The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

7 (REUTER'S 'TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
(Via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, JULY 20, NOON,

In consequence of the frequent disturbances
which have taken place at Charleston between the
soldiers, the citizens, and the coloured population,
General Burnett ha 6 issued an order directing the
citizens to deliver up all arms, to refrain from as-
sembling in the streets, and to remain at home after
8 p.m.

Mr. Parry, the provisional governor of South
Carolina, lately made a speech, in which he said
that no one fretted more than himself at the humi-
liation and degradation of re-entering the Union.
Failure in the revolution was due to want of perti-
nacity on the part of the Southern people. lie paid
a high tribute to Southern valour, patriotism, and
statesmanship.

The remainder of the assassination conspirators
have been sent to Dry Tortugas to serve out their
sentences, in order to place them out of the reach
of the Habeas Corpus and the State Courts.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easy. Gold, 1421. Exchange on London,
154 ; on Paris, 3.65. Stocks slightly firmer.
New York Centrals, 94i ; Illinois, 134 ex div. ;
Erie, 82; ; 5-20 Bonds, 104-.. Cotton dull.
Middling Upland, 48. Flour steady. Wheat dull.
Corn quiet. Provisions very dull. Coffee and
sugar steady. Molasses very firm. Petroleum
quiet ; crude, 32 ; refined, 51.

NEW YORK, JULY 18.
The condition of the negroes throughout the
South is still reported to be very bad.
A friendly correspondence has been published
between ➢ir. Seward and the Spanish Government,
the latter surrendering the Stonewall to the Federal
Government.

The United States Consul-General in Canada has
addressed the Detroit Convention against the Re-
ciprocity Treaty, urging that if trade were cut off
from the Canadians, Canada would be annexed to
the United States in less than two years. He is
said to have stated that he expressed ideas con-
curred in by high members of the Federal Go-
vernment.

The New York Herald says that the Mississippi
cotton crop this year will not exceed 25,000 bales.

The Hansa, City of Washington, North American,
and Pennsylvanian, have arrived out.

The Royal mail steamer China, from Boston
and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 8.40 a.m.
to-day. She brings 202 passengers.
After landing 126 sacks of mails and 30 pas-
sengers she proceeded at 9 a.m., all well.

MEXICO.
NEW YORK, JULY 18.
Despatches received here from New Orleans
assert that General Mejia has delivered to the Fe-
deral authorities the ordnance received from the
Confederates.
The difficulties arising from the seizure of the
steamer by Cortinaa have been settled.

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 29

The elections in the 2d Circumscription of the
Department des Landes have been appointed to take
place on the 19th August.
The interest of the Treasury Bonds has been
fixed at 1 and 2 per cent.
The residence of Count de Ch—, in the Parc
des Princes, at Boulogne, near Paris, was two days
since the scene of a shocking tragedy. The Count
having given his concierge, Charles IV—, notice to
leave, the latter, before quitting the house, went to
his master to settle his accounts; and as he was inso-
lent and appeared inclined to be violent, the Count
requested the Countess, who was present, to Rend a
servant for the police. She had hardly left the room
when the concierge rushed at the Count, and
attempted to stab him in the breast with a large
kitchen knife. A fierce struggle ensued, during
which they both fell and the Count received four or
five severe cuts with the knife. Meanwhile the

ruffian then left his
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eing What was passing,
master and rushed at her, but fortunately the Count
was able to rise and succeeded in wresting the knife
out of his hand. The concierge then ran from the
room to his lodge, where he seized a pistol which had
been given him as a defence against robbers, and
blew out his brains. There is every reason to hope
that the Count's wounds will not be attended with
any serious consequences.

BOURSE, July 27.—Two o'clock.—The opening
showed great firmness and prices have constantly
advanced. Threes, for the Account, are now at
67f. 60c. Credit Mobilier Shares have also re-
covered yesterday's loss, and are now quoted 740 f.
The Italian Loan commands buyers at 65f. sc.
Transactions in the new Municipal Loan are done
at 2f. 75c. premium. Mexican Stock much firmer
at 47*. Three o'clock.—The second despatch from
London, announcing that the Bank of England has
raised its rate of discount, has caused a fall in all
the prices for the end of the Bourse, which closes as
follows:

4.} per Cents 97 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 45
Do. end month 67 47f
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3600
Credit Foncier —
Italian Loan 64 95
Do. end month 64 80

Ditto Three 5.,....... •
Mexican
Do.
d Loan.. ............ 471
Russian ............... ---
Austriftn ............ -
Spanish Threes ... -
Home Debt ......... -
Deferred ............ -
Roman ............... -

sere.
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
_ _ _

Acct.

