The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

TIE S LO TUESDAY E V EM, NG,NOVEMBER
24, ISSI.

has been subject to the most frequent and constant attacks
of the enemy, from which they have always been driven
with great loss by the able dispositions of that officer, so
admirably seconded by the troops under his command,
comprising parties of her Majesty's 60th Royal Rifles, and
other corps, with the gallant Sirmoor battalion, and corps
of Guides.

In conclusion, the Major-General desires to express his
thanks to the officers of his personal Staff for the uniform
assistance he has received from them upon every occasion,
and he only regrets he has not had more frequent oppor-
tunities of witnessing their distinguished conduct in the
field; to Captains Lowe, Reed, and Turnbull, Aides-de-
Camp ; to Assistant-Surgeon W. F. Mactier ; and to
Lieutenant. R. C. Law, Orderly Officer; as well as to
Lieutenant W. IL Greathed, of Engineers, who acted as
Aide-de-Camp to the General commanding from the 7th
ultimo, besides performing the duty of Field-Engineer,
when his services were needed in that capacity.

Document found in the House
General Wheeler were mur-

Translation of a Vernacular
in which the Ladies of
dered.
List of those who arrived i
7th of Jul

in the house on Tuesday, the
ly, 1857 :
Miss Burn
Miss Burn
Mrs. Bell
Alfred Bell
Mrs. Berrell
Mrs Murray
Mrs. Jones
Mrs. Russell
Eliza Russell
Mrs Gilpin (?)
William Gilpin
James Lewis
Elizabeth West
W. Nock
One native

Mr. Greenway
Mrs. Greenway
Mrs. Greenway
F. Greenway
Martha Greenway
Sane Green way
Mr. Jacobi
Henry Jacobi
Lucy Jacobi
Hugh Jacobi
Mrs. Tibbett (?)
Miss Peter (?)
Mrs. Cocks
Mrs. Reed
Susan Reed

James Reed
Julia Reed
C. Reed
Charles Reed
Baby Reed
Mrs. Gillis (?)
Henry Brett
Mrs. Dooney (?)
Henry Duncan
Mrs. Levy
James Levy
Mrs. Brothrick (?)
Grace Kirk
William Kirk
Charlotte Kirk

Henry Walkins
Jennie Martindale
Weston Darden
William James
Jane Gill
James Cousins
Mrs. Peter
James Peter
Mrs. Baines
Philip Baines
Mr. Nonirs
Mr. Guthree
Catherine Gnthroe
Mrs. White
Mrs. Wollon

Mrs. White
Mrs. Memel/en

Tommy Wollen
Susan Wollen

Hrs. Sinclair
John Graen way
Mary Greenw ay
Lizzie Horne;
Mn.s Sheriden
W. Sheridan

Mrs. Coopor
Mrs. Carroll
Mrs. Carroll
Two ayahs
Mrs. Sanders
William Sanders

Baby Sheriden
31r. W reach am

Margaret Fitzgerald
Mary Fitzgerald

Clara Wresch am

Tom- Fitzgerald
_ .

Drummond Wrescham

Ellen Fitzgerald

Eliza Bennett

Mrs. Lindsay

Mrs. Probett

Caroline Linisay

Stephen Probatt
Catherine Willup (?)
Jane Willup
Thomas Willup
Mrs. DAlas

Harriet Gilpin
Sarah Gilpin
Tom Gilpin
S. Gilpin
Mrs. Walker

W. O'Connor (?)
Lucy Lyells
Mrs. Canter

Mrs. Cayman (?)
Emma Weston
Mrs. Fraser

liwnet Pistol (1)
Elizabeth Simpson
George Casey
G. Casey

Mrs Derby
Miss Williams
Mrs. Parrot
Mary Peter

Lucy Stake (?)

Arthur Newman

William Stake

Charlotte Newman

Joseph Conway
Miss Lindsay

Mrs. Bowling
Mrs. Moore

Henry Simpson
Miss Coglan (?)
Mrs. Keirseile (?)
Mary Keirseile

Miss White
Mrs. Probart
Johnny Probert
Willie Probert

Willis Keirseile
Mrs. O'Brien

Emma Probert
Susan Probert

Mrs. Green

Mrs. Seppings (2d Cavalry)

Edward Green

John Spping!

