The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

DISEASES OF THE EYE.

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GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the
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the first respectability.
Extract from the Second Edition of " Grimstone's Weather
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7, Skinner's Almshouses, Mile End, Jan. 26, 1840.
Sigt—l think it my incumbent duty to return you my grate-
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much a
awni
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I am happy to say
canisters has enabled
virtues of
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with those afflictions.
suffering
all I may hereafter meet
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g ANN COLE.
Jul 4, 1834.
July
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To Mr. Wm. Grimstone, 39, Broad-sti,t ,
Bloomsbury.

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Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

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Passengers £995 15 3
Merchandize 295 7 6

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PORTSMOUTH—Arrived on Sunday, and anchored in Cowes
roads, whence she proceeded to the Motherbank to perform
quarantine, her Majesty's ship Hazard, 20, Captain the Hon.
C. Elliott,from the Mediterranean, and is ordered to come into
this harbour to be paid off. She brings no news whatever, and
will be followed shortly by the Carysfort, 26, Captain Martin,
which was ordered to proceed from Corfu to Malta, on her route
to England, on the Bth August. Captain Elliott has recently
received promotion, and is appointed to the new frigate Spartan,
26, at Plymouth. The Britannia, 120, was left at Malta pre-
paring for the homeward voyage, and may be looked for in the
early part of October,

Considerable bustle is occasioned at this port by the equip-
ment of so many ships and vessels for foreign stations. The
following are the names:--Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, f.r
Sir Charles Adam's flag in the West Indies; Warspjte, 52,
Captain Lord John Hay, for the Brazils; Belvidera, 42, Capt.
the Hon. George Grey ; Madagascar' 44, Captain Foote ;
North Star, 26, Captain Sir J. Home ; Driver, steamer, Com-
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Lieut. Caiter.

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At Motherbauk—Hazard corvette.
In Harbour—Queen, Victory, Illustrious, Warspite, Bel% i-
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•• - -
The following additional and interesting. particulars of
the opening of this line, with the account of the dinner
given to the Directors, are copied from the Brighton
Gazette of the 23d inst. :
On Monday last the entire length of the London and
Brighton Railway was opened by the Directors, who made
their first trip with a train of three first-class carriages, in
which they arrived at Brighton about half-past two
termo' cvl ohickenu,
f;sa,) nl
Ird, oellt,aui fnrli iner
dastp
feicvtei nog,
etl
cek .wt• or r
Lona
dt tnh. e Brighton
Brighton of the firn:t°lplalisis'gen%gv.ietrnetsrsaeciln tthoe
It started at a quarter before seven ; but, owing to the
tdheepamr teutrreopforolitsn.
unpleasantness of the weather (a dense sea-fog, which
approached almost to rain, prevailing), only a few pas-
sengers availed themselves of the opportunity of making
the first trip to town by railway. The new or last finished
portion of the line is in excellent order ; and notwith-
standing that we, from a conviction of the great benefits
which the railway will bring to Brighton, have always •
been ready to believe in the most favourable reports of
the progress of the works, which our own observation,
moreover, has enabled us frequently to verify, we were
not prepared to find the work in the highly finished
state in which we discovered it to be on oar
Tuesday morning's visit. In fact, with only one or two ex-
ceptiom, the last portioa of the line is finished and cleared
up in a manner superior to what is observed on some lines
after they have been in operation for several years. These
exceptions are the ornamental facings of Clayton tunnel,
which are not yet quite completed, the mouths of the
Hayward's Heath tunnel, and a little trimming in the ex-
tensive and difficult CO iii gs on either side of the last named
tunnel. _ These are carried on
manner as to offer no impediment at any time to the free
passage of the trains ; and a few weeks will see their
completion. At Clayton tunnel the north face is nearly
finished. It is buiit of stone, formed at top into battle-
ments; and has a beautiful effect from the turnpike-road,
as well as from the railway.
The finished condition of the line admits of few ob-
servations, no salient points presenting themselves for
remark. We cannot, however, pass over the exten •
sive embankment on the contract of Mr. Thornton,
where (alleged) " insuperable difficulties" presented
themselves twelve months since, owing to the re-
peated slips of the only materials at hand for form-
ing the embankment. These difficulties have been
overcome by the use of a different earth, which the
contractor was subsequently enabled to obtain ; and the
road is now perfectly. .solid. The slips, which were lateral
and not, as erroneously imagined by some, sinkings into
a marsh, have now become perfectly dry, and are nearly
as hard as stone ; and the greatly extended base consequent
upon the slips has, both in appearance and reality, added
to the security of this embankment, which, it would perhaps
not be out of place to mention, ia one of the largest on any
-
railroad yet constrilblecl. ..•
During the day the up-trains contilitie4 Jo run at the
,times specified, performing their journies wiffiO,reat punc-
tuality. The first three up-trains all started from!Brigliton
before the arrival of the first down-train. The dt.A:f.arttire
of all these was witnessed and applauded by many '6olie
inhabitants of this town ; but the most, interwtifitg vat
of the day's proceedings
.was th,o-ativriVal of the firsCl
London train, containing
.thetDirectors, who had been
invited by the inhabitaift to one of the most splendid
banquets ever givetiwin Brighton. This train was pro-
pelled Ilyittro of the Company's engines. It was a
mixed train and consisted of thirteen carriages, three of
the first class being appropriated to the use of the
Directors and their friends, and the remainder were
completely filled with passengers in the regular mode
of railway traffic. On passing the different stations,
all which were decorated with union jacks, and other
flags and ensigns, the train was loudly cheered. At Hay-
ward's Heath, Mr. Rastrick, the engineer of the line,
who had accompanied the Directors to Brighton on the
previous day, and remained there to make the last ar-
rangements for the conduct of the next day's traffic, took
his seat with the Directors, and the train then moved on
towards Brighton. It was in the newly-opened portion
of the line that the spectators were most numerous ;
and from Hayward's Heath to Clayton, several miles of
country seemed to have emptied their inhabitants, who
fringed the railway on either side. At the Hassocks'
Station, the only new one on the line, many hundreds of
the inhabitants of' Hurst and Ditchling had assembled,
dressed in holiday garb, and all welcoming, by their
plaudits and smiling countenances, the first transit of the
metropolitan visitors through their neighbourhood by
Means of the railway.
The northern entrance to Clayton tunnel, to which
we have before referred, was generally admired. On
this occasion the tunnel was lighted, at long intervals, by
torches. We understand that preparations- are on foot
fur lighting it with gas, in the same manner as the tun-
nels at Balcombe and Merstham are lighted, a procedure
particularly desirable, owing to the greater length of the
tunnel.

Frees Preston to Brighton, the train passed between
crowds of spectators, who filled every space adjoining :he
line, from which a view could be obtained. The field at
New England, westward of the line, was also densely
crowded ; and the same was the case with the New
England road, where also a great number of carriages
and flys, 100 at least, were drawn up in file. Proceed-
ing onwards to the terminus, we observed the whole of
the beautiful sheds, the iron roofs of which have been so
much admired, densely packed with thousands of
fashionables and the mast influential of our inhabitants.
From the gable of the centre shed were sus-
pended a large floral star and a banner inscribed—
" Welcome to Brighton." At the moment the train
reached the terminus, the band of the Scots Greys, the
performers at the Concerts d'Ete, and the town band,
struck up " God Save the Queen," the amateur vocalists
singing the National Anthem, verse and chorus, alter-
nately with the instrumental music.
A large number of the inhabitants also lined the foot-
path leading over the hill from the terminus to New
England ; and the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-street
and Surrey-street was tilled with respectable persons,
who were excluded from the terminus in consequence of
the applicants for tickets being so numerous that the
terminus would not contain them.
In the evening a fete took place at the Royal Gardens,
in celebration of the opening of the Railway. There was
a grand display of fireworks by Jones, and the company
was numerous.

