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

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. CALCUTTA. 1111112.4. CT FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY A RESIDENT I CALCUTTA FROM OTH to 22D AUG. A ug ; 9.—Her Majesty's ship Shannon arrives ; said t o h ave 6, .reinforcement of 1,700 men, in reality she has 300 marl...tee, bat the whole of her crew is to be made available fe-r, defence of Calcutta. Bentinck, which was to have baien despatched to-morrow, is ordered to be kept back. Numerous armed bodies of m en are hoverin g about Calcutta,. it is supposed not less than 70,000 men, exclusive of those' kno wn to be hiding in the town, and a large number of cavalry. Aug. 10—Lords C g and Elgin meet in consulta tion,js the result is L td n n t i o n be this : that two things are ordered to be done vi lach no entreaty or persuasion could e t :nor, viz.: first, compulsory enlist wring from our gov o ; meut in the militia o all ablab d Christiansand secondly, disarming of .all Bengal soldiery still allowed to be armed—both of tl.,e,se much wanted. The Sepoys, horse and .fc.eit, who have remained steady, have done so with the obis It of killing more officers, or , doing more mischief hereartesr. This is found out before Delhi, where the Sikhs, see.'r. g our officers falling, keep an eye upon and discover the: traitors. Large meetings of armed natives continue to . ,be held in Calcutta; the native police will take no notice of this. The European Inspectors say no breach of O. ie peace has been corn. mitted and they cannot interfere.. Mr. Wauchope, chief commissioner of police, is an East.lndia Company's civil servant, and notoriously hostile to' all European adven turers. The native police speak thi fir minds pretty freely to the Madras troops, four of wh oiu are arrested, and fined for nothing. No notice is, h owever, to be taken of the seditious language used by th o police. Captain Peel, of her Majesty's ship .Shannon, is to lead an expedition of 400 men to Allahabag', taking up a for midable battery ; he will have to fight his way, for no steamer can ever stop to wood and water without risk of being tired upon. Aug.ll—Lord Canning,after having be n worried since May, consents to take into consideration the propriety of having the Fort victualled and put in order for recep tion of the Christian population in case of necessity. This has been done at Madras some time ago—here we think, there they do a thing. Hazareebaugh plundered and burnt. Gya burnt and destroyed. Alonzo Money, Civil Ser vice, and another gentleman, carry off the Government treasure, 900,000 rupees, fighting hard for it ; the former kills five men with his own hand. The siege of Agra, capital of the north-west, is a fact; full particulars of a fight outside the walls reach us, It lasted over two hours, and if better led our side would have won the day ; as it was they had to retire into the fort and were deuced near being cut off; the mutineers, infantry, cavalry, and artillery were well led. On our side the Government office clerks, and other Europeans and Christians, hastily drilled and formed into a regiment, behaved admirably, and antlered heavily in killed. Government order the Bentinck, and each succeeding steamer, to prepare for carrying troops on her return voyage from Suez. Mr. Halliday , Lient.-Governor of Bengal puts a Mus sulman into a magistracy with a salary of 1,500 rupees a month. The man is as bitter against us as the rest of his creed can be, and no European henceforth can carry on trade, or own land in that district. The gentleman by bribes and exactions will probably make not less than 10,000 rupees monthly. People are open-mouthed at this appointment. Arrived, frigate Pearl, and private steamer Lanesfield with more troops, detachment of her Majesty's 90th, and h.larines of her Majesty's Transit, which last has finally succeeded in knocking a hole in her bottom in Straits of Banca. Aug. 12.—A horrible rumour, on native authority, of a rising at Bangalore and total destruction of that place r ; wants confirmation. It is new ascertained that Gen. Havelock has had to retreat upon Cawnpore, which he did with success, car rying with him everything ; he was losing 60 men a day by oho:era. He has been reinforced and is at them again. We expect to hear of another fight. The situation of Lucknew and its brave garrison is desperate. Poor Bankes was shot before he commanded 43 hours. That "excellent" man Nana Sahib is before Lucknow ; he lest 40.00.000 rupees in treasure, and C. R. 54.00.000 ditto, in Government securities of the 5 per cent. loan, which are to be confiscated; I hope he will be caught alive. Europeans are being enlisted in the police at 51. a month. The consequence is no ships will get away for some time to come ; any gentleman in her Majesty's gaol for some thing short of felony, may, on assuring the gaoler that he will behave himself, be enlisted in the police, and yet Government assert everything is going on well, and there is not the slightest cause for apprehension. Directly a ship drops anchor the crew thrash the mates, and per haps the skipper, and are sent to gaol, not to break stones, but to have a jolly good spree on shore, and receive 51. a month as remuneration for the same. The question begins to be as k e d, w h ere are thi s mon th' s salaries of public servants to come from ? The treasury is nearly empty, and Government have neither money nor credit. E►erything in Calcutta up to famine price, and the present is a joke to what must follow in consequence of the immense tracts of country left uncultivated. Our native servants have been all tampered with, to murder or poison us, but have fortunately refused, some, very few, from fidelity, most from fear. 1 hope to add before finishing this that I have caught and hung the emissary. My own old servant explains the reason, which is, that if the native print... India got the upper hand, the native gentry would give them halt the wages, and exact from them exactly four times as much work as we do—they do not attempt to conceal that it is the King of Delhi, King of Oude, and Nawab of Moorshedabad who are stirring up the present disturbance; but there is a great Belatee Rajah—a foreign potentate—who is at the bottom of all. Barbarian was used to signify anything out of Greece ; so does Belatee mean anything oat of India—and the Emperor of Russia is nu doubt the man. Aug. 13.—Arrived the steamer Bengal, with Sir Colin Campbell, and a delightful account of how the British view our present troubles. Lerd Ellenborough is th only man who knows a bit about it. The plot thickens more places are destroyed, and more treasure plundered. Captain Peel (Her Majesty's ship Shannon) with 400 seamen and marineg, start by water for Upper Provinces. He taker a formidable battery with him. Fourteen miles from Calcutta a ship is fired into. At last per mission to flog all native loiterers and lurkers about the fort to the extent of 50 lashes is extorted from Lord Canning, but be manfully resists (Aug. 14) seizing large stores of arms and ammunition pointed out to him, will not call out the militia, will not do anything to some hundreds of native wealthy and influential people who have been named as having aided and abetted the rebel lion. Quere—is this not doing likewise ? There is a talk of disagreement already between him and Sir Colin Campbell. August 15—Government take the Ava to return Lord Elgin and suite to China. There are, it is true, only half-a-dozen East India Company's men-of-war steamers lying idle, bat Lord Elgin knows most of them are not nsurable. More reports of disasters in the Upper Provinces ; bat Government resolutely shut up post telegraphs, and every source of information ; the native post runs reg u larly and safely. East India Company's paper of the Five per Cent. Loan sells in Lucknow at 81 per Cent. discount. A hard nut for anyone who says the funds are a sure indication of coming events. August 16.--Matters at Raneeeunge are said to be in so unsatisfactory a state from large armed bodies collecting and threatening the collieries, that Her Majesty's 52d are ordered off to see what's the matter and quiet the people ; it is supposed and hoped that they will be back in Calcutta for the Mohurrum. This festi val commences on Thursday, the 20th, and from that day the Volunteers are to be on duty, half of them by day and half by night, for 10 days, and perhaps till the 3d of September. In the meantime the blacksmith opposite my house is hard at work forging pike-heads, night and day, in full sight of the police, and I only mention this as a sample of what is permitted to be carried on openly in Calcutta at such a time of dangeranduncertainty. News is now coming in that the Irregular Cavalry, our last stand by, are universally proving faithless, and are ac cordingly disarmed wherever they can be caught. Lord Canning visits the Shannon, moored closed alongside the fort ; her extra cabins are ordered to be left standing until after the Mohurrum, ab,sit omen, but it looks as if they still might possibly be wanted. 