Mrs. Crab

Edward Sepidngs
__,

John Fitzgerald Mrs. Duptii(?)-
Mrs. Jenkins Charles Dupter
Mrs. Peel (?) William Dupter
George Peel Henry Dupter
Mrs. Moore Mrs. Wallet (?)
Marian Conway Mrs. Hill
T. C. Weston (?) Mrs. Bnsilico (?)
Mrs. Carroll Frances Lindsay
Mrs. Butler Mrs. Lindsay
Mrs. Johnson Mrs. Mackenna
Jane Marfet (?) Mrs. Wallis
Mrs. Peterson David Walker
List of Fnttehghur Fugitives, dated July 11, 1857.
Mrs. Woolyar Mrs. Lowis (wife of R.
Charles Woolyar Lowis, Joint Magistrate,
Thomas Woolyar Futtehghur)
_

Mrs. Gibbons
Miss Seth

Mrs.Kempland and children
Lieut. Goad
Lieut. Fagan, wounded, brought-back in boat
Lieut. Chalmers
Lieut. Morris
Lieut. Warde
Lieut. Henderson, wounded, brought back in boat
Lieut. Henderson
Lieut. Jackson, 67th Native Infantry
Mrs. Jackson
Lieut. Battine, 14th Native Infantry.
General Wheeler, commanding
Lsdy Wheeler
Miss Wheeler
Brigadier Jack, fever
Jack, Esq., killed
Cpt. Wiggins, killed in boat
Major Lindsay, fever
Mrs. Lindsay, ditto
Captain Williamson
Mrs. Williamson and child.
Rev. -- Moncrieff
Mrs. Moncrieff and child
Dr. Garbett, fever
Dr. Allen
Mrs. Allen
Dr. Harris
Mrs. Harris
Miss Brightman, fever
Dr. Bowling
Mrs. Bowling and child
Dr. Chalwin, Veterinary Surgeon, killed
Mrs. Chalwin
Miss White
Lieutenant Harris' child
Mrs. Wade, fever
Mrs. George Lindsay
Three Misses Lindsay
Ensign Lindsay
Mrs. Blair
Two Misses Blair, one died of fever
Mrs. Fraser, brought back in boat
Mrs. Evans
Mrs. Darby and infant
Miss Bisset
Mrs. Swinton and 3 children
Miss Cripps
Charles Hillersdon, Esq., killed
Mr. Cox, late lst Fusiliers, ditto
Mrs. Hillersdon, fever
Mrs. Hillersdon's child
Sir Geo. Parker, sun-stroke
M. Killop, Esq., killed
Stacey, Esq., wounded
Captain Angelo, ditto
Baines, Esq., ditto
Miller, Esq brought back in boat
Satouche,
llillerdon, wounded
Cumming, Esq., brought back in boat
Anderson, Esq,
Mrs. Anderson
-- Cooke, Esq.
Campbell, Esq.
Rev. Haycock
Mrs. Haycock
Mr. Christie, fever
Mrs. Christie and family
Mr. Fagan
Mrs. Fagan and family
Mr. Greenaway and family
Mr. Shiren
Mr. Shencair
The whole of the married women and children, 32d Regi-
ment Grenadiers, Ist Company 6th Battalion Artillery,
married women and children belonging to Company
Mrs. Shore
Mrs. Eckferd
Also many persons who came into the station with their
families on account of disturbance, and whose names I
do not know
Dr. Boyes
Mrs. Boyce

G. H. DELLFOSSE, Lieutenant,
Late 53d Native Infantry.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(Thi3 Day.)

The following appointments were made this afternoon
at the Admiralty :

Captains—Charles Eden. C. 13., to be aide-de-camp to
her Alaj.isty. E. C. T. D'Eyncourt, to the Curacoa ;
J. J. M'Cleverty, to the Cambrian ; F. S. Mortimer,
to the Calypso.
Masters—Charles A. Cleveland, to the Calypso ;
William H. Harris, to the Cambrian ; E. N. Shacklock,
to the Lyra.
Paymaiters—Francis G. Pearse, to the Cambrian ;
John M. J-ff.ason, to the Calypso.
Midshipmen—C. J. Vida', to the Lyra ; R. De B.
Hawtrey, to the Racoon ; the Lion. M. F. Murray, to
the Cambrian.
Clerks—J. S. Andrews, to the Calypso ; William
Walker to the Cambrian.

