The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1861.

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—
C. F. HANCOCK, Jeweller and Silversmith to the
Queen, 32, Bruton-street, Bond-street, having been selected
by the C3mmittee to make the "BADGE" to be worn by
the Members of the " National Rifle Association," begs
respectfully to inform them that it may be procured at his
Establishment, or on the grounds at Wimbledon, in SILVER,
price 7s. 6d., and in GOLD ENAMELLED, prim Three
Guineas.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
TUTS EVENING, the performances win commence with
THE MIDDY ASHORE. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
Atter which THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Chas.
Mathews, Buckstone, E. Villiers, Rogers, lc. ; Mrs. Wilkins,
Mrs. C. Mathews, and Miss E. Weekes.
Followed by TAKING BY STORM. Mr. C. Mathews.
And THE GALICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Hr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the new comic drama, entitled A
HOMESTEAD STORY, Messrs. Ryder Shore, and bliss
M. Harris.
To conclude with AS YOU LIKE IT.
Mary Provost ; Jaques, Mr. Phelps.

Rosalind, Miss

MISS MARY PROVOST will make her first
appearance in England as RoSALIND, in AS YOU
LIKE IT, at the Royal Princess's Theatre, TO-NIGHT,
July 9th.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING MR. GORILLA. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, Billington ; Miss Kate Kelly, Miss E. Thorne.
After which (227th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr.
D. Boucicault, D. s'isher, Billin on, Falooner, Stephenson,
C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard, "Wargtd ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss
Woolgar. Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with the successful new Farce, entitled A
TURKISH BATH. Mr. J. L. Toole. Mr. P. Bedford.
Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.

EERY EVENING.

Two Grand Selections from celebrated Operas. including
Verdi's new Opera. THE BAL MASQUE (first produced
in England at this Establishment), with a Chorus of Forty
Voices, and upon a scale unequalled at any other Concerts.
Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Greville, Mr. Herbert, Signor
Tivoli, Mr. Bernard; popular Solos on the Cornet-a-piston,
by Mr. Levy (the first performer of the day); the Brothers
Conrad (in an entirely original entertainment on the double
roe,p not to be seen elsewhere); continued success of Mr.
Wood and his talented little Son.
The Comic Department comprises the following. favourites :
—Mr. Marshall, Mr. Hollingsworth ; the NERVES, by
Messrs. Harvey and French ; and Mrs. Lawrence.
Musical Director, Mr. JONGIMANS.

T H E .0 X F OR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
This noble building being now completed, its architectural
beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting
render it one of the sights of the metropolis. Open Every
Evening. The programme is varied, and includes Selections
(by a full company of principals, powerful band, and Chorus)
from " Macbeth" and " tin Ballo in Maschera." both operas
by Verdi, the composer of the day—The wonderful Solos on
the Cornet-a-Piston of the renowned LEVY—Scotch Duets by
the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music
of the big hest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The
Comic portion of the entertainment Is supported
Nerves),
Miss
Green, Messrs. Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the
W. H. Wieland, E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Admission
sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private
Boxes, 10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsie DAY.—Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. sm.
To-moßitow. -Morning, 3h. 24m.—Afternocm, 3h. 44m.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JULY 9, 1361.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADB.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
o—this day at noon.

BAROMETER--29.94 ; rising fast.
WlND—Northerly; moderate, with fine, but cloudy,
-weather.

