The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E V D.; NI NG, FE BRUARY 26, 1862.

THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1862.

We notice with surprise what seems to us, on
the part of the Conservatives, like a very shabby
policy. They have enlisted also as their leader in
the business a gentleman from whom we should
have looked for something more manly, more
'worthy of an honourable member. What we refer
to is, the mode in which it is proposed to meet Sir
JOHN TRELAWNY'S well known bill.
The singular fate of the bill last Session has had
the advantage of fixing itself in every one's recol-
lection. In a full House the numbers on each side
were equal. Mr. SPEAKER, little expecting such a
result in such alarge assembly, was somewhat non-
plussed at first ; he soon, however, announced that
an equal division was to be considered as evi-
dence of the wish of the House to find some other
mode of settlement than that of simple abolition—
indeed, Mr. BRIGHT himself had ssggested one—
and therefore he gave his casting vote to the party
which had all along demanded a compromise.

This clearly cast on that party the onus of find-
ing a generally acceptable compromise. Sir JOHN
TRELANYNY and his-supporters had always denied
that any compromise could be found in which even
his opponents could agree among themselves, much
less one which could be accepted by the House.
Session after session schemes were produced, but
the Conservatives themselves were diviled upon
them, and the Abolitionists showed them to be
wholly insufficient as a remedy for the grievance.
Latterly they always maintained that a plan could
be easily found, if they could only for once obtain
a majority against Sir JOHN TRELAWNY. Well,
their majority they now have, and surely to them
belongs the part of producing their peace-making
bill. The bill which is to exempt Dissenters, with-
out insulting them, and to maintain unimpaired
the dignity of vestries, churchwardens, and their
Clerical superiors. Instead of this we have a reso-
lution offered us—a resolution which is but the
repetition of What they have all said ten thou-
sand times.
It is announced that on the motion
to read the Abolition Bill a second time, Mr.
SOTHERON EsTco_
3 is to move—" That it is un-
just and inexpedient to abolish the ancient and
customary right exercised
from time immemorial
by the rate-payers of every
parish in England, to
raise by rate among
themselves the sums required
for the repair of their church, until
some other pro-
vision shall have been made by Parliament for the
discharge of those obligations to 'which by custom
or statute, the churchwardens, on the
part
of the
parish, are liable."

Sir JOHN TRELAWNY has taken a course which
all must reqpect. It WaNi manly, English,
and
gentlemanly. "I retain," says he, " my conviction
that my mode of settlement is the only one, I
introduce therefore my bill again to show My
unchanged convictions; but, as the house has called
on the opposing party to produce its compromise
measure, I shall postpone the second reading till
my opponents place their bill before the house,
when it will be in a position to judge of the merits
or each." Now, but for the evidence of our eyes,
we should hardly have believed that such straight-,
forward procedure could have been met by such a

disingenuous shale as this resolution. The Speaker
of the house virtually, Sir JOHN, explicitly chal-
lenges them to place before the house that " other
settlement" which they have so long affirmed to be
practicable. Instead of which we merely have
their pitiful cry embodied in a resolution for " some
other provision."

Out of all patienoe we naturally say—don't tell
us the thousandth time, that you want" some other
provision"—we surely know that that is your creed
if repetition can teach us anything—tell us what
the other provision shall be—give us some bill.
If you do not we must hold your resolution to be a
confession of hopeless breaking down. We believe
this to be the case. The Tories have found that
Sir JOHN TRELAWNY is right, but they have cried
out so long that they are ashamed to confess it.
Instead of a bill which they would have been but
too glad to produce, we have a cuckoo resolution.
A more pitiable position for gentlemen who have
got into a majority we hardly ever saw—it is talk
when we asked for business; an assignat when
we wanted a dollar. It is "unjust and inexpedient,"
we are told, as if we had never heard that from
their lips before. But even supposing it to
be so, the House has repeatedly confessed
that it is more " unjust," more " inex-
pedient" to continue the present system. For our-
selves, we never could see the injustice and inexpe-
diency of requiring the worshippers in churches,
any more than the worshippers in meetinghouses,
to rate themselves after the
_apostolic fashion of
" freely giving." The injustice of compelling
the unwilling to pay for our worship should date
from time "immemorial," is but an argument with
honest folk for hastening the abolition of the rate.
Believing, as we do, that it is unjust in principle
to coerce any one in the name of religion—especially
in the name of the Christian religion, we can point
to but one " other provision "—and that is, that
each man should pay for the expenses of the church
in which he worships, and for the expenses of the
worship in which he joins.
However, we are not disposed to be dogmatic.
With Sir JOHN TRELAWNY we say—show us
what " other provision" you would have, and let the
House consider my proposal and yours together.
Because we can think of no other, we may not
affirm that you cannot, only let us see it, Mr.
BRIGHT suggested a very simple measure last year,
will that suit you ? He proposed to leave all the
machinery to you for making a rate which you now
have, but to take away the power to compel pay-
ment. The plan has already been successfully
tried in Liverpool, and by men who have done
something better than concoct wordy resolutions.
Perhaps that plan might have its conveniences
for you—but to that or to Sir JOHN TRELAWNY'S
you must soon came, if you can offer nothing better
than wordy resolutions.

