BREWER, Wilhelmina, d. of Barrack serj. H. July 11. CURTIS, Johanna J. the wife of Capt. W. F. 1st reg. HARRISON, J. esq. I.N. infant d. of, aged 2, July 5. HYHART, Rachel, relict of the late Capt. R. H. at Rothsay, Isle of "Bute, May 22. KINGSTON, G. d. of Cond. aged 1, Aug. 2. LUSH, Charles, surg. 14th N.I. July 4. MILNER, Capt. F. C. 36th N.I. aged 44, July 17. NEVIN, R. M. of the Earl of Eglinton, July 6. PATERSON, Mary, wife of Mr. S. chief eng. steamer Semiramis, July 14. SEVENOAKES, Fanny Mary, d. of H. H. com. the steamer Jumna, aged 3, July 11. THOMPSON, Lieut. F. H. 12th N.I. July 12. TURNER, W. M. s. of Purser W. M. aged 11, July 19. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. JUNE 27. Cherokee, Mansfield, Zanzibar.-29. Bolivar, Fenwick, Liverpool; Woodman, Good, Newcastle; Futtle Barry, Nacoda, Aden.-JULY 1. Thetis, Mainland, Aden; Mor, Baxter, China.3. Indus, Taylor, Liverpool.-4. Sultana, Llewellyn, Red Sea.9. Steamer Sesostris, Young, Aden.-14. Julia, Jones, Mauritius. -17. Fathel Main, Nacoda, Juddah; Prince Carl, Molier, Stockholm; Madura, Smith, Aden.-20. Ann Eliza, Grainger, Macao; Futlel Currem, Berrer, Mauritius; Shital Ferraz, Nacoda, Muscat. -25. Lady Rowena, Cleland, London; H.C. sloop of war Elphinstone, Porter, Aden.-26. Commerce, Bilton, Newcastle.-27. Aberfoyle, M'Alpin, Greenock; Woodbridge, Poulton, Aden.-Aug. 2. Royal Sovereign, Freyer, London.-4. Kelpie, Sims, China.-5. Wild Irish Girl, Graham, Liverpool. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Mor, from China.-G. Ogilvie and G. Blow, seamen; and two Malay pilgrims. Per steamer Sesostris, from Suez.-Mrs. Campbell, and a European female servant; Lieut. col. J. S. Leeson, C.B. Bombay art. ; Lieut. J. G. da Costa, 58th Bengal N.I.; Rev. G. A. Watson, Mr. Grant, and one native female servant of Mrs. Mackenzie's. From Aden.-Lieut. C. J. Cruttenden, I.N.; Assistant Political Agent; John Brabrook, Mahi, A.B.; four non-commissioned rank and file artil.; one woman and child, ditto; three women and children, 47th M.N.I; six sepoys, 47th M.N.I.; one public follower, and one private of the Golundauze. Per Julia, from Mauritius.-Mrs. Jones and child, and Mr. R. Robinson, engineer. Per Fathel Main, from Juddah.-220 pilgrims. Per Aberfoyle, from Greenock.-Mr. James Miller. DEPARTURES. JUNE 28. Denia, Bruen, China; H.C. sloop of war Clive, Lieut. J. Rennie, Persian Gulph.-JULY 1. General Wood, Stokoe, China; Bombay, Furley, London; Sabina, Ford, Liverpool.-3. Lord Glenelg, Johnstone, Liverpool.-4. Olive Branch, Murdock, London.5. Scaleby Castle, Lemon, Singapore and China; Lord Western, W. W. Rice, Calcutta: Alexander, Primrose, Glasgow.-6. Levant, Lane, Glasgow.-8. Earl of Eglinton, Niveu, Liverpool; Sir Charles Napier, Wright, London.-10. Glenelg, Harvy, China; Loodiana, Muller, Mauritius.-17. Mary, Kemp, China; Nereid, Adam, London; Prince of Waterloo, Booth, Calcutta.-18. Sidney, Schole field, China; Louisa, Wycherly, Liverpool.-20. John Calvin, Koox, Madras and Calcutta; steam frigate Semiramis, Hamilton, Aden. -21. Caledonia, Stephenson, Hull.-22. Duchess of Argyle, Philips, Calcutta; Forth, Nacoda, Calcutta; Julia, Herring, Calcutta.-25. Shah Allum, Page, China.-27. Antelope, Dumaresq, China; Tertar, Lockwood, China.-Hydroose, Nacoda, Calcutta; Hindostan, West, China; Hindostan, Lamb, London.-AUG. 1. Cherokee, Mansfield, Zanzibar.-3. Clara, Crow, London; Helen, Bayne, China. Per Lord Western, to Calcutta.-Ten natives. Per Alexander, to the Clyde.-Mrs. Dobson, and son. Per Earl of Eglinton, to Liverpool.-Lieut. C. Kean, Bombay Invalid Establishment, lady, and two children. Per Glenelg, to China.-Mrs. Fitzgerald, and two children; Major Fitzgerald, and three servants. Per Loodhiana, to the Mauritius.-Two Parsees. Per Louisa, to Liverpool.-Mrs. Faulkner, and three children; and Lieut. Faulkner. Per steamer Semiramis, to Suez.-Mrs. Thackwell; Mrs. Davies, and native servant; Mrs. Ward; Mrs. Robertson; Lieut. J. E. Thackwell, H. M. 22nd regt.; J. R. Hadow, Esq. merchant; Major T. S. Conway, H. M. 25th regt.; Capt. Jephson, H. M. 2nd or Queen's Royals; Major, C. Richardes, 8th regt. N. I.; and Roberts, Esq. Per Hindostan, to London.-Dr. Dunbar and Lieut. A. Crawford, artillery. CEYLON. IMPORTANT TO OUR FRIENDS IN INDIA.