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tern of corruption and intrigue which prevailed.

Lord FALKLAND'S Government did not approve of
this too active virtue, and recalled the reformer—a
decision which was annulled by the Court of

Directors,

Time went on, and brought an uncon-
genial task to thb friend of the natives. Sir J.
OUTRAM was selected to carry out the annexation

of Oude. He fulfilled the arduous and disagreeable
office with the best mixture of kindness and firm-
ness he could, and then, after inaugurating the

British Administration in the newly-gained pro-
vince, he was forced to visit England to recruit

his health.

But rest was not for him.

was recalled from inaction by the Persian
war, and commanded the expedition throughout.
The results were decisive, and the short and bril-
liant campaign was just corcluded, when the
murmurs of a coming storm broke upon our ears. At

he first rumours of the outbreak of the Indian

mutiny, which reached him in Persia, Sir JAMES
OUTRA3I at once appreciated the danger. By im-
mediately forwarding the intelligence by express to
Bagdad and Constantinople, he was the

first to communicate the disaster to the
Home Government. At the same time he
at once forwarded every available soldier to
Bsngal, in which undertaking he was ably
seconded by one of his chief assistants, Gene-
ral JACOB. We all remember, for every inci-
dent in that thrilling story touched too deeply the
heart pf England to be forgotten in the crowd of
contemporary events, how at the time of Sir
JAMES OUTRAM'S arrival in India all eyes were
turned with anxious expectation towards that
dauntless little band who held the Residency of
Lucknow against such desperate odds. We all re-
member too, how eagerly we had watched the gra-
dual advance of that noble soldier, who paid with
his life for his devotion to his duty, bow we could
not help regretting that even one so well worthy to
command was to supersede him at the eleventh hour
in the accomplishment of his task. Neither can we
have forgotten the chivalrous magnanimity, rarer
than the most brilliant qualities o f a leader,
with which the newly appointed General
waived his command and retaining only his
civil dignity of Chief Commissioner of Oude, joined
his old lieutenant in the capacity of a volunteer.
Such an act was worthy alike of HAVELOCK and of
OUTRAM, and the most daring and successful mili-
tary enterprise would not have reflected half the
honour on the triumphant General, that did the
renunciation of his claims in favour of one who so
well deserved to complete the enterprise so valiantly
begun. Many brave soldiers and experienced
generals might have accomplished the relief
of Lucknow, but this act of simple and unselfish
magnanimity was such as few are capable of.
As we all know the force under HAVELOCK and
OUTRAM was insufficient to afford effectual relief
to the beleaguered town until Sir COLIN CAMPBELL
forced his entrance. When the Commander-in-
Cnief withdrew to Cawepore, OUTRAM was left at
Lucknow, where his task was no light one. The
important assistance he rendered to Sir COLIN
CAMPBELL in the field, and to the Governor-
General in Council, are also matters of history. It
may be remembered that in the famous
debate in the Commons on Lord EL-
LENBOROUGH'S disapproval of Lord CAN-
NING'S proclamation to the talookdars, Sir J.
OUTRAM'S confirmation of the Indian Secretary's
opinion came just in time to save Lord DERBY'S
Government from an adverse division. As it was,
in the face of so eminent an authority, the Oppo-
sition, however eager for a triumph on a " Govern-
ment question," were forced to beat a hasty retreat.
The need for work was done—the emergency
was met and conquered, and the flame which had
burned up so brightly in the darkness now
slowly flickered down. Once more Sir JAMES
OUTRAM turned his face homewards, once
more the cordial welcomes of friends and country-
men sounded in his ear, and tokens of honour
and esteem were proffered him on all sides. But
in vain. His friends still hoped, and he himself
would sometimes talk of serving his country again,
but it was not to be. After a journey abroad in
fruitless quest of health, Sir JAMES OUTRAM died
at Pau a few days since. He has left behind him
an influence and an example, perhaps nowhere more
needed than in the greatest of our foreign possessions.
As Lord STANLEY justly observed, it is impossible
to over-estimate the good or the evil resulting from
individual influence. His qualities as admi-
nistrator, as diplomatist, as general, were
great in India, but greater was the power
of his high principle, his undaunted courage,
his chivalrous nobility of soul. Let those still
who do not possess his more brilliant endowments
take him for their model, remembering and ad-
mitting the truth of the words addressed to him by
hip countrymen at the close of a long life of honour,
" By men of your stamp was our Indian empire
won ; by men of your stamp must it be preserved."

