The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-20 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

MALTA, SEFT. 13.

There is little news from India.

The following is in anticipation of the mail by the
French steamer. The Ripon was to leave Alexandria
15 hours after her departure.
Senhor da Cunha, who so recently entered upon
the Government of Macao, died of cholera on Satur-
day, the 6th July, at 3 30 r.m., aged 53 years, and
was buried on the following evening in the chapel of
St. Paul's.

A letter from Shababad, dated the 16th instant,
states that the indigo prospects are good, having had
heavy rains and a strong generous sun the latter part
of June, which will enable them to commence manu-
facturing on the Ist proximo.
The same letter has the following paragraph :
" Your readers may recollect a tragic affair that
occurred here some three years ago, when the cousin
of the head of the Bauleah concern was shot by one
of the assistants. That noted place has again been
the theatre of a still more tragic scene. A few
days since Mr. S—, accompanied by Mr. G—,
his assistant, and about 200 men, went to settle with
a village but too well prepared to meet them. Mr.
5 was in a palkee, which they smashed; and
they beat him most unmercifully, breaking one of
his arms. He received a deep gash over the right
temple, and many other contusions. Mr. G---
was knocked off his horse and similarly treated.
They both passed in palkees in a most deplorable
state, and I am sorry to add the latest news is, that
Mr. G— is dead, and Mr. S—'s wound on the
temple rather ugly. This is an upshot of affairs not
unexpected in this quarter : from the continual
stretching of the rope, it has broke."
On the 13th of May last we published the depo-
sitions of Ensign F. Roome, of the 10th Native
Infantry, and Ensign John Carnegie, of the
28th Native Infantry, who were murderously
attacked at Penn by some frantic natives.
We hear that the charge against these men has
now been finally disposed of before the judge at
Tanna. Twelves natives were found guilty, and the
sentences of the Court was imprisonment for one
year and a fine of 100 rupees, failing the payment
of which the men were to be imprisoned for another
twelve months. The trial lasted several days, about
one hundred witnesses having been examined. A
Mahomedan law officer, and Dadabhoy, the Court
Moonrif of Bhewndy, sat with the judges as asses-
sors. It is only fair to Messrs. Roome and Carnegie
to say, that it was proved on the trial that they be-
haved s ith great judgment after the attack was made,
and that their assailants received not the slightest
provocation to commit the assault; and further, that
the truth of every word of their depositions was sa-
ti:lactorily proved by evidence.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Bonapartists have commenced reprisals against
the Legitamatists, and the Pouvoir has a furious on-
slaught against those who seek a " solution," either
at Froshdorf or Claremont, instead of seeking it in
the towns and villages of France, the inhabitants of
which elected Louis NAPOLEON.

The Journal des Dehats has the following :
" M. Dupin, President of the National Assembly, who
has been in Paris since the day before yesterday, visited
this morning the Salle des Conferences. M. Dupin being
immediately surrounded by his colleagues, stud interro-
gated by them upon the situa'ion of affairs, he declared
that his arrival in Paris had no political object; that for
his part he felt no anxiety on the score of public feel-
ing, and he added, as the expression of his profound
conviction, that no sedition would have success against
the constitutional power of the President; but on the
other hand the same might be said of any sedition at
tempted in his interest."
General CHANGARNIER and Genera] LAMORICIERE
are both in Paris, and regularly assist at the sittings
of the Committee of Permanence. The most cordial
good understanding appears to exist between them.
At the next sitting the Minister of the Interior, M.
BAROCHE, will be called upon to give explanations re-
lative to the society of the 10th December. He has
refused three applications made to him by M. CAR•
LIER, the Prefect of Police, to dissolve the society.
General CHANGARNIER has declared that the society
is illegal, and has remonstrated with the PRESIDENT
on the subject, but without effect; and M. DOPIN,
when in conversation with Louis NAPOLEON, on
Tuesday, said to him—" The club in question is sedi.
tious. It is true that sedition can do nothing against
you; but believe me, also, that sedition can do nothing
in your favour."
General PIAT, the President of the Society, has
addressed another letter to the Journal des Dabats,
declaring that it has no political objects.
The Siecle alludes to a rumour of approaching
changes in the Cabinet. It is said that M. Ducos
will succeed M. DUMAS as Minister of Commerce,
and that M. DE PEESIGNY will succeed M. DE PAR..
RIEU as Minister of Public Instruction.

