The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

lIER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE.

(From the Moniteur of yesterday.)
The Queen of England quits our hospitable
shores. Her visit will remain as one of the grand-
est events of this epoch, so abundant in new and
memorable facts. Let us salute for a last time this
august Princess, the messenger of concord and
peace. Let us salute her with her young family,
the hope of three kingdoms ; with her royal spouse,
who has so well comprehended the genius, the
manners, and the arts of France. This is not the
first time that crowned heads have visited our
country. Peter the First came here to study
civilisation, to take advantage of it against
civilisation itself ; Joseph H. exhibited himself as
a phililosopherand as a critic, rather than a monarch.
The one and the other excited curiosity, but not
national sympathies, and the nation remained in-
different in the presence of these two travellers,
who were not guests. The presence of Queen Vic-
toria, on the contrary, has excited the French peo-
ple ; from Boulogne even to the capital, and after-
wards from the capital to Boulogne, she has re-
ceived from this electricised people a veritable
triumph. This arises from its not being a mere
simple personal gratification which has brought
among us this illustrious sovereign. She arrived
to close at last seven ages of disastrous rivalries,
and to cement upon its basis the alliance of the two
greatest nations of the west. France and England,
since circumstances have allowed of their studying
each other more closely, feel wondrously that they
cannot dispense with one another, and that they
are nearer neighbours still by the common stock of
liberal civilisation than by their coasts. Aud never-
theless their sentiments had not overpast till now
, the bounds of a reciprocal esteem ; they were never
intermingled either in the same policy or in the
enthusiasm of a warm friendship. It was reserved
for the Emperor to operate a more intimate approxi-
mation. When the chief of the Napoleon dynasty
was placed by the public voice at the head of the
country, he found the national hates, which had
preceded him, obstinate conflicts, in which he was
not concerned, inveterate passions which were
directed against him only because he was the
highest personification of the principles of 'B9, then
ill comprehended. To-day these immortal prin-
ciples have triumphed over the opposition of
Europe, and liberal England has acknowledged
their legitimacy. The heir of the name of Napo-
leon had then no other reason for preferring
another role to that of pacificator, more conformable
with the greatness of his soul, with the actual in-
terests of his country, and the ideas of his age ; and,
as the Emperor had admirably comprehended that
the durable and cordial concert of France and Eng-
land consitutes the greatest force of modern times
placed at the service of the progress of the world,
he has held out a friendly hand to the English
people and its Government. The enthusiasm of
England has answered this appeal. She has warmly
grasped that loyal hand in hers, because it was that
of France herself, thrice personified in the Empe-
ror, and her well beloved Queen has crossed the
Channel to bring us the expression of the confi
deuce of a great nation with the seductive accl2.lll:
paniment of goodness, grace, and the mildaesnteelutao
jesty. This was a moment awaited by r
show forth her enthusiatm ; for, it is notr enough
for the policy of princes to prepare
fusions ;
there
erated by the
are none in truth which are not
op
that St. Cloud
people. It was therefore noteerough
should worthily reply to th
Windsor. Paris has resolved to ai hospitality of
rival London by its
rejoicings and its
neou
popular delights demonstrations.
Queen Victoria has witnessedsvonta the
passage. At the theatre as
at the Holy Chapel
at the Palace of Industry,as at
which has signalised her
theßoulevards inun-
dated by floods of the.p p h
o u population as the Cha d
rap. e-
the Hotel de Ville, upon La.
Mars resounding with t e acclamations of the
army, every one of her outgoings has been a fete,
and each of these fetes has been an energetic mani-
festation, or of the part of acclamation taken by
theuo sFrencha nds of
foreigners
p eople, whichcollected v
had for witnesses
the
thousands within our
for the marvels of the Exhibition.
It may be said
that for greater solemnity this
fraternal alliance
has been celebrated in the presence of the whole
world represented Pans.•- Providence, it must
be acknowledged) seems to have reserved for

our epoch profOund subjects of meditation., It
at Versailles, in the Palace of Louis XIV., that
the Emperor Napoleon 111. offers to the Queen of
England the most superb magnificences of the
Court; for her he re-animates the noble pleasures
and the long extinguished pomps of the great King,
that haughty foe of the revolution of 1688. The
same day this Queen of an elevated soul was re-
ceived in the funereal asylum of the Stuarts, which
her dynasty replaces, Shehas done more, and,
surrounded by her family in emotion, she came to
depose upon the tomb of Napoleon T. the idea of
conciliation of which ber visit is the sympathy and
the seal. Finally, France and England, whiclt
have filled Europe with' their divisioki, instead o
persisting, like Rome and Carthage, in implacable
resentments, associate their policy, their interests,
and their blood for one of those immense causes
which decide the future of humanity. Such con-
trasts confound the previsions of men ; there re-
mains no more for the mind than to bow itself
humbly before the supreme wisdom whose grandeur
is alone immutable, and which subjects our most
rebellious passions to the harmony of its providen•
tial designs."

