The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

THE SUN',
_2O, 1851.

CASA GUIDI WINDOWS. A Poem. By
Elizabeth Barrr.tt Browning. Chapman and Hall.
Remembering, as we did, so many exquisite effu-
sions from the hand of our authoress, we welcomed
ith all eagerness the verses contained in the present
volume, immediately on their first appearance. It
was an additional attraction to us that they were
poetic blossoms which had bloomed in the midst of
the sunshine and the verdure of an Italian landscape.
Hence the hook became to us a twofold object of fas-
cination. We imagined to ourselves in the current
of these lucubrations the luscious flavour imparted
by the ripening influences of the " warm south, a
draught of—

"the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With baaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth!"
In no respect have our anticipations been realized.
" Casa Guidi Windows," as the work of one who has
already given indications of genius, has in fact
yielded us only the most painful and vexatious disap-
pointment. Its argument is incoherent throughout,
its diction affected, its style artificial, its whole cha-
racter that of prose jingling into rhyme without the
merit of the smoothness usually found in even com-
mon-place versification. Yet, miserable failure as the
volume iy, containing as it does scarcely three pages in
any way worthy of Mrs. Browning, it has been
lauded to the skies by her mistaken eulogists, who
would cram the veriest balderdash down our throats
as poetry simply because it emanated from her pen.
Poetry, forsooth ! it this is poetry we never read one
line of poetry before, and trust most devoutly we
may never again be subjected to a similar infliction.
Why, a fifth form boy never perpetrated more me-
lancholy doggrel than may be encountered in profu-
fusion by just skimming over the pages haphazard.
Take the following as a sample ; it occurs in the
18th page :

" This was he,

Savonarola, who, while Peter sank,
With his whole boat-load, called courageously,
' Wake Christ ! Wake Christ ! '—who having tried the

tank
(To rhyme, of course with sank.)
Ot the church-waters used for baptistry,
Ere Luther lived to spill them, said they stank l"
Poetry ! The praise lavished upon stuff like this is
ignominy scattered over the ashes of the really illustri-
ous. But it may be argued by those who are infa-
tuated into the indulgence of a blind admiration that we
are unfairly extracting injurious specimens prepense.
In testimony of the contrary, take the very opening
lines of this much vaunted " Casa Guidi Windows"--
" I heard last night a little child go singing,
'Neath Casa Guidi windows, by the church,
0 Leila iiberta, U belle !' stringing
(Another word dragged in neck and crop, in defiance
of all euphony, solely and exclusively for the sake of
the rhyme.)
The same words still on notes he went in search,
So high tor,
(Rather blundering that : a sixpenny
.dictionary
might have suggested of as more grammatical.)
you concluded the upspringing
Of such a nimble bird to sky from perch," &c.
(Perch, just in the same way to chime with search
and church.)
Occasionally, moreover, the text runs into the
baldest prose, recounting the most obvious matters
of course. As, where gazers from the casements are
spoken of—
By whom, if flower or kerchief were thrown out,
From any lattice, then the same would fall
Into the river underneath, no doubt.'
No doubt I the reader, answers like an echo. How
solemn in its arresting awfulness also is that passage
in which the writer points out the shade of the buried
Buonarrotti, beginning flippantly—" That's Michael
Angelo !" Indeed. What shall be said likewise in
extenuation of such a fragment as that in which Mrs
Browning speaks
"Of poets sonneteering in their sleep
'Neath the pale olives, which droop, tickling some
On chin and forehead from a dream too deep," &c.?
It is because we see a volume crowded with speci-
mens of this kind of composition panegyriaed as a
master-piece of poetic eloquence, and held up as a
model of mingled grace and sublimity —it is
because we hear it designated by all the
most encomiastic words in the phraseology of
literary vassalage, and because we see these
things, and at the same time love and reverence in
our heart of hearts such poems as the " Lycidas" of
Milton, or the " Alastor" of Shelley, or the " Lusiad"
of Camoens, or the " Colin Clout" of Spenser,
or the " Fridoline" of Schiller, and because we
regard works like these as poetry, that we must pro-
test, with all the emphasis of which emotion can
render us capable, against those who would compel
us to bend the knee in homage before a book like
" Casa Guidi Windows." True, no doubt, a woman
like Mrs. Browning could not exactly write two or
three hundred pages of versification, however indif-
ferent they might be in the aggregate, without scat-
tering over them occasionally a clever thought or an
ingenious expression. But, simply because at p. 7
we find the dawn described as " haggard like the
sleepless," and because at page 22 we find it observed
that " happy accident turns holy art," and because at
page 2 the national songs of the Roman Peninsula
are designated " pangs sheathed into music," therefore
we are not bound to accept the mass of wearisome
and stilted affectations in which these minute atoms
of excellence are almost lost sight of altogether, as a
masterpiece of divine eloquence and preternatural
inspiration. Yet in these extravagant and hyperbo-
lical terms of panegyric the volume before us has
been mentioned, and our present emphasis of con-
demnation is attributable to the disgust with which
we have noticed this ill-judged servility of criticism
to an empty name upon an indifferent title-page. It
is this contemptible spirit of subserviency to mere
reputation, which tends to cast such a malign and de-
generating influence over literature—criticism, more-
over, being thrown into contempt by its indiscriminate
regard for cliquerie and its abject attention to mere
favouritism. To such an absurdity have we seen this
wretched evidence of infatuation carried in the in-
stance now under consideration, that we have observed
italicised such lines as the following—italicised as spe-
cimens of poetic ability
slashed our sleeves like patriots, nor foreswore
The true Fepublic in the form of hats.