8:r Colin Campbell goes incog. into Fort William, and finds matters so little to his liking that and ano ther officer are put under arrest. Itis said he will not be sworn in Commander-in-Chief until he is to have his own absolute uncontrolled will, in spite of Lord Can ninp's fancies and weaknesses for rebels and murderers. August 17.--Various creeks and small rivers which ran into the Hooghley are full of boat-loads of armed men, all making for this place, and bent on murder and plunder. The Chief Commissioner of Police at last begins to mistrust the native police, and is making frantic efforts to procure Europeans. Any fool could have told him the same months ago. The festival of the Mohurruos commences the 20th lust., and we shall see then or thereabouts what may be Coming. I this day refused to join the Vigilance Committer, Aau did my best to dissuade others. I would like the thing„ well en oug h if it wor ld s i m ply b e gin and end i n flogging and pickling the Legislative Council, but the dange r is from our numerous German and other foreign er*, whom nothing' short of I lood would satisfy, add to Vii B , a highly exasperated European soldiery would rxu tiny, and then there is no saying what the end might. , be. August 18. —Lord Can Campbell for the row he rfmonstrates with (rec. in the fort, and re oeiees the following answer':2,d,e,lep ergw_lf, my lord, you falai' have the fort, and do p w e h an at ,, y oldie l r ike there, but I mean to remove every Euro ont of it." • I am mistaken in the name of the officer put under ar : rest ; It was not--, but Teank God it is a fact, the militi a i s to be foie-welly caned out and emb o di e d by' compulsory enlistment. This will give us over 3,000 Europeans and half-casue armed men, who, at all events, will make a show. Government have received information, in a &n u l lr manner, of all that is intended to be done in the Mohur. rum. The only fear is it may not be acted upon, the Grivernor-General being determined to listen to no sug 'estions whatever. I trust, however, he will think better of it. Half Calcutta may be destroyed, but the nation at large will learn that his lordship knew it was to hap- Pen, and with ample means at his disposal refuse] to make an effort even to avert the calamity. The indivi ii)!l4-1 who turns inf or mer gives one material guarantee fo r le fidelity, in recommending a measure which fortu nately was carried • into effect many days ago, viz. disarm ing the bodyguard. They had been suspected of treachery and watched ; he wrote - from a groat distance, and could not have known what was doing here. August 20—Various repo r t s o f squabbles between Lord Cannin g and Colin Campbell ; the last not being T EE ,LoNFON' M TT "n• vo ri Al 7 U promised his own way, ordered his passage back in the Bengal. August 21.—Departure of the mail steamer put off 24 hours. Large reinforcements of Punjaubee troops ha-„ come to Delhi. The garrison are ♦ery dispirited ; as k what terms they are to have. Gen. Wilson very Pror,)erly says not a man shall leave it alive. Volunteer inf' ►ntry reviewed. August 22.—The Council meets to-day, but we shall not know the result in time. Ave was taken up for Lord Elgin's yacht. The Mohurrum now commences ; and the commissioner of police shows how safe he thin ks the town now is by frantic efforts to enlist European police and get European troops all over the town. My company is on duty, with some of H.lVl.'s 29th, 24 hours at a time. The mails all over the country open. I wish all the foregoing were more interesting ; Lut think by next mail you will have an account of a fight in or near Calcutta; perhaps not if Colin Campbell stays, otherwise there will be plenty of it. The Phcenix overland mail will tell you all that which I cannot. bviaks, and we maybe quitesure of our bungalows being u rnt down directly troubles commence. All have gone at Lucknow, they say. We have hitherto been very fortunate in spending our days at home. It is at some risk that we leave the entrenchments, but there would be risk also in encountering the fearful heat, so we pre fer running the chance of a surprise to the certainty of great suffering for our children, and ourselves in tents at this hottest season. The barrack is fearfully crowded, so we should be no better off there. You will scarcely be able to realise the fearful state we are in ; we can scarcely do so ourselves. No one can say how or where the trouble is to end. Mrs. H— is a sweet companion in affliction ; we shall stick close to each other as long as it pleases God to spare us. Last night, after much fatigue, of mental tor ture and several nights of imperfect rest, I fell quite into a state of stupefaction. Body and mind alike refused to be longer active; it was necessary—just nature asserting her rights to restore the exhausted powers. And there was my child, so restless ! Mrs. H. took her and walked about with her, and soothed the little thing, that I might not be disturbed. I believe we shall be some support to one another under every trial. Our English letters came in a day or two ago, one from you up to April 14. I cannot reply farther to it now. In the presence of these awful realities little else can be thought of. Such nights of anxiety I would never have believed possible, and the days are fell of excitement. Every note and every message come pregnant with events and alarms. Another fortnight we expect will decide our fate, and whatever it may be I trust we shall be enabled to bear it. It is supposed that the Lucknow mutineers have gone towards Delhi. General Anson must meet the increased band of rebels as well as he may. May we be preserved from the evils that the incapacity of our leaders naturally entails. If these are my last words to you, you will remember them lovingly, and always bear in mind that your affection and the love we have ever had for each other is an ingredient of comfort in these bitter times. DEATH OF COL. HAVELOCI AT THE BATTLE OF RAMNUGGER, ON THE 22d NO V., 1848. At a time when every English heart beats high in expectation of tidings of the fate of the gallant Major- General Ha►elock, and of his devoted force, it may not be inappropriate to cast a retrospective glance at the action in which the brother of the present General, Cul. Wm. Havelock, K.H., lost his life on the battle-field, at the head of his regiment, the 14th Light Dragoons. At the commencement of the second week in November, 1848, Lord Gough moved across the Sutlej, at the head of General Gilbert's division. On the 22d of November, his lordship placed himself at the head of the advanced troops, and moved towards the Sikh army. After advancing some time towards the Chenab, and passing the village of Ramnugger, the enemy became apparent. Their main force occupied the opposite, or right bank, but some troops and guns were left iu a small island, in mid-ohannel of the river. The 3d Light Dragoons and the Bth Native Light Cavalry easily drove back the advanced poets of the enemy, and oar Horse Artillery pushed on into the deep sand of the river, and opened fire on the enemy on the other side. But our light six-pounders were no match for the heavy guns of the enemy, and one field-piece and two ammunition waggons had to be relinquished, as they had become deeply embedded in the quicksand. The enemy, seeing our dilemma, crossed over with 4,000 cavalry, on which the ardent Colonel Havelock, who had, as " the fair-haired boy," distinguished him• self at Busaco, Salamanca, and Vittoria, and was wounded at Quatre Bras, demandesi permission to charge this overwhelming force. No sooner had the assent been reluctantly given than he dashed off with his regiment, and threw himself on the crowd of Sikhs, who lined the high bank of the river. So impetuous was the onset, and so effectually did Havelock and his troopers ply their swords, that all gave way before them. Yielding to his love of glory, Colonel Havelock did not stop here, but reforming Lis men, attacked the Sikh forces, which were now crowd lug round him, a second time. Their guns, jingalls, and matchlocks were now brought to bear on the daring regiment with terrific effect, and it was during this second charge that the hero fell, covered with wounds and surrounded by the bodies of his devoted dragoons. The Adjutant-General of the army, Brigadier Cureton, his oldest and most intimate friend, galloped to the spot to restrain his ardour, but too late ; and he too fell glo riously,ia trying to rescue his friend. So brilliant was this action esteemed that the sth Native Light Cavalry, the only regiment which sup ported the 14th in the attack, presented at the close of the campaign, a beautiful silver cup to that regiment, "in commemoration of their joint charge," a tribute which stands solitary and unparalleled in the history of British India, We fervently hope that the hero of Cawnpore will be spared for a lengthened and prosperous career, and live t) be the highest ornament to the profession of arms, and become the successful leader of our armies.