The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

MR. BERNAL OSBORNE, M.P., ON THE ,INDIAN CRISIS. • A grand banquet took place at Dover on Thurs day ()Veiling - to . celebrate the - return of two Liberal members for that borough in the persons of Mr. R. B. Osborne and Sir W. RUssell, Bart. It will be recollected thit in the last Parliament Dover was represented by one Liberal (Mr. E. R. Rice, who lately retired"frOm public life)and one Conservative (Lord Chelsea),.with whose politicalfortunes, mixed up as they were with a recent contest in the metro politan county, the public are somewhat familiar. At the last general election, however, the Ministe rialisbs in Dover secured both seats for their own eandidatee, deeating their opponents,Sir G. Clerk and. Mr. G. W. Hope, by large majorities. So sig nal a triumph has not crowned the.exertions of the Liberals of this borough for many years past, the representation in several previous Parliaments having been divided between the Whigs and the Conservatives. Another source of exultation to the Liberal interest was fur nished by the fact that, though the seat of one of their members had been challenged on the score of corruption, and some disposition was at first evinced to press the charge, yet the authors of the petition withdrew it at the eleventh hour, thus sparing their opponents the vexation of a struggle in committee. Such a victory, therefore, it was thought, ought not to to allowed to pass without due commemora ft fen. Hence the Liberal demonstration of Thurs day. The festival was held in what by a local para dox is termed the " New" Town Hall, the remote antiquity of the structure having given rise to the somewhat apocryphal tradition that it was the iden tical chamber in which the recreant King John "signed away" his kingdom to the Pope. , The building was tastefully decorated for the occasion, and the proceedings went off with great spirit. The party was a very numerous one, between 400 and 600 of the electors sitting down to dinner. A gal lery specially fitted up f, l. the ladies was also fully occupied. One of the borough members, Mr. Os berne, was able to take Fart in the ovation, that hon. gentleman's gallant colleague, Sir W. Russell, who recently sailed Frith, his regiment for India, having been called upon to share in sterner engagements, and, let us hope, in more splendid triumphs than any known to the arena of politics. Among the company present were Mr. Hugessen, M.P. far Sandwich, Co'. Thomson, Capt. Noble,- Messrs. Steriker Finnis (who presided), T. Birch (the Mayor), S. M. Latham, T. B. Bass, M. Church ward, and many other local magnates. - The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN , in highly eulogistic terms, gave " Tke Health of the Borough Members." The toast was drunk amid velem nt applause. Mr. It. B. OSBORNE, M.P., on rising to respond, was greeted with enthusiast is cheers. Having b: iefly acknowledged the warm and flattering reception which the assemblage had aecorded him, the hon. gentl men procee led to explain that he would have gladly met ha supporte-s eat leer after the bate con test to thank them for their generous exertions on his behalf, hut the fact was he had at first stood in a rather p ouliar position. (A laugh.) Although he had been triumphantly returned by the free and nnbought voices of the constituency, without even the time-honoured formality of a personal canvass, he was hailed, to his no small surprise, on his return to London, with the accusation that he owed his election to the combined influence of bribery and. intimidation. Such were the calumnious insinua tions noised about against him in various circles, and it was in vain that he indignantly denied them. People—whether from any knowledge of the pre vious character of the borough- he knew not— laugh)—would not believe his disclaimers; and he had not been many days in the new House of Commons before a petition WAS presented charging him with all the crimes of which a member of Par liament only could be guilty. This, he owned, startled him, because his banker's book, and the published account also, would have shown that his election was singularly free from any taint ofiauepi don. However, he soon began to smell a rat —(a laugh) ; for in the course of a week from the re-assembling of Parliament a communica tion was made to him by Sir W. Russell, his re spected colleague, to the eff.:ct that an offer had been made to him that it he would consent to retire at the expiration of the last session the petition against him should be withdrawn. (A laugh.) Sir William, with the manly frankness which belonged to him, at once consulted him as to his wishes on the subject. Now, the nest of opposing a petition was much greater than that of gaining a seat. Par liamentary lawyers would not speak in one's favour for nothing. (A laugh.) But, considering not only the cast upon himself, but the insult offered to that constituency, he had advised his gallant colleague to resist all such overtures, and treat then with tho contempt they deserved. (Cheers.) Subsequently this offer was several times re peated, and though within three weeks of the clots) of the session the petition still stood lew on the list the committee was at length nomi nated ; but no seoner was it nominated than the petition was abandoned. He had hid great difficulty in tracing the real originators of the petition. He acquitted its ostensible au thors, •Messrs. Hammond and Clayton, whose signa tures were a mere lesal fict:on like the obsolete endorsement of "John Doe and Richard Roe" on the back of an old writ. At last, however, he found a solution of the mystery. They had all heard of Mr. Disraeli's sage prognostication about "the coming man," whose advent upon the poli tical arena was to make all things smooth and straight. Well, judging from the anxiety dis played to obtain a seat for him, he was sure this coming man could be no other than his discomfited opponent, Mr. G. W. Hope—(laughter)---who had canvassed almost every borough in the kingdom, but without success. That gentleman had, like Ulysses, seen many cities but gained no seat. It was to be hoped, however, that, like his classic pro totype, he had gained wisdom. Yet, if he should ever be induced to visit Dover again, he trusted that, like his mythological namesake who remained at the bottom of Pandora's box, Mr.• GIL W. Hope wtOtild always be found at the - bottom of the poll. (Cheers.) Adverting next to the labours of the past session, Mr. Osborne remarked that it almost required .the c - institution of Old Parr and the patience' of -Job to go through the logis• Intim of the dog-days, and especially of such dog days h.S She last. For an official supporter of the Government there was no rest. He was called upon in the flay to make rehouse, and in the evening to lieep °Life What with the late hours and the bad odoureeSind thdsis universal geniuees who promoted the one and prolonged the other, who spoke on all tubjetctlee fatigued an listensrs, and impeded all be4eae-a very. lucky member of Parlia ..ment,who•could stand before his constituents at the • end of the session with the hilarity and the physical 'strsngth_ 'Which heleeweenjoyea. The Conservative leader in the Commons, in one of those oracular Seaton - See' tlf Usewhicile were more remarkable for ' their gertgireiky• .conception thin for the aeon • ilicy of turfatneut,: told the country that the Thttlitici'srtAijEilt4in the late dissolution was simply '•-teri` evalefaSet StStert"sllow would that prediction hear " 'Mint` 4e6 theizesults ? The late session, • tpto ► rots t 3 thsted.lority for three months, saw the accomplishment of more work than had been - seielliehredsby:stleyllbrmer Parliament that ever sat in Westniitistree' Among the measures which then is passed utter law, most of which were far more useful • thtra sheiwy, were the reform of abuses in the Eecle iriartticalz Courts springing from their testamentary eejatSsdiction : next the Fraudulent Tiustses Act, s. rand the act for the Winding-up of Insolvent Joint- Stock Companies, both of which were of first-rate importance to the commercial community ; then the abolition of Ministers' Money, which, though it only applied. to Ireland, had swept away a more obnoxious and more irritating injustice than even . chuich-ra'es ; and last in his catalogue—which it would weary them to lengthen further—came the celebrated Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, with the wise and salutary provisions , and / let him add, the great social importance of which they must all be familiar, and the obstinate and pro tracted hostility t since the dgi:uctes to which 11 not Lean equalled gentleman n e th e: the Corn-laws. (sear.) The hon, glanced at the private . business transacted th n e E L a e s gislature, singling cut 'for especial reference the si tNV ay Bill, in which his constituents were p t ati e e t n u o t ly in f ter l es d ted. . Arriving . at the all-engrossing not p ting le ,° Indian a ff a i rs he asked—What ear does . eart dots not throb at the recital of the muel fate + men killed, not defence of th e i r country, but stiaesinated in cold blood by those whom th ey for molly led tominta..ryl What family in thi s l aud has not to mourn the loss of some l av ed else murdered in this sal outbreak ? When I look to m y f r i end, your chairman I cannot fell to te collect that on e of the first victims to this revolt or it is uo lOrter a mere mutiny—ins Col. Fionfi,'Of the 11th Bengal Inf. , ntry, who while expostulating with his men was suddenly shot down; not, I