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The lion. end Lear. a eletuber ter CI said that there appein , mein s \sere mace ter the purpose el ie • triguitig at the Elections, but he forgot that they had not even s e yet a majority in tho s e app o i n t men t s . H e did no t b e lieve the 3 - Lord Chancellor had said it was for the purpose of traffick ing in liceeses these appointments were made.—( Hear, hear. ) The Hon. Member then referred to the conduct ot the late Government in their a e po utments in tOlildiorti, and concluded by saying that the cenduct of the Itielit lion isarodet ea , so just in itselt, that it would give every satisfaction.—( Hear. ) Mr. CALL A C.; 11. AN begged to call tee et- ention of the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, to the appointments made in the city he. represented. He did not complain of the individuals who had been appointed, but what he complained Of was, that those persons were not residents, and that the town council was not consulted with respect to their appoint ment, Lord ELIOT said that he was not prepared to enter into the teleject to which the Hon. Gentleman alluded, as he thought the present motion referred particularly to the Right Hon. Baronet near him. He was glad to find, however, that the Non. Gentleman admitted that there was no party bias in the appointments which were made. Great pains were taken to obtain information from respectable persons on the spot, and he now, for the first time, learned that complaints existed on the subject. Captain FITZROY said that as he and a relation of his had been personally alluded to by the Hon. Member opposite, lie could not mind saying a few words on the present occasion, and he would endeavour in all he sate to calm his temper•asnmeh as possible, however little some other Hon. Members might deem it necessary to remember it. lie was very much surprised at. the strange obloquy that seemed to pervade the opposite side. Hon. Gentlemen thought it unjust to disturb the ba lance of justice, while they seemed to forget in what position • the scales stood when the party opposite were on his side of the House.—( Cheers. ) All that had been done be the Right Hon. . Baronet was to place them in equilibrio, and he thought • his measures would be satisfactory to the country. He thought that the Honourable Member for North Durham had no right to allude to debate which had occurred in another place, and to read the particulars from the columns of a newspaper ; but he did not think • the expressions eluded to were intended to be applied to the county Magistracy or to appointmeets(made by the Noble Duke, to - Whom allusion had been made. But the late Government had shown the greatest partiality in their appointments in Sunder land, in Stratford, and in Shields. Me, HUTT—Not in Shields. Captain FITZROY—He begged pardon. He meant the borough which the lion. Member represented.—( Hear, hear and laughter.) He could not see why the term Whig-Radical vas objected to, as the term signified that mixture of Whigs and Radicals which took place with respect to the party opposite. "hat other term was there to express the change in the °Pinions of the Noble Lord who was lately at the head bt the Government, from those which he held twenty years Wes and those which he advocated at present ?—( Hear, hear. ) • reference to an observation which fell from the Hon. Gentleman (Member for Gateshead), who was put out in his speech by his (Capt. F.'s) unfortunately smiling, he would only lay that when that lion. Gentleman deprecated the advice given to him,and yet assumed to advise others, it might excuse Ant only a smile but laughter. When he noticed the portentous air with which the Hon. Member rose, he thought that some motion of vast importance was about to be made, perhape nothing short of the impeachment of the Right Hon. .111 ember. He realized the proverb .` Parturiunt montes, Desch ur ridiculus mus."—(Cheers and laughter.) He would not speak intemperately, but he would say that the language used by the Hon. Gentlemen flied him with indignation, when he said that the Noble Lord, the Lord-Lieutenant of Durham,alienat ed by his conduct the good feeling of the respectable part of the people of the county of Durham. That Noble Lord had expended his princely fortune in building a harbour, a princely Mansion and other works of public and private utility, and 1 2,,e could not fail to have by such means conciliated the affec - Tun and respect of all that was respectable in that county. • 'Voile of the largest meetings ever holden in the county of 4 "urbam, he heard but two names which were received with more marks of respect and attachment than that of the Noble Lord whom he Hon. Gentleman had so unnecessarily, so in widiouslv, an - 1T so unjustly attacked. Mr. V. SMITH ( who rose amidst loud cries for Mr. 'Wakley) said, that he would nut follow the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, in all his observations. He had expected that ! when this motion was brought forward, he should hear much of the example which had been set by the late Govern ment. He did not think that the Right Hon. Baronet would have•been so hard pressed.—(Oh, oh, and a ,laugh. ) He re- I gretted that the Right Hon. Baronet, hollowing the .example • of the Lord Chancellor ot England, insisted that the true test . of alaeisterial fitness was political partisanship. He begged to ask the Right Hon. Baronet, although he did not expect an answer, on what principles he had proceeeed in the appoint ment of Magistrates to Northampton?—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. WAKLEY said that he agreed with those Hun. Mem bers who had expressed their disapprobation of the form in Which the motion before the House was couched. The motion was.a very trifling one, and the question was one of great im portance. When a charge of so serious a nature was brought against a Minister of the Crown, the Minister ought to have ' notice of the cnarge ; and no such notice was given iii the present instance. At the same time, such a discuseion s ad mitting of crimination and recrimination upbn both sides, might be attended with useful effects, and might lead to important discoveries. He was not, for his part. altogether satisfied with the Right Hon. Baronet's answer to the charges made against him ; that answer was simply this—" I have done ill, but you have done a good deal worse."—( Hear, hear.) That was the position taken by the Right Honourable Baronet. According to the Right Hon. Baronet there were now up wards of 600 Tory Magistrates and upwards of 700 Whig-Ra dicals. That was the resultof the changes made in the Magis• tracy by the Right Hon. Baronet. But the Right Hon. Gen tleman should recollect that the example be had set might be folloWed by other parties when they came into power ; and he believed the day would come when the Radical party would come into power. From the admissions of the night Hon. Baronet it was plain that impartial justice was not to be ex pected fi om the Magistrates by the people ; it was plain that they were sitting on the Bench, not as impartial judges, but as active partisans. They were told that the Magistrates were either Conservatives or W'hig-Radicals. Now, he believed that the latter title was not a proper one ; the Magistrates w, re either Conservatives or Whigs ; and he disclaimed the mixing up of Radicals with Whigs. —( Hear, hear.) Why use four syllables when one would do? lie did not regret that the present dis cussion had taken place, because it would show the people how actively both Whig and Tory Governments had endeavoured to associate their party interests with the interests of justice. Politics were mixed up with every judicial appointment In this country ; politics mingled with the stream of Justice from the appointment of a Lord Chancellor to the lowest legal func- It Tee• No one would deny, however, that, under an honest Z e al , equitable system, eiaeistrates should be selected for witi ; fitness to fill their offices, and not from their connexion •Politics • and it was therefore clear that whatever might ts t o eith be r this greater or less degree of blame to be attached • sir party the present system was most defective. tat es, • PEEL sa id, that the Hon. Gentleman who had just his had, with that simplicity of character which marked conduct upon every occasion, expressed his surprise that so in ' • a question, and so vehement a speech, should be fo llowed by w h at h e ca ll e d so con t em ptible a motion. N ow , e Gentleman Peel) did not think it had occurred to the Hon. that th er e was very great difficulty in framing a motionfor t upon the present subject ; and that it was much safer b e ! !ton Gentleman, however vehement his speech might "at it was upon the whole much safer for the Hun. Gentleman, and most conststent with discretion, to content himself with an exceedingly innocuous vote, rather than lay down any distinct, abstract resolution on the subject of the appointment of Magistrates. Just let them consider what ... mot i on might be framed . ( Hear, hear.) Suppose the Hon. Gentleman had concluded with this motion—" Resolved that it is exped i ent and just, under all c i rcumstances, wit h out reference to the opinions of municipal councils, that the Crown Should abide by their recommendation." That would not have suited the Noble Lord, who sat beside the Hun. Member. -(Hear, hear.) •That was a motion to which great objec tions might be urged, because it could be shoe n that, as an ab stract proposition, it could not be maintained by Honourable Gentlemen opposite, inasmuch as there were certain oc casions on Which, although Conservative opinions predo minated in town councils, the recommendations of those town councils did not weigh with the Executive Government. Suppose they tried another. Resolved, " that it has a ten deticy to shake confidence in the adnun.stration of justice, to select the majority of the Magistrates from one political Party."—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) That would be ineonve hient—(Cheers)—it would bring the question to an issue, but still it would be inconvenient for the R.ght Hon. Gentleman. Re had giv en notice of h i s i ntent i on of calling the attentien of the House to the subject, thus leaving himself open to move any resolution he chose, ;net after revolving all the Parlia ,ntentary flumes of eliciting the opinion of the House, he had resolved on the whole, that the safest course would be to ask the House to call for two circulars, which were well known to . everybody there—( Cheers.) Now, suppose he had made this Motion—Resolved, " that it is fitting that political par tisans be excluded from the recommendations to these ap- Pointments, and that it was fitting that the Crown, without reference to the opinion of town councils, or any other autho rity, should select for the Magisterial bench those whom the Crown believed to be the best fitted for the exercise of the ma gisterial functions," he might have been enabled to vote for such emotion. He believed that political opinions would al- Ways have weight ; and just in proportion as their institutions were free, so must they submit to the inconvenience of ap tointments tinged with party spirit. If the Government wasper. lactly despotic and arbitrary, and the people could not express any opinionon the management of their own concerns, they in ght then allege the inconveniences of appointments so tinged, and they might find candidates for judicial offices free from the taint of party prejudices. But if they chose to have the advantages of a free Government—advantages which infinitely outweighed those of a despotic Government—they must submit to some of the evils and inconveniences which were inherent in the Con stitutution.—( Hear, hear.)The Hon Gentleman should recol lect that it was in a society constituted like this, a society Where party prevailed, that Lord Lyndhurst had been able to Work his way up from the lowest ranks of his profession to the nation of Lord Chancellor of England.—(Cheers.) It was in of Party like this, in which there were constant conflicts j° Party opinion, that the present Lord Chancellor of Ire.