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

THE StIN, LONDON, MOINDA T SEPTPIAIRER, 7 1P57

Mr. Bowles, Patrol, with mother and two sisters, ►
Messrs. Lefevre and Hodges, Patrol.
From Delhi—Lieuts. Anderson and Wheatley.
From Cawnpore—Ensign Brown, 56th N. 1., the
only one supposed to have escaped that fearful
slaughter.

From Jeypore—Captain Hardeastle and Ensign
Cafe.

A Supplement to the Fort St. George Gazette of
the 17th July publishes the following address to
Lord Harris, Governor of Fort St. George, from
the Hindoo and Mahomedan inhabitants of Madras.
Some hundred signatures are affixed to it :
"To the Right Hon. Lord Harris, Governor of
rt Saint George.
" My Lord,—We the Hindoo and Mahomedan
inhabitants of Madras, beg to address your lordship
in Council at the present critical juncture of affairs
in Bengal and the North West, where the Bengal
Army has added to the guilt of mutiny and rebellion
the unprovoked and indiscriminate murder of many
of their officers, and, still worse, of a great number
of defenceless European women and children • we
want words strong enough to convey the feelings
which are inspired by the frightful atrocities that
have been committed. Their crimes admit of no
palliation, misguided though they may have been
throughthe secret misrepresentations of evil-minded
men ; but we have the fullest confidence that the
alarm occasioned among the Bengal soldiery by
the ',introduction of the new cartridges originated
solely in a delusion so far as the intentions of Go-
vernment are concerned, and that neither an in-
fringement of the laws of caste, nor an outrage to
religious feelings had ever for one moment been
contemplated, and we earnestly trust that the
might of the British Government will be put forth,
until all who eitheractively took port in or abetted
the unheard-of barbarities of the revolted troops
have been subjected to the condign punishment of
the State.

" While we thus assure your lordship in Council
of our loyalty towards, and deep sympathy with,
the British Government, and with the relatives
and friends of all who have fallen victims to those
bloodthirsty and misguided men, we would crave
leave to congratulate your lordship on the unshaken
fidelity of the army of Madras and the perfect tran-
quility that reigns throughout this Presidency. We
rejoice to think, also, that the same state of affairs
exists in the neighbouring Presidency of Bombay.
" In conclusion, we beg to express our entire cmn-
viction that the overthrow of the British power in
India would be the greatest calamity that could fall
upon the natives and while we regard with pride the
loyal servics of the various native princes and chiefs
in alliance with the British Government, and the
alacrity with which they have assisted to crush re-
bellion, we beg to assure your lordship in Council
that you may unhesitatingly rely on the allegiance
of the natives of this Presidency, and we shall make
it our special business to spread the knowlelge of
this declaration of our sentiments as widely' as pos.
sible, and to discourage, to the best of our ability,
all the groundless and mischievous rumours which
from time to time gain currency, either through the
fears of timorous and ignorant individuals, or the
malicious designs of wicked men, who make it their
object to go about and seek means to promulgate
discontent and strife.

" We beg leave to subscribe ourselves, my Lord,
your Lordship's most obedient humble servants.
" Madras, July 2, 1857.”

SEALKOTE.

The following is an extract of a letter from Dr. J.
H. Butler, 9th Light Cavalry, dated Fort at Seal-
kote, 7th
,Of July :
" From my last letter you will be but little pre-
pared to bear of an outbreak at Sealkote. We had
hoped that all was right with our brigade. But,
alas ! on the night of the Bth of July they laid their
plans to rise in mutiny on the following morning,
9th. At a quarter past 4a. m. I was called up to see
the Sowars, who were in open mutiny, riding about
the cantonments shooting all they could of the male
sex having an European garb. No intimation from
any of the authorities was given us, but we bad pre-
viously arranged (we were living with another party,
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders) to have our carriages in
readiness in case of an outbreak, and a few things in
carpetbags to take with us ; this was all done, and
we were about to start when Dr. Graham, the su-
perintendent-Surgeon,
who bad gone before with
his daughter, was shot at and died almost immedi,
ately on his daughter's knee, the buggy was turned
round and she came into our compound enclosure,
saying the cavalry troopers had possession of the
roads, and there was no possibility of getting to-
wards the fort. This would not have been the case
had the civil horse not fraternised with the cavalry,
for they looked on and did nothing. Almost imme
diately a cavalry trooper, with his carbine pointed,
' came into the compound and cleared it of our ser-
vants and carriages, and brought up the Sepuys
of the 46th _Native Infantry to surround the house
and inavaere us. We are now a party of 16, 14
Europeans and two natives (female servants). We
bolted and barred the doors, and silently awaited
the approach of the murderers. Of the 14 Euro-
peans three only wore men, all congregated in the
drawing-room, whence the ladies retreated to the
bathing-rooms, and then into a small lumber room
(in a private part of the house, to which is attached
a side door) ; in this room there were fortunately
two small windows, one open, and in the door some
grating, which afforded ventilation.

