The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MUTINIES. The following letters were written by a gallant officer shortly before he fell " Phillour, May 21. "It is a very long time since I have written to you, but I shall commence a letter now to be sure not t miss another ma;L I sent letters home on the 20th, giving all particulars I know about the present state of affairs, —and a very narrow escape we have all had. There is no doubt it was an at tempt to retake the country . and murder us all, but their plans were providentially frustrated. Is it not wonderful that not one out of the whole Indian army (men whom we have treated, God knows, far better than they deserve) was faithful 1 They made a deliberate conspiracy to kill their officers, and ac tually did so at Delhi, the account of which you will Nava heard. We. were saved here by a miracle. At a certain hour—tlre signal being the beat of a tom-tom—the men were to have seized the fort. My friend Griffith happened to go down, andfound the fire-engines had beem smashed ; he went in, loaded a couple of field nieces, and pointed them at the gate. Upon doing this the signal was given, but the men feared the guns ; and when they were wavering in marched a couplo of companies of the Bth (Queen's) and some European Horse Artillery, who had marched the whole way from Jullundur, sent by the General. We have been waiting for some time, putting the best face on tha matter, and.l think we are pretty safe now. Three companies of our re giment escorted a siege train of 16 guns across the river ; it goes to join a force -under the chief at Umballa, and then to bombard Delhi, where, I hear, the enemy are fighting among themselves. A native battalion was ordered down there to escort the guns, but refused to come We hear they plun dered Simla, but this has been contradicted. How ever, two officers, Major Pott and Lieut. Bruce, were on leave there, and started. so as to have been ther3 two or three days ago, but we have not heard a word about them, and are growing uneasy on their account. " May 25. " I have just time for a line to-day. I start at 3 o'clock to escort a siege train down to Umballa. May have some fighting on the road, and may be sent to Delbi. I have about 80 men. " Loodianah. "I arrived here at 9 last night after a tiresome march. Those who know India can tell how hot a tent is in May. My tent was blown down on the top of me, and my friend who accompanied me. We were very nearly squashed' by it, and had to sit out all night on the ruins in dust, rain, and wind. I mirth at sunset this evening. Some of the men look very sulky, but I know there are many faith ful. I halted at the Sutlej-bridge yesterday, and went to the guard. They made me lie down, which I did, and fell asleep. On awakening a havildar was fanning me with a punkah, and a lot of Sepoys all round looking at me as if I was a baby. I have little time to attend to prayer, &c., but I assure you nothing can give comfort in a case like this but an assured hope of being God's, and then Who can harm us ?' _ _ " Dourana, May 27. . _ " I am now sitting outside my tent, surrounded by natives. Before me are the mortars and native carts with sentries over them. We had a terrible march last night, from 7 in the evening till 3 in the morning. The cartmen are making a row for payment. I have none to give them. We march at 10 o'clock to-night. "Kanna-ka-Serai, May 28. "We arrived here at 8 o'clock. Fancy 10 hours on the roads ! Men all right. lam much troubled with the carts, 30 of them laden with mortars, powder, shot, shell, &c. ; they keep constantly breaking down, and we have to divide the load among the others, as there are no more to be had. "Umballa, June 1. " Here we are—the native corps have been dis armed and some disbanded, and my detachment will have the honour of escorting the siege train to Delhi, so we shall most likely see' some bloody woi k. The officers here all live in one house. The church has been fortified. I was marching the whole of last night and writing the whole of to-day. Good by. _ _ "'Lassowrie, 30 miles from Delbi, June 8. "I am all right. Since last writing we were at Kurnaul, where fortunately the deputy-commis sioner (one of the saved from Delhi) persuaded me to halt my detachment for a day, to rest the men and cattle, and to lend assistance, as au attack on the city was expected. Luckily I did halt, for 1,500 met were in wait for me, thinking I was escorting treasure, and I had less than 80 rank:and file. The Guido Corps happened to overtake us, - went out, attacked the fellows, burned three -villages, and killed some and took others prisoners. A. Sikh prince with 200 infantry accompanied me from Kurnaul. He is a very handsome, gentlemanly man, and called himself My faithful slave,' but his men ate regular riff-raff, with no discipline. All the officers of the Guides are here now—very nice fellows. We hope to be at the capture of Delhi in a day or two. The cholera is in their camp, but it has left mine, having carried off one Sepoy at Kurnaul. I saw the graves of the Commander-in- Chief, of Brigadier Halifax, and seven soldiers. _ " Camp before Delhi, June 10. "Here we are at last, and the guns banging away. Yesterday wepassedaplace where our troops bad attacked the enemy's intrenched camp the day before. Their dead were lying all over the place. I never saw people so dreadfully disfigured. One old fellow, a baker, was hanging to a small tree, wht-re he had been strung up. I have just returned fro.n our advanced battery ; a shot struck it just as ' I was leaving, and on the way back one came wh stling over my head, and made me squat down, as I took it for a shell, and I was laughing at a picket of the ----, yesterday for bolting from the noise of a shot. The day before yesterday we were tang with the Guide officers—now three of them are wounded, one mortally. " June 13. " The enemy came out to-day and got well licked by our infantry. I saw the whole affair from a hill, and fired two shots with my gun and one with a Minio. We ran a cmple of guns up the hill, and you ought to have seen some of their cavalry spurring their horses and bolting when the shot fell among them. My regiment, with all the native troops at Jullundur, have muti nied. The Bth (Queen's) European Artillery and a Punjaub regiment drove them all over the country. I believe our officers are safe. My detachment hers have been disarmed and were ordered to their homes, and I was attached to her Majesty's 75th Regiment, but this has been countermanded. They are to take orderly duty, and I am to carry the general's despatches in action, which may lead to 'something else. God's providence has attended me so remarkably that my men have a'l observed it, and their great fear is to lose me. I will not coi.ceal from you that we are all in a very pre carious situation-2,000 E uro p eans h ere against I can'tsay how many thous an d s o f th e ene my—but God is with us, and we must succeed. " June 15. " The cnemy came out is force to-day. I joined the 75th, and was under a pretty heavy fire of ror nd shot. A bullet struck a tree close to me, behind which a soldier was lying. They have six guys and a mortar to thy firing. You soon get accustomed to the whizzing. I could see the whole of Delhi distinctly. The Hindco4 and Ma homedans are fighting among themselves. Tcey say my regiment is fighting against us in Delhi. " June 16. We are getting on as usual. The enemy fired a sl+.rapnel to-day, and I never SAW such a hail of btill&s as fell all round us. They are very conde ascending, and promised to let us go safely to Cal cut a, if wu would surrender. If they had only pluck enough to come out and attack us in force they might overawe us by numbers. I can't help tciiiking we ar e like the children of Israel, pitch ing before the Syrians, like two little flocks of kids,' and there is no doubt that God is on our side. " The" June 18. enemy attacked I L t.; and were one of our batteries 1 'Fit Welost an ere driven back with great slaughter. Th ,„ . officer„ ouea killed by a round shot and some pe7;ie nave tortured conceive the horrible way the children. Enclosed is the Europeans, ladies, and am Ong the houses where a r pieee of music I folnd lying the words—(c T h + --a. cryei the massacre took place ; v a ia telp, whe'e no help cln. come. Farewell the ed home') — struck me as very appropriate.scenes of hope, please God, to see you all again and relat rel adventures ; bu', if not, I hope there will be no sorrowful face in the can matterat this faDliii, 8s we must all die, and it does to who goes to heaven fi rst. You n —, if you like, as th ere is no tim e to -n writ e in c, r , I mentioned that my regimen t had mutiniea tt ; ---• are said to have been cut u p b y her Majesty's Regiment and Artillery. One cannot pity there. We