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

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. CALCUTTA. =TRACT -FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY A RESIDENT IN CALCUTTA FROM 9TH to 22D AUG. Aug. 9.—Her Majesty's fillip Shannon arrives ; said to have a reinforcement of 1,700 men, in reality she has 300 marines, but the wbele of. her crew is to be made available for defence of Calcutta. Bentinck, which was to have been despatched to-morrow, is ordered to be kept back. Numerous armed bodies of men are hovering about Calcntta, it is supposed not less than 70,000 men, exclusive of those known to be hiding in the town, and a large number of cavalry. Aug. 10—Lords Canning and Elgin meet in consulta tion, the result is said to be this : that two things are ordered to be done which no entreaty or persuasion could wring from our governor, viz.: first, compulsory enlist. ment in the militia of all able-bodied Christians ' • and se condly, disarming of all Bengal soldiery still allowed to be armed—both of these much wanted. The Sepoys, horse and foot, who have remained steady, bays done so with the object of killing more officers, or doing more mischief hereafter. This is found out before Delhi, where the Sikhs, seeing 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 the inane has been com mitted and they cannot interfere. Mr. Waucbope, chief commissioner of police, is an East India Company's civil servant, and notoriously hostile to all European adven turers. The native police - speak their minds putty freely to the Madras troops, four of whom are arrested, and fined for nothing. No notice is, however, to be taken of the seditious language used by the police. CP.ptain Peel, of her Majesty's ship Shannon, is to lead an expedition of 400 men to Allahabad, 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 11—Lord Cenning,afterhaving been worried since Mar, 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 ue 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 lei. On our side the Government office clerks, and other Europeans and Christians, hastily drilled and formed into a regiment, behaved admirably, and seflered heavily in kiiled. Government order the Bentinck, and each succeeding steamer, to prepare for carrying troops on her return voyage from Suez. Mr. Halliday, Lieut.-Governor of Bengal puts a Mue• 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 Marines of her Majesty's Transit, which last has finally succeeded in knocking a hole in her bottom in Straits of Bence. Aug. 12.—A horrible rumour, on native authority, of a rising at Bangalore and total destruction of that place; wants confirmation. It is new ascertained that Gen. Havelock has had to retreat upon Cawnpore, which he did with success, car rying with biro everything ; he was losing 60 men a day by cholera. He has been reinforced and is at them again. We expect to hear of another fight. The situation of Lucknow and its brave garrison is desperate. Poor Bankes was shot before he commanded 48 hours. That "excellent" man Nana Sahib is before Lucknow ; he lost 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 Si. 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 asked, where are this month's salaries of public servants to come from? The treasury is nearly empty, and Government have neither money nor credit. Everything 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 any hung the emissary. My own old servant explains the reason, which is, that if the native princes of India got the upper hand, the native gentry would give them half 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; bat 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. Lord 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 marines, start by water for Upper Provinces. He takes a formidable battery with him. Fourteen miles from Caleutta 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 he manfully resists (Aug. 14) seizing large stores of arms and ammunition pointed out to him, will not cell out the militia, will not do anything to some hundreds of native wealthy and influential people who have been named as haviug aided and abetted the rebel lion. Qaere—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, but Lord Elgin knows most of them are not nsurable. More reports of disasters in the Upper Provinces ; hut Government reselately shut up post telegraphs, and every source of information ; the native - post runs regu larly and safely. Feast India C impany's paper of the Five per Cent. Loan seas in Leeknow at 81 per Cent. discount. A hard nut for anyone wh) says the funds are a sure indication of coining events. August 16.—Matters at Raneesunge are said to be in so unsatisfactory a state from large armed bodies collecting and threatening the collieries, that liar 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 31 of September. In the meantime thelelacksmith 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 danger and uucertaintf. 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 lefs standing natil after tho Mohnrrum, absit omen, but it looks as if they still might possibly be wanted. Sir Colin Campbell goes incog. into . Fort William, and finds matters so little to his liking that—and ano ther officer are put under arrest. Iris 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 ning's fancies and weaknesses for rebels and murderers. August 17.—Various creeks and small rivers which run into the Hooghley are full of boat-loads of armed men, all making fur 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 Alia the same months ago. The festival of the Mohurrum commences the 20th inst., and we shall see then or thereabouts what may be coming. I this day refused to join the Vigilance Committee, and did my beet to dissuade others. I would like the thing well enough if it would ply begin and end in flogging and pickli ng the sim Legislative Council, but the danger is from our numerous German and other foreign ers, whom nothing sho r t o f blood would satisfy, add to this, a highly exasperated Buropeansoldi ti n y, and then there is no saying what the ry would feu -I.es end might be. August 18.