The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

Leo ‘t DON, FRIDAY EVENING. SEP TEMBER 4, 1657

8' ee that we werF, afraid of them ; but they would never
'nave attempted to rise had not the country been so fool-
ishly denuded of Europeans. All the people of the country
are with us, and the mutinous army once defeated and die-
- persed we shall soon have the countrysquare again ; but it
:is no joke to beat 170,000 men ; and they must send
:plenty of troops from England. At least 25 regiments
ahould be sent, 4,000 artillery, and plenty of heavy guns
—4B and 56-pounder,—for we shall have plenty of
sieges ; and we require a command of artillery fire over
th.e mutineers. Here we are firing 18-pounders and
8-• inch howitzers, and the rebels are replying with
is venty-fours and thirty-twos. Two or three regiments
of dragoons should be sent, and arrangements made to
supply them with horses when they arrive (from the Cape
or. Australia), for they will find none available here, our
ed;uds being far up the country and most of them plun-
dered. But, oh, how many years will it take to wipe
out the recollection of all the atrocities these villains
have committed ! There will be no love between a black
and a white face for many a long day. This is, indeed,
bitter satire on the philanthropists who were for go-
verning India entirely by the natives, and. admitting
them to equality with us. They are savages still, and
false to the core, and nothing but the sword will keep
them in order.

"I think the assault would have succeeded, but it is
very questionable what we could have done inside that
immense city with a handful of Europeans and some
15,000 Sepoys to drive out. We number 6,500 of all
ranks, but our irregulars are all rotten and ready to
turn. The Ghoorkas (inhabitants of Nepaul) and Sikhs,
on the other hand, are thoroughly stautcb, and have a
thorough contempt fur the Hindostanees. Toe way in
which the Ghoorkas 6-.7.ht is the admiration of the whole
army."
The following extract is from a letter of an officer
in the Bengal Artillery
" Camp before Ddbi, July 15.

"I wrote you a long letter a day or two ago, but as
some news of our action of yesterday may appear in the
papers, and you may perhaps see my name among the
wounded, I write a few lines, which will, I hope, ba in
time for the mail, to tell you that I am very I,ttle hurt,
and, through God's mercy, escaped death most wonder-
fully.
" You know Delhi, of course, so I will describe our

position.
"The English batteries and pickets are on the ridge
beta esn the town and cantonments, and these the enemy
pressed very bard from early morn yesterday, occupying
at the same time the suburbs on the right, called the
Sabjha Mundee, now a mass of ruins, but a very nasty
place for fighting—narrow streets, cla houses, gardens
with high walls, &c., affording excellent cover fur the
enemy ; besides which they are protected by the heavy
gun batteries on the city walls. After souse hard fif,ht-
iog we drove them to the end of the road, where three
branches go off to different gates. Under the walls th,-y
made a stand, and from the narrowness of the place we
could only get two Horse Artillery guns into action. '.
"I was near the front, seeing how I could be mo,t
useful, when I observed one of the t flees guns almost un-
serviceable from want of hands, so many had been
knocked over ; well, thinking, although on the staff, I
was still a gunner, I jumped off ray horse, and helped to
work the gun. The fire was too hot, two Horse Artil-
lery guns were perfectly useless against all the guns of
the city, and some thousands of muskets blazing into us,
so the order was given to retire. I mounted my horse,
and called out to limber up ' The horses in the limber,
from the shower of shot and shell that were comink in,
got unmanageable, and I turned my horse to tell the
men to keep them steady, when a musket bullet hit me
in the waist, about two inches from the spine. I had a
small leather pooch in my waist belt for carrying pistol
bullets, and the ball went through this first, so that my
wound is very slight. lam getting on well, and as jul'y
as possible. " F. S. R."
The writer of this letter onca worked on the
printing machines of the Times, but is now a ser-
geant of the Carabineers

" Delhi Camp, July 11.
"I hasten to give you what information I can with
respect to the aspect of affairs here ; it is, as you may ex-
pect, necessarily meagre, as the intelligence we receive is
usually vague and brief. The list three days have been
exceeedingly wet, notwithstanding which we are con-
stantly in the saddle; no sooner has one alarm subsided
than we are turned out to meet the mutineers in another
quarter. I can assure you that I would rather epend the
term of my existence before Sebastopol than have such
a life as we are obliged to endure here. For the las:
five days we have been turned out fur an assault on the
city ; still nothing has been done, and I much fear tha.',
it may be some time before we get the murdering scoun-
drels into our clutches. You may depend upon it that
the score, if we are permitted, will be paid in their own
coin, and with compound interest. Our Commander is
waiting for reinforcements before he makes the attack ;
but delays are ever dangerous. Cholera has made its
appearance, and before half of our little army are laid
upon our backs with sickness, my opinion is that we
ought to run the chance and endeavour to take the for-
tress. I have heard it stated that there are only 20,000
troops coming from England. Why, you should send
us at least 100,000, and at least 10,000 of them cavalry,
as the whole of Bengal from Calcutta to Affghanistan is
in a state of revolt. The cmintry will have to be re-
conquered and held in subjection for some years by
European troops. It will not be safe fix at least three
or four years to trust to nativo regiments. We have
instances of smouldering insubordination daily."