Several of the tradesmen also illuminated the fronts of
their houses in honour of the event.
The building of a London terminus for the Brighton
line, altogether distinct from the Greenwich line, part
of which the Brighton trains at present traverse, is
proceeding rapidly. Most of the arches are already
completed, and a portion of the ballast has been laid for
the rails.

One of the most important benefits which the railway
must secure to the town will arise from its becoming the
grand route between London and Paris. The Rouen
Railway is reported to be progressing most satisfactorily;
and the only novelty in a recent report of the Directors
is a complaint that the Shireholders supply them with a
superabundance of funds!

• THE DINNER.
On the same evening the dinner given to the Directors
of the Company to celebrate the opening of the line
took place at the Old Ship, where upwards of 200 gentle-
men sat down at half-past six to a sumptuous entertain-
ment provided by Messrs. Cuff and Strachan. The
viands, wines, and dessert were most costly; and the table
was loaded with delicacies. E. H. Creasy, Esq., presided
(in the absence of the High Constable from illness) ; on
the right of the Chair sat the Chairman of the Directors,
J. Barman, Esq., D. Maclean, Esq., J. U. Hastrick, Esq.,
Major-Gen. Hodgson, Captain Beauclerk, T. H. Robin-
son, Esq., N. Smith, Esq.. and the remainder of the Direc-
tors; and on the 12ft, G. Derby, Esq., M.P., Capt. Pechell,
M. 14., I. N. Wigney, Esq., Major Hobart, Lord
William Hill, and other officers of the Scots Greys,
W. Seymour, Esq., G. Basevi, Esq., Major Allen, &e.
The band of the Scots Greys was stationed in the gallery,
and during the dinner and at intervals in the course of
the evening played some of their most admired pieces.
On the removal of the cloth Non nobis Doinine was sung
by the amateur vocalists ; and silence having been then
proclaimed by the toast master,
After the usual loyal toasts had been drank with
enthusiasm,
The CHAIRMAN said he had to announce the receipt of
letters from Mr. Fuller, M.P. for Sussex, stating that he
was prevented by a death in his family from being pre-
sent; from Sir John Rennie, stating that circumstances
rendered it impossible for him to attend; and from Mr.
F. Cooper, kept away by indisposition.
W. SEYMOUR, Esq., then said--I have the distin-
guished honour conferred upon me to offer to you the
great toast of the day.—(Hear, heareexgprreeassted.l n)y I h
H which has been
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sentiments
already,
entsfull
as
uponst completed, l e you,to l
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of
the
delight of the inhahitants of
Brighton; and I should have been most glad if another
u mostcot he o
subjecttd know,
Brighton man had been selected whom we all admire,
and whose abilility would have done credit to
Brighton arid given gratification to this assembly ;
but I only learned this day at two o'clock that it was not
practicable for him to-attend. I am quite sure, how
ever, that I shall receive indulgence from. all Brighton
and Sussex men ; and, inasmuch as this day has made
Brighton part of London, I trust our London friends
will give to me the same indulgence.—(lleac, hear.)
Our object here to-day is to congratulate the Directors and
ourselves on the finishing of this glorious work.—(Cheers.)
They have surmounted immense difficulties. The evi-
dence given before the Committees of the Lords and
Commons for days, and weeks, and months, nay, for years
—(Hear, hear)—shows the great physical difficulties
they had to encounter. It became necessary for them to
overcome almost the four elements combined of earth,
air, fire, and water ; but of this I will say but little,
since the victory over them belongs rather to the engi-
neer, who will be the subject of a separate toast. It is
utterly impossible that a great undertaking like this should
not meet more difficulties than could be anticipated, and re-
quiring the highest courage to bear up against. When we
recollect that the Directors had to contend with the mighty
struggle which even now shakes the nation—that they
had to encounter difficulties of finance, and that in addi-
tion to all other difficulties they had the difficalty which
was set forth in a maxim of 1600 years old, and sanctioned
by subsequent experience, that in many men there are
many minds," and that one motive in many of thorn is self-
interest, they might be forgiven for utspairing. But
the Directors of this Rail way encountered all, and they

succeeded; and the least we can do is to thank them, and
wish them health and happiness,--(Cheers.) The men
of Brighton, feeling this, have invited them to this
feast ; and they, with their usual urbanity and kind-
ness, have accepted the invitation. They are now
here by their ;own railroad, and we may now say that
Brighton and 'London are never to be separated again.
The Pri:ne elqini.ster of this country, in citing a work of
Sir William Jones very recently, said that Sir William
was once asked who was the greatest man ; and his,
answer was" The best." And when he was asked who
was the best, he said, " the man that has deserved most
of his fellow men."—(Cheers.) I say, then, look to the
Directors of this Company ; and when you recollect the
difficitties which they have had to encounter, the diffi-
culties which they have overcome, and the advantages
which they have conferred upon Brighton men and upon
London men, and I believe upon all the world, we
are entitled to say they have deserved %yell of their
fellow men, and this day we thank thew.—(Loud
applause.) Another difficulty which they had
to encounter arose from impediments which were pur-
posely placed in their way, but this also they by zeal and
perseverance overcame ; it required the gigantic powers
of a Watt to make a steam-engine and to move it, but a
boy might impede it. We are now met to congratulate
the Directors on having overcome all obstacles, and to thank
them for the benefit they haveconferred upon us ; and if it
be said, "Will you give them only empty thanks—empty
praise ?" my answer is, "Me give them all we give to
heaven for the great benefits showerett doe n upon us,
namely, our thanks."7—(Cheers.) I now. propose to you
—and I hope, gentleman, the steam is up—(Laughter)—
the health of the Directors of the London and Brighton
Railway, and success to their undertaking.—(Loud
applause.)
The toast was 'loudly applaUdecL and -dranirwith' fete
times flour, and " one cheer. more."

