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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1 8 53.

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INDIA AND CHINA.

China Proper must almost necessarily lead to the
severance of Chinese Tartary and Thibet from the
Chinese empire, an event which will materially
affect the balance of power in Asia. These exten-
sive countries (by themselves three quarters as
large as all Europe put together) have little in
common with China Proper, and are only main-
tained as a portion of the empire by means of the
Tartar troops of the present dynasty. In the
event of the dismemberment of the Chinese empire,
the supremacy of Chinese Tartary, if not of Thibet,
would naturally devolve upon Russia ; and the
possession of Lassa and the valley of a great river
like the Sanpo or Upper Burrampooter would
afford a much more easy entrance into British In-
dia than could be obtained through the difficult
passes of the rocky desert that environs the north-
western frontier. Delhi is three times as far from
Calcutta as Lassa is from the point where the Bur-
rampooter enters our territory.
It is stated that Sir John M'Neill, our Envoy
at the Court of Persia, has left Teheran in conse-
quence of the intrigues of Russia with Persia, and
of both with Dost Mahomed. at Ca,bul ; and it is
stated that there was such sufficient reason for " so
extreme a step as to warrant the belief that a con-
federation against England had come to his know-
ledge, which he could not with prudence or policy
overlook." His departure, together with the col-
lection of a Persian and Heratta force near Herat,
and of large levies in Affghanistan. and Bokhara,
have given rise to fresh apprehension of Russian
intrigue and prospective aggression on our western.
frontiers. The following is from the Benares .Re-
corder :

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We have received by our ordinary semi-monthly
express, from Marseilles, our despatches in antici-
pation of the Indian Mail, which left Bombay on
the 2d of July. The following is our correspond-
ent's letter of that date :
A report is current that the Burmese field force
is to be immediately broken up, and it is surmised
that the Pegu division will be then divided into
two commands, of which one will be allotted to the
Bengal, and the other to the Madras army. No-
thing is known regarding the intentions of the
King of Ai a. The Burmese appear still to expect
us to advance on their capital, and as yet confine
themselves to defensive measures. From the decks
of the steamers new stockades are seen rising be-
tween Prome and Meeaday. A famine appears to
be impending in Burmah. Owing to the disturbed
state of the lower provinces scarcely any seed was
sown last season, and at present rico bears a famine
price even at Rangoon and Pegu, and Government
is urged to lose no time in importing it in large
quantities from Calcutta.
The China mail which arrived at Bombay on the
24th of June brought no news from Shanghai,
owing to the north China mails having been lost at
sea on the 2d of May on board the Larriston.
The Hongkong papers, however, contain some fur-
ther particulars regarding Sir G. Bonham 's trip up
the Yana- tse-Kiang. It appears that the unsuccessful
attempt of the Susquehanna to get up the river to
the assistance of the Imperialists at Nankin was
thought at Shanghai to have irritated the insurgents
greatly against the foreign community in general,
and it was, therefore, deemedadvisable todespatch
the interpreter to the British Consulate to the rebel
head-quarters to explain that the English were
