The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-30 00:00:00

NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE,

indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation. Flatulency, Phlegm,
Nervousness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints, Hysteria,
Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn,
Eruptions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea,
Hemorrhoids, headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps,
Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea),
Sinking- Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption,
also Children's Complaints, effectually removed by

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Lord STANLEY, who was loudly cheered, said,—l believe
it would be-impossible for any public man to receive—l am
sure I cannot receive—such marks of courtesy and kindness
as you have manifested, without regretting my inability
adequately to express that gratitude which it is impossible
not to feel. Much as I should at any time have felt the
compliment you have paid me, I have peculiar reasons for
appreciating it at the present moment, because I have now ,
the privilege of addressing you, not merely as an acquain-
tance, but as a near neighbour. It is here, in this city of
London, and very near to this spot, that the greater part of
my time, and of that of several of the gentlemen by whom
I am surrounded, is now passed; and I think I may say
for my colleagues in the Indian Council, as well as for my-
self, that as we met with such a reception in the east we
shall not bo in any particular haste to migrate westwards.
(Laughter and cheers.) Your chairman has been pleased
to connect my name with the government of India. I do
not wish to revive, or even to allude to past controversies
but this I may be permitted to say—that throughout those
Parliamentary discussions which ended in the transfer of
the Indian government from the East India Company to
the Executive of this country, that change was uniformly
represented by me and by those colleagues with whom I
acted as not being in the nature of a penal proceeding—as
not involving any sentence -of condemnation against the
administration- of that great Company whose century of
empire has come to an end. (Cheers.) We regarded it—and
I think rightly—as a change which was a natural, and
even a necessary result of the lapse of time and the progress
of events. I believe that that change will be productive of
benefit to India. I hope it may lead to the larger introduc-
tion into that country of European energy, enterprise, and
thought. (Cheers.) But I cannot conceal from myself,
and I do not conceal from you, that if that change of rule
has increased the opportunities possessed by the Govern-
ment of this country, it has also augmented, in a similar
degree,- the responsibilities which attach to us. (Hear.)
We have to guard against a double danger. Wo have to
protect India from the fluctuations of Parliamentary poli-
tics, and to protect England from the more indirect and
remote, but perhaps not less real, risk which may arise
from the connection of its Executive with an executive
which is necessarily despotic. (Hear, hear.) I believe
—and rejoice to believe—that as the insurrection of the last
15 months is gradually dying out, so also the exasperation
of feeling which prevailed in this country against the
natives of India—and which, under all the circumstances,
one can hardly regard with astonishment, though it may be
a matter of regret—is in course of gradual extinction
with the cause to which it owed its origin, and will at no
distant period—if it has not already done so—give plate
to a better and habitual frame of mind. I think, however,
we should remember that it is not only from ill will or ill
feelings on our part, but also from uninformed and mis-
directed efforts for doing good, that our influence and
Government in India have been exposed to danger. (Hear,
hear.) We do, I believe, regard—and undoubtedly we
ought to regard—the natives of India as persons towards
whom it is our duty to feel good will, and for whose welfare
it is our duty to labour; but that is not enough.
It is not enough to regard them as objects upon
whom our benevolence may be exercised, or as persons upon
whom it is in our power to operate important changes for
good. We must look upon them also as men with whom,
and not against whom, we have to work—as men with feel-
ings of their own—(hear, hear)—as men who, although
politically subject to us, have a sense of their own rights
and a respect for their own independence—(hear, hear)—and
as men who will be apt to be all the more tenacious of their
intellectual independence and national customs because
of the political subjection in which they are held. (Hear.)
There can be no doubt that the position of a conquering
and governing race confers many advantages as regards
the influence which may be exercised over a conquered
people ; but that position carries with it this disadvantage
—that a conquering race almost inevitably displays a
certain sense of superiority—a certain arrogance, if that be
not too harsh a word to use—a certain disregard of the
feelings of others, which, not being placed under such
circumstances, it is hardly possible for us to undels-
stand. I do not hesitate to say that, unless we keep
within proper bounds our feeling of national superiority,
unless we remember carefully, and even jealously, to
respect the feelings, and even the prejudices of those
.with whom .we have to deal—aboVe, all, if-- we attempt

A selection of vocal music was performed during the
evening by a choir, under the direction or Mr. W. Dorrell,
consisting of Mesdames Winn, Beale, and Dixon, Misses
Banks, Whyte, Jackson, and E. Jackson, Messrs. Cumming,
Shoubridge, Young, Winn, Beale and Hannaford. Mr.