" The party of Sepoys brought to the house by
the sound of the bugle were now within the house,
and had followed us to the bathiug room, but at
seeing my pistol presented retreated. Ihis enabled
U 9 t) make good our retreat to the lumber room,
into which we got and fastened the door with a
strong bar of wood. No sooner had we done this
this than one of the villains came and fired into the
room ; he was fired at by one of the party, but
missed ; they then began to plunder after firing
promiscuously into every room they came to, with
the hope of killing every one in the house. We
were for nearly six hours kept in a terrible state of
suspense and alarm, expecting everymoment would
be our last. At 11_ a.m. the chowkerdar, or watch-
man, came and brought us some water, and said
our only security was in keeping quiet, that the
house was being plundered. The yells were fright-
ful. We heard the Sewars from time to time riding
about the compound anxious to get hold of us, but
the chowkerdar told them we were gone.
" When the mutineers blew up the magazine we
thought they were blowing up the side of our
biding-place, to induce us to come out to massacre
us. One thief tried to break in our door, and
looked in at the grating; I took a steady aim and
shot him dead ; this saved us from further molesta-
tion from the plunderers, deterring others from ap-
proaching our hiding-place. The watchman came
again at two o'clock, and told us the troops were
going away, and that in the evening it would be
safe to make our way to the fort, a distance of a
mile and a quarter. We were reported killed, and
received the hearty congratulations of our friends.
At one time, thinking there was no hope, we
made over our youngest boy, an infant at the breast
to the native nurse, and she promised toscreen him.
She took him out under the charge of the watch-
man, but was unable to leave the compound till we
ourselves left. She did not come to the fort that
night, bet I sent for her the next day, and she
brought our babe in safety, We are anxiously look-
ing for assistance from home. Public news you will
seen iu the papers. We have been plundered of
everything ; property of every description lost—
houses, carriages, furniture, and wearing apparel."

diately threw the whole regiment into commotion,
arid, when the bugle at noon sounded for the men
to go and cook, the grenadiers and first company
refused to leave the lines, and it was with difficulty
they were prevented seizing their arms. The good
men of the regiment interposed and prevented them
going to the bells of arms. The Subadar Major, a
man of great influence with the men, ran to the
colonel's to report what was going on, and suggested
that two or three men from each company should
be allowed leave to scour the country and satisfy
themselves that no force was approaching. The
colonel consented, and some men started at once.
All reasoning was thrown away upon the men ;
nothing would convince them that there was no
force coming. Since the scouts returned reporting no
troops were coming we have had comparative quiet,
but these men are such children in their ideas that
we cannot calculate what an hour may bring forth.
This mi tiny,f or; t can be called b y no other term,
was the more to be regretted, as the men the same
day had shown a good spirit under circumstances
which might, if mutinous intentions existed, at
once have brought things to a crisis. The adju-
tant was inspecting the men for duty ; a man he
had passed a pace or two suddenly rushed upon
him with the cry of Death to the Feringhees,'
and accompanied his cry with a downwards thrust
of his bayonet. The bayonet passed down the
sleeve of the adjutant's jacket, and grazed his arm
and side. A sudden turn forced the bayonet from
the musket, and the old Subadar Major tried to
seize the Sepoy, but he was thrown down ; the
man, however, was soon captured, though he laid
about him with the butt end of his musket like a
fiend. He has been twice tre ited for madness, so,
if not mad, it is politic to say he was on this occa-
sion. He has been sent off to Benares under an
escort. The man said he expected to have been
backed by others who had put him up to act as he
did. I suppose his expected backers saw they
would meet with no sympathy, and were not suf-
ficiently numerous of themselves to get up a
mutiny. There are a great number of good men in
this 52d Regiment, and we must hope that they
have sufficient interest to keep the -bad men in
order. As a number of ladies and children have
left the station I have been repeatedly urged by
folks at Kamptee to send Mrs. - and the little
ones there ; but the wife has determined to remain
to the last. Once I said she must go ; but, when
I found she was more likely-to die if she went
than if she stayed, I changed my mind, and now,
from the state of affairs at Kamptee, I really
think we are as safe here as we should be there.
We have sent some things and a tent out on
the road to Seonee, so that we may not be
quite destitute if we contrive to escape. On
Sunday we heard of the march of a force from
Kamptee to Seonee. This had to be told at once
to the Sepoys here, for they had said they would
murder us all if any Europeans were sent here.
Again the men were told they might send some of
their number to see that the force had no intention
of moving beyond Seonee. Good heavens, that it
should have come to Bush a playing at sold;ers as
this 1 But what can we do but temporize ? We
are entirely at the mercy of a powerful body of
armed men. No place of refuge or rendezvous to
fly to in case of revolt ; each must seek safety as
best be may. The only arrangement we can come
to is that all have agreed to take the same road.
Some ladies never take off their clothes at night,
and all are prepared for immediate flight. Our
carriage is drawn up at the door every night, and
the horses kept harnessed ; but for all that we go
to bed as in the most peaceful times, and sleep
soundly. It is no blind confidence that enables us
to do so. I think it is quite bad enough to be killed
without fretting oneself to death beforehand. I
keep 10 or 12 of our servants sleeping near the car-
riage, and make one of them act as sentry while the
others sleep in peace. [ get up occasionally to see
that my sentry is on the alert. This is the more
necessary now as Dr. W,'s house had a narrow escape
of being set on firs four nights ago by soma villa, ns
from the bazar. We have now a chain of oho ?I ke-
dars all round the cantonment."