neutral. On arriving at Nankin Sir G. Bonham at
first intended to meet the rebel leaders in person,
but, considering that such an interview might be
misconstrued, he eventually only sent the consu-
late interpreter and some of the officers of the
Hermes on shore ; one of the latter, who is said to
be unlikely to form an erroneous estimate, men-
tions that the insurgent army encamped at Nankin
numbers 80,000 men, well equipped, and, from
what was seen of them, in a state of very proper
discipline ; officers paying nightly visits to outlying
pickets, and obserring all the for/nuke of regularly
drilled troops.
It is a significant fact that the English papers in
China no longer talk of " the rebels" or " insur-
gents," the present phrase being the patriot
army."
The insurgents captured Amoy (one of the five
ports, and situate about 450 miles north of Canton
and 700 south of Shanghai) on the 18th of May.
The particulars of this operation of the insurgents
(the first they have effected under the eyes of
Europeans) are detailed in the following letter to
the editor of the Straits' Times at Singapore :
"AMOY, MAY 19.
" For several days past business has been completely
at an end.
" On the 14th inst. the authorities notified the Eng-
lish Consul of the near approach of some 3,500 rebels,
who on that day, it became known, had invested Hai-
Teng, a walled town, about 12 miles up the Chang-
Chow river, and beheaded the chief mandarin of the
place. Various rumours as to the direction which the
rebels would take went about, and it appeared most
probable that they would go to Chang-Chow and not
come here at once, where they might fear the oppo-
sition of foreign vessels. On the 15th the opium
storeships were, at the request of the English Con-
sul, moved into the inner harbour to be in readiness
to protect more effectually the residents, some of whom
sent their valuables on board ; yet many were loath to
believe that the rebels would come, while some even
doubted the existence of any organised rebel force in this
neighbourhood, supposing the men spoken of to be
bands of thieves, of whom large numbers are always on
the river. On the evening of the 17th it was suddenly
reported that during the night 2,000 to 3,000 rebels
would arrive ; the shops were all closed earlier than
usual, and the Hai-kwan and Hai-fung, it was afterwards
found out, with their dependents, left the offices.
" That such a force could be conveyed down the river
lsioe vexpeditiously i
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and fe wa,
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the
same be-
time it was said that Taow-kai, who has been at Chin-
Chow for some weeks, would arrive during the night
with 1,000 men, and that if he reached first the entry of
the rebels into the city
.would be frustrated, and pro-
bably, as the Taow-kai is very popular with the natives,
a compromise would have been come to. Much anxiety
prevailed all night ; every one in the town seemed to be
awake. Till half-past 4 a.m. of the 18th all remained
quiet, but about that time large numbers of boats, of all
descriptions and sizes, bearing red flags and filled with
men, were descried approaching each extremity of the
town. The Chinese admiial got his fleet under weigh,
and kept up an ineffective fire on the boats, but whether
owing to the want of wind or inclination, the junks kept
a good distance off, so the landing of the rebels was
almost unopposed. The first boats could scarcely
have reached the shore when it became evident that
nearly all the wharf coolies, boatmen, policemen, and

