The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

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cold and weariness of night by drains and forced
mirth—let the spectacle they awaited be one which it
evinced some courage in braving ; and from the ease
mowd yea would have the same maaileutetioa
it its code of monis, its ideas et matt-
hood and of mirth. Those of the criminal peps-.
lotion that cams there to coatempittee
might be their fate, gathered hardihood from the
sane, and mange to persevern.`‘But they scarcely
wanted inseams to either, and intramural taw
cation, with its details, however fictitious, would
amply furnish them If indeed the public exhibition
be is to discontinued, bat death still be dealt, of what
use the clumsy apparatus of the gallows ? Why not
use the bow-striog, as is the custom with that highly
decorous nation, the Turks ? It tranquillity and
propriety be the great object, why not repeat the
scene of BOCIATis and his hemlock cep? Butexemt•
flans of this kind will always have their memorabilia,
se that of flonitarse had ; with pretty similar effects,
in hardening the living and herag death, to those
whisk public meadow are known to have.
But we can have rimerse to none of those ways
and inventions of oakum fir behind us. The English
=hfrom their German cradles, have been soros-
a do all great and social acts in public. Oar
judicial habits especially are stamped at every de-
re, with that national mark. From the first arrest
sad interrogatories, to the final disposal of the crimi-
nal, the public is called to act its part, often
a paiafel one, and often an imperfect mode of pro-
adore. How many faults may be found with the
jury? But the system is English. It has grown
with our liberties and has mainly strengthened them.
And a derogation from the great principle of publicity
in English judicial habits could never be rep&d by
any amount of temporary decorum, or any sparing of
the serves of the over-sensitive and over-curious.

OUTGOING MAILS.
no mans for British North America and the Tialted
elates will be mede up on Nov. 23.
The mak tae Museilles, to the Mediterranean,
Crewe, India, Hoag-Kong, &a, will be made up Begat
ovealag of Nov. 24.
The nest snails for Lisbsa, Spain, sad Gibraltar will be
made an on Nov. 27.
lisreans
The West India Mails, inelndiag Bermuda,
Neon, Honduras, New Orleans. and Mexico, sad excludini
Shoes Models, St. Jaan-tie.Niseregas, Now (Maeda,
Mill, sad Pent, will be made as Dee. 2.
The mails isr Madeira, the Emile, mad Buses Ayres,
will be made ap on Des. 4.

Ws have all along bad very small faith in the
wisdom, or the prolonged predominance of the com-
bined party of conservatives in France and in its
assembly, which emphatic Ally and conveniently style
themselves the majority.
For, first of all, we do not thick that this majority
can keep any one of the promises which it has held
out to earth of the parties by whose aid it exists, and
on whose support it counts.
This majority flatters the legirmists by the hope of
restoration of the old monarchy in the person of
state V.
It flatters the clergy with the expectation of
--establishing their old privilege of inheriting, pro-
curing, and preserving landed proper:y, together
with full sway in controlling and impeding the deve-
lopment of public education.
It promisee the army its present large quota from
the pubic purse, with the advancement, honours,
and legume that accrue to it.
It holds out a return of prosperity to all commercial
classes, small and great ; protection for the landlord,
the manufacturer, the mill-owner, with proscription
for the more turbulent republic= chiefs, and repres-
sion tr the popular party altogether.
If it satisfies HENRY THE FIFTH wit' the promise
of the throne, it feeds the Orleans family with whet
that family most prized, money. All its revenues
are paid, and the °rieslings desired no more than in
this way to fatten.
Now we do not think the majority capable of ful-
filling any one of these promises. It can as much
restore legitimacy, as it can resuscitate the autocracy
and the peerage of Louis rue FOURTEENTH.
It can no more hand the thirty millions of French-
men over to be shriven by the clergy, and to take the
priests for their confessors and heirs, than it can
restore the days of GREGORY and Saint BERNARD.
It may hold out to the officers of the army wealth and
promotion in return for their acting the part of police-
men. But the French people will neither continue to
respect nor to pay soldiers for supporting despotism
and bigotry at home and truckling to them abroad.
No degree of rigour or repression will restore con-
fidence. No dynsty or quasi-dynasty established by
or on the system of repression will give confidence
sufficient to awaken commercial speculation or excite
private expenditure. The French people show daily
more reluctance to pay taxes, direct or indirect ; the
consumers begin to feel they are more numerous than
the producers ; and the liberals begin to perceive that
free trade is for their interests and priccipies.
There is another party to which the majority made
great promises, and of which It made ample use, and
to which it seems little ii.c!ined either to fulfil these
promises, or to show common gratitude for benefits
derived. This party is Louis NAPOLEON. When
the name of this prince was first proposed as candidate
for the presidency of the republic, we did not credit it.
