The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

PIEDMONT.

It is stated in the Paris 21/essayerof yesterday that,
in consequence of the excitement which prevails in
Piedmont, the Austrian government has detennined
to form an army of observation upon the Piedmon-
few frontier, and that orders hare already been given
for the cantonment of the troops.

TURIN, Ain 29.

The Croce di Savoia speaks of a ministerial COM-
bination, according to which Chevalier Azeglio would
be sent as ambassador to Paris, Count Revel would
be minister for foreigft affairs, Chevalier Cibrario
minister of public instruction, and Count Cavour,
remaining minister of finance, would be also presi-
dent of the council; this news requires confirmation.
Lieutenant-General Giovanni Durand() is to re-
place Count Marmots in the command of the island
of Sardinia. _ .

It has been notified to the Italian refugees that in
future they can only be perntitml to reside
in Piedmont, by conforming to certain regu-
lations. Every refugee must apply for a ticket
which will specify that the bearer is a po-
litical emigrant, and will state the place of
his abode. The aid granted by the government to
the refugees will not be paid except to the holders
of tickets which must be risjd every month.

GERMANY.
AUSTRIA.

The Emperor of Austria left Vienna for Ischl on
the 28th of August. The Emperor will proceed from
that place after his interview with the King of
Prussia, to Verona, where he will meet the King of
Wiirtemberg.

CALIFORNIA.

By a private despatch from New York, dated the
20th ult., brought by the Europa, we have received
the following additional news from California :
The steam-ship Brother Jonathan arrived off Sandy
Hook at nine o'clock last evening, and reached her wharf
at midnight. She left Chagres on the 9th, and Kingston,
Jamaica, on the 12th. We understand she was detained on
her return trip by a fire which broke out near the boilers on
the evening of the 17th inst. The vessel was dearly
crowded with passengers, and for a time the excitement
amongst them was intense. However, in less than an hour
the flames were extinguished, and quiet was restored. The
boilers sustained so much injury by the fire that but slow
progress was made thereafter. The passengers award great
credit to the captain and his officers for their promptness
and decision during the consternation.
The steam-ship Falcon was at Chagres waiting the mails
for New Orleans.

The steam-ship Union, from San Francisco for Panama,
with 300 passengers and 200,000 dollars in gold dust, wu
totally wrecked, the fourth day out, on St. Quinlan's Reef.
The passengers and gold (with the exception of 6,000 dol-
lars) were saved. Tho loss of the ship was the result of
carelessness, the man at the wheel being too intoxicated to
see where the ship was going. She struck at 3 a.m., and
the passengers were compelled to wait till daylight, the ship
every moment growing weaker and weaker, before they
could escape, which they finally did in small boats. The
Northerner hove in sight and carried the unfortunate
passengers to Panama. All the freight of the Union was
lost.
The steam-ship Ohio reached Chagree on the 9th ult.,
with a broken shaft, and one engine so much disabled
that she will have to go to Navy Bay, and await orders
from the owners. Her shaft was broken off at Kingston on
the sth ult. She reported having experienced very heavy
weather.
The Panama Star states, that the steam-ship Northerner
arrived at Panama at ten p.m., on the sth ultimo, with
1,900,000 dollars in gold dust, from San Francisco. The
dust from the wreck of the steam-ship Union, together
with her own and what was in the hands of passen-
gers, would make considerably over 2,000,000 on board
altogether.
The steam-ship Commodore Stockton returned to Panama
port, having sprung a leak when about 250 miles on her way
to San Francisco. She had eighty passengers, who after-
wards demanded the return of their passage money ; as the
demand was not complied with, they forced the crew to
cease work, and took forcible possession of the vessel. The
matter had been laid before the American Consul at Pa-
nama, and his protection sought by the commander of the
Conukodere Stockton.

The Kingston, Jamaica, papers received contain no
general news of interest. Cholera still lingered in the
island. The small pox had broken out in several parts, and
the extreme heat of the lest fortnight, succeeded by heavy
showers of rain, had led to the prevalence of an epidemic
resembling influenza, attended with fever; and, in conse-
quence, the thirteenth anniversary of the freedom of the
slaves, on the let of August, was celebrated with much less
spirit than usual.

