The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-17 00:00:00

KNIGHTS.
Cap

The first sod of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central
India Railway was turned on the Ist of May.
Cholera is raging at Patna, carrying off from 30
to 35 people daily.
Hong Kong papers report that in the centre of
the Chinese empire, about Canton, " the spirit of
insurrection had -beeti'laid'for the present, but in
Ho. Nan, the rebellion had broken out again ; in
Kiang Si it held most of. the important cities,,and
a rumour of Soocbow being endangered had seri-
ously affeCted the import trade of Shanghai. On
the whole, things were not improving.

CALCUTTA, JUNE 3.
An insurrection has broken out in Kiinedy.
This province is the most northerly of the dikriets
of Madras—a wild, rough district, without -a road,
covered with low hills, and inhabited by Khonds
and Sowrahs. The latter tribe, who occupy the
hills to the eastward, are now in rebellion. It ap-
pears that a village chieftain, named Danda
Swamee, was recently arrested by the authorities
in Ganjam on a charge of dacoity. He was tried,
and his sentence referred for approval to the Go-
vernment of Madras. Meanwhile he escaped, re-
gained his own village, and summoned his clan to
arms. They appear for some time past to have
been savagely discontented with the administra-
tion ofjustice among them, and an old device was
employed to increase theirs courage. Au avatar, or
incarnation of the "Deity, made his appearance
among them in the shape of a small brass image.
As brazen images do not talk except to the ini-
tiated, Danda acted as the interpreter, and by his
orders no less than 10,000 men were collected.
They proceeded to attack the manager of Purla
Kimedy, who fled for his life. Seven of the police
were killed on the spot, and the whole country was
instantly in an uproar. It is not as yet known
whether the attack is directed against the Euro-
peans or against the local authorities ; but it seems
probable that the savages have been irritated by
native officials. No proclamations, however, have
as yet been received, and these tribes are so irrita-
ble, superstitious and childlike that the existence
of substantial grievances is still doubtful. The in-
stant the report reached Madras the Clovernmerit
despatched the 31st-Native Infantry to the
scene. Another regiment in Nagpore was
warned for action, and a troop of artillery de-
ratched from Waltair. These arrangements in-
dicate judgment and vigour, but the country is
nearly impassable, the rains will set in in a fort-
night, and we shall probably lose as many lives as
in a moderately bard-fought battle. The condition
of these wild districts demands investigation. They
are really less known than the interior of Africa. I
question if a single member of Government, when
the news reached him, understood clearly where
Kimedy might be. The public certainly did not,
and yet the district is as large as the majority of
English counties.
Considerable apprehension is entertained of an-
other rising in Bengal also. Despite all the efforts
of the Government—and Mr. Halliday has really
exerted himself to the utmost—large bodies of
Sonthals continue in arms in the recesses of the
jungle. They appear stricken with a senseless,
causeless fear, which neither promises nor favours
can remove. They are armed, and in the rains,
when the country is impassable, will probably give
much trouble. Another party of the same tribe
has been dispersed through Hazareebagh, and with
the great Cole tribe of that district menaces the
Government. These savages, like the rest of the
tribes, are oppressed by the money-lenders. They
fancy that rebellion will pay off their scores, and
are, moreover, tempted by the injudicious lenity
with which the Sonthals have throughout been '
treated.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
( From the Bombay Ti74C3 of June 9.)
REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKET FROM

MAY 27 TO JUNE 9.

The London mail of the 10th of May was received in
B• obsy per Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pottinger
on the sth inst. Oar rainy weather set in on the 28th
of May, and hitherto the fall throughout the country
has been abundant.
We have no. material change to report in our money
market during the fortnight, further than that the banks
have reduced their rates of interest owl per cent. ad
round, but, as the importation of specie continues large,
we may look for a further redaction in present rates,—
viz., 7to 9 per cant. All descriptions of securities con-
tinue firm.

