The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

TATTERSALL' S=(This Evening.)

There were very few members present,, and no trans-
actions worthy of note took place.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(This Evening.)
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given to the following bills by
commission :—Grand Juiiss (Ireland) Act (1846)
Amendments, Turnpike Trusts Abolition (Ireland)
Amendments, Constabulary Force (Ireland), Briton
Ferry Docks, Glasgow City and Suburban Gas,
Scottish Central Railway, Stamford and Essendine
Railway, Victoria (London) Docks, Great Northern and
Western (of Ireland), Great Southern and Western Ex-
tension Railway, Leslie Railway, Keith and Dufftown
Railway, Dexchorp Turnpike Trusts, London (City)
Coal Duties, European and Indian Junction Telegraph
Company, West of Fife Mineral Railway, Clyde Navi-
gation, Pultenay Town and Harbour, Elie Harbour,
New Quay Pier and Harbour, Reading Junction Rail-
way, Slaney River Improvement; Stockport, Disley,
and Whaley Bridge Railway ; Worksop and Altercliffe
Road, Westminster Terminus Railway Extension
(Clapham to Norwood), Blackwater Bridge and
Road, Cork and Yougbal Railway, He ss ard CA
thedral Restoration &tate, Atlantic Telegraph
Company, Dartmouth; and Torbay Railway, Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen Railway,l Newton and Mac-
lasuleth Railway, Prestwick, Bury, and Ratcliffe
Roads ; Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, (London
and North-Western Railway and Shropshire Canal
Companies), Deeside Railway, Banff, Macduff, and
Turiff Extension Railway ;. Stockton New Gas and
Stockton Gas Consumers, Banff, Portsoy, and Strathisla
Railway ; Buralem and Tornatall Gas, Bristol, South
Wales and Southampton Union Railway ; Newcastle
under-Lyne and Leek Roads, Longport,' Somerton,
and Castle Cary Roads; Lowestoft Water Gas
and Markets, Australian Agricultural Company,
Ely Tidal Harbour and Raila,ay, Margate Water,
Tyne Improvements, Wimbledon and Dorking
Railway, Shrewsbury Gas, Lewes and Uckfield Rail-
way, Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway ;
Mallow and Fermoy and Great Smithern and Western
Railway, Bury Gas, Stlby and Market Wighhton Turn-
pike Road, West Somerset Railway, tratfurd-upon-
Avon Gas,London Gas Light Company (Capital), Milford
Improvements, Orkney Roads, East Kent Railway,
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Sligo Ex-
tension), Monklaods Railway, Flemings Estate, Camp-
bell's Divorce, and Smith's Divorce.
-The Royal Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Harrowby, and the Marquis of BreadaLane.
Their lordships adjourned during pleasure.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woo:
sack at five o'clock.
THE TRANSATLANTIC CABLE.

The Earl of DERBY presented a petitioa from a
gentleman stating that the cab'e manufactured for the
Transatlantic Cable was by no means strong enough to
bear the pressure of the water upon it. He prayed to
be heard at the bar to support his allegation.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

The Earl of DERBY called the attention of their
lordships to the state of the business of Parliament, with
a ♦iew of adopting some means of bringing it to a conclu-
sion. There were no less than 38 bills before the Howse
•f Commons, of which their lordst.ips knew nothing. Of
these no less than 19 we. e waiting for committal, and
five for a third reading. He had heard the 20th of Au-
gust mentioned as the time taxed for the prorogation of
Parliament, but it was more likely to t e the 20th of Sept.
if the business was not facilitated. had hoped that the
Government would have interfered to prevent the great
scandal of sending up bids to their lordships' house for
which there was not sufficient ti ne for discussion, and
he did not think it at alt >4 reasona')le that they should
fix the 4th of August as the day teyocd which they
would not receive any Lille from the other house of
Parliament.

Earl GRANVILLE said the evil was no doubt very
great, but he bad heard from his noble friend
near him that there had been a number of
complaints for the last 50 years of the same evil, It
was a su. j,ct which required to be very delicately han-
dled, but if the noble earl wont' agree to the 7th of
August as the day beyond whiLh no bills would be re-
, °lived, he should offer no opposition on the part of the
Government to such an arrangement.
The Earl of DERBY said he bad no objection to the
7th of August being named ; on the contrary, he would
wi Tingly assent to it. All that he. wanted was, that a
certain day should be fix:d.
Lord REDESDALE then gave noticethat to-morrow
would submit a resolution to the effect that no bills, tx-
cept those of pressing necessity, should be received trom
the other hou4e atter the 7th of Augu-t.
i'INO.t UP-Ar DAtev u r_r_

Lord WFNSLEYDALE moved that in the cave of
the Finsbury Palk Bill (No. '2) the sessional order
twat no private bill be read a second time after the 21st
of July, be dispensed with, in order that the bill be read
a second time.

