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LON DON, THURSDAY EVENING, N OVEM BEit 15, 1855.

PUBLICATIONS.

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On Thursday, the 22d of November (Almanack Day), will be
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THE HOUSEHOLD WORDS ALMANACK,
For the Year 1856.
Households Words Office, No. 16, Wellington street North, Strand.

GRAND BAL MASQUE at the CASINO de
VENISE, High Holborn, TO-NIGHT, Nov. 15, the arrange-
ments for which are upon a most extended scale, and will eclipse any
shnilar entertainment yet witnessed In the metropolis. Mr. W.
M. Packer's band will perform many new works composed for this
occasion. Doors open at half-past 9, to commence at 10 o'clock
punctually. Gentlemen's tickets, ss. ; lady's ditto, 3s. each. Mr.
Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester-square, is the appointed costumier

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LA.URENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
Music will be performed by his celcbrated Band during
the week March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gungl), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosislo). Quadrilles—Le
Roi du Pastel Lamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
bert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), II Trovatore (Tutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), ((aaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al-
bert), Des Conceits (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops—
The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Ueda (Streather). Schottische
—La Guirlande de Fleurs (Bccquet), La Varsovtana (Laurent). Prin-
cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
One Shilling.
Oa Saturday next, the 17th, 11. Laurent's new Varsoviana will
be played for the first time.

STAR PACKETS from the TERRACE PIER,
GRAVESEND, 9, 2.
B RUNS WICK W 11A BF, BLACKWALL, on the atriva
folloiving Trains from Fenchurch-street, 10%, 3%, Weather permit-

The Packets will call at the ROsherville, Greenhithe, n111143(11,
and North Woolwich Piers.
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lrave3end and Blackwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. iOd
Brith and London.-- Rd. .. Os. 10d
Erith and Blackwall or Woolwich... .. 6d. .. Os. Bd.
bet .4rqv .send and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. 8d
Octo-er 23, I MS.

SIR WM. BIJRNETT'S DISINFECTING
FLUID, for destroying ali Offensive Smells and purifying ,ick
tooms, &c. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when
diluted for use.
Aoki by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-qtreet, City.
Gallons, Is. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d.

iff R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet-
tV II street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI-
FICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from
the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or
decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any paintul
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth
rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At
home from ten till five.

JOZEATTS COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
CAPSULES, approved of by the french College of Physicians,
iuccessfally administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and
acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder.
(See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli-
cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inveator,
GABRIEL JOZEAU, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London,
and All the principal chemists.

THE TURKISH' GUARANTEED LOAN.

The following correspondence has passed regarding
he exemption of foreign holders of the Turkish Guaran-
,eed Loan from any deduction for income tax

"-Committee room, Stock Exchange,
London, Nov. 3.
" Sir,—l am instructed by the Committee of the
Stock Exchange to inquire whether, in paying the divi-
dends on the Turkish Four per Cent. Loan, guaranteed
by, England and France, the income tax will be deducted
on such bonds as are bona fide the property of foreigners
residing abroad am, sir, your obedient servant,
`aGEO. WEBB, Secretary
" N. Marshall, Esq., Chief Cashier, Bank of England."

" Rink of England, Nov. 13.
"Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 3d inst.,
inquiring whether the dividends on Turkish Four per
Cent. Bonds, the bona fide property of foreigners residing
abroad, will be exempted from income tax, I beg to
transmit a copy of a letter received from the Commis-
sioners of Inland Revenue in reference thereto, and also
a copy of the declaration which will be required in such
cases.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,

" M. MARSHALL.
"Geo. Webb, Esq., Secretary, Stock Exchange."

