The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THU.

actessible to all, foreigners or natives, without any
partiality. On due information, the accused of any
nation OM at any time be brought to trial, and the
convicted of any nation condemned to punishment.
This is all we can offer, because it is all that is just.
Any despotic ruler who creates refugees by his
method of rule must provide for the consequenoes
within his own frontier. The French EMPI3IOI
professes to do so by his passport and police system.
If his system fails, he cannot use us as its substitute.
We are willing to receive and act upon any criminal
information, from any foreign Government; but we
are not, and do not intend to be, anybody's police
agents and spies. Every Englishman, from the
cabinet to the plough-tail, will agree in this as
something almost too plain to deserve statement:
and yet we mast not be above taking care of
the bright ess of our honour in this charac-
teristic department of our policy. If it was a
case in which the French Go veniment was opposed
to the Austrian, there would be little danger
of too much concession to the convenience of our
nearest neighbour : but this is a matter in which the
Austrian and French Sovereigns are of one mind.
Under such circumstances it is necessary that we
should protect ourselves, and not leave to any
Minister or Cabinet any opportunity to make con-
cessions which to any indolent or timid mind may
appear small, while, properly regarded, they may be
such aa the nation cannot righteously ratify. The
French EMPEROR must be clearly informed that we
understand the origin and the value of the military
and courtly demonstrations by which he permits him
people to be misled ; and that we think it will be
most for the interests of the alliance, as it certainly
is indispensable to his credit, that he should correct
the misapprehensions by which we are insulted, and
discountenance the claims and threats which he and
we alike know to be absurd. It is for Parliament
to ascertain how this matter proceeds, and to watch '
over the integrity of our policy of individual re-
sponsibility to the laws, and to nothing else.
We wish we could feel equally certain that the
popular and the parliamentary mind was duly awake
to the peril of the Ministerial policy in regard to
India. If Lord PALMERiTON is unaware what he
is undertaking in changing the whole principle and
practice of Indian Government, it may be feared
that too many, who are less bound to understand it,
may exhibit equal levity. We earnestly trust not
and the interval since the Government measure was
first disclosed in our columns and the meeting of
Parliament has been actively employed in at least
showing that the affair is a more radical and a more
pregnant question than the Prime Minister himself
supposes, or would have it supposed.
The Reformers of England will, we trust, take
Dare of their own cause. They have had some
wooer, apparently, in convincing the Government
that they are in no mood for trilling, and that they
mean to hold Ministers to their pledges in regard to
a new Reform Bill. We hear less than we did about
want of time, and the benefit of delay. Our repre-
sentatives have to make it clear that it is the other
great measure for which delay is desirable, whereas
a pledge intelligently required and positively given,
must be fulfilled.

THE LATE MR. JOHN WEDDERBURN,
BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE.

Mr. John Wedderburn, one of the early victims
of the Indian mutinies, was the eldest son of Mr.
Wedderburn, late of the Bombay civil service. He
entered the Bengal civil service in 1844, and, while
serving in Behar, was one of those selected for an
appointment in the Punjaub, when first annexed, in
1849. There he received the thanks of government
for his services in organising and settling a newly-
acquired district near Mooltan ; and while subse-
quently filling the important position of Deputy
Commissioner of Lahore his exertions an construct-
ing roads and other public improvements were again
acknowledged. Mr. Wedderburn came home on
furlough after ten years' service, and returned to
India in the spring of 1867, accompanied by his
young wife and infant son ; he wee immediately ap-
pointed Magistrate and Collector at Hisser, North-
West
provinces, which station he had only joined a
few weeks when the mutiny at Meerut and Delhi
broke out. The isolated situation of Hisser now
rendered the position of Mr. and Mrs. Wedderburn
see of extreme danger, and he realised at once, to its
full extent, the imminent peril to the British empire
in India and to every individual European in it, bat
resolved to meet all with the determination of amen
and the faith of a Christian. He exerted himself
with the utmost energy is the adoption of measures
for the security of his district. He removed the go-
vernment treasure, with his own family, into the fort,
under the protection of the Hurrianah Infantry, com-
manded by Lieut. Bar well; maimed the responsibility
of raising a regiment of Irregular Horse • and pro-
cured 100 troopers from the l)adree Chief (who
gave repeated assurances of fidelity); thus endea-
vouring to secure one faithful body of troops among
so many. But all proved traitors. His exertions pre-
served tranquillity in Hisser till the 29th of May,
when the arrival of emissaries from Delhi and
Hanel proved • signal for the troops at the fort to
mutiny ; and after murdering Mr. Wedderburn's
young wife and child they proeeeded to the Court-
house, at some distance apart, where he was trans-
acting business, and surrounded it. Mr. Wedder-
burn called on the Sepo3s on guard to resist them,
but in vain; he wu fired upon by both parties, and
fell under the combined attack of the Dam
troopers and his own treacherous guard, within a
brief half hoar after his wife and child. " Lovely
in their lives, in death they were not long divided,
and each was spared the agony of knowing the
other's fate. In Mr. Wedderburn the Indian go-
vernment loses an officer to whose zeal and valuable
qualities the highest testimony has been recorded
by his superiors in office. Many grieve for him in
Lahore, both natives and Europeans; while his large
and attached connexion in this country are called
upon to mourn for one not more endeared to them
by the ties of kindred than by the amiable disposi.
tion and manly heart, which in him were united
with a piety unshaken to the last.

