The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-01 00:00:00

The following is from the summary of the Bom-
bay Tines of Aug. 29 :
The Sonthal insurrection continues to devastate
the country, but the insurgents are now being
hemmed in on all sides by our troops, and must
speedily yield to force of arms. The mountain terri-
tory near Rajmahal, usually their home, lies nearly
parallel to the Ganges, and covers an area of about
two thousand square miles, the peaks rising to an
elevation of from two to four thousand feet. The
people have generally been quiet, industrious, and
well behaved—the present being the first time
during the 70 years we have had to deal with them
that they have occasioned us the slightest annoy-
ance. The causes of the outbreak are still dubious.
The 30,000 supposed to be in the country are scat-
tered about in small parties, committing ravages
so atrocious that one shudders on reading them.
The conflicts betwixt them and the regular troops
have invariably ended in the overthrow of the bar-
barians ; and as the close of their career approaches,
it becomes matter of consideration how those that
may escape shall be dealt with. Capital punish-
ments, to the extent that they deserved, would
imply an amount of slaughter not to be thought of.
Those who have once tasted the pleasure of plun-
dering the plains may, if left in their mountains,
,eftine to forget the results of their misconduct, and
repeat practices the very thought of which must keep
the provinces around them in alarm. Tim fertile
fields of Pegu, productive enough to supply food
to millions, and to extinguish the apprehension of
famine in Madras, lie barren for want of cultiva-
tion, and as the Sonthals are an industrious, hard-
working race, never until now charged with impro-
priety, the riend of India has proposed that the
whole of those engaged in the insurrection should,
with their household goods and families, be from
henceforth located in British Burmah.
A religious war appears to be raging in Oude,
betwixt the Mahomedans and flindoos, the King's
troops having joined the former against the latter,
without the slightest regard apparently to the
wishes of authority. This state of matters will in
all likelihood hasten on the crisis that has long
been looked for. Tho Governor-General has mean-
while given orders that not a man shall be moved
from Cawupore, a station formerly belonging to
Oude, and close upon its western frontier. The
force hero stationed at present consists of two bat-
talions of artillery, one regiment of cavalry, and
three regiments of infantry, or 4,000 men in
all. We have three regiments at Lucknow itself,
and were military operations to become requisite, a
force abundantly sufficient for the occupation of the
kingdom could be provided whenever required, in a
short space of time. The Governor-General is un-
derstood to have made up his mind on the subject
of the indispensability of annexation. The reported
interference with the affairs of Oolipoor has been
explained away. It is not against the Rana that
our troops were to take the field, but to assist him,
at his own earnest and long-continued entreaties,
to bring to order his own rebellious nobles.
As the season opens we have had some disturb-
ances on the north-west frontier.
Profound tranquillity seems to reign throughout
British Burinah, and our embassy, now on its way
to Ava, proceeds auspiciously on its journey.
In Western India we are threatened at present
with a famine, the latter part of our south-west
monsoon having proved as unfavourable as its com-
mencement was promising. During the last fort-
night of June we had a fall of thirty inches of rain ;
within the two months since less than ten inch©s
of rain is all that has been measured at the Presi-
dency, though 25 be our July and 16 our August
average. We aro thus short by a third of our ordi-
nary supply up to the present date, and the alti-
tude of the mercury, condition of the air, and as-
pect of the sky, give every reason to apprehend a
continued drought. This state of matters unhap-
pily prevails through nearly the whole of the presi-
dency, and though the northern and eastern portions
of India appear to have had abundance, the inunda-
tions on the Indus and Ganges and their tributaries
having imen of unusual magnitude,it isdoubtful whe-
ther the means of conveyance at our disposal will
permit the surplus food in one region to be trans-
ported iu time to the districts where starvation is
threatened. Even were a copious fall now to await
us the bulk of the crops are too far advanced in
maturity to benefit by it ; and the only mitigation
for our apprehended sufferings must lie in an ex-
pensive importation from those districts that are
within roach of water carriage. Our last famine
was in 1838, and it is seldom that so long a period
as 17 years intervenes betwixt the occurrence of
these frightful scourges, which decimate the popu-
lation, and cost Government larger sums, in loss of
revenue, than would have been required in the
construction of canals and roads, which would h Ise
gone a considerable way to avert them.
A meeting of the Parsee community, at which
there were nearly three thousand present, took
place ten days since, for the purpose of getting a
code of laws prepared, as affecting the rights of
marriage, inheritance, and divorce to bo trans-
formed into an act by the Legislative Council, so
that this important caste should, like the Maho-
medans and Hindoos, have justice in these matters
administered to them in conformity with the cus-
toms and feelings of the race. The want of some
such thing as this has long been felt and complained
of by the Judges cf the Supreme Court.
A singular document has just been published,
showing that within a recent period 600 children
have been destroyed by wolves in the Punjaub ;
nearly a thousand were some 20 years ago slaught-
ered•in the same way around Agra. The orna-
ments of the infants are generally found in the
dens where their poor little bodies are devoured,
and those who make a trade of getting possession
of the plunder thus provided to their hands have
created an impression amongst the people that the
village in which a wolf is killed is sure to come to
ruin ; and the ferocious brutes, when caught, are
frequently set free with a bell around their neck.
The loss of life from snake bites iu Sind has be-
comes so serious that Government have taken mea-
sures for the destruction of these reptiles—singular
illustrations, these, of the scantiness of the popula-
tion.