ACCOUNTS OF Tll2 CITY OF LONDON.—In a re-
cently issued parliamentary paper the annuid accounts of
the Chamberlain of the City c•f London, were given. The
duties in the year ending the sth of January last, amounted
to 139,302/. Os. Bd., of which 120,36.51. ss. was obtained by
a duty of 85. per ton on coal' brought into the port of
London. The balance in hand at the end of the year was
119,0971. 19s. 2d., the payments only amounting to 20,204/.
Is. 6d., which was carried to tie general surpluses, and the
balance after payments being 94,0001., was directed to bo
applied to the further discharge of their debt. The lighting,
watching, and cleansing of Blackfriars bridge came to
6661. 3s. 10d. The police of the City brought 36,7301. 3s. 2d.
in the year, and at the commencement there was a balance
in band of 11,3341. ss. 3d., and at the end of the year tho
balance in hand was 8,3471. 10s. Id. Ou account of sewers
the proceeds with the balance on No. I showed an income
0162,316/. 15s. 5d., and on the account N 0.2, 20,4521.125. 5,1.
The expenses on account of the New Cool Market were in
the year, 3,3121. is. 55.

CANADA.

TORONTO, Av0..16.‘

The attention of parliament and the pee plc of this
province has been taken up during the last week
with a momentous question for the interests of this
and the sister provinces—viz., the construction of a
railroad from Halifax to Hamilton. The resolutions
which I forwarded you some time ago upon this
subject have been adopted on a vote of 45 to 23.
It is proposed to accept the proposition contained
in the despatch of Earl Grey for the construction of
the road as far as Quebec; and emleavonr to get the
imperial guarantee for the construction of the road
thence to Hamilton, but if not to obtain money for
this portion of the road on the security of the pro-
' vince on the best terms possible.
But I think one thing is clear, that unless the road
is extended to Hamilton it can never pay ; and the
imperial government guaranteeing one part for its
own safety should guarantee the other. This is
the opinion of some of the best informed men in
the province; and I agree with the opinion of the
minority of the House of Assembly that the road
should only be attempted on this condition.
The distance from Hamilton to Quebec is 636
miles, and it is estimated that the cost of construction

will be from 3,000/. to 7,000/. currency per mile. The
distance from Quebec to Hamilton is between five
and six hundred miles. This latter road we must
have; and it is calculated that if we can get the hn-
perial guarantee, the interest for the whole distance
from Halifax to Hamilton will not come to so much

as the part from Quebec to Hamilton.
A bill on the subject of the seigniorial tenure in
Lower Canada has been reported by a committee
that was appointed on this subject. I understand
that Mr. Lafontaine, the head of the administration,
will not assume this bill as a government measure,
while a majority of the French members will insist
upon his doing so, and that the consequence will be
Mr. Lafontaine's resignation.
A serious accident has taken place on Lake On-
tario. A number of ladies and gentlemen went out
yachting, and were capsized. The consequence was
the loss of sixteen lives.
It is said to be the intention of the Governor-
General to prorogue parliament at the end of next
week. LAMBDA.

This is a fuller account of the accident at Kings-
ton, taken from the Kingston (C.ll-) Argus :
it is our duty to record one of the most ilistres.ing, one
of the most appalling occurrences, which has ever taken
place within the annuls of Kingston. Nineteen of our
friends and fellow•citizens have found a watery grave in the
St. Lawrence