Oireetien of Cashmemand are being panled. Vert
must feel deeply for India under this so unexpected :ad
so complete a blow.
"Dear —is at Lahore, and I feel very uneasy, as
we know that the 46th and a wing of the 9th Cavalry
have Goordaspore. There they may induce the 2d Ir-
regular Cavalry to fraternize with them, and per. aps
also Davidson's Irregulars, and if they cembine wi h
the disarmed regiments it might be impossible to pre-
vent them doing incalculable miseiief. Still, they are
prepared for them at Lahore and Umsitsir, but I am
afraid not at Jullundur, which is almost entirely with-
out troops. Still we do fight and prosper against won-
derful odds. On the 9th, at Delhi, some 60 of our
people had got into a serai in the Subjha Mundee, and
were surrounded by 1,500 Sepoys. They had not a
percussion cap among them—absolutely nothing but
their bayonets, and yet they fought their way out with-
out the loss of a single man. It is really wonderful
how many have escaped—officers fired on by their rum
and yet get away in the most unaccountable manner.
At Shajehanpore the tragedy was, however, indeed com-
plete. Not one escaped to te'l the tale as far as we know.
How you will feel for Mrs.-- and Mrs.--. Poor
Mrs. Mordaunt Ricketts is at Nyeee Tal with the
Alexanders ; the Charles Curries have escaped, also
the Stewart Reids. We look anxiously homewards
for help. I fancy the cry of agony and excitement
throughout the land will be such as never has
been heard before. Colonel Chamberlain is the
only man of note in camp—next to him Col. Longfield,
her Majesty's Bth, and C,l. Beecifer and Captain Daly,
Guide corps ; but we want a leader sadly. We have a
militia at Simla ; the station told off into four districts,
under separate officers, with each so many men under
them. The Goorka guard left at JutJg has behaved well
since their regiment marched, and Lord Win. Hay has
many men from the different bill chiefs to assist if neces-
sary. There does not seem any ground for alarm at pre-
sent. The Baz 'ar and all the private servants were dis-
armed some time ago and the arms carried to li.esso lee,
where they have the depot of her Majesty's 75th. Col.
Stewart Monteith died here on Saturday."

