The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-05 00:00:00

POOR-LAW RHTURNS.
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FERRAND gave notice that, on Thursday next,
should With p mooorv-alirs.
elfor a number of returns, in connexion
The Ilox. MEMBER also n.ave notice that, upon the
order of the day being read fo'r the second reading of the
new Poor-law Bill, he should move that the Bill be read
second time that day six months.
LORDS OF SESSION (SCOTLAND).
Mr. lIIJME moved for a return of the salaries re-
-I•Fiveil by each of the Lords of Session in Scotland since
._Lle year 1837, in each year; stating also all emoluments
11od fees each have received in each year in addition to
beir
f "LarY, exclusive of the moneys received by them
~or arbitrations undertaken by them. Also for a return
tiir°ro each of the Lords of Session of Scotland. of the
4,1,,b of arbitrations undertaken by them, or of pri-
or%v suits or matters referred to them for their decision
award, in each year since 1837, with the names of
the Parties and of the places where the same were re-
tf"ti''fely heard, the time occupied about the arbitra-
°,l4 together with the amount of fees or money re-
red or charged for or on account of such arbitration,
orree, or award; and also with the amount of all sums
or in°ooy charged, demanded, or received, for travelling
theoLthzder ropenses in or about such matters, by each of
agreed to. f Session, in each year since 1837.—Motion
REVENUE OF THE ISLAND OF MALTA.
te, BOWRING moved for an account of the gross
th:!P,ts, under their several heads, of the revenue of
relstand of Malta, for the year 1846 ; and a similar
turn of the manner in which the said revenue has been
ez
I'l:Wed.—Agreed to.
tt POOR REMOVAL ACT.
Re
ANKES postponed, for a few days, bringing in
be loin of which he had given notice, to repeal the Poor
.11 raoval
ADM L N AlSct of 8 and 9 Victoia.
~.r TRATION OFT THE POOR-LAW.
futalr• FERRAND gave notice that he would, upon a
ofle stage of the New Poor-law Bill, ask the Law
del cers of the Crown, by what authority power was
tir,egated to any body of men to make rules and reguf a-
a 412 equally as binding as Acts of Parliament, and no
tlilleu Statute existed, then be wished to know, whether.
ei:de;_persons who had been committed to prison for dis-
Ina `flee of those regulations had not been illegally
Prisoned.

t, GENERAL POLICE BILL
MIL • I, OLTVERIE wished to ask the Hon. and Learned
a•-ember, the Lord Advocate, whether there was any in-
etiti°n to introduce a Bill for general police purposes
,licable to Scotland, similar to the one for England.
he he LORD ADVOCATE, who was very indistinctly
ard in the gallery, was understood to say that such a
4111 was in contemplation.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to know if the Govern-
jtient shortly intended to introduce a Bill relating to
oint stock companies.
Mr. M. GIBSON replied that such a Bill was at pre-
sent under the consideration of the Lord Chancellor, as
to certain points of law which were rather complicated,
*lid that as soon as the legal features of the measure was
settled, it would be introduced without delay.
Mr
METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT.