It seems that a party of 31 (1.; of which were ladies), pro-
ceeded yesterday morning on a pie-nic party, in a new sail.
ing boat or yacht just built by Mr. Jenkins. Everything
went well until they got within a mile or two of French
Creek (being then about three-quarters of a mile from the
shore), the wind light, and consequently carrying full sail.
Whether, in the enjoyment of the moment, they were not
upon the look out, but a sudden Haw of wind struck the
little vessel, and brought her nearly on her beam ends.
The little deck being crowded, the unfortunate passengers
naturally were all propelled toward the lower side, which
completed in a moment what the wind had done, and down
she went. Our informant, who was one of those saved,
informs us that the females, rushing down to the lower side
of the vessel, actually, fur the most part, plunged into the
water and disappeared. Several incidents have been de-
scribed to us, which assist us in drawing a picture in our
mind of the horrid scene. Mr. Philips our informant, on
seeing that the vessel was sinking struck out for the shore;
but being impeded by his clothing, which became saturates!
with water, and perceiving that the mast of the vessel still
remained alcove water, returned to it, and with the greatest
exertion ultimately regained the wreck.
On approaching it he saw a number of the passengers
Imaging on ; and he mentions that just as he made way
to get hold of the boon', young Grist was hanging on to a
portion of it ; he scented to be exhausted, and either
fainted or fell from exhaustion, and disappeared in the
dark waves. Mr. George Hunter, we arc informed, actu-
ally rescued Mrs. Hunter, and got her into the skiff which
was attached to the yacht; but alas! his exertions were
fruitless it being chained to the other, it was dragged down
along w ith and carried her with it. We saw her in the
morning depart; her smile was bright and happy, sur-
rounded by so many to whom she was dear. We saw her
body brought back in the evening; the bright locks moist,
and the damp chills of death had spread their palls over it.
But we cannot say anything more regarding it. Our city is
filled with wailing—mothers for their children, wives far
their ItuFbansh, fathers for their daughters, and husbands
for their wives.

The following are the names of the persons who were
drowned at Kingston, on the 11th inst., by the ups fling of
a boat:

Mrs. Yankton, Miss Youldon, Master You Mon, Mrs. B.
B. Jenkins, Miss Rukins, Mrs. Capt. Gaskin, Mary Ann
I'roby, Miss Mason, H. A. Mills, Miss MISIII. Haight,
Miss A. Haight, Mrs. G. Hunter, Miss A. Hunter, Mr.
Thorne,• Thomas Grist, Miss Walker, Miss Stacy.
The steamer Prince of Wales has left to search for the
bodies.

DECIMAL COINAGE INTRODUCED

CANADA.

(Extract of a letter from Toronto, dated the 11th of August
11451.)
" A bill introduced by Mr. Ilincks, Inspector-
general, copy of which I enclose, provides, as you will per-
ceive, that the public accounts be kept hereafter in United
States federal currency, that certain coins shall be a legal
tender at certain rates, and that Spanish, United States,
Mexican, &c. silver dollars shall henceforth pass at
Halifax currency, instead of ss. Id., their present nominal
value. A bill of this kind, but not going so far, pawed the
legislature last session, bat the British government an-
nulled it. Sec. 6, of this bill provides that it shall not be-

come law until sanction in London.•• The decimal c•er-
reaey is the easier of the two—comparing that of Britain
and that of the Union. It is moreover the currency of the lid-
joining country, whither various circumstances have concur-
red to stud our Upper and Lows r Canada trade. The debate
comes on to-morrow about letting the colonial government
expend some millions to establish a railway from the Lower
Canada lower line to Quebec and Montreal. The difficulty
is this: in a line from Halifax, private individuals won't
subscribe. If companies are created they will he like the
Welland Canal Company, a number of stockholders sub-
scribing much and paying next to nothing, and, with their
creatures, squandering all they can get hold of. If the
government here no the work, it will be an unchecked job,
or it will he an exception to such jobs. Cunning fellows
will get hold of the dollars, sham contracts and bad works
will be attested by engineers in the secret, and when the
interest comes to be paid whence will it come ? It is most
desirable to accomplish such a railway, but before the
money is raised see that it is provided that it is wisely ex-
pended.
0 An Act to provide for the introduction of the decimal
system into the currency of this province, and otherwise
to amend the laws relative to the currency.
Whereas it is desirable to adopt a currency for this
province, which may hereafter be advantageously made
common to ell provinces of British North America, as being
simple and convenient in itself, and well calculated to faci-
litate their commercial intercourse with other parts of this
continent be it therefore enacted, &c.
. . .