'THE OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA.

We have received our despatches in anticipation
of the Overland Mail. They incude advices from
Calcutta, July 19 ' • Bombay, July 30 ; Canton,
• July 8 ; and Hong Kong, July 10.
The following is the summary of the fortnight's
news given by the Bombay Times:—
Apprehensions of a scanty monsoon are begin-
ning to be entertained at the Presidency, little rain
having fallen during the past three weeks—in the
interior the season promises to be auspicious. This
state of matters appears to prevail along theses.
board only ; throughout the interior of India, 0
_
far as we know, the season promises to be eminently
auspicious. The tranquillity of this period of th
• year has been sadly disturbed by a savage descent
• on the low country of mountaineers closerr by on the
city of Rajhmahal. This, with the territory
th
province of
ad-
joining, once belonged to the ancient
Bengal. The city stands on the gout -west bank of
the Ganges, about 70 miles fromMoorshedabad,
and 200 to the northward of Calcutta. Since it
ceased to be the seat of government, and
British
courts of justice have been removed from it, it has
lost much of its former greatness, but is sill sup.
posed to number between 20,000 and 30,000 inha-
bitants. Adjoining this is a vast mass of mountain
land, occupied by one of those numerous hill tribes
till of late years hardly known to us, with which
the wilds of India abound, which own no govern-
ment, and which the hand of civilisation has not
touched. They are said not the less to be quiet,
docile, truthful, honest, and industrious, and to be
easily managed by those who have lived on their
borders. For some time past a boy-god has been
worshipped amongst them as an incarnation of
the Divinity, and by him an intimation bad of
late been issued that he was to become King, and
they to rule supreme over the ancient dominions of
Rajmahal. It is said that the immediate cause of
the outburst was some quarrel between the moun-
taineers and the railway people, but this appears
uncertain, as, according to other accounts, it ap-
pears to have originated in something about re-
venue or about women. The discrepancies in all
the accounts show that we possess in reality no
authentic information on the subject. The move-
ments of the people are said to have been generally
current, and to have been bruited abroad amongst
the authorities some days before, but as they did not
appear in official form no notice of them was taken.
On the 9th of July a party of 3,000 burst on Raj-
mahal, determined to take the life of every Euro-
pean and native of influence in the district. Nine
or ten thousand more were said to be in reserve
should the first party succeed. Seventeen of the
police were murdered at once, and the principal
houses taken possession of or destroyed. A body
of them were said to have advanced in the direc-
tion of Moorshedabad. Two ladies, Mrs. Thomas
and Miss Pell, on their way from Suthapahar to
13augumpoor, were taken from their palankeens,
and savagely butchered. The Calcutta papers last
received state that the insurgent force had swelled
out to nearly-20,000, and that the country was in
universal panic. They were threatening Beerb-
hoom, had sacked and burned the town of Pickour,
where the Princess, who had refused to lower the
rents, resided, and were spreading devastation,
pillage, and murder wherever they went—the people
fleeing the country far and near. A detachment of
800 men had been sent out on the 12th under Capt.
Birch from the nearest station, and were advancing
rapidly on the enemy. A couple of guns started
on the 16th from Dum Dum for Berhampore,
which they would not reach before the 24th, and
on the same day the 56th Native Infantry left
Calcutta, by railway, the 31st being under orders
to proceed from the same quarter by steam
to Berhampore. There has been a seri-
ous disturbance in Rajmahal, the district
adjacent to which has been overwhelmed by the
sudden descent of several thousand mountaineers
in the vicinity, determined to take the life of every
European and native of influence—several of the
police and two ladies were murdered, and other ex-
cesses have been committed. Troops have been
sent to quell the disturbance, which is not likely
to be put down without considerable bloodshed.
The Thibetians are said to be suing Nepaul for
peace, and there is to be a- conference of some of
the Hill chieftains to arrange the terms of a treaty.
The parliamentary papers in reference to the Five
per Cent. Public Works Loan have been published
in Bombay, and seem to be eminently unsatisfac-
factory. The subscriptions to the Patriotic Fund
in India amount to close upon 80,0001. Bombay
is at length to obtain a public museum, and it is to
be hoped zoological gardens as well. Much asto-
nishment has been felt at the refusal of the General
.itsemb'y of the Church of. Scotland to accept the
grants in aid of their Indian missions contemi
plated by the late.education despatch.. The
Governors of Madras and Bombay have been in-
vited to meet the Governor-General at the Neil-
gherries in October, immediately after which it is
rumoured that Lord Dalhousie proposes returning
to England to join the cabinet. There is no truth
in the reports appearing in the home papers, and
fabricated in Bombay, that an army of 15,000 men
was about to proceed with twenty armed steamers
and gun-boats to Persia from Bombay. The latest
accounts from Persia state that the Shah was most
friendly to us. The Rev. R. Nesbit, of the Free
Church of Scotland's mission in Bombay, after a
ireful career of twenty-eight years, fell a victim td
cholera on Friday last ; he had only been ill for
eleven hours, and up to five o'clock the previous
evening.had been occupied in 'his usual missionary
duties. Trade is dull ; freights are low ; the money
market is easy.