- di and many others, had attained the stations (s ‘ l cY at present occupied. Then let them not dwell too much _II the e v il s o f th e present system, or the inconvenience of party r t utlicts ; nor , for the sake of realising some of the advantages t ee ° despotic Government, sacrifice the infinitely greater advan . tir Which were derived from the present system. Some • Gentlemen who had spoken seemed altogether to have 'Understood the justification of her Majesty's Goveinment, - re ti 2 s h ad misrepresented—no doubt unintentionally, the state '. Jura of his Noble Friend in another p'ace. The Government not defend the appointments that had been made on the • . e m 11%, u that it was desirable that political partisans should . be .et e 'mites'. He maintained that they ought as far as possible Ite s t ; 6 urie them from judicial offices, but they knew that this .Zt t t' ln Pots,ble. If they chose to substitute for the present a system of unpaid Magistrates, appointed by the s'yet„ and acting under a salary, then the Crown might take - new security for greater learning, and more i i ,,.° 1 15. 4 4 abilities for the discharge of their public Liitte . 4 : but still they could not get rid of the rat:cm of party influence. The Government, the Ne e :Presentative ot party , must still appoint them, and their just agates when they gave unpopular judgm ents would be as the , ! able to the imputation of acting from party motives • r ally i'l'ntlemen at present appointed, who were more gene otherg'hellenced by a desire to serve their country than the would be supposed to be. The imputation of political coti s i - i' n sbip was one which, in this country, and under this he t *etution, they would never be able to free themselves from. , tie 't was on this that the Government grounded its • gisteuaeatiOns that if they found the number of Ma -11011 jes, from whatever moti . es, or whatever recommenda- Kee3' had been named, had been chiefly taken from one tae e!ti party; then, they did not justify the appointment of - h ite ,et opposite opinions b the example of their predecessors, the ' the said that it would . be for the security of the public in administration tusece that parties should be more balanced.—(Cheers.)• anr They could not strip the former - th a i _gistrates of their political prepossessions but they could do , 01 , 5 4t s bey . could take a settirdy against any abuse of their a n . by placing en . th e bench where they sat 'i.e.._ of opposite political opinions. It was not a Ce - reerimination on the cooduct of the Noble 'et it- was net an argument of to queque ; it wati not be eillse the former Government had done wrong that the present eselleeepses 42 '°ag. Qj b ZO4ted the Ilefauce of the Government . _ // on the public grounds that it was not7to the satisfaction of the public mind, that the Magistracy sh'ould be appointed exclu. sively from innen of one politic,' opinion. It wan not to reget elle tee peep.e to puluical appointments, but it would reconcile them to the administration ut justice, to see that it was not, placed exclusively in the hands of one party. Ile had listened to this debate with great interest, and with some surprise; his Right Honourable Friend hitd been charged with shaking the confiirence of the people in the administration of I justice, by giving a predominance to Conservatives on the Beech. He quoted the numbers at Guildford and North amptore to show that the numbers had Duly been equalised, and stated, that in Manchester, the Liberal Magistrates had themselves, very justly, expressed a wish to have some gsntle men of opposite opini .rns placed in the Commission. He denied that the appointment of Conservative Magistrates had any tendency to shake the public confidence in the administration of justice. Louktng at the state ut the Magistracy when the present Gov: rnrnent Caine into power, he asked them whe ther, on their own showing, or their own principles, for the purpose of removing erroneous impressions. something I ought riot to be done ? He would take the towns of Manches ter, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Leeds. In these towns there I were 118 Magistrates, and their proportions were striking in the greatest degree. Out of the 116, twenty were Conserve- tives, and nine. y-eight were Liberals. In Liverpool the num hers were twenty-five to six ; in Manchester, twenty-nine to I four; in Birmingham, twenty-seven. to six; in Leeds, eevea teen to four. Under these circumstances, what matter was it who recommended them ? If they knevrehe proportion to be unjust, and that, if, on account of that disproportion, there .was a tendency to weaken the confidence of the people in the administration of justice, it was no answer to say that they were recommendd by the town councils. The minority, on the choice, had a perfect right to say to the Crown, it is true we j are in the minority, and though it is right that we should be I represented in Parliament by men of different politics from ourselves, yet it is no reason why we should be handed over, in the administration of justice, to an exclusively political bench. j And it was also the interest of the Crown to interfere and se- ; cute proper men for the bench, rather than, in order to pay a j deference to popular principles, to take the recommendations of men after a heated contest, when violent dissensions were sure to prevail. If they took the great ports of Bristol, Hull, Yarmouth, and Portsmouth, they would find that in Hull the proportion was . 18 to 3, in Yarmouth I 18 to 1, and in Portsmouth 18 to nothing!— (Cheers. ) There were 68 Magistrates, 58 of one opinion, and 10 of another.—( Hear, hear.) Now looking at the list, be would take some of the counties. Ile would refer to the county of Durham ; in that county there were three corporations—Sun derland, Stockton, arid Gateshead ; and in those three corpora tions there were 19 Magistrates, 18 of whom were of one opinion, and one of another. Now, he would take Chester ; in that county, there were four corporations, and in all those four corporations there was not one Conservative Magistrate.— ( Hear, hear.) In Coiigleton there were five Magistrates, all of the same opinion. In Macclesford there were six ;Magis trates, all of the same opinion. In Stockport there were twelve Magistrates, all of the same opinion.—( Hear, hear.) Ho would now turn to the boroughs, and, looking at the list that was now before him, would take the towns under the letters C and D. He there found six boroughs in succes sion following each ether, Coventry, Dartmouth, Deal, Den- I high, Derby, and Devizes; those towns returned Members to Parliament ; they were subject to excitement which other towns were not ; in tho.e towns party feeling ran high, and the blues and the yellows spent their time in abusing each other.— (Laughter.) If the corporation got the majority they were all purity, and those to whom they were opposed were marked men. In this .manner the sources of justice were bound hand and foot by the recommendations of the town councils. In Coventry there were twelve Magistrates, all of the same opinion. In Dartmouth there were six, all of the same opinion. In Deal tour, all of the same opinion. In Denbigh four, all of the same opinion. In Derby eight, all of the same opinion. In Devizes ten ; and here, he was happy to say, there was a little distinction, for there was one Conservative ; so that in those six towns, all of them returning Members tii Parliament, turn by the dissensiens of party, there were forty four municipal Magistrates administering justice, and out of that number forty-three were of one opinion, and one of I another. He would now come to the smaller boroughs, and it was very likely that the smaller the circle the more bitter was the animosity. Bridport, Hyde, Kendal, ,Maldon, Pomtret, Tiverton, Totnes, and Truro. In those eight small boroughs there were thirty-one Magistrates, all of the came opinion. Not one single Conservative to break the uniformity.— (Laughter.) Need he go any further—need he say that the Government that attempted to redress those glaring dispropor tions was not justifying itself by the evil conduct of its predecessors, but was taing a course which all Governments ought to take that bad the interests of their country at heart ? If they had pur ued such a course for political purposes they would be wrong, but such was not the case. Now what, he would ask, was the total result ?—those that he had referred to were ineividual cases. Why his Hon. Friend found that out of 1,026 Magistrate s, there were 745 of one opinion and 226 of another. But then it was said that the town councils had re commended them. It was unfair to say that the town councils were tainted with political opinion ; but if they were conscious that they were so far tainted, that they would recommend men of the same opinion as themselves, then the Ministry had a right to claim that the injustice should lie removed.—(llear, hear, hear.) He had heat d it said that almost all men with 500/. a-year were Conservatives. Now, he could not maintain such a doctrine ; but he would say, that any system of judicial selection, whether popular or not, which gave a proportion of 226 Conservatives to to 745 Libe rals, was a defective system ; but it was said that his Right Hon. Friend had attempted to abuse the power he possessed, by swamping the existing Magistrates. He would fearlessly assert that be had done no such thing, for so farfroin his Right Hon. Friend having abused the power his office conferred upon him, by transferring judicial power to the hands of the Con servatives, he had left the balance in the hands he found it. He had left the municipal Magistrates of Liberal principles in the majority—there were still 745 of them ; but he had increased the number of Conservatives to 629. —(Hear, hear.) But the Honourable Gentleman, the Member for Finsbury had said that they were setting a terrible , example ; that when the Radicals came into power they would follow that example. He (Sir Robert Peel) hoped that they would, and that. they would also show equal moderation.— ( Hear.) He hoped their object would be not to gain as cendancy or power, but to put an end to an unequal balance. If the lion. Gentleman speaking for the Radical party, would engage, on coming into power, to follow that precedent, he (Sir 11. Peel) would not fear the consequences, because, con tenting himself with redressing any partial inequalities which ; might exist, he would then leave the power on the average in the hands in which he he had found it. He was not its the least degree apprehensive as to the opinion the public would form of those appoit.tments.—( Hear, hear, and cheers. ) The Honourable Gentleman fairly admitted that, with respect to the character of the persons appointed, he had not a single complaint to make. The for.. Gentleman, of course, could only speak from his personal knowledge of the parties ; but as far as his personal knowledge extended, the ! Hon. Gentleman said the men appointed were ser%iceable ad ditions to the Magistracy, and perfectly qualified in every re spect.—( Hear, hear.) All that disturbed the Hon. Gentle- ; man, was that Dr. Alderson had been put at the head of the Magistracy, in the town which he represented in that House. But if the [lon. Gentleman had had some s'eepless nights on account of that undue preference, he would relieve him al(oge ther from future anxiety, by assuring him that Dr. Alderson was indebted for this enviable preference to the accidental cir cumstance that his name began with the letter A.— (Laughter.) If the Hon. Gentleman would turn to the paper en Kingston-upon-Hull, he would find Dr. Alderson at the head of the list, Mr. Bartlett second, and Mr. Crudle third. Now, the Right Honourable Gentleman, the Member for Northampton stated that he too had nothing to allege against the recent eppointments on the ground of cha racter.—(Hear, hear.) He said the parties were highly re spectable. They naturally enough tried their hands upon the capture of an effigy before proceeding to graver business (Laughter.) All that the Hon. Gentleman had to charge against these Magistrates was, that apprehending a serious riot, such as had taken place in other towns, they exhibited a little more anxiety than the occasion called for ; " and I think" ( said the Right Hon. Baronet, addressing the lion. Member for Northampton) " I think they did succeea, did they not, in rescuing this effigy from the hands of the mob ?" Now he must say that it the Magistrates who had been recently ap pointed deserved the character which had been given to them, that went far to vindicate his Right Hon. Friend from the imputation of partiality in making his selection. He begged that it might he distinctly understood upon what grsund the defence rested. He did not place the vindication of their conduct upon the shabby plea that their opponents had done something worse. They had the admission of a warm partisan that the windows of their oppo nents had been completely broken. What they had attempted was to repair the damage which had been done ; they utterly denied that their windows,—larger, more spacious, and hand some, had sustained any similar damage.