The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

Baron Oros lo his KumHoney Om illnislor for
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Tleo•Ilic, June 10,
The within' of the Emperor have bun fullilled In
China, That vast empire Is thrown open to Chris Claw
Ity, and nearly
_the whole of It to the ooninceree and hp
dustry of the West.
Our diplomatic' apnts will be allowed to reside tern.
porarlly at Pekin.
Our 101011101116111 will be admitted everywhere,
A Chinese envoy will be sent to ?Still.
The murderer of the missionary Chappedlesine will
be punished It will be annuuneed In the Pain
Uatello,
The 111%,/ against Christianity will be revoked.
All the engagements ire tuk.n, and In pert secured
(cousionie) under the Hal of the Iniperial Commis.
series, . . . . .

--Fr;no and England obtain OA moil ample (ammo

INDIA.

COUPLITION Or TUN COONott, OP ISOM—HimNg
Civil Writ», Mr. Prime!, and Mr. Mangled I Mackie
Civil !terries_ , Sir H. Montgomery ; Bombay Civil Rep
vice, Mr. Willoughby ; Bengal Army, Sir P. Ceutley ;
Idsdraa Army, General Sir R. Vivian I Bombay
Army, Captain filestwicik ; the Punjaub, Sir J. Law.
ranee ; the Afghan Frontier and Persia, Sir H. Raw.
Union ; Naive -State, Sir F. Corn.; Law, Sir S. Hogg
and Mr. Muntughten ; Shipping InUrests, Captain
Shepherd ; Finance, Mr. Mill. ; Indian Commune, Mr.
Arbuthnot ; Public Works, Sit P. Cautley.
Friday the Indian Council, incorporated under the
Act of last 'vision, met for the first time at the India.
house, in Leadanhall-street. The Connell Mee summoned
for 2 o'clock, but Lord Stanley, the Sanitary of Slate
for India, and by virtue of that office the President of
the Council, arrived at the India-house quite half an
hour earlier. He wee shortly followed by Sir George
Clarke and Mr. Baillie, one of the joint peoretaries of
the Hoard of Control. The members of the Council
present were— Sir F. Currie, the late Chairman of the
Court of Direotors ; Sir Henry Rawlinson, General Sir
Robert Vivian, Sir Henry Montgomery, Mr. J. P.
Willoughby, and Mr. William Arbuthnot, being six of
the members nominated by the Crown ; and Mr. Charles
Mills, Sir Janice Weir Hogg, Mr. E. Munaghten, Capt.
Eaatwiek, and Mr. H. T. Prinsep, five of the elected
members. Captain Sheppard and Mr. R. D. Mangles,
two other of the elected members, were understood to
be absent from indiapcolitlon. Sir John Lawrenoe, one
of the Crown nominee., could not, of muse, be prevent,
nor was Sir Proby Cautley, we believe in attendance.
They assembled in the chamber which for years the
Court of Directors now defunct—fur purposes of govern.
went, at least—have been aotmetoined to meet. By an
expreu provivion in the reoent statute, Lord Stanley, as
Secretary of State for India, being at the time of receiving
that appointment, President of the Board of Control, was
relieved from the tedious formula of vacating hie seat in
Parliament and presenting himself before hie oonstitu-
ante for re•eleetion, and wax so enabled to enter at once
upon the discharge of his high Aline! functions. Shortly
after 2 o'clock he took hi* *eat at the Board ea Preadent
of the Council. The proceeding.' that followed, were,
of course, conducted privately.

THN COUNCIL Or INDIA.—The four new members
appointed to the Council of India ere Blr John Lewrenoe,
Bit. Henry Montgomery, Bert., Bit
Probyn Cautley, K.C.B. , end Mr. Arbuthnot, formerly
of Medree.. . .

