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INDIAN RAILWAYS.

Mr. WILLIAMS moved, as an amendment on the
motion for going into committee, a resolution to the
effect that the slow progress of the East India rail-
ways involved dangers to the military occupation of
India, and retarded the development of the industrial
resources of that country. He attributed the dela•
chittly to the interference of the East India Coro•
pany with the railway works, and entered somewhat
at large into a detail of facts bearing out that alle-
gation.
M.N. SMITH observed that as the East India Com-
pany guaranteed five per cent. interest on the capital
expended, they were justified in interfering with the
execution of the lines. That interference, he main
tanned, did not pass the point of prudence and
necessity.
Mr. 61111 TURD declared that the attacks on the
iailway companies and the East India Company were
altogether unfounded.

Mr. GILPIN recommended that freer scope should
be given to the action of private enterprise in India.
Some further remarks were offered by Mr. Ayrton,
Mr. Platt, and Mr. IVillcuighby.
The amendment was then negatived without a
division, and the house went into committee of
traPPIY.
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London, England, 1857-07-18

MR. WIGAN.

GREAT and general has been the regret in
social and theatrical circles at the illness of
that most accomplished actor, Mr. A. Wigan. A
benefit in his honour has been arranged at the
Olympic Theatre for next Friday night. Amongst
the committee are several names of the highest dis-
tinction in rank, fashion, art, and literature—the
Marquises of Lansdowne and Stafford, Lord Ward,
Mr. R. W. Grey, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens,
Messrs. Stanfield, Maclise, Richard Doyle, and many
more. Mr. Wigan well deserves this honourable
sympathy. Admired as an artist on the stage, Mr.
Wigan has always been respected in general society
as a scholar and a gentleman. We trust that on Fri-
day there will be a full demonstration of the great
regard felt for him in many social circles. He won
the highest professional rank by his talents, and he
enhanced it by his personal merits. He has now the
claim of ill health to the cordial sympathy of his
friends. It is mournful that after having surmounted
all the struggles of so difficult a profession lie
should now be disabled. We sincerely hope that he
will yet be restored to his former health ; and a
generous gathering on next Friday will be a cordial
to the spiiits of one suffering from severe illness.
London, England, 1857-07-18

ADMISSION OF JEWS TO PARI.I.kIIF.NT.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL inquired what course the
Government intended to pursue with respect to the
bill which he intended to ask leave to introduce,
namely, the Oaths Validity Act Amendment Bill.
The noble lord was proceeding to remark upon the
nature and purport of his measure, when he was
interrupted upon the point of order, and therefore
contented himself with asking whether the Ministers
could give him a day for the discussion of his bill.
Lord PALMERSTON remarked that the days of the
session were numbered, and many important mea-
sures still hung on hand. He could not name a
day for the proposed bill, until the Ministerial bu-
siness was further advanced.
London, England, 1857-07-18

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LORD JOHN BROWNE, brother of the Marquis of
Siigo, it is probable, will offer himself as a candidate
for the county of Mayo and for Galway. Colonel
French, it is reported, intends to take the field.

JUSTICE PErtius has given permission to the Crown
solicitor to prepare bills of indictment against the
Mayor of Sligo, two of his deputies, and two poll-
clerks, for a conspiracy to procure the undue return
for the borough of Mr. John Patrick Somers.

THE GREAT COLCLOI:GH CASE was brought to a
close, in a way satisfactory to both parties, on Tues-
day. At the close of Mr. IVhiteside's speech a com-
promise was entered into, of which the following is
an outline of the terms :—Mrs. Boyse gets the
money lodged in court, amounting to upwards of
20,0001., and her jointure. Mrs. itossborough Col-
clouah gets 'fintern Abbey ant the estates, valued at
8,0001. a year.

SPoLLEN was brought up at Capel street police-
office on Wednesday, and the new information having
been read over, he was formally committed to take
his trial for the wilful murder of Mr. George
Samuel Little. The prisoner, on being asked the
usual question, whether be had anything to say,
replied that he would reserve his defence for another
tribunal.
London, England, 1857-07-18

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tained appeals from various public bodies,
all of which have been strangely neglected.
The insecurity of life and property in many
districts of Bengal, the daring gang robberies,
and the utter inefficiency of the police, were
all brought in vain under the notice of the
authorities. In 1853 a petition was presented
to Parliament, signed by eighteen hundred
Christian inhabitants of Bengal, bearing testi-
mony to detailed grievances that loudly called
for energetic measures ; but the country recol-
lects how hurriedly the Parliamentary inquiry
into Indian affairs was closed up, not-
withstanding the appeals of Mr. DISRAELI and
Lord STANLEY, and of a large number of inde-
pendent members of the House of Commons.

