The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1857.

Additional intelligence from India has come to
hand by the Bombay mail, which, although de-
spatched before the Calcutta one, was longer on
the passage. It does not in any material de-
gree alter the general features of the case, so far
as public affairs are concerned. It gives, how-
ever, more minute details respecting the proc3ed-
ings before Delhi, and will therefore be a very
acceptable addition to the general information.
We previously knew that General BARNARD
bad from 7,000 to 8,000 European troops
of all branches, and about 5,000 trustworthy
native soldiers, on whose fidelity and good
conduct implicit reliance might be placed. We
now learn that before the end of June, that
is to say within three days of the time to which
authentic accounts have been received, he expected
at least 3,500 men, including the Bth Foot and
a wing of the Gist, a troop and two batteries of
Artillery, and some Punjab and other Irregulars,
horse and foot ; and that he would, within a
week or ten days after their arrival, be in a
position to make an organised attack on the rebel
stronghold. There would not be a regular siege
with advances by parallels, and the various forms,
of which so much was learned during the
beleaguerment of Sebastopol. The time consumed
in such processes would be very injurious to
English interests. The bold and daring course is
generally successful, and with English forces,
trebly armed in the justice of their cause, against
rebels and murderers, there can be but little doubt
as to the result. The next mail may announce
the certain fall of Delhi—the following one will
most probably do so—and the virtual suppression
of the revolt.

We have also accounts of deeds of valour dis-
played by both English and native troops iu re-
pelling the sorties of the mutineers, and the
attacks of rebels trying to swell their ranks.
'lever Was greater zeal and efficiency displayed by
any body of men. They showed theinselves to
be worthy successors of those whose brilliant ex-
ploits founded and consolidated the Anglo-Indian
Empire. The ati,„ks which
had been of almost daily occurrence, and con-
ducted with the utmost determination, had be-
come comparatively rare and feeble, showing that
the insurgents had become gradually disheartened
and that they had but little hope or eventual
success in the desperate game in which they y bad
so recklessly engaged--hazarding their lives and
future welfare.
We have not very accurate tidings as to
SCINDIA'S proeJeding4. The Gwalior Contingent
have mutinied, but there is as yet nothing to
show that the chief has identified himself with the
cause of his insurgent troops. His acts will be
of considerable consequence, but whatever course
he may pursue, he cannot materially affect the
result. He may protract the conte t for a time,
but cannot affect its issue. But, happily, no
suspicions can be entertained of the fidelity and
loyalty of the other great Chief of Central India.
Indeed, he has given the most conclusive proof of

his sincerity, by sending his treasure, amounting
to 24 lacs of rupees (240,000/0, to the Fort of
Mhow, which is gallantly defended by Captain
Hungerford and the troops under his command.
In his case, therefore, it is not merely verbal as-
surances that are to be relied on. There can be no
humbug where treasure to the amount of nearly a
quarter of a million sterling has been transferred
as a guarantee for his good faith and integrity.