"Some six months ago we saw a letter from the
Russian Ambassador at Bokhara to a friend who
passed through the station and made us promise
not to reveal its contents. As, however, the gen-
tleman is no longer in the land of the living, we
consider our promise no longer binding, so now we
divulge the contents of the epistle. It was stated that
Russia was ready to engage once more in an expedition
towards western Asia, and that every preparation was
being made in order that the expedition should not be
fruitless ; and that an organised army of 30,000 infantry,
20,000 cavalry, and 3,000 artillery would be sent across
the Desert by brigades to meet the army of the King of
Persia and that of Cabul, who would share in the enter-
prise. The native news from Affghanistan affords, how-
ever, an explanation of the collection of troops by the
alleged allies of Russia. The King of Bokhara is assem-
bling an army of 30,000 men on the Oxus, with a view
of driving Dost Mahomed's Affghans out of the Balkh ;
and the latter is collecting troops to oppose the King of
Bokhara, and also to resist the threatened aggressions
of the Persians and Heratees in the west and south of
Affghauistan. The chiefs of Candahar have sent him
notice that if he cannot, or will not, aid them against
the latter, they will be compelled to make peace for them-
selves, and to transfer their allegiance. But if Russia
has the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire really
in view there may be some truth in the rumour of the
collection of the Russian troops on the Caspian. Tur-
key in Asia would be a more valuable possession than the
European provinces of Turkey to a Power aiming at the
supremacy in Asia as well as in Europe. Turkey in
Asia, with river steamers on the Euphrates, and a rail-
road from the point where the latter ceased to be navi-
gable to the Bay of Antioch, would give to Russia the
most commanding position in the Old World. All who
have ever carefully investigated the question must be
convinced that British India is in no immediate danger
from Russian aggression ; but were the Russians once
fairly established at Herat the prospective danger would
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thropists may say regarding the future destinies of the
natives of Hindostan, it is certain that, owing to their
enervating climate, they must always be (as they always
have been) a subject race, and that if the English were
to leave India to-morrow the Gookas, Affghans, and
Sikhs would be at Calcutta and Bombay in six months."
The weather has lately been unusually tempes-
tuous, even for the monsoon. Many lives have been
lost by the falling of houses in the native towns,
and considerable damage has been done to the roads
and causeways extending along the western coast
of the island of Bombay. The season is unusually
sickly, and, from the Government downwards,
there is scarcely an establishment that is not short-
handed.

