The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-22 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

THE EMIGRANT VESSEL INDIAN.

The Adelaide papers received by the overland mail
contain a correspondence between the governor and
the emigration agent relative to the charges against
the officers of the Indian, which had been laid before
the Legislative Council. From these letters it ap-
pears that when Captain Brewer, the immigration
spat, boarded the Indian, he desired the whole of
the sonstablee to make known to the emigrants that
he would receive their complaints, that there might
be no excuse for their not coming forward. "I was
also," he continue', "on board the Indian for several
hours on the three days following her arrival, and
each day gave the game notice." Captain Brewer,
however, only leaves it to be inferred that none of the
moots complained. In reference to the meting
held nil the Infant Schoolroom, a report of wh
appeared in the Elpreu from the Adelaide
the editor of which, in Captain Brewer's
airblge. had a strong bias against the accused parties,
be farther begs to mention to his Excellency& at be
grad not avoid observing a feeling of intemperate
emlnessity pervading the mind. of all those who took
pint in the proceedings against the captain and ear-
' gee% which had the effect on several occasions of
representing the expressions of opinion on the part of
those who might, and apparently did, feel inclined to
take a more lenient view of their conduct. In spite of
this, however, the Captain condense thus :
I count but consider that so :may of the emigrants of
this vessel having thought it worth their while to concur and
Mead at a meeting of this description, there mast be some
valid nose ot complaint ; but that, in common justice to the
'ceased parties, their eoespialate ought to have ban made on
their amval, when they were called on to do so by me. His
excellency cannot fail to recrive that at this distance of time
many of the parties who might have been called on by the
captain and surgeon to give evidence in their favour, are
now scattered ever the country; and that, independent of
the natural dtainclinatioa which these persons would feel to
be brought forward to emboss their fellow-passengers in •
matter of this description, in which they have no personal
interest, it would be, for other reasona, impracticable for the
muter and sarteonte procure their attendance. This delay
has also placed me in a false position ; as, unaware of the
dreaminess which have since come to light, my report could
not be so full and accurate as it otherwise would have bees.
The chief grounds of complaint appear to be the miscon-
duct of the second mate, and the inattention of the captain
and negeoa to the welfare of the emigrants. With respect
to the former person, I consider the captain responsible far
any impropriety of conduct of which he may have bus
guilty ; and the defence set up by the captain and Burgess,
that they were not aware of all that was going on, or they
would have prevented it, is scarcely admissible. If they had
performed their duties properly, they ought te have been
aware of what was going on on board ; they are, therefore,
reeposseble, and, the fir, much to blame. I must beg lean
to express my regret that my letter relative to the meeting
at which, by his excellency's desire, I was present, has cast
been considered by him as sufficiently fall and isplint. Be-
ing anxious to put his excellency in peasseelen of the real
merits of this question, I have lost no oppormaity Mohan-
lag information, and I fled that since the meeting ether
matter of a most discreditable kind has bees laid to the
charge of the captain by the surgeon, still more tending to
convince me that from them subsequent inquiries it la
scarcely possible to arrive at the real truth, and that the
matter can only now be dealt with generally, by paring •
severe censure on the ended of the captain and surgeon.
Upon this the Governor administers to the Captain
the following justly severe " minute."
I have again to observe that Captain Brewer has not gives
me the precise information of which the ease Is susceptible.
The view takes by the editors of the various sewspapers is,
as I have already personally stated to Captain Brewer, of
lalialtely lees consequence than the statements attributed to
the emigrants themselves at the meeting in question t• sad
my last inquiry of CaptaLa Brewer, in the absence of his
conuunieation of any puticulars of the evidence given by
the emigrants was whether the newspaper reports of what
the emigrants are deathbed as having said are cr are not m-
eant' versions of their statements. I will withhold
_pay-
ment of the gratuities to the officers of the Indian. They
are estitled to gratuities holy on the proper treatment of the
Ws adsg established to the satisfaction of the imml-
sort. I think that Captala Brewer has very tar-
'soy imperfectly investigated and reported on the
=rnisof the enigma by the Indian, and that the
eof these complaints would, even to the present
esent.pelsably not have been made known to as had net
111gn filleusay and Mr. Wilson usefully fenstalled the WWI
BMWS= of the immigration agent, whose duty It ought to
be to act as the guardian of the emigrants.
Sept. 21, 1849.
Major O'Halloran said he intended to submit • mottos es
that subject, but as he would have to present • petition at
the next meeting of the council, he would reserve his motion
sad remarks until then.

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Her Royal Highness' the peahen of Gloucester
liked the Qum yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived at the New
Pekoe of Westminster shortly before three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alen.
seder Gordon, and proceeded to the Upper Waiting Hai
foe the purpose of inspecting bin Toenail's fresco.
His Royal Highness afterwards presided at a regents, if
that Royal Commission for the Promotion of the RahlWan
of the Works of Industry of all Nations, to be held in the
year 1861. The worisiesioeere present were Earl Granville,
the Bight Boa. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hoe. W. H.
Glimistorup, Sir Arehibeld Galloway, Sir Charles Lam, Mr.
Barry, Mr. William Cubits, Mr. C. L. Eestlake, Mr. T. F.
Gibers, It,. Joke Gott, Hr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. Philp
Posey. M.P. Mr. Boos Buren, estuary to the eons&
Moe. was la attendance. The meeting broke op at a gainer-
peat es o'clock.
Tee Queen sad Primes Albert hesestred the Liens
Thiele', with their pre ssen yesterday evening. The royal
I silts consisted of the Countess of Monist idgeousebe, the
4 Hos. Elkabeth Lennox, Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, awl
not Lienteneet Coleael the Hon. Alexander Gordon.
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