that had been read, she being anxious, if possible, to justify her conduct. That, however, she could not do. The noble and learned lord concluded with recommending the House to allow the bill to be read a second time.

The bill was accordingly read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Saturday

The House was then adjourned during pleasure.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, JULY 22.-THE RAJAH OF SATTARA.-Mr. HUME then rose, pursuant to notice, to move-" That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to direct inquiry into the alleged charges against Pertaub Shean, late Rajah of Sattara, and whether he has been furnished with a copy of the charges and evidence against him on which he was deposed from his raj, and now lives an exile and state prisoner at Benares; and that her Majesty will be pleased further to direct inquiry to be made into the charges of bribery and corruption by Krushnajee Sadusee Bhidey (as stated in the papers before this House) against Colonel Ovans, whilst resident at Sattara, and against Ballajee Penil Natoo, who assisted Colonel Ovans at the Court of Sattara." The hon. member read a letter from the Court of Directors to the Rajah, written before his deposition, in which they spoke of his exemplary conduct, and which was accompanied by a sword, intended as a mark of the high esteem and approbation of the directors. General Briggs said he had had a good opportunity of forming a judgment of the Rajah's private character, and that he considered the charge brought against him as most atrocious. General Duff declared that he had never believed in the existence of the evil intentions attributed to the Rajah, and that he thought the course pursued towards him most impolitic; and General Robinson stated that the Rajah was distinguished by generosity and amiability of character, and further, that he collected his revenues without oppression. Such was the testimony of persons who had successively resided at Sattara for a period of twenty years. It was most important to observe what was the character of the Rajah previous to 1836. Now, from the hour when Colonel Ovans arrived, the destruction of the Rajah was planned, and all possible means were resorted to in order to discover grounds of objection to his conduct. Recourse was had to bribery to insure his downfal. The result of the endeavours made to injure the Rajah was that three charges were brought against him. The first was a charge of traitorous correspondence with the governor of Goa, it being alleged that he had entered into a conspiracy to obtain the assistance of 17,000 soldiers, with a view of expelling the East-India Company from the territory. This charge was concocted from documents which Colonel Ovans had bought for 400 rupees, and which had seals attached to them, purporting to be those of the Rajah of Sattara. If the seals were not his, the document failed as evidence; and it had been clearly proved that they were in fact fabricated. The second charge was that of traitorous correspondence with the Nagpore Rajah; the third, that of an attempt to bribe some native officers of a regiment which was stationed at Sattara. The course pursued under these circumstances by the accused party, was to challenge the production of evidence against him, in order that he migh rebut it; but, instead of his wish being acceded to, he was deprived of all his power, and sent at once to Benares as an exile, where he had remained ever since. opportunity had been afforded to him of receiving a fair trial; and with respect to a private letter put into the post, which was the first point alleged against the Rajah, another person had actually come forward and stated that he was the party who had written that letter, and that he had done so on the promise of receiving 1,200 rupees as the reward of his treachery. (Hear, hear.) Col. Ovans, in his opinion, had not manifested sufficient anxiety to meet the charges made against him, although he had shewn a great deal of sensitiveness some time ago. He (Mr. Hume) had never stated any thing unfavourable of Col. Ovans before, and it was with regret that he felt compelled by duty to take that course now. He was anxious to know what the Government would do. Could they, when they acted as they had done lately, and in other cases, with respect to charges brought against persons in public situations, determine to cloak and cover Col. Övans and Ballajee Punt Natoo from the charges brought against them? How easy would it have been for Col. Ovans and the Bombay government to free themselves from the charge of cloaking up this perjury by instituting an inquiry, as he (Mr. Hume) had suggested some time ago? The hon. member concluded by submitting his motion.

Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion.

No

Mr. E. TENNENT said, the motion to which the hon. member had called the notice of the House, was one with which by name at least, they might be somewhat familiar, inasmuch as this was,

