The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LUINDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1860.

so rapidly increasing in population, and wealth,
and commerce, the question can but occur, will not
this, or some future Prince of WALES, sustain a

closer relation to the great colony than that of
a visitor. If Her MAJESTY'S life be spared as

.ong as her subjects hope it will, may not the

nominal Prince of WALES become a real Prince of
Canada, and be training for the administration of
a free Empire by administering the affairs of a
free colony ? Or, if it be thought that the heir ap-
parent to the Throne had better live in the midst

of the central business of the Empire, may not
some other member of the Royal Family become

,ho Viceroy of the North American Colonies ?

And then other great colonies might be wishing

:or similar honours; and, when the day of separa-
tion did arrive, which seems to become less and

.ess thought of, or wished for by any party, then

there would be the striking sight of the

Anglo-Saxons, in different parts of the globe, united
by similar institutions and ruled by members of the

same family.
We could almost wish the mother could have been
spared to accompany the son. She, perhaps, herself
might prefer that had nothing prevented. It would
be far better than her ancestors running across, so
often, to their little despotically governed State of
Hanover. She would acquire no wrong tastes in
her free colonies, and with what a burst of en-
thusiasm would her presence be greeted. Per-
haps, when the new eta of navigation, inau-
gurated by the Great Eastern, may have
shortened, almost by half, the length of a
voyage, and have relieved it of nearly
all its discomforts, even a female Sovereign may be
conveyed across the Atlantic in a floating palace,
affording her as much accommodation as Bucking-
ham Palace itself. When the Great Eastern has
taught us our lesson, we believe that the dangers,
as well as the discomforts, of the deep will have
been almost annihilated, and Royal voyages may
then become both longer and more common.
But our Prince is to visit a President. We hail
with pleasure this event, too. Few Americans
come to this country without acquiring some feel-
ing of respect, even of attachment, for our SOVE-
REIGN. They are, also, a people fond of
honours from our aristocracy, though in
theory averse to the thing. They wanted
very much to have a " live Lord," as
our Ambassador at Washington, even as one of the
crowned heads of Europe had one of the same class.
Why should not a " Lord" grace the Court of their
PRESIDENT, as well as the Courts of Kings, Em-
perors, Czars, and Archdukes. They of Washing-
ton will be, we may be sure, highly delighted, and
the great municipalities will hardly know how to
exult enough. We hope they will one and all sub-
mit their addresses to the criticism of some friendly
educated Englishman, or the poor young Prince
will be in danger of having to outlive the reading
of wordy scrolls of fustian, as long as a President's
message in defence of the " domestic institution."
But how will the PRINCE, young as he is, be
able to forget that ugly fact—the domestic insti-
tution. Quitting the Canadian frontier, he will
quite the land of the free, he will step into slave-
land—into the land whose courts of law pronounce
that " the coloured man has no rights which
the white man is bound to respect " into
land, to any part of which the bloodhounds of
slavery can follow the fugitive for freedom, and
drag him back, guiltless of any crime but his birth,
to " chains and slavery." Possibly he may not
know enough of American politics to know what Mr.
BUCHANAN is, and has been, as one of the last props
of the hellish institution. He may not know how
his treason to duty, how his frauds and violence
through his select agents in Kansas, filled that
territory with bloodshed and rapine; he may not
know that Mr. BUCHANAN was the arch-filibuster
of the Ostend conference, the proposer of the high-
wayman's policy in regard to Cuba, and that his
hoary hairs are going down to the grave with the
curses of more than three millions of men of like
blood, of like relation to their Maker with himself,
but on whom he has done his best to rivet his ac-
cursed chains for ever. While the Prince shakes
hands with the President, can he forget that he
takes the hand of a King of Slaves. A King who
m-
refuses them all rights whatever.

The Marchioness of Drogheda left town a few
days since to join the noble marquis, who is on board his
yacht at Kingstown. The noble marquis and marchioness
purpose going on a cruise to Iceland shortly.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will
receive a large party at Hatfield House to-day.
The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam have left
town to visit the family estates in Ireland.

A marriage is arranged to take place between
Mr. George Douglas Pennant, eldest son of Colonel the
Hon. Douglas Pennant, M.P., and Miss Pamela Rushout,
second daughter of Sir Charles Rushout, of Sezincote
House, Gloucestershire.
A marriage is also arranged between Colonel
Charles Baring, of Crimean celebrity, and Miss Helen
Graham, third daughter of the Right Hon. Sir James
Graham,

Married, on Thursday last, at Great Marylebone
Church, the Hon. Ralph Pelham Nevill, second son of the
Earl of Abergavenny, to Louisa Marianne, second daughter
of Sir Charles Fitzßoy Maclean, Bart. The religious rite
was celebrated by the Rev. Jacob Marshara, uncle of the
bride.

