The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

PETITION OF THE BRITISH INHABI- TANTS OF CALCUTTA. We have been kindly favoured with a copy . 0 the following important petition of the British in habitants of Calcutta to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assem bled : " The humble Petitioners of the undersigned British In habitants of Calcutta most h umbl y showetb , " That your petitioners view with daily increasing anxiety and alerm the condition and prospects of British India. " They do not despair of its speedy re-conquest, by the forces of her Maj est y ; but it is undeniable that, with the exception of three or four places of strength, the whole of the North-West Prov.nces, as well as the -newly-acquired kingdom of Oade, is lost for the present. In addition to which Tirhoot, Behar, and Chota Nag pore are in danger. " Throughout India the native belief in the prestige of British power has been destroyed, and where the Asiatic has no dread of physical force he has no respect for _moral influence. "Over thousands of square miles, where threemonths since Englishmen travelled in security unarmed, at this tnornent European women for themselves and their children court speedy death as a blessing. "On every highway lie the dishonoured and mutilated remains of our countrywomen and their children, and the bodies of British soldiers and unarmed men foully murdered. " The government of the East India Company, to whose care the interests of Great Britain in the East have been confided, possess, from their constitution, absolute power. They have a perpetual majority in the Legislative Council, which is composed entirely of offi cial persons. " They have the sole appointment to all offices, with the exception only of those of the Governor General, the Commander-in-Chief, and the judges of the Supreme Court. " There are no private or corporate rights that can be effectually opposed to them, nor is there any repre sentation of public opinion. " In the country desolated by the rebels, there are hundreds of civil servants, judges, magistrates, and col lectors; village chowkedars and policemen in tens of thousands, and more than two thousand commissioned military officers, European and native, and yet, if we may believe the Government, there was not in all this vast estab ishment to be found one person to acquaint the authorities of the existence of a conspiracy spread over countries many times larger than the area of the British Isles, and in which upwards of a hundred thou sand soldiers have joined. " The rebellion broke out and found the Government totally unprepared. No efficient commissariat, no orga nised means of procuring intelligence, and, with a few brilliant exceptions, no men of sufficient capacity for the emergency. At the commencement of the outbreak, Delhi, the largest arsenal of ordnance in the North West of India, the important military depot of Cawnpore, and the fortress and arsenal of Allahabad, the key of the lower provinces, were without a single European soldier to defend them. The two former fell into the hands of the insurgents. "On the 25th May last, when a number of regiments were in open revolt, when many treasuries had been plundered and various important stations fallen into the hands of the rebels, the Secretary to the Home Depart ment officially informed the inhabitants of Calcutta, in answer to loyal addresses tendering aid and personal ser vice, that The mischief caused by a passing and ground. less panic had already been arrested, and that there was every reason to hope that in the course of a few days tranquility and confidence would be restored throughout the nreeidency.' " From that hour to the present the policy of Govern ment has not undergone the slightest change. In the teeth of events the most startling, in defiance of warn ings the moat emphatic, they steadily persisted in ignor ing the fact of danger for which they had made no preparation. " On toe 13th June, they passed a law which destroyed the liberiy of the press, and placed every journal in India at the absolute feet of the executive authority. " Your petitioners refrain from here commenting on this act of the Government, uncalled for by the occasion, repugnant to British feeling, and subversive of the prin ciples of the British constitution. This was done at a time when the Government was receiving universal sup port from the English portion of the press. "Your petitioners felt themselves bitterly aggrieved by the attempted imposition of what is known as the Black Act, but their feelings in that respect never hin dered them for a moment in coming forward to assist the Government with heart and band. Their offers were coldly t eclined, though ultimately accepted when danger was too apparent. At the present moment not only does Calcutta owe its chief security to European volunteers, but Government have invited the enrolment of paid corns for service in the interior. "The whole trade of the presidency has suffered more or lssa ; many branches of it are ruined entirely. The sale of imports is almost nominal ; the cotton goods of England are not to be disposed of, even at great sacri fices. The export of silk, indigo, sugar, and other arti cles of export will suffer censiderable diminution for some seasons to come, in consequence of the destruction of many factories, and the loss of much capital. " In the tian of the revolt lit is more than probable that famine with all its Indian horrors will follow. " To remedy all these evils and to fix on a firmer basis the Briti.h pen er in the East, your petitioners can alone appeal to the British nation. " Your petitioners can look for no redress to the powers to whom the government of this great country is delegated, they having shown themselvee unequal to the task. " The government of the East India Company have neiti e • men, money, nor credit ; what credit they had was destroyed by their conduct in the late financial ope rations. " The army has dissolved itself, the treasuries have either been plundered by the rebels or exhausted by the public service, and a loan, even at 6 per cent., would scarcely find subscribers. " When tranquillity is once restored, her Majesty's ministers will find that many millions sterling have been added to the Indian debt, and that the annual deficits of the Indian budget will be materially increased, but under good government your petitioners have the fullest confi dence that the boundless resources of this vast country are sufficient to meet all necessary demands of the state. The system under which the country has been hitherto governed, utterly antagonistic as it has ever been to the . encouragement of British settlement and enterprise in India, has entirely failed to preserve the power of the Queen to win the affections of the natives, or to Bemire the confidence of the British in India. " Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Hon. house will adopt such measures as may be neces sary for removing the government of this country from the East India Company, and substituting in its plasm the direct government of her Majesty the Queen, with an open Legislative Council, suitable to the re epeirements of the country, and compatible with the 13ritieh supremacy, Queen's Courts presided over by trainel lawyers, and with the English language as official court language. And your petitioners shall ever pray, see. " Calcutta, August 3, 1857." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE ST. LEGER WINNER. Both John Scott and Fiatman were moat cordially congratulated on the scenes of Imperieuse. They may Well be proud of their achievements. John Scott never Pent an animal in finer condition to the post than Imperiense, and despite her unaccountable running at York, he had the firmest faith in her. The fact, as we unierstand it, is, that after the York meeting Imperieuse was tried with Warlock, and so satisfactorily did she acquit herself that a large commission was sent out to back her, and that commission was partly executed during Warwick races. John Scott has the additional triumph of having carried off the St. Leger two years in suc cession, accomplishing the feat with outsiders. Flatman, too, was warmly congratulated on following up his achievements of last year, when be won the Great York shire Ilandieap on Typee and the St. Leger on Warlock. Hie success on Imperiense upon this occasion afforded 1):.m a double gratification, as she is the daughter of his favourite horse Orlando, on whom he won the Derby in 1844. Flatman has now three times carried off the St. Leger, viz. : in 1848, on Surplice ; in 1856, on War lock ; and in 1857 on Imperieuse, and every one who admirers skilfn riling, Boned judgment, and unassuming behavirmr, must hope that he will live to add many . n.vet t it. Legere to his triumphs. iraperieuse was bred at the Royal stud, She is by Or lan do, out of Eulogy, a mare that was purchased by Mr. oAwin at the sale of the late Mr. Stephenson, and at 'the same time that Mr. Howard bought Virago. The produce of Eulogy, the dam of Imperiense, have already realised two thousand guineas, and she has now at her Not an own brother to the Si. Leger winner, and this ford will be brought to the hammer at the next Royal 4 a tle. Imperieuse was