he (Mr. E. Tennent) believed, the 18th occasion on which it had been, either directly or incidentally, brought under the consideration of Parliament. The object of the hon. member for Montrose was to procure the reconsideration of a case which had been investigated in the year 1836, and solemnly disposed of with every ordinary formality. The inquiry into the charge against the ex- Rajah of Sattara, which had issued in his dethronement, was gravely and dispassionately conducted before a competent commission in India; their verdict had been confirmed by authorities at Bombay, sanctioned by the Supreme Government of India, approved of by the Court of Directors, and confirmed by the Board of Control; and although the propriety of re-opening that inquiry had been referred to three successive governors of Bombay, to three successive governors-general of India, to three presidents of the Indian Board, and to a long series of chairmen and directors of the East-India Company, the judgment upon it had been invariably the same-that the original decision was conformable with truth and consistent with justice, and that a reconsideration of a question so solemnly decided would be not only unavailing as regarded the deposed prince, but would be injurious to the administration of justice, and prejudicial to the authorities by whom it had been originally adjudicated. In answer to the charge that portions of the evidence had been given by individuals of infamous character, and that in the mass it presents discrepances and doubts, which under other circumstances would work the rejection of the whole, he (Mr. E. Tennent) would merely remind the House, that this inquiry was pursued by parties upon the spot, to whom the characters of the witnesses were known, and the facts they deposed to were familiar; and that they, after every deduction for character, and every allowance for contradiction, came to the deliberate and retained conviction that, after every exclusion and deduction, enough remained for conviction; and that the evidence, with all its differences, more than sustained the charges against the rajah. The House should be aware that Sattara was no ancient dynasty, overturned for our own aggrandisement; it was a small principality, created by ourselves in 1819, and its sovereign set up by us under a treaty. It is no discredit upon these proceedings to deny that the investigation was a trial; it was not a judicial trial; the British government had no jurisdiction, no tribunal to try a foreign prince. But it was a political inquiry, demanded in consequence of the equivocal conduct of a feudatory prince towards his lord paramount. That inquiry established the fact, that the subject of it had been guilty of practices at variance with the terms of the treaty which was the tenure of his power; and, because he refused to renew that violated treaty, with assurance of fidelity for the future, he was, as a last resource, removed from the throne, and the heir next in succession installed in his forfeited authority. The main allegation in the motion of the hon. member for Montrose, and that most calculated to make an unfavourable impression on the public, was the assertion, that all knowledge of the evidence against him was withheld from the Rajah, and to this hour he was in ignorance of the charge on which he had been condemned. Now this was in every respect substantially incorrect. It was quite true of certain depositions no actual copies were submitted to him; and it was equally true that the names of certain witnesses were withheld; but they were withheld upon this deliberate calculation that being subjects of his own, residing within his own dominions, and immediately within the circle of his influence, they would have been instantly tampered with or constrained to withhold or to withdraw their testimony against him. But, whilst the names were withheld, the circumstances and facts of these allegations were all communicated to the Rajah, and the charges on which he was suspected were submitted for his answers and his evidence. Not only was this apparent in the pages of the blue-books upon the table, but they contained also the proofs that he tendered witnesses in his defence, and his own letters were filled with comments and explanations of the very charges on which he now complained that he was condemned in utter and total ignorance. The House would have collected from this and previous discussions that the Rajah of Sattara was deposed on the grounds of a treasonable conspiracy to incite the western states of India to hostility against the British, and likewise of attempting to corrupt the fidelity of the native sepoys in the British service. His minister, Govind Rao, was implicated and arrested for his share of these transactions, and his mother, Girjabaee, in the hope of saving her son's life by a confession of his complicity, caused a petition to be written, in which she indicated the names of twelve other individuals, all more or less involved in the guilt of the Rajah. Upon this information, those parties were arrested, their offences proved, and their culpability extended to the inclusion of the Rajah. The author of the petition herself, the mother of the minister, found it necessary by a falsehood to conceal the