are happy to say, by Vie' soldiers of his own corps, but by me n of the 20th N. 1., who had been instigated to rebel. But what am I tOsay of the unheard-of atrocities, . the diabolical tortures to which our ill-staried to.:. countrywomen were subjected ? I cennot tru t riity p„ self to dilate on such horrible scenes. The Sepoy s karekeeted bieuself.from all restraint, and, not cpn tent with tl.roeine off his allegiance to his flag, has cast wide his affinTties to human nature. • "'The. sole joy the spirit knows In his forced Bight is patirdelini; et he goes." Let us on this occasion, I pray, HaVe no Nee sen timen'ality—no mawkish, maudlin' bilanthrck. Let us have no nt about mercy to the miscreant • who have not only imbrued their hands in the blood THE S USN, L'ONDON, MONDAY' of their leaders, but are a satire on their kind. Some well-meaning men, more remarkable for their pious imbecility than their common sense, are now advo cating 'increased subscriptions for missions y efforts in India. lam not 'one of those who deride the labours of the missionary, but there is a time for all things, and I think this the'most inopportune of all times for urging such au appeal. Soldiers are re quired, not preachers ; rifles, not tracts. Not only have we an empire to preserve, but fiendish out rages to avenge--outrages perpetrated upon Eng lishmen and Englishifonien. (Cheers.) It is a conso lation amid this wilderness of crime to turn to those bright spots where the heroism of our countrymen has been so nobly displayed. Who has not read with emotion of the deeds of those gallant young officers who, deserted by all, sooner than abandon their post; and yield up their military stores to the re bels, put a match the train and blew up their own magazines at the cost of their lives I The poet truly says that it is not always the greatest heroism which is shown in action— _ _ " It is the detail of blank intervals, That patient sufferance where no action is That proves our nature. .Many are who act, But, ob, how few endure." The conduct of that young Lieut. Willoughby, of Rayner, of Forrest, and of the soldier Scully, who stood by them to the last, equals anything in classic story, and makes one proud of the name of English:- man. What shall we say of the deeds of General Nicholson; who routed the Sealkote mutineers ' and, I believe, left not a man ofthem remaining What of that hero of the day, whose actions give the lie to the popular notion that old men are unfit for Command, I mean Gen. Havelock—(cheers)—who in eight days marched 146 miles, and fought four pitched battles with the most glorious success ? And mark you, he had to march in the month of July, under an Indian sun, the strokes of which were more to be feared than the bullets of the enemy. These are indeed heroes who might well be placed in an English `Valhalla. What, too, shall we say of Major Eyre, who with 200 men released six Eng lishmen shut up with 40 Sikhs in, Arrab and gal lantly holding out against a host of rebels—what but that they are worthy of their country, and that having done their duty abroad, something remains to be done by us at home ? I hope there is no man here who, however he may differ from us in poli tics, wouldseek at such a moment to make pol tical capital out of the national *misfortune ; yet there aro certain symptoms in the country which I a egret to witness. I hear and read great abuse of the right bon. gentleman at the head of the Board of Control of whom it is thought a very good joke to say that 1 ecause he bears the name of Smith he cannot be fit for hie position. It is new to me that among Englishmen who are crying out that the right_ man is not in therigbt place, and that men descended from the people are not allowed to participate in the direction of the people's affairs, a man's name should lie any objection to biro, more especially when it is the common and well-honoured name borne by the right hon. gentleman's uncle, Sydney Smith, so distinguished for his writings and for his love of civil and religious liberty. I Mr. Vernon Smith to be a man of great industry and great ability, and I regard these attacks upon him as most ungenerous and unfair. Moreover, if anybody be to blame for supposed mismanagement of Indian affairs ' that blame ought to attach not to an individual but to the united Cabinet. Know ing Lord Palmerston to be beyond the reaoh of the Efforts of their these critics judiciously se lect a less popular Minister as the object of their animosity. I have said that we have duties to perform, and if we ought to defend a gen- Veman at the head - of a department at home, how much more incumbent upon us is it to be chary of the reputation of men who are absent. It is a sacred obligation upon us not to run down the character of any man serving his country at a dis tance, while imperfectly acquainted with the cir cumstances under which he acted, until he is proved to have heel inefficient. I do not say that there may not have been inefficient men in India. I be lieve that there have been • but they are awaiting the award of courts-ma r ti a l, and until the verdicts of those tribunals reach this county it is prema ture to pass any judgment upon them. And when speaking of absent men, I think we ought to give our entire confidence to Lord Canning, who is placed in a, position so difficult and trying, but whose measures hitherto have been at once ener getic and highly judicious. Immediate'y on the commencement of this outbreak he sent not only In the Cape, but to Men, the Mauritius, China, and Ceylon for troops ; and there are now either in India or on their way thither, 55 battalions of in fantry, 11 regiments of cavalry, one troop of Horse Artillery, three field batteries, five compa nies of Royal Artillery (a corps that never before visited India,and four companies of Royal Engineers, making a total, besides marines, of 81,000 men, who before the month of November will be as sembled on the plains of India. Now, you will ask, what of your own department:, the navy 7 It so happ..ns that department has nothing to do with the taking of transports for this war ; that is all included and, I am happy to say, paid for—a very material consideration, as we shall see when the bill is brought in—by another authority. There have sailed, however, or are now under orders, not fewer than 59 transports, and tenders for a great many more have been sent in. I hope, therefore, we shall seem hear that an end has been put to this mon strous conspiracy. I for one shall not be satisfied until I hear that Delhi, on which I look as the mo dern Gomorrah,' has been razed tothe ground. The punishment, I think, should be commensurate with the crime. Sure I am that as long as one stone of that c;ty is left upon another, so long will the Hindoo and the Mahorneda n p o i n t t o th e spot where Miss Jennings was cut to pieces amid the fiendish exultation of brutal and bigoted; Asiatics. Being only a subordinate member of the Government, I speak without authority, but I shrewdly suspect that if you wish to preserve India you must be prepared to pay for it. I am sure you would not think for a moment of weigh ing pounds, shillings, and pence in the scale against the prestige of the British name and the claims of outraged humanity. So much for the past. It is' much-more difficult to speak cf the future, because with such horrors ringing in our ears it is impos sible to maintain the requisite calmness and mode 'ation: 'There is a large party in this country who are desirous of doing away at once with the power of the East India Company. I have not now the evidence that would enable me to discuss that question, but I know that some of thegreatest men' both in civil an 1 militarylife have been produceduna der the auspices of that body, as witneia El phinstone" and Malcolm, Colvin and the Lawrencee, and many o hers. I wish, however, to say a word or two upon the Bengal army. I have long made this sub ct my study, and so far from feeling any surprise at what has happened, I am only surprised that this mutiny did not break out before. We have had frequent warnings as to the sta.' e of that army, but, alas ! Cloud; forewarned we have not been forearmed., We have a population of 180;000,000 in India, from whom we rased an army of 300,000 men, made up of Hindoos and Ma hernedans, and only one sixth Europeans. With a force so composed it is apparent we must all along have been sitting on a barrel of gunpowder. Tine Bengal army was never asked to march on any great expedition but it mutinied for double allow ance. This was not the exception but the rule. The double. allowance was always conceded, and then, but not till then, they marched. With the origin of the word Sepoy you are, probably, all ac quainted ; but, perhaps, you are not aware that we copied the embodiment of the Sepoy regiments from the French, who are said always to introduce a thing first, John Bull afterwards improving upon it: The improvement in this case, I regret to say, has not been very apparent. This system existed under the French in 1746 at Cuddalore. Clive adopted their idea; but in his time the regiments were officered to a considerable extent by native chiefs and gentlemen, who, in those days, fought most efficiently. Great changes have since then been introduced—changes, unhappily, not for the better. Formerly the-Euro pean officers were obliged to know the languages of their men, and were all selected, not only for their ability, but also for their acquaintance with Eastern character. In 1796 more Europeans were allotted to each native regiment, and the principle of selec tion was done away with. So many new officers were required that commands were given to lads fresh from school, and totally ignorant of the native Languages. What was the consequence ? That the native officer who till then had b. en a leading man in his regiment, and had conducted himself with propriety and honour, became disgusted. Gra dually your army was altogether deserted by tho native gentlemen—for you must not imagine that a gentleman is to be found in England only.