The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

THE INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE OF THE " NORD' The Nord of Brussels publishes the following letter from " its special correspondent in India." The last letter from " its sp ecial correspondent" was dated Madras. The "letter" gives a fair summary of recent events in India, but we need not add that every line of it was written much nearer home. We need not fear to be anticipated by our Northern contemporary. We trust only that he will copy discreetly " Calcutta, July 20. cc On my return to Calcutta I found that the situation of affairs in Bengal was not in the least ameliorated, as we had hoped it would be. On the contrary, many more serious events have happened to render it still more complicated. Lucknow, the capital of the ex-kingdom of Oude, keeps its ground still against the insurgents, who ;rave besieged it; bat Sir Harry Lawrence, one of the bravest and ablest men of the Anglo- Indian army, died on the 4th of July, in conse quence of the wounds which he received two days before, on the occasion of a brilliant sortie. " At Cawnpore the little garrison under the com mand of Sir Hugh Wheeler, after having de fended itself for a long time and with great valour against 15,000 of the rebels commanded by the Rajah of Bithoor, received overtures from this chief, who knew that they ware a prey to famine, that Sir Hugh Wheeler had been mortally wounded, and that they were encumbered with many women and children whose safety they were most anxious to secure. The garrison ulti mately submitted to Nena S thib, after having re ceived the solemn promise that they would be al lowed to withdraw safely and soundly with the whole of the European population to Allahabad. But they had scarcely laid down their arms when Sir IL Wheeler and his companions were all mas sac-ed. Upon the parade ground of Cawnpore, not only were sacrificed 132 women and children who had fled from Futt3hgurb, but also the hand ful of soldiers that composed the garrison of the fonner place, and 240 women and children who were found within th© garrison. " The hordes of demons who fought under the banner of the treacherous and sanguinary Nena Sahib showed no pity for either sex or age, nor re spect for the heroism of the brave. That the wo men had been exposed to the most revolting treat ment before they were slaughtered the scenes which have taken at Delhi and at other places gives us every reason to fear. However that may be, it is undoubted that Cawnpore has since been recaptured On the 30th June Major Renaud bore down upon Cawnpore from Allahabad with 500 Europeans, 359 Sikhs, and two cannon ; Brigadier-General Havelock followed on the 7th of July with detach ments of the' 64th and 78th Regiments of Royal In2antry, and six cannons. On the 12th the two forces counting in all 1,300 men, encountered, be fore Futtehpore, about 49 miles from Allahabad, the rebels, which comprised 3 regiments of infantry, 2 regiments of cavalry, and 11 pieces of cannon. Havelock attacked them strongly, and after four hours' hard fighting he put them to flight and can tueed their 11 pieces of cannon. From our side we did not lose a single man. "In his official aeport, addressed to Calcutta, General Havelock attributed this result, as extra° c dinary as it was satisfactory, to the superiority of our artillery (Royal), to our Enfield rifles, and to the courage and solidity of the English soldiers ; but the brave general forgot to say that his own ch tracteristic ability contributed powerfully to this magnificent success. The army of Nena Sahib wes more than 15,000 strong, and had taken up an excellent position before Futtehpore. His cannon had been admirably placed to act upon our troops, who occupied a position within evsy range of them. But General Havelock cared ve•y little of approaching so close to the enemy, being only desirous of placing his men at a convenient distance, and in a good position for bat tic. Detachments of the G4th and 78th first opened fire, and every shot that came from their ranks told upon some one man of the inimical forces, and taught them the value of those cartridges which they had affected to diso.ain. In vain did they re ply to the deadly precision of the Euglish rifles by a cont;nuous fire of their musketry. In vain did they play off all their artillery against the msrks men of Gen. Havelock. Their balls fell innocuously around the European ranks, while the Enfield rifles male terrible ravages among the gunners of the enemy. In the meantime the battery of Royal Ar tillery, under the command of Captain Maude did. not remain inactive. It swept away the rebels on eech opportune occasion; and in less than four h arts this army of 15,000 men was completely dis persed by a handful of English and some Sikhs The flying column of Gen. Havelock pursued the enemy to the utmost in the direction of Cawnpore. On the 15th and 17th they attacked the foe again at d again, and beat him each time, taking rom him the remainder of his cannon to the number of 15. After the affair of the 17th our troops entered Cawnpore, which they found wholly deserted and in ruins. STena Sahib had fled to Bithoor, about 14 niles from Cawnpore, where we hope he will be soon followed and hunted down. " Tha position of Lucknow appears to be most critical ; but as Gen. Havelock is receiving fresh troops from Allahabad, at which place they are ar ri /Mg daily from Benares and from Calcutta, there is every reason to hope that the place will be res cued, notwithstanding the death of its illustrious ch:ef. "On the sth July Agra was menaced by about 8,000 SepT,ys. Strange fact! the chief portion of that army had marched from Neemuch, a place si treate more than 300 miles from Agra ; but it was augmented during, its progress across the Jeypoor by the junction of native troops stAtionel along its rcute and in its neighbourhood. However that ra ty be, at their approach all the European and Chris tian inhabitants took refuge within the fort of Ara. The garrison there, formed of the 3d European Regiment of the Company and of a corps of volul tears, counted altogether 550 men,with six cann - m. This gallant little band proceeded out to confront the enemy, whom it found occupying a position iu a village some miles from the station, and whom it immediately attacked. After an obstinate battle t' e enemy was di-dodged from its station ; hut, by a:i unexplained forgetfulness, the Barris m found itself deficient of cartridges at the very moment of victory, and was consequently obliged to retraat aL; Lin into the fort without being able to complete tl eir triumph, purchased by the loss, in killed and wounded, of at least one-fourth of their strength. The rebels, who were joined by the populace of the i city, burned and destroyed a great portion of the emitt nments and of the European habitations. The fott, guarded by the 3d European Regiment, and b • the volunteers of Agra, was maintained against t' e insurgents ; but it is not the less to be desired that it should be immediately reinforced, for Ear that the little garrison should be subjected to the fete of Gen. Wheeler and his ill-fated companions DI arms. "The principal event reported here from Delhi is the death of Gen. Barnard, He died of cholera o 1 the sth of the month, and was succeeded by Major-Gen. Reed. Our last news from that place is up to the date of the 13th. The besieged hal Dade some sorties on the 30th June and 4th and 9 July, in al/ of which they were repulsed by the Eaglish army outside. The affair of the 9th July NN as a very brilliant one, there having been left dead n or than 1,000 of the enemy. It appears that the r( bels have not since then made as frequent sorties as they had done before. "If we can believe two of the natives who had effected their escape from Delhi, their repeated de feats and numerous losses are beginning to discou r•ge them, and their munitions of war are sensibly diminishing. They have, however, been reinforced the regiments of Rohilcund, those of Nusseer- Shad. and probably by some others ; but we may be permitted to doubt that these reinforcements w.ll 1 rove any advantage t o th e be s i eg ed, considering flat their mueifong are failing them. It cannot I ., erove their condition to have more months to ed. It is true that these same two nail , .s assure s that the besieged are in open communicatbn Nith the 'OVIS ; o fillornrYiof Oude, and that they receive i but, it I ant well informed, it the intention Of l i nrc,rud authorities t 3 sweep Nay from the ex. t they Len before oru of Oude all the instil , ooed seriously to attack Delhi, a eel then to suoject thatplaeeto all th e h orrors o t It is, besides, Probable desert rs t Fluil in number trio reitit.rce s W hich D lhi r ceicee, as it is said they quit tine yin cr ow d s , p aa. I often under the fire of the P l ace. " By the report of the last cou rier from th e cam 1 •iforee Delhi the besieging arm y is c omposed 000 leen. There aro two squadrons of the 6thDra'roou Guards, the 9th Queen's Laners, two squadrenaof 1. ,, e 9th Irregular Cavalry, two divisions of the Bth Loyal Infantry, two divisons of the 60th Royal 11q10 , , ttvo divisanis of tho 61,t Royal Infantry, 110 75th Regiment of Royal Infantry, the Ist d. tf.l Regiment ot European Fusileers, and one Sir -I.loor batta'ion—the Guides formed by Sir Henry Lawrence atid the Tirailleurs de Golre.' But if I am