The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-31 00:00:00

POSTAGE OF NRWSPAPERS.

The following correspondence has akin place between
Mr. Wheeler, news agent, Manchester, and the General
Post•ofce
" Manchester, Ang. 20.
" Sir,—l perceive there Ls a new regulation out respect-
ing newspapers posted to the colonies and foreign countries,
and that on them the impressed stamp will no longer be
required. Will you inform me whether a single penny
postage label (in addition to the postage mentioned in in-
structions No. 45) wilt be sufficient for such papers as the
Times, or Illustrated Yews, each weighing above four
ounces

" Do I also understand rightly that, although a stamped
(impre.,s3d) newspaper is posted, with theltainp visible,
directed to a foreign country, it will requite the additional
penny postage stamp, precisely as if it wax an unstamped
one?
"'Will you further inform me whether an unstamped
newspaper (London or local) posted in this town, with a
penny label, directed to any of the suburbs, is liable to any
further postage ou delivery ?
I am &0.,
" Rowland Hill, Esq., Sz.c." " B. WHEELER.

" General Post-office, Aug. 24.
" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 20th inst., I beg
leave to inform you that unstamped newspapers are now
forwarded to British colonies and foreign countries upon
prepayment merely of the rates of postage stated in the
instructions No. 45, 1855, without Any restrictions as to
weight, except in the cases there specified,
" With regard to your second question, it is distinctly
stated in the instructions No. 60, 1855, a copy of which I
enclose, that the impressed stamp will not count as postage
in the transmission of newspapers abroad.
"An unstamped newspaper is entitled to be transmitted
once anywhere within the United Kingdom, upon prepay-
ment of a postage of one penny, if it does not exceed four
ounces in weight.
" I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant,

J. TILLIY.
" Mr. B. Wheeler, 7 and 8, Royal Exchange-
arcade, Manchester."

THE INSURRECTION AT SABBAGEE.

The following private letter, dated Gambia, Aug.
8, gives some additional particalars of the late fatal
disturbances in that colony :

"On the 16th of last month Governor O'Connor
issued, or directed to be issued, a warrant for the appre-
hension of a Mandingoe belonging to the town of Sab-
bsgee, for having sold as a slave one of the British sub-
jects (a black) belonging to Gambia, and entrusted the
execution of the warrant to Mr. Fenton, Queen's Advo-
cate at that settlement. Accordingly that gentleman,
accompanied by 12 men of the 2d West India Regiment,
under command of Lieut. Davis, of that corps, proceeded
to Sabbagee, a town which has been under British rule
only within the last four years, and is about seven miles
from Bathurst, the seat of Goverament, and secured the
person against whom the warrant had been issued. Upon
this the inhabitants armed themselves and turned out,
insisting upon the release of the prisoner. Seeing
such a formidable mob, Mr, Fenton deemed it expe-
dient to give up the prisoner and retrace his steps. After
marching a quarter of a mile his party was fired on.
Lieutenant Davis then retreated a short distance fur-
et hn eerm,
yw
ihne when
hheee
ks uudndteiln
bl ye
rwe
ah
ee
he leedd t
hreo unnudt p
ea
stitdefkverpos the
.
Mary's. Ile lost two men and was himself slightly
wounded.
"Lieutenant Armstrong, 3d West India Regiment,
who accompanied Mr. Fenton, was shot in the arm, and
four times in the body. The arm (right) has since been
amputated, and Mr. Armstrong is going on well.
" Governor O'Connor, having been apprised of these
proceedings, immediately (the same day) collected the
disposable force under his command, viz —l3O soldiers
of the Ist, 2d, and 3d West India Regiments, and
about the same number of militia, with ene brass 12-
pound mortar and some rockets, and marched towards
Sabbagee.
centare
bait, and,
jungle, with a road running through the
Col. O'Connor reached this pass he
concealed,ordered "Within about four miles of the place there
directed a
suspecting that the rebels might be .a.a e ..
f a they
few rockets to be thrown in. As he antiveir;
iy
powerful
opened a, heavy fire in return. Seeinga
deemed it expedient
body opposed to him, Col. O'Connor
to retire.
treat, which they did,
"The troops were ordered to
reached Cape St.
keeping up a smart fire until the
enytioned. The loss on
Mary's, the out station alreadylnn .
d 53 wounded, of all
inanld2onheou2r4s.
this occasion was 23 killed,
feeling
the insufficiency of
ranks. Governor O'Consntoto
the Governor of Gorse,
his forces, sent
a request
some French troops. With
begging the assist c
danalaecrity our allies immediately em-
their accustorne
inVpiallielineeudvbeyctohmemthanredeer,fiealnddpiwecietilis
d the French brig•of-war Entrepreea,nt,
barked on boar is. a
lat
vi:d dens
of the River Gambi On
Gambia.
the sa
were a
ch soldiers, with a proportion of officers,
inst. 100 French
d at Cape St. II , y
were disembarked at
of Col. O 'B'
"(1
having been
joined by the remainder. O'Connor's fuse, with
250 native auxiliaries, he marched again towards Sabba-
gee,°under howitzer. The rebels met this force about half-
14guacncsto,
P
half-
way, and were driven back into their town. Colonel
O'Connor ordered the stockade to be carried by assault.
Accordingly the French formed the right attacking party,
and carried the stockade at the point of the bayonet, ably
seconded by the soldiers of the West India Regiments.
The town was razed to the ground and Sabbagee no
longer existe. The loss of the rebels 'le computed at
.
1,500 killed • , our loss is 25 killed and 70 wounded.
The names
of the officers wounded (none were
killed belonging to the regular troops) are Colonel
the mouth
O'Connor, severely, twice in the arm ; Lieut. Armstrong,
severely ; Staff-Surgeon Il.endley, slightly ; Colonel Fin-
den, Royal Gambia Militia, slightly. Killed—Captain
de Grigny, Royal Militia.
The French brig Entreprenant left this morning,
b
having first saluted with 21 guns, which was returned
her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrmidon, jtent arrived
from England. She is to remain here for I\ nos time,
until at least we hear from home. The total exTenditurif
of ammunition (artillery) on the 4th inst. was 59 Oen.,
141 round shot, and 73 121 b. rockets, with a fe w rounds
of grape and canister. The loss to the Frencli in killed
is only one, a sergeant, who was buried witb. military
honours.
" Staff-Surgeon Merchant died at Sierra Leone on the
25th ult, from the effects of a severe fall. The camel la
healthy."
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wife of Mr. Henry Francis Richardson, the G Toyama's"'
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previous to the terminaticon of her useful lif 5.

