The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (Prom the Report o f the Registrar-General.) The deaths registered in London during the week that ended on Saturday (Ang. 29) were 1177. They exhibit an increase in the number of the previous week, which was 1091. In the ten years 1847-56 the average number of deaths in the weeks corre sponding with last week was 1,345, which, if it be raised tor comparison with the deaths of last week i n proportion to increase of population, will become 1,480. But the average is swelled beyond ordinary limits by choleia in the epidemic yews 1849 and 1854 ; and if this disturbing element be withdrawn frord the calculation it will be found that the rate of mortality in last week exceeds, but only to a small extent, the average rate at the end of Aug. The, number of children born in the week ex oeeded the number of persons of all ages who died by 479. The total mortality of last week exceeded that of the week which preceded it, as has been stated above ; but the increase does not arise from diseases of the zymotic character taken in the aggregate, for though typhus (with common fever) was fatal in more cases, the number having risen from 41 to 66, scarlatina and diarrhoea showed a decrease. The fatal cases of diarrhoea in the last three weeks were 244, 215, and 198 ; those referred to " cho lera" in the same period, 21, 12, and 15. The sub districts of St. John, Marylebone, and St. Paul, Deptford, returned more deaths last week from diarrhoea than any other of the metropolitan sub districts ; there were 7 in St. John and 8 in St. Paul. Eight fatal cases of small-pox are recorded, 3 of which occurred in the Small-pox Hospital. Three persons died of intemperance, a child from "destitution," 12 infants from want of breast-milk, 13 women from diseases incidental to childbearing. Six persons are returned who before they died had attained the age of 91 years or more ; of these only one was a man, who died at the age of 95 at Lee, the rest were widows at ages varying from 91 to 95, the oldest having died at Deptford. Last week the births of 857 boys and 799 girls, in all 1656 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 the average number was 1470. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.943 in. The main daily reading was above 30 in. on three days. The highest reading was 30.11. in on Thurs day. The mean temperature of the week was 66.9 deg., which is 7.1 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by 'Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was above the average on every day of the week ; and on Sunday and Monday the excess was respectively 12 deg. and 13 deg. The temperature fell as the week advanced. The thermometer in the shade reached its highest point on Sunday, the 23d, when it was 85.9 deg. ; the lowest point was 48.8 deg. on Friday. On Tuesday the thermometer in the sun rose to -106.4 deg. The thermo metrical range of the weak was 37.1 deg. The mean dew-point temperature was 58.3 deg., and the difference between this and the mean tempera ture of the air, indicating its dryness, was 8.6 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 69.1 deg. The air was. calm during great part of the week ; at the beginning the wind was in the south-east, at the end in the north-east. No rain was measured by the gauge. MORTALITY IN THE !METROPOLIS wuminut OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 29 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases . 206 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Biood-vessels 2B Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration BB Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases o f the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. 3 Malformations 2 Premature Birth an d D e bilit y 34 Atrophy 45 Old Age . .. 42 sudden .. 6 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 56 Causes not specified DEATHS EBOM ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in cone- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week in the 1451. of 1856, Week. West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 893,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts Totals Males 564 Famales 613 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. _ _ _ Males Females... 857 799 Total - 1,656 THE MOORS AND FORESTS. The Inverness Courier of Thursday says :—The excitement of the first week of grouse shooting and the wish to "make a bag" having passed away for the season, the reports from the moors have be come very scanty. Our first jotting is from Ury, where Mrs. Baird of Cambusdoon and pat ty bagged, on the 15th and 17th inst., 16/ brace of grouse, and on the 20th and 21st, 33 brace, on Auchmedden. The birds were generally strong on the wing, and very wild. Mr. W. Williams, Tulchen Lodge, on the 20th, got 9/ brace ; and made h-elf a day on the 21st, when he realised 10/ brace, with many hares. Sir C. Ross, of Balnagown, Batt., on the 22d inst., on Leamington-park moors, shot 7/- brace groove and two bares in three hours. Geo. Maclachlan, Esq., shot 14 brace in four hours, at Scotsburn. Birds are'not so plentiful about Cullen as they used to be, but theyare prettynumerous and in good condition. On a.. small moor there 17 brace di fine plump birds were killed on-Friday last, shooting over an old dog. The broods were six to ten birds- strong, and very wild. The Caithness moors have turned out very well. Mr. Dunbar, Brawl Castle writes respecting them :—The sport on all our Caithness moors is likely to exceed even that of last year. The following is what some of the parties have already done :—On the Strathmore moors Mr. Simpson has bagged up wards of 200 brace; Mr. Chandless and Mr. Dawson from 129 to 150 - each; on the Crown moors, Mr. Forsyth and friend 150 brace in five days' shooting; Capt. Hartley and friend, at Brawl Gastle, 128 brace; on Duhbaath, Mr. S. J. Brown and his son, 59 brace i n t wo d ays ; C ol. Whitelock and friend, on the Clyth moors, 130 brace. The parry at Brae mar has done well, having killed above 100 brace the first day. Most moors in the county have done equally well; the birds are entirely free from disease, and unusually strong for this period of the set son. The forests are turning out even better than we anticipated. Deer are numerous, and in splendid condition. The Duke of Leeds killed a very good stag in Coulan forest—a pretty - head of 11 points, and so large and heavy that the men had difficulty in putting it on horseback. The pony, at a short distance, lay down; he was too heavy for him. A royal head has been sent to be stuffed by Mr. Vau ghan ; it was killed by Mr. Flewelyn, who is on a visit to Inchbae. The antlers measure 2 ft. 52 in. in span, and 2 ft. 3 in. in length. There are two remarkably floe brow antlers on each side , measur ing 'lok in. and 10 in. respectively, and altoge' her 13 tines, with a small call in each antler. The head is:quite free of velvet. Another good head, but of the upright stamp, has been sent 'by Mr. J. G. :Watt-; , it has 10 tines ; velvet not quite free. Lord Lovett and the Master of Lovat have stalked some Ulf-a-dozen good stags in Glen' Strathfarrar ; one (AMA*, killed by the Master of Lovat, was a 1,7 superior animal - . Mr. Greville Smith b r o ug ht Mrstag in Glen Claunich on Th urs d ay ; an d asnak • Ings has bad good sp or t i n hi s o ld quarters at yie. The re is every prospect of see i ng some magnificent heads thi s season. Even the young fivekinarter old Stagg have, in some instances, 11 and 12 Sims, thebut vital velvet is not o ff yet. he rivers had fallen rapidity during the last 10 days, aid there hj be.ecvaeatrilleittle successful angling during tlAt time. The torcl . tallmost as transpa- - rent as tiftrair - itselr.- - as o o or caught the largest salmon, " the muekle the 25th instant, In ititr - La-d ies , po :e_ p season, on Ness. The salmon weighed 24 Poun ds, "l n t I he river bfresh run, gave four hours' work tattle angle ; b e e f in g the influence of the rod and line brought the ire prize to land. The hon. T. Cl. Bruce, fishing weitaits the net in the Spey, at Grantown, on the 1 1th, got at one draught as many . as 222 fishes—sdroon, grilse, and sea trout. This is almost unprecedented. Some rather good sport hai also been got in the Avon. The Rev. J. King, at Lagganauld, went a fishing on the 15th and killed four salmon, captur ing another salmon in a fishing expedition on the 20111. The Carlisle Patriot of Saturday reports :—Birds upon the celebrated Bowes Moor h Ave been rather scarce, but good and strong. On the 12th instaut, Mr. Clarkson got 30 brace, which were the best bag. Another gentlema n , w hose name, we believe, I is Holmes, got 25 b race ; Lieutenant Sowerby, 18 brace ; Dr. Trotter got 16 brace ; Mr. Bennett, 14i I brace; Captain Dawson, 11i brace the first day and 5 brace the second. Dr. Trotter got 7 brace the second day, which were the best bag 4. One gun on Scargill killed 25 brace ; four guns on Cotherston, 30i the first day, and 314 the second day, The Tl 4 it 11, 1014 &Wing fountat of Friday says :—The accouit'A from all the moors in this lodality are first-rate. Indeed there has been no such excellent spore or some years back. On Friday Sir H. Seton