The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIN-G, MAY
_2B, 1858.

SUMMER CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.

Yesterday the judges of the Courts of Queen's
Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, assembled
in the Exchequer Chamber for the purpose of
choosing and arranging the several circuits upon
which they will respectively proeeed to hold the
ensuing assize of cyer and terminer and general
gaol delivery in and for the several counties in
England and Wales. The following are the arrange-
meats made :

HOME CIRCUIT.—Judges : Mr. Justice Wines
and Mr. Baron Bramwell, Assizes to be holden at
Hertford, Chelmsford, Croydon, Maidstone, and
Lewes.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Judges : Lord Campbell,
Lord Chief Justice of England. Mr. Justice Wight-
man. Assizes to be holden at Aylesbury, Bedford,
Huntingdon, Cambridge, Ipswich, Norwich and
City.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Judges : Sir Alexander
Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, and Mr. Justice Williams. Assizes to be
holden at Northampton, Leicester, Oakham, Lin-
coln-over-the-Heath, Nottingham, Derby, and
Warwick.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Judges : The Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Frederick Pollock,
and Mr. Baron Martin. Assizes to be holden at
Lancaster, Appleby, Carlisle, Newcastle, Durham,
York, and Liverpool.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Judges : Mr. Baron Wat-
son and Mr. Baron Channel'. Assizes to be holden
at Winchester, Devizes, Dorchester, Exeter, Bod-
min, Wells, and Bristol.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Judges : Mr. Justice Cole-
ridge (or Mr. Hugh Hill) and Mr. Justice Byles.
Assizes to be holden at Abingdon, Oxford, Wor-
cester, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Monmouth,
and Gloucester.
NORTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.—Judge
Mr. Justice Crowder, Assizes to be holden at New-
town, Dolgelty, Carnarvon, Beaumaris, Ruthin,
Mold, and Chester.
SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER CIRCUIT.—Judge :
Mr. Justice Crompton. Assizes to be holden at
Cardiff, Haverford west, Cardigan, Carmarthen,
Brecon, Presteign, and Chester.
Mr. Justice Erle remains iu town as vacation
judge.

BRADSHAW'S RAILWAY AND STEAM NAVIGATION
GIIIDE.—The new edition of Bradshaw contains several
improvements which renders the publication so complete
in all its details as to be as easy and ready of reference
to the inexperienced railway traveller as a work of such
magnitude ca❑ possibly be made. The map now em-
braces the whole of the United Kingdom, and shows
in a clear and distinct form every line of railway in
Great Britain and Ireland. The classification of rail-
ways is drawn up on entirely new plan, and the
unique index to towns is now so arranged as to avoid
unnecessary repetition of reference when the same place
is referred to in several pages. The key to the general
arrangement and plan of the Guide is a most welcome
and convenient addition, by coniult.ng which the travel-
ler will be greatly facilitated in his references to the
publication. Another important improvement is the
introduction of an abridged time and fare table of all
the great lines of railway. They embrace all the prin-
cipal towns, and precede the usual ordinary time tables
of the Guide. By them the public are enabled to see at
a glance the departure and arrival of the trains, with
the fares, between all the most important places in
the kingdom. In every page of the Guide it is evident
that the greatest care and vigilance bas been exercised
to simplify every reference and to lender the work as
complete as possible.
A NOVEL DOG KENNEL.—One day tact week (says a
correspondent of the Birmingham Daily Post) we were
much amused by observing a contretemps which hap-
pened to a lady. According to the fashion of the pre-
sent day she wore a tremendous display of crinoline.
She was accompanied by "a duck of a dog," and the
frolicxorne dear popped and frisked about as little dogs
do, until at length he popped under the crinoline, and
there, despite her efforts to dial dgs him from his snug
abode, he remained for several minutes. The lady
blushed and looked angry at the curious predicament she
was in, the passers by smiled at the incident, but we of
course were not so rude as to wait the denouement of
the affair,

