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London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

THE

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1852.

summoned once more to the task of deciding impar-
tially, deliberately, and—let it never be forgotten—
most responsibly in what manner the affairs of Hin-
dostan are henceforth to be regulated, in what form
one hundred and fifty millions of our " fellow-sub•
jects" in that quarter of the globe are to witness the
permanent stabilitation of their government.

Happily a comparative lull has at this juncture de-
scended upon the Supreme Councils of the United
Kingdom. The Northern Confederacy has been
broken up. The war with France has terminated.
The American Independence has been arranged and
recognised. The French Revolution has passed
through very many phases of its development, through
agony and through glory, until it has assumed at least
an aspect bearing somewhat the semblance of consoli-
dation. The Great NAPOLEON has been dead more
than thirty years from the present time, his ashes
I have been reposing more than ten years under the
gorgeous dome of the Invalides, the heir
of his fortunes and the representative of his
family has been presiding for nearly four years over
the administration of the French Republican Govern-
ment. Catholic Emancipation has been acceded to as
incorporated among the statute-laws of the realm
even by the most earnest supporters of the English
Church Establishment. Parliamentary Reform, so
far from being considered impracticable even by the
most prejudiced minority, is allowed on almost all
hands to be a question necessitating the toils of a
progressive and properly graduated development.
The Free-Trade System has been at length accepted
as an unavoidable necessity, even by the more in-
fatuated sticklers for the dogmas of Protection. The
Revolutionary turbulence of 1848 and 1849 has sub-
sided into a complete and universal tranquillity.
Ireland itself, relieved from the presence of its
disloyal and infuriated agitators, has subsided into a
state of quietude long unknown amongst her in-
poverisbed and unfortunate population. It is under
these propitious circumstances, it is at this pacific
juncture, it is in the midst of such wide-spread pros-
perity, that England finds herself again summoned
to the task of deliberating upon the often-deferred
problem of her Oriental Government. GOD grant
that the Parliament of Great Britain may acquit
itself of the solemn 'responsibility new devolving
upon it in a manner becoming the legislators of
those vast and scattered realms which alike own al-
legiance to the gentle sceptre weilded by the hand of
the English SOVEREIGN ! GOD grant that the result
of our approaching deliberation may not prove by the
lapse of time that the Anglo-Saxon rule in the
East has continued to be a curse inst,ad of
a blessing to 150,000,000 of souls, created like
ourselves, redeemed like ourselves, and entrusted by
PROVIDENCE to the care and the conscience of our
Government ! GOD grant that England may in all
respects regard the sacred rights of Hindostan, end
that the Oriental races may have no longer reason to
abhor the supremacy of their trading conquerors!
The Ldian question will now very speedily hate
to be sifted in Commission, the result of that examine.
tion will have to be debated in the Legislature, and
the decision arrived at in consequence will then have
to be sanctioned by the Crown and enforced by the
Government. Our legislators and administrators
will consequently have to consider within the limit of
next year's Parliamentary session whether the powers
entrusted hitherto to the Court of Directors shall be
renewed, whether one hundred and fifty millions of men
shall be subjected again
for another quarter of a cen-
tury to the rule of a " corporation of capitalists," or
whether England shall assume to herself the enor-
mous and responsible privilege of thoroughly and
radically re-organizing the whole system of the Bri-
tish Oriental Government. In order to solve this
difficulty, it must no longer be said, " the question
will be taken up in haste, decided in haste, and we
shall crowd the discussions into a few weeks, and
postpone all discussion until the eve of the decision,"
as was formerly remarked with painful accuracy of
prediction by Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH. It must no
longer be said to the national Representatives, as was
indignantly done by Mr. MACAULAY when he occu-
pied the position of Secretary to the Board of
Control —" A broken head in Coldbath-fields
excites more attention in this House than
three pitched battles in Hindostan l" Party spirit,
moreover, must at length give way in a matter over
which it has hitherto exercised a disgraceful and
alarming predominance. 'We must no longer wit-
ness such odious tergiversation as was witnessed in
1784, when Fox advocated and DUNDAS successfully
opposed an East India Bill identical in character
with the measure which only two years before,
namely, in 1782, Fox had opposed and DUNDAS ad-
vocated ! Proceedings very different from these
must now, we believe in our hearts, illustrate the
deliberations of the British Legislature. For the
anxious observation of the country must at last be
directed to the decision arrived at in regard to the
future conduct of the affairs of Hindostan. The
difficulty can be no more blinked. The country
can no longer be hoodwinked in refe•
rence to the conduct which has been
pursued by the Court of Directors. Already the
people of England have heard from the lips of an
authoritative witness that most extraordinary con-
fession, that "the larger the territory the greater the
debt," under the hitherto tolerated system of con-
fused and blundering administration. Yet more the
inhabitants of these islands have found, even now, that
that lamentable acknowledgment has been most de-
plorably verified! For while it has been seen that
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vinces of 5,000,0001., a permanent additional outlay
of more than 6,000,0001. has thereby been incurred
showing that there has been actually added
to the general deficit by these means, a new
deterioration of 1,472,0021. sterling I Altogether
it proves, on inquiry into the official statistics of 1852,
that the Indian revenue amounts to only 20,221,9521.,
while the Indian debt (exclusive of what is termed
the " home debt") amounts to 44,204,0801.! For a
detailed exposition of these and other melancholy
truths of a similar character we would here, there-
fore, for the cogent reasons already enumerated,
direct the most earnest attention of the English
public to the arguments advanced upon the subject
by the New Quarterly. Humanity not less than I
patriotism imperatively demand at this juncture that
the condition of the Hindoo multitude should be
weighed in the balance of judgment by every generous I
and conscientious Englishman.