We could not believe that either the monarchists aid
reactionists of France would take the representative
of the BONAPARTE family for executive chief, without
the intention of propelling him to be Emperor; nor
did we believe that LOUIS NAPOLEON would condo-
wend to be the temporary tool of such a party, in
order to be served by it as LAMARTINE was—that is,
thrown on the shelf the moment he displayed either

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21. I a

IT is neither out of any commiseration for great
criminals, nor from any regard for the sensitiveness
et the refined and educated classes, that we abet the
abolition of the punishment of death. That punish-
ment strikes us uinconsistent with our entire feel-
ings as Christians—feelinp that regard deathm a far
Mho.- light than that of punishment, and which sur-
round that common fate of all with tenderness and
with respect. It was impossible to ham witnessed
the execution of the other morning with-
out perceiving, that whatever was the ribaldry
and riot in which those who bivouacked in the
open space before the prison passed the night, never-
theless all were stricken with respect and emotion at
the sight of death. All doffed their hats in obedience
to a natural impulse when the condemned appeared;
and it was no longer the enormity of crime, but the
majesty of death, that impressed the mob.
We can conceive the maintenance of the punish-
ment of death in a barbarous and heathen community,
amongst a pastoral people, who have no way of treat-
ing a criminal but slaying him, and who have lite-
rally nothing to take from a man save his life.
We can also understand the punishment of death
amidst a people who have no belief in a life to come ;
for cutting short existence then is a punishment. But
for throe who believe this world to be a brief trial, a
to an immortality beyond it—fir these to
Irrath, either as a punishment to the criminal or
as expediency in getting rid of him, does strike us as
unreasoning, ineoosistent, and profane. It is one of
the heathen barbarities, which inert and traditional
Christianity so unaccountably preserves.
Such considerations as these, however, weigh little
with either legislators or statesmen. The question with
them is, to deter the evil-intentioned from crime.
That death does not do so, has been argued with
success over and over again. And in fact, if capital
pusishments could deter, they would have prevented
such crimes as forgery and robbery. For these we may
suppose to have been resorted to by weakly nerved
men, on whom an execution might be supposed to
have an appalling effect. Yet capital punishment had
no salutary influence to prevent sheep being stolen or
notes being forged. How then can it be supp3sed to
be effectual on those passionate or determined spirits,
who commit the crime of murder from cupidity or
revenge? On them not merely executions, but the
existence of capital punishment, has a hardening and
exciting effect, throwing that portion of risk into
their adventure that creates a charm.
But indeed it is almost superfiums at the present
day to argue the question of capital punishments.
The expediency of doing away with them has been
proud, and is admitted by all. There is no opposition
to it. There is merely hesitation, a hesitation
canoed by a fitting substitute in the way of punish-
ment not having been yet established or agreed on, in
lieu of death. It is this alone that arrests the decision
of some few even of the judges from recommending
at once the abolition of death punishments.
We think, therefore, that the generous minds
which have associated for this great purpose—a report
of whose solemn meeting, sad able speeches on Mon-
day was famished in our yesterday's paper—ought to
apply their principal efforts toward@ perfecting the sys-
tem of secondary punishments. For they,and we,may be
perfectly sure, that the moment a kind of punishment
discovertd, uniting all the requisite qualities of
suffering and privation without torture, of death to
the world without the brutal extreme of life-
taking, and of security to society against possible return
—from that moment the penalty of death will be ab-
rogated.
the Thses, an the subject of the punishment of
death, iodides yesterday in a course of argument,
which strikes as as at once untenable and self-contra-
dictory. It gives up the deterring principle, and
admits the insufficiency of death to act as prevention.
It also defends the law from being vindictive. And
yet, nevertheless, it re-asserts the vindictive right to
o exact retribution," and this not merely for wrong
done to society, but for offence@ perpetrated against
our religious sense. Talking of a man hanged,
the nines declares such death to be " the due
wages of sin." In these few words the Times ma-
nages to confound the principles of criminal law and
religious duty. If this be true, we should hang the
adulterer, and erect the catty stool not merely in our
churches, but on the platform outside our pole. Lay
judges might be dispensed with. Bishops @Maid
take their seats. And, instead of •judp and :Ina
weighing the wrong dooe to society, or the
made in the common law, we should have a bench of
inquisitors with their apparitors torturing the ac-
cused in order to disc)ver how far he had sinned. In
the recent and eloquent speech of M. ODILLON BAIIOT
upon the corruption of the Roman government, he con-
cluded a gloomy and striking' picture of the Pope's
judicial system by asking, " What would you think
of the barbarous iniquity of a system which actually
went the length of confounding crime with sin ?"
And yet this barbarous perversion of the prin-
ciples cf justice, for which M. BARROT consigned the
Roman tribunals to contempt, is the very doctrine,
the very system, which the Times preaches to the
English public of 1 Me, no doubt as the foundation
stone of a sew sod. of theocracy.
We are really pained to find so eminent a contem-
porary fall into so atrocious a blunder. And it is
only to be hoped that, for the credit of England and
of the Time!, no foreign philosopher or jurisprudent
will hare his attention directed to such an emanation
from an English mind.
