biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-29

Total European force, exclusive of Corn•

pang's regiments
It has been determined that every regiment of infantry in
India shall consist of 10 companies of 100 rank and file, and
2 depot companies of 101) rank and file each. The distribution
of the establishment will be as follows, viz.:-10 companies
in India-2 lieutenant colonels, 2 majors, 10 captains, 12
lieutenants, 8 ensigns, 7 staff, 57 sergeants, 21 drummers,
1,0(10 rank and file ; 2 depot companies-2 captains, 2 lieu-
tenants, 2 en ligns, 10 sergeants, 4 drummers, 20J rank and
file. Total-2 lieutenant colonels, 2 majors, 12 captains,
11 lieutenants, 11) ensigns, 7 staff, 67 sergeants, 25
drummers, 1,200 rank and file.

It may interest some of your readers to know the
exact strength of the gallant little band with which
Colonel Neile saved Benares. It appears from his
report to Government that the force actua'ly present
at the disarmament of the 37th Native Infantry was
composed as follows :

Guns. Officers. Privates.
Artillery .. 3 .. 1 .. 30
Her Majesty's
10th Itegt. .. 3 150
Madras Fusiliers 0 .. 3 .. 80

Total .. .. 3 .. 7 .. 240
The casualties were—
Artillery—wounded . • • . .. 1 gunner
Her Majesty's 10th ReEitnent—killed .. '2 privates
wounded 8 „
Total—killed, 2; wounded 9,

It appears to me that when our soldiers perform
such deeds too vest publicity cannot be given to
tbem.—Times cor.

THE ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE LUNACY COMMIS-
SIONERS discusses the question of the treatment of
the lunatic poor, and protests against their being
gelato workhouses instead of regular lunatic asylums.
The statistical returns appended to the report show
that on the Ist of January, 1857, there were 21,344
lunatics in durance (10,084 males and 11,200
females). Of these, 4,087 were in private asylums,
270 were found lunatic by inquisition, and 581 were
criminals. The proportion of lunettes and idiots to
the population has risen irom 1 to 8&7 (iu 102) to
1 in 701 in 4.07.

Vrocubings in Varliantent.

HOU3E OF LORDS-MONDAY.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

The lonn CHANCELLOR said that towards the
close of last session the Earl of Shaftesbury moved
that certain questions upon this subject should be
put to the judges ; but, as it was thought inex-
pedient to consult the judges, the Government con-
sented to consult the law officers of the Crown, and
a case was accordingly submitted to them, withl the
statement that their opinion would be laid before
this house.
Lord ST. LEON.tRDS did not object to the recep•
tion of the paper, but deemed it unusual to refer to
the law officers of the Crown for ther opinion.
Lord CAMPBELL concurred in thinking it a novelty
to obtain tor their lordships the opinion of the law
officers of the Crown. It was not respectful to the
judges, who were their lordships' constitutional ad-
visers, and ho did not approve of it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR believed that by common
consent it was thought inconvenient to consult the
judges upon a matter which might come before
them judicially, and that all parties agreed in
asking the Government to consult their law advisers
upon it.
The papers we.e then laid upon the table, and the
subject dropped.
London, England, 1857-08-29

the army of the Sutlej, end was wounded and had a
horse killed under him at the battle of Feruzeshah.
A medal was conferred upon him fur his bravery upon
this occasion.

DISTRIBUTION OF HER MAJESTY'S
REGIMENT'S IN INDIA.
THE following is extracted from the United Service
Gazette. As regards the actual number of men in
hand too much reliance must not be placed upon the
estimate :-
6th Carabineers—Meerut. Prepared to move on Delhi.
9th Lancers—Delhi.
12th Lancers—Bangalore (Madras Presidency ).
14th Light Dragoons—Two squadrons at Aururgabad
( Nizarda territories). One squadron, forming part of a
flying brigade, to assemble at Milligatrn (Candeish
Deccan). Depot—Kirkee, near Poonab.
sth Foot—Had arrived at Calcutta, and was to move up
the Ganges towards Benares, Allahabad, and Cawnpore.
Bth Foot.--Delhi.
10th Foot—Dinapore.
24th Foot—Panjanb.
27th Enniskillings—Punjaub.
29th Foot—Burmah. Ordered up to Calcutta.
32nd Foot—Lucknow.
85th Foot—Barrackpore, near Calcutta.
87th Foot—One wing at Benares; one wing at Cal-
cutta.
43rd Light lnfantry—Bangalore.
52nd Light Infantry —Punjaub.
53rd Foot—Calcutta.
Odth Rifles—Delhi.
61st Foot—One wing at Ferozepore ; one wing at Delhi.
64th Foot—Depot, Belgaum (Bombay Presidency), 500
men at Allahabad.
70th Foot—Punjaub.
75th Foot—Delhi.
78th Highlanders—Depot, Poonah. One wing at lie.
nares; one wing at Calcutta.
81st Foot—Lahore.
83rd Foot—Depot, Deesa. 500 men on the march from
Deesa to overawe the Mewah territory.
84th Foot—Allahabad.
86th Foot—One wing at Poonah ; one wing with the 14th
Light Dragoons, en route to Milligaum.
87th Royal Irish Fusiliers —Peahawur.
The following is, we believe, a eon ea list of her Majesty's
regiments on their way to India, or under orders to proceed
thither :
CAVALRY.—Ist,2nd, and 3rd Dragoon Guards; 7th Light
Dragoons.
I NFANTRY.—Ist hattalinn Royal Regiment 7th Fusiliers,
19th, 20th, 23rd, 34th, 38th, 42nd Royal Highlanders, 44th
54th, 56th, 3rd battalion 60th Royal Rift,* 66th, 72nd,
74th Highlanders, 79th Highlanders, 82nd, 88th, 91th
Light Infantry, 93rd Highlanders, 97th, 2nd and 3rd
battalions Rifle Brigade, with about 2,80(1 artillery.
ENUMERATION OF FORCE IN INDIA.
8 regiments of Cavalry, at 640 IL and F. 5.120 R. and F.
46 batts. of Infantry, at say 100 „ 36,800
Royal Artillery .
Royal Sappers and Miners
3 regiments from the Cape
London, England, 1857-08-29