After a few words from Lcrd REDESDALZ, the motion
was agreed to and tie bill am read a second time,
THIRD READINGS.
On the mothn of Lord REDESDALE, the following
bills were severally read a third time and passed :
Baroness Windsor's E.ta.e,.Metropolitan Railway (No
2), Watchet Harbour, South Staffordshire Water (as
amended), and .Salford Borough (as amended).
AFFAIRS OF INDIA.
The Marquis of CLANRICAR OE moved for c3pies
of the correspondence of the Court of Directors with the
Board of Control and with the Goveri.or-Generalof
relating to the account of European forces,
either of the British or the Indian army, to
be maintained in that country since the I.t
of April, 1856, or relating to the employment of military
officers upon political or other civil services. The noble
lord proceeded to review the state of affairs in
India, and remarked tbat alth,,ugh then had been great
mismanagement no fears need be entertained for time
ultimata result, as he felt assured that cur arms would
be triumphant in vindicating the British honour and the
British sovereignty in India.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

TBE ATLANTIC SUBMARINE TELE-
GRAPH.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Lord A CHURCHILL took the oaths and his seat for
Woodstock, in the room r,f the Marquis of BlandforJ.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' Amendments to the Midland Great West-
ern Railway of Ireland (Streawstown and Clara Junc-
tion) Bill were aorpaidered and agreed to.
The Eastern Bengal Railway CJrupany's Bill, and
the Scinde Railway Company Bill were read a second
time.

ROYAL ASSENT.
The SPEAKER and several members attended the
linuse of Lords to hear the royal assent given by com-
mission to numerous bike. (See Loris.) -
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
Lord CASTLEROSSE appeared at the bar of the
house with her 'Majesty's gracious answer to the Ad-
dress-relative to the sieve trade in Air,ca, in which her
Majesty stated she would do all in her power to carry
the wishes of the house into effect.
PORTSMOUTH ELECTION.
The SPEAKER announced that the petition against
the return of Portsmouth had been withdrawn, and the
order for referring it to a committee was read and di--
charged.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.
Sir D. LACY EVANS asked if there was any truth
in the statements in the pubic j urnals, that the loni-
ans bad declared their readiness of shedding their blood;
to cast off British control ; and, if true, what measures
had been taken to prevent it?
LABOUCHERE said that he bad received no
official information from the lonian Islands, but he bad
seen several private letters from that par On two or
three occasions lately the lonian Assembly had passed
early in the session resolutions striking at the communi-
cation with this country, and it is usual on such occasions
for the Governor to prorogue the assembly forthwith on
such occasions. The Assembly had not passsed such a
resolution this session, and in consequence the Assembly
had not been prorogued. The disturbances alluded to
bad arisen from the presentation of a petition to this
house by Sir J. Pakiegton from M. Montgomery, rdla-
ties to the propriety of there being a representative for
the lonian Isles in this house. He was unable to state
what had been done in consequence.
INDIAN NEWS.
• 'ln answer to a question from Sr J.
...P IV
AKINGTO,
-Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government had
not received any telegraphic communie. tion in anticiP a-
ef the new, from Inuia. The Government were ignorant
of what it was likely to be.
THE BUSINESS OF THE DAY.
Lord
the order of PALMERST
ON moved the Postponement o
the day till after the disloosalof Mr
Disraeli motion on India.—Aereed to. -
INDIA.

The inconvenience arising from the " blunder"
is, we ,hink, overrated by you, and really of small
importance.—We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
R. S. NEWALL, AT CO.
24, Abingdon.street, Westminster, July 24.

ItPIIESENTATION OP BIRMINGTIA.m.—An announce-
ment was made by tbe mayor of Birmingham on Wed-
nesday, at a public meeting, that Mr. Muutz will, in a
day or two, be likAy to aacept the Chiltern Hundreds.
—Birmingham Daily Press.

THE SESSION.—There seems to be no probability of
Parliament being prorogued before the 20th of August.
There are still some very important measures in an ad-
vanced state, which it is desirable to mature into Acts of
Parliament instead of tiding them over to another ses-
sion. The House of Commons now sits every day as
well as every night, and the new inemb,ra especially
seem disposed to keep up their attendance till the work
of the session shall be done.

