Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Yzarzaper.

SEDUCTION AND ATrEhIPrED MURDER.

LIVERPOOL.
BZFORR MR. R. GLADSTONZ.

BAD Housza.,7—Thomas Horrocks, and his wife Mar-
garet, were brought up by Inspector Hough, on a eharge
of keeping an improper house, at 31, Norman-street The
Rev. Mr. Green, of St. Sila:: Church. Mr George Rake,
a Scripitre reader, and John Irving, a working man, were
exam;ned, and they proved to the disorderly conduct
carried on in the house. The evidence being sufficient,
the prisoners were sent for trial. Subsequently, Mr. Black
applied to the Bench to allow the prisoners out on bail,
aml the application was granted. His Worship agreeing to
accept two sureties in £lO each, for their appearance at
sessions.

PREPARING FOR OURISTIIA3 —John Brown was charged
by police cffi?er 277, on sutpicion of stealing a dead sheep.
The constable e-as on duty in Scotland-road, on Thursday
night, when he saw a spring cart pees, loaded with dead
sheep. Scene time after he saw the prisoner going up Ben
4-oneon-street, with a dead sheep on his back, and,
knowing him to be a thief, he followed him. When the
prisoner sate that he was observed, he ran into a passage,
followed by the officer, who got the body of the sheep in a
yard, but the prisoner had got into a house, out of which
the officer " abstracted " him. He had not time to look
after the owner of the sheep. The prisoner was remanded.
ROGUISH WO EK3lEN.—Thomas Pritchard, a night watch-
man at Mr. Green's brewery, Soho-street, George Boeth,
foreman baker at Mr. Allison's bakery establishment,
170, Richmond-row, Samael Millar, and Thomas Daffy,
two bakers in the same employment, were brought up by
detective officers Scaife and Thompson, on the following
charge :—lt appeared Mr. Allison called at the Pollee-
office, Dale street, and, stated that he suspected his
men were robbing him, at an early hour in the
morning. 'The officer went to the place, in
Richmond-row, for two or three mornings, but found
nothing. About five o'clock that morning the constables
went again, and saw the man Pritchard leave the b ewery
and go to a side window that looked in the prosecutor's
premises, where he gave a signal, and then a door adjoin-
ing was opened, and Pritchard admitted. Some time after
he came out, and in a coat belonging to one of the other
prisoners, they got six loaves of bread lapped up and
he said the other prisoners gave the broad to him. The
officers then went into the bike-house, where they got the
other prisoners, but they denied having given the bread to
Pritchard. In reply to his Worship, Pritchard said the
other men had given him the bread, saying it was broken
bread, and that he might take it home to his children.
The other prisoners denied this, when his Worship said,
these mutt be enchanted loaves ! The officers said they
got a quantity of bread in the bake-house which the pro-
secutor said had no right to be there. The prisoners,
with the exception of Duffy, were sent to jail for three
months each, and Duffy for one month.
PAT MULLIGAN'S ESCAPADE.—Patrick Mulligan, a person
from whose appearance one mtght judge that he did not
care much whether he went to work in a chain gang or
faced a couple thousand Sepoys, was charged under the
following circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner
and some comrades of his wont into the public-house of
Mr. Simon Graham, Flint-street, the previous day, and
called for some ale. It was supplied, but instead of
payment, the parties commenced fighting with each other,
and when the bat...girl interfered to prevent them, they
knocked her about, ran inside the bar, took all the money
that was in the till, and also a coat. The latter was
subsequently fonni on the prisoner. He was remanded.
A FORGED TEN Poulin NOTE —A person described as a
dealer (in the street) in nuts, who gave the name of John
Walker, but whose real name was state :l to be Charles
Kendall, was charged with .having pissed a bad note, pur-
porting to be a good one of the Bank of England, for £lO.
The note is marked H. P., No. 49,037, dated April 28th,
1857," and it was said that many notes of this plate, are
at present in circulation, so that the public should be on
their guard against these. as the bast judges are almost
deceived in them, the imitation is so good. It appeared
that on the 20. h November, the prisoner went to the
public-house of Mrs. Leggett, Leeds street, and purchased
a pig from her for £7 10t., giving the note in question in
payment, leaving £2 103. bahinee. Subsequently the lady
paid the note to the brewer, and it turned out to be a
forgery. The prisoner said he got the note from a dealer,
but who the dealer was he could not tel. He was
remanded for further inquiry.
A "GREASY" DISPUTE.—John Roger!, the cook of the
ship Prince of the Seas, was charged by Captain
Wilson, the master of that ship, with having stolen £35
worth of grease, or " fat," belonging to the ship Mr.