General CAVAIGNAC has arrived in Paris,and has given
notice of his intention on the meeting of the Assem-
bly to address interpellations to the Minister on the
subject of the illegal conduct of certain Councils-
G3neral of Departments in meddling with political
mitters by demanding a revision of the Constitution,
and that he shall move that all the Councils-General
which have so misconducted themselves shall be dis-
solved.

The Presse has the following in allusion to the
rumoured " fusion" of the two branches of the
Bourbons :

"A few days ago several Frenchmen finding them-
selves in the neighbourhood of Richmond, thotight it
would be only good taste to sand in their names to the
Duchess of Orleans. They were immediately invited to
the presence of tha Princess, who, leading in her son by
the hand, expressed her gratitude for such testimony of
respect and sympathy with their grief. One of these
viiterJ took advantage of 'the occasion to assure the
Duchess of Orleans that France desired earnestly the re-
turn of the dynasty of July, and would be happy to see
the Count of Paris enter the Tuileries once more as the
heir of King Louis Philippe. On which the Duchess of
Orleans answe-ed with emotion, ' May God grant it, and
moreover may such be the desire of France.' It is from
one of the witnesses of the scene we have these details,
which do not seem to prove td us that the negotiation
undertaken by M. de Salvandy has much ohance of
success."

M. CASSAL, representative of the people, has just
been suspended from the mayoralty of Altkirch by
the Prefect of the Bas Rhin fur three months for
having opposed the revision of the Constitution in the
Council-General of his department.
The steamer Eclaireu has returned to Toulon from
its trip to the lonian Isles. It had not fallen in with
the Turkish squadron, whose movements it was sent
to watch. The Cerberus arrived on the 12th at
Toulon from Civita Vecchia with letters and pas-
sengers. _

The Constitutionnel says the Minister of Foreign
Affairs has approved the conduct of the French Consul
at Pernambuco, and that there is no doubt satisfac-
tion will be granted by the Imperial Government.
PARIS BoußsE, SEPT. 19.—Latest Prices—Five
per Cents., 93f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 58f. 15c. ;
Bank of France, 2,310 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEer. 19.

Boulogne and Amiens, 7% ex div.—Namur and Liege,
6—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2X —Paris and Rouen, 24%
Rouen and Havre, 101i—West Flanders, 114.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
Negotiations are on the point of being opened be.
tween Spain on one side, and England, France, and
Holland on the other, by which the three latter en-
gage to protect Cuba from invasion, on condition that
Spain shall pay the debts due by her to English,
French, and Dutch claimants.
It is said that Senor Mors will be elected President
of the Chamber of Deputies. He will be the Minis-
terial candidate for the office, the functions of which
he has already performed with credit.
There is talk of a sort of indirect protest that the
extreme Radical deputies who have been re-elected
desire to make against the elections; with the view of
causing it to be believed that the elections have not
been free, it is asserted that they intend- to resign
their seats collectively. On the other hand, it is ru-
moured that the journals of the Radical and Moderate
parties are concerting to suspend their daily publica-
tions, and to present a respectful address to the
QUEEN, praying the re-establishment of the censure
as preferable to the liberty of the press at present
existing..

A trial has bran made of part of the railway from
Aranjucz to Madrid. Senor SALAMANCA gave a
grand dinner to the director and engineers on the
occasion.

Orders have been sent to Cadiz to prepare the Co-
lumbus to take 600 soldiers to Cuba in all haste.

MADRID BOLSA, SEPT. 14.—Three per Cents ,
34i; Five per Cents., 14. Exchange on London,
50 40 money.

GERM k!Nv Y.

Accounts have been received from Hest.e-Caysel to
the 17th, at which time tranquillity remained undis-
turbed, and so little probability was there of the occur-
rence of anything likely to endanger the preservation

of the public peace that the civic guard had withdrawn
from their posts.
On the 16th the Elector and his Ministers had a
long interview with the Austrian Minister at Frank-
fort, who, it is said, promised them the support of
Austrian and Bavarian troops.

The arbitral tribunal of -.Nlecklenburgh•Schwerin
has suppressed the fundamental law, and absolved the
functionaries from their oaths to observe it.

