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BENGAL:

SUMMARY and REVIEW OF EAST

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Supreme Court..

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Address to the Lord Bishop

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is likely to take place. The news we have is not much, and the small portion afforded us cannot be relied on with much confidence. The Agra Ukhbar, on the authority of private letters, intimates a belief that GOLAB SINGH would be placed at the head of affairs in the Punjab, and gives circulation to a report that a perfect understanding prevailed between him and the Queen Mother; but subsequent advices, published in the same paper (generally well-informed on such matters), do not altogether confirm the preceding news. According to these later accounts, GOLAB SINGH has refused the office of Wuzeer, and has been appointed to that of Commanderin-chief of all the forces in the Punjab, a favour which he is represented to have purchased at a very high price. Yet if this report be trustworthy, GOLAB, though apparently favoured by the Ranee, does not in reality stand high in her regard. His elevation to the head of the army has, it is said, been forced upon her by circumstances, and it is believed that the parties about GoLAB SINGH are playing with him to extract his hidden treasures, and then dispose of his person-a conjecture, if it be no more than a conjecture, certainly warranted by a very high degree of probability. The troops at Lahore are represented as being in a state of utter insubordination, acknowledging no authority, and dictating their own terms for pay and presents. While some accounts testify to the good faith of the Khalsa troops towards GOLAB SINGH and their attachment to him, others state that he has been betrayed into the hands of his enemies. By some it is said that the Jumboo territory has been made over by the Durbar to MOTEE SINGH, and that GOLAB SINGH's nephews have been ordered from Jumboo, to present themselves at the Durbar.

The Bengal Hurkaru has the following very just remarks on the intention and prospects of GOLAB SINGH :-" Golab It is Singh's position is, and ever will be, a precarious one. evident that the army is not attached to him by any feeling of good-will, but merely by the hope of gain. He has been cunning enough to persuade the soldiery that he has immense treasure hidden, and known to himself alone: hence their care for his life. While he has money to bestow on them, and is liberal in the distribution thereof, as he has lately been, they will protect his person and support his cause. But how will it be when his treasures are exhausted? He is now guarded as a rich prize, rather than obeyed as a leader, and if he does not find some other means of esta blishing his ascendency, he will, when he has lavished his stores, be cast aside as of no further use. Meantime his life

will be in constant danger from the hatred of his overthrown rival and his adherents, who will also do all in their power to undermine his credit with the army and the court."

A more interesting inquiry than that into the probable fate of GOLAB SINGH or of his competitors or enemies, is suggested by the question, what is likely to be the effect of the events in progress in the Punjab upon British interests? The Hurkaru, adverting to the wish of the Sikh troops (noticed in our last) to take vengeance for the defeat of their comrades by Major BROADFOOT, gives the following account of the prevalent feeling :-" They were ashamed, they declared, to have the people of Lahore taunting them about the large British force assembled at Ferozepore, and would rather lose the Punjaub at once than be constantly reproached in that way. JowAHIR SINGH Succeeded in pacifying them, for the time at least, by assuring them that he would communicate with the British authorities on the subject. But, now he is out of power, should GOLAB SINGH, his successor, be of a different way of thinking, or desire to give employment to the now idle troops, or to conciliate their further favour by yielding to their wishes, it is possible that a move might be made towards our frontier. The threat of invasion is not that of an individual, but of an army speaking through its deputies; and as this army cannot long remain inactive, it may endeavour to carry its threat into execution, should no internal strife direct its wayward energies into another channel. It is comforting, however, to know that come when they will, or how they will, due preparation is made for their reception." There seems little reason to doubt that the Khalsa are well disposed to fight, and perhaps they may be indulged.

The Southern Mahratta country affords little that is new. General DELAMOTTE has been relieved at Belgaum by Brigadier MANSON. The former, on relinquishing his post, issued division orders, complimenting the officers and men who had served under him during the recent campaign. The Court-martial on Colonel WALLACE has concluded its proceedings, but the result has not been made known.

In Scinde there appears, since the last despatch, to have been no occurrence to break the monotony of tranquillity, which is somewhat remarkable.