—( Laughter. ) They had only attempted to repair the breaches which had been made. They rested the vindication of these addi tions to the Magistracy upon this ground, that there had been so great a preponderance of persons holding one class of political opinions that, although they might be honest, although they might be just, yet that there was a natural im pression upon the minds of those who were to have justice ad ministered to them, that party would influence the magiste rial decisions. They found in certain communities men ex clusively of one class of political opinions. They had in no case, or in rare instances, given a preponderance to opposite opi nions. The course which they had taken was not to favour political partisanship, but to repress inequality. For this pur pose they had selected men of opposite opinions, who were emi nently fitted and in themselves ornaments to the Bench which they occupied.—( Cheers. ) Lord J. RUSSELL said he quite admitted that it would not be right for the House to interfere with the prerogative of the Crown on this occasion; but he did think it right to ask for explanation of what had been done. Now he would first state briefly what was the fact, and secondly, the principle upon which the Right Honourable Gentleman defended what had been done. There had been a Magistracy, as far as they knew, sufficient in number to administer justice in the boroughs, and those who most criticised their appointment on political grounds admitted the respectability of their characters. Immediately after the change of Administration 400 new Ma gistrates were appointed. Was not that of itself a most extra ordinary feet ? Did it not require explanation why there had been this addition to a Magistracy which, as far as they were acqnainted with it, and as far as Lord Normanby, who then held the office of Secretary of State for the Home Department, was acquainted with it, was sufficient for the performance of its duties. The Right Hon. Gentleman, the First Lord of the Treasury, felt that it was necessary to make sonic explanation of this t roceeding. The Right Hon. Gentle man the Secretary of State for the Home Department explained it by refreshing his memory with the date of 1836, and repro ducing the charges which were then made and satisfactorily re futed, only with the addition that John Frost had been since convicted of treason, he (Lord John Russell) having taken what he thought sufficient pains to inform himself on the sub ject ; having the recommendation from a large body of his townsmen ; and being informed by the Lord Lieutenant that the appointment was a proper one.—(Hear, hear.) But the Right lion. Gentleman took larger ground, and one which in volved a dangerous principle with regard to the appointment of municipal Magistrates. The Right Hon. Gentleman said there was no security that the Magistrates would inspire confidence, because a great majority of them, about 740 to 2,20, were of one political party. He stated that in certain towns nearly all, and in others all, the Magistrates were of one party, and that that was ii.consistent with the due administration of justice. Now if that principle were taken in its fullest extent, it would go very far indeed. Let them inquire what had been the re commendations, and what the political opinions of the county Magistrates.—( Hear.) What was the state of things when the Whig Ministry came into office in 1830, when through many years of power, through many years of Tory Lord Chancellors and Tory Lord Lieutenants, there had been g reat partiality in the selection of the Magistrates ? He would venture to say that if Lord Grey had ordered an examination of the facts he would have found, not 740 to 220, but 1,000 to 100 as the proportion of county Magistrates.—(Hear, hear.) Would it then have been right for the Government of that dey to say, that it was impossible that justice could be duly arid fairly administered ; that the people could have no confidence in the Magistracy, and that there should be appointed some 700 or 800 Magistrates of Liberal opinions to form a balance of political feeling, in order to the fair administration of justice ? Was that the principle on which the appointments to the judicial office ought to be made? He contended certainly not. He contended, agreeing with the Right Hon. Gentleman as to what he had stated, on the necessity of taking men of politi cal opinions in a free country, that take them where they plight, if they took.nieu of character and _well known integrity, they might not inquire into their political opinions, but they might say that if they were fit to be placed on the Bench they would be fit to do justice to Whig, Tory, and Radical alike On that principle it was that there had been a partial ex clusion with respect to the county Nlagistracy. There had been some instances of partiality—( ar, hear)—among men of considerable landed property. He remembered the case of a banker of high eminence and well-known character, and who had the confidence of all his neighbours, and when he ( Lord J. Russell) inquired of the Lord Lieutenant why he had not been appointed to the Magistracy, tie reply was, that he was so engrossed in his banking concerns that he could not be well appointed; and that there were several young gentlemen of considerable landed property, who had arrived at twenty one years of age, and whom he (the Lord Lieutenant) had not appointed. When such partiality was exhibited, could Hon. Gentlemen opposite taunt the Members of the late Govern ment with partiality? Could the late Government declare that Magistrates were unfit to be trusted because they held Tory opinions? If they did so they would have betrayed their duty to the interest of the Crown. Yet what was the effect of the Right Hon. Gentleman's declaration, that there was no security—no confidence in the administration of justice, be cause the majority of the Magistrates were Liberals? Why he, ( Lord John Russell) said that however Liberal they might be, being respectable men, full confidence must be reposed in their administration of justice. The Right Hon. Gentleman had very properly abandoned the ground of naming Mag strates for the licensing of public-houses. • He had not attempted to support that opinion, which had been, he trusted, erroneously attributed to the Lord Chancellor. What security, then, as far as the administration of justice was con cerned, was there to be found in the constitution of the Magis tracy by the Sec etary of State for the Home Department? Let the in push that principle further, and it affected the Judicial Bench itself. When the late Government was in office a gentleman was recommended to the Crown who held the office of Solicitor-General—the present Baron Rolfe. Since the Right Hon. Gentleman had come into office, he had recom mended a gentleman to the Crown--Justice Cresswell. No one at either side of the House had found fault with either of those appointments. Yet those gentlemen were decided poli ticians in that House, and took opposite sides, arguing some times with vehemence in favour of their opinions ; and if every Judge on the Bench were such as Baron Rolle, the Tories might have the greatest confidence in the administration of justice ; and if every Judge had the cha racter of Justice Cresswell, It' higs and Radicals might feel equal confidence. But if they took the opinion of the Right lion. Gentleman as given that night, there was no security to he felt in the administration of justice, and they must have an equal balance of the Judges on the Bench, half Whigs and `half Tories in the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, and he supposed a few Radicals in the Court of Exchequer.— ( Hear, hear, hear.) The Right Honourable Gentleman found fault with the principles accerding to which he (Lord J. Russell) had acted, and which he had stated in a circular issued in the October after the passing of the Muni cipal Corporation Bill. That circular stated that the recom mendation of the town councils would have due weight with the Government in the appointment of Magistrates, lie had not said that all those who were recommended would be ap pointed. If the Right Hon. Gentleman followed up his opinions he was bound to take away that right which the corporation of the City of London possessed ; for in that city tl.e Magistrates were popularly elected. In Scotland, ton, the appo.niment of Magistrates is direr,' ed by the popular voice. In Scotland the great majority of the people and the town councils were of one Political opinion. The Right Hon. Gentleman considered that that popular origin and sanction of the Magistrates was not to be confirmed. He (Lord J. Russell) entirely disagreed with him. He did not know but it was the better way, as it was in Scotland, to give the direct nomination to the towns themselves; but of this he was sure, that if the flight flout. Gentleman was prepared to set the principle at defiance, he must go further, and set at defiance the ancient privileges of the law of England, which now subsisted in the Corporation of London, and in the kingdom of Scotland. He (Lord John Russell) bait proceeded on the recommendations of the town councils. There were, indeed, certain cases in which, as the Noble Lord had said, he had not so proceeded.—( Hear.) It appeared to him that there were some cases in which, if there had been excluded persons of what were called Conservative opinions, bad feelings must have been cre ated in these towns.— (Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman had mentioned Manchester, Liverpool, Birming ham, and Leeds, arid he had said that there was not more than 20 persons of Conservative opinions among the Magistrates of those towns. He (Lord J. Russell) believed that the town councils had recommended but two or three out of these 20, and that the rest sere appointed at his recommendation. He had not attempted to make a balance of political opinions in those towns, but he had thought that a total exclusion would have been unjust. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, in adverting to his (Lord J. Russell's) conduct with respect to Liverpool, had carefully omitted that circum stance. There were circumstances mentioned to-night, which at that late hour he would not detain the House by giving ; reference had been made to the borough of Guildford, where he had riot taken the recommendation of the town council, and the result of his advice was, the giving of a more liberal complexion to the body of the Magistracy than that which had been givers by the recommendation of the council. At the same time, with regard to those opinions, he al ways found that if they attempted to come to any nice distinctions as to what people's political opinions were, they would find great difficulty. With regard to the statements made respecting Guildford, the Right Hon. Gentleman said that the Liberals were three to one. The Hon. Member fur Guildford (Capt. Mangles) had said that two of the Magistrates were of one political opinion, and two of another. In Bristol there were two or three- Magistrates who had been set down as belonging to the Liberal party, and who had yet never voted for the Liberal candidate there. So it had been stated by the Hon. Member for that city. Thus much, then, for the striking of balances in political opinions. In Exeter a gentleman, who, it was said, was of Con servative principles, was nominated by the town council, because they considered him a decided Whig, Such then, were the differences with which they must deal, if they were to arrange all the Magistrates, so as to have a particular numher of one political opinion and the remainder of the contrary. It would be far the better way to make no such dis inctions at all. If the doctrine of the Right Hon. Gentle man, that there was no reason for confidence in a body belong ing to a particular class, were taken up at one side, it would lie taken up at the other side als ). If they declared from that place that a person who held Conservative opinions was alone to be tru-tal in the administration of justice, they would have every man of Liberal opinions in the country declaring his want of confidence in Magistrates of Conservative opinions. They would be thus introducing a new prin ciple, and one injuring altogether the administration of justice. He did not deny that the town councils had recommended a preponderance' of persons of his ( Lord John Russell's) political opinions.