The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-20 00:00:00

SATtT.RDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 20, 1.861.

TEE BOMBAY NAIL.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers to July 23, and from Calcutta
to July 15.
We take the following summary of news from
the Bombay Gazette of July 23 :
The Governor General has recently recordod a
minute limiting the powers of the Financial Mem-
ber of his Council, an office now held by Sir Charles
Trovelyan. His Excellency has ruled that the
authority of this functionary in sanctioning any
expenditure up to £6O a month will be final ; but
in Ca8:8 exceeding that sum the sanction of the
Governor General will be necessary.
In consequence of the recent order of the Seere.
tary of State for India, prohibiting the Governor•
General from sanctioning any expenditure exceed-
ing £3OO per annum without reference to England,
the proposition for increasing the salaries of the
First Judges of the Small Cause Court in the Pre-
sidency towns of %ngal, Bombay, and Madras,
from £l5O to £2OO per mensem, has been referred
to the India Council for sanction.
The pleadings in appeal in the case of Mahomed
Saffe and the 11 other conspirators, convicted by
ballah, of having abetted the Sittana fanatics in
wSiargHineb
grweartrEadgawianrsdtetsh,
the British
Sessions Judge of Um-
ritish Government, have
been commenced before the Judicial Commissioner
of the Punjab.

An Affghan merchant, who was recently impri-
soned at Bokhara, writes from Cabul to say that he
there saw the four Italian silk-growers in prison, but
that they are only detained by the King of Bokhara
are well treated. a ransom for them, and
for the purpose of gEtting

The latest advices received from Cabul, through
Delhi and Lahore, fully confirm the intelligence
communicated in our last Overland Summary of the
compete victory gained by the Ameer of Cabul,
near Bamean, on the 10th of May last, over the
troops of his rebellious brother, Sirdar Mahomed
Afzul Khan, the Governor of Balkh. The Ameer
has returned to Cabul, and is occupied in strength.
ening all his positions by the levy of fresh troops
and the collection of artillery and military stores
in large quantities. It is rumoured that the
recently defeated Sirdar threatens to continue his
aggressions against tha Ameer; but his troops are
said to be flocking to his brother's standard in great
numbers daily since their recent defeat and total
rout. Sirdar Mahomed Auzim Khan, another of
the brothers of the Ameer, who was, with his whole

force, routed and beaten by the latter in a pitched
battle 801120 tire ago, is still a fugitive under British
protection in the Punjab.

The Bhi;otanese are still threatening to attack and
seize the British territory of Mooch Behar; and the
Dhurm Rjah has directed that his forts shall be
repaired and put in order; that his army shall be
recruited from among the hill people ; and that a
demand be made upon the British Government for
the arrears of subsidy alleged to be due for the
Dooars of Assam. The British authorities in Assam
have suspended all communications with Bhootan.
The latest Rangoon papers received at Calcutta mention
a rumour that the King of Burmah is making preparations
for war with the English on a grand scale. A large body of
men, it is r aid, is employed in erecting stockades far and
near, as also in and about the vicinity of Mandalay, in our
recently acquired Province of Pegu.
Instructions have been received in India from the Vcre-
tary of State that no ships of war of any of the belligerent
Powers in Europe shall be permitted to enter any port in
the east with prizes, and that the system of neutrality is to
be strictly carried out.

The rumour that Sir Hugh Rose goes to England in
October has been contradicted, and it is now stated that
his Excellency will not leave India until the ensuing spring.
Tho last news received from England by telegram to
the 261 Juno has completely paralysed business transac-
tions in Bombay of every description ; and notwithstanding
the abundance of money, there has been something like a
panic in the share market, a great decline having taken
place in the price of stocks.

The first passenger train from Madras to Bangalore
was run on July 6. The trip was an experimental one,
and was performed satisfactorily, The through line from
Madras to Bangalore will be opened to public traffic shortly,
and thus open the commerce of Mysore to the Presidency,
His Highness Maharajah Holkar, of Indore, has con-
canted to Mr Ayrton's scheme for a railway from the Ner-
budda to Indore, which is to join the North-Eastern Ex-
tension of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway near As-
seeruhur and the Eastern India Railway at Agra.