bought at this sale, by Lord Z,b4tl;srtoonee, for 400 guineas, and last year she became the iu t e l' ky grerrh ea' 1.11,,1r. John Scott, who has found her a aeith her, i n d nng to wonthe One Thousand Guineas earr ss rein 1 7 . remembered giving a t t the S. Leger. It will be elink nae won the Thousand Guineas as RH - A( Bunny gave her Bon ny almost as easy a beating " BP ~k" agai n sustained atci E,oge rtrie so S m t. , the Derby, Oaks, and St. li swirl() a L n e d g e g r u f t e T a u s w e in y t h a e s hag never fallen to the of one ani ~al. Thos e nm wase am usement li to " :n e s t t r ia t a h a n e t g f e o l e l Li nci dencei" may d c e b r a iv in e po o ng statement : Leger. In 1800 he won the doubl e the Derby and St. Le event, and from that period down to 1848 the " Cha pion c harm" was not broken. Surplice in th at year ;On the Northern /tad Southern events, and in 1849 and 1•r.550 similar triumphs awaited The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur. An interval of three years then elapsed before a Derby victor added the St. Leger to his achieve .ments, but in 1853 West Australian accomplished the feat el wianing the three great races of the season , viz , the Two Thousand, the Darby, and tne St. Leger. S that period the St. Leger has fallen to "outsiders." n 1801 -Eleanor, like Blink B Aany in the present year, carried off the Derby and Oaks, and in 1835 Queen of • Trumps won the Oaks and the St. Leger ; but since that tim e the last-named events have not been paced to the credit, or one animal—Sunday Times. 1 - SE INDIAN MUTINIES. —The BUM of 871. 10?. has be'eo subscribed in Ipswich for the relief of the Indian ". ictims, although the mayor (Mr. Christopherson) has not considered it necessary to call a public meeting. General Havelock, who is amember of the Baptist body, is a brother-in-law of Mr. John C. Marshman, who un suocs.ssfolly contested the - representation of Ipswich in liarch last. to , :r VTIN LONDON MONDA Y . 1 Naval and Military intelligence. for the Mediterranean will each take out a number of troops for the overland route to India. Capt. J. Wm. Callman Williams, of the Royal Marine Artillery Corps, has been appointed In structor in Fortification and Mechanical Drawing to the Royal Naval College, vice Savage, deceased. VICTORY, GUARD SHIP, CAPTAIN G. H. SEY MOUR, C.B.—On the water being pumped out of No. 3 dock, we had an opportunity of examining her bottom ; her lines are exceedingly fine, with an entrance and run like a cutter. She was built at Chatham in 1768. It is 21 years since she was last docked at Portsmouth. The Victory has leaked for a long time past ; yet, although we have ready means at hand, in the shape of divers and material, not a thought seems to have occured to the officials about the necessity of examining any portion below the water line. Her bottom presented a most singular appearance when the dock was dry, being covered from stem to stern with oysters, mussels, and animalcuke ; npwards of six bushels of the finest oysters were detached from the copper sheathing, some of which measured five inches in diameter, and which apparently were devoured with great relish by the dockyard workmen. As to mussels there must be at least two eartload>•. About 18 feet from the stem, and four from the water line on her starboard bow, is a sight worth looking at, and it is pretty evident that ever since the Victory has been at her present moorings she has been chafing on her bridle chain ; this ground away her copper sheathing for 13 streaks down towards the keel, and no doubt shortly after the worms had it all their own way, for they have positively eaten through the whole of a space of 10 feet by the average of 3 feet. These destructive insects have penetrated completely through the outer planking to the timbers, making for themselves cells quite honeycomb ; the inner part of some of the planking not being thicker than a piece of orange-peel, any shock given to the ship would have allowed the pressure of the tide to have broken through in a body, and down would have gene Nelson's old Victory. Her copper is generally in excellent order, and she appears yet as though she would well last another century. There are vacancies for boys for school appren tices on board the Victory at Portsmouth. The boys must be over 14 and under 16 years of age ; ovor four feet eight inches high, from 14 to 15 years of age ; over four fe?t ten inches high, from 15 to 16 years of age ; able to read and write well ; strong, healthy, and well-grown ; free from all physical malformation ; and must be able to pass a strict medical examination. They must have the consent of parents or nearest relations. They are well cared for, educated, and have certain employment until they are twenty-eight years of age. All candidates from a distance must come at their own expense, and if rejected, must find their way back to their friends at their own expense. As it is desirable that boys should be - properly clothed as soon as possible, it is impera tive that they bring 2/. with them for that purpose. The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander J. B. Field, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from Plymouth, with seamen-gunners, lent to the Agamemnon for the cable voyage, and super numeraries. PEMBROKE DOCKYARD.—The newly launched first-class frigate the Melpomene, pierced for fifty guns, is being rapidly jury-rigged by the seamen riggers sent round for that purpose, who will navi gate her to Portsmouth, where she is to be imme diately commissioned. The staff of the 2d depot battalion has been again ordered to Pembroke. This staff was removed to Preston early in the spring. The depots of the 25th, 85th, and 91st Regiments of Foot are to join the garrison at Pem broke. The depot of the 51st Foot is under orders .o leave, and two companies of the 9/th have left o join head-quarters. The depots of the 25th, 85th, and 91st Segiment of Foot are to join the garrison at Pembroke. The depot of the 51st Foot, is under orders to leave, and two companies of the 94th Foot have left to join head-quarters. The staff of the second depot battalion has been again ordered to Pembroke. This staff was removed to Preston early in the spring. The newly launched first-class frigate, the Melpomene, pierced for 50 guns, is being rapidly jury-rigged at Pembroke. She is to be immedi ately commissioned at Portsmouth. 1 On Saturday orders were received at Chatham by Col. H. Jervis, commanding the troops at the provisional battalion, di re cting reinforcements for the 83d and 86th Royal County Down Regiment to be held iu readiness to emb Ark for India for the purpose of joining the head-quarters of those regi ments. The detachments will number 48 non commissioued officers and men, and will go out in charge of Ensign W. Thomson, 78th Highlanders, and Ensign G. S. Jackson, 86th Regiment. With the view of having the recent order promul gated from the Horse Guards carried out relative to the formation of a second company to each of the Indian depots at the provisional battalion, Chatham garrison, the General Commanding-in- Chief has directed an order to be forwarded to every officer on the home station who is at present absent from head-quarters on leave to proceed at once to join his Indian depot at Chatham, for the purpose of officering the second company now be ing formed. The strength of each depot is to be raised to 200 men, exclqsive of officers, and when the whole of the companies are formed. there will be an available reserve of upwards of 5,000 Indian troops at Chatham ready for embarkation at the shortest notice. The following officers have already joined their respective depots at Chatham garrison: —Capt. G. W. Wallace Carpenter, 7th Royal Fusi hers, who takes the command of the depot of the corps ; Capt. W. Egerton Todd, 81st Refit. ; Capt. Spier Hughes, 84th Regiment, who takes the com mand of the second company now being formed ; Lieut. F. G. King, Slat Regiment. ; and Ensign Walter Morrison, 64th Regiment. The head-quarters of the Medical Staff Corps, under the command of Major S. G. Bunbury, which have for some time past occupied the huts at Prince Henry's Bastion, Chatham, have been removed to Chatham barracks, in order to make room for the 3d depot battalion, under the com mand of Colonel C. Elmhirst, which will be quar tered in the huts. The Falkland Island Corps has also been removed from the huts to St. Mary's barracks. In consequence of the success attending the rais ing the 2d battalion of the 23 Foot Government has determined to augment the army by the forma tion at Shorncliffe, of a 2d battalion of the 4th Foot, in strength equal to a complete regiment, and orders have been issued to commence recruit ing for that purpose. The United Service Gazette says :—"A good ser vice pension of 1001. per annum has been bestowed upon Colonel J. R. Young, half-pay sth Foot, Fort Major, at Fort George, Inverness, an officer who entered the service 42 years since." The letters of our Malta correspondent extend to the 15th of September, and report the arrival on the 11th of Her Majesty's steam gunboat the Vigi lant, from Algiers, off which port, on the Bth, she left the British squadron, under Lord Lyons, shaping its course