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SPORTING BOOKS, GUIDES. CIRCULARS, .tc. CI R. GLENIE, Sporting Library , 4, C onnau g ht- N_J• terrace, Hyde-park, has on hand, or gets to order, all Sporting ant General Books, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c. lie also buys Sporting or other books in large or small quantities. Just ready, is. post free, WEATHERBY'S SEPTEMBER PART of the RACING CALENDAR, containing the result of all the Races from January 1 to end of AuLrust. Also, WRIGIIT'S RECORD. is.; M'CALL'S CHRONICLE,IOd.; and RUFF'S GUIDE, le. 6d. Agent for M'Call and Wriht's Handicap Books, ld. each; also for Siielton, Index, Lang, and Locket's Circulars, is. each post free. Betting Books from Is. each. Sporting Papers, the Times, The Sun, and every other paper posted to any p'rt. Special and only West-end Agent for the Late Edition of " 1 THE SUN" Newspaper. The Trade supplied. C. R. GLENIE, of the Sporting and General Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde -park, EXECUTES COMMIS SIONS on all Races throughout the year. C. R. GLENIE'S extensive and long connection with the leading Bookmakers throughout the country enables him to execute Commissions to any amount at the most favourable prices. ST. LEGER. 30 Breeze. 25 Master Richard. 33 Peon. 33 Paris. 50 Copenhagen. 50 Valiant. CO Ackworth. 50 Vanquisher. From 60 to 200 to 1 others. CII STAKES. 50 Myrtle. 50 Retainer. 50 Beaver. 50 Gratitude. 50 LiMOSillit. 50 Hersey filly. others, -LIRE STAKES. 50 Mail Train. 50 Muezzin. 50 Royal Stag. 50 Brick. 60 to 200 others. DOUBLE EVENT -- From 1,000 to 3,000 to 1. 9 - 4 Blair AthoL 9 - 4 General Peel. 10 Miner. 10 Baragah. 16 Ely. 16 Knight of Snowden. 25 Claremont. 25 C, mbusean. 25 Coastguard. CESAREWITI 50 Royal Stag. 50 Accident. 50 Carisbrook. 50 Armagnac. 50 Calista colt. 50 Mail Train. 60 to 20( CAMBRIDG ES 30 Tattoo. 50 Borealis. 50 Copenhagen. 50 Gillie. iDEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise ? I advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards to XITANS', Covent-garden, hear some charming singing, order nine of their capital chops and magnificent potatoes, and that is th best advice I can give you. R INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It 14 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 38. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ",Rinahan's LL Whisky." NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the BANK of HINDUSTAN, CHINA, and JAPAN (Limited), has REMOVED from 16 Cornhill, to No. 1, BANK BUILDINGS, Lothhury. By order, R. SWIRE TOMLIN, Secretary. 1, Bank-bullding9, August 24, 1864. THE ROYAL INS URANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance -buildings, Liverpool. At the Annual Meeting, on'the sth inst., the following were tome of the leading results disclosed iu the Report to the rhareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of £341,663 Being. an advance of 40,977 over 1862; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre- Yi 0118 year. The Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 The Duty paid to Government in 1862 was. £75,993 Ditto ditto, 1863 88,969 Showing an Increase in one year of ...... £12,973 Among the incidents which have tended to the advance ment of Ihe Royal within the last few months may be reckoned its a_tion with respect to the losses sustained by the explo sion of thc,. Lott) , Sleigh, which although onty consistent with the general tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti mately proved to be no more than what had been done in for mer times by the oldest and most Proverbially honourable among its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and publio savour by its unhesitating - promptness. As the largest total of Revenue and the largest ratio of progression have been attained in the present year, se it naPPens that the largest Profit which it has ever fallen to the Directors to record has likewise on this occasion to be an nounced. The bahince of net profit on the year has amounted to £83,515 • of which sum £34, WO only has been appropriated to Dividend and Bonus, and the large balan e of £49,444 been Carried to Reseive. LIFE BRANCH. The progress of the Life Branch, as shown by the New Business transacted in tke last year, is most promising, and the advances made, year by year. in the amount of New In surances effected, show clearly the estimation in which the Company is held. The following is a statement for the last five years : Net Sum Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 . 752,516 18 10 This rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum Assured, and upwards of 80 per cent. on the Premium re ceived in the course of five years, may justly be considered as larger than any which could have been reasonably expected. The first half of the current year 1864, however, far outstrips the ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as the sure assured for that period of six months only actually exceeds Half--a-Mil ion sterling. The rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour able features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by the quinquennial investigation, which is to take place when the present year is concluded. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1864. SHORTHAND. —PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC TEACHER, 6d.; free by post, 7d. SHORTHAND. —PITMAN'S PHONOGRA rnic MANUAL. Free by post, le. 6d. QH OR THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO ki GRAPHY forma an exceedingly efficient—probably the MOST efficient - system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir Rowland Hill. VINTAGE WINE COMPANY, Importers of Spanish and other Wines, 14, Bloomsbury-8h eet, London, Four Doors South of New Oxford-street. The Vintage Comida Sherry, Golden The Vintage Xeres Ditto, Pale ..... The Vintage Port, No. 1 2os. ~ The Vintage Port, No. 1* 24s. „ The Vintage Port, No. 5, fine rich old 355. „ The Vintage Claret l3s. ~ The Vintage Beaujolais, recommended ..•• The Vintage Champagne, quarts . ~ pints l5B. The Vintage Hock, sparkling, very choice 36s. „ The Vintage Burgundy, sparkling superb 4OB. „ The Vintage East India Sherry. s4s. ~ The Vintage A montillado, thechoicest imported 568. ~ Fine old Cognac. Liquers, Spirits, Sm. THE VINTAGE ALMANACK, with price list and medical and clerical testimonials, sent post free. See 300 opinions of the press. 14,'Bloomsbury-street. N. W. HODGES, Secretary. PRIZE MEDAL.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &0., &0., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862. testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:— " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with tatted Wicks, patented.. 28. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality Od per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. Is. sd. per lb. Second quality ls. fid. per lb. Third quality .. . • • • .. ls. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar BED•ROOM CANDLES. upRICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop crease when carried."—Thin. very hard candles, sold in boxes ls. and 3s. each, are recommended as the best carriers. " EXTRA, HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES," sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those who will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," In packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use where cheapness h a great object, will be found an improve ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less. Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, ls. and 2s. 6d. each ; reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOILET SOAPS.' Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap. with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Price's Glycerine. Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GL YCERINE. SHERWOODOLE "Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains. capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot " Prig's Patent," from 6d. ties, 6d. and ls. each. upwards. Impure Glycerine has been sold dm the state ment that it Is "equal to Prices." Retail throug Wholesale by Prior s Patent Lon( ji any Grocer. t Caudle Company:lLimited: Second Edition, Corrected and Revised, post free 7d., in cloth 13d., THE TEETH : a Practical Treatise, with the best means of restoring them when defective or lost. By A. ESICELL. Esq., Surgeon-Dentist, 8. Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor- square. " It really contains all that is necessary relative to the good keeping, of he mon h and teeth, and deserves th serious cons id e ration of all who adequately regard their health, comfort, and appearance." — The Sun, May 4, 861. "We can commend this little brochure on a subject upon which e ierybody takes an interest."—Medical Circular, June 5. 1861. " We can recommend ita perusal to those who wish to pre serve their teeth, and to those who know the value of them. —Daily News, June 20, 1861. London : Clements, Little Pulteney-street. TIINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been. durirg thirty years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universlity accepted by the P..blic, as the Wet Remedy for Acidity of the Stomach. Heartburn. Headache, Gout, and Indigestion, and as a Mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more espGetally for Ladies and Children. Combined with the Accidulated Lemon Syrup it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons, and, above all, in Hot C limates, th e re g ular use of this sim ple and e egant remedy has been found highly beneficial. Manufactured (with the utmost attention to strength and purity , by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond-street, London ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the BlLlpire. New Barnet.—Freehold Semi-detached Villas. MR. 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XXIV. to XXXIII. 7. A Triad of French Writers. 3. September—A Day by the S. Gallenga's Invasion of Den- Sea. I ma k. 4. Glimpses of Celtic and' 9. Geneva before Calvin. Anglo-Saxon Literature. Dublin: George Herbert. ,ondon : Hurst and Blackctt. Now Ready, in Crown Svo., F OOTPRINTS ON THE ROAD. By CHARLES KENT. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. NOTICE.— BERTIE BRAY.—The Second Edition of this new Novel, by the Author of "Sir Victor's Choice," is now ready. Also by same Author, - THE CROSS OF HONOUR. Price 2s. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. THE LATEST NEW NOVELS. BERT I E BRA V. By the Author of " SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE," &c. D ANGEROUS CONNEXIONS. In Three Vols. THE MAN IN CHAINS. By the Author of " SACKVILLE CHASE," &C. John Maxwell and Co.. Publishere, 122, Fleet-street. TELE NEW DICTIONARY. Bvo. cloth, price 55., - - • - WALKER and WEBSTER combined in a DICTIONARY of the ENGLIS El LANGUAGE, in which the definitions of Webster. and the pronunciation of Walker, are united and brought into conformity to the usage of the present time; many new words are introduced, and numerous synonymous terms are carefully discriminated. With an Appendix containing Walker's Key to the pro nunciation of Scripture, Greek, and Latin proper names. A new edition entirely re-edited by John Longmuir, A.M., LL.D., formerly Lecturer in King's College, and University, Aberdeen. London: William Tegg, Pancras-lane, Cheapside. PARLIAMENTARY DESPATCH AND AGENCY OFFICE, No. 5, Upper Charles-street, Parliament-street. AN ANALYTICAL INDEX to the DIVISIONS of the present SESSION (1854) is in course of compila tion by Mr. GEO. M. MITCHELL. and will be ready for circu lation at the prorogation of Parliament. Th.s work will show members and their constituents how each member voted, whether for or against public and private measures during the session ; total number of times, with majorities for and against, &c. Subscription, One Guinea. Members can have their Divisions for the whole Parlia ment in extenao upon application to the above office. ST. JAMES'S HALL, September 5, 1864. First appearance these seven years cf the world renowned PROFE6SOR ANDERSON, Great Wizard of the North. First appearance of Miss ANDERSON, the Second-sight Sybil, and Retro-reminiscent Orthographist. Spiritualists, Beware. Volunteers, look for the Great Rifle Experiment. The Psychomantheum Opens at St. James's Hall, Sept. 5. ANTHROPOGLOSSOS.--ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly.—Great Success !—Extraordinary Excitement. The ANTHROPOGLOSSOS, Automaton Vocalist, Wonder of the World. [Registered according to Acts 1843 and 1850, 6 and 7 Vic., c, (i), 13 and 14 Vic , c. 1( 4, and copyright secured ani entered at Stationer's Irall.] OPEN DAILY, from 12 till 10 o'clock. The Exhibitions take place at the commer cement of each hour, viz., 12, 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7. 8, and 9 o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. Tickets at Mr. Austin's office, St. James's II .P, 2r, Picca dilly, W. WILL SHORTLY CLOSE. HR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new ANGLO- Y L'TIAN ENTERTAINMENT, THE PYRAMID. To be followed by THE BARD AND HIS BIRTHDAY, a new musical t. rceniennial séance, by William Brougn, Esq., sustained by Mr. and Mrs. German R. ed ; and TILE SEA SIDE, or MRS. ROSELEAV OUT OF TOWN, by Mr. :John Parry. Every evening' .except Sat .rday), at 8 ; Thursday abl Saturday mornings, at I.—ROYAL GALLERY of IL LU"iTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, 28,; stalls, 35.; stall (spring) chairs, 55., can be secured in ad vance at the Gallery without fee. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). CANTERBURY Westminster-road, London. HALL, GRAND OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. PRINCE BLOSSOM; OR, THE FAIRIES OP THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE FOREST OF SHADOWS I Prince Blossom, Miss Townley. Also, the New and successful Illusion, entitled THE TERCENTENARY; or, a NIGHT WITH SHAKSPERE. Operatic Selections, Glees, &c., by the whole of the talented Artistes. Comedy by Mr. Arthur Lloyd, with his new song, a decided hit; Mr. W. Randall ; Mrs. W. Randall; and those marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. TALLIOTT and BURNELL' (from the Principal Cirque, Madrid). " THE ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN !" "Go, knock, and call ; he'll speak like an Anthropopha ginian unto thew: knock, I say."—Shakspere. Merry Wives of Windsor, 4 act, sc. 5. THE WONDER OF THE DAY Will be Illustrated by Mr. W. Hilton. Director. Mr. F. Jonghmans. Admission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, le. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of DR. COUTY DE LA POMAIERAIS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph. by Mons. Trinquart, of Paris, from life, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, ls. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. Stainsby-road, Limehouse.