-Those of her Majesty's officers who have, either from business or pleasure, visited the coast, and have had the misfortune to suffer from the effects of its insalubrious climate, have remembered with grati tude the more than kind and considerate attention which they have uniformly received from the military officers of the H. C service, and have long been on the watch for an opportunity of expressing their sense of the obligation. That, opportunity is at last offered them. The principal medical officer has decided, and his Excellency the Governor has confirmed the decision, that officers of the Honourable Company's services on sick leave to Ceylon are neither entitled to, nor shall receive medicines or medical attendance from, their military brethren serving in this island. This instance of reciprocity of feeling, so certain to promote the concord and unity which the spirit of her Majesty's instruc tions enjoin should exist amongst all branches of the British army, will be received in India with equal admiration and pleasure.- ·Ceylon Observer, July 11. SINGAPORE. BORNEO.-The H. C.'s steamer Phlegethon returned on Friday from Borneo, with Capt. Bethune, R. N., and suite. We have not heard the results of this second visit of Capt. Bethune to Borneo, but we believe that it was found that coals were in the greatest abundance and of excellent quality. The Rajah of Borneo reported that an American frigate had paid him a visit, the commander of which wished him to enter into a treaty, but his royal highness, according to his own account, declined com. plying with the request.-Free Press, June 26. THE ADMIRAL.-We understand the admiral is expected to arrive here to-day or to-morrow, as also that his excellency in tends to make Singapore the head-quarters in future, instead of Penang, as heretofore. This arrangement will tend in no small degree to enliven the settlement.-Straits Times, July 15. SHIPPING.. ARRIVALS. JUNE 12.-Indianeren, Holm, China.-14. Amelia, M'Kellar, Batavia; Drongan, McDonald, Bombay; Josephine, Smith, Bombay.-16. Elizabeth, Perkins, Penang.-17. Colonel Burney, Brown, Ceylon.-18. Tyrone, Ogle, Ampanan; Queen, Hatton, Penang.19. Marquis of Hastings, Da Silva, Penang.-20. Steamer Phlegethon, Coverly, Borneo; Esperance, De Senna, Goa.-21. Brito. mart, Keld, Sydney; Robert, Bilaffer, Batavia; Dryad, Hansen, Liverpool.-23. Elizabeth Walker, Gillies, Batavia; H. M. S. Cruizer, Port, Romania.-24. Kestrel, Beauvais, Sydney.-25. Sir William Wallace, Rose, Penang.-JULY 8. Helvellyn, Tulledge, Newport; William and James, Brown, Liverpool. DEPARTURES. JULY 1.-Sea Horse, Gibbon; Macao steamer Diana, Cingalton, Malacca; H.M.S. Alligator, China.-7. Mary Ann, Marshall, London.-8. Carolina, Jenkins, Pacific Ocean. CHINA. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL MISSIONS IN CHINA. On Sunday, April 27th, a sermon was preached in the Colonial Chapel, by the Right Rev. William J. Boone, recently arrived from the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America; and a notice was given by the colonial chaplain of a confirmation to be held during the bishop's temporary stay at Hong-kong. The Protestant Episcopal Church of America is a branch or off-shoot of the Church of England, with which there has ever existed a friendly intercourse and fellowship, though it is only recently that the ministers of the former, by an Act introduced into the British Parliament by the Archbishop of Canterbury, have been permitted to officiate in the churches of the latter. The first bishop, Dr. Seabury, was consecrated by the bishops of the Scotch Episcopal Church, at Aberdeen, in the year 1784. Shortly after, two bishops, Drs. White and Provoost, were consecrated at the Archiepiscopal palace at Lambeth, in 1787, and another bishop, Dr. Madison, at the same place, in 1790. During the troubles of the Revolution, and since that period, this Episcopal Church has rapidly extended itself, supported by voluntary contributions, unconnected with the State, at the present time having twenty-eight dioceses in America. In the month of October last, by a resolution of the Triennial Convention, and after correspondence and consultation with his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, three missionary bishops were consecrated for foreign parts, one of whom was for China, the Right Rev. Dr. Boone, for some years missionary successively at Batavia and Amoy, and now missionary bishop of the American Episcopal Church in China. Two other missionaries have also arrived with him, the Rev. R. Grabam, M. A., of Gambier College, Ohio, and the Rev. H. W. Woods, who are accompanied by their wives and three other ladies, for the purpose of establishing schools, for which funds have been provided on a liberal scale. The missionaries of the Church of England now in China are, Rev. George Smith, M.A., of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, late