The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, I:0 ND 0 IV, WEDNESDAY EirEN LNG'. OCTOBER 7, 1851

ness of so large a proportion of her Majesty's "
subjects ; and the cjipsing of mills, the stoppage
of looms, the cessation of labour of almost every
description. Production has been arrested, at the
very time when there were the heaviest demands
on our resources, and when the claims of charity
were peculiarly urgent, our sagacious Privy Coun-
cillors, or at least three of the number, have thought
proper to fling away nearly a million sterling to
please the puritanical party. It is a pity that
these names should not be generally known, in
order that they may receive the degree of credit to
which they aro entitled for the act. It was the
PRINCE CONSORT, EARL GRANVILLE, and Lord
STANLEY of Alderley, who advised her MAJESTY
to the step. We fancy we can detect the quiver
from which the shaft was drawn. It savours
strongly of Germanism. The subordinate
members of the Cabinet would scarcely act in di-
rect opposition to the well-known wishes of their
Premier, unless their insubordination was sanc-
tioned by high authority, which could screen them
from the consequences of their mutiny.
The people will, however, say to each—" Phy-
sician, heal thyself." Fast, and pray, and humi-
liate yourself publicly for your participation in
the causes that led to the deplorable catastrophe,
for maintaining the Company in a position for
which they were not qualified, for sending
out and keeping Lord Ca.N.zurrizi in the Go-
vernor-Generalship, for not sending immediate
reinforcements overland, and gunboats to keep
guard over the rivers. For these short-comings
public penance might be done, and walking bare-
footed in St. Pauls, arrayed in a white sheet, with
bare feet and lighted taper, might not be amisF.
But it is a mockery and a delusion to call on theinue-
cent people to mourn for the faults and short-
comings of their rulers, and to inflict on them—
in addition to the taxation to which they must
submit for these grave mistakes—the positive loss
of a day's wages ! Let the parties responsible
manifest a true repentance, which may be known
by its fruits ; without which, their " fasting and
praying" is but a piece of specious hypocrisy,
alike objectionable in the eyes of GOD and man.

We cannot wonder at the intense delight with
which the arrival of Sir C. CAMPBELL was hailed
by the English inhabitants, Lot only of Calcutta,
but of the entire Indian Empire—that a single
man should be considered as fully equal to ten
thousand soldiers, " armed all in proof, and led
by shallow CANNING." Zeal, energy, and
decision were required at head-quarters, and
it was universally believed that ho would
display these qualities that he would
suppress the vacillation and timidity of the
Council that pulled the wires of the puppet
Governor-General, and got rid of the ta-in mon-
sters, routine and red-tapism, that retarded the
suppression of the mutiny, and caused it to ex-
tend beyond a few regiments.
How gladly would they have hailed his
nomination to the highest rank, with ample powers
to do all that he might consider advisable fur the
speedy restoration of peace and tranquillity !
When Rome was endangered, the people set
up a Dictator, but it was not from
tie effete men of wealth, that they made the
selection. They chose the simple citizen in whose
capacity they had confidence, and took him from
the plough to invest him with supreme authority
—to coustitut) him an autocrat for the time
being.
So it should have been in India. Lord CAN-
NING might act his part in a pageant very well—
might give very respectable entertainments at
Government House, and affix a fair specimen of
caligraphy to the resolutions of the prejudiced
elderly epicenes by whom the real power is wielded,
and bo himself controlled and directad. The mere
fact that he had not the decision of character to
emancipate himself from their control, and the
trammels in which they kept him enveloped, proved
beyond the possibility of doubt that he was net
" the right man in the right place." His sub-
serviency may extenuate his shortcomings, but it
still proves his want of real power. The Com-
pany's system of government is now on trial.
"It has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting," and Ministers in place of
calling on the people "to fast and pray," should
set their own shoulders to the wheel,
and arm the man who possesses the confileucs
of the people both of England and India, with
ample powers to enable him to accomplish his
arduous task. Thus might CAMPBELL restore
what OLIVE founded, and HASTINGS, 'WELLESLEY,
and CORNWALLIS strengthened and consolidated.
" If a railway accident occurred in consequence
of the want of energy and vigour of the driver, a
man of 'TO, long known to be ruptured and
gouty, and if lives were lost, what would the ver-
dict of the jury' be, supposing the directors tic-
fended themselves by alleging that it would have
been hard upon the poor old driver to supersede
him, and that he would probably have been very
importunate for a pension had he been super-
seded I"