REMEDY FOR TYPHUS FEVER.—In 1845, Dr. Chew,
of Baltimore, first tried the chlorate of potash in typhus
fever, and with extraordinary success, having only lost
two patients out of 72. His formula was : chlorate of
potash, 4 grammes ; bi carbonate of soda and gum of
acacia, 8 grammes of each ; water 250 grammes ; a
table-spoonful of the mixture to in administered every
taco hours, until the period of convalescence had com-
menced. Last year, Dr. Bellentani, of Ouarville (Eure-
et-Loir), obtained similar results by administering in the
beginning 2 grammes per day in a mixture of 60 grammes
of gum•watcr and 40 of syrup of lemons, and increasing
the ehlorate by one gramme every second day. The
drink of the patient cooei-ted in some cooling decoction,
and cftener still, in an abundant supply of pars cold
water ; an enema of cold water was moreover adminis-
tered once a day, besides cold applications on the abdo-
men of a solution of 30 grammes of chlorate of potash
and 10 of hydrochloric acid in 1,000 grammes of water.
The Abcille Medicale now publishes certain observations
made by Dr. Taliaferro, of Atlanta, in Georgia, on the
&eta of this new remedy. Having lived for several years
in a locality where the typhus fever is endemic, he had
ample opportunities for experimenting on the subject,
and it will be remarked that the doses he administers
are much larger than those of his predecessors. He,
moreover, adds a smell quantity of tincture of weratrum,
viride to the chlorate as a sedative ; his formula being :
Chlorate of potash, 120 grammes ; tincture of veratrurn,
2 grammes ; a table-spoonful of the mixture every three
hours during the day, arid a dose of opium in the even-
ing. Tha result is a speedy abatement of the most alarm-
ing symptoms, no delirium in most cases, and great miti-
gation cf nervous irritation. Convalescence begins at the
end of about a foi Wight. Dr. Taliaferro allows his pa-
tients some food and wine during the whole period of the
disord.r.

A REMEDY FOR CHRONIC CORYZA.—Dr. Soubrier, of
Bruyeres (Seine-et-Oise), recommends the following
powder as a certain curd for this affection of the nose,
which, when chronic, is extremely inconvenient, offen-
sive, ansi difficult to remove. Four grammes of subni-
trate of bismuth, mixed with six or eight grammes of
powdered liquorice, may be taken as snuff, at the rate of
10 or 12 pi❑ches a day, until the cure is effected. Some-
times from 30 to 40 centigrammes of the indide of sul-
phur are added to the above dose, to increase its activity.
This powder pe❑etrat.es into all the irregular cavities of
the nostrils, promotes the secretion of mucus, prevents
the rartial decomposition it undergoes in consequence
of a prolonged stay in the nostrils, and ultimately re-
duces the secretion of the mucus membrance to its
ordinary proporti.n. Should the membrane, by an
excessive use of the powder, become dry and irritable, a
little fresh butter may be introduced icto the nostrils,
and the powder discontinued. It may be added that the
latter has an agreeable smell, and is perfectly innocuous.
ALPHABET OF PROVERBS.—A grain of prude❑ce is

