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TFIE SUN, LONDON', FRIDAY, JTTLY 23. 1841:

time, and we shall leave our successors to take care of
themselves. Sir, this is neither honest nor loyal. This
Company are the stewards over a domain which they
are bound to in ana ze with all the regard to its improve-
ment of which they are capable. The Company are
not the proprietors of India, India is the property of the
Crown and the nation, and should be managed for the be-
nefit, first of the natives of the soil, and then for the advan-
tage of the entire population of the British empire. If
by acts of injustice and oppression you alienate the feel-
ings of the people, your tenure of possession will be tran-
sient ; and losing the hearts of the people, you
will next lose the country you have taken from
them. But if you pursue a different course, a
glorious and honourable career is before you. If
you take pity on the impoverished and often starving
natives of India, and when my Hon. Friend shall bring
forward his most important motion, shall take measures to
revise and equitably settle the system of land-taxa-
tion in your Indian territory ;—if you will apply
your means to the opening up of the infinitely varied
resources of the East to the unrestricted enterprise
of the people of this country, you will be honoured as
the instruments of bestowing boundless blessings both
upon the country ruled, and the people of the ruling State.
Finally, gentlemen, you may deny justice in this Court,
but there are higher Courts of appeal, and to those Courts
most assuredly the case will be carried. Mr. Burke ex-
pressed his thankfulness that the proceedings of this body
were, as they could not but be, under the control of Parlia-
ment, the fountain ofitspower,and therefore bound to watch
over the exerciseof its delegated authority, and restrain it
when engaged in injurious or oppressive measures. There is,
too, another bar at which you must stand—it is the bar of
the public opinion of your country. If proved before that
tribunal to have done wrong, you will ultimately be
obliged to reverse your decision. The public, when in
possession of the facts, will rise as one man, and demand
that the injustice perpetrated in their name shall be re-
paired. I beseech you, then, be wise in time. Let jus-
tice be done here. If not convinced of the perfect inno-
cence of the Raja, yet give him the benefit of the doubt
of his guilt. Remember—
" To err is human, to forgive divine."
I claim not for the Raja exemption from the infirmities
common to our nature ; far from it. All I contend for
is the total insufficiency of what is called the evidence in
this case to sustain the charge of treason upon which you
have dethroned this Prince. Hasten, then, to retrace
your steps. What you do, do without compulsion, and
without delay. Do what you do graciously. Remember—
" The quality of mercy is not straimnl."
Be neither ashamed nor afraid to do right. Fear not
the consequences. You will be upheld, supported,
cheered onwards, and eventually richly rewarded. But
;f you resolutely persist in withholding reparation, then,
respectfully, but explicitly, I tell you that the year 1854
is coming ; and that when you sue for a new grant of
power, you will be told you have abused that which you
'lave already been intrusted with, and the empire you
have misgoverned will be transferred to other hands.
(The Hon. Proprietor concluded his speech amidst loud
sheers, having spoken nearly three hours.)
Captain COGAN rose and said, Mr. Chairman, I deem it
necessary to say a few words ere this debate closes. The
Deputy Chairman, on the first day's debate, laid much
:tress on the alleged agents and agencies of the unfortu-
nate Raja, and quoted the number of lacs of rupees that
ne had expended upon them. I now, Sir, find in these
secret papers my name coupled with 2,500 rupees (2501.).
In last year's debate I stated to this Court that I was
totally ignorant of this circumstance, except by rumour.
I however lost no time in obtaining information, through
the Raja's Vakeels in England, and I will now read you
a letter from the party who did get the 2,500 rupees,
which will satisfy; the Court that I have not quite made
aiy fortune in the robbery of the Raja.—(Cheers.)
A letter from Hurmunt Row Goonajee, to the Vakeels
of his Highness, the ex-Raja of Sattara, in England ;
dated Bombay, 31st December, 1841.
" I have received your letter, dated England, 4th
November, 1840, stating that I had sent for the sum of
2,500 rupees for Cantain Cogan, from his Highness at
Sattara, and the letters which I had written had gone
from Sattara to the East India House, and became
known to Captain Cogan, who desired you to write to
me respecting it.