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ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be perfbrmed ROB ROY. Characters by Messrs, J. Ander-
on, Ray. Stuart, gerberte, Braham. Barrett, and J. Halliard ;
Jabs Lanza; Miss Dy,r, and Mrs W. J. Wallack.
To conclude with DER FREISCHLUZ. Character 4 by Messrs'
Porme4,- Lockesley, H. Braharn, and Hodges; Misses Dyer and
Lanza, &c.

Prices of admission:—To the two galleries. 6d;; second circle of
boxes. and pit, is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d.; sta,ls, 4s. • private boxes to
admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guinea. Box-office
open from 10 to 6 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Bnoksteiso.
THIS EVENING,
ill be performed THE BUST BODY.
Followed by COURT FAVOUR.
To be followed by OLYMPUS IN A MUDDLE ; or, Wrong
People in wrong Places. -
To conclude with THE SP.s_NISH DANCERS.

l'itl NC ESNS r FIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CRAiLIi KRAL
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING.
After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen /Lathe-
r no, Mr. C. Kean; Cardinal WolseY, Mr. C. Kean.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIEL
PToprielor, Mr. 8. Webster.—ntrectr&a unt..

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed VICTORINE.

After which, ROW'S YOUR UNCLE ?
To conclude with FRATEItNISATION:

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr. Payne.
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed FOUNDED ON FACTS.
Follewtd by THE GALICIAN FETE.
after w 1414 GANEM.
•
To which will be added UNA NOCHE DE FIESTA EN
SEVILIA.
m conclude with MARRIED DAUGHTERS AND YOUNG
HUS:SANDS.

The BENEFIT of Mr. GOODMAN will take place to-morrow, on
which oceasiou, the celebrated danseuse, Mdlle. AURIOL, and Mr.
SA II COWELL, the talented comic singer, will appear, who have
both giv n their gratuitous sevices for the occasion.