are too well accustomed to death to have f ee l_ legs left. I often see some soldiers walking into a garden near my tent, some natives with them, then they return alone. Thii is military law. But en , ,ugh of bloodshed. God bless you, and love to W. and children." On the 19th the writer of the above was killed. His death is thus related : " I have, my dear D., sad tidings to communi cate. Your dear Waller was kil'ed in action before Delhi on the 19th instant. In his case 'you have every comfort. He nobly, for his Saviour's sake, btood forth from the midst of his companions, and for two or three years followed Christ faith fully. Your child has been taken, manfully fight itH; under his banner against sin, and contending against those fiends who have slaughtered our coun- Isti.E SUN, LONfON, TUESDAY EvAiNirt4o, sEp-,F,EmBER, trymen and countrywomen. He could have died in no nobler cause. "It seems that poor Waller vannteered to go from Phillour to Delhi with the siege train. In a latter to me Waller stated, that though not attached to any corps, he had gone under fire once, and, as he always displayed great zeal in his profession, it is not unlikely that he joined as a volunteer in some attack on the 19th, and met his doath. You must not, dear D., sorrow unreasonably, for. 3 our son was prepared for death, and died at his post. Rather bless God who took him. Soon you will be united to him. Be assured that he is with his God and Saviour. May God bless you all, and ever believe me yours affectionately, "R. MONTGOMERY." THE MUTINY AT SEALICOTE. The following letter was written by a lad of 17, a Lieutenant in the 9th Cavalry, which mutinied at Sealkote " GOORJANWALLA, JULY 14. " You will have heard by this time of the mutiny of my regiment at Sealkote ' • I need only tell you the particulars as regards myself. On-Wed nesday night it was my turn for duty at the guard, and accordingly I went down after mess, went through the lines, and, having found all quiet, took off my jacket and lighted a cheroot. I had a long talk with the native officer and troopers on guard, who were all very cheerful; after which I turned in and went to sleep. I was called at 4 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, the 9th, got on my horse, went home and took off my uniform, intending to go for my morning ride. When I was half-dressed I went into -'s room to ask him to accompany me, but did not find him. I went into the verandah to ask his bearer where he was ; his bearer seemed much excited, and said that the Brigadier bad sent for him urgently. I waited outside to find out what it was about, and presently B--- came running into the compound and told me to put on my uniform immediately, as there was a row in the lines, while he did likewise. When I was dressed and armed I came out and asked him what I was to do. He said that there was a row in the lines and that the sergeant-major hadibeen shot ; that I was to go to the lines and see what it was about while he went to the Brigadier's. I jumped upon my own horse and galloped down, and went close by the 3d troop lines. I met a trooper, who told me, for God's sake, not to go down alone • that the men were saddling their horses, and that if I went further I should be shot. I looked about ; seeing this was true, and that a trooper was loading his pistol, eyeing me, I thought I'd bolt and tell the Brigadier. "I galloped up, and meeting B- at the Brigadier's gate, told him, and that the only chance of our saving our troop was his proceeding down there immediately. Be said that the Brigadier had ordered me not ; but, never mind, come along. We went down, intending to go to the stables, but as we passed the men's houses some rushed out, and mid, Come in hear, Sahib ; come in here.' We went in, and found some six men with a native officer, who said that all the rest had gone, and if we did not go into their house we should be killed. immediately. B- returned to inform the Bri gadier, while I stayed some minutes longer. In the meantime I heard shots fired right and left ; and the few men remaining not seeming much in clined to protect me, I thought it time to go too. I was then mounted on a troop-horse with my parade saddle. I galloped back to my bun galow, to try to get some powder to load my revolver from B-'s servants, having none of my own. Found that it was all locked up. I found a few grains in an old flask of mine, and loaded ono of the chambers. I then went to join the Brigadier, but found that he had gone down to the fort in the city. I followed and met one of his servants, who was crying and wringing his hands, saying, They are killing the Brigadier. (The Brigadier was not killed.) 1 asked which way he had gone, and, put ting spurs to my horse, dashed after him. About half way between fort and cantonments I saw six troopers drawn up on the side of the road. I drew my revolver, though of no use, and there being no other escape proposed to run the gauntlet with my horse at full speed. I came opposite the first, who fired his pistol ; the rest did likewise as I came op posite them, but without effect. The last gave chase, drawing the second pistol. I covered him with my revolver, which kept him off for some time, but suddenly closing within two yards he took a steady aim at my head and fired. I felt as if I had been hit a severe blow with a stick on my right arm, having covered myself as well as possible with it. He gave a shout and closed ; I thought it was all up with me ; but finding I could draw my sword began to feel jolly again. When he came alongside I rammed it into him, but having no strength, could only get it in about two inches into his side. He knocked it out with his pistol. struck him again, but with I , ke effect. He then shot ahead. I put spurs to my nag, and as I came up banged at him. He bent forward to avoid, and I only got an inch into him, but he almost lost his seat, and pulled up. I almost had done so. too, but pushed along, and he fell behind. I now thought I should reach the fort, but was disap pointed. Seeing some more men ahead of me I turded to the right, and took a pull at my horse. I now saw that my wound was bleeding, and having lost my shako, must have been a pretty figure. I went across the khets for some half a mile to get rid of the city, when I came upon a road. I asked a villager where it went to 7 He said to Lahore ; but ifi turned out to be Wuzeerabad. Ipushed along at a hand gallop - some five miles, when, the sun getting warm, I pulled up. I tried to persuade some one to give me a turban ; they all said they had only one, and were not fools enough to give it me, so I pushed along again. On passing a village, an old man rushed out, and began potting at me with a pellet bow. I did not mind this, but on looking back thought I saw two troopers coming after me. This was rather a nuisance, as my right arm was now quite stiff, utterly useless, and painful. So having been spar ing my horse I put him out again, and did not draw rein for some eight miles. I then went on more slowiy, all pursuit having stopfed. Some 16 miles from Sealkote, coming on a police thanah, pulled up to gat water, and have my wound looked at, as was now very painful. I got off, and the men mus tered round me, and were as kind as could be. I found now the bullet had entered about two inches below, and gone about an inch above the elbow joint. How it escaped the bone I don't know. Having been bound up as well as it could be, and having drunk some water and washed my horse's mouth out, I went on to Wuzeerabad, accompanied by the head man, who had made me a sling and given me a turban. I pushed along, and after a good deal of pain managed to reach Wuzeerabad at 11 a.m., having started from Sealkote at half-p , et 4. My nag was completely done up, having come a good 30 miles. I went into the dak bungalow (travelling station) and sent for the native tuhseel dar, there being no European, to consult with what to do. I drank four cups of tea and some brandy and water, and felt pretty well. He (the tubseeldar) brought with him the bander, who offered me his buggy and horse and any amount of money. .1 took 20 rupees, and atter; about an hour's rest started for Goojraucowla in his buggy, with two bottles of soda water. After an awfully hot drive of 20 miles 1 got in here about 5 o'clock. My wound at this time hurt me very much. Here I found three officers of the 46th Native Infantry, and M- and the Assistant-Commissioner, Mr. Blackall, whoreceived me most kindly. I lay down and had my jacket cut off, when I found 1 had had a narrow escape, a pistol having ripped , open my jacket just over my spine. A doctor looked at my wound, and told me that it was only a flesh one, and that I should be all right in a month. Not a week has passed, and lam able to get about. Everybody here has