Assistant Cl-rks—John W. Thompson, to the Water-
loo ; Thomas Johnston, to the Impregnable.

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, Nov. 23.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon.
Edward Granville, Earl of St. Germane, C. 8., to be Lord
Stewar of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of the
Right Hon. Frederick, Earl Spencer, K.G., resigned.
ST. d AMES'S PALACE, Nov. 19.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. George
Mathias, Chaplain to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, to bo
one of tho Chaplains in Ordinlry to Her Majesty.

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 14.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Samuel
Vines, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Azores, or
Western Islands.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Watson Vredenbnrg, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul at
Para.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 21.
The Queen has been pleasedto direct Letterg Patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, constituting and appointing
the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart., G.C.B. ;
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas,
K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Henry Eden ; Captain Alexander
Milne; Captain the Hon. Frederick Thomas Pelham,
CB. ; and Thomas George Baring, Esq. ; to be Her
Majesty's Commissioners for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Groat Bri-
tain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and terri-
tories thereunto belonging.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL.MALL, Nov. 24.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—John Augustus Beau-
mont, Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase.
3,1 Light Dragoons—George James Teeven, Gent., to be
Cornet, without purchase, vice Goff, promoted.
4th Light Dragoons—Russell England, Gent., to be Cor-
.

net, without-purchase.
10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Edward Lovett to be
Captain by purchase, vice J. W. Clarke, who retires ;
Cornet Henry Atkins Bowyer to be Lieutenant by pur-
chase, vice Lovett ; Lord Ralph Drury Kerr to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Bowyer.
17th Light Dragoons--Paymaster Francis Lovett Bennett,
from half-pay of a Depot Battalion, to be Paymaster,
vice Stephenson, appointed to a Cavalry Depot.
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant William Booth to be Second
Captain, vice H. T. Boultbee, who resigns.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lutloy Jordon, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Evans, promoten.
3J Foot—Henry Thomas Halahan, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Ker, promoted.
Oth Foot—Henry Randolph Eppes, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Plnmridge, promoted.
25th Foot- Lieut.-Colonel Robert Feilden, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, ♦ice Brevet Colonel
Lysons, who exchanges ; Major Samuel B. Hamilton to
be Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Feilden, who re-
tires ; Captain Stanhope M. Gildea to be Major, by
purchase, vice Hamilton ; Lieutenant F. C. Kennedy
to be Captain, by purchase, ♦ice Cildea ; Ensign Chas.
Edward Hill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ken-
nedy.
36th Foot—Captain Henry Robert Twyford, from the
let West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Brevet-
Major Pratt, who exchanges.
37th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Inkson, M.D., from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Irwin, deceased.
41st Foot —Henry Ernest Glanville Crean Lynch, Gent.,
to be Ensign by parkas°, vice White, promoted in the
75th Foot.

45th Foot—Lieutenant George Stackpole Coxon to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major Wheatstone,
promoted in the Bth Foot ; Ensign James Alexander
Stubbs to be Itientenant without purchase, vice Coxon.
52d Foot--Ensign Henry Richard Beattie to b 3 Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Bradshaw, killed in action.
83d Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Parker Wright to be Cap.
tlin. without purchase, vice Jones, deceased • Ensign
William Henry 'virtu to be Lieutenant, without pur-

chase, vice Wright. • -
Rifle Brigade—Capt. J. S. Keating from half-pay, Unat-
tached, to b 3 Captain, vice the Hon. G. Eliot, whose
Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank,
under the Royal Warrant of the 6th Ozt., 1354 ; Lieut. J.
Brett to be Capt., without purchase, vice Brevet-Major E.
Newdigate, whose Brevet Bank has been converted into
Substantive Rink, under the Royal Warrant of 6th
O ,ber, 187)4 ; Lieutenant Fitzßoy William Fremantle
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Keating, who retires.
99th Foot— Brevet-Lieut.-Col. P. Smyly to be Major,
without purchase, vice Last, promoted in the lst West
India Regiment; Lieut. J. Grime to be Captain, with-
out purchase, vice Snub, ; Ensign E. W. Jacob to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Grime; Ensign Geo.
Richards Harvey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wel-
man, promoted ; Horace Townsend, Gent., to b 3 En-
sign, by purchase, vice Harvey.
lit West India Regiment—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel
Edward Last, from till Oath Foot. to b 3 Lieutenant-
Colonel, without purchase, vice Wetherall, deceased ;
Brevet-Major John Pratt, from the 86th Fuot, to be
Captain, vico Twyford, who exchanges.

