The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

Coramencs at half-last Seven.

A STLEY' ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE
rI- AND OPERA HOUSE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
. Last Week of the Engagernmt
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of the 0 era Company
THIS EVENING (Saturday). Wallace's 'recl opera. of
MARITANA, with Equestrian Illustrations.
Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Mr. A
--oguatus Brabam
Miss M. Somers, Mr. Brookbouse Bowler,
• and Mr• Frauds Kirby and
• Miss Ellen Thirlsvall. Mr. Borrani. - '
Conductor and Composer—Herr Meyer Lutz.
With a powerful Band and Chorus.
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Manager and Director of the Opera Company— —r- ..xngnstes
Braham.
To conclude with Mr. W. Cooke's incomparable SCENES in
the ARENA.
4s. ; .„p BOZOS,
Commence at seven o'clock. Dress u per
Boxes, 3s. • Private Boxes, from 2 is., no charge for booking;
Pit, 2s. ; allery, la. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
• Notice—During the Opera Season Half-price will take place
•at 9 o'clock.
Brix-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage 3fanager,
Mr. W. We't. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.
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WATSR, AT LONDON 6131;1GL.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1857.

REVOLT IN INDIA.

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61—lowe9t this morning and during the night.
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Every day makes the news from the East more
important than usual. No sooner have we settled
the Persian war than a revolt which had been
spreading like smouldering ashes among the Native
Indian Army has at length suddenly burst into a
flame. Three native regiments, one of cavalry,
j Dined with two of infantry, at Meerut, broke out
into open mutiny, but were speedily dispersed by
the European troops. The mutineers, however,
fled in the direction of Delhi, the ancient capital
of the Great MOGUL, and were there joined by
three other regiments of Native Infantry, the
38th, 54th and 74th. The suddenness of this
im mediate fraternising plainly proves a previous con-
cert—a foregone conclusion of desperate conspiracy.
So much so, that the mutineers not only pro-
ceeded to massacre all the Europeans within their
reach, but they actually proclaimed the SON of the
late Emperor of MOGUL, King. This was doing
the thing in a bold as well as in a bloody spirit.
But they shall have their day of reckoning before
long if they have not had it already, for there is
no safe compromise with treason, but death.
The Government in India was actively engaged
in devising plans for the immediate suppression
of this fanatical outburst. But we suspect that
they will have more work on their hands than
they are sufficiently prepared for.
We have little doubt that our wary friends the
Russians are at the bottom of all this widely-
spreading insurrection. They and the Chinese
work hand-in-hand for our destruction in the
East ; and well do we deserve it for our German
sycophancy to Russia and her intrigues.

When Russia had done her utmost to humble
us in her machinations on Turkey, and at length
roused our real vengeance, for it was all but cat's
paws at the beginning, under Lords ABERDEEN
and RAGLAN, the most incompetent man that
ever commanded an army—a general who never
commanded a regiment in battle ! when
Russia found at last that we were pre-
pared with gunboats, and all that could and
would have humbled her—why, she worked upon
our German weakness by Prussian guile, and so
saved herself from destruction through the trea-
chery of those who betrayed the best interests of
humanity and freedom for the faderland.
Well, we have now our second reward blossom-
ing in bloody revolt among our Indian army.
The Russians will never let us rest until India be
wrested from our grasp, and then what hopes re_
main for the future ? Why every German slave,
and other slaves nearer home, would rise in
savage delight and conspire toward the downfall
of the only free country in the world, and their
hatred would be but more intensely quickened
by their avarice to clutch our gold and
treasures ! Even old BLUCHER, the repre-
sentative of our friend and a'ly, Prussia,
while riding along the Strand, after the Battle of
Waterloo, exclaimed to his wondering friends, as
they looked at our well-stored shops—" Mine
Got ! what a City for to sack I"
Yes, if that was the feeling of our friends, what
must that be which actuates the hearts of our
enemies ?

That we must look to ouselve7, and trust to
ourselves, in this outbreak in India, and that
with promptitude and stern decision, there can be
no doubt. It has come to "do or die "
—and do we must without hesitation or
doubt. There is a screw loose somewhere in our
management, and it must and shall be set to rights
firmly and promptly. There is no halfway-house
ou the bloody road of rebellion—the journey may
be long and rugged, but it must be quickly trod,
and with a vengeance and strength that will make
the very dust of our advance testify to the ear-
nestness of our speed. There is nothing to fear,
but there is much to lament. Let us be wiser iu
future.

Notwithstanding its bullionist tendencies, the
Times occasionally makes very awkward admiss-
sion., which completely upset the arguments of
the currency qu4cks of the Mercator, or Lord
OVERSTONE school. In October, 1855, it candidly
confessed, that so far as the internal corn nue° of
the country was concerned, a deposit of Govern-
ment Stock, or the fact that the notes were re-
ceivable in payment of taxes, would abundant!y
suffice, without the deposit of a single ounce of
gold ! It yesterday went even further. After
detailing some of the points insisted on by mone-
tary reformers, it adds—" To the astonishment,
perhaps, of those by whom they are brought for-
ward, the answer, even in the Times, must be, that
they are indisputable. There ought to be no legal
restrictions whatever on the issue of notes I If this
is what is meant by Free-trade in money, the
wishes of the advocAtes of that principle might at
once be granted. In strict consistency every man
should be at liberty t 3 make what promises he
pleases, leaving the public also at liberty to pl see
faith in them, or otherwise at their own dis-
cretion ?"