been most kind, and I had no idea that there were so many Miss Nightingales in the world. I am clothed from head to foot by Mackall, and don't know how to thank him. " I am going into Lahore to-night. Everything I have has been plundered, and I am beveling again with a sword and a jacket cut up the back ; even my revolver I dropped on the road. I am not able to write, but shall be, I hope, by next mail You will be pleased to hear that 1 have not suffered in the least in hea'th. Beyond my wound lam as well as ever 1 was." The following is from one of the most eminent merca' utile firnis in Calcutta, to its agents in Lon don, and will be read with interest as expressing the feelings and opinions of a most influential sec tion of the Indian public " Calcutta, July 18. " The country continues in a most fearful state, and mail follows mail with fresh liorrov, and wider spread details of revolt, not only of the ' Benual na doinscaeffe,c_tie,rd live army, but of towns and villages excited re hellion by their examp!e, and by the amour,t of . tprita let loose from the gaols ; to these add the ol a i mongst the many disappointed, but power of I tte 'l l i; and wealthy nobles and men in elements of evil and states, deposed and confiscated naive principalities aoriy states, and you will sea that the tuerionighty and numerous as against the handful of yet rewarded om p i e n aps in India scattered over our wide-spread d No salutary check to rebellion has as coun trymen, and the dread o tl f ie efforts of our bravo in 'detail, overwhelmed by numbers, extermination that forces itself upon the mindof s a calamity has fallen with frightful massacre, vaACcarpore in fearful peril. Itltribution, 'i aLltough I CertU" is alas distant, and cannot be hoped for the is months. To the Government there is no revenueur from upper India and to the merchant no trade. The large native banking houses have ceased to operate, converting their wealth where they can into gold and silver, and secreting it. _ No trad€r is bold enough to send goods to the interior, and few can have the means of transmitting goods to the capital. Agriculture is neglected, and with pro longed rebellion the crops must suffer. Commer cially viewed, we, have here an accumulating stock of unsaleable British manufactures, for which no returns are made. We have produce arriving Acan thy, which at this season should be coming in abun dantly; and although much has yet to arrive, de spatched before the rebellion so widely spread, yet as the year draws to a close the scarcity will be ap parent, and we may not have produce sufficient to load our ships—a feature in the trade of India hitherto unknown. The mighty calamity most to be feared is famine, and its dread indications are already being shadowed forth." The following is from a high official in Bengal to a friend in London : " Calcutta, July 19. " The Government put off the mail till to-mor row in the hope of having some good news to com- 1 municate. Unless it comes in to-day they will be disappointed, for although it is true we heard of Gen. Havelock's force having defeated the rebels at Futtehpore (more than half way between Allahabad and Cawnpore) and taken 12 guns, and 4 the fol lowing day, the same despatch informed us of the death of Sir H. Lawrence, who was so nobly holding his own at Lucknow. He went out to meet the enemy on the 2d inst., was wounded as be returned and died two days afterwards. He cannot be re placed. God grant that we we may have no repeti tion of the horrors of Cawnpore—for it now seems certain that the first news was true, and that the massacre of all who were with Gen. Vheeler in his entrenched camp was complete. It is, however, al leged by some that the women were spared, and are held by Nena Sahib as security for his own safety should he find himself in extremities. I do not put much faith in this. I believe that this world has passed away from all who belonged to the party. [The Government news of Havelock's operations is published among our newspaper extracts.] What you will be anxious to hear is the downfall of Delhi —but the Government has been as silent as the grave on the subject, since it announced the first attack upon the place, the succe9s of which, it is now certain, must have been very insignificant. Could Delhi have been destroyed within any reason able time, Cawnpore would never have fallen, nor Lucknow been in danger; it was the head-quarters of the insurgents, and its destruction would have paralysed them. Now .1 am afraid they will have very powerful re-unions in half-a-dozen places bs fore Delhi is mustered. While lam writing this the Government has heard from Delhi, but nothing more satisfactory than that stores and munitions of war were on their way from Philour • there had been, I am told, another fight, in which we lost about 50 killed aed as many wounded. *May my next letter give brighter accounts then are contained in this one. Not seldom have we in India done much for sub scriptions originated in England. We have now one open here, which offers an opportunity of some return. In the course of a fortnight the people of Calcutta and its neighbourhood have put down over 8,0001. for the immediate relief of the sufferers arriving in Calcutta from the disturbed districts. EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER DATED CALCUTTA, 21ST JULY. The present is about the worst mail you will have received since the commencement of this rebellion. The brave Sir H. Lawrence is no more, and Luck now is in fearful peril, with small chance of its holding out till troops arrive. Without douht Sir Henry was the ablest man we had in India. Would to God he had been our Governor-General, instead of the excellent post-office clerk Lord Palmers'on sent us out We have retaken Cawnpore, but not until that fiend, Nena Sahib, had murdered the helpless women and children he had in his power. The horrors of this outbreak are beyond descrip tion or belief—women ravished and then scalped, or their breasts cut off. One poor girl of therefu gees now here had to witness the revolting murder of her father, and then she and her mother were made to drink his blood. We have a poor lady here, the wife of an officer, who has been deprived of her ears and nose, while her child is without toes or fingers, Children have been torn asunder by the legs, and even other worse horrors perpetrated on them. Sudden murder has been the only mercy dealt out to Europeans. How wretched must that system of government be which, having its civil and military officers all over the country, could yet give us no notice of so deep spread and com pletely organised a rebellion as this proves itself to be. There can be no doubt that for years past this conspiracy .has been hatching, and it is stated here, and believed, that more than one officer ha% brought to the notice of the Government the fact of evil. influences being at work among the Sepoys. The reply has been a snub. For your Indian secretaries are of the class called Heaven-born, and will take no advice. Even now they will not admit the d In ger, though they fear it. It is a lamentable fact that Lord Canning is quite unequal to the occasion, while those on whom he relies are equally incompe tent. Look for a moment at the names of the men who form our council, and say if there be•one who has even respectable ability. We must have money and troops from England, and that speedily, or India is lost. If Lord Palmerston is indeed the vigorous statesman we have always considered him, he has long since sent us out, overland, 5,000 of those Crimeon heroes who are now idling at Malta and Gibraltar. It will be all very well to send out 50,000 more round the Cape, but we want at once a small army, to enable us to hold our own, and to prove to the natives of this country that our re sources are not only vast but immediate. Two r:gi ments of cavalry, with their horses, were sent from India to the Crimea overland, when the emer gency was not an hundredth part so great as it is now. Then we fought for a principle—now we fight for life, and for what is still dearer, the hon our of our countrywomen. Should any red-tapism on the part of that now almost defunct body the Court of Directors, or that flippant ruler of India, Mr. Smith, prevent this, there will be a deep feel ing of sorrow and disappointment exhibited here, and such a strong expression of opinion elicited that the sympathies of England cannot fail of being fairly roused ; and then, woe to the supine govern ment ! But I cannot bring myself to believe that so obvious a course has been neglec'ed, or that the authorities have been so unfaithful to their trust. The Queen's Government out here must be the ultimate result of all this, and t'se employment of the English law and the English language through out the length and