Vbry heavy rain has fallen at Bombay and in the neigh.
bouring districts during the past fortnight, and the weather
has been extremely boisterous. Several vessels that left
the harbour last week were compelled by stress of weather
to return to port, and a large number of ships ready for sea
have been detained in consequence.

The Governor-General ha; confirmed the grant of £1,500
to Mr Aitch!son for his labour in compiling tho "Book of
Treaties" with the native powers of India; and requested
him to add to the work by compiling the treaties with the
native princes in the Bombay Presidency.

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

(1:•n,;a the l'aelnan's Journal.)
BELFAST, Thursday Evening.
As I have already informed you by telegram, the
rioting has ceased for the present, but the demeanour
and expression of those who are still permitted to
group tog( ther in the districts lately the scene of
such sanguinary and disagreeable riots, clearly in-
dicate that the presence of an overwhelming force
of police and military alone prevents a renewal of
the conflict. It is feared by those who are well
acquainted with the characteristics of the Sandy-
raw men that to ensure a continuance of the com-
parative quiet which now prevails the town must be
maintained in a state of siege for a long time to
come. As you have already remarked, editorially,
it is to the apathy and mismanagement of the local
magistrates that a great deal of the mischief which
has occurred must be ascribed. Had they acted
with vigour the riots would have terminated almost
as soon as they began. But they did not under-
stand why Orange ascendancy was not to disport
Itself—and it has done so with a vengeance. There
is much reason to believe that the number of
casualties, in the nature of injuries to the person
fatal or otherwise, has not been yet correctly ascer-
tained. For some motive best known to them.
selves, the people on both sides are anxious
to conceal from the authorities as far as
possible the occurrence of any mishap of the nature
referred to, and in some instances there is no doubt
they have succeeded in this. One case will illus-
trate this fact. While Mr Davis, R.M., and a party
of police were engaged this morning searching for
firearms in a house in Milford street, they found the
remains of a young man, whose name it has been
ascertained was Thomas Hayburne, lying in a coffin
in one of the apartments. The deceased showed a
frightful gunshot wound, which no doubt occa-
sioned death, in the neck, the bullet having passed
clean through. The face was covered with blood
which had flowed from the wound. Preparations
were being made for a❑ immediate interment, but
they were suspended by order of the magistrate
until an inquest was held. Hayburne was a navvy,
and a stranger here ; he was only 22 years of age,
and I understand leaves a wife and three children.
The authorities had no knowledge of his death until
the accidental discovery of his remains as I have
described. At the police office this morning, before
the mayor, Mr Lyons, Mr Taylor, and Mr Lanyon,
several persons were brought up charged with hav
ing been concerned in the riots, and sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment.

The magistrates refused to authorise the military
or police to interfere with the funeral procession,
although a regular fubilade was 11.2 pt up by the
Oringemen as they pas.,,cd down Donegal-place and
High-street. Six men have bee❑ arrested for dis.
charging firearms, but beyond this nothing has been
done. From the rapidity and frequency of the firing
several hundred men must have been armed. Great
excitement now prevails, and the town presents a
must unsettled aspect.

RIOTING IN DUNDALK.
DUNDALK, Thursday.
I regret to inform you that this proverbially
quiet town was the scene of several serious out-
rages last night, which commenced with the burn-
ing in effigy of King William, in retaliation for the
insult offered to the memory of O'Connell in Belfast.
During the day a rumour became prevalent that
a mob would turn out, and the Very Rev. Dean
Kieran and the Rev. Mr Hardy, C.C., immediately
waited on the suspected parties and implored them
to remain in their houses and offer no insult to their
Protestant townsmen. Some promised obedience,
and it is said others refused to make any promise,
About nightfall it was observed that several b odies
of men were moving through the streets in de-
tached parties, but with no weapons visible, and
apparently without any intention of committing
offence. But about half-past nine o'clock a large
body assembled in and about Licrenhall-street, and
immediately after the effigy of King William was
burned amidst frightful Sells, and ho ivls from about
500 men and. boys present. The entire party then
rushed up through thh principal streets, gathering
strength as they wey_it along, and shouting in the
most terrific maw :ter. Shortly after the windows
of some respect: ale houses inhabited by Protestants
were broken. Subsequently the Ragged School
was atta eked, and every window smashed. The
mob then proceeded to the Methodist Meeting-house,
in Wellington street, the windows in which were
also broken.