Gothic versus Palladian, or the Battle of the
Styles, was performed last night, in the midst of
considerable applause and laughter, before a tole-
rably crowded House down at Westminster. The
contest in its character was, from first to last, so
supremely ridiculous that it could only be com-
pared towards its close—by a sort of whimsical
" gag" from the lips of the chief performer
in this great Parliamentary extravaganza—it could
really alone be compared by Lord PALMERSTON to
the Battle of the Books, to the Battle of the ,Big
and Little Endeans, to the Battle of the green and
blue ribbons in the City of Constantinople. The
Premier's speech, with which this amusing discus-
sion was brought to a close, was quite as boisterous
in its mirth as that of the most successful Adelphi
Screamer—the noble lord being always, as Lord
ELcuo well said last evening, gay and cheerful,
" quern jocus circumvolat et Cupido"—the
humorous speech with which Lord PALMER-
STON indulged the House of Commons brought
the House at length to a division that we may
presume has aided the contest definitively. A
clear majority, closely approximating to a good
round total of one hundred—a clear majority of
ninety-three altogether deciding the Question in
Dispute in favour of the Palladian and against
the Gothic. No more than 95 supporting Lord
FAcuo's resolution, and as many as 188 going
dead against it. Of course, in this instance, as in
pretty well every other instance in which a mere
matter of taste is under discussion, there is mani-
festly a very great deal to be said upon both sides.
Precisely as much could be argued formally as to the
cracking of the eggs of Lilliput at the big end
or at the little end, according to the epicure's whim
and pleasure. But here again, as in
all matters of taste, the squabble can I
only be brought to a conclusion by a decision of the
majority—leaving the pro and cons still to the
last uninterfered with in their integrity by that
decision. With this reflection, and with this re- 1
flection alone, the Goths, we beg their pardon, the I
advocates of the Gothic crder of architecture as
applied to our public buildings generally, with
especial reference, at this time, to the palatial homes
and haunts of our administrators, may console
themselves. They may exult in the thought that
their arguments may be allowed still to hold good
in the abstract. What though the day has been
carried triumphantly by the champions of the
rival or Palladian style of architecture.

It might certainly have been thought that the
lovers of the Gothic would have found it possible to
rest contented during another generation or two
with the consideration that the Legislature itself
is housed in a gigantic structure commenced and
carried out in that style from the lowest level of
the foundations up to the topmost trefoils of the
parapet—in a structure so gigantic in its dimensions
that the lofty Hall of Rufus and the grand old
Abbey hard by are both of them completely +
dwarfed by comparison. But—no. The keenness
of their relish appears to have been only whetted
by that immense enjoyment—rappetit vient en
tnevwea mt. They hunger for more—voraciously
insatiably, They close their eyes to the glaringly
obvious fact that the chief excellence of the Gothic
Style of architecture, is its applicability to eccle-
siastical purposes. Forge 1, t '
u..cr even here, however,
the perfectly indisputable fact, that uetwithstand-
ing the magnificence of the Gothic cathedrals scat-
tered all over Europe) some of the most exquisite
aPecim*ns in all Christendom adorning these islands
of our own—that notwithstanding all this the
noblest religious edifice in
the whole world
is not a Gothic cathedral I So that even as an
ecclesiastical style of architecture, we will say,
as 11w ecclesiastical style of
architecture, the Gothic
has failed to vindicate its title to pre-eminence by
producing the world's masterpiece, in the form of
the grandest of all the cathedrals dedicated
to the worship of the Divine Author
of Christianity. Before St. Peter's at Rome,
the sticklers for the Gothic would do well to yield
up their arrogant pretensions for their favourite

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order as foremost among the various ecclesiastical
styles of architecture. They might moderate their
claims for the supremacy of the Gothic by the
single remembrance of that masterpiece of St.

Peter's, of which our own BYRON has sung—

"Here Power, Strength, and Beauty all are aisled,

In an eternal ark of worship compiled."
Without going so far as Rome, however, they need
stroll but a little way eastwards from the legisla-
tive palace at Westminster, to enable themselves to
recognise even here at home in the centre of our own
metropolis how resplendently the Palladian may vie
with the Gothic, even when considered simply with
an eye to ecclesiastical purposes. They can recog-
nise this vividly enough, as every Londoner may
well rejoice to remember, upon glancing up for a
moment at Sir CHRISTOPHER WREN'S Masterpiece
—at that superb edifice, upon the walls of which
are sublimely inscribed, in reference to their glorious
architect, that If you ask for his monument, you
have but to look around, circumspice !
Difficult as it would be however to argue dogmati-
cally in favour of the pre-eminence of the Gothic
over all other ecclesiastical orders of architecture—
it would be little less than ludicrous to insist upon
the necessity of adopting it invariably, by prefer-
ence, as " the national style" in England for the
public buildings generally, more particularly for
the residence of the various departments of our
Government. The " national" style, forsooth !
Well might Lord PALMERSTON ask ironically, " But
is the Gothic national ? I never heard of the Goths,
the Vandals, or the Saracens doing much in this
country. I have been told in my early years that
the Romans were in this country for a considerable
number of years, and it is probable, therefore, that
they have better claims to have established in this
island a system of architecture that may be consi-
dered English than those people who never came
here at all. My noble friend has talked about the
real ancient architecture of England. The right hon.

