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INDIA.

We have received by express from Marseilles the
intelligence from India and china in anticipation of
the Indian mail.

The news is not of much importance.
We extract the following summary from the Madras
Athenmum of the 9th ult. :

The accounts from the north-west during the month
that has elapsed since we last wen► to press, have made
a very scanty addition to our stock of information.
Things aro settling down gradually, quietly, and orderly;
the officers intrusted with the task of working the new
political engine are at their posts, or on the way to them;
lines are being marked out, barracks in course of erec-
tion, and the various arrangements requisite for holding
and governing the newly-acquired province are all pro-
gressing towards completion. The details of these ne-
cessary, but uninteresting movements, we have fur-
nished in our other columns; among them, however,
we find little or nothing that calls for prominent
notice. It will be seen that " the Board of Ad-
ministration for the affairs of the Punjaub" has given
evidence of vitality in the promulgation of general in-
structions for the guidance of the civil and military
functionaries through whom the benefits of good govern-
ment are to be conveyed to the country of the Five
Rivers. These instructions contain much wholesome
advice and will, we trust, be zealously complied with by
those to whom they are addressed; on whom they en-
join the importance of preventing everything as far as
possible that can offend our new subjects and alienate
them frcm our rule, and strongly urge the " necessity
and policy of being as accessible as possible to all ranks,
to mix with them and ascertain their wants and wishes,
to study their character and master their dialects," and
whilst exhibiting firmness in the maintenance of the
laws, " to treat kindly and considerately all classes, and
especially those who have lost so much by the change of
rule." The advantages of an entente cordiale between the
civil and military authorities are alsojudiciously pointed
out; on the whole a fair start has been made for a little
good government; the opportunity to improve upon past
attempts, and to commence clear of the clogs and impe-
diments that have hampered administrative progress is
other quarters, is a splendid one, and will not, it is
hoped, be thrown away. Should John Company lose
the chance now given him, we fear that when his pre-
sent lease expires, a British Parliament will feel there
is no other alternative than to let out "the vineyard
to other husbandmen who will render the fruits in due
season."

Since General Gilbert's arrival at Lahore, that city
has become the scene of social festivity and amusement,
while the interchange of hospitalities between the regi-
ments of her Majesty and the Hon. Company, induces
the belief that the spirit of absurdj ealousy that formerly
existed between the members of the two services is fast
giving way to one of a more generous rivalry. The pro-
motion of good fellowship and the enlivenment of the
dullness that usually clJuds military life in India, are
now the only oljects that engage attention ; and races,
balls, dinners, and the various agremens of social life, now
solace our gallant soldiers for the hardships, toils, and
dangers of the late campaign. Nominal rolls of claim-
ants for the Punjaub medal have, in the mean time, been
called for by Lord Gough ; and we are glad to find it
asserted by a north-west journal likely to be well-
informed, that the medal itself is to be distributed to all
who have served in a military capacity at any time during
the late war within the territories under the Government
of Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, but that a clasp is to be
added for each battle to such as served in it. This ar-
rangement will, we fear, not satisfy the captors of
Moultan, who are clamorous for a distinct medal for
their successful siege, and in the assertion of
their claims—we now form our judgment from
the letters which have found their way into
the public papers—have indulged in a large
amount of self-glorification and unnecessary depre-
ciation of the services of their brother soldiers. All
have nobly done their duty in the sphere in which for-
tune placed them ; but the consciousness of this, and the
knowledge that their country approves their valour, suf-
fice not to satisfy the soldiers of the Indian army noW-
a-days, and accordingly, after every battle, we have a
loud outcry for extra " batta" and honorary decorations.
We. have no wish to depreciate the services of the army
of the Punjaub or that of Moultan, but we condemn the
principle of indiscriminate eulogy and reward which has
found its way into the practice both of the authorities
and the troops, and deprecate the undervaluation of these
distinctions, which must ensue from their too general
bestowment.

