The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-04 00:00:00

THE SUN.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1858.

The arrival of the Bombay Mail fully confirms
the views we have already put forward in reference
to the present state of affairs in India. The rebellion
has been virtually surpressed! It is true that there
are bodies of fugitives still ranging through dif-
ferent parts of the country, but, as we yesterday
stated, " all hope of success has departed. They
are now merely gangs of spiritless and despairing
brigands, knowing that the atrocious crimes of
-which they were guilty had excluded every hope
of mercy, that they are outlaws fighting with ropes
about their necks, and never daring to resist an
attack. however great the numerical advantage on
their side." This is another powerful illustratibn of

a righteous cause.

" Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though wrapped up in steel,
Whose conscience wii,h injustice is corroded :"

These men are now alive to the misery they have
brought upon themselves by proving unfaithful to
their salt, and ten-ling the arms with which they
were entrusted by the British authorities against
those who were liberal paymasters and kind com-
manders. But in. the first excitement they com-
mitted a series of brutal and cold-blooded atrocities
that prevented the possibility of any arrangement,
and placed an insuperable barrier between them-
selves and pardon ! They knew that dispersing
would be of little use. They would speedily be de-
tected in their own villages. They can only live
by plunder, and they are now looting friends
and foes with the most perfect impartiality. In
one respect this will br; productive of good results,
as the natives must speedily become disgusted at
these extortions, and will be as anxious to get rid
of them as even tke British themselves.

As might be anticipated, the chief force of the
rebels is in Oud.e. It appears that " the clemency
proclamation.," as it has been termed, which ap-
peared in the Bombay Gazette of the 30th of June,
and which was generally received as authentic, was
an impudent forgery ; or, as it has been designated
by Mr. BEADON, Secretary to the Government
of India, " a pure invention, without any
foundation whatever." The journal in which it
appeared must have been greatly hoaxed, and will
doubtless, for its own sake, deem it essential to state
-the authority on which it published so important a
document. The Talookdars, however, have made
sundry overtures, and are coming steadily to our
side. It is said, and with much apparent truth,
that they only require adequate protection to avow
themselves openly as our adherents. The return of
temperate weather, when Lord CLYDE can take the
field with a powerful force, prepared for active
operations, will confirm the waverers and encou-
rage the timid, so that although it is asserted that
there are still 40,000 men, with 50 guns, against us,
there is but little chance of another attack on Luck-
now, or any place where a British force can take
the field.

Brigadier BERKELEY had proceeded with a
strong force from Allahabad to the Southern fron-
tier. In his progress he had captured two forts,
and killed 500 rebels. Sir HOPE GRANT, as usual,
He had proceeded to Fyzabad, which
it was intended to occupy, and thence was to ad-
vance on Shahgunge, where MAUN SINGH, who had
given in his adhesion to our side, was besieged
by some 20,000 of the Begum's troops. They are,
however, deserting in large numbers, the treasury
being mostly exhausted, and the receipt of their
pay being, to say the best of it, very problematical
—something to be desired, rather than hoped for.

was active.

General RoBERTS had taken effectual measures
to relieve Jeypore from the anticipated visit of the
remnant of the Gwalior insurgents. They had
retreated to Tonk, which they plundered ; but as
he rapidly pursued, .they abandoned the town,
at which he took up his head-quarters, on despatch-
ing Brigadier HOLMES with the detachment under
his command in pursuit. The gallant Brigadier
was close on their track, and may ere long render
a good account of TANTIA TOPEE, and recover the
enormous booty of which he obtained possession
during his temporary occupation of Gwalior. The
advance of General ROBERTs was a most judicious
proceeding, and has had a very beneficial effect on
the state of Rajpootana.
We may now congratulate ourselves on the
wonderful success that has attended the British
arms, and restored our supremacy throughout the
length and broadth of our Anglo-Indian Empire,
now really a portion of the dominions of Quccn
VICTORIA, governed in her name, and under the
authority of her chosen ministers.

Apathy is surely better than any such ridiculous
displays of cracked and
impressionable
enthusiasm as
those by which our
water have been celebrating at NeW York, and
other cities in the United States, the successful
laying down of the submarine cable. If
anything
could degrade what is, beyond a doubt, truly Sub-
lime in that wonderful achievement into the im-
mensely Ridiculous, it would be precisely these
kind of frantic and preposterous demonstrations.
The mere narratives of them in the American news-
papers, the mere headings orthose very narratives,
read for all the world more like the ravings of
sheer lunacy than the expression of anything like
rational exultation. The infuriate delight, more-
over, manifested in America at what has just now
been accomplished, with the blessing of Heaven
upon the enterprise and energy of Man—is not
simply tinged, is positively saturated and ingrained
with vulgarity. It must needs so be designated by
those who read it with any regard to ordinary good
taste, and without deco •
bug, for one 'moment, the