Harker and Mr. Higgs officiated as toastmasters.

DEER STALKING.—Among the sporting incidents
of the month we are enabled to mention that in the island of
Mull, the woods of Scalastle, on the estate of Lochbuy, were
driven for deer on the 22d instant, by'Maclaine of Lochbuy
and party. Capt. Campbell, of Ards, had right and left
shots at two stags, killing one and. wounding the other.
Lochbuy also shot as largo a stag as has been killed in Mull
for many years. It had a very fine head, and weighed 24
stones imperial. This is the first he has fired at since his
return from the East, and we trust it is an omen of his
taking a place among the deer stalkers of his native land.
Others of the party had fair shots.—North British Hail.
STEALING METAL COFFINS FROM CHURCH VAULTS.
—For some days past a rumour has been current at Strat-
ford that a copper coffin had been stolen from a vault
under St. John's Church, and on Thursday evening Mr.
John Bromley, one of the churchwardens, accompanied by
the clerk of the church, Mr. William Biggs, Mr. George
Craddock, the 'sexton, Sergeant King, and one or two other
officers belonging to the K division of the metropolitan
police, visited the vault for the purpose of ascertaining
the truth of the report. A portion of the.brickwork-having
been removed sufficiently large to admit a person to enter
it was discovered that the copper coffin in which, with
a shell and open coffin, were the remains of Mr. John
Taylor, deposited in the year 1846, was missing ; and
two men, named James List, aged 35, and William
Saville, aged 32, natives of Stratford, who had been employed
as gravediggers at St. John's, were apprehended the
same evening by Sergeant King, on suspicion of being the
parties implicated in the robbery. On the following
morning they underwent an examination before Mr. Joseph
Soames, when the further hearing of the ease was ad-
journed till Wednesday next. On Friday Mr. Biggs, the
clerk, and Mr. William Gore, a plumber and glazier, of
Stratford, made a further examination of the vault in
which Mr. Taylor's remains were deposited, and those of
his brother, Mr. Samuel Taylor, whose death took place
four years subsequently, in 18e0, and who was in-
closed in a leaden coffin. This, it was then discovered for
the first time, had also been stolen. The copper coffin
weighed nearly or quite 2 cwt., being as thick as an old
penny-piece. It was made under the superintendence of
Mr. Taylor, several years prior to his death, and deposited
with Messrs. Martin and Son, of Stratford, his undertakers,
as noticed in this paper at the time of his demise. The
shells, as well as the two out-oaken coffins, were slightly
damaged, but the brass inscription plate and the massive
gilt handles were left untouched, The entrance to the
vault was made by removing a portion of the brickwork,
which was replaced and whitewashed over, with the view
of preventing detection. The incumbent and churchwardens
will no doubt order the other vaults under the church to
be examined, more especially as they would be warranted
in doing so from information obtained since the apprehen-
sion of the parties supposed to be implicated in one of the
most daring cases of sacrilege which has occurred for some
time past. One of the accused persons has admitted his
complicity in the crime, but accused his coadjutors of
having taken the lion's share of the spoil. The police of
the district are now busily engaged in obtaining additional
evidence ; at present it has not transpired when the coffins
were stolen, although a rumour is current that the copper
one was sold to some marine-store dealer in the neighbour
hood, whose name, for obvious reasons, for the present we
withb.old.—Essex-iieraki,

Mr BUCHANAN, after alluding to various matters
of local interest, said—Gentlemen, I voted for Mr.
Gibson'semendment, and because I regret having
done so I come forward to you, my constituents,
and express my feelings on this subject, Well, the
Government of Lord Palmerston was defeated, and
the administration of Lord Derby came into their
places. I could not do justice to my convictions,
did I not most freely admit that many of the gen-
tlemen who occupy the treasury benches do honour
to their places. There arc many men among them
of experience—men of polished manners and high
!character ; but having said so much, I am done.
(A laugh.) Their position is one which I cannot
look.upon as consistent with their dignity, and is
not one I would -willingly occupy. Not only were
they in a false position, but they are, night after
night, called upon to forget their former profesSions
and all their former opinions ; 'but what is worse,
they are placed iu a:position where they carry out
no definite policy, and adhere to no definite course
of action. Whenever a subject comes to be dis-
cuseed,-what is the course of those on the Treasury
benches ? They wait till they see what support
they are likely to obtain from the gentlemen below
gangway on the opposte side, but do nothing
at all till they see the amount of support they may
depend on. ls that a position for honourable men
to occupy ? Is that the way to govern this great
country—on 'the 'principle that 20 or 30 men on
certain benches. were • found ready to give support
on certain conditions (Cheers.) I look upon this
state of affairs as of a most disastrous hind,.preg-
nant with the greatest evils. So long as I have
the honour of a. seat in Parliament-as your repre-
sentative, I,shall endeavour, with any litle abilities
I may have; to 'assist in: raising up again a strong
and :powerful Liberal party, whether LordPalmey-
ston or Lord *
Jeliltraussell inte_oo9o4—al4W-
members of that party: (Cheer s.l As I do-not
know, and perhaps as yet,-I do not care much about
thematter.' This I- do know, they will never want
worthy successors to carry out great principles in
this country. (A Voice.: " Seller of Poland.")
