The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1858.

EPPS'S COCO A.—EPPS, Homceopathio
Chemist, London.—This excellent preparation CAII be obtalaed
of the principal Grocers in lie. and lb. packers, Is. 6d. and 9d.
Each packet is labelled—JAMES EPPS, ilomceopathic Chemist,
London.

FOR THE SEA SIDE.
ANGOLA. SUITS, £2 15s.
Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57. Lombard-street.
ESTABLISHED 1796.

NIESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS
are thus divided :
No. 111, REGENT-STREET, is their Depot for Paletots, Uni-
forms, Genilemen's Evening and Morning Dress.
No. 1 16, for the manufacture of the Guinea Trousers.
No. 118, for the Half-Guinea Waistcoats.
No. 120, for Waterpi oofed Guinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries.
N 0.142 is their new Establishment for Lades' Riding Habits and
Mantles.
No. 144 contains their other now Department for Clothing young
gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and ecoaomy whereby Messrs.
NICOLL have secured wide spread confidence.
The Wholesale Warerooms are at the rear of the Regent-street
premises, viz., 29, 30, 31, and 41, W IR WICK-STREET.
The City Depot is at 21 and 22, Cornhill.
The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised In the
ournals of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.!

VII! EVOLVERS for the FRENCH NAVY.
IL The French Government, with a view to Arming the Navy,
has had experiments made r ith the various kind. of Revolvers, bo h
French and Foreign, an board the vessels " Le Suffren" and " La
Bretagne." The Colt's (American), Adams' (English), and Wan-
cheux (Frer.ch) Pistols, being considered the beet, have been the
object of these repeated experiments, the result of which has been to
prove the superiority of the LEFAUCHEUX PISTOL. Since the
Report cf the Coromissioners of these experiments, his Excellency
the Minister of Marine has entered into a contract, boating date
Bth May, 1858, with Messrs. LaFinenrux and Cq., for the supply
of their Six-chamber Revolver to the French Navy.

CONTR.ICT FOR COILS FOR 9IR,RALTAR.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, July 16, It5S.
THE Commissioners for Executing tb.e. Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 3d August next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and
davering at Gibraltar,
4,000 TONS OF SOUTH WALES COALS,

Fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam-vessels.
A form Of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender
will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any
be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly
authorised in writing. _ _ .

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Coals
for Gibraltar," and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accom-
panied by a letter signed by two responsible persona, engaging to
become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,4001.
for the due performance of the Contract.

CONTRACT FOR CLOTHING FOR ROYAL MARINES.
Department ofthe Comptroller'for Victualling,
Somerset-place, 14th July, 1858.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on THIIIISDAT,
the 12th August Lest, at Half•past One o'clock, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores
at Deptford, the undermentioned articles of cloths, &c., for Clothing
and Necessaries for the Royal Marines, viz. :
CLOTHS, &c., for " CLOTKING" ant " NErIESS ARIES."

Width be-' .
itQeuqaunteitd.
Ik
Description of Cloth, Weight. tweet the - Rate.c.
&c.
-- -- --.
per yard inches. yards.
Scarlet cloth (superfine) 1113 2',', ozs 62 50 per yard
„ cloth .. .. llb 10 on 54 900 OP
Red cloth .. .. ,lb 10% ozs 54 22,000 PP
White cloth (superfine) I lb 60 10
„ cloth, No. 1. .. lib 10 ozs 54 900 f t
OP No. 2. .. 'lb 8U ozs 54 1,300 t,
„ kersey .. .. lib 11% ozs 52 13,0)0
Blue cloth (superfine) Ilb 2% ozs 60 30 ••
OP No. 1(wooldyed) Ilb 614 ozs 54 4CO ••
N 0.2 , llb 6g ozs 54 6,000 PP
Oxford mixture esu, er-
fir-e • • • • .. 10% on 28 100 ••
•• mixture llb 9% ozs 54 1,000 Of
~ kersey .. .. 116 101,4 ozs 54 24,00) PI
Duck .. .. .. 9% on. 27 60,000 OP
Ratttnetto .. .. .. 31 50 P,
Shalloon .. .. 35 150
..••
Cotton, No. 1 .. .. .. 35% 5) .1
„ No. 2.. .. .. 35 11000 II
Serge, white .. ~ • • 30% 27,200 PO
Black linen • • • • • • 34 1,500 Pi
Brown holland .. .. 35% 13,600 „
Padding cloth . • • 54 20 ••
C nvass .. .. .. 35% 1 700 ••
Wadding sheets .. • • 200 slits pr.dz. sh
Alpaca • • .. . • • • .. 4yrds per yard
Great coat cloth .. llb 10% ozs 55 11,000 „ , ~

