The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-12 00:00:00

MscONTENT AMONG THE COMPANY'S TROOPS IN INDIA. Cireat discontent has arisen among a considerable number of the officers who command the troops in the East. India Company's service. The occasion of these-discontents is thus stated in a letter, dated Ooruck, Dec. 20, 1828 Lord William Bentinck has brought out several new regulations. to he The fact i s , t h e C ompany appear gi u to recollect that their charter has nearly expired, and are determined (to the destruction of their army) ( to make every penny t h ey can b y re lacing our pay. L or d C ombermere, who, as Com mander of the Forces, ought to be in Calcutta, en deavouring to increase rather than decrease our allowances, is now up the country, and seems to care "thing about the army so long as these cuttings do liot affect him. The Council is composed of the Govern or -G eneral, Lord Combermere, and the two oldest civilians in the country. Three out of these four are civil servants, and they care not how much the Pay of the military is d ecrease d, so l ong as t h ey do not suffer by it They have already reduced the Pay of a C apta i n from 450 rupees to 270, and that Pay a Lieut enant from 250 to 170, that of an oat • sign f rom 200 to 120 rupees per mensem ; but HIY at a few of the largest stations, where there are European regiments. This is of course to feel the Pulse of the whole army, and if those officers W hose pay has thus been shamefully reduced sub "nit to it quietly, there is no doubt th a t we ' B6ll all be ut im the same lowaces. T hey ha v e at the fp s:e time increased the Pay of all the Generals and Brigadiers nearly a thousand rupees per month, thinking that without their ass i stance the officers of the army can do no thing. I hope they will find themselves mistaken, end that we shall be able to show them we are not the fools they take us for. I assure you it is now with the greatest difficulty I can live upon my pay, and I believ e I am one of the very few that do or elver have done so. Should my pay be reduced to .20 rupees per month, it will be downright starva tion. You I'aye heard that one pound at home "(En gland) will go as far as five in this country, and I assure you Officers in this part of the co u nt r y h ave t h e same it,l3pearances to k eep up as the King's at home; and how are they t o d o it ? We flatter ourselves that our en army is m ore respectable than the King's at pres t *heti* (I mean we h ave upon the whole men of r education and families). Who will come out to this villainous country then ? No one but ragga ,llniffins, tailors, and tinkers. 4ord W . B entinck has not, that I am aware of, doe r ., one single good action since his arrival. ‘"Tti r abling will d o no good. It is now we feel the : a rtt of the ' Liberty of the Press' in this country." CO VENT -GARDEN THEATRE. 188 Sa trrnso!•i's benefit took pl a c e h ere l as t night, on i 4 r '" A eb occasion th e h ouse was as fully and fashionably at ' tends 8 3 h seen it (luring the season. Te chief To/nuan We ce was ave OTWAY'S tragedy of Venice Pr h eserved, P"lett was rem ar k a bl e for three ' novelties—Miss SMITH- R% l ielvidera, M ME' r. C. KEBLS Pierre, and Mr. ' c ril eART's Jaffi er . Awl, first of the lady : her Belvi ,„"4 : Pouessed i n fi n i te ten d erness, some j udgment, and It e as much grace and elegance as Miss O'NEILL used to :kacewben performing it. Its chief defect was a want of u ee .P i ng, a w ant o f coherence, or binding together, in one If"'form c haracteristic whole, the several leading features till! character. The distinguishing points in OrwAy's breathese Belvedere oniyare excessive tenderness and softness. She the atmosphere of lovefeeds only on its bte_ct:lelecti.ons ; and subdued and emasculated her husband ir vivid, eloquent, and affectionate appeals to their past 4thness. These points of c h aracter Mi ss SMITHSON put Ina sp i r i t of first-rate ex ce ll ence , b ut she too often lost tunes of them in a Wi s h to produce effect. Sh e was a t 'les too abrupt in her transitiotis.too vehement in her thee g i es ; • she forgot th e wife in the heroine. This we !thithe more regret, for if ever there were an actress fitted to 'l4eve a triumph on the English stw;e, Miss SMITH.ON :thit One. Her conceptions are im u tit not sufficiently regulated by p reeli ve and origina l, judgment ; h er f ee li ngs Mee , Ju n to overflowing in every w or d s h e speaks, and her atti ' graceful, but rather too redundant. She never per 'onus without producing a strong effect on her audience ; ,14q4;10:‘.ve have no doubt that in a short time, if she will but her geniui to descend to the level of her judgment ( kuality in an ac t ress w hi c h an English audien • 6 : st ,'l audience es to recognise) she will, as a twitter of course, 6' 4 alet high station in the drama, which SIBDONS and • I:IVRILL ()Hee occupied. Of Mr. C. KEMBLE's Pierre we 1 , „ 4" mertsly observe, that if it wanted the easy dignity of 4t,c2''s More especially his fine sonorous voice, these de ees sere amply redeemed by its splendid, chivalrous, eliq gallant bearing. Mr. CATHCART'S Joifier was exe -1/11:1•• it had nither ' grace, spirit, nor tenderness. ,Crsughotit, the gentleman—who is evidently a successful `'• u 'lent in Mr Ala EADY'S school, by the extraordinary ~,,,ip,,ato,rtions of * his limbs—misunderstood his part. In his Brat Interview with Pierre, when solemnly called on 6e.venge .bilvidera's tears, be swore " by sea and air, heavenhell" precisely as if he had been i .tirl g by the sign of the Pig and Tinder-box, to avenge 'asult offered to him by the waiter of that establish ' l oo e4t : • Ag&n, in the second act, where lie exclaimed, "I 114 if all hell were in my heart," be looked °Poke w i t h the uncomfortable manner of a I n tl table 4.. 