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CAILA V. MACNAMARA.

Mr. WOVI.FIg moved the Court to Set aside
the verdict for 5,0 W/. obtained by Hariet Cash.
against Richard Muenamara, fur breach or promise
of marriage, at the sittings after last Term. He ar-
gued at great length eon with much ability. hooka
there was no legal evidence Id • promise lit marry,
which could propesly have gone so a jury iu thus
case; and, secondly, that there was a tureamce be-
tween the contract and the several count. in the
declaration (which he went through leg iatim), which
must be falai to the action in the luau iu which it
hail been tried.
Further argument postponed to Friday.

A packet, containing one hundred one pound
forged Bank of England notes, vtas found in a
booth at Maidstone Fair, duubtltss ititeuded for
circulation there.

Isll INDIA SUCJETY.
Saturday one of Abetment aumerode anal respectable meet-
ings which we have fur a tong time seen was held at the
Great Rooms of the Thatched House T . for the pre.
pose of considering shr propriety of founding " A Society
for the Moral anal Intellectual Improvement of the Native
Inhabitants of British India."
At twelve o'clock the Right Hun. J. C. Villiers, M.P. took
the Chair. On his right sat the Earl of Clare, Lord Teign.
mouth, Lord Dunalley, Loral Gambier, Sir James Merkur.
tusk, M.P., Sir Wm. Bierronglis, sod several Geutlenvest
who filled official situations itit Isttlie. On his. Irk sat the
Lord Bishop of Gloucester, Lend Gosport, Mr. Wilberforce,
the Right Hon. J. %Oliva*, Admiral Sir J. Sannisrez, Mr.
Fowell Beaton, M.P. and several Directors of the East
India Company. The room was crowded to excess. Several
Ladies graced the meeting by their presence, and, as an in.
evilable convequence.the benevolent object by their rapport.
The Right Ilun. J. C. ♦ILLIERS, out taking the Chair,
opened to the meeting the great object fur the promotion or
which they were now convened. lie adverted to the great
neces.ity which es:stetl fur their directing the !white wen.
lion to India, in the hope of ultimately establrsliiiig morel
pronciplis among the Flitodous, who were intrusted to the
British charge.