—Dettched Freehold Residence. MR. ANDREW HIND is instructed by the proprietor to SELL by AUCTION, at GARRA WAY'S, Change-alley, Cornhill, on MONDAY, August 29, 1864, at One o'c ook, the very superior FREEHOLD HOUSE, known as Paradise Cottage, pleasantly situate in the Stains by-road, near the East India-road, Limehouse, and contain ing large drawing, dining, and breakfast rooms, six bed rooms, capital kitchen, and offices, three w.c.'s, &c. The principal rooms have stainei glass windows and French easements, opening to ornamental verandahs, which extend the entire length of the bui!ding. In the rear is a beautifully laid-out flower garden, with greenhouse, summer house, large and handsome fountain, &c. The whole enclosed by walls, and thoroughly screened from observation by well-grown evergreens and other trees. May be viewed by cards from the auctioneer only, and particulars, with conditions of sale, had at Garraway's ; of T. Price, Esq., solicitor, 24, Abchurch lane, B.C. ; and at the auctioneer's offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. Pinner.—Freehold Building Land. MR. ANDW. HIND will SELL by AUCTION shortly, 23 Acres of LAND, beautifully situa' e near the village, and about a mile from the station. The plots will contain from half an acre to two -cres and upwards. The estate is well wooded, and has a stream of water flowing through it. Residents on this property will be entitled to the privileges of Harrow School, and the occupant of each house of the value of £5O per annum will receive a free first class railway ticket to London for thirteen years. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. ()RNAMENTS,for the Drawing-room, Library, V and Dining-room, consisting of a new and megant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, A labas - er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar. &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CROLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. 11,ALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand. W.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, King's-cross. FUNDS are urgently REQUIRED. Treasurer and Banker—EDWARD MASTERMAN, Esq , Nicholas-lane. '1 ' .• -‘, .1 tt`'. % - tr. • - 4 . . • • I • • Irl 4z, 4. • ) ar 4 " .4 10 011161 L" 4 IN: yc 4 -`• I p 0 1¢f-^ , • THE SUN: LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1864. judicial temperament when he paints this Mussul man knighterrant going on crescentade in a post chaise, and eagerly availing himself on his journey of all the protection and advantages afforded by that very Nazarene Government which he was bent on a mission to destroy. Bat the rank and file of the crescentaders travelled in a much less comfortable manner, and were kept flora attracting suspicion in the towns where they stopped, by being dispersed in twos and threes among the serail and mudjids—to which they were conducted by local agents, who seem to have been employed for th , , purpose by the Patna Moulvecs, and who usually succeeded in recognising the pilgrims through a rough process of freemasonry. Arrived at Rawul Pindee, they were met by emiesaries from Mulkali Sittana, who at once conducted them to their destination. How the Bengalees fared at Mulkah, some of the wit , nesses are at pains to tell us. Almost immediately on their arrival swords and muskets were served out to them, and they were ordered on drill. To some of them—especially to those who had gone to feast their eyes on the great Imam who had been preached to them in the plains—drill seems to have been anything but a delight; but hard knocks, were the inevitable portion of all who refused it. Many were the deserters who escaped back into British territory, some of whom, we are told, the Indian Government, with question able liberality, forwarded to their homes at:its own expense. But enough. How the Sitanees fared at the hands of British troops is already matter of Indian history; and we have merely endeavoured to indicate here the means by which for a long time they were recruited with men and money out of the heart of British territory, unknown to the Indian Government. " One of the strangest features in the correspondence laid before the court in this trial is the widespread diffusion through the Mohammedan villages of Bengal, not only of the knowledge of this treason and of the machinery at Patna by which it was carried on, but also of the feeling of a religious duty to aid it either with men or money—all this taking effect in a small but constant stream of sons, brothers, nephews, and cousins leaving home as recruits to the west—flowing into Patna, trickling through the North-west Provinces and the Punjab, in small, but noticeable detachments, putting up in the public serais and musjids, being ferried over the rivers, reaching the Afghan hills, and thence correspond ing with their Bengal homes through the British Post office; not without caution nor concealment certainly, but with long-continued secresy and impunity—till one honest native, and he from the Afghan border, tells an English magistrate; and then has hard work to get believed I" The above commentary of Sir Herbert Edwardes may aptly conclude this sketch of the last Mohammedan conspiracy ; but we cannot resist the temptation of directing attention to the Sikh policeman, Ghuzzhun Khan, who has proved himself " faithful to his salt," and deserving of considera tion from those by whom he is employed. Railway and Other Companies. EXETER AND EXMOUTH. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at Exeter; Major Brent in the chair. The report stated that, as compared with the cor responding half-year of 1868, there would be found a decrease in passenger receipts, but an increase in goods traffic. The former might be attributed to the meeting of the Bath and West of England Agri cultural Society in 1863, and be considered as casual, while the goods traffic appeared to be gradually in creasing. The directors had every reason to be lieve, through the favourable season for pleasure traffic, the dividend payable on the entire year would be at least equal, and probably e x ceed the dividend paid to the preference shareholders last year. The adoption of the report was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Smith, and carried neon. con. is free—the despot. In an aristc Y..ratic S' fate seve ral or a great many, but ail are n, so al together. In a democratic State all ought to 1)a free , and en joy the same liberty as the goven king cla sses i n England. PRICF .4d. STAMPED being acquired the works would be commenced. Application would be made to Parliament next ses sion to abandon the proposed bridge and embank ment across the River Dovey, and to substitute a railway on the north side of the river, so as to con nect Aberdovey and A berystwith by a better line, and more direct communication with the Cambrian railways. The balance-sheet showesi a total receipt of 1',647,494, and a balance of £2,303, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the im proved f.e,rning of the lire, which, without those derived from minerals, amounted to £lB 10s. per mile per week. After Borne conversation, in which Mr PENSON, Mr PIERCY, Mr BANKS, and others took part, the report was adopted, and a dividend of 5 per cent. declared on the preference shares. M. de Persigny's Speech. The Article which led to the Si ispei lsion of the " Courrier du Diman :the." The whole town is talking of nothing mores ear. nestly than about the famous article from tht i pen of Alfred Assolant in the Courrter du Dina wile, which has brought down suspension on that w eekly organ of independence, and has so enhanced f ;he sell. ing price of the last issued number that it cttnnot be now procured. A brief summary of what thus alarms our authorities may be acceptable es, this reign is a great one. We have planted our tricolour at the four corners of the map . We have rescued the circumcised and turbaned Turk from the schismatic Muscovite ; snatched the Ma. ronite daughters of Lebanon from Turk and Druse founded in Mexico an empire destined to Itlst e s long as that in France ; we mount. guard round Vara Pope against his will and that of Italy ; we hav e built a cathedral at Pekin, where your Chinamf will be baptised some of these days; we have