to believe ces t (in inf rmation of per sons well acquainted with those matters, it has b, - en sand necessary to withdraw from the besieging ..my, or rather from the corps of observation before J telhi, 4,000 men, in order to place them upon ;venal menacing points; among others, Loodianalt, julinder, ICussowlee, Subathoo, Meerut, Phillour, and Urn balls. " It is believed that General Chamberlain has t fleeted a junction with the c - srps of . Delhi ; but tide news, although very probable, is not yet au ti:enticated. " The cholera seems to rage with fury at Delhi s TI, SUN , and in the province of Oude. Our troops, we greatly fear, will not escape this plague ; you will I have an idea of its intensity when you learn that( the inhabitants of the country desert their villages for the purpose of taking refuge in the jungle, where, nevertheless, the cholera decimates them in greater numbers than in the open country. "General Van Cortlandt has operated in the districts of Hansee and Hisser, and holds possession of those countries. " I have reason to believe that our Government is organising regiments of Sikhs. These are, it is true, hardy soldiers, who have shaken off the re ligious superstition of the country, and who hate as much Mahomedan as Hindoo fanaticism. We have known how to appreciate their bravery upon 1 the field of battle, and as long as we can reckon upon them they will be terrible rivals to place in opposition to the Sepoys. But the experience of the past should tell us that the Sikhs should only be employed iu arresting the course of insurrection, massacre, violation, and incendiarism, and should not be relied upon for the reconquering of Bengal. "Madras and Bombay continue to enjoy the most complete tranquillity, and the native troops of those two Presidencies have shown no signs of disaffection. May Heaven be praised for it ! There, perhaps, is the only safe plank for the European populations of Bengal, whom the rebellious Sepoys, drunk with the blood of innocent woman and chil dren, have not as yet been able to destroy. " As to our fellow-citizens of the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay, the knowledge of those fright ful massacres will not have bean lost upon them. They will see the necessity of being upon the qwe vivo. " Even here all concur in giving to the revolt a purely military and not a national character. That is also to us a subject of immense satisfaction. "It is then evident that the reorganizstion of our military system in India should be the object of the solicitude of the metropolitan government and of the local administration from henceforth, and especially when the revolt shall have been subdued. Permit me to give to your readers some details which will enable them more properly to adjudicate on the question with a knowledge of its origin. "By the official reports published last year at Calcutta upon the Anglo-Indian army, that army comprised in 1856 320,000 men able to bear arms. In that army there were but 30,000 men of the British troops, being a little less than one-tenth. The extreme disproportion between the Bri ish troops and the native troops of India contributes essentially to explain the present revolt in Bengal. The history of the world offers no other example of a conquering power of 30,000,000 of people govern ing a conquered race of 140,000,000 by means of an army the vanquished element of which exceeded the conquering element in the proportion of 10 to 1. " The possibility of the existence of such a state of things is the most striking proof of the superi ority of intellect over purely physical force. But, to-day, having taught to the native troops nearly as much as we know ourselves of the art of war, we must be the more surprised to find, under all the circumstances of the present case, that the at mies of Madras and Bombay still remain faithful and loyal during the revolt of the Bengal army. " On the other hand, the Sepoys of the Bengal army are not so much formidable by their number as from the fact that they belong to a race far more dangerous than the Sepoys of other times. The Sepoys who were subject to Clive, to Coote, and even to Wellesley, were principally taken from the Presidency of Madras, or the inferior provinces of Bengal—populations remarkable for their peaceable and submissive character ; but the Sepoys of the army of Bengal have been drawn from the Mussul man tribes and the Mahrattas, people of the most bellicose and most enterprising spirit of the Hindos -1 tanee race. Their stature generally equals, if it does not exceed, that of the English soldier ; their complexion is scarcely darker than that of the Spaniard, while they carry their fanaticism to the extreme, whether it be prompted by the spirit of intolerance of the Mahomedan or Hindostanee re ligions, or by the dreadful wars which the two races have carried on in India during whole centuries. " Far from appreciating or practising the virtue of toleration the one towards the other, the Ma homedans and Mahrattas look upon it as a mer• delusion or sign of weakness. Since they have been allowed to have a voice in the Indian Govern ment, and since we have treated them with the most perfect impartiality, they have encouraged the be lief among themselves that such conduct on our part but serves to conceal some sinister project, and that we contemplate making them Christians upon one day or another either by deceit or by compul sion. So far they judge according to their own tactics. Every time that the Mahommedans have seized upon the Hindoos they have put the Brah mins to death, and have compelled the Hindoos to embrace Islamism. On the other hand, when the chiefs of the Mahrattas have captured the Mus sulmaus, they have treated them in such a way as to render their existence intolerable to them. "We might very easily argue against those sus picions, but we shall never be able to eradicate them ; and the necessary result of this state of things is, that without a strong European army, we can not either maintain our position in India or pre serve the population of the country from religious persecutions or anarchy. " These premises admitted, the re-organisation of our military system in India is imperiously de manded, not only by existing circumstances, but also to secure our conquests for the future. Accord ing to competent authorities that re-organisation ought to be founded upon two principal bases. "In the first place the Anglo-Indian army ought to be composed henceforward of at least one-third of British troops. Every brigade of division should have a quartermaster-general in hostile places, and the fortifications and garrisonsof those places should be maintained of sufficient strength to resist either insurrection or foreign invasion. " The amelioration in our commercial matters, which I have glanced at in a preceding lettei has not yet been carried out as much as it ought to be. Our bankers and native merchants, who find means of being well-informed upon all events passing in the districts even the most distant in connexion with the rebellion of the sepoys, have suddenly suspended the operations which they had resumed at the end of June and at the commencement of this month. All our manufactures have become idle, and our exports nil. Scarcity is beginning to be felt, and the Pessimists already warn us of an approaching famine. We receive much and various provisions by water, but they sell at exhorbitant prices. What is still more frightful, the harvest appears to be radically deteriorated from the want of the neces sary number of labourers to cut it down, and the lands are beginning to be wholly neglected as re gards their cultivation. " But I am happy to observe to you that here the Pessimists are but a very feeble ma jority of our fellow-citizens. The mass of the Eng iish established at Calcutta regard the terrible crisis through which we are passing with a deter mined aspect, and without entertaining a doubt as to the future. That crisis imposes on us the most enormous ,'sacrifices. We hesitate not, we should never hesitate, to make-them. Our Government has confidence in this spirit ; and even should the other presidencies be subjected to the same calanai tie ; our courage will never be weakened,—it would in that case be rather redoubled. Without doubt our eyes are fixed upon the mother country, and upon the assistance which we are expecting from it, and which is now Leginning to arrive ; but if, in the interval, the danger should become still more imminent, the local Government may calcu late to the furthest 1 . t • •" -- upon our devotion and upon our entire abn e • ; and at the last ex tremities, even, we sh. _e. e in it, as the Venetians thanked their senator; never having once des paired of the safety of C . .. " P.S.