The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

permanent docility when once subdued. Asiatics,
Mahommedans especially, have in them more
of the tiger than of the elephant. They_ may
seem perfectly subjugated, may almost drag your
chariot, but you can never b 2 sure that in any mo-
ment a moil cunning fear may not change into the
savage seizure of some unexpected opportunity to tear
and devour you. Watchfulness henceforth will be
as essential as justice and kindness. The natives
will know that we keep our eyes open, as we did not
before, and they will think not all the better of us
for pretending that we do not. They will know that
if they bear arms, our eye will be continually on
them, noting the use they make of them ; and they
will think it more frank on our part, and feel more
at ease on theirs, if they know that we hare no rea-
son to suspect them, because they do not possess the
means of mischief. It will be ours to have military
and police force sufficient to insure order; theirs to
be without the temptation to insurrection against us,
or crimes of violence against each other.
It would seem almost superfluous to insist on the
necessity of the precaution against future danger to
which we have adverted, and it would be so, were
not tradition and routine so all-powerful in India,
and so strong in the composition of the new Council.
The old Indians can hardly be got to look at Indian
questions from a statesman's point of view. The
past has been to them the perfection of wisdom, and
we verily believe that, but for the force of public
opinion in England, the mutiny would be looked on
as a casual exception, which ought to have no influ-
ence whatever on our future Indian policy. We
should still have all the nonsense about the mild

Hindoo, and the respect due to his innocent though
absurd prejudices. Natives would crouch till the
opportunity occurred to spring up and Cut our
throats, and the members of the " Covenanted Civil
Service," and the officers of the Indian army, would
trust a second edition of sepoys till they found them-
selves shot in the back er hacked to pieces. The
next mutiny would not be separated from the present
one by an interval like that which divides the latter
from the battle of Plassy. European blood has now
been tasted as it never was before ; ideas will float in
the native mind which may kindle local or general
conflagration in a moment, and unless the whole
character of our military force there be changed, and
the natives compelled to beat their swords into
ploughshares, we shall bear in perhaps a quarter of
a century, or less, of other risings as bad as that which
is, we trust, smouldering to extinction.

DEATH of the MARQUIS of QUEENSBERRY,

The Glasgow Morning Journal of Saturday makes the
following painful announcement :
"The Marquis of Queensberry, who recently succeeded
to the family title, was yesterday suddenly deprived of life.
We have been unable to ascertain precise particulars; but
understand he and his gamekeeper were shooting rabbits in
Dumfrief shire, and after firing one barrel, in proceeding to
re-load, the gun went off, and shot the marquis through
the heart. Instant death followed."

Hcr Majcsty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort will arrive at Buckingham Palace at a quarter to
five this afternoon, from 0-borne. The Queen and suite,
according to present arrangements, leave shortly after eight
o'clock to-morrow, to embark at Gravesend, for Germany.
Her Majesty, it is expected, will embark at half-past 10
o'clock at latest.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz and Prince Adolphus left town last evening for
Dover, en route for Germany. The Grand Duke was ac-
companied by their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand
Duchess and the Duke of Cambridge to the railway ter-
minus at London-bridge. The Grand Duchess afterwards
returned to Cambridge Cottage, to join the Duchess of
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The Prince and Princess Hohenlohe-Schillingfurst
and suite have arrived at Lung's Hotel, from Ostend.
His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess Bernstorff enter tained the Duke William of Meek-
lenburg•Schwerin, the Earl of Malmesbury, and a select
circle, at dinner, at Prussia House, last week. His Excel-
lency and the Countess left town on Thursday, on a visit to
the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield House.
his Excellency the Sardinian Minister left Paris
a few days since en route for Germany.
marquis and Ma. el ioness of Statibrd unit Coidß.47(i
Levesou Gower, left Liverpo,rl tarry in the past week in
his grace's yacht for the north of Scotland, via the Cale-
donian Canal. Tire Duchess has proceeded to Dunrobin
Castle, N. 8., from Trentham.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, with the
Marquis of Lnrn and family, arrived at their .villa, at
Kensington, on Friday, from a tour of the
spas in Germany. Oa Saturday the duke and duchess and
fatnily left town for Inverary Castle, Argrlshire, for the
whiter.

The Earl of Malmesbury, as Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, will accompany Ler Msksty to Berlin,
and remain in the retinue of the
,Queen until her Majesty's
return at the end of the moral).

The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly.
neux have arrived in town from Croxteth Hall, near Liver
pool.

The Earl and Countess of Euston have arrived a
Euston Hall from a tour of visits.