markot, Dec. 4, at one, and Jan. 8, at half-past twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
George Pelling, carpenter, Holloway-road, and Sidney-
street, City-road, Dec. 4, at twelve, and Jan. 8, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy.
Thomas James Wilkioson, surgeon, Hulme, Manchester,
Dac. 4, and Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court.

Joseph Hemingway, manufastarer, Clevland-street,
Fitzroy-square, Dec. 5, and Jan. 12, at twelve.
John Otto William Fabert, ship-chandler, Liverpool, at
Dec. 9 and 29, at 11 o'clock. the Liverpool District Court,
Johann Heinrich Theodor Stockmarr awl Christian
Gotcliob Stendel, commission agents, Basinghall-street,
Dec. 4, at half•past twelve, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.

COURSE .OF EXCHANGE.- THIS DAT.
Am5terdam...........• 12 Gibraltar .. .• ****"
Ditto, throe months .. 12 3 Leghorn ... •• • •• 30 75
Rotterdam 12 3 Genoa
Antwerp 26
•••• •••• •• ••••

Brussels 26
Bamburgh ............ 13 14 Naples .••.........•... 41%
Aitc na ................ .• Palermo ..... ..... 124 X,
Pari5........ 25 65 'Messina
Do. three months .. ••26 15 Lisbon ..
Marseilles ............ 26 20 Oporto ..... 521 A
Bourdeaux .. • • Janeiro ..... .• • ....
Frankfort-on-Maine ...• 122 illuenos Ayre5..........
Berlin
„„ iNew York,6o days' sight
Vienna.. •... 11 20 'Philadelphia ..........
Trieste.. •• •• •• •• •• •• .. 11 20 !Wen OF BULLION, PER OM
Petersburg ............ 334 'Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9
Madrid 4734 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
C adiz ...... •• .. !i Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
B treelona New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Seville. .. Silver inhari 0 0 0

Colchester
Harwich 1
Leigh !
bialdon

I
,?.
Xi

6191 357' 454,
271 37, 480,
567 47 -
1481, 309 250

COLCHESTER— Nov. 21.

4 IP

'
e 5 I
4 H

49 30D
20 13 310

1 350

To-day we had a small sipply of wheat, the best Sam-
ples at nearly last week's prices ; inferior, is to 2s lower.
Finest malting barleys no cheaper. Beans and peas each
2s per qr. lower.

KIRSCALD Y—No v. 21.

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. j Beans.
First
Second
I
Third 30s Od 2os 01 17s OJ I Os Od

'.—N0v.223.