worth a pound of craft. Boaster; are cousins to liars.
Cmfession of a fault makes half amends. Denying a
fault doubles it. Envy shooteth at others and woundeth
herself. Foolish fear doubles danger. God reaches
good things by our hands. He has hard work who has
nothing ts do. It costs more to revenge wrongs than to
bear them. Knavery is the worst trade. Learning
makes a man fit company for himself. Modesty is a
guard to virtue. Not to hear conscience is the way to
silence it. Proud looks make foul work in fair faces.
Quiet conscience gives quiet sleep. Richest is he that
wan's least. Small faults indulged are little thieves that
let in greater. The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
Upright walking is sure walking. Virtue and happi-
ness aro mother and daughter. Wise men make more
opportunities than they find. You never lose by doing
a good turn. Zeal without knowledge is without light.
Tae GOLD IN VANOOuvED'S ISLAND.—We learn from
advices via ayinpia, United States, that a gentleman
who bad arrived there direct from Victoria, Vancouver's
Island, represents the speciroeue of gold found in the
Fraser River district as being quite coarse ; one piece,
weighed in his presence, was worth a fraction over 12
dole. He also states that from 5 dole, to 15 dole. and
20 dole, a day had been washed out, but thinks that
there are more miners whose average product is
under 8 dole. per day than above that amount. The
Hudson's Bay Company's steamer Beaver, recently
arrived at Victoria from Forts Hope and Langley,
brought 16.bs. of gold dust that had been traded
from the miners on Fraser's and Thompson'; Rivera.
&veva! private parcels were sent down fur the purchase
of supplies, mining tools, &c. Nearly all the half-breeds
and French, together with many other residents on Van-
couver's Island, were in the gold region, and it is thought
there were already there, and en route, frOm 600 to 800
persons. The northern portion of Washington territory
was becoming well-nigh deserted. The lumbering esta.•
blishinents on the waters of Puget Sound find it ex-
tremely difficult to keep in operation, owing to the num-
ber of hands that had left and were constantly leaving
for the north.—Canadian New;.
THE IRON AND COAL TRADES.—We have this week
to report a 'till further improvement in the tone of the
iron trade, and some good orders have been received in
the district. Not only so, but the accounts from Ame-
rica are of a more cheering character. Messrs. Naylor,
Vickers, and Co., of Sheffield and Liverpool, who sus-
pended payments in November last, have announced
their intention, owing to favourable advices from Ame-
rica, of at once resuming payments, instead of allowing,
as arranged, their liabilities (as far as their settlement
was concerned) to extend to next year. Another large
American merchant has received remittances from
thence, which far more than cover his account, and he
is of opinion that in the course of a month, or two at the
farthest, some good orders will be received from Ame-
rica ; and the manner in which their indebtedness to
the merchants in this country is being settled imparts a
brightening pro: ect as to the future. In South Wales
things are assuming a much better aspect ; the docks
begin to he full of shipping, and at the present time
large quantities of railway iron are being sent away.
It is hoped that the very perceptible alteration in the
trade which has recently taken place will be continued,
and that we shall not relapse again into a quiescent
state, which has been the ca'e of late after our hopes
have been excited. Former signs of activity have been
regarded as omens of prosperity, but these expectations
have not teen realised. Now, however, the fact cannot
be controverted that the prospects in America are daily
becoming more hopeful, and ere long we expect to be
benefited to a greater or less extent, as the stocks in
that country are very bare. The coal trade is rather in-
clined to- langour, but with few exceptions prices remain
unaltered. Stone, the yield of the district, continues in
god demand at our last quotations.—Wolrerhampton
Chronicle.
THE Icxw PAUL VERONESE IN THE NATIONAL GAL-
LERY.—" This fastidious Roman expressed also his an-
noyance at the inaccuracy of the costume, in Paul's fine
picture of the Family of Darius presented to Alex•
ander,' and lamented that so admirable a work should
have been blemished by this gross anachronism. You
are, doubtless, well acquainted with a painting which
belongs to a branch of your family. It may be truly
called the triumph of colouring ; and certainly more
harmony, splendour, and loveliness, never met together
in one picture. To these merits must be added the truth
of charsc'er which prevails inall the heads, most of which
are psrtraits. Forget for a moment that the incident is
borrowed from ancient story ; imagine it the victory of
a her) of the sixteenth century, and the paintiog
becomes, in al respects, a masterpiece. The archi-
tecture, in the background, gives a tone to the wt- ole ;
but it required the delicate outlines and the exquisite
perception of harmonious c goofing which distinguish
Pa 1 Veronese, to give relief and contrast to the
figures awl draperies on so light a ground. The pyra-
midal group, formed by an old man and f ur female
figures, is superlatively lovely ; the countenances won
derfully expressive, and sparkling with animation.
The head of Alexander is beautiful, but deficient in
masculine firmness, and more adapted to charm the
softer sex than to awe the world ; while the nobler
features of Parmenio exhibit a strength of charac er
finely contrasted with the more feminine graces of the
royal conqueror, and his yellow drapery is admirably
folded and coloured. How exquisitely finished, toe, Is
the long and beautiful y braided flaxen hair of the
Persian Princesses ! And what a host of figures In his
noble picture, inot,t of them the size of life, as in the
'Nuptials of Cana I' Certainly, this painting is nearly
unrivalled in close fidelity to nature ; and in the truth
and splendour of its co oaring, it yields only to that
triumphant specimen of Venetian art in the Scuola della
Carita, Titian's Presentation of Vie Virgin in t 1 e
Temple." Tne:;e tNo pictures will ling maintain their
glorioussupremacy, and will probably never be surpassed.
This painter's violation of costume is, in fact, only a
defect in the eyes of antiquarians. The great mass of
society overtook it, and care only for what gratifies the
eye and the imagination. Nevertheless, I would re-
commend to artists generally the avoidance of subjects
Lorrowcd from ancient history. It is far easier to excel
in the folds and colourings of modern drapery, than to
delineate the light garb and native elegance of Grec as
forms. Nor could any painters, but those who lies
in the times of Pericles and Aspasia, do justice to those
most classical and graceful of all subjects."—Prom No
11. of Talcs from 111(0.'400d. —4` Oaonna (Ice Paipter,"

L TE.S T N

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Ariel, steamship, Captain Ludlow, has ar-
rived from Now York.

