will be paid in the central notes. The advantages of this plan are evident ; the Government is relieved from the necessity of making a loan, and the proprietors obtain a complete and immediate indemnity, and even participate in any profits which may accrue. The peasants will immediately acquire their liberty by means of an annual payment, which will not be very heavy ; and, lastly, the central administra tion will have at its disposal a considerable capital which it cannot employ in any kind of speculation. It is stated that there is every chance of this plan being adopted, though perhaps with some modifi cation." ITALY. It has been lately rumoured that M. Lanza and General Lamarmora arc about to retire from the Piedmontese Cabinet ; but a Turin letter declares that the repo r t is not t rue thou g h M. Lanza is to leave the Department - of Public Instruction, and assume that of Finance. The letter adds that H. Buoncompagni had refused the portfolio of Public Instruction, beepie - ,114e Count de Cavour, he is in av our of liberty of instruction, whilst his political friends are opposed to it. It is however hoped that he would eventually accept the offer made him. A letter from Naples. says :—There is a ru mour here at the present moment of a con templated change of ministry, in consequence of the conditions laid down by the Cabinets of Paris and of London for the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. These conditions are said to be-1. The dismissal of the present Cabinet, and the appoint ment in their place of ministers able and devoted to the country. 2. Considerable modifications in the administrative system. 3. The reorganisation of the State Consulta, according to the spirit which presided at its institution, so as to make it a coun terpoise to ministerial despotism. The names of the future ministers begin to circulate in political salons, and the Neapolitan people look with enthu siasm for these talked-of changes. Nothing, how ever, is official, and it is more probable that the King will reject the conditions of the Western Powers as an attack on his dignity." DINNER TO SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B. (From the Bombay Standard.) The dinner given to Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.8., at By-culla Club, on Tuesday night, the 3d August, came off with great eclat: the Hon. A. Malet, member of council, occupied the chair. About 100 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The dinner con sisted of a rich and varied assortment of delicacies, after the despatch of which The President, Mr. MALET, rose, and, in a highly eulogistic speech, proposed the health of the gallant general. Sir HUGH ROSE rose amidst loud and continued cheering. He said—Gentlemen, lam most grateful to our hon. president for the very handsome terms in which he has proposed my health. His good feeling towards myself induces him to rate too highly services which were simply the execution of my duy and of my orders. I thank you, gentlemen, with all my heart, for th e ki n d an d generous wel come with which you have honoured me on my return—a welcome' which tells me that I have the good fortune to possess a home and many valued friends in Bombay. (Cheers.) British soldiers and sailors are fortunate. We have countrymen whose sympathies accompany us wherever we go, who rejoice in our successes, who feel for our hardships as if they were their own, and on our return home give as the:best of all rewards—the welcome and approval of civilised and independent Englishmen. On these occasions, on these welcomes home, we are expected, without telling too long a story, to give our countrymen some account of our doings and the incidents of the field which will interest them. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentlemen, I have a most grateful duty to perform. I have to tell you how the soldiers of your army, the Bombay army, to which I have the honour to belong., have won my esteem by their bravery, their fidelity, and their discipline; how they conquered rebellion by their loyalty, and mutiny by their subordination. Their patience and devotion triumped over every obsiraele, over distance, sickness, and the rays of even an Indian sun, in all its blaze of summer heat. Your president has done the Central India field force the honour to state the details of their opera tions. But few know that while fighting thus strenuously and successfully the health and strength of these troops —young Bombay soldiers, the greater majority of whom had never seen a shot fired— were impaired by months of broken rest,' by night marches to avoid the sun, and night watches to guard the camp against surprise. The governor and the commander-in-chief had been most liberal, and had drained Borilbay of troops for the pur pose of completing the field forces ; but the demands for troops had been so immense and so pressing that my force entered on an extensive" field of operations, for which in former days of Indian warfare treble the amount of troops was considered necessary. I should have been justified in curtailing my sphere of exertions, but if I had done so it must have been at the sa crifice of that prestige of superiority which wiser heads than my own think, and