The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1867.

IvIANSION • HOUS:
RELIEF FUND
DIST]
The LORD MA

E - METROPOLITAN
FOR EXCEPTIONAL
RESS.
.YOU, Chairman.
The Governor of tho Bank
of England.
Rd. B. Wade, Esq.
Wigram, Esq.
Hy. Green, Esq.
Roy. Wm. Rogers.
Rev. F. G. Blomtield.
W. D. Bromley, Esq., M.P.
John Holms, nsq.
Mr. Ald. Salmons, M.P.
John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Sir Anthy. Rothschild, Bart.
Alfred Rothschild, Esq.
Thos.-Baring, Esq., M.P.
Rt. Ho. G. J. Gosehen, M.P.
R. W. Cravvfurd, Esq., M.P.
P. Cazonove, Esq.
Captain H. Goschen.

R. C. Bevan, Esq
Goo. Moore, Esq.
J. P. Gassiot, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Finnis.
C. T. Gab iel, Esq.
Col. Stuart Wortley.
W. J. Maxwell, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Besley.
Mr. Alderman Dakin.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Waterlow.
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Fk. Thompson, Esq.
Jas. Duke Hill, Esq.
R. A. Gray, Esq.
R. N. Fowler, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Cotton.
Samuel Morley, Esq.
W. Leaf, Esq.
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JOSEPH GIBBS, Secretary.
Mansion House, March 20, 1867.

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THE PUNJAIII3.*

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

As you wore good enough to give me permission to ad-
dress you with a few of my notes and draughts while on
my journey to the country of the five rivers of the Punjaub,
I shall send you this, my first letter, from the Murree
Hill; in the Himalayas. I shall endeavour to write you
as briefly as I possibly can. I shall simply refer to the
ports or towns touched at on the sea voyage to Bombay,
and the overland route across Egypt.
I sailed from Southampton on Sunday morning, the 27th
November, 1864, by the steamship Ripon, one of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Company's ships. There were a
large number of passengers—first and second class, or first
cabin and second cabin passengers. In the first cabin
there were a goodly number of married ladies going to
join their husbands. Three young and beautiful brides—
young ladies going to get married—and sisters to join their
brothers. In the second cabin there were a number of re-
spectable ladies and well-behaved children, and a number
of well-to-do tradesmen, artizans, and railway servants.
As soon as we got out of the dock, at Southampton, and
fairly into deep water, the band belonging to the ship
played lively airs till luncheon time. Most of the cabin
passengers were on deck, some in groups and some alone,
all looking stedfastly on the land. Some of the passengers
I heard say, with tears in their eyes, "The dear country—
the old folks at home are thinking of me," and "Dear old
England." All seemed to sigh Amen to these words.
Very few of the passengers went down to luncheon, ladies
and gentlemen still looking on the land from which they
were to be separated, most for a time, and some for ever.
A few passengers were entered for intermediate ports—
such as Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. We touched at
Gibraltar after a most beautiful sail over the Bay of Biscay
vicar—an of d landed
dobuirs
lady,
Passengers—the Rev. Mr. Berthou,
and three daughters. The vicar
read prayers, and was most agreeable and affable to all
the passengers. There landed also several young officers
to join their regiments, and civilians in the pur-
suit of health. Our stay at Gibraltar was very
short, and we then steamed away for Malta, where
the greater number of the passengers landed. It *as
about 9 o'clock at night when we arrived ; the night was,
dark, and it rained in torrents, with a strong wind, which
rendered it difficult to land. Our stay at Malta was short
—only a couple of hours or so, to deliver and receive the
mails. Most of the shops were open, though so late at
night, and the lady passengers,
I observed, were busily
engaged in investing money in Maltese crosses and other
trinkets and ornaments. There are some noble buildings
in Malta. I was directed by the purser of the Ripon to
visit the New Opera House, ivhich was being built. I
saw it by moonlight. The walls were finished, and it was
covered over. The approach, or grand entrance, was
very imposing. 1 was desirous to see the library, but it
was too late. St. Paul visited Malta, and it is, in many
respects, a place of note. I visited the Peninsular and
Oriental offices, to which I was led through an iron gate.
On entering I ascended a flight of stone step stairs. On
the first step, or passage, in the corner of which I saw
something dark—an object like a small bundle of clothes ;
and as it was dark, I was told to take care and not to step
on or touch it. What is it, may I ask ? My guide in-
formed me that it was an old lady, who had permission
from the agent of the Peninsular and Oriental Company to
sleep in that corner on the stones, in preference to lying
outside the gate in the .streets, as she had no home or
friends to look after her, and she was very old. After seeing
the English newspaper I went over the offices of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, and they had all the
evidences of business and order in them, and the agent in
attendance was most civil and obliging. On coming down
to where the poor old lady lay I spoke to her, and gave
her a small piece of money. She took the money, and
kept my hand with both her hands till she gave me her
blessing, which was, "May the good God and the Mother
of Jesus bless you." Her little hands were so hard and
cold that they felt more like bones than human hands. I
could see by, the light of the moon that, though so old, she
had a pretty little face of her own. I have not forgotten
her in all my travels; and if over I visit Malta again 1
shall most certainly call for her. We hastened to the ship
and went down a steep incline with many steps, and
observed, here and there, several men lying on the
pavement, and asleep. On reaching the boat there was
much difficulty in getting aboard, as the storm had in-
creased. Once on board, the bell rung, and we steamed
forabwadayfirstto g
oon board a small Alexandria, wheloallll our passengers landed. We
steamer,
which brought us
to port, or the landing place. The band of the P. and 0.
ship played the favourite air "Langsyne" as we were leav-
ing her, which made us all feel the more sorry at parting
with the noble ship, and the most civil and obliging officers
and crew. Nothing could exceed the attention and the care
which seemed to be taken of all the passengers. Some of
the old gentlemen passengers looked sentimental at this
our first seperation and farewells. The bulk of our pas-
sengers were for India, who hastened with their luggage
to the railway station, but some of them were to remain in
Alexandria, and others who were to travel through Egypt
for health sake remained on board for some time after the
rest of the passengers had left, with a young gentleman, an
invalid, in very delicate health. We were total strangers
to each other, but I was much interested in him. I felt we
should never again meet. He seemed pleased, I may say

