The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-04 00:00:00

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—The subjoined aneedctee my !ittle for the way
things are managed amongst the %dal, Meting& :
AUILA. Nov 19.—News there is EMM is this quarter of
the itiotx, or radii r fe this smarter ef India. We have lost
hir Thompson, 011ie Solder, sad I am the Neseesager of
the 17th indulges in • very fl itemise eulogy en the exeuna
raper, sad wigs. &a., to , alter. Report did not speak very
bights of him is the :atter capacity, as he had allowed him-
*AL it Is said, to he iodise/wed by a partiality toe rtain of
his Dative suherdinatee, amongst whom Miners. Lusbingto•
▪ Wiii.in are cuisine fire iii•d sword, or ink and pea,
taking ,tee of these dosage. The cameo( use of them, the
lye :dr. Ihompeon'a jemadar,:ie slightly traced in the Ales-
▪ . Had be powsseed aI. a partial master, it is not pro-
hnle he would have amassed the forkir• imi iced I.
rim. However, this will be of little lateens to you at Bow,
pity, so et, I est eta the subject of the civil services. I will
c .t.clude it by relating to los two eseedotes reetrarel•ng .bat
re met is these upper prO•LIIMIP. whisk I think will amuse
• mu:-. pr..n ping that that ectors In Ike seems related
are still belch*, high al pnintmente in this immediate ne
igh-
r•earhou , sad therefore of iroareo We names are &Otiose
lisdeo.d, judge of Bombed, was sitting at breakiart on.
b,,gbastr, *ken, to his horror sod astoulahment, a tile of
vice marched is, headed by a native bearing the
mAgistrate's elder fur Li. (the judge's) immediate ior. !
The e dee cue was dropped, the muffin left untested, and
the Welded judge, wt.o was a timid min, chaired per-
mission to Ned ilia &camera in question. It was banded to
Lim, sail yes may im ittlllo his feelings when he sew the
*arrest was draws up is the scud official style, antborioing
ire public exectuioner to carry out the last sextet.**
of the law en hi,. lishold, the judge of Barahad, by
heasiog him by the seek until he was dead!—dated at
the se egi.trete's eutcherry, and b acing his most anntistethe.
al le signature. Rowe,. r, be was still judge, and, as such,
rsperior to the marts rate, so he issued a tunnel reprieve
to stay hie own esteutien, ad Wen, instead of et coca
proceeding to the mag.strate's, with whom he was not on
Boos moo, he, on the preeumpti.m that tte latter
kid WS this scheme to murder him. sent in a formal
e:stement to the eoesi.simer. demanding an immediate
cowl of inquiry. Tau was summoned, and on their in.
vest:iodic, tw ansair it appeared that, as in all courts in
these provii.cce, the worth a: Berebed was so heavy that
the map. rite was obliges to toot, in a great measure, to
the same theials, sad to riots such papers as his anilah
handed to him. wittiest nuking I kneel master of their
mateem A Hasenienan, whiter duly it wes to hand is the
; opera fie shrootare, had connive t an eaves* dislike
for the singlet, ate in question, and concocted this plan to
insure hint He had drav u oat a formal order 1..1. Mr.
•boi.c'e eatiewion, which he had handed to the magietride,
was had Maned it with the other documents, when the
rain, who had accomplices, immediately lower& .1 it to
ts: plies oteicerr, knowing aat when saved Mr. Rohold
',aid resist. sad trusting that he would accuse the Ink.
VOW' of an attempt to murder him—which in this we
he (lit hairg either guided by his ill feeling to
that slicer or hit fear for his tiersocal safety. However,
the native had laid his pleas badly; the writing was traced
to Lim, and he sad his accomplices were I believe trans.
Fact:. My scat anecdote is also about hasping. Let its
terniii.ition was more tragical, as the execution actually
• areal A ens tun asiietrat-, not two hundred miles from
having sentenced a man to be burg after a very az•
et:teed murder he had committed, his delicate tether;
...to to ow. .corue at the thought of the pain the felon
would ,aff.r ittlt he actually ordered him to be 'tented
'ir the inflame* of chloroform !—a bottle of which,
sorb memory apparatus, he had provided ! This, however,
CVIIC to tie judge's cars on the previous day, when be
tst,:i d t., the magietrate's to forbid this ezir.ordinary es-
t. .; tea of false fooling. The maentrate was, however, for
sooli tin.* stubborn, insisting as executive officer, on his
te.Lt •ts administer the stopilving dose, and urairg
that hie sensitive nerves would not permit Lim
:o ail et avoidable pain on any fellow creature. On on.
replied the judge, I will permit the sentenc: to
c .r.ii art in the in you propose. Eiger to icain
. • .• t.t, the mai:is:rate offi•rcd to agree to any condi-
n. lb- -I, replied the judge, prove to me that the con.
• : t n administered chior Poem to his victim previously
t tic .eri Lini,and I will pi r mit you to do the same prior
tun. This was a puler, sod the man had to bv
a comae. way, much to the disgust of the deli.
• :t hair helms,. Vcrily we are arrivir gat • I
✓ de,: 0:411, we we sot ?