Mr. HARMAN then rose and said he was called upon
to discharge a most pleasing duty, which, however, he
approached with great diffidence, inasmuch as he feared
it would be impossible for him, in adequate language, to
express the feelings of his brother Directors on this
occasion. The very nature of their undertaking led the
Directors, when the line was first projected, to look to
Brighton for support—(Hear, hear)—aud they were not
disappointed ; they received from Brighton that support
for which they looked. As they progressed in their
undertaking, they found what might very naturally have
been expected, that so great a change as was likely to be
wrought in the town by a railway communication with
the metropolis, was viewed with different feelings. They
were not surprised that such should be the case; but
they were quite sure that the day was not far distant,
when everyone who felt an interest in the success and
welfare of the town would hail the success and prosperity
of the railway as their own.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
It was difficult for him, after the very eloquent man-
ner in which the toast had been introduced, to follow it
as he could wish ; but if he failed iu saying what he
ought to say, they would not believe it was from a
want of good feeling, but from a failing of nature. No-
thing could be so grateful to the Directors of' the Lon-
don and Brighton Railway as the reception they had
that day met with from the inhabitants of Brighton.—
(Hear, hear.) The Directors had become, as it were,
Brighton men—(Hear)—their interests were the interests
:of Brighton, and to have been received as they had been
Net day—to see the inhabitants, one and all, come out
to greet the first arrival by steam, and to have the toast
received and welcomed as it had been by this highly
respectable meeting, had been most gratifvinee He
hoped and believed that the undertaking which they had
met to celebrate would lead to many and vast improve-
ments in this neighbourhood ; and he could ,net but
think that the completion of the railway, if they only tools
advantage of it, would open to them a vast channel of
prosperity. He was looking, and with some anxiety, to
Brighton becoming the direct communication between
the two great capitals of the two greatest kingdoms on
the earth ; he had attended a meeting here where he
saw something like a prospect of the construction of a
floating breakwater off the town, which would enable
vessels to come in and out at all times c f the tide. The
project, he believed, was capable of being carried into ef-
feet; it only wanted the energies of the people
,el Brighton
and the Directors of the Railway to carry it 'ont.--(Leud
applause.) He begged the meeting not to mistake his
meaning ; let not the people of Brighton be deceived by
supposing that the Directors had funds at the it
eani-
mind for such a purpose ; but this lie begged to epee
that they had influence at their command, and where
they could exert that influence to the benefit of the town,
the inhabitants would always find them ready, to do so.—
(Applause.) He must be permitted to trespass a short time
upon the attention of the meeting. When lie looked to
the way in which the Directors had endeavoured to make
their Railway a most convenient mode of communication
to all parties, he was quite aware that in carrying
a work of this kind to completion, there were so
-many difficulties, so many interests to attend to,
that it was impossible to please all, but lie wase
anxious to take an opportunity to explain what the Directe
tors had done. The Directors considered the traffic
to come to this town a very superior traffic ; theYSAed at
Brighton as one of the first watering-places in the king-
dom—(Haar, hear)—they looked at it as inviting the
most respectable, the highest families in the kingdom to
come to it at certain periods of the year. He be:ioved the
season which was the most fashionable was near at
hand, and in their arrangements the Directors
had endeavoured to give accommodation to that
class of persons to travel to Brighton with the
greatest comfort, and they had accordingly adopted
the plan of having first-class • trains, not with a
view of shutting out any parties who might wish to travel
le; them, far from it, but with a view to benefit the town,
for which they had been led to believe that without mak-
ing a distinction they might give umbrage to those per-
sons who brought most wealth to the town. Therefore
they had first-class trains, and mixed trains to carry both
first and second-class passengers. The plan was a new one;
it was open to improvement, and the Directors by no means
considered it as a final arrangement.—(Hear, hear. hear.)
Their object was, and had been, to give the best accom-
modation to this great town and to the partic s who were
in the habit of visiting it. He would not detain them
longer on this topic; but he might perhaps be allowed,
after the observations of the Hon. Gentleman who intro-.
duced the toast, to carry the meeting back to the period
when the formation of the line was first projected. At that
period they were surrounded by difficulties to which lie
need hardly do more than make an allusion. After
the termination of the Parliamentary contest, which
some Honourable Gentlemen present had reason to re-
member, for the Directors drew pretty largely on their
attention—after they had obtained the Bill, they met
with difficulties such as few other Companies ever had
to contend with. They had endeavoured to take that
straight-forward course which public men ought to take ;
they endeavoured to do justice to those who entrusted them
with their capital, as well as to those whose land was
taken for the purposes of the line. They had never de-
viated one iota from that straight-forward course. The
observations of those who had their own reasons for con-
demning them, they treated as they deserved. As pub-
lic men, the Directors were not insensible to public re-
marks and strictures ; but the remarks of those who took
every possible means of upbraiding them were despised.—
(Hear.) Had they for one moment suffered themsc kves to be
drawn away from the course which they pursued—had
they allowed the various stigmas that were attempted to
be fixed upon them to have weight—had they been faint-
hearted, they might have given up their Bill ; the
town might now have been without a railway—
the Directors might have been he could not tell
where.—(A laugh.) He remembered when the Bill was
before the Committee of the House of Commons,
seeing a print of their deep cutting at Merstham,
with the Duke of York's monument in the middle of
it, representing the undertaking as a perfect farce ; he
remembered hearing men who ought to have known
better, who had a character at stake, give evidence
against the Direct line ; and if the Directors had not had
the most implicit confidence in their engineer—(Hear,
hear)—the line would most probably have been aban-
doned. But they had confidence in their engineer ; and
he was proud to say that that engineer had done all
he told them he could do.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The course taken by the Directors appeared
also to have gained the confidence of the Shareholders ;
for he was bound to say, that upon all occasions the Di-
rectors had been, in a most extraordinary manner,
backed by them. They had had not only one Act of
Parliament, which he believed was not the case with
any other railway in the kingdom ; they had only
one set of shares ; they never issued half shares
or quarter shares ; and they had.never sold their shares
at a discount.—(Cheers.) The Directors had pursued the
course which honest men ought to pursue ; and they had
that day received the reward of honesty. He must now
beg to say a few words on the merits of the gentleman
who had conducted them through all their efficultiss
he must bear testimony to that gentleman's unbounded
exertions, his great talent—(Hear)—and his eternal per-
severance—(Cheers)—for such difficulties as lie had to
contend withwere not easily overcome. What was the course
of their engineer, when difficulties which could not be fore-
seen overtook him? He (Mr. Harman) gave him credit
for great foresight; but there were difficulties which
could not be foreseen, and when they arrived what did he
say? He did not say, " We have got into difficulties we
can't overcome; where shall we go? what shall we do?"
but he came and said, " A difficulty has occurred which
could not be foreseen, and I will tell you how to over-
come it. It is a matter of expense ; give me the means,
and I will remove the difficulty.' —(Heer, hear.)
The Directors did give the means ; he overcame the dif-
ficulty, and they were now met to celebrate the event
which it was foretold could never be completed.
Others who thought better of them than these prophet.,
had said the work might be done in ten years—(A laugh j
—their engineer said lie could complete the work in three
years, and it was an extraordinary fact that exactly three
years from the day the first spit of earth was dng, they
opened to the public the first portion of the line.—(Bear,)
That was a very recent occurrence, A short two or throe
months ago; and to-day they had opened the whole, line,
Mr. Harman proceeded to remark that the exertions of
the Directors had been long, and he believed honest; and
he said publicly and fearlessly that lie never was eon-
m eted with any set of men who were so anxious to do
their duty; he had never met with a proprietary who had
greater confidence in their Directors and he believed
their reward was at hand. It was difficult to speak of
themselves, and lie hardly knew
what to as on the pre=
sent occasion. He believed he must conclude the few
observations which he had made by borrowing a few.
words from a celebrated poet:—

