The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-07 00:00:00

THE SUN - LtiN Do.N. THITRS.DA Y, ETEN ING, MAY 7, 1846'

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER, TUESDAY NIGHT, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Plate race, left undecided when our report left, was
won in three heats ,by Captain Harcourt's The Druid, 3 yrs,
beating Highfield, Hetman Platoff colt, Felix, and Chartist.
LATEST BETTING.
The only changes in the Cup betting are:-
14 to 1 agst Sweetmeat
15 to 1 agst Clumsy
17 to 1 agst Vitula—taken
20 to 1 agst Vol-au-Vent
25 to 1 agst Inheritress—taken
25 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger
30 to 1 agst St. Lawrence
50 to 1 agst Ruff
50 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne
1000 to 15 agst Crim. Con.

. M. G. Reiset's br h Tiger, 1381 b (Smiti
M. E. Cremieux's b h Cattonian, 131,b (Atkinson) 0
Mr. Rowle's br m The Witch,l3Blb (R. Power 0
Austerlitz took the lead, Chance and Tiger second, the
rest lying behind. At the first hurdle The Witch was
pressed by the others, in their rush, against the stake, and,
not being able to get clear, threw her rider. The rest took
the hurdles regularly, Oliver, who was last in going over the
second one, endeavouring to get up. He had great difficulty
in doing so, as the pace was good. His horse, Austerlitz,and
Tiger, cleared the last hurdle but one altogether, and the
struggle was then between him and Allibone. The latter
went over the last leap a length in advance, and had to all
appearance Ihe race in hand, when, mistaking the winning-
post, he checked his horse too soon, and was passed by
Oliver, Chance, therefore, again winning the stakes.
Latest Betting on the French Derby.-5 to 1 agst
Philip-
Shah, 6 to 1 agst Miss Waggs, 6 to 1 agst Liverpool, 8 to 1
agst Premier d'Avril, 10 to agst Meudon, 14 to 1 agst Club-
stick, 16 to 1 agst Dorade.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early
walk yesterday in the garden, of Buckingham Palace. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards rode out on horse-
back, attended by the Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain
Gordon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, and remained to luncheon with her
Majesty and her Royal Consort.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their
usual walks and rides yesterday in the pleasure grounds of
the Palace.

The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham, Palace
included the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina
Villiers, Viscount Canning, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following pieces :
Overture zur Cantate—Die Veer Meucher Alter—Lachner.
Walzer—Themis Fest Klange—Labitzky.
Medley—Scotch—Waddell.
Polka—Kenderfreuden—Labitzky.
Selection from `f Linda de Chamouni"—Donizetti.
Potpourri—March—Zulchner.
The Viscountess Canning has succeded Lady Portman as
the Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday
in an open carriage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augustus Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, and Sir- George
Couper, Bart., honoured the performance of the French plays
with her presence yesterday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron
Knesebeck, honoured the Archbishop of York with their com-
pany at dinner yesterday, at ..his residence in Grosvenor-
square. After dinner the illustrious party, including the
Noble Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music, went to
the Hanover-square rooms, to honour the Concert of Ancient
Music with their presence, the Archbishop being the Director
for the evening.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday. There were present the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Bangor, Carlisle,
Chester. Gloucester, and Bristol, Lichfield, Lincoln, Llandaff,
Ripon, and Salisbury, the Judge of the Prerogative Court,
the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl of Chi-
chester, and the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse.
Mr. Secretary Gladstone gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence on Carlton
House-terrace.

Sir Robert and Lady Gore Booth arrived at Farrance's
Hotel yesterday, from their seat, Lissadel, Ireland.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6.

The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in by the undernamed Hon. Members
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Durham and Sunderland Rail-
way and Wearmouth Dock Parchase)—Mr.Liddell, Mr. Hinde, and
Mr. Hudson.
Midland (Leicester and Swannington Railway vesting)—Mr, Packe,
Mr. Farnham, and Mr. Mundy.
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Salisbury to Yeovil)—Sir
W. eathcote, Mr. J. Benett, and Mr. Seymer.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

,
;From the Votes and Proceedings of the name of Commous,
WEDNESDAY, HAY 6.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.

Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question proposed,
" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"—Amendment pro-
posed, to leave oat from the word " That" to the end of the Ques-
tion, in order to add the words " this House will, upon this day six
months, resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof :
Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of
the Question." The House divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 110.
A'Court, Captain Fitzroy, Henry Neville, Ralph
Archbold, Robert Forster, Matthew O'Connell, Daniel
Armstrong, Sir A. Go: e, Montague O'Conor, Don
Arundel, Earl of Goulburn, Henry Ord, William
Baillie, Colonel Graham, Sir J. Pakington, J. S.
Baring, Henry Granger, T. C. Parker, John
Baring, F. T. Greene Thomas Pechell Captain
Baring, W. B. Grey, Sir G. Peel, Sir Robert
Barron, Sir H. Grosvenor, Lord R. Peel, Jonathan
Berkeley, Craven Hall, Sir Benjamin Philips, G. IL
Bernal, Ralph • Harcourt, G. Plumridge, Captain
Blake, M. J. Hatton, Captain V. Powell, Caleb
Boldero, H. G. Herbert, Sidney Pusey, P.
Bowes, John Hindley, Charles Rawdon' Colonel
Bowles, Admiral Horsman, E. Roebuck, J. A.
Bowring, Dr. Howard, C. W. Russell, Lord J.
Bretherton, J. Howard, P. H. Sheridan, R. B.
Browne, W. Hughes, W. B. Smith, J. A.
Buller, Charles James, Sir W. Smith, Vernon
Busfeild, William Johnson, General Somerset, Lord G.
Butler, P. S. Kelly, Sir Fitzroy Somerville, Sir W.
Cardwell, Edward Lambton, H. Str4t, Edward
Carnegie, Captain Lascelles, W. S. Sutton, H. M.
Christie, W. D. Layard, Captain Thesiger, Sir F.
Collett, John Leader, J. T. Thornely, T.
Coote, Sir C. W. Lincoln, Earl of Trelawny, J. S.
Cowper, W. F. Loch, James Wakley, Thomas
Craig, W. G. Macaulay, T. B. Walker, Richard
Crawford, W. S. Macuamara, Major Wall, C. B.
CrippS, W. M`Carthy, Alexander Williams, W.
Denison, J. E. M'Geachy, F. A. Wodehouse, E.
Dennistoun, John Mahon, Viscount Wood, Charles
Duncan, Viscount Maitland, Thomas Wyse, Thomas
Duncan, George Marsland, Henry Young, John:
Dundas, David Martin, J.
Escott, Bickham Mines, R. Monckton TELLEas.
Esmonde, Sir T. Mitchell, T. A. Watson, Henry
Ewart, William Zforpeth, Viscount Manners, Lord J.

MINORITY-NOES, 67.
Adderley, C. B. Estcourt, T. G. Maunsell, T. B.
Allix, J. P. Finch, George Maxwell, Hon. J. P.
Arbuthaott, Hugh Forbes, William Meynell, Captain
Arkwright, G. Fox, S. L. " Newdegatc, C. N.
Astell, William Fuller, A. E. Palmer, G.
Bailey, J., jun. Grimsditch, Thomas Plumptre, J. P.
Baillie, W. Hamilton, J. H. Rashleigh, W.
Baskerville, T. B. Hamilton, G. A. Round, C. G.
Bateson, T. Hamilton, Lord C. Round, John
Beckett, William Hildyard, T. B. T. Sheppard, T.
Bell, Matthew Hope, Sir J. Shirley, E. J.
Bennet, P. Houldsworth, T.
Bere,stord, Major Hussey, Thomas
Blackburne, J. I. Jones, Captain
Broadley, Henry
Broadwood, H. Kni
Brooke, Sir A. B. Lawson, Andrew Waddington, H. S.
Butler, Sir Y. Lefroy, A. Wyndham, Colonel
Christopher, R. A. Lindsay, Captain Yorke, E. T.
g Law, I 1
Hon. tle y , Sire
.C.
Verner,TSSit Tyrrell, bui
I taehrmtr
I: 'reCh. SirCoe
1011, jjo . n.
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Churchill, Lord A. S. Lockhart, W.
Chute, W. L. W. Lowther, Hon. Col.
Connolly, Colonel Lygou, General
Douglas, Sir H. Mackenzie, T.
Douglas, J. S. Marton, G.

