The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, I...z:)NDON, MONDAY",-.E.VENIN(4 OCTOBER

ing of the 2d inst. The dates are from Bombay
to the 17th, and from Aden to the 26th Septem-

ber. On the whole the intelligence may be con-

sidered favourable, although no very striking
events are recorded. We hear that the truly-

noble HATELOCX had gained his ninth victory on
the 16th August, driving the rebels from a strong

position near Bithoor, which they desperately de-
fended. We are also told that " after the battle
he returned to Cawnpore, where he awaits re-
inforcements before advancing to the relief of

Lucknow, where the rebels were repulsed with
great loss, and the garrison are bravely holding

out."

This is the confirmation of what appeared in
The Sun of the 3d instant. It was there stated
that, on 16th August, he had engaged the enemy

about 12 miles from Cawnpore, and taken 2 guns,

and that Captain WKENZIE and 15 men had been
wounded ; none killed. The present is there-
fore but a repetition, in different terms, of what
was previously known, and there is not really
any later tidings respecting the operations of the
victorious General. On the 3d also, it was briefly
stated that all was well at Lucknow to the 14th
august, and we referred to the rumours that,
through the diversion occasioned by the
operations of HAVELOCK, the beleaguered gar-
rison were enabled to obtain the provisions
so urgently required. It now appears that the
rebels had been repelled with great loss, and that
the garrison was bravely holding out. We have
❑o fears for the garrison from the arms of the
insurgents. It is famine alone that can make
them succumb. A terrible month was still to be
encountered. If during that time they could
maintain existence, complete relief would be
afforded. Sir JAMES OurßAm had arrived at
Allahabad with strong reinforcements on the Ist of
September, and expected to reach Cawnpore on the
9th. It is clear, therefore, that he had abandoned
the intention of proceeding by a different route,
and operating in an opposite direction from
HAVELOCK. This is very satisfactory. We are
sure that not an hour would be lost in proceeding
to the relief of Lucknow by the Generals. The
15th September is about the time at which the
anticipated relief might be afforded. Great
anxiety must therefore be felt respecting the fate
of the garrison and the numerous fugitives under
its protection. It is probable that the Calcutta
mail, which may arrive at any moment, will bring
further accounts on this deeply interesting subject.
We had also heard before of the defeat of the
Dinapore mutineers near Sasseram by Major EYRE
and his gallant followers, and that the defeated
party had been trying to effect a junction with
the rebels at Dalhi. It is to be hoped, however,
that the object may be defeated, and that the
miscreants may be cut off in detail, before they
can reach the stronghold of the insurgents.