4 escribin g an i nd i gestion. That stirring soli 1, where h e f ancies lie sees his friend racked on the - e l • e ed el ;, W as d e li vered with equally vulgar infelicity. He '4 l l ! urge r " i n a way that induced us to suppose that d R " "" and " w a t c h" were to f e ll ow, an d gave t h e 4 g , g p e tL r ,t' . - Belvid era j ust as a fat c i ty ep i cure would g i Jve ,:ug-knife to his wife, with directions to have it I:'Ptoed before dinner. On the whole Mr. CATHCART'S m 07. er i'"ge&le S the si ngu l ar recommen d at i on o f b e i ng t h e t°hea we have ever seen, arid will never, we suspect, be 5i,4 1 " 1 ,. until the gentleman has learned, first how to -.secondly, how to act. h Duke Of CUMBERLAND visited the Yesterday at his Palace in St. James's. 't, 4)Q h f e i puk e Of CUMBERLAND honoured the gem:ratsfoura with his company to dinner on Wed 'leleYert 11 6 . residence in St. James's-square. Ther e was Party to meet his Royal Highness. Th Right -. Hon. AUGUSTUS FOSTER, our 14 ,. 12, 4 nr to, th e C ourt o f T ur i n ( w h o h as b een staying I NC u ign for s ome t i me on l eave o f a b sence ) . l eft town on tlttr ii -e° Y, in company with hi s l a dy, f or P ar i s , on hi s ~_ his Embassy at Turin. 1 1 4 ,Iscottnt ITABAYANA, the B raz ili an Mini "cl a conf erence w i t h t h e E ar l o f ABERDEEN yester • 4the offi ce of the Secr e t ar y o f St a t e f or F ore i gn t ,7; the Noble Earl afterwards visited the Duke of ( Prot; at the Treasury. fir PSn v C HARLES B U R R ELL gave a grand di nner "Wednesday, at his residence in Richmond-terrace. i l sa tt v e c Duke o f B EDFORD h as at l engt h the Whole of his valuable ground in Tavistock- At VetV ‘."d that neighbourhood, to eminent builders and ca re v .P r4 'ate Gentlemen, on very long leases, by which Illve v ,:,. nt e is greatly increased. The most lovely spot, -,, In this quarter, is certainly the Rus in urbe on ,ki t i,„_ t "e fate Mr. PERRY'S house stood, where three fine . '4 4 - 7es are now built. They stand in the centre of noble N4(l shrubs, perfectly sequestered from public gaze, enliktr for genteel family residences, or for a Uni ttl, 9 14 4 establishment, the latter of which, we under -I:Stsi,,ll co ntemplated. The Duke of BEDFORD at one I' l / 24 - ,,Med to build for himself a mansion in the centre ,114tilUock-square, from which he would have been , t ° command an uninterrupted view, entirely -4 1 ti ;" "is awn property, as fae as the Strand ; but diffi : Presented themselves, and the plan was abandoned. i 4 4 4 ll7 l l , 4ll derst an d that .the object for which the ti t :let h e ,,lAßD Rosa!, the late Secretary of the Treasury tw et 'te(l States, is now visiting this country, is to 00 1 , etti % for the p ur p ose o f executing some great internal h a ° t'S as canals and railways, in th e s tate of Penn lt„:,the money i s t o b e ra i se d on th e guaran t ee o f th e to-"lture.--Liverpool Times. 1:"All • 41154.,,X,ELEY PEERAGE.—The further consi qi, „.[ this case came on yesterday in the House of far • „ 'as adjo urne d t o nex t S ess i ons . o " 'JULIUS VON BOLLE, at present in the .til'itt.tervice,- has, by order of the King of BAVARIA, * ile k out of the Bavarian Army List. 44e1,1::naid that, since certain sprigs of fashion 4 .44 t ° Wearing check shirts, the custom has been 4tr?i tile sake of economy by many more, to the 11) :tni of their. washerwomen. THE ELEION TESTIMONIAL. ( r*"o , l •)i:P.!:SPONnENT.) The persons who ate (211;1o:wowing to get tip what is called the Eldon Testimonial, are neatly the same as those who got up the Anti-Catholic Peti tions in the metropolis. It might not, perhap., be improper to suggest to these persons, as well as to the Noble individual for whom the testimonial is intended, that it would come with a better grace if something in the shape of a testimonial of remem brance were previously given to the various trades men, whose bills, on account of the Anti-Catholic petitions, remain unpaid. Whatever might have been their determination to " shed the last drop of their blood," if necessary, in defence of " the Glorious Constitution, as by law established," of " Protestant ' Ascendancy," &.:•. no disposition has been evinced t o spend th e last or even the first shilling of their money in return for labour expended in that great cause, upon a promise that it should be paid for. The eloquent preacher of one of the Inns of Court, who aided them with his pen, and the other well beneficed clergymen whose common cause (the cause of tithes) was fought, would do well to con. sider whether their spiritual welfare would mot be promoted by some temporal sacrifices in behalf of their recognized labourers. The following is a copy of the account of expenditure recently rendered to the agitators by one of their leaders, who of course is answerable for its accuracy. It is curious, as showing the nature of the machinery requisite on such occasions, and how much exertion is needed, to move the people to come forward in these dege nerate times in defence of their " dearest rights.' STATEMENT OF THE EXPENSES OF THE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER PROTESTANT PETITION S. •••••-MAY 23. Paid the Current Expenses of the Petitions whilst lying for Signature from the 14th of February to the 14th of March, at 87 different stations (including Rent of Rooms, Men's Wages, Porters, and Bill Stickers), and for Coach Hire, &c. £729 16 0 BILLS UNPAID, VIZ. Fur Printing, Parchment, Sta- tionerv, and Clerks...about £ll4O 4 0 Advertisements about 195 12 0 Crown and Anchor ....ditto 300 0 0 Hire of Cirriages ditto 56 4 0 Rent of Rooms, for Peti tions (left due) about 18 0 0 .1710 0 0 Total Expenses, about £2439 16 0 RECEIVED TOWARDS THE ABOVE. Club Subscriptions £6O 14 0 Donations . lB6 10 0 Subscriptions at the Crown and Anchor (re ceived Eby Mr. Bageter in part of his Ac count), supposed about 251. £247 4 0 LOANS, ViZ. Mr. Pownali .