The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESD4Y, EVENING, s tRCH 23, 1853.

L'AIGLE D'OR MINING COMPANY of
VIRGINIA. -
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SCRIP of this Company. will
be ready for 'delivery to the Shareholders, in exchange for the
Bankers Receipts, on and after MONDAY next; the 28th inst., at the
Offices of the Company, as under, between the hours of eleven and
four. By Order of the Company.
D. NISBETT, Jun., Secretary.
22, Austin-friars, March 21, 1853.

ANCHOR ASSURANCE COMPANY;
67, Cheapside, London.

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POLICIES in the Fire Insurance Department effected at LADY-
DAY WAR iER require to be RENEWED within Fifteen Days
after the 25th instant, in order to preserve the liability of• the Com-
pany in the event of loss.
LIFE ASSURANCES are granted by this Company at moderate
Premiums, Mid the Bonus Additions tend still further to lessen the
the Cost of Assurance. T. BELL, Secretary and Act-uary.

OYER'S AROMATIC MUSTARD is now
►..7 ready at all Grocers' and Italian Warehouses.—Wholesale
Agents : CROSSE and BLACKWELL, London.

ANTWERP and ROTTERDAM RAILWAY
COMPANY.—NOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That interest at the
rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the Ilalf•year ending 31st March,
1853, will be PAYABLE on the SHARES of this Company on and
after the 4th April next.
The Certificates must be left at the Offices of the Company in
Brussels or in London, five days previous to the delivery of the
interest warrants.

By order of the Board.
W. MACKENZIE SHAW, Sec.
16, Canon-street, London, March 3, 1853.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY.
INTEREST GUARANTEED BY THE STATE.
NOTICI Ia IliatEßY GIVEN, That the FIRST HALF-YEAR'S
INTEREST, at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, due on the
27th April next, will be PAYABLE on and after the Ist of May fol-
lowing.
Interest warrants payable in London will be delivered at that date
on presentation of the scrip at the office of the Company.
By order of the Board of tfirectord,
EDW. C. NICHOLLS, Secretary.
London, 28, Poultry, March 18, 1853.

ONE SHILLING—PARLIAMENTARY and
POSTAL DIRECTORIES. —The " Supplement to the Post
Office London Directory for 103" contains, at the above price, and
in addition to the ordinary supplemental matter, the copious " Par-
liamentary Directory," corrected to this time ; and "Postal Direc-
tory," giving (from authentic sources) all the arrangements of the
Post Office as now in operation.
Kelly & Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell Court, London ; and all
booksellers in the United Kingdom.

PIIRSIJANT to an ORDER of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in the matter of the estate cf
JOHN SMITH, deceased, and in a cause " HENRY SMITH against
WILLIAM SMITH," the Creditors of JOHN SMITH, late of No.
6, Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, in the county et Middlesex,
Gas Fitter (who died in or about the month of January. 1852), are,
by their Solicitors, on or before the 25th day of April 1853, to come
in and prove their debts, at the Chambers of the Vice-Chancellor
Sir Richard Torun Kindersley, No. 15, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn,
Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily e eluded
from the benefit of the said Order. . . _

Monday, the 2d day of May, 1853, at two o'clock in the afternoon,
at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating
upon the Claims.
Dated this 22d day of March, 1853.
FRED. ERS. EDWARDS, Chief Clerk.
GEORGE F. ELAND, 4, Trafalgar-square, Plaintiff's Erlicitor.

THE NESS ISLANDS. —The Picturesque
Scenery of the Ness must be impressed on the memory of all
who have ever paid a visit to the Capital of the Highlands. About
half a mile from town the river is studded with a Group of Wooded
Islands, which greatly contribute to the beauty of the landscape.
The bridges, formerly connecting them with each other, and with the
banks of the river on either side, were destroyed, and carried away
by the Great Flood of 1849; so that, since that time, all access to
them, has been prevented.
An effort is now being made to have these bridges restored, and
for this purpose she sum of 8001. is required. .As a place of recrea-
tion for all ranks of the community, and especially for the working
classes, whose interests now deservedly occupy so large a share
of public attention, no park can be more desirable.
The Committee appointed to further this object will most grate-
fully acknowledge any donation with which they may be favoured.
Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, Charles Water-
ston, Esq., Manager of the Caledonian Bank, Inverness; or by the
agents for the Bank of Scotland, the British Linen Company, the
National Bank and the Commercial Bank, at Inverness.

CONTR ACT FOR COALS FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 22d March, 1853.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and. Ireland DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the sth April next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and
delivering at Gibraltar and Malta the undermentioned quantities of
COALS,
fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam-Vessels.
Gibraltar ............. .
Malta...
Three-fourths to consist of South Wales Coals and the remainder
of North Country.
A Form of the Tender may be seen at the said office. No Tender
will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any
be noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly
authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for
Coals," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied
by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 5,0001. for the due
performance of the Contract.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.

DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matricnlated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.