Advices have been received from Peshawur to the
tho 12th of May. Everything is reported to be going
on quietly, but the communications are filled with very
little of intered-- TTnpleacant j emtnnsies—we trust un--
founded ones, too—appear to exist between the Bombay
and Bengal troops, which compose the force, and bitter
complaints have found their way into the papers of the
partiality and favouritism of Colonel Dundas, who com-
mands the troops at that station, and who is said to have
given the Ducks an unfair precedence in matters of mili-
tary convenience. The lines at Rawul Pindee have been
finished,and by the latest accounts the troops were at once
to move into them. The military occupation of the
country will, therefore, soon be complete. No manifes-
tation of dissatisfaction by the people has yet been made;
and, though some profess to consider the present com-
posure as but the deceitful preliminary to a storm, we
feel rather inclined to augur from these symptoms more
auspiciously for the Punjaub, and interpret them as
omens of a period of long and undisturbed tranquillity.
The Governor-General and Lord Gough are both en-
joying the cool delights of Simlah.
The Maharanee Chunda, whose escape from Chunar
was noticed in our last issue, has managed to make her
successful escape into the Nepaulese territory, in the
disguise of a Byraginee, or religious mendicant. She
had entreated the Government of Nepaul to allow her an
asylum in that territory, but it is not thought likely that
her request will be granted without the previous con-
sent of the British Government.

From neither Affghanistan nor Scindo have we any
intelligence of the slighest importance.
The principal item of news from Bombay relates to
the annexation of the Sattara state to the British
dominions in the East. No official notification of the
act has yet appeared, but a Bombay paper intimates
that the following appointments have been determined
on, and we may therefore in a very short time ex-
pect the formal announcement of the new appro-
priation. Mr. II B. E. Frere is to be Commissioner;
Mr. M. A. Coxon, first Assistant; Lieutenant 11. B.
Sandford, of the Bombay Artillery, second ; and
Ensign J. T. Nicholson of the 221 Native Infantry,
third. The death of Jeejeebhoy Dedabboy, Esq., oue
of the oldest, wealthiest, and most respected of the mor•
chants of Bombay, has taken place during the month.
The deceased has in his will made the munificent be-
quest of two lakhs of rupees (20,0001.) to be expended
on charitable objects for the benefit of the Parsee Com-
munity.

Calcutta witnessed the arrival of Sir Charles Napier
on the 6th ult., and his assumption of office as Com-
mander-in-Chief with the usual formalities on the day
following. This unusually hasty entrance upon his new
duties took many by surprise, and the august Council of
India not the least; the prevalent notion being that ho
would defer his installation until Lord Gough had offi-
cially announced his resignation. The ex-Commander-
in-Chief has therefore been virtually superseded by Sir
Charles Napier, all that the Ministry at Some may say
to the contrary notwithstanding. Lord Gough has conse-
quently given vent to a few " more last words" in the
shape of the following second " farewell order." We
regret to hear that he appears to be much out of spirits
in consequence of the unfavourable sentiments ex-
pressed regarding his conduct of the recent war, both
here and at home; and we question whether even the
ti ittering unction administered in both Houses of Parlia-
ment on the occasion of the " thanks to th 2, army" will
heal the soreness of his mind.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcutta Englishman, June 2.)
The express of the mail of the 7th of April arrived on
the eveninc, of the 12th ult., and the express of the mail
of the 25th of April came in during the night before last,
bringing advices of a loss satisfactory character as re-
gards political affairs on the continent of Europe, and
the market for colonial produce at home, than could bo
wished for.

Our export market has maintained the animation
which has pervaded it for some time past, and with one
or two exceptions, all staple productions have continued
to sell freely, and at full prices. Owing to the exhausted
state of our stock transactions in indigo have been
limited to about 85 chests of Bazaar parcels at extreme
previous rates. The exports of this article up to date
reached 36,616 chests, containing 131,279 maunds, of
which 26;559 chests have gone to England, and 6,348
to France. The fall which has taken place in
freights has given a spur to the good demand which
previously existed for sugar, and although the market
has been much more freely supplied, extreme previous
prices have been maintained with an advance of 2a. to 3a.
for the superior qualities. Saltpetre has also benefited by
the reduction in freights, and prices since our last report
have gradually advanced 2a. to 4L per maund. Table rice
has also attracted seine attention from shippers for the
British market. The safflower market has displayed a
scene of the most eager competition amongst shippers,
which has enabled holders to realise their comparatively
extravagant pretensions. Silk has been almost totally
neglected. Coral's are still in good but sober inquiry,
and at a reduced value. Lac dye continues high in fa-
vour, and is largely shipped. Shell lac is also in fair re-
quest. Jute continues to be freely exported at full
prices, although the market can only supply inferior
qualities. The Americans are shipping rum, and they
also monopolise the linseed market. 10,200 mds. of
catch have been exported to Great Britain during the
past month.
The steady ai,pect which our import market presented
at the date of our last report, was not, we regret to say,
of long continuance, for the past fortnight has been a
very dull one for almost all the branches of our import
business. Most kinds of Manchester fabrics are diffi-
cult of sale, and lower in value. Scotch goods are also
quiet with little or no demand. Mule twist has con-