EXPORTS OF YARNS AND CALICOES.—There were
exported from Hull in the month of May last 4,062,550
yards of plain and 3,091,263 yards of printed calicoes,
6,299,6881 b. of cotton yarns, 909,0431 b. of linen yarn, and
1,706,0891 b. of woollen and worsted yarn.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN VEGETABLES AND
Fiturr.—There have bees imported into Hull within the
last eight days 5,489 packages of potatoes, 12,553 packages
of bilberries, 226 of gooseberries, 109 of carrots, 10,420 of
cherries, 92 of cucumbers, 28 of onions, 1,175 of peas, 2 of
cauliflowers, 57 of currants, and 258 of vegetables, and 375
of fruit unenumerated.

IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN GRAIN.—Duty paid
last week at Hull :—LII2 16s. on 2,256 qrs. of wheat; £145
16s. on 2,916 qrs. of barley ; £139 3s. on 2,783 qrs. of oats;
£42 Is. on 841 qrs. of beans ; £69 3s. on 1,383 qrs. of peas ;
13 Ils: 3d. on 190 cwt. of wheat flour ; and 3s. 9d. on 10
cwt. of potato flour.
DOCKYARD WORKMEN.—The number of artisans
and labourers employed in the Royal dockyards, which was
generally about 20,000 during the winter, has been under-
going a gradual reduction since February, and by the Ist of
May was only 17,439.
The Prefect of Police has issued an order inter-
dicting the playing of the game of billiards kuown by the
name of Poule de Sebastopol" in the cafes of the depart-
ment of the Seine.
MUSICAL TESTIMONIAL.—The officers of the
Royal Artillery and Royal Marines quartered at Woolwich,
have presented a handsome silver testimonial to Mr. J.
Smyth, the bandmaster of the corps, and his talented wife,
a clever vocalist, as a slight testimony of their services at
the concerts given weekly at the mess-room of the Artil-
lery by the officers to the gentry and their friends in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Smyth was the conductor of the
series of concerts, and his wife the principal vocalist.—Era.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS CHILD MURDER AT
ROAD.—As stated in the Sun of Thursday, Elizabeth
Gough, the nursemaid in the service of Mr. Kent, the father
of the murdered child, was taken into custody on Tuesday,
on suspicion of being
implicated in this foul out rage, and
was remanded till yesterday. Our Bristol correspondent
proceeded to Road on that day, but was informed by the
magistrates engaged in the investigation of the case that for
the present they were of opinion that the ends of justice
would be frustrated by the publication of the evidence. A
tnoatrhYeir resolution to inquiries by the
b
representation was respectfully made to the Bench that
many great crimes had been detected by means of
the publicity
irg,iwvoernshiptso
con-
duct the investigation in private. At the same time the
Rev. R. Crawley, one of the acting magistrates, expressed
his desire that it should be stated that strong hopes are
entertained that the measures which have been and still
are being taken will lead to the conviction of the perpetrators
of this unparalleled outrage. The prisoner, Elizabeth
Gough, was taken from Irenbridge to Road yesterday, and
aas present during p art of the magisterial conference. A
out of door
very general impression of her innocence exists s,
and, in fact, one of the
police engaged in the investiga-
tion of the case stated his belief that there was nothing
to warrant her detention. Up to the present time the
magistrates have taken the statements of every inmate of
Mr. Kent's house, with the exception of Mrs. Kent and
one of the daughters of Mr. Kent by his former wife. The
reason for these exceptions is stated to be that in the opi-
nion of the medical attendant of the family an examination
of Mrs. Kent, who is at present near her confinement,
might
endanger her life and that of her offspring, and in
the case of Miss Kent she is said to be of so exceedingly
'nervous a temperament as to be unable to undergo the ordeal
of a judicial examination on this distressingly painful sub-
ject,

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

GENOA, JULY 13.

A despatch from Cagliari states that the Nea-
politan steam corvette " Neloce," six guns, had
gone over to Garibaldi.

NAPLES, JULY 11.

Tranquillity still prevails.
PALERMO, JULY 13,
The new Ministry has been formed.
Signor Interdonato, Amari, the historian, and
Signor Errante are among the members.
The corvette Veloco has entered into dock.

TURIN, JULY 13.

News from Naples to the 10th state that the
King had summoned the former Camarilla. It was
believed that those devoted to the old regime would
be again called to power.
The population was unquiet.
Ships were being armed, and troops sent to
Messina.