Snowball appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. B.
Aspinall (barrister) for the pr ironer. The case occupied
a long time, and sever 1 witnesses were examined.
The following contains the whole case :—The ship
sailed from London, for Melbourne, with passengers.
The prisoner was the ship's cook at £5 lOs.
a month wages. Thin, the captain said, was nearly
three pounds a month more than any other sailor
had. The vessel sailed from London to Australia, from
that to South America, and then home to Liverpool On
arrival here, the prisoner sold the grease and fat" for
£35, the mate passing the casks from the ship that contained
the fat. A dispute arose between the captain and the
prisoner, about the wages of the latter. and it was stated
that the captain wseited to abduct the £35 from the balance
due to the prisoner. The latter refused to allow this,
claiming the fat as his due as well as his wages. The
captain refusing to pay, the cook got his attorney to put
the ship under arrest for the wages due him, and she is at
present under arrest for that claim. The captain then
gave the cook into custody on the charge of felony. There
were two points at issue—whether the cook had a right to
claim the fat as his perquisite, and whether the captain
had a right to stop the amount of the fat from his wages.
It did appear that theta was no mention whatever on the
articles, or verbally, that the cook was not to have the fat,
nor was there any deduction to be made if he talk it. On
this his counsel argued that he was entitled by custom to
the fat. His Worship was of the same opinion, and after
administering a few sharp words to the captain for his
neglect of duty discharged the prisoner, saying there was
no case made out against him.
BEFORE MESSRS. SIIBIL AND ROMILLY.
PUBLICANS' AND RZERSELLERS' CASPS. —Richard Rey.
nolds, Westmoreland-street, was fined 203. and costs for
Sunday trading. Anne Theywood, beerseller, Prussia-
street, was brought up, charged with selling after hours.
She was acquitted, the evidence not being clear against
her. William Guy, Oak-street, and James Dein, Gay-
street, were charged with like offences, and acquitted on
similar grounds. Mary Sutton, beerseller, Charters-street,
was charged with Sunday trading This case was ad-
journed. Margaret Forrester, beerseller, Prince Edward-
street, was fined 20s and costs for Sunday trading. John
Patterson, beerseller, Dryden-street, was charged with
Sunday trading. Find 108 and costs. John Evans, beer-
seller, Peteastreete was fined lOs and costs for Sun :ay
trading. John levies, beerseller, Greek-street, was
charged with Sunday trading. Acquitted. Anne Jones,
beerseller, Norfolk st, and John Warburton, St. Andrew-
street, were acquitted of the same charge. David Arley,
publican, Gill-street, was fined 20s. and coste for permitting
drunkenness. Robert Lamb, beerseller, 18 Desker-street,
was charged with selling after hours. Dismissed. Cathe-
rine Verner, beerseller, Newton-street, was charged with
selling after hours. Fined 10s. and costs.
CLAM FOR WAGES. —R bete Roberts, a sailor, made a
claim of oEt32 103 for wages against Mr. W. Craig, master
of the vessel Elizabeth Martin. Mr. Bremner, who rap
peered for the pla nail', stated the facts of the Case as
fo'lows : The plaintiff shipped on baud the Elizabeth
Martin on the 7th Nov , 1856. at Liverpool. Shortly
after the vessel left this port for Singapore, she was obliged
to put in for repairs at Milford, where the plaintiff, in the
discharge of his duty, met with an accident from which
his leg was broken. He was consequently unable to per-
form duty for a length of time. The vessel, when her
repairs were finished, left Milford for her destination,
leavieg the plaintiff behind without any discharge, in con-
sequence of which he was unable to get another ship since.
The captain ommitted to take the proper and legal pre-
caution of discharging the plaintiffin presence of a ship-
ping master. £2 10.1 per month was the rate of wages
agreed on, and the claim for wages running from the 7th
Nov., 1856, the day the plaintiff shipped, until Friday
last, when the ship returned to Liverpool. In cross-
examination by Me. Alm md, whe appeared for the defen-
dant, it appeared that the plaintiff had got £4 6s for
maintenance while siet. It vras proved also that £8 had
been paid for medical attendance. The defendant had
offered to send him over to Liverpool while ill, but "the
doctor would not allow it. Mr. Sheil, in giving the
decision of the bench, stated that the plaintiff was entitled
to wages up till the time he mot with the accident, that
was on the 2nd Dec., 1856, and for one month after. He
had no power to go further, but he did not intend to say
that the plaintiff had no further claims, which might be
taken into another court The amount of the verdict for
the plaintiff was and costs, having got a month's
advance when shipped.