breadth of the land. The " ad venturer," as he is called, mustbe encouraged, and the existing governing classes changed. The men who could gag the press are unfit to make the laws for the Anglo-Saxon. It will take years to wipe out the memory of the deeds done here, and I hope history may yet record that " is 1857 the Sepoy . regiments of Bengal mutinied and were extermi nated." The Government has offered to take half 4 per cent. paper and half cash in payment of the new loan now open at 5 per cent., but the measure comes too late. This course was urged on the Go vernment months ago, when it could have been -car ried out with success, but it met with the usual fate of any sugges ions made by the mercantile comlnu nity. Now we must have a loan opened in Eng -1 ind, it is too late to raise money here on any terms. I cannot clo - e this letter without letting you know a very extraordinary fact, but which I think people even here are not generally acquainted with. Jung Bahadoor has written a letter to a friend of his at Darjeeling, saying that at the urg-nt raqu , st of Lord Canning he despatched 3,oooimen, cavalry, and infantry, to the relief of Lucknow and Cawn pore ; but after they had pased through the Terrai he got a despatch from his lord=hip requesting him to withhold the troops as the crisis had passed. They were accordingly marched back to the capital of Nepaul, sore-foote - 1 and weary. A fe:v days after comes another despatch from the same able functionary urging him to send them forward again. June ails letter, with such " How can you E ng li s h esuch governors'?" And h e is right, and the soo ner t h e y are re placed the bet p t askst o rule in I bet ter. Had these troops not hem recalled Cawnpore and Lucknow would have been saved, the brave Sir H. Wheeler and Sir IL Lawrence alive, and 600 slaughtered men, women, and children spar, a to us. - Surely, th 4 people of England will see to these things. this man to acquire the local influence he possesses. It is well known that for years back, since the death of the Bajee Rao, Nanajee has kept the Be gums of the Bajee, the rightful heirs to the pro perty of the deceased chief, in close confinement in the Zenanah, so that none likely to take steps re lative to rescuing them from confinement, or restor ing them their property, could obtain access to where they were. It cannot be said that Nanajee is not a venturous traitor. He staked his all,'which is not a little, upon the die. His game might have been played so as not to have entirely deprived him of the sympathy of those he fought against, but like every leader the present insurrection has brought to notice, he seems unable to resist that propensity to cold.-blooded, dastardly murder, which seems to take possession of most natives simultaneously with their achieving power to gratify it.—Madras Atheneum. The following is a list of military officers, civil servants, &c., who have fallen during the present disturbances. We believe it is correct so far as it goes, but we fear that there are yet some names to be added to it : LIST OF OFFICERS, CIVIL SERVANTS, &C., KILLED BY THE KAISER AAD THE CZAR. (Front the Daily News.) The Government of Austria has addressed remon strances to the Court of St. Petersburg on a question personal to the Emperors of both States—one character istic, too, in its sma'l way, of the arrogance of the House of Hapsburg and of the ambition of the Dynasty of Rotnanoff, In some recent documents the Czar described himself as " his Imperial and Royal Majesty :" a matter, it might appear, of very soual importance to any rational being. "No." says the Kaiser to he Czar,—"lialone, of B. avAn's Vicegerents on this earth, am ere it ed to use that duplex designation of sovereign authority. I am both Emperor and King —you are an Emperor only. For you to assume the use of Royal as well as Imperial is to usurp and appropriate my prerogative." To this Austiian reclamation the Czar is said to have replied by peineing significantly to the possession of the Kingdom of Poland as his authority fur the appellation Royal. And, certainly, if extinguished regalities can confer titles, the Czar is just as well entitled to justify the use of the word Royal from the once important but now dead kingdom of Poland, as the Kaiser is from that fairest portion of his paestessions, the annexed Kingdom of Hungary. It is not for Englishmen to try to compose sach royal strife and imperial trifling. Nor would we refer to it thus prominently, but as affording an illustration at once of how the Czar pushes his pretensions ,forward into Central Europe ; how the Kaiser tries to repose on the past glories of the most ancient of European sovereignties ; how each, in his own very different and antagonietic sphere, pursues the policy he has inherited, regardless of passing events or of the spirit of the age which he iilustrates without adorning. Here have wo two Sovereigns of about equal ages—of abilities of nearly equal mediocrity—of considerable per sonal activity—masters of two great Empireß, the least advanced States of Christendom—both affecting in their rule a peculiar though distinct and opposed connection with the great Churches to which they belong—opera ting largely and extensively in their civil government through the influence and co-operation of those two powerful and hurtful ecclesiastical organisations and hierarchies—happily for the rest of the world, and iu spite of their absolutism and despotism, if not actually quarrelling, at least in discord. The Cr kas lately been in Germany. There is scarcely a petty prince in that country who has not received either the happiness of one of those visits or of one of those recognitions by which Russian power in Central Europe is from time to time maintained and consolidate.l. No sooner is the war over than Alexander hastens thither to return in person thanks for that neutrality of its princes which con• stitutes so shameful a feature of their present gene ration. From Berlin he sweeps through these petty Courts to Baden and the Rhine. Attended in his pro gress by Raron Seebach, who played so important a pact in preparing those concessions to Russia which consti tute the basis of the Treaty of Paris, and for which that really Russian agent has been rewarded by the Saxon Mis , ion in Paris, he refuses to cross the mighty stream which separates Germany from France, and to psy that compliment to Louis Napoleon which he had just be stowed on the Court of Carlruhe. From this refusal the Cabinet of the Tuileries may learn how deeply the Rue sian Government is aggrieved by its ultimate infide ity as to Bolgrad —how hopeless it is to conciliate the Czar by anything short of complete and absolute subserviency. Nor, indeed, does France a% present want other proof. Besides securing a rich wife and selling his pic tures at St. Petersburg, Count de Morny had to all ap pearance gained another triumph in a Treaty of Com merce. But when examined, the importance of that elaborate document evaporates in idle words. All that France gains by it is equality in Russia for its wines as .distinguished from those of Greece, which formerly had a small preference ; while Russia has only secured the empty stipulation that what ever France concedes to other Powers she will also give to Russia, a concession which amounts to nothing so long as her commercial system shall continue, as it is now likely to do, while the Empire lasts, prohi bitory and protective, and which under freedom of trade would be valueless. The truth is that, despite all fears and apprehensions, there is and can be no natural affinity, no real point of attraction, and no permanent connection between Russia and France under a government which professes to be based on the great revolutionary principles of 1789, and which inclines towards England, at once from commu nity of interests, intelligence, and apprehensions. So C , unt de Morny has resigned an embassy in which nothing great was to be accomplished for France, and the representation of France at St. Petersburg has passed once more, in the person of Count de Rayneval, into the regions of the less ambitious but more useful and skilful ordinary diplomacy of the French Empire. This abstinence of the Czar on the very banks of the Rhine, and when within eight hours' journey of Paris, followed, as it has been, by the Imperial visit to Osborne, and the better understanding between the Governments of England and France ea the question of free elections, and, let ui hope, free government also for the Principalities, which was happily effected there, is at least indicative that there are no special relations be tween France and Russia, and that Louis Napoleon re mains faithful to that policy on which the Anglo-French alliance was founded. Remarkable, in this re pect, as woe the appearance of the Czar on the very frontiers of France, it is, perhaps, even more remarkable for the omission of any personal interview with the Emperor of Austria. We are no admirers of Austrian policy, and regard with jdislike, and even more than dislike, the present predominance of the Court of Vienna in GA.