gentleman said he thought Stonehenge must be so

considered. But I will go further, and say that the

real aboriginal architecture of this country was mud

huts and wicker wigwams. These were the ori•

ginal styles of those who first inhabited this
island." Thus delightfully, by the redt4ctio ad

absurdum, did the Premier sweep aside all the
preposterous pretensions advanced by those
pro-Gothic disputants who were clamour-
ing upon such lofty grounds for the prefer-
ence, above all other styles, of their own favourite
style of architecture. The alternative, however, it
is satisfactory to know now, for certain, has been
at length, after a good.deal of pleasant discussion,
settled definitively, and, we believe, in the estima•

tion of the majority satisfactorily—settled, that is,

against the Gothic, and in favour of the Palladian

It eannot be denied that the rumours of attempts
to, treat between the South and the North have been
repeated in such forms, and believed by sach per-
sons in America, that we can hardly entirely dis-
credit them. There seems to be a general impres-
sion that the administration is not by any means so
bellicose as the people, and that the moneyed folk,
on whom the chief burden of the vast cost is sure

to fall, would much prefer even now a peaceful settle-
ment. Americans acknowledge at length that so
pacific were the movements of Mr. BUCHANAN and
Mr. LiNcour at first, that on second thoughts they
can almost justify the English for favouring, as
they seem to think we did, the cause of the South.
If the Cabinet at Washington did not treat them as
traitors and rebels, how could the English Govern-
ment be expected to do so ? And even after the
attack on Fort Sumpter, Mr. LINCOLN was, in his
demands, below thepopular enthusiasm. Through-
out, the Administration has seemed to be far behind
the people in their resentment of Southern treason
and hence it .was natural to suppose that proposi-
tions for compromise, if they could but get a hear-
ing, might be likely to take.
The statement of the Tribune is precise, giving
names and particulars; it was furnished to them
by a gentleman who was asked to become a party
to the business. According to his account, two
secret negotiators had interviews with leading
Democrats in New York. They proposed two
bases of arrangement. One the admission and
recognition of the independence of the Seceding
States ; the alternative, that the United States
should give guarantees for the maintenance and
perpetuation of slavery in all the present and future
territories south of 36 deg. 30 min., which is sub-
stantially the old Crittenden proposal. A petition
on this scheme of compromise was put in hand and
brought to the gentleman referred to, with about a
thousand signatures ; by him it was kicked out of
his office, and the story told to the Tribune. Whether
we are all hoaxed or not by a New York merchant,
it is of course impossible to say ; but that Mr. JEF-
FERSON DAVIES has talked seriously in very pacific
terms, that his want of money, if nothing else, must
render him very desirous to avoid a lengthened
contest on a large scale; and that the administra-
tion is not disposed to fight beyond what is neces-
sary to satisfy popular demand, are facts, and ac-
count for rumours which seem congruous with
them. It is also a fact that the moneyed men are
already tired of the war; it interrupts their regular
business ; while it is apprehended that the necessity
of an income-tax as a security for any loan that
may be raised is already creating alarm.
They are now beginning to feel the damaging
effects on their revenue of the selfish MORRILL
Tariff, and but for shame's sake would be glad to
repeal it. The indelible disgrace, however, will
remain on the North, when they thought
the South left them free to make tariffs according
to their taste, of seizing the moment to benefit
themselves, as they short-sightedly supposed, at the
cost of Great Britain and of the Southern States.
They expected soon to see the latter compelled to
return to the Union, and then, as they thought,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania could have supplied
all the South and the North, and far West, too,
with their dear and inferior articles, and have ex-
cluded the cheaper and better, supplied from Great
Britain or France.

