The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST l3, 1857

but this will only concentrate those who have
hastened to the spot, where we hope and believe
exemplary punishment will speedily be inflicted
on them, so that the blow will be far more
effectual when it actually falls.
Again we hear of the progress of the Bengal
Sepoys. Troops had mutinied at Modaraban,
Tyrabad, Seetapore, Sanger, Nowgong, Banda,
Futtyghur, Mhow, and Indore, and there is but
too much reason to fear that we may hear of
murders and other atrocities in these districts of
a similar character to those that have already cast
an indelible stain on the Bengal Native troops.
But on the other hand the Bombay and Madras
armies remained firmly loyal. The Punjab, as
well as the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, and
Bengal proper, remained quiet, and the communi-
cations remained uninterrupted. General VAN
CORTLAND; marching upon Jhansi and Hissar,
had two engagements with the rebels near Lissah,
the last being a very decisive one, in which the
rebels were completely routed. They fled in the
utmost disorder, leaving 200 of their number on
the field, besides prisoners. We are also told that
General WOODBURN' S column had completely
crushed the rebellion at Aurungabad. We learn,
too, that the Simoom had arrived at Calcutta
with the sth Fusiliers on the 2d July ; and the
first draught from the intercepted Chinese expe-
dition being available, theta can be but little
doubt that the remainder of the 5,400 disciplined
troops have long since confirmed the hopes of the
loyal and removed the doubts of the wavering.
It was indeed a very timely and Providential aid
coming at the hour of utmost need ; and we have
reason to rejoice at the misconduct of Commis-
sioner YER, who thus proved himself the cause of
strengthening and consolidating the British
power in the Anglo-Indian Empire.
There are apparently conflicting accounts as to
pecuniary matters. In one we are told that " the
Money Market was in a very unsettled state,"
that " money was difficult to be had on any
terms," and that " Government securities had
given way considerably ;" while in another we
hear that " the native bankers were regaining
confidence." These, however, may to a certain
extent be reconciled by ascribing the salutary
change to the confidence inspired by the arrival of
the first draught of the British expeditionary
force to China.

On the whole, the good appears to predominate,
and we may reasonably anticipate that we have
witnessed the worst phase of the deplorable tran-
saction, and that we may look forward hopefully
to very decided ameliorations in the next accounts
received from the disturbed districts.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer last night
moved resolutions for the continuance of the Tea
and Sugar Duties for a further period of two
years from April next. These resolutions, which
-appeared in extenso in the Sun, of Monday, were,
after a brief discussion, carried, and leave was
given to introduce bills founded thereon. No
change whatever is intended to be made in the
existing act. It is from the period of its termi-
nation at the close of the financial year that the
alterations will apply. It is actually a continuance
of the proposition which ho submitted to the House
last session, but which he was compelled to modify,
iu consequence of the dissolution of Parliament,
by reducing the period from three years to one
year.

We have no objection to receive those resolu-
tions, as a notice of his intention to move their
extension, without giving the tea-dealers and the
consumers generally the benefit of the reduction
that should otherwise take place next April. We
trust, however, that there is no intention to force
such measures through the House at the fag-end
of the session, when every menber is preparing
for the recreation that has too long been withheld.
Before the renewed could be grantrd, there ought
to be a complAa development of his financial
scheme and expansion of the budget, exhibiting
the financial prospect] of the country, and show-
ing clearly and explicitly what may be absolutely
necessary and what expedient or judicious.

We cannot now meas'ire the extent of the re-
sponsibilities arising from the disturbed state of
India or the war with China. We may hope that
the Right Hon. Gentleman has not told a too
flittering tale when he declared that " the pre-
sent financial means of the East India Company
are ample, and that their difficulties are not of a
financial character, and that there are ample
means of meeting any demands likely to be made
on the Indian Exchequer." If this sanguine
expectation should be fulfilled to the very letter
—if in place of being called in for heavy ad-
vances, or serious guarantees, we find that the
measures hitherto taken will only afford relief to
the Exchequer by transferring the support of some
30,000 men to the Company, then there can be
reason why we should prolong these obnoxious
duties, or furnish Sir G. C. LEWIS with means to
be applied in liquidation of public liabilities. We
should far rather afford some relief to the over-
burdened and exhausted tax-payers, by whieb
they might in some degree recover from the
extraordinary strain upon their resources of
the last few years. Let the resolutions
then •be received as notice, but no
Act be passed in consequence thereof until after
the opening of the budget, and the full discussion
of fiscal and financial matt3rs next session.