But henceforward not Parliament alone,
but the people of England of all ranks and
classes, must maintain a standing political
inquiry into Indian affairs The public mind
of Great Britain will he occupied with India
until next spring. India must become a Par-
liamentary subject of the first magnitude,
and parties will stand opposed to each other
on this most urgent of questions. The pre-
servation of ourempire will demand the united
energies of Conservative politicians. In
the old Whig circles dismay is not con-
cealed at the domestic aspect which this vast
subject has assumed. The Whigs sunk
lower than ever in popular estimation when
to deficits in our Exchequer at home there
were added the disasters in Affghanistan.
Great administrative energy, and a great
policy, are called for in this mighty crisis. The
responsibility of this occasion can be evaded
by no Ministerial subterfuges. If Mr. VERNON
SMITH be President of the Board of Control,
Lord PALMERSTON is Premier, and it is upon him
that depends whether, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH
said, "he shall obtain for himself a reputation
" like Lord CHATHAM, or allow his Government
" to go down as the most calamitous, the most
" disastrous, and the most disgraceful since
" the time of Lord NORTH." The aged Premier
has eminent talents, though enfeebled ener-
gies ; but we doubt his capacity in an Indian
crisis. He was a leading Member of the Cabinet
under which Lord AUCKLAND was a Governor-
General, and it is impossible for us to forget
his backwardness in the relief of Kars. In
the plasticity of a Parliamentary Proteus we
see no evidence of the power which can save
au imperilled empire.
London, England, 1857-07-18

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productions. Even the benefit nights of artists will
not justify a course of proceeding so degrading to
lyric art, and so unworthy of a first class operatic
establishment.
Mlle. Piccolomini has appeared as 'labia in
Donizetti's Elisir d'Amour. The music is too florid
for her limited powers, but, like all her assumptions,
it. is prettily acted, with a tendency to exaggeration
in the details. Jenny Lind made a terrible shrew
of this Adina, and Piccolomini is quite right in
making her a rustic coquette. Belart is destined
with ordinary care to be the tenor. There is a
geniality in his style of singing which warms his
auditory. His Nemorino is one of the best that has
been heard. Belletti's Sergeant is capitally sung
aid badly acted, and the Dub:Amara of Rossi is
conventional, without. approaching the unctuous
humour of Lablache, or the racy drollery of
Ronconi.

At the Royal Italian Opera Mlle. Victoire Balfe's
Lucia will be the nett novelty. Fra Diavolo is
universally allowed to be one of the most perfect
lyric representations ever witnessed. Next Molina),
Verdi's Traviata will be given with Guldoni's
comedy, La Locandiera, for Mme. Ilistori. Tam-
berlik has returned to London from Rio Janeiro, but
whether he will reappear this season has not been
announced.
London, England, 1857-07-18

NEW MEMBER.

Mr. MARSHALL took the oaths and his seat for
East Cumberland.

QUEEN'S COUNTY ELECTION.

The SPEAKER intimated that he had received a
letter from Mr. Coppock, stating that it was wit his
intention to proceed with his petition against the
return for Queen's Connty.
EDUCATION: —"I

Sir J. I'm:lst:T.oN gave notice that whenever the
noble lord at the head of the G Nernment placed a
day at his divos,il, he shoul I move an address to
the Grown for a commission of inquiry into the state
of national education.
London, England, 1857-07-18

ittelligettte.

IT is understood to be the intention of the War
authorities to send out to India a strong body of
troops belonging to the Royal Engineers at Chatham,
in addition to the East India Company's Sappers and
Miners now in that country. The companies likely
to embark for this service are the 4th, Bth, 10th,
and 27th, accompanied by the Royal Engineer
Field Equipment. The following six regiments of
infantry will, in all probability, proceed to India as
soon as transports for their conveyance can be pro-
cured, viz. :—The 201 h, 34th, 42nd Highlanders,
54th, 97th, and the Riffs 13rilade (2nd battalion).
With the reinforcements already embarking, together
with the troops on passage to China who will in all
likelihood go to Calcutta instead, and three regi-
ments from Persia and Ceylon, the Bengal force is
now being strengthened by about 25,000 of the
Queen's troops.
THE COLONELCY OF THE 89TH REGIMENT, vacant
by the death of General Sir C. Buikeley Egerton,
will, we believe, be conferred on Major-General
Arbuthnot.

