The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

Great sensation has been lately caused at Florence
by an intended duel with pistols between two coun-
tesses, in consequenee of a political dispute. One of
those ladies had taken an active part in the war of
Italian independence, and the other is a titir daughter
of the North, whose name is well known in the
diplomatic world. The combatants were on the
ground, and the pistols chargvd, when fortunately
their husbands arrived, and put a stop to the affair..

PLOT AGAINST THE LIBERAL GOVERN-

MENT OF PIEDMONT.

SECRET SITTING OF THE TURIN CHAMBER.
TURIN, Itn. 19.
On the motion of M. Moga Cambieri, the chamber
met in secret sitting.
Deputy Brotferio asked the Minister whether, as
a high personage had written to him front Paris, a
deputation or secret mission had been sent to the
Dresden conferences. lie had been given to under-
stand by that personage that the Prince de Carignan
and the Queen-Mother, in agreement with the chiefs
of the reaction, had sent Count Piussareo with
another individual to Dresden with letters of credit,
in order to cuter into communication with the Russo-
Austrian coalition, and assure the high contracting
powers "that the general wish of the Piedmonteso
nation was to see affairs again flow in the course
which they took at the epoch of ISl.i, and that
therefore there was no room to apprehend popular
resistance, or at the worst a civil war would not be
prolonged for more than a day."
llis Excellency the minister flalvagno replied that
the statement just made by the honourable deputy
was nothing but the simple truth. lle added that
the government was perfectly well informed of all
the proceedings, and that the deputies might sepa-
rate without tear, since the government was on the
alert. That as tar as the Prince de Carignan and
the other conspirators were concerned, the govern-
ment had no certain means of action, since, although
the moral proof was completely satistlwtory, it would
be next to impossible to fix them with the crime by
legal evidence.
The minister was asked what measures the govern-
ment proposed to take for securing the safety of tho
country ; the chamber would require something
more satisfactory than the mere verbal assurance of
the cabinet. Like assurances had been given by tho
democratic ministry on the eve of the entry of the
Austrians into Piedmont (before the battle of
Novara)

M. Souza de St. Martins (a member of the abso-
lutist party), declared that the King's government
believed itself strong enough to protect the liberals
against the reaction, but it could not assure them
against the Austrians.

DEMOCRATIC RIOTS IN SWEDEN AND

NORWAY.

Letters of the 18th ult. from Stockholm announce
that serious riots had taken place in that capital.
On the 14th the students of Uptal University as-
sembled to the number of 400 or 300, and paraded
the streets of Stockholm, and were not dispersed till
a collision took place between them and the police, a
result which greatly exasperated the body of the
people.
On the 13th the same scenes were renewed on a
larger scale, and on this occasion the police having
endeavoured to disperse a crowd of 1,000 or 1,300
people, was repulsed by showers of stones and other
missiles. The troops were called out, and squadrons
of cavalry soon cleared the streets. Thirty of tho
rioters were arrested. The regency instituted to act
in the absence of the king at the Norwegian Stor-
thing published a proclamation forbidding all assem-
blages of persons in the streets.

At the same time that these riots were taking
place at Stockholm,disturbances of a serious character
were also occurring in the province of Drontheim.
in Norway. The socialists and democrats in the dis-
trict of Stordal and the town of Levanger rose up
against the authorities who had imprisoned one of
their leaders, and were in full ;insurrectionary move-
merit up to the latest date.

CONSTA-NTINOPLE, FEB. 15.—The Austrian
government has replied to the Porte that it cannot
allow the liberation of the Hungarian prisoners at
Kintaya. Dembinski's is an exceptional case, due to
the special intervention of Sir Stratford Canning in
favour of the aged general.

