The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

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SHARE MARKETS—This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE MEIRLAM.-MEIKLAM'S BONDS.

This bankrupt was described as a gentleman of Bryan-
stone-square, and he has been before the Court for some
time. The debts amount to about £42,000, and assets de-
pend in a great measure upon the realisation of certain
securities known as Meiklam's bonds. A further adjourn-
ment was now asked on behalf of some of the creditors,
and his Honour ordered it.

Adjourned accordingly.
IN RE SIR RANDAL HOWLAND ROBERTS, BART.

This bankrupt was described as of 17, Aldridge-road-
villas, Bayswater, and to-day ho came up to pass his last
examination, and for the order of discharge. The accounts
showed due to creditors unsecured £1,841, as holding secu-
rity £.127, and.liabilities on accommodation bills, £lOO. By
good debts, £lOO, bad, £5O. Shares in public companies which
have not cost bankrupt any money estimated at £7OO ; pro-
perty in the hands of creditors, £440; leaving a deficiency of
£1,078. He claims £lOO from the Life Insurance Invest-
ment Company for worth of labour done as a director,
£5OO having been voted to the directors annually. The
bankruptcy is alleged to have taken place in consequence
of the negligence of an attorney employed by the bank-
rupt, and which led to his resigning a military appoint-
ment.

The case was not concluded when our report left.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BURGLARY IN COVENTRY-STREET.--JOhII Callaghan, alias
John Williams, alias John Edwards, described as a trades-
men of Queen Ann-street, Liverpool, and who is said to
have been several times convicted, was brought before
Mr. Knox by Sergeant Ackrell, 15 F, charged with being
concerned, with others in custody, in a burglary at the
house of Mr. Stokes, toolmaker, No. 27, Coventry-street,
in December, 1863, when a large quantity of property
consisting of tools and shades, and materials used in the
numerics, was carried off by the thieves.
Sergeant Ackrell said that in December, 1863, a burglary
was committed at the house of Mr. Stokes, and ho saw the
prisoner with two others, having a quantity of boots and
shoes with them, enter a house in Newton-street, Holborn.
Two of the men were taken into custody, tried and con-
victed, but the prisoner succeeded in effecting his escape.
Yesterday he went to Liverpool and took the prisoner into
custody. _ .

It appears that the prisoner was charged with a robbery
from the person on the 16th April, 1863, and committed
from this court for six months with hard labour, thero
being at that time a previous conviction against him for
three months as a rogue and vagabond.
The prisoner was formally committed for trial.

INDIA.

The French mail steamer has brought us Calcutta
papers to April 4. We take the following from the
Calcutta Englishman of that date :
" Owing to the Galle mail leaving only the day
after the one via Bombay, we shall not despatch an
overland mail by the Bengal steamer. To make ip
for the deficiency, our readers will receive this num-
ber by the French mail, and we shall despatch another
overland by the Bombay mail, closing here on the 7th.
" The screw steamer Bengal, with the mails from
London to Feb. 2G, arrived here on the afternoon of
the 31st ult., and the express portion of the mails of
a week's later date also came to hand last evening.
Our latest telegraphic intelligence from London is
dated up to March 27, via the Indo-European line.
"Money continues easy, and there is little to report
since our last. The Bank rate remains the same.
Government paper at one time slightly improved, but
has again retrograded. Exchange has also receded.
The markets for produce are dull, and there is little
doing. News from Europe is anxiously expected,
and there is an unwillingness to act until authentic
information arrives of the progress of events in
America.

" In shares, the new speculations carry all before
them, and the progress of these great undertakings
is very remarkable. Sir Charles Trevelyan read his
financial statement on Saturday, and prominently
noticed this great change, promising such remark-
able things for India. Tea shares' and shares in
steam companies are neglected. Government seems
now to have awakened to the vast advantage to be
gained by giving encouragement to private enter-
prise, and the next few years will see great results."

" His Excellency Sir Hugh Rose, previous to his depar-
ture, issued the following General Order :
" Headquarters, Calcutta, 22d March, 1865.

" The Commander-in-Chief in India, at the expiration of
his term of service, considers it his duty to thank the army
for their discipline and efficiency.
"All the reports received from the officers commanding
divisions and brigades, and the approval of his Royal High-
ness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, give evidence
of the satisfactory state of the one and the other.
" The links of authority, ascending to the Government
of India and the Secretary of State for India, prove that
the.same meed of praise is due to the native army.
" The native army, which was remodelled and reorga-
nised after the events of 1857, had to encounter great diffi-
culties in the fulfilment of that object; but the unwearied
zeal and ability of the officers and the good feeling of the
men prevailed over every obstacle, and the State has now
at its service an efficient, obedient, and well-disposed
native army, who, young as they are, have already done
good service in the field.
"These results could not have been obtained if the
patronage:of the army had not been devoted exclusively to
military merit.
"In a wise and most disinterested spirit, the Govern-
ment of India allowed the officer who had been selected for
the chief command at a time when one of the most import-
ant parts of his duties was the re-organisation of the army,
to administer its patronage.

"Sir Hugh Rose claims no merit whatever, for having
considered this honourable trust as a sacred one ; he pub-
lished a General Order in which he announced that in
whatever way an officer could prove his merit and good
service, he would reward him with the appointments which
the Government had been pleased to place at his disposal.
"By these moans officers, who had given practical and
sure proofs that they possessed the highest military quali-
fications, were placed at the head of
_the re-organization of
the army.
"The Commander-in-Chief thanks the officers of the
army for the manner in which they have justified his con-
fidence in them, and fulfilled their part of their obligation.
" Constant inspections have proved to his Excellency how
unwearied have been their exertions and the exercise of their
abilities to do justice to their selection; and, while it has been
his Excellency's duty almost always to eulogize the success
of their efforts, their earnest goodwill and judgment have
rendered, with rare exceptions, reproof unnecessary.
" The re-organisation of the native army, which has
taken place during his Excellency's command has made it
necessary that he should dwell particularly on points rela-
ting to them.