- litany. But it is impossible not to look with satisfaction and complacency on ,the separation of two Sovereigns and Courts whose uuion and concord would ba so mis chievous to Europe. THE NEW PEERS. NANA SAHIB. It may not be uninteresting to some of our readers to know that Nanajee Sahib, the Rajah of Bisoor, his, beside some money in the Bank of Bengal, a good many lakhs of rupees invested in company's paper. This at,rociou4 traitor is the adopted son of the late Peiiliwa, Bijoe Rao, who, from the time of his deposition until his death, lived at Bithoor in the neighbourh , od of Cawn pore, upon the pension allowed him by the British Government. On the death of the ex•Peisliwa, Nanajee strove hard, but without success, to ob tain from the Indian Government a continuance to himself of the pension allowed to Bajee Rao. Failing in this, he despatched an agent to ag.tate his claims in England, and transmiited, it is said, to Calcutta to meet the expenses of such a mis sion a single piece of company's paper of the value of five lakhs of raiye , . The mission to England, we need har lly remind our readers, was as un succesful as the attempt made to influence the local Government. The Indian Government may in some measure thank itself for having allowed (From, the Times) Of the various peerages which are about to be created, the public will regard with most interest that which ele vates Mr. Macaulay to the House of Lords. It is an honour which belongs peculiarly to the man, and which is a fitting, if not an adequwe return, for a life spent in the public service, and devoted to literary labours of the moat dignified order. It is much to say that he is the moat popular author of the day, but we have to say more. With a style that compels attention, with a calm wisdom that commands assent, he has interpreted Eng lish history to ourselves and to the world. To us the history which he has indicted is worth a score of charters and a cartload of laws ; it is our Bill of Rights and our code of political duties. We know better what we are, we know what our fathers fought for, we can sympathise with the aspirations of Whigs, we learn to respect the endeavours of Teries, we are less of partisans and more of patriets. To Europe that history is worth all the constitutions that have yet been devised. It has been transtated into m..ny languages and widely read over the continent. Who does not remember the appearance of these volumes in that year of revolution when all the peoples of Europe were maddening with fury about thrones that seemed to be tottering to their fall ? It was with profound gratitude that, amid the universal wreck, Englishmen saw, as the historian described, how in their country liberty came to be linked with order, and contentment and fraternity were made consistent with the inequalities of an aristocracy. If it was a lee son which we shall never forget, it was a lesson also which, we have little doubt, will one day bear fruit in every kingdom of Europe, making sovereigns more wise and making subjects tremble for that crisis shadowed forth by the historian, in which " it may be necessary to sacr.fice even liberty in order to save civilisation." In this view, if we except Lord Palmerston, there is pro bably not an Englishman living who has more power fully influenced the:destinies of Europe than Mr. Macau lay ; and as for his influence upon ourselves, those who are fond of quoting the hackneyed saying of Fletcher of Seltoun would have a stronger and more intelligible case if they would give the preference over the maker of laws, not to the writer of ballads, but to the philosophic historian who leaves his mark as palpably as the great author whom her Majesty is now about to honour. There can be no more welcome addition to the debates of the Upper House than the orations which we trust Mr. Macaulay sill occasionally contribute on the few great occasions by which the Lords every session vindi cate their position. Althoueh at one tine ha took a prominent part in the discussions of the House of Com mons, his tone of thought and style of speaking were never quite suited to the bustling representatives of the people. It is in the Lower House that Cabinets rise and fall, that public moneys are disposed of, that the chief business of the country is transacted. The members are thee too strictly occupied with pessing affairs, too intent upon the result of a division and the fall of a party, to care much for philosophy or history, even if the philo sop'ey be adorned with all the eloquence of Burke, and the history be presented with ail the brilliance of Macaulay. " But, while the Commons are all for the pre sent, on the oth,r hand, prescription is the vital air of the peerage, and in the House of Lards a philosophic historian will find an appropriate audience for that stately eloquence which carries with it so much learning and so much wisdom. Especially at the present moment neu,t we rejoice at his elevation, in the hope that when we have crushed this Indian mutiny, and the time comes to consider calmly the future of our Eastern Empire, the views of one who has described in most glowing terms how England became possessed of that glorious prize, and who, in the preparation of a code of Indian law, has shown that he has most profoundly studied the wants of the Hindoo, will be expressed as he alone of living speakers can express them. Not only on our Indian difficulty, but on all questions of high policy, there is net a man in the country whose opinions are entitled to wore weight, and who will be more vlidly heard. do historian is a statesman on his travels ; and, while Mr. Macaulay will Sti:l travel from century to century and from country to country, we may Expect now to have him sometimes at home with us, giving his advice in the present need. [NDVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills a paragon Reniedy.—Coarles l'i,obertson, of Brightor gratefu lY informs Profegsor Holloway he was afflicted for nine years with asthma. Several physicians pronounced his case hopeless, and being a private in the Royal Markes he received his discharge and returned to his native place; the difficulty in breathing, and the choking sensation so peculiar to th© complaint, compelled bin to rest, by night in an easy chair. When every hope and every remedy failed, by the aid of this inestimable medicine ho was re-tore:] to perfect health.— Sold by all medi cine. vendors throughout the world ; at Professcr Hollo way's Estaldishments, 244, Strand,. London, and SO, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Constantinople; A, Quidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount • Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X a. d. 4 a. d. Australasia 201. per cent. 40 0 0 all 87% Bank of Egypt — 25 0 0 18 15 0 Bank of London 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 British North American 9 per cent. 50 0 0 all 611 A Ch Bk. Ind. Aust &Ch 41. per cent. 20 0 0 6 0 0 City ........... 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 64% Colonial ........ „„ „ 91 100 0 0 25 0 0 29 Commercial of London. 71. p. c. & bs. 100 0 0 20 0 0 Eng Scot. & Aust. Ch. 44 per cent. 20 0 0 all 19% Lend. Char. Bk. of Aus. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 „ Do. New .. •.. „ „ 20 0 0 ft London and County tel. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 29% Lon & Eastn. Bnkg. C. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 London Joint-Stock 2B per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 30 Londn and Westminstr !8' per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 46% Nat. Provincial of Eng. 16 pc.& be 100 0 0 35 0 0 211 Ditto, New ...• •• • • •, 20 0 0 10 0 0 Ditto ditto Natio , ial Bank New - oath Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. 101. per cent. 25 0 0 , 36% Ottoman Bank 20 0 0 15 0 ' 0 14 Provincial of Ireland Ol. p. ct.&bs. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Ditto, New Bl. per cent. 10 0 0 all lonian . . . South Australia Union of Australia ill. per cent. 25 0 0 all 51% Ditto - 210 0 6% Union of Hamburg — 15 0 0 3 0 0 Union of London...— l5l. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 25 Union of Hamburg • • .. Union of London...—. Unity Mutual ...... • • Western Bank of Londn 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- ---- -- - X s. d. X S. d. Bank of Scotland .... 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 19510 s British Linen Company 81. per cent 100 0 0 100 0 0 224110 Caledonian Bank .. - . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 031 I6s City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13117 e Clydesdale Bank .... 04/. p cant. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14 , 7s C mmercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 248i0s Eastern Rank.. •..... 61. per cent. 25 ' 0 0 10 0 0 14/ 5s Ediub. & Glasgow.. • • 331. p cent. 5 0 5 0 0 5/ 2s National Bank ...... 6%, per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193, Os North of Scotland Bank 51. per cent 20 0 0 210 05/ 103 Royal Bank of Scott. .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 140 in s Union Bank of Scot. .. 81.percont. 100 0 0 50 0 0 106(10 Western Bank •• -- .• 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 821 Os Alliance Fire and Life.. 8% /.pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 171123 British Guarantee .. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 II 7s Caledonian Fire Insur. 10c. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of Glasgow Lite .. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 04/ 4s Colonial Life ......... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 3 0 0 Si Os Edinburgh Life Insur. V. oor cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 28115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 510er cent. 50 0 0 3 5 04/ 6a Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 06/ Ihs Nationa, Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 02/ Os North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 3G/158 Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 II 16s Scottish Provincial ... • - 50 0 0 2 0 02/ 19s Scottish Union Insrnc. 7%1. precut. '2O 0 0 1 0 0 11 158 Standard Life ...... -5/ per cent 50 0 0 7 0 0 221 Os MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend ' Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ----- £ s. d. X s. d. Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship . • • • 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam sea • • ...... - s'. ter cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Auctimn Mart........ 2 1 4 /per cent. 50 0 0 - - Australian A;riculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 _ Australian Trust •• .. 81. pr cont. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Australan Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all - Angio-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Laud 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada ... •• ••-•• .. , 1. percent 100 0 0 32 10 0 - Do. 5 per cent Bonds Si. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 8 per cent bds 5/.per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - D , tte, 6 per cent. .. 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 41. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds•l676 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace ...... 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 all 13 9 Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Cry& Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3%1. per cent - - - Electric Telegraph .. 61. per cent. Stock. 100 0 0 100 Eng.& Ans. Cop. Smelt. - 5 0 0 all I phi Englaris. Slag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry 51per cent. .00 0 0 ,00 0 0 - Ditte New ........ - 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Gen. Revers. & Invest. H. p c and 1/ tOO 0 0 tet tt 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 A - London Gen. Omnibus 12/. per cent 4 0 0 all 3 % Unison's Day........ 5/. per cent. Stock Stock - 0 all flungerford .......... V. ss. tOO 0 - LO3. Ne. &Ni. Manso. - 10 0 0 all - all - London Reversioner) , 54 per cent. i s 0 b Mex. & S. American - 10 0 0 all -. Nat. Discount Comp . • - 25 0 0 50 0 3% N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 51. per cent _ 100 0 0 Nor. Br I. Australasian 6 d. 1 0 0 all -- North of Europe, Stm• Si. per cent. 21 20 0 0 0 0 17 1 a 0 0 23% ll Price's Patenteaud. Co _ 5 0 0 Peel River Land&Min. - all - Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 69 Ditto New - Reversionary In!. .. . Soc 112%1. p 1• prr ce cen c. t t 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 all o = Ditto New .. Royal %fail Steam... • 4/, p. share. 100 0 0 69 0 0 6D Scottish Ans. Invest. 151. per cent. 1 0 0 all South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all 33 Trust and Loan Comp. 7%. , . pr cont. 20 0 0 5 0 0 Yea Diemen's Land .• 103. 100 0 0 28 10 0 -- Do. 00v..6 per ct.lida. 6 per cent, = 4 - ..... 'THE MIITINEE-11-; Engineers—Captain E. Fraser and Lieut. James John MsLeod Innes, Artillery—Capt. Alex. Wm. Hawkins, Lieut. William Stewart, and Lieut. Chas. Dempster. Ist Light Cavalry—Brevet-Major Alfred Harris. 21 Light Cavalry—Lieut. Quinn and Veterinary Sur geou'Enimund Geo. Cualwin. 31 Light Cavalry—Lieut. M'Nabb and Veterinary Sur.4eons John Philips and Chas. John Dawson. 4th Light Caralry—Lieut..Chas. John Hunt (1). 7th Light Cavalry—Cornet Raleigh. 14 Redman, and Ni.—Lie Ensignutaenry Sidney Smith, Lieut. Frede rick J. C. Sul ple. 6th N.l.—Capt. John Plunkett, Lieut. Robert Stewart, Lieut Geo. Harry Hawes, Ensign Scott, En sign Cheek, Ensign Dodd, Ensign Smith, Ensign Smith, Ensign Way, and Ensign Munro (doubtful). 7th N.l.—Capt. Fredk. Proctor Bailey (2). 10th N.l.—Major Wm. Lindsay (3).. 11th N I.—Lieut.-Colonel John Finnis. 13th N.l.—Lieut. Edward Wm. Bar wed (4). 17th N.I. —Lieut. Percy, Geo. Hutchinson. Isth N.l.—Major Henry Edward Pearson, Captain Taylor Campbell Richardson, Capt. Hugh Vans Haw thorn, Lieut, Jas. Young Gowan, Lieut. Henry Ross Stewart, and Ensign John Charles Dyson. 19. h N.l.—Lieut. Sir Robt. Norman Leslie, Bart.(s). 20. h N.l.—Capt. Donald Macdonald, Capt. John Henry Gee. Taylor, Lieut. David Henry Henderson, Lieut. Geo. Douglas Barbor, and Lieut. Wm. Pattie. 21st N.l.—Lieut. Francis Walker Brodie (6). 221 N.l.—Lieut.-Col. Philip Goldoey, Major Arthur Samuel Mills , and Lieut. Arthur Bright. . . _ 23d N.l.—Lient.-Cal. John Phil and Lieut. James Fagan. 25th N.l.—Ensign Hayter. 27th N.l.—Capt. George Thos. Gowan. 28th N.l.—Capt. Henry John Guise (7). 31st N I.—Capt. Thos. Charles l3irch (8). 32d N.l....Capt. Charles Robert George Douglas (9). 36th N.l.—Lient. Fredk. John Salmon Bagshaw. 38th N.l.—Lient Thos. Wollams Holland and Lieut. Arthur Gibbings (10).- 39th N.l.—Lieut. Archibald Procter. 41st N.l.—Brigadier Sibbald, C. 8., and Brevet Lieut. Col. Fredk. Win. Birch. 42d N.l. Brigadier Alex. Jack. 44th N.l.—Lieut. John Smith (11). 46th N.l.—Capt. W. Louis Mosheim Bishop. 48th N.l.—Major-General Sir Hugh M. Wheeler, C. 8., and Lieut. Gilbert Ironside Bair. 531 N.l.—Captain Johti Hewetson Reynolds and Ensign Wm. George Prole. 64th N.l.—Lieut.-Col. John Peter Ripley, Major Francis Stuart Paterson, Captain Muirson Trower Blake (12), Captain Rowland Mainwaring Smith, Capt. Coal y Burrowes, Lieut. Ernest Andrew Edwards, Lieut. Manes John Butler, Lieut. Wm. Waterfield, Lieut, Edward Daniel Hamilton Vibart, and Ensign Angelo. 56th N.l.—Lient.-Col. Stephen Williams, Major Waller Robert Front, Captain Win. Leonard Halliday, and Captain Felix Vincent Richard Jervis. 621 N.l.—Capt. Fletcher Fulton C. Hayes (13). 64th N.l.—Lieut. Geo. Snell. 65th N.l.—Major Francis Shirreff (14). 67th N.l.—Lieut. Philip H. Comyn Burlton. 68th N.l.—Lieut. Augustus Hay Alexander (15) and Ensign Richard Green Tucker. 71st N.l.—Lieut, Aldouric Patrick Grant. 72d N.l.—Brigadier Isaac Henley Handscomb and Lieut. Robert Chao. O'Dawda. 74th N.l.—Capt. Chas. Gordon, Capt. Sir George Parker. Bart , Lieut. Mathew Hugh Reve;ey, and Lieut. James Digby Sm:th. I::valide Captain J. H. Perris. Her Mtjest,'s 29th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Samuel F seer (16). Medical Establishment—Superintendent Surgeon Jas. Graham (17), Surgeon Milken Winlaw Kirk, Assistant- Surgeon Jo.:eph Fayrer, Assistant-Surgeon A. Dopping, Absistant-Surgeon J. C. Graham (18), A-Bi--tent-Sur goon R. Lyelt (19), Assistant Surgeon E. James, and Assistant-Surgeo J. M. Hay (20) Civil Se: v:ce—lssistan -Surgeons J. Wedderburn, S. Fraser, M. Rickert-, B. R. Cup age, R. Tucker, W. R. Moore, A. IL G. Block, J. Strachey, A. Galtlwa,y, C. G. Hillersdon. and W. R. Moore. Ecclesiastical Establishment—Rev. M. J. Jennings and Rev. G. W. Conpland. LIST OF OFFIOERS BILLED BEFORE DELHI, Her Majdsty's 9% Lancers—Lieut.-Col. R. A. Yule. Her Majesty's GOth Mai—Captain F. Andrews and Surgeon Moore. Her Majesty's 75th ROgiment—Captain E. W. John Knox and Lieut. A. Harrison Horse Artillery —Lieut. H. G. Parkins. 2d Bengal European—Lieut. Jackson. 31 N I.—Lieut. R. W. Alexander. 20th N.l.—Lieut. M. A. Huoarthre”. 23.1 lonel Charles Chester. 54th N.l.—Capta n Claud William Russell and Lieut. Charles Edward Wheatley. 56th N.l.—Capt John Weston Delamain and Lieut. Quiutin B.ttye (21). KILLED AT NUSSERABAD. lat Bombay Lancers.