nglish Star of the Legion of Honour—the
Victoria Cross—is gradually little by little number-
ing up its heroic recipients. Eight more names
were added by last night's Gazette to the glorious
catalogue. And what tends greatly to enhance
the value attached to this enviable decoration is
the fact that it is awarded always with the utmost
care and discernment. Of the eight new recipients
of the Victoria Cross whose names were announced
yesterday, seven were military heroes, one a naval
hero—a young reefer. Among the seven soldiers,
one it will be seen was a major, one a captain,
three were lieutenants, one was a sergeant of the
53d Regiment, and the seventh was a conductor in
the Ordnance Department. The maritime chevalier
was a young midshipman (ARTHUR MAYO) of the
Indian Navy, to whom the Cross has been awarded
" For having headed the charge on the 22d of No-
vember, 185'7, in the engagement between the In-
dian Naval Brigade and the mutineers of the 73d
Native Infantry and Bengal Artillery, when the
former was ordered to charge two six-pounders
which were keeping up a heavy fire —Mr. MAYO
being" (it is added) "nearly 20 yards in front of
any one else during the advance." It would
be beside our purpose to particularise each
of the seven other instances of gallantry recom-
pensed by the award of this peculiar decoration.
One or two, however, may be selected as particu-
larly worthy of note—without any intention, how-
ever, on our part, of being in any way invidious to
the others not specified in this selection. The
simple fact of the award of the Victoria Cross to
any one renders it nearly impossible that any over-
sight in this kind of reference should bear the con-
struction of invidiousness. The glittering of that
badge of heroism on the bosom of each brave man
to whom it is given by order of the Crown,
be he 'veteran or be he stripling, is proof
positive, without the utterance or the writing of one
syllable in praise of him, that he deserved well and
nobly of his QUEEN and of his Country.
We have no scruple, therefore, in selecting here
another example or two of the instances deemed
worthy of being commemorated by the award
of the Victoria Cross. The first case upon
the list given last evening in the London
Gazette, is that of an officer, that is, of Major
KEATINGE, of the Bombay Artillery, to whom,
the Gazette of yesterday tells us, the Vic-
toria Cross has been given in remembrance
of an act of heroism thus succinctly de-
scribed :—" For having rendered most effi-
cient aid at the assault of Chundairee in volun-
tarily leading the column through the breach, which
was protected by a heavy cross fire. He was one
of the foremost to enter and was severely wounded
in the breach. The column was saved from a seri-
ous loss that would probably have resulted but for
Major KEATINGE'S knowledge of the small path
leading across the ditch which had been examined
during the night by himself and a servant, who de-
clined, when required to lead the column, without his
master. Having cleared the breach he led into the
fort, where he was struck down by another dan-
gerous wound. The Commander in Chief -in India
states that the success at Chundairee was
mainly owing to this officer, whose gallantry,
really brilliant, he considers was equalled by his
ability and devotion." Another incident in consi-
deration of which the same badge of honour has
been placed in the band of another of the recipients
gazetted yesterday will suffice. It is the one related
of Lieutenant WALLER, of the 25th Light Infantry.
"For great gallantry at the capture by storm of
the fortress of Gwalicr, on the 20th of June, 1858.
He and Lieutenant RosE, who was killed, were
the only Europeans present, and, with a mere
handful of men, they attacked the fortress, climbed
on the roof of a house, shot the gunners opposed
to them, carried all before them, and took the
fort, killing every man in it." For a gallantry
just as distinguished each of the other five brave
fellows, not here particularized, has obtained the
like decoration. That these men have received it,
'o rejoice. May the like distinction fall to
the lot of other soldiers and sailors in the QUEEN'S
service who may be found cqually entitled to a
BEitsulkilisartrheaeot rathpence ! All that we would venture to
bo restricted t:ictoria Cross should not any longer
soldiers and sailors. A hint might
be taken in this matter from the system adopted
reguating, ever since 1804, the award of
the Cross of the Legio
u of Honour. It is
not that we would startle the two great
arguing for the like
warlike profeseions by