truly think, indispensable for the success of British rule in India. And another thing, my orders were to relieve Saugor and take Calpee. If I had not met and attacked the enemy, who was on my road or near my road—if I had avoided him—he, emboldened by my apprehensions, would have followed me, and fallen on my rear, whilst I advanced against another enemy in my front. I should then have been 'between two fires, which in war is a dangerous predicament. (Cheers.) To use, therefore, the expressive but homely phrase ology of our American allies, I determined for the sake of prestige and strategy, to go the whole hog against the enemy. (Cheers and laughter.) But the doing so was too much, too great an effort for my small force ; it was one continued marching, watch ing, or fighting. (Cheers.) A great part of the men who had marched all night were on camp guayd— that is, inlying pickets, outlying pickets, and quar ter guards, all day; marched the next night and the following day; were engaged, perhaps, Vll sun set with the enemy. Wit h constitution thus shaken by too m uc h wor k an d t oo littl e r st my force met on its m arc h t o C a lp ee a new an d rmid able enemy—a midsummer sun. One could turn the flank of the rebels, but it was impossible to out manoeuvre the sun. At Koonch the thermometer stood at 115 degrees, at Calpee 118 degrees, and 119 degrees in the shade ; and on the march to Gwalior the thermometer burst in an officer's tent at 130 degrees. The troops suffered fear fully from sunstroke. When it did not kill it pro duced delirium, fits, and total prostration of strength. But my men never desponded; in every fight they always had the best of it. They fell in their ranks, but they never murmured. (Loud cheers.) They were often too weak to march, but their spirit always enabled them to fight. The fatal effects of exposure to the sun were latterly so certain and rapid that the prostration of the whole force by it was merely a question of time, and became a matter of calculation. Dr. Arnott, superintending surgeon of the Central India Field Force, as devoted as he is talented, wrote me an official letter, when we were before Calpee, stating that it was his duty to tell me that the Central India Field Force had suffered so much from over fatigue, want of rest, and sunstroke, that if the operations were protracted he had reason to fear the whole 'fore* would be prostrated. I had then still before me Calpee,. protected by its labyrinth of ravines, five lines of defences, and a force greatly superior to my own in numbers, consisting of the best organised troops of the mutineers, the Gwalior Contingent, and other, sepoy regiments, besides 1,400 mutineer cavalry, with their English arms and equipment, their English uniforms, their Eng lish drill ; but I am happy to say, without a par ticle of their English discipline and pluck. The spirit of my troops, developed and aided by that evils, discipli ne , w hi c h talisman for all military makes the soldier die in his ranks, but not leave them, prevailed against sun, the rebel host, and Calpee. It did more, it carried them on a tide of success into Gwalior. (Loud cheers.) I hope that I have not wearied you, gentlem en , w i t h these details. But gratitude, which is after all nothing but justice, is one of the first duties, and certainly if ever General had cause to be grateful to his troops it is myself. My wi s h is, that they, more than myself, should have the credit for the successes of our last campaign. When discharging the obligations of gratitude, I certainly ought not to forget those I owe to the Hyderabad Contingent, wider Major Orr, a true and gallant commander, who from first to last stood by us in every danger; and shared with us every hardship. And my thanks are also due to our gallant comrades of the Bengal army; the flying column under Col. Max well ; the brigade of the Rajpootana Field Force under Brigadier Smith ; and Capt. Meade's Horse, who gave us their hands and aid, as generous as it was efficient, on the banks of the Jumna and in the plains of Gwalior. I have one more debt to pay— to express my sincere gratitude 'to Lord Elphin stone, the Bombay Government, and the Comman der-in-Chief, who never ceased to do their utmost to supply all my wants. With admirable energy the Bombay Government, in a very short time, established the bullock train to Mhow and Goona, a distance of some hundred miles. Reinforcements, comprising a wing of her Majesty's gallant 71st Highland Light Infantry and supplies, were brought, in a comparatively short time, by this means, from Bombay to me, in the heart of Central India, and by the same conveyance my sick and wounded men were sent back to regular hospitals in the Presidency: The Government had the discrimi nation to appoint as director of the train from Bombay to Mhow, Major Kane, who, by his ac tivity and intelligence, has solved one of the most difficult problems—the establishment of an efficient war transport. Lastly, gentlemen, the Central India field force is sincerely grateful to Lord Elphinstone, the Governor, and the commander-in chief, for what they value more than prize money or promotion, a true and generous approval of their services in the field. I cannot conclude without