• " Some chord in unison with what we feel
Is struck within us, and the heart replies."
I (Loud applause.)
Mr. POLKA RD (the Deputy Chairman)—Equally
titled with the previous toast to your warmest reception
is the one which I have the honour to propose to your
consideration; for of what avail would the anxiety, energy,
and capital of the Directors and Proprietors of our Railway
have been, had they not selected for their engineer a gen-
, tleiaen who stands pre-eminent in the scientific world for
his professional talent, unwearied assiduity, and firmness
of mind ? When this vast undertaking was submitted
to the consideration of the public in juxta-position with
other projected lines, it was pronounced by eminent en-
gineers of that day to be impracticable, nature presenting
such obstacles on the line of country through which it
was to pass, which no human skill could surmount. The
master mind of Mr. Rastrick repelled their assertions
as fallacies—(Loud applause)—and he staked his pro-
fessional reputation, not only on the practicability, but
on the successful completion of the London and Brighton
direct line of railway.—(Cheers.) That he has most
nobly carried out his superior scientific views, the occa-
sion of our assembling at this festive board is an incon-
trovertible demonstration.—(Hear.) When we consider
that only three years back the Act for forming the
line received the Royal assent, and but two years
have passed away since the inhabitants of Brighton as-
sembled by thousands to witness the laying the foundation
stone (by myself, as Master of the Lodge of Freemasons)
of a structure, the first commenced on the line to London,
and which now forms one of the brightest ornaments of
our town ; when we reflect That since that period moun-
tains have been tunnelled, embankments formed, and
deep cuttings excavated; I am justified in stating that
the ai4,l,ectapiesi in the execution of the stupendous
appettllTilef indeed. Nekt in succession as de-
serving cur approbation, are those professional gentle-
men who have had the honour to act under Mr. Rastrick
in superintending the execution of the works ; several of
them are well known to myself and fellow townsmen, and
are justly esteemed for their professional talent and good
citizenship.—(Cheers.) If we turn from the engineering
department to the office of the Directory, we shall find
that the services of Mr. Thomas Wood, the Secretor.),
are deserving of cur commendation ; for zeal, promp-
titude, and gentlemanly attention have marked his official
career.—(Cheers.) If we come nearer home, and view the
ofhcial appointments at our terminus and the Shore-
ham branch, we must perceive that Mr. Dean, and
the gentlemen under him, are courteously active in
promoting the comfort and accommodation of the public,
—(Hear.) I am fully sensible that the observations of
so humble an individual as myself must be but of little
moment to a gentleman of such high standing in the
paths of science as Mr. Rastrick ; but, Sir, I feel proud,
as a tradesman of Brighton, at having the opportunity
to express my honest opinion of his exalted merits, and
the grateful sentiments of my fellow-townsmen, for
having by his unparalleled skill and indefatigable labours
completed a work which dawns with the brightest
prospect of prosperity to our highly-favoured town. I feel
assured, Gentlemen, that the warm reception you will
give to the toast will abundantly compensate for the de-
ficiency of the proposer, and prove to the gentlemen who
are the subjects of it how highly we esteem them for
their talents, and for having completed so stupendous an
undertaking.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. RASTRICK never in his life rose with prouder feel-
ings than he did on the present occasion, to return thanks
for himself and those joined with him in the compli-
ment; and he believed they would all remember, as the
proudest moment of their liver, the present occasion,
when they had been invited to partake of such
an entertainment by such an assembly. Few gen •
tlemen in the room could imagine the difficulties which
the Directors and himself experienced, when they
first accompanied him over the ground which now
forms the London and Brighton Railway. It took
them four days to complete a mere inspection of the
line ; they were frequently up to their knees in mud,
then making their way through brushwood, or forcing
their way through the forest. It was little more than three
years sines they first put spade in the ground ; and
now they were met to celebrate the opening of the en-
tire line. Mr. Rastrick proceeded to contrast the state
of engineering science at present with what it was at the
time the Duke of Bridgewater constructed his cele-
brated canal. On its being suggested to carry a canal
over a river by means of an embankment and aqueduct,
only 30 feet high, one of the most scientific men of the
day, who was consulted by the Noble Duke as to the
practicability of the plan, replied, " I have heard oft-mild-
ing castles in the air before, but I never till now was
shown the place where they were to be built." The cut-
tings on the Brighton Railway were immense, many of
them being 80 or 85 feet high, and one at Merstham 125
feet ; and the difference of level in one mile of ground,
from the top of Copyhold Hill to the bottom of the valley
Of the Ouse was no less than 180 feet. From the first to
gibe last he had had the support of the Directors, who in
all his difficulties assisted him to the utmost extent of
their power; and he was happy to state that the line
was at this moment in excellent condition. There
might be some little places where, by and bye, a little
subsidence would occur, and a little reparation would be
required ; but he said that, taking the line from the
Brighton terminus to its junction with the Croydon line,
it was as perfect a work as almost any railway in exis-
tence. The distance from Brighton to London was by
the railroad 503- miles ; and that distance they now ac-
complished in an hour and three quarters. Com-
paring this with the five and six hours of the
stage coaches, it might be expected that the
increased faciity of intercourse would cause a much
larger number of •visitors to come to Brighton,
and much benefit must arise in consequence. Seine
years ago a French steamer came over to Brighton with
the Mayor of Dieppe. who was said to have remarked,
on seeing the magnificence of this place, that it was
a town of palaces. He (Mr. Rastrick) said it was the
Queen of Watering Places ; and he believed it would now
be visited ten times as much as ever it had been. Mr.
Rastrick concluded by thanking the meeting for the
compliment paid to himself and the officers of the com-
pany, and was loudly cheered as he resumed his seat.
Song by Mr. Davidson—" My grandfather was a most
wonderful man."
Major ALLEN, after an eulogium on the late Lord-
Lieutenant of the county, the Earl of Egremont, pro-
posed the health of his successor in that office, " the Duke
of Richmond," who trod in the footsteps of the late Earl,
and discharged the high and important ditties of his situ-
ation with honour to himself and satisfaction to the county.
his Grace was a promoter of the arts and sciences; and
those gentlemen who had witnessed his exertions in the
House of Lords as Chairman of the Committee which se-
cured to Brighton the advantages of this railroad, the
opening of which they were commemorating that day,
would give him the most unqualified praise.—(Hear.)
After some further remarks on the excellence and vir-
tues of the Noble Duke's private character, Major Allen
concluded by proposing the health of the " Lord Lieute-
nant of the county, the Duke of Richmond."—Three
times three.
Mr. GOODALL proposed " The High Sheriff of the
county, Sir R. Hunter."—Drank with the three times
three.
Mr. G. DRairsTER proposed " The Bishop and Clergy
of the Diocese."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of the Earl of
Surrey," a nobleman whbse condescending kindness had
endeared him to every inhabitant of Brighton who had
the honour of being introduced to him, and who had sent
a fine.buck for theirfeast.—(Cheers, three times three.)
Mr. C. WIGNEY proposed " Colonel Clarke and the
officers of the Scots Greys, and thanks to them for the
use of their band "—(Loud applause)—eulogizing their
services at Waterloo, and their gentlemanly demeanour
in private life.
Major lionAnT, in the name of Colonel Clarke and hia
brc ther officers, returned thanks. It was always their study
to make themselves agreeable wherever they went ; and
they hoped the inhabitants had been pleased at their in-
troducing the band for their amusement. This railroad
was a delightful thing for the soldier, who formerly had
the services of his charger only, but could now leave
Brighton, breakfast in London, spend the day with his
friends, and return to his barracks in the evening. He
remembered being with his regiment at Chichester ten
years ago, when a railway from London to Brighton was
talked of, but only to be laughed at; yet they had now
met to celebrate the completionof this great undertaking.
Mr. IsAncsoN proposed "The health of the mein lam s.
for the eastern division of the county," which was loudiy. applauded, and drunk with three times three.
ualrflbreovri,nsr)ehgmerieontsgttepdrtehseant
ttloine dtheiasthooocfnasioren-.
Mr. DARBY, in returning thanks for himself and col-
league,lsa ot ee po esf
havi ei:n(t dr(
rr.l.lllDi
pleasurable associations
were were connected with this town, and he m
to it by ties of a different and mom public nature,
to which it would be improper to advert ,• but he might
venture to assure the meeting that he felt deeply inter-
ested in its welfare and permanent prosperity, and that
the event which they had now met to celebrate, was the
commencement of a new era of prosperity.
Mr. W. FuRNER proposed the health of the "Borough
Members," in doing which he adverted to their services
with regard to the Railway Act.
Captain PEciSELL returned thanks for himself and col-
league. It had been observed, he said, that there could not
be a greater satisfaction to man than the conquest of dif-
ficulties which at the outset appeared insurmountable.
The Railway Directors had vanquished obstacles which
were said at one time to be beyond their reach, and which
one of the most eminent engineers in the country bad de-
clared could not be overcome, except by the assistance of
a miracle or some enormous power not yet known.
gallant Captain then spoke of the projected breakwater,h
which lie said was tlielegi
,i ti
way, and remarked
that f
Brighton the grand comm between the twounieation
legitimate
te
theffsPrioffspring
completionoft Q
of Rail-
,t the
Railway and the construction of a harbour at
,
,
capitals should be]
height
togil of Brighton, that town would
probably attain a
prosperity beyond the most
gnt o
sanguine expectations.
'
Colonel VERNER remarlcitmtlattec on the he was a Memberßri
hof
the House of Ooinino»s
Railway Bills, and that a friend having requested his
support for one of the competing lines, he replied that
Ire could not pledge himself to any line,
but that, after
he had heard the evidence, he would give his vote
for that line which appeared to him entitled on public
grounds to the preference. He attended accordingly,
and heard the whole of the evidence, not absenting him-
self a single day ; and he then voted in favour of the
direct line.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. WIGNEY, who had sat down, rose again in obe-

