The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

TILE INDIAN MUTINIES. RETRIBUTION. The 44bercleen Herald has published the follow ing letter from a soldier of the 78th Highlanders, to a relative in Perth : "We arrived at Benares on the 25th Jun e, a distance of 421 miles, in e i g ht days and nine nights. On the evening of the 27th June, there were 2 40 of the 78th—I was one of them—and 100 of the Sikhs, and 30 of the sowers, that is, native cavalry, were sent fromßenaresin.carts, exceptthehorsemen. At 3 o'clock pm., next day, we were divided In three lots to scour the country. The division I was in went to a village, which was deserted. We were coming back when a gentleman came to us and said that a village over about two miles was full of them, and they were drawn up to give us battle. We marched, or rather ran, to them ; we got within 300 yards of them when they ran. We fired after them, and shot eight of them. We were going to the village when a man came running out to us, and up with his hand and saluted our officer. We shouted; he was a aepoy—that is, a native soldier—to seize him; Re was took, and about twelve more. We came back to the carts on the road, and an old fat man came to us, and wanted to be paid for the vil lage we had burned. We had a magistrate with us ; he found him out of harbouring these villains and giving them arms and food. Five minutes settled it ; the sepoy and the man that wanted money were taken to the roadside and hanged to a branch of a tree. We lay on the road all night be side the two men hanging. Next morning, we got up and marched some miles through the fields, the rain pouring down in torrents. We came to an other village, set fire to it, and came back to the road. By that time, the other divisions were not idle. They had done as much as us. When we came back, the water was running in at our necks, and. coming out at our heels. There were about eighty prisoners I six were hung that day, and about sixty of them flogged. After that, the magistrate said that there was a Holdar that he would give 2,000 rupees to get, dead or alive. We slept on the road that night, and the six men hanging beside us. At five o'clock p.m., the bugle sounded " fall in." The rain came down in torrents. We fell in, and off we marched up to the knees in clay and water. We came to a village and set it on fire. The snn came out and we got dry, but soon got wet again with sweat. We came to a large village, and it was full of people. We took about 200, and set fire to it. I went in, and it was all in flames. I saw an old man trying to trail out a bed. He was not able to walk, far less carry out the cot. I ordered him out of the village, and pointed out the flames, and told him as we ll as I could that if he did not he would be burned. I took the cot, and dragged him out. I came round a corner of a street or lane, and. I could. see nothing but smoke and flames. I stood for a moment to think which way I should go. Just as I was look ing round, I saw a house and the flames bursting ' out of the walls, and to my surprise I saw a little boy about four years old looking out at the door. I pointed the way out to the old man, and told him if he did not go I would shoot him. I rushed to the house I saw a little boy at. The door was by that time in flames. I thought not of my self ; I thought of the poor helpless child. I rushed in, and after I got in there was a sort of square, andall round this were houses, and they were all in flames ; and instead of seeing the helpless child, I beheld six children from eight to two years old, an old dotal woman, an old man not able to walk without help, and a young woman about 20 years old, with a child wrapped up in her bosom. I am sure the - child was not above five or six hours old. The mother was in a hot fever. I stood and looked; but looking at that time would not obi. I tried to get the little boys to fly but they would. not. I took the infant ; the mother would have it ; I gave it back ; I took the woman and her infant in my arms to carry her and her babe out. The children took the old woman and old man. I took the lead, knowing they would follow. I came to a place that it was impossible to see whereabouts I was, with flames. I dashed through; and called on the others to follow. After a hard fight, I got them al! safe out, but that was all. Even coming through the fire, part of their clothes, that did not cover half of their body, was burned. I set them down in the field, and went in at another place. I saw nothing but flaw , s all round. A little further, I saw a poor old woman trying to come out. She could not walk ; she only could creep on her hands and feet. I went up to her, and told her I would carry her out ; but no, she would not a'low me to do it ; but, when I saw it was no use to put off with her, I took her etp in my arms and. carried her out. I went in at the other end, and came across a woman about twenty-two years old. She was sitting over a man that, to all appearance, would not see the day out. She was wetting bis lips with some siste. The fire was com ing fast, and the others all round were in flames. Not far from this I saw four women. I ran up to them, end asked - them to come and help the sick man and woman out, bat- they thought they bad enough to do, and so they had, poor things ; but, to save the woman and the dying man, I drew my bayonet, and told them if they did not I would kill them. They came, carried them out, and laid them under a tree. I left them. To look on, any one would have said that the flames were in-the clouds. When I went to the other side of the village, there were about 140 women and about 60 children all crying and lamenting what had been done. The old woman of that small family I took out came, and I thought she would hive kissed the ground I stood on. I offered them some biscuit I had for my day's rations ; but they would not take it ; it would break their caste, they said. The " assemble" sounded, and back I went with as many blessings as they could pour out on anything nearest their heart. Out of the prisoners that were taken, the man that the 2,000 rupees were offered for was taken by us for nothing. We banged ten of them on the spot, and flogged a great many—about 60. We burned another village that night. Oh, if you had seen the ten men march round the grove, and see them looking the same as if nothing was going to happen to them l Thera was one of them fell ; the rope broke, and down he came. He rose up and looked all around ' • he was hung up again. After they were all ha nged, the others were all taken round to see them. Then we came marching back to the carts. Left Benares with few on the 6th July, or rather the night of the sth. We had to turn out and lie with our belts on. • On the 6th we, a num ber of 180, went out against 2,000. We came up close to them ; they were all drawn up in three lines ; it looked to many for iv, but on we dashed, and in a short time they began to run. We set fire to a large village that was full of them ; we surrounded it, and, as they came rushing out of the flames, shot them. We took 18 of them prisoners ; they were all tied together, and we fired a volley at them and shot them on the spot. We came home that night, after marching 20 miles, and fighting nearly 30 to 1. In this country, we are told that we had killed 500 of them ; our loss was one wan and one horse killed, and one man and one horse wounded. TWO ENGLISH LADIES SAVED BY AN • INDIAN MUSSULMAN. "An English Lady" writes to a contemporary : " At a time when the public prints are teeming with o'er true tales of the treachery, ingratitude, and cruelties of the Indian soldiery, it will be a relief to all right-minded people to hear a con trast ing story, and one equally true, of the generosity and good faith of an Indian Mussulman, a sowar of the Hyderabad Contingent, to whom I and ano ther English lady owed our safety on the night of the mutiny of the Ist Cavalry at Aurungabad. There are few indeed of such tales to break the monotony of horror of the story of the revolt of the Bengal army, and it seems an imperativ e duty not . to bide under a bushel this welcome little ray of light shining in a dark place. " On the 12th of June, the day preceding the more open mutiny of the Ist Cavalry, Hyderabad, Contingent, we heard that some part of that corps Lad armed itself on the previous night with the in tention of advancing on the cantonment, but that from the absence of unanimity among the men the plan had been, for the time abandoned. We heard also that th ey had spoken of murdering their of& "re. These and other reports made las feel very 1 0 11 1 .aey . ,;_but in th e course o f th e morn i ng ajowa r the utt Cavalry Boorau Buck a ii n h d , Contingent, Hyderabad named whose. character We had known for some little time, spected for its trut : f ee i character he had always re esa and - simplicity, came to my husband and toll hnfiomr he e i red feel no appre hension for his family, eforadmade every pro on for their safety and for that h of a lady who was staying with to husband d tra h v e e travel to a greatly attached. He said, They that he wouki up Ahmednuggur as my family,' and, lookin g Heaven, he swore by All a h'to reach that place alive alon e . H e added, kev9r will leave my children behind, and if any evil ha to yours you may destroy them.' ppon " On the evening of that day we thought it pre. dent to go as usual to the band to avoid the appear ance of suspicion, and as it, became dusk we ob served some horsemen watching us froma distance, And on going home we heard that some of the sowers of the let Cavalry had been in the lines of the 2d Infantry to inquire which of the homes in the (the ca e crp s tonment were occupied by English officers and also to hadonlyrecently arrived at Aurungabad) ascertain the state of feeling on the 2d, and their intended line of condnct should - they re ceive orders th_ march towa r ds Delhi. Thee and other facts w hi ch had come to our knowledge n creased our an x i ety, but faithful Boorau Buck-th bad said, ' Fear nothing, I will watch day and night, sleep quietly, and the moment danger approaches I will be with you.' We implicitly re ied on him, and my husband having issntd some necessary orders for the night to a native officer of the 2d retired to rest. At 11 o'clock that night Booran returned to us, and said we must prepare to leave, as the cavalry were again arming. My hus band, hastily commending us to his care, left us to make preparations to man the bridge between the cavalry and infantry lines, and Booran, placing us in a country cart and covering its open front and back with sheets, in the fashion practised by the families of Mussulmans when travelling, armed himself, and, mounting his horse, proceeded at our side to a place some 30 miles distant, where we halted for a time. We continued the journey for several successive days, till we reached Ahmednng gur, and he endeavoured the whole time, by the most vigilant attention and kindness, to lessen the discomforts of the road. In the course of the four or five days I several times offered him a bag of rupees, which I begged, nay, besought him to take and use as freely for bis own wants as for ours, but I could only persuade him to take very small sums from time to time, as they were required for our expenies. Again and again, in the course of our subsequent intercourse, knowing him to be much embarrassed by a large and unavoidable addition to his usual expenses, I begged him with great earnestness to allow mato relieve his necessities, or even (as 1 foundit impossible to induce him to listen to this proposal) to accept any sum he might re quire for a time, and till, possibly, he might be in better circumstances ; he said it would be a ' great disgrace' to him to accept money from me, and that he only desired ' that his name might be good' among the English, and neither by tears nor entreaties could I ever persuade him to change his mind. I had (some difficulty in inducing him even to accept as a memorial a ring of little value which I chanced to have on my finger when I bade him farewell, but the tears streamed from his eyes when I told. him I felt I owed him more than I ever could.re pay, and that to the latest hour of my life I should consider him one of my most valued friends. Since the above circumstance occurredßooran's house has been burnt down, as it is supposed, by some one inimical to the English. Up to the time I left India, about 2 mon the ago, thin good an d true-hearted man' had not been promoted, but I hope and trust he may be so ere long, for surely both policy and gra titude would suggest that in times like these no in stance of fidelity and attachment on the part of the Indian soldier to the English should fail to be both publicly and privately recognised and rewarded. We (Daily News) are permitted to publish the following letter : Calcutta, Sept. In my last letter to you I alluded to the fact that sundry of the natives who had been: appointed to judicial offices in those parts of India which are now in a state of insurrection have been exercising their functions by hanging their official superiors and other Englishmen who have been so unfortu nate as to fall into their merciless hands. The mode in which some of these murders were committed shows how utterly unfit these natives are to be trusted with the power over Englishmen which it was proposed by the authors of the Black Ac t to confer on them. In some cases, it is said, when the victims were brought up for their mock trial, the question was asked whether any one could State anything against them ? The answer that the prisoner had been known to do some act contrary to the injunctions of the Mahomedan or laindoo religion was sufficient to produce the order to hang, or otherwise put to death, the Feringhee Soor. Ido not mention this as an instance of cruelty on the part of these psople. If I wished to do that I could relate things regard ing the t reatment of women and children that would make the blood curdle in your veins ; but I men tion it to connect it with another fact, and that is, that although the natives of the country, and the Mahomedans especially, in the most marked way by acts of the direst and most insulting cruelty ex hibited in the day of their power the hatred that they bear against our race, yet the Bengal and Agra governments continue to confer offices and power upon them. The appointments and increase of powers are regularly gazetted, and men who only want an opportunity to follow the example of some of the up -country native officials are, to the disgust of all unconnected with this rotten government, placed in positions from which every one of their class should be at once displaced. Some of these appointments ara perfectly absurd. It is hardly cre dible, yet it is the fact, that the Calcutta Gazette of July 15 announces appointments of five Maho medans to the office of principal sudder arneers of Cawnpore, Moradabad, Futrack.abad, and Ba.reilly the whole of the e places and the surrounding coun try being then in the power of the insu gents. But those who have the influence to direct the Govern ment would rather do anything than acknowledge the error they have committed in the employment of the natives in preference to Englishmen out of the exclusive covenantedservice of the East India Com pany. Tnis country, instead of being regarded as the conquered dominion of England, has been ruled as if it was a petty borough for the exercise of the East India Company's patronage. The servants of that company, in their selfish feeling, have taught the natives to despise us and the natives have learned thei r l esson we ll. Vie trust, however, that the East India Company's rule is coining to an end—that the people of England, aroused by the murder of their countrymen, the gross insulting barbarity practised against Englishwomen, and the fiendish torture of children in their parents' sight, will at last insist upon the inquiry which indepen dent Englishmen in this country have so often asked for in vain. A petition, numerously signed, in three days is going home by this mail, praying the Houses of Lords and Commons to remove the eovernment from the East India Company, and substitute the government of the Queen, with an open legislative council suitable to the require ments of the country, compatible with British su premacy, Queen's courts, presided ovet by trained lawyers, and English the court language. If we gat this, there will be swept away from the admi nistration, 'or mal-administration, of justice, not only a number of incompetent men of an exclusive service, but crowds of natives unfit in times of peace, but traitorous in times like the present. People iu England who know nothing of this coun try must find it difficult to understand why a pre ference has been given to natives over Englishmen in the disposal of judicial offices, but we who re side in India have no difficulty in discovering rea sons for this. If Englishmen were generally em ployed in the uncovenanted services, awkward questions would frequently arise as to the reason why a qualified Englishman, performing the office of a judge under one name, should receive some times less than one quarter th,e salary drawn by another Englishman in