The papers announce the death of Admiral Sir F.
Beaufort.

The Daily News reports, what it terms a rara oceutrence,
the settlement of the- debt of a Spanish American State,
upon terms recognized as satisfactory by the creditors--
the state is _Buenos Acres.
DOVER Dec. 17.—The ship Hannah, from Callao, laden
with 1500 tons of guano, foundered on the sth instant, off
the Azores. The cap-ain and crew, thirty in number, tcok
to their boats, and were picked up by the brig Edmund
Thomson, of Leith, and landed at Dover.

THE N ORTHERN TIME S.-LIVERPOOL, SAT UR DAY, DECEMBER 19, 1857.

A FRENCHMAN ON INDIA.

A Paris correspondent writes :
Within the last few days a pamphlet on the
Indian question has appeared in Paris—l can
hardly say has been published, because it is all
but unknown to the public. An attempt has been
made to force it into publicity, but as yet without
avail. It comes forth anonymously, and is entitled
" Des Sentiments de justice et d' Humanite de l'Angle-
terre dans la Question Indienne." Some peculiar
circumstances mark this brochure. The publisher,
whose name appears on the title page, is not, I
believe, a publisher in the strict sense of the word ;
he is merely a bookseller, and deals principally, if not
entirely, in rare editions of old works, which he buys
up at sales and disposes of to amateurs who have
a taste for some things, and are rich enough to in
dulge it. The object of the author of the pamphlet
is to show that the British are quite as bad, if not
worse, titan the Hindooe, who, he states, are all in
insurrection against the English; and that, bad as
are the acts of the Sepoys, we have, during our
occupation of the country, done no less to the
inhabitants. The 180 pages of the book display a
most malignant feeling, while in ignorance and
misrepresentation they can hardly be surpassed.
Among the few persons who have as yet seen it, it
has been stated that this diatribe is the production
of a soldier. It is impossible to give credit to such
a fact. That individual stands too high for such
an imputation to reach him; and even had he not
been known to have always kept aloof from politics,
his position in the Crimea, his rank, and his know-
ledge of our army and of the English, of whose
character he is known to have frequently expressed
admiration, would utterly forbid such a suspicion.
One would rather attribute it to Russian agency,
with a view to excite a bad feeling among the
superficial and the ignorant classes of the people.
There are persons, and these not among the
obscurer tools of Russia, who, for reasons bee
known to themselves, cherish intense hatred to alt
and everything English—such hatred as is feundl
only among the base—and who would willingly
lend a hand in the work. To show the animus
with which the anonymous writer performs his task
I give the following extracts. The writer says:—
We give to the French press neither a chronological
history of India nor a political discussion on the confisca-
tion of India by England. Others abler than we are will
do this duty, but we address to the press a brief defence of
the Indians, whom it appears to condemn too lightly on
the interested assertions of England. We mean to be
brief in or3er to be read; we have cited but few facts, but
their value will sufficienly establish the truth of our assers
tions. lie who wishes to enter more deeply into the
subject will find accumulated in such number the accusing
proofs against England that their impaling mass may be
designated a pyramid of English iniquity.
The press has for its noblest mission to defend every-
where, and at all tinnee the rights of humanity. England,
so tumultuously philanthropic in her relations with Europe,
must be recalled by the unanimous cry of the press to the
sentiments of the moderation which she incessantly
preaches to the Governments of Earope. It is not enough