AS rLI Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Letsee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
Unabated and triumphant attraction of 3fazeppa.—Fourth and last
week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams.
THIS EVENING,
Lord Tivron's MAZF.P PA and the WILD lIORSE, designated by
the public press the I henomenen of the Day. Mr. William Cooke
has trained his matchless stud of horses expressly for this unrivalled
au' most popular spectacle.
After which, the Equestrian SCENES in the CIRCLE, arranged
by Mr. W Illam Cooke.
fo conclude with Mr. Nelson Lee's Farce, A RAFFLE for an
ELEVIIANT, introducin: Mr. W. Cooke's sagacious Elephant.
;tot..ornce open :rum Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
W •sr. Acting Tanager, Mr. Nelson Lea. Equestrian Director,
M. sv. Cooke, jun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn. • 21min. aft. 4—Evening 42 min. aft. 4
To-MORROW—Morn. Imin.aft. .s—Evening 21min. aft. 4

TUB INNAI KR.—Buw Ornaz. Aug. 31.
TEINILMONETNII, IN Tax SHAM
70— highest since noon yesterday.
5 —towost this morning and during the night.
;0 —this day, at noon.
BARONICTIR, 3O 31.
WIND, E.—Light breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1855.

Scandinavian enthusiasm was greatly excited by
the early. i n telligenee- respecting. the bombardment
of Sweaborg. The results were considerably mag-
nified there, as in this country. The complete
demolition of " the Gibraltar of the North" was
currently reported and implicitly believed. It
was naturally supposed that the brilliant success
which attended the operations of the Allied fleets
was but the first of a series of similar triumphs by
which the RusSians Would be,, if not, annihilated,
at least materially crippled, so that she could no
longer menace her neighbours, or continue the
aggressive policy which she had so long displayed
towards them. In Sweden particularly the sup-
posed event was hailed as a great act of retributive
-justice, which inflicted well-merited punishment
on the uncunscientious plunderer in the very scene
of her crime. Helsingfors had been robbed from
Sweden. It was a Swedish, before it had been
transformed into a Russian fortress—the capital
of that Finland which had once been the fairest
province of their fatherland. They could not conceive
that the victorious squadron would be contented
with the mere destruction of stores,--that they
would not take possession of the all but captured
forts—or that, even if they could not permanently
retain the works, they would depart to other
quarters, while one stone remained standing on
another,. or a single Russian cannon commanded
the approaches. Such folly would be incomprehen-
sible if the English Government were really in
earnest and d'esirous of obtaining the co-operation
of nations in the immediate vicinity of so formid-
able an enemy..
Bitter indeed must have been their disappoint-
ment. on ascertaining the true state of the case,
on leaininq that from some cause the a-ssailants bad
stopped in the very centre, of their work, leaving
the sea defendes but little injured, and still avail-
able): for-Muscovite purposes. Some foundation
15. as , therefore been afforded for the mendacious
pretences of the Russians, which ascribes, some-
thing the very reverse of bravery to our largef
vessels, and declares the damage inflicted on the
works of the fortress and • the batteries in
keneral to be " insignificant." They are told
by the General DE BERQ that "The enemy's
large vessels, as ships of the line, fri-
gates and steamers, owing to the large surface
they would offer to, our (-i;e., the Russian)' Are,
took no part whatever in the combat with the
fortress, carefully avoiding receiving any damage ;"
and the fact that they escaped without a single
man killed, or vessels materially injured, seems to
corroborate-the statement, for had it been other-
wise, why did they not go in to finish the work
so 'well commenced by the mortar-vessels and
gun-boats, and complete the demolition of the
forts, the fire whereof had previously been all bu
silenced ?

The alleged reason will scarcely be credited
The Sew•edes do not know Sir Charles Wood

They cannot believe that a First Lord of the
Admiralty would for a moment be retained in
office who disregarded the obvious precaution of
• keeping a suitable reserve of shells and mortars
for the use of the fleet, so as to prevent it from
fairly following up and completing its triumphs,
and rendering the enormous expenditure incurred
on the Baltic expedition practically useless. They
have probably never heard of the evil reputation
attached to his name. If any rumours respecting
him have circulated in Stockholm or the surround-
ing country, they have been merely with respect to
his connection with the retired " Aberdeeniste,"
who have since become avowed Russian partisa,ns,
with Lc rd GREY, who has also deprecated the
War,, and declared himself for peace at any price
or of! any condition, and as the henchman of
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who disobeyed the instrnc-
tions of the Cabinet by whom he was appointed,
and itof which he continued a member, notwith-
standi.ttg his gross insubordination. Under such
cir cure Lances, then, the inopportune failure of
supplies at the most pressing emergency would be
aa cri I
sec?to something worse than mere incom-
peten 13r. Even Sir CHARLES. WOOD, if in ear-
n es t.
3ould scarcely ignore the palpable fact that

