SANDWICH ISLANDS.

Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 45, 22 October 1857, Page 4

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

Trade dr the Islands.—The invoice value of goods entered at the Custom House, Honolulu, during the quarter ending March 31st, 1857, was 178,390,36 dols. against 348,948,15 dollars for tfle corresponding quarter of 1856, showing adecrease of 170,677,79 dollars. The total value of exports the same quarter this year was 65,649,06 dollars, against 38,688,88 dollars last year, showing an increase of 26,960,13 dollars. The apparent balance of trade against us for the first quarter of this year is but 112,741,30 dollars, while it will be remembered that the two cargoes of oil - those of the Black Warrior and E. L. Fros‘ — worth some 24,000 dollars—were the produce of Hawaiian enterprise and capital, and though they figure under a foreign flag, arc as much in point of fact a domestic export as any article in the list. The result shows a decided tendency towards a healthy state of commerce, and in that respect is cheering— Polynesian. Death of William L. Lee —His Honor William L. Lee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, died at his residence in Hotel street, aged thirty-six years and three months. His disease was consumption. His death, which has been anticipated for some time, will be a heavy loss to our community and nation. He arrived in Honololu October 12, 1846.—Advertiser. 4J THE PUNJAUB ARMY. Mutiny, desertion, or dismissal, has greaty thinned the imposing army of the Punjaub. When I closed my last letter we had just heard of the determination to form a flying column at Jhelum under General Reed. It was rumoured that disaffection was rife both at Ferozepore and at Lahore. The 45 and 57th regiments mutinied at Ferozepore on the 13th May. But her Majesty’s 61st aided by the 10th Light Cavalry, which remained staunch, inflicted severe loss upon them, and on the following day the mutineers gave in and were quietly disarmed. At Meean Meer, the camp of Lahore, the three native infantry regiments of the garrison, the 16th, 26th, and 49th, were disarmed on the 13th by Brigadier Corbett, with the 81st Foot, and the powerful force of artillery, horse and foot. At Peshawur, on the 22nd, three more infantry regiments, the 24th, 27th, ;..nd 51st, and the sth Light Cavalry, were deprived of their arms. A subhadar-major of the 51st was hanged in the presence of all the troops. At Murdan, the 55th, or the greater }O.-tion of the regiment, deserted their col rs. Their colonel, Spottiswoode, committed suicide. A party of Europeans and irregulars from Peshawur attacked them, killed or captured 200, and drove the remainder to seek safety by hasty flight in the Swat Valley in their rear, the entrance to which is now carefully guarded against a possible attack by the tribes. Six men of the corps had already been shot at Peshawur, together with a native officer of the 10th Irregulars, and the prisoners, 150 in number, were to be tried as soon as they were brought into the station. At the latest dates the whole of the Punjaub was perfectly tranquil. THE OUTBREAK AT NEEMUCH. “ Ono, p.m. " The following officers are known to be saved, according to a telegraphic message sent to Agra from the Resident at Indore :— “ All the officers of the 72ed, with their families. “ Artillery—Lieutenant Walker and child, Lieut. Barnes, Dr Clarke. “7th Gwalior Infantry—Captain M'Donald, Lieut. Rose, Lieut. Gurdon. “ Ist Cavalry—Captain Sir J. Hill, Lieut. Ellice, Lieut. Stapleten, Quartermaster Sergeant and family. “Other officers—Captain Lloyd (Lawrie ?), Lieut. Davenport, 21st Bombay Native Infantry, Lieut. Ritchie, and Dr Cotes. “ Dr. and Mrs. Hockin, at Jewud ; also Mrs. Buston and family, Sergeant Brahyon, wife, and family, and Mr. Williams, at Jadree. “ At Hissar and Hanis, two stations to the north-west (north-west of Delhil, the troops, consisting of the Hureenah Battalion an 1 the 4th Irregular Cavalry, are said to have mutinied. A general massacre is asserted to have taken place, but we hope the report will turn out to be groundless like the similar one at Nee much. “Report from Agra (on native authority only), that there was a panic amongst the mutineers at Delhi, that 500 horse had fled from the city, and that the king was anxious to throw himself on our protection.” THE MUTINEERS IN INDIA. As our intelligence is derived from two or three stray papers, picked up on board the Simla, the news is necessarily fragmentary. A passenger informs us that thirty thousand troops are to be sent out immediately from great Britain to India, and adds that the details of the butcheries of the wives and children of the British officers by the native troops are too horrible for publication. An engagement took place at Delhi, on the 23rd June, when nearly a thousand mutineers were slam and the British took possession of the suburbs of the city. The latest reports from Benares, Allahabad, Nagpore, Rewah, and Nagode, are to the effect that “ all is quiet.”

DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENTS AT ALLAHABAD “ From Brigadier General Habelock to the Governor General, dated Allahabad, 13th J uly

“ I have to acquaint your lordship that I have thiy morning attacked, and totally defeated the Insurgents, capturing eleven guns, and scattering therforces ij in utter confusion

in ihe direction of Cawnpore. By two harasing marches I joined Major Renaud’s advanced column three hours before daylight, and encamped about 8 o’clock four miles from Futtehpore ; where pitching our tents, the enemy advanced out of Futtehpore, and opened fire upon a resonmisance under Colonel Taylor. “ I had wished to defer the fight until tomorrow, but, thus assailed, was compelled' to accept the challenge. “ I marched eight guns in the centre, under Captain Maude (R A), forming the whole of the infantry in quarter distance column, in support.