incumbent of Goole, Yorkshire; and Rev. T. M'Clatchie, B. A., of Trinity College Dublin, late curate of Midsomer Norton, Somersetshire. These, together with Rev. Vincent Stanton, B.A., colonial chaplain, are all the Protestant Episcopal clergy resident in China. The measures of both churches are for the present necessarily of a preparatory and exploratory kind; and though mutually distinct, will be characterised by a similarity of plan and a spirit of co-operation. In the course of a year or two, a much larger number of missionaries of both churches are expected to follow, when the gentlemen deputed from the directing committees of the missions at home shall have obtained sufficient information and experience of the newly-opened fields of missionary enterprise to enable them to recommend a definite course of action on an adequate scale. — China Mail. MISCELLANEOUS. TYPHOON IN THE CHINA SEAS.-Capt. Uceda, of the Spanish brig Dardo, which arrived here a few days since from Manilla, reports the occurrence of a severe typhoon in the China seas, experienced by the Dardo in the lat. 14. 00' N. and long. 119. 30' east. The typhoon commenced on the 21st of May, from W. N. W. varied to W. then S. W., and terminated on the 24th of May as S. The only injury sustained by the Dardo was the loss of her top-gallant mast, but it is feared that vessels in the China seas may have suffered severely from the effects of the typhoon.-Straits Times, July 15. Governor Davis has issued another unpopular ordinance, namely, one for assessing the houses and lands of the colony for the support of the police, retaining in his own hands the power of appointing asseseors, fixing the rate, and disposing of the money. FIRE. We regret to announce the occurrence of a destructive fire on the evening of Saturday last, in the buildings erecting by government for a military hospital, &c. We have not heard how it originated, but the flames spread with the greatest rapidity, and at one time extended over a space of fully 250 yards, including the eastern bazaar and a long range of mat-sheds occupied by the carpenters engaged on the government buildings. Most fortunately on this occasion, as well as on several others when fires have broke out, the weather was calm, otherwise it is difficult to say what might have been the amount of damage. The constant exposure to such accidents under which we live, requires, and we trust will receive, the early attention of government. A certain amount of mat-sheds are indispensable under the present circumstances of the colony, but we consider they are multiplied far beyond what is absolutely necessary, and when we consider the proverbial negligence of the Chinese in such matters, no man can consider himself secure.-Hongkong Reg., May 27. We have received intelligence of a far more calamitous fire at Canton, which occurred within a few hours of the one just noticed. On Sunday morning, about ten or eleven o'clock, a fire broke out within the walls, on the north-east side of the old city, in a sing-song, or theatre, which had been erected for the amusement of the peeple. This building was situated in the midst of a square, which had been a single narrow street as an outlet. After the fire was discovered, the people endeavoured to escape by this street; but, partly from the temporary erections at the entrance of the sing song giving way, and partly from the curiosity of the people outside inducing them to crowd the street, there was no possible escape from the flames; and the confusion that ensued was such that no well directed efforts could be made by the sufferers to escape, while falling timbers and advancing flames must have deprived them of all presence of mind, The numbers of the sufferers it is as yet impossible to ascertain, for at the time our correspondent wrote (Monday), the people were still engaged in digging out the bodies of the dead from among the rubbish. It is estimated, however, that not much under a thousand persons must have perished in the flames, or been crushed to death. The number of those who were more or less burned, or had their limbs fractured, it is impossible to compute. Many of the sufferers were females, and not a few of those who escaped the flames, were assaulted and robbed of the ornaments they wore. Several of the players are said to have lost their lives. China Mail, May 29. MACAO. Our letters from Macao speak only of continued robberies on the part of the Chinese, rendering it unsafe for a single person to go beyond the Campo gate. The ships in the Typa are the Royal Exchange, Lady Hayes, Calcutta, Isabella Robertson, and Ruparell. Most of the receiving ships which were lately obliged to leave Whampoa, are now stationed at the Cumising-moon.