MOVEMENTS OF THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.—For
the first time during many months no steam-ship ran for the
week be expected at Liverpool with mails from New York.
Formerly, the mercantile public were accustomed to receive
during the winter months, December, January, February,
and March, only fortnightly mails; but since the United
States mail line started, the ordinary vacuum, much to the
public satisfaction, has been filled up ; and hence the present
accidental break is felt as a proportionately more irksome
and unpleasant occurrence. It was at oue time hoped
that the royal mail steam-ship Cambria might arrive
out at New York in time to carry the European mails
destined for the eastward voyage of the Atlantic; but aa
she left Queenstown only on the 4th, and would scarcely
arrive out at New York before the 18th ult., it would be
impossible for her to leave that porton Wednesday, the 19th,
with the mails of the week ensuing since the departure of
the royal mail steam-ship Canada. It is understood, also,
that the Cambria, although open to receive such an offer,
I was not on her departure hence chartered for a return
voyage by the United States Mail Steam-ship Company.
Iler cargo being also unusually heavy, would require somatime for discharge, so that no probability exists of the usual
intermediate mail being received. Several packet-ships
are, however, due; and the royal mail steam-ship Africa,
with mails of the 26th ult., may he expiietod on Sunder
next. She will be succeeded, according to present arramte-
, ments, by the U. S. steam-ship Baltic; unless that skip
I should he detained In New York, as some time ago arranged,
I for alterations in her cabin accommodation, &c. ; it is
not improbable, we are told, that such would be the ewe ,•
the Cambria being again brought into requisition to fulfil
the company's contract in the meantime. We question,
Ihowever, whether anything decisive can yet be stated ; and
it is at least certain that great embarrassment must have
been experienced by the managers of the line in meeting
the difficulties mused by the Atlantic's disaster. Great
efforts ale being made to repair the Atlantic's machinery ;
and it is hoped that in a few weeks she will be amain ready
for sea ; though scarcely in limo to render effective service
during the earlier clays of the Exposition period. 011 Satur •
day, at half-past 11 o'clock a.m., the Royal Mail steam ship
Asia, Judkins, commander, left the Mersey for New York,
takiivr out 84 passengers, a rirh freight of British and con-
tiuental manufactures, and the usual mails. Several new
screw steamers may shortly be expected on the Liverpool
and New York line of eommeree.—Liverpool Albion.

INDIA.

ARRIVAL OF
THE OVERLAND 'MAIL

We have received.by express, our despatches in an-
ticipation of the Overland Mail from India. The
dates are Bombay, Feb.:; and Calcutta, Jan. 23.
The following is the litter of our correspondent :
BOMBAY, Fen. 3.
The papers have been filled during the print ten
dim with accounts of dinners given to Sir C. Napier,
at lurrachee, and comments on the speeches made
thereat by the gallant but somewhat indiscreet old
chief, wlio has made no secret of his feelings towards
the head of the Indian government. How far such
&ragman- diatribes against one holding such a
high area responsible office by one under him
an to he allowed, it will be fur the home autho-
rities to decide. Anything having a tendency
to bring into contempt the wisdom of the supreme
ruler of India should certainly not come from one
who lately held the second place in authority under
him. But. as was well said by the Bombay Times the
other day :—"lndiscretion, thy name is Napier."
The Governor-Oenerul visited the disastrous field of
Chillianwalla on the 14th of January, and was last
heard of at Itawul finder ; he expected to
reach Pestawur by the 22nd. Sir 11. lAVlTtnee re-
turned to Lahore on the date lust named ; and Sir
W. B. Gilbert had left for Calcutta, on his way
home, his term in India having expired. He has
ben succeeded by General Battine. Sickness in
the l'unjaub was at length fast disappearing. Heavy
rain had fallen nearly all over the province, and in
the northwest. The 'tribes from the hills were said
to be inclined for a descent in the direction of
Monitan, but they will doubtless think twice be-
fore they venture on such a step. In Upper
Seinde a potty of freebooters having carried offsome
camels, the Jemadar commanding the nearest station
started with his putty of Jacob's Horse in pursuit.
The ch,ce was continued fur hours, when at length
the robbers and their batty hove in sight ; and the
plunderes finding themselves likely to he overtaken,
abandoned the camels and Ned precipitately to the
hills. The animals were recovered, and an far all
was done which required to he accomplished.
Numbers of the horses of the pursuers had fallen
dead on the road, and the mounted party was now
reduced to lens than half a dozen, the gallant Jema-
dar having ridden the breath out of two himself. Not
satisfied itt seeing the rubbers escape, he mounted a
third horse, and, with three others, continued the pur-
suit. Th. v entered the hills by dark, where they
were quickly surrounded by large numbers of the
mountain' ere, and cut to meets, one only returning
seven-l• wounded to tell the tale. A fort in the
sum's • dominions, named Dharoor, having been
seictsl fes MI the guard by about MO Itohillu prisoners,
a regular force bus been sent against it—the garrison
Living laid in provisions for a siege by contributions'
from the surneunding villages. It is not expected the
Bohillas will lel had-hartlyenough tohold out long. Thu
(I. eistuu given by the privy council in the ease of Rum
-
lan and the opium gambling transactions, will cause
no little disaster to a large number of small dealers,
awl one eminent native firm are lomere, it is said, to
the tune of •finotati. thereby! The decision is no
&alit a just one, but it is a pity it required to be
so. There have been several changes in brigade
to mends in the Bombay army of lute: Brigadier
thrifts). (sigh) has resigned the command at
Sukkur, and is going home; he has been sue-
led by Brigadier Wilson (filth) from Norm,
and this latter has been succeeded by Colonel
Trydell (Krd). The Kurrnehrte brigade has been
given to Colonel Stack, Ist Lancers—the Aden
brigade to Colonel Forbes, 2-Ith Native Infantry,
Colonel Wilson from the former having been trims-
terred to lowa, and Brigadier Cuuninghame having
gone' home from the latter, General Sturdy, when
he arrives, will probably be bent to the southern
division. The ex-Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles
Napier, embarks this evening; all the troops
in garrison are to be turned out to honour
his departure at five p.m. The papers re-
ceived to-day contain no news. A petition was
bring got up at Calcutta in favour of time American
lad Very, eondemned for murdering a countryman
named knox, on the ground of his youth, &e.