—Lord Canning remonstra Campbell for the row he kicked up i n the for w t ith a and ceives the fi illowing answer :—" Very will, my lord, y re. ou shall have the fort, and do what you like there, lontl me an to remove every European soldier out of it." ‘ I am mistaken in the naaie of the officer put seder ar rest ; It was not--, but Thank God it is a fact, the militia is to be formally ci,lled out and embodied by compulsory enlistment. This will give us over 3,000 Europeans and half-cisi.e armed men, who, at all events, will make a show. Government have received information, in a singular manner, of all that is i ntended to be done in the Moher rum. The only fear is it may not be acted upon the Governor-General being determined to listen to no sug geetions whatever. I trust, however, he will thick better of it. Half Calcutta may be destroyed, but the n'ation at large will team that his lordship knew it was to/hap pen, and with ample means at his disposa l refus'l t make an effort even e to avert the calamity. The i di/i -deal who turns informer gives one material guarant e for his fidelity, in recommending a measure which fortu nately was carried into effect many (lays ago, viz. dibarm ing the bodyguard. They bud been suspected of treabhery and watched ; he wrote from a great distance, and cool .1 not have known what was doing here. August 20—Various reports of squabbles between Lord Canning and Colin Campbell; the last not being T 1-1 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 Purjsubee troops have come to Delhi. The garrison 'are very dispirited ; ask what, terms they are to have. Gen. Wilson very properly says not a man shall leave it alive. Volunteer infantry reviewed. August 22.—Tbe Conncl meets to-day, but we shall not know the result in time. Ava was taken up for Lord Elgin's yacht. The Mohurrum now Commences ; and the Commissioner of police shows how safe he thinks the t)wn now is by frantic efforts to enlist European police and get European troop; all over the town. My company is on duty, with some of H.M.'s 29th, 24 hours at a time. The mails all over the cluntry open. I wish all the foregoing were , more interesting ; but 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 Phoenix overland mad will tell you all that which I cannot. 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 F.,—lt is not yet the mail day, nor will be for some days, but 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 hien entertained of the troops' loyalty, no preparations for defence ha 4 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 farther 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 array to make some ar rangement, so that we thought it scarcely right to re main here alone. Accordingly we took our little nn eo. scions children out of their beds, and with the ayahs 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 reeignsd. It was a night of fearful suspense, yet it passed away without any disturbance, and I had the happiness of seeing say 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 . . tiog into, and the move of the officers (at least of two) to bleep 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 soma 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 made 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 just outside the barrack for ourselves). Atter 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 posei bin with the most terrible rumours coming in throughout the day, and reviving all our saddest apprehensions. Of course we returned to the depot at night, and for the first time since our move exhausted nature would be at tended fo r 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 Eed 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 Mussulmana of the Ist Regiment coming in a body according to custom to salaam to Colonel E— after their prayers, and they expressed their intentions of fidelity, etc, all of which are very well, but not to be depended on now-a-days. We returned to those melan choly night quarters ; oh I 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 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, Mynpoorie 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 bad arrived. The appearance of successful insurgents amongst the regiments would be the signal to rise, and all we could really depend upon for defence were our position behind our guns and the help of about 150 Eu ropean eel hers, 40 railway people and merchants, and a few stragglers. There are two regiments of Oade Irre gulars, but I am not inclined to put 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 oft 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. Tire 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 pro viaion:= into oar position, and making preparations in the event •of being shut up there altogether. The news from Delhi makes 114 very anxious, for any disaster there will be fetel 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 vel,. pervades the Bengal army, and it remains to bo seen whether we are strong enough to put it down, cr whe ther we must succumb to the storm. Oar only dance Lore is to keep things quiet until reinforcements can ar rive. I cannot conceal from myself that my husband is likely to he the Bret to fall. He says if his regiment mutinies, it may wal over his body, but he will never ire For ourselves I need - only say, that even shoutd our poiition be strong enough to hold out, there is the dread. tul exp:3snre to the heat of May and Juno, together with the privations and confinement of besieged sufferers,:to render it very unlikely that we can survive the disasters which may fad upon us any day, any hour. lam going to despatch this to Calcutta to be sent through our agents there, that you may know oar situation. My dear little child is looking very 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 stiffer and perish, that is the hard, the bitttr trial, and the cup which I must drink, should God not deelie it fit that it should pass from me. My com p inioo, Mrs. H-----, is delightful ; poor young thing, she has such a gentle spirit, so unmurmuring, so desirous to meet the trial rightly, so unselfish end sweet in every way. Her husband is an excellent man, and of course very mach 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 reverie to this sad picture. Delhi may be retaken in a short time. Aid may come to us, and all may subside into tranquility once more. Let us hope for the beat, 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 