The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1848.

who said he bad Tinkled a gleaner of a century in that colony,
assured the meeting that nothOg would tend more to the
benefit of the emigrants, the colony, and the mother country,
than the emigration of hwourers to South Australia.
it appeared to be • wise prevision of Providence that
whilst that was a deficissay el feed, or at least a great diffi-
culty In obtalalag it, at see extremity of the
there was a nduedseey of food at the other. It had
calculated that in the present year a number of skims wad/
be boiled down for allow in New South Wain emislst is
feed half a sidles ef. pie for alts meads. The lIROMBIONI
of Australia wen sullsotent to give food and prollalia em-
ployment to any conceivable number of the eadmit pope-
lation of this country. It had been calculated by • samaittes
of the legislative council last year that the Wray mild is,
Oak. 30,000 Showers darn. Ohs pngeot 7.814d111610 MR&
ditlnal sapitai watt oat 'nisi gum ; sad if missfagwaiwito
iatluoed to go out, by gsystwasat affording Am the was-
tory facilities, he knew Wm his owns varkasstbal=
colony of New South Wales aseld main owl lad
employment for 100,ISS et the popsiAta d Ihis NUMey
oval year. 'ilts smut whisk ewY be sabstrilisd by
the parish nadir the govwwwwit arrisgsmint, whisk it was
proposed to adopt, wee leas than two-Meet the cost of send-
ing out the emigranta; ths ether time-fifths would be pro-
vided by the sale of the colonial lands, and the supply of
fonds from this snore, was almost inexhaustible. Under a
judicious system 20,000,0001. might be thus realised in a few
years for this great national object. To show how rapidly
persons might attain to a pantile of independence in Aus.
trails, he mentioned the case of a man, who, with hie wife
and to children, bad been as,isted out from the highlaads
of Scotland at a period of great distress, who now pomeesed
a term of 42 acres, 400 head o. tattle, and was worth at
least 10001., accumulated in little more than five years.
A Mr. Sawati. and Mr. Arri.rron, a surgeon, both of
whom had lived in Australia, also bore testimony to the ad-
vantages of Australia as au outlet for our redundant popular
tioa—the latter gentleman stating that he bad been com-
pelled to leave the colony solely because there was no
demand for doctors in so healthy a climate.
A long and somewhat noisy discussion followed, In
the course of which an amendment to add the words " by
voluntary subscription " to the end of the resolution, was
moved by a Mr. O. TAYLOR, and supported by several rate-
payne. One gentleman, a Mr. Low, dealsriag that, if the
Talentsy principle were substituted for the asermannnt, he
would he reedy at ones to put down 20 guineas.
Several others spoke against emigration generally on the
ground that, under a proper system of taxation and security
of tenure in the raral districts, there would be
ample mein. for the support of the whole population
at home , and one rate-payer, in reference to the emigration
of paupers under the poordaw, stated that he undentood
they were sent out rather as white slaves than as free men.
it e had head of a man who was sent out by the parish of
Clerkeowell, who, with his wife and children, were bond to
the government for three years after their arrival in tiro
colony, and weo obliged to wear • distinctive dress, marked
with the words, "Sent out by the parish of Clencenwell "
Ultimately the resolution was adopted with the amendment,
the proposition for raising the funds by means of a rate
being thus negatived.
After • vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated.

Thla &
Id. property yea sold to lard Holland, In 1820, far
IT
Sold, in 1810, to John William, Eaq., for 3,0001.
Sold to vationspurchaaata, ao. ISIS to ISA far 59,1021. 18..

SIR CHARLES NAPIER.
The Dublin Unirersity Magazine for November has
an interesting biography of this general, with original letters,
and entracte from his diary, which explain somewhat the
rudeness of the ►era's phraseology. It is evident that Sir
Charles is in the habit of soliloquising with his pen, and in
this mood cares little what expressions may drop from it. In
some of these extracts he apostrophises All Konrad, much as
he aid Sir James Hogs.
Sir Charles wee the eldesteon of hie father, Col. Napier (we
spore his genealogy), and was born in 1782, in Whitehall.