--(A laugh.) Gentlemen descended from the nobility that flourished under the Mahomedan regime, and who were formerly a most important element in your army, wou ld no l onger ta k e service it. Arad it w ou ld have- been strange if they bad • becau se no matter h ow a bl e or distinguished an old ' native officer might have been, immediately; young stripling with a white face made his ap pearance he te tt olt4l t l o a rg of the bat'alion, and the native officer take then was that, while place. The great mis consignecclo:tto hale so large a number of Eu ropean officers were . each regiment, you still retained the n a ti ve his regiment , h The old native officer w a „ an _ commissioned offief:rs. educated ma.u, who very seldom able c b o is u ld modernkeep the representativeaccouiats of is perhaps on. ewoneicie and still seldom able to write. The most ignorant men in India, being :tie men ; to read, II result is, ,he bas very little influence over he never gives any information, and cannotrepress a mutiny. Morever, be knew thatif he leac h ed a : certain period of life in your Eervic,.., according to the principle of seniority which obtained in the Bengal army, he would become an officer at 60. He would, therefore, remain in his corps till then, merely to obtain his pension and retire. The great error, I repeat, was that you ever kept native officers at all after the European element was so largely infused into the service. This is a point to which the Government will have to turn its atten tion when it comes to deal with the reconstruction of the native army. There is another matter well worthy of consideration in connexion with this sub ject. I refer to the comparative number of officers in English and in Sepoy regiments. Let me take by way of illustration the 25th Regiment, called " the Borderers." They are 1,000 strong, and. their complement of officers is 36, besides the staff, including the lieutenant colonel, quarter-master, surgeon, and field-officers. This number are generally present with their corps, and alWays on service. With the Sepoy regiment, however, the case is different. There the complement of officers, including the staff, is 26 for 1,000 men. You may think this a very fair number, but the fact is that on an average not more than 15, and those not the elite, are never present with their regiment, giving only one officer to 93 men. I ask, in such a state of things, how can you expect a regiment to be kept in proper discipline, and to look up to its 1- aders ? Every-man who is master of the language and who wishes ts distinguish himself regards' regimental duty as irksome, and always looks for staff employment. Such employment he is sure to obtain, and the regiment is thus left in the hands of men of much less ability, who sometimes cannot so much as give the word of command in anything but English, who have no knowledge cr sympathy with the feelings of their men, and who unhappily have the bad taste to call them niggers, and indulge in those jokes at their expense to which young officers are prone. This, then, is a defective system, which ought to be reformed. Again, a vicious rule exists in the recruiting of the Bengal army. You ,are aware that in India there is such a thing as caste. Indeed, we have a little of it at home, where people bath in the religious and political world look down upon their neighbours as if they were inferior beings. Such men are the European Brahmins (a laugh), but they are not at all to be compared to the Asiatic Brahmin who belongs to the priestly order, and to whom everything and everybody is subservient. For that matter accord ing to the Hindoo mythology, instead of the Brahmins paying court to the Gods, the Gods are supposed to pay court to the Brahmins. (A laugh.) Nevertheless, our policy has been to enlist the Brahmins in the proportion in some cases of as many as 600 to 1,000. They are indifferent soldiers but clever intriguers ; they contrive to keep the other men in subjection to them and subservient to their interests, and have in a manner established I a code which treats a regimental offence as venial, ! and an offence against caste as unpardonable. They happen to be taller than the other men, and are marvellously proper in appearance • but they are not the men who fought your earlier battles in India. It was not such men who won the victories of Coote and Clive. Their armies, on the contrary, were composed of men of mixed caste, including even Pariahs ;mien who dial good and faithful service, men who founded the reputation of the great Duke of Wellington, and overthrew the hosts of the fierce Tippoo Sahib. (Cheers) You must there fore revise your recruiting system. But this is not aIL It is not enough to have your native troops well formed and well officered ; you must take care that they are not commanded by effete and worn out leaders ; and to accomplish this object a com pulsory system of superannuation is absolutely ne cessary. History shows that almost every great action has been won by young generals. Napoleon was only 25 when he conducted his great Italian campaigns, and the illu-trious Wellington was only 46 when he concluded his active military career. If you had had a young officer in command at Meerut I believe you would have had this insurrection crushed in the bud, and had Colonel Gillespie, who promptly cut down the disaffected soldiery at Vet.- lore - and saved an empire, been an aged decrepit officer, I have no doubt that an extensive mutiny like the present would have broken oat at a much earlier period. But it is not in the management of the native army alone that mistakes have been made. Errors have also been committed in your mode of governing India. Like true John Bulls you have been guided solely by your own notions and ideas without regard to their adaptability to the Asiatic temperament. You forgot that those men have as conscientious an objec tion to iissiug the fat of the cow as many of my f iends here have to another animal—(laughter)— and although, no doule , a the greased cartridge affair was a mere pretext, still a large body of Sepoys really supposed that their caste was to be talren away, and Christianity to be forced upon them at the point of the bayonet. The train was laid by Mabomedan fraud and cunning, and fired by the mingled fanaticism and ferocity of the Hindoo. Another mistake was male when, in 1835, a great Indian statesman gave unlimited fro ,tdorn to the native press. I have always entertained a great respect for the press. Its conductors are our masters— beneficent masters, too. If we lose a good deal on the one hand, we gain much on the other, in the shape of public liberty, by their free dom from official censorship. But to graft upon an Asiatic constitution the unrestricted free loin of the press was certainly one of the . maddest schemes that ever entered the mind of any ruler.' The con sequences of that measure were foreseen and foretold by a great Indian administrator—Sir Thomas Munro—who, although favourable to native participation in'Ae government, neverihele.s put on record a minute in which he warned us that a native free press would undermine the discipline and subvert the allegiance of the Sepoy. Another matter in which we have been going too fast is our 'imprudent interference with Hindoo customs. It would have been a trifling matter for us to abstain from meddling with a Hindoo woman's inability t o remarry. Indeed, it is not an uncommon thing fur an English widow to regret her not having lived there under a similar restriction—(laughter)—and, therefore, there could have bserr no -great harm i n allowing the Asiatic relii;t td live in single blessed ness upon her happy recollection of her defunce Hindoo. (Loud laughter.) But we must needs pass a law opposed to all the 'cherished prejudicea and prepossessions of Orientals. It was all very well to put down suttee and other inhuman rites and orgies. Akhbar himself, one of the greatest of Mahomeden Sovereigns, w a s known t o be hostile to the immslation of a woman on her husband's uneraii r a, ;•,• ibilto' in= ffgai•d AO 'compulsory celibacy the game was not worth its cost. Why persist in a course of petty interference which can only serve to exasperate and envenom our subjects ? Another custom which the East India Company swept away was that of adoption ; and it is said that the atrocities of that miscreant of miscreants, Nana Sahib, were prompted by per sonal resentment for the loss he suffered under the operation of this change. He was left the adopted heir of Peishwa, but the Company stepped in an-1 deprived him of the pension ho claimed as inheeit ing from that prince. The Company left the ras cal guns and an embattled fortress, and these very guns he used against our unfortunate countrymen at Cawnpore. If they did the thing at all, they ought to have done it thoroughly. But there is one policy which, in my opinion, was above all others most unwise, imprudent, and detrimental to the interests of this country. I speak of the policy of annexation. You know that when we first went to India we went ae