The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

RECENT

The Fatal Collision off Dover

was not examined.
The jury, after about an hour and a half's delibe-
ration, returned the following verdict :—" The jury
find that the deaths of the three persons in ques-
tion was accidental; but that the accident in ques-
tion might have been avoided if the bark had shown
a better light. In recording this verdict the jury
could not separate without expressing their admira-
tion of the conduct of Capt. Bennett and the crew
of the Samphire for the coolness and intrepidity
displayed by them in their trying position, which,
under God's providence, was the means of rescuing
so many lives ; also, that great praise was due to
Capt. Hoet, of the Belgian steamer, for his ready
assistance."
The collision, we understand, will form the sub-
ject of a Board of Trade inquiry as to who shall
pay for the Samphire's damage.

CHURCH OF NOTRE DAME OF FRANCE, LEICESTER-
SQUARE.—Service was held in this recently-opened Roman
Catholic church last evening, and was numerously attended.
The Rev. Father Faure gave a discourse in French.
COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.—At a meeting of the
council of this corporation, on the 16th inst., the following
were elected members of the college :—Mr. John F. Dows-
well, Pershore, Worcestershire ; Mr. Crawford Duncan,
Commercial College, Stoke Newington; Mr. John Brett
Eminson, Plas Machynlleth ; Mr. Jabez Moden, Park
House Academy, Wellington-street, Gloucester ; Mr. H.
J.
Moore, British School, Cheltenham ; Miss E. Palmer
Great Coram-street ; and Mr. John Robson, 8.A., Univer-
sity College.
THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE ARTS CLUB took
place the other evening. Mr. Charles Dickens was in the
chair, and gave the toast, " Success and Prosperity to the
Arts Club," in his usual happy manner. Mr. Leighton,
Mr. Henry Leslie, and Mr. Digby Wyatt also spoke. The
rooms were decorated with paintings lent by members of
the club.

NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The next trien-
nial musical festival at Norwich is to be held in September,
1866. Mr. Benedict is to be again secured as conductor,
if possible. It is said that the Prince and Princess of
Wales will probably honour the festival with their presence.
THE NEW PEERS.—" Sir John Romilly, Bart.,
who is about to be raised to the peel-age, will," says
the Observers "take the name of himself and of his distin-
guished father. It has been usual to place the Master of
the Rolls in the House of Peers, the predecessor of Lord
Romilly—LordLangdale— being one of the latest examples.
Sir Francis T. Baring, Bart., will succeed to the peerage
as Lord Northbrook, in the county of Hants, after 30 or
40 years' service in the House of Commens, 0,114 holding
some of the highest offices of the state."