Pianelli commanded the citadel, where an out-
break had taken place among the troops, a portion
of whom shouted " Louis I. for ever," and others

Francis 11. for ever." Twelve soldiers had been

wounded.

LYONS, JULY 14.

The trial of the prisoners for the murder of three
ladies has been terminated by the following judg-
ments :—Joannon, Chretien, and Deschamps have
been condemned to death, the woman Deschamps
has been discharged, and the woman Chretien con-
demned to six years' imprisonment.

HAMBURG, JULY 14.

In yesterday's sitting of the Commonalty of
Citizens, the Constitution, as proposed by the
Senate, and with the alterations already known,
was adopted by 116 against 23.

VIENNA, JULY 13.

From the explanations furnished by the Minister
of Finance to the Committee of the Budget of the
Council of the Empire, it results that, were the
hopes for the maintenance of peace to be confirmed,
the Government would make fresh reductions in
the effective of the army with a view of confining
the expenses of the war department to 80 millions
of florins.

By this economy, which would amount to 20
millions in the budget of the current year, the
Minister of Finance would have the certainty of
being able to present an equilibrium in the budget
for 1861.

GENOA, bILY 13,

Advices from Palermo to the Bth inst. state that
the Africa, which stopped at the port of Palermo
on the night of the 7th, was obliged to leave it in
half an hour by order of Garibaldi.

Upon learning this the Ministry sent in their
resignations, which were accepted.
This example was followed by the other autho-

rities.

VIENNA, JULY 13.
It is stated here that Austria will send two
vessels to the coast of Syria.

The King of Sweden will be crowned as King of
Norway on the 20th of this month, at Drontheim,
with great solemnity.

All the corps dipiomatique will be present at the

coronation.

PARIS, JULY 13

The Patric asserts that the withdrawal of the
project of law on the exportation of rags is
spoken of.
The Constitutionnel contains an article by its
chief editor, M. Grandguillot, against the false
rumours which are current concerning the acts and
intentions of the Emperor, and stating that a
treacherous conspiracy is being plotted by the
parties of the old regime.
This article recals that the malignity of these
parties is endeavouring to sow mistrust between
France and England, Spain, Portugal, Germany,
Belgium, and Italy, by attributing false designs to
the Emperor, who would treat such inventions with
contempt, had they not unhappily found too ready
a credence in Europe, thus encouraging a distrust
which is injurious to the progress of affairs.
Both England and France have agreed that in
consideration of the mission of Fuad Pacha to
Syria they will for the present abstain from direct
interference.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

By extraordinary express, in anticipatioi of the
overland mail, we have received letters and papers
from Calcutta And China. The dates are—Calcutta,

June 4; Hong Kong, May 23.
The following is from the Bengal Hurkaru :
Since we last wrote the opposition to the income

tax has been becoming louder and more vitupera-
tive at Madras, showing that the grounds of oppo-
sition are daily discovered to be weaker. Indeed
the great argumenc against the tax seems now to
be, that if it is carried, Madras will lose Sir Charles
Trevelyan, who, it is acknowledged by all, even by
his own supporters,:must go if Mr. Wilson's schemes
are to become law.

On the 26th ultimo Mr. Wilson brought up the
report of the select committee on the Income Tax
Bill, which had greatly altered the machinery of
assessment. The principles upon which it was
framed remained the same, with but slight altera-
tion. Bombay, it is said, has remonstrated
against its not having been consulted directly
with regard to the plan of the tax, although the
opinions of the Punjaub and other provinces were
asked. It has been explained that it was unne-
cessary to consult Bombay, which was repre-
sented by its own member in the Legislative Coun-
cil, whereas the non-regulation provinces, such as
Oude and the Punjaub, were not. The only ob-
jectionable part of the bill is the double in-
come tax upon persons possessing property in
this country and residing in England, and vice
versa. It will fall solely upon English traders
and investors in the soil, funds, and produce of
India, not upon natives or pensioners of the Indian
Government, for the latter are expressly exempted.
It is, therefore, impolitic, on the ground that it
keeps English capital and enterprise out of India,
instead of attracting these, which are confessedly
the great wants of the country. A far seeing states-
manship would submit to a little loss at first on
this account, in order to secure the infinitely greater
benefits which would accrue from the encourage-
ment of the closer connection of the mother coon;

