The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-07 00:00:00

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THE NEXT TELEGRAPH .EROIII INDIA.

Although the next telegraph from India cannot
be regarded as positively due till Saturday near., the
12th inst., its arrival is now possible at any time.
The last steamer was detained at Calcutta two days
beyond her appointed date, but arrived at Suez
five days before she was expected, and, as it has
been officially notified that on the present occasion
there will be no China mail, and the possibility of
a detention at Point de Galle is thereforeprecludedy
it is not unreasonable to suppose that Neal sp' ed
may be attained. With regard to the probable
effect of the next telegraph on the Stock-Exchange,
there is a certainty that if news should be merely
not unfavourable, a considerable ase of
confidence will be created, since the most;
vivid apprehensions have lately been enter-
tained with respect to Lucknovr, Agi a, and.
Hyderabad, and also of the possible occurieuce of
some outbreakamong the general population in con-
nexion with the great an r ual Mahominedan festival,
which would take place at the beginning of August,,
four days after the despatch of the last advices
from Bombay. Supposing good news on thesd
points to be received, a' decided improvement in
the funds may •be looked for, even if affairs be-
fore Delhi are still reported to remaiu without
alteration. Indeed, if the progress of our troops
should prove to have been satisfactory in (intr
dictricts, the capture of Delhi in case of its
having been attended with any considerable loss
on our side and the escape even of a portion of
the mutineers will be heard of almost with re-
gret. Latterly there has been a great change of
feeling in this respect, and the Irope has now
become general that the repression of the insur-
rection in other parts of the province may pro-
ceed so effectually as to allow our army to su .
round the place until discord, disease, and famine
comnel an unconditional surrender.

EMIGRATION &TIPS.

(From n the Freeman's Journal )

There are few to whom the benevolent easertions of
Mr. Vere Foster, our countryman, aro not known. He
has devoted his time to the emigration question, and
done much to smooth the difficulties which interposed
between our emigrating countrymen and the objects of
their pursuit. NV° know of few gentlemen who have
laboured so energetically and successfully in destrojing
the crimp system, and otherwise improving the emi-
grant's condition before and during the long sea passage.
Some time ago Mr. Foster collected in Louth, Meath,
and the neighbouring counties a number of young girls
of unspotted reputation, to the number of 120, with a
view of providing for them in the Western States of
America, Having shipped them at Liverpool on board
the packet ship City of Mobile, and made all the neces•
sary arrangements for their safe conduct, as he imagined,
Mr, Forster preceded them by steam to New York, both
to receive them on their arrival and conduct them to
their future settlement. The City of Mobile duly ar-
rived, but for some reason or other Mr. Foster found a
general reluctance on the part of his protegees to go
further. Ultimately not more than a dozen of the 120
consented to leave New York, with whom he went west•
ward and placed in good situations. What became of
the 100 who left their homes under such promising aus-
pices, and whose characters were so pure before the pol-
lution of the emigrant ship I Nothing was knoem of
the poor creatures—how they lived or died—until some
these after, when a kind-hearted gentleman was 6-truck
with the appearance of a wretched object in the most
fashionable thoroughfare of New York. She was an
Irish girl—one who bad suffered and was suffering much
in mind and in body. Her face was covered with
bruises and ter body with rags. She toll a wild end
pitiful story to the Commissioners of Eneigrati•on —that
she came to New York in the City of Mobile, under the
care of a gentleman whom she afterwards requited with
ingratitude—that she had since lived a life of crime anti
sufferings and was now a wanderer in a orange lani
without a home, friends, or money. Susan Smith, the
Broadway outcast, was one of the girls who went out
under Mr. Foster's care, and had been seduced from the
ship by sailors end others to houses of ill-fame, where
their ruin was accomplished. The wretched girl was too
weak at the time to make a full statement, but subse-
quently she deposed to the following facts, of which
there is no doubt, and which unfold encther chapter in
the diabolical history of Liverpool emigration :—Her
affidavit is to the effect that, after the vessel had cast
anchor in the port, five of the female passengers were on
the same night taken on shore by a boat's crew of the
ship ; next morning five others were taken off by " the
quarter master ;" at noon the same day the deponent
and another girl were taken away to a brothel where
they remained for pia waeks ; that the other females
were taken to Castle Garden, the regular point of disem-
barkation at Now York, and landed. There is little room
however, to doubt that all or the majority were subjected
to the same prefligate influences and consequences.
Here is a whole cargo of virtue—before it was subjected
to the contamination of sailors—lost for the want of or-
dinary care. We never heard or real of such a sad story.
Out of 120, who left Ireland in safety, with their cha-
racters vouched by their clergy, only 12 or so were un-
infected, the rest having been ruined in the short space
of one month. Emigrant ships, in truth, are floating
hells. Little or no care is taken by the owners to pro-
vide proper officers, Rue; the vicious persons who are
invested with command are just as wicked as the crew.
It was the duty of the owners to select suitable officcra
end to prohibit, by every possible means, all intercourse
between the passengers and sailers. In this particular
case,swhere such a number of unmarried females, with-
out control or protection, were embarked for a long sea
voyage, every care should have been taken to prevent
intercourse with the crow, flow they conducted
themselves while on board we have no intorinatiou— but

