The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-14 00:00:00

500 YARDS.

Sergeant Kerr, London Scottish ... ... 17
Private F. Pigou, 9th Surrey 17
Private W. Bustard, 20th Middlesex 17
Private J. Adams, Ist Hereford ~. ... 17
Sergeant J. B. Phillip, 2d Middlesex ... 17
Sergeant J. Miller, 6th L.R.V. 17
Corporal W. B. Leinster, 12th Stafford 17
Sergeant T. Kirk, Ist East York 16
Sergeant J. M. French, Ist Warwick ... 16
Private S. Vale, Ist Warwick ~. ... 16
Private J. M. Harris, 22d Surrey ... 16
Colour-Sergeant A. Harmer, 11th Surrey 16
Sergeant J. R. Mills, 14th Suffolk ... 16
Private C. Other, 12th West York 16
Lieutenant W. H. Watson, 16th West York 16
Quartermaster-Sergt. C. Woodcock, 3d West York 16
Sergeant H. Palmer, 36th Stafford ... 16
Captain J. C. Bosanquet, 6th Monmouth ... 16
Lieutenant J. Frller, Ist Cambridge ... 16
Corporal S. Penman, 3d Durham ... 16
Private W. Knox, 21st Durham ..• 16
W. E. Metford ... 16
Corporal G. Leah, 19th Cheshire ... ... 16
Sergeant G. Snelus, Bth Cheshire ... 16
Private W. Jaffrey, 27th Cheshire ... 16
Lieutenant F. W. Emmett, 4th West York ... 16
Corporal S. Bland, 4th North York... ... ... 16
Lieutenant T. Palmer, Ist Cumberland ... ... 16
Sergeant C. Green, Ist Soinersetshire ... 16
Corporal G. W. Webb, 2d Oxfordshire ... 16
Captain D. P. Webb, Ist Herefordshire ... 16
Sergeant Lunnun, Ist Bucks ..• 16
Captain J. Fenton, 24th Lancashire ... 16
Colour-Sergeant T. Canavan, 40th Lancashire 16
Captain W. Davis, 7th Northampton ... 16
Sergeant H. C. Harries, 23d Middlesex 16
Corporal J. Gene, 19th Middlesex ... 16
Private J. 0. Dawe, Ist Middlesex 16
Lieutenant C. H. Woodall, West London ... 16
Sergeant G. W. Kimble, 25th Kent... ... 16
Ensign G. Cartwright, 11th Lincolnshire ... 16
Private J. Meakin, 2d Derbyshire ... 16
Corporal G. Challoner, Ist West York ... ... 16
The Enfield Association Cup advanced another stage.
It is open to all members of the association who have paid
their subscription for the current year. The highest pos-
sible score is 40 marks, and last year the cup was won by
Sergeant Aldridge of the Dorset Rifles, with 35 marks.
This. year Private Allen of the 18th Somerset made 34,
scoring 17 at each of the ranges of 200 and 500 yards. The
shooting yesterday gave the following results

ENFIELD ASSOCIATION CUE,
Highest Scores, _ _ _

yards, yards. Total.
Captain Morris, 19th Middlesex ... 18 ... 16 34
The following scores show the romainder of the shoot-
ing :
CARBINE PRIZES, 150 AND 200 YARDS.
Winners,