We see no necessity for discussing seriously
the proposal to do away with the turbulence
licence and solemnity of public executions'
in order to perpetrate the hangings and embowelling
in secret This is • tendency of which there is already
too much in modern improvement ; this is to veil
wrong with silent solemnity, and cover over festering
vice with a varnish of decorum. What pains do we not
take to make oar Sunday look religions? Whet sums do
we not spend on policemen to chase the ragged and the
vagabond from respectable streets and well-washed
steps into the filthy alleys and hidielg-places where
they may legitimately congregate. We are for
ever making clean the outside of the cup
and the platter. We are a nation of Pharisees,
not indeed in religion, but in the observances of
morality and decorum.
One must admit the disgusting nature of the
scene before Horsemonger-lane Prison. But col-
lect the same crowd for any other purpose—let them
bivonack in the open air, and be forced to resist the

liberalism or independence.
A more unfit chief of a republican government
could not be found than Louis NAPOLEON. If a re-
public have an advantage, it is the exemption of its
chief from dynsstio interests or family bias. Whatever
msy be the views or prejudices of the JACKSONS
and the POLES, one is at least sure that they are not
ready to sell their country for a royal wife, or the
liberties of a neighbouring state for the support
and alliance of a distant autocrat. In Louis NAPOLEON
were united all the bad qualities of a kingly government
with all the weaknesses of a republican regime. He
was not a good president for a continuance of the re-
public, nor was he a good president as a stepping-
stone to any other than a military monarchy. Pique,
therefore, not policy, suggested the 'holes of such a
candidate by the notables, whose enjoyment was to see
republican France thus cutting its own throat.
In making these objections to Louts NAPOLEON
before his election, we do not accuse either his cha-
easter as conduct. It was his position that unfitted him.
Ami does his election we can only say, that he
bee beloved much better, with more spirit, frank-
ness, and honesty, than this conservative club that
sills itself the matority. He up till very lately has
hum tees to them, whilst they have in nowise been
true to him. To have elected such a president, and
then to have expected that he would struggle for no
longer or no greater hold of power, was preposterous.
Yet it was on this they insisted. And in consequence, I
not only is no one surprised at LOINS NAPOLEON'S
breaking with the majority, and ejec ing their no-
minees from power, bat the public, however little
sympathising with the Prestd,ent's ambition, still
admit his provocation and admire his conduct.
The manifest sentiments of the Preach public have
reduced the Majority Club to nullity. The ministers
who have lost place seem es if they had been flung
into the river Lethe, so noiseless has been their fall—
so utterly dumb and motionless have been they them-
'selves. Whatever small units they may have been in
office, never were such cyphers out of it. And it
would really seem that Lours NAPOLEON might take
a dozen porters from the corners of so many streets
and form them into a cabinet, without the French
public ferlioN in the least excited, astonished, or
mortified. What is to follow from this indifference
of the public—this loss of hold by the consarvatives
upon it—is difficult to tell Himonn are rife of
coups-d'etat on the part of the President, resistance
on the part of the Assembly, and of a little emetsit to
be got up in their own interest by the republicans.
However premature and exagorated such statements
may be, it is at least certain that things cannot go
on long as they are, and that with.n the next six
weeks either the President must succumb, or the
Assembly.

SEIIPIIIIILDINO IN LIVERPOOL—The Liverpool
Situstiord SWIM ttat there aro at the pre tent sasinent on the
sucks and building, °nein Mr. W. B. Jones's yard, 800
toss, the largest selling ship ever built in Liverpool ; two in
Messrs. Cato and Miller and Co.'s, 500 and 800 tons • one In
Mr. Clarke's ; one in Messrs. Ckalocer's ; two in. Mews.
Hoyden's; and it is in anticipation there will be four more
atter Christmas. _ _

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EXTRAORDINARY INTEMPERANCE.—On Saturday
evenit.g a private soldier la the 30thlarantry, Medalled at
the Regent-rod barracks, Headwater, went with two :am-
plaices to spend the evening at a singing room for the work-
Lag choose, taking with them a quantity of raw spirits, and
in the cosine of a very short time they drank amongst them
three Oats of out rem, and the effect open:Allen, who had
takes a large portion of it, and who was altogether unmans-
Weed to excessive drinking, was such that on reaching the
open air be All down as though completely deprived of life.
lie wee taken is scab aad lodged in the guard-room, 'where
he gam afterwards began to rave like a madman. He was
afterwards takes to the hospital of the regiment, bat he dial
from the effects of the liquor on the &Swoon of Sunday. At
ea bequest held yesterday by Mr. Hato* the jog retatuod
a met of Dud from eloteetre drining."

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1849.

INDIA.

ererrepire le lurrachee, thence to Bombay for em-
barkation to Europe; they are under charge of Lieut.