FRANCE.

The Emperor arrived in Paris on Monday morn-
ing. and immediately afterwards attended a Council
of Ministers. His Majesty, it is believed, leaves for
the camp at Chalons this day.
The French papers are void of any political in-
formation. The question of India is generally dis
cussed. The Patrie says it has no doubt France will
respond to an appeal made at the Mansion-house for
funds to assist those families who have suffered from
the mutinies, England having, on more than one
occasion, adds the evening journal, given the example
of such sympathy between the two nations.
It is col fidently stated that General Cavaignac
will resign his seat as deputy in favour of M. Des-
marets, the distinguished Advocate, whose remark
able speech in defence of Tibaldi attracted so much
attention.

Tho Minister of Switzerland, M. Barmann, has
quitted Paris. M. Kern is expected.

AUSTRIA.

His Majesty the EmpFror has left Vienna for
Presburg, and will now visit the north•western parts
of Hungary. It is prcbable that the Hungarian
journey will be completed on or about the sth of
September. -
-

The prozramme of the solemn entry of the Arch-
duke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Archduchess
Charlotte into Mtlan has already been drawn up.
The whole garrison will parade, and a double" hedge "
will be formed. by the troops from the railroad station
to the palace. Count Sebregondi, the podesta of the
city, will receive their Imperial Highnesses at the
Porta Orientale, where a splendid tent is to be
erected.

The German Journal of Frankfort states, from
Milan, that the Austrian army in Italy is to undergo
a reduction of thirty man per company. A similar
reduction is to be effected in the rest of the army,
except the garrisons in the Papal States and in the
federal fortresses of Mentz, R ,stadt. and Frankrort.
Accounts from Vienna, in the New Prussian Gazette,
state that the Papal Government, having been con
suited by Austria respecting the rropriety of with.
drawing the Austrian garrisons from Bologna and
Ancona, replied that the present situation of the
country rendered such a measure undesirable.

ITALY.
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE PRESS, AUGUST 29, 1857.

The Commons having been summoned, a good
number of the representatives of the other house
soon afterwards appeared at the bar, conducted by
Sir Augustus Cliff,rd, the Usher of the Black Rod,
and headed by the Speaker and the Sergeant at
Arms. Amongst them were Lord Palmerston, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grey, Sir
C. Wood, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Baines, Mr.
Mangles, Mr. Bowyer, ,te., ttc.
In the galleries we observed Sir W. F. Williams,
Mr. Briscoe, Sir Denham Norreys, and several other
members.
London, England, 1857-08-29

And Mr. Cunningham adds the note :

George Savile, Martptia of Halifax, a man more remark-
able for his wit thnn his steadiness, and whom an ingenious
modern historian Mr. Hnme] has erected into a principal
character in the reign of Charles 11. Walpole'e Boyal and
Noble Authors.--CUNNISONAM.

A miserable note ! Halifax fully deserved the
station which Hume then, and Mr. Macaulay
since, assigned to him. It is laughable indeed
to see Walpole decrying Halifax, who was a
wit, a great orator, a ruling statesman, and
who even in his follies attempted successfully
to be what Walpole was—not.
When Cumberland, the dramatic writer, is
mentioned, the following note is appended :

Richard Cumberland, Bentley's nephew—the original of
Sir Fretful Plagiary, whom to his last day he resembled.
I knew him very well for the last dozen years of his life.—
Cam:En. MS.

Mr. Croker might have been a little more
liberal in his note on Camborland, but we
suppose that he recollected what Cumberland
had said of himself. It is an odd circumstance
that one of the best things. ever said or written
on the character of Sheridan should have
come front i,umberland's pen. On the east of
the tine hand that penned the Critie, Cumber-
land wrote the admirable enigram

Gond at a tight, and better at a ploy,
Godlike in giving, but khe devil to pay.
His sarcasm about the "talking potato" was
less graceful, but stuck for a lung time to its
object.
The mention of Mr Croker's name reminds
us that it ie reported tilt the edition of Pope
London, England, 1857-08-29

AUSTRALIA.

Dates pPr European are—Sydney, June 20; Mel-
bourne, 25th.
The European arrived at Melbourne on the oth of
June.

Shipments of gold to the 23rd of June, 1,230,428
ounces.

The Assembly had resolved to abolish the public
grant for the support of religion.
IVelton's offer for the establishment of a line of
steamers between Sydney and Panama has been ac-
cepted by the Government of New South Wales.
London, England, 1857-08-29

DIVORCE AND ➢IATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.

