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.NNER INIIONOUR 0
(Froso the 13umbuy Gar 1 e ,srland
The ("miler Pro; s ' • moor of his Exec:l. ••, Sir
C. J. Napier, G.C. fs .1-W C,,,lll.:llder,iri-Chiff if. India,
icsme off at Byeulos Club nu the evening of Friday, the
31st ult.; the lit Qs. Sir William Yardley, one of the
Judges of her Majesty's Supreme Court, in the chair.
107 gentlemen sat down to dinner.
The Hon. Chairman was supported on the right by
Sir Charles Napier,
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The cloth was removed at ten o'clock, and the first
toast was proposed by the Chairman in the following
terms:—" Brigadier Wyllie, a bumper toast. if you
please, to the health of her Majesty the Queen."
Drunk with the usual honours.
Air—" God save the Queen."
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " His Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales and the rest of
the Royal Family." ,
Air—" Prince Albert's March."
In rising the third time, Sir WILLIAM YARDLEY pro-
posed the toast of the evening.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, whose rising was the signal for
loud and long continued applause, as aeon as he could
be heard, spoke nearly as follows:—Gentlemen—It is
with some difficulty that I, a traveller at the present'
moment, rise to thank you for the compliment you have
paid me, and for the kindness you have shown me; after
hearing myself praised in cue of the most eloquent
speeches I have ever heard, I, a poor soldier, cannot
reply to such eloquence. Passing through Bombay, and
without preparation, I am only able to thank you for
all the honours heaped upon me by the army, as well as
by the civilians of Bombay; and, when I say civilian.,
I mean all who do not wear the blue and red coat. I
know I am supposed in Bombay to be an enemy to
civilians, but this is quite erroneous—(Cheers)—l am
no enemy to civilians; it is false to say that I am, and
it is a falsehood which is so absurd that I have never
taken the trouble to refute it. You must allow me great
latitude in replying to the eloquent speech we have just
heard, for, so help me God, I trusted to a soldier's heart
to find words to address to you on the inspiration of
the moment. lam afraid that my friend the chairman
has gone far beyond my merits—(Cries of " No, no")--
and I cannot altogether admit his praise; his kindness
has exaggerated my qualities, except in one thing where
he has spoken the truth. He has correctly said that I
would be the first to feel pain at the detraction of Lord
Gough in order to increase my praise. Lord Gough is
a glorious old soldier, and a good man, possessing one of
the noblest hearts that ever beat, and I love him well.
I have to say to Sir William Yardley, in return for his
kind eulogium, that I must share it with the brave army;
for without them I could have done nothing—Whithe,
Leeson, Wyllie, now before me at this table, and I could
point out a dozen gallant others, without whose courage
and assistance I could have done nothing. I must not
forget the Bengal 19th Regiment of cavalry, who were
equal to their neghbours, nor the small band of Madras
Sappers, who also behaved well. I cannot pass over any
man that has done his duty. I love all the three armies of
India, but limust confess that I am prejudiced in favour of
the Bombay army. lam saying nothing that can hurt a
Bengal officer, for I have found as good officers and men
in the Bengal army as I did in Bombay; but I com-
menced my Indian career with the Bombay army, and
although I have fought with the Bengal army, and com-
manded them for two years, yet I am prejudiced in favour
of the Bombay army and of low caste. Gentlemen, I
have the honour to sit with a glorious soldier at this
table. He rose from the ranks; he had a noble origin.
I love that man, for he first planted the British colours
on the breach of Moultan.—(Cheers.) He has been
justly rewarded with a commission; but, gentlemen, I
am steering among rocks, but I am a pilot and will go
on—notwithstanding he has been so promoted, yet there
is a regulation in force amongst you which prevents him
from enjoying all the advantages of his present position.
and I consider it a most inconsistent regulation by which
he is prevented from joining the military fund, and
making the same provision as yourselves for his widow
and offsprings. lam now speaking to your best feel-
ings, and I say that this regulation ought to be broken;
for although that soldier rose from the ranks, he rose
from a glorious foundation.—(Sir Charles here alluded
to Ensign Bennett.) This is a wandering wild speech,
but as the thoughts come uppermost so the old soldier
must speak. In what Sir Willam Yardley said, while
I again repeat that he praised me too highly, yet I be-
lieve that he only spoke what he felt to be the truth
from his heart. But I like to come to parti-
cular points. In the wars of Sinde there were some
officers who did more for me than I did for them. The
first I shall mention is Captain Brown, of the Bengal
army, who is now dead. A braver or a better soldier
never lived. Of the second I shall not say anything, as
he is a relative of mine—l mean Major I,l`Murdo ; but
the third, of whom I shall and will speak, is my Moon-
shee, Ali Akbar. This man stood by me in the day of
battle; he was of the greatest assistance to me through-
out the campaign in Sinde; he was my tongue; and I now
find him in disgrace. lam not aware upon what infor-
mation the Government has acted. I charge no man
with injustice, but I have a right to say that Ali Akbar
did more for the conquest of Sinde than a thousand sol-
diers could have done. I will never abandon a bravo
soldier, and after all that Ali Akbar has done, I find him
here in disgrace; and gentlemen (said the General, with
emphasis, and striking the table with his hand), I say
he has had no trial.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I
charge no man or the Government with injustice, but I
will not abandon Ali Akbar. I will now speak of the
day of peace, and tell you of the men who assisted me,
besides the commanders of corps. Next to them were
the collectors of Sinde ; there were three of them, but
I shall only mention two, for they did preserve the
honour of England—l mean Major Goldney, of the
Bengal army, and Captain Rathborne, of the Bombay
army. These two men did more for me than anybody
else in time of peace—they upheld the honour of Eng-
land. Those gentlemen made our rule loved; and I will
not take the credit of what they are justly entitled to.
