The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-13 00:00:00

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HONFLEUR.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
The mouth of the -Seine is. as it is known, of verb
difficult navigation, and even an experienced pilot '
requires all his attention to avoid the numerous sand-
banks which are covered at high water. Some years
ago a very melancholy occurrence threw a gloom
over the cheerful little town, which it was long ere
it recovered. A rich watchmaker married his only
daughter to the son :of a small proprietaire—both
being extensively connected in and about Honfieur,
where the families had long resided. They formed
the eccentric idea of holding the wedding feast
upon one of the largest sand banks, and after.
the ceremony at eburch and the Mairie, the
whole party eiilbar4ecl in a large boat. This
odd fancy caused much laughter and amuse-
ment, but the .t4ptight of danger never entered
into the minds of- thq, many who watched their
loroceedings frotri the .ihore with telescopes. They!
ere observed drinking healths and making speeches ;
7then everything was put back into the boat, except a
barrel, upon which the musician mounted. Whilst
they continued gaily:dancing, the fact of the waters
gradually gaining upon them was unobserved by the
unsuspecting merrymakers; but the moment the
attention of those on the land was aroused to this cir-
cumstance, a beat was put off to their assistance
though it was confidently expected they themselves
would take the alarm in time to reach their own.
Alas I alas ! the good cheer, the merry dance, drove
out of their heads every recollection of the hour; and
when at last they beard and saw the near approach of
the rising waves, they rush frantically towards the
place where they had moored their little vessel—
it had drifted out of their reach, and before their
friends could get near enough to save them, every soul
with the exception of one sailor, had perished, and
their death-shrieks were heard where their cheers!
And joyous laughter had failed to reach. Most of
the bodies were found, the pretty bride's among the
number, in all her simple finery, still wearing her
orange flower-wreath, which the curd held in his
hand at the funeral, while he discoursed upon the
necessity of our ever being pr‘ par- d to meet death.
There was not a dry eye amongst his hearers as mayl
well be believed ; but there remained no relations to
mourn their fate, for every one nearly connected
with either side, had joined the fatel party.

(From the Post.)
It begins to appear as though the Israelite influence
were on its wane. The worship of mammon in the
person of Mr. Rothschild received a heavy blow and
great discouragement on Tuesday ; the Israelite
was thrown from his pedestal, arid the thanks of all
who dwell on this side of the Channel, an I have
friends in England, are due to the shareholders of the
Boulogne Railroad, who, by a vigorous act of energy,
arrived here via Boulogne, at two o'clock on Tuesday
in the afternoon, having left London at half-past four
in the morning; they arrived at Folkestone at half-
past six, at Boulogne at twenty minutes past nine,
At Amiens at ten minutes past'eleven, and at Paris at
11411.-past one. The travellers, consisting of Messrs.,
Wright, Joyleafe, Potter, and Warren, brought with,
them some copies of an English journal of Tuesday's;
'late, and these they forthwith distributed at the!
Elysee, the Emba-sies, and the great commerciali
louses of Paris. There is no terrestrial reason,l
,!though there may occasionally be a celestial one in
Tossing the Channel, why this rapid exceptional,

REDUCTION IN RAILWAT FARES.—A contractor,
with the railway company for excursion trains has an-
nounced his intention of taking passengers, " first-class.
travelling at less than a halfpenny a mile, and second-
class for about a farthing." From Leeds to Birming-
ham, 230 miles, the fare is to be—first-class, Rs. 6d.;
and second-class, ss. 6d., allowing six hours in Birm
ingham, or the privilege of returning on the followir4
day for an ex ra shilling. At the ordinary rates o
travelling the journey could not be accomplished for lese
than between 34 and 41., and at a penny a mite would
amount to a few pence short of 11.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
,Colonial-office for the Governor of Malts, for elk
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and,
also for the Governor of the Cope of Good Hope. .

RVEIsriNG, DECEMBER 12; 1849 II

,41,
shnesgpelneta,v et t
to telllndia you,ise Sir,vast whata
countryyou seaesmnivniol
civilized
etdo
Roa VID COMM UNI CA TION WIT ll;..ivoyage should not be an every day occurrence; area e THE RAJA OF SATTABA.
.
ainiad contains even at the present day, within
o ' PARIS ae however deeply Mr. Rethschild Limy he exercising es TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SU.V•
a greater number of ancient kingdoms and
, s
(From the Times.) lathe peti, nee of the public, and adding to his owe .47)T s T. . .