tinned dull with limited sales, and shows a further de-
-1 preciation in value. Metals have, however, remained
pretty steady, both as regards demand sod price, ex-
cepting spolter, which fell to Sr. 4a., but has again ral-
lied up to Sr. Ba. our present quotation. Tile copper is
a little higher, being quoted at 33r. Ba. Some sales of
flat, bar, and bolt iron have been muds at 2r, 10a. to 2r.
14a., but the former figure may be taken as the present
current quotation for this assortment.
The money market is well supplied, and loans are
readily procurable for fair securities on easy terms.
Company's paper is quoted at 4a. to Sa. discount for
New Fives; lr. Ba. to 2r. for Sicca ditto; 13r. to 14r.
fur Company's Fours; 15r. to 15r. Ba. for Sicca ditto,
Bank of Bengal shares, 1,400 to 1,425 premium. This
bank has made an average profit on capital stock of 6r.
la. 9p. during the three months ending April 30 last.
The Bonded Warehouse has declared a dividend for the
past commercial year of sr. Bs. per share. 445 rupees
have been paid upon the shares of this stock, and the
selling price has lately been 190 to 200 per share. The
smallness of the dividend may bo attributed to tho un-
precedented prostration of commerce during the past 12
months.
The rates of exchange have been gradually keeping
up from 1 101 to 1 101; the bulk of transactions have
been effected at 1 10i. Oriental Bank-bills, at 30 days
sight, have been sold at 1 9f. The export warehouse
authorities have made no alteration in their iate of ex-
change, which still continues at l• 10. During the year
ending the 30th of April last, 46,72,772 rupees have
been advanced on bills covered by hypothecation of
goods; and, since that date, 40,79,000.
During the week immediately following the date of
our last report freights rose to 41. 15s. to 51. for salt-
petre, and 51. 4s. to Si. 7s. 6d. for sugar and lice to Lon-
don, with ss. to 7s. 6d. cheaper to Liverpool. The ar-
rival of a good many ships during the second week had
the effect of causing rates to retrograde, and quotations
fell to .St. sugar, 51.55. rice, and 41. 15s. to 51. saltpetre to
London, with ss. to 7s. 6d. less for Liverpool. The
third week witnessed a further fall to 41. 103. to 41. 12s.
6d. for sugar, 41.".105. saltpetre, and 4/. 15s. rice, to Lon-
don, with 2s. 6d. to ss. lower to Liverpool. Our quota-
tions now are 4/. 15s. for sugar, 41. 10s. saltpetre, to
London and Liverpool; the nominal quotation for rice
tonnage is V. 15s. to 51, and Jute 51.

