Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

DELHI.

A. charge brought against Colonel Nom with
reference to his public appearance in Delhi with
the son of the King of Delhi, has produced the
following letter from him, addressed to the Lahore
Chronicle: _

Althoug'a I do not notice statements made by anonymous
correspondents in newspapers, yet, as you have given my
name in one of the editorials of your paper of the 14th
Nov., as one of the officers who had been seen riding with
one of the sons of the King on an elephant through the
streets of Delhi, I send you for publication the following
statement of the facts, leaving the truth of your charge of
" lacqueyieg the King's son about the streets of Delhi " to
the judgment of your readers, especially of those who
know me. Having been asked to accompany the commis-
sioner on a visit to the King, I went along with' several
officers, one of them holding high official rank in the army,
to the house where he was confined. Before leaving,
Jamma Bukt, a son of the King, apparently a lad of fifteen
or sixteen years of age, asked the Commissioner if he
might be permitted to go out occasionally for an airing
along with any gentleman who would take him,
and as I was in tt,e habit of going out every evening
on an elephant, the Commissinner asked me if I
should mind occasionally calling for him. I replied,
" that if there were no other objection:, I would do so ;"
and as both the Comm'siioner and the officers before
alluded to appeared to think there could be none, I con-
sented to call for him, and accordingly on two occasions
I took Jumma Bukt out ; the firs' time having nothing
but a pad on the elephant, and being rather afraid that
he might try and escape, I put hina in front to prevent
him slipping off; the second time having a " charj
I sat in front, though, I must say, I considered it a
matter of very little moment which seat I occupied.
As to parading through the streets of the city, the
first time I went out through the Cashmere Gate to Lud.
low Castle and home, when it was quite dusk through
the Lahore gate and Chandnee Chowk ; the second time
I passed up the Chandnee Chowk, and returned by the
Lall Khoa• street, having been induced to go there by
Jumma Bukt, expressing a wish to show me the house he
lived in.
Without entering inte the question of his guilt or
innocence, but presuming that, it guilty, he would never
have been allowed to accompany a British officer in
public, I can only say that I found him a very intelligent
lad, he gave me a good deal of information about the
mutineers, their leaders, and their plans, and had I
remained longer at Delhi should probably have taken him
out oftener, bat having returned to Meerut on the 26th of
October, I had no further opportunity.

The Friend of India, Of Nov. lb, says :

WI) would call the attention of the government of India
to the state of things existing in the city of D2lhi. It
demands instant and stern reform. We are certain that
the freaks there committed have no sanction from the
Governor-General, and if the message costs £lO,OOO in
bribes. written orders should be transmitted peremptorily
forbidding them. The youngest son of the king, eighteen
years of age, has been declared innocent on account of his
youth, and rides through pelhi on an elephant, with two
British officers behind him to do him honour. The state.
ment appears so incredible that it may be set aside as a
mere newspaper report. We entreat government to
believe that it is one which we would not publish without
such information as produces absolute certainty. The
King, also, it is said—but for this we have only the
authority of the Lahore Chronicle—has a retinue to attend
him, and coolly insults the British officers who visit him.
It is things such as these, the honours paid to our mur-
derers, which exasperate Europeans to frensy. They
are not ordered or sanctioned by government, but they
should be stopped by courts martial if necessary.
Furthermore, in the middle of October, there were the
following leaders in custody unharmed :
Hukeem Abdool Huq, a rebel chief of the Goorgaon
district, who joined the mutineers.
Iloossein Khan, a Persian, who commlnded a regiment
at D. 11.11.
Nuwab Ahmed Kooli Khan, the father in law of the
King, who went out to meet the Bareilly brigade, and
escorted thdm into the city.
_ _ . .

The Nuwab of Jhujjur Newab Amen Oodeen Khan,
accused of assisting in the murder of Mr. Fraser.
Nothing has been done to any of these men. It is
impossible, or at least' most difficult, to refer to the
Supreme Government. It is useless to refer to Lahore,
for Sir J. Lawrence bas no authority in the north west.
The officers in Delhi therefore dread the responsibility,
and crime waits for the punishment it deserves. It must
be po',sible to convey a letter to Delhi, if a sufficient bribe
is paid to the cossid, and peremptory orders should be
transmitted at once.
It is stated that Lieutenant Hodson had no option in
the matter of the King of Delhi. General Penny is still
acting under instructions left by Mr. Colvin, and which
have not yet been superseded. We can only say, if such
be the case, the sooner a special officer is ordered from
Lahore to Delhi, with power to do anything save pardon,
the better for our interests in the North West.
We repeat, we have stated only facts, and await with
confidence upon this point the action of the Governor
General.