TELLERS.
Colquhoun, John
Spooner, Richard

MARSTON.—The new novel, just published, under the
title of " Marston; or the Soldier and Statesman," from the
pen of the celebrated author of " Salathiel," whilst assuming
to make the reader acquainted with the career of one who
alternately fills the highest offices in the State, makes him
familiar also with the great men and distinguished personages
of both sexes, with whom, in the course of his various ad-
ventures, he was brought into contact. The hero, during the
outbreak of the French revolution, becomes an observer of
the perils of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, of the devo-
tion of their loyal friends, and the hatred of their remorse-
less enemies. His portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, of
Robespierre, Danton, Dumourier, Madame Roland, Carnot
Sieyes, Prince Cobourg, the Duke of Brunswick, and La
Fayette, are full of character; and not less animated are those
of his still more eminent contemporaries in the English and
Irish senate, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Burke, Grattan, Castle-
reagh, Clare, and Curran. With so many attractive features,
it may readily be believed that " Marston" is a very striking
narrative, and well worthy the great reputation of its distin-
guished author.

A SEIKR SAMARITAN.--AIIIODg the officers of her
Majesty's 9th Foot severely wounded at Ferozeshah, and
who subsequently died, was a Mr. S..—, There is a story
connected with his wound, poor fellow, which, if true,
as I believe it to be, is quite romantic. He was wounded
in the leg on the evening of the 21st, and while lying
on the ground alone, his regiment having gone on to
the attack, a Seikh came up to him and said, " Sahib,
my people are killing all the wounded, and if you remain
here you will be killed too; but come with me and I will
save you." S— replied, " How can I come with you ?
my leg is broken, and I cannot even stand." "oh I"
said the man, " I will take you on my back," which was
accordingly done; and off he set with him in the direc-
tion of Ferozepore. After going for a considerable dis-
tance, when they were quite out of reach of the enemy,
he stopped to rest and wait for daylight, paying every
attention that circumstances would admit of to his charge's
comfort. As the day broke, a party of our cavalry came up,
on their way from Ferozepore to the geld, and the officer with
The Seikh once more
his bed-
side S—, and after
them stopped to see if he could do anything
himlall --
into's the
giving him some brandy and water, asked himmount wd he death
my
h megeaiendde-
steenmdsedritdaoninaggain; t,oanwdhgkohinhteorFeeprloiezde,po"4.,,
took him on his back, and carried him till they fell in with a litter
for the sick,
hospital. His friend, however, would not even
Fe-
rozepore
into which he got, and was taken to the
then leave him, but walked by the litter, all the way, and,
death. It is also said that the story reached the ears of
saiftdeer
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of
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LATEWednesday, S
thatEi Z UbWe stated
la amount of
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thenEkruApTesSeTffOecCtltßTs,POto.
between 3001. and 4001., attempted to be concealed from the
s llr d n
creditors, had been seized at Liaxle Grove. Since then the
matter has been made public, by the issue of placards offer-
ing a reward of 20 per cent. upon the value of ..,,
all goods
which could afterwards be discovered and handed over for
the benefit of the creditors. The bankrupt is Henry men_
land, late silk throwster and shopkeeper, Ilazle Greve.
About 300
_sovereigns, made up in a box, were found Con-
cealed in one house, and other property, te the value of
nearly 1001. more. On Saturday last, the polic seized a
e
further lot of silk in the hank, valued at about seized
chester Guardian. _
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—This morning, about half-
past two o'clock, two men were driving a Greenwich fly over Water-
loo-bridge, towards the Strand, when the horse started, and threw
both the driver and a man riding on the box with him to the ground.
The driver was not hurt, but his companion was obliged to be taken
to King's College Hospital, with no hope of recovery. The horse
then darted towards Lancaster.place, where, with the shafts only
attached to him, he fell against a hunp-post, and was left In a dying
state.
THE THIRTY-FIRST REGIMENT.—The
g order
has been issued to this regiment, on its departare tom India, by
Major-General Sir H. Smith. It is dated Camp, Lahore, March 3:—
" Comrades, officers, and soldiers of the gallant 31st Regiment —you
and I have been so associated with recent conflicts, where
your Ser-
vices have been distinguished, that I cannot lose you from under my
command without an expression of the deepest regret, That regret
is, liewever, mitigated when I know you are about to return to your
native country, from which the regiment has been absent twenty-
one years, much diminished in numbers, caused by your valiant con-
duct and recent glorious victories. But the former renown of your
distinguished corps has acquired additional fame by the valou r of
Lieutenant-Colonel Spence, the officers and soldiers, and the long list of triumphant victories much increased by Your services in India.
Farewell, my gallant comrades, for the present. Dray every success, happiness, honour, and prosperity attend you, the gallant 31st Regi-
ment, in peace as it has so gloriously done hi war 'and believe me
one of the most happy and proud recollections of my life will be that
I have witnessed the indomitable valour of the corps.',
CATTLE.—From a Parliamentary paper issued to-day
it appears that the numbers of all cattle, sheep, and swine, ...ported
into great Britain from Ireland, from the sth of January to the sth
of April, 1846, are--Oxen, bulls and cows, 14"; calves, 183 ; sheep
and lambs, 11,131; and nine, 112041!

SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER

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answer motions, t
to
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Majesty'sl,o t h Hou sMessages of
resParliament,respecting
nfogr ad-
dressesthe
Lord Gough, have been assented to with an enthusiasm
proposed to be bestowed on Viscount Hardinge and
luinicated in the speeches of Sir Robert Peel and Lord
pensionsof their object. To have conferred upon these dis-
tinguished
time
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the ran km
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supportingour s ,without
th e affordingm wi th themdig ni t ay t,
have been but a mockery of the intentions of the II •
s Personage with whom those honours have origi-
On their military career, after the interesting details
it would be idle to dwell; suffice it to say that never
time were rank and emoluments more worthily or
bestowed. It may appear ungracious to
associate with our cordial approval of the liberality which
n displayed upon this occasion anything like the lan-
of complaint or disappointment ; but we have al-
expressed our belief that the skill and heroism of
Smith have not as yet been adequately rewarded;
opinions of several Members of both Houses
of Parliament on the subject have but confirmed the im-
pression. We rejoice, therefore, to observe that something
like an intimation has been drawn from the Government
that the hero of Aliwal will obtain a further recompense for
his services. If, however, there be one officer of the Anglo-
Indian army who has more unanswerable ground of com- 1
plaint for the neglect which he has experienced, on all hands,
than another, it is Major-General Sir Charles James Napier,
who gained the glorious victory of Meeanee over a force of
35,000 Beloochees, strongly entrenched, with little more than
2,000 European and native troops; and who received, if we
except the " permission to wear his red ribbon over his
shoulder, instead of around his neck," no other mark of the
nation's gratitude than the thanks of Parliament, and those
only a year after the battles to which they referred had
been gained. With the generosity which is character-
istic of his nature, Lord Brougham made a pointed allu-
sion on Tuesday night, in the House of Lords, to the ex-
traordinary neglect which that gallant veteran had
experienced both from the Government and the East India
Company. After the graceful allusion of Lord Ripon to the
fact that highly as her Majesty appreciated the gallant ser •
vices of Viscount Hardinge and Lord Gough on the Sutlej, it
was not on their account solely that she had desired to
confer upon them the distinction they had received at her
hands, and the interesting account given by his Lordship and
Sir Robert Peel of the earlier military career of those dis-
tinguished men, it may not be irrelevant to bring under the
notice of our readers a few of the achievements of Sir C.
Napier. It is as difficult to account for the treatment he
has met with as it is to discover the quarter in which it has
originated. The Duke of Wellington, in his place in Par-
liament, described him as " a man of the greatest sagacity,
prudence, and foresight in his profession," and pronounced the
highest eulogium upon his conduct at Meeanee, and
" Before, however, we refer to his
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of
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services in other parts of the world, let us glance at his
achievements in India during the last four years. 'ln Sinde
he conquered what may fairly be termed a kingdom, occu-
pied by an army 80,000 strong, with a force, European and
native,-varying in numbers from 3,000 to 5,000 men. This
he accomplished by two hard-fough battles, in one of which

the disparity between his force and that of the enemy wa.s"
ten to one, and in the other five to one. By extensive and
complicated operations, with the thermometer from 120 to
130 in the shade, he defeated a bold attempt of Shere Ma-
hommed to renew the war; dispersed his entire force, and
took the Ameer prisoner. He has since employed himself
. .

