The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-22 00:00:00

frOirb /Zbition SUN OFFICE, Severe o'Clock. SEIZURE OF OBSCENE BOOKS UNDER LORD CAMPBELL'S ACT. (This Day.) Between 4 and 5 o'clock this afternoon !much excite ment was caused in Holywell-street and Wych-street, in consequence of a large body of police under the direction of Superintendent Durkin, of the F division, making a most extensive seizure of obseene books and prints at a number of the shops in each of the above-named streets. A. few days ago search -warrants were issued by Mr. Jardine, and this afternoon they were carried into execution. The arrangements for the seizure were all carried out in the most quiet manner, • constable having been placed at the door at each of the shops to prevent any person leaving the remises without the knowledge of the police. Six shops were entered, and a number of portfolios, containing prints of the most disgusting descrip tion, also ani immense quantity of books, were ■sized by the police and conveyed to the Bow-street police-court. The houses entered were-14, 52, and 53, Holywell-street ; and 45, 40, and 2, Wych-street. The books and prints having been laid before Mr. Jardine, Mr. Bodkin said he had to apply for sit summonses, under the act lately passed by the Legislature for the prevention of the sale of obscene publications. The police, aimed in each case, had entered the several houses above-mentioned, and had found the books now on the table. Sergeant Thomas was then examined, and stated that he entered the premises, 52, Holywell-street, and there found a large quantity of plates of an obscene nature. Mr. Bodkia—What is the name of the person who occupies the shop 1 Sergeant Thomas—The man gave the name of Smith. A summons was then granted. Inspector Firman, of the B di►ision, then cams for ward, and, in answer to questions from Mr. Bodkin, said he entered the premises No. 2, Wych-street, occupied by a person who gave the name of Charles Paul, and seized a number of books and prints which he considered of an obscene nature. He also found a quan tity of stereotype plates of a book which he considered came within the meaning of the act. A summons was also granted in this case. Evidence of a similar description was given in four other cases, and summonses were granted for the attendance of the parties keeping the shops. Mr. Jardine (taking up one of the books and looking at it) asked Mr. Bodkin how he knew that it was an obscene work. Mr. Bodkin—l believe it im, but the book had better be read. (Laughter.) _ . Mr. Jardine—Who's to read it ? Mr. Bodkin—Superintendent Durkin bag had charge of seizures, and he perhaps would do so. Mr. Jardine—Very well. If Mr. Durkin wil emi nent let it be so. Superintendent Durkin then, smiling, took up a num ber of the books, and left the court, promising to "mark the obscene passages." PONTEFRACT RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) WEST YORK NURSERY HANDICAP. Prince of Denmark Meta Scarsdale Six ran. PONTEFRACT HANDICAP Rosa Bonhenr _Breeze. Sicycutter Seven ran. Won by a neck. ALL-AGED STAKES. Eller mire.. Augury ... LEICESTER RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH LADIES' PLATE. Barbarity Druid Seaweed filly . Five ran. LEICESTER HANDICAP. Evelyn ... Weatherglang Oakball Nine raa. Won by half a length. BELVOIR STAKES. Kingfisher Scamp., TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Mainstay Co:trel Happy Queen Six ran. COUNTY CUP STAKES. Barbarity Amelia .... Ritterdam . FIGHT BETWEEN BEN CAUNT AND NAT LANGHAM.—(This Day.) This long-talked of fight came off this day, and ended in the defeat of Langham. Caunt, we believe, will now fight Tom Sayers for the championship of Engllnd. LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.) BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 22. The Right Honourablo the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Aff4irs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Acting Consul at Madrid, enolosing copies of Spanish Royal Orders altering, as fol lows, the duties upon the importation into Spain of pota toes and sago, starch, sago in grain, of No. 1126, an i In dia-rubbar cloths : Per quintal. Reale. c. Potato and sago starch .. l2 25 Sagn in grain, of No. 1,126, imported -under foreign flag lO 10 Do., imported under national flag. 2 10 Indian Rubber cloths of silk, wool, or cotton, imported under foreign flag, 43 per cent. ad val. Do., imparted under national flag, 40 per cent. ad val. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. 2d Royal Lanark Militia—Lieutenant John Akin Dyer, from the sth Royal Elthorne Militia, to ba Paymaster. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS. Stewartry of Kirkcud brigh t—Erskine Douglas Sandford, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. The Galloway Rifles—The Hon. Charles Murray Hay Forbes, late Lieutenant of the 95th Regiment, to be Cap tain, vice Barry, resigned. sth, or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Middlesex Militia —The Commission of Ensign Jenings is cancelled from the Bth September instant. NOTICE TO MARINERS.: IRELAND—WEST COAST. Arran Islands' Lights. The port of Dublin Corporation hereby give notice that two n.ew lighthouses have been erected on the Arran Islands, off the west coast of the cou n ty o f G a l wa y, f rom which ights will be exhibited during the night of the Ist of December, 1857, and thenceforth will be lighted every night from sunset to sunrise. ..Speoification given of the position and appearance of the "ith.te, , rl Mr. Halpin, Superintendent of Lighthouses. „•,,Tri, Is la o nds o NortlLighthouse is built on Rock Island, 147 lon2 t the chain, in lat. 53 deg. 8 min. 55 sec bearing from e v e g• 51 min. 30 sec. west of Greenwi c h, tant 20 as Head South Li g ht , S . bE. E., dis tant4from Ski r d Rocks. b E., dis 8i mile. ;Ca tatle i ro v - rai les. phead, N.E. by N distant 36 This light will be a revolving of the natural ap f,earance, giving a bright Sash once in every three minutes and will be visible from seaward between the bearings of W.N. W., round by the westward to N.W. e r . s e t ea o , rtr d , N. The illuminating apparatus is catadioptrio of the b i its focal point 115 feet over the mean level of th in c'esr weather the light should be visibl e at a distance of 16 miles. The tower is circular, of gray stone colour 101 feet i n height from base to submit ; the to p below the lanter n sash will he paiuted red, also two horizontal belts will be coloured red, on the tower. Arran Islands South Lighthouse is erected on the south western point of Inisheer, the most southern of the island s in lat. 53 deg. 2 min. 40 sec. N., and long. 9 deg. 31 min. 4 11 30sec. W., it bears from Blackhead, W. S. distant miles : from Finnis Rock, (of S.E. point of Inisheer), W. h N N., distant I.f miles; from Loophead, N.E. bE. distant 33 miles. This light will be a fixed light, visible from seaward between the bearings of S.E. 8 , round by the southward to W. by S. and having its focal plane 110 feet over the mean level of the sod, should be seen in clear weather within a distance of 15 miles. The illuminating apparatus is eatadioptric of the first order. A strip or sector of red right will be shown in the direction of the Finnic Reck— in all other directions the light will be of the natural itp- O&M 1100. The tower is circular, of gray stone colour below the projecting gallery, and is 112 feet in height from its base to the top of the dome. From and after the date of exhibition of the new lights, the old light heretofore on the summit of Inish more, or the Great Island, will be discontinued, *nd the TICE &ITN, LONDON, rUESDAY EVEINING SIEP'rEMI3ER 22, 1857 lantern and top of the old lighthouse tower will ba re moved. [Bearings are Magnetic), Var. (at the Arran Islands in 1857) 271 deg. W.] By order, W. LEES, Secretary. Ballast-office, Dublin, Ang. 27, 1857. BANKRUPTS. James