Sir G. C. LEWIS partly showed what may be
regarded as having been paid off the public debt
since the beginning of the year. Two millions of
Exchequer Bonds were paid off in May. Within
the last few days no less than 1,125,000/. has
been applied to the redemption of the Danish
Sound Dues, a perfectly unnecessary proceeding,
inasmuch as they might have been spread over
a period of 25 or 30 years, thus making the next
generation, which would so largely participate in
Vie benefit, bear at least some:portion of the ex-
pense. These payments alone, amount in the
aggregate to 3,125,000/. But no mention was
made of the Sardinian loan of 1,000,0001. ster-
ling, the interest of which, and the sinking fund
for its eventual extinction is punctually paid by
the Piedmontese Government, nor was there any
allusion paid to the sinking fund of 250,0001.,
also paid as one portion of the war debt. These
amount altogether to 4,375,000/. sterling paid
on behalf of p(x. terity, a vast sum, when we con-
sider the enormous amounts levied on the people
since the commencement of the Eistern difficulty,
and that its very opining was signalised by the
GLausToNEabortion, which denuded the Exchequer
of its balances, and took between eight and nine
inillions of pounds sterling from the public Trea-
sury for the purpose of paying off securities of old
standing, at a loss of some 8 or 9 per cent.
Sir G. C. LEWIS is too much inclined to play a
similar game if be be not closely watched. He
cannot be trusted with large balances, the
" money burns iu his pocket," and therefore we
are by
no means inclined to grant new
completely
satisfied that they
are required until completely
by the national exigencies, and
are not ta be used as counters, to be chucked
away whenever lie sees, or fancies he sees,
op-
portunity of making a great financial operation,
an
These are the hobbies of financiers, Which
should
be as closely watched the tendency of country 6

gentlemen to dabble in bricks and mortar. We
have had one lesson in the redemption of the
Sound dues, and the utmost care should be taken
to avoid a similar trap for the future.

LOUIS NAPOLEON'S CONSPIRACY
AGAINST 31. LEDRO ROLLIN.

" MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."
TO THE EDITOR 4 OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Thanks to the unanimity of the English
Press and the sympathetic echo it has met with in
Belgium, Switzerland, and the whole of Germany,
there is an end of that plot so pompously adver-
tised, the tale of which was to spread terror all
over E'irope. Ridicule, even more than contempt,
has killed it.

I should, thfrefore' not have reverted to it any
longer, were it not to state once more, by two
facts generally unknown, the weakness and cow-
ardice of the Imperial Government. Not only were
the French newspapers not allowed exactly to
repeat the examination of the accused, their reports
having had to undergo the trial of ministerial
censorship, hut they were absolutely forbidden to
report the defence of the advocates.

Whilst thus the foreign press, with increased
indignation, will learn that Bartolotti, in Lis
answers before the Court, the only reliable ones,
declared "he had so imperfectly noticed the
Frenchman, whose name he pronounced in five
different ways, that he could no longer affirm
whether he had mustachios or not; at all events,
this stranger took his departure at the very mo-
ment when he, Bartolotti, entered the room, and
without a single word being uttered in his presence."
It only remains with me soltmnly to remind the
public that this deposition, even in its modified
and wholly inconclusive shape, is untrue. It is
entirely, thoroughly false that I ever met with
Bartolotti, either at Mazzini's or elsewhere. •
The accusation again>t me being thus irreparably
destroyed, and one of the defensors having seized
the opportunity with a few words to break off the
sole tie by which I was intended to be entangled
with the trial, nothing else Was left but to forbid
the papers, under menace cf suspension, to make
the slightest mention of this part of the debate.
Nothing, then against me; no documentary
evidence—the accusation itself has acknowledged
it ; no oral evidence any further, however untrust-
worthy; nothing, absolutely, but that abominable
doctrine of indirect and moral complicity (complicite
indirecte et morale) branded by me 16 years ago, in
the trial of Dupoty, before the High Court of
Peers.

