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London, England, 1858-09-20 00:00:00

been appeased. There is no desire for hoarding
specie. Anything that possesses the purchasing
power, that can satisfy the demands of the tax-
gatherer, the rate-collector, the landlord, butcher,
or baker, will be sufficient. This, then, is the time
to shake off the incubus that has so long oppressed
the country—the " old man of the sea," that has
paralysed the energies of the modern SINBAD—a
change that would be hailed with cordial approbation
by every disinterested and unprejudiced person when
there was no difficulty or distress, could not possi-
bly be introduced at a season of distrust and panic.
The introduction of really national notes, recover-
able in payment of every duty, tax, and liability,
and of convenient denominations, would be just as
beneficial to the country as if an equal amount of
bullion had been dug up in the heart of England.
This is, or at least was, the doctrine of Mr. JAMES
WILSON, and yet he has been an assenting party to
the report of the Bank Committee to which we
have already directed public attention.

The despicable cowardice of the rebel forces in
Hindostan has been apparent from the very com-
mencement. Their atrocities were perpetrated at
the outset upon the most weak and the most help-
less—upon those who were the least capable of re-
sistance. Their swords were brandished against
women and children. A single officer was cut
down here and there when effectually surrounded
by a mob of insurgents. Wherever a few faithful
soldiers could be collected together under the lead
of ast English gentleman—whether a member of
the civil service, or a wearer of the QUEEN'S or the
Company's epaulettes—it was in its effect upon the
dastardly Sepoy multitude like the 'explosion of a
bombshell. The swarms of murderers were scat-

tered by the small but terrible apparition. Vent
geance was emblazoned upon the banner of every
British Regiment. Humanity, justice, right, truth,
all lent their aid to strengthen the arm of every
avenger of the murdered innocents. Hence it was
literally as the advance of a little life-boat through
the 'terrors of a tempestuous sea 'when General

HAVELOCK advanced with his little band of heroes,

and struggled on through that wilderness of rebe,
lion to the wreck foundering in the distance—the
beleaguered garrison of Lucknow. Had the rebel
army possessed anything like an ordinary amount
of courage they might have readily made such a
stand against that comparatively (numerically)
insignificant Forlorn Hope under Sir HENRY
HAVELOCK, that they might, by the sheer force of
an enormous preponderance, have held it at bay, if
they could not actually have expelled it or doomed
it to annihilation. Instead of which history
will tell the glorious sequel—the survivors of
Lucknow cut their way like a flaming thunderbolt
through that multitude of insurgents right on to
their remote destination. A handful of British
troops proved more than a match for a host of
Sepoy rebels. To speak thus is to give utterance
to no idle vaunting—it is merely to record a fact
that has been again and again reiterated. Addi-
tional testimony of this has been afforded by every
mail arrived from Calcutta—the latest evidence
being by no means the least remarkable.
MAUN SING is besieged in his fortress at Shah-
gunge, in the vicinity of Fyzabad. General Sir
HUGH GRANT, with a little phalanx of no
more than 3,500 English soldiers, sets forth
for the relief of that distant fortress—then sur-
rounded by a rebel army nearly 50,000 strong—an
army consisting of 8,000 cavalry and 40,000 infan-
try, 10,000 of the latter being Sepoys. While
GRANT'S force is yet fourteen miles from Shah-
gunge, the army of 50,000 insurgents breaks up into
three divisions, and retreats precipitately. A
correspondent at Lucknow writes—" The rebels at
Durreabad, 10,000 strong, melted into particles on
our approach.* It has been the same everywhere
in that miserable scene of rebellion. Nowhere in
Bengal have the rebels proved other than the
meanest curs when opposed to the merest handful
of the troops of the Company or of the Sovereign.
Yet even now the most cruel of all the chiefs of the
insurrection, NANA SAHIB, evades our grasp, having,
according to the latest accounts, retreated with a
considerable force, with no more, however, than
four pieces of ordnance, safely and effectually
within the Nepaul territories. The capture of this
nhum an wretch would, without doubt, be better
(with a view to the crushing out of the scattered
flames of the rebellion) than the relit of another
army of insurgents. It is earnestly to be hoped
that justic€ will yet track him, and that speedily,
beyond the frontiers of Nepaul. When he remains
no longer at large we may hope, but not previously,
to hear of the triumphal close of Lord CLYDE'S
campaign for the putting down of the Sepoy Re-
bellion.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BAL3IORAL, SEPT. 16,

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, attended by the Earl of Derby, Lady
Churchill, and Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey,
drone to Mar-lodge.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out deer-
stalking.

The royal dinner party included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Lord and Lady James Murray, Miss
Victoria Stuart Wortley, and Dr. Robertson.

SEPT.

Her Majesty the Queen drove with her Royal Highness
Princess Helena and his Royal Highness Prince Arthur,
accompanied by Lady Churchill.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort and his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales went out shooting, attended
by Lord James Murray, Licut-Colonel Ponsonby, and
Major Teesdale.
Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, had the
honour of receiving invitations to dinner in the evening.

Mr. Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, attache
to her Majesty's Mission at Mexico, has been appointed
attache at Berlin.
DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MIILS.—LIVERPOOL.—
The British and North American mail steamship Arabia
sailed on Saturday with 90 passengers, a full cargo, and the
mails for the United States. On Wednesday next the
Canadian packet Nova Scotian sails for Quebec with the
Canadian and North American mails. The box at the post-
ofilce closes at 8.45 a.m. On Saturday next the royal mail
steamer Canada leaves for Boston with the American maiis.
The box at the post-office closes at 7.30 a.m., with a late fee
at 8.30 a.m., and at the landing at 9.30 a.m.
THE CHINESE TREATY.—The Hon. F. -W. A.
Bruce' brother of his Excellency the Earl of Elgin, the
bearer of the treaty between this country and the Emperor
of China, arrived in town on Saturday from Marseilles and
China. The hon. gentleman, immediately after his arrival,
waited on the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Seymour Fitz-
gerald, M.P., at the Foreign-office, and had an interview.
A few hours later the Hon. Mr. Bruce left town for Knowes-
ley-park, Lancashire to meet the Earl of Derby, who was
expected to arrive there on Saturday from attendance on
the Queen at Balmoral.
RISE IN THE RENT OF SALMON FISIIINGS,—On
Friday last the fishings on the Tay, belonging to the Earl
of Wemyss, were let by public roup, and brought £2,474 of
annual rent ; last year's rental was £2,107, making a rise of
£367. His lordship's fishings in the Earn brought £166 ;
last year they were £l2l. Lord Gray's fishings have also
been let privately, we understand, at a rise of from three to
four hundred pounds. The rental of the salmon fishing on
the Tay has risen as much as fourteen or fifteen hundred
pounds above last year's rent. It is certainly a great rise,
but the alteration of the close time gives hope of a good
spring fishing as the river is at present swarming with
salmon.—Rdiniergh Express.
DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—On Friday
a corpulent gentleman left London by the 2.30 a.m. train
on the London and North-Western Railway. He was then
in his usual health, appeared quite well, and conversed
freely with his fellow-passengers until the train was a few
miles from the station at Atherstone, when he was observed
to droop his head on his shoulder, and almost immediately
afterwards he expired. Tho body was removed from the
carriage on the arrival of the train at Atherstone, where it
awaits a coroner's inquest. At present nothing is known
either of his residence or name, but in his pockets was found
chiefly in gold.—Manchester Guardian.
nearly £2O
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