—We have reieived about 1,500 men as a reinforcement of troops which have been recalled from the Chinese expedst' on. The new reinf rce merits from England are landing here at this mo ment, to the great satisfaction of the inhat•ittnts, who see in their arrival the commencement of the r.;-eet iblishment of our authority in India." THE INDIAN MUTINIES. DELHI. The following is from an officer employed on the Staff a: Delhi " Camp before alibi, July 14. "The whole native army has gone, or is going. Some 50 regiments have gone already, and all the rest are sure to folbw. Here we are still before Delhi, and not likely to get in till reinforcements arrive from England, for our force is about one-third the enemy's in numbers and they outnumber us alt , gether in guus and anenuni tion, Delhi being one of the largest arsenals in India. We are therefore quite unable to besiege the place regu larly, and our nearest 'batteries are 1 200 yar'ls cff. The engineers urged an assault,and everything was arienged Ifor it, but at the lest mement the Gen-ral hu g hack, and sines then we have lost so many men that I don't the right I think the idea will be ever entertained again. Our own 1 position i impregnable, W : the left re have had 18 actionsting on the fiver, of, e a n a t a renched. The latter the enemy are rnen s teh very j ea l ous are constantly trying to tura. We fought then?, since we Caine, are' some of the regi in killed ani wounded a a_ve lost a third of their numbers "Laughton bas beenirea dy. back to Ural-allele and Baird Smith, from Roork e l e n g has a t e come down from 11 mr keeateora,dnige for the better. to be chief engineer m a ut h in e e t- e w rs e , ather cam Our troops, on the whole, are I rancy,niffadthe exp , sere You w. _3 but just campaign idea that wwonderfully. t te T m h p e t X ill doubtliss hear a great deal about the cause of this terrible out now there is a great deal of cholera. break, and the people will, many of them, ascribe it to the Company's rapacity and cruelty, &c.; but everybody in India kno we perfectly that the true reason is that tbe Sepaya were pampered and petted until they began to Leo ‘t DON, FRIDAY EVENING. SEP TEMBER 4, 1657 8' ee that we werF, afraid of them ; but they would never 'nave attempted to rise had not the country been so fool ishly denuded of Europeans. All the people of the country are with us, and the mutinous army once defeated and die - persed we shall soon have the countrysquare again ; but it :is no joke to beat 170,000 men ; and they must send :plenty of troops from England. At least 25 regiments ahould be sent, 4,000 artillery, and plenty of heavy guns —4B and 56-pounder,—for we shall have plenty of sieges ; and we require a command of artillery fire over th.e mutineers. Here we are firing 18-pounders and 8-• inch howitzers, and the rebels are replying with is venty-fours and thirty-twos. Two or three regiments of dragoons should be sent, and arrangements made to supply them with horses when they arrive (from the Cape or. Australia), for they will find none available here, our ed;uds being far up the country and most of them plun dered. But, oh, how many years will it take to wipe out the recollection of all the atrocities these villains have committed ! There will be no love between a black and a white face for many a long day. This is, indeed, bitter satire on the philanthropists who were for go verning India entirely by the natives, and . admitting them to equality with us. They are savages still, and false to the core, and nothing but the sword will keep them in order. "I think the assault would have succeeded, but it is very questionable what we could have done inside that immense city with a handful of Europeans and some 15,000 Sepoys to drive out. We number 6,500 of all ranks, but our irregulars are all rotten and ready to turn. The Ghoorkas (inhabitants of Nepaul) and Sikhs, on the other hand, are thoroughly stautcb, and have a thorough contempt fur the Hindostanees. Toe way in which the Ghoorkas 6-.7.ht is the admiration of the whole army." The following extract is from a letter of an officer in the Bengal Artillery " Camp before Ddbi, July 15. "I wrote you a long letter a day or two ago, but as some news of our action of yesterday may appear in the papers, and you may perhaps see my name among the wounded, I write a few lines, which will, I hope, ba in time for the mail, to tell you that I am very I,ttle hurt, and, through God's mercy, escaped death most wonder fully. " You know Delhi, of course, so I will describe our position. "The English batteries and pickets are on the ridge beta esn the town and cantonments, and these the enemy pressed very bard from early morn yesterday, occupying at the same time the suburbs on the right, called the Sabjha Mundee, now a mass of ruins, but a very nasty place for fighting—narrow streets, cla houses, gardens with high walls, &c., affording excellent cover fur the enemy ; besides which they are protected by the heavy gun batteries on the city walls. After souse hard fif,ht iog we drove them to the end of the road, where three branches go off to different gates. Under the walls th,-y made a stand, and from the narrowness of the place we could only get two Horse Artillery guns into action. '. "I was near the front, seeing how I could be mo,t useful, when I observed one of the t flees guns almost un serviceable from want of hands, so many had been knocked over ; well, thinking, although on the staff, I was still a gunner, I jumped off ray horse, and helped to work the gun. The fire was too hot, two Horse Artil lery guns were perfectly useless against all the guns of the city, and some thousands of muskets blazing into us, so the order was given to retire. I mounted my horse, and called out to limber up ' The horses in the limber, from the shower of shot and shell that were comink in, got unmanageable, and I turned my horse to tell the men to keep them steady, when a musket bullet hit me in the waist, about two inches from the spine. I had a small leather pooch in my waist belt for carrying pistol bullets, and the ball went through this first, so that my wound is very slight. lam getting on well, and as jul'y as possible. " F. S. R." The writer of this letter onca worked on the printing machines of the Times, but is now a ser geant of the Carabineers " Delhi Camp, July 11. "I hasten to give you what information I can with respect to the aspect of affairs here ; it is, as you may ex pect, necessarily meagre, as the intelligence we receive is usually vague and brief. The list three days have been exceeedingly wet, notwithstanding which we are con stantly in the saddle; no sooner has one alarm subsided than we are turned out to meet the mutineers in another quarter. I can assure you that I would rather epend the term of my existence before Sebastopol than have such a life as we are obliged to endure here. For the las: five days we have been turned out fur an assault on the city ; still nothing has been done, and I much fear tha.', it may be some time before we get the murdering scoun drels into our clutches. You may depend upon it that the score, if we are permitted, will be paid in their own coin, and with compound interest. Our Commander is waiting for reinforcements before he makes the attack ; but delays are ever dangerous. Cholera has made its appearance, and before half of our little army are laid upon our backs with sickness, my opinion is that we ought to run the chance and endeavour to take the for tress. I have heard it stated that there are only 20,000 troops coming from England. Why, you should send us at least 100,000, and at least 10,000 of them cavalry, as the whole of Bengal from Calcutta to Affghanistan is in a state of revolt. The cmintry will have to be re conquered and held in subjection for some years by European troops. It will not be safe fix at least three or four years to trust to nativo regiments. We have instances of smouldering insubordination daily." Oireetien of Cashmemand are being panled. Vert must feel deeply for India under this so unexpected :ad so complete a blow. "Dear —is at Lahore, and I feel very uneasy, as we know that the 46th and a wing of the 9th Cavalry have Goordaspore. There they may induce the 2d Ir regular Cavalry to fraternize with them, and per. aps also Davidson's Irregulars, and if they cembine wi h the disarmed regiments it might be impossible to pre vent them doing incalculable miseiief. Still, they are prepared for them at Lahore and Umsitsir, but I am afraid not at Jullundur, which is almost entirely with out troops. Still we do fight and prosper against won derful odds. On the 9th, at Delhi, some 60 of our people had got into a serai in the Subjha Mundee, and were surrounded by 1,500 Sepoys. They had not a percussion cap among them—absolutely nothing but their bayonets, and yet they fought their way out with out the loss of a single man. It is really wonderful how many have escaped—officers fired on by their rum and yet get away in the most unaccountable manner. At Shajehanpore the tragedy was, however, indeed com plete. Not one escaped to te'l the tale as far as we know. How you will feel for Mrs.-- and Mrs.