The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

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THE WE ATHER—SuN OFFICE, MAY 30.
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35—lowest this morning and during the night,
75—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.12.
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MAT 31.
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60—lowest this morning and during the night.
74 —this day at noon.
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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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flying rebels. But, unfortunately, there was a
partial failure. Although Lucknow was captured,
and the British flag floated over th 3 rebels'
stronghold, one link in the chain was defective—
one meshe in the elaborate net work broken. Sir
Ross was prevented from taking up his
assigned position at the proper time, by insuper-
able obstacles. The state of affairs at Jhansi pre-
vented his advance, and there was consequently a
loophole for escape, of which the rebels largely
availed themselves. The great body of the in-
surgents fled from before their then conquerors, but
can still maintain a guerilla warfare that
may occasion much trouble and lead to
the loss of many valuable lives. Should the
fugitives be encouraged by the discontented
tAlookdars and zemindars, driven to desperation
by the confiscation proclamation, it would be diffi-
cult to predict where the matter would terminate.
We have had some repulses. The first attack
on the Fort of Rowas failed, and Brigadier AD-
RIAN Hoe;, whose name had previously acquired
high distinction was killed. It is, however, satis-
factory to know that the rebels subsequently
abandoned their position, and our troops were
, enabled to move forward. A small force under
Captain La GRIND seems to have fallen into a
trap. The party which had advanced from Azztn
followed, perhaps imprudently, the enemy into
the jungle, and 133 men and 3 officers, including
the commander were killed.

In addition, we learn that Body was taken by
General WHITELOCIE on the 19th April, after an
engagement in which the enemy lost 500 men and
4 guns. Sir H. Rosa left Jhansi on the 27th, and
expected, first, to be joined by Gen. WHITELOCK,
and then to fight the Ranee's army, 12,000
strong, encamped at Koouchin, advance of Calpee.
The Kotah force has gone into quarters, with
the exception of a small brigade ordered to pro-
ceed to Sir H. ROSE'S rear. General PENNY is
moving now from the Ganges to assail Calpee from
the East. Brigadier Joszis, of the 60th Rifles,
has been successful in reaching Moradabad on the
25th April, after three actions, and the capture
of Rujeedabad and Nujeena.
Sir WILLIAM PEEL is also dead ! That truly
gallant officer has fallen a victim to small-pox.
He had established for himself a high reputa-
tion. The community had fully acquiesced
in the well-merited honours that had been
bestowed on him. He was a true hero,
and his name will be remembered through ages
as the worthy coadjutor and efficient auxiliary of
lievELocx and OUTE,AM. We do not say "we
could have better spared a batter man," for it
would be difficult to find one more deserving of
the national gratitude than the hero who has just
been deposited in his last resting-place. There
was nothing but the imperative sense of duty to
urge him onward. He had an ample fortune—
had won high honours, and could not obtain a
single step on the lad ler of promotion by any
triumph, however brilliant. But still he fought add
cmquered, and has left a name that will long
be enshrined in the memories of his countrymen.
His loss alone more than counterbalances the suc-
cesses reeorded in another part of our impression,
and truly and sincerely we sympathise with his
bereaved family. It would have been more
factory had he fallen on the ensanguined field ;
but his end is not the less glorious, nor will his
melancholy fate be the less lamented.

What a land of steady growth, yet of the
strangest out-comings of human caprice, is the
United States. Hardly half a century cad as an
independent Power, they have so ovettpped
everything in. the Now World, that if ArnetilTa
spoken of we at once understand the Union.
While the States, which are but fragments of the
vast Spanish domains of the centre and South, are
waning, and preparing themselves by ceasele,s
political changes for absorption into the Great
Republic, the latter, especially its Northern and
Western part, is rapidly, almost portentously,
advancing in population, territorial extent, and
commercial vigour. New States, like Kansas and
Minesota, as big as large kingdoms, are every now
and then added to the Federation ; and even
Canada, the Great Britain of the North American
continent, has been content, till quite lately, to let
the pushing Republic walk the course.