p ut our foot in all quarters—and, as far as that goes, we are a great nation ! Don't talk to me of what all this has cost in cash or conscripts; you say 200,000 Frenchmen fell in the field or died in hospital. I'm sorry for it-- there is chiar'oscuro in all great pictures. Whi.ct about expense? Are we not rich enough, as mayrac tells us, to pay for our glory ! Can't a body borrow on the security of the 88 departments, besides the 89th (celui de la Seine), though that be. longs to Prefect Haussman ? Hence both I and nine millions of my fellove electors believe firmly that France has but to lift her little finger to overawe Europe as far as Ka - 30 skatka, and that von Bismark thinks so too. _ _ ,(From the Debate.) We were not surprised to find again in this new speech that philosophic and historical theory BO dear to the speaker, and on which he establishes the conclusion which is set forth both at the beginning and the end of the address, that the present consti tution has founded liberty in France. Aa for our selves, we have no interest in denying the fact attested by history, and asserted so emphatically by the duke, that liberty, like power, varies in its development in a thousand ways, and that each free people presents a character and a physiognomy which are personal to it. Yes, we are aware that there are diversities everywhere; but everywhere also beneath those diversities history shows us something common to all fixed and essential, which M. de Persigny does not or will not see. Among all free nations we find what an illustrious speaker called in the last discussion on the address the strict necessary—the minimum of liberty. Can the asser tion be made that this minimum, as it has been practised for the last twelve years, is enjoyed at present in France under the constitution of 1852 ? Here we will not speak in our own names; nor should we venture to shield ourselves behind the opinion of M. Thiers, but we may be permitted to op pose to Duke de Persigny an authority less suspected, and one which he cannot completely disavow him self. M. Rouher, who is also strongly devoted to the present constitution, has explained the essential condition which he thinks suits the Government of France. Whilst M. Rouher proclaims the great principle of administrative decentralization, Duke de Persigny, if we have rightly understood him, sees nothing to be changed and nothing to be re formed in what exists ; his ideal is the present organisation of the country ; the regime, in which a spirit H of centralisation prevails, in which society has moved for centuries under the guidance of a skilfully-devised series of places which protects all interests'and presides over all the operations of life ; in which, in fine, all the instruments of authority are in the hands of a vast administration exclusively charged with the maintenance of public order and security. Between those two theories, which as may be seen have but little in common, we have no need to say our choice is made; we prefer by far that of M. Rouher to that of Duke de Persigny. (Prom the Nation.) Duke de Persigny, who is one of the most faithful friends and one of the firmest supporters of the empire, considers that the people of France may be very happy in their own country,end very proud of being Frenchmen, without adopting the parliamen. tart' as in and without having responsible ministers regime England, or having a restricted electoral suf. frage as in tha` country. We are of opinion, and do not cease to repeat that the not ion of making liberty subordinate to determined forms is not a philoso phic idea. Our masters in that doctrine are Mira beau and Benjamin Constant. To think thus is to think wisely, and, moreover, is to employ a lan gip/go very encouraging to nil patriots. The day on which there shall be no longer in France any other party than that la favour of liberty, liberty will be obtained, and the Government will be sure to live. We also admit with the ex-Minister of the Interior that, among those men who attack the Government under the pretext of demanding liberty, a great number do so from animosity towards the Geiverne meat. On that point no one is deceived ; their in tentions may be detected through their doubtful attitude—they even pierce through the most solemn declarations, and from beneath the most sacred formulae. Revolutions have, indeed, greatly ener vated the nation; with respect to civic courage and freedom of opinion Frenchmen are rapidly declining. Duke de Persigny says so in his speech, and he is right. He is, however, wrong when he draws from that state of things the conclusion that certain in dispensable liberties should beadjourned. To remedy the evil those liberties should, on the contrary, be accorded as early as possible. Perha p s, in restoring to certain people the liberty of saying what they think, they would be cured of the ugly fault of saying what t he y do not think. A nation is never elevated by an excess of authority, but by the exercise of liberty it is restored and purl. fled. Liberty is healthgiving. If the liberty which is inherent in the Napoleonic idea, so well under^ stood and so well defined by Duke de Persigny, is of a better quality than that of the Government of July or the Republican liberty of 1848, that is a reason for not holding it back any longer. It must be applied to us quickly as the infallible remedy for all our weakness. This is the reason why, after having adhered to the premises of the speech at St. Etienne, we are led to reject the conclusions, and substitute for them others entirely contrary. (From the Temps.) Yesterday a great combined, fete took place, which The duke, in his new parallel between France and drew to this charming place a very large number England, has gone back beyond the origin of the of our friends from across the Channel. Excur- Hanoverian dynasty, at which he has np to the pree sions from various parts of France were arranged, sent time liked to stop. He went as far back as the the destination of the excursionists being the Cry- Conquest, and he appears to think that the Anglo- stal Palace. Large numbers availed themselves of Saxon race is still at present subjected to the yoke the opportunity of visiting our shores, and seemed of the Norman conquerors, the only depositaries of heartily to enjoy themselves. The numbers at the English authority and liberty. We exaggerate palace were considerably swelled by the Foresters. nothing There we see, scattered over the surface As some thousands of that body, owing to the ili a the country, a whole electoral body, a whole poll. clemency of the weather, did not use their tickets tical class who, as the traditional inheritors of the on the occasion of the Foresters'fete last week, the Conquest, have held all the means ofTinfluenee ever directors of the company, with great liberality, s i nce William the Conqueror , a dminister the coon- announced that these tickets would give admission ties, dispense justic e, lev y taxes, maintain public yesterday, when the London Gymnastic Society's order, and, in short, enjoy all the principal at- fete also took place. tributes which belong in France to the adminis. I t i s sa ti s f ac t or y t o fi n d that the various gymnas is erroneous. tic societies in London are progressing, and the t ra ti v e hierarchy." That view Long since the mixture of r a ces, not less than competition yesterday showed that the numbers of the reciprocal penetration of institutions, is a this and other similar societies have attained a very fait aceompli in England. Amon g the most considerable degree of proficiency. The chief pri z es illustrious houses, there are very few which date competed for were a challenge cup and severa l back to the Conquest, and th © immense majority of silver