The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-09 00:00:00

INDIA.

INDIAN PATRONAGE.—We have much pleasure in
stating that the President of the Board of Control has,
on public grounds alone, presented a Bengal cadetehip to
the brother of Captain Osborne, of Ftewah, in considera-
tion of the distinguished servioes of the latter during the
recent ocourrenoet in India.

PUBLIC WORKS I INDIA.—A return to a motion of
Colonel Sykes, M.P., in the House of Commons, gives
the budgets of the Public Works in India for the years
1853-54 to 1856-7. The total amount of money autho-
rized for the year 1856-57, or likely to be expended in
that year, was 2,20,15,420 rupees, against 2,47,48,219
'rupees in 1856-56.
THE MUTINY IN INDIA.—A blue-book of 300 pages
published on Tuesday, gives the "Appendix" (A) to
further papers (No. 5) relative to the mutinies in the
East Indies. The papers now printed consist exclu-
sively of brief "enclosures," contained in the more im-
portant despatches already published, the contents of
which have long sinoe been exhausted. The only point
likely to strike the reader is the short "passage of let-
ten" between Mr. Taylor, the Commissioner of Patna,
and Mr. Richardson, who quitted his post at Chupra in
to extraordinary a manner in the course of the summer.
Mr. Richardson, in reply to Mr. Tayler's remonstranoes,
complains that his letter is worded very strongly, and
says he is perfectly aware that he is in his (Mr. Tayler's)
bad books, although he thinks he deserves credit for the
way in which he had cleared his treasury of nearly 15
lama of rupees within 10 days, and without assistance.
Mr. Taller, in reply, affecte not to know what his cor-
respondent means by being in his "bad books," unless
he refers to something about the "institution," and
bow Mr. Richardson could mention so paltry a matter

at such • crisis Mr. Taylor expresses his utter incapacity
to conceive. This correspondence will be found at pp.
78 and 79. The dates of the letters, Bce„ in this appen-
dix do not extend beyond the month of July.
EUROPEANS AND iNDTANS.—At a dinner of welcome
given by the wealthy natives of Bombay to the European
soldiers recently landed from England, Lord Elphm-
stone took the opportunity of reading something in the
shape of a lesson to those who confound in one common
dislike all classes of Indians. He affirmed " that with
very few exceptions the revolt had been purely military,
and that the great body of the people had nothing to do
with it ;" that in Oude only had there been anything
like a popular adlision to their cause, while in Rohilcund
the feeling had been decidedly in our favour. He ad-
ded that in /kind, where there were those who owed us
no good will, whose greatness had been extinguished by
no, and 4hoeo power had been reduced or nullified by
our successes, the conduct of the mutineers and their
associates had been viewed with disgust and indignation;
and he quoted the words spoken by Shen Mahomed,
one of the ex-Ameers of Scinde, to the effect "that this
was not like meeting the English in the field, and that
the fiends who murdered women and children deserved
the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah." These ex-
pressions Lord Elphinstone dwelt on with pleasure,
because he mid he had heard that the professions now
made by the natives of Bombay were considered insin-
cere and hollow by some who believed that they should
have been publicly made at an earlier period, when the
symptoms of the re-establishment of our rule were less
decided than they had since become. Against such sen-
timents Lord Elphinstone considered it is duty to pro-
test, reminding his hearers that the wealthy natives of
Bombay had been among the first to come forward with
subscriptions in aid of the suffers in the mutinies and
expressions of indignation at the cruelties perpetrated
in various parts of the country; that Bombay was the
oldest possession of the English in India; and during
200 years no attempt had ever been made to subvert
our rule. All this, and more to the same effect, Lord
Elphinstone urged to his listeners, whom, let us hope,
he convinced of the truth of his views.