The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BECCLES RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
tt The Gentleman's Purse of 50 soya. Heats.
•„.rr• rileobold's Chemise, 4 yrs
t • Pemberton's Best Bower, 6 yrs 2 2
'Hr. Able's Sir Fretful, aged
k Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, with 15 added. Heats.
trr• Able's Sir Edmund of Langley, aged ...... ...(Roy)
01
,:r heobolds Chemise, 4 yrs air. p
.. 3 dr
iqr, bemberton's Victoria, aged
Th. ' Oswald's Maid of Burham 4 dr
/...e,,,llunters' Stakes of 2 sows. each, with 15 added. Heats.
1 1
la': remberton's Victoria, aged . .
"'A) • )
4 2
kr amel s Kitty, aged
2 3
b. • bavey's The Governor, 6 yrs
'''•r. Able 's Welcome, aged 3 4
TAUNTON AND WEST SOMERSET RACES.
THURSDAY.
l'he adies' Plate of 204 adced to a Sweepstakes of 5 sous.
It/ii,' 3 ft. Three yrs ()Id, 7st 61b ; four, Bst 7lb ; five, 8.,t
Captain"'": six and agea, 9st 51b. Heats, once round and a dm.
it Crofton's Zulieka, 3 yrs
b. Pair's Felix, 3 yrs
3 dr
e Borough Members' Plate of 50 soya., added to a Sweep
21b-
stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft. Three yrs old, 7st; four, Bst
; five, 9st 41b; six and aged, 9st 71b. Heats, once
, round and a dis. I.;_arptain Crofton's Zulieka,3 yrs (Moon) 1 1
tr. ,s`r°no,s' Miss SLirley, 3 yrs 2 2
. •
The Hack
a Eclat,
3 yrs
"ko Hack Stakes of 3 soya. each, with 10 added, lOst each.
trr. :rho vfinner to be sold for 501. Heats, once round.
,_,. aloore's Flirt, 5 yrs
-).1.• Tom's Tauntoman 6 yrs
japtain Patston's Tiny, aged
1 2 3
Mr. Notb '
2 3 4
Captain d fUn'eula' aged
M. .„
~ro ton s Strathspey, 5 yrs
Ile" ' Y 04.24rr..
ißittillels's,sliaNynatrciliv,e6r
7 0 dr
Polly, aged
yrs
,
6 0 dr
The Hunters' Stakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added. Four-
-318-°1(1) 11st ; five, list 91b; six and aged 12st. Twice
irround.
MSYnes Circes, aged
• koom's.Trubadour, 6 yrs 2
141.' 14Yne's Speculation, 5 yrs dis
hl:•l3,,altotley's 's Motley's Grasshopper, 6 aged...
dis
' Nrasshoyr,

RER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.
ST. HELIER'S, JERSEY, SEPT. 3.
This fown is in the height of enthusiasm, as the Queen
;"!7ed this evening' in the roads, and will land to-mor-
, w•
abuteneral illumination takes place to-night. There
%re
40 variegated arches under which her Majesty
Pa,s.
T,

414,11 E REGICIDE HENRY.—The copper tube found
h;_'e hole which Joseph Henry had dug in the cellar of
it: house was opened yesterday in his presence, by
oparaining magistrate appointed for that purpose,and
aet,,,l4lite drawn out of the papers found in it, and the
-era given by Henry to the questions put to him on
bAseheeca c,asion. Conformably to the indications fur-
detail °Y him, there has been found a prolix and
10. lied account of all that he intended to do in order
letZrY his plans into execution. He describes before-
the manner in which the pistols were to be loaded.