- ... 832 50

••• - - 1042 50
- - ... 845 -
- - ... 568 75

Lyons and Meditorranean.
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

.---
--' •••

---".. --"' •••

--- - ••• 275 -
- - ... 412 50
- - ... 481 25
- - ... 187 50
- - ... 822 50

217 50

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

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The following telegrams has just been receivediby
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from A.
K. Glass, Esq., managing director of the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company :

" VALENTIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

" 350 nautical miles of cable were paid out from
the Great Eastern at 12.50 p.m. to-day, and 350
miles were run at 4.50 p.m. Greenwich time. All

well."

" ON BOARD GREAT EASTERN, Friday Morning.
" 500 nautical miles of cable were paid out at
[0.50 a.m. to-day.
" The distance run at 9.50 a.m. was 450 miles.
" The signals are perfect.
" Weather fine."

DESPATCII OF THE BOMBAY INlAms.—(Reuter's
Express.)— Southampton, July 27th.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Syria, Capt. Christian, sailed
this afternoon with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediter-
ranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal. She
took out 20 first and 22 second class passengers, and on
freight a full cargo, including sovereigns for Alexandria,
£4OOO, and jewellery for Bombay, value £345. Amongst
the passengers are Ensign Aubertin, Colonel Ellis, Capt.
Knox, Capt. Fraser, and the Rev. R. Neale.
ANOTHER GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY.—Yesterday
morning information was received by the metro-
politan police that during the previous night the premises
of Mr. Frederick Cohen, watchmaker and jeweller, Maid-
stone, had been burglariously entered, and
property valued
at £2,000 carried off. The robbery is supposed to have
be en effected by Loudon thieves, and a large reward is
offered for their capture.

LITERATURE.

Christianity in Hindostan.