„ DUNCOMBE then proposed the appointment of
iitrSelect Committee to inquire into the operation of the
petition Buildings Act ; and also to move that the
rite`‘tltion of John Todd .llerrick, paper-stainer and mann-
the urer, New Oxford-street, which was presented on
Initt29th of March last, be referred to the said Com-
te eie, to report their opinion thereon, with the evidence,
ford (Moe
Rouse. He said, as he understood the Noble
2rea (Wreath) intended to introduce a Bill to
jc_lo)_.nd tihoewlilhedtrroapwoliitt.an Buildings Bill, he had no ob-
but i',;” MORPETH said it was his intention to do so;
shape
had no objection to bring forward the Bill in the
Isi Pe °fan amendment to the Hon. Gentleman's motion.
4:' ieeetiosaid
15.4. to a 1 When he cause into office, he found that ob-
as prevailed against this Bill, and it was referred
,iss earned counsel, under whose supervision an
1: L'iended Bill had been rared ; and he, therefore,
4,1 t7gqed to move,
. . Istiropolts as an amendment,
that leave be given
1 .!lilla to introduce a Bill to amend the Act for regu-
ting the construction and the use of buildings in the
and its neighbourhood.
truest.' DUNCOMBE then withdrew his motion, and
jec'd that the amended Bill would remove the ob-
'l,o2l`°las of which the persons mentioned in his motion
if ta.,Pl ined. The petitioner was a paper-stainer, and
be we provisions of the Act were carried out, he should
Thne°llY unable to carry on his business.
brought motion was then withdrawn, and the Bill was
in and read a first time.
r_ FEV,S IN THE COURTS OF LAW.
to_I_I"..WATSON moved the appointment of a Select
ik:utrcia Committee to inquire into and report to the House on
Ils_ ation of suitors in the courts of law and equity
thethe mode
collection of fees, and the amount thereof, and
ill all of collection ; and the appropriation of fees
Several
inferior courts, and in the courts of special and
Zevaercal sessions in England and Wales ; and as to the
al:, ies and compensations and fees received by officers
._c! retired officers of those courts ; and whether any
.I",„_a superintending
means couli be adopted, with a view of
`lrintending and regulating the collection and appro-
priationr_ thereof. He said the question was one of the
latest importance to all classes of suitors, but particu-
arty to ..
, children and married women ; but as he under-
-417t9 that little or no objection would be offered to the
kr lanv he should briefly confine himself to the object.
At:hich he sought the appointment of this Committee.
ofs4erY step a suitor was called upon to pay fees which
had siwere not levied for any specific object., but which
and
lam Ply grown up and tolerated from time to time,
Per this way the greatest injustice was frequently
Petrated. Over the four hundred or five hundred
Persons allowed to collect fees in Westminster Hall,
110 Check or control was placed. Often they were col-
l~te by the parties for themselves, but in some
instances they were handed over to the Consolidated
Fund. At any rate there was no efficient check, and
• ly knew for what they were
atiitors often scarcely paying.
in the Court o
f
The moment a person set his foot
Chancery he was compelled to pay fees, and he was
comnelled to do so at every stage he took, and they had
no proportion to the amount which was sought to be
recovered. In the equity courts there was a suitors
fund, and the suitors' fee fund, out of which the officers
of the different courts were paid, and the amount col-
lected in 1845 for the first was 95,2751., and for the se-
cond 155,5101., making a total of 250,8071. collected in
the Courts of Chancery. The salaries of the Lord
Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellors, and other officers,
Were paid out of the Consolidated Fund, but the enor-
bleats sum of 250,000/. was expended in the payment of
the salaries of persons connected with those courts, and
as there was no check, the officers were allowed to col-
lect the fees, and to pay themselves and others just what
'alma they pleased. In 1846 a considerable reduction
Was made in the fees, but still the fee fund amounted to
137,9951, and the suitor's fund to 112,2761., still making
a total of 250,0001., which was spent upon the officers, a
great proportion of the money being extracted from the
POckets of
i suitors. Fees were also collectei in the
crotarnon law courts; but more were levied than were
required to pay the expenses for which they were