to say that India is now the resort of brigands to giie her
the rights of extermination ; the press will demand of her
an account, hour by hour, of the manner in which she
employs her sword of justice. One is already but too well
disposed to take the part of Indite to understand the
terrible explosion of the Indian Vespers, and to agree
with the last Nabob of Bengal, who, in 1750, left as
instructions to his successor these remarkable words :
" The hearts of the English are given up to the love of
gold and of dominion, and their acts have proved to the
entire East how little they regard the precepts they have
received from God. Their policy and their power are in
opposition to their faith. I repeat it to you, my son,
crush the English. If you allow them to have among you
factories and soldiers, the land on which you reign will
soon be theirs,"
At page 11, the writer says :
India has never, properly speaking, been conquered by
England. She at first presented herself there under pretext
of trade, and by little and little, and by means of corrup-
tion, and by fermenting wars between the different native
Princes, she ended by appropriating to herself the sove-
reignty of this vast country It ill becomes the English
to talk of the proverbial bad faith of the Indians, of their
dissimulation and their ingratitude; the Indians may, on
far better grounds, fling them the charge.

THE COMIIIAIiDER-1N CHIEF ON
COURTS-ITA_RTIAL.

The writer refuses to give credit to the accounts
published to the world of all the atrocities com-
mitted on helpless woman and children by the
Sepoys :
We do not doubt that there have been massacres of
Europeans, bat what we do doubt is the number of the
victims, the kind of death they endured, and the part taken
in these crimes by the native chiefs. We do not accept
without examination the letter addressed to The Times
on the 19th September last by a person named Shepherd,
a spy in the English service- His account is full of
improbabilities—but, suppose it to be exact, we ask, have
the English never given to the Indians the example of the
atrocities which have again spread dismay among man-
kind ?

G. A.. WErlEßtri, Adjutant•Ganeral.

DR. DUFF ON THE CAPTURE OF DELHI.

people, and she has done nothing for their morality, their
instruction, or their well being.
We do not preach to the Indians revolt against England,
we do not establish committees to encourage insurrection
against the Briti,h nation, though England has twenty
times set us the example by her committees in favour
of Poland, Italy, and Hungary. We do not cry out to
any people to take up arms and break the yoke that
oppresses them ; we speak only in the name of humanity
and civilisation. We do not in a spirit of low jealousy
exult at the evils which strike England, but we do not wish
that she should have the right to preach to other people
the principles which she does not apply at home. We do
not wish that she shall make a virtue of the abolition of
the slave trade proclaimed by her when America won her
independence, while she herself keeps in the most abject
slavery 140,000,000 of human czeatuee, and arrogates the
right to dispose of their existence al she would not dare to
do with animals. We do not wish that the philanthropic
England shell any longer deck herself with that usurped
title, and it is for this that we have lifted up a corner of
the veil which covers from Europe the sight of India We
have not sought to inquire whether England was guided
by the general interest of the civilised world in uniting
Europe against the ambitious designs of Russia, and the
'Projects of conq sect of Persia. Wo have not demanded of
her an account of the support. at least the moral support,
she gives to the CadleaSU4. We have not the pretension to
touch on great political questions Europe will some day
be brought on this ground by force of facts.

