The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-28 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The Juverna steamer, of the Cork Steam-ship Com-
pany, arrived arrived in Cork on Wednesday, bringing
on hoard five companies of the 2d Somersetshire
under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Luttrell. Each
of the five companies contains 61 rank and file. The
band of the 91st Regiment met them at the quay, and
played them up to barracks. Among the officers who
accompanied the militia to Cork are Lieutenant-Colonel
Luttrell, commanding ; Captains Pickwick, Thackeray,
and Waring ; Lieutenants Barrett and Luttrell ; Ensigns
Barrett and Ila-rwoed, with Surgeon Thomas Barnett.

Major-General Cochrane, commanding the Dublin
district, inspected the dinners, hospital, books, &c., of
3d West York on the 23d, and, on the 24th, at half-past
11 a m., the regiment in marching order, in Richmond
Barrack-square. After seeing them go through the
manual and platoon exercise, and through several
manoeuvres and changes' of position, the General ex-
pressed himself highly satisfied with the appearance and
discipline of the regiment, remarking that he never ex-
pected to see the regiment in such a state of efficiency—
not inferior to a line regiment.
COMMUNICATION WITH THE CRlMlLL—Arrangements
have now been made and will speedily be in operation
for securing to the French and English Governments a
direct communication every other day from the Crimea
to Paris and London ; and we must again express our
surprise that this was not one of the very first provisions
made for the public service. Steamers will now, we
believe, be despatched every 48 hours to Varna, whence
a relay of couriers will convey the despatches to the
Austrian frontier, where a telegraph is already
established.
THE POST-OFFICE OFFICIALS AND OUR SOLDIDRS IN
THE EAST.—A movement is making amongst the offi-
cials at the Post-office towards subscribing a day's pay
for this patriotic object, which, we hear, is progressing
mast favourably.—Civil Service Gazette.

FORTE AND CLYDE NAVIGATION.—The half-yearly
meeting of this company was hold on Wednesday at
Glasgow, when a dividend of 5i per cent. was declared,
payable on the 19th of Norewber.

y Times : •
On the 30th of August,
,COlcnel Cotton marched
from Peshawur for the purpose of destroying some
insurgent villages to the north-westward. The
force consisted of Gordon's Seikhs, a battery of the
Mountain Train, two companies of H.M. 22d, the
2d Company of the Sappers, ard 9th N. 1., or about
three thousand in all. The rear was covered
by the 13th Light Cavalry. The village was
taken without opposition, and burnt to the
ground, the trees being afterwards destroyed and
gardens uprooted. These measures, severe as they
seem, aro indispensable to check the marauding of
ferocious borderers who will require many years of
castigation to bring them to order or teach them
forbearance from plunder. The severity is one of
the necessities of our position, stretching as our
territory does along the frontier of a mass of moun-
tains, much too vast for us-to occupy or penetrate,
where the people on the one side have been for ages
robbers by circumstances, and where we are the
protectors of their former victims we do not chose
to suffer them to be robbed with impunity.
Some of the usual disturbances in the Nizam's
country have just occurred. A party Rohillas,
about 500 strong, took the field and seized posses-
sion of a fort, in which they seemed to propose to
maintain themselves. Brigadier Mayne, with the
right wing of the 2d cavalry, fogr companies-of the
infantry, and a few guns of the 2d company artillery
-:—abOut 600 in all—left the cantonments at Au-
rungabad on the evening of the 20th inst., and
arrived at Sail O-or, the position of the Rohillas,
miles distant, at four o'clock next evening.. The
Rohillas refused, on being summoned, to sur-
render, and the Brigadier reqUired to wait to
bring up- his heavy guns, proposing to cannonade
them as soon as these arrived. In the course of the
night the enemy attempting to escape were attacked
and dispersed with great slaughter. Our casualties
consisted of one man killed, and one officer and ten
Men wounded, none of them severely. Through-
out India at large profound tranquillity at'pre'sent
appears to reign, British Burmah forming no excep-
tion. In Pegu even robberies appear to have ceased,
and the brother of the King of Ava Is said to be an
his way to Calcutta at the head of an embassy to
endeavour to induce us to abandon the small ter-
ritory from which the royal family deriveS its name
—willing to make any concession if this can be ob-
tained. The recent spirit of improvement which
seems to have become infused into Government ap-
pears as if it had awakened fresh enterprise among
the people, and we do not recollect ever to have seen
anything ike thomanifestations of energy and self-
reliance amongst the natives at present to be wit-
nessed on all sides of us.