from Malta and the lonian Islands. Her Majesty's screw steam gunboat the Wanderer left Malta at 11 a.m. on the 11th of Sep tember for Cagliari, with a summary for telegraphic communication of the intelligence from India which reached Suez on the 4th by the Pekin from Bombay. The Russian Government steamer Pitz sunda, arrived at Malta on the I2th from London and Gibraltar, with stores, and left for Odessa, having on board Captain Andraeff and Engineer Labelle, of the Imperial Navy. In a postscript our correspondent advises the arrival on the 14th of the Indus from Southampton and the Vectis from Marseilles. Both left for Alexandria on the morn ing of the 15th. The Valletta arrived at Malta from Alexandria on the morning of the 15th. The steam transport Lebanon, Captain Cook, ar rived at Portsmouth on Saturday night from Cepha lonia, whence she sailed on the 7th inst., with Brevet- Lieutenant-Colonel Blount, Captains Cassidy and White, Lieutenants Light, Grace, Saunderson, Sparke, Ethelston, Cox, Thornton, Wilkinson, and Wolsey ; Ensigns Marshall and Cavendish, Adjutant Covey, Surgeon O'Leary, Assistant- Surgeon William'', Quarter-master Tunks, 581 non-commissioned offices and privates, 39 women, and 52 children of the 58th Regiment ; also one private of the 3d Buffs. The troops will land to-day. The Hydaspes, steam vessel, which lett Wool wich with an artillery force for India on Friday, has been detained at Gravesend, in order to com plete her cargo with a large quantity of an improved description of shell, which is being prepared at the lab - ,rat, - )ry department of the Royal Arsenal. Hitherto shells have been nearly filled with gun powder, in which the bullets were placed. It was, however, invariably found that the bullets were completely flattened when the shell exploded, thus impairing their destructive power when fired at any given object: This drawback arose from the fact that the force of the gunpowder caused the flattening of the bullet., by concussion, with the shell, at the moment of explosion. After repeated experiments under the superintendence of the sklect committee of Royal Artillery officers, an im provement was discovered which entirely obviates the previous inconvenience. This consists in sub stituting sulphur for the gunpowder, which under the former plan surrounded the bullets, and in troducing a mailer quantity of gunpowder into the shell by means of a cylinder. The result has proved that the alteration increases the destructive agency of the shells, as the bullets are not injured and a greater distance is obtained. Since Friday workmen have been employed in the. laboratory department, night and day, in fitting and adapting the shells in store for firing by the new process, and large quantities have been forwarded in barges to the Hydaspes. As the troops are now on board, the vessel will proceed on her voyage after shipping as many of these missiles as can be immediately prepared. Five regiments are to embark from Cork for India before the end of this month, viz., three in fantry and two cavalry. It is expected that a por tion of the remainder of the 56th Regiment will sail from that garrison about the 22d. The Kohinoor freight-ship arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday morning from the Thames to embark provisions, &c., from the Royal Clarence-yard, Gosport, for Hong Kong. The Ireland and Babiana steamships were both expected hourly at Portsmouth yesterday to em bark troops for India. The Prussian corvette Amazone, Captain Kuhn, left Spithead on Saturday morning for Dantzic. The Chesapeake, 51, screw frigate, Capt. Vat son, C. 8., is expected to leave Spithead for Cal cutta early this week, although about 50 short of her complement. The Wellington, 72, Captain John Moore, is still over on the west shore, Sheerness, fitting out for the coast-guard. She will require a sort of refit and overhaul previous to being placed in ordinary as an advanced coast-guard ship. The Termagant, 25, screw, Lieut. Colin C. A. Kane, was paid off alongside Portsmouth jetty in most creditable and excellent order and in unpre cedented time. A new plan was, for the first time, adopted. Each man's money, instead of being counted out to him at the table, was wrapped up in paper and sealed, with the man's name written upon it. A whole ship's company of 300 bands were paid in less than one hour and a half ' • nor is this all, for by the wise precaution of Lieutenant Commander Kane no crimps or prostitutes gained admission into the ship, and thus the blue jackets were saved much of the usual ri sults. Every man walked out of the ship sober and cleanly. The performance of Mrs'. Brice (daughter of the late Admiral Searle) and her talented children afforded the highest gratification to officers and craw ; the main deck was fitted up for the occasion, and a most li boral contribution was the result. As regards the youngest child—only four years of age—silver was literally showered upon her by the delighted crew. _ _ _ _ _ _ ......... The Ganges, 84, flag ship, Capt. Fulford, left Sheerness on Saturday morning at 11.30, in charge of Mr. George Brockman, master commanding the Wildfire, for Portsmouth. She was towed out by the African and Widgeon tug steamers about three miles to the eastward of the Big Nore, when, in consequence of the heavy sea and wind prevailing, they both ast off, the Ganges making all sail (wind N.N.E.) for Prince's Channel. The wind, how ever, chopping round more to the eastward, sho was obliged to come to an anchor near the Mouse. cr l ew l— ad v :a z .n ee She remained there all Saturday night. This vessel left Sheerness, notwithstanding Nvrairlpke.on board at Portsmouth her future ad ear and Ant forir Admiral I t h l t o . SouthL L. Baynes, paoi fi o p . a y Shetlie The steam ship r n t ot withstanding all her efforts, some 150 A.E.. of her sea complement. will p ta ii!' o3 l l 7 )?n, which left Southampton convey them to Alexandria yesterday, 200 . troops at Malta and cross the desert to Suez , from whence they will will , and lea on to India. The there h on the 4th . steam ship Colombo, proximo with the East India an ve d s soo China mails, will embark for Alexandria 400 or probable steam ship Australasian, which leaves thoePrse. The 12th proximo with the Australian mails, will em bark 600 troops for Alexandria.. It is ' that the whole of the mail packets which leave there CAUSES OF THE INDIAN REBELLION AND CONDUCT OF THE ReßEts. The true and, we might almost affirm, the sore cause of the ludian insurrection was the construction of the army_ of, b Rtnual _ 7 tcially , riafs as th a t o f th e me trop parti- s sts • " , half of whi c h eon cipated in by that of B —that is, o f w h at are called Poorbies, which sig n ifi es "E asterlings, " men re cruited in the FLione provinces th a t f urn i sh the bulk of the presiden cy—that d s e a n in c l e r In :F. of the Bengal army. We are informed, in the offi cial correspondence laid before Parliament, that in the first infantry regiment that mutinied, there were no fewer than 409 Brahmins and 150 Raj poets, or men " descended from princes," for that is the literal Waning of the word. There is no reason to believe that the proportion of these pre tenders to high birth and divine origin was less in the other 73 regiments of infantry, so that we have here, out of a force of perhaps 70,000, no l ess th an 40,000 of the most inflammable materials that could possibly be brought together. The remaining fin doos of a regiment were even more fastidious in matters of caste than the Brahmins and Rajpoots themselves, and the Mahomedans superadded to the prejudices of the Ilindoos their own peculiar in tolerance. On the plea of caste, military subordina tion was defeated or set at defiance. The &pop of Bengal, for example, refused to perform fatigue la bour like Europeans and other India'i troops. To we a hoe or a pickaxe was derogatory to caste. Thy would enlist only fur home service, and go abroad only when* they pleased. The pretext of caste, in short, ended in throwi ng p ower i nto t h e hands of the common soldiery, and taking it away from their European officers ; oth erw i se, it ended in the creation of an armed force without discipline and without subordination, and ripe for that rebel hop, with all its unutterable horrors, which at length broke out and is now raging over an extent of 1,500 miles. _ _ residence bad the presticr• sufficiently we oursio- Here is General Jacob's account (published seve ral years ago, when the terrible event 3 that have occurred were contemplated by no one) of this dan ger mob of soldiers, for it wanted the most es- iential qualities of an army. General Jacob, as most of our readers are aware, is an officer of the Bombay service, well known for his talents, enterprise, and long experience of Indian troops, qualifications which have justly called him to the command of that portion of our army still remainiug in Persia. The effect 0' enlisting men of a certain caste or creed, to the exclusion of others in the Indian army, is to sub ject that army to the control, not of the Goxerament and „,. of eight centucies, which for the choice. In this matter _.,.tea may be said to have set our rebellious the example, for until the last 30 years we coined