The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-06 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6, 1858.

Several despatches have been received from
India, which although only confirming and ex-
plaining what was already known in this country
►ill still be perused with deep interest, and the
more so because they contain the lists of casual-
ties in sundry actions, but also of many non-
commissioned officers who were either killed in
the discharge of their duty, or subsequently died
of their wounds. These lists will be anxiously
scrutinised in many humble dwellings from whence
some member has gone forth to fight the battles
of Old England on the burning plains of India.
They may have been poor, boasting of no high
descent, but many loving hearts will still throb
anxiou ly for tidings of their wolf r.., a!,tl
tray be stricken down at the intelligence of their
deaths far from their native land, arid the dear
ones who looked forward with hope t t!-Jeir return.
The list is unfortunately a long cne. But when

' we consider the perils and fatigues so cheerfully
encountered, the deeds of valour so daringly
accomplished, it could scarcely have been shorter.
We trust that the Government may adopt speedy
measures to alleviate the sorrows of the bereaved
parties. A small memorial—were it but a medal
—in memory of the lost one, would prove that
services seldom equalled, and never surpassed,
have been duly appreciated by a grateful nation.
Such a boon, if promptly granted, would be not
merely graceful, but exceedingly politic. It
would be handed down as an heirloom in the
family, a monumentum cere perennius, and would
stimulate others of the rising generation to emulate
the deeds for which their relative had obtained re-
nown. A resting place in Westminster Abbey or a
statue in the metropolis would not be more to one
of the upper ten thousand than such a memento to
the humble youth who was about selecting a path
in life. It would unquestionably materially assist
the arguments of the recruiting sergeant on any
emergency, when every nerve should be strained
to the utmost to maintain the honour and ensure
the safety of the United Kingdom.
One of the despatches is from Capt. WILLTAM
PEEL, R.N., commanding the Naval Brigade, and
is peculiarly interesting, inasmuch as it indicates
what our jolly Jack tars can do, when removed from
their native element, and engaged in inland opera-
tions. It proves that oven the greatest discipline
and organisation on the part of our land troops cannot
produce greater efficiency than the natural courage
and indefatigable energies of those of whom Eng-
land has abundant cause to be proud—the garri-
sons of her " wooden walls." Many of those
heroes—for they have well merited the title--+-
were from the merchant service. They were
raised at Calcutta, and, as Captain PEEL justly
remarked, their fine appearance, good behaviour,
and excellent discipline displayed the ability and
zeal of Lieutenant J. W. VAUGHAN, their com-
manding officer. It, however, did more, for it

proved, beyond the possibility of dOubt, the value
of the materials which that very efficient officer
had at his disposal.
They were speedily engaged in the battle of
Kudjwa, where, on the death of the gallant leader,
Colonel POWELL, of her MAJESTY'S 53d Regiment,
Captain PEEL took the command of the combined
forces, and succeeded in obtaining a decisive vic-
tory. They had arrived on the 31st October, at
the camping ground of Thurea, and there heard
that the sepoy mutineers from the Dinapore regi-
ments, with three guns, had crossed the Jurnna
with the intention either of attacking Futtehpore
or marching into Oude. It was, of course, essen-
tial to arrest their progress,and immediate measures
were adopted for that purpose. After a march of 16
miles, the column halted for refreshment,and then
resumed their march in double quick time. The
battle commenced at 2.30 r.M. j the enemy, con.
sisting of about 4,000 men, of whom 2,000 were
sepoys in uniform, fought with the energy in-
spired by despair. The gallant POWELL fell early,
and his duties fell on Captain PEEL, who faith-
fully and nobly discharged them.
The long and tedious march had greatly ex-
hausted our men, but the excitement of the con-
test revived them. No refreshment could do
more for a true-hearted Briton than the presence
of an armed enemy. After a severe conflict
of two hours and ten minutes, the enemy
retired in confusion at 4.30, leaving our forces
in command of the field and two of their guns,
the third being subsequently abandoned eight
miles further on. This was a gallant transaction,
in which the Naval Brigade greatly distinguished
themselves.