Our El

distribution of this noble badge of honour '
among all ranks and classes of Englishmen
indiscriminately. We are perfectly conscious
that the Victoria Cross and the Star of the Legion
of Honour are not by any means identical in their
significance. The Star of the Legion of Honour is
not, as is undoubtedly the case in regard to
the Victoria Cross, a symbol of heroism exclusively
—it is a token of merit of every kind and
description whatsoever, the merit of distinguished
gallantry, of course, inclusively. Aware of this
distinction between the two gicrious orders, we
would only argue that the system regulating the
distribution of the Victoria Cross should be par-
tially assimilated to that established at the foun-
dation of the Legion of Honour by its immortal
originator, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Enough will
have been said in explanation of our meaning here
if we remark in conclusion, that we should
gladly recognise the award of the Victoria
Cross to one or two of those dauntless fellows who,
day and night, toiled, at the imminent peril of their
own lives, with a view to carrying of relief, if that
might have been in any way practicable, to 200 of
their entombed fellow• creatures—toiled day and
night to this end, suspended in the air over a hide-
ous and pestilential abyss (we all remember it !)
down at the Hartley Colliery.

Heartily glad are we that last evening the House
of Commons had a beginning and end of Mr.
CowrEß's absurd project fora sunken road besetting
Kennsington Gardens. Every one who spoke about
it yesterday, except the hon. gentleman himself,
went dead against it. The honourable baronet
the, member for Finsbury had already, at a
previous sitting, distinctly and positively
assured the House that the carrying out
of the proposed enterprise within the period of the
two short months now left for its accomplishment
was literally impracticable. And everybody felt,
when that assurance was given, that Sir
MORTON PETO spoke authoritatively upon a
subject of that kind, spoke from the fullness
of his own knowledge and from the amplitude
of his own practical experience. Before ever the
Chief Commissioner opened his lips last evening iu
explanation of his particularly ridiculous project,
everybody there in the House felt certain that the
pet plan of Mr. COWPER must, if forced
upon the House for its acceptance or rejec-
tion, be inevitably rejected. One after
another, those who took part in the discussion
yesterday, spoke directly against the bill of the Chief
Commissioner. The Conservative ex-Chief Com-
missioner was entirely opposed to it. The member
for North Licolnshire (Mr. STANHOPE BANKS) was
the same. The Prime Minister himself, if he can be
said to have given the project of his righ thon. col-
league any support at all, must certainly be allowed
to have done so in the most chilling and left-handed
manner well imaginable. Besides which, there
were two of the metropolitan members, who—
as admirably well became them—inveighed
against the scheme of the Chief Commis-
sioner as in many ways barbarous and
reprehensive. The hon. baronet the member
for Westminster was one. The noble lord the mem-
ber for Marylebone was the other. According to
the but half complimentary acknowledgment of Mr.
COWPER yesterday, when consenting at last to
withdraw the bill upon the very evening
set apart for its first reading—it was the
opposition, not of Sir JOHN SHELLEY, however
so much as it was the opposition of Lord FERMOY
that decided him in arriving at that determination.
Likening himself to a camel, Mr. COWPER, with a
clumsy facetiousness, said that Lord FERMOY
had. broken his back—we may presume the
backbone of his 'project, —as by the
last feather. No matter how the back of it has
been broken, it has been broken. That is enough
for us. So that we shall henceforth hear no more
of this last new " COWPER'S Folly" thwn at Ken-
sington Gardens, any more than we trust we shall
hear any more this ensuing season about that old
" COWPER'S Folly" there—the Horse Ride.

