The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-16 00:00:00

UN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING NO 16, 's-1857,

will be produced when an issue of 11. notes, or a
suspension of cash payments, will become indis-
pensable. Nor would we desire it to be otherwise.
It is obvious that nothiig but the most stringent
and severe lesson will suffice the moneyocracy or
their Ministerial toadies.

We want a really national note, for a small
amount, by means whereof the Government would
be rendered independent of bank assistance, and
could pay off its debt to the Bank. The Bank
issues are based on 11,015,000/. of Government,
and 3,460,0001. of other securities. Why should
not this debt be paid off ? It is not merely the
interest of that large sum, amounting, at merely
3 per cent., to 330,4501. per annum, but the
discredit it entails on the nation. A
man in debt is never a free agent ;
and the Bank with true creditor cupidity,
always takes advantage of its debtors' necessities,
who must humbly beg "with bated .breath and
deep humility" for what ought to be commanded.
The Government raised nearly a hundred mil-
lions to squander on the Russian war—producing
no return but disgrace and calamity. Why, they,
should it hesitate for a moment at raising
11,015,0001. to get rid of the incubus by which
the trade and commerce of the country is oppressed,
and many noble fortunes sacrificed, and firms which
it has taken the greater part of a century to build
up, reduced to bankruptcy and ruin ? Let really
national notes of small denominations receivable in
payment of taxation be issued. The profits and
savings will speedily pay off the Bank debt—or
were it otherwise, there are few true-hearted
Englishmen who would object to a general loan,
or even to consent to the re-imposition of the
obnoxious War Income Tax for such a purpose.
One year of the extra 9d. would get rid of more
than three-fourths of the Bank debt.

Advices from Calcutta have been received to
the Bth October, and from Madras t) the 14th,
since our last publication. They do not add
much respecting the proceedings at Delhi to the
information, via Bombay, which appeared in The
Sun of S aturday. There is, however, the formal
despatch of General WILSON, dated the 15th
September, respecting the proceedings during the
attack on, and the storm of, Dalhi on the
14th September, which will be read with
intense interest, confirming fully the more ela-
borate and detailed accounts, that hare already
been published. There is also a report from
General CHAMBERLAIN, the Adjutant-General of
the army at Delhi, to the officer commanding at
Cawnpore, dated the 18th September, which
continues the narrative from the 14th to the
morning of the 18th, and by a postscript to that
of the 19th. It also contains the melancholy
list of officers killed and wounded on the fatal
14th, a list that will be scrutinised with
intense anxiety by many anxious hearts
throughout every district in the United Kingdom
.—for where is there a locality in which some of
the inhabitants had not friends or relatives en-
gaged at the scene of deadly strife ?
The intelligence from Lucknow adds slightly
to our information. General OUTRAM, who ac-
companied the force solely in his civil capacity,
rendered efficient service as a volunteer. In this
capacity, we are told that "he charged the
enemy, in a preliminary engagement, with the
Volunteer Cavalry, and with a dash and daring
worthy of his best days." He first relieved
Baleegund, where advances were steadily made
against the city. Seven guns were captured,
and the right quarter was in our possession. On
the same day, the 25th Sept., the force under the
gallant HavzLoos., consisting of 2,000 men of all
arms, forced their . way into the City under serious
opposition, skirting it to the right to
avoid. the enemy's defences. The way
to the residency was also strongly opposed, but
happily it was forced at a very critical period,
when two mines had been run far under the chief
work,, which if sprung:must:have placed the garri-
son and the fugitives at the mercy of the rebels.
We fear that there must have been a considerable
mortality amongst those so long locked up
in the spot so hastily fortified, and so nobly de-
fended. The great body has, however, been
saved, and we have now no fears of the ultimate
result, or of a repetition of the Cawnpore tragedy
at the capital of Oude.

EARLIER DEPARTUEE OF INDIAN
MAILS VIA MARSIELLES.

