The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-29 00:00:00

POLICE IN2'

same attention, as physicists have done, to obtain true con-
ceptions and axioms from reality itself by proper methods,
and not by arbitrary dogrnatisin—when they proceed, step
by step, definition by definition, axiom by axiom, principle
by principle, in due and proper order, and maintain a pro-
per unity of conception and principle, from the beginning
to the end, it will be found that a vast and magnificent edi-
fice of demonstrative truth may be reared up, and political
economy will emerge from the haze of controversy, a
science as well defined, as self-coherent, as complete, and
as harmonious as any in existence."
Another remarkable essay is that on the word
" Bank," which traces the history of banks and
banking from the earliest records of their existence.
Those who are acquainted with Mr. Macleod's
extensive knowledge and correct views of financial
I questions, and who have met his laborious and
original work on the theory and practice of bank-
ing, will not be surprised to find that this subject
is treated in a most comprehensive and vigorous
manner, exhibiting great research, considerable
argumentative power, and a thorough knowledge
of the questions treated of.' The biographica
sketches add to the value and interest of the l)ic.
tionary, which, from the originality of its design:
and the ability of its contents, will doubtless be.
come a standard work in the-national literature.

The Annual Gift Book. A Drawing-room Por-
trait Gallery of Eminent Personages. 199,
Strand.
The handsome series of portraits which have
adorned the pages of the Illustrated News of the
World since its commencement, are now bound up
in an elegant gift book, most suitable and appro-
priate to the season. A very faithful likeness of
the Prince Consort forms the frontispioce, and
is immediately followed by the portraits of
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess Frederick William. A portrait of the
Duke of Cambridge completes the list of
royal likenesses. Further on, we meet some
of the chief politicians of the day, conspicu-
ous among them being Lord Palmerston, Lord J.
Russell, and Lord Stanley. Military heroes also
occupy the prominent position due to these days
of martial valour. Portraits of Major-General Sir
A. Wilson, the conqueror of Delhi ; of Major-Gene-
ral Sir J. Inglis, the heroic defender of
Lucknow ; and Lord Clyde, the Indian
Commander-in-Chief, are side by side with the cele-
brities of.the late war—General Sir Fenwick
Williams, General Windhain, and the Due de
Malakoff. Science and art have also their repre-
sentatives. Professor Faraday's likeness is espe-
cially pleasing, while those of Charles Dickens and
Dr. Livingstone will be particularly interesting to
the public. Charles Kean, Miss Goddard, Madame
Alboni, and other theatrical celebrities, are faith-
fully represented. The likeness of Miss Goddard
makes that lady appear somewhat too old, both ata
regards her real age and her personal appearance.
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, the Attorney.
General, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. Roebuck,
Mr. Duncombe, and a numerous selection from
eminent living personages, occupy the remaining
portraits, among them being the late and the pre-
sent Lord Mayor. The list is as yet incomplete,
many distinguished names being announced for the
ensuing portraits, including the Prime Minister
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The short
and succinct biographies attached to the portraits
greatly enhance their value, and the volume is
altogether admirably adapted to adorn the drawing
room table.

The Commercial and Trades Legal Guide. By F.
11. Markham, M.A., barrister-at-law. Richard.
son Cornhill.

The author of this little work observes in his
short and sensible preface, that it is a well-known
legal maxim that " Ignorance of the law excuses
no one," and
.yet that most people who are not
lawyers are ignorant with regard to the legal
questions arising out of the simplest matters of
everyday life. He supposes that this want of
necessary information arises from the general idea
that the laws of England are so complex and mul-
tifarious they could never find time to read and
understand them. It therefore occurred to him
that a short and simple digest of the laws principally
affecting commercial men might be of practical bene-
fit. in this little work he gives a brief and intelligible
account of a variety of legal questions ; contracts,
bills of exchange, partnership, copyright, wills,
executors, actions, bankruptcy, patents, and many
others of equal importance being among them. The
legal relations of landlord and tenant, master and
servant, husband and wife, and the laws relating to
the press, are also inserted. It is a very useful
little compendium, and we trust will enable many
of its readers to avoid the intricacies of the courts of
law.

The Farmers' Almanac and Calendar for 1859.

Ridgway.
This almanac contains a large and varied amonn,
of good practical agricultural information, besides
all necessary statistics of imports, exports, fairs and
markets, farmers' clubs, &c. It is a very handy
little work, likely to be a useful assistant to the
farmer, and giving also a calendar for the flower and
kitchen garden.

Cassell's illustrated Almanac.