tog
before Sebastopol, to which we do n:t hesitate to col
the contest which has just now been brought to an 01

MR. ROEBUCK ON INDIAN REFORrif,

ld
On Thursday evening a public meeting was "e stiles 4
Martin's Hall. for the purpose of considering the °°"ee
of India and the wer'sing of the double tPrere
Viscount Bury, M P, presided. ted the
The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, ete oaf
object for which the meeting had been convenedemiiis;
were met there to discuss the double government efl_uene
a resoultion would also be submitted to them esi?ree°,7..
utio
an opinion that that double government oujit to e
liahed. The hon. viscount concluded by giving area
ed
of the history of our Indian empire, and exPa
opinion that the days of the East In lia
numbered, and that its newer must be swept aerobe
rota,
Mr. J. 'lye to A. Roebuck, M.P., then rose, and s3lwale
lotion which had been pieced in his hands to I°:tont 01
followa :--" That the eeatem of the double gover'. 110
India, as tested by the result of its adminietratlo
jog
proved alike incompatible with the welfare and 118elefeti
of our fellow subjects in that country, and t,ce, end,
and commercial prosperity of the British EnlP.i
wrests,
therefore, that, with a view to secure our nationells of the
and also to raise the moral and social con diro sire
people of Inrlia, to developo their resources, an floe-
them protection for person and property, it is !tit. foro
that there be established for India a respen'ahicli
of government, in the name of the Crown. under f the
all abuses may be checked by the control elticeo
people of England, exercised through their represcn' said
in tho House of Commons. The hoe. member 00n00
they had met there for a very impotent purpose. =tee
the
were other countries that has been pleased to le'lb,eiO
government of their affairs to one man, or a few I,lle
this country Englishmen appeared to think fit tots leg
goverment into their own !made, and although , boted
some part of oar government to those in that to°s
House down in Westminster—(laughter) —the ne°Erublis,
on themselves to assemble together in 'lOl
tof
meeting, and to warn their representatives astbst
they wanted. This meeting was one instance eoriea
feeling, for they were now about to tell the g°:10410
classes of this country what the people i, fal
of the manner in which the government of 111—t test'
conducted. This, he thought, was a most imporolln
and therefore he felt it to be his dire, to come d°,l„e elelg
attend this meeting. He thought there now oieneeiLl
a feeling with regard to India as never was experie;:i
any period before. We have acquired a Ong
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India, the extent or greatness of which was TleTetncdt
—not even Rome, in her palmy days, had such ai,";`e 11:
As to the population of that empire, ho beile'eitalll
last return showed there were 200,000,000 of inLiSt-ii
that were under our rule. To the wel"-bseilloo
that empire he would not now refer ; but f 113e'
acquired that dominion—of the juetice ° oidP
acquisition he would not now speak—they must Voel
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how it could be best governed. Havin r act-0174
e
they must so govern it that the mode of g°'-ree
must be considered right and proper in ;the e,gaejw/
God and of man. Since they had first had It?d°;e
great faults hid !been committed, and groat itelne,-60111,,°
been inflicted on the people of India. As to the gc?,'D 074
classes of England, he expressed a strong oPinis" 01.
they must not be left to themselves, for they 00 til°
then do no good for the people. Then he cantewhifot
question as to how we had act, d towards India ?
many a long year the East India Company wle,,Fr,
mere than a trading body, but it then please" 'lOll
to
who it would he remembered was always in opp°ll 1 PI
the g eat Mr. Fox, to bring in his India mesel
brought in the bill which gave the government °. n the
to the British Parliament. At that time was:reig°llll7per
worthy monarch, George 111 , who, to suit hie ist I
pose, joined with Pitt, and Fox was turned Oa',l t 9
manner too well known. Then it was that Pitt er 000'
power. Pitt was an acute man and having gcttilite 1/3
of Directors of the East India Company to 8,1/44,, 00 ah
destroying Fox, he turned round against all t'cie tll°'
had previously supported him Fitt then Ine—regY
double government cf the Indian empire to which the cor
lotion referred. The Court of Directors were to btbOs
trolled By the Board of Control, is Cannon-ro W, a, 040,
board has for its head a president, and that official
fact the King of India; he could do whatever be Pe'
for the Board of Directors were bound to do we'pere
