The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-09-16
DAILY DISPATCH.
WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 10. Iss;
s THE MAILS BY THE BALTIC,
FURTHER FROM CHINA.

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The mails by the steamship Baltic, from Liver
poor sept I'd reached this city yesterday afternoon
~ make the following summary of the news con
tanned In them:
GREAT BRITAIN .f. -s
rnmor Is going the rounds Of the nanar. e.
tne effect that "Mr. Vernon Smith ipresidan, T ~
,osrn oi tontroi) has received permission ia retiro
into private life Mr.. sidney Uerbert ard a.,
'"nics eraham are talked Of as his successor
Was also rumored-and the Globe ministeria,
organ confirms the ruuor--that Mr. NacamI.r - :.
70 be raised TO the peerage Tbe<nsw tftte or th
MARQUIS OF iansdowne is 10 be Duke of Kerrv ),
ahd Lord Robert arosvenor In to be styIed eitbs.r
LORD Ebury or Lord Middesex
| The West India mail steamer La Plata arr;vaa
nj southampton on the Both uit with nearly tvo
and quarter millions in specie. - -
prospectus of the Red Sea Telegraph Comnanv
or constructing the first section of the line to In
dta-from Alexandria to Aden-had been issu-d
The Company proposes purchase of the Atlantis
Telegraph cable Wv -'''"''''
The London Times states that 1900 men Of the
militia are Immediately to he called ont and iftsen
second battalions Of the line formed i'm the .tead
nf the regiments sent to India; also that an adj
uonai force OF artillery Is 10 be sent to India
the Liverpool Albion. in an article upon the Sub.
marine Telegraph says 1t is not at all probable
that tho attempt to lay the cable will be renewal
ths ycar-ft will be deisrrod until next June" In
the same article the directors Of the COMPANY are
defended from snndry malignant insinuations
which have recently been leveiled at them
lhe treaty between England and Honduras had
been ratified in London. Its main feature in sddi.
tion to the usual stipulation of commercial trsa-
ties is special article giving effect to the obiga-
| tions incurred by the Government of Honduras
| under its contract with the Honduras Interocsanc
| Railway Company.
! At the halfyearly meeting of the Liverpool
| chamber of Commerce, report was submitted by
the Council and adopted in which it is represent
| ed that efforts to induce the Government To en-
fhp iptr off
labor into the British colonies had been productive
| of no favorable impression; that the Chamber ap-
proves of the efforts of the Cotton Supply Associa
ton to increase the growth Of cotton in India and
elsewhere; fayors the Suez Canal project and hope.
| that bill establishing uniformity of weights and
measures may claim early attention in the next
session Of Parliament
| On. of the anchors for the leyiathan steamship
| Great Eastern, building on the Thames, arrived
here yesterday. and ia now lying at the Georges
Basin, nesr the landing stage. 1t weighs tons Ia
cWts. and qrs, and being Of Trotman's patent, is
| equal to an ordinary anchor Of 10 tons.
INDIA-srLTfHESTs OF BRITISH AERSs.
| Some of the French Journals had published tele-
| graphic dispatches from Marseilles in which it was
affirmed that mutiny had exhibited itself in the
! Bombay Presidency, near Bombay itself but had
| been suppressed, and n plan had been adopted tC
! form regiments there composed altogether OF
Sikhs. 1t is suggestcd by English papers in view
of any confirmation Of the statement, that it orig
mated solely from the fears which prevailed both
I in Bombay and Madras.
| The Paris Pays gives complete denial Of the re
port that there were grounds for uneasiness in re-
! gard to the French establishments in India II as
/ serts that all was tranquil--so much that seye
raj foreign families had taken refuge on Trench
| Territory.
Letters from India indicate that the mutneer.
were already in want of various kinds OF ammuui
| ton.
1he troop ship Transit struck on a suuken rock
of ths Island of Banca on the 10Th of July. The
troops. 100 in number, were landed in safely and
vessels were dispatched from Singapore to their a.
sistance, the chartered American ship Brand being
| among the number
| The London Times, of Sept. /, says:
1t was on Saturday. the o of june that the
| curt and scarcely credible communications Of the
telegraph irst announced to the country that the
! mutiny of the Bengal Army had assumed the cha
! raCteristics now but too well known, On We'd
| nesday, the l.t Of July, the stream of reinforce
ments from these shores to Calcutta set steadily
out and from that hour to the present it has flow
| ell on continuously, and with sustained and
| even accelerated q current, that scarcely know
| where to Look for any similar example. ON n
single day in Julythc 2lst-six vessels left these
| coasts conveying LOO troops and the whole num-
! her OF ships dispatched during that month Wa,
| 2y-ail but two for every successive say The
month which terminated yesterday witnessed re-
doubled efforts, the energies OF the country rose
promptly to the level Of the exiXeucies which
| each mail announced In the aggregate we dis
| patched to the Last, in July, about yJC0 troops
III August we sent upwards OF $1,000, and in shIp.
of greater size and swiftness than before. In tn.
