The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

INDIAN NEWS.

By the arrival of the Brindisi portion of the Indian mail
we have advices from Bombay to October 1, and Calcutta,
September 28.
The Homeward Mail of Monday says :
The talk 'of the week had been a military expedition
to. China, which the Government of India were fully
prepared to despatch immediately orders arrived from
home.

Some little excitement appears to have been caused in
India by a demand from the Secretary of State for D.
statement of the expenditure incurred by the Govern-
ment of India on account of the vi9it of the Duke of Edin-
burgh to the presidencies and provinces at the beginning
of the year.

Fears of a famine in Persia are reported from Teheran.
At Muscat, Syed Toorkee has not relaxed his efforts to
re-establish himself. He hsd made an attempt to land at
Soor, and been prevented by Colonel Pelly, the British
resident. He is, however, proceeding inland—further
north on the Oman coast—towards Beraymee, where the
Wahabee Amer and the Chief of Abutabaee were also
threatening Azan-bin-Chas.

THE GAME LAWS.—Tho Marquis of Westminster
has given his tenants full liberty to destroy the rabbits on
their farms. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers
that the present Marquis has not very long succeeded to
the Westminster estates.—Chamber of Agriculture
Journal.

DELAY IN POSTAL TELEGRAMS: Owing to the
heavy gales which have prevailed for the last few
days, telegraphic communication between London and
Scotland, Ireland, Newcastle, and Hull has been partly
interrupted, and telegrams have in consequence sustained
delay.
WRECK ON CARNARVON BAR.—CARNARVON,
Monday.—John Jackson, Esq., the harbour master, re
ports that the brigantine Meteor Flag, of Londonderry
has gone ou the south bank of Carnarvon Bar. The
Llandwyn lifeboat, John Gray Bell, belonging to the
National Lifeboat Institution, put off through a heavy
broken sea, and saved the shipwrecked crew. This is one
of the fourteen lifeboats presented to the society by its
Manchester branch.

WRECK. IN THE BRISTOL CHANNEL.—Between
seven and eight o'clock on Monday morning, during
a heavy gale, the Vents of Genoa, a large Italian barque,
which had taken in steam coal at Cardiff, and was
bound to Bristol to complete her cargo, was wrecked in
Walton Bay, near Clevedon, Bristol Channel. The
anchors having slipped and the rudder broke, the vessel
became unmanageable, and drifted on to the rocks. The
crew, consisting of the captain and nine men, were
escued in a private boat. All portable property was
saved, but the vessel went to pieces.—Western Morning
News.

THE MEMBERS FOR MANCHESTER.—Sir T.
Bazley, M.P., and Mr. Jacob Bright, M.P., were present
on Monday night at the inauguration of a Liberal Club
for the township of Chorlton-upon-Medlock. Mr.
Bright, in the course of his remarks, commented severely
on the conduct of those who, for motives of their own,
tried to raise a panic in this country whenever war
occurred on the Continent. Those men, he said, before
attempting to frighten nervous people, ought to
show from which quarter an invasion of this country
was to be apprehended. There had not been such a
calamity for eight centuries, and there was nothing in the
present state of affairs to render its recurrence likely. He
added, we spend on our defences 25 millions a year, a sum
equal to the whole revenue of Prussia, so that the nation
could not be accused of meanness or parsimony.

THE ENGLISH CHURCH.—The Bishop of Peter-
borough opened a restored church at Hargrave, North-
amptonshire, on Friday ; a luncheon was held after
the morning service. The bishop, in response to the
toast of his health, said it was not when, he saw the
great towns that he was the most impressed with the
strength and vitality and the future prospects of the
Church of England. There was a great deal very
striking and interesting in the great towns, but when he
came to the country villages, and saw the restored church
and the quiet parsonage beside it, and saw evidences of
work in the Sunday and day schools, and the loving,
hearty attachment of the country people to their parish
church, he found that the Church of England was striking
her manifold roots and rootlets so deep into the soil
of the country that he could hardly bring himself
to believe that the malevolent prophecies of those who
aimed at uprooting her were so near their accomplishment
as they would have us to believe. He saw some-
thing of the strength of the Church, which was
interwined with the domestic life and affections of the
rural parts of this great country of ours. They might some
of these days cut down the tree. He did not know that
they would. They said they would; but they would find
it very hard to pull out the roots. If they cut down the
tree—and he did not know that they would—he thought
that those who cut down the tree would be apt to hurt
themselves in doing it ; he was sure they would find
that the roots were deep down in the national
soil, and had in themselves a living power, which would
give birth to a still higher growth, and a still more widely
spreading tree. He did not know what would be the
success of those who proposed to cut her down, even to the
ground, but of this he was sure, that life was in her roots,
and she would spring up again and again to confute th A
malice of those enemies, and to afford a refreshing an
sheltering shade to the nation for many a year.