lartIgu put Cntuutal.

ff5 II 11.—The Emperor and Empress have left St. Cloud for Biarritz. While in Paris they were visited more than once by Lord Palmerston. Of course his presence in France has given rise to strange reports and odd speculations. Le NUM says, "Lord Palmerston lives in Paris in a very retired manner ; his visit is surrounded with deep mystery ; he does not live in the hotels which he formerly frequented ; and it is said that he is installed in a villa not far distant from the Palace of St. Cloud."

The Paris correspondent of the Daily _'V we thereupon remarks, that "Lord Palmerston has stayed all the time he has been in Paris at the Hotel Bristol, in the Place VendOme, and there has been no mystery whatever about his movements." A statement subsequently rendered inaccurate by a visit paid to Lord Cowley at Chantilly. The reported interviews between Lord Palmerston and Counts Walcwski and de Per- signy, it is remarked, " could not have been very frequent, since his lordship has never been further from Paris than St. Cloud ; whilst Count Walewski is at Vichy and M. de Persigny at his country seat."

Speechmaking is evidently again becoming a fashion in France. Count de alorny has followed the example of Count de Persigny. In his speech at the opening of the Council General of the Puy de D3mer Count de /ferny thus assailed the system of centralization. " Thanks to the legislative machinery which has been bequeathed to France by the past, a stone cannot be turned. a m ell dug, a mined worked, a manufactory built, or, if I may be allowed the expression, a man's pro- perty turned to good account or wasted, without the permission or the con- trol of the central power, and important interests are frequently obstructed or sacrificed by the lower ranks of the Administration. I think that several reforms will be made in this state of things, thanks to the initiative and the powerful will of the Emperor, who has long studied and examined all the elements of this question. On the day when the department, the corn- mune, and the individual may, as it were, manage their own affitirs, much discontent which is now expressed towards the central Government will disappear. But I also am of opinion that the country must educate itself for this new system ; it must not expect everything from the Government and nothing from its own eflbrts, and, in its bad humour, it must not ren- der the State responsible for the march of events and for the accidents of the seasons, which, unfortunately, it cannot control."

M. Michel Chevalier has followed the example of the two prime Bona- partists. The Council General of the Herault, remarkable as the free- trade department of France, having passed a string of strong free-trade resolutions, held a banquet to celebrate its proceedings. At this banquet, II. Chevalier spoke. In proposing the health of the Emperor, he said-

" A few months ago, after the horrible attempt which plunged us all into consternation' a gloomy cloud settled upon European politics. It seemed as if the general peace were compromised, it seemed especially that the alli- ance between France and England was in peril, although it had recently been cemented by a glorious military fraternity, and although it is the pledge, not only of peace among the great nations, but also of the general advancement of civilization itself. The Emperor then personally intervened to defeat sinister auguries, mid he did it with the success which usually crowns his efforts, because success is a recompense due to wisdom and moderation ; and thus it was that the interview at Cherbourg took place, which tranquillized the world. Recall the spectacle we witnessed, scarcely three weeks ago. Two fleets, bristling with cannon, are in presence of each other. One bears the British flag, the other the colours of France. The scene is at the foot of that Cape La Hogue which reminds the English navy of a brilliant and de- cisive victory, and recalls to that of France a reverse which individual traits of heroism did not prevent beine' a disaster. Suddenly the cannon thunders, rapid broadsides succeed each other, the atmosphere is dark with smoke, and resounds with shouts. Is it not that on one side revenge is sought, while the other strives to celebrate an old victory by a new triumph ? No, gentlemen, the Empire is peace ! ' The prolonged cannonade that the echoes of the shore repeat, the shouts and clamour that issue from thousands of throats, are a fnendly and respecful salutation4 addressed alternately to the two powerful sovereigns of the West—to the Emperor Napoleon III., and to his august and worthy ally, Queen 'Victoria, who, both animated by the noblest sentiments, have met consolidate a precious alliance."

Surely some of the lesser lights will have the courage to follow the example, of these imperial luminaries who have converted the Councils General into Parliaments.

An act of intolerance towards the Protestants of Maubenge has been perpetrated by the Sub-Prefect. The Protestants obtained the usual per- mission to assemble and worship in public. Suddenly a rumour went abroad that they were making proselytes, and the Sub-Prefect ordered them to be arrested. In a short time he offered them liberty, but they refused to take it, and a sous-intendant militaire, wearing the Legion of Honour, which gives immunity from arrest without certain forms, dared the gendarmes to turn them out. Finding force could not prevail the Sub-Prefect begged them to leave. They remained firm until they gained their point, for a despatch promptly arrived from Paris granting the per- mission they requested, and ordering their instant release. On leaving the prison they received a real ovation at the hands of the townspeople, who, in immense numbers, were stationed in the neighbourhood of the prison.

k consequence of the recent stir in Constantinople on the

great question of financial administration there has been a further modi- fication of the Ministry. "The Grand Admiral, Mehemmed All Pasha, the Minister of Commerce, Ali Ghalib Pasha, and the three other sons- in-law of the Sultan, (members of the Grand Council,) have been placed on the retired list. Mehemmed Kibrizli Pasha has been appointed Grand Admiral, and is replaced in the Presidency of the Council of the Tan- zimat by Mehemmed Rachdi Pasha, The new Minister of Commerce has not yet been nominated." The following Trade was issued on the 18th August, showing that the Sultan is in earnest.