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HUNGARY.
The following is a fuller report of Lord Paleseretoe's
speech on this question than we were enabled to give in
our paper of yesterday:—
, Lord PALMERS TON said,—ln the few obserrations
which I shall feel it my duty to make upon the motion of
my Hon. Friend, and upon what has passed in debate, I
wish to guard myself in the first place against the possi-
bility that anything which I may say may expose me to
the imputation of entertaining unfriendly feelings to-
wards the Government and empire of Austria.—(Hear,
hear.) I know well, that imputations have been cast
upon her Majesty's Government, and upon myself as the
organ of that Government in regard to our foreign rela-
tions—imputations of being guided and impelled in our
intercourse with the powers of Europe by personal feel-
ings of hatred to this power and to that.—(Hear, hear.)
Such imputations, let them come from what quarter they
may, and whether they be written or spoken—(Hear,
hear)—if they be sincere, are the result of ignorance
and folly—(flear, hear)—ii they are insincere, I leave
others to qualify them as they ma (Hear hear.) It
is the grossest ignorance to suppose that 'the Govern-
ment of this country—that the man who may for the
time be charged with the conduct of its foreign rela-
tions, can be influetced in the management of those affairs
by any other feeling than his conception of what is his
duty, according to his political opinions, and according
to his views of the interests of his country and the
ge-
neral interests of the civilized world.—(Hear, hear.)
Austria is a power towards which the Government of
this country ought upon many accounts to feel great
consideration.—(Hear, hear.) We have been told that
Austria is our ancient ally. We have thehadterm
" ally" and " allies' by who rung in our ears those either
must be ignorant of the slip-shop
expression they were
using, or who, through what I must admit tohave been
its general acceptation, forgot that they were usinga
totally unmeaning term. Why, what is an ally? An
ally is a power allied by treaty engagements in carrying
on some active operations, political or otherwise. But
to call a country an ally merely because it is in a state of
friendship with you is to use an expression that has no
meaning whatever—(Hear, bear)—because it is applica-
ble to every other power in the world with whom you
may happen not to be in a state of war.—(Hear, hear.)
But Austria has been our ally. We have been allied
with Austria in most important European transactions;
and the remembrance of the alliance ought undoubt-
edly to create in the breast of every Englishman who
has a recollection of the history of his country feel-
ings of respect towards a power with whom we have
been in such alliance.— (Hear, bear.) It is perfectly true,
that in the course of those repeated alliances, Austria,
not from any fault of hers, but from the pressure of ir-
resistible necessity, was repeatedly compelled to depart
from the alliance, and to break the engagements by
which she had bound herself to us. We did not reproach
her with yielding to the necessity of the moment, and
no generous mind would think that those circumstances.
ought in any degree to diminish or weaken the tie which
former transactions must create between the Govern-
ments of the two countries.—(Hear, hear.) But there
are higher and larger considerations, which ought to
render the maintenance of the Austrian empire an object
of solicitude to every English statesman. Austria is a
most important element in the balance of European
power.—(Hear, bear.) Austria stands in the centre of
Europe, a barrier against encroachments on the one side,
and against invasion on the other. The political inde-
pendence and liberties of Europe are bound up, in my
opinion, with the maintenance and integrity of Austria
as a great European power; and therefore anything
which tends by direct, or even remote contingency, to
weaken and to cripple Austria, but still more to reduce
her from the position of a firstrate power to that of a se-
condary state, must be a great calamity to Europe, and one
which every Englishman ought to deprecate, and to try
to prevent.—(Hear.) However, it is perfectly true, as
has been stated, that for a long course or time Austria has
not been a favourite with the Liberal party in Europe.
Austria, by the course of policy which she has pur-
sued, has, in the opinion of a great part of the
continent, been identified with cbstruction to progress.—
(Hear, hear.) That circumstance unfortunately has made
her proportionately a favourite in the eyes of some; and
when we hear such declamations in favour of Austria, I
would warn the Austrian Government not to trust too
much to those protestations.—(Hear, hear.) It is not as
the ancient ally of England during war—it is not as the
means of resistance in the centre of Europe to any ge-
neral disturbance of the balance of power—it is as the
former (though I trust it is no longer so)—the former
symbol of resistance to improvement, political and social
—(Hear, hear)—it is in that capacity that Austria has
won the affections of some men in the conduct of public
atfairs,—(Hear, hear.) There are persons who see in
the relations of countries nothing but the intercourse of
Cabinets, who value a country not for its political weight,
but for its political opinions, and who consider that the
relations between countries are sufficiently intimate when
the personal intercourse of their Governments is placed
on a complimentary footing.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, there
are men who, having passed their whole lives in adoring
the Government of Austris, because they deemed it
the great symbol of the opinions which they enter-
tained, at last became fickle in their attachment, and
transferred their allegiance to the Government of France,