Wickham, 61St hat, Dr. Pemberton, 31st Bengal N. I.
bergtheirsaidimartiedant. Much sickness prevailed
at Mohan and the outpost at Leith, but fortunately
ft was not of a mere type. Colonel Hobson, let
Bombay, frau*, prize agent at the former place, has
arrived in Bombay. The late inundation had nearly
subsided by the middle of September, bat a large
quantity. of fetid mud and stagnant putrid water re-
mained in the pits and hollows around, proving com-
plete hotbeds of malaria and fever. Brigadier Stal-
ker, and a number of the officers and European artil-
lery% were laid up. The weather was becoming
cooler, which it was hopel would help to allay the
sickness. Dr. Ritchie had discovered several quarries
of stone around Meehan, which will soon be largely
drawn on for rebuilding the fortifications so cone
pletely demolished by the August flood. Majors
Edwardes and Nicholson (of Mooltan and Attack re-
nown) are about to revisit their native land, where no
doubt they will b s received with the distinction due
to their gallantry—more especially the former, whose
exploits have been blazoned throughout Europe.
In my last I mentioned the serious illness of Briga-
dier H. N. Douglas (lieutenant-colonel 78th High-
landers), commanding the brigade in Upper Schick.
In the end of September he quitted Sulker by the
river for Kurrachee, intending to proc,ed thence to
Bombay to take his passage home lees Egypt. He
only lived to reach Hyderabad, off which place be died
early on the morning of the let October on board the
steam-r Satellite : his remains were deposited in
Hyderabad, where rest the bones of *cores of his own
corps who died there on their way from Bakker in
January, 1844, when the Highlanders were nearly
annihilated by sickness. Brigadier Boileau, of Her
Majesty's 22nd. Foot, has been appointed to succeed
the late Colonel Douglas at Shiksrpore. The head-
quarter wing of the 22nd embark from Bombay for
Sande in the end of the present month. Captains
Stack and Rathborne (the latter a collector in the
province of Young Egypt) are about proceeding on
sick leave to the Neilgherries, Captain Preedy taking
Captain Rathborne'e magisterial duties at Hyderabad,
Captain Stewart succeeding him again at Kurrachee.
The troops in Lower Seinde were tolerably healthy;
in Upper Seinde much sickness prevailed. The canal
department in Scinde has been abolished from
the Ist instant—the duties to be carried on by the
different collector', who are to be allowed the hand-
some awn of 30,0001. a year to be expended in pro-
viding the means of irrigating the country, which
will be ample for the purpose if put to a proper use.
The brigadierehip at Hyderabad mated by the Bom-
bay government, has been disallowed by the Court of
Directors; and Major-General Auchmuty has bees
permanently appointed to the command of the Solar
division—by the orders of the Court, his succorer
must be a Company's officer. Sir E. Perry does sot
leave Bombay for Scinde till December : it is said be
will be accompanied on his tour through the province
by the Commissionz Mr. Pringle.
Anarchy and m.ertile are once more making their
appearance in the Nizam's dominions, and the lawless'
fiends at the capital are said to have gone so far as to
threaten the life of our Resident, General Fraser,
who is accused of having drained the Nizam's coffers
for the support of the contingent; the threat of ee-
lsassination being said to have emanated from some of
the princes of the Nizam's own family'. The merce-
nary troops of the state were clamouring for their
I arrears, on one occasion a body of Mogul Horse
a-s mbliag under the windows of the palace, and'
refusing to depart till settled with. The Telegraph
and Coiner of this morning has the following late
news from Hyderabad :
Recent letters front Hyderabad inform us that since our
correspondent's lest communication the affairs of govere-
meat have been conducted precisely in the manner thereto
described. Rajah Ram HALO, nominally Peshkar, has
done nothing, is doing nothing, and is expected to do
nothing, unless ha can contrive miratulouey to procure a
lose of sixty lam for hie sovereign. Without credit, with-
out resources, pecuniary or mental, without influential
friends or supporters—the wonder is how the Nisam could
ever have appointed him to the Peshksree. Probably the
estimable prince designed him as a puppet, to be moved by
whilst he disposed of the funds which he credulously
supplied the raja was to procure the loan of. There may
Indeed have been an additional motive in the sovereign's dei
sire to conciliate the pritish government, by a 0h..., of the
formation of a regular government of Iva own, though our
j -cting to the appointment of a dewan, as unnecessary, ex-
pensive, end obstructive. The nig on it, in effect, ordering,
devising, and conducting all setters. The appointment of
Ram Littlish is only looked upon with complacency by those
who dread the return of Seer.4-Jol-Moolk to power. Lately
the peahkar has been most severely lcctured by his master,
iv. his broken promises, his want of all arrangement, and
his attempt to borrow money (upon most exceptionable
terms, patent even to his obscure vision), from wealthy
Puthan Talookdars. We hear that to these angry remon
stratum and lectures the raja dares not utter a reply. To-
wards Snumeoodatmra the Mouses conduct vales as caprice
dictates ; threatening and insulting him ore day, and send-
ing hint messages by the nuwab's eldest sea the next. With
this eon he holds frequent eonfermees. From these nothing
certain can be deduce I. Assuredly Bherrool-Ormara will
again take cffice, nor any man of rank, wealth, talent,
or a proper sense of honour, unless the pigeon's hands be
tied trout all improper interference.
