The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

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ARRIVAL OF PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, TEITTRSDAY.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Colombo, Captain Field, Admiralty agent, Lieut.
Karbright, R.N., arrived here to-dap: with the

heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian
mails. Her dates were—Alexandria, Sept. 12th ;
Malta, 15th ; Gibraltar, 19th. She brought 184
passengers, viz., Capt. Frazer, Dr. Giles, Capt.
Hazlewood, Mr. St. Leger, Mr. D. Campbell, Mra.
White, infant, and son, Mrs. Tyltt,r and four chil-

dren, Major and Mrs. -Price, Mts. Speard, Mrs
Impey, Miss Douglas, Mrs. Mayne, Mrs. Stirling,
Hrs. Stillman and three children, Capt. and Mrs.

Elliott and child, lion. Capt. Forrester, Mr. and
Mrs. Lovegrove, R. Kyles, and W. Brenton, from
Bombay ; Mrs. Stewart and three children, Mrs.
Gill and infant, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Rawlings, Lieut.
Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Perakote, nt, and
zervant, and Mr. Shearb, from Madras ; Mrs. Lay,
Mrs. Swinhoe, Mr. Raikes and son, Colonel, Mrs.,
and Miss Lennox, Mr. John Howard, Mrs. Jen-
kins and two children, Mrs. Tucker and infant,
two Misses Wilkins, Mrs. Stokes, Mrs. Chivers,
Mrs. and Miss Vi .tor and two children, Mrs. Dow-

tans and child, Mrs. Watkins and two children,
Mr. -Tensaw, Mrs. Co:byn and infant, Mrs. Steel
and infant, Mrs. Meade, child, and s n, Mrs. Bar-
row and two children, Mrs. Arnesbury and infant,
Mr. and Mrs. Berry, Mrs. Grant, child, and son,
Mrs. Ingram, infant, and son, Mrs. Goldney and
three children, Mrs. G. Edmonstone, R. Turner,

