The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-23 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we are in
receipt of correspondence and papers from Bombay
to the 27th December. The discontent with the
income-tax has almost given way before • the
f ' . storm of indignation that has arisen on account
:'of the monstrous grant of £520,000 awarded by
• Sir Charles Wood to the descendants of Tippoo
Sahib, of Mysore. A meeting of native dealers
in piece goods ras held on the rith December,
and was attended by most of the., principal
Merchants, as well as by some European% An
'arrangement was 'made, by the terms of which
it was agreed that business should be resumed,
the Europeans consenting to sign a petition which
hcid btett^ prepared against the income-tax. There
were, ac'cordi'ngly; some large sales of piece goods
next day, and business is now very brisk.
The. Bombay .3lat7 gives the following necount
of the agitation on the Mysore grant :--
' Tile whole people of India, Official and non-official,
European and native, have heard with deep and bitter
r imlignation the 'news that Siri Ohurles Wood has,: not-
withstanding the spirited remonstrances of Lord Cen-
ning's Govan/mut, ordered that the sum. of £520,00,
or:tnore•than halt the produce 'of the income-tax for
this,year, shall be paid to the pensioned descendants of
i TipPAO Sahib of Mysore. The Legislative Council,
stung into independent action by the gross insult which
the Secretary of State has offered to the Government
attd*eople of this country by so shameless a waste of
public' frkficy, has strongly and unanimously protested
against the pant. sir Barnes Peacock declared in the
Council thatthe'Mycore Princes had no claim whatever,
4, legal, equitable, or moral,' to the magnificent ,gift which
Sir C. Wood—by what reasons persuaded, no one dares
guess-has pressed upon their acceptance. Sir O. Jackson
condemned the grant in similar language. Sir Bartle
Frere, though refusing to produce despatches which he
held, to be- confidential from the home to the -local
goi,ernment, and though asserting that the Secretary of
State alone should be applied to for information as to
the seal nature of the grant, gave unmistakeable signs of
sympathy with the opposition, and more than hinted at
the propriety of calling public meetings to demand ex-
planations from Sir C. Wood, The press and the citizens
of Caleuttahave ..notbeen slow to act in support of the
Connell. Never has such umnimity been witnessed before
.41a. India ; never before has theft been an opposition at
once sa energetic and so reasonable to the arbitrary
authority of the Secretary of State. They' who feel most
sorely aggrieved are the Europeans and loyal natives
who bave,heartily seconded the efforts of the Govern-
ment to reform our financial system by imposing new
taxes., Is this the result, it is asked, of all Mr. Wilson's
promised reforms, that every man with £5O a year is
taxed 4 per cent. to swell the accumulated hoards of
Mussulman princes who have already more wealth
than they know what to do with, and who represent the
family of one who was in his lifetime the worst foe
of the English, and the cruelest tyrant that ever '
oppressed the south of. India ? It is not only that;
more than half a century after Tippoo's death we are
annoyed to find how ' even in his ashes live his wonted
fires;'' how, even though dead, he yet - plunders us
through his descendants; but this profligate and crimi-
nal expenditure of our money by Sir Charles Wood is of
a piece with the whole policy of England towards India.
At preSent '.the 'lndian Secretary of State is in reality
the dictator of this country. He has effectually crushed
his mock council at home, and now there is none to
FaipsaT him. We 'pray in vain for the ' full pub-
licity' Mr. -Wilson dangled, before us as a bait to
win our consent to be taxed. Immense sums are paid
away out of the. Indian treasury for the Chinese war ;
what guarantee have we that the money. will ever 'be
returned,? India. is taxed for the.support in England of
a Ihrge portion of the English army; but all statistics:
which could enable us to cheek,the accounts and discover
what we ought, and what we ought not to pay, are care-
fully withheld. Surely sons .member of parliament will
be You'rid with sufficient independence and public spirit
to demand that thislnjustiee shall be redressed.

THE RIGHT OF ADOPTION.