feriae° as; He will be with us in the valley of the shadow of death also, and we need fear no evil. God bless you. Cawnpore, June 1. "For the char.ce of this reaching you, I send a few lines via Bombay that you may have the latest news of ne. The revolt has spread since I wrote last. Etawah, Allyghtir, and Muttra and Bolundshar have all been plundered, and yesterday came news of a serious emeute at Lncknow—the - worst thing that could have happened for ns, 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 he is awaiting the arrival of a battering train from Philoor, and does not expect to be before Delhi till the 9th. Scarcely anything short of a miracle can keep people quiet for b 0 many days, and the insurgents are meanwhile strengthen ing themselves and collecting in large numbers, and of courso gaining confidence from our lamentable weakness. We want a \ Napier now, not a cautious calculating speculator. It is very sad, hut we cannot do anything. h efruer havedi disc-tern. Our weak position here, with a mere handful of Euro phtheonauntrsity,hepwelaeoemeascareaunodo,ik:itn3vgery great danger, and daily and a g n oi d ng th o a u t t tthoesilreempeaarzsuornelt is supposed i oft their i:,1,,1ay s t lf e h a r , o; i .. h v n i a a gs wthhoandn danger,dae r wonder t a c b t y , ful effect in restraining them. accidental But spark everybody ula y knowsset of e i v n e f n an i t t .ry and one 01 that this cannot List. Any the whole of the three regiments we keep oar cavalry in a blaze of mutiny • an d position where we are entrenched, with six must be sacrifice d ; and I do not attempt to conceal from e'r... myself that my husband runs greater risk than ' any cn, of the whole force. " Europeans are almost daily arriving from Calcutta, but in small numbers-20 and 30 at a time. We been now about 300, I believe. Every day that. we escape free of disturbance adds to our strength, and gives a better chance for our lives. Property is no; to lie thought of, as confLigrations always accompany the out- breaks,_and we maybe quitesure of our bungalows being burnt do widirectly tronblie commence. All have gone at Lucknow, they say. We have hitherto been very fortun k ttiii_nending our dale a home. It is at some risk that we leave the entrenchments, but there would be risk ale" in encountering the fearful heat, se we pre fer gunning 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 d 9 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 s ate of stupefaction. Body and mind alike refused to be longer active; it was necessary—jest 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 further 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 felt 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. RAVELOCK AT THE BATTLE QF RAMNUGGER, ON TIM 22d NOV., 1848. At a time when every English heart beats high in expectation of tidings of the fate of the gallant Major- General Havelock, 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 batde-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 Satlej, 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 Cherish, and passing the village of Reannugger, the enemy became apparent. Their main force occupied the opposite, or right bank, but some troops and guns were left in a small island, in mid-channel of the river. The 31 Light Dragoons and the Bth Native Light Cavalry easily drove back the advanced pests of the enemy, and our Horse Artillery pushed on into the deep sand of the river, and opened fir© 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, demanded 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 bii men, attacked the Sikh forces, which were now crowd ing 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 thie 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, is 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 profesaion of nrms, and become the successful leader of our armies.--tdver riser. 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 tgre,e 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 mea sure ; which, considering that his family possessed several pocket boroughs, and that he was tmong that Whig aristocracy who so long regarded the government of the country as their prescriptive right, was an 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 hold 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 Mil t on), 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 then anticipated, per mit,ing English wool to be exported. His lerdsuip, 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 b 3 re membered that Lord Milton fully concurred with his father, the former Earl Fitzwilliam, in openly com demnine the conduct of the Manchester magis' rates 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 hell in tbo 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 under 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 occasions he became eloquent and produced a popular effect upon his audience which few orators could surpass.—Leecls Mercury. Scrlanz.—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 the octroi wall, and discharged a pistol into his breast. Some persons attracted by the report hastened to the spot, and teued that, though a bullet had passed com pletely through him, he was not dead. Medical assist• ence was procured, and his wound was dressed. He declared that he is the son of tradespeople of the Fau bourg du Temple, but positively refused to state his reason for his attempt at enicide. 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 cial Journal of the Two Sicilies of the 22d nit. 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 over the river Volturno was washed away ; the ctommanica tion between Cusano and Cerreto was interrupted, and a young woman of the latter place was carried away by the current, and drowned. Tne communes of Casal duni, Pontelandolfo, Foiano, an-I Campolattare suffered immense losses in cattle and farming stores ; but, hap pily,.no lives were lost. At Canosa, in the province of Bari, a hailstorm devastated the district; the hailstones were of the sin of a walnut. 