Advices anticipated by the Borussia.
The Ariel brings 306 passengers, 60 of them for
Southampton, and the rest for Bremen. She has
no specie.

MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.

The arrival of the steamer Valetta puts us in
possession of news from China to the 12th April.
They confirm the statement that Lord Elgin had
declared himself ready to employ force to penetrate
to Pekin itself, for the purpose of opening the free
access to the interior of China to the world. The
journals express hopes that Teentsin, situated about
60 miles from the capital, will be easily taken. A
demand for gunboats for river service has been
made. The authorities continue their tortures of
all suspected to be favourable to the Allied Powers
and to the throwing open of the ports. Some
horrid acts of barbarity have come to light, and
anarchy prevails in the interior.
CALCUTTA, APRIL 22.—The insurgents at ...hazim-
ghur have been crushed ; but the insurrectionary
spirit has extended to the north and west. The
hot season has brought sickness, as usual, in its
train. The commercial position is unfavourable.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

The French ships of war ordered to the Adriatic
have received the order to return. They quitted
Gravosa this day. The Montenegrin alair will be
settled definitively at Constantinople.
The Turks arc landing large forces at Ragusa,
but the English and French Consuls are doing
their best to prevent collision.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.

The Conferences are not expected to meet again
before Monday next. Count Walewski and Earl
Cowley have returner' to Fontainbleau.
The Prince Royal of Wurtemberg took leave of,
their Majesties yesterday morning at Fontaine
bleau, and returned to Paris, where his Royal
Highness intends remaining until to-morrow (Sa-
t urd ay), whets he leaves for Stuttgard.
It is not true that a naval force will make a de-
monstration on the coast of Morocco.
M. de Wine, who was wounded M a duel with
Lieutenant Hyenne, of the 9th Chasseurs, is dying.
It is not expected that ho will survive this night.
In case of his death, his father will institute
proceedings against Lieutenant Hyenne.
The screw transport Loire, which sailed yester-
day from Brest, with convicts for Cayenne, had on
board Rudio, the confederate of Orsini in the at-
tempt to assassinate the Emperor on the 14th of
January.
Accounts from Toulon, dated yesterday, state
that the screw ship of the line Napoleon is being
prepared for sea, in order to reinforce the Mediter-
ranean fleet.

M. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister to London, has
been in Paris for some clays past. He is anxious
while the Congress is sitting that the three protect-
ing Powers shall define the meaning of the treaty
entered into between Greece and Turkey in 1854,
with a view to avoid misinterpretation in future.
The commission appointed by the Prefect of the
Haut Rhin to ascertain the precise result of the
late election, iu the circumscription of Belfort, for
a deputy to the legislative body, has declared that
M. Migeon obtained 16,020 votes, and M. Keller
14,592.
BOURSE, May 27.—The following were the last
quotations :-
4i per Cents _ 93 35

lio: end month 93 35

Credit Foncier
Belgian 41
Piedmontese (5)
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
—Fon CASH.

3 per Cent. ..... 69 65
Do. end month 69 63
Bank Shares

Credit Mobilier 617 tO
Do. Account 615
RAILWAYS.
Orleans
Northern
9221

Midi
Western 560
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian
Austrian

New Ditto 735

Lyon and Moditeran. 7326

New Ditto..

Geneva

EGYPT.

By the Euphrate, which has just arrived at
Marseilles from Alexandria, we have received
details r.specting the fatal accident already briefly
announced by telegraph :
" After attending the solemn reception given to
the Viceroy of Alexandria, on the occasion of the
fetes of Bairam, AhmetPasha, nephew, and Halim
Ibrahim Pacha, brother of the Viceroy, Kereddin
Pacha, Itifaat Bey, Minister of Commerce, and a
number of distinguished personages left by rail-
way to return to Cairo. On arriving at Caffre el
Eis the carriages composing their train, which
were four in number, had as usual to be pushed
on to a steam ferry to be conveyed across the Nile,
but the Arabs employed pushed them too fast,
and the consequence was that the vehicles fell into
the water. On seeing the accident, some persons
raised loud cries ; and Halim Ibrahim Pacha
jumped through the carriage window into the Nile,
and was saved. The greatest efforts were made to
save the other personages, but Ahmet Pacha, Ke-
reddin Pacha, and Ritara Bey was drowned, as
was also a negro slave, who was in the same car-
riage with them. Several other personages shared
the same fate. The dead bodies of the prince and
other victims were susequently got out of the
river, but several could not be found. The news
of the fatal accident having reached Cairo, the
Viceroy manifested the greatest sorrow, and the
other princes of the reigning family, attended by the
Ministers of the Interior, Finance, and Foreign Af-
fairs, hastened to the scene of the disaster, and ac-
companied the mortal remains of Ahmet Pacha to
the capital. Ahmet, who was the heir of the
reigning Viceroy, was educated in France, and was
noted for his liking for Europeans. It is said that
he leaves a fortune of from 45 to 50,00G,000 talaris
(250,000,000 fr.), and that by his will, written with
his own hand, he bequeaths one-third of it to his
mother, one-third to his wife (he had only one),
and another to his son, ayho is only one year old.
Some persons ascrib: the accident to culpable negli-
gence on the part of the railway functionaries ;
others affirm that the carriages were wilfully pushed
into the river, in execution of a plot. It is said
that some months ago an attempt was made to
poison Ahmet Pacha."

TPLEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION TVITEI

INDIA.

The following letters have been addressed to the
editor of the Times :

Sir,—Mr. Andrew's letter, in your impression of
to-day, calls for a few remarks from me. My mis-
take as to the route of the proposed telegraphic line
through Asiatic Turkey hardly affects the argu-
ments which I urged against its feasibility, for
whether the ling runs through Sivas or Aleppo it
must touch at Diarbekir, and from Diarbekir to Basra
the risk awaiting it will be in fill play.
Again, none of the post-houses in Turkey are nearer
than 20 miles apart, and are generally located near towns
or villages. While this arrangement suffices, under
rrdinary circumstances, for their protection, the inter-
mediate distances are frequently overrun by marauding
Arabs. Were this not the case, the post might travel
unprotected, whereas up to the present day it is accom-
panied by an escort ; and most Europeans, even when
journeying by po,t, are not deemed safa without a
similar guard.

I know of no district between Bagdad and Bara where
the wires would be safe ; for, though the Arabs for a
part of the distance are not, strictly speaking, Bedouins,
they are not therefore more under the control of the
local Turkish authorities, or better disposed towards
them, and the Arabs who have settled and have become
cultivators of the soil are themselves frequently exposed
ro the inroads of their nomads neighbours. The state
of the tribes might have been more favourable daring
Captain Lynch's residence at Basra, but this only serves
to show that a country so liable to change, and upon the
security of which no dependence can be placed for a
month together, is little adapted for a line of telegraphic
communication.

General Chesney's remark upon the proffered assist.
arcs of the Sheikh of the Shammar may be adduced in
illustration of the above observation. The Shammar a
few years ago were at feud with the Government; now
they are subsidised by them. But can any one tell how
long the alliance will last ! And in case of a rupture
what would become of the wires whizla the Shammar had
helped to erect ? Besides, it must be borne in mind that
the Shainmar have no influence south of Bagdad, where
many of the tribes, though smaller, are far more lawless
than those in Upper Mesopotamia, and very lately, as I
observed in my last letter, the Shammar, aided by the
Turkish Nizam, were thoroughly beaten on their own ter-
ritory by the more powerful Arez. Omar Pasha may, in-
deed, do something to bring about a better state of things
in his Pashalic, just as Mohammed Pasha of Mosul
did 20 years ago ; but what security is there that his
successor will not suffer the country to lapse into greater
disorder than before ? Persona at all acquainted with
the history of those districts for the last half-century
will at once acknowledge the force of the foregoing
observations.