—Lieut.-Colonel Penny, CAp Spottiswood, and Cornet Newberry. KILLED AT LUCKNOW. Artillery—Maior General S ir H. L awrence, K. 8.8 KILLED AT AGRA. Artillery—Captain Edward A. C. d'o3ly and Major Jacob (22). DIED JAM INJURIES RECEIVED —En4ign Henry Wadhain Artillery—Lien. G. D. Willou g hby (23). ED AT CAWNPORE, REGIMENT UNCERTAIN . 3ht N . K . L. Eckforl. 1) Mehidpore Contingent ' (13) Mil. Sec. to Sir 11. Law -2) 2d Oude Cavalry rence ,3) Assist. Adjutant-General (14) 4th Gwalior Infantry (4) Adjutant liurreanahßat. (15) 2d Qude Irr. Cay. (5) Adjutant sth Irr. Cay. (16) Com nand 15th Irr. Cam. (6) Mehidpore Contingent (17) Traus-Ravee Circle (7) Command. 13thIrr. Cay. (18) Me I. Starekeeper, Seal (8) Fort Adjutant. Allahabad kote (9) Command. Palace Gads., (19) Opium Agent, Patna Delhi (20) Civil Surgeon, Bareilly (10) 2d in command, 15th Irr. (21) Guide Corps Cay. (22) Formerly of Scindiab's (11) Adjutant 4th Irr. Cay. I Ser. (12) 2d Gwalior Infantry I (21) Commiss. of Ord., Delhi SHARP'S AMERICAN BROECH-LOADING • RIFL& CARBINE. A letter in a contemporary says four cavalry regiments lately embarked here fur the East Indies are provided with Sharp's American Breech-1 Jading C tr. bine. I have taken the opportunity of explaining to the commanding-officers of each regimens the superiority of my seamless gun-cotton cartridge for such breech-loading arms over the gunpowder cartridge now in use, which latter requires to be cut by the action of the closing laver. Everybody knows that nothing blunts the edge of a sharp instrument more than the cat .ing of paper. My cartridge does not require to be cut by the closieg lever. Moreover, the residue of gunpowder impedes the tree action of the lever. Much is said in praise of the Enfield rigs, 24 to the bore. That rifle would be of no value without the use of my elongated shot, which I submitted to Government as far back as the year 1823, and which was not adopted into our service til many years atter the Honourable East India Company ordered their officer ('he late Sir Wiliam Harris) to instruct the King of Abyssinia and " the blameless Ethiopians" in the superior efficiency of an elongated shot and she.l for rifle aims ; and General Jacob., of the Bombay Ar tillery, is now zealously engaged in instructing the descendants of King Purus in the practical use ol similar shot and sheds. Shortly after General Chesney, 8.A., delivered his instructive lecture on firearms at the Cork National Exhibition, the late Lord Ifardinge, being Master General of the Ordnance, rerried to her Maj 'sty that I was the original inventor of the elon gated rifle-shot and shell. 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The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on receipt of Post-Office order. —Barry Du Barry, & Co., 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful. dangers of spurious imitations :—The V'ce-Chancel lor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1851, against Alfred Hooper Neviil, for imitating Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." ' q 5 7 PR ICES 01? $R..483,18. From the Official Kest. I'UBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVE gni': LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1857. CANALS. Names of Companies. Dividend i per rl Annum. Price, Names of Companies. ( Dividend per Annum A shtn &Oldb Birmingham Coventry.. • • Derby .. • • • • GrandJunctn Do., 6 pr. Ct. Grand 'Union Kennt & Avp Leeds &Livrp Leicester.... Leicstr &SU Long lil,orogh Macclesfield. Neath • • • • Oxford ... • 93 71. p. ct. 40 41. 100 114. 100 61. 15s. 100 21. pr. ct. 10 6/. pr. ct. 100 7s. 6d 40 64. 100 251. 100 51. 83 11.53. 143 704 100 21. 101. 100 161. 100 Name of Company. Berlin .... • . ........ East London Do. 4 per Cent. Pref. Do. 5 per Cent. Pref. Grand Junction .... • • Do. New • • Kent.... • • .. Lambeth ...... New _River Company.. Southwark & Vauxhall West Middlesex Do. Do, Name of Company. flungerford .. • • .... Southwark .. .. • •• .. Ditto New of 7% p.c. Na terloo ...... . •• • • Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Vauxhall ............ Name of Company Commercial .. .... • . Do. Preference 1 East and West India.. Grand flurry D. & Canal 1)0. Loan Notes .. .. Do. 5 per cent. Pref. London .• • • ••••• • • St. Katharine •• • • •• •• outhampton •• •• •• Victoria •• •• ..•• •• •• Ditto New •• •• •• •• GAS.LIGH' Name of Company• British Provincial Brighton •• •• •• City of London .. •• •• Equitable.. •• .. •• •• European .... . • • • • • • Great Central ....••.. Imperial .. ...... •• Ditto New Ditto I)ebentures.. Do. Continental 1 stCap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent ... .. • • London Pail. Preferen. Pi.ceiix . • • .. •• •• •• .. Itateliff • • • • . • • • • • • Surrey Consumers .... United General •. Westminster Chartered Ditto, New .... • • • • Western A. ... Ditto B Name of Company. Albion •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Alliance and For. Ditto Marine ....... Athenaa am. ••• • • • . • • Atlas Xrgus Life .........•• British Commercial .. Church of England City of London. •• Gen. Life Crown Eagle.. Equity and Law...... European Life Family Endowment General Globe Gresham Life Do. D 0... • • Imperial Fire•.. • ..... Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Lite. • • • .... •• • • Legal and General Life London London & Prov. Law • • Sled.lr_vlid& Gen. Life ninerva ........ •• .. Monarch • • • • •• • • • • • • New Equitable Pelican .... • • • • • • .. • • Plnenix Profeseional Life • • • ... Provident Life........ !lock Life ........ • • .. Royal Exchange ....•• Sun Fire •••• Ditto Life ..... United Kingdom .... Universal Life .• • ..... Victoria Life ........ Peak Forest. Rego.' t's • • • • Rochdale.... Stfird &Won. Stourbrielp. Severn and Wye Rail. Warwick & 7 Binning. Warwick & Napton.. Worcstr & Binning. j Wilts & Brio WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. per cnt. ti“ per cnt. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 4:. per er.4. 51. per cnt. AI. per cent BRIDG Dividend per Annum. 103 per cent.' 11. 12s. Od. 1/. Ss. Od. 28s. DOCKS Dividend per -Annum. 51. pr cent. 6/. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. pr cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. LT AND COK: Dividend . per Adnum. 71. per cent. 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 21. 61. per cent. SI. per cent 101. per cent. 31. ss. 41. 15s. 41. 10s. 61. per cent. 534 per cnt. 5/. 8/. per cent. 16s Od per sh. 7 per cent. MANCE CO: Dividend per Annum. [PANIES. Amount of Share. 71. per c. 71. 14s. 6d. p.c. & b 3. 153.0(1. & bs 41. per cent. 7L 10s. 71. Ios. 5 pr et. 8c bs. 41._ per share 11 18s. 5 1 4 per cent 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent 51. per cent 121. per cent - 14 s. si.p7et.&bs. 28 & 2s bons 21t. per sh 4s. per share le. 18s.& bs. 4 per cent 5t per cent 51. per cent. 6 , 4 per cent 5/ p. et. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent 12!4 per c. p c. &bs & bs is 4s. 41. & bonus. 51 & bonus. 51. & bonus. Amount 4 of Share. £ s. d. 10 0 0 Stock. 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. Z s. d. 25 0 0 )00 0 0 50 0 0 1100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. X s. d. Stock. Mock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. Steck. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 :E COMP. Amount of Share. £ s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 £ s. d. 500 0 0 1.00 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 too 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0- 'OO 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 , 00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 281 121. 103 11. les. £ s. d. 100 all Z s. d. Stock. 00 "o 0 00 0 0 0 0 Rock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 £ s. d. all 150 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 42 15 0 41 0 0 43 10 0 41 0 0 52 0 0 16 0 0 all 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 Z s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 47 5 il 50 0 0 •20 0 0 30 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0. 0 12 10 0 2 o 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 to 0 0 0 10 0 5 10 C 10 0 0 5 0 0 Z s. d. YACIITLY G. Price. Price 104 24 Price, Price. 