The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

1 > y 'rr/5.#4 ' CP;j...7.... • --...-• ....MO.. -- -- - . '"'lr. „,..._ , .., - x l p r •I 4gi , I No. 5,736.) Y 11•••••.. .... -_ _ • 11 1 !; LITERATURE. IrS,ON uvisartm. OR QUEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK. oil LIVERPOOL, - NEW YORK, sad PIILLADELPHIA arRaLftRIP 00ICPANY intend dee. their AU-powered me tatted Clyde-il s. bong Iron Some Sieem-ghipu &Mee ma PROM uvitaroot, for NNW TORR. F.DIS BURGH. Wednesday, Dec. 2d. t ITT uF DALTIMO&E Wednesday, hut 4. tut ever, Wedniedis and every allieisace coserom. ow passage by the mail eleasems .el every aosoomodatsom Wednesday, according the Wednesday, '..„ r e by the Saturday's steamers, to 13 odium lorwerd peonage itiaticbug all provider's seeiged. Paiesegera for the Fatted States, and Redid' Columbia booked through n .sy advantageous torms.—For Luther patualgsre aim t m water-street, Ltreepool : le mi RACJIY. dL. Afro WUltamotreel Olty. OVERLAND ROUTE.—COMMUNIOATION by STRAY to INDIA. 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Loados to moist that in Liverpool io the carry ing est of a project deer to no all, viz., the quahogs of a small yacht, and its presentatioa to you oa behalf of about Too subscribers from all grades of society, representing no cos class, and no political opinioc, offer you the little token of our esteem and admiration, M the hope that it may greatly contribute to your pleasure, comfort, and restoiratioo to health and strength. The smallness of the gift is perhaps its greatest mown:mode. too, since we know that a oatiooal offering of greater value mould be rejected by your noble and disinterested heart. Accept this, then, is a token of frimulahip from a few ear. pest end siocere English Mende glove not oily in apprecia• tion of all your valiant deeds foe the accomplielimout of freedom is Italy and in other leads, not oely for your noble but every ready sympathy with the oppressed of all nations, but also bemuse we thank You for the fearless life which, elevated above all selfish 'aims, hoe given, not to any oar country but to the whole world, an example which will survive the chimps of dynasties, and prove a seed from which true freedom will blossom until time shall be no more. Tretetiog that you will lost be spared to enjoy the gift we mod, sod that at some future time, U yea will thick lit. you will ass it to redeem your pommies of again visiting England. —Loadoe, Oat. WM, 1864." The followieg is f Mribaldt's reply :—" Owners, 22nd Nov., 1861.—Kiel ladies and Gentlemen,—My utmost gratitude cannot equal your 'nodose'. Yon bars honoured is nee bet ID much the man sa the principle of human brotherhood, which every honest men ought to follow, and which the English motion supports everywhere. May God grant ms the power of teetering myself io part at least worthy of the many favours with which you have surrounded nee.—Youre (or life, G. -To the geoerous irked@ who subscribed to the Yacht Food is loadea." A History of the &pay War is India, 1867-1858. By Joint Wuxiau Kava. Loudon : W. H. Alleu and CO. The policy of England in India his been so fre quently condemned, placing as it did a whole con uneut at the mercy of a body of merchant adven turers, whose only object was gain, and leaving them to acquire that gain how they could, that we are relieved at meeting with a historian who sees some soul of good even in this evil thing. It is a very remarkable fact, that during the sway of the company there had been no mutiny against its authority ' • the affair at V e ll ore was a conspiracy of the friends of the sons of Tippoo, and the other troubles were merely outbreaks of military insubor dination. It was not until a more enlightened rule was established, and the religions scruples of the Sepoys, often simulated, began to be respected, that the notion of a great outbreak became pos sible. No one can look back upon the rela tions of the English to the natives of India without feeling that all things pointed to the great catastrophe of 1867. That forty or fifty thousand persona should attempt to govern one hundred and fifty millions of a dif ferent race and religion, and to govern them as a conquered people, must for ever remelts ao example of unmatched temerity. Had the natives of India been naturally a stupid people they might probably have been gulled into willing subjection to the Europeans, bees brought entegard them as a sort lof political hierarchy. But both Hiodoos and Mo hammedans in India are naturally acute and observant. They saw that they were being ruled by a mere handful of white men, whose power was utterly insignificant if rightly tested. They were daily insulted and trampled ou by this small band of strangers. Beardless boys were placed in com mand of the native troops, and treated Brahmin soldiers of the highest cast with intolerable iudig nity. The Sepoys of one presidency were used to overawe those of another ; the natives of one divi sion of the cmotry were employed to subdue thaw of another. Native thrones were overturned, and native princes slain or ruiued. All this could not go on for a hundred years without awakening something like a public opinion among the subjugated people. The establishment of a native press gave an immense impulse to ideas upon the relations of the English with India. The conceesions demanded by the Sepoys to their reli gious feelings were simply feelers, thrown out to as certain their own strength and the resistance of those whom they had bten taught to regard as oppressors. Unhappily, there was butte* much ground for the representations of British rule given by its enemies. Public morality had been openly violated by the domivant race in many instances ; native princes had been despoiled on the most flimsy pretences, and sometimes without even the poor tribute to justice of a pretence of any kind. To compensate tor this, the British subsidized the Temple of Durga and the image of Juggernaut ; as if men could see