'The Dotting, Timex gives the following summary
of the CVCid% of the fortnight :
. _

The city of Rangoon, in Burrnah, has been almost
wholly destroyed by a fire which sacurred on the 28th of
Deoensher. A. man engaged in boiling some oil went out to
ace a MIMICSe ship-of-war just then arrived in harbour ;
he forgot his charge, the nil boded over, and the house was
in a mimeo: in H. is. The tire spread instantly through
the streets, the bulk of the houses hems of woad; the catholic
chureli, when in the ntiJst of the flames, was saved from de-
struction by a sudden shift of the breeze. The building
yiril and vessels in the harbour were preserved by the wise
pr. caution of pulling down all the sheds and other concbus-
big, structures around. Several ships were burnt to the
water's edge. Ihe property destroyed is yalued at
:109.iiiinf.—A doubt has arisen whether Maulmain and the
Teinaisserim pnisincsis belong or not to Bengal, no formal
minication having ever °rearm'. Serious legal difficulties
might lw raised on the subject —The Oovernur-General was
at Chillianwalla on the 16th ; he was expected to reach Pe-
abiwur by the 20th. Ile continues in excellent health, and
a. indefaiigable as ever in the performance of his duties.
- The Past-Office tommiwsioners have at length assembled
at taleuttal they will, it is said. ncommend to government
lb- adoption of a one nnnit—three-halfpenny—postarte all
oar India. bleb ail of the present exorbitant and unequal
charges: and mils.• that the privilege of franking be ex-
tinguished. Our litter carriers in India, it must be re
marled. are men on foot, and the chief part of their load
conseets ill hear). official papers..—The Commander-in-Chief,
Sir W. Gomm, hos issued an order on the subject of debt,
in which the view, of Sir C. Napier are complimented anal
adoptidl.—Sir John Ore,. the Bombay comnumiler-in-chief,
Ls remitted the punishment of Captain Moyle, of the 2nd
i °mailer N. 1., sentenced to he cashiered for having written
_it, anonymous letter, slandering the wife of • brother
officer, and then denied it. Cornet Stewart, of the ith