The sales in cotton piece goods have been very trifling
since our last report, and our ill' ort -market may be
considered closed. Little orA no alteration has 'taken
place in the prices of nearly every description of cotton
goods., Fupples of which are scarce. All descriptions of
grey shirting and madapollams are in good demand, as
are also T cloths, and Jacconete, long-cloths, and do-
mestic' of all lindb are in fair inquiry.. Bleached shir-
ings of midd:ing quality are in fair inquiry;. low and
higher are dull, as ale also jacconets, twills, and mada-
pollams. Of fancy goods grey rind ibleachect-dboliew are
in demand. Bleached mulls, lappets; dyed mulls, and
madapollams arc very dull of sale, as, are also Turkey
red twills, catibrics, and mulls.
Cotton yarns are in fair demand, but. holders are firm,
looking for higher rates, and no sales have taken place.
Dyed Turkey red is dull, and orange is in moderate
inquiry.
Metals are in inquiry, ani there is some improvement
in prices.
Exports—Cotton—The market is active and stooks in
hand are large. We quote for Broach, 105 rs. to 106r5.;
Dholiera, 101 rs. to 102ra. ; Ooomrawutty, 102 rs. ;
Mangarole, 98rs. ; and Dharwar, 112 rs. to 120 rs. Of
Coompta there is none in the market, nor can supplies
be looked for until after the rains.
Sheep's Wool.—Sales are limited, and prices have de-
clined.

Hemp is altogether without inquiry.
Oil Seed.—Linseed has considerably declined, and
quotations are nearly nominal. Teel is scarce and bas
advanced in common with Niger.
Opium has declined, but there has been no marked
change in prices. We now quote for Mundlesar, 1,120r5.
to 1,125r5. ; and Id(lorc, 1,115r5.
Freights.—The prevaidng rates to Liverpool and
Loadon are Si. 153. per ton, and to China 10rs. to llrs.
per candy.
Exchange has been in small request for this steamed-,
notwithstanding which a further decline was established
and sales of bank paper took place at 2s. ld. to 23.
15 J Gd. Since the arrival of the English mail the rate
has been looking up, and we quote for local credits aad
documents 2s. lid. to lad. On Calcutta, Comrt
Bills, 60 days' sight, 99rs. ; Madras, 30 days' sight,
991 rs. ; China, 60 days' sight, 22rs.

The question of conferring additional security on
leaseholders is still before the Legislative Council.
The speech of Mr. Vernon Smith, announcing
his resolution to cut down all salaries to the co-
lonial.' level, has created a great sensation.
The Calcutta _Englishman of June 3 says :—" It
affords a strong indication of an intended loan that
the directors of the Bank of Bengal yesterday re-
duced their rates on private bills one per cent., on
Government bills two per cent., on loans and cash
credits on deposit of government paper two, and on
deposit of goods one per cent."
Lord Canning has been unwell. The climate of
Calcutta does not appear to agree with him. It is
rarely innoxious to men who reach the country after
the age of 40.

'G. A. WETHERALL."

MERCANT.LE AGBNCY FOR, INDIA.

BOMBAY, JUNE 10.

By the latest accounts from Oude there appears
to be a probability that the new settlement will not
be quite completed without bloodshed. The Rajah
of Toolseepore, a feudatory of the late King, and a
turbulent one, seems disposed to behave towards
his new masteras he did towards his old, and refuses
to pay his rent now, as he has frequently had done
in the old times. A force was accordingly organised
at the nearest military station, Secrora, to proceed
against this refractory chief. At first a portion
only of the available troops were put in orders, but
subsequently the whole garrison was directed to
hold itself in readiness to move. Two irregular
cavalry corps had also been ordered out from Luck-
now, but the heat of the weather—it was at the
end of May—was so intense that the order was
countermanded. It would seem that the means of
the Rajah must be somewhat formidable, but of
their nature and extent nothing certain was gene-
rally known at Secrora. He has a fort at a place
called Kunda, five miles from Toolseepore, against
which it was supposed Mr. Wingfield, the commis-
sioner, would direct the force ; but of the number
of his adherents various rumours were in circula-
tion, of which one rated them as high has 10,000.
But there can be no doubt that if he persists in
holding out he must eventually succumb ; and
it is to be hoped that he himself will see this so
strongly as to give in peaceably. Several minor
landholders and chiefs are said to be watching
his proceedings, on whom the example of his
timely submission to a display of our force might
operate favourably for the continued peace of the
country.
A letter from the same station of Seerora men-
tions that Col. Barlow, of the late King's force,
commander of his troops in the sanguinary and vic-
torious skirmish with Ameer Ali and the fanatics
last year, in which he was severely wounded, has
received a public letter from the new Commis-
sioner of Oude, apprising him that Government
had passed a resolution to the effect that he is to
receive a pension of 200 r. a-month (320/. a-year),
and a gratuity of six months' pay, which he is at
liberty to draw forthwith.
We have had no intelligence since the date of
my last letter from Affghanistan, nor do we hear
of anything stirring in the North-West Provinces
or in the Punjab. Into the latter province a new
educational scheme has been introduced, under the
auspices of the Director of Public Instruction.
Sir John Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of the
Punjab, will, it is stated, visit Gholab Singh in
Cashmere during the ensuing cold season, probably
in the month of October, when Sir John leaves
Murree for Lahore. This will be the first meeting
of the English Commissioner and the Maharajah
within the dominions of the latter ; and the story
goes that Gholab will be on his best behaviour,
and will attempt to make everything look as bright
as possible before the eyes of the distinguished
visitor. A special corps is to be despatched to
wait upon and escort the Commissioner, and to
keep the roads in the vicinity of his camp clear of
the robbers with which they are infested.
All was quiet at Rangoon when the last accounts
left. No insurrection had taken place or was now
apprehended, though -that one had been planned
was fully believed. A severe gale off the port had
done considerable damage to the shipping. The
last detachment of the Bth Bengal Irregular Cavalry
were leaving, to the regret of the town and settle-
ment.

