The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

Bankee, for the purpose of scattering forthwith the
weakened, dispirited, and almost penniless insur-

gents still owning obedience to the lawless chiefs
the NANA SAHIB and BENI MADHO. Our next
despatches from the line of demarcation between
Oude and Nepaul will probably bring news of the
final route of the rebels ; and let us hope, too,
with those tidings, intelligence at last of the cap-
ture of the monster of Bithoor--that abhorred and

pitiless leader of the Bengal Revolt, whose chic

infamy was won as the author of the Cawnpore
Massacre.

HAYMARKET TREATRE.

On Saturday night Miss Amy Sedgwick took her bene-
fit. Not content with impersonating Juliana in the
"Honeymoon," one of the leading characters in her reper-
tory, Miss Sedgwick produced on Saturday a new comedy,
by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, entitled the " World and the
Stage," in which she played so prominent that she made
herself thoroughly responsible for the success of the piece.
As might be inferred from the title, the object of this work
is to vindicate the heroines of the stage from the aspersions
frequently cast upon them by the " world." The story runs
thus :—Two daughters of a wealthy family are left nearly
destitute. One marries a baronet under the promise of cut-
ting and denying her family ; and the other goes on to the
stage to obtain an independent livelihood. The actress be-
comes rich, and is assailed by troops of lovers, and resists all;
the ladyof title has one lover, and so far falls that she is engaged
in a compromising correspondence. The actress sister
determines to save her, a►nd in so doing places her own
character in jeopardy. The world, supposed to be ever in
opposition to the stage, blames the innocent and sanctions
the guilty. Truth, however, at length so far triumphs,
that the actress redeems her character and comes out not
only as a perfect Lucretia, but as a self-denying sister and
a bountiful dispenser of fortune.

The actress is a part well suited to the fervour of Miss
Sedgwick's style, and has that mixture of sentiment and
hilarity which is her forte ; and there is no doubt it will
hecome a stock part with her. She made it a triumph
throughout, was rapturously applauded, called for at the
end of every act, and finally received thunders of applause
amidst showers of bouquets.
The Conway, which was liberally and elegantly put upon
the stage, was announced for repetition upon Easter Mon-
day, when Miss Miss Amy Sedgwick will be re re-engaged.

RETURN OF EARL COWLEY.—His Excellency the
Earl Cowley arrived in London late on Saturday night
from his mission to Vienna. The Earl Cowley had a pro-
tracted interview with the Earl of Malmesbury yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right
Hon. Sotheron Estcourt, the Earl of Malmesbury, the
Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, Lord
Stanley, Sir J. Pakington, and Lord J. Manners.

:er Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, with the youthful members of the royal family,
will leave Thickingham Palace to-morrow morning for Os-
borne. According to present arrangements the Court will
remain absent from town a fortnight. It is understood
that their Royal llighnesses the Prince and Princess Fre-
derick William of Prussia, accompanied by their infant
son, will arrive in this country early in May, on a visit to
her Majesty and the Prince Consort.

His Excellency the Earl Cowley arrived in Lon-
don late on Saturday night, from his mission to Vienna.
The Earl Cowley had a protracted interview with the Earl
of Malmesbury yesterday.
The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon for
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire.
At thePrineess's Theatre the " last Shakesperian
Revival" will be produced on Monday, 28th inst, for the
benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean. " Henry the Fifth"
is the play selected.
Sadler's Wells season is drawing to a close, owing
to Mr. Phelps having accepted an engagement in Germany
for himself and many of has company. The player and the
audience will be happily suited. Shakspeare is nowhere
more truly appreciated than in Germany; we could not
send the Germans a better Shakspeadan company than
that of whicli Mr, Phelps is the head,

yet further of that ultimate decision which has been
in course of negotiation now during no less than
thirty years past. Latterly the delay in arriving
at that decision was certainly here in no respect
matter for any reasonable surprise—when, for
example, it is borne in mind that the seals of the
Colonial-office have changed hands so frequently
that, as Sir BuLWER LYTTON reminded the house
on Thursday night, in a single year there were
actually no less than eight Secretaries of State in
succession at the head of that one unfortunate de-
partment. A sequence of chiefs so rapid that,
supposing any traditional policy at all to be main-
tained at the Colonial-office, its integrity would be
rendered, alas ! then sufficiently precarious. Happily
during the better part of this last twelvemonth a
man of genius and of energy, a man of original
thought and of resolute determination, has re-
mained in power as the ruler of our Colonial Em-
pire. And though assiduous in his efforts to further
the interests of the realm elsewhere—to solve the
lonian problem—to facilitate the intercourse with
our antipodes in Australasia—to create a new and
magnificent colony in British Columbia—Sir Bin-
, WEB LYTTON has no less strenuously essayed to
unravel the gordian knot of the Anglo-French
difficulty in connection with the fisheries off the.
coast of Newfoundland. That knot, let us hope,
will nOw in a very few months be at length dexter-
ously severed by the mixed commission of inquiry
which in Aiay next is to commence its investiga-
tions.

The suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion, we all
know, is now very nearly accomplished. The
province of Oude—indeed the central point from
which all that disastrous movement radiated—has
been distinctly pronounced by Lord CLYDE, in his
latest despatch, to be " free from, every vestige of
rebellion." The comparatively few insurgents still
in arms. are in arms only beyond the frontiers.
There, just beyond the borders of Nepaul, were some
twelve thousand adherents still faithful to the fugitive
cause of the insurrection, huddled together under
the triple banners of the BEGUM, the NANA SAHIB,
and BENI MADHO. Against this forlorn hope of
the revolt were marshalling, according to the latest
advices, on the one hand the terrors of penury—on
the other the Ghoorkahs under JUNG BAHADOOR.
As to the Ghoorkah army, that formidable arrayhad
been enhanced before the commencement of hostili-
ties by a timely junction with it of the British forces
under Brigadier HORSFORD, who, according to our
latest advices from what might still be termed the seat
of war, had, in obedience to instructions from head-
quarters, crossed the Raptee, for the purpose of
joining the native troops under JUNG BAHADOOR.
As to the threatened financial embarrassments
gathering about the insurgent followers of the
BEGUM, the NANA, and BENI MADlio,those perils
of the purse were sufficiently obvious even prior to
the retreat hastily effected by the rebels beyond
-the borders of the Nepaulese territory. Both the
NANA and the BEGUM have long been notoriously
impoverished; while but very recently the treasures
of BENI MADHO were opportunely discovered hid
away, most insecurely, as it appeared, among the
ruins of Doondeakheera. An army at bay with
exhausted coffers, in the presence of one triumphant,
with unlimited resources—hardly requires that a
blow should be struck, or a shot fired. Time, it

was felt, was of itself sufficient to scatter to the
winds the last lawless remnant of the revolted
army of Bengal. One by one the insurgents col-

lected together, at no great distance from Bankee,
in Nepaul, must, as a matter of necessity, drop off
in complete dejection, if not in absolute despair, to
sneak homewards under cover of the Terai jungles.
Yet, to precipitate this inevitable disruption, JUNG
BAIIADOOR was eager to conduct his Ghoorkahs over
the boundaries of Nepaul, especially if aided in that
enterprise by any of the royal forces asked for byhim
to march to his assistance. These, as we have seen,
were no sooner asked than they were granted by
the Commander-in-Chief. HORSFORD'S brigade
had crossed the Raptee—would soon be united with
the Ghoorkah army under JUNG BAHADoon—and
would thereupon hasten forward in the direction of