but nelares that he should use no kind of projectile ;
4'4'4 that, in order to give his mad act the appear-
ale .1! ,an attentat, he should recount the fable of the
and "jug cut from an iron rod, rounded with a file,
eeld by his finger in the barrel of the pistol. He
raolltierls also the words which he should utter at the
he of his arrest, in order to give an idea that
his -.ha°. accomplices. This was a calculation on
of bei.X, in order to escape from the first outburst
all "C"ile indignation. In short, this document; like
tar 'll3 her writing, bears that singuar carac-
which by medical men is admitted tot exist with
kregreater number of persons whose mental faculties
tiara Effected, viz., incoherent and strange ideas, ra-
if and clearly expressed. It appears that
vreuf-',ler
uaY had been condemned to death, he
~
aft,tls ve contrived some means of making known
In leou'i,uexecution, the existence of those papers which
have proved that his attempt was not a serious one.
with's idea this discovery would have inspired his judges
the regret at having exercised the extreme rigour of
sloe -W against him, and would, to use his own expres-
etik"e's_ving given a rude blow to the punishment
ifen;* No
decision has yet been come to with regard tof
a
a•Ys Petition for pardon.—Paris paper of Thursday.
arty' shooting commenced on Tuesday, with
beiehnclitl weather. We hear some complaints of birds
atiel„shY, and also of barren pairs being found fre-
t% "3' ; but upon the whole believe that the port in
b district has been tolerably good.'— Worcester
Neraid.
1,0 IKE CONDEMNED CONVICT ',Mint: DEPUTATION
G
Sin GEORGE GREY.--Yesterday, at two o'clock, a
r;:loutation waited by appointment upon Secretary Sir
`" Grey, to present the petition in favour of a commuta-
tionr,
,of the sentence upon the convict John Smith. Ihe deputation connisted of J. Masterman E. q m p Al-
derman H. Hughes, Alderman Sidi:ey,' -Alessr's,',j, I.
Travers, Samuel Gurney, jun.; James Millard, William
hornborrow, R. M. Phillips, Ccnamon Councilman of
Dover; J. W. Barnard, Common Councilman of London;
arld James Walt3rs. The- deputation stated that they
had to present a memorial from the merchants and
ethers of London, founded upon -the certificate signed
1u37.. earnestly
the jurymen who tried the prisoner, respectfully
pressing upon the consideration of the-
tSf_pt),
vernment the propriety of extending the mercy of
t" Crown, by sparing the life of the. criminal, but
evertheless subjecting him to the highest penalty-
'.the law enforces next to capital. punishment.
/0" deputation explained that their application
ire mercy was in accordance with the ex-
4,ssecl wish of the jury on the trial, and proceeded as
fell:from the conviction that no premeditated revenge--
elude 11°g existed, although the nature of the case pre-
pro d the prisoner from giving legal evidence of the
ailjoeation he had received. Mr. Masterman and Mr.
rriarr'2,4ll Sidney were the principal speakers, and the
et,,,),?rial was signed by seventeen members of the
treap,-(r's jury, six aldermen, thirty-four other tnagis
i." 3, eleven bankers, one hundred merchants, and by
inegg,Yl24ll, barristers, solicitors, and others, amount-
ktee-t° ,200 and upwards. The deputation were most
thetd,,lvelY listened to, and were assured that the case
Gevt," undergo the most anxious consideration of the
terollraent. The Home Secretary said the most ma-
likr,Part for consideration was that the memorialists
Dtitittegether excluded the question of abolition of death
of 01:i:tient. The petition from Norwich, the birthplace
84erifieouvict, is signed by the Mayor of Norwich, the
three i eighteen members of the corporation, twenty-
etlikirmteagistrates, thirty-four clergymen, and six
of the principal inhabitants.
