The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, SEPT. 2.
The Queen held a Privy Council this day at Osborne,
which was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort, the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Hardwick°, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Sir E.
Buiwer Lytton, Major-General Peel, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley,
the Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Eafi de la Warr, and the
Duke of Beaufort.

At the Council Parliament was ordered to be further
prorogued from the 19th of October to Thursday, the 18th
of November.

Lord Stanley was sworn in Secretary of State for India.
The new Seals of Office for the Secretary of State for
' India were approved by the Queen in Council.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort drove out yesterday
afternoon.
The dinner party in the evening included his Serene
Highness Prince Leiningen and Lady C. Barrington.

The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Chelmsford, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Lord. Stanley, General Peel, Mr.
6ccretary Walpole, the Right lion. J. W. Henley, Earl De
La Warr, and the Duke of Beaufort, with Mr. Greville,
the Clerk of the Council, left the Waterloo station of the
South-Western Railway at a quarter past 9 o'clock yester-
day morning, and proceeded by special train to Gosport on
their way to attend the Privy Council at Osborne. The
Ministers crossed from Gosport in the Fire Queen, and
reached Osborne about 1 o'clock.

The Earl of Hardwick°, Sir E. Buiwer Lytton, and the
Marquis of Exeter joined their colleagues at the Isle_ of
Wight.

After the Council the same Ministers who left town, with
the exceptions of the Marquis of Salisbury and General
Peel, returned to London by special train, leaving Gosport
about 5 o'clock and arriving in town about half-past 7.

Upon the evening of the 29th of August the town of
Cologne, with its magnificent Cathedral, was beautifully
illuminated in honour of the visit of Her Majesty the Queen
to that city. This compliment, which was carried out with
the greatest taste and splendour, was the spontaneous act of
the inhabitants.

_ __.....—.
The Earl of Malmesbury left town yesterday for Scotland,
The Earl of Donoughmore left town for Dublin yesterday.

is Royal Highness Prince Alfred has for some
months, been staying with his tutor, Lieutenant J. C.
Cowell, It. E. Alverbank (the residence of the late Right
Hon. J. W. Croker), near Gosport pursuing the prepara-
tory studies for the naval service under the instruction of
the Rev. W. R. Solly. His Royal Highness underwent a
special examination before the Rev. Thomas Main, Pro-
fessor at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, in the
presence of Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., Rear-
Admiral the Hon. George Grey, and Captain It. S. Hew-
lett, of her Majesty's ship Excellent, Captain-Superinten-
dent of the Royal Naval College. The examination lasted
during Friday, Saturday, Monday, and the morning of
Tuesday last, and comprised the subjects of arithmetic,
algebra, plane trigonometry, Euclid, sacred history, and
history of England, Geography, Latin, French, German,
and English dictation. His Royal Highness having
been declared to have passed satisfactorily in all
these several branches, has been appointed a naval cadet,
Capt. J. W. nd joined her Majesty's ship Euryalus,
Tarle-
ton, C. 8., on Tuesday afternoon, the 31st ult. After a
leave of absence for two months, his Royal Highness will
rejoin the frigate for permanent service, and will mess and
live with the midshipmen on
Cowell,
Her Majesty has been
to appoint Lieut. Governor to the
in his voyage.
Prince: w
Sir James Outram, G.C.11. re-
pple.ased
who will accompanyhim
Major-General
Galle, whither he had gone a sea trip, in
the 11th July, by the steamer
• from
search of health.
Nemesis, from
Calcutta on

LATEST NEWS.

THE BOMBAY MAIL

We have received by the Overland Express, in
anticipation of the Bombay Mail, our letters and
papers from Bombay, dated the 4th of August.
The following is the summary of the 'Bombay

The rebel fugitives of Gwalior, after plundering
Tonk, entered the Boondee territory, closely fol-
lowed by Colonel Holmes's brigade. General
Roberts, with the force from Nusseerabad, was still
at Tonk on the 19th July.

Behar is in a more tranquil state than formerly,
but the rebels occupied Shahabad in great force,
ravaging the province with impunity. Captain
Rattray, however, had succeeded in killing several
of the rebel leaders, who had made themselves con-
spicuous by their attacks upon the vilages. On the
sth July he defeated Judder Sing's force at Kusma,
killing a great number.
Sir Hope Grant left Lucknow on the 21st July,
with a strong force, to relieve Maun Sing, and oc-
cupy Fyzabad.

A small body of troops from Allahabad, under
Colonel Berkley, which had moved across the
Ganges, had succeeded in capturing several of the
enemy's strongholds. A fort near Suraon, occu-
pied by 700 rebels, was carried, and all the garri-
son put to the sword.

Sir Hugh Rose has resumed command of the
Poonah division, and was on the 3rd August
sumptuously entertained by the Byculla Club.
The gallant general appears in excellent health
and spirits.

The Governor-General is still at Allahabad, but
it is said contemplates a visit to Lucknow. An act
had been passed in the Legislative Council extend-
ing the period of the Governor-General's absence in
the North-West Provinces for six months longer.
Lady Canning had left Calcutta to join her husband
at Allahabad.

Lord Harris, Governor of Madras, arrived at the
Neilgherries on the 16th July. Sir Patrick Grant
still remained at Ootacamund.

Lord Elphinstone and Sir Henry Somerset are
both at Poona, where they will stay till the end of
the monsoon.