money in the puppeCs name, inscribed with his language, and actually feigned to hold our do minion from him at the very moment that he was our pensioner and virtually our prisoner. Besides this, Delhi had the further most substantial seduc tion for the rebels, that we had ourselves converted it into a fortified arsenal, and abandoned it with its immense warlike stores to their unsuspected guardianship. All the time, in fact, that we were wasting millions in protecting ourselves against the phantom of foreign invasion, the r sk we rau at home from the presence of a monster army composed of the most warlike and the most bigoted tribes of the people we had subdued, never entered fora moment into our calculations. Among the secondary causes that precipitated a rebellion which under any circumstances was inevi table, one of the most noticeable in our opinion was the great change which the Indians saw iu operation on the very face of the country, in the shape of canals, railways, and electric telegraphs. To their rude, narrow, and ignorant understandings, these changes seemed to bode nothing less than a design to Europeanise their country, and to overthrow the whole system of their cherished superstitions. As to the atrocities and treacheries perpetrated by the rebels in the course of the insurrection, history, or at least, European history, assuredly affords nothing parallel to them. They began with the beginning of the revolt, and seem to have con templated extermination for their object, not less than the gratification of every fierce Asiatic pas sion. In these demoniac crimes Mahomedans and Hindoos have been equally implicated ; but in the most prominent instances the perpetrators were cer tainly the " mild" Hindoes, of which the exqui site type was Nana Sahib a Mahratta Brahmin. We have looked for a parallel to the atrocities of our long cherished and petted Sepoys in those com mitted by the insurgent negro slaves of St. Domin go some sixty years ago, but find the crimes of the slaves to have fallen far short of those of the Indian freemen. The annals of the Indian people themselves would, however, yield many a precedent. One of these made a deep impres sion in this country seventy years ago ; we allude to the cruelties of Dewi Sing, whom Edmund Burke designated " the infernal fiend." This miscreant was an agent of Warren Hastings, and a high-caste Hindoo. The bare re cital by Burke of his crimes against nature and society made the English ladies of that day faint i Westminster Hall ; and beyond a question many of the atrocities of the present rebellion would pro duce the like effect, could we imagine their rela tion possible in any public assembly.—Examiner. the articles of war, but to that of Brahmins, and Gos seine, Moolahs aad Fakiers. By this system a man is not to be chosen for his fitness to be a soldier, his willingness and strength, durability and courage, but because he is a teice born worshipper of Vishnu. Whatever his other qualifications, if a man think that a stone with a patch of red paint on it is not to be worshipped as the Creator, still more if he have been a shoemaker, &c., he is not to be admitted into the ranks of Cie Bengal army, for her of offending the lazy and indolent Brahmins. The con sequences are ruinous to discipline. By reason of this a native soldier of Bengal is far more afraid of an offence against caste than the articles of war, and by this Means a degree of power rests with the private soldier which is incompatible with all healthy rule. Treachery, mutiny, villainy of all kinds may be carried on among the private soldiers unknown to their officers, to any extent where the men are of one caste of -Hindoos, and where the rules of caste are more regarded than those of military dis cipline. To such an extent does this evil exist, that I have known a Bengal commanding officer express his regret at being compelled to discharge an excellent sepoy because the other men had discovered him to be of inferior caste, and had demanded his d.a nissal. And he proceeds to say : To sueh a state of helplessness has the recognition of caste in the ranks brought the Bengal Sepoy that a regi ment of native cavalry, as I have repeatedly witnessed, is unable to picket, unsaddle, or groom its horses until the arrival of its syces and grasseutters, sometimes, as I have seen, for several hours after the arrival of the regi ment at its ground. In a Bombay regiment, before that time had elapsed, the horses would have been picketed, fed, and watered, stables would have been over, the tents pitched, and the men have had their breakfast. To such an incredible extent has this helplessness been carried and recognised by authority that a Bengal sentry cannot think of striking the gone at his own quarter guard, and men called " Gunta gone are actually maintained and paid for by Government, to do this duty for them. The wonder is, not that such a force should now revolt against its employers, but that it did not re bel and break up long ago. This was probably pre vented by the constant employment afforded to it by our continued career of conquests. That career lied at length ended, and the Bengal Sepoys, vain and ignorant, had seven long years' peace to brood over their own imagined strength, and to compare it with the fancied weakness of their masters. To short-sighte I and unprincipled men the temptation was, ne doubt, considerable. The correspondence laid before Parliament has given the proportions in the three Presidencies of the native force to the European. In Bombay the proportion was 10 to 1 ; in Madras 17 to 1 ' • while in the army of Bengal there were no few er than 25 Sepoys, to every Eu ,pean or British soldier. So vast a numerical supe riority naturally elated then, and we have only to add the appetite for plunder, the awakened animo , si lee of race, and all the allurements of anarchy to men of licentious dispositions and ungovernable passions, thoroughly to understand the motives and objects of the mutiny. The existence in the heart of our Indian empire of a mercenary army composed of the conquered people, and that army not only indulged, but pam pered and flattered in all its anti-social and anti military prejudices, is surely an all-sufficient ex planation ot the rebellion, which, following the general law of such events, drew after it the scum of Indian society in the shape of liberated convicts, furious fanatics, and hereditary robbers. Others causes are assigned, but they are either mere pre texte, or circumstances of little comparative signi ficance. Among these is the alleged appre hension of being converted to Christianity by the peaceable and unobtrusive labours of our mission aries. This is put forth in the foolish and impu dent proclamation issued by the rebels of D--111i, and it is, strangely enough, believed by a few credulous p ople among ourselves. For seven centuries our Mahemedau predecessors in power went on proselytising usually by foul and violent means, and the fruits ot their efforts are some ten millions of converts, the real prop of their power through out their long dominion. Aud now it is most illogically argued that the means which were the mainstay of their authority must prove the over throw of ours. We need only add to this argument drawn from history and common sense, that in those parts of India, the southern, in which Christian conversion has most success, there has at leastias yet been neither mutiny or insurrec tion. Of all tlin occurrences that, have aided the mutiny of this viciously constituted army, we sincerely b lieve that annexation of native states, in defiance of the native laws of inheritance, has been the most operative and useful to their cause. This is to be seen in the atrocities perpetrated at Jhansi, in the rising against us of the whole kingdom of Dude, and now, in the intrigues of Sattara within the territory of Bombay, followed by the mutiny of oue of the reuitnents of that Presidency, a corps recently levied in the Mahratta terri tory—that is, in the territory that was once that of annexed Sattara. It was very true that such annexations, or other forcible seizures of territory, under one pretext or another, were at all times normal incidents of Indian history without occa sioning rebellions. Mshomedans seized upon territory belonging to Maliotnedans. Sometimes even one tribe of Mahomedane, or one tribe of iiindoos, seized on territories belonging to other • tribes of their respective co-religionists, without insurrection. We ourselves, in the course of our conquests, had done the very same thing in the cases both of Mahomedans and Hindoos, as in the examples of Rohilcund, Benares, and Scinde, with out exciting th e s li g ht es t commoti on ; and such would ursquestionably have been the case now had there been no corrupt army ripe for rebellion to take advantage of our annexations. S , me have inaisleJ, but without a tit de of founda- Von f the assumption, that the conspiracy against our authority is purely a Mailomeden plot, the Hind 3os having only been drawn into it by Mahemedan intrigue and seduction. Both religionists have alike united for the overthrow of our power, as they would do in any other move ment that pre , ented to their narrow understand ings the same