Saunders, miller, Thurlton, to surrender, Oct. 2, at eleven, and Nov. 4, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Aldridge and Bromley, Gray's. inn ; Copeman and Sons, Norfolk. Henry Whitten, boot and shoemaker, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Oct. 9, at ten, and Oct. 22, at half past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Poole, Kenilworth ; Hodg son and Allen, Birmingham. William Conyer and Joseph Conyer, shoddy dealers, Dewsbury, Oct. 9 and 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Scholes and Son, Dewsbury ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. David John Allen, draper, Carmarthen, Oct. 5, and Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol ; Sale, Worthington, and Ship. man, Manchester ; Leman and Humphreys, Bristol. Thomas Blaber Daniell, ironmonger, High-street, Pop lar, Oct. 2 at half-past twelve, and Oct. 27 at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman. bury ; Moss, Moorgate-street. Henry Arnold and Henry John Arnold, merchant, Uttozeter, Staffordshire, Oct. 5 and 26, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Welby and Flint, Ut tozeter ; James, Birmingham. A WEST-END MILLINER'S BILL. In the course of the proceedings in the bankruptcy of Col. Waugh, a proof was tendered by Mr. Linkiater on behalf of Miss Jane Clarke, of 170, Regent-street, for 1,8541., the balance of a millinery account. To render this claim fully intelligible to the general reader, it must be stated that in July, 1850, the bankrupt married Mrs. Carew. That lady had a settlement of 6001 a year out of the Beddington estate, and she has a daughter by her first husband, who in the year 1855 married Sir C. R. Pigot. The millinery bill of Miss Clarke arises thus : The account commences Feb., 1850, a few months only before Mrs. Carew became Mrs. Waugh. From that period to Dec., 1855, the amount of millinery furnished to Mrs. Waugh was 1,2601 12s 541, and the payments on account were 1001 in Nov., 1851 ; 150/ in April, 1852 ; 1001 in April, 1853 ; 2501 in Aug., 1855 ; and 3001 in July, 1856 ; total, 9001, leaving a balance of 3601 124 Sid as carried to the account of Mrs. Waugh. From Dec., 1855, to Feb., 1856, the amount supplied to Mrs. Waugh was 1,4931 8s Od, which, with 3601 12s 51d, the balance of account, makes 1,8541 Os 61d, the amount of the proof now tendered. The first account includes the following items : Spanish cap cleaned, made, and trimmed with additional lace, 1/ 18s ; black silk cassawick, 7173 ; one pocket-hand kerchief, 4l 4s; one ditto, 11 5s ; a pair of hair-bands, it 5s ; deep black lace added to mantle, 51; enamelled bracelet, 41 4s ; another ditto, Si 33; black glace mantle 71 17s 6d ; head-dress with pearls, 3133; point-lace bon net, with emerald flowers, 12112 s; white moire antique dress, 121 12s ; Brussels lace veil, 151 15s ; ditto head dress, 71 17c 6:1 ; gros de Naples dress, 9/193 6,1 ; sprig ged muslin slip, 11/ lls ; jaconet embroidered dress, 8/ 183 6d ; marsrlla waistcoat, 184 ; six real turquoise but tons, 3/ ; drab 'and blue chied dress, 81 184 61 ; dress and waistcoat, 717 s ; coloured muslin dress, 414;; white ditto, 31 31 ; moire antique dress, 11/ 6d ; French lace mantilla, 71 7e ; three lace chewisettes, 5l 3a ; black and white chind bilk dress, 81 83 ; Chantilly veil, 41 14; 61 ; six richly embroidered lace collars, 151 ; pink cap, 3/ 3s ; ditto, 21 123 6d ; pair of turquoise pins, 61 6 s ; plaited lace chemisette, 1l lls 6d; lace flounces, 6l 63 ; peach moire dress , 101 10s ; ten buttons, 51 ; lice cap with pink riband, 11 154 ; pair of lace sleeves, Si 3s ; pair Lisle ditto, 21 124 ad ; white lace mantilla, 61 16s 6d ; poplin dress, 61 163 61; three bouquets of white poppet and velvet, 21 24; three lilac ditto, 2/ 2s ; two pair of corsets and laces, 4/ lOs 61 ; drab bonnet with green velvet, 3/ 33 ; jacket trimmed with lace, 4/ 143 61 ; Brussels lace headdress, with flowers, 51 5 ' • a green and white court dress, with blonde, pearls, ribands, &c , 511 5s ; feathers, 3/ 133 61 ; barege dress, si‘h silk fringe, &c., 9/ 193 61 ; pearl buttons, 243; striped silk dress, with fringe, &c., 9/ 193 51; blaca glace jacket, with ribands, Si 15a •6d ; a collar, 3/ 13s sd ; barege dress, 8/ 183 61 ; silk dress, 121 12s ; lace head. drew', with roses and sweet peas, 1/ 9s 6,1 ; vandyke 1/ 5s ; French canabriek dress, 81 18s 6d ; embroi (l,,red handerchief, 5158 ; embroidered India dress, 81. 183 6d ; drab cambric do., 71 73 ; lace chemisette, 31. ; another white dress, 81 8s ; another moire antique do., 121 123; black lane something, with mosaic fastenings, 51 8s ; mantle to suit do., 111 lie ; embroidered sleeves, 21 12e 6d ; embroidered c liar, 31 3s ; another poplin dress, 101 10.3; Maltese lace, 3/ 193 ; another poplin dress, 101 10a ; a rich black velvet dress, with Maltese lace and fringe, 2814 e; brown muslin dress, sv,th flounces and fringe, 171 17s ; velvet dress, trimmed with real black lace and ribands, 9/ 83 6]. ; pair of Mechlin lace sleeves, 81 33 ; lappet, with roses and pendants, 31 33; Cechmere cloak, with velvet, 71 7s;lace, roses, and velvet 4/ 183; lace lappet, with pomegranates and bouquets, 41 4s; point lace parasol, 101 104; point lace cap, with eer and peach. 51 15a 6d; a hoop, 1/; another moire antique drew, 13/133; blue do., 11/ lls ; 24 shell buttons, 3/ ; making brown barege dress with flounces, glace slip. riband, tulle, and fringe, 61 ; lace Spanish mantilla, 121 12s ; pink and violet wreath, 11 83 ; black lace bonne*, with poppies, 3/ 33 ; blue lace ditt ', with violets, 31 104; another dress , 13/ 15s ; another ditto, with pearls, bugles and tulle, 161 164; blonde head-dress, with roses, 21 13v; lace lappet, with ribands and pearl:, 2l 124 ; blonde head-dress, with gold. and white roses, 4/ ; another, - eith eth•-r roses, 2/ 183; drab and peach muslin lappet, slip, riband, and petticoat, 121 19s 9d ; muslin dress, with lace, &c , 141 Oa 9d; another dress, 161 1.6 e ; point lace cap, 3l 133 61 ; black glace jacket, jet but tons, and lace, 51 15; 61 ; black velvet ditto, 101 103 ; a bearskin cloth, 71 7a bonnet, with blue violets, 3/ another velvet jacket, 6l 63 ; another violet bonnet, 41 51 4; ; another moire antique dress, with extra moire velvet and ribbon trimmings, 11/ 183. The ace - mint from Jan. 1856, to Feb. 1357, consists principally of a trousseau for Miss Carew on the occasion of her mar ; iege with Sir Charles Pigot. It includes a white glace ball dreen, with blonde, silver, and blue, 181; wreath ; f !slue azalea and silver, 2/ 2s ; flowers and strings to hoe net, 1/ is ; bonnet, with white and pansies, 8/ 163 ; wreath, trimmings, and rose, 6/ 63 ; white glace court dress, pearls, blonde, and green glace train, 25/ 18s 3d ; court head-dress, with geld wreath and feathers, 51 15s &I ; dressing four done 121 121 ; another court dress, with gold and white lace train, and brocaded gold, 551103 ; additional flounces, gold, and roses, 21 33; point lace cap, lilac and pearls, 11/ lie ; making train into a dress, with pearls, &c., 11/ lls ; making second. train into ditto, 11/ 9.3; pair of lappets, 81 8s ; point lice, 101 10s ; green brocaded moire antique dress, with pick ribands and tassels, 191 193 ; glace mantle, with real lace, 121 12s ; a point lace parasol, 131 18s ; a Venice point flounce, 841; a rose point bonnet, 141 143 ; point lace trimmings for velvet dress. 361 15s ; nine yards Brussels lace and flonncings, .281 143; ditto, 31/ 103 ; black lace ditto, 311. 