"Inland Revenue, Somerset•house, Nov. 12.
" Sir,—l have laid before the Board of Inland Revenue
your letter of the atb inst., enclosing a copy of one ad-
dressed to you by the Secretary to the Committee of the
Stock Exchange' in which he inquires whether, in pay-
ing the dividends on the Turkish Four per Cent. Lnan,
guaranteed by England and France, the income tax will
be deducted in those cases where the bonds are bona
fide the property of foreigners residing? abroad, and re-
questing the Board's instruction as to the answer to be
given to this inquiry.
" In reply, I have to state that in the opinion of the
Board the dividends alluded to should be exempted from
the tax, when it shall be satisfactorily proved that they
belong to foreigners residing abroad.
"Under an arrangement, sanctioned by the Board, it
is the practice of agents intrusted with the payment of
foreign dividends not to charge the tax in such cases, but
to pay the dividends ag full, on proof of the necessary
particulars by a declaration. I enclose a form of this
declaration, and I am to add that the like course should
be pursued in regard to the Turkish dividends when the
Bank shall be satisfied of the truth of the claims.
" If in any case a doubt should be entertained on this
point, then the party making the application should be
referred to this office.

"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" THOMAS KEOGH.

" M. Marsball, Esq."

" LiA No.

" London,

" To Messrs.

" I hereby declare that the Bonds, amount-
ing to £ ,to which the coupons specified at
foot refer, and which became due on the 18 ,
are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in the posi-
tion of and are bona fide the property of a foreigner =-
siding abroad, and that no British subject or foreigner
resident in Great Britain is interested in such bonds
in any way whatever, and I therefore claim exemp-
tion from the income tax thereon, and engage to furnish
further evidence of the right to such exemption ; if re-
quested by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and
also to hold you harmless from any claim which may be
made upon you in consequence of the payment in full of
of the said coupono;_,

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our letters and papers in an-
ticipation of the Overland Mail. The dates are—
Bombay, Oct. 17 ; Calcutta, Oct. 8. •
The following is from the Bombay Times of Oct.
17

The Sonthals, we regret to say, still continue tra
versing the country, and are every here and there
committing acts of depredation and violence. The
panic that they at the outset occasioned was such

that the people fled from the country, and there
still continues much difficulty in getting the pre-
servers of order to withstand or secure the insur-
gents. The insurrection has long lost its character
as a civil war, and at present continues simply as
a nuisance, mainly alarming from the difficulty of
getting it finally extinguished. Serious disturb-
ances continue every now and then to break out in
the Nizam's dominions. Information having been
received that a party of Rohilla robbers were
plundering the country to the north of Hyderabad,
a force consisting of 250 men of the Nizarn's cavalry,
under Capt. Doria, a wing of the 4th Nizam's In-
fantry, and a couple of awitzers, started on the
6th of September against the enemy. They reached
Nandaiar on the morning of the Bth, but experi-
enced much difficulty in getting across the river
then in flood. They reached Sulghurra on the
evening of the 9th, after a march of 30 miles. Here
they learned that the Rohillas were ignorant of
their movements, and it was hoped to take them
by surprise. A further march of 40 miles, on
which they were compelled to leave their howitzers
behind, brought them to Bander Koontah by day-
break on the 12th. The Rohillas were now only
a mile a head, and the infantry, under Capt. Daniel,
with a few cavalry, under Lieut. Biden, dashed on
and took the enemy wholly unawares. A few of them
showed fight, and 10 or 12 were cut down ; 136
were taken prisoners, of whom 25 were found
wounded. They had hardly well secured their cap-
tives and concentrated their force, when they heard
of another body of Rohollas having established
themselves at Lingi, a couple of miles off. Thither-
ward the infantry, with a few troopers, started in
the afternoon. As they approached the village
the enemy made their escape and no traces of
them could for a time be discovered, till a man
found in hiding undertook to show. where they
were, and they were soon afterwards seen skulking
in a ravine close by. It was now dark, and the
bulk of them made their escape-17 were taken
prisoners. On their return to camp, another party
was found in hiding ; of these seven were captured.
The extrordinary rapidity with which this most
successful expedition was conducted is worthy of
mention. Their second march was thirty miles in
length ; in their third they covered forty miles in
thirty hours, over a country partly of black cotton
soil, softened by showers, and partly covered with
loose jagged stones. The country after this seems
to have been quiet for a time ; that it should con-
tinuo so for a month on end would be contrary to
all precedent.
Religious disturbances have once more made
their appearance in Oade, and they are not likely
on this occasion to be so easily disposed of as for-
merly. In February last, a Hindoo renegade, who
had become Mahomedan, spread about a statement
that the Hindoos had defiled and dultroyed a
temple in Hunnoomanghurree. Contriving to col-
lect a considerable force, he proeeeded thitherward,
and established his head-quarters in the neigh-
bourhood ; a violent, conflict ensued, in which the
Hindoos proved victorious ; some seventy or
eighty of the Mahomedans cut their way through
and found refuge in one of their own temples near
by. The Hindoos, in a state of the most violent
excitement, now attacked the temple, and, after
repeated repulses with heavy loss of life, succeeded
in capturing it, and putting the whole of their
enemies to the sword. This was but the com-
mencement of the strife, and both parties are now
so violently inflamed that it is impossible to foresee
the result. The Punjaub frontier continues as usual
disturbed. Parties of robbers every now and then
descend from their glens and attack our villages, and
so continua to pester us, till we are from time to
time compelled to exact from them a heavy retri-
bution. The policy brought into existence by Sir
George Arthur, in 1844, of stopping the promotion
of civilians encumbered with debt, is now being
rigidly enforced by Government, with promise of
infinite advantage to the country. Were the order
made absolute and universal, and young men on
their arrival in India made aware that from the
moment they became in debt their promotion would
cease, the benefit resulting to the parties them-
selves would be indescribable.