chose to tell them. If anything ever happened theottet
of Directors said they were not answerable ; the, 011!
went to the President of the roard of Cent-rota-0 do
said he was not answerable ; and then, if it wen'
slg
Governor-General in Council in India, that personlit Do
said the same thing—that he was not answerable,
1,0110
(the hon. member) contended that the absolute cotc.ntivell,l
with the president of the board in Cannon-row. "eeed, ,
said was this—that if was to be well go,veeo6,4o'
must be known who was to be held responsible.
to propose, firstly, that the Board of Directors of Bpd
with,
East India Company be entirely done away -nee step
i
if that object was accomplished, they must go
further, and abolish the Board of Control. In the'rell'l
these, ho would elect cue man, and call him the sect for
of State for India, and make him the responsible Pi`Teere
the good government cf that empire. (Hear, heer.)/0; the
were two things necessary to be done by the PeePneibiliti
first was to make machinery, and concentrate resP°e felt
here, and make the people here let their power be roe,
India. They must do away with the Ccurt of Direet°,oe°'
the Board of Control sere , and make a responsible e , fedi*
State for India. Having got the Secretary of State for caste'
they should have a government in In,lia, and in Li oft
Madras, and Bombay, there should be ago
; •
:Knot 'll Cc'
but there shculd be in each presidency a mun-°,-beee 0
vernment, so that every Englishman there should pest
voice in the government of themselves. EegliFl'meigisage4
out of this country with all the feelings, the k°o OP
and the disposition of Englishmen, and therefore tco he, wee
to he allowed to govern themselves. When a l°%4'
made by Britons they carried out with them the ler!lic Oft',
the feelings, the laws, the religion, the literature-4o
they carried out a little England—they planted pot de
wilds, and tit grew up ; they could therefore . cor/
bettor than let it govern itself. But the cssa licocertl;
different with India. If they were capable of t'eliTetetie%
ment, he would advocate their having a rereeefore.m,
government, but they were not, and could not air; tefj
entrusted with the privileges. The first thing weile
establish was perfect liberty as regarded religtena;cee
sn
not mean that they were to foster the Fein"; etivei;
abominations of the Hinclooe, bat they mne's she tray
ample, and make the Government of India,"4lo;;
Christian Government. The people of England PLI g eu'.
upon themselves the government of India, and ta'ee'ofeleYe
answerable for all that happened there in the 11,4,7,-,1011",,-,
people of England. Tee time was fast approae"l7.oo;6
every man would have a direct interest in the gov:.; pr°,
of India, and it would then remain fur them 'worec,";
whether they would thew themselves as good to t,i;
wise as sagacious, and whether they could condLere of
happiness of mankind as they had been the fettnu—
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greatness of India; Rived.
Mr. Ottway seconded the resolution, and, in T, fitae
commented upon the gallant conduct of Ganer3Z,e
lock, Outrun, and others; and trusted in God to tb
would yet outlive. these dangers, and return; earnedAi
country to enjoy the honours they had so welt
but if tre band of gallant heroes at Luekuow Itiees,tl
into the hands of the enemy, and that it should °lt-
as he believed it would, that succour could %dr
sent to thorn in time if it had been sent oveewe goce•,go
would bring home the crime to the door of
ment.
°f the
Mr Mead then addressed the meeting in stIPP rg of
resolution, during which he entered into a his-
and
commencement and progress of the rebellion.. g, 0110
mented severely on the conduct of Lord Cannjfieon teeee
indecision and impolitic conduct had draw" 'OlO.-
English people in India the greater portion of the
be
they had suffered. Which
the
A Mr. Murray moved the next amendrrief,ift' et 1,11e,t
the
wished to be added to the resolution, to the 6.9 0. jot°
only way to obtain tranquillity for India `*-teeed
ey
Government to recognise the ancient treaties 870 relig; by
with the native princes, and a respect for tla eon tio
opinions of the people; and this could only,
away
giving universal manhood suffrage, and takinie
property qualification of members. erne
Mr Lockhart eeccncled the amendment d After -
The resolution was then put and carried, an ried. ogesi
further discussion, the addendum was also ears euetec,a
Mr. Ernest Jones then moved the adoption any, en'
to Parliament to abolish the East I. dia Co Pr°,
having been seconded by Mr. Bell, and carrl ted tee p
A. vote of thanks to the chairman termini'
ceeJings.