OSBORNE, Feb. 25.—The Queen, with Princess
Helena, attended by Viscountess Jocelyn and Major-Gen.
Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon.

The Lord Chancellor and Lady Westbury enter-
tained a select circle at dinner last eveming at their resi-
dence in Belgrava-square.
The Earl and Countess Stanhope will come to
town to-day from visiting the Earl and Countess of Car-
narvon at Highclere House, Somersetshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse have re-
turned to town from Manthara Court, Worthing.

Lord and Lady Harry Vane arrived in town a
few days since from their scat in Sussex for the season.

Lady Jane Lovett was safely delivered of a
daughter on Monday, at her residence in Chesham-street.
The Speaker will give his third full-dress dinner
party this evening at Westminster Palace.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESSPRINCE ALFRED.—A tele-
gram was received from Queenstown yesterday afternoon,
which announces the safe arrival of H.M.S. St. George,
Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton, from Bermuda, having on
board H.R.H. Prince Alfred. The Prince was quite well,
and it was expected that he would disembark and proceed
by way of Kingstown and Holyhead to join her Majesty
and the Royal family at Osborne.
THE HEAD-MASTERSHIP OF ETON.—We have
reason to believe that the Head-Mastership of Eton has
been conferred on the Rev. E. Balaton, Fellow of Eton Col-
lege, and one of the Assistant Masters of the school. Mr.
Balaton was Davies's University Scholar in 1839, and
Brawne's Medallist in 1838 and 1839.

GRIMSBY ELECTION.—This borough, which has
obtained an unenviable notoriety by the barbarous deels
perpetrated on the day of the recent election, is likely to be
rendered more notorious. The property destroyed by the
mob has been valued, and is said to have been worth £750.
The work of restoration is now going on in the hotel.
There is much discussion as from what source the expenses
are to come—the county, or the hundred of Bradley-
Haverstoe—most probably the latter. The names of many
of the ringleaders in the riot are known to the authorities,
who are busy collecting evidence to bring them to jus-
tice. Some of them are said to move in high
life. During the early part of the week rumours were afloat
that Mr. Heneage and his friends were taking their prelimi •
nary steps to unseat Mr. Chapman, on the ground of
bribery and intimidation. These rumours are now proved
to be facts. Already several voters have been hurriedly
summoned to London, to be examined as to their having
been bribed.

SHIPWRECKS.—GREAT YARMOUTH, Feb. 25.
Yesterday and to-day a large quantity of goods, consisting
of apples, flax, cloth, wine, &c., has been picked up in these
roads, or washed ashore, supposed to have formed part of
the cargo of some unfortunate vessel, believed to have been
lost, with all hands, during hazy weather on Sunday,
while endeavouring to thread dangerous sandbanks which
beset the navigation off this coast. The following is a list
of the articles entered up to the present at the office of the
receiver of wrecks :—Two cases of cloth, marked H. and C,
and numbered 2 and 28 respectively ; two cases of wine,
marked F. W. H., No. 3; one baleworsted, W. 8., 877 ; 10
casks apples, marked with a diamond and P ; 40 boxes can-
dles, marked S ; 11 bales flax, M. and C., four of which are
numbered 5,253, 5,247, 5,240, and 5,230. Besides these
there has been a large quantity of loose apples, flax, candles,
&c. Nothing is yet known of the vessel; but as no pieces
of the wreck have been found it is inferred that she was an
iron steamer from one of the Channel Islands for Hull.
Another vessel, the schooner Elizabeth Ann, of Jersey,
from Burriana for Hull, with oranges, was totally lost on
the Hasborough Sands on Thursday afternoon last; the
crew and part of the cargo were saved.
THE NEW IRISH TAXING MASTER.—The Lords
of the Treasury having yielded to the requirement of
the Incorporated Law Society, and the profession gene-
rally, that the vacant office of taxing master should be
filled, the appointment was referred to the Lord Chan •
oellor, in whose gift the office is. His lordship lost no time
in the discharge of hi, duty. We understand he has ap-
pointed David Coffey, Esq., or, as we may now describe
him, with the honourable prefix, " Master Coffey." We
may observe that Government had nothing whatever to
do with the appointment. When they resolved the office
should be filled, they were funeti officio. The appointment
is exclusively the Lord Chancellor's. Hereafter a question
will arise whether the business may not be effectively and
ecotomically conducted by two, instead of three, taxing
officers. The Government, in consenting that the vacancy-
should be filled, reserved the future right of dispensing with
the third taxing master.—Freoman' s Journal.