" That so far and so MIMI as may be found conveniently
practicable, the public accounts of this province, and the
accounts of all public departments and offices, shall be
kept in dollars and decimal parts of a dollar, the hundredth
part to be called a cent, and the thousandth part a mill ;
and the dollar or unit of account shall be equivalent to five
shillings of the present currency, and the decimal parts
thereof to proportionate sums of the said currency ; and all
sums of money and accounts may be legally mentioned, de-
scribed, and stated, either in dollars and decimal parts of a
dollar, or in the present currency.
"2. And be it enacted, that such coins, representing
dollars or multiples or divisions of dollars, as her Majesty
shall see fit to direct to be struck for the purpose, shall, by
such names and at such rates as her Majesty shall assign to
them respectively, pass current and be a legal tender in this
province, the standard of fineness of the said coin', when
of silver or gold, being the same respectively as that now
adopted for coins of the United Kingdom, and the intrinsic
value of the said coins when of gold bearing the same pro-
portion to that of the British sovereign as the sums for which
they arc respectively to pass current shall bear to 11. 4s. 4d.
of the present currency or to 4 dollars 86.1 cents, and the in-
trinsic value of such coins, when of silver or copper, bearing
the same proportion to their nominal or current value
which the intrinsic value of Britishsilver or copper coins re-
spectively bears to their nominal or current value; provided
always, that such gold coins shall be legal tender to any
amount by tale so long as they shall not want more than
two grains of the standard weight to be assigned to them
respectively by her Majesty, subject to the same deduc-
tion for want of weight as is now provided with regard
to British gold coins, and shall also be a legal tender to any
amount by weight iu sums not leas than 200 dollars or fifty
pounds of the present currency, at the same rate and on
the same conditions as are now provided with regard to
British gold coins ; and provided also that such silver
coins shall not be a legal tender to the amount of more than
ten dollars or two pounds ten shillings of the present cur-
rency, in any one payment, nor such copper coins to the
amount of more than twenty cents, or one shilling currency,
in any one payment.
" 3. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
governor of this province, out of any unappropriated moneys
forming part of the consolidated revenue fund thereof, to
defray the cost of obtaining and importing such quantity
of the said coins respectively, as the said governor, in
council, shall from time to time think it for the interest of
the province to obtain and import.
" 4. And be it enacted, That all the provisions of the
twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth
sections of the act passed in the session held in the fourth
and fifth years of 'her Majesty's reign, and intituled, ' An
Act to regulate the Currency of this Province,' shall apply
to the coins hereinbefore mentioned as fully and effectually
as to the coins made jar declared current by the said act,
and shall be construed and have effect as if the coins which
will be current under this act hail been made or declared
current by the said act.

" 5. And be it enacted, that the several coins lawfully
current and a legal tender in this province immediately
before the time when this act shall come into torce, shall
after such time continue to be current and to be a legal
tender at the same rates, in the present currency, and for
equivalent sums in dollars and decimal parts id a dollar
on the same conditions and to the same amounts in any
one payment; and the pro tisionS of the act last above
cited may be extended by proclamation of the governor, to
other gold and silver coins of the same nations weighta
and denominations, but of later date, in like manner and

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,
ou like conditions as before the coining into force of this
act; excepting always, that the silver duilars and half dol-
lars mentioned in the seventh section of the act last above
cited, or any silver dollars and half dollars to which the
provisions of the said sectiou may by any act or proclama-
tion have been or be extended, shall nor, after the coming
into force of this act, pass respectively for five shillings and
one penny of the present currency, and for two shillings and
sixpence halfpenny of the said currency, but each such
dollar shall pass and be a legal tender fur one dollar or five
shillings of the said currency, and each such half dollar for
fifty cents, or two shillings and sixpence of the said curs
reney, and no more.
"ti. And be it enacted that the foregoing provisions of
this act shall come into force and effect upon, from, and after
the day to be appointed for that purpose in any proclama-
tion of the governor of this province, announcing that her
Majesty in Council has been pleased to approve and confirm
this act, and not before."

GOLD DI AUSTRALIA.

The following is from the .Sydney .114niny herald
of Meaty, Ma)• 20, and quoted by that palce from the
Bathurst frre Press, of Saturday, the lith :