There is also a despatch from Capt. BANNISTER,
commanding at Neemucb, in which he details the
particulars of a severe struggle with some of the
rebels from Mundesote, in which several gallant
officers were killed or wounded. The despatches
from Lucknow add nothing to the information
we have already obtained.

gation.] Because the Indian revolt necessitates
the immediate revision of the whole fabric of our
Indian Government ; because of this, that, and
the other, the question of further Parliamentary
Reform admits of yet longer delays and of a yet
more tantalizing evasion ! It being monstrously
hinted among those most sage and singularly con-
stitutional reasons, that Ministers very wisely de-
fer to some remote opportunity the consideration
of the problem of this.particular and very compre-
hensive reform—because, forsooth ! the country is
not so bent upon its acquisition this time as to be
literally upon the very verge of insurrection.
Last time, if the Reform had not been granted
when it was granted, there would certainly (there
is now not the slightest doubt of this) have been
bloodshed far and wide throughout England.
So hard run then were the people of this free land
by a procrastinating Legislature ! And because
we are not now upon the eve of an outburst that
was then imminent--that but for that concession
was inevitable—we are to delay, and delay, and
delay, until we snppose we are again by those
delays goaded to the very brink of rebellion !

Another month and Parliament will have re.
assembled. Its labours were but dimly fore-
!,hadowed through the Royal Speech inaugurating
the extraordinary session convened in the winter
of '57, simply for the purpose of Indemnity.
Nevertheless, through that Speech from the
Throne—dimly--they tiers foreshadowed. Dis-
tinctly enough (however faint the outlines) to
en tble us to conjecture the chief, at least, am,,ng

Is this really and truly the principle of legislation
established by our Constitution ? Is " pressure
from without "—indicated by a Shadowy Monster
holding in one hand a petition, and in the other
the detestable banner of insurrection—the one,
sole signal of Parliamentary improvement ! GOD
forbid ? An evasion upon this plea—upon the
plea of the popular quietude—were indeed no-
thing less than an infamous evasion. But--

directly illustrative of this very point—what says
M. DUMONT in his preface to his treatise on the
" Principles of Legislation !" He says this (with
the perfect cognizance and with the direct ap-
proval of a no less illustrious and philosophical
observer than the late JEMMY BENTHAM)---." La
seule 6poque oit Fon puisse entreprendre avec
succes des grander reformes de legislation, est cello
oa les passions publiques sont calmes, et o 4 le
gouvernement jouit de la eta bilite la plus grande."

Memorable words—words we would now mos

earnestly submit to the judgment and the consci

ence of her Majesty's Advisers ! Wherefore, in

spits of all these sinister rumours as to the possible
cushioning even now of Parliamentary Reform for
'5B, we venture to assert that the country looks
calmly but confidently and exactingly for the ful-

filment in this matter of the solemn and reiterated
promise of Viscount PALMERSTON.

Under what inspiration we know not, but the
journal which boasts of being the " European" one
has taken in hand to teach all Europe that Eng-
land has a hankering again for slavery or even the
slave-trade. Of course both in modified forms.
The slaves are to be apprentices, or to labour
under a ten years' contract or so ; and as to the
slave trade—well, it is notorious that we have
utterly failed to suppress it. Still, as public
opinion will not tolerate an open traffic in human
bodies and souls, it is to be an emigration or im-
migration under Government Commissioners, and
the whole thing is to be but a parallel with the
voyage of Scotchmen to 0 tna da, or of Irishmen to
the United States. Dr. LIVINGSTONN has com-

pointment of a Committee of Inquiry in regard
to the anxieties and responsibilities of the Grand
Difficulty of our Anglo-Indian Government.
Another and not the least urgent of these con-
spicuous themes for legislative scrutiny in '5B, is
of course, the only one in regard to which the
Prime Minister had long since formally pledged
his Administration. The most important problem
of all, so far as our political condition internally
is concerned—meaning obviously by all this no
other vexata qua'stio than that long expected, long
delayed, hitherto avoidable, but ultimately ine-
vitable achievement of legislative sagacity—Par-
liamentary Reform. Lord PALMIIRSTON, it must
be remembered, was long since pledged to that :
and in the Speech from the Throne in November
his promise was spontaneously and explicitly rei-
terated. Nevertheless whispers are occasionally
audible even now that the subject yet admits
of further postponement. It is declared
for several very cogent reasons to admit of this
further postponement. Because, for example,
the currency has at once to be looked to. [lt
matters nothing that that "at ono3 " looking to
the currency involves the intention simply—as
already intimated—of organising another dawd-
ling and quite unnecessary committee of investi-

proportion of women should accompany the immi-
pants ; this, of course, would raise the cost of
immigration from India fully six or seven to one
in favour of the Mauritius.