MORNING SUN.
cience to a call made upon him by some persons preser::
and bfialyaddressed the meeting, expressing his plc
sure at seeing so large a party present to celebrate the
completion of a work of such vast importance to the
town of Brighton.
Mr. ILtnMAN then said it fell to his lot to propose a
toast in which he heartily, concurred. In the first place,
he wcs called upon to pay.,that respect which was due to
their Honour able Chairman, and he was sure that there
was no gentleman present who would not concur with
him in paying that respect.-- (Cheers.) With that toast
he had the honour to couple " Prosperity to the town of
Brighton," with which was necessarily connected the
prosperity of that great undertaking in which he had the
honour to be concerned. The late period of the evening
prevented him from going into the subject, but he would
repeat his conviction that the prOsperity of the town and
the prosperity of the railway were so intimately eon-
fleeted, that one could not prosper without the other.
The CHAIRMAN said no one present lamented the
absence of the High Constable more than he did,
especially as that absence was occasioned by illness;
for the High Constable would, as a matter of course,
have filled the Chair, and received the compliment so
kindly paid to its present occupant. It was most
gratifying to him ~(Mr. Creasy) to receive that
compliment from one whom he had so long known
and so much reason to respect as Mr. Harman, who
had now, he might say, become an inhabitant of
Brighton. The inhabitants had endeavoured to give the
Directors the warmest reception in their power, to
show their feeilng with regard to the great benefit
which they had conferred upon the town ; and although
at the other end of the line, the Directors might have a
more splendid banquet, they would never have a more
hearty welcome.—(" Hear," from Mr. Harman, and
cheers.) This was the first time the inhabitants of
Brighton had ever came forward to give a public dinner
to any man or any party; and they never could have
such another opportunity. The Chairman then thanked
the proposer of the toast for coupling his name with ,
Prosperity to the town of Brighton," and the meeting
for the kind manner in which they had received the pro-
position.— (Cheers.)
After some other toasts, Mr. HARMAN proposed the
health of the " Deputy-Chairman."
Mr. FOLKARD proposed the last toast of the evening. •
"The Ladies," after drinking which, the Chairman and
the principal portion. Q£4,lle company took theirdepartgat,e

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(YESTERDAY.)
OLD COURT.

A RSO I,4—James Sp- tide, alias Spillar, aged 21, described
on the calendar as a baker, was indicted with setting fire to
a house in Lambeth for the purpose of defrauding a person
named Hancock. And in another count he was charged with
intending to defraud the West of England Fire and Life Assu-
rance Company.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine conducted the case for the
prosecution.

Charners defended the prisoner.
Mr. CLA ILKSON, having stated the case to the Jury, called
the following witnesses

Charles Caldwell stated that in June last he occupied a
butcher's shop and bed-room in High-street, Lambeth. The
prisoner wss his cousin. In June last went to Somersetshire,
and left the prisoner in the occupation of his room. The fur-
niture left there was not worth more than 5/. Had not insured
his property before he left town.
Cross-examined—The prisoner had lived with witness before
he went away to Somersetshire.

Wm. Hillman—Was cashier in the West of England Fire
and Life Insurance Office. Received instructions for the insu-
rance of property in a house, 59, High-street, Lambeth, from
the prisoner. The instructions were to insure Tor 1001. thi
stock in trade of a butcher, and 1001. household furniture
Witness acted upon those instructions, and issued a policy in
consequence, and commenicated with the Directors at Exeter.
Cross-examined—Witness was not the only person who acted
when a policy was applied for, but no person besides himself
could give a receipt fur the premium. Witness gave the pri-
soner the usual receipt, and received 10s. 6d. The prison:
was the person who applied for the policy.
Louisa Sickle occupied an attic-room in the house in gnu.-
tion on the 9th of August. The prisoner occupied one pair
back-room in the same house. Recollected the evening► of the
9th of AncnA, was in her room on that evening about nine
o'clock. Heard in the prisoner's room about ten o'clock on
that evening the cracking of wood. Heard talking
in the prisoner's room about a cuarter befare nine o'clock 10x1
he same evening he was with the butcher boy. Witness called
the prisoner at ten o'clock, when he said he knew it was that
time. Shortly afterwards witness heard the prisoner run down
stairs. Shortly after this she smelt the burning of wood, and
on going to the prisoner's room saw flames coming under the
door and the sides. Witness then gave the alarm, and got her
four children out.

Cross-examined—Knew the prisoner's cousin. Was not his
tenant, but that of Mr. Hancock.
Edward Loveday was a shoemaker, living at 60, High-
street, Lambeth. On the 9th of August heard a cry of fire at
No. L 9. Went up stairs and forced open the door of the pri-
soner's room. Found the floor on fire all round, and the head-
board of the bed was on fire also. Witness closed the door,
fetched some water, and extinguished the fire. After this wit-
ness found several pieces of wood and a piece of pork in a hole
ict the floor, in which was also found a quantity of shavings
and wood.
Cross-examined—There were two beds in the room, one, of
which was pulled to pieces. The shavings had been on fire,
z.nd when witness went into the room the fire was burning from
the hole up to the ceiling.
George Campbell was a fireman in the employ of the West
or England Fire-office. On the night of the 9th of August
was called to a fire in the house No. 59, 'ligh-street, Lambeth.
The tire was then nearly extinguished. Witness found shaving.?
and 1,,00d tinar T ha_ accusal A soh une.
There was a great smell of fire and turpentine. On taking up
slim of the boards of the floor witness found more shavings.
Witn,-ss thought the fire had commenced underneath the floor.
'the shavings did not appear as if they had lain long underneath
the fluor. Ns ittless had no difficulty in getting up the first
piece of the floor, bet a great deal with the second. Near the
hole in the floor a bottle was discovered by witness that had
apparently contained turpentine.
Cross-examined—The fire was out when witness arrived ;
part of the floor was scorched.
He-examined—Had been four years and upwards in the ser-
vice of the WeA of England Fire-office.
Philip Frowd, a policeman, corroborated the evidence of the
last witness.
Wm. Hall, a policeman, apprehended the prisoner, who said
he did not know what had taken place.
Olivia Peacock lived on the first floor front at the house in
question. When she went home at ten o'clock, she found the
house in commotion, in consequence of an alarm of fire in the
prisoner's room. Supplied water to put out the fire.
Mr. Maddock occupied the shop and parlour. The prisoner
paid him a shilling a week for the room.
Mr. Hancock was the ground-landlord of the House, and
received rent for it. It was in the parish of St. Mary, Lam-
beth. Witness had been in possession of the house about
fiirty.three years.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Air. CH AMBE RS addressed the Jury onbehalf of the prisoner.
111 r. Justice MAU LE .summed up, and
The Jury, after retiring for half an hour, returned a ver-
d;ct of Guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
catihii,Tjaadjirohauisech,tivner.weasky was indicted for embezzling the sums of
a. 10s., 2/., and 4/. is. 3d. the property of Christopher Daniel
Hayes his master.
Mr. Doane conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Phillips ap-
peared for the defence.
It appeared that the prosecutor carried on business as a
horse cloth manufactu.er in Hackney, and had another
establishment in Fenchurch-street. The prisoner was in his
employment, and used to receive money from
.the different
customers of the firm, in which capacity he received the first-
named sum in the indictment from a person named Phillips,
the second from a person named Palmer, and the last front
the Reverend Mr. Larkin. The prisoner's business re-
quired his presence at the manufactory in Hackney, and
the book in which the cash received by him should be en-
tered was sometimes kept in Fenchureh• street, and sometimes.
at the manufactory ; but he had a private cash-book, in which
he should enter all the monies received.
The books were produced in Court, in which the sums form-
ing the subject of the charge should have been entered, and the
1 several persons preyed having paid him the-money.
Mr. Pirmurs addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner,
and called a number of witnesses, who gave him an excellent
After a short consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty, and
The CouitT sentenced him to be transported for seven
syea!_s;
James Potter WRS indicted for stealing one boa, value I . sd.
the property of Charlotte Weston.
a shortfhe time
t etxhciisteedassea,me iIl whichter
eesatmfer6baleftohree
ftahcetw
oPe
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were
thelas'
prisoner having been a policeman of the T aivisoii,
follows :_
Charlotte Weston said she was crossing Clapham-common, lock, when
on the evening of the 4th of Se,-,e., about she lost a boa, which was Ic.osely annum
Clapham
and soon afterwards left a. notice of the fact a
police-station.
evening in question
Titmous, aged 12 years, said, on the
_,..._. won meeting
he found the boa on the Common, and a. pogo ,
which he placed
I him shortly after he took the boa from hi,
under his coat.
Tit r the man? . ._
prisoner The COMMON SERGEANT—Is thedarn:.
rnous—l can't say, as it was ratherdark•
acrosscight
th'tehere shoulders,.
think he is? Titmous
, you
The COXIIION SERGEANT—D
--I can't tell. It was dark. , emphasis)—Do you
(with mesh
The COMMON SERGEANT w
bzuliteldvethheebiosa?
John New, a constable 05 • Barnes.
of Priscilla.
oda;ision, proved that he
s the prisoner's sister. His wife
Priscilla Barnes said she Allsi)
house.
lift the boa at her (witness's)
in pronouncing sentence, said
A verdict ofyiGsiuttill.thnaAultf
The Comsrost
at tThietmhuusse—l don't
l'r
,hem, and any dishonesty on his part
admitted of no excuse. The public paid
an example to such a large body
thathaw however, as
fiarsstsafeehlt
cases as
,1i 4,, ith the been
nost returned,rigour of the la w. It
required to be
was so necessary to
I,
i.
or men as
himt I e prisoner's
well f
r p rcortiem:
to sentence himrarer occurrence, the sentence of the Court was
d for one year in the House of Correction,
those were
.o. .
be unprasone
hard labour.
kheept to .
Sales, described as a cabinet-maker, was in-
tor Z:n:;(7rtlatoilolene:
s=tealing one miniature-frame, nine necklaces, one
lacted for
e and several other articles, the property of Robert
%, ork- box,
),:nwood.
r:seewustor deposed th. a.t. he was a pawnbroker, residing
the IVlct
in John-street, Clerkenwell. About the middle of July he
aniseed the articles named in the indictment, and several others,
which he had been unable to trace since.
John Hall. a pawnbroker, said the prisoner came to his shop
oi the 21st of July, and pledged the necklaces, a work-box,
and other articles, which Mr. Linwood has since identified as
having been stolen from his shop. On the following day he
some and offered the miniature-frame to pawn, but the shop-
man refused to take it in.
Mr. Linwood again entered the witness-boa, and, amidst-
roirs of laughter, informed the Court that the prisoner came
to his shop, and pledged the miniature-frame to one of his
shopmen.
The prisoner, who maintained the utmost sang froid during
the trial, and cross-examined the witnesses with much tact,
denied all knowledge of the property, and said he never saw
t ither the prosecutor or witness-s before.
A verdict of Guilty having been returned, he was sentenced
to seven years' transportation.
Upon the seri:ence being pronounced, the prisoner laughed
i- a jeering manner at the Common Serjeant, and walked care-
les,ly from the bar.
F

