The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

rum' SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstovio.
Tuts EVENING will be performed THE WAY TO
KEEL' HIM. Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, and Farren ; Mrs.
C. Sinclair.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL-
QUIVER. I'erea Nena.
Followed by A WICKED WIFE. Miss Reynolds.
To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.I
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
Great Success. The New Comedy of EXTREMES ; or,
Men of the Day. Supported by Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss
Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon, Messrs. Emery,
J. Rogers, E. Falconer, and Barrett, EVERY EVENING.
To conelude with the New Farce, entitled TOO MUC
FOR GOOD NATURE. Messrs. Emery, J. Rogers, Mrs.H
Weston, and Miss Kate Saxon.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office
open from 11 to 5 daily.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Leggee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, NOTHING TO NURSE ; Mr. Swan=
borough, Mrs. Selby.
After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS; Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c.
Followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Miss M. Oliver and
Mr. Parselle.
To conclude with FAMILY JARS. Miss E. Wilton.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road._
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company
of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections
from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brunel!, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans,
Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
E. L. Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell,
Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E.
W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium,
Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock.
NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
that in the month of October,

A FINE ARTS GALLERY,

now in course of construction, will be thrown open in eon
flexion with the above Hall.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SErr. 16.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.'
59—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30'10.

Wucr, South-Easterly; light, with fine weather.

THE SUN.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858.

The arrival of the Bombay and Calcutta mails,
extracts from which appeared in our impression of
yesterday, confirm the pleasing intelligence that
the treaty of peace with China has not only been
duly executed by the Celestial Commissioners, but
that it has already been completely ratified by
" the Brother of the Sun and Moon." In other
words, that the EMPEROR himself has expressed
his approval, and pledged himself to observe the
oligations thereby enforced. This is a point of
importance, inasmuch as our previous experience
of the Chinese character proved that they
would readily repudiate the authority of
any subordinate officials if the slightest ad-
vantage could be gained by so doing. They
cannot, however, ignore the sign-manual
of the EMPEROR himself, or "rail Ms seal from off
the bond." A new and powerful position is thus
obtained, and one which, we trust, will never be
abandoned through any weakness or vacillation on
the part of British officials.

A curious account is given by " the Times' Com-
missioner" of the manner in which KIVAILIANG
attempted to evade the execution of the indemnity
clauses. They constituted a different document
and the wily old Celestial thought he discovered a
favourable chance of evading a payment that
may materially lessen the drain of silver to
China for some years to come. He grace-
fully waived it away as a matter of no
consequence, but his skilful move was checked by
the courteous but unbending firmness of Mr.
LAY, who would not be denied, and eventually
succeeded in obtaining the important signature.
This specimen, at the very commencement of the
Nouveau reginie, indicates not only what may be
anticipated from our Chinese friends, but also the
mode in which every attempt on their -part to
avoid fulfilling their liabilities must be dealt with.
They may offer a " passive resistance", but will
yield to the determined action of the " men of
wrath," the quondam " devils" or " barbarians,"
which, by the way, the strangers are no longer
to be termed.

As yet we have not the exact terms of the treaty. It
must in the first instance be submitted to her MAJESTY
at. Balmoral. That is a point of etiquette of which
we cannot complain, however annoying it may
appear for the time. Some little information has
however leaked forth, which may be accepted cum
gracco salis, and which we believe generally indi-
cates the nature of the all-important document.
The North China Herald is the authority on
which we must rely for the time being. It
declares, as we stated yesterday, that the
treaty contains fifty-six articles, or clauses, and
briefly enumerates the more important topics. Thus
the treaty of Nankin is confirmed, but the supple-
mentary treaty and general regulations—which
have seldom, if ever, been acted on—are abrogated.
The former, if fully, fairly, and honourably carried
out, would have produced very valuable results.
Its beneficial provisions were frittered away
through the fraud of the Chinese authorities and
the easiness of our own. There is, however, every
reason to hope that no further complaints can be
made under these very important points.
Then we find that the teterrima causa mall—the
absence of full and complete communication—will
henceforth be removed. Ministers may be sent
to the Courts of St. James's and Pekin, who shall
be received by the respective Secretaries of State
on footings of perfect equality. There are also
provisions respecting Consuls and their official rank
and dignity. These are matters which will probably'
ensure the due observance of the Treaty. Hitherto
it was impossible to convey authentic information
to head-quarters, or to know that the Emperor
was made acquainted with the complaints and
remonstrances justly preferred against the refusals
to comply with our reasonable demands.
But this is not all. British subjects are to be
henceforth permitted to travel, either for pleasure
or profit, in any part of China, and, as a matter
of course, the Christian religion is to be
tolerated, and its professors protected through-
out the Empire. Henceforward, therefore,
the religious element must be excluded from
all questions. A pledge has been given
of almost universal toleration; and, therefore