DUBLIN, Friday Night.
Contrary to expectation the rioters have resumed
operations. At four o'clock this morning, and
again at nine, they created disturbances. In the
latter melee they fired upon the police, four of
wham, it is said, were brought to the hospital
wounded, as well as nine civilians. An unfortunate
boy was shot in the abdomen. The respectable
citizens held a meeting, and appointed deputations
of Roman CAthio:-:::,A. eiltilavour to exact pledgee
from the people that they would not join in any
more riots.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO .PERTH.--A, meeting
of the Lord Provost and magistrates of Perth was held on
Wednesday, with the view of making arrangements for the
forthcoming inauguration of the Albert statue by her
Majesty. It was resolved to issue a proclamation recom-
mending that the 30th be observed in the city as a holiday.
It is understood that the ceremonial will be very simple and
brief, not occupying much above a quarter of an hour.
The public will be excluded from the general station on her
Majesty's arrival, and it is particularly requested that thero
be no noisy demonstration ou the North Inch. Her Ma.
jesty, on reaching the Inch, will be presented with a short
address by the magistrates, and the inaugurrtory prayer
will be offered by the Rev Mr Burden, of the East Church.
THE "READER'S' TRIBUTE TO MR. F. ROBSON.
—Since Edmund Kean there has been no English
actor who has made so deep an impression on the public;
and it is remarkable that the careers of the two men were
to a great extent similar at the outset. Edmund Kean
played Harlequin in country barns ; Robson acted as
Clown, or funny nmri, in country circuses. A further and
more interesting parallelism might be traced with regard to
the genius of the two. Both were unequal in their present-
ments of the characters they assumed; both relied, perhaps
unconsciously, on their powers of moving their audience by
the representation of sudden outbursts of intense emotion,
and neglected the smaller details by which alone great and
complex character can be thoroughly depicted either on the
canvas or on the stage. There is no need to say any-
thing of Robson as a comedian : his humour was his
own—profound, fantastic, irresistible, not to be re-
placed. He created a repertoire of which there is no in-
heritor. By the public he will not soon be forgotten
any more than by his private friends, of whom he had
many warmly attached to him. Born at Margate in 1821,
he made his first appearance in London at the Grecian
Theatre in the City Road in 1344. After playing there for
five years he went to Thiblin, and in 1853 came to the
Olympic, at that time tinder the management of the late Mr
William Farren. It was during this engagement at the
Olympic that lar, made his great hit. Ho had been an im-
mense favourite both at the Grecian Theatre and in Dublin ;
but it was some time before his quality was recognised at
the West-end theatre, His performance of illacbeth in the
late [Frank Talfourd's travestie of Shakspere's tragedy
stamped him as a burlesque actor of extraordinary power,
and he rose in public esteem with every succeeding character
he sustained. In 1857 or 1858 he joined with Mr Emden
in the management of the Olympic, on the lesseeship being
given up by Mr. A. Wigan. On Wednesday he was buried
in the cemetery at Norwood, his grave surrounded by a
concourse of friends more or loss closely bound to him, all
sincerely regretting his loss,—The Reader of to-day,

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last,
the train leaving Shrewsbury for Hereford at seven
a.m. approached the station at Marsh Brook, the stoker,
who was oiling the engine, slipped off, and the whole train
passed over him. He had, however, fallen into a slight
hollow between the rails, and escaped with the loss of three
fingers, which were hanging by the skin when he got up.
He took hold of them with his other hand, tore them off
and threw them away, and seemed to feel so little pain that
he wanted to pursue his journey to Hereford, but was per-
suaded to go to Church Stretton by a ballast train, there to
obtain surgical assistance,

MURDER IN CORK.—BANDON, AUGUST 17.—A
most barbarous murder was perpetrated yesterday
near Bantry, the victim, a respectable farmer named Michael
Lynch. lie was found dead in a lane close to his dwelling
house, with a gunshot wound through his chest, his jaw
bone broken, and. other marks of great violence upon his
head and bey. The gun wound alone would have been
sufficient to cause the death, but the assassin or assassins
were determined on finishing their brutal work. The police
are in search of a suspected person. One arrest has been
already made, and that a relative of deceased. An inquest
is about being held, the result of NI h'ch I will conummicate
to you.--Freeman's Journal.