The Press.
London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 19, 1857.

the reflecting portion of the community look with far
more satisfaction to the mind and disposition of his
younger brother, Oscar, Duke of Ostrogothic, who in
almost all respects resembles his father. As Prince
Charles, the Crown Prince, and probably by this time the
Regent of Sweden and Norway, lately lost his only son,
the infant Duke of Sudermannland, and his daughter are
excluded by the terms of the constitution from the suc-
cession to the throne, Prince Oscar is in fact already the
heir presumptive to the throne.
As may easily be supposed, these changes in the hand
that wields the sceptre of the neighbouring Scandinavian
kingdom are watched with the greatest interest in Den-
mark, where a large party is already formed in favour of
the union of the Scandinavian kingdoms, and a still larger
one for getting rid of the German Duchy out of the king-
dom of Denmark.
The King of Denmark will, in the course of this
month, visit both Jutland and Schleswig, and be
absent from his insular dominions for about two or
three weeks.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.
THE ELECTIONS IN MOLDAVIA.
The following despatch from Jassy, dated Tuesday,
the 15th of September, has been received:—
Nine-tenths of the proprietors and clergy have voted
in the new elections. A majority of these for the Union.
AMERICA.
The only news of importance is the great financial
crisis in New York. Several banks have failed, and
a vast number of commercial houses had suspended
payments.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald remarks that the Administration " think it a
little strange that England has never replied to the
letter of Secretary Cass, relative to the rejection of
the Dallas Clarendon Treaty. Perhaps their atten-
tion is too much occupied with other matters."
From Mexico we learn that the revolutionist out-
break in Yucatan is successful. The revolutionists
are of the Radical party. From the west coast of
Mexico we learn that the British Consulate had been
attacked by a party of the National Guard. Colonel
Kennedy has been arrested at Belize.
At Chili an amnesty law for political offences had
been passed.
The military expedition for Utah had been ordered
to proceed to its destination. Dr. Forny frail ac
cepted the appointment of superintendent of Indian
affairs in Utah. General Harney or Colonel John-
son would have the command of the force. Ten
companies had been despatched to Kansas to replace
those ordered to Utah. The New York Times states
that one-third of the force selected for the expedi-
tion had deserted.
AUSTRALIA.
The dates per Columbian are, Sydney, 18th July;
Melbourne, 22nd. She has brought gold valued at
373,0001.
Sydney sovereigns have been proclaimed a legal
tender in Victoria. The production of gold is in-
creasing. The export to the 18th July, 1,499,800
ounces.
At Buckland river about 300 Europeans had
attacked 1,500 Chinese, and driven them into the
bush. The ringleaders were in custody. The
miners, both European and Chinese, had returned to
their labours.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE
BRITISH MINISTER AT LIMA.

BY the late South American mails intelligence has
been received of an attempt to assassinate Mr. S. E.
Sulivan, the British Minister at Lima, on the even-
ing of the 11th of August last. It was first stated
that Mr. Sulivan was alone when the act took place,
and further that he had died. At the moment of
leaving, Mr. Sulivan, though in a highly critical
state, was not then dead. For the rest, we are enabled
by means of a private letter to give authentic details of
this sad occurrence. Mr. Sulivan was in the company
of another gentleman, whose account of the trans-
action is as follows :

Lima, Aug. !2, 7 a.m.

The whole of Liens and Callao has been thrown into a
state of utter consternation by a most dastardly attempt to
assassinate my friend Mr. Sulivan, in his own house, last
evening a little before seven. 1 fear it is an assassinatim,
for the doctors give no hope of his recovery. We were
dining comfortably together when the steward rushed in
through the bedroom, followed by the assassin, into the
office, calling out " Thieves !" and upon our jumping up
and going towards the door we were met by the villain,
who, without saying a word, placed a blunderbuss close to
Mr. Stuivan's stomach and discharged it, and immediately
started off the way he came in, without taking a single
article. Mr. Sulivan staggered back into my arms, saying
" He's killed me." Three pistol balls were taken out of
his stomach and a haltounce ball was cut out of the fleshy
part of his back. As you can judge, we have passed a
dreadful night attending upon the sufferer, preparing him
for the worst, and doing what was necessary as regards
his last wishes in case the wounds are mortal. No reason
can be assigned for the foul deed, for he had no personal
enemies, and the general opinion is that it is a political
affair of the Vivanco party, at present in arms against the
Castilla Government. Severe. persons have been seized,
but it is not yet known whether they were of the party.
The servants state that three other men remained in the

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back passage during the affair. I have to be thankful that
I myself escaped injury most unaccountably, for if the
shot had been made a yard or two off some of the bullets
must have touched me. The excitement is naturally very
great here, for after this instance of coldblooded murder
no one considers himself safe. It remains to be seen
whether this will not be made a Government question
between Great Britain and Peru.

The gentleman who gives the above account is a
merchant of considerable standing in Lima, and had
frequently acted as secretary to Mr. Sulivan, with
whom he was on very intimate terms.
A despatch from Callao, August 12, 3 p.m., states
that a Frenchman and a negru had just been
arrested on suspicion of being accomplices in the
assassination of Mr. Sulivan. There were not the
slightest hopes of his recovering. A reward of 100
ounces had been offered for the apprehension of the
murderers.
Mr. Sulivan is a son of the Right Hon. Laurence
Sulivan, brother in-law of the Premier, and formerly
for many years Deputy-Secretary at War. He was
appointed a clerk in the Foreign•otfice in 1832, and,
after going through a long course of diplomatic
employment, was appointed Chargé d'Affaires and
Consul-General in Chili in 1849, and transferred to
Peru in 1853.