POTATO DISEASE.—At the meeting of te
hot) Society of London, held at the Society's
-ardßedford-street, Covent-garden, last evening,
Ayres Doubleday, Esq., V.P., in the chair, Dr. P. B.
cemb,e- read a paper on the potato disease. The author
and de "'lced by a notice of the fungi which infest living
the ~ad plants. Those. which infest living plants, as
ttben'ullt and brands, do not, except when in very great
Whi4larlec, destroy the vitality of the plants, while those
lope, Produce mouldiness, to which the fungus der-
habi en the leaves of the potato belongs, are chiefly in-
obsbaota of the decaying vegetable matters. He had
44;rved
v that many of the black or brown spots on the
the were were destitute of fungi, but that in all probability
Y are produced by atmospheric causes. He then
tracedht thee ffects of the disease of the leaves on the
taa and tubers, the deficiency of starch granules and
ate
ateth state of the tubers afford favourable circum-
a "ces fur the production of common decay. He sue-
°ested the use ot:stimulant manures, such as common
Galt,
lor the chloride
ofpotassium, or indeed any of the
alkaline
which
act as stimulants to plants. The
paper leedstaoltas v"
-y animated discussion.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday the
4th. loaf was raised to 7d. by the cheap bakers in the vici-
b@f CI arket and other poor localities, the price
: o are-U1
ng Bd. at the best bakers at the west-end of the
etropolis
A,4'llE REGATTA TO CONCLUDE THE AQUATIC
--,!'s°X.—The arrangements for the grand regatta at
ss, 7 11eY, on Monday, amongst gentlemen amateurs, to
etth up the aquatic season, were completed last evening.
e Messrs. Searle's, Stangate. The following is a
%), of the prizes and competitors :—Pair-oared Match for
vr Wherries. In three heats. First Heat—Messrs.
I,leett and Murray, Payford and Stratton, Duplan and
Sttillkett. Second Heat—Messrs. Ernest and Brown,
". kauhyn and Layton, Rickerds and Watford. Scullers'
jaeteli for a Pair of Gold Sculls. In three heats. First
cat"--Dlessrs• Hookey, Baldrey, Grove, and Basset.
Heat--Messrs. Allan, Innes, and Conant.
and r,-uared Match for Presentation Cup, and Silver Oars
Qii.,"udder. In three heats. First Heat—The Cygnet
4i,""' the Nelson, and the Hearne. Second Heat—The
ye
tem 4, x, the Triton, and the Arid. The races will ex-
pair
~trutu Putney to Hammersmith, for the sculls and,,
A e,ts,; and to Chiswick Eyot, for fours and eights.
tted
..aued to the above list will be a scratch with fours,
Scratch with eights.
takh °olAvica CADETS.—The young gentlemen at-
d to the Royal Military Academy on Woolwich-
aft, ~11:1°,11 and in the Royal Arsenal, returned yesterday,
the Yours
taeuetlelnolaindta.ys, to resume their military duties, under
Governor, Colonel Parker, C.B. Twenty.
buttZ gentlemen were admitted as cadets, a
or _ er
d "aVing received their commissions in the Royal
na'=^e C u orps.
to tii RGLARP.—Yesterday,information was forwarded
8,
crate
Police that the premises of Mr. Turbyfield, of No.i
eeteqfield-place, Mile-end-road, had been burglarious y
and red, and a great number of valuable silk umbrellas
EFFECT property abstracted.
Cif 11017" oP SHOT UPON STEAM-VESSELS. —A party
bail,-"'etilen and gentlemen, and officers of the naval and
IrecolrY service, attended yesterday afternoon upon the
tatkm.wich Marshes, to witness the experiments upon a
1444 rePresenting a section of a. war steam-vessel's side,
veet,„,ri,th the patent "Baniptulicon" composition, in-
teeti: °Y Lieutenant Walter, of the Royal Marines, a
elide -Man who for some time past has been assiduously
Pre„ayouring to surmount the many difficulties which
Poses to in constructing steam-vessels for pur-
Nler-i„ch War. The trials were very satisfactory. The
ltig 'are made by the shot immediately collapsed, prov-
,Nvese:q.ait a vessel lined with the composition would be
both -,;',:ght even if the enemy's shot were to penetrate
with i"less A further trial, however, seems necessary,
dallywn targets, instead of one, in order to prove prat.-
411 the Advantages of the composition.