with satisfaction their independence and natural rights infringed because their superstitious feelings were flattered. We can see that the whole body of native Indians were ripe for revolt when ever the opportunity shook: offer. Mr. Kaye shows us how that opportunity arose, and explaios the circumstances that led to it both remotely and immediately. The narrative commences with a review of Lord Dalhouaie's ad ministration, which terminated 'in 1866. We then go back to the conquest of the Sikhs by Lord Hay dings in 1846, which led to the military occupation of the Punjab. These events bring into notice some of the brightest names in Anglo-Indian story —statesmen, soldiers, Christians, whose wisdom and character saved the empire in its sorest need, and whose virtues redeem the shortcomings of their countrymen. Elphinstone, Metcalfe Outran), the Lawniuoss par nubile fratritin ; Herbert Edwardes, Nicholson, Reynell, Taylor, Lake, Lumaden, Becher, Abbott, Agnew, Cocks. Lord Dalhousie had that prime quality f a ruler, knowing Low to choose his ministers and agents ; he had also that other quality, not less essential to the functions of government—of confiding fully in the men whom he had chosen. Ilia inacbiuery was good, his agency efficient, his intentions excellent, but his method did nut suit the material he had to operate upon ; it was, above all, deficient in kuow is of the race with whom he bad to deal, and therefore deficient in sympathy with ' those feelings and affections by which men are most beady managed. A just and able man, fell of philanthropy, and earnest in the discharge of his duty, it must yet be admitted that Lord Dalhousie was too much of a theorist and doctrinaire in his political views, and that without considering I natural harmony or consistency as necessary between a race of men and the political system under which they live, he strove to import into India the consti tutional policy of England, and to enforce its ac ceptance upon the natives, in spite of their hereditary habits, and of prejudices that have become incor porated with their very nature. He had enlarged and consolidated our Asiatic empire, but in so doing he had produced profound discontent throughout the peninsula. The ancient pensioners of the com pany, whose services bad been rewarded with jagheen, or dotatious of land in allodial possession, found themselves suddenly reduced to the condition of tenants at will by the resumption on the part of the government of the ultimate property in the land ; the stereotype spirit of Oriental civil ization was alarmed by the innovations on its domestic and social customs ; even the rail way and telegraph were regarded by the millions of India as hostile to their traditionary usages and beliefs. They could not tell why the British should thus wish to traverse their country with hippogriffes breathing fire, or with wires endued with nervous sensitiveness and intelligence, unless it were for the purpose of overturning that world of imagination which bad descended to them from remote anti quity, and which they deemed their most sacred posseesion. To this end tended in their belief the abolition of Thuggee and Suttee, the missionary and Bible agencies, the native schOols—everything done by the British. The spirit of suspicion was roused, and it fed and got strong upon the merest trifles ; even the taking away of the lotalm, or brass drinking vessels, to prevent their use as deadly weapons, was regarded as a new attack upon the lescredneas of caste. Of course the priesthood encouraged the disa ff ection, and waged a secret but steady war against all progress, whilst the amine , ries of the native princes, who had been degraded ' and impoverished, were indefatigable in stirring up and fanning the sparks of insurrection. The an nexation of (Jude was only one out of many examples of the broad grounds given by the Bri tish government for all these suspicions, this hatred, disaffection, and incipient revolt. Lord Delhowde's government was a failure, the brilliant designs with which he entered upon his duties were shat tered in collision with the immovable obstinacy of I the Asiatic races, and be returned to England broken in health and discouraged in hope, shortly to had rest in the grave from his splendid cares and sorrows. He was succeeded by Lord Caning, who as yet had scarcely anything public to recom mend him but his great patronymic. Mr. Kaye gives additional interest to the administration of Lord Canning by a brief but excellent biography, which will show the reader that although but little knows at this time to the public, he bad been pass ing through that discipline which was best fitted to mature his powers and to qualify him for the fiery trial through which lie was destined to bring tri umphantly the British name and character. He entered upon his government at a time when be neath a smooth surface the bitterest and most cruel passions were raging against the nation he repre sented. The native rulers who bad been dispos sessed or disappointed . were not unobservant of - the signs of the times. The Crimean war, the Persian war, were occupying the attention of England. Nana Sahib had an agent in the Crimea who gave him but s poor account of the British soldiers. Pro phecies rose for the occasion, the British Raj was to terminate in 1857, that is, one hundred years from the battle of Plassy and the conquest of Bengal. The combustibles were all prepared and heaped together, only the spark was wanted to ignite them. It is impossible not to feel the most profound astonishment that all this could be going on under the very eves of the British, and that they yet had not the remotest suspicion of it ; nay, the regimen tal officers who might have been supposed to know everything connected with the men of their several companies, not only did not suspect any disaffection, but when some few, more observant than others, expressed the opinion that there was something ominous about the attitude of the