AOK N CIO A 011: - FA RES IN PAR

The new hackney-coach tariff came into operation
on Tuseday. The re is no doubt that it will be found
on the whole advantageous to the public, and at the
same time equitable towards the ceachman. The
principle of the new system is the abolition of tee
uniform fare for a ride (course), no matter how
lone-, and the substiution in every c tse of payinect
by time, according to a graduated scale. The fare
for a quarter of au hour is 90c. That is the smallest
sum for which a carriage can be taken. Here the
benefit to the public, in the case of short rides, is
manifest. The old if. fares, for which Paris was
fatuous, have long been abolished, and the carriages
at if 20c. have la ely become so rare that they could
only be met with by very greatchauce. The minimum
fare of a fiacre was lf. 250., and as it was usual to
give the coachman 25c. to make even money, out
franc and a half was practically the least sum
for which a ride of any kind could be got. I went
to-day from the bank to the Luxembourg, a very
considerable dist ,nce, within the quarter of an hour,
although the horse was lame, and paid.' lf., which
included a pour-boire of two sons. The vast m j(')
rity of rides which people take in Paris are not so
long as this. Here, thou, is a clear economy of 10
30113. The scale progres,tes up to the first half-hour
in this proportion :-20 minutes, if. 20c. ; 25 mi-
nutes, if. 40c. ;30 minutes, If. 50c. Then every
five additional minutes up to the end of the hour
costs 5c., and the whole hour is if. 80c., being sc.
higher than the old tariff. This small gain to the
carriage proprietor is, however, much more than
set off by the advantage to the fare who may re-
quire a carriage for half an hour, or indeed for
any fraction of an hour. Formerly, if you wanted
to go two different places in a carriage, you were
forced to pay the whole hour, although the car-
riage might not have been kept more than five
minutes. Now you may do half-a-dozen
commissions say within half-an-hour, and the pay-
ment will be but 30 sous. The throwing the whole
Bois de Boulogne, for c trriage purposes, into
Paris proper, is an immense boon to the public.
So also is the lialf-hour given after midnight before
the night scale of fa es commences. Formerly a
carriage home from the theatre or from an evening
party, if taken but a minute after 12 o'clock,
cost inexorably 2F. 50c., although it might only
be wanted to go into the next street. Now all
the hotels in the Rue do Rivoli, the Rue
Rieholieu, and the quarter of the Rue de la Paix,
will be found to be within a quarter of an
hour's range of all the fa hionable theatres, from
which therefore four persons will be able to go home
comfortably after midnight for lf. The night fares
themselves are very censiderably reduced for short
time, but remain as they were for the whole hour,
the charge for which will still be 3f. In every cer-
riage there is now placed a watch which must
render disputes about the time almost imp )s-
-s:ble. It is a pleasing novelty to have forced upon
your 'vision—for the watch is placed conspicuously,
right iu front of yon—the exact time which it t dies
to go in a carriage from one familiar place to
another. Among Englishmen the watch wiJl be
a fruitful source of wagers. It has been objected
to the new system that since the coachman is paid
by time aline his interest will always be in direct
collision with his duty to his fare, and that we may
expect to see hackney coach-horses trained to such
a slow trot as to dimini,h very considerably the
average rate of locomotion in Paris. This may seem
so at first sight, but the large proportion iu which
the first quarter of an hour is pia in proportion to
every succe4l ng five minut s constitutes a sufficient
guarantee to the public that the jarveys will always
drive at are isonable rate. The coachman—who,
by the way, is not entitled to know, when he is
told to drive from one place to another, whether
ho will be kept there or discharge l—would evi
deutly be a loser in the long run, if he were to
drive at a perverse slow pace. Instead of spinning
out a ride for the sake of the small pay for t very
additional flee minute=, h's interest wdl be to get
rid of his fare quickly, in order to take up another,
who will pay in the vastly increased ratio due for
the first quart rof an Lour. This will be more (- spe-
cially the casein wet or hot weather, wheiscarrieges
are in ereat deemed. The thorny question of extra
payment (pour boire) to the coachmen is left in an
unsatisfactory state. The published regulations
state indeed that he is net entitled to any, but this
amounts to nothing, because he never was. There
is no announcement placarded within the carriages
that pour boires are ab dished, and it may take
some time before eastern fixes anything like a uni-
form rate. For the quarter of an hour fare of 90c.
a pour boire of 2 sous to make up if. ought to be
be sufficient. For longer time there will be no role.
Of course the coachman will never have any change,
and probably in most cases he will get even money
—that is to say, either lf. 30 sous, or 2f. The new
tariff does not apply to the better sort of broughams
known as voitures de remise, which will continue
as heretofore to charge 1.75 the course, and 2f. the
hour.

L INT' Ll. E C E ',Tt. 3

SHERIFFS' COURT.

(Before Mr. Under-SileriiT Batch 11 )
DAWKINS V. EVERINGHAM-THE LAST CASE OF
CRIB. CON.

This was a writ of inquiry in an action for trim.
con., judgment on the pait of the defendant having
been allowed to go by default. The damages ware
laid in the declaration at 1,0001.
Mr. Stammers appeared for the plaintiff, who lie
said was employed at a coach matinfacory in
Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and the defendant
was engaged in the contractors' office, on the Lou-
don, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, as time-
keeper, at 11. 10s. per week. The plaintiff was at
Southampton, pursuing his trade of a coach painter,
until 1853, when he came to London with his wife
and family. He made the acquaintance of the de-
fendant and his wile in 1855, and their friendship
appeared very sine re, but at length circumstances
occurred which aroused plaintiff's suspicion, and
he made a searcli, the result of which was that he
found under the bad a large bundle of letters, writ-
ten by the defendant and addressed to his (plain-
' tiffs) wife, the contents of whiii were conclu.i, e
of a criminal intercourse having been carried on for
some time. These 'attars were fu:l of extravag tot
nonsense, and in one or two of the al there were
pieces of licentious poetry, which the learned counsel
said he thou,,lit would come within the scone of Lord
Ca mpb -di's Act. The letters were paced in the hands
of an atorney, who issued a writ, and the defendant
called upon him, and said hecould not pay damages
and could not deny the charge of adultery, particu-
larly as his letters were to be produced in evidence
against him. In addition to his income from his
situation, he made profits by speculating on the
turf. The plaintiff and his wife had lived happily
together with their children until the defendant's
correspondence with her was discovered. Since the
plaintiff had been separated from his wife she had
been confined, and there was considerable doubt
as to the paternity of the child. He submitted it
was a case for substantial damages.
Evidence was given of the happy terms upon
which the plaintiff and his wife had lived, and the
letters ware put in and proved to be in the defen-
dant's handwriting.
No one appeared for the defendant.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Burcheli having left the case
to the jury, they gave a verdict for 501.