The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

NAPLES.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, April 26.
Advices have been received from Naples to the
23d inst.

Disturbances have taken place at Palermo,
followed by numerous arrests. Letters received
state that 300 individuals were seized.

SWITZERLAND.

BERNE, TUESDAY, April 26.

Five Sardinian steamers on the Lago Maggiore,
which had taken refuge in Switzerland, have been
disarmed. Many members of noble families from
Milan have arrived at Lugano, and numerous
arrests have been made among the aristocracy.

BERNE, APRIL 27.
The Federal Diet has been convoked for the 2d
of May next.

Three battalions have been ordered to the banks
of the Ticino.

The English Ambassador, Captain Harris, having
received counter orders from his Government, has
not left for Milan.

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 27.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the
official account of yesterday's sitting of the Corps
Legislatif.
The speech of Count Walewski passes in review
all the 'lases of the negotiations, and calls to mind
the last aggressive act of Austria.

The Count then proceeded to say :
" The whole negotiation shows that France has
manifested excessive moderation ; but if, in the
present state of affairs, Sardinia is threatened—if,
as everything raises the presumption, her territory
is invaded, France will not hesitate to respond to
the appeal of a nation with which she is allied.
The Government of the Emperor awaits with
calmness the course of events, feeling confident
that its conduct during the different phases
of the negotiations, as they have followed one
another, will meet with the unanimous approval of
France and Europe."

The Constitutionnel announces that the native
Algerine Sharpshooters arrived at Genoa yesterday
(Tuesday) morning. They were received with
enthusiasm.

The Constitutionnel also gives the report that
the advance guard of the French corps d' Jrnzee
arrived at Turin yesterday evening.

Count Chassaloup Laubat, Minister for the Colo-
nies, has taken his departure for Algeria.

PARIS, TUESDAY.

The sitting of the Legislative Body to-day was
looked to with unusual interest, and a considerable
number of persons collected on the Pont de la
Concorde and at the entrance of the Cumber to
learn as soon as possible what would occur. In-
side, every place appropriated to the public was
occupied long before the proceedings commenced.
Count de Morny took the chair at a little before
two o'clock, and immediately after Count
Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, entered the
house. M. Baroche, who occupied the seat set
apart for the Government commissioner, presented
a bill for the increasing from 100,000 to 140,000
men levy authorised by the law of March, 1858,
the expose des motifs merely stating that the
bill was intended as a simple measure of pre.
caution. Count de Morny then addressed the
members, and after dwelling on the necessity of
showing unanimity and devotedness on such an
occasion as the present, proposed that the bill
should be considered in the bureaux immediately
after the sitting, a report to be presented forthwith,
and the vote on the bill to take place the next day.
This was acceded to with acclamations. Count
Walewski then read a statement of the whole pro-
gress of the late negotiations, and declared that
France, having done all that was possible to pre-
serve peace, considered herself freed from all
responsibility, and looked with confidence to the
progress of events. Great applause greeted the
hon. Minister's address, and accompanied him when
he withdrew. M. Baroche then presented a second
bill, to authorise the Government to contract a
loan of 500 millions of francs, after which the
deputies withdrew to their bureaux, as had been
agreed to.

The Algiers journals announce that a battalion
of the Ist Regiment of Native Riflemen, about
1,200 strong, had arrived in that city to embark for
France, and had been passed in review by General
Yusuoff, commanding the division. Many of the
men were the English Crimean medal. The same
Sul} l?* state that the day after a part of the city
Vs the scene of considerable disturbance, caused

by the conduct of some of the riflemen, They
attacked with great violence the general body of
the Jews, several of whom, both male and female)
were much ill-treated. In certain quarters of the
city, particularly in the Rue Medee and the Rue
du Centaure, the Jews barricaded themselves in
their houses, and from the balconies hurled down
stones and other missiles on their assailants. The
Prefect, on learning what was going on, called for
the assistance of a strong party of other troops,
and, patrols having been sent round, the attacking
party were obliged to proceed to their camp out-
side the Porte d'lsly.