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Guidicy, Smyrna ; anl .E, Muir, Malta. MUNI LON BON, Til unsn A Ey V* INC OC-1 913 ER, 8 _1857 THE MURDER IN CHESHIRE, the coenty,of Chester, for 10 years. Rent for first four years, 2021.. an d afterwards for the residue of the term 2401. payable 24th June. The following additional evidence was given at adjourned inquest on Tuesday evening : [mistake appears to have been made in the en ;hedorsement, as the lease itself commences on the Benjamin Cooper—l am a sergeant of the °hes 25th of December, 1853.] When he talked - about shire county constabulary. I accompanied Superin- getting his father into a madhouse I remonstrated tendent Andrews to the house of the deceased about with him and said he must not try to do so, as his 4 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday last. I father was perfectly sane and the surgeons could found the prisoner and his brother Thomas there, soon ascertain, it. During the same interview the and I afterwards saw the dead body of the deceased. prisoner at 'different times called his father After we had made an examination of the house, " a blind old --.". Since that time I have Mr. Andrews left, and I remained in charge. Be- never the prisoner and his father together. I fore he left he locked uli the sitting-room and took have seen them both separately, and they each corn the key with him. No one went into it during his plained of the other. A few days after the lease absence. With the exception of Sergeant Ham- was left with me the prisoner called on me and mond and myself no one went into the deceased's said, "We can't put up with that old fellow ; I bedroom until Mr. Andrews returned. I produce have given him something that he'll mind. I have a leather shotbag and a powderflask, which I found had to tie his hands and feet." Thinking that the in a drawer in a wasbhand table in the prisoner's old man had been hurt, I came over to Bramall the bedroom. The bag is half full of shot, and there next morning to see him. I then saw marks of is some powder in the flask. I also produce two violence on the deceased's body. His two eyes were exploded caps, which ( found in the same drawer, very severely swollen and blackened. (Sensation.) in which was also a box containing a number of His upper lip was also swollen, as was likewise his caps which corresponded with the sr eat ones. I left jaw, which seemed to have been caused by a have since taken 12 shots from the shotbag and de- kick. The skin was all off his left arm which he livered them to Mr. John Graham, who weighed bared to show me. The shin bones of both legs were them in my presence, and they corresponded in black with bruises. Those were all the marks that weight with 12 others which he had. I searched the I saw. OnWednesclay morning last after the murder premises, outside and in, on the morning of the the prisoner called upon me in Manchester. He first murder, as soon as it was daylight, but could find called between 9 and helf-past 9 o'clock, but I bad no trace of any footmarks. not then arrived, - and he came again shortly before George Young Graham—l am a surgeon, prat- 11 o'clock. I had then heard of the murder. When tising at Stockport. On the 39th September last I he came into the office he walked round the coun made an examination of the deceased's b3dy, at the ter tee the window where I was standing. He request of Mr. Andrews. I f rund the deceased was then accompanied by another young man, lying on his back in bed, his head resting on the named Matthison, and I asked them to be seated. I and his face a little inclined ti, the said to the prisoner that I was sorry for the tran pillow, • right. Neither the pillow nor the bolster ap- section which had taken place ; and he replied that peared to have been disturbed in the least after the it was a sad thing, or circumstance. I inquired if deceased had laid down to rest. His arms were out- his father was_ shot, and if so, where 7 and, putting side the bedclothes in a perfectly natural position. his hand to his right cheek, he-said " through Both hands were closed andcroesedover each other. there." He was next asked whether his father was Both legs were stretched out and close together ; killed with a pistol or gun, and he answered "by and the soles of both feet rested firmly against the a gun." I then said, addressing the prisoner, footboard. Upon the ordinary covering of the bed " Now, sir, rest assurred that the murderer will be was laid a shepherd's plaid, which reached from the found out ; if man cannot, God will." I mentioned deceased's chest to the bottom of the bed ; it was the instances of Mrs. Manning and Rush, and said, tucked in, and rested firmly between the deceased's " Horrid murderers cannot escape," upon which feet and the footboard of the bed. The plaid was he and the other young man got up and left. Pre perfectly smooth, and did not appear to have been vious to this, when the prisoner first came into the disturbed in the slightest degree. It required, in- office,. I asked how the unfortunate occurrence dee.l, a little effort to release it from the footboard. took 'place, and he then said, "About two o'clock The face was extensively blackened from exploded this morning I heard a noise in the house, anal took powder, the blackness extending from the chin to out my gun, because on Mond'ky my father had a the forehead. The upper part of the deceased's shirt sale of cattle, and theaubtioneer and other parties on the left side was also a little blackened. The said there were many rough characters about ; and r ight eyelids were perfectly closed, but the left owing to the. money that 'was taken for the cattle ovver eyelid was slightly open. There was a large they might lay siege to the house at night. I quantity of blood upon the bed, on the right side then loaded my gun, both barrels, but as no one of the deceased. There was a gunshot wound on appeared that night, on Tuesday morning, observ the face, and the brood had escaped from it on to ing a few small birds on a tree in the garden, I let the bedclothes, from which it bad flowed in se- fly at them, and brought down one. I then put veral streams to the mattress, arid thence to the the gun by in the corner of my bedroom ; and on floor. I should think there were at least 12 ounces the Wednesday morning, about 2 o'clock, I heard of coagulated blood on the floor in addition to a noise in the house, and got ont of bed, and took the large quantity found upon the bed- my gun and went to my bedroom door. By a dark clothes. On examining the wound I found that a