—( Hear, hear.) He supposed that the majority in the town councils held those opinions, and that, therefore, they re commended those in whom they had confidence, and whom they they had been accustomed to follow, in preference to those in whom they had no confidence.—( Cheers.) If the opinions of the towns should change, the opinions of the town councils would change also ; and that, whenever a vacancy in the Ma gistracy should occur, there would be a recommendation of persons of other politics ; but, in the mean time, he thought it would not tend to the purity of the administration of justice, that it should be proclaimed that one man had been elevated to the bench because he was a Liberal, and another because he was a Conservative.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gen tleman had alluded to a letter which he had stated had been written by Mr. Coppock to a gentleman named Bur roughs. He (Lord John Russell) was not acquainted either with Mr. Coppock or with his correspondent.—( Hear, hear.) He did not know to whom it was that that letter was addressed; but with regard to one portion of the information sought to be obtained by that letter, that relating to the employment of the persons nominated, the inquiry was perfectly unnecessary, be cause an official letter was always written by the Under-Secre tary, by command of the Home Secretary, to the town councils, desiring them to state what were the different employments of the persons recommended ; therefore, as far as that. part of the letter was concerned, it was unnecessary.—( ['ear, hear. ) He thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman himself could not attach importance to what he had said on that part of the subject, but that he must have brought it forward merely as a Make. weight.—( Loud cheers.) An Honourable Gentleman, he thought it was the Hon. Member for Durham, had said, in the course of the debate, that he (Lord J. Russell) had changed his politics within the course of the last 20 years.—(llear.) He ( Lord J. Russell) was not conscious of having made any such change.—( Cheers.) Of this lie was certain, that he had been at least as consistent as the Secretary of State for the Home Department.—( Vehement cheering ) Twenty years ago be had brought forward the question of Reform in Parliament; but, on that occasion he had stated dis tinctly that he • did not think it would remedy the existing distress, but that it was necessary as an act of justice.-- (Cheers.) He was then a moderate Reformer, and a Whig —(Cheers)—and he still remained nothing move than a mo derate Reformer and a Whig.—(Cheers from both sides of the House.) If he had ever deserted that moderate line of conduct, the only time he lead ever done so was in the year 1830, when the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State tor the Horne Department used to bring in motions asking for the production of the lista of Privy Councillors.—( Cheers. ) He would own he was induced by the eloquent denunciations of the Right Hon. Gentleman against what he then called the birds of prey—(Loud cheering)—to give him his support.— (Continued cheering.) The Right Hon. Gentleman com prised in his sweeping denunciations all persons holding au thority, whatever might be their station in the Privy Council— ' ( Renewed cheering)—not recollecting that those denunciations affected persons not only of political consciences, but of eccle siastical and judicial consciences also. Loud cheers.) In voting fur that motion, he (Lord J. Russell) gave a counte nance to extreme Radical opinions —( Cheers and laughter)— which formed a cos trast with his conduct during the rest of his life. tae certainly regretted that part of his conduct, and he thoughtthat the Right Hon. Gentleman himself regretted the course he had pursued.--( Hear, hear.) Those against whom he ( Sir James Graham) had then uttered those fierce denuncia tions, were now his own friends and colleagues, and supporters. ' (Loud cheers.) And that party which the Right Hon. Gentleman had then described as steeped in corruption— ( Cheers)—unfaithful to their trusts—(Loud cheers) —unfit to govern the country—(Renewed cheering)—from the absence of all public virtues—(Continued cheering)—was the very party to favour which he had appointed 400 Magistrates.— ( Long and long continued cheering.) When the lion. Mem ber for Durham charged him (Lord J. Russell) with having, during the course of the last twenty years, given some votes of which he must repent, as having too much of a democratic tendency, he supposed the Hon. Member must allude to the votes which he (Lord John Russell) • had given in support of those motions.—( Hear, hear.) He confessed he did regret the votes which he had given on those occasions, but, as his sin had not been so great, so his repent ance need not be of so deep a nature—( Loud cheers. )—nor would lie have to make so full a recantation as that of the Right Hon. Gentleman.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. W. WILLIAMS was surprised at the attacks which had been made on the Magistrates of Coventry by the lion. Mem ber for Warwick. That Hon. Gentleman had no knowledge either of Coventry or the Magistrates there, and he considered the Hon. Gentleman's remarks uncalled for and unfounded. He denied that the Magistrates of Coventry had refused any licenses to persons keeping public-houses, merely because they were Conservatives. In every case in which licenses bast been refused, the Magistrates had had good and sufficient reasons for such refusal. They were incapable of the conduct with which they had been charged by the Hon. Gentleman. The Magistrates of Coventry were men of the highest respec tability, and would not be actuated by party feeling in their conduct as Magistrates. The Hon. Gentleman had stated that at the last election all the Magistrates of Coventry had voted for him (Mr. W. ; he hoped that information was correct, for it would he a great gratification to him (Mr. W. Williams) to find that those gentlemen liked him better en further acquaintance then they had done at first—for at the former election, which had taken place just before their nomi nation to the Magistracy by the Noble Lord, some of those gentlemen, so far from supporting him (Mr. W. Williams) had been among his most active opponents. Politics mingled very little with the proceedings of the Muni cipal Council of Coventry; and there was no desire shown that the management of the affairs of the town should be entrusted exclusively to one party. Mr. COLLINS denied that any partiality had been shown by the Magistracy of the borough of Warwick, which he had the honour to represent, in the licensing of' public houses or upon any other subject. He could bear his testimony that , more honourable men did not exist. _ Mr. J. \V• WOOD repelled any imputations against . Ma gistracy of the borough of Kendal : whicii he had the honour to represent. . _ Lord WORSLEY stated his opinion, and the opinion, he believed, of many others, that it was desirable that a change should be made in the manner of appointing the county Magis tracy. He believed greater satisfaction would be felt if yeomen and gentlemen, living on their own property, although not of large estates, were placed on the list of Magistrates ; and he felt assured that such appointments would give more satisfac tion than the appointments of clergymen, who had other duties to discharge. This was a subject which was much talked of out of the House, and he thought it was his duty to tell the House what he knew of the matter. Mr. STRUTT said, that the Hon. Gentleman opposite having referred to Derby. he thought it right to say a few wores relative to that borough. The Hon. Gentleman stated, that the whole eight Magistrates of Derby, were of Liberal principles ; that he (Mr. Strutt) must most distinctly deny, inasmuch as there was one at least, whom he posi tively knew to be of strong Tory principles. The majority of Magistrates in that borough were certainly Liberals, but that was to be accounted for by the fact of the great majority of the inhabitants being Liberals ; the Magis trates possessed the confidence of the public—( Hear, hear) — and for that reason only he believed they were appointed. And never had he heard trotn any person of any political creed, the slightest complaint of the administration o f justice in that borough. The Right Hon. Gentleman had thought it neces sary to add five new names to those eight, and they were all Conservatives. He had not the slightest charge to make against their character; on the contrary, he was ready to bear his individual testimony to their great respectability. But whereas, it hart been usual to select gentlemen from the town, the Right Hon. Gentleman, unable, he (Mr. Strutt) supposed, to find men of worth in the town, had taken two from the county, who did not possess either the municipal or parliamentary franchise. --( Hear, hear.) Another of those five was a man of great re spectability, and well known to him (Mr. Strutt), who held the situation of Postmaster in the town. He did not think that that was exactly the office which a Magistrate ought to hold— ( Hear hear)—and he must say en the whole that these ap pointments had given the greatest dissatisfaction to the whole place.—(l-fear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he believed that seven miles from the borough was the limit within which a man might live not to be disqualified from voting ; he should feel obliged to the Hon. Gentleman if he would state how far from the town the two gentlemen to whom he referred resided? Mr. STRUTT said, he did not say that they were disquali fied. They lived two or three miles from the town, and had r.o connexion with the town.—(oh, oh.) All he said was, that they possessed neither the municipal nor the parliamentary franchise.—( Hear.) Mr. COLVILE said, if the Right Hon. Baronet had looked over the whole town of Derby he could not have found men who would better have done their duty that% those he had ap pointed.—( Hear, hear.) Captain LAY ARD said he wished to know what the Right Hon. Baronet had done for the benefit of Southampton with regard to the appointment of new 'Magistrates there? The town council in that borough were almost all Tories, and there were seven Magistrates. One of these died, and a deputation, consisting of some of the most respectable Liberals in the place, waited upon-the Noble Lord the Member for London, and requested that his Lordship would fill up the vacancy by appointing a Liberal. His Lordship replied, that he must be guided by the town council, and, in consequence, a Tory was appointed. He wished the 'fortes would act in the same way. Mr. HUTT said, that he could not altogether disregard the observations of the Right Hon. Baronet, Who imputed to him that he came fresh from the atmosphere of an Election Commit tee. Such language was certainly most decent and gentlemanly— The SPEAKER called the Hon Member to order. Mr. HUTT explained that he used the word gen tlemanly, and not ungentlemanly, as Honourable Mem bers and Mr. Speaker seemed to imagine. He could scarcely believe the Right Honourable Baronet intended what his words might convey ; but if he did, he did not envy him his feelings, and he thanked God he did not possess them. —( Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said of the trifling nature of his motion, but he thought the Honour able and Gallant Member for Durham (Capt. Fitzroy) treated himtwith ingratitude, because he gave him an opportunity of making a speech, and of saying a grear deal of himself and his Noble Relative, and other matters to which he was fond of referring.—(" Oh, oh.") But when he did him (Mr. Hutt) the honour of taking down his words, he hoped he would do so correctly, which would spare himself a great deal of indignation, and him (Mr. Hutt) the trouble of contradicting him. With regard to the motion before the House, he was gad the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government did not adopt the same line of defence as the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department.—(Hear.) The de fence which he made was, that others had done wrong, and on these grounds he justified his own conduct. He should like to know if the increase which the Right Hon. Baronet had made in the Magistracy was the result of any com plaints as to the insufficiency of the number who had discharged the duties ? Be had alluded to Hull a great deal, but he (Mr. H.) and the people of that place well remembered the Radical doctrines of the Right Hon. Baronet in that place, and he also recollected that the people there were not very well satisfied with him because he did not go so far as the Right Hon. Baronet, and therefore was not fit to be their representative.