At Agra all appears to be going on in a very
satisfactory manner. Major MONTGOMERY, with
a party who left it on the 15th August, had
defeated a body of the rebels near Allyghur
on the 24th, and put them to flight. It
therefore appears that they were not only well able
to maintain their position, but even to make a
protracted sortie. This is the more gratifying
when we consider the large number of non-com-
batants, said to be from five to six thousand,
chiefly women and children, who had sought shelter
and protection under its walls.
The tidings from Delhi are to the 30th August.
The grand assault, which it was supposed would
have taken place on the 20th August, had been
deferred until the arrival of the siege train, which
was expected on the 3d September. A large party
of rebels had, it appears, attempted to in-
tercept the train. General Nrorronsox is not
a man to be trifled with. He attacked tie
enemy on the 26th August at Nujunghur, d
obtained a decided victory, capturing 13 guns at,d
their camp baggage. The fall of Delhi now ap-
pears certain. Indeed it might have been sooner,
but the Generals acted judiciously in waiting for
such assistance as would not only render their
triumph certain, but would save many valuable
lives that might otherwise be lost to the country,
if the attack was made with an inferior force. As
at Sebastopol, so at Delhi. It is a crucible in
which the enemy's strength has been completely
dissolved. Each new party that arrived had ven-
tured on a sortie, which was invariably repulsed
with tremendous loss to the rebels. A better ac-
count can be rendered of them when concentrated
on a single point than when dispersed in detached
bands, and carrying destruction through the
country. Much, therefore, as we may regret its
continued existence, it will effect a valuable pur-
pose in showing the full force of the rebels, and
enabling us to crush it at " one fell swoop."
The rebellion had made further progress
amongst the Bengal Army. Indeed it was
shown to be rotten to the core, and it was a
grave mistake to permit any of the disaffected
troops to retain the arms which they were anxious
to turn against those by whom they had been but
too well treated. It is, therefore, without sur-
prise that we learn that " the 10th Light Cavalry
mutinied at Ferozepore on the 19th of August,
and murdered NELSON. the Veterinary-Surgeon.
The 51st Native Infantry also mutinied at Pesha-
wur on the 28th of August, but most of thorn
were seized and will be summarily dealt with."
We also hear that "at Neemuch part of a squadron
, of the 2d Bombay Light Cavalry mutinied on
tht 12th of August, and the troopers were di.-
armed ; that the mutineers of the Joudpore Le-
gion have marched towards Nusseerabad, from
which station troops were sent to intercept there.
The rebels from Oude aro threatening Allahabad
and Benares, which are being put in a state of
defence. The sth Bengal Irregulars mutinied
at Bhaugulpore on the 14th of August.
The 55th Bengal Native Infantry were di,-
armed at Ghazeepore on the 10th of August."
This last step ought to have been sooner taken.
Indeed, there was no excuse for the authorities
in permitting offensive weapons to remain for a
moment in such tainted hands.
It is pleasing to know that the Mohurrum, or
great Mahommedan festival, respecting which such
grave apprehensions had been entertained, had
passed off quietly in all parts of India.
Madras and Bombay appears to be tranquil.
The Punjab is also quiet, and the Bandelcund. and
Central India is undisturbed. Madras appears
to have altogether escaped the taint which
has only slightly affected some few—very few—of
the Bombay troops—those who were enlisted on
the Bengal principle.
The 23d Fusiliers had arrived at Calcutta, and
the 89th (from the Cape) at Bombay. The 95
Lh
was also hourly expected. Large bodies of troops
were marching from Calcutta towards Altahabad,
whose services will speedily be available.
It is also gratifying to know that Herat had
been evacuated by the Persian troops on the 27th
July, so that there is no longer any danger of
further complications in that quarter.
Another telegram has been received at the
Foreign-office at 12.30 p.m. this day, which will
be found in another part of our impressions. It
is from the British Vice Consul at Trieste. It
announces that the Alma brings dates from Cal-
cutta to the 10th of September, Madras the 15th

and Aden the 30th. There is, however, no later
news from the north-western provinces than that
via Bombay ; though it is gratifying to know
that when the Alma passed Galle H.M.S. Pene-
ope and Cleopatra had reached that place with
troops on board, and that 2,500 troops were re-
ported to have already arrived at the Mauritius.
Those gallant fellows will speedily be in the field,
and teach the treacherous miscreants who revelled
in bloodshed and violation, a rough but salutary
lesson, as to the retributive justice that invariably
punishes such fearful atrocities.
On the whole the intelligence, although of a
comparatively negative character, is as good as
we eould have anticipated, and strengthens the
expectations that have been entertained of the
speedy suppression of the insurrection, and the
condign punishment of the mutineers and rebels.
We have not as yet heard anything respecting
the alleged misunderstanding between Sir COLIN
CAMPBELL and Lord CANNING and his Council.

It is more than probable that the letters by the
Alma will give full information on this interesting
and important topic. Lord CANNING may rest
assured that the English nation will not permit
any interference with a Commander, in whose
zeal and ability they have unbounded confidence,
by a puppet Governor-General on whom they have
not the slightest reliance.

We invite the attention of our readers to an article
in another column, which has beet for warded to us,
taken from a highly respectable contemporary.
The statements can be verified by any one who
chooses to undertake the repulsive labour of
wading through the Blue Book itself, but they
bear such marks of conscientious painstaking, that
we imagine few will think that troubte necessary.