£so 0 0 Mr. Wigg Mr. Thomas Mr. Blake Mr. Franks ... Mr. Harris Mr. Halegmb . £145 0 0 387 12 0 482 12 0 £729 16 0 £482 12 0 Loan. 1710 0 0 Bills unpaid. £2192 12 0 Total deficiency. UNPAID BILLS. Mr. Turner Printer, and Parchment £3BB 17 2 Bagster Tavern Bill about 300 0 0 *Duke...Printer, Parchment, Stationer, and Clerks 218 5 I Mrs. coulsby Printer 93 3 0 Mr. King Ditto 5B 5 0 Steele Ditto, Stationer, &Clerks 101 6 2 Moves Ditto 97 5 0 Messrs. Ibbotson and Co Ditto 3O 12 0 -- Starkie and Cripps ....Parchment l9 3 4 Mr. Glindon Printer about 50 0 0 Justins Ditto 27 5 0 Pavior Ditto 6 3 4 Spratt Ditto 7 13 t; Taylor i fitto 23 9 0 Brettell Ditto - 4 0 0 Wakefield Ditto 5 11 6 Messrs. Wood and Sons Ditto 3 5 0 Mr. Belcher Carriages hired --about .16 0 0 Nelson Ditto 4 4 0 Butler Ditto... about 16 0 0 Gower - Rent of Room, &e 8 0 0 Jackson Ditto lO 0 0 Courier Newspaper Advertisements 39 0 0 Morning Journal Ditto 39 9 0 Chronicle Ditto 3814 6 ----- Post Ditto 2l 0 0 Standard Ditto 2O 8 0 .lobe Ditto B' 8 0 Star Ditto 4 12 0 St. James's Chronicle Ditto Public Ledger Ditto ll 0 6 John Bull Ditto l3 0 0 Vigers and Son Carpenters Mills and Sons Stat ioners 3 3 0 £l7lO 7 1 MONEY- IMMEDIATELY WANTED, VIZ. :or Turner . on account XlOO 0 0 Duke ' ditto 80 0 0 Muyes ditto 50 0 0 Soulsby ditto 50 0 0 King 5B 5 0 Ditto, Law Expenees Glindon about 50 0 0 Taylor .. 23 9 0 Starkie and Co Jackson Gower 448 17 4 Acceptance due 28th May l5O 0 0 Newspapers.. 598 17 4 195 12 0 794 9 I Acceptance due 6th June (Turner)... 50 0 0 £B4l 9 4 Mr. Secretary PEEL has taken a house at Hastings. He arrived there on Monday in a yacht from the Isle of Wight.—Plymouth Journal. We shall be much obliged to any person more in the secret than we can pretend to be, to explain the pro cess by which it was contrived to prevent the attendance of a sufficient number of Members to form a House, on the night fixed for one of the most important Motions of the Session—we allude to the motion of which notice was given by Sir Roux. VYV TAN. Every one has heard of the whippers-in attached to a certain Popular Assembly, but on the occasion alluded to we are much misinformed if the duties of those meritorious functionaries were not inverted, and whipping -out was the Order of the Day— this is a more summary and effectual process even than cushioning—but both are eccasionally useful. —Morning Chronicle. The hay-harvest has commenced in this neigh bourhood, but in motne places it is scarcely worth cutting, owing to the continued drought. The price has conse quently risen from Se. 6d. to 4e. 6d. per cwt. The wheat promises well, but the barley and oats will, we fear, prove a scanty crop. The same cause has done great injury to the fruit ; the strawberries are, in particular, very generally dried up. In short the complaint for want of rain in this district is universal.—Plymouth Journal. At the late meeting of deputies on the India and China trade in London, it was determined that the Liverpool Committee should form the central Committee of correspondence for the whole kingdom. The London merchants are unfortunately too much trammelled by the East India Company, or too much interested in the private trade now carried on to India, to put themselves forward as advocates of a better system; and the work of stirring up Parliament to throw open the trade will therefore de volve on the outports and t4e manufacturing towns, of which there is none, from the intelligence, respectability, and energy of its merchants, so well calculated to take the lead as Liverpool—Liverpool Times. One of the beautiful swans in the Park lately batched a brood of five cygnets on the small i s land oppo site the new Palac e . The parent and her offspring n o w adorn the piece of water in the Park, and attract numerous admirers. The sales of Cotton to-day amount to 3,000 bags, of which 1,000 bags are Brazils, and 400 Egyptians. There is less Cotton offering in the market than of late. The apples in the South Hams have in general a heilthy appearance, and they are formed in great abun dance. The price of cider has declined in consequence.— Dorset Oranicle. INVASION OF INDIA. (From an interetisirig Volwne jo4t, imi4ished, entified, Reflection* on the Prcsent State British India.) CHAP. 11. ON TIIE DANf;I:1:. TO 1:1I11.11 TIIIITISII INDIA IS EX- 1.1?0,1 INVASION. " La e.,s-ra noininanza e• color d'etha Clie ykr.e, c va, e quei la discolors Per eui me della terra acerba." " The view just taken of the nature of our Indian empire, suggests these two important inquiries.— What are the dangers to which Ilindosfan is ex posed in the event of its being invaded by a power ful enemy capable of meeting a British army in the field ? and, what degree of attachment can the natives be supposed to bear to our name and go vernment ? Upon the first of these points, a few observations will form the subject of the present chapter. " The most careless reader of Indian history cannot have failed to observe, that every Asiatic people, with whom the British forces have come into con- tact, have shown themselves unable to resist the European system of war and discipline. Yet past exploits, and the transactions under the administra tions of Lords Wellesley and Minto, were not of themselves sufficiently decisive upon this head, to convince those who had taken a superficial view of the causes of our success; and the then impending conflict with Nepaul, which may be said to have been bequeathed as a state legacy to Lord Hastings, Was by many considered to be the experiment= crucis of the military character of the Indian Go vernment. So, indeed, it proved to be, as far as tactics and discipline were concerned ; for it was by our superiority on those points alone that the strug gle was decided in our favour. The Nepaulese were superior in physical strength, if not in per:- sonal courage, to the greater part of our troops; they had numbers at their command, and their country abounded in natural obstacles and de fensive positions; yet by the effect of com prehensive military arrangement, assisted by good discipline, were all these advantages set at nought, and the war, so formidable in its first aspect, brought to a successful termination in two short campaigns. Still, although the splendid govern ment of Lord Hastings achieved this great and im portant triumph, which, in addition to those masterly operations which his Lordship directed against the Mabrattas and Pindurries, appeared to place the Company's territories in a state of permanent secu rity, there yet remained one enemy with whom the Indian army had not measured its strength; and as Lord Minto had left the war of Nepaul to him, so Lord Hastings left that of