—( Cheers and laughter. ) Sir J. GRAHAM—In what year was that ? HUTT—In the year 1831. The motion was then agreed to. POOR LAWS. Captain PECHELL presented a petition from Mr. Brooker, stating that his character had been aspersed with respect to statements of his regarding the Eastbourne Union, and praying that the House would investigate the statements (as we understood. ) On the question that the petition be laid on the table, Mr. BROTHERTON moved that the House do new adjourn. After a few words from Mr. DARBY, Mr. BROTHERTON said he would withdraw his motion for adjournment, if the debate on the question to which the petition referred were adjourned. The SPEAKER having given his opinion that the petition reflected upon a Member of the House, and could not be re ceived, . . Captain PECHELL withdrew the petition, and moved for a return according to his notice of the number, names, an I ales of all persons committed to any prison in England or Wales for any offence in a union workhouse established under the provi sions of the Po)r-law Amendment Act, stating the nature of the offence, the period of punishment, the name of the union, and the number of each union, and for each year, from the 25th day of March, 1835 to the 25th day of March, 1842, with the population of each union, according to the last census. Si milar return for offences in workhouses of parishes and unions governed by guardians, vestrymen, or parish officers, under local Acts, and 22 Geo. 3, c. 83, known as Gilbert's Act, or not included in any . Poor-law union. The lion. and Gallant Member then went into a statement to show that a very large number of able-bodied men had been committed to prison for having run away from union work houses. He thought this motion was a very good prelude to the Right Hon. Baronet's motion for a law to suppress such unions as " Gilbert's," in none of which had-there been an in stance of an able-bodied man being sent to prison for running away. Mr•. DARBY said he thought it was very unfair for the Hon. and Gallant Member to mix up the management of any particular union with the question of the Poor-law. Many allegations had been made against the guardians of this union, and the whole of those allegations they denied. The charge of the Hon. and Gallant Member was one of constructive murder, which was a most tremendous charge. The matron and the .guardians took care to go round the workhouse once every week. The lion. and Gallant Member ought not to have made his charges unless he had given them notice of his inten tion. It was a very extraordinary tact that Booker was not heard of until he had a communication with Smith. Capt. PECHELL said he had considered it his duty to pre sent the petition. It was a charge of moral and constructive murder, and all he wanted was an inquiry. The return was agreed to. POOR-LAWS. Sir J. GRAHAM said, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, he should postpone the motion of which he had given notice, for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Poor-law Commission, till Tuesday next. The Dublin Police Bill, the Punishment of Death (Ireland) Bill, and the Victoria Park Bill, were read a third time and passed ; the British Possessions Abroad Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed; the Knightsbridge and Kensington Opening. Bill was read a third time and passed. NEW WRIT. Mr. GODSON moved that a new writ be issued for the borough of Nottingham, in the room of Sir G. De Larpent. Mr. BROTHER:I'ON moved that the House do adjourn. Mr. WARD seconded the motion. As there was a motion on the paper for to-morrow on this subject, he was surprised that a new writ should have been moved kr under the present circumstances. The SPEARER put the question, which being carried, the House adjourned at One o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the Votes and Proceedings q f the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MAY 4. CHURCH PATRONAGE . ( SCOTLAND) BILL. Order for Second Reading road ; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " That the Bill be read a second time upon Wednesday the 15th day of June next :"—Amendment pro posed, aftor the word " be," to insert the word novr,' and to leave out the words " upon Wednesdty the 15th of June next :" —Tuestion put, " That the word ' now' be there inserted:"— The House divided : Acheson, Viscount Bannerman, A. Barnard. E. (..i. Berkeley. C. Dristhertoa, J. CoWen„ Richard Colcbrooke, Sir T. E. coivoer, Hon W. Craig, W. Gibson Dalrymple, Captain Dawson, lion. T. V. Duff, James Duncan, George Ellice, E. Evans, William Ferguson, t. olonel k itzroy, Lord C. NORITY-AYES, Gore, Robert Hastie, A. flay, bir A. L. Hill, Lord Marco.,. Howard„E 0. ki,Taggsrt, John - Marjoribanks, S. Morris, David Morrison, James Muntz, G. F. Murray, A. O'Connell, kr J. Oswald, James Pechell, Captain Philips, Mark Powell, Caleb Rawdon, J. D. 48. Rieardo, John Lewis Rundle, John Rutherturd, A Scholefield, J. P Somerville. Sir W. Stuart, Lord J. Tancmi, H. W. Thotnely, Thomas Traill. George Vivian Hon. Captai Wallace, It. Wawn, John T. Wcutenra, H. It. TELLERS. Manic, Hon Fox Stt.wart, P. M. i ii THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MA/ 6, 1 842. MA, .JORITY—NOES, Flower, Sir James Forbes, William Fremantle. Sir T. Fuller, A. E. Gladstone, W. E . Gordon, Hon. W . Gordon, Lord F. Goulburn, H. Graham, Sir J. Granby, Marquis Greenat, Peter Greene, T. G. Grogan, Edward Halturd, H. Hamilton, J Hans Hamilton, W. J. Hamilton, Lord C. Hanmer, Sir John Harcourt, G. G. Hardy, John Hayes, Sires T E E. Hepburn,. . H er beit, Hon. S. Hodgson, F. Hodgson, it. Hume, Joseph J ac k so n, J. D. Johnson, W. G. Johnstone, Alex. Johnstone, Sir John Johnstone, Hope Jones, T Lotd Kelburne, Knatchbull, Sir E. K Li Lo aMa , Ma n' i ccl ,C il i kk t . : ll l ,ec la i e ta e l y :.; ' , :r . szz t ,: : : : . :: , N L i r o V : , e, i o rv vi h i d i n t . i le a j n ym i n : a s M Mactieachy, F. A. March, Earl of Master, T. W. C. Acton, Colonel Allix, John Peter I Arbuthnot, Hon. H. Arkwright, George ' Astall, William Bailey, J. Bailin!, H. J. Baird, William Bankes, George Baring, W. B. Raring, H 13. Beckett, William klackhurn, John I. Boldero ? Henry G. llorthwick, Peter Boriah Braniston, T. W. 13roadwood, H. Bruce, Lord E. Bruce, C. L. . Buckley, Edmund Buller, C. Carnegie, Captain CheNee, Viscount hyton, R. H. Clerk, Sir G. Connolly, Colonel Corry, 11. L. Cripps, J. Darby, George Denison, E. Beckett Douglas, Sir lloward Douglas, Sir C. E. Drummond, H. H. buncombe, A. Du I're, George Egerton ' N.'l. Eliot, Lord Emlyn, Viscount Eseott, Ilichkam Ferguson, Sir R. A. Feilden? W. Eerrand, W. B. Fitzroy, Ftolliott, John 131. Masterman, John Mines, R. M. Mundy, E. Miller Neville, Ralph Newry, Viscount Nicholl, J O'Brie , A. Stafford Packe, C. W. Pakington John S. Patten, John Wilson Peel, Sir it. Peel, Jonathan Po'Ruston, Viscount Pringle, A. Richards, Richard Round, C. G. Rous, Lion. Captain Rushbrooke, Colonel Sanderson, R. Scarlett, Hon. R. Scott, Hon. F. Sheppard, Thomas Shirley, E. P. Somerset, Lord G. Stanley, Lord Stanley, kdward Sirton, Henry AI Tenncnt, J. E. Thornhill, George Tollemache, John Trotter, John Turner, E Vere, Sir C. B. Wni . or, W. Vernon, Granville Wall, li. Weinyss, Captain Wodehouse, Edmond Wortley J....tuart Young,John Young, Sir W. TELLERS. Campbell, A. Plumptre, J. P. NATIONAL CONVENTION. - - The Convention met yesterday at nine o'clock, at the Dr. Johnson Tavern, Fleet-street , Mr. Duncan in the chair. The minutes of last meetien, were read and confirmed. After some discussion, the Convention passed a resolution, calling on Mr. Roebuck to retract the language he used, on Tuesday evening, in the Rouse of Commors. Messrs. Pit keathly_aricl>l9ir VNlQllVOintect.to wait 017 Dir. Roettuck, INDIA AND CHINA. An extraordinary express enabled us on Wednesday afternoon to supply the general features of the intelligence from the East, and we now lay before our readers all the details contained in the Indian papers. (From the Bombay Times, April 1.) LATEST DATES. Aden Agra Alexandria February 17. Australia—Adelaide January 3. ditto Sydney I3urmah—Moulmein Marcia 7. ditto Rangoon March 2. Caübul Cairo .. . . • Calcutta March 21. Candahar Ceylon China—Macao ditto Chusan January 17. Cutchee ... Delhi Herat February. Lahore Madras Manilla ... February 8. Mauritius Penang—M a l acca .. March 1. Persian Gulf February 26. Quetta—Caubul ... .. ......... Seint'e Singapore ... The following passengers take their departure for Suez this day, per the Cleopatra steamer:—Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. Colonel Manson, Mrs. Captain Parsons and child, Mr. and Mrs. H. Forbes, Captain and Mrs. Ord and two children, Miss Richards, Mrs. Colonel Osborne and three children, Major H. C. Cotton, Madras army ; Mrs. Carpenter and child, Captain and Mrs. Claude Roberts, 29th Madras Native Infantry ; Lieutenant-Colonel Osborne, Mrs. and Miss Boaden and child, Miss Llewelyn, J. Llewelyn. Esq. ; Captain and Mrs. George Manse', of her Majesty's 16th Lancers ; Captain Young, Madras army ; Capt. Rutherford, Bengal Cavalry ; Mr. S. Brooking, Major 11. Taylor, 2d Madras Cavalry ; Mr. Gouger, Colonel Katy, of her Majesty's 94th Regiment; a child of Mr. Harrison, Mrs. Goodall, Captain Larkins, Captain Rees, E. 131ackall, C. Campbell, E. 11. Dallas, A. Mackin• tosh, and A. Montgomery, Esqrs. ; Major Carpenter, Cap tains Owen, Ist Lancers, Thornhill and Allen ; Mr. J. Catt rill, Mrs. Prescott, (Captain Prescott died on the 29th of March), and child; and Captain Veto; three European anti two native servants. Second class passengers :—Mr. Chad wick, Mr. E. A. Webster, and Mr. JoLiquim Manoel de Meto Mendacoa. F, r Mocha :—Budroodeen Shaik Ally and Jumaloodeen Fa zoodeen. The following passengers have taken berths by the steamer of May :—Major-General and Mrs. Brooks, Captain Leeson, ltev. A. Goude, Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Wyllie, Mrs. Es enmbe, Mrs. Warburton, Professor 011ebar, lady, and child, and Airs. E. E. Elliot and child. CAUI3M.. Our cares for the concerns at Caubul, in a great measure ceased with the intelligence of the destruction of our army in the second week of January. Save in the interest felt in the hostages or captives which still remain in it, it is no more to us than it was before the Affghan troubles began. The officeis%Nho remain there, together with the sick, wounded, and prisoners, seem to have been from the beginning well, or even kindly, treated. The " good Nawaub Jubbur Khan" has taken the missing child of Mrs. Anderson under his charge; and with `• the Feringhees' friend," as he was called before adversity fell upon him, it is as safe, and as secure of kindness, as if under its parents' charge. The tales of the sepoys being sold into slavery to the Ocnbegs—highly improbable as they were from the beginning—remain wholly unconfirmed, and we be. lieve them to be entirely fabulous. There are considerable numbers, both of fficers and men, of whose fate we have now learned particulars; the former have been detained as pri soners, but complain of no harshness or severity ; but, on the contrary, speak very warmly of the kindness they have expe rienced; the latter have been dismissed without ransom, and have, in many cases, received small sums of money to carry them on their way. The Shah Soojah continues to main tain himself at Caubul. The chiefs, indeed, are said to hale been unanimous in offering allegiance to him ; and tran quillity in and around the city is said once more to be entirely restored. It is reported that he has written to Go vernment, requesting to be supplied with 200,0001. or 300,000/. of money; but declining military aid for the pre sent. A letter is said to have been intercepted, sent by him to the ruler of the Punjaub, requesting him to withhold his aid from us, so that the " Feringees " might be exterminated. We give these on imperfect evidence—evidence which, how ever, has been considered sufficient by most of the journalists of India strongly to implicate the Shah in the proceedings of the insurgents from the commencement. On the 28th Jan. a letter was received from him at Jellalabad, requiring Sir Hobert Sale to retire, and to give hostages for our abandon ment of Affghanistan. This was declined to be complied with. It may Le, however, that after all the Shah is in the hands of the chiefs, and that he is only playing the game a better man would think permissible when his personal safety was so imme diately concerned. We have much reason to suspect his ho nesty, but we have no direct proof of treachery to adduce against him. - Amongst the escapes of the individuals who have now re appeared is that of the Sergeant-Major of the 37th Native In fantry, and of a grass-cutter, who in an agony of fear entreated Ukhbar Khan that he might not be sold as a slave (though this did not appear to have been contemplated), and was ordered to go about his business. One of the men who was with Capt. Woodburn, when ho was killed, and his little band of la° sepoy invalids cut to pieces near Ghuznee, on the 2d of November, had, after three months wanderings, made his escape to the plains. Seven sepoys, who had been allowed to depart, ern- barked on inflated water-skins, and descended the Cabool river to Peshawur; it is not precisely stated where they got afloat, but as it must have been above Jellalabad, this perilous voyage had exceeded a hundred and twenty miles in length. 