medals, the cup having to be won tw o y ea rs the English electoral body ha s nothin g , absolutely in succession to enable the holder to retai n it. The nothing, to do with William the Conqueror. i Whats that conditions on which the prizes were co m p e ted fo r is exact in the Duke de Persi g n y 's parallel w ere that the winner of the first p r i ze s h ou ld ma k e universal suffrage exists in France and does not in t he g reatest number of points in runn i ng a quar t er England. What is false is tirie consequences which of a mile, high jumping, long jumping, and c li m b. he draws from that fact. "In England the prin- i ng ro p es , th e me d e I s b e i ng awarded to those mak ciples of authority and liberty ca nno t be in conflict, ing the next best scores. Certificates and and are not sacrificed o no to the other ; for liberty prizes were also given to the fastest other runner, the is in the hands of those w ho directly exercise autho - highest jumper, the longest jumper, and th e hi g hest rity in all things." T he Duke de Persi g ny appears, climber. There wero also rewards f or th e - best therefore, to think that the electors alone are free performer on the horizontal bar. The prizes were in England. That is a grave error, and everyone Presented to the successful competitors in the even• well knows that, without speaki n g of the ri g ht of lr 'Cf: _ four o'clock Mr. Coxwell made an ascent in meeting and other rights from which no one is ex- his balloon. Ttin Coldv • eam Guards p erformed chided, individual liberty is g uaranteed in En g land durin g th o vYmnasitic es(7. tr 7 n ne tition, and a concert to every one, and consequently to the non-electors look place front of the Mandel orchestra by the as in Franco to the electors. But how is it that the hand of the Saneure Pornp;ers de Is • I " ° N' 11 do Si., d one, and the duke has not seen that his principle turns against Pierre. Tieir selection was ;bo g orchestral oo band of his thesis? Let us admit that liberty is in England music th admirably executed. in the day, and the the comnany performed twice the monopoly of the governing classes ; the nonce- whole of the fountains played. queues is that in France, where there ars no classes, Oar French neighbours, as the e ell as the Foresters picture galleries, liberty—and be it well understood, English liberty, and others, visited la e r d ge m iY useum the pneumatic for there is no other--ought to be the appanage of Shakspere's house g i • • indeed, railway, hippodrome and, . everyone, and that universal suffrage has nothing to railway, Mr t . hey spent a very busy gay in availing do with that " skilfully-tlevieed hierarchy, which t w h e vua m : e y i v s e a , y e e the numerous amusements provided protects nil in*:_r este n.:1 ,1 , preeides over all the opt. r Jot- their igratificatioi-1, auk: went hiceiq P104" 1 , if rations of life." In a despotic State one ni;',n alone i tired. It is true that since Feb. 1 7,1852, our prin't.;.ng press is in the grip of Government ; that editors. and managers are nominees of the Home Office as much as the keepers of every tobacco shop ; th a t 500,000 paid functionaries vote as ono man for official can• didates; that primary schools cost:but one-twentieth of the sum wanted for soldiery ; that every year a crop of 800,000 conscripts must be had to be drilled in idleness or worse—all this is perhaps wanted that we may be a great people. Aye, there's the rub ; but let us see. Frcm 1792 to 1852 we have had five distinct forms of rule—twice a republic, once an empire, and two successive kingships. Let us take each of those at its acme, and pit each with what we now• witness, also at its probably highest pinnacle at tt'si present hour. In 1797, after Campo Formio, France had ea - larged its old boundary with Belgium, all the /12ft bank of the Rhine, comprised Holland, freed Itrily, founded the Cisalpine and Ligurian republics, a ,nd would have swept it clean from " Alp to Adria' ic." had not General Bonaparte, violating the ordta s of the Directory, handed over Venice to Austria. Our nation had, after five years of civil war and foreign aggression, become the true arbiter of the Conti nent. Our armies were commanded by Bonaparte, Kleber, Massena, Desaix, Hoche, and Joubert ; Car-. not was our War, Talleyrand our Foreign Minister : ,. Monge, Cuvier, Laplace, Lagrange, Volney, Ca - banis, were at the Institute ; Chateaubriand earrie back from emigration with his genie du Chris. t ianisine : Benjamin Constant and de Steel ade.ed impulse to the mental movement; art kept p ace with science ; nor was it to the Directory that this wondrous development was due (they were a l.ot of nobodies), it was to the native energies of F ranee freely allowed to expand. 'Twas that the press mud the rostrum were equally unshackled, and every citizen felt himself a component part and active pax. ticipator in the general grandeur, What was the case after a lapse of 15 year, In 1810 there was a single man erect amid the general prostration ; he had genius, a prodigious army, a budget thrice as heavy as that of the Itt. pubic; he held garrison at Hamburg and at Sevilir-3„ shook hands with a Russian Cz.:.r, was son-in-lis w to an Austrian Kaiser, put his brothers on thrc tles in Spain, 'Holland, and Westphalia, gave Nape .; to his brother-in-law, made his adopted son Viceroy of Italy, his son 1?oi de Tome. Except the Bri.vish Press and Pardainent, all was dumb before him. His voice alone resounded through the Continen.va desert. When he sneezed twenty Irialza were at hand to cry," God bless him !" Was France gmat all the while 9—not a bit of it. The conscript crop was cut twice in each year ; two thirds of all French families were in mourning ; taxation crushed the country in spite of war con tributions levied remorselessly elsewhere ; our , young men were tracked by gendarmes in tite forest a in an effort to escape from the ranks; alt coloniril produce was denied our homesteads ; every prefect was a sovereign satrap, every journalist had a police inspector at his elbow ; folks interchanged thrir thoughts in a whisper ; the Corps Legislatif was mute ; the Senate servile ; in a few years the whole structure crumbled to earth ; all was hollow, all was rotten. With these memories before them, our State oracles denounce parliamentism—that is to say they want to revive the old danger and degradation of France. They don't want their acts discussed :we are to learn what has been done in the name of the country when our control can be of no avail ; hence the distrust felt as much at home as abroad. Hence England, in ironsclad panoply, rests on her ritio within her island ; hence Prussia and the North stand on the qui vire. Is oar Government even feared? Is the French Empire even a hobgoblin (croque-mitaine), as of old ? Not in the least. Gortschakoff, deals with Poland; von Bismark demolishes Denmark, in de. fiance and disregard of what is thought in Paris ; while we 'get King visitors from Madrid, with embassies from Siam and the Tycoon. CRYSTAL PALACE. BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES UNION. The engineer's report states that the works and permanent way had stood well since the opening of the railway, and continued in good condition. At Ashley hill a new station had been constructed and opened for traffic, and sidings for goods traffic had been provided at Laurence-hill, Stapleton-road, and the Ssvern piers. The Portskewet pier and plat forms had been completed and a landing stage was permanently moored there. Buoys had been laid down for marking out the passage across the rivcr. The new ferry steamboat constructed for the service arrived in June, and had since been satisfactorily at work. The works upon the line had been finally measured