- vessels departing. during July there was only
a single steamer; in the . which followed in Au.
| aust, there fewer than II. Those read.
| rrs-and there will doubtless he many-whose
| interests will carry them through the details oi
these statistics will find the information very in
| t-lIgibly tabulated in another column Of our i'm
| preston this morning.
Soms 5000 soldiers, 1t will be seen, have left
England for India since the lst Of July last ire
spectively Of all those reinforcements which have
ben assembled at Calcutta from other parts of our
| Eastern dominions or drawn from oar other COLO
MES xpeditiuns If 1t is remembered that these
efforts have been made with peace establishment
| and Immediately after considerable reduction OF
our military resources, the result, we think will
assume AN aspect by no means unsatisfactory, and
Will show how very effective c0uuterpoise vii
shortly be provided for those mutnous battxIiour
whose succc Ssiye treasons we yesterday cstaoxued
When the first keel of this feet enters the waters
Of the Hooghly anxicties for the safety of our
countrymen will be approaching their close. fol
the torrent of steel will then be setting in with
unhroken and irresistible food. IT, indeed be
| tween o. and 20 days may possibly suffice. under
| favorable conditions, cSrry good ship from
Portsmouth to Calcutta, the desired hour mus.
| even now be at hand for since the Bucephnus and
| BarhRm led the of the squadron, two cleai
| months have elapsed this very morning.
CBISA-RoNAS1GC TRIAL OF An AMERICAN PIRATs
The Hong Kong correspondent of the Lnndor
Times, writing on the Sth OF July, gives the follow
ing the couse resolved upon l'y Lord klgin
| A few days after the matt had been dispatched
the Calcutta. the Shannon, the Pearl, the inflex
ihlc, the Hornet and TWO zunboats will proceed
northward, to rendezvolIs st Shanghai, and to pro
ceed thence to the mouth Of the river Peho, on
| whish the river Pekin stands. Arrived at thu
nearest point to the capital Lord Elgin will dispatch
10 the authorities for transmission 10 the Emperor
letter requiring the Emperor within specified
time either to recognize or repndiate the act. o
his officers at Canton. If the Court of Pekin re
pudiate leh and pay compensation for past in
lures and give security against their recrrrenco
we'll. IL a. is most probable either no motto,
he taken VI the letter, disposition be shown t,
entange the EmhassadOr in questions of CerenIu
NAL Lord Elgin will declare war, and thus reliev,
the relations of the two powers from their presen
anamolOus position. Canton will then he occupied
the trade OF the northern ports will not De unncr
csaarily interfered with, but such further pro
ccrdngs will be taken as may bc necessary tc
bring tho Court OF Pekn to reason
An American. ed Eli Boggs WAS tried at lions
Kong on Wednesday last, for piracy and mnrdcr.--
His namc would dc for villain OF the Blnckbeart
class, but in form and feature he MAS the hero OF
sentimental novel. A. he stood In the dock braveI,
battling for his life. it seemed impossible that TIM
handsome hoy could be the pirate whose name haC
been for three connected with the bOdest au,
bloodiest acts of piracy. 1t face OF feminin,
beauty. Not down upon the upper lip; large
lustrous eyes; a mouth, the smile of which mis-
coy ma den; aftlnent black far not carelessl,
parted hands so small and deliCately white, tha
they would create n sensation in Belgravia. Such
WAS the Hong Kong pirate Eli Boggs. The de
fence was, of course, false. 1t had been proved
that he had boarded junk, and destroyed by can
| non, pistol and sword, fifteen men; and having
forced all the rest overheard he had fired at one
| the victims who had Clutched rope and held or
| as,nrn No witness. however, could say that h,
cav n man die from blow strnc'y or shot fres
| nv the pirate. The Jury, moved by his youth am
courage, rnd strnn'ng hard their consciences, nc
omitted him of the murder. hut fOund him guilty o
| piracy lie VIZ, sentenced to he transported fol
| life.
| At Hong Kong the market was very qniet, ant
| tunnsgs Was abundant. At fooChow- Foo, it VA
| expected that the transaction In ten during ih'
season. would be on very limited scale. AtShang
hse the business in tea had been very trifing Ia,
market for new Congou had opened with pur