So says the correspondent of a contemporary,
whose able communication we have extracted into
our columns in reference to General LLOYD, whose
effete senility Ltd to the mutiny at Dinapore and
the destruction of British soldiers in the attempt
to relieve Arrab. He pertinently inquires—
" Whose duty was it to see that such com-
mands as that of General LLOYD'S were is
competent hands—to report upon them if they
were not—to act on such reports ?" Adding—
" We take almost vexatious pains to ascertain
that a recruit is sound, wind and limb. We
strip him naked, we pommel him all over, we
make him go through all manner of pro-
bationary contortions, and we reject him
at once if we espy the slightest defect in his
physique, considering him unfit in such a cause to
be intrusted with the responsibility of a pri-
vate in the British army. But when we have
to appoint a general to a position in which
the lives of thousands, his country's honour,
the fate of an empire may depend on his
soundness of rair.d and body we take none
of these precautions. If we see that he is an ol -
vious cripple and dotard, we appoint him all tho
same ; it would be so hard upon the poor old
man to pass him over.' Yet if he fails when he
is so appointed—as we know he must fail when
put to the te.4—w-e inexorably try the poor old
creature by court-martial !"
This principle may be further extended. If
Lord CANNING and the Council of India be res-
ponsible' for the inefficiency of General LLOYD,
so are 1.4,3 rd. PALMERSTON and the English Cabinet
for the mistakes and shortcomings of these
very parties. So the nation now feels, and so it
will feel with still greater intensity when fresh
blunders have increased the existing
evils and led
to further sacrifices of life and money.

ECONOMY OF THE AG2..—A Manchester gentleman
adverise3 " for a pens.y paper, the day after pubica.-
tion, at halt-price."—Punc4.

FALL OF A CIRCUS.—Ia the coarse of the perform.tr.ces
of an equestian company, known as the routhor
at the fete of Vaagirard, bn Saturday evening, a crack.
ing noise wai ruddenly 1 eard, and the spectators, about
900 lu number, rushed tha doors ; but tefore they
could esc ;pa, the ctreue, which was of wood and canvas,
tell in. A number of persons were more c r lees cat and
L,ruis?..l but no one was dangerous:y hurt.

THE LATE MR. JERROLD.

LA,TRsT NEWS.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIIESD.A.Y EVEN LNG.

The article in the Pays which announced the
definitive withdrawal of Marshal Narvaez from
the Cabinet he had formed and presided is repro-
duced by the Paris journals without comment. No
later information respecting this crisis appears in
the columns of the latter ; while the private tele-
graph, with its usual eccentricity, avoids clearing
up any doubt that may be entertained on the cor-
rectness of the statement mado by the Pays. The
following remarks from the Spectateur were writ-
ten before the publication of that statement :
" We have never been blind to the real position
of the Cabinet presided by Marshal Narvaez. Our
desire to see him remain as long as possible at the
head of affairs, our confidence in the patriotism
ind enlightenment of his colleagues, have not led
us to suppose that he was completely insured
against those changes which have become so fre-
quent in Spain since the constitutional rule was
planted there, with very praiseworthy intentions no
doubt, but with too little circumspection. But
are we to construe the petty agitation caused by
the intrigues and hopes of political parties into cer-
tain signs of an impending crisis ? The Queen be-
stows, with justice, great confidence on her present
ministers, who are animated with sincere and pa-
-Tiotic devotion. The Cortes, before adjournng,
gave evidence, by several important votes, of their
anion with the Cabinet. Why, therefore, should.
Marshal Narvaez and his colleagues now be com-
pelled to retire before another meeting of the
Cortes ?"

The Constitutionnel contains the following reflec•
tions on the interviews at Stuttgard and Weimar,
in which it seeks to diminish the importance of the
latter :

" Has the importance of the iuLtrylew
At S~utt-
gard been reduced—as certain journals assort—by
the subsequent meeting of the Emperors of Austria
and Russia at Weimar Were it judicious to esta-
blish a connection between these two eventa, we
should attribute the idea of the Weimar meeting
to a fear of isolation inspired in the mind of the
Emperor of Austria by the interview of Stuttgard.
The Emperor Alexander, in visiting Weimar.
and meetingthe Emperor of Austria, has performed
an act of political courtesy agreeable to the two na-
tions. But the interview of Stuttgard remains a
grand event that has interested all Europe. It is
not alone the recollections of the last few years
that endow the personal relations of the Sove-
reigns of France and Russia with exceptional im
portance ; it is also the reception given by the
German population to the head of the Napoleon

Idynasty.' We perhaps ought, as Frenchmen, to
speak with modesty of the enthusiasm displayed by
the inhabitants of the provinces traversed by the
Emperor, for these manifestations were addressed
at the same time to the person of his Majesty and
to the nation of which he is the most legitimate and
faithful representative. At Stuttgard the rulers of
France and Russia realised all the hopes of Europe,
and restored to the continent a confidence in
future. At Weimar, two princes, for a length of
time united, but who had become estranged through
diplomacy, have ensured the preservation of sound
neighbourly relations. The personal homage paid
to the Emperor of the French at the court of Stntt-

Bard and along the territory ho passed through his
been justly appreciated, and the German vivats '
have sounded as far as Vienna and Berlin."