mortal .s would not last for ever, and that it

would be as necessary to provide a-reierve of
heavy ordnance of that particular class for

the vessels in which they were in use,
as additional pairs of shoes for soldiers
engaged in actively marching and countermarch-
ing from place to place. Sweden can, therefore,
place no reliance on the sincerity of the English
Government, when it permits such a man to retain
such an office ; and their doubts are enhanced
when they consider the inactivity of the naval
forces in= the Euxine, and the great care taken to
keep "the large vessels, ships of the line, frigates,
and steamers," out of danger, carefully avoiding
exposing themselves to any damage. Sir E.
Lvorts is not an officer of that discreet valour
that would spare either himself or the men
under his command if he had full permission
to act as he -thought proper. If not kept back
by secret instructions from home, he'd have been
long since heard of, in some way or other, and
not remained a mere spectator of the toils and
dangers of the army in the Crimea. The extra-
ordinary prudence lately observable amongst
English Admirals is decidedly not a legacy
derived froth the old " Sea PALADINS "
of England. It is decidedly well to spare men
and vessels when the object can be accomplished
without loss. But would NiLsoN have permitted
a season to pass by ingloriously because some
danger should be encountered in meeting the
enemy muzzle to muzzle, or if they skulked
behind stone walls, in cutting them out from the
very ports in which they were vainly seeking
shelter ? Unfortunately we have now no NELSONG
who will insist on the privilege of meeting them
wherever they are to be found, and dealing with
them according to the usage of English Admirals
of the olden time.

The Peer and the Presbyter are just at this
moment exhibiting themselves in striking contrast,
and illustrating their respective susceptibilities of
the better tendencies of the age. The Presbyters
of Edinburgh and the heir to the Derby peerage
are, by appropriate methods, disclosing to the
public the stuff which each class of men is made
of. The one throws open his park to the grateful
multitudes, and speaks to them on self-reliance on
their part, and of his own gratification in offering
to the humble-many the pleasures of a ramble in
his grounds, and the improvement as well as pier.-
sure of gazing on the works of taste which orna
ment the
,family mansion ; the others open the
door of the Calton Gaol, but only to close it on
an aged widciw who cannot pay them thirty
shillings for ministrations, on which, from
conscientious reasons, she never attended I Lord
STANLEY votes against Church-rates, and would
probably vote against the equally odious Edin-
burgh Annuity Tax ; not only that, but he
tells the thousands of Lancashire mechanics ga-
thered on his lawn, " that every year we see more
plainly that in education, as is other matters,
self-help is the best help, that a little which men
do for themselves is better than a great deal they
get the State to do for them." The Edinburgh
Presbyters, on the contrary, are occupied in
wringing silver and gold, and batvbees too, from
poor widows, and scores of other poor persons, by
means of such thumb-screws as are yet permitted
them. The idea of reliance on the liberality of
those they teach, or, what comes to the same
thing, on their own capacity and diligence as
religious instructors, does not seem to occur to
the successors of the great model Presbyter who
burnt SERVE'TUS.