'they were half famished, and starved with cold, and in a very miserable plight on their arrival—their toes and fingers having been frost-bitten by the snow. We have not only heard no more tales worthy of being listened to as to the cruelty and treachery of the Affghans, hut those formerly considered credible have now for the most part been contra dicted. On the other hand, as each successive unfortunate makes his appearance, some new instance of their humanity or attention is revealed. We are still entirely in the dark as to the share Ukhbar Khan may have had in our misfortunes ; but the proofs of the truth of the charges against him have cer tainly not increased in weight. Every fresh revelation is con firmative of the rumour prevalent since the beginning—that to the miserable imbecility of our military authorities, and the misconduct and despondency of our soldiers, we owe the hea viest of our disasters. The contents of various communications from Sir W. Macnaghten, who throughout comported himself in a manner becoming the position he occupied, and the nation he represented, describing himself as " surrounded by cowards, amongst whom there was neither energy nor spirit," have been published. The Affghan war has dispirited and disorganised the army, and brought it into a condition from which it will require many years of good treatment to remove it. JELLALABAD. Our former intelligence from the brigade shut up under Sir Robert Sale at Jellalabad came down to the 2d of February —it now extends to the 4th of March. Nothing of any very particular note appears to have occurred in the garrison, save the earthquake of the 19th of February, since the former of these dates. We now learn, however, a fact of some in terest, with which we were not, formerly acquainted. On the 23th of January a Council of War had been held, to de liberate on a proposition, then just received from the Shah Soojah at Caubul, to the effect that we should give further hostages, and make other arrangements for the immediate and entire abandonment of the country. The proposition was declined to be complied with, though not till after a considerable debate on the subject had occurred. On the morning of the 14th of February, Ukhbar Khan, with a ragged force of 800 cavalry and 1,200 infantry, encamped on the opposite side of the river under English tents ; it was re•• ported that he had attacked the garrison, and been defeated by them four days afterwards—but this proves to be incorrect. Any force he can muster can occasion them no annoyance, un less accompanied by guns, or in cutting off supplies. Colonel Dennie gave an account of 10,000 Affghans at Bameean with half the present force. On the 19th a severe shock of an earth quake, which visited Peshawur, Ferozepore, Meerut, and Delhi, and extended as far westward as Quetta, shook down many of the houses and some part of the fortifications at Jellalabad, which it cost considerable trouble to repair. No advantage, however, had been taken of the accident by the enemy, and the garrison is now as able to protect itself as ever, unless that their supplies of all kinds are once more running short on them. Some dissensions amongst the chiefs had excited the hope that they would shortly be enabled to purchase their way to the plains : it was said that the Affreedis at the Peshawar end of the passes were willing to treat for Sir R. Sale's re treat, but would hear of no terms whatever for General Pol lock's advance. The latter officer was prepared, apparently, to attempt an advance at all events, should there be any grounds for serious apprehension of Sir Robert Sale's immediate safety. 300/. of money had been sent to him from Peshawur, and re ceived in safety; the men who conveyed it got an equal sum for their pains—a fair illustration of the dangers of the passes. The garrison had heard very regularly fro :n the prisoners in the Lughman country. They continue to report themselves well and kindly treated. The contents of their letters were re stricted to their own personal affairs, and we have hitherto de rived from them scarcely any particulars of the Caubul disasters. PESHAWUR. The enormous and sudden sickness which hail overtaken our troops a t P es h awur , con fi n i ng u p war d s of two thousand fight ing men at one time to the hospital, had in a great mea sure disappeared at our latest dates. It had confined itself to the four regiments which had been in the pass, and might probably be accounted for from the effects of the notoriously pestilential atmosphere around ; thus furnish ing us an alarming consideration in case the troops should again catch disease in passing through the mearious re gion of the pass, in which the line of the advancing column would probably be detained from the narrowness of some por tions of the chasm, not less than three days. Considerable falls of snore on the hills, and almost incessant rain about the camp, seem to have prevailed till near the end of March, occa sioning extreme discomfort to the men. On the 19th of February an earthquake shook down many buildings near l i Peshawur, but though many very narrow escapes were made, no other mischief was occasioned. On the 28th the alarm was sounded that some of the camels who were grazing close by had been carried away. A detachment, consisting of a troop of the loth Light Cavalry, and some irregulars, was immediately dispatched. They overtook the mountaineers, and slew them all, four in number, as it proved ; but not till three troopers and two officers (Cornet Vibart and Ensign Taylor) had been severely wounded. The rumour of an engagement created a sensation in camp, and fresh troops of cavalry, artillery, and infantry were already on the start, when the troopers just returned with the heads of all their enemies (four) at their saddle bows. On the 25th, General Pollock had ordered his force to hold themselves in readiness to move up the pass in the lightest marching order, and at the shortest notice ; it was, indeed, reported that they had already moved on the 4th; and again that they were about to do so on the 14th ; the one statement has proved incorrect, and we doubt not but tile other will do so likewise. He seemed to have adhered to his primary resolution of not moving, unless in case of extreme emergency, till the arrival of the last brigade from Feruzepere. This crossed the Sut ledge on the 13th of March, and could not have leached Peshawur till the 20th of April. It consists of her Ma jesty's 31st, the 6th Native Infantry, with artillery and irre gular cavalry —Major De Le Fosse, with the Horse Artillery siarted four days after. It was said that General Pollock was anxious that this force should leave all its heavy baggtge to be brought up by the Seikh contingent, and push on with the utmost possible celerity. Accompanying the detach ment were 900 camels loaded with treasure and ammuni tion. A letter from one of the European officers, in the ser vice of Shere Sing, mentions that a force of from eight to nine thousand Seikhs were moving on Attoek to assist General Pol lock. The Maharajah Shere Sing himself had gone to Lahore to hasten and facilitate our movements by every means in his power. The sepoys began to desert from the 53d and 60th Native Infantry in particular, at the rate of twenty a day—a state of matters more likely to become aggravated than im proved as dangers and hardships multiply around them, and the few stragglers come in to tell the frightful tales of their sufferings at Caubul and in the passes, which are once mot e threatened to be traversed. The European soldiers, on the otl*sr hand, were conducting themselves with the utmost order, and manifesting the greatest gallantry whenever op portuaities occurred for its display. The brigade imme diately ahead of this entered the Punjaub on the 21st of Feb ruary, and is said by our latest accounts, dated the 9th ult., to have got 150 miles on their way. It consists of her Majesty's 3,1 Dragoons, Ist Light Cavalry, 33d, and two companies 6th Native Infantry, with artillery, and 3,000 camels. They had been in various ways unfortunate in their movements ; the pontoon bridge over the Sutledge came down with them at the commencement of their march. On arriving at the river Havee, fifty miles in advance, they found it fourteen feet deep at the ford, with only a single beat. They had to search about fur a inure favourable crossing place, and at length found one where five boats were procurable. Seven days were consumed in getting over the Itavee. On the Bth of March, the Chenaub, 6U miles farther on, and by consequence one-third of the way to 1 1 4.shawur, was reached. The river was wide and deep, and rapidly increasing from the inciting snows of the Ilimalayas—the sources of all the chief streams in the Pun jaub. It was considered impossible that, by any effort, they could reach General Pollock before the lst of April. A letur received last night from Kaman', of the 19th, intimates that an express had reached the camp of Colonel White, or dering him to proce,d with all dispatch with the dragoons and artillery, leaving the 33d and 6th Native Infantry to follow as they could. This looks as if some emergency had arisen, and requiring the pass to be forced. The writer states that the Khyberres had refused longer to treat for the advance. Some of the sepoy regiments are said to be averse to move towards Jellalabad. We have stated that the detachment which quitted Penne pore un the 13th ult. was the last to proceed at present to Pe shasur ; but there seems to be strong surmises that numerous other reinforcements will still be pushed on—for what service able purpose we cannot certainly divine. On the 19th a com pany of Sappers and Miners, with tools complete, were or dered, under the charge of Lieutenants Goodwyn and Irwin, to proceed to Ferozepore, and thence to Peshawur. 'I he 3d Light Infantry Battalion left Meerut on the Itith, with every prospect of being pushed oa in the same di rection. We should infer that it was expected that these would reach General Pollock before his advance into the passes. From Delhi or Meerut to Ferozepore is 250 miles ; from this last to Peshawur, 350—a march, over such a country, of sixty days at least. This would require till the 20:h of May—the m.ddle of the hot season, when the streams are all in flood, to take them to their ultimate destination. We confess, in fact, that the assemblage of so enormous a force as that at Peshaw ur is a mystery to us. We shall speedily have 13,000 British troops, with 1;,000 Seikh allies, making 23,000 men in all, with as many camp followers at least—that is nearly fifty thousand to feed from our commissariat. This would re quire one thousand camel loads of victuals a day, or near tf,ooo, it we take forage for the purses or cattle besides into account—a very considerable portion of which must be brought !rain the banks of the Sutledge, 350 miles in our rear. T i s distance, the whole of our treasure and amunition must be carried. During the mouths of May, June, July, and August, the five great branches of the Indus, which require to be cross?d, are swollen by the melting snows, so as to be nearly impassable. Any one of a hundred accidents, which are the compass of extreme probabiiity, would starve General Pollock's force into a retreat. On Caubul it is impos sible for such a body of men to advance through the passes without almost certain destruction : a move on Jellalabad would be accompanied with the estremest danger. A military correspondent of the Delhi Gazelle, of the 19th March, states, that it is computed that they will require 30,00 t) camels for their baggage train—we elsewhere have .set them down at 10,000 ou toe very lowest estimate, but consider our contemporary inure likely than we to be right. Moving in single file—and this way only could they advance through many of the passes both below and above