The grand end of the West India Planters
and their advocates at home, too, is doubtless
that of Protectionists. They cannot brook the
demands of Free Trade. Accustomed once to
have their labour for nothing, or what seemed
like nothing, they have not yet outgrown the
habits and ideas generated by the good old days
when every planter could flog his nigger as he
liked. Such labour was indeed dear enough. It
ruined them. When emancipation came, and
when by a sad piece of trickery England's tax-
payers gave them 20,000,0001. of their hard-
earned money for their labourers' freedom, it was
found im nediately that the money belonged to
mortgagees at home—that the plantations were
bankrupt—that but for this windfall from JOHN
BULL's adored tree of liberty, the mortgagees
would never have got a farthing. All they had
gained indeed had been gained by a heavy tax, in
the shape of a protective duty, inflicted on sugar
consumers in England, and all for no earthly pur-
pose but to bolster up slavery and bankrupt
planters. To have equalised the sugar duties all
over the world, to have given our own East India
sugar alone a fair and equal chance in the market,
would have broken up the planters, and perhaps
have emancipated their negroes, too, without our
paying them a penny.

There is not a set of quondam monopolists in
the world who have less claim to Legislative
bounties in aid than these same West India Plan-
ters. As a class they extracted an enormous an-
nual tax from British consumers, and wasted our
liberality in extravagance, slave-driving, and
finally fleeced the country out of 20,000,0001. of
hard cash. Even since emancipation gave them
a free peasantry, instead, like sensible men, of
looking the plain facts in the face, what must they
do but seek in every way to irritate and oppress
the peasantry whom they could no longer " wal-
lop" at pleasure. They made vagrant laws, in-
tended to compel them to labour where they
lived. They laid taxes on all the imported arti-
cles most used by the negroes ; they charged
them rents for cottages, or huts built by
the poor people themselves ; and above
all they endeavoured to grind them down
to the most unreasonable wages. A few
planters had the sense to employ the missionaries
as mediators on the wages' question, when all went
smoothly. The great majority, however, tried
every means to get the labour of the freemen for
much less than it had cost them, all things con-
sidered, for the labour of slaves. This was, of
course, resented. The peasants, many of them,
" squatted," many of them obtained small quan-
tities of land by aid of the friends of emancipation
at home. And worst of all for the planters, they
taught the people to live without labouring for
them. They have taught them independence—
laziness if they like to call it so, and must bear
the results of their meanness and folly.
There is, of course, still open to them the one
resort of frank conformity to the requisitions of
their case. They can exchange antiquated and
unaided cultivation for modern labour—saving
appliances. They can exchange the clumsy hoe
for the plough, and hand-labour in many pro-
cesses for the steam-engine. They can give wages
which shall evoke the spirit of industry by making
it worth while to labour. Two facts speak
volumes. One is that for those kinds of labour
which are fairly paid for, there is no want of
hands. Another, that from those colonies where
labour is beat paid, the largest exports are sent
forth. The negro is just like any other human
He will work with an adequate motive ;
but, why he should toil and broil under a tropical
sun fur Sid. or 6d. a-day, it is difficult to
see. Waste land abounds, and he can raise pro-
bably one or two shillings' worth of produce, or
more, while the sugar planter would have him
labour for sixpence.

The Prince (le Moskowa has arrived from Paris at
the Brunswick Hotel, St. James's, where the Marquis
and Marchionness de Cadors, the Cunt and Counte 8
de Lubedoyere, and the Cuunt de Castelnajac have
joined hii Ilighnees.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges, Queen's
con sel, &c., at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-
street. on Monday next, the first clay of Hilary term, at
12 o'clock.
The Count Edward D'Alten has returned to the