*Travelling Notes of a Journey to the Country of 1110
Five Rivers—Province 9f Ole runjahh, East Indies. By
a liailvray Man,

delighted, when 1 promised to write his mother about him,
which I did on the Red Sea, and posted my letter at Aden.
On my reaching the Murree Hills, in the Minilay" I was
honoured with a letter of thanks from his master, and at
the same time informing me that hor son had died in
Egypt, while journeying up the Nile—
" The Angel of Death in the desert hath found him,
And stretched him unknown on the side of the Nile."
Though he died unknown, and in a land of strangers. ho

was carefully looked after by a young Englishwoman,
"who sat up with hint three nights and nursed him like a
sister." A paragraph appeared in one of the London
newspapers of my friend's loath and funeral, particulars of
which were supplied by Lady Duff Gordon to her mother.
Her ladyship writes: —" An Englishman died here
the other day at the house of the Austrian Consular Agent.
I was too ill to go to him, but a kind, dear young English-
woman, who was here with her family, in a boat, sat up
with him three/nights, and nursed him like a sister.

" He was buried on the Ist day of Ramadan, where they
bury strangers, on the site of a former Coptic. Church.
Archdeacon Monroe read the service. Omar and I spread
my old English flag over the bier, and Copts and Moslems
helped to carry the poor stranger. It was a most impres-
sive sight—the party of Europeans, all strangers to the
dead, but all deeply moved—the group of black-robed and
turbaned Copts, the sailors from the boats, the gaily-
dressed dragomans, several brown-shirted Tellaheen, and
the thick crowd of children, the expression on whose little
faces touched me most of all.

"As Moslems, Omar and the boatmen laid him down in
the grove. While the English prayer was read, the sun
went down in a glorious flood of light over the distant head
of the Nile.

"'Had he a mothee? said an Abadeh woman to me,
with foam in her eyes, and pressing my hand in-sympathy
with the poor, far-off mother of such a different race."
His mother read this account in a newspaper, not know-
ing at the time she read it that it referred to her own
son.

I was deeply impressed with the life and death of my
friend, though a strangor. Our conversation, which we
had often together, led rue to think that he was full of hope'
of a bright future, when he would return to his family
and friends in robust health. Such is life— "as a tale that
is told"—and the lesson is instructive, "to teach us to
number our days, that we apply our hearts unto wis-
dom."