Madras l'alvalry. of whom we have hitherto spoken as
Lieut. X., continue.' with his corps, after being convicted
of the grossest slanders on the character of a young lady,
and the most atrocious system of falsehood in deny-
ing them. Ile has not had the benefit of a trial
court-martial at all. The trial of the Americans chanted
with munleriust the poor man Knox, at the Cal-
cutta lee-house, has terminated in the acquittal of
two of the prisoners: the lad Very, who confessed, has been
onvietesl. tut the jury n-commended him to mercy on the
grounds of his having been the tool of others—the. others
having just before been pronounced innocent. Trial by
leery in India is the greatest of conceivable humbugs
die men acquitted have since been held to trial on
A charze connected with the murder. Very is to
fe- hanged. The Bombay government have engaged the
services of Mr. Fallon for it twelvemonth, at 401. a month,
for the purpose of obtaining drawings of the Cave Temples
of Western India, in compliance with the wishes of the
t'ourt of nineteen. They have allowed NO/. for drawings
of the ruined city of Beejapore, but have not, so far as we
know, as yet found an artist. Portrait painters who come
amongst vs find the practice of their art too profitable for
such undertakings, and we have no native draughtsmen.
—A magnificent set of drawings of the Caves of Ajanta,
4 Captain (lilt, of the Madras Army, got up under the
Madras government, was recently exhibited amongst us.
—lnquiries connected with the ease of the bettance
Jostalehve at &rod& arc still iu progress; the property
which fur many years was withheld from her exceeds
a million sterling in value: of this nearly a third is
sad to have been squandered in bribes by the wretch Bab
istfilay„ who stole her child and blackened her character
t she was believed one of the most worthless of her sex.
The charges have all been proved false, but such is the in-
fluence of the money of her accuser, that 1001. a year is all
the pittance now allowed her out of an estate worth .50,0001.
a par—tee be kept under trustees till the heir becomes of
+gr. The revelations of the &rods Residency records are
rued to he such that their production before parliament is
mandrel for the sake of the British character.
Then has of late beta one of those disturbances in the
Nirem's dominions which seem of periodical occurrence,
lied which his own troops seem unable to prevent or sup-
ress In NM about 200 Itolillah prisoners, taken with
wins in their hands, were immured in the fort of Dharoor,
one of the strongest in the Nixam's dominions. About
noon on the 2nd of January, some sixty or seventy of
the guards had gone outside the fort to cool their din-
Scone of the prisoners, who managed to escape, set
eh. to the sepoys* houses, and in the melee which ensued
ere who* contrived to secure their freedom. Four of the
1410011erli and six of the sepoys were slain. The commander
of the garrison was nett laid hold of, and tortured
1 he ordered the whole of the troops to eva-
caste, leaving their arms behind them in the hands
V the insurgents. The country round was laid under
contribution, and preparations male for a siege ; the
idle stray troops roaming the country unemployed,
fl.cking meanwhile to the post. The Rajah of Ellechpoor
hal shortly before disbanded a large number of men, and
from these further reinforcements were drawn. Daroor. is
re Wile" front hlientiaabad, the head quarters of the cavalry
Jirisiem. From this place the tad cavalry—twosquadronsof
04'101 front Guolburgah, a troop of the sth from Atomoga-
hail three companies of the 4th Nizam's Infantry from
Ilineedco. with a wing of the •Ith, two 19-lioander gun', '
tw.. 9 ;mit tnort.w., and • light lilt battery, proccArd
`'about delay fur the acenc of action. The 6th Infantry
•41re ordered from Botanists, and by the 25th January
tom were expected to be some 2,000 men, with eight

pieces of ordnance, before the fort—the whole com-
manded by Ilrimulier Matson, a distinguished sol-
dier. Strong as was the fort, the rebels were expected
to capitulate at once before a force so overpowering.
There has been a heavy 1,11 of snow at Simla, Landour,
tylipourie, and the Moms, with rain all over the N.W.
provinces.—A slight shone of an earthquake was experi-
enced at Calcutta, and a more severe one at Burrisaul, on
the Bth Jan.—Another 1111.4 felt at Moultan and Lahore
while the moon was uinho eclipse on the 17th..—On the
litth of November an aerulitc fell at Sulkea, near Bissau-
pore, about three o'clock in the atterrwin. It was
accompanied by an explosion like the discharge of
ordnance —it buried itself some four feet in the
ground. On being extracted, it was found to measure
three feet by one and a half in eireumferenc-e. On the Bth
January a meteor of surpassing 'brilliancy was wren at
liverbhorim, about 20 minutes past nine in the morning and
full sunshine. It burst as it approached the earth, and a
great block was seen to fall from its fragment. towards the
ground. It has not hitherto been picket] up.
The late Commander-in-Chief of India, Sir Charles
James Napier, G.C.8., returns to Europe by this day's
steamer; he arrived, as was expected, at Kurrachee from
llydrabad on the 14th, and was in the evening entertained
by the station staff, on the lith by her Majesty's 83rd,
and on the 17th by her Majesty's Gith ; un each of
which occasions he delivered an address., which we,
shall pis sently have occasion to notice. On the
27th he reached the presidency by the steamer Dwarka ' • a
government vessel had been offered, but was declined by
hint. Ile was received on the pier by a large body of
officers, consisting of members of the Presidency Staff and
others; a guard of honour, consisting of a com-
pany of 11. M.'s 78th Highlanders was drawn up
for his reception. fission shortly addressed then,
on the subject of their sickness in Scinde in 1841-45, he
stated that he had been charged with having marched them
from Kurracheo to Sukkur at an improper 110/1,011 of the
year; that this was an infamous and worse than damnable
falsehood on the part of the low, lying pre. of India, who
might all go to —; he should not break his heart fur
anything they had said.
Of late years the court of directors have taken into their
hands the consideration of the supply of cued for the Indian
navy, and from scanty despatches and slow voyages together
our stores have been permitted well nigh to run out. At
Aden we hale been for some time reduced to borrowing
from the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and unless the
colliers now at sea immediately make their appearance,
we shall be reduced to a like dilemma at Bombay. The
4,000 tons now on the way out are said to be too small a roan-
tity for our wants. No blame on these subjecui attaches
to the local authorities, who have repeatedly made
those at home aware of what was wanted. The Queen
steamer a mouth since, and the &nostril., which arrived a
week ago, both ran out of coal between Aden and this, and
were obliged to burn their lower decks, their topmasts,
spare yards, and hawsers, losing an infinitude of time on
the way, their progress occasionally being under three and
a half knots an hour with this expensive fuel.—Cholera has
of late been very prevalent; about 2,500, mostly natives,
arc belived to have died of it within a couple of months;
during January chime on 3,00'J deaths have occurred in the
island, of which 1850 have been caused by epidemic.