Z:ovvedly collected, and to such an extent had this sys-
ttbmt: Proceeded, that there had been collected, over and
tx, 5,0 all the expenses, including salaries, and other de-
mands, and paid to the Consolidated Fund by the Queen's
bench, for the three years ending in 1843, 50,1281., by
4,i.lt‘4checluer, 46,1271., and by the Common Pleas,
making 100,986/. in the course of three years.—
Hear'3od hear.) Yet they had not a greater number of
ei" riow than during the reign of Elizabeth; and
thehat these large sums were collected and expended in
cumber he had pointed out, they had not a sufficient
business
of judges to dispose of the great quantity of
tness which came before those courts. The suitors
but
paid these large sums, had a right to speedy justice,
nt they were now denied it. Then the question naturally
Pursel how far it was right and proper to levy fees for the
awridrpose of carrying out the administration of justice,
qt, whether it was not the duty of the nation to dis-
charge the cost of dispensing it. To him no principle
satio: n
nied so obnoxious as taxing the suitor for the dispen-
sation justice. Another part of his motion proposed
all inquiry into the fees and salaries of the various
onicers in the courts of justice. He considered that they
should have necessary officers, but he deprecated the
Paying of enormous sums to persons who held
Useless offices, or those who were enormouslyutieres:
re-
munerated for the performance of
orderthat
t the duties
d
insignificant
Inquiry was therefore necessary in
of the different officers in the various courts might be
all easily defined, and specific salaries fixed for the du-
ties they had to perform. At trials by jury, criers and
other officers of the court levied fees. In his opinion
these could be no more objectionable thing than paying
officers in the courts ofjustice by .—(Cheers.) If
be were to refer to the salaries paid, and the fees re-
ceived by marshals, criers, and judges' clerks, the
.House
Would be astonished. Fees were also collected in the
Court of Session, and the criminal courts, and as abuses
existed in them all, inquiry was absolutely necessary.
lie had, on a previous occasion, brought forward the
question of compensation, but many objections had been
raised to the appointment of a committee to inquire into
the mode in which persons who had been employed in
connexion with the courts of law were compensated.
On that occasion he brought forward an outrageous
Case of compensation—namely, the receiving of 7,5001.
a Year by a person for simply taxing costs ; and also
that between 70,000/. and 80,0001. a year was paid in the
ath,aPe of pensions to parties whose ages were between
thirty and forty. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
concluded by proposing the appointment of the Com-
baittee.
, Mr. ROMILLY seconded the motion. It is a corn-
-",eatt thing to suppose that those who received the benefit
t.", 1 courts were to be the only parties benefited. It was
the
country at large who derived the greatest. benefit
the
',"? cheap and accurate administration of justice. If
-til'ieet were searched into, they wonld find the benefit
a' such by the improvement to which it would lead by
tb
eoultirnitted by
Pase protection of the suitor. Cases in which there
a belief that there was no moral wrong
them, and it was not till the legal opinion
hilssthe question was obtained, that parties saw it in its
was
proper light. It necessary to have in this country.
th minister of justice to look after the administration of
ss e law' and to see from time to time such reforms as
improvement.
necessary ; for the system would always require
he described,
He considered that an officer, such as
described, who would devote all his energies to the
I.l,lsbiQct would carry the law into effect properly.
sirYers were not competent to make laws on this
their . and that was an evil that was incident to
that ays3eation--(Hear, hear.) It was a notorious fact
bi— aPon; the death of an officer of the Chancer Cour.t,
thaesUccessor was in the habit, without any increase in
. business of the Court, of handing in a considerable
io
illene,ase in the fees to the Consolidated Fund.
tent ae ATTORNEY-GENERAL—It was not his ins
offer any opposition to the motion of the Hon.
"(1 L n to
Learned Member, though he did not wish it to be
tindersto d
lion 0 that he assented to the principle of the
• I°l4 ',tamed Member in reference to the feels,