Dispatches confirming the right of adoption by
native princes have, been issued, and published in
a supplement of the Bombay Times, which journal
makes the following observations on the occasion :

"The Indian. Government is stronger to-day than it
wutyesterday; more than an army of 50,000 Euro-
peans:—The lair 7f the country sn the assurances of
the Queen's procluAtion. of November, 1858, utterly
shaken by the renibigtionsi utterances of the Vice-
roy during his 'durbar progress in 1859, is for-
mally and finally reassured. The long-vexed ques-
tion 'of adoption is giappled with and 'Settled,
and the• important despatches of the supreme and
home ;governments, upon the subje4,-printed.,in our
supplement,
.determine henceforward -beyond the possi-
•bility of cavil or doubt, the rights conferred upon the
native princes of India by the proclamation. Review-
ing the, history of the Viceroy's progress in the likht
cast upon it by these despatches, it will be seen clearly
that Lord Canning entered upon that progress withput
understanding the nature or importance of the ;pee
tion that 'was, agitating every native court in the
country. It ii clear, too, that during that progress
his eyes tecame slowly opened ,to 'the magnitide
of the question, and the interest .felt theicin

-throughout- India. As we never sullied our pages
with abuse of Lord Canning's administration during the
inutiny,.so aid we,steadfastly refuse to join the ranks of
the unthinking flatterers who, a year later, from one end
'of Indii to the other, were trumpeting the praises of a
progresi,rwhich but -sowed the seeds of mistrust broadcast
over the' country. We saw clearly the mischief thoSe
• durbar performances were. producing ; and though
-standing alone in disapproval of them, never ceased
to.condemn' them in terms as explicit and severe' as
we believed the occasion demanded. The confession
of 'their mistake is now made. Lords Canning at last
Understands the error be committed, hnd has done his
best to reverse it. The right of adoption is to be
contested no more. The mistake of the progress was
the assiiniptiOn of a paramonnt right on the. part
he-Via:my to refuse- sanction 'to- successions •by
adoption—a right which, if it ever existed, the riro-
clamation had explicitly waived. We deny that such a
right did ever exist, and the mischief its assumption has
worked in India is too well known to need illustration.
Our quarrel with Lord Canning is over, and heartly do
iiie rejoice that theSe despatches are published ere his
. lordship leaves The nines and Standard has at.
`last achieved the.triumpli it ,has laboured-- for over the
policy which produced the rebellion.
The l'ontbajj Gazette says:—

y Imre have been rumours in Bombay for at least a
Inpth.past of a scandalous breach of discipline by some
soldiers'of Lord Clyde's pet regiment, the 93rd, who
are Sala, as the story generally goes, to have pelted their
officers' out of the camp with their tin pots.

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY SHOOTING.—OR Saturday
a daring' but happily misticeessful attempt to commit
murder.by shooting, was made by a lad named Francis
Denovan,_ Is,..years of..age. Denoran is employed in
the Dalmarnock frintWorks, and on that morning,
while working, be -took a, loaded pistol he had in his
possession, and taking deliberate aim at a follow-
Workman named William Home, fired, but happily at
that 'very !nioba'etit flume' stooped to adjust some.
m'nchidety, -the 'eoiatents of the pistol passed over his
head, and his.life was thus providentially saved. Furious
at having been unsuccessful, I)enovan then ran at
Hume, and abused and assaulted him in a very serious
Manner, striking him repeatedly with the butt end of the
pistol. Most serious, if not fatal injuries might even
then have been inflicted on the assailed man, had this
fellow-workers nOt •rushed on Denovan, and forcibly
withheld him frnmiContinuing his mad assault., •

LATE LORD. ELPIIINSTONE.—This deceased noble-
man, who died a few days since at Bournemouth, only
succeeded his uncle, the late governor of Bombay, in July
last in the Scottish barony. The late peer was the only
son of the lion. Admiral Charles Flemming Elphinstone,
son of John 11th Lord Elphinstone. He was born 17th
of Deeembei, 1819, and was Unmarried. His, lordship
was formerly hi the 17th Lancers, and at the close of
the late war_held. the .rank of lieut.-colonel .commanding
the 2nd Light Dragoons of the German Legion. The
deceased noblemati is succeeded, we believe, by Com-
mander William' 'huller Fullerton Elphinstone, of her
Majesty's ship Hornet, now 15th Baron Elphinstone,
eldest son of the late Lieut.-Colonel James D. B.iF.
Elphinstone; by'his second marriage with ,Anna MaTia,
only child of the late Sir Edward _Buller, Bart., of Tren-
nant, Cornwall. The present peer is in his 3i-d:yert4.
tiVaEcx Or run , HARDT ,BARQVE.—rri • ship, of
700 tons, 'of 'Glasgow, outward bdund for Denmark,
became a total wreck on Monday morning? the 20th
instant,—there being a dense fog at the time,--1 et,r4n
Swanage and Weymouth. Mr. Sym R, the officer: ii
charge at St. Alban's Head station, and a stAffiof coast-
guard men, boarded her at two p.m., ;and found all
hands had left her. The ship was full of water, and
'had a falLgeneral cargo, including, some Government
stores. If the weather, continues favourablei in a row'
days most of the contents will be discharged; but,
should a south-westerly gale set in. it is. Mated Nom
good authority that the vessel must break her,hottrnn
being already much broken,.and rudder off, ,When'the
coast-guard men boarded the ship the boats were gone.
The crew and one or twoladies and a child are sup-
pdsed to have left. the Ship in the boats, and to have
•been taken up by a brig seen in .the Channel about ,the
time the vessel was wrecked, as no traces of them 'are to
be found.