103 ; do., 311 lOs ; Brussels lace bonnet, 6l 16s 61 ; another moire antique dress, 121 123 ; another ditto, 161 16s; another ditto, 151 153 ; pink glace dress, tulle with pearl fringe, &c. 171 17s ; another moire antique dress, 141 14; ; another ditto, with pearl drops, 201 ; wreath of lilies, 21 2s ; ditto of pink flowers, 1/ lOs ; morning dress, flounces, &c., 141 14s ; green glace dress, with velvet fringe, 191 ; another dress, with pearls, &e., 121 12s ; another with beads, &c., 161 ; another with green velvet and pearl buttons, 271 ; white embroidered dress, 141 14s ; crystallised glace dress with orange blossoms a n d pearl, 211 ; violet glace dress with tasse's, 161 163 ; white muslin dress with lace, &c , 22/ ; silver dt%ss with Maltese lace, 131 13s ; head-dress— scarlet, velvei, and ivy, 2/ 184 ; ditto, with vine leaves, &c., 21 12s; black velvet cloak, 11/ ; blue velvet jacket with lace, 12f 123 ; pink jacket with gold embroidery, 111; chemisette and sleeves of Indian mus lin, 41 12s 6d ; another morning dress, 91 19s 6d ; braid and Flash, 61 10s ; evening dress, 20/ ; under the head of " bridesmaid " are the following entries :—Black velvet, sable trimmings, 731 10s ; mantle, 161 16s ; white glace evening dress, tulle, stiff net embroidered blonde au3 swansdown, 11/ lie ; Brussels lace sleeves, 4/ 4e ; ditto with white satin, 41 4s ; 3i Venice point trimmings, lace, &c., 13112 a 6d ; covering parasol handle with lace and silk, 121 123 ; white glace ditto, with French lace, 10/ 103—total, 2031 for bridesmaid. There are further items:—White blonde mantilla, 15/ 153 ; white tiny bonnet with sapphire and lace veil, 51 15s 6d; wreath of orange flowers, 3/ 33 ; wreath of roses, 2/ 23 ; linsey wolsey cloak, Si; black hat, 3/ ; another tiny bonnet, with gold and flowers, 0/ 12s 61 ; 35 ladies' favours, 71 lle 6d ; 35 gentlemen's ditto, 71 17s 6d ; three chit dren's favours, 12s ; bridesmaids' ditto, 2/ lOs ; 20 white ribbons and flowers, 2/ ; two pairs of widen k:d gloves with orange ei ; blossom,t t a ri n in ge nigcap l3s ; blue bonnet with Maltese lace, flowers and pearls, 3/ 33 ; point lace crown, mar (mike stars, and green rosettes, 51 51 ; spring hoop, dresoeswith; velvet dress, silk linin w gs it , h ta E se u e g ls en an e d i' l l a u c e e ' , 1 1 1 0/ 51 15; n3 ; a b k la in ct :draw, 23/ 13 6d. Among the 14/ 61 crape, &c., 171 is ; ditto, 11/ 15e 61 ; ditto, parioaoofaz,allowed is one cf 1 5071 for jewel o clai claim levy. There is guineas for oily one against the estate of 45 krb:txheesl (July, b 1 i 3 11 5 f 6) at her et, Adelphi, and Olympic Majesty's, and the Elay n ea til a s Theatres. Some of the itemsri levy are as remarkable as those co • n. contained • amed in the bill for millinery. No less than 14 merchartl have been declared in,ol - at the Exchange at Constantinople, Nearly of them are Greeks, who have been speculating excenivei in corn, and been unable through the monetary elide to fulfil their engagements. Naval and Military intelligence: The head-quarters of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars, under the command of Lieut. -Cul. R. de Salis, ar rived at Newbridge barracks on Saturday from Dundalk, and will shortly move to Cork to embark for Bombay. The head-quarters and six troops of the 17th Lancers, under Lieut.-Col. Benson, will very shortly move to Cork to embark for Bombay. The 94th Regiment, under the command of Major Buller, in the absence of Lieut.-Col. Mills, on leave, will shortly proceed from Dublin to Cork to pre pare to embark at Queenstown harbour for convey ance to Kurrachee, India. The 51st (the King's) Light Infantry, now in Dublin, will shortly embark at Queenstown for Bombay. The service companies of the 76th Regiment, un der the command of Lieut.-Col. R. C. Lloyd, are shortly expected to arrive at Queenstown from Nova Scotia, and on arrival at Cork will proceed to the Curragh camp to join the Infantry Brigade. The whole of the officers and meu of the 4th, 10th, 11th, and 21st companies of Royal Engineers, uuder orders to embark for India, were yesterday inspected on the parade-ground at Brompton bar racks, Chatham. The companies were drawn up in the Barrack-square under the command of their respective officers, the strength of the whole force 500 men of all ranks. Nearly the whole of the men ordered to India have seen a great deal of service in all quarters of the globe, and a large number are decorated with the Crimean medal. The order for the 11th (Capt. C. E. Cumberland's) company to embark at Southampton and proceed overland to India has been cancelled, and it is understood that a portion of the Royal Engineers will be conveyed to India in the Chesapeake, 51, steam-frigate, Com modore Watson, now ready for sea at Portsmouth. The officer selected to command the Royal Engi neers in India is Lieut.-Col. H. D. Harness, com manding Royal Engineer at Malta ; Capt. F. E. Cox, attached to the Staff at Chatham, being ap pointed Adjutant. - The Indian depots at the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, will be greatly strengthened on the Ist October by the arrival of five additional depots at that garrison—viz., the sth Fusileers, 18th Royal Irish, 33d (Duke of Wellington's), 51st Light In fantry, and the 94th Regiment, for the purpose of being attached to the 3d battalion, which is to be formed under the command of Lieut.-Colonel C. Elmhirst. Each of the three battalions at Chatham will consist of 10 depots, numbering 2,000 ova of all ranks, with a separate staff, but the selection of depots for each battalion has not yet been made. The 3d battalion will occupy the huts at Prince Henry's bastion. The steam ship Great Britain, which has been fitted at Liverpool under the immediate superin tendence of her owners, will leave that port to morrow or Thursday for Cork, whence she will em bark about 1,100 of the Bth and 17th Cavalry for Bombay on or about the 28th of this mouth. Extensive preparations have been in progress for some weeks pat by the troops belonging to the Sappers and Miners at Chatham for blowing up the remaining portions of old Rochester-bridge, and, the whole of the arrangements having been com pleted the explosions will take place this day, on which occasion upwards of I,ooolb. weight of gun power will be used in destroying the arches of the bridge, which are to be blown to pieces. In order to facilitate the operations several shafts have been sunk to a great depth in the piers, communicating with which are galle r i es , i n which the gunpowder was yesterday deposited. There are four charges of 2001 b. each and two of 1331 b. each, the whole of which will be fired simultaneously by means of the voltaic battery worked by Capt. Scott, Royal En gineers. General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G. C.B , Inspector-General of Fortifications, with several other distinguished officers of the Royal Engineers, will be present to witness the operations, which will i)e carried out under the direction of Col. H. Saud ham, Director of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, The working party of Sappers and Minors is under the direction of Captain W. H. Noble, Royal En gineers, to whom the superintendence of the under taking has been confided. only very lately since its new formation has added to his former glories After a forced march the French forces arrived at the place they were to at tack in such an exhausted state that the Zouaves refused to attack, on which the flank companies of the Foreign Legion at once volunteered to carry the works under a very sharp fire, which they did. " Subjoined are the names of a few general officers who have risen to eminence of late, and who served in the French Foreign Legion : " Marshal St. Arnaud.—Entered the service in the Foreign Legion as lieutenant from half-pay, and did not leave it until he attained the rank of major. " General M‘Mahon.—Commanded the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion. " General Bedeau.—Commanded the lst Regi ment of the Foreign Legion. " General Neumayer. —Di tto. " General Carbuccia, who died in the Crimea, served many years in the Foreign Legion. "General Bazaine, who commanded the French and English troops at the expedition to Kinburn, 1855, and was afterwards Governor of Sebastopol, enlisted as a private in the Foreign Legion in 1831, and rose regularly in that corps until he arrived in the Crimea in command of its Ist Regiment, when he was given the command of the entire Foreign Brigade. "General Mellinet.