The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Official Gazette of this morning publishes
an article declaring that the Conservative party in
Portugal may be considered as extinct, not a single
Conservative candidate having been elected deputy.
A political transformation is therefore inevitab!e
the Reform party taking up the position of the
Progressist party, and the Government remaining
Progressists.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 15.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Borussia, from New York on the Ist inst.,
passed the Needles at 10.35 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.
PARIS, Ocr. 15.

The ConsCtuttonnel of this morning contradicts
the news that the Council of Marshals would meet
earlier than usual on account of extraordinary
duties.

BOURSE, Oct. 14,—The market has been rather
firmer, and shows a slight improvement. Threes,
for the Account, are now at 65r. 25c., Little doing
in RAilway Shares, at about previous quotations.
The market became again weak before the close,
and left off as follows:

41 per Cents. (2)0 --•
Do. end month
3 per Cents 65
Do. end month 65 15
Credit Mobilier 890
Do. end month 878 75
Bank Shares 3.395
Credit Foncier ll6O
Roman 72

Italian Loan 65
Do. end month 65 80
Ditto Throes .. --
New Mexican ....
Russian

Austrian
Spanieh Threes.
florae Debt
Deferred

RA IL

Orlellatii•c•os•I aaa . •••
Northern
Lyons and HeditQrranean
Southern
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona . • •

PAYS.
Cash. Account.
FB3O 830 .. —
.. __ _

975 - 975 -
890 - 892 50
602 50 .. 605 -
500 - - -

495 - .. 495 -
330 - 331 25
431 25 .. 43:5 -
511 25 .. 510 75
380 - 382 50
470 - 467 50
197 50 .. 205 -

The Indians of British Columbia.

The BI WA Columbian publishes the following account,
received in August from the Governor's aide-de-camp, stat-
ing the result of an expedition into the interior of the coun-
try : —" The New Westminster party soon came upon traces
of Macdonald's men, the victims of the late massacre. IS egs
of nails, boxes of carpenters' tools, gutted pack saddles
broken agricultural implements were found in the bush, a
musket shattered by a bullet, yeast tins, ropes, candles, and
surcingles. Mr Brew's party followed up the traces of
the long struggle of ler Donald's hopeless expedition. For
several miles scattered evidences of white men's industry
prepared the way for the scene of the conflict where the 42
horses with their pack-saddles became the property of the
Indians. There a Siwash tomb of logs, pompously adorned
with stokes and flags, showed that a Chilacoten chief had
fallen under a bullet deep ►tche•d in a dying effort by
M`Donald. About fifteen yards from the tomb ley the
unburied body of the white man. The wolves had made
sad havoc with it, stripped naked as it was, but the
features were recognisable and the identity estallished-
The corpse of Higgins, violently distorted, tut well pre-
served, lay half a mile off, and a few hundred yards be-
yond that again the remains of M‘Dougal. Dead horses
in the last stage of decay lay upon the trail. On the fol-
lowing day the earthworks in which M'Donald and his party
kept the Indians at bay were pissed. A couple of miles
further Brew's party came upon the palisaded blockhouse
of the Indians on the summit of a hill near Battik°. The
trees had been all cleared around, and the building loop-
holed ; and, as the works were capable of affording serious
annoyance, permission was given to the volunteers to de-
stroy them. All the people of Suttiko were concerned in the
last massacre, and there can be no risk of increasing the
number of our enemies l.y destroying the building wherein,
in all probability, the murder of M' Donald's party had been
planned. The volunteers worked with energy at the task of
destruction, but the dense masses of smoke which arose from
the conflagration unfortunately gave notice to the Indians of
the approach of the party. A single signal shot was fired
from the opposite side of the lake, and some hours after-
wards it was discovered that a camp of about a dozen huts
had been hastily abandoned, The Indians were traced in
the direction of Bute Inlet. . . . Banshee Lake was
reached by the New Westrainister party on the 6th of July.
By degrees the Indians, who had kept aloof at first, began
to familiarize themselves with the presence of the white
force in the centre of the country, and finally Alexis, the
Chilacoten chief, was induced to present himself to the Go-
vernor. He came on horseback with a considerable retinue.
There was great embarrassment and some alarm in his
manner at first, but by degrees both disappeared, and he
agreed to take active steps for the apprehension of the mur-
derers. The supply of provisions having become extremely
low, it was a matter of regret to the Governor that the re-
ception given to Alexis and his party was not of a liberal
nature; on the 20th of July Mr Cox and hie men returned
to Banshee. Bat for the indefatigable exertions of the Bella
Coola Indians in fishing, the New Westminster party would
have been reduced to considerable straits for want of food.
Mr Cox's party travelled far beyond Tatla Lake, and
reached a country lying between the head waters of the
Horaatheco and Memeia Rivers, where they found evident
traces of the Indian rebels having lately been in that part of
the country. A melancholy incident attended the march in
the death of Mr M`L an, who, contrary to the wishes of Mr
Cox, had gone in search of the natives, in company with a
single Indian, He felt into an ambush and was shot through
the heart. The G ,vernor arriv,d at Alexandria on July
28th. Before his Excellency's departure from Benshee
Lake, on the 25'h, arrangements had been made by which
the Alexandria party, Alexis and his followers, will proceed
from the old Hudson's Bay fort down the Chilio River
towards Tellot's position on the head waters of the Memeia.
Mr Brew will approach, with probably only a portion of his
force, the same spot of the country previously traversed by
Mr Cox in which M`Lean fell. The faithful Bella Coola
Chief and his few warriors attended on Mr Brew. The last
intelligence from the Bella Coola River announces that the
valley is crowded with Indians from the interior who wish
for the re-establishment of peace. The Governor has availed
himself of this favourable feeling to organise, without ad-
ditional expense to the colony, a third party, consisting of
a few New Westminster volunteers, ten marines, and some
friondle Indians, who will, with every prospect of success,
make a descent upon a valley not far from the Great Slide,
in which it is known that several of the murderers of
AVENAttkl'e party are now hid,"