Extraordinary decisions sometimes are given in the
Metropolitan Police Courts. One of these was
given, last Wednesday, in Worship street, by Mr.
DIEYNCOURT, the magistrate. We shall state the
facts as reported, give the magistrate's judgment
and remarks, and leave the public to judge between
the delinquent and the magistrate, the offence and
the punishment.

' A man, named CHARLES JONES, described as
" an athletic, resolute-looking fellow," was brought
up at Worship•street, before Mr. D'EYNCOURT, on
Wednesday, charged with the committal of a series
of scandalous outrages. It was proved, in evidence,
that a small lad, aged thirteen years, named aENay
MonGAN, was in the gallery of the Standard Theatre,
in Shoreditch, on the preceding evening; he felt
very thirsty during the performance, and, having
gone out to procure a draught of water, returned
he could resume possession of it the prisoner seized
quietly to the seat he had left in the front. Before
him under both his arms, raised him up over the
outer part of the gallery, and violently attempted to
throw him down headlong into the pit. To use the
words of WILLIAM LAMBERT (one of the door-
keepers of the theatre), " the prisoner,
who appeared
to be determinedly bent upon his purpose, had suc-
ceeded in getting the little fellow's legs over the iron
'oar, but the boy clung
with desperation to the rail,
and screamed for help in the greatest terror, as the
depth from the gallery to the pit was but little short
of 70 feet, and if he had been hurled over there could
he but very little donbt that he would have been
killed. Witness, however, instantly caught hold of
the lad, and succeeded with some difficulty in rescu-
ing him from his perilous position, but he had no
sooner done so than the prisoner made a rush at him,
and after striking him several sharp blows in the face,
declared with an oath that he would fling him over
next. The prisoner then seized hold of ,him by the
projected over the bar-
thhaei ruopfp he
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part
sd f andhi forciblyperson dragged him down until

tier, and he felt perfectly satisfied that his assailant
would speedily have effected his purpose, as he was on
the point of losing his balance, if it bad not been for
the fortunate arrival of several other officers, with
whose assistance the prisoner was at length over-
powered and secured." MGRGAN, the intended vic-
tim, said that he was wholly at a loss to account for
the savage conduct the prisoner had exhibited towards
him, as the prisoner was au entire stranger to him,
and he had not offered him the slightest provocation
previously to his seizing him up and attempting to
pitch him over into the pit. In truth, the assault
seems to have been as unprovoked as it was aggra-
vated.