I wrote from the Himalayas for the name and address
of the young lady who nursed my young friend, and
was much pleased that she is now married, and lives in
a city in the west of England. I thought that perhaps the
young lady and her friends might continue their journey
from Egypt to the land of the Nile—to the land of the
East, the clime of the sun—so that I might know a little
more of the closing scene of my friend's life. May the
mothers and daughters of England be ever ready, whether
in the dear old country or in the land of strangers, to per-
form acts of love and mercy—acts which may not be
known to the multitude, but which shall be noted by the
recording angel, and kept in everlasting remembrance !
As I know you feel like many others for the sufferings
of the working classes of Manchester, you will be glad to
learn that great activity prevailed in the Fort at Alex-
andria. There was a goodly number of ships in the har-
bour, with a plentiful supply of open boats plying to and
from the harbour and the ships with cotton. Every boat
coming from the shore seemed to be loaded to the water
edge with large bales of cotton. There were immense
quantities of cotton bales piled up along the side of the
beech or harbour, waiting to be shipped to English ports.
Some of the lady passengers suffered from the effects of
the voyage, and as they were all for India, we were desir-
ous we should all go together by the same train. Being
a railway man, I went to the traffic manager, Mr. Betts,
who kindly gave a separate carriage for the ladies to Cairo.
I have much pleasure to note this kind attention ou the
part of the manager. The train started in the evening for
Cairo, the speed of which was very slow, in comparison
to our English mode of travelling. We met several trains
coming from Suez and Cairo and different parts of the
line with immense loads of cotton. I never saw anything
like the goods trains—the cotton looked so high and so
bulky—there being no tunnels or bridges to pass under the
Egyptian lino of railway goods of a bulky nature can be
loaded much higher than in England. We arrived at
Cairo at midnight, and on reaching the hotel were told
that every bed was engaged. After a good deal of running
about—trying for beds—we succeeded to get places to lie
in, with the stench near to our rooms most sickening.
There I got my first lessons of the filthy state of the inns
or hotels of the East; the eating, drinking, beds, baths,
fleas, flies, and mosquitos of the gorgeous East must be
seen and felt to be fully known. Tho charges of the hotel
for everything were sixty per cent. higher than the previ-
ous year. I asked the reason for raising the prices of
everything. I was told that the cotton famine had to
cause of it, the land being principally taken up with th
growth of cotton instead of grain and other articles o
food. At Cairo there is a magnificent mosque, standing
on a high ground or hill on the south of the town, and
bazaar, and from the west end of which can be seen the
Pyramids of the Pharaohs. The passengers from
England that came via Southampton having arrived
the first had to remain in Cairo till the arrival
of the passengers that wore coming via Mar-
seilles. As I cane by the Southampton route, I had a
day to spend, which I did by visiting the mosque and the
bazaar. The former is well worth a visit. The building
is very high and solemn; its internal grandeur, with
marble and other choice stones, marked with great beauty.
Every one who enters it must feel at least grateful for
the cool shade, if not a reverence and religious awe. On
the right-hand side as we entered there were priests and
others engaged in prayers. We conformed to the custom
by allowing shoes or slippers to be put on. The shoes
were made of red cloth. The bazaar was most filthy and
close, with a peculiar and most offensive smell—a very
suitable place, I thought, for the breeding of diseases of
all sorts. I observed many of the men, and even little
boys, had only one eye. In the hole of the eye that was
missing were numbers of flies—in fact the cyo hole was
full of them, and in no case did I see any one try to ro-
ll move them. I was told that the cause of there being so
many with the right eye out was that they might not be
pressed into the army. Tho Pasha of Egypt, hearing of
this, ordered a one-eye regiment to be raised. It is said
that " the Druses of Mount Lebanon are so much opposed
to conscription that many men maim themselves in order
to be rendered unfit for the army. Some i.ut out one eye
so that it may be said they cannot take a good aim : others
cut their fingers in order not to be able to pull the trigger,
and others pull out their teeth in order not to be able to
bite the cartridge, and so on. But the maiming system is
practised more in Egypt, where almost every second per-
son you meet has only one eye." As soon as the Mar-
seilles passengers arrived we all left for Suez by the same
train, which went at a snail-like pace. The land between
Cairo and Suez is very barren and desolate, with scarcely
a blade of grass to be seen, or anything animate. The
country on both sides of the railway seemed to be one
continued tract of sandy land and desolation. We are
fold it was not so in the days of the Pharoahs, for it was
rich in pasture, grain, herb; and vegetables. Every acre
of land near the Nile could be made by a regular system
of irrigation to grow grass in abundance, and all other
green crops. Wo stopped at the half-way station, and
went to the refreshment house a' place of simple
pretensions—where we got bread, cheese, and English
beer. The people in attendance there were very
civil and attentive. In the little garden in front
were a nice assortment of flowers, familiar to me as old
friends. The auricula and polyanthus and many others
were in full bloom, and looked beautiful and pleasing to
the eye. In the shady end of the garden was a large
hogshead full of water, which accounted for the healthy
appearance and freshness of the flowers. It struck me, if
a small garden is capable of producing such beautiful
plants in a region so desolate, what might not irrigation do
on a large scale ? There is plenty of water, and the genial
and mild climate of Egypt is most favourable to the growth
of green crops. The engine having taken in water, and
the passengers their refreshments, we started for Suez, at
which place we arrived at about three p.m. We had to
remain a few hours till the steamer was coaled and
ready to receive us. Sho stood about a mile or so out
at sea. We dined at the hotel in an open square. Near
to where we sat at dinner were five or six European
females engaged in singing, and a tall Yankee-looking
gentleman trying to take music out of a harp. The
charges of this hotel were very high, caused, no doubt,
by cotton, or the American war, &c. We got informa-
tion that the steamer was ready, and we hastened on
board a small tug boat, which conveyed us to the
Behar steamer, one of the Peninsular and Oriental ship;
Captain White commander. As soon as the berths were
arranged we steamed away for Aden, which place we
reached about four in the morning. Everything on
board the ships in the Red Sea appears to be Indian.
At Aden it blow fresh, and as the ship had to be
coaled here to bring her to Bombay it would
occupy some time, and the passengers lauded to avoid the
coal dust. The wind being high blow the dust into all
the cabin; and every place was smothered with dust.
1 omitted to state that when at Suez it was my intention
to visit the Suez Canal, and give you an account of the
works, but time would not admit of my visiting it. I shall
write fully on this important work on my next visiting
Suez. From inquiries, however, made I learn that the
works are being prosecuted with vigour, and that great
hopes are entertained of the canal being opened for traffic
at no distant period.
Aden looks like a place that has undergone some fiery
ordeal by some convulsion of nature. Everything looks
burnt. Not a blade of grass could be seen. The fortress
is some two or three miles from the harbour. The P. and
0. have a large depot for coal here. As soon as the dealers