There have been two serious fires at Aden, one on
the 6th of August, and the other on the 9th of Sep-
tember, the particulars of which will have reached
home some weeks before our paper arrives. The
rains of this season have been unusually protracted ;
13.81 inches have fallen in the course of September,
the 14th having been one of the wettest days of
the season, and great atmospheric disturbances
have been experienced almost simultaneously all
•oVer- India. The monsoon at Bombay has on the
whole been eminently favourable, so much so that
we are 'beginning to fear that our waterworks may
be forgotten, and we certainly shall not have a
yard, pipe laid near Bombay at all events for
three" years to come. The Governor-General and
local governors are at present all at the respective
seats of their authority, to all appearance actively
occupied in their gubernatorial duties. The pros-
pects of trade are highly-favourable ; in tho money
market there is no change, money, for which there
is no demand, being abundant. .
A few months back Lord Harris, Governor of
Madras, published an admirable manifesto on the
general improvement of the country, and this has
since our last been followed by a second paper
of equal excellence in reference to the tortures
supposed to be indulged in in raising the land
revenues of the presidency. Abandoning the hush-
ing up and mystery-mongering system formerly
'hi- favour, and which the India House seems so
reluctant to relinquish, he comes boldly forward
in the spirit of an rnghsti noose resoivea to in-
vestigate the matter to the bottom, to expose the
slander if it be one, if it be not one to exterminate
the offence. The Western India Irrigation Com-
.pany have now had 48,000 shares applied for in
India, or, assuming that no more than ten thou-
sand are required for EnglatPd,
eight thousand
more than the proposed capital, and all this has
happened in six weeks, without the slightest influ-
ence or effort being used. They aro now on the
point of applying to Government, and of calling up
their deposits with the strongest reason to feel
confident in the results. The irrigation field first
to be examined is the rich tract lying betwixt the
Nerbudda and Taptee, from the base of the high-
lands towards the sea, along a line of about
forty miles of canal, with a navigable river at
each end. This tract was strongly recommended by
Colonel Grant in 1849, and by Mr. Mackay in
1851. The survey
is expected to be completed by
the time the cold weather is over, and the works
to be begun before the commencement of the
rains. As the capital will only be called up as
required by the contractors, and the canal be made
available as it is cut, there is every reason to hope
that dividends will be coming in on the full
naop
amount paid up within a twelvemonth of the first
and all promising
an
under infinitely
being made. Our spinning and weaving, our
p
c touur gallery
re
Bed
and zoological
gardens, for seven years under discussion, has now
e,
Railway,
and
Indus salt exporting projects are all in progress,
a
been
revived,
to flourish. The plan of an eco-
meirc manufacturing,museum,
a picture
more favourable
auspices than formerly.

CHIN A.
HONG, HONG, SEPT. 11.
We still continue in the state of doubt, appre-
hension, and excitement in which we were in when
the last mail left for England. Disaffection is still
the vogue. Rebellion is still paramount, and if
we judge from the various accounts before us, the
rebels are all but the paramount authority in China.
Strictly local news we have but little. The
Chinese fillibukters from this place, in number
about 500, have recaptured Kow-Won, which place
is again in the hands of the Imperialists. In Hong
Kong itself all is quiet, and sickness much the
same as previously reported.
At Canton matters remain in a state of grave
complexity. The mandarins evince little determi-
nation for a resolute fight ; the rebels, on the other
hand, feel convinced that they are unable to cope
with their adversaries without large guns, which
they do not possess, and are therefore unable to
commence the threatened singe. The rebels confine
their operations to a strict blockade, not merely
interdicting the importation of provisions into
Canton, but effectually preventing all expertations,
BO that the large stocks of tea and silk still remain
above Canton.
From Shanhai we have but little news. Samqua,
the Tuvutac has been degraded, simply because he
could not do impossibilities. The place remains in
the hands of the rebels, and will probably continue
to do so. The French frigate La Jeanne d'Arc,
Admiral La Guerre, went on shore in the Yang-
stzo-Kang, whilst in charge of an American pilot,
Stirling
and will not therefore be able to join Admiral
in his operations against the Russians at
New Archangel (Sitka).
The English,
French, and American Plenipoten-
tiaries are about to go to Shanghai, and will pro-
bably proceed to Peking or Nanking. Commodore
Perry goes home by the present mail to the United
States.