—Now commanding the French Imperial Guards ; served for seven years in the Foreign Legion. " General Vinoy.—Commands one of the Brigade of the Guarde Imperiale, and served many years in the Foreign Legion. General Cbangarnier.—Served as captain and major in the Foreign Legion. General Charras.—Served as major and lieu tenant•colonel in the Foreign Legion." THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA. (From the Laity News.) It is only too apparent that Lord Canning neither inspires nor possesses the confidence of the independent British community at Calcutta ; and it is quite certain that at home all the public knows abuut Lord Canning is, that he is the son of Mr. Canning. Of course no rational being will ever think of holding Lord Canning responsible for the mutiny of the Bengal Army, or for the events which have led to its revolt ; and official people at home will, in due season—that is, when the time for in quiry comes—preach the comfortable doctrine that nobody is to blame either for the occurrence itself or for the total absence of all prescience as to the real state of the Native Troops. But with this entire want of confidence in Lord Canning at Calcutta, where something is known of him, and with this ignorance of Lord Canning at home, where something at least ought to be known of a Governor-General of India—with the facts st firing us in the face that on the first appearance of insubordination in the Bengal army, Lord Can ning did not view the symptoms of disaffection as very serious ; that after the first symptoms of dis order were over, he wrote home that all cause for alarm had paused away ; that he refused Jung Bahadoor's offer of considerable reinforcements, by the acceptance of which danger might at once have been removed from Lucknow ; that the mutiny and destruction of property at Dinapore are attributed, by a press he has the power to suspend, to his not having complied with the requisition sent him for additional troops from that station ; that the merchants and traders of Calcutta, though in num bets a mere handful, are providing for their own safety, and have, for making this provision to assist themselves, been rebuked and snubbed by Lord Canning ; considering all these things, the question will force itself into men's mouths—:ls Lord Can ning the man for this emergency ? When the, tenure of Lord lialhousie's Govern ment drew to a close, and a successor was to be appointed, the public did not turn to Lord Canning and express any spontaneous opinion of his fitness for the appointment. On the contrary, so far as public opinion was concerned, it would have pre ferred Lord Elgin as Governor-General of India ; and there is, we believe, no doubt that the Court of Directors of the East India Company would have gladly concurred in this preference. Now we do not begin, by saying that the public feeling in this case was right, but at all events it was reasonable, for Lord Elgin was known to have been successful iii two very difficult governments. He bad had large success in dealing with the embarrassed, cross grained, and dissatisfied planters of Jamaica, and the prosperous and fickle black population of that island. In Canada and British North America he had exhibited even superior qualities. He there skilfully steered a great province of freemen through the rocks and shoals of their own political passions ; rooted out in a great measure the last troubles of a rebellion which nearly lost us that colony ; assisted in restoring it to a state of un paralleled loyalty ; enabled the Home Government greatly to reduce its military expenditure, by the introduction - of a scheme of local self-defence ; and, by the Treaty of Washington, laid the basis of au enormous commerce with the United Stater, which gives British North America all the advantages of its territorial connexion with that republic, and removes all stimulus or motive to political annexation. These services—and they were great services— did not prove that Lord Elgin was in all respects the fittest man in the Empire fur the Governor- General of India—that we quite admit. Nor do we assert that he was, or is, the fittest man. For the duties of a Governor-General of a dependent Empire are very different, it is obvious, from those of either a great productive and tropical Island, where the bulk of the population consists of eman cipated negroes, oe a large territorial colony grow ing into an independent State. But in these two responsible employments Lord Elgin did exhibit the rare faculty • of successfully dealing with men of various and even opposite tendencies, characters, and capacities, and did show a coolness, a sagacity, and a self-reliance invaluable in the rulers of trans marine possessions of the British Crown. His were services which could not be passed- over by the Queen's Government ; and they were not passed over. Two distant governments were at their dis posal about the same time. Both in pecuniary value were great, and both were of large though of very different political mportance. They were the government of the Australian Colony of Victoria, worth 15,0001. a-year, and the Supreme Governor ship of India, worth 25,000/.. a-year. The former government was offered to Lord Elgin, and as v e think . was very naturally declined by him ; for though the salary was much larger than he had en joyed in Canada, the position was in rank an in ferior one, the colony, though it had its political importance and its 'difficulties, containing only about one-tenth of the population confided to Lord Elgin's charge in Canada—in short, such a govern ment was a step backward, not forward ; and able and ambitious men do not like, except under circumstances of necessity and where renown is to be acquired, to retrograde in official rank. Lord ' Elgin refused Victoria, which could hardly have been proposed in serious expectation of his accept ing it ; and, the offer over, Lord Canning was appointed Governor-General of India, a position which it is notorious Lord Elgin would only have been too happy to have accepted, and which the public would have applauded his appointment to as a substantial reward for proved merit. Now who was Lord Canning, that he should thus have successfully competed with Lerd Elgin for the highest prize and the most responsible situation under the British Crown 7 Lord Aberdeen will tell us, as he used to tell the foreign ministers, that as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Canning was a most useful assistant, and a very likely man to rise in, the world. Mr. Rowland Hill will tell us, .aud we believe with very great truth—for we are not depreciating Lord Canning— that he was by far the best Postmaster-General he has ever known. During the debates on the last Charter Acle Lord Canning got up the case of India for the Government of that' day in the Lords, and exhibited about the same amount of cram knowledge of the subject, with much less tediousness, in that assembly as the equallylalecrious Sir Charles Wood did in the House of Commons. And in the discus sion of the Oxford University Reform Bill Lord Canning played the part—longo inte7vallo—which was Mr. Gladstone 's original character in the Lower House of Parliament. All this is very true, but not very important or encouraging. Moreover, Lord Canning, by Lord Aberdeen's desire, refused the offer which Lord Derby made him to enter the cabinet which Lord Derby never formed, and ac cepted the offer Lord Palmerston made him to con tinue in his cabinet. When we have added that Lord Palmerston was his father's follower and friend, that Mr. Canning saw Lord Palmerston's merits much better than either Lord Liverpool or the Duke of Wellington, that Lord Palmerston is supposed to be grateful for this prescience, and