ish light from the window on the landing I observed considerable portion of the upper lip, a small strip a man there six feet high ; and I immediately put of the cartilage of the nose, and the whole of both my guu to my shoulder, fired at him, and it struck the bard and the soft palate, with the teeth from him here (pointing to the lower part of his right the upper jaw, had been carried away by the shot. cheek). When he got the shot he gave a great The edges of the wound were lacerated and black- jump and a loud screech. I then observed two men ened. The right malar or cheek bone and the bones go downstairs, with their feet muffled, and I called of the nose on the right side were not injured. The to my brother Thomas, and told him there were bones of the face, as well as those of the nose, on robbers in the house." He further said that he the left side were complet e ly s h a tt ere d, so th a t the knew the robbers had been in the cellar, because left cheek sank for proper support. 1 also found an they had left the tap of the ale cask running. In opening in the anterior portion of the base of the speaking of his going into his father's room, and skull. Portions of the bones were driven into the finding bib. killed, he said, "I shall not forget that brain, and the hole was sufficiently large to allow sight the longest day I live." The deceased called me to pass my finger through the opening. I next at my office many times since March, and I had had the body removed from the bed, and stripped. always looked upon him as a clever man, and per- On the left arm I found a small bruise, but not of fectly capable of managing any farm, if he had his recent date. I and my son then examined the eyesight as he formerly had. brain. On removing the top of the skull we did John - Cooke—l am the land-agent of Lieut.-Col. net discover any marks of injury to the upper per- Davenport, of Bramall-hall. The deceased was one rion of the brain, but at the base and back part of the colonel's tenants, under the terms mention there was a quantity of coagulated blood. We next ed in the lease produced. I saw him frequently removed the brain from the skull, and found that it during his tenancy, and knew the prisoner very was lacerated at the base at a part exactly corres- well. I had a conversation with the prisoner re ponding with the internal fracture of the bones. specting the farm. About 11 or 12 months ago I Blood was extensively extravasated in the substance received a letter from him, which I now produce. of the brain, and I extracted the eight shots which It is in his handwriting, and is as follows:- I now produce from the brain. I next examined the " Hardy's Farm, Bramall, Saturday Evening. mouth, at the back part of which I found the " Mr. Cooke—My dear Sir,-1 shall feel extremely two obliged by your Mon-lay calling upon me on evening shots and two teeth which I now produce. The a b oa t 8 o'oloalr, as kwish a little private conversation with tongue was slightly lacerated. The whole of the vie- you, coupled with a few small matters relative to the cera were healthy. From the above facts, my ira- farm. Existing circumstances prevent me calling upon pression is that the deceased was shot while asleep, you as I should otherwise have done, and shall therefore and that death was instintaneous and without a esteem your compliance as a favour. " Hoping that it will produce no inconvenience to you, struggle. I consider death to have been caused by believe me to be, yours truly, injury to the brain and shock to the nervous system, " JAMES HENDERSON, Jun." which was produced by the gunshot wound. At the I went and had an interview with the prisoner on request of the coroner, - I and my son, and Mr, the Monday evening. He commenced by saying Downes, a surgeon of Stockport, made a further what he was going to state was a hard thing for a post mortem examination on Friday last. We son to say against' a father, and that he wished to removed the top of the skull, and Mr. Downs have a little private conversation with me during made a most careful examination of it. We 0 his father's absence in Scotland. He then said his then tried to discover any more shot that might father's temper and disposition were so bad that be in the body. For this purpose we removed they could not live with him, and that through his the tongue, trachea, and oesophagus, and we (the father's) stupidity he had had a lawsuit while found on the right side, among the deep-seated he was in Scotland, which had almost ruined him. muscles of the neck, and also scattered about the He also stated that his father was a very great mouth, a quantity of shot which weighed about drunkard while he lived in Scotland ; and he added, two drachms two scruples, making the total weight " I do not kuow, whether you are aware that I of shot extracted from the body at both times three drachms. found—theegreater portion of the money to come Rap the farm, and I wish very much to have the By Mr. Roberts—' was not acquainted personally with the deceased. I never saw a more healthy hod©r for my brother arid self to manage and con duct the farm. -w man. It is usual for most persons to die on the back. The bedclothes indicated perfect rest. The left hand I' . ish you to speak to Col. Daven that port to know whether it cannot be arranged . was closed, but not grasped tightly, as it would I and my brother should . ave the farm instead of my father, and I will ewe that the rent is punctually have been ifthere had been any resistance. - - paid. If so, my father shall have a comfortable home hesitation in saying and walk about as he pleases, but I wish him not to that the person who fired at the deceased must have By the Coroners--I have no interfere, for I do not consider him fit for business, stood somewhat to the right of him. Judging frciut 2 the direction which the shot took, Ido not thinleit b • bad, and he has on more than one of shilling." * " The is paida sovereign instead a s ling. is possible that the deceased could have been in a • his eyesight . mug rising or sitting posture when he was shot., prisoner then referred to the covenant in the lease 4 respecting the additional rent to be paid after the George Downs--I am a surgeon of Stockport. On first, and"My father will not pay the 'Friday last I made a p ost mortem examination of years, said, in company with, the