The CLERK of the PARLIAMENT (Mr. J. S. Lefevre)
read a message from the Commons iu the following
terms :
The Commons 114 tee to the amendments made by the
Loris to the amendments made by the Commons to the
liworee and Mari:32ond causes Bill, but propose a ooaee•

842

quential amendment in clause E, and do not insist in the
amendment to which the Lords have disagreed.
The LORD CLIANCELLOR observed that the amend.
ment referred to in the message as disagreed to by
their lordships was the insertion of the words giving
jurisdiction to the court of quarter sessions, which
their lordships had struck out, and moved that their
lordships do agree to the Commons' amendment.
The motion was agreed to; and
On the motion of Lord PANMURE the house ad-
jourued at a quarter past five o'clock until Friday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-TUESDAY.

Mr. ADDERLEY, referring to a statement by Mr.
Labouchere on the preceding day that the German
legionaries at the Cape of Good Hope were on full
pay at the expense of the British treasury, inquired
the date when they were put on full pay, the causes
and reasons, and whether they were to be kept per-
manently on full pay.
Mr. LABOUCHERE, in the course of explanations
upon the subject, stated that the legion soon after
their arrival at the Cape were for certain reasons
called out and embodied ; that Sir George Grey
bad received an application from Bombay for two
regiments of British troops, and that the Govern-
ment were in communication with Sir George as to
the expediency of sending further reinforcements
from the Cape.
Mr. V. SMITH, in reply to Sir De Lacy Evans, said
it was not intended at present to increase the force
of the East India Company's European troops.
On the consideration of the reasons assigned by
the Lords for disagreeing with certain amendments
of the Commons in the Divorce and Matrimonial
Causes Bill,
Sir G. GREY said there had been a misapprehen-
sion as to the effect of the Lords' division on the '2Bth
clause, the majority having been in fact in concur-
rence with the decision of the Commons.

The amendment of the Lords excluding the quar-
ter sessions from the local jurisdiction clause was
agreed to without objection.
The amendment omitting from the 'sth clause the
words "or of adultery committed in the conjugal
residence" was opposed by Mr. HENLEY, and after
some discussion the house divided, when the Lords'
amendment was carried (the Commons not insisting
upon their own amendment) by 43 to 11.
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE PRESS, AUGUST 29, 1857.

Mn. WILLIAM RAWSON died at twelve o'clock on
Wednesday night, from injuries received from an
accident, by which he was ridden over b y his groom.
Mr. Rawson was well known as the treasurer of the
Anti-Corn-Law League.

WHAT CONSTITUTES A CANDIDATE.
C. HARCOURT, Esq., the judge of the Canterbury
County Court, has given an important decision as to
what constitutes a candidate at an election. An
action was brought by Mr. Cooper, the auditor ap-
pointed to examine the bills of the candidates at the
late election for that city, against Mr. C. M. Lush.
ington, for the recovery of 101., as a first payment to
the plaintiff in his capacity of election auditor (under
the 34th section of the Bribery Prevention Act) by
defendant, who, it was contended, was a candidate
for the representation of the city within the meaning
of the act, lie having issued an address to the electors
on March 14, but resigning his pretensions to the
seat three days before the day of nomination, the
27th March, the writ being issued either on the 23rd
or 24th March. His Honour said his impression was
very strong that the defendant was not a candidate
within the meaning of the act. The issuing of an
address merely meant that the party issuing it. gave
notice of his intention of becoming a candidate at
the election, and unless he was nominated, or made
himself responsible for other expenses, his opinion
was that defendant could not be considered a candi-
late. The plantiff must therefore be nonsuited.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMON LAW COMPANIES,
lately published, among its mote important recom
mendations, proposes to remodel the circuits, and
(if Manchester be separated from Liverpool) to add
to the North and South Wales Circuits the adjacent
counties of Salop and Hereford (from the Oxford
Circuit), and to add to the Oxford Circuit Warwick
(from the Midland Circuit), and to annex York to
the Midland, diminished by Warwick and Northamp •
ton, the latter town to be annexed to the Norfolk
Circuit. Two jii.lges, it is suggested, should go to
Cardiff and Swansea. The Home and Western
Circuits would remain unchanged. Certain details
in connection with the Welsh Circuits are likewise
discussed at length. The commissioners propose no
alteration in the four legal terms, leaving the judges
to dispense at their discretion with the term London
sittings or not. They recommend that one judge,
sitting for all the courts, should attend daily at
chambers at a much earlier hour than at present,
leaving the two other outsitting judges to sit at nisi
prigs in either of the courts as occasion may require,
without leaving for attendance at chambers. As
regards pleadings in vacation, it is recommended that
the Ist of October be substituted for the 24th of
October as the period at which certain suits may be
proceeded with, and that one or more judges be em-
powered to try causes arising in any of the three
courts after the Ist of October at such intervals be-
tween that time and the Michaelmas Term as may
be deemed necessary.
London, England, 1857-08-29

PIEDMONT AND NAPLES.