that this gratitude is believed to be very much at the bottom of ,his appointment, we have, we think, told prettyfairly the story of Lord Canning's political life before he went to India. Now what did it amount to ? To the creditable fulfilment of the minor opportanites it was Lord Canning's gce d fortune to enjoy, but to nothing more. Lord Canning had never shown publicly any high qualities. He had not his father's eloquence— On the contrary, he had an impediment in his speech. He had not his father's courage, mettle, or vigour— on the contrary, he was passive, submissive, re served, and timid. He had not his father's noble ambition—on the contrary, he was content to ad vatibie his fortunes by following great men irrespec tive of their political views. He had not his father's experience of the world, or his habits of self-reli ance, or his knOwledge of human nature, still less power of seeing coming events from a distance, or realising the final results of a great policy • on the contrary, Lord Canning was simply a well-educated wet-behaved, -and useful subordinate ; such as his fatherand most other great men never were. And be was chosen as Governor-General of India, not because he had either special knowledge or spe cial fitness, but because he was the fortun a t e young man of the Palmer-ton Cabinet, because India was deemed to be in au exceedingly tranquil con dition, because the Government at home wanted a man in India imbued with their own notions— though what they are Heavers only knows I—be cause Lord Canning was not rich, and because Governors-General usually bring fortunes home, and some obtain pensions of 5,000/. a year for deeds which, ere they are settled down at home, have as sisted to shake the empire to its fouud scions. We are not adopting or unduly exalting Lord Elgin, in saying that a comparison of his qualifica tions with tleye of Lord Canning were all in Lord Elgin's favour. What we desire to point out is that in this modern system, which requires either a Governor-General to be taken, as Lord Auckland, Lord Ellenhorough, Lord Hardinge, Lord Dal housie, and Lord Canning were, from the Cabinet of the day, or, as others have been, from the friends of the M.nister, the country has DO security what ever for gettin g the best and fittest man, and that the chances ar e that friendship and intimacy, whe ther political or private, will prevail against com petency and experience. Had the Government at all anticipated such a re volt, Lord Canning would never have been sent to India. There was apparently serious work to be done in China, and then Lord Elgin was called in. But in India the rule ought to have been, not con fidence in our position, not a belief that it was safe to send a mediocre person ; but mistrust and a dis credit that any man, however wise, able, or expe rienced, could really fathom our situation there. As it is, Lord Canning - is placed in a position for which those nearest to him hold him to be unequal, and for which there is nothing, either in his antecedents or his acts, that can inspire confidence in those at a distance. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tnis DAT. Amsterdam. ..........• 11 16 , Gibraltar .............. Ditto, three months .. 11 194 'Leghorn • • ........ 30 Rotterdam ............ 11 Genoa ...... 25 75 Antwerp .............. 25 40 ;Milan Brussels 25 40 Venice Bamburgh ••••••• • •• • • 13 8 Naples' ••••.• •• • .• 42% Altcna •• •••• •• •• •• •• ,Palermo • alermo .• • • ...... •• •• 12 7 Paris •• .. ••• .. • • 25 25 Messina ... ... 127% Do. three months .. • • 25 6214 Lisbon .. .......... .. • • 52 % Marseilles .... Bourdeaux " • • • • • • •• .. Rio Janeiro...... • • • • • • Frankfort-on-Maine .... 119 Buenos Ayres.. •• • • .... Berlin ................ !Mew York,6o days' sight Vienna •... • • .... 10 35 !Philadelphia •• . frieste.• • • ...• •• •• • • ... 10 36 I PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz: Petersburg ............ 36!.i 'Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid 4914 :Portugal Gold Coin .• 0 0 0 Cadiz • •• •• •• •• • • •• v. • • 50 Btrcelona •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 5evi11e••••...•••,..... Mexican Dollars .... 0 5 1 (SilvNew Dollars ...... 0 0 0 er in bars ...... 0 5 1% .. ii THE MILITIA. The Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery ha 3 been ordered to assemble at the Islington Barracks, Liverppol, on the sth proximo. The assembly of the Royal Wiltshire Militia is not postponed till th 3 7th of October, but takes place on the original day named by the Lord-Lieu tenant—viz., the Ist October. The Oxfordshire Militia assembled at Oxford on Thurday, and as it took some little time to furnish them from the armoury with clothes and accoutre no regnlar drill took place until yesterday morn ing. Upwards of 100 are wanted to complete the full number. THE _FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. In considering the formation of a Foreign Legion it may be interesting to (peruse the following sketch of the French Foreign Legion, held so highly in esteem by that nation : "In 1815, immediatey after the restoration, numbers of Italians who had served under Napo leon found their way to France in order to enrol iheaaselves into the Frenoh army. They were formed into a corps, the organisation of which was entrusted to an officer named Hohenlohe, from whom the corps took the name under which it served in the occupation of the Morea. " After the revolution of July 1830, this corps, which had become reduced in numbers, was by Louis Philippe incorporated in the French army as the 21st Regiment of Light Infantry (now toe 9Ah Regimgnt of the Line). "In 1831 it was thought desirable to raite another fircign corps for trio purpose of being sent to Algeria. It was composed of many battalions of various nations, among other there was a Belgian and likewise Garman and Italian battalions. This formation, however, was not found successful, and therefore from time to time as reinforcements of recruits arrived front Franca Vie various natimis were gradually intermixed. Yet this was not thoroughly affected until 1839. At the engsg men t of the Pont de la Machta, ono of the battalions was cut to pieces by the enemy, owing, it is sai I, to a bad esprit which existed in one of the bat talions. " In 1835 these troops were given over to Quc►en Christina of Spain, to fight against Don Carlos. They served under Generals Bornelli and Cour3 d, and after the death of the latter they were col n manded by Colonel Ferrari, a Neapolitan, who h ad served many years in the Napoleonian army. Di ir nig this civil war in the Peninsula, they performed many gallant deeds, and it is very worthy of :re mark, that during a period of 18 months, during which they received neither pay nor rations, not the slightest perception of discontent prevailed. " In the year 1838 these foreign battalions, after having suffered extremely, were reduced in all to about 400 or 500 men ; these were ordered to cross the Pyrenees to Pau and Perpignan, where they then became the nuclei for the formation of two regiments of three battalions each. On this new formation it was deemed advisable to entirely amalgamate the men of the different nations about to compose the force. Two-thirds at least of the officers were to be Frenchmen, a certain portion of the non-commissioned officers were, on the com mencement of the organi , ation, likewise to be Frenchmen. The corps was a c ;ain destined to servo is Algeria, where previously it had rendered such great services, and in 1839 it proceeied there. it distinguished itself during the second expeditio❑ to Constantine, at the storming of which place it behaved admirably. It was on this occasion that St. Arnaud was promoted to the rank of Captain, and was decorated, and remarked that he owed both to the bravery of these foreign soldiers. This force took apart in nearly every engagement in the Algerian