POSTSCRIPT.

SATURDAY.

Telegraphic despatches in anticipation of the Calcutta mail of July 17, have arrived this morning. The bulk of the Indian news reported is old, but some of the statements are important. The Bombay news comes down to the 4th August. "The troops in Oude were engaged in the pursuit of the rebels and the reduction of mud forts. Many chiefs, not deeply compromised, were surrendering to Government ; others had received rewards for fidelity or punishment for treason.

"Sir Hugh Rose had resigned the command of the Poonah Division. "The second Oude Proclamation, published in Bombay, had been de- clared by Government a forgery." [It may be remembered that this is the proclamation in which Lord Canning is made to adopt Lord Ellen- borough's views, and guarantee to all Zemiudars not murderers, their estates.] The advices from Hongkong are only to the 6th July, and from Tien sien only to the 18th June, or nine days before the Russian courier started from Tien sin on his way to St. Petersburgh. On the 18th June this was the strange state of things. "Lord Elgin had received from the Imperial Commissioner a written promise of concession of his de- mands. The American and Russian treatise had been concluded. The Americans were believed to have stipulated for an annual visit to Pekin.

"The Commissioner at Canton was urging the people to war, and ignored the negotiations in the north. A proclamation had been issued by General Straubenzee establishing a partial blockade. Trade was at a standstill."

By the arrival of the Harmonia at Souffiampton, we have advices from New York to the 16th August. President Buchanan returned to Washington on the evening of the 14th, much improved in health. The American Peace Commissioners, Messrs. Powell and M'Culloch, arrived at Washington on the morning of the 14th from Utah. Their repre- sentations of the agreement between the Mormons and the Government did not vary in any material points from what had already been pub- lished. The important consideration was the fact that peace at all events had been secured, and the supremacy of the laws and the authority of the Government recognized. Still, the Commissioners did not hesitate to say that much remains to be done before the Mormons will be brought to that obedience which is necessary for the continuance of amicable re- lations. Accepting this proposition, the Government would, it was said, so mature its plans to this end that their purpose must eventually be ac- complished in the face of the opposition which may be arrayed against it. The Commissioners also verified the accounts published of the conduct of lirigham Young toward his followers. So unjust and tyrannical had this become, that it was deemed necessary to repeat the instructions he;e- tofore given to the officers of the Government in Utah, to afford them an the protection in their power.

At New York they were in the thick of preparations for celebrating the laying of the Atlantic telegraph.

Mr. Seward had made a speech at Auburn on the subject of the elec. trio cable. He regarded it as the guarantee of peace, enduring and eternal. Diplomacy will become obsolete when nations are brought into communion with each other. What the nations of the world have most needed through all the centuries that have passed, was a system of self. government, based upon the fundamental principle of the political equality of all classes and conditions of men. "It fell to the lot of our own country to organize such system of government, and under the aus- pices of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Hamilton, to put it into successful operation. But it stood here isolated and alone. The nations of Europe saw that system at a distance, coveted it, and many of them have struggled through seas of blood to seize, embrace, adopt, and establish it amongst themselves. But that was impossible, and has hitherto been impossible. Before they can avail themselves of this great blessing the European continent, and all other continents, must be brought practically into immediate proximity to, and intimate communion with, the United States." So, Providence has sent the means in telegraphs. Henceforth Europe, Asia, and Africa are to be rapidly regenerated by the political ideas of America, "henceforth we shall have no such low ambi- tion as is expressed by the motto : Americans shall rule America ; but that nobler ambition expressed by what hereafter is to be our watch- word : American mind, American opinions, American systems, shall rule throughout the earth."

It is a curious fact that Count de Persig.ny's important speech, long telegraphic summaries of which appear in the Nord and Independence of Brussels, is not so much as mentioned by any Paris morning journal. The only evening paper which alludes to it is the Courrier de Paris, and that quotes the first part only, in which there is nothing about the Eng- lish alliance, and it does not say whether it intends to publish the re- mainder.

A _Daily News correspondent writing from Constantinople, August refers to the late ministerial crisis, which, he says, nearly resulted in the overthrow of the Grand Vizier. The cause of the commotion was an attempt on the part of the latter to bring the Sultan to reason on the subject of his civil list expenditure, which has latterly attained an ex- travagance such as was never known before. His Majesty was furious, and rated the economic Atli in a style seldom employed by Imperial lips. The Vizier retired and sent in his resignation, which was at first accepted, and Riza Pacha, the Minister of War (and Atili's rival,) sent for to take possession of the vacant seals. Riza, however, had barely reached the palace when the repentant Sultan despatched another messenger to bring back the Vizier, whom he urged to withdraw his resignation. This was done ; but as a settlement of the affair in that easy way would have stultified his Majesty, a " modifica- tion" was devised ; and, to give effect to that, Mehmed Ruchdi Pada, the Grand Master of Artillery, was shelved, with the softener of a seat at the Council of Tanzimat, and his very profitable berth given to Riza, in addition to his present post of Seraskier.