So far the events before Delhi now as to
the exciting cause of this deplorable outbreak,
which was long since predicted by the late Sir
CHALLES Narrsn, whose sound judgment, and
clear intellect detected the seeds of danger spring-
ing up. The letter of that illustrious warrior,
written seven years since, and now published
through the kindness of his brother, the dis-
tinguished historian of the Peninsular war, reveals
matters that should have startled the Company
from its dangerous security, elearly showing that
they were sporting on the edge of a terrible pre-
cipice. For his candour, the Hero of Meeanee
and Hydrabad, the man whose name was pro-
perly associated with CLIVE and WELLINGTON,
incurred the virulent animosity of the Honour-
able Board of Directors, who resorted to all the
arrogance that could enter into petty and vindic-
tive minds to spite him. We earnestly entreat
attention to that letter, which is, indeed, well
worthy of perusal. His clear foresight detected
the dangers arising from the anomalous
position of the then existing class of
native officers, whom he recommended to be dis-
charged on the pensions of their respective ranks,
and then to appoint natives to cadetships, so as to
give them an equal chance of command with our-
selves, " before they take it."
He showed how European boys and non-com-
missioned officers were placed in command of
native officers, while the experienced captains and
subalterns were drawn off by civil employment,
" which they ought not to be," and " single caste,
that is to say mutiny encouraged." If the
Indians were made officers on the same footing as
ourselves they would remain faithful, and pos.
sibly verify the aspirations of the missionaries,
but under the existing system an ultimate out-
break, sooner or later, was inevitable.
" Red-tapism," it appears, is even more ram-
pant in Hindostan than in England. This is a
bold assertion, but it is proved beyond the possi-
bility of doubt. What can be thought of pressing
men to work at 2d. per diem, ruining all their
prospects, breaking up their homes and families,
and permitting the scanty and inadequate payment
to remain three years in arrears, from official
delays, and official arrogance and impertinence ?
That letter must necessarily be brought under
the notice of the Committee that must be ap-
pointed, and it will go far to establish the total
incompetence of the Company to discharge the
important duties confided to their hands, and the
imperative necessity of getting rid of the hybrid
Government and establishing one on a firm foun-
dation, where there shall be no middlemen between
the British Crown and the people of Hindostan.

It is more than hinted that a grave and reso-
lute attempt has been made to compromise the
honour of England, and to annihilate the right of
sanctuary which she has from time immemorial
exercised in favour of political refugees of all
classes and varieties of opinion. It is said that
M. LEDRU ROLLIN* is the. intended victim, and
that the ridiculous and farcical proceedings which
have been instituted against him, par contumace,
are to be used as the means of enforcing not
merely, his expulsion from England, but
his surrender to the French Government,
which will be tantamount to his destruction..
We have already pointed out the total failure of
the charge. The evidence was such as would
not in this country be deemed sufficient to warrant
even the committal for trial, or the finding of true
bills against a previously convicted pickpocket.
No English jury would sanction the destruction of
a dog on such worthless testimony ; and if our
Government should, under any influence, no
matter how exalted, listen to so absurd a demand,
it will be the virtual abolition of the hospitality
which we have hitherto extended to all who have
claimed it for political causes.
Is there, we ask, any man in the world against
whom similar charges might not be preferred if it
were considered worth the trouble and expense
required to get rid of him. M. LEDRU ROLLIN
is a man of large frame and powerful strength.
Would it not, however, be easy for the French
police to find agents of equal dimensions and
similar aspect to represent the obnoxious party,
and to answer to a name more distinct and intel-
ligible than " RODRONE ROLLIN' ?" Where would
be the difficulty in finding persons ready and
willing to invent such scenes, and to
submit to a nominal conviction, which
they well knew would not be acted on, and the
trouble and annoyance whereof would be amply
compensated, according to the English code. An
accomplice is held utterly unworthy of credence
unless corroborated, not merely as to facts, but
also as to the persons of the accused ; and the rea-
son is plain and intelligible. A guilty man will
know all the fact., and it would be easy to substi-
tute an innocent person for some cherished "pal,"
whom he would wish to save at the expense of a
little mendacity. Nothing is more common than
that the "QUEEN'S evidence," or "approver," should
transfer all his own atrocities, which might EX-
elude him from the benefit of the conditional or
qualified pardon, to some comparatively innocent
victim.

But the case against M. LEDIVI ROLLIN is, as
we have already explained, even weaker than
that supported on the sole evidence of an accom-
plice. There is not a particle of corroboration,
either as to facts or person. Nay, more, the
men, who, after confessing their own guilt, were
placed on a moral rack and tortured by a system of
cross-questioning unparalleled since the extinction of
our own Star Chamber, who were alternately bullied,
cajoled, and mystified, were not consistent in
their own statements. They contradicted each
other on very material points, and as both stood
in an equal)/ invidious light, it followed as a
necessary consequence that neither could receive
the slightest credence.
But we go still further, and unhesitatingly
assert that if even the tainted testimony of GRILLI
and BAIITOLOTTI could be received as
" Confirmation strong as proofs of Holy writ,"