campaign. In 1849, at the storming of Zaatcha, its flank companies under the comurand of Meyer, a Swiss, singularly distinguished them selves in leading the forlorn hope. "In 1852 the let regiment was praised in a general order for its very admirable conduct at i'Ouad Kiss, under General Montauban. " In Algeria, where all public works and roads are made by the troops, the Engineers' officers always solicit working parties from the Foreign Legion, on account of their willingness and dispo sition. " Marshal Pelissier, when commanding in Al geria, placed more dependence iu the Foreign Le gion than in any other troops under his command. Iu 1834 the corps was sent to the Crimea. The charge made by it at the Alma, and its very heroic behaviour at the taking of the Mamelon, together with its remarkable patience and endurance during the entire winter of 1854, caused its fame to be -o,mi° more e tablished than before. On the 10th of May, 1856, Napoleon 111. offend naturalisation to all serving in it. Those who accepted were transferred to the regiments they selected in the regular force, while the remainder formed a nucleus for its present forma , ion, which took place in 1856, and proceeded once more to occupy Algeria. It 3 fore is about 6,330, and it is composed in round numbers of the following nations, intermixed and divided into battalions : Germans Swiss 2,500 Italians 6OO Spaniards 7OO Dutch Belgians ... 1,200 `Total 6,300 !` It is now serving under Marshal Randon, and IRELAND. THE BELFAST RIOTS.-GOVERNMENT INQUIRY. On Saturday the inquiry into the recent distur bances at Belfast was resumed before the commis sioners, Messrs Lynch, Q.C., and Smythe, Q.C. There was a large attendance. Hugh Graham, a man about 50 years of age, ap peared before the commissioners to state that lie was grossly assaulted on the previous evening. He was working in High-street, and he left off at 7 o'clock in the evening, and came through Eglinton street into Donegal-street; four persons came be hind him whom he did not know, but if he saw them again might know them. They asked him to curse the Pope. To Mr. Smythe—l am a Catholic. To Mr. O'Rorke—l said the Pope was well enough prayed for, without them or me minding him. I was knocked down by one of them with a blow of a stick, and when I was down, they beat and kicked me. 1 was on the broad of my back ; one of them said he would give me something that would do me for a bit. The person who said this, then gave me a blow of a stick on th e arm w hi c h I had put up to defend myself. [The witness, whose arm was bandaged, was about to take off the bandage and show the wound, but the commissioners said it was not necessary. Blood stains could be seen on the bandage.] I have been all my life in Belfast, and the like never was done to me before. To Mr. Lynch—l never was in Pound-street ex cept on an errand. 'fo Mr. Faulkner—l told a constable I met that I had been beaten. I saw none to come to my as sistance. I never gave any offence to the protes tant party, or to any protestant here. lam not known as a party man, but I am a Catholic, and will never deny my religion. Mr. Purcell, barrister, who appeared f)r the Orangemen of Belfast, applied to the commissioners to permit the testimony of his clients to be reduced to writing in the form of a declaration, and verified before the commissioners as true. The Commissioners stated that a similar applica tion had been made to them by the other side, but they saw no reason to alter the course they had already pursued. Mr. Lynch also stated that it was no part of the object of their inquiry to bring punishment upon any individual. They were there to ascertain tho causes of the late disturbances. Mr. Faulkner objected to the court being turned into a police-office to hear cases of common assault like Graham's from day to day. Mr. Lynch said the case was within the scope of their inquiry. The Rev. W. Martin, one of the Catholic curates of Belfast, was then examined, but there was no thing important in his evidence. Mrs. Donohoe, a catholic, gave an account of the wrecking of her house on the 14th July. She never had a meeting in her house, and had given no offence that she knew of. Mary Donohoe, daughter of the last witness, stated that she met a crowd of about 100 persons on the 16th July. They abused her, and went and wrecked the house of one Russell, a Presbyterian, who refused to join them. On the 18th a dozen and a half of boys came up to her and threatened to blow out her brains if she did not curse the Pope. Other witnesses gave similar evidence. James Carolia, examined by Mr. Rea, stated—l am a Catholic. lam a compositor, working in the Ulsterman, office. I recollect returning from work on the morning of the 13th of J u l y , a t h a lf- pas t five o'clock. I was at my own door, when I saw five or six town constables. I saw eighteen or twenty other men, who were ere c ti ng an arch of orange lilies ; this was in Stanley-street. The constables were standing with the men. They were using a ladder t o erec t th e arc h. I saw them five or ten minutes at it. The constables were th , re all that time. I was at a dis tance from them, a nd could not k now th em . O n Tuesday evening shots were fired from a yard iu Stanley-street in o toy house ; this was abo u t e i g ht. I saw a Sandy-row mob cheering, and shouting, and filing. A great number of shots were fired ; on S :turday evening I beard shots fired on both sides. I know a vacant house in Stanley - street. I saw fir ing from it on Sunday morning ; the firing was kept up from that house all the week. On Sunday I saw a guu presented from the house. Sergeant Hen derson and another policeman were present. He told us to come out of the read, as the man was lowering the gun to fire. On Tuesday evening a shot came into my house. It came through the window and smashed a picture on the opposite wall. The ball was given toSergeant Henderson. Another bail came in and want into the mattress on the bed. My sister left the house. O . n Saturday evening I was afraid to go home from fear of being shot. The examination of this witness concluded the Hanna made an o th er a tt em pt t o sitting. Ou Sunday Mr. preach in front of the Custom-house. Large crowds assembled, and the Mayor interposed. A s li g ht disturbance foil 'wed,ch was soon quell e d, an d which tue crowd became quite tranquil. 400 constabulary were patrolling in different districts. INTERESTING CASE 01 TRANSFUSION.—This opera tion was stt-cessfully performed on Wednesday last, by Mr. Wheatcroft, surgeon, of Cannock, on the person of a woman named Wood, residing there. Immediately after her accouchement fearful hoarnorrhag,e set in, draining the woman of blood. She felt herself dying,- and summoned her husband to her bedside, to bid hint " Good-bye," and earnestly requested hiqi to take care of the children when she was no more. She then became pulseless and gasping, occasional breathing being the only indication of lite, A vein was opened in her arm, and one in the arm of her husband, and as the blood flowed from the latter it was transmitted by suitable apparatus into the veins of the wife. After 17 ounces had been thus injected, the pulse became perceptible, ;he colourless lips reddened, the glassy eye brightened, And she thanktutly said, "I am better." The case has progressed very favourably, and the woman is recovering. Death here was literally robbed of his victim.—StaiTuril shire Advertiser. BOTANIC REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION.—TIIO attention of our readers h requested to an advertisement in our paper headed A Fact for Physiologists," in which the Nottingham Medical R'sform Society propose to send free to all applicants the Botanic Remedy for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, lately discovered by Professor Web:ter, of Philadelphic. 