It will be remembered that Lord SHAFTESBURY, in
addition to his Exeter Hall achievements on
behalf of the Church of England, and to atone for
his condescension in presiding there at a Baptisi
missionary meeting, headed an Ant i-Citur..lll,-
ricte Deputation to Lord PALMERSTON. We com-
mented on the circumstance at the time, but wa
own we did not imagine that the deputation would
send up his Lordship to the Premier of England,
and in a public manner, with such a mis-state-
ment.

The deputation and their Lord went far the
purpose of laying before Lord PALMEaSTON SOMO
statements founded on Lord CECIL'S Return of
Church Rates refused—a thoroughly worthless
return, from the very terms of it, as we shove 1
at the time, since it makes no mention of rates op-
posed, an item as important as those refused. We
confess, however, that we did accept as correct
the figures which Lord SIIA.FTESBURY and his (12-
putation deduced from the return itself. There
is nothing so attractive about these documents as
to induce any one to incur superfluous trouhl
with them ; and we did not doubt, for a moment,
the veracity and honour of a deputation to Vie
Premier, headed by Lord SIECA.FTESBURY. We had
glanced over the return before, and it struck us as
quite possible that the deputation were right ; in-
deed, the idea of falsehood did not occur to u
We must leave our readers, however, to form their
own conclusion from the facts. The princip d
statement was that only 408 out of 8,672 parishes
in England had refused church rates—that is flee
percent. of the whole number; that, hence, ninety-
five per cent. of the population were in favour of
them. If the Premier believed this—and. vouched

for, as it was, by his chief agent for Bishop-making,
how could he disbelieve iti—it may be amongst the
reasons which induced him to play Sir Jose TRE•
LAWN EY and the Dissenters false, and to decline
to bring forward the bill he had promised them.

The writer of the article we refer to has gone,
however, minutely through the return, and to
the surprise of himself probably, as of us all, has
found that, instead of 408 parishes, there were
1,130 where Church Rates were not levied; more
than fourteen, per cent. instead of four ! Now,
this was a plain matter for patience and houasty,
and we should like to know what excuse the
offenders will give. They will hardly presell t
the one they put into the mouth of "Papists "
and "Jesuits "—that the falsehood was for the
good of the Church ; they will not say they had
not patience to take out the details correctly ;
if so, why venture an assertion which was but a
shameless guess—must they acknowledge, then,
that they kaowingly and wilfully made the state-
ment that the return was three or four times
more favourable to ecclesiastical meanness thaa
was actually the case 1 Bad enough, in all con-
science, for Lord SHAFTESBURY and his sap 3r-
spiritual evangelicals to want to compel their
brother evangelicals amongst Dissenters to repair
their churches for them, to wash their surplie,Js,
and pay for their Sacramental wine ; but; it is
really intolerable to attempt to support such an
uncharitable object by means which we will not
characterise by the one word they deserve.
Our contemporary has also compared the cha-

- _
meter of the communities which .have rejected

and paid rates, by the test of population. Til3 re-
sult iswhatmight havebeenexpected. The average
population of the paying communities is 1,000
each—the non-paying 5,000. A pretty ac3urata
measure, we presume, of their intelligence. He
also gives pretty good reasons to believe that the
population in favour of church rates is bat a
small one indeed. We thank him for the pains
he has taken to expose a hoax of Lord SHAYTES •
BURY, the Record, and the close-fisted evangelicals.
His document will be a useful one to all the op-
pcaeuts of Church-rates.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BA.LMORA.L, OCT. 9.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, ac-
conspanied by Prince Arthur, drove yesterday to the
BsHoch Chine, when the wood was driven for deer.
Mrs. Farquharson, Miss Farquharson, and Captain
Farquharson, Scots Fusilier Guards, had the honour of
dining with her Majesty in the evening.

OCT. 10.

Her M4jesty the Qaeen and the Princess Royal, a'-
tended by Lady Churchill, and Major-General the Hon.
C. Grey, drove yesterday to Loch Builg.

THE QUEEN'S _RETURN.