up and the accounts with the contractor were agreed upon. The capital account to July 31 last showed a total receipt of £304,667, and an ex penditure of £363,448, leaving a balance against capital of £58,781. The revenue account showed the earnings of the line from September 8, 1863, to July 31, 1864, to have been £11,322, and the ex penditure £11,077, leaving a balance of £245. The interest account comprised interest to bankers, seven months to July 31, £2,603, and on preference shares paid in advance, £B6l, making a total of £3,464. STRATFORD.ON-AVON. The report of the directors states that the balance available for dividend amounted to £1,241, and after paying all interest on debentures, preference shares, and the general expenses the balance would admit of a dividend of 78 6d per share on the ordi nary shares of the company, being at the rate of £3 153 per cent. per annum, which the directors recom mended to be declared. The increase in the passen ger traffic, as compared with the corresponding half of 1863, had been £989, which was attributable in some measure to the number of visitors at the Ter centenary of Shakspere; but the directors thought it was satisfactory that in the months of January, February, Maroh, and June, which were not affected by the extra traffic, there had been a gradual in crease. The goods traffic had produced £453 more than in the corresponding period of 1863. The tele graph on the whole line from Hatton to Stratford had been finished. WIVENHOE AND BRIGHTLINGSE A. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Pontefract on Friday ; Mr R. Moxon in the chair. The directors, in their report, congratulated the shareholders on the progress which had been made in the formation of the line up to June last. Since that time, however, the works had not been carried on with the desirable rapidity, as the contractor found difficulty in obtaining labour; but well grounded hopes were entertained that the line would be finished before the end of the year. In their report the engineers stated that the earthworks were finished throughout, with the exception of an etaltnkinent at Airesford-creek ; a continuous line of rails wfit laid from the junction at Wivenhoe to Ford.bridge, and the building of the bridge was proceeding satisfactorily. The reports were adopted, and the two retiring directors, Mr R. Moron and Mr Westwood, were re-elected. VALE OF TOWY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Llandovery on Wednesday; Mr. W. Camp bell Davis (deputy-chairman) presided. The ac• counts 'thawed a balance in hand to be carried for warded to the next half-yearly account. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and accounts, which was seconded and carried. The SECRETARY stated that a reduction had been made of company's debts during the past half.year, and that it was proposed to pay off the remainder of them in the early part of the ensuing year, when a dividend of L 3 per cent. would be available. ABERYSTWITH AND WELSH COAST. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices, Pridge•etreet, Westminster; Mr H. Garteide in the chair. The report stated that the disagreement and dis satisfaction that existed among the directors at the last meeting had subsided, and had been succeeded by perfect harmony end unity of action. The re sults of the past session of Parliament as regarded the interests of the company had been satisfactory and successful. The whole line from Machynlleth to Aberystwith had been opened, and the traffic was highly satisfactory. The directors propose to rein troduce in the next session of Parliament the bill for establishing steamboat communication between North Wales and Ireland. About half the land re quired for the line between Bnrmouth and Portma , dock had been purchased, and on the remaining land A 'V A. PERSONS SEEKING -LANDIED jILSTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY it ESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER PIES GENERALLY— To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. 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Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Aiban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Brits: c.. COBBETT and CO., General Ilonse Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. S.E. SOHO ESTATE, HOUSE, AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requirinv, Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be disposed of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 26, Gerrard-street, Soho, W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected. Naval and Military Intelligence, The Forte, 39, screw frigate, which has just returned to Sheerness to pay off, after an absence from England of over four years, was commissioned at that port January 28, 1860, by Capt. Edward W. Turnour as the flagship of Rear- Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., on the Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa station. She sailed from England on 30th of April following, and on the 22d of September was in Table Bay. She arrived at the Mauritius on the Bth of November, and sailed again on the 24th for Madebourg, on the south-east coast, returning to Simon's Bay Dec. 15. She left Simon's Bay Jan. 2, 1861, for a tour on the West Coast and for Ascension. Admiral Keppel transferred his flag to the Emerald in June and sailed for England, when Admiral Warren succeeded to the com mand of the station, with Capt. Thomas Saumarez as his flag captain. The Forte put to sea on the 10th of July, was at Montevideo on the 31st, and remained cruising, In Octo ber, 1862, she proceeded to Palmas Bay, with the Brazilian Minister and Attache on board, and returned to Rio on the 24th Nov., and Capt. Saumarez was superseded at his own request by Capt. Arthur Mellersh shortly afterwards. After further cruising at Rio Janeiro, River Plate, Montevideo, and the Falkland Islands, the Forte called at Bahia on the 12th of July, and Fayal on the 9th of August. She had a succession of light winds and fine weather until entering the Channel, when she expetienced a strong easterly gale. She arrived at Portsmouth on the 26th, and left on the evening of the 27th for Sheerness, at which port she is to be paid off. The War Department transport Petrel left Chatham yes terday to receive the powder and shell from the Forte, 39, and place the ammunition in store at the magazines, Upnor Castle. It is the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty that the Ariadne, 26, screw steam frigate, 3,214 tans, 800 horse power, now lying in Sheerness harbour, and in the third division of the steam reserve, shall be taken to Chatham Dockyard as soon as convenient, to be brought forward for the first-class steam reserve. The Hood, 79, screw steamship, 3,303 tons, 600-horse power, having been four years and a half in the third divi sion of the Sheerness steam reserve, steam was yesterday got up at her moorings to test the condition of her boilers. The trial was satisfactory, and every part was found right and sound, The Recruit, 6, iron paddlewheel vessel, 593 tons, 160- horse power, has been taken out of dock in Sheerness yard to moorings in the harbour to wait Admiralty orders. It is rumoured that she is to be employed in the protection of the Scottish fisheries in the place of the Jackal. The Babilisk, 7, paddlewheel sloop, 1,031 tons, 400-horse power, which has been repaired at Deptford Dockyard, is ordered to be conveyed to Sheerness, to be fitted for the first-class steam reserve at that place. The first instalment of the naval 100-pounder 6i-ton smooth-bore wrought iron gun arrived at Chatham yester day, from the Royal gun factory, Woolwich, in the War Department transport Bomarsund, Mr Spicer, master, which went alongside