Dr. O'Shaughnessy has published a first annual
report of the working of the Indian electric tele-
graph. It appears that the total number of mes-
sages despatched during the year was 9,971, one-
third of which were sent by natives, whose confi-
dence in the telegraph is great, and steadily in-
creasing. The greater part of the messages passed
through the Bombay office, in communication with
Calcutta or Madras. The receipts have averaged
upwards of 1,000/. a-month.
All fears of distress from lack of water have been
finally dispelled by a violent burst of the monsoon.
On the Ist the rain began to fall in earnest, and
has continued to such effect that we register in all
nearly 12 inches already.
Lord Elphinstone is at the Presidency. The
head-quarters of the army have moved, on the
coming of the rains, from Mahableshwur to Poonah.
The money market is more easy, and the Bank
of Bombay has reduced its rate of discount 1 per
cent. all round. The rate of exchange has slightly
advanced since the arrival of the English mail. All
the coasting trade and the communication with the
interior are at an end for three months, so the im-
Fort market is dull. Exports continue active.
All public works the completion of which costs
mo.-e than a thousand pounds have stopped by
order of Government, it having been discovered,
as is supposed, that a financial crisis was hurrying
on without our suspecting its approach. Almost
simultaneously with this the Supreme Government
has set its face-against the construction of public
works by private enterprise and capital. Those
I thi.ogs the country most requires the Government