telling you of the noble comradeship which existed between the British and native soldiers of .my force —how side by side they stormed the difficult passes into Bundereund—how they stood by each other in the streets of Jhansi, or the treacherous ravines of the Jumna. Thi s w as the more gratifying bec ause there were forebodings, which cannot be called un natural, that. the-mutiny had for ever separated the tie w4ieh existed between the Bevy and the British -,. soldier, and that mistrust and animosity must for the future take the place of the good feeling which in former days united the Indian soldier to his British commander. Certainly my experience goes to prove that these predi c tio ns will not be fulfilled, that on the contrary the sepoy, with his discipline —that, of course, is an express 'condition—will faithfully defend his officers and his colours. (The gallant general sat down amidst a loud and long continued burst of cheers.) Mr. WESTROPP next rose and said—ln conse quence of the absence of the gentleman to whom the next toast was allotted, the duty of proposing the . two services, " The Army and the Navy," has devolved upon me. I use those terms in their largest sense. By the army I mean not only the Queen's troops, but also the Anglo-Indian forces. By the navy- I mean as well the Royal as the Indian Navy. We justly prize those services which have, in a great measure, contributed to • place the British in the foremost rank amongst the nations of the globe. The army of Great Britain may not be the most numerous in the world, but in gallantry and in the extent of its achievements it stands unsurpassed. Most assuredly there is more expected by our countrymen than by any other nation of its forces. It is the hardest worked army in existence, when its numbers are considered. To-day its battalions are amidst the biting frosts of Canada ; to-morrow they face the burning heat of the Indies, and pro bably endure many years of exile. But we have a strong example in the 78th Highlanders and many other regiments, which have been for many years in India, that it matters not how long a period of expatriation they may have undergone, the sol diery of Great Britain never forget the spirit where with they ought, as true sons of their country, to be animated. Having mentioned the 78th, who have never forgotten that they are Highlanders, and what .is due to their great name, I cannot forego' a passing tribute of admiration to their brave comrades, the 64th. To specify any par ticular regiment, is, ho weve r, p er h a p s unjust, when in former, as in the more recent Crimean, Persian, and Indian civil wars, the cond uc t of a ll has been glorious. With this part of the toast I doubt not that this assembly will gladly couple the name of an officer now amongst us who stands high on the roll of fame—the gallant leader of the renowned column'that issued forth from the gates of recap tured Delhi to sweep before it the retreat ing and wrecked host of mutiny and mur der. Need I mention Colonel Greathed, whose deeds, and those of his noble column, will henceforth fill one of the most brilliant pages of the history of British India. As to the navy of Eng land; who, to an assembly of Englishmen, shall speak its praises ? Eulogy is in such a case unne cessary. We all from our infancy glory in the wooden walls of England, and the men to man them. Every child regards with pride the powerful right arm of Britannia. We are happy in being able to associate with this branch of the toast the name of a distinguished officer of the Royal navy, now pre • sent, who presides with zeal and ability over the Indian navy, the worthy sister in arms of the Royal navy. His is a name not unknown to Indian his tory ; one of his kinsmen who bore it here wielded, with the highest skill, the swordof state. Another here wielded, with a world-wide renown, the sword of victory. Although the star of Assaye may pale before the brighter glow of Waterloo, many a long day must elapse ere the success at Assaye becomes obliterated from the memory of the East. Commo dore Wellesley has shown himself to be no un worthy scion of that illustrious house. For thou sands of ages hence to come,may Britons, with loud enthusiasm, drink the toasts of their army and navy. (Loud and continued cheering.) Colonel GREATHED said that it was impossible for him to find terms of sufficient strength to ex press the gratification he experienced in having had his name coupled with the toast given, and it specially became him to avail himself of the opportunity of alluding to the distinguishd manner those belong ing to the army of this presidency had distin guished themselves on manyof the most tryingof these occasions. Nothing could have surpassed the con duct of the Beloochees, a young corps scarcely before under fire, or the heroism of their commander, Younghusband. He well remembered Bruce and Bailey, Bannerman—who fell gloriously in defence of his post—Watson, the best of cavalry officers, and many others who distinguished themselves, where, amongst such bands of heroes, it was diffi culs to earn distinction. All fought nobly, and it was a matter of peculiar pride to him to be now so directly connected as he was with the loyal and im maculate army to