That exhumation of the middle ages morally
killed the Government of Louis Philippe ; will it
not contribute to destroy Mr. Bonapartt's? Per•
haps more so than all his crimes, for there are
po!i;ical blunders less pardonable in the eyes of
the clever than real offences. "Woe," says Ma-
chiavelli, "to him whose badly-aimed strokes fall
back upon himself ; whilst losing his reputation of
cleverness, he exalts his enemy."
If I had succeeded in being indicted before an
English jury, what strange truth would have come
out, and how thol ()uglily the play would have
changed ! Instead of exile plots against the
Empire, Europe would have seen plots of the
li:mpiro against the exile exposed before her eyes.
I should have shown, for instance, that wretch,
Gereau, who acted as a witness in a trial to which
he was wholly foreign, making capital out of his old
reputation of patriotism by plunging into prison a
multitude of credulous Republicans. I should have
shown him, as far back as 1852, in his quality of an
understrapper of the Imperial police, under the
pseudonymous appellation of " Alphonse," con-
cocting the Kelch business, in order to betray and
sell it afterwards. I should have shown him, in
1853, applying to me, and asking for money and
shells to blow up Mr. Bonaparte. I should have
shown him, iu 1854, whilst the war against Russia
was raging, calling upon me and offering to shatter
the whole Imperial frame, if provided with a sum
of 30,000 francs, which he would be able to get
from the Russian Embassy on a single word spoken
by me.

Invariably rebuffed, finally driven out, and pub-
licly denounced by me to the whole Republican
party, this man, thus unmasked, would have been
seen causing nearly 200 victims to be arrested, and
himself to be condemned to four years' imprison-
ment, for the purpose of restoring his character and
covering himself with a fresh lustre of patriotism.
Before an English court Ishould have administered
the proofs of a new co'ispiracy against exiles, a con-
spiracy worked in 1857 by one Ravet, connected
with the police under the name of Evrat. What he
was about was nothing less than laying in ruins
the whole French Playhouse (Theatre Francaise),
on a day when Mr. Bonaparte would be present
with his court.

Unveiled by me, like Gereau, and henceforth
useless to the Impend police, he rendered it the
lest service he was able to perform, by dragging
into gaol more than a hundred patriots candid
enough to have trusted his words. He, too, as
Gereau before him, took to being tried himself and
convicted to four years' imprisonment, bett.:r to pro-
vide for his safety and in the hope to prolong illu-
sion, if possible.

To conclude, before the public assizes I should
have had the opportunity of bringing to exposure
a dozen other tools, women as well as men, play-
ing the odious game of laying snares for the
exiles.

But is there any need of further evidence ?
Have we rot Jeisey to convict Mr. Bonaparte
with incessantly conspiring against his victims ?
A conspirator born, he will die a conspirator. He
conspired at Strasburg ; he conspired at London
and Boulogne ; he conspired in that for ever ex-
ecrable night of the 2d of December. But yester-
day he was dancing at Osborne, whilst in the
very act of conspiring with Russia against you
in the Principalities, in Persia, in India. You
say, this man is stability ; I tell you he is
fragility itself ; for he is the incarnation of fraud
and cunning, of venture, ambushes, and coups de
main. Whit you take for his greatness is nothing
else but the expansive strength and the greatness
of Franco. As for himself, in spite of the diadem
be is ne thar wis.er nor less a conspirator. Believe
me, your liberties are undermining him, and
accordingly hateful t) him. Either they or himself
must vanish. Well might Machiavelli again
exclaim, •‘ There is no safe alliance but with free
peoples !" Fortunate to yourselves will therefore
be the day when, like so many tyrants of the Lower
Empire, he will disappear in the whirlwind of
some conspiracy got up by himself.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Aug. 12. LERU ROLLIN.

THE LATE SIR CHARGES NAPIER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

appears from Mr. Roebuck's warm and
vigorous speech la-t night on Mr. Bruce's motion,
that Mr. Mangles, chairman of the East India
directors, has said, in justification of their govern-
ment, that the recent mutiny "came like a thun-
derbolt." And Colonel Sykes said, it " came like
the cholera."

Let me point out the following passages in the
46 volume of "Sir C. Napier's Life," page 204 :
Atter 1 tyiaz down a system of military move-
ment, "if forced to fight for life and India," he
thus on-air-rea :

" This may seem a wild idea of danger, but it is
not impossible, and we should be prepared, for if
ever mischief comes in India, it will come like a
thunderbolt."