1854. 1855.
Live animals
Cocoa lbs. 962,416
Coffee lbs. 6,561,915
Wheat qrs. 198,058
Barley qrs. 96,760
Oats qrs. 125,069
Indian corn qrs. 62,847
Flour cwt. 228,213
Cochineal cwt. 2,412 ...... 753
Indigo cwt. 11,219 . 6,751
Flax cwt. 134,447
Currants cwt. 2,184
Guano tons 14,767 ...... 26,323
Hemp cwt. 184,408
Mahogany tons 2,986
Oil, palm cwt. 18,177
Opium lbs. 3,512
Provisions cwt. 81,236
Quicksilver lbs. 162,459
Rico cwt. 186,332
Saltpetre cwt. 68,493
Silk, raw lbs. 420,562
Cassia Lignea lbs. 23,809
Cloves lbs. 69,217
Pepper lbs. 783,439
Rum proof gallons 920,916
Brandy proof gallons 105,453
Geneva proof gallons 6,963
Unrefined sugars owl. 885,726
Tallow cwt. 60,893
Tea lbs. 2,741,294
Tobacco lbs. 728,670
Wine gallons. 786,487
Sheep's and lambs' wool lbs. 15,812,869
The declared value of some of the principal exports,
compared with that for the same articles during the cor-
responding month of last year, was as follows :-

1854. 1855.
£
Beer and Ale 85,797
Coals and culw 196,393
Cotton manufactures 9,298,131
Cotton yarn
Earthenware 113,022
Haberdashery and millinery... 385,403
Hardwares and cutlery
Linen manufactures
Linen yarn
Machinery and millwork
Silk manufactures
Thrown Silk 15,443
Woollen manufactures
Woollen yarn