--. Poor Mrs. Mordaunt Ricketts is at Nyeee Tal with the Alexanders ; the Charles Curries have escaped, also the Stewart Reids. We look anxiously homewards for help. I fancy the cry of agony and excitement throughout the land will be such as never has been heard before. Colonel Chamberlain is the only man of note in camp—next to him Col. Longfield, her Majesty's Bth, and C,l. Beecifer and Captain Daly, Guide corps ; but we want a leader sadly. We have a militia at Simla ; the station told off into four districts, under separate officers, with each so many men under them. The Goorka guard left at JutJg has behaved well since their regiment marched, and Lord Win. Hay has many men from the different bill chiefs to assist if neces sary. There does not seem any ground for alarm at pre sent. The Baz 'ar and all the private servants were dis armed some time ago and the arms carried to li.esso lee, where they have the depot of her Majesty's 75th. Col. Stewart Monteith died here on Saturday." AOK N CIO A 011: - FA RES IN PAR The new hackney-coach tariff came into operation on Tuseday. The re is no doubt that it will be found on the whole advantageous to the public, and at the same time equitable towards the ceachman. The principle of the new system is the abolition of tee uniform fare for a ride (course), no matter how lone - , and the substiution in every c tse of payinect by time, according to a graduated scale. The fare for a quarter of au hour is 90c. That is the smallest sum for which a carriage can be taken. Here the benefit to the public, in the case of short rides, is manifest. The old if. fares, for which Paris was fatuous, have long been abolished, and the carriages at if 20c. have la ely become so rare that they could only be met with by very greatchauce. The minimum fare of a fiacre was lf. 250., and as it was usual to give the coachman 25c. to make even money, out franc and a half was practically the least sum for which a ride of any kind could be got. I went to-day from the bank to the Luxembourg, a very considerable dist , nce, within the quarter of an hour, although the horse was lame, and paid.' lf., which included a pour-boire of two sons. The vast m j(') rity of rides which people take in Paris are not so long as this. Here, thou, is a clear economy of 10 30113. The scale progres , tes up to the first half-hour in this proportion :-20 minutes, if. 20c. ; 25 mi nutes, if. 40c. ;30 minutes, If. 50c. Then every five additional minutes up to the end of the hour costs 5c., and the whole hour is if. 80c., being sc. higher than the old tariff. This small gain to the carriage proprietor is, however, much more than set off by the advantage to the fare who may re quire a carriage for half an hour, or indeed for any fraction of an hour. Formerly, if you wanted to go two different places in a carriage, you were forced to pay the whole hour, although the car riage might not have been kept more than five minutes. Now you may do half-a-dozen commissions say within half-an-hour, and the pay ment will be but 30 sous. The throwing the whole Bois de Boulogne, for c trriage purposes, into Paris proper, is an immense boon to the public. So also is the lialf-hour given after midnight before the night scale of fa es commences. Formerly a carriage home from the theatre or from an evening party, if taken but a minute after 12 o'clock, cost inexorably 2F. 50c., although it might only be wanted to go into the next street. Now all the hotels in the Rue do Rivoli, the Rue Rieholieu, and the quarter of the Rue de la Paix, will be found to be within a quarter of an hour's range of all the fa hionable theatres, from which therefore four persons will be able to go home comfortably after midnight for lf. The night fares themselves are very censiderably reduced for short time, but remain as they were for the whole hour, the charge for which will still be 3f. In every cer riage there is now placed a watch which must render disputes about the time almost imp )s -s:ble. It is a pleasing novelty to have forced upon your 'vision—for the watch is placed conspicuously, right iu front of yon—the exact time which it t dies to go in a carriage from one familiar place to another. Among Englishmen the watch wiJl be a fruitful source of wagers. It has been objected to the new system that since the coachman is paid by time aline his interest will always be in direct collision with his duty to his fare, and that we may expect to see hackney coach-horses trained to such a slow trot as to dimini,h very considerably the average rate of locomotion in Paris. This may seem so at first sight, but the large proportion iu which the first quarter of an hour is pia in proportion to every succe4l ng five minut s constitutes a sufficient guarantee to the public that the jarveys will always drive at are isonable rate. The coachman—who, by the way, is not entitled to know, when he is told to drive from one place to another, whether ho will be kept there or discharge l—would evi deutly be a loser in the long run, if he were to drive at a perverse slow pace. Instead of spinning out a ride for the sake of the small pay for t very additional flee minute=, h's interest wdl be to get rid of his fare quickly, in order to take up another, who will pay in the vastly increased ratio due for the first quart rof an Lour. This will be more (- spe cially the casein wet or hot weather, wheiscarrieges are in ereat deemed. The thorny question of extra payment (pour boire) to the coachmen is left in an unsatisfactory state. The published regulations state indeed that he is net entitled to any, but this amounts to nothing, because he never was. There is no announcement placarded within the carriages that pour boires are ab dished, and it may take some time before eastern fixes anything like a uni form rate. For the quarter of an hour fare of 90c. a pour boire of 2 sous to make up if. ought to be be sufficient. For longer time there will be no role. Of course the coachman will never have any change, and probably in most cases he will get even money —that is to say, either lf. 30 sous, or 2f. The new tariff does not apply to the better sort of broughams known as voitures de remise, which will continue as heretofore to charge 1.75 the course, and 2f. the hour. L INT' Ll . E C E ' , Tt. 3 SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Under-SileriiT Batch 11 ) DAWKINS V. EVERINGHAM-THE LAST CASE OF CRIB. CON. This was a writ of inquiry in an action for trim. con., judgment on the pait of the defendant having been allowed to go by default. The damages ware laid in the declaration at 1,0001. Mr. Stammers appeared for the plaintiff, who lie said was employed at a coach matinfacory in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and the defendant was engaged in the contractors' office, on the Lou don, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, as time keeper, at 11. 10s. per week. The plaintiff was at Southampton, pursuing his trade of a coach painter, until 1853, when he came to London with his wife and family. He made the acquaintance of the de fendant and his wile in 1855, and their friendship appeared very sine re, but at length circumstances occurred which aroused plaintiff's suspicion, and he made a searcli, the result of which was that he found under the bad a large bundle of letters, writ ten by the defendant and addressed to his (plain ' tiffs) wife, the contents of whiii were conclu.i, e of a criminal intercourse having been carried on for some time. These 'attars were fu:l of extravag tot nonsense, and in one or two of the al there were pieces of licentious poetry, which the learned counsel said he thou ,, lit would come within the scone of Lord Ca mpb - di's Act. The letters were paced in the hands of an atorney, who issued a writ, and the defendant called upon him, and said hecould not pay damages and could not deny the charge of adultery, particu larly as his letters were to be produced in evidence against him. In addition to his income from his situation, he made profits by speculating on the turf. The plaintiff and his wife had lived happily together with their children until the defendant's correspondence with her was discovered. Since the plaintiff had been separated from his wife she had been confined, and there was considerable doubt as to the paternity of the child. He submitted it was a case for substantial damages. Evidence was given of the happy terms upon which the plaintiff and his wife had lived, and the letters ware put in and proved to be in the defen dant's handwriting. No one appeared for the defendant. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burcheli having left the case to the jury, they gave a verdict for 501. RYDER A BA.D. The following is an extract from letter of an all. cer of the 30th Madras Native Infantry, statione, at Hyderabad, dated July 23 : " I must tell you that last Friday evening, the 17th of July, the Resident got information that the RohlDas Were assembling in large numbers, for an attack. Well, in the evening, about 6.30, George and myself were sitting in the verandah, when we heard the three alarm guns sound the signal for the troops to fall in and be off at once to the general parade. I went off to the mess of the 7th Cavalry to find out what was up, when I was met by a cavalry officer rushing home as bar I he cou:d go for his horse. He shouted to me, 'The alarm is sounding' —magic words, as you may suppose. I turned, ran home as fast as my legs could carry me, got oat the horse and carriage, dressed and put dear G— and the son in, and rattled eff to the barracks, where we found all the rifle men out and the cavalry getting to saddle. By this time an express came in to say that they—i e., the Rihilla;— were attacking the Residency. Off galloped the cavalry and Horse Artillery ; we remained at the barracks—all the ladies together at the adjutant's house. The whole force was out; we were all bivouacked on the parade ground till about 1 a.m. About 7 the report of guns told us that the work had commenced. But we were, as the saying is, one too many for them. They came en and got nine rounds of grapeshot, which knocked them over like ninepins. They then got into a house in the Bazaar, from which they kept up a fire en our feillsys and the Residency all night. This house was so situated