Ava to his successor. In the event, however, the Burmese proved to be even less formidable than any antagonist whom the British had hitherto been tempted to meet in the field; and the dismemberment of their empire, to gether with the establishment of military stations in Cachar, Arracan, and on the borders of Pegue, effectually put it out of their power to molest the Bengal Government in future, even if their con temptible character in a military point of view, did not render the occurrence of such a contingency comparatively unimportant. Thus, while the in terior of India is entirely under British influence or authority, the whole frontier of that vast tract is tenanted by states, which not only have felt the weight of our arms, but which have been compelled to admit resident officers at their Courts, or in their immediate vicinity, to watch over and report upon their conduct. The Seiks, who witnessed the opera tions of the British army in 1805, and have since acknowledged our influence, form no material excep tion to this general arrangement. " Whether it be in consequence of the influence of climate, or of imperfect social institutions, or, as is more probable, of both, it is observable that the Asiatic nations have shown themselves less suscep tible of consistent and sustained exertions of warlike skill, in proportion as the country which they inhabit approaches towards the tropics. The - sun, which imparts its fire and vivacity to them, seems to deny them •the exercise of judgment and discretion. Even the natural advantages of a strong country appear to form no exception to the truth of this remark ; and whilst the mountaineers of Nepaul excel the inhabi tants of the hilly regions -of Southern India, includ ing Ceylon, the, latter made a much firmer stand against the Moguls - and the English, than the tribes established in the fastnesses of Java have shown themselver capable of in their resistance to the Dutch.* Many of the natives now alluded to had acquired considerable knowledge in the arts of war and government; the Nepaulese and Burmese had subjugated several neighbouring states and pro vinces; but the latter, in particular, after pursuing the career of conquest with remarkable spirit for a series of years, had apparently become contented with what they had acquired; and, without evincing any genius for improvement, had deteriorated in th e stupid tyranny of their domestic government, in pro portion as they had relaxed from the energy of their foreign policy. It seems indeed, to be a law of nature, that nothing in the history of mankind shall be stationary; to cease to advance in the career of improvement, is to retrograde; and thus we in variably find, that the half-civilized portions of the globe, when no longer acted upon by their first im pulse, become alike the prey either of the civilized portion on the one band, or of the complete barbarian on the other. Thus the half-civilized states of China, Persia, and Hindostan, showed themselves as unable to resist the barbarian Tartar tribes, as the Asiatics of modern times have been to withstand the attacks of European invaders; whilst the Tar. tar conquerors, in their turn, when they came to par take of the half-civilised character of the conquered, evinced themselves utterly incompetent to withstand the discipline and organized institutions of Great Britain and Russia. " The same reasoning which is applicable to the English in their present attitude as an Asiatic power, is equally so to Russia; with this considera tion, indeed, which gives additional force to it, that the latter is in a manner compelled, by her natural position, to that collision with the weaker states, which the former has traversed half the globe to pro voke. It is evident, however, that the same train of consequences must in both cases attend upon the conflict between a people rapidly advancing in civili zation, and one, if not in the act of retrograding, cer tainly almost stationary; and that, in proportion as the southern provinces of the Russian empire profit by the attention which is bestowed upon them by the Government, the Autocrat of the North will be assailed by the same temptations to aggrandize him self at the expence of his semi-barbarous neighbours, which the East India Company's agents were un able to resist in their progress towards the conquest of Hindostan. Nor are the facilities which the Rus sians enjoy for the proseCution of such enterprises, at all inferior to those which their superior maritime strength conferred upon the English. The water communication between the Baltic and the Caspian is complete and uninterrupted : from St. Peters burgh to the Neva, a canal runs along the margin of Lake Ladoga to the Walkowa, from which the navi gation is continued by the Nesta and the Sna, to another canal which joins the Tuertoa, of which the waters flow into the %Volga ; so that military stores can be conveyed, with comparatively small risk or expence, not only to the southern and eastern shores of the Caspian, but probably to the centre of Kho rasan, or to the confines of Cahn]. " In weighing the inducements which are thus held out to Russia to aggrandize herself, it cannot but be perceived that the great prize at which she aims must undoubtedly be Hindustan. Persia, and the countries immediately contiguous, offer compa ratively but a feeble temptation; the barren sod of the former, and its deficiency in navigable streams, * By recent advices, however, it would appear that the extremely weak state of the European establishments of the Dutch in Java, has at length tempted the natives of that island to rise awl make strenuous efforts to recover their independence. If the character here given of the Southern Asiatics does not operate to the disadvantage of the Java nese, we may shortly hear of the Dutch being totally ex pelled the island. render it unfit fist and worthless aS a conquest; whilst the tracts lying between Oren berg and Balkh contain so great a proportion of de sert and uninhabitable land, that, notwithstandin g the advantages to be derived from the fine streams which now into the Sea of Aral and the Caspian, any