simple traders. A hundred years ago all the territory 'we had in India wag a few factories on the- Malabar and Coroman del waste, and in Bengal, amounting to not more than 5,000 square miles. The great Burke in his reflections on the French Revoe lution in 1793 gave a solemn warning in his cele brated passage against the ambition of Great Bri tain. He says, "I dread that you should be too much dreaded," and the remarkable words which he aids are, " Our empire in India is an awful thing." I have told you what that empire was in 1757; what was it in 1793 in the time of Lord Corn wallis's settlement? It amounted to 200,000 square miles, with a population of 40 millions. What would Burke have said had he lived to see that empire in 1.857? The 200,000 square miles under the policy of annexation have swelled to 7 millions, with a popu lation of 180 millions. That, indeed, is an awful ern= pire, and ought not to be governed on a narrow arid contracted basis, still less on the principles of forcing European notions upon Asiatic institutis , ns. I have said our countrymen have done their duty nobly ; it renc.ains for us to do ours as nobly. The sympathy and approbation of his countrymen cheer the absent soldier, who in the hour of danger en courages his comrades by telling them, " They will talk of us in England this day." We are bound to render them our best assistance, and when pecuniary aid is required we sho eld give it, not grudgingly, •but generously, and 'pith an open hand. Let me now turret° one or t we topics of more domestic in terest. On the subject of education it bis occurred to me that we are, possibly going a little too fast. The competitive `eystein with regard'to entrance into 1 the public servace ought not to be force on too ra pidly, but sh.culd be applied gradually, with due discriminaV e en, and also, give me leave to say, with good sense. People often come to me and say that they want situations as clerks, or as tide-waiters, but that they are asked to undergo an examina ioei through whic'n, if they could successfully pass, they s th ho i:sk lci ...t h fe is el e :aemselves qualified to fill the office and entitled to t'ae emoluments Of a Prime Minister. _ I am oppos e d t o plz.ln compulsory t is to sore r e at extent h e justified. ed ueat i 0 n I o f the Peeople, which ought, in my opinion, to be s tip- I-orted. by vole ntary efforts: At the same time, if 'uy sous : ltuerAttis lb 3uld be particularly enamoured of an , educational impost I don't know that I should ob stinately refuse to indulge them on the point. (A laugh.) Another question, which I have ncr wish to blink, is that of a further reform of Parliament. I first appeared before you as the advocate of buch a measure, and I am still prepared to advocate it. But, if we are to have another Reform Bill, I do regret that there is one eminent public man who, whatever may have been his political backslidings, is yet a fine specimen of the Englishman and the English Liberal, and whose name is indissolubly in tertwined with the brightest triumphs of the Liberal cause—l regret that Lord John Russell—(cheers) — is not a member of the present Government. He is far too useful a man to be consigned to the dreary shade of a back bench. (Rear, hear.) Lord Derby, with that wit and eloquence which so pre-eminently distinguish him, once described the Government of Lord Palmerston as con sisting of Lord Palmerston alone. Of course, the Conservative leader did not condescend to notice so insignificant an individual as myself. (A laugh.) I have not the honour of a seat in the Cabinet—l am not highly enough con nected for that—l am not a Brahmin. (Laughter.) But the noble earl spoke of Lord Palmerston and his appendages. There may, indeed, be some in stances in which appendages are not wholly worth less. The key which winds up the watch is an ap penday. But that is neither here nor there. Lord Derby wished to ridicule the Ministry, and there fore could not take small matters into account. I maintain, however, that a Government composed as is the present Government, with that essential element, community of sentiment and unity of ac tion, can be much more safely depended upon at a crisis than a Cabinet - made up of orators. Ybu will recall the poet's words— " Whoreasons wisely is not therefore wise : His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies." What has been our experience of former Admini strations—Administrations comprising many of the greatest historic names ? There was the Cabinet of " All the talents." That could hardly be called a Cabinet of appendages. Then there was the Aber deen Cabinet, under which I myself first took office. Was there ever a Cabinet stuffed so full of plums ? (A laugh.) I speak with the highest respect for Lord Aberdeen—a true and honest Itef rmer, who has I believe been much misunderstood—and I have an equal respect for many of his colleagues. Nevertheless, they were weak in spite of their oratories.] strength, they were not bound together by community of sentiment. A lady of distinction once gave a handsome entertainment to a brilliant a.semblage of ambassadors, historians, poets, and philosophers, and the affair having gone off very dully, and proved in fact an utter failure, in her natural disappointment she next day asked Toni Moore, who had been one of her guests, why it was her party had been so stupid. That gentleman at once replied, "Oh ! the reason is evident ; you bad too much quince in your apple-pie.". (a. laugh.) So_ with the previous Ministries to which I have reffrrO—they had too much quince in their Cabinet pudding. (Laughter and cheers.) I ara convinced, gentlemen, that it is much beWr for the interests of the empire to have a man like Lord Palmerston thelfead of the Government, supported by a Cabinet of meriteiliarkable . at least for industry, if not so Well known to the public as their distin guished chief, than it would be to havea Cabinet of mere rhetoricians. Rhetoricians will not pull you through an Indian crisis. Energy is the quality needed to cope with so critical an emergency. Whether it was a wise thing to move our army upon Delhi and keep it there, without attempt ing to take the place by a coup de main, I am not sufficiently versed in military strategy to pronounce:- That city is strongly fortified has a large garrison, and a mixed population of Hindoos and Mahomedans numbering 150,000 souls, and the success of an attack by so small a European force as our commanders have yet been able to collect there might have been very pro blematical. But even if it should be deemed ex pedient to withdraw our troops now before Delhi to Agra, the nation must not be discouraged. We ought neither to be elated by partial success nor disheartened by what may seem to be a temporary check to our progress. RemembJr, if we do retreat it will only be to get a greater spring. (Hear, hear.) That we shall finally vanquish, I have no manner of doubt. (Cheers.) The gr./at Burke, whom I have already quo'ed, says, " A man of pura speculative benevolence may wish the frame of the society in which he lives to be differently c untituted ; but a good patriot and a good poli•i cian will endeavour to make the best of the exist ing materials. The disposition to preserve and the ab lity to improve would be my standard of a wise and true statesman." Lord Palmerston, in my opinion, comes up to that definition ; and I think the nation feels confident that he will bling . this miserable Indian revolt to the same happy termi nation as that to which it was his good torluue to bring the late war with Russia. [The bon. gentle man, after apologising for the great length at which he had trespassed on the pa'ience of his audience, reiumed his seat amid vociferous and prolonged applause.] The remainder of the proceedings was enlivened by a lively pas sage of arms between the hon. member for Sandwich an I the Secretary of the Admiralty. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNe. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Mlles Receipts. o ; tened, NAME OF RAILWAY. 1857. 1657. .1556 alTien. - Aberdeen • • • • • • •• •• .• •• - 65 Belfast and 13allyr•acna 1,236 937 17 Belfast and County D0wn............ 323 293 Cheshire 2,998 2,584 2 302.. 54 BBotrlktoenn,hßefadektu Lancashire;rn,AnWe a s i t l York - 118 Bristol and Exeter •• •••• • • 7,526 7,735 198 % Caledonian.... •• •••• •• •• •• •• ...... 14,572 13,590 94 '4 Chester•and Holyhead , .......... 8,714 8,259 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ...... 301 303 20 Cork and 13andon .••••• • • • • •• _ 289 26:3 • 6356 • Dublin and Belfast Junction .• „ „ 1,55, 1,149 Dublin and Drogheda• •• • ......... 1,983 1,677 40 1 ,4 Dublin and Kingstown .............. 2,010 1,991 17 1 4 Dundee and Arbroath •••.......•, 643 594 31 Dundee, Perth; and Aberdeen Junction 1,065 1,172 46 ' Dundalk an 4 Enniskillen „ 673, 4 East Anglian.- •••••• • • • • • •••• •• • - 1,0 t 3 . 990 93' East Lancashire'.; • • • • •........... - 7, 4 37 6 ,879 • 4•)49. Eastern Counties and-Norfolk } 26,347 24,790 Eastern Union • • - • • • ••••• • • •••,. • • • ...• • 142 Ediabnr6h and Glasgow 6,325 6,379 78 Edinburgh, Perth , a nd Dun dee .. .. :. 3,553 3,816 6 Exeter and Crediton • • • • • ... • • 22 Furness Railway •••• • • • 1,365 1,169 1 8 3% Glasgow, and South-Western ....•••.. 6,956 6,738 24 Great Northern.• •.. ...... •••• • 24,65.5 24 540 293 % Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 7,519 ' 7,414 465 Groat Western ••••••'• •• • • • • 31,563 30,281 " 4 . 26 % Irish South Eastern • 312 273 • tandaster and Carlisle .