There is but little news from the north-west. The
Governor-General and the- Marchioness of Dalhousie
have both been ailing, and it is said they purpose a
voyage down the Indus to Mooltan and Kurrachee;
and should this not have efficted the desired end, they
may even come on as far as Bombay, and thence pro-
ceed on a sea voyage, probably returning to Calcutta
by ship. They are at present at Simla. The latter
part of the rumour above given I place no dependence
on at all. Sir C. Napier was to have left Simla on the,
15th, on his tour through the Panjaub and the north-
west. Viscount Gough and family leave for Calcutta,
about the 10thNov.,and proceed home in the January
steamer. The Marquis of Dalhousie's camp is to be I
formed on the let Nov. at the font of the hills, hie
lordship's escort to be composed of a regiment of
European dragoons, one of European and one of
native infantry, and a troop of horse artillery—which
will be a moderate sum out of Hon. John's pocket,
in the shape of field batta. The whole of the
north-west provinces have been deluged with
rain, which had not however been attended with any
bad consequences to the crops. Toe 73th Foot had
reached Ailahabad en route to Meerut, having lost a
great number of men from the heat and cholera on
the way. Major-General G. Hunter, C. 8., who came
to India along with Sir Charles Napier, is about to
return home on sick leave. The gallant veteran pro-
bably finds that there is little chance of being killed
by the bullet or sword of the enemy, and therefore
sees no fan in remaining to run the chance of being
popped off by disease: and he is right in his reason-
ing. The lieutenant-governor of the north-west is
on his way back to Agra rid Delhi. Sir Lawrence
Peel, now in the north-west, intends paying the Jul-
lundhur Doab a visit, and will most probably while
there take a look at the last resting place of his gal-
lant nephew, Lieutenant Peel, who met his death in
action with the rebel Ram Singh and his followers
at a place called Dullah, near Shahpore, on the 16th
January, 1848. Corruption having been detected
in the civil courts at Agra, a commission of in-
rp.iry has been appointed. The Commander-in-
Chief of Madras returns to the Presidency
at the end of the present month. The Rev. M.
Mahon, garrison chaplain at Madras, having refused
to bury a man who had come by his death acciden-
tally, has been removed to St. Thomas's Mount, and
en succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Powell. The Gods-
very River has flooded the cr untry around, carrying
away all the works connected with the Anicut, and
sinking two government steamers and several other
craft. The Board of Control have refused a railway
guarantee to Madras similar to that granted to Bom-
bay acid Calcutta, which has very justly raised the
ire of the Malls. I enclose the report of Mr. Conolly,
magistrate in Malabar, of the operations of the troops
against the fanatic Moplahs near Calicut. Major-
G-neral Sewell is to succeed Major-General Aitchi-
son at Bangalore in June next, when the term on the
Testuhatefftsof the latter officer expires. The Bishop of Cal-
pßeoecevi.elsporn. a
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hvuisitatileoftn to
Calthecuprottavincefosr.
the upper provinces, from whence he comes
to Bombay on his way to England. The
Rev. T. Jones died at Cherrapooeme on the
17th September. Mr. W. Wyllie has bees
appointed to officiate as a magistrate of police at Cal-
" cutts, Mr. Reddie taking his place in the Court of
Requests. The normal school and the inspectorship
of schools at Calcutta are to be abolished, the council
of education having exceeded their allowance by
3,3001. per annum. Mr. Bethune, law member of
the Supreme Council, has gone on a trip to Madras;
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TILE OVERLAND MAIL",
In a late editioa we yeatmday announced the ant,
cal of the everlandasail from India. The reeript of
oar despatches pats us in possession. of dates from
Bombay to the 17th; Madras, 13th •, Calcutta, Bth I
C.eyloa, 14th October ; and Hoeg beg, 20th Sep-
tember.
The moot intending items of news front the Pre-
admire will be found ermosatrated in the letter of
oar Bombay correspondent.
BOMBAY, Ocr. 17.