the religious element, which might have been ren:
dered a fertile source of discord, can no longer be

so grossly perverted.
Nine additional ports are to be thrown open ;
the right is, however, suspended, so far as three
of the number are concerned, it is only to be
granted "on the evacuation of its shores by the rebels."
This may protract the terms beyond the period

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at present anticipated. In China an emeute can
easily' be excited, which may be dignified into a

rebellion.

A great matter is thai the official correspondence
is to be conducted in English, so there can be no
mistakes of interpretation. The contumelious term
" I," or barbarian, is also to be abandonded. This

is more important than appears at first sight,
jugauch u the manifestation of official disregard

induced the general public to follow in a similar

course.

The Canton indemnity for losses is t ) be treated
in a separate article. This was the matter which
that agreeable old gentleman, KWAILIANG,
attempted to ignore, but which ha 3 been also con-
cluded, although the exact figure has not yet been
published. It is, however, believed to be £2,000,000
sterling for England, and £1,200,000 for France;
£3,200,000 altogether—a tolerably heavy penalty
for the escapade of Mr. Commissioner YETI.

Yesterday, it will doubtless have been observed
by the majority of our readers, we gave insertion
to a very remarkable communication recently ad:-
dressed by her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary of
State for the Colonies to the Governor-General
(HAMILTON) of the Leeward Islands—a document
not merely important, for inasmuch as it affects
the particular interests of the Leeward Islands
themselves, but most important as relating to the
whole grand problem of The Self-Defence of the
entire British Colonies.

Very earnestly we trust that the eminently r ea-
sonable suggestions thrown out in his letter to
Governor HAMILTON (dated" Downing-street, July
21st, 1858"), may be but an impressive preliminary
to the inauguration of a great system, affecting not
merely the Leeward Islands, but all the fifty or
sixty vast, and varied, and scattered Colonies owing
allegiance to Queen VICTORIA'S sovereignty. 'These
suggestions, it will have been perceived, have been
elicited from the right hon. Baronet in consequence
of the lamentable accounts reeeived by him in re-
ference to the late riots at Antigua. An earlier
Despatch from 15 :and 16 Downing-street had sup-
plied the Governor of the Leeward Islands with
minute instructions in regard to the consequences
of those deplorable occurrences. The communica-
tion here particularly referred to, and given in our
impression of yesterday, urges pointedly upon
the attention of his Excellency a system once in
vogue in those colonies, but somehow long since
unhappily fallen into disuetude. Says Sir BUL-
WER LYTTON, " I desire to impress upon you, and
through you upon the colony which you govern,
the extreme importance of raising and maintaining
from local resources, and by local efforts, such a
military force as <will by its presence guarantee the
safety, dignity, and internal peace of the colony."
As clearly demonstrative of the fact that, in writ-
ing thus, he is proposing nothing whatever that is
unusual or unpreeedented,:Sir EDWARD continues,
" On reference to the records of past years I have
observed that in many of the West Indian colo-
nies local corps were:established, and, as I believe,
sufficiently kept up. It is with a feeling of mortifi-
cation that I perceive that these wise precautions
have been laid aside under the impressions of a
false economy." Consider, only for a moment the
twofold advantages certain to accrue from the re-
vival of such a system of local corps in the West
Indies and elsewhere among all our gigantic and
remote possessions. Hitherto we have been com-
pelled to weaken our military strength as one of
the chief powers of the earth, by scattering far and
wide over the surface of our stupendous empire
throughout all :the detached portions in the
eastern and the western hemispheres--in Europe,
Asia, Africa, America, Australia—small portions
of our army, detachments, regiments, battalions,
brigades—weakening the efficiency and strength of
the whole by the separation of its constituent
portions. It is for all the world like untying the
bundle of the imperial forces. Together, the rods
of power might, with Heaven's blessing, count rea-
sonably enough upon setting at defiance all human
efforts at destruction. Separated—they arc ren-
dered liable to be snapped and broken with ease by
a power comparatively in every way quite insignifi-
cont—like reeds cracked in a twinkling, one by
one, across the knee of a stripling. A bundle of
sceptres that, bound together, might resist the might
of a very giant—as they did in truth, not so very
many years back, in the instance of the Great
NAPOLEON.