Sir Charles Napier has addressed a sort of circular letter to the morn- ing journals giving them his opinion of Cherbourg, and the ships he found there. After describing the breakwater, basins, and forts, he says— Let us now examine in what way Cherbourg will affect our safety. In former wars France collected her Channel fleet in Brest, and off that port we spent many an anxious day and night. Plymouth breakwater did not then exist, and when hard pressed we only had Torbay to run for, and the 'mo- ment the wind came to the eastward we were oft to our old station. This gave us great experience, made good sailors and smart officers, but it wore out both men and ships, and did not keep the enemy in port, for they sailed when they pleased. In another war, if France means mischief abroad, she will keep her fleets in the western ports ready to put to sea ; if she means mischief at home, she will collect her knee at Cherbourg, and we will watch her from Alderney, Portland, and St. Helen's, and save wear and tear ; so far we shall be better off. If she means invasion, she must collect her steamers to carry troops, and these steamers must be covered by a fleet, and before she can land we must have a regular stand-up fight, and lhave no fear for the result; but, sir, what I fear is, that in time ofprofound peace,Franee, having a large army at command, a large fleet, and a large number of seamen always ready, may suddenly make an attack on this country from Brest, Cherbourg, Boulogne, or any other Channel port she pleases. Re- member, this does not now require ships of war (though she is preparing steam transports to carry 15,000 cava )—she would only have to seize steamers—no matter whom they belonged to—collect them at Cherbourg, and this is only 60 miles from Portland. We must either arrange with France to keep up a moderate navy, or we must keep up a well-manned and well-disciplined Channel fleet ; and this may be done at a very mode- rate expense. At last we have a Channel squadron of six sail of the line, but that is not sufficient ; we ought to have ten sail of the line, manned by first-rate semen—there ought not to be a landsman amongst them. Only 100 marines should be embarked in each ship, and their number filled np with able seamen. I cannot say the ships, as a whole, struck me as bein$ very inferior to our own ; I thought they were very fine ships, and looked very much like men-of-war ; five of them were built for screws, and four were sailing-ships transformed into screws. The French build, and indeed always did build, as fine ships as ours ; and some of the best ships we had last war were taken from the French, or copied from them."

We have received early copies of Captain Walter Crofton's "Notes on Colonel Jebb's Report on Intermediate Prisons." The Notes are in a folio form, resembling a Parliamentary paper, thirty-two pages in length. The fasciculus contains Colonel Jebb's Observations in parallel columns with Captain Crofton's Notes. We have not to explain to our readers that the two men are to a certain extent representatives of opposing sr- tems. Colonel Jebb, the Chief Director of Prisons in this country, was a stout advocate for the continuance of convict-transportation, and he appears still to dream that such a thing is possible ; he very reluctantly admitted some changes in our present system necessarily con.sequent upon the abandonment of transportation generally ; he may be said to be the opponent of the reformatory plan, and therefore he is necessarily the opponent of the system of intermediate prisons,—those departments of what we may call moral castigation, into which not incorrigible prison-- em are admitted as a preparative to their discharge. Captain Walter crab= is the Director of Convict Prisons in Ireland ; he has developed the reformatory branch of penal chastisement with extraordivary sue- and with a rapidity that few could have imagined possible. In the

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ual report of his own department, Colonel Jebb made observa- tions, not of a very striking kind, impugning the Irish intermediate pnsons- His remarks showed that he had ieally misconceived the ob- jects, principles, and even facts of the Irish system ; and the purpose of Captain Crofton's Notes is to correct these errors in the English Di- We shall not do Colonel Jebb the injustice of dismissing his observations with this rough-and-ready description ; our only object now is to announce the issue of Captain Crofton's Notes, and to explain their purport. The Daily News began a reprint of the Notes yesterday, with a promise that they were "to be continued." The Notes them- selves are printed by Alexander Thom and Sons, in Dublin. We shall, of course, take up the subject fully.

The proceedings in Mr. Buck's case were yesterday brought to a elm e• Commissioner Winslow summed up the evidence and told they jury that all they had to consider was whether Mr. Ruck was of sound mind at that mo- ment. Mr. Ruck was once more examined, when he repeated that he was quite sure all his suspicions regarding Mrs. Ruck were groundless. He could not say it had occurred to his mind to atone to his wife, because he had been hurt by this inquiry, which she had instituted about him. The jury retired and deliberated about twenty minutes. Then the fore- man said,.—" The jury have come to the conclusion that Mr. Ruck is of sound mind and quite capable of managing his own affairs." The an- nouncement was received with cheers by the crowd in the hall.

Mr. Gordon Allen one of the counsel for Mr. Ruck, applied to have the statements and certificates on which that gentleman was sent to the asylum at Mooreroft impounded, with a view possibly to ulterior legal proceedings. The Commissioner refused to entertain the application, doubting whether he had the power to grant it, even if it ware right to do so. It is stated that the verdict was adopted by a majority of 12 to 6.

Worthing has been the scene of a sad accident. The children of two gentlemen visiting that town were sent in a sailing yacht for a trip in front of the town, while the parents went to Littlehampton. There were on board eleven children, six servants, and two boatmen. Suddenly the yacht capsized. One of the boatmen was drowned. One, a youth of nineteen, Tester by name, saved many lives. When the boat went over one of his legs was caught by the ropes running from the bulwark to the mast. Here he became fixed ; one of his feet gained a hold on the mast, and the ropes on either side of one of his legs had the effect of supporting him there. In this situation he stood for near a quarter of an hour with a little girl under his arm, a little boy clinging to his shoulder by his guernsey, shrieking to a distant boat's crew, "Sailor, come here ; Sailor, come here!" Three female servants were clinging on to him in front, and the coachman's wife, with her infant in her arms, hanging on him behind, all uttering piercing and agonizing shrieks. He entreated the woman with her infant to relinquish her grasp, for it was pressing his guernsey on his neck almost to strangulation. She would not, and the poor fellow's strength had all but failed. Happily a pleasure-boat saw the accident, and reached the wreck in time to rescue 'Tester and those he had saved. Thirteen per- sons were drowned including nine children, all under nine years of age.

The Dublin papers announce the death of Mr. William Henry Curran, late Commissioner of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and son of the celebrated John Philpot Curran, formerly Master of the Rolls, which took place on Tuesday last, at his residence in Fitzwilliam. Place, at the age of sixty-nine years.