—Adver tiser. THE MURDER 1N CHESHIRE. The following additional evidence was given at the adjourned inquest on Tuesday evening : Benjamin Cooper—l am a sergeant of the Che shire county constabulary. I accompanied Superin tendent Andrews to the house of the deceased about 4 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday last. I found the prisoner and his brother Thomas there, and I afterwards saw the dead body of the deceased. After we had made an examination of the house, Mr. Andrews left, and I remained in charge. Be fore he left he locked up the sitting -room and took the key with him. No one went into it during his absence. With the exception of Sergeant Ham mond and myself no one went into the deceased's bedroom until Mr. Andrews returned. I produce a leather shotbag and a powd.erflask, which I found in a drawer in a washhand table in the prisoner's bedroom. The bag is half full of shot, and there is some powder in the flask. I also produce two exploded caps, which I found in the same drawer, in which was also a box containing a number of caps which corresponded with the s t ieet ones. I have since taken 12 shots from the shotbag and de livered them to Mr. John Graham, who weighed them in my presence, and they corresponded in weight with 12 others which he had. I searched the premises, outside and in, on the morning of the murder, as soon as it was daylight, but could find no trace of any footmarks. George Young Graham—l am a surgeon, prac tising at Stockport. On the 30th September le=t I made an examination of the deceased's body, at the request of Mr. Andrews. I found the deceased lying on his back in bed, his head resting on the pillow, and his face a little inclined to the right. Neither the pillow nor the bolster ap peared to have been disturbed in the least after the deceased had laid down to rest. Hisarms were out side the bedclothes in a perfectly natural position. Both hands were closed and crossed over each other. Both legs were stretched out and close together ; and the soles of both feet rested firmly against the footboard. Upon the ordinary covering of the bed was laid a shepherd's plaid, which reached from the deceased's chest to the bottom of the bed ; it was tucked in, and rested firmly between thedeceased's feet and the footboard of the bed. The plaid was perfectly smooth, and did not appear to have been disturbed in the slightest degree. It required, in dee 1, a little effort to release it from the footboard. The face was extensively blackened from exploded powder, the blackness extending from the chin to the forehead. The upper part of the deceased's shirt on the left side was also a little blackened. The right eyelids were perfectly closed, but the left 'over eyelid was slightly open. There was a large quantity of blood upon the bed, on the right side of the deceased. There was a gunshot wound on the face, and the blood had escaped from it on to the bedclothes, from which it had flowed in se veral streams to the mattress, and thence to the floor. I should think there were at least 12 ounces of coagulated blood on the floor in addition to the large quantity found upon the bed clothes. On examining the wound I found that a considerable portion of the upper lip, a small strip of the carilage of the nose, and the whole of both the hard and the soft palate, with the teeth from the upper jaw, had been carried away by the shot. The edges of the wound were lacerated and black ened. The right malar or cheek bone and the bones of the nose on the right side were not injured. The bones of the face, as well as those of the nose, on the left side were completely shattered, so that the left cheek sank for proper support. 1 also found an opening in the anterior portion of the base of the skull. Portions of the bones were driven into the brain, and the hole was sufficiently large to allow me to pass my finger through the opening. I next hid the body removed from the bed, and stripped. On the left arm I found a small bruise, but not of recent date. I and my son then examined the brain. On removing the top of the skull we did uct discover any marks of injury to the upper por tion of the brain, but at the base and back part there was a quantity of coagulated blood. We next removed the brain from the skull, and found that it was lacerated at the base at a part exactly corres p Jading with the internal fracture of the bones. Blood was extensively extravasated in the substance of the brain, and I extracted the eight shots which I now produce from the brain. I next examined the mouth, at the back part of which I found the two shots and two teeth which. I now produce. The tongue was slightly lacerated. The whole of the vis cera were healthy. From the above facts, my im pression is that the deceased was shot while asleep, and that death was instantaneous and without a struggle. I consider death to have been caused by injury to the brain and shock to the nervous system, which was produced by the gunshot wound. At the request of the coroner, I and my son, and Mr. Downes, a surgeon of Stockport, made a further post mortem, examination on Friday last. W e removed the top •f the skull, and Mr. Dawns made a most careful examination of it. We then tried to discover any more shot that might be in the body. For this purpose we removed the tongue, trachea, and oeso ph agus, an d we f and on ie right side, among the deep-seated muscles of the tie:k, and also scattered about the mouth, a quantity of shot which weighed about two drachms two scruples, making the total weight of shot extracted from the body at both times three drachms. By Mr. Roberts —I was not acquainted personally with the deceased. I never saw a more healthy man. It is usual for most perso ns t o di e on the back. Tile bedclothes indicated perfect res t. Th e l eft hand was closed, but not graspel tightly, as it wo u ld have B y bean the c i f o t i l i . o e n r ee Coroner had I beenhave n anoy resistance. hesitation in sayino that the person who fired at the deceased must have stood somewhat to the right of him. Judging from the direction which the shot took, I do not think it is possible that the deceased" could have been in a rising or sitting posture when he w as s h ot. George Downs—l am a slrgeo n o f S tockport. On Friday last I made a post mortein examination of Graham. I cow= in the evidence given by Mr. Graham as to the state of the wounds, and also generally as to th e cause o f the body a:df the es deceased , son, Mr. J. in company w i t h th e l ast witness he deceased's has g given, death. John G. Graham — l am a surgeon a t Stockport. is s e t ea my father at both exam i nat i ons of the deceased's and I concur with hi m ent i re l y i n the assisted s body, produce the shops n. i neck at the second examination. I have kept 12 of th em i n a se p ara t e t evidence t aken from which the box. I also produce two parcels of shot consisting of 12 each, which I received from Mr. Andrews on Saturday, and another parcel of 12, which 'received from Sergeant Cooper this morning. I have weighed them all by the standard and with each other, and they are exactly of the same weight. Chas. Lomax —I am a letterpress printer at Stock port. I have examined the portion of the publica ti el, "The Cottage Girl; or, The Marriage Day," found in the prisoner's bedroom, and, on comparing it with the perfect number now shown to me, I have no doubt that both are printed from the same type, and the illustrations in front of both are trona the same block. Among the pieces of the packet now shown to me marked "C" (com p )sing • the wad found in deceased's body), I find the numerals " 1,198," and portions of three printed leaves, which correspond with the corre sponding lines in the perfect number. The paper marked " D" now shown to me (part of the wad fund on th e stair), contains portions of tan lines which correspond with corresponding lines in . page In both copies, in 1,198 in the perfect number. the fragm2ut and in the perfect number, the wor d instead of "e." " robes" is spelt w ith a "c" (robes) _ Another portion f orms thelast six lines of the same page. I have no doubt whatever that the type from which the whole of the pieces were printed is Vie same as that from which the perfect number is printed. John Walker—l am a steam - Manchester. I knew the deceased and the whole except the eldest of the members of the family, known daughter, whom I have never 50211. I have the pi isoner for 12 or 13 years, and the deceased for March ago, packet agent at four or five years, whi c h wa s a, short time before he left Scotland. I have had conversations with the bat The C refer- Mr. Roberts objected to c ouvi , rsations which tt p i.:oo i ;kiopTaars,,elues , O.lliaeoting his father. The first conversa- Examinatian continued-1 had a convetsatkm with the prisoner on some day in March last, when he called at my oftie, 77, Mirket-stre3t. 11 I com decide'd upon receiving them. p'a;ned greatly of his father's conduct, and used abusive expressions low a / 1 1-s hi-if-Alter, such as "D y u know that eld ia3cal and old villain? He i gnite by hims e lf . He is quite der,in4ed. He is abusing us all, and we mi l l get him into a mad house, 113 is not fit to ce n d uc hi s business or to have anythinz to do wi t h the ma,sine-ein lit of the farm, and I int end to t a k e i t out of his hands." He then produced a p aper, and it was a copy of the lease of ii ;s father' s fern hqween him and Col. Davenport for 19 yea rs . H e said he would leave it in my pos session, and I was to kelp it sec; et from the family. I th-n said that I would not take it unless it was in.ade up in a parcel, s-aleJ and addressed to himself, with the directien "to lii 'livid called for." The prisoner then sealed it up in a p trcel, with a seal bearing the initials "J. H." H e wrote upon it tar present address "Mr. James Henderson, jun., amall-hall, by ' Scockport, care of Mr. John Walker, Stoa m - packet-oflice 77, M 1 t t t Manche ster."