MAX be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the 'various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
duced . more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern path'ologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be 'violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties •
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its con.equences may be avoided, and above all,
that therein scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement-to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and is t only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
ottentien to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
free. In selecting this deportment of practice, he has been amply
rc arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of 'unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
have beeti(induced to place faith in their pretensions.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr., LA',MERT
Should first obtain a copy of his work on

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

(From the Times.) . • -
The population of India amounts to
150;000,000, "or thereabouts ; the number of - the
East Indian potentatea)who hold:cavrid session -in
Leadenhall-street is precisely. 24. Now, it is far
from our intention, by this juxtaposition of figul 'es,
to draw any such conclusion as the one which .ost
Archdeacon Paley a bishopric. The Czar of Rin •sia
is, numerically speaking, but :a unit, and the p ro-
portion between this unit and the millions of ur kits
submitted to his sway is infinitely more out of p ro-
portion than in the case of " John Coompani" a end
the 150,000,000 Hindus, Mussulmans, and W. hat
not, who dwell between the Himalayas and the
Bay of Bengal. But the Russian
is
Emperox.
stringently bound, by every tie of interest as. la yell
as of duty, to carry on the processes of Govern-
•
ment in such a manner as may be best calcula, ted
to promote the welfare of his vast empire.
Let us
continue the illustration, but alter the case. S nit
pose that the office of Czar, in place of beini S' a
permanent " appointment," was but for a
red
term ; in point of fact, that Nicholas
I. were a
species of Russian Director. Suppose fig her
that as the price of his elevation he had b een
compelled to canvass the electors for
many I )re-
vious years ; that he had digested humiliat ion
of every kind, incurred refusals five and six to nes
at the door of every palace in St. Petersburg; h,
bartered his future patronage for promises of
support, and so finally, through the gate of
humility and the byepaths of corruption, had
attained the object of his ambition. Could tlbere
be any doubt in such a case,',that during the
tenure of his power he would farm the a.p-
pointments of the Russian empire.from the baton
of the Field-Marshal to the insignia of a tide-
waiter at Kronstadt, with a single view to the
advancement of his own fortunes and the advan-
tage of his friends and dependents ? Dearly would
he have purchased the opportunity, and strenuously
would he labour, no doubt, to make hay while the
sun shone. The position of an East Indian Director
is pretty much that of the Russian Autocrat in the
supposed case. We do not quarrel in a certain
sense with Directors for using the position which
they have laboured so hard to attain for the benefit
of their families and their immediate friends

While human nature is human nature it is but
natural that Sir Horatio Mulligatawny should hold
that his eldest son John, who is of a studious turn,
and has already made considerable progress in the
Greek contract verbs, will one day or other prove
an ornament to the bench in the Sudder Dewanny
Adawlut, after he has collected taxes for certain
years in the Trichinopoly district ; that Theodoric,
who has ever been friends with the old family
coachman, is admirably adapted for cutting his
country's enemies to pieces in the light blue and
silver of the Madras Cavalry ; and that the lively
Timothy, his youngest hope, has been predestined
by fate to a " direct appointment" to the Bengal
army without the preliminary purgatory of Addis-
combo. The only surviving son of Sir Horatio's
widowed sister, Louisa Ramsbottom—the late
Major Ramsbottom was on the Bombay establish-
ment—is a damp and flaccid student at St. Cathe-
rine's Hall, and has already given evidence of strong
theological twitches in his character. Why should he
not have the chaplaincy which falls to his uncle's
gift by rotation, or can readily be procured by ex-
change of patronage with a brother Director ? The
chances are that the young men will discharge the
duties of their several posts quite as satisfactorily
as their compeers, according to the Indian standard.
We do not say that a very high-minded man would-
so juggle with his conscience, but we must not
apply too high a standard to human transactions if
we would avoid diimppointment. The East Indian:
Director uses his patronage as 99 per cent. of his
predecessors
.have done before him, and precisely
as his co-Directors are using it at the present
moment. If, then, the p-eople of India groan
under such a mal-administration of justice, or
rather under such an adminiitration of injustice

as that of which we gave a few examples on -Satur-
day last, it is not for their own benefit, nor is
it for the benefit of the population of these islands,
who have as little to do with the matter as they
have with the internal administration of Patagonia
or Rupert's Land. The only persons really bone-
fitted in the business are the 24 East Indian Di-
rectors and their appointees. The Directors, as
we before observed, are 24 in number—the popu-
lation of India 150,000,000—in other words, each
Director farms 6,000,000 or thereabout of human
beingls for the benefit of his family, relations, and

friends.
The specimens of Madras justice which we laid
before our readers on Saturday were but a few
instances taken at random from Mr. Norton's

pamphlet: This gentleman had but culled a few
flowerets from the reports of the Courts of the
Civil and Criminal Appeal in the Madras Presi-
dency. These reports were only begun in 1849, but
they are more than sufficient to show the method

of legal administration in India7tet it be re-

memiked that whilst tax-gatherers are placed upon
the seat of justice, there are hundreds and hun-
dreds of young and middle-aged men in this
country amply qualified to discharge the duties of
their profession, who are starving in Westminster-
hall. Common sense will not make a man a lawyer,
more than it will qualify' him for a surgeon.
In the selection of judges why should competent
lawyers be just the' persons overlooked ? Why,
here we have before us 'a case in which a suit was