OVEII LAND MAIL

INDIA.
(From the Times.)
We have received by express, from Marseilles,
letters and papers from Bombay to the 18th of July.
The rainy season continued, and the fall was such
as to satisfy 'those who desired much of that most
valuable element in India—water. Tranquillity
prevailed throughout the whole of that continent,
with, perhaps, one exception, viz., the unpaid and
dissatisfied troops of the Nizam ; but they can do
but little.

The cholera has lessened •its ravages at Kurrachee,
where it destroyed several thousand persons during
ten days. The troops had lost about a fourth of
their number. Every praise was bestowed upon Sir
Charles Napier for his kindness and attention to the
sufferers. Only two officers had died—viz., Captain
J. B. Seton, of the Bombay Fusiliers, and Lieut.
Dawson, of the 12th regiment of Native Infantry.
Gross exaggeration of the insalubrity, &c., of Sinde
was, as usual, the theme of some of the Bombay
newspapers.

From the Punjaub there is no news. All was quiet
there. The Governor-General and Lord Gough were
at Simla, where the rain was falling in torrents.

The departure of Sir George Arthur from the Go
vernment of Bombay'was fixed for the sth of August.
A long continuance of ill-health is the cause of his
retirement. Mr. L. R. Reid, the senior civil servant
in the Bombay Council, was to succeed him until a
Governor nominated in London shall have arrived.
There is a hope expressed that the Court of Directors
will grant Sir George Arthur a pension.
The retirement from the bench of Sir Henry
Roper, which is expected in November, has given rise
to much talk respecting his successor. The want of
the three judges allowed by the charter is much felt
in Bombay. The result of the penury in the Court
of Directors whiCh saves the salary of one judge, is to
throw the whole decisions of the Court into the
hands of the Chief Justice. .It was expected (with
how little reason our readers are aware) that Sir
Erskine Perry, the puisne judge at Bombay, would
become the next Chief Justice : his judicial conduct
had given great satisfaction.

Lieutenant-Colonel Martin, Deputy-Adj utant-
General of her Majesty's troops in the Bombay Presi-
dency, died at Poonah on the 13th of July.
We take the following from the Bombay Gen-
tleman's Gazette, principally on account of the
attention which has been directed here to the
appointment of Mr. D. Pollock as Chief Justice of
Bombay :

" The return to England of Sir George Arthur, the
-Governor of Bombay, long expected from the infirm
state of his health, is now finally determined on, and
we believe Sir George will leave our shores about
the first week in August. We regret to say, repeated
and severe attacks of illness have much debilitated our
departing Governor, who strove long and courageously
to put off the evil day, but the suggesstions of his friends,
the strong recommendation of his medical advisers, and
the anxiety of his family, have at length prevailed, and
he has reluctantly yielded to their united wishes. We
shall take an opportunity, after his departure, of saying
what we think of his government—contenting ourselves
for the present with expressing a hope that he may find
in his native land that health which he has lost amongst
us. We are perfectly conviced that Sir George
Arthur's intense application to business has been
the cause of those attacks, which render is return to
England, in the midst of the monsoon, a measure of ab-
sulute necessity. Another subject of very great interest
to all of us is the appointment to the seat on the bench
of the Supreme Court, about to be vacated by Sir Henry
Roper, Chief Justice. Many are, and have been, the
speculations on this subject; and the public anxiety is
very great to learn whom Government will appoint to
fill an office of such high trust and responsibility. The
constitution of the Supreme Court, as contemplated by
the charter, required the appointment of three judges.