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" The discovery of the fact by Mr. Hargraves that the
country, from the Mountain Ranges to an indefinite extent
in the interior, La one immense gold field, has produced a
tremendous excitement in the town of Bathurst and the sur•
rounding districts. For several days after our last publics.
Lion the business of the town was utterly paralysed. A com-
plete mental mailliesa appears to have seir.al alinoat every
member of the community, and, as a natural coriacquence,
there has been a universal rush to the diggings. Any at-
tempt to describe the numberless scenes—grave, gay, and
ludicrous—which have arisen out of this state of things,
would require the graphic pun of a Dickens, and would ex-
ceed any limit which could be assigned to it in a newspaper.
Groups of people were to be seen early on Monday morning
at every corner of the streets, assembled in solemn conclave,
debating both possibilities and impossibilities, and eager to
pounce upon any human being who was likely to give any in-
formation about the diggings. People of alt trades, callings,
and pursuiti,were quickly trausfornual into miners, and many
a hand which hail been trained to kid glows, or ac-
customed to wield nothing heavier than the grey gooaequill,
became nervous to clutch the pick and crowbar or • rock
the cradle' at our infant mines. The blacksmiths of tho
town could not turn off the pick:, fast enough. and the manu-
' facture of cradles was the second briskest business of tho
place. A few left town on Monday, equipped for the dig-
ging% ; but on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday the roads
to Summer-hill Creek became literally alive with new mado
miners from every quarter, some maned with picks, others
shouldering crowbars or shovels, and not a few strung
rouud with wash-hand basins, tin pots and cullenders, gar-
den and agricultural implements of every variety either
hung from the saddle-law or dangled about the persons of
the pilgrims to Ophir. Now and then a respectable trades•
man, who had just left his bench or counter, would heave in
sight, with a huge something in front of his horse which he
called a cradle, and witlt which he was about to rock him-
self into fortune. Scores have moduli from their homes,
provided with a blanket, "a damper,- and a pick, or
grubbing-hoe, full of hope that a day or two's labour
would fill their packets with the precious metal; and wo
have heard of a great number who have started without any
provision but ri blanket and some rude implement to dig
with. Such is the intensity of the excitement that people
appear almost regardless of their present comfort, and think
of nothing but gold. Of course all this must end in disap-
pointment. The wet weather of the last two nithts, with
the damp ground for a lied, and the teeming clouds for a
canopy, will do much towards damping the enthusiasm of
numbers. We Imre the authority of an experiema d mall in
stating that from the imperfect and unsuitable implements
used by all who have left for the diggings, coupled with their
miserable provision in other respects, success is impossible;
that the labour necessary to success is extremely severe, and
lie ventures, as his opinion, that not more than 3 per cent.
will become permanent miners. Ono of the cousequences
lies been a rapid rise its the price of provisions. Flour,
which ranged from 2fis. to `2Bs. per Mils, has been sou
fur dn. ; tea, sugar, and almost every other eatable com-
modity have advanced in equal proportion. A large amount
of the wheat in the district is ill the hands of a b w specu-
lators, who will maintain their hold in the hope of a gold
harvest. But for the very extensive supplies now on their
way from Sydney Hour would soon be at a famine price, and
should a rush take place from below, its may he reasonably
expected, it is to be hoped that there are capitalists enough
to adventure in one of the safeat speculations of the times—
the purchase of flour for the supply of the district.

" What assisted very materially to fan the excitement
into a (lame was the arrival of a son of Mr. Neale, the
brewer, with a piece of pure metal, weighing II ounces,
which was purchased by Mr. Austin for 30/.,who started to
Sydney by the following day's mail with the gold and the
news. Since that an old man arrived in town with several
pieces in mass, weighing in all front two to three pounds.
Ile also started for Sydney with his prize. Mr. Kennedy,
the manager of the Bathurst Branch of the t'uion Bank of
Australia, visited the diggings on Saturday last in company
with Messrs. Hawkins and Green, and each of these gentle-
men picked up a small piece of the pure total; and a few
handfuls of the loose earth from the lost of the creek, which
were brought home by Mr. Kennedy from motives of curi-
osity, have been since assayed by Mr. Korn', front Sydney,
and a piece of gold extracted therefrom of the size of •
small pea. Besides these we have not heard of any par-
ticular instances of success.

"On Wednesday morning last, Mr. Hargraves, wan-
panied by Mr. Stutchbury, the government geologist, went
to the digging•, and with his own hands washed a pan of
earth in his presence, from which 21 grains of fine gold
were produced. lie afterwards washed several baskets of
earth, and produced gold therefrom. Mr. Stutchbury here-
upon expressed his satisfaction, and immediately furnished
him with credentials, which have since been forwarded to
goventment, The fact of the existence of gold is therefor°
clearly estaldished ; and whatever credit or emolument may
arise therefrom, Mr. Hargraves is certainly the individual
to whom it properly belongs. Should government deem
it necessary, as it most probably will, to appoint an in-
spector, superintendent, or commissioner, over the gold
regions, in addition to the fact of Mr. Hargraves being
the discoverer, his practical acquaintance with 1111. ' g points
him out as the most suitable and worthy person for the ap-
pointment.