It having been found that, under existing ar-
rangements, the mails for India, &e., despatched
via Southampton, suffer considerable delay, either
at Malta or Alexandria, while waiting for the ar-
rival of the mails forwarded via Marseilles, it is in-
tendsd, with a view of obviating this delay, and at
the same time of accelerating the arrival in Loudon
of the homeward mails from India, to despatch
the mails for India via Marseilles one day earlier
than at present.

Commencing, therefore, with the firlit mail des-
patched in January next, the mails for the Medi-
terranean, India, China, ezc., sent by way of Mar-
seilles, will be made up in London on the evenings
of the 9th and 25th of each month, except when
those dates fall on a Sunday, on which occasions
the mails will be made up on the evening of the
following day.
By command of the Postmaster-General.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
General Post Office, Nov. 13, 1857.

The Duke of Newcastle has returned to Clumber
Park, Notts. The noble duke will receive a select circle
at Clamber this week for shooting.
The Earl and Countess of Lucan have been plunged
into deep grief by the demise of their youngest daughter,
the Lady Elizabeth B:ngharn, who died at Pau, in the
south of France, on the 6th inst. Her ladyship had
been in delicate health for some months past.

The Countess Gondoviu has arrived at the Brunswick
Hotel, from the continent.
Lord and Lady Forester leave Willey Park, Shrop-
shire, to-.norrow, for the noble lord's hunting-box, near
Belvoir, for the hunting season.
Lord and Ledy Olivia Oesulston have returned to
Claridge'e Hotel, from visiting the Emperor and Em-
press of the French at Compiegne.
Lady Montagu has been indisposed at Ditton Park,
near Windsor, but, we are happy to add, is now ap-
proaching convalescence.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Pierrepant have left
Claridge's Hotel for Evenly Hall, near Brackley.
Sir E 'ward and Lady Kerrison have left Ferrance's
Hotel, Belgravia, for their sear, Broom Hall, Suffolk.
Mr. and Lady Louisa Knox have returned to the
Brunswick Hotel from a visiting tour.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF-CROWN DAY, SATURDAY.
Nov. 14.—Adinissions on payment, 455 ; do. by season
tickets, 1,517 ; total, 1,972.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 14.—The I?..ayal mail steam-chip
Africa eailee hence to-Jay for New Yore, having on
board, besides 86 passengers, 55,000/. in specie Gil
freight. The screw steam-ship Kangaroo takes her
departure hence for New York on Wednesday next.
DEATH OF Mit. HARRIS, HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL-
GENERAL AT VENICE.—We regret to hear that this
much-esteemed geatleman expired, in the 41st year o
hi: age, at Venice, on the 13th inst. He was grandson
to Lerd Malinesnury, the celebrated d plomatiet, and
private secretary to the present Earl during his tenure
of the Foreign-office, is 1352. He was remarkable foi
his abilities as a scholar and a linguist. He had securcu
by his tact and judgment the respect of both the Aus-
trian and Italan parties in the Lomharde-Venetian
kingdom, an well as the confidence of his own Govern
ment.
THE SOVEREIGNS or EUROPE. The Almanac de
Gotha, of 1858, which has just appearel, contains tb
names of 47 emperors], kings, princes, grand dukes, and
dukes reigning in Europe, as well as the Emperor of th
Brazils. The oldest of the sovereigns is the Grand Duke
of Mecklenburg Strelitz, who was born on the 12th oi
Aug., 1779; and next to him the King of kVurtemberg,
born all the 27th of Sept., 1784. Tne prince who ba,,
bad the longest reign is the Prince of Schaurubourg-
Lippe, the date of his accession, when quite a child, be•
ing the 15th of Feb., 1783. The younvst princes ar,
the King of Portugal, bora the 16th of Sept., 1837, ano
the Duke o! Parma (represented by his mother as regent)
on the 9;1 of July, 1840.