that the guns could not be brought to bear upon it, so it was resolved to wait till the morning and then have at them with the infantry. However, at 4 a.m. they walked off. We know of 29 Rohillas picked up dea I ; how many wounded, of course, we cannot find out, but the quantity of blood on the floor of the house when taken possession of in the morning told that they mu-t have suffi red heavily. The troops turned out splendidly so people have liitle fear of the Madrasees fol owing suit with Bengal. The Residency has now been stioogly fortified. It is supposed we shall have a row to-mor row again, as it is Friday (the Mussulman Sun day), on which day they think it a mark of zeal for their Prophet to try and murder us ; but, as our sepoys are stanch, they are likely to get more than they bargain fur. Oa Friday last all the ladies (our depot excepted) were put into the araentl and European hospital. You ma y imagine the scene ; drums beating, bugles and trumpets sounding the alarm, and in all directions car riages rushing off to the above mentioned places. All the Europeans who lived in the city came rushing into cantonments or took refuge in the Residency. We had nut a single man on our side touched, though they were being fixed at all night. Tne 12th Lancers were tele graphed for from Poonah, and are likely t 3 bs here in about a fortnight. Their approach is hailed with great glue." SIMLA. The following letter, dated July 13, is horn a gentleman at Shull : " Your last letter reached me at the beginning of our troubles, and was destroyed with other papers at a time I thought we should have to fly from Simla. We were among the very few who remained in the station at the panic caused by the incipient mutiny of the Ghoorka.. They were skilfully handled and went away in peace, and have ever since done their duty as good solders. You will not expect a cheerful letter from me, for Ou r hearts are filled with sorrow and anxiety. Every day matters grow worse, and the plot thickens by Delhi standing. We act merely on the defensive. We have not been able to undertake any offensive operations yet, nor will we, I think, until a strong force has been de tached to the river side of the city. At present, if we were to assault on one side they might sally out by the other side unmolested. They have 900 Europeans with men and officerp, protecting women and children, at Meerut. They are in a fortified position, and.it is im possible to imagine why 300 with gun,s should not hold it ald allow the rest to go and c3-operate with the fine before Delhi. The communication between Ds] i and Meerut is now entirely cut cff by the destruction of the bridge at Bhagput. You may imagine how telings from the scene of action are earnestly prayed for, leng , el for. We exist only through the English soldiers and Sikhs. Thank God, they are true to us in this emer gency, but not one Hindostanee Sepoy is to be tru .t el, regular or irregular. The severe action of the 9th in our camp, when our pickets were driven in, was owing en tirely to the treachery of the 9th Irregulars (cavalry). who 1-t in the 111116[1,u 4 Bth Irregular Cavalry. pretvud, it g not to k no v them, their uniform is so It is awful the ext, nt to which the Sepoys and treepers are still t easel, and the lives that are loet in consevence. "It was said some time ago that every poorbeah' (Sepey) in the camp was to be disarmed ; still it was net carrie d out. They have been disarming as fa-t as pos sible in the Ponj th, but we have so few European sol diers it was not possible to do it quickly. The last week we have two more mutinies at Jhelum and Sealkote, very severe and complete—getting away with their arms and all. At Jhelum the affair was mismanaged. The officer cornmanclit g ordered the regiments (the 14th and 58th Native Infantry) to parade, with the guns at their r ar, in anticipation of the arr iv J of a wing of her Me jeety's 24th, which was coming to divarcn th m. The Europeans were late ; the Sepoya saw the guns and g,,t frighiened, flew to their lines, and fought desperately under cover of their lines f0r.12 hours. Colonel 24th, was wounded, also Captain Spring and Els;gn iScott. Some of the Sepoys were made prisoners and blown away from guns, while ottani havo escaped in CRIME IN FRANCE. A dreadful murder was committed two nights back in the Quarlier St. Etienne at Caen. Some thieves broke into the shop of M. Peschard, watch maker and jeweller, of the Rue Guillaume-le-e 'on querantt, and, after having murdered him, seized on a great quantity of valuable property and got clear off. The Moniteur du Calvados gives the following details of the crime :—" The thieves, supposed to be three in number, obtained ad mission by means of false keys, one of which they left behind them. Everything indicates that they were well acquainted with the premises, and they took the precaution of placing a short ladder across the top of the stairs by which Peschard would have to descend, if by chance he should happen to awake. A spring which communicated from the shop to the bedroom was cut off by the thieves, and a small dog, usually an excellent watch, was strangled. From their knowledge of Peschard's habits they went at once and took the keys from a small box where they were kept, and used them to open the show glasses: The thieves were about to retire when Peschard, who was awoke by the noise, rose in groat haste and ran out of his room on the first floor, but, coming against the ladder, -fell down the stairs. On he tring the noiee of his fall one of the thievesgran to the door which opened on the staircase, and threw a large pavin g stone a t Peschard's head, which, however, missed him and broke against the wall. They all then rushed on him and a desperate struggle took place, but he was soon overpowe: ed. He received a deep wound from a poignard in the shotilder, and his assailants were then about to fly into the street when Peschard pursued them. He laid held of one, who, in order to release himself, discharged a double-barrelled pistol po'nt blank at him, one bill hitting him in the head, and another in the neck. The unfortunate man fell, and the robbers took to flight. Two men were arrested the next day on suspicion ' having offered two watches fo r sa l e t o some s )Idiers at the barracks." The above-named journal does cot state how it h , ll come to a know ledge of the details just narrated. The Court of Assizes of the Gard three days ago tried two young men named Antoine and Jacques Peyrot for the murder of their mother. The woman, who lived at Montifion, had been married three times, but in March last again received the addresses of a man named Chivasy. As a marriage with that pet son would probably have had the effect of depriving the two sons by the woman's first husband of some property which, for a person in her station—that of a paasant—was• not incenriderable the two young men conceived a mortal hatred of her, and atter a while they openly declared that if she per sisted in the project of marrying again they would murder her. On the morning of the 30th of April last it was neticed that the woman's shutters re mained closed, and ha. two sons, who did not live with her, were sent for. They entered her chain ber, accompanied by some neighbours, and she Was found lying dead in the bed with a sheet over her fwe ; she was dreadfully beaten about the head, and on her throat was the mark of violent p • :sure from a cord. From marks of blood and other cir cumstances it clearly appeared that the woman must have been murdered at the bottom of the stairs, and then carriel'up to her bed ; but as she was a remarkab:y strong woman, it appeared mor ally certain that one man alone could not have killed her ; there were, more her, no signs of any forcible entrance iWo the house, neither had any robbery, nor attempt f t robbery, been in tele ; lastly, no one, except her two sons, had re Is° i for putting her to death. All this threw strong sus picion on the two young men, and, besides, it was no iced that neither bad manifest al the slightest sorprise or regret at finding Jhe poor woman deadg They were arrested; and ou being int r. °gated, the younger, Antoine, after a time confessed it was they who did the deed. "We want," ha said, "t ) the house together, and my mother on seeing us asked What do you want?' I answer e f, 'Jacques means to kill you, mid he bas forted me to come and help him.' The woman raised a cry of honor, bat at the same in anent Jacques strnck her about the head with'soma blunt in.struineut until she fell t the ground. He then told me to strange her with a cord which we had brought, and I did so, while he held her. When she was dead we carried the bo ly upstairs, and placed it in the be 1." The jury de clared the two brothers guilty with extenuaieg circumstance,, and the Court sentenced them to hard labour for life. A man named Benuef y, their uncle, wets tried with them for complicity in tl:e c:ime ; and it was state 1 by Antoine that lie, from disgust:, at the idea cf the woman Marrying a fourth thus, had excited them !o perpetrate it, but as there was no other evidence against Lim the jury acquitted him. CONTINENTAL INTELLIGENCE. A letter from Paris, dated (Wednesday), 6 p.m., says : " The Council-General of the department of the He rault, presided over by M. Michel Chevalier, has just held its annual meeting, and has unanimously passed strong resolutions in favour of a