From pecuniary contiderations we have only two, and
one of the consequences of this parsimony is, that when-
ever there is a difference of opinion the Chief Justice
has the casting voice, and a decision, without a majority
of voices, gives little satisfaction to the profession or to
the public. This is a grievance where appeals are so
ew and so restricted. Bombay is increasing every year
in importance, and ocght not to be deprived of every
'air and legitimate advantage, to which the charter
and the general feeling of the community deem it to
ue entitled. Again, the climate is so very hurtful to
.be European constitution, that-frequent absence from
Bombay, and short trips to more healthful localities,
Ire imperatively necessary to keep the judicial mind and
body in working vigour. Here there is no long vaca-
tion—the whole year requires the presence of at least
one judge. Every Monday and Thursday throughout the
year a judge sits in chambers, tied to discharge the
minor duties of the be-nch. One of the judges
such circumstances,-will be found as frequently absent under
on
kirid of quasi sick leave as he can without detriment to
the public. If there were three judges we could afford
to allow one to become generally absent, but it becomes
it quitew wilt
be,
obvious,
oquuse,st
thation whenund under
we
are
present
circumstances allowed on
l two.
thewu
individual who is to fill this high office anxiouslyis
re-
garded by all of us, and we hope sincerely that'
Govern-
ment will well consider the qualifications of candidates
before they decide a question of such grave importance.
The succession to the Chief-Justiceship has, of late
years, taken place from the Puiene Justiceship, and we
know of no sounder principle of succession. The cir-
cumstances of the country seem to require it. In Eng-
land a barrister practises at either the equity or com-
mon law bar. He is comparatively ignorant of the
branch in which he has never practised. Either a com-
mon law man, or an equity man, coming fresh from the
English bar to the Indian bench, would, immediately
on his arrival have to preside, if appointed Chief
Justice, over equity, common law, admiralty, ecclesi-
astical, insolvent, Mahometan and Mindoo laws, with all
their ramifications. For the efficient discharge of
such various duties a practised judge is required. A
fresh importation from the home bar must be at least
two years in this country before he can be considered
efficient. If, then, Government appoint any barrister to
the Chief Justiceship, he becomes for two years an in-
efficient president of the court, and having the casting
voice to determine all questions, wherever he and his
more experienced junior judge happen to differ. Our
humble suggeston to the home authorities would be—if
we flattered ourselves that they would attend to any
suggestion from a source so humble and so distant—
constitute your supreme courts in India after this
fashion; send us out one equity judge, one common law
judge, and promote our present puisne to the chiefship.
We shall then have our number complete, as contem-
plated by the charter, and confidence from the profession
and the public reposed in men who have each acquired a
knowledge of this pecular branch of the law. It would
oe not only unwise, but disgusting to the legal profession
in Bombay, to see a man placed over the head of Sir
Erskine Perry, who, for upwards of five years, has applied
himself with the utmost diligence to make himself tho-
roughly conversant with his judicial duties. How far he
has succeeded would ill beoowe us to presume to express
an opinion upon ; and we probably shall have little
thanks for going so far as we have done into an honest
consideration of his just claims to promotion."
(From the Bombay Times.)
Sinde supplies almost the only topic of news for the
month. The seaport of Kurrachee, the healthiest and
the favourite military station, has ever since it became
known to us been visited triennially by cholera. In 1839,
and again yin 1842, the amount of suffering occasioned
by it was terrible, yet slight compared to that which it
has just endured. Between the 13th and the 23d of
June, above 8,000 human beings were cut off by it, in-
cluding 895 Europeans, of whom 815 were fighting men.