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CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
0 nC LtEhl isiotnthei,niacactnholueonnitgas_otftiflientwßhwaovemie.nakn:
toye considerablecOlFer
1111:6reAnnittlhic'hm..11—asrlkeV,
become known 'that strong effort is now being made
at Rome by Cardinal Wiseman to remove Bishop Grant
to the 'north' of England, as 'the successor at Beverley
of:the:late Bishop Brings. On Tuesday Week a special
Anc.et,ing of,the " Chapter" of the diocese of Southwark
was held at St. George's Cathedral, to adopt measures
with a view of preventing the. cardinal carrying out his
itong-threittened intention of obtaining the reinoial of
Bishop Grant from his present position, where be is highly
"esteemed; not only by his ele'rg-y and the members of
his'faith,,but all who have the pleasure of his acquaint-
ance. Some few years ago a siniilar attempt was made,
hut defeated at the time, mit! the object 'of Cardinal
Wiseman Was to obtain complete control over that
part of yawl a n , without the intervention of a suffragan
bishop. Should he now succeed: in his intention to
carry. out what he has 'already recommended to the
the suppression of the Roman Catholic
bishopric of Southwark and the creation of a new see
of Southampton, and it is rumoured that Dr. Hearn, of
Warwick-street chapel, is already named for the post.
'When' the Roman Catholic hierarchy was first estab-
lished in England in 1850 it was the wish of Cardinal
Wiseman to govern South wark by it vicar, and not
appoint a bls • hop but in this he was overruled by:th e
late Cardinal Fraasoni. • The revenues of the diocese of
Southwark are larger than those of any other Roman
serious di
Catholic diocese' in England, I d 'a vent fier-
epee has existed between the Cardinal and Bishop Grant
since his appointment on the 'subject of the revenues,
which was referred to Rome. Should the proposition
to stippresS, Southivark be favourably carried out, that
portion of itfrom which the funded property is derivable
will be placed tinder the immediate control
the' Car-
dinal. t also stated that he pro t
bishopric of Iteithampton' Poses o eqpTees the

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LATEST NEWS.

(T3T I3RITISTI AND 'KISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GAETA.
FRENCII INTERVENTION AGAIN AT
WORK.
ROME, Jan. 20.
Admiral Barbier De Tinan has prevented the
departure from Gaeta of a steamer laden with
cannon and soldiers destined to aid the re-
actionary movement in Calabria.
The reactionary movement in the Abruzzi is
directed by the Queen Dowager and Count

Trapani.
Several members of the San Fediste party
have left for the Abruzzi, whither arms and
ammunition have been sent from Rome, in charge
of Ricci, the chief of the San Fedistes.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, Jan. 22, 3.17 p:m.
-- The Bourse has -again been rather firm- and

animated. The final quotation of Rentes was
60f. 40c., or 10c. higher than yesterday.

GARIBALDI AND THE SPRING CAMPAIGN.

THE VISIT OF GENERAL TURR.

General 'Purr has returned to Turin from his
visit to Caprera. lie. was received on the 19th
by Count Cavour, and. was on the next day to
have an audience of the King. It is known that
he represented to Garibaldi that disembarkation
on any part of the Adriatic coast would be fol-
lowed by the passage of the Po by the Aus-
trian army, to which the Sardinian army could
oppose but a feeble resistance.
A report is current in Paris that Garibaldi has
that he cannot adjourn the work of the deliverance
of Italy unless the Italian Parliament relieves

him of the solemn engagement he has contracted
in the face or the world. It is, however, the
general opinion that Count Cavour's Ministry is
sure of a majority, and consequently that this
release will be readily granted.