Sepoye, they were laughed at, the regimental officers took such suspi cious almost as personal insults, and expressed the most unbounded oontidenoe in the fidelitYl of the native troops. The Europeans kept themselves aloof from the Asiatice through pride and indolence, sustained by the conacious.l nese that the British were the conquering and' dominant people, whilst the Asiatics were kept together by prejudices still stronger, and further I corroborated by the hatred which was always latent I in their minds against the intrusive race. If ever , competitive examination were necessary it surely would be necessary to test the competency of young officers for the command of • people of different blood, of different minds, and of different habits. We ehosdi hails% to entrust the driving of odd elephant to an English groom who had been brought up to the knowledge of horses only, but we never hesitated to entrust to raw youths and inexperienced men, whose military knowledge was gained in English garrisons, the command of au army of 300,080 men differing from Englishmen in almost every essential point. When the fruit is ripe the twitter of • sparrow will cause its fall, when the mine is fully charged the merest accident may sup ply the spark. The story of the greased cartridges came at the very crisis, and inflamed the slumbering elements of revolt from one end of the country to the other. The extraordinary fitness of this story to all the circumstances of the case, the exact manner iu which it was calculated to arouse the passions alike of Hindoos and Maho medans, and its being addressed exclusively to the Sepoys, leads to the suspicion that it was concocted for the special purpose of arousing the native army to mutiny. Mr. Kaye s ays th a t it Aimee thus. A low caste Lascar asked a high caste Sepoy for a drink of water from his r lotah ; the Brahmin ob jected on the score of caste ; the Lascar replied that high caste and low caste would soon be all the same, as cartridges smeared with beef fat and hog's lard were being made for the Sepoys at the depots, and would soon be in general use throughout the army. Thus the deadly prejudice of the Maho medans against the swine, and the reverence of the Hindoos for the cow, were directly outraged, and that in the most offensive manner. The suspicion that the story was concocted is unhappily without foundation, and we are forced to the conclusion that the military authori ties themselves, in their self-sufficiency and ignorance, furnished the facts of which it was • true version. The utter blindness which this in dicates on the part of the British is another proof of the absolute state of alienation in which the two races stood to each other ; it looks almost judicial, and certainly was followed by consequences suffi cient to cure it fur ever. The Sepoy returned to his cantonment, and reported what the Lascar had said ; immediately there was a ferment in the lines —horror, disgust, and rags seemed to animate the soldiers. From Dum-Dum, near Calcutta, the tidings of this deadly blow against the faith of the people spread with inconceivable rapidity through out the country; in an instant they reached Bar rackpore, sixteen miles distant, where four native regiments were stationed • from thence the fatal news leaped on to Berha:inpore, a hundred miles distant, and, as the lightning darts from one black cloud to another, so did this report fly as if it were carried through the air to all the great military stations throughout India. The government was taken by surprise, the military authorities were at their wits' end. They could not believe that their" beautiful regim e nt s " were unfaithful to their salt. But our countrymen did not lose their courage ; if they brought evil upon themselves by their negligence of common precautions, they met it in • spirit of heroic deter mination which has impressed the subject people with a deeper idea of British power and resolution than a hundred battles gained by their arms. Mr. Kaye narrates the means taken at the various sta tions to recall the Sepoys to a sense of their duty, and here we recognise the sterling valour and noble devotion of every British officer in India. There is not in the long roll of men whose lives, and what , was more precious than lives, were surrounded by fatal perils, one single name that dues not awaken our pride and our sorrow. We have purchased our Indian experience deeply ; it is to be hoped that we shall use it wisely. Mr. Kaye concludes this ! volume at the outbreak of the mutiny. Two other volumes will succeed it, in which will be fully re counted, in a style worthy of such a theme, the darkest and brightest episode of England'. story. THE MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS. SIR,—It ia hardly fair to judge of a great move meet by one meeting. The conduct of the poor girls last Thursday arose from two causes —one. the imperfect supply of refreshment by the proprietor ; the other, the giving of drink by pence. outside who are not favOurable to the object. liad your reporter been present at soy of the seventy meetings held during the last four years—some of which have been vary large, and held its the worst didricts I. Leo dos—he would have witnessed order and attention on the part of the poor unfortunates. The movensect must be judged by its resell,, mid these are most satisfactory, whether sees io the thousaods reclaimed or the general feeling awakened throughout the country to have the evil ratio% ed. As far as the one meeting referred to is °warned, already eleven poor girla bare applied at the office for amistanoe to leave their wretched course of am, Ire., JOHN STABS, Hon. Secretary of the Midnight Meeting Movement. 5, Red Leowequare, W.C.. lies. 24. CHATHAM, Dar. 25.