revision of the French Customs tariffs. In these resolutions the cause of free trade is argued with all the vigour and lucidity that might be expected from the high reputation of the distinguished President of the Council. The existing restrictions are shown to be, for the most part, injurious to the agricul tural in. erect and uncalled for by the state of French manufactures. In the infancy of industry it might be needful to put it in leading strings, but now the produce of French ingenuity and skill is found competing in ' foreign markets with those of England and other manu• factoring countries. It is stated in the resolutions, which constitute a report concerning the effecte to be antici pated ou French commerce from the adoption of free trade, that the value of the manufactures exported from France to markets where they meet with foreign coin petition exceeds 1,000.000,000 f., whereof at least 400,000,000 f. consists of articles which the French tariff protects by prohibition. It is estimated that nine -tenths, at least, of the manufactures of France are protected by absolute prohibition, and that the greater part of the maieing tenth are subject to duties so high as to be de facto prohibited. In short, French industry is swathed, fenced in, and fostered as if it were a puny child, instead of a robust adult, well able to hold its own among com petitors. Such a system, contrasting with that of all other countries, which nave reduced their tariffs while France has strictly maintained hers, is calculated, in tee Opinion of the Council of the Herault, to reflect unfavourably on the French name, at the same time that it is in contra diction with the spirit of the times, with the closer rela tions establi: bed by railways among the European nations, and with the c ,mmuni , y of interests sought to be created among them. It is pointed out, by coining for ward as candidates for tee highest prizes at the Univer sal Exhibition of Parrs, where cheapness was one of the conditions of success, the French manufacturers clearly proved that they were able to brave foreign rivalry. 0,, the other hand, it in certain breeches they are inferior to the foreigner, this is attributed to the security and sloth into which they have been lulled by the certainty of a monopoly of the home market. The question of re prisals is next touched upon, and oil this head the Coun cil of the Herault speaks feelingly, since that great vine district naturally sees a grave obstacle to the full deve lopment of its prosperity in the tax levied by foreign Custom-houses on its excellent wines. By the reduction of duty effected by the Imperial Government on some of the most important alimentary articles, such as corn and cattle, as well as on wool and other farm pro duos, agriculture, unquestionably the most important branch of French industry—since it is estimated that 20,000,000 of Frenchmen live by it—has ceased to en joy the advantages of the protective system, whose charges, however, it continues to support when it pur chases the iron indispensable to its operations, farming implements and machines, guano to fortilise the soil, household utensils, and many articles of raiment. The effect of the prohibitive system is particularly injurious to the consumer in the case of certain manufactures limited to a few great establishments, which thus erjoy a monopoly and impose their own terms upon the pub lic. This kind of combination, says the resort, has a tendency to increase, and to extend itself to manufac tures not confined to so few hands. Against the factiti ous dearness with which the public is thus threatened the sole resource must be sought in foreign competition. The report points out the great difference in the rate of im port duty levied on certain articles under Napoleon I. and under Napoleon 111. Thus, as regards iron and steel, under ttie first Emperor the duty was 44f. on the former, aed 99f. on the latter article. The decree of 1853 found it augmented to the enormous rate of 2061. and 1,320 f. for the qualities most de manded ; and, even after that decree, they re mained treble what they were under Napoleon I. The less amount of protective duty under which certain mauufacoirers thrive and increase in other countries, less forward than France in manufacturing skill, is exemplified by the article of cotton yarns. The project of law of 1856, which encountered such strenuous opposition, proprosed a graduated scale of duty from if. sc. to 71. 50c. per kilogramme, while the German spin ners prosper, according to the report, with a general duty of 22c. on all numbers indiscriminately, and those of Russia, still less skilful, multiply with a protective duty lower than a minimum laid down in the prejeet of law. After expressing its gratitude to the Government ior the reduction made in the duties on several articles of subeie ence and raw materials, the Council-General concludes by expressing its wishes on the subject bet , re lo It desires that all the reductions of duties provision ally decreed may be rendered definitive, and that a revi sion of the wh de tariff may be at once proceeded to ; that all export duties on French merchandise nosy he suppressed, ai:d the forenAlties of xporta•ion simpl,fied ; hat all commercial prohibitions of importation way be immediately abolished, and replaced toy duties suitably adjusted ; that the duties, for the most part excessive, of the present tariff. be reduced to rates which would p relit foreign competition to stimulate French industry, hence forward strong enough to benefit by such a syetetn instead of suffering from it; that duties on raw mat,rials of all kinds be gradually reduced, so as to disappear a ithin a short term of years ; and that the same be done wit i respect to the Kees, inaehine,, and apoaratus which are the instrume its of work in agr . cu turd, manufactures, trade, and navigation ; and especially that the duties on iron, on raw cast iron, and on steel in bore may return a; soon as p )ssible to the peitit at which they wets in the reign of Napol ;on I. ; and that, in the diplereatic negotiations welch shall be opened to ensure to French industry a just reciprocity, particular efforts shah be devoted to obtain the rein ival of the int-rdiction which has everywhere boen laid, in Europe and eesewhere, on the wines of France. " The Empress on Saturday made an excursion by sea on board the Ptlican. Thi+ light t.teamer entered the Bidassoa and came to an anchor eff Fontarabia, where her ,Maje..ty landed and visited the town in the mid t of enthusiastic acclamations from the crowd, some of whom afterwards ex-cuted several national dances in the pub lic sqlare. The Empress on again embarking went to the opposite bank of the Bidassoa and landed at Hen• days, where she was received by the cure, at the bead of all his parishioners. The Empress returned to the villa at a late hour in the evening. The next day plea sure-trains from.Toukuse and Bordeaux conveyed about 3;000 visitors to Bayonne. The regatta took place on that day, and was honoured by the presence of her Majesty, who also attended the bu'l-fight in the afternoon, and remained during the whole of the repre sentation. In the evening there was a reception at the villa, the company being vtry numerous, and the enter. tainmente kept up to a late hour. " There is very little doubt that the much-talked-of interview letween the Emperors of France and Russia will take place in G-ranany this year. Stutgardt or Darmstadt, it ie said, will be the place of meeting. A deputation from the department of the Moselle waited on the Emperor the other day at the camp, to ask hint to visit Metz. lam assured that his reply was that per haps he would go thereon his way to Germany. " The date (so long uncertain) of the inauguration of the railway from Nioit to La Rocbe'le and Rochefort is officially and irrevocably fixed. This solemnity will take place on Sunday, the 6th Sept., at La Rochelle, and on Monday, the 7tb, at Rochfort. "Tae works which are to j )in the railway to Geneva with that of the Mediterranean have been carried on for some time past with redoubled activity. The viaduct of the Rhoce is finished, likewise the viaduct (composed of ten small arches of solid ealtb) which join it, and which are ktended to ai.sit-t in drawing off the water, which overfl ,we during the great fieods. The masons are now occupied in fixing the hand-rails of these two important works, which in reality form but one." T H E GLASGOW POLYTECHNIC INSTITIITION.