Stuart, Bart., and Mr. J. G. Morrison bagged on Touch Moors, the former 10 brace and the latter 16 brace. Partridges are exceedingly abundant, and promise rare sport. Naval and Military intelligence. Yesterday morning the 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards, under the command of Col. John A. Lam bert, which has been doing duty at Windsor Castle since April last, left the Sheet-street Barracks for the Tower, and were relieved by the 2d battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards, under the command of Col. the Hon. J. Strange Jocelyn. Yesterday reinforcements for the 7th Fusiliers, 20th, 24th, 27th Enniskillings, 52d Light Infantry, and 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, to the number of 65 non-commissioned officers and men, under the command of Capt. H. Mitford, 27th Regiment, proceeded from Chatham Garrison to Gravesend, where they embarked on board the Alipore for Kurrachee. The Ist and 3d battalions of the 60th Royal Rifles, under the command of Capt. T. Biggs, Ist battalion, and Lieut. F. S. Travers, 3d battalion, have left the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, for Colchester, where they are to b e f orme d i n t o a sepa rate rifle battalion. The 3d battalion left 45 non commissioned officers and men at Chatham, with Ensign W. L. K. Ogilvy and Ensign H. St. George Barton to embark for India. Orders have been received at Chatham for rein forcements of non-commissioned officers and men for the 83d and 86th Regiments, to embark at Gravesend on board the Prince Albert for Bombay, as soon as that vessel is ready to receive the troops on board. The Conqueror, 101, Cape. H. R. Yelverton, C. 8., is coaling at Spithead, and is reported to leave in a day or two on her return to rejoin Lord Lyons's squadron in the Mediterranean. Her late impromptu experiment in carrying the 47th Regi ment to England has astonished the " Dowbs." The Chesapeake, 50, screw frigate, Commodore R. B. Wagon, C. 8., filled up with coal yeaterJay, and came down into Sheerness Harbour, where she now lies, having her compasses adjusted previous to leaving for Portsmouth, where will take her final sailing orders for India. Dun - can, 101, screw, building at Portsmouth, is progressing very favourably. The "timbers" are bolted and fastened together by Jeffrey's marine glue ; they have been shaped, marked, and num bered, and with the aid of a simple Derrick, the noblest man of war is quickly up in frame. This is the state of progress of a powerful line-of-battle ship at the present moment, which will exceed the Duke of Wellington in tonnage, although only a " two decker." Ganges, 84, Captain John Fulford, will, we be lieve, leave Sheerness this morning for Portsmouth, where she will pay an advance, re-hoist the fl tg of Rear Admiral R. L. Baynes, and sail for her fu ure station, South America. There is a report preva lent at Sheerness that the Chesape►ke will accom pany her across the equator, but as it is only rumour we cannot vouch for the truth of if, more than such is probable, as both ships will be ready for sea about the same time. Jasper and Jasseur, 4, screw gun boats, Lieuts.- Commanders Pym and Scott, will proceed to Spit head to-day, to take in powder and shell, and sail direct for Bermuda•to-morrow. Prince of Wales, 131, screw, three decker, con verting from 121-gun sailing ship to a formidable screw, equal to the Marlborough, had the weather coverings removed yesterday, to give space for the lengthening by the stern. She was recently cut through amidships and some 30 feet added. She will now have the advantage of an exceedingly fine lUD. The Diadem, 32, Captain Moorsom, C. 8., is progressing well in her equipment. Her comple ' ment of Royal Marines have joined, and she has entered about 150 men as seamen. The Vulcan, 6, iron screw steam troop frigate, Commander John Secombe, will leave the steam basin at Portsmouth to-day, and will receive her crew from the hulk in a day or two. The Falcon, 17, screw sloop, will be taken into the steam-basin to-day at Portsmouth, to be refitted and advanced for re-commission. On Monday the screw steamer Eaterprisa left Liverpool for Dublin, having on board a detach• went of the Bth Hus.ars. Yesterday the steamer Princess arrived at Liverpool from Dublin, having on board detach ments of the 2d Rifle Brigade and of the Royal Artillery. The field batteries of the Royal Ar•illery now on passage and under orders for India, will (al previ ously stated) leave tbe'r horses at Woolwich. It has thfrefore been dcermined to form five aidi tional field batteries from existing companies, in conformity with the folluvring general rejm-ntal orders—signed, C. Bigh - 4m, Assistant Adjutant- General, and confirmed by his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief : " CaptAin Colelough's company, Ist Battalion, to take over the horses and equipments of H troop, Royal Horse Artillery, and to form a battery let tered L. " Lieut.-Colonel Adye's company, 9th Battalion, to take over the horses of Major Fraser's battery, and to-receive the equipment of a 9 pounder field battery, to be lettered S. " Captain lit ompson's company, Gth Battalion, to take over the horses of Captain Ralcliffe's bat tery, and to form a 9 pounder field battery, to be letleied " Captain Pigon's company, 2d Battalion, to take over the horses of Captain Connell's company, and to form a field batte: y, to ba lettered U. " Captain Saunder's company, 2d Battalion to tike over the horses of Captain Gibbins's company, and to form a field battery, to be numbered Q." The half yearly inspecti ►n of the troops an►l the various departments of the garrison by the C nn mandant (Sir W. F. Williams) will take place to morrow. The statement which has appeared to the effect that Lieut.-Colonel Bingham was about to proceed to India is not correct. The gallant officer will continue to discharge Ys duties as Assistant Ad jutant-General of the Royal Artillery. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief has appointed Lieut. and Brevet-Col. Taylor to the command of tl e Royal Artillery in British North America, to be placed on the staff of the army service iu that country. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. The followi❑g deaths have been officially re ported during the past month : Lieut.-General—Henry Belneavis, Colonel 65th Foot. Colonel—Robert D. Hallifax, 75th Foot. Lieut.-Colonel—W, H. Tottenham, 12th Dra goons. Major—Thomas C. Kearney, half-pay, killed in action, Falsham Creek, China. Captains—F. Andrews, 60th Foot, killed in action ; H. S. Bawtree, Ist Foot ; Thomas Hugo, half-pay 91-t Foot ;W. Pearson, Ist West India Regiment ; Methuen Stedman, half-pay 10th Light Dragoons. Lieutenants—W. C. Anderson, Royal Engineers; W. Cumming, Gold Coast Artillery Company, at sea ; C. E. Jeffeock, 31st Foot ; R. Maybuty, 84th Foot : James D. Shafto, Royal Horse Guards, drowned at Windsor. EniigLs—J. W. Knox, 90th Foot ; W. H. Mid dleton, 22d Foot ; W. H. Napier, 60th Foot, died of wounds received in action at Meerut. Paymaster—Jos3ph Nicholson, half-pay, 75th Foot. Surgeons—J. M'Arthur, staff surgeon, Ist class, half-pay ;J. H. Dwyer, 14th Foot, at sea. MURDEROUS' OUTBREAA' OF FANATIOIS3f. The following letter, dated 25th Aug., has been received from Algiers : On Saturday last, about half-past 4in the after noon, the quarter of Algiers comprised between Medea-street and Lyle-street was the scene of a most tragic occurrence. A native, twenty years of age, named Soliman Ben Mohamed, a journeyman, born in the &un real], rushed out of Crane-street, where he resided, and, armed with an iron-shod stick, a perfect and most formidable club, attacked every Israelite man, woman, and child, whom he met on his way. It was the Sabbath-day, and at the h our w h en Jewish wives and daughters, decked out in their richest attire, stand in front of their houses. At them alone, and the men of th e i r race , S o li man aimed his ows paying no attenti on ( w hi c h i s re markable) t o the Spanish or French wives and dadght(rs that inhabit this very populous distr'ct. 1 41'1611g onwards like a raging madman, lie th4ek with his club a man named /Nlou ' clii abedaefer in cattle, who, receiving a blow on the six married orde shoraywa"greyed to the city hospital, where he severely, Imagine the expired. The Arab next wounded died this afternoon. of whoraingole Jewish women more or less terror ne such a scene. The Jews Out " Bon ! Bou 1" b ut 'natters take their course.confusion res u lti ng f rom , di lv d ho wit nesse d it, :tied 4 no t interfere, and let wanted to disarm this homiciaar madman, fellow was nately there was a courageousiudivaZa. mFa7rtu who mastered him and banded him over to t tife' police. Soliman was in a state of furious intoxication, from having drunk the unreduced absinth e and 1 smoked kif, the Itio of which is prohibited by the i police regulations. 'Ws' D IN. E S-1) ..