This vigorous growth, however, seems to be
attended by all its natural concomitants. There
is a strange mixture of laddish swagger, which
all naturally forgive to an overgrown lad-empire,
with the cunning of an acute lawyer or money-
lender of forty or fifty. But there are, also, all
kinds of freaks of social and individual fancy. Not
long ago her filibusters in Cuba and Nicaragua
were bearding not only the weak Powers of those
countries, but defying the opinion of all Europe.
Her Mormons have for some years been the most
remarkable instance in the modern world of the
success of a half Mahomedan, half Jewish poli-
tical and religious organisation, attracting in large
numbers votaries to the absurdest of impostures,
and inspiring them with an energy which makes
them of political consequence in the States, and
renders them no contemptible antagonists for such
an army as the Union can send across the deserts
and prairies which separate Utah from the great
body of the States.
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A monster commercial crisis, a monster fight
for slavery and free soil, and a monster re-
vival of religion, are among the very recent
events in the States—the latter being still in
active progress. The monster Kansas iniquity is
probably as great a piece of villany as ever was
perpetrated by Legislators and a President iu the
facie of a civilised community the territory
settled by freemen was first attempted to be seized
by Border ruffitns in the interest of slave-holders;
the late forgotten President egged them on, and en-
abled them by open violence to seize the Govern-
ment, and enact laws giving all power to pledged
pro-slavery men only ; the famous, or rather in-
famous, Lecompton Convention and Constitution,
were the offspring of all this, as the Topeka Con-
stitution was of the bona fide settlers, who refuse I
to be bound by the atrocious seoundrelism patron-
ised by slave-holders and their President at
Washington. BUCHANAN himself got the Chair
by a discreet but treacherous silence as to the
course he should pursue in Kansas. Eventually,
the Lecompton or Slavery Constitution collies
before Congress. The opposition is strong and
lone, against such glaring unrighteousness ; but it
was nearly balanced by the slavery votes iu the
Lower House ; and the Upper House, like moat
Upper Houses, was the stronghold of every abuse.
Withtbe irnmensepowers of corruption in the hands
of an American President, plwers used as un
scrupulously as they were by our WALPOLES of a
past age, Mr. BUCHANAN found means to pass a
cunning, yet audacious b 11. Instead of devising
measures for honesty taking the sense of the t -
ritory, one of his creatures, a Mr. ENGListr,
arranged a compromise, which was, in reality.
one purely in the interests of slavery. Under it,
if Kansas would accept the Lecompton Coustit,i-
tiois, and come iu now as a slave state, she was to
be rewarded with five millions additional acres of
territory, as well as immediate independent pol-
tical existence. If she would not, she must.
remain a oaere territory several years lotwer, till
the population reaches 93,000, it bein,, now

THE SUN, LONDON, MON DAY EVENING,

about half that number ; and by that time the
slave-holders calculate on adding one or more new
slave states, by taking a slice or two from Mexico!
Even should the Kansas free-soilers refuse the
disgraceful bribe, and elect to remain a territory,
the slavery men will have gained time to balance
their power afresh by creation of new slave states.
Parallel with this political monstrosity, we read
in all the American papers, secular and daily,
as well as religious papers, long accounts of
a monster religious revival. The weekly edi
tion of the New York Tribune, the paper of the
largest daily circulation in the States, and edited
by the well-known HORACE GREELY, is now before
us. The number for the 3rd of April, eight
pages of forty-eight columns, is entirely devoted
to a kind of history of the movement, and of its
actual character throughout the country. Mr.
GREELY speaks respectfully of it, although it is
in opposition to his own religious sentiments, as
he is a Universalist, we are told, and the revival
is almost confined to what are termed evangelical
denominations. It is, he states, pretty nearly
confined to the Free States, having hardly pene-
trated the Slave States at all ; a circumstance,
doubtless, in its favour. He appears to lean to
the opinion that the commercial reverses of last
Fall, and the bitter disappointment about Kansas,
disposed mem' minds to turn to religion as a
counterpoise. It commenced in New York.
There has been, we are told, no mani-
festation of extravagance, nothing which
even an English clergyman, who :writes on the
subject, could notice as the least violation of pro-
priety and order. There were no monster, no
"fire and brimstone" preachers. Indeed, it be-
gan with the laity, the business men of the city,
.the class parallel with our men of 'Change,
arranging to hold a prayer-meeting for one hour,
in the very midst of business hours Aud these
meetings are wholly unsectarian, and unclerioal,
and, under the name of Union Prayer-meetings,
have spread all over the Union. " The Revival
--says the Tribune of the 3d of April—has
passed, and is still passing over the country like
a wave ; the existence of an unusual religiose in-
terest is recognised and acknowledged in almost
every town, village, and district throughout the
entire Northern and Western States." " The
excitement of a Presidential canvass could hardly
call forth more general interest or more active
participation !"
Englishmen will be naturally inclined to ask—
and what about slavery ? Do the Revivalists
show marked symptoms of penitence for their
great national sin ? Have they learned to
regard coloured people as brother men ? Do
they still drive them out of the white man's omni-
bus, and steamboat saloon, and still drive them
into a negro pew, or into a separate church for
coloured men ? At the " Union Prayer-meetings"
are petitions heard for the emancipation of the
slave, and confessions heard of national guilt for
the most horrible form of slavery ever heard of iu
Heathendom, Judaism, or Christendom ? TVs
shall never believe, on this side the Atlantic, in
the reality of any general religious movement in
the States which does not emancipate the slave.
On this aubject Mr. GREELY'S paper gives us little
Information. " President BUCHANAN, and four
millions in chains," are, it says, daily prayed for
in a coloured church. 0.,e or two letters by
fugitive slaves were read, requesting thanksgivings
for escape to New York, and prayer for their
" complete deliverance from the power of the
manhunter 1" But, one coloured man writes to
the Tribune, that he and a oolittired woman were
asked to go into a separate. room, and hold a ser-
vice sepirately from the white sinners who
were praying for conversion ! We notice, however,
that the religious organisations in America are
splitting on the question of slavery. The Metho-
dists, Baptists, and Presbyterians are already dis-
organised by it, and the Northern churches are re-
fusing association with those of the South. The
American Tract Society—one of the oldest and
richest of the religious societies—is quite divided ;
the Northern divines maintaining that as slavery
is a sin, religious tracts must denounce it ; the
Southern Reverends demanding expurgated tracts
for their Slave States ! To us Englishmen, it
seems that as Christianity, in every form in civi-
lised Europe, has broken the fetters of the slave,
so the Christianity of America is unworthy of the
name of civilised Christianity unless it does the
same. As to revival of religion, we are confident
that it must be a very earthly revival—a revival
of which the Exchange and the "Almighty dollar"
are the inspiration, unless it cast out the demon
of Slavery. That will be our best. If it crush
shvery, we shall believe that it came from Heaven.
If it uphold it, or pass by on the other side, it
comes not from Rim who gave us the parable of
the good Samaritan.