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London, England, 1857-07-18

THE PRESS, JULY 18, 1857.

A COASTGUARDMAN, John Barnett, of the Southsea
station, on returning from his night duty on Friday
week about four o'clock a.m., observed three men,
one dressed as a soldier of the 71st Fusiliers, lurking
about the residence of Lord George Lennox. Sus-
pecting all was not right, he proceeded to the rear of
the mansion and discovered two men, one already in
the house, having made an entry through an open
window. He bade all three " stand," or he'd shoot
them. He trapp.d the one in the house by closing
the window, and made prizes of the other two out-
side. The family were alarmed by him, and the
prisoners handed over to the police. They were
taken before the Portsmouth magistrates, and in
default of paying a fine of 41. each (no forcible entry
having been made, a burglary could not be estab-
lished) were consigned to gaol for two months
each.

THE NEW SCHOOLS of the Society of Ancient
Britons, at Ashford, Middlesex, were opened on
Monday by the Prince Consort, in the presence of
many distinguished personages. The schools are
intended to educate 130 Welsh boys, and 70
Welsh girls.

THE SALE AT ALTON TOWERS continues to excite
increasing interest. Vast numbers of persons daily
come in by train, and spend the day about the gardens
or in the sale rooms. The collection of armour was
sold on Monday, and the porcelain sculpture sale
commenced on Thursday.

THE MOORS AND THE DEER FORESTS promise
good sport in the coming season ; grbuse are plentiful
and generally healthy, while the stags have thriven
well, are numerous, in prime condition, and the heads
will be early at maturity.
London, England, 1857-07-18

INDIA.

Mr. DISRAELI, after remarking upon the gravity of
the circumstances that had lately occurred in India,
and on the delay in producing the official papers
connected with the subject, inquired when the do-
cuments would be ready, and on what day the
Government were willing to have the quzstion
discussed.

Lard PALmEnsTox said that the papers were pre-
paring and would be issued in a few days. As
another overland mail was due in the conre of next
week, which would in all probability bring very im-
portant intelligence, he proposed to take the Indian
debate on Monday week.
This arrangement was accepted by Mr. Disr,AErr,
and the discussion was ordered to stand for the day
named.

THE 3IILITIA.

On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Mr. BENTINCK called attention to the defenceless
state in which the country would be left after the
departure of so many regiments to the East. He
asked whether the militia were to be called out.

Lord PALMERSTON believed that an ample force
would remain for home defence, without incurring
the cost of embodying the militia.
London, England, 1857-07-18

CA UTIO N. Tradesmen, Merchants,
Shippers. Outfitters, km—Whereas it has lately come to
my knowledge that some unprincipled person or persons bays,
for some time past, been imposing upon the Public by selling
to the Trade and others a spurious article under the name of
BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, this is to give
notice that I am the Original and Sole Proprietor and Manu-
facturer of the said article, and do not employ any Traveller, or
authorise any persons to represent themselves as coming from
my Establishment for the purpose of selling the said Ink.
This Caution is published by me to prevent further im-
position upon the Public, and serious injury to myself.—E. H.
BOND, Sole Executrix and Widow of the late John Boat 96,
Loorlsse, West tizaltlaileld, Loaiwa.
London, England, 1857-07-18

THE PRESS, JULY 18,1857.

Great distress prevailed at Canton from famine.
The insurgents have stopped the rice countries to
the east, the locusts have destroyed all the crops ill
the west, and the English and Americans are buying
up the rice from Siam and elsewhere, so that Canton
is literally kept from starvation by the people whom
they have driven out of their factories, and upon
whose heads they have set prices not always justly
estimated.

A severe engagement between the Imperialists and
rebels at Foo chow-foo is believed to havo taken
place. Captain Barnard, of her Majesty's ship
Racehorse, had returned from Foo-choviloo on the
25th, and reported that some terrible fighting has
occurred among the Chinese above that city.
Mutilated bodies in quantities of twenty and thirty at
a time floated past the Racehorse as she rode at
anchor. The supposition is that the Imperialists
have geined an important advantage, for the teas arc
now corning down from Foochow, which would seem
to show that the impediment created by the troubles
had ceased.
London, England, 1857-07-18

Til E PRES S, JULY 18, 1857.