The probability, however, is that retreat is now
impossible for either party. The South will be
ashamed to let it even be imagined that its
" chivalry " shrinks from fighting. The North
will be equally ashamed to want men, courage, or
money. Even if other motives failed, pride would
still keep both parties, the North especially, deter-
mined to try the result of a contest. The South
may hope to defend its own. The North seems
now sure of carrying off the portions of the Slave
States most valuable to it, even should it permit
eventually the Gulf States to form a confederation.
Already the North has secured part of Virginia, and
would assuredly never consent to have the Poto-
mac under control of the guns of a foreign
Southern State. The North would not, unless
utterly worsted, allow the Northern half of
Virginia, the Bay of Chesapeake, and the river on
which the capital stands, to be in the hands of a
rival State. It is now too in a fair way of securing
all the valuable border States, in any case ; for this
reason, should it consent to separation, and retain
Missouri, Kentucky, and the northern part or the
whole of Virginia, and those States become, as they
soon must, free States, the North would be so 1
immensely the stronger power, that the thinly-

peopled, half civilised Slave States would always
be completely at its mercy.
It is, however, to be hoped that events will compel
a bolder policy ; that all compromises which can be

suggested will be thrown to the wind. No such

opportunity as that now offered is ever likely to

occur 'again. An American statesman would be
mad now not to put down for ever, the single, and
the grand disturbing cause in the Union. Along
its whole history since the declaration of indepen-
dence, not so much the pride of " the Old Dominion,"
as its slavery and that of the other planting states
has been the cause of disagreements. Wiser had
Americans been if they had nipped this monster
evil in the bud. Unhappily New York merchants
first, then the democratic party, then emigrant
Irishmen, all came, even in the North, to the help
of Southern slavery. The dollar interest, and party
interest, combined with the slave interest, and the
three together dominated the whole Union, cor-
rupted the presidential chair, the bench of justice,
the civil service, the Church itself, and then all
social life, till now almost every white American,
North as well as South, has no notion of carry-
ing out his own Declaration of Independence
in regard to coloured Americans ! The whole
American mind is tainted in respect to negro
rights. It is indeed to be desired that events may
take a course which will prevent reconciliation or
cessation of the war on any other terms than that
of erasing from the constitution the clauses which
permit negro slavery. We can wish nothing better
for the Free States than that they may be unable
again to befoul themselves with compromises. They
have been the bane of the Union hitherto; they
have warded off, but in appearance, the split which
has at last come ; and they kept the Free States
from settling the controversy in favour of liberty
when the dimensions of the strife would have been
much smaller.

Slowly and tediously, no doubt, but steadily and
surely we will hope, the Appropriation of Seats
(Sudbury and St. Albans) Bill is winning its way
onwards, until it shall have at length. developed
itself into an Act of Parliament. Last evening the
dispute was as to which should be the polling place
for the southern division of the West Riding of
Yorkshire—as to which should be, in electioneering
times, The political battle field for the Sou'-West
Yorkshiremen ! Wakefield or Pontefract—that
was the question. The Opposition was in favour of
Wakefield—the Ministerialists were in favour of
Pontefract. Some few thinking favourably even
of Sheffield. " If," said the Home Secretary before
the Division was taken upon this alternative, " If,"
said the right hon. baronet, " the House would
agree to follow his (Sir G. C. LEwis's) advice, it
would imitate the lawyer in the fable, and give one
shell of the oyster to Wakefield, the other to Shef-
field, and give the oyster itself to Pontefract." At
the proposition as thus put to the house there was a
little laughter audible. But the Ministerialists must
have laughed somewhat upon the other side
of their mouths immediately afterwards, when
the result of the division was announced ! In
spite of the Home Secretary's suggestion, and of
his own and of the Prime Minister's vote, and of the
votes of not less than seven others of their colleagues
—namely, CARDWELL, COWPER, GIBSON, GLAD-
STONE, GREY, WOOD, and VlLLlERS—Ministers
were again (as usual) in a minority ! For Ponte-
fract, 94—against it, 107—clear majority of 13
against Sir G. C. LEWIS'S proposition ! The result
being—(for their was no division taken in favour
of Sheffield)—that here again the Opposition carried
their point,Wakofield being eventually chosen as the
polling-place for the political non-electors of York-
shire.