(i. . " SIZAFITSBURY22_,'_prIARACTERISTICS." (Front the Dispatch ) Sir Harry, the sentimental flunkey in " High Life Below Stairs, expresses his determination to make' himself " master of Shikspur some wet afternoon." The idiots who cackle about India have just some such notion about the Hindoo religion. They think it may be put down " some wet afternoon." It is thousands upon thousands of years old. It is the base as well as the apex of the body and soul' of Eastern life. It is the authority of every law and the source of every custom. It begins with the sacred dip of the newly born in the holy Ganges. It fixes the very food and drink, the aliment of the most clamorous and craving of the appetites.. It flees from the corrupting corpse at the moment of the soul's parting in the hot and plague-bearing atmosphere. It organises and classifies countless millions who would otherwise be a confused and ungovernable rabble. It gives grades to Eastern society, and settled laws to the tenure and inheri tance of property. It bas its code and hierarchies. Thousands of years have waxed and waned and still found it the soul and breath of Hindoo life. The fiery Mahomet's sword that conquered India could not conquer Bramah. Dynasties innumerable have risen and fallen since the Veds were written and Sanskrit fell out of popular use ; but still there stands the religion of India, vital enough to have convulsed the peninsula from end to end, and to threaten to give to the listless and hopeless Hindoo the verve and spirit of the West. That is the re ligion that hectoring majors, and speculative lieu tenants, and even sergeants that can spell, are al lowed in the leaded type or prominent columns of the Times to recommend for extinction, as if it could be done " some wet afternoon." The Earl of Shaftesbury leaves us in no uncer tainty as to what the Church, and a certain class of its lay politicians, are prepared to recommend as a specific for Hindoo discontent. He spins out a stale hash of the bungalow rant and leading article nonsense with which he has crammed himself from thadaily journals, warmed up with Evangelical in tolerance. He actually denounces Sir Henry Somerset for preferring the respectability of India to its blackguardism. He calls on the Government to have nothing to do with Hindoo scholars, gentle men, priests, decent members of society. He con tends that to keep India, we should encourage its vagabonds and scoundrels. Insult, he says, mere of high caste, by chaining them to Pariahs, Sudars, and Chundals. Give no preference to the good and respected citizen over the outcast, the vagabond, or the Atheist. The greater the miscreant the more loyal the citizen. The worst and vilest man will make the easiest convert to Christianity. To toler ate even the religion of 200,000,000 of human beings with reasonable souls and the right of free thought, is called "pandering to their vanities, and bigotry, and religious prejudices." Indeed, it is broadly stated by this mouth-piece of the Evan gelic d Affiance that to recognise the rights and privileges of the natives of India, "is wholly incon sistent with the position we occupy there ;" and that our respect for those of them whom their own countrymen regard with deference, and revere for their rank, station, and qualifications "is incon sistent with our politi ca l pos i t i on, and with our position as a Christian counzy." There is no mis taking this; and we regret to add that it is only typical, only a representative utterance of what is in the minds of too many of us. If ever a New Orleans Fillibuster canted through the nose of Low Church Methodism it is here. If ever the vilest, the most unscrupulous self-sufficiency of orthodox hypocrisy usurped the venerable form of Chris tianity, it is in this brazen confession, that to respect the rights of conscience of our fellow-subjects, and to accept the institutions of society in the countries we govern as we find them, is incompatible with our position, and inconsistent with Christianity ! If that be so, then no right-minded Englishman will hesitat e to say, if British rule cannot be main tained by British principles of government, then let British rule end. It is not necessary that we should hold Hindostan, b u t it i s necessary if we do, that we should hold it honestly, rule it justly, govern it, not for our own glory or emolument, but for the advantage and happiness of its inhabitants. Fiat justitia ruat ccelum. Nothing so dishonours Christianity as to declare it to be incompatible with the concession of human rights, and to propagate its doctrines by tyranny and oppression. We entreat our countrymen to reflect for a mo ment on these fashionable propositions of unscrupu lous fanaticism. India is as large as Europe, quite as populous —as diversified in its population—much longer civilised—thousands of years older in per fectly authentic historical traditions. It is delibe rately proposed by those "fools who rush in where angels fear to . tread" to destroy the whole fabric of Hindoo society, to elevate its blackguards, encou, rage its scoundrels, be the patrons of its pariahs (who are to India what Atheists are to England), to. degrade all whom the natives look to, and insult and crush all whom they respect and who resp ct themselves, to ignore the religion of 200,000,000 of the most superstitious devotees in the world, to scorn their priests, scoff at their religious observ ances, and " put down" their devotional practices —this, we say, is, with most self-sstisfied sapience, very jauntily projected as a scheme of government for India, and it is actually believed that 100,000 —nay, 50,000 Europeans could rule 4,000 times their own number of Asiatics in the country of the simoom, the rainy season, the plague and the jun gle, by flying in the face of everything they most value on this earth ! That is actu illy what we call government ! We are surprised at the enormities they have coannitted, and attribute them to their religion. Do we forget that their acts iu a "muck" of fanati cal panic are really as nothingtoth ,se of Christians? Have we forgotten the Anabaptists of Munster, or the Mormons of Salt Lake, the horrors of the French Revolution, the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition, the Massacres of Glencoe and St. Bartuolonsew, the Smithfield fires, the enormities of Jeffries, the wholesale murders of the Scottish Covenanters, the thuerb-screw, the boot, the drowning of girls, and the shooting of maidens and their sweethearts, the Prot .stant persecution of Catholics in Ireland—and all this in the name of religion, pe , petrated by pro fessing Christians, on Christi ens, by Frenchmen, and Spaniards, and Englishmen, and Scotchmen, and Irishmen on their own countrymen, not in the sudden fury of revolt against alien oppression, but in the name of conscience, by form of law, in the ordinary exercise of reigning power. Suppose we suppressed caste in India. Assume for the sake of argument that we had succeeded in the inconceivably cruel and sinfuldesign of destroy ing the whole mechanism of Hindoo society by the eradication of Brahminism. What then ? Can any man put his finger upon a single British mission that has succeeded in really converting Pagans and idolaters to Christianity ? We do not mean nominal Christianity, the mere profession of faith in the Gospel, but its spirit, its truth, an actual apprehen sion and practice of its scope and tenor ? Why, the reports of all the missionaries among the Kaffirs, the New Zealanders, the American Indians, the Turks, Jews, and Arabs, the Chinese, the Hindoos embraces uniform confession,of utterfailure, of worse in deed—of this—that the only nominal converts even were the very greatest scoundrels of every station. Is it forgotten that the freest, the greatest, the most civilised, the most virtuous nations in the world, flourished and became refined, and wise, and good, even under the vilest superstitions— worshipping by human sacrifices—sacrificing to Venus, Priapus, and Bacchus—making a sensual debsuchee of the " Father of Gods and Man," Juno a procuress, Mercury a thief, and Neptune and Venus adulterers ? We are accustomed to assume, from the vague traditions of the conversion of Europe from Druid ism and other superstitions to Christianity, that St. Augustine and St. Patrick and others, created a complete revolution .3n the face of its society, and opened to it the humanising influences of the Gospel. But the fact is, we were never more Pagans than when we knelt to the cross, never more wildly supentitious and idolatrous than in the times of witAieraft, monkery, crusades, exorcisms, saint worship, excommunication. anci. inquisition. Never were such zealous m i ss i onar i es pasotrhtuegGueenseoesiehe D,thueth. Venetians,elvhere are their con ver t s ? the Spaniard s , th e What good ' did they do with all their conversions ?' Are the South Sea Islanders bitter men now ilia; they were before ever they saw a Christian ? Are the Peruvians and Mexicans, under " their most Chris- tan Majesties," half so good, so virtuous, humane, just, confiding, and nol)h) as in the days of the In cqs, or under th e swa y Of Montezuma, who pro fessed a faith worse than Brahministn ? Trave:lels have found the Bible, the cross, Christian profession among whole tribes of Africans, not to be distin guished in savagery arid ignorant barbarism from the grovelling idolaters. who surrounded them. We do not find that the Jews were either more just, humane, refined, or cE - vilisel than the Egyptians, the Babylonians, or