The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

TO ADVERTISERS.—The First Number of the " STATESMAN " will have a Guaranteed Circulation of 4,000. Advertisements received at the "Statesman " Office, 265, Strand, up till r riday evening. EAST INDIA HOUSE, 26Th Atonal., 1857. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next Examination of Candidates for the appointment of As sistant-Surgeon in the service of this _East In na Company will be held at this House on MONDAY, the Ilth January, 1858, and sue. ceeding days, and that the probable number of Vacancies in the Medical Establishment to be then tided up will be Fifteen. Copies of the regulations for the admission of candidates will be furnished on application to the Secretary, Military Department, at this House. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. STATE FIRE INSURANCE% No. 3, Pall-mall East, London, S.W. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 500,0001., with power to increase to 2,000,0001. Policies falling due on Michaelmas-day next must be renewed on or before 14th October ensuing. Every description of property insured at moderate rates. Claims settled with promptitude and liberality. The Directors invite application for agencies in places where the Company is not represented. A liberal commission will be allowed. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. THE RHINE AND GERMANY. —Th e Shortest and Cheapest Route, via, Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden Company, start three times a day. Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Farther particulars forwarded, post free, on applicalion to the Company's London Agent, Mr. Jogs C. JANsoN, 61, Gracechurch street. GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY. SIXTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Sixteenth HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors is this Com pany will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London, on FRIDAY, the 30th day cf October, inst., at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, for the General Business of the Company, pursuant to the Act. By order of the Board, THOS. R. WATT, Secretary. Company's Offices, 3, New Broad-street, London, 2d October, 1857. VI The books for the registration of shares will be closed from Friday. the 16th, to Friday, the 30th Oct. inst., inclusive, and trans fers will not be received during that period. TO BE LET, at KEMPSEY, near Worcester, Furnished or Unfurnished, with immediate possession, if required, a compact FAMILY RESIDENCE, with Coach House, Two-stall Stable, Garden, and small Paddock. The lrinse, which was until recently occupied by Lieutenant-General Henderson, is conveniently situated, within half-an-hours' drive of the Worcester Railway Station, within two hours' drive of Cheltenham, and within an easy distance of the Town of Malvern.—For further information, apply on the premises, at Kempsey ; to Mr. Higgs, Auctioneer, Wor cester ; or to Mr. Wallace Gaoriel, 44, Linea/es-inn-fields, London. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. The public is respectfully informed that this theatre, hav ing been entirely redee)rated, will OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY, the 12th inst., when will be performed Shak spere's Play of THE TEMPEST. The box-oftce will open To-day (Thursday), October 8. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. Dillon. —Under the joint management of Miss LOUISA. PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol lowing Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co relli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert, Mrs. H. Manley, and Miss Louisa Pyne; Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton Braham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr. Bernard, Mr. Kerby', Mr.Wallworth, Mr.G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr„ Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's BIM, and the Orches tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal Italian Opera. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. Assistant Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr. Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson. THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, Wallace's opera of MARITASA. After which, SOMEBODY ELSE. Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., 22 25., and £1 11s. 6d. ; Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circ'e, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. rnis EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline, Mss Amy Sedgwick (her second appearance in London); Claud* Molnotte, Mr Howe. After which, A CURE FOR LOVE. To conclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each, (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 it ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. T HEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed the home-made I Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Wright and Miss Arden. After which, will be revived the celebrated nautical drama of MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Hallyard (Ida original character), Mr. T. P. Cooke. T. conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS." STRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING, will be performed a new comic drama, entitled, SO VERY OBLIGING. Mr. Kinloch, Miss Craven, &c. To be followed by THE PHANTOM WIVES, in which Miss Craven will sustain four characters. Reginald Rattle cap, Mr. Leicester Buckingham. After which, the highly-successful and original burlesque, written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TRAVIATA; cr, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor, Mr. F. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr, J. Clarke. To conclude with MORE BLUNDERS rffts ONE Larry Hoo'agan, Mr. Macarthy. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 25.; Pit, is.; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. Is. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Rolyon and Emden. TIIIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of THE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and. Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Missies Swauborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Meifont. Commence at half-past Seven. ij 0 YAL SURREY THEATRE, lA' Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or, the Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswiek, W. Smith, Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belmore ; Miss Webster, Miss Eburne, Miss Johnstone. After which, a new Petite Comedy, UT IN TdE WORLD. Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Blighted One, Mr. Widdieemb. CANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-rond,— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—..The follow ing company of Vocalists arc engaged for the performance of `elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES. DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Rus3ell, Mrs. Badzcy, Marine. Manetta, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, Miss Brunel!, Mrs. Le Jenne, and Madame Marietta; Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, R. Grover, T. Far rant, B. %ones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor An-mnio, E. L. Rime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Messrs. S. Collins and E. Mack nay. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, drc.. until twelve o'clock. --Signor PIOCO will perform, at ha,f-past Eight and half. past Ten, every Evening. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY- Morn., 28 min. aft. 4—Even., 0 nen aft. 5 To-Mortßow —Morn., 24 min. aft. 5 -Even., 49 min. aft. 5 SEE WEATHER - SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 56—lowest this morning and daring the night 57 —this day at noon. BAROMETER. 28.88—a heavy fall.l Wiwi), B. to S.W. ; ;jfreab, with heavy rain. Stormy weather. - c§llllll,, LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1857. Our governors have humbled themselves, fasted, and prayed ; for we may surely conclude that they have practised what they preached. They have professed their repentance, and now we look for the fruits meet for repentance. We have been told in prayer, provided for us by the Govern ment itself, to regard the muti n y as a divine chastisement for our sins ; of course for our sins in regard to India itself, for no theory of divine chastisements ever separated the sin and the pun ishment entirely. Unless, indeed, wo know the ground of our punishment, how could we know what sins to confess and forsake. We will not suppose then that our Cabinet has deliberately done anything so hypocritical, we might almost say blasphemous, as to order a whole nation to confess the sins of England against India without believing that there were some distinct and well known sins for which we held ourselves answer able to the Judge of all the Earth. To be sure the appointed confessiGn is of that vague and ge neral kind in which courtly penitence delights ; but we are to understand, we presume, that it is 'uite as sincere as if it confessed the sin of having such a Governor-General and Council, and such a staff of high officials as now terrify Calcutta by their incompetency for the crisis ; or such a minister for India as Mr. V ERNON SMITH. A delicate topic this no doubt for the Court Liturgist to touch in constructing the prayers. The nation was to confess its sins against India ; but the nation's sins have all been committed through its Government ; the more we confess, the more we deplore what our Governors have done. We acknowledge, indeed, that the nation, the constituencies we mean, have been guilty of one great delinquency ; they have let our governors do almost as they liked with India. Our foreign policy has been far too much surrendered to our Germanised Court, and the Premiers who retained Royal favour by proper regard to cousins across the water ; and India has, in like manner, been treated by the electors too much as a foreign country. It was forgotten that East Indians, though nominally the subjects of the East India Company, were really and truly subjects of the English Crown, as well as ourselves ; and that had we but spoken out, our vast colony could not have been governed as it has been, till wretched ness characterises the people, and till a whole army of 100,000 men is guilty of mutiny and murders of the most atrocious kind. If, however, the nation has to confess the sin of leaving their rulers to themselves, and forgetting the national re sponsibilityfor the good government of the coun try our arms had conquered, what must be the sins of those who abused the national indulgence till they have ruined everything ! _ _ _ In all seriousness we look upon this day of fasting and humiliation, just passed, much as we did upon the one in reference to the Crimean dis asters. If there be anything to coxfess, it is that we have trusted too much to our rulers, and that their misgovernment for a long series of years, and their mismanagement at the present time, have brought all these evils upon us. Nor do we see how our rulers themselves can really think other wise ; they must know full well that they "have done the things they ought not to have done, and not done the things which they ought to have done." And truly enough we may add, too truly to incur the censure of profanity—" that there is no help in them." So true is this, indeed, that to a great extent a change of Governors for India is the first thing required of our fasting and pray ing Cabinet. " HEAVEN helps those who help themselves," and the first help which Lord PALMERSTON can render is, beyond question, that of pitching the wrong men out of the wrong places. Look at India first. The cholera has already superseded one Court appointment, that of an incompetent Com mander-in-Chief—a commander who was enjoy ing himself at Simla when the mutiny broke out at Meerut, who took that awful affair in very leisurely style, and of whom we hear nothing in regard to the earlier mutinies at Barrackpore and Berhampore. And then the Governor and his council there is hardly a difference of opinion as to their utter unfitness for their po !..ition. Lord CANNING himself, no one speaks ill of personally, but no one knows any recommenda tion he possesses for his post, except that of being his father's son. With abundant qualifications to make a most respectable English Peer, even the Government papers are obliged to confess that he would not have been sent out had anything but a featherbed Governor-Generalship been ex pected for him. His only faults have been those of a second or third rate man, dependent upon officials in emergencies which neither he nor his patrons contemplated. As to those officials themselves, we may refer our readers to an excel lent photograph of them all, by " One who has served under Sir CHAS. NAPIER," and who dedi cates his pamphlet—" The Mutiny of the Bengal Army ; a Historical Narrative"—to Lord ELLEN BOROUGH ; everything attests the accuracy of the likenesses. Let our readers then but look at them, sad they will cease to be surprised at any of the deeds of infatuation which have reached our ears. ' The COUNCIL of the Governor ! A sounding title indeed—we associate the idea of something as rc spectable as our own Cabinet, at least ; but it would be injustice, indeed, to compare our Cabi nets, with all their defects, to the Governot's Council. There is old Mr. DoRIN, a man who, in a ser vice of 33 years, has never been 50 miles out of Calcutta, and who might as well have been in England all the time, "sixty years of age, and in all his habits a very Sybarite," " indolent, void of energy, deficient in mental culture and ability, and who certainly in no other country but India, and in no other service but the Civil Ser vice, would have attained any but the most sub - u - - dinate position." Even the contrast of Mr. GRANT'S activity is unfortunately not a contrast for good ; for, though in the prime of life, active and energetic, he is completely ignorant of the habits and customs of the natives of Upper I edil, and too vain,' superciliou., and narrow-minded, to seek information from practical men in his 077t1 service. He is absurdly jJaloua of military me 1, and his determination to thwart them delay,: I, till too lite, vigorous measures in the c of the Santhal rebellion, and also in the case of the present mutiny. General Low, the military member of the Council, is too far advanced in years to carry the military measures which his judgment approves against the over bearing talk of Mr. GRANT—like George STEPHEN SON he cannot make a speech, and wants some one with " that greatest of powers, the gift of the gab," to enable him to carry his point against red-tapism, ignorance, and impudence. Mr. Pmeocs, though an honest legal adviser in the Council, does the mischief of leaning to the con ceited routini,t GRANT, when the latter opposes the military wisdom of the veteran General. Such is the board of advisers Lord CANNING found on his arrival at Calcutta, and by whose aid he had to sup press a mutiny amongst an army of soldiers, of whose peculiarities he knew no more than any of us on this side of the water. This alone is enough to account for