—The whole of the troops at this garrison will be mated • holiday to-morrow. and by cetera Bit Robert Walpole, K.C.8., all drills sad parades are to be dispensed with. PAHLI•MENTARY DEPOSITS—A case of ROMS 1113. =Doe in refereom to " puliarosetary depceits," mis at the Secondaries' Court on Friday in as mhos " Parker v. Fry," brought fa the Queen's Beach, is which judgment woe allowed to go by default. The damages were laid at 20,0004 Mr. Bridges wee counsel for the plaintiff. sad Mr. Archibald for the defendant. The plaintiff is the public officer of the National Bank, and the defendant, who was ocianected with the Weald of Hest Railway, pee • guarantee to retearider to the back certain stock within • epecided period after the bill was passed. They had lodged in the Court of Chancery as the parliamentary deposit of 8 per nest. New Three per Cent.. Annuities to npwarrh 50,0001., botchily deposits to 11.5001. was required. That sum still remained is the Court of Chatemy, and the actim was on the guarantee. It was stated that co a hood being given the money would be paid out to the bask, but on the part of the plaintiff the statement was denied. A sum et 1001. and Interest was to be paid. A verdict was takes for 15,8991. 16e. 3d. Mr. Archibald said as the trawler of the stock the verdict could be Wooed to 1601. and interest. By • recent order of the Bows of Commons, future war. nets will osly be made out to promoters of railways and not to third parties. (Advertiseuient.l—HOLLOWAT'S OINTMENT AND Dimeseisa.—Nast 'Ample maladies are permitted to become virulent throach • person's reluctance to emcee his infinnittes to soother. or rightly wing Holloway's esteemed remedies no counsellor is necessary. no advice beyond that con tained In the "sccompanyina ailitresi - is required. Pte, Sautes, and many other maladies which demand secrecy, can be safely conducted to an may and permanent cure by Holloway's dot. meet and pals. They can be confidently applied in most painful. irritating. and angerous inseams : they purify, motile, cool, heal, and radically e ars hen any Ointment short of pro. dining these comnined effects must result In unsuccessful, if not disastrous coneequences. The severest mfferire of every clam leave been restored by Holloware cia4asel mod pins. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (azors's ursossits.) PRINCE HUMBERT. NAPLES, Mc. 24. Cardinal Andrea has paid a visit to Prince Hum bert. His Eminence was received with the honours due to his rank. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Dix. 24. The English frigate Caradoe arrived here from Constantinople on the 22nd inst., having on board Sir Henry Bulwer, who will probably pass the winter in Egypt. THE QUEEN OF SPAIN'S SPEECH. Her Majesty opened the session of the Cores in person on the 22nd, with the following speech from the throne: Stirosse, Starnes AND DEPI3III:6, —1 experienoe lively setinfacitiou is seeing myself surrounded by the repreeente. tires of the nation, and am thoroughly convinced of their denim for the welfare sod prosperity of my people, isaugursting the labours you au 000 , 4 to undtokko for so pesiuworthy an object, I must Awes that our relit- Lona with foreign powers continuo istinfatiory. I have, nevertheless, to lamect en erns:Sipe is the ease of Pent ; bat I ens eat in hopes that a cordial t will soon be established between Sonia and that r e ahllc, e without the Injury to our diipity. ootificatioa d his eacestiou to the throes which bee bees addressed tome by the Emperor of Mexico, is for both countries the commencement of a new era of political and commercial relations which bed be unfortn sately inteerimted. The American peoples acknowledge the loyalty of our conduct, and are constantly more and more convinced that the sympathies of Spain are completely exempt from ambi tious views and dem o s. A new proof of this frank and generous policy is found is the coonslidation of the friendly relations which connect us with the States of Nicaragua, thastentela, and the Amelia, Republic. The complete peace and harmocy which I hope to see enured with all the nations of the New World are about to he realised in our relations with the extreme East. My government biz negotiated a treaty with the Em. peter of China, which will be submitted to your appro bation, and which guarantees to us all the advantages ob tained by other powers. The frontier treaty recently concluded with the kingdom of Portugal will also he kid before you. Recent diplomatic combinations suspend all resolutions relative to the affairs of Italy, but as soon as they shall be brought to a definitive solution my government will take cognizance of them from the point of view counselled by the most delicate prudeeee, and in each a manner as to avoid the alirbtest infringement of that respect and filial love professed by Sse by every catholic nation, for the com mon Father tinf Faithful. I:trilogies beck my gam to our country, I find myself com pelled to tell you with regret that the general situation of the monarchy, °moldered in all points of view, is not as satisfactory as could be desired. Bills of importuce and considerable gravity will be laid before you within a brief period to remedy this condition of alfalfa You will, I bops, take these into your consideration, and give them a solution in ooefonnity with the prudence and patriotism of which you have always given proofs to the greatest advising of the nation. Osamu of divers ohmmeters have placed our finances la a position which requires ripe and ~• examination. The promos oast modern civilisatioo, the prormenty sad the greatness of asthma, elan only be realised at the expeess of efforts which merge*, sad hatelligeat peoples mom Mum -- 11 ope that you will briog to the discussion of the bill. my goveroroent will lay before you upon this grave Question that elevation of views which by always din tinguished the noble nation of which you ge t h e repro- The public credit will also be established upon au inde• stemetible basis, and with it a happy future in *calamity with our past. The modifications which will be proposed to you it legialatieg for commercial societies will give a greater im pulse to the employment of