Jellalabad—this would form a line cf 66 miles, without the possibility of a single company of men attending them. This, at the rate of ten miles a day, would take them a week to pass the defiles of Ad Musjid or Khoord Caubul ; the atmosphere near the former of these being so malarious, that out of four regiments formerly exposed for a few days to its influence, two thousand men were immediately after wards laid up in hospital. The bulk of these arrangements were made before the arrival of Lord Ellenborough, and we sincerely hope that Sir Robert Sale may shortly be able to purchase a safe retreat, and the w h o l e army, as soon as he joins them, may retire on I n di a w ith a ll convenient speed. Deser tions amongst the camp followers of the troops last dispatched, begin to be annoying to the last degree. This renders an army in India almost useless, as will be seen when it is considered how far - the division of labour in the wrong sense is carried. A camel-man could not, and would not on any account, take charge of horses ; nor a horse-keeper act as a grass-cutter, or a body servant as cook, a'most to save his life. Servants of all work arc unknown in India. GIIUZNEE. We have had no authentic or special items of intelligence from the officials at Ghuznee, so far as we can discover, since the 3(1 of November. For the space of four months it has been com pletely isolated and cut off from all communication, either with Candahar or Jellalabad. Native accounts, however, give us every reason to believe that Colonel Palmer and his weak de. tachment (a sepey regiment and some artillery) have wea thered it bravely, and continue safe and well. Their position is a tolerably strong one, and he was, from the commencement, well supplied with ammunition and food. CANDAHAII. Our intelligence from Candahar extends to the 10th of March , at that date the enemy were in considerable force, within seventeen miles of the city. No fighting had occurred since the 12th of January, and of this encounter we gave par ticulars in our last. A flock of camels had been attacked, and 100 of them carried away ; they had been sent off some six miles to graze; 150 of the men who were attending them were killed. The present force at Candahar amounts to 7,200 fighting men, with eighteen pieces of artillery. A reinforcement is now on its way to them of 2,500; the garri son of Kelar-i-Ghilzie, eighty miles from them, on the road to Ghuznee, is 1,000 strung. The enormous difficulty of ob taining camels, or carriage cattle of any sort, seems to be daily on the increase. General Nott's stores of every kind seem, of late, to have been very nearly run out ; 100,0001., and 50,000 ball cartridges were, on the Sth ult., dispatched from Sukkur and Shikarpore for his use. Medical stores for 6,000 men for six months have been sent for to Bombay. Captain Hender son, of the Madras Engineers, has been ordered to quit Suk kur, where he was laying out, and planning new cantonments, and proceed immediately to Candahar, to survey for a road along by the Kujjuek pass, so that troops may march from Can dThar to Kelat-i-Ghilzie without going through the pass at all. It is generally rumoured that a portion of General Nott's force will move eastward towards Ghuznee, so soon as the weather permits--every body asking, at the same time, how they were to be moved. QUETTAI-I. Noe vent of any note appears to have occurred at Quettah during the month. Up to the 20th of February it continued to snow heavily, and atterwards heavy rains prevailed. This was the case at Candahar as well as Quettah ; subsequent to this, the weather had become agreeable. On the 12th Colonel and Mrs. Marshall, with a detachment of one hundred of the 6th Native Infantry, and 400 of the 4th Light Cavalry, were caught in a tremendous snow storm in the upper end of the Bolan Pass, and very nearly lost. Ten men were frozen to death; the rest escaped with difficulty, and reached Quettah ill a very miserable plight. One hundred camels perished. SCINDE. There is, on the whole, very little news of any special interest this month from Scinde ; what we have, though indefinite, is rather unsatisfactory. Letters from Kurachee of the 22d state that cholera had appeared in her Majesty's 22d, which had just arrived ; it had broke out on board the steamer, and 18 died on their way from Bombay. Six more were landed in a very bad state. On the evening of the 21st six had been seized, and four of the cases proved fatal. The hot weather is setting in, and the floods of the Indus beginning to appear. Rumours of a general rising of the Belochees ; of hostile movements on the part of the Amcers of Khypoor; of the capture of the Satellite steamer, the seizure of the treasure she contained, and murder of her officers, have all from time to time had currency ; but all of them happily prove, so far as we know, to be totally un founded. General England had issued an order that no ladies should be permitted to move into the upper country. A heavy force meanwhi:e has been ordered from Scinde to move up the Bolan pass—a brigade of 2,500 being destined to re inforce Caudahar : this was composed of her Majesty's 41st, the 7th Native Infantry, 2d Grenadiers, 3d Light Cavalry, one troop Bombay Horse Artillery, 150 Poonah Horse, and a battalion of flank companies. Major Outram was sick and at Shikarpore on the 18th ; his personal influence and character amongst the Scindians are such, that any interruption in his career of usefulness would be felt as a calamity. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM TIIE INDIAN PAPERS. LORD ELLENBOROUGH. FORT WILLIAM, CALCUTTA, FEB. 28.—The Dwarka !laud' steam-boat arrived off Chandpal Chant at half-past four this afternoon, having on board the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough, appointed by the Honourable the Court of Dire tors to the office of Governor-General of India, and Go vernor of Fort William, in Bengal. His Lordship was re ceived at the foot of the Chandpal iGhaut by a deputation of the Secretaries of the Government and personal staff of the Right Hon. the Governor-General, and landed immediately with the usual honours. At five o'clock Lord Ellenborough took the prescribed oaths and his seat as Governor-General in the Supreme Council of India. The following proclamation is published by order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council : " PROCLAMATION. "Whereas, the Right Hon. Edward, Lord 'Ellenborough, a Member of her Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, hath been appointed by the lion, the Court of Directors of the East India Company to be Governor - General of India and Governor of Fort William, i n Bengal, upon and from the time of his arrival at . Fort William, In Bengal, or upon and from the time of his joining the major part of the Supreme Council of India; and whereas General Sir Jasper Nicolls, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief in India, bath been appointed to be an Extraordinary Member of the Council of India, and W. W. Bird, Esq., Major-General Sir W. Casement, K.C.8., and 11. T. Prinsep, Esq., have been respectively appointed to be the first, second, and third Ordinary Members of the said Supreme Council of India; and whereas the Hon. the Court of Directors have declared and confirmed A. Amos, Esq., to be and to continue the fourth Ordinary Member of the said Council ; and whereas the said Right lion. Edward, Lord Ellenborough, bath on the day and date hereof arrived in Cal cutta, and assumed the said offices of Governor-General of India and Governor of Bengal—the above-recited appoint ments are hereby notified, and it is further proclaimed, that the said Edward, Lod h Ilenborough, Governor-General of India, hath this day taken the usual oaths and his seat in the Supreme Council of India, and that William Wilberforce Bird, Esq., Major-General Sir William Casement, K.C.8., Henry Thoby Prinsep, and Andrew Amos, Esqrs. (his Excellency tha Com mander-in-Chief being absent on a visit to the upper stations of the army), have respectively taken their seats in the said Council. " By order of the Ilon. the Governor-General of India in Council. " G. A. BUSIIBY, " Secretary to the Government of India. " Council Chamber, Fort William, Feb. 23, 1842." Fortx WlLtinat, FEB. 28.—The Governor-General notifies the following appointments : Lieutenant H. M. Durand, of the Bengal Engineers, to be Private Secretary to the Governor-General. Captain A. W. Fitzroy Somerset, Grenadier Guards, to be Military Secretary to the Governor-General. The following gentlemen have been appointed Aides-de- Camp to the Governor-General : Lieutenant W. R. Harries, her Majesty's 43d Regiment. Lieutenant C. J. Colville, her Majesty s 40th Regiment. Lieutenant W. J. Mackintosh, 43d Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry G. A. I3USHBY, Secretary to the Government of India. FORT WiLi.tAm, FEB. 28. The. Right Hon. the Governor- General in Council directs that all distinctions and honours which were paid to the Right Hen. the Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., when in office, shall be continued to his Lordship during his stay in India. G. A. BUSHBY, Secretary to the Government of India. Lord Ellenborough's first levee was attended by at least 609 or 700 persons. His Lordship received them, as Lord Auck land had previously done, standing at the south end of the Great Marble Hall, surrounded by his personal staff and secre taries, the Bishop, the Judges, the Members of Council, and the Political Secretary, Mr. Maddock. The visitors were severally presented by Captain Hillier, one of the Aides-de camp to his Lordship, filing off the opposite side from that whence they entered. There were many native gentlemen present at the levee, but as it, ads intimated to them that they would b© presented on a future day (Saturday) they retired. It is a pity that it was not announced beforel'Awk I . that only Europeans would be received y es t er d a y , as our & e t a fri ends are are exceedingly annoyed at the manner in which they ,tvere ea " eluded. Of the manner of the exclusion we shall say' DcrO. leg; b.-cause we have reason to believe that accident more hart de sign ; but we think it right to r t '- mark of the nati ve gen tl emen i u nfl po u n e'le the ed' unwisetie arrangement r rari confoundingetne n t tit hare always had the entree of Government-house by reason o4C their intelligence, their wealth, and their public spirit, with the'. Rajahs, Chieftains, Vakeels, and Baboos, who arc asked to Dur - bars as a matter of form. The privilege of mingling with the European gentlemen at Government-house, and other public places, is valued by many of the natives, and we think it would Le most impolitic to break through the good feeling that was created in Lord W. Bentinck's time, and has continued to exist with so much advantage to the community in matters commer cial, educational, and municipal. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE LATE CAUBUL EXPEDITION. The following alphabetical list of the officers belonging to the Caubul fares under General Elphinstone has been prepared to facilitate reference as to the fate of any particular officer. Those mentioned as " missing" are supposed to have perished in the passes between Caubul and Jellalabad :- Alexander, Captain, sth Cavalry, absent ; Alexander, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, missing; Anstruther, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, missing • Airey, Lieutenant, her Ma jesty's 3d, at Caubul ; Anquetil, Brigadier, killed ; Anderson, Captain, 59th .Native Infantry, safe at Baderabad ; Bourke, Paymaster, her Majesty's 44th, missing; Balfour, Assistant- Surgeon, her Majesty's 44th, at Canbul ; Blair, Captain, sth Cavalry, n issing, said to be prisoner; Bolt, Captain, sth Cavalry, missing, reported to be at Peshawur ; Bazett, Lieutenant, sth Cavalry, missing, reported to be at Peshawur ; Bryce, Assistant-Surgeon, sth Cavalry, killed ; llsgrave, Capt., sth Native Infantry, safe; Birch, Capt., sth Native Infantry, absent; Birkinyoung, Lieut., sth Native Infan try, missing; Brydon, Assistant-Surgeon, sth Native Infantry, sate at Jellalabad; Barstow, Capt., 37th Native Infantry, absent ; Beatson, Capt., 54th Native infancy, absent ; Burnett, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, missing, doubtful whether prisoner; Lose:men, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, absent ; Bird, Lieutenant, killed ; Boyd, Captain, 65th Native Infantry, at Loughman ; Berwick, Surgeon, at Loughman ; Campbell, Major, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Crawford, Major, her Majesty's 44th, in England; Cotton, Captain, her Majesty's 44tn, dead ; Collins, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing; Carter, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, in Calcutta; Cumber land, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Cadet, Lieu tenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Chambers, Lieut.