EARGUS O.OONNOR.—This gentleman is to
~it Glasgow on Mut lay the Ilth of October, and we learn
teat a great demon,tration will take place on the green on
.4t (ty in honour of the event. A splendid soiree will be
piven in the evening in the New Hall i,f the Bazaar.—Glasgoto
Chronicle,

MORNING SUN

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE

CASE OF THE OF SATTA

(From the British Indian Advocate of Sept. 1.)
It is my object to call your attention to a narrative of
facts, connected with the dethronement of an Indian
prince, the confiscation of his property, and the banish-
msnt of his person to a distance 'of 800 miles from the
principality over which he ruled. The case lam about
to bring before 'you is important in every aspect in
which it can be viewed. Important—if regard be had
to the person who now complains of unjust and un-
English treatment at the hands of the British Indian
Government. That person is a Hindoo of high birth ;
a decendant from one of the most renowned among In-
dian warriors : the representative of the great Sevajee, who,
in the middle of the seventeenth century, succeeded in
bursting the thraldom of the Mogul power, and became
the founder of the powerful and wide-spread empire of the
Mahrattas. The successor of this great man has recently
been hurled from his throne in the sight of all India, and
appeals from the power, and alleged injustice of those
who have deposed him, to the people in whose name the
deed has been done. The case is important—if you con-
nect it with the past history of British India, and view it
as another illustration of the grasping policy of the rulers
of that country ; who, from the condition of lowly mer-
chants, soliciting, with bated breath, permission to ex-
change commodities with the subjects of the Mogul,
have risen, by the conquest of the sword, to be the lords-
paramount of India ; and claim the right of dethroning,
at their pleasure, the hereditary occupants of oriental
thrones. The case of the Raja is but a late act, in a
long career of bold and often guilty ambition. stretching
over more than half a century. The case before us is
important, as indicating the fate which awaits the
still remaining States of India ; which, to use the
words of the late Governor of Bombay, who deposed
the Raja, seems doomed, the whole of them, "to
fall, at no distant day, into the vortex of British
power." The case is a most important one, when
viewed in connection with its natural and inevitable
effects upon the minds of the natives of India. It reveals
the true source of our present danger—a danger grow-
ing, not out of the designs of foreign foes, but out of
the suspicion, the jealousy, and the hatred, which
are begotten by our continued acts of aggression and
usurpation. It is not possible that the enlightened natives
of India can witness our almost daily encroachments upon
territory which we have declared to be sacred to the pos-
session of others, without being reminded of the near ap-
proach of their own doom, and without cherishing a desire,
if possible, to avert it, by inviting the interposition of some
power that shall humble the pride and prostrate the
might of their oppressors, and pr eve milder in its rule
over the dominion it may snatch from us. Neither is it
to be expected that those whom we have already cast
down, and utterly spoiled both of their ancient preroga-
tives and ancestorial rights, can entertain any other than
hostile feelings, however those feelings may be disguised,
against those by whom they have been subjugated and
bereft. Let those who measure with complacency and
patriotic exultation the length and breadth of our
Eastern territory, and swell the number of the Queen's
subjects by adding the hundred millions of India, look
well to the elements of which this mighty mass is com-
posed. Prostrate they may be, and are ; but, beneath
the ruins of the empires we have razed, there are smoul-
dering fires of inextinguishable hatred, which some
unlucky wind may blow into a flame which may burn
to our destruction. The present case will be found
important—as exhibiting the true character of the
home Government of India. It will take us to the coun-
cils of the India House and the Board of Control, and
will show us to what extent those who have been wronged
abroad are justified in expecting sympathy and redress
from the authorities at home. And, finally, the case
before us will prove the absolute necessity which exists
for the people of this country becoming better acquainted
with the state of Indian affairs, with their own solemn
and tremendous responsibilities, and with the power,
which they may constitutionally exercise, to check the
progress of evil government, and save, from ultimate
ruin or alienation, the empire they have acquired. It
may be proper here to premise, that exclusive of those
portions of India which are considered and denominated
British territory, there are upwards of thirty native
States, the surviving fragments of fallen dynasties, which
have relinquished political relations with one another,
and are connected with the British Government by
treaties of various kinds. Sattara, the state of which I
am about to speak this evening, is in alliance with us by
a treaty, which guarantees the protection of the British
Government, and gives to that Government the right,
within certain defined limits, of controlling the internal
affairs of the principality. The territory of Sattara, at the
present time, extends over a surface of about 7,800 square
miles, and yields a revenue of about 180,0001. sterling
per annum. Sattara, became the capital of the Mahratta
empire in the year 1698, and has ever since remained
the residence of the Mahratta Princes. The descendants
of Sevajee, the founder of the empire, and a man of in-
ferior religious caste among the Hindoos, continued to
exercise sovereign sway until 1749, when the Brahmin
minister obtained a deed, empowering him, as Peshwa,
or Prime Minister, to exercise the sole power in the
State. In this he was supported by the Mahratta Chiefs,
on condition that a suitable allowance was made for the
descendants of the Royal house ; and, from that period,
the Peshwas, in regular succession, were considered as
the actual rulers, while the nominal Princes resided in
the city of Sattara. These Princes, however, were accus-
tomed to receive the homage, respect, and reverence of
all classes. They were called upon to confirm all suc-
cessions to great offices of State ; nor was any war ever
engaged in without the sanction of the Raja.
At the commencement of the Mahratta war in 1817,
the Raja of Sattara, recently dethroned, was a state pri-
soner in the hands of Bajee Rao, the then Peshwa ; and,
on the conquest of the Mahratta empire, which was
completed on the 20th of February, 1818, the power of
the Peshwa was entirely annihilated, and the British
Government proceeded to carry into effect the terms of
a previous proclamation to the Mahratta people and
chieftains, that the Raja, on being released, should be
placed at the head of an independent Sovereignty, of
such an extent as might maintain him and his family in
comfort and dignity. On the 20th of May the Raja
made his public entry into Sattara, escorted by the
British troops, and most of the officers, and was formally
placed upon the wadi (or throne) in full durbar. The
motive avowed by the Governor-General of India in
thus establishing the Raja on the throne of his ancestors,
with a limited territory, was to afford an honourable
maintenance to the representative of the ancient Princes
of the country, and to establish among the Mahrattas a
counterpoise to the remaining influence of the former
Brahmin Government. On the 25th of September,
1819, a treaty was concluded with the Raja of Sattara,
by which the British Government ceded to his Highness,
his heirs and successors, in perpetual sovereignty, certain
districts specified in a schedule annexed. This territory
isas to be held in subordinate co-operation to the British
Gov?rnment, and the Raja to be guided in all matters by
the British political agent or resident at Ilia Highness's
Court.