THZ 1411V1111 Or LUCKNOW.—A nit tablet has lately
boon ylooed in the ohanoel of Cottonham Church, in
memory of the lat. Major Banks. rho following is the
insorlption :--"In memory of John Sherbrooke Banks,
Major 83rd 13ettgal Native Infantry, Provisional Chief
Collllllillioller In Oude, who waa killed, in disoharge if
Ills duty, during the siege of the Roaideuoy at Luoknow,
July ItitlT, omul 43 ream"
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Se 114. DIAN ANCALNITRALIAN Ffindo-
stan was See days behind her time In reaching Sues
with the Calcutta and China mails. The Wee, with
the hoary portion of thoee moils, is not expected to
arrive in England before the Bth mutant. The Culls,
with the Bombay mail, arrived at Sues a day before her
Elam The heavy portion of her mall may be expeeted
home on the 9th instant, The Emu, with the Aut.
trailer' mail, arrived at Sues two days after her time.
The heavy portion of those mails tney, therefore be ex-
Noted In England about the Bth instant. The India
packet Colombo, which was duo on the 20th, tee not
yet an-iced home. It has been already stated that the
Bemires was sent in search of her. The Benares called
In at Vigo, and found that the Colombo had just left
there. The former then 'teamed out again after the
latter, but aimed her, and arrived at 'Plymouth on
Saturday. There she learned that the Oolumbo had
put back again to Vigo. The Bonfires, therefore,
'tarts,' for Vigo the &mind time Immediately. The
Coltimho and the &mares will mod probably arrive
home at the latter end of this week. The .lelity of the
Columbo *how, in • striking manner the want of tole-
graphic) oonitnunioation with Gibraltar. That steamer
arrived at the latter port on the 14th tilt. broken down.
Now. If that fact oould have been telegraphed to Eng.
land the Columbo might !MVO remained at Gibraltar,
and a steamer isould [lave been sent from Southampton
in four day. and taken on board the India and China
paseengers and cargo, and brotight them to England by
the 23rd. For want of that telegraphie communication
the passengers have to be maintained at sea for nearly
a fortnight, and have been put most probably to the
greatest inconvenienee and loss, and their friends are
waiting about fir theta at the Southampton hotels.
Great loss may be Incurred also by the delay of the land-
ing of the cargo. Altogether it la quit* poeilble that a
submarine oabie from the Land's End to Gibraltar might
have saved in the case of the Colombo alone a sum of
several thousand pound' sterling.
. .

RAiLwAre.—The select committee of the
House of Conniving on Indian railways reported to the
House on the 13th of July, and their report, with
copious minutes of evidence, was published on Tuesday,
The committee notice the seven distinct companies at
present engaged in oonstruating lines of railroad in
India, and °busily the delays attendant upon such works
under four distinct lioado-1, delays arising from
Government supervision at home and in India; 9, delay.
incidental to the eseoution of extensive and complicated
works under novel oirounistemoes in a distant oountry ;
8, delays produood by political causes, soul. as mutiny
and insurreetion' and, 4, delays arising from natural
or geographical diffteultiee. Into these questions the
oommitte• enter at some length. The committee, on an
impartial review of the history of Indian railways, have
no doubt whatever that muoh valuable time was loch in
the preliminary negotiations for the introduction of
way enterprise into India, Ind also on account of the
commercial crisis having arisen while those negotiations
were inooinplete ; but, making every allowance for eir-
eninstanoes, the committee opine that if the matter had
been taken up at tint with the earnestness; that its its-
porta:me deserved, in accordance with the proposal of
the Court of Directors in 1846 to the Board of Control,
and had the proposals of the originators been met with
the seine liberality that has since been displayed in the
agreements with the different oompanies, our Indian
possessions might, are this, have been provided with
many hundred miles of rapid internal commiusication,
the value of which for military concentration and the
more speedy development of their reisonroea is obvious.
But the ooininittee have no means of judging of the con-
siderations which actuated the Government. They think
that the progress of lines under construction in India
will bear favourable comparison with that of English
link, and they say that the value of rational and tempe-
rate Government control has been willingly admitted by
many of the railroad anthorities themselves. In conclu-
sion, the committee are of opinion, first, that the
Government has acted wisely in committing to private
enterprise the esseation of theist great ptibho work.;
secondly, that a guaranteed interest on the requisite
capital woe indispensable to induce the public to invest
their money in undertakings of this magnitude and
novelty; and, thirdly, that, in order to protect the
Indian revenue troqt_andua ex tare, Government
control over the railway opersdicwa is requisite, and
even valuable to the inWrests of the shareholders them-
selves. At the seine time, the oomusitges would observe
that, under a system oomplicatial is. ik cilaarasta, and