in ostrich feathers hear of the arrival of the steamer
crowds of Arabs come to the ship and the hotels to sell
their feathers. The people at this place seemed to be ex-
pert swimmers. A small piece of money being thrown into
the sea, near to the steamer, ono of them would dive dow❑
after it, and come up in a very short time with the piece of
money in his mouth. The coaling finished, we steamed
away for Bombay. The heat on the Red Sea was very
severe, and tried some of the passengers. To relieve the
tedium of the voyage the ladies had a concert in the even-
ings. On several occasions the gentlemen had a trial by
jury at night in a part of the cabin where the ladies might
not to be disturbed. The first case tried was for breach
of promise of marriage. During the examination of wit-
nesses there were roars of laughter. Sundry explosions of
soda water and lemonade bottles were heard. The case
was adjourned for further consideration.
Two or three days before we reached Bombay a meeting
of the cabin passengers was held with the view of convey-
ing their thanks to Captain White, Commander of the
Behar, for his kind and gentlemanly bearing, and polite
attention to all the passengers during the voyage. A reso-
lution to that effect was submitted by Col. Sawyer, C. 8.,
of the Ist Dragoon Guards, which was seconded by Col.
Macleod, Adjutant-General, at Kurrachee, and which was
unanimously adopted and signed by all the cabin pas-
sengers.

We reached Bombay on the evening of the 26th Decem-
ber, having made the journey from Southampton in 29
days. Most of the passengers landed shortly after the
steamer was brought to anchor. Numbers of ladies and
gentlemen were coming on board to welcome and receive
friends. The meeting of married ladies and husbands
and lovers, and brothers and sisters, and friends, made it
quits-on exciting.' Vert:— th'en,• was tin breaking up
&four party, among whom, during the voyage, there was
not a murmur or a single complaint, All seemed to be on
terms of harmony and good-will. Most of the passengPrs
were for the B.mabay Presidency, one or two were for
China Ana the Madras Presidency and Calcutta. One other
gentleman and myself had to go up the Indus by steamer
from Bombay vici Kurrachee to the country of the Five
Livers, ho to join his regiment situated at I'eshawur,
under the deadly shades of the Khyber Pass, and I to
Lahore, the capital of the province. Many of the pas-
secgers exchanged cards and addresses before parting, so
as to communicate with each other when they would settle
down in their new country. Then came the final parting,
the shaking of hands, the "Good bye," and the " God bless
you," and in the words of Do Quincy, it may be truly said
of the whole party, everlasting farewells. Never again
shall we all meet in this world under the same circum-
staaces.