extensive settlement in that quarter would be a work of time and difficulty.. It is probable, then, Russia would covet no mo.e of either than to afford her a safe and easy communication with the terri tories immediately adjacent to India. The whole line of her frontier, from the Seas of Kamtschatka and Oxhotok to the Caspian, is so well guarded by . the cautious policy of the Chinese, no less than by natural obstacles, that, taking into consideration the scanty population and bleak climate of Siberia, loge titer with the difficulty of assembling a large force in those quarters, there can be little encouragement for her to attempt an advance in that direction. But when her frequent wars with Turkey and Persia are considered ; the armies so long concentrated in Georgia and Armenia; the military colonies planted in her southern provinces, together with the now long-established habits of the people of those parts, which have reconciled them to the inconvenience of their situation, and taught them to meet the exigen cies attendant upon so warlike a neighbourhood, we cannot but perceive that, whether from the elasticity of an increasing poptilation,4 or from the wish to employ large masses of troops, which it might be alike expensive and dangerous to remand to the northern provinces, the country extending towards our eastern possessions is the line of least resistance, and the direction in which the explosion must have taken place. " On the other hand, if to the operation of natu cal causes, as just described, we add the stimulus of political rivalry, we may be assured that every cir cumstance conspires to produce the collision of Great Britain and Russia on the confines of India, and that at no very distant period. Russia, at least, will leave nothing unattempted to accelerate the meeting, or rather to place the occurrence of that meeting entirely at her own option in point of time; for in what other qualities can she detect a vulne rable point in the armour of her mighty antagonist, or where c ou ld s h e d es i re a no bl er fi e ld on which to measure her colossal strength with her undaunted rival, than on the plain of Hindostan. " In discussing the probability of such an attack being made upon India, the mind naturally recurs to the Macedonian conquest : and with reference to the loosely-recordeil enterprise of Alexander, we form, perhaps, an exagiserated estimate of the length of the march, the difficulties of the road, and the hos tile dispositions of the nations whose territories would have to be traversed. Making allowances for the improvement of modern welfare, this might, in deed, be the correct mode of reasoning, in the event of such an expedition as that which is said to have been meditated by Napoleon, after the conquest of Egypt; but great is the difference between the ob stacles to be overcome on such a route, and those which oppose themselves to a march from the shores of the Caspian. On censulting the map, we may observe that the Russian possessions already extend very nearly to the spot, whence most of the latter conquerors of Hindostan set out on their route. — The geography of that part of Asia is still so imperfectly known, that it has not yet been clearly ascertained whether the river upon which stands the city of Herat, disernbogues itself into the Caspian by the Guiph of Balkan, or joins the Oxus in its course to the Sea of Aral. If, however, as is most probable, the former be the fact, an establishment on the island of Nephtonia, or in the Gulf of Balkan, would place the Russians in communication with the Turcoman tribes, whose hostility to the Persians is deadly and hereditary, and secure the means of adrincieq by Herat to Ca , bul, without the necessity of taking the more cir cuitous route by the southern shores of the Caspian, or of following the more difficult track, already laid down, from Orenburg to the banks of the Oxus, and along the course of the ,Amu to Balkh. The Turco mans. and lisbecs, though formidable to a nation so weak in itself, and so defective in:military organiza tiOtiltS the Persians, would be unable to oppose a large, well-appointed army of Russians, even if their hopes of. plunder did not induce them eagerly to take-. part in the expedition. If, however, it be thought that an advance through Azerbijan, and the north: of Persia, into Chorasan, though the .most .tedious; - would be the safest route, the progress which the Russian arms are now making in that direc tion,t. afford every prospect of the way being very soon left open to them. Every conflict into which it is so easy for a powerful state to force its weaker neighbour, especially in a quarter so remote from general observation, and therefore so little liable to excite public animadversion, must of necessity end in defeat to the Persians, amid, in consequence of their poverty, with reference to the probable demands o. Russia, as well as to their misgovernment, in a ces• sion of territory. Already has the feeble barrier cc the Kur, and the liras, been forced ; and, in addi• tion to their conquests, indemnification fur the ex. 1 pences of the war, may possibly place the Russians in possession of Ghilan and Mazenderan, provinces which Peter the Great considered necessary to the establishment of his com pl ete ascendancy on the Caspian. " But it is not to war and conquest alone that we must look for the narrowing of that space which separates the two most powerful candidates, not only for the supremacy of Asia, but through her, for preponderance in Europe also. For it is not to be doubted, that the possession of India would greatly increase the influence of Russia ill the general coun cils of Europe—even its danger would probably have an unfavourable effect upon the politics of Great Britain. Nations, like individuals, to be honest must be inde pendent ; and, tinier the bare possibility of our Asiatic territories being wrested from us, it is not difficult to conjecture the unworthy compliances into which we may be driven. But by open war, how .ever efficient in the end, this crisis might not, pos sibly, be produced for many years; notwithstanding the direct interest which Russia must have in si lentlyacquiring that position, fr om w hi c h, even tually,she may be able to turn her a tt en ti on to wards India, slndia, without that previous note of separa tion,' and hostility with neighbouring states, which her present situation would render unavoidable." • See the Chevalier Gamba's Account of Georgia, for the encouragement afforded to commerce and agriculture by the Russisp Government, and the immense accession to the population from the neighbouring provinces of the Persian and Turkish empires. In 1820, seven thousand families are said to have gone over to the Russian do minions. t If we may believe the latest intelligence, the Russians have taken possession of Tabriz, and are in full march upon Teheran, a point at least four hundred and fifty miles within the boundary, and on the route to Herat. THEATRICAL CRITICISM.