e did Hot fight
Exactly, we fired muskets up the void,
To show that victory was ours of right.

•
We proved that Austria was dislodged, or would,
Or should be, and that Tuscany in arms.
Should, would, dislodge her in high hardihood."
And so on inexhaustibly drenching us with the di
luted balderdash, and calling it forsooth by that divine
appellation which belongs of right only to the sweetest
and the wisest utterances of humanity. Gladly do
we turn from such trash as makes up the bulk of
these vaunted quotations to the subjoined passage, one
which stands forth conspicuously as one of nervous
and thoughtful beauty. The writer is speaking of
violets strewn over the grave of Savonarola.
" We, who are the seed
Of buried creatures, if we turned and spate
Upon our antecedents, we were vile.
Bring violets rather! If these had not walked
Their furlong, could we hope to walk our mile?
Therefore bring violets! Yet if we, self-baulked,
Stand still a-strewing violets all the while,
These had as well not moved, ourselves not talked
Of these. So rise up with a cheerful smile,
And, having strewn the violets, reap the corn,
And, having reaped and garnered, bring the plough
And draw new furrows 'neath the healthy morn,
And plant the great Hereafter in this Now."
A vigorous outburst like this we can admire, but not
those spurious exclamations, which, coming from the
lips of our authoress, are mistaken by her worshippers
for the blended oracles of a poet and a metaphysician.
Two metaphors, and two only out of the whole book,
appear to us to be in any way deserving of com-
mendation : the first where it is prettily said—
" I wove these stuffs so subtly that the gold
Swims to the surface of the silk like cream,
And curdles to fair patterns;"
the second where, speaking in a grander mood, and
with a voice more powerful in its resonance, it is re-
marked—
" This model of a steam-ship moves your wonder?
You should behold it crushing down the brine,
ikeablind Jove who feels his way with thunder."
Elsewhere
we come upon such very dilapidated
figures of speech as (at page 4l) that about the lion
shaking from his mane the dewdrops. Once, and
only once, Mrs. Browing rises from the dead level of
her present mediocrity and writes as formerly wrote
the vigorous band of Elizabeth Barrett. It is where
she pronounces, in numbers not unworthy of her
theme, the funeral panegyric of
the late hero-king,
Charles Albert of Sardinia. She has been lamenting
over one grave, and thus continues :
"Another is
At Genoa, where a king may fitly lie,—
Who bursting that heroic heart of his
At lost Novara, that ho could not die,
Though thrice into the cannon's eyes for this
He plunged his shuddering steed, and felt the sky
Reel back between the fire-shocks ;—stripped away
The ancestral ermine ere the smoke had cleared,
And naked to the soul, that none might say
His kingship covered what was base and bleared
With treason, he went out an exile, yea,
An exiled patriot! Let him be revered.
" Yea, verily, Charles Albert has died well:
And if he lived not all so, as one spoke,
The sin pass softly with the passing bell.
For he was shriven, I think, in cannon smoke,
And taking off his crown, made visible
A hero's forehead. Shaking Austria's yoke
He shattered his own hand and heart. So best,'
His last words were upon his lonely bed,—
' I do not end like popes and dukes at least—
Thank God for it.' Aud now that he is dead,
Admitting it is proved and manifest
That he W 144 worthy, with a discrowhed head,