The Earl of Derby entertained at dinner, lest
maim at Ids reseeks in St. Jazose's-zquare, the Duke
of Yeatretis, the Dab of Rutland, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, the IWO. of Exeter, the Marquis of Downahim,
the EM el Cenurnm, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl
Talbot, the lied Dittman, the Earl of Cardigan, the BM
of Hardskeet the Earl of EgUnto; the Earl of Vendetta,
the led d UM, the Earl of fitzudbroke, the Earl of
Maassbary. be Earl of Wilton, Lord Southampton, Lori
Fonder, laid At. Leceards, Lord Redesdals, and Lord

It sow appose frets a letter addressed by the
Earl of Shaillsehary to the Tomes, that his lordship
laserteelly merle& when ha was made to my
at Whotreay dal be had sera a letter "from
the highest lady new to India, describing that day
by 4117 Wl= wm s endog into Calcutta, their cars
sad their mosso eat et and their eyes pet oat." His iced-
ship had oaly hoard of wait a letter " some Urns before,'.
Imea a pima la when be bad entire catildrima The dis-
abling', published lathe aims of lady Canning, who was
sepessei I. boss isse the writer of the letter, Is soospted by
the met as enlist to prove that his Mtwara* wee is error,
mad " esselshalmi lie delicacy of the tritium, I Amid, I
seshos. ban Mai sin wisely bad I not used It. The re-
oralader of the setesstal pomp tans--' When I tell you
OM shakes ad Wader ymre were pat to death in cold blood.'
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IS Mime apse to every tee, sad, so far se I know, is,,,
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of sits peaks stroolty ; bat the sateen sr their embalm
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The Queen held • Court and Privy Council yes-
terday enemas at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court, Count Chreptowltelt, the Reagan Minigan,
heel an andissee of the Queen, and delivered his letter of
recall

Bawir-Atiairel Von Doclram had an audience of bar
Majesty, and presented Lin credential' as Envoy F.:Unordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary tram the King of Dow
emit. 'Their Exeellecties were respectively Introduced by
the Earl of Clarendon, K. 6., the Omen's prWd_pal
of State for Foreign Affains and medulla by Major=
the Hon. Sir Edward Cast, K.C.H., kir Ileassq's )Laster
of the Ceremonies. _

rfr The Hon. ( . . Stafford J • tar Ysjaitye Envoy
Eztraordinary and Minister Ple.Jpolittsry to the Wag of
Warta:Awn bed an audience at have as rettarkdng to
Stet t. Mr. Jerningham was pommel by the Rai of
Clarendon.

The Sherilb of London and Ilidddeem Maws. Lemma
sad Allen, accompanied by the City Betnembreaew, bed ea
indium el the Queen, to wbkh they ware introduced by
illeoretm7 Blr George Grey, to receive her Mejesty's nom
ration relative to the =tort of ea Wren from the ono •
ration of the City of
The Qom wee pleased to appobst Tuesday alit, at three
the address.
o'clock In the elleraoca, it Buckingham Pekoe, kw reosiving

A dean from the Court of Lieutenaney al the City
al laslom,, eansiating of Edward Wilson, Req., and John
Wood, Req.. aocompenied by Henley Smith, Bag., clerk sad
treneurer, were presented to the Qoesn, vet an nudism" by
Sr Gone Grey, to remise the Queen's commends respecting
the reception of au eddrese to bar Majesty.
The Qom was pisses to appoint TuesdascEb=t, at
Bey. Paso; for the presentation of the
Mr. William Chief Justice of the Cape of Good
Saps, wee psfeenled to the Queen by Secretary Sir George
Grey, and received from her Majesty the honour of knight-
hood.