If this be so, ca lit qmstio. The act of 1844,
and, so far as Scotland and Ireland are concerned,
that of 1845 cannot be supported for a single
moment. They constitute a number of restric-
tions on banking, tying down certain establish-
ments existing at the time of these acts, to certain
fixed issues, and preventing any other banks
from being created with powers of issue to any
the most trifling extent—no matter how un-
exceptionable may be the securities which
they are prepared to offer ! It never
was for a moment contemplated that such
notes should be made "a legal tender !" None
but those of the Bank of England possessed
that privilege, and it was merely to a limited ex
tent, not being in force at the offices of the Bink
itself, or its branches. It was merely for public
convenience, that these notes were made legal
tenders, that vexatious refusals might not be
made by litigious parties for the mere sake of
creating costs. The credit of the Old Lady for all
domestic purposes has always been perfect. No
One would refuse to accept payment in " the
worthless rags" which she issued. And we ven-
t° Say that currency reformers will gladly accept
a compromise, by which the legal tender may be
abolished, provided a power of unlimited issue be
conferred on the Bank itself) and all private es.-
tablishmeuts, .who
shall deposit satisfactory
ty
for the amount which they may think
proper
put into circulation, beyond the fixed
securi t
issues now permitted.
It would be a very unnecessary formality to
stamp notes with the words " net a legal tender,"

r LO N DON, SATURDAY

fur no one coull for a moment be deceived by the
notion that such was tbe case. It might have an invi-
dious appearance, but it would have no effect in one
out of every thousand-transactions. It would be
a mere work of supererogation. The other alter-
native &hided to by the Times, viz., that " a
legal tender" should be prominently affi'ed on all
Bank of England notes, is unexceptionable ; in
fact, there is no reason why a memorandum
stating the actual law on the subject
may not be affixed at the mere will and pleasure
of the Directors !

We should greatly prefer that there should be
no " legal tender" but with purely national notes
issued under the authority of Parliament, and re-
ceivable by every tax collector. These notes be-
ing based on public credit, and guaranteed not
only by the total amount of property in the bands
of every British subject, but even by a mortgage
of their labour, would be placed beyond the possi-
bility of the faintest breath' of suspicion.
It would be the interest and duty of every tax-
payer to maintain their value unimpaired, and
any run would at once be suppressed by the
united action of the people. The Bank of England
notes would then go on credit, like those of all other
establishments ; and we believe that they would
seldom, if ever, bo rejected, unless under very
peculiar circumstances indeed.
But what does the Times mean by the asser-
tion, that "14,000,0001 , or thereabout!,'which is
the issue allowed to the Bank, has been clearly as-
certained to be the limit to which a currency
based merely on securities can be carried, with
the certainty that its par value, in the Money
Market will bo maintained !" We join issue with
the Times as to this extraordinary statement, in
every possible way. There is not a particle of
evidence in favour of the amount thus arbitrarily
selected. , And it is quite clear that if it were
the right sum in 1844, it must be totally
inadequate in 1857, when the population has
increased, and commercial transactions have been
enhanced in a still larger ratio. We find from
the " NEWMARCH tables," constructed from data
supplied by Mr. J. G. HUBBARD, formerly Gover-
nor of the Bank of England, that ever since 1851

the notes in the hands of the public—or "out-
standing circulation," have increased on an aver-
age by no less than 4,000,000/. sterling.
This sum has consequently been unduly
abstracted from the Bank reserve. If, then,
14,000,0001. could be safely issued in 1851,
it is manifest that 18,000,000/. might be issued
with equal safety in 1857. The natural expan-
sion of trade has absorbed a much larger propor-
tion of the circulating medium, as may be easily
conceived from the simple and indisputable fact,
that the declared value of our exports has in-
creased since 1848 by more than 125 per cent.,
or from 51,000,0001. to 120,000,0001. sterling.
So far for the propriety of retaining the abitrary
standard selected in 1844.

But as to the other part of the statement
that "it is capable of demonstration that under
no imaginable contingencies can the exchangeable
value of the issues of the Bank be for a moment
jeopardised," ova repeat what we have already
proved—on the 14th March last, from unexcep-
tionable evidence, that the Bank might have been
compelled to suspend payment of its notes, while
nearly 8,000,000/. of useless bullion was
stored in its coffers, and that such would have
been the case on the 23d October, 1847, when
the notes and bullion, not only for the parent
establishment, but all its branches, amounted to
less than two millions, while the deposits of the
London bankers alot_e, which would have been
withdrawn at a moment's notice, but for the virtual
suspension of the Act by the Government letter,
exceeded that s:ina, and that of the general pub-
lic was sevenfold the amount. In fact, the Go-
vernor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank
admitted, in, their evidence, that the
Bask must have el2sed if more than
1,600,000/. had been demanded. We have
thus pointed out the fallacy of the arguments by
which the Leviathan attempts to sustain the re-
strictions. But as "coming events cast their
shadows before," its admissions may be accepted
as auspicious omens cf important changes being
inaugurated in the unwise and impolitic law, that
has paralysed British industry, and frequently re-
duced merchants, manufacturers, and traders, to
the verge of ruin.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Cowell.