• • e 7,634 7.327 4861,{ Lancashire and Yorkshire. 27,977 24,936 Leeds Northern .• • • • • • • • • • • •• • •-• 161 LiVerpool, Crosby, and Southport- - 637 London and North Western ~• _ 70,101 • 62.058 6% ' London and Block - wall .. • • 1,524 1,611 153 London, Brighton, and South Coast_ 13,6:31 16,960 289% Lo n don and south Western 17,096 18.310 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen 813 690 - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c, - 173% Manchester, She filed, and Lincolnshire 11,861 10 : 013 9 % • ktanche3tor and Smith unction 1,633 1,060 28 Maryport and Carlisle ;• •• •• ~, 1,001 go s ' , el Midland • • ..., ..... ......... 35,857 34,012 17 7 Midland Great Western (Irish) 4,279 4,137 52 3fonklands •••••••••• • • •• • • • • .. 1,432 1,3;6 7 8 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • 3,463 3,166 149 North British •.•••••• • • •• •• • • 5,011 5,964 • 233 • North. Staffordshire •• • • 5,547 • 7,759 47 North-Western •• ••••.• •• .• ......., 1,216 1,016 50 Scottish Central •••••• • • • • • • 32 Scottish Midland •• •••••• •• •• 29 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 48)y Shrewsbury an d Chester 3,413 3,443 30 Shropshire Union ••• • • • 81;8 1 831 57 South Devon •••• • • • • •••• 3,003 3,691 301% South Eastern ••••• • • • .• 24,308 25,024 171 South Wales •• • • 7,911 7,640 • 103% South_York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 2,575 2,953 • 53 - Taff Vale .. • •• • • 4,829 4,964 36 Ulster . .... •• • • ••••••• • .. • • ...... 1,483 1,403 776 Waterford and Limerick • • .......... 1,436 1,199 2 . : 1 • 'West Cornwall .• ••• • • • .... •••• • .. 743 509 12 % Whitehaven Junction .•••• • • • • • •••• 433 460 6 82 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North iidland & Leeds.. - _ . 10 5: 9 3 • m Du o t n c t h erea ßh i e i n a i n s d h l . ] .. y r e . 4 . N ..... 3,583 3,072 344;4 Noa`Lyonsr:Northern er a r na n Mediterranean n d odfLFireag siee. ........... ...6 : 23,851 29,222 46, - 159 41,6 - 3.3 - Orleans and Central .. 357 Paris and Lyons „, 39,908 40,970 - Paris and Rouen. .• 6..• 166 parts and Strasbnrgh ••., .. 42,282 39,241 4cren and Havre.. . ••• •• • • • •• 543 Wttt and North-West of France .... 41,644 42,397 The Chairman and Directors of the East India Com pany have appointed the .Rev. William Garden Cotvie, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 7 Curate of Moulton,' nea'r Newmarket, to a chaplaincy in the Bengal Presidency. 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Sir William Page Wood granted an lijunction on the 10th March, 1851, against Alfred Hooper Nt*ill, - for imitating " Du Barry's Revaleuta Arabica Food..' -V EN IN G I PTE MB ER 28, 1857 '2l CARDINAL WISEMAN ON THE INDIAN MUTINIES. Yesterday morning a pastoral letter from Cardi nal Wiseman was read in all the Roman Catholic places of worship in the metropolis, on the subject of the Indian mutinies, directing that next Sunday be set apart by tbe Roman Catholic body as a day of humiliation and prayer, and that a collection should be then made for the objects specified. His Eminence says : " When ,lately, dearly beloved in Christ, our country was afflicted with war, we called upon you to pray to the God of Armies for victory and for peace, They came to us in good time ; and, scarcely heeding these lesser wars which harassed our Eastern frontiers in Persia and in Cbina, we believed thlat we had before us a long period of national tranquillity, and of consequent prosperity. "And now so soon again we have to invite you to call aloud to the God of mercies that He would spare us the afflicting and harrowing scenes which have been, and are prObably still, acted on our own t.rritories, of which those possibly dear to ue, at least our own people, are the victims ; and that He wou!cl once more give back order and quiet rule to the continent of India. " Who will attempt to describe the terrible calamity which bas overwhelmed us? 'Behold a little cloud came out of the sea like a man's foot,' and while he who be held it 'turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain,' not, alas ! of refreshing waters, but of gore iu battle, and blood in massacre. For truly bad it had been merely war with its usual array of evils that we had to deplore—had there been suddenly commenced the conflict of brave men in honourable warfare, it would have been enough to mdden us and to direct our t h oughts to supplication for peace. But here it has been the sudden rising of an immense army, subject as much as our troops at home to the Crown of this realm,—armed, trained, clothed, and fed .by the power which there represents it ; their rising by canspiracy, which has silently and darkly included tens of thousands, to break out openly like a plague in separated spots, under one law of cruel perfidy and treacherous brutality. Almost without exception, as . you all have learnt, regiment after regiment has murdered the officers wha had led them to battle, and who trusted in their fideli y, till the whey was fired or the thrust was made which laid at the feet of cowards those who living had made them brave. For, transformed by that deed of treachery into assassins, these hordes of savage mutineers seem to have cast aside the commonest feeiings of humanity, and to have not merely resumed the barbarity of their ancient condition, he r borrowed the ferocity of the tiger in the jungle, to torture, to mutilate, to agonize, ar.d to destroy. Nay, if we bad imagined to ourselves the un checked excesses of a fiendish fury by which legions of demons let loose against a tribe accursed of God would have marked_ their progress of deiastation, the picture would have fallen short of what has been perpetrated, in a land that we called our own and thought that we had blessed with earthly happiness, on those whim many around us know, whom some near us may have tenderly " It is not our duty or our wish to detail the horrors of this overthrow of Indian civilisation, containing as tbey do so much of what the apostle tele; must not even be named among us. Suffice it to say that no indignity, no insult, no dishonour has been spared ; that nothing which cruelty in its refinement or in its grossness could devise or execute has Ireen. omitted from the black ca talogue of _committed crimes • that no regard has been bad of the'sacredness of age, of the helplessness of wo manhood, nor of the innocence of infancy ; that compas sion, remorse, the ties of previous obligations, familiarity, and friendship seem to cave lost their hold on these maddened contrivers of total ex ermination. And many crimes there have been, no doubt, too hideous for revelation—scenes of lawless license and unbridled brutality, of which no record has been kept save in the reckonings of Him who will one day bring to fight the hidden things of darkness and amply repay them. "At the contemplation of tbes . e ecerieti of horror the mind stands aghast, and is filled with strange surmises and perplexed with conflicting judgments, till it merges its terrors, its anxieties, and its shifting thoughts in the depths of that ever consistent wisdom which can weave the vilest of man'a designs and the blackest of their ac.ions into a web of provilential mercies and of un stinted goodness. What expiation and what high reward may have come to many who, with patience in faith, have endured torments like to those of ancient martyrs? —how large a new band of innocents may have been welcomed in heaven by their forerunners of Bethlehem, slain even through hatred and fear of the same Christ — what a sweeping' away of the cid and rotten basis of civilisation, that a juster aud a purer reconstruction of It follow, may have been practic.blo only by this ravaging flood—what a purging of a foul atmosphere of hidden crime for the shining .of a warmer and a brighter sun may have been effected by the unsparing whirl of this tempet—in fine, what a second and re newed prospemity may begin store for that empire after the marauders have rushed in and taken away all and slain its servants,' and a violent wind has come from the ails of the desert and shaken the four corners of its house, and it has fallen upon Its children and they are dead what, in fine, of beauty and loveliness God may cause this new desert to bud forth ;—all these things lle alone knoweth, but we may pray to Him to grant and do. "Yet, however confident we may feel net only of future but of present mercy, it is so covered with an aspect of actual severity, so mingled with signs of im pending judgments, that oar first thought must be that of prappatiun, and of calming the Divine ind , gnvion which visits us and that distaiit dependency for trans gressions and sins, which if direly .seen by man may be char to God's penetrating eye. So sudden, so unex pected, so overwhelming, and apparently so canseless a calamity comes, no doubt, by the permission of God, and has its reasons buried in His unsearcnable mind. Elad it fallen up3n our forefathers in Catholic days one would have seen the streets of this city trodden in every direction by penitential prooessiors of men and women crying out aloud, like David when pestilince bad struck the people. And this is likewise cur first impulse, to turn to God in alliction and contrition of spirit, to lita ble ourselves beneath His mighty hand, to set our faces to the Lord God, and say to Him, To Thee, 0 Lord, justice, but to us confusion of face,' and then to entreat ilim to show us again the light of His countenance, to scatter the gentiles who delight in war,' and 'rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds.' Fur