A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated on the
afternoon of the 15th, announces the publication of
the new law for the political organization of Hun-
gary, according to which the land is to be divided into
five comitats, or districts, according to the old distri-
bution, namely—Pesth, Presburg, Oedenburg, Kas-
chau, and Grosswardein ; the whole to be under the
administration of a viceroy or stadtholder.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 15th says there is
an increasing indication that Austria will come to a
direct understanding with Prussia, as advised by
England and Russia.
A letter from Hanover of the 13th says the dis-
turbances which took place here in consequence of
the arrival of Baron HAYNAII have determined the
police to desire all householders to keep their servants
and apprentices at home after eight o'clock in the
evening. The public-houses and cigar shops are to
be closed by ten o'clock, and very severe measures
will be adopted against any who shall attempt to
disturb the public peace. Among the 38 persons
who were arrested on the 11th were some subalterns
and privates.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Copenhagen papers say, in regard to the re-
port of the accession of the Duke of OLDENBURGII to
the throne of Denmark, in the event of the abdication
of the KING, that neither the GRAND DUKE nor any
other Prince has been recommended by the great
powers; and it is dubious whether the negotiations
that took place at London had reference to the suc-
cession.

THE DANUI3IAN PROVINCES.
The Weiner Zeitung publishes a letter from
Bucharest, of the Ist, which says—
" Travellers from Moldavia assert that the Russian
troops aro constructing batteries and entrenchments on
the main road of Adzsd, about two leagues from Felt-
than. Many hundred labourers aro actively engaged
on the works. The country people are obliged to fur-
nish wheelbarrows and other requisites. The entrench-
ments and batteries lie on the River Patna. The Rus-
sian troops of Bucharest have located themselves in an
encampment at
,Kelentina for the purpose of making
their autumn maEceurre;; whether they will take up
their winter quarters in the capital is not known."

BELGIUM.
THE SEPTEMBER FETES.

The annual files will take place at Brussels next
week, commencing on Monday, the 23 I, and ending
on Thursday, the 26th. These fetes are held in
celebration of the 20:h anniversary of Belgian in-
dependence.

The .Tirussels Herald gives the following summary
of the proceedings :
‘‘ MONDAY, SEPT. 23.—At ten o'cicck, a funeral rer-
vice will take place in the cathedral church of Sts.
Micho and Gudule, in memory of the citizens who died
for the country. The civil and military authorities will
be invited to attend.

" At twelve o'clock a public sitting of the class of fine
arts of the Royal Academy.—Exhibition of the agricul-
tural produce of the first agricultural committee of Bra-
bant. At eight o'clock, grand military retreat by the
drummers of the civic guard and army.
" TUESDAY, SEPT. 24.—Entry into Brussels of the
different clubs, which will compete for the prizes in the
various shooting matches and other sports. At twelve
o'clock, awarding of prizes to the successful competitors
in the universities and public schools, in the Temple des
Augustins. At six o'clock a grand concert will take
place on the Place de l'Hotel de Ville. Dramatic per-
formances at the Park Theatre, by the Brodermyn en
Taelyver Society of Ghent. The tickets of admission
will be delivered at the Town-hall of Brussels. At seven
o'clock a popular ball will take place.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25.—Laying of the first stone of
the monument intended to commemorate the Congress,
and in honour of the Constitution. A special programme
of the details of this ceremony will be issued. Review
of the Civic Guard and the army. Banquet offered by
his Majesty in the Palais de la Nation to the members
of the National Congress and the Legislatures which
have succeeded it. Banquet of the Blesses de Septembre,
under the presidence of the Burgomaster of Brussfl..
Illumination of the Place de l'flotel de Ville, Place
Royale, Place des Panoramas and Rue de la Loi. Fête
at the Botanic Garden, given by the Philharmonic So-
ciety.
" THURSDAY, SEPT. 26.—At eleven o'clock, distribu-
tion of the medals of honour fur acts of courage and de-
votion at the Temple des Augustine. All persons wear-
ing the order of Leopold, the Croix de Fer, the medal
for acts of courage and devotion, and the medal for
agricultural and industrial labourers, are invited to at-
tend this ceremony. They will be admitted into the
reserved circle without cards.

"At one o'clock, a concert in the Park. At four
o'clock, a balloon anent. At six, a grand instrumental
concert on the Place des Panoramas. Fete given by the
Royal Society of tho Grande Harmonie. At ten o'clock,
fireworks at the Scharbeek gate."
These fetes afford an admirable opportunity for
seeing the Belgians in their best aspect ; and Brus-
sels, always an interesting capital, will be still more
so when crowded with the country people in all their
picturesque costume, and brilliant with every kind of
gaiety. The facility of communication from England
by Ostend enables the pleasure-seekers, at very little
trouble and expense, to take part in these grand na•
tional rejoicings.