IA IR,— ne Insertion you gave to my address, anell?-Thfrorres
"`l. he notice you hesto e I on it, in The Sun of the;e'eits limits'
it' A revolution bus just taken place in Paris, which meagre means, by using his influence with the G0;,.1
;,.1 is I kely to be ate*. peke. N 1 ill neat impottabt consee.aaverement to carry our letters seventy miles out of th. ;1. 3. •- w ' uP
, 24th ult., induces me to solicit at your hands the',a
,Etta
principalities than existed in Europe in the
a zenith of French domination.
quez,ces. This time there has been no shooting, not:- way, via Calais, yet the public will now discover tlt
et/erection of barricades, no slaughter, no horror ; and; convenience of being able to receive their London and '"insertion of the following reply to an attack madeei You say, " this question has been a hundred times
ilyet the bouleversement will roost certainly operate„; Paris letters on the same day. ..e upon me in a morning journal. r'" settled." Ilas it been settled by Parliament ? Has
sea, Inure powerfully upon the fortunes of the P:itisiano- .
-1 Dec. 11, 1849.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, i.it. Parliament, the high court of justice in these realms,'
ssitean any of the countless disturbances which haver'. SADLERS' WELLS THEATRE.
RUN GO BAPOJEE. '2-granted an inquiry into the truth or falsehood of the;
4gitated their beautiful city sit ice February of last-e• Garcia; or the Noble Error, such was the title o' '
year. The term " revelution" may be too strong ant a new tragedy produced here last evening, from the t
,?'charges made against the late Raja of Sattara, andi
TO THE EDITOR OF THU MOANING HERALD. 'which he himself was never suffered to confront and
one, considering the gradual way in which the change ..,-, pen of Mr. F. G. Tomlins, the Secretary to tits • Sir,-1 have perused the article in the Morning-, answer? Did the greatness of his stake in the issue,
was introduced, matured, and perfected. It has, ~* Shakspere Society, whose intimate knowledge of, ane fa Herald of the 20th inst., in reference to the case 015 because it was a throne, character, honour, more than.
boa ever, been so quickly accomplished, and will -1! intense interest in, British dramatic literature renders my late Sovereign, the aja of Sattara, as well as the elife itself, degrade him in the eye of English justice
/
r . ultimately exert so strong an influence upon the 'e him, of all others notv living, the man the best fitteeo:eharge you have brought against myself. I request,% below a self-confesses murderer like Manning, and
ta ,e
0l: fortunes of the people, that we feel the phrase to illustrate and artistically work out a plot ein common justice, that you will give the same pub- 'debar him the hearing given to Manning? Should I
to be scarcely misapplied. The revclution, !in which Messinger would have revelled, and ,a iicity to my reply, as you have given to the ieculpress the question of "settled," you would find some
ilthen—we adopt the word--has occurred in which Mr. Tomlins has treated eves as Mas nation. I should have addressed you sooner, but forq difficulty in defining the signification of the word, ex-
Mile manner and rate of communicatiure between A sieger himself might have treated it ha ,the death of one of the most excellent of men, andaNept by the more significant one of " barked," and why
.r London and Paris—the two e apital cities which are :t he lived in these our days. The action of the play the most stedfast friend and benefactor of the natives has a public ana impartial inquiry, so long solicited.
-far beyond all ()diets the types end expressions ot-:. ekes place in Seville and its nearest mountains, i;
,-Sof India, Sir Charles Forbes. tti been " barked !`:' Because the GovernorXreneral' 'el
rood, rn civilization. It was at half past me o'cloel A' ,he veer 1482, just after the expulsion of the Moor: ft You charge me with having " taken the bold stepriatagent, Colonel Carpenter, like an honourable man,!
ion Tuesday last—the day before yesterday—that upon, saYrom Spain and the establishment of the Inquisition fef addressing an inflammatory letter to the native revealed the truth of, he long martyrdom in-1
the Beurse of Paris " the Commissary exhibited to the a- Ihe following is the plot :—Don Garcia (Mr. Phelps., at: Princes of India, and sending a copy of it to the'le:flicted upon the Baja of Sattara, by declaring that;
~
e eyes of the astonished crowd"—we repeat the worn: 4. is living under the guardianship of his mother, ti), :-: Court cf Directors." it is easy, Sir, to apply such not only had he, as the cfiicer in charge of the Reja's!
•• ref our correspondent—" the copies which he had just to a ountess de Vyera (Miss Glyn); he is within a dine 4 in epithet to this document, while you carefullyrai Person, convinced himself of the Raja's undoubted!