The Sirdus Chatter and Shire Singh, with several
ethers of the Sikh nobles, have ono* more—and in the
muse of common prudence, let it be fir the last time—
appeared on the Pitejaub stage. The act of elemeney
permitting them to remain at large on. seems
le have been, or was about to be, y ebseed by
deem, te our disadvantage; bat their tressameMe
tespeadease with the disaffected of the hued etas te
me knowledge, and it is to be hoped they may. be
elbsteslly prevented for the future c ampiring swain
as 'PI either being deported to India or strictly eon-
fiend in prison—the former being the safest plan of
the two. Sir Henry Lawrence left Lahore shout
the 20th Sept, to hold an interview with
the Maharajah Goolaub Singh at Juno, or
in Cashmere. Can it be that the wily
chief is implicated with the Sikh sitters, and that
our Resident has gone to warn him of the danger be
Wears by mixing himself up with their plots ? Eight
days alter Sir Henry had set out from the Sikh apt-
tai we find the chiefs above-named seised at their
village and conveyed to the Lahore prison, two other
partite of troop. being out at the same time for the
purpose of securing the persons of others inspected
of harbouring evil thoughts towards us. It cannot
be that the far-seeing Resident was in the dark on
the subject of the treasonous correspondence going
on within twenty miles of him—at lust one would
suppose so—and it remains to be seen what the ob-
ject of the journey undertaken by him immediately
a'ter the world were informed on has own authority
that he did not purpose visiting Cashmere, really
was. Should he have been anomalous of what was
hatching at his door, he is unfit for the high and
responsible situ. ion be bolds. The Delhi Gazette of the
6:ti gives the subjoined concise account of the
arrangements made for the surprissl of the traitor"
one party (the chief) of whom were secured within:
any trouble; the success of the other two detach-
meats was of course to be expected, though tidings to
that Wiest had not reached Lahore :
Mee Major Machos= greeted to the rebel chiefs, who
serreadered beyond the Jhelum, permission " to live at
their own homes," the governor-general ratified the act of
Ms agent, though we leave very good reason to know that
he muld est, and did not approve it. His lordship was,
=tarto rest satisfied with layieg down gni
the conduct of noes chiefs at " their
sera bweett,• as would tend to render such fiber y as little
Meal= he posaible. The rules laid down were subscribed
sod ememsee to by the chiefs, who were distinctly told
ass a Welsh of any of the conditions furred
would inevitably lead to a forfeiture ef the liberty allowed
them, and reporters were publicly placed at their houses
on them
Ite give satin of any such breach. Ia spite of the
bribery and ectruption which seems to have been 'zeta.
steely employed on the occasion. it had lately been seller-
seised by the authorities at Lahore, and of course commur i•
sued to the government, that almost all the principal insur-
gents were in the habit of constantly violating the instructions
that had been laid down for their guidsios, and that fre-
quent communication had again been established among
teem. The governor-general promptly and most properly
determined to exact the penalty the chiefs had knowingly
incurred, and issued instructions to the local authorities for
the immediate ensure end incarceration of the defaulters.
Accordingly three surprises were planned to come off
on the let of October. One at Means, the head.
quarters of the rebellion, which is about ten hots from
the capital of the Panjaub, one at the village of
Sirdsrs Lall Singh, Mormon, and Secret Singh, M
tees, situate at no groat distance from Umritser, and the
third at he dwelling of Dewas Hahn= Rae, at Seealkot
Nothing had been beard at L%hore, up to the evening of
the let instant, of the result of the two latter expediting,
but the first was executed on the morning of that day with
the most complete succees. Mr. John Lawrence, Mr. R.
Montgomery, the Commissioner of that Dosb, Major
Edward's, Deputy Commissioner, and Lieutenant Hodson,
of the Guide corps, with Capt. Skinner's regiment of irregu-
lar (revelry (14th), and asmsllbodyat Pathan hormonarceed
from Lahore about an hoar after midnight. They reached
Anne just at daybreak, first surrounded the village
and fort, then effected an entrance without any trouSle,
and completely took by surprise &Mar Chutter Shush
and his four sons, Hsieh Shere Singh, Sledges Ooolab
Singh, Aotar Singh, and Tej Singh, koides other inferior
rebels. The whole were mounted on humble* without
the least delay, and hurried to the high road, where a
carriage and four received them, and whisked them inn*,
Lahore, where Doctor Login added then to hie s rare
collection of celebrated characters.' Lieut. Hodson re-
mained at Attares to search for paper", sand' Malaga with
him the whole of Captain Skinner's irregular cavalry and
two companies of native infantry, with a detachment of
pioneers, under Captain Cele, of the 56th N. 1.. who
was charged to blow up the fort after the enroll of Lint.
Hodson should have been completed. The measures
adopted for effecting this seizure appear to have
been most complete. Had any resistance been at-
tempted, and as a provision splint any posrible contre-
temps, a wing of a corps of native infantry, and two guns,
under Captain Simmers, were directed to follow the ea-
, vary detachment at 2 a m., and were much disappointed
at leaning that the last argument would not be required
Ir the other two parties have been as successful's* she one
at Attaree—and we shall probably know the result' before
going to press—the day's work will hase completed what
the last campaign left undone. The public mind, both on
this and the other side the Satlej, will be much settled by
the removal, from "their homes," of those rebel leaders
whose presence, enjoying a considerable amount of liberty,
gave a lost resting-piece for hops, and none but the chiefs
themselves will regret the infatustion which led them into
new intrigue, and deprived them of their mischievous
liberty. The curtain has now fallen on the 811th insurrec-
tion, and the last scene is, according to moral and practical
justice, that of " the guilty priahed."
Lord Gifford and Major Fane had returned to
Wuzeerabad from Cashmere, where they bad been
most hospitably entertained by Geolanb Singh. The
snow on the bills is said to have been severely felt
by these gentlemen, who were, no doubt, glad to get
back to a more genial clime. Very heavy rain fell
at Wuseerabed on the 19th ult., covering the roads
and the surrounding country. The health of the
troops had fortunately before this begun to mend, but
it was feared such excessive wet would be the tar-
linger of a fresh attack of sickness amongst
them. Lieutenant Crommeline had reached the
Jhelum, from Peshawar, on his way home rid Boer
bay. The commandant of the 69th N.L had aloe
arrived from Reseal Piudee. At Peshawar, news
had been received of the death of the King of Bok-1
hare. The trade with Cabool, by way of the Kybee
Pass had re-commenced, and a large number
of horses, and fruit, and other commodities,
in abundance, were exposed for sale in the town.
