The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUN; LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18; 1856,

B) 0 Y L CREMORN E.
Admission, is.
THE GRAND COMMEMORATIVE FETES,
for the Benefit of the Widows and Orphans of the brave Soldiers
who fell at the
CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL,
will continue throughout the week.
To the general Amusements and Exhibitions, which will be reia-
dared more than usually interesting by valuable professional services
gratuitously rendered, will be added vivid representations of the
Capture of the Malakhoff, the Redan, and Sebastopol, while the
Illuminative Devices and Pyrotechnic Brilliancies will be on a scale
of splendour alike worthy of the important victories achieved and
of the objects for which they are given. I

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand.
THIS EVENING,

Will be,presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint
eats, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two
parts, by Professor Anderson.
Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, H. 11s. 6d. and 1/. Is. ;
Orchestra Stalls, 4s. Dress Boxes,Upper BOZO, 2s. ; Pit,
Is. ; Gallery, 6d, No Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5
daily.

Doors open at Half-past Seven. Commence at Eight.
Grand Morning Performanne on Saturday Next at Two o'clock.
Doors open at Half-past One.

ROYAL OPERA, DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performel Handel's Serenata ACI3 AND GAL kTEA.
Characters by Messrs. Elliot Galer, and H. Braham ; and Miss F.
liuddart and Lucy Escott.
To conclude with MASANIELLO.
Prices of admission :—To the two galleries. 6d.; second circle of
boxes and pit, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; stalls, 4s. ; pea rivate boxes to
admit two persons, 10s. 6d.; four persons, one guin. BOx-Oflace
o;,en from 10 to 6 daily.

THEATRE ROYAL HAI:MARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Bneke.
ons,
THIS EVENING.
Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS.
After which, THE PRETTY airszr AND THE BULL-
FIGHTER.
To be followed by THE SULTAN.
To which will be added ONLY A HALFPENNY.
To conclude with JOHN JONES.

'MEAT= ROYAL ADELPBI.
ropri6t4,:, B. Webster.—Dlreetsess, MC.4.IAMO Celeste.

THIS EVElillirD; •

Writ be performed VICTORINE. Characters by Messrs L. Mur.
ray, C. Selby, P. Bedford, Wright, Parselle, &c.; Miss Woolgar,
Mrs. L. Murray, &c.
After which, HOW'S YOUR UNCLE ?
To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Mr: Payne.
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed FOUNDED ON FACTS.
With a New Ballet.
Followed by SALLY SSIART ; or, The Clockmakor's Hat.
After which, a National Dance.
To which will be added STAGE STRUCK.
Followed by a Spanish Ballet.
To conclude with THREE PAIR OF LOVERS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
LAST WEEK OF MAZEPPA!
TIIIS EVENING,
MAZEPPA and the WILD HORSE; with the SCENES in the
CIRC. ;.E, and the introduction of Mr. Arthur Barnes, the Ch impion
Vaulter, the Brothers Elliott, and a Troupe of Premiers Veltigeurs !
On Monday next a Grand Military Spectacle, embracing the FALL
of SEBASTOPOL, &c , by the author of the "Battle of the Alma."
iimotlice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
W rt. Acting Manager, Mr. Nelson Lee. Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, fun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn. 32 min. aft. s.—Evening 54min. aft. 5
TO-Moßaow—Morn.l6 min. aft. 6—Evening 40 min. aft. 6

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Sept. 18.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.

6t— highest since noon yesterday.
fit—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day, at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.05.
WIND, S.W.—Light, with mild, warm weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1855.

" The AUTOCRAT is resolved never to make
peace on so serious a defeat. as he has sustained
in the capture of Sebastopol." Such ix the asser-
tion of the pro-Muscovites, who would, if possible,
deprive the Western Powers of the legitimate
fruits of the glorious victory attained by so lavish
an expenditure of blood and treasure I The
parties who previously considered Sebastopol per-
fectly impregnable, who delighted in uttering
gloomy vaticinations as to the certain discomfi-
ture that awaited the Allied Arms, are now
striving to prove that, hating succeeded, we should
be contented with what we have accomplished,
and reopen the negotiations for peace, on such
terms as the AUTOCRAT may deign to accord.

If we credit these interested witnesses the
CZAR is more terrible in defeat than in the hour
of triumph. At the latter time we may hope for
favourable terms from his magnanimity ; but woe
betide those who encounter him in his savage
mood, when irritated by the failure of his plans
and the discomfiture of his troops. Their only
hope is to make immediate submission, so that
the victors of yesterday may become the suppliants
of to-day !