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Oude, ever oppressed and miserable, is as much oppressed and as miserable as ever. Thus writes the editor of one of the local papers -"In the unfortunate kingdom of Oude affairs are in a very bad state. Rapine and extortion are triumphant throughout the land. The extremely miserable condition of the country has, it seems, at last attracted the attention of our Government, and, as it is said, the Residentat Lucknow, after vainly remonstrating with the king on the excesses of his ministers, has, under instructions from superior authority, threatened to suspend all official intercourse betwixt himself and the Court."

From none of the Presidencies are there any tidings of extraordinary interest. At Calcutta a public meeting had been held to consider the propriety of paying some mark of respect to Sir WILLIAM NOTT, and a subscription was opened for the purpose. The death of Sir THOMAS VALIANT had caused deep regret. The following account of his career appears in one of the local papers :-" He entered the army in 1804, obtained his lieutenancy in the following year, his company in 1817, his majority in 1821, his lieutenant-colonelcy in 1825, and was made a colonel in

the army in June 1838. In 1805 and 1806 he was engaged in active service in Guzerat, and in 1809 served in the campaign against the Sikh chief SAY. On our invasion of Affghanistan he held the command of the reserve force of the army of the Indus, and, in connection with Sir F. MAITLAND, the naval commander-in-chief, took the fort of Kurrachee. He served throughout Lower and Upper Scinde, and in Affghanistan; and the distinguished part he played in the Gwalior campaign is yet fresh in the memory of our readers."

In the ill-governed dominions of the Nizam an individual of great notoriety is said to have breathed his last. CHANDOO LAL is reported to have died on the 19th April, and, as it should seem from the following extract from a communication to the Madras United Service Gazette, is greatly lamented. It is proper to observe, however, that the editor expresses some doubt of the truth of the statement, and we give it with the like qualification, feeling it not impossible that we may have to report in our next that CHANDOO LAL is still alive ::

The Maharajah Chundoo Laul, who has long been in a declining state, breathed his last on Saturday the 12th inst. The Maharajah has not for the last eighteen months had any ostensible responsibility in state affairs, his nephew Rajah Ram Buksh, the Peshkar, being the nominal minister of the Nizam, though it was generally believed that Rajah Ram Buksh was but the puppet, of which the late Maharajah directed the wires. That master spirit is now, however, fled, and whatever may have been the late Maharajah's faults and crimes, it cannot be denied that his talents were of a transcendant order. The funeral ceremonies of the late Maharajah were performed with every mark of respect to his memory. The remains of the deceased were kept for three days, till Tuesday the 15th, when they were burned on the river near the Nurwa bridge, in presence of a vast concourse of people, amid the pealing of ordnance; the ceremony being attended by a brigade of infantry with artillery, from Secundrabad, and the whole of the Nizan's troops from Ulwal. Rajah Balapursaud is said to have been greatly affected on the occasion of his father's death, and expended a lac of rupees in charity. The Nizam also, I am told, deeply feels the loss of his old and talented servant.

Madras is preserved from total stagnation by the vigour with which Sir W. W. BURTON, one of the puisne judges, is exerting himself to cut down the fees of the office of the Master in the Supreme Court. Mr. MINCHIN, the party affected by the pruning operations resists with equal vigour, and the war has assumed a most formidable aspect. The Master, it is stated, has given formal notice to various solicitors that he shall hold them accountable for fees of equal amount with those which he has been accustomed to receive. The battle seems likely to be as fierce as the far-famed battle of the books, and it is to be regretted that there is no SWIFT to chronicle it.

Bombay seems likely to attain a degree of distinction in atrocious crime, almost equal to that which our own country and metropolis have recently gained. In one instance two young women and a boy were the victims, and the murders were perpetrated solely with a view to plunder. The criminals, three in number, obtained jewels worth about three hundred rupees, but they have been apprehended, have made confession of their guilt, and will in all probability suffer the The other crime was, like the just sentence of the law. preceding one, marked by circumstances of great profligacy. A hackery driver, having deserted his wife and associated himself with another woman, took an opportunity of the wife returning to his house, which she had previously quitted, to cut her throat, and subsequently that of the female with whom he had connected himself and his own. The two latter recovered, but the wife is dead.