General Chesney, I perceive, suggests that the cable
might be laid from Basra to Bagdad, in the bed of the
Tigris. Should this be practicable, the Asiastic Turkey
line would be rid of one of its most formidable difficul-
ties. I remember, however, that while on the river last
year one or two scientific men remarked that owing to
the rapids and the shifting nature of the banks in the
stream itself the cable would not be safe. On the feasi
bility or otherwise of General Chesney's suggestion on
this point I am myself quite incompetent to offer any
opinion.
With regard to expense, and what remains to be done
by parties in England to complete or set on foot either
of the two lines proposed (on which Mr. Andrew lays
great stress), I have nothing to say, having no interest
whatever in that respect in the one or the other, my sole
object to point out to the public in a matter of national
importance which of the two routes is most available
and advantageous ; for it will readily be allowed that
all the preparations made by the Turkish Government will
be of little use to us if the wires are to be destroyed as
soon as laid down. Besides, it is, unfortunately, no war-
rant for the wisdom of any such scheme that the Porte has
taken up this line of telegraphic communication through
Asiatic Turkey to Basra. Strong influence from with-
out
has frequently induced the Porte to engage in the
most chimerical projects, just as the present said Pacha
is being urged to father that monstrous folly the Suez
Canal scheme, so that ho may not be behind his prede-
cessor, Mohammed Ali, who was bad enough to build
the Barrage.
I am quite ready to admit Sir Henry Rawlinson's
authority on many points connected with the East, but
I must join issue with him on the subject of the great
difficulty of establishing telegraphic communication via
the Red Sea, as expressed in a quotation from his speech
given by Mr. Andrew. That opinion was advanced before
the publication of Captain Pullen's report, and I am
strongly inclined to believe that Sir Henry on the occa-
sion named referred to obstacles which since Capt. Pul-
len's survey have been proved to be purely imaginary.
The case, therefore, stands thus :—Gen. Chesney sees
no difficulty in establishing a telegraphic line by the Red
Sea, and Capt. Lynch is of the same opinion ; indeed,
the facts of its practicability and security are now be-
yond question. On the other hand, its warmest sup-
porters cannot give the same guarantee for the security
of the Asiatic route ; besides which, as Gen. Chesney
most judiciously remarks, in the one case we shall have
a complete command of the cable ; in the other, if
adopted, the line would include Constantinople, Asia
Minor, Bagdad, and Persia also. The British Government
well know how to estimate an advantage of this nature in

connection with the eventualities of European politics.
In conclusion' I beg most sincerely to disown any hos-
tility to Mr. Andrew's scheme ; let his line be laid down
by all means, but let not the supporters of The Red Sea
route (with whom, I may say iu passing, I have no ac-
quaintance whatever) be deterred from carrying out

their project without delay. There is no rivalry t;fear,

since I feel convinced that as regards India'only the
Red Sea line will be permanently available.—l remain,
sir, your obedient servant,
GEORGIE PERCY BADGER,
17, St. Petersburg-place, Bayswater, May 26.

Sir,—ln your impression of to-day Mr. Layard, in his
haste to find objections to the Persian Gulf route, among
other mistakes asserts that because I have not been in
Turkish Arabia my information is incorrect, ignoring
entirely that part of my letter which refers to the opinio❑
of Sir Henry Rawlinson, as 9xpressed in the House of
Commons, and what I stated on the authority of Capt.
Lynch, and forgetting what he himself bad written in
his work on "Nineveh and Babylon," that the worst of
the Arabs " may be easily governed and moved by kind-
ness and equitable treatment."
From the moment I ventured to advocate the establish-
ment of telegraphic c)mmunication with India through
Asiatic Turkey 1 have been aided by the information
and advice of those who have resided among, and have
traded with the Arabs, or who have scientifically ex-
plored and surveyed their country, and whose opinions
on the great question at issue I must prefer, for many
reasons, to those of Mr. Layard.
Thankiug you for having allowed me an opportunity
of stating my views in your columns on former occa-
sions I once more request the favour of your inserting
this letter.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

W. P. ANDREW, Chairman.
European and Indian Junction Telegraph Co., Gresham
house, Old Broad street, London, May 27.

Sir,—Having seen in the Times of to-day a letter
from Mr. Layard, in which he expresses his belief that a
line of telegraph through Asiatic Turkey could not be
maintained, on account of the Arab tribes, I have no
hesitation iu stating the substance of the evidence whic4
was given by me before a committee of the House of
Commons last year upon this subject, the purport of
which was that no difficulties whatever were to be ex-
pected from the Arabs if proper relations were estab-
lished with their chiefs.

The following extracts from Mr. Layard's book, pub-
lished shortly after his return from Asiatic Turkey, will
convey a good idea of the high opinion then entertained
by him of the trustworthiness of the Arabs. lam igno-
rant of the cause which has now led him to arrive at a
different conclusion

" That these wild tribes, however, are not insensible to
justice and to a feeling of gratitude—that even they, igno-
rant and barbarous as they are, may be easily governed
and moved by kindness and equitable treatment, has been
proved by their conduct towards the few English mer-
chants and travellers who have had deali❑gs with them,
and have visited the rivers on which they pri❑cipally
dwell.