Points.
Gunner P. Edwards 2d Lincoln Artillery, £2O 28
Corporal Titcomb, 10th Kent Artillery, .£IQ ... 27
Private Thompson, 2d Cumberland Artillery, .£ll 27
Corporal Hoare, Ist Gloucester Atillery, £5 26
Sergeant C. R. Rodd, lst MiddlCsex Artillery, £5 26
Corporal Potter, 10th Kent Artillery, £5 ~ 26
Sergeant-Major W. C. Mack, let Norfolic Artil-
lery, £5 ... 26
Sergeant J. Slade, Ist Sussex Artillery, £5 26
Bombardier J. M'Gregor, 4th Lancashire Artil-
lery, £5 26
Sergeant-Major J. Tilfor, Ist Middlesex Artillery,
£5
Gunner T. Meggy, Hon. Artillery• Company, £3 25
Corporal Adams, 10th Kent Artillery, £3 25
Gunner J. Clark, Ist Stafford Artillery, £3 24
Gunner C. Reynolds, 2d East York Artillery, £3 24
Gunner E. J. Hansom, Ist Gloucester Artillery, £3 24
Sergeant J. Cocks, Ist Norfolk Artillery, £3 24
Corporal W. Codd, 2d Lincoln Artillery, £3 23
Private P. Diedericks, 2d Middlesex Artillery, £3 23
Corporal E. J. Curtin, Ist Gloucester Artillery, £3 23
Sergeant W. Owen, Ist Stafford Artillery, £3 23
" VOLUNTEER SERVICE GAZETTE" PRIZE.—
IltemEsT SCORE-800 YARDS,

Sergeant Lane, Ist Gloucester Points.
... ... ... 21
Private H. J. Wood, 36th Middlesex ~. . 20
EXTRA PRIZES—Finer SERIES-600 YARDS.

Private Adams, Ist Herefordshire ... Points.l6
"DAILY TELEGRAPH" PRIZE-500 YARDS.
Private Anderson, 30th Cheshire 16
The Horatio Ross Prize its ons differing in its