the close of the market
Wallsend, au-

s d
[lough Hall l3 0
Cassop 18 9
17 0
Nixon's Duirryn 2l 6
Framwellgate ls 0
Hetton
Elotton Lyons Main .„,17
, Northumberland l7 0
Killingworth East 1(1 0
Iffunwiek hi 3
Whitworth l6 0
Wylain
•, 39; sold, 23.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter from Paris, dated Nov. 22, says :—The
Divan of Wallachia unanimously adopted on the
19th the memorandum explanatory of the four re-
solutions of the Rouman people as agreed to on the
21st October last. The popular assemblies of those
provinces seem to take as their model the French
Constituent Assembly of 1789. This body, on the
17th of June, effaced the distinction between the
three orders of the nation, and the States-General
became a National Assembly ; the 23d of June was
the term of the moral, and the 14th of July of the
material, power of French Royalty ; and the 4th
of August was the complement of the first Revolu-
tion. Moldavia has just had its 4th of August. In
the sitting of the 9th, 10th, and 11th inst., the
Divan ad hoe, on the question of the reforms to be
introduced into the Principality, adopted unaui-
ineusly, and as the basis of tee new order of things,
liberty in matters of religion, equality before the
law, general partition of imposts, capacity of all
citizens to fill offices of the State, separation of
administrative from judicial functions, abolition of
the privileges which constituted the ancient laws of
the country, and, in a word, the application to
Moldo-Wallachia of what are termed in France
the principles of 1789. A few remarks on this
point may not be out of place. They are intended
to present some precise notions of the internal
condition of Moldo-Wallachia to the present date,
and to throw a little additional light on one
important question on which a strong difference
of opinion exists—namely, whether the Danubian
Provinces contain, or not the elements of a free
people. And, first of all, a few words on the
history of the facts themselves. After the voting
of the "four points" of the political programme,
that is to say, union, self-government (auto no my), the
sovereignty of a foreign Prince, and Constitutional
government, one great difficulty presented itself—
what, after all, was the duty of the Divan ? Con-
sidering their mission as terminated, should they
have adjourned until such time as the Paris Con-
gress had pronounced its decision on these four
points ? On the one hand common sense, on the
other respect for the rights of the country, seemed
to counsel such a line of conduct. Independently of
the consideration that it was not regular to proceed
to the discussion of organic laws before the Consti-
tution was adopted, the question of union or con-
tinued separation necessarily taking precedence of
a'l others, it should not be forgotten that the
Divans have, according to the Treaty of Paris, a
consulting mission only., They consequently were
bound, if they wished to maintain int ict the rights
of the country as ratified by that instrument, to
limit themselves strictly to the discussion of the
political question, which, being part of the public
law of Europe, is within the attribut s of the great
Powers, without touching the domestic question,
which belongs entirely to the governing authority,
and is not subject to the control or intervention of
those Powers, The acts of the Divans justify the
observation of a high authority on such matters,
namely that the General Assemblies of Moldo-
Wallachia have not simply expressed their wants
and wishes, but have enacted decrees.

The European C.ammissioners, however, having
urged the Divans to protract, irrespectively of the
" four points," their deliberations on the divers
topics relating to the reorganization of the provinces
the Divan of Moldavia, out of deference to the
Pow, rs, framed a list of demands, comprised in 12
-articles, to be appended to the " four points," but
accompanied with the express declaration,-Ist,
that these demands, submitted voluntarily and
spontaneously to the Congress by theDi vans, should
not be in any wise prejudicial to the aut noney or
self-government of the Principality ; 2d, that in
case the bases proposed by the Wallachian Divan
were not identical, such eventual difference should
not be used as an argument against the political
union of the Principalities, which had been de-
manded by the unanimous vote of the represen-
tatives of both.

Among the 12 articles alluded to there are several
—such, for instance, as the organisation of the
army with a-view to neutrality and to the combined
defence of the territory of the Principalities (Att.
4) ; respect for the domiciles and personal liberty of
th 9 citizens (Art. 8) ; separation of the executive
and legislative powers (Art. 10) ; and responsibility
of ministers (Art. 12)—which need no commentary,
for they explain themselves. There ara others,
however, which, to be understood, require some
explanation ; and, as these explanations relate to
;he religious, political, and social organisation of
the Rosman country, they may be given here.
The provisions relating to religion are comprised
in the sth and 6th Articles, which are worded thus :
—Liberty of worship within the conditions of the
stipulations with the Ottoman Porte. Establish-
ment of a Synodal authority concentrating in itself
the direction of the spiritual affairs of the Roman
Church. All forms of worship to be freely professed
in Moldo-Wallachia—all, with the exception of the
religion of their masters, or the pretended masters
of the country—the Turks ! It is, in fact, declared
in the 10th Article of the stipulations of 1460
that "no .Mussulman mosque shall ever be
erected in any part of the Wallachian territory."
Now, it this formal sdpulation be comp wed
with the religious and political code of Islamism,
in vir ue of which the erection of the mosque on
the Dar-ul-harb (the territory of the infidel, in con-
tradistinction to the Dar-ul-Islam, the territory of
Islamism) is regarded as the sign of conquest, how
can the Turks pretend that they are the Sovereigns
of the country ? That Sovereignty is, indeed, ex-
traordinary which refuses you the right to pray, to
reside, or even to traverse freely your own States !