name of its actual writer, for fear of the consequence by which she might be visited by the Rajah. Her second son, a brother of the accused person, in like manner, in order to protect his mother from the Rajah's resentment, penned an elaborate and circumstantial denial of her connection with the petition; while, at the same moment, the lady herself, in a personal interview with Colonel Ovans, avowed its authorship and authenticity, and assigned frankly her motives for its adoption. The hon. member for Montrose might allege that at this interview Girjabaee was personated by another lady; but her identity was proved by persons by whom she was accompanied, and by the fact that she had been previously a frequent visitor to the ladies of Colonel Ovans' family. This evidence of the authorship of this document it was essential to bear in mind, for that point once established, it annihilated at one stroke the entire case which the hon. member for Montrose had this evening set up. The clerk who actually penned the petition for Girjabaee was promised for his services Rs. 1,250. This promise the lady found herself unable to comply with; and the clerk, to enforce his elaim, disclosed himself as the penman to the British resident at Poona. On the death of Girjabaee, in April, 1843, the clerk suddenly shifted his ground, and protested to the Bombay Government that his first attempt to extort money from Girjabaee was a fraud; that it was not she who had employed him to draw up the petition; but that the petition was from beginning to end a falsehood and a forgery, and that he had been suborned to draw up and transcribe it by Col. Ovans, the resident, and Ballajee Punt Natoo, a distinguished officer of the reigning Rajah of Sattara; and that those two persons, after availing themselves of his services, now refused to pay him his reward, and still owed him Rs. 1,100 out of the Rs. 1,250 which they had promised. Supposing for one moment that Colonel Ovans could have lent himself to so vile an imposture, and for so disgraceful a purpose; supposing that a man of wealth and distinction, like Ballajee Punt Natoo, could have stooped to such a crime, was it to be conceived that the concoctors of such an artifice would run the risk, nay, incur the certainty of the detection, by withholding his wages from their instrument? There could be no doubt that the mother of the minister was the real petitioner in the case; that Krushnajee, the clerk, as a professional writer, was employed to draw up the document; and that whatever sum she might have promised as her fee, Colonel Ovans had not, and refused to have, the slightest concern with the transaction, or their mutual claims. Krushnajee having failed to induce the British government to enforce the payment from Girjabaee, was equally unsuccessful in inducing them to believe his tale that their own representative and officer, Colonel Ovans, was his debtor, instead of the deceased lady; but, not to be baffled by one repulse, he announced his intention to persecute the government with petitions, and the resident with charges, till he should be appeased by the payment of his demands. Accordingly petition followed petition, and allegation was heaped upon allegation, till at length, by one final sweep, he sought to crush both the objects of his animosity, and to his former charge against Ballajee Punt Natoo and Col. Ovans, he added those alluded to by the hon. member for Montrose, of bribery, extortion, corruption and dishonesty. And into these charges, brought by a man of such degraded character, and directed against one of the most upright and distinguished officers in the service of the East-India Company, and one of the most eminent and honourable natives of India, the hon. member now invited the House to enter, as a groundwork for demanding a revision and reconsideration of the whole inquiry, into the political intrigues of the Sattara state. But the hon. member said that the character of the informer had nothing to do with the nature of the charge, and that that character, bad as it might be now, was regarded as sufficiently respectable when in 1837 they relied on it to prove the charges against the ex-Rajah of Sattara. He (Mr. E. Tennent) must deny the justice of that inference; he must deny that the evidence of 1837 had any connection whatever with the character of Krushnajee. The personal evidence he gave on that occasion was not only voluntary, but was worthless. Were they prepared, then, at the instigation of such an individual as this, to call in question for one moment the integrity and the honour of such a man as Col. Ovans? And what was the character of Col. Ovans? Sir G. Arthur, the governor of Bombay, in noticing these charges, bore his testimony to the reputation of that distinguished officer:

"Since my arrival in this presidency it has been my duty, as opportunities have incidentally presented, to satisfy myself, as well by observation as personal inquiry, respecting the bearing and public reputation of all the Hon. Company's servants, especially of those holding offices of high trust and responsibility; and had I been called upon to name officers universally well spoken of and esteemed, I should certainly have

included Col. Ovans in the number; and this must have been the opinion formed by the late Commander-in-Chief, for on Sir R. Grant's requesting Lord Keane to name an able and judicious officer to hold the appointment of resident at Sattara, he recommended his Quartermaster-general, Col. Ovans.” Such was the man against whom this clerk preferred a charge of meanness and corruption. He (Mr. E. Tennent) held in his hand, and would beg to read to the House, two letters from Lieut.-colonel Ovans, and he believed that every man who listened to them would feel a just indignation at finding a high-minded and honourable gentleman placed in a situation requiring him to notice or contradict such humiliating calumnies. The first was addressed to his (Mr. E. Tennent's) noble friend and colleague at the India Board (Lord Jocelyn), and was as follows-it was received that morning :

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"My Lord,-As I observe that a motion is to be made this evening in the House of Commons by Mr. Hume, that her Majesty will be pleased further to direct inquiry to be made into the charges for bribery and corruption by Krushnajee Sadusee Bhidey (as stated in the papers before this House) against Col. Ovans, whilst resident at Sattara,' I trust your lordship will do me the favour to lay before Lord Ripon my unequivocal and unqualified denial of this atrocious charge; as also to state, that I am ready to proceed at once to India to prosecute this infamous libeller for perjury, should it be considered advisable so to do. Your lordship may easily conceive that it is most painful to me to see such slander attached to my name, but I feel confident that an upright and honourable service of 33 years in India will be my best reply to the base attacks now made upon me; arising, as they do, from my having at Sattara honestly and fearlessly performed an important public duty to the satisfaction of all my superiors both in India and in England. "I remain, &c.,

"London, July 22, 1845. C. OVANS. "P.S. I venture to inclose a copy of a note addressed by me to the secretary at the India-House, putting on record these my sentiments regarding Mr. Hume's motion."