Let -us hope that the hint judiciously thrown
out by the Colonial Secretary will be hearkened
to and acted upon by our various colonies—by the
West Indies, by Canada, and so on through
the whole wonderful catalogue. Local corps for
the self-defence of each respective colony, will afford
nobler evidences of civism and loyalty than any
amount of moneys subscribed by way of warlike
testimonials, or any number of regiments raised
and sent to England for the general advantage of
the empire. The adoption of the sagacious and
patriotic recommendations of the Colonial Secretary
will be like the organisation of a National
Guard throughout the whole of our world-wide
dominions. Coupled with the extension of the
Electric Telegraph, it will go far to prevent the
risk of any seriously disastrous surprise henceforth
—even in the most remote and isolated of our colo-
nial possessions.

The present position of his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan ABDUL-MEDJID is calculated to arouse in
his behalf, among the people of Western Europe, a
sympathy almost amounting in cordiality to en-
thusiasm. He has frequently before now proved
himself to be one capable of yielding to generous
impulses. He has repeatedly shown himself to be

Le worthy son, in many respects, of a most worthy
sire—a true son of the Sultan MAIIMOUD, the suc-
cessor of SELIXt. Continuing the liberal policy in-
augurated by his great paternal predecessor,
ABDUL-MEDJID has aided in the development, to a
considerable extent, of the beneficial changes MAH-
MOUD had the consummate daring, as a Turk, to
commence, in spite of every national prejudice.
Throughout the previous years of his reign, almost
uninterruptedly, the present SULTAN has been 'sus-
tained in 'theie magnanimous efforts by a sage and
resolute adviser, now withdrawn from his councils
by the close of a brilliant career of forty years' dura-
tion. Everybody will understand upon the instant
that this illustrious councillor was no other than
the late Prime Minister of the Sublime Porte—one
of the greatest statesmen the Osmanli Rule has
ever possessed the famous REDSCHID PACHA.
Scarcely had death suddenly put an end to the
labours of that renowned administrator—closing
those labours as prematurely as abruptly—when
another sagacious adviser was withdrawn from that
contiguous position, he also had occupied contem-
poraneously, though a Foreig,ner—a Christian, and
an Englishman. As British Ambassador at the
Porte for the better part of forty years, almost con-
secutively, Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFF had
employed his immense, almost unrivalled, influence
with the SULTAN for the advantage at once of Turkey
and of England, and for the spread throughout
the Osmanli dominions of the priceless blessings of
civilisation. The protracted toils of this famous
diplomatist came to an end almost at the self-same
time that the great Turkish administrator already
mentioned disappeared from the public view—RED-
SCUID PACHA being carried to his tomb but just
immediately prior to Lord STRATFORD'S return to
his long-vacated seat in the House of Lords. Pre-
cisely uponn
the morrow of those two most impor-
lo
History of Turkey, the enormous
pecuniary ha
tant events in the His
• bilities entailed upon the Porte
by the expenditure inevitable upon the prosecution
of the late war--a
war raging during so many