Here also heavy rain had fallen on the 18th, which
bad brought with it a considerable amount of sick-
ness in the shape of fevers and bowel complaints, from
which a number of men had died. The station is,
however, spoken of in the highest terms for the
salubrity of its climate in the end of September. The
orchards all around were laden with all manner at
fruits, of which, as was to be expected, both the
Europeans and natives of the force partook freely—
too freely, perhaps—which will account for the
affections of the bowels from which a number
of them suffered. There are wells in the neighbour-
hood of Peshawar the water of which is invariably
of one temperature : in the height of summer and
in the depth of winter it is ever the same, never ex-
ceeding a temperature of 58 deg., and this while a
thermometer at the wells' month has shown the heat
of the air to have been 110 deg. in summer, and
below zero in winter. The luxury of such a cool
refreshing beverage in the hot months, can only be
conceived by those who enjoy it. The natives of the
place attribute the formation of these wells to the
wisdom of the deity, and are (what I fear the
Christians now located at Peshawar are not) content
to slake their thirst with their contents without
adulterating it with arrack, cognac, or Geneva :
hence the great sickness amongst our soldiers while
the inhabitants ere comparatively healthy. Not that
it is hinted that the men of the three European corps
now there are more addicted to drinking than
the generality of soldiers in India : but it stands to
reason that spirit-drinking with a tempera-
tare of from 100 deg. to 110 deg. in the shade, must be
productive of the most baneful results. The force expect
to be relieved in December—or, at least, they hope
they may : it is thought very probable, however, that
they may have to remain till Decembers 1850. Sir
Charles Napier takes a look at them in the beginning
of next month, when they will know their fate. Sir
Henry Dundee had been ailing slightly, and it was
thought he would shortly proceed home. In this
saerauig's Overland Times, you will find two long and
imensting letters from Peshawar, which will give
yea a good idea of the country around as it appease
le the sad of September. The European unlYa tithe
lima are, I heir, to come down the Inds, km

mu1eavue,........ et Mo&a, whose aloe is to be
done away with. A draft act, to declare Men a free
pod, was read a Slat tise in the legislative coma on
the 22nd September. Major E. Madden, Bengal
Artillery, has retired from the service from the Ist
October. Sir W. Gown is now residing at Point de

Belle, waiting MOM
The subjoined is from the Overland rents of this
morning :
Brevet-Major T. S. Conway, C. 8., of Her Majesty's 22nd
Fast; has berm recommended to the Horse-Guards by Sir
C. Napier as deputy-adinteat-gmeral of Queen's troops,
Bombay, tame' of Lient.-Colonel H. Havelock, C. 8., gone
to Reglaud. Lieut.-Colonel Brooke, C. 8., foe a time held
the acting appointment. Major Conway, it may be remem-
bered, commanded the party who defended the residency at
Hydrated against such overwhelming numbers, and who
brought off its party in safety. The defence, at first seedbed
by Sir C. Napier to Liem.-Colonel °attain, C.B , was eon-
sidered so meritorious that the victor of Mesas* intimated
his intend** of making It the subject of a separate treatise
ea the defence of outposts. We believe the two distinguished
officers we have named shared the merit of the achievement :
the credit of it was of course dee to the commander of the
troops—Lieut.-Colonel Outram's functions as commissioner
had not then ceased, so he occupied the residanty in his
civil capacity. Sir W. Cotton bad recommended Lieut.-
Col. Brooke, C. 8., an officer on his personal staff, and who
had seen service sad undergone many hardships in the Pun-
jaub. Sir Char:es Napier disallowed the appointment, end
nominated Major Conway. The wording of the order cep
pointine Colonel Brooke seems to have given umbrage to the
commander-imichief in India. It was as follows : • Lieut.-
Colonel H. T. Brooke, C.B , Military Secretary to his Re-
callency the commander-in•chief, will act as deputy adjut ant-
general her Majesty's forms from this dat-, during the india.
meition and absence on leave of Brevet Lieut.-Col. Have.
lock or until further order., subject to the approval of his
Recelleney the commander-in-chief in India, and the con-
firmation of the Right Hon. the Mummer in Council."
In disallowing this appointment, Sir C. Napier is said to
have administered a moat ungracious and uncalled-fir
rebuke to the Bombay commander in chief, in which it
is affirmed he states that it has never been usual in any
of the Indian presidencies to appoint officers to the Queen's
established general staff, subject to the confirmation of the
governor-general or governor.insounal, these appointments
being invariably made by the commandemitt.chiet in India,
subject to the confirmation of no authority but the Horse. I
Guards. We have no quarrel with Sir C. Napier exercising'
his patronage as he thinks fit, and most assuredly no ohjec.
don whatever—quite the reverse—to the advancement of
Major Conway ; bat the appointment might have been made
without giving offence to an officer of older standing in the
army than himself. Perhaps the commander-in-chief in
India could not let slip the opportunity presented of giving
the Bombay commander-in-chief a Rowland for his Oliver I.
deelia.ing to serve in a subordinate capacity under his junior.