To measure heights with patriots, let them stand
Beside the man in his Oporto shroud,
And each vouchsafe to take him by the hand,
And kiss him on the cheek, and say aloud,
Thou, too, hest suffered for our native land!
My brother, thou art one of us. Be proud.'"
Very noble and beautiful is this, and worthy of a
woman's heart, and a woman's intellect, and a
woman's enthusiasm. Nevertheless, twenty lines
even though they be as meritorious as the foregoing,
are insufficient to redeem a volume which is other-
wise worthless as a specimen of tedious and affected
versification. Considered, moreover, in regard to its
design, the work must be denied all claim—even the
faintest—to originality, it being literally neither more
nor less than a very hoarse amen, croaked somewhat
tardily to the aspirations syllabled in the " Roman"
of Sydney Yendys. Altogether the book is calculated
in no manner to extend Mrs. Browning's popularity,
tending, we believe, on the contrary, very seriously to
deteriorate her reputation.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
_ILLUSTRATED GUIDE. James Trmscott.
Railway companies generally would do well to
emulate the enterprise evinced in the present publi-
cation. In it are described, in a very lively and
graphic manner, the various localities noticeable along
the line of the Eastern Counties Railroad, the letter-
press being agreably interspersed with woodcuts, re-
presenting the principal features of the double pano-
rama of landscapes. A species of vignette displays
" our starting train" at the commencement of the
narrative. Further on we have a sketch of the
Bishopsgate Station ; and before quitting the pre-
cints of the metropolis we catch glimpses of
the Victoria Park gates and of Bow-bridge,
passing on until we arrive at the Stratford
works, and turning on to the main line at the Strat-
ford Junction. Tottenham Cross is not overlooked,
neither are the Waltham Abbey gates, or Waltham
Abbey itself, Rye House, or Broxbourne. To the
travelled reader it will be interesting after this to
note successively Nether Hall and Nell Gwynn's
House, Audley End, and the little town of Saffron
Weldon. Arrived at Cambridge, we find sprinkled
over the descriptive chapters relating to that Uni-
versity, cuts of King's College, of the view from
Castle-hill, of St. Sepulchre's, of King's .College
Chapel, of Trinity, of St. John's, and of Clare Hall.
Ely is the next engraving, and opposite to this comes
one of Ely Cathedral. Several drawings of spots
well known at Norwich are given immediately after-
wards, such as the market. place, the castle, the Nor-
man tower, Pull's ferry, the bridge, and station, with
one or two of the ancient gateways. Thorpe is the
next place particularized, and afterwards comes a
capital view of the quay side at Yarmouth. Together
with these are clever little woodcuts of the column, of
the jetty, of the market-place, and of the canal.
Sonierley ton, Lake Lothing, and Lowestoft, are de-
picted both in a literary and pictorial manner with much
exactitude. Connected with the engraving of Lowes-
toft are minor ones of the bridge and harbour, of the
beach and pilot station, and of High Light. Romford
is then reached, and thence, through Epping Forest,
we come upon the pretty little village of Chigwell,
renowned as the scene of so many romantic occur-
rences described in Charles Dickens's " Barnaby
Rudge." Chelmsford is represented hard by in two
views, and is closely followed by Maldon, with a
glimpse of the Maldon railway station. Braintree
and Colchestor are next perceived, with a sketch of
the railway station at the latter place, and others of
St. Botolph's Priory, of Wix Belfry, of Mr. Bag-
shaw's house (both interior and exterior), of the
Landguard Fort, and the Club-house. Then we
behold The Brinks, with engravings of the Corn-
market, and of the outside and inside of Peterborough
Cathedral. On reaching Hertford, the excursionist
has his attention directed to the castle and college,
and so passing pleasantly from terminus to terminus,
becomes familiarized with the whole route of the
Eastern Counties Railway. As a specimen of the
charmingly anecdotal and gossiping style in which
the guide has been written throughout, we trans-
cribe the following note entire, as it occurs at pages
22 and 23, on the occasion of its being observed that
Trinity College, Cambridge, has in modern times pro-
duced two of the greatest geniuses in their respective
walks that England, or probably the whole of Europe,
possesses :

EAST INDIA HOUSE.
A quarterly general Court of tl'e East India Com-
pany was held on Wednesday at their house in Leaden-
hall-street. Mr. John Shepherd, chairman of the
company, was in the chair.
The minutes of the last quarterly meeting were
read and confirmed.
The CHAIRMAN announced th4t the warrants for
the half-yearly dividend would be ready for delivery
on the 7th of July next.
The report of the committee m the bye-laws was
then read, and the committee re-Appointed for the en-
suing year.