Should the rumour prove to be well founded,
and the CzAr. have really put forward such a de-
elaration, it may be regarded purely as a vaunt
to secure the good offices of " the Angel of
Peace," and to induce the good " Cliquot" to make
further exertions to avert so fearful and protract-
ed a contest. The old fable tells us that the
fox proclaimed the grapes placed far beyond his
reach to be sour, and utterly worthless ! And it is
by no means impossible that ALEXANDER 11. may
put forward these vapouring assertions, because
he well knows that he has no chance of obtaining
terms which will allow the maintenance of the
traditional policy of the Empire which he so
recently professed his inflexible determination to
pursue.

But whether true or false—or, if the former,
in whatever light it may be regarded, it is the
more incumbent on the Allies to follow up their
glorious victory with vigour and energy. They
must not rest for a single moment until the whole
of the Crimea is in their hands ; nay, more,
until the boasted legions of Russia have made un-
conditional submission, and yielded themselves as
prisoners of war to their victors. This may easily
be accomplished, if the Western Powers be only
true to themselves, and their commanders display
the qualities suiliable for the position in which
they are placed. Sebastopol is, to all intents and
purposed, our own. The mere possession of a
few forts on the northern side, which cannot pro-
tect even a single Russian vessel, or be rendered
available for any of the purposes for which the
stronghold was originally constructed, but very
slightly detracts from the value of our important
acquisition. Even they must speedily yield with-
out the firing of a single shot. The privations to
which the garrison must necessarily be exposed,
more particularly since the troops who have so
recently evacuated the south side are also to be
fed from these stores, will alone enforce a capitu-
lation, and the relieving army will have quite
sufficient to do on their own account, without en-
create a diversion in favour of the
deav our ing to
half-starving garrison, or supplying the provisions
of Which they are themselves deficient.
There is nothing now to prevent us from
blowing up the sunken wrecks, and thus gaining
admission for our ships into the harbour, who,
unless we are grievously mistaken, could speedily
dispose of the i4orthern Forts, The great point,
however, is to place the troops between' two
fires, and thus compel them to lay down
their arms, and accept such terms as the
victors may think fit to impose. The
movement on Eupatoria is manifestly that
which will complete the important. work we have
undertaken, which will inflict a heavy blow and
great discoal4erfient on the aggressor, and render
bin only too azzioas •to:t**LiO = a hivable- suitot

for that peace which he now affects to despise, and
anxious to obtain it, on far more onerous condi-
tions than those which his representative so con-
tumeliously rejected at Vienna, or which were
contemplated at the time of the framing of the
milk-and-water " Four Points." Nothing was
demanded at first beyond the mere withdrawal of
his absurd and extravagant pretensions. Subse-
quently he was required to enter into his personal
recognisances to keep the peace. Now he must
give material guarantees, together with an ample
indemnity for the expenses of the War, into which
the Allies were forced by his unconscientious
proceedings ; and should he still perversely per-
sist, he may have to submit to other restrictions
and securities far more serious than any that have
yet entered into his contemplation, or that of his
German sympathisers. Let him be assured that
the Western Powers will stand firm to their just
demands and not allow any insidious interference,
and he will speedily make the unconditional sub-
mission, which sooner or later is inevitable.

The Santhal Insurrection furnishes an additional
proof of the risk incurred by the appointment of
incompetent persons to offices of importance. It
is pretty generally known that our sway in India
depends largely on opinion, and that if our prestige
of superior intelligence and power to put down
promptly, and with the strong hand, any attempted
or actual rising against us ware destroyed or seri-
ously diminished, the most disastrous results
would inevitably follow. Yet, here we have a
formidable and bloody insurrection breaking out,
taking the Bengal Government by surprise, and
finding them utterly unprepared, though for two
months previously the Santhal chiefs had gone
about from village to village, calling upon the
people to rise and drive the English out of the
country.

Thousands of armed men' are in motion, village
after village is being plundered, massacre after
massacre committed, and the smoke of burning
bungalows rising to heaven, with the shrieks of
slaughtered zemindars, before this blessed Govern-
ment fairly awakes—and then all is hurry-scurry,
impotency, and confusion. Troops are ordered
off by rail, and no orders sent to the station to
receive them ; the plundered zemindara are called
upon to supply them with food, because there is
no commissariat ; ammunition is wanting in one
place, stores in another, and while 160 veterans,
eager to be led against the insurgents, im-
patiently wait at Berhampore for arms that cannot
be supplied them, a number of European recruits,
just arrived in the country, are despatched to
the spot. A. pretty strong indication of 'nal-
,
administration and imbecility this ! No wonder
that the insurrection should assume a formidable
aspect, and that a powerful effort should be re-
quired to put it down. We have reason, indeed,
to be grateful that the insurrection has not ex-
tended further, and that there is some prospect
of the insurgents being speedily dispersed. If
the other provinces of the Empire are not better
governed, our rule in India is in a most precarious
state.