brought for a piece of ground of the value of 15
rupees (11. 10g.) and a houseof the value of 40
rupees (4/.), and for an ihjunction to have a wall
built. The case was tried five times, and then one
court of appeal overruled the decision of their im-

mediate Predecessors. Then we come upon
another, in which the plaintiff had exercised no
right over the land in dispute since 1806. The
case was tried five times. At last the Judges
decree was reversed, and it was declared that the
Statute of Limitations barred all further litigation.
In another case a simple fact was at issue—was
there or was there not a division of family ? This
was tried four times over, and the Sudder Court

remitted it for a fifth trial. Think of your Indian
brethren, ye unreasonable Jarndyces of England—
clap your hands and rejoice that ye live in a
country where justice is cheap, speedy, and just I
Then, there is a special appeal from a decision of the

sub judge of Calieut. The matter in dispute was of
the value of ten rupees, with one rupee damage, for
cutting plantains. The case was, tried four times,
and is marked in the report as remanded for a
fifth trial. Then .we have a " leading case" from
a decision of the Judge* of Salem. The suit was

brought to recover a-house alleged to have been
forfeited under a mortgage bond. The bond was

illegal, as having beenexecuted "to save the defend.:

ant s property from liability to satisfy the claims of
other persons." The sub-judge decided for the
plaintiff by giving.him._.4a.mge.s, not the house—he

:was out of possession. The judge on appeal decided
that the plaintiff had no right, because the sale was
nominal. Then, one judge of the Sudder admitted
an appeal which thetwoothersoverruled. It turned
out after all that the 'snit which. operated upon a
value of 124 rupeeliad been barred frOm the be-
ginning by limitation. Of another case Mr. Norton
writes :—" It will be observed that this is nothing
but a continuance. of errors from. first to last. The
' first judge decides. upon a. copy of an instrument.
The next judge decides that the defendants have
fraudulently made away with the very instrument
which would prove their case ; and, lastly, the im-
portant point of law in it is overlooked altogether. '
The case has already been tried five times." These
stories of fresh trial upon trial meet us at every
sentence. Considering the present condition of the
Indian bench, and that every fresh trial appears
but to lead to a fresh blunder, one can scarcely
help wishing that the first blunder were held
decisive, without possibility of reversal or power of
appeal. _ _

We will conclude with one or two examples of
criminal justice, if but to complete the picture.
Three persons were committed on a chaorjgrudedego
thech h
ear charged
ocde
ad7itdth.h I. 1 aTvnehgye.
accordinglyrfeethedwlmur-
der
beattw o 5 ta 11
n ed
othersfikickedrtos first
killlvas
tried the case convicted them only of "culpable
homicide ; because, as water was thrown on the de-
ceased in order to revive her, it does not appear
that they intended -to kill her." This " culpable
homicide" would appear to be a favourite decision
with Indian judges, who do not like calling things
by hard names. It was so held by a learned func-
tionary in a case in which a man confessed that he
had stabbed another in a fit of resentment, because
he interfered in a quarrel between the prisoner
and a third person. Sometimes, however, the de-
cision of an Indian Old Bailey goes the other way,
and the mercy of one judge is qualified by the se-
verity of another. Here is an instance : Two
men fall out ; about twenty minutes afterwards,
the one goes up to the other and gives him a blow
with a bullock yoke. The man so struck never
jspoke again. The judge who tried the case held
' that the prisoner should have been arraigned for
murder, and not for culpable homicide, as was the
case. lie decided that he had incurred the punish-

ment of death. We know not what lurking doubt
of the legality of hiS decision may have operated
upon the mind of this learned individual, but we
find him interfering in the prisoner's favour with tke
court above, by leaving it for the consideration
of the Foujdaree if a lighter punishment than death
might not be 'inflicted., "because the parties were
near relatives and had ' previously been on friendly
terms." No doubt, to. a sensitive and well-regu-
lated mind, the fact that the 'person murdered was
in friendly relations with the murderer must give
many an additional pang, Lawyers in estimating
Punishment should, of course, entertain the ques-
tion of the character and amount of an hypothetical
repentance. We can conceive cases in which the
anguish of a murderer may have been so great in
consequence of his act as not only to exonerate him
from the halter, but absolutely to entitle him to a
pecuniary reward from sympathising humanity
could the balance be but nicely adjusted.. We will
conclude our .brief notice of criminal cases by men-
tioning one of robbery, in which a prisoner was
convicted of having stolen goodS, not only without
proof, but in the teeth of a declaration from the
alleged owners. that the property in question did
not belong to them. We are compelled by our
limits to break off at this point with our abstract
of Indian leading cases. It cannot be for the ad-
vantage of India that justice should be so traves-
tied. The general population of the three kingdoms
have no interest but that India should be contented
and prosperous—a fertile producer of all that we
require, and a bountiful customer in return. For
whose benefit is a system maintained in which she
ki too misgoverned to produce and too poor to pur-
ch. ase ? Who gains but the Directors and their
friends, and are not justice and good government
too dear to be -bartered for their-favour t