The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-01 00:00:00

ment."

In 1834 the late Rajah, who is described by tra-
vellers as a fine, hospitable, sportsmanlike man, got
into trouble with " John Company," and was sent
off to Benares ; the company, according to his own
statement, sacking his palace and confiscating a
vast deal of his property. Ultimately he was pen-
sioned off on £6;000.
In 1852 the R.:jah came to England on thunder-,
standing that his pension was to be continued for
the year of his absence. His avowed object was to
bring over his daughter to be adopted by the
Christian Queen of this country, to whom, remain-

ing himself a strict Brahmin of the Sudra caste,
he wrote a letter, begging her Majesty to educate

the princess like an English nobleman's daughter.
for the Almighty hsd given tier the knowledge of
all things concerning Indian matters, and bad
placed her over a great nation." In the meantime,
the Rajah was one of the lions of the London sea-
son ; he appeared at levees and State balls, " wear-
ing an Oriental costume of great magnificence, en-
riched with gold bullion and embroidery, the body
of the dress being wholly formed of a gold fabric."
The East India Company and the aristocracy gene-
rally entertained him besides. On the 30th June
the princess was baptised in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, Viscountess
Hardinge, and Mrs. Robert Drummond (wife of
M jot Drummond, of the 3d Bengal Light Cavalry,
who was in attendance on the prince), were the
godmothers, and Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart.,M.P.,
chairman of the East India Company, was god-
father, the ceremony being performed by the Lord
Primate (to whom the Rajah had written a touch-
ing appeal on behalf of hie daughter's Christian
education), Lord Wriothesley Russel!, as Deputy
Clerk of the Closet, and the Dean of Windsor (toe
Hon. Mr. Wellesley), as Private Chaplain to the
Quell. Her Majesty confided the education of the
princess to Mrs. Robert Drummond, under a special
agreement between the Rajah on one hand, and
the Board of Control and the East India Company
on the other.
Unluckily the Rajah fell into misfortune, and
being, as he thought, ill-treated by the company',
by Lord Dalhousie, and by all the Indian authori-
ties, contrived to become the hero of various Par-
liamentary debates, the memory of which it is un-
necessary to revive, further than to say that the
origin of them was the withdrawal of his highness's
pension (which, however, was eventually restored),
and that the champions of his cause were the Mar'
quis of Clanricarde in the Upper, and Mr. Milner
Gibson in the Lower, House of Parliament. The
Princess Gouramma was confirmed and admitted as
a communicant, under the auspices of the Queen,
and a few years ago she married Colonel John
I Campbell.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, and the infant Prince Albert Victor of
Wales, leave Marlborough House shortly after noon
to-day to proceed to Sandringham, Norfolk. It is
expected that their royal highnesses will remain ill
comparative retirement until the third week in this
month.
The Earl of Listowel has arrived at 'Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Ktmbolton Castle.
Lord Bipugham is still at Cannes, and in the
best of health. The noble and learned lord is ev.
pected to arrive in .Paris the week after next, and,
after a brief stay ths9re, the venerable peer. Will
arrive in London at the close of the month.
Baroness de Clifford has ;arrived at her residence
on Carlton-house-terrace, for the season, fitful residence
seat in Leicestershire.
Count Sandoz has left Thomas's lintel, Berkeley'
.quare, for Vienna.
Sir Thomas Sebright and family have arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the EOM;
quer and Mrs. Gladstone have arrived. in town fel▪
l
the season. Mrs. Gladstone's first assembly
take place on Wednesday next.
Colonel Farquharson has returned to Thottille'°
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Scotland.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
arrived at their residence in St. James's-square J'_.
the season, from Blenheim Palace, near Woodsto:at
The Earl and Countesa Spencer, by their,
letters, had arrived at Constantinople from Cal'"
rf,- .
and intend to visit Athens before they return.la 0;
noble earl and countess are not expected
until the first week in the ensuing month.
so
The United Kingdom Railway Officers
meeting
Servants' Association held its half-yearly
lastcav Wednesday,e,EEci.,
sbe rai:f
otlflLe
o.,T7.3,,oinodnoannaß;lididgclei/olu,sienfihoetce.lia,siTri
rs had been enro. • ehe
iNhlra.tTu.pAwlatrraeds
013fu270,0soecmreetnia%:, read the report, whichldiusta.tf;
Pension and Accident Fund,
Fund. £586 had been paid fel, , deaths. A special do
of i 5 ss. from the chairmen wiz ,stint'ullcell.
(Gad nearly 4,000 in t Desa,jo";4