In returning thanks fur his health having been
dnink at a dinner given to him at the Byeulla club,
Sir Charles Napier said:
Gentlemen—lt is with some difficulty that I rise to
thank you for the toast which you have just drunk, and the
flattering mann, r in which it figs been received by you, pre-
ceded as it was by one of thi nowt eloquent apeeeheo I ever
heard. I cannot help 11 cling myself moat highly praised,
more prabual than I distr . d to llse, and that in the moat
eloquent language ; but you can only have in reply n plain
speech from a poor soldier, who, passing here on his way
home, seas quite unprepared for the high honour you have
done him. I see here, as well us soldiers, not a few civilians.
I am supposed to be an enemy to the civilians in this
country—such is not the case—this was ever far below rue.
Gentlemen, yOll Milt allow me large latitude this even-
ing, for, sit help me God, I did not know what I was to
say before I stood up. Sir William Yardley (who pro-
pusa,d the toast) has praised me far beyond anything to which
I tan lay claims, but there is one point in which he has
not gone farther than he ought—in saying that I would
he the first to feel hurt at any praise tonic in deterioration
of Lord Gough. Lord Gough I venerate as a soldier, and
there is no nobler heart than that which beasts in the bosom
of Lord Gough. Sir William Yardley heaps upon my
shoulders all the glory of the conquest of Srinde—that glory
I beg to share with the armies, of India—if something was
due to me fur arrangement, much was due to the soldiers
who fought. Here I see Whittlec, Leeson, Wyllie, and
dozens of other I could point out around me ; and there is
the brave Bengal 9th, and the hardy little corps of Madras
'sapper,. I love the armies of all the three presidencies, and
cannot pose any of them, but must confess my prejudice to
the Bombay army. I oast this not to the prejudice of the
armies of the other presidencies. I hove seen among them
soldier, as staunch as could anywhere be found, but I
first served with the Bombay army, and I love it most.
I am now seventy years old, and ant I sun afraid become
a little prosy; ha! --but you roust forgive an old soldier.
In Bombay you have good qualities, hut you are inclined
to hide them. There is a brave and gallant soldier who rose
from the ranks, now at this table. Ile was the first to plant
the British colours on the walls of Mooltan. But a regula-
tinu, that thing shove all others cursed, prevents that gallant
soldier from sharing in the benefits of a fund, which, in ease
of his death, would place his widow above the reach of want.
Gentlemen, that regulation ought to he broken. (Great
cheering.) lam afraid, gentlemen, you must submit to •
wild rambling speech, but you must have patience with me.
There were two or three below me of whom I must speak—
I like to come to points much better than many of my
neighbours do—ollicers who did more for me than I could
ever do for them, the first of whom I would mention is one
who fell—Brown, of the Bengal Engineers, and Major
McMurdo, of whom, being nearly related to me, I cannot
speak; and there is Metres Ali Akbar, my moonshee, who
follows el me through all my battles, and was with me in every
action; who executed all my orders, and, without giving
him more than his due, did as much towards the
conquest of Scinde as a thousand men. This man
I hod hers in Bombay, disgraced, without employ-
ment, and a beggar. I don't wish to find any fault with
government, hut this, I know, that Mterza Ali Khan has
had the benefit of no trial, but has been condemned un-
heard. After the conquest of Seinde, again, I cannot take
to myself all the praise which Sir William Yardley has
heaped upon me. lam deeply indebted for assistance in
its rule by two of the collectors—there were three of them,
but I say two—Major Guldney and Major Rathboru. These
gentlemen followed me in war, but they did more for me
in time of pence, and they did much to uphold the honour
of India in Seindc. The credit of the rule of Scinde
is due to those gentlemen as well as to me, and to them
you must give it. I take credit to myself for my zeal to
my country, and the welfare, honour, and glory of India.
I am called an enemy to the directors. No, I am not ;
but when lam ill-treated I resist. This is mere independ-
ence—independence of spirit, which, old as I am, I hope I
may curry to the grave with me. Fifty-seven years ago
I received, my commission: I received it then rejoicing
as a boy, and through your kindness I now finish my
career, rejoicing as a man. I have never felt real anger
with anybody; sometimes, indeed, I have felt anger for a
moment, and I have often wished for a good broomstick,
and to have been within three yards of the object of it.
Everyone has their little peculiarities, and I'll not hide
mine. I turn to the interests of Bombay. Scinde has been
conquered, no matter how, or when, or for what reason—it
has been conquered, and when I rode through Scinde the
other day I saw whole seas of grain. lam not much of a
farmer, but I know the ditferenco between wheat and bar-
ley—hut there were others with me who were practical
men, and who aasured me that the riches of that soil were
almost boundless! Your steamers can go right away up the
north-west provinces to Lahore and numberless other places
up there, and will eventually bring down the whole riches
of that part of India to enrich Bombay. I met a little man
named Arratoon; he was a little man, like one of these small
Meant SIMS, small to look at, but of tremendouo power.
This Arratoon told me that he had felled a quantity of the
most splendid timber up there; it was of a very fine kind,
and of the finest growth, and all that Arratoon wanted
to bring this splendid timber to your Bombay dock-
yard was the assistance of government to protect it
on the way down, and prevent its being plundered
by rajahs and robbers on the way. Well, Arratoon applied
to the Marquis Dalhousie for protection, but he was asked
to prose that he had the means of bringing it down ?
What had government to do with means ? Is it not enough
for it to let every one look after their own means. lam
not much of a politician, but I know that trade must he fos-
tered by government in the first instance, that it may be
able to support government in the second. But this is not
ranch to the purpose. We know there is a produce, were it
only brought down, and then we should see Bombay en-
riched with all the riches of the north-west. Bombay, from
its locality—from its being the nearest of any of the presi-
dencies to England—will soon beat Calcutta in grandeur.
And there is Kurrachee, which, when I left a short time
ago, had only some five thousand inhabitants, when I saw
It the other day had twenty-five thousand inhabitants : this
is by reason of the conquest of Scinde, and on account of
the conquest of Stinde, Dozabay will soon be the capital of
India.