"My illustrious Vizier—Apart from the debts necessarily incurred by the celebration of the marriages of various members of our imperial family, I learn that, by the thoughtlessness and want of economy on the part of members of our imperial household, various purchases are still made, con- trary to our will. The regular allowances granted to the members of our imperial family ought to suffice them, and it would be against our imperial will should their expenditure exceed their income. And although, by an- other imperial decree, it will be made known to all persons, natives and foreigners, that they are not to consider themselves bound to deliver ar- ticles demanded of them with the idea that sooner or later they will be paid, nevertheless, as my above orders are to be issued to all functionaries and employes, that measures may be taken to prevent the tendency towards their infraction, and that they who infringe them be, if necessary, imprisoned and punished, and that a strict watch be constantly kept in that respect, we have thought it expedient to charge the Sera.skier Riza Pasha with that duty, and seeing the proximity of the Arsenal to our imperial palace, we have added to the Seraskeriat he now holds the office of Muchir or Tophane (Grand Master of the Artillery.) And as the Muchir of Tophane, Mehemed Rushdi Paths, is one of our distinguished Ministers, we have judged it fit- ting to make him a member of the Council of Miuisters. " Thu; having appointed both, we have charged them with the above function; and send them to our Sublime Porte. The Seraskier Pasha, the Minister of Finances' and the Minister of the Civil List, are to assemble immediately and are to agree on the steps to be taken in this matter. They are to ascertain which among the existing debts are just ones, and which, from different causes, are exorbitant in character ; my firm imperial will being, that such abuses shall not tale place henceforward, the discussion of the measures necessary for obtaining that end shall be commenced with- out delay."

This intimation is followed by the appointment of Izzet Pacha, mem- ber of the Council of Justice, to be Governor-General of Trebizond; and of Mehemet Pacha, formerly Governor of Bosnia, to the like office at Aleppo. Husni Pachna, Governor of Tricala, is promoted to the rank of Vizier, and made Governor-General of Janina, being replaced at Tricala by Aziz Pacha.

Another Irade was expected—" The Sultan is made to express his dissatisfaction at the daily increasing number of employes, and the dis- order which prevails in the finances of the different departments; he calls on his Vizier to set these things right, to diminish the useless em- ployee, and to make a regular budget for each department. It is the custom to draw up these kinds of documents in rather general terms, and the person who is charged with the execution of the orders contained in them has to fill out the details. The details in this case, if they are to mean anything, imply nothing more nor less than a general recon- struction of the whole Administration, and the upsetting of a tendency which has been growing up ever since the new reforms were introduced:, 16/T5i a. —The return of the Herat mission affords the Bombay Gazette an opportunity of sketching some of the proceedings that led to the eva- cuation of Herat and the subsequent destruction of the Persian army.

"Before the Shah of Persia consented to treat, the most active exer- tions seem to have been made by Sir John Lawrence to raise against him a powerful enemy in the shape of Dost Mabel/led of Cabal. If the hardy Afghans could be induced to turn their attention to the north and west instead of to the south, great advantage would issue for the quiet of our frontier. If at the same time a strong force of sturdy soldiers could be brought against the effeminate Persians, Herat might be regained with- out the sacrifice of a single European. It was vain, however, to suppose that Dost Mahomed could be induced to move from Cahill unless he was furnished with means. But it was equally clear that no subsidies that we could give that chief could exceed or even approach the sum required should a resolution be adopted to carry war over the north-west frontier by means of English troops, whether native or European. A lakh of rupees a month seemed no exhorbitant sum for the purpose we had in view. We believe that for this consideration, and others of a no less palpable kind, Bost Mahomed was persuaded to move a considerable force from Candahar in the middle of last year, and that with that force went the officers of the Candahar mission now said to have reached Khelat. In the mean time peace had been concluded between England and Persia, and the Herat mission had been sent up from Bushire. It reached Mus- hed in time to learn the approach of Major Lumsden with the Candahar force, and means were taken at once to inform the latter that the object of the movement was at an end, and that the troops had better return. The Persians had evacuated Herat, and Sultan Jan was again master of his old dominion. But a new element had arisen in our relations with the latter. We might have expected to gain the gratitude of Sultan Jan for restoring to him Herat, even shorn as it was of its old splendour and strength by the plunder and depredations and the destructive tendencies of the late Persian occupants ; and we should have done so doubtless but for the Afghan advance. Sultan Jan knew of the movements of the Bost. He saw that had not peace been brought about by diplomacy, and thus rescued Herat from the Persians, the same result would probably have been gained by the arms of the Afghans. But he probably felt that Herat, once in the hands of Dost Mahomed, would never be re- turned to Sultan Jan, and hence doubtless arose no small amount of rejection in the mind of the chief respecting the instability of his politi- cal affairs.

"it is not in our power to say whether or not Sultan Jan, rendered suspicious of England by his knowledge of the movements of the Dogs made any private overtures to the Persians, but there is no doubt of this —that the Persians determined not to move their army to any great dis- tance from Herat, and that, contemplating some not unnatural turn of circumstances, they projected a semblance of a campaign in Bukhara, for theyurpose of keeping their soldiers concentrated for a future movement against Herat.

Pretexts were not wanting for such a step. The Turcomans, as their custom has been from time immemorial, had recently made an in- road into Persia with 600 horse, and this was deemed a good opportunity by the prince who commanded the Persian army to keep it employed in the country north of Herat, watered by the Khooehk and Moorghab rivers. Notwithstanding the murmurs of the Persian soldiers, who de- sired to return to their homes, they were ordered to march, and a body of 3000 horse was detached to cut off the party of Turcomans who had dared to make an inroad into the territories subject to the Shah. Now, when we consider that in the palmiest days of the Persian monarchy the Tartars of Bukhara have never been held in subjection but have over been a thorn in the side of the Shah, it would seem to have been little short of madness in the Persian General to engage in a war with the people of that country for the distant object of ultimately attacking He- rat. But as nothing can exceed the vanity and self-esteem of the Per- sians, they anticipated nothing but victory in the campaign they were about to undertake, especially as they had succeeded in cutting off 400 out of the 600 Turcoman horse against which, as has been seen, an over- whelming number of men had been sent. The Persian army advanced,

and on their arrival at Shuraksh, 200 miles north of Herat, they found that the town, a most important one, had been destroyed, and that the Turcomans, imitating the Russians under Barclay de 'folly after the battle of the Moskwa, had ravaged the country and retired. The P. dans, unwarned by the sternness of this resolution marched on to the Atoorghabs and found their enemy strongly encamped at Merv; by the river. They pitched their camp and entrenched themselves, hoping to take the place with the assistance of their siege-train of twenty-two guns. The Turcomans, however, were too much for them. Winter

came on, the Persians still remained in camp, and Merve was untaken.