months within tl ie limits of its own European and
Asiatic frontiers- —came down with one fell swoop
upon the SULT I.AN for ultimate liquidation. An
almost fatal net =city is thereupon at once apparent
—thatig yet another loan--a third loan
within alc ry
contracted interval—a supplemen-
taryof raise_
loan% requiring to be paid before the other
two have been reimbursed. This threatening, as
its inevitable consequence, an economy to which
the creatures of the court are unaccus-
tomed—rumours are at once afloat, as to the
probability, or, at any rate, the possibility, of
another of those infamous conspirucis with which
the readers of Turkish annals are perfectly fami-
liar, but of which we have long hoped that the
world might never witness the recurrence. A
bowstring—a gang of eunuchs—a tumult in the
harem—it was suggested by these sinister and
mysterious whispers, might be the simple means of
causing for those who would benefit by it a conve-
niently profitable revolution. ABDUL-MEDJID would
be found one morning assassinated—and in his
place would a new SULTAN—his brother ABDUL-
AZIZ. But immediately upon the first inkling of
these dark rumours the proposed victim of the
conspiracy all at once shows unmistakeably that
in energy, hardly less than in liberality, ABDUL-
MEDJID is the undoubted offspring of the great
MAIISIOUD. The Prince reputed to be little else
than an enervated voluptuary, suddenly, on the
pressure of a great emergency, is bold, prompt,
and outspoken. And, simultaneously with this
manifestation of spirit by the reigning SULTAN,
comes the dread announcement to the would-be
conspirators that the Allies of Turkey, the Allies
Who fought for her and with her during the Crimean
War, would not recognise any Ruler who ascended
the Throne by means of any such dastardly and
atrocious assassination. Doubtless the words of
ABDUL MEDJID, the intimations received from
Western Europe at Constantinople, have effectually
scattered to the winds the dark and deadly clouds
that were gathering over the SULTAN'S palace, and
threatening to cut him off prematurely, in the very
strength and flower of his manhood—for he is but
now in his thirty-fifth year, having been born in
1823.

Let the Turkish courtiers of the old school lay
these incidents well to heart, and muse over their
inner meaning. Let them rest assured that by
committing any such atrocity as the murder of the
son of MAHMOUD they would destroy not only their
own hopes—they would seal the fate of Turkey.
The " sick man" would then, indeed, be sick unto
death, and the turbaned race would be driven back
inexorably across the Bosphorus and the Dar-
danelles.

GALWAY AND AMERICA.—The Prince Albert
left Galway yesterday,on the arrival of the mails, with a
full complement of passengers and goods.
We are requested to state that the Commissioners
to inquire into the charge against the Bev. R. T. West,
curate of Boyne-hill, will meet at Maidenhead on the 24th
inst., at 10 a.m., and not on the 23d, as stated in various
papers.
We are requested to state that the Royal Com-
missioners appointed to inquire into the state of the store
and clothing depots at Weedon, Woolwich, and the Tower,
will resume their investigations on Tuesday next, Sept. 21,
in No.ll Coninsittee-room at the House of Commons. All
persons desirous of giving evidence, or of aiding the inquiry,
are requested to communicate with the Secretary, Mr. E.
L. Dew, 13, Curzon-street, Mayfair.
The Secretaries of the Cawnpore Memorial
Church have announced that the Bishop of Calcutta, who
is about to leave England for his diocese, has kindly under-
taken to make personal inquiries in India, with a view to
determine the most eligible site for the proposed church, so
as to carry out the designs of the promoters with as little
delay as possible.
The marriage of the Prince of Leiningen, lieu-
tenant R.N., with the Princess Marie of Baden, was cele-
brated at Carlsruhe on the 11th inst.
ILLNESS OF LORD HARRIS.--We regret to state
that Lord Harris, the Governor of the sister Presidency,
who has been sojourning at Ootacamund on the Neilgheiry
hills for a change of air, has been seriously ill. It seems
that his lordship, having experienced a sudden chill, quite
lost the use of his limbs. Dr. Saunderson, of Madras,
having been telegraphed for, proceeded to the on Sa-
turday se'nnight. It is rather remarkable that-only a day or
two previous to the receipt of this intelligence, in Madras the
papers there were exulting in the proofs of vigour and ac-
tivity displayed by Lord Harris, who had distanced and
" knocked up" all his attendants in the course of his moun-
tain exercises. Unhappily for his lordship, the tables are
novriturned. At the present moment all our Governors are
absent from their respective capitals. Lord Canning is at
Allahabad, Lord Elphinstone at Dapoorie, and Lord Harris
in the blue mountains. The Afadras Spectator of the 4th
of August says :—" We learn with the deepest regret that
the illness of Lord Harris is far more serious than was at
first imagined, and excites the gravest apprehensions.. His
lordship was unfortunately drenched by a heavy shower of
rain during a ride from Jackatalla ; and while taking a
warm bath after his return to Ootacamund was seized with
paralysis. Late last evening we received the gratifying in-
telligence that at eight o'clock yesterday morning the Right
Honourable the Governor was progressing favourably.
Bombay Gazette.
DEATH OF MR. POTBURY, AT LIVERI'OOL