any vacil lation and infirmity of purpose shown by a MAD of mental powers wholly inadequate to compre hend at a glance the position of India, to make up his mind and to abide by it. But his mili tary Secretary, Colonel BIRCH, and his Horne Secretary, Mr. BEADON, were also equally below the occasion. Theformerhad been Judge-Advocat e General, and his narrow capacity to this day is chiefly shown in orders hardly intelligible fur ex cessive quibbling. * Lord DALHOUSIE put him virtually at the head of the Indian army, to spite Sir CHARLES NAPIER ! Mr. BEADON is a mere Civil Service man. He hates indigo planters, Indian merchants, the press, everything that in terferes with his dominant idea of " India for the Civil Service." These, then, are the men with whom Lord CANNING has to put down an [LUX= aMpled Mutiny, to. reconquer India, and to re form its Administration. Men who, concurring in * The writer of the " Mutiny of the Bengal Arm " gives a curious instance o f th e intolenble red-tapistn nd incapacity of Col. Birch. When Lieut. Baugh was at tacked by Mungul Pandy—from whom our soldiers have nick-named the mutineers Pandies—on the 29th of Match, his life was saved by a Mahommedan orderly. General Hearsay. who, it wilt be remembered, rode up and quelltd the mutiny, then and there promoted the orderly, " F or this a seven wigging was administered to the gallant officer by the Government Military Secretary—Col. Birch ! ! !" And this is the man who was plocad in the Indian War- Office over Sir Charles Napier ! ! ! rrtE S NDON, THU RS ryA he opinion with which they sent home Lord DALHOUSIE—that their whole system was perfect —that of the sepoys absolutely so i—refused to believe the possibility of a mutiny, pooh-poohed the plain indications of it—allowed arms to be sold to the number of ten thousand, while they gagged the press, and slighted the remonstrances of Calcutta Europeans—refused for long a volun teer corps in the city—sent back the Nepaulese regiments whom their own Civil Servant had proper,ly enough accepted, and who might at that time almost have changed the aspect of affairs in Oude, auxiliaries whom they were but teo glad afterwards to recall—who kept HEWETT at Meerut, and LLOYD at Dinapore—and who, though they acted vigorously in secretly recalling H.M.'s 84th from Rangoon, yet acted again with fat 11 leniency in merely disbanding the mutinous 34th Native Infantry. Now we maintain that a clean sweep must be made of all the Calcutta incapables. All parties in India but the Civil Service are disgusted with them, indeed live in alarm through them, and are almost ready to assume the responsibility of superseding, them by a vigilance committee. Europeans and natives, merchants and bankers, planters and editors of friendly journals, soldiers and hon-military men, all classes, in short, even missionaries of long standing, high character, well acquainted with the natives, and but too prone t - ) lean to the Government, all denounce equally the miserable and dangerously incapable and selfish Government under which they live. They know of no parallel but that of VERNON SMITH and the East India Directors here. Let Lord PALMER STON call Parliament together, and the country will hear the truth. , There seems to be a very general impression that there will be a speedy, if not an immediate advance in the minim' m rate of discount by the Bank of England. There is consequently gloom in the Money Market. The prices of every class of security are greatly depressed, and there is but too much reason to fear that we have not as yet by any means seen the worst of it—that a financial crisis is impending which may bear com parison with that of 1847, and which can only be relieved by another virtual suspension of the Bank Charter Act. There is already a panic in the United States. Several important banks have stopped payment in Philadelphia, and Balti more, and others may be compelled to follow a simi lar course. The rate of interest is now 18 to 24 per cent., and the Exchange has turned decidedly against England, so that, most probably, in place of receiving, we shall be compelled to transmit specie across the Atlantic. We are, in consequence of the provisions of the monetary code, the mark to bo aimed at by every person in temporary want of cash. We must not only supply the entire Continent— France, Austria, Germany, even Russia, the East Indies, and China, but the Western Hemisphere. We may exclaim with the wearied Trojan— " Qucz regio in terris non nostri plena laborisil Whenever an object is to be gained it is sccom- plished at our expense, and the trade, and corn merce, and production of the United Kingdom is paralysed, and our poor people compelled to sub mit to the greatest inconvenience and privation in order that large capitalists may further increase their overgrown stores. Under the existing system we have no defence against these demands, nor any means of averting the domestic suffering that ine vitably attends a foreign drain. We may see bullion purchased in our own markets by any foreigner who pleases to offer a small premium. No amount of patriotism can withstand six per mille premium, or 12s. in the 1001., which the Bank of France was recently offering, and may again speedily tender ; while the British nation loses ten times the amount in consequence of the "tightness of money," as it is termed, in our own circles. And yet we insanely enough persevere in the course that exposes us to a periodical re currence of these terrible losses—a disastrous monetary cycle that renders legitimate trade almost a gambling speculation. A powerful writer—Sir AROuIBALD ALISON —has so clearly depicted this untoward state of affairs that we cannot abstain from quoting his very words. "So perilous," saith he, "has mercantile adventure in consequence become, so numerous aro the risks with which the path of the merchant is beset, that .it has become next to impossible to pursue a sober, steadfast, prudent course. So immense have been the ad ditions which the mutations of the currency, and periodical contractions of credit, have made to the ordinary perils of the winds and the waves, that the most-cautious trader is now exposed to nearly as great risks as the moat reckless. A bad. ha,r vest —three weeks rain in autumn--a blight in the corn—a rot in . the potatoes—a murrain in the cattle, is at any time sufficient, by occasioning an export of a few millions of sovereigns, to blast the most prudent undertakings, and ruin the wisest mer. A considerable importation of grain—such an importation as it is the great object of the free trade system to introduce and render permanent, is, at any time, sufficient to render half the traders in the kingdom, with the exception of the great capitalists, bankrupt. No amount of pru dence and circumspection on the part of the mer chant or manufacturer can guard against the effects of the sudden stoppage of credit, and re fusal of accommodation, which arises from an exportation trifling in amount, but ruinous in iti consequences, of the precious met sls. A nation possessing two hundred millions a-year of solid realised income, independent of professional in come—whose capital exceeds five thousand mi!