MASSACRE OF MISSIONARIES AT
CAWNPORE.
The following letters have been addressed to the
editor of the Times :
Sir,—You were kind enough at my request some
weeks ago to insert a letter from the Principal of
Bishop's College, Calcutta, giving an account of the
massacre of the chaplain and missionaries at Deli.
I now send a second letter of the same mournful
tenour with respect to the missionaries of Cawn-
pore. They, too, have perished in the indiscriminate
slaughter of their countrymen and countrywomen.
You will not fail to observe in the letter a passage
which seems to add to the evidence that the recent
deplorable mutiny in India is not so much the work
of the Hindoo as the relentless and fanatical Ma-
hommedan. Should this prove to bs the case the
Government will, it is to be hoped, know hov to
distinguish the conspirator from his dupe. Many
members of the society will see Dr. Kay's letter
for the first time in your columns. I have at this
season no opportunity of laying it before them in a
formal way, but an already recorded resolution
warrants me in saying that this second heavy blow,
instead of disheartening the society, will have the
effect of animating it to more and more zealous and
sustained exertions for the furtherance of the Gos-
pel and all its healing influences in a land so long
sunk in superstition, and now so deeply polluted
by blood.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ERNEST HAWKINS.
79, Pall-mall, Saturday, Sept. 5.
"Bishop's College, Calcutta, July.2O.
" Dear Mr. Secretary,—lt is once more my pain-
ful office to have to inform the society of the loss
of two of their missionaries. Up to yesterday I con-
tinued to hope(though it was the barest possibility)
that Messrs. Haycock and Cockey might have
escaped or been made prisoners. General Have-
lock, who has retaken Cawnpore, has reported that
none of those who capitulated—men, wom-n, or
children—have been spared.
"My last letter from Mr. Haycock was dated
May 31. He had then taken refuge in cantonments.
He mentioned to me that his maulvie had told him
six months previously that they would 'soon feel
the sharpness of the Mussulman's sword.'
"The native Christians had dispersed in various
directions previously to the last outbreak.
"Thus it has pleased God to allow His heavy
judgments to fall on those two cities (Delhi and
Cawnpore), in e3pecial where the society had main-
tained missions. What should be done hereaf.er
will be a matter for earnest thought, under the
guidance of Him who has bid us sow beside all
waters.'

" Our departed (may I not say martyred 'I) bre-
thren were both men of patient, laborious, unosten-
tatious habits—not marked by any great intellec-
tual endowments, but well acquainted with the lan-
guage of the country, with revealed truth, and, I
trust, with the power of religion.
0 May their death ba 'precious in God's sight."
"I enclose copies of the proceedings of Bishop's
College Council for the last two months. There
is nothing of note in them. All our thoughts are
for the present absorbed in the wonderful events
which are passing around us.

" I will not add anything about the possible in-
fluence this may all have on the position of the
College. But for myself it makes me more indis.-
posed, if possible, to relinquish a post so long occu-
pied by the Society's fitthful servants—although
so little of overt, recordable fruit seems to hive
been borne by it. ' Thou canst not tell which
shall prosper—this or that, or whether they both
shall be alike good.'

"Commending the College and the missions to
your prayers, _

"I am, my dear Mr. Secretary, yonrs most truly,
" W. KAY.
The Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Secretary of the
society fur the Propagation of the Gospel."

joined the voluuieer corps of cavalry couipotied of
officers, and was advancing with the army on
Cawnpore.

Naval and Military intelligence.

Considerable excitement prevailed in the Wool-
wich garrison en Saturday, upon the receipt of a
general regimental order received from the Ad-
jutant-General's office, directing an additional
artillery force to prepare for immediate embarkation
to India under the command of three field officers.
The artillery force previously ordered for India
amounted to 1,550 gunners, exclusive of officers and
non-commissioned officers, and of this force 650
officers, gunners, &c., are now at Woolwich ready
for embarkation. The force under orders yester-
day hmounts to 1,350 gunners, drivers, and arti•
fibers, exclusive of officers and non-commissioned
officers, and comprises the following nine troops,
batteries, and companies, which are to be fitted out
and equipped with every materiel requisite for a
siege train, with the guns used on this service dur-
ing the Crimean campaign, in which a large pro-
portion of the force was actively engaged, viz. :
The D Troop of Royal Horse Artillery, commanded
by Major Gardiner ; V Field Battery, Ist company
6th battalion, commanded by Major Singleton ; I
Field Battery, sth company 3d battalion, c ni.-
naanded by Captain Dyneley ; No. 1 Field
Battery, sth company Ist battalion, commanded
by Captain Disborough ; the Bth company 2d
battalion, commanded by Captain Thring ; 6th
company 9th battalion, commanded by Captain
Wright ; 2d company 11th battalion, commanded
by Capt. Bayly ; 7th company 11th battalion, com-
manded by Major Grant ; and 6th company 11th
battalion, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Fortescue.
The whole of the companies named will attend on
alternate days at the royal military repository until
embarkation for exercise with the heavy guns of
the siege train. The following officers are under
orders for embarkation with the force named :
Second Capts. Earle, Stirling, Williams, Tweedie,
Grylls, Ravenhill, Wilson, Wyllie, Anketell, Smith,
Pasley, Johnstone, Elton, Johnson, Hope, Ride-
out, Penn, and Harward ; Lieuts. Robertson,
Kyle, Martin, Stoney, Tarleton, Budd, Dyer,
Michell, Tillard, and Hill. The following compa-
nies of RoyaL7Engineets have also been placd
under orders for embarkation to India :-4th, Capt.
Moody ; 11th, Capt. Mann ; 21st, Capt. Nugent.
These companies are now at Aldershot, and will be
relieved by the 27th and 28th coropanie,.
Portions of the 15th Light Dragoons (Hussars)
have arrived at Norwich Barracks, which will be
the head-quarters of the regiment. Three troops
of the same regiment have arrived at Ipswich Bar-
racks, which they will occupy. The Colchester
camp now contains the depots of the 37th, 34th,
57th, 54th, 66th, and 97th Regiments, and the 2d
and 3d battalions Rifle Brigade. The 97th depot,
which is under the command of Brevet-Major
Langley, is 108 strong, besides 19 women and 33
children ; the 37th, which is under the command of
Major Heaton, is 57 strong ; the 34th, which is
under the command of Captain Chapman, is 180
strong, besides 28 women and 26 children ; the 51th,
which is under the command of Capt. Fuwke, is 90
strong, besides 23 women and 35 children ; the
66th, which is under the command of Lieutenant
Spearman, is 110 strong ; the 2d Battdon
Rifle Brigade, which is under the command of
the Hon. Major Colvile, is 258 strong, besides 17
women and 50 children ; and the 3d Bat-
talion Brigade, which is under the command of
Captain Rolls, is 16 strong, besides six women and
10 children. A 4th battalion Rifle Brigade is
about to be established and stationed at Winches-
ter, which the 34th, 54th, 66th, and 2d and 3d
Battalions have just left.
The Gloriana freight-ship arrived at Spithead on
Friday night, and went alongside Portsmouth
Dockyard jetty on Saturday to prepare for embark-
ing this day 125 men of the 6:h Regiment and 95,
composed ofdraughts from various other regiments,
with the relative proportion of officers, for India.
The first division of the sth Dragoons have com-
menced their march from Hamilton, Lanarkshire,
for Carlisle, which they will reach to-morrow
(Tuesday.) The second division of the same re;i-
merit left Piershill barracks, Edinburgh, and will
reach Carlisle on Wednesday, being four days'
marches of about 25 miles each. The head-quar-
ters and main body of the regiment await marching
orders at Piershill. The first division of the 16th
Lancers were expected at Hamilton bar-
racks on Saturday from Belfae. The rest of the
regiment will proceed from Belfast to Peirshill.
The depots of the 42d and 79th Highlanders have
left Stirling for Aberdeen, where they will form a
Highland depot battalion, along with the depo's of
the 74th, 78th, and 93d Highlanders from Chatham,
and a portion of the 72d depot from Fort Ge ,rge.
They were succeeded in Stirling on Saturday by the
depot of the 71st Ilighlinders from Fort George.
A correspondent informs ui that the 7th Hussars
and not the Bth Hussars sailep in the clipper ship
Lightning on Thursday, the 27th of last mouth.
No troops of the Dragoon Guards embarked in that
ship.

