The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1855.

Chief Justice Jervis, who has become somewhat noto-
rious for perpetrating divers family jobs since his eleva-
tion to the judicial bench, is now, we understand, endea-
vouring to accomplish another job of the most selfish
and flagrant character. Five years have scarcely elapsed
'since Sir John Jervis, by some species of legerdemain,
had himself foisted into the seat then occupied by Chief
Justice Wilde, who desired to become Lord Chancellor,
for the purpose of holding the Great Seal a short period,
afterwards n
resigning such appointment, and retiring o
the pension of five thousand pounds a year for life !
Accordingly, Lord Truro acquitte 1 in a certain way the
duties of Lord Chancellor for a few months, and now
enjoys the above extravagant pension.
Sir Jobn Jervis has already provided for certain mem-
bers of his own family, by appointing them to situations
which hitherto were appendages to the Chief Justice-
ship of the Common Pleas, but lately were made by
clevet manoeuvring permanent offices for life to the re-
spective holders ! Now we have been informed that
this chief justice is endeavouring to retire from the posi-
tion which he holds, but not without the pension annexed
thereto. Yes, this pension which is to be enjoyed in
idleness—this pension of several thousands a year is the
great temptation for striving to get a better and more
efficient person into the high judicial office. Undoubt-
edly Sir Alexander Cockburn would have no particular
objection to resign his Attorney-Generalship—which is
held during the now precarious tenure of the present
Ministry—in order to become a substitute for Sir John
Jervis, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
But, will the public—will the taxpayers of England—
encourage and sanction such a flagitious and discredit-
able transaction ? Will those who maintain and pro-
mulgate the principles of administrative reform support
the retirement of so young a judge as Sir John Jervis
ssith the comfortable if not extravagant pension, for
scarcely five years' tenure of office ? It there be in Par-
liament any members who are honest and sincere in cur-
tailing lavish expenditure of money, ought they not
fearlessly and zealously to denounce this mostiniquitous
contemplated job ? Why should the people of England
be required to pay an exorbitant pension to a person
now holding an office of seven thousand pounds a-year,
especially when the holder thereof has been scarcely five
years discharging its duties, and which pension of seve-
ral thousands annually Sir John Jervis may receive for
twenty years to come ?
This new Jervis job is indeed too monstrous—too un-
blushing, even for the present Premier to concede and
ratify. Would not the question of impeachment against
Ministers naturally arise, if a pension were now granted
to Chief Justice Jervis, who is so young in point of age
for this office, and who has for scarcely five years d's-
charaed the duties thereof ? Is it not shameless and
disgraceful fot any Cabinet Minister to contemplate and
entertain this slyly.concocted but iniquitous manoeuvre ?
—Mornifly Claonicle,