INDIA. AND CHINA,

CALCUTTA, Nov. 11.
Calcutta has been the victim of a stock-jobbing
hoax, which has delayed the departure of the mail
for four days. Just as the outward-bound Mooltan
was about to leave, and the Simla with the mails of
the 10th October was expected, the announcement
was made that the only navigable passage in the
river Hooghly had silted up, owing to the ground-
ing of a ship near it. The place was the Rungafullak
channel, where the mail steamer Nemesis lately
grounded. The marine authorities at once credited
the statement, the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany advertised that the Mooltan's departure was
indefinitely postponed, and the Post-office authori-
ties put off the mail. Meanwhile Port Canning
shares, each valued at £lOO at par, ran up rapidly
on the 9th to £5O premium. But, in spite of tug
steamers and a surveying brig sent down to look for
another channel, a ship, drawing more water than
the steamer came up, and the Simla herself fol-
lowed in due course. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's agent publishes an indignant letter, the
Post-office blame the marine authorities, and they
join the chorus, though they ought, as the respon-
sible parties, to have been at once able to declare
the truth. It turns out that there has never been
any change in the channel, traffic goes on as usual,
the Port Canning Shares have returned to their
normal state of £3O premium, and the mail goes
four days after the proper time. Bad as the
hoax is—and the public set the report down
to such a cause—it has shown how little faith can
be placed in the permanently free navigation of the
Hooghly, and the importance of using other chan-
nels like the Mutlah estuary, to which there is a
guaranteed railway.
The Deb Rajah of Bhootan has finally agreed to
our terms of submission. Colonel Bruce, C. 8., the
Civil Commissioner of the Dooars, has, I believe,
been instructed to promise a continuance of not
only the payment of £2,500 a year, but to raise
the sum to £5,000 if necessary. We keep not only
the Dooars proper, but such a zig-zag line of hill
country from Darjeeling to Assam as will add
largely to the former settlement, including posts on
the hills which our soldiers may occupy in health,
and intermediate stretches of marshy terai on the
plains which it will not be necessary to defend, or
even watch, except by a few police. The Deb Rajah
has asked two months within which to persuade or
coerce the Tongso Penlow. If he fails we are then
to be at liberty to do that work for ourselves.
" Coercion" consists in inducing him to restore the
the two Armstrong guns abandoned in the Dewan-
giri rout, and to abstain from attacks on our fron-
tier. It would be useless to conceal that we have in
reality, as well as in the eyes of our native subjects
and Central Asia, the worst of it. Almost all the
extra expense of equipping a force of £7,000 men
for hill warfare has been already undergone, and
for that we have no return, to Mr. Massey's great
grief. The humiliation has not been atoned for ;
on the contrary, our payment for the Dooars will
be regarded as tribute due from a conquered foe.
And what shall we say of the loss of life—English
officers and numerous Sepoys ? Nothing can pay
for that, certainly not the belief that it was folly in
us to station troops on the plains at all, at a time
when not a Bhootea dares to face the miasma of the
terai. On the other hand, while political defeat is
confessed, there are these two considerations—the
annexed territory will soon far more than pay its
expenses, and afford a security to Darjeeling, and
Sanitaria to the numerous settlers in- Assam, which
have long been wanted ; and it is seriously believed
that without our blackmail of £5,000 a year the
Bhootan officials could not exist This certainly is
a fact, that the Deb Rajah has written a begging
letter to us beseeching a slice of the Dooars to keep
him in existence when his term-of office expires.
The Dooars are certainly the granary of the hills,
but it would be a good thing to force the hun-
dreds of lazy lamas and officials who oppress the
indigenous population to earn an honest liveli-
hood by cultivating such extensive plains as
that of Paro, and by developing the mineral
and commercial resources of the hills and
valleys. All this, however, must be received with
some caution. The Bhooteas have hitherto proved
to be such liars, the central Government is so weak,
and Tongso Penlow so barbarously unreasonable,
that there may be war after all, and the stipulation
for two months within which to bring Tongso to
reason may only be a repetition of a former ruse for
gaining time till it shall be too late for a campaign.
The wisest course is to believe nothing more about
these Indo-Chinese savages than one would about a
maniac who deludes his keeper with the occasional
symptoms of returning reason.
The Allahabad Board of Revenue has collected
accurate information regarding the growing crop of
cotton in the North-Western Provinces. The esti-
mated produce of the crop this year is 825,540
maunds of 801 b. each, against 1,957,738 maunds
estimated, and 1,659,917 actual, last year. Not
only is the area some 50 per cent. less than last
year, but the estimated out-turn is less than in any
of the four years of the American war. In 1861 the
area sown with cotton was 953,076 acres. It rose
in 1862 to 985,578 acres, in 1863 to 1,135,688 acres,
and in 1864 to 1,730,634 acres. But the sudden fall
caused by the unexpected close of the war ruined so
many native traders that for the sowings of this year
no advances were made to the peasantry. The im-
mediate result of this was a renewal of native weav-
ing to the same point as before the war. The Col-
lector of Mozuffurnuggur states that, when prices
fell, a native weaver, with a wife and four children,
was quite content if he made 4id. a day. All the
people wear native cloth except the Mahomedan
landholders, officials, and clerks, and Hindoo land-
holders on such sacred days as when the brotherhood
meet to celebrate some festivity. The Collector of
Meerut reports that the cotton raised in that dis-
trict was so fine and well cleansed as to surprise the
merchants, but the failures have checked all this.
In Agra, the Collector says :--
"It was too great a shock for the villager's mind to find
that the field of cotton on which all his hopes centred, and
which he bad in the morning valued at from £2O to £3O,
was by evening almost unsaleable on account of some news
which had arrived by the Bijli Dak (telegraph--' lightning-
post '), the purport of which he was utterly unable to com-
prehend."
So he will henceforth sow only as much as will sell
in the neighbouring market, as his fathers did be-
fore him. What hope is there for such a people
but in the spread of intelligence developed by edu-
cation, and the increase of English settlers who will
give a security and permanence to trade at present
unknown ?
Still no rain has fallen. It would be too late to
save the autumn rice crops ; but it is sorely wanted
for the sowing of the spring crops. Prices in half
of Lower Bengal are still 100 per cent. higher than
usual. Bhaugulpore and the Sonthal country,
almost midway between the high lands of Behar
and the low delta near Calcutta, have always been
a rice-exporting district ; but if exportation con-
tinues for one week longer they too will be destitute.
As it is, in some places the people are reduced to
starvation. In Monghyr, for instance, where nearly
three-fourths of the crop have gone, the poorest
classes pick up leaves as food. One magistrate
writes that " the bestowul of only a handful of grain
soaked in water to each man invites hundreds of the
poor " to the door of a certain shopkeeper. The
rotting grain which has been used to make spirit
sells as food to those who have money, and those
who are penniless beg for the refuse seeds from
which oil has been pressed. Such is the want of
water even in the Gangetic delta. Round Calcutta
the peasantry fight for such puddles of water are
still left, wherewith to keep their rice alive.
Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Law-
rence will hold a levee and drawing-room on the Ist
of December.
Opium continues high. At the mon3t3hlyab vsoaleeytehae-
terday it fetched £llB a chest, or i
Budget estimate. The price is likely to be main-
tained.