In proposing the " Indian Army," Sir Charles
said:
When I came out here I thought I was to be commander-
in-chief, but I was mistaken ; yes, gentlemen, egre-
gionsly mistaken. I found that I was merely a sort :of
monster adjutant,—nor even as a monster adjutant emit-
plete, but like • half-caste bullock, neither one thing ,
nor tother. Gentlemen, I do not believe that any one
of the commanders-in-chief who went before me knew I
I exactly what they came out to do ; and MI tell what '
is more, gentlerni n,—by God, I don't mainly know my-
self. Hero with your regulars and irregulars, pine ran-
gen, your Shed corps, and I don't know what else, you
have an army of four hundred thousand men who are fit
for anything. Where a British officer leads, you will
ever find the black scpoy follow. In the pass of Kohat,
11 where not a abut should have been fired, I saw the noble
aepoys covering their officers and carrying off the wounded
and the fallen. I never think of the savoy without
admiration, nor of the Bombay 25th without affection.
The troops of India are, I think, equal to almost any
troops; indeed, I think there is no difference between them
and our own British troops; but, gentlemen, it is my
opinion that they have not enough of officers. Give them
enough of British offices, and they arc a match for any
army In the world.
In another of his farewal speeches, Sir Charles said
that he had been dictated to on military matters by
boy-politicals, who knew nothing whatever of mili-
tary science. "It is this, gentlemen, this," said Sir

Charles, " that has caused me to resign my com-
mand. I hare been thus explicit with you because
lam among my own Bombay officers once more. It
is this, I repeat, that has caused me to resign."