there was not sufficient to warrant a conviction,
and therefore not to justify the political murder
of the guest who has done nothing to forfeit
the asylum to which he was justly entitled. In
this country "suspicion is not accepted as proof ;"
nor do our judges or magistrates jump at con-
clusions quite so rapidly as the Procureur du Roi
who relied in one instance on a police report, and
in another thought it established beyond the pos-
sibility of doubt or dispute, that because an
Italian miser,
mut, whose oath -would not be
credited in any court
of justice, aliserted that he
saw a stout man called 14,-,„„DitoSNE ROLLIN, and
because M. LEDlttr ROLLIN
Was a stou t man, and his
name might be so disguised in the Italian dialect,
it must, st, therefore, necessarily be the T
4.4EDRU ROL-
us, the object of alarm and hatrod to every Con-
tinental clopct. BusideP, it rilwt borne in

milid that the " RODRONE ROLLINI" retired be- I
fore the propositions were made, and that there
was nothing to implicate him beyond what might
have been an innocent visit to an acquaintance,
or the statement made behind his back that he
was to give some money to the tempter.
We cannot credit the statement made by a
contemporary, or believe-that the English Govern-
ment would expose itself to the odium thatmuAne
cessarily follow the yielding to a demand in every
respect so untenable and ys unreasonable.

The drain of bullion still continues, and not-
withstanding the large supply from Australia and
other quarters, it is more than covered by the
demand. There is therefore but little hope of any
progress being made in the direction of " cheap
money" before the next meeting of Parliament,
and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and

other pupils of the JONES LOYD School will therefore
probably be disappointed in the results which they
anticipated from the shelving of the currency
question during the present year. It is almost
certain that the demand for silver to India. and
China will still continue, and, as hitherto, occasion
a considerable exportation of gold to the Conti-
nent, in order to meet the exigency. The
other causes, the hoarding by parties who
wish to be prepared for any emergency
that may possibly arise, and the endeavours of
other nations to supply themselves at our expense,
still continue, so that we may look for an increase
rather than a diminution in the rate of discount,
and an augmentation of the pressure. October is
generally a trying month, and energetic efforts
must be made by even houses of "unquestionable
solvency to pass through it safely and creditably.
We have already witnessed the intense suffering
of October, 1847 ; let us bop© that that of the
present year may not approximate to it in diffi-
culty, and that another Government letter—a vir-
tual suspension of the unwise and impolitic Act of
1844—may not become indispensable.
Monetary Reformers stolid look to the position
of the all-important question at the present mo-
ment. The Committee has not yet reported. We
may easily conceive that they have not been
quite so easily led as Sir G. CORNEWALL
LEWIS anticipated. They appear to have in-
sisted on a bona fide inquiry ; and although the
views of Mr. JAMES WILSON respecting the con-
vertibility of bank notes do not exactly corre-
spond with our own, we yet feel considerable
confidentr, in consequence of his being one of the
committee, that the Bank Charter Act will not
be renewed without change or modification, as
intended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
No one has more powerfully advocated the use
of it. notes, and the augmentation by no less
than twenty millions of the paper issued on secu-
rities, than Mr. WILSON. Although this would
by no means be as beneficial as the formation of
a really national bank and the issue of a small
note currency based on, and proportioned to, the
amount of taxation, it would unquestionably be a
vast improvement on the existing system. It
would economise the use of gold, prevent a large
proportion of the wear and tear that now
costs the country so much, and give that which
has been justly termed "the life-blood of industry,"
a circulating medium adequate to the wants and
wishes of the community, and which would
answer every purpose connected with our internal
trade.
If the currency reformers are only true to
themselves this great desideratum may be attained.
But it will not be by remaining silent and appa-
rently indifferent. There must be adequate de-
monstrations. The sufferers must speak out
clearly and intelligibly. The pressure from with-
out must be very intense before they can expect to
conquer. The moneyocracy, although compara-
tively few in number, are well organised, and
possess a very potent instrument available for
any purpose. The means by which the League
achieved its triumph should be borne in mind.
There was incessant agitation ; lecturers travelled
to every town and village to make known the
truth ; discussion was challenged. The advo-
cates of the bread-tax were invited to the platform
to meet persons fully prepared to answer them on
every point, and to show the iniquitous nature of
the monopoly. Similar energy would be rewarded
with a similar triump'i. So firmly are we im-
pressed with the magnitude of the topic that we
are convinced that every other fiscal and financial
question is of comparatively trivial importance.
Let, then, the currency reformers shake off their
apathy, and at length display the zeal which the
importance of the subject imperatively demands.
If they do so now they will insure considerable
progress, if not complete triumph. If they re-
main indifferent they will have to remain ton
years longer without redress. Tile country will
suffer materially in the interim—the most serious
consequences may arise—and all will follow from
the loss of the golden opportunity, and the gross
neglect of the many warnings given to the com-
munities, mercantile and manufacturing, by those
whose predictions have bad too solid foundation
to be treated with such levity and contempt.

