The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received our letters and papers by the
Overland Mail, under date of Bombay, November
27, with intelligence from Calcutta down to the
18th.

The Times of _lndia gives the following heads
of intelligence :
" The English mails of the 12th and 19th Octo-
ber arrived on the night of the 12th inst., per steam
ship Chi Na.
" Major Patrick Stewart will, it is said, succeed
Sir William B. O'Sbaughnessy as superintendent
of the new line of telegraphs through Persia.
" It is confidently stated that Sir George Clerk's
successor will be no other than Sir Bartle Frere;
although Sir Charles Trevelyan's name is also men-
tioned.

" The confident announcement of the Calcutta
journals 'that Lord Canning has definitively deter-
mined to give the North-West provinces a perma-
nent settlement, has been contradicted.
"Nip). Singh, a notorious rebel, who has so
long eluded pursuit, has at last been apprehended,
and will be hanged at douupore.
" The Indian Medical service, it is rumou red,
is to be reduced by one-sixth of its present
strength.

" Sir William Denison, GOvernor of Madras, re-
turned to the Presidency from the hills on the 6th
inst,

" The estimates for 1861..62 show a surplus of
£1,539,896, exclusive of railway interest, &c.

" Cholera is hanging about the Bombay Presi-
dency.
" It is stated that, in the event of Mr. Edmon-
stone resigning the Lieutenant-Governorship of the
North West Provinces, Mr. Harrington will be
appointed to succeed him.
" Sir Sydney Cotton has, it is reported, been
suddenly attacked with a severe illness, and has
been advised to proceed to Europe immediately.
‘. The seat of the Supreme Government is, it is
said, to be removed from Calcutta to some hill
station, probably Simla.
" The total number of casualties from cholera at
Cabool is reckoned at 7,000.

"We deeply regret to announce the death of
Lady Canning from fever, at Calcutta, on the
morning of the 18th inst. Her ladyship arrived at
the Presidency, accompanied by the Hon. Captain
Stewart, A.D.C., on the morning of the Bth inst.,
and has fallen victim to an attack of jungle fever,
caught on her way down to Calcutta from the hill
station of Darjeeling.

" We regret to see the announcement of the
death of Major H. 0. Mai e, of the 6th Madras
Cavalry and of Mayne's Rorse at Government
House, Allahabad, on the 2d inst. Sir William
Richards, K.C.8., almost the father of the Indian
army, died, we learn, at NyneeTal, on the Ist inst.,
after an uninterrupted residence (if we mistake
not) in India of nearly 70 years.
"News of the death of Colonel LAughtoo) of

the Bengal Engineers, at Simla, was received in
Calcutta on Saturday, the 16th inst."
The Englishman's It eekly Mail (Calcutta, Nov.
18) says :
" Our markets during the past week have been
more than usually dull, and chiefly characterised by
an inclination on the part of some English houses
to re-purchase in the bazaar Manchester cotton
goods in anticiption of a rise.

" The news from the interior as to the prospects
of an abundant cotton crop are very encouraging ;
t. ,ere is no longer any doubt that a greatly in-
creased area is under cultivation, and that stre-
nuous efforts are being made to provide for mo. e
attention being paid to the picking and cleaning
of the staple. This may, in a very great mea-
sure, be attributed to the influence brought to
bear on the subject by the officers of Govern-
ment who have received repeated instructions
to impress, in every legitimate way, upon
the cultivator the advisability of paying
more attention to these matters, and the prospect
arising from his doing so of immediate advantage
to himself. If the ryot finds that in the present
season a clean and better staple will produce him
increased profit commensurate with the additional
labour bestowed on the culture, and after process
there will be goof grounds for anticipating, not only
a larger supply but an improvement both in staple
and cleanliness with, what is of nearly equal im-
portance, additional care in the packing. One
pleasing feature in the case which we have to
record is the action of the Maharajah of
Rewah, who has not only abolished the duty
on cotton which has hitherto been levied by him,
but has likewise proclaimed to his people his desire
that its cultivation should be ex tended to the greatest
possible limits ; at the same time pointing out to
them the benefits derivable from greater attention
being paid to the culture, cleaning, and picking.
That this step on the part of one native Zemindar
of rank and influence has been brought about by
the judicious advice of the officers of Government
there cannot be a question, and for this reason we
anticipate seeing other native landholders of import-
ance following in the steps of the Maharajah of
Rewah."

THE PROPER7I OF NEUTRALS IN
AMERICA.

(From the Times.)