.e.
i received of the Times of that morning." It was ins ' 'f attaining his majority when a fugitive Moor fa' "abstain from producing the document itself. It isiginnoc,ence, but that he was fully persuaded of the,
• possible to suggest a doubt as to the practical truth of 7: Rodriguez Xerife (Mr. Graham), asks for refuge 't nflatnmatory, it seems, here in England, to refer to Rojas ability to prose it. "tt hen the Raja," he!
it
tt:e achievement, The express which had been for
~,a the gat
es of the castle during a terrific storm, ;r; i solemn treaty, prepatea, dictated, and ratitiedi4wrete, " was consigned to my charge, early in 1840,1
warded to us from Paris with the French intelligence gi Fie is hdaitted, and it appears that he is flying fruit Ss ay the E. I. Company in India, of which treaty4l considered it necessaryTeir the efficient discharge or
7 ~f Monday was thus tossed back to the Pari-ians to. me myrmidons of the Inquisition. He is sheltered e he, following is the first article :—" The valiantgmY duties to make myself fully acquainted with the
e their own information almost by noon on the next noneY is given him, and he is enabled to esc.rpe se English Government, on its part, agrees to give, causes of his dethronement, his general reputation for
day, having in the interval be en carried 600 miles. a tie is, however, retaken, and to escape the tor. es, c, untry or territory to the Government oreeintrigue, and other circumstances connected with his
t and been 'digested and printed off in the office of ~ r. ore betrays his benefactress to the inerciles (State of his Highness Maharaj Chuttraputtee (tae 'character and conduct, to enable me to form a just
London journal. There are imaay of us old enough f Inquisitors. The Countess is immediately ar- ;.-t Raja of Sattara), a separate memorandum or scheduleystimate of the man with whom I had to deal, and to
to remember the days when the journey from London;', rested, conveyed to the dungeons of the Inquisition, ' If which is attached to phis written treaty; his High.krard against the consequences which might arise:
ro Dover occupied from twelve to fifteen. hours. The end condemned to die. The King and Queen, how 'ness Maharaj Chuttraputtee and his Highness's sons,e from any laxity of surveillance on my part. To this
a troubles of the traveller when he had arrived at., ever refuse to ratify the sentence without hearing a and heirs and successors (meaning a Regency), are , end I carefully studied the whole of the voluminous:
that point—dirty and jaded as he was—had yet to lr• the evidence. Rodriguez is to be sent to --perpetually (i. e., from generation to generation) to
..:documents connected with his case, and the result.
begin. There were no convenient steamers fuming ands Madrid to give his testimony before the Court `-s reign in Sovereignty over the territory. On account :' was a belief in his innocence ; and this belief has been
hissing at the pier-head, and ready to hustle their ' Garcia and his sister Camilla (Miss T. Bassano) are . A' this, these (i. e., the treaty and territory) are given."a confirmed beyond a doubt BY SUBSEQUENT DISCLOSURES.
way to the opposite coast in the teeth of winds and i m despair, it is in vain that Manuel (Mr. a K. 14 "A true translation. le. and by his pledging himself to prove it, if permitted
tides. On important occasions a lugger was hired as Dickinson), the betrothed .of Camilla, has used .f, "J. W. GRAHAM, Major, alto do so, in his letter to Sir Henry Hardinge, of the
•if the weather was stormy and the traveller's business ---- every exertion to save the Countess; the Inquisitor: '.' An E. I. Proprietor, late Chief Interpreter': 12th December, 1844, forwarded through me, and
admitted of delay, he remained at Dover, and con- is are inexorable. In the meantime the Marquis of and Translator of the Supreme Court of -,fs which pledge lam fully persuaded he is able to re
eunied a portion of his fortune at one of the then Pacheco (Mr. H. Marston), a:reckless desperado, whes. Judicature at Bombay." "'S- deem."—Colonel Carpenter, Governor - General' s agent
extortionate hotels of that spendthrift port. But"rs aspires to the hand of Camilla, has learned from his .' Is it the mention of this treaty, or the flagrant T., at Benares, to the Governor. General, Benares, 251 k
suppose the passage aeross to have been effected in 'i uncle, the Bishop of eTarrico qifilr. Wilkins), that e violation of it by the stronger party, that is calculated e,-,11/ay,.1846.
safety, and the traveller, - after much sea agony, te 4 Rodriguez will pass . the ;,Cis 1e •of Vyera OE '.4a- obe inflammatory? And what is my crime? This ;-- sa The inquiry has been burked in order to screen the
have been deposited at Dessein's Hotel, he must then ' his way to Madrid, - and also that the s. Having carefully compared the wording of several a., Directors of the E. I. Company, who are the
have made up his mind, as the ex- Premier would'''' Countess has been saved through the interest of the S treaties dictated by the E. I. Company to other ...dispensers of all the valuable patronage of India, and
say, to one of three courses ; he might take a seat in;_a Queen. Determined te.get Don Garcia in his power in:" native Princes of India, and observed the same ex- the-. yearly distributors in England of between four
the diligence which in the course of a day, a night, '1" order to secure the alliance with his sister, and also -S pressions used in all, namely, the terms "sons, heirs, se and five millions of the revenues of that country, from
and part of the next day would convey him to the .- to induce him to join in a conspiracy of the nobles, a )nd successors ;" I knew that one of the contracting '1 the searching ordeal their acts would undergo before
' French capital; or he might begin a haggling-mate/ Pacheco communicates to him the first portion only ,-.- parties at least, the native Princes, attached to f- an impartial tribunal of Englishmen, and to save their
with a post master about caleches, limonieres, and -- .if his information, and urges him to waylay and kih,e :hem but one meaning, which., is, that the treaty -ervants from the punishment with which public
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berlines, by the aid of some one of which and double Rodriguez, in order to destroy the only evidence or I guarantees to each Prince the -i
transmission L... exposure would not fail to overtake them. •
driuk-money he might accomplish his journey which his mother can be convicted. After much resist according according to the law of India of his sovereign rights, : But in your estimation the E. I. Company
in about 18 hours; or, finally, he might make ..., ance Garcia yields, and kills Rodriguez in A mountain ''. titles, anti territories. When consequently a glaring ;" can smile complacently at the imbecility of the
a pact with a voiturier to take him' on by easy pass, a noble error the commission of which he bitterly s-2 violation of this most essential condition has been ; attack" I have made, by reason that "the natives of .
