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

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SUN,

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 HAVELOCK 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 alto told that " after the battle
he returned to Cawnpore, where he awaits re-
inforcements before advancing to the relief of
Lucknow, where the rebels ware repulsed with
great loss, and the garrison are bravely holding
out."
This is the confirmation of what appeared in
The SUM 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 WKETiza 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
no 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 Jak3iES OUTRAM 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, howev3r,
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 lath 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 Angus'.
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 NICHOLSON is not
a man to be trifled with. He attacked ti .e
enemy on the 26th August at Nujunghur, and
obtained a decided victory, capturing 13 guns and
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, bat most of them
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 diz-

armed ; that the mutineers of the Joudpore
Le-
gion have marched towards Nusseerabad, from
which station troops were sent to intercept them.
The rebels from Oude are 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 Nativo Infantry were
dis-
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 Bundelcund 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 Bengt.' principle.
The 23d Fusiliers had arrived at Calcutta, and
the 89th (from the Cape) at Bombay. The 93:h
was also hourly expected. Large bodies of troops
were marching from Calcutta t ,wards
whose services will speedily be available.
gratifying It is also
to know that Herat had
been evacuated by the Per. s
longer
tgreoro pasnoyn
danger
e2r7ot
July, so that there is no
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

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and Aden the 30th. There is, however, no later
news from the north-western provinces than that
via B3mbay ; though it is gratifying to know
that when the Alma passed Gallo 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 he 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 could 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
kind 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 beer. forwarded 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 B)ok itself, but they
bear such marks of conscientious painstaking, that
we imagine few will think that trouble necessary.
It will be remembered that Lord SHAFTESBURY, in
•ddition to his Exeter Hall achievements on
behalf of the Church of England, and to atone for
his condescension in presiding there at a Bap tis+-
missionary meeting, headed an Anti-Chunh-
rate Deputation to Lord PALMERSTON. We com-
mented on the circumstance at the time, but wa
own we did not imagine that the deputation woull
send up his Lordship to the Premier of England,
and in a public manner, with such a misstate-
ment.

The deputation and their Lord went for the
purpose of laying before Lord PALMERSTON' some
statements founded on Lord CECIL'S Return of
Shurch Rates refused—a thoroughly worthless
return, from the very terms of it, as we showel
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 cerrec
the figures which Lord SH.A.FTESBURY and his de-
putation deduced from the return itself. There
is nothing so attractive about these documents as
to induce any one to incur superfluous trout)].
with them ; and we did not doubt, for a moment,
the veracity and honour of a deputation to the
Premier, headed by Lord SHA.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
statement was that only 408 out of 8,672 parishes
in England had refused church rates—that is five
per cent. 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 wag, by his chief agent for Bishop-making,
how conA he disbelieve it?—it may be amongst the
reasons which induced him to play Sir JOHN
LAWNEY and the Dissenters false, and to decline
to bring forward the bill he had promised thew.
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, ha;
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 honesty,
and we should like to know what excuse the
offenders will give. They will hardly present
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 knowingly and wilfully male the state-
ment that the return was three or four times
more favourable to ecclesiastieal meanness than
was actually the case ? Bad enough, in all con-
science, for Lord SHAFTESBURY and his super-
spiritual evangelicals to want to compel their
brother evangelicals amongst Dissenters to repair
their churches for them, to wash their surplic_s,
arid 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-
racter of the communities which have rejected
and paid rates, by the test of population. Tits re-
sult is what might have bean expected. The average
population of the paying communities is 1,000
each—the non-paying 5,000. A pretty accurate
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 SHAFTES •
BURY, the Record, and the close-fisted evangelicals.
His document will be a useful one to all the op-
posents of Church-rates.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, OCT, 9.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, ac-
companied by Prince Arthur, drove yesterday to the
Balloch 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.
Ocr. 10.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Princess Royal, a'-
tendad by Lady Churchill, and Major-Ganeral 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 Haddo-house on Wednesday,
the 14th, instead of Tuesday, the 13th, as was at first
intended. The Queen will be received at the boundary
, of Lord Aberdeen's estate by the tenantry of the noble
earl on horseback; and escorted to the house by them.
His lordship is to dine all his tenantry in a marquee io
honour of the Royal visit.
The Queen and the Prince Consort, the Princess
Royal, and Prince Arthar, are 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 will post down Deeside to Banchory,
where the R ,yal train will be in waiting to receive them,
and proceed thence to Aberdeen.
Q :eea wilt leave Haddo-house on Timrsday morn-
ing, and drive direct to Aberdeen, where her Majesty i,
expected to arrive at 1 o'clock. The Queen is to make a
public entry to the ciy, the Lord Provost an i magis-
trates rt ceiving her Majt,ty at the boundary in Ring-
street. Th Royal cortege will pass through a triumphal
arch, and drive on by King-street, Union-Area, and
Market-street, through a toile of granite buildings, to the
station of the Scottish North-Eastern Rail way 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 liuburgh,
by Stir.ing and Perth, about 7 o'clock. On Fri.:2 y
morning the Queen is txoected to leave at a quarter to
9, as already noticed in The Sun, and proceed direct to
London.