—[ r he Market-s _fee _, it was found to Contain a plain copy of the lease, parcel was hero opened, and bearing the followino, endorsement] kst December, 1854. Dame Maria Davenport to Mr. 4-41: " 81 "tler 4 ori• Copy lease of a farm in Braman, in THE MASSACRE AT CAWNPORE, The following affecting letters were received from a lady at Cawnpore, and will be interesting as con taining the latest news up to the time of their entering Sir Hugh Wheeler's intrenchment : Cawnpore, May 27. Dearest is not yet the mail day, nor will be for some days, bat I am induced to write while the dak is open to Calcutta, and we are still able to communi cate, lest fresh difficulties should encompass us, and you should be left without a notion of the events of these days. It is a sad history. We are living in awful rea lities, and we cannot see the end of them. We were apparently safe and quiet here till the 21st, when the 2nd Cavalry began to show symptoms of uneasiness, and intelligence was given that a rising of the native troops was in _contemplation that night. Mr. the magistrate and collector, brought his wife and children in to us in the afternoon, and we agreed all to remain together. - Up to this time no suspicion having been entertained of the troops' loyalty, no preparations for defence had been made. Now, however, all were astir. The General (Sir Hugh Wheeler) telegraphed to Luck now for succour, the European barrack at the depot was assigned as a rendezvous, and some families went there for safety. We, however, determined to remain at our house until further alarm were given ; but Colonel E-- said he would go and sleep in the midst of his men, to show that he had confidence in them ; so we had only Mr. H-- to stay with us. Presently, about eleven o'clock at night, he was called away to make some ar rangement, so that we thought it scarcely right to re main here alone. Accordingly we took our little un conscious children out of their beds, and with the ayabs off we set in the carriage to the European barracks. There we found a number of refugees, in a state of great alarm of course, but for the most part composed and resigned. It was a night of fearful suspense, yet it passed away without any disturbance, and I had the happiness of seeing my husband in the morning alive and well, and we went back to our house for the day. The danger had been imminent, but the posting of six guns in front of our barracks, the state of preparation we were get ting into, and the move of the officers (at least of two) to sleep among their men, seemed to have checked the ardour of the mutinously disposed, and they put off, without abandoning, their evil design. The next day (Friday) was one full of agony and dread ; and the night was more than poor human nature, unassisted, could endure. When my husband left me that night to go to his pest I never expected to see him alive again, for some of his men had been overheard wildly talking of mutiny and murder, and had made a proposal to de stroy their officers. Colonel E-- himself had fully wade up his mind that a death-stroke would be given, yet he flinched not an instant in the performance of his duty, lam happy to say. We were preserved for that night again. I could scarcely believe that my husband's voice sounded outside the tent (for we had now arranged for a tent jest outside the barrack for ourselves). After that miserable night, the Saturday following seemed like heaven, for we went to our house and spent the day quietly there—at least with such quietness as was possi ble with the most terrible rumours coming in throughout the day, and reviving all our ss.ddest apprehensions. Of course we returned to the depot at night, and for the first time since our move exhausted nature would be at tended to, and I fell asleep for some hours, and for a time shut oat all the horrid realities of our situation. All Sunday was pretty quiet. The Earl came off that day and the next, when it was expected that an outbreak would occur. -It did not so, however, and on Monday morning our minds were somewhat reassured by all the Musulmano of the let Regiment coming is a body according to custom to salaam to Colonel E-- after their prayers, and they expressed their intentions of fidelity, &0., all of which are very well, but not to be depended on now-a-days. We returned to those melan choly night quarters ;oh ! such a scene. Men, officers, women, and children, beds and chairs, all mingled to gether inside and outside the barrack ; some talking or even laughing, some very frightened, some defiant, others despairing. Three guns in front of our position and three behind, and a trench in course of forma tion all round. Such sickening sights these for peace ful women, and the miserable reflection that all this ghastly show is caused not by open foes, but by the treachery of those we have fed and pampered and honoured and trusted in for so many years. Oh I I can not dwell upon the harrowing thoughts. I must pass on to events. News came in of the 9th Native Infantry having turned, Allyghur and its treasury falling into their hands, I.4y.poorie still held against the rebels by the collector and his police, but Etawah gone, and the insurgents on their way here. Now we believe our crisis had arrived. The appearance of successful insurgents amongst the regiments would be the signal to rise, and all we c)uld really depend upon for defence were our position behind our guns and the help of about 150 Eu ropean ad. liars, 40 railway people and merchants, and a few stragglers. There are two regiments of Oude Irrt gulars, bat I am not inclined to pat faith in them. There are also some Mahrattas with the Rajah of Bithoor who have come to our assistance, but I can scarcely feel a comfort at their presence either. The night passed off quietly, however, and the insurgents have not yet ar• rived. We are in our house. About 45 more Euro peans are expected to-day and two guns, with seven European artillerymen. A regiment of European in fantry is to come up with all speed from Calcutta, but some time must elapse ere it can arrive. The general is busy now, and he spiked the guns he could not use yes terday, and laid a train for blowing up the magazine, should an outbreak occur. We are getting provisions into our position, and making preparations in the event of being shut up there altogether. The news from Delhi makes us very anxious, for any disaster there will be fatal to us here, and India must for a time at least be lost. I need not dilate upon this terrible state of things ; it tells its own tale too truly. The spirit of re volt pervades the Bengal army, and it remains to be seen whether we are strong enough to put it down, or whe ther we must succumb to the storm. Oar only chance here is to keep things quiet until reinforcements can ar rive. I cannot conceal from myself that my husband is likely to be the first to fall. He says if his regiment mutinies, it may walk over his body, but he will never leave it. For ourselves I need only say, that even should our position be strong enough to hold out, there is the dread ful exposure io the beat of May and June, together with the privations and confinement of besieged sufferers,ito render it very unlikely that we can survive the disasters which may fall upon us any day, any hour. lam going to despatch this to Calcutta to be sent through our agents then), that you may know our situation. My dear little child is looking ♦ery delicate ; my prayer is that she may be spared much suffering. The bitterness of death has been tasted by us many, many times daring the last fortnight, and should the reality come, I hope we may find strength to meet it with a truly Christian courage. It is not hard to die oneself, bat to see a dear child suffer and perish, that is the hard, the bitter trial, and the cup which I must drink, should God not deem it fit that it should pass from me. My com panion, Mrs. H---, is delightful ; poor young thing, she has such a gentle spirit, so unmurmuring, so desirous to meet the trial rightly, so unselfish and sweet in every way. Her husband is an excellent man, and of course very much exposed to danger, almost as much as mine. She has two children, and we feel that our duty to our little ones demands that we would exert ourselves to keep up health and spirits as mush as possible. There is a reverse to this sad picture. Delhi may be retake❑ in a short time. Aid may come to us, and all may subside into tranquillity once more. Let us hope for the best, do our duty, and trust in God above all things. Could Ibe spared I will write to you by the latest date. As long as we can live in our house during the day we suffer but little comparatively, but we may be shut up at any time. We must not give way to des pondency, for at the worst we know that we are in God's hands, and he does not for an