The officers belonging to the 34th and 37th
regiments of the line, who, as already stated, are to
form part of the army of the Alps, in garrison at
Toulon, have been paid the usual allowance on
entering a campaign, and have received all their
camp equipments. Several vessels belonging to
the squadron in the port have been fitted up so as
to be able to take on board a considerable number
of horses, if required.
A Marseilles letter says :—" The camp of the 2d
Regiment of Foreign Legion, near the railway sta-
tion,
presents the most picturesque appearance, and
is a great object of attraction to the inhabitants of
the city. The soldiers are generally fine men.
There are among them Belgians, Italians, and
Germans, a number of these last being old Austrian
soldiers who had been refugees in France."
A Paris letter in the Independence of Brussels
says :—" Three French corps d'armee will advance
simultaneously to the assistance of Piedmont the
day when the entrance of the Austrians shall be
certainly known. The first will enter by Culoz and
Mont-Cenis ; the second, by Grenoble, Brianson,
and Pignerol ; and the third, going by sea, will
land at Genoa. This last-named point will be
kept as the base of operations, and the French
forces will thence be able to march immediately on
Alessandria. The first two corps will - march
toward the interior, one on the left of Turin in the
direction of Novara, and the other directly on the
Piedmontese capital."
"It appears positive," says the Nord, " that
Austria has succeeded in contracting treaties of
alliance offensive and defensive with Bavaria and
Saxony. Wurtemburg has as yet resisted the
entreaties of the Cabinet of Vienna."

The following nominations have been made in
the Sardinian army :—General commanding in
chief, the King; second in command, General de
La Marmora ; commander of the division of the
Guards of Savoy, General Durando ; of the division
of Piedmont and Aosta, General Cialdini ; of Cuneo,
General Cucchiari ; of Pignerol and Casale, General
Fanti ; of Savoy and Aqui, General Castelborgo ;
of the cavalry, General Sambuy ; and of the En-
gineers, General Menabrea.
The letter of the Germanic Confederation to the
King of Sardinia is stated by the Opinione of Turin
to be nothing more than the reply to his Majesty's
notification of the Princess Clotilda's Marriage.

BOURSE, April 26.—The market has been un-
settled, in expectation of the communication to the
Legislative Body, but prices have been rather more
steady. Threes have been done at 63f. 30c., declined
to 62f. 50c., and are now 62f. 75c. and 62f. 85c.
Mobilier varied frem 565 f. to 550 f. ; Orleans,
1,150 f. to 1,145 f. ; Lyons, 755 f. to 745 f. ; Northern,
840 f. to 835 f. ; Southern, 557 f. 50c. to 550 f. ; and
Austrian, 437 f. 50c. to 430 f. The following were
the last quotations : _

4% per Cents. .... 89 70 Credit Foncier 615
Do. end month .. 90 Belgian 4
3 per Cents 62 90 Piedmonteso (5) .. 72
Do. end month 62 95 Roman Bl

Bank Shares

Credit Mobilier ... 552 50 Spanish Threes ..
Do. Account ..... 555 Home Debt • 36 50

RAILWAYS.
'Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern 842 50 .. 840
New ditto 725 720

Lyons and Mediterranean 765 .. 765 -
New ditto

Geneva
Southern
Western 485 .. 485
Eastern
Sardinian — 330

Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, par, 25f. 6c. ; money,
25f. sc. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971cpe.; money, 24f. 921 c.

INDIA AND CHINA.

By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we (Times)
have received our private correspondence and jour-
nals from Calcutta to the 22d of March, and from
Hong Kong to the 15th of March.

~ CALCUTTA, MARCH 22.

" The Indian world is still talking of finance.
The rebellion has died out, and the few rumours
which reach us create but the faintest degree of
interest. It is reported, for example, that the
Nana, with a considerable force, was recently en-
camped at Someysur, just beyond the Tirhoot fron-
tier. Then it was said that the rebels were break-
ing into Goruckpore ; then that two companies of
her Majesty's 34th had been cut up in a night
attack. The only fact certain, I believe is that
Colonel Horsford's brigade at Byram Ghaut has
been warned to remain on the alert, as the
Ghoorkas are driving the Sepoys our way. Fur-
ther west, Tantia Topee has ducked under, as our
Yankee friends would say, and has not yet re-ap-
peared. His friend and confederate, the Rao
Sahib, however, has suddenly shown himself in
Chundeyree with 2,000 cavalry, with whom he is
plundering the country. It is supposed Tantia also
is somewhere in the neighbourhood, but three sepa-
rate detachments have started to attack the Rao, who
must recommence his never ending flight. There
are some gangs of marauders in Bundelcund, whom
he may persuade to join him, but his raid is only
tiresome and expensive. It will cost many lives,
as the hot weather is coming on, but the Rao can
accomplish nothing of any political importance.
The Princes will not aid him, the Sepoys are killed
or pardoned, and the fighting classes are sick of
disturbances which endanger their necks without
bringing adequate plunder. Even an emeute
among our own irregulars would do him
little good, for the only possible leader of a second
mutiny is a Sikh, a fact of which the Sikhs are very
clearly aware. By the last accounts they have
postponed their great throw for empire till 1863,
when the European troops will, they think, have
returned home. An old Sikh colonel, named Cheyte
Singh, was accused, with a saint or religious de-
votee named Boodh Singh, of treasonable practices
at Lahore. His house was searched, and a paper
found, copies of which he seems to have circulated
pretty widely. It is a prophecy couched in a some-
what mystical tone, and professing to be written
by a Sikh of Jubbulpore. It predicts that in 1863
the Sikhs will arise, exterminate the children of
Christ, keep English women in their houses, and
restore the supreme power of the Khalsa. That is
a pleasant little prediction, and one which the Sikh
very often thinks himself quite competent to realise.
It may be fulfilled, but meanwhile, as a lesson
against being in advance of the age, the conspira-
tors were seized, tried, and condemned to five years
at the Andamans, all within 48 hours. They were
conveyed instantly across the frontier and are now
on their way to their destination. This terrible
promptitude alarms the English idea of justice, but
in India rebels are anarchists, and the first business
of all Governments is to present anarchy. They
expect a plotting season at Lahore now that Sir
John Lawrence has left India, and Sikhs are be-
ginning to feel slightly dull. That feeling has
more to do with rebellion than we are apt to allow.
However rich, or powerful, or ambitious a native in
our dominions may be, there is no sphere of action
for him except plotting against the British Govern-
ment. If he is on our side there is nothing for him
to do. All we ask of him is to sit quiet, to grow
rich, to be, in fact, the fatted hog an ambitious man
usually objects to be.
" As I have said, we are still talking of finance.
I sent you the new tariff published on the 12th
inst., via Bombay. On the 17th the merchants of
Calcutta assembled to consider the provisions of the
new bill. There was some discontent expressed at
special items in the schedule, but generally the in-
crease was allowed to be necessary. The meeting,
however, blamed the precipitancy with which the
measure had been passed into law, and resolved to
petition Parliament for the addition of independent
members to the Legislative Council. They also re-
solved that