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Mr. HUME considered that great benefit would re-
sult from the proposed inquiry.
The motion was then put and agreed to.
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Mr. ORMSBY GORE moved that the following lion.
Members be nominated for the Select Committee on
Smithfield Market :—Mr. Ormsby Gore, Viscount Mor-
peth, Viscount Mahon, Mr. W. B. Baring, Mr. Sidney
Herbert, Lord Seymour, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Bur-
roughes, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr.
Beckett Denison, Mr. Masterman, Mr. William Miles,
Mr. Stafford O'Brien, and Mr. Eliot Yorke.
On the motion being put,
Colonel WOOD moved the following amendment :
that Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Charles Napier, Sir De
Lacy Evans, and Mr. Antrobus, be members of the said
Committee.
Mr. HAWES did not consider that the eastern por-
tion of the metropolis was represented on the Com-
mittee.
The Rouse then divided, when there appeared—
For the original motion 25
Against it
19
Majority
There not being 40 Members present, the House stood
adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock.

WESTMORELAND SOCIETY.
This benevolent society, for the maintenance and
education of children of Westmoreland parents, or of a
Westmoreland parent, born in or near London, held its
one hundred and first anniversary, last evening, at the
London Tavern.
After an excellent dinner, at which about 100 persons
sat down, the usual loyal and national toasts were drunk.
Lord Lonsdale presided.
Alderman TeromrsoN proposed the health of the Pre-
sident, and congratulated the society on a patron so
liberal, and who for forty years had maintained the
interests of the society. He also adverted to his conduct
as Lord Lieutenant of the county, where his services
were so beneficial to the county.
Lord LONSDALE briefly returned thanks.
Alderman TuomrsoN, in returning thanks for the
health of the county members, took occasion to advert to
the fear that was entertained that the Bank would stop
payments. He ridiculed the thought, and said that the
" old lady," was never so comfortably situate in her life
—(Cheers)—nor ought they to grumble if food was
dear, so that there was enough, which, he was quite sure
there was for the whole world.
Lord LONSDALE, in proposing prosperity to the
county of Westmorland, observed, that they had now a
great opportunity of elevating themselves in the scale of
counties, by reason of the railway which had recently
been opened.—(Hear, hear.)
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN intimated, during the course
of the evening, that it was his intention to renew his
subscription of 501. for this year. Several other toasts,
appropriate to the occasion, were then given and ade-
quately responded to. The amount of subscriptions for
the day was announced to be 6001.