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camp and rode up to the place with a small escort to advise
the men to pay quietly; they fired on him, he charged
into the suburbs, but getting entangled among the houses
was obliged to retire with the loss of six men.
The end of this affair was that the suburbs of
the village were pillaged and burned by our
men, one hundred of the villagers cut down,
and the revenue, with a fine of 1,000 rupees
besides, collected at the point of the bayonet.
" I don't know," observes this officer, " whether
" any other village will oppose me, but I fancy
"not. The revenue is coming in, and heavy
" fines are being paid in dogyed sullenness
" wherever I go." This is but a solitary in-
stance—a straw in the air, but it is sufficient
to indicate to us what we may expect to hear
when our revenue collectors go round the
Punjaub in November. And with this hazard
staring us in the face we are flooding the
plains of Bengal with Sikhs and Ghoorkas

The Calcutta letters have arrived with dates to the
Bth August. Nothing definite is stated regarding
our position at Delhi, except that the city yet re-
mained in the hands of the mutineers. The following
letter from Dinapore explains the catastrophe
there :

July 30, 6". m.

. .
We have just r Ived, n‘l3. have learnt very sal news.
It seems a force :el t thi, by steamer the day before yes-
terday, consisting of about 330 men of the 10th and 37th,
and 50 Sikhs bound for Arrali. They were landed
abreast of the piece, marched up to it, and attacked the
enemy. The result is most mournful to record. They
were of course immensely outnumbered, and after bard
fighting had to retreat, having suffered a fearful loss of
about 200 killed arid wounded, among whom are 8 officers.
The remnant made good their retreat to the steamer, and
returned here about twelve o'clock to-day, bringing with
them a great number of the wounded.
The general sent 100 men and 2 guns away from hero
today, so that only about 250 men and 4 guns now re-
main for the protection of this place. Everybody is cursing
hisincapacity whose mismanagement has brought about
these disasters.

The Calcutta Englishman sums up the position of
affairs as follows :

It will be asked what are our present hopes and pro-
spects ? In the Punjaub mutiny has been quelled anti
punished with a strong hand, but from its frontier
throughout the north-west provinces law and government
do not exist, and, except here and there an isolated garri-
son, the British power is for the time extinct. Delld
has not fallen, nor is it believed that the little
army which has dared to besiege the numbers collected
there can :eke it without reinforcements. Agra is be-

bevel', for we have no certain information, to have teen
plundered, and the garrison to have retirej into the fort.
Descending the Ganges, we hold nothing but ('awnpore,
which is rPoccupied and held by General Neill.
General Havelock advanced from that point to
the relief of Lucknow, but has been opposed by so
large a force that it is understood that he will have
to wait for reinforcements, of which, according to the
latest accounts, a small detachment has reached him. It
is supposed that on his reaching Lucknow the garrison
will be withdrawn, and Oude abandoned for the time, and
that a force will be concentrated at some convenient
point, to advance so soon as the season permits. Bengal
and Behar would have been undisturbed had not the
wretched blundering at Dinnpore enabled the mutineers
there to escape, and to do much mischief. The revolt,
which according to the latest English papers was declared
by Mr. Vernon Smith in his place in Parliament to be
entirely subdued, now includes at least 100,0Q0 men, and
extends through whole kingdoms.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, Sep'ember 15.
BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—THOMAS HARRISON, Kent,
coal merchant—The WELSH TOTOSI LEAD and COPPER MINING
COMPANY.
BANKRUPTS. JAMES MELROSE and THOMAS EDWARD
HUSSEY, Hatton•garden,)roofounders—JAMES CHANDLER, sen.,
Epsom. brewer—WM. EDWIN DEACON, Gosport, linendraper—
GEORGE VINCENT, MiSlIeS, Essex, beethouse keeper—THOMAS
DEAN, late of Staples Inn, Holborn, scrivener—AßßAHAM NASH,
Everett-street, Brunswick-square. builder—THOMAS FRANCIS.
Lamb•place, Kingsland•road. builder—JoHN HOPTON WYLD,
Bristol, wine merchant—JOSEPH BLANEY SPENCER, Halifax,
joiner.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ANDREW CURIE, Loch.
winnoch—ANDßEW LANDELLS, Airdrie, draper—CHAS. WM;
Edinburgh. spirit merchant—Jolla HUTCHINSON, Campbeltowil,
contractor JOHN BUCHAN, Glasgow, accountant DAVID
MACKIE, St. Andrew's, pIumber—ALEXANDER GREIG, Dundee,
net man u facturer—J As. M uRDOCH, Glasgow, valuator—MOßlTZ
FRAKENBERG, Glasgow, fancy-leather worker.
Friday, Sept. 18.
BANKRUPTS.—WILLIAM HACKS WEBSTER, Chipping On*
gar, Essex, baker—GEoßGE HEAVEN, Chippenham, Wilts, cord.
wainer—CHARLES WELCH, Wells, Somersetshire, innkeeper—
JAMES NEWMAN, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, bookseller—
THOMAS WHEELER, Hereford, miIIer—THOMAS GRATWICIC.
Camherweli•green, cheesemonger—CHAßLES BROWN, Edgbss.
ton-street, Birmingham, leather dealer—DANIEL Du rros, Liver.
pool, grocer—ALEX. HARTHILL and JOHN MCKEAN, Hudders.
tield, woollen merchants—JOHN LLOYD, Bryn Salwrn, Me.
rionethahire, cattle salesman—JAMES WCARTNEV, South •
Shields, provision merchant—THomAs FREAK, Deansrate,
Manchester, draper.
SCOTC H SEQUESTRATIONS.—GEORGE P tTETZ.ON, Bog.
head, near Kirkintilloch, farmer—RowAN and COMPANY, Gl's-
, gow, engineers—WlLLlAM CRAIG, Glasgow, machine maker—
Wrt.r.rase ELM, Dundee, ship broker.