You will, no doubt, be glad to hear the true account of
the little disturbance which we had hero about a fortnight
ago. Everybody you meet has something to say about it,
but few know really what has happened. In a country
where, from the Maharajah downwards, every native thinks
it to be to his interest to mislead the European or to prevent
his access to authentic information, you may imagine that
no two accounts of one occurrence coincide in every respect
with one another. Besides, information often filters through
questionakle channels to the English visitors of Cashmere.
Some have implicit trust in their khupsumahs (butlers) ;
others repose confidence in thapolitical wisdom of the boat-
men who paddle them up and down this delightful country
of streams, rivers, lakes, and pools, or hear the words of
truth and soberness from the lips of some fair but frail
Cashmere beauty. As to the agents of the British Govern-
ment, who are to give and should be supposed to possess ac-
' curate information as to what is going on, they are, especi-
ally if they are "swells," so overwhelmed with acts of
kindness •by the Maharajah and his Ministers, so much
"feted," that it is not to be wondered at that they leave
Srinuggur with the impression "that the Rajah is one of the
most enlightened Oriental princes ;" that he is much misun-
derstood ; that he has of course the good of his country at
heart, but cannot do everything in one day. Indeed only the
person who has a thorough knowledge (unfortunately only
to be got through experience) of all the revolting intricacies
of Oriental cunning, of its almost unfathomable duplicity
of the heartless and shortsighted selfishness of native rulers,
and the absolute demoralisation of the ruled, is competent
to take the right course for inquiring into the course of
events which take place around him. "Jfais revenons
nos moutons." The mutiny was perfectly spontaneous. The
people who took part in it were driven to it by the artifi-
cial condition of starvation in which it is the good pleasure
of this worst of all governments to keep them.
To understand this you must know that everything in
Cashmere, either by assumed right or by direct spoliation,
s the private property of the Maharajah. He is the absolute
proprietor of the lives and property of his subjects. It is
from him that they have to bay their own produce, and on
that he levies enormous taxes. In ordinary times, when
the ruler is just, or already saturated with the gains of ex-
actions, he is content to appropriate—say, talking of the
produce of the land, one-half, and to levy taxes to the
amount of 30 and 40 per cent. on the remainder. Tho pre-
sent Maharajah is scarcely satisfied with this, or, at any
rate, if ho is his officials are not. The people of this country
mainly live on rice. Well, this rice is accumulated by the
Rajah, and sold to his subjects. This year its price is
trebled, the ostensible cause of this circuumstance being the
influx of visitors (who are comparatively very fow); its
real cause the insatiable avarice of the Government. The
people unable to pay this price—and the difference of the
present price and that of the two preceding years—have
to live on grass and roots. Driven by hunger, a mob as-
sembled in the streets of Srinuggur, and, although un-
armed (which the Maharajah takes good care they shall
be) threatened by their numbers to become dangerous.
They shouted for food, and it is said menaced one of the
Ministers of the ill-advised Rajah. In reply his highness's
sepoys wore lot loose on them, cut down a few, and drove
the crowd on to one of the bridges which connect the seve-
ral parts of this sham Venice. The bridge broke down, we
must charitably suppose accidentally, by the weight of the
people on it, and about 36 persons were drowned. It is
said that the sepoys tried to save them, and also that they
pushed back into the water those who endeavoured to gain
the shore. I will you leave to judge which of the two ac-
counts is likely to be the correct ono. For the edification of
the European visitors a story was subsequently got up, in
which this petty outbreak was ascribed to the shawlmakers
striking for higher wages (they have about ss. a month left,
after deduction of taxes), and a reduction of the scandalous
price at which rico is sold.
All I can say is this, that to induce the timid Cashmerian
(and of all the races that I have seen the Cashmiri is deci-
dedly the most timid) to express his dissatisfaction in a
public manner, the cup, even of oriental tyranny, must
have been overflowing. Happily the outbreak to which this
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letter
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Europeanstook place
at the beginning of the "season,"
were pr
to s e
prevent
and thus draw their attention to his misrule, a few conces-
sions were made or, rather, promised by the Maharajah. In
e t,- and
further
t is probably
outbreaks
due
to their presence that in order
the winter, when the snow obstructs the passes and Euro-
peans are politely turned out of Cashmere nothing inter-
feres with the patriarchial government of his Highness.
The taxes are levied or, rather, robbed from the defenceless
population ; one or the other of the few who, in spite of the
vexatious imposts by which trade is fettered, have grown
wealthy, is seized on some frivolous pretext, thrown into
prison, where he may be tortured, and from which he is
only released on payment of a considerable sum to the Ex-
chequer.; people are beaten, tortured, and, I fully believe,
whenever disaffection is spreading in any district, espe-
cially a mountainous ono, decimated without mercy or ap.
peal. Whether the late outbreak is the precursor of many
others, or merely one of a number of which the British
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datory, the Rajah of Cashmere, thinks proper to inflict on
commerce, I will quote fi om a minute of Sir R. Montgo-
mery, the late Governor of the Punjab, dated Jan., 1863.
The rates are those levied on goods exported from the Pun-
jab to Cashmere by the Jumna and Bannihal road, which
are considerably lower than those levied on any other road,
as the Rajah is anxious to make Jumna the most important
place in his territories, to which it is lees entitled than
almost any other town or village in his domains. The
Jumna and Bannihal road is the worst of those conduct-
ing into Cashmere. "Percentages of duty—Sugar, 126 ;4
molasses, 150 ; coarse sugar. 100 ; tea, 78 ; spices, &c., 19
to 200; pewter, 104; iron, 90; broad cloth, 29, ecc." Sugar
is one of the most favourite articles of consumption in this
country, where confectionery is made even of the reeds
that grow on the river side.

The lowest taxed goods are " flowered piece goods,"
which pay a little over 8 per cent. Anything that the
people are really in want of is taxed extravagantly. The
same goods have to pay taxes as high as those quoted on
the Ladakh frontier, which is within the Maharajah's ter-
ritory. To all this must be added the petty exactions of
tho officials all over Cashmere and in Ladakh, who plunder
the merchant on their own account, and to give presents to
the Maharajah or his Ministers by means of legal con-
trivances.