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The following is from the Bombay Times :
" The administration of affairs of the Bombay Presi-
dency at present rests on the shoulders of a single Coun-
cillor, and he is sick. The Governor is in the Deccan,
and, according to his late colleagues, in the eye of the
law, functus officio, although he is not the less attended
by two of the ablest and most efficient members of the
Secretariate ; the Commander-in-Chief and junior mem-
ber of Council are both sick at Poonah. As Lord Falk-

land is the only, member of the Bombay Government a'
present really in the enjoyment of good health—the only
one save Mr. Blane able to enter the Council-room at all
—we think it would have been nothing more than the
public had a right to expect, that he should hive re-
turned to the presidency the moment he found Mr. Bell
compelled to proceed to Poonall, if only to save appear.
antes and restore the integrity of the Secretariat&"
The position of the Bombay Government and of
the Sudder Court is daily becoming more difficult.
I mentioned, several mails ago, that Mr. Luard had
endeavoured to compel Government to a public
inquiry into the conduct of Messrs. Bell, Simson,
and Remington, in the Surat case, by declaring
publicly that, if such inquiry were allowed, he was
prepared " so to blacken their faces as to astonish
the world at the extent to which Indian infamy had
been carried ;" but that, instead of calling on the
accused for their defence (as had been done in the
recent case of the Sudder judges), Government had
suspended the accuser. Mr. Luard, however, is
not to be silenced ; be is determined to bring the
parties to the " Surat robbery," as he calls it, into
court as plaintiffs, at any rate, if he cannot do so as
defendants, and to subject them to a public cross-
examination ' in a witness box. He has, therefore,
written a series of letters, signed " Blacking Brush,"
to one of the local papers, in which he directly
accuses Mr. Simson of the most corrupt practices,
and charges Mr. Remington (the commissioner who
acquitted Ardaseer, and now one of the new Sud-
der judges) with deliberate perjury, and being unfit
for the society of gentlemen." Mr. Luard has tem-
porarily discontinued these attacks on account of
the serious illness of Mr. Simson, but he declares
that on his recovery they will be resumed. Mr.
Remington has taken no notice of these attacks,
but Mr. Simson's attorney has called on the papers
in which the letters have appeared for the writer's
name. " Blacking Brush" replies, that he will
come forward and justify the libels in his own name
as soon as Mr. Simson is sufficiently recovered to
to stand a cross-examination in a witness-box ; that
it has been for years his first object to bring the
case into court, but he fears that Mr. Simson has
no sincere intention of appealing to law, as, if he
had dared to do so, he could not have failed for so
long to take notico of much graver and more expli-
cit charges, 'particularly of those which appeared
in the Gazette of November 20, 1851.
Mr. Luard's suspension, of course, attracted
public attention strongly to the Surat case ; little
was previously known of its merits, for Mr. Luard,
being of an irritable and violent temper, and smart-
ing under a sense of what was really at first un-
merited persecution, had advocated his case with
so glaring a want of judgment, temper and cohe-
rence, as to have prejudiced against him all correct
people who did not care to look below the surface.
The facts of the case, however, have now been
fully made out, and the papers that were formerly
most violent against Mr. Luard (though they still
strongly condemn the course he has taken to bring
about an inquiry) admit that it would certainly ap-
pear that a widow had been deprived of her inheri-
tance contrary to explicit law, and is still kept out
of it, because Government and the Court of Di-
rectors are unwilling that their administration of
justice and highest officials should incur the scan-
dal that would be occasioned by a public inquiry
into the case.
In addition to these attacks on Mr. Remington,
the Sudder Court has been lately exposed to severe
animadversion. on account of the distinction it has
introduced between the native and European
pleaders that practise before it. The regular Bar
of the Sudder Court (called Vakeels) ilia xclu
barristerssively
native ; but two or three years ago,
of the Supreme Court discovered that there
was no legal bar to their being also licensed as
vakeels of the Sudder Adawlut under the same act
which constitutes the native Bar, and they have
of course monopolized all the most lucrative prac-
tice of the Sudder Court ever since. The native
Bar was of course obliged to submit to this, but
when the Court began to allow to the European
banisters privileges it denied to vakeels, one of the
latter (Manockpe Cursetjee) protested against such
distinctions as unjust and altogether illegal. Ma-
nockpe pointed out that the act, under which alone
any pleader could practise in the Sudder Court,
made no distinction of caste or sect whatever, and
he claimed to be allowed equal privileges with the
European pleaders, and requested to be informed
what legal difference existed in that court between
himself and them. The Court answered that the
difference was this, " That Mr. Dickenson was a
barrister, arid that he was only a vakeel." In answer
to this Manockpe presented a petitionitiilto the Court
eitinras veryecis awkwardon,
h tt
a as n.
d ctrooug
dilemma, He
thebetween European and native pleaders
tboo b whichwee d
madeto placed
oued
(although both practised under the same act) but he
begged, for the convenience of all parties concerned,
that the Court would define explicitly what those dis-
tinctions and privileges were to be. The Court was
surprised by this into an exceedin. gly weak and Mogi-
" We will not entertain your
cal answer. They said,
petition, because when we called on a case of yours
the other day you were not prepared with it, and
also, on one occasion, you addressed us without the