tr. DISRAELI called the attention of tho house to
the state of affairs in India and moved for tahneypnrioinduutee-
tion of the following papers :-1. Copy of
or despatch addressed to the Governor-General of India
by his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, the late
Major-General the Hon. G. Anson, dated on or about
March, 1856, relative to the state of the Bengal army.
2. 'Copy of a report on the organization of the Bengal
army, drawn up by the late Lieut.-General Sir C. Napier,
and transmitted to his Grace the Duke of Wellington,K. G.
In moving for the above documents the right bon, gen-
tlemen alluded to the great revolutions that had taken
place from small beginnings, acd instanced the two
greatest revolutions that had ever occurred in France
bad its commencement in a mob, and no one at the time
dreamt that the visit of a Russian soldier to Constar-Ai-
tipple would have caused so great and sanguinary a
war as that lately closed. After referring to the
iatelligence we had recently received from India,
and to the news likely to be received by this ma,l
from that country, the right hon. gentleman reviewed
what.had been stated in this and the other house of Par-
liament relative to the outbreak in India, and said it was
material that the house should be made acquainted by
the Government with the real state of India, and he I
ventured to suggest it on a formcr occasion but it was
objected to. He thought the qtustion, whether it

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN TEE
CIVIL SERVICE. —The Home Department : The t•ffice of
Lord-Lieutenant of Cardiganshire has become vacant by
the death of Mr. Thomas Lloyd. The Duke of Marl-
borough has been appointed lordl ieuten'ant of Ox"ord-
' shire, in the room of his father, the late duke. War
6 Department : Mr. Marriott, late clerk, storekeeper's
department, Bosphorus', has been appointed second
class military store clerk, Tower, London, vice
E. R. Liverotti resigned ; Mr. Balmois, first class
snorefirarislittatt..o lerk, Gibraltar, has been appointed
military flora clerk, Malts, vice Suggate,
placed on the redundante-ri. list; Mr. M. Iretherick,
late store-clerk,
rice Balmois,
c.as been appointed first
clerk, Gibraltar,
bat been appointed a clerkniatisioutChuSsthoieruldss:; Mr.A J jamCoess
Cory has been promoted from third to second class. locker
in London; Mr. Sampson Bankeshas been
incei?moted from
weigher first class to be locker third clam
E. IL Creswell has beea promotedfromsecondtoonfidi7 ; Mr*
weigher in London. East Indies: Major F EV 'it
class
F. • clle, de-
puty comissioner in the Punjaub has been appointed a
deputy commissioner o f the first class in Onde, vice Mr.
C. E. Boileau, deceased ; Captain D. Brown, assistant
conimissioner. at Tbarrawaddy, has been appointed to
act as deputy commissioner at Bassein, vice Major
Fytche, appointed to officiate in Tenaesetim and Mana-
han provinces ; Lieutenant M. B. S. Lloyd, officiating
magistrate at Rangoon, has been appointed to act as as-
sistant commissioner of Tbarrawaddy, Tice Captain
Brown.—Civil Serrice Gazette.