other fetish worshippers who surrounded them. Th ere is nothing on which Christ so much insists as upon this, that it is not Chris tianity that makes people virtuous, so much as that it is virtuous people that become Christians. The parable of the so we r has this for its very objet. "He that knew not his Master's will and did it," Is a case which ass umes the existence of Christianity ! in the heart, without any historical knowledge of Christ. " I came not to bring the righteous to re pentence," is a declaration that implies a similar truth. In fact, it is irapossiVe to make Hindoos Cmtula:nits.:,t,ians merely by destroying Brahminism. Christianity i s th e "bigh est fact in the history of apprehend I t rei theli c ig e ;i) v intelligencet e theGo srie l. T a o ncl n kire ' At'h , • "Its of Hindoos wi. a not prepare the grOund, RV ENING, SEP TRMUER barren of belief, for the reception of the seeds of evangelhrn. Nor was this the way the first Evangelists made converts. The sermon on Mars hill did not abuse idols or denounce Jupiter, or demand the executi , of soothsayers, or the expulsion of augurs and ves tals. It appealed to the Greek poets ; it adopted a God the Greeks themselves worshipped ; it did not even ridicule Delphos or execrate Eleusis. Did Paul ask the Jews to eat pork, to leave the temple, to laugh at the holy of holies ? On the contrary, did he not tell tho-e who bad faith in fasts, feasts, meats, and Sabbath-days to observe them still as unto the Lord, dreading above all things that evil spirit of unbelief which cut itself adrift fromjall the trivial fond records of its age and country ? We repeat the question, do we expect to govern 180,000,000 of themost traditional, fanatical people in the world, whose religion dates, far far past the Mosaic age of the Creation, by destroying their traditional institutions, by insulting and outraging their faith and feelings, by crushing a priesthood respected by all, and whose numbers form more than 10 per cent. of the population, the leaders of the people, the very flower of the race ? The Ro mans, the great civilisers, the masters of the world, left the laws, customs, religion of every people they conquered just where they found them. They even adopted the gods of their subjects--even the Jehovah of the Jews, and the Jesus of the Christians into their Olympus, punishing extortion, oppression, or intolerance, by their pro-consuls over their subjects, with the most vigilant severity. They left their mark all over Europe, and in Africa and Asia, pre serving their power over their dependencies by their wise liberality long after they themselves withered at the heart. It ought to be especially remembered that Brah minism, caste, may perfectly coexist in India with the profession of Christianity. Rammohun Roy became a Christian without losing caste, just by obeying the formal observances of Hiudooism. But we cannot recommend Christianity to them while the lives and conduct of Europeans in the East, and the public dealings of our Government with the people, are impure, unjust, fraudulent, and op pressive. Did the crusades evangelise the Holy Laud ? Has the in' olerance of the Turks made one Christian the less in Turkey or Greece ? Were ever people so persecuted as the Jews ; yt.t there they stand, Christians being unable to boast a single convert. Has Popery sunk under Protes ,tatit persecution Is it not rather more popular in Great Britain than ever ? We cannot govern 180,000,000 of people against their own will. If we would Christianise India, we must convert the Brahmins by conciliation, persuasion, justice, and generosity. If we would retain India, we must rule, not in spite of, but in the hearts of the people. THE INDIAN TELEGRAPH. (From the Times City Article.) • Between conflicting schemes there seems a pro bability that the Indian telegraph, which ought to be completed in six months, will either fail alto gether, or be delayed until the greatest need for it is passed. For some time two routes have been before the public—one via the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates to the Mediterranean ; the other via the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Alter mature deliberation the Government selected ti:e Euphrates line, and granted it a subsidy of 6 per cent. ; but a firman was required from Constantinople, and ap parently the intrigues always rife in that capital against British interests have prevented it from being obtained. Meanwhile the promoters of the rival or Red Sea route have thus been stimulated - to revive their project, and have appealed to the Government and the public to treat the Euphrates line, if not as an impractibility, at all events as a scheme that must be indefinitely deferred. But the Euphrates Company are ready to repel this view, and it is probable that if the arguments of the parties interested on each side were accepted neither line would be attempted. The objection to the Euphrates line, that there is a difficulty in ob taining a firman, cannot hold fora moment. The .English Government having already banctioned. it, our influence in the East must have fallen low if Russian or other agents at Constantinople find themselves able to induce the Porte to deny a re quest for that means of communication with our own possessions which, in the interests of civilisa tion, any country under like circumstances might reasonably demand. The question, therefore, if there is to be any rivalry, must really lie between the comparative merits of the two routes. The Euphrates or Tigris plan, according to a modifica tion recently proposed, seems to be for a sub marine cable from Kurraehee to Bagdad, along the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, with aland. connexion of 1,200 miles from Bagdad to Con stantinople, which would at once bring London and all parts of India into direct communi ' tion. Within five months, it is computed, the cable from Kurrachee to Bagdad might be laid, whence horsemen would bring messages to Constantinople in six days ; and meanwhile the land line being in course of construction, the dis tance would be shortened every week. The entire length would be about 2,800 miles, and the esti mated cost 400,0001., and the whole, it is alleged, could be completed in six or seven mon th s. Th e only disparagement attempted has been that the land portion would be liable to wanton damage from the Arabs ; but this idea has meet with no countenance from the persons best acquaintei with them, who believe, in fact that they would be its - true protectors. If the Americans can venture to carry a line to California through tribes of hostile Indians, the apprehension of gratuitous mischief in this case must, it is contended, be regarded as idle, and it is presumed before sanctioning the scheme Lord Palmnston felt reasonable security on that point. o n the other baud, the Red Sea Company contemplate a land line of 240 miles from Alexau dleia to Suez, and 4,163 m il es o f ca bl e f rom S uez to Aden. and Aden to Kurrachee, the estimated cost being 700,0001., and the time required one year. By laying the cable in the first instance from Suez - to Aden they calculate, however, that at an ex pense of 300,0001. they could bring In qa and Eng land within a week's communication in about the same period as that in which a similar result could be effected by the Euphrates Company. In this -case a principal objection urged is that owing to the tremendous and uncertain depths of the Red Sea and the character of its c teal reefs the cable would be lost or almost instantly destroyed. Whether these predictions are well grounded may be a ques tion, but they are based on the reasonings of scientific men most known in connection with tele grap'-ic • enterprise, while the sole testimony, cited by the promoters as to the facility with which the coral reefs may be avoided is that .of a person known only in connection with the ss most reckless engineering delusi o n e ver y e t at tempted or exposed. Still it i s po ible, or even - probable, that every difficulty in the case may be -capable of being overcome, and it is quite c rtain that in relation to a question like that of establish ing an Indian telegraph no fears should b 3 allowed 'to stand in the way, unless backed by such a 'maul :mous expression of scientific opinion as would amount almost to a demonstration of their correct ness. The point to be observed is that there is nothing as matters at present stand to alter the view originally taken by the Home Government, and that if the business is to resolve itself into a contest of routes the battle may be interminable. If the Government have changed their opinion re• garding the political advantage of extending our communications on the Euphrates, and are now more inclined to favour the various movements in the direction of Suez, the Euphrates Company will, of course, fail to get their firman, and th ere t h e affair will end ; but apparently it is only in this way the rivalry can be extinguished. A better course to meet the difficulty seems, however, to present itself. If both lines are practicable both should be com pl e ted, and each should b e encou raged to compete with the other to sea how soon the first link can be