-Hong Kong Register, May 27. SHANGHAI-The Possidone, from Chusan, arrived at Woosung on the 8th of May; the Red Rover on the 9th, and the Syed Khan on the 11th. The Monarch sailed on the 12th, loaded principally with teas and a little silk; the Red Rover for Hong Kong, and Eagle for Macao on the 13th; the Velore was expected to leave for Hong Kong on the 15th with a cargo of tea. -Ibid. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. AT HONG-KONG.-MAY 21. Joven Corina, Dring, Macao; Resolution, Wood, Macao.-22. Corcyra, Haslewood, Macao; Syed Khan, Smart, Macao. AT MACAO. MAY 12. Sir Herbert Compton, Boulton, Bombay. -20. Eagle, Prescott, Chusan. AT AMOY.-MAY 2. Wigeon, Cape, Singapore.-11. Arun, Ball, Shanghae. DEPARTURES. FROM HONG-KONG.-MAY 19. Dhur, Cumberland, Macao.20. Zephyr, Mann, East Coast; Amiga, Dalrymple, Macao.-21. H.M.S. Medusa, Amoy; steamer Midas, Pott, Whampore. FROM MACAO.-MAY 11. Brigand, Almeida, Manila.-16. Victoria, San Juan, Manila. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our LITERARY NOTICES are unavoidably deferred this number. The conclusion of the proceedings of the Court-Martial on Colonel WALLACE is also postponed from want of space. We beg to inform "A SUBSCRIBER" that the information which he desires is afforded. In our last number he will find Marine Appointments on page 524; Deaths appear under the head Domestic. ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL, LONDON, THURSDAY, September 25, 1845. WE are not croakers nor alarmists, but we do hold that, in dealing with an evil of any kind, it is the better way to look it fully in the face. Nothing can, in the long run, be gained by stifling truth-sooner or later it must come out, and the mischief resulting from its ultimate escape will generally be increased in proportion to the efforts which have been made to keep it down, and the period during which those efforts have succeeded in effecting their intended purpose. In this conviction we give insertion to the following extract from a private letter, dated from Hong-Kong in May last. The view taken by the writer of the value of Hong-Kong differs widely from all that we have previously heard. We are not in a condition to reconcile the conflicting accounts, nor to determine between them. We publish the statements and opinions of the writer of the subjoined extract, because they are those of one who does not speak from hearsay, but from actual experience and observation. If he be correct, his communication affords ground for very deep and serious reflection. There has been great diversion respecting this wretched, barren, useless rock, which is totally devoid of trade, European or Chinese ; and is never likely to have any. We have spent enormous sums here, which might as well have been thrown into the sea. The mortality has been dreadful among the troops-one in three ! ! ! But the living have no strength or energy. Language would not convey adequately an idea of the depressing effect, mental and bodily, which the climate produces, and which cannot be improved as it is now-the cause lies in the geological formation of the rock. Hong Kong produces nothing, protects nothing, and has not sufficient level dry ground to exercise a few companies of marines, and is as little protection to Canton as if we were at Tahiti. The merchants who have built houses are now in despair. However, the truth will come out sooner or later. I cannot say more to you at present. If we evacuate Chusan in January next, another war will be the result. The French will occupy Chusan, which they covet, and political intrigues and contests will arise, by which our trade will be ultimately destroyed, and a national hatred engendered towards us throughout China. Chusan is a large, fertile, beautiful, well-peopled, most salubrious island, in the most commanding position, and of the highest value as a commercial depôt. * ** No person remains here that can avoid it. Bread and cheese would be better in England than a sumptuous palace and 10,000l. a year in Hong Kong. THE civil service of Bombay have transmitted a memorial to the Court of Directors of the East-India Company, complaining of the libels on their body which Major-General WILLIAM NAPIER has been for some time in the habit of publishing; those libels being based on information furnished by the major-general's brother, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, Governor of Scinde. If