then, indeed, and then alone, may sac justly claim the mercies of the Lord, when we have sought to a pease His wrath. "Snell, then, is the double object which we propose to ourselves in addressing you. If we have waited some time before carrying it out, it has been because a day was approaching which seemed especially suited to our purpose. Accordingly; on the 11th of this month, e addressed a letter to each of our right rev. brethren in England informing him of our intention to issue this pastoral, and appoint the first Sunday in,Qctober as a day of generalisupplication and collections for . Indio in this our diocese. , "On that day, known familiarly among us as 'Rosary Sunday,' the church publicly thanks God for victories gained over great Infidel Powers threatening the de struction of Christian nations. And these victories she attributes to the bumble supplications of her children, coinciding in day and" hour with the defeats of the ene my. Now, these supplications consisted mainly in the recital publicly of .that very chaplet of our Lady which that Sunday honours and suggesis. Engaged in a simi lar contest, let us have recourse to similar means, and exert ourselves to the utmost to avert the ecourges of Divine' justice falling heavily upon our empire, and to obtain that aid which God's bleesiog alone can effectually give to men's prowess and skill. "Let us take our share in the humiliation as we do in the suffering... Let us 'not hold up our hands and say that we hare had no part in the causes of these calami ties. They. are a common burden, they afflict us and oppress us' all. However unjustly our religion may have • been treated in that distant country by its rulers, how ever even now it may be unkindly dealt with, however we may have been slandered or calumniated there or at home, all must on that day be forgotten. We are only natives of one country, subjects to' one Crown, and we must take our portion of common sorrow, drink equally of the same bitterness, and take upon ourselves the yoke and burden of our fell Ow-citizens, however far away. " With all your hearts, therefore, pray that God will break down the . fierce power of the enemies, and rescue from their cruelty . their helpless victims, and that He will grant the consolations of patiende to all sufferers, -sand especially, to those bereaved of their dear ones ; and do not forget .in your warmest prayers those many slisousessorttie Lamb, the sisters of various orders who have left their homesin Europe to instruct the children and nurse the sick of those barbarians. Great has been our joy at hearing of the escape of so many of their nutn ber—an escape, in sonic instances, little short of mira culous. But we know not how many more remain in peril, and we are certain of some. " En'reat, then; the God of battles to arise and scatter His enemies, the enemies of His name, of His faith, and of His very unwritten law—the law of humanity in scribed In every heart. He can give victory to our standards and conquest to our arms. Beg of Him to strengthen the hands of our soldiers and fortify their frames against the poison 'Of the swamp and the arrows of the sun ; to fill their heaits with the noble courage of the Chnetian soldier, the chivalry of the vieliant knight, not with:the ferocity of the Pagan, or the mere thirst for slaughter of the savage. • .Linen not to the sanguin ary cries by which passions sufficiently natural and too likely to be inflained,kyond the verge of justice by the horrible spectades on which they will be fed are urged forwafd to still madder excitiment. Remember that the words ' vengeance' and ` revenge' were washed, out by the blood of Calvary from the catalogue of man's as sumed rights ; that they are reaerved to God alone, vrlio will make use of rnan'e justice, s'ern and inexorable, but leaving room 661 for mercy to creep io, for the avenge ment of His own violated law. No, we must give a notle example, which aid. show the very heathen that Chris tianity has a sacred power to conquer in the soul even the most mighty and most sweet of corrupt human inetinctss " And pray ye thus for that peace which will not leave a wiltierness,for a kingdom, nor ruins for its cities. Let the guilty dealt with so that the land be purged of its inquily, end then let just laws, and honest principles, and fear of God, and large Christian views prevail, with out oppression of the heathen or unfairness to Christians, that so once more the land may be clothed with abund ance and its inhabitants abide in safety. And thus shall it be if GOd so direct the counsels of the nations' ruler. as to be wise and moderate abroad and at home, here preveLting religious strife, and there not fomenting lx litical convulsions, uniting all here in equa.li4y of state, and Winning back the confidence and admiration of the strati;;er, that so this realm may be staid in lastin peace, and hold its hign dominion undisputed over the sea, and respect ed in every land." Then is prescribed the order of prayer and the order of services for Sunday next, the day appointed for humiliation—an indulgence being granted -to -all the faithful who shall take part in certain of the services for the intentions and objects of the day's supplication. fn reference to the collections to be made, his Eminence says,-- "As the prir sts who have generously offered to go as chaplains to the seat of war, beyond a most inadequate salary, are allowed nothing for outfit, or for the provision of things necessary for religious worship, the proceeds of the c Illection will be in part applied to supply this want. As yet we do not know the extent of loss by destruction of ecclesiastical or conventual property in India, but we kno ,v for certain that several religious communities have lost their all. While no doubt they will receive such relief from public funds as is awarded to individual suff,rers, we can easily understand that they will re quire epecial assistance in consideration of their re ligieus state, of which, probably, no regard will be had in• the distribution of such funds. To these particular wants our attention will likewise be devoted. Should your particular charity enable us to go beyond these special wants, any surplus would be thrown into the general subscription for the relief of the distress in India, towards' which many of you have doubtless sent your subscriptions." THE REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA. (From Thacker's Overland News.) The following is a clmp'ete and corrected list of the transports which have sailed for India with reinforcements - of troops to supress the Sepoy mu tinies ; also the vessels engaged to take out the last ordered to India, and now embarking. The dates and numbers having been corrected from the official list, and the detail of officers embarked added to each detachment, will account for any dis crepancies from the previous statements, and makes the information in its present form complete. Those vessels named as destined for Ceylon touch at Point de Galle for final orders. The movements of these vessels of which we have any tidings are given in the footnotes. From the totals given by this list it will be seen that 77 vessels have already sailed for-India since the news of the revolt fist reached home, con veying to the assistance of our countrymen a force of 29,235 men of !all ranks of Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery ; and that a further force of 5,000 men of the Cavalry, Infantry, Artillery, Engineers, and Field Train will embark almost immediately for the same destination. As the vessels which first left these shores have now been out close upon 90 dap we may calculate with some degree, of certainty that, in addition to the 14,000 reinforce ments already landed at Calcutta fisoin China, the Cape, and Mauritius, relief from England wid now daily arrive, and that during next month a force of over(9,ooo men will be landed and sent up the country, to, -be followed in November by nearly 18,000 men, and in the following month, Decem ber, by nearly 18,000 more, including the 5,000 now embarking ; so that by the close of the year we shall have increased the British force in India by at least 48,000 well-seasoned and disciplined troops of every arm in the service : Sailed. Ship. Destination. Trps. Corps. July 1 Flucephalui .. Calcutta .. 223 35th Rgt I Barham .. .. Do. .. 131 Rifle Brigade 10 'Ulysses • • .. Do. .. 298 -38th Rgt 10 Bilenborougll .. Do. -.. 226 40th and 60th Rgts 11 Cressy • • .. Do. • ... 223 Bth and 3d Bat Rd B 12 Adelaide .. .. Do. ; .. 216 EI. Co's 1 Prince Arthur .. Do: • .. 304 B. I. Co's 15 Sir G. Seyinpur .. Do. .. 230 7th Rgt 16 Surrey wr; ' .. Do. .. 351 38th ltgt - 1i Calabar .. .. Do. .. 209 48th Rgt 19 Cambodia . .. K.urrachee .. 219 Bth and 88th Rgts 19 Castle Eden .. Do. .. 239 47th, 52d, 61stRgts 21 Ramifies • • • . Do. .. 223 7th Rgt 21 Roman Emperor .. Do. .. 195 27th, 6 .st,B7th Rgts 21 ieringapittam (a).. Do. .. 234 7th Rgt 21 Bombay .. • • Do. • • 356 2 ith and,7oth Rgts 21 Albuera • • • • Do. .. 233 - 27th and 81st Itgts 21 Owen Glendower .. Calcutta .. 277 lth Rgt 22 Suilej (b) .. ... Madras .. 231 3d Bat Rifle Brig 23 Alnwlck Castle .. Calcutta .. 422 19th Rgt 23 afilliam Hammond Do. .. 233 19th; 53d, 60th Rgts 24 Merchantman .. Do. .. 352 19th Rgt 25 Octavia (c).. .. Do. •• 237 33d and 75th Rgts 25 Blenh im (d) • • Do. .. 349 2d Dragoons 26 Aliquis .. • • Do. .. 339 32 Bat Rifle Brig 26 Monarch (e) .. Do. •• 378 4th, 10th, 32d, 35th, and 60th Llgts 25 Caledonia .. • • Ceylon .. 376 Ist ltgt 28 Robert - Lowe • • Calcutta • . 