last additional rent because he does not consider that the body of the deceased, the farm wiil afford it, but I am sure it will if it is witness and his son , Mr • J. Graham. I concur in . * evidence given bypro p e rly managed, and if I can have the manage the Gr aham as to the state mentof it I will see that it is paid." In answer to of the wounds, and also generally as to the cause of what he said, I replied, " It is all very well, Mr. death. James, but you know that your father is tenant, John G. Graham —I am a surgeon at Stockport. and that unless he isagreeable nothing can be done." . rassisted my fathem at both examinations of the I asked him if his brother and mother and sisters deceased's body, and I concur with him entirely iu were agreeable, supposing' his father and Col. Da the has given. I produce the veaport were ; ane-he said, " They are perfectly I have kept 12 of them in a separate shots taken from the eceased's neck at the second agreeable, and they wish it to be so." Since then he examination. b th o e x. evi l de a n ls c o e p w ro h d ic u h e - 13 two . parcels of shot consisting has repeated the application at my own house ; I w hich I received from Mr. Andrews on think it was in March last. From my intercourse of 12 each, with the deceased I considered him amen of vigor- Saturday, and another parcel of 12, which I received Cooper this morning. I have weighed ous intellect, and capable of managing leis own from Sergeantaffairs, He was a little stupid (obstinate) sometimes them all by the standard and with each Other, and but I never thought he was incapable of managing they are exactly of the F4lll - 3 weight. • • Chas. Lomax—l am a letterpress printer at Stock- his affairs. He called at my house on the Saturday before his death. port. I have examined the portiOn of the pub lica- This being the last witness to be called for the ,tion, " The Cottage Girl; or, The Marriage Day , " prosecution Mr. Roberts obtained the permission found in the prisoner's bedroom, and, on comparing of the coroner to call a witness to prove the finding it with the perfect number now shown to me, I of the brace. • . have no doubt that both are printed from the same C. efl. Smith, son of one of the prisoner's em type, and the ' illustrations in front of both are ployers—l cams over to Bramall this morning with my father, and I went with him to the deceased's thethepacke same packet now w e block. Among the shown to me mared " pieces of C" (c ornd- house. ie were looking abo at in the garden, and posing the wad found in deceased's body), I fins in the grass near a tree, opposite to the end of the the numerals " 1 0 93 ," and portions .of three n house, in which there is only one window, I found printed leaves, which correspond with the corre the back part of the brace now produced. My fa spending lines in the perfect number. The paper the wad Cher picked up another piece of a brace (the front marked , s D" now shown te me (part of lines P` art of one) about four inches from the same spot. found whioh onthestaThere was a mark on one part of the brace which correspondir stairs contains with corresps looked like blood. Not far off I saw an old pair of 1,198 in the perfect number. In both copies, i d n irowsere, without braces, which were in the same ponodrtiinognslionfentainn. pageas the fragment and in the perfect number, the wor state of dilapidation. Thee©" were also several "robes" is spelt with a "c" (robes) instead of "e. . pieces of old cloth lying about. I afterwards pointed Another portion forms the last six lines of the same out the place where I found the brace to Mr. Au page. I have no doubt whatever that the type areas. from which the w h o l e o f the pieces were printed is T. Smith—l aen a cornfactor at Manchester. My the same as that from which the perfect number is son handed to me one piece of brace, and I picked printed. the other piece. Sohn Walke r —l am a steam-packet agen , t up at By Mr. Roberts—The prisoner has been in the Manchester. I knew the- deceased and the whole employ of myself and my partner . for three years of the members of the fancily, exce p t the eldest and a half or four years. Everything was satisfac• daughter, whom I have never seen. I haveknown tory during that fime, and I considered him to be the prisoner for 12 or 13 years, a nd the deceased for a good and honest man. I never saw him idle a mo four or five years, which was a short time before he mesa while left Scotland. I have had conversations with the ..,rather parsi- By the Coroner—The prisoner was prisoner respecting his father. The first coeversa mot-lieu,. tion was in March last.recalled, and Mr. Superintendent Andrews was . Mr. Roberts objected to c onversations which , in the he stated that he had been shown the spot took place so long ago, but were found. garden where the two pieces of brace The Coroner decided upon receiving them. He had several times before, on Wednesday, Thurs . Examination continued—.l had a conversation and it day and Friday last, examined that spo t , with the prisoner on. some day is March last, when wasp . sable that the pieces could have been he called at my office, 77 Market-etree . t He tom- was imposst erass had been care / th-re without beine seen. The' grass p'ained greatly of his father's conduct, and used y full searched to find the wadding used by the pri abusive expressions towards hie fether, such as " Do d y.O know-that e ld rasca l and old villain? He ii soner when he shot thesparro w, and a p iece of goo quite by himself. R e is quite deranged. He is gu n -wadding was found there. A p air of old trou S and some pieces of rag w ere also there now abusing us a ll, an d we mu -t get him into a mad which were not there when the previ ous search was house, he is not fit tocondue• his bus iness or to have made. . anything to do w i t h t h e ma nagement of the farm, This completed the evidence, and at 10 minutes and I intend t o t a k e i t ou t o f his hands Y He then to 8 o'clock the coroner began to sum up. He, de produced a paper, and it was a copy of the lease of urecated the comments which had been made by his father's farm between him and Col. Davenport -.to dismiss from their the press, and urged the jury . which had for 19 years. He said he wouldleave it in my pos minds all except the sworn testimony session, and I was to keep