A considerable sensation has within the last week
been occasioned in the community, by an intima-
tion published in the home newspapers by the di-
rectors of the East India Company, that they do
not recognise the authority of the London and
Eastern Banking Corporation, which advertise that
their charter confers limited liability and the fullest
powers of banking in the east, and desire that this
may be made known for the protection of the pub-
lic. We are not sufficiently informed of the me-
chanism or rules of the bank to know what has
compelled a step to be adopted so wholly without
precedent, and which could only be justified on the
strongest possible grounds.
The monsoon mails of June and Julyhave adopted
a new route, which promises to shorten our stormy
weather passage home by two or three days at least.
It will be remembered that Bombay is in 19 deg.,
and Aden, the first stage in the journey home, in 12
deg. N., and that the steamer route for 8 months
of the year is nearly straight across. From May to
August, when the furious south-west wind from the
coast of Africa blows right into Bombay harbour,
our packets hitherto have run about 12 degrees
south-west, and then crossing over steamed six
of
degrees northerly to the opening of the "11"
Aden. This season three of the steamers have run
orit e a
n ofd
five degrees north-west towards the moutsholyf
the Persian Gulf, and then pushed south-westerly
close along the Arabian shore, thereby shortening
the course and avoiding theer
a
t e violence o t
the monsoon, which blows for
with much less violence in the northern than in
the southern portion
of the Arabian Sea—.the voy-
age
usually occupying .days, has been
from 13 to 18
accomplished iu 12 and in 10 respectively, and the
latter of those is hereafter likely to exceed the
average.
understood to return to Calcutta in No-
The Governor-Gcneral 18 still on the Neilgherries,
andvem biser or December,
December, and not to leave India till the
beginning of the Year, Lord Canning, formerly re-
presented as about to sail in August, not being
now expected before Christmas. Lord Harris has
just proceeded to the Nefigherries on a short visit
to the Governor-General. His absence from the
Presidency will not likely be of long duration, and

The total declared value of all the exports in the month
was 8,891,473/. against 8,783,7141. in the corresponding
period as above, showing an augmentation of 107,7591.
in favour of the former.

GLASGOW AUTUMN CIRCUIT COURT.

GLASGOW, Friday.—The Autumn Circuit Court of
Justiciary for the city of Glasgow and the counties of
Lanark, Renfrew, and Dumbarton was opened here onl
Tuesday by the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Ardmillan,
and brought to a close to-day. In all there were 6S
cases for trial, in which 88 persons were implicated, and
some of these were of an aggravated character. The
following were those of most importance :
James Moore was charged with the murder of Bernard
Macaulay, by stabbing him to the heart with a knife in
the streets of Glasgow, on the 22d of August last.
There had been some disturbance between the parties,
when the prisoner, in the course of a scuffle, drew a knife
and inflicted a wound of which the man Macaulay died
instantaneously.
The prisoner offered a plea of culpable homicide, which
was accepted by the Crown, and he was sentenced to 21
years' transportation.
The termination of this case has excited much disap-
probation, especially as the use of the knife has become
lamentably frequent in Glasgow of late. No good rea-
son can be given for its not going to trial, excepting the
exercise of one of those unaccountable fiats for which
the law officers of the Crown in Scotland have become
remarkable.
Henry Mason was accused of the murder of his
brother, John Mason, at Kirkintilloch, in Dumbarton-
shire.
From the evidence it appeared that the parties, who
were much the worse for liquor, quarrelled, and the
prisoner pulled his brother from the house to the street
and back again by the hair of the head, threw him often
to the ground, and pressed upon his belly with his
knees, in consequence of which he died.
The case lasted the whole of Thursday, when the jury
brought in a verdict of culpable homicide, and Mason
was transported for 15 years.

Agnes 1 VAllister, repulsive-looking woman, was found the journals
are already- pointing to the evidence
guilty of an attempt to murder her child, a little
been boy which showed that a former Governor of Madras
3 years of age. It appeared that the child badand a former member of Council at Bombay, with
crying, and when the prisoner believed that no one was
looking on, she threw the boy into the sea at Greenock- other high authorities, considered gubernatorial
quay, but
ruralising illegal—as it certainly is, when frequently
: fortunately, the act was noticed and the child
rescued, indulged in and protracted, in the last degree in-
The woman was sentenced to 15 years' transportation, convenient. Lord Elphinstone has just returned
A batch of returned convicts, with whom this city has from the Deccan to Bombay, and will in all likali.
been sadly infested of late, was brought up, and half-a. hood remain at the seat of Government if his health
dozen of them convicted of theft and housebreaking, permits till next hot season. Little or no business
They were sentenced to 15 yore: transportation each, ,► has been transacted in the market during the pa*