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London, England, 1858-06-17 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE n, 1858.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
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TICKETS for one month are now issued at Paddington—Fares, 455
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
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GREA T WESTERN RAIL WAY.-
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JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary.
20th May, 1858.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.

Intimation having been given by advertisement of the intention
of the Great Northern, and Manchester, Shelleid, and Lincolnshire
Companies, to make certain advances In the RATES and FARES
between London and Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, from
and after the 21st of June, the public is requested to take notice,
that the same rates and fares will be charged by the London and
North-Western Railway Company fiom and after the same day.
By Order of the Directors.

Easton Station, London, June 16, 1858.

MARK RIIISH.

EPPS'S COCOA-11b. and 11). packets, is. 6d.
and 9d.—EPPS, Homoeopathic Chemist, 170, Piccadilly ;
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THE STATE OF FRANCE.

(Prom the Times.)

The state of affairs in France since the attentat of the
14th of January last has ( xhibited a gradual, and steady
decline, equally painful to those who witness and fraught
with anxious considerati in to those who feel the in-
creasing weight with which the Government presses on
its subjects. We may have been—we hope we have
been—mistaken ; but it certainly has appeared to us as
if the French Government since that unhappy day has
divided its attention betweeu measures of precaution,
which no one can blame it for adopting, and attempts to
Inspire terror which involuntarily carry back the mind
to a period of history which we bad hoped was sealed up,
never to be reopened. The law with regard to suspected
persons was not required as an authority for the Em•
peror of the French to deal with those whom he might
think obnoxious to his Government in any manner that
he might think proper ; he already possessed, and bad
frequently exercised, the amplest and most unlimited
control over the liberties of his subjects ; but, if the law
was not required to extend the power of the Govern-
ment, it, at any rate, served as a useful engine to work
upon the fears of the people. The military rey;ino in-
augurated by the division of the Empire into five dis-
tinct commands was another direct appeal to the fears
of the public, and a third and not less significant demon-
stration
was made by the appointment of General Es-
pinasse to the Ministry of the Interior. The previous his-
tory of the General was not favourable to the hopes of
those who sigh under the present system of repression,
and conveyed, as it probably was meant to convey, pre-
sages of ill-omen to those who by any one of a hundred
ways might have rendered themselves obnoxious to Im-
perial suspicion.
The fortune of General Espinasse was made by the
happy coincidence that he was the officer on whom de-
volved the melancholy duty of turning the National
Assembly out of the place of refuge which it had sought
for itself, and trampling out under the feet of his sol-
diers the last sparks of a freedom so dearly purchased
and so briefly and turbulently enjoyed. From that
period, with the exception of his unhappy reconnais-
sance in the Dobrudecha, we hear nothing of him till we
find him established in the Ministry of the Interior,—to
give, we suppose, to that dep irtnaent a military vigour
and promptness which his
predecessor was not thought
to possess. During his tenure of office the General
devoted himself to the repressive part of his duty ; he
watched the conspirators, overawed the Republicans, he
decimated the members of secret oocieties, and some-
times, in the height of his enthusiasm, he is said to have
punished the innocent, in order the more effectually to
terrify the guilty. His Ministry was regarded as a formal
and distinct proof of the ascendancy of force ; it symbo-
lized only too faithfully the predominance of the mili-
tary over the civil element ; it showed the fears of the
Government and the entire helplessness of the
people. Bad as has been the fate of the French press
since the imp d'etat, its miseries have been aggravated
tenfold under the control of its military censor, and the
roughness of the camp and the garrison was imported
into the quiet chambers of a public office. What good
General Espinasse may have done we know not, and
shall never know ; the evil that he has accomplished is
plain enough. Ile has during his short administration
drawn duwn upon himself and his Government a vast
amount of unpopularity, and tightened the cord to a
point at which it seems impossible to maintain it, and
very dangerous indeed to relax it. It is, then, with
great satisfaction we learn that this military minister
has been displaced to make room for M. Wangle, who,
if he have shown himself a very scrupulous instrument
of the Imperial Government, is, at any rate, a lawyer of
eminence, and accustomed to appeal to other principles
than terror and restraint.
The change is a well advised and prudent one, but it
has come not a day too soon. No Government, how-
ever powerful, can afford to live at the rate at which
the Government of France has been going on for the last
six mouths. We have waited long for symptoms of a
return to that moderation and good sense for which we
were once happy to give the French Government credit,
and we recognise a step in the right direction in the
dismissal of M. Espinasse. We hope that this may
not be the last step is this direction, hut only
the precursor of other steps as easy and. as urgently
needed. It is not our province to meddle in
tire internal affairs of France, but we may be pardoned
for expressing the opinion that a Power which makes
itself less continuously and overwhelmingly felt is likely
to be of longer duration. We trust aleo,that a return to
a less repressive system of government may be accom-
panied with indications of a more friendly feeling towards
this country than has recently prevailed. We hope, in
fact, that things will be allowed to return to their old
state, such as it was before the 14th of January,—such
as it ought to have been up to this hour, if people hail
listened to the dictates of reason and good sense, rather
than rushed into violent extremes under the influence of
fear and irritation. We believe that in this country
there is every disposition to put the best construction
on the acts of the Emperor of the French. We are
only too anxious to believe that lie is our good friend
and faithful ally, and we gladly welcome an event like
the dismissal of General Espinasse, as tending to re-
alise our convictions and confirm our hopes. We trust
that, as the sword has been laid aside in the civil govern.
ment, we may speedily witness a return to a pacific
attitude on the part of France, which may save us from
the unwelcome necessity of arming in a time of profound
peace, that we may not be at the merely of a powerful
neighbour. At any rate, we may rejoice reasonably
over the good things of to-day, without embarra-sing
ourselves with too curious speculations upon the pos.
sib!e events of to-morrow.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