which these officers belong. Commodore WELLESLEY said that it fell to his lot to return thanks for both divisions of the naval ser vice included in Mr. Westropp's toast—the Royal navy, to which he belonged, and the Indian navy, ever which it was his good fortune for the present to preside. On the present, beyond almost any occasion, had the navy and army been associated together, and - for the first time in the history of war we found the frigate's commander and crew per forming the most distinguished service, thousands of miles away from the ship inland, bearing about 64-pounder guns like - baubles, and pointing them against the walls of Lucknow, very much in the fashion they would have been used afloat had the Shannon been laid alongside the enemy. Of the sister service he would say nothing. The Indian navy had never been on active em ployment where they failed to earn distinction. He had now been a twelvemonth amongst them, and a body of more thorough iailors or more gentlemanly men he had never come in contact with, or men more anxious or more competent to discharge their duties, or more desirous to co-operate cordially with their commander. There was no country m the world that might not be proud of a service so zealous and so thoroughly efficient as the Indian navy. MR. BERKLEY rose and said—Under ordinary circumstances the toast which the chairman has entrusted to me might have been introduced to your notice in a few loyal words, but we and the community at large are so much indebted to the noble lord the governor of Bombay—(cheers)— that I trust I shall carry your feelings along with me while I endeavour to make the proposal of his lordship's health something more than a formal standing toast. (Hear.) I am sorry that brevity compels me to pass over the first two years and a half of Lord Elphinstone's administration, for they presented evident indications of his having come out to India with a determination to fill an im portant and useful post of duty, and not to occupy a mere office of state, and they afforded abundant proofs of his moderation and experience, and of his enlightened principles of government. (Cheers.) In the autumn of 1856, however, the serenity of the political horizon was disturbed, and the atten tion of our governor was partly diverted from measures of a peaceful natu->^ to preparations for a foreign expedition. It was not,, I dare say, without. some surprise that many of us then observed with what alacrity and aptitude his lordship entered upon the general arrangements for the Persian war. The gallant general, your illustrious guest, must be so familiar with the sufferings and administrative difficulties that were encountered in the Crimea that he will be able to appreciate the success of those arrangements (assent from Sir H. Rose), and I have no doubt he will' acknowledge that the speedy transport of our army front India to the shores of Persia, the subsequent transport of the second detachment under Outram, and the bringing back of the whole force, including all thenon-combatants and its complete equipment, without the loss of a single man upon the voyage, and with scarcely a casualty in the embarkation,: redounds greatly to the credit of the Bombay Government—tkat it was, in fact, a great feat worthy of prominent record in the history of war. (Loud cheers.) The judicious removal of our army from the Gulf, instead of leav ing them to sicken during an unhealthy season, until Herat had been evacuated, was speedily rewarded by the. Bombay Government finding themselves in a better state of preparation at the moment of emergency ; and though the Persian war was characterised by few remarkable ev2nts,- yet it at least inflamed the ardour of our troops for the severe conflict that was so soon to follow. (Loud cheers.) Peace with Persia was proclaimed in April, 1857. . The little cloud had then appeared in the East, but there had been no prophet to warn us of its ominous portent ; and so the black- tre mendous storm was gathering in Bengal. In May came the sad intelligence of the Meerut massacre, but fortunately we were then in possession of troops and able generals fresh from the field—of ships of war, and a fleet of transports ; and what is niore we had at the head of affairs 'a man quick to apprehend the advantage which Providence had placed within our reach, prompt to turn it to the best account, and whose active measures helped so greatly to avert extreme disaster from theemn , ac- Lord Elphinstone imm e di a t e l y sent the resolute e. plished,heroic Havelo c k—th e true type of fr a Christian soldier—to the scene of con ict— )(cheers ir regiment, the 78 t 64th. *All honou r t o H avelock and those brave--h a a n n d d with him those t wo sp l endid men ! For they, together with Neil and his gal lant Fusiliers, have shed their blo o d most nobly in their count r y' s cause. They stemmed the torr en t s w w h o e l n len ititwwahs satiated with crime and flush e d an d a momentary 'triumph ; they revived Bengal,the then anwdanreinh g ev p ed res t t h i e ge sm of al t l h , e th ß ou ri g t h ish in a v rm inc s ib i l n e garrison of Lucknow. All honour, then, to the memory of Havelock and to the brave 78th and 64th. (Loud applause.) Soon afterwards ' Lord Elphinstone sent, round another Bomb a y h ero, w h o strengthened by his counsels and eager as a grey hound in the leash to spring to the fi e ld of glory. This was the daring, chivalrous, noble-hearted Out applause)--an Ajax in the fight, an Ulysses in the council--the very 14eation of whose name, like that of Havelock's, excites an ono_ of pride in every B r iti s h h omestea d , an d t h e War ration of whose character and achievements h° already become a public sentiment among his cowl' trymen. (Loud cheers.) But Lord Elplastole did more than this ; for he it was who sent Capp Jenkins to the Mauritius a n d th e C ape , an d se cured such opportune reinforcements for this eniP fi n . And if I am correctly infor me d h e a l so counsel': ' the despatch of spe e dy succour from Mediterranean • for .he had then the means of transport, and knew himself to be th e master o f the situation at least on this side of Egypt. The first great triumph of L or d Elphi ns t one ' s adminP-- tration was, I think, displayed in the fact that t he army and the peopl e o f this presidency were at the outbreak of the mutiny in such a condition In discipline and contentment that they refused tojoil! the insurrection against the British rule—(cheer!) —but next to that he was most suocessful in fearlessness—his contempt for responsibility -- 0 (cheers)—and of his s kilf u l di sposa l o f th e snow, means and resources he had at his cominanw Wherever sedition was discovered, there the Bee P , bay government was pr e pa re d t o s t am p it • (Loud cheers.) Wherever any , overt act of treacherl or rebellion was perpetrated, there were they to inflict summary punishment upon the offenders' There was the conspiracy at Sattara and the e%e; cation of the ringleaders; the riots at Hyderabaa and Bombay, and the prompt punishment of sepoys ; the attempt at Nusserabad, and its illor diate frustration; the mutiny a t B e l gaum and the slaughter of the mutineer s ; th e i nsurr ection 4 Kolapoor and the overthrow of the insurgent rajah' The dastardly crime of Nurgoond, and the hanging of the midnight murderer, and the fill of his CO. 0 : federates. Prompt and te rr ibl e as these punisn, ments undonbtedly were, can any one for a momen t suppose that the amiable nobleman who governs n is wanting in the qua lity o f merc y ? Are not su Englishmen mer c if u l ? Y e t th ere is a weaknee s which may rob justice of its efficacy to the State , and of its moral attributes—a weakness which null season justice with something which is not " te e blessed," which " blesseth" not " him that gives a nd him that taketh," w hi c h " d ro pp e th" no t " like w e gentle rain from heaven," but emanates from the counsels of a feeble and mistaken policy. Of that we are no advocates—(loud cheers)—and most fortunate has it been for us that we have had at the helm of our affairs a man wh o was just and firm, vigilant, and considerate of th° welfare of the people, and that he has been seconded by such bold and able men as the gallant general; as Frere, the commissioner of Scinde, Le Grair Jacob, R ose of Sattara, poor General Lester, Mal' colm Kerr, and others—(cheers)—who have known so well how to defeat and chastise the offenders' and who have been so instrumental either in Pre; serving or restoring the public peace and order the country. The latest events that have she! lustre upon the administration of Lord Elphinstone are to be found in the brilliant campaign of Y e n most illustrious guest. (Loud che ers .) His trium ph and achievements have been so eloquently describes by the chairman that I shall n o t presume to ci,° more than offer one observation - upon the iubje o ! . , It is this, that no one can read the narrative of r e deeds without being impressed with the genius, the finish, and the dash of th a t rem a r k a bl e si x mon t h campaign. (Loud and l ong con ti nue d applause . It was not the beating back of an enemy that ha been already scattered and disheartened by battling with our armies in the Doab ; but it was an en counter with a num erous an d warlike foe, W e„ l in guns and in position, upon the very scene e l , at the very source of ramp an t mu ti ny an d re tie lion. It was the capture of s ome o f th e s t r ouci fortresses in India, and all was accompli s hed a mere handful of British troops of the Bom be army under their most brave and s , sr leader. (Loud cheers.), I assert without le h of contradiction that not only has Sir li l t Rose won undying laurels for himself and J."; victorious army, but he has al so d o ne infln i , honour to the Government under which he has 7, , dered such brilliant and important services to country. (Cheers.) Notwithstanding the Da i n ance of a most efficient and devoted personal sir ot i Lord Elphinstone must, during the eventful I am reviewing, have gone through a vast qua't l a of arduous and anxious duty ; but he has at le the satisfaction of feeling that he has " done th state some service, and they know it." Great e,niel gencies bring out great men ; . an d it w ill, I th y' be be generally admitted th a t among a ll th e s tate_e who have figured eithe r -h ere or a t h ome in coninZ o tion with this formidable r evo lt, th er e is none has acquired more