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IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The Vice-Chancel. for Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Novill, for imitating " Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." THE INDIAN CRISIS. ( From the Morning Herald. ) When will tho English people be thoroughly aroused to a sense of the gravity of the present crisis in India ? Will they permit themselves to be beguiled by those who invariably bolster up weak cabinets and incapable officials until the evils pro duced by their lamentable want of energy and fore sight proclaim their presence in still more widely extending calamities t The identical course pur sued during the fearful contest in the Crimea has been adopted with reference to the Indian mutiny. Then, as now, the Times defended the measures of our rulers, declared that everything had been done in the best manner, and ridiculed those who ut tered sagacious warnings ; until the terrible fact of their mismanagement became evident to all, and the nation, in loud tones of indignation, condemned their wretched betrayal of d u ty. When further deception had become impossible this variable organ sought to occupy a foremost position on the popular side, and denouncod the Aberdeen Cabi net as eloquently as it had before heaped praises upon their policy. The coincidence between its conduct during that crisis and the present one is remarkable. On the 16th of July, nearly ten weeks ago, we wrote, " Why is not every avail able man sent out immediately —not in slow sailing transports, but in the fastest steamers we possess ? A thousand soldiers would now be of more real service than five times their number a year hence. Must we always do these things by halves, and can we only gain experience from disas ter ?" At the time those lines were written Ministers derided the idea that the mutiny was; a national movement, or that it could posse=s ex tensive ramifications. In that view they were strongly supported by the Times, and both con tended that a small reinforcement was sufficient for the emergency. By acting upon thiS short-sighted policy our supremacy in India has beeti so rudely assailed that it becomes a question whether we shall not be compelled to adopt measures to re conquer the whole country. Everybody perceives that Ministers were wrong, and that those who advocated energetic measures were right, and, true to its usual course the Times seizes the first oppor tunity of turning with the tide. After all this hesitation, this contumely, this fatal delay, it affects to believe that energy is required, and to the astonishment of those who watched its motions narrowly, in direct contradiction to all its arguments and 'assertions for the last three months, it yesterday declared,—" The struggle in India resolves itself with terrible simplicity into a single question—that of time ; of time measured not by years or seasons, but by weeks, or even days. Can our countrymen bold out till succours reach them against the raging fiends around ?" This is the language of truth ; bus, like many other good things, it comes too late. Ere any 'effects it might produce can begin to operate the battle will have been lost or won. It is not the fifty or hundred thousand men that may be levied for the re-conquest of India that can turn the scale at this moment. Three or four thousand comba tants sent out with all possible dispatch, when the news of mutiny first reached our shores, was the kind of aid imperatively demanded by the emer gency. Such a reinforcement would have enabled our weakened garrisons , to hold out against the das tardly rebels—have strengthened Havelock's gal lant column, averted many heart-rending massacres, restored confidence iu the chief cities of the three presidencies, and above all, manifested the vigilance of the Government, and shown that England's spirit was thoroughly aroused. This ought to have been done when Lord Granville was startling the House of Lords by declaring, with a complacency that sounded like a death-knell on the ears of those who had relatives or friends in India, the Govern ment " will not give way to 'unfounded apprehen sions of any great calamity or disaster." More energy, foresight, and determination at the right moment, would have proved our salvation, and by the last accounts it actually appears that certain native regiments have mutinied because of the apathy and the negligence displayed by the home Government. They hardly believed it pos sible that our rulers could lull themselves into false security in the presence of such peril ; once con vinced of the fact, they made common cause with their treaeherous comrades, believing that the hour for the extinction of British rule in India had ar rived. At this juncture we are enabled to judge of the effect produced upon the population of India, both European and native, by the unpardonable negli gence of the Government. Despair has seized upon tfie former, whilst the latter look forward to a trium phant issue to their base designs. All the Bengal native troops are disbanded ; the flame of rebellion has spread - to the Bombay Presidency, and the con dition of Madras is not felt to be very secure. Our small army before Delhi is besieged, and totally unable to act upon the offensive. The whole of Behar is in the possession of the insurgents. Com munications with Benares are cut off, and it be comes a questiori whether reinforcements can by any pnssibilityreach Gen. Havelock, in case men should be found for the arduous undertaking. Every where the want of proper forces and material is felt, and there is not a quarter of our immense In dian territories in which, proofs may not be found of the u ter folly and incapacity of those in autho rity. They have prepared neither for warfare nor defence ; and though our gallant troops display more than their wonted heroism they are in all parts outnumbered, and even victory fails to secure, its reward. ONE THING AT A TIIIE. There is a class of busy men who will do any thing, and with industry and zeal, except the matter in hand, the business which stands first in order of time and importance. For these men, although divines and churchmen are often of the number, Solomon has in vain written that "there is a time for all things under the sun." They will not have it so. , When one great affair, one overwhelming anxiety, is tasking all the energies of Government - , arid engrossing the mind of the Wale, these men are for doing something else, and pressing other subjects and other under takings, for which the season is net yet come, and for which nobody had any stomach but themselves. We have a striking instance of this mischievous activity iu the untimely zeal for Indian missions, of which we are sorry to perceive symptoms her e and there through the country, at the most inop portune moment for such exertions that indiscre tion could select. We are engaged in the sup pression of the most formidable revolt that ever placed.an empire in peril, a revolt raging over a distant and vast continent, and accompanied with crimes and horrors that make it not less our duty to chastise the rebels than to crush the rebellion ; and with this work upon our hands, this double work 'of conquest and punishment, we are, it seems, to charge ourselves with the addi tional burthen of preaching to, and converting the insurgents. A moment like this is thought a fit and decent opportunity for giving an impulse to missionary labours, and even for raising funds to encourage and support them. We rely upon the common sense of the country to discountenance a zeal so ill-timed as this, even in a cause so in trinsically good and laudable. The season will come for employing the missionaries of religion, when our soldiers, the missionaries of our justice, as welt as the defenders of our empire, have acquitted themselves of their prior functions. There is no greater mistake, or one more prolific of bitter fruits, than that into which many pious men