The Caleteta Enylishman, in its Overland sum-
mary, says:
Our latest advice! from Hydrahad state that the inten-
tions of the British government are still doubtful. Our
correspondent writes:
"Though it is now nine days since the expiration of the
time allowed to the Nixara to pay his debt, nu money has
hem fortheoin:ag ; and the matter has nut been agitated by
the Resident further thaw by a note addressed to his high-
ness on the sth, the substance of which was a suggestion
that it was proper his highness should pay the money.
" We had all along understood that the instructions to
the Resident to adjust the debt at the stipulated time were
peremptory, and that a sealed letter from the Governor-
General for delivery to the Nizam at the appointed time
had been transmitted to him. From the delay which has
intervened, and the apparent laxity of the proceedings, I
conclude that the instructions were not so binding as they
were understood to be, and may admit of a modification.
I am disposed to believe it not unlikely that the Resident
may have found in his conference with the Ninon matter,
though his highness was not convincing in the main, which
might sanction his addressing the Governor-General and
submitting his own views on the question to him. The Re-
sident would favour, I believe, a native government
with a minister under the direction of the Resident.
I cannot conceive a worse measure, for thus there
would be absolutism without responsibility in the Resident,
and official reports on certain subjects arc nothing. It
might be represented to the Governor-General (and if there
be nut wisdom, there is sufficient speciousness in the argu-
ment), that to take the country from the Ninim is to preci-
pitate the downfall of his sovereignty; that if he could
not put his finances in order, with the entire resources at
present in his possession, it would be impossible to expect
that (opposed as he is to retrenchment by inclination, and 1
incompetent as he is to effect it from the want of power 1
and money) destruction should not more epeedly follow a "
reduced income. That if the measure were understood to
have precipitated his downfall it would be odious to the I
English people, and might not be altogether politic,
when the termination of the charter is so near. That
it' the Governor-General in council would consent to take
temporary charge of his highness's dominions, five or six
years would be sufficient to bring his affairs into order, se-
duce a turbulent and overbearing soldiery, bring the ex-
penditure within the limits of the income, establish the
efficient administration of justice, regulate the police,
and, though last not least, abolish a system of uni•
versa' corruption; and the government might then
b.; restored, if it were thought proper, into his Highness's
hands, under such cheeks as might ensure a better govern-
meat for the future. The Resident might state that these
suggestions were the results derived from his conference
with the Nitro's, who had complained bitterly that he
had not been faithfully served by his ministers, that he did
not know where to find a man fur office, on whose fidelity,
integrity, and capacity he could rely to do him service ;
that the conduct of the Nixam, who was reluctant to ap-
point a minister, was conclusive as to the fact of his want
of confidence in his subjects and servants, and that, as the
Resident must himself confess, he did not see the man
whose unguided judgment could restore the affairs of this
government to order, lie would strenuously recommend
to his government as the Nixam's ally, that might be
dune to provide security for the permanence of
the state, which the Nizam himself was unable to
effect. I would say, employ a commission, governed by
English instruments, under English responsibility, and you
provide the best means of a good 'government, which I take
to consist in the preservation of the rights of the people. A
commission furnishes good security fur a good government
in the removing of the members of a disunited council.
"The letter from the. Resident, requiring payment, has
hail no other effect, than that of making the Num call upon
his ministers of finance to find money. The dolorous an-
swer to his requisition i• jralauknom, a. e., your orders shall
he obeyed; and though his Highness ha. found this answer
to have. no practicalble effect, the answer, as it is given, is
considered to be valid."

e have little local news. On the 17th, the three Sikh
chiefs, Shere Sing, Outur Sing, and Chutter Sing, arrived
here under a strong guard, and were safely lodged in Fort
William on the following day. It is said that they will be
sent, with their countryman, Dewan Moulrej, to Singapore.
The government has lately passed an act of the legislature
authorising itself to detain state prisoners. It would be
well if some independent member of the House of Com-
mons would move for a return of such persons, with the
reasons fur their detention.
The affair, of the Nurth-western Bank of India con-
tinue the subject of curiosity. The whole concern ap-
pears to have been fraudulently managed from an early
period. One of the directors, Captain Blois, who as
an auditor, certified the correctness of the accounts,
has threatened a prosecution for libel which may
probably elicit more fact.; in the meantime the directors
do not explain their intentions, but it is supposed that
they must bring the concern to a close. Another notorious
joint stuckery, the India General, held its regular half-
yearly meeting on the 20th, but the directors not being
prepared with the accounts, their friends did not attend,
and the number of shareholders required by the deed not
being pros ent the meeting was informal, and another will
have to be called when it suits the directors' convenience.
A General Order has been published assembling a com-
mittee at Simlah on the Ist March next, for the purpose of
compiling a code of regulations for the Bengal army. The
object is praiseworthy, and where so many contradictory
rules exist is urgently called for.