Emtantarox.—The Government em;grant ship R )(hay.
877 tons, the property of Duncan DiAnhar, sailed from
Plymouth.on the 25th instant, for Melbourne, Victoria,
with 18 married couples, 114 single meu, 121 single women,
19 boys between the ages of 1 and 14, 13 girls
betwe9.l3 the sam3 ages, 4 wale and 3 female infants, making
a total of 310 souk, equal to 287 a Nits, all of whom were

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LIBER \ LITY OF THE FRENCH rNIPICROB.—It will be
recoil cted that, on the occasion of theiVl-uperial Mjesties'
del arture from CO rne, on the 10th of August last,
a parting s ‘lute was fired from the battery of the Royal
Victoria Yacht Club House, when, through the premature
exp os
' -ion of one of the guns, Jacob H irbour, a labouring
man, who was engaged to assist the gunner, had his rich,
arm shattered so clreaalfully that immediate amputa'ion
was necessary. A subscription list was immediately opened
for the _sufferer, at the club house, and the sum of £l5O
subscribed, which has been invested to his advantage.
The French Emperor having been communicated with,
has forwarded a cheque for the munificent sum of two
thousand five hundred francs, about £lOO, which reached
the teeipient, Jacob Harbour, who is quite disabled from
foul )wing any lucrative employment, on Christmas eve.
PUBCIIASIC OF THE &IMAGES COLLSC CION FOR PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION.—The Mayor cf B rmingham, with the Mayor
of Manchester, has invited the ass'etanee of other co-porate
authorities in the seats of manufacture in the midland
counties, to induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
purchase this collection, in order that it may be made
useful in improving decorative manufactures in metals,
pottery, glass, &c. A Union of Art Trades has also been
formed in the metropolis, consisting of most of the larg,st
producers of decorative manufactures, iu order to bring
the purchase before Parliament as soon as it re-assembles,
and the Society of Arts has allowed the meetingss of this
union to take place in the Adelphi. Lord Granville, as
President of the Education Committee, expressed himself
quite favourable to the purchase, when a deputation of the
institute of British Architects waited upon him, so that
the question now r.maies wholly to be decided by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer-and Lord Palmerston doubt-
less in accordance nigh public opinion.

TH E AITSTH ILIAN MAILS, --: Much misapprehension
exists in mercantile circles as to the due arrival of the
future mails from Australis, but there seems no real cause
for this alarm. It is true that the breaking down of the
Esneu will prevent the departure '‘f the January mail from
tiese colonies at its proper date, but those of November
and December will come forward in the regular manner,
and the former will be due, by telegraph via Malta, on
December 29, and the delivery of the bags in London, via
Marseilles. on the following Saturday (January 2) ; but as
the Post-office authorities have despatched a staff of officials
to Alexandria to meet the homeward mails, so as to " work
off" the letters en route, which wii, it is expected, ex-
pedite the delivery of them by many hours, and as the
coming Australian picket will be the first to which the
new regulations will be applied, it is possible that the
letters and papers will be distributed in the metropolis on
on Friday afternoon. Hitherto, the delay has arisen
between the Australian ports and Suez, and not between
Alexandria and the home ports, so that there is no blame
to attach to the Post- offi he authorities ; and if the Admiralty
would follow the initiative of " working in" the steamers
to Suez in the same spirit which the Post-office has
resolved to do in " workirg off" the letters, there would be
no ground of apprehension, either as to the present route
or the due delivery of the correspondence.—Mintng Journal
of Dec. 26.

WEDNESDAY,-

SELECT VESTRY.—YnTERDAy.

The fortnightly meeting of the select 'vestry was held in the parish
Board Room, at 10 o'clock. Mr Caurchwarden Woodruff pres'ded,
and the other members predint we e MEssrs. Smith, Denton,
Mello-, Syers, Whitty, W. Jopes, Richardson, Jackson, Chesney,
wen, Cook, Cropper, Critchley, Hughes, Shaw, and Williams.