for Gloucester Gardens, Hyde-
elled a reluctant acknowledgment that purchasing Tile Ladies Charteris have arrived at Claridge's
the principal themes about to be submitted to the P
deliberate consideration of the Legislature, after negroes from Africa, under the mild designation Hotel, fropmperScotoirawndodo.md,isfos
Brunswick Hotel, from Brighton.
the date of its supplementary assemblage in Feb- of " labourers by special contract," must neces- Hotel, LadyuDuakeNtt have left the Queen's
ruary. We know perfectly well, for instance, sadly result in changing the incipient inland com- park.
The Duke and Duchess of
inCleveland have not had
already in connection with the senatorial achieve- Enema of Africa into slave hunting and village
c' the usual festivities at Baby consequence of the seri-
went of November, namely, the redoubtable burning ; so that suggestion, though looked on our indisposition of her grace.
Indemnity Bill, that with a view to the solution
with a lingering eye, must be given up. Still,
oor West India c HiseeExcs dellee pn:rystt,heey Azibalesasaydeorthoef
rFe France and the
thethe
p
of the long-scrutinized but hitherto wholly un- something must be done for the Embassy, Albert-gate House, to-day, on a visciet of
ts
solved problem of the Currency, we are to have planters. What must it be? Cau't we get them Duke ofE Neiwi cas tloauthCt Iva .0o;:epr-ipark,
the
otts.
that extremely absurd, because entirely super-
.
gratuitous labourers? That would be perfection,
g's
the Court oYf Sweden has taken a large New
Mmanst•ntinr fluous Committee of Investigation. It is deeded, If that cannot be, sve must devise some means t ) Grosvenor-place.
Excellncy the Minister for the Hanses Towns left
get them. Indian or Chinese coolies—we must towileisa few days since for Berlin.
iii other words, that a solemn conclave shall be
formed to discover whether or not the notorious give them a lift somehow. His Excellency the Sara Minister will return to
Bank Charter Act operates in any way as au im- Now, we trust all Europe, and America toe, to‘izatLoirelnorrow from Germany.B
, Tuesday.—Baron utib
erg, the Russian
pediment to what is called the Circulating knows enough of this country to be aware that Ambassador at Vienna, is nominated to the embassy at
,
eledium—though calamities the most dire have under no modification shall we tolerate again the Berlin. Baron Brunnow, long Russian Minister at the
Court of St. Jetties s, has again received his credentials
again and again proved, beyond the possibility of vice which we paid 20,000,0001. to be rid of, and to the English Court.
Mary Douglas,
`laughter denial, that the stricture caused simply and solely which we see to be such a plague spot to the pill-
Auleter
by that Act operates with all the strangling tical and social health of America at this moment. tetrotfrotmhe NDiackeesasy--
pedDip' Lady
of
Hamilton,
is
seriously ill here. Sir Joseph 011iffe has just rrrived
obduracy of a tourniquet ! Wherefore, let us We do not repent of having parted company with from Paris, having been summoned to attend on her
l
repeat so far we know already perfectly well—but slavery. It was never a " domestic institution" a dietsiEhAi
Lp.T 'ff'
OF THE DUKE OF SUTHERLA.ND. Tile health
too well, alas !—that among the labours of the with us, and was always a nuisance in our cola. of his grace the Dulte.of Sutherland hag for some time
approaching session of '5B there will be those flies. And all the sighs of planters will neverwasve u iwpsrisnee. s s
itinehiiss friends.able
By
to move
consequent upon this wretched Committee in re- recal it. In Jamaica, as in England, our QUEEN about, but is greatly affected by general debility.—
ipaasstt
abcecehnu , suchlts his
i sa as
rtaocge i
gard to the working of the Bank Charter Act, will never be the sovereign of slaves or slave- NoLtil::;71Eo
RACHEL —Mademoiselle Rubel die d -
That—so far as we yet know anything in reference holders. In addition to our inborn hatred of terday at her residence near Cannes. .
yes
to the new session—is about the head and front slavery, we are now Free-traders, and all these Mr. J. D Fitzgerald bas declined accepting either of
appearance in the vacant Irish judgeships,
of its offending. plaintive cries from the West Indies, for improved We hear tbat Miss Gerard,
India, again, and its Government will inevi- labours, are but the cries of monopolists of labour. sotprtr olvodicipe,g who is spoken
members
theof very favourably by some
a Young lady with a fine
o
tably furnish another and fecund subject-for cis- They want cheaper labour ; and forthwith cry to profession,pu,,ic is expeo I
Despatches shortly t
cussion in both Houses of the Imperial Legislature. the State to furnish them, in great part at the High Commissioner of the
lonian I-lends were received yesterd at the Colonial-
o ua kfer om her
theai
Another problem will here have to be dealt with, public expense, with additional hands, to lower office. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the
to the end that we may arrive as speedily as pus- the wages of their present labourers. They are Cape of GoodG Hops, ,