Her Highness the Princess de Castelcicala, with
the Marquis and Marchioness di Spaccaforno and Admiral
Gallotti, have taken their departure from the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, on their return to Italy.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen have left
town for Scotland.

The Dowager Lady Poltimore left London last
week. Her ladyship has been seriously indisposed for some
months.

BLONDlN.—Blondin exhibited his surprising

feats yesterday, at Aston-park, in the neighbourhood of
Birmingham, to an enormous number of visitors, assembled
for the purpose of celebrating the annual fete of Odd Fel-
lows. In spite of the rain, which fell very heavily the
whole time, there were no less than 80,000 persons present.
He will make his 11th ascent at the Crystal Palace to-mor-
row. He will also make an extra ascent on Saturday.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A special
general meeting of this society, for the election of Fellows,
took place yesterday (Monday), in the council-room, at the
gardens, South Kensington, Mr. S. Holmes Godson in the
chair, when 57 new Fellows were balloted for and duly
elected, including Sir William Abdy, the Hon. Miss Arden,
the Marquis of Donegal, the Dowager Countess of Elles-
mere, the Countess of Longford, Lady Wiseman, the Coun-
tess of Yarborough, &c.

We are informed that the Danish concession upon
which the repot of the North Atlantic Telegraph is
founded, and all that pertains to the surveys, &e., is about
to pass into new hands, through the medium of a debenture
subscription, as the basis of a proprietary company, preli-
minary to the establishment of a working company for
laying down the cables. These debentures, for from
£15,000 to £30,000, are expected to be taken up by a pri-
vate canvass among capitalists and others interested.

MADAME GEORGE SAND.—This lady writes as
follows to a friend respecting the rumour current in Paris
that she had accepted 20,000 f. sent her by the Emperor, as
a compensation for the prize which the academy declined to
award her My friend,—There is an on dit which I
authorise you to contradict. It is quite true that gracious
offers have been made me; but I have thought it my duty
to accept none of them, having neither desire nor need of
any recompense, or any distinction from any Government
whatsoever.—Yours cordially, GEORGE SAND."

A journal of Tournai, in Belgium, says that the
bishop of the diocese has not taken lessons in hospitality
from the Scotch Highlanders, since he has claimed from the
Provincial Council nearly four thousand francs for a day's
occupation—not including dinner—of the episcopal palace
by the King last year.

A despatch from Smyrna, of the 2d inst., states
that Osmanli Pacha, governor of the town, had caused to
be seized in the port, at the request of tho English Consul-
General, a vessel laden with gunpowder intended for the
lonian Islands.

IVe (Herald) understand that the question of the
legality of the proceedings which the two Houses of Con-
vocation have adopted in reference to the publication of
" Essays and Reviews," is to be raised at the meeting of
the House of Bishops on Tuesday next, and that in all pro-
bability the action of their lordships upon the report of the
lower house will be arrested in limine, on the ground that
in pronouncing a censure upon the above work they are ex-
ceeding the powers vested in them by the law and by the
terms of the Queen's writ under which the bishops and
clergy are authorised to sit in convocation.

