The Sun. — London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MUTINIAS. NEEMUCH. The following is from an officer at Neemuch, Sept. 23 : " The station from which I write is in the heart of Rajpootana, a country abounding in and sur rounded by native States which compose anything but one family, and between any two of which it is very difficult to determine at any given time what relation exists. There are Holkar's troops and Scindia's troops and Salomba's troops, and the mercenary troops of Odeypore, the Kotah Contin gent, the Jeypora, Joudpore, Meywar corps, and a host more, and when any little dispute arises in the country a sort of jumble takes place between these bodies, during which two of them at least are pretty sure to come into collision. " We are about 24 miles from Mundissore, a town well known to the readers of British Indian history. In these times of mutiny and revolt against the British flag this town has taken upon itself to ignore Scindia's authority, and to exalt a flag of its own—the green flag of the Prophet, made use of in these times by those who wish to show their defiance of British power. The English mails are stopped at Mundi.sore and the letters and papers thrown into the river. Mounted pickets are posted on the high road on each side of the town. " The town itself is in course of fortification. All the ragamuffins of the country are gathered there ; 13 guns are posted on the walls. Recruits have been made from the mutineers straggling about the coun try: Heavy bribes are offered to any of our Sepoys to join, and, in fact, the town thinks it is going to have it 'all its own way. It is plain that, if possi ble, this state of things must be altered. We must take Mundissore, and have our post road free. But the force at Neemuch is small, and Mundissore being inconveniently on the road between this and Mhow, all communication with the troops at that station is stopped, and we cannot at present com bine our forces. To leave Neem Lich unprotected would be to leave it to the mercies of some of our friends, more to be dreaded, according to the pro verb, than our enemies, or, for whist we know, it might fall into our enemies' hands. Be that as it may, the Governor-General's agents have a difficult p.irt to play. Scindia wishes to regain Mundissore ; Seindia is our ally, but Scindia and Sciudia's troops are two different parties. A. combination between thee troops and ourselves, it appears, would not be politic. We must proceed on our own foundation, or not at all ; and this we hope to do, by God's help, with success before long. In the meantime, tie Governor-General's agent for Meywar stationed here sees a eturnbliugblock in another direction. The town of Nimbhaira stands 16 miles distant on the high road between this and Nusseerabad. It is walled, and has guns upon its walls. It is garri soned by a host of troops paid by the Nawab of Tonk, a friend that has proved treacherous in time of need. It is decided that the traps have no business there. They are inimical to the Bri tish Government ; they dream of Delhi : shortly they will stop the post. Green flags obscure the vision of the agent to the Governor-General. TOW , must be turned out and Odeypore in stalled. In short, the town must become a British possession, and the Odeypore troops must garrison it. The Governor-General's agent imprerses this point on the Commandant of Nee much, and a force is prepared. Her Majesty's 83d detachment afford all they can-70 men ; the Bombay 12th Native Infantry afford 80, and the 2d Bombay Cavalry 150 men. Two 9-pounders and a mortar accompany the force ; 12 Bengal offi cers from (late) Bengal Regiments are in atten dance : and 20 Christians of the 2d Bombay Cavalry awl 8 sergeants man the guns, which are horsed and harnessed by the 2d Cavalry. This party leave on the evening of the 19th. Colonel Jeckson, 2d Bombay Light Cavalry commands the force. A short account of the attack upon and capture of the town may not be uninteresting to our country men at home. " The force, as above, arrived on their ground at about 9 o'clock a.m. on the morning of the 20th. They halted on the bank of a river which lay be tween them and the town, at about 700 yards dis tance from its walls. A party first went forward, calling on the town to surrender and deliver up all aims. The Awoar, or representative of the Tonk Nawa,b, came forth from the gates and agreed to surrender, but begged an hour's time for the arms to be given up. Slowly a few ragged looking warriors came outside the gates and placed some weapons on the ground ; but it was evident that, whatever might have been their chief's ideas, they were loth to give up their means of defence, for an hour passed, and they had only given up a few guns and pistols of British make, plunder which had evi dently been taken at the late mutiny at Neenauch. Oue half-hour more was allowed, and then a herald - went into the town and proclaimed that if a com plete surrender of arms was not effected in a quarter of an hour the town should be attacked. The herald was made mincemeat of within the walls. British troops were not to be treated thus ; so whisk went a shall from our side into the midst of the town, and hostilites began. The cavalry hemmed the enemy in at the gates. The 2-pounders were drawn up within 500 yards of the town, the infantry within 100 yards, wherLe they commenced a rattling fire at all heads that appeared above the walls, and now there was warm work on both sides. The enemy returned our fire well, but were careful in conceal ing their persons. The fire of musketry and match locks through the loopholes was tremendous, but airn appeared to be a thing of little importance, or our loss would have been severe. From half-past 1 to half-past 5 this work was continued, but the stubborn gates remained firm, and little or no im preeeioa was made upon the walls. Then the guns advanced through deep mud under a galling fire to within about 100 yards of the walls, where our in fantry had been keeping up a continued fire of musketry from the beginning of the fight. "Our plan now was to blow up the gates, make a breach if possible in the walls, and take the town by A-sault with the whole of the infantry and a party of dismounted Bombay cavalry, the party to be led by Colonel Jackson, commanding the fort Every thing was in preparation, Sergeant Taylor had the bag of powder on his shoulder to blow up the gate, ant way ready for a rim. Her Majesty's 83c1 had been told off as coolly and steadily as if for parade, and every one was worked up to the highest pitch of eagerness and excitement, when, lo ! our hopes were doomed to he disappointed, the order was patsed that, evening coming on, the troops were to retire, and most slowly and unwillingly they fell back. Nothing could exceed the bravery of all the troops; the 12th Native Infantry, firm as a rock, car ing nothing for the balls that flew like hail-stones around them, were only eager that our own 83d, who of course behaved as British soldiers do, should not be before them on the walls. In the action one cor poral of the 83d was killed within 30 yards of the fort. Dr. Miles, 83d Foot, was severely wounded, and an officer, Mr. Charles Button, of the Officers' Volunteer Corps, was slightly wounded ; 50 of the cavalry had volunteered their services to dismount and join in the assault, and one jemadar (or native snbaleern officer), who was bravely advancing to the walls, was shot through the liver, and now lies in a dangerous state ; 17 men f all ranks were wounded. The troops when they went out of action had tasted no food since the day before, and now they were too tired to eat ; they slept on the damp ground on which the rain had fallen heavily that day, with no tent or covering of any sort over them. The gallantry of the native troops on this occasion afforded us, their officers, peculiar grati fication, as the previous mutinous behaviour of some of