Bible at its solution : and we dare say it will after quite free to hire labourers honestly whenever reaCrrr tolerlearnEltliTantEnt:e Ssesearvy i. oE s .ces o—f
thelt willgal lrlftgrlOM
all be dealt with—just about as summarily I they will. The British empire is open to them, Greatbed have been recognised by the Commander-in-
Ceief and that on the arrivalof S. Colin at Alumbagh
Unless, indeed, the horrors of the late revolt in from Labrador to the tropics, from the far East
Colonel(Nov.gave Greathed the
Bengal nerve Parliament to some more energetic to the far West ; but of course they must do it- command of the Infantry Brigade, consisting of the Bth,
exercise of its authority, and excite it to some under the conditions requisite to insure that men
same7sth,
timeand twoi
r Colin
m mo to fhP u
dnj Apb
I intimated Infantry. Att ott hh tee
more prompt evidence of its wisdom, with a view of a strange language, our own subjects neverthe- hero of Agra, "that after all 'hors esUccesses with his
to the resolute and
.systematic dissipation of the less, are not imposed on where their personal avenging
command column,
dnot let
sanbyttonre tinterfere
r
appalling evils consequent upon the preposterous liberty is concerned, and where there is every Colin Campbell how to aepeeyeiaktenoeweal merit in a sol-
scheme of the double Government. The mercao- facility for fraud. So far, however, as sugar, and dier ; and we hope the time is not far distant when we
may congratulate Colonel Greathed on receiving some
tile calamities hitherto have unhappily proved some other tropical produce, is concerned, it really substantial acknowledgment at the hands of his country
altogether inoperative of these beneficent conse- does seem much easier to erea•e aogar plantations, f r
1 his distinguished services.—Times.—[We intes.—[We cordially
I say ditn. —Sun.]
quences -
,as but just now intimated in our refe- by irrigation, for our East India subjects, than to ELECTION INTELLIGENCE SOUTH NORTHAMPTON•
rencte to the bewildering procrastination of Parlia- carry them thousands of miles away to' cultivate SHIRE —A. vacancy heir,
-e; about to occur in the southern
in regard to the imminent difficulties . ' the fee uently exhausted lauds of the West India odfivisio of the county of Northampton, by the elevation
in . d q Viscount Althorp, m. io
to the House of Lords, as
volved in the Question of the Currency. It may islan s. Earl Spencer, in room of his deceased father, this part
be different with the sun • of the county is already in the thick of an election con-
disastrous and so far more The West India Planters seem to have stirred
which '
test, promises to be equally sharply fought with
disastrous calamities of Sepoy 11,iieti •
•
n'l's calamities up a little by envy of the Mauritius. That little that which took place here at the late general election.
affecting not merely the Pecuniary fortune'',successfully Lord Henley stands the Liberal interest, and Col.
but c ilony has resorted to immigration , . on
Henry Cartwright on the Conservative. It will be a
the lives of our valiant and un ff •
° ending fellow- from India, but it bas two great advantage.. One close run. Lord Hen,ey h d
a COMO era . ble amount of citizens in Hindostan, and what was far dearer Indies might it
Mal influence -a the -, as
, ..Aent member is I
to that the West equally possess, has . .
i county, and the pr
family 1
them than their lives, those of their outr his frieud ; white Co!. Cartwright belongs to a
aged employed artificial manures, guano especially,
long of great influence here.
wives, and sisters, and daughters, and those even with DEATH OF WIL DAVIE, Bee, LL.D.; TOWN-CLERK
and skill ; the other advantage is
industry
of their little nursling babes, and prattling chi]- ou , OF GLASGOW.—Mr. Davie, the senior town-clerk of
with which the West Indies cannot compete) G asgovediedftat his residence, BlthesvrTd-sauvaireew, on
dren. The recollection of these more hideous and thee NI
comparatively close to India, the Wednesday,
nadeprotracted illness.. Dr. more dismal calamities may prove somewhat more West Mauritius
is
to r.-clerk, under and latterly as senior
Indies is nearly I lf the circumference of in dfi. ce fox:more then '4or. eddle
not tees re-
efficacious of good in its influence upon the Coen- tee Zuee etta half
yeare, andK was
nt. The coat of transit, is :lb( tit : opect,ed for the high
legal gettlificatione than for hie
cils of the Lords and Commons of Eliglaud. Cow 31. or 41. urt,E4.3,- and sir I,of diemyitiati. Dr. i
to th i the . igu.ar amiability . •
Davie was released from his euiferiage by
grant it. As yet at any rate there is the enet, u- oncs more than
raging possibility that the Session about to be must be added, that it i
10 nearer colony, to remoter
three times that sum. To this it ,
4 found necessary, for the death, just.
two days before he would have ceased by Vie terms of
{hip own resignatien to be town-clerk of Glas;ow. About
recommenced, may result in more than the ap- moat obvious of moral : lour months ago he intimated his intention to resign on
t
reasons, that a reasonable the 31st Dec., in consequence of ill health,

