Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY

A NEW CAMPAIGN IN NEPAUL.

It is currently reported (says the Bombay
Gazette) that the campaign in Nepaul is soon to
be resumed on an extended scale. The dislodg-
ment of the rebels from their positions in these
mountains, and their dispersion in the southern
districts, have been frequently attempted since
the beginning of this year ; and although in every
conflict they have retreated in, disorder after the
first collision with our troops, they have not aban-
doned their encampments in the wild valleys be-
yond the Terai ; and their determination to hold
this long-disputed field at all risks, while it proves
the value set by them upon this remote territory,
shows clearly the necessity of organising a new
plan of operations, such as may render our efforts
successful, and accelerate the conclusion of a peace
so ardently desired by all. There are reports, to
which at present we attach little heed, of active
steps about to be taken by Jung. Bahadoor to get
quit of these pests in his territories. A letter
in a north-western journal states that he has
ordered the Nana, Mummoo Khan, Boni Madho,
and the rest of the principal rebels, to leave
the district under pain of being forcibly ejected
by his troops. Another correspondent men-
tions that a brigade of Goorkhas, from Khat-
mando, have arrived at Dhang, with a view
to drive the insurgents from the hills. The
rebels frequently cross the border, and plunder
the inhabitants of Turwah Koorah, where
there is a company of sepoys beloriging to one of
the talookdars. If it be true that Jun is now
going to send an armed force into the field to con-

tend with the enemy on the frontier of Nepaul,
we should have a word to say in his favour, and not
deem him quite undeserving of the reward which
it seems the Government is going to bestow by
making over to him the large tract of country
lying between the Raptee and hills, in requi-
tal of his services. Commissioners are to be im-
mediately appointed to mark the boundary line,
which is to be the same as that which existed
previous to the treaty of 1819. It is a question,
however, if we can reckon on any assistance from
the Rajah in reducing the rebels to subjection.
It is said that the Nepaulese government is con-

templating some new move, but as yet has given
no signs what that move is to be. Jung has a
large military establishment, composed chiefly of
Goorkhas,. who, at au hour's notice, would
garrison every fort and village in the district oc-
cupied by the rebels, nay, march upon the frontier
and compel them to surrender or abandon
their positions. But whether Nepaul will throw
her bayonets into the British scale is difficult to
say ; she certainly ought to be the last to give an
asylum to the rebels, and, if true to her own in-
terests, and faithful to her allies, ought to adopt
the most rigorous measures to expel them-from
the country.

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CURIOUS WILL CASE

(Before the

of the R 0115..)
SMITH V. FITZGERALD.

The testator in this cause, Brigadier-General Joseph
Smith, by his will, dated 1790, after expressing " a be-
lief that his executors would direct his last intentions to
be faithfully executed towards every person named in
his will, without reference to law quirks, or any quibble
whatever," and making -" a solemn declaration that,
if any of- his legatees should embarrass his executors
by suits at law, or other vexatious -modes whatever,
such legatees should not be entitled to a sixpence of the
gifts bequeathed to them," gave, amen.. other be-
quests, £5OO to the different hospitals at'Bath," and
£5OO to the Charity School at Madras for the education
and maintenance of soldiers' children—such legacies
being payable out of a large sum of money alleged to, be
then due to the testator from the Nabob of Arcot. The
testator died the same year as he made his will, and the
Nabob of Arcot appears to have paid up in 1804. In
1815 the examiner declared the accumulated legacies
due to the Bath Hospitals and the Madras Charity
School to be about £7OO revectively, or about £1,400
in all; and this sum, having been at that time invested
Word-drof 'the Court, at present represents Bank Stock
to the extent of £3,914, and ,cash in the bank to the
amount of £3,158. The object of the present applica-
tion was, first of all, to ascertain which were the
hospitals of Bath" contemplated by the testator ; and
secondly, to obtain the division of the funds and stock
above-mentioned between such hoiPitals and the
Madras Charity School—the hospitals to take one moiety
divisible among them,_ and the Madras. Charity School
the other 'moiety. Upon inquiry, made to the satis-
faction of the Court, " the, hospitals of Bath" contempla-
ted by the testator were ascertained to be, first, "the
Hospital or Infirmary at Bath for poor persons from all
parts of Great Britain and Ireland who are suffering from
complaints for which the Bath mineral waters were a re-
medy;" secondly, " the United Hospital at Bath ;" and
thirdly, " the Bellett Hospital, established in Bath in
1611." Under these circumstances, the court made an
order for the division of the funds and stock as prayed,
the one moiety being diVided between the three Bath
hospitals above mentioned, and the other moiety being
carried to the account of the Madras Charity School, as
at present represented by the Military Orphan Asylum
at Madras.

Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. G. Murray, and Mr. Wickens (on
behalf of the Attorney-General) appeared in the case.

Seventeen years ago the whole fleet of the Royal
Mail Company lay in Southampton Water, previous to
its departure for the West Inches. This fleet consisted
of thirteen of the largest steam vessels then afloatoriz. :
Avon, Clyde, Dee, Forth, Medway, Severn, Tay, Teviot,
Thames, 'Trent, Tweed, Solway, and Modena. Their
aggregate tonnage was 23,400 tons. The tonnage of
the Great Eastern is 23,000.

COLLIERY INUNDATION% —OE Monday morning a pit
was inundated at Sneyde-green, the property of the
Silverdale Company, which has occasioned considerable
destruction of property, and the death, there can be little
doubt, of at least one man. Before six o'clock one man
went down and proceeded into the workings. At about
six he was- followed by others, who went into the work-
ings that lay in an opposite direction. Here they met
an outrushing tide of water that had broken in from
some old workings. They hastily retreated and escaped
up the pit, without being able to assist the man who
first went down. The water continued to flow into the
whole of the pit, and there is 'little hope of the man's
life being spared, though he is being searched for.

AMERICAN SYMPATHY WITH LADY FRANKLIN.-At
a meeting of the Kane Monument Association, in. New
York, on the 9th ultimo, resolutions were adopted, ten-
dering their heartfelt sympathy tb Lady Franklin, and
expressing theit adMiration on account of her devoted
eftorts, and the calarnity'which she now realises of her
irrreparable bereavement; and referring also to the hope
which so 'long inspired her, that " a beloved and long-
absent husband might yet be restored to her—a-hope
which, though now disappointed and obliterated, has
left the pleasing consCdation' that its cherished object
has only passed from the confines of time to a sunny
realm, where he will soon be found, and where there is
no Arctic region, and where snows and ice are un-
known." A committee was appointed to communicate
the resolution to Lady Franklin, directed to the care of
Lord John Russell.

TrIE INDIAN COUNCIL.—Men's names are again
" syllabled" in' the air. Unless .we greatly err, the
Secretary of State has had the happy idea of dividing
his council into the following six permanent committees:
—Fiaancial : William U. Arbuthnot, ,Esq. (chairman),
Charles Mills, Esq.,- Elliot Macnaghten, Esq., Henry T.
Primep, Esq., Sir T. Erskine' Perry.—Public Works,
Rail ways, and Telegraphs : Colonel Sir P. Cautley,
K.C.B. (chairman), Charles Mills, Esq., Elliot
Macnaghten, Esq., Ross D. Mangles, Esq., Colonel
Henry M. Durand; : Major-General
Sir R. J. H. Vivian, K.C.B. (chairman), John
P. Willonghby, Esq., William J. Eastwick, Esq.,
Colonel Henry M. Durand, C.B, Right Hon. Sir J.
L. M. Lawrence, -G.C.B.—Political : Right Hon, Sir.
J. L. M. Lawrence, • G.C.B. (chairman), .John P.
loughby,, Esq.; William S. Eastwick, Esq., Sir Fre-
derick Currie, Bart., Major-General Sir R. J. IL Vivian,
K.C.B.—Revenue, Judicial, and Legislative : Rossi/
Mangles, Esq. (chairman), Henry T: Prinsl)_p, Esq.,
Sir Henry C. INfontgomery, Bart., Sir James W. Hogg,
Bart., Sir T. Erskine Perry, Sir Charles has alt;,o
appointed other, committees, to consider several imp•ort..
ant subjects now before him.---Allen's Indian Nail.