The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

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turning to Calcutta, has been stopped at Tassesan
and Sherghotty, and the Indian Naval Brigade
has moved to Patna.

"Kooer Singh's force, by the latest accounts,
was intrenching itself at Jung Deespoor (Jugdes-
poor?). Kooer Singh himself was wounded in
forcing his way to Jung Deespoor, and is now
said to have died from the effects of his wounds.
" G. F. EDMONSTONE,
" Secretary to the Government of India with
the Governor-General.
" VINCENT G. MONTANARO.
"Malta, May 30, 1858."

" SUPPLEMENT.

" To MR. SECRETARY EDIIONSTONE.

" Telegram dated Allahabad, the Ist of May.
" ROHILCUND.
" The Commander-in-Chief joined General Wal-
pole's division on April 27, and entered Shabje-
hanpoor without opposition on the 30th. The
people who had deserted the town were passed re-
turning as the column advanced towards Azumtee.
"Brigadier Pennefather attacked the rebels on
April 30, about 10 miles from Budaon, and de-
feated them, taking several guns.
" CAWNPORE DISTRICT.
" A party of rebels, about 1,000 strong, sur-
prised the police and the Tehsildar establishment
on the 2d of May. The Tehsildar was wounded
and a small amount of treasure lost.
" PUNJAB.
" Rusoolabad has again been threatened.
" The field force under General Sir S. Cotton
attacked and burnt Tanita on the 25th of April.
The rebel chief of that place suffered great loss in
property ; about 20 of his followers were killed
and wounded in the attack. There was no loss
on our side.
" One of the new Punjab Regiments under
Lieut. Thelwell distinguished itself greatly.
H. R. ANDERSON, Secretary
to the Government.
" Bombay Castle, May 8.
" V. G. MONTANARO.
1 " Malta, May 1."

"SUNDAY, May 30, 8.15 p.m.—Received the
following message, dated Malta :
" FROM H. R. ANDERSON, ESQ., TO J. D. DICKINSON,
ESQ., EAST INDIA HOUSE.

" The Ist Brigade of Sir H. Rose's force left
Jhansi on the 26th April for Calpee. A report
has been received by electric telegraph that ho
met and defeatei the rebels at Koouch. Sir H.
Rose will effect a junction with Gen. Whitelock
before attacking Calpee.

"On the 25th of April the father of the
Ranee of Jhansi was executed at Jhansi.

" RAJPOOTANA.

" A strong brigade under Colonel Smith left
Kotah on April 26 to co-operate with Sir 11.
Rose, and protect that officer's rear.
" The disarming in Guzorat proceeds suceess-

fully.
" Preparations are in progress for carrying
out the measure in Cambay.
" The insurgent Bheels and Mearamees, after
their defeat at Amba Panee on April 11, fled
across the Nerbudda, and are being followed up
by the Sutpoora field force.
" The Sawun Dessayes have come into the
Sawunt Warree territory with few followers, and
are hiding in the jungles.
" Bombay, May 8.
'• Malta, May 30.

" V. MONTANARO."

The following telegram has also been received
from Malta :

" ALEXANDRIA, MAY 26.
" The Ganges, with the Bombay mail, reached
Suez yesterday.
" The Commander-in-Chief and General Wal-
pole entered Shabjehanpore without opposition on
the 30th of April, and marched for Bareilly on
the 2d of May.
" The Moulvie and followers were flying back
to Maguelde, in Oude.
" Nana Sahib was in Barcilly.

" The Hindoos were friendly.
" The intelligence of the reverses and loss sus-
tained by Walpole, in Oude, is confirmed. Gen.
Adrian Hope is among the killed.
" The Ghoorki column, under Colonel Jones,
occupied Moradad, after defeating the enemy at
Rujeehabad and Nujeenah.
" General Penny was at Punealee on the 26th of
April, and marched thence on that day to join the
Commander-in-Chief. A telegram from Futtehghur,
dated the 2d of May, states that he had followed
the rebels into an ambuscade at Ruporal, and that
he was killed ; but that the enemy was totally de-
feated by his troops.

" Kooer Singh was driven from Azimghur, and
defeated by Brigadier Douglas. He crossed the
Ganges, however, on the 21st of April, and made
for Judgespore. A detachment of 150 men of the
35th, 50 sailors, and 100 of the 6th, from Arrah,
under Captain Legrand, tried to intercept him, but
was repulsed, losing three officers killed, and two
guns. Douglas's brigade has since crossed the
river and reached Arrah, and Sir Edward Lugard,
with the rest of the division, was to cross on
the 3d.

" Kooer Singh is confidently reported to hare
died from the effects of the severe wounds received
in his action with Douglas.
" Sir William Peel died. at Cawnpore of small-
pox on the 27th April.
" Sir Hugh Rose marched from Jhansi for Cal-
pee on the 26th. Ho was opposed at Kooucli by
a body of the enemy, estimated at 7,000 men,
headed by the Ranee of .Tbansi and Gutea Topee,
the Nana'a brother.

" The rebsls had Leen defeated, but details and
dates unknown.