A EST NEWS

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SOUTHAMPTON, w - ERNESDA.Y MORNING.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, Captain Evan. 4, has arrived with these

mails.

She left Alexandria, Dec. 23 ; Malta, 27th ;

and Gibraltar, Jan. 1.

She has 70 passengers, 47,3681. in specie, 610
bags of wheat, 50 bales of silk, and general cargo.

The Indus spoke the barque Meg Merrilies on
the Ist inst., and the Alhambra, steamer, on

the 2d.

At Malta, her Majesty's ships Royal Albert,
Princess Royal, Centurion, Conqueror, Vulture,
Coquette, Ariel, Vigilant, and Harpy ; at Alex-
andria, screw steamers Arcadia and Abeona ; at
Gibraltar, H.M.S. Curlew, and screw steamer
Elmo.

The barque Caleb, which grounded in the bay
on the 21st, was got off on the 29th.

MILAN, JAN. 5. ;
Field Marshal Radetsky died this morning at
8 o'clock, after an illness of a week. General re-
gret is felt throughout the city.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor yesterday received •two letters'
written by the King of Bavaria and Prince Luit-
pold, his brother, thanking his Majesty for having
sent the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
to that Prince.

The Moniteur announces that in consequence
of slight indisposition of the Empress, the ball
which was to have taken place this (Wednesday)
evening at the Tuileries is postponed to Satur-
day next.

This has been one of the coldest days we have
had this winter in Paris. The water in the public
gardens is frozen some inches thick, and to-mor-
row, no doubt, will be crowded with skaters. A
magnificent sunset was witnessed to-day from the
Champs Elysees. A group of many-shaped purple
clouds screened the copper coloured golden glare of
the declining sun. The buildings, the skeleton
trees, all below was cold grey, which gave remark-
able value to the warm rich colours above.
BOURSE, Jan. s.—The following were the last
quotations :

4i per Cents
Do. end month._
3 per Cent. ..... 69 50
Do. end month 69 90
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 930

95 50

Credit Foncier
Belgian 44.
Piedmontese (5)
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt . 37i
VAYS.

RAIL'
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto BO5
Lyon and Mediteran. 8821
New Ditto B6O
Geneva

Midi
Western 7OO
Strasburg
Grand Central ... 652A
Slrdinian

Austrian

TURKEY.

The Lloyd of Pesth7orthe 31st ult., contains
some fresh details of the late conflict between the
Turks and the Christians in the Herzegovina.
Tney are given in a letter from Mostar :
" The Turkish authorities of this place, a few
days since, received some alarming news from Piva,
in the district of Gazko. The Christians at that
place being tired of the oppression exercised by the
Turkish irregular soldiers, threatened to rise against
them, and began by refusing to sell them wheat,
oats, Jsc. Last week a body of from 400 to 500
took up arms and marched upon Piva, in order to
drive out the Turkish garrison. The building in
which the latter were quartered adjoins the Greek
convent, which was closed on the approach of the
armed band, who advanced uttering the most me-
nacing cries. Three Turks, not belonging to the
garrison, and one of whom was the son of the
Mu 'of Piva, had however taken refuge in the
inner court of the convent. It is said that the in-
surgents first called on the soldiers in the barracks
to surrender, and on their refusal set fire to the
building. Eleven soldiers perished in the flames,
and the 3 who had sought shelter in the convent were
afterwards killed by the Christians. The Mudir of
Piva, who had on that day gone into CrAno, was
stopped on the road and forbidden to return to
Piva. The president of the tribunal of Mostar was
charged to open a negotiation with the inhabitants
of Drobujak and Piva, to induce them to alter
their r esolution of not supplying the Turkish ir-
regulars wish provisions, ou a promise that for the
future they should have no oppression to complain
ttf. To these advances the rajahs replied that the
aarue assurances were given them six years ago, but
without their having ever been attended to. In
the end, however, negotiations were entered into
between the parties, and hostilities have for the
present ceased."