Col, Crawley and Sergeant-Major Wakefield,

Many of of the circumstances connected with the
management by Lieut.-Col. Crawley of the 6th In-
niskilling Dragoons will be brought under the
notice of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas in the course of the forthcoming
term, which will commence on Friday, the 15th
inst. The plaintiff in the case is Sergeant-Major
Wakefield, and the defendant Lieut.-Col. Crawley.
The proceedings out of which the action arose are
those which were immediately identified with the
Mhow court-martial, and of which much was said
in the early stages of the court-martial on Lieut.-
Col. Crawley at Aldershot. Lieutenant-Colonel
Crawley was appointed early in 1861 to the corn-
Mana of the Inniskihing Dragoons, then stationed
at Atnednuggur, in the Dewar. He introduced
some changes into the regiment, which soon became
broken up into hostile cliques. In less than a year
from the time Lieut.-Colonel Crawley assumed the
command Paymaster Smales was brought once be-
fore a court of inquiry and once before a court-
martial. At the latter trial, known as the Meow
court-martial, three non-commissioned officers who
Were to have given evidence were arrested by order
of Colonel Crawley and kept in close confinment.
They were Regimental Sergeant Major Lilley,
Troop Sergeant Major Duval, and Troop Ser-
geant Major Wakefield. The first of these died,
and the latter is the plaintiff in the present
action. The action is brought by the plaintiff
against his late commanding officer for trespass
in causing him to be arrested and confined on
a charge of insubordination, the second count alleg-
ing that the defendant caused the plaintiff to be
_so
arrested maliciously and without any reasonable or
PrPbable cause ; and the third alleges that while the
Plaintiff was so under arrest, without reasonable or
probable cause, the defendant, by false representa-
tions, induced Major-General Farrell, commanding
Commander-in-Chief
Mho division, and Sir William Mansfieid,
‘ionimander-in-Chief of the Bombay army, to
approve of the arrest, and to order the plaintiff
„to be detained in prison, without bringing
'din before a court-martial, as he was bound
to do under the Mutiny Act. The plaintiff lays
hisLieutenant-Colonel
damages at £5,000. To this declaration
-Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley has pleaded :-
1. The general issue of "not guilty" to the whole of
the counts, under the Mutiny Acts. To the count
On trespass he has pleaded a justification, to the
effect that the plaintiff had bean guilty of gross
Misconduct, of insubordination, and in other re-
Peets of breaches of military discipline ; further, that
!he defendant was justified as commanding officer
M causing the plaintiff to be arrested and impri
B,°ned. 2. That the defendant was justified in de•
twining the plaintiff in prison under and by virtue
the' command of his superior officer, the command-
ing Officer of the district (Major-General Farrell).
•;•n the 3d place, Lieut.-Colonel Crawley pleads
the
in detaining and continuing
General
Plaintiff in prison in virtue of the command of
`-'eneral Sir William Mansfield, who was in com-
mand of the Bombay division of the army. To
t °ese pleas the plaintiff has replied, taking issue on
them as to matters of fact, and furtber assigns that
Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley kept him in solitary
arrest and on several occasions after his
and without reasonable cause punished
hien
• To this part of the replication Lieu-
tenant Crawley has demurred, and has also
Pleaded a special rejoinder that what he
did •
la causing the plaintiff to be arrested
and continued in imprisonment was done
bona fide in the discharge of his duties as com-
manding officer, and that if he did so wrongly it was
an error, and was not done maliciously, inasmuch
as he had acted throughout with a simple desire to
uphold and maintain the discipline of the service.
Upon this issue has been joined. The demurrer is
se"
down for argument by the full court early in
astern term, and the cause itself will be heard by
-Lord Chief Justice Erle at the sittings at Guildhall
after Trinity term. Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins,
for C.,
, and Mr.Prideaux are the counsel engaged
the plaintiff. Lieut.-Col. Crawley will be re-
°resented by Mr. M. Ceambers, Q.C., and Mr.
Ranee.