These assaults with attempt to murder—for
they were nothing less—were not the only
acts of CHARLES JONES, the prisoner, on
that night and in that place. When he had
grasped LAMBERT, the door-keeper, and attempted to
throw him over into the pit also, an assistant con-
stable of the theatre, named STANNARD, made an
exertion to extricate LAMBERT from the grasp of the
prisoner, who was at that time holding him down by
,he hair of his head, and making desperate efforts to
force him over the railing, the prisoner commenced a
similar attack upon him also, and endeavoured to
hurl him down into the pit with such an exertion of
muscular strength that they were both in imminent
danger of losing their lives. These repeated out-
rages were fully proved by the persons upon whom
they were successively committed—by the boy
MORGAN, by LAMBERT the door-keeper, and by
STANNARD the constable. The police report states
that the prisoner's only defence was a vociferous
denial of the entire facts, and a declaration (in
the coarsest language) that the whole account
given of the transaction was a tissue
of lies from first to last. And, to carry out the evi-
dence of the prisoner's conduct, it should be remarked
that while the witnesses were giving their testimony
" he repeatedly interrupted them, and assailed them
with the foulest invectives."

Tha charges, as made and proved, were three:—
That, without provocation of any sort, this athletic
man took a boy of thirteen years, raised him up in
his arms, and attempted to throw bim over into the
pit, a fall of 70 feet, the consequences of which
attempt,
if successful, would most probably have
been the lai's death, and serious injury to the
persons in the pit on whom he would have been pre-
cipitated—that he seized the man (LAMBERT) who
bad rescued the lad, struck him several times, seized
him by the hair of the head, attempted to throw him
over into the pit, and was only.stopped by the joint
efforts of several policemen ; and that the prisoner
attempted to throw over one of these officers also,
and was prevented with difficulty.
What was the magistrate's decision in this
series of assaults with intent to commit
murder ? Mr. D'EYNCOURT (it is duly re-
ported) " characterised it as a most wanton
outrage." He might have committed the ruffian to
trial on the charge of felony, or he had a power of
summarily fining him 51. for each of the three as-
saults, or of giving him three months in prison on
two cases, or two months for the assault on the
policeman, without the option of paying a fine.
It may be a question whether the ruffian had
not done sufficient to be indicted capitally,
but, at any rate, on the evidence against him, a
judge, on conviction in the Criminal Court, would
most probably have sentenced him to transportation.
D'EYNCOURT punishes this " most wanton out-
rage" by fining him 51. for two of the assaults (quite
forgetting that on the constable STANNABD), " in de-
fault to stand committed to the House of Correction
for tvo separate terms of one month each, one to take
effect at the expiration of the other."
So, the punishment in Worship-street Police-
court for a series of brutal assaults (every
one of which, if successful might have caused
death to one or more persons), is no more than a fine
of five pounds, or two months' imprisonment ! If
this was not a case in which the maximum of punish-
ment was not fully merited, we know nothing of law
or justice. On the same day, when Mr. VEYNCOURT
gave what we cannot help thinking a most inadequate
punishment for a very serious offence, a case some-
what similar came on before the Magistrate at Guild-
hall. A fellow named JOHN WELLS was convicted
of a violent assault Upon MATTHEW GAMBLE, " who
appeared with a dreadfully lacerated nose and his arm
strapped to Lisside." Without the slightest provocation,
while GAMXLE was speaking
with
in the streeton the previous Monday night, WELLS
came up, abused both, knockedcnAhsnis
down,friend C
kicked
E
him about the head and body while insensible, and
then, on Gastßee's interfering to assist his friend,
knocked him down also, and inflicted so much per-
sonal injury as to break his collar-bone, and render it
necessary that he should be taken to the hospital.
For these two assaults—unprovoked, violent, and
most aggravated—" the worthy magistrate" (we re-
gret that his name is not given) fined the ruffian 405.,
and in default of payment committed him for 21 days'
imprisonment.
Justice at Guildhall and Worship-street is some-
what capricious. This WELLS might have been fined
or sentenced to three months' hard labour, in
default of Paying the fine, for each offence. He
is let off with 40s. fine, or twenty.one
days' imprisonment, though be was liable to
indictment for unlawfully wounding, the punishment
of which would probably have been eighteen months
or two years' imprisonment with hard labour. This
leniency was a set-off to that of Mr. D'EYNCOURT.
But, if a wretched object had been charged with beg-
ging a penny in the streets, he would have been
punished with three months' imprisonment. There-
fore, it is four times as great a crime for Poverty to
ask a penny from Charity, as it is to break one man's
collar-bone and materially injure another man; or to
commit three assaults, either of which, if carried out
as the ruffian intended, might have terminated fatally
to one or more, obtains two-thirds of the punishment
inflicted on simple mendicity.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Oct. 9,
1852
....£17,843 15 1
Ditto, Oct. 11,1851
... 20,415 2 7