The arrangements for the return of the Court from
Scotland have been so far changed that her Majesty will
visit Lord Aberdeen at Lladdc-house on Wednesday,
aw
antdfiary
rst
itahteenld4ethd,. inTstheeadQ
joefenTwueislidabye,
rteliceeivle3dtha,t the ab
u
of Lord Aberdeen's estate by the tenantry of the noble
earl on horseback, and escorted to the house by them.
His for Lehi? is to dine all his tenantry in a marquee in
honour of the Royal visit.
The Queen and the Prince Consort, the Princess
Royal, and Prince Arthur, r.re all that are expected to
be at Haddo-house, the other branches of the Royal
family and suite remaining at Balmoral until Thursday
morning, when they wilt post down Deeside to Bauchory,
where the R )yal train will be in waiting to receive thew,
and proceed thence to Aberdeen.
Tme Queen will leave Haddo-house on Tnursday morn-
ing, and drive direct to Aberdeen, where her Majesty is
expected to arrive at 1 o'clock. The Queen is to make a
public entry to the city, the Lord Provost an magis-
trates re c4iving her Maj-sty at the boundary in King-
street. Th • Royal corte,ye will pass through a triumphal
arch, and drive on by King-street, Union-street, and
Market-street, through a mile of granite buildings, to the
station of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway in Guild-
street, where the Court will partake of luncheon in
rooms to be fitted up for the occasion within the station.
The Royal train will leave at 4 45, and reach E linburgh,
by Stirling and Perth, about 7 o'clock. .On y
morning the Queen is txoected to leave at a quarter t
9, as already noticed in The San, and proceed direct to
London.

The Duchess of Inverness has quit) r2nvered from
the accident she received on her way to Laudon from
Brighton a few weeks since,

The Duke of Wellington has returnel to town from

Cromer, Norfolk.
The Duke de la Roca and suite have arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn•street from Spain.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and Lady Mary Fitz-
maurice arrived at Bowood, on Friday, from a tour of
visits. The Countess of Shelburne left Lansdowne

House on Saturday, for Elwood. The Earl of Shel-

burn remains in town.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have
arrived in town from Paris. Lady Harriet de Burgh is

on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cork in Scotland.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are still at

Broadlands, surrounded by a select circle.
Lord and Lady Arthur Hay have arrived in Chesttr-
Nnare, from visiting Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel,

At Drayton Manor.
Sir Henry Winston Barron has arrived at the Bruns-
wisk Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from his seat is Ireland.
THE GREAT EASTERN.—Same idea may be formed of
the immense exertions which are being made to complete
the gigantic hull of the Great Eastern, and its appur•

,enance4, when we state that there are now no fewer

than 1,700 men continually employed upon it, and that
workmen are engaged day and night preparing the
timber and iron work for the launching cradles. The
Cost for wages and salaries to artisans, labourers, and
employes in the building-yard, has, we understand
reached the large sum of 2,6001. for one week. These
extraordinary efforts are necessary, in order that the ar-
rangements shall be completed by the 31 of November,
on which day, favoured by the high spring tides, it ha-;
been definitively r•ettled that the launch of the leviathan
Chip sha'l take place.
AUSTRALIA.—We are enabled to announce that
despatches from the Home Government will be this day
for sarded to the different local governments of
Australasia, containing the final determination of the
authorities for the adjustment of the differences which
have existed in these colonies respecting postal com-
munication with the mother country, and; we believe
it will be found that the article oa this head which ap-
peared in our last journal (transeribed in oar columns)
contains the general details, and which will be carried
out in their entirety. Mr. Champion Wetton goes out
by thit mail as superintendent in the colonies of the
Royal Mail Company, now incorporated with the Euro-
pean and Australian Company, to perfect the postal
arrangements of the Suez route to and from Melbourne
and the other capitals.—Mining Journal, Oct. 10.