The declaration of the Moldavian Divan does
more than merely record a pre-existing fact. By
the establishment of a Synodal authority centralis-
ing the spiritual affairs of the Rounian Church it
tends to place it iu a condition of complete indepen-
dence with regard to the great Church eaf Constan-
tioople, as has already bsen the case with the.
Servian and Hellenic Churches. That independence,
which has not occasioned a schism in Greek ortho-
doxy, is derived from it svery constitution. In truth,
the various churches of the orthodoxcominunion, go-
verned by their respective Synods, are independent
of and equal to each of her; each Preserves its tongue,
its liturgy, and its discipline ; this dogma having
been immutably fixed since the 4th Council of Corr-
staniieople iu 869. The Eastern Church has been
administered after this manner to the present day
in Turkey, in independent Greece, in the lonian
Islands, in Russia, and in Austria, where the Ortho-
dox Serviena have an independent Patriarchate, of
which the seat is Carlowitz. The unity of the
orthodox communion is m iintained by the fraternal
concord of these various Synods, and by their un-
varying difference towards the patriarchal church of
Constantinople, the eldest sister of all, and the first
in rank. This fundamental principle of orthodoxy,
which assimilates it in some measure to Protes-
t tutism, is one of the causes to which may be attri-
buted the little progress of Rome is the East. The
Roman Church tends to absorb nationalities,
whereas the other not only contributes to their con-
servation, but even to their developni.ent. In Tur-
key the Catholic Armenians are hardly, if at all,
regarded as Armenians.
Up to the present time the Rouman Church,
though independent of Constantinople, for the Me-
tropolitans of Bucharest and Jas•iy, as well as their
Suffragans, are named directly by the ordinary
Assemblies of the two Provinces,•without the inter-
vention of the Pat t larch, to whom they merely pay a
sum of 3,000 duc its on their being enthroned, has
not been c .insiderecl as forming a distinct Church, in-
asmuch as the Principalities thenaselve, being
'reckoned among the provinces of the Ottoman Em-
pire, did no:. fo:m a distinct State. If the union of
the Principalities take place in conformity with the
basis of the "four poiries," it is evident that the
complete emancipation of the Church will follow
that of the State,. One is the necessary consequence
of the other.

While on this point I may notice what has ofcen
been said respect: ng the identity of reliziousdoct. ine
giving to the Russians a power in the Principalities
against which no other influence has a chance of
ever prevailing: That statement is exaggerated.
The Moldo-Wallachians, far from looking upon the
Russ aus as their co-religionists, consider them as
schismatics. They refuse to frequent their places
of worship ; and, though there is a chapel in Paris
for the use of the Russian Knba.ssy and of Rus-
sian subjects, the 'Rouinans who reside in this
capial have built a chapel where they practise their
own rite, awl where the Archimandrite, the Rev.
Jo3aphat Inagoveaio, has regularly officiated since
its foundation. The grounds on which the Ron-
mans found their dissent frofri the Muscovite
Church were clearly exp!ained by the Archiman-
dr;te in an address delivered on the open ng of the
church in 1854.
With this ha.ty sketch I leave the Danubian
Prot in-ms f. r the present, and turn to another
ciunt'y, whe-e free institutions a 6, aft..ir years of
trial, still struggling to in tintain their ground.
From the Danube to the Ebro, the distanrl is not
so gi e al people may suppose. If the English
and Fre ich Governments d'ffer about Mo?d W,l_
they • per!'e:itly agree on all the affairs of
Spain, present and contingent. Lord Howden is
ab lit to i eturn to Madrid. His Lordship has
been detain ,d hero some time by the Mexican
question, which still presents some difficulty, and
even clanger; if left unsettled. It is unjerstood
that Lord Howden is charged to show the Spanish
Government the expediency of receiving M. Lafra-
ua (the Mexican Envoy), and thus allowing the
mediation of England and France to proceed with-
out delay, as, beyond all doubt, there is a numer-
ous party on the borders of the United States and
Mexico only waiting for au opportunity to envenom
the quarr.l, iu order to turn it to their owu advan-

tap. While the British Minister at the Court of
Madrid has instructions to this effect, the French
Minister in Mexico will receive others to endeavour
to persuade that Government to withdraw its pre-
tension of having M. Lafragua received at Madrid
as an indispensable preliminary. It is hoped that
this double action of Lord Howden at Madrid,
and M. de Gabriac in Mexico, will prevent an ex-
plosion which will most certainly inflict much
damage on all concerned, if the Governments of
Spain and Mexico continue in their present ob-,
stinacy, and allow so much danger to both to follow
from a question of vanity and a point of etiquette.