- lions sterling, finds itself reduced to the verge of bankruptcy by the exportation of five millions of sovereigns in exchange Tor food This, too, takes place at a time when the Bank has 10,000,0001. of sovereigns still in its coffers, when trade• is in an uncommonly healthy condi tion, imports great, exports above fifty millions, and nothing exists to derange commerce but the artificial perils with which erroneous human laws have environed the currency." Afid th's is they state into which we are now rapidly drifting. Nothing can arrest our down• ward course so long as the present monetary code is maintained without alteration or modification. What the nation requires is a domestic currency that will be freely received in all the transactions of internal commerce and everyday life. So long as it is issued in convenient denominations, say for 1 1 ., 21., and 31., and that it be kept within sufficient limits, and receivable in payment of taxation, and every national demand, so long will it circulate freely from hand, and possess the purchasing power, which is all that is required. The credit of the Government, and even of the Bank of England is unimpeaohed and unimpeach able, and the mere fact that the so-called incon vertible paper currency will not bo available for protracted hoarding or exportation, will be the strongest feature in its favour. It will be just as easy to maintain the valno of such an instrument of exchange as it now is to regulate the foreign exchanges, and there will be no necessity for entailing any extraordinary amount of suffering on the industrious classes in the attempt. But is a grievous mistake to suppose that it would be inconvertible. It will be readily convertible into beef and mutton, bread, beer, or groceries, wines, or agricultural produce. It will pay the rent of lands or houses, and provide the happy possessor not only with all the necessaries and comforts, but even the luxuries of life ; and the man who possesses it wilt not want the means of making foreign payments or travelling in any part of the world. The worst that could possibly happen would be that we would have to pay a small premium under cer tain untoward circumstances. But that would rarely be the case. It would merely represent the premium which the demand placed on, bullion in the different money markets of the world." It is use less to attempt resisting that natural law. As well might Mrs. PARTINGTON strive to keep back the advancing tide with a broom. It is better to de vise at once adequate means to resist its encroach ments, and this can only be by enabling English men to bid against foreigners for gold in English markets. At present there are from forty to fifty millions of sovereigns in circulation, two-thirds whereof might be beneficially replaced with notes for 11., it. 55., 1/. 10s., and /. 15s. The greatest con venience would be found from issuing for the fractional parts of a pound, as is the custom in the North of Ireland. Even if the principle of convertibility were retained, and that these notes should all be redeemed on demand in specie, they would still exercise a very beneficial influence. Mr. JAMES WILSON, one of the highest authorities on the subject, considered that the issue of twenty millions of 11. notes would give us a command over commodities of all descriptions—i.e., a purchasing power just as great -as if twenty millions' worth of gold were dug up in the centre of England. Surely, then, it is worth trying an experiment that may be pro ductive of such extraordinary results. Is it not stultifying ourselves to persevere perversely in a course that has occasioned such terrible calamities, and so frequently reduced the nation to the verge of bankruptcy ? Since writing the above we find that the mini mum rate of discount has been advanced at the Bank Parlour thi; day from five-and-a-half to six per cent. This is another of the fruits of the vicious system in operation, and under which the nation has so long been groaning. ALTERATION IN THE MINIMUM RATE OF DISCOUNT—(This Day). The Bank Directors, at their meeting to-day, have put up the rate of discount from 51 to 6 per cent. This variation was generally expected, and no surprise was therefore occasioned. Mone tary affairs are certainly assuming an unsatisfac tory appearance, and we are threatened with a repetition of the stringency and inconvenience Which have characterised the concluding months of the two previous years. Trade must suffer, and many weak firms will inevitably succumb. If first-class houses are compelled to pay 6 per cent. for accommodation, what onerous quotations must be exacted f rom t h ose of a second or third rate character ! These may be highly respectable and in every respect sol vent, but not having the prestige of their more pow erful rivals, their position under such circumstances is exceedingly disadvantageous. The strain upon the establishment both for notes and gold is believed to have been excessive, and as a measure of precau tion a restrictive policy was dictated. The allow ance fur deposits on call, and for fixed periods will be proportionately advanced, and thus large sums that might otherwise be invested in the funds, shares, dm, will be attracted to the discount market, where the supply will conse quently continue very large. The Sardinian Minister will return to town at the latter end of next week from Germany. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury returned to town a few days since from Tottenham Park, Wilts. Tne Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are expected home in a few days from Germany, where they have been staying for some time past. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle will leave Quid denham Hall, at the latter end of the month, for the Continent. The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers are staying on a visit with the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley Hall, Lancashire, but will leave iu a few days for Middleton Park, Oxfjrd. The Earl and Lady Const,nce Gro , venor will shortly leave Dunrobin Castle, for C a l ver l ey Park, Cheshire. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby will shortly leave Drummond Castle, Perthshire, where they have been entertaining company for some time past, fat GI imthorpe. Lard A shhurton has left Scotland for Ireland, where his lordship intends to stay for someweeks.] Lord It )i.eby arrived in town on Tue s d a y f rom P ar i s. Her ladyship is staying in Paris, and will not return until ear.y next month. The Rtght Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have been on a visit to Lady Marian Alford, at Ashridge. The right bon, gentleman has since returned to Hugh enden Manor. _ _ _ Mr. %TN 7 171 n and Lady Mary Craven return to town t from WitnPole Halle Cambridgeshire, where they have been staying for some weeks past, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke. ivery considerable favourable injuryr es u : t t e o . THE SILK CROP in the islands of A n d ros an d Ti o (Cyciade ) this year, states the An - nales du Contrnerc,e shtaosrmiasotanpdrodruaiVd d Ext e u Successiveie the worms. The crop of cocaons, which last year pro deiced 100,000 ocques at Andros and 24,000 at Tino, here this year only produced 6,000 ocques in the former island and 15,000 in the latter. The prices have con) u (paid), „ eel , 91, 10J, and 111 per coque. The crop of c ern hes been very abundant thi s year i n t h e C yclades, but the hopes which were entertained in the spring relative to the vines will not be realised. At Syra, Pares, and Zea, the oidiurn has committed great ravages. The vineyards of Naxos, have not, how e v er , been affected, and wine will be abundant in that island. A. to the vineyards of Santorin, they will only produce half a crop. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. - -We aro sorry to have to record a second instance of violence perpetrated on a passenger train on the Eastern Counties Railway ; and we lament to add that one of our transatlantic brethren will convey across the ocean ietelligence of a state of barbarism in this c.iuntry More real than those fabulous norrers which were some time back imposed upon the Times by an , Eeglish visitor to America. Last Friday night the down express train passed Wyrnoadharn Station at the usual tires, and when a few miles beyond that town, a large stone was flung at the train, the stone ernaihe.l one of the windows of a first-class carriage, and struck a pas senger on the side of the face, breaking his jaw -bete. On arriving at Norwich, the passenger, Professor Rogers, of America, was e mveyed the Swan Inn, where he wareimmediately attended by Mr, Firth, the surgeon. Professor Rogers was on a visit to Professor Sedg wick, now in Norwich. Several lads have been apprehended on suspicion by the county police. —Bury and Norwich Post, THE GoVERNN E N T OF P RI NCE EDWARDS ISLAND IN WANT OF bIONET.—We have beard it rumoured, arid have every reason to believe the report to be tree, that the government of this island recently deputed the Hen. C. Young, L.L.D., President of the Legislative Council, and the "recognised administrator of the government of Prince Edward Island, in the absence of the Lieu tenant-Governor," to Nova Scotia, for the purpose of negotiating a loan to enable them to carry on the go vernment of this island, and prevent its becoming totally bankrupt. His Honour was instructed to raise 6,000/. on the security of the Treasury warrants. Rumour fur ther states that oar neighbours have so little. confidence in the government of the i-land that Nova Scotia capi talists refused to loan the money on the security of Tree.- • Bury warrants, unless endorsed by the President of the of Prince Edward Island ; and his Honour had to return home with his finger in his mouth, The Hon. the At. t irney-General of the island wee at Halifax at the time ; but we cannot say whether he farmed a part of the deputation to effect the loan or not.—Cltarlottetozon Island. THE SIGN OF " THE GREEN MAN AND STILL."— In this sign we perceive a hunternan, in a green coat, standing by the side of a still ; in allusion, it has been facetiously conjectured, to the partiality sh )wn by that description of gentry to a morning dram. The genuine representation, however, should be the green man (er man who deals in green herbs) with a bundle of pepper ' mint or pennyroyal under his arm, whiuh he brings to be distilled.—FromTintbs' "Popular Errors Explained." Mates.—Seethamptoo, ‘Veduesday.—The P).u ieeuler and Oriental Company's new steamship Granada, Capt. Tregear, left to-day w ith the Peninsular reaile , 30 passengers (am ong whom are Capt. and Mrs. Brows)), 37,0001. in specie, and a large cargo. The United States' well steamship North Star, Capt. Lofebere, also sailed t,-day with the French and English mails for New York, 43 passengers from this port, and a large number from ilavre, and a general cargo. The Royal Mail steamship Tyne, Capt, Langdon, leaves with the Brazil and River Plate mails on Friday, VE - NING, OCTOBER 8, 18'57 LATET NEI% S. MARSEILLES, OCT. V. News from Constantinople has just been re ceived here to the 30th of September. In, the new modification of the Ministry, Mouktar Bey holds the office of Minister of Justice. He is regarded as an opponent of the Union of the Principalities. The part of Galata has been very nearly de stroyed by fire. Tho financial situation of the country does not improve, and paper money has fallen in value to the extent of 20 per cent. The Turkish telegraph from Constantinople to the Persian Gulf has been decided upon, and Omar Pacha will commence the work next January. Two Russian steamers and four gunboats have lauded Russian troops in Abasia. Several Turkish merchant vessels have been surprised in carrying on trade with the Circassian coast. The ships have been burnt. The loss to merchants at Trebizonde is said to amount to 500,000 francs. There have been disturbances in Mingrelia. Prince Bariatinski has deposed and exiled the Princess Dadian, and placed her son under the protection and tutelage of Russia. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe is seriously ill. The Borsenh,alle of Hamburg announces from Vienna that all the rumours of Count Buol's resignation are devoid of foundation. The pro able inference from this news is that the interview of Weimar will not be productive of any change in Austrian policy. CHINA. "We have received," says the Pays, "letters from China to the 11th August. At that date, no reply had been returned to the demand made on the Chinese Government by M. de Bourbelon, the French charge d'affairs, through the Viceroy of Canton. This demand, it is said, claimed satisfac tion for different infractions of existing conventions, and more especially for the murder of the Abbe Chapdelaine, ti French missionary, who was put to death in spite of the stipulations of the treaty of hampoa. On the return of Lord Elgin from Cal cutta, and the arrival of Baron Gros, a conference would be held between the admirals and the two ambas- adors, and future operations decided on. On the 11th August, the corvette Capricieuse and the advice steamer Marceau were still at Nina►-po ; the Nemesis frigate, and the PrimauguA and Phlegeton corvettes, the Meurthe transport, and the Mitraille gunboat, at Thong Koo ; the gunboats Avalanche and Fusee at Hong Kong ; and the Catinat steamer Dragonne ffunboat, at Macao." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Moniteur publishes a decree promulgating the treaty concluded on the 14th Mar c h l as t be tween France and Denmark relative to the redemp- Con of the dues hitherto paid by vessels passi ng the Sound and the Belts. The Nord announces, on the faith of a Paris let ter, that the second plenipotentiaries cf the treaty of Paris will hold a congress in the French capital in November, to settle the question of the P • flnel palities. " The series of personal interviews of sovereimens," says the Nord, " which for the last month has kept Europe in suspense, is now over. The interviews of the Emperor Napoleon with Queen Victoria at Osborne ; of the former with the Emperor Alex ander and the King of Wurtsmberg at Stuttg rdt of the Emperor of Russia with the Emperor t Austria at. Weimar ;of the Emperor exander wlththe King of Saxony and several German sove reigns at Dresden ; and lastly, of the same Em peror with the King of Prussia at Berlin, con stitutes the series. These are certainly events which will !render the last few weeks one of the most memorable epochs of contemporaneous his tory. The succession and the multiplied rela tions of these personal meetings of the Emperor Alexander 11., whose pacific and liberal tendencies are well known, with all these sovereigns, will suf fice to do away with the gratuitous suppositions which the fear of isolated alliances had provoked on the part of certain journals, and may sanction the most sanguine hopes of a general good understand ing and of the consolidation of peace and good re lations between the governments and nations of Europe." If we (Galignani) are to put faith in the pro phetic powers of the Univers, the evils which have hitherto resulted from the Indian revolt are com paratively light when contrasted with those which remain in store. That journal parades before the eyes of its readers a formidable list of calamities which menace England ; this list comprises the ex haustion of the East India Company, the decline of the aristocracy, the triumph of principles of equality, the increase of crown influence, the de velopment of electoral corruption, and the advent of a government " such as was seen in France un der Louis Philippe.'' We reproduce the views of our contemporary, which ought to content the most intolerant foe of England :- 1 "During the pacification