He allud©s to the proceedings in Parliament
against Warren Hastings, and says :—" India wAs
again sacrificed to its executioners in spite of the
coalition of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and all the great
orators of the Chamber. Hastings was acquitted
—not only acquitted but rewarded," and, with an
admirable acquaintance with the history of the
acts, concludes—'4 Hastings received a peerage very
soon after !"

The author is of course of opinion that though
England may suppress the insurrection, she will,
sooner or later, lose not only India, but the whole
of her colonies.

The following important communication from
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
General Comnalndingdn-Chief, having reference to
recent courts-martial, has been received by Major-
General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of the
Royal Artillery, and Colonel Brky.vn, Commandant
of the Royal Marine;, at Woolwich, and was this
day read over to the officers of the corps at their
respective mess-rooms.

Horse Guards, December 14th, 1837.
Up-n two occasions, officers have been convicted, upon
the clearest evidence, of most serious offences against the
military discipline, have been recommeadod, by general
courts-martial, to her Majesty's merciful consideration.
In one case the prisoner was found guilty of having
absented himself from his corps, without leave, for a
considerable period, setting at defiance due military.
subordination. In the other case, the prisoner was con-
victed of habitual contempt of the orders of his command-
ing, officer, and was, moreover, convicted of scandalous
conduct, unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. In both
instances there were no mitigating circumstances, but the
courts-martial having adjudged the prisoners the punish-
ment due to their crimes, accompanied the sentence by a
recommendation to mercy.
The General Coramandiog-in-Chief, in the exercise of
his judgment, did not feel justified in supporting such
recommendations, based upon the youth and inexperience
of the prisoners, There have been, and there may be
hereafter, occurrences where you'll and inexperience may
be urged in mitigation of punishment ; but persevering
and systematic disobedience cf orders, and deliberate
falsehood, can admit of no palliation ; ald his' Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge most earnestly desires
that when officers are called upon to adjudicate upon
charges involving such serious offences, they will pause
and seriously reflect before they rec:mrnend to her
Mjesty's clemency individuals who have boon found
guilty of them, and who thereby have been proved un-
worthy of serving the Queen and country in a profession
which must be upheld by the principles of honour and
discipline.

By command of his Royal Highness the Gonsral Com
minding in-Chief.