neessearily somewhat oumbrous in its machinery, a
system, moreover, the greataat defect of which is the
(malty it affords for the evasion of responsibility, a
clear and distinct definition of the duties, responsibili-
ties', and extant of jurisdiction of all heads of depart-
ments and those under them, la essentially requisite for
it. smooth and suooessfal working ; always assuming
that due osre be taken to introitdiscretionary power
only to men who are to be relied on as competent to
distinguish an effective general control from too minute
an interference in details. By a judicious adherence to
the spirit rather than the letter of the contract, the oom-
mite°. feel assured that arrangemente may be simpli-
fied, united action for one oommon object secured, and
railway enterprise in India may before long sasume pro-
portions commensurate with the vast °ammonia!,
agricultural, a.id mineral resouroes of that country. The
witnesses examined before the committee were—Mr.
Juland Danvers, Mr. D. I. Noad, Mr. G. Sibley, Mr. J.
Freeman, Mr. G. B. Brims , Colonel J. P. Kennedy,
Colonel T. T. Pears, C. 8., Mr. J. Walker, Mr. W. P.
Andrew, Colonel W. Erskine Baker, Sir M. Stephenson,
an4Bir J. Molvill, K.C.B. The evidenoe mmiii repay
perusal.

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SIKHS AND SZPOYIL—A guerilla affair toolc plaoe near
Dehree, on the 18th ult. Captain Rattray pinked
eight men from his Sikh regiment, and despatched them
with instruction, to bring In or kill Sungram Sing, an
old blood-stained scoundrel, who had oominitted General
murders and other crimes In the neighbourhood of Rotas.
The Sikhe " bettered their inatruotioni," for in addition
to fetching Sungrain Singh alive into Captain Rattray's
tent, they killed hla brother, sons, nephews and grand-
sons, in all nine persons. The Sikhs had disguised them-
Wyse as mutinous &pays, and thus got into the Dow
Adele* of this whole gang. Another incident will illus.
trate the sort of service in which our troops am now en-
gaged. Within a limitad distance of Allaliabod are a great
number of mud forte, which afford shelter and trysting
points for the rebels, and to demolish as many as pos.
Obis is of course an important object. On or about the
10th of lad month—precision in dates is not always sr
-
rived at—a small party of our troops attacked one of
those strongholds, near Soreon, which was vigorously de-
fended by a force of nearly 1,000. The result MU that
700 of the enemy were slain, and the commandant taken
prisoner, with a considerable amount of booty.