The origin of the insurrection does not clearly
appear. From what we can gather, however, it
would seem that over-taxation has prepared the
way for some ambitious impostors, for fanaticism,
and love of plunder. Four brothers, residents of
the village of Bhugnadihee—KANoo, SEDU, CHAND,
and BHYRUD—aII Manghees, are said to have
instigated it. Two of these, SRDU and affirm,
went about the villages about two months ago,
and told the Manghees or Mundles of the villages
that a THACOOR had descended on their houses in
the form of a flame of fire, and, therefore, all
should bring a cupful of milk and present it as an
offering. Some trickery was resorted to, and the
requisite impression being made, SEDU showed
the villagers two printed books, two pieces of
paper, and a small knife, sent, he said, by
THACOOR, who had said that the brothers should
be King ; that only one anna should be paid for
each oxen plough, and two annas• for a buffalo
plough ; that their creditors should not be paid,
and that in future only one pice per rupee per
annum should be paid as interest ; that the Eng-
lish were to be driven out of the country ; and,
by way of encouragement, that only water would
come out of their guns. The imposture succeeded
amazingly, and in a brief period upwards of 10,000
Santhals were in arms at Bhugnadihee. The
Darogah of Dighee having received information
of this went to Panchkattea with eight or ten
police, and was met by 500 Santhals under SEDU,
and questioned and murdered by that chief, who
immediately proceeded to plunder the villages and
murder all who would not follow him. Then came
a career of plunder and destruction well adapted
to the notions of the Santhals, who, though em-
ployed as labourers, are. as our readers doubtless
are aware, a predatoryribe belonging to the hill
country to the south of Bengal. By the latest
accounts, however, it would seem the insurgents
—who by the way had completely defeated a de-
tachment of the sGth—are thrown back, and will
in all probability soon be encountered and dis-
persed.

Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenherg-Strelitz have taken
their departure from this country for Germany.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, with their youth-
ful family, are at present staying at Beaumaris. The
Earl and Countess Howe and the Ladies Curzon have
been staying with their noble relatives.
The Marchioness of Ely has returned to town from
Balmoral, from attending her duties as Lady in Waiting
on the Queen.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at
dinner last evening, at their mansion on the Terrace,
Piccadilly, the Duchess of Inverness, Lady William
Russell and Mr. Russell, CountZa,moyska, Sir William
lvloleaworth, Sir George Grey, Sir George Shee, Mr.
Phinn, Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Dr. Birth (the African
traveller), and Mrs. Lane Fox. •
. The gentlemen composing the suite of his Imperial
Highness the Prince Napoleon have left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, after a short visit to town.
THE MEDITERRANEAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
CAGLIARI, Sept. 7.e--The English ship Result has ar-
rived here with the cable of the submarine telegraph,
which is to connect Spartivento with the African coast.
Mons. de Salamanca has left the Brunswick Hotel,
Jermyn-street, on his return to Paris. The Count de
Calderon remains in town.
Baron Le Clerc has left the Brunswick Hotel; Jermyn-
street, for Paris.
The Marchioness of Ormonde, with the young marquis
and her ladyship's other children, arrived at Kilkenny
Castle, from Annestown, county Waterford, on Sa-
turday.
The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa Paken-
ham are at present sojourning at the Royal Hotel,
Kingstown.
The Earl of Limerick has arrived at John Vander-
kiste, Esq.'s, from Sir Edward Kennedy's, Rathcoole.
His lordship has taken Shelbourne House, North-strand,
Limerick.
Icon. Miss. Trench
haLveoradrraivnedd LatadcyleAghsnheddofweyn
on the 20th
longford, is to Blacker,lead to the hymeneal altar,
St. John Esq., D.L., of Tcllyhena, Bally-
Canadstlteh.e
daughter of
inst., Frances, the eldest and accomplished
Colonel
ceremony Crofton Moore Vandeleur, D.L., and Lady
Vandeleur' of Kilrush House. The is to be
performed hy the Lord Riversdale, Bishop of Killalos,
at Kilrush.
DEPARTURES FROM THE POET OF LONDON.—The de-
partures from this port for the Australian colonies
during the past week have comprised seven vessels—two
to Sydney, two to Adelaide, one to Port Philip, one to
New Zealand, and one to Swan River—with an aggre-
gate capacity of 4,946 tons. The rates of freight have
not recovered from the late depression.
• DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL UNETT.—lntelligence has
been received in Birmingham of the death of this distin-
guished officer. He was reported "severely wounded
at the late assault upon Sebastopol'; and on Saturday
' night hie family in Birmingham received information of
the fatal result. The gallant colonel was much beloved
by, his regiment.
• DR. BA:time—The following letter has been received
Marseilles from Tripoli, dated 29th August :—" All
Europe will be delighted to hear of the safe arrival from
-Barth. He has pasecl five. •a
Timbuctoof Dr.
years
opitahistg-thithlinkodusmra ' • • -

for two months, and that there is no reason for
fear.