and Mrs. Ottley, from Calcutta ; Captain Read,
from Singapore • Mr. Blanchard, Captain Pews-
dale, Mr. Woodilead, and Mr. Savage, from Point
de Galle ; and Mrs. Brown, infant, and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Fasecer, Mr. A. Bruce, Mr. Arnold, Mr.
Lipman, Mr. Mine, Capt. Newlands, Capt. Chap-
man, Mr. J. Ross, Dr. Burke, Capt. Reed, Mr.
Cawley, Mr. E. Christian, Mr. Lambert, G.
Donaldson, and Mr. J. Perry, from Alexandria.
Amongst the cargo of the Colombo were 1,285
boles of silk, with large quantities of gum, wool,
elephants teeth, opium, mother-of-pearl and shawls,
together with specie to the value of 4,8001.
Her Majesty's ship Desperate and Caradoc were
at Alexandria. The Tartarus was surveying in
Aboukir Bay, the Hibernia and Boxer were at
Malta, the Vigilant was en route to Cagliari, the
Vulturd and Curlew were at Gibraltar, Admiral
Lord Lyons' squadron was at Algiers when last
heard of. The Egyptian government had purchased
the steamer Persia, formerly in the Australian Com-
pany's service. .
The Colomb ) arrived off lhe Needles last night,
but fur want of a pilot did not enter the Solent.
She passed Hurst Castle at half-past six this morn-
ing, and cm° up Southampton Water, and was
fastened on the West India buoy, off Netley Abbey,
until the tide rose and enabled her to go into the
docks, which she entered at one o'clock this after-
neon. Numerous steamers and boats went off to
her for her mails and passengers. The India mail
was landed first and despatched, and then the Aus-
tralian mail was landed and despatched to the
General Pust-office. The whole of the mail brought
by the Colombo consisted of about 320 boxes and
bags of letters and newspapers.
The Lady Mayoress arrived at Radley's Hotel,
in this town, from London, yesterday, to await the
arrival of the Colombo, in order to render any as-
sistance to the fugitives from India that-they might
require. Intelligence of the approach of the Co-
lombo off the Needles was communicated to her
ladyship, and she remained up all night in cense-
quenCe. Early this morning the Lady Mayoress,
accompanied by Mr. Under-Sheriff Anderton, of
London, proceeded down Southampton Water to
the Colombo in a small steamer that had brought
the Indian mail ashore. Her ladyship was dressed
in deep mourning, for the loss of her brother, Col.
Finuis, who was killed by the mutinous sepoys at
Meerut. Dr. Symes, a resident of Southampton,
who has fitted up apartments in his house for any
of the destitute Indicn refugees, was also early on
board the Indian mail packet. The Mayor of South-
ampton proceeded to the Colombo in another small
steamer, accompanied by Captain Engledue, the
superintendent of the Peninsularand Oriental Com-
pany, and other gentlemen. The Lady Mayoress,
as soon as she was on board the Colombo, was
conducted to Captain Field's cabin, and her object
in visiting the ship was communicated with the
utmost delicacy to the passengers. Numerous rela
tives and friends of the passengers also went on
board, and their meeting with their friends from
India was au affecting sight. They embraced each
other in seeming unconsciousness of the presence of
strangers,' and paced the deck with their arms en
circling each other's waists. A great number of
the passengers went ashore in one of the small
steamers. A crowd of persons was in the dock,
and here also affectionate greet'ngs took place be
tween lung abs,nt friends and relatives, which drew
tears from many a bystander. There were about
sixty children on board the Indii.n mad packet, a
large portion of whom were infants in arms, all of
them hurried out of India on account of the fearful
atrocities committed there. The scene on board the
Colombo was very different from that which usually
takes place on board homeward India packets. The
usual female .passengers on board these ships are
ladies in the gayest spirts and dressed in the- gor-
geous silks and shawls of the East ; but many of the
lady passengers of the Colombo bore marks of great
sufferings and anxieties, and their dresses betokened
their losses, and the rapidity of their flight from the
mutinous districts. Many of these passengers
escaped from Delhi, Lucknoev, and other parts of
Oude. Fortunately, they started from those places
at the commencement of the mutinies. The language
of their husl.ands was, " Get out of the country
with the children as soon as you can, and never
mind us." Many of them have never heard any-
thing of their husband since. Some of the ladies
escaped nearly naked, lived in the jungle for days
with their infant children, starving, and rarely able
to get a handful of rice to satisfy the cravings of
hunger. Few villagers were willing to assist them,
and many of those who were willing were afraid t
do so. Not the least interesting refugee on board
the Colombo was a lit•le dog. It bad escaped from
Delhi by faithfully following'its mistress and her
children. It had nearly pail a heavy penalty for its
fidelity. Its back had been literally burnt by the
sun, and is no: healed yet. some of the passenger s
give a frightful picture of the state of Calcutta
and the interior provinces of India. Many a time
all the persons in the employ of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company scught shelter on board the
company's steamers, the gunis of which were shotted,
and on board which armed watches were kept night
and day. The news of,the mutinies at Meerut and
Delhi came upon the inhabitants of Calcutta like 4
thunder clap. At Ceylon all the European troops
had left for the, Bengal Presidency, and none but
Sepoy and Malay soldiers are left at Point de Gallo
and Colombo. The Malay soldiers are eager to fight
the Sepoy mutineers, whom they cordially hate.
The Australian mail steamer ,was at Aden when
the Bentinck was at that port. The Australian
passengers brought to Suez by the 0 Colombian
landed here to-day from the Colombo. The Tamar,
therefore, which took out the last overland mail,
will only bring home the specie and cargo of the
Colombian.
Aboutl,ooo/. islikely to be raised in Southampten
for the Indian sufferers. A letter has been received
here from the East India Company stating that no
official list of the persons massacred in Cawnpore
has been received in-England. Mr. Delafosse and
Mr. Bruce, who escaped from Cawnpore, are CJL-
fleeted with Southampton.

GENERAL HAVELOCK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,.—l have .waited vainly for some days in
the hope that I she'll I see some distinguished mark
of royal favour best3wed upon that great man on
whose proceedings trio eyes of the country are
anxiously fixed as the one hope of Englandiu India,
Galicia]. Havelock ; and all that has yet bean done
to reward his glorious career is a pension of 100/,
a-year, which he shams, I suppose, in common with
fifty or a hundred ordinary men !
Is it possibl°, tir, that any cold etiquette can be
allowed to stand iu the way of the expres4ion cf
that intense gratitude which I venture to say the
nation foals fur those brave and glorious deeds ?
Who knows how soon a life of such toil and such
peril may be cut shoat? Let it not be said that
any time was lost in rewarding it while it lasted.
Let the very next mail carry to General Havelock
the news that his services appre:iated in Eng-
land, and that no honour is grudged to the man
who with a handful of brave soldi'era has encoun-
tered over and over again incalculable odds and in
eve ry conflict has come off victorious.
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Little do our rulers appear to be aware of all
that they lose by failing to reward, or by reward-
ing tlo late, the services of such a man as Have-
lock. Da they imagine t'iat France would have
left such an officer for one week ungracycl by every
tip le of honour and every form of reward which sol-
diers value or a grateful country can bestow ?—I
am, sir, your obedient servant;

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PHILAGAT EIO3.
[Our cot respondent should male all .IVAIICO for
the fact that there is scarcely a Minister in LAid.t,n,
teat Lord Panmuis is more intent on the destruc-
tion of grouse than of mutineers, and that " the
fountAiu of Honour" itself is far away in the High-

laud.s out of nm:3ll even of telegraph.--EDITOR, OF
THE TIMES

Two private letters from Calcutta, dated the Bth of
August, state that 500 French troop; had arrived in the
-Emilio at the same time as the *Lannon. We presu,ne
these Frerich troops have come from Chins to. defend
French interests at Chandernagore.