realised. With only one line in existence what would be our state in case of emergency? Let .any one imagine our position, supposing a break to occur at any momentous period, and to place us in all the helplessness of those who have brought every habit and arrange . merit to work in reliance upon a means which abruptly and utterly fails them. In time of war with the announcement that the Indian cable had broken we should be like a crowd in a room with the gas suddenly turned off. And what would be our consolation for the panic and for the millions of loss it would involve in money, fame, and terri tory ? That iu the year 18.57, when we were spend ing about 2,000,0001. per month in steam trans perts7 •, we had savcd a single outlay of 400,000/. ! The consideration seems so incredible that it can hardly be dealt; with seriously. It is ; o be remembered, moreover, that in critical titne4, if the accident happened or not, we should he in con stant agony from its probability. St 11, what ever may be done by the Government, one point must be insisted upon—namely, that whether they resolve to support the Euphrates or the Red Sea route, or both, they have no right to encourage the public to subscribe unless: they are previously satis fied there is no risk but such as may fairly be ex- peeted to be overcome. It i 3 very e as y to " encourage" shareholder's to ruin themselves for the nation.Al benefit, but; not honest. By a sub sidy madeconditional on thi) success of the under taking the Government io nothing but insure a possible advantage for the tmselves, throwing all the danger on inclividuA slicailders. Itt ordinary en terprises this might be vc :ry well, but a promiF,e of 6 per cent. for 25 years„ not as a bonus, but fur actual servicEs to be pe) -formed during that teem, is not such as to compenzate for any unusual pekii. If the public like to acce - A it with their eyes open there can be no objection;, but the Government cannot with propiiuty even tacitly recommend it, unless they feel in a strong degree satisfied of the feasibility of the selected scheme. Any doubt on that head ought to be made known ; and, suppos ing them still to wish the work done, they should then promptly come forward to participate in the risk. The annexed letter from Mr. Andrew, the chair man of the Euphrates telegraph line, gives his view of the question in reply to the statements on the other side recently circulated in all quarters " Sir,— A valuable letter appeared in the Times of Saturday from Mr. Walker Wilkins, the well•knoan telegraph engineer, on the all important subject of tele grapic communication with India. " Mr. Wilkins says the Persian Gulf route saves the use of 2,500 miles of submarine wire. I don't mean the cost of it ; that is not now to be thought of. I mean the risks of imperfect manufacture, laying, and of in sulation and other matters, which at present seem to be entirely overlo .ked in the manufacture and laying long and deep lengths of submarine wire.' "Mr. Wilkins's objections to the Red Sea route are fully borne out by a writer: in the Friend of India of November last—a journal remarkable for the accuracy of its information, and whose authority will scarcely be impugned by the chairman of the Red Sea Company. The Friend asserts that `The Red Sea is remarkable for the extreme variation of its depth. The line must be extended over shoals scarcely covered by the water, and places where for miles the charts are marked " no bottom." The operation of laying the wire, always dif ficult and often dangerous, would be still further im peded by the furious gusts which at certain seasons sweep over the Red Sea. The route has but one advan tage. The line, except in Egypt, would pass through our own dominions. No foreign Power can contest with us the sovereignty of the Red Sea, and the tribes along its shore are powerless a mile from land. The ad vantage, however, is not sufficient to compensate for the indirectness of the route, its costliness, and the compa rative certainty of failure. The second scheme, from Scutari to Buseorah, and thence to Kurrachee, involves ' a submarine line of only one-third the length. Accordieg to Dr. O'Shaughnessy's (now Sir William B. O'Shaugh nessy) figures, it would be scarcely longer than the cable now made' to connect Newfoundland with the Irish coast—Persian Gulf by Bussorab, Parah Isle to Rue Malgaram, H. Bueheab Island to Cape Task ; total 1,270. With the same weight of two tons a mile, which impl,es a wire of more than usual thickness, and a cable f unprecedented strength, the cost would not exceed 259,000/. From Korna to Bagdad the line wou'd be submerged in the river for 410 mites. By this expedient the expense of guards would be diminished, while the cable, lying lengthwise, and not transversely to the stream, could not be injured either by current or storm. The sea cable, shipped in pieces of 400 tons, could be laid down by four ships at once, while on the river the large rafts used by the natives would afford every facility for the work.' " Adverting to the prospectus of the Red Sea route, I would remark that the guarantee is only a subsidy so long as the line is actually at work, and has yet to re ceive the sanction of Government Tao difficulty and risk are not in laying the cable, but in maintaining it. If any light line be laid down, even twice as heavy as the Atlantic cable, it is the opinion of the best and most that it cannot be maintained for any length of time, on account of the physical formation of the bottom of the Red Sea, and also from the prevalence of coral reefs, which are represented by nautical men as being as sharp as the back Of any ordinary knife. The interruptions so constantly experienced on the four light lines of cable laid between Ortordness and Holland show that in all physical probaudity a single light line in the Red Sea could not be depended upon a week. If the old Electric Telegraph Company require a special steamer, the Monarch, vith a large staff at a heavy expense, to watch and pick up and repair the line in question—about 100 miles long—what would b.-; the strength of the squa dron required in the Red Sea ? " It is not only the coral reef difficulty which renders the maintenance of the line so critical, but the exceeding irregularity of the bottom, 'in consequence of which the line would in many places be unavoidably suspended across submarine chasms and on sharp edges, on which it would speedily chafe through by the force of its own weight. " This is the true risk to the shareholders, who may rest assured that if they place the Atlantic cable, or any similar one, in the Red S -fa, it would be simply the min ruersion of their capital, with as good a chance of ever receiving any return from the so-called guarantee as they have of fishing up the golden wheels of Plaaroah's chariot.—l am, &c., " Gresham-house, Aug. 31." " W. P. ANDREW, ROUTE THROUGH INDIA, THE BIMA. LAY.AS, ccc. At the meeting of the British Association, held in Dublin, Herr Schlegintweit read his paper on the route pursued by himself and his brothers in the Himalayas, Thibet, and Turkistan. He said that in making an ad dress to the association immediately after his return from Hindustan he felt deeply that he required their kind in dulgence. It afforded him the greatest pleasure to state on such an occasion that, by the liberal arrangements made with himself and his brothers by the right hon. the directors of the East India Company, they would be enabled at once to begin the publication of their researches in India. Their work would be entitled " Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia during the years 1854, 1855, and 1856, by Herman, Adolphe, and Robert Schlagintweit. It would be act nnpanied by at las-a, containing topographical and geographical maps of different perte of India and of the Himalaya and moun tains of Thibet. Tney had been treated with great kind ness by their venerable friend Baron Humboldt, by Colonel Sykes, and General Sabine, to whom they felt deeply grateful. In 1854 he and his brothers, Adolphe and Herman, went from Bombay to Madras, through Siuthern India—namely, the Deccan, Mysore, and the states of the Mewl], on different routes, and met again all three in Madras. Already during their sea voyage they had occasion to make some observations on the temperature and specific gravity of sea water and the currents of the sea, and these observations they continued during their voyage from Madras to Calcutta. In the beginning of the year 1855 Herman Sclagint xeit went through Bengal to S,kkin, and examined there the Ilima- Da as, chiefly on the frontier between Sikkin and Nepaul. This route particularly afforded the advantage of ena bling him to measure from a cernparativeiy short dis tance toe eastern Hienalaym, including the peaks far to the eastward from Chaulaiari until considerably to the west of the high mountain of Nepaul. This was the same peak which had been recently measured by Col. Waugh, who named it Mount Everest, after his distinguished predecessor. Its height was etated by the officer to ex ceed 20,000 fee , . He and his brother obtained two names for it—wie was Gororishanka, which was its sacred name, connected with Ilindoo mythology, and oely to be found in the