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THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.
On Saturday the distribution of prizes in the medical
department of this University took place, and on the
occasion the hall was filled with the students and their
friends. Lord Brougham, as President of the University,
occupied the chair, and the proceedings opened with the
reading of the annual report by Mr. Liston, Dean of
the Faculty of Medicine. From that document it ap-
peared that the number of medical students who attended
classes during the past year was 290, the number of the
preceding year being '292. Their general conduct and
attention was spoken of in the most favourable terms,
and it was stated that several of them who had taken
part in other academical competitions had gained a fair
share of distinction.
At the first examination for the degree of M.B. in the
University of London, gold medals were awarded to Mr.
Thomas Littleton for proficiency in anatomy and phy-
siology; to Mr. Thomas Armstrong Cammack for che-
mistry, and to Mr. Joseph Burgon for Materia Medics;
and both the gold medals annually conferred on success-
ful competitors by the Society of Apothecaries were
gained by students of this college, namely, the medal for
botany by Mr. James Morris, and that for Materia
Medics. by Mr. Thos. Park.
The report further stated the retirement of Dr. Taylor
from the professorship of clinical medicine; the appoint •
ment of two assistant physicians and one additional as-
sistant surgeon to the hospital from the alumni of the
college; and the extension of the accommodation afforded
in the hospital by the erection of a new wing to the
building. The report concluded by a reference to the
success of Mr. Benjamin Hobson, M. 8., as a religious
and medical missionary in China, and his efforts to
establish a college at Ilong-Kong for the instruction of
Chinese pupils in medicine and the physical sciences.
The following is a list of the prizes awarded, and the
names of the successful competitors:—
CLASS OF MEDICINE.

Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thos. Park of Lincoln.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—H. Briggs, llalifax.
2d silver En( dal and 3d certificate—J. Bailey of London.

CLASS OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Morris, London.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Archibald P.
Childs, of Bungay.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Daniel Badcock,
of
Sheffield.

CLASS or CHYMISTRY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Nathaniel Clement
Wood, of Norfolk.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—George Hewitt
Bailey, of London.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett,
of Swindon. _ _

Essay Prizes.-Ist silver medal—Joseph Lister, o
Upton.
2d silver medals (equal)—J. Russell Reynolds, of
Halstead, and William Payne, of Ilorselydown.
CLASS OF ANATOMY.
Junior Class.-Ist silver medal and Ist certificate —J.
W. Saunders, of Aylsham,
2d silver medal and 2d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett.
Senior Class.—Gold medal and Ist certificate—Wil-
liam Bayldon, of Royston.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—James Morris.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons,
of Devonport.
CLASS OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Bhola.noth Bose, of
Calcutta.
CLASS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Rigby, of Hull.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—William Squire.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Thomas Limbery,
of Appledore, Devon.
CLASS OF MIDWIFERY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Francis Cornelius
Webb, of East Stonehouse, Devon.
Ist silver medal and 2,1 certificate—William Bayldon.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Henry Briggs.
CLASS OF SURGERY.
Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thomas Park.
Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Francis C. Webb.
2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons.
CLASS OF DENTAL SURGERY.
Silver medal and Ist certificate—William Bayldon.
SUMMER TERM, 1846.
CLASS OF BOTANY.
Gold Medal and Ist certificate—Bholanoth Bose.
Silver medal and 2d certificate—W. D. Wilkes, of Sa-
lisbury.
CLASS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
Prise and Ist certificate—Thomas Park.
CLASS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
Gold medal and Ist sertificate—W. 11. Ransom, of
Cromer.
FELLOWES CLINICAL MEDAL.—G old medal—W. 11,
Ransom.
PRIZE OF 40/. FOR GENERAL PROFICIENCY.—W. H
Ransom.
Lord BROUGHAM, when the distribution of prizes had
been effected, rose and said, that it gave him sincere
pleasure to witness the proceedings of that day, over
which he had had the honour of presiding ; and no small
portion of that pleasure arose from witnessing the great
and just affection shown towards the professors by their
numerous pupils.—(Cheers.) It was also to him a very
great satisfaction to observe the continued prosperity of
that great medical school, great as compared with any
other in this country, and he would say, having seen
some of the greatest on the continent, and among them
the celebrated school at Montpellier, equal to any that
he knew of abroad.—(Cheers.) It gave him the greatest
satisfaction to observe the truly catholic spirit evidenced
so remarkably among them that day. He did not mean
Roman Catholic, because he was as strenuous a Protest-
ant as any man in this country, though he felt great
toleration for his erring Roman Catholic brethren.—
(Laughter.) Not only had members of every religious
denomination won honours, as, for instance, the son of
his friend Mr. Childs of Bungay ; not only were there
among the list members of the Society of Friends, a body
who had very successfully cultivated chymical science ;
not only had members of the Church reaped honours,
but there were some there who were not in the fellow-
ship of Protestant or Roman Catholic of sect, or creed,
and who belonged to no Christian community at all.—
(Cheers.) He meant our brethren in the east, to whom
no less than eight different medals and honours had that
day been awarded.--(Cheers.) Nothing could to him
be more satisfactory than this evidence of the complete
success of this fundamental principle, that we ought to
communicate instruction, to impart learning, to bestow
the inestimable blessings of a refined education in letters,
arts, and sciences, on persons of all denominations. whe-
ther Jew or Gentile, Churchman, or Dissenter, whether
they were Christians or those who yet wandered in
outer darkness.—(Cheers.) He was the more anxious
to state this as the corner-stone on which their struc-
ture rested, because he was living at a time which he
thought till lately was the 19th century and not the mid-
dle ages. He had, however, recently heard things stated
which made him doubt whether they were living in the
year 1847. He would not give any opinion on the
controversy which had recently spread over the country
and reached the town. He would not say whether his
old and excellent friends, Mr. Baines and Dr. Hamilton,
were right, or Lord Lansdowne, who was one of his
oldest friends, but he had seen such things mooted by
certain sects, one trying to exclude or include the other
—(Laughter)—that, as he had mentioned in another
place, he was obliged to look one day into the Almanack
to see whether he really was living in 1847, for he
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more complete and effectual common education, and that
the same progress would be made in the inferior branches
as was now made in the higher and more exalted
branches of learning.—(Cheers.)
At the conclusion of his Lordship's address the meet-
ing closed.