CONCERTS OF THE WEEK.

LORD WARD is an ardent amateur, ever anxious to
assist the artists. He has opened the Dudley
Gallery three times this week to beneficiaires—
Italy, France, and Germany, curiously enough, being
represented at these matinees.

On Monday Signor Biletta, the composer, and
Signor Solieri, the tenor, gathered the►r patrons.
Biletta wrote La Rose de Florence for the Grand
opera in Finis, not to speak of his successful
English essay, White Magic, at the Haymarket
Theatre. He composes gracefully and melodiously,
is yet young, and has a future of promise before
him. His works must not be lost sight of. Signor
Solieri has achieved a fame which will insure him a
position on lyric boards. The " aids " were Mlle.
W.tgner, Mme. Marcolini, Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Dolby, Jules Lefort, the French romance s►nger,
and Signor Monari, the basso; Signor Andreali, the
pianist; Signor Bazzini, the violinist; and Bottesini,
►he contrabassist.

On Wednesday it wal the turn of Mme. Ugalde,
the star of the Opera Comique in Paris, who was
once induced to quit her speciality and to sing in
Italian by the side of Sontag, in Auber's II Prodipo,
produced at Her Majesty's Theatre ;n 1831. Mine.
Ugalde, in her own language, is the queen of florid
songstresses. She is the Louisa Pyne of the French
stage ; and in the works of Auber, Ambroise Thomas,
Halavy, &c., is without a rival in brilliant vocalisa-
tion, as she proved by the specimens she extracted
for the Dudley Gallery. Her fashionable auditory
was enraptured with her bravura airs, the intervals
in which were filled up by Mlle. Coulon, the
pianiste, I3azzini, Solieri, Lefort, Herr Engel
( harmonium), Herr Reichardt, and Signor Burdini.
The Teutonic beneficiairo was Reichardt, yester-
day, a tenor who, if he would but confine himself to
his own guiturals, has infinite power of pleasing his
hearers. When he attacks the Gallic, Tuscan, or
Anglican tongues, he is not so successful; but as a
concert and chamber singer his abilities are unde-
niable.

The fourth and last concert of the Vocal Union
took place on Wednesday, at the Hanover square
Rooms. Mr. Poster, as we have had frequent occa-
sions to remark, has one of the purest and most
sympathetic alto voices we have heard, and he sings
with intense feeling and consummate tasta. His aid
at the Vocal Union is invaluable. He is ably sup-
ported by Miss Marian Moss, Mr. Wilbyo Cooper,
Mr. Montem Smith, and Messrs. Thomas and Winn.
Practising together, this little troupe has reached
rare perfection in part-singing. Miss Poole sang
two airs between the glees and madrigals; and Mr.
Hatton, the composer, played one of his own preludes
and fugues.
On Tuesday the matinees of the Musical Union
terminated. Mr. Ella has maintained their high cha-
racter, and he has introduced the pianist and com-
poser Rubinstein, from whom so much is to be an-
ticipated as a new light in composition.
London, England, 1857-09-19

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1857.

atest date no clue has been discovered of tha
identity of the woman or of her murderer. The
detective police of the metropolis are on the ground,
and a reward it is probable will be offered by Go-
vernment for the apprehension of the murderer.
MR. TOWNSHEND, M.P. for Greenwich, appeared
before the Bankruptcy Court on Monday. The debts
are 5,0001., assets 1,0001. The contest for the choice
of assignees was very warm, and resulted in the
appointment of Messrs. Wallis and Shepherd.
THE INQUEST on the bodies of the seven men
killed by the explosion at the Gawn Colliery, on
Thursday, was opened at Dudley on Saturday
last. The proceedings were chiefly of a formal
nature, and the inquest was adjourned for a more
complete investigation. Prior to the adjourned
inquest, the Government inspeator will make a more
complete examination of the pit.
THE THREE PRISONERS, PERRY, WHIFFEN, AND
GRIFFITHS, employed ou the North-Kent Railway,
were tried on Wednesday at the Central Criminal
Court upon several indictments charging them with
manslaughter, arising from the fatal accident of the
evening of the 28th of June. After a lengthened
trial verdicts of " Not guilty " were returned by the
jury, who at the same time expressed their greatest
disapprobation of the c'efective state of the signals
and the bad time kept on the North Kent line.
London, England, 1857-09-19

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jortign durrtspoittentt.