instant for:Wee us. He will be with us in the valley of the shadow of death also, and we need fear no evil. God bless yoU. Cawnpere, June 1. "For the char.ce of this reaching you, I send a few lines via Bombay that you may have tk e latest news of us. The revolt has spread since I wrote last. Etawah, Aliygher, and Muttra and Bolandshar have all been plundered, and yesterday came news of a serious erneute at Lucknow—the worst thing that could have happened for us, as it seems almost impossible that disturbances so near should not create a com motion amongst the troops here. The Commander-in- Chief has disappointed all expectation ; his delays may lose India. It was essential that a blow should be struck at Delhi on the instant. There be is awaiting the arrival of a battering train from Pniloor, and does not expect to be before Delhi till the 9th. Scarcely anything short of a miracle can keep people quiet for so many days, and the insurgents are meanwhile strengthen in, themselves and collecting in large numbers, and of 'course gaining conadence from our lamentable weakness. We want a Napier now, not a cautious calculating speculator. It is very sad, tut we cannot do anything Our weak position here, with a mere handful of Euro. peans, places us in very great danger, and daily and h ourly we are looking for dieaqer?. It is supposed that th e commandants here have sho ;in wonderful tact, and that their measure of bolcly facing the danger, by going u _ out to Sleep amonet their men has had a wonder 1 effect in restraining the m..But ' everybody knows that this cannot last. the whole of the three regiments of infantry and one of m p aa o yu s position f o b n et h w saa h tc e rm r i e fiyc w ed e a; husbandr and n e d n Itrr runs entrenched, ; and w e it v h en if we keep our six t guns, officer,: P isk than any to conceal from of the whole force. " Europeans are almost daily arriving from Calcutta but in small numbers-20 and 30 at a time. We haw: now about 300, I believe. Every day that we escape free of disturbance adds to oar strength, and giies better chance for our lives. Property is not to be thought of, as conflagrations always accompany the out senhgaoerctdec at te mpt spark may set THE LATE EARL FITZWILLIAM. Earl Fitzwilliam was a man of chivalrous hon our, the highest moral courage, perfect indepen dence, and a disinterestedness altogether beyond that of statesmen or public men in general. There were two or tqree acts of his life so noble as to entitle him to a monument even more splendid than that of the Marquis of Rockingham in the mausoleum at Went worth. We refer, in the first place, to his conver sion from the views of an opponent of Parliamen tary reform, in which he had been educated, to those of a bold and ardent advocate of that m"a sure ; which, considering that his family possessed several pocket boroughs, and that he was among that Whig aristocracy who so long regarded the government of the country as their prescriptive right, was au act deserving of historical fame. But still more extraordinary was his early advocacy of the repeal of the Corn Laws, when his own fortune depended mainly upon the land, and when the all but universal belief of landowners was that free trade would ruin them. He stood almost alone in his own order, and that for a long course of years ; and the position which he held was a proof of an intellectual sagacity nearly equal to his own disinterestedness and moral courage. There was another act of his public life only less singular in its boldness and rectitude than the two we have mentioned. Some 40 years since it was the unanimous opinion of the manu facturers, merchants, and clothiers in this great seat of the woollen trade, that to allow of the exportation of English wool would be the absolute destruction of our manufacturing superiority. Earl Fitzwilliam (then Lord Milton), who had been returned for Yorkshire by the exer tions of the manufacturing interest, was waited on by a deputation of the constituents to solicit him to oppose a measure which was th en an ti c i pate d , per mitting English wool to be exported. His lordship, who had embraced the principles of free trade with out qualification, told the deputation somewhat brusquely that he would not walk over the room to prevent such a measure being carried. It will be re membered that Lord Milton fully concurred with his father, the former Earl Fitzwilliam, in openly corn demning the conduct of the Manchester magis` rat es at the Peterloo massacre of Aug. 1819 : for which act, or rather for petitioning that the event might be inquired into, the noble earl was deprived of the Lord-Lieutenancy of the West Riding. Those whose recollection goes back to the county meet ings and county elections held in the Castle-yard at York before the year 1830 will remember how Lord Milton (the Earl just deceased) used to stand in front of the hustings, erect as a dart, his fine eye dilating, and a smile of proud honour upon his lips, while his voice rose und er emotion to a stentorian compass, and he thundered forth his denunciations of what he deemed unjust and wrong. He was not eloquent, neither was he a man of very distinguished ability, but so noble was his spirit that on such ocoasions he became eloquent and produced a popular effect upon his audience which few orators could surpass.—Leeds illercury. SUICIDB.—A. young man arrived in a cab on the Boulevard Chopinette on Saturday evening, and, after paying the driver, walked to a deserted spot near tha octroi wall, and discharged a pistol into his breast. Some persons attracted by the report hastened to the spot, and found that, though a bullet had passed com pletely through him, he was not dead. Medical assist 'ince was procured, and his wound was dres3ed. He declared that be is the son of tradespeople of the Fau bourg du Temple, but positively refused to state his reason for his attempt at suicide. His parents were sent for, and they had him removed to their own house. lie is only 20 years of age. THE LATE STORMS IN SOUTHERN ITALY.— The offi cial Journal of the Two Sicilia of the 221 ult. continues to give accounts of the damage done by the violent rain which occurred lately in various provinces Of the kingdom, especially in Terra di Lavoro, and in the neigh bourhood of Molise and Bari. A bridge of boats ever the river Volturno was washed away ; the communica tion between Cusano and Cerreto was interrupted, ar' a young woman of the latter place was carried away by the current, and drowned. Tee communes of Cs,al duni, Ponte!andolfo, Foiino, an l Carnpolattare suff..red immense losses in cattle aryl farming stores ; but, tap pily,•no lives were lost. At Canosa, in the province of Bari, a hailbtorm devaststed the district; the hailstones were of the biz )of a walnut. At San Marco di Cavoti in the province of Principato Uiteriore, the Taannerec cio overfl iwed its banks, committing great ravages ; a woman in a state of pregnancy and her four children were drowned, and the bridge of Pesciariello was carried away. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's P lld are without doubt, the very best medicine for indigestion at d flatu lency. The test of years have proved their afrcacy in curing bile, flatulency, sics-headache, nervousn. es, and debilitated constitutions. 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[A mistake appears to have been made in the en dorsement, as the lease itself commences on the 25th of December, 1853.] When he talked about getting his father into a madhouse I remonstrated with him and said he must not try to do so, as his father was perfectly sane and the surgeons could soon ascertain it. During the same interview the prisoner at different times called his father " a blind old --." Since that time I have never the prisoner and his father together. I have seen them both separately, and they each com plained of the other. A few days after the lease was left with me the prisoner called on mo and said, " We can't put up with that old fellow ; I have given him something that he'll mind. I have had to tie his hands and feet." Thinking that the old man had been hurt, I came over to Bramall the next morning to sea him. I then saw marks of , violence on the deceased's body. His two eyes were very severely swollen and blackened. (Sensation.) His upper lip was also swollen, as was likewise his left jaw, which seemed to have been caused by a kick. The skin was all off his left arm which he b tred to show me. The shin bones of both legs were back with bruises. Those were all the marks that I saw. OnWednesday morning last after the murder the prisoner called upon me in Manchester. He first called between 9 and half-past 9 o'clock, but I had not then arrived, and ho came again shortly before 11 o'clock. I had then heard of the murder. When he came into the office he walked round the coun ter to the window where 1 was standing. He was then accompanied by another young man, named Matthison, and I asked them to be seated. I said to the prisoner that I was sorry for the tran saction which had taken place ; and he replied that it was a sad thing, or circumstance. I inquired if his father was shot, and if so, where ? and, putting his hand to his right cheek, he said " through there." He was next asked whether his father Ivas killed with a pistol or gun, and he answered " by a gun." I then said, addressing the prisoner, " Now, sir, rest assurred that the murderer will be found out ; if man cannot, God will." I mentioned the instances of Mrs. Manning and Rush, and said, " Horrid murderers cannot escape," upon winch he and the other young man got up and left. Pre vious to this, when the prisoner first came into the office, I asked how the unfortunate occurrence took place, and he then said, " About two o'clock this morning I heard a noise in the house, and I took out my gun, because on Monday my father had a sale of cattle, and the auctioneer and other parties said there were many rough characters about ; and owing to the money that wasdtaken for the cattle they might lay siege to the house at night. I then loaded my gun, both barrels, but as no one appeared that night, on Tuesday morning, observ ing a few small birds on a tree in the garden, I let fly at thew, and brought down one. I then put the gun by in the corner of my bedroom ; and on the Wednesday morning, about 2 o'clock, I heard a noise in the house, and got ont of bed, and took my gun and went to my bedroom door. By a dark ish light from the window on the landing I observed a man there six feet high ; and I immediately put my gun to my shoulder, fired at him, and it struck him here (pointing to the lower part of his right cheek). When he got the shot he gave a great jump and a loud screech. I then observed two men go downstairs, with their feet muffled, and I called to my brother Thomas, and told him there were robbers in the house." He further said that he knew the robbers had been in the cellar, because they hail left the tap of the ale cask running. In speaking of his going into his father's room, and finding him killed, he said, "I shall not forget that sight the longest d►y I live." The deceased called at my office many times since March, and I had always looked upon him as a clever man, and per fectly capable of managing any farm, if he had his eyesight as he formerly had. John Cooke—l am the land-agent of Lieut.-Col. Davenport, of Bramall-hall. The deceased was one of the colonel's tenants, under the terms mention ed in the lease produced. I saw him frequently duriug his tenancy, and knew the prisoner very well. I had a conversation with the prisoner re specting the farm. About 11 or 12 months ago I received a letter from him, which I now produce. It is in his handwriting, and is as follows: " Hardy's Farm, Bramall, Saturday Evening. " Mr. Cooke—Xy dear Sir, —1 shall feel extremely obliged by your calling upon me on Mon lay evening about 8 o'clock, as I wish a little private conversation with you, coupled with a few small matters relative to the farm. Existing circumstances prevent me calling upon you as I should otherwise have done, and shall therefore esteem your compliance as a favour. " Hoping that it will produce no inconvenience to you, believe me to be, yours truly, ":TAIIES HENDERSON, Jun." I went and had an interview with the p r i soner on the Monday evening. H e commenced by saying to what he was going a stt,t e was a hard thing for a son to say againstfather, and that he wished to , have a little private conversation with me during his fathe r ' s a b sence in Scotland. He then said his father's temp er and dig • position were so bad that th 2y could no t live with him, and that through his (the father's) stupidity he had had a lawsuit while he was in S cu tl au whichh it a n d almost ruined him. lie also stat e d that his f drunkard while h e li ve d in Scotelran was d ; and hed vey r added,great I do not ku u w w h e th er you are aware that I found the greater portion of the money to come upon the farm, and I wish very much to have the power for my brother acid self to manage and con duct the farm. I wish you to speak to Col. Daven port to knot," whether it; cannot be arranged that I and my brother should have the farm instead of my father, and I will sea that the rant is punctually paid. if so, my father shall have a comfortable home and walk about as he pleases, but I wish him not to interfere, for I do not consider him fit for business, his eyesight beiug bad, and he has on more than one occasion paida sovereign inst ead of a shilling." The prisoner then referred to the covenant in the lease respecting the additional rent to ba paid after the fist 4 years, and said , "My father will n3t pay the additional rent because he does nut consider that the farm will afford it, but I am sure it will if it is properly managed, and if I can have the manage ineutof it I will see that it is paid." In answer to what he said, I replied, " It is all very well, Mr. James, but you know that your father is tenant, and that unless he isagrceable nothing can be done." I asked him if his brother and mother and sivers were agreeable, supposing his father and Col. Da venport were ; ant he said, " They are perfectly agreeable, and they wish it to be so." Since then he has repeated the application at my own house ; I think it was in March last. From my intercourse with the deceased I considered him a man of visor ells intellect, and capable of masagino, his affairs. He was a little stu pid (obstinate) sometimes oli v but I never thought lie was ineapable of managing his affairs. He called at my house on the Saturday before his death. This being the last. witness to be called for the prosecu . ion Mr. R3berts obtained the permission of the coroner to call a witness to prove the finding of the brace. C. H. Smith, son of one of the prisoner's em ployers—l came over to Bramall this morning with my father, and I went with him t o th e d eceased ' s house. ire were looking about in the garderi . ,, and in the grass near a tree, opposite to the end of the house, in which there is only one w . ndow, I found the back part of the brace now produced. My fa ther picked up another piece of a brace (the front p,.rt of one) al out four inches from the same spot. There was a mark on one part of the brace which looked like Wool. Not far off I saw an old pair of trowsers, without braces, which were iu the same state of dilapidation. There were also several pieces of old cloth lying about. I afterwards poin , ed out the place where I found the brace to Mr. An drews. T. Smith—l am a cornfactor at Manchester. My son handed to me. one piece of brace, and I picked up the other piece. By Mr. Roberts—The prisoner has been in the employ of myself and my partner for three years and a half or four years. Everything was satisfac• tory during that time, and I considered him to hi a good and honest man. I never saw him idle a mo m3nt while he was with me. By the Coroner—The prisoner was rather parsi moniouJ. Mr. Superintendent And rews wa s recalled, and he stated that he had been shown the spot in the garden where-the two pieces of brace were found. He had several times before, on Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday last, examined that spot, and it was impossible that the pieces could have been there without being seen. The grass had been care fully searched to find the wadding used by the pri soner when he shot the sparrow, and a piece of good gun-wadding was found there. A pair of old trou, sers and some pieces of rag were also there now which were not there when the previous search was made. This completed the evidence, and at 10 minutes to 8 o'clock the coroner begin to sum up. Ho de precated the comments which had been made by the presq, a,tid urged the jury to dismiss from their minds all except the sworn testimony which had been given during the inquiry. The fact of the murder was undoubted; bit., as to the way in which it was committed there were two sugges ions. In the first place it was suggested by the son James that 3 or 4 burglars entered the house, broke open the writingdesk, and-then proceeded to the old man's room. The statistics of crime in this country showed that the object of all burglars was plunder and not murder, and they never desired to commit bloodshed unless for the purpose of personal protsc tion or of securing booty. In this case it was sug gested that the burglars hadl broken open the desk, but, considering its lightness, it was raor e probable that they would have taken it away aitogetl►er. Under any circumstance 4, they would not have taken the trouble to break open the lock when it was actually unlocked. The murder of the old man when asleep was most inconsistent with the suppo sition that it was the act of burglars. It was most extraordinary that the table in which there was so much money, as well as deceased's clothes, in which there was a shilling, had not been touched. It did not seem likely that burglars would have delibe rately committed an act which would at once have alarmed the whole house, and still less likely was it that a man would have stood on the stairs after the report of the gun. The other suggestion, the very mention of which almost made one shudder, was that the old man had been murdered by his son James. This involved a charge of such a serious nature that he (the coroner) deemed it his duty to read over the whole of the evidence relating to it. This he did at great length, commenting upon it as he proceeded. Shortly after half-past 9 o'clock the jury retired to consider their verdict, and they returned after an absence of about half an hour. Their names having been called over, the Foreman (Mr. Charles Marsland) said, " Vie find James Henderson guilty of the murder of his father." The Coroner inquired if they were unanimous in their verdict, and the foreman replied that they were. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the com mittal of the prisoner, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute at the next Cheshire assizes. The prisoner will he brought before the magis trates at Stockport to-morrow (Thursday). Although o.:easionally during the inquiry yesterday he exhi bited some nervous twitchings about his mouth, he did not display any other symptoms of emotion, not even when the most damaging parts of the evidence were being given against him. He listened atten tively to the statements of the whole of the wit nesses, but appeared little if at all excited. MURDER IN BAhL'S-POND-ROAD. At 12 o'clock last Tuesday night, while Bovis, a sergeant of the N division, was on duty in Ball's pond-road, Kingsl and, he heard loud screams of mur der proceeding from the house No. 11, Dorset street, and as he reached the spot a woman staggered across the road, and fell against the wall o;posite. He caught her m his arms, and her head fell back, the blood gushing from a wound in the throat, ex tending nearly from ear to ear. She did not speak, and died instantly. At the instant of the outcry another officer, named Holiday, of the same divi sion, ran to the spot, and received from the hands of a man in tae passage of the house No. 11 a per son holding a white-handled razor in his right hand. He was covered with blood, face, hands, and clothes, as was the weapon, from blade to haft. At this mo ment Inspector Langdon rode up, and directed the presumed murderer to be taken to the Kingslaud station. Dr. Williams, resident in the neighbour hood, and three other medical gentlemen, were quickly in attendance, but the woman was, as stated, beyond mortal aid. At the station the man in custody admitted she was his wife, and address ing Langdon, said, "I have known you some years, and wish to speak to you about this." He received the usual caution in such cases, but persisted in making a statement as follows :—"I had been to PecLam.-rye with work, and took my wife with me. On returning I fetched beer and something for sup per ; then words ensued between us, and then i was done instantly. It's a bad job. She was good wife and kind creature as ever lived or walked. I did not do it." When charged with the wilful minder of his wife, he became very row and ap parently thoughtful. Papers and letters found at his residence make it apparent that his wife was of a respectable family in Dorsetshire. He was by trade a carpenter, and they had only one child, a girl about four years of age. Lodgers in the house state that they heard a quarrel between the man, whose name is Thomas Robert Davis, and his wife, and that he threatened "to do for her." It was one of these lodgers who, running down stairs just afterwards, found Davi: in the passage, and gate him into the hands 0I the policeman. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. EXTENSION OF THE PROCLAIMED DISTRICT. The following announcement appears in the Posi of this evening : " At a meeting of the Privy Council, held on Satur ilaY—present, the Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Chancellor the Lord Justice, Mr. Baron Greene, the Attorney General, the Recorder, and the Right Hon. J. W. Fitz , c. patrick—it was resolved to enlarge the limits b o y f trheepo p r r t embrace claimed district, so as to embrace several add i ti ona l townlands on the D own side of Belfast, and an additi ons proclamation was agreed to accordingly. We understanc f t r h o a m t ? h i e s l f o r o e o s l h a o step o r i w ti a e s s that renderedthe arms nec essaryhid w] had bee, so lately in the bands of the rioters had been carried across the river, and concealed in the adjoining di s t r i ct~ o f D own , w ithi n reac h an d ava i lable for immediate us. in case an opportunity was presented f or f resh dis turbances. "The proclamation now embraces the whole of Belfas. and its suburbs, with a considerable rural district on *act side, within which any person who carries or has arm, without license, is subject to heavy penal consequences We hail this step as a fresh indicatimi of the intention of the Executive to use the powers of the law for the re pression of outrage and the complete restoration of peat and order. The result of the firm measures of the G vernment is already apparent ; the last two Sundays have passed over with the quiet characteristics which ought to mark the Christian Sabbath, and unsignalised by tumul disorder. We most sincerely hope that the people of Belfast have been awakened to a sense of the miscondu, and humiliation so widely prevailing, and that, by the continuance of peace and obedience to the law, they thay soon be in a position to be a,gain placed within the pal, of the constitution, and on a footing with the rest of th.- community." Referring to Lord Carlisle's observations on the state of Belfast, delivered by his Excellency on Saturday at the meeting of the Senate of the Queen's University, the Post makes the following; observations : • "It has just occarred to us to place the subject of the Belfast riots and street.preaching in a light in which it has not yet been viewed. Belfast is the only consider able town in Ireland disgraced by parry riots and wreck ings. It is the only large town in which the population is at all equally divided as regards religious denomina tions; and it is theonly town where there is an organiser party confederacy, backed by preaching in the public highways, to assail and outrage the portion of the inha bitants belonging to one particular denomination. Ever in Ulster, Belfast is the only town in this most discredi table condition. Suppose the Orange population wen stronger, more numerous, and better armed than th- Roman Catholics, surely that fact would restrain men of true courage, not to speak of religion, from taking ad vantage of their strength to play the bully and the tyrant. Look to the-south, the east, and the west—to Munster, Leinster, and Connaught. In every town, great and small, the Catholics very largely preponderate. In many places they out-number the Established Church and other denominations by ten to one. Yet, without soldiery, and often without police, Protestants are a.. safe from insult or attack as if the towns were garrisoned for their protection. In all those towns where Catholics form the preponderating majority there are no societies or clubs to insult or preach against Protestant. On the contrary, it is our sincere belief that if any persons ha the wickedness to attempt aggressions against ttie Pro testant inhabitants, they would be crushed by the evhol , force of public indignation. Why, then, is it that Bel fast—the only large town in which the population is about equally divided—should be ignobly distinguished for intolerant persecution against Catholics? Clearly because it is the hotbed of Orangeism, and because clergymen belonging to the Presbyterian as well as the Established Church have so far forgotten their saered calling and responsibilities as to herd among the heated partisans of the Orange lodges and to become the agents of faction, instead of the ministers of peace." BOTANIC REMEDY FOE INDIGESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our paper headed " A Fact for Physiologists," in which the Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send free to all applicants the Botanic Remedy for Indiges tion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Professor Webster, of Philadelphia. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Fifty Thousand. 