it secret from the family. been given during the inquiry. The fact of , the I th n said that I would not take it unless it was murder was undoubted; but as to the way in which made up in a parcel, sealed and ad dressed to himself, it was committed there were two suggestions. : In with the directi on "to lie until called for." The the first piece it was suggested by the son James prisoner then sealed it up in a parcel, with a seal that 3 or 4 burglars entered the house, broke open bearing the initials "J. H." He wrote u p on it the writingclesk, and then proceeded to the old the present teldress, " Mr. James Henderson, jun., man's room. The . s tatistics of crime in this country Brain ill-11411,, t ,by. _Stockport/ care of Mr. John showed that the object of all burglars was plunder Walker, Steam-packet-office, 77/ Market-street, d and net tieurder, and they never desired to commit Manehester. ,, _[Th e parce l was her© opened, and bloodshed unless for the purpo eof personal protsc it was found to contain a pl tin copy of the lease, tion or of seuuriug booty. In this case it was sug bearing the following endorsement] : to Mr gested that the burglars bad broken open the desk, `•est Decemb er , 1854. D a me Maria Davenp ort in • but, considering its lightness, it was more probabl e James Henderson. Copy lease of a farm i n Bramall, that they would - have taken it away altogether. Under any circumstances, they would not have tiken 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 au absence of about half an hour. Their names having been called over, the Foreman (Mr. Charles Marsfand) said, " We hnd James Henderson guilty of the murder of his fat h er." 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 lee brought before the magis trates at Stockport to-morrow (Thursday). Although occasionally 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 BALL'S-POND-ROAD. At 12 o'clock last Tuesday night, while Bevis, a sergeant of the N division, was on duty in Ball's pond-road, Kingsland, he beard 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 opposite. He caught her in 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 tha instant of the outcry another officer, named Holliday, of the same divi sion, ran to the spot, and received from the hands of a man in the passage of the house No. 11 a per sou 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 Kingsland 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 Pecham-rye with work, and took my wife with me. On returning I fetched beer and something for sup er • then words ensued between us, and then i was done instantly. It's a bad job. She was b good wife and kind creature as ever lived or walked. I did not do it." When charged with the wilful murder of his wife, he became very low 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 Davis ill the passage, and gave him into the hands of the policeman. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. EXTENSION OF WILE PROCLAIMED DISTRICT. The following announcement appare in the Post of this evening : " At a meeting of the Privy Council, held on Satur day—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 patrick—it was resolved to enlarge the limits of the pro claimed district, so as to embrace several additional townlands on the Down side of Belfast, and an additiona proclamation was agreed to accordingly. We nuclei-stain that this fresh step was rendered necessary by report , from the local authorities that the arms which had bees' so lately in the hands of the rioters had been carried across the river, and concealed in the adjoining district: of - Down, within reach and a available for immediate us. in case an opportunity was presented for fresh dis turbances. "The proclamation now embraces the whole of Bellew and its suburbs, with a considerable rural district on sad, side, within which any person who carries or has arms without license, is subject to heavy penal consequences We hail this step as a fresh indication of the intention 01 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.,. verument is already apparent ; the last-two Sundays have passed over with the quiet characteristics which ought t, mark the Christian Sabbath, and unsignalised by tumul Ur disorder. We most sincerely hope that the people of Belfast have been awakened to a sense of the misconduo and humiliation so widely prevailing, and that, by the continuance of peace and obedience ao the law, they wa3 soon be in a position to be again placed within the pale of the constitution, and on a footing with the rest of the community.' Referring to Lord Carlisle's observations on the state of Belfast, delivered by his Excellency on Saturday at the • moetinz of the Senate of th, Queen's University, the Post makes the following observations : "It has just occurred 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 oriy consider able town in Ireland disgraced by parry riots and wreck ing& It is the only largo town in which the population is at all equaly divided as regards religious denomina tions; and it is the only town where there is an organise , party confederacy, backed by preaching in the public highways, to assail and outrage the portion of the inha bitants belonging to one particular denomination. Eve, in Ulster, Belfast is the only town in this most discredi table condition. Suppose the Orange population wer, stronger,, more numerous, and better armed than 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 planes 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 Protestants - . On the contrary, it is our sincere belief that if any persons had the wickedness to attempt aggressions against the Pro teStant inhabitants, they would be crushed by the who], 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 Orangeisrn, and because clergymen belonging to the Presbyterian as well as the Established Church have so far forgotten their sacred calling and responsibilities as to herd among the heated partisans of the Orange lodges and to become the agents of faction, instead of t he ministers of peace." ----- BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. — The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in ohs 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. 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Cure 52,G12.