The inclosure to the secretary at the India- House was as follows:

"Sir,-Observing in the papers regarding the case of the ex-Rajah of Sattara, lately printed by the House of Commons, that Krushnajee Sadusee Bhidey has preferred the following charges against me,-viz., first, that LieutenantColonel Ovans has obtained from his highness the Rajah of Sattara payment of the sum of Rs. 1,500 per mensem to his (Lieut.-col. Ovans's) father-in-law, and that this allowance was on his death transferred to the resident's brother-inlaw, who receives it up to this day; secondly, that when the resident's lady and children proceeded to England gold bullion and Venetian necklaces, to the value of 50,000 rupees, were purchased by the Rajah and given to the resident; and observing also, by the votes of the House of Commons of Friday last, that Mr. Hume has founded a notice upon those charges and mentioned me by name, I feel it to be my duty to state that, while I repose entire confidence in the hon. Court to take whatever steps they may deem necessary in consequence of these charges, whether in justice to the public service or to me as an officer in their employ, I desire to place upon record my indignant and unqualified denial of all and every part of this most atrocious and calumnious accusation; and to state, that if the Court of Directors deem it right for me to proceed to Bombay, either to be subjected to the most rigorous investigation, or myself to prosecute the infamous author of this libel, I am prepared, at every inconvenience, and at all hazards to my health, at once to adopt that course.

"I remain, &c.,

London, July 21, 1845. "C. OVANS." He (Mr. E. Tennent) hoped the House would concur with him that in these two letters there was a tone of frank and indignant honesty which was the most conclusive reply to the motion of the hon. member for Montrose. The hon. member for Montrose laid much stress upon the fact that the eighth petition of Krushnajee, the latest which had reached this country, was not inquired into by the government of Bombay, although Mr. Warden, the agent of Sirdars at Sattara, had taken all the preliminary steps for an inquiry, and had bound over Krushnajee to prosecute, under a penalty of Rs. 6,000, and had obtained from him a list of witnesses to sustain the charge, including, among others, the name of the Dewan of the Rajah. The hon. member attached much importance to the two facts of the petitioner having giving these names and entered into this security. But as to handing in the name of the minister of the Rajah as one of its witnesses, it appeared to have been but a piece of gratuitous audacity, in strict keeping with the reck

less character of the charges themselves; and, as to the security, when the House was made aware that of these Rs. 6,000, the recognizance of the petitioner himself included Rs. 5,000, although he couched every petition in the character of a pauper, they would readily see that the amount of the security was no type of the character of Krushnajee. As for the remaining Rs. 1,000, even if forfeited, so small a sum as 100% would be a trifling object to the partisan who bailed him, compared with the value of compassing the infliction of an injury on the reigning Rajah, his friends, or his case. As to the charges against Ballajee Punt Natoo, Sir G. Arthur found that they were a mere repetition of the allegations formerly considered; and, with the unanimous concurrence of the council of Bombay, he refused to entertain the petition. Sir G. Arthur and the council also expressed their unanimous opinion that no credit could be attached to the accusations urged by Krushnajee against Lieut.-col. Ovans; and he (Mr. E. Tennent) trusted that the House would confirm this decision of the governor of Bombay, and protect the character of a highminded, honourable, and meritorious officer from aspersion or suspicion, by treating with contempt the imputations which it had been attempted to cast upon his name and conduct. He hoped that the House, concurring in this opinion, would give him (Mr. Tennent) its support in negativing the proposition of the hon. member for Montrose.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS supported the motion of the hon. member for Montrose.

Mr. HoGG thought hon. members who made attacks upon the characters of gentlemen of high honour, and who occupied distinguished positions in the public service, should take care at least to be accurate in their statement of dates and facts. He believed that any gentleman who had read the papers on the table of the House would be satisfied, from their confusion of dates, and facts, and witnesses, that neither the hon. member for Montrose nor the hon. member for Bolton (Dr. Bowring) could have read those papers with attention. It might be supposed, from the statement of the hon. member for Montrose, that the Rajah of Sattara was an independent prince; that the Peishwar had for a moment usurped his authority, and that we had restored him to his sovereignty, and concluded a treaty with him as an independent prince. That was not the fact. By the treaty it was stipulated that he should be guided in all respects by the advice of the British agent resident at his court; and that condition was what the hon. member for Montrose called independence. There could not be a greater mistake than to suppose that he enjoyed any thing like independence; he was not allowed to transact the most ordinary business except under the guidance of the British agent. But of the guilt imputed to him there could be scarcely any doubt. The report of the committee shewed very plainly that the Rajah bad endeavoured to corrupt the Sepoys, and withdraw them from their allegiance. The members of the Indian Government were unanimous in their conclusion as to guilt of the Rajah; and he did not see how the Government could have taken any other course than that which they adopted. By the treaty the Rajah had surrendered all freedom of action, and bound himself not even to contract matrimony without the consent of the British Government in India. That which brought the Rajah into trouble was listening to people who told him that they could render him independent of the local government by the interest which they possessed with the Parliament and Government of England; and, as to the Rajah having been treated unfairly, he could only say that the commissioners offered, when he came before them, that he should be confronted with the witnesses who accused him, but that he refused this as inconsistent with his dignity. He required on that occasion to be accompanied by a friend, but that friend turned out to be a barrister of the Supreme Court. The commissioners refused to allow him that privilege, but they agreed that he should be accompanied by a native friend. The hon. member, after entering into some of the minuter details of the case, protested against a charge being entertained against an officer so honourable as Colonel Ovans, emanating from such a source as Krushnajee, whose career was well known to Mr. Crawford and others to have been any thing but reputable. The Company had always been well served by its officers and agents, and the reason of this was, that they paid them well, and in return exacted a rigorous attention to the duties confided in them. But, if this rigour was enforced on the one side, was it not also fair that an officer, who acted under the responsibility which rested on Col. Ovans should be protected when he had discharged his duty to the satisfaction of his superiors? That was the view he took of it, and he had no hesitation, upon the grounds he had stated, in giving a direct negative to the motion of the hon. member for Montrose.