Let Mr. Mangles and Colonel Sykes reflect on
this, and lune their heads.

W. NA.PIER, Lieutenant-General.

Aug. 12.

to the subject most grateful to iti feelings. To-clay
it says :

"England must submit to the consequences of
the energetic movement which :An has endea-
voured to give to the world. As long as that move-
ment was limited to the distinct action of Eng-
land, it resulted in the extension of British power.
But from the period when this movement became
confounded in the universal movements of other
nations England lost the peculiar advantage of her
strength, and entered the common lot of nations.
She may preserve her genius, her policy; her ma-
chines, her commercial habits, but no longer with
the hops of obtaining preponderance and of placing
the world under the rule of mercantile proconsuls.
In a word, the world will regain its freedom, and
another example will have bred offered of the fic
that commercial nations have only a passing rule.
Cartilage and Venice had taught US this, while
London will bear witness to it in the future."

BOURSE, Aug. 12.—The following v;eeihe last
quotations :

Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cents 67 67 15
Bank Shares 9,825 Credit Foncier - 550
Credit Mobilier 970 Roman 1—
Do. Account 970 Austrian
Belgian 4i -
Fiedmontese (5) B9 Home Debt

TEL ATL NM TELEGRAPH.

VALENTIA, IRELAND, AUG. 8.
The great electric cable is at length fairly on the
way to its We-tern terminus with every present
prospect of realising its mis4on. Fas'ened by one
end to the shore of Valtlitia, it is now trailing its
unfolding circles across the Atlantic Ocean. On the
evening of Friday, the 7th of August, 1837, the
telegraphic squadron bore away from the coast of
Ireland, delivering the cable into the sea at a slow
and steady rate. The expedition had start d full of
hope, and spirits on Thursday at daybreak, but
owing to an unfortunate contretemps was obliged to
put back temporarily almost irnmtdiatelyafter wards.
When abaut four miles of the thick shot e end of
the cable had been paid it became entangled with
the machinery, owing to a momentary want of
watchfulness on the part of one person whose duty
it was to attend to the movements of the paying-
out sheaves, which required during the passage over
them of the heavy portion of shore cable, 10 m les
in length, a little extra care, the sheaves having
been designed primarily with the object of de'ivering
over themat a proper speed, and at a minimum of
strain, the main telegraph, which, as is well known,
is of very much smaller diameter than the shore
ends, and which conaitu'es the entire length from
coast tO coast, with the exception of 39 miles only.
Just at this unfortunate moment the Niagara
slightly rounded, and her weight being brought
upon the thick unyielding shore cable it necessarly
snapped.

Immediate steps were taken to undFrrun the
sunken line, and were attended by pe, feet success,
notwithstanding its massive weight, which is eight.
tons to the mile. In this service the boats of the
Leopard and of the Smquebanna rendered greatand
valuable service.

The raised portion was then joined up as firmly
as ever to the remainder of the Niagara's cable,
and the work proceeded as before. The ships at
once' recommenced their outward voyage at a slow
rate of sailing, since which time the c ..b:e has con-
tinued to run out in a safe and sa+isfactory manner.
The machinery workS admirably, and entirely
answers the sanguine expectations of the designers.
It diffeis in many. essential points from any of
the meebanicol appliances hitherto used for regu-
lating the delivery of telegraphic cables into the
sea. The apparatus'gprierally used has consisted of
a broad drum, around which the cable was wrapped
several
,times,. and the revolution of which was
checked by brake-straps acting upon the periphery
of thedrum.-- Under such an arrangement the'cable
could only be .extricated from tho drum, if re-
quired, with the greatest difficulty, and at the same
time if any considerable strain should arise, the
hard surface of the drum acted upon an exceedingly
limited portion of the external cowing of the cable,
owing to the cylindrical form of the latter, and
therefore tended to flatten it. In the Atlantic
machinery, on the contrary, the cable passes round
a series of sheaves grooved to receive and embrace
nearly half its circumference. The pressure is thus
thoroughly distributed, and 'the circular form is
preserved. Moreover, the sheaves being fitted on
their axles outside of the bearings, the cable can be
released from the paying-out machinery at once
when required, and the indicating apparatils, which
forms a portion of the paying-out appliances used
for the Atlantic telegraph, effects the great im-
provement of enabling the engineer to ascertain
at any moment, with accuracy, the strain which the
cable is enduring.