honourable fame than Lord Elphinstone. (Cheers.) It will, I think, be au_ mitted, that he has throughout displayed a cle ar , and comprehensive foresight—great judgment a n promptitude in action—imperturbable courage."' sound common sense—a remarkable familiar' with the native character, and extraordinary tact and urbanity in managinn. them. (Loud cheers). l praise has been procla ime d by the unanimous voice of the public press. Both Houses of Parliamen t have voted him their thanks, an d p o liti c i ans o f all, parties have joined in his eulogium. But thoug h eloquence had well nigh exhausted its powers else' where to do him justice, it would still behove us Bombay to express our admiration of his mall virtues and eminent qualities as a statesman, an our gratitude for the benefits we have derived fro! his administration in the preservation of our free ' dom and tranquillity, and in the protection of ew property and our lives. lam conscious how Yel l imperfectly I have performed my task ; yet I f ee , that if I have only succeeded in giving fee bl e el pression to your true sentiments, I ought not to reg r et having undertaken the office of proposing the hea lth of -Lord Elphinstone. (Great applause.) Mr. CRAWFORD gave " The L a di e s," in a sPe so full of humour as to tran scen d th e cowers of reporter, and which wa s rece i ve d with alterna t e cheers and shouts of la ug ht er . The party broke up ab ou t m id n i g ht, e very e l f„ delighted with the e xce ll ence o f th e arr a n gement ' and the entire success of the whole festival. TILE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. is not surprising that the directors o f the Atlantic Telegraph Company are " astonished' at'the publication of my letter in The Sun of Se? tember 6, containing, as it did, facts which they did not wish should meet the public eye, a nd which, from the tone of their secretary's letter to-day, they will doubtless still do their best either to distort or suppress. Ina letter written to the directors after my dismissa l I use these words I therefore - claim, as a matt ( of justice at your hands, a full and complete h i ves' tigation of all the circumstances which have occu r red since the laying of the cable, and upon which the directors have thought right to found my sum" mart' dismissal, and I claim that this investigatio n shall take place at Valentia, where alone all th e facts connected with it can be properly elicited au' appreciated." 'The neglect or incompetence of those at the ho d of so great an undertaking—a national enterPri° with which the Government has so largely fled itself—is too serious a matter to be entertained on merely personal grounds, and hushed up in 3 board-room or got rid of by the more summary Po' cess of dismissing an outspoken official. I now therefore suggest that the investigation above challenged, and not yet granted, shall take place at the hands of the shareholders of the corn pany, to whom the directors themselves are imnle diately- responsible, and that every letter and evert telegram upon the subject shall be published in fll ll . This, sir, is my answ er t o th e unwarrantable lan guage contained in the letter from the Secrete* which, after the lapse of so many days, has this morning appeared—language which of itself rep' ders evident the animus which dictated it, and will perhaps satisfy the public that the investigation should be entrusted to other hands. A single expression in my published letter I Wort find, from more recent information, has uninten tionally deprived a friend of credit due to him. Th e President's reply to her Majesty's message, received t shortly a ft er my d eparture f rom V alent i a, it was transmitted from Newfoundland (as all others have been) solely by use of my instruments the re , was received and recorded a t " V a l en ti a " by the combined use of instruments of Professor Thomsen and my own.—l am, &c., • EDWARD ORANGE WILDMAN Wi l innotisE , Electrician, Proj ec t or o f th e Atlanitic Telegrer ll. Royal Institutio n , Alb emar l e - s t reet, Slept 15. SAILING OF THE PRINCE ALFRED WITH E ` I " .n , GRANTS FROM MILFOR D HAVEN.—This ve ssel -0u count of which the demonstrations recently descr ibed be our columns took place—left th e N e yl an d terminus ef . t a g t Sauth Wales Railway on Mo n d a y a ft ernoon a t 3.45, awl ling and lasting acclamations of applause, even the tue-u s l e war manning the rigging and joining in the cheers• t h took with her upwards of 50 cabin p assengers , every' Zy r r ,i, being fully occupied. She only w en t as f ar as Mw ° where, on account of some certain custom-house routine; she was detained until the follo w i ng d ay — ano ther proot,„e' the inconvenience to the trade and commerce of FellibVt: Dock from the want of a custo m -h ouse a t that place. 1 . 14 „ weather was such as to hold out every hope of her byvi v il ea l a good passage out of the Chaunel, which, as Milford gaazir iaso far advanced into th e Atl an ti c , will not take 13.1r houro, 3 per New : India Ditto Ditto Con& Each( Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto, Brazil Pitt Buell( Pitt Chilia Memic Pitt Perm Pitt Ditt Yonez Ditt Bclgia Dutch Diti Peruv as to t] It that film( incre turin and expe 10s.;