—Tbis (avowi e Oita() ~ f ententertainmentent was' totally(lt kr le d b y fire on Wednesday rntng. The damage to stook and property will amour/. to upwards of 20,000/., and among the articles destroyed was the first bteaw engine con- structed by arlilll6l Watt. ASSEERGHUR. The following is a private letter froni the fortre, , s of Asseerghur : "The news from Mhow and Indore is dreadful— offi cers killed, the Artillery and Europeans fled into the fort of Mho w, where they were on the 4th, and coup h.,ld their own till the 14th, by which time the Bombay column would be near at hand. It left Auruugabad only on the 6th, and cannot rsach Asseerghur before the 14th and Mhow not before the 18th, not in time to save the garrison and all the Europeans in it. Col. Durand, the resident, and 0.1. Travers escaped from it on the road to Mundleseer. Woodburn is gone sick to PoJnalt. M ijor Follett is in command of the column till Col. Stewart, who is appointed, arrives. " July 10, "No further news from Indore beyond the report that more than one half the European population there are murdered. K. writes that Muodleseer has not risen, as first reported ; a panic seized the place, and all left it. The native officers of the Bheel corps got drunk and quarrelled among themselves. The treasury had not been plundered, and things are getting more set'.le 1 there. The lidies that lift it are likely to come here, and r. side until quiet is restored. Asseerghur, which was left so long un protected, has been reinforced at the Commandant's (Col. Le Mesurier'.) moat urgent application, and now they see in Bombay the necessity of keeping it a strong hold. We present a motley group of mercenaries for the defence of it—matchlock men, C%ndeish BheeLi, and two companies of the 19th Regiment, and a detachment of the 31 Niz ttu Cavalry encamped below, with the S:eindish Contingent, which the C)mmandant turned out of the fort as a precautionary measure, pitched near the Pettah, whose teeth he hopes to draw on the arrival of the column. They ere now quiet, but uneasy, and a report is about that they are going to bolt, suspecting they will be disarmed. "July 12. "Yesterday in the afternoon, at five o'clock, the Commandant disarmed the contingent. Tee affair went off very quietly. The men behaved very well. There was no hesitation on the part of a single man. By setien o'clock the whole of their arms, accoutrements, and am munition were safely lodged in the fort. As these fellows are now unable to do any harm the Commandant has sent a% ay the cavalry, and in a day or two will send tie Can leish Bheeli al,o. With the two companies of the 19:11 Regiment acd the matchlock men he can easily hold on until a few more companies of regular troops can be sent. Colonel Somerset's Light Brigade has c r !era to march on Asseerghur to Mhow, but now that all is quip-t here and in the neighbourhood, the direct road to to Mhow by the Siudwa GL at will be the shorter read. The last ten days have been attended with no ordinary anxiety to the Commandant. The ac'; of removing the contingent so summarily as he did has proved to be, though hazardous, yet fortunate. Had he waited ano ther day the news of the occurrences at Mhow and Indore would have reached there, and they might have said they had rather not,' and preferred rather killing us or kicking us out of the fort first. "July 14. "The Cmimandant has managed affairs her; e • eel lently, and so he has been told by authority iroin 13)m bay. We have just heard of the arrival of Col. Durand, the Resident of Indore, at Hoosungabad on the Btb inst. Ele was one of Cie few that escaped from Indore. He is anz'ous to hear of the movements of the Bombay column. We &.all learn now what he wishes to be done with the contingent—where they are to be sent. The Com mandant hopes to be able to get a 1 their women off, accompanied by their men, in a day or two. "Jul? 16 " A report has found its way into the Poonah 01.3erver that the contingent here had revol'ed, but without foundation, for they were removed out of the fort on the 6 - .11, and on the same day their removal was rep,rted officialy both at Poonith and Bombay. It was to pre vent the pos-ib:lity of a revolt that the Commandant turned the fellows out so unceremoniously. He gave them no time to think whether they should capture the fort or remain quiet. lotion and Mhow, places only about 100 miles from Aseeerghur, had risen ; and this fortress was garrisoned by contingent troop 4, whose head quarter wing had mutinied previously, and there was no time to be lost in deciding what was to be done to prevent the mutiny extending here. " Yesterday we heard from Colonel Durand, at Hoosungabad, asking what accommodation these was here for ladies and families, as there were many with him, and more coming. We can put up about eight or up, the discomfort of which they w until they can return to th e ir otewnnfaiintiait havesh ere,iioensto endure so d th o at bl , i i ng sseerghur, which has been de serted for months, not having more than tix pere3ns here, will have at least four times that number if all the families come. " July 21. •' Colonel Durand and his wife arrived yesterday, and are putting up with the Commandant. They escaped from Indore with scarcely a thing with them. Stewart% clluinn is at Booratnpoor to-day, and will be here to morrow. The whole of the G walior Contingent, except five compa❑ies her., have mutinied, and one of the five here has also mutinied. Sad news received to-day of the surrender of Sir H. Wheeler and Caw', pore to the mutineers, and their murder afterwards. The daily arrival of Europeans will tur❑ the b!oody tide of events against the rebels, and a fearful punish ment a cvats them. The atrocities of the mutineer, surpass the horrors of the French Revolution We rejoice the Commandant has got the treacherous scoundrels out of the fat. Tiiera will be plenty of work for our moveable columns after the rains in settling the country. "July 23. "Heard to-day from Bombay. The Cowman ier-in- Chief, Sir Henry Somerset, has already published a gene ral order, conveying to Col. La Nlesurier, Coininauilant at Asseerihur, his thanks for the prompt any decided measures taken by him in relieving it from the charge of the doubtful detachment of the contingent, who at the time of the mutiny of the remainder of the corps were belling the fortress, and go mainly contributing to the safety of that stronghell. Three of the mutineers already alluded to were shot at a (patter past 6 o'cl, ck this morning by nine men of the 14th Dragoons. Tina whole affair was well arranged. The contingent tr .iops were all on the ground, with Stewart's force. They were all trembling, thanking their turn would soon fol low. Several desertions from the company that mutinied have taken place. Some of them have beer brought back, and will be tried and flogged, perhaps put to hard labour. Last night nine of them deserted, thinking, I suppose, they were to be shot too. "The mutineers of Delhi are fighting desperately, but, thank God, their ammunition is failing them, and then there will soon be an end of them. Their loss of life has been very great, and the grand attack by ua will leave very few in Delhi alive. The el iughter among them will be awful. _ "July 21. "Stec art's column marched this morning at 2 o'clock, en route to Mhow. C•lonel Durand and wife, who have been living with the Commandant-, accompanied the force, and are guests of the staff mess. Oa the I , t or 21 of August the column will be at Mhow. Havelock his been: thrashing the fellows right well at Cawt,pore. Our way to Delhi is 1 .oking cheerful. By the middle of September you may expect to bear in En4latici better news than the maits have hilerto taken, as our European forces wi!l then be well advanced to the seat of insurrec tion. The contingent here have been directed to march on the 27 h en route t 1 Snow. They will be three days' march in tear of Stewart's column. A detachment of 50 Irregular II rse have been kept here for duty, Religion, as I told you before, has had nothing to do with this general rise in the country. It is a rise to re-establish the state of things before the battle, of Plassey, 100 years ago—the I%lahotnedaa rule." THE THROUGH BOOKING SYSTESI BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.—The follo sing document, the corr ct translation of which lia4 been certified by Mr. J. 11. Crowe, her Majesty's C General for Norway, has been received at the London office of the Grand Trunk RAllway Company of Canada :—" Chicago, July 20, 1857 —We, the under igned emigrant passengers frtm Norway, by the ship Hebe, Captain Svinson (from .- vanger), do her, by pub'ic'y (he are that, on our landing at Q 'thee, we were kindly and in the best manner re ceived by the Grand Trunk It t ilway C onpany, aid thence conve3ei through the country. We found the j urn , y comfortable ant speedy, and the c mtract with us was in all respects str ctjy fulfill We therefore advise all our friends at home, wLo desire to emigrate hither, to ' , lice thsrnstives in the hands of the said cop . pany, by whom they will be honourably treated. Ti e compiny sent us an interpreter, by name Alrngrist, f f whom we :al•-o certify that ho aided us in all thmgs, and was most solicious to render osr j nurney agreeable. Ali our luggage was in good order, and was correctly de livered to us, Subscribed wi , h our own hands on behalf of ourselves aLd other.," (Here follow 27 sig.,atuie3.) ORDERS OF KNTO,V2I.IIOOD. 'Ete return was moved for by Lord liet)ain on the 1011 of July last acc ,- ,u,it of the of 4,625/, 10 . Id., charged in ihe civil cAlting,:ncie, for robes, c.d!ars, badges, &c., for knioi.ti of the stvoial orders (included in the Lord Chs,uiCerlam's (.ffice accounts for ex`ra, services for quarters ending 31st December, 1855 ; 3174 March, 1856: 30th June, 1856 ; and 30th December, 1856.) ORDERS OF THE GARTER AND THISTLE _ _ Goldsruith—Two silver boxes for Great Seal of the Order of the Garter for the King of Sardinia, 221. ; two silver boxes for Great Seal of the Order of the Garter for the Sultan, 221. ; repairs to a collar, making as new two garters, two silver hooks to stars, 121. 15s. 61. Robe maker--Complete robes of the Garter, silver underdress, heron's plume, &e., for the Kirn , : of Sardinia, 346/. 11g. 61. ; smut- , for the Sultan, excel) iog the underdress, 2791. 