This almanac maintains the character of its inde-
fatigable publisher. The illustrations are above
the average, and the rest of the almanac fully equal
to its competitors.

out from both camps, which at night were
strengthened by infantry. Lord Clyde, who is
most watchful that the important duty of placing
pickets and sentries is properly performed, rode
oat and 'Visited the front of our position, as he
always does when we are in front of an enemy.
At Amethie he was obliged to alter the disposition
of the men and of the sentries by his own word of
mouth, and here too he met with an officer who
professed himself ignorant of the meaning of the
word " vedette." At night a messenger came in
from Shunkerpore with the following letter from
Bainie Madhoo:—

" I have received your Excellency's purwannah,
and with it tho proclamation. I beg to say that I
was formerly Caboolintdar of this ellaga, and am
still in possession of the same, and if the Govern-
ment will continue the settlement with me, I will
turn out my father, Bainee Madhoo. He is on the
part of Birjies K
uddr, but I am loyal to the British
Government, and I do not wish' to be ruined for
my father's sake."

This was an ingenious composition, reminding
one of the old times in Scotland, when each family
had a representative in the ranks of the claimants
to the Crown. It, was generally believed to be the
composition of Bainie Madhoo in person. At the
same time the latter sent a letter to the Rajah of
Tiloi, who had come into our camp in answer to a
recommendation that he should submit, in which he
took high ground, and told the Rajah that one
King was all he could serve, and that, he had given
his fealty to Biijies Kuddr. We heard that a large
number of Sepovs, varying, according to different ac-
counts, from 600 to 1,500, had gone off from the
enemy; and were making their way to Manickpore,
on the Ganges, between Delamow and the bridge
across from Allahabad. Still there were some of
our spies who insisted that Bainie Madhoo had.
40,000 men and 40 guns inside the work. Precau-
tions were taken to prevent the enemy breaking
through our lines. The pickets were warned to be
on the alert. The enemy were said to have 2,000
horse. Everything looked like fighting. Night
came ; and all, except those who were in advance
of the line of_ tents, retired to rest. It was bright
moonlight, but the moon set early. -About two
o'clock in the morning I was awakened by the
noise of horses in the street of our canvass city. I
turned out and found Captain Flood waiting for
orders to carry across country from the chi( f o the
Staff to Sir Hope Grant. Intelligence had been
received that the enemy after the moon disappeared
issued from the forts and were evacuating the place
in all haste. The country in our front was inter-
sected with water cuts, covered with crops, wood,
andjungle. No information as to the exact route
of the enemy could be had, and, in fact, it was
possible the whole story might be untrue. Lord
Clyde, light in hand, flitted across the street,
carrying his orders with his own hand to his
Aide-de-Camp, Captain Dormer. It was past 3
o'clock ere the Aide-de-Camp of the Chief of the
Staff started with an escort of a few Sowars
to carry orders to Sir Hope Grant to proceed at
once in pursuit of the enemy. It was pitch dark,
and the direction was only to be had from the stars.
So difficult was the ground that one of the horses of
the escort broke its neck. So it was that it was
past 4 o'clock ere the column of Sir Hope Grant
was reached, and the order given to that gallant
and indefatigable officer. All the troops were turned
out, and the column was in readiness to march by
daybreak, directing its advance upon Roy Bareilly.
During the night the pickets had heard men mov-
ing, the groaning of camels and the noise of voices
close to the fort ; but they had no orders to act,
and indeed it is difficult to say what they could
have done if they had. At daybreak it wassevident
that Bainie Madhoo had fled, and that his boasted
stronghold had been deserted without a shot. The
tracks of. wheels along the outside of the work
showed that he had succeeded in carrying off some
at least of his guns, and that he had taken a long
sweep to the west of Sir Hope Grant's extreme
right picket, and then marched off towards Roy
Bareilly. An advanee was ordered on the forts.
'The Belooches entered, and found it quite empty,
the bastions unarmed, the jungles desolate. They
were at once relieved by a wing of her Majesty's sth
Fusiliers, under Lieut.-Col. Milman. Col. Harness
and the engineer and artillery officers rode across to
the place, and Lord Clyde, after a hasty visit, rode
off to overtake Sir Hope Grant's column, in
order that he might give him directions as to the
pursuit. Some of the rebels, we heard, had gone
southwards through the jungles towards the Ganges,
but the main body, under Bainie, had obviously fled
towards the Goomtee, northwards. Early in the
morning, about half an hour after daybreak, I
approached the outer works of the fort, which
consisted of a very deep, but narrow ditch, and a
low parapet of irregular trace, inside which nothing
could be seen but dense jungle. There was no
entrance visible till we had ridden southwards
about two 'piles. The country was like that already
described. Several hamlets and villages quite
deserted lay outside the the ditch; only cats and
dogs inhabited the streets. In one there was a
small and very handssme Hindoo temple, covered
outside with hideous idols. All these villages
offered the greatest facilities for resistance in the
hands of a determined enemy, and could only have
been cleared in such a case by very hard fighting or
severe vertical fire. Through one of those villages
lay the road to the outer fort. A bastion of earth
towered above it, but the flanking fire was indif-
ferently directed. The gateway was of bamboo,
and opened upon a ramp across the ditch to a
strong mud wall, winding over a tortuous street.
access through which into the interior was obtained
by a wooden gate, of no strength. Inside, the
place was something like Amethee, only that the
central residence was not so fine. An old Brahmin
very sick was the sole human being to be found,
but a " must" elephant—a male suffering from a
temporary derangement, owing to a disappointment
in some love affair—was tied by chains in the court-
yard, gun .bullocks wandered about, aisltddes ooliestents, a spring van, litters, and Na
lum-
bered the enclosures, which were full also of bed-
steads and a few articles of furniture. Only a few
old matchlocks could be found after the minutest
search, and, as if in mockery, four very small
brass guns, mere children's playthings, were laid
out in a row in front of one of the verandahs.
In the women's apartments some miserable daubs
left upon the walls showed that those who lived
there must have been vile and depraved indeed.
Idols abounded in the rooms ; some had engravings
an Oriental dream of the Duke of Wellington,
and embossed drawings of wild beasts hung 1.113
in the divan, in which were also glass chan-
deliers, covered with linen bags, as if " the season
was over." In the rooms around the courts im-
mense quantities of ghee, nuts, wheat, and corn
were found; also a laboratory for making powder,
and about 9,0001 b. of that article of native manu-
facture. I am beginning to believe that most
of the good guns of the forts in Oude were sent
into Lucknow, or were captured by Havelock and
others in the earlier fights. It is certain Bainie
Madhoo has got only nine with him, and they are
all probably less than six-pounders. We have
heard of one large gun which has not yet been dis-
covered, and the carriages of two, in tolerable
condition, were found this afternoon. There are
three other forts much more complete inside the
work which must described hereafter. All are to
be destroyed, with the exception of one which is to
be turned into a native police thannah. Towards
midday Lord Clyde returned after a hot ride of 10
miles, in addition to his early march from Sir Hope
Grant, whose column reached Rey Bareilly in the
afternoon. Bainie Madhoo had a long start of him,
and it seems now established that we never can
overtake natives fairly on the run. A part of the
Jugdespore force marched 200 miles in five days,
and yet did little good. General Michell's infantry
marched 32 miles in one day 'after Tantia Topee,
and failed to overtake him. I fear that General
Grant and Brigadier Eveleigh will not be more
successful.