" General Whitelock captured Banma (? Body)
on the 19th of April, and had to march to Calpee
on the following day. The Kotah force had
mostly gone into quarters at Calpee, watching Sir
Hugh Rose's rear.
" Sir Hope Grant had returned to Lucknow.

" All well in the Bombay and Madras Presi-

dencies,

"The amount of Impor in the Bombay market
had increased, and prices had generally decreased.
Freights continued depressed. The money-market
very tight. Exchange on. London, 2s. lhd. for
credit, 1:1d. for document 3.."

" MALTA, MAY 30.

" The Colombo arrived from Southampton yes-
terday, and came here from Marseilles with the
India mails, and, on same, evening, proceeded to
Alexandria, where the Ettxine has just arrived,
bringing what precedes. She leaves for Marseilles
this afternoou.

"The Ripon and tha AnAtralian mail, per Cam
bria, hourly looked for.
" The Greeks in Candibs have ri,ien against the
authorities under the pretext of being aggrieved
by tho tax for exemption from military service.
Candia was threatened, buTat reinforcements had
arrived."

ST. PETELISBURG, MAY 29.
All the iuhabitauts of little Ilehetschina num-
boring from 12,000 to 15,Q,00 Fersous, have emi-

grated to Russia under the protection of Russian

troops.

Their villages have been burnt.
Schamyl is concentrating his forces, and his
movements are watched by the Russians.

BERNE, MAY 29.

The Federal Council has decreed that the open-
ing of the International Telegraphic Congress shall
take place on the 23d August next. Invitations
have been sent to all the States interested in the
question.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Hon. Henry Howard has stddeuly returned
from Florence to Paris in consequence of indis
position. _ _ _

- It is said that, in consequence of the last de-
spatches received f om Canton, reinforcements are
to be sent to the army there.
BOURSE, May 29.—The market was steady at
the opening, but any improvement was checked by
a fall of on the English Consols. The Railway
Shares have been buoyant on the reprt that a
decree would be published on Monday next grant-
ing to the railway companies delays of five years
for the execution of their works. The folowing
were the last quotations
per Cents 93 25
Do. end month__
3 per Cent. ..... 69 60
Do. end month 69 55
Bank Shires .
Credit Mobilier 612 50
Do. Account 642 50

RAILWAYS.•
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 732
Lyon and Mediteran. 7304
New Ditto ........
Geneva

Credit Fancier 610
Belgian 4f.,
Piedmontese (5)
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt •,-
-FoR CASH.

Midi
Western 562
Strasburg
Grand Central .....
Sardinian
655

IRELAx iJ.

MR. SMITH O'BRIEN ON 1 FRENCH INVASION.

Having exhausted the stock of home subjects,
Mr. Smith O'Brien has this week contributed to the
/Vation, a long and laboured essay on the state of
foreign relations. In it there is one passage in re-
ference to an event which, perhaps, might as well
have been permitted to slumber ; but, as Mr.
O'Brien chooses to revive the question, it may be
as well to know his real views respecting the re-
ception of an invading French army in Ireland.
He says :
" I have been charged by British statesmen with hav-
ing sought armed assistance from France in 1848. The
charge was fal.e, though it received a oertain sanction
from the language of M. Lamartine. I invited in 1848 the
sympathies of the French people for the cause of Ire-
land. I invite them still. The French people know
perfectly well how to distinguish between the Irish and
the English nation. The rec_ption which has recently
been given in France to a memoir of Robert Ensmet,
beautifully written by a granddaughter of the celebrated
Madame Stael—the Countess de Haugsonville—indi-
cates the feeling of France towards Ireland. This sort
of sympathy I cherish, but have no desire to see a
French army within the shores of this island. If we
cannot acquire and maintain our national rights by our
own vigour and public spirit, we shall never acquire or
maintain them by the aid of a French army. lam in-
clined to think that there is in Ireland a considerable
section of the population who would prefer to live
under French rule rather than under the Govire-
ment of Great Britain, but I do not participate
in this sentiment. I admit, indeed, that the treatielint
which the Catholic, of Ireland would have experienced
from Franco in comparison with that which they expe-
rienced from England during the operation of the penal
leVie would have been great'y rn favour of French rule.
But it is not so now. The constitutional Government of
Great Britain is great'y preferable to the arbitrary des-
potism which now prevails in France. Liberty of speech
is wholly unknown in that country, and a police
espionage pervades the whole of s ,eiety. With me,
at least, no amount of material prosperity could cern-
peneate this deprivation of liberty. I am, there-
fore, Tittle disposed to wish that my country
should be converted into a French province. Do ❑ot
imagine that a French army would aid you to acquire
national independence. Wherever the French arms
have been borne—whether into Spain, into Ita'y, into
Belgium, or Holland—they have been carried for the
extension of French power, not with a view to the libe-
ration of oppressed nationalities. I confess, therefore,
that I would earnestly wish to see 300,000 Irishmen
under arms when the French colonels prepare to pay
their promised visit to London. I believe that the
people of Ireland, if properly organised and animated
by a noble spirit of self-relying patriotism, would be
able to protect this island against every external foe.
Perhaps the Irish people if armed might, in the event
of hostilities with France, call to mind the precedent set
them by their fathers in 1782, and might say, ' We will
protect your empire in the hour of its utmost need, but
as a preliminary we require the restitution of a Parlia-
ment to Ireland with unrestricted powers of self-govern-
ment. Such a demand—such a compact would be p« r-
fectly legitimate, and would entitle you to thanks such
as the Volunteers' of 1782 received, not only from their
own countrymen, but from the British Government."