438 Ist Rgt 29 Sir Robert S.lO .. Do. .. 290 el. I. t,o's 30 Whirlwind.. Do. .. 353 19th and 422 Rgts 31 Thebes (1 )• • • • Ceylon .. 209 38th Rgt 31 Walmer Castle .. Do. .. 420 79th Rgt Aug. 1 Louisiana .. . Calcutta .. 450 79th Rgt 1 Carthage (g) •• Ceylon .. 221 38th Rgt 2 Scotland . • • Do.' 312 Artillery 4 Defiance ~. .. Do. .. 414 let and 60th Rgts 4 United Kingdom(h) Do. .. 419 38th and Rif Brig 6 John Bell (i) Do. - .. 406 38th and 64th itgts 6 Golden Fleece (.1). • Calcutta .. 934 34th and 42d Rgts 6 Victo , ia (jj) .. Do. .. 403 Artil and 422 Egt 6 Forerunner • • Bombay .. 258 3d Drag Gds 7 Liverpool . • .. Ceylon .. 479 6th Rifles, 33 Bat 7 ;Sussex .. • • Do. .. 465 3b6oßf 2 b Rf Brg 8 lames Baines .. Calcutta .. 1037 97th and 42d Rgts. 8 Champion of the . . Seas • • • • no. .. 1032 20th and 42d Rgts a Sarah Sands Do. .. 900 51th Rgt 9 Lady Joceyn(k) •• Do .. 766 54th, Art. Elf Brig 10 Ghenghi Khan(kk) Bombay .. 417 64th 86th, 3d D Gds 10 Impera-lor (1) .. Ceylon .. 524 Royal Marines 10 Tyburnta .. .. Do. .. 420 3d b 60th IL and 79th 12 Agamemnon . Calcutta .. 257 10th and 44th Rg.ts 12 Warrior Queen .. Do. .. 373 art and 3d Dg Ws 12 Imperatriz tm) .. Ceylon .. 539 Royal Marines to Victoria • • • • Madras .. 4:4 Artillery 15 Sydney BO • • . • Calcutta • • 300 Artillery 15 Austral= (o) .. I Do. .. 300 428 Rgt 15 Candia • • • . Do. .. 672 19th. 20111,34th,97th 15 Ballarat (oo) .. Madras ~. • 291 69 Rif & Itif 0,2 d ii -16 Adelaide • • • • Ceylon .. 478 Royal Marines lo Sarah Sands • • Calcutta .. 338 04th Rgt 20 V,-rnon .. .. Bombay • . 208 E. I. Ce's 26 City of Manchester Calcutta .. 53 I King's Drag Guards 27 Heisltia .. .. Madras .. 272 41th Rgt - 27 lightning •.. .. Calcutta .. 676 .3 th Bus & Ind dep 28 Matilda Atheling —Do ' 310 728 Rgt 28 eledgmoor • • .. Bombay .. 369 64th, 78th, 83d, 85th 2?' Waterloo •• --' • • Calcutta .. 315 sbth Rgt 29 Southampton (p) • • Bomoay .. 368 56th ltgt U Khersonese (q) .. Calcutta .. ' 563 14th Rgt 30 Queen of tfie South Do. ' • • 760 ci6th ltgt Sept. 1 tlipore .. • • Kurrachee .. 232 Art and Ind depots 2 Athlete .• , .. Calcutta .. 191 artillery 9 illoriana (r) .. Do. 235 66th and Ind depots 9 Scotia .. .. Bombay .. 341 722 Mgts 16 Gosforth .. .. Do. .. 308 B. 1. Co's Eng & Art 18 Hydaspes .. .. Ceylon .. 631 .Artillery 24 Illand . , .. Kurrachee 320 'oBth Rgt Total, 77 ships. Total.. 29,9 )5 "Droops VESSELS NOW EMBARKING TROOPS. Great Britain .- Bombay .. 1000 Bth Bus, 17th Larks gallops .. .. - -turrachee • • 430 98th Foot Italian .. .. Bombay .. 425 .18th Foot Prin. Charlotte .. Bombay .. 425 118th Foot Austria • • • • (urrachee 1 125 , 6 l Artill 84 Field Bat Leop 1d .. .. Kurrachee These vessels were to have embarked the troops named, but have . ~.. been rejected. .. - 1 indomitable .. Bombay .} 850 57th Regiment Melbourne.. -.• Bombay 1 „ • . . St. Louis .. -... Jaleatta .. 406 1 Fld Batt Co.'s Art Charity .• • • Madras •. ' 296 artillery (a) Spoken on the Bth of August in tat 39 N, long 14 W. (b) Spoken in la: 41 N, long 12 W. (c) Spoken on the 15th ofAugust by the Golden Fleece. (d) Sp Acen on the Bth of August iu lat 39 N, long 14 W. (e) Spoken on the 10th of August in lat 38 N, long 16 W. (f) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 11th of August. (g) Touched at Cape Verde on the 12th of August. (h) Touched at St. Vincent's on the I , th of August. T uched atSt. Vincent's on tho 18th of August. (j) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 18th of August. (jj) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 27th of August. _ (k) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 20th of August. (kk)_spoken on the 30th efAugu t in lat 12 N, long 20 W. (1) Touched at Madeira on the 15th of August. (m) Touched at Madeira on the i7th of August. (n) Touch..d at St. Vincent's on the 25th of August. (o) Touched at St. Vincent's on the 25th of August. (oo) Spoken on the 14 h of August in lat 1 N, long 24 W. (p) Spoken on the 28th of August in lat 47 N, long a W. (4) T.:uched at Madeira on the Gth of September. (r) Spoken ou the 1 ith of September inlet 50 N, long 9 W. BOTANIC) REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—The attention of our readers is requested to an advertisement in our paper headed '• A Fact for Physiologists," in which the Nottingham Medical Reform Society propose to send free to all applicants the Botanic Remedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Professor Web-ter, of Philadelphia. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills ,Matchless Remedies for Inveterate Ulcers,—Mrs. Ann Edwards, of Gloucester, was a great sufferer for nearly 12 years with several obstinate ulcers in the legs, accompanied with a continual and preternatural dis charge, corrupting the entire system, resisting every mode of treatment devised by her medical attendant and others of the faculty. Having heard of the numerous cures effected by Holloway's pills and ointment, she was induced to give them a-trial, and to the astonishment of herself and friends, was quickly and roundly cured.— So'd by all medecine vendors throughout the world ; at professor Holloway's EStablishmente, 244, Straw', Landon, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ;by A. Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. f ADVERTISEMENT.]---SPORTSMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ARMY AND NAVY.—S. and B. So*onzons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, PieCadilly West. Observe—opposite the York Hotel. —Portability, combined with g eat power in the Field, Race course, Opera, and general Out-door day and night powerful waistcoat-pocket- Perspective Glasses, weighing only four ounces, each containing P 2 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass, will show distinctly a person's countenance two and a half and three miles. They serve every purpose on tl:e race-course, and at the opera-houses. Country scenery and slaps are clearly seen at eight to ten mihs. They aro also invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, and yachting. Single ones, the size of a walnut, possessing the same great power. Her Majesty's Coast Guards aro making use of than as day and night glasses, in general use by gentlemen of the Army and Navy, and by.sportsmeu, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. The most powerful and brilliant telescop possessing such extraordinary power thgi some, three and a half inches, wi h an extra Astronomical eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ling, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's coun tenance three and a half miles distant, and an object from 14 to 16 miles. All the above can be had of larger and all sizes, with increasing. powers, and are secured by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Newly-invented Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The valuable advantage de rived from this invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; very ag d persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation--can see with these lenses a a much less magnifying power—and they do, not re quire the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the most re mote part of the world' by sending one of the glasses out of their sppet 'cies in a letter, and stating the distance from th e eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.- - A newly-invented instrument for extreme cases of deafn-ss, called the Sound Magnifier, Organic Vibrator, and invisible Voice Conductor, It fits so into the ear as not to be in the least perceptible. - The unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the head is entirely removed. It affords instant relief to the deafest persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies. :19, Albemarle-street, Pic cadilly (opposite the York Ho' el) W. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 26. MANSION-HOUSE.—SIR R. W. CARDEN AND THE MAYORALTY.—On Saturday, Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, applied for a summons against a perz.on of the name of Thomas Rose, at the instance of Alderniau Sir R. W. Carden. Sir R. W. Carden, asyour lordship is aware, is the next iu rotation for the office of lord mayor of this great city, and an attempt has been made to extort from him money for the purpose of bringing voters to vote for him, first, of course, to hold up their hands for him in the Guildhall of this city. The Lord Mayor—This is a very similar case to one in which the Bank of London recently pro cei ded against two persons. I have read the clause in the act, and I feel that if what you state is corrcct, I can have no difficulty in granting a sum 01011.. Mr. Humphreys—lf these things are allowed to go on I am afraid, my Lord Mayor, that corrup tion will be the only thing known in the City of London. The Lord Mayor—lt is understood that this is not an electioneering matter. You really come seriously to ask me for a summons, with a distinct undersianding that you will have witnesses to prove what you have stated. Mr. Humphreys—l am so told by Sir R. W. Carden. The Lord Mayor—l do not like the Mansion- . heust justice-room to be made the place for settling electioneering schemes, but if such proceedings as you .have mentioned go on they must .he stopped. Mr. Humphreys—l assure you that you have not a greater enemy to these electioneering schemes than the person who now add, eqes you. I would not make an applicltiou for a summons, or any thing else, unless I was determined to carry it out to the end. The Lord Mayor—Upon that assurance I will grant the summons. I think it better not' to have it heard till the election is over. Mr. Humphreys—lf your lordship pleases. The Lord Mayor—Do you think. it is a matter that preses ? Mr. Humphreys—Oh, no, I do not think it presses. The summons was issued, and the caso will be heard on Friday next. _ _ _ THE CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST MR. JEFFRES AND LORD OLINTON.