The Countess Pailleet, Comte I3ailleet, and Comte
Burghern have arrived at Long's Hotel, from Paris.
The Count Andre Schouvaloff, Aide-de-Camp to
his Majesty the Emperor of Russio, has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel, from Paris.
Viscount Uffington has returned to town from a
t,or on the Continent. His lordship has been absent six
months.

Lord and Lady IVodehouse and family have left
town for Kimberley Hail, near Wymondham, Norfolk.
Lord and Lady Foley arrived in town on Satur-
day from visiting the Duke and Duchesß of Norfolk at
Arutufel Castle. They will leave on Wcdneiulay for
IVorksop Mayor.
Lord and Lady Rokeby are expected at Montagu
!louse in it few dos F, from a tour cf
Sir John Shellfy, M.P., comes tE) town to-day
train ,Mare field Park, 6us3ex, and will leave to-m9rrotv for
Sco'lard.

CAntsEr CourwiL.--Summonses were issued on
Saturday to the sa•ernl raer-”bers of the Cabinet for a
Cout:vil thin sf ertoon, at the (Atrial residence of the
Chancellor of Car Exch«lner, in DdwLing-street.
Sir John Burgoyne litd an interview on Satur-
day with Sir E. liul.ver Lyt on. Mr. Rutherford. Mr.
Thornton Mr t, Mr. F. S ewatt MacGaehen, and Mr.
Isbister had also interviews with the right hon. baronet at
the C

LORD PALMERSTON IN NORTH WALE'.—The ex.
Premier arrived in Carnarvon on Thursday night by train,
and, after pas,ing the night at the Royal and Sportsman
Ho el, proceeded next morning on to Festiuiog, Merioneth-
shire, in order to visit the quarry there in which his lordship
a interest:A

Mr. IT. By roe's burlesque of " Fr?. Diavolo " has
been successfully produced at the Plymouth Theatre,
Miss STauborongh and Mr. Cbatl s Yuunge sustaining
their original characters of the Brigand Chief and Beppo.
Mr. Millstone ably performed the character of the fright-
ened Lorenzo.

THE NEW DIVORCE ACT.—On Sa# urclay was
printed the act to amend the Divorce and Mattimonial
Causes Act of last session. There are 23 ste;ions In the sta-
tute, including an iropertant one in reference to a pending
case, stating that " in all eases now pending or hereafte- to
be commene2d, in which, on the petition of a husband for a
divorce, the alleged adulterer is made a co-respondent, or in
which, on the petition of a wife, the person with whom the
husband is all ged to base commit ed adultery is made a re-
spondent, it shall be lawful fur the court, after the close at
the evidence on the part of the petitioner, to direct such cu-
respondent or respondent to he dismissed from the suit, if it
shall think there is not sufficient evidence against him or
her." Three are several clauses to protect the property of
wives t'e e' tel. The order of protection is to write the time
of desertion. Increased power is given to the judge who may
sit in chambers with the same authority as in open court.
Affilavits may be generally taken.

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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE SUN NEWSPAPER
OFFICE.-0a Monday night, about a quarter to nine
o'clock, the utmost confusion was caused in the immediate
neighbourhood of the Strand, in consequence of a fire break-
ing out in The Slln newspaper printing and publishing
office, situate at No. 112, Strand, in the before-named
thoroughfare. Before eleven o'clock the fire was so far got
under as to allay any further extension of mischief; hut the
damage done must be very considerable, as the whole of the
type was destroyed, and the printing machinery rendered
ust less. Notwithstanding this disaster the indefatigable
and respectable editor, Mr. Murdo Young, published the
[riper as usual nn Tuesday afternoon, being kindly assisted
by the Morning Past establishment, and the extensive
machinist, Mr. D. M. Aird.—Eret.
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[A-ay cordially do we here append to the brief comments
of our contemp mary the Era, the assurance of oar grateful
sense of the individual kindness and sympathy last particu-
larized. The generous and immediate co-operation in our
effirts, for which we had rea7on to offer our personal
thaas t 5 Mr. Aird at the time, elicit from us here
again, at the casual mention of his name. the r petition
of our most sincere acknowledgments. As,isted in the first
instance Ey the chiefs of the Morning Post, and in tl e
next by the head of the Economist establishment, we were
enabled as punctually as ever, true to time, to produce the
Sun anew, as the former of these two kindly neighbours
and contemporaries had intimated that morning, like a
Pheenix. May we not, indeed, say—

" Even in our ashes live their wonted tires P"
The copy of cur journal, upon the morrow of the conflagra-
tion, was literally, to all intents and purposes—as a banner
in the breach. But thanks to the assissance of friends—
the aid of our own energies—it was, with us, literally the
successful issue of u hat many might not unreasonably have
regarded as the leading of a Forlorn Hope,_ [Ed. Sun.l