“ Captain Maude’s fire electrified the enemy, who abandoned gun after gun, and were then driven by our skirmishers and column through garden enclosures and the streets of Futtehpore in complete confusion. “ My loss is merely nominal, not a single European touched. My column had marched twenty-four miles up to the ground I write from, Major Renaud’s nineteen miles. The conduct of the troops in sustaining the fatigue of so long a march and enduring the heat of a frightful sun, is beynd all praise. The enemy’s strength is said to have teen two regiments of cavalry and three of infantry, and 11 guns.” From General Neill, Allahabad, dated the 16th July:

“ I started 227 of the 84th Regiment, partly in bullock-vans; they are to march 25 miles a night to reach in five days. I start this afternoon by dark, and shall overtake the 84th and move up with them. I will go on before them if I can. I shall lose no time. The mutineers are out of caps, and have converted all the detonators into matchlocks. A Kossid from Lucknow declares the mutineers there are iu want of shot, firing stones from the guns.

“ News had been received that Sir Henry Lawrence was wounded on his return from an attack on the rebels advancing on Lucknow, on the 2nd inst., and that he sunk under the effects of his wounds on the 4th inst.

“ It is reported from Lucknow (on the 10th July) that the attacks of the rebels are less frequent and more feeble than heretofore.” Cawnpore Cantonment, 17th July.

“ By the blessing of God I recaptured this place yesterday, and totally defeated Nana Sahib in person, taking more than six guns, four of siege calibre. The enemy were strongly posted behind a succession of villages, and obstiaotely disputed for 140 minutes every inch of the ground: but I was enabled by a flank movement of my right to turn his left, and this gave us the victory. Nana Sahib had barbarously murdered all the captive women and children before the engagement. He has retired to Bhitoor, and blew up this morning on his retreat the Cawnpore Magazine. He is said to be strongly fortified. I have not been yet able to get in the return of killed and wounded, but estimate my loss at about seventy, chiefly from the fire of grape.” We have seen a letter from Dinapore, which states that Fowle, Anderson, Morgan, Dr. Daniel and Ousely, of the 22nd N. 1., are safe ; one or two of these gentlemen were previously reported to lave been killed. o TACT AND TALENT. [Krom a Home Paper.] Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable; tact is all that, and more too. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch ; it is the interpreter of all riddles — the surmounter of all difficulties—the remover of all obstacles. It is useful in all places, and at all times : it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world; it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world. Talent is power—tact is skill: talent is weight—tact is momentum : talent knows what to do—tact knows how to do it: talent makes a man respectable—tact will make him respected: talent is wealth — tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent—ten to one. Take them to (he theatre, and pit them against each other on the stage, and talent shall produce you a tragedy that will scarcely live long enough to be damned, while tact keeps the house in a roar, night after night, with its successful farces. There is no want of dramatic talent, there is no want of dramatic tact, but they are seldom together; so we have successful pieces which aie not respectable, and respectable pieces which are not successful. Take them to the bar, and let them shake their learned curls at each other in legal rivalry : talent sees its way clearly, but tact is first at its journey’s end. Talent has many a complement from the bench, bui tact touches fees from attorneys and clients. Talent speaks learnedly and logical.y—tact triumphantly. Talent makes the world wonder that it gets on no faster, tact excites astonishment that it gets on so fast; and the secret is, that it has no weight to carry : it makes no false steps — tt hits the right nail on the head- -it loses no eime—it takes all hints—and by keeping its vye on the weathercock, is ready to take adi antage of every wind that blows. Take them into the church. Talent has always something worth hearing, tact is sure of abundance of hearers. Talent may obtain a living, tact will make one. Talent gets a goo.! name, tact a great one. Talent convinces, tact converts. Talent is an honour to the profession, tact gains honour from the profession. Take them to court. Talent feels its weight, tact finds its way. Talent commands, tact is obeyed. Talent is honoured with approbation, and tact is blessed by preferment. Place them in the Senate. Talent has the ear of the House, but tact wins its heart and has its votes. Talent is fit for employment, but tact is fitted for it.

It has a knack of slipping into place with a sweet silence and glibness of movement, as a billiard ball insinuates itself into the pocket. It seems to know everything without learning anything. It has served an invisible and extemporary apprenticeship. It wants no drilling. It never ranks in the awkward squad. It has no left hand, no deaf ear, no blind side. It puts on no looks of wondrous wisdom, it has no air of profundity; but plays with the details of place as dexterously as a well-taught hand flourishes over the keys of the pianoforte. It has all the air of common-place, and all the three and power of genius. It can change sides with a hey-presto movement, and be at all points of the compass, while talent is ponderously and learnedly shifting a single point. Talent calculates clearly, reasons logically makes out a case as clear as daylight, and utters its oracles with all the weight of justice and reason. Tact refutes without contradicting, puzzles the profound with profundity, and without win outwits the wise. Set them together on a race for popularity, pen in hand, and tact will distance talent by half the course. Talent brings to market that which is wanted, tact produces that which is wished for. Talent instructs; tac; enlightens. Talent leads where no one follows; tact follows where the humour leads. Talent is pleased that it ought to have succeeded; tact is delighted that it has succeeded. Talent toils for a posterity which will never repay it; tact throws away no pains, but catches the passion of the passing hour. Talent builds for eternity ; tact on a short lease, and gets good interest. Talent is certainly a very fine thing to talk about, a very good thing to be proud 0f,., a very glorious eminence to lock down from ; but tact is useful, portable, applicable, always alive, always alert, always marketable; it is the talent of talents, the availableness of resources, the applicability of power, the eye of discrimination, the right hand of intellect.