The forgery of the Oude amnesty affords a fair
indication of the lengths to which the party opposed
to Lord Canning in this country is prepared to
carry its hostility. The pseudo-proclamation ap-
peared in the first columns of the Bombay Gazette,
and was so perfect an imitation of Lord Canning's
former manifesto that his friends and enemies alike
supposed it genuine. We seem to have stood all
but alone in believing it spurious, when the follow-
ing letter from the Secretary to the Government of
India was received by the Calcutta press, and set
the matter at rest :

No. 1644.
From Cecil Beadon, Esq., Secretary to the Government of
India, to the editor of the Phocenix.—Dated the 16th
July, 1&58.

(Home Department.)

Sir,—l am directed by the President in Council to state

that the proclamation purporting to have been issued by the
Governor-General, which was published in the Pluenix of
Monday last, the 12th inst., and is there said to be taken
from the Bombay Gazette, is a pure invention, without any
foundation whatever.—l have the honour to be, sir, your
most obedient servant, CECIL BEADON,
Secretary to the Government of India.
Council Chamber, the 16th July, 1858.

The Bombay Gazette has not yet seen fit to re-
veal the authority on which this circumstantial,
and apparently malicious story was palmed upon
it, but it is certainly due to the character of the
Indian press to make it known. The last ad-
vices from the province are dated Lucknow, 21st
July, and inform us that the policy of con-
ciliation pursued by Mr. Montgomery was slowly
but surely detaching the Talookdars from the
rebel side, and that the cause itself will collapse,
as soon as we are able to afford efficient
protection to those who openly declare for us.
We are disposed to yield full credence to this as-
surance. At present we are not in circumstances
to afford them protection, and we can hardly expect
—until our influence is dominant in the province,
—that these men will expose themselves to the re-
sentment of the rebel leaders. The Beg-am is now
besieging Maun Sing in the neighbourhood of
Fyzabad, for his supposed leaning to our cause,
and has offered a reward for his head ; and until

the powerful rebel forces which now hold the
orinby to the north, east, and south of the capital,
are confronted by our armies, the Talookdars will

content themselves by mere protestations of their
desire to return to loyalty when they can do so
safely. For the relief of Mann Sing and to occupy
Fyzabad, Sir Hope Grant lei Lucknow on the
21st ult., with the following force :-Ist Madra•
Fusiliers, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, H.M. 7th
Hussars, Hodson's Horse, Ist Regiment Punjaub
Infantry, with 12 light guns and a heavy siege
train.

We now hold the military road between Cawn-
pore and Lucknow ; the route on to Nawabgunge
beyond the capital ; and a strip of country a few
miles broad along the north of this line throughout
its extent. General Grant's advance on Fyzabad
will probably give us the command of that road
also, and little more can then be done until the cold
weather permits the re-opening of the campaign.
It is not improbable that ere then the rebels may
have melted away. The force which the Begum
was organising at Boondee she is unable to retain,
the men deserting in large numbers, leaving their
arms behind them. The latter fact is very sugges-
tive. The rebel treasury we believe is exhausted,
and it is confidently stated that the miscreant Nana
has been compelled, by extreme straits, to sell-his
famous ruby of fabulous value to a native banker
for 10,000 rupees.

In Behar, writes the Friend of India,
There are three thousand rebels congregated about the
jungle at Jugdespore, which we have been unable to de-
stroy. These men, though badly armed and scantily supplied
with provisions, have swept the country from Gya to Patna,
from the Soane river to the Kurumnaisa. They have burnt
bungalows and factories, liberated prisoners, and mutilated
ryots. In the face of Sir E. Lugard, with 2,000 troops at
Judgespore, and in the teeth of Brigadier Douglas, with a
Queen's regiment at Bu xar, they have ravaged the whole
country. The last telegram, however, gives more hopeful
accounts. The rebels have retired from Arrah, after linirn-
ing Mr. Vincent's house, and Brigadier Douglas has as-
sumed the command of the disturbed districts. lie was
last described as about to establish military posts aboUt the
position of the enemy. At present we regard the tactics to
be employed with but little hopes of success. The enemy
will, we axe.afraid, evade these posts as easily as they did the
enclosing force of Sir E. Lugard, and the struggle will be in-
definitely prolonged. Still the enemy in all but numbers, the
sympathy of the populace, and the celerity of their motions,
are a contemptible foe. They scarcely have a good gun
amongst them, caps are almost unprocurable, being sold at
4s. the hundred. The rebels have not much trea-
sure ; their excursions, though they have inflicted con-
siderable damage to us, have been sadly unprofitable to
themselves. Their pay is doled out in pittances of one or
two rupees in alternate months, provisions are scarce, enemies
numerous, and the climateintemperate even to Bhoojpoories.
Our contemporary proceeds, according to custom,
to attribute the delay in reducing this jungle rabble
to Lord Canning's incapacity. It was an amnesty
that wa.s,to quiet Oude four months ago, and now
it is an amnesty that is to disperse these Jugdespore
bandits, and convert them into honest men :
They would cease to resist were they certain of immunity.
They would quietly disperse could they be assured that
none would be looked after in their villages. But of this
some are not certain, and others, who have assisted at the
murder of Europeans, know that for them the day of mercy
is past. The " ultimate intentions" of the Governor-Gene-
ral for the one party are of no avail, and the others, if they
even hear of them, will scarcely credit them. But with
steady, quiet perseverance, we may even clear Shahabad in
the rains

Doubtless, without any amnesty, we trust to
stand in the way of hanging a fair proportion of
them, for their cold-blooded atrocities upon the
ryots of the district in the last two months. As an
instalment of this retribution, we learn by telegram,
dated 19th July, that a party of eight picked men of
Captain Rattray's corps being sent out to catch
Sungram Sing, his brother Raday Sing, and his
nephew and sons, met with entire success. They
disguised themselves as mutinous Sepoys, and suc-
ceeded in bringing in Sungram Sing alive, and the
heads of the others :
Sungram Sing having committed some murders in the