" The praise which it is His Excellency's duty to bestow
on the officers of the Native applies just as much to those
of the British Army ; and it may be said, that the officers
and men of all the armies under His Excellency's command
have not only scrupulously obeyed his orders and wishes,
but have done their best to anticipate them.

" The Commander-in-Chief in India entertains the con-
viction that the army will not relax the zeal and exertions
which have brought them to the present high standard, and
that they will continue to merit the confidence of the very
distinguished general officer who has been selected to suc-
ceed him, of Government, and their Most Gracious Sove-
reign.

"Sir Hugh Rose bids the army farewell, with the most
earnest wishes for their welfare and happiness.
"Their good conduct has rendered his groat command a
source of satisfaction, not of anxiety and the parting with
them is his only cause of regret.
"By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
"E. HAYTHORNE, Colonel, Adjutant-General."

" Sir William Mansfield has issued the following
General Order on the recent changes in the army :
"GENERAL ORDER BY Ills EXCELLENCY THE 00M-

MANDER-IN-CHIEF.

"Adjutant-General's Office, Poonah, March 14, 1865.
"When Sir William Mansfield assumed the command of
the Bombay army he was aware that groat and radical
changes were impending over it, as consequences of the
termination of a state of war, and of the transfer of the
Government of India from the late Hon. East India Com-
pany to the Crown under Act of Parliament. His Excel-
lency then expressed a confident hope that the discipline of
the army would not suffer under his command. Sir William
Mansfield, now that his command of the Bombay army
closed, has the warmest satisfaction in recording his belief
that that hope has been amply justified. It may be well to
cast a glance at the changes which have been effected,
Firstly, there was the reduction of the army from a war
footing to a peace establishment, which may be stated in
numbers as a reduction in all the arms from 70,000 to 40,000
men. Secondly, there was the measure of the amalgama-
tion, which, while extending, by Official Gazette, the pri-
vileges attendant on military rank on account of the Indian
officers to all the world, instead of being restricted, as they
had been heretofore, to India, included the formation of the
staff corps, the abolition of the local character of the
British portion of the forces of the late Hon. East India
Company, and the early retirement of many field-officers
and others, owing to the grant of liberal pensions. Thirdly,
there was the measure of the re-organisation of the army,
by which the regimental position of the officers, British
and native, has been raised, a more direct responsibility
thrown on both classes, while the roll of a regiment now
presents the names of officers actually serving with it,
instead of a long list of gentlemen, of whom but a portion
was interested in the corps, or over present in its ranks.
Such aro the extraordinary changes of the last five years,
according to which the entire body of the Bombay army
has not only been re-modelled in form, but has been re-
organised according to ideas absolutely different from those
under which it was originally constituted. To carry
through such difficult duties in as satisfactory a manner as
those alluded to, would have been impossible without the
most cordial and intimate co-operation of the Headquarters
Staff, during the term of his Excellency's command.
It is evident that that Staff has had to perform duties
unexampled in the history of the Bombay army. Sir
William Mansfield begs to return his most sincere thanks
to Lieut.-Colonel Stock, the Adjutant-General, who has
been his most confidential adviser throughout for the last
five years ; to Lieutenant-Colonel Phayre, the Quarter-
master-General; to Colonel Skinner, the Judge-Advocate-
General (now on leave of absence) ; to Lieutenant-Colonel
Field, the Acting Judge-Advocate-General; to Colonel the
Hon. F. Thesiger, 95th Foot, who acted as Deputy-Ad-
jutant-General, British troops, prior to the amalgamation
of the Staff offices; to Lieutenant-Colonel Kirby, Deputy-
Adjutant-General; and to Major Flood, Military Secretary.
His Excellency would further tender his best thanks
and acknowledgments to the Major-Generals commanding
divisions ; Major-General C. Van Straubenzee, K.CJ.B.,
N.D.A. ; Major- General Green, C. 8., N.D.A. ; Major-
General Ronne; C. 8., S.D.A. ; and Major-General
M. W. Smith, C. 8., P.D.A. ; to Brigadier-General Lucas,
late Commhndant and now Inspector of Royal Artillery ; to
the Brigadiers-General Commanding Brigades, and to the
several officers commanding brigades of artillery and regi-
ments of cavalry and infantry, for the zeal and discretion
with which they have performed their respective • duties,
and their share in affording superintendence and execution
to the reforms which have been adverted to. His Excel-
lency would further beg the Principal Inspector-General,
Dr. Stovell, and Deputy Inspector-General of British Troops,
Mr. Canning, to accept his warm acknowledgments for the
excellent manner in which they have presided over their
respective medical departments, and the energy with which
they have directed the efforts of the medical officers under
their orders for the improvement of the health of her
Majesty's troops, and for the spread of sanitary reforms.
His Excellency would request the Commissary-General,
Lieut.-Col. Dunsterville, and the Superintending Engineers
of Circles, to accept his assurance that their zealous co-
operation in the execution of the orders of Government for
the provisioning and lodging of the troops has,
-
in like
the public
manner, been of the greatest advantage to p
ser-
vice. In conclusion, his Excellency would
express his
high opinion of the state of the several regiments,
British
of their
and native, serving in the Bombay Presidency, uts
very good conductf which has rendered his command so
pleasant to him.
" Subject to the confirmation of Go Government, pa reports
-
from this date will be made for the _
information
General Sir Charles Van Straubenzee, K.() 13
" By- order,
" 11. STOCK, Liout.-Col., Adjutant-General"