" green
On Evacuation Day the traditionary
flag" of Ireland was hoisted over the capitol of the " Irish
Republic," in Fourteenth-street, New York. This building
has been hired for the moderate rent of 512,000 a year,
for the use of the goremment a the " Irish Republic."

lEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News)

The will of Thomas Rowley, wholesale teadealer,
of Cannon-street, and of Norwood Lodge, Surrey,
was proved in London under £40,000 personalty,
the executors being Mrs. Rowley, the relict ; Thos.
Howse, of St. Paul's-churchyard, woollen draper ;
and Francis Nash, of Horsleydown, wharfinger.
To the two last-named executors he leaves a legacy
of £2OO. To his wife he leaves an immediate legacy
of £5OO, an annuity of £5OO, and his leasehold re-
sidence at Norwood ; to his daughter Mary Selina
he leaves his freehold estates in Biddulph, Stafford-
shire, and in Buglawton, Cheshire ; also a sum of
£B,OOO, and a moiety of the residue of his property.
The other moiety he leaves to his daughter Frances
Jane, to whom he leaves his freehold in the City,
together with his leasehold residence, on the decease
of his widow. The plate presented to him by the
City Lands Commissioners, consisting of a silver
tankard, he leaves to his daughter Mary ; and the
silver teakettle, by the Walbrook Ward Club, he
leaves to his daughter Frances. The household fur-
niture, musical instruments, and ether effects, on
the decease of his relict, are to be divided between
his two daughters. There are legacies to his ser-
vants. The inheritor of his estates in the coun-
ties of Stafford and Chester is to take and use the
surname of Rowley.
The will of Edward Wheler Mills, Esq., banker,
67, Lombard-street, and of Bryanston-square, and
Brunswick-terrace, Brighton, was proved in Lon-
don, on the 21st of November, by the executors,
George Grenfell Glyn and St. Leger Richard
Glyn, Esqrs., both of 67, Lombard-street ; and
Frederick Nathaniel Micklethwait, Esq., barrister-
at-law, Inner Temple ; and Charles Henry Mills,
Esq., the testator's nephew. The personalty was
sworn under £250,000. The will was made in 1856,
and a codicil Dec. 8, 1863 ; the latter was signed on
behalf of the testator by Win. Murray, M.P., in
testator's presence, and by his direction, and in pre-
sence of two witnesses. He leaves to each of his
executors a legacy of £5OO ; to George Payne, Esq.,
of John-street, Berkeley-square, £lO,OOO ; to his
niece, Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Wingfield, an an-
nuity of £3OO. Legacies and annuities are left to
his servants. He directs his real and leasehold
estates to be sold and the proceeds held in trust for
his daughter and only child, to whom he bequeaths
the same, leaving to her also his plate, furniture,
books, and other effects.
The will of Admiral Henry Stanhope, late of