Besides this, 595 sepoys, and it is believed about 7,000
natives, camp-followers and inhabitants of the town, have
died. The pestilence had quitted Kurrachee, and was
apparently creeping up the river. Fever of a very fatal
kind had made its appearance amongst the European
soldiers at Sukkur—its triennial visit is to be looked for
next year. Her Majesty's 17th had chiefly suffered :
it is said they were to be moved down, while her Ma-
jesty's 86th were to move up to Hyderabad. Official
returns of the finances, revenue, and mortality in
Sinde confirm all that has been said by the Indian papers
—confute most of what has been urged by
those at home. The acknowledged expenses of
Sinde in excess of its returns amount up to the present
time to about three millions sterling ; and when the
Governor's salary, and expense of steam between Bom-
bay and Kurrachee, and cost of troops destroyed by the
climate, are added, we shall have a current drain on the
finances of India equal to between a million and a quar-
ter and a million and a half annually, with no prospect
of return. Somewhere about 3,000 Europeans and half
as many native troops have in four years perished from
the effects of climate. At home a peerage is claimed
for the author of blessings so unbounded ! The good
accounts of the Government, and the public improve-
ments by great works in Sinde, reach us in India
through the home newspapers ; they exist nowhere
save in print. The Punjaub and newly-acquired terri-
tories continue tranquil ; scarcely a word worth repeat-
ing ever reaches us from either. The Governor-Gene-
ral and Commander-in-Chief continue at Simla, and all
things throughout India much as they have been since
the setting in of the rains. An extremely dry season
has been followed by an unusually wet one ; and the
want of water, so severely felt, is now abundantly sup-
plied. Betwixt the 9th of June and 17th of July up-
wards of 35 inches of rain have fallen. The Governor of
Bombay continues severely indisposed, rumours every
now and then gaining currency that he is about to re-
turn to England.
Cholera, in one of its most frightful and deadly forms,
has just visited Kurrachee, and in the course of ten days
carried off one-fourth of the troops and one-half of the
inhabitants of that station. Ever since the conquest the
sea-port of Sinde has enjoyed a comparative exemption
from those maladies which have been so fearfully fatal
so that the fact escaped us that
in the upper country,
Kurraehee was subject to triennial visitations, and that
if in 1839 and 1842 the disease was the same, only less
fatal than in 1846, the circumstances most probably de-
pended on the smaller volume and lesser density of the
mass of human beings on whom it bad to act. The

heat had for the first fortnight of June been intense,
but there was no considerable amount of sickness at the
station. The 14th was a Sunday, and the atmosphere
was more than usually stagnant and oppressive. A
thick portentous-looking cloud crept up the sky when the
troops were proceeding to church, and a sudden burst of
wind threatened the buildings. It passed away almost as
speedily as it came, and when the worshippers re-
tired the air was as still as when they as-
sembled. At that same hour did the pestilence ap-
pear. Before midnight nine of the 86th were at rest,
and men began to be borne into hospital in such
numbers that it was difficult to make arrange-
ments for their reception. It was a fearful night. With
morning came the tidings that the pestilence was over-
spreading the town, and 50 had in twenty-four hours
fallen victims. The 86th were the earliest, and continued
to be the severest, sufferers, They and her Majesty's
60th bad for six months been in tents close to each
other: they were the day after the disease appeared
marched out for change of air, and encamped by the sea
shore near Clifton. The Rifles were next attacked;
then the Fusiliers; the artillery and native infantry
began to suffer after this. For five fearful days did the
destroyer lay his hand most heavily upon them, and in
this time more than 1,000 men were carried to their
graves! The pestilence now began to abate—it had
done its worst, and seemed about to withdraw: within
less than a fortnight 900 Europeans, including 815 fight-
ing men, were carried away; 600 native soldiers and
7,000 of the camp followers and inhabitants of the town
had been hurried into eternity. The conduct of the Go-
vernor is stated to have been beyond all praise: anxiety
for the sick conferring an alacrity on limbs the hand of
time might have stiffened. He went about everywhere—
counselling the healthy—seeing that the sick were eared
for—cheering the sufferers, and comforting those hasten-
ing to another world. Pestilence, which too often gene-
rates recklessness and indifference, was here met with
manly dignity and Christian composure and resigna-
tion. The men disregarded infection, braved every dan-
ger in waiting on teach other, and each seemed to feel
that the tenderness one hour bestowed on a suffering
comrade might be the next required by themselves. The
feeling in too many cases was not slow in being realised.