It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that English com-
merce can at present not compete with that of Russia in
Central Asia, to which Cashmere is the most direct route.
Indeed the great mystery which hangs over Central Asiais
mainly due to the stupidity and rapaciousness of the Maha-
rajah, or rather to our own folly in not compelling him to
open his country to commerce and civilisation. Had wo
done so we should be able to exercise a pressure on Cabul,
and the trade of the Punjab with Central Asia would have
received an immense development. Cabul, Bokhara,
Khokan, Tartary, &c., would have become an area of
friendly commercial rivalry between England and Russia,
and not, what unfortunately it is becoming
now, a hotbed
of intrigues dangerous to the peaceful maintenance of our
rule in India. I am not a Russophobist, but no man in his
senses can contemplate with indifference the immense
strides which Russia has lately been making in the direc-
tion of Hindustan. People in England may say what they
like, and fancy their Eastern possessions secure in the bra-
very, the public spirit, and the wisdom of those it sends out
to govern them. I deliberately affirm that the whole of
Central Asia is directly, and to a small extent indirectly,
suingdheterdtnheessinoflfutehne "rest
roefstßaunsdsibe thankful policy," we have
Russia, and owing to the short-
taken no step which could secure us any political or com-
mercial advantage in countries in which British influence
could easily reign supreme. Some, indeedmost, of ourgoods

A SAD STORY WITH A GOOD END.—Esther Baker was
clatirged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and disorderly.
♦ constable of the E Division proved being called to the
house in which the prisoner lived in Cleveland-street in
consequence of her having assaulted her little girl with a
poker. As she was very drunk and disorderly, he took her
into custody.
A nice little girl, about 10 years of age, was sent for, and
said the prisoner, who was her mother, had not assaulted
her, and never did assault her, only when she was drunk.
Mr. Knox asked her what her mother was, and she laid
"a milliner."
The constable said she was a prostitute.
The prisoner said she had two more children.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner if she would allow him to
send the child to school, and to be taken away from the
scenes she was likely to witness.
The prisoner said she would be glad to let her go.
A person here stepped forward, and said he had only
lodged three weeks in the house where the prisoner re-
sided, and there had been frequent scenes of violence with
the prisoner and those she brought home. Last night the
other lodgers were aroused by the prisoner belabouring
her child with a poker, and the aid of the police was
called in. The prisoner's language at times was abomin-
able. When the child was assaulted she made her escape
in a state of nudity. On examining her that morning he
found she had a bruise on her arm. .

The prisoner said she had not got a poker in the place.
The witness said that had it not been wrested from her
grasp more serious injury would have been done.
The prisoner retorted that the person was in the habit
of illusing his child, which ho denied.
Mr. Knox said he was told the prisoner was not only a
drunkard, but a prostitute. He supposed she would not
like her child to be brought up like her, and ultimately be
ruined.
The prisoner said she would not.
Mr. Knox asked the little girl whether she would like
to go to school ?
S he replied in the negative.
Mr. Knox (who 'fits very anxious to do something, with
the view of savog the child), said he was very sorry, but
that, perhaps, if she had a talk with her brother, she would
change her mind.
The little girl, after some conversation with hor brother,
consented to go to go school, and the prisoner promised to
bring her to-morrow for that
.purpose, entering into her
own recognisanees to be of good behaviour.

THAMES.
SCANDALOUS CASE OF KIDNAPPING.—A young and re-
spectable Welch woman, named Ellen Williams, came
before Mr. Partridge, with police-sergeant Cox, No. 45 K,
who said she had been kidnapped by the female agent of
an infamous house in the neighbourhood of Shadwell, and
brought to London for the vilest of purposes. The young
woman escaped from the house, and on Wednesday night
slept on the timber in the London Dock. Yesterday even-
ing the young woman was seen by one of her countrymen,
named Jenkins, sestiod on the step of a door, and sobbing
loudly. Jenkins took pit; on her, and procured a lodging
for her in the house of a decent matron named Ann Parry,
who was present.
Mi lc Parry said she never saw the young woman until
yesterday, and believed her to be virtuous and respectable,
and anxious to return to Wales.