Provisions became scarce. Supplies were sent for, but they were inter_ eepted and taken. The Turcomans had by this time swollen in number;

it is said, to no less than 50,000 horse. They daily harassed the Per- sian; making dours with their horse right through their camp. At last, the moment came when the Persians were completely exhausted. The Turcomans made a grand assault, and the whole army of the Shah was destroyed, the twenty-two siege guns taken, and the Prince alone, with a few servants, made his escape.

"We are indebted to the Turcomans, therefore, that no efforts have been made by the Shah to retake Herat, for had his army been sums,.

ful, instead of unsuccessful, he would have been in a position to reoccupy the city of Sultan Jan without difficulty. Now, however, Persia shorn of its army and guns, is powerless, and Sultan Jan safe. But in Sultan Jan we have no longer a Mend, and it behoves us now to be very watch-

ful in that quarter, for Herat is no longer the strong place it was. Its breaches are everywhere open, access to them easy, and Persia, when she has recovered from her losses, may again come in, and, despising the faith of treaties, place us exactly in the same position we held on the first occupation of Bushire. In the meanwhile Dost Mahomed still draws his subsidy of twelve lakhs a year,—no unpleasant sum to receive for the privilege of letting us alone on the Afghan frontier.

"Sultan Jan, from whom the city or Herat was taken by the Per- sians, is an Afghan, by no means a favourite with the population of the

city and Herat State—a people possessing this peculiarity, that they

hats equally the Persians and the Afghans. The life of Sultan Jan lies been full of strange vicissitudes. His mother is said to have been for- cibly carried off, and married by Dost Mahommed. He is therefore step- son of the great Afghan Chief. He was present at the interview between Mahommed AkbaeKhan and Sir William Macnaghten, onthe memorable occasion of the murder of that unfortunate gentleman. It is now well known that in reply to some remarks made by Akbar Khan and in anger at too familiar a gesture made by the Afghan Chief, Sir William Mae- naghten lost his temper, and struck Mahommed Akbar Khan in the face. In a moment of ungovernable rage, Sir William was shot with a pistol by this chief, and it is said that Sultan Jan held the English Plenipoten- tiary forcibly down whilst the act was being committed. His enmity to the English, which did not date only from that fatal time, caused him to take part in every enterprise undertaken against them. He was in most of the battles which ended in the subjugation of the Punjaub and Scinde, and he has been heard to say that in every encounter with the British in which he had been present, his friends had been beaten. When Ganda- her was coveted by Dost Mahommed, he it was who took it with an army of Afghans, and having performed this service, he naturally expected to obtain the government won by his arms. But Dost Mahommed, who had for Sultan Jan no more affection than is usual between step-father and son, took Candahar from him, and gave it to his favourite son Gho- lam, now heir-presumptive to the throne of Cabool, by proclamation of the Dost. From that time Sultan Jan was at enmity with the Chief of Cabool, and he visited Persia, Bukhara, and finally, succeeded, we forget exactly how, in establishing himself paramount ruler of Herat, where he incurred, as we know, the enmity of Persia. " It is one of the vicissitudes of the man's career that he should have been restored to the throne of Herat by the very English with when power he had been so long at enmity, at the murder of whose envoy in 1842 he was present, and at whose encounters with the powers of the Indus and Sutlej he was one of the most strenuous opponents. Sultan Jan, however, had had sufficient experience of the might of English arms not to be convinced of the advantage of propitiating it, so when he re-ascended the throne of Herat after the peace, and though aware of the intention which previously existed of regaining Herat by the aid of his mortal enemies, the Afghans, he frankly owned that he wished to be our friend. Persia would threaten him, he said, in time. Pressure would be exerted against him from other quarters. But if England would give him a guarantee, he would be their faithful adherent. The certain support of such a guarantee would, he thought, secure to him a powerful hold over subjects by no means well affected towards him. But the English envoys seem to have had insuperable sus_picions of him,

and to have placed no reliance on his new friendship. His known hos- tility to us of old, his intrigues with Persia and Bokhara' the knowledge that he was aware of the movements lately undertaken from Candahar,

a well-founded belief that he possessed not the confidence of the chiefs who surrounded him, appeared valid reasons for mistrusting him, and to his request of a British guarantee no attention was paid. The Herat mission turned homeward, leaving Sultan Jan unsupported by any pro- mises from England, and doubtless convinced that his hold of power was too precarious to last. The result has proved the correctness of this view. Before the mission reached Bushire, news came that a revolt had broken out at Herat, that several of the old independent chiefs had declared against Sultan Jan, and that the movement was so powerful that it was impossible for the Afghan chief to hold his own."

ht Ill 8.--Intelligence from Calcutta to the 18th July arrived on Wed- nesday. The state of Onde is described as "improving." The Zemin- dars in many places were resisting the troops sent by the rebel leaders to collect revenue. One is reported to have said to a rebel chief, " Thaw been in partnership with you in fighting against the British and plunder- ing, why should I pay you ? If the British rule is established I will pay them the revenue ; if not, it shall be paid to the Begum." Sir Hope Grant left Lucknow on the 20th of July to relieve Mann Singh and to capture Fyzabad. In Behar, matters were in a most unsatisfactory state according to the Calcutta correspondent of the Times.

"As I mentioned to you, after the withdrawal of the Europeans to Be- nares and Dinaporc, Umur Singh returned to the Judgesporc jungle, his followers began again to concentrate. In a week or two he had 3000 men, and began collecting'revenue. Notwithstanding a check received from