• stages of about 25 miles a day, and so reach hit Y expiates. No sooner has he done the deed than his -, committed by the E. I. Company by the seizure India profit so greatly by it"—namely, the Company's •
journey's end a considerably older man than when he ? Agony commences—the calmness of the night is hole a end appropriation of the Sattara dominions, I am 'grille. Englishmen shall judge for themselves of the'
undertook it. Thirty years ago, or even less, such'' rible to him. He exclaims— justified in concluding that similar violations of all r nature and amount of this great profit frem facts fur-
were the conditions of a journey between the capitals a "All is still—silent and mute. The heavens a
of France and England. But light coaches were set - Are very fair : and the moon shines bright en me. e other treaties are contemplated whenever it may suit ft' nished by yourself and your contemporaries of the
,-, the purposes of the Company to venture upon the iipress. The very same Herald of the 20th (third edi-
up in England, and that shortened the distance : Ihe breeze bears the :diem, rack blithefully along non) which contained your article contained also the
attempt; and I have discharged no more than a duty::
steam ships began to ply between Dover and Calais.ta in warning the Hindoo and Mussulman Prince= to ' following extract from the Bombay Times of the 17;11
er Boulogne, and that shortened the distance ; the the, azure skies, and all is sweetly tranquil-
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- !ook in time to their treaties, and, if mica issue be a:October, which arrived that day :—" The accounts of!
pie heather grass. What's this? blood! warm human
so tranquil that I hear the sheep cropping
French diligences and rates of posting were improved, ~- blood „ possible, to avert by respectful inquiry from their ' our finances, laid before the House of Commons in
and that shortened the distance; a railroad was laid is upon me,' families the ruin which has levelled to the dust the irt. July have just been published, and give a view of
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down from London to Dover, and that shortened the ! is there no lila in him? no motion? Not j:' incient race of Sattara, from the reliance it was led., matters sufficiently melancholy. Fur the last ten
distance ; another railroad was laid down from Paris A A stir? A dull, still mass, as senseless as X tothe meaning ofplain Englishwords, years we have been spending continually from
place on
0 God! lam a murderer!
to Amiens, and that shortened the distance still more; . Cho clod whereon it lies. Ho! Rodriguez! `on the existence of what is called " the E. I. r' three- quarters to two and a half millions beyond
finally, the French railroad between Amiens and - -.Silence answers more terribly than words. e Company's honour and good faith." " Can you," our means :we have extinguished since 18$8 a balance
Boulogne was terminated, and a problematical journey:r; :said Mr. John Sullivan, at the India House, on the in the Treasury of nearly ten millions, converted at
end voyage of three days and three nights was con lie is far on his great journey. Oh Heav'n,
t And all ye saints that I have sunder'd from me. ,
25th of April last, " thus strip "princes of their prin. a surplus revenue of from a half to one whole million
vetted into a certain trip of thirteen or fourteen hours .:," I've shut the door of mercy on myself,
ti. cipalities, andchiefs of their possessions upon your mere to into a deficit of double this amount, and have got rid
And prayer, with me, henceforth, is blasphemy.
We question if the miracles of speed, when applied te .
arbitrary dictum ? Can you thus plunder, banish, and';, of an addition since then made to the revenue, of!
purposes of such practical utility, are not the greatett *- He returns to the castle
`le self condemned as il degrade upon a sic volo sic jubeo ? If this is really nearly two millions a year. Our gross annual ex-
miracles which modern science has accomplished. Nor ,' " A murderer ! whom all shun; who preys on a the state of the native Princes and Chiefs of India a. penditure accounted for in this way has, for the past
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need we rest content with the .speed we have yet ob. ` His own kind. The worst of thieves; that breaks ope f. under the British rule how earnestly must they pray is seven years, exceeded by four millions what it was!