" I now inform you, that at the first interview I had ,
with Captain Cogan in Bombay, I implored him to assist
in the matter of his Highness.
" Then Captain Cogan :replied that the Governor,
who is coming to India, is a good man, and well ac-
painted with the Indian affairs, and who, no doubt,
will listen to both parties and judge whatever is true,
and I said that the officers of the Indian Government
have broken the friendship between the two Govern-
ments, by deciding ex parte, but Captain Cogan said the
new Governor will not do so. Then Captain Cogan
proceeded to Arbustan or Persian Gulf.
" I communicated this affair to his Highness at Sat-
tara, after which the Governor soon arrived at Bombay.
Twenty days after the Governor's arrival, Captain
Cogan returned from Arbustan, when I had an inter-
view with him, and acquainted him that the Governor
intended visiting Sattara ; therefore, I requested him to
accompany the Governor to Sattara, then he replied, if
the Governor will permit me I have no objection: ac-
cordingly I wrote to his Highness, who then addressed
a letter to Captain Cogan. The contents of that letter
were, that Captain Cogan should visit Sattara, with the
permission of the Governor ; this letter Captain Cogan
represented to the Governor.
" I considered that if the Governor will consent to
Captain Cogan's visiting Sattara, then he will require
his travelling expenses. I thought it was not proper he
should expend his own money upon his Highness's busi-
ness, therefore, I inquired of Captain Cogan about his
travelling expenses, who replied, if I should visit Sattara,
I will expend my own money, I do not require any
from you.
" Accordingly I wrote a complimentary letter to his
Highness explaining the above interview, and received
a draft of 2,500 rupees from Hurryrajaram of Sattara,
upon Morotum Balmuckund of Bombay. I wrote for
this money to maintain the respect of his Highness ; I
thought it was not proper to let Captain Cogan expend
his own money upon his Highness's business, and as
Captain Cogan was not permitted to visit Sattara, I never
offered him any sum.
" The Governor went to Poonah, and after five or six
days Captain Cogan went there ; then I considered per-
haps that the Governor will consent to Captain Cogan's
visiting Sattara, therefore I thought of going there, and
for my own expense I received 200 rupees from the sum,
passing a receipt ; but I being confined with fever, was
prevented going to Poonab, therefore I deputed Ramrow
Vissram, the Karkoon of his Highness, to Poonah, and
gave for his expense 100 rupees from the sum I received,
and the remainder 100 I used to my own expense, and
the remainder sum of 2,300 rupees is deposited with the
banker, of which you can inquire.
" According to my letter to his Highness, stating about
the expenses, I received the draft of 2,500 rupees, but
afterwards his Highness being dethroned and sent to
Limbgaum, where he was placed in strict imprisonment,
where nobody was allowed t? go nor to receive any letter,
so I could not inform his Highness of the result, therefore
his Highness must be unacquainted with this affair, nor
can I say whether his Highness, after reaching Benares,
was made acquainted with the particulars of this matter.
" All these five paragraphs are written in the spirit of
truth."
Now, Sir, here is the original ; I would recommend its
being sent back to India, in order that it be tested by-
the keen-sighted and impartial Messrs. Ovans and Wil-
loughby. The most unjustifiable motives have been attribut-
ed to Dr. Milne for assisting the unfortunate Raja. I come
not here to defend Dr. Milne. He can well defend him-
self ; but this much I must say—ls it likely that one of
your old and highly respectable servants, who has him-
self established, and still supports, a charity school in
the village in which he was born in Scotland, would co-
vertly rob the Raja ? Sir, this fact is an answer to any
that has been said on the subject.—(Applause.)
But, Sir, when the Deputy Chairman speaks of agencies
influencing the Raja, I cannot but think he bad not read
all the papers connected with the case.
" No one will forget the circumstances under which
Sir Robert Grant was soon after taken from the evil to
come—from the signally disastrous result of that policy
which he believed only to require ' dexterity' to be suc-
cessful ; whilst I have been spared, I am thankful to say,
to witness the catastrophe which I predicted, and the dis-
comfiture of the Bombay Government, by the execution
on the part of the Raja of that determination which he
repeated to me from the window of his palace as I bade
him farewell :—‘ THAT HE WOULD SURRENDER -HIS
TERRITORY RATHER THAN CONCEDE TIIE SMALLEST
POINT TILL HIS GRIEVANCES HAD BEEN HEARD AND