the men, all of whom we hope are captured now, or have fled not to return, had cast a stigma on the two corps as a body, which we were only too glad to see their bravery and loyalty his day wipe out. "In the morning the commandant of the force received intelligence that our brave enemy had deserted the fort—a contingency we could hardly have prevented with our small force, and mud up to the horses' knees all round the fort. The end seems a poor one after the high hopes that had been entertained by the force, and considering the facility with which, with another hour's daylight on the previous evening, they might have triumph. antly stormed and cut their way into the town, mailer were the lamentations among the British soldiers that they had been robbed of a chance of avenging the horrible murders of their nintryrnea and countrywomen. Any native li fair game to a British soldier now ; he takes him as the rerresentative of the Bengal gSZlVci.asTaile7v,e,. But our political point was flag quietly in, the Bri•ish was ere,:ted°Pa w tp al e ke p d rineipal building, and .Nimbliaira and the T e i r r r it it .,h ey of which it a tie prtt tc.ipal town is now orperiy, to yield the G Arorninent a revenue or hied vidual who cut up our heralZr:nnur°• Toe 1' tae pieces has been captured and—E'l:lowiligieraiwnat; V )m a gun. 9:- JI3I3BUL PORE. The following is from Jubbulpore, dated Outcber " We are st:11 at Jubbulporo, you see, and I do not see much vroapect, of our being able to ge t a ,,, ay in a burry, as it is rather dangerous to co along the road without an escoe - , and I am not likely to get ose at present. My la-t would .6.11 y al of tio r"tiny of the 52:1—how one detachment of the regiment allowed two officers to escape, while .an other b a d ma d e a pr i soner o f poor M`Gregor ; and how the two companies, with the Kamptee colum n, bad bee n quietly disarmed ed abandoned, and the column , was on that Dii , moh had been its march back to Jubbulpore On the 26th the column was at Singrarnpore. . The next m orn i ng the column was to march to K u t t ILlgee (10 miles) at daylight, but Many persons in England being interested in the fate of friends at Nynee Tal, the following account of a slight skirmish on the 18th Sept. may be ac ceptable : Bahadoor - Khan, formerly a deputy collector in our service, but of late sell-constituted Nawab of Ba.reilly, recently despatched a body of 800 men, under command of his nephew, Nizana Ullie Khan, towards Nynee Tal. To meet these 300 of the 66 , 11 N. 1., with 23 officers and troopers of the late Bth Irregulars, and about 30 mounted "mutinied-out" officers were despatched. The insurgents were at first only allowed to see the cavalry, and seemed in clined to show fight, but the Ghoorkas coming up at the `double' the insurgents broke and fled, pursued by the cavalry for a distance of four or five miles. 150 of the insur g ents were killed, and among others their distinguished leader, Nizani Ullie, upon whose person papers were found giving the names of the different chie'S in the neighbourhood who had joined in the insurrection. Our casualties appear to have been few if any." The following extract from a letter received from Nynee Tel may afford some slight satisfaction to :he friends of any of the offiears of the 18th 8.N.1. : " About dearest - we are still in a state of uncertainty, but our hopes have lately been much relieved by the discovery of one of the officers of h;s regiment (the 18th), Lieut. Gowan, the adju tant, who was one of the missing, a servant of his having found him concealed in some village. He sant a letter by him to Cul. - at Nynee Tal, giving an account of his escape, and how he gut separated from the rest of the party after the few welt-disposed Sepoys had o saved them on the day of the outbreak. He had gone through a great deal, but expresses himself very thankful for the prot«c!ion and kindness he receive l from some Hindoos, by whom he was still secreted. Ho bad heard that several Europeans were in concealment in different villages, which native spies and others who are friendly towards the English also confirm, and say that a banker at Bareilly has secretly sup plied - hem with money ; but while the wretched Khan, Bahadoor Khan, who has set himself up as the ruler or Nawab of Rohilcund, is in power they are unable to assist the escape of the poor fugitives, and will not allow any strangers to approach their village by fear of their being discovered by the bloodthirsty usurper ; therefore it has not been possible to learn the names or obtain the signature of these poor fellows, and we must only endeavour to wait patiently, putting our trust in the good and gracious God that Ho will in His own good time restorethe sufferers to their heartbroken wives and friends." 2 o'clock a.m. the Grenadier company of the 33d, under Lieutenant Watson, started with the inten tion of securing the boats on the Heron River. Major Jenkins, Quartermaster-General, went with Watson. After riding about three miles they had got about 200 yards in front of the company. Sud denlyabugleinfrontofthemsoundedthe fire, 'snick, snick' went some muskets, then a regular volley. 1 Holloa,' s lid Jenkins, here we are in the midst of them.' Dark though it was, they could see they were surrounded by Sepoys ;they were the 52d advancing t ) attack the Kamptee.column. One Sepoy stepped close up to Watson and fired in his face ; the ball only gave him a gash under the eye. He rode the man down, but he himself fell in doing so. He regained his seat, bat fell again and again. Some how he managed to catch hold of Jenkins's stirrup, and ran on ; his horse trotted up to him, and he contrived to mount. Both then cantered on, but immediately came on the rear-guard. Halt, who comes there ?' called out the leading file. They gave no reply, but dashed through unhurt, though exposed to the fire of the whole guard. Was it not a wonderful escape ? Jenkins's horse had two balls in him, and Watson's boy, carrying his rifle, was shot dead ; they hid in the jungle till the column came up in the forenoon ; they were received with shouts and cheers, for every one thought them killed. The mutineers had no bayonets fixed. The Grenadier Company fell back on the column in good order, which, being warned of the state of affairs, advanced at daylight, and soon came in sight of the mutineers, advancing steadily along the road in columns of sections ; when within 300 yards of them our guns were unmasked, but just as they opened fire the mutineers wheeled backwards right and left, and got into the jungle, which was very thick, and came quite close to the road. It is be- lieved that in the course of the morning the muti neers lost about 120 men ; there were many hun dred Bundelahs with them. Our loss was trifling ; a few men wounded and a trumpeter killed. On coming near Kuttingee the body of poor M'Gregor was found, pierced with eight or nine bayonet wounds, a shot in the neck, his arm gashed and broken ; we were all grieved to hear of his sad fate ; his body was brought in here and buried the next day at noon. A wounded havildar and sepoy were taken prisoners at Kuttingee and hung on the spot. After the column moved on the mutineers returned, cut down the bodies, and buried them with military honours ! The column came in hereon the Ist, and Colonel Millar assumed com mand of the station. We intended to have left this on the 7th, but on the sth the road was allowed to be unsafe ; it has been unsafe any day for the last three months ! Bergee, 15 miles from this on the high road to Kamptee, was burnt by rebels. Op the 27th or 28th a large kafila was plundered at the Silwa Ghaut, five miles further on. Sixteen mu tineers of the 52d were at Bergee on the 4th ; they cut off the noses of some Bunyahs who had gone to buy ghee, and one of them, known to be the !prin cipal in the murder of poor M'Gregor, sent a mes sage to Captain Moxon, 52d ; they hoped to