Mr. HARRISON, in an able speech, strongly pointed
the necessity of establishing a.. lo•tdul upon this bassi.
It road, of course, only be promoted by the forre of reason,
and the gradual removal of the native prejudices. •
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH then proposed, in ■ lava
nous speech, the Arse rescasiou for establishing this Society.
He said that the shave ansorsoms of the native nations in
India will, the British Government, wa■ the most remark-
able which lead ever existed he terren the conquering anJ the
conquered. Hitherto the titillate people had only Imovvii the
greatness of England, by the formidable and overs helloing
appearance of her firers sad armies fur their control nod go.
vcrnale•l. England had now to teach them a different les-
son, one which must produce a great moral operation,
namely, the dispeosation of her great resources for thew
education and benefit, florae from channels they never
saw, Idol from beisefarturs who could
gratitude.—(Appleton.)--This great act would praeticul4
teach them to belies. in the existence of exalted wirier',
from the knowledge of which they were previously deterred
by the corruption of their morals, and force of the des-
'infirm under which they were d. In the existing state
of society in India, it was impossible to commen-e the
great work of reformation by a rousse of religion. rdwra.
tuna. The prejudices and habits of the natives forbade that
course, best the great work of education, tending to civilise.
tau and mural habits, might still go on, and the eireutesal
result of the destructiu• of ruperstition be equally certain.
The ehauge it. the 'Joao° character mould only be Afft.M.
plisheel by the force of renews and persuasioe, and must
therefore be the culls of lime. Nothing could aid news the
progress of such • woe k. than the introduction among them
of those arts end scauctv which tend to the utility sal em-
bellishment of civilised life. Some imputations had been
cast upon what wee represented to be the imprudence and
zeal of Miasionames. Now he must say, from his own ex-
perience in ladle, he had seen nothing to couutenasice these
imputations. lie believed their labours to be well directed,
and that the slate of native society afforded them • wide field
to move in. In his judicial pi IBM ion in India, be had had many
opportunities of witnessing the want of moral effect le the
soperstilitio, miscalled religiose, of the native iiihsbitants.
He had with pain observed the total want of truth in their
evidence. Indeed, to such a degree was this immorality
rarefied, that Sir %Vim. Joao, notwithstanding his generous
partiality towards the people, among whim, his pursuit*
were so will calculated to inspire him with regard, hub
himself been compelled judiciously to admit its teistewee to
a great degree—to a degree, indeed, which made It difficult
fur a Judge to say, after lie had derided a cause among
them, whether that decisiou were founded upon the inal-
terable basis of truth—(Hear, hear.)—le was this disre-
gard to tenth among t►e Hiadous stitch made him declare
that that system of opinion, called religion, amour flee na-
tives of India, had eau mural use at all.—(f/ear, ktar 4_
So far from being au aid, it was rather an obstacle to the
Magistrate—it enforced oo duty in I.k, nor promoted any
net of moral intalligenee.—(llear, hear )—A system of edu-
cation bad, however, spews op is Podia, which, with the
coucurrenee of the sealiam, was wed calculated to promote
the greatest eventual ►enefits. Is Bombay (from • letter
be bad seen), the education of the native children was g g
on so prosperously, that it was hoped all the children of a
imputed )))) not fewer than 2 or 300,000 in amount, would
1414111 possess the rudiments of necessary knowledge. Sir
James eusicluded ass chemical speech by eluvial a Resolution'
for forming the Society.
Mr. WILBERFORCE rose to second the Resolutions hat.
the Rev. Mr. WARD was drat called upon, to state from his
residence in India the situation .if the native population.'
The Rev. Gentleman, at eoaside►able length, described'
the state of native society in the district of Bowel. He
particularly spoke of the Wale of iguticinsce in which the
female+ were kept it. ludia, and enforced the bad effect it
must have upon the rearing of their families. He also spoke
to the revolting practice of widows immolating themselves
upon the funeral pi ca of their dead husbands, leaving
behind them, utterly regardless, infants of 1,2, and 3- years
of age, and ►ometimes even suckling ones, which were in
open outrage to the compunctious of nature, torn by the
mother Gum her bosom, while she flung herself to expire
it the flames. lit thin state of moral depravity were fifty
millions of females under British dominion. How &meld
they tau be moral, when the very gods of their idolatry
were persunificalory of vice—when their very priests were
leaders in crime—when the very scenes of their temples
could not be 'mentioned in a Christian community?—
(Hear, Gear.)—Had nut Providence, lee would ask, con-
signed the population of 100 millions to Great Britain, that
abe taught pederast them from Ibis immoral vassalage?
England was under an awful responsibility to lift this peo-
ple from their vices..--Mear, hear.a—After the darkness of
a night of ages, the sun was now shining upon them ; anal,
under British benevolence, he hoped it would set in glory.—
(Hear.)—The Rev. Gentleman thee instanced the avidity of
the Milled, to obtain education to be such, that the Brahmins
offered their temples as school holism., and themselves as
leachers. lie had no doubt of complete success from the es-
tablishment of this gaiety.
Mr. WII.BERFORCE next rose to eecond Sir dames
lilackintosh's resolution,' and ref. rreet to the speech of the
Kew. Mr. Ivard, as strikingly @tiaras lbe necessity for this
Society, tail the facility with which Ns lieneinlent mfrotiwis
might be realised. To ignorance the dreadful superstitiou
of the natives might be traced; and when that was once re-
umveit, the evils which Slier) from it must craw as w unto-
cal consequence. The lion. Gentleman made 1111 affecting
appeal to the meeting upon the dreadful influence of that
superstition which tore from the busman bream, not the force
of those general principles of mural feeling which reigned so
universally, but those very ties of kindred which nature in-
delibly marked upon Sir female character, fur the preserve-
Moo of her own e ))))) fort and that of society.—(//ear, hear.)
—Dreadful indeed must be that ruperstition which eradi-
cated from • mother all affection fu► her intim' child.—
(Ifeue.)—To reform so dreadful a slate of thiugs was their
firm duly; sod the only way in which it could be dune was,
by the introduction among them of those habits which tended
to humanize society. It often happened, that in promos Mg
censures of general utility, a statesman had in admit others
wheel' were of a mixed character; that, with the good to Out
massy, be had to see some evil inflicted open the few. Rot,
here was no such drawback from the general joy. Here was
uuthiwg but what cundered, in flee mind harmonizing mess.
suer, to the in. vitiate gaud of the whole. The path was
smooth and delightful, from beginning tee end, and the hand
of Providence pointed it out as the duty which was pry.
scribed to England, by the overruling Power who bad cum.
mittal so many militant of human beings to her charge-
-(ffea•r, deer, hear.)-11e concluded by seconding the mo-
tion, which,as well as the succeeding ones, were carried aims
nlmously.
The Lord Bishop of GLOUCESTER, in proposing the
Resolution for constituting the Society, took also • feeling
review of the slate of society in India, and the bounden
duty prescribed to England, anaemia% to dial vast empire
the mural blessings she herself enjoyed.
Lord TEIGNSIOUTH, in seconding the motif*, de-
seribed the slate of moral depravity in which he had (woad
the Wives of India. More than fifty years ago, when be