The dispute between Naples and Piedmont on the
subject of the seizure of the Cagliari, and which was
becoming complicated, the Cabinet of Turin insisting
on the release of the passengers of that vessel, and
the Neapolitan Government relusing until the trial
of the insurgents of Sapri shall have terminated, is
in a fair way of being satisfactorily arranged.
A telegraphic despatch in the Univers announces
that the Pope arrived at Leghorn on the 25,h, and was
most warmly received. From the Monitore Toscano
we learn that on the 21st his Holiness gave his
benediction from a balcony of the Pitti Palace to the
Tuscan army drawn up on the square below.
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE PEES% AUGUST 29, 1857.

HOSPITAL for CONSUMPTION
and DI ISt ES of the CHNif, Bro noon.
The Committee have just been coin mile i, notwithstanding
the greatest economy, to redness the numb .4. of Sleds to 190.
CON FBI 141.1110 NS are earnestly REQUESTED, t) °mole
them to return to their full complement us 200 in-patients by tile
let of November mat.
A donation of .6SI be., or .e 13e. annual subscliptlon, consti•
to e a Governor.
Contributions are received by the Hospital Bankers, Williams,
Deacon, and Cu.; Coutti and Co.; Drumm:muds ; and at the
11.)spital, by
PHILIP ROSE, Hon. Sec.
0-4130 RN P. CROSS, Sec.

THE CONSERVATIVE LA.NI) SOCIETY.
VOTES for Middlesex. East Sussex, West Kant, East and
West Surr..y. Berks. West Worcestershire, West Somersetshsre,
Yorkshire (West ti6iing).—Eligible building plots are now on
~de on the following estatEs rine York-road, Kentish-town ;
the Seven Sist-rs, slotierhain ; St. Margaret's and Enstleld ;
Brialiton, Tunbridge-wells, Maidstone, Battersea, Weybridge,
Itedhill, Reading, Malvern, Taunton, and Leeds. Any plots on
the above estates may be selected At the original prices marked
on the plan, by paying up one-eighth of the purchase-money,
RIM executing a in.mgage to repay the remain ter of the cost,
by instalments of lns. per month for each 531. borrowed from
tine Society. Plans, price 7d„ for each estate will be sent by
p oat.
CHARLES LEWIS OREN EISEN, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Stran I Loin.loo,

I3ANK OF DEPOSIT.
No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON, S.W.
This Company was established in 1d44, for the purpose of
opening to ti,e public an easy and unquestionably safe mode of
Investment, with a high and unifurm rate of Intereit.
Deposit Accounts may be opened with sum. a any amount,
and increased fruin time to time at the convenience of depositors.
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE MILITIA.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGEI pointed out to Lord
Panmure that the revenues of this country would be
charged 529,0001. less than had been anticipated for
the army, owing to 30,000 additional men being now
in the pay of the East India Company. They were
at once relieved of the charge for 30,000 men, and
the charge for the recruits who were to fill their
places would come gradually upon the public
revenue. He thought that the total charge, allow-
ing 1,000 to be recruited every week in the next six
months, would be under 300,000/. There would re-
main 220,000/. applicab!e, under the clause in the
Appropriation Act, to which the attention of their
lordships was called the other day. The noble
baron would have the power not only of embodying
10,000, but about 11,000 or 12,000 more could be
paid for by the surplus under the different heads of
charge which he had pointed out, and he ven-
tured to express a fervent hope that the noble lord
would employ that sum in the manner he had indi-
cated. . .

Lord PANMURE said that whatever might be the
balance, whether 200,000/. or 3'10,0001., it would be
applied to the exigencies of the service, either in
embodying more militia or in sending out more re-
cruiting parties for the army. He was happy to say
that during the last three weeks upwards of
1,500 men had been recruited, and as the winter ap-
proached they would be able still more to augment
the army.
Lord PANMURE, in reply to Earl Powis, said that
as soon as the necessary order in council was made
intimation would be given as to what regiments
would be called out and embodied.
London, England, 1857-08-29

GOVERNMENT DESPATCH.

The following telegraph was received at the
:Foreign-office through the British Vice-Consul
at TrieAte, Aug 26, 7 30 p.m.:—

ALEX kNPRIA, August 20.
The Bombay arrived at Suez yesterday morning,
brunzing dates from Bombay to the 80th July. The
latest date from Delhi is July 14, at which time the
city was still held by the rebels. Though we have
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE PRESS, AUGUST 29, 1857.

parts of five regiments before Delhi, only 2,000
Europeans can be mustered for any effective attack,
is consequence of detachments to protect other
Sir Henry Barnard died of cholera on the sth of
July, and was succeeded by General Reid.
The Bombay and Madras Presidencies were per-
fectly tranquil, and their armies continued loyal.
General Sir H. Lawrence died on the 4th July.
The garrison of Lucknow is holding out.
General Havelock, at the head of 2,000 Euro-
peans, has defeated the rebels in three engagements,
reoccupying Cawnpore and capturing twenty-sit
guns. These actions were very brilliant, and with
very little loss on our side.
The garrison of Agra fought the Neemuch muti-
neers on the sth July. Our loss was forty-nMe
killed and ninety-two wounded, out of the total force
of 500.

