The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-24 00:00:00

THEATRE ROY Al', HAYMARKET.
Lessee--Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
Sheridan Knowles' comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Con-
stanoe, 3liss A. Sedgwick ; Widow Green, Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
Followed by PRESENTED AT COURT. Misses Swan-
-IPorongh, Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Buckstone.
To col:wind. with THE GALIC[AN FETE.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. 0. d. Second price. s. d
Press Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes . 3 ORTpper Boxes 2 0
Pit 2 °IPA 1 0
Gallery
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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING, will be presented the historical play of
LOUIS XL Louis, Ring of France, Mr. Charles Kean.
After which, the new grand eomie Christmas Pantomime,
entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT ; or, The Princess
Manche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess
Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Col.-
a.; Clown, Mr. Holine ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and
Celurnbine, Miss C. Adams.

THEA.TRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Lessee--Mr. Ben. Webster.
THIS EVENING, will be performed RORY O'MORE,
Yr. Barney Williams.
After which, AN HOUR IN SEVILLE.
To conclude with IRISH TUTOR.
Commence at even.

CANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.--
OPEN EVERY EVENING.--The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
S)lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, dic., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Mrs. Badzey, Macllle. Marietta, Kiss Brunell, Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, and Madame Marietta ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. L
Renshaw, S. ,lonen, J.
Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. . Rime, Mr.
'lladgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs.
T. Maclagan, W. T. Critchaeld, G. Forde, and E. Mackney.
Piano-forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams
,
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Sappers, ifte., until twelve o'clock.
Vs. BRAHAM will appear every Evening.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
ritS DAT—Morn., 53 min. aft. B—Even., 46 min. aft. 9
TO-11011BOW —Morn. 36 min. aft. 10—Even. 23 min. aft. 11

THE WEATHER—SUN OPTION, liAnua 24.
THIZIONETER, IN THE SELIDE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and daring the night,
63—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.23.
WIND, Westerly ; moderate, with very fine weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, 11A.RCII 24, 1858.

Mr. MONOKTON MILNES last night clearly and
ably exposed the thorough absurdity of the pass-
port system, and he was well supported. The
unanimous opinion of the. House of Commons was
clearly displayed in favour of the sound views
formerly entertained by Louis NA.rotzoN before
he became Emperor, or even President of France.
Several cases were cited to show the annoyances
sustained by even wealthy travellers. Sir
HAMILTON SEYMOUR was
,conveyed to a Belgian
Prison when going to visit the Sovereign on his
express invitation ; and even Lord PALMERSTON
was himself a victim. It is not, however, diplo-
matists or Members of Parliament, or any of the
select "upper crust" that are the sufferers. To
them the expense is a mere bagatelle, and, to use
a " Hibernicism," having nothing to do, they
" can do it" just as well in England as in France.
It is the men of business, whose interests may be
seriously compromised by the delay of a single hour,
or those who may be deprived of the opportunity
of receiving the last wishes of a dying friend or
relative, that are most to be pitied. A. family
may bo reduced to penury—% father may be pre-
vented from soothing the anguish of his child—a
wife of her husband—or a sister of her brother's,
during the fleeting hours that precede—
" The first dark day of nothingness ;
The last of danger and distress."
May be prevented from attending the loved one
to the tomb, or once more beholding the well-
known features previously to their consignment to
the last resting-place. These are the cases that
merit sympathy, and which should ensure
redress I Many will remember the profound
sensation occasioned by the fact of a lady holding
the highest rank in the peerage having been pre-
vented from seeing her father in consequence of
the stringent regulations of a puritanical board of
directors against Sunday travelling. Similar cases
have occurred since the new passport regulations.
Not, indeed, with reference to persons of exalted
rank, but to those who perhaps felt as deeply,
and whose afflictions were enhanced by the vexa-
tious impediment to their progress.
Ministers are prepared to do all in their power
to effect a salutary modification in these rules,
and, we trust, eventually the abolition of the
entire system. Officials are to be stationed at
different ports, with authority to grant the requi-
site documents ; and from what fell from the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, we may assume that
the paltry tax on intending travellers will be
repealed. They will do everything to meet the
wishes of the community, not only by more effi-
cient regulations for the obtaining of passports,
but also by such temperate and reasonable argu-
ments as may produce a change in France. The
most efficient remonstrances will, however, be
offered by French hotel and shop keepers,
who, even within the brief period that has
elapsed since the introduction of the new
code, have suffered severely in pocket. Mr.
Muszs pointed out that on the single line be-
Aween Dover and Calais there were no fewer than
1,16/ less passengers within the last six weeks
iliac during the corresponding period of last year.
What, then, will be the saving of English money
and consequent loss to French hotels ? That is a
question that may enlighten the authorities, and
induce them to regard the subject in a very diffe-
rent point of view. The annoyance to English
travellers may be, and is, a matter of profound
indifference to those who profess themselves
our very affectionate friends and allies ; but
when their own pockets are touched, then,
indeed, c'est sutra chose, and it will be
thought that the police perquisites and power of
tormenting innocent travellers are purchased at
too high a price.