-wined, should there be any necessity for a still , The walls of flesh, and steals away the life. , for the subversion of ;hat rule—how sedulously must e just ten years ago; the total amount of some thirtyi
more accelerated communication. The distance A self-will'd piece of dust, that dares to take e. they labour for its extinction ! Heavy, I say again, c,''' millions thus arising having been thrown away on wars
between London and Paris can now be performed . e .
• li the responsibility resting upon you (the Directors) 'by which neither the people of England nor the people
easily in nine hours, and assuming in ordinary case,',- Launch it where it lists;
The thunderbolt into its weak hand, and
useless, andtt for this act; for, if the opinions of those who may be - of India have gained one single farthing, or were
and on his return discovers that his crime has been
in average passage of two hours between Folkestone . regarded as oracles in everything respecting the- .liltely to gain, had all that ever was expected from I
that his mother had been already re
and Boulogne, it is not a very wild supposition to
,the affairs of India are worthy of attention, you are i:- our campaigns been realised." I commend this finan-
leased. To her at length he confides his dreadful
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imagine that the time might be curtailed by nearly , undermining your own power, and taking a wide -S cial result of the E. I. Company's rule to your,
one hour, could any practical good be attained by the "secret but it is in vain she endeavours to console him
' stride towards the subversion of that mighty empire .. repetition whenever you write of the great profit of this!
additional speed. Upon the commercial advantages . -
_ be replies to her words of love and hope--
" I am a ruin. mplete the picture, be
resulting from this change in our rate of communica- The immortal gem is fliwed. 'Tis marred for ever. -0 used, spurned, contemned, despised as I have been cs,, pleased to add, that there were sacrificed in the same-
, which is entrusted to your charge." No, Sir, ill. S. rule to the natives India. To co
don with our French neighbours, it would be need Love may o'erlook the speck; Mercy forgive it;
less to dwell. The mercantile men of London, without But still the imperfection will be there."forjustice, e, cent human beings, and of 250,000 dumb animals and
aby the Indian authorities, through ten long years of er,, space of time not less than the lives of 150,000 inno-1
respectful prayer and earnest solicitation ,
any telling of ours, will appreciate the advantage of He meets his destroyer, Pacheco, and loads him with ~ :.- beasts of ' burthen—all without the gain, or the like-
receiving their letters by early delivery in time to execration, who, in revenge, denounces Garcia to' of the Directors of the E. I. Company. On the :, lihood of the, gain, of one single farthing to the people
,dispatch orders to the manufacturing'districts of Eng- the In
with him, falls deal in his
Inquisition as the murderer of Rodriguez. The' I have committed no crime calling for the "clemency"
upright e.. of England, by this vast, demoniacal out-pouring of
land a day sooner, or, if the case should so be, to transblood arid treasure. Chastened as I have been by
`lnquisitors, arrest him, and his mother, overcome ';
act their Parisian correspondent's business in town. 'ti contrary,
Englishman, I have
having done
the that
heart
of a everyina
n and
the
~ misfortune, violently stripped of my lawful Sove
by her feelings at parting
end report results by the evening's post. With regard
loom, and Pacheco also is 'condemned as accessory tO
nrms ;he at once 'confesses, and is led forth to his t Bat you reiterate that there has been no vie - , reign and native country, I nevertheless bow in
to the " through" letters dispatched from Paris to Li e , ve feelings of a true patriot, will approve and applaud.
fevout
heroesthnkfulness before God, when I think thay
verpool or Manchester, the advantages are of course
-'' In the construction of this drama Mr. TomliPns hit's. dation of treaty. It is not I who
was subject of Setters, and not a Compeny s
1 .he murder, and as engaged in a treasonable cons ira-c
qually striking—nearly twenty-four hours would be -übject. " Traitor," Sir, do you venture to say ?
gained by the change. It is not for this class of S exhibited an intimate knowledge of the resources of f... , your denial—it shall be two Directoreshaol
['he signal traitors to England in India were not, and
has?: I. Company, Sir Henry Willockt afl ndatnhsewSEeirr'9.
4, the dramatic art. The interest never flags, the're not my murdered Sovereign or myself.
eersons we write just now; they are quite sharp Robert Campbell. On the 27th of April, 1849,45;
sighted enough to make the most of the increased 't peaking. at the India House, Sir H. WTillock said : et
incidents are numerous and occur m -
y,
' cili a ty of communication, without the hints or rug
_s-. servant,
naturally, and are ,
RUNGO BAPOJEE.
eestioes of others. We look at this question froii,exactly
4 ,o adtnirabl arranged that each'comes* •hound to
,„ its '44
Y.and forwards the Ithe drama. .1' that in annexing the territory of Sattara to • s-e, Vakeel of His Highness Shahoo Mahara
"proper place,
another and a social point of view. It will soon be Chuttraputtee, Raja of Sattara.