AMERICAN AFFAIR&

We extract the following from a letter dated
New York, Sept. 12 :
The long-pending negotiations between New
Grenada and the United States have ended—the
mountain has brought forth a mouse of an indem-
nity treaty. The people murdered in the Isthmus
riots are to be paid for, those wounded. are to be

indemnified, and a commission is to sit to deter-
mine who were killed and who were wounded, and
now much ought to be paid in each case. The

;mat political questions of difference are left as

beforeL.or rather worse than before—for discussion

having been broached, and the parties having failed
to agree, each party will have the pleasure of ad-
hering all the more firmly to its own views. The
State of tPanatha laid, and still lay claim to levy a
capitation-tax on passengers from the Eastern
United States to the Western passing through its
territory ; a severe tonnage-tax upon the shipping
of the United States coming to the transit ports ; a
heavy impost upon the goods passing in transit ;
and onerous postal%harges upon the mailsfrom New
York to California. The right to levy these rates,
which have been resisted by the United States, is

left unsettled. This Government will not subinit

to them. It avows that it considers all these ques-
tions settled by existing treaties, and if the New
Grenada authorities are so unwise as to provoke
the question there will be every disposition to en-
force the American construction. They say that
before American capital flowed through the Isth-
mus to the shores of the Pacific the track now tra-
velled by the locomotive was a wilderness, the
site of Aspinwall a deadly swamp, and the streets
of Panama overgrown with grass. The life and the
wealth which it now possesses are the offspring of
American enterprise. It is not right that after hav-
ing done so much fur the country capital and enter-
prise should be further taxed for the support of a
set of lazy fellows who have not energy enough to
take care of themselves. But they say further, we
are not obliged to• fall back on the natural rights
which the comity of nations gives to every Power.
These questions have already been determined be-
tween the two countries by existing treaties, which
the United State's will enforce. New Granada, oa
the other hand, plays lamb to the American wolf,
with this trifling exception, that it stands above the
wolf in the stream.

The "hard times" still continue. E day some
new failures are announced. It would be wor'e
than useless to burden your columns with the un-
known names. The banks have been for a few days
back discounting more freely, but money is still
in so great demand that holders of excellent
investments are. obliged to throw them on the
market, and sacrifice them at present prices.
The Bauk Stocks are now feeling the effect
of the pressdre in this way. Bank of Commerce
shares, for instance, which commanded 108 not
long ago, now sell at 95, and other banks in pro-
portion. In fact, everything is locked up. Sinoe
Michigan Southern and Ohio Life and two great
borrowers are out of the way the market ought to
be easier, but the effect of their stopping has been
to create such a want of confidence that business is
carried on with difficulty. The dry goods people are
the first to feel the pressure. I think I have several