The screw steam-vessel R fleman, 8, Lieutenant-
Commander H. Christian, fitted out at Woolwich
in Oct ther, 1853, for station on the south-east coast
of America, returned thither on Saturday to be paid
off. The paddlewheel steam sloop Prometheus, 5,
Commander Charles W. Hope, also arrived at
WoolWich on Saturday from the west coast of
Africa, and was admitted lute basin to return stores
and prepare for being paid off.
eIT of 6 guns and
pool for Dublin
tos-A6d ahyboaritanteestrhy wille
osft eaearmmt ibel lraesrrkyTrf front
sritviand Prince.
It is reported at Woolwich that Major-Gen. Sir
W. F. Williams is about to be nominated to the
appointment of Governor and Commander-in Chief
of Malta, in succession to Major-Gen. Sir W. Reid
and Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather, whose
deTrhoe posts of Gover-
nor of
the
officeisland sh oarntdl ye expire.omn3a
then be again consolidated, on the ancient principle
which existed there until the appointment of Mr.
M. O'Farrell and Lieut.-Gen. Ellis. Sir W. Reid
will return to Malta in a few days in order to carry
out certain arrangements incident to his close of
office.

Recruiting for the line and militia is being
actively proceeded with iu Norfolk. Among the
regiments for which additions are sought are the 2d,
3cl, 9 12th, 34th, 52d, 57th, 94th, and 96th, and
the Coldstream Guards. Some difficulty is experi-
enced in obtaining men, but they come forward
more actively for the line than the militia.
Recruiting is actively going on in Nottingham.
Among the regiments for which recruits are en.
listed are the 45th Foot (Nottinghamshire) the 2d
Queen's, the 6th, 54th, 66th, 82d, 34th Foot, the
Rifle Brigade, and 60th Rifles. Many recruits have
already been sent from the town. Meu receiving
temporary pensions for past services are also iuvited
to enlist.
The commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean,
Admiral Lird Lyons, G. C. 8., in the Royal Albert,
• 120, screw, with his squadron—only a squadron—
was at G,l;raltar, Aug. 28.
commander-in chief at the Cape, Rear-Ad-
miral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8., was at the
Cape, with his flag in the Cast. tr, 36, July.lo, having
succeeded C..mamodere Trotter.
The Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, Rear
Admiral Bruce, in his flag-ship Monarch, 84, Cap-
Patey, was at Callao, July 27, with the Retribu-
tion' 28, paddle, Captain C. _Barker, Magicienne,
16, Captain N. Varisit•art, C. 8., and Cockatrice,
tender, Master Commander C. J. Polkinghorne.
Commodore Kellett, C. 13., in the Imaum, was at
Jamaica on August 6.
The Right Hen. Sir Charles Woo 1, Dart.,
G.C. 8., M.P.' First Lord of the Admiralty, with
Rear Admiral Henry Eden, Captain Milne, Mr.
Thos. Baring, M.P., and Sir Baldwin Walker, are
now on a tour of inspection of the several naval
yard'. - Vice Admiral the Right Hon. Sir Maurice
F. F. Berkeley, K. C. 8., and Mr. Ralph Osborne,
M.P., the first secretary, are out of town. Rear
Admiral the Hon. Sir _Richard Dundas, K.C. 8.,
and M-. Romaine, the secretary, are transa.-eing
the business of the Admira!ty at. Whitehall.
The sc ew ste unship Agamemnon, 91, Master
Commander Noddall, with the Atlantic Telegraph
cable, steamed on Thursday from. Plymouth S nttrd
into Hamoitz,, and is now in dock at Devonp
The new screw ste sm corvette Pelorus, 21, C tpt.
F. B. Seymour, left Elamoazo on Saturday after-
noon for Plyinou'h Sound, where she Painted tae
flag of Port-Admiral Sir B. Reynolds, K.C.B.
Let' ers from St. Vincent (Cape Verdes) announce
the arrival there, after a capital rug out, of the
s raw transport, ships Golden Fleece and Lady Joce-
lyn, the former en the 19th ult., and the latter on
the 20th. Owing to the excellent arrangements
made by
c c flip my, to when these s! eanaships
the managers of the Europe in and Am.iri
both vessels were enabled to be coaled and preeieed
immediately ou their voyage to India. The Sydney
and Australian steainships were at St. Vincent's
coaling ori the 26th ult., when the Tamar steamer
called there on her way to Southampton from the
Brazils ; and up tl that data the .Carthage, John
Bell, United Kingdom, and 'Thebes, all engaged in
the transports rvice, had also cealed and passel on.
The Conqueror, 101, screw two-decker, Capt. H.
Yel certon, 0.8 , left Spithead yesterday on her re-
turn -to time squadron of Admiral Lord Lyons,
G. C. D., in the Mediterranean. She took a number
of supernumeraries and boys for distribution by the
Admiral.