PUBLIC WAYS IN 43.1ZERAT.
Colonel DICKENSON then broight forward the mo-
,ion of which he had given nothe,—That a fixed per
centage on the revenue of each oellectorate in Guzerat
be annually expended for the improvement and ex-
tension of the public ways throughout that province.
The people of that province mere at one time in a
state of great prosperity, but ly degrees a great de-
cadence of that prosperity had taken place, which
justified him in asking for a special grant for the
amelioration of the condition of the agricultural popu-
lation of the four collectorat's into which the pro-
vince was divided. After shiwing hew those col-
lectorates had been impoverished by fire and inun-
dation, as well as by the competition to which they
were exposed in the marlets of Europe by the
introduction of American co Won, the consequence of
which had been to take the riots out of the hands of
the landlords, who were always considerate in their
dealings with them, and to expose them to a set of
rapacious money-lenders, the Hon. and Gallant Pro-
prietor proceeded to describe ;he want of roads or any
other means of communication for the conveyance of
the cotton produce of those districts to the western
seaboard of Bombay. Guzura; was the garden of India,
and what New Orleans was lo America Surat was to
Guzerat. It was unquestioEably the finest portion of
British India. Half the Incian cotton imported into
the English market came from Guzerat, and yet there
had not been a single public work undertaken during
the 50 years since that portirn of India had been in
our possession from which the natives could derive
any benefit. It was very uipleasant to him to differ
from their respected Deputy-Chairman (Sir James
Hogg), but he tlmuglie whai that Honourable Baro-
net said in the House of Commons, in June last, as
to the excellent state of the roads of Guzerat was very
erroneous. The Honourable Member then read ex-
tracts from a pamphlet written by a Mr. Williams, who
described the roads in Guzerat to be so narrow that
only one cart could pass at a time, that they were full
of hollows and deep ruts, and that for three months in
the year, namely, during the Ronsoon, they were utterly
impassable ; so that the cart; were in some of the col-
lectorates obliged to make detours of several miles.
The plea for allowing this state of things to exist was
that there were no materials on the spot for making
roads ; but it appeared from the reports of officers
employed to survey the country, and who were well
acquainted with geology, that there were abundant
materials for that purpose. If any further delay were
allowed before taking steps for the improvement of
the public roads in India, the chances were that Ame-
rica would supplant us in the China trade. Vigorous
measures were necessary to meet the evil, and to
secure to ourselves the natural advantages which the
country possessed. An American merchant having
walked over the grounds cf one of the estates at
Amedabad, the capital of Guzerat, where the cotton
crops were growing, was quite startled, and declared
that he had never seen such cotton. It was a curious
fact that throughout the whole discussions of the
cotton committee no allusion was made to Amedabad,
although it was the finest and most productive cotton
district in India, and from which 91,000 bales were
exported last year. Tramways might be laid down
at an expense of not more than 7001. to 8001. a mile.
Mr. LEWIN seconded the motion.
The CHAIRMAN said, the motion was contrary to
the usual rule of governing a country, and he did not
think his Hon. and Gallant Friend had made out a
special case for departing from that rule. He could
not allow the statement of the Hon. and Gallant
member as to the neglected condition of the roads in
Guzerat to pass unnoticed. He (the Chairman) was
in possession of a letter from a Mr. Davey, the col-
lector of one of the collectorates, stating that, with
the exception of the three months during the monsoon
there was no difficulty in getting from Guzerat to
Bombay. The Hon. and Gallant Proprietor had
spoken of an American gentleman. He (the Chair-
man) presumed that Mr. Haigh was the gentleman
referred to. Now Mr. Haigh had, within these few
days, stated distinctly that the facilities for communi-
cation from that district with the coast were admi-
rable ; and that a very little outlay would make those
means of transit excellent. The Hon. and Gallant
Colonel would no doubt be glad to hear that the ex-
penditure had been recommended by the Court of
Directors. The Government of India were alive to
the necessity of maintaining public works in that
country. The other day no less than 50 lacs of
rupees were appropriated for the construction of such
works at Madras and Bengal. Everything was being
done for facilitating communication between the dit-
ferent portions of India, the Government being per-
fectly aware of the importance of that great object.
He therefore hoped the Court would see the propriety
of rejecting the present motion.
An Hon. PROPRIETOR suggested that after the
very satisfactory explanation of the Chairman, it
would be becoming on the part of the Hon. and Gallant
Mover to withdraw his motion.
Mr. SULLIVAN said, the Chairman had it in his
power to put his Hon. and Gallant Friend entirely out
of court by producing the accounts of the expenditure
made for the construction and improvement of roads
in India.
Sir J. Hocei observed, that every statement made
by him in the House of Commons as to the condition
of the ways of communication in India was founded
upon the reports of collectors in India.
Colonel OLIPHANT said, it might seem strange why
during three months of the year, when the roads were
required to be made, that they were not made ; but
the fact was, that during the monsoon the natives did
not travel, as their goods would be exposed to the wet.
This was the reason why the Government of India
did not do what, under other circumstances, they
might deem it necessary to do.
After some further discussion, the motion was
withdrawn.
In answer to a question from Mr. LEWIN,
The CHAIRMAN stated, that the Bill introduced
into Parliament for granting compensation to Mr. J.
S. Buckingham had been withdrawn.
MR. J. S. BUCKINGHAM'S CASE.
Mr. LEWIN wished to make an observation upon the
case of Mr. Silk Buckingham, who, in his opinion,
had really made the press of India free, and to ask
what view the Court took.
The CHAIRMAN said the Bill brought before Par-
liament by Mr. Buckingham had been withdrawn.
RIGHTS OF NATIVE PRINCES.
Colonel DICKENSON then brought forward his mo-
tion—" That a list be prepared, with as little delay
as possible, and laid before the Court of Proprietors,
of those native states with which treaties have been
entered into by the British Government, the chiefs of
which are thereby deprived of any of the rights or
privileges of adoption without the consent of the pa-
ramount power." Lord Ellenborough's proclamation
must lead to the ruin and demoralisation of the native
princes. He would cite the case of the Nabob of
Surat with whom the company entered into a treaty
after his dethronement in 1800. If the treatment
complained of had taken place after a war, there might
have been some excuse for severity. The Hon. Pro-
prietor then quoted the Calcutta Review in support of
his argument, and said that Mr. Duggan had affirmed
that the rights of the Nabob's family were secured.
The Nabob died in 1842, and 184 G arrived without
anything being done for his family, though they were
led to hope and expect that there would have been.
One of the Nabob's nephews writes afterwards that
he had received a small sum, but that it went imme-
diately to pay creditors, and God only knew when
his claims would be settled. The Government, in
order to justify their acts, passed a measure through
the Legislature which put it out of the power of the
native princes to obtain redress. They had shut the
door to all possible appeal, and cases of the kind he
was citing would be of every-day occurrence with
Indian families, owing to Lord Ellenborough's pro-
clamation. He (Colonel Dickenson) wished that
those families should see what would be their fate.
There would be endless appeals, but only give the
families notice what would be their fate when the
time arrived that they were to lose their inde-
pendence.
Mr. LEWIN rather thought the Court would ob-
ject to give a list of those whose independence bad
been forfeited, because it would involve the necessity
of giving also a list of those who were not deprived.
The case of the Raja of Lahore, which had been cited
in Parliament, was in point. Not only his territory
and revenue, but even his regalia, had been taken away,
and part of it—the Koh-i-noor—was in the Exhi-
bition.
The CHAIRMAN felt it impossible to divine the ob-
ject of the motion. It was, however, rather remark-
able that the Lion. and Gallant Colonel should have
quoted a case in illustration of bis object which could
not by possibility apply, for Surat was a Mahomedan
state, where adoption was impossible. The Nawaub
died without heirs, leaving daughters, one of whom
married, and the property of the deceased Nawaub
was given to the son-in-law, with the exception of that
portion of it which was necessary for keeping up the
dignity of the Nawaub, that title having ceased to exist.
He (the Chairman) might however say that there
were no treaties of the nature mentioned in the notice
of motion. Adoption, it was true, required the sanc-
tion of the paramount power ; and that was occasion-
ally withheld, but it was not by virtue of any treaty
that such a power existed. The Chairman, in refer-
ence to the recent occurrences in the Punjaub, said
that the public were aware that the procedure of the
Indian Government in the l'anjtinb was one of neces.