Such are the most interesting events at Bombay.

BENGAL.

SUPREME COURT.-APRIL 4, 1845.
FARQUHARSON v. DALRYMPLE.

Mr. SANDES opened the pleadings.
Mr. LEITH stated the case.

This is a case of a very painful and distressing nature, in which a husband is compelled to seek a verdict, with damages from the Court, for perhaps the greatest civil injury known in society, as the foundation of and with a view to ulterior proceedings; and I trust the amount of damages which your lordships may award by your verdict will be such as to vindicate the character and conduct of the husband, and support his petition for a Parliamentary divorce.

The plaintiff and defendant are both in the civil service. The lady, the wife of the plaintiff, was a Miss Bowen, most respectably connected, and the daughter of a general officer in the EastIndia Company's service. She came out in the Hungerford, in the year 1837, and on her arrival in India she went to live with her sister, the wife of a civil servant then at Bhaugulpore.

In 1838 the plaintiff first became acquainted with her, and in the month of January in the following year they were married at the house of the lady's sister, and immediately thereafter proceeded to Patna, where the plaintiff, Mr. Farquharson, was then stationed. From that time up to the elopement, it will be proved by their most intimate friends and acquaintances, who will be called as witnesses, that they lived together happy, and on the best and most affectionate terms; and that the husband was kind, considerate, and indulgent. In January, 1812, the plaintiff was appointed collector at Chuprah, and then proceeded to and took up his residence there with his wife, and remained there up to the time of the elopement.

Three children were the fruits of the marriage. The eldest was born in 1840, and the youngest in July, 1844, so that the latter was scarcely, on the day of elopement, six months old.

In January, 1844, the defendant was appointed officiating magistrate at the same station, at Chuprah. He was not, when there, on any particular terms of friendship or intimacy with the plaintiff, and only visited at the house of the latter occasionally, as a mere acquaintance, and had only, in fact, dined in all three or four times with the plaintiff, and then only in company with others, during the whole time he was there, previous to the elopement.

On the 2nd of January last, the plaintiff left Chuprah for the Nepaul frontier, on official duty, under the orders of Government. During his absence, Mr. Farquharson left his wife under the friendly care and protection of the lady of the judge, who was on most intimate terms with her, and the plaintiff and his wife communicated together by letters during his absence. Three of these letters written by the lady, and the last, dated only the day next before that of the elopement, I will read, to shew the affectionate terms in which she addressed her husband. (The learned counsel then read the letters, and proceeded). During the absence of Mr. Farquharson, on official duty, the defendant visited Mrs. Farquharson twice,-once on the 11th of January, when he remained an hour, and again on the 15th, in the evening, between five and six o'clock, when he remained upwards of an hour. His conduct on this last occasion excited only curiosity on the part of the servants, and no more. On this occasion his conduct appeared strange, for three different times he proceeded to the door while the servants were sitting outside; the first time shutting the screen, which was midway in the space left for the door, and the two other times looking over the screen, apparently with the object of seeing whether the servants were still there. But it is not now sought to be insinuated that any thing criminal then took place, for such was not the fact. The defendant then left the house, and Mrs. Farquharson dined alone. About eight o'clock, and about the usual hour for preparing tea, the servants missed Mrs. Farquharson; she was not in the house, and a door, usually kept closed, was found open, through which it is supposed she passed out unobserved. Inquiry was made among the neighbours, and she was next day traced to the defendant's house. I will prove the defendant was seen to leave his house between eight and nine o'clock of the evening of the 15th, and to return with Mrs. Farquharson or his arm. That night they retired and remained in the same apartment. She never again returned to her husband's house, but remained under the protection of the defendant, with whom she s still residing. Dr. Brassey, who will be called as a witness, Imparted the distressing intelligence to Mr. Farquarson by letter on the 16th, and the latter returned with the utmost expedition to the station, in the most distracted state of mind, to his three children, who were left alone in his house. My client asks not vindictive damages, but only such substantial damages as may mark your lordships' sense of the injury he has sustained, which

no damage can compensate, and to enable him to petition, with confidence as to the result, for a Parliamentary divorce.