Tee screw gunboats Jaseur, Lieut. Scott, and
Jaqnr, Lieut. Pym, loft Spitbead for Caba'ou
Saaturday.
The Rbada,nrinthas steam skre=ship arrived at

Portsmouth on Friday night with machinery from
Woolwich.

The clipper transport ship Hersilia was spoken
off Cape Finisterre on Wednesday last at 10 a.m.,
five days from Portsmouth. All well.

DEATH OF REAR ADMIRAL JAMES
WILKES MAURICE.
We have to announce the death of Rear-
Admiral J. W. Maurice, who expired at his
residence at Plymouth on Friday last, aged
eighty-two years, having been born Februaryllo,
1775. The venerable and gallant officer entered
the navy in August, 1789, and in 1793 obtained the
rank of midshipman, and while of that rank
participated in Lord BridporL's action in
1795. After seeing further active service, be was
transferred to the Royal George, 100, flag ship of
Lord Bridport, who promoted him soon afterwards
to the Glory, 18. Lieut. Maurice, in September,
1802, was appointed to the Bentaur, under Com-
modore Samuel Hood, in which he served at the
capture of St. Lucie, Tob tgo, Demerara, and Ease-
quibo. At the head of a party of marines he did
valuable service at Martinique, where he was
wounded by the explosion of the magazine. He
was, while there, given the command of a sloop in
recognition of the Diamond Rock, and in 1805 sur-
rended to the French fleet after a brave and highly
honourable resistan-e, which oh•ained the admira-
tion of the immortal Nelson. He commanded the
seamen and marines at the island of Anholt, which
he defended against the attack of 4,000 Danes in
1811, and which, at the time, rendered his name
famous for defeating that strong force of the enemy,
he and his men taking prisoners more in number
than their own strength of garrison. He remained
at the island until September, 1812, since which,
the gallant officer has not been employed. His com-
missions bore date as follow :—Lieutenant, April
3, 1797 ; commander, May 7, 1805 ; captain,
January 18, 1839; and rear admiral (retired), Oct.
1, 1846. He received the naval medal and two
clasps, and was the recipient of an honorary reward
from the Patriotic Fund.

MILITIA.
The City of E linburgh Militia have volunteered
their services to recruit for tho regular army, and
have received authority to enlist for 17 different
regiments.

Notices have been issued calling upon the 4th
Royal Lancashire Militia to assemble for embodi-
ment at the Militia Storehouses, Warrington, on
Tuesday, Sept. 22.
The Durham Artillery, under Lieut.-Col. Sto-
bort, will assemble at Sunderland during this
month for training; the regiment is said to be very
efficient.

THE MAN THAT HAD EIGHTEEN

WIVES.