sity. The chiefs of that country having first attacked
the British power, Lord llardinge, in subduing them,
displayed great moderation in maintaining Lahore es
an independent state. taking the young Baja under
British protection. The chiefs again rebelled, and
then it was found necessary to take possession of the
country; but there was no one who knew the charac-
ter of Lord Dalhousie but would acquit him of any
intention to adopt violent or unjust measures under
any circumstances whatever. He was very sorry that
this subject should have been alluded to on the pre-
sent occasion.
Mr. SULLIVAN said he did not entertain the same
opinion of the motion as had been expressed by the
Chairman, nor did he think the public would. The
motion appeared to him to have a very intelligible and
responsible object. His friend, Colonel Dickenson,
had said the Governor-General had passed a sentence
on every native prince in India, he having proclaimed
that henceforward all the possessions of native princes
who died without natural heirs should be confiscated
to the British Government, and that principle had
been recognised by the Chairman. It appeared to
him (Mr. Sullivan) that the least they could do to
the parties who were so deeply interested in this mat-
ter was to apprize them of the fate now hanging over
them. Up to the present moment they had been
spending all their revenues under the confi-
dent belief that treaties made would be observed,
and therefore the least they could do was to
tell these native princes that they had only
a life interest in their estates and possessions,
and ought to begin at once to make adequate provi-
sion for their families. Perhaps the directors thought
it was a reasonshle thing that they should not know
their sentence until it would be put into execution.
He, however, contended that they were not only
bound to tell them to make timely provision for their
families, under the sentence thus summarily passed
by the Governor-General, but were also bound to
induce them to place such provision in the hands of
the Governor-General and the British Government ;
for, strange and paradoxical though it might seem, it
was nevertheless true that the only place of security
for the property and possessions of native princes was
in the treasury of the East India Company ; for when
native princes put their property and possessions in
the British treasury they were under the protection
of the law. So long as the Governor-General
was llinitea to rue Company's Le& itories
he was a constitutional monarch, but when
be went beyond that he became an auto-
crat, and seized the property and possessions of
native princes, and nobody could call him to account.
He would say again, therefore, that they were bound
to make the people over whom the sentence was im-
pending to lay by some adequate provision for their
families, and moreover bound in all equity and jus-
tice to point out to them that their fate would be the
same as that which overtook the Raja of Sattara—
they were bound to tell them that 26 lass of rupees,
the property of the family of Pertaub Sing, if in-
vested in the company's funds, would amount to a
permanent provision of one lao of rupees a year, and
that the benevolent Governor-General thought he had
made a sufficient and ample provision for his family
by giving him a life annuity of 30,000 rupees a year,
and that though Appa Sahib had an adopted son, who
was formerly recognised as his real heir, and was en-
titled to all his private property and possessions,
they disposed of them as they pleased, and simply
gave him in return a life interest. That was the po-
sition, without any exaggeration whatever, in which
the native princes of India were placed at the present
moment. The Chairman had said the company had
no treaties with these princes, but what was the fact ?
There were no less than 150 native princes with
whom they had treaties, and his Gallant Friend's
motion only amounted to a request that they might be
warned that they had only a life interest in their es-
tates. In the 150 treaties with these native princes
and chiefs they had guaranteed to them and their
heirs in perpetuity all their estates and possessions ;
but the construction now sought to be placed on them
was, that they were to have only a life interest. That
being so, he would say again, " Warn them ; tell
them to begin to make a provision for their families,
so that they may not be reduced to the same state as
the families of the Raja of Sattara and Pertaub
Sing, who first had their property confiscated, and
then received an annuity of 30,000 rupees a year."
Every person who denounced the proceedings of the
Governor-General, or was opposed to him, must ex-
pect himself to be held up as a factious opponent, as a
person who used undue influences, and who possessed
no discretion. He found such expressions frequently
used in the papers just laid before the House of Com-
mons. But the Chairman himself was one of the
old faction who denounced in the strongest possible
terms the taking away of the Raja's property ; so
also did Mr. Tucker, one of the directors ; and,
speaking of him, he would take the liberty
of saying, in parenthesis, that none was more
distinguished, none more devoted to the in-
terests of the country than Mr. Tucker, and yet