Magistrates and bankers are already tormented
enough on the subject, and they may incur
serious responsibility. It would be well if they
unanimously repudiated the enormous addition to
gratuitous labours. An unanimous resolu-
t" t`: "cfwie certificates as recommendations,
save in eaete of the utmost emergency, accom-
panied by an eeteal atria determination on the
part of mere pleasure-zeeke,e to %pond. their holi-
days at home, woula speedily tirc,duec, adequate
ronaedies•

If any proof was wanting of the total inefaca.,a
of the quasi protection, it would he found in ti;
fact that ansINT, when departing on his
mission
of death, went under cover
Thatn eery old
document
given to a British subject. v
_.might have occasioned the exotraordinary blindness
of the police ; but for it, me
stringent precau-
tions would have been taken, and the homicides
in the Rue Lepelletier might have been averted.
The recent regulations, useless as they are, can
only be regarded as a mode of annoying the
People of England, and putting on the screw in

order to induce them to refuse the right of sane.
tuary to political refugeesa favour of which
the French EILPEROR shared largely himself in the
olden time,

Measures, not men--1B no longer the cry of a
minority ; it is now-a-days the actuating senti-
ment of a very considerable majority both within
and without the walls of Parliament. Non q"
sed quarnodo. We have come all of us to recognise
at last the reasonableness of the old impartial
principle. It is no longer a matter of consi-
deration to us who gives it, but what it is
we get—how much of reform, how large a
modicum of amelioration, how considerable
There is obvi-
a share of improvement.
ously no dereliction of duty whatever in this
subordination of men to measures. It is only
the more rational development of the old obsolete
party spirit. Tories herded after Mr. PITT—
Whigs herded after Mr. Fox—because of the
views with which each was identified, because of
the particular notions he advocated, because of the
peculiar policy of which he was the representa-
tive. It is the same in a wider sense with the
millions of the present generation. The only dif-
ference being that the lines of demarcation be-
tween party and party have long since been
broken down--Whigs turning into Libe-
rals, Tories merging into Conservatives,
Conservatives into Conservative-Liberals, Libe-
rals into Liberal-Conservatives. So that at
length in the general confusion of parties we
are really and truly, everyone of us—and this not
secretly, but avowedly—advocates of rational and
progressive reforms of every description, and in
every department. It is idle to talk any longer
of retrogrades—retrogression being, happily, by
this time, simply impossible. -The advance move-
ment has received such a momentum of late years,
that it can no longer be repelled, or even for any
length of time retarded. We are all speeding
onwards together with a force that, humanly
speaking, is irresistible. Our political chiefs
know this, they feel this, and they one
and all of them act accordingly. Here
is the hope of the community. The
leaders of Party (such as it is now-a-days) are
perfectly well aware that it is idle to dream of
impeding the course of modern civilisation.
Where, we should like to know, either in Lords
or Commons, is there anywhere an avowed anti-
Reformer ? We might as well go in search of a
dodo or an unicorn. The race is simply midis-
coverable. It is as absolutely extinct as that of
the pterodactyl, or as that of the megatherium.
The sole diversity left among the politicians of
to-day, is as to the amount of proposed reforms,
as to the extent of the required changes, as to the
scope of the projected improvements. The abstract
necessity is of itself universally admitted. There-
fore it is that almost every one has long since
come to look not to men but to measures.

EAST

An unfortunate girl, EMMA GROOM, is now
languishing under sentence of death at Bury St.
Edmunds. She had, in an evil hour, yielded to
some scoundrel, and the result was a child,
" fatherless" in the eye of the law. The poor
mother, however, appeared devotedly attached to
her boy, and applied a large portion—two shil-
lings per week—of her scanty earnings to his
support. It was described as a remarkably fine
child, that "attracted love on all sides ;" was
petted by EMMA GILOOIeg mistress, who sent a
bowl of milk daily from her farm for his use ;
while Mrs. LAY, who had care of him, conceived
so warm an affection for her nurseling, that she
was induced to continue the arrangement to her
own loss and inconvenience rather than part with
him.

