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Auer winch, the Extravaganza of TIIE FIRST NIGHT.
To conclude with TIIE SPITALFIELDS WEAVEA.

ASTLEY' 3 ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Progrietor. Mr..W. Batty.
TO- MORROW,
Mr. BATTY has great pleasure in announcing that he has sue
ecedel I i engag:ng Mademois,ile ANOELE, from the hippodrome,
Paris, and who is the first Eivistrian. of the day, with her highly.
trained Ste gds, " Senora" 'rind " Bertram." Madernolselie Angela is
the same. Lady that rode the celebrated English Steeplechase Man-
" Angola" over twenty-eight feet of water. She will shortly makt
her appearance at Astley's Ampitheatre.
Mr. BATTY hai much pleasure in announcing that he has engaged
Maas. Cedoni, the most graceful performer on the Tight Rope
is
Europe, who will appear every Evening.
The performance will commence at a Quarter to Sov..x with th,
*rand national and magnificent Spectacle of TUB BATTLE O}
WATEIti.OO, in whleit Mr. Edward GomerSal will appear In hip
original character of Napoleon.
ALer which Bat,y's SCENES OF THE ARENA, ost!lTened by
Messrs. T. Barre, E. Jaeks'n. and Wheale.
To conclude with the new EXtravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ;
the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING,
ii whish the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment,
Ion.; train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Baroucho, Go-Cart,
and other vehicles, will appear.
Box-office open from Eleven till Fos r.
Cage Manager, Mr. W. West.

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I CZIDON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13, 184'.

We earnestly invite the attention of the Britill,
public to a communication from RUNG° BAPOJEE
which will be found in another part of this day's
impression. It has been elicited by the unprovoked
and unwarranted attacks that appeared in a morning
Contemporary upon the course which he was
prompted to pursue by the loyalty and devotion 01
his nature, and the feeling of despair entertained
himself, " a foreigner in a strange land, in the midst
of difficulties." 'We have already alluded to the article
referred to by our correspondent ; it smacks toe
strongly of Leadenhall•street to permit it to bt
mistaken, even for a moment for the calm and
deliberate expression of the opinions of a disinterested
and impartial judge. The writer must have been
long accustomed to Asiatic subservience and oriental
despotism. lie appears to have forgotten Englist
usages and habits, and to believe that the well•
founded complaints of a long suffering and deeply
injured man can be suppressed with the strong hand
that qualitif s which Englishmen have ever been ac-
customed to regard with respect and admiration cai
be sneered at and despised with impunity

and their enthusiastic possessor made an object
of contempt and ridicule, laughing-steck for
the witlings of the Honourable Board of Directors
RUNGO BAPOJEB'S vindication of his own conduct is
so full and complete, so satisfactory in every parti
cular, as to require but little argument on our parts tc
sustain it. We have already explained the position
of that zealous and faithful adherent to an oppressed
and persecuted Sovereign, and the circumstances
under which he has been induced to appeal, not to
British mercy or British compassion, but to British
honour and to British justice. Deputed to bring
the wrongs of the uniertunate and deeply injured
PERTACB SINGH und,,zr the notice of the British
nation, for " tenLl,yng years of respectful
prayer, and earnett solicitation for justice,"
he has preferred his suit, with " bated breath
and deep humility," to the Hon. the Court of Di-
rectors,- to the Board of Control, and finally to the
chosen representatives of the people of Great Britain.
" The bead and front of his offending bath this ex-
tent, no more"—that when " ill-used, spurned, con-
temned, despised," by the Indian authorities, he
beheld his illuitrious friend, revered master, and
rightful Sovereign, perish broken-hearted in his exile,
a victim to the cruel persecutions he had endured—
when he beheld the adopted child and rightful heir
of that deeply-injured Prince excluded from the throne
of his ancestors, his wide spread and fertile dominions
confiscated and absorbed into the Company's territory,
and himself left a beggar, without station or fortune,
the private property of his adoptive father being also
absorbed in the public treasury; and when, finally, the
faithful Vakeel despaired of obtaining redress for
these manifold grievances, he directed his warning
voice to his compatriots, the native princes and chiefs
of India, recommending that they should " look into
their own treaties and immediately address the
Governor-General, to know if they are to un-

derstand whether by the treaty, according
to which their heirs r.re entitled to sue-
ceed, they are to b•.) permitted to ex-
ercise the right of adoption, in conformity with the
law and custom of the Hindoos, or wl,e',l;er such law
i 3 to be violated and henceforward set at naught ?"
This is an important and highly pertinent, but at
the same time a most inconvenient inquiry to the
NlJgnates of Leadenhall.steeet. If it should be
answered in the affirmative—it subterfuge and dis •
guise should be cast aside, and that they should
boldly avow their secret resolution to abrogate the
most sacred custom of the Hindoo law, which has been
sanctioned and recognized from time immemorial, long
befo;-e the Indian soil was pres3td by the footstep of the
Anglo-Saxon—a storm would be excited that would
shake the British empire in Hindostan to its very
foundations. A war of extermination—a sanguinary