times pointed out to you that they would probably
have trouble this autumn—though in saying this 1
certainly have no wish to claim to be a Cassandra,
or to have foreseen the present state of things.
Considering it as I do entirely unreasonable, with-
out a sufficient cause for its intensity, I have no
wish to claim the demerit of having been its pro-
phet: To go back to the dry goods dealers, they are
at present the heaviest sufferers, and in the worst
repute. The produce dealers stand next. Flour
must fall. They may try to keep it up by combina-
tion, but with a great crop in Europe and a great
crop in the West combinations will be useless. At
present the home crop is stationary, both because
nobody has money enough•to move it, and because
all interested in it are disposed to hold on for
higher prices. But that state of things cannot last
long. The wheat must come to marks-, the rail-
ways must have the transportation, the farmers
must have money to pay their grocers' bills and for
their wives' dresses—the first end of the hou,e that
Jack built. And when the crop gets out bread will
be cheap—the first and surest sign of returning
prosperity. On the whole I think things look bettor
than when I last wrote ; and could one foresee the
course of Indian contest and the effect of the New
York cramp upon extended Western credit, we
might be disposed to think it sunshiny. The Banks
are discounting more freely, andtheir specie reserve
has increased nearly $3,000.000, and will show on
Monday between $12,000,000 and $13,000,000.
Specie keeps flowing in here from the country. So
far as the moneyed institutions are concerned they
feel decidedly better than a week ago. The two
things I have alluded to above give the principal
reason for tear in the future. New York is not
so very expanded for the amount of its capital, Lor
is its real estate swelled to fabulous prices. But
there are little towns in the West where every man
considers himself worth half-a-million (in building
lots), and gives his obligations accordingly. A
tumbledown there may react injuriously upon New
York ; but in no respect as it did 20 years ago.
This country is nowsolidlyprosperous; and though,
as in all times of prosperity, there will be over-
trading, over-speculating, over-gambling, and fol-
lowing checks, revulsions, and failures, and though
even some solid fortunes may t nmble with the gorge-
ous palaces and cloud-capped visions of the gam bl, re,
the great agricultural districts are far richer than
ever before, the commercial towns have much
more accumulated capital than in any former crisis,
the manufacturers are rich, and the accumulating
capital of a single year can wipe out all the indebted•
ness that presses heavily—can, that, is if people,
instead of foolishly falling helpless iu fright, will
put on. a gentle but steady curb, and check instead
of stop. As to the other cause, the Indian trouble 4,
they are regarded herewith an interest second only
to that which they excite in London. We have no
sons fighting, no daughters being massacred, but
the intercourse between the two countries has been
so intim ite that there are few American gentlemen
have nut more or less acquaintances in the British
army. And, even without the exci'ement of per-
sonal interest, no human being can read without
emotion the stories of the savage atrocities perpe-
trated in India. The commercial effect, too, of tie
revolt is felt here almost as soon as in London. Long
ago the electric wire of mutual interest was laid be-
tween two great monetary centres.

THE SULTAA'S CONTRIBUTION FOR THE
RELIEF OF THE SUFFERERS IN INDIA.

The following is a copy of the correspondence
which has taken place between the Turkish am-
bassador and the Lord Mayor, with reference to
the relief of those who are suffering in India :
"Bryanston-square, Sept. 23, 1857.
"My Lord Mayor,—l have the honour to inform
you that his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, my august
Sovereign, has been pleased to order the sum of 1,0001.
to be sent to me for transmission to you as hie subscrip-
tion to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the
Indian mutiny.
"luclosing herewith accordingly a cheque for the
above amount, I have• the honour to be, my LTrd
Mayor, your very obedient servant,
" C. Musunus.

" The Right Hon. the Llrd Mayor, &o. &a."

" Sir,—l have have had the honour to receive and
lay before the committee your Excellency's letter, dated
234 September, stating that his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan has been pleased to order the sum of 1,0001. to
be paid to me, as his subscription to the fund for the
relief of the sufferers by the mutiny of India.
"The eommittee have received with great satisfaction
the proof which this munificent donation affords of the
sympathy of the Sultan. Persons of every rel gion in
India are left to worship God according to their own
persuasion, without any interference ; and the govere-
merit is considered as a trust from Almighty God, with
a view to the benefit of the people. These fundamental
maxims will never be departed from, and, with God's
blessing upon them, India will attain to a degree of
prosperity wnich she has never yet enjoyed.
"The committee request that your Excellency will
convey to the Sultan their respectful and grateful ac-
knowledgments for his contribution, and that you will
inform his Imperial Majesty how highly it has been
appreciated.
" I have the honour to be, sir, 3 onr Exeelleney's
most obedient humble servant,
"THOMAS Q. FINNIS, Mayor."

His Excellency the Netherlands Minister is staying
at the Lew, Ross-shire, on a visit to Sir James and
Lady Matheson.
The Marquis Conyngbam and Lady Cecilia Conyng-
ham have arrived at the St. George's Rota.
The Earl ar.d Countess of Dunraven and family left
Farrauca's Hotel, Belgravia, on Thursday, for th 3 Con-

ti neat.
The Earl of Burlington will shortly leave Ilolker
on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth
House, Derbyshire.
Viscountess Maynard, wh-o has been very much in-
disposed sicca her arrival in town, is somewhat better.
Lord and Lady Rodney have arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn-street.
The Count and Countess Jean Barikoff have left the
Biunswick Hotel, for Paris, ea route for St. PAersburi:„
Sir Robert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Pe
terel have
returned to Drayton Manor, where th ey are entaining
a numerous circle of friends.
The Right Hon. Sydney and Mrs. Herbert arrived io
town a few days since, from Ireland, and left on Wtcl-
sday for their seat, Wilton House, Salisbury.
A letter from tho Black Sea announces that the
Russiaus have completed the fortifications of Yeni-
kale.