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There was no concealment of the circumstances.
The error of the unhappy young woman was
notorious : she had been betrayed, and was
enduring the penalty. She had eves stipulated
on entering service, that she should be allowed to
visit it every Sunday, and had regularly devoted
all her leisure hours to it, manifesting the utmost
fondness and maternal love for the baby
boy. There was, therefore, no urgent motive
for its destruction. Her character did not depend
on its removal, nor was it for a moment alleged
that she was " keeping company" with or courting
any person who might be deterred by the respon-
sibility. "Under such circumstances, every pre-
sumption was in favour of the prisoner, and the in-
culpatory evidence should have been of the clearest
and most convincing character to warrant a con-

viction.
But what were the facts; 7 She took the child
from its nurse avowedly with the intention of
visiting her family, who were well aware of its
existence, and declaring that she would bring it
back on the following Monday. It was therefore
manifest that she would have to render a strin-
gent account to the nurse, who was so much
attached to it, as well as to her mistress and many
others, of the cause of its disappearance.
At eight o'clock in the evening she left
the station, taking the child with her, without
the slightest attempt at concealment. When she
arrived at her mother's house at ten o'clock
the child was gone, and she appeared "faint
and, sadly." She said nothing about him,
but he was found in a pond which his mother
must have passed on her way from the railway
station.

1U E.

A_TE

MEETING THIS DAY.
The quarterly general court of proprietors of East
India Stock was held this day at the India House,
Leadenhall,street.
B. D. Mangles, Elq., occupied the chair.
TEANKS TO SIR J. MELTILL.
Mr. HELPS, in a highly eulogistic speech, moved a
vote of thanks to the late Secretary of the Company, Sir
J. Melva', who had occupied that situation with honour
for upwards of half a century.
Mr. LEWIN had very great pleasure in seconding the
motion.

The vote was agreed to unanimously.
THE EAST INDIA GOMPANY BILL.
Captain SHEA asked the Chairman whether he could
give the proprietors any information relative to the bill
about to be brought into Parliament for placing India
directly under the government of the Crown ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the negative.
THE ALLEGED MUTILATIONS.
An Hon. PROPRIETOR drew the attention of the
directors to the report which had appeared in the public
papers with respect to several cases of mutilation having
taken place in India, and asked the directors whether
they had received any information on the snbjce?
The CHAIRMAN said the subject had not escaped
attention, but, on the contrary, a very searching in-
quiry had been instituted, the result of which was that
in all the instances, with one exeeption, nothing of the
sort bad, it was believed, taken place. With
respect to the exceptional case, a most rigid
investigation would be instituted. (Hear, hear.)
THE RESTITUTION OF OUDE.
3lr. JONES then rose to move the resolution of which
he had given notice, viz. :—" That it is our duty to
restore the kingdom of Oude to the Sing, or some re-
presentative of his family." The hon. proprietor was
proceeding with his speech, when
Major G. LEWIS moved that the court be counted.
The CHAIRMAN then directed all proprietors holding
less than 1,0001. stuck to withdraw.
The members present were then counted, and there
being only 16—not a sufficient number to legally con-
stitute a court—the proceedings were brought to a son-
elusion.

INDIA,

The following telegram was received at the India
House this morning, at one o'clock. It will be
observed that it is dated at Calcutta prior to the
last received from Bombay. The intelligence is
not, therefore, fresh, but it contains a few parti-
culars which have not hitherto been published. It
was probably sent from Calcutta by the wrecked
steamer Ava

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
From H. Beadon, Esq., Secretary to the Govern.
ment of India, to the Hon. the Secret Committee,

CALCUTTA, FEB. 22.
The Governor-General assumed the governmen

of the North-Western Provinces on the 9th inst.,
and Mr. Grant has returned to the Presidency and
resumed his seat in Council.
The Commander-in-Chief is still at Cawnpore
with his force, consisting of 15 regiments European
Infantry, three regiments Native Infantry, three
regiments European Cavalry, three regiments and
detachments of two other regiments of Native
Cavalry, with 80 heavy guns and mortars, and 63
field-pieces, has crossed the river, and is in pro-
gress to Lucknow.
It is expected that the attack will commence
about the 27th inst., when Maharajah Jung Baha-
door's and General Franks' forces, consisting of
12,000 men, will also have arrived.
General Franks expected to attack the rebels at
Chanda on the 20th, and to be at Sultanpore on
the 22d.
The Maharajah was to cross the Gogra at Phool-
poreon the
greatest
18th.
cordiality exists between Jung Ba•
grest
The
hadoor and the officer with his camp.
The road from Mirzapore to Bombay, by Jub
bulpore and Saghore, and the road from Agra to
Bombay, via ludore, are opened.
Brigadier Walpole commands a force for the de-
fence of the Doab from Futtyghur downwards.
The rebels are strong and active on the Oude side
of the Ganges from opposite b'uttyghur to Cawn-

pore.
A regular chain of communication is kept up be-
tween Bareilly and Lucknow.
The rebels in the Etawah district have been de-
feated by the police and zemindaree levies with the
loss of 125 men and all their guns.
On the 10th instant, Colonel I\l‘Causland, com-
manding the Ghoorkas Regiment at Nynee-Tall,
defeated the rebels, about 4,000 strong, at Buheree,
iu the Bareilly district, with a loss of 250 men and

four guns.
Lieutenant Osborne has taken the forts of Kun-
warsa and Tyeragoogurh, capturing 17 guns. The
forts have been dismantled.
All well in the Punjaub, Saugor, Hyderabad,
and Southern India.
The fort of Rotas has been occupied by Colonel
Mitchell.