GARNITURE, Scc , for making up Clothing and Necessaries for 1
the Royal Marines.
Description of Garniture, &c. Quantity Rate, &e.
required.
--.—.--- —. --...—,---.
Embroidered badge of merit,inftry 104 iu number each
De. artillery .. .. 14 „ II
o Embroidered win, No. 1, drum
major ••• .. .. • • 4 pairs per pair
Do. No. 2, band sergeant •• 4 „ r,
. 3, bandsmen .. • . 100 „
Drummers' wings, No. 4, infantry 300 „ u
Do. 5, artillery 50 „
Embroidered straps. No. I. eta'
sergeants, infantry .. .. 12 „ n
Do. 2, staff sergeants, artillery 3 ~ $0
Do. 3, infantry, sergeants 600 „ ~
Do. 4, artillery, sergeants •• 150 „
Embroidered crowns, serat.-major 20 hi number each
Embroidered crossed muskets • • 5 „ VI
Gold cord .. .. .. .. . 20 yards per yard
Gold lace . 150 „ Of
Worsted cords, scarlet .. .. 100 pairs per dozen pairs
Silk, scarlet • • .. .. .. 100 skeins per doz. skeins
whiteblack •• .. ......
...... 150108 yards 3 n
~
.. .. .. .. 400 „
gold colour: d • •
ya: per yard..
Braid, black mohair
Buttons, large. 4 holes, for at
sergeant? trowsers .. • • 2 gross per gras
Do., small,-4 hole. do. •• • • 3PP 11,
Do., iron. jail-nine:l, 4 holes .. 1,200 „ n
Do., white metal, 4 boles .. . 1,500 „
P$
Back honks, brass • • • • • • 185 „ 10
Necks and eyes, large • • • • 220 gross (prs) ~ (pairs)
Hooka, small .. .. • • 340 gross per gross
Looping lace, drummers, infantry 1,900 yards per yard
Do. artillery 4 0 „ f 1
Back fringes, drummers, infantry 250 in number each
De. artillery 40 ~ )0
Buttons, tunics, large, infantry.. 1,740 gross per :rose
Do. artillery.. 300 ~ 0,
De. small, jackets, infantry 1,550 „
Do. artillery 220 „ If
per lb.
Thread, ri,,e.dhlt.p.4
bo..va. . .... ..: ,
84000 „
f t lbs
500
Lace,f.ace scarlet,wll litieturnolecske.at.nsdtacyhivirnofan an— 17,0' 03 yards per yard
try, band tunics .. • . .. 6,000 ~ 00
Lace, yellow, tunics and chevrons,
.. .. .. .. 3,000 „
artillery lf
Lace, black, pocket stays, artillery 900 „ PP
Gold cord shoulder knots, school-
master sergeants' frock coats .. 4 pairs per pair
Embrotdered straps, No 5, infantry,
rank and fl'e .. .. .. 11,000 „ ~
D". No. 6, artillery • . .. 2,500 ~ If
Twist, scarlet .. .. .. 300 yards per yard
red .. .. .. .. 17 000 ~ ,f
black .. .. .. 6,000 „ Pt
white 7',0 ~
Way tape .. .. .. .. 7,_2_____Z:__._—.ooo

One-half of each of the several articles to be delivered within
three eaten tar months from the date of contract, and the remainder
within three months afterwards, or earlier If preferred by the ►p trty
enderin,l.
Samples of the several articles may b I seen at the 'Marine Office,
New-street, Spring-gardens, between the hours of one and four
o'clock.
Tenders will be received for the whole or for any portion of the
above quantities.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten-
ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part
thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of
not contracting for any.
No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the
d ty of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on applicat on at
the said office.
It is not required that the party tendering, or an agent on his
behalf, should attend at the office on the day of treaty, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him
and to his proposed sureties in writing.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten •
tion is called, may be se-n at the said office.
Every tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for ," and
must also he dellvere I at Somerset-place.
N.B.—The contract advertised for the sth August is withdrawn.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