—A Yorkshire Paper, in noticing the arrival of RAYNER, the comedian, in that county, thus hunches out :—" Herculaneum is a ruin, Babylon is a sand-pit; but the rustic son of Comus is a mongst you—cheri s h him. In the scenic tempest, amid the whirlwind of passion, he bares his brow to the light ning's flash, and sings as the lark sings at heaven's gate." —Berth Chronicle. FRENCH CRITIQUE ONMILTO.N.-MILTON is a tedious barbarian, who writes a commentary in ten books of rambling verse on the first chapter of Genesis. He is a slovenly imitator of the Greeks : be disfigures instead o f pro d uc i ng t h e wor ld b y th e fi at o f creation,Gen like Moses, sets the Alessias to bungle at tracing out with a pair of compasses a celestial manufacture. He spoils TAsso's hell and devils; and makes SATAN a casuist in divinity. Upon the whole, the Paradise Lost is obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable. On Friday last, Mr. GIBBS, steward to Sir E. BarocEs, Bart., met with a very serious accident. He vas descendin g from an observatory at the top of the Lio., Inn, Canterbury, when the ladder slipped under him, and falling from a considerable height be broke one of his legs in a shocking manner. Surgical assistance was immedi ately procured by Mr. MINTER, the landlord of the inn, but it was found necessary to saw off a portion of the bone in order to reduce the fracture. We were happy to learn yesterday that Mr. GIBBS is doing as well as can be ex pected.—Maidstone Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was much heavier than we could have expected so soon after the settling for the Derby, which scenic I to be quite forgotten. Zinganee was backed fa. the Cup to a large amount, The Colonel and Mame- Juke being less in favour in consequence—Cadland and Lamplighter also declined. The engagements on this Cup are unusually heavy. Forth's horses do not find many backers for the St. Leger, the betting on ►which was chiefly on outsiders. The prices at closing were thus : ASCOT GOLD CUP. 3 to 1 agst His Majesty's The Colonel (taken freely) 7 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Mamelake 4 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Zulare..-e 9 to 1 agst Colonel Wilson's Lamplighter (taken) 10 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Cadland (taken) 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Green Mantle (taken) ' 15 to I agst Lord Exeter's Varna 20 to 1 aget Lord Clifton's Souvenir (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Sefton s Bobadilla 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gteville's Lady Emily SO to 1 agst I ord Egremont's Br. to Lapdog-. ST. LE ER. 13 to 2 agst Lull Cleveland's Voltaire 9 to 1 agst Lord Lan ford's Sir Hercules 9 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Rowton 11 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Frederick 12 to 1 agst Mr. Riddell's Lawn Sleeves 13 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's The Exquisite 14 to 1 agst Mr. Gibbeson's Lady Sarah 25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Apnllonia 30 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Felt (taken) 33 to I agst Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene (taken) 35 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Fortitude 40 to 1 agst Sir E. Dodsworth's two (taken) 50 to 1 agst Lillylow 1000 to 15 ugst Mr. Armitage's Netherby 1000 to 15 agst Lord Cleveland's 'rambotT 1000 to l 5 agst Lord Kelburne . s Georgiana colt Even between 5 and the field. MANCHESTER RACES. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.—The Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for 3-yr-olds. Twice round and a distance. Lord Derby's Grin - 11)aId, br. to Urganda Lord Grosvenor's Banter, by Master Henry Curlew, by Master Henry 3 A Flee Handicap of 30 sovs. each, h. ft. for 1-yr-olds. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Edward's Architect Mr. Houldsworth's Deposit 2 Two others not placed. The Wilton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added. Mile and three quarters. Lord Grosvenor's Pelion, 4 yrs Mr. White's Granby, 6 yrs Three others not placed. Filly Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, h. ft. Mile and a distance. Mr. Clifton's Butterfly Mr. Jackson's Madame de Chevena His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, three miles and a distance. Mr. Margetson's Brunswick, 5 yrs Dlr. Edwards's Architect, 4 yrs 2 2 COCKING.-The following is a statement of the Main of Cocks fought during the Races, for 10 guineas the Battle, and 200 the Main, between Lord Derby (Potter) ant! Mr. Hoghton (Woodcock) : Potter. m. B. Woodcock. M. 13. Tuesday Wednesday 5 0 Wednesday 2 1 Thursday 0 0 Thursday 0 0 Friday PIGEON SHOOTING. The third day's shooting for the Gold Cup took place on Wednesday, at the Red House Ground, Battersea. The field was well attended by amateurs, and the beauty of the day added greatly to the coup d'cril. Killed. - Killed. Mr. Osbaltlestone 17 Mr. Gil ~... 