EWSRohilcund mutineers, 4,000 strong, near Morada-
• bad, on the 10th of February. The enemy fled
across the river. Ten Europeans were killed.
" General Inglis defeated the Gwalior muti-
neers near Calpee on the 4th of February.
" Jung Bahadoor, waiting for boats, had not
crossed the Gogra on the 19th of February.
" Hope Grant's column in Oude had cleared the
left bank of the Ganges and destroyed the strong-
hold of the enemy, who fled northward.
" The Agra convoy of women ate close to our
camp—all well.
" Fresh attack on the Alumbagh on the 21st,
supported by Outram."

The Paris Correspondent of the Morning
Post (second edition) says :
" A report was circulated to-day in Paris, and
particularly at the Bourse, that the French navy
was showing an amount of activity which created
some anxiety. I believe there is no reason for
alarm. It certainly is true that, an additional
sum of money having been voted for turning more
sailing vessels into screw steamers, one or
two of the ports are looking animated. It
is the season too when relief squadrons are
preparing to put to sea, and when under any
circumstances ships are manned. In conjunction
with this report a telegraphic despatch (says the
Presse) has been transmitted to the maritime ar-
rondissements and sub-arrondissements, ordering
a levy of men from 20 to 40 years of age, who
have not served four years. But there is nothing
extraordinary, I learn, in these orders, and cer-
tainly nothing that can be construed into " war-
die preparations."

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY.
Marshal Pelissier, Duke of Malakoff, is appointed
Ambassador to London, in the place of Count Per-
signy, whose resignation is accepted.
The .MoniteUr publishes an Imperial decree re-
organising the Council of Admiralty.
The! official journal reports that his Imperial
Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon is now con-
valescent.
A telegraphic despatch has been sent to the
maritime arrondissements and sub-arrondissements
ordering all sailors from twenty to forty years of
age, who have not completed their four years of
service to join their ships immediately.
The opening of the section of the Paris and Lyons
railway destined to connect Seyssel with Geneva,
is detailed at great length by the Paris papers.
The principal speakers were General Dufour, for
France, and M. J. Fazy and M. Bartholoney, for
Switzerland.
The transportation of "suspects" and " expect-
ants," wrested under the powers of the Public
Safety Bill, is beginning. Two transport vessels
left Marseilles for Africa last week—one with 39,
and the other 14 proscribe) individuals on board.
In the first batch was a professor named Goude,

neche, for whom George Sand and the Emperor's
old nurse solicited pardon in vain.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :
" HAMBURG, March 22.—Baron Manderstrom,
ex-minister of Sweden at the court of France, has
been nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs at
Stockholm. Until he arrives, M. Gyldenstolpe,
Minister of War, will act ad interim for the baron."
" BERNE, March 23.—1 t is announced that in
the last audience accorded b.* the Emperor of the
French to M. Kern, his Majesty seemed disposed,
to examine anew the question relative to passports.
The Government has made an objection to the
establishment of the new consulates, but has not
yet adopted a definitive resolution respecting
them."
BOURSE, March 23.—The following were the
closing quotations
4 per Cents 9l Credit Foncier ......... 59
Do. end month — Belgian 4,-1
3 per Cent. ..... 69 15 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month 69 80 Roman
Bank Shares ...... 3125 Austrian
Credit Mobilier 800 Spanish Threes ......
Do. Account 797 50 Home Debt
RAILS'
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 795
Lyon and Mediteran 835
New Ditto 795
Geneva

'AYS.

Midi
Western
Strasburg

552:2
662
690
640
460
737;

OPENING OF ST. JAMES'S BALL

AUSTRIA.
A letter from Vienna of the 19th in the Cologne
Gazette says :
" Two days back Sir Hamilton Seymour deli-
vered to Count de 'Buol a note from the English
Cabinet, in which Lord Malmesbury officially
notified to the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs
its entrance into office, and requested in the most
cordial manner for himself and his colleagues the
continuation of the same fiiendly relations between
Austia and England as had existed under the pre
vious administration. It is said that this note also
state 3 that under existing circumstances a complete
accord between England, Austria, and Prussia on
all questions would be most desirable, and that the
new Cabinet was desirous of establishing such an
agreement. This news caused great satisfaction to
Count de Buol, who on the following day commu-
nicated the note to the Emperor, who also received
it with peat pleasure."
Another letter from Vienna, in the Zeit of
Berlin, says :—" The Emperor leas addressed an
autographic letter to the Minister of Finance, iu
which he requests a report to be immediately pre-
sented of the new sources of taxation which may
exist ; he, at the same time, desires that no fresh
taxes may be levied of a nature to irritate the
people, and that the amount on each taxpayer may
not be increased in any sensible degree."