TINE O'CONNELL FAMILY.

The remains of Mr. John O'Connell were interred
yesterday beside those of his brother Maurice in
Glasnevin Cemetery. The funeral cortege is said to
have been the longest since the burial of O'Connell
in 1847. After the body bad been consigned to
the vault a meeting was held in the cemetery, fir
purpose of taking the preliminary steps towards
the formation of a committee to collect subscrip-
tions to a fund for the relief of the widow and chil-
dren of the deceased. The Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor presided, and resolutions expressive of con-
dolence with and sympathy for Mrs. O'Conn, 11
and her family were adopted.- The meeting was
addressed by the Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald,
M.P., Mr. Carew O'Dwyer, Mr. Patrick O'Brien,
M. P., Sergeant Deasy, &c. A sum amounting to
nearly 1,0001. was collected on the spot, and a
permanent committee of gentlemen nominated for
the purpose of receiving further contributions.

DEATH OF CAPT. SIR WM. PEEL, K.C.B.

The death of this gallant officer, from small-pox,
is communicated to us by the Government telegram,
which appears in anotht r column. It is not too
much to say that the nation will participate in the
grief into which his family are thrown by the
mournful event. _ _ _

Capt. Sir Wm. Peel was third son of the late Sir
R. Peel, Bart., and born in Nov., 1824. He en-
tered the navy as midshipman on board the Princess
Charlotte, Capt. A. Fansbawe, flag of Admiral Sir
R. Stopford, in 1838, and took part in the bom-
bardment of St. Jean &Acre, from which ship he
removed to the Monarch, and afterwards to the
Cambrian, Capt. Chads, in which ship of war he
served in the China Seas. In 1844 he passed his
examination in such a brilliant manner, that he
walled forth the warm eulogiums of Sir T. Hastings
and Sir C. Napier, and was forthwith promoted to
the rank of lieutenant. In May that year he was
appointed to the Winchester, 50 guns, on the Cape
of Goad Hope station, and shortly alter removed
to the Cormorant, steam sloop in the Pacific, and
subsequently to the Thalia, 42, on the same station.
Sir William was promoted to the rank of commander
Juno, 1846, and was appointed to the command of
the Daring on the North American and West India
station. The lamented captain held several minor
commands until the outbreak of the late war with
Russia. He was captain of the Diamond, 28, in the
Black Sea fleet, and distinguished himself greatly
with the Naval Brigade in the Crimea ; and his
name will ever be associated with the gallant doings
of the Diamond battery before Sebastopol. Capt.
Peel was compelled, . from wounds and ovelicaer-
tion, to return to his native country beforit the
fall of that formidable fortress, to recruit his health,
but his services were acknowledged by the bestowal
of the Victoria Cros'. At the commencement of
the differences with China, in 1856, he was appointed
to the command of the Shannon, 51, screw frigate,
ordered on the China station. Captain Peel had
scarcely reached the Chinese waters before he was
ordered by the Ambassador, Lord Elgin, to prom d
with troops to Calcutt a to afford assistance in the sup-
pression of the mutiny in the Bengal army. Since
the Shannon anchored in the Hooghley Sir Win.
Peel's exertions with his brave crew was unrenii-
ting in carrying out the views of the Governor-
General. He made, with his men, a most rapid
progress to Allahabad and into Cawnpore, and, as
most of our readers are aware, was severely
wounded in the capture of Lucknow, under Gen.
Sir Cebu Campbell, by a mu,ket shot in the thigh.
Captain Sir W. Peel was made a Companion of the
Order of the B ath for his services in the Crimea,
and for his recent services in India nominated a
Knight-Commander of that order of knighthood.
He was also an officer of the Legion of Honour of
France, and of the Imperial order of the Medjialie,
and had received the Sardinian war medal. Sir
William was the favourite son of his illustriou4 fa-
ther. It is related that in speaking of his son of er
the war on the coast of Syria, Sir R. Peel said, " I
am indeed proud of my sa for son. ;f he have the
opportunity, I feel certain lie will follow the heroic
career of ono he seeks to emulate—Nelson."

THE REV. MR. SPURGEON AT EPSOM GRIND STAND.—
In the course of an eloquent serni,ot yesterday morning
at the Surrey Music-hall, the hall being very full, the
above rev, gentleman announced his intention of preach-
ing a sertuon on Friday week from the Grand Stand at
Epsom to his friends there, and he also expressed his
hope that on the occasion he should be favoured with a
large attendance of "outsiders."
By the decease of Captain Evans the appointment of
Captain of Invalids at Chelsea Hospital has become
‘acant, and' is in the gift of the Earl of Donoughmore,
Paymaster-General.