the Ordnance-wharf to await orders from the War-office as to the landing of the guns. According to ar rangements previously made, the guns were intended for shipment on board the ironclad frigate Achilles, 6,121 tons, 1,250-horse power, which is to be armed exclusively with the 100-pounders; but, in consequence of that vessel not being ready to receive them for some days to come, the gnus were yesterday unshipped from the Bomarsund, and landed at the gun-wharf to prevent the transport being unneces sarily detained, In consequence of this misunderstanding between the Naval and War Department authorities the guns, after being landed at the Ordnance-wharf, will be reshipped in the course of a few days and conveyed down the harbour to the Achilles, this arrangement—or, more properly speaking, want of ar rangement—entailing additional labour and responsibi lity on the part of the War-office officials at Chatham. The Bomarsund also brought a number of gun-carriages and other stores, and these, as well as the 100 pounders, were landed by means of No. 7 crane, the steam cranes erected at the gun-wharf not being used on this occasion to land guns of the weight of the 100 pounders. The Bomarsund will proceed from Chatham to the Nore this morning, for the purpose of receiving the guns from the screw steam fri gate Forte. Yesterday Capt. F. S. Tremlett, of :the Impregnable, 78, inspector of training ships, commenced his half-yearly in spection of the boys and lads serving on board the training ship Wellesley, 72, Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., in Chatham harbour, in which duty he will be engaged until this after noon. During his visit yesterday Capt. Tremlett inspected the various portions of the vessel, and witnessed the boys and lads go through their gun drill and the various other duties connected with seamanship, in the whole of which they exhibited great smartness and efficiency. The Helicon, paddle despatch vessel, building at Ports mouth, is receiving her outer skin of longitudinal plankings and is expected to be launched in about two a.onths time. The Helicon was laid down on the same lines as the En chantress, Admiralty yacht, and will also be propelled by a similar amount and description of engine power and paddle wheel. Since the accession of Mr E. J. Reed to the office of Chief Constructor of the Navy, the Helicon's frame has been taken down to abaft her midship section and a new forebody given to her on that gentleman's plan, by which the U form of the midship section is oarried well forward, so that the vessel under the full pressure of her engines, may, so to speak, tread the water under her forefoot, in lieu of burying her nose lin every sea she meets, as ordinarily the fashion with:Admiralty designed steam vessels of the Helium and Enchantress class. The teal of the Helicon under steam when launched will afford, by a careful com parison with the result of the Enchantress's trial, a fair criterion of the merits, if any, possessed by this U form of forebody now advocated by Mr Reed over the hollow bow system previously in vogue at Whitehall. The Royal Alfred, screw frigate, on the north building slip of Portsmouth dockyard, is having a topgallant fore castle fitted to her. She is expected to be launched about Oct. 15, when she will be docked and armour cased. The operation of testing the two locomotive steam cranes which have been constructed for use on the dockyard extension works at St. Mary's Island, Chatham, was under taken yesterday, when each crane was tested by weights, gradually increased up to 16 tons, or about double that which they will be required to raise in ordinary use, both cranes bearing the trials satisfactorily. A body of workmen are now busily employed in demolish ing the house erected a few years since at the western end of Chatham dockyard for the official residence of the master ropemaker at that establishment, the ground on which the premises stand, as well as a portion of the dockyard, being required to be taken in for the enlargement of the Royal Marine Barracks, that part of the dockyard being the site selected by the Admiralty on which a commodious range of buildings for officers' quarters will be erected. A garrison court martial, under the presidency of Lieut•• Col J. R. Gibbon, C. 8., 4th Division Depot Brigade Royal Artillery, which assembled last week at Woolwich for the trial of the 10 soldiers implicated in the recent robberies at the Government clothing establishment in that garrison, have found nine of the prisoners guilty, and have discharged the tenth, namely, the gunner Lindsay, who was acquitted. The sentence of the court martial was yesterday read in the eastern range of the barracks, in which it was announced that the nine prisoners were condemned to various terms of imprisonment and hard labour, as follows—one to 56 days, four to 84 days, and four to 112 days. The erection of a couple of elegant painted glass memorial windows has just been completed in the new garrison church at Woolwich. One is dedicated to the memory of the late Brigadier-General Crofton, who commanded the Royal Ar • tillery in the late expeditionary force despatched to China; and the other to that of the late Colonel Charles Bingham, Deputy-Adjt.-Gen. Royal Artillery. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. C. W. Hope, to the Brisk ; Commander G. L. Sulivan, to the St George, additional for service in the Coastguard; Lieut. C. L. Oxley, to the Wolverene ; 11. W. S- L. Montgomery, nominated to a naval cadetship ; and W. L. Norcock, paymaster to the Hastings. The last Mohammedan Conspiracy in India. (From the llomcward Hail, August 29.) By the previous mail we learned that the appeal of the 11 Mohammedans who were convicted some months since before Sir Herbert Edwards, the Session Judge of Umballa, of conspiracy to overthrow British rule in India, was being proceeded with in the Court of the Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab, at Lahore. We have now before us the judgment from which the appeal was made, but its extra ordinary length—extraordinary even for an Indian official document—and the number of p o ints embraced in it pos sessing no interest, unless merely in so far as they contri bute to bring their guilt home to the prisoners—have led us to weave the essential facts into a compact narrative, by way of indicating how conspiracies of this sort are got up, and with what impunity and for what a length of time they are occasionally permitted to flourish by the authorities in India, In May, 1863, Ghuzzun Khan, a Sikh sergeant of mounted police, who during the m u ti n ies had deserved well of the British raj, fell in with four travellers, apparently on a journey from Umballa down towards 37elhi. Tho keen eyed sergeant at once detected in them a resemblance to the frontier with the Sittaua Hindustani & By way of testing hs prisoners susp c i ei captured r ed he beynot entered d troopsin their skirmishes on the into conversation with them, and soon discovered that they we re on an e mbassy from Syud Abdoolah—the leader of th e M u lk a h Sitt a nees—t o his friends in Bengal. Relying on the importance of his discoveries, Ghuzzun Khan deemed himself justified in arresting the travellers, and having seuc them before a magistrate—Mr C.,Stephen—requested that they might be summoned to state what he knew about them. This re quest was unheeded by the magistrate who discharged the prisoners, merely recording on the back of the report sent to him by Ghuzzun Khan, that it is plain the men were merely travellers." Had the magistrate taken the trouble to inquire, he would have found that they were not merely travellers, but emissaries of sedition as well. The Sikh sergeant, naturally hurt at the slight attention paid