absurdity of squeamishness. It is the outpouring
of an ardour resembling, if it really can
be said to resemble anything at all that
we have ever yet heard of—bearing just the
faint shadow of a resemblance to the ardour, at the
close of a severely-contested election, by a party of
carousing potwalloppers. Yet never was there
actually anything, strictly speaking, to compare to
it ! Not even the impassioned phrenzy. of the
Dublin mob in its late open-air apotheosis of Ma-
demoiselle PICcoLomINI. Nay, for that matter—
not even, be it said, the overflowing tenderness of
that lady's companion in the ovation, Signor
GIUGLINI, when he appeared upon the balcony of
the hotel towards the close of the demonstration,
and in broken accents protested to the screeching
multitude—" I love you all very much." Evi-
dently, from first to last—(one can understand this
from the spasmodic variety of capitals and the hy-
sterical notes of admiration at the head of the
authentic accounts in the New York papers)—evi-
dently, from first to last, the scenes lately witnessed
on the other side of the Atlantic, as the familiar old
phrase of reporters says—beggared description.
Yet even from the glimpse we catch of those doings
through the incoherent account of the celebrants in
the local newspaperS, it must have been, in Dominie
Sampson's phrase—Pro-di-gi-ous. Or, according to a
favourite Yankeeism of their own,they evidentlywere
piling up their enthusiasm mo-ountainously ! In fact
it could hardly be called enthusiasm—it was rather
(with the late Mr. BRAHAM'S pronunciation, be it
said) enthusimuzzy. Torch-light processions were
nothing, illuminations, public and private, were
nothing, cannon firing, bells ringing, flags flutter-
ing, bands playing, crowds cheering—all this was
merely just nothing. They must needs, beyond all
this—in the midst of all this—set fire to the town
hall at New York with their over-abundant squibs
and crackers. Beyond even that they must actually
go to the length of Serenading a Sea Captain. Not
one of those blue-frock-coated, gold-laced, dandy
capped young gentlemen of polite comedy, who
climb over garden walls, and hide among the holly-
hocks, and, at the most critical moment of the elope-
ment, come down to the footlights, and sing a very
loud duet (with an encore) with the young lady in
the white muslin—but a 'regular salt water Jack,
a spinner of yarns, a swigger of grog, a tough,
bluff, rough, genuine briny Skipper. Fancy, "of
all things in heaven and earth, Horatio,"
Serenading a Sea Captain ! Yet they actually
did it the other day in America. Concoc-
ters of gin-sling and squirters of tobacco
juice—they actually went and Serenaded an Adult
Sailor. What Mr. TIIACKEILIY says in his last
new number of his delightful " Virginians," in re-
spect to his youthful hero, might certainly be ap-
plied to the extremely youthful nation of which
that hero was one—" 0 Niminy, 0 Piminy, how can
I go for to say that a young man is ever a young
man." It is the only reasonable explanation, how-
ever, of their acting thus—they are so very young
as a community. Surely—if one might judge of
them by their latest proceedings in the matter of
this submarine telegraph—not yet out of their teens.
Altogether, we really cannot, for the life of us,
do otherwise than regard these recent United States'
Demonstrations as excessively ridiculous from be-
ginning to end. It is certainly overdoing the thing
very preposterously. It is what we are accustomed
over here to deprecate as too much of a good thing
—this ranting, raving, ravaging delight of the
Americans.— It is tearing a noble passion, as Tam-
LET warns the players they should never think of
doing—" to tatters, yea, to very rags." It is taking—
with the ludicrous suddenness of a hop—that one
step mentioned by NAPOLEON to the Abbe de
PRAPT as separating the Sublime from the Ridicu-
lous.

It will be well when we can forget these extra-
ordinary exhibitions of joy over the tidings of a
grand event. When we have entirely done so,
we shall be better able to appreciate its full
grandeur. At present we seem to be look-
ing at it through a swarm of moving,
gambolling, tumbling, mouthing absurdities,
provocative only of laughter and derision. By
the time all these frivolities shall have been cleared
away, and obliterated from recollection, we shall
be enabled to contemplate the glorious incident
that has just occurred, the like of which cer-
tainly never occurred before—to contemplate it in
a fitting spirit and with undisturbed equanimity.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 3

The following had audiences of her Majesty yesterday :
The Right Hon. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Earl oJ
Hardwicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stan-
ley, the Right Hon. S. Walpole, the Marquis of Salisbury,
and the Right Hon. J. Peel.

Mr. Fisher, surgeon-in-chief to the metropolitan police,
was presented to her Majesty by the Right Hon. S. Wal-
pole and received the honour of knighthood.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of her
Majesty.

Mr. J. Chapman, chairman of the Great Southern of
India Railway and Captain C. Mangles, M.P., had an in-
terview with Mr. Hamilton at the Treasury yesterday, on
the subject of the Indian and Australian Telegraph Com-
pany.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France has
arrived at the Embassy, Albert-gate House, from Paris.
Madame Musurus has recovered from her late
illness; and will leave town in a few days for St. Leonard's-
on-Sea.