the exclusive service who was performing a similar office under another name. I do not attempt to give you the news—you will learn that probably from your own correspondent and from the overland papers, one of which (the Englishman) I send you. All hope of Lord Can ning, who had energy to gag the press, but not to remove an incompetent general, may be recalled. The date tf the following letter is a few days later than that of the preceding : I offer no apology for troubling you with another letter, because I know you will agree with me in thinking that in the present state of affairs in India, and with a gagged press, it is the duty of every man residing here to make known at home, through the medium of his friends in England, those facts which the government will not disclose. No one whose opinion is worth anything believes that a restriction was placed on the Enelish press because it published matter that was dangerous to the inte rests of England. Tho belief is that those in power feared unrestricted comment on their own folly and imbecility, and the effect which such comment would have in England. The consequence is that every English resident of Calcutta writes home a political price current, and I address you because I do not know anyone to whom I could more usefully write at the present crisis. You will perhaps be surprised that there should exist a feeling cif insecu rity in this town of Calcutta, yet such. is the case, and many people are in consequence sending their families home. I do not partake in thin feeling to the extent that I observe in others, but at the same time I can well account for its existence. The safety of the town is left to people in whom the inhabi tants (I speak of the Europeans) have no confidence. The public have no voice, no influence, in directing the arrangements for their own protection. It was not until the government found that unless they embodied the volunteer guard the Europeans would band themselves and make their own arrangements for mutual protection, that that step was taken. Until then they were told, with but slight courtesy to depend on Mr. Wauchope, the Commissioner of Police, and his myrmidons ; the native portion of which are suspected not without reason, of disaffec tion. I will give you an instance of the little reli ance that is to be placed in the vigilance) of this official. Fortunately for him he belongs to that ex clusive service in which incapacity is not a, disquali fication. A f ew d ays ago a statement appeare d i n the editorial colums of the E/* t the effect that 1,000 sta n d of y o native in Calcutta arms had been purchased by a Commissioner of thejl The statement attracted the at tention of the goy; reee o i4, and Mr. Wa =hope, as on the matter. Bedic f; lice, was directed to report s report that no ituch sale had taken place, a n d th at o l " e: ° l ot the police. a sale of era is could not have esc a p e d th e °be This off-hand way of t reat i ng not considered satisfactory, and II matter was vr o as se di t i rected to make inquiry and th en report. ii second report, stati n g th ere was no founatlon n fo a 4 r the statement made iu the Entitisitman,, .scwaeliow &UN, LONDON, THEIRS DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22 1857 THE .....—. '' , is did not exactly satisfy Lord Can or another a._ 've . been that he was desirous o f nine, or it may n.... - .mime the originator of the and William Snoxhill, 20, visiting with his disple- 'red to Mr. A. G. R—., ... (Before Mr. Creasy.) were indicted for a nes, lem.eanour. The .9s I. ' C walled i n charge upon ( t ) c f ) ther e report . James Harris, a boy, was framed under the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 97, o g rt e . ntle T m h an e report was 'b- charge .I ‘e report, the acc = Me t f t o a r ry ha O v r i p n h g an ass P is r t e e s a s i ; n h s e pr w e a a s di e ng at_ o_, . sec. 15, which enacts " That every person who shall and he gave, as his authority, our friend Mr. - wilfully do , or cause to be done, anything in such and to obstruct from him, at last, Lord Canning has learne:: l 4 manner asany engine or carriage using the truth of a matter which escaped the vigilance, • 2 1y railway, or to endanger the safety of any per orconveyed in or sport the same, or shall a id or police. short I°ll • ass i s t therein, shall le guilty of a misd e m eanour , perhaps m e was ssrs. concealed T. E. z by a t n h d e ctroemacish.qenryy' a , of i th e A time ago received a consignment of 1,0(10 Enfiel d di scr etion of the court before which su c h person and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the rifles, complete with all apparatus. D., heall i ng cu• this, went to purchase four of them, and was ti; shall have been convicted, to be imprisoned, with ‘, ll told that the whole 1,000 had been sold together * O -e without hard labour, for any term not exceeding to a native: He talked about it as a strange cir two ~saes." The offence charged against the pri cumstance, and so it got into the columns of the sonars cies that th ey did unlawfully discharge a Englishman,and to the knowledge of every one in- a train, with i n t en t t o en d anger th e loaded gun terested in the fact except the Commissioner of Po- safety o f t h e pcysons then passi n g along, and being lice, whose business it was to know it. Can you upon the G rea t bidnhern Railway, near Potter's wonderi tlt after this that there is a feeling of insecurity bar, in this county. in Calcutta? You are aware how, of late years, the gr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Poland defended government of Bengal, with Halliday at its head, Harris. has sought to advance the natives, and place them The younger p r i soner, when called upon to plead, in offices of trust and authority not expressly re- said , "I am not guilty, for I only fired at a bird served for the members of the East India Company's over a quick hedgs and didn't mean to hit the covenanted service. Well, among others of these ap- train." Snoxhill •said he was there by accident, pointments, they have been placed in charge of the and had nothing to do with the gun. post-office throughout the country, the security of From the evidence of several witnesses it ap which has not been improved by the change. It was peared that on the 23 instant a ballast train was ou discovered the other day that one of these native its way towards London on the Great Northern postmasters had been opening letters and making Railway-1 5 platelayers and labourers being in use of their contents for seditious purposes. He was the break van. .&out a mile from Potter's-bar banged by a military officer. But how many are there are two cuttings, with a short piece of level undetected. . . . Do you remember a work between them; and, as the train emerged from that appeared several years ago, called " Revela- one and was entering the other, a gun was fired, tions of an Orderly, by Panneh Kowrie Khan," and the persons in the break were startled by a exposing the abuses of the Company's courts t Its number of shots striking the side. On looking author was a Mr. Wyatt, one of the oldest and out they saw the prisoners in a field, the most respected of the tmcovenanted judicial officers younger one with the gun in his hand, and the of Government. The poor man has been hanged other pointing to tie train and laughing. The train by the Kotwal, a Mahomedan, at Bareilly. This was stopped at Potter's-bar, and on an examination man has given the Government another practical of the break twelve shot marks were found. The lesson of the trust that ought to have been reposed gun had been charged with small stones, about the in the natives. Besides poor Mr. Wyatt, this ras- size of peas, and several were extracted from the tally native official put Mr. Robertson, the judge, side of the break, laving penei rated - nearly half an Dr. Hansborough, and Dr. Hay (son-in-law of the inch. The under guard, who had charge of the late lientenarit-governor, Mr. Thomason), on their break, and several of the men, went back to where trial, and caused them also to be hanged. Will the the gun was discharged, and there they found the people of England, after they come to the know- prisoners, who were taken into custody. The gnu ledge of such facts as these, suffer their country- was then loaded with small stones. men in this land to be subjected to the jurisdiction The defence set up by Mr. Poland was that the of courts presided over , by natives ? I hope not, boy was sent into the field to scare birds with the and that you and other good men will bestir them- gun, and was entrusted with powder, but not shot; selves to prevent a repetition of the attempt. that, seeing a bird on a hedge, ho put a handful of Similar sentiments are expressed in the following gravel and small stones into the gun and fired, letter : when the train came out of one cutting, and be fore it completely entered the otherAthe contents struck the break, which was at the end of the train. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Oct. 21. Calcutta, August, 1857 You will have read, I doubt not, with • intense interest, the dreadful accounts that have gone home by this last two or three mails. I thank • God, matters are brightening now a little. But it is fearful to think of the imbecility and indecision that have marked, and still rule in many quarters, the councils and acts of our governors and of men holding important commands. Gen. Grant is leav• ing for Madras at this moment, under a salute from the guns of Foit William, and he goes terribly dis gusted, I hear, at the opposition he has met with from Government in the plans be proposed to meet the present crisis. Sir C. Campbell, I believe, is a man not likely to allow himself to be snubbed, and one may expect to see something like energetic measures being adopted soon. We have been peti tioning for martial law for Calcutta and neighbour ing districts, but have not yet got it. The Mohur rum commences to-day, and the volunteers, of which I am a humble member, have lots of duty before thew. The jury, after the learned Judge had summed up, adopted the view suggested for the defence, and acquitted the prisoner. Mr. Creasy quite concurred in the verdict, and said such a boy as Harris ought not to be entrusted with a gun, and he hoped would not he again. Joseph Enight and William Cole were indicted for having str. , ,len eight coil sacks, the property of - Lea and 00., coal merchants, of Highbury, and other place. Knight pleaded guilty. Cole was found guilty. Mr. Creasy deferred the sentence. Mr. Poaud prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton appeared for Knight ; Mr. Metcalfe for Cole. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 21. MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Steam. t Mills, a young wan of about twenty years of age, formerly clerk to li r . A. T . H ew itt, s o licitor, of Nicholas lane, was b roug ht b e f ore the Lord dayor upon re wand in custody of Huggett, the detective officer, charged vith having feloniously forged and uttered a cheque of his master's for 2501., with intent to defraud Messrs. Hankey and Co., the bankers. Mr. Mullen, solicitor tl the Committee of Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Fraude, again appeared iu support of the prosecution. The prisoner was not defended by a legal adviser. Mr. Jtewitt, the prosecutor, was further exa mined, and said—l now produce my cheque book The forged cheque for 2501. fits with the counterfoi at the end of the book. When I was out the pri soner had access to the drawer its which the cheque book was locked. About once in every six months it was the prisoner's duty to sort the cancelled chequesand tie them up in a bundle. I have missed several cheques from that bundle. I cannot say whether the body of the cheque is in the handwrit ing of the prisoner, but it certainly looks like it. I have examined the 1001. note prJduced and the 501. note numbered 40,030. The.latter has written on the back of it " Robert Sylvester, Manor-street, Clapham." Mr. Silvester is a client of mine, aud the endorsement is not in his handwriting. It is my strong belief that both the wilting aud the figures have been put there by the prisoner. The same remark applies to the other 50/. vote, which is endorsed " Robert Farley, 3, Newcastle-street, Strand, 13-6-57," Mr. J. J. Bunning, clerk to Messrs. Clutton and Co., solicit Ors, in High-street, Southwark, said—l was clerk to the prosecutor at the time that the pri soner was in his service.. I am well acquainted with the prisoner's handwriting. The body of the forged cheque very much resembles my own handwriting. I see no resem blance in it to the writing of the pri before the Lord Mayor of a stretcher belonging to herself. Policeman Stride, 556—Yesterday the prisoner was begging by the railway station in B . sbops,, , rate, and as she obstructed the pavement I was obliged to take hi-Tinto custody. Several people complained of a woman in her condition being suffered to beg in the streets. Prisoner—l was confined on the roadside and lost the use of my legs. They have not been cut off. Policeman—They seem to be tucked under her. The Lord Mayor—What is she sitting on ? Policeman—lt is a stretcher or rather the bottom of a chair ; and as she can't walk, a person with whom she is connected is in the habit of carrying her from her lodgings and setting ber down in a public thoroughfare, where people are likely to give her halfpence. She is a notorious beggar. The L rd Mayor—Prisoner, whose child is that you are carrying ? Prisoner—lt's my own, and no mistake. Whose do you think it is The Lord Mayor--I don't think it is yours. I believe you carry it about with you for the purpose of exciting commiseration. Where do you belong to? Prisoner—My parish is Devonport. The Lord Mayor—You must not beg in the streets of London. You will be taken to the union, and will be sent from there to Devonport. Prisoner (impudently)—l won't go to Devon port, although you may send me to the union. Ann Sullivan was brought up on remand charged with having begged in the city. The evidence of the officer who had charge of the prisoner was to the effect that on Saturday afternoon last he saw the prisoner who was carrying two children, one in a most emaciated and filthy state, begging near the Mansion-house. It was evident that one, if not both of the children, had been starved almost to death for the purpose of exciting public sympathy. (A more haggard, emaciated child never was seen by any of the officers of the court in the arms of the most incorrigible professional beggars.) The officer took her into custody, and by direction of the Lord Mayor the children were taken to the union. One of the children belonged to the pri soner's sister. The prisoner, who had the impudence to say that she was totally unable to provide for either horself or the children without begging, was sent to prison for 21 days. The Lard Mayor requestQd that the press would acknowledge the receipt of 1/. from the jury at the Mayor's Court (per Christopher Fitch) as a dona tion to the poor-box. GUILDHALL—George Blabey was placed at the bar, before Sir George Carroll, charged with robbing his employers, Messrs. Baker and Co., of Leadenhall-street. Police-constable Hubble, 149, said—Last night, about a qu ar t er t o t en o'clock, I saw the prisoner with a basket in his po3session. I asked him whose property it was, and he said it belonged to him, and it contained about 31b. of sugar which formed part of a perquisite allowed him by his employers. Mr. Bernard said—l am book-keeper to the firm of Messrs. Saul, Baker, and Co., colonial mer chants, and the prisoner has been in their employ as messenger and cler k about 12 months. The sugar found on the prisoner cous•sts of samples which we have received of shipments made to us from the colonies. He had no authority particu la, ly to remove those samples, but I beli , -ve he had an implied permission, as he had the care of the office, and probably thought in clearing up ho might take it away. Sir G. Carroll recommended the prisoner to be more careful for the future how he meddled with samples, and discharged him. A. man named Andrews was brought up, charged with emb zzling 2/. 4s. 3d., ihe moneys of Mr. Bonsor, a meat salesman, of Newgate-market, his mas ter. Emily 'Wilson said—l am barmaid at the Salu tation Tavern, Newgate-street. The prisoner called yest-rday morning between ten and eleven o'clock, and I paid him 2/. 4s. 3d. on behalf of Mr. Bunsor. f did not take a receipt, as it is not cus tomary. Sir George Carroll—Do you wish to ask this witness any question ? Prisoner- - No, sir. It is quite right ; I had the money. George Dolling, potman at the Ram Inn, Smith field, said—The prisoner came to me in the middle of the day and gave me 1/. 4s. to take care of for him. He stayed there until 12 o'clock at night, at which time he was very drunk, and gave me another 10s., saying it was not his money, and wished me to mind it for him. Mr. Martin (the chief clerk)—What made you put up this witness, officer ? Officer—Because he was the only other witness in attendance. Mr. Martin—But he is the prisoner's witness ; and unless you have another it puts tho case out 0, co .rt. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. KINGSTON, OCT. 31. (Before Mr. E. Penhryn, Chs.irinan, and a Bench of Magistrates.) The court was occupied to-day in hearing applica tions for the renewal of music and dancing licenses. Upon the application of Mr. Knapp a license for music and dancing was granted to the Royal Gar- dens, Vauxhall, but with the restrictions that there should be no baloons and that the gardens should be closed at 12 o'clock. A similar license was granted to the Royal Surrey Gardens, the same conditions being annexed to it. Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the license for music for the Flora Gardens, Wyndham road, Camberwell. Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division of Police, informed the court that although a license had only been granted for music for these gardens, dancing was constantly carried on there, and a regu lar dancing platform was erected. Mr. Knapp said that the present proprietor of the gardens, Mr. Hallwell, only came into posses sion of the premises in April, and Ira was not aware that he was doing wrong, and, under these circum stanceY, he trusted the court would renew the license, upon the understanding that there sh ou ld be no dancing in future. Mr. Hallewell said that under the former proprie• tors there had always been dancing, and he conse quently thought that he was justified is having the same sort of amusem3nt, particularly as no com plaint or caution had been made by the police. The Chairman, after consulting with his col leagues, said that the license would be renewed on the present occasion ; but it would only be on the understanding that no dancing should be permitted in future. Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the soner. The writing and figures on the two 501. license for music for toe Surrey Canal Tavern, Old notes I believe to be that of she prisoner. Kent road. Mr. W. Todd, cle k in the i.sue el , partment of the Superintendent Lund informed the court that in Bank of England, proved that the one 100/. and tee this ease also dancing had been constantly going on two 501. notes had been exchanged at the Beak for in the house, although Mr. Gilham, the proprietor, gold. was perfectly aware that he had only a license for Mr. R. Farley_..] live inNewcastle-street, Strand. music. He had kept the house for a great many The endorsement years, and "must have been perfectly well aware on the back of one of tee 50/. notes 'nine was not made by mee ner was that ho was infringing the law. purporting to be it written my authority. About a month since The Chai rman sa id th e cour t cons id ere d t h at i n thep by prisoner entered my coffee-shop, and was sup this case there had been a wilful infringement of plied with a rump steak supper, which he had no the license, and they would therefore not grant a money to pay for. 1 took Off his cap, and detained renewal. _a shilling and paid f r his re pad. License refused. Mr. Knapp then applied for a renewal of the coffee-house-keeper, of 24, it till rri; g h it_ e c.r s o e Ts n hs t_ o f ria o T r pi,soe fi, license for music and dancing fur the Manor House for three weeks, and left on the 6th ult, in my debt. prisoner s eyed at my house Tavern, adjoining the Royal Surrey Gardens, He passed by the name of Fred. Ru- land. (This Wal worth. was a name in which several suits of clethes had Mr. Lund also opposed the granting of this li- been obtained by the prisoner, the bills being made cense, upon the ground that the place was resorted out "Fred. Rutland, Esq.") He also passed under to by prostitutes and other disorderly persons ; the same name at Ryde, where he manage I to that it was kept open to unreasonable hoary, there- victimise several hotel-keepers, at whose establish by annoying theinhabitants of the neighbourhood ; ments, however, he had previously spent large also that the groundshad been used for the purpose sums of money, the produce of the forgery, when he of holding an illegal fair, and that the proprietor, visit- d that fashionable wateriug-place for the pur- Mr. Wale, had been fined for assaulting and ob- pose of counteracting the affects of the debeuchery strutting the police. in which he had been revelling in the Heyinarket. Mr. Knapp, in addressing the court in support of Hugeett, the detective offic-r, who apprehended the applicati o n, said h e was iestrueree that there the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Farringdon-street, really were no grounds for the opposition to it produced a letter he found on him, signed " Fred. made by the police, and that the real object of th e R u tl an d." course that Lad been taken was to benefit the The prisoner, who declined putting any questions Surrey Gardens, which were close adjacent to the to the witnesses, an I said h e s h o uld reserve his des premises of Mr. Wale, and give them a monopoly. fence, was fully committed for trial. With regard to the complaint respecting the fair, As the prisoner was in the act of leaving the dock, all that was done was to have what was called a a tailor, whose name did not transpire, entered the fancy fair—a proceeding which took place every box and said—" My Lord Mayor, prey what am I day, and which was patronised by some of the to do for my money? I mad' the prisoner the highest and most respectable portions of the corn- middy's uniform he now wears, and I have never munity; and, although Mr. Wale was summoned been able to get the money for it, though it fits him before a magistrate by the police fsr having this fair exactly." upon his premises upon the suppoeitiou that it was The Lord Mayor—The clothes appear to fit him illegal, the magistrate at once dismissed the corn- very well ; but I think you must wait till we have plaint. With referenceto the assault and obstruction done with him at the Central . Criminal Court. of the police in the execution of their duty, he was (Laughter.) instructed that all that was done was that Mr. The applicant bowed, and retired. Wale refused to allow tho inspector to go out of a John Briley and James Pritchett, who had been private door, and detained them for two or three several times remanded upon the charge of felo minutes ; and although, of course, he would not at- niously receiving a case of bristles, of the value of tempt to dispute that the magistrate was justified in 801., which had been stolen from the premises of deciding that this amounted to an obstruction of Messrs. Joseph and Turner, bristle merchants, in the police in the execution of their duty, still h e St. M ary -axe were brought ' up for final examina submitted that it really was a very trifling matter, tion. and that there were no grounds for refusing a re- Mr. Wontner appeared for the prosecution ; and newel of the license. Mr. Lewis, jun., for the prisoners. Mr. Lund, the Superintendent of the P Division, It will be remembered thee Briley is a green and an inspector named Worels, and a sergeant grocer in Kent -street, Southwark, and Pritchett, named Coppen, were then summoned by the court, who lives opposite him, carries on a very ex and they stated that the gardens of the Manor - tensive business as a brushmaker. Briley received horse Tavern were constantly resorted to by pros- the property of a man named Harding, and titutes, and that they left at one or two. o'clock in took it to Kent-street, where it was purchased by the morning, and that they wore frequently very Prichelt, at ale nit half its value. From informa noisy, and that the inhabitants had made repeated tier which reached the police, two offic.rs, accom complaints to the police upon the subject. panied by M r . C o hen, the prosecutor's cl er k, -In answer to questions put by Mr. Knapp, the visited Pritchett's premises, and asked him whether officers admitted that amusements of a similar ea- he had in his possession - the stolen bristles. He ture.had been carried o n a t the Surrey Gardens, declared he had not. The offic-rs were not satisfied but they said that the audience attending those with his denial, and upon making a search they gardens always left at a much earlier hour. found Pricheet's foreman in the act of burying a Mr. Wale, the proprietor of the tav e rn, was then tub in the earth at the rear of the wan ehouse. This sworn, and he stated that he hadalw a y s endeavoured they forthwith exhumed, and upon breaking in its to conduct the establishment in a respectable man- head discovered about 351. worth of the bristles ner, as he had laid out several thousand pounds upon which had been stolen from the prosecutor's the premises, and it was his interest to do so. He premises, had been offered money by the proprietors