BOMBAY, MAY 19.
The following telegrams, giving an account of
Sir Hugh Itos.e's victory over the rebels, will be
read wish interest
Front MAJOR-GENERAL SIFT HUGII nos; K.C.8.,

DATED KOONCEI, BTH MAY, 1858.
"About four or five thousand mutinous sepoys from
Calpee, three thousand Bundeelas, and one thousand
SowarP, and four hundred Velaities, with some guns,
had occupied Koonch for the purpose of opposing my
march to Calpee.. Koonch i 4 a large and open town, but
difficult to attack, because it is caLcealed by woods, and
surrounded with gardens and temples with high walle.
" The rebels had thrown up strong entrenchments for
protecting the town from the Aite and Jhansi roads by
which my force was marching on it. I marched here
yesterday, and turned all these defences by making a
flank movement to the north-we,t, and attaoking the
town from that quarter with my Lace, and Major Orr's
field force.

"After having driven the enemy's inf st. try and cavalry
out of the woods into the town with artillery fire, I
stormed the town with my first brigade in skirmishing
order, covered on each flank by cavalry and artillery—
my second brigade and Major Orr's supporting. The
Ca!pee sepoys, seeing they were on the pii.t of being cut
off from Calpee, returned in a mass in that direction,
and the town was in our hands in less than an hour.

"I pursued the enemy with Horse Artillery and Cavalry
for more than eight nrles—the former firing in t" them, the
latter charging them. The artillery and cavalry were so
completely exhausted by the long day's march, the intense
beat, and the day's operations, they could go no further.
" Among the slain are sepoys of the First, Second,
Third, Fourth, and Sevenths Regiments Gwalior Con-
tingent, of the 12th, 32, 52d, and 56th Regiments Ben-
gal N. 1., and Mellidpore Artillery.
" We took eight gunß, quantities of amunition, and
tan ts.

"I had few killed and wounded, but some European
soldiers were killed, and others, as well as officers, were
struck by the sun, which was 115 degrees in the shade.
I march on Calpee to-morrow."