This meeting, viewing with alarm the enormous in-
crease in the expenditure of the State, and the great excess
of the permanent charges for the current and past years,
compared with the revenue which to the extent of eight

millions sterling is derived from the two fluctuating sources
of salt and opium, is of opinion that every practicable re-
trenchment should be made in every department of the
Ocevernment at home and abroad with as little delay as
possible.'
" One speaker, Mr. Cowie, the head of one of
the larger agency houses, expressed the readiness of
all Europeans to submit to an income•tax of sd. in.
the pound, provided it was imposed equally on. all.
There was an attempt made to prove that the new
tariff fell too heavily on Europeans—a fact partly
admitted by the Governor-General; but there was
no active opposition.
" Since the meeting Lord Stanley's financial
statement of the 14th of February has arrived. It
is considered here far too favourable. His lordship
was apparently unaware of the condition of the
Indian treasuries, of the pressing demand for three
millions in bullion, and of the Six per Cent. Loan
for five millions to be raised here. The promise,
too, to reduce the European regiments is considered
over•sanguine, and this is the only expedient by
which his lordship proposes to meet the real danger,
which is not the debt, but the permanent increase
of the military and police expenditure.
" On the other hand, the orders compelling Go-
vernment to grant a freehold title to waste land,
and land under the perpetual settlement, are con-
sidered to involve a great concession to opinion
They will certainly increase the growing tendency
to settle, to plant, to grow tea and coffee, to build
factories, and open mines. It is unfortunate that
they do not affect the cotton districts, which are
neither wild nor under the perpetual settlement.
Almost all the tea and coffee-bearing land, however
—almost all the forest land, and a very large section
of the mineral territory is in the hands of Govern-
ment. The copper mines in Beerbhoom, the coal
mines in Raneegunge, the iron mehals in Beer-
bhoom, and the tea country of Cachar and Assam, are
already in European hands. These speculations are
unusually profitable. Some coffee plantations return,
to my knowledge, to the planters 400 per cent. on
the money expended. The tea companies are giving
large dividends, and the coal companies steady re-
turns of 12 and 14 per cent. Single speculators,
however, are daunted by the tenure, under which if
you do not pay your tax by sunset on quarter-day
your title is- ipso facto null and void, and the col-
lector sells your lands and betterments' to the
highest bidder, who has probably bribed the Amlah
to keep off competitors. The local Government
will not, of course, resist the order, but it is not
wholly approved. It tends to increase the number
of European settlers, whom it hits been the set-
tled policy of the Company's servants for a cen-
tury to keep down, and who are at this moment by
law declared incapable of high office, so that, for
example, the manager of the Oriental Bank, who
was consulted by Government to get them out of
the Treasury-bill scrape, is by law incapable of
becoming Financial Secretary. An effort will there-
fore, it is said, be made to nullify the order by fixing
excessive rates, or rates above the limit of 20 years'
purchase, suggested by the Secretary of State.
Difficulties of this kind, however, can be readily
removed from home, and the admission of the prin-
ciple is an important step in advance. Perhaps
some day a Secretary of State may arrive at the
conclusion that the insecurity of tenure consequent
on the land tax is the real cause of Indian poverty,
and that as a financial device it is altogether in-
ferior to an income and house tax. When he does
India will begin to advance in material civilisation
at a rate of which we scarcely dream.
" I enclose a copy of a letter addressed to the
Chamber of Commerce by a number of native capi•
talists,. announcing their intention to have nothing
to do with the loan of May next. The names in-
clude those of all prominent money dealers :