PARIS, September 17th.
DREARY and neglected Paris has been partially re-
covered from its dulness by a visit of her loyal High-
ness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the
Princess Mary, and attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset. Rumour is busy as to the object of this
visit, which, singularly enough, has not yet been
announced either by the Paris or London journals.
It is freely asked what, at such a moment, with the
Court absent, Paris in brown holland, and not an
amusement to be found, could induce these illus-
trious personages to honour the good city of Paris
with their presence.
His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon, who is
at present in Paris, leaves in a day or two for
Chalons.

The news received this morning from the Danu.
bian provinces shows that the elections continue to
be conducted with great order and legality, and it is
now certain that whatever may be the result of the
vote it a ill express the true feelings of the people.
The final settlement of this important question is
left for the decision of the Congress of Paris. M.
De Thouvenel is in high favour with the Empe:or ;
the greatest confidence is reposed in his presence
and firmness of character. His instructions are to
maintain the influence of France at Constantinople
without pression on the Ottoman Cabinet. The
reports as to his being recalled are absurd.
The Emperor will arrive at Stuttgardt on the 24th
He will reach Strasbourg on the 22nd, and remain
in that city several hours. I cannot but repeat that
tha result of the meeting at Stuttgardt, in the
opinion of the ablest diplomatists of all nations,
will be to insure a permanent peace and a strict
European alliance.
London, England, 1857-09-19

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE

THE private letters from India published in
the morning papers, though here and there
containing a scrap of favourable intelligence,
tell much that will give rise to grave apprehen-
dons. General Havelock's retreat to Cawn-

pore is confirmed by a staff officer writing
from Divapore August 3rd, the latest date
received. "He has only 700 effective men left,"
he writes. " Both his force and Luckuow
" look very fishy. I really should not wonder
" if it does not end by losing Lucknow, Have-
" lock. and Agra." Then ho adds, "If they
`` could only take Delhi, Havelock might be
relieved," and concludes, " It is my private
' opinion that this place and A Ilahabad stand
" a chance of being the only two places in our
" occupation between Calcutta and the Pun-
" jaub, unless that Delhi force does some-
" thing quick." What we are doing at Delhi
it is difficult to state. The tenor of all the
letters is, that reinforcements are anxiously
looked for. " Lawrence from Lucknow, Wheeler
from Cawn pore, and Havelock from A Ilahabad,"
are mentioned as being possibly "on the
road," These letters are dated from the 17th
to the 26th of July, and their vain anticipa-
tions tell us too plainly how completely com-
munication is cut off, and each separate post
surrounded by rebels.
In the detail of the reinforcements expected
is an announcement by an artillery officer
which, if true in point of fact, may well give us
just cause for the liveliest apprehension.
" Gholab Singh," writes this officer on the
25th of July, "is going to sand us a lot of
" his rabble." Taken in conjunction with
the despatch of the Ghoorkas from Ne-
paul by Jung Behauder, this intelligence re-
minds us that of all military movements in
connection with political events in India, the
junction in the plains of Bengal of the troops
of Jung Behauder with those of Gholab Singh
was most dreaded by the late Sir Charles Napier.
The folly and the fatuity of our Government
appears beyond all comprehension. Have they
forgotten the hunting expedition in 1847 ofJung
Behauder, who came down from his hills with
20,000 men to " hunt tigers" forsooth, while
Modkee and Ferozeshah were being con-
tested ? and do they not know that at a word
from Gholab Singh every Sikh would be in
arms against us? Mark, too, in the Punjaub
that delicate test of public feeling the
breeches pocket. The collection of revenue
has commenced; is it paid freely? A letter
from the north-western provinces and the
Punjaub, in to-day's Times, tells us :
An officer of irregular cavalry was sent out to collect
the revenue, and he had no force with him but a squadron
of his own regiment—about 120 sabres. lie pitched his
London, England, 1857-09-19

LL One MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
One More Night only at Reduced Prices.
On SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 26. with Piccolomini, Ortolan!,
and Spezia; Giuglini, Vialetti, Rossi, Beueventano, and
Belletti —in consequence of the great demand, and to aceom.
modate those who have found it impassible to obtain places,
ONE MORE NIGHT will be given ou Saturday next, Sept. 26,
when will be presented LA. TRAVIATA ; after which the
National Anthem by Mlle. Piccolocuini ; and other Entertain.
ments.—Applications to be made at the Box Office of the
!theatre.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. F. ROBSON and W. S. EMDEN.
On Monday next and during the Week, the Drama of THE
LIGIITHOUSE,written by Wilkie Collins, and in which Mesars.
F. Robson. G. Cooke, Addison, Walter Gorden. Mid 3 Wyndham.
and Miss Swanborough will perform. To be followed by a Come-
Metut called A SUBTERFUGE. To conclude with MASA-
I ELL°, iu which Mr. F. Robson will perform. Commence at
half-past Seven.
London, England, 1857-09-19

SWEDEN AND DENMARK.