11 Captain Ross.. l6 Lord Ranelagh 9 Leaving the Captain three a-head on the total shooting. Betting is 2 to 1 upon Captain Ross, and not many takers. A sweepstakes between Lord Ranelagh, Mr. Osbaldestone, and Captain Ross followed ; the Captain and his Lordship Cal, the latter having two dead birds given. The tie was then shot off, and wo❑ by Captain Ross. GRAND ROWING MATCH. This match, between the Students of the Universities of Oxford and Gimbridge, took place on Wednesday afternoon in Henley leach. The interest excited was very great, and the contest was remarkably severe. Both partits exerted themselves to the utmost. For some time the issue was very doubtful ; but victory ultimately decided in favour of the Oxonians. SAILING MATCH. Yesterday the Silver Cup, annually given by the Thames Yacht Club, was sailed for by the following boats : iNames. Tons. Owners. Whereof. Distinguish ing Flags. Emulation 12 A. Milne, Esq. Greenwich. Yellow. Lady Louisa 13 T. Smith, Esq. Rotherhithe Purple. Greyhound 21 I. I. Hopwood, Esq. Greenwich. Pur.&Scarlet Vixen l'd T. Groves, Esq. Rotherhithe. Red. - - Black & Sear_ Rob Roy l6 W. Fite), Esq. 31illbank. / let chequer ed. Royal Eagle 13 T. Stokes, Esq. Rothcrhithe. Pink. Yda 23 1. Korff, Esq. Bl:tekwall. White. The boats started from Greenwich a few minutes before eleven o'clock, the Rob Roy taking the lead. Off Bark ing-creek the Ludy Louisa and the Emulation gained or the first boat, and soon Caine alongside of her. Here the sight was very interesting, for the three boats, with their sails full of wind, continued abreast of each other for some time. At length Emulation get a-head, leaving Rob Roy, however, but at a short distance behind her. Al North Channel Rob Roy agai❑ obtained the lead, and a• one time left her competitors nearly two miles behind her. It was originally settled that the boats should sail from Greenwich to Gravesend, and back again to Greenwich, but the wind being adverse, and the tide not serving, tile boats went no further than Northfleet, and passing round a vessel proceeded back again to Greenwich, Rob Roy being first, Emulation second, Lady Louisa third, Yda fourth, and Royal _Eagle fifth ; the other two vessels, we believe, having given up contending for the prize. Rob Roy, in returning, soon began to lose ground, and she was passed successively by the Ydu, the Lady Louisa, and the Emulation. At Greenwich the boats came in in the following order :—Lady Louisa, Ist; Yda, 2d; Emulation, 3d; Royal Eagle, 4th; and Rob Roy, sth; and the silver cup was presented, amidst the cheers of the spectators, to Mr. Smith, the commander of the success ful boat. This match may be considered as good a one as any that has been sailed for many years. The prize was so weil contested, that it was quite uncertain, till the boats got near to Greenwich, which would be the winner ; and it will be seen how much calculation on this point was defied, when we state that the two boats, which were very considerably behind going down the river, came in first and second at Greenwich. The river presented a guy and animated appearance, in consequence of the brightness of the etty, and the number of sailing boats which accom panied the match, and which often presented the appear ance, when crowded together, of a small fleet advancing up the river. On the 22d of January last, the hundreth an niversary of the birth of LFSSING was celebrated at Dres den. The day was spent in festivity, and in the evening the tragedy of Emilia Galotti, which is considered to be LEssitia's master-piece, was represented at the theatre.— Literary Gazette. Although trade cannot be called good in Sheffield, we have not much to complain of in comparison with the manufacturing districts generally. Pauperism is not, we believe, on the increase amongst us, and we hope there are few families who do not obtain a sufficiency of fool. Still, however, there is abundant room for amend men t. —Sheffield Iris. A Correspondent whom, we suppose, to be in poss;ssion of the Privilege of Invisibdity, or the especial favourite of some modern Asurodeus, has furnished us with a Sketch of the Interior of a Cabinet. We are al most afraid we shall incur the pains and penalties of a Premunire, or the more to be dreaded anger of an Eve ning Contemporary, by the disclosure; but as it is not easy to get a peep behind the curtain of this Sanctum Sanc torum, we cutout refuse to gratify the curiosity of our readers; it will be observed that our informant almost confined his observation to the Leading Character in this Political Drama. The PREMIER commonly sits in an at titude not particularly dignified, but extremely conducive to personal comfort; he does not take a prominent part in the discussions of the Cabinet, nor does his attention seem to be at all times engrossed by what is pasting. When any observation- of particular interest is made, the PREI4IIER Mario it by a significant interjection; when an opinion is hazarded from which he decidedly dissents, he avails him self of the Laconic intimation—" That must not be," and the obnoxious opinion drops still-born ; the discipline of the subordinates (and in the present Cabinet all with one exception are subordinate), is, upon the whole, examplary —it remains to be seen whether the supplementaries will produce any. change.—Morning Chronicle. SPIRIT (:1: L`y,•;!)o.°, .101.11NALS. City of Lond on h ave , w i t h out any diffi• uBi 1 11 ) 3 1 : e to pr 1 o 8 d , u 28 ced inc tI l l u e si a l c p cioul I a t s tI o le f n t c h e e a i p ri p c e o a n r i s e t z i l l o a d t . t expenditure pr o o f pr t i l a i e t e d ß b ri y dg A e o j4cto u r se . p e a s r t l a i a t n f t 'r o t in o the re-building London-bridge have been du ly applied to that great public object, from the year 1823 to 1828 inclusive, and that the whole amount has been about 130,0001. 