MOOLTAN.—Letters from Mooltan, to Jan. 18,
state that Captain Douglac, with the Bengal ordnance and
macrazina establishment had arrived from Ajrneer and was
busily engaged taking over charge; the Bombay people
expected to leave very shortly on their way back to
ticinde. Brigadier Lloyd, C. 8., was to leave in a few
days for his new appointment at Agra, and had been sue-
seeded by Brigadier Hewitt. An earthquake had been felt
at the time of the eclipse of the moon on the evening of the
17th, which lasted a couple of seconds. The artillery were
to return to their quarters in the fort from camp in the be-
ginning of February. The weather was very cold, and the
troops quite healthy.

UPPER SCINDF..—The following gives full particu-
lars of an affair already mentioned —Various rumours have
of late been current in reference to the brush betwixt the
Seinde HMSO and the frontier robbers, which
took place now nearly a month ago, and the usual
fate of mystification in such matters has resulted—
accounts almost as wide as possible of the fact
have gained currency, and the gallant leader of the
Scindo Horse is affirmed by his enemies to have
allowed himself to be entrapped into an ambuscade. The
following may be most perfectly relied on :—An excess of
gallantry has unfortunately cost one gallant native officer
his life, but how such matters should be managed with-
out loss, or how the most forward in the field should
nut most frequently fall, it is for those to explain who
impute remissness in the management of the present affair.
Somewhere about the 20th ultimo a large number of
mountaineers assembled in the Morrow valley pre-
paratory to making a raid on the Rosen ltlurrarees ; but
finding that • strong detachment of the Scinde horse had
been sent to Shawallce, about twelve miles N.N.E.
of Kusmore, with • view to giving them a fitting
reception, they abandoned their intention, and the
greater number are supposed to have returned to their
villages to await a more favourable opportunity. Some of
the more needy or daring, however, would seem to have
determined not to return empty-handed, and accordingly
made a capture of a number of camels from • place called
Boordika. The particulars of this having reached the
native officer in command at the station of Kundkote, he
with a small party of Jacob's Horse, started in pursuit, on
the morning of the 24th ult, Their track was quickly dis-
covered, and all haste made after the retreating robbers.
They were overtaken at a place called Sarum. Perceiving that
their pursuers were close upon them, the marauders aban-
doned their booty, and fled pereipitately. The camels
were all recovered, but with this the gallant jemadar was
not content. His party had covered nearly 30 miles of
ground without • a halt, many of the horses having
fallen down dead from the over-exertion, and two having
been ridden to death by the commander himself. He
was soon on the back of a third, and, with the few
of his party still mounted, galloped on after the
fugitives. By evening he had advanced into the hills be-
yond the village of Hyran, where he was encountered by •
number of footmen and a party of horse, his own having
dwindled down to three besides himself—two of the Seinde
horse and one of the Belooch guides. This latter urged the
necessity of an immediate retreat, as they were but as one
to twelve of the mountaineers, and the ground was so diffi-
cult as to render it a difficult matter for horses fresh from the
stable to act. The counsel was unfortunately rejected by
the brave but inconsiderate officer, who would not listen to
such a thing as turning his back on an enemy, on whom
he with his two men charged with the utmost fury.
They were of course surrounded and dragged from
their saddles, lout met their fate in the most deter-
mined manner. They were speedily cut to pieces,
but before being so they killed and wounded at least
five times their number. The guide was also wounded,
but managed by some means to escape from the robbers.
Other parties from tbe different posts around had been or-
dered out to join in the pursuit, but did not arrive in the
neighbourhood in time to prevent the catastrophe which
overtook the Jemadar and his two comrades. They, how-
; ever, secured the camels and succoured the dismounted
, party with them, and brought them, as well as the wounded
guide, back in safety. It is said that the unfortunate
Jeinadar Doorga Singh, who paid with his life the penalty
of his rashness, was one of the most active and intelligent
offioen in the gallant corps to which he belonged. He had,
before volunteering to Jacob's horse, served nearly twenty
years in the 2nd cavalry, and had always been distinguished
for his gallant bearing as • soldier ; his death was no doubt
greatlylamented by his commander, himself one of the first
soldiers of the day.
IVEZEERABAD.—A letter from Wuzeerabad of the

31st ult. states that a heavy fall of rain had occurred, which
had delayed the Governor-General's movements. It was
supposed that the camp would not move before the 6th or
7tb inst.
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The country people are impressed with the notion that
Golab Sing sent a Bodice to do the honours to the Go-
vernor-General, being far too cunning to put himself in the
power of the British. What, will they say when they see
the Governor-General placing himself in Golab's hands?
They will think it irnpia,siblo for hint to return without
giving up the whole Punjab to the Maharaih. The Gover-
nor-General's progress is so slow that he will certainly spin
out the cold season in the Punjab, and will probably wel-