try with India. We hope that Mr. Wilson may st
yield on this point. In his speech Mr. Wilson said
that he had the fullest support of the Governor-
General, who will, we trust, be as obstinate in this
case for good as he has always hitherto been for evil.
At the meeting of the Legislative Council on
Saturday, the 2d inst., Mr. Wilson presented the
report on the bill for licensing of arts, trades, and
professions, and stated that no material alteration
had effected in the bill in committee, but an addi-
tion had been made to it of very great importance.
It would be remembered that one of the means by
which it was proposed to improve the revenues of
India was a tobacco tax, but the Government at
that time had reserved the consideration of the best
manner of levying it. They have at last come to
the conclusion that the wisest and best mode in
which they can impose this tax, which will least
interfere with trade, and will enable the revenue to
be collected at the smallest expense to Govern-
ment will be by a license tax; Government has
therefore thought it proper to add special clauses
to the License Bill to effect this.
The Lieutenant Governor continues to misgovern
Kishnaghur, for in no other district do the indigo
disturbances, raised by missionaries and magistrates,
and fomented by the police, continue to exist. The
reason why planters cannot sow there as they do in
other places is because there Mr. Herschell is still
magistrate, in spite of the remonstrances of the
Indigo Planters' Association. His proceedings
have throughout been marked by the greatest
vacillation, but the tendency of all of them has
been in favour of the insurgent ryots and
against the planter. He is acting, we are in-
formed, under the direct inspiration of Mr.
Grant himself, and is observed often to delay
deciding a case before him until the Calcutta post
comes in. He has given up issuing perwanahs,
but Mr. Grant has taken to them instead. Two of
the deputy magistrates who had been appointed
under the Indigo Contracts Act have been removed
after a month's trial for deciding, as Mr. Grant
thinks, too much in favour of the ryot. The conse-
quence of all this is that one-fourth of the indigo
land of Kishnaghur district is still unsown, and will
not now be sown this season ; the gaol is full to over-
flowing ; planters are getting decrees at the rate of
Rs. 23 a beegah against refractory ryots in satisfac-
tion of which they are selling their houses and cattle
for a third or a fourth of their true value, and all
parties, both planters and ryots, are being ruined.
In the neighbouring districts, thanks to the energy
and good sense of the magistrates, all is quiet, and
the plant has been sown as usual.
Meanwhile the Indigo Commission is sitting.
Three of the mi.Qionaries, Messrs. Schwa-, Lincke,
and Bromsweth, who have been the chief source or
all the accusations of oppression and outrage against
the planters, have been examined, and the result
has been that they have brought forward scarcely
anything but hearsay evidence. There is no doubt
that much good will issue from the appointment of
this Commission, which is proving, what Mr. Hal-
liday long ago said it would prove, the wretched
state of our courts and police. If these are remedied,
and the power of extortion from both planter and
ryot possessed by the zemindar fully understood
and prevented, the " system," as it has been called,
will be much improved. We hope, however, that
the report will be better drawn up than that of
the colonisation committee of the House of Com-
mons, which has failed to produce any effect, though
that committee had at its disposal much more evi-
dence of the rottenness of the courts and police
than the indigo commission has yet elicited. But,
with Messrs. Seton-Karr and Temple on the com-
mission, we are sure that its report will at least be
readable.
By the mail of the 3d of May from England we
learn that the European portion of the Indian army
is to be reduced to 60,000. We trust that before
such reduction is made a large number of native
troops may be dispensed with, and the new taxes
may be working easily. Those who cry " peace,
peace," in India just now cannot read the signs
of the times.
Lord Clyde, who cautiously, surely, and quietly
did the work which was entrusted to him, instead
of, like Lord Gough, imperilling India by his rash-
ness in a single battle, goes home with a reputation
which will be done justice to by history, however
much it may now be dimmed by the froth and foam
raised by some who seek to pander to the worst pas-
sions of the Indian army, by imputing to him an ex-
pression which he denies that he ever made use of,
and which, even if he had, might easily be explained
in such a way as to obtain the acquiescence of those
whom it is supposed to have so much reflected on. Lord
Clyde has done nothing to forfeit the respect with
which his character has been hitherto regarded,
and he will receive that approval and reward which
he merits from a Queen and country who appealed
to him in their hour of danger, and whose appeal
he so immediately and readily responded to. What-
, ever faults may be imputed to him were not his
own.
Sir Hugh Rose, who succeeds to Lord Clyde, has
arrived at Calcutta. He is succeeded at Bombay
by General Mansfield.
The money market still continues abundant. On
the Ist inst. the Bank of Bengal again reduced its
rates 1 per cent. all round. Business is so dull of
all kinds that the inland Ganges steamers are
directing their attention to the Berhampooter and
Assam from pure lack of freight. 51- per Cent.
Paper is at 3-12 pm., 5 per Cents. 3-4 dis., 4 per
Cents 16-8 dis.
Freights, £3 2s 6d to £3 10s. Exchange, 2s id
to 2s Id.

CHINA.