VERDICT OF WILFUL MITR.DER.—The coroner's inquiry
into the case of Richard Potbury, the' young gentleman
whose body was found on Sunday morning at the bottom
of a quarry in Everton, near Liverpool, was resumed, and
completed yesterday. Mr. Imlach, who gave the result
of a futher post-mortem examination, was of opinion than
death had not been caused by the deceased's falling
into the quarry, but that asphyxia had preceded
death. :Mr. M'lntyre Wail of opinion that violent
asphyxia had preceded death. In reply to the coroner,
Mr. M'lntyre said that the fall could not have
produced the peculiar injuries which were manifested in
the head and face of the deceased. Among the other evi-
dence adduced was that of a person named Amien, with
whom Mr. Potbury had been drinking on Saturday even-
ing last, who stated that when they separated the deceased
was perfectly capable of taking care of himself. Mrs.
James, who lived near the quarry, stated that she heard
sudden screams about 12 o'clock on Saturday night, and
that the screams were over in a moment. James 'Thomas,
who had measured the distance of the body from the base
of the quarry, stated that no man, either designedly or acci-
-dentally, could have put himself into the position of the
deceased by throwing himself from the top of the rock. A
woman named Kissack, a beer-shop keeper, stated that the
deceased was in her house in Rupert-street, on Saturday
evening, and was the worse for liquor. The jury having
retired consider their verdict, returned soon afterwards
with one to the effect that the deceased came to his death
by wilful murder, committed by some person or • persons
unknown.

TAY SALMON: FISHINGS.—The salmon fishings
belonoing to the Earls of Wemyss and Kinnoull were ex •
posed to let by public roup, on Friday, and brought--the
former £2,537, being an increase of £309 upon last year ;
and the, latter £B9, which is the same as in the previous
season. The attendance of competitors was considerable,
and the biddings brisk.—Daily Mail.
GOING TOO FAST.—Apropos of the present
" Examination" controversy, the following incident, which
recently occurred in a scholastic establishment not far
beyond the Forth, is both amusing and instructive—The
examination of the French class went on so vigorously,
and so rapidly did the 'well-primed pupils run off their
answers, that the routine of questions was exhausted some-
what unexpectedly before the expiry of the time allotted in
this department. Nearly a quarter of an hour still remain-
ing, the " Master of the Ceremony" felt hiniself not a
little disconcerted. What was to be done ? According to
our informint, an intelligent foreigner, he hesitated for a
moment, and, after looking first at his watch, and then at his
equally well-wound-up pupils, he coolly recommenced 'his
" paying-out" operation, and ran off a:second time the same
string of duly prepared questions, only stopping short in his
work of re-delivery, when the school-bell opportunely
relieved all present from the perplexities of their position.
—Caledonian Mercury.
THE SOUND DUES.—The abolition of the Sound
dues has increased the trade of the ports in the Baltic. At

Stettin, for example, in the course Of 1857 as many as 3,217
vessels, of 283,000 tons burden, entered in the course of last
year, and the value of their imports was 28,000,000 thalers,
6,000,000 more than in the preceding year.
THE LATE EXPLOSION.=A letter from Astrakan
confirms the assertion that the quantity of gunpowder which
exploded in the recent conflagration in that place was not
less, as at first stated, than 6,000 pouds (96 tons), all of
which was destined for the army of the Caucasus.
ANOTHER NEW PLANET.—M. Babinet, of the
Institute, has written to the journals to state that M.
Goldschmidt discovered on Saturday another new planet.
From the observation which he took, he found that it is in
the constellation Aquarius, and that at five minutes to 11
its right ascension was 21h. 38m. 425., and the southern
declination 6 deg. 6 min. It appears to be of the 10th or
11th magnitude. If is the 11th little planet disoovered by
M. Goldschmidt, and is the fourth discovered in the course
of the present y
STATE OF TRADE IN FRANCE.—No very material
change has taken place in commercial affairs during the
last week. The manufactories are by degrees resuming
their ordinary state of activity, and they continue to re-
ceive considerable orders both from the provinces and from
abroad, but credit becomes re-established but slowly. The
business now done is mostly for cash, and this want of con-
fidence restricts transactions. Many of the manufacturers
complain of not being able to procure a sufficient number of
workmen ; and in many cases some of them have been com-
pelled to refuse orders for which time could not be granted.
The retail trade in Paris remains as it was last week. At
Rouen and Mulhausen, business is rather limited, purchasers
not willingly paying the advance which the manufacturers
are compelled to demand from the undiminished price of the
raw material.