—Mr. Alfred Jeffree and Lord Charles Pelham Pelham Clinton again appeared beforo the Lord Mayor in discharge of their recog nisances, in answer to a suwmons which had been o . )tained at the instance of Mr. Francis William S-ockwell, a mining and sharehroker, 75, Old Broad-street, and which charged them with having conspired and combined to cheat and defraud the complainant of the sum of 500/. _ After the examination of a number of witnesses the summons was dismissed. 801 l Lord Clinton and Mr. Jeffree announced their intention of pro ceeding against Mr. Stockwell. Country Markets. DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Sm. 24. Qrs. Best. Current.. lnfexior 273 Wheat 65s Od. 6f7 Oats 32s Od 29s OAd 23, Od 1096 Barley 42s Od 3ss 9a - 4 d 17 Peas & beaus 503 Od _ 483 6d ' 48s Od HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET—SJrT. 25. WHEAT. I I BARLNY OATS, I BNAI , O. First 64s, Od 41s 6d 345 Od 523 Oa Second - Third 34s Od 128.3 Od 123 s Od 148 Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 76 qrs., 68 sold 1 , Pt barley „ 57 qrs., 57 801 d oats •; 424 qrs., 339 so;d, ~,, beans 8 qrs., l'oc" PP 91 PP AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 2/. 711 8-12ths 1 Barley, l. 15 8 2 12tbg Oat 3, 11. 910 6-12ths 1 Beans , 21. 8 9 7-12 1 1 ABERDEEN-SETT. 25. Potato oats 24s 0,1 to 25s Od 401bs per bushe l Common oats 25s Cd to 24s 0,1 Beris 29s Od to 3:s Od I } Barley 9 9s Od to 31s Gd f 531bs PP Wheat, red (spring)3ss Od to 40s Od , white 4os Od to 50s Od 1 621bs ~ _ Oatmeal ' l9s Od to 20s 0,1 per boll. Flour 43s Od to 44s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, p lb. is 2d to is Sd Hutton, per _lb Ed to 9d Eggs, p doz. Os 8d to Os 10J Lamb, do., Os 5d to Os 751 Hens, p pair 3s 6d to Os " Veal, per lb ... 5d to Os 7 . Chickens,do.2s 6(1 to 0: 01 Pork, per1b...03 Od. to Os 0:1 I Ducks, do., is 6d to 2: 0., Salmon, per lb ... is 2d Ducklings,ols 6d to 25 0! Grouse, per brace.....Os to Os Turkeys, each Os Od to 4-3 61, Tallow, p stone, Os to —s 0,1 Potatoes, pr peck, Od --to 91 Rabbits, each Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 107 s to 1145 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen 7d to 76,d RETAIL PRICES. F10ur,141b....0s Od to 2s 4d Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 2s 01 Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, ..... Os to Os I.od Beremeal —.Os Od to is R(1 „ per lb 2d to 27a m Os Od to 2s 4d Side, _ _ 7a Cheese, per imperial stone 4s. Od. to 4a 6d 4-Ib. 10af...8d. 1 2-11). 10af...4d. DUBLIN, SEPT. 25. The market was wry depressed to-day. Wheat must be quoted 6d and oats 3d to Oct under the rates of Tuesday Good samples of barley being scarce, brought en a dvance of 6d per barrel. In the few sales of Indian corn rather higher prices were realised. White wheat, 31s 01 to 33s Od ; red ditto, 29s Od 31 , 5 3d; ditto new, 30s 61; barley, malting, 18s 6d to 225; g rin ' in—s to —s ; oats, old, 15s 6d to 18s; ditto, new , 14 64 - to 15i 01 ; oatmeal, 15s Od to 17s; bore, new, 15s to 16s 3,1 ; rapese• d, 283 Od to 30s Od per brl; he.keis flour, 1 95 Od to 21s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 35s 04 to 37e 641 per 480 lbs. The Doncaster Gazette records a visit which Mr. Chas. Dickens plid to the racing capital of the north during the ex :iten , ent and bustle of the Great St. Leger week' While there he went to the Theatre Royal, and on beirg recognised he was lowly cheered by the aucience, Whic h - he gracefully acknowledged. anta.ND FOR PONIES AND DONKETS.—A. gentleman is now in the New Forest buying up the numerous ponies which are bred there as well as the forest clonkel e ' The ponies are professedly for Belgium aild the donkeY! for France. The latter are said to be wanted for Frenee market people for the carrying of eggs, milk, and other marketable commodities. M;ny persons believe till!: the ponies and donkeys are purchased for the . Freac,7., Government for baggage animals for some contemplat e ' military and mountainous expedition. , - . FIRES AT BETHNAL-GREEN AND THE CITY-ROAD."' On Friday morning, a little after 4 o'clock, a fire broke) out in the premises belonging to Mr. H. Buckland, 9, Dalhy-terrace, City-road. It is understood that w e d fire was occasioned by a spark flying from a light% candle upon some bedding in the second floor , which act tile whole of the. furniture in a blaze, and I;ut a f eVi minutes tlipsed before the fire extended to the dot* above. The premises and their contents were for the most part destroyed. The other fire took ploce in th: premises of Mr. E. J. Higley, a general dealer, 10 Church-street, Bethnal-green. The engines were soon its attendance, but were unable to get the fire extingni she until the stock in trade was nearly destroyed. AN ATLAS GRATIS WITH THE DISPATCH On and after Stic day, Oct. 4th, 1857, each copy of the Dispatch will be ac co'mpanied with a Coloured Map, a Chart, or the Plan of a Principal Town,so as to furnish to each subscriber, gratis, mostcomprehensivc:complete, and useful Atlas. The size the engravings will be that of one page of the newspaper , s ue maps and two plans, in each year, will be of double the siz'' It is hoped, in the course of a short ti me ,, that the Dispa tch Atlas will contain more names and positions of places than any other publication of the kind. The counties will b° given separately, and, when large, divided. Within the first four months, India will to more accurately and completell delineated, in a series of nine maps, than in any Br itish Atlas. The names of the artists will be the best guarante? for perfect accuracy. The engravings will bo in the highest style of art, involving a cost of many thousands of po unds. Mechanics' Institutes, Educational Establishments, Hotels, Reading-rooms, and Coffee-houses will, in p es seising t c t! Dispatch Atlas, be supplied with a daily want. The Disp a Atlas will be forwared gratis, with the paper, at the usual price —sd. per copy, or 6d. stamped. The Friday Evening Edition may be received in the most distant parts of tho kingdom on Saturday morning. —Office, 139, Fleet-street; London. BIRTHS. OF A 804 On the 25th inst., at the Hermitage, Petworth, Sasses the wife of Wm. Down( r, Eqq., solicitor. On the 25th inst., at 75, Regent-street, the wife of r• John Clements. OF A DAUOIITER, On the 25th inst., at Riseholnie, near Lincole, the Wi fe of the Bishop of Lincoln. On the 23L inst., at Clapham-common, the wife of 11 ' Ravenbill, Esq. MARRIED. On the 23d inst., at Five , ' iletown, Hugh Montg ornerl Archdall, Esq , late Captain L 2,1 Light Infantry, to Eli° . both, daughter of the late Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart. On the 24th inst., at Lewisham Church. John Faulkner' Esq , of St. Mary's-le-Strand, to Miss Eliza Roskingt ° Heron House, Richmond, Surrey. DIED. On the 25th inst., at the London Inn, Exeter, Wil Mackworth Praed, Esq., of Delamore and Bitton Devonshire, aged 60. On the 26th inst., at Leyton, Essex, Robert J. nerld rie ' E s q., aged 73. On the 2,;th inst., at 38, Upp er - s t ree t, I s lington, ". Semple, Egq., surgeon. On the 24th inst., Captain R. T. Holmes, 49th Maa r° N. 1., aged 36. the On the 24th inst., from an accident on a railwaYl Hon. W. W. Windsor Clive, aged 20. C• l3 '' On the 23d inst., at Vichy, Sir John Doveton, • aged 74. On the 23d inst., at Stevensonear Haddington, 11 une, Gordon,G wife of Vice-Admiral Sir John Sinclair, Bar On the 20th inst., in Milton-street, Dorset-square, l- Harriet Bothumley. 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The Syrian R William LIVING PHOTOG The number for alth Memoir. 18 74, Piccadilly . Now FEISI Editor of the T 1 porter of S, The Monthly each. The nes Vertisements Ca "The Racing England, Irelai January up to I W. Wright, spo A. New Editior ON TRI with g aton to Its N. Trait: "Dr. Pickily eat centributio time, he Worn e}:l reader, W Other equally reet."—Londoi rind. Medical could find its v paint of whit] be saved muet leis Import:au ranch money!, teipDirical airti Ment npon.4 n r ldtdy to do nu E cRE) DAY (Monde tronage of hi casion of till; of the Funds the gardens the presidenc Urges the co• dente that it of those o] Women who Under circuin Attractions 5 (by the kind excellent Bat " It is in t Seems more ORGY Hay Past patrons Zealous servi friends and 1 Lis establish guished arts; that-Ile has ANTONY LA/ Valentino, a the City of I rewal being the on of honour orchestra ar Open every . JOZE , RAT pitals, and a cf a certain which will r,O. 2s. 9d. French chi chemists. THE SFICti Just publls ELF -1,7 on th and on th , rom victon to Alanbeck riage in its remarks on mysteries ' urinary exa complaints, Mat ricul al 31 ember Apothca esse sequences which hay hood, and other class Particularl their Ova the berlth entitled, It lb I.bs principles. ut ineurr coed the h, may be tr, and how tl that there eerangen Publish may be 1 Gordon. 1 (insulted Bedfonbs The wo Calcutta:- Circulatm Colombo. N6W A Patcnt 0] Itharn TItIES devoid of Sold in t Valpeau, R 1 2 L eonseque long rest rtrenath now Intl hateve It/AGE, effedvai eradicate forms, 0 F Copaivi ruin of tl nu tv , rk, and co . &c. It Who ar Etate, a and ay] examin Anicroic ane, Mar. P