'We see no reasonable ground for compelling the Corporation of London to run in debt for the large sum by which the cost of the new bridge over the Thames is likely to exceed the produce of the city revenue. It surely will not be con tended, that the individuals composing the Cor poration of Loudon, or indeed that the citizens whom they represent, possess a more valuable or solid interest in the new bridge than the inha bitants of Essex and Kent, for several miles at either side of the river, or indeed than the me tropolis at large. It is not, therefore, consistent with equity that the whole weight of the expense should fall on the Corporation only. As for the struggle going on with regard to the London tax on coal, the pressure of that tax is but lightly felt by the population of the capital, compared with the far more severe one which resulted from the mode of conducting business in the north of England,. but from which, I,y/- the breaking up of the combination, we shall henceforth, it is hoped, be relieved. The duty paid on coals in London will go but a short way to explain the difference between the price of coal at the pit's mouth, and that which is paid by the consumer. If the Committee now sitting performs its task with diligence, the cause of that extraordinary discrepancy will not long be a matter of dispute.—Times. A Correspondence has been pub&Tied between " The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of (Kaye), the Rev, the Archdeacon of Lineill l , and the Rev. John Wray, Vicar of Bardney, re specting the performance of ecclesiastical duty," which no man, whose heart is not more than usually hard, can possibly read unmoved. On the 25th of June, 1827, the Prelate writes thus to the Vicar ;—" I take the opportunity of trans :pitting the enclosed Commission, to inform you that I do not think single duty in your parish of Bardney sufficient. You will, therefore, be so good as in future to perform two Services. i shall also desire the Incumbent of 1 - lorsingWit to nominate another Curate; as the care of the) parish of Bardney is sufficient to occupy the whole attention of one Clergyman." The Vicar, with all humility, on the 7th July following, answers—" I would not have troubled you with a single word in reference to Bardney or myselr, if I thought that you had been truly informed as to the circumstances of the place or the indi vidual. Bardney is a dispersed village, which affords but a very moderate congregation ; the living, which is in your Lordship's gift, is, after deducting the payment of interest entailed on it by Gilbert's Act, worth about 781.; but front losses of tithe, reductions of rent, &c. seldom nets more than 601. It is not, therefore, of as much value as a good curacy; and the additional burthen thrown upon the Vicar, is, therefore neither warranted by the revenues of the Church, nor called for by any peculiar or expressed wants of the parishioners. Some time ago I served three churches : I have since resigned one, and am now called upon to resign another. This, my Lord, to a man with a . family of thirteen dren, is a sacrce against which you n willfir oe his repining. It is a l so th e more crue l ''that upon this poor living to which I am directed to confine myself, I have expended hundreds of pounds, and have converted both the church and vicarage from the condition of a barn to that of one of the neatest in the county of Lincolu. Few, my Lord, have done so much from their own purse ; and with my consequently reduced income and large family, it is hard to impose upon me the strictest terms of even a prudent re gulation. The personal trouble I do not regard ; it is the loss of income, which my necessities and family can ill bear. I hope, therefore, your Lordship will excuse me for asking the favour of retaining Horsington, and giving au Evening Service at Bardney." The Prelate, on July 11, insists OR his giving up Horsington, as " a pa rish, containing nearly one thousand inhabitant:., certainly requires two services." On Dec. 13, the same year, the Vicar informs his Prelate that he would not have complained if he did not " appear as an invidious exception in any district which offers very many examples of churches where the numbers and stipend are nzitch. greater than at Bardney, and where single duty is permitted, without molestation.'— In a subsequent letter (4th Jan., 1828), he named to his Diocesan a number of parishes more po pulous than his own in the archdeaconry of Lincoln, in which service was performed only once a day. On the 10th January, the Prelate expressed himself obliged to him for the " in formation conveyed in his letter respecting the state of duty in several parishes, concerning which his information was previously imperfect." On the 15th January, 1829, eighteen Months after he had been directed to resign the curacy, the Vicar again addresses his Diocesan Thus then, my Lord, the matter stood in 1827, when the little, but welcome addition, which the curacy of Horsington made to my income, was taken from me, and I was restricted to the ser vice of one parish church. I was selected, as I then believed, for an example. Upon that ground alone I complained ; and, as your Lord ship was pleased to think that a benefice—the incumbent of which has only thirteen children unprovided for, the revenue of which is less than you allot to a curacy, and of which the tithes are annexed to the bishopric of Lincoln, did not entitle me to complain—my only remain ing duty was obedience; an obedience which I - - have not rendered lazily and grudgingly—by confiring the afternoon duty, as is done with one or two exceptions, in the very few large parishes, where two duties are performed, to the bare reading of the Evening Service—but fully and effectually by delivering a Sermon, as well as reading prayers twice on the Lord's day. But the matter has now assumed a different complexion. Instead of having been selected as an example, I find that I have been picked out as an exception ; a year and a half has elapsed since your Lordship began with me, and I cannot learn that you have proceeded fur ther. When I cast my eye around the Arch deaconry in which I am situated, I see every where the same license and omission as before. I do not find that the Rectors of opulent bene fices have been called upon to resign stipendiary duty, or the Ministers of populous parishes performing two services by your command. All remain unreproved and undisturbed. I en- dose an account of the present clear value of the Vicarage of Bardney, together_ with a list of the parishes in the Archdeaconry, which exceed it in population and church revenue ; and I would fain ask in how man y haS double service