When a child he was removed to Ireland, wheroCol. Napier
was employed. And his first service as a soldier was in the
rebellion of 1798, and the more brief one of 1803. He com-
manded the 60th eegioseut in the retreat to Comma. Here,

says the narrator—
It wee e matter of extreme importance to silence an ad-
vanced gun which was making great havoc in the English
linen, and a shot from which very gun eventually struck
down Sir John Moore. Napier, as one of Moore's majois.,
par excelling*. advanced upon it. The ground was much
broken, caseating of walled gardens and byroads, with deep
cuttina. In the heat el the combat, Napier had seized a
musket, and gained a position, on which be stood tiring and
rallying his man, urging them to form for a rush upon the
gun. Four oldie his gallant bOth were able to reach him,
so deadly was the fin to which they were exposed. Finding
further attempt vain, and observing that he wan cut off from
his regiment by a party of the enemy who had eonceakd
themselves In the village, whilst he j?assod, he called
upon his little band to endeasour, with him, to cut
their way through. Three were instantly cut down :
the fourth was wounded, and called on Napier to help him.
Napier, whilst assisting him, was wounded in the leg, having
the fibula fractured by a musket ball. He now relinquished
his musket, and, using hie sword as a support, endeavoured
to regain his regiment. At this moment he felt a wooed in-
flicted in his hack by a soldier who had emerged from one of
the houses. Turning rapidly round, he seised the musket of
his sasailant, which having struck upon his spine, fortunately
uid not penetrate deeply. Whilst struggling, several other
sohlien closed in upon him ; but, with a degree of activity
almost supernatural, he managed to keep his close antagonist
between hint and his assailants, never losing hold of the
musket. At length the unequal combat was terminated by
a French soldier coming up with • short sabre, and felling
him to the earth with a blow on the skull, which was sup-
pored to have cleft it in twain. As he lay in this state, he
was rifled by the soldiers with such ferocity, that they tone
away a portion or his diets with his watch • and one, eon-
camas,' that he perceived some vitality remaining, was about
to extinguish it, when he was rescued b the humanity of a
French drummer, whose admiration had been excited by hie
bravery. While the French were aiming Napier le the
ran, he in some degree recovered consciousness, and saw
Hennessy, an Irishman of the 50th, one of the stragglers
wile had survived the murderous conflict, deep in the French
position, cemir.g all alone, with his musket at this.
tiweids Napier's escort, with the full intention of
his commander, or being himself killed. Napier
once ordered him to lay down his arms and Ear-
render. ' And for fish it shou,d I sarrindher ? • was
the reply. However, the habit of obedience wee toe
strong, and Henneeeey merely vented his displeasure by
letting the butt of his musket drop heavily on the dram.
mar's legs, and pushing him away from beside Napier.
determined, if he could not rescue, at lea.t to may hie es-
mender. Soule, with the chivalric spirit of a great warrior.
rewarded Napier's preserver, and treated himself with the
greatest possible kindness. He avoided even sending Wm to
France, to exempt him from the operation of Napolootee
human system of refusing cartels, and recommended his te
the consideration of his successor, Ney, who also dealt with
him rather as a friend than a prisoner, permitted him to re-
turn to England on parole, and eventually procured kis
liberation by an exchange."
His subsequent services in the Peninsula and in Amnia
are enumerated. He then figured as Governor of Cephalonia,
where he showed himself an active reformer ; but of muse
he quarrelled with his superior. Beininiseences of Ireland
mingling with his military dreams, Sir Charles Napier pub-
lished his " Thoughts on Colonisation and Small Farms, " an
old idea, often destined to be reproduced. He also nce'
against flogging In 1841 Sir Charles Napier took the sew
mend of the troops in the Bombay presidency. The gm-
paten in Sands, which followed, Is well known a=
beat widely diseased. The follog are original
IMO'S by the general during that period:
" Hale, Feb.l6, 1813,—My dear —, I have net wellies
to you toe Bose time, because I could tell you agthhmgthat
you'eould make head or tell of, melees I gave yea a
whical had no time to do. But sake it, that after tram
&adapt that I could make to prevent war, the Amiss have
at taiga brought it about by their folly ; and to-eneerow I
samgk to Matouee, a village about ten mike from Mesas%
where they at. encamped with, as report sale, 30,000 lath.