OSBORNE, Aug. 15.—Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore
bad the honour of an audience of the Queen yesterday,
and presented the son of his Highness the Pasha of
Egypt to her Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands landed at
the Southampton Docks on Saturday afternoon, at 5
o'clock, from the royal yacht Fairy, on her return from
visiting the Queen at Osborne. She left in the royal
state carriage for London.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down-
ing--treet,
_Els Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame
Musurus and family have left town for St. Leonarde-on-
San.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Villacasa have left
Claridge's Hotel for Brussels.
The Marquis Tauay de Merli has arrived at the Cla-
rendon, from Paris.
The Countess de Swieykowska and family and the
Marquis de Noailles have left Claridge's Hotel for the
Isle of Wight.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on
Saturday afternoon for Brockett Hall.
Captain the Hon. Ivo Fiennes, 7th Hussars, son of
Lord Saye and Sele, embarked in the Candia, on Friday
last, for Cahutta.
Another Italian dramatic company is about to appear
at the Italian Opera House. M. Calzado has engaged
Giuglini as well as Mario for next season. Mine. Frez-
zalini has started for New York. MU. Gassier and
Labocitta are also on their way to the States. Mme.
Gassier remains in England.
MR. WOODIN.—Tu-eight Mr. Woodin will give his
last representation in London of his present entertain-
ment, " The Olio of Oddities," in which his imitation
of Madame Ristori has lately been the most salient fea-
ture. After a provincial tour, Mr. Woodin contemplates
r eturning to London, with a new entertainment, in the
winter.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The famous " Christy Min-
strels," from New Ycrk, have done so well for the last
fortnight that Mr. Mitchell announces their appearance
nightly for one week more. During the past week the
performances have been honoured with the presence of
the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, Earl and Countess
of Shelbourne, Countess of Essex, Earl and Countess of
Shaftesbury, Earl of Kiimaney. Viscount Cranborne,
Earl of Strathmore, Viscount Canterbury, Marquis of
Donegal, Col. Mountjoy Martyn, Hon. Major Calthorpe,
Lord C. Hay, Capt. Ponsonby, Hon, C. Butler, Mrs.
Russell Sturges.
THE CITY or LONDON THEATRE.—Mr. Nelson Lee,
or morn properly known as the Genius of Pantomime,
has settl:d with Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick, also
with Mr. Wm. Cooke, of Astley's, for their Christmas
pantomime. We understand great things may be ex-
pected at his own- theatre (the City of London), that
being his 201st pantomime. The days of the drama are
certainly revived, when we find Messrs. Johnson and
Nelson Lee offering 501. for the best domestic drama,
also 50/, for the best nautical drama, for their re-opening
ut tha City Theatre, in the last week of September, to be
decided by a committee of gentlemen.