(From the Retrospective Journal)
A very notorious investor, named Wm. Morrell,
lived in the reign of Charles H. His birth and
parentage were obscure, and his first start in the
world was as a journeyman shoemaker at Worcester.
He afterwards went abroad, and when he returned
to England he took up his residence at Swalcliffe,
near Banbury, where he commenced business as a
professor of chirurgery, and where, from the won
derful tiles which he told of his travels, he was
looked upon by the country people as a prodigy.
Having received some notice from Captain Hum-
phrey Wickham, of Swalcliffe, he removed to Ban-
bury, where he resided many years, and main-
tained his wife and family respectably. Ab art
the year 1674, however, his business, through
neglect, decreased, and his wants put him to
many shifts. At length, having secured the ser-
vices of a young countryman as a servant and
accomplice, he quitted his home, and went first
to Brailes fair, where, by personating a brother of
Sir William Walters, he cheated a countryman out
of a drove of cattle. He then met in tile fair a
young village lass, a mason's daughter, who per-
mitted him to accompany her home, where her
father, struck with his assumed name and quality,
made the best provision for him. Morrell ten-
dered his hand to the maiden, and her parents,
not on'y gave consent to this union, but borrowed
all the money they eould for the occasion, and the
marriage was solemnised. Morrell now metamor-
phosed himself into a dashing gentleman, and then
went to Ludlow, where he obtained the affections of
the daught 'r of a we filthy tradesman, and married
her. He then went to Bristol and Bath in the
character of a salesman, and, in the latter city, he
obtained for a fourth wife the daughter of an inn-
keeper, who possessed considerable weath.
His next appe trance was at Slough, where lie as-
sumed the character of a merchant, and soon
formed an intimacy with a country gen+leman, who
had a daughter t 3 whom he was able to give 5001.
for a portion. Though in this case it is --said he
had " to cope with judgment in the fsther of the
girl, wit and sense in the lady herself, and some
ingenuity in her brother ; yet he overcame every
difficulty, and the marriage was accomplished.'
Immediately after the ceremony the whole pa, ty set
off for London, but Morrell contrived to raise the
the cry of " thieves" 01 the road, and galloped off
with the property they had taken, in order, as he
pretended to secure it from depredation. He was
sought for in vain by the bride and her father, who
returned to Slough, whilst he continued in London
for some time pursuing the same sort of practices.
Morrell's third, or Ludlow, wife cane to London
in quiet of her deceiver, and accidentally met, at
her inn at Holborn bridge, a motheely woman, who
was just arrived from Oxfordsnire, and who turned
out to be the first wife of this wretched impostor.
The two thereupon agreed together, and means
were adopted to capture Morrell, who they soon
found was about to marry another w.fe.
At this juncture the Binbury wife accidentally
met her as her husband, and after some high words
he succeeded in persuading her that li:s conduct
was the result of his necessities ; and that now he
had got gold he would be faithful to her. The
Banbury wife was thus induced to disconcert the
scheme which had been prepared With the Ludlow
wife ; and sent for a,!l her goods up from B tii bury
to London, where a house was furnished with
them. However, she had not lived in it three days
before an errand was contrived to take her from
home ; and on her return at night, she found
neither husband nor goods in the house, and was
compelled to return to Banbury and live upon the
alms of the parish.
Soon after this, Morrell took the name of a
brother of Sir Charles Bowyer, and at Welts mar-
ried a boarding-school miss, who had a portion of
1801., of which lie soon deprived her. At Kidder-
minster he married an innkeeper's daughter. He
then- returned to London, courted a rich vintner's
widow, by personating Sir Charles Bewye • himself,
and obtained 2001. from her. After forging a bill
for 700/, and obtaining the amount, he Went abroad
as a volunteer in the service of the Duke of Mon-
mouth. After a long campaign in Flanders, ho re-
turned to London, and married a clergyaian's
daughter witb a portion of 5001., by again pets in-
' wing Sir Charles B ;wryer. His Lu-flow wife now
discovered him and caused him to be placed in Wor-
cester gaol ; from which, at the charge of the Lon-
don clergyman whose daughter he had mtrrie.l, he
was removed to Newgate. Six of his wives ap-
peared against him on his trial—he pleaded guilty
to those six marriagee,besides twelve mm.-)re. After
sentence he removed himself to the King's Bench,
where he behaved so winningly to his keepers that
he obtained some privileges which enabled him to
effect his escape.
About the year 1637 he made another atteu pt in
his oldline, and under the name of Sir Ch .s. Bowyer
succeeded in marryng th,sc':okinaid at the Castle
Tavern, Fetter-lane. For this he was tried and con-
victed as an impo.eter, and was set in the pillory be-
fore the door of the Ca tae Tavern. In the latter
end of Dec., 1691, being without money, lie repre-
sented himself to one Cullen, a baker in the Strand,
as Captain Humphrey Wickham, of Swalcliffe,
whose name, it seem',w known to Mrs.
Cullen, and btained lodgings in their house, aud
supply equal to all his wants. Bing taken ill
here, he, on the 28th of December, mate a will in
which, in the name of Humphrey Wickham, Eiq.,
ho bequeAtied large property at Swalcliffe and
other neighbouring parishe', together with m iney
in the bands of Ambrose Holbech, Esq., of
Molliugton, and other smile to divers pretended
relations, Mends, and servants; but the family of
Callen were especially remein beret Morrell died
on the the 3rd of January following. Cullen pro-
vided a coffin of ten pounds value, embalmers were
paid, and a sump'unia funeral was prep ire 1.
Cullen wrote to Mr. Wm. Wickham, of Garsington,
in Oxfordshire, who had been named in the will
as one of the executors, to whom the family nun-
eion at Swalcliffe was bequeathed ; and in answsr
to the letter a gentleinau came up to L ndon from
Oxford, to say that the Carist'an name of Mr
Wickham, of Gaesineiton, was not William, which
gave some alarm of au imposture. Cullen also
despatched a messenger t Swalcliffe; foie in
the meantime, two gen lemon had inspected
the corpe, and pronounced that it was not the
body Of Captain Wickham, but that of the
man who had bee a formerly convicted of having six
Wives. The !nes senger returned from Swalcliffe to
Loudon on the 12th of January, having -hat an
int 7 with. the real Captain Wickham, and,
upen th's full proof of the impostere, the corpse
was taken by a. watchinau, with a lantern, in a four
shilling coffin, and was buriel in St. Clement's
claire h 3 and.

AIERTHR TYrEcrit —The inhabitant; of this important
an,l thriving 't-rnvra -ate about to-apply to her Majesty's
Pcivy Council for a charter of incorporation.

PRIOES 0 ir SEIdIiLS.

Prom the Official List.
ftJBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINO
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 1857.
CANALS.

Qi Dividend
Names of 4 Dividend Names of .1 ,
Companies.
.4 per Price. per Companies. .1 Price.
11 Annum. .sa Annum.
£
%shtn &Dia 93 71. p. ct. 110 Peak Forest. 78 51. Os.
Birmingham 40 41. 90 Regefat's •• • 30 17s 16
Coventry.. • • 100 111. 195 Rochdale.... 85 41. 80
Derby .. •• • • 100 6/. 15s. Stflrd &Wort t4O 281.
GrandJunctn 100 V. pr. ct. 50 Stoarbrldge. 145 121. 10s. 310
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6, pr,ct. 12 Severn andl
Grand Union 100 7s. 6d Wye Rail. 26 11. ifs. 25
Kennt & Avn 40 63. 6% Warwick &
Leeds &Livri, 100 251. 490 Birming. 3 100 21. 10
Leicester ..•. 100 6/. Warwick &1
Leicstr Nth 83 11.55. 13 Napton..j 100 21.
Loughboroglt 113 701 Worcstr &I
78 10s. 16%
Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 51 Birming.
Neath •• •• ... 100 16/. Wilts & Brks 7s. Od.
Oxford .....• 100 105

Name of Company.