where

Ca gin Rattray, who at Mullin cut up a band of 400, headed by one of the inferior leaders, 11 mur Singh kept his position, and detachments from his row entered Chupra, plundered some villages in Tirhoot and threatened Bans. Their object was chiefly plunder, and, after burning a few factories, sart went northward to the great rendezvous in Oude, and part fell back late shaliabad. They confine themselves generally to the jungle, sallying out every now and then to plunder a village, murder the native servants of Government, and collect the revenue. The command of the district has been given to Brigadier Douglas, now at Benares, whose object is apparently in circumscribe the war, and render the cold-weather campaign final. He is establishing a chain of posts round the jungle to cut off all escape. The steak, I must repeat, though troublesome, is of little political moment. llmur Singh, beaten or victorious, can effect nothing, but his impunity costs us the revenue of one entire country ; alarm, distress, and discontent in three more. There has been, of oourse, a good deal of exaggeration current as to our actual losses. For instance, the collector of Behar reported that Gya, the coun- try town, had been entered by insurgents, the gaol broken open, and all the prisoners released. It seems, nevertheless, very doubtful if any enemy has ever been within ten miles of Gya, and whether the whole story was not in- vented by the gaol-guard, who had themselves released the prisoners. You may imagine from this incident how difficult it is even for the well-informed to diseover the truth." The Gwalior rebels had laid Beige to Bhomghur, the fort of the Tonk Rajah, but having no guns they made no progress. Hearing that Hol- mer's brigade was hard by they went off in the direction of Rampore, under Tantia Tepee. An official despatch from Bombay says- "The fugitive rebels from Gwalior, after making a demonstration against noondee on the 19th of July, attempted to cross the Bundaos, but failed. On the 13th they were menacing both Beehore and Bughore. The Nee- much force had prepared to move out on the let of August for the purpose of cameration with Holmes's column, which was last heard of at Boondee. The rebels are in considerable force, their numbers being estimated at 4000 or 5000 fighting men, with five guns. Their leaders are Tantia Topee, Yeydial, and others. A small force from Ahmedabad, under Major Brimes, has been pushed forward to Timaoune, [qy. ?] with instructions to advance on Kinks-arra, if necessary."

The Lahore Chronicle announces that the Cis-Sutlej chiefs of Puttiala, Jheend, and Nabah have been rewarded. "To the Maharajah of Puttiala-1. The Narnoul division of the Jhujjur territory, valued at 200,000 rupees per annum, to him and his lineal heirs in perpetuity,. on condition of good behaviour, and of service military and political, at any time of general danger or disturbance. 2. The jurisdic- diction over Bhudour, and the right of escheats and the reversion of lapsed estates therein, also the annual commutation tax amounting to rs. 5265. 3. The confiscated house in Delhi, formerly belonging to the Begum Zenut Mahul, and valued at rs. 10,000. Lastly. That the honorary titles of the Maharajah be increased as follows Victorious child, Ameer 111 Omara, Maharajah Dairaj Rajeosree Meharajah of the Bejaia, Nawander Singh Mahander Bahadoor." To the Rajah. of Iheend.-The Da.dree territory, valued at rs. 103,000 per annum on him and his lineal male heirs in perpetuity, on the same conditions as those laid down for the Rajah of Puttuda. 2. Thirteen villages in the Koolran Pergunnah, valued at rs. 13,813 per annum. 3. The confiscated house in Delhi of the rebel Shazadar Aboo Bukr, valued at rs. 6000. 4. That he be allowed a salute of eleven guns ; that his presents be increased from eleven to fifteen trays ; that his state visits to the Governor General be returned by the secretary, and that his honorary titles be increased as follows Dear faithful child, Rajah Seroop Sing Bahadoor, the ruler of Jheend.' "To the Rajah of Nabah.-The divisions of Bhawul and Kantee in the Jhujjur territory aggregating re. 106,000 on the same conditions as those of the Rajahs of Puttiala and Theend. 2. That his Khilluts be in- creased from seven to fifteen pieces. 3. That a salute of eleven guns be assigned him and that his state visits to the Governor-General be returned

by the secretary and his honorary titles be increased as follows Dear faithful child, Rajah Bhurpoor Sing Malwund Bahadoor.'

As a reward for his allegiance the Court of Directors have relieved the Guicowar from the payment of 332,000 rupees charged to him on account of the Guzerat Contingent. The Delhi Gazette is very credibly informed that Sir John Lawrence, Brigadier-General Neville Chamberlain, and Colonel B. Edwards, have been called upon to draw up a scheme for reorganizing the army. The special correspondent of the Times has gone to Simla, and he has forwarded to that journal his notes made on the way. Among them is the following significant item.

"Part of the road was crowded with the baggage of a Sikh regiment re- turning towards the punjaub. What piles of loot ' !-I am told that is a more expressive word than either ' pillage ' or 'plunder '-each surmounted by a gaily-dressed lady, while the lean-limbed, sinewy Sikh, in his dust- coloured turban, carkee tunic, and tight trousers strode along lightly by the side of the cart, laughing and singing with delight at the prospect of a re- turn to his native deserts ! It is a serious thing to reflect upon that there are seventy and odd thousand of these fiery soldiers, who, now faithful to Us, are full of Punic faith and more than Oriental cunning, and who were but too often the foremost and the most sanguinary among the ringleaders of the mutiny-73,000 of them drilled, equipped, and armed, fighting for es south of the Sutlej, and talking of the time when they may have to fight a,gainst us. Their present Goroo ' is John Lawrence, but there is no one in In- dia more deeply sensible of the danger which may come from the race he rules with such facile and mighty hand than the great administrator of the Punjaub. These fellows are clinguant with gold. They have huge earrings of the Ptecious metal, and cables of it with fringes of mohurs round their necks.

ir sword hilts are nuggets i the richest scarfs and shawls encircle their lithe waists. With their flashing black eyes, fine thin noses, glossy black moustaches, beard, and upturned whiskers, light, grinning smile opening up the rows of sharp snow-white teeth, their quick light tread, and lithe movements, they put one more in mind of tigers than any race of men I ever beheld. The tiger has tasted blood in the plains below, but his meal inn content him for the present. It must not be supposed that the beast did not give trouble now and then. Like the libido°, he regards the cow as a sacred creature, and in one instance we had to give orders that no oxen should be slaughtered except at a distance from camp, in order that the Sikhs might not be offended. Some of these regiments such as Wilde's and Brauer's, the Ferozepore regiment, have fought as hard, if not more fiercely, done as much service, and lost as many from the enemy, as any of our English battalions, but it cannot be denied that much depends upon their officers. The men can, of course, march better, and resist the heat of an Indian sun better, than ordinary Europeans. §oine men they will follow to the death-fur others they will not stir an mph. The general relation of the European to the native soldier is ad- mirably expressed in a metaphor suggested, I believe, by Sir Colin Camp-

bell himself in describing the merits of the two races Take a bamboo and cast it against a treat the shaft will rebound and fall harmless ; tip it with steel and it becomes a spear, which will pierce deep and kill. The bamboo is the Asiatic-the steel point is the European !' Of the Sikh this istrue only to a certain extent. He is made of tougher and denser material than bamboo ; he is at least of oak, and hardens in the fire. Hodson's Horse refused to charge, if my letters tell me the truth, the other day at Nawabgunge ; but the Sikh never absolutely refuses to face the enemy."

