The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

INDIA.

We take the following from the Calcutta English-
man of Aug. 22 :
" Our advices from Peshawar tell us that the
ordinary traffic between Cabal and Peshawar has
been completely stopped since the middle of last
month, and on both sides of the border apprehen-
sions are entertained that serious State convulsions
are on the eye of breaking out in Affghanistan.
Shere Ali, or Ameer the Second, as he styles himself,
has inaugurated his succession to the throne of Dost
Mahomed in the usual Oriental manner. He had
executed his brother, Mahomed Aslam, a man of high
character and well known as a partisan of his more
enlightened brother Azim Khan, who, to escape the
same fate, immediately afterwards fled from Cabal
towards the north, accompanied by 700 horsemen,
and it is supposed he will be joined by a much
larger number of followers. Share Ali justifies his
act by affirming that his three brothers, Azfnl,
Azim, and Aslam, were conspiring against his life,
and that the measures he took were those of self-
defence; and he points to the flight of Azim in
confirmation i)f the fact. It is pretty confidently
asserted, and generally believed, that Afzul Khan
is actually preparing to rise in rebellion against
Shere Ali, for he has already engaged some
thousands of fighting men at a very high rate of
pay—as much as 10 and 12 rupees a month, it is
said ; while the ordinary pay of a soldier in
Afghanistan is only four rupees. The Ghilsies
have risen in revolt in the south, and other tribes
are expected to follow their example.

BOMBAY, Sept. 11.

Business more active.
Dollars, 490 r.; 71b. shirtings, 8.12 r. ; freight,
60e,

CHINA.

We take the following summary of news from
the Overland China Mail of the 12th of August :-
4, From Pekin we have intelligence to June 29th.
The weather had been very hot (from 95 to 97 in
the shade), and the houseflies and sandflies very
troublesome. The success of the Danish Envoy in
obtaining a treaty, as stated in our last, is consi-
dered a triumph. China has now entered into
treaty relations with eight nations, viz., Russia,
United States, Great Britain, France, Prussia,
Belgium, Portugal, and Denmark, whose treaties
were signed in the ord,;r of their enumeration;
a treaty was negotiated with Sweden, in 1845,
but the Swedes have not appeared to claim the re-
cent concessions to other powers. Much praise is
due to the Danish envoy for his success in these
negotiations, for the Chinese authorities were not
inclined to make any more compscts of the sort ;
and he fully deserves the rewards we doubt not will

be conferred on him at Copenhagen. From the
northern ports we have no news of importance. Of
the rebels we have some news. Gordon gained a
victory on the 27th inst. (which would be important
under other circumstances than those ❑ow existing),
in the capture of Wu kiang, a walled city 15 miles
south of Soochow, and interrupting the communica-
tions between that stronghold and Hanchow, as well
as with Shanghae, the source whence the rebels still
draw large supplies of arms and men; but the vic-
tory is more than counterbalanced by the accession
of Burgevine to the rebel ranks, with, it is said,
500 rowdies of all nations, chiefly American, who
have been conveyed in batches to Soochow, Burge.
vine's designs were openly discussed in the settle-
ment for upwards of a week before he actually left
the place, and having reached the ears of the
Chinese authorities, they called upon the American
Consul to prevent his departure; as was expected,
however, nothing of the kind was done, and Burge•
vine openly left Shanghae on the 20th of July, and,
on the 2d of August, succeeded by a coup de main
in carrying off the Chinese steamer Kow-jow from
Sunkiang just as she was anchoring at the latter
place on her return from Shanghae. Burgevine has
been elevated to the rank of Wang, with the title
Kwei, or honourable, by the rebel chieftain, and,
although neither his own military cap4city nor the
prowess of his tag-rag and bobtail crew of rowdies
need inspire apprehension, he is dangerous, owing
to the influence he is supposed to retain among a
portion of Major Gordon's force. On the other
hand, it is well ascertained that, although Soochow
is well defended and thoroughly fortified, the garri-
son is suffering from scarcity, and the strict block-
ade which the recent success of the Imperialists
enable them to maintain at Nanking will prevent
supplies from being introduced from that direction.
An embargo has recently been imposed at Shan ghee
on the transport of rice to the interior, as it was
alleged that enormous supplies found their way to
the interior, and into rebel hands. This has caused
a panic among the large holders of rice in Shanghae.
" In Shanghae the extreme heat has moderated,
and cases of sickness are fewer. The Ocean Mail,
laden with tea, has been totally wrecked in the
Yang-tsze river. She left Shanghae on the Ist
inst., bound for London. When outside she an-
chored during the night, and in the morning at-
tempted to drop down the river in charge of a branch
pilot and an apprentice. When nearly abreast of
the position where the Sovereign of India grounded,
she touched with her keel on an old wreck, and fell
over on her beam ends with her yardarms on the
ground. An apprentice pilot and a ship's boy were
drowned, the rest of the crew being saved in the
boats, and by the assistance of the steamer Pem-
broke. The cargo is insured.
From Ningpo, we hear of an affair of which we
hope to give a more satisfactory account next mail.
We give the North Cana Herald's report of
it :—" A serious encounter has taken place in
Hang-chow-bay between her Britannic Majesty's
gunboat Flamer, the Chinese steamer Paouchan,
and a number of piratical junks. A vessel named
the Rosina, belonging to Messrs. Dent and Co. was
captured by pirates during her voyage from Ningpo
to Shanghae, and carried off by them into the re-
cesses of the bay. For some time it was not known
whither she had been taken, and her whereabouts
was only discovered at last through information
given by one of her native passengers, who escaped
to Ningpo. The Flamer and Paouchan at once
proceeded to the spot, but found the Rosina sunk
and cargo abstracted. They were themselves
vigorously attacked by the pirates and had consi-
derable difficulty in beating them off. One of the
crew of the former vessel was killed during
the action, and the Commander Bosan-
quet, severely but not dangerously wounded
in the thigh. Captain Barton of the Paouchan was
also killed. The two vessels withdrew to Ningpo,
but will immediately return in company with two
other gunboats to endeavour to destroy the piratical
fleet. The pirates have obtained a splendid prize,
as the Rosina is stated to have had specie to the
amount of 20,000 taels on board, besides a full
cargo of tea.'
"From Canton and Macao there is no news.