the Governor-General, in those dispatches, said that
all those who really ventured, to express an opinion
as to the confiscation of the principality of the Sat-
tara territory, committed a breach of good faith. He
thought the Court could not think there was any-
thing unreasonable, or in the slightest degree kn.
proper, in his Gallant Friend bringing forward this
most important subject. lie confessed, on consider-
ation, that he was sorry the question of Lahore had
been introduced inadvertently into the dis-
cussion, but, as it had been mentioned,
the Court would, perhaps, allow him to say
that be dissented altogether from the opinions which
had been expressed by the Chairman. He believed
that Lord Dalhousie's Government would be princi-
pally remembered for two measures—in the first
place, for the confiscation of the principality of Sat-
tara against all right and treaty ; and in the next, for
the confiscation of the dominions and lives of princes
with whom we had made war. The Peishwah
kindled a rebellion in that province, which was put
down at great expense and loss of life, with the loss
of his crown, and the first act of the British Go-
vernment was to seize upon the state of Lahore, to se-
parate public and private property, and to secure or
confiscate the Koh-i-noor, which, according to the ac-
counts in the papers, seemed ashamed of the country,
for they coulernot got it to show its lustre any how.
—(A laugh.) He would now confine himself to one
more single observation, and that was, that though
the principle on which the directors now proceeded
was, that no native prince would be allowed to adopt
children without the sanction of the paramount power,
it had been determined by Lord Auckland and Lord
W. Bentinck, and other Governors-General of India,
that every Hindoo prince hid a right to adopt a suc-
cessor, whom we were bound to acknowledge.—(Hear.)
Sir J. Hoed, the Deputy-Chairman, thought that
from the tone adopted by the last speaker he took
upon him to chide the proprietors, and that he had
been betrayed into invective as unbounded as it was
uncalled for. The cause, however, soon appeared. It
was the old question of Sattara which haunted the
lion. Gentleman's imagination. Had it never oc-
curred to the Hon. Proprietor that other people were
capable of forming an opinion as well as himself, and
that he did not concentrate all the honour, and all the
intellect, and all the knowledge of the Court of Pro-
prietors, or that the majority might be right and the
minority wrong? Had ho forgotten the discussions
and decision in Parliament? His indignation about
the Sattara affair could afford the only excuse for
such warmth. It was ever Sattara, Sattara, Sat-
tara, and fur twelve years past the cry had been
Sattara. Mr. Sullivan had selected the case
of the Mahotnedan states, although such a case as that
in Colonel Dickenson's motion could never arise there.
He asked them to give a list of those native princes
who had been sacrificed for some ten,thirty, or fifty years
by some iniquitous Governor-General, and a list of
those whom it is intended to sacrifice.—(Hear, bear.)
Was it not monstrous that such a propositiion should
be made to an intelligent assembly that they were to
anticipate such gross injustice ?—(Hear.) Mr. Sul-
livan bad gone the length of asserting that the con-
quest of the Punjaub was a black spot in the history
of India ; but he (the Deputy-Chairman) would tell
the Hon. Proprietor that the people did not think so,
and that, in his opinion and that of the world, the
story of the Punjaub would be a bright star in that
history.—(Cheers.) Those who had given judgment
in the matter had said that Lord Hardinge was
too forbearing.—(Hear, bear.) With a degree of
moderation which must redound to the honour of
that nobleman, he had taken but a small territory
from the vanquished. It bad been asserted that we
entered into a treaty with a minor. Why, the whole
treaty was with the chiefs. It
.was
country was at our disposal(Heari;evbeerara.u)ppoTahede
.eGneti3ereriiirwoisahetrdeatotytrwyitthheaenffeeintfoaf.nta.
treTahtye
weeeovecgoldr chiefs, be (the Deputy-
wchitahirtmheanc)hiehfeslibeuvetdt,hohsaed:
ewryithout exception, taken
part
had the
chargedsubsequent
ai,rHrn La rebellion.dm,afrsi
Dalhousie Thewth Hon.fomenting
prietoror,,
sorry irt.oSbnelalrivtahna.)t
(theneth is ;beep]
Deputy-Chairman)
affir-
mation. Lord Dalhousie ha adopted measures for
the interest, not only of British India, but of all those
people committed to his rule. The treaty could not
be impunged.—Gear.)
Mr. SULLIVAN said he had charged Lord Dalhousie
with fomenting the rebellion in the Punjaub by his
agents. lie (Mr. Sullivan) had put his opinions in
dayit. with the
Therer
Courthee
print, and should be glad to have a fielddorrid the
ee
Hon.Deputy-Chairman,t,y;Cfrh:itnrmtahne, wquheostihoand
had entirely
away
not been one word said upon the matter of Colo-
nel Dickenson 's motion. He denied that lie bad re-
vived the case of the Raja of Sattara. He merely
named it.
Colonel DICKENSON said he simply required a list
of those native princes who needed the adoption of
the Government.
The motion was then put and negatived.
THE MADRAS LIGHT CAVALRY.
Ur. Lava then made the icilloWiPg motion ;.-7