Catholic Missions in Southern India—To 1865. By.
Rev. W. Strickland, S. J. ; and T. W. M. Mar-
shall, Author of " Christian Missions." One
vol. pp. 240. Longman and Co.
Of the severity of the ordeal tc which the Christian
missionary is subjected when preaching the Gospel of
Peace in remote lands, among the idolatrous races,
no matter whether of Asia or of Australasia, the
world has had but very recently a new and appal-
ling illustration. The hideous death to which that
good missionary clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Volkner
was only the other day most inhumanly subjected
by the fiendish barbarity of the Maori savages,
came to us as a painfully vivid reminder of the perils
environing the pathway of those whose Feet the lips
of the inspired writer have tenderly apostrophised as
—Beautiful ! Wherever the seed (" which is the
word of God") has been sown, by the wayside, among
the pagan multitudes whether of old or in these our
own days, the ground there, so to speak, has been
fattened, to the bringing forth of fruit an hundred
fold, by being watered plentifully with the blood
and the tears of martyrdom. Happily, as Civilisation
advances in the wake of Christianity—always in
the wake, Christianity invariably being precursive
of Civilisation, and never following simply in its
trail—happily, we say, as Civilisation advances in
the wake of Christianity in those remote regions,
gaining material strength, there, and political autho-
rity, the peril to which the Christian missionary is
exposed diminishes in proportion to the prestige of
the aegis thrown over him by his protecting Go-
vernment--or, at any rate in proportion to the
appreciation of thatprestige by the heathenish popu-
lation appealed to by the persuasive voice of the
missionary, or influenced by the visible puissance of
his Government. Of this beneficent diminution of
danger to the missionary priests in India, the pro-
foundly interesting records here collected together
by Messrs. Strickland and Marshall afford eloquent
and, in some instances, most affecting attestation.
They relate (these records) to the experiences of the
Catholic missionaries in that portion of Southern
India, known as the mission of Madura, showing
in a particular manner what has been there accom-
plished—but during the last dozen years more particu-
larly. There, in Madura, throughout, very nearly, one
whole quarter of a century, the duties of a Christian
missionary among a race of Asiatic idolaters have
been discharged by the Rev. F. Louis St. Cyr, S.J.,
from whose notes, jotted down in French, the
materials of this volume, we are told by its com-
panion Editors in their Preface (p. vii.) have been
chiefly prepared. The volume is subdivided, in the
arrangement of its contents, into some seventeen
chapters: in all, six of them written by Mr. Marshall,
the author of " Christian Missions ;" the other eleven
chapters being all of them penned by the Rev. W.
Strickland, S.J., who for these twelve years last
past has been one of the Military Chaplains in
Hindostan, under Her Britannic Majesty's Go-
vernment. From the first half-dozen of these
eleven chapters, penned by Father Strickland, a
very world of informationmay be derived. First
of all, in regard to the position occupied by the
English in India. Secondly, in regard to the
idolatry prevailing throughout the peninsula of
Hindostan, but more particularly in Madura.
Thirdly, in respect to the original introduction of
Christianity to the Hindoos. Fourthly, in regard
to the position of Protestantism throughout the
southern portions of Hindostan. Fifthly, in respect
to the general history of the New Mission of Madura.
And, sixthly, in the account here given by F.
Strickland of the daily life and journeys of the
Missioners and the consequent mortality there is
amongst them. Familiar as most educated Eng-
lishmen are with the general condition of things in
that the grandest of all our dependencies, it is
curious to remark upon the air of freshness im-
parted to the information here compacted together
for our instruction by the hand of this thoughtful
and observant missionary. As, for example, where
he takes occasion to realise to his reader's imagina-
tion, at the very outset, upon the very first page of
the very first chapter of his volume, the fact hitherto
so little thought of, that that immense country of
Hindostan, peopled by 150,000,000 of inhabitants,
consists of a number of different races and nations,
" as distinct in personal appearance and language as
the various nations of Europe." It is startling, too;
and very noteworthy, when we find F. Strick-
land insisting upon it as a thing quite indisputable,
that the division of the people of India into different
castes, has, there " contributed immensely to the
preservation of morality" and to the conservation of
the patriarchial customs still existing in that coun-
try. Nay, to find him going on still further to remark,
yet more emphatically, that " without the institution
of Caste" the Hindoos must long ago have sunk
down to the lowest depths of barbarism, and lite-
rally devoured one another ! Wonderfully eloquent
as it seems to us in its epigrammatic force is the witty
application by him of a verse from the Book of Mac-
chabees, as descriptive of the ways and means by
which Great Britain has acquired her Indian terri-
tories—to wit—"Possederunt omnes terram concilio
suo et patientiti!" Fain are we, however, to believe
that the reverend author is in error when he comes
to the conclusion (and wishes his readers also to
come to the conclusion) that India as a nation has,
in a material point of view, been a loser by reason
of the English occupation—going so far as to insist
(upon the authority of Dr. Russell, of the Times,
note, p. 6) that the country is becoming every year
more and more impoverished, the native manu-
facturers disappearing under the pressure of British
competition. In a material point of view,
alone, however, does he regard India as
having proved a loser, thus, because of the English
occupation. Otherwise, he declares India to have
been a signal gainer from that occupation, if only
in this—" that the people enjoy more peace and
tranquillity, that law is administered with far
greater (justice, that wars cannot go on at the will
and caprice of each petty prince as in former times!"
A noble eulogium this, pronounced upon English
rule in Hindostan—and pronounced, too, by the
judgment, the heart, the conscience of a Catholic
Missionary !It almost seems to us--if we may so
express it—a tribute emanating directly from a gene-
rous sense of gratitude. As if in consideration, for
example, of the fact attested in so many words upon
page 11, namely, to the effect that—" The position
of the Catholic Church at present in India is one of
the utmost liberty." F. Strickland adding to this,
" She is entirely unaided and unsupported by the
Government—but there are now no exceptional
restrictions, no penal laws !" As among the conse-
quences of which—to the material advantage of
English Rule generally in Hindostan—there are now
—among the Catholic body alone in Southern India,
as the Government at Calcutta very well knows—
as many as 30,000 able-bodied men always avail-
able, always to be counted upon in any emergency !
The Apostolic-Vicariate of Madura, to the history
of which during the last twelve years the compilers
of the present volume have more particularly directed
their attention, is situated, by the way, in the sou th ern-
most portion of British India, embracing within it
part of the Carnatic, the whole of the provinces of
Tanjore, together with the soi-disant independent ter-
ritory of the Tondimau, Marava, Madura, and the
contiguous districts, down to the most southerly
point of Cape Cornorin ! It extends, this Madura
Mission, in other words, within a width at the out-
side of three degrees of longitude, from about 7 deg.
57 min. to 11 deg. 50 min. North latitude. Its cli-
mate is such that even in the months of March and
April, when the sun is going northward, the at-
mosphere is so intolerably hot that everything
touched even indoors feels hotter than the hand
touching it—exertion of mind or body being most
difficult, excepting only very early in the morning
or after sunset. The population, there, numbers
altogether some 4,ooo,ooo—partly Hindoos, partly
Mussulmans—about 150,000 of the former (that is
of the Hindoos) being Christians. The Moslems
in
India as elsewhere obdurately refusing to hearken
to any instruction at the hands of the Christian
missionary. Especial note is here taken, as a mat-
ter of course, by F. Strickland, of the fact, that the
Hindoos, even in their idolatrous belief, may,
in
some sort, be said to possess the rough outline,
skeleton, or groundwork, so to speak, of the whole
scheme of Christian Theology. The Trimourti or