The Ministers' Money Bill has passed through
the Lords, and that obnoxious impost will now,
within a few days, be interred in a dishonoured
grave. The Earl of DERBY is entitled to great
credit for the manly and straightforward course
he pursued. Having taken the sense of a very full
house on a former occasion, and finding the views
of the majority adverse to those which he so ally
and eloquently advocated, he bowed to the deci-
sion, and withdrew from all further opposition
to the measure. He might have offired
a vexatious and factious resistance to its
progress. He might have occasioned consi-
derable loss of time ; but perceiving that it wits
condemned by both Houses, he very properly
withdrew from the contest, and has thus entitled
himself to the thanks of the cornmunty at large.
We may now congratulate Mr. Commissioner
MURPHY and Mr. FAGAN, whose names will over
remain associated with the bill, on the important
and felicitous result of their agitation. We may
congratulate the people of Ireland, of all shades
and varieties of religious opinion, on this fertile
source of discord—this social nuisance—being for
ever abolished. A flagrant grievance has been
virtually removed, and, if nothing clse were
effected, the Session of 185'r would not bo alto-
gether unproductive of sound and wholesome le-
gislation.

Her Majesty quitted Buckingham Palace with the
Royal cortege at a quartetbefore 10 o'cl)ck yester-
day
morning, in order to distribute the Victoria Cross
in Hyde-park.
The Royal Procession left the garden entrance in
the following order :

Prince Consort, Her Majesty Prince Frederick
The QUEEN, William of Prussia.

Lady Churchill. Prince of Wales.
Lady Codrington, Prince Alfred,
Col. F. IL Seymour. Baron do Moltke. Lieutenant

Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the remain-
der of the above were on horseback, and, on reach-
ing Constitution-hill, were joined by the carriage pro-
cession, which had been formed in the quadrangle of
the Palace, and which consisted of :
An open carriage and four, conveying their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice.
An open carriage and four, conveying their Royal
Highnesses the Princesses Helena and Louina, and the
Princess Mary of Cambridge ; and the Marchioness of
Ely, Lady in waiting.
An open carriage and four, conveying their Royal
Highnesses Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, Lady
Caroline Barrington, Lady Superintendent ; and body
Augusta Bruce, Lady in waiting to the Duchess of
Kent.

An open carriage and four, conveying his Serene
Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Lady Geraldine
Somerset, Lady in waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge ;
and the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Lluisa,
Gordon, Maids of Honour in waiting.
An open carriage and four, conveying Lord do Tably,
Lord in Waiting ; Liout -Colonel P. Cavendish, Groom
in waiting ; CS. Sir G. Couper, Equerry in waiting to
the Duchess of Kent, and Major Baron Knesebeck,
Eqerry in waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge.
Lord A. Paget, Clerk Marshall ; Major-General the
Hon. C. Grey, and Lord C. Fitzroy, Equerries to the
Queen; and Capt. Du Plat, Equerry to the Prince Con-
sort, were in attendance on horseback.
A detachment of the Royal Horse Guards formed the
escort of the Queer,.

Her Majesty returned from the distribution about a
quarter before 12 o'clock.
The Queen, with Prince Arthur and the Princess
Louisa, attended by the Hon. Louisa Gordon, took a
drive in the afcerneon in an open carriage and four.
Lord Alfred Paget and Major-General thee' Hon. C.

Grey attended on horseback.
The Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Princess
Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice and Prince
Frederick William of Prussia, wi:h Lady Caroline Bar-
rington, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Colonel F. H.
Seymour, and Baron Moltke, drove out in carriages in
the afternoon.
The Queen had a-dinner party in the evening. The
company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, his
Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia,
his Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh, the Duke of
Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, Marquis
and Marchioness of Abercorn, LiVy Augusta Bruce,
the Cauntess Cowley, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, the
Dean of Windsor, and the Hi-in. Mrs. Wellesley, Major-
General Sir G. Wetherall, Sir John Login, and Baron
Moltke.