Berlin .......

East London

Do. 4 per Cent. Pref.
Do. 5 per Cent. Pref.
Grand Junction ......

Do. New •• •• ••

Lambeth • • • • • •
New River Company ..
Southwark & Vauxhall
West Middlesex ..
Do. Do,

Name of Company.

flungerford.........
Southwark .. ..... ..

Ditto New of 7% p.c.
Waterloo ..... ........

Ditto Old Ann. of 81.
Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall

Name of Company

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend
per

Aiinum.

Commercial ........••

Do. Preference
East and West India..
CI rand Surry D. & Canal

Amount
of
Share.

Paid.

Do. Loan- Notes .. .

Do. 5 per cent. Pref.
London ... .......
St. Katharine •• •• •• ••
Southampton ........
Victoria •• •• •• ••..
Ditto New •• •• •• .•

Name of Company.

Australasia...........
Bank of Egypt ......
Bank of London . .

51. per cnt.
per cnt.
41. percent.
51. per cent.
4.. per cnt.

51. per cnt.

IAL per cent.

BRIDG.

Dividend
per

Annum.

lOs per cent.'

11. 12s. Od.
11. fis. Od.
28s.

s. d.
10 0 0
Stock.
25 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

100 0 0
61 0 0
5 1 8

Amount
of
Share.

X 8. d.
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
60 0 0
40 0 0
70 10 3

DOCKS.

British North American
Ch. B!. Ind. Aust & Ch
City....... • .....

Colonial .......

Commercial of London.
Eng . Scut & Aust. Ch.
Lond. Guar. Bk. of Aus.

Do. New .. • • ....
London and County ..
Lon & Eastn. Bnkg. C.
London .Joint• Stock
Gonda and Westunnstr
Nat. Brovinciatof Eng.
Dittc „New ........

Ditto ditto
N'tio•u.i Bank
New oath. Wales
Oriental Bank Corpora.
Ottoman Bank
Provincial of Ireland

Ditto, New.........
[entail.... .. .• •• •.....

south Nuitralla
Union of kustralia....

Ditto ..............
Union of Hamburg....
Union of L0nd0n......
Unity Nfutual ........
Western Bank or Lo nd n

Dividend
per

Annum.

61. pr cent.

61. pr cent.
4/. per cent.

51. pr cent.

4%1. per cnt.
4 per cent.
51. Os per C.

[T AND COIC

Dividend
per

An-num.

71. per cent.
51. per cent.
21. per cent.
21.
6/ per cent.
41. per cent
WI. per cent,

Amount
of
Share.

s. d.
Stock.
Stock.
Stock.
100 0 0
100 0 0
25 0 0
Stock.
Stock.
50 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0

.E COMP.

Amount
of
Share.

s. d.
20 0 0
20 0 0
150 0 0
60 0 0
23 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
59 0 0

31 sg.
4/. 15s.
4/. 10s.

Stock
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
40 0 0
25 0 0
60 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0

6,,, per cent.
5} per cnt.
51.
8/. per cent.
l6s Od per sh.
.7 per cent.

'RANCE COMPANIES.

Dividend
per

Annum.

71. per c.
71. 142.6 d.
1. p.c. & bs,

158.0(1. & bs
41. per cent.
71. 10s.
71. 10s.
51.
spr ct.& bs.
1/. per share

11. 18s.
ss.
S' per cent.
1/.
41. per cent.
6 per cent.
51. per cent.

5/. per cent
121. per cent

-14 s.
it. p7et.&bs.
28 & 2s bons
21i. per sh
4s. per:share

18s. & bs.
t % per cent
51. per cent.
51. per cent.
6 per cent
51 p. et.
Si. per colt.
5/. per cent.
12 per c.
7s.
p c. & bs
p.c & bs

it. 14s.
4/. do bonus
5/. & bonus.
5/. & bonus.

Amount
of
Share.

s. d.
500 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
I 0 0
50 0 J
1100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

r 20 0 0
100 0 0
400 0 0
1100 0 0
100 0 0
it:10 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
.00 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
5 0 0
10 0 0

6 5 0
100 0 0

£ s. d.
100
all 10

Paid. I Pal

5 0 0
Stock.

10/. per cent.)

X 3. d.

Paid. I P

Amount
of
Share.

X s. d.
Stock.

00 0 0
00 0 0
5 0 0
Stock.

50 0 0
20 0 0
14 0 0

fIEs.

Paid.

£ s. d.
all

L
160 0 0 0.
all -

12 10 0
100 0 0 -
42 15 0 -
41 0 0 -
43 10 0 -
41 0 0 -
all

52 0 0
16 0 0
all

Si. per cent.
9 per cent.
41. per cent.
51. per cent.

10 0 0

U. p. c. bs.
4'. per cent.
51. per cent.
Is!. per cent.!
67.. per cent.
28 per cent.
(8 per cent.
16p c. & bs

all I 7
40 0 4

Paid. I Pril

s. d.
40 0 0
25 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
.1 20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
SO 0 0
100 0 0
,100 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
23 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0
25 0 0

il.per cent.
20'. per cent.
10!.. per cent.

s. d.
50 0 0 9
11 0 0 U
25 0 0 4

all 11
5 13 0
25 0 0
5 (1 0
20 0
20 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
5 0 0
5 0 0 7.
50 0

Paid.

£ s. d.

all 81
18 15 0 L
50 0 0

6 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0

p. ct.BoB.
81. per cent.
V. per cent.
W. per cent.
al/. per cent.!