: was a military mutiny or a national revolt,
t4v 11;1,0- 14tqwuae:triillihrthimeVort:gaelesehouild"ktnwoawsifaitmairloitsaerTrornmutiimnY-
pulse, or was the result of premeditation, because what
was required to put down one would fail to effect it in
the other case, and therefore it was necessary the house
should be primarily made acquaintainted with the real
I state of affairs to know how to support the Government.
After the house had been made acquainted with the real
cause of the outbreak, it would be for the house to
consider the best means to be adopted to pat it down.
The condition of the Bengal Army had been and was at
the time of the outbreak, satisfactory. On that subject
the house had ample information in the despatches of
General Sir Charles Napier, Lord Melville, and Colonel
Jacobs, and it was unnecessary for him to enter into the
question whether that army was properly officered or
not, or that its condition in every other respect
was what it ought to have been. He contended that
the disaffection of the Bengal army arose from the con-
duct of men not so much the avengers of professional
grievances as the exponents of general dis-
content. He thought he should be able to
show • that the conduct of the Government
in India had lately had the effect of ali.inating or had
alarmed almost every influential class in that country,
and. be considered he should be able in his speech to
trace the cause of the outbreak from its commencement.
For some time India had been in a state of combustion,
and it wanted only the opportunity to break forth. The
right hen. gentleman referred to the late report of the
late Governor-General of India (Lord Dalhousie),
in which, while it referred minutely to every-
thing connected with the European soldier, the native
soldier was but slightly touched upon, and that in terms
stating that his condition required but little improve.
ment. Of late years a great change had taken place in
the Government of India. Ti'l within the last 10 years
the principle on which our Government was based in
India was to respect nationality. We often now
talked of our conquests in India, and of cur having to
reconquer some of them. Our conquests in India bad
been in the same sense as William of Orange conquered
England. We had been ca'led in by a population
suffering under a tyranny, and we had entered
into their principalities to protect their reli-
gion and property. Up to within the last ten
yearn, as he had stated, that had been the policy
adopted towards India, and they looked upon us as the
protectors of their property and their religion, and in
that was our strength. The principle of their policy
since that time had been the reverse, and one that had
destroyed nationality, and everything in India bad been
4hanged. The laws, the manners, the customs, the usages,
the political organisation, the tenor eof property, and
the religion of the people had all been changed, or
attempted to be changed, or it had been supposed by the
population of India to be the intention of the Govern-
ment that they should be changed. (Hear, hear) He
would range under those heads what had led, in his
opinion, to the accomplishment of that result, at :d
to the general discontent amotngst all classes in
that country with Europeans. (Hear, hear.) He
described them farts :—Our forcible destruction of the
native authority ; secondly, our disturbance of the set-
tlement of property ; and, thirdly, our tampering with
the religion of the people. (Hear, hear.) Directly or
indirectly he believed ad the principle causes of public
discontent and p,pular disturbances would range uuier
these heads. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman said
that there were now in India 200 princes govern-
ing about 60 millions of inhabitants, with whom their
own Government had entered into treaties, substantially
the earns, though varying in details, which was that
provided the native princes adhered to the terms of the
treaty, we would secure to them, and to their heirs to
thrones on which they sat. He then proceeded
to review what was done after 1848. in
India, on the termination of the wars of that period,
dotiich be proposed to apply in proof of his first
propositii n, viz., to our forcible destruction of the native
princes. Adoption of heirs was the keystone of Hindu°
society, but in 1848 commenced the alteration of policy
he had noticed by annexing the territories of princes
who died without heirs, by repudiating the law of adop-
tion. That policy was evidently adopted for the par-
pose of increasing our Indian revenue.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Times:—
Sir,—We have just read in an article in The
Times of this day headed "Atlantic Submarine
Telegraph" the following paragraph :
" We have already explained to our readers how
the cable is coated with closely woven spiral wires,
to prevent damage to the core in paying out ; bur,
in consequence of the two halves having been made
at different places—one at Birkenhead, by Messrs.
Newall, and the other at Greenwich, by Glasse and
Elliot, a most egregious blunder has been com-
mitted. It will scarcely be credited, but is never-
theless true, that the twist of the spiral wires of the
Birkenhead half is in exactly the opposite direction
to the twist of the wires in the half wade at Green-
"viol:. Thus, when joined in the centre of the At-
lantic they wilt lorni a rigut hand and a kit hind
screw, and the tendency of each will be to assist
the other to untwist and expose the core. By at-
taching a solil weight to the centre joining it is
hoped this difficulty and danger may be overcome,
but none attempt to conceal that the mistake is
much to be regretted. We are informed that
Messrs. Glasse and Elliot had nearly 100 miles of
the'r portion of the cable completed before Messrs.
Newall commenced theirs, and that therefore -the
fault rests with the firm which began last.
We rely on your sense of fairness to allow •this
letter a corner in the Times to rebut the charge of
our having commit•ed a " most egregious blunder."
1. The conclusion drawn by your correspondeut
that we are in fault is certainly not warranted.
Admitt.ng all the premises, how were we to know
anything about Messrs. Glasse and Elliot's work ?
We have no entry to their premises, and could
know nothing of the by of the cable they bad
mauuractureS.
2. We took our contract from the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company in December last, and we were
supplied by their engineer with a specimen of the
cable to be made. We constructed new machinery
specially adapted for the manufacture of this cable
of the same lay as the specimen supplied to us.
We began to manufacture the last week of Feb-
ruary, and when we began about 200 miles Lad
been ma !e at Greenwich. The engineer of the
company then found that the lay of the cable
at the two works was in reverse directions, and
asked us to alter it in ours. We could not do this
without altering the machinery, which, as bef,re
s lid, had been specially prepared for the work,
and this would hive involvel a delay of three
weeks, so that the engineer decided against any
alteration. As it has turned out it would certdiu-
ly have been better to have altered it, for, al-
though we had not begun our half of the cable till
the Greenwich firm had completed about 200 miles,
yet we had completed our part when they had up-
wards of 150 miles still to do, so that thee would
have been ample time to mske the necessary alter-
ations in the machinery without delay in the corn:
pletion of the cable. However, that was no affair
of ours ; we were bound to complete the cable by
a terrain day under a penalty of 501. a-day, and
we did it ; and it the engineer expected the same
punctuality from the other contractors, we think
he was right in not risking delay by alteration of
our machinery.
3. The specimen of the cable given to U 3 for our
guidance in the manufacture was not made by us,
but we believe it was made by Messrs. Glasse and
Elliott. At any rate, it is for the engineer to ex-
plain how it came to pass that different directions
were given to the two contractors ; and perhaps the
gentleman who gave you the information that we
are in fault can throw some light on the subject as
to hew the specimen given to us happened to be o
a contrary lay to the cable manufactured at Green-
wich.