Nepaulese holy books —the other was its Thibetan name, which was Chingofaurnari. The name Deodunga, which was mentioned by Mr. Hodeson in con nection with this peak, was,as they were told inKatniandeo the name of a low mountain, about 800 or 900 feet high, which was visible from the central p irts of Nepaul in about the same line as Mount Everest, and Was remark able for having upon its summit a sacred stone. Atter leaviug-Sikkin, H. Schlagintweit examined a part of the Bhootan Himalayas and Upper Assam, and returning to Calcutta al mg the Brahinapootra and the delea of the Ganges joined his brothers in Oude in May, 1856. He (Herr R. Schlagintweit) and his brother Adolphe left Calcut a in March, 1855, and passing through the North- West Provinces, reached Naing Tal, whence they took different routes to Milum ; from Milum they crossed over to Thibet, and in the nisguise of merchants from Delhi, having merchandise but no money with them, succeeded in penetrating as far as the source of the India. Among the most interesting geographical features on this journey he might mention the following :—First, the alluvial deposits met north of the Himalayas formed by no means a plain, bordering the Himalayas to the north ward, as the plain of Hiedostan does to the south ward. These al uvial and lacustrine deposits are merely filling up the irregularities in one of the greatest longitudinal valleys of the world. This valley, included between the Himalaya to the south and the chief crest of the moon• tains of Thibet to the north, contains the course of the Indus to the west and the Dthong—the chief tributary of the Brahmapootra—to the east. Both these rivers were separated only by a small rising of the surface of the val ley. A well-known example of a similar formation in Europe was the form of the watershed between the Inn and the Dran-a-to-black in the Tyrol. Second, north of the Indus a new high mountain range rose, covered with snow, and firming the watershed between Thibet and Eastern Tarkietan. _ This range had been con f oun d e d -with the Kuenheins, and its direction had never been properly defined, as it did not stretch from east to west. It was called in Ladak and Ballistan th 3 Karo•karuin range, which signified black mountains, a characteristic name, for here the snow line was the highest in the world, being 18,600 feet above the level of thesea. From the peak of Goonashankur, 19,640 °feet, they had the finest view which they had ever beheld, the course of which they could trace 150 miles to the east of Gartok. They went from Gartok to examine the glaciers upon the high peak of Hi Ganwri, and laving encamped on the 18. th Aug. at the height of 19,200 feet at the top of the glacier, they succeeded on .the 19th Aug. in attain - ing on Ihi Ganuri a height of 22,260 English feet—the greatest height, perhap-t, which up to the present time_ had been attained on any mountain. (Loud applause.) They returned by different routes. He himself crossed over a succession of passes into the valley of the Upper Ganges, where he examined a number of hot springs. In the cold season of 1855-6 they examined together the North-Western Provinces / and part of Central India. Adolphe went to the south along the course of the Goda very, and 'ernbarked for Madras. He (Herr Robert Schlagintweit) availed himself of the cold season to exa mine chiefly Central India up to, the plateau of Antall antak, the important`watershed of Central India. Here he made some observations, which in a geographical point.Of view were extremely interesting. The height of the plateau, which, has never been measured before, was 3,300 feet ; it wait the culminating part of Central India, and the - hills in its neighbourho -d formed the watershed between four rivers, v z., the Nerbudda, the Soane, theJohilla,and theMahammudny. Frnm Amark antak he wentlo Simla, via Delhi. In 1856 Adolphe Schlagintweit left Simla for the Himalayas and Th.bez, on the 28th May. On the 29th July, he reached an t le- Nation of 19,5000 feet on the Chorkendah Peak, on the mountain: of Baskistan. On the let Septemb'r Le a-- rived at the capital; and subsequently examined the group of mouu;ain where the Indus makes its gieatest bend to the 'south. One of these mountains, which reaches the )3eight of 26,000 feet.; Very remarkable on _ . ..• account of its p - Oliiticrn, which is at the end of the western Himalayas. In the end of the year he proceeded to the 6 1 c' Plmjanb, where he made many ger;graphical observa tiuns. At the westerii termination of the Himaleyae, on the western side of the Indus, the range north of the I Thibet and the Kuenhein can no mole be traced as se parate chains, but form one mountain nines. Here they have lost to a great expect their Alpine character, and no more large glaciers are to be met with. Western Thibet does not form a plateau, but is an undulating country, intersected by many high mountain ranges. One of the features of those parts, chiefly near the Moostak Pass, was the depression of the snow line here at an eleva tion of only 17,900 feet, which was perhaps owing to the great amount of snow and rain which fell in that country. At the same time the heat of the deep valleys of Balki staff, which bad an elevation of between 7,000 and 8,000 feet, very little distant fr im the foot of the glaciers, was excessively high, the mean temperature from the Ist to the 20th of July being 73 degs. to 75 dege. Fahrenheit, the minimum of the night being 59 dege., and the maxi mum being sometimes 90 degs. Herman Schlagintweit followed from Simla, first in a north-easterly direction, chiefly the line of the Tibelan Salt Llkes, Tsoga,n, Tao gar, Tsomikpat, and Tsomognalari, which wasithe greatest of all, and lay i❑ Tsangkong. These lakes showed a very different degree of concentration of the water. The lake Tsangkong had . a specific quantity of 1,003 and the wa ter had no more a maximum of density above the freezing point, but contracted regularly till its freezing point was at 31.5 degs. Fahrenheit. He reached Lehin Ladak and rejoined his brother there. In the meantime he tra velled from Simla by Kooloo, Label, and Koopshoo to Ladak, passing over the Bara Lacha, Lacha Loong, and Trong Loong Passes. They went on from Leh on the 54th of July to Noobra, where, during a stay of three months, they reached the summit of Saesarda (about 20,000 feet). Toey then had to cross the plateau to the south of Karo-korum already visited by Dr. Thompson, 17,100 feet high, and fiund afterwards much more ex tensive ones to the north of Karo-korum Pass. They were nearly perfectly barren, and covered only with hills from 200 to 400 feet elevation, so small that they were enabled for in , tance to cross in one day from passes of more than 17,000 feet, which were but slightly elevated above the surrounding plateaus. After some further observations, Herr Schlagintweit gave some detail of researches in the territory of Nepaul, and concluded his interesting paper amid applause. EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTURES. An extraordinary case of imposition has come to light during the pre-ient week, the circumstances being of a nature exeibiiing a vast amount of credulity on the part of the poor woman who has been deprived of her property, and, at the same time, a succession of artful impositions on the part of a worthless creature, who has succeeded for years past in living " by her wits" in a most disgraceful manner. It appears from the facts which have c .me to our knowledge, that Ann Rawlins, or Rollins, the subject of this notice, was born of humble parents in the little village of Beaulieu, in the New Forest, and that when old enough to be placed out to service was recoms mended to a working painter, living in Brewhouse-court, Southampton, named G. Lock. Lock was at the time engaged to be married, and the romantic story told by Rawlins induced both him and his intended to manifest considerable interest in her welfare, the whole of her statements being received with a degree of credence which is quite astonishing. She stated that, at an early age, when attending a parochial school, a great fancy was taken to her by a gentleman, who was at that time a resident clergyman, but who has since become a colonial bishop. The gentleman in question made an application to the Queen for a situation as a bishop in England, with no wish or desire to go abread ; but he thought that when the Qiteee offered him the situation abroad he could not do less than accept it. Atter the bishop left England a young man of colour came to Beaulieu on a visit, and at the house of her grandfather, Mr. Godden, became enamoured of the fair Ann's charms, and offered her marriage. The young man went to London, and before he had an opportunity of fulfilling his engagement he was afflicted with a sick ness, from which he died, leaving Ann the property, which he had brought with him to England for his sup• port, as a testimony of his affection and regard for her, and which amounted to the sum of 1,6001. This munificent gift was placed in one of the South ampton banks, a man named W ar d, o f B eau li eu, b eing entrusted with the care of the banking-book, but as Ward did not fulfil his duty in seeing that the interest on the principal