Du&LIN, Friday.—Her Gracious Majesty is expected
at Cork and Killarney in the course of the summer. A
Cork paper states the grounds for the report current in
that city. The course taken by the R )yal yacht in her
recent visit to Queenstown and Bantry Bay, and the
soundings she has made, have given rise to the belief
that her Majesty purposes visiting Cork and Killarney
this summer, The yacht ran up Bantry Bay and in
between the islands to Glengariff, closely examining the
locality.
BALL AT THE TURKISH EMBASSY.—Last night Madame
Musurus gave a ball at the Turkish Embassy in Bryan-
stoc-eqeare, which was attended by a brilliant circle,
exceeding 500 personages of rank, among whom were
some of the leading generals and officers who took part
in the late war in the East. All the preparations for the
fete were complete, the rooms being effulgently lighted
and ornamented by beautiful flowers. A sumptuous
supper awaited the company at one o'clock. Refresh-
ments wore supplied in two rooms throughout, the night.
It was close on one o'clock when the carriages discon-
tinued to set down company.
THE NEW BATCH OF QUEEN'S COUNSEL,—We under-
stand that considerable dissatisfaction exists among the
junior equity
,bar on account of the new batch of
Queen's Counsel being confined exclusively to the c,
m-
mon law bar. Two or three leading equity juniers are
well known to desire, and to have made application to
the L ird Chancellor with a view of obtaining, the
honour of silk ; and it is generally thought that were his
lordship to accede to their request, both the profession
and the public would be gainers.
A Lumber of pottery works have been established in
the neighbourhood cf Poole, in DarsetsLire, for the
manufacture of fire brick and drainpipes, and an archi-
tectural pottery has been established at Idamworthy,
near the above-named town, where a more refined and
artistic trade will be carried on. The plastic clays found
in Branksea Island are found to be rich in alumina, and
the erection of alum works was contemplated there,
and has only been delayed in consequence of the embar-
rassments of Colonel Waugh, the owner of that island.
SUICIDE BY Ansa•Nfe,i.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held
an inquest at the London Hospital on the boiy
Ru h, aged 40, who, when suffering fr deltri fe,72,
tremens, purchmed a quarter of a ry.und of arsenic, and
swallowed the larger portion of it. The arsenic was
bought at the shop of Mr. nehlola, chemist, in Leman-
street, and the jury appended to their verdict of tempo-
rary insanity their opinion " that the conduct of Mr.
Meldola, was highly reprehensible for selling arsenic no-
t-aim id and uncoloured, as required by the act of Parlia-
ment."

THE TEMPLE GARDENS.,--Mr. S. Broome, the gar
dener of the Temple Gardens, last year wrote to a con-
temporary showing the good effects produced upon the
flowers under his care by the suppression of the smoke
nuisance. He v.-as, however, told by some to wait
till the present year, and then see if the gardens con-
tinued to improve, as it was asserted that last year
was an unprecedented one for foliage all round London.
Mr. Broome denied the statement, and the year 1857
has proved him to be correct, for at this moment he
boa,ets of having 2,000 roses inEtead of 200—a circum-
stance not seen is the Temple gardens for years past.
The whole of the garden p'ant., too, are gia:lually im-
proving in health and vigour—another proof of the
beneficial results arising from the extinguishment of the
great evil above referred to.

INDUSTRIAL EXIIIBITION AT WARSAW. —The 1 tst
Warsaw jlurna's contain accounts of the Exhibiti3n
of Manufactures nowopen in that city. It occupi-s
seven saloons in the Goveroinent palace, and proves
that manufactures in Poland are in an advanced state,
and that they pradues articles of luxury which are
highly esteemed in IZus.ma. It also contains beautiful
olkcts in gold, stic€r, an‘:l other metals from Moscow.
Music being grcat;y cultivated bath at War,aw and
St. Peter:berg, it cause; no surpri,m to see cxaellent
pianos cx'libited. Warsaw has also contributed speci-
mens of her leather, morocc?s, and shoes, for all wi,ich
articles she is renowned. Toe exhibition likewise e
prises numerous specimans of silk and mineralogical
productions from ICiaw-
STATUE TO JAMES WATT AT MANCUESTER.—Yester-
day morning a brut ze statue to James Watt, the inventor
.
of the steam engine, erected front of the Manchester
Infirmary, and grouping with the statues previously
erected to Wellington, Peel, and Dalton, was formally
inaugurated. The mayor and members of the corpora-
tion, attended by some of the leading scientific men of
the town, were present, and some thousands of people
were there to witness the uncovering of the memorial,
which took place amidst great cheering. The statue is
a sitting figure, corresponding with the one of Dr.
Dalton, and is copied from the marble figure by Chan-
trey, in Westminster Abbey. [t was copied by Theed,
and was cast by Messrs. Robinson and Cottlm, of
Pimlico.

Bninsu BENEFICENT INSTITUTION.—The anniversary
festival of this list ful institution, the object of which is to
allow inoomes 0f.301. a year to the a idows and unmarried
orphan daughters of clergymen, officers in the army and
navy, and other persons who have moved is a superior
station in society, took place last evening at the Lund.in
Tavern. Mr. Sheriff Mechi, who was in the chair,
pressed the claims of the society on the support of the
public, and his appeal and that of other gentlemen pro-
duced a subscription of nearly 7001. in the course of the
evening. A grand bazaar is to be held in support of
the institution on Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4,
in the grounds of Westbourne. College, Bayswate:-r( al,
the programme of which presents varioutiattraction-.