TH2 INDIA OUTWARD AND HOWIWAND MAILS.—
We learn front Malta that the Pera, Peninsular and
Oriental Compaky's &tamer orrivorl at that Island from
Southampton and Gibraltar early on the morning of the
Melt with the hooey mall, and si noon on the Nth wee
awaiting the Panther, duo on the 30th from Marseille"
with the overland malls, to proud with same to Alex-
andris. Having inadvertently opened a lured box
containing the Clitoral* Bill of Health, and thus 'min.
tention&lfy oommunierAtd with that gerruon, the Pero
biome stibjeot at Malta to lb dui' quarantine, for what
reason II is &Moult° %Mankind, the passenger' for
Mall. ars doomed to air themselves for a couple of
weeks in the Lasuretto,
INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN TOLIORAPIL—The
oeseful submersion of the Atlantic cable Is already pro.
duolng the expected result of giving ensouragement for
similar enterprise' In other directions. A oompany is
now being formed for the purpose of econsetlng
trails with India and China, and eenuquently with
leglowl. The Red Iva line will, It is mid, be untinuod
by the Indian Goveruumnt to Ceylon, and it le, then-
fore, In that &dud that this company contemplate the
oomniensement of their operetiont The Met Notion
laid down will be to Singapore, when.. divergent rays
will Orikp off toward, Hongkong and Australia. This
great unoerking it II 0111041A1110, may be asoomplished
e 060 of half a million "titling, divided kilo
,000 shares of 130 welt, In the first instance, sp.
plleation will be made to Her Majesty's Hovernment for
a guarintoe similar to that eonewted to the Rod Sea
line, and on the result of this Immunisation inset
naturally depend the future prossedlnp 4th. oompany.
MUTILATIONS AND ATSOOII4IIII IN INDIA, —De,
Duro book entitled The Indian Rebellion llt. Count
&nil Remit, hae juitt been inblielied, 'Ph. work is a
series of letters, souuneneing front the 16th of May,
11187, and terminating on the 1241 of March, Dififl, The
event. are therefore related as they Incurred, and many
inetanors of cruelly and mayor' brutality on the part Of
the mutineers, which would otherwise have been lost
In the ephemeral pages of newspapers, are now 'worded
by Dr. Duff, The publication of Milo work, apart from
its unfulnees, Is upselally welklined and the high
reputation of Oho writer for piety, truthfulnese, and hip
partiality will moor, for hie Niatements a belief which
our friend. at home rerun to &word to um hare, Ws
give the following extras& regarding the cruelties porno-
trend by the mutineers, which litiOW that our repeated
arnasttione—that mutineers never suffkred their moth
liked victims to secope—are oorreet. "An eye.valtneisi
to the brutal conduct of the tnutinous Salton at Allaits-
bad, and who himself had a narrow seal* from their
ruthless hand'', thus writes A next door English
neighhour of mine was visited one night by •gang of up-
ward, of two down &pop, fully equipped with deetrum
tree artne. On the hoe and airy belngelven, I went up
to the terrace of my house, and maw with mine own
eyes the rascals cutting into two an infant boy of two or
three years of ago, while playing with hie mother; next,
they hooked Into pleou the lady ; and subsequently,
utost shookingly and horridly the humband."The writer
made his 11401[111 by a bsokdoor, and, by mean§ of •
bamboo, he managed to arose the Ganges and make his
way, through ;multiplied difficulties, to Banaree. Affect-
ing evidences of the villaniee that have been practiced
are ever and anon outing up. The other day, in the
neighbourhood of &mares, a detachment of Europeans
fell in with 21 Sepoys in disguime, who wished to pale
themselves off as poor villagers that had been 'looted'—
that is, plundered. On searching their perking, how-
ever, each of them had about 70 rupees in oath, besides
gold and silver jewels oovered with blood, showing but '
too dearly the brutal way in which they ;mist have been
taken off our poor murdered countrywomen. At one of
the station, a lady, in panic terror, had hidden herself
in an obscure corner of the house. Through • chink or
crevice in the partition "he law the bleeding bead of
ono of her children rolled as • ball across the floor,
and, on emerging from her hiding-place, beheld the
fragments of another soattered about I Here is WO-
tiler variety of incident in the terrible tragedy now
enacting in the North-West, u related by an eye-
who's :—An officer and his wife were attacked by many
Bowan, or mutineer§ of native cavalry. The brave
offloer singly shot dead seven of them on the spot, and
at last was overcome by the number of the rebels. In-
stead, however, of allowing himself to be disarmed by
the scoundrels, under the premium of emergency he brat
killed his wife, and then put an end to hile own life.
Similar am to in main object was another ease, of which
certain informakon has reached um. A "mall party of
gentlemen, with a young lady lately reeldent in Calcutta,
and well known to some of us, elnoted their maim to an
isolated house, where they were hard pressed by the
ferocious mutineers. In atm of thnir being eventually
overpowered by number', they entered into a mutual
though dismal ureenient to kill the lady, to save her
from the brutal outreges of the murderer'', and then to
tell their own live" as dearly as they could. Ti,, troopa
at Ineotapoor, in Northern Owle, after the bloody
butchery they had committed then, proceeded towards
Mulitundle. They met on the road the refugee. from
Shithjeliampore, and the civil Withers of Muhuinclie
fleeing from the latter plaoe ; all of whom they
deliberately slaughtered, "aye one Captain Orr, who
witneued the horrible wane There are teeny other
details' of cruelties committed by the rebels, related by
Dr. Duff, whloh our space will not permit us to copy,
and we most refer our readers to the book itself for in-
formation on the subject. Dr. Dolt moat truly stake
that many duds of cruelty and brutality "of the most
toothsome and revolting kind have been purposely
ouppressed to open the agonised feelings of distant
mourning friends."—Goloutki Eviiathion.