they had not taken such a step-if they had been contented to lie under the weight of the mass of vituperation and abuse which the brothers have hurled upon them, they would virtually have admitted that it was well merited. We rejoice, therefore, for the sake of the service, that its members have come forward to vindicate its character and defy its traducers; and from the uneasiness manifested by the mouthpiece of the ADELPHI, we conclude that the blow is felt by those against whom it is directed. General WILLIAM NAPIER has noticed the memorial in a letter to the editor of the Times, which is evidently the production of a man writing under a feeling of extreme discomfort. There is all the swagger which unvaryingly marks General NAPIER's compositions; but on this occasion the exhibition is both feeble and affected, and the excuse which he puts into the mouth of his brother is pitiably absurd. It is to the effect that Sir CHARLES NAPIER is not accountable for what General WILLIAM NAPIER may write. To meet this most silly and impotent defence, it is only necessary to ask, are General WILLIAM NAPIER's libels written and published with Sir CHARLES NAPIER's consent? if not with his positive consent, do they appear with his connivance ? or if he neither consent to their publication nor connive at it, does General WILLIAM NAPIER publish them in opposition to his wishes? In either of the former two cases, the Governor of Scinde is just as culpable as his brother, and just as much accountable for the libellous matter; in the latter, Sir CHARLES NAPIER would stand exonerated, but a heavy additional responsibility would be laid on the shoulders of General WILLIAM NAPIER. If Sir CHARLES NAPIER have, in the confidence of private epistolary intercourse, allowed himself to make statements which he never meant to see the light, what language can be found sufficently strong to characterize the conduct of his brother in giving publicity to that which was intended for his own perusal only? At all events the matter should be cleared up. Does Sir CHARLES NAPIER authorize the malignant and libellous publications, or does he approve of them? If he neither authorize nor approve, his brother stands convicted as a betrayer of confidence as well as a libeller. On the other hand, if Sir CHARLES NAPIER either authorizes the publications of General WILLIAM NAPIER, or tacitly approves of them, he is accountable, not less than the writer. It is, we know, quite idle to apply the ordinary principles of human action to the conduct of the two major-generals They belong to the ancient and illustrious order of "Eccentrics," and certainly ought to be appointed Grand Masters, if the rules of the order admit of two Grand Masters at once; if not, we would suggest that they take the dignity alternately-year about. An American writer, Miss SEDGWICK, has said that there are three descriptions of human beings-men, women, and opera dancers. We crave the lady's permission to add a fourth, more recently brought to light-" NAPIERS." New discoveries have repeatedly disturbed the established nomenclature of science, and in this instance we must claim to exercise the privilege of innovation. It is clear that neither men nor women have ever before "played such antic tricks" as are of every-day practice with the Governors of Scinde and Guernsey-we therefore cannot place them in either of Miss SEDGWICK'S first two classes; and though their moral contortions may bear some resemblance to the physical extravagances common with the third class, they are far more astonishing, and on this ground we claim for the brothers a separate compartment in the arrangement of the curiosities of natural history. We should be happy to vindicate this claim by depicting at length the peculiarities which entitle the two statemen-heroes or hero-statesmen to the distinction, but we are restricted to a few columns of letter-press, and within such limits it were idle to enter upon a task which it would require a thick volume to complete. But one rich illustration of the NAPIER mind, as reproduced to notice in the memorial to which we have alluded, we must not pass over. 66 It seems that Sir CHARLES NAPIER amused his leisure by writing notes on a book published in 1840, called Lights and Shadows of Military Life; and in the course of these notes, that he took occasion to deliver his opinion on the morality of the English in the East, and to compare it with that of BONAPARTE in seizing, or attempting to seize, Spain. The passage will be found in our last number, page 517. Sir CHARLES NAPIER there declares