INSURRECTION OF THE SANTALS.
(Front the Calcta Elisman.)
• We have at last a littleut
news ofh
ow
our n. While
the British nation is carrying on a great war in the
Baltic and the Black Sea, the East India Com-
pany's Lieut.-Governor of Bengal has got up a
little war of his own in the Rajmahal hills. These
hills overhang the Ganges in their northern extrt-
inity, but till very lately were unexplored by
Europeans. There are two distinct tribes, the Hill
men, and a wandering race called Santals. These
last were permitted by the British anthorities to.
occupy the valleys, and as the immigration became
considerable, Government placed an officer in
charge of the district in 1838, when the population
was about 3,000. In 1852 it had increased to
about eighty thousand, and till within the last few
weeks, a more orderly and contented set of people
was no; to be found in Bengal. All at once they
have taken' arms, vowing destruction to their
neighbours, and descending into the neighbouring
country—at first it was said with 5,000 men, which
report has since swelled to fen-, fifteen, and lastly
to 80,000—stating that the insurrection has ex-
tended to Soore, and even to Raneegunge, 'about a
hundred miles from the place where it broke out.
It is too soon to speculate on the causes 'of this
• outbreak ; various reasons are assigned, as Will be
seen from the following letters. The most probable
is, that discontent has prevailed among them for
some time, on account of increased taxation, and
that some real or imaginary wrong has sufficed to
rouse to arms people already discontented.
The following reports of the Santa! insurrection
are from various correspondents :
The Santals or Hill tribes of Rajmahal are up in arms
to upset the Company's sway. They allege a divine re-
velation for their attempt, and their first step was to call
on the hill darogab to furnish supplies, and, on his re-
Pisa! to do so, they deliberately seized and murdered,
him. This I bad from an eye-witness, who also saw the
bodies of others who bad been murdered.
A letter from the neighbourhood of Rajmahal,
dated 11th inst., gives the following account of
the riots :
From what I now bear of the rising of the Santals, it
seems that Pontet has been grinding them for Govern-
ment rent, and that is the primary cause of the row. I
bear that they called on the Santals in the surrounding
zemindaries to join them, but they refused, saying they
bad no grievances. This shows plain enough the difference
between the system adopted by the Government and
that by private parties in collecting the laud revenue.
There are also reports of their having found a book in
which it is written that they are to set up a king, and
conquer the whole of the country. They wrote tq the
darogah to inform Government that they wanted to fight
them,
and to send out their troops as soon as they liked.
arogah bearing of the assemblage,. went out with.
his thannah to see what 6 they were up to. At some dis-
tance from where they had, met, the darogab gets on his
palkee, and walks up to them. They asked him what
be wanted. Be said he had come to see what they were
up to. Oh no, said they,.you have come to bind and
carry us off, and theY immediately cut him and his people
down, took off their beads, Md making a pile of them,
made a pnojah to They have a Mahajun (or
rather bad) who possessed two horses, a white one and
a black. They sent off wort to him to send the black
one for the King. The man, thinking they would, do no-
thing to him, he being their tnahajee, went to enl on
the white horse. They immediately seized him and
asked why he bad come on the white horse. He said
he could send the black one, but he had first come to see
them on the white.' They said, you will not obey the
Rieg, and'cut him down, adding his head to ,the
They
wh have, I believe, "looted" some villages, and the
ole mooik is in a fright.
Ties Paharees have not yet joined the Santals, ephr,,l
have burnt down and plundered some bungalows belong,.
in', to th They e railway people. afterwards separate 4
into, two parties,. one going towards Ambour and Pokanr,,
whicli latter they plundered. The former will be " looted',"
to-day or' to-morrow by the other party, reported to' be
going south along the Lank of the river, with the inten-
tion of visiting the Hon. Mr. Eden at Aurungabad.
Robson and Lyon's factory at 13aneY agram has closed
in cot sequence of a general bolt ofthe people. The
same the case with regard.to' the. Neemtollah con-
cern, Tai consequence of the Vat'Coolies, who are Santa!::,