DEATH OR SiR T. B. DINNARD, BART.—We have
to record the demise of Sir T. B. Lennard, Bart., who
died on Thursday morning at his town residence in
Bryanstone-square, baying within a few months reached
the extreme age of 96 years. He WaS the oldest living
baronet of the United Kingdom. The deceased, who was
created a baronet after the Union in 1801, was son and
testamentary heir of the 17th Lord Dacre, whose sur-
name and arms he assumed by Sign manual. The late
baronet was twice married—first, in 1787, to a daughter
of the late Sir J. Aubyn ; and secondly, in 1833, to a
daughter of the late Sir Walter Stirling, widow of Mr.
Henry Dawkins Milligan. The late Sir Thomas was
a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Essex. Hei s
succeeded iu the baronetcy by his grandson Thomas.
lie was born in 1826, and married in 1853 to Miss
Wood, daughter of the Rev. Sir J. Page Wood, Bart.

I N B I A.

Proclamation of a Mogul Prince.

Mr. CAMERON.--Mr. Cameron, the late manager of
the Royal Briti-h Bank, was brought up to the Judge's
Chambers on Thursday, when an application was made
On his behalf fer additional time, to enable bins to pro-
cure bail to meet the charges on which he has been re-
cently apprehended. Mr. Simpson, Field's assistant,
the officer in whose custody he was brought to England,
declined, however, the responsibility of the further charge
; on which the learned judge, Mr. Jug-
rle,stated that he must sign the commitment. Mr.
tcoifeaetmhEe prisoner
e ron
was thereupon taken by the tipetaff to the
Queen's Prison. It should be mentioned that the bail re-
quired in the ca,e of Mr. Cameron is-24,000/.—viz.,
himself in 12,000/., with two securities for 6,000/. each.
Eight thousand pounds was the sum demanded in the
case of Mr. Macleod and the other directors. The cap-
ture of Mr. Cameron, we hear, was effected under rather
peculiar circumstances, reflecting no small credit on the
parson employed in tracking his movements.
TRIESTE RAILWAY.—The section of the railway be-
tween Laybach and Trieste having been completed, a
trial trip was made on it a few days ago. When opened
for traffic, complete railway communication between
immense
aqueduct and Trieste will be established. An
aqueduct has been constructed on the heights of the
Karat to supply the neighbouring stations with water,

EVENING', JUNE 27 1857

LATEST NEWs.

GREAT REVOLT OF MOHAMMEDAN
SOLDIfiRY.

MASSACRE OF ENGLISH AT DELHI.

TRIESTE, FRIDAY.

The steamer America arrived hereto-day, hav-
ing made the passage in 121 hours from Alexan-

dria.
The Veetis, with the Marseilles mail, left

Alexandria on the evening of the 20th.
The dates from India are—Bombay, May 27 ;
Calcutta, May 18 ; Madras, May 25.
The mutiny in the Bengal army had spread in
a most alarming manner.

At Meerut, the 11th. and 20th Regiments of
Native Infantry had united with the 3d Light
Cavalry in open revolt:.

After some bloodshed they had been dispersed
by European troops ; but they had fled to Delhi,
where they were joined by the 38th, 54th, and
74th Native Infantry.

Delhi was in possession of the mutineers, who
had massacred almost all the Europeans without
regard to age or sex, plundered the bank of 15
lacs of rupees, and proclaimed the son of the late
Mogul Emperor as King.
Disturbances had also broken out at Ferozee-
pore, but had been suppressed.
The Rajah of Gwalior had placed his troops at
the disposal of the British Government.

Government was taking active measures to sup•
press the revolt, and concentrating troops suffi
cient to overwhelm the mutineers around Delhi.

The 34th Native Infantry was disbanded on
the 7th of May.
Oude is tranquil.
Troops from Ceylon have reached Calcuttl, and
the native Princes are offering their contingents:

The prospects of the coming coffee crops at
Ceylon are good. The Governor's proclamation
states that the railway agreement will ba carried

out immediately.
Lord Elgin and suite, in the Singapore, lefi
Galle for China on the 27th of May.
The Punjaub, with a wing of the 64th Regi.
went, from Bushire, was to leave Galle for Cal
cutta on the 20th of May.
The Nizam of the Deccan died on the 19th o.

May.
At Bombay the money market was much higher
and the banks had raised their rates of interest.
Transactions in the import market wore very
limited.
Exchange was 2s.
At Calcutta there was no partiall tr change in
either exports or import=. Government secu-
rities had advanced. Exchange was 2i. o', I. to
2s. Old.

HYNA.
HONG KONG, MAY 9.
Great distress was caused in China by the

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA,PH)

. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The United States' :mail steam-ship Washington,
Capt ,in Cavendy, arrived in Cowes ro,ds this
morning, at 3 oVock. She left New York on the
13h.