serve him the same way ; he had offered 200 rupees for the colours ; they had intended to collect a party and attack Jublettlpore ; that they would bring the colours with them, and he might then take them if he could! Yesterday morning a party from this were sent to clear the road of the villains ; and as Cum berlege, with the 4th Cavalry, ea route here, was only threemilesbeyond Bergee it washoped that the rebels might be captured or done for. I hear to-day that the expedi i n was unsuccessful ; it is said that the rebels have retired to a hill like a natural fortress. I imagine some effort will be made to dislodge them, as the infantry have not returned and the cavalry are still on the other side of the river. Gunnesgunge, another place on the road, is also occupied by rebels—Gonds, I believe. The main body of the mutinous 52d are gone up the Mirzapore-road ; we heard •f them at Sehora (25 miles from this) two days ago. Our Calcutta dak has been interrupted for two or three days, but is now open. so I dare say the mutineers have left the high road. The officers of the 50th, 8.N.1., with 250 stanch men, have arrived at Allahabad in safety. Three Sepoys of the 52d have been cap tured, brought in here, and hanged, and five Bun delahs were turned off two days ago. These affairs are taken as a matter of course. The capture of Delhi you would hear of by the last mail, but our communications are so interrupted that up to this time we have no details. Lucknow has been re lieved ; our less was great, and all Madras officers will, I am sure, lament the death of General .Neill in the attack. Barely half the garrison survive, but all this you will get better detailed in the papers." THE S - NY TEE TAL. ME E RUT. The following is from Murree, dated Sept. 14 : " We have a tale to tell of danger near us, which it has pleased God to avert for the present. It is the reason of my being up here. Our general weak ness in the Punjaub was found out by these moun taineers, and general plans for plundering Murree and throwing off our yoke were started. But the population immediately round Murree precipi tated matters and a,saultad on the Ist i❑st., be fore the country were ready. These men were promised an easy victory by some villanous anees in the cantonment, who offered to use, in favour of the insurgents, the great opportunities they had for murdering the English. A woman, wife of the head of a village, however, sent word in the evening of the Ist Sept. to a man of Lady Law rence's guard, to whose son her own daughter was betrothed. Her husband was one of the rebels, and knew not of lie r act. The intelligence, though verbal, was believed. The 200 European soldiers and 200 Punj Lbee soldiers, who formed the sole defence of the place, were called out. The gentlemen were armed as volunteers, pickets were posted, and when the assault began at 2 a.m. on the 2d, the in surgents were warmly met and repulsed from the first picket. Thes checked the country generally from joining. Those who had committed teems& yes were attacked and dispersed on the 3d, having been driven out of a strong position they took up. I came up on the night of the 3d with reinforcements, and since then we have been punishing those actuary committed and quieting the mountains generally— not Wing strong enough to take a very high line. Tee ladies behaved well, and the mea ce.celleetly. The volunteers elected their leader, and senior offi cers served cheerfully under him, their junior. There is danger, but, with God's blessing, we may hope to avert any more open revolt by vigilance and judgment. 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This morning Jeren iiah Carpenter, who stands charged on the coroner's inquest with the murder of John Starkins, of the Hertfordshire County po lice, was brought befoue the bench of magistrates at Stevenage. The rmogistrates present were the Rev. Mr Prodgers, this Rev. Mr. Harding, the Rev. Mr. Knapp, and Me. Morris Pryor. Mr. J. W. Fitjohn e solicitor, appeared to 'etch the case on the part of the prisoner. On the prisoner being brought in Captain Ro bertson, chief constable of :Hertfordshire, stated that, although he sva.‘e himself quite prepared to conduct the examination of the prisoner to a close, he thought that at the present stage it would be more respectful to the bench and more satisfactory to the county if he place d the matter in the hands of a professional gentleman, and he had therefore directed Mr. Hawkins, of the Honie Circuit, who had a perfect knowledge of the locality of the mur der, to be retained on the part of the police. Mr. Hawkins said that he thought it would be better if he were to state to the magistrates an that as yet had come out with respect to this most brutal murder. The learned counsel then proceeded to give the following narrative of the circumstances that have come to light in this intricate case :—The deceased, he observed, lived in the town of Steven age, and having received instructions from Inspec terllawkes which would carry him to the neigh bourhood in which the crime was committed, he lett the station at 5 o'clock, and was seen on the railway bridge about 25 minutes after by a fly driver, who had been examined. He had been seen also by two persons named Pottrel and Rowe standing on a gate which led from the railway bridge in the direction of Cooper's Braches. He was observed to move hastily from the spot, and nothing more was seen of him until 11 o'clock on Monday morning following, when his body was dis covered by a fellow-constable. The body was in a pond in the field, one foot being out of the water and his hand just covered. On taking the body out of the water it was discovered that the throat was cut from ear to ear. There was no doubt that the man had come by his death by the most cruel violence, and, iu point of fact, had been brutally murdered. The body was taken to the Chequers public-house in Stevenage, where the post mortern examination took place. On the discovery of the body a search was very properly made to ascertain the state of the field, and it was discovered that somewhere about 20 yards from where the body was found there was a large mass of blood ; one of the witnesses described it as a patch as large as the top of a bushel, and another said that the ground had the appearance of an animal having bsen slaughtered there. There were marks of a violent struggle having taken place, and at a short distance in another part of the field was found a quantity of wheat, with a few kernels of barley of a peculiar character. With regard to the prisoner, he would state the circumstances which tended to fix him as Wing the perpetrator of the crime. He was at work on Friday, the day of the murder, and also on the previous day, in a field which formed a portion of the farm of Mr. Horn, of Norton-green. He was engaged in sowing wheat, and had occasion to go from the field to Norton-green to fetch some wheat, and that wheat was of preci.ely the same description as the wheat foand in• Cooper's Braches, where this unhappy man was murdered. The prisoner was not seea on Friday, but his usual time of leaving work was from 5 to half-past. The distance from the railway seld to the prisoner's cottage on the high road between Stevenage and Six-hills was a mile and one or two yards, and making a very liberal allowance for that ' journey, it could not be supposed that it would occupy him more than 20 or 25 minutes. If, there fore, he left his field at 5 o'clock, which he might have done if he thought fit, he would have arrived home at half-past 5. The first point in the case was what time clidhe arrive home ? Not till past six, so that there was half-an-hour to be accounted for from the time he left the railway field until he reached his own cottage, even supposing him to have walked at the slowest pace. After his arrest on the Monday he himself described the route which he took, stating that he had gone along