15!. per cent,

o 0 a
o o

0 31
O 0 41
O 0 r
O 0 , 4.
O 0 -

22 10 0

3
~ 1
15 0 0 l,
25 0 0 i 61

2 10 0

15 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0

0 0

0 0 2
0 0 -

0 0 I 3,

LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.

Name of Company.

Dividend
per

Amcuat
of
Share.

sank of Scotland ..
British Linen Company
Caledonian Bank
City of (tlasgow Bank
Clydesdale hank •• .•
C nimercial Bank • .
Eastern Bank
Edinh. & Glasgow....
National Bank .. • • • .
North of Acotland Bank
Royal Bank of 3 cotl.
Union Bank of Scot. ••
Western Bank • • . • • • ••
kiliance Fire and Lire..

Adnum.

71. per cent.
81. per cent
81. per cent
5/. per cent.
53y1. p cant
71. per cent.
61. per cent.
3%1. p cent.
654 per cent.
51. per cent
51. per cent.
81. per cent.
71. per cent.
By4l.pr cent.
41. por cent.
Int. per cent.
6/. per cent.
51. per cent.
6!. oar cent.
5/.oer cent.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.
71. per coat.

£ a. d.
100 C 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
20 0 0
500 0 0
25 0 0
5 0

Paid. I Prii

British Guarantee .
Caledonian Fire In3ur.
City of Glasgow
Co'onial Life .......
Edinburgh Life Diva.
Eng. So Scot, Law Life
Life Assoc. of Scotland
Nationai Fire and Life
North British Insur...
Northern Assurance Co.
Scottish Provincial ....
Scottish Union Insrnc.
Standard Life ......

X s. d.
100 0 0 193
100 0 0 224
2 10 0 31
10 0 0 13/,
10 0 0 11.
100 0 0 248,
10 0 0 141
5 0 0 51
100 0 0 193,
2 10 0 5/ 1
100 0 0 1481
50 0 0 106
50 0 0 42/
11 0 0 171
2 0 0 1/
10 0 0 251
2 0 0 11
3 0 0 ;/
15 0 0 28/
3 5 0 1/
3 0 0 61
1 4 0 21
20 0 0 3611
1 0 0 111
2 0 0 21 I
1 0 0 11 I
7 0 0 221

100 0 0
20 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
10 0 0
100 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
5000
40 0 0
10 0 0
200 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
50 0 0

7%/. preant.
51. per cent

BAIL WAY

INPELL.I,3.E:IYCE.

GREAT WESTERN.

It appears the directors of this clmpany are taking
active measures to reduce as far as po.sible the working
expenses of their various lines. A number of the daily
trains have been discontinued this mouth, an arrange-
ment which will occasion a commensurate diminution in
the out'ay for mil'age. The locomotive establishment
at Swindon will also participate in the general curtail-
ment, 300 of the artisans employed at the works having
already received notice to leave the company's service.

LANCASTER AND CARLISLE,
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Lancaster on Friday. Mr. Itasell, chairman of the
company, presided.

_ .
The statement of accounts shows a balance of 93,578/4
out of which the directors recommend a dividend to be
paid at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, which, with
the proportion payable to the 14'mo/titer and Preston
Raii way Company and the interest on loan., will require,
89,3881., and a further sum to be carried to the renewal
fund of 2,0001., and towards Parliamentary expenses of
1856 8001 ; total, 92,1881 ; leaving a balance of 1,3891'
After come remarks from Mr. Whitwel), Mr. Swift,
and Mr. Grant, the report was adopted.

COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY.
14 At the half-yearly meeting of this company, held at
the office, Colchester—Mr. T. L. Even in the chair
the report stated that the directors had appropriated all
7714 the surplus rent received from the Eastern Counties
Company in liquidation of the bond debt, which bas
)5 been reduced from 34,6251. (the amount
on June 30'
1856) to 23,1501.
)9 The report was adopted.

OSWESTRY AND NEWTON.
On Friday a special meeting of this company was held
at Welshpool, to consider the propriety of rescinding gb
resolution of Oct. 5, 1855, fixinc, the company's offices
and the meetings of the shareholders at Weislop,ol.
Mr. R. JONES proposed "Tbat the resolution of Oct.'
1855, so far as regards the company's offices, be resoin-
ded, and that the offices be forthwith removed to OsweP
try until such time as the interests of the company 01
appear to require their removal elsewhere."—After
show of hands hal been taken, a poll was demandeaf
and the result was as follows :—For the motion, 1,29;
against it, 1,484 ; majority against the motion, 214.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
The report of the directors of this company states that
the revenue account shows that after deduction of all
proper charges there remains a disposable sum °
81,3961. Of this balance the shareholders are wool;
mended to appropriate 79,4091. in declaring a dividend
on the several stocks and shares of the company at the
rate of 5 per cent, per annum, payable on the 21st inst.
(deducting income-tax), leaving a balance of 1,9871.

OPENING OF THE BANFF, MACDUFF, A 149

TIMM-FF.
This railway, which may be said to be an offshoot of
the Great North of Scotland Railway, was opened °.ll.
Friday, when a party of about 400 dined togethar 1:
honour of the occasion. A special train left Aberdee"
at noon, and was the first to run over the new line:
The train was received at the terminus at Turriff by -
large concourse of spectators. All along the line at Pr°;
rninent points flags were displayed, and the static/.
were crowded by people cheering the train as it pawed,
The line runs through a most beautiful and fertile s,
trict. This branch will form part of a line to the e3t
coast from the main trunk, and thus bring it into dire%
communication with London. The line has been 08,,
,
selected, and notwithstanding the hilly nature of the
country, there is scarcely a gradient equal to 1 in lv
and not a tunnel on the line.