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our despatches in advance of
the Overland Mail. The dates are Bombay, June
10, and Calcutta, June 4.
The following is from the summary of the Bom-
bay Times, June 10 :
" This is the season at which no intelligence from
India is to be looked for, and though scarcely a
drop of rain has yet reached us, a fortnight of the
rainy season is just as much held to be past so far
as the suspension of military movements out of
doors and slackening of business within, is con-
cerned, as if we had had our half-inch of fall daily
since the end of May.—There have been sundry
gang robberies with loss of life in the Nizam's
country, but that is a matter of weekly occurrence
all the year round, and there has been no occa-
sion for sending an expedition anywhere into the
field.—The severe castigation the borderers on our
Peshawur frontier have received, combined
with the advance of the hot weather, have
secured us tranquillity for the present even in this
turbulent quarter.—Several cases of robbery have
occurred in Scinde, chiefly remarkable as indica-
tive of the desperate character and reckless daring
of some of the plunderers in these parts. On the
21st of April information was received of a robbery
committed on the north-eastern border, when a
small party of the Shikarpoor mounted police were
sent out in quest of the plunderers. Two of them
were captured ; on being confronted with the in-
former, they confessed, and were ordered to be
placed in the stocks. Two of their relations being
present, and hearing the order given, seized the
swords of the police, for a moment laid aside,
wounded them most severely, and having mastered
the post, mounted their four horses, and rode off
to their own village, where they were immediately
pursued•by a party of 20 mounted police. On
arriving at the village, the horsemen found that the
robbers, after destroying their wives and families,
had attacked a party of seven sent out in quest
of them by the Nawab of Bahwulpoor, 'killing
one, and wounding two mortally and four severely.
By this time three of them were cut to pieces, a
fourth fell into the bands of the police alive, after
being disabled from resistance by his wounds—the
only one left to tell the tale of their ferocity. At
Kurrachee a gang of 32 Pa:tan burglars had enlisted
themselves in the Bth Regiment of Native Infantry,
with a view of being enabled to carry on their ope-
rations without detection. A number of petty
robberies haying been committed in the neighbour-
hood under circumstances which brought them
under suspicion, they were carefully watched and
two of them caught in the fact ; but they made
such desperate resistance that it was impossible to
capture them until both they and the police had
suffered most severely at each other's hands. The
whole of the gang have since been traced and appre-
hended. Thy are sure to give information on each
other, when it is almost certain that every one of
them will be found to be implicated in a burglary.
The highest praise on this occasion is due to Capt.
Marston of the police, by whose means the whole
thing was brought to light, and who headed the
party, maintained for a time a personal conflict
with one of the robbers, had his teeth knocked out,
and was otherwise severely handled.
We rejoice to hear that the health of the Gover-
nor-General is improving.
Lard Elphinstone is in the Deccan, and Sir W.
Gomui at Simla. The Hon. Walter Elliott, mem-
ber of Council at Madras, has been compelled by
the state of his health to proceed on furlough to
England.
Ensign W. H. Harington, 42d Regiment, N. 1.,
died at Jubulpore on the 17th May.
There is little or nothing doing in our markets,
the season having been closed. Tonnage is scarce,
and exchange on England has advanced.