SHIPPING DISASTERS ON THE EASTERN COAST.—
Several serious casualties occurred last week among the
shipping on the eastern coast. The brig Fame, of Yar
mouth, came into collision with the schooner Lamp-
lighter, of Rye, and sank almost immediately. The
crew of the Fame were saved and landed at Scar-
borough. A collision, in which both vessels sustained

considerable damaga, also took place been the Ardwel
and the Maid of Lmt. The brig Sprey, of Whitestable,
strack on the Holm Sand, off Lowestoft ; she afterward

floated, but having lost her rudder became unmanage

able. In this condition she drifted against two other
vessels and drove them from their anchors. Eventually
she sunk off Corton ; crew saved.
SHOOTING A FELLOW-SERVANT.—On Sunday afternoon

last a young woman named Ellen Warner, living as ser-
vant to Mr. Horatio Howlett, farmer, of Horstead, wa- '
shot and rather seriously wounded by a boy named Wm.
Stannard, her fellow-servant. It seems that during the
afternoon the two had been playing in the kitchen, and
the romping having become somewhat boisterous, the
girl playfully struck Stannard a sharp blow with a stick.
de became infuriated, rushed out of the room, and re•
turned directly with a gun, and declared he would shoot
her, and having ascertained with the ramrod that the gun
was loaded, ho deliberately took aim at her. Tire girl
became altemed and ran behind a pump which was in
the kitchen, thinking to tilde herself, but the young vil-
lain immediately fired, and thoueli most of the charge
was lodged in the pump, a considerable portion took
effect in the girl's area. The people of the house became
alarmed, assiatanco was rendered to the unfortunate girl,
and Stannard was given into the custody of the county
police. Oa Monday he was examined before the magea
trates at the Shirehall, and was remanded till Saturday
next.—Norfolk News,
THE LATE GALE AND THE PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN
DOCKS.—In reference to the damages sustained by the
Great Western Docks at Plymouth, the following letter
from the secretary of the company has been circulated :
—" Sir, —From the ex iggera.ted reports in circulation
of the injury sustained by the works of this c impany
dung the heavy gals on Wednesday night, the 7t
inst., I an induced to send you a statement of the de-
maze PO ually incurred. The floating pontoon was par-
tially blown from its moorings, and a portion of the
landing bridge was partially broken away from it. The
entrance gates of the floating dock were lifted by the se e
and thrown down. The heel posts are damaged, but it
is not suppo ed that the gates have sustained any mate-
rial injury. The gracing dock was in no respect injured,
and continues open for the reception of vase is as hereto-
fore. Stepi are being taken to repair the damage t•
the landing bridge of the pontoon at once, in order t
resume the traffic immediately, and to restore the en-
trance gates to their position as soon as possible. Tue
Millbay pier has sustained some injury, hut the tratlic
has not been interrupted. The sh'-d and the outer plat-
form, which have stiff red most fr m the gale, ere com-
paratively of little importance —I remain, sir, your
obedient servant, E. FILDEB, Secretary.—No. 1, Buck-
ingham-place, Plyna )sth, Oct. 9, 1857.'
ONE MINUTE TOO LAIR FOR THE TRAIN, AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES.-0 so day in the early part of lost week
M. Soyer having to meet some friends at Windsor, his
presence on that occasion being indispensable, arrived at
the railway station: one minute too late fir the train.
I Returning hone he hired a bore from a livery—table.
M. Soyer had no sooner mounted his steed, than away he
flew with the velocity of lightning. After traversing the
High-Street and rdad of Kensington a mile and a half in
the presence of hundreds of spectators, some imprudent
persons endeavoured to stay the speed of the animal by
raising their hands, which only made him more fiery ;
be then plunged on the paving-stones, throwing his rider,
and dragging him several yards by the stirrup. At last
ff. Setter disengaged himself, although much bruised and
shaken, and his coat torn into ribbons. He was picked
up insensible, and kindly assisted to a surgeon's, by
Captain Godbold, who happened to be passing at the
time. This accident is the more remarkable, inasmuch
as M. Soyer for the last few years has been, with few
exceptione,iathe habit of riding from morning till night,
and without once before meeting with the slightest acci-
dent. We are happy, however, to learn that M. Soya-:r,
although confined to his bed through the severe injuries
he received, is now rapidly recovering.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT SURVEYORS IN IRELAND.—
Tao report of the Select Committee of the House of
Commons on this subject is now in print. Tha corn-
