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The Sun. — 1856-08-28 (London, England)

INDIA AND CHINA.  The steamer Bombay arrived at Trieste yesterday, August 27, at five p.m., in 144 hours from Alexandria. She left Alexandria on the 21st of  August.  The India and China mails were to leave Alexandria on the 21st of August, with intelligence from Calcutta to the 17th of July, Bombay to the 20th of July, Hong Kong to the 10th of July, and Shanghai to the 28th of June. Fifty inches of rain had fallen at Thmbay. At Darjeeling 3G inches of rain fell i❑ 96 hours. Mr. Horsley, assistant-collector in the Madras Presidency, has been murdered.  But, it may be urged, this is the fault of sueessive Governments. Government is, and ought o be, as it may, for the honour and benefit of he people. If just thoughts were entertained of he rights of inventors such treatment would not be experienced at the hands of Government. Binee Coßes time—at the present day, in this Impression of The San, the claims of public bene'actors like COST have needel and need vindicaion. If Government fails to spoliate, capital ,s at hand prompt and eager to undertake the task, and a BEgSEM&R requires a friend to cry " hands off" to men who build up princely forunes by robbing the poor inventor of his capital ender the plea of furnishing "cheap iron." There is rank injustice in the public mind in all that concerns the rights of genius, otherwise capital vould not need the warning, and Government, ',ding for the nation, would signalise, by marks A distinction, and other rewards of a more substantial nature, the estimation in which the great benefactors of the country deserve and ought to be held. In the entire Peerage and Pension List where will you find a greater public benefactor han CORT ?  The heir to the throne of Burmah has been  assassinated.  Lord Canning has been indisposed. Exchange at Bombay, 2s. lid. The money  market is quiet.  The export trade brisk. Freights, 2/. to London or Liverpool. The exchange at Calcutta was 2s. lfd. The money market had improved. The impor  trade was very inactive. Fieights, 3/. 10s. for sugar to London. The indigo crops throughout Bengal have su  ered injury.  Anarchy reigns throughout China. The Ben Avon, with a valuable cargo, from iondon:" for Shanghai, has been totally wreaked  near Amoy. Exchange at Canton, 4s, 101 d. ; Hong Kong,  4s. 10id. ; Shangha;, 7s. 3d. The exports of tea for the year ending the 19th of June were 6,000,0001 b. in excess of the  previous year. The first of tho new season's teas have been  shipped.  MADRID, Alia. 26.  The Spanish Minister at Mexico has been re• moved from his post. General Bassolo has been named Grand Cross of the Order of Charles 111.  The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Valetta, with the India and China mails from Malta, arrived at Marseilles  this day, at 5 a.m.  The mails were to leave Marseilles at 9 Lan
The Sun. — 1856-12-31 (London, England)

LEOPOLD REDPATH—frauds exceeding, it is act-nary calculated, the gross aggregate of 200,0001. sterling I Again, the crash of the Tipperary Bank, in the spring, finds an unhappy balance of :ill in the autumnal crash of the Royal British Bank, announced in the Palette as bankrupt on the. 24th of October. Associated with all which fc mging and swindling, with all which systematic peculation and wholesale embezzlement—there comes to us in this dreary financial and commercial retrospect of 1856, the Idismal remembrance of the more than doubled Income Tax still iniquitously weighing down the resources of the nation ! And with this Monster Evil yet glowering like a hideous and paralysing incubus upon the prostrate strength of the Empire—the thought of some 80,000,0001. or 100,000,0001. sterling, of some 20,000 or 30,000 brave soldiers, of much blood and of many tears, squandered to no end upon the late calamitous war with Russia—or if to any end at all that can be exactly estimated, to the end of a grand Diplomatic "Sell," to the end of a great political " Do," to the end of a notorious national Degradation.  Secondly, in a Social point of view-1856 has surely been productive of little that can be regarded as matter for self-gratulation. Apart from the bursting open of so many " whitened sepulchres," as evidenced. in the revelation of the monstrous crimes of a mercantile character, already particularised—there has been, as it appears to us, a most deplorable stagnation even in the " efforts" towards any comprehensive improvement. Reform, as a watchword, has all this while been held in abeyance. In spite of the boasted Peace ! Precisely as though we were still engaged in a momentous and all-absorbing contest with the Russian Autocrat ! Everything almost still sustained at war prices—everybody hampered more or less onerously by the drag of a doubled Income-Tax—everywhere the signs amongst us of the ill effects resulting from a sanguinary and utterly futile Struggle against Russian domination : we have had no compensation at all, not the smallest, not the shadow of the shade of a compensation, in the way of an appreciable boon in any one of our great reform movements. A circumstance accounted for, perhaps —apart from the deadening influence of a War without any good results, without even the secondary advantage of an Indemnity wrested from the foe—by the simultaneous downfall of almost all our great political reputations. Statesmen, by twos and by threes, like the masts of the State Vessel—have we not seen them suddenly, as it were, go by the board ? So rapidly, entirely, and disastrously for their inIluence upon the country at large—that we might as well look to the Ticket-of-leave System, the System productive onlyof murders, burglaries, and garottings, for the diminution of our criminal population—as look to my Lord JOHN RUSSELL, or to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or to Mr. WILLIAM GLADSTONE, for any great boon to the people ! Or for the building up in place of the present Ministry upon Sufferance, in lieu of this Cabinet of an Emergency, instead of this faineant dictatorship, as it may be called, of iriSCAtUlt
The Sun. — 1856-12-31 (London, England)