capital in the wtho....ei of railways and other public works, which have so peat an inffuence neat the development of wealth. Other bills among those which will be submitted to your examination demised the same lineation, among others that relating to the usecin of the liberty of the and that eureersiag the Illiellares Is be tetheit the ono of an armed insurrection. A spirit conformable to that of the meditation of the monarchy will prevail in all thee* billa. My government will lay before you. is addition, a bill for the establishment sod argentatios of • rural guard charged to defend pro piety mad ensure the chastisement of those who should assail it and two other bills intended to perfect the judi• Mal admimistration, and to improve the arrangements for superannuating military men. It is just to secure by the mass the leoomprense of ser vices se important as those readopted by the army sod navy, whose generous behaviour is one of the noblest subjects of pride to the Spanish nation. The valour of the sons to whom Spain bee animated the cadence of her flag on lead sod by sea is always the same, notwithstanding their sufferings. The heroism of the army has been especially conspicuous in those distant regions where it his base subjected to the most cruel trials, and where it hes re-airskeeed the seethseets of fraternity said patriotism with which the inhabitants of oar ancient pro visoes beyond sea are animated. The heroic deeds of the former, sad the noble loyalty of the latter, are worthy of the highest prides, sod this my maternal heart again wooed, them here. Suety seneriss, senators, and deputies. is the situation I. which you will and public affairs, and the prospect they offer to your laborious efforts. lam convinced that the most ardent love for the country and its political ivetita- Lions will guide you in the executioa of your teak. You may be certain of the gratitudo of the populations you topmost and of the support of Livia* Providence. AUSTRIAN JUSTICE. The correspondent from Lemberg of the Neue Freie Preen says : The cooduct ci the authorities Isere dories the past fort. night seems to have been specially calculated to extinguish every hope of an alleviation of the Mate of siege. TM last sou Moose have been tin precedentedly severe, sad coed them, that os Madame Amperes.. deserves particular notice. This lady, who was accused, like so many others of her costatry women, of having made collections for the support of the insurrection in Poised, lam Mee seetenced to a year's eon. limment in the town prism. The only 'rides's* against her was a receipt for 5 Scrim which had bees found in her house. No proof was given that this receipt was either written by, or at the request of, the siocumed, sod her ststemest that it had bees found by her servant in the street was pally confirmed by the latter, who even volunteered to appear as a witness. The Grasses of the servant wee, however, sot accepted by the court, which gave the followiag extreerdinem reason for this step :—" It is true that the servant N— declares she found the receipt is questiou itilthe street sad gave it to her mistress, sad is ready to swear to the socosacy ,of this statement; but, as appears from daily experieste, the lower classes in Galicia areeodernoralised that they emmider it quite permissible to give false evidence, ems as oa.b. We most, therefore, regard the statement of the servant as false, sad look awe the receipt as belonging to the ammeed." It must be con fessed that this is a mode of *Mite evidence which the Games Lmal Protection Society in Landes will hardly snd as Botha court of justice disposed to adopt. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS WEAL—The followlog vessels are doe at Liverpool this week with the American cud Canadian mega, via m—The Glaegow, from New York oo the 17th Dec., sod the Damas cus from Portland, with corresponding d►tes, may be ex peeted to remelt—the former Crookbaven sod the latter Grummetle in the course of Wedaesda► neat. Oo Saturday malt, the Canada, from &etre on the 21st and Halifax early oo the morning of the 73rd, wOl no doubt reach Crookhaven or Queeostowo. COLLISION AT SEA.—PLYNOLTN, DEP. 25.—The Norwegian barque Christine Agatha, in ballast, sad the hams* Havannas, of Liverpool, with • osargo of mahogaey, mane into collision on Saturday morning, 30 milts south west of the Lizard. The Christine Agatha ban arrived at Possum Wl* five of time Havaaaah's craw au board. The fats of the Havanash is sos knows. SEETICEB OF THE CAFE or Goon HOPE LIFEBOAT. —Os the 18th October last • violist gale of wind from Um &E. Mailed the Bay of Port Elizabeth, Capp of Good Hope. Mars is fortuoakily static... Dad et the port as es oiliest lifeboat. which was built four years ago is Losdos under the superintmodence of the Royal Hatimal Lifeboat lastitutine. The sea at the time was very high, and the bay was quit. white with foam. The barque Hallarst. of Port Elizabeth, we. observed during the night to drift ashore in the Bight. Efforts were at as.. made to rescue the crow by an open boat from the shore, bet unliapoilY. whim near th• wroth, the steer car brok so e nds ma strikieg the boat, she was capsized sod over sad three of her brave crew mitt with a watery grave. • More Friend lifeboat afterward' went off sad succeeded is caviog the whole of the wrecks any, THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. By the arrival of the above mails we have re ceived &dykes from C►lcutta to Nov. 22 ; Madras, Nov. 26 ; Colombo, Nov. 30 ; Bombay, Nov. 28 ; Hong Kong, Nov. 16; Singapore, Nov. 17, &c INDIA. Sir Hugh Hose has met with an accident, having been thrown from his horse while hunting. The Mojusailite of the 22nd Nov. gives the following particulars : With regard to the lamentable accident that occurred to his Excellency the Commander-in-Cbief yesterday morning, and the many rumours flying about, we think it only right to publish the following authentic information to allay say miespprehension on