was punctually paid, the trust which had been confided in him was transferred to a well-known medical gentleman in Southampton, who had been in attendance upon the bishop's family during his residence in Eng land, and was in the habit constantly of receiving letters from his lordship, requesting that Ann might be well taken care of, as he intended to return to England for the purpose of marrying her, and would well reward those who showed her any kindness, as well as discharge any debts which she might incur uctilshe came in possession of the sum vested in trustees in her behalf. Ann was treated with the best which the house could afford, and when Mr. Lock at length became a husband, vast were the expectations formed by himself and wife as to the benefits they would ultimately derive from Ann living with them. Lock's income was found to be ton precari ous to defray the ordinary household expenses, and this at length led to a very reluctant notice being given to Ann to quit her service. Ann protested that she had no home at that time to go to, and held out such hopes of the benefits which must ultimately be derived from any assistance that was rendered her, that Mrs. Lock ulti mately consented to return to the service in which she was formerly employed at the house of a Ventleman living at Brettenharn Perk, Biddlestone, Suffolk, and support herself there, leaving Awn still in the house to take cere of her husband, on condition that she kept him clean and tidy, and took charge of her furniture and various boxes containing Indian goods and articles of value which she had acquired by her industry. Ann wrote from time to time informing her how things were going on, and, in letter, the orthography of which was very indifferent, repeated statements alleged to have been made by the bishop in his correspondence with the me, deal gentleman to whom we have alluded, and others of well-known standing and respectability, in order to show the fond regard which he still entertained fir her, and the delight with which he was centem plating a visit to England to make her his wife. Ann's letters nearly, or always concluded with a request for a loan of money, and for a period of three years this re quest was repeatedty made only t > be readily complied with, until at length the sum thus advanced to her amounted to about 1001., the whole of Mrs. Lock's bard earnings. In one letter Ann detailed how a young man in Southampton had dared to profess that he loved her, but as she was of opinion that her money was the object of his affection, she determined to remain true to tae bishop. How this determination was persevered in may be judged by the fact that, after a time Ann was with child, and most numerous were the congratulations offered to Mr. Lock upon the fact of his being about to become a papa, but the wife was quite satisfied that this could not be, because she received a letter from Ann imputing the paternity to somebody else, and, as Ann always told the truth, she must believe her, for, as Look remarked to us wits a smile, " People will talk, you know, sir, and says lots of things, but you can't be lieve 'em." But now arose the question, what woull the bishop say ? and anxious were Mrs. Lock's in quiries of Ann upon this point, but her suspicions teat she would lose the bishop's favour were soon dispelled by the receipt of a letter from Ann, stating that she' had thought it best to make his lordship acqeaiined with toe whole of the circumstances, and that though he was very angry at what had occurred be should forgive her this time on condition that it should not happen again I The child was maintained for two years at the ex dense of Mr. and IVlre. Lock, on the promise that on the arrival of the bishop, the worthy doctor, as trustee, would see them repaid for their trouble out of the fund, which had now accumulated by nterest to the sum of 1,7001., and to show how faithfully the doctor fulfilled his charge in taking care, not only of her health bat of her worldly pros pect, he had, fearing the failure of the Southampton Bank, in which the "money was invested, removed the whole to the Christ Church Bank. The girl, finding at last that some additional reason was necessary to induce Mrs. Lock to grant her a further loan, having ascertained, it is supposed, by looking at one of the newspapers, that a vessel was leaving Australia for Eng land on the 25th of May, wrote to Mrs. Lock to say that the bishop was coming by her, and as Mrs. Lock found by referring to the Times, that a boat did leave Australia on that day, she says she could do nothing else than believe everything which bad been told her. The boat at length - arrived, and no bishop came : the hus band, instead of being taken care of, and "made tidy," was neglected ; during his absencs on a visit to Ly mington in search of work, the boxes in the house containing articles of the greatest value, were all ran sacked of their contents ; and at last the fair Ann herself decamped. Mrs. Lock Wrote in great tribu lation to the medical gentleman at S.nithampton, who took no notice of the communication, and was soon after wards waited upon by the good lady herself, when, to her great astonisbtnent, the doctor assured her that he had not the slightest knowledge of any of the parties, and knew nothing of the money or the bishop. Mrs. Lock could hardly believe the truth of what she heard, but was at length compelled to acknowledge that she must have been deceiver], and as the whole story turns out to be a fabrication, the affair has now been placed in the hands of the police, a search warrant being granted by the magistrates to enable the house of the girl's father at Beaulieu to be examined, to ascertain if the property is secreted there. The bench bas also given directions to apprehend Ann herself, but she is at present non e t.—Poole Herald. RAILWAY T.RAFFIO RETURNS. LONDON AND SOUTH-EAsTEIsa RATLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Aug. 29,1357 £25,481 9 8 Corresponding week last year £577 17 2 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. — Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 29, 1857 £19,10113 6 Correvonding Weak last year 18,70) 16 10 Total of the half-year to this date, 1857 166,121 8 3 Total of the half-year to this date, 18 56 167,539 12 5 GREAT LUXEMBOURG RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 23, 18571 £9ll 3 6 Corresponuing week last year increase in 1857 On the Ist inst. , at Twickenham, Mr. Haselden, 1i1 ,,,,, ° I y" Windsor, aged 88. ut' On the Ist inst., Mr. Louis Verrey, of 249, "-" street, aged 38. ntt P On the 31st August, at 9, St. John's-terrace, R= t e pa*k, James Taylor, Esq., aged 62. On the 31st Aug., at 341, St ran d, Mr. Joseph 144 . 1 aged 74. 'bruti sh ' At Bath, Mr. Edwin Collings, bookseller and_ h • Cunoioyuasi Deptford i . ea TitepArontic<ir. hArtrrne (licensed)AOTl---T tehyeesdarciay an Ylaillo! aged 70. ~e ROn the 30th August, at Warminster, the Rev. C. 0 . 13; nounced that in the. evening , in addition to the perform. Fe.thig, M.A., vicar of St. Paul, Cornwall. auce df `" The Rent Day " and " Lord Darnley, or the King of the Freebooters," three prizes would be given Hutchesson, R.A., aged 76. On the 28th Aug., at Dover, Lieut.-General no s° away, viz., that this was no exagger. • to the boxes, a fi ne shoulder of mutton ; t the pit, a leg of mutton ; and to the gallery, Thomas H ine, aged 66. a hand of pork. Mr. -----___...----; On the_39 August, at Rose Cottage, Stotfold, Be cih ' It was further added YOU I4 " ated puff, for the prizes would be fairly and .honourably P ublished by MURDO distributed ; the drawing to take place at the terminn. of No. 112, LoimoN : Printed and Lion of the first piece, by some 040, 1 Nemteil by-, th e 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00111 W Strand, Printer, at .27i Sun Of f i c e , _,, audience from their own bony, of bliddlesez, Wednesday, Septembai , S, vol. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 1. Cotton has gone up fully id. per lb. since, Fri day, and the consequence has been a general ad• 'ante of prices here in both yarn and cloth. The business done in cloths last week had the effect o f clearing out stocks very considerably, and we ba.vi e had less activity this morning ; but the market le very firm, and where business has been done sellere have obtained a further advance. For years there has been a good demand from almost all quartet', For India a fair business is reported in 40's mul e ' and for Germany 15's to 30's water-twist have g°,,, 71 " off well, the advance in all these kinds o f toir being id. to id. per lb. above this day vre ei ", Shippers to Russia are also buyers of 30's Water' twist and 40's mule at an advance of fully id. home trade supply themselves with moderate free: dom in most kinds of cops, and these spinni o g l are id. to id. dearer. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report : " The active demand reported on Tuesday last C °11• tinned throughout the week, and the market has bee° pretty well cleared of stocks of nearly all kinds of good in many i n st ances at f urther advance on the prices tb, current. Yesterd a y an d to - day, owing partly to w ,e higher prices asked, and partly to the unfavourable 1 1; counts from India ' there has b een l ess d o i ng i n ir° for that quarte r , but in other res p ec t th ere i s no c hase , and the market closes with an upward tendency." LEEDS, SEPT. 11 The cloth halls have been attended by about P average numbe r o f b uyers thi s morning, and th e like may be said as to the amount of business done' The tone of the market has been steady, and price' are firm. P urc h ases h ave b een confined chiefil to the heavier kinds of cloths, and, though no very large lots were bought, a good bulk in the egg„ 4 " gate changed ha n d s , an d the mar k et, a ll thilir considered, was a good one for the season. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. The market for cloth and other woollen fab i l l e to-day has been tolerably active, and was betu re than on this day w ee k. Several purchasesa made of the heavier kinds both for the home a n foreign markets. For the latter there was an proved demand. Of the better as well as low goo:, some fair sales were effe c ted. W oo l con tinue' firm in price, but it has not advanced this week.' From the London Gazette of Last Nig'lt' WAR OFFTCE, SEPT. 1. LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. af ter NOTICE. —A Board of Offi cers w ill s it, from and i r the 2d instant, at No. 17, Great Queen-street, westr a ro , star, for the investigation of any claims upon the Gov e ment which may be preferred by men whu have servea the Non-Commissioned Offi cers , A r tifi cers, or P r i va t es in late Land Transport Corps. Immediate application should be made in writing , ,,, dressed to " Board of Enquiry, Land Transport Corps. J. R. GODLEY. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN". Hampshire Regim en t o f Mili t i a —J ames Ni co l, 9 , 1 $ late Captain 13th Foot, t o b e Adj u t an t f rom the w May, 1657. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. George Pullin, baker, Whiteetoss-st,eet. BANKRUPTS. Richard Elliott, licensed victualler and builder, 3 8 , 11 fi ti : 11 1, Town, to surrender S e pt. 10, a t h a lf- past txelve, an d 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official signee, Aldermanbury ; Ivimey, Southampton-buildiogli John Townsend, auctioneer, Greenwich, Sept. Vf . „ f , twelve, and Oct. 9, at two, at the Court of BankruP",,l4 Whitmore, official assignee, B as i ng h a ll- s t ree t; King lb ' George, King-street, Cheapside. 17' James Gardiner, woollen cloth manufacturer, - ° te s, Sept. 15 and Oct. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District C0.,, A , Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Brook Freeman, and , n,r, ley, Huddersfield; Clay, Huddersfield; Bond and 13 ' . wick, Leeds. S °l‘ William Finch, jun., p a p er d ea l er, D u dl ey Port, f - irdshire, Sept. 11, and Oct. 9, at tea, at the BirroingZi;i; District Court. Whit more, o ffi c i a l ass i gnee, Birmilikuao Allcock, Birmingham; Hodgson and Allen, Birining„..u s f r Arthur J. Kitchen, woo ll en manu f acturer, Elland, fi sril e shire, Sept. 15 and Oct. 16, a t e l even, a t the Leeds m a, trict Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Son, and Cronhelm, Halifax; Blakeley and Land Dewsbury ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. William Tyler, of the Royal Surrey Gar fens, SeP-• at half-past one, and Oct. 14, at two at the Court of Bs ruptcy. Graham official assignee ; Blake, Serjeant's - i an ;a, George Gull, tallow broker, Belsize-terrace -HaniPst e the Sept. 11, at one, and Oct. 14, at half-past ' one, Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Sr" el Finsbury-circus. 6, s l James Meyrick, tailor, Crewe, Sept. 15, awl Oct. no l eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, eu s assignee, Liverpool ; Woodburn, Liverpool. Ifolrelto „ 6, John Bridges, millwright, Belper, Sept. 8, and "C; eS at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. %I ris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Freeth, Rawson, Br..wne, Nottingham; Haywood, Derby. J , .Freak. Winstone, gold pencil case maker, LiverPs; street, Old Broad-street, City, Sept. 11, a t h a lf- pas t tviel f r and Oct. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. StO, fohl, offieial csabigueu ; tamora, Wellin g t on - s t ree t Nor t h " Strand. James S'ddons, grocer, Sheffield, Sept. 12 and o° . t .i 10, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brawin, assignee, Sheffield ; Smith and Burdekin, Sheffield. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Charles Seaton, residing at Orchardtield, Leith-vi Leith. James Snodgrass, commission agent, Glasgow. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—SEPT. I. There was a fair attendance at market to-clai. a rather better business was effected in wheat tba li r rio Friday, at a decline of 3d per bushel on the week. "gi prices of English and Irish new red wheat ranged froflif to 8s 6d and white 8s 6d t o 9 s per 70Ib s, an d th e of both fine. Flour did not move freely, and was bs d barrel and sack under Tuesday's prices. Indian (W i l l pi a better demand than of l a t e , b u t w hit e su ff ere d a a,,e3070, from the recent high price, an d was so ld a t 42 s pe r *,,,° OAts, barley, and o a t mea l were f u ll y as dear. 100 scarce, and Egyptianlcommand 42s per 48Ulbs. PO I very firmly. HIT LL—SEPT. 1. Exit . To-day we had a small show of wheat, chiefly 1 . 4 . 11 t0 r condition. Th e i m p rove d t urn i n the advices from re, lane has its influ ence h ere. A ny f urther decline vmad sisted, and millers showed more anxiety to purchase , Vs fearing they might mis s th e f avoura bl e moment. ,_;O4 quote best runs of n ew re d 57 8 t o 58 4. F ore i gn in w' demand, at ()bout Ls to 2s under last Tuesday. oet h WheAt, Euglih red, 50s to 58s ; whit e 61 s t o 655; 27s to 21s; barley, 40 s t o 46 s ; I n di an corn, —s • lin eood to cakes, Hull, 101 10 s Oafto 101 15s; ditto, foreign, 8/ liloo; 101; rape cakes, Cl 7s 6(1 to 61 15s. guano, 81. to 15 1 . bones, 135 s 01; flour, —s to --s; tares , 31s to 355. LEEDS—SEPT. 1. 0 19 The weather continues all that could be desired for e d, ingathering of the crop s . Th e supp l y o f w h eat i s lint e t contrary winds preventing vessels ma ki ng their pio4lor, the little new w h ea t s h 3w i ng i s t a k en o ff at a b ou t F rates, and prices of old are fairly supported. 13:41 1 50 before. B ea n s , oa t s , an d o th er ar ti c l es h e ld f or f u ll 0 60 Average prices of grain—Wheat, 63s 10d ; 81; oats, 298 6d ; beans, 48s 8d ; peas, -- 0 rye, 425. Od. NE WCASTLE —SEPT. 1. We have a good supply of new wheat offering iTe rf morning, bat the condition of some is very soft. slow sale, at is to 2s decline from Saturday's r ates. tio , sout co h untry new there was little er nothing doing;c` 01 less at a much greater sacrifice Old without demand Saturday's quotations not obtainable. Oats dull. other articles there was no change. COURSE OF &ICOR tin5t0rdam............ 11 17 Ditto, three months .. 11 IN Rotterdam ............ 11 1 Antwerp • • .• •• •• •• • • •• 25 40 3russels .• •• •• •• •• •• 25 40 damburgh .• •• •• •• •• • • 13 8 Altena .• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • • • Paris ........ •• .... 25 25 Do. thrco months •• 25 62}6 Mar: eillea ............ 25 85 Bourdemx ••• • •• ••• we • • .NGE.-YESTERDAY. IGibraltar „ -• • -g as Leghorn .. ••• :• • ••• • • 29 ib Genoa ........ • • 2 b Minn •• •• •• • • •• .• •• • • Venice Naples •• •• •••• •••• •• •• s 19 • Palermo •••• •• ••• 12 0 Messina ... • •,/ Lisbon .. 39P 53 Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres.... •• .• New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia . ••• B PRICES OF BIILLION I PI 9 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 Portugal Gold Coin 0 2 0 0 sfexican Dollars .... 0 New Dollars 0 0 0 Silver In bars 0 Fr ankfort-on- &rains .; 119% Berlin •• •• •• •• •••• •• • • Vienna •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 10 33 Trieste........ •• •• 10 31 Petersburg •• •••••• •• •• 36% MOM •.• •• •• •• 41 , 4, le d• 49 Cadiz ••••••••••• •• •• • • 50 Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• •• • • Seville.... .. ****** •••• . 13]I . R 11H S. OF • SON. On the let inst., at R, Boyne-terrace, K ena i ng toirr lo the wife of Dr. Ashley. lite On the 30th August, at Ballylin, King's Connti , Hon. Mrs. Ward. OF A DAUGHTER, ore' p On the 30th August, at Niton, Amesbu r y, Lady tbe On the 29th August, at High Wycombe, Bucket wife of W. Rose, Esq. MARRIED. garl I° ‘ On the 29th Anglia, at All S ou l s ' Church, St. - .tert bone, Henry Aveling, E sq ., o f Newton-road, Baysw,ao, to Maria Rebecca, you nges t d aug h ter of Geo. P. AbrA.- E. q., of Edward-street, Portland-place. 14-a; On the 13th Au g , a t the church of East Harhvg, , ,,„, r folk, Mr. Henry L ea th , of Holborn, to Mary, dangu"" Mr. Henry Bale, of Flint Hall. DIED. b 208. ut Aitken] to.7M, 22( Al& 6 4. For Man, B Mediatc Compai Pass( at very Art Tre . M Oa!, Boron of ink Buffra4 pro, .___ 0 the 9t hup n e le. p e (Limit ....,-......., IN 11111' suran c Offices ..----_ T' amfa, Thrc Colim a Fifty Flirt Zotnp a street. G sou, Septet,: CJ I C \Yam! Paddin at7.o t j° ll B a BS. and Pr ' ..iverp ( Trail. 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