A HEROINE.—The following account of the heroic
conduct of a woman in saving the life of a girl on the Irish
coast has been forwarded for the consideration of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution by its Wicklow branch, where
that society has an excellent lifeboat establishment.
Mrs. Brownrigg, wife of the rector, whose daughter wit.
nessed the woman's noble services, states that on Monday,
theist inst., the girl,who was bathing, suddenly disappeared.
E. Byrne, who was at the time at some distance from the
scene of danger, without a moment's hesitation rushed to
the spot, tied a rope round her waist, the end of which she
gave to another woman to hold, and, with all her clothes on,
dashed in, and diving, found the body of the girl at the
bottom. Seizing her by the hair, Byrne providentially suc-
ceeded in bringing her to land before the vital spark had
fled. This is the third life that this brave woman has
saved, but whose services have never been previously made

public.
CURIOUS ANECDOTE.—There is a story, says the
Illustrated London 2lre ICS, about the deathof Abdul Medjid's
father, the formidable Mahmoud, which will bear telling,
the more so as we heard it from the lips of a young Turk
just arrived in England, and that it has never to our know-
ledge been in print. When Mahmoud lay on his divan of
death, he remembered that a great review of the garrison
of Constantinople was to take place under his palace win-
dows in three days' time. He desired that, at whatever
moment he might expire, his death should be kept secret
from the troops until the review was over. Sultan Mah-
moud died on the same night ; but three days afterwards
his dead body, covered with his well known cloak, and
capped with his well-known fez, bearing a diamond aigrette,
was propped up, an opera-glass in one of his cold hands, at
an open window, beneath which the troops defiled, shout-
ing, " Long live the Sultan I"

LATEST NEWS.

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PARIS, JULY 9.

The Moniteur of to-day publishes a letter, ad-
dressed by the Emperor to the Minister of Marine,
in reference to the engagement of labourers on the
African coast for the French colonies. The Em-
peror announces that he has signed a treaty with
England, which authorises the French Government
to engage labourers in India for the French colo-
nies. He says :—" We shall find in India and in
the French possessions in Africa as many free
labourers as.we require." He consequently orders
the Minister to take measures for prohibiting the
introduction of negroes into the French colonies
after July, 1862, the date of the execution of the
treaty with England.
The ffloniteur also says :
The Emperor has been received with the greatest
enthusiasm by the peasants of the country sur-
rounding Vichy.

PARIS, JULY 8.
The Paris evening papers contain the following

news:--

The Marquis de Lavalette, French Ambassador
at Constantinople, will leave for France on the 11th

iLstant.

It is said that Prince Napoleon will positively

go to America.

No disturbance has taken place at Warsaw, but
the agitation which prevails in various parts has
caused the Russian Government to take precau-

land raises from her population of 2 millions !We
are 22 millions, and we send to Paris to ask per-
mission to admit fifteen Englishmen into the Hun-
garian Legion at Naples ! We are 22 millions, and
Venice is condemned to a servitude of indefinite
duration ! Nevertheless, aLa Farina committee
preaches patience at Rome ; the army of volunteers
is disbanded, Garibaldi is at Caprera, and the com-
mittees of subsidies ;are occupied in collecting
petty sums for individual necessities, or to repair
the damage caused by :the fall of La Pieve.
Inertia is destroying us, the energy of self-
devotion is dying out, and unity itself is threat-
ened liby a popular discontent which may break
out in local insurrections calculated to promote de-
signs of the enemies of liberty. No revolution can
stop short in the middle of its course without de-
stroying its principle of vitality. We stopped
short six months ago, and we already feel the con-
sequences. The glorious movement of the people
and Garibaldi was then arrested ; it must speedily
be revived, or we shall retrograde. It is for the
Government to give the new impulse, to guide and
arm the nation, rather than endeavour to restrain
and repress it ; to surround itself with the ablest
men of every fraction of the national party ; to re-
solutely raise the banner of Rome and Venice; thus
will concord be established. If it follow another
course, it is condemned to perish ignominiously,
leaving a heritage of anarchy and civil war.

" GIUSEPPE MAZZINI."

INDIA.