REDRESSED.'
Was there the influence of any agency at this time,
Sir ? No ; but you have here the noble dictates of a
noble mind. The only Communication I ever made to
the Raja up to the date of his dethronement was this :
" Copy of letter from Captain Cogan to his Highness the
Rao. of Sattara, dated the 29th July, 1839.
" May it please your Highness—l have been honoured
by the receipt of your Highness's letter, and feel the high
consideration your Highness has conterred upon me by
this instance of your favour, and by inviting me to visit
your Highness at Sattara, should the Government of
Bombay not object ; this I should have had pleasure by
doing, but circumstances render it very inconvenient. I
hope, however, your Highness will keep cheerful. God
will give yoU protection against intriguers, and his Ex-
cellency our good Governor, Sir James Carnac, can esti-
mate the high character of Hindoo princes. If I were
permitted, I would say to your Highness, attend in all
respects to the advice of the Governor, and all will be
well.

"Your Highness's obliged and faithful servant,
"R. COGAN."

Now, Sir, is there any thing very treasonable in this ?
—(Cheers.) But, Sir, had I been aware of the intended
conditions of the Bombay Government, I would have ad-
vised him very differently. But, Sir, is it not extraordi-
nary, that whilst evcry topic of falsehood and fabrication,
too disgusting to be noticed, in the way of intercepted
letters, have been sent to this country, mine is not forth-
coming ? I mention this, Sir, as an extraordinary fact.
—(Hear, hear.) Admitting, for example, that I had
been the paid agent of the Raja, would that have added
to the Raja's guilt ? Or where would have been the im-
propriety in me, unconnected as I am with your service ?
But I, at the same time wish this Court to understand
that the only money transaction I ever had in my life
with the Raja of Sattara or his agents, until lately, when
I assisted them to get away from this country, was, that
I lent him nearly two hundred pounds, to keep them from
actual want, when they were left in absolute destitution,
and their appeals unattended to by the gentlemen on the
other side of the bar.— <Loud cheers.) I now beg to
tell this Court, that I was proud to be the bearer
of Mr. Hume's letter to the ex-Governor of
Goa, at Lisbon. I had two interviews with that no-
bleman ; they were brief, but to my mind conclusive as
to the Raja's entire innocence. I can only here state
the substance of what took place, but that I will do.—
(Hear, hear.) On presenting Mr. Hume's letter, Don
Manoel informed me that he had been in correspond-
: ence with the Raja's Vakeels in London on this subject.
That he could not believe that the British authorities