Several massacres have taken place in the north •
west provinces.
The Punjaub continues quiet, with the exception
of a mutiny at Sealcote of the oth Light Cavalry
and 46th Native Infantry, who took the route to
Delhi. They were attacked on the 12th July by
Brigadier Nicholson, and were driven back with
200 killed and wounded, leaving their baggage and
plunder in our hands. Our loss was six killed and
twenty-five wounded. A rising took place at
Hyderabad on the 18th July, but was quickly sup-
pressed.
The dates from Hong Kong are to 10th July.
Lord Elgin arrived on the 2nd July, and was
about to proceed north.
(Signed) JOHN GREEN.
Trieste, 3 p.m.
(Signed) RAVEN.
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE PRESS, AIIGMT 29, 1857.

sends the recruiting-sergeant among reapers

Not merely weeks of time, but companies of

men have thus been lost.

No only did Viscount PALMERSTON dis-
member several regiments and reduce many
battalions, but he dissolved the whole Militia,
which had been got up at such trouble, and

he took no measure for keeping up a nucleus
of this constitutional force. India was left to
less than its usual complement of soldiery.

Hectoring and browbeating, small European
States, and hurling invectives against the
King of NAPLES, this martial Premier was
completely blind to the dangers threatening
us in India.

Unfortunately, that is not all which is to be
condemned in the recent conduct of the Pre-
mier. At a critical moment, big with the fate

of our Indian empire, Lord PALMERSTON had
the vaunting rashness to embark in a Persian
war, although the state of India must have

been known to him ; and if it was not known

to him, after having been Prime Minister
since 1855, great is the shame, and most

. „
heinous is the culpability, which attaches to

him personally. Let us see what a dreadful
price we have paid fcr the reckless propensity
to pick a quarrel which has always been the
London, England, 1857-08-29

THE BEVERLEY ELECTION.

Mr. CRAUFURD asked whether the Attorney•
General had yet considered the evidence reported by
the Committee on the Beverley Election Petition,
and ordered to be laid before him by the unanimous
resolution of that committee, and whether it was bis
intention to take any proceedings thereon ?
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL replied that the Attorney-
General had not yet been able to come to a
decision upon the matter referred to, which was still
under the consideration of the law officers of the
Crown.

On the motion of Mr. HATTER, a new writ was
ordered to be issued for the election of a representa-
tive for Middlesex in the room of Lord R. Grosvenor,
who had accepted the office of Steward of her
Majesty's manor of Hempholme.
Lord PALMERSTON then moved that, as there
was no business before the house, and as it was
likely that the prorogation of Parliament would take
place cn Friday next, the house should adjourn till
that day.
The motion was agreed to, and the house imme-
diately after adjourned at twenty minutes to four
o'clock.
PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY.
Parliament was prorogued this cay by Royal
Commission.

The doors of the House of Lords were thrown open
at half•past :welve o'clock, soon after which a num-
ber of ladies arrived, and took their seats on the back
benches on both sides of the Chamber.

The Lord Chancellor, who with the Earl of Har-
rowby, the Bishop of Ripon, and Lord Foley, were
for some time the only peers present., proceeded to
deliver judgment in the case of " Hooper and another
v. Lane and others."

At one o'clock the only other peers present were
Earl Granville and Lord Panmure.

Soon afterwards the Archbishop of Canterbury
arrived, attired in his full robes as one of the Lords
Commissioners.

The other Lords Commissioners having retired to

robe, soon afterwards returned and took their seats
at the foot of the throne in the following order, viz.,
the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Earl Granville, Lord Panmure, and the Earl of
liarrowby.
London, England, 1857-08-29

BIRTHS.

CARDEN—On' the 18th instant, at Templemore Priory, Tem•
plemore, Lady Carden, of a son.
DE LALAING— On the 26th instant, in Upper Berkeley-street
the Countess De Lalaing, of a son.
DOUGLAS—On the 23rd instant, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Lady
Elizabeth Douglas, of a son.
MUGGERIDGE—On the 21st instant, at High Ashurat, Surrey,
Lady Muggeridge, of a son.
SMITH—On the 21th instant, at Kensington, the wife of Major
Percy Smith, Queen's Bays, of a daughter.
London, England, 1857-08-29

MARRIAGES.

ALMLF.Y—MITCI-IF.LI.—On the ,6th nt April, at Sydney, the
Eight lion. George Edwar Lord Audley, to Emily, daug der
of the late Colonel sir Thomaa Livingstone Mitchell.
MA"N- MITCII ELL—Ott the ltlth of April, at Sydney, John
Frederick, Lin of the late ir-GenerAl Mann, Hopi Engl.
neera, toCemilla Victoria daughter of the late Colonel sir
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell.
BEEVE—WELIiY—On the 18th instant, at Denton, Lieut.-
Colonel Reeve, late of the Grenadier Guards, to Frances Wil.

heltnina, daughter of Sir Glynne Karl Welby, Bart., of Den-
ton-hell, Lincoln I:re.
ROBINSON—ROBINSON—On the 22nd instant, at Byrham,
Gloucestershire, Captain Douglas Robinson, 72nd High-
hinders. son of the late Sir George Best Robinson, Bart., to
Matilda Scott, daughter of the Rev. W. S. Robinson, Rector of
London, England, 1857-08-29

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is Impossible to acknowle Ige the mass of letters we reeehe,
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CHINA.

Lord Elgin arrived at Hong Kong on the 2nd July.
His lordship was to proceed northwards in the
Shaun°it, accompanied by six gunboats.
The mails from England arrived on the Bth.
At Foochon, confirrnivory reports had been re-
ceived respecting injury sustained by the tea-plant
from not being thoroughly picked.
London, England, 1857-08-29

lrt!ant.