it is very evident the officers of the City of Mobile neg-
lected the duty which the law imposed. For every pas-
,enger not lauded at Castle Garden the captain was
liable to a fine, and yet he permitted the crew to secretb
some of the passengers in the forecastle, who afterwards
ecauggled them ashore, and carried them to the terriolu
dens where their destruction was consummated. Here
is at least a wilful violation of state law by the officers of-
the ship, and we trust the eteto autlioreLs have dealt
vigorously with the legal and moral infraction. The
horrors of the City of Mobile are not solitary instarecs
of depravity. Unprotected females, of whom hundred's
annually leave our shores in quest of friends or fortune,
are sacrificed in this loathsome middle passage. The
officers are just as licentious as the crew. Both clasees
are equslly intent on the ruin of their victims, and, if
epportunitlea be wanted aboard, the disgusting dens v.ith
which New York, like Liverpool, abounds, are directed
to have their emissaries prepared, on the arrival of the
vessels, to take charge of the, passengers, and convey
them to "cheap and comfortable lodgings." W'i nerd
act dwell en the results. A New York jeurnait lttely
etatr d, and we believe with truth, that more Ad en ere
prostituted every year in the packet ships from Earorean
porta to New York, than in London, Paris, and New
Yore taken together. From information which has
reached ourselves, we are satisfied this account is pet 50
much exaggerated. Females without pr )tec:isn are in
most instances lent either afloat or ashore. Afttr all
the noise about emigration officers and passenger acts,
there is really little done to insure the moral safety of
passengers. Unrestricted intercourse is the general rule
on board. We are reluctant to ray a word deprecatory
of Mr. Foetrr's conduct. We are convinced he used
every exertion, and exerted every promise that the
passengers would be duly taken care of in his at-
sence. We presume they were in charge of a matron,
who appears to havo ill-understood her duty, or
not to have bad sufficient influence to counteract
the wicked designs of the debauched crew. We think
:Ur. Foster should have been -with them during the
voyage. Perhaps his engagements rendered that course
noonvenient or impracticable. At any rate it was highly
dangerous, as events proved, to commit such a number
of innocent girls to the temptations of a free intercourse
with depraved men, with no other restraint than the
presence of a matron, who could exercise no repressive
authority in the face of such dangers. We presume the
friends and relatives of the sad freight per ship City of
Mobile are already in poesestion of the facts to which we
have adverted—if not, they may discover in the sub-
joined deposition of poor Susan Smith food for tears and
lamentation. Better let the whole sad story be known.
Itr may
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madness ywastatiya4Hat that
produceadries 3
fo ultimater emigration good n
which
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nigh seen the :
DEPOSlTlONendYerk•—Susan Smith, late
" City and County of New •
rn de oses and frays
of county Meath, Irelfand, beainng.scwaome,
passenger to the
OP SUSAN SMITS.
that she is 21 years otheagseh,ip d
City of Mobile, Marshall,
port of New York in
master, from Liverpool, and arrived on the 30th of June
last ; that after the vessel bad cast anchor off Castle
Garden, Margaret Moody and four other passengers of
the ship were on the same night, at about 11 o'clock,
taken off the vessel by two of the sailors belonging to
the ship, in one boat, and brought to the city ; that on
the next morning, about 8 o'clock, the ship having mean-
time been taken round to a pier, five passengers named
Mary Malone, Mary Kelly, Anne Donnelly, Jane Craw-
ley, and a girl named Margaret, were taken off ley t''e
quartermaster, named Bill Mooney, who was always, so
far as deponent knows, at the wheel during the voyage;
that at about 12 o'clock nosn,
on the same day, Wed-
nesday, deponent and a girl named Ellen Neary, who
was a passenger, were taken off the vessel by two sailors,
named James and Thomas, and brought to the house of
Kit Burns, No. 32, Water-street, where deponent has
remained up to the present time. Says that the other
passengers were taken off the vessel in a steamboat on
the day of arrival, at about six o'clock p.m., and
brought to Castle-garden, as deponent believes, and bilat
meantime deponent and the other females, as above
stated, were concealed in the forecastle of the ship by
the sailors until brought ashore, as above stated.
her
" SUSAN I SMITH.
mark.
"Sworn to before me this 4th day of August, 1857,
"BERNARD CASSERLY, Commissioner of Deeds."
"The Commissioner, by the consent of Justice Os.
Ellen Neary, and sent her to Ward's Eland."
born, sent an officer to No. 32, Water-street, and ar-
rested

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH TO ALGIERS.—The Mon-
zambano' Sardinian frigate, arrived at Cagliari on the
Ist, with all the authorities and engineers on board who
are to superintend the sinking of the cable between that
city and Bona. The weather was extremely favourable
and it was hoped the operation would be completed in
48 hours. The Piedmontese Gazetfv expresses a belief
that the operation will commence at Cape spartivento,
instead of at Bona,