INDIAN MUTINIES.

THE FALL OF DELHI.

The following is from an engineer officer engaged
in the siege :
" Delhi, Sept. 28.

" You will see by the date of my letter that the
task in which we have been so long engaged is at
last accomplished. Delhi was assaulted and a por-
tion of the city captured on Sept. 14. Our progress
from this date was slow till the 20th, when the city
was evacuated by the mutineers, and we found our-
selves in possession of the whole. Thus ended what
I suppose future generations will consider one of
the most extraordinary sieges in history: You
will by the time this reaches you have learnt some-
thing more of the actual difficulties that we have
hael to contend against than our last English letters
show ; but you cannot have the same notion of the
wonderful way in which our small force has been
protected by Providence as we who have been par-
ticipators in all that has passed. You will hear a
great deal, but there are small details which strike
us so forcibly at the tirae of the occurrence, and
these are so innumerable that the most careful nar-
rator will fail to tell all. There are so many cala-
mities have befallen us since May 10th that one
felt tempted to look upon as irretrievable at the
time, and which so short a time has sufficed to
point out as the only remedies against evils of far
greater magnitude. So often has our position seemed
perfectly hopeless, and so wonderful have been our
deliverances, that I cannot conceive the most scep-
tical man denying events to have been brought
about by a power far above human. I will only
attempt to point out to you some of the most
convincing proofs of what I assett :—Firstly,
when the mutiny broke out, see how Gen. Hewitt
was blamed for his inactivity. The outcry
was natural, and no one can deny that he was the
most incompetent man that could have filled
such a post. But let us for an instant suppose that
some more able man had commanded at Meerut,
and even that the mutiny had at its first outbreak
at Meerut been quelled. Sub equent events and dis-
closures have only proved to us that the outbreak
has been premature, and that had it been over-
COMO at the time it would probably have come upon
us at the appointed day with a force that none of
us could have hoped to withstand. Secondly, let
us take the fact that the mutineers on the 10th of
May found the Watergate (to the south of the
palace) open, when all others had been shut against
them. I have heard many deplore this fact • but
let us suppose it otherwise. Let us suppose that all
the gates in the city had been closed, and that all
ingress had been impracticable. The results, I
think, must have been far more lament tble even
than they were. The mutineers (I think without a
doubt) would not have spent much time in fruitless
ende avours to enter the city, but have rushed
straight up to the cantonments, where they would
have been joined by the Native Infantry regiments
there quartered. Tne surprise would have been most
complete, and under the circumstances few indeed,
if any, of us could have escaped from cantonments,
and with the prospect of the immense plunder in
the city I do not think they would have wasted
much time in effecting an entrance, which would
then have been most easy, and how would it have
fared with those in the city ? Thirdly, we have
always lamented the delay in the assistance of the
European force from Bengal reaching us. The
event has shown how far more necessary these same
Europeans were down-country even than up here.
Fourthly, we have three times (previously b the
14th Sept.) been on the point of assaulting Delhi.
This was very shortly after our first arrival here on
June 8. On one occasion (June 12)wo had even sent
out the advance column. I was the senior engineer
with the column, and virtually had the command of
it. My instructions were to advance through a por-
tion of the suburbs of Delhi (Kishengurage, Pabari-
pore, and those villages to the right of our position
on re ridge) in close column, and when within
400 yards of the city walls to extend to the
right and left in skirmishing order. The suburbs
that I allude to, I must telt you, are chiefly com-
posed of loopholed enclosures and serail which you
would think had been built expressly for defensive
purposes. The streets are very narrow, and the dis-
tance that we had to traverse, to reach within 400
yards of the wall, something beyond a mile. Had
this position been occupied only by the merest hand-
ful of the enemy (and there was nothing to prevent
its being so without our knowledge), we could cer-
tainly never have forced our way through it, and
had the merest handful of the enemy only let us
pdss through to the extreme end of the suburbs and
then attacked us and cut off our retreat, I really
teink that hardly a man of us would have escaped
to tell the tale. As it turned out, just as I was on
the point of throwing out the skirmishers, an aide-
de camp Lode up to tell us were unsupported, and
must make the best of our way back. Most provi-
dentially the enemy seemed to be in perfect igno-
rance of our movements, for not a shot was fired at
us till we had almost reached camp again, and were
vary nearly out of range of the round shot from the
city walls. On reaching the camp we learned that
the project had miscarried, owing to a misconcep-
tion of orders of Brigadier Graves, in command of
the second column. Loud were the abuses heaped
on this unfortunate man, who seemed (and, perhaps
deservedly so) the butt of everybody's censure. Of
course, everybody attributed to him the loss of such
a seemingly good opportunity of taking the city. I
think few would venture to say so now. IViy own
(and I think the general) conviction is that our
force, so contemptibly small as it then was, would
have been completely lost in such an immense city,
and, unless the enemy had been most completely
panic-stricken, would have had little chance of
holding any temporary advantage that we might
have gained in the first rush. I could enumerate
instances of the same kindjwithont number, but it
would try 3 our patience. I think few can ponder
on all that has happened and imagine that our work
in India is done, and that Providence has altogether
forsaken us.