SPOLLEN has been re-arrested by the police, on a
charge of robbing Mr. Little, and has been fully com-
mitted for trial.
A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed in
Tipperary, about eight miles from Thurles. Two
families of the name of Stapleton quarrelled about
some land. The men of the one family attacked the
other with scythes, cut down and killei one man,
horribly mangled his sister, and stabbed his father.
The offenders have been arrested.
London, England, 1857-08-29

On the sth of July, 1856, we wrote regarding
the refusal of the ➢linisters to listen to Indian
grievances

It is the worst policy of "IT fo try and drive our natife
subjects into * corner front which there can obviously be
but one weans for them to escape, It is better that the
money and ergies of peifHonera ilhould be expended in a
legal cantesl Rare than in seontese of another kind on the
plains of klutestan.
Finally, on ate Intll Of July, 1850, we
spoke of

a knowtiAte that the determination is daily extending
among the natives no longer to acquiesce with patient sub-
mission in the wrongs to which they have been in many
instances notoriously subjected.
And we said :

The present state of things is in the last degree anoma•
lons—it is in the highest degree perilous, and the longer
continuance of it is simply impossible.

Such were the numerous and emphatic
warnings given by this journal as to the
effects which the misgovernment of Sir
CHARLES Woon and Mr. VERNON SMITH were
producing in India. But though we have
reason to believe that these warnings were
habitually read, they were us habitually thrown
aside and neglected Three months after the
last of them had been uttered the chowpatty
affair took place, and as soon as the plot had
thoroughly ripened the outbreak occurred.
This was at first Treated with equal levity by
the Directors and the India Board, and the
admirable advice tendered by Mr. DISRAELI
was rudely refused acceptance. Had it been
adopted there can be no doubt the revolt
would have ceased with the cessation of its
causes. But Providence had willed other-
wise. The country still prefers the screening
of incapables to the salvation of an empire,
and deep is the cup of bitterness which it is
doomed to drink.
London, England, 1857-08-29

Tampatitan mullets.

( Reported exclusivelli for " T es Pimp.")

CORN EXCHANGE—Raiher a large supply of new English
wheat has been on sale here this week, in good condition; but
the show of old qualities has coot tuned limited. The trade has
been In a most depressed state, and prices have given way from
6s to us per quarter, without clearances beiug effected. In
foreign wheat—the imports of which have fallen off —very little
has been missing, at 2s to 3s per quarter less money. Floating
cargoes have commanded very little att intion. There has beau
a heavy sale for barley, and prices have given wa) is to 2s per
quarter. In malt very little has been passing, and the quota.
tious have a downward tendency. Good sound oats have
realised full prices ; but inferior samples have gone rather lower.
In the value of beans and peas no change has taken place.
Flour has ruled heavy, and country marks have fallen is to 2e
per 2601b5.
ENGLISH—Wheat, Essex and Kent red. 443 to 60s; white,
461 to GU; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 46s•to 691. Malting barley,
40s to 465; grinding ditto, 231 to 33s : distilling, 37s to 401.
Malt, 605 to 765. Feed oats, 21s to 261; potato, 27s to 325.
Rye, 326 to 365. Tick beans, 36s to 395; Harrow, 36s to 40s;
pigeon, 43s to 476. Grey peas, 40s to 446 ; maple, 42s to 46s ;
white boilers, 40s to 44s per quarter. Town-made flour, 636 to
s&s; country marks, 393 to 42s ; households ,466 to 47a per
2801bs.
London, England, 1857-08-29

EUPHRATES AND SUEZ TELEGRAPH.

Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to a question from Mr.
Briscoe, said that the Turkish Government bad not
given its assent to the line of telegraph by the
Euphrates, and it was therefore unnecessary to
allude to it. With respect to the Suez line, a com-
pany was in contemplation, as he understood ; and
he would only say that, as far as the Government
was concerned, such a company might anticipate
every assistance as far as related to the use of their
line.
London, England, 1857-08-29

INDIA.

CAPTURE OF AND MASSACRE AT
CAWNPORE.

DEATH OF SIR HUGH WHEELER-MUTINY
AT SEALCOTE IN THE PUNJAUB.-RISING
AT HYDERABAD.

THE following despatch, received from Mar-
seilles on Thursday evening, gives in a more
accurate and detailed form the nature of the
intelligence received by this mail :

The Vectis arrived at seven this evening.
Sir Hugh Wheeler, with the whole of the garrison
of Cawnpore, had been massacred.
The miscreant Nana Sahih murdered 240 women
and children.

The following are amongst the killed :—Brigadier
Yack, Colonel Williams, Lindsay, Prout, Sir George
Parker. Quin, Redman, Supple, Halliday. Reynolds,
Prose, Smith, Eckford, Dempster, Jervis, Challwin.

General Havelock has since fought three battles
with Nana Sahib, and always defeated him, taking
from him in the field eleven guns, re-capturing
Cawnpore, arid taking twenty-six more guns.
Sir Henry Lawrence died of his wounds on the
4th of July. _ _ _

The garrison "f Lucknow still held out.
Sir Henry Barnard died of dysentery on tho sth
of July. General Reed succeeded him.