mittee report that the inetitu,ion of county surveyors,
under the act 6th and 7th William IV., chop. 116; for
the superintendence of county werke, has been attended
with great public advantage, both as regards the on-
provement of county roe is and works, and as regards the
eiemontising of the county funds. The mileage of roads
under repair had increa'ed from 13,191 miles in 1834 to
36,073 miles in 1854, while the coat of repair had increasd
only from 228;316/. to 312,2971., and at the same time
the percentage cost of superintendence was reducsd
materially in almost every county. The result, all thieve
considered, is regarded as highly satisfactory. An able
.and efficient class of county officers has been formed,
nearlywehaootfftthlea
ctiimn
gesoihtoa,oBonoot
arrivedhe mo annually,stfoercin,nndt
taking charge of nearly every county work, and con-
tt rh oerl anjw committeeei txhp expenditure
opinei
vtui
ert
consi-
dering the office, both as regards its duties and its retnu-
ne
footing for the publics service. It is thought that the
surveyor ought to be supplied in every case with ade-
quate local assistants, as increase of salary being recom-
mended in both instances. Toe question of allowing
county surveyors to take private business should be left
(it is thought) to the discretion of the grand jury. Eight
witnesses were examined at an expense of 1121.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.--a. determine I
attempt by a mother to destroy the lives of herself and
child by drowning was made in the river Ribble, at
Preston, on Thursday afternoon. Ass the bodies were
being carried down by the stream they were observed
by some workmen engaged on a boat, one of whom, a
ship carpenter named James Fisher,
ing at the time, succeeded in securing the body of a
anh ig experttide swimmer,
wa
jumped into the water and, though a s
woman whom he brought ashore. As he seized the
body of the woman he perceived that she relaxed her
grasp of a child which she was tightly holding on to her
breast, and having placed the woman (who was just
alive) in the charge of a fellow-workman named
Frodsham, he again plunged into the stream and rescued
the child, which was already quite black in the face
and exhausted. Both the mother and child were core
veyed to Mr. Threlfall's, the Wheatsheaf Inn, where
medical aid was procured and the usual restorativesapplied with stitceise. The girl was removed to Ler
parent,' house the
me night, but the mother was not
sufficiently recovered to allow of her removal. The
fienrietta-street
latter is the wife of a spinner named Edward Kirby, of
husband, named Robinson. The unfortunate woman
has lived separate from her husband for the past five
, and the child is a daughter by a form- r
months, and she left him with an infant nine weeks old
It is rumoured that fancily differences led to the above
crime, for which she will be charged before the magis-
trates as soon as she has sufficiently recovered.
TERRIBLE CASE OF DOUBLE MURDER AT WARLEIGH,
SOMERSET —ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.
i Sunday morning,--The peaceful little village of War.
leigh, near Freshford, was last night thrown into a state
of the most unwonted excitement and alarm, in conee-
' quence of its becoming rumoured abroad that a man and
hie wife, who resided in that parish, had been Limit
Brutally murdered, and that the murderer had, after the
committal of the dreadful crime, made a desperate
attempt to take his own life, in which, however, he Ws
happ ly frustrated, and has since been arrested by an offi-
cer of the Sonierestshire constabulary, and conveyed to
the police-station at Weston. Inquiries proved that the
rumour was too well founded, the double murder having
been cnumitted at half-past eight o'clock. The persons
so barbarously murdered are Andrew Burder and his
wife, and their teemasin a man named Thomas Miller.
The murderer is believed to have been prompted to the
committal of the desperate and fatal act by motives of
jealousy. He rushed upon his unfortunate victims armed
with a knife, and one after another stabbed them in the
most determined manner. They both bled profusely from
the wounds be bad inflicted, and both died from the
effects of the injuries. After he had thus sacrificed the
lives of Border and his wife, the murderer turned the
knife against himself,
and made a desperate attempt to
destroy himself by cutting his own throat. Happily, the
wound was not mortal, so that he will yet, in all human
probability, have to answer for his crime at.the bar of
criminal justice. So soon as the prisoner had been se-
cured, the police messenger of the district in which the
murder took place despatched a special messenger to
Cheddar, to give information of the fatal occurrence ta
the coroner for the county, Mr. Bruges Fry, who, it is,
expected, will hold an inquest on the bodies to-morrow.

LATE 611 NE W. S.