Sir E. COLEBROOKE supported the motion of the hon.

member for Montrose. In a minute which was recorded by Lord Auckland, respecting the proceedings against the Rajah of Sattara, which minute would be found at page 228, vol. 1, of the report, the governor-general of India expressed his distinct condemnation of the conduct of the governor of Bombay in the matter, and he most strongly recommended the adoption of that course which was proposed by the hon. member for Montrose. Lord Auckland recommended in the same minute that a copy of the charges, together with a list of the witnesses, should be furnished to the Rajah of Sattara, and that he should be required to deliver in a written reply to those charges within a certain period. But Col. Ovans objected to that course, because, said he, "the Rajah being thus put in possession of our case, will ipse facto be furnished with the means of defeating it, and for that reason the course I recommend to be adopted is, that any proceedings which may be taken in the matter be preceded by his temporary deposition." And that course was the one which was adopted towards this unfortunate prince. He was surprised to hear it said that the Rajah was not called upon by Sir J. Carnac to acknowledge his guilt, because that was on record. (Hear.) It was a course adopted for the purpose of saving the honour of the Indian government. The whole despatch would shew that Sir J. Carnac called the Rajah before him, and began by lecturing him on the enormity of his guilt and his ingratitude to the East-India Company, and thus it was attempted to obtain a confession of guilt from him. Sir J. Carnac then assumed an air of clemency, and on the part of the Government proffered forgiveness on certain conditions. The Rajah during the address, according to Sir J. Carnac, evinced the greatest uneasiness, and eventually refused to sign any such document, saying, that as long as the British Government conceived that he entertained hostile feelings towards them, he could agree to nothing; but if that impression were removed, he would agree to any thing, except to forsake his religion or to acknowledge himself to be an enemy of the British Government. Yet upon that refusal, so given, he was deposed. (Hear.) The whole proceeding was a violation of the rules of substantial justice, and discreditable to the Government both in India and in this country.

Mr. WAKLEY Supported the motion.

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Mr. T. BARING observed, that it seemed to be forgotten that the Rajah was detected, during a very peculiar state of Indian affairs, in carrying on a traitorous correspondence with the enemies of this country. The right hon. member for Edinburgh had in that house declared that to have been the case. fact, there was no doubt of his having carried on such intrigue. The trial of a sovereign prince in India must always be attended with great difficulty, and therefore it was that precaution was taken to insure the safety of the witnesses, and of the person who was talked of as the probable successor of the Rajah. The hon. member (Sir T. E. Colebrooke) said, that the preamble of the treaty offered to the Rajah of Sattara contained a declaration of his guilt. The objection on the score of signing a confession of guilt was not thought of at the time, but was only subsequently urged. Indeed, it appeared from the Rajah's own evidence, in a letter written by him, that his refusal to sign the treaty did not arise from his being required to sign a confession of guilt, but because he said that the treaty would place him in the situation of a subordinate agent, and subject him to other inconveniences.

Mr. Huмe replied, and intimated a desire to withdraw the motion; which being objected to, it was put and negatived without a division.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. FRIDAY, JULY 25.

(Present, Lords BROUGHAM and WHARNCLIFFE, the Right Hon. S. LUSHINGTON, Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE, Sir Hyde EAST, and Sir E. RYAN.)

CASEMENT V. FULTON.

This was an appeal from the sentence of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal, rejecting an allegation propounding an instrument as the will of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Casement, K. C. B. The appellant is the widow and the sole person beneficially interested under the will, which has been pronounced against for defective execution by the Court below, against which sentence she appealed.

