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

CENTRAL INDIA:

Tantia Topee's rear guard was overtaken by
the force under Brigadier Holmes, at Seekur, on
the 21st of January. The rebel loss was 100 killed,
besides a number of horses and 500 stand of arms.
Tantia Topee was making for Beekaneer or Joudh-
pore on the 26th of January. Intelligence, how-
ever, from Indore of the 6th inst. states that he
has turned again north in the direction of
Munglowe, in the Shekawattee country. The fol-
lowing were the dispositions of the forces in pur-
suit on the Ist inst. :—Brigadier Honner, at
Ajmeer ; Brigadier Parke, at Nusseerabad ; Briga-
dier Holmes, at Beelwara ; Brigadier Showers, at
Seekur ; and General Michel, moving on Nusseera-
bad. The Delhi columns have also taken the field.
NIZAM'S TERRITORY.
Sir 11. Rose was en route to Aurungabad on the
6th, accompanied by a field force, for the reduction
of the Rohillas, who arc still committing depreda-
tions in the Nizam's territory.

The Bombay Presidency is quiet.
H. L, ANDERSON,
Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, Feb. 9, 1859.

N.B.—The message from the Government o
India has not been received.

H. L. ANDERSON.
V. G. MONTANARO.

Malta, March 2, 1859.

The following telegrams haVe been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

VIENNA, WBDNE SD AY.

To-morrow a banquet will be given to Lord
Cowley by the English ambassador, Lord Loftus.
Numerous invitations have been issued to Austrian
Ministers and general officers. There has been, to-
day, a grand banquet at court in honour of Lord
Cowley.

The Ostdeutsche Post says :—" There might per-
haps be no objection to renounce the separate
treaties concluded between Austria and the minor
Italian states, but only on condition of guarantees
for the preservation of peace being given."
Lord Cowley will leave Vienna on Saturday.

MILAN, MARcu 1.

The works of fortification along the Ticino, at
Pavia, and at the environs, are carried on actively,
There are daily arrivals of troops here.

About 20,000 refugees are assembled in Pied-
mont. General Gyulai and staff have arrived here,

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY.

To-day the Ministry, urged by the repeated
proposals of several states of the Zollverein, decided
upon proposing to the Zollverein resolutions prohi-
biting the exportation of horses on all the frontiers
without exception. •

BELGRADE, FEB. 28.

The Porte has declared its disavowal of the mani-
festoin which he asserts his
authoorfityParisnacne Mheiii•edscithacy ruler.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition), dated Wednesday (yesterday),
says :

" I have this day_ seen official despatches from
Vienna. The Emperor is obviously in a very war-
like mood, much to the alarm of M. Buol and the
Cabinet. His Imperial Majesty has made use of
very imprudent language with regard to the Em-
peror Napoleon 111., in which he said all the evils
of Europe were to be attributed to the French con-
vulsion of 'B9. With boyish enthusiasm he thinks
he could change the condition of France by uniting
all Germany against imperialism. The Cabinet of
Vienna has agreed to maintain 150,000 men in Lom-
bardy, and create fortifications in all directions.
The Emperor proposes visiting Lombardy at the
request of his brother, the Governor. General of
Austrian Italy.

" The French Government is making preparations
for the immediate withdrawal of the troops now gar-
risoning Rome and Civita Vecchia. France at a
heavy cost has maintained a small army for nearly 10
years in the States of the Papacy by the request of
Pius IX. Austria has done the same and made the
Pope pay for them. Austria now says to Cardinal
Antonelli, ' Get rid of the French at any cost.'
Franco therefore will remove the little Roman army
to Marseilles, and from that point watch the
march of events. Come what may the Pope must
agree that trance is an obedient servant of the
Church.' I learn it is not true that the Pope has
applied to Spain for. troops. His Holiness looks to
Switzerland for recruits.

" Tbe Piedmontese loan will be entirely sub-
scribed in Italy, in the same way that the Russian
war loan in France was raised. According to a
letter I have just received from Turin half the re-
quired sum is already secured by subscriptions from
all parts of Italy ; 1,500,000 f. will be collected at
5 per cent. (delivered at 75), and added to the
national debt."