in tranquillising Sinde with such success, that he has
been enabled to leave it on a late occacion, along
with the greater part of its army of occupation,
for the purpose of assisting in the operations on
the Sutlej. This conquest was unattended by any
of those acts of plunder, outrage, and blood-
shed (save in open fight) which have so often detracted from
great military successes. As a governor, Sir Charles Napier's
conduct has been characterised by wisdom and moderation;
and such have been the effects of his rule, that Sinde has
been, since its subjugation by him, orderly, quiet, and con-
tented; improving in commerce and in the useful arts, until
it has become one of the fairest and most valuable of our

Indian dependencies. We have now to speak of Sir Charles
Napier's earlier services. He has been fighting the battles of
his country for more than half a century. He commanded
the 50th Regiment throughout the campaign which termi-
nated with the battle of Corunna, where he was made pri-
soner, after having received five severe wounds—namely, his
leg broken by a musket-shot, a sabre cut on the head, a
bayonet wound in the back, two ribs broken by a cannon-
shot, and several contusions from the butt-end of a musket.
In the latter part of 1809 he returned to the Peninsula, where
he remained on active service until 1811. During that in-
terim he was present at the battle of Coa (where he had two
horses shot under him); at the battle of Busaco (where he
had his jaw broken and his eye much injured) ; at the battle of
Fuentes d'Onor ; at the siege of Badajos, and several other
actions of less importance. In 1813, he accompanied
a floating expedition to the coast of North America, and
landed several times at Craney island and other places. He
served also in the campaign of 1815, and assisted at the
storming of Cambray. Sir Charles Napier has ever been the
warm friend of the soldier, and has written an admirable
work on military law, in which he has evinced much of the
sagacity for which the Duke of Wellington has so highly
complimented him. As a military reformer he has rendered
essential service to his profession. Such is the man whom
the world " hath delighted to honour," but whom the East
India Company and the Government appear to have agreed
to neglect. 'I he command of a regiment must have been
conceded to him on account of the length and brilliancy
of his former services, as a matter of course. A
clasp he earned by his gallantry at Corunna ; and the
Companionship of the Bath was subsequently conferred
upon him. His promotion from this rank of the order
to that of Commander is, however, the only honour which
has rewarded his glorious services in Sinde. We have
heard a good deal from newspaper report of the Sinde prize
money, but we have reason to believe that Sir Charles
Napier has as yet received no part of it, and that he will not
under any circumstances receive much. Were it otherwise,
such a windfall ought not to interfere with the just and legi-
timate reward of his high deserts. It is, as we have said,
difficult to understand the cause of the neglect of which this
distinguished officer has been the victim. Some ascribe it
to the fact that the gallant Governor of Sinde is regarded
with jealousy by the political servaats of the East India
Company, who are chagrined to find that he can manage so
well without their aid ; others assume that the position in
'which he stood as the confidential friend and favoured com-
mander of the late Governor-General (an object of fear and
dislike equally with himself to the department they had
attempted to reform) had damaged him with the Directors.
However this may have been, as the Government at home
has declined to adopt the prejudices of that body in the case
of Lord Ellenborough, it might have been expected that they
would have repudiated them in that of Sir Charles Napier.
Sir Robert Peel, after speaking of the "personal nobility" of
the gallant General, has admitted that "he has not been
sufficiently rewarded." The present Governor-General of
India, than whom no man more warmly appreciates his
merits, has afforded practical proofs of the estimation in
which he holds him, not the least of which is his having
sent for him to take the post of second in command in the
Punjaub. " What higher honour," says Sir Robert Peel,
"could be conferred?" The termination of the war, how-
ever, prevented that intention from being carried into effect;
but how this mark of the estimation in which Sir Charles
Napier's qualifications are held by the Governor-General can
be referred to as a proof of the desire of the Government to
reward his distinguished services, we are at loss to conceive.
Such a compliment could not fail to soothe the " wounded
spirit" of the gallant veteran, but it does not explain the
omission of which the Minister admits him to have been the
victim. The man who achieved the conquest of Sinde, and
fought the battle of Meeanee, and who afterwards, by his
wisdom and tact as a civil governor of the kingdom he had
subjugated, induced its military marauders to convert their
swords into pruning hooks, has certainly claims upon his
country which ought not to be overlooked.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sza,—l am happy to see the very proper rewards conferred
upon Lords Hardinge and Gough, and could have wished to
have seen more attention paid to the services of Sir Charles
Napier and Sir Harry Smith.
I will explain some of the circumstances to you. Sir R.
Peel has again and again expatiated upon the superlative
military merits of Lord Hardinge with great gusto. Would
yon believe it, Lord Hardinge never in his life commanded
even a corporal's guard of British troops before an enemy
till these late affairs in India? It is true he commanded, for
a short time, at the very end of the Peninsular war, a bri-
gade of the Portuguese troops, and I dare say commanded
them well. But all his services at Albuera, &c., were only
those of a messenger or staff-officer, carrying orders. Why,
then, all this puff of the Prime Minister ? Lord H. is a
brother-in-law of the late Lord Castlereagh, and (luckily for
him) was the Duke of W.'s second in that important national
battle with the Earl of Winchilsea. Lord Gough is a man
who has all his life commanded British troops in fire. And
there can be no doubt his patient submission, when superseded
at Madras by an inferior officer, was very creditable to him.
Sir Robert Peel should have added, that the junior officer
who stepped over his head is the father-in-law of the Duke
of W.'s son, Lord Douro.
Sir Charles Napier and Sir Harry Smith are prime fellows
before an enemy, but neither of them are connected with the
Duke of W. or bir Robert Peel, by either private friendship,
private service, or political connexion ; and therefore may
seek redress or honours where they can. Napier took Sinde
in splendid style, and the Duke's private pet, Ellenborough,
got an earldom for that service. " Kissing goes by favour."
MILES.