The respondents are next of kin.

The case was heard on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of June, when Sir T. Wilde, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Dr. Addams, and Mr. Kirwan, appeared for the appellants; and Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. G. Turner, Dr. Harding, and Mr. Malins, for the respondents.

Lord BROUGHAM, on behalf of their Lordships, now gave judgment, and after recapitulating the facts, affirmed the sentence of the Court in Bengal, and directed that the costs on both sides should be paid out of the estate.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.-Chatham, July 23.-The head66 Prince Albert's Own," quarters of the 13th Light Infantry, or arrived at this garrison, on Monday afternoon, the 28th inst., from India. They consisted of 23 sergeants, 15 corporals, 14 buglers, and 310 privates, with 18 women and 21 children, under command of Lieut.-col. T. C. Squire, with Maj. J. H. Fenwick, Capt. A. E. F. Holcomb, Lieut. Arthur Oake, Lieut. P. R. Burrowes, Lieut. Arthur E. Frere, Lieut. Chas. Compton Abbott, Lieut. J. F. Woolhouse, and Assist. surg. A. A. Prout. The head-quarters embarked at Bombay on board the ship Cornwall, of 950 tons, on the 23rd of March last, and during the voyage, which was most favourable, the troops lost by death nine men and one woman, and the daughter of Major Fenwick; one of the seamen also died. This distinguished regimentthe heroes of Jellalabad-entered the garrison amid the hearty welcomes of the troops assembled to receive them; and on their forming into line on the general parade ground, the gallant officer in command, with his brother officers, was received with distinguished honour by the principal officers of the garrison. The troops are very healthy, and their general appearance excited universal approbation. They brought home the colours which they captured in the late war with the Affghans; two of them were taken at the recapture of Cabul; and another, which was a large scarlet flag, the standard of Akbar Khan, was captured by Sergeant Ulyett, the armoury sergeant, at the memorable retreat of the Affghans at Jellalabad, on the 7th of April, 1842. The majority of these soldiers are decorated with three medals, bearing the inscriptions-" Guznee," Jellalabad," and “Cabul.” The Queen's colour is very much shattered, and also the regimental colour. The depot at this garrison, which joins the regiment, is 361 in strength, and are a fine body of men. left wing of this regiment, by the ship Boyne, is expected daily, having embarked from Bombay at the same time:

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On Friday, the 1st of August, the 11th regiment, consisting of 10 sergeants and 240 rank and file, with 30 women and 40 children, were to march from this garrison en route for Gravesend, where they embark on board the ship Ramilies for Van Diemen's Land, under the command of Major J. Singleton, Captain E. L. Blessed, Captain William Kenny, Lieutenant John R. H. Parker, Ensign Stewart, Ensign Pontrill, Ensign M'Lean, Ensign M. S. Crooke, and Assistant-Surgeon Marshall. The following draughts from the provisional battalion embark with the above:14 privates of the 58th regiment, 32 privates of the 96th regiment, and 4 privates of the 99th regiment. It is expected that a demi-battery of royal artillery from Woolwich will proceed with the above.

CHINESE RANSOM.-Her Majesty's ship Cambrian has arrived at Portsmouth, having on board 2,000,000 dollars, part of the Chinese ransom money.

SHIPPING. The tender of the ship Westmoreland, for the conveyance of troops to Bombay, having been relinquished, the Carnatic has been engaged by the Court of Directors for that purpose. The Queen has been engaged for the conveyance of troops to Bengal. The Emily has also been engaged for the conveyance of troops to Bombay.

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THE MAILS.-SOUTHAMPTON, 27th July.-The Oriental Company's steam ship Oriental, Capt. Soy, came into the docks this morning from the Motherbank, where she arrived from Alexandria on the evening of the 25th. The Oriental left Alexandria on July 10th, Malta 15th, and Gibraltar 20th. She has 48 passengers and a very full cargo.

ADVOCATE-GENERAL OF BENGAL.-On the day of our last publication, Mr. J. W. Colvile was appointed to this office. Our publication having taken place in time for despatch by the morning mails, we were unable to announce the appointment.