The noble Music-hall which is to be opened to-
morrow evening for the first time, is to be inaugu-
rated with a concert in aid of the funds of the
Middlesex Hospital. Probably few persons are
aware of the necessity which has urged the com-
mittee of that important charity to resort to this
exceptional mode of recruiting their pecuniary
resources. The Middlesex Hospital was instituted
in 1745, and enlarged iu 1848, to meet the pressing
wants of the sick poor. Situated in one of the
poorest districts of the metropolis, those who seek
relief are the most deserving objects of charity, and
their number is constantly increasing. The annual
expenditure exceeds 11,0001., whilst the income is
now under 7,000/. In consequence of the gradual
migra.tion'of the richer inhabitants of the neigh-
bourhood to new parts of the town, the number of
annual subscribers has lamentably diminished of
late years. To meet this serious deficiency the
governors, within the last three years, have sold
out large portions of the capi,al stock, and no longer
ago than the 28th of May of last year, they were
obliged to effect the sale of a further sum of 4,806/.
The hospital contains 310 beds for in-patients; but,
unless the funds can be permanently increased, a
third part of this old institution must be shut up.
The cancer wards, one of the distinguishing features
of the hospital, and containing 33 beds, are always
full. It is hoped that the concert of to morrow wi'

not only bring an immediate and temporary acces-
sion to the fonds of the hospital, but that the
attention of the kind-hearted, once drawn to the
claims of this ancient and beneficent institution,
the number of its permanent subscribers may be
considerably increased.

loaded as it
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native servants o
Company.