the subject: "Meerut, Saturday Evening. "A sad accident occurred to his excellency this morales. , 1 "Sir Hugh was driven in • four-in-hand dm( to the most. We had one capital run of twenty minutes, and killed. Also • wood shorter rue, and killed. The hounds secs then put on to • third jackal, and after a burst of five or ten minuted at • rattling pans we rime to a ditch and stiff wall, which were jumped by Major Wilkie and the hounds, followed timely b g his exosileaey, wham horse (a celebrated Waler) hit the top of the bank hard, and turned • complete somersault, falling on Me excellency. Major Wilkie jumped of e end was the first to pick tip Sir Hugh. Hs wee peniently r e, but recovered partially in about ten minutes. We moved hlm to General Whaler's home oa a elimrpoy. dlo okek atosMithatmene rib ars brakes* addition to • revere tmecassion, but hopes that • mouth will set his excellency all right. " We were favoured With the following bulletin at mese this day " • His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief has passed • very good night, and it is hoped and believed there is no very serious injury further than • broken rib.' We ere glad to be able to stmo that up to • late hour last *riming his Excellency Sir Hugh Hem was getting on very well indeed." In reference to this news the Tines of India says —" His excellency intended to rimer Calcutta in the beginning of January, and to quit India by the first steamer in March, but these arrangements may now be altered. The belief was general in his excellency's camp that Sir Hope Grant would auc oeed him as commander-in-chief in India. The succession to Sir Hugh Rose in the chief command of the Indian army is a matter of the greatest im portance to every one in India, and may turn out to be no light matter to Ragland. The general expectation in India has been that Sir William 3.field would be placed in the important poeition." . _ _ A proclamation was issued by the Governor- General on the 12th November announcing the in tention of government to annex. the Bengal Dooars of Bbootan to British territory. From Bhootan we hear that our soldiers have already begun to suffer from the worst climate in all India. Brigadier-General Mntreater, Colonel Richardson, and others, are prostrated by fever. Meanwhile, the feud between the Bhootan Rajahs and the Pillos has increased almost to a civil war. This, it is thought, may enable us to make a settle ment without incurring the risks and expense of prosecuting the invasion as now planned. The Gazette of India contains the following pro clamation respecting Bootan : Fort WMtam, 12th November. For mosey years past outrages haws been committed by subjects of the Bootee Government within British territory, and is the territories of the Rajahs of &khi sod Coach Behar. In these outrages property hes been plundered sod destroyed, line have bees takes, sad many ithoceet moons bays been earned into and are still held in captivity. The British Government, ever siocerely desirous of maintaining friendly retaliate with eisighboarieg states, sad especially mindful of the obligadeas imposed ma it by the Meaty of 1774, has endeavoured from time to time by conciliatory re monstrance to ioduoe the govertimeatof Bootee to punish the perponstoesof these crimes, to restore the plundered property, ead.to liberate the captives. But such reeionatreacee have Dever been. succemful, and even when followed by senate amain, have failed to produce say satisfactory result. The , BIWA gewerement hem been freqeseeig deseked bp Yaw aseursooss and promises for the future, but De property hoe ever been restored, no ceptiveliberated, mod ender punished, and the outrage* have ooatinuect is 1463 the government of India, being averse to the adoptioa of extreme 1211100UNS for the protection of its subjects sod dependent alio; de- I 'patched a special minim to the Boothe wort, chanted with peopmals of a coecihstory character. but instructed to de mend the surrender of all captives, the restoration of pl.. dared property, sod security for the future peace of the frontier. This pacitio overture wee insolently rejected by the government of DOOIAS. Not only were restitution for the past and security for the future refused, but the British envoy was insulted in epee Darter, and compelled, as the ealy meths of ensuring the ode return of the mission, to sign a document which the goveroment of Jodi. could *sly instantly repudiate. For this insult the Governor-General in Conseil determined to withhold for ever the masa payments previously made to the Bootee =moot coo seomiet of the revenues of the Assam and Amhara* Falakotta, which had bog been is the occupation of the British governmeot, sod tweezed those districts permanently to Britith territory. At the same time, still anxious to avoid as open rupture, the Governor-Otheral in Council addreamd • letter to the Deb sad Dhunas Rajahs, formally dentieding [ that all captives &Webbed in Bootee against their will should be released, sad that all property carried off during the Bat dye years should be restored. To this deemed the government of Baotou has returned an eva sive reply, from which can be gathered no hope that the just requisitions of the goveromeet of Ida will ever be complied with, or that the security of the frostier ma be provided forotherwise thee by deprivieg the (overeaten' of sad its subjects of the mesas and opportunity of future sgremion. The Goveraer•Otheral in Conseil bas therefore reluctantly resolved to occupy permasently sad annex to British territory the Bengal Dauer, of Bootee, and so mach of the hill territory, Leludiag the forte of Denbigh* !Webb', ad Deersagiri, as may be nesmaary to command the peens. and to preveat haunts of predatory loco:sloes of Bootanese sato the Darjeoliag or into the plains below. A military fatal, amply saltiest to occupy this tract, and to over coma all resistance, has bees assembled on the frostier, and will now proceed to carry out this resolve. All