REDPATH—frauds ex-1 ceeding, it is actually calculated, the gross aggregate of 200,000/. sterling Again, the crash of the Tipperary Bank, in the spring, finds an unhappy balance of ill in the autumnal crash of the Royal British Bank, announced in the Gazette as bankrupt on the 24th of October. Associated with all which forging and swindling, with all which systematic peculation and wholesale embezzlement—there comes to us in this dreary financial and commercial retrospect of 1856, the dismal remembrance of the more than doubled Income Tax still iniquitously weighing down the  resources of the nation 1 And with this Monster Evil yet glowering like a hideous and paralysing incubus upon the prostrate strength of the Empire—the thought of some 80,000,0001. or 100,000,0001. sterling, of some 20,000 or 30,000 brave soldiers, of much blood and of many tears, squandered to no end upon the late calamitous war with Russia—or if to any end at all that can be exactly estimated, to the end of a grand Diplomatic "Sell," to the end of a great political "Do," to the eid of a notorious national Degradation.  Secondly, in a Social point of view-1856 has surer been productive of little that can be regarded -SI matter for self-gratulation. Apart from the bursting open of so many " whitened sepulchres," as evidenced in the revelation of the monstrous crimes of a mercantile character, already particularised—there has been, as it appears to us, a most deplorable stagnation even in the "efforts" towards any comprehensive improvement. Reform, as a watchword, has all this while been held in abeyance. In spite of the boasted Peace ! Precisely as though we were still engaged in a momentous and all-absorbing contest with the Russian Autocrat ! Everything almost still sustained at war prices—everybody hampered more or less onerously by the drag of a doubled Income-Tax—everywhere the signs amongst us of the ill effects resulting from a sanguinary and utterly futile Struggle against Russian domination : we have had no compensation at all, not the smallest, not the shadow of the shade of a compensation, in the way of an appreciable boon in any one of our great reform movements. Acircumstance accounted for, perhaps —apart from the deadening influence of a War without any good results, without even the secondary advantage of an Indemnity wrested from the foe—by the simultaneous downfall of almost all our great political reputations. Statesmen, by twos and by threes, like the masts of the State Vessel—have we not seen them suddenly, as it were, go by the board? So rapidly, entirely, and disastrously for their influence upon the country at large—that we might as well look to the Ticket-of-leave System, the System productive only of murders, burglaries, and I;arottings, for the diminution of our criminal population—as look to my Lord JOHN RUSSELL, or to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, or to Mr. WILLIAM GLADSTONE, for any great boon to the people ! Or for the building up in place of the present Nlinistry upon Sufferance, in lieu of this Cabinet of an Emergency, instead of this faineant dictatorship, as it may be called, of Viscount
The Sun. — 1856-12-22 (London, England)