a sort of cartway into the road that led across Norton-green, 1 and, having crossed that road by two cottages, had reached his cottage at half-past 5. Now, that state ment, it could b 3 shown, was untrue in two particu lars ; first, he was not at home until more than half an-hour after that time, which would have allowed ample time to commit the crime, having been seen by a lad named Sheppard to come in at the back door through the garden at 6 o'clock ; and it would be proved also that he did not pass the cottages on his way home, as stated by him. He (Mr. Hawkins) believed that before this inquiry terminated they should be able to show the exact route taken by Carpenter. The next point to which he would call their attention was the dress of the prisoner. His usual dress was an old srnockfrock and an old wide-awake, and it would Le shown that he had gone to work in his ordinary dress that morning. He had complained of no accident dur ing the day, and there was nothing to account i fora remarkable lameness which wi.s apparent when lie got home at 6 o'slock. When obserred by the boy he was dressed in his old smock, and was no ticed to be lame. He went into his cottage, and after a period of about 20 minutes an alarm was given by Mrs. Carpenter to Sheppard, the father, that her husband had met with a serious accident ; that on going to get soma clumps of wood lying by the aide of the road, one of them had fallen on his leg, and he could not extricate it. When they went to him it was perfectly true that he was found lying on the ground, with his face to it, but in a most peculiar position, and what was still more suspi cious, it was found that between the time he was seen coming in and the time of the alleged acci dent he had changed his dross, and gave as his reason for doing so that he was going down to Ste venage for seine pigs' victuals. The clumps of wood referred to had been inspected, and the witness who had examined them would tell them that they had never been removed at all. The man was un doubtedly lame before he arrived at his cottage, and of course, if it was true that he had been en gaged in a struggle with the policeman, and had received an injury either by a fall or a kick, it would become a matter of first-rate consequence to frame some tile to account for the injury as speedily tie possible. The next morning he went to work still wearing his beat smock, but was obliged to return home from his lameness, and he remained at home until he was taken into custody on the Monday. Oa being taken into custody he was asked for his knife. That knife was afterwards taken from his son by the police, and had been examined, and a spot of blood found upcn it, and it was a strong circumstance as against the prisoner that not only was his basket discovered to be spotted with blood, but in the interstices of the wicker work was dis covered some red wheat mixed with barley of pre cisely the same description as that found in the field. On examining the clothes of the prisoner it w as foun d that some of the buttons were wrenched off; as well as from the gaiters, and the thread that was left was stained with blood. Without wishing to press the case unduly against the pri soner, he was bound to mention that the policemen in investigating the matter had sifted the surface of the ground at the spot at which the corn was found, and they had found a pearl button, which might or might not Lave been on the prisoner's gaiters. Those that remained were all odd buttons, and one of the buttons on the trousers was found to be tinged with blood. It was quite evident that from the time between the murder and the apprehension of the prisoner there must hive been abundant op- portunity to have got rid of the old stnockftock, and it was not surprising that all the efforts of the police to find it had been uteiucce,sful. The prisoner's cottage had been several times searched, but in vain. At length, after an interval of three or four days had elapsed, and probably when the inmates thought that there would be no further searching. Inspector Hawkes discovered in a cupboard two pieces of an old smock stained with blood, and which it must be presumed, in the absence of any evidence on the subject, belonged to the prisoner. Those facts, he thought, would, when proved, be quite sufficient to justify au immediate cmuni;tal ; but if the Bench thought it would be better to re mand the prisoner from time to time, in order that the police might obtain additional evidence, he had no objecdon to such a course, and there would be no injustice in ir e inasmuch as ttie prisoner was al ready detained under the coroner's warrant. At the conclusion of the learned couesel's addsers a great number of witnesses were examined, but few additional facts came out. A very strong sus picion exieta in the minds of the police that the mat) Sheppard knows a great de .1 more about the matter than he cho')ses to tell ; he was accordingly con fronted with a woman to whom he had made a statement respecting the prisoner's condition on the uight of the murder, and sujected to a severe exe minaticn by Mr. Hawkins. He said that when he was called to the prisoner's assistance ho was re,t ing on tl'e ground on his lewd and one knee, and his right foot was caught between two of the ate bbsd up roots, and when he moved th , root thEi prisoner f 11 down on his back. The root upon which the leg was resting might have been between three and foar feet high. Ho must have got on the top of the heap of roots for sus h an accident to have taken place. When his boot was taken off, which might have been about 10 minutes after he was got out of the heap of roots, Sheppard said, "Dear me, Jerry, it's swelled already." He was taken into the house as soon as they could get him up. By Mr. Vesey—The skin was not broken, nor did I see any blood upon his boot. Inspector Evans stated that he had examined the . . The honours of our Indian heroes are before us— a G.C.B. to Sir John Lawrence, li. C. Bs. to Have lock and Wilson. If these are instalments we have nothing more to say. We are neither li Igetty nor impatient, we can wait for justice,—we can wait a proper, a reasonable time. The Indian affair is not yet over. But it should be understood that we are waiting—that the British public watches with a generous and keen jealousy there wards of its faithful Indian servants, that it claims justice for them, and will be content with nothing less. Meantime we can only remark that the man who has—so far as one man can be singled out for such praise—saved India, has got just the reward of the Geaeral who did not take the Reclau ; that Havelock and Wilson have got for the relief of Lucknow and the capture of D lhi just what Lord Lucan and Lord Cardi:ea and Sir Richard Airey got for doing—we all know what—in the Crimea ; and that Van Cortl :nit and Chamberlain are C.B.,—an honour distributed in the late war by the dozen. The country has formed its esti mate of the services of these men, and is not likely to recede from it. Tie country is proud of these men. Those espe oially who constitute tie La •is and source of political power, who dictate the policy and govern the G-- - comment of England, the middle classes, are proud of these men. They see in these men not only use ful instruments, convenient tools, agents for particu lar services which are wanted, labourers who must be paid their wages, but men who are au honour, a boast, and a pride to the nation. They see a cha racter in them which demands honour a' its natural reward, and which can bear the weight of honour, carry off any quantity of it, and wear the crown nobly. It may suit poets and romancers to repre sent the aristocracy of a country as the natural pri vileg d recipient of honour, to describe a nation as wholly depending upon its aristocracy for all the great and brilliant feats which are required for maintaining its supremacy or rank in the family of nations. This is