"That the Court of Directors be requested to take
such measures as may be necessary to instruct the local
Governments of India to insert in the articles of war
for the native army a clause conveying the same privi-
lege to the native army of demanding copies of the
record of trial as is now enjoyed by the European
soldi-r under the articles of war framed by the British
Legislature."
The motion not being seconded, it fell to the
ground.
The Court then adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings Qt. the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, JU' 19.
SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day six mouths, 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:—

liIAJORITY—AYES, 64.
E
Adair, R. A.
Barrington, Viscount EEDlbulrincindega,
Baldock, E. .
Patten, J. W.
Beckett, William Evans, William Philips, Sir G. R.
H iu Lord.
11811 oo si
gt y 'inn,
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EM.
ar l
of
Bernal, Ralph Ferrer, James Pilkingten, James
Birch, Sir T. to r.Si, ,
jun.
Davidn
Ferguson, Sir r.. Prime, Richard
Bouverie, E. P. Forster, Matthew Ricardo, Osman
Brotherton, Joseph Freestun, Colonel Salwey, Colonel
Brown, W. Grey, Sir G. Slaney, R. A.
Buck, Lewis W. Grey, Ralph W. Smith, Vernon
Buller, Sir Y. Grosvenor, Lord R. Somerville. Sir W.
Campbell, W. F. Hall, gir B. Tancred, H. W.
Cardwell, Edward Hamner, Sir John Thicknesse, R. A.
Childers, J. W. Batchell, John Thompson, Colonel
Christopher, R. Heywood, James Verney, Sir H.
Cliflord, Henry M. Ileyworth, L. Villiers, Viscount
Corry, H. L. Jermyn, Earl Wawn, J. T.
Cowper, W. F. Langston, J. 11. Wood, Sir W. P.
Craig, Sir W.G. Lewis, G. C.
Dalrymple, Captain Lockhart, A. E. TELLIES.
Davie, Sir II Mackinnon, W. A. Hayter, w. G.
Mai.heson, Colonel Hill, Lard Marcus
Dawes, Edward
Miles, William
Duman, George