The Bombay government have been indefatiga-
ble in their endeavours to mitigate or provide
against the scarcity of water apprehended in the
beginning of next year, in consequence of the ex-
treme scantiness of the monsoon. A committe3,
consisting of Dr. Carter, Dr. Leith, Dr. Buist,
Mr. Aher, Major Crawford, and Mr. Berkley, have
been appointed to examine the geological structure
of the hills, constituting the projected reservoir in
Salsette, suspicions having arisen that these may
be traversed by stratified rocks permeable to water.
Singularly enough this matter seems to have been
overlooked, and though we have been nearly ten
years employed in examininc, the other conditions of
the Vehar hills, the most important of them all
appears to have been neglected.—The first cotton
spinning factory established in Western India com-
menced its operations at Broach on the Bth of
October, no more than ten months having been
occupied from their commencement to their com-
pletion in constrncting the works. The enterprise,
which owes its origin exclusively to Mr. Landon,
is one of the greatest promise, and if successful will
be the source of countless benefits to the country.
The weather of late has been showery and threat-
ening, indicating showers on the other side of
India.
The Governor-General is stil on the Neilgherries.
Lord Harris and General Anson are about to return
to Madras after a shortvisit to the hills. Lord E. Iphin-
stone continues to remain at the Presidency,
Sir Henry Somerset and the Bishop being at Ma-
hawbleshwar, the latter is about to proceed on an
episcopal tour to Scinde, but whether he will go
further than Kurrachee is still an open question.
Sir Lawrence Peel being about to retire from his
seat on the bench at Calcutta, Sir Chas. Jackson
has been removed from Bombay to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the promotion of Sir James Colville
to succeed Sir Lawrence Peel as Chief Justice.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Casualties by death in India since tho departure of the

Mail on the 3d October.
Gould J. 11. Gould, at Bom-
bay, on the 4th Oct.
Bengal—Brigadier Mactier, Commanding Benares, at
Jourpore, on the 16th Sept. ; Lieutenant Chas. George
Reid, Artillery, at Deyrah Dhoon, on the 25th Sept.

considerable business has been done, at an advance of
10s. per ton, and ships average now fur London 41. 10s.,
and Liverpool 41. 7s. 6d. per ton.

EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 6.
The steamers from Bombay and Calcutta arrived
at Suez on the 3d inst., and the mails and pas•
sengers proceed this clay to Southampton and
Malta by the Indus and the Valetta. The Austrian
steamer, direct from Trieste, due here on the Ist,
had to take shelter from bad weather in a port on
the Adriatic, and arrived here only yesterday even-
ing, and some 15 passengers, who intended to pro-
ceed to India from Suez by the presentmail, pushed
on at once for Suez, although they have but a
slight chance of catching the steamer there.
The French steamer due here from Marseilles on
the Ist has not yet made her appearance.
Said Pasha, the Viceroy, in the beginning of last
week brought down to Alexandria, from the inte-
rior, a great number of troops and three days after-
wards started with them for the Nile, taking back
infantry, cavalry, and horse artillery. The town
of Alexandria is occasionally full of soldiers, and
suddenly they disappear, as if the Viceroy's object
was to keep them constantly on the move. His
Highness is just now on the site of the Barrage in-
specting the building of thefortifications of the new
town, to be called after himself, Saidiebt of which
he laid the foundation last spring. Meanwhile
the governors of the provinces are taking every
advantage of the administration of affairs, and
plunder and tyrannise over the natives as much as
they can. The Governor of Suez in particular is
acting with more boldness on account of the dis-
tance at which he is from the Pasha, and for his
own benefit taxes the inhabitants of the town and
the pilgrims to and from Mecca to an enormous
extent.

Said Pasha is still waging war with the Bedouins
of the desert, and recently, having induced a num-
ber of them to give themselves up with the delu-
sion of reconcialition, they were all put to death.
It is very bad policy on the part of the Viceroy not
to be on amicable terms with the Bedouin tribes,
who occupy the desert all round Egpyt, for they
have it in their power to do much injury to the
inhabitants of the cultivated lands by sudden fo-
rays, and then withdraw into their native deserts,
where they are quite beyond the reach of the army.
If the Bedouins find that the Pasha is deter-
mined upon keeping on bad terms with them, the
transit will not be'io secure as it has been, for there
is nothing to prevent them plundering the station-
houses in the desert, or attacking travellers be-
tween Cairo and Suez, and some robberies have
already been committed on that road.
Some workmen who are boring for M. de Les-
seps on the line which he proposes to take for his
Suez Canal scheme have come upon hard rock,
which quite nullifies the estimates put forth by him
in his pamphlet on the subject, in which he assumes
that the canal will be dug entirely out of sand or
light soil. Ancient history informs us that in the
year 610 before Christ a canal to connect the Medi-
terranean and Red Seas was commenced and aban-
doned in 12 mouths, after a loss of 120,000 men.
Mr. Pasquale, the projector of the Bank of
Egypt, with English shareholders, has failed to ob-
tain from the Viceroy for his bank any exclu-
sive privileges. In answer to his application, Said
Pasha informed him, through his secretary, that
the trade of Egypt was perfectly free ; that be had
no objection to the formation of the bank, and that
it might benefit the trade of the country ; but his
Highness seems to have taken care not to compro-
mise himself in any way, or to pledge himself to
give to the bank any assistance or support.
An agent of the Crimea Land Transport Corps
has been hero since September, engaging natives
for work at the seat of war. He has enlisted some
500 or 600 men ; they are daily fed and lodged at
no small cost to the British Government. They
do nothing ; no steamer comes to carry them off,
and it is anticipated that when the time comes for
them to embark, a large proportion of them will
disappear.
The last steamer from Beyrout brought news

that Lady Emmeline Wortley was very ill there,
and not expected to live. She and her daughter
have been travelling in Syria during the hottest
summer months ; their maid died of a coup de
soleil ; two or three different servants and couriers
were obliged to leave their service from their in-
ability to stand the fatigues of travelling in the hot
season Cthe daughter had a coup de soleil, and
Lady Emily, after having dislocated her leg at
Jerusalem, had suffered from intermittant fever,
and was dying of dysentery.
Some cases of cholera have occurred among the
shipping in the harbour, though the town is quite
free from the disease.

Prices of produce keep up very high.
Exchange on London has gone up to 93 piastres
per pound sterling, in consequence of large impor-
tations of specie.

TILE HOLY WAR IN OUDE.

(From, the Della Gazette.)