the language of old romance. The " nobles" do everything there ; they are the only men who take castles and citie= and storm forts and win battles ; they are the only men who have heads, or wills, or aspirations, or eaer:ies, or anything of which the human race is proud ; they are the petterns of the genus men, the show speci mens of the race, the samples of what our nature was dssigeed to reach ; they fulfil the ordained type of humanity, exhibit all its great traits and do all the great acts—everything that is difficult, grand, and lofty. No presumptuous plebeian is allowed this privilege—high action is not meant for such as he ; he must stand by as a spectator, and are the "nobles" act, and execute everywhere the task of the champion or the saviour of the State. They alone even are allowed to sacrifice themselves, and are endowed with the spirit of martyrs. Such were the Horatii and Curiatii, and such was Idt—wealmost say of present age in which t C h u e t - m tiu o s de o m f tk w e or O ld ld be W fo o r r e we live. i This is ancient thought, but we may say with perfect certainty now that this is ob so l e t e thought. It was very natural for poets to talk thus—it was convenient ; perhaps it was once true ; perhaps noble blood did once fulfil this work. At any rate, we do not grudge romance its machinery fer creating interest, and its dramatis personae of Knights, Princes, and Barons. We are amused with it all, and take it to express the sentiment of the day ; and still less would we cancel one page of the world's past history. But, whether or not this may have been true once, it is certain that it is not true now. If this was ever history, it is now fiction. As a matter of fact the middle classes now produce that type of wind which may be called the governi ng one — t h a t character which rules mankind, whi c h accomp li s h e s great objects‘ which marshals me ans to end-,g i ve s life to a na tion, and produc es th e grea t even ts and the noble achievements of th e d ay . Th ere is not one singly feature, intellectual or moral, which was once thought to attach to the operations of the nobility alone, which does not every whit as fully and truly attach to the careers of our Indian generals, born and bred in the middle ranks, and imbued with the whole tone, temper, and ethics of middle life. There is not one single feature of energy, or self sacrifice, or dari ng — no t one s i ng le solid, not one single brilliant trait which belongs inhistory or romance to the d ee d s and careers of aristocr acies iu publ c, civil, o r m ilit ary lif e, a t h o me or abroad, in the Senate or in the field, which does not belong to the nicer of Neill, Nicholson and Havelock. These middle-class men do exaiitly now, step for step, whet the representatives of aristocracy wore once alone thought capable of doing. There is no duty and no service, no force of brain or of will, no me, tie, no fight, which was once attributed to no bility alone which these n ea l'o not display. These men do all that any nobles in the werld ever did. Open any iii•tory and see if any pr.vilegod order has done more for a country than they. Here, then, we say, is the true arist - crecy of El - I , p land ; so fir as our noble f undies come ue to r his type they belong to this aristo racy ; the path is open to them ; 1 ut t o spea k o f th em at this ,ime of day as in ex. lu - siese posse!sion of this type i s the meatfroth of tom :nee.Teird-: ate nove'iste, who slic e -eel to the °its Bete theories as footmen do to the enttquat ed di ess, the p ) w der, is igs, velvet breeehe e and silk etookiugs of former days, or who wish to insi ivate themselves into the circles of fashion by Ile tery, may snarl a t th e m iddl e c l as ses of England, may d /initiate middl e lif e to exa lt u pper, may lodge all the magnanimity o f t h e na ti on i n the one rind ad its emptiness, feebleness, and vulgarity in the other ; but this is the mere dream and bubble of a selfish brain in the face of facts. No theory of the exclusive greatness of Nevilles and Grevilles and De Veres and Do Burghs can stand against facts. It must vanish like any other dream of as trology or alchymy, like old geography, or old mechanics, or old astronomy, or old medicine. The repository of the governing type of character is the British nation, and no one class singly in it. Our [radian Generals, then, we say, are the proper objects of the highest honours. High honours do not suit our aristocracy alone, though some may think so ; they suit those men of the middle classes also ; they suit them admirably, suit them per fectly. There is no disproportion, and there will be no incongruity. These men have earned honour well, and they can wear it well. Nor let us forget one particular honour appropriate to the dead. General Neill has left a family behind him. A national provision for tElem, and that a generous one, is an honour wh , ch such a General can justly claim from the tomb. Such a provision will be an honour to the dead and to the living, —to him who earned it, and to those who receive it. The or phans of our soldiers are the children of the nation, and their national adoption, while it is their neces sary support, is also by its associations their pride and glory, the noblest of all family escutcheons and insignia. PARLIAMENTARY _REFORM. (From the Daily News.) When the ministerial organs tell us that there is so much unavoidable business to transact that we must not expect Lord Palmerston to fulfil his pledge by bringing in a Reform Bill, the answer to that plea i❑ abatement is—let Lord Palmerst in, now that he has summoned Parliament in December, only go to work vigorously on the ordinary business of the country in the second week of January, and there will be ample time for India, the Bank ques tion, Military Improvement, and the Reform Bill too. But if Lord Palmerston refuse to pursue that obviously natural and useful course, if he have only summoned Parliament to release the Government and the Bank from the legal consequences of vio lating the law, if he mean afterwards to adjourn the Legislature until February—then we may be pretty sure that his policy is to escape fro:n the honourable fulfilment of the most unpleasant under taking he ever contracted. It is in this sense that we must understand the article in yesterday's Times, which so suddenly changed the ground on which the postponement of the Reform Bill is advocated, from the indifference of the country and the per tinacity of Lord J. Russell to mere want of time. Thera will be no want of time if time he properly husbanded and properly used, and if there be a hearty desire to deal with the great question of Parliamentary Reform. But there will be plenty of opportunity to waste time if Lord Palmerston desire to wriggle out of th 9 engagement, and if the Liberal party will endure the humiliation of being trifled with on a question so momentous. NOYEMBEa , 1s 7, Name of Company. Berlin ..•• • • East London .. Name of Company. 10E8 OF II A. A.E S. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING , LONDON, TUESDAY, Nov. 17, 1857. CANALS. Names of '4 , • Dividend' Names of Pri ••• per Price. .••1 Dividend Companies. ,o , per ce. Companies. d . Annum. 4 Eil Annum. A Ul --•••••• i £ £ Ashtn &Din 93 V. p. ct. --f Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. Birmingham 40 4/: SS% Regent's •... 30 175, 15 Coventry.... 100 111. 190 Rochdale.... 85 41. 80 Derby .. •• • • 100 61. 15s. Stfircl &Won 140 281. GrandJunctn 100 21. pr. ct. 493„4 Stottrbridge. ,45 121. 10s. Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61. pr. ct. Severn and l 26 1/. 16s. 