I were serious in supposing that any intrigues had evei:
existed between himself and the Raja.—(Loud cheers.)
He remarked that the very style in which the papers
were couched, independently a their subject, carried
falsehood with it.---(Hear, hear.) That as to 30,000
men, which Portugal was to send to the Raja,
it was well known that at that time Portugal
could not have sent 30, instead of 30,000.—(Id
laughter and cheers.) I showed him copies of his
alleged letters to tlit Ri‘ja, at wliich he laukhed, and as-
sured me they were nothing but fabrications. If the
British Government really believed be wrote them, they
must have considered him mad.—(Cheers)
He evinced
much indignation, and complained of the very unhand-
some manner in which the British Government had used
his name—(Loud cries of" Hear, hear")—and expressed
his astonishment that a matter considered of such mag-
nitude should have been kept so carefully from himself
and his Government. The above, Sir,
was the purport of
my interview with the ex-Governor,
_though much more
was said.—(Cheers.) I have perused, . Sir, with great
care, all the papers connected with this case ; and my
attention has been devoted to the protracted debate con-
sequent on these papers. I do declare most solemnly
that to my mind the. Raja is as innocent of treason against
the British Government as the Hon. Directors oil the
other side of the bar, who have signed his dethronement
and exile.—(Great applause.) The changes have been
rung over and over again by some of the Hon. Direc-
tors, and their two steady supporters on this side of
the bar, dwelling upon the opinions of the authorities in
India—the Court of Directors and Board of Control.
Why, Sir, the President of the Board of Control told me
18 months since, that he would support the Governments
of India right or wrong.—(Hear, hear, hear.) I now
congratulate him on his determination, and the laurels
lie has reaped therefrom.--(Cheers.) But, Sir, are we
met here to confirm the opinions of the authorities before
quoted, or are we met here to question them, by the
exercise of our own reason, and to form our own dis-
passionate judgment?—(Hear.) I therefore ask, Sir, for
specific evidence on specific points. The defenders of
the Raja's dethronement bewildered us with quantity, in
the shape of 40 or 50 volumes of it.—(A laugh.) But,
Sir, have they followed the able and dispassionate
course adopted by my Learned Friend the mover, or the
Gallant Director, General Robertson, who have shat-
tered this fabric of falsehood to its foundation? Have
the supporters of the British Government attempted to
unravel the 401.'s worth of evidence bought near Goa,
containing the Viceroy's letters ? Have they com-
mented on the perjured evidence of the native officers, or
of the Brahmin Untajee ? No, Sir ; we are called upon
to swallow the whole 50 volumes, but to ask no questions.
An Hon. Proprietor, Mr. Weeding, in the course of this
debate, has told us: that my Gallant friend, Gen. Lod-
wick, was guilty of a breach of duty for circulating his
letter to the Court of Directors. Why, Sir, this very
letter, the circulation of which has given the Hon.
Proprietor (Mr. Weeding) so much pain, has been be-
fore the British public for the last three months, through
the medium of the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) The
same Hon. Proprietor tolls us that the Gallant General
has committed his employers, by giving light to confi-
dential correspondence. Is this the mode, Sir, that this,
Hon. Proprietor, now sitting in his judicial character,
would elicit truth ? Are these the feelings, Sir, upon
which lie comes to a decision on the guilt or innocence
of the Raja ? If they be, I envy him them not. Are
we not bound, Sir, to elicit the whole truth,
and is not every honest man bound not merely to
speak the truth, but the whole truth?—(Cheers.)
Mr. WEEDING explained.

Captain CoGAN resumed—l now beg to call the
attention of this Court to a subject of the gravest
importance, being the Sattara Commission. We
have it distinctly stated by General Lodwick, that
his colleagues (Mr. Willoughby and Colonel Oyans)
would not allow the cross-examination of the suspicious
and even perjured witnesses. Now, Sir, was there ever
such an outrage on the common principles of justice as
this ? Here are three gentlemen appointed to investi-
gate a matter involving the throne of a helpless and de-
pendent Prince ; the president proposes a cross-exami-
nation of the witnesses, and is positively prevented by-
the before-named gentlemen. This charge is not founded,
Sir, upon purchased evidence ; it is founded on the evi-
dence of an officer who has been an ornament to your
service for forty years Ido say, Sir, it is the duty, of
the Court of Directors of this Company to issue orders
to suspend from duty Colonel Ovans and Mr. Willoughby,
pending an inquiry into their conduct.—(Loud applause.)
Is this the administration of justice, Sir, that is to retain
us the Possession of that Empire which we hold by the
thread of opinion ? I say, No. I could not, Sir, but
observe with extreme regret the very cruel and gratuitous
insult which the Hon. Director, Mr. Warden, offered to
the unfortunate Prince whose case is under discus-
sion, and who is far distant and cannot answer for him-
self. Mr. Warden asserts that the Raja had been guilty
of asserting a most distinct falsehood. Well may a man,
who has been a party to the Raja's ruin, add insult to
injury on the absent victim of his power. But the Raja
is a Mahratta, a native of India, and therefore not to be
believed. Does Mr. Warden speak thus of bis own
countrymen ? lam afraid to go further, Sir, lest my
feelings should carry me away.—(Loud cheering.)
Mr. WARDEN here rose and explained that his infor-
mation was from Capt. Grant.
Capt. CoGAN proceeded, and stated that he would as
soon believe the Raja as the HOn. Director or Captain
Grant; that he considered the insult gratuitous.—(Hear,
hear.) Now, Sir, a word regarding Ballajee Punt. In
looking over the papers last printed we find the friend of
this individual (Col. Ovans) addressing the Bombay Go-
' vernor to confirm certain jagheers, given by the new.
Raja for one year's servitude to the Sattara State,
amounting to 1,000/. per annum, in perpetuity to
him and his successors.—(Loud cheering.) Now, Sir,
on what plea does Colonel Ovans urge the guarantee of
the British Government to this personage ? On no other
ground than that he had given them the information that
had led to the ex-Raja's dethronement. Now, Sir, where,
in all the mass of evidence before the Court, do we find
this man's name ?—(Hear, hear.) No, Sir, his name
was too significant to be associated with that of his
Prince. I leave this fact for the decision of the Court,
with this explanation of the disgraceful agency that has
led to all the evil consequences which followed.—(Cheers.)

THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sex,—Whilst the Tory politicians "who see through all
things with their half-shut eyes" are making merry on the
score of their majority, by a curious coincidence the Radicals
are congratulating themselves on their large minority, mes
judice—with far greater' reason, the great body of the future
opposition is essentially Radical in its feelings, and probably
more united in its opinions and views, than any opposition
which ever sat on the benches assigned to it. The fact is,
that your "good old Whig" was a Reformer adapted: to the
meridian of such times as that Royal Master of the Cere-
monies, George the Fourth, disgraced ; Reform was then a
theme of elegant declamation, the Whigs spoke well, but were
deficient in practice ; thank Heaven! we have proved the party
of such men as the Bennets, Grahams, and Lord Stanley',
the two latter comprehending a subdivision known as "Aris-
tocratic Whigs,". a, hybrid in my mind more to be suspected
than the most thorough-going Conservative. Instead of these
worn-out Whigs, a body of men have been returned better
suited to the times, which require greater energy and more
extended views ; the Tory party can never perpetrate any of
their old atrocities, whilst we are sure of such an opposition,
and I venture to predict that not many years will elapse before
the Government of the country will be confided to men who du
not play at Reform in jest, whilst they experience the same de-
ference for the essentials of the Constitution as their present
opponents. 1 look upon an extension of the franchise, and the
Vote by Ballot, as inevitable at no distant period ; indeed you
will find there are more Members pledged to support the
Ballot, returned to the present Parliament, than have ever ad-
vocated that measure heretofore.

I am, Mr. Editor, faithfully yours,
RADIX.

LONDON UNIVERSITY.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—We have heard of the Long Parliament, the
Borough-mongering and the Reform Parliaments—now
we have, what I trust history will term it, " the Judas
Borough and County Serf Parliament,"
The unblushing and open bribery in all the smaller,
and in some cases larger boroughs—the driving of the
tenantry in counties to the poll as cattle, induce me
to suggest that Peel and the Tory gang,when in power, to
pass an Act " regulating the price of votes in boroughs,
and that in Counties it be considered unnecessary for the
tenants to vote, but that the geese,
.pigs, cows, &c., be
driven the poll to represent their owners, with the
qualification and the party they are to vote for, tied
round their necks." This will be a capital plan to en-
sure the stability of priestcraft and Toryism, and an ad-
mirable plan to ensure free and independent election.
To the eternal honour of Scotland she has been true
to Liberal principles. Her farmers, the most shrewd
and experienced in the world, have not been humbugged
by the wooden-headed Squirearchy of England. They
know full well, that the Corn-law is merely a scheme
to keep up rents, and ruin and degrade the farmer.
Ireland, that land of misrule and oppression, has also
been true to Liberal principles, under fearful provoca-
tion and insult from the Tory faction ; her clergy and
people daily insulted thrcugh the means of the Tory
Journals, as if they wished to plunge that unhappy land
into rebellion.

The unrepresented millions of England, the people of
Scotland and Ireland, repudiate the felon-faction ; and,
with all their majority, they have no right to make
laws or govern the people of Britain. Their power will
be of short duration. The Chartists of England and
Scotland are more powerful than ever ; they are gather-
ing up their strength, and are now looked more favourably
upon by the middle classes, so that in a few months we
shall hear of an alliance offensive and defensive con-
cluded between the' Chartists, the middle classes, the
free traders, and the repealers of Ireland, before which
formidable powers the Tories, though their majority
were 500, will crumble to dust.