The Arleen have not the pluck to pat themeelese at the
head ; but these tribes of Beloochee Robbie. imegimM by a
of enthusiasm against us and oar of the
lAsiasfi people (the Beloochein an all Greek Arwwls, oar old
Meads), have all sworn on the Mann to draw the En-
ollek genseal and his array. I, being ready he the trial, i
▪ ae midnight. sod shall be width tha =three them by
els Is the arrales. Perhaps I say male • tweed lamb,
lead bola the IMO man lbw they sepia esaises
Er Pees me dodge this Wawa sew sad mew
fag. I ems bgeg into adios 9,800 nee, eel
theirs gam They, I believe, have about enegad
wessabee ef gttsrs list their cavalry 20,000 sail la a
thetas( bard, emery sand. I have Wes meth
lag me moth Ithesently, arid, wept es pt ethidth la
the I Mee tat bad ea worth et ix imam is a nee.
The while et @dab is a bOthaithida. M emir, le these
810. These me long odds, ha WM& Hem, tether-
row, or the deg Aar, we will he.. ark ether% wine. I
have one Mink ailment, the Itheitheat Tipp!
my ! I mesa not eve the evetemene ter a good dee
jest now ; all reed) to eat the Belooehees without Mile
Wall, in this state I have no time to writ* to any hat E
beloved Mead. To-morrow, and ere may breeze, fa •
like this (it these chaps have the plash they iseth)rag
tar-writing they, with my luck, be altogether athateerapith.
—Yours, C. J. liarlal."
" Hyderabad, Feb. 20.—We beat them at Meanie; the
Was wee terrible. I rode over the horrid field, and gem
Weed my 11017116101311. My dear this blood is on the
Ammo not on me. The papers will tell you what I have
no time for; bow I Heaven knews, for I do not;
we WWI threiand-e- hears one yard apart I Man to
man-2,300 spina 22,000 I—fearful odds, and they fought
like hearse. Covered with their shields, they ran in upon
us, sword In hand, with desperate fury, when down they
went under the musket and bayonet. We gained the top of
the bank, or rather edge, and then we knight hand to hand.
Neither myself nor ay horse were touched. Hyderabad has
surrendered • six Armors rtenalls*9
Aeothas written 1846, issacdades thus:—" I
feu we shall have a Fanjets war; the thenight oaken& me,
for I suppose they will send me to Heenan.'
It is to be wished that he had bees sent to Meehan, which
would have been thus conquered and settled, initiator being
passed over, and the firs of Sikh animosity allowed to
slumber in it till it Las brake forth into it, present flame.
However we may object to Sir Charles Napier in civil life,
forgetting, deceiving, and lasting India directors as if they
were there Beitheltereore are hot blind to his military merits,
and wish eieheewAy that he was this moment in Sande ; be
would there be playing a hr lame sneak and honourable
pert then at home q hr rise mosey, insulting all
who oppose sad • himself ell the time as a
poor, week. indigent" babe in the wood."

The followin letter has been addrened to a con-
-134,—1 do not know whether you can maw
te have a plan in •your ooluans, bat if you tea,
it as. If not, I have Other Reuss et recording
the annisest of Sir Janus Hogg against myself and tics
Selma may, and I shall asks are of those mans in due
tan. I thak Sir Janos Home@ attar answers itself and
swim @Mae. It admits that he did rent that ' I had
sosahed 711.411101 whisk I had not remind, and never can
naive, sad d which Sir James Hogg was trying to pre-
vent guy receiving non seas-hall! Now, kw what
was thb anemias put forth 1 Why to make the
public believe that I bed roneind this sum ef 70,0001.,
to reward as for ay servals. In short, le de Wary to an
absent man, perilously skated, as I *ea was, end amble
to deleted myself against wok sinister Masks. I ask any
boas* man whetbar this gas or was not ' naligant ?'