Calamity is apt to beget complaint—sickness to generate
unreasonable querulousness. Yet on the present occa•
sion no single murmur against the arrangements or con-
duct of any one has reached us during the currency of
the pestilence. The appearance presented by Kurra-
chee after the fatality of the disease had passed is de-
scribed as very awful. The temporary sojourners in the
town, and all who could get away, had fled panic•struck ;
of the natives, one-half nearly had been removed by
death. Tho soldiers had been buried in their beds—

there was no time for shroud or coffin—in pits of such
depth as could be excavated in haste. The effluvium
now arising from the remains of 8,000 festering dead—
half-burned or half-buried—is described as fearful—fit to
generate a second pestilence. Cholera had been heard
of in the neighbourhood, and its appearance was not
wholly unexpected. It seems now to be creeping up the
river, great apprehensions of its approach to Hydera-
bad being expressed. At Sukkur, again, a very virulent
variety of fever afflicts the European soldier. In a few
hours it is fatal ; and so severely have the men of her
Majesty's 17th suffered, that arrangements were being
made for bringing them down to Hyderabad by steam.
The regular triennial visitation so fatal in Upper Sinde,
is not due till next year. Such is the salubrity of Young
Egypt in 1846 ! In the course of three years it has been
the grave of nearly 6,000 of our troops ! The financial
returns obtained on the motion of Mr. Hume, appear to
have attracted so little notice at home, that six weeks
after the publication, the London papers were boasting
of the value of a country shown to draw a million an-
nually from the revenues of India beyond what its own
could supply ; and talking of 100 000/. a year sent to
Calcutta, instead of ten times the sum having been with-
drawn from it ! Incomplete as are the returns, and
heavy as are the items omitted in them—the Governor's
salary of 10,0001. being amongst the first—the Bombay
steam charges of 50,0001. amongst the second—the dis-
closures they make are appalling. The military charges
for the past three years exceed a million sterling annu-
ally ; the civil charges average 125,0001. ; to which, if
the defects above noted be added, they will amount to
185,000/.—a grand total of 1,185,0001. The total in-
come to meet this averages about 200,0001. ; the ad-
mitted detect is about 900,0001.—the actual one about a
million and a quarter : as near as possibe the sum we
have for three years past set down. Nor is there any
prospect of a change for the better ; the country is not
improving, and the Governor seems to begin to despair
of improvement ; the blame is laid on the habits of the
people. Most of the revenue is collected in grain, and
to enhance its apparent value, this is sold at an excessive
price to the army contractors, and purchased from them,
at a charge of course equally excessive, by the commis-
sariat—so that India, in fact, pays doubly a portion of the
netted income of which Sinde pretends to boast. This
we are aware will be denied; but we speak on authority
equal to that of the Parliamentary papers. An eminent
political authority at home writes—" The grossest at-
tempts have been made to mislead, but the facts are
these. Some dozen or two people are filling their pockets
in Sinde at the public expense, and what care they
though the country costs a million or two annually ?"
" The fallaciousness of the reported remittances to Cal-
cutta have been fully exposed—and the immediate result
has been that the Governor's salary has been raised from
60,000 rupees (7,0001.) a year to 80,000 rupees (9,0001.) a
year ! Such is Sinde, as known to all who wish to
make themsfelves acquainted with its affairs—such the
delusive aspect in which it is viewed at home." Were
the cost of it to appear in the estimates of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and to be learned at home, the people
of England might think :of the costliness, if not of the
criminality, of the wrongs they have indulged in. So
long as the poor, unresisting, overtaxed Hiudoo provides
the means, why should Englishmen trouble themselves
about inquiry? They do not go on without warning.
They may rely on it the day will come when restitution
may be impossible—remorse and repentance unavailing.
A subscription having been opened for the purpose of
purchasing in the jewels and ornaments of the
Princesses of Hyderabad advertised for sale amongst the
Sinde prize booty, with a view of restoring them to their
owners, above 600/. were almost immediately set down.
Some of the officers have determined to decline touching
their prise-money at all.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
CALCUTTA, JULY 9.