" By the present mail steamer, Mr. F. T. Wade,
Chinese Secretary to the British Legation at Pekin,
proceeds to England on leave of absence."

Another Glimpse of the Annamite

Ambassadors.

"I have to-day," writes the Paris correspondent
of a morning contemporary, "had the honour of
being presented to his Excellency the Ambassador
of Annam. As our intercourse was carried on by
bows, I feel that I shall not be indiscreet in giving
it publicity. Not only had I the pleasure of this
receptian, but I had also the gratification of going
with the whole mission over the shop of M. Cris-
tofie, the Elkington of France. I own it was with
no little curiosity I watched the entrance of these
illustrious strangers into this wonderful depot of all
that is beautiful in plate, glass, and bronze. Fancy
painted the untutored savage struck dumb with
wonder at the sight of an epergne, and the assistants
falling into ecstacies at the sight of an egg-cup.
At last they came, these dusky diplomatists, and in
aye voitures de remise. They were fifteen in all;
three ambassadors and twelve attendants. I
was irresistibly reminded by their dress of Til-
burina going mad in white satin, and her at-
tendant in white dimity. Premising that
the mission was not in its best garments, I will
attempt to say how it was dressed. Ambassadors
1,2, and 3, wore blue damask, such as you use for
curtains ; the other twelve black or blue serge,
" over which," to use a lady's expression, " one wore
a robe of brown gauze," very neat. Very long
robes, like old-fashioned dressing-gowns, fastened
by girdles, wooden clogs, and a small black silk
turban composed, I regret co say, all the "purple
and fine linen of their Excellencies, secretaries,
interpreters, doctors, and cooks. They were all
there. The chief envoy is a little old man, rather
pleasant to look at, who took some interest in what
he saw, asked questions, and weighed everything
shown him, as if he were going to put an ad
valorem duty on it before admitting it into Aunam.
Nos. 2 and 3 are finer-looking, but said nothing—.
let us hope they were thinking—and took little
notice of M. Christofle's artistic and elegant
designs. I thought a " toast-rack" seemed
to please his Excellency No. 3 better
than anything; while No. 2 lingered over a but-
terboat representing a dairy-maid and her pail. As
I stood gazing at their superiors, the inferiors came
crowding around me. Suddenly one spoke, and I
started to hear, in my own native language, " Yes,
pretty, but too dear ;" and turning round perceived
the lacquais de place showing a little photograph
frame to one of the suite, who had uttered the very
natural expression above recorded in the very best
English. I had a long talk with this young diplo.
mat, and found he had been educated by the French
Jesuits and English missionaries. He was very
intelligent, and spoke fluently, and with an ex-
cellent accent, French, Spanish, and English. Two
spoke French, and one English. The Ambassador•
in-chief speaks and understands French. My love
of truth compels me to say that these Cochin-
China gentlemen are very ugly—the lowest type of
Chinese. Not the most blaze man in Paris could
have walked with greater calmness through a fine
display of what are really works of art than did
these new importations. They consider Paris
fine," and abused the weather with great since-
rity. In figure they are flat-chested, and have long
lean arms. Their whole person, however, is so en-
veloped that they might be as well-formed as An-
tinous and nobody be any the wiser. They stoop
when they walk ; and now, when I have said that
one gentleman was attired in white Berlin gloves,
that several wore most gorgeous rings on their
thumbs, and one had a row of gold buttons on his
gaberdine, and add that they all smoked little funnel
shaped cigarettes about as big as a toothpick, which
they took from a large bag hung round the neck of
a Secretary of Legation, I shall have told you
enough of the first interview between the diplomacy
of Cochin China and a British subject and corre-
spondent.