--kith. Council, Sir Croswell Croswell, lodge of the
Court of Probate, by command of the Queen, wsa sworn of
bar Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council.
The /darquis of Clanricarde was sworn into office as Lord
The Queen prkked the list of skeriEs for the present year
for the &Smog counties of England and Wales.
The lion. Willis= Bathurst wee the Clerk of the Council
in Welting.
Berl Orovflis, Visoount Palmerston, Lord Pennon, and
th might Hon. M. T. Baines had an of the
Q.

Tke Prince Consort, the Prince of Wale., and the Duke
el eau Coburg, attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour, his
Baron hlttrocbstti with a visit in the forenoon at his
studio in Omelow-s= j3rompton.
Pliny by Lieutenant Cowell, left Buck-
hiePlatt Alverbank.
Qom and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Duke of Say Coburg, honoured the Haymarket Theatre
with their pavessee in the evening. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Counter of Desert, the Hon. gleaner Stanley,
Lord de Table', Major-General Beale', Colonel F. 11.
, Boren Treskow, and Ilidor Sammy.
Seymour, Bran of Cambridge thePrinoiss Mary of Cambridge,
Prince Arthur, and the Princesses Helene and Louisa,
visited the Duchess of Haat yesterday at 01111111C040111/4 St.
James.

A deputation from the Playground Society, omitting of
Mr. R. A. Blaney, M.P., the Rey. R. Spooner, Mr. H. J.
Hatch, Mr. T. Coulson, and Mr. Do Luny, had en interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at hie
citadel residonos in Downing-stmt.
A &mutat= had an interview yeseerday with the Right
Hon. W. Cowper M.P. at detain al the General Board of
Health, Whitehall, with respect to nuisances ariethg from
noxious trades end roanntectures. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Alderman Hob, Mr. J. M. Smith (Tacker and
Co., Kesaingtoo), Messieurs H. Cowes, J. Cowen, end C.
Covets (L. Cowan and Sons) Mr. W. W. Williams (J.
Williams and Son), and J. Rowley.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. Judgment was given by the Chancellor of the Duchy
of Cornwall in the case of the "Newport" (Vice-Admi-
ralty, St. Helena).
An appeal from Tasmania, " Festal e. Hampton," was
part heard.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, atempanied bye sums-
roue body of the Conuniesicaters of Lisatinancy of the City
of Lemke, and their Clerk sad Trimmer, waited, by
=1";:t, yesterday afterneas, upon him Excellency the
a Porsigsy, the French baseada-, at the Em-
hem Albert-gate Ems, to present the resolution anent-
isivoted by the Court, coogratolatory to their Imperial
the Emperor and Empress of the French, up=
Majesties escape from the recent diabolical attempt
a 4 assassination, when the following resolution wee read by
the Lord Mayor:
" That this court oars to their Imperial Majesties the
Emperor and the Empeer oldie Emelt its sincere cougra-
tulations npdtt their providential swaps from the ,
late diabolical attempt tuthkest their iives, and teeth itself of
the first opportunity sinus that atrocious esserresee to tender
to their Imperial Majesties be milialined sympathy sod feli-
citations ; and most bees* prays that, ander the same
Divine Providence which liss hitherto gabled their Melee-
ties, their valuable lives may be keg "and to reign over a
Jerk and
and i=se people —By OM., HENLEY SMITH,
ati
The resolution wee mat glacial/1y reostrel by nu Esoel-
leery, who made an apgropriate reply.
The following were the oommissionere resent —The
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Richard Neianiel Phi-
lipps the ; Mr. Thom.. Jefferson Holt, the secender ;
hirers George Dodd, M.P., Samuel Orem% M.P.
Oladstoos, John Alexander Hockey, Edward Hinter,
Jonathan Muckiest/am Key, Robert William Kanaerd, Wil-
liam Rethbone, Joseph Sons* William Dallis=
Philip rithT,oker. Edward Wilson, and Johnalfil
Mr. their clerk and bsestarer, also attended.