of India, the commerce of the land will be almost entirely interrupted, and the revenue of the company greatly reduced. This state of things cannot fail to produce greet changes. Should the existence of the company be prolonged, go vernment will be compelled to render it assistance, and thereby increase taxation. The customs returns will b s dl einlehed, an income-tax will infallibly be established. The members of the aristocracy, whose incomes have already been re luced by recent legislative laws, would witness an additional decrease in their resources. They would be compelled to reduce their expenditure, and thereby forfeit a considerable portion of their influence. A great mistake would be made in supposing that the fatal principles of equality, from which we have so long suffered, have not penetrated into England. A great number of persons of the middle class invade the minis tries, arid request employment in the public service; while wealthy young men belonging to the upper classes avoid military service. They dislike residing for any time out of England, and this repugnance will be heightened now that nearly the entire British army is employed in India and the colonies. In definitive, the events of India must tend to increase the influence o f the crown by the vast number of civil and military ap pointments which are now etas disposal. This circumstance will enable ministers to surround themselves' with de voted clients, and will thereby contribute to develop electoral corruption. The influence of the aristocraay will be effecsd, and the midule classe s may perhaps endow Great Britain with a Government similar to that which existed in France under Louis Phillippe. This would be the ruin 6f England's greatness." The Spectateur states in au arti cle headed cc The Interviews" that it his sough in vain for an Euro pean question of sufficient importance to have warranted any serious determination on the parit t of the sovereigns who met i n Stutt g ardt ; and maintains that the latter meeting was despoiled of its significancy by the subsequent interview at Weimar : " What importance," exclaims the Spectateur, "would have been attached, fifty years ago, to the meeting at Tilsit, had the Emperor Alexander I, before returning to his dominions, pa d a visit to King Ge or g e 111 !" Our contemporary admits that a paeific spirit pre ,ided at these interviews ; but it insi nuates that three natural causes tend even more surely than these courteous meetings to preserve the peace of Europe ; these causes are :-- "In the first place, the events of India. The journals which dwell with the greatest complacency o n the power of England admit that, in order to re-establish her rule on the Ganges, she must devote her entire resources to that war, and avoid any complication that might require her intervention on the European continent. We may, therefore, be assured that England will excite no fresh difficulties, not even under the administration of Lord Palmerston. Russia, on her side, requires several years of complete peace to remove the traces of the wounds inflicted on her by the last war. Peace is necessary to her, in order to construct her railroads, to place her porta beyond the reach of the' means of destruction recently invented by science, to re organise her navy and army. Let us glance at the financial state of the continent, and we shall diecover a third reason to confide in the continuance of peace. An examination of the money-markets of Paris and Vienna shows that war is impossible. We are afraid to borrow a few hundred millions in order to consolidate our float ing debt ; could we borrow thousands of millions fur a war ? When our most prosperous railroads are cciee pelted to adjourn their works, who wuuld dream of ap plying to credit for the purchase of powder and ball ? Peace is therefore for the moment a necessity for Europe, This peace will doubtless not be that of the Abbe of St. Pierre, and a day w ill come when war will once more be waged, either out of jealousy, or dislike, or to divert public opinien from home politics ; then will blood once more be shed, and fortunes be destroyed ; but this moment is distant, and we are, for the time beine, in the midst of a general armistice." The Cortstitutionnel comments in the following terms on the circular note addressed by the Porte to the Cabinets of Europe on the Principalities ques tion :-- " We cannot con3ider this eocumeizt in any other light than as the result of an error which is developing it self ; and we cannot construe its bearing into a menace. We are inclined to believe thst on the day when the congress of Paris shall be called upon to examine the labours of the European commission charted with col lecting the wishes of the divans ad hoc, its deliberations will not be troubled in the slightest by this circular note ; and that the Sublime Porte, hearkening to the voice of truth, will not hesitate to guarantee the politi cal future and the prosperity of two provinces which contain more than four million inhabitants." The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived here : " BERLIN, 6th, Evening.—The King of Saxony left Potsdam last night to return to Dresden. His Majesty, before his departure, presented to Prince Gortschalioff the grand cordon of the Green Crown. The Imperial family of Russia left this morning at a little before nine. The King accompanied them from Potsdam to Berlin." BOURSE, Oct. 7. —Two o'clock.—The market has been heavy, as advices from London have hinted that the Bank of London would to-morrow raise its rate of discount from 5i to 6 per cent. Half-past Three.—The following were the last quotations : _ . Cash. fr. End of Month. 4i per Cents 3 per Cents 67 70 67 85 Bank Shares 2,975 Credit Foncier — -- Credit Mobilier B' 5 Roman Do. Account B5O Austrian Belgian 4i — Spanish Threes — Fiedmontese (5) 9o4— Home Debt — RAILWAYS-FOtt CASH. tr. c. fr c. Orleans 1,365 Western Northern Lyons and Med B7O New Ditto New Ditto B5O Grand Central / — Geneva Midi - AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria arrived at Ischl en the 3d, to join the Empress, whe had reached that place the previous day. Their Majesties will re main for a fortnight or three weeks if the weather continues fine. The Baroness de Prokesch-Osten, wife of the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople has re turned to Vitnna from Ischl, and will, very shortly, proceed to rejoin her husband in the Turkish capital. " The Austrian Government," says the Eman cipation of Brussels, " is quietly but actively aug menting its navy. Several ships of the line are nearly terminated, and other smaller vessels are being constructed. The fortifications of Venice, Trieste, and particuiarly of Pola, already excite the admiration of engineers, and when terminated will be among the strongest in Europe. The flotill a of the Danube is also to be shortly completed so as to protect German commerce on that river." ITALY. Count de Cavour gave a grand banquet on the 4th to Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the new French ambassador to the court of Turin. The Piedmont eso ministers, the British and Prussian ambassadors, and many other distinguished mem bars of the diplomatic body were among the 'guests. The Diritto of Turin declares, on what it states to be unquestionable authority, that the life-insu rance said to have bean concluded between Mazzini and Advocate Brofferio is devoid of foundation as regards the latter. We learn from Florence that the Archduchess Anne, the consort of the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, is also labouring under an attack of the measles. According to the last accounts of the 3d, both this princess and the Grand Duchess were progressing favourably. A letter from Naples, in the Nord of Brussels, states that the marriage of the Duke of Calabria, eldest son of the King, with the Duchess Mary of Bavaria is now defiui,tively decided on. It adds, however, that the ceremony will not take place for some time. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3d have arrived. On the previous day the usual weekly cabinet council was held under the presidency of the Queen, and the Clamor Publico says that "it appeared induhi able" that all the ministers had resigned, that their resignation had been accepted, tbat M. t Bravo r o ministry, and lastly, that the nece ssary royal But a de n c e r w eesarould appear in the Gazette of the 3d. Bu Murillo had been summoned by telegraph o the Gazette contains no decrees accepting the resig nation of the ministers, and •no announcement on the subject, neither do the other journals do more than repeat what has already been said—namely, that the resignation was expected in the event of the ministers not obtaining the Queen's consent to the removal of General do la Concha from the Captaincy-General of Cuba, as well as of certain high functionaries from the palace. The Epoca, on its part, declares that it does no t believe, under any circumstanc?s, that the ministers will resign before the meeting of the Cortes. Reports that the present ministers had resolved to dissolve the Cortes in case they should be placed in a minority were current, but they were not generally credited ; and the Hojas, a setni-officialauthority, remarks that no such resolu tion can have been adopted,.inasinuch as, if the ministers possess the confidence of the crown, they are sure to have a majority in the Cortes ; and if they lose that confidence they will retire. Acord ing to the Rojas, the nomination of Count de settled. Balmaseda to the p res id ency of the Senate has been resolved pend in g on, ministeriala nd wil c . br crisis i a s announced c kin ed as as sthe s said that, in the batch of new senators proposed by the ministers, the Queen had peremptori:y ohjected of the to the name of M. N oce d al, father Minister o f the Interior; but her Majesty's doing so are not given. One of the papers speaks of General La Rocha as likely to be charged with the formation of a new ministry. A lean from Cairo of the 21st ult. says " I am able to communicate to you a piece of political information. Darfur, a State of Central Africa, which covers an extent of ground nearly equal to that of Franco, has sent an ambassador to Said Pacha, in order to ward off an attack which was apprehended from the Viceroy. The trade of Darfur, which may acquire great important“, has been hitherto interdicted to foreigners. There is reason to believe, however-, that an Austrian house will soon be at the head of its commerce. It is also said that a German officer intends to penetra.e into Darfur as an instructor. The measures which have bine, to excluded foreigners from the country appear therefore likely to fill into disuse, although too much confidence ought not to be placed in that idea. The envoy of Darfur, who is alm os t w hi te, i s a n ati ve o f S enegal, and it' will probably be easy for the French to gain his confidence and support, because he is aware of the power of France, and speaks of the country in terms of warm admiration. One of his relatives, who is a l so a nat i ve of Senegal, P roposes to return to his country via Marseilles, by which means he will be able to make the journey in six weeks instead of a year. The communica tions in the interior of Africa being neither easy nor safe, his example may perhaps induce other Mussul mans of Senegal, when proceeding to Mecca, to take the road by Marseilles, and thus produce a contact with the French which may be eventually advantageous." j A letter from St. Petersburg says :—" The v g . o t ur. Not only con struction of screw-steamers f u T i.ci b et u s t several transport and other services is being urged on wa r h are our building yards in full activity, orders have been given to ship-b i abroadasof Accounts have been received from various p the Baltic of the disasters occasioned by theg rt gale of the 22d ult. ; these accounts are deplorable. Be fore the tempest rose, the thermometer was at 14 degrees Reaumur, and during the storm it fell be low zero. A brig sank in sight of Libau, and out of twenty-five persons on board twenty-one pe rished." A letter from Warsaw says :—" Accounts from the Ukraine announce' that sortie very important changes are on the point of being made,in the mili tary colonies of that province. The peasants are to be assimilated to those of the domains of the crown. The disposable laud and buildings belong ing to the crown will be sold by auction, and Jews will be even allowed to become purchasers and establish themselves in the province. All these reforms are to be realised in 1860. Soldiers are every day arriving in the Ukraine on unlimited furloughq." The Prince Royal of Sweden has just, in his cap tcity of Regent of Swede❑ and Norway, sum moned to Stockholm Baron de Manderstrcem, Swedish minister at Paris. This diplomatist was one of the principal negotiators of the treaty of friendship concluded between Sweden and the two Western Powers in the Russian war, and it is be lieved that the Ministry of Foreign Aifai►s is des tined for him. That department has, since the re tirement of M. de Steerneld, been provisionally administered by M. de Lagerheim. The Communal Council of Brussels held an ex traordinary s ittiti!! the day before yest , Tday, t lse the report of the comtni!tee on the adminis trative and f m anciallsituation of the city. The state ment made was considered very favourable. The budget of 1858, which was presented to the council, sets down the receipts at 6,316,016 f. 37c., and the expenses at 6,315,974 f. 76a., leaving a surplus of receipts of 411. 61c, THE INDIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The Indus has arrived with the heavy portion of the Indian, China, and Australian mails, H er dates are—Alexandria, Sept. 23 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, Oct. 1. Her Majesty's ships Desperate and Caradoc were at Alexandria waiting the arrival of the Siameze Princes ; the Hibernia, Ariel, and Coquette were at Malta ; and the Curlew wax at Gibraltar. The Indus pawed the Ripon off Galata on the 28th ult.. and the Alhambra off Lisbon on the 3rd inst. The Tamar left Malta for Alexandria with the Austra lian mails on the 21st ult. Amongst her cargo is 379,546/. worth of Aus tralian gold. She has brought home about 150 passengers, many of whom are refugees from India. The scene presented by their friends meeting these passengers was one of overwhelming excitement. Many burst into a flood of tears, and were deprived almost of the power of utterance. The Lady Mayoress of London, the Mayor of Southampton, Mr. Alderman Andrews, and a num ber of ladies and gentlemen, went on board the Indus to rec e i ve th e refugees. any of the fugitives were from Cawnpore, Allahabad, and other places. in the upper provinces of Bengal. Numbers also , have fled from Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta in. alarm. About 40 children have come home in the. Indus. Amongst the passengers is Lieut. Chapman, whs . ) was shot by the mutineers at Benares. A bullet went through his cheek and carried away part , of the roof of his mouth ; his speech scarcely in.tel ligible. He is quite a youth, not above 19 years of age. _ _ Another of the passengers is Captain Montague, and his wife ; he belonged to the Irregulars, and was in