SEIZURE .
OF BETTING MEN AND BOOKS YESTER-
DAY AT LIVEILPOOL.—A posse of Liverpool detectives
entered a notorious betting house in Elliot-street, and cap-
tured a large number of gamblers, and turf swindlers, who
it is understood will be proceeded against by the authorities.
In illustration of the extraordinary abundaxe,e of
money in the Stock Exchange, we may mention that a sum
of £30,000 was lent yesterday for a fortnight on security of
Turkish Guaranteed Four per Cent. Stock at the low rate
011 k per cent. per atuuun.

LATEST NEWS.

AUSTRIA.

PARIS, SEPT. 16

The hope of an amnesty, to which the birth of a
Prince Imperial had given rise in Austria, has not
been realised, except in the case of a very few

persons.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY

M. de Bellecourt, the bearer of the treaty con-
cluded with China, has arrived at Marseilles. He
was to remain in quarantine 48 hours.
The ingenious plan of the Gazette de France for
obtaining possession of the English ships of the
line, in case a war should break out between Great
Britain and France—by making a body of Zouaves
and Chasseurs de Vincennes take them by boarding
—has drawn forth the following amusing exempli-
fication of the system from the Charivari :—" First
of all, you take a three-decker like the Eylau or the
Arcole, having 1,000 men as its crew. You then sup-
press the crew. But how, you may ask, is the vessel
to be worked ? In the easiest way in the world. As
you employ screw steamers, and as all that is required
to manoeuvre such vessels is a stoker and a few men
(so the Gazette declares), and as all the rest is sheer
superfluity, you of course put aside what is not abso-
lutely necessary. In time of war, strict necessaries
should alone be looked to. You consequently land
the crew, with the exception of the said stoker and
the few men. After that, you fill the whole vessel
with Zouaves and Chasseurs de Vincennes. You
can afford to do so, as you have land forces incom-
parably stronger than the British army. Then the
stoker gets up the stead', and down you dash
on the very first English vessel you see. You
at once get close to her, as you easily can by
means of your steam, and tht Zouaves and
others jump on her deck, and in the twink-
ling of an eye she is captured. This plan
is so triumphant that at 'first on hearing it a
man remains quite overcome with astonishment,
and it is only afterwards that some objections
occur to him. For instance, it might so occur that
no English ship of the line was close at hand
waiting to be boarded; that one should be sought
for perhaps for several days ; and that during the
cruise the Zouaves and Chasseurs might be affected
with sea-sickness, which little incident would not
exactly render them better prepared for the assault.
It might so happen, too, that the. English vessel
might use her screw to avoid the encounter, for if
steam is to aid one party in obtaining the attack, it
ought to serve the other to avoid the conflict:,
There are several other objections to be made, but
we pass them over in silence, because the inventor
of the new plan of boarding by means of Zouaves
would be capable, in order to punish us, of going
still farther, and might propose to place a squadron
of cavalry on board."

Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Sir Fitzroy and
Lady Kelly have arrived at the Hotel Bristol,
Place Vendome.

BOURSE, September 15.—1 t being option-day for
shares, efforts were made to push up prices in order
to decide the buyers of premiums to accept their
bargains. Threes have been done at 73f. 20c.,
and are now 73f. 35c. ; Mobilier varied from 965 f.
to 959 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 697 f. s_oc. to 695 f. ;
Orleans, 1,440 f. to 1,432 f. 50c. ; Lyons, 862 f. 50c.
to 857 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 765 f. to 762 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 1,012 f. 50c. to 1005 E ; and Southern,
612 f. 50c. to 607 f. 50c. The market became rather
less buoyant towards the close, when the following
were the last quotations :

4f per Cents. 95 50
Do. end month - --
3 per Cents 72 85
Do. end month 73 15
Bank Shares.. 3150
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account

Credit Foncier.... 670
Belgian 4 ..
Piedmontese(s) .. 91 75
Roman 92 75
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 39 63

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto. B4O 845
Lyons and Mediterranean ..
857 50 .. 856 25
New ditto . ,
Geneva .. 6.50 .. 650
Midi • 605 .. 610
Western 652 50 .. 652 50
Eastern
Grand Central — ~
Sardinian .. 475 .. 468 75
Austrian 690 , . 692 50

avour of liberty of instruction, whilst his political
friends are opposed to it. It is however hoped
that he would eventually accept the offer made.
him.