It was so ; and this .as the saunas' In which the @mar-
tian was made. n.. 4 is, perhaps, aweigh • Irat, with
coat permission I will cake a few =ore olowystio".
lat. Sir James Hogg trias "a maks it appear how eager

valued at 6081. fie. 114. yearly, at a rent of 101. 13e. 4d. per the court, of which he was chairman, was to de the areas
wan, to be redid to SOL miter the Duchess of Marl- justice. Mark, reader ! Ths ono is, that when booty is
hiseetWe death, hewing paid a fine of 4201. for the lease it taken the e ono apply to the crown for leave to distribute
Lord °miter, a mansion and Aloes., worth 5001. per annum, the same to the captors. It the crown gives the booty to
at a mat of SIL 13s. 44., with • flue of 1701. ; Frederick, the septets the dishibution hikes place ; but, on the am
Earl of Carliele, Lanercost Priory, with diver menuages don of the conquest of Scinde, the court of directors
and hags, edge 2131. 7s. yearly, at 401. per annum. and declined' to apple for it on behalf of the army, (I bare
3001. flue' Rev. Joh. Fullerton, demises land in the Forest' reason to believe this never occurred before, except in the
of Gillingham, value 402/. 10s. for 321. 10a. and a fine of case of I'lml-end at last, in 1845, the army applied on lb
3201. ; Lord Villiers, the manor of West Ashford, value own behalf. and the crown immediately gave the booty. Se
1221., for 111. lee. 114. pee annum and no fine ; Rev. Jae. far the soldiers are not indebted to the court of &Mon for
Wilkinson, in trust the manor and demesnes of Eckington, their prize money ; but the reverse. 21. Sir James ff
value 7131. 13e. 104., for 461. le. Bd. and a fine of 1,2501. ; § tries to show that, though the court did not succeed In pee-
George Duke of Marlborough, Marlborough House and venting the troops getting the prise money, it acted Mel)
lends adloining, value 6001. per manna for 761. rent, and a when made trustees. It did not. The following shows that
fine of 301. it fled decided 'pied me, and then was forced to go to the
In Alert, the large resources provided by our Saxon snore- Trearurp-' At &court ofdirectors, 10th Feb., 1847, the court
tors to defray the expenses of government, have been squan- adverting to the report of the political and military cote-
dared, plundered, and nearly diadpated, aad their place sup- mates, dated and read in court on the 3d inst., and ordered
plied by most oppressive and unequal taxes upon the Indus. to lie for consideration,'eubmitting the committee's opinions
try cf the pearls. William the Conqueror's income from on the following points connected with the Scinde booty,
this source was estimated at 1,0611. 10s. 14d. per day, now which the government of India, in their letter of Oct. 23,
varinusly competed to be worth, in our preeset money (en- 1848, No. 111., have referred for the court's decision, namely
tirely exclusive of the incseased value of the property), from -Ist. The portion or share of the booty to be assigned to
five to eight or ten Editions per annum. Last year's (1847) Ma j. Gen. (now Lieut.-Gen.) Sir C. Napier, G.C.B. ; and,
net payment int* the Excheeuer from the woods, forests, 2nd. The amount of interest to be allowed on the said
and crown lands, was 77,0001. booty ; and the committee's [report being again read, it area
In concluding this branch of the subject, the association resolved, that Sir C. Napier, not being a commander-M-
-are reluctantly compelled to avow, that unless a tense of the chief, will, according to the usage of the army in India,
dishonour of Maiming property, ()Valued by such flagitious share in the Seinde booty as a major general commanding
means, shout , lead any of the present wrongful holders of the troops in Seinde, and that, as such, according to the pre-
the people's inheritance and estate to restore it voluntarily, Talent mime, he should receive 1 18th (one sixteenth) of the
they Me no hope of ever recovering any part thereof. That booty. That this di eision, adopted by the court,
promos would be so beset with difficulties, so complicated by as trustees appointed by the crown, to notified to
a variety of opposing considerations at every step, as to be the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Tres-
all but politically impossible. The facts detailed in this sec. eery, according to the terms of the
=royal warrant, which
however, will not be without their weight in deter- forced she must to such notification. So much for the
the proper rate of a land and property tax; and court's justice, and I beg the reader to bear in mind that
they teach impressively the practical lesson, that no govern- this resolution, giving me 27,0001., was pissed by a court
meat should ever be trusted by the people, without coestant whose chairman, Sir James Hogg, had asserted publicly
and vigilant inspection. Tnis paper is merely introductory. that ' I had received 70,0001. Now for the truth of the
The present condition and management of the crown pro- statement in this resolution. Wasmy receiving one-sixteenth
party will be brought under review at an early day. ' according to the prevailing usage of the army in India,' and
' according to the prevalent usage ?' No ! After full examina-
tion of the facts by the Lords of the Tel:usury, they decid?d that
this was not scarfing to usage ! The usage was to give the
commander of the troops one eighth ; and, which is yet more
strong, it appeared that the rules of the Court of Directors
were distinct on that particular case ; and the " usage" had
been conformably to the " rules "-viz., that where there is
but one general officer, that general should have one-eighth.