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'V Laval and MilitarT-IW gum
, . The steam-transport Colon` No. 61, Captain
arrived at Spithead :yesterday, from Kuhl lee, July 4t/i,
Malta
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35 officers, 1 lady and servant, and 839 rank an'l file of
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• • the Ist Jager Corps of the British German LegiOn.
11.er Majesty's steam-sloop Geyser. Commander
Tower, lift Spitt-ead yesterday for the Cape of Goo
! Hope, with despatches for the telovernor, and the 300,000
rounds of M nie ball cartridges mentioned as sent from
Woolwich in The Sun of yesterday.
The Emp teris Eugenie steam-transport, Captain Simp-
son, a Tived at Spithead yesterday with 155 invalids
from Scutari
Tse courts • artiel, which commenced kiitirg, on board
her Majesty's shie Victory in POrtsmouth Hirbour on
Mouday.morning (as reported in The Sun of that day) to
try Commender Gorden and Mr. Alldricks, master of
her Majesty's steam-sloop Hecate, for having run that
vessel ashen on the bar of Lagos, West Coast of Africa,
on or about the 21 of Jan, last, terminated it r proceedings
yesterday. Th, Court adinqp.r.le" thateeeeemiuranefee.
Gordon wee ,justified in running for•Legosio ekeention:
of his oedsss, and th t, after the ship struok eke ground,
need every i xertion to get her off, but was of opinion
that blame w:.s attributable in haying maintained so
great a s, esd up to the time the ship took the ground,
and ti a-, proper precautions were not taken to avoid
er when ights were reported, and the water shoaled,
and therefore adjudged the said commander to be repri-
manded and admonished t 3 be more careful in future,
and acquitted Mr. Alldricke, the Master, it appearing
by the evide ce that he was en the sick lift and unfit
for duty at the time of the accident."
Her Majesty's screw-frigate Tribune, 31, was undocked
after repairs yesterday at Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Bulldog, 6, Commander
Gordon, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Bristol, with
a gua-boat and a mortar-boat in tow from the contract
builders.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Terrible, Cap t..-MjCleverty,
arrived at Spithead yesterday evening from the Crimea,
with five office s and 452 men of the Royal Artillery.
She cast seff her Majesty's sailing three-decker Queen on
the 10th list., with a fair wind.
Her Maj 'sty's steam-frigate Firebrand also arrived at
Spithead yesterday evening from the Crimea.
The Racoon, 21, one of the new class of steam screw
corvettes, has been laid .down at Chatham dockyard
on the same slip that the Castmusi 21, corvette, was
launched from.
The Brilliant, 20, sailing ship, Capt. Jas. A. Paynter,
at Sheerness, it is reported, NO 11 proceed to Australia
when ready.
The Plo ergun-boat, Lient-Commanderßeith Stewart,
at Sheerness, is ordered to be fitted immediately for the
Eist Indies. She is intended for river work in search of
piratical vessels, and will .atill retain her heavy arrna-
aient of two long 32-pounders and two 241 h. howitzers.
Some experiments are about to be commenced in
Woolwich Dockyard, under the sanction of the Lords
Cominiss'oners ot\the Admiralty, for the purpose of test-
ing the efficiency of an invention produced there by M.
Pimont. Its advantages consist in preventing theeseape
of the steam and of allaying the oppressive heat pros
duce .1 thereby on board her Majesty's steamers and in
Government factories.
The Admiralty steam-yacht Vivid, Master Comman-
der Allen, yesterday morning returned to Woolwich,
having conveyed his Royal Highness Priece Oscar of
Sweden to Rotterdam..
Massr,.. Lucas, Brothers, the contractors, have com-
menced clearing the ground, and sinking a foundation
for erecting an elegant and elaborate clock tower in
Woolwich Arsenal. The new tower is to be carried to
the height of 120 feet, and will correspond with the ad-
joining edifices—the shell foundry and boing: mill. It
is to be built of varied coloured bricks, ' in the wrier kind
of architecture, after the modern Elizabethau style. The
belfry will be furnished with a,chime of three bells, the •
weight of which will be more than 20 tons,
His Netherlands Majesty's paddle-whe„l-schooner,
Curacoa, 2, Commander De Brauw. 42 days front Suri-
nam, for Holland, put into Plymouth Soured on Tuealay,
short of fool and with machinery out of order. ,
The following circular memorandum has been isimed
by order of the Commander-in-Chief:--
"The Feld-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief is pleased
to direct that, in the case of private soldiers, a simple
act of drunkenness be riot appended to a charge of a
more serious nature. This restriction does not apply to
the case of nan-eommissioned officers, who cannot be
awarded minor punishments. An act of druuketiness
on the part of a private, unaccompanied by any oilier •
offence, is to be disposed of in a summary manner by
the commandicg officer, nless the repe.ition of the
offence bring it within the categ• ry of habitual drun-
kenness.—Ey command,

(From, the Dabyskire Courier.)
Whether the attempts which aro noes making to de-
velops the immense'resonrces of British India become
remunerative to private enterprise or not they are on:

dertakinlzs of great national importance. England and
her colonies against the world ; and to British India, that
splendid giganticappanage of the United rilnlzdom, with
its area of upwarde of 1,300,000 :,qu,.re talle3 and its
population of 150,000,000, the long,lntnering attention
of statesmen and financl:Ts is being at last energetically
directed. _

" The dreaias of avarice" can scarcely picture what
India is cape.b!e of becoming to this country under a
system of good government, and judicious and energetic
enterprise. Tile comparison hotween Bombay—a incre.
harbour of refuge, which it was -Alen it passed into the
possession of the British oft -the marriage of the Infanta
Of Portugal with Charle:i ll.—with the Bombay of to-
day, with its quarter of a million of inhabitants, exhibits
an example of rapid progression. The Calcutta of 1856,
"the city of palaces,' when c,mpared with the paltry
coinmereial town whic!v Warren Hastings found iv iu
1750, reminds one of the prophet's gourd which sprung
up in a night. The future of India appears, however,
destined to throw into the shade all such comparisons.
The next century may see Delhi with a popu!ation of
more than two millions of irhabitat,ts, which the extent
of the ruins justify us in estimating that it -formerly con-
tained, and India itself raised In the number of its inha-
bitants to a level with China, that mysterious empire,
with ore-third of the human race for its subjects.