Having now seen the Raja placed on his throne—the
throne secured to him by solemn treaty, ratified, sealed,
and delivered—let us look back fur a moment to the still
earlier history of this interesting Prince. His father
had died in the year 1808, leaving two sons, himself,
then four years old, and his brother, Appa Sahib, now
his successor, and then an infant in arms. Their mother
lives a woman of high family, of great spirit, and of con-
siderable natural talent. She as proud of her elevated
rank, devoted to the interests of her children, a hater of
the Brahmins, who had usurped the power originally
wielded by the Ilahratta Peinces, and was bent on giving
her sons an education which should render them, in some
respects, eoual to cope with the monopolized learning of
the priesthood. She, besides, carefully instilled into
their minds the dislike which she herself cherished to
to tke whole race ; aed, as will be seen in the sequel,
the ex-Raja was not slow to-Nat by her lessons. It
had been the policy of the Brahmins to prevent the
Sattara Princes from being taught to read and write, and
to confine their accomplishments chiefly to skill in horse-
manship and the use of the bow. The Dowager, how-
ever, contrived to have her sons instructed in letters, after
midnight, while their attendants slept ; and the result was,
that they were both tolerably educated before they were
released from the Peshwa's power. The conduct of the
itaje, when placed on his throne, evinced so much grati-
tude and fidelity to the British ; so much talent and
aptitude for public business ; so much enlightened libe-
rality and zeal for the interests of his people, that, in
three years from the time of his installation, the entire
management of the principality was placed in his hands,
andathe designation of Political Agent„ to whose advice
lie had been required to yield submission, was changed
to that of Political Resident, whose advice was only to
ofd
the treaty.
be enforced, when the RRaja'sßaja'sconduct w
to inconvenience or injustice,P
or to a positive litively to lead
to
to himself, lie displayed a laudable,lech
a and,
in India,
t Leftaordinary desire foe the education of the
people.
He: extraordinary
most anxious to fit the Mahrattas for
business, that they might supply the places hitherto
filled by the , Brahmins. For his own connexions, and
the sons of the
great, officer of his government, he set
apart a suite of rooms, in his own palace, as a college.
On one occasion, when it was deemed necessary to ascer-
tain what was the state oftw
education
as
found
thatinSa it containedttara,atown
containing 10,000 souls, 1
no fewer than forty schools. He manifested the deepest
respect for the advice of those
early
ohad placed him on his
throne, and superintended his administration ; and
reigidly fulfilled the Affent on his quitting
Captain Grant Duff, the Political parting promise, which he gave to
Sattara for England, in 1823, that he would never depart
from the laws established for him by that_4 gentleman, and
confirmed by the Hon. Mountstuart Flphinstone. Such
is the testimony borne to the virtues and fidelity of this
Prince, before the Court of Proprietors. on the lith of
last month, by Major-General Briggs,
who immediately
succeeded Captain Grant Duff, and was for four years
it
the Political Resident at the Raja's Court. Nor was
on the subject of education alone. that the Baja dis-
played his zeal for the welfare and improvement of his
people, and his fitness to rule over the portion of his an-
cestors' dominions conferred upon him. He made Sat-
tara, from being a small and insignificant place, a hand-
some and populous town. He planned awl laid out
broad streets in every direction. He supplied the want
of water by an aqueduct, brought from the neighbouring
hills, a distance of two miles ; and with so much skill,
that a well-known civil engineer in this country, who saw
rind examined the work while in progress, declared that
be was :perfectly astonished at the science which had
been displayed in every part of its construction, whether
as to the knowledge of hydraulics, or the ingenuity in
discovering and leading to the main trunk, the several
small streams of water which were conducted into it ;
and he even carried with him the recipe for forming the
cement which was used in laying the pipes. The Raja
also laid out large sums in the formation of roads and
bridges, and set aside other large sums, annually, out of
his revenues, for that purpose. Such was the Raja of
Sattara, as he appeared every day in the eyes of the men
appointed to watch his conduct. Prom year to year he
received the lavish praises of the Bombay Government,
and from year to year he was complimented by the
authofities at home upon the wisdom and beneficence of

his sway. At last, in the latter end of the yar 1835,
seventeen years f‘vm. the date of his elevation to the
throne, sixteen from the signing of the treaty, and four-
teen from the periOd when he assumed the entire ma-
nagement of the affairs of his kingdom, the Court of
Directors, desirous of bestowing upon him the highest
and most gratifying mark of their admiration and respect,
resolved that he should be presented with a sword, and
at the same time with q suitable letter. In the letter,
which received the signature of every one of the twenty-
four Directors, they complimented the Raja upon the
exemplary fulfilment of the duties of his elevated situa-
tion ; they declared that the whole course of his con-
duct reflected the highest credit on his character—that
he had won their unqualified approbation—that his
liberality in executing, at his own cost, various public
works of great utility, had justly raised his reputation
in (the eyes of the Princes and people of India ; and
that, therefore, they had sent him a present of a sword
in estimation of their high admiration and high esteem.
Such was the Raja of Sattara in 1835. The sword and
letter went out in 1836, but never reached the Prince.
Before they arrived he had incurred the displeasure of
the Bombay Government, and engines were already at
work to effect his ruin. Unhappily, they succeeded, and
this exemplary Prince is now—the ex-Raja of Sattara.
We proceed to the story of his downfal—a story reflect-
ing the deepest and most indelible disgrace upon all the
parties concerned in effecting it.
The treaty which placed the Raja on the throne, se-
cured to him the absolute sovereignty over certain
estates, or jagheers, as they are in India called, which,
on the death of their then occupants, were to lapse
to the Raja of Sattara. It may be proper to ob-
serve, that it is the practice in India to reward services
rendered to the State, by the bestowment of jagheers, or
certain portions of territory, over which the parties to
be rewarded are empowed, during their lives, to collect
the revenue. These jagheers stand in the place of pen-
sions. The sovereignty over several such jagheers was
secured to the Raja of Sattara, by the same treaty which
placed him on the throne. If any power was competent
to deprive him of these jagheers, the same power was
competent to take from him his entire dominion. It be-
came a matter of the utmost importance, therefore, that
the.Raja should assert his right in this matter, and claim
the fulfilment of the treaty. He did so, and was evaded.
He offered to submit the point in dispute to Mr. Elphin-
stone, the framer of the treaty, then in England, and
gave his word that he would abide by Mr. Elphinstone's
decision, whatever it might be. This was never done.
He prayed that the matter might be referred home for
the opinion of the Court of Directors. This was
promised, but never performed. The disagreement
about the jagheers took place in 1832 and 1833.
After the promise of the Bombay Government that the
subject should be submitted to the Court of Directors,
the Raja rested for some time contented ; but, at the end