-I have the honour to be, sir, Ifee., C. NAPIER, Lieut.-
General.-Oheitenham, Oct. 24.-F.S. The italics is the
resolution of the court are mine.-C.N."
The above letter is en enigma, of which the following Is
the solution :-From the Overland Bombay Timer, Sept.
15.-Lord Gough is said to have been reappointed
commander-in-chief of India, and his lordship intends re-
maining at his poet for a couple of years longer. The refusal
of the Court of Directors to accept of Sir Charles Napier as a
summer to Lord Gough, is alleged as the reason of theax-
-1 tension of command to the latter, as the Duke et Wellington
is said to be determined on ultimately appointing the former
to the Indian commander-in-chiciship.
A second letter has also been published, as follows
" To the Editor of the Tanta.-Sir,-Mr. &init.. letter
of the 21. t instant is so weak, that a few remarks are enough.
Ist. The facts in my letter are accurately stated, and have
been admitted by Sir James Hogg and Mr. Beillie them-
selves, although-tad. Mr. B. says, never stated to Sir
C. N., as he stye in his letter, that Sir James Hogg had di-
rected me to make the statement to the house.' Bee-
fing Mr. Blnifies pardon, this is a mere evasion.
n the first plus, my memory I believe to be as good
as Mr. Badge's memory, and I maintain Cod be said
to me what I stated. However, I will concede to Mr. B.
that his memory is the best of the two. What then ? Whe-
ther Sir James Hogg said to Mr. Bantle while the latter was
speaking, " tell them he has received 70,0001." or said to
Mr. 8., " Sir Charles Napier has received 70,0004 ," makes
not an iota of diffrenco. The words uttered were for Mr.
Baillie's use and to injure me ; Mr. Billie slid use them
and did injure me in mossy ways. Ido not mean as to
rewards for set vices, for I have always been perfectly
satisfied with the approbation of those under whom 1
served, and of the country. I have received both.-
3rd. Mr. Bsillie gee on to say that my letter would lead
the public to infer that I was an " ill-used man, whom the
Court of Director (who had nothing to do with the mutter)
had attempted to defraud of his just rights." Exactly so,
Mr. Beagle ! except your parenthesis ! only let me se, your
parenthesis right, by recommending au English dictionary
to you, and there you will find that " trustees " for the die-
trihution of other men's property have something " to do with
the matter." Having thus, Ihope, added to Mr.siltie'sstoek
of knowlcdg I will conclude with the observation made by
a very clever person when hearing that the interested court
of directors were made trustees for the Seinde prize money.
"It Is like making the wicked uncle the trustee for the
babes in the wood." Just so! But I preferred an appeal to
the Lords of the Treasury to eating blackbsrries, and so I
take my leave, for the present, of Sir James Weir Hogg an/
Mr. Baillie.-I remain, Sir, Ate., C. J. Semite, Lieutenant-
General.-Cheltenham, Oat. 24,1848.

IRELAND.
CONVICTION OF MR. O'DOHERTY.
lltrems, Nov. 2.
As announced by me yesterday Mr. O'Doherty
has been convicted of felony. Much remark has
been made upon the circumstance of the pri-
soner having been a third time put upon his
trial, but it was net Mr. O'Doherty and the
crown that were at issue, but the jurors of Dublin
and the law. It was necessary to find whether or not
the Treason Felony Act must be a dead letter or a
fact. It is stated, and I believe with truth, that Mr.
O'Dobevtv was offered, since his second trial, to be
• "
permitted '
to expatriate himself, bat relying on two
disagreements he refused. The crown will probably
not forget this in finally disposing of the convict.
Another bailiff has been murdered in the south.
The scene of this atrocity was O'Brien's Bridge, in the
county of Clare, but Quite adjacent to the city of
Limerick. The unhappy man bad been put in pos-
session of a farm from which a tenant was recently
evicted. The evicted tenant is in custody on suspl-
cion. What horrible perseverance in cruelty is cis-
closed in these atrocities!