She brings 80 passengers and 400,000 doll. in
specie chiefly for London, which will be de;ivered
in town this morning.
The Washington proceeded on to Bremen.
The screw steamer Argo, 14; days from South-
ampton, arrived at New York on the 11th. The
Vanderbilt, 10 days from Southampton, Lai not
arrived at New York.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The Ariel stearntr, Captain Ludlow, has just
arrived from New York with advices to the 13th,
being two days later than those last receive I. She
has 142 passengers, 34 of whom are for Southamp-
ton, and the rest for Havre and Bremen. - She also
brings 33 bags of mails, and 16 boxes of specie,
value $225,700. The Ariel, aPer disembarking her
passengers, &c., for this place iu Cowes Road, pro-
ceeded on to Havre.

The ma'l steamer Canada, fc om Liverpool, arrived
at New York on the 11th.
The flour market at New York on the 12th was
more active, arid all desirable grades were wanted
for the home and eastern trade. Common State $6
69c., and $6 85c. to $6 90c. for choice, and $7 to
$7 15c. for extra; Western $7 25c. to $7 90c.; com-
mon Southern $6 60c. to $6 75c. All Ohio brands
for bakers' me and double extras sold at rather
better prices. Wheat sold sparingly, and there
was very little offering. Mess pork stead, at $25
50c.; and prime $l9 20c. to $l9 25c. Beef firm.
In lard and cut meats no change in price, with
steady demand.

Freights continued dull and depressed.
The decline in stocks had for the moment been
arre3ted, and an upward movement had commenced
in some of the leading shares which had been
forced so far below their absolute value. Erie re-
covered to 32, and the market would be swept of
all the stock in the hands of brokers could capita-
lists be assured that the panic had exhausted itself.
Michagan Southern advanced to 43i. ; Californian
Sevens sold a', an advance of 31 per cent. ; Michi-
gan- Southern Sinking-Fund bonds decline • Il-
linois Central, 71 • and Terre Haute and
' Alton
Bonds, ; Pacific Mail Ship, closed at 76, Chicago
and.- Rock Island advanced 1 per cent. ; New York
Central, ; Erie, li, receding ; La Crosse and
Milwaukie declined ; Michigan Central, ; Pa-
nama, 1 ; and Illinois Central, A ; Galinda and
Chicago advance 2 per cent. ; Michagan Sou-
thern, 1 4 ; and Cleveland and Toledo A closing at
57 for the opening.

BUFFALO, JUNE 12.
Flour is unchanged. Sales of 800 barrels at 6
dols. to 50c. for common to extra St tte, 6 dais.
74c. to 7 dols. for super Wisconsin '. • 7 dols. 25c. to
7 dols. 50c. for extra d..tto, and 8 dols. to 8 doll.
25c. for double extra choice Indiana. Wheat is
firmer. Sales of 50.000 bushels at 1 dol. 33c. for
Chicago. Spring, 1 dol. 38c. for Milwauke, 1 dol.
45c. for Canada, and 1 dol. 80c. to 1 dol. 85c. for
white winter in small lots. Corn opened steadily,
but closed dull. Sales of 20,000 bushels at 74c. to
75c., the latter being the running figure. Oats are
lower. Sales are 15,000 bushels, at 56c. to 67c.
Whisky, 32c. Freights unchanged.
NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 12.
Sales of cotton to-day 700 biles. Middling 13ic.
to 13ic. Sales of the week 5,000 bales. Receipts
of the week, 3,300 bales. Stock at this port 95,000
bales. Receipts to this port less than at the same
time last year 239,000 bales. Receipts at all south-
ern parts less than at same time last year, 547,000
bales. Sugar is dull. Flour closes with advancing
tendency :—St. Louis, white, 7 doll. 50c. ; mixed
corn, 85c. Pork is very dull. Lard in barrels,
154 dols. ; coffee, Rio, 10c. to 101 c. Sales of the
week, 6,000 bags. Stock at this port 123,000 bags.
Freights stagnant. Sterling exchanges 10 per cent.
premium. Exchanges on New York sic.
OSWEGO, JUNE 12.
The flour-market is dull. Indiana, 7 dols. 6*e.
Wheat is, dull. Sales to-day 5,000 bushels. Wis-
consin at 1 dol. 44c. Corn is in good demand.
Sales to-day 20,000 bushels, at 80c.
CHICAGO, JUNE 12.
Flour is steady ; wheat steady ; corn is very
dull ; oats are quiet ; pork is firm. Shipments to
Buffalo—Flour, none ' • wheaf, 17,000 bushels ;
corn, 18,000 bushels. To Oswego—None.
CHARLESTON, JUNE 12.
The sales of cotton for the last week amount to
5,350 bates, and the receipts to 3,100 bales. Prices
have advanced c. to c. on the week.
News from California to the 20th of May had
been received at New York, but there was nothing
important.

From Oregon we learn that the Indians were
again menacing hostilities, and it was generally
believed that the Indian war would be recommenced
as soon as the proper season arrived. There is no
news from Grenada relative to the pending dispute
with the United States. Mr. Bowlin had intimated
that, being satisfied that no proposition would be
made to him, he should leave Bogota on the 20th
inst. for the United States. The British Macin-
tosh claim bad been settled. New Grenada pays
560,000 dols. in paper instead of cash. Diploma-
tic intercourse between the two countries has been
resumed.