The King, in virtue of the terms of the Constitu-
tion, has appointed a Provisional Government, oar
account of hit illness. A motion was made in the
Parliament at Stockholm on the 12th that the King
should nominate the Crown Prince Regent of the
kingdom:—
Prince Charles, Crown Prince and Duke of Scania (says
a letter from Sweden, alluding to the King's retirement),
who has lately been nominated to the Viceroyalty of Nor•
way, will, in all probability, be appointed Regent by the
estates for the small remainder of his father's lifetime,
and at his death he will succeed to him. Tile character
of this heir to the Swedish throne, now thirty-ono years
old, is not of a nature to inspire his future subjects with
great confidence or hope in the result of his reign, mince
it seems to be characierised by a total want of all his
father's wisdom and prudence, without as yet having had
any opportunity of exhibiting any more brilliant qualities.
With the people at large he is understood to be popular,
from his easy, affable manners, anti the exhibition of a
variety of small traits of a liberal oi•hand character, but
London, England, 1857-09-19

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and Silver Cases. the designs engraved upon many of the eases
are by eminent artists, and can ouly be obtained at this Matsu.
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reasonableness of price, are wished for, the intending Purchaser
should visit this Manufactory, or send for the ILLUSTRATED
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several hundred letters have been received from persons who
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I+ correct performances of the same.
London, England, 1857-09-19

THE LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK
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London, England, 1857-09-19

(court an lotion.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family continue in the
Highlands. On the 15th October next, her Majesty,
as at present arranged, will honour Earl Fitzwilliam
with a visit at Wentworth-house.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
accompanied by Lord Burghersh and two aides de-
camp, left town on Tuesday night, en route to the
French camp at Chalons.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Persigny have left town for Paris en
conqi, for a short period.
His Excellency the Count Chreptowitch, Russian
Minister at this Court, has returned to Chesham-
house from a tour of visits in Scotland. The
Countess Chreptowitch is still sojourning at Wies-
baden. .

The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne-
house, for Norfolk.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Constance Villiers have arrived at Blair Atholl, on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Atholl.
The Earl of Harrowby has loft town for his seat in
Gloucestershire.

Lord Stanley, M.P., has concluded his tour through
Cornwall. The noble lord passed nearly a week at
Trevince, enjoying the princely hospitality of Mr. M.
Williams, M.P. for the county. During his stay at
Trevince. Lord Stanley, accompanied by his host,
visited the United Mines, and descending under.
ground passed a considerablo time closely inspecting
all the operations. The noble lord was highly de-
lighted with his visit to this celebrated county:
London, England, 1857-09-19

Bahl an Dilitarg

THE EXAMINATION to fill up the vacancies in the
Royal Artillery will take place in January next.
THE eOLONELCY OF THE 11TH FOOT, vacant by the
death of Lieut.-General Cochrane, is to be conferred
on Major-General Sir Richard Doherty.
AN AMERICAN LETTER states that, on the return from
the attempt to lay out the Atlantic telegraph, a race took
place between H.M.S. Agamemnon and the American
steam•frigate Niagara. The Niagara is said to have
beaten the Agamemnon with ease. The Agamemnon is
reported to be one of our fastest liners.
THE EMDODLMENT OF THE MILITIA proceeds slowly :
The King's Own, Staffordshire, commanded by the Hon.
E. R. Littleton, is to assemble for embodied service at the
Militia Store Barracks, Stafford, on the 28th init. It is
supposed that the regiment will go to the garrison at
Devonport.—The Royal South Gloucestershire is to as-
semble in the course of the present month. Any of the
men wishing to re•enrol will be accepted.—The Royal
Berks is to assemble in the Forbury at Reading, Oct. I.
The Duke of Lancaster's Royal are ordered to assemble
for embodiment on the 22nd inst.—The Royal Wiltshire
will assemble at Devizes on the Ist Oct.—The sth and
tith West Yorkshire will assemble at Halifax and Knares-
borough, for training, on the Ist Oct.—The Royal
Sherwood Foresters (Notts Militia) it, is expected will
assemble at Newark before the end of the month.—The
Cardiganshire Militia assembled for training on Thursday
last.—The Flintshire Royal Militia are under orders to
assemble at Mold on the 25th of this month.—The
Merionethshire Militia have received orders from Lord
Mostyn, Lord• Lieutenant of the county, to assemble for
training at Bala, on Tuesday, the 22nd inst.—The East
Kent will meet for embodiment at Canterbury on the
15th of October, and is expected to consist of about 800
men. The regiment will be commanded by Colonel
Brockman.—The adjutants and sergeants of the perma-
nent staff of the artillery battalion of the Royal Sussex
Militia have received instructions to proceed forthwith to
raise recruits at Brighton, Uckfield, East Grinstead,
Wadhurst, and the neighbouring towns and villages la
that division of the county.
London, England, 1857-09-19