The Bombay Telegraph reports, that it is stated " in a letter from Banda that General Whitlock's column have made a large haul ' front the rebels. A company of the Madras 43d Native Infantry, attached to the column, found 140 cartloads of gold bricks and nuggets and 40 lace of rupees and more was expected to be discovered. Besides this large amount of treasure, an immense quantity of jewels has also been found. These are supposed to have been the jewels belonging to the Peishvrals family, which, fifty years ago, mysteriously disappeared from Poona, and were supposed to be in the possession of Scindia or Holkar. It is be- lieved they were stolen by Bajee Row's brother, the adoptive father of the present Narrein Row, who is now a prisoner. The treasure and jewelry found arc said to be of the value of nine crores of rupees, or nine millions sterling." The last news heard of the Nana Sahib was, that he had crossed the Gogra, and was reported to have sold his famous ruby, valued by the natives at 1,000,000/., for 10001.

tzglun.-The Legislative Council of Ceylon was opened by Sir Henry Ward on the 28th July. In his address he gave a most flourish- ing account of the state of the island. The revenue for 1857 exceeded by 73,8531. that of 1856. In four years the receipts had risen from 408,000/. to 578,0001., and were expected to reach, in the year ending December 1858, 600,000/. The expenditure has kept pace with the growth of revenue. Out of an expenditure of 553,4591. in 1857, 161,174/. were spent on public works ; showing that "we are labouring on a grateful soil" and that judicious outlay produces rapid effects. The electric telegraph is open to Kandy, and would be carried under the straits to India, when the weather permitted. All classes have been gainers by the changes in progress. The public resources have been impartially distributed between Europeans and natives. British enter- prise has created vast properties in the interior which afford the readiest market for every article. All that is wanted is more intimate knowledge of the field upon which they have to work, and greater familiarity with the wants and producing powers of each separate locality.

eon a . -A dvice s from China, via Calcutta, arrived on Wednesday night. The latest date from Hongkong is to July 6, and from the Peiho to June 18.

According to one statement, current in Hongkong, the allied Plenipo- tentiaries on receiving from the Chinese Commissioners the formal re-

port that had full powers, suggested that the Russian and American Envoys should test its sincerity by concluding their treaties at once. This suggestion was promptly acted on, and by the 18th June, while Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were still negotiating, Mr. Reed and Count Putiatine had signed treaties on behalf of their nations respectively. The details of the Russel° treaty had not been made public at Hongkong, but the heads of the American treaty had oozed out. The Friend of China gives the following as the principal provisions of the instrument.

"The treaty comprises twenty-nine articles, some of which repeat the sti- pulations of the old treaty. "Article 1. Provides for general peace, and a stipulation for good office' of the United States in case of difficulty with other powers.

"Art. 2. Provides for the deposit and record of the treaty at Pekin and Washington.

"Art. 3. The official' publication of the treaty at Pekin andin the pro.; vinces by imperial authority. "Art. 4. Direct correspondence (with obligation to acknowledge and answer) of the Minister of United States with the Privy Council or Prime Minister at Pekin.

"Art. 5. Right of annual visit and sojourn, at his own pleasure as 61 time, of the United States Minister at Pekin ; journey either to be by the Peiho, or overland from Shanghae, and to be provided for by Chinese Govern- ment, as well as with an official residence at the capital. His suite not to consist of more than twenty, exclusive of Chinese attendants. His official intercourse to be with the Privy Council, or one of its members deputed for that purpose.

"Art. 6. Permanent residence at Pekin, if the same privilege is conceded to other powers. "Art. 7. Equality of rank in official correspondence. "Art. 8. Interviews of Ministers with Governor-General, Governors, &e., always to be at official residences. Interviews never to be denied. "Art. 9. Interviews on terms of equality of naval commanders with offi- cials of highest rank. Suppression of piracy. "Art. 13. Right to lease property without any intervention of officials. Designatiod of open ports, new ones being Swatow and Taiwan in Formosa, and any other granted to English, French, or Russians. Clandestine and contraband trade prohibited. Opium to be prohibited or allowed according to Chinese law.

"Art. 14. The United States never to pay higher duties than the most favoured nation.'

"Art 15. Tonnage duties not higher; than imposed on most favoured na- tion; double tonnage dues abolished. Prospective application of tonnage dues to beacons lighthouses, &c. "Art. 16. Regulation of pilots. "Art. 20. Time of paying duties; to be paid in Syeee or foreign money ; consuls not to give up papers before duties are paid. "Art. 24. Immunity of national flag and obligation, of neutrality. "Art. 25. Apprehension of mutineers and deserters, and punishment of criminals.

"Art. 26. Exclusive jurisdiction of United States authorities over rights and intercourse of its citizens.

"Art. 27. Mutual appeals to public officers with complaints.

"Art. 28. Recognition and absolute toleration of Christianity, and pro- tection of Chinese converts.

"Art. 29. Comprehensive provision that all rights, privileges, and powers' granted to any nation, its merchants or subjects, whether political, mercantile, or otherwise, and not conferred by this treaty on the United States, shall at once inure to the benefit of the United States, its publici functionaries, merchants, or citizens.

"Treaty to be ratified within a year by the United States, and by Eine peror forthwith. "The claims for pecuniary indemnity, either for English, Americtui or French losses neither admitted nor denied, but referred to Canton. "Permanent legation of the United States Minister after settlement of

pending question at Canton, understood to be hereafter at Shanghae." Another version of the information forwarded by the Duke of Monte- hello to Paris has appeared in the St. _Petersburg Gazette. It will be seen that it is not so explicit as the despatch of the Ambassador.