Nicaragua was tranquil, and an eletion was to
be held on the 15th ofJune. 200 sick and wounded
Filibusters, the remnant of Walker's army, had ar-
rived at San Carlos in the steamer of that name in
a most pitiablecondition.
. . _ . .

General Walker and his suite arrived at Wash-
ington on the 12th. He denied that his object in
visi!ing that city was to sea the President, and said
thAt his business was more especcially in New
Yon k.

Daniel Clark, of Manchester, publican, was on
the 12th elected United States' Senatorby the New
'Hampshire Legislature over J. a Wells, Demo-
crat, by 190 votes against 125.

New York on the Ist of July the new tariff is
to take effee, under which foreign liquors are sub-
ject to only 30 per cent., instead (..f 100 per cent.,
ad valor, m duty, as heretofore.
The Empire City steamer had arrived at New
York from Havannah, which she left on the 7th.
The news by her was unimportant. Supra were
dull, and prices unchanged.
A dvspatch from Boston of the 12th says that the
ship Squardo, of Thomaston, ashore at Beaver
Island, between Halifax and Cape Canso, will prove
a total loss. Her keel is knocked out, and her rud-
der unhung. She is full of water, and has been
stripped ; her burden IN as 1,100 tons ; she was
built at Rockland, in 1855, and was valued at
27,000 dollars. She was in ballast from New York
for the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She is insured for
9,000 dollars in Rockland, and 5,000 dollars in
Thomaston, Maine.

The case of the Sate of Ohio against the United
States' authorities was being tried at Cincinnati on
the 11th, and no decision was expected for some
time.

Contradictory reports had been received at New
York rtspecting the invasion of Mexico. Nothing
certain was known upon the subject.

THE EMIGRATION BOARD.—This board consists now of
only two commissioners, one with a salary of 1,2001.,
and the other with 1,0001. The third commissioner has
recently been dispensed with, and a saving of 1,0001. a
year thereby effected.—Civil Seniice Gazette.

THE LATE MR. DOUGLAS JEREOLD.—Some strange
misapprehensions prevail respecting the private affairs
of the late Mr. Douglas Jerrold. It was posted on the
pillars in our Exchange News-room, in a telegraphic
message, that ho had left his family without a penny,
and this statement was borrowed from the London papers
of the day. The report originated, in the general, but
absuri, notion that: a literary man is, necessarily,
only one remove from a pauper ; and in the announce-
ment that Mr. Dickens, Mr. Thackeray, and other
friends, had resolved to give a series of entertainments
fer—it was alleged—the benefit of
,Mr. Jerrold's family.
Mr. Dickens, however, simply intended to mark the
respect which he and ail his friends entertain for the
largely-gifted man on whom the grave bad prematurely
closed, by promptly rai,,ing an acceptable memorial to
his memory—nothing more. Mr. Jerrold was not only
a hard-working man, but a prudent one. His life was
insured for 2,5001., and his widow—instead of depend-
ing on sympathy cr charity—will have an income of
about 6001. a year. His sons are in a position
to add to, not diminish, the provision made for
their admiralo!e mother, and the daughter has been
placed in affluence by the thoughtful affection of her
late father-in-law. Mr. Jerrold's family would have
been pained by' the allusion to their domestic concerns,
did they not know that the deceased was a public man,
in whom every one took an interest, and that the mis-
apprehension to which we have referred proceeded from
the honest admiration of gentlemen who would never
willingly do aught that could even remotely hurt the
feelings of the relatives of the man they loved while
living, and mourn now that he is dead. Through life,
Mr. Jerrold in the spirit of a noble independence,
dreaded being dependent himself, or leaving his family
dependent on any one ; and shortly before his death he
had a serious conversation on this very-subject with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Copeland, lessee of our Theatre
Royal. Mr. Copeland sat by his bed when he died ; and
a few days since, when the Liverpool Dramatic Society
waited on him, to offer their services in netting up an
amateur play for the benefit of Mr. Jerr, faintly, Mr.
Copeland said "No, his family need no such assistance, .
and I cannot grant the theatre for any such purpose ;
but if you wish to co-operate with Mr. Dickens in his
direction, I can see no possible objection." These at e
plain facts, and their publication is due to the memory
of the man who is gone from us.—Liverpool Daily Novs.

THE BALLOT MOTION.

TEE ENROLLED PEATSIONI:7I?S.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
S'r,—A report having been spread that the ques-
tion of the ballot is to be postponed over Tuesday
next, tt e 30th inst., I beg to state most explicitly
that I hope be in my place on that evening for
the purpose of taking the opinion of the House on
its merits.—l am, &c.
F. HENRY BERKELEY.
of Commons, &me 26.