of thre years, he discovered that he had been deceived

—that no reference of his case had been made to the
home authorities. He was displeased—he lost his con-
fidence in the Bombay Government—he became dis-
quieted in his mind, and declared he could not take his
food, so deeply had the conduct of the local authorities
affected him. He announced his intention of sending
agents to this country to represent his case, and to
claim the fulfilment of the treaty. This openly avowed
intention of appeal, the Bombay Government construed
into an infraction of the treaty, and, still more, into an
insult to themselves ; and they retaliated, by rejecting
the Raja's customary annual present and letter, thus
breaking off all amicable relations with him. They also
withheld the sword and the Directors' letter. Let me
here observe, that these alleged infractions of the treaty
cn the part of the Company, in the matter of the
jagheers, are now admitted. Mr. Elphinstone, who was
always at hand to be appealed to, and whose word would
have settled the point at once, has never been appealed
to. Lord Clare, the Governor of Bombay at the time of
the dispute, and who was at first inclined to sanction the
resumption of the jagheers, has since confessed that he

was wrong, and the Raja right. The treaty has again
and, again been produced in the presence of the Directors;
and the three successive Residents at the Rajah's Court,
Generals Robertson. Briggs, and Lodwick, have all de-
clared their unqualified opinion in favour of the entire
justice of the Raja's claims. His right to appeal to the
home authorities, by means of Vakeels or native agents,
has never been disputed in open Court. The right is
undoubted ; but it suited the purpose of the wholesale
violators of treaties in India, to pervert a respectful ap-
plication to the superior authorities in England, into a
breach of treaty. The loss of the favour and good
opinion of the Bombay Government was the signal for
the rising of a host of enemies of the Raja, who found
the local authorities but too willing to listen to every ac-
cusation they could invent. The first charge, gravely
preferred against him, was that of seeking to corrupt two
native officers in the service of the British Government.
But, before I proceed, I must remind you of what I have
already informed you. The Throne of the Raja, who is
a Mahratta, had been raised upon the ruin of the
Peshwa, who was a Brahmin. The Raja had been guided
for years by a policy, which led him to adopt every
legitimate means of destroying the influence of the
Brahmins, and of raising the intellectual standard
and political importance of the Mahrattas. He had,
despite of all opposition and all denunciation, prose-
scented the work of educating the mass of the people ;
and he had filled up the measure of his offences, in the
eyes of the Hindu° priests, by refusing to appoint to the
office of Prime Minister a talented Brahmin, who, from
the commencement of his reign, and before, had aspired
to that high situation. He had, therefore, many power-
ful, malignant, and unscrupulous foes, who, though awed
and held in fear during the period that the Raja was
the favoured child of the Bombay Government, took
immediate advantage of his quarrel with the British
authorities, and determined to make it subserve the ends
of their baffled ambition, their deep hatred, and their
inextinguishabl revenge, Accordingly, Untagee (one of
the most profligate of Brahmins) accused the Raja of
tampering with the allegiance of two of the native offi-
cers, or soobadars. This charge was first gone into
before a Commission sent up to Sattara, to try the Raja
at his own capital, but behind his back. The Commis-
;ion consisted of one of the Secretaries of the Bombay
Government, a Colonel in the British army, and the
Resident at the Raja's Court, General Lodwick. The
last-named gentleman was appointed the president of the
Commission, and I heard him the other day declare in
open Court, that the originator of the plot avowed him-
self actuated by revenge, and to be unworthy of belief ;
that while looking about for the means of revenging him-
self upon the Raja, heaven threw these soobadars in hit
way. He said, too, that one of these soobadars declared
that, to promote the plot, he took an oath which he had
no intention to keep ; and General Lodwick also openly
stated that the Commissioners, with whom he was asso-
ciated, would not allow these criminators of the Raja to
be cross-examined ; although their oral testimony was
in many important particulars irreconcilable with their
previous depositions.
A second charge was brought forward—that of con-
spiring with Don Manoel de Portugal, the Viceroy of a
petty, poverty-stricken, powerless Portuguese settle-
ment, on the southern confines of the Sattara terri-
tory, some 200 miles below Bombay ; a conspiracy
to raise 30,000 troops in Europe, bring them to India,
and, with this splendid army, to drive the English for
ever out of Hindostan ! The witnesses brought forward
to support this monstrous, wicked, and contemptibly ridi-
culous charge were almost to a man Brahmins. Several
among them were gang robbers, whom the Bombay
Government pardoned. The precious evidence of a
written character, consisted of a bundle of Mahratta and
Portuguese letters, found in pawn with an obscure in-
habitant of an obscure village in the Goa territory, and
purporting to have belonged to two Brahmins, who had
died ten months before, and are declared to have bean
the agents of the Raja of Sattara ; while it is ad-
mitted that these same persons had for years been
in the service of a man who is regarded as the
Pope of the Brahmins, known by the name of the
Swainee of Sunkeshwar, and a known enemy of the
Raja. These documents, which have been pronounced
satisfactory evidence of the Raja's guilty intentions, and
which, if genuine, might have made their possessors
rich for ever, were purchased by the British Govern-
ment for the astounding sum of forty pounds sterling.
The Portuguese papers thus found, and affirmed to be
signed by Don Manoal, have been declared by that
nobleman to be utter forgeries, and his alleged corres-
pondence with the Raja a gross fabrication and false-
hood. But you will naturally suppose that the British
authorities, both in India and at home, took the earliest
opportunity of calling upon our ancient ally, the Portu-
guese Government, to explain the conduct of the high
functionary thus directly implicated in a charge of che-
rishing, through twelve years, the design of subverting the
British power in India. How great will be your surprise
when I tellyou that, while pretending to hold the proofof the
Viceroy's guilt under his own hand and seal, there has
not been, that I am aware, down to this hour, the
slightest reference made to the subject in any correspon-
dence between the British Government and the Govern-
ment of Portugal. lam equally ignorant if there has
ever been any correspondence on the subject between
any person connected with the Executive of the East
India Company and the Viceroy himself. But there has
been between that ex-Viceroy and other parties. A
friend of the Raja proceeded in April last to Lisbon,
where Don Manoel now resides, and fills a high situation
in the household of the reigning Queen. He took with
him a letter from Mr. Hume, who had expressed his de-
termination to bring the matter before Parliament.
Mr. Hume called upon the ex-Viceroy to give full and
explicit snswers to the questions which he put, relative
to the crime said to have been by him committed. The
high-minded Nobleman went before the British Consul
in Lisbon, and made the following voluntary and solemn
declaration,--" Having received a communication, dated
on the Bth instant, from the most illustrious Senhor
Joseph Hume, Member of the British Parliament, re-
lating to the conspiracy that the Rajah of Sattara, at
present dethroned, is said to have contrived against the
British power in India ; and affirming that I was aware
of the said conspiracy—l feel it necessary, for the sake
of justice and my honour, to declare, that, during the
whole of the time I governed Portuguese Asia, I never
had any correspondence whatsoever, upon political sub-
jects, with the said Raja of Sattara ; and that whatever
documents may appear relating to it, must be considered

entirely false.
What is to be thought of the conduct of the British
Indian Government in this business? They have de-
throned kvirtuous and benignant Prince, upon a charge
which they never took the most important preliminary
step to substantiate, and at the same time have concealed
from the Minister of the British Crown all knowledge of
the alleged guilt of a Government in friendly alliance
with us. It is not possible to believe that the British
Indian authorities, either at home or abroad, ever enter-
tained the most distant idea of the genuineness of the
correspondence which they took out of pawn. Anything
approaching to a conviction of its authenticity, would
have laid them under the most solemn responsibility, as
loyal sub3ects, to bring the whole matter before the
Queen's Ministers, that an immediate and rigid inquiry
might have been made into the facts of the case, But
no. The evidence that was considered abundantly suffi-
cient to warrant the dethronement of the Raja, was