opportunity of license and plueder. The truth is that the majority of the Ma,homedans f India are, as to pretensions of caste, and in everything but a few religious dogmas and a few external observances, juet as much flitidoo ; as the Ilinioos themselves, - differing from them, in fact, not mere than the followers of &dune do from these of Jain among the latt.ir, end less than tire f dlowere of Nana, the founder of the religion of trio te'iklie do from ether. In the Madras Presi dency, whore thtre has been no mutiny, (=tee half the infantry and nearly the whole of the cavalry is Alahomedaus, whereas in Bengal, where nearly the whole army has revolted, there are in the infantry but two Mali oredans to live Hindoos, whi!e of th': cavalry one helf are Hindoo-e If the mutiny, then, had been of M ihomisclan origin, it ought to hive taken place in Madras and not in Bengal. As we have above said, the miles of the Mahotnedans of India are but psrtially converted Hindoos, while the few whose forefetliers were of a different race from Ili.uloos are at present but half castes, with all the prejudices of Ilindooiem lying heavily upon them. THE MADRAS ARMY. As to the s e tti n g up recent events have t o t a lly a nnihilated, in so by the rebel oepoes for as th e B enga l army i s concerne d, and co n s ider- An experiment —w e l earn f rom th e l as t l e tt er o f our Bombay co rres p on d ent ---i s b e i ng t r i e d i n I n di a .the result of which will b e l oo k e d f or i n thi s coun try and through ou t E urope w i t h anx i ous expecta tion. In cons eq u ence o f a requ i s iti on f rom Cal cutta, the 17th and 27th M a d ras N at i ve I n f an t r y, the Bth Mad ras N a ti ve C ava l ry , an d a company , of Native Artill er y ( w ith na ti ve d r i vers ), h ave b een embarked at M a d ras f or B enga l. Tile loyalty of our Madras army i s a b or t t o b e pu t t o a severe t est —a test to whi c h, it i s ev id en t, it h as b een d eeme d unsafe to subject the ar m y o f th e s i s t er P res id enc y in the Deccan. " I di rec t your at t en ti on ," wr i tes our correspondent, " t o th e s i gn ifi can t f ac t th a t no Bombay native troop s h ave y et f oun d th e i r wa y t o the mutiny of Delhi, or b een emp l oye d ou t o f th e Presidency." Events may show that we have b ee n m i s t a k en ; but we confess we are sanguine in our ex p ec t a ti on that the Madras army will sta n d th e t es t. It i s i n composition and character essentially different from the armies of either o f the oth er t wo P res id enc i es . In the Bengal Infant r y, i n 1852, o f a t e t a l o f 83,946 men, 12,699 were Mahom e tans, 26,983 B ra hmins, and 27,335 Ragpoots. In the Bombay Infantry, in the same year, of 25,938 men , 1,920 were Ma hometans, 6,928 Brahmins and Ragpoots, and 8,037 Mahrattas. Whereas in the Madras Infantry, still in the same year, o f 44,191 men th ere w e re only 2,037 Brahmins and R ag p oo t s , an d 452 Mah rattas; and, though there wer e 15,790M a h ome t atis , these were mixed up with (so-called) Genteos, of whom 16,590 were of Telinga, and 4,792 of T a mil race. It is evident from this statement that in the Bengal and Bombay armies the least loyal caste s or races bear a much larger proportion to the whole than iu the Madras army. But our opisdon, that the Madras army will be found mor e trustworthy at this crisis than the armie s o f eith er o f th e o th e r Presidencies, rests upon other considerations besides those of mere caste or rac e . The profession of soldi e r, like ever y o th er profes sion in India, is in a grea t measure h ere dit ar y. The Bengal army was originally composed of soldiers who had been trained the armies of the native Princes of Hindostan, and is stillrecruitedfrom the descend lists of such soldiers. Toe traditii ma of the Bengal army have scarcely anything in them that identifies it with their English rulers. The Bengal sepoys cherish the remembrance of times when, under native chiefs, they enjoyed much greater licence and far higher consideration that they en joy under the English Government. From a mistaken notion of the best way to conciliate their affections, the Bengal sepoys have had much that they have inherited from old times in respect of discipline, tolerated and connived at. To the anti- English spirit which has thus been developed and strengthened in their ranks, we owe in a great de gree the present mutiny. We do net mean by this that intrigue and conspiracy have not been at work among them ; but simply that, but for the cir cumstances to which wo have adverted, the in triguers and conspirators would have found it much more difficult to debauch the whole of the Bengal Army. The condition and character of the Bombay Army are essentially different. The far greater part of the territory of the Bombay Presidency is of comparatively recent acquisition, and its army —on its present scale—is of equally recent origin. The Bombay army is as yet too young for the esprit-de-corps to have impressed upon it a decidedly peculiar character of its own ; and it is composed of most heterogenous materials. More than one third of the whole army are Mahrattas ; and o f the remaining two-thirds the greater part is com posed classes s from a d a o rm sta y n i — s f almostrom the entirely s e o o f f re w c h r i u c i i t i made up. The reductiou of the Mahrattas is yet sed too recent for their soldiers to have acquired a tra ditional loyalty to their regimental colours ; and {;he men recruited from the Deccan sympathise with the Bengal Army. We think we can trace the results of this composition of the Bombay Army in recent events. It lacks that esp? it•de corps which has made the army of Bengal rise in mutiny like one mare But it contains within it elements hostile to British rule, which are easily wrought upon. To this we owe the partial muti nies which have already taken place, and shall owe th ese which there is too much reason to fear are yet to follow. The Madras Army has, unlike the Bombay Army, a very marked character of its own ; and this cha racter differs materially from that of the Bengal army. The first nucleus of the Madras army was formed long ago, of soldiers who had little or no intercourse with the armies of the native Princes of Hindostan. The original territory of the Madras Presidency was in a great measure iso lated from Hindostan proper. On the north-east it was separated from Bengal and Behar by an im practicable, hilly, kingly region, thinly inhabited, and for the most part by savage tribes of aborigines. From Mysore to the Nerbudda, a large portion of the country above the Ghauts was occupied by the Mahrattas ; and the same race held possession of a broad belt of country, which shut out the Nizatu's territories from Central India, and extended as far west as the almost uninhabited mountain region which separated Madras from Bengal and Behar. This impracticable country and theMahrattas toge ther acted as a cordon sanitaire to preserve the Dec can from the contagion of the politics of Hinclestau. The social diseases of the Deccan were all its own. The Nizana had practically thrown off his allegiance to the Mogul. Ryder and Tippo openly set the Mogul at defiance. The native princes in the ex treme south of the peninsula had ceas e d t o h a v e all y political relations with the north. Th e Eng lish at Madras and the nativ e s t a t es i n t h e i r imme diate vicinity formed a political system entirely apart from that of Hiudostan an d C en t ra l Indi a. They waged war and contra c t e d treat i es a mong th mselves ; they someti mes j o i ne d toge th er to resist the encroachments o f the, Mahrattas, and predatory confed erac y. so metimes memb ers o f thi s defensive league wou ld break from the re s t an d court the a lli ance o f th a t Madras army tcv.s d-vel,,p e l, and from them it Under such auspices the took its tone. It s or i g i nal nuc l eus was a l an d of faithful and devotel vassals of the English.s successive aug men t a ti ons were d er i ve d f r om States wh:ch had been accus t ome d to ac t i n concert wi ii us, and we re gradually absorbed into our domi nions. Th e presence o f Mahratta hostility con tinued long enoug h t o con fi rm i n th e Mal as Army a spirit id en tifi e d . with English interests. The milit ar y t ra diti ons o f th e I n di an arm y are more English th an I n di an . It is this that indueee u s t o re p ose i n t h e l oya lt y o f th e Madras Sepoys a cenfidence which we have never reposed in those of Bengal or Bombay—a confidence which of the Mogul puppet at Delhi, the family ably shaken in respect to the army of Bombay. of that insi gn ifi can t persena ,g) had in his With all this confidence, however, it is impos favour the pre s ti ge o f th ree , w hile his place of sible to watch without deep anxiety the trial that /3 1857 about to made of the - loyalty of the native army of Madras by sending it into the volley of the Gangeu. Much more may—must—depend upon it than the suppression of a great mu my in Bengal. Come what may, we can never hold India by the exclusive agency of European troops. If we are to remai❑ masters of India we must continue to em ploy large numbers of native soldiers. Where are we to get them? The Ghoorkas are talked