SlR,—Observing in your columns of yesterday a state'
ment, annexed to your leading article, which reflects on
the efficiency and expense of the enrolled pensioners of
the army, perhaps I may be excused, as an officer of
that force, for offering the following ample and, I trivet,
satisfactory contradiction of every assertion it contained.
• So long as a statement of that kind was confined to
the United Service Octzette, intended chiefly f.,r military
readers, most of whom must have known the wilful in'
correctness of its assertions, it seemed to require no
notice ; but when it appears in so widely circulated a
journal as yours, even though given merely on the
authorty of a c)rrespondent, it cannot well be treated
with the same silence.

Your correspondent refers to the necessity for tbo
inspection, by general officers, of this force with refer•
ence to its efficiency ; not apparently being aware, that
ever since its formation, it has been thus inspected bien-
nially by general officers, at all the large stations where.
the great mass of the men are enrolled, and at the
smaller stations by field officers, expressly deputed by
them for the purpose, and that by each of these officers
confidential reports are forwarded to the Horse Guards,
on the fitne,s'of the men for garrison duty, teeir appear'
ante, capacity for drill, and every other particular 00
which it is desirable that the Cotumander-in•Chief should
be informed. Consequent on these reports, and on the
inspections in each alternate year made by the War•
office, the number of men to be enrolled at each station
is determined.

It augurs very little for your correspondent's know'
ledge of the subject to which he professes to direct pub-
lic attention, not to be award of so simple a fact as this,
nor that this very General officer, on whom he proposed
to devolve the inquiry, has an opportunity of seeing
the force in each district on all occasions when they are
out under arms, and, I believe, has at several times,
seen them.

In fact, during the period that the Enrolled Pensioners
are under arms, either for exercise or in aid of the Civil
Power, they are, by the Enrolment Act, placed under
the superior officers of the army, precisely in the same
way as any other part of the forces. There is no diffi-
culty in understanding, what your correspondent is
pleased to term, their civil-military character, except,
perhaps, by one of his limited comprehension ; they are
exactly, in this respect, like the Militia, viz., civilians
when not called out under arms, and soldiers when
armed. Their officers and sergeants, on permanent 1:1Y
being, like the staff of the militia, always under martial
law.
The expense of the whole of this force,
which amounts
to 16,000 men, or about 20 battalions, is less than that
of one permanently kept up, and before considering
whether this is too much, it may be as well to inquire
into the accuracy of the statement made—and that
" emphatically " too—by your correspondent, that this
most expensive force has not, by a single man, relieved
the severe pressure on onr active army.
Is your correspondent so entirely ignorant of the mill'
tary arrangements of the last few years WI not to be
aware that during most of the time since Western
Australia became a convict station, the whole of the,
millary duties there have been performed by severa;
hundreds of Pensioners—that for several years all the
Guards, sent out iu charge of convicts, have been corn-
posed of Pensioners, and that this duty still continued
to be performed by them—that for the first two years
after the discovery of gold in Victoria, the military duty
there was entirely performed by these men--that
Upper Canada, when suddenly denuded of troops 1:
consequence of the last war, the whole of the duty
done by enrolled pensioners, and a great portion evv, t 1
still is so—that at Hudson's Bay a company, and 1114.
New Zealand a whole battalion were in like mane
employed till the present year, when their seven Yellr-
engagement expired—thus obviating the necessity for
sending regular troops to those remote regions? 4.
These facts would perhaps have been better known
your correspondent, but for the circumstance that all
expenses connected with the employment of
abroad are defrayed from the I.cal treasuries • so that
With re'
they did not appear in the army estimates.
gard, however, to the value of such a provisional fare:
at home, he has no excuse for not being better informal
Will he inquire who took the coast-guard duties will
some thousands of seamen were withdrawn from thct,
duty and sent to the Baltic—who furnished' the guer
at most of the dockyards, prison bulks, and over R.U.,
sian prisoners—who supplied some thousands of drill
and N. C. 0. for the militia staff when hastily etebojieu
—who afforded trainers for the thousands of cavell
horses sent to the seat of war ? Surely your corr.;
pensioner!
spondent must have spent the last two or three years I_
the cave of the Seven Sleepers, not to have been arre,,r.,e
of these circumstances ; or has he an object for wilfully
concealing them ?
Hamity, in consequence of the rapid eonclusion of the
Crimean war, it did not become necessary to send all
portion of there men abroad, but who that 10°I4
back on that great struggle, and our feeble efforts in
raising men to meet it, can doubt that, had it continued
much longer, it would have been absolutely necessary to
adopt the same course as during the Peninsular war,
when 13 battalions of pensioners bad to be formed for
perrnenent garrison duty, of which several were seat to
the colonies to set free troops of the line. Would, thee;
the mol t rigid economist hesitate to acknowledge the
advantage of retaining these pensioners (the majority 011
whom are still between 35 and 50 years of age), in fug
recollection of their military traininie, so as to be allig
ready for any such emergency, particularly when t.„„,
can be effected for the moderate expense at present tit
currel for that object?
June 26. VINDEN-

[We very much regret having given insertion to
a statement which " Vindex" has so ably and 5°
satisfactorily refuted.—Ed. Sun.]