RAILWAYS IN INDIA. We have projected moveable roads from the shores of England to those of India, by means of which we greatly enriched ourselves as a nation. It is now found that we have not gone far enough; that the riches of India cannot find their way down to the coast; that they are pent up by certain restraints in the interior, where they rot and perish, We without conferring any benefit on the natives or on us. must, therefore, extend the lines of communication from the decks of our ships and steamers athwart the peninsula, up to the very roots of the Himalaya, and thus facilitate the outpouring of those vast sources of national prosperity, which we know to exist in every province. When the Roman republic extended its conquests, its first care was to link the newly-conquered territory to Rome by a great road, over which the legion could move rapidly to and fro, and thus bring to bear the irresistible strength of the parent state upon any point that might be threatened, either by internal commotions, or invasion from without. In this matter we should imitate Rome: not, however, for the purposes of war only; but for the higher and more beneficent purposes of peace and civilization. In whatever direction we may carry a railway through India, it must enrich the districts over which it passes, not merely by supplying, in the first instance, labour to those who need it, and exchanging the actual commodities of different provinces, but by imparting a new and extremely powerful impulse to population and industry, By degrees and calling forth the hidden capabilities of the soil.

a town would spring up around every station, while the land, beginning from the very banks of the line, would be cultivated like a garden, and afford an inexhaustible supply of many of the articles most coveted in Europe.-Foreign Quarterly Review.

AN ISLAND OF LEPERS.-Diego Garcia, the principal island of the Chagos Archipelago, used to be the place of exile for lepers from Bourbon and the Mauritius, while these islands were held by the French, and continued so for some time after A few of these unthe English obtained possession of them. fortunates were then removed to Peros Banhos. Finally, about eight or ten years ago, they were all conveyed to Curieuse, one of the Seychelles Islands, where our Government still keeps an establishment for these poor people. They are well fed and well attended. Two English gentlemen, a surgeon in charge of the establishment, and another person as superintendent, regulate this little colony, consisting of negroes, male and female, some Creole mulatto Christians, two Bengal sipahis, and some Indian Lascars, such as hire themselves in trading-vessels. The apothecary in the hospital is also a leper of French extraction. There are altogether ninety-six patients, male and female. The establishment is well and most liberally conducted, and reflects great credit on our Government. The little island, with its pieturesque bays, is covered with plantations and gardens, and groves of the coco de mer, which flourishes most luxuriantly; poultry, fish, vegetables, and fruit, are in abundance, and the climate is delightful.-Foreign Quarterly Review.

SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.

JULY 26. Steamer Oriental, Soy, Alexandria, at Southampton.28. Steamer Queen, Gibraltar, at Southampton; Raymond, Mackay, New South Wales; Indemnity, Gibson, Saldanha Bay; Mischief, Bracegirdle, Mauritius; Bengalee, Boadle, Bengal; Blundell, Huater, Bengal; Wm. Ackers, - Valparaiso.-29. Jackson, Clemence, Saldanah Bay: Anthony Anderson, Splatt, Singapore: Mohawk, Ferguson, China; Deva, Sprout, Ceylon; Persian, Mallard, New South Wales; Scotia, Robinson, Saldanha Bay; Dale Park, Coombes, Valparaiso; Highland Chief, Young, Saldanha Bay.-30. H.M.S. Cambrian, Chads, Singapore; Alexander, Sandford, Bengal; Japan, M'Lean, South Seas; Olivia, Roome, Cape of Good Hope; Pusey Hall, Ware, W. Coast of Africa; Flowers of Ugie, Fawcett, Mauritius; Camillus, Ashton, Ceylon; Kezia, Park, Saldanah Bay; Stately, Edey, Saldanha Bay; Elizabeth Anthonia, Barker, Batavia.-31. Admiral Moorsom, M'Knight, Singapore ; Lintin, Gillman, Bombay; Courier, M'Millan, Coast of Africa; Luna, Carmichael, Saldanha Bay; Grace, Smith, Saldanha Bay; Marco Bozarris, de Boer, Batavia.

DEPARTURES.

JULY 20. Aden, King, China.-24. Benjamin Heape, Gibson, Singapore; Paragon, Coleman, Bombay; Mansfield, Pearson, Africa; Wolga, Goed, Singapore; Negotiator, Young, Bombay; Sultana, Le Gresley, Cape.-27. Southampton, Bowen, Calcutta ; Gloriana, Webb, Cape and Calcutta.-29. John Laird, Bryant, Hong Kong; Agostina, Volum, New South Wales; Augusta Jessie, Harvey, Aden; Eliza and Hester, Kruger, Bombay; Mary, Fraser, Madras; Floraville, Reid, Mauritius; Reliance, Robertson, Penang and Singapore; Grace Darling, Airth, Madeira; Claudine, Norris, Bombay; Sir Robert Peel, Champion, Bombay; Bolton, Davison, Bombay; Mary Anne, Allan, Bombay; Rajasthan, Stewart, Bombay; Crusader, Nagten, Batavia; Lloyds, Lewis, Hobart Town; Derwent, Macpherson, Hobart Town; Symmetry, Butler, Singapore; Rothschild, Cornforth, Trincomalee; Brunette, Cousens, Ceylon; Isle of Wight, Ratsey, Mauritius; William Watch, Taylor, South Seas; Douce Davie, Kenny, Calcutta; Penang, Hawkins, Calcutta ; Clydesdale, Johnston, Calcutta.-29. Templar, Brown, Adelaide; Juliana, Dye, Calcutta; Lord William Bentinck, Allen, Madras; Lady Jane, Rowe, Launceston; North Pole, Sims, Aden; Sandford, Callun, Calcutta; Kingston, Stephens, Bombay; Gunga, Greives, Singapore and Adelaide; Mary Jane, Nixon, Cape; Mersey, Boyd, Bombay; Falcon, Simpson, Bombay; Glentanner, Brock, China; Stratheden, Bruton, Hobart Town; Monarch, Walker, Calcutta; George Henry Harrison, Scott, Cape; Winchester, Milligan, Launceston; John Heyes, Woodward, Adelaide.