FROM MAJOR-GEL SIR HUGH ROSE TO LORD
ELPHINSTONE, DATED ORAIE, 10TH MAY, VIA
INDORE, 13TH MAY.

"Four more gene abandoned by the enemy in our
possession. The inhabitants of Oraie state that the
sepoye, after their defeat at Koonch, passed through
there, with numerous wounded, in a state of despair,
declaring that an entire battalion, the 32 1 Bengal N. 1.,
had been destroyod ; that now they bad no refuge but
the Jumna. The enemy's loss at Koonch, according to
to•day's account, was 700 killed, besides their wounded.
We would have destroyed nearly the whole of them,
only that the intense heat and the great fa' igue paralysed
the strength of both men and horses. Our causalties
were -- killed by the sun, and 47 wounded. Nu-
merous officers and men besides were struck by the sun,
and had to leave the rauks.l'

The following telegram was received by Lord
Elphinstone yesterday from Pooch, via Indere,
May 8, from Major-Gen. Sir H. Rose :
"t As soon as Jhansi and my sick and wounded—
whom I leave there—and the road from Jhansi to
Goonah were secured from the advance of the Kotah
rebtls, and the late Barr son of Chandairee, which made
incursions on that road after the capture of Jhansi, I
marched with the first brigade from Jhansi to Pooch
on Calpee. I hal previously, on the 21st ultimo, sent
Major Gall, with two squadrons of the 14th Dragoons
aad three nine pounders on the road to Calpee to watch
the movements of the enemy, and to support Major
Orr, whom I had sent from Jhansi across the Batwa to
Miaow to clear that part cf Vs country of rebels, stated
to be there, with orders to r join me on the road to
Calpee. Major Orr found no rebels at Mhow, but be-
yond Goorserai, near the Betwa, a little fort, Goorwai,
with 40 rebels and three CADDOII, surrendered to him.
I directed Major Orr to advance to the Batwa and pre-
vent the passage of the river by the Rajahs of Banpore
and Sbahgur, and their march southward.,, The two
Rajahs, leaving a portion of their force at Kotra, oppo-
site to Major Orr, crossed the river higher up, and have
gone southwards with one gun and part of their force.
Maj et Orr crossed the river at Kotra, attacked the
rebels there, and took one gun. I sent Major Gall
from here against the garrison of Lohare-aghurre
with one gun belonging to the Rajah of Sumpter, be-
cause they had betrayed an outpost of Hyderabad
Cavalry to the rebel cavalry in Kooncb. Major Gall
blew in the gate, stormed the ghurree, and killed all the
r berg in it, seventy-one in number. They were
disguised sepoys of the 12th Bengal N. 1., and
fought to the last. My second brigade, with the ex-
ception of the large part of it left for the protection of
Jhansi, baying joined me to-day, I march to-morrow
against Kooneb, where Tantia Tepee and the Ranee of
Jhansi have concentrated a considerable force of sepoys
from Calpee—Vilaitees, regular and irregular mutinous
cavalry, for the purpose of opposing my march to Calpee.
Sir Robert Hamilton, at my request, has written to
General Whitton: that it t very-deeirable that his se-
cond brigade should move on and occupy the fort of
Thai Bahut or Mhow, fur the purpose of opposing the
Rajahs of Baupore and Shabgur. The brigade would
also protect General Whitlock's rear."

The first trial trip on the railway from Khandalla
to Poonatook place on Saturday, the 15th inst. The
train, 'containing the officials, with a small party of
friends, lett Khandalla at 12.50 ; exactly seven
minutes were occupied in ascending the bill, which
is two miles in length. The total time occupied in
going t e whole distance of 42 miles was two hours
and 10 minutes—this included four stoppages, each
of some duration—the train travelling from 30 to
40 miles an hour. The trial was quite satisfactory,
and the line is to be opened for public traffic on
the Ist of June.

A fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary,
broke out at the new railway station at Poona,
where the axtent of damage done amountr to be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 rupees.
A thunder-storm of unusal violence, accompanied
by heavy rain and hail,- prevailed betwixt Khan-
dalla and Poona, and over a considerable part of
the Deccan on the 15th inst. The day had been
one of unusual heat. By two o'clock the wind
blew over the burning plain like the breath of a
furnace. Thunder and lightning prevailed in all
directions—the electric discharges being all vertical
from the clouds to the ground. During the storm
the ghauts were lit up with fire-flies, doing their
utmost to imitate the lightning. These beautiful
little insects, by some strange concert amongst
themselves, shout all their lamps simultaneously,
and the sight is grand beyond conception. On the
following morning every hollow contained a pool
or lake.

Madras was viai‘ed on the 4th inst. by a violent
hurricane, occasioning a large amount of shipwreck
and loss of life.

The elect ic telegraph of Ceylon, in connection
with the h i ues n India, is progressing favourably.
The length of the submarine cable which is in-
tended to be lard down across the Gulf of Manaar
is 30 miles, and it is probable that in less than six
months Colombo will be in almost instantaneous
communic ton with the three Indian Presidencies.
The first sod of the Colombo Railway will be
turned about the beginning of July next.
The weather is feat fully hot just now, and this is
a trying period to European 3. Thermometer often
at 120 in the shade.

THE LATE LORD JUSTICE CLERK.
The Right Hon. John Hope, Lord Justice Clerk
of Scotland, died at his residence in Moray-place,
Edinburgh, at half-past 11 o'clock on Monday
evening. His lordship had felt Poorly for some
days, and on Saturday had gone to visit his coun-
try seat in Ayrshire, returning on Monday. He
had just finished writing in the evening a letter to
Mrs. Hope announcing his safe return, when he
was seized with a shock of paralysis, after which he
never recovered consciousness, and expired in a
few hours. The le irned lord was the eldest son of
the late Right Hon. Charles Hope, of Granton,
Lord President of the Court of Session, and was
connected through both parents with the Hope-
toms famly. He was born at Edinburgh in 1794,
and passed the Scottish bar in 1816. For a series
of years he filled the honorary position of Dean of
the Faculty of Advocates ; and in 1841, when his
father retired, and the late Right
Hon. David
Boyle was appointed to the conjoined offices of
Lard President and Lord Justice General, he was
chosen as Lord Justice Clerk. In that important
judicial office he presided over the second division
of the Civil Court, and practically had the leading
part in the duties of the Justiciary Bench, having
presided at nearly all the trials of importance that
have taken place in the High Court of Justiciary for
the last 17 years, as well as taken his share in the
business of the Circuit Courts. On the meeting of
the Court of Session on Tuesday morning the in-
telligence of his lordship's death produced a pro-
found sensation. The judges all assembled in the
First Division Court-room, when the Lord Presi-
dent intimated that, in ebmpliance with the re-
quest of the Vice-Dean and Faculty of Advocates
as well as in accordance with the feelings of his
brethren and himself, tnere would be an entire
cessation of business for the day. His Lordship
also took occasion to pay a tribute to the memory
of the late Lord, who had, he said, distinguished
himself as a most able, upright, and indefatigable
to the important vacancy
Judge. With regard
created by his Lordship's death, the general expec-
tation is that the Lord Advocate, who is usually
considered to have the first title to such legal pro-
motion, will, notwithstanding his repeated refusal
of an ordinary judgeship, mil himself of his
present privilege.

AUSTRALIA.