MINORITY—NOES, 23.
Baird, J tmes Lacy, Ir C. Stafford, Augustus
Burroughes, 11. N. Ly-gon, General Thornhill, G.
Cubitt, William Mackie, John Waddington, H. S.
Davies, D.A. Macnaghten, Sir E. Wall, C. B.
Duncan, Viscount M•Gregor, John Williams, W.
H.
Duudas, George Islasterman, John Willoughby, Sir
Frewen, C. 11. Mullings, J. B.
Ileneage, G. IL Reid, Colonel
Henley, J. W. Rice, E. R.
nu ro p hpry. Aid,, Sotheron, T. H.

TELLIES.
Duke, Sir James
siuuey, Alderman

(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Clause 10 (Commissioners to report to Secretary of State
when Markets provided, who is to publish notice thereof,
and of closing of Smithfield, to be published in London
Gazette) :—Amendment proposed, in page 4, line 43, to leave
out from the word •' opened" to the words " Public Markets,"
in page 5, line s:—Question put, " That the words proposed
to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee
divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 48.
Baring, Sir F. T. Fitzroy, Henry Parker, John
Beckett, William Forster, Matthew Plumptre, J. P.
Bellew, R. M. Freestun, Colonel Ricardo, Osman
Birch, Sir Thomas Fuller, A. E. Rich, Henry
Blair, Stephen Glyn, George Carr Russell, F. C. H.
Bouverie, B. P. Grace, 0. D. J. Stanton, W 11.
Boyle, Colone, Grey, Sir George Strickland, Sir G.
Brotherton, J. Glyn, G. C. Tancred,.H. W.
Childers, J. W. Hallyburton, Lord Tennent, I. J.
Cardwell, Edward Hastie, Alexander Ihicknesse, It. A.
Christopher. It. Hatchell, John Thompson, Colonel
Clifford, H. M. Hepworth, Lawrence Verney, Sir H.
Dawes, Edward Legh, G. C. Westhead, J. P.
Douglas, Sir C. Lewis, G. C. Wood, Sir W. P.
Duncan, George Mackinnon, W. A. TELLERS.
Ebrington, Viscount Miles, William Hayter, W. G.
Fergus, John Mostyn, E. Hill, Lord Marcus