I, A:TEST NEWS.

The following Telegram from ber Majesty's
Acting Consul-General in Egypt was received at
the Foreign-, face, May 30, at 9 p.m. :
ALEXANDRIA, MAY 26, 1858.
The steamer Ganges arrived at Suez yesterday
with Bombay dates to the 9th instant.
General Walpole, with the heavy column from
Lucknow, reached Futtehghur on the 27th April,
where lie was met by the Commander-in-Chief.
Three other columns are to join as they advance
OD Bareilly, which is expected to be invested about
the 10th instant.

General Walpole's Division, on the 15th April,
made au unsuccessful attack on the Fort of Rowas,
which was attended with considerable loss—four
officers, including Brigadier Adrian Hope, and
about a hundred men, having fallen. Our troops
were obliged to retire, but the enemy evacuated
the Fort in the night, and the column moved
for ward.

On the 22d, a large body of rebels was en-
countered opposite Kanoujs, and was dispersed
with loss of four guns, their
camp, and 500 or
600 killed.

Kooer Sing, with about 2,000 rebels, although
hotly pursued by Brigadier Douglas, crossed the
Ganges on the sth April, and arrived at Jugdes-
pore on 22d.
On the following day, a force of 300 men under
Capt. Lagrand, which advanced from Arrab,
having followed the enemy into the jungle, was
defeated; 133 men and 3 officers killed.
Body was taken by Geii. Whitelock on the
19th April, after an engagement in which the
enemy lost 500 men and 4 guns.
Sir H. Rose left Jhansi on the 27th, and ex-
pected, first to be joined by General Whitelock,
and then to fight the Ranees army, 12,000 strong,
encamped at Koouchin, advance of Calpee.
The Kotah force has gone into quarters, with
the exception of a small brigade ordered to pre-
cede Sir H. Rose's rear.

Gen. Penny is moving now from the Ganges
to assail Calpee from the East.
Brigadier Johns, of the GOth Rifles, has been
successful in reaching Moradad on the 25th April,
after three actions, and the capture of Rujeedabad

and Nujeena.
Sir W. Peel died at Cawnpore, on 27th April,
of small p( 's.

GREEN.
This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexan-
dria by steamer " Euxine," at 7'46 a.m.
Malta, May 30. G. S.

EAST INDIA-HOUSE DESPATCHES.
The following message, dated " Malta," has
been received at the India-house :

"To J. D. DICKINSON, ESQ., EAST INDIA-HOUSE.
"Matters appear to be progressing satisfactorily
in Oude. A number of princiwil Talookdars have
made their submission to the Chief Commissioner,
either personally or by their representatives, and
the settlement of the country around Lucknow is
being rapidly made.

" The rebel Moulvia and the mother of the
puppet-King are said to have abandoned Dat-
sowlil (?) where they had taken refuge, and to have
fled - into the Baraeta Pergunnah, beyond th©
G ogra.
" The main body of tho Ghoorkas is proceeding
to Nepaul, via Fyzlbad, which is held by Mauu
Sing, with 2,000 men and two guns, and the
Ghoorkas do not expect any opposition. Jung
Bahadoor, with Ida body-guard, has already
passed through Corral-pore.
" BEN..OZES

"Sir E. Lugar.l reached - Azimghur on the
15th, and the rebels were driven out of the city
on the 17th. They fled in several parties to-
wards the Gogra and Ganges, and the pursuing
columns captured several guns and much ammu-
nition and baggage, abandoned by the rebels in
their flight. Koeer Sing, assisted by the villa-
gers, outstripped Brigadier Douglas, who was
pursuing him, and, crossing the Ganges at Shah-
poor on the fist, made for Rughdespoor. His
subsequent proceedings will be noticed under the
head of Bengal.
"An action with the rebels under Mahomed
Hosein and Colonel Rowcroft's force took place
near Amorlia, in the Goruckpore District, on the
17th of -Apia. The enemy were defeated, and
pursued to their intrenchment, losing one gun and
about 100 mon. The Yeomanry Cavalry be-
haved exceedingly well. Their loss was Cornet
Troup and one private killed, four officers and 17
men wounded.