Decrease in 1852 ••• ... £2,571 7 6
London Terminus, Oct. 11, 1852.

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AT TUE SAINT
ALMAN'S HOTEL, CIIIRLES•STREET, lIAYMARKET.—Last
night, about twelve o'clock, the utmost consternation pre-
vailed at the above hotel, in consequence of its having been
discovered that a gentleman had committed suicide in the
coffee-room. It appeared from inquiries made by the re-
porter that the deceased, whose name is supposed to be
Bloomfield, entered tha coffee-room of the hotel above-men-
tioned about eleven o'clock on the previous night, and called
for a sausage and glass of ale, which were supplied to him by
the waiter. At that time deceased was busily employed
writing. About a quarter of an hour afterwards, on the
waiter entering the room to attend on a customer, he was
horrified at finding the deceased lying on the floor apparently
lifeless. The waiter gave the alarm, and then called in West
58 C, who immediately sent for Mr. Tuthill, surgeon, of No.
8, Charles-street, who was speedily in attendance, and di-
rectly he saw the deceased pronounced life to be extinct. On
the table was an ounce bottle, which had contained prussic
acid, and which was empty. A letter and bundle of papers
sealed up in brown paper, and directed to the coroner, was
also found on the seat. It is supposed, from letters found on
him, that the unfortunate deceased held an appointment at
Saint Domingo. Only a few pence were found upon him.
Letters have been received from Van Deimen's
Land to the 12th of June, which give, incidentally, a bad
account of the prospects of the flocks in the colony of Vic-
toria. The following extract furnishes some details, but it
may be hoped that the evils described in it are limited to
particular localities :—" I have deplorable news from Port
Philip—many a rich man ruined there. The shipments of
wool from Victoria will be much less this year than formerly.
illany of the squatters have no lambs, while the consump-
tion of fresh meat is tar greater than usual. The scab has
also broken out in many parts of the colony. In Port Al-
bert 100,000 sheep are being destroyed by foot rot. Thus
you see, while some are making fortunes, others are being
ruined."

THE AFFIDAVIT-OFFICE OF THE COURT OF CHAN-
oCflEißcle". —of it'rhoeinctohuert2oBfilciiinasntcaenryt t h
aree dtuo
t ibees opfe rtflotremAe bd),‘; te-
clerks of records and .writs, but affidavits and affirmations
may be sworn, affirtrted, or attested upon honour, and decla-
rations made before the Clerk of Enrolments for the time
being, as occasion may require, for the better dispatch of
business, and the duties of the Clerk of Reports are to be
performed by sucfi person or persons as the Lord Chancellor
may appoint for that purpose, at a salary or salaries not ex-
ceeding 400/. a-year.
MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARLBO-
RouGH-itousE.—The numbers attending, &c., during the
month September were as follows: - 0,538 persons on the
public days, and admitted free; 957 persons on the stt idents'
days, and admitted as students on payment of Gd. eaeh, be-
sides the registered students of the classes and schools.
Thirteen articles removed from their cases to be copied. :No
account is taken of copies made of articles which axe not
removed.

DISAI SLED OFFICERs OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.
—The IA ird Chancellor is now empowered by one of the
new Acts. to remove any officer of the Court of Chancery,
&c., who is diiabled to act, but who refuses to resitgna to to
grant peAgiogb to euch persona.

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