The Military Gazette of Vienna learns that the
commanding officers of troops have received orders
to watch actively for those who are recruiting for
the foreign legions, as it is known that Colonel
Stutterheim has succeeded in gaining over soldiers
from various states for the British German Legion.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

We have received our despatches from India by
the Overland Mail, of the dates given yesterday in
our telegraphic summary of the news.

The following is the summary of the Bombay
Times of Aug. 13 :
The Santhal insurrection, the commencement of
which we noticed last mail, is still in progress ; but
we know as little now as we did a fortnight since of
the causes which led to it, or the catastrophe to
which it may yet lead. The insurgents in the field
are said to amount to 30,000—bands of them from
500 to 2,000 strong are overrunning the country to
the south-eastward, spreading terror and desolation
before and around them. Two hundred villages are
already said to have been destroyed by them, and
several great towns have been brought into danger.
Wherever they have come in contact with the regu-
lar troops they have of course been dispersed with
much slaughter, and they are not anywhere in a
position to offer effective resistance to the most mo-
derate-sized detachments. So soon as we have a
sufficient force in the field they will be hunted or
driven back to their fastnesses, but the mischief
they are at present occasioning is as lamentable as
their appearance in the field was unexpected. We
must refer the reader to our extracts for'details,
which, from their diffusiveness and doubtful accu-
racy, we find ourselves unable to work up into a
regular summary. To us the most important event
is the early retirement of the Marquis of Dalhousie
from supreme authority, and the deep disappoint-
ment experienced that what we knew must neces-
sarily occur six months hence should be anticipated
by an hour. The public mind, besides, has been
made up for the appointment of Lord Elgin, a man
of such pre-eminent talent, so well trained and se-
verely tried in statesmanship, that we hoped to find
in him a successor worthy of the illustrious statesman
who now leaves us amidst the regrets of all India.
Lord Canning may turn out as able a governor as
Wellesley, Bentinck, or Dalhousie, but %ve should
have preferred a man with more conspicuous ante-
cedents ; and should have regarded the Cabinet
that gave us the late Governor-General of Canada
as a viceroy much more likely to have been sincere
in the maxim they had laid down, " that India to
be well governed must be governed in India,"
than that which placed the Postmaster-General
over an empire more than half as large as Europe,
to administer the affairs of 150,000,000 of human
beings. The interests of the British dominions in
the East seem so significant in the estimation of
Englishmen, that the first chance they have of re-
ceiving the attention which is their duo will
probably be when the Chancellor of England
calls for a few millions annually to meet their an-
nual charges. The Bombay Government are pre-
pared to grant the Western India Irrigation Com-
pany the entire profits of their improvements for
99 years, and speak on the subject in a tone of li-
berality and of cordial warmth such as commands
universal admiration. One of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's ships has just made the pas-
sage to Aden by the northern route ; it occupied
12 days in the first attempt, or three less than the
average. The experiment was ordered by Mr.
Ritchie, for seven years the able and indefatigable
superintendent of the company here, who left for
England by last mail, with the best wishes of all
who know him. At Bombay, notwithstanding the
auspicious commencement of the rains, we begin to
be threatened with an alarming drought, being nearly
a half short of our average fall at the date at which
the south-west monsoon is usually considered over.
The Madras Presidency, under the administration
of Lord Harris, is at present taking the lead
in public improvement ; a plan as wise as vigor-
ous of putting down torture promises if per-
severed in to besuccessful. The affairs of the large
collectorate of Malabar are so managed under the
able administration of Mr. Conolly, that the ryots
who were wont only to pay their taxes under a sys-
tem of personal violence are now clamorous for
land on government terms, and as eager to pay
rent under the apprehension of losing their land as
government is to receive it. This auspicious state
of matters, which is rapidly spreading over the
Bombay Presidency under our admissable revenue
system, might at no distant date become universal
were the example of the Bombay Government and
the Collector of Malabar fairly followed out. A
system of museums for economic and educational
purposes proceeding from a central one at Madras
is spreading over every part of the Presidency—a
matter in which we in Bombay are beginning tar-
dily to copy the sister presidency. The chief of
these is visited by some 20,000 natives monthly,
a third of whom are females. The first trial trip
was made on the Madras Railway on the Ist of
August. It is expected to be opened in December :
the forty miles having been begun and finished in
two years. The Governor-General is still on the
Neilgherries. Lord Harris continues at Madras,
and has not, as was imagined, proceeded to join the
Governor-General at the hills. Lord Elphinstone
and the Commander-in-Chief continue in the Dec-
can. Trade is dull, freights low, and the money
market is cagy.