Evidence was called corroborating the above facts. Mr. MORTON for the defence.-I am instructed, my lords, to appear on behalf of the defendant, Mr. Dalrymple. I can assure your lordships that it is to me a very painful duty to address the Court under the circumstances which have been detailed in evidence, and this painful feeling is enhanced by some degree of previous personal acquaintance with all of the parties concerned. The defendant, feeling that he had no defence to the action, has suffered judgment to go by default, and the only question is the amount of damages. I have carefully avoided putting a single question to the witnesses which could have the effect of wounding the plaintiff's feelings, or implying that the defendant's claim to the indulgent consideration of the Court rests upon the supposition of any impropriety of conduct on his part. I am ready to bear willing testimony to the plaintiff's high and honourable character, and I hope your lordships will not suppose that any observations which I may make are intended in the remotest degree to reflect upon him. I would first observe, that the case exhibits no marked features of aggravation. There is no evidence of arts of seduction practised, or of clandestine intrigue preceding the elopement. The defendant seems to have been on the terms of mere acquaintanceship, and to have sought no closer intimacy. One of the witnesses stated that he was less intimate with the plaintiff and his family than the other residents of the station. The case, therefore, is not aggravated by evidence of confidence betrayed, or hospitality abused. There is nothing even to shew that the design was formed a single day before the unhappy event occurred. The Court, therefore, will not assume the existence of any premeditated design, but will believe rather that the parties acted upon the ungovernable impulse of the moment. The history of the case, my lords, is a singular one. The defendant's acquaintance with the lady is of earlier date than the plaintiff's. It seems that the defendant and this lady came out to India in the same ship, in 1838. I am instructed, my lords, that an attachment, and indeed an engagement, subsisted between them; it is true, there is no positive evidence of this,-one of the witnesses says he heard of it,—but the whole evidence clearly shews that the attachment must have been of long standing, and that it commenced when the lady was unmarried and free, and when the existence of such an attachment was blameless. Unhappily, it continued when its continuance was criminal; but it could not have originated at Chuprah. At that station, the defendant and this lady do not appear to have met more than a dozen times, and no opportunity to originate such an attachment was then sought for or obtained. Then, my lords, look at the position of the defendant. He parts from this lady in 1838, engaged to her in 1843 he meets her the wife of another. It is true that some years had elapsed, but the lapse of years does not necessarily destroy an attachment-it may have been mutually a first attachment-once formed. The marriage, too, of this lady with the plaintiff, appears to have been preceded by a very brief mutual acquaintance. They are first introduced in November, and in the following January the marriage takes place. Indian courtships are, it may be said, often as short, or even shorter; but surely, in such cases, the parties run some risk. Where the engagement is formed on a very brief acquaintance, and the marriage on a very brief engagement, the parties must surely have less mutual assurance that their particular case will not be an illustration of the trite saying, that there are more blanks than prizes in the lottery of marriage. The lady, no doubt, believed at the time that she was bestowing her heart where she bestowed her hand; but a longer delay might have convinced her of an error, which she only afterwards discovered when it was too late. And next let me observe upon the unfortunate coincidence of the defendant's appointment to the station where the plaintiff and his wife were residing. This seems the remote cause of the unhappy event which all now deplore. If, indeed, the defendant's residence at this station had been voluntary, it would have been a poor palliation to urge that he was thus exposed to temptation. But it was not voluntary. He was there because his appointment to that particular station rendered his residence there compulsory, and he was thus almost daily exposed to temptations which he could not escape from, and which ultimately proved too strong for him to resist. The evidence shews that he did not seek temptation; and even during the plaintiff's absence he was only twice at the house; the first visit, at least, being manifestly one of courtesy only. The letters which have been put in evidence seem to me to shew clearly that the step was not premeditated either by the defendant or by the lady. The last of these letters is written on the eve of the elopement, within twenty-four hours, and it is written in terms of confidence and affection, and adverts to little