that the act of NAPOLEON was not so bad as that of the English in getting possession of India; that the attempt of the French Emperor had "nothing cruel or vile in it," while "the object of the English Government was to enrich a parcel of shopkeepers -the 'Shopocracy' of England, as it has been well termed " (so says Sir CHARLES NAPIER); " and a more base and cruel tyranny never wielded the power of a nation." We pause here just to notice the degree of respect entertained by the most Radical of her Majesty's general officers for the middle and humbler classes of society. Measureless is the distance between a shopkeeper and a major-general, even though that major-general be a Liberal, and something more. We suspect that when General WILLIAM NAPIER was taking an active part in a contested election for the city of Bath he held another sort of language to the shopkeepers there, although he might in his heart class them with the hogs from whose example Prince BLADUD learned the value of the waters, and thus opened the sources of the prosperity of that beautiful city. But suffering this to pass, it is our duty to point out that there are two or three points in which Sir CHARLES NAPIER is not quite correct. The word Shopocracy" he seems to think of ancient standing, and to have been often applied to those who have "wielded the power" of England in India. We would not have expected that it would have been necessary to inform the most liberal and ultra-radical Governor of Scinde, that the word is only about fifteen years old—that it was invented during the contest on the reform bill-was applied by the opponents of the bill to the ten-pound voters thereby created, and has never been applied to any other persons. Further, those whom it pleases Sir CHARLES NAPIER to vilify were certainly not shopkeepers. We do not say this as participating in any degree in the haughty contempt entertained by the Governor of Young Egypt for that class; in England, society is not divided into castes, and talent, energy, and good conduct may raise a man from a very humble to a very elevated position. But whether Sir CHARLES NAPIER refers to the East-India Company or to their servants, he is alike incorrect in using the word shopkeepers. The East-India Company indeed bought and sold and made profit; but would any man in his senses call them shopkeepers? Were the BARINGS and the HOPES ever ranked as shopkeepers? To the officers and servants of the Company the term is even still more inapplicable, a large portion of them belonging to that profession of which Sir CHARLES NAPIER is a member, and for which he affects to feel much sympathy. Indeed we suspect that he uses the word only in imitation of the great object of his admiration, NAPOLEON, who was accustomed to taunt us with being " a nation of shopkeepers." Shopkeepers as we were, the star of NAPOLEON grew dim before our arms, and we con fidently believe that the man who thus picks up the cast-oft abuse of the exile of St. Helena will not gain much by the employment of it. As Sir CHARLES NAPIER proceeds, the strength of his language increases, while his regard for truth diminishes. Unless the Bombay memorialists are dreaming, the Governor of Scinde is really the writer of the following decent passage: Our object in conquering India, the object of all our cruelties, was money lucre. A thousand millions sterling are said to have been squeezed out of India in the last sixty years. Every shilling of this had been picked out of blood, wiped and put into the murderer's pocket; but wipe and wash the money as you will, the "damned spot" will not "out." There it sticks for ever, and we shall yet suffer for the crime, as sure as there is a God in heaven, where the commercial interests of the nation "find no place," or heaven is not the place that we hope and believe it to be; justice and religion are mockeries in the eyes of a "great manufacturing country," for the true God of such a nation is Mammon. I may be singular, but in truth I prefer the despotic Napoleon to the despots of the East-India Company. Our readers will not expect that we should analyse this passage or refute it. They will see that such men as the late Lord TEIGNMOTUH, the late Mr. CHARLES GRANT, and many others who might be named-men ranking not only among the ablest but among the best of the sons of Britain, are here coolly classed as pickpockets and murderers. If we are asked whether the man who thus wrote could be of sane mind, our answer is, we cannot tell; but we believe that he is still permitted to walk about without a keeper. If we