chiefs, aseeindars, mutidnia, ryots, and other isbabithote of the tract in timeliest aro hereby required to submit to the authority of the British government, to remain quietly in their homes, and to render ansistaace to the British troops and to the commissioner who is charged with the administration of the tract. Protectioe of life and pro perty, sad • guaraotee of all private rights, are offered to those who do not resist, and strict justice will be doe* to all. The leads will be moderately sasessed, arid all op preemies' and extortion will be absolutely prohibited. The ratan bosadary between the territories of the Quoin of E•glaad sad times of Booths will be werveved and marked off ; mid the authority of the government of Boothe within this boundary will cease for ever. By order of the Goverear-Geaseel is Council, H. G. DU RAND. Colon!. Secretary to the government of India. "Afghanistan (ups the Timer of India) is dis tracted and convulsed. Each powerful chief is fol lowed by a separate army, and the land is torn to pima by the marching and counter-marching forces. These movemeuts are keenly watched by Persia and Russia : the former by Herat, and the latter by Bokhara and the deserts, foster the tur moil that is kept up so near our gates on the north. The Amcor of Cabool has undoubtedly acted trea cherously toward* his brother, Ufzul Khan ; but treachery is the established mode of warfare in Cen tral Asia. This Uhinl Khan was himself the arch traitor of 1838. It was he who murdered Sir Alexander McNagbten at Cabool, and towed his grey head from the roof of the Residency. It was he who swore to conduct our arm safely to Jells labad, and fell upon it in the K hyber Pass, mas sacreing twenty-one thousand men, women, sad children. Front this very man, whom the Ammer has now seized, our soldiers had to purchase their release with a bribe of 40,000 rupees ; he took the money, and butchered the men. The British cannot be expected to feel much sympathy for such a wretch. Amongst those who have de clared against the Ammer, who profeeses friendship for us, is the King of Bokhara. He has taken the part of Ufzul Khan. With this King of Bokhara Russia is now intriguing to secure her steady and persistent advances towards our northern frontier. The Czar has seta an autograph letter to the king of Bokhara, accompanied by Whits valuable and grand. Kokan, whose envoy* seeking advice and aid against the oppression of the mighty Roos met the Viceroy of India at Lahore, has already fallen before the advance of the invading Muscovite force. The Czar, in his letter to the king, avows his inten tion of collecting an army at iluzrut Sooltan to march against Thibet and other places • to accom plish his design, be se e k s the consen t o f the ruler of Kaahgbur and Yarkand to troops marching throneh those provinces." _ _ Referring to the advance of Russia into Central Asia, the Bombay Ga:ettc says : The steady and rapid progress which the arms of Russia are achieving in Central Asia surely deserves the careful consideration, if it ought not to excite the serious alarm, of English statesmen. The harrier promoted by the mono kin-chain of the Caucasus to the incursioos of the northern soldiery--a harrier much more formidable than that which the Pyrenees offer to French aggressious—has. in Napoleonic Phrase ceased to exist ; sod Russia, freed from the necessity of employing her troops in a costly s ad desolating war to secure to herself string frootler to the west of the Cavan, has been able to devote her whole power to the acoomplishinent of another of the objects of Mir settled policy of attaining for herself the s up re macy i n Asis that is, the conque s t o f T oor kiatan. Before the Caucasus was entirely subjugated, the Russians bad already made good thei r f oo ti ng i n Tombistan, having taken possession of Khiva sad mot pioneers as far as Bob. bare. But they have lately taken the offensive with • force evidently much larger than they ever before entered the field with in this part of Central Asia. The cause of their invasion of the principality of Kokan is not stated, but a string power covetous of the territory of a weak neighbour can always God • convenient excuse for an ap peal to arms. Without, however, presuming to determine whether the Russians bad or hed not real injuries to re dress, we think Englishmen in general, both soldiery and politicians, rosy well take note of the morpriming vigour with which the Kona asespaigo has been brought to • successful elms by lb. Itessians. Fort after fort has been stormed i n rapid suomesios ; and the latest advice' from Cahoot are to the effect that Kokan itself ha. been taken, and that the Khan, after making submission to the cooqueroes, has been replaced on his throne as a vassal of the Emperor of Roma. Thus Russia hoe already subjugat e d tw o o f th e states of Toorkis! tan, Khios and Kokos ; of the other two, Endows and the Afghan principality of Balkh, the former is governed by a king who is toe chosen ally sod friend of the Russi a n s . and who openly mai n t a i ns the title to Balkh of Sirdar Abdoolrakiman Khan, in defiance°, the Ameer of Cahoot, whom* treacherous conduct to Afml Khan the father of Aloloolrahman, has made him most unpopular with all the Mossalmans of Cooke.' Asia. From the midi bemsnings, then, of twenty years ago, when the suspicions of Indian politicians of vivid imagination were first area mod by rumours that here and there a Russian travelling merchant had DOM. tested within the borders of Toorkinan, Russia has steadily sod surelyadvaniced tillshe is now th4sicist formidable military and political power is Central Asia, with a favourable g o o lpar. entity promoted to her of interfering in Affgban Ake and making her influence paramount in the only sti lode peodent state which separates her dominoes from those of the distant of British India. Perhaps the time is oot far when we shall begin to doubt whether we are ' really so wise se we believe ounelvm to be in ridiculing • the feats of the Aoglo-Indians whose [moan of ROMS& designs in the East plunged the country into the ' Affgban war. Perhaps one may 'beady be begins the expression of a doubt whether, premature as that , war was while the Punjab sod Sonde were yet 1100011• goosed, the precipitate abandonment of Affgbanistan and the suboseant resolute closing of the eyes of the loam government to the actual progress of the Russians in Central Asia, ought to be praised as indications of the very highest political wisdom. We, of course, do not suppose that, even if the Russians bring the Affilians into subject.. tioo, they will ever force their way into India while an English army guards the panes ; but one cannot help feel" lag that they are coming uncomfortably war oar frostier at a time when the difficulty of recruiting the English army . Is a subject of earnest diseassioo at home, and when the Governer General in Council is said to recommend the ni ductios of the European garrison of India in order to relieve the military authorities in England from their ember momenta. At least, it would be prudent for the English government to greats • ocrusterpties to the increased power of Russia beyond the Himalayas by securing and steogthen iog our position in the Persian Gulf. With the supremacy at messed marinas nation conveniently situated as bans of opseatioa fannies admixing on the flank of en invadmg army the English in India could afford to despise threats of Buenas The ZEnr a* Oashmere has got into trouble about punishment• inflicted by his officers in Gooserat, some women baring been there found with their tongues cut off by urder of Rajah Motee Sing. His Excellency the Governor of Bombay has written to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India on the subject of the famine now rendered inevitable throughout the Deccan. Sir Gisselea Trevelyen returns to England in February next, by the advice of his physician, as residence in India for another hot meson is con sidered unsafe. Weekly communication between Bombay and England will probably commence in January next. The merchants of Bombay have applied to government to be allowed to place a statue of the late Prince Consort in the Victoria Museum, sub ject to the permission of her Majesty. Sad intelligence (says the Bombay Gazette) is re ceived from almost all quarters of injury to the crops from want of rain, and there is every prospect of severe suffering during the coming season, throughout the whole country. The Governor of Bombay in Council has issued a circular to the principal heads of departments and offices under the Bombay government, warn ing all public servants sgainst becoming share holders in joint-stock companies at this particular period, when there is so strong a tendency to specu lation in Bombay, on penalty of supersession in promotion. At a meeting of the shareholders of the London and Bombay Bank on the 23rd Nov. resolutions were passed to wind up its affairs, and to institute criminal proceedings against DPEweit and Alla rackia for obtaining money under false pretences. A letter from Mr. Cowie, the Advocate General in Bengal, to Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, contains the information that the subscriptions already received in Calcutta for the Cyclone Relief Fund are more than sufficient to relieve the distress existing in the districts devastated by the cyclone. The effects of the storm ware which flooded the country to the south of Calcutta are now being felt in the shape of a pestilential fever,' which has been fatal in many instances to Europeans, but the na tives are the great sufferers. The Bombay and Barods line was to be opened on Monday, Nov. 28, from Bombay through to Ahmedabad. The Madras Atheneum of November 26 refers as follows to the disastrous gale at Masulipatam : Saxe oer last overland paper was closed the harrowing details of the great calamitiat Masnlipatam have from time to time been publie and they unhappily peeve that the fine brief tidings mid fell short of indeed of magentas the reel horrors of the vieitstioo. The Ism of human life is now estimated to have been fully 10,000, bet its exact amoent will never be knows, and that of Ike stock of venom km& deter all ealculatioe. The same re. mark applies equally to property of every &ecliptics. such as homes, prams, plantations, and agricultural pan• duos. FouMitne of the tows Aran have perished. sad the announdieg country is a seem of the most dreadful &viola tion. Other parts of the /Unto& district also suffered very severely, more especially Bet warah, and many per. sou perished, but the fate of Mastilipmem makes the miner tragedies appear comparatively nothing. It seems that the inundation was caused by a tremendous starm•ways, ridged by the long-eontiuued violence of t►e hurricane, w►ich suddenly swept over the doomed station and coast, probably to a depth of twelve feet or more. CHINA. In its summary of news the °reeked China Mail says :—" There is an unoonfirnsed statement that a pretty large body of rebels is still in the field, but of their doings nothing is known. We suppose this report to be a surmise, and a very likely one, based upon the fact that thousands of the Taepings were dispersed, and are likely to have drawn toge ther into one band, with a view to continuing the career of robber 3 and despotism they have so long been accustomed to. "The Anglo-Chirese force is to be disbanded. the necessity for its maintenance being no longer apparent. The Franco-Chinese force is ale" on the eve of dissolution. We bear nothing reliable as to the presence of the rebels near Settee ; and the disbanding of the Ningpo and Shangbae disciplined forces argues a conviction on the part of the Chinese authorities that the rebellion is ' done for.' " There is no intelligence of importance front Japan." ROYAL FIIIII HOSPITAL, GRAT'S-111M-SOAD.--4110 number of patients relieved at We bowlike' daring the week ending Dee. 24, wee 2,952, at whisk 796 WACO Se* ChM.