are apt to fall, to think that what is abstractedly right to be done, and a duty to do, it is therefore incumbent upon them to do at all times, and under all varieties of circumstances. This is the mistake that Mr. Hanna has fallen into with such lamentable con sequences .in Belfast ; but a thousand times more mischievous would be its repetition here in England at a crisis like the present, when per haps the very existence of our empire in India may require the concentration on its defence of every thought and . faculty, energy and resource of the nation, without the slightest distraction of purpose or relaxation of effort. On in-re grounds of humanity, however, we enter our protest against a second subscription, which canuot but interfere most unjustifiably with that which the yearnings of public sympathy have already or ganised for the relief of our suffering coentry men in India. Here, again, are two works that cannot go on together; the public will not con tribute to two Indian funds at the same time. Which, then, is to have precedence ? Even among works of charity there rau,t he subordination of claims. And in this instance can any right-minded man have a doubt which ought to be postponed to the other ? For out part, et least, we have none. We think our martyrs have the first claim on our compassion. The conversion of Nana Sahib to Christianity would unquestionably be a glori ous work, though it would not prevent us from also hanging him ; but wo submit that our first concern is for the wretched survivors, alas too few, 'of Indian outrage and brutality ; and w e have too much confidence in the Christian in. tincts of Englishmen to th ink t hat fro m these opinions there can be many dissenters in th e country. AQUATICS. WEST LONDON ROWING CLUB. This chit) contested on Saturday last, 19th inst., a pair-oared race in cutrigged gigs, with c(xswains, for silver tankards, the course being from Putney to the Old-bridge, Battersea. The following craws started—Messrs. H. Nicholetts and Captain G. Chadwin—G. Mann, cox. (Green) ; E. M'ManuS and P. J. Tyler—W. A. Tyler, cox. (White) ; T. - M. Morriss and P. R. Morriss—W. E. Bennett, cox. (Red) ; E. G. Hartley and E. Mann—John Tyler, jun., cox. (Blue). Mr. F. E. Needham acted as umpire. On starting Green slightly took the lead, closely followed by White ; but, notwith standing the energies of both Blue and Red, kept , it till within a hundred yards of the goal, when White by a tremendous spurt lessened the distance between them to about a boat and a-half. Green, nevertheless, won by nearly two boats' length. When near the Feathers, Wandsworth, the stretcher of Red gave way, Blue then passed them, and a good race ensued between the two, which resulted in Red coming in third by a boat's length. GREAT BOAT RACE. The great boat race between Robert Chambers, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Alfred Ralph, of Wandsworth, for 2001., took place yesterday. The celebrity the first-named had acquired in his many • gallant conflicts in the north, and the fine and close race between him and his present opponent Ralph at the last Thames regatta, had rendered this a most interesting event in aquatic circles, and large sums of money had been speculated on the event. At first, the betting was only slightly in favour of Chambers, but after he had had a few trials over the course, his friends became so sanguine of his success that the odds increased to 6 and 7 to 4, and at last to 2to 1. There were never two men more evenly pitted against each other in point, of weight and age. They both rowed at about 11 stone, and are fine athletic men, 26 years old. The distance was from Putney to Mortlake, and several steamers were crowded to witness the race, besides • which there was a vast multitude on shore s • At 4 o'clock the men made their appearance in very fine light out-riggers, and divested of every superfluous article of clothing. They both looked very confi dent, and were in find-rata condition. Ralph, having won the toss for choice of station, took the , Middle3ex side; and all preliminaries having been arranged, the competitors started. They both got away at the same instant, and were literally scull and scull to Messrs. Searle's, and then for a mo-. meat, by dint of very extraordinary labour, Ralph's boat showed just in front, but he was unequal to the contiLuance of exertion necessary to keep it there, while the steady, long, and machine-like stroke of his opponent seemed incompetent of abate- • went in - power, and he consequently drew away from his opponent, at first slowly, but as the latter declined, with more rapidity. Ralph most•assuredly rowed desperately to retrieve the fortune of the day, but his opponent, after the first half-mile, never gave him the shadow of a chance. Chambers, after again and again easing, won by half-a-dozen lengths, completing the distance in 241 minutes. Mr. Casamajor, the gentleman champion of the Thames, was referee. Country Markets. CHELMSFORD-SEPT. 18. The supply of wheat was good, but an inactive trade. at about is to 2s per qr. reduction on the last week's rates. Spring corn firm, and unaltered in value. Wheat, white, old, per s. s. s. 0. • qr.6o 64 1 Oats, per qr. 24 30 new.... 53 63 I Peas, Partridge 41 4 4 ' red, old 50 58 White 38 4 6 , ' '1 new.... 50 58 Boiling 4O ~.1 Barley 35 96 Dun . 40 42 Chevalier 38 50 1 Beans, Tick . 40 43 • Grinding 35 42 1 Harrow ticks 41 45 • Malt 73 77 I Mazagan 37 i,1 . .. .. Chevalier 75 79 1 • Ditto, new... 37 tv ' Official Statement of the Qua] in the port of London, froi Sept. 14 to Sept. 19, both Lntities of Corn, &c, um the following pi inclusive. received nis, from +2 ( 75 1- 129 IT 505 768 304 -- 1 1258 148 - Colchester Harwich Leigh Malden COLCHESTER- SETT. 19. A fair supply of wheat, and prices were not more than is to 2s per qr. lower. Barley in good demand, and is per qr. dearer ; other sorts as before. Beans and peas , the turn against the buyer. Prices to-daywere as follow ;—Wheat, white, 603 to 66•; rod, 51s to 58s; barley, 42s to 47s ; cats, 24s to 30s ; beanf, Mazagan, 40s to 44,s ; middle and small, 44s to 48s; peas, white, 38s to 42s ; grey, 42s to 465. KIRKCALDY-SEPT. 19. We had very small supplies of all kinds of grain. Good qualiti©s a ready sale, at prices in favour of the sellers. Wheat. I Barley. j Oats. 1 Beans. First 6os Oct I 37s Oa 30s Od I Os Od Second Third 42s Od I 33s Oa I —a ud Os od 'r.- SEPT. 21. the close of the market Wallsend, ttc. s d. Wharncliire 16 O H 6 Russell's Hetton 17 Reuel] Hall l7 0 Brown's Moor Haigh Main 15 6 Eden Main 37 3 , Tees 18 U - daswell - 18 6 South Hetton 18 6 n Wayne's Merthyr 21 u Casson 17 Lumley 17 u iiraddyll l7 6 Bell. l6 3 lietton lB 6 ,, Framwellgate ; 17 v Hetton Lyons Main „16 0 Lambton IS 0 Stewart's 18 n ° Montague Garcsfield, 14 u, Whitworth l5 u,.. Birchgrove Graigola, 2l ~;' ISeaham l7 ' 1 176 ; sold, 160. 6 160 -- COAL MARK Prices of Coals per ton al s. d. North Percy Hartley _l6 0 *Mafiald Moor l4 0 Taufield Moor Butes 14 0 Wylam West Wylam 14 15 Bates's West Hartley 16 0 Morpeth West Hartley 17 0 Ward's West Hartley _l6 6 West Hartley Grey's...J.7 3 Bebside's Hartley 17 9 Haswell Gas 14 0 Walker Primrose 0 Wallsend, &c. Gosforth l6 0 Acorn Closo l7 3 Eden Riddell l6 0 Hunwick l5 3 Kelioe. 17 € Montague 16 3 Derweet water Hartley l7 3 South Hartlepool l7 3 West Kelloe 16 9 Ships at market, A letter from Berlin confirms the news which bad .prevailed that M. Von der Heydt, Minister Of Commerce, in compliance with solicitations ad dressed to him, has consented to withdraw his re signation. The Algiers papers' state that some agitation has recently been remarked amongst the wio - Moorish tribes which occupy the territory between Fez and Morocco, and that some acts of Insubordination were expected. They add that the Emperor of Morocoo is at the form er t own an d his son in the second. 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