BOURSE, Oct. 6.—The following were the las
quo ta,ions :
Casb. fr. Eni of Month.
4. per Cents
3 per Cents 63 5 G 3 25
13:,,,nk Shares 9,980 Credit Foncier 555
Ur6dit Mobilier EB2 50 Roman -
Do. Account 8882 50 Austrian

-:- _
Belgian 4t — Spanish Threes
Fiedraon tese (5) 3O- Home Debt
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH•

tr. C. fr c
Orleans 1,390 Western -
liortheru -
~
Lyons and Med BB2l— New Ditto -
-New Ditto Bl5 Grand Central 7t-
Geneva ... 6ao Sardinian -
Aridi - 6 tit -- Austrian Com. ..... 693 -

full powers for the grand council to enlarge the
basis of the national representation. This was
adopted with an amendment of M. Lambelet, to
the effect that the decree issued by the grand coun-
cil in virtue of the powers which shall be given by
the people must be submitted to the approval of
the popular committees. The second proposition
presented by M. Piaget demanded that the people
should be called on to give its opinion on the two
bases of the representation—the electoral popula-
tion, or the whole Swiss population. This was re-
jected by 45 votes to 36.

or nothing doing. Freights without important
change, and the business moderate ; crude turpen-
tine to London, 2s. 9d. ; sugar, 255. Liverpool—
grain, sd. in bulk, and 6d. in ship's bags ; cotton,
3-16 d. to 7-32 d. ; flour, Is. 6d. ; sugar, 17s. 6d. ;
cheese, 20s.

NEW ORLEANS, SEPT. 21

Cotton.—Sales to-day of 2,500 bales, at 161c.,t0
161 c. for middling. The receipts of the week have
been 19,500, and the sales 16,500 bales ; stock,
36,000 bales.
Flour, $6 per barrel.
Sterling exchange, 6i per cent. premium.
Rio Coffeee.—Sales of the week, 1,200 bags, at
110. for prime; stock, 117,000 bags.

(BY TELEGRAPH TO NEW Yonx.)
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 26.

Third-street and Chestnut-street are again the
scene of excitement. Crowds surrounded the sav-
ings' institutions before 9 o'clock this morning.
The institutions decline paying out deposits, and
require two weeks' notice of withdrawal. The
regular banks were besieged before 10 o'clock. The
Pennsylvania Bank re-opened its doors and is trans-
acting business, but paying no specie. The
Mechanics' Bank is paying specie for $lO bills.
The Girard Bank refuses to do any business and
renders no satisfaction to deposit ors or note-holders.

THE BREAD AND MEAT QUESTIO,

A correspondent of a contemporary complains
that he is shamefully overtaxed by his baker and
butcher. He says :

" To begin with the bakers, it will be something
new to be informed that the price of bread for three
millions of people is fixed on Sunday evening for
the ensuing week—in the back parlour of " The
Jolly Baker and Pie 'Crust ;" but it is so. Here
will be found Mr. M'Alum from Whitechapel, Mr.
Doughey from Shoreditch, Mr. Spongem from the
Borough, Mr. Bonedust from Clerkenwell, Mr.
Yesty from Marylebone, and Mr. Litewaite from
Chelsea, whilst the E. C. and W. C.. districts
are ably represented by Mesre. Pareit and
Filchpy ; and here those worthies, delegates
from their respective localities, sitting in solemn
conclave over gin and water, and enveloped in
clouds of tobacco smoke, legislate for the stomachs
of the greatest city on earth. Proceedings com-
mence somewhat in this style—Mr. Filchpy log.
(addressing perhaps the Whitechapel representative)
" Well, Mr. M'Alutn, I see by the papers there was
a slight fall in Mark-lane this last week, doyou think
it would be advisable to lower the quartern a half-
penny 1" "Na, man, not half a bawbee. (M'Alum
is a thrifty Caledonian.) I dinna ken what Mark-
lane is to us, so lang as they are nae for rising the
figure—let the millers tak' care o' themselveß, we'll
tak' care o' oursels; I grant consumers may complain
—what need we care about complaints, so lang as
there's nae competition 1" Two or three follow in
a similar strain, and the thing is done—the half-
penny is retained—and thus (taking the consump-
tion of bread at 61b. per head) a tax of four and a
half millions of halfpence, or 93,7501., is levied on
the metropolis by seven or eight gin-drinking pipe-
smokers, and so on from week to week. I may
here state that the majority of the bakers are men
without any capital of their own, trading on dis-
count and credit, so that the consumer has not only
to pay their trade profit, but interest on their
negotiated acceptances into the bargain. So much
for the bakers.