BIRTHS.

BUTLER—On the 13th instant, in Chester square, Lady Rachel
Butler, of a sou.
RUSSELL—On the 10th instant, at Kirkby Mallory, the Hon.
Mrs. Russell, of a son.
SUGDEN—On the 11th natant, at York, the wife of the lion.
and Her. Frank Suqden, of a daughter.
WHITTINGH AM—on the 10th instant, at Harrogate, the wife
of Lieut...Colouel Whittinghain, of a daughter.
DEATHS.

GRANT—On the 10th instant, at Hillingdon, Charlotte Eliza.
beth Marr, datunter of du. late Misjor•General Jrwes
Grant, C. 8., agrd 46.
IV E—On the 16th tr.stant, at his residence, Woodlands Villa, St.
Lawrence, lide of Menet, Wm. he, Esq., late of Deptford,

Kent, in his 65th year.
SWAINE—On the 11th Instant, et Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire,
Sophia Anne, relict of Rear• Admiral Spelinan Dwaine,
aged 76.
TROLLOPE—On the 11th instant, at Bedford, Captain Fred.
Trollope, of the Bengal Army, son of the late Rem-Admiral
Trollope, C. 8.. aged 36.
London, England, 1857-09-19

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPPEMBER 19, 1857.

THE Times tells us that the news from Tudia
is cheering, quoting as its authority the open
ing paragraph of a Bombay overland paper.
In this it is difficult to say which is most con-
spicuous—the bombast or the blasphemy or
the obsequious laudation of its new masters
the censors of the Indian press. The leading
journal has been ringing the same changes
perpetually ever since the revolt began. Now
it tells us that the affair is over—now that we
have seen the worst—now that we have
smashed, or are just going to smash, the
mutineers completely, and that the task of
picking up the pieces is all that is really left.
As to the rebels it will not allow that there is,
or ever has been, such a thing as a rebel from
the beginning against the most wise, and
liberal, and fond, and paternal, and generous
Government that ever was. Lord WELLESLEY,
to be sure, who ought to have known the Com-
pany well, gave them a different character.
His designation of them was •' the ignominious
tyrants of the East." Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S
view of them was much the same, as, indeed,
has been the view of every one who really
ke. w them, and whose judgment was not
b.assed by their patronage, their contracts, or
t4eir rupees.
To these men, of course, the news from
India will be cheering, because it opens to
them a long vista of enormous patronage,
enormous expenditure, and the enormous
influence which such expenditure begets.
By this they hope to secure a carte-blanche as
to their future mode of governing India, and a
full and complete indemnity for the past.
Before the outbreak the combined efforts
of India and England had nearly succeeded
in rescuing that country from their grasp ;
but the stupefaction caused by these disasters
has made inquiry to cease, and now they have
both India and England at their feet. As to
any personal loss from their misconduct, the
sagacity of the Whigs in 1833 indemnified the
Company for ever against that. Previously
their dividends were dependent, as is the case
with every other public company, on their
good management ; and misgovernment might
reduce those dividends, or cause them wholly
to cease. But now they have a dividend of ten.
and a half per cent. on their stock, guaranteed
to them under every possible circumstance
that can arrive. They would not get more if
they made India a mine of wealth to the
nation; they will not get less in its present
bankrupt state. The only qualification for a
Director is stock to the amount of a thousand
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