could be satisfied that the state of mind of the writer of this atrocious trash justified his being treated as one accountable for his actions, we would ask how is it, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, that you, entertaining these opinions, accepted of a command in India? It is sufficiently strange that it should have been offered you, but still more strange that you should accept it; how came it to pass that you, who never suffer an opportunity to escape for vaunting of your own honour, humanity, integrity, and piety, consented to quit your native shores to aid in upholding this blood-raised, murder-nurtured empire of England in the East, on which the " damned spot" will stick for ever, and on which you anticipate some signal outpouring of the vengeance of heaven? And having consented to incur the contamination of being mixed up with the Government of British India―having committed this crime, for in your eyes it must be a crime, let us ask what did you to stop the perilous career of guilt in which, according to your recorded judgment, that Government had been long proceeding? Did you do any thing to check the Just of conquest or to avert the shedding of blood? On the contrary, did you not add to the British empire in Asia by unrighteous conquest and needless bloodshed? Answer, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, to these questions, and if you stand, as stand you must, self-convicted, then for your own sake conjure your brother to rest his goose-quill, the employment of which is constantly getting both you and him into difficulty. Thus would we address Sir CHARLES NAPIER, if Sir CHARLES NAPIER were a fit person to be reasoned with. We had nearly forgotten to notice that Major-General WILLIAM NAPIER makes a very extraordinary excuse for his brother's abuse of the British Government in the East, namely, that it was written "many years ago." It may perhaps be as difficult to determine to how small a number the word many may properly be applied, as to decide the old question of how few persons constitute a crowd. Opinions will differ, but as the book quoted by the memorialists was published in 1840, while the letter of the Governor of Guernsey is dated in 1845, it seems that in his estimation five are many. We will not deny that five years form a period quite sufficient to effect an entire revolution in the mind of a NAPIER-to turn it inside out and upside down, and jumble all its elements into chaos; but truth is truth, and reason is reason, alike in 1845 as in 1840. These limits are, however, too wide. Sir CHARLES NAPIER did not go to India yesterday. Perhaps his brother will tell us to how late a period the notable opinion above quoted on the Government of India was entertained before Sir CHARLES NAPIER condescended to become an employé of that Government. Let him cast off such miserable shuffling as that of saying that the language objected to was written some years ago, and avow at once that, as Benedict, when he said he would die a bachelor, did not think he should live to be married, so when Sir CHARLES NAPIER denounced the progress of British dominion in the East, he did not think that he should ever have the opportunity of extending it. He has had the opportunity, and when it came, his conscience did not keep him back from honour. He entered on the task of aggressive warfare apparently con amore; and, whether for good or for evil, he has added a kingdom to the previously large possessions of Great Britain in the East. We cannot enter at length into the morality of annexing Scinde to British India, but we say without dread of refutation, and even without apprehension of contradiction, except from a NAPIER, that from the date of the first acquisition of territory by the English in India to the day on which we are now writing, there never was an instance in which dominion was acquired by our countrymen in the East with so little, not only of right, but even of the appearance of right, as in the conquest of Scinde; and this conquest was made by the man who sets himself up as a pattern statesman and a severe moral censor. But how we became possessed of Scinde is a question which it is too late to ask; and, in truth, it is one which raises too many uneasy feelings to be dwelt upon unnecessarily. How Scinde is governed is a more practical question, and for that reason a more important one. This question has been answered, after a fashion, by a correspondent of the Times, August 8, who subscribes himself "An Officer." We believe there is only one officer (in Europe we mean) who could have