of : ex cellent soldiers, but limited in number. The Sikhs: they have in general conducted themselves well hitherto ; but our experience of them is too short. The Bheels, Jats, &c. : they are on too low a scale of civilisation to be efficient alone, or as a large component part of an army. if the Madras Army continue loyal, we have there the nucleus of a new army, upon which may be formed one sufficiently large for our purposes out of whatever may be found more or less trustworthy throughout our In dian dominions. Mutiny and insurrection are still spreading eastward through Bengal. They have reached SagOwiie in the north and Midnapore in the south. It is possible—a possibility which it would be unsafe to overlook in our contingent ar rangements for the future—that mutiny and insur:- rection may spread as far as Dacca and Din egspore. It is possible that Wilson may be compelled to fall back upon Umballa, as Havelock has been com pelled to fall back upon Cawupore. It is possible that the mutinous spirit which has displayed itself at the extreme south and at the extreme north of the Bombay Presidency may break out in other quarters. A private letter from Bombay informs us that the Marine Battalion there has " refused duty." It is on the cards that our possessions in Bengal and Bombay may be limited for a time to the Residency Cities. Even though this were to be the case in all the three Presidencies, we know well enough the resources, the courage, and the _dogged pers.everance of England to feel assured that we shall yet reconquer India. With these three pieds-a-terre, and our navy, we can and shall du it, even though driven to such an extremity. But if the Madras Native Army keep staunch—as we hope and believe it will—our labour will be im mensely lightened, let things go bow they will in Bengal and Bombay.—Daily N ews. THE MILITIA. The Royal South Middlesex (the 4th) Regiment of Militia will assemble for embodiment at the Military Stores, Hounslow, on Thnrs,lay, Oct. 1. The regiment will be commanded by Lieutenant- Colonel Scriven. The 3d Royal Surrey Regiment of Militia has been under training during the last few days at Kingston-upon-Thames. The Lincolnshire Militia are to be embodied, and notices have been issued for the 7th of October for that purpose. The West York Rifles are to be embodied on the 61). of October at the depot, Pontefract, from which place it is expected the regiment will be sent on to Ireland, where it served for nine months during the late war. The Durham County Artillery Regiment of Mi litia is appoiated to assemble for training on Wed nesday, Sept. 30, at the Sunderland barracks. The West Suffolk Militia has received notice from. Capt. J. M'Gregor, the adjutant, that on Wednes days, after the 22d inst., he will be prepared, at the regimental head-quarters at Bury St. Edmunds, to settle for the balance of bounty due to the vo lunteers of the corps whose period of five years' service has expired. The regiment will be reformed without delay. The men of the Herefordshire Militia who have completed their five years' service will be discharged early in October, and the bounty will be paid at the same time. Captain Money Kyrie, the adju tant, has given notice that any qualified persons willing to be attested will be then accepted. NEW COOKING APPARATUS. —A very c mipa,ot and complete cooking apparatus is now on view at the new smithery. It is the invention of Messrs. Redpath and Leigh, the engineers, of Limehouse. It is six feet square, size of a ship's ordinary cook ing galley, but is capable of cooking food fur 200 men. Meat may be simultaneously roasted, boiled, baked, or fried, vegetables being at the same time boiled or roasted, bread baked, and soup made. A valuable feature of the invention is, that it dis penses with the enormous grates, and their massive bars, common to the ordinary galley, three small furnaces being substituted for them, and which to gether do not consume more than one-third the quantity of fuel of a ship's galley. NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. —The very beautiful model of the new screw frigate Shannon, at the Crystal Palace, deservedly attracts much notice, and it possesses an additional interest from the fact that that important part of a ship's economy, the rig, was entirely produced by young gentlemen being brought up to the navy at the naval establish ment of Mr. Eastman, of this port. Mr. Eastman has now, however, engaged his pupils upon the construction, equipment, and rigging of a model of the splendid screw line-of battle ship Conqueror, 101 guns. Every cord and rope, and spar, on board this ship, will be represented in the model, and upon an accurate scale. This practical method of inculcating a knowledge of some of the more im portant elements of the art of navigation, seems a great improvement on the dry and uninviting one, to the young mind, of theoretical teaching from books. ROYAL ENGINEERS. —The following is a correct list of officers b4onging to the above corps now under orders for India, and waiting for trans ports. In all probability this force will embark about the 22d, but nothing is definitely settled : L'eut.-Colonel Harness, in command, now com manding engineer atMalta ; Major Hon. E. Keane, second in command ; Captain Cox, adjutant. 4th Company—Major Nicholson, Lieuts. Edwards, Keith, Wynne. 10th Company, Captain Fisher, Lieuts. Longley, Maitland, Thane. 11th Company —Captain Cumberland, Lieuts. Maquay, Walker, Paterson. 21st Company—Captain Neville, Lieuts. Scratchl.y, Gossett, Swetennam. Lieuts. Beau mont, Wilson, Webber, and Festing go out as su pernumeraries. Total, 23 officers and 468 non-com missioned officers and men. Lieut.-Co'. Stanton, C. 8., proceeds to Honduras on railway purposes. Major-General Calder is dead, which will promote Colonel Ros 9, First Captain Ogle, Second Captain Koe, and Lieut. Knox. (ADVII 4,TlBlllllllrT.l SIGHT AND lIMARING -- SPECTACLES— POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. -S. and B. Solonions, opticians, 39, A bemarlt street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for va'uable and ex traordina-y improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same tslescope can be seen a person's countenance three-anti-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist- coat-pocket, and arc of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers acesrdingly. The Royal Elhibition, 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. CAtetry scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, C.unp, Perspective, and It tee-c curse Glasses, with wonderful powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very ages persons aro enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with tloie lenses of a much less magnify ink- power—and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of further powerful assistance. PersAis can be suited at the moi , remote part of the world by send ins oae of the glasses out of their speeta&es is a letter, and stating.the diet dice from the eye they can read ,mall print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.--New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex!raordicari'y powerful, s-r,all, nowly-invent d instrument for dcatuess, entirely different from all oth rs, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or probably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at churchand at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation a singing noises in the ears .is entirely removtd, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-3 I. Alto • marls-street, Piccadilly,—Opposito the York tido], W. THE FPREOS OF THE TRANSIT. The folloxtring extracts from a letter of one of the officers of the Transit have been sent to us : " Transit Camp, Cape Osclar, Banca, July 17. , , - . We got through the Straits of Sunda all right, without stopping, on the night of the 7th, and steamed all day along the shoal water to the eastward of Sumatra, anchoring for the night off the island of Luci para, at the entrance of the passage of the same name, which is narrow, shoal, and bob ♦ery indifferently buoyed, or marked. However, weighing at daylight, we had succeeded by noon in getting through the most diffi cult part, and steaming on faster anchored for the night on the Sumatra shore near Cape Verde, from which place we started at half-past six the following morning (10th.) We were keeping well over on this shore to avoid the Hendrick reefs, thinking it unlikely that we should find the buoy on them, which should be th-re according to the chart, as in the Lucipara passage we had not found any f the marks existing. By our cross-bearings we were passing well clear of the shoal, which extends to a dis tance of from three miles and a-half to four miles off this point, going at a speed of between 8 ai:d 9 knotß t when, at about 20 minutes past nine, the ship etruek so heavily as to make all the masts shake again, and oblige people to steady themselves by hand to prevent fall ing. Taking a bound as it were, she struck again and again, quivering at each bump, and then'• remained mo tionless with her bows several feet out of water . As she began to settle fast by the stern, and the fires of course bad sown been extinguished