(BY ONE OF THE PASSENGERS.)
The steamer Ava left Calcutta for Suez on the
morning of the 10th of February. On board of her
were Lady Inglis, the wife of the General late
commanding at Lucknow, and her three children ;
General Michell, bound for Bombay ; Colonel
Greathed, the hero of the Delhi flying column ;
Captain James, the saviour of the Lucknow gar-
rison ; and many other ladies and gentlemen lately
besieged there ; altogether the passengers num-
bered upwards of 60. After the Ave left Calcutta
it transpired that she was engaged on the part of
Government to take up treasure at Madras and
convey it to Trincomalee, thus making a deviation
from her course. She arrived at Madras at 4 p.m.
of the 14th J anuary, took in some more passen-
gers—chiefly ladies and children—and the treasure,
and left for Trincomalee at the same hour on the
15th.
At 10 a.m. on the 16th the ship was running
about 11 knots and a half in the hour, and the
captain calculated that he was about 79 miles from
his destination. At about 4 p.m. the rocky coast
of Ceylon was discerned ou the starboard bow.
Without changing her course the vessel gradually
approached nearer, as the coast bulged out consi-
derably at this point. A little after 5 o'clock the
captain iinagined he must be nearing the port, and
accordingly altered the course a point towards the
I shore. A light was there viql.l. e and it appeared as
if there were a settlement of some kind on the coast.
Half an hour had not elapsed after this had been
done before a large rock was visible, immediately
in the course of the ship. The ladies at this time
were sitting on deck, perfectly unconscious of dan-
ger ; the gentlemen walking up and down, or
smoking on the forecastle. They were suddenly
roused from their occupations by cries, immediately
following one another, of "Hard starboard,"
" Stop her." The words were scarcely out of the
Captain's mouth before the ship struck hard and
fast on a rock. The passengers were all aware that
something serious had happened—they did not
know what ; they, however, acted, for the most
part, in the most exemplary manner under the
excumstances—they remained perfectly quiet. One
or two gentlemen; who happened to be forward at
the time, noticed the water rushing in furiously in
that part of the vessel, and at the same time the
crew were observed quietly lowering the beats. All
this was ominous enough, and it was, almost at
the same time, rendered more so by the Captain
quietly passing an order for all the ladies to con-
gregate on the deck. These arrangements were
completed without the slightest disorder or confu-
sion, and the six boats belonging to the steamer
were lowered without a single accident. Into
these, the ladies first, the gentlemen afterwards,
many of tkem scarcely conscious of their danger,
were hurried, and in fifteen minutes from the time
the ship struck, all the passengers had been
safely placed in the boats. The orders issued
to the several boats' commanders were to keep
near the ship all night. Fortunately, the night
was not dark, the breeze was moderate, and there
was no sea on. Between the ship which they had
just left and the shore was about a mile of water,
studded with breakers, and it was absolutely ne-
cessary to obey the captain's orders most strictly,
and to keep near the ship. Our situation can be
imagined. Upwards of 70 passengers (some
having been taken in at Madras), besides stewards,
ship's officers, Chinamen, and children, were
crowded into six boats at 7 o'clock in the evening
to cruise in a space about one hundred yards square
for nearly 11 hours ; to be careful to approach
neither too near to the ship on one side, nor to the
breakers on the other. The sea was sufficiently
rough to cause the most unpleasant sensations
amongst many the passengers, and sea-sickness
raged in all its horrors. All this time signals were
being made from the ship ; guns were fired,
rockets discharged, and blue-lights burned, all
without the slightest effect ; for, although a light
was visible on the nearest coast, it proceeded only
from fishermen, and these made not the slightest
effort to come to our assistance. The Captain
(Kirton), assisted by some of his officers and the
Lascars, remained on board ; their presence there
was attested about 11. p.m. by the fall with a tre-
mendous crash, of the fore and main masts with-
out, however, injuring any one. All this time the
fore part of the vessel appeared sinking, whilst
the stern was high above the water. This was
visible to the passengers from the boats, as they
sat waiting for the dawn which was to disclose
to them more fully their own position. At
last the day broke, and the wind gradually
increasing made the waves rise higher. The
prospect was by no means cheering. Between the
boats and the coast were breakers in abundance—
many visible, others just showing their heads above 1
the horizon. Trincomalee itself was about twelve
miles distant. It was therefore resolved that the