written this letter, and we leave our readers to guess his name and station. The Officer commences his remarks by abusing the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India for not entertaining a due sense of the value of Sir CHARLES NAPIER's exploits in the very laborious, but very undignified duty of thief-catching. We leave this part of the communication to be answered by those who may feel disposed to undertake the task, or not to be answered at all, which is certainly the fate most in accordance with its merits. The Earl of RIPON may remain calm, though pelted hardly and thickly by the paper pellets of Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM NAPIER, and we hope he does so remain. The value of that officer's praise or abuse is now pretty well known; and no public man will stand higher in the estimation of his country for being spattered with the one, or lower for being selected as a mark for the other. "How is Scinde governed?" is the question proposed by the "Officer," and we are somewhat startled by learning at the outset that, "Scinde being a recent military conquest, the government exists only in the will of the governor, as it did previously in that of the Ameers." In plain English, Sir CHARLES NAPIER, a very insignificant person in England, is in Scinde a despot, an autocrat; more absolute than CESAR or NAPOLEON, and not less so than PETER of Russia. There is no law, no rule of any sort, but the will of one man, and that man a NAPIER. Five things the autocrat has done, for which the major-general- -we mean the "Officer "-claims credit for his client. In the first place, he has prohibited "all males related to the female" (we quote literally) "cutting the throats of their women, as they were in the common habit of doing." It is not quite clear whether males not "related to the female" may or may not yet exercise this privilege of throat-cutting, but we hope for the best. The remaining points of merit are the abolition of torture, the withdrawal from the jaghiredars of the power of inflicting death or torture, the abolition of slavery, and some endeavours to reduce the amount of taxation-all very good acts in their way, but acts which any British governor would have performed as readily as Sir CHARLES NAPIER. Having learned what has been done in the way of clearing, we are naturally anxious to know what fair fabric of law has been erected upon the ruins of the abolished tyranny, and the answer is, none. This, indeed, was to be anticipated from what we had already been told of the authority and power of the Governor; but for fear we should forget their extent, we are reminded of it thus :-"The Governor is all in all." These are the "Officer's" words, not ours. It seems there are certain judges,—if judges they be, who, in criminal cases of a grave character, hear, but do not determine, the evidence, being forwarded to the Governor, through the Judge Advocate-General, whereupon the Governor, if he choose, orders a commission to try the case or to inquire into it, and after obtaining the opinion of such commission, together with that of the Judge Advocate-General, the Governor does what be pleases. The "Officer" regards this system as the very perfection of judicial arrangement as far as Scinde is concerned. It is perfected because it leaves all power to Sir CHARLES NAPIER. Thus writes the "Officer":"The Governor's enormous power renders this form of proceeding completely dependent on his will." Yet at the commencement of the very next paragraph (so blinding is the influence of enthu siasm), the "Officer" talks of the "checks" which the Governor has placed upon "the possible, but," as the writer observes, with equal truth and courtliness, "not probable abuse of his own tremendous authority." Checks! where are they? Why there is the commission nominated by the Governor. Well, the commissioners report their opinion. Any other check? Oh, yes! there is the Judge Advocate-General, who gives his opinion. And what follows? The Governor examines and determines. According to what? -according to law? No; there is none in Scinde; the Governor does not like law. Have you not heard that the government exists only in the will of the Governor;-that the Governor is all in all;-that every thing is dependent on his will? How, then, should he determine, but according to that will,—sic volo, sic jubeo? Does he think that a criminal, or alleged criminal, deserves death, he gives the word like the Dey of Tunis in "“ Africa the torrid," Let no more be said, and the deed is done in a twinkling. This would not do in |