by the rising :cater, the common pumps being useless to keep under such an enormous flow, . . . the colonel and master were called into consultation, and an immediate landing of all but a few of the troops decided on. Meantime we had not been idle. Provisions had been got up, particularly from the afterpart, and put out of reach of the fast rising water. All the boats had been got out and down. Downes, the Second-Lieutenant, had gone away in one to Minto, a town distant by sea some 14 or 15 miles, Off which we had seen re Dutch man-of-war steamer at an chor when passing in the morning. He was to bring her to oar assistance. Between us and tkie beach of the island of Banca there was a reef appearing above water, the 'centre of which rose to a height that would evidently leave it uncovered at the highest tide. Ou this the 5. , 1• diers were landed, with nothing but their dinners and some fresh water. By the time the bulk of the troops bad been disembarked it became apparent that even those told off as working parties, to remain and look after the baggage, &c., could not be kept without consi derable risk. The water pouring in in volumes was qoietly but steadily finding its way aft, and the ship was in the same manner sinking by the stern. The cracking of plates of iron, snapping of beams, and tearing of depks led us to suppose that if she did not fall oft the rocki on which she was hanging, and fall into the deep water astern of her she would probably break in two' pieces, the stern falling into deep water, and the fore part falling over on its side on the rocks. By noon only a few soldiers, officers, servants, and such like remained to be landed. We gave our men 10 minutes to eat their (inasr and then lauded on this beach, afterwards using all boats to bring the soldiers off the reef, where many_ weree.fcaid of being drowned. All were 14nded and under canvas by dark. I was the first to land here, having come on ahead to look for a good spot for our encampment, and luckily hit upon an excellent stream of fresh water, rather a rarity in these parts. It was late the next day before we got any provisions from the wreck. At the time we left her (shortly before 1 o'clock) the stern was completely under water, leaving ouly a small portion of the fore part of the poop above water, which may give you some idea of the height to which leer bows are cocked out of the water. As I said before, by our chart, we ought to be more than a mile clear of the reef, in about 26 fathoms ; but by the charts which we have since obtained from the Dutch gunboats we have picked up exactly the outside rock of the whole reef, which is, together with the coast, channels, and dangers in this part, incorrect to a considerable degree. Had we weighed half an hour earlier, or an hour later, had we been a hundred yards to the right or left, we should no doubt have cleared it. . . . Downes brought the steamer to us early next morning, but she proved too small to take any of our troops, so we sent Downes on in her to Singapore with despatches. "duly 18. " One of our gunboats, the Dove, arrived during the night. Two ships are coming to us from Singapore." RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK Miles • Receipts. ojened, 1 NAME OF RAILWAY. 1857. 1857. 1856 --- -- -- -- • BRITIaII. 4 £ - 65 Belfast and Ballymena ...... ..-• ...... 1,203 993 17 Belfast and County Down• ••••••• • • .. 350 305 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2. 925 2,619 26% Bolton, Biac'Thurn, and West York •• • • 1,009 924 117 Bristol and Exeter ••..••••- • • • • • • • • 7,277 7,413 19 8 % Caledonian. "'•... ...• •••• • • • • 14,717 13,805 9 4 4 Chester and Holyhead.•• .. • • .... •• •• 7,,,5V .... 7,!!J2‘ 64 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • 4 . 306 224 20 Cork and Bandon .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • I, -69 1,227 56 Dublin and Belfast 1 unction ........ 63 Dublin and Drogheda• •••••••• •• •• •• 1,972 2,196 1 929 1,890 4014 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • •• 690 • 64, 16% Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • .. • • 1 036 1,148 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junctioi ' 36 Dundalk and Enniskillen.• ......... 464 371 . 6711 East Anglian.... •••••••••• • • •• • • • • • • 7,24 1,0776 7,14 898 93 East Lancashire .• • • ...• • • .• •• • • • • •• 489 Eastern Counties aud Norfolk.. ••.. 1, 26,223 24,043 Eastern Union •...•••••• • • .. • • • • •• i 6 408 6,150 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow ••••••• • • • • • ' 3,501 3,6,8 128 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • • • • • • - - 6 Exeter and Crediton.. • ..... •••• •• • • 1,424 1,304 22 Furness Railway •••••••'• '' '' '' - 7,207 7,000 183% Glasgow, and South-Western.• ••• • • • 23,23 , 22,937 283 Great Northern.•-• 203% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 32,810 32 774 465 Great Western •••••••••• •• • • • • '• " 192 252 25% Irish South Eastern .• ••••••• • .• •• • • 7,553 7 297 90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••••• • • • •• -. 27,258 25,085 286 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire ••••• • •• • - - - Leeds Northern .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - - 161 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 68,136 66,375 637 London and North Western ..... •••• .1 : 4 17 73 1 19 1 :6 6 9 1 8 4 514 London and 81ackwa11.............. 183% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. '' 16,772 18,643 289 London and South We5tern......... 805 619 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen .... - - - - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c 11 77_ ,6'12 10,556 173% Manchester, ShefilolCand Liucoinshir' 1,461 911 9% Manchester and South Junction ••• • • • i,r ,„ ~ n, ,, 28 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • .. • • - 33:8'57- 33,307'•'" 667 Midland •• •••-•••••• • • • • • • •• '• ••' 4,248 4,407 177 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • 1,503 1,317 52 Monklands • • • • - • • •• •• • • •• • • • • • • • ' 3,485 3,466 78% Newcastle and Carlisle...• ...• -• •• • ' 6,011 5,964 149 North British • • .• • • • • • • •• • • • • • • '• - 5,547 7,759 233 North Staffordshire •••••••• • • • • '' • 1,216 1,016 47 North-Western •••••••••• • • •• • "• • ' 3,445 3,260 50 Scottish Central • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • - • • - 82% Scottish Midland •••••••••• • • • • •. • • 1,853 1,967 29 'Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• •• • • 3,413 3,443 48% Shrewsbury and Chester •.••••• • •• •• 30 Shropshire Union .. ••••-•• • • - .. .• 3, 8 0 6 0 8 5 3. 8 6 ; . 1 .ii 1 24,508 25,024 57 ioutb Devon .• • •• .......... - ••••• .. 301% South Eastern ••••••••• • • • • • • • 171 • South Wales ...... .......... :: :: .. . , 7, ,i•i! 0 2,953 , 2 11 7,64(1 10811 S o uth York., Doncaster, and Goole .. ' 2 4,829 4,954 53 Taff Vale • • • • • • • • - • • • • - •••••••... 36 Inster .•••• • • - • • ....., „ .... .. 1,483 1,403 77 Waterford nnd Limerick ............ 1,436 1,199 27 West Cornwall • • .... •..... ....... 743 609 12% Whitehaven Junction ........, „ „, 433 460 682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick & _ _ , York and North Midland & Leeds.. ."-- - i FOREIGN: 109 Dutch Rhenish . ................. 3,583 3,072 344 Lyons and Mediterranean .......-: 23, 811 , 29,222 63 Montereau and Troyer, .............. - - - Namur and Liege ............ - • • • • - - 4 445 Northern of France ••••••••• • • • • • • • 6,159 i 41,625 - Orleans and Central .. - - •• •• 387 Paris and Lyons .................: 39,908 40,970 - Paris and Rouen. - ~.............. - •_ 42,282 3 9 , 241 566' Paris and Strasburgh , .......• .. • • • - Rouen and H -avre ••• • • •. -- 548 West and North-West of France •• .. 41,6 44 39,742 MURDER OF A BOY IN NOTTINGHAM' FORE fIT. NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY. On Thursday evening last the son of Mr. Atkin son, machine builder, Raleigh-street, Nottingham, a boy eight years of age, was missing from his home. A i-eanh was made, placards printed de scribing his person, and every means used to dis cover him. All that was known of the affair until Friday evening was that on Thursday evening he strayed with a playmate to the neighbourhood of the Arboretum. About six o'clock a man, having the appearance of a gip , ,y, went up to them, and. asked Atkinson's playfellow which was the road to Basford, a village two miles distant, saying that if he would show him the way he would give him 10s. The boy answered that he did not know the war, but Atkinson rtplied that he did, and that he would accompany him. Atkinson then left his playfellow and went with the man. Nothing was seen of the boy until 6 o'clock on Friday evening. At this time a number of children were playing in the forest, wnen one of them got over the hedge of an adjoin' ing field, and discovered the dead body of Atkin son. The lad immediately gave an alarm, and the discovery was communicated to police-constable Hodgkinson, who was near the spot at the time. Upon examination of the body it was found that from marks of compression ,on the neck, and the appearance of the mouth and nostrils, the boy had been strangled. There were also marks of violence