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

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-, 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 1
by the majority of our readers, we gave insertion
to a very remarkable communication recently ad-
dressed by her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary o
State for the Colonies to the Governor-General
(HAMILTON) of the Leeward Islands—a docuraent
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 rea-
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 received 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
I 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 unprecedented,_Sir EDWARD continues,
" On reference to the records of past years I have
observed that in many of the West Indian cola
nies local corps wereestablished, 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 case 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
the worthy son, in many respects, of a most worthy
sire—a true son of the Sultan MAHMOUD, the suc-
cessor of SELIM. 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 these 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 Foreigner—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-
SCHID PACHA being carried to his tomb but just
immediately prior to Lord STRATFORD'S return to
his long-vacated seat inthe House of Lords. Pre-
cisely upon the morrow of those two most impor-
tant-events in the History of Turkey, the enormous
pecuniary liabilities entailed upon the Porte
by the expenditure inevitable upon the prosecution
of the late war,-a war raging during so many

months within tt to limits of its own European and
Asiatic frontier s--game down with one fell swoop
upon the SULV.AN .for ultirtiato liquidation. An
almost fatal necessity is thereupon at once apparent
hraising yet r.,nother loan—a third loan
withinta ta of
N -eryconicracted interval—a supplemen-
tary loan, requiring to be paid before the other
two ei:mbursed. This threatening, as
its
inevitablehave been r
consequence, an economy to which
ae
the creatures of the court are unaccus-
tomed—nur.ours are at once afloat, as to the
ro or, at any rate, the possibility, of
another ili
of those
infamous conspiracies with which
pannbabe t ,f,
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
MAUMOUD. 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 Rev. 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. n Committee-room at the House of Commons. All
persona 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 Ootatamund on the Neilgherry
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 hills 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
nowlturned. 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 Nam 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 it eight o'clock yesterday morning the Right
Honourable the Governor was progressing favourably.
Bombay Ga:ette.
DEATH OF MR. POTBURY, AT LIVERPOOL.—

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.—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 thas
death had not been caused by the deceased's falling
into the quarry, but that asphyxia had preceded
death. :Mr. M'lntyre was 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 to 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
belonging 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
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 tmexpectedly 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 himself not a
little disconcerted. What was to be done ? According to
our informant, 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 asecond time the same
string of duly prepared questions, only stopping shoat 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 ponds (96 tons), all of
which was destined for the army of the Caucasus.
ANOTHER NEW PLANET.—M. Babillet, of the
Inititute, 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
the
eoft
discoveredl bo
yr
its right ascension was 38m. 425., and the southern
dleletblinamatigonin
magnitude. If
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M. Goldschmidt, and is the fourth discovered in the course
6lf is min.the It
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planet

of the present year.
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
worknien ; 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 andikiiiihaltsen,llsinessisrather 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 LIVERPOOL.—A posse of Liverpool detectives
entered notorious betting house in Elliot-street, and cap-
tured a large number of gamblers, and turf swindlers, who
it is understood will be
the
against by the authorities.
In illustration of fhe extraordinary abundance of
money in the Stock Exchange, we may. mention that a sum
of £30,000 was lent yesterday for a fortnight on seowitY Pf
ki. 611 Guaranteed Four Tler Cent, 6tock at the low rate
of It per cent. per =MUD.