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Brat went ant to Podia, he renumbered • rcrittext mailo'hy
native in his service, that he should write to a friend of his
in another part of the country, to send biro a instil-filar
stone, out or which he wanted to snake • God!—{Hear,
bar.)—He was clad to hear of the recent rein:tattoo in the
prejudices of the natives, sad the aid they were now likely
to give for the purposes of education.
Sit W. BURROUGHS alluded to hi, experience for Dimly
pears while Supreme Judge of the Court at Calcutta. So
much stl that he did not remember • single motive ease of
importance, in 0 hieh the perjury at bolls sides was Not
shockiug. He corroborated the 11118111M1 tal that the motives
were ri taxing in their prejsolicer. He knew a Brahmin who
posoraired a landed property of 1? or 14,0001. a year, and
who hail by the force of his own reason converted hint elf to
Christianity. He first wanted to learn Persian, which is the
diplomatic language of the East that led him to the study
of Arabic, and as his book was she Ahrotair, he was struck
with the sensuality and ambition. of Mehemet. He after-
wards learned English, and Nora sending the New Testa-
ment', was struck with the sublime piety of Christiaiiity ;
the goal contrast presented by its Divine Foondir to the
false Prophet; the purity, awl utility, and ditiuteresiedmam of
the maxims which he ricononeuded ; and the eulightteraell
Brahmin soon became alsockid at the inferiority of what be
had previously believed, and had now become a Christine,
lie enlarged tiptoe the moral neeessity whirls t Leted of eni.
lightening the Indian population. They hail now, dodo,
the British d Unties@ among them, beea kept iu subjective,
set lihe the amigo() prorincrr, by levies 'carried from one le -
the other, but bi levies every where made motor themselves% .1
and no Marius or Sells hid risen to shake the Doltish Asiath:
Empire. It stetned then, as if Providence preserved it I.
be mile eh"- week of morel. regeneration 1.1 the British
Governmcnt. .
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Mr. John'hornbill, as East ludic Director, the Earl ni
Clare, Mir James Saussiirez, and the Right lion. John
van, successively proposed Itesoheions, which they merely
accompanied by a concurring remsik.
Lord GAMBIER also declared hi* warm concerreare
the great ohji et of the meeting.
Dr. LUNISDA LE, Yoe Professor of Arabic and Persiaa
at the College of Fort William, bore his testimony to the
alacrity with nhich the chief part of the Itintiou pupal atoll
were likely to receive this moral instruction.
Mr. BENJAMIN SHAW, M.P. spoke warmly of the ries
amity Gm thitscotiostisg riyilizrrl babilisits the East. &
hail head that is a part of Samatra they foliesed their chill.
dies, to prepare them for ash- as hams. food
CIAIILEB GARDNER, Esq !Ate Secretary to the So.
prrme Government of India, spoke with satisfaction urthe
advantages of this Postitutioss

Mr. ZACILARIAH M ACAULEY ware* urged the sc.
cessity of ethical ing female society is I itifiA.
ROBERT STEPHEN, Esq. made s sdoodbor •ppewl, mod
the reeommendstuon was thee embodied iu a Resolution.
The whole tro4iness of the meeting went off unsoirroms•
ly, and a large subseriptiear was suppiird isratd of its emu.
eceuseui.

1711 ARMY.

The two troops of Claisber T C.avalry, winder lb*
rommand of his Grace the Duke eof New oh., and the Work-
sop troop, under the colownwsitof Wad Surrey, are expected
at. News' k on Monday seat, osi pelueaseat defy for Sew dayi.
The whole of the reigiateut of Dragoon Girard*, under the
command of Colonel Duane, have arrived at Noilinglialn, to
be onspectid by Lord Charles Sinnersti).on or about the lath
of nett month. •

On Wednesday the 16th Unreels Insrehed hum Sheik, Id
barracks for klauelserier. Tbey are to be superseded by a
troop of the Qurat's Bays.
On Wednesday, six troupe, of Ilse 15th regiment of fins.
saes, stationed ■i York barracks, were reviewed on Knaves-
mire, by Lurd Edward Somerset and Sir John nyitg.