The Duchess of Inverness has quite recovered from
the accident she received on her way to L)ndon from
Brightrou a few weekd since.

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The Duke of Wellington has returnel to tuwn from
Cromer, Norfolk.

The Duke de l Rocs 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 Bowood. Toe Earl of Shel-
burn remains in town,

The Marquis and Marchioness cf 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 Chester-
square, from visiting Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel,
at Drayton Manor. _

fsir 'Henry Winston Barron baa arrived at the Bruns-
w!ek Hotel, Jermyn-street, from his seat irr Ireland.
THE GREAT EASTERN.—Soma idea may be formed of
the immense exertious which are being made to complete
the gigantic bull of the Great Eastern, and its appur.
tenancee, 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
employee in the building yard, has, we understand
reacsed 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 3d of November,
on which day, favoured by the high spring tides, it has
been definitively settled that the launch of the leviathan
ship glad take place.
AIISTRALIA.—We are enabled to announce that
despatches from the Home Government will be this day
for warded 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 on this head which ap-
peared in oar last journal (transeribed in our columns)
contains the general details, and which will be carried
out in their entirety. Mr. Champion Wetton goes out
by this 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 bath vessels sustained
considerable damage, also took place been the Ard well
and the Maid of Kent. The brig Spray, of Whitestable,
struck on the Holm Sand, off Lowestoft ; she afterwards
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 Lorton ; crew saved.
SHOOTING A FELLOW-SERVANT.—On Sunday afternoon
last a young woman named Ellen Warners, living as ser-
vant to Mr. Horatio Howlett, farmer, of Horetead, was
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
oer, and having ascertained with the ramrod that the gun
was loaded, he deliberately took aim at her. The girl
became alarmed and ran behind a pump which was in
the kitchen, thinking to hide herself, but the young vil-
lain immediately fired, and though most of the charge
was lolled in the pump, a considerable portion took
effect in the girl's arm. The people of the house became
harmed, assistance was rendered to the unfortunate girl,
and Stannard was given into the custody of the county
police. Oo Monday he was examined before the maga-
) and was remanded till Saturday
next.—Nom
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TRH LATE GALE AND THE PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN
DOCKS.—In reference to the damages sustained by the
Great Western Docke at Plymouth, the following letter
frem the secretary of the company has been circulated :
—" Sir, —From the txiggerated reports in circulation
of the injury sustained by the works of this c)mpany '
during the heavy gale on Wednesday night, the 7th
iust , I an induced to send you a statement of the da.
maze ac unity incurred, The floating pontoon was par-
tially blown front its moorings, and a portion of the
lending bridge was partially broken away from it. The
entrance gates of the fleeting dock were lifted by the set
and thrown down. The heel posts are damaged, but it
is riot euppo ed that the gates have sustained any mate-
rial injury. The graving dock was in no respect injured,
and continues open for the reception of vess,ls as hereto-
fore. Steps are being taken to repair the damage to
the landing bridge of the pontoon at once, in order to
resume the traffic immediately, and to restore the en-
trance gates to their position as soon as possible. Tee
nillbay pier has sustained Borne injury, hut the traffic
has not been interrupted. The shed and the outer plat-
form, which have Buff red most fr,m the gale, are com-
paratively of little irnport+noa,—l remain, sir, your
obedient servant, E. FILMED, Secretary.—No. 1, Buck-
ingham-place, Millbay, Plyrn s- tb, Oct. 9, 1857."
ONE MINUTE TOO LATE FOE THE TRAIN, AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES,—One day in the early part of last week
M. Sayer having to meet some friends at Windsor, his
presence on that occasion being indispensable, arrived at
the railway station one minute too late Lsr the train.
Returning hone he hired a horse from a livery—table.
M. Sayer had no sooner mounted his steed, than away he
flew with the velocity of lightning. After traversing the