Sir William Pym had an interview yesterday with Sir
George Grey at the Hume Office,

OVER LAND MAIL

1 N D 1 A.
(From the _Herald.)
We have received by extraordinary express, in anti
cipation of the Overland Mail, our files of papers from
Bombay, April 1; Calcutta, March 23; Delhi, March
22. No later dates from China. We subjoin ex-

tracts :
(From the Bombay Times of April 1.)
SUMMARY.—The only news worth noticing that has
reached us from the Punjaub is corrective of the errors
into which our north-western and eastern brethren had
fallen in reference to the state of Seikh affairs in general,
and the conduct of the Resident in particular. No at-
tempt on the life of Tej Singh seems to have been in-
tended to have been made. The Hazareh people have
never resisted the government of Ghoolab Singh; they
took up arms, on the other hand, against the Seikhs of
the plains, and had all but vanquished them when rein-
forcements were sent from Lahore a twelvemonth since,
just before the transfer of the country to Jamoo. Mr.
P. Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Lumsden had been sent
to make peace, not to maintain war—to use arguments,
not force. Ghoolab Singh does not seem a worse or more
unpopular ruler than the bulk of the chiefs around him.
Since our connexion with him began we have had no fault
whatever to find with him. He has at our suggestion
cleared his dungeons of state prisoners, restored lands un-
justly escheated, and abolished suttee and female in-
fanticide. No attempt to prevent the Durbar meeting
on Sunday had been made, or to restrain the movements
of the Queen-Mother or her son. No commemoration
of any of our victories had occurred in the Seikh capital.
Everything throughout the country was tranquil; trade
and cultivation were everywhere advancing as the
public confidence increased ; and a stern system of in-
quiry into the state of the finances of the country had
been entered on with a view to retrenchment. In Sinde
the hot weather advances apace, but the country con-
tinues healthy and tranquil. A good deal of marauding
had occurred just beyond the frontier, where the robbers
had on one occasion the worst of it ; having been taken
by surprise by their intended victims, from five to six
hundred were left dead or severely wounded on the field.
Two hundred and fifty horses formed portion of the
spoil. The remainder of them are hemmed in by Jacob's
Irregular Horse, and will, it is supposed, bo starved
into submission. It is now admitted by the Government
official, that the Indus —formerly proclaimed open
to the trade of all nations—will not admit of the
navigation of vessels drawing so much as three feet
of water. Shifting sand-banks, violent eddies, and
rapid currents, make the progress of these tardy and
perilous! So severe continues the pressure in the
money market that discounts have been raised by the
banks to from eleven to twelve per cent. About three
millions sterling have been raised by the Five per Cent.
Loan, which will, it is understood, be kept open for at
least twelve months to come. Our expenditure for the
past seven years has exceeded our income by above a
million and a quarter annually; at this moment the sum
just named is yearly absorbed by Sinde. From four to
five millions are at present understood to be required by
Government. To meet this we have the revenues of the
lately-acquired Seikh states, half a million sterling—the
saving by the reduction of our armies, about 300,0001.—
increased duty on opium, 100,0001.—and the indemnity
promised by the Seikh Government during our occu-
pation of the Punjaub, 220,000/.; to which we must
add a saving of about 120,000/. from the improve-
ment of the customs produced by the suppression
of smuggling on our new frontier; this will give a
grand total of 1,240,0001., leaving a deficit to be pro-
vided for by future retrenchments of 210,0001. a
year. The death of Akbar Khan, of Caubul, has
been confirmed. It was at first stated that he had
died of delirium tremens; it is now asserted that he has
been poisoned at the instigation of his father, Post Ma-
homed! The Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief have by this time reached Simla. The disturb-
ances in the Goomsoor districts, and disorders in the
Nizam's dominions, continue as formerly. With these
exceptions, India in general continues tranquil. The
Criminal Session in the Supreme Court of Bombay
terminated on Tuesday last ; it occupied eight days, and
was the heaviest, both as to the number of prisoners
and nature of the crimes, ever known in Bombay. The
Parsee, who so cruelly murdered a Hindoo lad for the
sake of his ornaments a couple of months since, has
been ordered for execution on Saturday next. The
seaman Cole, after having been tried by a navy court-
martial at Bushire for the murder of an Arab, and found
guilty of manslaughter only, was indicted the second
time for murder on Monday last, but owing to au omis-
sion in the indictment the trial was quashed by Sir E.
Perry, and the man set at liberty. Ile bpd been in con-
finement nearly eighteen months. The case of Lieu-
tenant E. Bowles, of the 23d Bombay Native Infantry,
who was tried for an aggravated assault on a native
policeman in the execution of his duty, and sentenced
to three months' imprisonment in the common gaol,
and to pay a fine of 501., has given rise to a considerable
amount of discussion—the sentence of the Court
being universally condemned as unnecessarily severe.
The ship Mars, bound for Dundee, was totally destroyed
by fire in the Calcutta river on the 19th ult. Within
the past month nearly 6,5001. have been subscribed in
the Bombay presidency for the relief of the destitute
Scotch and Irish; 2,400/. were sent home by last mail,
and that of to-day takes 3,000/. more. Sir J. Jejeebhoy
has given a second donation of 5001. The Calcutta sub-
scription, opened about the same time, amounts to
5,000/, 4,0001. of which have been transmitted home.
At Madras the amount subscribed has reached the sum
of nearly 2,000/. By May 1, it is probable not less than
20,000/. will have been sent home from India. The
Mussoorie Asylum for the reception of the children of
European soldiers, which owes its existence to the Resi-
dent at Lahore, has met with the most cordial counte-
nance and support from the Court of Directors. Its
founder has contributed to it 1,000/. as an original sub-
scription, and gives 2001. a year as a donation—a
princely sum for a Major of Bengal artillery. The
steamer Queen, with the London mails of the 24th
February arrived yesterday afternoon; she has been
eleven days, on her passage from Aden. The Victoria
with intelligence to the Bth March, is expected this day
week.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Casualties by death in the armies of India reported since
the departure of the mail of 15th March :
Her Majesty's Troops Ensign Smith, 95th Foot, at
Ceylon ; Lieutenant Chapman, 84th Foot, drowned on pas-
sage to England.
Bombay—Major J. St. C. Jameson, 18th N. 1., at Bombay
on the 23d March.
Madras— Lieut.-Col. C. F. Smith, Ist Native Veteran
Battalion, at Madras, on the 9th March; Lieut. W. C. Law,
21st N. 1., at Malacca, on the 3d Feb.
Bengal—Major-Gen. J. Alexander, commanding the Be-
nares Division, at Benares, on the 11th March ; Col. A.
Spelrs, resident at the Court of Nagpore, at Janina, on his
way to Bombay, on the 18th March ; Lieut. D. M. Shand,
54th N. 1., at Lahore, on the 7th March.