19 , . 63. ; tee mautles of the Order of the Garter ak.d one of the Order of the Thistle, 1901 18s ; Mantle for Garter King to wear at his mission to invest the Sultan, 22/. ls. ; garter.riband, 1/. 2.. 61. ; attendance at Wind.or tc robe the knights, 31. 34. Herald Painter —Banner of King of Sardinia in Si. G-orge's Chapel, 271. 17... 61. Stationary-office—Trienhial supply of sta ;,-,nery the regis rar of tie Order of the Garter, 7/. 41. ld. 985/ 12s 7d. ORDER OF THE BATH Go'd4nith-140 es tn , litarycoToPanions'badgep, at 161. 9-. 91., 2,378/. ss. ; 15 new civil commanders' do., at 131., 1951. ; 30 new civil c. - onpanions' do., at 10/. 15. 911., 302/. 14.. ; 9 new silver enamelled strrs, military, G.C.8., at 17/ 10s,, 157/ 104. ; 2 new silver enamelled stars, civil, G.O 8., at 16/. 184., 33/. 16 , . ; 18 new mi litary K.O B. stars, at 14/ 10s., 261/. ; 3 new civil K.C.B. star,, at 11/, lls., 34/, 134. ; and making as new, 12 collars and 88 badges, 295/. Bs. ; hooks to stars and badges, 71 12 , . Eathroiderer-10 military G.C.8., embroidered stars, 20 K.O B stare, 28/. 103. Total, 3,694/,.84. Credit by parts of three badges unfit for re-issue 4/. 10s. Total, 3,689/. 18s. NORMAN MACDONALD, Comp.roller. An Account in detail of the sum of 2,136/. 6s. 81., charged in civil contingencies for fees payable on the nomination of eight general military officers, three admirals, and others, to the dignity of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Amount of fees charged on the nomination of eight general officers, 1,3141. 134. 41. ; ditto of three admirals,, 4931. ; ditto of two civilian s , 3281. 13s. 41. Total, 2,1361. 63. Bd. The tees charged in each of the above cases amount to 1641. Os 81., which sum is composed of the following items :- Fees Due-To the dean of the order, 22/, 6s. 81. ; to the genealogist, 221. ; to Bath King of Arms, 22/. ; to the regi4tr, 221. ; to the secretary, 221. ; to the messenger, 181. 134. 4d. ; to Bath King of Arms for the book of the statutes, 61. 13 , . 4d. ; to the secretary, for notice of election, 61. 13s. 4d. Total, 1641. Os. Bd. WILLIAM LAW, Receiver of Fees. An account in detail of the sum of 3891., charged in the civil contingencies for fees payable on the nomination of several officers and others to the dignity of Knights C mmanders and Companions of the order of the Bath. Amount of fees charged on the nomination to the dignity of the Knight Commander for 24 military officers, 481. ; 9 naval officers, 181. ; 1 medical o fficer, 21. ; 1 commissariat officer, 21. ; 5 civilians, 10/. ; 16 French officers, 321. Total, 1121. Amount f fees charged on the nomination to the dignity of Companion for 119 military officers, 1191.; 53 naval officers, 531. ; 8 medical officers, 81. ; 3 C ow missarizt officers, 31. ; 5 civilians, 51. ; 89 French officers, 891.. Total, 2771. The fee charged for every Knight Commander is 214 and for every Companion is 11., and are payable to the secretary of the order on each appointment, in accord' apes with the statutes of the order. ALBERT W. WOODS, Acting Secretary of the Order. Heralds' College, July 25, 1857. Country MarketF. MANCHESTER- SEPT. 3. With an average attendance this morning there was better feeling prevailing than of late. New English whin' was in good demand at, fully last week's rates, whilst old, as also American, sold steadily without change in valg e l Flour a limited supply, and more s oug ht a ft er . O a ts 311 ": oatmeal steady at late rates B eans ra th er s l ow o f sale 0' the currencies of this day se'nnight. NEWARK-Sir'. 2. We had a good supply of grain to-day. The best saur plea of new wheat is lower, and inferior at 4s reduction. Wheat, white 60s to o6s, red sth to 608; barley, 46s to 528, grinding 38s to 40s; oats, 24st. 36s to 388, z 4 , s ;', 328 to Us ; beans, 528 to sts ; malt, 73s to 80 8 ; peas, 3 v" to 488; tares, 54s to 58s per qr. LOUTH—SEPT. 2. A plentiful supply of wheat to-clay, which was rather luwer. flats and beans as last quoted. Wheat, 53s to 53s ; extra, —s; barley 393 to 425; OAS 22s to 27s ; beans, 453 to 495. BOSTON-SEPT. 2. There was a good supply of wheat at the market t 0• day, chiefly now, and a large attendance of buyers. The prices were at about last week's currency. In Spring core no change in value. Prices :—Wheat, red, 52s Od to 56s Od; new, to —s ; white, 563 0,1 to OSs Ou , extra, GOs. Barley, Os Od to 00 Od. Oat, 23s to 20s. Peas, 40 to 4.35 Od. Beans, 44 0 Od to 493 Od per qr. GLASGOW-Sur. 2. There was a fair attendance at market to-day, and a rather better business was effected in wheat at 3d to 6d per boll cheaper—new Scotch selling at 21s to 26 3 per 2701b5. A small parcel of new foreign marks red sold at 29e. Flour met an improved sale at previous rates. Oat 4 at late rates. Barley as last quoted. Oatmeal 6d lower. Beans firm. Peas must be quoted 6d to is per boll dearer. Canadian sold at 23s per 2801bs. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—SEPT. 2. Thera was a middling supply of grain in the market 0 ' day. The sales ready, and all kinds of grain dearer. Wheat, on the top, 3s Od down, and on the ayersC is 2d up. Barley, is Od down on the top, and 33, es up on the average. Oats on the top is Od down, anc' the average 7d up. Beans on the top is 01 down, an ou the average Os 8d up. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 2 8 1-12th. Do. new Barley Oats 1 12 2 10-12ths. Beans Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 905 qrs sold 580 qrg Barley 945 qrs sold 789 clra Oats 1005 qrs sold 744 Vs Beans 47 qrs sold 37 qv' DERBY SMITHFIELD.—SEPT. 1. A moderate supply of fat beasts to-day, which were good request, and last week's prices fully ma 4 ntained. ‘ L 'a attendance of buyers was large. The number of sheep 81 0 . lambs about the average, and t,ales heavy. A large suPP of fat pigs, and readily disposed of. Fat calves scarce, au slightly dearer. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 61 to 1 ,1 ; mutton, 7d f.o 7..11 ; lamb, 8d to j—d ; veal, 7,1 t, 74 4 P 1 lb. ; pigs, IJs Od to 104 3d per score; rough fat, Gs 21 0 1 per 141 b. ; hides, 41d to 6,d per lb ; calf-skins, 41d er In. LOCAL SHARE M RK E 7'' LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The transactions in this ins-I r 'have beeu limited, and prices steady, at about the curre33_, rate, of yesterday. Lancashire an d Y or k s hi re , 100 i, ' Manchester Sheffield, and Li nco l n , -- 40,f 9--Gdedonit! 403—North E tstern, Berwi c k, 233 —Ditto York, 3N 11 , Ditto, Leeds, 251 London and N. rth-We s terns, 16 0 1 --Great Northern, A Deferred, 11—Eastern Couu tivi a 111—Midland, 82—Great Western, 553—Lancaster eztrlisle, hths, p 83—South Eastern, 213 3—Grand Trill of Canada , 123—Lancashire and Pfeston, 35 p.—Nor t British, 12 x n.—Great Luxembourg, 78. SIANCHESTBR, SEPT. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. The market was rather easi(Jr to-day, and a good business doing. Blackburns, —Sheffields, 404—Leeds, 100i—Dovers, 27 7-16—Easter' Counties, 11.3.9. Great Western of Canada, 2 1 11 Great Western, 553—London and North Westerns, 10° —Ditto Eighths, 9-16 d.—Grand Trunk of Canada, 12r Cheshire Junet., €8 --Midlands, 82 li—East Lancashir e ' 96i I—Sheffields, 31 per cent., 65. BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE. - The .market has been steatll4 l e ; day, and prices have be en a b ou t the same , w ith 11 ! business doing. L9c.d stocks in demand. BIRTHS. OF A SOY. On the 2d insf., at 2, Lower Berkeley-street, the lA' lf Annora Williams Wynn. On the 2d .nst. at Brighton, the wife of .Lieutenant-C°l' John Bower, Madras Army. OF A DAUGUTER. • is On the 2,1, inst., at Wivenhoe Hall, E se; Lady Chalar ° do Crespigny. bil On the 2d inst., at 41, Regent-square, the wife a Jo Balfour, Esq., H.E.I.C.S. MARRIED. On the 2d. in't., at Maberly Chapel, London, Mr. Ft e , (1 „ 1 1: G r imwade, of New Earl-street, Cann on - s t ree t wes t, and ston, to Hann h Maria, -eldest daughter of the Rev. 110b° Philip, of Maberly Cottage, Dalston. , Oa the 2d inv., at St. Mary's Ch urc h, L am b e th, Miles, of Mount-street, Westminster-road, to Susan only daughter of John Wisby, Esq,, of Holly House, `'— ningtun-road, Lambeth, Surrey. D On the 2(1 inst., James Houghton, Esq., of Herne pill' Surrey, aged 80. f ide On the 2d inst., a t Y a i r H ouse, S e lki r k s hi re , Alex °. ingle, Esq., of Whytbank. tb. On the 2d inst , at Elmdon Rectory, near Birtningban i t, o . Venerable Willi am Sp ooner, f ormer l y A rc hd ea con of Co try, aged 80. ' A te On the Ist inst., at Ventnor, James M. Bloxam, of Lincoln's inn, ging' On the lst inst. at the President's Lodge, Joshua _4 0i Esq,, LL.D., President of Queen's College, Cambridge, r .- 10. Harriet On th e m 3 a l x s w t w . , at ofife P oslliorks John Maxwell , f a r e x w w s e h l e o , r On the 31st ult., at Parkgato, Cheshire, Mrs. Hen '"" Edwards. Lpaodiyioklg:tioly: LONDON : Printed and Published by It URDO yoult - of No: 112, Strand, Printer , at The S un Otto, P 112, Strand, i,n the Precinct of the Savoy, in the co tuav of Middlesex, Friday September 4, 1337. r I 13 GENER. Leade, the Electi The r o abllng melon lc miry in ti t he9thS eloon Day ,. t he lOtla (Limit ed) Au' p IV deket 27 t 11 of 4, R; StiIk BI.ITI EsI Ittb .1114 The She e 4 d fro m pass age or Dasse rigen t The Lri h e P4kB 1G kno l tirthe r k Fe" freli .____. 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