" We have very much more to my, but have not space to
say it in.

" A Mr. Rudder, an experienced California gold digger, is
now at work in the diggings. There arc also several ma-
gistran's plying their pick and cradles most laboriously, but
we have not heard with what enemas. In fact there appears
every probability of a complete social revolution in the
course of time. Those who arc not already departed are
making preparations. Servants of every description are
leaving their various employments, and the employers are,
' rer ricressitatent, preparing to fellow. But, notwithstand-
ing all this, we feel that a reaction will speedily take place.
The approach of winter and wet weather will do something
towards cooling the ardour of the excited multitude."
[Bathurst [Bathurst is about 150 miles from Sydney.]

TILE UNITED STATEN' MAIL STEAMSHIP BALTIC.
—The Liverpool and United States' mail steamship Baltic,
Comstock commander, arrived at New York on the morn-
ing of the 16th ult., after the swiftest passage ever made
across the Atlantic. She took her departure from off the
Prince's-pier, Liverpool, on the 6th ult., at 3.3. i p.m., and
arrived at her berth in New York on the 16th, at 6.30 a.m.,
thus completing the run in precisely 9 days 19 hours, and
40 minutes ; being about five hours shorter than the Pa-
cific's celebrated passage in April last. During the voyage
the Baltic was delayed some time in consequence of a por-
tion of her paddle-tthata having been carried away by the
sea, and by a heavy fog on the Banks. On the last day of
the passage Captain Comstock's health was proposed, and
received with great enthusiasm, at the dinner table, and
' brief speeches in commendation of his consummate seaman-
ship and untiring energy were made by Archbishop Pur-
cell, Rev. 11. P. Peet, Capt. J. C. Delano, H. Greeley, and
others. Captain Comstoek handsomely acknowledged the
compliment, remarking, that a sailor needs no other reward
but the consciousness that he has done his duty. The fol-
lowing is an abstract of her log from Liverpool to New
York :
Date. Lat. Long. Dia, at
non.
Wednesday, August 6 ... 0 0 0 0 0
Thumns7 7 ... 65 24 BIS 245
Friday 8 ... 64 55 17 16 SIO
Saturday 9 ... 53 45 28 10 315
Sundae lo ... 52 07 34 10 326
Monda —ll ~. 50 .7 42 315
Tug `day —l9 ... 48 03 49 34 00
325
Wednesday —l3 ... 45 33 55 22 324
Thursday 14 41 09 G 3 22 312
Friday —l5 . 40 38 G 9 10 330
naturday —l6 (Battery at 620 a.m.)
AN ACCIDENT OCCURRED on the South-Western
Railway, near the Waterloo terminus, on Saturday after-
noon, which, although it was not attended with serious
consequences, caused very great alarm. At a few minutes
past five o'clock p.m. an express train from Richmond and
Windsor arrived at Vauxhall, and as it was close upon tho
heels of a train which had, left Windsor twenty minutes
earlier, proceeded at a very slow pace on the outer line
of the four sets of rails to the platform for taking
the tickets, and stopped there immediately behind
the other train for that purpose. While the company's
officers were taking the tickets an engine and tender,
,laden with coke, advanced to the terminus on the inner
rails of the up line, and when abreast of the two
trains on the other side of the platform the speed was
slackened, and at the tame moment another train came up
the line, and ran into the engine as it stood on the line as
stated. The train was luckily not coming at full speed, or
the consequences would doubtless have been very serious,
but, as it eg., the coke was thrown from the tender in all
directions lafy the violence of the shock, and several of the
passengers drceived severe blows by coming in contact with
the backs of the carriages and each other. The driver of the
engine with the train attached disclaimed any blame oedhis
part, so that it would appear the blame attached. to the
driver of the engine in advance
daylight an accident of the kind sli although, ;oat is broad
occur at all La very
disgraceful to all parties.