"On the 7th (19th) August arrived at St. Petersburg, whence he pro- ceeded immediately to Peterhoff, Lieutenant-Colonel Martynow, sent as courier by Count Putiatin, and who completed his journey in fifty days from Tien-sin, across the northern portion of China, Mongolia, and the 'whole of Siberia. He is the bearer of the news of the cessation of the mili- tary operations of the allied Anglo-French armies, and of the conclusion of treaties of peace with China. Russia signed a treaty with that Power on the 18th June, and it was followed by a similar step on the part of the United States of America. France and England signed their treaties some days later. The Chinese Empire is thus open to Europe, to her commerce, to civilization, and to the free exercise of the Christian religion, &c. "The previous treaty concluded by Aide-de-Camp General Mouravieff, and signed the 28th May at Aihun, had already fixed our frontiers with China, leaving the left bank of the Amoor in the possession of Russia." This last piece of intelligence is quite new. It shows how busily the Russians are engaged in and about China.

We have also a French version of the treaty, forwarded by Baron Gros, and furnished by the Moniteur, of a date later than that of the Russian despatch. "Tien-sin, June 29.—The wishes of the Emperor are satisfied in China. The whole of the vast empire is thrown open to Cluietianity, and nearly the whole of it to the trade and industry of the West. Our diplomatic agents may reside temporarily in Pekin. Our missionaries are to be admitted everywhere. A Chinese Ambassador will be sent to Paris. The murderer of the French missionary will be punished. The Gazette of France will announce it. The laws against Christianity will be abolished. The en- gagements have all been concluded, and partly signed, under the seal of the Imperial Commissaries. France and England obtain the most ample con- cessions."

Canton and its neighbourhood seem to be in a most unsettled state. Mr. Consul Winchester had notified to the mercantile public that the new Chinese Commissioner, Yeh's successor, had issued a proclamation, which, if not an express declaration of war, is a warlike manifesto ; that the merchants should secure themselves against treacherous attacks ; and that the naval and military men must look to their defensive organiza- tion. Hwang, the Commissioner, had expressed his approval of the pro- ceedings of the braves, and his desire that the allies should evacuate Penton. The merchants were requested not to delay preparations for a sudden departure, as it was evident that the allies arc in a state of war With the Chinese. The blockade of the river had been partially resumed. Shops were shut ; trade languished ; the people were in open hostility. Thus reports the Friend of China of July 6. "But what has been the immediate cause of this? some will ask. The answer is short. Repelling all attempt at sociability, the Chinese meet our advances with cruelty. We give an instance of what occurred on Saturday last, almost under our own eyes. Four Frenchmen landed from one of the Catmat's boats, for the purpose of purchasing provisions. When near the south gate, and in the new city, they were hemmed in by braves. Three cut their way through, the fourth was captured, and his head and hands cut off in almost less time than it takes us to write this sequel ; a specimen of the cause of panic. The French naval commander on the river landed a party of men, marched to the street where the murder was committed, inca-

sured one hundred paces, and at one end placed a detaehment, with directions to shoot every man that tried to escape. A similar party boxed the other end. Then came the revenge. Every adult male in the houses lining the hundred paces was seized, shot, his throat cut, and then left to *welter in the sun as a warning to the neighbourhood. Forty-six bodies, about one to each yard, made a ghastly spectacle. As a matter of course, only the maimed, the halt, and the blind, will remain longer in thin doomed city after occurrences such as these.

• "As dastardly was the murder of the cook of the 70th Bengal Native In- fantry officers' mess. Formerly servant to General Van Straubenzie,. he spoke excellent English, and was a most valuable man. He had just reached a small avenue leading up to the temple in which the officers have their mess-room, when he was stabbed from behind, and, falling down, was headless in a moment. Two Sepoys were close by—and in such haste to get away were the assassins, that the knife was left in the victim's back. Brigadier Corfield, in charge at the time, agreed with the suggestion that an example of some kind should be made. The whole street was levelled with the ground.

"House destruction, in fact, is the business of the day. Saturday night some rockets were flung into the commissariat stores from houses adjacent. The whole neighbourhood will come down in order that it shall not be re- peated. Last Wednesday, Captain Whiting, 70th Bengal Native Infantry, in charge of the East Gate, was sitting in the upper room of the barrack, When two shots passed close over his head, and through the roof. Looking round to see where they could come from' smoke was observed issuing from loop-holes in a house in the Strait Street of Benevolence and Love below. Action was prompt. A howitzer stood loaded—was fired through the gable end of the building, anti carried destruction to all within it. Now the Military Train coolies are busy moving the houses in the vicinity of all the gates."

As Captain Jenkins, and six men of the Actreon, were ree,onnoitreing a village, near Wham pea, they were fired upon and all wounded, the officer severely. Gunboats were brought up and the village was shelled.

Inifth 1fi1L—The Prince Albert arrived at Galway on Wednes- day with adviees from New York to the 21st August.

The New Yorkers celebrated the laying of the cable on the 17th Au- gnat. Some disappointment arose from a mistake made in the trans- mission of the Queen's message. At first only the first sentence arrived. When it was transmitted to Mr. Buchanan he doubted its authenticity. It appeared that the Valentia folks were obliged to desist from sending the message to repair the cable. The whole arrived on the 17th, and created a • certain degree of disappointment" because it was so "utterly jcieune in substance," did not contain "the utterance of some grand senti- ment that should for ever remain associated with this co-linking of the two worlds, and serve as a perpetual reminder of the event, and of its exalted moral significance." In New York the success of the enterprise formed the whole absorbing topic of conversation. There was universal jubilee. The Times cone- .ilident gives a description thereof.