LAIINCH OF THE LEVIATHAN STEAM-Mr.—lt is in-
tended to make a second attempt to launch the Levia-
than (Great Eastern) to-morrow, Tuesday, Nov. 17, and
we hope that on this occasion this noble vessel will be
safely lowered into her future element.—[From a Corre-
spondent.] _ _

The commercial accounts from Bombay- are satisfac-
tory. At Calcutta a favourable turn of about 2 per cent.
appearg to have taken place in the rate of exchange. At
Shanghai also there has been a similar movement to the
extent of 11 cent. At Hong Kong the quotation seems
to have gone in an adverse direction, being about 2i per
higher. _

—Messrs. Coutts and Co. have intimated that their
allowance for money on deposit will be limited to 5 per
cent., notwithstanding the recent advances in the Blink
rate of discount, as they consider this the maximum
compatible with perfect security in its omployment.
the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank have in-
serted an advertisement in the North British, Daily Mail
calling upon the depositors, with a view to enable the
Bank to resume business, to allow their deposits to re-
main at four months' notice, until it is again in a posi-
tion of ease. The directors think it probable the Bank
will soon be able to allow depositors on open account the
usua: facility of drawing and lodging as formerly. Save-
ral of the persons most largely interested have already
concurred in this arrangement.

As the Bank Charter Act had not been infringed up
to Thdraday evening, it was thought possible the same
result might he witnessed as in 1847, when although the
authority was given, it was not found necessary to use
it. It now appeari, however, that the reguiar issue has
been exceeded, and that an Act of Indemnity will have
to be obtained from Parliament. Last night the excess
of credit notes in circulation beyond the prescribed four-
teen millions was 180,0001 , and to-day it is believed the
amount will be found to have been further increased,—
Timer City of Saturday.

The suspension was announced on Saturday morning
of Messrs. Jellicoe and Wix, Turkey reer,:.:h nte ; also
of Messrs. Jose P. De a and Co., in the Brazlian
trade. The liabilities in the first case have not been
stated. In the latter they are small. Messrs. De Sh
and Co. have been brought down by the failure of Giu-
maraes and Co., of Paris, mentioned two days back.
The news of the suspension of the Bank Charter Act
taken out to America on Saturday by the Africa from
Liverpool will probably be received at New York before
the arrival there of the Atlantic, which sailed on Wed-
nesday last, the Admiralty having given permissicn for
the Africa to touch at Cape Race, Newfoundland,
whence communication will be made by telegraph. AR
the advices by the Atlantic were of a very gloomy cha-
racter, comprising the advance of the Bank rats to 10
per cmt.,"the stoppage of the Western Bank of Scotland,
the City of Glasgo Bank, and Messrs. Sanderson, and
the drain of a couple of millions of gold to Scotland and
Ireland, they would be calculated to excite fears of an
approaching convulsion, and thus create a relapse from
any improvement that might have occurred in America.
Hence it is very important they should be anticipated,
if possible, by the news of Saturday. The Vanderbilt,
from Southampton, alio sailed on Saturday afternoon,
and it is believed that she likewise will call at Cape
Race.
SLIPPING DISASTERS ON THE EASTERN COALT.—Last
week was again rather a disastrous one to the shipping
on the eastern coast. The brig Andriette, Sorin Balty.
ersen, of Drobak, from Sundswall for London, with
timber and deals, grounded on the Cross Sand and soon
lost her rudder, boats, sails, &c., from the heovy sea
which was running. On the tide flowing, however, she
was forced off the sand and brought into Lowestoft in a
very disabled state. The schooner Belmont, Ham mas-
ter, of and from Sunderland for Middlesborough, with
coals, sprang a leak off Cromer and soon afterwards
foundered. The crew were picked up by the schooner
Ebenezer, of Maldon, and were landed at Great Yar-
mouth. The brig Mercury, Captain Stock, of and from
Sunderland for London, with coali, struck upon the
Barber Sand, and the crew were obliged to abandon her.
They were, kowever, safely landed at Great Yarmou.h.
THE RELIEF OF LIICKNoW.. Col. Inglis, who ever
since the death of Major Banks has commanded at
Lucknow, served with the 32d in Canada during the
rebellion in 1837, and was present in the actions
of St. Denis and W. Eustache. He served
also in the Punjeub campaign of 1848-1849,
and was present at the first and second siege
operations before Mooltan, including the attack on the
enemy'. position in front of the advanced trenches on the
12th of September, where, after the death Lieutenant-
Col. PattOun, he succeeded to the command of the right
column of attack. He commanded the 32d at the action
of Soorjkoond, and was also present at the storm and
capture of the city and surrender of the fortress at Mool-
tan, the surrender of the fort and garrison of Chencote,
and the battle of Goojerat, for which services he received
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the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His commissions
are dated—Ensign, August, 1833; Lieutenant, January,
1839 ; Captain, September, 1843 ; Major, February,
1848 ; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel, Jane, 1849 ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, February, 1855 ; Colonel, June, 1855.
THE NEW ENGLISH ENVOY TO THE UNITED STATES.
—By letters from our London correspondent received
by the Penia, we learn that the British Government
has decided to appoint a special Minister to negotiate a
settlement of the remaining differences between Eng-
land and this country in regard to Central American
affairs. The appointment will take place early next year,
and possibly sooner. We have reason to believe that
Sir W. G. Ouseley has been selected for this important
service. If so, the choice indicates a disposition on the
part of the British Government to conduct this delicate
and protracted negotiation to a peaceful and mutually
satisfactory result. Sir W.Ouseley commenced his diplo-
matic career as attache to the British Embassy at Wash-
ington some years ago, when he married a daughter of
the late Governor Van Ness, of Vermont. He has
ever since manifested a steady and intelligent interest in
the affairs of this country, and has written several
pamphlets upon various topics connected with its cur-
rent politics. He had been engaged in !diplomatic eer•
vice mainly in Braz:l and the River Plate, where his