there is no anti climax, no retrograding, no flagging e PISS", ions, a sacred engagement has been violated. ee-
possible, with an insignificant loss of time, and at I •-• 4* the interest;
, . .which will most prejudicially affect the puGlic min(' , 9, 131andford -place, Regent's-park,
trifling expense, for all Londoners to visit the French from the first scene to the hit,
svcrythipg progresses, and it would be impossible. - in India, and the minds of the independent Princes Nov. 28, 1849.
capital, unvexed by frequent payments when they are
: not only to cut out, but even to displace a single scene, aof India, acting under our supremacy. If words hay
-hated from the train to the steamer, and the steamer
without essentially injuring the drama. It is one ()I 'l_,,,meaning, the Raj of Sattara was most soleinnle
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to the train. A fixed and moderate payment at the -he best built plays ever put on the stage. The lan ceded ceded in perpetuity, both in words and in spirit, ant T.
London office will clear the traveller between the gouge is nervous andexpressire, rising net unfrequentl3 ,
,neS" I deeply regret that the national honour has heel, : ,
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wo capitals, giving him a sufficient time at Paris to o sublimity without being verbose, bombastical, or fi,,t- compromised by the decision of the Court and the
-un over the leading objects of interest. The pesti
7 overloaded with descriptions. It is such language as eovernment. lam the more particular in express
eat frivolity of passports will have ceased to exist, so .
the nobles and grandees of the heroic ages of chi- '.f. ing
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-hat there will be no further annoyance from this e'vale y may be st: iion
upposed to have uttered. In the my sentiments on the recent instance of annexe
'., , because, I fear, that it may lead to the exter- -
source; and when, in addition to this necessary' re
form, the traveller—even " the Unprotected Female" iiharacter of Garcia Mr. Tomlins has shown that
he has a mastery over the true sources of tragic iit R. Campbell said :—" It; Sir, I had had a voice ie
tt. ruination of the native principalities in India." Si
—is relieved from the annoyance of transacting the Board I should, most assuredly, have opposed
duty to educe the most intense dramatic
business with a series of money takers and s power, and knows how from the conflictof passion and
Z the conclusion at which you have arrived, •
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stewards, the communication will have been . interest, and at the same time by giving'i`.for I conceive it to be a most gross violatiou
elaced on as easy a footing as it is practi
tally possible. Say that a man has forty- to passion the foundation of duty, also to create -of a clear and solemn treaty, deliberately '
to spare, he will be enabled to spend thin eight hours.
~ the greatest possible interest in the fate of ' entered into. It appears to me from the volumi
ty hours in -
his hero. True, Garcia is a murderer, but he emus papers I have read, that no doubt upon this
Paris, without a single annoyance beyond the neces- is impelled to the committal of crime by his filial subject can be entertained. Athough the Raja may '
sity of producing once or twice his little pasteboard affection ;he slays a traitor to save his mother. We -.• have violated his treaty, and though we might 1;-
talisman. We trust our countrymen will not be slow congratulate Mr. Tomlins on having produced a play • justified in seizing upon the principality upon thee '
to avail themselvesofsuch an opportunity of exercising a which will, we think keep possession of the stage, and ground, we have here made a new treaty with him,
-heir powers of observation upon a more extended which we hope is only the forerunner of mans e end given a sovereignty to him, and his heirs and
scale. There is much to be learnt from a ehort sojourn such. The play was admirably acted. Phelps:: successors in perpetuity. That treaty we are noir)
at Paris, and those persons who can stop there a week, 48 Garcia, was full of passion and *--; altogether disregarding, and I much fear the resul,
or a fortnight, and who employ their time well, will energy ; his acting and his declamation were i. will be, that we shall get the character of being a
have seen much which should permanently refine and,- dike beautiful. Miss Glyn's Countess was a powerful:' grasping nation, glad on all occasions of an oppor
improve their taste, and enlarge their sympathies with piece of acting, and Marston's Pacheco was admirable. • tunity to expel rightful owners from their territories."
tauten nature. The older ones amongst us are At the conclusion "there were loud calls for the , You will reply that the Chairman, Sir Archibald
"arobably too much habituated to our pre julices and '• author, who was led forward by Mr. Phelps, to : Galloway, and the Directors who sided with him
eabits of thoueht to allow ourselves easily to b, .:
~,,4
receive the applause of one of the most crowded 'affirmed the contrary opinion. He did; and hoe
effected by fresh influences ; but another generation i- s
aarting into life, who will be called upon to play their . and at the same time most attentive and most dis (lid he prove his assertion ? First, by declaring that
part upon a more ample theatre than their fathers. By f.criminating audiences that was ever assembled within '':'there was no heir to the Throne of Sattara, because
' the walls of a theatre. They seemed to have an in- -s ..he Directors had maintained silence relative to the
hem an opportunity of foreign travel should not be ne g * uitiveperception of, the most beautifulpassages of . adoption of the young Prince, when that adoption.