The civic celebrations began last night, and will probably be continued for a day or two yet. During the day salutes of artillery were fired and the church bells rung. The chimes of Trinity toned ' Yankee Doodle' and

God save the Queen,' and there were other demonstrations which 'I was not able to see. I shall only undertake to describe such illuminations and fireworks 1113 I was able to see in the evening, leaving you, if curious, to

gather other accounts from the journals of this morning. About hal- f pam

seven I started from Thirty-second Street to walk down Broadway, a-dis- tance of three miles from the Battery, Broadway being a single street stretch- ing the whole distance. For the first mile I saw few signs of the gala ; here and there an hotel displayed candles in the windows—nothing more. A drifting cloud from the south-east, with sharp, vivid lightning, had been for some time lingering in the horizon, threatening for the moment an illumination worthy of the event, but had passed away leaving only bright stars above. The current of people thickened as we walked down, tin it a point about two miles above the Battery we became wedged in a solid of moving men and women. There were few mottoes (I saw none of much point; all were glorifying Mr. Field), and none of the ornamental lights of gas ado, which European streets are decorated in times of illumination. But in place of them candles were arranged in fanciful forma in the windows' and huge trans. parencies with allegorical figures and mottoes, Drummond lights, and fire- works more than made up the deficiency. In these they sometimes had a judicious eye to the profits. One egotistical vendor of perfumes repre_ sented her Majesty upon one side of the ocean, and himself upon the other giving her a bottle of some new scent. A large dry goods warehouse, web' a noble marble front, egualing in magnificence anything upon the grand canal of Venice, illuminated its deeply-recessed windows with variegated lights. The Astor House, a large hotel, well known to some of your corre- spondents, was perhaps the most elaborately got up building. Every win dow blazed with light, cannon thundered a salute from the roof, and along the whole line of its lofty granite front a gigantic display of fireworkstom- memorated the Atlantic Telegraph, August 5, 1858."fhe roof of the City Hall was extemporized into a volcano, from which for half an hour was. belched forth a succession of rockets, serpents, and every known form of gunpowder ornament, with an infinite variety and beauty of colour; and the display ended by turning its whole façade into a blaze of glory of real beauty. More remarkable however., than the tall marble buildings this part of the town, which, 'from their deep cellars to their sixth stories, shone in sheets of light, were the people, who for more than two miles. lined the wide trottoirs of the street in solid mass, without disorder, and without, so far as I heard, a loud word.

"Escaping from town, we took the ferry to Hoboken, and galloped up the Weehauken cliffs to see the coup (reed. The whole sky along the line of the town was alive with fireworks. On the ends of many of the piers jutting out among the shipping tar-barrels were burning, throwing a bright light on the red brick houses behind them and magnifying in the shadow the spars and rigging of the vessels in the docks or in the stream. The streete of Jersey City and Hoboken were bright with the fire of many blazing barrels. The distant shores of Long Island, and even the hills of Staten Island, were manifesting their interest in the scene by sending up from the scattered villas here and there a rocket; and before we turned away a black cloud in the south-west began to discharge its sheets of electric fire, grander, brighter, and more appropriate than any of the mimic manifestations that we had just been admiring so much ; and, lastly, to make the day still more memorable, after midnight had quieted the streets of the town, the the roof and cupola of the City-hall broke out in sheets of flame, and this morning the upper part of that fine building is in ruins." Some of the mottoes are curious but few rise above a punning level.

"All the world Knox under to American enterprise. There were kings before Agamemnon, but the Agamemnon is king of them all.' It took two American rivers to conquer the Atlantic—the Niagara and Hudson." "Morse, the 'inventor,' supplied the germ ; Steers, the mechanic,' furnished the Niagara ; Field, the business man,' completed the glorious work. Americans exult in American invention, mechanical genius and business, energy, and perseverance, furnished by Morse, Steers, and Field. All honour to America!"

"All hail to the inventive genius and indefatigable industry of John and Jonathan, who have succeeded in consummating the highest work of the age ! May the cord that binds them in the bonds of international friendship never be severed, and the Field of its usefulness extend to the uttermost parts of the earth !" " Electricity : caught by Franklin, harnessed by ;Morse, guided across the ocean by Field." "Married, August 1858, by CyrusW. Field, Old Ireland and Miss Young America ; may their honeymoon last for ever !" " Lihertd, Egalitd, and Fraterniti : universal republic."

By the telegraph itself we are told that "great preparations are in pro- gress at New York and other places for celebrations to he held on the 1st and 28 of September. The New Yorkers will make it the greatest gala- day ever known in this country."

When the Niagara arrived at New York on the 18th, a crowd escorted Captain Hudson from the Quays to the City Hall. On the 20th Mr. Cyrus stood at his door to receive the elect and non-elect for three hours. Outside a mob collected, and it was addressed by all the celebrities pre- sent connected with the laying of the cable. Captain Hudson said that he hoped they would also do honour to Mr. Woodhouse, at the Brevoort House. There had been nothing left undone by the English people to aid them, and he was sorry to think that Americans had got such credit while their brethren across the water were forgotten. Mr. Everett, the mechanist, Mr. Cyrus Field, Mr. Tiemann, the Mayor, and Mr. Dudley Field joined in this appeal. The people went accordingly to the dwell- ing of the Englishman, and called him forth. When the cheering was stilled, he said-

" Gentlemen, I thank you very much for the honour you have done me in associating my name with those of your own respected countrymen who were engaged in the Atlantic telegraph expedition, which has terminated so gloriously.. It is difficult for mete speak of my own doings ; but this I will say, that I try to do my duty at all times and under all circumstances. Ta your own countryman' Mr. Everett, the bulk of the praise is due. The machine which he had the honour of contriving is perfect, and worked well during the heavy weather experienced by the Niagara and the Agamemnon. No doubt but we had many arduous nights and anxious fears ; but while I remember those anxious fears I shall remember the kindness which I re- ceived on board the Niagara from first to last. Captainnucleon, and, in- deed, all the officers, treated me with the utmost kindness, and acted as friends and brothers should act. I am very glad of this opportunity of ac- knowledging that fast. I will now in conclusion, simply express a hope that the Atlantic telegraph cable may prove a rope that will bind the two powerful nations together, now so closely united by language and the bonds of friendship."

Of course these sentiments were received with prodigal cheering. The American newspaper-writers seem very much astonished that we have made no great fuss about the success of the Atlantic cable. One writer says, "John Bull kept as well as a cucumber; there was no splurge (sic) in the papers" ; not even any of "those marks of popular enthusiasm with which the birth of a new member of the Royal FamilY is always hailed by her Britannie:Majesty's loyal subjects."