The Duke of Beaufort arrived in town on Wed-
nesday from Badminton. His grace left town yesterday on
a visit to the Earl Howe, at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is on a tour of visits
in the north. _

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are enter-
taining a select circle at Bretby Hall, Derbyshire.
The Earl and Countess of Shelburne have re-
turned to Lansdowne House, from Richmond.

The Earl of Jersey left town on Thursday on a
visit to Viscount and Viscountess Villiers at Upton House.
The Earl of Cardigan has left town for the Con-
tinent.

Lady Burghersh was safeely delivered of a son
yesterday morning at Curzon House. Her ladyship and
infant are preressing favourably.
The Dowager Lady Musgrove has arrived at the
St. George's Hotel.
Mr. Smyth Owen has arrived at the St. George's
Hotel.

THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.—NEWHAVEN, Fri-
day.--The Marshal Duke of Malakhoff landed here at
four o'clock this afternoon, and left at 4.30 p.m. for the
Pimlico station.

A NEST OF' SNAKES.—One day last week one
of the kitchen gardeners at Dangstein House, Reigate, was
moving a heap of rubbish, and found in it nearly 200
snakes.— West Sussex Gazette.
THE NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIAN, CEYLON,
AND ADEN MAILS.—The Emeu arrived at Suez on the
night of the 21th, having left Sydney on the 11th, Melbourne
on the 16th of July, Galle on the 7th, Aden on the 18th of
August, with 87 passengers and 52 packages of cargo, in-
cluding specie and gold to the value of £53,084. The Aus-
tralasian left Aden on the 9th of August, outward bound.
On the 23d of July the Victoria had not yet reached King
George's Sound. The Columbian is posted to bring the
next homeward mail. The Teviot, with the outward mail,
which will go on by the Emeu, reached Alexandria on the
25th of August, and would leave on the 26th, at night,
with the homeward mails by this latter, looked for at Malta
early on the morning of the 30th of August.
'NE CIVIL SERVICE.—There is a paid attache-
:hip at Copenhagen vacant; also the third paid attacheship
t Teheran, Persia. The consulship at Zanzibar, Muscat,
18 Unfilled•
in the department The office of vice-consul at Jeddah and several
viee-cons •
ulships are vacant. British Museum : A vacancy
Thomas
of antiquities has been caused by the
death of 11
Stationary-offic : tweißurgon, first-class assistant. The
the superannuation, niceeris al clerkship vacant, owing to
Cleaver, since deceased. Customs ongservice,
nta,waoywinm
of Mr. T. 11.
: Several clerkships in
the Examiner's
-office are
establishment and the doingaca owing to
overtime.
a new
Several tidewaiterships are vacant.
weigherships are also vacant. Mr. Daniel
estaoun blished
been promoted from collector at Portsmouth tole collectorhas
at Southampton. Mr. W. J. Redpath has been promote
from collector at Yarmouth to be collector at Portsmouth.
Mr. William Smith has been promoted from collector at
Boston to be collector at Yarmouth. Mr. Clifford Gill has
been promoted from comptroller at Newry to be collector
at Boston. Mr. John
Swami has been promoted from
tidewaiter in London. Ireland—Mr
third to second class
thirdclass in the
to the
trar
D. blears has been promoted
_._
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ON ;Service Gazette,
of Deeds-office, pain.—

LATEST NEWS.

CHINA.

PARIS, SEPT. 3.

A despatch from China states that the treaty
with Russia was signed on the 13th of June, and
ratified by the Emperor of China on the 16th.
It is not yet known what are the articles of this
treaty, but it appears that they introduce few
modifications into the original propositions sub-
mitted by Russia.
The negotiations relative to the other treaties
were being pursued with activity. When these
shall have been concluded, imperial commissioners
will repair to Europe, to cement amicable rela-
tions. The first interview between the plenipoten-
tiaries and the imperial commissioners, Kouei
Liang and Hona Chana, was very brilliant. It
took place in a Buddhist Temple. Besides the
troops nearly 100,000 persons were present to
witness the ceremonial.

It was Capt. Tschifatschoff, commanding the
Russian ship America, who carried to St. Peters-
burg the treaty concluded with China.

MARSEILLES, SEPT. 2.

Intelligence from Alexandria to the 24th August
confirms the existence of a plot against the Viceroy.
Arrests were effected, and in consequence of the
determined attitude of Said Pacha tranquillity was
not troubled. Three Turks who had murdered
some Greek sailors at sea were hanged. In conse-
quence of the fermentation which prevails in Syria
and of menaces of death having been uttered
against the Christians, the French consul at Bey-
rout proceeded to Tripoli, where he insisted
on measures being adopted for the re-establish-
ment of order. The Sultana-Mother has expired
at Mecca.

TRIESTE, SEPT. 2.

News has been received from Constantinople to
the 28th August. Haydir Effendi is to represent
the Porte at St. Petersburg, and M. Aristarchi at
Berlin. A speech of the Sultan orders all Turkish
functionaries to practise equal justice towards
every subject of the empire. It also declares that
all abuses in the finances will be severely
punished.

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