Peruvian, having driven from her anchors off Bird Island, and with loss of anchors and chains, without master or mate, was spoken off Algoa Bay, per Michief, arrived at Liverpool, May 19.

Minerva, London to Madras, June 8; lat. 6 deg. S., long. 25 deg. W.

Mary Ridley, Sharer, London to Calcutta, July 18; lat. 1-28, deg. N., long. 21.25 deg. W.

Sons of Commerce, Williams, London to Hobart Town, April 17 ; lat. 18 deg. S., long. 28 deg. W.

Curlew, -, June 1; lat. 22 deg. S., long. 33.41 deg. W.
Culdee, Campbell, Liverpool to Hong-Kong, April 21.

Candahar, Ridley, London to Calcutta; lat. 25-30 deg. S., long. 26 30 deg. W.

Mary Ann,

23:45 deg. W.

Liverpool to Sydney, lat. 9:47 deg. N., long.

DOMESTIC. BIRTHS.

Bengal Estab.-Lieut. John Fagan, 1st Eur. regt. L.W.
Major John Cowslade, 2nd Eur. regt.
Capt. Francis C. Reeves, 9th N.I.
Lieut. Frederick B. Bosanquet, 16th N.I.
Lieut. Neville, B. Chamberlain, 16th N. I.
Capt. Andrew Fisher, 35th N.I.
Lieut. Henry M. Becher, 50th N. I.
Lieut. George G. Bowring, 59th N.I.
Capt. Andrew Charlton, 74th N.I.
Surgeon John Grant.

Surgeon James Barker.

Madras Estab.-Lieut. Charles B. D. Willan, 18th N.I.
Ensign Arthur J. Shuldham, 26th N.I.
Capt. George Hall, artillery.

Bombay Estab.-Capt. John S. Ramsay, 2nd Eur. It. inf.
Capt. Robert Shortreed, 2nd Eur. It. inf.

Capt. George J. Mant, 19th N.I.

Brevet lieut. col. William Wyllie, c.B. 21st N.I.
Brevet capt. Harry W. Brett, commissariat.
Surgeon Matthew Stovell.

MARINE.

Bombay Estab.-Lieut. Henry A. M. Drought, Indian navy. Commander Richard Ethersey, Indian navy.

PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIR DUTY.

MILITARY.

Bengal Estab.-Brevet capt. George Murray, 8th lt. cav., over

land, Sept.

Lieut. Athill Turner, 1st N. I.

Lieut. George A. F. Hervey, 3rd N.I., overland, Nov.

Capt. Charles J. H. Perreau, 58th N.I.

Lieut. Brooke Boyd, 68th N.I.

Madras Estab.-Ens. Richard H. Hughes, 16th N. I., overland. Capt. Henry Gordon, 18th N.I.

Ens. Cæsar G. Bolter, 21st N. I.

Capt. Septimus J. Corfield, 39th N.I.
Lieut. Charles P. Taylor, 40th N. I.

Capt. Richard Prettyman, invalids, overland,
Dec.

Bombay Estab-Capt. Thomas R. Morse, 1st Eur. reg. L. W.
Capt. George St. B. Brown, 7th N. I.

Capt. John C. Wright, 9th N. I., overland,
Sept.

Capt. William Thatcher, invalids, overland,
Sept.

Deputy Assist. Commissary Henry F. Dilley.
Assist. surg. Thomas J. Young.

GRANTED AN EXTENSION OF LEAVE.

MILITARY.

Bengal Estab.-Capt. James A. D. Fergusson, 6th It. cav., 6 months.

Capt. Richard Woodward, 2nd N.I., 6 months. Lieut. col. John Home, 37th N.I., 6 months. Madras Estab.-Capt. Henry G. Napleton, 8th N.I., 6 months. Bombay Estab.-Capt. John D. Smythe, 4th N.I., 6 months.