No man surpasses me in zeal and devotion to the army,
and to the true interests of the East India Company. I
am not an enemy;as has been said, to the Court of Direc-
tors—God forbid that I should be any man's enemy, but
I will not submit to be ill-treated; this is not enmity,
but an independent spirit, which I glory in, and which,
old as I am, I shall carry with me to the grave.—(Rap-
turous applause.) It is this that makes me feel so deeply
the kindness of the present company. This day 57 years
ago, gentleman, I received my first commission as an
ensign, and girded on this sword, which has remained by
my side ever since. I received that commission, as a
boy, rejoicing; your kindness makes me rejoice in finish-
ing that career as a man.—(Cheers.) Let me now speak
of some matters connected with the interests of the city
of Bombay, of which I have always thought with
great intensity. The Country of the Five Rivers has
been conquered, and I rod. throughout it all the other day,
and never saw a richer or a more flourishing country. I
do not know much of such things, but I tell you what I
saw—oceans of grain, and there are coals for your
steamers, and you will find sulphur, shall I say for your
Scotchmen (aside laughingly)—(Cheers)—but no matter
for whom. Steamers can go everywhere and bring these
products to the port of Bombay, the trade of which
would soon be considerably enlarged. I met an Arme-
nian of the name of Arathoon, the other day, in the
Punjaub, a man of great energy and enterprise, and who
largely assisted our armies in Affghanistan in procuring
supplies—who told me that he had felled an enormous
quantity of timber, which was now lying on the banks
of the Cheenab, as he could not bring it down to Bom-
bay, Lord Dalhousie having refused him the protection
of Government, unless he could prove that he had the
means of carrying out his enterprise. It is true that
I had only this Arathoon's own story, and he was an
interested party; but I believed what he told me. Now
Ido not know much of such things, and lam speaking
in the presence of those who do, but I should say that
ni
rendezvoust righti
es shouldot wrong,
rnlfhao
Government had nothing to do with a man's means.
Commerce requires to be nursed like a child. In telling
you this Ido not wish to say anything against Lord
Dalhousie, although lam not an admirer of his Lord-
ship, and I do not care though that go forth to the
uweoerteldd, fwoirthl atmheawpraersos thathere there are
sgoemnetlepemeenoceonin-
Bombay say and think that I hate the public press. Far
from it, I do not hate the press, although I have a great
antipathy to some individuals connected with it ; and I
own I have sometimes wished for a broomstick, and to
thebe npeuarrp theose editor
whether of theordtatbDe
eesß,aiatcoohlhmheoobupagsypri
oeeTratitiusm es.—( A laugh.)
But in justice to Lord Dalhouse, I must tell you again that
I got this story from Mr.Arathoon himself, an interested
man, who told me that the timber would be ravaged by
the rajas without he had the protection of Government,
which Lord Dalhousie refused him. It is nothing to
but it is to the purpose for you to knowu thatan
Ara-
thoon complains that he has a great
tim-
ber, the produce of the countries of t _ the Pnudn j a :eh ,n readyf
to be borne to Bompihtysy_tronhaE;
ntndhatnethareeGr otvoernthmeesnet richw ili
he requires to bring it
not give him the fair p
arrangements I y
and the Punjaub. Cal-
cuttahere. Is it not a
neglectedln
citantnhoet
other
that Bombay will, 800
da n
p r febovio
provinces?
e bringingfsr?om
w Englandi,
With andg
properla
not lose her grandeur, but bthurtoushgeh
all things
Bombay or Surrachee as mercantile ports. Eight years
ago Kurrachee had a population of only 5,000 men;
will
day, it numbers 25,000 men, and it must continue to now, as I found
in-
crease and prosper, while Bombay must become the
grand mart of India.—(Loud applause.)
whereas,

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FRAUD ON A SEAMAN.—A sailor
olffia tceel,ypaid Whitehall, off
from her Majesty's ship Prince Regent, nt Portsmouth, re-
ceived a remittance ticket amounting to 351., payable in Lon-
donpand presented it yesterday at the p
and received seven 51. notes. On leaving the office he was
accosted by a gentlemanly-looking man, who asked the
sailor if he would show him the way to the London Docks;
when Jack proffered his assistance to show him the road,
and on reaching that locality the gentleman invited the
sailor to take some refreshment in a public-house. While
there they were joined by another person, who entered into
conversation, and described himself as being a gentleman of
fortune who had come up to London to receive some pro-
perty. They then asked to be shown to the Tunnel, and
afterwards entered another public-house on the Rotherhithe
side, and there these kind friends managed to obtain posses-
: tioe
and of the
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The
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stahileoirr
has thus lost in ono hour WI whole of hie hard earnings for
Mires Two,