action was so little in accordance with the views of Lord

Palmerston as to render it a little singular that be
should now be appointed to office by a Minist►y of
which that statesman is Premier. Sir William is well
known to President Buchanan, and will enter upon this
negotiation under circum.tances of peculiar promise. It
is understood that, if succe,lsful in the negotiation here,
he will proceed at once to Central America. We trust
the rumour of his appointment may prove correct.--.
Nero York, Times, Oct. 29.

MURDER OF A FARMER IN DERBYSHIRE —Oa Friday
evening, about 5 o'clock, as Mr. Fletcher, of Alton Col-
liery, was passing along the road at Ashover-hill, about
five miles from Chesterfield, he heard some heavy groans.
He stopped and was soon joined by a labourer. They
procured a lantern and found a man lying in the road
and bleeding profusely from the head. He was at once
recognised as James Simpson, a farmer at Aehover, a
Wesleyan local preacher, and a man of steady and regu-
lar habits. He was quite insensible, and. coon after be
was carried home, died without having uttered a word.
He had that day attended the market at Alfreton, and
was on his way home with groceries and other purchases,
which were found i❑ bin basket. He had, however,
been robbed of his purse and watch. The wound in his
head was a gun or pistol shot wound. A surgeon, who
examined it, was of opinion that a ball as well as small
shot had been used. The weavn must have been fired
off close to the deceased, as his face was blackened and
his whiskers singed by the powder. An inquest was
held on Saturday evening, and adjourned for a week.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM SUFFOCATION.-.Considerable
excitement was occasioned iu Stamford on Stamford ou
Monday morning by a report that two of the servants of
Mr. Henry Smith, of Tinwell-road, had been discovered
in a state of suffocation from the fumes of a small stove
iu their bed-room. The facts of the case appear to be
as follows :—The wall of the servants' bed-room has
lately been undergoing repair, and, in order to dry
the plaster, a small cabin stove, fed with common pit
0)11, had been placed in the room during the day-time
and removed at night, strict orders being also given to
the servants on going to bed not to shut the door close.
On Sunday night the washerwoman having occasion to
sleep in the house, retired to bed with the servant, and
on finding the fire was very nearly all burnt out, she
took away the pipe of the stove, which had been placed
out at the open window, and left the stove in the room,
thinking that so small a portion of fire could do no
harm ; nor did she consider it necessary to adhere to the
instructions of the mistress to leave open the door. On
finding in the morning that they did not rise at the usual
time, nor answer to a call, Mr. Smith opened the
door, and was greatly &armed at seeing them both
to all appearance, dying from suffocation. A me
dical man was instantly called in, and they were removed
into other rooms, wham an abundance of fr. eh air could
be obtained. The bodies were laid upon mattresses,
their heads raised by pillows, and persons employed the
whole of the day rubbing the arnv, legs, and chest, to
promote the active circulation of the blood, which means,
together with a small quantity of brandy and water
occasionally poured into the stomach bad the desired
effect of gradually restoring them to consciousneas
The elder woman became sensible on the second day
and the younger one not until Wednesday. They are
now in a fair way of recovery.—Stamford Mercury.-

