The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1858.

LATEST NEWS.

INDIA.

MONDAY, OCT. 25, 4 59 P.M.
The following message has been received at the
East India-house.

To James C. Melvill, Esq., India-house, London,
from H. L. Anderson, Esq., Secretary to Go-
'vernment, dated Bombay, Sept. 27.
" OUDE.

" A successful attack on a body of rebels, number-
ing about 3,000, posted on an island of the Gogra,
took place on the 19th inst. Two companies of
Europeans, the Kupperthela Contingent, and some
of Hodson's Horse, attacked and drove them out of
their intrenched position on the island, killing, it is
reported, 1,000. The Artillery fire did great exe-
cution among the fugitives, and also sunk two boats
laden with the enemy.

" Two of the rebel leaders are reported to be
among the slain. The British loss not severe.

“CENTRAL INDIA.

" The Gwalior rebels are still at Seronge, but it
is thought that they will make an attempt to cross
the Nerbudda between Saugor and Bilsa. The fol-
lowing are the present positions of three columns
of British troops serving in Central India :—Major-
General Michel, commanding Malwa field force, at
Bilsa; Brigadier Parke, with Neemuch field force,
at Sarunpore ; and Brigadier Smith, moving with
his forcefrom Goona toward Seronge.
" The first cavalry reinforcement for Central
India, consisting of Guzerat and Gaekwar Horse,
from Dohad, under the command of Capt. Buckle,
was expected at Oojein yesterday.
" The Bombay Presidency is quiet.
" H. L. ANDERSON,

Secretary to Government.
" Bombay Castle, Sept. 27.

i, V. MONTANARO.

" Malta, Oct. 25."

PRUSSIA.

The following telegram was received at Mr.
Reuter's office, Oct. 26, 11.45 a.m.:--
" BERLIN, Oct. 26, 10.37 a.m.
"At a separate meeting of both Chambers, 11
day, a message was received from the Pri
Regent, informing them that his Royal Highness
will take the oath prescribed in Art. 58 of the Con-
stitution before the members of both houses, and
requesting them to assemble this day at 1 o'clock
at the Royal Palace (Koenigliches Residenz-
Schloss) for the purpose of being present at this
most solemn act; immediately after which the
Landtag will be closed."

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY,

The departure of the Emperor and Empress for
Compiegne has been postponed for a few days.
The following are the terms in which the Moni-
teur confirms the intelligence of the difference being
terminated between France and Portugal:" The
Minister of Foreign Affairs received yesterday
morning a telegraphic despatch from the French
Minister at Lisbon, dated the 23d, announcing that
the Portuguese Government has decided on giving
up the Charles-Georges, and on setting Captain
Rouxel at liberty."
The termination of the difference with Portugal
is remarked on by several of the Paris journals.
Their observations, however, are not of any great
importance, as the pacific conclusion of the dispute
was never doubted. Still, as a matter of curiosity,
we subjoin a few extracts. The Constitutionnei
uses the following language :—" We never for a
moment entertained any doubt of this pacific solu-
tion. If the sending of two ships of war to the
Tagus was a demonstration calculated to support
the just remonstrances of France, we thought that
the Cabinet of Lisbon would not hesitate to yield
to such representations. It is henceforward diplo-
macy which will perform the principal part in the
solution of international disputes, and Portugal
would twice deceive herself, if, in refusing to
recognise the error committed by her authori-
ties, she had thought to struggle by force
against right and . justice. However rapid has
been the success in arranging this matter, the im-
portance of it must not be underrated. It would
be wrong to consider the affair of the Charles-
Georges as a simple incident which may now be
forgotten. It would certainly have been a highly
objectionable precedent, if France had found herself
compelled to have recourse to force to obtain the
triumph of her right ; but it was indispensable to
also establish another precedent—that every ves-
sel, provided with the papers prescribed by the
law of 1852, having on board a Government agent,
and fitted up according to all the reeulations set
down for such matters, cannot be stopped in her
operations, either voluntarily or by error, se izen,
and confiscated. There is reason to believe that,
in consequence of the noise which this affair of the
Charles-Georges has made, there will be no neces-
sity for this precedent to be appealed to, but it is
well that all foreign navies should know the ex-
tent of their rights and of their privileges. That
is simply what the French Government has had in
view, and if it has insisted energetically with the
Portuguese Government, it is because its remon-
strances were supported by facts. The Government
of King Don Pedro has well understood that state
ofthing
agentss.
it y
In disavowingie the conduct of its
ldst ono intimidation. Its
weakness was only in the abuses committed at
Mozambique ; those are now repaired ; and Portugal
retains towards France as towards Europe her
colonial
political rank, after having given a satisfactory
proof of the feelings of union and of concord which
ought now to animate nations towards each other."
The Siecle seizes on the opportunity to pro-
nounce against the manner in which, it affirms,
the right of search and the right of visit
are so frequently confounded. The former is
a right of war belonging virtually to every bel-
ligerent nation to prevent the conveyance of con-
traband of war ; whereas the simple right of visit
appertains altogether to a time of peace, and be-
longs to the war vessels of every nation, in order
to prevent piracy. As the right of visit has for its
sole object to ascertain the nationality of a suspected
vessel, the proceedings ought to be of the most sum-
mary character. The Siecle is of opinion that the
practice cannot be given up altogether without
danger, but it also thinks that in the present day it
is exercised in many cases most improperly, and
in a manner only suited to the right of search.
It is that abuse which our contemporary de-
sires to see removed, and in reference to the Por-
tuguese case it thus expresses itself on the point :
"We have no taste for legal fictions, for assimila-
tions of offences, from which always arise, no
matter what may be done, arbitraryinterpretations,
often contrary to common sense, as has just taken
place in the case of the vessel seized by the Portu-
guese authorities. France, which had at her first
great revolution voted the abolition of slavery, as
gross in its character that their example is more and
definitively suppressed in 1848, sends according to
a system which we will not discuss here, a vessel
to the Coast of Africa to engage free labourers.
The Portuguese, in virtue of the treaties of
18*, exercise their right of visiting the

vessel, and there happen to be among them
judges silly enough to declare that a French
vessel, by order of the French Government, and
with a French commissary on board, had come to
exercise the slave-trade on the coast of Africa!
Without the consideration due to Don Pedro IV., a
young constitutional king, animated by liberal in-
tentions, we should have asked, at the first intelli-
gence of that outrage, why our fleet did not at once
bring to Brest all the vessels of war anchored
at Lisbon. France carrying on the slave-trade
officially, with the bicoloured flag displayed, is an