The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-24
THE NEWS By THE NORTH STAR


there is to be autumnal session Of Parliament At
least assured that intention present exists
of calling Parliament together before the usual period
The Paris correspondent Of the London Times says
According to the latest dispatches received by the
French government from Hong Kong the court Of Pc
kin had returned no reply to the demands for satsac
tion addressed to it by the French minister in China
There talk here of operations being commenced
as BaroG Gros shall arrive at his post .
T.le English force which will in few months be
actually Indian ground amounts it is stated to about
$4,000.
According to the London Star the 9Th of October the
appointed national fast day very generally observed
and the Rev Mr. Sturgeon, who preached in the Crystal
Palace at Sydenham, had audience OF nearly heeat
-four thousand persons. The admissions payment lone
shillng) 81 l59 and by tickets ,504-ma-
king total of 49, 634 The proceeds of admission went
to the Crystal Palace Company and would be about
81, 100. After the sermon collection made in aid
of the Indian relief fund, amounting to f4T5 los III d.,
about 81, 1901 and the company added f20O-say
81 600 The collection from that audience would to
average about 10 cents each. The Star says:
When all was loud olapping of hands testified
the approval of the hearers and few minutes afterwards
groups of people quafng bottled stout within few
yards of the pulpit Eating and drinking the most
tended scale carried all the establishment
and many seemed to think that fasting not nca.
in the ceremonies of the day.
All the churches in London appear t have been omen
and collection made at each for lie relief fund but the
thioult 10 given ouly IN two instances
beyond BRIEF reports of the the papers of the
9th contain little of interest
we hnS the following however, in the STAR referring
10 the American mare Prioress
me Chester Autumn meeting not remarkable The
success of Saunteer the most interesting of the racing
Incidents and it showed that the horse had suffered little
from his recent voyage to and from France The pride of
the American turtles still further humbled for their
crack mare Prioress sustained ignominous de-
feat than that which bee her Goodwood and Lewes
Brother Jonathan must be satisfied of the neriorty
OF his race horses compared with for not of
the Americans with the exception of the least
thought-of Babyon-has been able to make a show
OF race with second and third rate native horses Amer
lean sprtsmen with all their time tests have no notion
OF the immense speed of English
The total amount subscribed in England for the Indian
relief fund is nearly f100, 600.
The great annual cattle fair at Banasloe island COM
menced ON the 5th. The attendance numerous and
the supply OF stock very fine Over 10000 sheep
sold on the first day.
frauds upon the customs by robbers of tea from the
bonded warehouses in Belfast the extent of some ten
or twelve thousand pounds sterling had been discovered
The perpetrator Mr. John James Moore, had escaped
The Morning Herald gives the following on authority
as the list of staff officers in India
Bengal chief Sir Colin Campbell chief
of the staff Major General Mansfield lieutenant gene
rails Beresford and Ashburnham; major generals Wynd-
ham, Haveock, Sir Robert Garrett and Cotton deputy
adjutant general, Packenham deputy quartemaster
general Wetherall Dupuis commands the royal artil-
lery.
Madras.-C omrnander-in Sir Patrick Grant ma
jor general Craigie
Bombay. Lieut.. general, Somerset major general
Sir Hugh Rose.
The typhus fever gaining ground at Lisbon, and
the deaths quite The English mail pack
cts did not communicate with the city.
1t stated that Lord Sratford had called the attention
OF the porte to the large quantities of weapons which the
Mohammedans We're supplying to their fellow believers in
lna and that the Grand Vizer replied that he could
not possibly Interfere with private specuations of the
kind. ~ ~
SIR CAMPBELL AT CALCUTTA
We North British Mail happy to state that from
letters received in Glasgow yesterday forenoon dated
Calcutta, August o. Sir Colin Campbell who arrived
there on the l4tn of August in perfect health at
Calcutta at that time and had taken the command of the
army. On the 18th of that month he issued the fol-
lowing proclamation to the troops in India
by The Commander IN Caiet.
Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to ap
point commander chief of the forces in India in
the room of the late lamented general the Hon George
Anson, and her Majesty having also been sraciousiy
pleased to confer upon the rank of general in the
East indies now assume the command of the army in
India
In doing So it affords the highest satisfaction to
md under my orders troops who have fully proved
themselves in the recent aduous operations in the field
to be what have known British soldiers in eyery
quarter of the gobecourageous faithful obedent and
enduring.
In former years have commanded native troops of
India and by their side have been present in many bat
A'' '"'u III WHICH uley nave nODly borne their
part and 1t Is to me subject of deep to learn
that soldiers of whom had been accustomed to think
80 favoraby should be aayed in open and defiant
mutihy against government proverbial for the beray
and paerna consideration with which has ever treated
Its servants of every denomination.
When Join the force in the field restoring order
to the district disturbed by the dsection of the army of
Bengal shall at the head of the British troops and of
those native soldiers who, though few in number have
not feared to separate themselves from their fahcss COM
rades and to adhere to their duty feel my old confidence
that they will march to certain victory
shall not fail to notice. and the powerful govern
ment which have the honor to will not fail to re-
ward, every instance Of fidelity and vaor shown by the
troops under my command.
81 call upon the officers and men of both European
and native troops zeaously to assist in the task before u.s.
and by the blessing of God we shall soon again see In
dia tranquil and prosperous.
&C. CAMPBELL, General,
/" Commander-in- chief.
CALCUTTA, August IL, aslt.g #.g#..
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The London correspondent of the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser, under date of October G, writes
The London money market has taken very unfavor-
able turn 1t has been for some weeks past that
there was prospect of mitigation of the prevailing
duness yet thought that unless something very
untowaTd should occur it might remain for long time
without any adverse change But the news of the con-
tnuance of the panic at New York. aggravated by the
announcement of the which will be payable in dis
charge of insurance policies the gold in the Central
America has established the probability that many weeks
will eapse before specie remittances resumed from
your side and the continental demand occasioninp
daily large Withdrawals from the bank an early advance