A letter from Naples says :—There is a ru-
mour here at the present moment of a con-
templated change of ministry, in consequence
of the conditions laid down by the Cabinets
of Paris and of London for the re-establishment of
diplomatic relations with the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies. These conditions are said to be-1. The
dismissal of the present Cabinet, and the appoint-
ment in their place of ministers able and devoted
to the country. 2. Considerable modifications in
the administrative system. 3. The reorganisation
of the State Consulta, according to the spirit which
presided at its institution, so as to make it a coun-
terpoise to ministerial despotism. The names of
the future ministers begin to circulate in political
salons, and the Neapolitan people look with enthu-
siasm for these talked-of changes. Nothing, how-
ever, is official, and it is more probable that the
King will reject the conditions of the Western
Powers as an attack on his dignity."

DINNER TO SIR HUGH ROSE, K.C.B.

(From the Bombay Standard.)

The dinner given to Sir Hugh Rose, K.C.8., at
Byculla Club, on Tuesday night, the 3d August,
came off with great eclat : the Hon. A. Malet,
member of council; occupied the chair. About 100
gentlemen sat down to dinner:- The dinner con-
sisted of a rich and varied assortment of delicacies,
after the despatch of which
The President, Mr. MALET, rose, and, in a highly
eulogistic speech, proposed the health of the gallant
general.
Sir HUGH ROSE rose amidst loud and continued
cheering. He said—Gentlemen, lam most grateful
to our hon. president for the very handsome terms
in which he , has proposed my health. His good
feeling towards myself induces him to rate too highly
services which were simply the execution of my
duy and of my orders. I thank you, gentlemen,
with all my heart, for the kind and generous wel-
come with which you have honoured me on my
return—a welcome which tells me that I have the
good fortune to possess a home and many valued
friends in Bombay. (Cheers.) British soldiers and
sailors are fortunate. We have countrymen whose
sympathies accompany us wherever we go, who
rejoice in our successes, who feel for our hardships
as if they were their own, and on our return home
give as thebest of all rewards—the welcome and
approval of civilised and independent Englishmen.
On these occasions, on these welcomes home, we
are expected, without telling too long a story, to
give our countrymen sonic account of our doings
and the incidents of the field which will interest
them. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentlemen, I have
a most grateful duty to perform. I have to tell
you how the soldiers of your army, the Bombay
army, to which I have the honour to belong, have
won my esteem by their bravery, their fidelity, and
their discipline ; how they conquered rebellion by
their loyalty, and mutiny by their subordination.
Their patience and devotion triumped over every
obstacle, over distance, sickness, and the rays of
even an Indian sun, in all its blaze of summer heat.
Your president-has done the Central India field
force the honour to state the details of their opera-
tions. But few know that while fighting thus
strenuously and successfully the health and strength
of these troops—young Bombay soldiers, the greater
majority of whom had never seen a shot fired—
were impaired by months of broken rest, by night
marches to avoid the sun, and night watches to
guard the camp against surprise. The governor
and the commander-in-chief had been most liberal,
and had drained Bombay of troops for the pur-
pose of completing the field forces ; but the
demands for troops had been so immense and so
pressing that my force entered on an extensive
field of operations, for which in former days of
Indian warfare treble the amount of troops was
considered necessary. I should have been justified
in curtailing my sphere of exertions, but if I had
done so it must have been at the sacrifice of that
prestige of superiority which wiser heads than my
own think, and truly think, indispensable for the
success of British rule in India. And another
thing, my orders were to relieve Sanger and take
Calpee. If I had not met and attacked the enemy,
who was on my road or near my road—if I had
avoided him—he, emboldened by my apprehensions,
would have followed me, and fallen on my rear,
whilst I advanced against another enemy in my
front. I should then have been between two fires,
which in war is a dangerous predicament. (Cheers.)
To use, therefore,the expressive but homely phrase-
ology of our American allies, I determined for the
sake of prestige and strategy, to go the whole hog
against the enemy. (Cheers and laughter.) But the
doing so was too much, too great an effort for my
small force ; it was one continued marching, watch-
ing, or fighting. (Cheers.) A great part of the men
who had marched all night were on camp guard—