Seven or eight months ago one Shah Gholam Hussein,
a dissolute vagabond, formerly a Hindoo, but like many
others at Lucknow, a pervert to Islam, with that fierce
rancour which animates renegades, published through-
out Lucknow and the principal Mabommedan towns
and villages of Oude, that the Hindoos had lately de-
stroyed and defiled a Musjid, which until recently had
existed in Hunooman G-Ouree. This monstrous fable
was eagerly believed ; hundreds came forward to wipe
out this dire insult to Islam, and Shah Gholam Hussein,
cleverly taking advantage of the credulity of his dupes,
proclaimed his mission. He was empowered to raise
the sten lard of Islam, had been encouraged in visions ;
he had been honoured by divine revelation, and now
boldly proclaimed a crusade against the infidel. Col-
lecting a very large force of bigoted and well-armed fol.
lowers, he placed himself at their head and marched on
Hunooman Ghuree. Selecting a Mujid not far from
the sacred shrines of the Hindoos, the Shah and his fa-
natics made it their head-quarters, and prepared for vic-
tory or death. Those who were on the spot and in
authority made use of every argument to deter them
from their insane object. Everything that was prac-
ticable was urged to dissaude them, but in vain.
Teey had resolved to win or die, and calmly replied,
"We have dug our graves." After reciting the noon-
day prayers, and pronouncing one and all the “Pathia,"
and exhorting each other to win paradise by slaughtering
the infidels— the Mahomedans sallied out, and invoking
God and His Prophet, opened fire on the defenders of
the Hunooman Ghuree. But the priests had been
neither inactive, nor indifferent to what had been threat-
ening for some time. They were fully prepared. In
an instant, from house, shop, temple, tenement, and
gardens,—Rajpoots, Chatrees, Rajkoornars, in hundreds
poured fourth in defence of their priests and time-ho-
noured shrines. A desperate hand to hand combat en•
sued ; the numbers and bravery of the Hindoos soon
turned the scale ; outnumbered, overpowered, attacked
on all sides, the Mahomedans gave way, were routed,
pursued, and put to the sword.
Some 70 or 80, however, cut their way through, ncade
good their retreat, and regained the Musjid. Protected
by massive walls and well armed, they imagined them-
selves safe, their position impregnable. But a terrible
fate awaited them. The passions of the Hindoos had
now been thoroughly aroused, blood had been profusely
shed ; nothing but the lives of their foes could appease
their thirst of vengeance.
The Hindoos swarmed like bees round the Musjid, but
at a distance a brief consultation was held. It was re-

solved to storm the 11Tusjid at all risks, and to destroy
their assailants. A band of priests and Jogees, with
matted locks and begrimed from head to foot with dust
and ashes, stepped forward to lead the assault, swords
in band. But the Chatrees and Rajkoomars waved them
back, declaring that the work before them was not such
as holy men should engage in, and they were forced to
retire.
A dense column now advanced straight upon the gate
of the Musjid. With one tremendous yell of Bum Maha-
deo ! the Ilindoos, sword in hand, dashed at the Musjid,
and nearly gamed the walls, when a smashing volley,
poured in at ten paces distance, destroyed the leading
ranks, staggered the column and drove it back in con-
fusion. Again reforming their shattered ranks and en-
couraging each other by voice and gesture, the Rajpoots
rushed at the gate, but again were received by a well-
directed and galling fire, and a second time were driven
back, broken, routed, and in terrible confusion. As
each Hindoo fell his body was instantly passed from man
to man to the rear, and at once consigned to the river.
Some few minutes BOW elapsed ; a brief consultation
was held, and for the third time with terrible cries and
frantic gestures, the Rajpoots stormed the Musjid, were
met by a crushing fire, but succeeded in gaining the %ails
and forcing the gate. No quarter was asked for, cr
given ; on all sides the clash of steel, the ringing shouts
of the combatants, and the shrill screams of the multi-
tude outside resounded, blood ran ancle deep in the
Musjid ; and in a few moments every one of the Moham-
medans was put to the sword.
Thus terminated the ill-starred expedition of Shah_
Gholam Hussein. The author, at the commencemento
the fray, threw away his garments, and his divine 1
mis-
sion, and trusting to his heels rather than toh
dis
re. v a.
tion, nimbly made his escape, and disappeare

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THE MURDER NEAR SIIOTLEY-BRIDGE.—A reward of
3001., of which the Government pays 1001:, has been
offered for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr.
Stirling, surgeon, who was shoton, robbed and
murdered, in the open day, a short distance from
Gibside-park, in the county of Durham, this day fort-
night. The adjourned inquest will be held on Thurs.
day,