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Constitutionnel says:—"W e learn that in
consequence of the -communication addressed by
Cardinal An.tonelli to the French ambassador at

Rome, that the Emperor has ordered the immediate
evacuation by our troops of the Pontifical city. A
message received here to-day announces, as it is
asserted, that the French corps d'arrnee had been
forthwith withdrawn to Civita Vecchia, there to
await the transport vessels which will convey the
troops back to France."

PARIS BOURSE.—The market was very heavy
during the first half hour on account of a fall of
on the English Consols, but there was afterwards
a little rally. Threes, after having been done at
67fr. 40e. and 67fr. 20c., advanced to 67fr. 50e. ;
Mobilier varied from 740 fr. to 750 fr. ; Austrian,
517 fr. 50c. to 520 fr. ; Orleans, 1,307 fr. 50c. to
1,312 fr. 50c.; Lyons, 820 fr. to 825 fr. A further
rally took place towards the close, and prices
finished as follows :

4j per Cents. 97 10
Do. end month 97 10
3 per Cents 6B
Do. end month - 67 80
Bank Shares 2BBO
Cr4dit Mobilier
Do. Account 760 50

Cr&IR Fonder -
Belgian 41 . —
Piedmontese (5) BO 50
Roman B7 60
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 39 75

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . 917 50 .. 917 50
New ditto. — .. 785
Lyons and Mediterranean 827 50 .. 826 25
New ditto —
Geneva —
Midi —
Southern
Western 587 50 ..
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian 4OO .. 400
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 15c. ; money,
25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 24f. 95c.

.. 520 -

.. 507 50

• . 670 --

The Austrian Military Gazette suggests the for-
mation of free corps, and asserts that Vienna could
furnish three battalions, and Prague, Pesth, and
Lemberg each one battalion.

In the sitting of the 26th ult. of the Chamber of
Deputies at Turin, General de Lamarmora intro-
duced two bills ; one for the usual annual levy of
9,000 men for the army, and the other for the
customary levy of 500 sailors for the Royal Navy.

A Vienna letter in the German Journal of
.Frankfort, says :---" The recall of soldiers on fur-
lough will augment the Italian army to the extent
of 40,000 men. The organisation of the corps
d'armee has been completed by the nomination of
Field-Marshal Baron de Stankowitz as first
Adjutant-General, and of Lieutenant-Colonel Kriz
as second Adjutant-General."

AMERICA.

[Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The screw steamer New York has arrived off
Cowes, with the mails from New York of the 19th
of February.

Her mails and passengers have not yet arrived
at Southampton.

THE MAGAZINES.

Blackwood.— The present number is not so
brilliant as usual. A new story is commenced,
'entitled " The Luck of Ladysmede," which bids
fair to become exceedingly complicated. Some of
the characters are well described, but as yet it
seems rather heavy in its' style. It is evident that
the Abbot Martin is not able to cope with his wily
associates at Ladysmede, and in the second part he
will most probably prove to have been wofully de-
ceived. The most pleasing article to be met with
here is called ." Clothes and Scarecrows." It is
written in a dashing and spirited style, and con-
tains many just strictures on prevalent fashions,
and some useful suggestions, mingled with satirical
touches and lively remarks. The writer lays par-
ticular stress on the undesirablenes4 of the practice
of trafficking with cast-off garments. "Of all
villanous descriptions of parsimony we most cordi-
ally detest and denounce the nefarious system of
selling old clothes." After referring to the reminis-
cences attached to old articles of apparel, on account
of the scenes end persons they recall, it is ob-
served :

"We confess that we always feel an affectionate interest
in the fate of our cast-off articles of apparel, and that we
should experience considerable perturbation if certiorated
that they had fallen into unworthy hands. It is a fearful
thing to reflect that the innocent surtout which you have
so long worn on Sundays, may pass into the possession of
a burglar, and cover his nakedness, as he glideg, like a
malignant fiend, through the invaded House of Sleep.
Yet who can doubt that many a time and oft the greatcoat
of the philanthropist has been transmogrified into the
wrap-rascal of a garotter, or that the handkerchief which
once was waved in Exeter Hall has become an implement
of strangulation in the hands of a metropolitan Thug ?"
Some just remarks are made on the fallacies
of those who argue that it is a sin to indulge
in luxury. It is stated that when those who
can 'afford it do so, it is an encouragement to in-
dustry :