" Now a word about the butchers. In Newgate,
Leaden-hall and Newport markets the prices of beef
and mutton range from 3s. Gd. to 4s. Bd. per stone
of eight pounds for the former, and 3s. Gd. to ss.
2d. for the latter, averaging for beef 4s. ld. and
mutton 4s. 4d. Yet, sir, in defiance of these figures
_stuoborn fact.z, patent to all who read the news-
papers—l have been compelled to pay this day Bs.
lid. fur a leg of mutton weighing 9113.-9 id. per
pound, exactly 2s. 2d. per stone over the highest
quotation of yesterday. This infamous exaction
must arise from combination. I have no hesita-

tion in stating that the black mail levied • by the
butchers, if added to that extorted by the bakers,
would make up a round sum of 200,0001. per week,
or the astounding amount of 10,400,0001. per an-
num. Just think of that, Mr. Bull, and say whe-
ther you will stand it much longer."

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION.

--..,,,,.-

The following is an extract from a report dated
the Bth of July, from .the Assistant-Surveyor-
General of South Australia, of a recent expedition
into the northern districts of that colony :
"In the extreme distance to the north and north oast
we perceived a belt of gigantic gums, beyond 'which ap.
peared a sheet of water with lands on the opposite side,
evidently increasing in elevation. There also seemed to
be a large lake about ten miles to the east, but this our
prewous experience told us had no existence. To the
north-east the M‘Donnel continued its course, diverging
into a number of channels as the rocks neared the sur-
face, and again converging into one as the depth of
soil increased. To the southeast the extreme end of the
eastern range was still visible, Mount Hopeful, bearing
smith 32 degrees east, and apparently about 30 miles
distant.

" grom Weathered-bill we descended in a north-easterly
direction to the illtDonnell, following its course down
for about seven miles, passing several large and peruse-
net t waters, the last of which, about half a-mile long, 50
y trds wide, and very deep, was extremely fine, having a
native encampment on the eastern bank at its lower end.
The Wurleys did not appeir to have been used since the
rain, however, the floors being caked over and cracked
by the heat of the sun. , They are constructed in a
similar manner to those described by Captain Sturt, and
are warm and comfortable, the largest capable of holding_
from 30 to 40 people, quite round,, from three to four
feet high, and entered by a semicircular opening, through
which weiwere obliged to creep. This water we named
the Warta-Warta, from the name of the tribe frequenting
the plains north of the Blanche.
" Next day we continued our course to the north-east
down the bed of the creek for about 14 miles, passing
over vegetation of the most luxuriant kind, which covers
'the valley for a width of from three to four miles, the
timber in the creeks changing from lofty gums to a bas-
tard peppermint which was rapidly assuming a more
stunted appearance, and the creeks bending away to the
eastward. We then left the 111‘Donnell and made for
the nearest point of what was rapidly assuming the
appearance of an immense lake, and after travelling about
six miles and a half to the north-east our doubts were
set at rest. We were in latitude 29 deg. 13 min., and
stood upon the margin of Lake Torrens, the waters of
which were unmistakably fresh. ,
"From the spot where my observations were taken the
lake stretched from 15 to 20 miles to the north-west,
for Ming a water benzin extending from north-west by
west to north-west; the south portion terminated by
high land running south towards Weathered-hill, at once
explaining the cause of the various creeks bending so
much to the eastward. • An extensive bay is formed
inside this promontory, extending southward to west-
north-west, when the land again runs out to a point,
approaching and passing us by a gentle curve to the east,
and inclining gradually to the soual-east, and ultimately
disappearing in the distance. The - north portion of
the horizon is terminated by a bluff headland, round
which the water appears to extend to the north. This
land passes thence to -the east, and forms the north
boundary of the visible portion of the lake ; and from a
higher elevation than that upon which we stood appeared
to extend round to the eastern wing. It is covered.with
vegetation, as also are several islands seen between the
north and south shores, apparently about five miles dis-
tant from where we stood, their perpendicular cliffe
being clearly discerned by aid of the telescope.
"From the first I had anticipated finding large lakes
of fresh water at the termination of the various creeks,
or one large lake into which a 'winker of them discharged
their waters ; but in such I should have -discovered
flood lines, indicating the rise and fall of the waters,
and, even supposing them to have attained their
maximum height, the vegetation on some portion
of the surface inside the water's edge would have re-
vealed this fact. But in this case there was an entire
absence of such marks, the water's edge being clearly.
defined ; and the bed, changing its character so suds
denly from an alluvial soil to blue loam, covered by an
inch of fine silt,'renders it almost beyond the possibil,ty
of a doubt that the surface of the water is subject only
io the most trifling variation of level, and the absence of
deltas at the embouchures of the, creeks tends to show
that there is no reacting force, but that the waters in
times of flood flow uninterruptedly elsewhere, and I am
,nclioed to believe in a generallytno.rth-west direction.
"In using the words unmistakably fresh,' with re-
ference to this water, I meant to imply that not only
did they appear fresh to the taste,; but that also there
was no indication whatever of the presence of salt; and
I only regretted the absence of the means which would
have enabled me to test, not only their extent and direcs
tion, but also their depths and action."