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THE NIZAM ANDENT.—No.2. THE INDIAN GOVERN-
M

(ram the Deis News.)
Is the explanation already given of the circum-
stances under which Lord DAutousui has issued
onanands for depriving the Mimi of etas-third of
his hist territories, and for interfering more actively
in the remaining two-thirds of the Deccan, the
statement was confined to one of the policy and his-
torical sequences of events to which the present con-
dition of that prince, the existing state of his domi-
nions, and the excuse which both conjoined have
afforded to the Governor-General of India, and, it
may be presumed, to the Court of Directors and the
Board of Control for the step that has been ordered,
are attributable.
We showed, or endeavoured to show, how a great
subsid;ary force of 8,000 men had been forced on the
Nina, at first for the purpose of securing him
against aggression, and had been kept up at his cost
long after there were no external enemies to defend
him against; how he had been subsequently induced
to receive and maintain the Hyderabad Contingent
with a view to its effectually assisting him in the
administration of his internal affairs; how that Con-
tingent giving him no such aid, he had been obliged to
call in the help of Arab levies; and how this
enormous burthen of three great armies had pro-
duccd a large deficit in his finances, had involved
him in debt to the British government, had com-
pelled him to raise loans from native capitalists to
stave off its demands as they became urgent,
had led to alienations of his Ilighness's own Jaghcers,
and so raised up throughout the Deccan an insubor-
dinate and oppressive nobility (who in their turn
kept mercenary troops in their pay), had given to the
Arab troops of the State a position of great political
danger in the Deccan, and had to some, but not to
any very great extent, disorganised the country.
Such 'is the rationale of that state of things in the
Doreen which is held to impose on the British go-
vernment the duty of its partition and their inter-
femme in the government of what is left to the
:Viz iit, and which journalists connected with the
India House contend ought to induce that govern-
ment to go much further and to absorb the whole
country, and consign its unfortunate prince to a luxu-
rious captivity and a painless extinction. Persuaded
that our account of the causes is accurate (though, of
course, we are subject in stating it to all the
difficulties arising from discussing the affairs of a
gou rnment which, notwithstanding Sir J. W.
110i...'s assurance to the contrary, is one of the
stiirtest Kerrey), it cannot be expected that we shall
as. 4 at either to the determination that has been
noliounced, or to the further act of spoliation which is
advocated. Neither seems to us consonant with
honour or good policy.
If the policy of the British government—a policy
which the Niztit has at all times been unable to
resist—have brought him so deeply into its debt and
rendered the state of his dominions hazardous to the
tranquillity of Southern India, the British govern.
melt is not, in that case, morally justifiable in
pushing to their utmost extent their pecuniary claims
against him; and what is morally wrong, Lord
Steo-usbrax told the Imperial Parliament when he
brought the wrongs of the Ameers of Seinde before
the House of Commons, cannot be politically right.
Such results of our, not his, polieT, imposed on us the
obligation of first assisting the Niz iit to remedy the
disorganisation so produced in the Ikrean, to reduce
hi. Jaglieenlani to subordination, to enable him to
disband without danger his Arab mercenaries,
and to reconstitute on a sound financial basis,
as was formerly dune by Sir Cst.SRLES MET-
( it er when resident at Hyderabad, his adminis-
tration, enstponing the liquidation of his arrears to
the Itriti‘h government until all that had been ac-
complished. And this, we say, was our duty, inas-
much as we ought in the commonest honesty to have
relieved his linancts of the burthen of the Subsidiary
Voice, when the final subjugation of the Nlalinittas
and the destruction of the Pindarries, left him no
extenial enemies against which to protect him; and
1k‘11,1...e the I lyderalsul Contingent has never been
made to do the duty it was organised to perform.
This, we must think, wan not a matter of generosity,
borate of bounden duty and common honesty.
The Indian government has, in point of fact, been
keeping up two armies at the Nitoes expense, im-
poverishing his treasury and demoralising his coun-
try. and now, when this its system has broken him
down by its financial pressure, that government is
about to inflict signal punishment on hint who, in its
hAnds, was thus rendered helpless for good. AU the
vast reitronage of these, we might almost say over-
officered armies, belongs, to the Court of Directors.
At first, as Major Moons: can tell his brother direc-
tors, the Hydentbad Contingent was very much sup-
plied with officers from our home services; but
gradually the jratronagc was transferred to Leaden-
hall-street ; and now it is furnished by draughts
from the Indian army, by officers withdrawn from
the Comrany's latttalions, and sent to command in
the Contingent. Old home soldiers and disappointed'
Cadets were formerly to be found in it; Major Moo
indeed entered in it when a lieutenant in the British
navy ; but that has long ceased ; and the two Bri-
ll."' armies in the Deccan, though wholly main-
tained and pensioned by the NIZAM, are in reality as
much part of the military force of the British govern-
ment as the army of any one of the three Presidencies.
It is that government, and not the Deccan or its
Prince, which has the benefit of this huge force;
and it is not honest or just to make the NIZAM
sutler when its cost has involved him in
heavy liabilities and the inefficiency of the two
armies imposed on him for any of his purposes has
disarrunged his administration. Colonel OLIPHANT,
to long iu the Subsidiary Force, and Major once, as
se have said. in the Hyderabad Contingent, ought to
have inculcated a better policy than this in the Court
of Directors.
But the Sir ext has, it is said, been continually
warned by the Resident at Hyderabad of what would
1111,11 V. But, of what use is it to warn a man to take