According to the latest accounts, Bainie Madhoo
cross he
Gogra
at would,Byram-
lvas at
inPoaollryliek,
elaihnododi,fthe Goomtee
ghaut and join the insurgents in Burnechl Taylor, her Majesty's 79th . C ol.one.
I now s econd-class Bri-
gadier, marched yesterday
11 morning towards Fyza-
bad with a troop of
Middleton's Battery opal Horse Artillery,
Royal Art'll •
i ety, one company
Royal Engineers, I) •
elhi Pioneers,
Ist Punjab
Cavalry, her_ Majesty's 79th Regiment, Ist Sikh
Infantry. The bulk -of
with Head-quarters the heavy material remains
Camp, which is now left hero
with only a • wing of her M'e t' sth, about 300
s s
of her Majesty's .
32d, and about 200 of the oth
Dragoon
Guards or Carabineers. Thus I have given
you, without comment, a dry narrative of the actual
events which have occurred here since the despatch
of my last letter reserving some matter for my next
letter which will probably be more interesting. As
the talookdars were slow in coming in, the Com-
missioner issued a circular to them, in which he
stated that if they did not make submission within
a short period, stated, he would send for the Rajah
of Rupporthullah and his Sikhs, and-would make
over their estates to his use. This little stroke of
diplomacy has been attended with the best results,
but as yet the sepoys hold aloof. Tl.ey do not
believe the proclamation or the amnesty. The
talookdars are, however, coming in. Some of Banie
Madhoo's estates have been already awarded to
men who have saved Government. _Thannahs and.
eollectoratei have been established all along our.
line of march, ,and zemindars have been placed
there, with their matchlockmen, till we can srare
police to take their place. As soon as that is the
case the. zemindary levies will be deprived of their
matchlocks and the country will be disarmed.