High-street and road 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 ;
he then planged on the paving-stones, throwing his rider,
and dragging him several yards by the stirrup. At last
M. Soyer 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, in the 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. Sayer,
although confined to his bed through the severe injuries
he received, is now rapidly recovering.
COUNTY AND DISTRICT SOfIVEYORS IN IRELAND.-- •
Tile rep att of the Select Committee of the [louse of
Commons on this subject is now in print. The com-
mittee report that the institution of county surveyors,
under the act 6b and 7th William IV.,chap,
116 , for
the superintendence of county works, has been attended
with great public advantage, both as regards the sin-
provernent of county roads and works, and as regards the
economising of the county fronds,
The mileage of roads
under repair had increae=ed from 13,191 miles in 1834 to
36,073 miles in 1854, while the cost of repair had increa.d
only from 228,316/. to 312,2971., and at the same time
the percentage cost of superintendence was reduced
materially in almost every county. The result, all ;hinge
nth;gohtfil satisfactory. An able
officers has been formed,
v
oyausevery county work, and con-
atet aralkndlisinnei dgffige craceinehdna'etrxigspeeelranoesgdfsai trnuoderfeaedrclo f nearly 500, 000/ . annually, and
the committee opine that the time has arrived for consi-
dering the office, both as regards its duties and its remu-
neration, with the view of placing it on the most efficient
footing for the public 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. The 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 determined
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. As 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, an expert swimmer,
jumped into the water and, though a high tide was rein-
ing at the time, succeeded in securing the body of a
woman whom he brought ashore. As he
.seized the
body of the woman he perceived that she relaxed her
grasp of a child which .he was tightly
holding on to her
breast, and having placed the woman (who was just
alive) in the charge of a fellow-workman named
Frodshem, he again plunged into the stream and rescued
elle child, which was already. quite black in the face
and exhausted. Both the mother and child were con-
veyed to Mr. Threlfall's, the Wheateheaf Inn, where
medical aid was procured and the usual restoratives
applied with success. The girl was removed to her
parent-s' house the Flame night, but the mother was not
sufficiently recovered to allow of her removal. The
latter is the wife of a spinner named Edward Kirby, of
Henriett a'street, and the child is a daughter by a former
husband, named Robinson. The unfortunate woman
has lived separate from her husband for the past five
months, and she left him with an infant nine weeks red
It is rumoured that family differences led to the above
crime, for which she will be charged. before the mews-
trates as soon as she has sufficiently recovered.
TERRIBLE CASE OP DOUBLE MURDER AT WARLEIGa,
SOMERSET --ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.
Sunday morning.—The
peaceful little village of War-
leigh, near Freshford, was last night thrown into a state
of the most unamatel excitement and a'arce, in conse-
quence of its becoming rumoured abroad that a man and
his wife, who resided in that parish, had been most
t rutally 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 was
happily frustrated, and has since been arrested by an offi-
cer of the Somersetshire constabulary, and eonveyed to
the police-station at Weston. Inquiries proved that the
rumour was too well founded, the double murder having
been committed at half-past eight o'cl oek. The persons
se barbarously murdered are Andrew Burder and hie
wife, and their assassin 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. Ile rushed upon his unfortunate victime armed
with a knife, and uric after another stabbed them in the
most determined manner. They both bled profusely frein
the wounds be had inflicted, and both died from the
effects of the injuries. After he had thus sacrificed the
lilies of Burder and his wife, the murderer turned the
keife 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
a special messenger to
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
Cheddar, to give information of the fatal occurrence to
the coroner for the county, Mr. Bruges Fry, who, it is
expected, will hold an inquest on the bodies to-morrow.