because they thought that in that Government they saw
an almost equal degree of leaning to the arbitrary prin-
ciple—(Hear)—and because they, forsooth, expected
that Government of designs hostile to the interests of
freedom.—(Hear.) Wo have heard of persons of that
sort making use of the expression " old women."—(flear,
hear.) Public men ought not to deal in egotism, and I
will not apply to them the expression that has fallen
from their own mouths. I will only say that the conduct
of such men is an example of antiquated imbecility.—
(Cheers and laughter.) With regard to the present
question, I am sure that everybody who has hoard what
has passed, everybody in this country who has given at-
tention to the most important events that have taken
place in Hungary, must feel that my Hon. and Gallant
Friend need have made no apology for drawing the at-
tention of the Parliament of England to transactions
deeply affecting the political principles of Europe, and
having a most important bearing upon the general
balance of European power.—(Cheers.) The House
will not expect me to follow those who have spoken to-
day, by endeavouring to pass judgment either way be-
tween the Austrian Government and the Hungarian na
tion.—(Hear.) I say the Hungarian nation, because,
in spite of what has fallen from the Noble Lord
opposite (Lord C. Hamilton), I do believe, from the in-
formation I have received,—and I do not pretend I may
not be mistaken,—but I firmly believe that in this war
between Austria and Hungary there is enlisted on the
side of Hungary the hearts and souls of the whole
people of that country.—(Cheers.) I believe that the
other races, distinct from the Magyars, have forgotten
the former feuds that existed between them and the
Magyar population, and that the greater portion of the
people have engaged in what they consider a great
national contest.—(Cheers.) It is true, as nay Hon.
and Gallant Friend has said, that Hungary has for cen-
turies been a state which, though united with Austria
by the link of the Crown, has nevertheless been separate
and distinct from Austria by its own complete constitu-
tion.—(Hear, hear.) That constitution has many de-
fects, but some of those defects were, I believe, remedied
not long ago—(Hear, hear)—and it is not the only
ancient constitution on the continent that was suscep-
tible of great improvement.—(Hear, hear.) There were
means probably within the force and resources of the
constitution itself to reform it, and it might have been
hoped that those improvements would have been
acsari
the
car-
ried into effect.—(Hear, hear.)
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state of._
understand the matter, I take
the case to be this:—Without goinwinhtirocehtshehe
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taken
conn
mutual complaints as to circumstances
place within the last year or yearand a half, I take the
question that is now to bo fought for on the plains of
elungary to be this—whether Hungary shall continue
to maintain its separate nationality as a distinct king-
dom, and with a constitution of its own, or whether it
is to be incorporated more or less in the aggregate con-
stitution that is to be given to the Austrian empire ?
It is a most painful sight to see such forces as are
now arrayed against Hungary proceeding to a war
fraught with such tremendous consequences on a ques-
tion that it might have been hoped would be settled
peacefully.—(Hear, hear.) It is of the utmost importance
to Europe that Austria should remain great and power-
ful; but it is impossible to disguise from ourselves that,
if the war is to be fought out, Austria must thereby be
weakened—(Hear, hear)—because, on the one hand, if
the Hungarians should be successful, and their success
should end in the entire separation of Hungary from
Austria, it will be impossible not to see that this will
be such a dismemberment of the Austrian empire as
will prevent Austria from continuing to occupy the
great position she has hitherto held among European
powers.—(Hear, hear.) If, on the other hand, the war
being fought out to the uttermost, Hungary should
by superior forces be entirely crushed, Austria in
that battle will have crushed her own right arm.—
(Cheers.) Every field that is laid waste is an Austrian re-
source destroyed—every man that perishes upon tbe
field among the Hungarian ranks is an Austrian soldier
deducted from the defensive forces of the
e
(Cheers.) Laying aside those other most obvtinloeuPrstecsounit-
siderations that have been touched upon as to the
'eh is brought about
of a successful war, the success o
by foreign aid—laying that
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piltyias obvious
s
that even the success of Austria,
dion the fabric and frame
of force, will inflict a deep
of the Austrian en]
principle_ of general
empire.—(Cheers.) It is therefore much
to be desired, not simply on the
on the principle of sound European
humanity, but
the. most friendly_ regard to the Austrian
and from
I say, devoutly to be wished that
empire itself—it is,
this great contest may be brought to a termination by
some amicable arrangement between the contending par-
ties, which shall on the one hand satisfy the national
feelings of the Hungarians, and on the other hand not
leave to Austria another and a larger Poland within her
empire.—(Cheers.) Her 'Majesty's Government have
not, in the present state of the matter, thought that
any opportunity has as yet presented itself that
could enable them, with any prospect of ad-
vantage, to
.make any official communication
of those opinions which they entertain :on
tnis subject. I say official, as contradistinguished from
opinions expressed in a more private and confidential
manner; but undoubtedly, if any occasion were to occur
that should lead them to think the expression of such .
opinion* would tend to a favourable result, it would be