of the M. Auguste Cheville Lodde, a manufacturer of Surrey Gardens for his premises, and because he bristles, living in Paris, was yesterday called. He refused the offer they were endeavouring to destroy identified the samples produced by the officers as the property, and he asserted that they were the part of a case of bristles which he had forwarded to real parties who were opposing him on the present the prosecutors. occasion. Charles Brown, constable, No. 654, corroborated The Chairman, after consulting his colleagues, the evidence of Watkins, 660, with respect to the said that the Court were of opinion that the police discovery of the tub in the hole. were only doing their duty in giving information toi This being the whole of the evidence. the magistrates in reference to these matters, and they Mr. Goodman proceeded to read the lengthy were of opinion that Mr. Wale had not quite con- depositions of the witnesses, and the prisoners, wh o ducted his establishment in the manner he ought to said they s h ou l d reserve their defence, were fully have done. They would not, however, go to the committed for trial to the Central Criminal Court. t xtent of depriving him of his license altogether, I Mary Cane, a woman who bore the appearance but would restrict him to having music only. of having had her legs amputated at the hip joint, A license for music only was accordingly granted. tnd who carried a child in her arms, wee brought appeared in a very excited state. He went to the Iprisoner, wh o was exc l a i m i ng, "M e Sepoy. Me killt-d oury is;ster ; me killed y our s i s . er ' s c hild . " He (comtAbl•-) was obliged to take h in info cue tody for his own safety. Had he nit &no so he believed t le prisoner wouil h ive b , en ki4ed. The Magistrate (to the prisoner)—What have you to say ? Prisoner—Some b iys followed me, calling out, "There goes a Sepoy." Me said, "Me no :Sepoy. Me no Sepoy." lam not a Sepoy, air. The Magistrate (to the constable)—Did you hear any one call him a Sepoy ? Constable—No, sir. The prisoner repeatedly shouted out "Me Sepoy, me Sepoy." There were . between 700 and 800 persons around him. Many used very threatening language towards the pri soner. some of them had sticks, and were about to use them. The Magistrate—Was he drunk ? Constahle—He had been drinking. The Magistrate—l shall discharge you now. You must not cause such a disturbance again, or you may receive some very serious inju r y. The prisoner thanked his worship, and left the court. MARYLEBONE.—John Marks, coach builder, Bell-street, Edgware-road, Samuel Marks, his brotter, and Abraham Simmoncls were again brought up on the charge of fraudulently disposing of property subsequently to a fiat of bankruptcy against the first-named prisoner. The previous examinations have been given at considerable length in our paper. After some father evidence, Mr. Solomons observed that between 4,0001. and 5,0001. had been paid into the Court of Bankruptcy to the credit of the bankrupt. Mr. George Butl r, an accountant in the case of bankruptcy in question, gave evidence to th e eff-et that admitting John arks's statement which he had made was correct as to the property, there was still a deficiency of 6,629/. 17s. 9d. which had not as yet been traced. The prisoners were fully committed for trial. LAMBETH.—Benjamin Bonnet, a middle aged man, in the garb of a mechanic, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of attempting self-murder by swallowing a dose of laudanum. Police-constable Lewis Batty, 314 P, deposed that this morning he was called off his heat to the residence of the prisoner in Weymouth-street, Wal worth, and on going into his room his mother said that he had taken laudanum for the purpose of de stroying him-elf. The prisoner admitted that he had done so, and said he much regretted he had not taken a greater quantity, and his mot her informed him (witness) that he had been drinking for two or three days. He took the prisoner to the station, house, and charged him with attempting to destroy himself, and it was found that by keepin g him walking abut there w a s no necess i t y f or a doctor. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his mind was in such a state free. the effect of drink that. he scarcely knew what he did. He was remanded for a week. THAMES.—Mr. James Golding, the seeretary of the cominitt3e of , he People's Suhan iption Band, wait, don Mr. Selfe with a deputation, acid said that on the las:. pe , founance of the hand in Vic toria-park, eight guineas we re co ll ec t, d f rom t h e people assembled by the sale of programmes and tickets. It was intended to present the same to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, near the en trance of the Victoria-park, and it,was refused by the committee of the hospita!, on the ground of disapproval of Sunday hands of music in tee parks The money was next offered to Queen Adelaide's Dispensary, in Bethnal-green, and was refused by the commit ee of th , .t charily on similar grounds. The committee of the People's Stibcrlption Rind then determined to divide the inow-y bi tween. the Thames and Worship-street Police -courts, and he had now respectfully to tender four guineas for the poor-box of the court. Mr. &Ho would most cheerfany accept of the money, and was much obliged to the deput►tion. The poor were very much indebted to the committee for their subscription. He did not care whore the money came from, so long as it was honestly ob tained. Mr. Golding—lt was obtained by the sale of programmes of the music ; and we should have ob tained at least 201. for charitable purpo, , es, if 'the committee of the Hospital for diseases of the Chest had not adopted the ungenerous proceeding of eau tio.iing people not to give money. Mr. Selfe—l have nothing whatever to do with that. I shall gladly accept your money, but I say nothing of the propriety or impropriety of playing music in the par:is on Sunday afternoons. I give no opinion at all. RUSSIA IN THE EAST. Since the Treaty of Paris Russia has become a power occupied exclusively in making interior im provements, and the friends of civilisation congra tulate this power on its entry on this new line. European capitalists are going to throw over these vast countries a network of railways, and this gives us a motive for glancing at those of Asia. The East, even the farthest East, which touches the boundaries of Asia, is now a great battle field, where the different interests of European policy come in contact and battle together, dragged on as they are by commerce, the mighty mover of the age. It is true that, from whatever point of view we look at them—from whatever side we consider them—all Oriental questions call our attention to wards Russia. Siberia, that immense and myst.rious tract of country, in which European fancy sees but a desert without end, is.to Russia a grand base for-impor taut operations. In cotuparison to its extent, the population is very small ; on 220 square leagues scarcely 3,000,000 of inhale t .nts are to be found; but in many places the very fertile Foil, the tempe rite climate, the inexhaustible vegetable and mi neral riche—and, above all, the facilities for com munication occasioned' by rivers—have given to these oases of the Siberian desert a certain eleva tion with regard to agriculture, industry, the mines, commerce, and navigation. - For the last 15 years steam-boats navigate the largest rivers of Siberia ; and on the banks of these rivers, which are more like lakes, or rather inland seas, and even on the shores of the ocean, fortified forts and military ateenals are bring raised. A short time since a fleet built in the p iris of We tern Siberia obliged Japan to make witti Russia a treaty very advantageous to her. Lately a detachment of troops, from the interior of Siberia, advanc d to wards the river Amoor and the frontiers of China, and acquired for Russia a rich and fertile country, tendered still more important by its touching the Sea of Japan, and thus enabling Russia to create a fleet which, until it procures for her a prepon derating influence over the Pacific, will at least pro tect the commerce of China and Japan. Russia now possesses in Asia four stations, which are at the same time both naval and !military. These stations are situated on the Caspian Sea,. on -- Lake Aral, on Lake Baikal, and at the mouth of WORSHIP-STREET. —William Clarke, In the • de- the Amoor.caspian Sea, within the l last few years, th e scribed as an engine -driver in th e serv i ce of the Eastern Counties R a il way Company, number of merchant and naval slips has bee n do under the 16th sec ti on o f th e act 5 and u. was