command of a company of Sikhs ; he is in-. jured in the shoulder and side. He belonged to. Gen. Havelock's army, and fought on the march to Cawnpore. He lost his two children through want and exposure while coming down the Gang es from Allahabad. He knew Nana Sahib, and wan present at a ball giv.:7: by him at Cawnpore about st mo❑th before the A.: "ay broke out. It was Use most magnificent bal.. 41 "Yrgiven at Cawnpore ; mil the English were prey J, most of whom we're afterwards mercilessly slaughtered by the scoundr el. Captain Montague and his wife left Cawnpore be fore it was captured by the mutineers. The passengers say that almost the only man that escaped the massacre of Cawnpore has gone raving mad. This is an officer, a Mr. Brown, who after he got away suffered great hardships, and lay hid den in a nullah, without food, during three days and nights. A Miss Goldie, a very beautiful young lady, was taken by Na❑a Sahib to his harem, and is believed to he alive now. A lady named Collett came home in the Indus, who escaped from Allahatiad ; she was one of thous who got into the fort at that place for safety. Man y of the ladies who have come home in the Indus have their husbands now before Dtlhi, and scarcely ex pect to see them again. When the plsiem-,fers in the Indus left Calcutta only three thousand troops had arrived there since the outbreak. Unless Capt. Peel makes his way up the river very quickly, and before the rains cease, it is scarcely hulteved that he will get his guns up to Delhi ; but if he cannot carry his guns beyond Allahaba. he will, it is expected, push on for Delhi without them. Should the water carriage fail, it would be extremely difficult, on account of the badness of the roads, to convey such heavy guns (one of them an 84-pounds r) to Delhi by land. Betwern. Cawnpore and Lucknow there we re about 35,000 mutineers, and it is considered doubt ful whether Sir J. Outram will be successful in passing up the Gogra ; the river is lined with forts, well manned with mutineers. Outram's advance, however, up the Gogra will, it is hoped, draw off the mutineers from Havelock, and enable him pro bably to escape from the dilemma in which lie is placed. No fear is entertained but that the Sikhs will prove true to the English in fighting against both Alahommedans and Hindoos ; but unless English troops arrive out soon in India, the Sikhs may, after they have put down the Sepoys, turn agai ns t the English. goafgeticr to deprive m e has of a l i f b e, od s h y o g u u l a d rd h , :r e Nana Sahib has resolved not to fall ali ve i nto the hands alrkele to be taken pri soner b y the English. t leyn is believed by many persons at Calcutta that as soon as the English troops arrive out in India, the mutiny will suddenly cease. The Sepoys will bury the u.oney and treasure they have obtained, and lay down their arms. They are in the utmost terror of the English soldiers. Lucknow, it is feared, will fall before assistance can come to it. There were many English at Calcutta when the Indus left that port who had had perilous escapes from the Upper Provinces, and who are expected to arrive at Southampton by the next India mail packet. A lady is at Calcutta who has had her ears cut of by the mutineers. One of the lady passen gers on board the Indus says that before she eseAped a soldier's wife came to her one day and told her with the utmost glee that she had killed a Sepoy ; and this turned out to be true : the poor woman had actually rushed upon a Sepoy, pinioned him, and taken his life. Such is the fierceness and stern resolution which the hideous atrocities of the Ben gal mutineers generated in the breast of a woman. The Collector of Customs at Southampton, Mr. Clarke, of the landing-waiters' department, and Messrs. Obree and Knowler, of the tide-surveying department, were early on board the Indus this morning, acting under special orders from the go vernment to facilitate in every possible manner the landing of the baggage of the Indian refugees. It was ascertained that some of the passengers, brought up gentlefolks ' had lost everything in I n di a ; th a t ladies, whose husbands were officers, fighting in India, on limited income, had made great sacrifices to send their families out of that country. This was communicated to the Lady Mayoress, and means were taken to afford to many pecuniary assistance. This was managed in the most delicate manner • Subjoined is a list of the passengers : From Calcutta—Mrs. Eling and child, Mrs. Englishe's child and nurse ; Mrs. Pent, infant, and native female servant ; Mrs. Colonel Simpson Mr. Philips, Mr. Avery, M rs . B u tl er, M r. H I Parrott, Mr. J. Lindlay and wife ; Mrs. Collett and infant, child, and native female servant ; Mr. Chapman, Mrs. Roberts and infant ; Mrs. Turner, child, and infant ; Mrs. Bloomfield, Captain and Mrs. Montague and native man servant ; Mrs. Beckett, infant, ch.ld, and European female ser vant ; Messrs. Phillips, W. King, and W. Macy. From Madras—Mr. Thompson, Major and Mr. Young, Mrs. M`Lean ' two infants, and native servant ; Mrs. Chohnt4ly, child, and infant ; Mrs. Colonel Blaxland and chid, Mr. and Mts. Biggs ; Dr. and Mrs. Patterson and infant, two children, and native servant ; Lieutenant De Haverland, and Mrs. Birch and servant. From Galle—Mr. and Mrs. Staples and four children, Mr. Harper, and Miss Hall and native servant. From Bombay—Mrs. Morphey, Mrs. Goldie ; Mrs. Hamilton, child, infant, and two European servants ; Mrs. Colonel Stewart, infant, and Euro pean servant; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Candy ; Mrs. Price, infant, child, and European servant ; Capt. and Mrs. Wadge, and infant ; Mrs. Warden and child ' • Mrs. L'E s t range , c hild, a n d i n f ant ; Mr. Lyle, Mrs. Goldsmith, Mrs. Gibb and two children, Mr. M'Neill, Mrs. Mimrie and infant, Mrs. Sandi man and child, Joseph Frater, John GiLy, and George Bleshen. From Alexandria : Mr. W. Black. From Ma : Mr. Williams ; Sergeant Hogan, 14th • 14 privates, her Majesty ' s F oot ; 1 convales cent, ' Royal Artillery ; 1 woman and 2 children ; 8 privates, itoyal Marines ; 3 seamen, Royal Navy ; 1 stoker, and Edmund Barry. From Gibraltar Miss Dodman, •Mr. Nehemias, and R. Morgan. The next steamer to arrive with Indian passen gers is the Ripon, due at this port on the 20th inst. THE AFRICAN MAIL. PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The steam-ship Candace. Captain Hawksley, arrived in the Sound this evening, with the mails from the West C oast of Africa and Madeira ; but in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, no communication with leer has yet been. made. Negotiations have been opened at St. Petersburg for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between Russia and Austria. DR. LI VINGSTON IN LIVERPOOL.—LIVERPOOL, Wed nesday.--This eminent traveller intends vi,iting Liier pool en M onday next and will att en d an d a dd ress a meeting of th e African Association in the Cotton Sales Room on the f o ll owing day. FAR3I STABLES AND DIVINE SERVICE.—A. custom has long prevailed in Kent of employing men in farm stables ~wing the hours of divine service. On Saturday a public meeting was held at Canterbury in favour of dis co! Meiling this custom. W. Deeded, Ecq., took the chair. Lttters approving of the object of the meeting Brookead from L ords Guildford and Winchilsea, Hr Brige s , tion was p a k sed for forming as association to be called Sir E. D er i ng, an d ot h ers. A resolu . "The Emit Kent Agricultural Labourers' Association." for carrying out the object of the meeting, and generally raising the social and religious character of the agricui tural labourers in East Kent. I I