No have received by extraordinary express, in
anticipation of the Overland Mail, our usual de-
spatches and papers from. the East. The dates
brought aro Bombay, June 19 ; Madras, Juue 11 ;
and Ca'cutta, June 8. We take from the Bombay
Standard the following excellent summary of
news :

SOUTHERN MAHRATTA. COUNTRY.
Nothing but the extreme prompitude and deei-
skn of our measures has saved the Southern Mah-
ratta country fr:m rebellion. E•►ch successive
effort has been met at once, each budding treachery
nipped before it could bloom, each rising crushed
before treason had acquired strength or consistency
enough to do harm. Two of the great causes of the
otter alienation of the natives which has protracted
our disquietudes, as it threatens to protract them
to infinitude, is the extent of our recent annexe-

tionr, and much more especially the system of our
refusing permission to Hindoo princes to adopt
heirs—a system which scam-ly dates ten years
back, and in the indulgence of which Bombay has
a peculiarly ev.l eminence. By the Blue-book on
the rights of native princes, published in 1849, it
appears that op to that year all interference ou our
part with adoption was repudiated as a thing unjust
in itself, op:osed to all out tatitiez, *hich bound
us to respect native irisfitittione," and in The last
degree inimical to our influence with the people.
Since then we have on this point broken through
every rule which, until then, the Government of
India in all its departments, whether iu Eng-
land or the East, deemed most sacred. The chief
of Nurgoond, a small principality to the eastward
of Dharwar, being without male issue, had peti_
tioned the Bombay Government for permission
to adopt an heir—a privilege, as already stated,
held till within the past ten years inviolable.
Memorial followed memorial, but in vain ;
and then the vindictive Mahratta, disgraced, as
he considered himself to be, in the eyes of his sub-
jects and brother princes, awaited the opportunity
of being avenged. It mast be remembered that,
even up to the present time, a large portion of the
discontented are under the belief that theirs is the
winning cause, and that they have only to per-
severe long enough to be secure of victory. Mr.
Manson, the political agent, having heard that
there was some danger of an outbreak, that the
chief was being tampered with or misled, and was
making preparations for hostilities, resolved to
meet him in person, convince him of his folly, aed
dissuade him of his purposes before he became
finally committed. He accordingly left Belgaum
on the 26th May. They bad been on terms of in-
timacy, and Mr. Manson believed his own personal
influence might be sufficient to avert bloodshed.
On the evening of the 22d he reached Ramdroog.
Having outridden his escort, he was now accom-
panied by a single orderly, and the Ramdroog
chief endeavoured to dissuade him from proceeding
further, his kinsman of Nurgoond being already in
arms, so as to render negotiations hopeless. The
escort having now come up, the unhappy gentle-
man pushed on late in the evening, halting for a
short time at a village betwixt the two places. He
had gone to sleep in his palanquin. He was here
surrounded by about 800 of the Nurgoond rebels,
and when getting out of the palanquin, was mur-
dered ; a number of the escort having at the same
time been killed. The movements of the maloon-

tents had all along been carefully watched, both
from Bellary and Belgaum. From the former
place a Madras force, under Major Hughes, pro-
ceeded northward, defeated the enemy at Kopal,
and captured the strongholi, slaying some of the
chiefs. On the evening of the 31st of May a force
from Dharwar, consisting of two companies of the
74th Highlanders, one company of the 28th Native

Infantry, with two gnus--a howitzer and a -
pounder, commanded by Capt. Paget, of the Royal
Artillery, joined a body of M3.ltratta horse under
Colonel Malcolm, at Noolgooad. On the morning
of the ht June they advanced on Noolgoond, a
strong fortress on the summit of a rock, 800 feet
above the plain, with the town at its .base. The
force having halted, a reconnaissance was made.
The enemy, to the number of from 1,500 to 2,000,
were encamped about a mile outside the village. On
observing our approach they withdrew, but when
they saw our reconoitring patty retiring on the
main force, they believed we had fled, and so ad-
vanced into the plain. The chief, mounted on au