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X a. d. tTEI USDA EVENU*ITO., place where the roots of some trees were said to have fallen down and hurt the prisoner's leg, but, with the exception of two small ones, which had evidently been removed from the further end, they did not seem to have been disturbed. j Police•constable legate was recalled, and pro duced a memorandum book, the key of the hand cuffs found in the field, and 7s. Gd. in silver, which he had taken from the pocket of the deceased. David Carpenter, the son of the accused, was examined with reference to what had become of the working smockfrock of the prisoner. He stated that he saw it in the house on the Saturday, after the policeman was killed, but (lid not know what had Imo become of it. He did not know whether he saw it upstairs or down. On Sunday it WAS lying on the table in the front room. Nobody was doing anything to it ; it was not folded up, but lying loose on the table. Did not see either his mother or his father touch it. Never saw it again. His father was sitting in the house, and had his new frock on Vier. Witness went to church in the after noon, and when he came home the frock had been removed. His father had two smockfrocks, but he could not tell what sort of frock be usually wore ; thought it was whiter than the pieces shown him. William Red said that the frock produced in a sound condition was not the frock ordinarily worn by the prisoner at his work, which was much worn, especially at the sleeves and wristbands. He could not speak to the pieces shown him, as the sleeves and wristbands had been torn away ; all that he could say was, that the smockfrock generally worn by the prisoner at his work was a very bad one. William Sheppard denied all knowledge of the kind of smockfrock worn by the prisoner. He did net notice what he had on when be was called on to render prisoner assistance in getting the log of wood off his leg. l It was dark then, and dark next morn ing when he saw the prisoner going to his work. Knew that Mrs. Parker called him in as he was passing on Saturday morning, but did not recollect making, any statement to her. Did not recollect that he knew what she wanted him for, that he had seen enough at Carpenter's. Did say that if the boy did not go home and mind his plait he would pay him. Never took the least mortal notice of Cir.- pent-r that night. He did not whisper to him to send tae boy away. Did not notice his hands or his face. Did not tell Mrs. Parker that he noticed that Carpenter was all of a tremble, or that his lips moved. He untied his shoes, but did not notice that there was blood on them. Saw that his gaiters were loose, but whether they were unhuVoned or some of the buttons had been lost he could not say. Never said he was afraid to go to Mrs. Parker. Could not tell whether he said he knew his boy saw more than he ought to have seen. Did not believe that he mentioned anything about it. He did not say he knew the boy to be a chattering y•nng rasoal, and he was afraid that he had told the gentlemen a lot of lies ; did say that he saw enough at Carpenter's that night—he meant by that that he saw his foot bad. He thought the boy being there would bring him into trouble. He never said that he knew the boy saw more than he ought. He sent the boy away because he was always pushing his nose into everything. A great deal more evidence was given by the different witnesses, and the examination of the prisoner lasted from 11 in the morning till half past 5 in the evening, but no new facts were given, and at the conclusion of the evidence the Rev. Mr. Prodgers, the chairman of the bench, asked the prisoner if he had auyt hing to say. Carpen ter, who looked paler than on the previous occasion and who had watched the various witnesses while giving their evidence with the closest attention, replied that he should reserve his defence for the trial. He was then fully committed to take his trial for the murder of John Starkins, at the next Hert fordshire assizes. After the committal of the prisoner, he was con ♦eyed to Hertford Gaol in a close carriage. A large crowd of persons asserabled in front of the school house to see him enter the vehicle. REWARDS TO OUR INDIAN GENERALS. (Front the Times ) These attempts to get rid of the question ought to be very instructive to the Liberal Party. Last week this subject was indefinitely sent adrift with out the slightest reference to Lord Palmerston's promise, on the ground that no human being in the kingdom but Lord J. Russell cared a straw about the electoral franchise or representative dis tribution, or any such idle, unworthy phantas;es. But now that it is seen and felt that the country is just as deeply interested in the question as ever it was ; now that there is evidence arising on ; every side that the subject still lives in men's hearts ; now that there is reason to apprehend distress, political agitation, the attempt to get rid of a Re form Bill alto ether is dropped ; and the game now is another session's postponement because of other engagements. It is difficult to say which sub terfuge is the more discreditable. To unavoidable postponements the country must submit ; to adjournment on the part of one whose zeal and devotion to the cause even his detractors are obliged to admit, but, admitting, pervert to his depreciation, it has already submitted. But, to post ponements which sound thus false and fraudulent —to adjournments that are obviously insincere and fictitious—to delay thus inconsistently sought, and unaccompanied by any zeal or devotion to the cause itself—to delay urged and asked for, not by the avowed friends, but by the secret opponents of substantial Reform of Parliament, the Liberal party can never submit or agree with honour or self-respect. The older and more experienced members of that patty are not to be thus deluded. We entreat the younger, the less thoughtful, the less experienced members not to be cajoled by these insidious pr mptings into any premature expression which way be construed into indifference or approval of po,tponemeut. It is easy to conceive that even some pledged Liberals may, thus urged, be willing to have a fulfilment of their pledges deferred. But there are risen in the Rouse of Commons, they may rest assured, so earnest on the question, so true to themselves, so simply honest, and so determined— and those men amongst the most eminent of tie party—that they will not permit the subject to be ! shelved, but ►ill test the honesty and courage of the Liberals by moving a vote of want of confidence if there bo any tricky evasion on the part of the Government. For the suspicions which have arisen that Lord Palmerston means to play the country false, Ministers have only the subserviency of their organs to his supposed and assumed intentions to blame. If, however, these suspicions prove true, a serious and irreparable feud in the Liberal party is impending. A party cannot, even were its morality so low as to dispose it thereto, live on expectations. Want of time is an excuse that can he always resorted to where there is an indisposi tion to act. No man cm bespeak a session of Par liam,nt f r any particular suhject. When a ques tion is ripe for legishition, then is the fitting time for legislation. And who will say that the question of Parliamentary Reform is not ripe ? Pastpone the 'question against this approaching session, and so far from stnuting for it an oppor tunity the session thereafter, the reverse will be found to be the case. The question will then be found to have receded still further from Parli amentary grasp. There is no time like the present, when we have a House of Commons prepared for its delib ration by the pledges of a great party and the promises of a powerful Minister. The furies are plucking up their courage again ; and who can predicate that in the course of the next session they may not be able to defeat even the present stiong Administration ? Who can say with any confidence that LA-1 Palmerston, whose plighted faith we now possess, will be Minister 1859 1 " Nature's copy is not werne 'in him, all juvenescent as he is. In the midst of strength, great even as his, we are iu weakness ; and the leader of the Cabinet of the