to him by the magistrate, was thereby impelled to in vestigate the matter still further; and about two months afterwards commissioned his son in Eusofzye, to attach himself to the Mulkah Sittanees, and find out who and where their friends were in British territory. The son, Feroz Khan by name, seems to have performed his father's commission admirably; he remained with the Sit tanees ten days, and even accompanied them in an attack upon Kubbul, a village on the left bank of the Indus, owned by a chief having friendly relations with the British, and who was consequently obnoxious to the fanatics of Mulkah. Here he left them, but not before having dis covered that their great friend was Mohammed Jaffir, of Thanesur, a pleaderle. the Umballa courts,a stamp-seller.and petition writer, who added to those avocations the more im portant one of agent for the transmission of men and materiel to the fanatics in the hills. The Sikhs, father and son, now appeared before Captain Moseley, and urged him to test the correctness of the information they had thus ob tained in regard to the doings of the Umballa pleader. At length, on Dec. 12, a descent was made by the police upon Jollies house at Thanesur, and his books and papers seized. He was arrested himself a few days afterwards, after having led the police a chase of some 200 miles. Among his papers was found a sort of autobiography, from which, as well as from the testimony of witnesses; it was found that Jaffir had fought against us at Delhi, in the character of a ghazee, that is a Mohammedan pledged to do or die in the cause of Islam. Jaffir's papers also furnished a clue to the other conspirators, all of whom were seized; but the ringleaders, Mohammed Shuffee, of Umballa, and Yahiya Ali, a man of great influence in Patna, need only be mentioned here. The importance of the role played by Mohammed Shuffee we can appreciate when we come to consider the fact that he held the meat contract for the supply of the European troops, not only at - Umballa, but also at Jullundur, Lahore, Mooltan, Dens Ismael Khan, Sealkote, Itawul Pindee, Attock, and Nowshera; and by means of his agents in these places was able to forward to the hills men and money without attrac,ing suspicion. But the two Umballa conspirators, Mohammed Jaffir and Shuffee, seem merely to have contented themselves with the part of agents to their more active brethren of Patna— whence emissaries were sent to all parts of Bengal to preach the Crescentade, or Mohammedan holy war, the converts or recruits being forwarded in the first instance to Patna and thence on the way to Delhi and Um balla to the hills. Ono of these emissaries we will take as a sample of the others. Oosman Khan, native of 24-Pergun nabs, while in Jossore, received money from the Nazir of the Judge's Court to go upon a mission among the Moham medans to collect money, and to induce all likely men to go on a crescentade against tho infidels. This mission, judeing from the glowing terms in which the preacher himself de scribes it, must have been an eminently successful one. " The Mohammedans," he says, " in this part of the coun try, seem to have an excellent idea of the purpose for which I have came ; and are obedient"—which latter clause of the sentence may be interpreted, " are eager to rebel." "There is nothing," he says further on, 44 to be compared to this sort of life. From 25 to 30 men join me in prayers," Lc, in sedition, "five times a day. This is the result of my having undertaken God's work, otherwise I am not deserving of so much distinction." We may mention, in passing, that this preacher of rebellion saved himself from a less pleasant distinction by turning Queen's evidence. And not only did he employ himself in procuring recruits, but also in collect ing money, of which he was enabled to remit a goodly sum to the central propaganda in Patna. After a time spent in this pious war, he bethought of pay ing a visit to his employers. And here we may a s we ll admit our readers to a glimpse of the way in which these worthies carried on their business at headquarters; Cowman Khan and others of his fellow-preachers helping us to the description. In the Sadik poor street of Patna stand a group of houses which includes the residence of Ahrancloola, member of the Municipal Committee ; of his relative, Yahiya Ali, the High Priest; of another conspirator, Abdool Raheem ; and also embraces the Mohammedan Saar or hospice, with its place of prayer and its garden. There is a public en trance from the street, and between the houses there is private communication—showing upon what close terms the inmates lived. Here Syud Abdoolah-leader o f the Sittanees in the late war on the Eusufzye fronded . --drew his inspiration ; and h ere until lately were pre' served the commendatory letters of Syud Ahmed—a fanatic above proof—who disturbed the Sikh frontier from 1824 to 1830, and whose followers are still numeronst especially in Patna, and generally in Bengal. And it W as among these that the c i reseentade preachers appear to bays gained by persuading them that it was "good witness the &tato o f the Syud "in the hills beyond Pindee." At all event s , BIOS r, recruits, tog 0 and the days of Syud Ahmed these hottsee in the street of S a dikpoor would appear to have been a hot-bed o f Sedi tion as well as of Wahabee fanaticism. moat so u During the years 1861162.63, this Mohammedan hospice was the tendezvous of pilgrims from all parts of n e ogal ; it has beer, stated in evidence that as many as 200 were there at a time. In the fictitious language of the con spirators, these pilgrims, or recruits, were called 6 ‘ mer chants;" but it has been recorded that the " merchants" wero always rejected when found to be too old. During their stay at the hospice-.-which generally la s t ed f ou r or fiv n, and e d claYi h received food, i ns t ru cti on of a certa i n kind, were preached to several times a d ay by the High Priest—who, besides preaching, seems also t o have had an immense correspondence on his hands. The re cruits, so soon as they effervesced to a fitting pitch of fana ticism, were despatched in kafilas, or companies of from five to ten men, in the direction of the north-west. Bat not empty-handed. Each man received his travelling ex penses; and the more devoted ones —those whose faith was looked upon as impregnable—had gold mohurs and hoondees for thousands of rupees quilted into their jackets —to be transferred at Umballa to the meat contractor, and by him forwarded to the bills " where the Patna people are." By this means, in the course of a year or so, the Mohammedans remitted not leas than 410,000 to the frontier. How the money was obtained, we need not marvel, if we consider that Oosman Khan and the other crescentade apostles had no difficulty in sending to Patna sums of 150 rupees at a time. How these companies of Bengalees—there seem to have been often as many as two or three kafias despatched in a week—made the long journey between Patna and the Punjab frontier without ettracing observation, is suffi ciently remarkable—but it will appear even more so when we come to find that some of them publicly preached sedition in the towns and villages as they went. We are treated to a picture of a well-to-do M ussu l man f rom Jessore, jogging north-westward on his own s t ee d, Hudi bras-like. and going out of his way, whenever he felt so inclined, to infuse his own spirit into his con-religionists. This worthy put up at all the comfortable serail ; he was to be met—accompanied by a dozen prospective martyrs for Islam—on the way from Thanesur to Umballa—he was to be seen quietly loitering on the Anarkullee Sergi at Lahore, and going thence in his palkee-gharree to the frontier. 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