Mr. Partiidge questioned the young woman at great
length, and she said she was in service at Llanberris Inn,
kept by Mr. William Matthews, in Llanberris, in Carnar-
vonshiro. A London woman came there, and, on the pro-
mise of better wages and good treatment, induced her to
leave the place and accompany her to Liverpool, whore
she borrowed all the money she had in her possession,
18s. Gd., with which her fare was paid to London. On her
arrival hero she was taken to a small house in a narrow
street, where white and black sailors were introduced to
her, and she was solicited by the woman who brought
her to London and the landlady of the house
to yield to the solicitations of tho rough men in
the house, and threatened with violence if she did not be-
come as vile as the other women who frequented the
house, and whom she soon discovered by their appearance,
language, and conduct to be the lowest of their class.
After enduring great indignity she escaped from the house,
and escaped the ruin and the dreadful fate intended for
her. She Wag told she must not be quiet in the house, but
earn money for the; landlady by sacrificing her virtue, her
modesty, and all that wa: due to a respectable woman.
Mr. Partridge asked if the ,-9ung woman's clothes wore
saved ?
Cox replied that the clothes were at the Euston-square
station, and the infamous wretch who brought Sh°,young
woman to London had applied for the clothes Ana .9ould
not obtain them.
Mr. Partridge was very glad to hear it. He inquired if
tho people who had been engaged in kidnapping the poor
woman had been discovered.
Cox said the young woman had given a description of
the house and the street in which it was situated, but ho
had not yet been able to discover it. The young woman
pointed to the White Swan, a respectable public-house in
High-street, Shadwell, whore there was a large figure of a
Swan over the door, and said the house to which she was
taken was near the White Swan.
Mr. Partridge gave directions to Cox to make further
inquiries, to report to him tho result, and to take care of
the young woman. If Ellen Williams wished to return to
Wales he would send her back at the expense of the poor-
box fund.

WESTMINSTER.
AN Ann. EistAlL—A man about 30 years of age, of bad
appearance, who gate the name of Michael was
Carrea,
placed at the bar, charged With being found in the area of
a gentleman's house for an unlawful purpose.
Jane Cowley, servant at 73, Clevoland-street, Pimlico,
said that on the previous evening she found the prisoner
in her master's area, and had no doubt that he had been
attempting something dishonest. She had occasion side
Lott
the larder hastily, there found the prisoner by the
of it ; the door had been -unfastened, and the larder was not
as she had loft it some time before.
Prisoner—l remember, young woman, I asked you if
you would be so kind as give Me a little relief, and stood
by your side.
Witness—Yes, you stood by my side while i held you
there. I caught hold of you, and then you promisieldeless;rfl
let you go, to wait while I went up and asked my mistress
what I should do; and when I came back you were gone,
and I had to run down tho street after you and collar you.
and bring you back ?
Mr. Selfo—Did you do so?
Witness—Yes ; and there's a woman next door to us
says that a man like this tried to take some linen away
from her; and he had unlocked and opened our larder door
just as I came upon him.
Prisoner—Pm a carpenter by trade, and I wanted a little
money to got my tools out, and I just went into the area
to ask for some assistance.
Prisoner was remanded.

A BOON TO SMOKERS.—Various have been
,the
ideas and ingenious the contrivances to arrive at a
very simple result, viz., the nipping off the end of the
cigar. All, however, have been found either too expen-
sive or useless, and the old plan, the penknife, or the more
primitive means, the teeth, has been for some time the
universal practice. But Mr. Butcher, of the Lyceum Por-
tico, has at last discovered the very thing that was wanted,
and he has accordingly patented a " cigar nipper," both
certain and simple in its operation, which, while it serves
the very useful purpose of a ring for keys, can be made so
ornamental that it may be worn as a charm. That the
nipper may become universally used, the price has been
fixed so ridiculously low that he who can afford even two
pence for a cigar will not find himself ruined by investing
another penny ii a cigar nipper.