90X Price, 10 3 4 21 5114 7!fi Price, 131% Country Markets. THE YACHT SQUADRONS. Alli in, Mr. Ford, arrived at Dartmouth on Saturday, from Torquay. Arrow, Mr. Chamberlaine, bag arrived at Dartmouth, from Torquay. Bacchante, Mr. B. H. Jone=, arrived at St. Mary'r, Scilly, on Sunday, from a cruise. Brilliant, Mr. J. H. Vickers, arrived at Dartmouth on Saturday, from Torquay. Cayman, Mr. Rose, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur day, from Torquay. Destiny, Colonel Grimes, has arrived at Dartmouth from Torquay. Emmett, Mr. Gibson, has arrived at Dartmouth from Torquay. Mr. Machan, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur day, from Plymouth. Flora, Mr. Dennis, has arrived at Dartmouth from Torquay. Fling Cloud arrivrd at Travemunde on Thin ay last, from Copenhagen. Gipsey, Mr. J. Taylor, sailed. from Ssvanage on Sunday, on a cruise. Irene, Mr. Soho'field, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur day from Plymouth. Lalla Rookh has sailed from Exmouth on a cruise. Leda, Sir Richard Bulkeley, put into H lyhead (Nevi harbour), on Friday last from Beaumaris, on a cruise. Lulworth, Mr. Wells, has arrived at Dartmouth from Torquay. Minnie, Mr. Marshall, arrived at Dartmouth on SLV turday from Torquay. Nymph, Sir. J. Bayley, bas arrived at Dartmouth from Torquay. Phantom, Mr. Lane, arrived at Exmouth on Sun' day, from Torquay. Princess Royal, Mr. Gunnson, arrived at Dartmouth on Saturday, from Torquay. Rattlesnake, Captain Duff, has arrived at Dartmouth, from Torquay. Sapphire, Mr. Bell, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur day, from Torquay. Snake, Mr. Philpot, has arrived at Dartmouth, from Torquay. Sophia, Mr. Thwait, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur' day, from Torquay. Spray, Mr. J. A. Longmuir, arrived at Cromarty on Friday last, from Norway. Wiiifire, Mr. Turner, arrived at Weymouth on Sun' day, from the eastward. Wizard, Mr. Delafield, arrived at Dartmouth on Saturday, from Torquay. Zara, Earl of Wilton, sailed from Milford on Friday last, for Queenstown. Luleika, Mr. Britton, arrived at Dartmouth on Satur day, from Torquay. TORBAY REGATTA. The Torbay Royal Regatta took place on Friday last, under very favourable circumstances, there being a fine, breeze, alright sky, and an unusually large assemblage 0 ' yachts, numbering upwards of 50. Amongst those present we noticed the Brilliant, Beatrice, De-tiny, Mayfly, Ethel, Rattlesnake, Wilt:fire, Lalla Rookh, Maraquita, Zouavet Lulworth, Arrow, Georgiana, Nymph, Water KelPi e ' Mona, Zuleika, La Reeve, Cayman, &c. The tollo%ing vessels were entered for the third prize, a purse of 20 sovereigns :—The Fame, 11. Fillis, Esq', 25 tons ; Vampire, C. Wheeler, Esq., 18 tons ; Ethel , Captain Bayley, 15 tons ; Midge, Captain C imerell, 13 tons. The start took place at 12.47 p.m., and the course, three times round the bay, was completed in the order following :—Vampire, Gh. 6m. 25iec. ; Eth el : 6b. 21m. 30sec. ; Fawn, 6h. 30w. The Midge gave 12 1" on the sec 1:1(1 round. For the second prize, a purse of 30 sovereign', the following vessels were entered, and started at 1.19 pit' --The Emmett, Gibson, E3q., 28 tons ; Phantom, Lane, Esq , 27 tons ; Thought, J. Marshall, E , q tons ; Glance, Banks, Esq., 35 tons ; Fire Clow , —Mansfield, Esq., 31 tons. They returned to th e starting-boat on third round as under :—Phantoi n, 6h. 24min. 40sec. ; Thought, 6h. 38inin. 53sec. ; Glanc e, 6n. 46min. Sleec.; Emmett, 6'a. 58min. 56sec. T he Fire Cloud did not complete the course. For the first prize, a purse of 40 sovereigns, for vessel s of any rig over 40 tons, the following were entered :"*" Wildfire—Turner, Esq., 57 tons ; Maraquita—Cer evi, Esq., 125 tons ; Lulworth—J. Wells, Esq., 80 tons! Arrow—T. Chamberlains, Esq., 100 tons. The Wildfire did not appear at the starting-boat, in consequence of ; dispute about time for tonnage. Tue starting gun / lil a fired at 2 13 p.m., and the first round was comple o t e k as under :—Lulworth, 3h. 51min. 3sec. ; Arrow, 57min. 53sec. Maraquita having given up on the firs; the Arrow also gave up on the second. The Lulvic rt completed the course alone at 7 15 p.m. WEST LONDON ROWING CLITB.—A. scullers' race toot place on Saturday last, 29th ult., between Messrs. T. Morriss and E. G. Hartley, both members of the a hoy club, the course being froin Putney Aqueduct to 111 mer3mith Suspension Bridge. Hartley took the lea, ' but was gradu illy passed by his opponent, who eventualli proved the winner despite of Hartley's plucky r0v. 0 4; Both competitors were shown up by crews from thel °' club, and the race was well attended on the part several clubs. CHELMSFORD—Aus. 28. Tho supply of wheat was large, principally new, and 0 fair amount of business was done at about 2s to 3s per clr: redaction on last week's rates. All other things firm ,''" late quotations. Wheat, white, old, per s. qr.6l new 51 old 49 new 49 Barley 35 Chevalier 38 Grinding 35 Malt 73 Chevalier 75 s. .. 64 Oats, per qr. .... . ...... 21 63 Peas, Partridge ....... 41 58 White ............ 39. 56 Boiling in ......... 39 46 Dun ..... ........... 40 60 Beans, Tisk ......... I .. .40 42 Harrow ticks 41 77 I Mazagan ....... 37 79 I Ditto, new... 31 rod, Official Statement of the Qua: in the port of London, fro: Aug. 24 to Aug. 29, both ratifies of Corn, &c lm the following p Lclusive. , reoai Te j ;rts, fro-- Aug. 24 to Aug. 29, both • • 63 . Colchester 150 385' 1 q9O Harwich 356 Leigh - - 3 ,510 idaldon ,1943 109 ( 100 40/ COLCHESTER— AUG. 29. ni A moderate supply of wheat, both old and new , lel in request at about 3s to 4s per qr. cheaper. More W a r. on offer and many samples thin and coarse, the beet „Pot eels realised last day's rates, and inferior must be cit, is lower. New beans in good condition, and make 3. "" 465, Peas in short supply, and fully as dear. 8 ; Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 623 t ° ,o red, 589 to 625; barley, 42s to 46s ; oats, 28s to 303 ; u !;stt hEzagan, 40s to 44s ; middle and small, 44s to 48s; i'" white, 38s to 42s ; grey, 42s to 465. KIRKCALDY—Ana. 29. 11 d We had a fair supply of wheat to-day, but stO t her barley and oats. Sales slow, Inferior qualities r o ,o easier to buy, Two small parcels of new barley, cond i " poor, weighing 511bs, sold at 302. Wheat. Barley. l Oats. e 8 0 '3 First 63s Od I 34s 01 31s Gd I Os 01 Second I Third 2Bs Od 2Bs Od. I 263 ad I °' COAL MARKET.—AUG. 3L Prices of Coals per ton at the close of the market s d. Wallsend, dslo• a Tanfield Moor l4 6 a 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 6 Russell's Hetton .......... 1 , 6 i Haswell Gas 13 - 6 Haswell 1 g Wylam •. Buddlo W. Hartley 17 0 H ough H a ll ................ 1 5 6 ; Tees .1 17 6 Wallsend, &e. Eden Riddell South Iletton 15 3 Gosforth .................... ! i ., 6 0_ 17 3 Northumberland .......• ii 9 Whitworth l5 3 Braddyll ................. • . .!, 4 0 Brown's Moor Haigh IFramwellgate ........... .1,.' 6 Main l4 6 Hetton . ................... 17 9 Caradoc': . l6 0 Kepler Grainge ..• ..... pi 0 Hartlepool Hettou l6 6 Hunwick Coumion Tees l5 6' Lam bton l5 11 6 South /COW 16 9 lifontague Ships at market, 139 ; sold, 103 BIRTHS. OF A SON. g r‘' On the 30th August, at 95, Eaton-place, S. Wo Grenville Wells. On the 30th August, at 110, Cambridge-street, War" square, the wife of C. H. Hodgson, Esq. OF A DAUGUTSR, , On the 30th August, at Delarnere-crescent, Westbogrlie' terrace, the wife of Henry O'Brien, Esq. Oa the 30th August, at Upper Clapton, s. Georg e Powell. MARRIED. ske ljj On the 31st August, at Luke's, A: n e t 01d-street, ford{ - James Wells, only son of H. D. Wells, E sq ., o f Dell' to Elizabeth, third daughter of Henry Sheppard, P ic ° the same parish. "r On h © 29th August, at St. Stephen ' s , Shepherd'sfoor B ernar d Edward, youngest son of th e late Richer'L urtil life, Esq., to Julia, second surviving daughter of l' w George Cooper Butnand, Esq. , On the 29th August, D after lED a severe illness, I r t i - tes° Hinton, the only su rv i v i ng son o f th e E ar l an d C°"" Poulett aged 35. g er On the 29th inst., at Roehampton House, after a - I %o' ing illness, brought on by his service in the Crimso n paign, Major Viscount B dgonie ' aged 25. rg Sti t ' At Hauxl e y, Northumberland, Katharine Man n° DJ' , " ton, daughter of the late Charles Manners Sutton , Lor On Archishop of Cntrbury. pe ed e. On the 29th August, a at e Brighton, Mr. Edwar d • 0 aged 63. • • n o' A On the 28th Au g ust, at Decpwell Black Rock, 00_11, Dublin, Richard Samuel Guinness, Esq., after a I°"' painful illness, Ca O m n b th el e l, 2 o 9 f th D A n u n g tr u o s o t n ,.at Southampton, General:of::: On the 30th August, George Brockett, eldest k ao B. Boosey, of 10, Rood-lane, Fenchurch-street, city, 24. --- LONDON Printed and Published by MURDO Y° l l4o of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at Tkl Sun Odle , o f 112, Strand, in the Preeine! -, of the Savor, in the CO I of Middlesex, Tuesday, September 1, 137. Tu Gun Borough of tnforn suffrage, Drool" 0 "V ;_ the 9t h 11 00 ti Pa' the 10th (thhited I~ 11111tal sitrances Oakes a TR: 41Id G er !. „ Throw, wmAanl Fifty ti Furth ( "Van) etreet. t% -47. P R rDool .1-rains flembeptem, ! er, a publit 24 . Il irken 6d he It a.; 4ni, 225. 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