The Overland China Mail (Hong-Kong, May

23), says :
Sir Hope Grant still remains in Hong-Kong, but
preparations are making for his departure north-
ward on the 30th of this month. Ganeral Sir
Robert Napier has already 4eft.
The continued delay of Lord Elgin excites dis-
appointment ; and it seems doubtful whether mili-
tary operations can effect much, or almost any-
thing, this year. A great part of the British force
is in movement for Chusan, where it is supposed
'that it is to rendezvous. The French force is re-
ported to be about to rendezvous at Che-foo, on the
coast of Shan-tung and in the Gulf of Pechelee;
and there will be also a station for British stores
and troops on the opposite side of the Gulf. It is
whispered that Sir Hope Grant may, perhaps, oc-
cupy Tien-tsin before he attempts to take the
Taku forts.
No apparent change has occurred in the position
of diplomatic affairs, except that Kweiliang has
been made senior guardian to the heir apparent, and
it is rumoured that another Mantehu of high rank
has been appointed to deal with foreign affairs.
A confidential correspondent, in a position to
obtain good information, writes to us :—" The
reports I get from Pekin are to the effect that the
defences of the Taku forts are very substantial, and
that the Chinese have been practising in gunnery
till they fire with great precision." This is borne
out by a visit of H.I.M.S. Forbin to the Gulf of
Pechelee, which has reported that an extensive
line of fortifications has been erected on the banks
of the Peiho from its mouth upwards. It also
appears from the Pekin Gazette that trenches
Or rifle pits are to be used by the Chinese, and
from their own invention. If an attempt is made
to take the Taku forts there will doubtless be some
hard fighting ; and we are not altogether convinced
that even the present force (weakened as it is by
the consciousness of a bad cause) will be able to

take them. What the effects of another effectual
resistance at Taku woull be at the ports cannot be
surmised. At present the prevailing sentiment at
Canton is clearly in favour of peace, among officers
and people, residents of the city and of the country.
The island of Chusan has been placed in charge of
an allied commission, composed of Mr. Hughes, of
her Majesty's consular service,-M. de Merhens, attach 6
to the French legation, and Captain Gritfon, Royal
Marines. They have published proclamations, inti-
mating their authority, and forbidding any one to
establish himself at Ting-hai without their per-
mission.

We are sorry to have to report that the rebels in
the Canton province have again been successful, the
money for buying them up having not been forth-
coming on the day it was promised. They imme-
diately attacked a force of mandarin soldiers, and
killed or took prisoners 500 of them, together with
a number of war boats. Troops have been ordered
up to meet them from another part of the province ;
Ibut before these can arrive the marauders may
commit much injury, and they have already de-
stroyed some of the new tea. There are thousands
of refugees in Canton from the disturbed districts,
and both Chinese and foreign merchants have come
forward to their relief.
in the North also the rebels have obtained some
success. They have forced the Imperialists to raise
the siege of Nanking, have captured much of their
arms, and have compelled them to disperse.
At Swatow, Mr. M'Cann, a European in the
Chinese customs service, has been murdered by six
Cantonese carpenters, who attacked him with their
axes, and quickly dispatched him. It is said that
this act was perpetrated in revenge for his having
enforced the duty on some opium in which they
were concerned. _ _ _

There is no change to notice either in our com-
mercial or political relations with the Chinese Em-
pire. Business, usually dull at this season, this year
displays unwonted inactivity. In Hong Kong the
amount of business during the fortnight has been on
a very limited scale. A large amount of business
has been transacted in Exchange for the outgoing
mail. Government requirements having put about
£400,000 of 30 days' sight Treasury Bills on the
market, they were taken at 4s. 94d. to 4s. 10d.
against Mexican or South American dollars weighed
at tls. 7.1.7. Bank paper has been sold as high as
4s. 10d. Closing prices, however, do not rule higher
than 4s. Ned. to 4s. 91d. First-class Bills are quoted
4s. 91d. to 4s. 10d. Bombay and Calcutta rule alike
rs. 27.8 to 229 per 100 dols. Sycee, 6 per cent., and
Bar Silver, 8 per cent. prem. Gold Leaf, 23 dols.
35e.

In Canton, business is in a most unsatisfactory
condition, in consequence of the gradual approach
and reported successes of the insurgents. Exchange
was firm at 6 7 for bank bills, 6 8 for first-class
credits, and 6 81 for paper with documents at-
tached. The tendency was, if anything, down-
ward. Contrary to the general rule, Shanghae
Exchange will no doubt be influenced by the Hong
Kong market, owing to Government operations
here, and from all accounts the downward tendency
noticed was only arrested by accounts of extreme
firmness in Canton.