" It is the luxury of the rich that maintains millions of
the working classes in comfort—a consideration which the
Radical would do well to ponder before he indulges in
wholesale denunciations of wealth and its possessors.
Preachers, also, of the new philanthropic school, should
bear this in mind whenever theyfeel an inward call to hold
forth upon the parable of Lazarus and Dives. Do they
never reflect upon the fearful amount of pauperism,
wretchedness, and crime which would be the immediate
and inevitable consequefice of any large and general cur-
tailment of expenditure on the part of the rich ? Suppose
that, by some singular combination, the wealthier classes
should unanimously adopt the resolution of abstaining for
three years—ay, for one year, or even less—from the pur-
chase of anything beyond the mere necessaries of life—
suppose they should determine to buy no new furnishings,
ornaments, utensils, books, pictures, clothes, but to remain
satisfied with their present stock, which in most families
would be sufficient to last for a very considerable period of
time—suppose they should reduce their establishment by
dismissing half their servants, by renouncing the use of
carriages, and by exercising no hospitality—what would be
the result ? Universal ruin to tradesmen, stoppage of
manufactures, starvation among the operatives, and not
improbably a revolution."
The first article, called " Chalons—The Camp,."
gives a detailed account of the various modes and
inance-dvres of the French army. It is said, in
comparing the two countries, that their different
mtures will ever make the French and English
" representatives of the ' mobility' and solidity'
principles in military organisation." Those who
desire to become better acquainted with the forms
and the principles of action observed in the great
army of France will be pleased with the able expo-
sition here presented to their notice. There is an
article on "Napoleon 111. and Europe," in which
the Italian question is entered into at some length.
The conclusion arrived at is, that it is of the greatest
importance not to allow the French Emperor to
interfere for his own purposes in Italy, and that
the best interests of Europe will be consulted by
leaving the treaties undisturbed, and not insisting
on Austria resigning her Italian provinces. " The
Castes 'and Creeds of India" is an elaborate treatise
on that important subject. Some wise remarks are
made at the conclusion concerning the much-vexed
question of Christianising India. It is said that the
best way is to promote the work at home. " There
is no preaching like that of personal example,"
and, as Lord Stanley observed on the subject, " a
single'officer who forgets that lie is an officer and
a gentleman does more harm to the moral influence
of this country than ten men of blameless life can
do good."

The Dublin.—" Gerald Fitzgerald" is continued.
The present instalment is short, but it is an im-
portant one, as the object of the prelates, who have
undertaken the charge of the unfortunate Gerald,
become more apparent. It is to prove that he was
the son of Charles Edward. The story leaves off
while they are all dismayed at the alarming state
of health into which this youth, from whom so
much was expected, had fallen. The story is very
ingeniously arranged. In the first chapter there is
an extract from a letter of Sir Conway Seymour's
to Horace Walpole, which is called " a ray of real
light." The most interesting article in this num-
ber is that on " Gcoffery Chaucer." It is said that,
with the exception of John Gower and John Lydale,
" Chaucer shone alone—a bright, solitary pole star
in the English firmament of poetry." He composed
his " Conrte of Love" before he was twenty, and
it is remarkable from being in Saxon, which was
then considered a rude, aboriginal dialect :

" For our poet, then a mere stripling, to initiate a new
field of literature in so unpopular a tongue, evinced a daring
originality and a determined independence, the result of the
outbreakiug of a powerful mind, conscious of its own stores
and strength, and perhaps illumined with a prescience of
1110 future. We may imagine so bright an intellect piercing
into the days to Come,' and beholding, as in a vision, how
green and vigorous, and leaf-bearing, this grand old Eng-
lish oak was yet to be, which his hand now planted in the
soil of his country's mind, and that the sapling would yet
become the monarch of the woods, where sweet birds and
bards would sing in time to come, and beneath whose broad
shadow the national intellect would yet learn to ripen and
to repose."

He composed his best work—the " Canterbury
Talcs"—only seven years before his death, when
he was sixty-five. It is said that he was roused
into exertion by the indignation he felt at his
friend Gower implying, in one of his poems, that
he was past work and incapable of further comp°.