13,112.5. Cyclops, Commander Daymin, which
has recently returned from sounding on the Great
Circle Arc between Valentia, in Ireland, and Tri-
nity Bay, in Newfoundland, will lead the squadron
across the Atlantic.

The result of the soundings made by Lieutenant
Dayman correspond with and generally confirm the
resnits reported by Capt. Berryman of the United
States' frigate Arctic. Between 15 deg. and 48 deg.
of west longitude, and between 49 deg. 30 min. and
52 deg. 20 min. of north latitude, including a space
of 1,220 miles, 32 specimens of the bottom, from
depths ranging between 1,500 and 2,424 fathoms,
have been preserved, and they show, with one ex-
ception, a remarkably soft bottom of oozy nature.
Near the Irish coast the bottom was found to
consist chiefly of sand or mud, with short intervals
of rock, and near that of Newfoundland a thick
blue mud.

Three small icebergs, near the coast of New-
foundland were the only ice that was observed by
Lieut. Dayman.

MONDAY MORNING, 7.30.
Upwards of 200 miles of cable have now been
paid into the sea. The ships have approached the
deep water, the present soundings being over 1,500
fathoms. All is going well. The signals to the shore
continue to be as good as can be desired.
(BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
VALENTIA, Ana. 12.
_ _

An accident of some description has occurred to
the Atlantic cable. Up to 4 o'clock in the morning
of yesterday (Tuesday) constant signals and messages
had been received, in one of which, received. some
20 hours previously, it was stated that the ship had
arrived in the two miles' depth. At 4 a.m. (Irish
time) the electric signals suddenly teamed. On
testing for insulation there was found to be a total
'lose, which from indications of resistance would
seem to have occurred at a distance of from
350 to 400 miles from Valentia. In the absence of
any means c f communication with the ships it is, of
course, impossible even to guess at the cause of em-
barrassment ; there is, however, quite sufficient
room for hope at present that the loss of insulation
may have been caused by some injury to a portion
being payed into the water but not dissevered from
the remaining portion of the cable, and that they
will be enabled, by the aid of appliances on board,
to haul in and repair so much of it as will re-estab-
lish continuity and insulation. With a view to
this possibility, signals of great energy are now
being constantly sent from this station through
the cable, but no answer has at present been re-
ceived.

GEO. SAWARD, Secretary.
WM. WHITEHOUSE, Electrician.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF TWO YOUtiG
GE.A'TLEMEN BY DROWNING.

It is with much regrat that we have this week to
record the almost certain loss of two young genth-
men by drowning. Their names are Edward Don•
aldson, aged 19, and Jones, and they resided
with their friends, the former at 4, Cannon-place,
and the other at 7, Bedford square. Some time
since they purchased a small sailing boat., in which
they were in the habit of =aking daily excursions,
occasionally accompanied by their friends. It lad
often been remarked that the quantity of rigging
they carried was too heavy for the boat, which was
only 14 feet long, more especially as they trusted to
their own skill in managing it, not securing the
services of any of our boatmen to accompany
them. On Monday afternoon, about three
o'clock, the boat was pushed off from the bot-
tom of Prestdn-street, the two youths being its sole
occupants, and it has not been seen since. They
took with them a bottle of wine and some
biscuits, and arranged to return before 7 o'clock.
Not doing this their friends became alarmed, al-
thought they thought that they might have put
into Shoreham and been detained there, which
somewhat quieted them. But as the night ad-
vanced the youths did not return, and soon a t)o
sad.confrrmation of their fate was produced by the
discovety of young Donaldson's coat and hat and
the oars of the boat about two miles out at sea. A_
messagit was sent to the almost distracted fainily
during the night that the body of one of them had
been Ocked up, and was lying at the dead-house,
but on the servants hastening thither they failed to
identify either of their young masters, the body
being that of another young man, who is supposed
to have committed suicide.
During the whole of Tuesday and yesterday a
number of boats were out grappling in the Channel,
but up to a late hour last nightthey bad discovered
neither the bodies or any further portion of the
boat.—Brighton Gazette.