THE MISSIONARY JOSEPH WOLFF'S curious me-
moirs have found a translator in Germany. They now ap-
pear under the title (c Joseph Wolff ; a Waders Life,"

Tart '* tirahr.
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THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND.

The Queen, accompanießdArbjmy°RthAel"
prio Sept.oWales and Princess Helena, drove out yesterday.
e2s4s of
.
The Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill,
rode on horseback.

Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
returned to town yesterday from visiting the Earl and
Countess of Chesterfield at Gedling Lodge, Notts.
His Grand Ducal Highness Prince William and
her Imperial Highness Princess William of Baden, have
arrived at Claridge's hotel from Torquay.
His Highness the Prince Maharajah Dhulcep
Singh has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Yorkshire.
The Marquis and Marchionoss of Clanricarde,
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord Ulic Browne, the Bishop
of Ripon and Mrs. Bickersteth, Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan,
Mr. A. Hayward, Q.C., Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth, &0., are
at present on a visit to Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont,
at Bretton-park, Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess of Derby returned to
Knowsley Park yesterday from visitirg the Earl and Coun-
tess of Chesterfield at Gedling Park, their seat in Notting'
hamshire.
The Earl of Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford
leave town in a few days to embark on board his lordship's

yacht for Madeira, there to pass the winter.
The Earl of Dalkeith, who returned from a tout
of the German Spas in the earlier part of the week, has
gone to meet the Countess at Beaudesert.
The Earl and Countess of Belmore have returned
to Brown's Hotel.

Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, and Lord and
Lady Burghley have left Brown's Hotel.
The marriage of Colonel the Hon. Henry W. 1.
Byng and the Countess Henrietta Danneskiold, niece of the
Marquis of Ailesbury, is to take place next month, at
Tottenham Park, Wilts.
Lady Caroline Charteris has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from Tunbridge-wells.

The Rev. F. Faber, of the Oratory, at Brompton
(whose name, it may be remembered, was so very recently
before the public in connection with the late controversy
about young Mr. Harrison), we regret to learn, expired at
seven o'clock this morning, after a long and painful illness.
DEATFI OF MR. DEPUTY PEACOCK.—We hare
to record the death of Mr. A. Peacock, who was for more
than forty years a member of the Court of Common Coun-
cil, and twenty-six years Deputy of the Ward of Farring•
don Without. Mr. Peacock was a man of sound business
habits, and has been connected with many of the most im-
portant movements in the city. He was eighty-five years
of age.

NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.—On Thursday tho
first stone was laid, by the Very Rev. Dr. Manning, of a
new Catholic church at Turnham-green. Although the
day was very inclement, a considerable number of Catholic
clergymen and laymen attended on the occasion. When
the usual ceremonies appointed by the Catholic ritual had
been gone through, a sermon was preached by Dr. Manning
appropriate to the event. The church is to be of the Gothic
order, and will contain about 600 persons. The architects
are Messrs. Willson and Nicholas, of Marylebone-road.

. _
ERRATUM in regard to our first leader of yester-
day. It was at Rayners, and not at Hughenden Manor,
that Mr. Disraeli spoke upon the occasion of the Harvest
Home Festivities.

THE NEW FRENCH TRANSLATION OF SHAH'
SPERE by Francois Victor Hugo is not at all founded on
Letourneur's version, but it is one made entirely from the
English text itself, and illustrated with notes, historical,
legendary, and critical; and the appendices occasionally
give the entire legend upon which the play is founded,
from manuscript and printed sources.
A TIMELY TRIBUTE TO SHAKSPERE.—The second
part of Mr. Booth's reprint of the " Shakspere" of
1623, containing the Histories, will be published during
next month. Part 111., containing the Tragedies, is ill-
tended to appear about the end of next March—the three
editions being issued complete on the 23d of April following
the tercentenary anniversary of the poet's birthday.
The first stone has been laid of a Murillo monu-
ment in Seville.