LATEST NEWS.

THE PRIVATEER SUMTER.

MADRID, FEB. 25.

The captain of the Sumter has been arrested at
Tangier at the instance of the American Consul at
Gibraltar and of the commander of the Tuscarora,
who went for that purpose to Tangier.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FEB. 25.

In the Senate today the discussion on the Ad-
dress was continued. Prince Napoleon protested
against the expressions used by M. de Boissy. He
said—

"In the Senate the standard of the younger
branch has been raised in opposition to that of the
older branch. I protested last year against similar
insinuations. I now repeat that I wish to defend
the constitutional and liberal Empire. That Empire
can endure liberty, but liberty must take its course
in the order established by our Constitution.
(Applause.) It is possible that others forget this,
but I, who remembered it when Napoleon was a
prisoner or in exile, shall remember it all the better
now when my duties attach me to the Emperor and
to his son, and that those duties agreed with a de-
votion of ancient date and an affection which will
never change. (Loud and prolonged applause.)
Against the insinuations that have been thrown
out against myself personally, I have determined to
answer them only by contempt."
M. Charles Dupin and Cardinals Morlot and
Mathieu, with Count Segur d'Aguesseau, defended
the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

11. Billault explained the measures taken were
owing to the enormous influence of the society,
which was not a French institution, having a repre-
sentative at Rome, and which had refused to accept
as its President a great dignitary of the Church,
who was at the same time a high functionary of
State. The Government could not tolerate a secret
power. The speaker dwelt upon the danger of re-
ligious excitement and upon the difficulty of Church
and State existing peacefully together. If the
Government were disposed to satisfy not merely the
rights, but the tendencies of religious minds, it was
equally decided to defend energetically the rights
of the Address was
of the
TheStsaetceo.nappluacrhagarpapphlause.)
adopted.
The debate will be continued to-morrow.

The emotion created in Paris by the letter of the
Emperor to General Montauban, and by the speech
of Prince Napoleon in the Senate, is increasing rather
than subsiding. The anstitutionnel endeavours to
calm the public mind. In its first leader of this
day it says :—" The spectacle which we have wit-
nessed dui ing the last few days will, we are con-
vinced of it, bring with it a good warning. Violent
outbursts, no matter from which quarter they
come, are never good, and they are more inopportune
than ever under a government the chief ambition of
which is to go hand in hand with the wishes of the
nation. The power of the Imperial dynasty
consists in this it is at the same time the in-
vincible barrier to the resurrection of the old regime
and to the enterprises of demagogy. The Empire
is revolution turned into order; it has rightly been
styled so for a long time ; it is modern society
itself, and it has the extraordinary good fortune to
possess as a second founder a political genius who
has known how to earn the admiration of Europe.
Personifying all the great principles which are the
soul of France, and avoiding equally all extremes,
the Emperor is Catholic without being Ultra-
montane, a Conservative without being a reac-
tionist, a Liberal without falling into revolution.
What signifies, then, the programme of a news-
paper or the words of a speaker? Does not the poli-
tical programme of France stand forth in brilliant
characters? Is it not manifest to all beholders? And
what other programme could be compared to this
one, magnanimous as it is wise, so often, and
always so eloquently described by the Emperor
himself ? One day the Emperor said—' Wherever
the flag of France is unfurled nations know that a
great cause precedes it, and that a great people
follow it.' And again—' Faithful to nay origin, I
cannot regard the prerogatives of the Crown either
as a sacred deposit that no one dare touch, or as an
inheritance from my ancesters, which must be, above
all things, transmitted intact to my son. The elect
of the people, representing its interests, I am always
willing to abandon, without regret, any prerogative
useless to the public welfare.' How many more
noble words might we not quote, all emanating
from that patriotic heart which beats in time
with the heart of France. Have acts, even for a
moment, ceased to respond to spontaneous pro-
mises ? Have we not beheld, without going fur-
ther back than two years, the powers of the great
bodies of the State increased, the liberty of the
press extended, the centres of the working popula-
tions improved and rendered healthy, the rural
population admitted to the participation of the
benefits of a political system which has no distinc-
tion of caste or party, and only considers the
French people? Have we not, in a word,
the nation more honoured and influential
abroad, and gaining daily in strength and liberty
at home ? When we recall so many and useful
ants, is an attempt now to be made to disavow
and deny them ? No; but the violent discus-
sions of the last few days might engender
doubts in some unreflecting minds. The truth is,
that never, at any time, did a more complete har-
mony exist between the Government and the great
bodies of the State. Despite outbursts of a purely
personal character, the spirit of our assemblies re-
mains the same; this was visible yesterday in the
sitting of the Senate. One speaker went so far as to
make conditions for his support. The protestation
was not long forthcoming, and when Baron de Riche
mond declared that 10,000,000 of electors who had
placed Napoleon upon the throne had con-
secrated by their votes an absolute inheritance
without conditions or restrictions,' the Senate
hailed the statement with the warmest applause. It
would also be a strange illusion to suppose that the
manner in which the proposed dotation to the Count
of Palikao has been looked upon by some benches
of the Chamber is anything else than a legal scruple
or a view to economy. The Legislative Body has
given too many proofs of intelligent devotion to the
Government of the Emperor, to the army, and to
the people not to remain faithful to its wisdom and
patriotism. Thus, as we have already observed, the
excitement of the last few days will be a wholesome
lesson. Personalities will only once more have
shown what unchangeable confidence exists between
the Government of the Emperor, the great bodies
of the State, and the country."
BOURSE, Feb. 25.—The market opened rather
lower than the closing rates of yesterday, but after
a time prices improved. Threes, for the Account,
are now at 70f. 30c. Railway Share Market quiet,
but pretty firm.
The following are the last quotations
41 per per Cents ... 100 40 , Credit Fonder 1385
Do. end month.... 100 65 Belgian 41
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 60 Roman
Bank Shares 3100 I Austrian
Credit Mobilier.. 757 50 Spanish Threes —
Do, Account 766 251 Home Debt