On the sth of July an obstinate battle was fought
before Agra, between the garrison of that place and
the Neernuch mutineers, who had marched thither
with reinforcements, which brought their numbers
up to 10,0(X) men. Our force was obliged to retire
with a heavy loss.
Among the officers killed in this action were
Mejor Thomas, Captain Doyly, Lieutenants Lamb,
Pond, and Fellowes ; and of the civil service, Messrs.
O'Connor, C. Horn, P. Horn, Carlton, Smith, Jordan,
Prendergast, Whiteray, Black, Bardbrank, Freeze,
Outram, o:dfied, and Deedes.
The 9th Light Cavalry and 46th Native Infantry
mutinied at Sealkote on the 9th of July.

They massacred Captain Bishop, Dr. Graham, the
R-v. Mr. Hunter, with his wife and chili ; Brigadier
Britt(' was wounded. The remaining Europeans at
this station were safe in the fort.

These mutineers were totally defeated by General
Nicholson on the 16th.

At, Meerut, General Hewitt had been removed
from the command fnr supineness.
At Setapoor were killed Colonel Birch, the Chris-
tians, Gavins, Snell, and Bsz.
A rising took place at Hyderabad on the 18th of
July, but WAY at once put down.
The entire territories of Bombay and Madras
were perfectly quiet.
The Funjaub was tranquil.
The Queen's sth Fusiliers and 90th Light Infantry
had safely arrived at Calcutta.

In our second edition of last week we pub-
lished the first despatch received on Friday
week. At present we confine ourselves to the
following :
London, England, 1857-08-29

knew the Aborigines, and have mixed with them, have read
of their wars with the white men, and nothing in all the
history of British North America—all the doctrines, all the
villanies of " the red devils," as they may be called, of the
American forests, are the play of children compared with
the outrages which have been committed by the mutineers
of India. Therefore, I trust that although we may not be
bloodthirsty, that the punishment inflicted will be adequate
to the offence.

Upwards of 1,0001. were subscribed upon the spot,
an account has been opened at Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Co.'s Oriental Bank, and we rejoice to
hear that the sum of 20,000 rupees was forwarded by
the Lord Mayor to the Governor General by Wednes-
day night's mail, as a first instalment for the relief of
our auffaing countrymen.

THE FIREMAN AND ASSIsTANT ENGINEER Of the
St. James's Baths, Marshall street, Golden-square,
were scalded to death last Monday while cleaning
out the boiler of the engine through the accidental
turning on of the steam•valve of an upper boiler
placed directly over that upon which they were at
work. A verdict of " Arzidental Death " was re.
turned.

THE GREAT PROJECT to establish a central railway
terminus at some convenient spat in London appears
at length about to be realised. A plan has at length
been made public to establish within easy reach of
Charing-cross a terminus in Victoria-street, placing
the West end in connevion with all the railways
south of the Thames. There are some considerable
advantages alreadz available for the promoters of this
plan. They will obtain the Grosvenor Canal—which
will be a iivrk ready executed to their hand—on ex-
ceedingly reasonable terms. They anticipate no diffi-
culties in constructing a new viaduct across the river
near the new Battersea Suspension IA idge, and should
the scheme be executed every West-end traveller ou
his way to Brighton, Dover, Southampton, the
Crystal Palace, Gravesend, Croydon, Epsom, King.
ston, or Richmond—the whole country, in fact, an
the right bank of the Thames, up and down—will
find his station in the centre of Westminster.
A FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT occurred in the White.
chapel road on Thursday, which resulted in the death
of three men.

THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS for the week
exhibit a decided decrease in the number of deaths,
which have fallen from 1;238 in the last week of July
to 1,091 in the last week in August. The births of
860 boys snd 832 girls—in all 1,692 children—were
registered fur the same period.
London, England, 1857-08-29

SPAIN.

Prince Vladimir, superior officer of the house-
hold of the Emperor of Russia, had arrived in the
Spanish capital.
It was rumoured that when General Lersundi pro.
ceeds to Cuba he is to be accompanied by General
Ramon Solano, as his second in command.
The Madrid journals of the 21st say that the
opinion appeared to be gaining ground that Queen
Christina would not visit Madrid on the occasion of
the reigning Queen's accouchement.
The Ministerial journal: represent the situation of
the treasury as most satisfactory, es, in addition to
sixty•six millions just paid to the Mires loan, twenty
two others were shortly to be received from Porto
Rico, arising from old money lately called in. The
Government was taking steps to have regular static.
Beal returns sent in on various subjects of interest
Crow orsq part of the kingdom.

THE PRESS, AUGUST 29,1857.

The Prince of Orange is expected to visit the
coast of Spain shortly.

GREECE.

The last accounts received from Athens announce
that King Otho had been pleased to accord a private
audience to General Kalergis, who under recent cir•
cumstances had violently opposed the Greek Go-
vernment. This reconciliation was considered
preparatory to the general's departure as Greek
Minister at Paris.

&art alto rfaOion.