(From the Sydney Herald, of 441 10.)
The January mail brought such cheering news as
to the improved and improving aspect of monetary
affairs in Great Britain thatU renewed impetua has
been given to business. The revival of commercial
activity, however, is but partial. There has b,ien,
unhappily, a disposition to overtrade here, which
renders even a temporary pressure bazArdous.
Many find it impossible to recover from this pres-
sure, even when, by the receipt of more encoura-
ging intelligence from-withou-, ;fa severity is mate-
rially relieved. The failure of such people involves
others. Still the crisis is past. Not only may we
expect a revival of confidence, and a consequent
revival of commercial energy; but we may Icok for
a mora healthy system of business managlment ; a
greater check upon mere speculation than has
hitherto existed.

The complaints of ill-treatment by female immi-
grants ex Stebonheath, to which we alluded in our
last week's "Notes," have been at length preferred
at the Water Police-court. A summons was issued
against the surgeon, Wm. Johns on. Rowland, but,
as might have been expecte I, he did not appear.
The advises from the Boonuo-Boonoo gold-field
have been so encouraging that there can now be
very little doubt of its richnesi. A great number of
diggers have gone there, and we sitll soon hear
more.

It has been finally delermined, we understand,
to send the "Junior" tnutiueers and the witnesses
for the prosecution to New Bedford by that vessel.
Due prec tutions, however, will be taken for their
security, and, in addition to the crew of the vessel,
a guard will be shipped for this purpose.
Both houses of Parliament met on the 24th of
March, but the meetings were merely formal. The
only business done was to swear in the members
and to elect the Speaker of the Assembly. To the
latter high office Sir Daniel Cooper was again named
without opposition. Ou Wednesday morning he
was presented to the Governor-General with the
usual formalities, and at noon on the same clay the
work of the session was fairly oommenced by the
delivery of the Viceregal speech.
The speech of the Governor-General, which is, of
course, the speech of the Ministry, has very little
in it ; that is to say, very little substance—plenty
of words. The single new measure of the session,
in addition to such as may be found necessary for
"ra.;sing the wind," is to be an electoral act. After
this has been passed, Parliament is to be again dis-
solved, and the new assembly is to deal with all the
outstanding questions.
There has been a public meeting in the ball of
the School of Arts for the initiation of a general
subscription in aid of the sufferers by the Indian i
mutiny, and never was an assemblage of the kind
more earnest and enthusiastic in its purpose than
this. The chair was filled by his Excellency the
Governor-General. The speakers were the Bishop
of Sydney, the Hon. Sir W. Burton, the Hon. Sir
D. Cooper, the Rev. J. WeSt, the Rev. Mr. Cuth-
bertson, the Hon. S. A. Donaldson, the Rev. D.
• .
Woolley, and Mr. T. Btrker.
The question of the steam postsl.line via Panama
and the Mail Company's shortcomings has again
been discussed in the Cnamber of Commerce, and
this discussion has drawn forth a defensive letter
from Mr. Wetton, the company's agent. Capt tin
Towns has expressed in tolerably strong terms
within the Chamber the feeling so general without
—that the company, having obtained its ends, has
deliberately broken faith with New South Wales
and New Zealand. Mr. Wetton says that when the
present line via Suez has been got into perfect
working order the company will take measures for
the establishment of the Panama line. But the colo-
nists will not trust their promises nor await their
leisure. The mode in which their existing engage-
ments have been fulfilled, or rather broken, affords
but poor encouragement for the future. The gene-
ral impression is that even the present contract with
this company ought to be brought to A close with
all possible speed.
____

The new Electoral Bill has been published. Al.
though a better measure, it must be admitte 1,
than had been looked for at the hands of Mr.
Cowper, it is open to many objectionA. It is based
less exclusively upon mere population than had been
anticipated ; but still there is no representation of
interests provided for, and the memb rs have been
so apportioned as to secure a paramount and endur-
ing influence for the metropolitan constituencies.
Nevertheless the bill is one which may be licked
into a leis questionable shape in committee.
On a requisition by the Governor-General of In-
dia, the 77th Regiment is to be sent to the latter
country, instead of China, as is also a company of
artillery—horses for the latter being provided at
the public expense, so that they will be ready for
active service directly on their arrival.

