The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-16 00:00:00

MONDAY, AUGUST 31.

At the Legislative Council on Saturday the passing of
the Arms Bill was deferred for a week, Mr. Dorin re•
marking that he was not aware of any particular reason
for hurrying on with it. A new section was introduced
into it, giving every person the power, on reasonable
suspicion of danger to the public peace, to apprehend
without a warrant an armed man, and detain him until
he could be handed over to the police.
Some allusion having been made to the Penal Code,
Sir Arth'ir Buller said, that in the present:state of the
country it was neither desirable nor possible that the
Penal Code could soon become law. Mr. Peacock re•
marked that he did not think the Penal Code would come
into operation at a very early period.
0 wing to the necessity of concentrating large forces at
Aliahabad and Cawnpore, the district of Goruckpore bad
to be abandoned. Immediately after the withdrawal of
the British, the standard of the Prophet was planted in
the town, and the district taken possession in the name
of the King of Oude.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 1.
The Admiral, with European troops on board, was
spoken 2 degrees south of the hue, in long. 24 West,
on the 4th Jane, and ought to be in. She may be
looked for hourly.
An engarement took place on the 19th of August,
north of Azimghur, between a force composed of three
or four thousand Mussulmans, with guns, under Mabo-
med Hossein, and sonic, Goorka troops who were
escorting the officials of Goruckpore to Benares. After
a severe contest the enemy fled, leaving three hundred
killed and wounded.
WE'uNitsuaY, SEPT. 2.
Extract of a letter from an officer with Gonerel
Havelock's force :

" The Sepahee of my regiment has again come in from
Lucknow ; he loft all well there, and says they have lots
of provisions ; the news has quite elated me. The rebels
blew up a mine; our people after some fighting sallied
out, and boned materials for repairing the breach, which
is all secure again. Everything now is looking up ; the
Delhi news is good, and cholera is leaving us."
Mr. Owen John Elias, an American gentleman, wcll
know in our city for his munificence and large donations
to charitable iustitutione, has subscribed to the " fund
for the relief of the sufferers by the present disturbances"
a further sum of Company's re. 6,000 in addition to his
first subscription of rs. 1,500. We believe this is the
largest sum subscribed by a single individual in India
towards that laudable object.
We understand that several of the officers of her Ma-
jesty's 53d, ordered to proceed to Allahabad, experience
great difficulty in procuring conveyance for their private
effects. Some have tried to purchase hackeries and bul-
locks on the:r own account, but find it difficult to procure
cattle sufficiently strong for the purpose.
Major Si,smore has proposed to government to raise
a regiment of Coles; There is no doubt they would do
good service on the south-west frontier. The proposal
is now under consideration. We would refer the autho-
rities to the follow.ng remark of General Britrgs :
"Toe native army is made up almost entirely of fin-
dons and Mahomedane, while a prejudice among those
castes, in which the ()Seers and the government partake,
exists against the aboriginal race. Now, it so happees
that in the wars of Lawrence, Clive, and Coote, in the
Caruatic, the aborigines constituted by far the great
majority of the &pop. It was they who opposed
Hyder Ally, the ruler of Mysore, and who gained the
battle of Plessey, is Bengal, before a Bengal army
existed. It was they (the Parwaries of the Bombay
army) who, in the siege of Mangalore, together with
the 2d battalion of the 42d Highlanders, under
Colonel Campbell, defended that fortress for six
months against a besieging army of forty thousand
men, and consented to honourable terms of sur-
render only when on the point of starvation (as did
the garrison of 'Kars), having buried within its walls
more than half its numbers. The Bengies of this race,
the aborigines of Bengal, constituted a portion of the
infantry of the Mogul armies ; and it is a fact not gene-
rally known, though nevertheless true, that they claimed
the honour so the indigiees of the soil to form the for-
lorn hope and the storming parties in all its desperate ,
services.