boats With. Miles in Inem bhuuld make tor Trinco-
malee, making a large offiing to avoid the rocks,
whilst the others should attempt the coast. This
course was adopted ; three boats with ladies and
their husbands put out to sea. One of these, the
cutter, arrived at Trincomalee about noon, and
gave the first intelligence of the disaster; the other
two, being slower sailers, heavy boats, and with a
tired crew, were picked up by a native cutter bound
for Trincomalee, where they arrived about 3 p.m.
The, ether boats managed, after one or two at-
tempts, to reach the land. The residents sent on
cortueyances to meet them on the first intimation of
the disaster, and all arrived safely before the
evening.
It would be impossible to convey an adequate
sense of the kindness and hospitality of the resi-
dents of Trincomalee, and of the measures taken
by them to make the disaster light to the sufferers.
It is a little place with from 20 to 30 European
residents. On these were suddenly thrown the task
of entertainieg some 70 unfortunates, possessing
only the clothes on their backs. And yet they did it
—in such a manner, too, as to impart a reai pleasure
to those who availed themselves of a hospitality
evidently so genuine. Mr. Morris, the Government
agent, Col. Weir and the officers of the 50th, and
Mr. Cooper, -took the lead in this, as well as in
those other measures necessary for affording shelter
to the officers compelled to remain near the ship,
and protection to the baggage which might be
washed on shore. Everything that could be thought
of was done, and in the welcome which they
received the passengers forgot alike their misfor-
tunes and their losses.
These losses were of no ordinary nature. Many
of the passengers belonged to the Lucknow garri-
son. They had arrived in Calcutta unpossessed of
anything in the world. They had been fitted out
by the Relief Fund in Calcutta, and the resource
thus obtained was gone. But there was perhaps
even a greater loss. Many of them have kept
journals of the siege : most of these had gone the
way of the rest of the baggage ; only one, so far as
I have heard, was disco iere. A few boxes were
subsequently washed on shore, but their contents
were entirely spoiled by the salt water, and for the
week that the passengers semamed at Trincomalee
they were dependent for a change of linen entirely
on their kind hosts.
The account of the accident was despatched with
the utmost promptitude by the Government Agent,
Mr. Morris, to Galls. It fortunately happened that
the Granada had arrived at that pot t two days pre-
viously, en route for the Isle of France. The Lee s
reached her at 5 p.m. on the evening of the 19th.
,She was then partially laden ,with coffee. How-
ever, at 7 p.m. her cargo was unladen, and she
was steaming for Tiincomalee. She arrived there
on the morning of the 21st; left the same evening,
and then started on her return to Gallo. Gaffe
was reached on the morning of the 23d. The
shipwrecked passengers were there able to procure
clothes of some sort, and the ladies again expe-
rienced the kindness which seems to have taken
root and to be indigenous in the island, having
shown itself not only at Trincomalee and Gallo,
but at Colombo also, by the despatch thence of
necessaries for ladies' use. These acts can never
be forgotten by those ones hose behalf, strangers
as they were, they were ppetrated.
The Ava we visited on the 21st ; she was then
just below water ; her back had broken on the
evening of the 17th, and since then she had gradu-
ally sunk down. Whatever might have been the
conduct of the Captain in running the ship on the
rocks, it must be admitted that subsequently to the
accident no man ceuld have exerted himself with
greater energy or daring. The Captain and the
Admiralty Agent remained on Mud to the very
last moment ; the latter in the hope, perhaps, of
saving his mails, but they were submerged almost
immediately after the first strike. Conspicuous
also was the conduct of Lieut. James, of Lucknow
renown, who was on board when the vessel made
her firs, tremendous crack in the centre ; and for a
minute or two he was actually alone on board—the
others having pushed off without him. By Capt.
Haswell, R.N., and by the various officers in charge
of the boats, the greatest coolness and self-posses
sion were shown. It is to the display of these
qualities, indeed, that it was owing that not a
single life was lost, although nearly half the passen-
gers consisted of women and children.
It is unfortunately necessary to add one testi-
mony of an opposite nature. The vessel had no
sooner struck than the Lascars and others of the
native crew rushed down to the cabins and com-
menced rifling them. On the following morning,
when some gentlemen returned to the ship, they
found the boxes in the still-accessible cabins broken
open and their contents scattered. Every valuable
had been abstracted. These had been necessarily
left on board, the boats having been sufficiently