In the House of Commons last night Sir DE
LACY EVANS brought under the consideration of
the House the expediency of amalgamating the City
police with the Metrcpoiitan force, thus bringing
the direction of the establishment under one head.
The hon. and gallant member called attention to
the obstruction which the Royal procession met
with during its progress through the City, while
the route was clear and well ordered both through
Southwark and Westminster, and to the melancholy
loss of life which took place in the City on Tuesday

night last.
Mr, Alderman ROSE endeavoured to excuse the
City authorities ; but, in our opinion, he only made
bad worse. The only point available in his argu-
ment being that the police arrangements had suffered
owing to the recent death of its lamented chief
officer, Mr. D. W. HARVEY. We do not doubt this,
but surely there were subordinate officers who
understood their duties ; and Alderman RosE, in
order to save nis STATE hit out right and left at
every one—first he insinuated that the police did
not do their duty—an insinuation unsupported
by one tittle of evidence ; secondly, that
no assistance had been offered to the City
authorities ; thirdly, that no military aid was
tendered by the War-office; and fourthly, that the
City authorities had given orders that the Volun-

teers should form mere ornamental portions of the
spectacle, and that they should take no part in keep-
ing the line of the procession, and the fact was that

they had only stood in the way throughout the
day. This is curious logic. Why, of course, they
would be in the way if they had received orders to
do nothing from the civic authorities.
Lord A. PAGET, while speaking highly of the
good order of the people on the occasion, supported
the assertion of Sir DE LACY EVANS, that the only
obstruction which the procession met with was
during its passage from London-bridge to Temple-
bar, and that the moment that barrier was passed,
he felt like an Arctic navigator who, after having
I been tossed among the icebergs, at length sees clear

water ahead.
Sir GEORGE GREY refuted the charge that no
ttbsistance had been offered by the Metro-
politan police or by the War Department. His
Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief had
informed him that he had offered to the City autho-
-1 rities any military assistance they might have

thought necessary for the purpose of keeping the
line ; but that offer had in the first instance been
refused, and it was with some difficulty that the
services of some mounted artillerymen had after-
wards been accepted. Sir R. MAYNE, tno, had
positively assured him that on the 28th of
February he had attended the reception committee
of the City, and had offered to take charge of the
line along Fleet-street ; but that alter also had
bek•n declined. He believed that the City police was
sufficient for its ordinary duties, but that it was not
sufficiently numerous to meet such a pressure as
that which it had to encounter on Saturday last.
The right honourable baronet went on to state that
he thought it would be wrong to say at once that
an amalgamation should take place, but that he was
nevertheless of opinion that some alteration should
take place. We perfectly concur in this. But
the question arises, are the lives and
safety of the public to be sacrified to
gratify the vanity of the Common Councilmen
The efficiency of the City police is not questioned,
but men cannot perform impossibilities. It is not
fair to expect that a local force can maintain order
in their district, when thousands from all quarters
flock in upon it elated with excitement, and perhaps

something stronger.
The authorities at Scotland-yard, in case of
emergency such as that of Saturday or Tuesday,
can call in reserves from every district
remote from the scene of action. Not so
the City Police Commissioner. He has no
suburbs to fall back upon, and the obstinacy of
the City magnates prevents him from receiving
help from those who are but too willing to render
assistance. In cases of fejy, or general breaches
of the law, the two forces act in concert—Why
should they not do so where the lives of the public
are concerned. The slight sletention which the
Royal procession encountered at the Man-
sion-house is of no moment, it only
showed to the illustrious stranger the good
feeling of the populace, whose anxiety to welcome
her to these realms overcame their sense of pro-
priety, and likewise the bad management of a
Corporation who were bent on doing her honour,
The Volunteers did not shine in this affair either,
but they are not the men who are expected to
keep order in the metropolis except on grave (not
gay) occasions. The Corporation of old bought
certain privileges of poverty-stricken monarchs,
which when they do not interfere with public safety
they are welcome to enjoy. Let them close their
gates and oblige Royalty to knock for admittance.
If it flatter the vanity of the Common Council,
Royalty has grace to smile at the farce. But
when we find that on last Tuesday even-
ing seven women were crushed to death,
the farce closes, and public opinion must step in
and remove the anomoly of the tfficiency of the
first police force in Europe being negatived by the
obstinacy of a factious Corporation. Hoc MAJESTY,
with her accustomed kindly feeling towards her
subjects, has directed the Home Secretary to make
inquiry into the state of the families of the sufferers,
with a view to relieve their wants. Should not the
Court of Aldermen do something to, in some way,
atone for their want of precaution, and, above all,
should not Parliament revoke a: clause, in .a char-
ter injurious to the inhabitants of London,
when they have revoked the East India Company's
charter in toto, and done away with the monopoly
of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 13.

Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and
Princess and Prince William of Prussia, attended
by the Countess Pourtales, Countess Bruhl, Countess
Hohenthal, Count Furstenstein, and Captain Luca-
dou, left Windsor Castle this morning, at a quarter
past 8 o'clock for Osborne, to pay a visit to the
Prince and Princess of Wales. The Crown Prince
and Princess will embark this evening in her
Majesty's yacht Osborne for the Continent.
The Queen, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce,
walked in the grounds of the Castle. .

By the last accounts received from Malta, his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred is pronounced to be
convalescent.

The Prince and Princess Christian, with the
Princess Dagmar and Prince Frederick of Denmark,
Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel, and the Duke of
Holstein Glucksburg, attended by the lady and
gentlemen of their suite, and by Colonel Francis
Seymour, C. 8., and Lieut.- Colonel du Plat,
honoured Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley with
their company on Thursday evening at the ball
given by her ladyship in Dover street.
Yesterday morning their Royal Highnesses Prince
and Princess Christian of Denmark and Prince
Frederick of Hesse Cassel viewed Westminster
Abbey, and were cinducted through the Palace of
Westminster. In the afternoon their Royal Hig h-
nesties visited the South Kensington Museum.
Lust evening the Prince and Princess Christian.
Princess Dagmar, and Prince Frederick of Den-
mark, Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel, and the
Duke of Holstein Gtucksburg dined with her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at her resi-
dence in St. James's Palace.

PRINCE ALFRED.—By the last accounts received
from Malta his Royal Highness Prince Alfred is pro-
nounced to be convalescent.

The Duke and Duche.ss of Athole have left the
St, George's Hotel. _ .

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
Arlington-street for Brocklesby Park.
The Earl and Countess of Mexborough arrived
at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone, on Thursday.
The Earl and Countess Russell entertained at
dinner last night, in Chesham-place, the Count and Madlle
deFlahault, the Italian Minister, M. de Caumont la Force,
Earl Granville, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Mr.
Chichester Fortescue and Lady Waldegrave, the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Mrs. Gladstone, Sir Henry
Cotterell, Admiral Elliot, Colonel Byng, Colonel F. Stan-
ley, Captain Drummond and Mrs. Drummond.
HOUNSLOW-REAM—An explosion, unattended
with personal injury, occurred yesterday morning,
between 12 and 1 o'clock, at the gunpowder works of
Messrs. Curtis and Harvey on Hounslow-heath. A pro.
cess was being carried on which does not require attendance.
The report was loud, but the damage to the machinery was
trifling, the effect having been confined to the exterior of
the builCings themselves, which are, in fact, mere timber
huts. _ _

-- -
DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM STEVENSON, K.C.B.
—We have to record the death of this excellent public ser-
vant, who died on the 9th of February in the island of
which he was governor. He was by birth and extraction a
West Indian. His mother, a Miss James, of Jan.aica, was
descended from the Col. Richard James mentioned in the
second volume of the " Annual Register," that for the year
1759, as having died in Jamaica at the patriarchal ago of
103.

The eAecation of George Vass for the brutal
murder of Margaret Docherty, on New Year's-day, took
place this morning at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
WHIST IN 1680,—The following curious direc-
tions for playing whist are extracted from a book
entitled "The Compleat Gamester," of which the second
edition was published 180 years ago. The italics are ours.
" Whist is a game not much differing from English Ruff
and Honours, only they put out the deuces and take in no
stock. It is called waist from the silence that is to be ob-
served in the play. They deal as before, to each 12 cards
a piece, playing
four, two of a side, and the trump is the
bottom card. The manner of playing, the number of the
game, nine (sic), honours, and the dignity of the other
cards are all alike (i o. the:same as at Ruff and Honours),
and he that wins most tricks is most forward to win the
sot," It should be explained that at Ruff and Honours the
four last cards were put out for the stock, the top card of
the stock being turned up for trumps. "He who hath ace
of trumps rule,"
" that is he takes in those four cards, and lays out four."--
The Field. observes "The Compleat Gamester,"