MR. THOMAS ADDLTHus TROLLOPE writes,
says the Spectator, with a simper of self-approbation, and
in the varied mood of a man who sits in the spirit con-
sciously supreme over exclusive but adoring tea-tables.
There is an exquisite flavour of patronage in his tone which
recalls the manner of the young clergyman, the hero of a
female congregation, under whose every footstep not roses
but slippers spring, who to spiritual anci innumerable graces
both of body and of mind unites the man of the world, and
whose varied refinements and high accomplishments—his
sonorous and elegant enunciation of lovely Italian names
and phrases, " La Signorina Stella," " Enrico Palmieri."
" Giulio Malatesta," the " Signorina Stella Altamari,"
" La Madonna di San Luca"—fill gentle bosoms with un-
speakable emotions, and a kind of earthly foretaste of in-
finite and perennial beatitudes,
THE LIBERATED SLAVES IN AMERICA.—'The
results of the removal of slaves from the plantations
of their former masters through the agency of Federal sol-
diers continued to be attended by painful revelations. One
New York journal remarks that,—" To effect the possible
advantage of incorporating a considerable number of negroes
in the service of the general Government great suffering'
has been inflicted, so that now Adjutant• General Thomas
advises in explicit terms that all except able••bodied males
remain on their plantations. A letter from Vicksburg,
giving a pitiful tale of suffering, disease, and death, says:—
'lt will be well if this recommendation is heeded and
carried out. The contraband camps scattered about through
this department are full to overflowing, and no possible
stretch of imagination or hope can induce any sane man
who sees one of these camps to pronounce the condition of
the blacks within them preferable to plantation life. I rodo
past one the othar day, and by the roadside I saw five dead
bodies, so far gone with decomposition and so much muti-
lated by hogs that I could not discern the full conformation
of any one body. I inquired, and learned that they had
been lying there unburied for several days. It was a hor-
rible, disgraceful sight. Such things are not unfrequent•
The first idea of the freed coloured people is that now they
leave nothing to do./Freedom is immunity from labour. it
is impossible to fairly correct this mistake while they are
retained in these camps, for here they have absolutely
nothing to do but to eat and sleep, and they abandon
themselves to this freedom most completely, leading ti
most brutal and sensual life.' "

THE " SCENE IN COURT" reported in the papers
as having taken place between the Common Ser-
geant and Mr.Ribton, must have the effect of adding to the
cacoaunrdtabletwwheeicnh hcouaanseallraenaddyjadagrie_sencofnrfiomictscownhfliicchtsgeinn o penerttg
end in the discomfiture of the former and in discredit to the
profession to which both belong. In this case we cer-
tainly cannot help thinking that there were faults on both
sides—the balance being against the counsel, who very pro-
perly manifested his sense of his own error by apologisins
next morning for what had taken place. If the Comma'
Sergeant had exercised a little more temper in his treat"
ment of ldr. Ribton, he would have been entirely in the
right. The "dodge" (for we can call it by no more dig'
'lifted name) of addressing the jury for the defence in a loud
tone of voice, so that the witnesses for the defence, who
are excluded from the court, may hear a description of
the case which they have to be called upon to
support, is most reprehensible, and the Common.
Sergeant had a clear right to prevent it by every means in
his power. A mild intimation to counsel that he had
better moderate his voice, followed by a temperately ex-
pressed threat to adjourn the court in the event of disobe-
dience, would have effectually put a atop to Mr. Rib ton;
but the dictatorial tone which the judge assumed gave an
opportunity for the little flourishes about " speaking as wy
mind dictates," and " duty to my client," which popu-
larity-hunting barristers know so well how to employ. Mr.
Ribton's observation, that he always spoke loudly when ho
was nervous, and that he should continue to do so, vas
about as absurd and illogical a remark as well could. be
made. Certainly that geutleman has gained no credit by
his escapade, but the reverse. These "scenes" between
bench and bar bring only disgrace and disrespect upon all
parties concerned, and should be entirely discountenanced
by all respectable members of the profession.—Law
of to-day.
CURIOSITIES OF FASHION.—It is a question, I
think, whether the fashion influences the age, or the age
moulds and shapes the fashion; but it is obvious that there
exists a subtle relationship between them. A high-bred
courtesy, a certain elevation of manner, a loftiness of lan-
guage, and even a refinement of thought, seem naturally
to associate themselves with the rich and stately costume
of the men of the sixteenth century. Look at the Cava-
liers in the glorious pictures of Vundyck ; who can be-
lieve that from the lips of such be-ruffled and bo-Plumed
gentlemen ever dropped any coarse ribaldry or vulgar
slang ? Those grave and potent seigniors who glow on the,
splendid canvas of Titian; can you believe them capable
of the deeds in which delighted the buckskin-breeches and
cocked hats of our Macaronis and Mohawks in the days of
the second George ? When I look upon the sweet and
noble women of Vandyck, and compare them with the
bare-bosomed beauties of Lely, I trace in the distinction
of costume and fashion the ditlerence of morals and taste,
and the wide gulf between the pure household life of the
reign of Charles I. and the social abandonment of that of
Charles 11. Morals and manners keep pace with the changco
of costume, and are indicated by thew;--,London &atty.