The following letter, from Colonel Peyton, of
Virginia, who reached England by the Nashville,
gives a statement in relation to the course pursued
by the Confederate States with regard to the pro-
perty of neutrals :
" Sir,—ln your City Article of this morning, after
noticing with just severity the barbaric course of
the Government of the United States in confiscating
all property on which they could lay their hands
belonging to citizens of the Confederate States, and
alluding to the probabilities of their showing the
same flagrant disregard of the private rights of
English subjects in the event of a war with Great
Britain, you remark,—
" Unhappily, the Confederates States of America
seem little likely to show any superiority over
their opponents in their sense of what is due to
private rights. The system of confiscation of the
property of individuals and non-belligerents was
commenced on the occurrence of the present out-
break almost simultaneously in both sections of the
country, and has been carried by the Confederates
to the extent of sequestering all the property of
neutrals—Englishmen and others—situate in the
Southern States, and held in trust for their owners
by Northern citizens'
"As I am very familiar with the legislation of the
Confederate Congress,which cannot be the case with
any foreigner, all means of regular communication
with the South having been suspended for many
months, I feel it due to our Government and people,
and the cause of truth, that I should say that you
are totally mistaken in your conceptions as to the
legislation of our Congress on this subject, its ob-
jects and purposes.
"The Congress of the Confederate States has never
passed any Confiscation Act, but, as a retaliatory
measure only, have enacted a Sequestration Act,
under the provisions of which the property, not of
neutrals and foreigners, but of citizens of the United
States, is set apart for the reimbursement of such.
of our citizens as may have suffered the confiscation
of their property at the North.
" Its object is not, as you imagine, to inflict in-
jury upon neutrals and foreigners, but is simply to
protpot our innocent citizens from the operation of
the unjust and medieval legislation of the United
States.

" It is specially provided in our Sequestration Act
that it is not designed to include Government stecks
and other public securities; and, in cases of slaves
and real estate owned by non-residents, it is pro-
vided they shall not be sold during the continu-
ance of the war, but be kept in statu quo, a strict
account being opened with the estate, and the pro-
fits arising therefrom passed to its credit. If, after
the cessation of hostilities, when each case will be
separately adjudicated, it shall turn out that the
owner of the property is not a citizen of the United
States, and has not been in arms against the Con-
federacy, he will receive back his property with the
accrued profits. Neither will any Englishman or
foreigner suffer, though his trustee, in whom the
legal title is vested, is a citizen of the United States,
and in arms, for, as I have remarked, public securi-
ties are exempt from the operation of the Act ; but,
if this were not so, the Englishman or foreigner in
whom is vested the equitable title would not suffer
save by reason of his own lathes, for it is hii pri-
vilege to change his trustee and vest the legal title
in one who is not a Northern and a belligerent.
"The South, cut off from free communication
with the world, and misrepresented and falsified by
the press of the United States, is entitled to be
heard when an opportunity occurs in vindication of
her honour, and I rely upon your sense of justice
for the insertion of this note.

" Very respectfully your obedient Servant,
" J. L. PEYTON.
"58, 3ermyn•street, St. James's, Dec, 20."

His Excellency General Baron Moltke, accom-
panied by Lieutenant-Colonel von Obernitz, the Count
Furstenstein, and Captain von Loucedon, has arrived at
Maurigy's Hotel from Berlin.

Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting to her Majesty,
remains in attendance at Windsor Castle.

Count Blucher has left Maurigy's Hotel for Con-
stantinople.

The Baroness de Bunsen (widow of the late
Prussian Minister in this country), is passing the winter
with her family at St. Leonards-on-Sea.
The Barin de Boddien, Lord Chamberlain to
the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, arrived at the Bruns-
wick Hotel, Jermyn.street, last night, from Germany, to
attend the funeral of the late Prince Consort on Monday
next.

Mr. and Mrs. Monteith Scott, of Ancrum, have
left Farrance's Hotel for their town residence in Chesham-
street.

ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE BALL.—The friends
and patrons of this prosperous charity will be pleased to
learn that the receipts of the late ball exceeded those of any
previous year, and that the profits will fall very little short
of £2OO. Great praise is due to the efficient arrangements
of the ball committee, IVLessrs. B. Webster, J. Jerwooel,
Creswick, E. Churchill, Borlase, Childs, J. Stainton, R.
Bell, and A. Billing, Esqs.

THE WHITWORTH ORDNANCE.—Lord Palmer-
ston trade a promise to the House of Commons, in the de-
bate on Mr. Vivian's motion for a committee of inquiry into
the merits of the 'Whitworth and Enfield rifles, that the
subject should be properly investigated during the recess.
This duty the noble lord would seem to have undertaken in
some measure himself, if we may judge from his recent
visits to Hythe and Shoeburyness to see the practice with
the Whitworth rifled guns. The result of the investigation
is an order that the manufacture of some Whitworth rifled
is to be commenced forthwith at Enfield according to Mr.
Whitworth's iattern. The lilies, when finished, are to be
distributed among various regiments of Infantry. With
regard to Mr. Whitworth's ordnance, a number of his rifled
guns are forthwith to be tried in the ordinary use of the
service.

HEROIC CONDUCT OF A YOUNG LADY.—The
R,oyal Humane Society have given their bronze medal to
Miss Chubb, for saving the life of Ellen Cowley on the 16th
July last, near Onchan, in the Isle of Man. In rescuin; a
fellow-creature from being drowned in the sea, Miss Chubb
evinced great ceurage and presence of mind, and ran no
trifling risk of being herself carried cut of her depth. We
record the gift of the medal with the greater pleasure as its
recipient is the daughter of a late gallant naval officer, and
was formerly a pupil of the Royal Naval Female School.