play, and always applauded the right place. a
ected. "Home-keeping youtrhs have ever homely wits." 'he • in • •
performed with every requirement of the Hinder(
['hey must do something more than echo the preju- :. `-',law and religion, was formally announced to then
!ices and reflect the mistakes of their predecessors. It ,5 two years before; secondly, by averring, that there
Is not a loss of time to watch the gay crowds passing ' ' being no heir according to Hindoo law, because there
before the brilliant cafes on the Boulevards of Paris, : : had been no adoption, the territory consequently
(nor to listen to the perpetual hum under the arcades ; ispeed of right to the E. I. Company—a pro- ,
rf the Palais Royal. Nor is an appreciation of the,-,,..
best French writers, and a consequent desire to ac -," -ceeding the same as if a judge in England, upon n'
case coaling before him of a real estate, claimed t
quire facility in speaking a language which must long descend in the natural course to the heir-at law
emain the lingua franca of the more cultivated .-,. should begin by ruling that the law of the land, the
elasses in Europe, a loss of time. We say nothing of ' . law of primogeniture, did not exist for that estate.
1 he Louvre, and the magnificent collections of paint ' and, therefore, there being no heir- at-law (althougl
mg and statuary, nor of the public monuments of •he knew a score to be living), that the estate lapsed a
Paris. The advantage resulting from even a moderate'; t himself, the judge! Such is the application of " the
legree of familiarity with these must be obvious law and constitution of India," according to the latest
nough So of the environs of Paris, of St. Germains' improved digest of Major-General Sir Archibald
end its terrace, of Versailles, of St. Cloud, of Enghien P Galloway, K.C.B. The Gallant Chairman and M-
ut- Fontainbleau—as long as the beauties of nature : Honourable Colleagues are misplaced at, the Indic
' end art retain a charm for the human mind, such, House; they ought forthwith to be put at the head of
diosen spots must attract their pilgrims. But an encumbered estates commission, and armed wit/
Herhaps we have omitted the most striking of all the 3 ':the power of expounding their own law, and of
loenefits we foresee from so rapid a communication , directly profiting by the exposition.
eetween the capitals of France and England. Se.)'
' I, a native of India, assert in the presence of
(kindly a feeling will arise between the two people when :', Englishmen, that the law of adoption, by which am.,
he bonds of intercourse between them have been thine' ' adopted son takes the place of a son of the body, h '
ightly drawn together, that it will be beyond the as much the law of India in the case of Sovereign
"dower of blundering ministers or political schemers Princes and of private men, as the law of primogeni
:ny longer to traffic upon the prejudices and passions
r, oh
awt rhh iyc h
way w e
n would o 11,101 k brieflye s
to a e argil„sure is the law of England in the case of the succes-
if either nation. There is one point, in conclusion,
advert.
Boulogne lt i s
the now
journey
proved- Directors of the E I. Company deny the fact
Let, then, its fair and impartial arbitrement be pro
between London and Paris occupies nine hours. The: ceeded with in India, as such a denial would be deal
ine of railroad by Calais is 64 miles longer than with in England. If it be true in law, and just ant
'hat by way of Boulogne,
. and yet the mails have honest in fact, the difference of country cannot lOW
oeen removed from the Boulogne to the Calais line. its nature. Let the Directors withdraw the 246,00(
It is impossible that so monstrous an anomaly should British soldiers they have in India, kept, like hound:
be allowed to continue. A hurried traveller naturally in leash, ready to be slipped against whatsoever native
follows the course of the mails. If he posts himself, 'high or low, may offend, or annoy, or obstruct—lee
so to speak, in London, he trusts to being delivered the thirty Directors, including the outs, appear in.
:n Paris in the shortest possible time. But by this India, their law in hand, and there proclaim it will
ridiculous deviation by the Calais and Lille route, the reasons they here avow—the experiment would
he traveller is taken 651 miles out of his way, and only require two or three months to perform—an.
made to smart in pocket and comfort for the annoyance I make bold to say that the experimenter)
And loss of time. So preposterous an arrangement would return to England at the end of it much
cannot last. The experiment of Tuesday is decisive wiser, if not better, men than they set
egainst it. out. They would have administered to them the same
fitting arguments, which would not fail to be applies:
4) them with convincing force a posteriori, it' they
ventured to appear at Woburn or Welbeck, and tol,
the Duke of Bedford, or the Duke of Portland, that
heir Graces had no heirs at law to their great and
hereditary estates, and that on the demise of the
owners, the estates would be appropriated by these
thirty directors, "as Lords Paramount," and b'
henceforth managed by their scribes. The Emperor
Napoleon dictated treaties to all the Princes on the
Continent of Europe. Would madness so stark have
possessed him, in the plenitude of his power, as to
preach to them the doctrine of future absorption, now
enroadly proclaimed in India by the Directors, and
he Governor-General—and the madness of the pro-
teeding is only surpassed by its stupendous folly. 01
vhat real advantage, present or prospective, to the
'French people would have been the extinction of all
' he separate nationalities existing for centuries in
'Europe, and their absorption in the huge, portent-
" nis, annihilating maelstrom of a French Empire?"