One of the great evils of the present course of
affairs is that it is impoSsible to :tell what is
impending. October is coming on. We will
have Cabinet councils, many. discussions and
hints threwn • out to test public opinion. What
hums.* being can predict what kind of "Reform Bill
We will get from.Lerd.Derby ? - Will it be an at-
tempt to add more to the influence. of the Tories by
adding to the county- constituencies ? or, will it be
the bolder game, announced by many of hat :party,
as their intention to give universal suffrage, trust-
ing to their playing a Tory game ? I Mistake the
opinion of the great majority of the masses of this
country if they have any taste for a. retrogressive
policy. They love equal rights and laws greatly ;
but I much mistake indeed if Parliament was
elected by universal suffrage, if it would extend
aristocratic rights. I think, if they proceed to this,
our friends- the Tories will :find out the .
mis-
take for themselves. I pass on to make a
few remarks-upon other matters. I was glad to
give my .support to Mr. Locke King's bill for in-
troducing a £lO county franchise to_ England.
That was thrown' out in the Lords, but• will be
again introduced. A bill was - introduced -by a
Scotchman, Mr. Caird, the member for Dartmouth,
to extend the 40s. freehold franchise to Scotland.
Now, gentlemen,' did not appreve of the principle
of that bill, but I voted for its -being read a first
time. I -think the franchise so low as 405.,. without
residence, Would not be good-; but that it would be
better to-have a £lO or even .£5 county franchise,
with residence. , I think Mr. Caird was.searcely
fairly used by the Scotch lawyers, who argued as if
freeholds could not by any possibility exist in Scot-
land. Such' was the argument of the present Lord.
Justice-Clerk and the late Lord Advocate, Mr. Mon-
creiff. No doubt, in the present state of Scotch law,
difficulties of such a kind exigia,s --gives a colouring
to their argument; but when we have £lO free-
holds- or feuholds, we could have them at £2, and
therefore I could not see the force of the arguments
of the learned lords. I have, therefore, to explain
that if Mr. Caird's bill had come to a vote -upon
the merits, before I could have given it-my support
it must have been modified.- He then glanced at
the bill brought in under Lord Derby's Government,
called the - Transfer of Land Bill. The' measure
was a very important one, and he trusted it would
prove of much benefit. The question of expenses
was not brought forward in the discussion upon its
merits. The lawyers generally took care of that
question. Regarding the Confirmation of Electors'
Bill, he saw no reason why such a measure had
been delayed se long, as there
.-4eemed to be a de-
sire for such a 'measure very generally in the
country. He then referred to the bill brought in
by Sir E. Colebrooke anent the registration of
county voters, but which had been thrown out.
He ridiculed the manner in which Lord Derby's
Government had treated the measure, delaying to
oppose it until they had information from their
country factors regarding the likely effects it would
have upon their interests. They allowed the bill
to pass a second reading, while their information
was maturing, and they opposed it in the third
reading. As the hon. baronet was not easily cast
down, he was in hopes that it would be again
brought forward next year, as such a measure
would prove of much benefit. (Cheers.) He had
always been favourable to a reform =1 cur imiversi-
ties, and it had given him great pleasure, therefore,
that the Lord Advocate had succeeded in passing a
measure for that purpose. While the Legislature
had been devising means for the education of the
rich, he regretted to say that nothing had been
done for the education of the poor. (Hear, hear.)
It was highly desirable that there should be a bill
brought in for this purpose. The Privy Council's
grants for education amounted to £7,000 or £B,OOO
a-year—grants to which he objected. They were
for the most part sectarian in their character. They
were made to the Free Church, the Established
Church, and the Roman Catholic Church. It was
his desire to see them done away with, because he
wished to see education imparted in such a way as
to make men not better Free Churchmen, but better
citizens. (Loud cheers.) He regretted to say that
nothing had been done in this direction, but hoped
that some measure would soon be brought forward.