It is commerce, the pioneerof civilisation and r ligion,
which mu-t lead the Pag in the regeneration and ,fe-
velnpment of India. And there are unmistake!,b'e signs
of the times which indicate the pre-enti period as one
when commerce had an opening for gigantic progress.
The deficiency of roads and facilities of communication
has been the great cause of the retardation of improve-
ment in India. 'Unice a proof of this from a return made
to the House of Comm ms in 1852. Civilisation has, in all
ages, taken the course of gr(at rivers ; the principal rea-
son being the means of communication and transit which
they affqr,i. It appears that the number of Europeans
(not in the C:nipany'a service) settled in the interior of
Bengal, along the hanks. of the Ganves, was 273, while
the number in Madras was 37, and that in B9tribay only
7. Railways will do for Mazfra.4- and Bimbay infinitely
more than the Ganges has done for Bengal Anil to the
construction of a vast oot work of r.,iiweye the attention
of the Goveroinent gif India's now

The value 4,f Bri',ish (-xpnrts to Ldia 1814,
only 870.177/—in 1854 it Was, may cri!y
10,025,969/, Open the interior of India bv r:.ilways to
cotnnwictal enterprise, and the inCrease of the next 40
year; may be, nor eleven, but a hundred f>id. In forty
years ex) its have increase] elevenfold. Yet each inha-
bitant of India ii ~aid to consume, at present, not more
than one Fhllliog's worth of articles of British nianufac-
tore annually. We bare in Dritishlndiaamine of wealth,
compared with whi-.th the gold of California;and Auatra-
lia is a trifle.

India may become to Great Britain that El Dorado
which Chili and Peru, from had government and mis-
management, have never proved to Spain.
Regard the products of this immense colonial depen-
dency. The cotton alone of India might render us inde-
pendent of the United States. Bat India produces silk,
sugar, indigo, tobacco, fibrous plants, and most of the
grains and seeds of both tropical and temperate climates.
These, like a neglected harvest, are left to perish on the
ground, for -want of the sickles of European capital and
enterprise.
It is evident that every possible means which commerce
and experience can suggest ought without delay to be, called
into requisition. Educated men, as well as capital, are
wanted to direct and foster native industry in India. 'Let,
then, any impartial observer say whetlfer such associa-
tions as that of the Indian Mercantile Agency, the pro-
spectus of which appears in our advertising columns to-
day, is not deserving of approval, in a national, as well
as a commercial point of view. The object of this asso-
ciation is stated to he " to connect the direct trade be-
tween England and India by agencies at the great sea-
ports of that country which shall undertake all the usual
branches of agency connected with India. The
sea-port agencies when firmly established, and then suc-
cess confirmed, will become links between the associa-
tion in London, and agencies to be gradually extended
into the interior of India, the association fixing on the
most favourable localities requiring the agents selected
for the management of such branch agencies to have the
necessary qualification of local, as well as of commercial
knowledge."
By such an agency the sale of British manufactures in
the interior of the country may be extensively promoted,
and the purchase of Indian products facilitated, a stimu-
lus thus being given to the productive industry in India,
and new markets opened for our own commodities.
This association must be managed with less thaathe
average of British prudence and enterprise not to prove
successful. And the present time is, we think, peculiarly
favourable for the attempt. The Government of India
is, as we have said, fully alive to the importance of doing
everything in its power to encourage the enterprise. The
abundance and cheapness of money, which the action of
the gold discoveries on our monetary system has
in-
dxced, is tempting capitalists into foreign investments.
India, governed by English-made laws, where property
is as secure as in England, presents first-rate inducements
for the investment of British capital. It is reported
that Russia is contemplating the establishment of a rail-
way-system throughout her huge territory, and that she
looks to England for the necessary capital. Indepen-
dently of the contingency of a European war, we cad-
not but remember- that the continental Governments
must greatly improve in that quality of "good f iith" in
commercial transactions which has contributed so largely
to extend the name and fame of the British Nation, be-
fore they come up to the standard of security which
capitalists have a right to expect.
Our Colonies, as they have the first and fairest claims
on British capitalists, furnish also, in our opinion, the
safest channel of investment which, out of England, can
be found. And an Agency, such as we now refer to,
in India, if conducted with both caution and spirit, ap-
pears to combine the least possible amount of risk with
the greatest possible probability of success.