day may be the head of Oppo sition only next month. Why, then, should the Liberal party abandon the security it possesses now that the time for its discharge is at hand, and for the third time accept a promise on the future which events may for the fourth time dispose of. Let us be wise and firm. We have no right to trifle with such a question as the representa tion of the people. Their due and [Top er repre sentation in Parliament constitute the very essence of the Constitution. Before it all other ques ti ons are co mparatively insigailicaut. And now that we have a goverinnent bound to ex t en d the suf frage and re-distiibute the repre3entation, we shall be the veriest of human dupes if we listen to the miserable excuse for delay that they have no time. Want of time, indeed ! We must make time fur the Cabinet. SUFFICE/IRS PROM THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—It has recently been a-zertaned that a person residing at Mar seilles has been practising the most heard-es frauds on the relatives of those who have fallen in India, or whose fate is unknown. He probably varies the method of effecting hie base purpose to meet particular cases ; but following appears to be his general mode of proceeding : He addresses the relatives of persons whose death has been reported fro n India, and informs them that be has private information that the parties are not dead but in a place of c'eacealment, and in want of money to enable them to effect their escape. He then offers on receiving a certain amount which he names to convey it to the persons in jeopardy, and thus enable them to make their way to a place of safety. It is important that all whose frieeds are engaged in the suppression of the mutinies should be cautioned against the attempts of this worthless imposter, and it is hoped that he may yet be brought under the power of the law, and buffer the pnniihrneet he so richly deserves. LAD\ ERTISEMENT.] - Among the numerous extraordinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food of Indigestion (Dysdepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, the following arc not the least remarkable :—Cure No. 47,121. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Walthameross, lierts a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. 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Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ a. d. Acadian Charcoal Tron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 African Steam Ship .. _ 20 0 0 10 0 0 - Assam 3ea •• ...... 6 1 . rer cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Auction Mart•• •••• •• 1 1 41 per cent 50 0 0 - Australian Azriculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 Australian Trust .... 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Austraiian Royal Mall - 10 0 u all - Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all 15 British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada ... •• .. ••• • .. ..1. percent: iOO 0 0 32 10 0 120 Do. 5 per cent Bond. Si. per cent Stock 100 0 0 Ditto, 5 per cent bds 5/.per cent. Stock 100 0 o Dlttu, 6 per cent. •• 6/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 it. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c, bds 1876 6/. per sent. Stock 100 0 0 - Crystal Palace ... • . 2/. per cent. 5 0 0 Ditto Preference.... 71 pr. cent 5 0 0 all 5 a ll o 0 31 l Crys. ralace of France - 4 0 0 oity Nn - vigation Bonds 3%1. p er cent - - - P,lectric Telegraph .. 6/. per cent. Stock. :00 0 0 98 Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt. - 50 0 a ll I % Eng.Bcfris. Mag. T. Co. - 50 0 0 all - Equitable reversionry 5/ per cent 00 0 0 110 0 0 1(5 Ditto New ...... . • - 50 0022 10 0 Gen. ttever3. & Invest. 51. p c and 1/ 00 00no it 0 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) lien. 25 0 0 a ll - - - Gen.SteamNavi gat i on 10/, per ct. & 15 0 0 14 a 0 23 1 4, London Omnibus 121. p er cent 40 0 all 3% iludson's 8ay........ 5/, per cent Stock Stock - Uungerford .......• .. 2,, 5 3 , .00 0 0 all - Loa. Ne. &Na. Mauso. - all NN I N T a, es i tx i .. d s. v o i : 7 1 1 1 0 : s ; vt v ., .tiesrtps Americas 1 c o o. n mp a p r e y b. i 5 5 1 / . , per cent. s 0 0 0 0 • all - - 10 0 0 all .;•,' 25 0 0 5 0 0 - per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all - North of Europe, Stm. /1/. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 Price's Patent Cand. Co - 20 0 0 all 20 ['eel River.Lai al&Min. - 5 0 0 all - Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all 72 Ditto New •• ..- .• - 50 0 0 10 0 0 151,4 Reversionary Int. Soc. 47.. l. pr cent 100 0 0 all Ditto New ........ 4 1 , 5 /. pr cer.t. 130 0 0 20 0 0 - Royal ‘1 ail Steam...• at. p. share. 100 0 0 if 0 0 54 Scottish Aus. Invest. 151. per cent. 1 0 0 all South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 all - Trust and Loan Comp. 71,4.. p- cent. 20 0 0 50 0 , 1 Vara Diemen , s Land •• " 10s. 100 0 0' 28 10 0 - Goy. 6 per cent. Ends. „ 6 per cent - . - "".! [T AND COK. Dividend per Annum. BRIDGES. Dividend Amount per of Annum. Share. lOs per eent.l 11. Its. Od. 11. Ss. Od. 28s. DOCKS. Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. p;Cent. f I , 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per c. TRANCE CO] Dividend . per Annum. Amount of Share. 71. per c. 71. I 4s. 6d. ;1. p.c. & bs. 15s. 0(1. & bs 41. per cent. 71. 10s. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. 41. per share I/ 18s. ss. S;4 per cent 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent. 5/. per cent 121. per cent 14s. 5 , .p. et. &bs. 2s & 2s bons. Zit. per sh. 4s. per share 185..54 be. 4% per cent st. per cent . 51. per cent. 6 4 per cent 5/ p. ct. 5/. per colt. 5/. per cent 12% per c. 7s. +gyp c. & bs p c & bs Il 14s. 41. & bonus. 5/ & bonus. & toms DINT-STOCK Dividend . per Annum. X s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 stock. 3tcck. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Z s. d. Stock. 00 0 0 00 0 0 5 0 0 stock. 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 PANIES. £ s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 D 100 0 0 5 0 0 stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 47 5 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 33 0 0 2 10 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 13 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 5 lb 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 BANKS. Amount of Share. Z s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 25 0 0 all 5 15 0 25 0 0 5 a 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 all 4 0 0 Paid. Z a. d. all 18 15 0 50 0 0 all 6 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 . 6 0 5000 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 22_10 0 If 15 0 0 25 0 0 2 10 o 3 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 GLI - 811 ,SUILIIISSI. , A TO AUSTRIA. (From the Times ) An article appeared a few days since in these columns calling attention to a most improper agreement between the British Government and that of Anstiia respecting a line of telegraph to 'be constructed from Ragusa through Corfu to Alexandria. Tt bad been stipulated, we said, that if Austria would make this line all the communications of the British Government and of tie East India Company should be forwarded exclusively by it in perpetuity. A contradiction appeared in an evening paper which did not touch the matter, and was, in fact, evasive. It is most certain, we are sorry to say, that a convention has la, , en made by which "Her Britannic Majesty's Government gives the assurance that their tele graphic correspondence and that of the East India Company shall be exclusively carried on by the telegraph line of Alexandria and Corfu, and that as long as the lino is open they will never thimselves open a line in competition in that direction." The contradiction of the Globe only extended to the transmission of the messages from Corfu to Eng