It was one of many difficulties, but the more reason
therefore should it be taken up with spirit.
Mr. DALGLISH was received with all the enthu-
siasm awarded to his colleague. He said—My- ex-
cellent colleague has gone so very fully into all the
important questions of last session, that it will not
be necessary on my part to detain you long. I
have, however, a few remarks, and after I am done,
I have no doubt that it will be agreeable to myself
and colleague to hear the opinions of our consti-
tuency on any prominent question likely to come
before Parliament during next session. (Cheers.)
When Parliament met in February last, on the
papers of the house were several motions, entered
by the officer whose duty it is to do so, and who is
responsible therefor. But after the attempt on the
life of the Emperor of the French, the meetings of
the French colonels, and their addresses to the Em-
peror, as they appeared in the Moniteur newspaper,
changed the state of matters. Following them,
there was brought into the House of Commons, by
the -former Ministry, a bill for the amendment of
an important law of the country. Had this amend-
ment been proposed by others than those who did
it, I dare say it would quietly have passed unob-
served. It was the way in which it was brought
forward that damaged . it • for when it was first
brought forward only a small minority of Liberals,
headed by Lord J. Russell, voted against it. We
were told that if that bill were not passed, we
should have immediate war with France. I had
no such fear, but if I had had, it should not have
deterred me from voting against it. (Loud cheers.)
Because I believe that if we had passed that bill
under threats from one party or another, there
would have been larger measures required under
other threats. (Hear, hear.) I believe that with the
passing of that bill the liberties of England would
have fallen to a great extent. (Thundering
plause.) I do not regret so much as my excellent
colleague that the Conservatives, even against their
principles, should have supported the amendment
of Mr. Milner Gibson. (Hear, hear.) I believe
that the Ministry of Lord Palmerston had become
so much convinced of their popularity with the
country, that they thought they could treat the
Liberal party as they liked. (Cheers.) I was glad
indeed to see a change of Ministry—(clieers)—
and I confess that the Liberals have had a good
deal more of their own way under the present Ad-
ministration than ever they had under that of Lord
Palmerston. (Cheers and laughter.) One of the'
first acts of the present Ministry was to take a
grdat deal of credit in a matter in which they had
little hand—(laughter)—they sent Mr. Barber to
Naples to superintend the notorious Cagliari affair,
and though no doubt he had brought the matter
very nearly to a close, I do not see that he had all
the merit in 'doing so, • Neither do I say he had no
merit. Far from that; But I believe that the public

" I must inform you, my honoured, sir, that the
mandarins and lawgivers among these: barbarians
pretend (in order to replenish their empty treasury,
and at the same time to please the vulgar sort,
whose goodwill they are desirous to secure,) that
there is great danger to the public morals and wel-
fare because of so many Celestials coming to dwell
in their country—that we shall corrupt them, for-
sooth ! and degrade their race! and a great outcry
has been raised against us. This is pleasing to the
ignorant and brutal among them, who call us all
manner of hard names and ill.treat us—and when I
reply to them in the words of their own sacred
book, Do as you would be die unto,' they only
mock and abuse me the more ; and. if I venture to
mention another of their aphorigms, that With
what measure men mete unto others it shall be
measured to them again,' they reply with blows.
The mandarins and wise men, in order to please
these people, have decreed that all my country-
men, when they arrive here, must pay the great
amount of 40 ounces of silver. This is the
price at which these people value their moral
welfare and the purity of their race ! We are
to be at liberty to corrupt and degrade
them to any extent if we will only pay them the
40 ounces of silver. One of their mandarins stated,
in their hall of assembly, that he objected to our
coming here because we smuggled opium in our
bamboo sticks. If this worthy mandarin had called
to mind that passage from their sacred book which
says, First take the beam from thine own eye, and
then thou shalt see clearly to pull out the mote
which is in thy brother's eye,' the blush of shame
must have overspread his countenance when he
uttered it, seeing that his own countrymen have
been engaged for many years in smuggling opium
into our country, not in bamboo sticks, but in ship-
loads. Another of these wise mandarins said that
he objected to our coming because one of the Celes-
tials whom he employed, although an excellent
servant, had turned Christian, and it seems he con-
tinues a Food servant still, in spite of having
changed his religion, evidently much to the worthy
mandarin's surprise, who apparently wishes to pre-
vent the chance of such a change, by making them
pay heavily for it. Another of these lawmakers
said that, if we were allowed to conic here, this
country would soon become a province of the Celes-
tial Empire, but it seems he is quite willing we
should come if we paid for it. Verily, these people
would allow us to defile their fathers' tombs if we
paid them for it. Surely, if we are FO bad as they
say, they ought to exclude us altogether. I be-
lieve, notwithstanding all the precepts of their
holy books, their professions are all a sham, and the
principal object of their adoration is a low and
grovelling, but powerful demon, called Mammon,'
whose slaves they are.