We have some faint recollection, indeed, of
other Presbyters whom we used to think passable
models ; it may, however, be a serious objec-
tion to them. that they were not so near the
middle ages as the great predestinarian.
They lived in the remote antiquity of the
first century, indeed some of them had
taken their oral instructions from the founder of
our faith himself. Perhaps it is hardly to be
expected that men should turn back from the
sun-light of Jonx CALVIN to the dimly discerned
glimmerings of PETER and PAUL. Geneva logic
has developed Christianity wonderfully since their
time. What would the Presbytery now think of
any. of their number who should tell a modern
ANANIAS that his prOperty was " his own," even
though the Holy Kirk had need of it ; or of
one who should admonish a fellow Presbyter to
" Feed .the flock and take the, oversight thereof—
not by constraint but willingly, not for filthy lucre
but of a ready mind.", Of course PETER had not
sat at the feet of the heretic-burner. He would
have been wiser now. And PAUL, too, he was so
unenlightened that he actually worked for his
living ! He told a whole assembly of presbyters
that he had " coveted no man's silver, or gold, or
apparel—that they knew that his own hands had
ministered to his necessities and to those who were
with him." He carried this amiable weakness to
such an extent that he declared it was better for
him to'die than not to be able to boast of waiving
his right to live by the Gospel, when asserting
that right would have prejudiced his ministerial
usefulness. He even laid it down as a rule for
his disciples that they should give " not grudingly
or of necessity," for, he added, " the LORD loveth
a cheerful giver." In this last remark PAUL was
decidedly in error, for we can hardly imagine that
the Edinburgh Doctors of Divinity would fill the
gaOls and streets with angry or weeping givers,
if they did not know the mind 'of the LORD better
than PAUL did. Like PETER, too, PAUL taught a
very eminent young pre byter, to whom he wrote,
that men in that office were not to be " greedy of
filthy lucre, but patient and gentle to all men," and
the like. It is plain that PAUL might be a very good
primitive Christian, but he was not a finished
Presbyterian ; he had not learned from those pro-
mised comforters, CALvix and KNox. He and
the other Apostles were sent forth in those twi-
light days of Christianity "as lambs in the midst
of wolves," but now the State Presbyters go forth
as wolves in the midst of lambs. In brief, PAUL
was very
good at doctrines and as far as the five
points go, but he knew nothing about the support
of Kirk Ministers.

We suppose, with the other denizens of
Edinburgh, the Presbytery term. themselves
Modern Athenians. One point of resem-
blance they may certainly claim. Ancient
Athens sent SOCRATES to prison on an in-
dictment of heresy in regard to the esta-
blished.• faith ; the Presbyters of the Modern
Athens send the poor widow PRINGLE—widow,
too, of a Colour-Serjeant who had served twenty-
nine years in the 78th Highlanders—send the
soldier's widow of sixty to prison literally for
thirty pieces of silver. She dissents from the esta-
blished faith, which, in the Edinburgh kirk, is,
that citizens who object 'to pay for what they
never use, shall be made to pay. For widows,
paupers, and all,, the. Presbyter tax or the gaol
are the only alternatives. Luckily, they
cannot give them the cup of hemlock, nor even
CALQIN'i, substitute;. the faggot ; perhaps, how-
ever, they do not wish •; dead heretics bring no-
thing to tbe sacred., chest.
We beilieve it was some of these Presbyterian
clergy
,who, not long ago, would, have almost had
our Government go to war because one of their
Doctors of Divinity got into prison at Madeira,
if we remember right,. for preaching Protestantism

to the simple-minded Catholics. The law of the
island was clear and undisputed—but the Scotch
doctor was conscientiously doing his duty, and
it was denounced as intolerable that bP
should not have liberty to do what he
believed to be his duty. Compare, then,
the case of the aged soldier's widow with
the other. She pleads either poverty or conscience.
If the former, what language can depict the ava-
rice of these spiritual pawnbrokers, who take
even the widow's body in pledge for a paltry thirty
shillings which she cannot afford ? If she plead
conscience, as she may with good right, why are
Presbyterian Doctors alone to have the benefit of
that plea ? It it be denied that there can be any
conscience about the matter, we reply that that is
the assertion of all persecutors against their victims ;
the CathOlics certainly could equally employ it
against the proselyting Scotch doctor. The Ca-
tholics, indeed, by comparison appear to immense
advantage. To imprison a man for teaching
what they held to be fatal erroz was bad enough
in one view, but it is magnanimity itself com-
pared with the miserly meanness and the Shylock
cruelty of imprisoning a woman—an aged woman
—a widow—for THIRTY SHILLINGS !

But we have done. Fully as the war engages
us, we do hope Lord PALMERSTON will take
these Edinburgh Doctors of Divinity in
hand next Session. But for their avaricious
demands the Annuity Tax would ere now
have been extinguished, and it is a disgrace to
the Legislature that it should longer remain for
the benefit of a few ministers whose half filled
churches bear witness to their merits. Lord
PALMERSTON has shown his capacity for schooling
the Edinburgh Presbytery, by his seasonable ad-
monitions when, on the occasion of the cholera,
they wished him to force the people to kirk, while
overlooking the primary duty of purifying the
haunts of disease. We hope he-will now teach
them that the time is come to put an end for ever
to these ecclesiastical forays in the service of
MAMMON. The intolerance of Tuscany or Spain
is respectable by the side of these degrading per-
secutions for filthy lucre. •