'Of what possible benefit to mankind at large? I

CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS.
Stu,—Having been prt vented, to my great regret,
'rotn attending the meeting on the 6th instant, where;
I intended to call Mr. Ro'se to account for his un•
ounded it sinuatiuns, I send you, who have will so
much energy directed public attention to the state of the •
.2sledonian Asylum, the following documents for in.
ertion. With the letter of the Rev. J. C. Cook lying
)efore me, 1 renew my thrice-repeated, but as yet
UNANSWERED challenge regarding the educational
state of the institution. Mr. Cook's letter is a
palpable evasion of my question, which, like the re-
narks of my friend Mr. W. Hamilton, on the 6th inst.,
Qvas founded on the explicit statement of, I think,
several of those who were present at the
xsmination. But since that letter has been
J üblished lam constrained to call another witness,
hose deservedly respected name nothing but a deep
sense of the grievous wrong with which two most
aithful and efficient servants of the charity (I mean
the matron and collector) are threatened induces me
co drag into this controversy. Leaving the meeting,
in the 29th tilt , I addressed this very plain and
straightforward question to Mr. Simpson : "Is it not'
-he case that Mr. Cook said to the boys, at the close
)f the last examination—' I see what it is, boys,l
you've forgotten all that you knew the year before,
last?'" to which Mr. Simpson replied, with equal
Frankness, " 0 yes, there's no doubt he said so ;
indeed I believe the master to be quite incompetent.j
But Mr. Cook spoke favourably of the state of the
;iris' school."
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Dec. 10. A. Y. STEWART.

DR. STEWART TO HECTOR ROSE, ESQ.
74, Grosvenor-street, Nov. 30, 1849.
Sir,—ln your remarks at the meeting of guardians
if the Caledonian Asylum, held yesterday in Crane-
.murt, 1 understood you to throw out a very sweep-i;
ng charge against those who signed the requisitionl
o the directors, and to declare that, though they
would not speak out, their real motive was hostility
o the superintendent, and a factious spirit towards
the directors. I know, Sir, that you love open and
-traightforvsaird dealing, but in that respect I will nott
yield to you or any man. I stated my reasons
rankly, and, let me add, fully ; and fur myself, I
,mphatically repudiate and protest against your ac-
cusation.
But to say that I have confidence in your super- •
aitendent, and the present course—so far as I can
rather anything regarding it—of the Court of
Directors, would be quite as far from the truth. And
of my suspicions were strong before, your open and
'rank avowal yesterday has made them tenfold
stronger.
The only recommendation of the report of the
sub-committee, which has been so often referred to
luring the last two years, respecting which I had any
nisgivings, was the proposal of a superintendent.
['hough not strong enough to induce me to oppose
'he unanimous opinion of auch a committee, they
were still of considerable strength.
1. Because my much esteemed friend Mr. Nisbet,l
whose administrative ger.ius you know, and who)
knows more of the working of the charitable institu-
ions of the metropolis than any other individual of
my acquaintance, expressed his unhesitating conviction
that the proposed office was at best a useless, and)
would probably be a hurtful one. And
2. Because I had had personal experience of the
,sfiice in tie Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where I was
resident in 1838. [Here follow some details regard-i
ing the resignation of the resident medical stall; andi
the disorder which prevailed in the establishment for
several years, and terminated only with the virtual
dismissal of the superintendent. These details we
omit, es likely to provoke needless controversy.]
Now, Sir, it is quite plain that you are fully pre-
pared to re-enact this Glasgow drama in the Cale-
donian Asylum. You, like the directors of the former
institution, are persuaded on very short trial, that you
have got an "admirable Crichton"—a functionary so
immaculate, that, for his sake, you are most anxious
"to make a clean sweep of matron, band master, col-
lector, and the whole pack of them." I thank you
cordially for this note of warning. It reminds me
that a plot—shall I, with you, call it " a cabal ?"—to
replace the matron by another lady who WAS said to
be in readiness, was only defeated by a full meeting
of directors, and is perhaps not yet extinct. It also
reminds me that, at the close of that meeting, when
most of the directors had gone away, a vote was
passed to dismiss the collector without reasons—and
that at the court of guardians, which signified its
;strong disapprobation by unanimously rescinding it,
only the proposer had the moral courage, such as it
• was, to show his face and defend it. I gather further,
from your avowal, from the bye laws which invest