THE TRIAL OP THE PAISLEY RIOTERS.—On Saturday
the Paisley rioters, Daniel Wynne, Daniel Coyle, and
Edward M‘Manus, who were convicted of riotous con-
duct and assault on the previous day,. were brought up
and sentenced—Wynne to three years' penal servitude,
Coyle to 18 months' imprisonment, and M‘Manus to 12
months' imprisonment. On the same day five Of the Coat.
bridge rioters were found guilty, and three brought up
who pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred in both caw.
MIIRDEBEIBY A al.AmAc.—The Inverness Circuit Court
was opened on Wednesday—the Lord Justice Clerk pre-
siding—when Angus Macphee. Liniclate, in the island of
Benbecula, was brought up on the cbargeofmhaaovpinhgeom,
his
father, Mary Macphee, his aunt, Angus
father, and Catherine Macinnes, his mother, all of whom
were persona of an advanced age. The circumstances of
this painful case Will be Iresh in the recollection of the
public. The prisoner in a fit of insanity attacked his
father, mother, and aunt, and murdered thein one after
the other on the 9th July last. The evidence clearly
proved the insanity of the prisoner, who said he was the
Christ, and had the divine command-to commit the mur-
ders, and was doing God service. He also said be had
intendiki to murder some others. The jury found him
insane, aad he was ordered to be kept in custody.. The
Lot d Justice Clerk administered a reproof to one of the
witnesses, named Maceween, a ground officer of Col( nel
Gordon, and a member of the parochial board, for having
failed to send him toan asylum.—Northern Daily Express.
EXTENSIIPE SMUGGLING ON THE SUSSEX COAST,—
Yesterday (Tuesday), Thomas Bruce and Henry Everett,
ando
fPTorhtooi
snsaosuctha,
es:erzei t6hoe
amoadg magistrates, r a tes at
tube
, o
s3tlueddejnoEhnlliwicks,master asAtenrgrnof a erinvge'ssel mariners,ealled
• •with intent to defraud the revenue of 3001. All
theArundel,utrp wi
spirits!
the prisoners, except the master (Elliott), pleaded guilty.
.James Bishop, a coast-guardsman on the Littlehatnpton9 service, deposed that about two o'clock on the morning
Intrepid
smugglingrecharge d b
tt
of the 24th ult. he observed a boat with three men :n
it coming towards the shore. At this time between 30
and 40 men, whom he did not know were hovering about
the shore. Mr. J. D. Beach, master in the Royal Navy
and chief officer of the Lit!lehanapton Coast Guard Ser-
vies, stated that ho had a galley manned and put off to
sea. After pulling about two miles from the shore
they cause up to a vessel of suspicious appearance, which
they boarded. On it they found only the master (Elliott),
who said he was on his way from Portsaiouth to Shore-
ham. Shortly afterwaris they pulled up to a boat, which
had the other three prisoners on board. They had with
them between 30 and-40 tubs of Geneva, and near the
boat were floating from 15 to 20 other tubs. They
took all the prisoners, with the tubs, into custody.
After some further evidence it *as 'stated that the tubs
comprised 38 of Geneva and 26 of brandy, all nearly 50
per cent. over proof. The ditty upon the same amounted
to 3001. The bench sentenced the master (Elliott) to
nine months' imprisonment, and the other three to eight
months each. The vessel and other property were con-
fiscated.