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vaded by the Russians, but my mind was changed in a
very short time. I !band 300,000 men in the Indian
army equal to any contingency.—(Cheers.) I
found 300,000 men who had the :same courage,
the same discipline, and all appointments necessary
to carry on wer as the British army—the accoutre-
ments the same, the drill the same as ourselves ;
their courage equal to our own, and if they are inferior
in strength, not inferior in their determination ; and
that is all in war, and in that equal to ourselves.—
(Cheers.) Not only did I find that, but I found a staff
magnificent in its condition ; the arrangements of the
Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-General, and the
Commissariat were all masterly ; and more than all in
my need was that these troops were officered by British
officers.—(Loud cheers.) Three hundred thousand men,
equal to three times the British army, officered by Bri-
tish officers, and ready to follow them to death. When I
saw those troops, I saw that the army of India was
perfectly equal not only to defend India, but, instead
of idly resting on the banks of the Indus, capable of
advancing to the Oxus against all the armies of the
west, and scattering them far and near.—(Cheers.) God
forbisl that I should lend the sanction of my name t
any progress beyond the Indus, which is our natural
boundary—but I will not say natural, because there is
nothing natural but human advancement and civiliza-
tion ; but if we aro to pass the Indus we have an army
capable of doing it.—(Cheers.) I may be told that
we find in the advance into Affghanistan that which
cuts against my argument. But 1 say that affair was an
error of the generals, and still more an error of the
politicals.—(Cheers.) It was an error of politics to go
there; and it was carried out with a multiplication of
errors on the spot.—(Cheers.) I believe that it is im-
possible to restrain the advance of civilization; it is
stronger than barbarism, and will force its way on in
spite of politics in general. I think it will; I think the
banner of the cross will force its way in all parts of the
globe, and I think we shall see it in the centre of Asia,
and that it will exhibit there fights like those of Plessey
to Sobraon—a mass of victories which have never been
surpassed in the field—a mass of exploits of individuals,
corps, and masses, which have never occurred in any
other army which ever existed.—(Cheers.)
The " Health of the Noble Chairman" was next drunk
with great enthusiasm, and Lord Ellenborough said—lt
is now twenty years since I first became connected with
India, as the President of the Board of Control; and
I have never ceased to take the deepest interest in
everything connected with that country.— (Cheers.)
My residence in India, was short, but I may, however,
consider myself an old Indian when I look at the
number of years I have been connected with that
country. I must always take the deepest interest,
not only in the welfare and prosperity of that empire,
but also in the welfare and prosperity of many
excellent friends I had the good fortune to make in it.—
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have very great unwillingness
to say anything whatever respecting myself or the Go-
vernment of which I was the servant. I fbund the em-
pire in a state of danger, and I think that history will
not deny that I left it in a state of security.—(Loud
cheers.) Allow me now to turn altogether from every-
thing connected with self. I have been supposed to be
somewhat partial to the military profession. I confess
that the imputation has a very strong foundation.—
(Cheers and laughter.) That feeling existed in my mind
at a very early period, and when I had the good fortune
of seeing the officers and soldiers of the army in India,
that confirmed the early impressions and prepossessions
of my youth.—(Cheers.) I confess I honour and respect
a family which is in almost all, if not all, its branches,
attached to one or the other branch of the profession of
arms; and if I look beyond the Napier families, from
the highest to the lowest among the noblemen and gen-
tlemen of the land, I know not any family whatever in
which I find persons so distinguished for their achieve-
ments in war, or any family so constantly remarkable for
their addiction to arms as the family of my Gallant Friend.
With them the profession of arms is not adopted merely
as a node of passing an idle and agreeable life. It has
been adopted as a profession in which every energy of
body and mind was to be devoted to the pualic service.
I know not, gentlemen, where you will find persons more
distinguished in every way that illustrates a soldier, not
only in my Gallant Friend, but in his Gallant Brother,
the historian of the Peninsular war, Sir george Napier,
one of the brightest and most distinguished soldiers in
the army, and if we pass to the other branch, in Sir
Charles Napier, one of the most distinguished members
of the navy.—(Loud cheers.) Nay, more, it would ap-
pear that a Napier of the other sex could hardly con-
nect herself but with a distinguished soldier; and my
Gallant Friend, Major M'Murdo, I trust, will transmit
to distant ages a family of gallant soldiers, who will per-
petuate the gallant deeds of war, and the memory of
their grandfather.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,; I con-
fess I feel very strongly on this subject. I can hardly
trust myself, and I will refrain from going further. I
now earnestly invite you to unite with me in drinking
the health of the whole military family of the Napiers.
Major MiMuaDo, in reply, said it had ever been the
attribute of that family to devote their whole energies,
their hands, hearts, and heads—aye, and their,blood, to
the service of the country in every way, and they had
ever been, in the words of the ancient motto of the fa-
mily, " Ready, aye ready !"—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed, in a highly compli-
mentary speech, " The Health of Major Edwardes."
Sir CHARLES NAPIER heartily joined in the enco-
miums passed on Major Edwardes. He (Sir Charles)
had made war in that country, and he knew that Major
Edwardes' great talents were not appreciated as they
ought to be. He had shown himself all that Lord El-
lenborough had said, and more—he had shown himself
not merely a lieutenant, but a lieutenant-general. He
had moreover proved himself a financier, for, crossing
from the right bank of the Indus to the left, he collected
all Moolraj's revenue, which was then due, and thus cut
off the enemy's sinews of war.—(Cheers.)
Several other healths were proposed and responded to
in excellent speeches, and the proceedings did not ter-
minated until a late hour.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 11.
STOCK ExcIIANGI3.-11ere has been a better business done
in our Stock Exchange this morning, and prices are a shade
higher for stock. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths (late M. and L.), 5% dis.—London and Nortk-
Western, 104% c.—Ditto, Fifths, 114 p.—Ditto New Quar-
ters, 2 dis.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), %p,.'—Ditto, paid
up, 20—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters,
No. 1, 10 dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, 954,—Midland Stock,
78—Ditto, New Halves, 121,4 dis.--North Staffordshire, 714
dis.—North Union (A), 197—Shrewsbury and Chester, 101.
Preference, 1274, —South-Eastern and foyer, 22% C.—Ditto,
No. 4, Thirds, 9% dig.
MANCHESTER, OCT. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9.%4 dis.—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 1% dis.—Leeds, Preference, J-4 dis.—Sheffield, Eighths,
n.—North Staffordshire, 7 3-16 dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, 6 7-16—Sheffield, Preference, 9 9-16--Shef-
field and Lincoln, 14 5-16 dis.—East Lancashire, Preference,
3-16 dis.

BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions were few to-day,
but the tone of the market was better. The sales are—
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 5 dig.—
North Staffordshire' 7 1-3 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham (A), 8 dis.—Ditto (B), 41. lls. 3d.—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 1 die.
YORK, OCT. 10.
STOCK ExcHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Great Northern, VA—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 4%.
GLASGOW, OCT. 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 20s.—Dundee and Arbroath, New, No. 3, 50s.—Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 501h—Ditto, Halves, No. 1,
2%—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 3—Glasgow and Greenock,
Preference, 61/.'2—Great Northern, 34—North British, Thirds,
83s.—Ditto, New Quarters :(scrip), 3s. 6d.— Paisley, Barr-
head, and Hurlet, 20s.—Scottish Central, 22.

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