labourers of Amoy belonged to the rebel army, and
only waited the arrival of the leader to appear as
such. The public offices in the suburbs were immediately
broken open and eacked—one or two of them were burnt,
but this dangerous way of destroying them was not, we
are happy to say, employed, save in the outskirts. The
destruction of the Custom-house, from its proximity to
the foreign bongs, was a scene of interest to the inhabi-
tants of the latter, and the systematic manner in which
the Custom-house and the residence of its shroffs were
sacked, without the slightest injury being offered to any
of the neighbouring houses, attracted much notice, the
work being performed by men apparently of the lowest
order, armed with knives, spears, and matchlocks, and
whose appearance would justify the belief that they were
an infuriated mob let loose for the purpose of destroying
the town ; yet, they carefully avoided any injury to pri-
vate houses, showing that some most efficient system of
control is kept up by the society. The Taow-tae did
not arrive, and though the city continued to hold out the
natives never seemed to doubt its submission to the
rebels ; it appears, besides, many members of the society
were introduced previously into the city ; the garrison
had nearly all joined the society, and only waited a
favourable occasion to open the gates and admit the
rebel force. A slack desultory fire was kept up till
about noon, when it became quiet. Probably, fatigue
and hunger dictated the propriety of a short truce. An
hour or two later the garrison opened the gates and
allowed the rebels to enter unmolested, joining with
them, so that the mandarins were quite helpless ; but no
desire to capture them seems to have existed, for, while
the four gates were thrown open, only by three did the
rebels enter, the fourth being left purposely to facilitate
the escape of any who wished—a privilege they all
availed themselves of. About this time the admiral,
.with most of his junks, retreated round the island to sea,
and has not since returned. Several of the junks he
left behind have been burnt. The rebels from the main
land continued to pour in in large numbers, while thou-
sands of the inhabitants joined their bands, all armed,
and every party carrying a flag. Shortly after it was
known that the rebels were in possession of the citadel
a party of foreigners proceeded thither to see how
matters were being conducted. After being admitted
into the city, they were allowed to visit the different
public buildings without the slightest molestation ; and
while in the city, the chief of the rebel force promised
them to send a guard to protect the foreign hongs
against plunder, which it was feared they would be
much exposed to at night. The streets, both in and
outside the walls, are literally crowded with rebels, but
no sign whatever appears of injury to a single private
house. A large body of rebels patrolled the streets last
night. and to-day everything appears quiet ; most of
the shops in this neighbourhood are open and confidence
appears returning among the natives, while the foreigners
are at a loss to account for the quiet and orderly manner
in which the rebels conduct themselves. What arrange.
ments the insurgents are about to make for the govern-
ment of the place we do not know ; they say they will
offer the governorship to the late Taow-tai, who, as we
before stated, is very much liked ; but it is not at all
likely he will accept it. To-day many of the rebels are
being embarked, it is said, for Tong-wa. The ejection of
the Tartar authorities from the place has been effected
with very little fighting ; we do not suppose the deaths
amount to 10, and the few wounded we have seen appear
to have suffered much from the explosion of gunpowder.
We hope the order and quiet which at present prevail
will continue, and that business will soon be practicable ;
until, however, the character of those to be intrusted
with the government of the place be known, no opinion
can be formed as to the security of property there."
The following is from another account :
"The citadel was taken at 2 p.m., and order imme-
diately restored. The shops are expected to be open to-
morrow. The British merchants went through the city
afterwards, and were well received by the insurgent
chiefs, who sent a guard of 150 men to protect the
foreign factories, and another guard to the British Con-
sulate. Had the insurgents behaved as European
troops generally do after the capture of a town by storm,
the lives and property of the European community
would have been seriously endangered, especially as there
was not a single vessel of war on the spot—an omission
on the part of the naval commander-in-chief which is
severely commented upon. It is also observed that the
European communities at two other of the five ports—
namely, Ning-po and Tah:.chow-foo, are similarly un-
protected."
It is expected. that Canton will be -the next at-
tacked. Reports are current that, within a day's
march of the city, large bodies of rebels are ready
for attack at a given signal ; and it is greatly to be
regretted," says the Friend of China, " that we
have not such a steamer as the Phlegethon or
Nemesis moored off the factories."
The capture of Amoy, 700 miles in rear of the
nearest of the two grand armies of the insurgents,
together with the conduct of the inhabitants and
local authorities on the occasion, has manifested the
extended organization of the rebel power and the
hopelessness of the Tartar cause, and the orderlyl
behaviour of the captors of Amoy immediately after
the storming of the town, and the civility of the
both on that occasion and
rebels to the Europeans,
also at Nanlan, have jusaed the expectations now
generally entertained, that the establishment of the
Ming dynasty will terminate the vexatious restric-
tions to foreign trade and intercourse that have
hitherto prevailed.
But the subversion of the Tartar dynasty in