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—The Foreign Department.--Mr. Ed-
ward Robertson has been appointed Acting Cansul
Callao, Peru. Bank of Enland.—A vacancy in the
Cashiers' Department has occurred by the death of Mr.
William Williams. Coast Guard.—Lieutenant Hugh
IL Knocker, R.N., has been appointed to carat-nand the
Royal Charlotte, Coast-guard cruiser, vice Lambert, ap-
pointed to the command of a station ; Lieutenant Wrn.
L. Lambert, R.N., has been appointed to c uninald the
Garran Haven Station,
vice Mr. Pyper, provioui•ly re-
moved ; Cimmander Woodley, R.N., has been removed I
froui Southsea, to command the Carlis'e division of the
Liverpool distrie. Customs.—A guagership has become
vacant, vice Carric,gson, superannuated ; a number of
weighersbips and tidewaiterships will soon become
vacant, in coesecoence of volunteers leaving, in connec-
:ion with the Ordnance Department, for service iu India;
air, Geerge Stainburn has been a clerk in the Tea ai
East India Department in London ; Mr E'en has been
appointed a junior clerk in the Receiver-General's Office;
Are Arthur W. Walsworth has been promoted from
4ixth to fifth c!ais searcher at Louden; Mr. Wildaei
Gaul] has been uroincted from tide surveyor at I;rne,ick
to be tidesurveyor third class at Liverpool ; Mr. James
Dawson has been pro:noted from tidesurveyor third
less at Liverpool to be tidesurveyor second class at
Gr enock ; Mr. Matthew Carr has been promoted from
tidesurveyor at Ro,sfare, Wexford, to be tidesurveyor at
Limerick ; Mr. Peter M'Dowall has been promoted from
visistant-tidesurveyor at Newport to be tidesurveyor at
Roeslare, Wexford, Inland Revenue Departmett.—
James Leslie, supervisor of Perth, after a lengthy and
ionourable service, has retired upon superanaenuation ;
air. Orchard, late superintendent of the revenue cutter
Curlew, has been appointed supervisor of Bucklyrie dis-
rict, upon the discontinuance of the establishment of the
Curlew.-41:1;17 SCITiCC Gazette.