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PO LA It EXPEDITION.

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.701:IRN AT. or A VOYAGE FOR TICE DISCOVERY or
A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, INDER TDB ORDERS ,
OF WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, R A., F R. 5., AND
COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION.
The following extract from this interesting Work
der.crthes the extraordinary effects of frost upon the
Kaman body
John Pearson, • marine be longing to the Meilter, who was
the last that returned tin hoard, had his hand* severely frost.
bitten, having imperriestly gout away 'Pianist mittens, and
with a musket in his hand. A, party of tax people moot pro.
videntially found him, although thenight was very 'lark, jaot
as he had fallen down a steep batik of snow, and was Lo-
gi 0000 ing lo feet that degree of torpor, and drowsiness, which,
if indulged, inevitably proves fatal. When he was brought
on board his fingers were quire miff, and bent into
the shape of that pert of the musket which he hail bees
carrying: sad the frost lead to, far destmyed the animatiou
in his Augers tin one band, that it was necessary Iseirnputate
three of them a short time after, notwithstandmg all the ease
ant atientinu paid to him by the medical gentlemen. The
effect which expossore to severe Prima has, is benumbing the
mental as well as the corporeal faculties, was very oh acing
iu this 111.11,, as repast in Iwo of the young gentlemen who
returned after dark, and of whom we were 4111/lIIOUIP to make.
inquiries rerproing Pearson. Wisest I sent for them into
my cabin, limy looked wild, spoke thick and inaistinetly„
and it was Impossible to draw from the a reticles' saswcr

to any of our cratidions.
After being un board for a short time the mental
appeared gradually to return with the rei egoist' Cliff..
MO it was out till then that a looker-on could easily per-
suade himself that they Sail not been drinking too
To those who have been -much accustomed to cold coun-
tries Skis will he no new remark; but I cannot help think-
ing (sad it is with this view that I speak of it) that
many a mat. may have beet. punished for intoxication,
who was only suffering from the bentembing effects of feast;
for f hare more than once seen our people in • state so ex-
actly resembling that of the most stupid intoxication, that
I should certainly have ch.rged them with that offence, had
I not been quite sure that 'to possible mraus were •ffwdad
them un Melville hland to procure any thing stronger than
snow-water. •
The following p.taio2e gives a striking idea of the
dresrine►s of a l'olur %Vatter :
It nriy well be imagined that at this period there was but
t Lille to be wet with in our walks on shore, which mold
either amuse or interest us. The necessity of nut r ger eilint
the limited distairce of one or two miles, lest a suuw-drift,
which often rises very suddenly, should prevent oar return,
added confides slily to the eltdl ?lid tedious senoolony which,
day after day, presented itself. To the southward was the
sea, covered with one trobrokee surface of ice, uniform its its
dazzling whiteaess, except that, in some parts, a few kens-
mucks were seen thrown sip somewhat above the general keel.
Nor did the land offer mneh greater variety, being almost
entirely covered with snow, except here and there • brows
patch of bare grown' in some exposed situations, where the
wind hail not allowed the snow its remain. IVhen viewed
from the summit of the neighbouring hills, on one of thus•
rake and clear days which rot eisfrequently occurred during
the whiter, the scene was such as to induce contemplatioes,
which had, perhaps, Rune of utels•ebuly t►an of any other
feeling. Nut a• object was to lie seen on which the eye
could long rest with plea►ure, unless whew directed to the
spot where the ships isy, and where oar little celery was
planted. The invoke which there issued from the several
fires, atilirdiug • certain iudication of the presence of wee,
gave a it partial cheerfulness to this part of the prospect; and
the sound of rulers, which, during the cold weather, could
be heard •t • muck greeter distance than usual, served now
and thee to brat the ailesee which reigned around ea—a
'Hemet far different Inns that peaceable ennsposere which
char■cteriaa the landscape of a eoltivaled revelry; it was
she death-hke stillness of the aunt dreary desolation, and
the total absence of animated existence. Sack, indeed, was
the want of objects to afford relief to Ilse eye, or sweetmeat
to the Wed, that • stone of more then usual size appear-
leg above the snow, is the direction le which we were going,
immediately became • mark, on which our eyes were vv-
consciously Axed, and towards whirls we iserbsairally ad.
sauced.