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Aitted'by the
ar and Oriental

PROSECUTION FOR A LIBEL ON THE
EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

Yesterday afternoon a Polish refugee, named
Stanislas Tchorzewski, keeping a bookseller's shop
at 39, Rupert-street, Haymarket, was brought be-
fore Mr. Jardine at the Bow-street Police-court,
upon a warrant executed by Inspector Whicher, of
the detective force, charging him with having, on
the Ist of March inst., unlawfully printed and pub-
lished a certain false, scandalous, malicious, sedi-
tious, and defamatory libel, concerning his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French, with intent to
incite divers persons to assassinate his said Ma-
jesty.
Mr. Bodkin conducted the prosecution on the
part of the Crown, and Mr. Leverson, an attorney,
attended for the defendant.
The alleged libel is a small pamphlet in French,
bearing the signatures of " Le Comae de la Com-
mune Revolutionnaire, Felix Pyat, Beeson, and
A. Tallandier," and to which the attention of the
Home Secretary was called in the Sun of the Ist
inst.
Mr. Bodkin said—These proceedings are taken
by the direction of her Majesty's Attorney-General
against the prisoner at the bar, who has been ap-
prehended on the charge of publishing and selling
the pamphlet which I hold in my hand. It is
written in the French language, and like another
which has been also the subject of a late prosecu-
tion, it teaches, enforces, and justifies the crime of
assassination. The prisoner, although a foreigner,
resides in England, and enjoys the protection of
our English laws ; and it is not to be tolerated
that a person in such a situation should break and
defy those laws with impunity. I shall prove that
the publication in question was purchased at the
prisoner's house, with five or six other copies, the
same having been advertised as on sale at his place
of business. I shall have several passages of the
book translated, and when your worship has seen e
what the character of the publication really is, I
doubt not you will feel it your duty to hold the
priaoner to bail on the present charge.
jonathanWhicher deposed thathe was an inspector
of the Loudon detective police. On the Ist of the
present month he went to a small book-shop in
Rupert-street, called the " Librairie Polonaise."
There was a boy there, and the prisoner came in
afterwards. Witness asked prisoner if he was the
proprietor of the shop, and he replied " Yes."
flaw several copies of the work now produced lying
about on the counter, and asked the price of them.
The prisoner said the large ones were 3d., and the
others 2d. each. Witness then purchased three of
each size, and paid him ls. 3d. for them. He re-
quested a memorandum, as they were not for him-
self, upon which prisoner wrote as follows on a
strip of papers—" 39, Rupert-street. Lettre an
Parlement et b, la Presse ; six copies."
The memorandum and pamphlet were both pro-
duced, and Sergeant Rogers, an officer of the C
division of police, translated the passages upon
which the prosecution was founded. They were to
the following effect :
" Has Bonaparte attempted at the Court, as at
the Assembly, as at the law, as at the people!
forced every resistance andevery right, assassinated
citizens and representatives, arrested, exiled, trans-
ported, executed the defenders of the Constitution,
and compelled the remainder to vote with the
bayonet at their ribs ? Is all this a fable, a story,
or a dream ? Have we dreamt it, invented it, ima-
gined it for the requirements of our opinions, or of
our passions, as mentioned in the Walewski note I
, Is it a real, recent, patent, public, historical, and
judicial fact ?--undeniable by the author himself,
who boasts of it—crying aloud and bleeding in the
memory of all, demanding vengeance from God and
man, deserving chastisement from below as from
above—from every body and every arm, unpunished
because triumphant ? . . . At the ordinary
assizes the garter would rise to his neck (serve to
hang him). This Emperor is an assassin. Then
the question is, if an assassin, who is also an Em-
peror, may be killed ? A great question we know,
ever ridiculous, pregnant. with `yes' and ' no' ac-
cording to place and time, an old question, having
all its beard and teeth (arrived at maturity) like the
Supreme being—an especially idle question, which
arose with the first tyrant, and can only be solved
with the last. Constitutional kings are reported
inviolable, they having responsible minister* :
yet they sometimes pay with their persons ; but are
tyrants also inviolable ? There are some of the
worst species in the oldest and most odious accep-
tation of the word—such an one, for example, who
would have fallen under the guillotine had he not
by the force of murder risen above it—had he been
less criminal, less assassin. Let us suppose that a
King of England—this has been seen—weary of his ,
council, of his Parliament, of his press—of all the
rights acquired without contest in our time—took
it into his head on a flue December night also to
make a coup d'etat, to outrage all public liberties,
to stifle them all in the blood of the people, to be
what is called a perfeet Emperor. What would
the English people do if they could ? What they
have already done. We will no longer discuss the
right of regicide. In the country of Charles I. it is
superfluous. . . . . Are not ten thousand
muskets and a hundred cannons worth four bombs I
They are of the same value with him. It is he,
always he, who presides at the executions from
which Rome never ceases to bleed. It is he, and he
alone, the chief and author of invasion and occupa-
tion, of civil and religious despotism ; the enemy,
we say, the confirmed enemy, forewarned by his
own act—the principal and mortal enemy—the
enemy armed and encameed in the bosom of the
country. Has not every citizen the right and the
duty to serve his country—to strike the enemy
wherever he may be—say ? And yet the Italian
patriots did not attack him in London, where he
tame as if to insult by his presence all the pro-
scr;beGi. They respected the neutral and free coun-
try. They would not stain the hospitable soil with
such blood. They made the attempt on Bonaparte
in his own country, on his own ground, in his
camp, amongst and in spite of his soldiers and his
police, as if better to prove to him this mathema-
tical truth, this word of Gospel spoke by the very
Lamb of resignation, ' Who lives by the swordshall
perish by the sword.' The Ital;.ans, then, are not
assassins, they are combatants. They have rendered
tooth for tooth, grenade for grenade. They are pri-
soners whose throats the savages are to cut. They
are vanquished—they will not be punished. The
enemy may kill but cannot judge them. All the
poison of Chaix d'Est Ange can never tarnish them.
They may die, but cannot be disgraced. Punish-
ment for them, disgrace for others. They die for
their country. As for us, unfortunately, we have
no pretension to the merit of their work. We have
not the honour to participate in their enterprise.
Utit the cock would crow thrice if a French voice
did not salute them before the judgment-seat.
Friends, unknown, but , not misunderstood, we
salute you I You shall be avenged. If our means
differ, our cause is the same."
Mr. Bodkin, observing that the passages just
quoted sufficed for the present, now asked that the
prisoner might be committed for trial. A full tran-
slation of the pamphlet would be produced at the
trial.
Mr. Leverson applied for a remand to Saturday,
to enable him to prepare his client's defence. He
should oppose the committal on legal grounds,
apart from which he regarded the proceeding as an
atrocious encroachment upon the liberty of the
press. And. why was his client arrested on a
warrant ? He suspected and dreaded the facility
with which warrants were now granted in these
cases, while every obstacle was raised when they
were sought to bring ordinary criminals to justice.
Mr. Bodkin—The warrant is a mere form. It
remained in the officer's hands until the prisoner
was wanted here, and then he was sent for.
Mr. Jardine—Besides, it is notorious that in half
the assault cases heard in every police-court in
London the defendants bitarebrought up by war-
rants. It is the common prac. If the client's
attorney tells me he is not ready with his defence,
that is ground for a remand, and his application
shall be granted. It is a case in which I can take
bail.
Mr. Leversoh said he had one of the bail present.
A singular looking individual, with long hair
over his shoulders, and braided coat (evidently a
foreigner), then stepped into the witness-box.
Mr. Bodkin—Are you the printer of the pamph-
let which forms the subject of this prosecution ?
Witness—Yes, I am.
Mr. Bodkin—Then I object to this persont'os bail.send
Mr. Leverson—Then you will drive
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for the greatest philosopher of the age,
send to the
Mill. He will be bail, and I
will ill live when
p. Stuart
India House for him. His nameo.w.en.
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