H. E. Goldsmtd, Esq., having returned from the Cape, has
resumed charge of his duties as revenue and financial secre-
tary to government from the 4th October. U. L. Fai-
rest, Req., Chief Magistrate of Police, proceeds home
on two years' furlough by the steamer of the 3rd
November. We have not heard who is likely to succeed
bins, but should think Mr. M. Luken, who has already
twice held the appointment temporarily, will be the gentle
man selected for the office. Dr. J. Kinnis, deputy inspector-
general of her Majesty's hospitals, has proceeded on a tour
of inspection, this comprising Bombay, Belgium, Dena,
Kurrachee, and Hydrabal. The records of his office have
been made over to the charge of the assistant-surgeon.
Queen's Depot, Colabe. A general order will be toned
under our military head, placing the services of Ensign File,
of the 23rd N. L. 1., at the disposal of the commander-in-
chief, at his own request. Lieutenant Little, 10th Hunan,
has also ceased to be on the staff of the governor. The latter
officer succeeded Captain Harrison as aide•de camp ; the
former took the place of Lieutenant Henry on the governor's
staff a year ago, when he joined his regiment under orders
foe the Punjaub having given the utmost satisfaction, he
continued as extra aid de camp to within this fortnight, when
he and Lieutenant Little resigned. Tree matter has long
been subject of current talk, and the circumstanvs under
which the resignations were made seem perfectly well
known throughout the community; we forbear, as we have
forborne, alludiog to them, because Lord F-Ikland seems to
have as good a right as any other gentleman to make such
changes in his household as he thinks fit, without being
subjected thereby to animadversion. As the members of the
governor's staff however are for the time being in some
'hap, public men, we may be allowed to say of those who
have just retired from it, that two more polite, urbane, or
gentlemanly, young men than Mr Little and Mr. Fife, will
not easily be found in any service • and it may he added, if
common famespesks truth, that the correctness and propriety
of their private character and deportment was on a par with
the politeness of their bearing and urbanity of their manners.
Colonel Ashburnham it is said has been requested to return
to his appointment of Military Secretary, the duties of which
were temporarily discharged by. Mr. Little; and Lieute-
nant Henry will, we imagine, pin so soon as his health
allows.—Ensign John Burke, 22nd foot, late ser-
geant-major of that corps, whose commission as ensign
reached him by the Atalanta steamer, was, on the evening
of the 9:h October, accompanied by Colonel Cotton to the
mass-room, where he was introduced by him to the whole
of the officers of the corps as " one of themse!ves," and at
dinner was seated betwixt the gallant colonel just named and
Major Conway, CB. Nothing could exceed the cordiality
with which the officers of the gallant 22nd welcomed their
young brother, which does them the highest hon ur. Pro-
moti-n from the ranks in the Queen's army is a reality ; in
the company's it is a farce.—The H.C. brig of war Euphrates
starts tor the Persian Gulf on the 20th October.—The ru
mour of the immediate return from England of Mr. Wool,
Agra Bank agent at Bombay, is, we have been informed, un-
founded. We should rejoice to see Mr. Wood again amongst
are, though the public have, we believe, had no reason to
complies of his absence, Mr. Brown having supplied his
place so effectually that it is diffiault to say which we would
prefer. The Oriental Bank has declared a dividend of
Ea, 174 pt.r share for the las' half of the year 184849,
which, with a like amount form, rly pa'd on the first sit
months, mak sup a dividend of seven per cent for the year.
We rejoice to observe that the subscriptions to the Pensioners
Fund are now closely approaching Its. 20,000. the anrual
sub.criptions (2301) promising a fair endowment over and
ab .re the fixed fuud.
P.S.—This morning's post has brought news of the
capture, by the party ander Mr. C. B. Saunders, de-
puty-c3mmissioner at Umritsii-, on the let October, of
Sirdar Lall Siugh Morareea, his brother Mahtab
Singh (the instigator and commencer of the Yeah*,
wurrevolt), and Soong Singh Majetteeab. No tidings
had been received of the party sent in quest of i
ekeem Rao to Seeslkot. Sir H. Lawrence s said to
have gone to Cashmere to settle some boundary
affairs with the Maharajah, and also for the good of
his health, while another report is that his mission is
to enc.eavour to persuade Goolaub Singh to give ns
Cashmere, we presenting him with Peshawar in its
steed. The Rajah of Sumbulpore died heirless on
the 10th of October, and his possessions, which yield
a considerable revenue, fall to government as lords
paramount. A grand Masonic banquet was given, on
the Ist October, to Sr. C. Napier, by the brethren of
the mystic tie at Simla ; the toast of the evening, the
health of the gallant and ye nerable nobleman late the
head of the Indian army, being given by the Wor-
shipful Master, Colonel Curtis, C.B.
on I