In Bombay harbour I observed many large ships, and a
great number of open boats were coming from the shore,
all loaded with cotton. Great activity prevailed among
the shipping. On the beach were mountains of cotton
waiting to be shipped for England. On my reaching the
Hotel I found every room occupied, and had it not boon
for the exertions and kind influence of a fellow-passenger
I would not have been able to get a bed. I arrived in Bom-
bay during the share mania; the trading community was
wholly engaged in the share market ; the charges for
everything were fabulous; the hotels were crowded to
excess, and the attendance was very bad ; the rooms and
beds ware most filthy; the food very inferior and badly
cooked. I visited the railway stations and saw the pas-
senger trains arrive and depart. There were crowds of
passengers, 'rho were very quiet and orderly. I saw
goods trains, and every waggon was well loaded and
full of cotton and general merchandise. It was said all
over Bombay the railway companies could not meet the
wishes of the trading community, arising from a defi-
ciency of rolling stock. Parties in the country had to
wait for weeks before they could get their goods sent to
port for shipment. The passenger trains were well filled
with first, second, and third-class passengers, particu-
larly the third-class. The Parsee ladies rode by train,
with their faces uncovered, a proof that cast in Bombay
is gradually giving way to modern customs.
There are many young ladies coming from all parts of
the old country to get married in India. I should strongly
recommend them to make every possible inquiry as to
their route to India previous to their leaving home. I was
astonished and very sorry to learn that this had been ne-
glected in many cases. Some young ladies landed in
Bombay who ought to go to Calcutta, and others went to
Calcutta who ought to land at Madras. A public inquiry
office for India, perfectly independent of all the railway
and other companies, with a gentleman having a local
knowledge of India at the head of it, would be a great
boon to lady travellers. I write this for the ladies, and
I sincerely hope that the traffic of young ladies going
to the far East to join their lovers will increase every
year, and that the cry may be among all bachelors—
" Still they come."
My next letter will contain my notes from Bombay
via Kurrachee, Kottree, up the Indus, to the province of
the Punjaub.

A RAILWAY MAR.

lug upwards of 100. The real.
this order, in reply to the remons 38
officials, is that the stocks of yarn are too neavy
at Chatham, and that they are far in excess of
those in the other yards, where machinery is not
employed for the preparation of the material.
Although rope-yarn is manufactured ac £ll 10s. per
ton cheaper at Chatham with the improved machi-
nery than at the other Royal dockyards under the
old system, yet, incredible as the statement inay
appear, the manufacture is to be carried on at the
other dockyards, while at Chatham it is to be dis-
continued and the workmen discharged, although
the latter were given to understand that their ser-
vices were permanently required.

The Royal Alfred, 18, armoured wooden screw
fr;gate, Capt. F. A. Herbert, flagship of Sir G.
Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., went out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterday morning to Spithead, saluting
the flag of the Port Admiral and Naval Comman-
der-in-Chief in the usual manner as she anchored at
Spithead, the Victory returning the salute. Tho
Royal Alfred will make her speed trial at the mea-
sured mile to-morrow.

Two of Martin's patent self-canting anchors, sup
plied to the Admiralty for her Majesty's ship Pallas,
and of the weight of 52 cwt. each, to replace two
anchors at present carried by the Pallas, of 72 cwt.
each, have just undergone their tests at Ports-
mouth dockyard, previous to their acceptance by the
Admiralty, iu a most satisfactory manner. Both
anchors were placed under the hydraulic machine,
and the Admiralty maximum proof (43 tons) was
brought to bear upon them without the slightest •
permanent deflection being exhibited after the strain •
was removed. At the request of the representative
of the patentees 50 per cent over the Admiralty
standard proof was then applied, the strain upon the
anchors then being increased to 65 tons, or equal to
the- ordinary test 4 y tgi.4kainititity"Tra cwt, .
anchor. The deflection, with the strain on the
anchor, in this instance was three-tenths of an inch
on both arms, but on the strain being removed the
iron reiumed its normal position, leaving again no
permanent deflection.

The following appointments were made yester.
day at the Admiralty :--Thomas Robertson, master,
to the Zebra ; Matthew Kidd, chief engineer, to the
Himalaya ; and Charles 11. Fanvel, clerk, to the
Wellesley.