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

By the Overland Mail we have advices from Cal-
cutta to Jan. 22, from Madras to the 27th, and from
Hong Kong to the 15th. The following is from the
Friend of India :
" The new constitution given to India by the In-
dian Councils Act of last session is fairly launched.
On Friday night, Jan. 17, the Calcutta Gazette Ex-
traordinary called into existence the Council of
the Governor-General for the purpose of making
laws and regulations,' and appointed its first meet-
ing for the subsequent day. At 11 o'clock, accord-
ingly, on Saturday, there assembled in the Council-
chamber of Government-house the following mem-
bers, who with the exception of the commander-in-
chief, now on his tour of inspection in the Punjaub,
constitute the imperial legislature of India :—His
Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of
India. Additional members of the Council: His
Honour the Lieut.-Governor of Bengal, and his
Highness the Maharajah of Puttiala, K,S.I. Mem-
bet s of the Supreme Council : The Hon. Sir H. B.
Frere, K.C.8., the Hon. Cecil Beadon, Major-Gen.
the Hon. Sir R. Napier, K.C.8., the Hon. S. Laing,
the Hon. W. Ritchie. Additional members of the
Council: The Hon. H. B. Harington, the Hon. H.
Forbes, the Hon. C. J. Erskine, the Hon. W. S.
Fitzwilliam, the Hon. D. Cowie, thi Hon.Raja Deo
Narain Singh Bahadoor, the Hon. Raja Dinkur Rao
Rugonauth Bahadoor. _ _

According to the act the members summoned for
purely legislative duties must not exceed 12 in
number nor be less than six, and of these the half
must be non-officials. The whole number of legis-
lative members is eight, of whom five are non-offi-
cials, but of these five three are natives.

An interesting ceremony
,took place at Oode-
pore lately, on the occasion of the installation of
the young Prince as Rama of Mewar. He is the
grand nephew of the late Maharana Suroop Singh,
and is the first instance in which the adoption
policy inaugurated by Lord Canning has been ex-
emplified. The installation was held in the court-
yard of the palace. General St. P. Lawrence,
Governor-General's agent for the Rajapootana
States, was present, and delivered a congratulatory
address in the vernacular. Costly presents from
the Governor-General were given to the young
Prince, and the ceremony was rendered more im-
posing by salutes from English'artillery, and the
presence of a large body of English troops.