on one side of the body, as though he had been knelt upon. The lad's boots had been .taken off his feet, and: it appears that for this paltry purpose the murder had been committed ; that the fellow's offering the boy 10s. was merely to decoy him to a lonely spot for the purpose of committing a rob bery. The police are making every exertion fer the apprehension of the murderer. An inquest upon the body was held 'this afternoon, at the Lumley Castle, Icon-green, before Mr. Coroner 1 Swann, and adjourned for a week. . THE MURDER IN LEIGH WOODS, BRISTOL. VERDICT OF THE JURY. On Saturday the adjourned inquest on the body' of the female found murdered in Leigh Woods wao resumed and concluded before Mr. Fry, the coroner for Somerset. _ _ Mr. Rudd Lucas, surgeon, deposed to having made a post mortem examination of the body, and said, on removing the deceased's hair he found a scar recently healed, about 2k inches in length, 01 1 the upper part of the right aide of • the head. On taking off the scalp he found a wound in the bone corresponding with the bullet mark, and afterward! found a ballet of a small size in the left orbit ; it was extracted, and weighed 384 grains. It wee rather a slug than a bullet. the bullet had passed into a small portion of the base of the brain. The jugular vein on the right side was divided. Three (.1 her teeth, extracted from the upper jaw, ha d been stopped with some metallic substance. Th e wounds in the throat caused death. The wounde fLom the pistol would not necessarily have done e°. There was no appearance of any ring on the finger ° having been forcibly torn off. She was apparently about 25 years of age, and a married woman: man named Powell desired to see the body, as he had come many miles to do so, as his daughte r Charlotte had left home six weeks, and had never since been heard of. He was'permitted to do 8 0 ) but returned. saying it was not his child. The coroner put it to the jury whether they would ea' journ, but by a show of hands they decided to finish the inquiry, and they ultimately returned gi verdict, " That the unknown deceased was wilfu!li murdered by some person or persons unknown% [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pile the post Eff,c tual Remedy ever Discovered for the cure of Liver Com plaints, a disease must disastrous in its effects, derangirN all the proper functions of the organs affected, and nu derininding the constitution, producing feverish symo toms, restlessness, melancholy, langour, wearine-s, inability to sleep, pain in the Fide, until the whole system becomes enfeebled, and the end is fatal. But thousands have gratefully testified to the u oaderful virtues of these Pills, striking at the root of the oia!ady, and stimu'ating the stomach and liver :nto healthy action.—Sold by all medicine venders throughout the wdrld, at Professor Tiolloway's establishments, 244, Strand, London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ;1 y A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidici, Smyrna; and E. Muir, Malta.. Country Markets, DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Sin ~ 17. Qrs. Best. Current. 184 Wheat 62s Od 4ls 84d j3nof3el Oa 41. 6 Ol, 240 Oats 32s 0 298 101 .... ..... 24 , gd 516 Barley 4ls Od 358 OP 26. " Od -- Peas & beans —a Od —s Od c --a HADDINGTON GRAIN MARKET— SEPT. 1 8 . WHEAT. I BARLEY I OATS. 1 0 5Ar.,4: 1 First (4a Od 42s Od 33s Od 1 534 co Second sls 9d 1 38s ld 1 30s 7d 1 5 3 ' Od Third 4os Od I 30s Od I 27s Od i 53 , a Total quantity of wheat in market, 76 qrs., 63 sold PI Pf barley „ 57 qrs., 57 sold VP D oats ,) 424 qrs., 389 sla ~ ~ beans „ 8 qrs., 4 °° AVERAGES PER morales. QUARTER. 200 Wheat, 2/. 15 4 8-12ths 1 Barley, ...11. 18 1 2-1----,, • Oats, ... 11. 10 7 6-12ths I Beans, 2L 13 0 0-12°' ABERDEEN—SEPT. 18. 1 Potato oats 24s Od to 25s od 1 401bs per bush & Common oats... 22s Cd to 24s Od Bere 29s Od to 31s Od 1 535 Barley 29s Od to 31s Od I 8 It Wheat, redl(spring)3ss Od to 42s Od 1 621bs . white 3ss Od to 50s Od or Oatmeal 19s Od to 20s Od per boll. Flour 435 Od to 44s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, p lb. is 3d to is 4 1 Mutton, per lb. 6d to 8d Eggs, p doz. Os 9d to is O l j Lamb, do., Os 5d to Os 7d I Hens, p pair 3s 6d to Os 0 1 Veal, per lb ... 5d to Os 7‘l Chickens,do.2s 6d to Os C o / a Pork, perlb...os Od to Os Od Ducks, do., is 6d to 2 ,- _ 1 Salmon, per lb is 2d Ducklings,dols 6d to 2s r; Grouse, per brace..,...os to Os Turkeys, each Os Od to 44 r j Tallow, p stone, Os to lls 01 Potatoes, pr pock, Od --to u Rabbits, each Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. 106 s to 1 1 0 °1 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen RETAIL PRICES. F10ur,141b....0s Od to 2s 4d Barley flour,l4lb.Os to 20 ,01 0 I 1 .0s Od to 2 , 2 d dust. .Osto O a "'! • iatineal , ~ Auld, ..... Beremeal ....Os Od to is 8d „ per lb 2d to Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 4d Sids, Cheese, per imperial atone, 4a. Od. to 4s 6Li 4-lb. 10af...8d. I 2-lb. 10af...4d. DUBLIN, SEPT. lg. vph St There was not much doing at to-day's market. was 6d, and oats 3d to 6d, per barrel cheaper. A 13'. supply of barley, and good samples rather dearer. Sca rce If anything doing in Indian corn, and prices unaltered. o s White wheat, 33s Od to 35s 6d ; red ditto, 32,. Oct L n „,. 6d, ditto new, 325; barley, malting, 18s 6d to 21s 6d; gl - 410 ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15s Oct to 18s; ditto, new, 1 6‘ Oct to 15s Ed ; oatmeal, 14s 6d to 16s; bere, new, 15s W 90 3d ; ra.pese , d, 28s Oct to 30s Od per brl ; bak e] s Boat ',, t Od to 24s Od per owt ; Indian corn, 35s Od to 37's Od 480 lbs. 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It is, ni s , over, the best food for infants and invalids gene• as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, ne l. tbS terferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a h t .. :, O. relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty a -6, tion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfee bi Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professo rs :: Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Ure ; Dr. Sh or l an d ; Dr. 1 1031 2., v , ° ' Dr. Campbell ; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wm.= ; Dr. Lord Stuart de Decies; th e D owager C oun t es s of Ces/ o stuart ; Major-Gen. Thomas Ki ng , an d man y o th e r respati of l persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all ot1,10• means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with fall structions. In canisters, 11b, 2s. Dd. ; 21b, 45. 6d. ; ""i lis ; 121 b, 225. Th e 121 b canisters are sent carriage fre e: on receipt of Post-Office order.—Barry Du Barry, & 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The V:ce-Chanel, for Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction. on If, 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, for imitat im ' "Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." BIRTHS. OP A SON. On the 18th inst., at 19, Grosvenor-place, the r 484/ Raglan. h ala On the 18th inst., the wife of Mr. G. Peac ey, of C tr berland Lodge, Streatham, Surrey, and 73, Bishopog s s tree t-within. Of • DAIIOUTBR. On the 17th inst., the Hon. Mrs. J. Townshend 13°1v cawen. thee of On the 18th inst., at Wimbledon-common, the Irk' Beaumont Hankey, Esq. MARRIED, On the 17th ins!)., at St. George's, Hanover-square , „ to ward Lloyd, Esq., M D., of Suffolk-place, Pall-ins"_o, Matilda Susannah Williams, of Castello, and Aberperg w _d only daughter of the late Colonel Sulth, of Castello , ; 0 widow of the late W. Williams, Esq., of Aberpe r g both in the county of Glamorgan. DIED, On the 18th inst., at 15, Grove Villas, Highburft 1)* Laurie, Esq., aged 56. t he On the 13th inst., at 8, St. Agnes Villa, Ri g ht Hon. Henry Davi 1 Stewart Erskine, Ea r Buchan. On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Moses :1 -a o Y c ss at l t 3 a i,e:s:' aged 90. On the 16th inst., Henry Dent on , E sq ., o f Lin eo - inn, aged 70. -vicv On the 9th inst., Sir Wm. H e nry Dill on , K.C.F 1 .2 AdmOniral of the R-l. the 14th inst., at Somerford-park, Sir Chatles revt Shakerley, Bart., aged 6Fi. Pie rce On the 27th J une, kill e d , a t C awnpore, J o hn B fnu, E q., Assistant-Surgeon 56th Regt. B.N , youngest anti last surviving sou of the late John 1 3 " os ea Esq., Pi ngswort h H ouse, Hammersm i t h ; a l so , etWPf the to have f a ll en a t t h e same t i me, Cl n•r l o tt e , wife t tf il ,o above J. P. Bowling, Esq., and Wm. Kinsey, their 1 1 ' 8011. co alrf;, Captain Edward J. Seppings: 2d Bengal Light 0 Jessie, his wife, and their three infant boys, all fei;%,ll the dreadful massacre at Cawnpore, in June last, 0 " mourned for by their family and friends. ------- LONDON : Printed and Published by NURDO Y" Nod of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Officet,ty 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Ow" of Middlesex, Monday, September 21, 1351. Tri QC-MI held at i Septeml sum. the Lor and all hrancho Nation The( precisel Ft Man: 11' an eas: and nn Deno nereal The nienCe Brand Fori post fr T end T Mi. 8 , ready Nit as Flo wont' Wart Thi tion ; camp ceive notic, but II point offer prop( Ev a res tend( tract `~ turns OW° ding WeY Fart or Y