SKETCH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES
JAMES NAPIER. Z4IW4
His long white beard tells that he must have seen full sixty
years in various climes ; but his bright penetrating eye also
tells that he is in the intellectual vigour of middle age, al-
though the survivor of thirty-four of his people who had been
struck with coup de sold!, and who, with one exception, were
dead corpses in three hours. A head which a phrenologist
would delight to take a cast from exhibits a sword-cut which
the thinness of the hair cannot conceal ; a long raised scar at
the side, and a smaller in front, indicate that a musket-ball
had traversed his face ; an involuntary motion of the muscles,
the effect of other wounds received in the Wellington school,
keep his hand and arm in perpetual motion. On his breast is
seen a gold medal, inscribed " Cerunna," surmounted with
clasps bearing the names of other fields. Peering from be-
neath a broad red ribbon, from which is suspended a Grand
Cross of the Bath, are seen two medals, on one of which
" Meeanee" is written, on the other " Hyderabad." At his
side is a superb gold-mounted sword, presented by the Earl
of Ellenborough, in token of his Lordship's personal esteem,
and commemorative of the brilliant services in India, per-
formed under his Lordship's administration.—Naval and
Military Gazette.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAILS.
THE HAOtrn, May s.—The Second Chamber of the States-General
in its sitting yesterday eommenced the important discussion of the
first book of the penal cold.
The Chamber proceeded in the discussion in its sitting to-day,
which is to be continued in its sitting this evening.
In the same sitting the Centrid Section made its report on the
HerofßGoeyladlermlan odn.
project of law relative to the causeway from Maestricht to the fron-
tiersess the Princess Albert of Prilsida Z.. seldorf on the let of May, and continued her journey torrißevicilyiat DILI-
CRACOW, APRIL 26.—This morning, between seven a•—nd eijalt
o'clock, there was a tumult here. Some men, dressed like peasants,
carried a handsorne young woman, finely dressed as a country girl,
through the streets, crying, " Behold a saint 1' and led her to St.
was placed on the altar, and announced that the Virgin Mary
Mary's Church, in the Market-place. There the pretendedhasdaint
soldiers from the altar, of is not lost, God the Father had decreed to restore the kingdom
police(and the
Po-
land in Bill -splendour." The saint Was removed
by
the
aliout which
ap-
peared to her, and commanded her to proclaim to the Poles, " Poland
a few steps,
a great crowd had assembled; but the guard advancing
to the two
and the artillery men with lighted matches, steppur., uP
guard-house, the crowd in-
Pieces of cannon placed in front of the
to be a pre.Utute
sternly dispersed. The pretended saint was found
of Cracow.—Breskuz Journal.
and taken to the guardous.,

MORTALITY OF THE METROPOLIS.—It appears from
the table of the deaths registered in the metropolis during the week
ending May 2, 1846, that the total number of deaths from all causes
during the week is 831 ; of these 39 were violent deaths, giving 792
as the number of persons who had died from disease during the week,
showing a decrease in the number of deaths from disease of 45 during
ZS Reek ending lbw 2 146 cempued with the Wet* PrOOtdiDg.