" We opened our trenches on the 7th Sept., and
the way in which we accomplished this was one of
the most wonderful parts of the siege. Our attack
was divided into two—the right and left. The right
was directed against the Moree Bastion, and the Litt
(to which I was attached) was directed against the
portion of 'he walls netr the Cashmere-gate and
church. If you can recollect the ground at all you
will remember that opposite Ludlow Castle, where
Mr. S. Frazer liveJ, towards the river it was occu-
pied by gardens. The distance between this posi-
tion and tee city is very small, within easy range of
grape shot from No. 2 Bastion, against which the
thick brushwood was no protection. Breaking"
ground so c'ose to the walls was a b dd manoeuvre,
which few circumstances would justify, and one
which we fully expec ed would co et us many lives.
Judge, then, of our surpr S 3 to find so trcely any
notice whatever taken of our proceedings. It is the
more remarkable, as there seemed to be no attempt
at secrecy on our part, and we could hear the
enemy's sentrit son the ramparts. Our working
party w a an excessively large one, and hal the
enemy taken canneoa precautions, for they could
not have been ignorant of our presence, they must
have hitt cted. very heavy losses, if they had not
entire'y stopped. our works. Vigilant,. however,
as we have always fiund teem, this first night God
seemed to have blinded their eyes to all verse of
danger ; for, with the exception of one shower of
grape and two or three round shot directed at us,
which injured no oae, they fired away at our bat-
teries ou the right as usual. In the morning they
acted very differently, for they commenced, and
through the day kept up, a very hot
,fire ; too late,
however, for we had managed to obtain pretty t ood
shelter by that time, and our first battery on the
right was not only finished, but armed and hard at
work breaching. You would think that af.er the
experience of our first night they would have al-
lowed us little pence in breaking fresh ground nearer
the wall ; however, even then there was not
very much fire, and it was only on the
third night that they s clued to awake to
a sense of their danger ; and from th it time they
kept up a pretty steady tire of all sorts, including
musketry, and we certainly
list come men. You
may fancythat the engineers h td little fine to them-
selves. I wts not in bed for four nights, and, as
you may imagine, pretty well done up. There was
only one battery (only 150 or 200 yards from the
walls) to be finished, and it was the excitement
alone that kept us awake. I had a party of her
Majesty's Gist and Bth It-giments under me filling
sandbag?. The fire was very hot, and I was anxions
to get my men under cover in soma pity, where the
eerth was softer to dig. I was I,admg them to the
pit, wl en, the night being d,trk,
fellinto one that
I htd not seen, and sprained my leg and ankle so
,everely that I was obliged to be taken to camp in
a dboolite There I lay du my beck HI the day of
the assault. I don't think that anybedy in camp
kne x fur certain the time of the assault till within
two hours of the time. I was in my tent, away
frour the mess, and therefore had no opportunity of
hearing anything about it till the rattle of musketry
told me that something was doing. Of course,
stopping in bed was out of the question, and as my