16i -- 17il

LLOYD'S SKIPPING.-(TRIS DAY.)

LONDON, Aug. 15.—Wind this day at Noon, S.E.,
cloudy.
RAMSGATE, Aug. 14.—Arrived—James, Dantzic.
the River, DEAL, Aug. 14.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Enterprise,
aasuthdans,a
AravAeadelfariodme, ilKed
Callao.Heln ,
Vicar of Bray, Valparaiso ; Tropic, Jamaica; London,
u—rrateebea;
New York ; Amelia, Constantinople ; Dublin Cs), West-
ward.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 14.—Wind, E. Arrived—Nordshsbet,
Grimswald ; Petilla, Konigsberg.
Aug. 15.—Arrived—Faith (s), Africa, left Fernando Po
on the 26th of June, Sierra Leone 27th July, Teneriffe
sth August, and Madeira on the Bth—lost propeller on the
Ist of July, off Lagos, and was towed to Sierra Leone by
H.M.'s st Polyphemus ; has 4,0001. in specie.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 14.—Wind, E. Arrived—Wilhel-
mina and Superbo, Constantinople ; Richard and Frances,
Amsterdam, for Cork ; Devonshire (s), London, for Dub-
lin ; Albion, Buenos Ayres. Sailed—Sardus, New York ;
Sunderland, Havre.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 15 (10.30 a.m.)—Wind, N., moderate
and fine. Arrived—Henry Pratt, from New Orleans ;
Auguste Jessie, Odessa ; N. G. Barney, Charlestown ;
Euphrosyne, Nykiobing ; Danueborg, Nantes ; Judy,
Rotterdam. Sailed—Anne Watson, for Africa ; Forest
State, Boston.
RYE, Aug. 14.—Wind, E. Arrived—Renner, Ham-
burgh.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 13.—Wind, E. Arrived—Anne
and Isabella, from Rio de la Hache, for London. Off Port
—James Lumsden, from Moulmein, for London. Sailed—
Princess, for London.
HONG KONG, June 23.—The wreck of a small schooner,
apparently run down and abandoned, was passed in the
China Seas, June 1, by the Malta (s), arrived here.—The
Lady Eveline M'Clelland, lying in the Bay, was struck by
lightning on the 14th June, and had her mainmast and
topgallant-mast split, and the lower mast damaged.
POINT DE GALLE, July 14.—The Victoria, of Liver-
pool, from Melbourne to Mauritius, was wrecked in Torres
Straits previous to 6th June ; master, two officers, six
seamen, and eight passengers taken off Booby Island oft
the 6th June, and landed here by the Trafalgar, from
Sydney, N.S.W.

APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE BY A " THIRTY-SIX
YEARS' " PRISONER.—At the Judges' Chambers, on Sa-
turday, an old man, named Richard Candin, who has
been " thirty-six years" in prison, was brought up on a
writ of habeas corpus before Mr. Justice Williams, and
applied for his discharge. He complained that he was
unlawfully detained in the Queen's Prison. It appeared
that he was committed to a Welsh prison in the year
1817, and when the Court of Session was abolished he
was brought up to the Fleet Prison, and when that prison
was demolished, he was transferred to the Queen's Prison,
where he still remains. A vesting order had been ob-
tained in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and he was called
upon to file his schedule, but he refused. The present ap-
plication was opposed, on the ground that the original debt
still existed ; but the defendent could get his discharge
by filing a schedule in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and
an offer had been made to do so, free of expense, but he
would not allow it to be done. The applicant denied
the latter allegation. Mr. Justice Williams told him he
could do Lothing for hith ; he must file his schedule.
The ai plicant said he was unjustly detained, and he
would not file his schedule. Mr. Justice Williams :
" Then if you are obstinate, you must take the conse-
quences." The old man contended that he was unjustly
in prison, and further urged his case. Mr. Justice
Williams decided that he could not assist him ; he must
file his schedule. The old man left in custody of the
gaoler, and was taken to his old quarters in the Queen's
Prison.
THE PRINCE OF PRIISSIA.—His Royal Highness the
Prince of Prussia, who arrived at Osborne on Wednes-
day, from Ostend, for the purpose of witnessing the
naval evolutions at Spithead, arrived in London early on
Saturday morning. His Royal Highness during the day
visited several members of the nobility. In the evening
his Excellency the Prussian Minister entertained the
Prince at dinner, at the residence of the legation, on
Carlton-house-terrace. Amongst the company were his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, and the general commanding in chief,
Viscount Hardinge. The Prince left town by the Dover
mail, and leaves for Ostend this day.