, The Baltimore Sun presents its re.aders with the following undress sketch of the President of the United States. Familiar as our people are generally with the unostentatious habits of the chief officers of our Government, one cannot witness them, with the knowledge of the pomp and show of royalty to invite the contrast, without in' voluntarily indulging it. On Saturday last, President Buchanan arrived at the Relay house, or Washington Junction, as it is more properly called, en route for Washington city. There was a rumour abroad that he was to rive and the visitors had, consequently, grouped about the house when the train came along. We soon perceived the President coming from the cars to the platform, looking hearty., but thoroughly travel-soiled, smiling, and cheerful. By his side, and evidently offering with gentlemanly defer- ence the courtesy of attention, was a rather rough-looking individual, whom we took for a conductor or breaksman. The gentleman will excuse our blundering in such a matter; but, upon inquiry, we were informed he was sir William Gore Ouseley. On passing into the bar-room the Presi- dent threw off his coat and his white neckcloth, carelessly pitching them over a chair, opened his shirt collar, and tucked up his sleeves for a wash, conveniences for this purpose being in the apartment. At the time, how- ever, both basins were occupied by two young men, neither of whom seemed to be aware that the President was about. He waited patiently some time when some one spoke, and invited him up-stairs. He declined, however, quietly remarking that he would wait for his turn. And as soon as the ba- sins were vacated he took his turn' in a jolly good wash in the public bar- room. This done, he seemed rather perplexed about the arrangement of his neckcloth, and seemed likely to tie his nose and mouth up in it. Some- body just then offered assistance, and the President was briefly equipped. At about this time a person who had come into the room sang out pretty near to him, 'Look here, I thought the old Pres. was to be here today—.' The speech was cut short by a nudge, while a momentary comical expres- sion passed across the face of that same old Pres.' A cigar was handed to him by a friend ; he took a good satisfying drink of—not old rye,' which he is said to affect, when prime—but ice-water, had barely fired up his ci- gar, when the bell rang, and all aboard' summoned the chief magistrate of the United States to his seat in the cars, and away they went to Wash- ington. We took our admiration of this scene of republican simplicity quietly with us into the ears for Baltimore, and mused with some compla- cency over the sterling honour of being an American citizen."

X f111111111111111111L—The Niagara and her consorts reached Trinity Bay at night, and were piloted into its inner waters by means of lights and a beacon on shore which set part of the forest on fire. Before day break the boats of the ships began to land the cable. On landing, the shore end was carried up through a road only recently cut through the primteval forest to the terminus House, a wooden building, about one- third of a mile from the beach, which connects it with all the electric telegraphs in North America. From this house the distance by the tele- graph line to New York is 1080 miles, to St. John's eighty. When this place was reached the great work, as far as landing this end of the cable was concerned, may be said to have been nearly complete, and when Mr. Field, amid the stumps of fallen trees, informed the assem- blage that he was communicating with the Agamemnon on the other side

.of the Atlantic, this wonderful undertaking was consummated. At this stage of the proceedings Captain Hudson, as senior officer, assembled the people present, returning thanks to the Almighty for granting such favourable weather, without which it was evident to the most unreflect- ing that the undertaking could not have been successful ; he then con- cluded by thanking all the officers and men for their exertions and assist- ance in carrying out the work.

"The Bay of Bull's Arm, which has just been brought into notoriety by the fact of its being selected for the terminus of the Atlantic cable, is at the west end of Trinity Bay, and separated from Placentia by a narrow Isthmus of a mile and a half in 'breadth, the distance round by sea being upwards of 200. It is one of the many inlets and sounds which abound in Trinity. Bay, and has been chosen owing to its situation with regard to the prevailing winds, which prevent it from being so frequently encumbered with the drifting icebergs annually sent down by the current from the Polar Regions. It is situated forty miles from the eastern promontory of the bay (Break- heart Point,) but up the bay, in the centre of which the cable is laid more encouraging names, and prophetic of the success which has attended this undertaking are to be found, as Heart's Desire," Heart's Ease,' Heart's Content,' and not far from the spot where the cable i landed Hope all Bay.' These places were named by some of the early navigators, Cabot, Sir Walter Raleigh, Hudson, and Sir Humphry Gilbert, (who was un- fortunately lost, with all his crew, in returning,) all helped to explore this toast; and, more recently, the celebrated circumnavigator Cook, who first commenced his distinguished career as a surveyor in Placentia Bay. Snug fishing villages, containing from twenty to sixty houses, are now to be met with in most of these harbours, the largest of which is at Trinity, on the north side, and not far from its entrance. Here the magistrate and post- master reside, and it contains a population of 1000 inhabitants, all more or less engaged in fishing. The people appear to be well off, and are prin- cipally of English or Irish descent, the children still retaining the accent of the counties from which their forefathers originally emigrated. Nature has 80 bountifully supplied the sea around them with fish for their support, -that they have neglected the soil for agricultural purposes, and are cease- i

quently dependent on imports for the supplies, although it has been .proved that corn and almost every kind of vegetable will grow during the short summer which they have from July to September. The population of the Island is about 90,000, nearly one half of whom are Roman Catholics. There is a Roman Catholic and a Protestant Bishop at St. John's and several earnest missionaries at the different stations on the inland; but, as the people are so scattered, it is difficult with the existing means for them all to receive spiritual instruction. The scarcity of schools and schoolmasters is another great evil. Few of the children, or even the grown up people, in the smaller villages can read or write."

CH I/ a tt 11.—The Canadian Parliament was prorogued on the 15th Au- gust by Sir Edmund Head. He did not in his speech refer to the per- turbations of Government, but confined himself mainly to congratulating the Parliament on the work it has done. One sentence, which stands at the end of the speech, has a broader interest than all the rest.

" I propose in the course of the recess to communicate with her Majesty's Government, and with the Governments of our sister colonies, on another matter of very great importance. I am desirous of inviting them to discuss with us the principles on which a bond of a federal character, uniting the provinces of 'British North America, may perhaps hereafter be practicable." The session has endured six months—a period of unusual length.

en tta.—A letter from Havamiah says "that the slave-trade has re- ceived a momentary check in Havanali, through the activity of Mr. Savage, the American Consul, but all other ports of Cuba, are in the constant receipt of slaves, and the general success for the last twelve months has sharpened the appetites of the adventurous dealers in this un- lawful traffic." The yellow fever prevailed in the island to an extent almost unprecedented.