Paris on the subject of the Principalities. It is
dated Oct. 28 :
" The divans ad hoc of Wallachia and Moldavia have
just expreseed their opinion on the following points :
—Union of the two provinces under the denomina-
tion of Roumania ; foreign prince belonging to one
of the reigning families of Europa ; the heir to
be brought up in the orthodox religion; auto-
nomy, constitutional Government and c dlectire guaran-
tee of the Powers which signed the Treaty of Paris.
The speakers, in expressing their wishes, have carefully
avoided even mentioning the words suzerainty, and
have made use of expressions which sufficiently show
the object they wish to attain. It is true that, in order
to save appearances, or the better to conceal they wishes,
they have spoken of their desire to respect the ancient
stipulations with the Sublime Porte—treaties the
original of which nowhere exist in the world, and
which have been violated mere than once by the
Moldo-Wallachians themselves. The history of the
empire and innumerable documents will show what
are the true titles in virtue of which the Sublime
Porte has exercised its legitimate sovereignty over those
countries for so many centuries, and which was the
origin of their privileges. The actual composition of
those assemblies led to the result which we have now
before us being foreseen ; and it was precisely under that
provision that my circular despatch of the 233 Sept. was
drawn. No more reasonable issue could be hoped for
from elections in which men, imbued with the ideas
which nearly overturned the whole of Europe in 1848,
took so large a part. In instituting the Divans, the Powers
more particularly had in view to ascertain tbe adminis-
trative reforms'of which the Principalities might stand
in need for the progress of their prosperity. Far
from thinking of this, the Divans have commenced by
demanding reforms purely political, that is to say, by
two swishes, which were nothing less than an attack on
the principles of the suzerainty and on the mainten-
ance of the integrity of the Ottoman empire, ratified
once more by the said Treaty of Paris. There can be no
doubt that subsequent votes will be entirely in unison to
those already given, and the whale together will form a
state of things which will raise more than one difficulty
to be solved. However this may be, the European
Commission will set forth in its final report all that
will be submitted to it on the part of the
Divans, and it will be for the Congress afterwards to
appreciate the bearing and character of their works. As
to the Sublime Porte, confident in its rights in the per-
fect sincerity of the intentions of its august allies, it will
wait with security for the meeting of the Conferences of
Paris, to discuss and combat the soi disant national de-
mands of the assemblies in question. You are requested
Monsieur, to explain yourself to the Government to
which you have the honour to be accredited on the last
phase of the affairs of the Principalities, conformably to
the principles which I have above pointed out.
" Accept, &c., " AALL"

The following de patch, dated St. Petersburg,
22d ult., was sent by Prinea Grtschakoff, the
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to M. de Bou-
tenieff, theßussian Minister at Constantinople

"M—, the Turkish Envoy at St. Petersburg, was
charged by his government to send to me and leave me a
copy of a despatch from the Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs relative to the question of the principalities. In this
document of which I have the honour to annex a copy,
Aali Pacha, renewing the declaration of the 14th October,
1856, a copy of which has been also left with me by the
Turkish Envoy, maintains the resolutions which are
therein set forth on the eventual question of the
union of the Principalities, whatever may be the
wishes expressed on the sulject by the newly-elected
Divans. My reply to the Turkish Envoy was that
on this point the Imperial Cabinet could only refer to
the attitude which it has invariably adopted from the
very commencement of the question, that is to say, that
without declaring itself in any way either for or against
the union of the Principalities, and at present limiting
its action to the pure and simple execution of the clauses
of the treaty of March 30, the Imperial Cabinet would
entirely reserve its definitive judgment on the future or-
4anieations of the provinces until the time when it shall
be called on to do so at the conferences. in the convic-
tion that this course is in strict conformity with the
spirit as well as the letter of the Treaty of Paris, the
Imperial Cabinet sees no motive for departing from
it, and co-esequently maintain its resolution to remain
faithful to Your Excellency will please commu-
nicate this iespatch to Aali Pacha, and leave him a
copy of it The Austrian Charge d'Affaires has read
me a desp4 ;h from Baron de Werner, which completely
joins in the, point of view of the Ottoman Cabinet. I
have given to Count Szechengi an answer perfectly
identical to that which I now beg you to communicate
to the Minister of +Foreign Affairs of the Sultan,—
Accpt,

" GoRTSCHLKoFF."