Let there be mutual concession and conciliation between
the parties I have named. Let them have one object, one
plan of national regeneration, say Household Suffrage
and the Ballot. Throw oil on the troubled waters, act
with kindness and good faith to the working classes, and
the union I have alluded to will speedily be accom-
plished—it can be done.
The cause of democracy is promising. The events
now passing in France indicate portentous changes—
one revolution gave us the Reform Bill, the next will
seal the fate of oligarchical power.
Let the cry be " Union," " The Queen," and " The
People, the only source of political power." B.
London, July 22, 1841.

THE FORCE OF IMITATION.—The force o:
imitation is immense in the young. It soon corn
pels the child to talk the language of those around,
and do as far as possible all they do. Without this im-
pulse, little advance could be made. With the impulse
of imitation, there soon co-operates that of habit, and
then that of belief. What we have done we do more
easily, and, moreover, acquire an inclination to do again ;
and what we witness, or have communicated to us by
others, we gradually acquiesce in and are reconciled to,
objection and repugnance declining by repetition of the
facts or opinions, till ugl4ljos, may be confounded with
beauty, vice with virtue, fill@irdity with sense, and what
is proofless with what is certain. The disposition to be-
lieve is so strong in us, that experience only of deception
brings us to doubt each other. The child believes all it
is told ; and incessantly asks questions, necessarily be-
lieving that it will be told the truth. It soon may
deceive others -; but still it believes implicitly. till taught
by experience that others must not always be believed.
This disposition to believe other remains throughout life,
and without it social intercourse would he confusion.

It is shown by our asking the way of strangers in the
street, and in fact all day long ; though experience of the
bad feelings and of the ignorance of others prevents uni-
form belief.l. The importance of imitation, habit, and
belief, must be far greater than the mischief. They en-
able us to act fong before positive knowledge would qualify
us ; they produce uniformity of thought, action, manner,
and language, among those who associate, so that there
is peace, comprehension, and co-operation. Their evils
are the absurd or detrimental views and practices of in-
dividual nations, sects, or parties. But in man's natural
progress, the understanding becomes more cultivated, and
intercourse between sects and parties becomes greater.
We are naturally impelled to effect everything more
easily and rapidly, and means of intercourse, whether
by locomotion or signs, are advanced beyond all precon-
ceived views of possibility, and thus the distance between
individuals and nations becomes a trifle. Hence each
sees many things that it considers indispensable
dispensed with by others advantageously ; each
sees many things effected better by others ; one avails
himself speedily of the improvements of another, in doc-
trine, conduct, and all matters of science and arts, and
the narrow sectarian wretchedness of mixing with but
one party, is more and more broken down. Thus are the
evils of imitations, belief, and habit, at length corrected.
Experience is enlarged, and judgment better exercised ;
all are brought more to think for themselves,—that is,
to become less and less the slaves of narrow imitation,
habit, and belief. Now each child, though it thinks and
acts chiefly through these three impulses, advances more
and more in experience, and in disposition and power to
judge. It questions and objects ; and at length begins
to think considerably for itself, though the greater part
of mankind are, in the immense majority of their opi-
nions and doings, still the unconscious slaves of imitation,
habit, and belief, through the defect of sound education
and the narrowness, of their reading and direct inter-
course.—Elliotson's Human Physiology.
MORALITY 07 ODD FELLOWS. It was
stated by Mr. Fletcher, at the Odd Fellows Dinner at Broms-
grove on Monday, that out of 200,000 Odd Fellows only
twenty had keen charged with offending against the laws of
their country. _ _

The lion. Mr. Bourke, the unsuccessful can-
didate for Kildare, it is said, receives a great addition to
his income by the death of his aunt, '.Lady Catherine
Bourke.