XONEY MARKET

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COMPUB,CIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Money is still in active request, and bankers and
bill brokers show no disposition to charge less than
the minimum quotation of the Bank of England for
the negotiation of short dated securities.

A further sum of £37,000 in gold was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday.
The Bank of England return for the week end-
lug "Wednesday presents some unfavourable features.
The other securities, representing the discount
transactions of the establishment, as well as the
11.„Qtes in circulation, have been increased, while the
ullion shows a large reduction. The following is
ear usual analysis :
Active Circulation .. £20,409,525
Increase .. •• 652,585
.. 14,163,519
•• 285,682
Rest
.. 3,884,915
Increase • • 11,353
Public Deposits 10 280,458
Increase .. .. 439,135
(Other Deposits.. .. .. • • 12,658,986
Increase .. • • • " 178,832
Seven Day and other Bills .. 499,1 9
Decpase 10,616
Government Securities .. • • 11,273,114
alteration.
C )they Securities No
22,199,370
Increase .. .. 1,456,941
Notes Unemployed .. .. 6,650,530
Decrease .. • • 844,650
OA,, dividend of £3 per share, which is at the rate
4 !4 per cent. per annum, will be proposed by the
dit ectors of the Oriental Bank Corporation at the
ttu3uing meeting of shareholders for the half-year
ea ding 31st December last.
The share list of the Central Argentine Railway
eettipany will be closed on Monday, April 4, for
the don, and on the sth for the country.
The share list of the North Western Bank will
else on Saturday, April 2.
The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
bllee Markets during the last few days have not
Lee . very extensive. Tea, however, has maintained
1,
411 rates. Sugars have been neglected, while a
1114 aerate amount of business has been done in
eaf fee, inferior qualities having declined 6d. par
eV? t. In rice and fruit there has been very little
the Lnge, while a steady business has been reported
tallow for both present and forward delivery.

'1 'he London Financial Association has intro-
duo ad to the notice of the investing public the
elytle Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Com-
-131113., Which proposes to purchase and extend the
13.1113 hail ding business of Messrs. Smith and Rodger,
Or
i„ Glasgow. The arrangements for the transfer
31ade t ne yard, engineering premises, plant, and
Re?"Wil!.. of the firm in question, and the purchase.
mico
h eY' is to be paid partly in cash and partly in
4-are a- A London board has been formed to secure
"at
Qt, t 'acts, in the metropolis. The capital re.
ed is 4;500,000, the first issue of which is to con-
of half halt the amount in shares of £5O each.
ttEuropean Central Railway Company with a
liPit 41 of £1,400,000, half of which is to form the
lat,r4 issue in shares of £4O each, has been projected
t; the Financial Corporation, for the purpose of
tell steaming a railway, under concession, across the
tott tilt' division of the Swiss Alps, and developing
h.ezegrirtidenatest eSki xtent the commercial resources of
i, and ade,ing to the facilities of dispos-
4of the Produce o f Southern Germany by means
to a Parts of LegEorn Geneva, and Ancona. The
tetkictuY has sec u/ ed the preferential right to ex-
th,eir line to any junction with the system of
or ewaYa of Coe Aral Europe whether at Lucerne
tvill-°,ine* The se undertakings, when completed, fleet land --ect aam Ping of about 800 miles in the over.
the prQut° to India, Australia, &c., and make
1 di ort of Brim died the future landing stage for the
,/,h4 ttlaLla n, d passengers.
1.4)4 °filqtal• returns relating to trade and naviga-
hav tjle vo months ending the 29th February,
bat the t bel3tl published, from which it appears
the total' declared value of the exports from
4za,11 `-'l3 ited
ngdom for that period amounted to
of 07, against £17,343,731 on the like period
'rho showing an increase of £5,767,976.
=ricre..
and , has been most perceptible on beer
,oatittraie,
114 and calm, cotton yarn, cotton
.
4tillit„„ry acturea, earthenware, haberdashery and
tares,4,lldw.ar.ea and cutlery, linen manufac-
"lao,, Splints, sheep sad, lamb's wool, and