—`Ross trevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th December, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induced, in the in terest of suffering humanity to state that Du Barry's excel lent Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her, after all niedi eines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great nervousness, and irritability of many years' standing:" This food deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and may be considered a real blessing. Inquiries will be eheer:ully answered. Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of I.;lteniistry Dr. A odrow Ure ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey Dr. (Jaw ;bell ; Dr. G:tttiker ; Dr. Wurzel.; Dr. Ingram . Lc-'d Stuart de Decies ; the Dowager Countess of Castle• stun.rt ; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectiOle pers,m, whose health has Den restored by it, after all other means of cure had failed. Suitably packed wito full in structions. lu canisters, 11b, 23. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, lis ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are rent carri.,go free, 0.1 rece ipt of Post-thfice order.—Bav ry Du Barry, & Co,, 77, Re;-,,ent-street, Landon. IMPORTANT CAUTION a oiust the fe .trful dangers of spurious imitations : —The V,iee-Chaneel lor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1851, against Alfred Hooper Neville for i mitatin g " Du Barry's Re;aleuta Arabica Food." Naval lurid Military intelligence. A Malta letter, da'ed October 2, says : "Her Majesty's steam gun-boat the Vigilant re turned to Malta on the Ist, and the Wanderer on the 2d, from Cagliari, after telegraphing thence 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 caused by lightning. "The Peninsular and Oriental Company'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 tilt., 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 The following officers have joined the Provisional Battalions at Chatham garrison, previously to pia- harking for India :—Lieut. RI 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 terday, 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 lon 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 Vesey, went out of Plymouth Harbour on Monday, and sas swung for the adjustment of her compasses by Mr. Madge, master of the Royal William, on Tuesday. Commodore Paulding, of the United States navy, tecompanied 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, is 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. The Rev. W. R. Jolley, chaplain and naval in s.ructor of the Illustrious, has been appointed , utor 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 promoted in June, 1796, and was second lieutenant 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, and the Ardent had a fourth of her ship's company killed and wounded. Rear Admiral. Morrie was posted in 1812, and was awarded a pension of 300/. per annum, in, 1816 , for t he hiss of his leg. R e was placed on the Retired List of Rear Adtairals, in 1846. Retired Paymaster Samuel H. Manley (1811) died recently at Finchley, in the 73d year of his age. , _ RECRUITING FOR ROYAL ARTILLERY. The following General Regimental Order has been received from the Adjutant-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 enlid inent 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, 2/. 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. " Referring to the General Regimental Order of the 28th of July, 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 ; ;rowing lads between 17 and 18 years of age, weight 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 xecruita 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 Od to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stones ron ; wheat do., 6s Od to 8s Od ; barley do., 5s 61 to 8s Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL-00T. 6. There were in the market today 12 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 43s Od and s. MARKET-OCT. 5. .day 9 bags of oatmeal ) 0 of Sales dull. DALKEITH MEAL There were in the market tc barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. 'Third. imperial Sarleymeal, per ditto -s Od —s Od —s Od Peaseme:d, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto.... .... ' —s Od —s Od —s Cd Pot-barley, new, per ditto —s Od a Od —8 Cd KIRKCALDY—Ocr. 3. A large supply of barley, and fair of wheat and oats. Sales quick, at fully last week's rates. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 beans. (First second Od Os Oi I Third 37s Od 328 Od j 26s 6d I . Os Od DUBLIN. OCT. 6. White wheat, 31s Oct to 33s Od ; red ditto, 29s Od to 31s 4d; ditto new, 30s 6d; barley, malting, 178 6d to 225; gri n d. ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15s 6d to 18s; ditto, new, 12s 6(1 to 14s 6(1 ; oatmeal, 15s Od to 178; bore, new, 158 to 16s 3d ; rapeseed, 23s Od to 30s Od per brl ; bakers flour, 198 Oil to 243 Od per cwt; Indian corn, 358 Od to 383 Od per 480 lbe. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the sth inst., at 21, Charterhouse•squsre, Mrs. Henry J. Houghton. . - On the 6th inst., at Gorstage Hall, Cheshire, the wife of Henry Pt. Dalglish, Esq. OF A D.AIIGHTEIt e • On the sth inst., at Old Charlton, Blackheath, the wife of Edwin A. Bernays, Esq., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich. On the 27th ult., at Oak Hall, East Nam, Mrs. Alfred W. Broadhurst, of Harley-place, Bow. MARRIED. On the Gth 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 Henry F. Shaw Lefevro, Esq., of 29, Green-street, Grosvenor - squar e . 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 tho sth inst., suddenly, at Cheltenham, Joseph H. Turner, Esq., of kO, Montague-place, Russell-square, and 3, Bedford-row, aged 63. On the sth inst., at Castle Bromwich, Mr. John Small• wood, aged 79. _ _ On the 33 inst., at Tweed House, Berwick-on-Tweed, John Wilson, E , q , aged 74. On the AI inst., at Harpertown, 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, William Herbert, youngest child, and, on the 4th inst., Katherine, wife of George Scott Keys, and daughter of J. Hooper, E q., of 13:Ali-place, Peckham. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of No. 112, 6tranl, Printer, at The Sun Office, Ns 112, Strand, hi the Preoinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, October 8, 1857,