charged 6 Victoria bled. At Astrakan have been erected gigantic, buildings for the fabrication of steam-engine s an d cap. 98, with havin g un l aw f u ll y neglected to stop ship-building; on the shores and on se v era l i s l an d s his engine in obedience t o cer t a i n danger-signals have been raised .rmee has been augmented and forts and military ports. Th e which were exhibited for his etuda n ce, w h ere by h e ' bad rendered himself li a bl e t o a pena l ty of 10/ .) or reorganised. Orenburg corps d a two months' imprisonme n t. The prisoner, who was d r i v i ng an eng i ne, paid A steam fleet plies the waters of Lake Aral, and no attention to a danger-signal at the Mile-end eta- chains of Russian forts extend along the banks of tiou, lequiring him to reduce his speed to 4or 5 the great rivers Saloon and Jihoon, which fall into miles an hour, and went rapidly towards the Brick- this lake. Steam-ships IS war also navigate t La t k , e , lane station. There he also neglected a danger- Baikal, forts an d timber-yards ara beincons m r i u li c ta e r on its shores, and in the neighbourhood signal, and, dashing past the station at the rate of 20 miles an hour, ran into a goods' train, the engine , colonies are being formed on the plan of the turps d'armee of Eastern Siberia. of which, and his own tender, were both suaasaecl by the collision. fleets constrlic ed, fortresses forti- On the banks of the Amoor a corps d'armee is John Fairchild, an engine cleaner who was act- the Emperor Alexander, after . examining being organised, flea ing as prisoner's fireman at the time Of the accident, andtfiheed'reort ofthe scientific and military commis admitted that he understood nothinbout signale, and only knew that the red light was a danoTr- sioners p sent to reconnoitre the piovince of the signal on-Saturday last. terminate the line e Amoor, gave orders for the rebuilding a fortified John Adams, art engine driver, admitted, in p o T rt h o i s n A t s h i e at p i l c a to n cr o o f n C st r a o d n t st i a s dt. cross-examination, that it was the custom of the of communication commencing near the European company, when hard pushed for hands, to employ Cronstadt. The carrying out of this lin e o f communication, firemen as drivers and engine men s firemen, ignanals. d thus carried on land and wat er b y means of steam, that it was the duty of both to look a out for s It having been-proved'that the prisoner was in- presents few Ifficulties. • toxicated at the time of the accident, The French capitali s t s i n t en d continuing to Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he was decidedly of Nishni Novgorod the railway that ha s b een 1 id opinion th at the defendant had been guilty of most between St. Pet-rsburg aud Moscow ; from Nishni culpable negligence, but at the same time it was equally apparent that the wireless Fairchild was al- Novgorod by th e V o l oa and its tributaries the together incompetent to act as fireman, and he felt Kama and T o b o l. Th e Russian engineers h ave bound to say that a want of proper caution healtraced the pl ans an d counted the cost of these Yenisei. The T o b a l l ea d s t o th e Obi ; Obi the He t land o e been exhibited iirhis appointment to that position. , enisei. There are only a few leagues byT;hea powered to commit the prisoner, without t He found, on referring to the act, that he was em snort tract of r ai l w ill unite the two levers. he im position of a pecuniary penalty, and he considered i river Angara, or Upper Toung °u se, one of the tti the case as one of such a serious character, that he , butaries of the Y en is e i, joins the latter river to the had no lie-itation in sentencing him to hard labour , Lake Baikal, and only thr,e miles distant the . nia for six Months in the House of Correction. jestic waters of the Amoor are rolling towards the . 1 walls of New Cronstadt. By this immense artery WESTMINSTER.—A. native of India, who he capital of the Celesiial the Baltic will be joined to the Pacific,a:id from the spoke very good English, was charged with can-ing c entre of Russ i a e v en t a disturbance, while under the influence of liquor ' i Empire may be reached. _ . _ in the Broadway, Wefemin-ter. The Russian Government is planning another Police-constable Burnett, B 146, said that on the (the Oxus of the • ) lents , The river Jihoon line of cammunication mote to the - south. previous evening he was on duty in the Broadway, . when he was informed that the prisoner was in ' which falls4eito Lake Baikal, formerly extended to the Caspian Sea. Its now dry and sandy bed can danger of his life.- There was a crowd of men, 1 women% and children a b ou t him, all of whom Ibe cleared out and rendered navigable. Mr. Bonsor—The prisoner returned after he re ceived the money from last witness, and on going to his lodgings this morning with a policeman, I found the prisoner in bed, having been drunk the night before. He told me where he left the money. The prisoner was discharged. - BOW-STREET.—A respectable-looking man, about 35 years of ago, who gave the name of Sin clair, and described himself as a traveller, was charged, together with a man named Lloyd, with committing a btir4lary on the night of the 12th instant, on the premises of Mr. Grouse, tailor, 549, New Oxford-street. At seven o'clock on the 13th, Sergeant Egerton, of the E division, saw Lloyd and another person in Upper King-street, Bloomsbury. Lloyd was csrrying a bag, which he gave to his companion, who, on seeing the officer, dropped it and ran away. 1.41 , ,yd was taken into custody, and the bag was found to 'contain clothes which had been stolen from Mr. Grouse's premises. Lloyd was brought before Wakefield-street, Bru nsw i c k- square, where the magistrate, and remanded. Th e o ffi cer wen t t L o l.o l y B d , bad .occupied a garret, and apprehended Sergeant Sinclair, EgeTtou - now ex p resse d his firm conviction who was occupyi ng th e d raw i ng -room. that Sinclair was the man who had dropped the carpet-bag. Sinclair had been apprehended on his description. . _ _ Mr. Lewis, of Ely-plac,,, asked the witness how he described him ? Witness—l said he was a short man, dark com plexion, dressed in dark clothes, and respectable looking. Mr.Lewis—lndeed. Then lam very glad th , , , officers did not meet me, or they might have ap prehended me on your description, for I am a short man, of dark complexion, I wear dark clothes, and I should hope I look reTec , able. (A. laugh.) Mr. Lewis drew his worship's attention to the absence of any mention of the features in this description, showing, as he contended, that the features had made no impression on his mind. Mr. Lewis called witnesses who proved that Sin clair travelled to Cambridge by a train which left London at six o'clock a.m. on the 13th, and the magistrate discharged him. Lloyd wa3 comniated for trial. THE FINANCES OF ROME. • The following letter has been received from Rome : "You h eve pro b a bl y readiu be Roman me Journal of the 2d of this month a resume of the Buog, t of Finances, by which there would appear a i.u . rp:iis of some millions of scudi, eotwitheiandin e . the heavy rernieeions made to venous provinces by a special circular from Morsigoor Ferrari, Minister of Finances. • Anuteer circular from the same Minister boasts of the very advantageous loan contracted with the House of Rothschild. Certainly, if all the fibs that Monsignor Ferrari chooses to publish were ready money it would be impossible to deny to our State the merit of being a very model to the rest of the world in regard to finances. But they are right to draw a veil over the exchequer ; it is always on the de cline. It would be easy to prove that we are on the road to ruin. The deplorable state of our finances is so patent that I will not waste time in refuting the false hoods of the Minister of Finances by examining each cate4ory of the budget ; but I give you the following fact, for the authenticity of which I can vouch : "The Commons of Rome being burdened with the expanse of lodging the French troops, the Municipality at first provided for the c arge by an extra tax on liquids and forage, which, from 1854 to 1856, produced 195,000 Roman crowns ; then, by another extra tax on pro perties, whether houses or lands, which gave in the same years 123,000 crowns; making altogether 318,000. You will allow that that was a tolerably heavy sum to pay for barrack room, the net expenditure on which amounted to 276,986 crowns, so that there was a surplus of 41,014 crowns. What has become of this sum I No one can tell, and the municipality itself would be very much puzzled to account for it, because, although it is permitted to ar range the levying of the taxes, it is not allowed to gather them. But that is not all. All the provinces of the State that have not the expense of barracks to pay ;.re obliged to contribute half as much as Rome itself pays-- tha - , is to say, 138,000 crowns ; so that the Government has a surplus at the expense of the population of Rome and the provinces. This surplus consists of 41,019 crowns, raised from the commune of Rome, and the 138,000 crowns contributed by the provinces, amounting to above 179,000 in the total, and that without taking into account the late reductions made in the expenditure for barracks for the French garrison. After all that, it does not require a conjuror to produce a surplus of 1,429 crowns in the budget of 1858. "The following circular has been addressed to the gen. , da,rmerie by Monsignor Milelle, Apostolic Delegate at ,Macerata, which shows an intention of prolonging the state of siege in spite of the noise made about its sup* pression not long since : " MUNICIPAL POLICE.