A sample of new barley was shown in our mar-
ket on Saturday, and afterwards brought to our office,
for which 6s. per bushel was asked, and ss. refused. It
was of a good colour, and of excellent quality.— Wor-
cester Journal.
THE IRON TRADE.—By recent advices from
the works, we learn that orders are flowing in, and prices
beginning to look up. To have to record an improve-
ment in so important an article of local commerce is in-
deed a gratifying eircumstance.—Bristol Standard.
SINGULAR EFFECT OF LIGHTNING ON
GLASS.—About noon on Thursday this town was visited
by the storm which we find was so general throughout
the country. The peals of thunder were awfully loud,
and in several instances succeeded the lightning without
a moment's interval, showing the close proximity of the
discharge. Several haystacks and barns were fired in
different places, as mentioned in the letters of our Corre-
spondents. The County Lunatic Asylum, on Banning
Heath, was struck by the electric fluid, but no material da-
mage was sustained. A chimney-pot was shat-
tered into fragments, and a stack of chimneys
was slightly injured, several of the stones being
partially displaced. In Maidstone the lightning
struck a chimney about fourteen feet high on the pipe
manufactory of Mr. Britter, near the county gaol, and
produced some singular effects. A brick at the corner of
the chimney was removed an inch from its place, and
the edge of the brick adjoining it was chipped off as if
from the blow of a hammer. The fluid then fell on the
tiles just below, three of which were removed, and it ap-
pears as if it had then dispersed, and had been pro-
jected against the dwelling-house opposite, the four win-
dows of which facing the chimney, and at about fif-
teen or twenty feet distant, `,present a very singular ap-
pearance. In several panes oval blisters have been raised
like the air bubbles seen in badly-manufactured sheet
glass. When first discovered they were covered with a
fine dark-coloured powder, which was unfortunately
brushed away without being minutely examined, and
there is a similar appearance inside some of the blisters.
When the building-was struck, four men at work in the
manufactory 'were knocked down, and were of course
dreadfully alarmed. Mr. and Mrs. Britter were sitting
in a room facing the workshop, and they describe the
lightning as darting. by them like a ball of fire. Hap-
pily they were uninjured. The storm lasted altogether
nearly three hours, it having returned for a short time
after its first visit, prior to its entire cessation.—Maid-
stone Journal.
EDINBURGH CASTLE.—On Thursday morn-
ing the first division of the 58th regiment left the Castle
for Glasgow, from whence they are to proceed to Dub-
lin. They were followed by a second division on Mon-
day, and the remainder of the regiment take their de-
parture to-morrow (Thursday). The 10th regiment
will temporarily replace them here, till the arrival of the
53d from Portsmouth, when the 10th will move to Glas-
gowl to relieve the 29th.
1 HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JULY
17.—Business in this market is quite at a stand, and is likely
to remain in the same languid state for some weeks longer ;
both dealers and consumers seeming determined to keep down
their stocks as low as possible in expectation of prices being still
lower. The crop is going on favourably, the duty being called
20,0001., which good judges consider a fair estimate.
LIBERAL CLUB AT ENNIS.—On Sunday a
meeting of gentlemen assembled at Carmody's Hotel, to
form a County Liberal Club. The room was crowded
to suffocation. Major M‘Namara, M.P., Mr. Cor-
nelius O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Hewitt Bridgeman, M.P.,
and I may say the entire Catholic and Protestant
Liberal Aristocracy and Democracy of this great
and wealthy county were in attendance. On the
entire the meeting formed a club, pledging themselves to
apply a portion of their funds towards redressing any
tenant who may be persecuted by his landlord for the
exercise of his vote. This is as it should be in Clare,
and I am only sorry that such a club had not been formed
three years ago. If there had, there would be no Van-
deleurs, or others bold or foolish enough to disturb the
Liberal movements of the county, the same as in Li-
merick. But it is not too late—Clare has done and will
do its duty, and never more securely than 'through the
agency of this Independent Liberal Club.—Limerick
Reporter.
DUNDEIi.—We are sorry we are unable to give
any better accounts of trade. Although there is per-
haps less doing than formerly, yet our quotations are
merely nominal. Several arrivals of flax have taken
Ilace during the week from Riga, and the lower ports in
the Baltic. Flax continues to maintain its price in Riga,
and is held stiff at the last prices. The St. Peterburgh
flax, we understand, is ill cleaned, and will not, we
suspect, prove to be of good quality. Last letters from
Archangel state that nothing was doing; 130 R. for
Obortyn, and 125 R. only offered. No tows and codillas
offered for sale.—Ayr Gbeerver.
M'Mahon, the man charged with the murder
of Molony, at the late election, was admitted to bail, the
proof of identity against him having failed.—Limerick
Reporter.