Her Majesty the Queen and Royal Family loft
Osborne on Thursday afternoon, and arrived a t
Buckingham Palace at two p.m.
A Court and a Court of Privy Council were held at
three p.m.
Oa Friday Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince
C(.nsort and Princess Royal left town for Scotland.—
The royal train arrived safely at York, and left at
1.22 for Edinburgh.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
Montpenster purpose leaving the villa at Richmond,
which their Royal Highnesses have occupied siuca
their arrival from Spain in June last, on their return
to Spain early in the ensuing month.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary have arrived at the Duchess's
chateau at Rumpenheim, from a tour in Switzerland.
The Royal Duchess and Princess are expected to re-
turn t, this country the second week in the ensuing
month.
"l'he Duke and Duchess of Hamilton left Hamilton
Pidace, Lanarkshire, on Saturday last, for Brodick
Castle, Isle of Arran, where the noble duke will re-
ceive a succession of guests during the shooting
season.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have left
Gopsall hall, Leicesters' fur Badminton,
Gloucestershire.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have
arrived at Northumberland house, after a visit of
several weeks to Wer►ington, in Cornwall.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden
Manor, Bucks.
London, England, 1857-08-29

RUSSIA.

lbe Russian Government, after the war, published
an order for the organisation of the fleet in the
Pacific Ocean, which was to assume the title of the
squadron of Siberia. The Government appears now
to have decided on increasing the strength of this
fleet, a ukase of the 20th July having added fourteen
superior officers to it, who have already left for their
destination, and a similar number will, from Ist Ja
ISSB, be added annuallv. This measure is connected
with the efforts which Russia is making CO strengthen
ber position on the Pacific.
Towards the end of Septemher the Emperors of
France and Russia will meet in Germany.
London, England, 1857-06-27

Cabal ancb Ltlilitarg

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE has issued a general
order to the army, directing that—
For the future every soldier, after being dismissed from
drill, shall attend school as a duty, until he is reported
upon as sufficiently advanced in reading, writing, and
arithmetic.
With the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War
no fees are to be required for this attendance at school.
It will be desirable that commanding o cers should so
arrange the duties of the men as to give, if possible, at
least four hours' attendance each week to all men of the
above class.

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No. 217.—V0L.V.

Vress.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1857.

LORD PALMERSTON is said to be the chief of a I,
powerful party, and the most absolute Minister
since the days of WALroLE. Now, it is quite
possible for a Minister to bear about the name
of Dictator for a very long time, if he chooses
to surrender the substance. If a school-
master proclaimed perpetual anarchy on the
simple condition th 't when parents and
guardians were announced his pupils should
assemble in the school-room, repeat a well
learned lesson, and affect to tremble at his
nod, there is no doubt that he would for a
time be the most popular of pedagogues.
It is a most significant circumstance that of
all those great questions which are now agita-
ting men's minds, so few, if any, are in the
hands of the Government. The age of social
improvement has succeeded to the age of
politicians; and yet there is not a single man in
the ranks of the Government who stands in
the first class of our social Reformers.

Defeats upon social questions continue to
attest the truth of these remarks. The Premier's
"honourable friend," Mr WILLIAMS, of Lambeth,
vanquished the Ministry on Tuesday upon
the Finsbury-park question. The debate and
division were the more remarkable as those
Cabinet • Ministers, the Premier, Sir GEORGE
GREY, and Sir CHARLES Woon, were pitted
" on their legs" against Mr. WALPOLE and Mr.
HENLEY, the latter of whom was extremely
effective. Ministers were urgent in their en-
treaties that the bill should be passed. They
even went so far as to alter the wording of the
measure, but they were beaten by 91 majority.
Such a defeat coming after the anti Ministe-
rial victory, gained by Sir DENHAM NORREYS
last week, has put people in a critical vein
with respect to the position of the Palmerston
Government.
The suspicion is taking rapid root in the
minds of the new Members of the House of
Commons that the Palmerston Ministry is not
likely to last, and the instincts of the younger
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this • respect as the opinions of more expe-
rienced politicians. A reaction against Lord
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strikingly visible even in this present short
session. People are at last getting wearied
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Many, too, have got hold of the notion
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effect on the vivacious deportment of the
Noble Viscount. The notion certainly has
got abroad that the proposed Reform Bill, in
any true Parliamentary sense, is a mere delu-
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THE PRESS.

material value upon education, materially tend to secure
the co-operation of parents.
The Dean of SALISBURY then proposed

That the voluntary half time schemes have been with
success adopted in certain localities, and may be recom•
mended for further trial.

The resolution was carried.
The Dean of BRISTOL brought up the report from
Section E, which gave an elaborate outline of the
papers read. It concluded as follows :
That, inasmuch as industrial training is calculated-1.
To impart to the children of the working classes habits of
industry; 2. To qualify them by manual exercise for
manual employments, which are those by which they are
aftet wards to live; 3. To enlist the sympathies of the
parents by its useful, practical, and remunerative tendency,
and thus induce tl em to keep their children longer at
school, it is desirable to encourage to the utmost the intro-
duction of the industrial element in our schools for the
working classes.
The very rev. gentleman proposed :

That this Conference considers the encouragement of
industrial education in elementary schools, especially
among girls, to be very desirable, and that such instruction
is peculiarly important in the reformation of juvenile
offenders.

Mr. JELLINGER SYMONS briefly supported the re-
port and resolution, which were put and carried.
The Bishop of SODOR and MAN then proposed the
adjournment of the meeting, for the preparation of
a final report of the prcceedings.
The motion was then put, and carried unani-
mously, after a long and irregular discussion, and
the proceedings terminated.