THE CAPITAL CONVICT 3 AT MAIDSTONE.  The calendar for the county of Kent at the late as• sizes has not for a great many years presented so fearful an amount of charges of mui der as on this occasion ; and Mr. atroa Bramwell, who presided as the judge on the Home Circuit for the first time since his elevation to the bench, in discharging the jury on the last day of the assizes, took occasion to advert to the dreadful character of the cases the jury had had to consider, and expressed a hope at the same time that if he should meet them again at any future circuit it would be under less painful circumstances. The unfortunate prisoners Mansell and Redanies—the former of whom was convicted of the murder of the corporal of the 49th Regiment, in which he was serving as a private, under most aggravated cumstances, and the latter of whom, it will be remem• bered,pleaded guilty to the charge of murdering a young woman named Caroline Back, and who was tried and convicted upon a second charge of mardering, her sister Maria at the same time—still remain in Maidstone awaiting their sentence. The former prisoner seems to have entertained a hope that he would not be convicted of murder, and anticipated that the jury would only have convicted him of manslaughter, and he at first seemed a good deal cast down at the result. He soon, however, rallied, and as he is evidently a determined, resolute young man, and very similar in appearance to Marley, who was executed for the Parliament-street murder, there is no doubt that be will meet his fate with firmness. He had served for ten years in the 49th Regiment, and remained with it during the whole of the campaign in the Crimea, and it is melancholy to reflect that a dispute about a paltry pair of boots, which the prisoner believed the unfortunate deceased had in some manner improperly dealt with, should have led to so fatal a result. The other wretched man, Dedea Redanies, has excited a good deal of commiseration and sympathy by his unassuming and inoffensive demeanour and conduct since he has been in the prison. He 13, it appears, a Servian by birth, and formerly pro. fessed the Mahomedan religion, but he has abjured that religion add professes Christianity. He is rather an illi. terate man, and the language he speaks is a sort of bastard German, very difficult to be understood, except by natives of the district. He never appears to have denied his guilt, and it would seem from what has occurred since his trial that his intention was to plead guilty to both charges of murder, and that he has never entertained the slighte3t hope of escaping, and that he has all along been prepared for the inevitable consequence of his crime. When he was first sent to Maidstone gaol he had only just recovered from the effects of the serious wound he inflicted upon himself at the time he was taken into custody ; but since his confinement he has become very stout, and so much improved in his general appearance that some of the witnesses could hardly recognise him. Friday next has been fixed for the execution.
The Sun. — 1856-07-16 (London, England)

PALMERSTON. One must parade his care for the honour of Russia, and the other must imitate. One must fall in live with the coward and bully, Austria, and the other must smile on the lovers. A PALMERSTON ought not to have dozed on the lap of such a DELILAH if a RUSSELL did ; but the old antagonist of the hated HAPSBURGS could love them for a NAPOLEON'S sake. True, the latter had small cause for his coquetry with the Court of Vienna. It loved him not, nor loves him. It feared him in Italy, perhaps elsewhere, and left him to thank her for driving him to the choice of a beautiful and intelligent EnPress, by insolently denying him a petty German Princess. Louts NAPOLEON may have profoundly patriotic and philanthropic ideas iu his head, for ought we can tell, in selling himself and PALMERSTON with him to Austria, and through her to Russia ; we are, however, too shortsighted to see further yet than the brotherhood of Autocrats and the proclivity of aristocrats to their cause. Hence the evacuation of the Crimea. Russia must not be humbled ; Austria dare not see her too much weakened, or lose all title to her goodwill. Autocrats could not see one of their number branded as a political felon, and Aristocrats must not lower the dignity of one Crown in Europe, not even by relieving it of a stolen gem ; therefore the Crimea must be evacuated—therefore no mention must even be'made of it in the " bases of negotiation ;" therefore the Russian EMPEROR could stipulate that " lode unity," territorial or pecuniary, should not be mentioned; and therefore even Bessarabia must be unnaturally divided to secure the mouth of the Danube from Russian perfidy.  Since the fall of Sebastopol all has been humiliation for the Allies. The starving of the heroes of Kars into surrender ; the ignominious bases of peace ; the indecent exultation of the French at the mere prospect of so paltry a Treaty, the importance assumed by the shabby power whom even a NAPOLEON could denounce as faithless to her engagements. tier admission to a conference with AMER whom she bad deserted in every hour of need ; her holding the Principalities (even to this day), and her insults to Turks  and Englishmen there, besides her assumption of authority over, and cruelty to, the subjects of the SULTAN ; then, at the Conference, the silence about Poland, the surrender of the Aland Isles, the curtailment instead of the enlargement of the demands on Bessarabian territory, the nonenforcement of indemnification even for the unquestioned outrage on Turkey, the surrender of the Circassians to the murders and conflagrations which are now wasting the country, the abstirience from any guarantee against rebuilding forts under whose cover thousands, if need be, of gunboats built up the rivers could nestle for an attack on Turkey—humiliation for the Allies, for England above all, was the course of all things from the fall of Sebastopol to the signing of the peace—the safe and honourable peace !—safe enough assuredly for Russia, honourable enough for her—and now she enjoys the final honour, now she is permitted to inscribe on the walls of a Sebastopol far stronger than ever, g
The Sun. — 1856-07-19 (London, England)