Southwick, Hants, formerly of Banstead, Surrey,
was proved in the London Court, on the 22d of
Nov., by his relict, the sole executrix. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £12,000. The will is dated
April 10, 1845, and a codicil May 7, 1849, which
were executed whilst he was Post-Captain in the
Royal Navy. This gallant officer was raised to a full
Admiral June 25, 1862, and died Oct. 21, 1865. He
has bequeathed to his wife the whole of his property,
including that under settlement on marriage, which
he leaves to her absolutely, in the event of their be-
ing no issue.

United States Government Securities.

(From Thompson's Bank-Note Reporter.)
Until the Government shall shape its financial policy we
do not wish to write on the subject, for whatever the
Secretary of the Treasury desires done, we shall, to the
best of our ability, assist in doing, knowing that his
measures will be well matured. We, therefore, this
week explain the Bonds and Treasury Notes now on the
market.
The 7-30 Treasury Notes have three years to run from
their dates. The first series is dated August 15, 1861 ;
the second series, June 15, 1865 ; and the third series,
July, 15, 1865.
When due these notes are payable in money, or they
are fundable into a 50-20-year bond bearing six per cent.
in gold. It is optional with the holders of the notes
whether to fund them or take the money. The interest is
payable every six months from the date of tne notes.
The amount of the different dates or series is as
follows :

Aug. 15, Ist series 300,000,000
June 15, 2nd series
July 15, 3rd series

Total

830,000,000

Consequently the interest on the June notes is payable
Dec. 15th; on the July notes, Jan. 15th ; and the August
notes, Feb. 15th.
The 5-20 year Six-pi:if Cent. Bonds are of three issues,
payable after five years from their date. The Government
has the option to pay them off or to let them run to
maturity, which is 20 years from their date. Observe
that the Government can at act any time on this option
after the first five years from date. It is this feature of
the bonds that gives the name of 5-20 s. They all
bear six per cent interest in gold, payable May and
November:—
First series (old), dated 1862 514,780,500
Second series (new), dated 1864
Third series (newest), dated 1865 55,000,000
From the conditions above set forth it is plain that the
" new" and "newest" issues are the most desirable bonds.
The " old" issues are bought to fill foreign orders with,
and this is the only reason why they bring a better
price.
The Bonds 1881 have till that year to run, with no
power on the part cf the Government to pay them off
before they mature. They bear six per cent. interest in
gold, payable Jan. and July. The total of these bonds is
$198,746,400.
The 10-40 Five-per-Cent. Bonds are called 10-405.,
because the Government can pay them off at any time
after ten years from their date, which is March 1, 1861.
They bear gold interest, payable March and September.
Compound Interest Notes have become a desirable in-
vestment. There are a good many issues of these notes
—we give a table of them :
Dates. Maturity. Interest al-
ready earned.

1864.
June 10
July 15
Aug. 15
Oct. 15
Dec. 15

Market
price.

1867.
June 10
July 15
Aug. 15
Oct. 15
Dec. 15

81 per ct.
81 per et.
7-1 per et.
6 per ct.
5 per et.

105 to 105
1041 to 101
1031 to 104
102 to 103
104; to 102

Of the notes dated in 1864 thero about 145 millions out-
standing, and there are some 25 millions dated in 1865,
but these latter do not as yet bear much premium.
All the above securities will nett the purchaser .81 to 9
per cent. per annum on their cost ; but to do this on
the gold interest bonds, gold must keep up to 140 to 150.

Foreign Mail Packet List.