land. It appears that these may be sent by way of Cagliari and Marseilles, but between Alexandria► and Corfu the Austrian line will have a complete monopoly. We can hardly imagine how a Government in a free country could have been bold enough to pledge itself to a foreign State by such a monstrous agree ment. It would even be a bold exercise of Parlia mentary authority thus to presume to bind the na tion for an infinite term. Let us consider for a moment what it amounts to. In no case, whatever ' may be the nature of the intelligence or the import ance of the crisis, will the British and Indian Governments communicate except by an Austrian hue, contraed entirely by Austrian officials. In no case will the Government give any encouragement to a British line in the same direction, whatever may be the wants of the community or the interestsof the State. No line from Malta to Alexandria, or from Algeria along ihe African coast, will receive the support of the British Government, and if such lines be constructed they will never be permitted to forward a Government message. The secrecy with which this Convention has been made during the recess of Parliament, and without' the slightest allusion in any speech or newspaper, adds to the surprise and suspicion with which it mast be received. And when it is remembered that several companies were ready to establish the requisite communication, and that the Government were urged by no necessity fie close with the offer of Austria, we are the more astonished. Within the last few weeks the proposal of Turkey to make a line from Constantinople to the Persian Gulf wa4 rejected, although Omar Pasha has been sent as Governor to Bagdad expressly to bring the wild tribes into order. There also in existence an English company which obtained a firman three years since for a sea line from Constantinople to Alexandria, and the claims of this company have also been rejected. In fact, while the Government has had offers from every side, and might have established two or three lines of communication, it has rejected everything in order to advance this project. Z' he favoured line is a concession made by the Viennese Government to Mr. Brett. Mr. Brett is also to construct the line from Corfu to Malta and Cagliari, which may perhaps explain the eon v,,nt of the Treasury to send telegrams by this route also. The Treasury recommended the plan of using this line exclusively if Mr. Brett should obtain the concession, and the Austrian Government would not make the concession without a Convention be tween the two Governments to the effect that Eng land would use the line exclusively and in per petuity, would heraelf make a line from Suez to India, and would bind herself to construct DO competing line. The only demand which was ob jected to was that the messages should be sent from Corfu exclusively through Ragusa and Vienna. This was refused, and Mr. Brett's other telegraph by Cagliari will have a share. We believe that more than one person of high position and exten sive knowledge of the subject has protested against what has been done, and we trust that at the meeting of Parliament the whole matter will be sited with the closeness which its importance demands. Country Markets. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET Nov. 17. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 7s 6d to 10i Oci per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat do., 6s Od to 7s 6d ; barley do.. 5e 01 to 7a Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL—NOV. 17. There were in the market to-day 11 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280Ib imperial, which sold at 34s Od and DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—NoT. 16. There were in the market to-day 5 bags of oatmeal, oof barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2Solbs First. Second. Third. Imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —a Od —8 Od Poasemeal, per ditto I —3 Od -- Flour, new, per ditt o — a Ods Od — s d Pot-barley, ne w , p er ditt o — 3 Od • Od ---0 o DUBLIN, Nov. 17. White wheat, 29s 0,1 to 318 Od • re d ditto, 27s Oct to 39s 01, ditto new, —s Od ; barley, malting, 14. 6d to 188; grind ing, to —s ; oats, old, 12s to 158 3d; ditto, new, Od to —s 01 ; oatmeal, 158 to 1686 d; bore, ne w, 148 to 154 01; rapes., d, 23. Od to 25. Od per brl • b akers, fl o or, 174 Otto 23s 6d per owt ; India n corn , 34; 6d to 35s Od per 180 11A. BRISTOL SUGAR—Nov. 18. We are still without any transactions in West India sugar ; indeed, at present there are no sellers, in cease• quence of the reaction that has taken place in the London markets, prices having gone up in the last few days 4s per cwt., with more buyers than sellers. But little rum offer ing, and demand slack. .—Nov. 18. the close of the market Wallsend, so. g d. Eleugh Hall 18 0 Cassop 19 0 Ridd e ll l7 0 INixon's Duffryn. 21 0 Framwellgate lB 0 Tees l9 9 iletton illetton Lyons Main l7 3 rßraddyll lB 9 South fletton ' 19 6 Jesmond .. 16 0 South Kenos. 19 0 Russell's If e tt on 18 9 Kei per Grains l9 0 ,St e wart's 10 6 'Haswel l 19 0 ti ,t, 136 ; sold, 87. COAL HARK. Prices of Coals per ton a' s d. Bates's West Hartley ~„15 6 Bebside.'s Hartley l7 9 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 9 'Canfield Moor l3 6 'Canfield Moor Butes 13 6 Morpeth West Hartley 17 0 Haswell Gas 14 3 Ward's West Hartley _l6 9 Wallsend, Gosforth l7 0 1 Acorn Close lB l:t Gibson Plummer l7 61 Eden Main lB 6 ' Eden Harton . . 17 31 Ships at market LOCAL SHARE MARKBTJ. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was very desponding to-day, and the prices closed lower this afternoon, at the following rates :--Grand Trunk of Ca , ada, 8 13-16 Lancashir, and Yorkshire, 90$ 3 Great Western, 484 — Great Western of Canada, 17i --South Eastern, 18 0 Caledonians, 37h 4 1 . -London and North Western, 91# 6 — A — Shoffields, 354--Midland, Bla- Chester and Holyloa" 14b d--North and South Wales Bank, 7. MANCHESTER, NOT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The market opened e quiet to - d a i s and the transactions have been to a fair amount, closing at lower 'rates. Midlands, 81? 82 814—Leeds,'90i East Lancashire, 894—Sheffields, 351 I—Dovers, 1 8 §, — ; London and Nord' Western, 93g—Easter n Counties, lva Union Bank, par—Grand Trunk of Canada, 81.„ A. telegram from St. Petersburg, states that the fx' change on London bad defined to 354. The price of tallow was quoted at 160 ro. for delivery next August. BIRTHS. OF A BON, On the 17th inst., at Claremont-road, Serbiton, the WY. of Alex. James Johnston, Esq., On the 13th inst., at the Grove, Clapham-common, the wife of Russell Powell, Esq. OF A DACOHTER. JuOlian pro nthbl b 6 y th o nst., at Esher-place, the wife of the On the 17th inst., at SheMr.], near Cambridge, the of Lieut.-Colonel R. G. Wale. MARRIED, Oa the 18iih inst., at St. Peter's, Eaton-square, John Way, Esq., M. 8., to Caroline Handley, the yonnge 4 (laughter of the late Francis Brown, Esq., of WelboU Lincolnshire. DIED. On the 17th inst., at 6, Golden-square, John Colors Esq., aged 69. On the 18th inet., at 8, Russell-square, John Iggulden , Esq., ono of the Deputy-ReOsters of the Prerogative Golub of Canterbury, aged 81. On the 17th inst., at Battersea-square, Mr. Willisla Digby, aged 63. On the 17th inst., at Boniton House, Charlton King% Cheltenham, Joseph J. Ward Rigley, Esq., aged €4. On the 17th inst., at Rotherhithe, Thomas Crisp, Esq., shipowner, aged 72. On the 16th inst., at Flushing, Cornwall, Rear-Admiral Thomas B. C. 8., agsd 77. On the 15th inst., at Clapham-road, Admiral Colin Mao' donald, R.N., C. 8., aged 80. On the 16th inst., at the Vicarage, Wood-Dalling, Nor folk, the Rev. W. H. Webb, aged 46. LONDON; Printou and Published by AWED() YOUNG of No,. 112, Strand, Printer, at Th 4 Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Thursday, November 19,1357• Paid. Paid. Price. Price. 21% 85 19% 8% 7% 277 Price. I I :