Sir E. Perry left Bombay in regrets to Simla cm
the 2 l'h at., ald will no: return before Apia next.
tit, fer recreation, and will no doubt astonish
wold by and by with his narratives. Sir E. is a
ken 'Totems', and the account of his adventures in
the &Id will be note lit de sentisin4.—Majnr Blenkins,
limber army, net long since employed as commis-
s.riet Officer in So!nde, has been directed to prooted
to Lahere for employment under the Board of Admi-
nistration.—Brigadier T. Leighton, Bombay army, is
abon: t roceediog home on tur!ough, having obtained
his reiimen,al cAonelcy.—l forgot heretoLre to
section ttat Mr. Pest, tae saddler, who was nearly'
killed by the explosion of a shell on the night of the
Vette ot.Ocober, has quite recovered the wound.—
Mrs. Seudder_,_wife (A the American missionary of
that same at Madtes, died on the 19th ult., and the
Rev. Dr. Heberein, of the Dacca mission, on the
both deeply ngeetted, their services being just
now more than usually wa,.ted, the lsbmrers in the
Lord's vie. yard being so few.—Fears are entertained
tf famine at Sfedra-_,_ the mons-on not having set
:n op to the 26th November, the latest date re-,
crived.—Mr. Ms von io to be chief magistrate of Cal-
rims. Sir T. Turton is in jail, where he truism:,
losicete with bis clients daily, and has all the luxu-
ries he chooses,—a piano emoted the number (so say
the Cslcutts papers).—The Bengal Civil SLITICO Fund
is batkrupt, and a meeting has been celled for
January next, to consider what tad best be done to
render it once more solvent.—The ship Cambrian,
Commodore P.umridge, reaehed Madras from Moul-
mein on the 22nd u:t. The gallant commodore wax
to proceed immediate!; to China, to assume commend
of the Eistern fleet.—A church is to be erected at
Lshole, by subscription.—A bridge of hosts is being
Quilt across the Cnenaub, near AVurzserabad, in the
Punjaub. With the subjoined from the Titnts sem-
:nary I conc:ude _

Lustilys fur India, uclockily for the press, we con-
:A.l3e to dedpatch mails which are nearly tearless;
tliey are so at all events in reference to the mccirg
etc:dents by flood and field—the wars ar.d tue
rumours of wars which have till within the last six
months for so long a period filled our columns, sad
t.hich are in general supposed to be cuss-
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'dared at home the only tiling, of interest
we can transmit.—The governor-general has can ed
a draft act to be prepared, opening up the
coasting trade of India to the ships of all nations,
sal this extending to all parts of India free trade
is its fullest and most liberal acceptation ; so that we,
who have hitherto been supposed to lag behind the
world in our policy, have ventured on a measure to
halloo in the universe has hitherto adopted.—The
judges of the Supreme Court of Calcutta are pro-
teedieg purl posse in liberality with the governor-
;emu.' : they have issued a set of rules opening
Kith Cue ominous words, that hereafter all fictiJns in
pleading ;shall be discontinued. Four forms of
action for money, moveable property, wrongs, and
law's, are all that are hereafter to be allowed ; and
it is expected that by the new rules, which take
effect in January, the administration of the laws
will be rendered simple, oompendioue, and econom-
ical, compared to what they have hitherto been.—
The trial of M. Henry Palmer, of the Bengal civil
service, is still in progrtss. He is charged with
breach of trust in endeavouring to make use of
patronage a the means of raising money ; incurring
debts to subordinate officers axd their relatives; en-
tering into joint pecuniary transections with a native
subordinate; and, finally, for equivocation and false-
hood. From the complexion of the evidence, there
seems no doubt whatever that he willibe found guilty
c; the testimony of his own letters on all the leading
pints of the case.—The case of Mr. Blunt, of the
tame service, has been privately disposed of; that
aentkrnan returns to England on leave. Mr. Cruise
hes been hound over to prosecute Messrs. Pringle and
Pearson, the judge and magistrate of Partial), on a
Lunber of very monstrous-looking charges ad-
duced egainst them.—A case lately occurred in the
earth-west proeinces' where a native functionary
drew up an order for the signature of the magistrate,
Ming the judge to be hanged. The paper,
ucchrding to a custom of much prevalence in India,
alas subscribed without being read, and the order
fur his own execution placed :11 the hands of the
oho of course declined having it put into
and brought a charge against the magistrate
etslapt to murder ! Both gentlemen are at pre-
sad k:41; in office.—M. Bethunt's new law for the
9ter.eon to Europeans of the jurisdiction of the
t'eeproaq's cures of justice, is supposed likely to
the judicial system of India altogether, by
shoe sng ite unfitners for its work ; and to introduce
ere where thaw only will be allowed to occupy the
herol. Om Lave been bred for it. At present it
a':raatimes happens that gentleman who has all
t
af" lot g been a collector of revenue is transferred
c Ist-nch, with about the same regard to propriety
,!
that by which the Lord Chancellor and Chancellor
tiat might be made to exchange
Poss. Numberless schemes are at present under
amatt fur enabling the revenues of India to
tta expenditure. The abandonment of
cm
would save us half a million a year, and
a't e
rtatly improve our position. Letters frolt
retary ard from the directors of
the Itehk or Be-flares have been published,
that while the latter were complaining