A tenth letter from Dr. Duff appears in the Edinburgh
Witness, from which we make the following extract :—All
the accounts which now have reached us conspire in proving
that, among the most signal evidences of a favouring
Providence ought to bo ranked the uninterrupted siege and
final capture of Delhi. There, humanely speaking, every .
thing was against us. The odds indeed were far more
tremendous than any, at the outset, whether rulers or
ruled, could wall have conceived. The season of the
year itself presented a most formidable difficulty. It was
at the very height of our Indian summer, when the atmo-
sphere glowed with a furnace heat, that the tornado of
rebellion burst upon us. Hitherto it has been assumed as
a matter of course fact, that during such a season it is
impossible for British troops to keep the field; or, if
attempted, that inevitable destruction must follow.
Doubtless, this had entered into the calculations of the
conspirators. Then, again, the Government was quite
unprepared ; it had been taken utterly by surprise. By a
coup de main the enemy got possession of the largest and
strongest fortified ci-y in India—a city with perhaps the
largest, and at one time the most gorgeous, palace in the
world, and a titular emperor for its tenant—around whose
person clustered the most brilliant memories of pest mag-
nificence and triumph. The inhabitants of the city within,
and of the neighbouring ceuntries all round, were, almost
to a man, enthusiastically in favour of the cause of the rebel
mutineers. Provisions they had in abundance, though
their numbers increased to thirty or forty thousand. Money,
too, was plentiful, as the contents of scores of provincial
treasuries were conveyed to the imperial exchequer. Nor
did they lack guns or ammunition ; for, after the siege,
the number of guns taken exceeded 200, many of them of
large calibre, eighteen and twenty four pounders ; while
lass, or hundred of thousands of percussion; caps, barrels of
gunpowder without end, shot and shell enough to last a
two years' siege, fell into the hands of the victors. And
though their ranks were constantly mown, the loss was
instantly more than replenished by thousands flushed with
the spoils of their former masters, reeking with their
blood, and all but delirious with the intoxication of a tem-
pory triumph, and with the bright visions of future glory.
On the other side, what had wet A few thousands at the
utmost, of whom a minority wore only British—the rest,
a miscellany cf S:khs, Ghoorkas, and other nondescript
natives from the Punjeub hills. The British, poor fellows!
—alike officers and mon, obliged to make forced marches,
such as British soldiers were never called upon continu-
ously to make before in an Indian summer—often without
any tents, and in many cases almost without carriage of
any description. But, though decimated by sun-stroke
and cholera, they never fainted nor flagged. Then fol
lowed the drenching rains of a tropical wet season, with
their endless train of dysentories and fevers. But, as in
the Crimea, the spirit of officers and men seemed impervious
to the most noxious an :d depressing influences. Taey
proved that at the call of duty—the call of their
country, they could dare to march and fight under
the fiercest rays of a horrid sun, or amid the
gales and waterspouts of an Indian rainy season. On
reaching their campaign ground before Delhi, they found
themselves amid the ashes of the conflagration which had
laid waste the bungalows an I property of the former British
residents. There their diffiulties were enormous. Unable to
watch but a small part of a walled city of seven or eight
miles iu circumference—obliged to keep open their com-
munications with the rear, which swarmed with a hostile
population—for months provided only with guns of com-
paratively small calibre, which would make no impression
on the walls of the imperial city—watched and reported on
by native traitors that overran the camp—kept on the alert
bhh day and night by a vigilant and persevering enemy
which almost incessantly attacked them from one quarter
or another, they still maintained their ground—repulsing
every assault with the most determined energy. At last,
on the 14th of September, when it became their turn to
act on the aggressive, it has been declared on authority that,
owing to losses from sun-stroke, disease, and wounds,
the besiegers had not two thousand British infantry fit
for duty, and not more than fo ir thousand five hundred
infantry altogether." And yet, with this handful, after
six days of hard fighting with myriads of armed despera-
does, who knew that their lives were forfeited, the imperial
city was taken, and not a rebel left alive in it. "History,"
remarks one of our public journalists, "history, perhaps,
will do justice to the unsurpessabie devotion and energy of
our brave countrymen, and will admit that the courage,
the exertions, and the endurance of the British army
before Delhi, has a parallel only in the heroic struggle

REV. J. MACNAUGHT IN REPLY TO Or. I.