THE SPONDON MURDER.—Pending the inquiries relating to this matter, a man has been in custody under circumstances of suspicion, not the least of which were stains on his trousers bearing a close resemblance to spots of blood, and pronounced to be so by every one who inspected them, while the man affirmed they were simply red soil. The determination requiring medical skill and adroitness, the trousers were placed for examination in the hands of Dr. Goode, of Derby, a gentleman versed in chemical and microscopical research, who succeeded in demonstrating that the stains were what the man stated them to be. He found that the colouration was due to minute particles adhering to the fibres of the cloth, and consisting of ferruginous clay and particles of hematite, which even under the microscope is not always distingukhable from particles of hematosine from dried blood ; but a red heat reduces the blood to a white ash, while the hematite remains unchanged. The point is a nice one in medico-legal examination.—Derby Mercury. THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVlOR.—Yesterday was published a copy of all tenders and all correspondence relative thereto, for the Australian postal service, as proposed to be performed. Four tenders were sent in to the Treasury from Mr. Laming, Mr. M‘Queen, the Peninsular and Cries tal Company, and the European and Colombian Steam Naviga ion Company. The first two tenders were unhesitatine,ly rejected by the Lords of tne Treasury, on the 24th of June, on the ground that the whole or part of the vessels were to be built for the service. The tender of the Peninsular and Orien tal Company was also declined for various reasons, including the undue length of the voyage (45 days from Suez to Melbourne outward, and 43 days homeward), and the attempt of the company to impose on the Government new terms of their own, the acceptance of which was out of the question. The tender of the European and Colombian Steam Company is the only one of the four which the Lords of the Treasury, with the Secretary of State's concurrence, felt justified in accepting. 1. Because they adopt all the conditions in the proposals contained. 2. Because the time which they propose from ,Suez to Melbourne, and vice versa, is much shorter than the tardy passage proposed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, being only 39 days out and 35 home. 3. Because they are prepared to commence the service at a date early and defined ; and lastly, because they propose, for the same sum, to contract to convey mails and passengers direct from Southampton to Alexandria by separate boats, running in communication with the boats plying between Melbourne, and Suez. The tender of this company was accordingly accepted, with a slight modification respecting the continuous and uninterrupted character of the service throughout the year, and the other three were rejected. On the following day an attempt was math: by the Peninsular and Oriental Company to influence the decision of the Treasury (then apparently unknown) by sundry fresh proposals, but to these no answer was vouchsafed.  AN
The Sun. — 1856-07-19 (London, England)

THE SPONDON MURDER.—Pending the inquiries releeting to this matter, a man has been in custody under circumstances of suspicion, not the least of which were stains on his trousers bearing a close resemblance to spots of blood, and pronounced to be so by every one who inspected :Item, while the man affirmed they were simply red soil. Tie determination requiring medical skill and adroitness, the trousers were placed for examination in the hands of Dr. Goode, of Derby, a gentleman versed in chemical and microscopical research, who succeeded in demonstrating that the stains were what the man stated them to be. He found that the colouration was due to minute particles adhering to the fibres of the cloth, and consisting of ferruginous clay and particles of hematite, which even under the microscope is not always distin• guishable from particles of hematosine from dried blood ; but a red heat reduces the blood to a white ash, while the hematite remains unchanged. The point is a nice one in medico-legal examination.—Derby Mercury. THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVlCE.—Yesterday was published a copy of all tenders and all correspondence relative thereto, for the Australian postal service, as proposed to be performed. Four tenders were sent in to the Treasury from Mr. Laming, Mr. McQueen, the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and the European and Colombian , Steam Navigation Company. The first two tenders -were unhesitatingly rejected by the Lords of the Treasury, on the 24th of June, ou the ground that the whole or part of the vessels were to be built lor the service. The tender of the Peninsular and Oriental Company was also declined for various reasons, including the undue length of the voyage (45 days from Suez to Melbourne outward, and 43 days homeward), and the attempt of the company to impose on the Government new terms of their own, the acceptance of which was Gut of the question. The tender of the European and Colombian Steam Company is the only one of the four which the Lords of the Treasury, with the Secretary of State's concurrence, felt justified in accepting. 1. Because they adopt all the conditions in the proposals contained. 2. Because the time which they propose from LS/16z to Melbourne, and vice versa, is much shorter than the tardy passage proposed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, being only 39 days out and 35 home. 3. Because they are prepared to commence the service at a date early and defined ; and lastly, because they propose, for the same sum, to contract to convey mails and passengers direct from Southampton to Alexandria by separate boats, running in communication with the boats plying between Melbourne and Suez. The tender of this company was accordingly accepted, with a slight modification respecting the continuous and uninterrupted character of the service throughout the year, and the other three were rejected. On the following day an attempt was made by the Peninsular and Oriental Company to influence the decision of the Treasury (then apparently unknown) by sundry fresh proposals, but to these no answer was vouchsafed. AN