KHIVA, KOKAN, AND BOKHARA.
The Delhi Gazette, publishes portions of a letter
from its Bokhara, correspondent, supposed to have
been written about the midlo of April. The fol-
lowing are extracts :
" There has been a collision at last between the
Russians and the troops of the Khan at Khiva.
The latter got the worst of it, and suffered consi-
derable loss. The misunderstanding arose through
th. denredations of several thousand Alamans, who
not only plundered certain visages iu rersian
Khorasan, and carried the inhabitants into slavery,
but had the boldness to carry off large herds of
sheep and Camels belonging to the Russian force,
which still remains in cantonments on the frontier
of the Khiva territory. The King of Bokhara has
been much concerned at this affair.
" There are various reports about the hostilities
between Sirdar Mahomed. Azum Khan and the
Herates. Some say that the latter have gained a
victory near Sheburghan, others that they have
been defeated.. However the King of Bokhara has
thought it fit to send a message of congratulation
to the Heratees.
" The Kokan troops have bravely held out
hitherto against the Russians. But the numbers
and influence of the latter are steadily increasing.
"A messenger has reached this place from Maceia
with intelligence of the death of the Emperor of
Russia and the elevation of his son to the throne.
The King has prepared a letter of condolence to
send to the new Czar.
" The Persian army at Mery Shahjahan had been
defeated by the Khiva troops, but had been rein-
forced and again obtained a footing in the Khiva
territory.
" The King of Bokhara has seized some ten mes-
sengers from Cabul, who are said to have been
despatched by the Ameer to bring news from Khiva
and Kokan. The poor men lost their way, were
recognised as strangers by the Oosbegs, and
brought to the King. Their story is, that they
were coming to Bokhara on mercantile business,
but that having missed the road, they were making
the best of their way to the Khiva frontier. How-
ever, they have been thrown into the famous
Bokhara dungeons.
" Certain messengers from Nazir Khairoolla has
lately arrived at Kurshee with letters from certain
Oosbegs whom the Nazir knew when in Bokhara.
He had asked them to send him news for the Eng-
lish Government, who would reward them liberally.
But the Oosbegs dismissed the Nazir's messengers,
with a promise to denounce them to the king if
they ventured to come to Bokhara again on such
business.
" I have been fortunate enough to contract a
friendship with a respectable Oosbeg in the city of
Bokhara, named Ataleek Beg, whose father knew
Mokat Saheb (Moorcrof), the Englishman who was
poisoned and buried by the former King's people at
Bulkh. Ataleek Beg himself knew Stadut (Stod-
dart) Saheb, and gives a distressing account of the
sufferings which that brave Englishman endured be-
fore he met with his horrible end. He says that be
has iu his possession certain papers which belonged
to Colonel Stoddart, and which Moolah Yusuf
(the Rev. Dr. Woolf) offered him 200 teelas for, on
his visit to Bokhara 12 years ago. But he refused
to give the papers .to Dr. Woolf, as Col. Stoddart
had promised him that if he would go to England
and deliver the papers, in person to the Wuzeer
Dawul Khwajah (Foreign Minister) at London, his
fortune would be made by the Queen, whose am-
bassador he, Colonel Stoddart, was. e adds that
Colonel Stoddart gave him a letter to his sister and
brother in England, and that he has been fully in-
tending to sat out for that country, but he has put
off his departure from time to time until now, it is
not likely that he will ever go. He says that he
has been deterred by fear lest. on arriving in Eng-
land he should be treated with neglect, and his ex-
pensive and perilous journey go for nothing. He
says that Nazub Abdool Samud and Khairoollah
Sodagur behaved most treacherously to Colonel
Stoddart in money matters, but that ho was too
generous a man to suspeet them.
I have come across a man who offers for a con-
sideration to go to Kekan and bring a detailed ac-
count in writing of the Russian force there.
"The people here remark that in former times
large caravans used to pass to and fro between this
place and the Russian frontier, but that the trade
has of late become very dull on account of the war
which is raging between Russia and the Sultan of
Room.
Five thousand Moolahs are employed all day and
ev
ander
ydatyhe in
The King of Bokhara maintains a correspondence
ovperratyhirnogw for the triumph of the faith-
fulof Russia.
with the court of Persia, while he is deterred by
fear of Russia from allying himself with Kokan and
Shiva. He is also alarmed lest the English, taking
dlday on y
disposition of
aDdovsatnmtaagheomofedth, eshpoureldseandtvfariencne
some
Bok-
hara by way of Bulkh and avenge the outrages
which he has committed on their countrymen.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CALCUTTA MARKET.
(From, the Englishman of the 2cl of June.)
SATURDAY, June 2.
The telegraph via Bombay gave us the heads of the
news by mail of the 26th of April, and the arrival of the
Oriental has since put us in possession of our letters,
which, giving no prospect of an early termination of the

war, must lead men of business seriously to consider
what effect will be, at least during war, produced upon
the consumption in Europe of those articles of our pro-
duce of which the long reign of peace has fostered an an-
nually increasing export.
We have no later news from China, but the purchases
of rice for that market have continued with unabated
vigour, and the demand thus created for tonnage has
given a lift to our otherwife drooping freights.

Irate of 92fr. 25 centimes, the usufruct to commence on
the 22d of March, 1855.
The ratite of 3 per cent. will be issued at the rate of
65f. 25c, with usufruct from June 22, 1855.
Art. 3. In conformity with the regulations of the first
article in the law of July 11, 1855, the dotation of the
sinking fund will be increased from the Ist of January,
1856, by a sum equal to the hundredth part of the no•
minal capital of the rentes that shall be issued in virtue
of the Ist article in the present decree.
Art. 4. Our Minister Secretary of State of the Finance
is charged with the execution of the present decree.
Done at the Palace of the Tuileries, July 14, 1855.
By the Emperor. NAPOLEON.
The Minister Secretary of State of the Finance.
P. MAGNE.