" To show, also, the arrogance of these barba-
rians, I wish to inform you that they are only
strangers in this land themselves—many of them
havetonly been here a few moons, and none for
more than one or two generations ; and they are
only a very small number—not more than the
people of a single city in the Central Flowery Land;
that their evil example .and conduat, and the fire-
waters which they make, have- already almost do-

To carry trade into Central Asia has for a long
period been desired by our Indian authorities. It
was contemplated by Warren Hastings, who, in
1783, sent Mr. Turner to Tibet to accomplish that
object, and that gentleman reported that in the al-
luvial district gold was abundant, and readily to be
obtained; and even in 1775, Mr. Bogle, employed
by the company on a similar mission, considered that
British woollen manufactures would find a ready
market among the Tibetans. On a former occasion
we had occasion to remark that Mr. Hooker, who
made a botanical excursion to India in 1848, pointed
out the great capabilities for cultivating teaafforded
by the Himalaya range, and this is fully confirmed
by the observations of the Messrs. Sehlagintweit,
who state that plantations at an elevation of even
5,000 feet have proved remunerating though the
best localities are considerably lower. However,
they are of opinion that tea might be grown with
advantage along the whole range, and in unlimited
quantity, and. consider it a most important article of
trade to be introduced into Tibet, where it is largely
consumed, though the quality is coarse ; moreover,
as it comes from China, the cost of carriage, owing
to the distance, must be great. It is more used by
the hill tribes than by the people inhabiting the
plains. Dr. Jameson thinks that we could produce
it at 6d. per pound, and of a better description.
Another article of trade, which would readily find a
market, is coarse woollen cloth, now, to a certain
extent, supplied by Russia, but, if good roads were
made, the travellers corroborate the view taken by
Mr. Moorcroft,• who states " it is at our option
whether Central Asia shall be supplied with goods
from Russia or from England." We could obtain
in exchange from Central Asia raw and manufac-
tured silks, shawls and velvets, hemp, sugar-candy,
and ponies, borax (much used in India for technical
purposes), and a stone called " jade stone," exclu-
sively used for ornamental work. In its chemical
composition it is "a silicate of magnesia and alu-
mina, containing small quantities of iron and chrom
colouring matter ; its mineralogical name is
nephrite ; it a little resembles some kinds of agate,
and cuts or scratches glass very deeply after it is
hardened." Copper and zinc ores are found in the
eastern parts of the Himalaya, and greatly used by
idols.
That natives in making their basins and
That commerce offers bright prospects in these
regions is certain ; but there appear to be many
obstacles to free exchange. Some tribes arc so
savage that all intercourse with them is impossible.
Europeans could not gain access into Bhutan, the
government of which is under Buddhists, the rajahs
being both secular and ecclesiastical princes. The
rulers at Sikkim are not friendly to the Indian Go-
vernment ; but it would be well to adjust any differ-
ences that may exist, as it affords the shortest
mountain passage across the Himalayas into Tibet,
and is on the direct route from Calcutta to Lassa,
the capital of Eastern Tibet. In this district
smuggling is active, proving a demand for trade.
Salt is thus illegally taken from Tibet into Sikkim,
and tobacco from Sikkim into Tibet. The great
obstruction to trade with Tibet arises from the
Chinese authorities, and not from the Tibetians.
"When Major Cunningham and Captain Strachey
were in Tibet, charged with the regulation of the
frontier, the efforts that were made to get official
relations with the Chinese were absolutely
in the
Recent negotiations, however, may assist the re-
moval of these impediments, for though access is
Tibet may not be a specific clause in the late treaty
yet a very' decisive blow has been struck against
the mandarin system of exclusiveness, and. the
whole must fall before proper and repeated efforts.
The Chinese themselves, when once the novelty of
European intercourse has passed away, will soon be
reconciled to the outer barbarians by the love of gain,
and they will learn to respect the strangers they
have despised or hated. Though, as already re-
marked, the Rajah of Sikkim is not friendly to us,
the people are, and are hostile to the Chinese
rulers, and of this fact a skilful diplomatist might
take advantage. The truth is that, with the excep-
tion of savages, all rude tribes arc eager to barter, '
and are only rousedio anger 2r distrust when they
detect injustice and over-reachii„g. We have, how.