-Col., sth Cavalry, missing ; Collyer, Lieut.-Col., missing ; Christie, Cornet, sth Cavalry, in England; Campbell, Assist.-Surgeon, sth Native Infantry, missing; Curtis, Lieutenant, 37th Native aitr), sate ; Carlyon, Lieutenant, 37th N. 1., safe ; Captain, 54th Native Infantry, safe; Cunningham, Ensign, 5 lth Native Infantry, safe ; Cardew, Surgeon, 38th Madras Native Infantry, safe ; Codrington, Caatain, Schah's Service, killed; Comilly, Lieutenant, at Caubul ; lle Wend, Lieute nant, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Dodgin, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, absent ; Deas, Leutenant, sth Native Infan try, absent ; Dawson, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, ab sent ; Duff, Surgeon, 54th Native Infantry, killed; Drum mond, Captain, 3el Cavalry, at Caubul ; Evatua Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, at Caubul ; Ewart, Major, 54th Native Infan try, killed ; Elphinstone, Major-General, safe at Baderabad ; Eyre, Lieutenant, Artillery, safe at Baderabad ; Ferryman, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, in England; Fuitye, En sign, of her Majesty's 44th, missing; Fulton, Ensign, of her majesty's 44th, missing ; Eernie, Lieutenant-Colonel, of the 37th Native Infantry, absent ; Gray, Captain, of her Ma jesty's 44th, safe ; Grant, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, in England ; Gray, Ensign, of her Majesty's 44th, missing; Gaseoyne, Lieutenant, sth Cavalry, absent; Garstin, Ensi gn , sth Native Infantry, missing ; Griffiths, Alajor, 37th Native infantry, safe at Tootoo; Gordon, Ensign, 37th Native In fantry, killed ; Grant, Captain, 27th Native Infantry, safe ; Gerard, Lieutenant, Ist European Regiment, at Jellalabad ; Halfhide, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, in England; Hogg, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Hackett, En sign, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Halahan, Quarter-mas ter, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Harcourt, Surgeon, of her Majesty's 44th, missing; Hodges, Major, sth Cavalry, safe ; Hamilton, Lieutenant, sth Cavalry, reported prisoner ; Hall, Lieutenant, sth Cavalry, absent; Harrington, Lieu tenant, Lth Cavalry, missing ; Hardyman, Cornet, sth Cavalry, killed; ilarpur, Surgeon, sth Cavalry, killed ; Haig, absent, sth Native Infantry, missing; liorsburg, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, missing; Hutton, Captain, 37th Native In fantry, safe ; Hawtrey, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, safe ; Hopkins, Captain, Schah's service, killed ; Johnstone, Captain .1., her Majesty's 45th. There is a Captain Johnstone at Ba derabad, but whether it is this officer, or Captain Jolty stone, 25th Native Infantry, not known. Jervis, Captain, sth Na tive Infantry, absent ; Inglis, Lieutenant, 37th Native In fantry, dead ; Kipling, - Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Kirby, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, missing ; Leighton, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Lock, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed; Lyons, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, absent ; Le Geyt, Lieutenant, Ist Bombay Light Cavalry, killed ; Lawrence, Captain, 11th Cavalry, at Baderabad ; ;Mackerel!, Major, her Majesty's 44th, killed ; M'Crea, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; M`Mahon, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Mo , lan, Ensign, her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Macnaghten, Lieu tenant, sth Cavalry, absent; Mackay, Interpreter and Quarter- Master, sth Cavalry, missing ; Metcalfe, Assistant-Surgeon, sth Cavalry, missing; Mackintosh, Captain, sth Native In fan'ry, killed ; Miles, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, safe ; Mayne, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, at Jel laiabad ; Mac-Mullen, Ensign, 37th Native Infantry, absent; Muorhouse, Acting Interpreter, 37th Native Infantry, miss ing Macgrath, Surgeon, 37th Native Infantry, safe ; Mor rison, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, missing ; Melville. Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, at Baderabad ; Macartney, Ensign, 33th Madras Native Infantry, at Baderabad; Mar shall, Lieutenant, Schah's Service, missing ; APKinner, Sur geon, at Caubul ; Mackenzie, Lieutenant, at Baderabad; tlein, Ensign, at Baderabad ; O'Neil, Captain, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, in England; Oldfield, Captain, sth Cavalry. with General Sale; Oliver, Lieutenant-Colonel, sth Native Infantry, killed ; Osborn, Captain, 54th Native Isiantry, absent ; Primrose, Assistant-Surgeon, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, missing; Plowden, Cornet, sth Cavalry, absent ; Potting - er, Ensign, sth Native Infantry, missing ; Prole, Captain, 37th Native Infantry, missing ; Parrott, Ensign, 37th Native Infantry, absent; Palmer, Lieutenant, 54th Native infantry, missing; Paterson, Lieutenant, 54th Native infantry, missing; Pottiiiger, Ensign, 54th Native Infantry, missing ; Paton, Captain, 58th Naive Infantry, safe at Cau bul; I'ottinger, Major E., at Baderabad; Robinson, Captain, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, killed; Raban, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, killed; Reid, Lieutenant, sth Cavalry, in England ; Rind, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, missing; Roberson, Ensign, 37th Native Infantry, missing ; Shelton, Major-General, safe at Baderabad; Scott, Captain, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Swayne, Captain, of her Majesty's 44th, reported safe; S m ith, other Majesty's 44th, dead; Soutar, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tootoo ; Swinton, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Skip ton, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Shelton Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Swayne, Ensign, of her Majesty's 44th, missing ; Swayne, Major, 5•11 Native Infantry, missing; Salkeld, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, in England; Spottiswoode, Captain, 37th Native infantry, sate; Steer, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, wounded and left in a ewe between Jugdulluck and ellalabad; St. George, Ensign, 37th Native Infantry, missing ; Shaw, Lieut., 54th Native Infantry, missing; Skinner, Capt.,"tilst Native Infantry, missing ; Sturt, Lieutenant, Bengal English, killed ; Turner, Lieutenant, of her Majesty's 44th, in Eng• land; Tombs, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, missing; Thain, Major, her Majesty's 21st Fusileers, killed (?) ; Tyt. Icr, Captain, 9th Light Cavalry, missing ; Trevor, Captain, 3d Light Cavalry, killed ; Troup, Captain, 48th Native In fantry, safe at Baderabad; Vanrenen, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, missing; Vetch, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, absent ; Woodhouse, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, in Eng land ; White, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, missing; White, Ensign, her Majesty's 44th. missing ; Wheatley, Captain, sth Cavalry, absent ; Wrench, Cornet, sth Cavalry, missing; Warren, Ensign, sth Native Infantry, missing ; Westmaeott, Captain, 37th Native Infantry, killed ; Wilkinson, Lieutenant- Colonel, 54th Native Infantry, absent ; Weaver, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, missing ; Warburton, Lieutenant, Ar tillery, at. Caubul ; Webb, Lieutenant, Schah's Service, at Caubul ; Walker, Lieutenant, Schah's Service, killed; Walsh, Lieutenant, Madras Native Infantry, at Canbul ; Lieutenant, at Baderabad ; and Young, Lieutenant, her Ma jesty's 44th, missing. CHINA. IWO-LUNG-SOO, Dxc. 14, 1841. The Jupiter troop-ship came into Amoy harbour yesterday morning from Ningpo ; she brings the following items of news :-Ist, That the Cameronians are to leave Hong-Kong so soon as the weather will admit, and are to proceed to join Sir 11. Gough's head-quarters, calling for the detachment at Koo lung,-soo in passing.-2d. That Commissioners have been sent by the Emperor to Sir H. Pottinger, who refused to treat with them, saying that he would negotiate with the Emperor per sonally at Pekin.-3. That the Grand Canal has broken its banks, and that the neighbouring country is covered with water and ice. The Jupiter will sail to-morrow morning for Hong-Kong. 'l'o the inhabitants of this island the last five weeks have been eventful, but the matters which interest us, confined to a rocky point o► the globe some two miles by one, will scarcely engage your attention, surrounded as you are by the allure ments of the City of Palaces ; nevertheless, I will turn to my journal-book, and extract some few memoranda placed therein. Imprimis, the weather has been variable, sometimes for two or three days, the wind blowing strongly from the north, obliging us to choose our winter clothing, and draw near the fire, the thermometer falling to .53; then might follow an equal number of dog days, in which the fickle metal would mount to beyond 70, and lastly, '• the stealing shower is scarce to patter heard." Ague is the only disease with which we are troubled. Quinine soon puts this enemy to route, who frequently renews his at • tacks, and in some cases manages to carry the citadel. I believe that, at this moment, the sick in hospital are all doing well, and might all be quickly at duty had the doctors plenty of quinine to administer. In order to produce a variation in the St. Helena like monotony of the place, the officers of the garrison deter mined to form a race course, and to establish races ; horses were procured from Amoy; and a small circular race-course was planned and completed; the horses were put into training, anti on the fith inst. the first meeting was held and passed off famously, affording enjoyment to all present. The Koo ning-son races, if nut the earliest races in China, are certainly the earliest in a British colony in China. The secesd meeting will take place on the first week in January, 1842. We coo , tinue to be supplied with the necessaries of life from Amoy, the people of which city seem to be favourably inclined towards 114. One of the soldiers of the garrison, not long since, chose, for seine purpose, to cross over the arm of the sea which divides us from Amoy, and was absent four or five days, after which the Chinese themselves brought him back, having, in the interim, according to the soldier's account, treated him almost regally. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoarrsmouTit, Ma .I.—Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C. 8., has assumed the command at Plymouth, and hoisted his flag ss bite at the main) on board the Caledonia, 120, with Captain Alexander Milne, as Flag Captain ; Commander S. T. Hood, and John Loudon, Esq., Purser, as Secretary. Admiral Sic Graham Moore has left Plymouth, hr his seat, Cobham Hall, in Surrey. The new steam ship Geyser, Commander Carpenter, is to be at Spithead by the 12th instant. She will take out supernu merles for the China squadron, also two flat-bottomed boats, and dc,patches for Vice-Admiral Sir \Vrn. Parker, K.C.B. The Wellesley, 72, Captain Maitland, and Larne, 20, Cap tain Blake, with the Sulphur, Captain Belcher, and Starling, Captain Kellett, are daily expected to arrive from the East In dies to he paid off. The former ship has been relieved by Om Cornwallis , 7 2 .: A Captain Bruce, is to leave Plymouth on g tTi c e ° t- u t r l t i ' 72, instant for China, via :Madeira, Tenerdie, and Cape or Good Hope, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir ch is at present in the Vindictive, 50. The Avon, steam-vessel, is to be re-commissioned for the Plymouth station by Lieutenant C. Jenkin. A rumour is current, which however requires confirmation, that Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., will succeed Rear- Admiral Bouverie, whose period expires in July next, as Su perintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard. The complements of the Cleopatra, 26, and Talbot, 26, re commissioned at Chatham, are to be 240 men each. 1 he new sloop Albatros, recently launched here, will be com missioned in a few days. Her dimensions are 105 feet long, and 481 tons; and she a very commodious vessel.—Brighton Gazette. ,>' ,7,