By the arrival of the overland mail we receive
advices from Bombay to June 12, and from Cal-
cutta to June 3. The general character of the
Bombay news is cheerful, and the Bombay Gazette
commences its summary in the following jubilant
strain :

No event of a general and striking character has
occurred during the past fortnight. India has pur-
sued the even tenor of her way, and that a never
so prosperous one. Mutual confidence is on the in-
crease between the dominant and the dominated
races. A sort of compromise between domination
and dominatedness is in process ; decentralisation
and local legislative councils containing native ele-
ments on the one hand, and the admission of native
chiefs and great landholders to a participation in
the duties and honours of magistracy on the other
-...-these are the new order of things in India. God
save the Queen !

Copious rain had fallen in the famine-stricken
provinces, and the prospects of the harvest were
hopeful.

An important resolution of the government of
India on the reduction of native cavalry corps in
the Bengal army had been published. The strength
of native cavalry now maintained being in excess
of the requirements of the service, owing to the re-
ductions made by the substitution of police for
civil and other non-military guards, each corps will
in future consist of 420 Sowars divided into six
troops, with the following establishment --3 Re-
saldars, 3 Ressaidars, 1 Woordie Major, 6 Jama-
dars, 6 Kote Duffadars, 48 Duffadars, 6 Nishanbur-
dare, 6 Trumpeters. Thus making a total of 499
natives of all ranks.

In August, 1860, the number of regiments of
native:cavalry in the Bengal Presidency was 46-
17 being under the Government of India, and 29
under the Commander-in-Chief. Of the 17 regi-
ments named in the resolution to which we refer,
the Nagpore Cavalry is to be disbanded. Meade's
Horse has been incorporated with the regiments of
Central India Horse; the Guide Cavalry and the
five regiments of Punjaub Cavalry will remain as at
present, and separate orders will be issued respect-
ing the remaining regiments, Of the 29 regiments
of Cavalry under the Commander-in-Chief in India,
the following ten it has been decided are to be dis-
banded :-3d Irregular Cavalry, 9th ditto, 12th
ditto, 16th ditto, 3d Seikh Cavalry, Ranghur
Cavalry, Alexander's Horse, Benares Horse, Ist
Mahratta Horse, Lind's Pathan Cavalry.
The remaining corps will be numbered consecu-
tively from Ist to 19th Bengal Cavalry.
The pay of the native cavalry (of course all irre-
gular) will hereafter be on the scale laid down in '
the resolution, ranging from 27 rs. (with good con- I
duct pay to the extent of 3 rs., making the maximum
pay of a sowar 30 rs.) to 300 rs. per mensem. The
reductions now ordered will be carried out under
the rules laid down by the Governor-General for
the guidance of the Commander-in-Chief. All in-
efficient men, as well as all able-bodied men under
four years' service are to be discharged, with a
gratuity of twelve months pay.
An inquest had been held at Bombay on the body
of Lieut. Gould, and a verdict returned that he
destroyed himself while in a state of temporary
insanity.
Of monetary and commercial matters the Bombay
Telegraph speaks as follows :
As the season is now rapidly approaching when
the port will be closed, our import market for piece
goods business is very firm, and importers demand
higher rates.
The advices from England brought by the mail
which arrived on ,the 9th inst., though not very
favourable as regards the price of cotton, which had
declined id., still the excitement which prevails
in the cotton producing states of America have led
to extensive speculative purchases, consequently a
slight advance has taken place in our staple since
last adviceF. We now quote Dhollerah, 155r5.;
Broach, 160 rs. ; and Oomrawuttee, 148 to 150 rs.
Freights have fluctuated during the fortnight,
but for the past few days ay mptoms of a decline in
the rates last quoted have occurred. The following
are:the present quotations ;—Liverpool, £2 10s. to
£2 Hs. 6d. ; London, £2 102. ; and China, 14
rupees per candy.
The money market continues easy. The follow-
ing is a list of quotations : —London (credit), 6
months' sight, 2s. id. ; ditto, documents, ditto,
2s Ord. ; Calcutta, 3 days' sight, 102 per cent. ; Ma-
dras, 30 days', 98.4 ditto ; China, 60 days', 215 rs.
per 100 dollors.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1861.