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Cure trevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, IS ' Dowager Countess of Uastlestuart feels induced, i — n s4 :l l l7 Tsi in terest of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's excel- Reva'enta Arabica Food has cured her, after all medi cines had failed, 0: indigestion, bile, great nervousness, ail irritability ooieooo of many an a y ll years' standing,"sulterers, ad T o h2 t s y fo b o o d deserves the a real blessing. Supported by .or te . considered Inquiries will be elieerfully answered. Chemistry, e A t • D zo i n . ;th ui fr o o ; m the celebrated Professors Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Shokand ; Dr. llarvey7 . r. brittiker • Dr. Wurzer ' • Dr. Ingram • Lord Stu ar t d e Decies; the ' Dowager Countess of Castle: Stuart; Major-Glen. _Thomas IVug, and many other respectahle - persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all other means of curb had failed. Suitably packed with full in structions. In canisters, lib, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d.; 51b, ls 121 b, 224' The 1:2113 canisters are sent carriage free, on receipt of Post-Odeo order;—Barry.Du Barry, & 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION atAinst the fetrfuldangers of _spurious imi r tti t o o t (t s a Injunctionn : e V;e- Chaonnetchle lor Sir William Page Wood g 10th March; 1851, again . st Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitatins "Da Barry's ,Revalcuta Arabica Food.". - y se's a.ucl A Malta letter, dated October 2, says :-- "Her M jesty's steam gun-boat the Vigilant re turned to Malta on the Ist, and the Wanderer ou t'ie 2.!, from Cagliari, after telegiaphing - hence to London the summary of the intelligence from Bom bay and Calcutta, in the transmission of which de lays are said to have occurred from damage came(' by lightning. "The Peninsular and Oriental CQmpany's steam packet Vectis arrived at Malta from Alexandria on the 26th with the Calcutta mail. " the Indus, belonging to the same company, arrived at Malta soon after midnight of the 26th with the heavy portion of the mail, and left early next morning for Gibraltar and Southampton. - " The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet Ripon arrived at Malta from South ampton and Gibraltar on the 20th ult., having on board his Excellency Sir Wm. Reid, Governor of Malta, returning from sick leave. " The Valetta steampacket, belonging to the same company, arrived at Malta on the evening of the 30th ult., with the overland mail. " The Ripon left Malta for Alexandria on the night of the 30th. The Valetta followed early in the morning of the Ist inst. " The Ariel screw steam corvette left Malta for Corfu, with the despatches of Admiral Lord Lyons and the mail for the squadron under his orders on the Ist inst." , The following officers have joined the Provisional Battalions at Chatham garrison, previously to em barking for India :—Lieut. R. D. Knight, 94th Regt., and Staff Assistant-Surgeon A. G. Power, M.D., for the purpose of doing duty with the 2d battalion. The Windsor Castle, 116, late the Victoria. Or ders have been forwarded from the Admiralty for this vessel, now building at Pembroke Dockyard, to be fitted with the auxiliary screw. Several hands are now engaged on her that the alteration may be completed as rapidly as possible, this vessel having been several years on the stocks. The Avon, 3, paddle, arrived at Portsmouth yes terd iy, with supernumeraries for the Ganges, 84, flag-ship. The Implacable, 72, training ship, Capt. Lowe, has been ordered to go into Devonport Harbour, and take up her winter moorings. The Irresistible, 80, at Chatham, which has been on the stocks a great number of years, is now ordered to be completed and fitted as a screw steamer, with engines of 400-horse power. The Styx, 6, paddle sloop, Commander YeaAy, went out of Plymouth Harboty on Monday, and was swung for the adjustment of hor compasses by Mr. Madge, master of the Royal William, on Tuesday. _ Comm - odcre Paulding, of the United States navy, accompanied by a corps of scientific 'men, passed from Aspinwall to Panama last month, for the purpose of testing how far it would be practicable to make a ship canal there. The Penguin and Pandora, brigs, at Devonport, are to be fitted for service in the coast-guard. The Gannet, 10, screw steam sloop, now in the course of building at Pembroke Dockyard, it; ra pidly progressing towards completion, and will be Launched on the 2d of December, when she will be navigated to Devonport, and placed amongst the Steam reserve. Tile Rev. W. R. Jolley, chaplain and naval in structor of the Illustriou9, has been appointed tutor to his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. Rear-Admiral George Morris (on the Retired List, 1846), died at Peterborough, on the 29th September, in the 79th year of his age. This dis tinguished officer saw much active service in the great revolutionary war with France, having entered the navy in the year 1789, and was midshipman of the Audacious, 74, in Lord Howe's action in 1794, where he lost a leg, at the early age of 16. He was pro moted in June, 1796, and wa s secon d li eutenant of the Ardent, 64, Captain Burgess, in Lord Dun can's hard-fought action off Camperdown, when his Gallant captain was cut in two by a cannon shot, an d the Ardent had a fourth o f h er ship ' s company killed and wounded. Rear Admiral Morris was posted in 1812, and was awarded a pension of 300/. per annum, in 1816, for the loss of his leg. He was placed on the Retired List of Rear Admirals, in 1846. the . 73d d an y ty r (1811) died die i r r t e ir c e e d ntl P y ay a m t a tr e u r ch B le a y m , age. RECRUITING FOR ROYAL ARTILLERY. The following General Regimental Order has been received from the A djutant-General's office, and notified at head -quarters, 'Woolwich : " With reference to the Regimental Recruiting Circular of the 30th April, 1856, showing the dis tribution of the levy money allowed for the enlist ment of recruits of the Royal Artillery, it is lirected that such distribution shall, in future, be the same as for the cavalry of the line, viz. :—To the recruit, 21. and a complete kit of necessaries ; to the superintending officer 9s. ; and to the recruit ing party, including the bringer, 15s. " Referring to the Recruiting Circular of the 13th August, it is directed that the pay and all other allowances to Artillery recruiting parties, with the exception of those under adjutants at Woolwich, shall appear in the accounts of the paymasters of the various districts, with whom ar rangements should be made by recruiting officers. " Referrine , to the Gener a l R eg i men t a l O r d er o f the 28th of Referring the age and standard for recruits of the Royal Artillery is to be as follows, viz. : Age from 18 to 25, height five feet seven inches ; growing lads between 17 and 18 years of age, height five feet six inches and a half. " The daily reports of recruits enlisted in the Royal Artillery having been furnished in a very irregular manner, recruiting officers are required to send in a daily report of the number of recruits enlisted on the day previous to the date of the re port ; a blank report to be forwarded if no recruits are enlisted, and to be addressed to the Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery, 1, Whitehall yard." Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET OCT. 6. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 7s 01 to 9s 01 per kemple of 16 stones rron wheat do., 6s 0(1 to 8s 0/ ; barley do.; 5s 61 to 8s Od. Hay from 101 to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL-00T. 6. There were in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, eaob weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 43s Od and -- s. DALKEITII MEAL MARKET—OcT. 5. --- There were in the market to-day (3 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oaten sal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. Third. imperial Od Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —a Od. —s OJ Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od —s Od —s ( d Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od —a Od --s Cd KIRKCALDY—OCT. 3. A large supply of barley, and fair of wheat and oats. Sales quick, at fully last week's rates. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. First sBs Od 38s 01 G 295. Od I Os Od Socond Ms Od 34 9 Od 28s Od . Os Oa Third 37s Od 3419 Od 269 6J I Os Od DUBLIN, 00T. f. White wheat, 31a Od to 338 Od ; rod ditto, 29s Od to 31s (Id; ditto new, 3O 61; barley, malting, 17s 6d to 225; grind ing, —s to —a ; oats, old, 158 6d to 18s; ditto, new, 12s 64 to 148 6d ; oatmeal, 15.10 d to 17s; bare, new, 15s to 16s 3d ; rapeseed, 288 Od to 30a Od per bri ; bakers flour, 19s 0 , 1 tens Od per owt ; Indian corn, 36s Od to 38. Od per 480 lbs. BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the sth inst., at 21, Charterhonee-square, Mrs. Henry J. Houghton. On the 6th inst., at Gorstage Hall, Cheshire, the wife of Henry It. Dalglish, Esq. OF A DIMMER. On the sth inst., at Old Charlton, Blackheath, the wife of Edwin A.' Bernays, E aq ., of her Majesty's, Dockyard, Wooch. On the 27th ult., at Oak Hall, East Ham, Mrs. Alfred W. Broadhurst, of Harley-place, Bow. MAR,RIED. On the 6th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, the ' Rev. George Mason, only son of Thomas Mason , Esq., of Copt Hewick Hall, near Ripon, to Helen, eldest daughter of Hen r y F. Straw Lafevre, Esq., of 29, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. On the 6th inst., at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Laurence, eldest son of Andrew Buist, Esq., of King's Kettle, Fife shire, to Marianne, second daughter of Geo. Willis, Esq., of the Strand, London. DIED. On the sth inst., suddenly, at Cheltenham, Joseph IL Turner, Esq., of . 4'o, Montague-place, Russell-square, and 3, Bedford-row, aged 63. On the sth inst., at Castle Bromwich, gr. John Small.. wood, aged 79. On the 31 inst., at Tweed House, Berwick-on-Tweed, John Wilson, , aged 74. V On the 2d inst., at - Ilarpertown, Roxburghshire, Mary G. Walker, youngest daughter of the late Robt. Walker, Esq., of Wooden, aged 56. On the 2,th ult., at 10, St. James's-place -Hatcham, Willi am Herbert, youngest child, and, on the 4th inst., Katherine, wife of George Scott Keys, and daughter of J. Hooper, E q., Peckham. LONDON' : Printed and i Publiehed by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, October 8, 1857.