elephant, was compicuoui amongst them, brandish-
ing their-ewords in defiance. Tho MahrNl ta
now advanced in a body, Ulu European artillery
and native iufantry followed. The horse next

charged, and drove the rebels before them into the
town, cutting up about 40. They now halted for
a little till the otli.-r troops came up, and when
about 500 yards from the town our artillery opened.
This distance being considered too great, they went
to within 150 yards, when the practice became
most destructive. The Highlanders and sepo3s
making a considerable dttour to the left, entered
the place by an old gateway, which they found open
and undefended, and by four o'clock the whole
place was ire our hands. We had six men wounded
or scorched by gunpowder—no deaths. The fort
frowning over them had hitherto done nothing but
fire a gun occasionally, which did no harm ; a mo-
derately active enemy in possession of it might
either have kept us from the first at bay, or ren-
dered our position untenable after we had ap-
proached. As we had no moans Of knowing the
strength of the defences, or number, or intentions
of the garrison, Colonel Malcolm considered it
wiser to wait till next morning, his men had had
enough work for one day, and nothing was to be
gained by needless haste. At seven o'clock on the
following morning (2d June) the storming party
proceeded to ascend the steep and rugged pathway
which leads from the plain to the main gate, proposed
to be blown in by powder bags. They approached
unmolested, not a shot was fired nor man seen
on the walls until they were within a few yards
of the gate, when a single head peeped over. The
mau was saluted by a couple of rifles, but without

effect, and he then commenced throwing stones on
the asailants. A fleet Maharatta horseman nO AT
sprung forward from our advance ; ho scaled the
wall in an instant, unbarred the sates, and the as.
sailants were admitted without resistance. Throe
men were found inside.
save
We endeavoured to satisfy
beth sempatrheactL when, not
understanding U 9, in shear themselves up they would
panic they jumped over the wall, and were dashed
to pieces. The Brahmin in charge of the temple
had drowned hinpolf in the. well on our approach.
Nurgoond used to be held famous for its strength,
and had at one time bid defiance to the armies of
Tippo ; it now fell into our hands without a blow
being shuck in its defence. After one day's rest
the victorious troops marched in the dilution of
Gunduck, to co-operate with the Madr,:s dot tell-
' ment,alreadymentioned as advancing from Bellary.
They quickly learnt that Kopal had been taken,
and that all the leaders of the rebellion had either
fallen or were in our hands. The moment the
murder of Mr. Mans:m was heard of at Belgaum,
Mr. Sauter, superintendent of police, with a
mounted party under him, pro,:eeded in quest of
the murderers. The chief, as already stated, had
been sear mounted on an elephant at the head of
his army during Colonel Maleolin's riconnaisance
on the Ist. He seems to have lied early in the
lay, probably as soon as our artillery opened. He
himself, with seven of his principal followers, all o:
erhom had been present at the murder, were first
heard of by Mr. Souter at daybreak on the 2d.
The chase continued till sunset, when they were
Found skulking iu a belt of jungle on the banks of
the Mulpurba, near Ramdroog. The chief, with
six out of seven, were captured just as they
were about to start for Punderpoor. They
were sent to Belgaum, where they were tried
by special oomwitoion, and convicted of rebel-

lion and of murder. On the ) 12th the chief was
ha• god. The neighbouring .16jah of Dumbull
6was blown from a gun; six of his confedrates were
hanged. Thus by determination and activity was a
rising, obviously expected, from the outrage with
which it commenced, to swell out into a great and
general rebellion, crushed. at the outset, and within
a fortnight of the first manifestation of treason
every traitor had psid the pinlalty of his crimes.
The promptitude and vigour of the measures re-
sorted to on the spat, and the intrepidity and skill
with which they ware executed, are beyond all
praise. And yet surely it would have been better
had Mr. Manson still been alive, and the men we
haYe transformed into traitors, and punished as
such, continued our friends and allies, lending
their assistance to put down disorder, and tran-
quililee the country. This, in all probability, they
would have been, had we observed the obligations
to which we are bound by a hundred treaties, to
respect the usages of the country, and avoided that
most obnoxious of all forms of annexation—un-
known till within these dozen of years—that corn-
passad by the refusal of permission to adopt heirs.