—NO. 181. Sir,—Notwithstanding the convention signNl tween the Pontifical and the Austrian Governments for the cessation of the state of siege, the law on disarming / 0 no less in vigour, and you will comprehend, sir, all the importance that the Government attaches to its scrupn• ions execution. It is your duty, therefore, to renew to ell the chiefs of brigades or detachment dependent on you the order to -watch, in the most scrupulous manner, the caeca" tion of the said law. Your subordinates are authorised W make domiciliary visits, and to employ all the means they may judge convenient, in order that the laws have effect. All the arms which may be found in the houses of inhabi• tants who cannotsh'w any authority for keeping them, and delivered by the provincial direction of police, will be se' questrated. Arms found in the houses of persons having air ,thority to keep them for personal protection will also be se' questrated, if it should be found that they are used for the chase, or for any other purpose than that indicated in the permission. The arms to be sent to the governor of the province, to whom an account of the circumstances con nected with the seizure • will be forwarded, and a proceS vcvbal of the same will be remitted to the direction of the police of the provinces. ." MILELLE, Apostolic Delegate. " Macerate, Ang. 6, 1857. " To the Captain commanding Gendarmerie of Country Markets. EDINBURGH BAY AND STRAW MARKET 00T. 20. Supplies of all kinds these last six days large. Oat straw, from 7s Od to 9 a 6 , 1 per kemple of 16 stone° tron ; wheat do., 7s Od to 8s Od ; barley do., 6801. to Od. Hay from 10d to 12d. EDINBURGH MEAL-00T. 20. There wore in the market to-day 12 sacks oatmeal, eieb weighing 2801 b imperial, which sold at 42s Od and —A• DALKEITH MEAL MARKET—OCT. 19. There were in the market to-d a y 29 b ags o f oa t mea l, oOf barleymeal, and 0 pot barley. Sales dull. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs First. Second. ThiriA imperial Barleymeal, per ditto -s Od —a Od. —s utb, Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, new, per ditto —s Od. —8 Od —s VI Pot-barley, new, per ditto —a Od —s Od —a "Od DUBLIN, OCT. 20. There was a small supply of all kinds of grain, with th s currencies of Friday generally supported. Rather higher prices wer e rea li se d f or b est feeding oats. Indian corn snot' a very slow demand at last week's quotations. White wheat, 30; Od to 33s Od ; red ditto, 28s Od to S t r . 01; ditto ne w , 30 s GA ; barley, malting, 178 6d to 225; grin., p i ing, — s t o — s ; oats, old, 15s Oct to 18s; ditto, nevr,—'gd 6d to 11s 6d ; oa t mea l , 15s Od to 17s; bere, new, 15s to 1 - 61 ; r toes , d, 28s Od t o 30s Odper brl; bak e' flour, 1 , 6(1 to 243 Od per cwt; Indian corn, 35s Oct to 373 Od r" 180 lbs. .ET.-oa. 21. the close of the market PiaHeald, &o. fct. COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton at 8 . d Ward's West Hartley Wylam _ • 3towart's ~---- 0 Hastings Hartley... ...... 18 3 P ees re 0 Wsllsend, ice. Hebburn 2.0 6 Riddell 2l 6 Nixon's Duffryn.: 21 Shineliffe 21 0 . - Ships at market ;, 18 ; sold, 17. LOCAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL. OCT. 21. ° 1 , STOCK EXCHANGE. —Th e t one o f t h e market has he els lower to-dayy and only a limited business done. Load t/ i 9 3 1 1 and South Western, 90—Lancashire and Yorkshirk - - Eastern Cou n ti es, 10i --Midland, 814 211 . Western of Ca ada, 18 London and North.Wesw7..". 93 i—Dutch Rhenish, 4i d--Grand Trunks, 101.15. Sti South Eastern 19- Mancheit er , Sheffield, and Lin p, 3q—North British, 11i -- Nort h Union A, 220—8i.4. ! head, Lancashi re , an d Ch esh i re, 65—Caldoniene, og Berwicks, 24. MANCHESTER, OCT. 21. STOCK EXC H ANGE.—The market is exceedingly Adlo y-c t i I to-day, with low er p r i ces . L on d ons, 96 Sheffielda, —Midland, 818 4—Eastern Counties, 10 i—Leods, Boyers, 19— East Anglian. 48—Eas0 Lan cas hire,,; ge t Grand Trunk of C ana .l a , 108— Bl ac kb urn, Northern, 24—Great Western of Canada, 18g. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 21. 0 41 a STOOK EXCHANGE. —Prices i n th e mar k e t fi r m -t • WO° opening, and imp rove d t owar d s th e c l ose . Great W OO 5L —Londort and North Westerns, 964—Ditto, Bie g 61 1 a - d.—Midland, Bli 24—Birmi n gh am a nd Derby, South StAforde, 9i I—Crystal Palace, 12s 6d, 13s. V‘" Worcester and Birmingham Canal, 15. A letter from Frankfort state 3 that the r es ult of tho late explosion of a firework manufactory in that citf i s '.. - 4 more serious than was at first menti one d. seven h"1"( have already been taken out fr om th e ru i ns— those: M. Schunk, the owner, three o f hi s c hil dren, two.vror h ' s ; men, and a servant. The r emova l o f all the ru bbish b • not been yet completed, and it is feared that others,ll still buried beneath it. Th e w i fe and the fourt h cm of M. Schenk, and the other persons who had been g o t uut and conveyed to th e hospital, still remain in critical state. e if [ADvEnTisitltim.]—Holloway's Pills should be to for the cure of dropsy.—Females at a certain peri od it % life become liable to this complaint, which first ma kes do, appearance by the swelling of the feet, legs, and hs l3 _ • and thus making st rong inroads on the constitutioe; numbers of dropsical patients, even s when their (!f_ og. were pronounced hopeless have been .cured by t o t h e Holloway's Pills ; and this medicine having . stood n° test f years as a certain remedy for this malady, no %II so t.filioted should delay giving it a trial.—Sold by medicine venders thiougbont the world ; at Profes° Holloway's Eitablishii3ent, 244, Strand, London, O w 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Conss °— tinople; A. Guidicy; Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. BIRTHS. OF A SON. tr . O f • On the 21st inst., at the Grove, Highgate, the if'" - Wm. Boyer Mor gan , E sq. , fe of On the 21st inst., at Munsted, Godalming, the ' l9 ' 4 Charles H. Parkes, Esq. OF • DAUGHTER, If• On the 21st inst„ at Sion House, Cla t 3111 ' ey Mer. pon, k' On the 20th inst., at 138, Cambridge-street, Wer ig-c square, the wile of Arm. Dennis, Esq.,. MARRIED. 10% On the 20th inst., at the parish church of St. tx l Camberwell, John Fisher Eastwood, Esq., o f s o rbit te hill, Surrey, to Frances Mary, only daughter o f. the 1 " Charles T. Pearce, Esq., of Grove-hill, Camberwell.,,, trp On the 20th inst., at Shermanbury, Sussex, Do u s ' s , oe Fi'h.r Lyns, Esq., of the Middle Temple, t o et2..e f i ° 4, Wheler, youngest daughter of John Cotton, Esq., of w ts ' boure-teitace, London. DIED On the 19th inst., at North Runcton, Thotas ig _ h igsf Tronbridge, the infant son of Sir Th omas Troubr+ — Bart., C.B. On the 19th inst., suddenly. at 12, Westbourne-P ox' terrace, Fountaine Hogge, Captain 2d Life Guards., f url' On the 20th inst., John William T ongue, Esq., 01,_,TIe ton-hill, Holloway, and St. J o h n - s t reet, W es t S m it h aged 64. plat p On the 10th inst., at C o th am, B r i s t o l , Jacob -1 Stue, aged 61. fr On the 18th inst., Li eu t-C o l . W m ! Mi n t o , l a t e . E • . Sorvice, aged 60. TrAsf On the 19th inA., at Grantham, Th omas Wyles, agrd 69. On the 20th inst., at Binfield-road, Stockwell, GO' Jepson, El., formerly of Brussels, aged 63. DO' On the 20th inst., at Barnsbury-square, Islingtoo , Thomas Parry, aged 71. , 1 14,TV1 LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YO No. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 27te Sun ailie e ' v ol 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the co of Middlesex, Thursday, October 22, 1857.