"Mr. Rassam frequently sent Suttum across the desert
with as much as 5001. or GOCV. in money, and always with
the most complete confidence. His only reward was an
occasional silk dress, or one or two camel loads of corn
for his family, tho whole of the value of a few shil-
lings. Of late years the wool of the Bedouin sheep has
been in considerable demand in the European markets, and
a large trade in this article has already been opened with
the Shammar. Money is generally advanced some months
before the sheep are sheared, to enable the Arabs to buy
their winter stock of provisions. Mr. Rassam has thus
paid beforehand several thousand pounds without any
written or other guarantee whatever. The tribes leave the
neighbourhood of the town, and are not again heard of
until their long strings of camels are seen bringing the
promised wool. I remember a Mouin corning all the way
alo from the neighbourhood of Bagdad to pay Mr.
Rassam a trifling sum, I think between 3s. and 45., the
balance of a wool account between them."
Supposing, however, that any apprehensions were to
entertainedbeupposin
from the hostility of the Arabs, it so hap-
pens that the proposed line goes through Asia Minor to
Diyarbekir—a country where there are no Arabs what-
soever, and thence to Mosul, where there are only afa w
tribes prr'ectly under the control of the Turkish Govern.
ment, and who afforded such valuable aid to Mr. Layard
in his explorations at Nimroud ; the telegraph will aft-r-
-wards, as stated by Mr. Andrew, follow the line of the
po.t road by Arbil and Kirkuk to Bagdad through a
quiet and cultivated cowry.
"I may perhaps claim as much knowle,lge and experi-
ence as any Englishman ( f the country proposed to be
crossed by the telegraphic line, and of its inhabitants,"
having accompanied General Chesney's expedition to the
Euphrates, and Laving afterwards c mpleted a survey,
which occupied three years, on behalf of the Royal Gec-
graphical Society, of the country extending from Con-
stantinople along the valley of the Tigris.—l am, Sir,
your must obedient servant,

WILLIAM AINSWORTH
Ravenscourt Villa, Hammersmith, 111,ty 27.

PAVING OF REGENTTREET.—TheeIection for vestry-
M2ll in St. James's, Westminster, took place on Tuesday
amid an unuAual amount of excitement, consequent on
the recent discursons with reference to the paving of
Regent-street. The ratepayers who are oppoe el to the
additional paving mustered in great numbers, an I tile
c?sauliy carried their object by the election of a maj city
of non-paving members, and which, they aro inclined to
hope, will for a time set the question at rest—a fact, at
any rate, most gratifying to the inhabitants of Regent-
street, who have strenuously ree,isted vihat they consider
to be an encroachment on the privileges of their pro-
perty, and an unjustifiable outlay of parish money.

B A TTLE OF GR A Hovo—THE 1101VTENE-
GRIN DESPATCHES.

The Nord publishes the following despatches.
The first is the report of the Voioode Mirko
Petrovic Njegos, brother of Prince Danilo, and
Presiient of the Montenegrin Senate :
" Your Highness,—Tuesday, May the 11th, at
seven o'clock in the morning, the weather thick, the
infantry of the Ottoman army attacked the columns
on our left flank, formed by the militias of Ceolyani,
Cuci, Gravljani, Komani, and Zegarac. At the com-
me❑cement our columns slowly retired, then they
opened a rapid fire on the Turks, and finally seizing
their kandjars, they threw themselves on the enemy,
singing the national song, Glory to God, And
honour to our Prince.' The Turks fled and we pursued
them to their trenched. They left on the field of battle
208 killed, without counting the wounded. Seeing that,
the right wing, which I had the honour to aonsmand,
also advanced, handjar in hand ; the centre advanced as
well, commanded by Senator Djuro Kusovac. This
column, formed of the guards of your highness, attacked
the cavalry with the sword. Soon the contest became
general, and the smoke of the Tnrkish artillery and mus-
ketry enveloped the field of battle like a thick fog.
Finally, towards evening, the Turks were beaten along
the whole line, and found refage in their entrenchments.
" Wednesday, 12th May, I passed in review the forces
in our camp. Our lure was 55 killed and 110 wounded,
amongst whom is one chieftain and the brave commander
of the guards of your highness, the Senator Djuro
Kusovac, whose life is despaired of. The Turks left 520
tetes coupees on the field of battle. At present, your
highness, I have so disposed our column r as to close ill
the enemy on four sides. We have thus cat ofl• the
enemy from all communication with his head-quarters,
HO that he cannot longer draw his means of defence for
his entrenched oamp.—Receive, &c.,
(Signed)

" NTIBKO."