" Calcutta, Feb. 22, 1859.
" ' Sir, We, the undersigned native bankers, merchants,
and others, holders of Government securities, and deeply
interested in all the financial operations of this Govern-'
ment, beg through you to thank those gentlemen who have
beeninstrumental in getting up the meeting held at the
Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, the 19th inst., at which
you presided, and at which the; letter since addressed by
you to Mr. C. H. Lushington, the Financial Secretary to
Government, was adopted, and in the terms of which letter
we for ourselves, and as representing the moneyed native
community, cordially concur.
" We have perused the Government Gazette Extraordi-
nary issued late yesterday evening, in consequence of the
propositions mentioned in your letter, containing a notifica-
tion by the Governor-General, in which his lordship is
pleased to notify for general information the financial mea-
sures resolved upon in order to provide means for carrying
on the public servicee in the coming year 1859-60, and stat-
ing that a sum of five crores of rupees will he required, which
it is proposed to raise by loan to be opetied on the Ist of
May next at 51 per cent.
"Of this further financial measure, as set forth in the
notification, we do not approve. It will depreciate the secu-
rities of all the previous loans to an amount much greater
_than all the money Government is likely to receive. We
dd not think that the money required will be subscribed in
this country, and, in order to avert the loss likely to follow
from a persistence in the course indicated by Government,
we trust that the Chamber of Commerce will follow up this
matter until they influence a strong party at home to induce
Parliament to interfere, and to authorise loans to be opened
at home for all the money that may be required for the use
of the Indian Government.

" 'We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedien

servants,

" ' SHAM CHURN MULLICK (AND OTHERS)
"D. Mackinlay, Esq., President of the Chamber
of Commerce."

"The seat in Council vacant by the appointment
of Mr. Montgomery to the Punjaub has been offered
by Lord Stanley to Sir Robert • Hamilton. The
selection is a good one, Sir Robert being specially
acquainted with what in India are termed 'foreign
affairs,' i.e, the internal affairs of the dependant
native States. The Chief Justiceship has also been
offered to Mr. Barnes Peacock, the Legislative
Member of Council, and one of the most fortunate
of English barristcrE. He was appointed under
the old regiine, and has drawn £lO,OOO a-year for
eight years. He. now obtains £B,OOO a-year for
seven years more, with a pension of £1,500 a-year
at the expiration of that time.
" News has just arrived that the body of rebels
who murdered Mr. Evans have entered Hazaree-
bagh, intending, it is said, to release some prisoners
custody there. They have burnt Singrowlee,
but there is a European regiment at Hazareebagh."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CALCUTTA MARKET, MARCH 22.
On the 13th inst. intelligence from London reached Cal-
cutta by telegram via Bombay to the 18th of February.
Letters by the mail of the 10th of February were delivered
in town on the afternoon of the loth, and letters from Bom-
bay of the mail of the 18th of February reached Calcutta
on the 20th. The general effect of the intelligence received
by these mails is to impart rather more firmness to holders
of produce and to still more restrict the export business.
The Produce Market.—lndigo market nearly bare. Sugar
firm ; Benares, Company's rupees 10-8. Saltpetre lower.
Rice firm, and looking up. Raw silk filature lower by Ba.
to lr. ; native qiialities show a, greater fall. Corahs firm.
Shellac higher. Lac dye, no demand. Hides, firm for
good, other sorts lower. Jute, more inquiry, and firm.
Linseed at 3-4 to 3-14. Rape in good demand. Cutch
higher. Safflower market bare. The alteration in the
tariff has had no influence on the produce of the country as
yet.
The Import Market.—The dulness noted in our last re-
port csntinued up to the middle of the past fortnight, when
the addition to the import duties caused considerable excite •
ment in our market, some speculation ensued, and prices
advanced considerably. Cotton piece goods have been very
eagerly inquired for, and the market L very nearly out of
stock.

Towards the end of last week the continued dulness of
white mule twist was succeeded by a very active demand,
and decidedly higher prices were paid.
The alteration of the tariff and a brisk demand for actual
consumption, particularly piece goods, together have re-
sulted in establishing an advance in prices equal to, if not
more than, the rise.of the duty.