(From the Times' C )rresponclont )
ME LBO U RNE, APRIL 15.
No mail again. The Victoria, with our April
mail, will most likely start to-morrow at daylight
without any intelligence of the February mail from
home. These constant delays have engaged the at-
tention of the Legislature, and on Tuesday night
two resolutions were carried unanimously condem-
natory of the manner in which the contract has been
performed, or rather not performed, and moving
the Home Government to rescind it at once. The
inconvenience to the mercantile body .connected
with the trade of these colonies must be very great
—sufficiently so, I should imagine, to induce them
to take action in the matter. The principle of the
several colonies uniting with the Home Government
to pay a large premium ought to insure efficiency
of service. The evil of delay to our trade is not to
be over-estimated. _ _ _

_ • __
The Ministerial elections have resulted in the re-
turn of all the Ministers, with one double return for
the Upper House, that of Mr. Henry Millar for the
Western as well as the Central Province--a vacancy
for the former having casually occurred at the time.
Of the eight elections, three only were contested.
O'Shanassy, Chief Secretary • Chapman, Attorney-
General ; Duffy, Land and Works ; Millar, Trade
and Customs ; and Evans, Postmaster-General,
were returned without opposition. Harker, Trea-
surer, prevailed over his opponent by about three
to one; Millar, for the Western Province, by rather
a larger majority ; and Ireland, Solicitor-General,
for Castlemaine, had 154 votes ; while of his oppo-
nents one had 9 votes and the other only 2. It is
supposed that Mr. Millar will elect to ait for the
Western Province, because, under the provision
that one-fifth of the members of the Upper House
retire every two years, his term for the Western
Province is two years longer than it would be for
the Central Province.

The House met on the Bth, and nothing was done
beyond a short explanation which custom required,
but which told the public little that was not known
before. Notice was given by ,the Attorney-General
that on Tuesday he would ask leave to bring in a
bill to alter the electoral districts, and increase the
number of members of the Assembly. This bill is
of itself merely formal—a peg on which to hang
the schedule. Of these schedules we have had
three from the former Ministry, and one sketched
out, but never drawn, by Captain Clarke, formerly
surveyor-general. I now send you that which was
introduced by the new Ministry. The present
House, I may remind you, consists of 60 members,
returned by 37 constituencies. Among these there
is great inequality of representation—Colne, with
its 793 inhabitants, returning one member ; Port-
land, with 2,700, returning two members ; while
Talbot, with 37,000 people, returns only two.
Other inequalities prevail, but not of ao exaggerated
a kind. The present schedule proposes 38 dis-
tricts,
returning 86 members ; and the principles
on which it is constructed, as explained by its
author, are these :-1. It is framed on the basis of
population—i.e., the average number of people to
a member being about 4,500, that number has been
kept in view in assigning the number of, member.'
to each district. Thus, St. Kilda, with 14,207
people, will have three members—average to one
member, 4,628. 2. But this cannot well be car-
ried out where the country is very thinly peopled ;
and therefore Gipps-land, which is about nine times
as large as the districts of West Bourke, East
Bourke, and South Bourke put together, will have
one member, though its whole population is only
3,598. 3. Another principle kept in view has been
not to change the divisions of the districts, which
divisions have been fixed for registration and vot-
ing purposes. Thus, the old districts were sub-
divided into 99 divisions. These are not altered
in the new schedule, but are merely re-grouped
into new electoral districts. 4. Actual disfranchise-
ment, by merging small districts into larger, has
been resorted to as
.sparingly as possible, Thus,
where, as in the case of the Murray boroughs, they
are made to merge in the Murray district, two
members are returned, though the total population
is only 5,800, because, under the old distribution
they enjoyed three members. The result is, that
the new schedule departs from the population basis
in only a few instances, the slight over representa-
tion of a few districts of great territorial extent be-
ing attained by a slight under representation of the
large towns.
By this distribution, interests, as distinct frown