The second report is addressed by the same Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Montenegrins to Prince
Danilo, and is as follows :
" Great Conqueror, Prince of the valiant Montene-
grins,—ln the name of the Lord Almighty and of St.
Peter, and in honour of my prince and well beloved
brother, I disposed my troops on Ascension-day, 13th
May, before the sunrise, for a general assault on the
Turkish entrenchments. Immediately the columns Of
attack were formed I opened fire in the valley, where
we massed the guards of your highness to cut off the re-
treat of the Turks. At the same moment our faithful
and brave falowns (an epithet the Montenegrins apply to
themselves) raised their handjars, crying with an un-
speakable enthusiasm, Long live Prince Danilo I
saw there, my prince, prodigies of valour, of heroism,
and love of liberty.
"The advanced guard of the left wing rushed straight
upon the enemy's entrenchments and carried them,
whilst the troops of the right wing pressed the fugitive•
at the point of the sword. It is impossible for me at
thi4 moment, my prince and brother, to give you a de-
tailed recital. Thanks be rendered to God, the All-
powerful I our blows fell on the masses of the enemy a°
though we had been chopping sticks.
" Of the 13,000 men of which the Turkish army we°
cemposed, scarcely 200 or 300 have been able to escape
to bear witness how the Montenegrins know to fight for
their country. Your soldiers have felled 7,000 Turkish
heads, taken ei2bt pieces of artillery, 1,200 caparisoned
horses, and 300 field-tents. At present it is not pas"
Bible to enumerate the arms captured, nor all the rich
booty which we have just aoquired.
" The field of battle has the aspect of a felled forest,
and the mutilated corpses of the Turks is a sight of
horror.

" It is here, my lord, that the Montenegrins have 10

part avenged the defeat on the plain of kosmovo (June
15, 1389) ; it is here that they have avenged the meinorf
of the hero Miloscb, in thinking of their prince. Thel
rushed onwards, one over the body of the other, brarivir
death to distinguish themselves in thine eyes. In thie
assault we had 47 killed and about 60 wounded.
"On the side of the Turks two pachas were killed ;
the head of one was taken by the heroic Captain Die
Djukanov de Cuca, and the other fell by the sword of
the standard-bearer of your highness's guard. In the
combat, body to body, officers were undistinguishable
from the common soldiers ; all conducted themselves he
true heroes.
" Honour to them all before God and before you, 113 Y
prince. When we shall have rendered the last honour.
to the dead, given attention to the wounded, and distri-
buted the booty, I will repair to your highness, &0., ic•
(Signed) " MIRK°.
" Grahovo, May 13."

The Cologne Gazette says ;
" Princo Danilo 1153 announced to the Governor of Del'
matia, that in spite of contrary conventions, the Turk.
pillaged Grahovo, and that he was under the necessil,
of repelling them. On the other hand, it is prove'
by official reports, whose authenticity is undoubted, that
it was the Montenegrins who broke the armistice coo'
eluded by M. Delarue."
Prince Danilo paid a ducat for each Turk's nose
that was brought to him. Up to the present tbel,
have sent him 250 noses, as well as the sword 0'
Senator Djuro, killed in the combat. The Cali;
nonade during the battle was distinctly heard.it
Cattaro. Some of the wounded Montenegro:
have been received and taken care of in an Au
triau fort.

MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS'

The readings of the " Carol," the " Chimes'
and the " Cricket on the Hearth," by their author'
are the most attractive entertainment of the dal;
and on each occasion crowds of disappointed visitors
—unable to obtain even standing room—are turned
away. Oa Wednesday Mr. Dickens gave his lirAst
morning reading of the " Carol," which was 13itt
only most fully but moat fashionably attended.
addition to the Christmas books, Mr. Dickens pur"
poses, on the 10th of June, to give a reading eli
ni
titled " Little Dombey," which will consist L,
those passages in Dombey and Son " which relate
solely to the life of little Paul, and which 01;
Dickens has arranged for the purpose. In c°ll's„o-
(pence of some interruption caused by per,B",be
leaving their seats before the conclusion of :he
reading, it has been found necessary to issue'
following notice :
" On Thursday evening, the 20th of May, sc)
ladies and gentlemen in the stalls caused great '111:1:
convenience and confusion (no doubt, unintenti°o
ally) by leaving their places during the last ciety.
of an hour of the reading, when the general n.'eoj
tion could least bear to be disturbed. This to.
a strong disposition in other parts of the ha' TO
wards an angry but not unreasonable protest. det
case any portion of the company should be 00a.
the necessity of leaving before the close of the reo,
ing in the apprehension of losing railway tra
they are respectfully entreated, as an act of CO"to
deration and courtesy towards the remaindeff,l4o
avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by•
interval between the parts, when Mr. Dickens
tires for five minutes."

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