care how he walks along. the top of a narrow wall,
whose hands are tied behind his back by thoec who
warn hint? Wanting was unavailing when op-
portunity of using it properly was denied the NIZAM.
We treat him Mee a Child; then bid him act as a
man. We take away half his revenue ; then insist
on his maintaining peace and tranquillity with what
n main... We wont allow him the aid of an army
ts• which he pays us; then are disgusted by his cm-
Clon jug the only troops he can get—Arab Condottieri.
1: • .• moral respect of his nobles; then
• audacity. In short we refuse
that he shall make bricks. And
;proceed to punish him, thank-
of India is not like the Deccan.
at the resident on whose
has been made. General
an able man ; honest
able. In early life he
lEORGE BADI.OW ; fora long
British representative at
1 heaviest duty was to
town, and pay agreeable
ext. he resided at the
g thence promoted to By-
re has been the General's
ys offered the Stz 111 the best
may be freely admitted; but,
General FRASEM is an Indian
upwards of 40 years he has
4 he necessarily regas
that enlarged and en-
which intercourse with and
,1 countries would have
hindrances in the way
the Company he has
r served. Pally, then,
F.RASER'q merits, a doubt may
ernutted whether ho was exactly
get the Ntz.tm out of a difficulty
inextricable.
the grounds on which we
by Lord DAtnouste objec-
further intelligence, to see
.le it may, perhaps, be useful
little in advance at the affairs

CASE.—The inquest on the
Austrian spy. Racidula, alias the
• particulars of whew fraudulent
cd in the Eager.' of Monday,
yesterday before Dr. Birt Davies.
• the medical testimony, had long
- jury , and the verdict of the wuN.art,
the visitation of God."
" 1.1. LAND COMPANY DISSOLVINO.--Credi•
undir this order in Chancery for winding-up this coat-
i ,ny are to come in and prove their debts.

t. deprive him of the moral rt
Inm straw : and insist that he
when he has failed, we proere
in- (101, that the rest of In&
Anil just one glance at I
de ice this set ious more ho
.1: %sue is, no doubt, ul
tll honourable as he is
as a pad, y,' of Sir GEORG
ries of years the Brit
'ondielterry, where his )I
ride daily into the French to
3iNita to its best society. Ni
Court of Travancore; *being
ralsid. Such we believe
army. That he luta always 01
&ice he could muster may
spite of his abilities, Gene
f the old school; for upw
In out of Europe ; and
',llion Potentates without
toned intelligence which
t% ice in constitutional
toinoted : probably asI
the pi ogress of tt
long and faithfully
ppartating General FR.VSE
evertheksis be permitted
he fittest man to get the Ni
0 all appearance inextricabl
Raving thus explained tl
dim the crders issued by
tionable, we await for furt
their effect. Meanwhile it
to look by times and a little
of oude. •
Tur. Arwriusx S•
er
yof the deceased Austria!
Aromas son 131.1 k, the peril
au Lions wtro reported is
.1 held at Birmingham yeste
deetased, according to the
euirit,d from mu and
tt
6 be the risitatina at I.a