The six days which have elapsed since my last have
been productive of little that is interesting. From La-
hore we have nothing of importance. Soondur Singh,
the ci-devant Commandant of Kote Kangra, had been
presented at Court, and received without any signs of
violent displeasure for causing us the trouble and ex-
pense of moving a battering train and a large force to
coerce him. Rumours are afloat that Lord Hardinge is
determined to remain at Simla and its neighbourhood
during the whole of his sojourn in India, and that the
Council are to go and join him, leaving Calcutta and •
the Government of Bengal in the hands of a Deputy-
Governor, or, may be, this designation may be changed
to that of Lieutenant• Governor, placing the Bengal
and Agra provinces on the same footing, the Legis-
lative Council remaining where they are. This arrange-
ment would be productive of good even now, as the
Government would receive intelligence from England
as soon at Simla as at Calcutta, or in a few days
more ; and when railroads are established at Cal-
cutta and Delhi there can be no doubt but the
residence of the Supreme Government in the interior
would be productive of great good to the country, be-
cause as there would always be a tendency to progress
from the seaports to the seat of Government, the inter-
mediate space would benefit by the increased communi-
cation between the extremes, which would be the result
of the Government being stationed on the north-west
frontier; and while the transit of goods from Europe to
the interior of the country would tend to preserve to
the whole seaboard the activity which now prevails, the
attraction of the seat of Government would give such an
impetus to the said transit as to insure a larger portion
of goods being carried into the far north-west, by the
establishment of entrepOts for the supply of the coun-
tries beyond the Sutlej and Himmalayas.
I must now revert to a very painful subject—the ap-
parent disregard of the Government for the comfort of
the brave men who have so lately faced death in their
country's cause. The 16th Lancers and the 31st Foot
have been put on board of wretched straw-covered boats
and sent down the Ganges at the most stormy and
burning season of the year, when the light, dry, and
fiery sandbanks everywhere found in the de-
scent of the river, are blown about with the irresist-
ble fury, so as to fill the hair, eyes, &c., with scorching
sand, with the thermometer at 110 degrees and the
chance of having boats dashed to pieces by the "north-
westers," which invariably prevail at that season of the -
year, instead of being retained in some of the many
vacant barracks at Meerut or Cawnpore till the rains had
fairly set in, or put on board the Government steamers,
and brought down quickly and comfortably, which ought
to have been done, instead of, as alleged, the latter being
employed in making money for the State by carrying
merchandise for individuals. The result of this indiffer-
ence of the Government to the comfort of their gallant
defenders has been great destruction of life by sinking
of boats, and in one instance the loss of about eighty
wounded men by the foundering of the hospital boats.
Surely when Lord Hardinge and Lord Gough hear that
these noble fellows, who faced death to win their laurels
and pensions, have been drowned through their own want
of care for them, their hearts must sicken at the thought,
and their satisfaction in the contemplation of their own
good fortune be greatly diminished. It is to be hoped
that when private enterprise shall have supplied steam
transport sufficient to enable the community to dis-
pense with the Government boats, these boats may be
applied to the conveyance of troops, to the entire discon-
tinuance of the present dangerous and uncomfortable
country boats ; and I am happy to think that private en-
terprise is fast supplying the means of transporting mer-
chandise from Calcutta to Allahabad, and from the latter
to the former. A short time ago, that is on the 26th
ult., the Inland Steam Company launched their first
river steamer, and the day after the Ganges Steam Na-
vigation Company launched their first. The first boat
is intended to tow two accommodation or baggage boats,
but the latter will carry her passengers and freight in
her own hold. She is to be immediately followed by
three others belonging to the same company, while the
Inland Steam Company will have, I believe, an equal
number. Other companies are forming, I hear; so that
in the course of a few years I hope we shall have an
abundance of steam tonnage on the Ganges.
Among the improvements of the day talked of at head-
quarters is a suspension-bridge across the Sutlej at Be-
, laspore.