that is, inlying pickets, outlying pickets, and, quar-
ter guards, all day; marched the next night and
the following day; were engaged, perhaps, ill sun-
set with the enemy. With constitution thus
shaken by too much work and too little r st my
force met on its march to Calpee a new and ormid-
able enemy—a midsummer sun. One could turn
the flank of the rebels, but it was impossible to out-
manoeuvre the sun. At Koonch the thermometer
stood at 115 degrees, at Calpee 118 degrees, and
119 degrees in the shade ; and on the march to
Gwalior the thermometer burst in an officer's
tent at 130 degrees. The troops suffered fear-
fully from sunstroke. When it did not kill it pro-
duced delirium, fits, and total prostration of
strength. But my men never desponded; in every
fight they always had the best of it. They fell in
their ranks, but they never murmured. (Loud
cheers.) They were often too weak to, march, but
their spirit always enabled them to fight. The
fatal effects of exposure to the sun were latterly so
certain and rapid that the prostration of the whole
force by it was merely a question of time, and
became a matter of calculation. Dr. Arnett,
superintending surgeon of the Central India Field
Force, as devoted as he is talented, wrote me an
official letter, when we were before Calpee, stating
that it was his duty to tell me that the Central
India Field Force had suffered so much from over-
fatigue, want of rest, and sunstroke, that if the
operations were protracted he had reason to fear
' the whole force would be prostrated. I had then
still before me Calpee, protected by its labyrinth
of ravines, five lines of defences, and a force greatly
superior to my own in numbers, consisting of the
best organised troops of the mutineers, the Gwalior
Contingent, and other sepoy regiments, besides
1,400 mutineer cavalry, with their English arms
and equipment, their English uniforms, their Eng-
lish drill; but I am happy.to say, without a par-
ticle of their English discipline and pluck. The
spirit of my troops, developed and aided by that
talisman for all military evils, discipline, which
makes the soldier die in his ranks, but not leave
them, prevailed against sun, the rebel host, and
Calpee. It did more, it carried them on a tide of
success into Gwalior. (Loud cheers.) I hope
that I have not wearied you, gentlemen, with
these details. But gratitude, which is after all
nothing but justice, is one of the first duties, and
certainly if ever General had cause to be grateful
to his troops it is myself. • My wish is, that they,
more than myself, should have the, credit for the
successes of our last campaign. When discharging
the obligations of gratitude, I certainly ought not
to forget those I owe to the Hyderabad Contingent,
Alder Major Orr, a true and gallant commander,
who from first to last stood by us in every danger,
and shared with us every hardship. And my
thanks are also due to our gallant comrades of the
Bengal army ; the flying column under Col. Max-
well ; the brigade of the Rajpootana Field Force
under Brigadier Smith ; and Capt. Meade's Horse,
who gave us their hands and aid, as generous as it
was efficient, on the banks of the Jumna and in the
plains of Gwalior. I have one more debt to pay—
to, express- my. sincere gratitude to Lord Elphin-
stone, the' Bombay Government, and the Conunari-
der-in-Chief, who never ceased to do their utmost
to supply all my wants. With admirable energy
the Bombay Government, in a very short time,
established the bullock train to Mhow and Goona, i
a distance of some hundred miles. Reinforcements,
comprising a wing of her Majesty's gallant 71st
Highland Light Infantry and supplies, were brought,
in a comparatively short time, by this means, from
Bombay to me, in the heart f Central India, and
by the same conveyance my sick and wounded
men were sent back to regular hospitals in the
Presidency. The Government had the discrimi-

nation to appoint as director of the train from
Bombay to Mhow, Major Kane, who, by his ac-
tivity and intelligence, has solved one of the most
difficult problems—the establishment of an efficient
war transport. Lastly, gentlemen, the Central
India field force is sincerely grateful to Lord
Elphinstone, the Governor, and the commander-in-
chief, for what they value more than prize money
or promotion, a true and generous approval of their
services in the field. I cannot conclude without
telling you of the noble comradeship which existed
between the British and native soldiers of my force
—how side by side they stormed the difficult passes
into Bundercund—how they stood by each other in
the streets of Jhansi, or the treacherous ravines of
the Jumna. This was the more gratifying because
there were forebodings, which cannot be called un-
natural, that the mutiny had for ever separated the
tie which existed between the sepoy and the British

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