The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-06 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER, 6, 1851.

Niz un's cost, does not put down insubordination and
essiA in the collection of the revenue. Now, in the
Deccan tne Eest India CJmpany has 20,000 troops,
all on a war tooting; 9,000 of them are the subsi
force intendsd to protect the Nizern cgainst fereigu
sggres:,ar, that is, against Ma r. incursions, and
for their payment the Company hes for nearly self a
century had the ceded districts of Mysore in hand.
These 9,000 men surround Hyderabad, but to the
Nizam are now a perfectly useless force. The Men-
rattas, as a power capable of disturbing him, were
destroyed in 1819. Yet without rhyme or reason the
Company continues to swell ies army of Southern
'lndia by this force, and to keep those districts where-
with to pay it on a war footing, when during the
last thirty years it has never smelt any powder but its
own. If it be of any value, it is to the Company ;
and they ought to pay for it themselves; for any-
thing more unjust than to maintain such au army
at the Nizana's cost by keeping the ceded districts,
when its very purpose no longer exists, can hardly be
irnsgined or stated. This division of the 20,000 men
imposed on the Nizam is never employed to coerce
insubordinate chiefs or to enforce the collection of op-
pressive taxation. The other division, or the contin-
gent, may. occasionally have been so occupied ; its as-
sistance could hardly be denied the Nizam who paid
for it, in the face of a formidable rebellion ; and,
when money to pay the Indian Government for it
was not forthcoming, nothing is more likely than
that it has been allowed to join in a razzia on
a defaulting district or village. To this extent
the contingent may have been used in the ad•
ministration of the Deccan ; but to describe it as
a force which the Nivam, its paymaster, has any
power over—as of any real, everyday use to him—as
doing the work of the military police of his country—
as an army on which he can depend, or which is cal-
culated to assist in well governicg the Deccan, is to
exhibit either ludicrous ignorance or wilful perver-
sity. The contingent is a monstrous burthen on his
finances ; it has involved him in debt to the Parsecs ;
it has brought him to the brink of pecuniary ruin, and
placed his territories at Lord Dalhousie's mercy,
without performing the object and purpose for which
it was established. If this be doubted, let inquiry be
made of Sir Henry Russell. And its shortcomings
and omissions the unfortunate Prince has endeavoured
to supply by a third army of his own, consisting of
the worst of all troops—mere mercenaries—to whom
as old Donne says—
The boat of causes is the best of pay.
Thus the Nizam of the Deccan has three armies ;
two imposed on him, the third his own. Over the two
he has no power, and being in debt because of their
imposition and burthen on his finances, he cannot pay
the third regularly ; and it is occasionaly insubordi-
nate. But his difficulties arise -from the British
armies, not from the Arab troops. Withdraw
the contingent, and so give him the means of paying
the now ill-paid levies regularly, and the Niaam's
finances will soon right themselves and be in a better
state than our own ; his Parsee creditors will leave
London for India by the next mail content and
secure; and Lord Dalhousie would cease to be a
bum-bailiff levying executions on the Deccan. With-
draw the contingent, and the Nizam and his Ministers
will quickly reduce the Arab troops to perfect subor-
dination, and carry on effectively the administration
of the country by their means. But the withdrawal
of the contingent would involve a loss of patronage ;
and directors of the East India Company with only
3001. a year each deem patronage the first of necessi-
ties. So that will not be done. This question, as
now raised, of the Deccan, we entreat our readers to
bear in mind, i 3 primarily a financial one. The
Nizam has not the means of plying for cur contin-
gent and carrying on his government at the same
time. But, though his finances are consequently
disordered to the extent of some two millions
sterling, his people generally are prosperous, his
taxation light. He is the reverse of an oppressive,
tyrannical, or unjust Prince; and in every re-
spect the Deccan will bear a favourable compari-
son with the best of our own provinces. All that
is necessary for its further improvement is that
he be freed from his present bondage and burthen ;
that he have the use of his own arms; the right to
rule his own subjects; and be, in his own circum-
scribed and subordinate sphere, a sovereign ; but that
Lord Dalhousie seems determined he shall not be.
Left to himself, it is quite possible he might at first
oppress his subjects a little, just as we oppress ours a
great deal. But, unlike ours, his people would dare
to show their teeth to insist on better treatment, to
protect themselves, to brand him in Hyderabad itself,
and, like other native sovereigns in India, the Nizam
would give way, yield, and amend his ways. And
by such means you would have a despotic prince kept
in check and under control by a brave, independent,
and energetic people; and so preserve, perpetuate,
and reward the elements of human progress and hap-
piness. But absorb or annex the Deccan, and you
would unjustly extinguish a royal house with a better
title to its possession than we to most of ours—would
destroy a court, an aristocracy, manufactures, and
literature—would overrun the immense country with
European l'unctionaries, and, by closing all avenues
to power and wealth to the natives, would deaden and
destroy their energies, throw back their civilization,
and reduce them to something like the state the Je-
suits established in Paraguay. And, talk as self-
complacently as we please, that is very much what we
are doing in our own provinces in India.

A FEW HINTS ON BLOOMERISM.
(FRox A CORRESPONDENT.)
We would beg with all duo deference, to suggest a
few hints en passant, to the votaries of the new parure.
Would they preserve • to themselves the stamp of gen-
tility (unlike some fair flowers of divers hues that have
recently appeared in the north) wo should recommend
a judicious assortment of colour; for we should cer-
tainly be sorry to see the trousers of a yellow material,
the dress of rod; the jacket blue, and the hat or bonnet
of another tint. This very disagreeable mixture of co-
lour would quite shock the eye of taste and refinement.
In lieu of this incongruous mélange, we should suggest
that the jacket be always and uniformly of black or grey,
the bonnet, and especially the trousers, of a decidedly
taciturn description, while, perhaps, the remaining por-
tion of the dress be of any colour, according to the
taste or fancy of the wearer.
We trust these hints will not bo unacceptable to our
rational thinking countrywomen, should they feel in-
clined to adopt this certainly useful, and not altogether
unbecoming style of dress.
September 5, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, THURSDAY.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer
stalking yesterday. Her Majesty and the Princess
Royal rode with his Royal Highness to the Forest,
and then returned to Balmoral. In the afternoon her
Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Waled, visited
the Duchess of Kent at Abergeldie. The Countess
of Desert and the Hon. Miss Byng were in attend-
ance.

NAVAL INTELL IGEN CE.

13,..ctired Rear-Admiral taanoe-itdied a few days
since, aged 77. George Gustavus Lennock entered
the navy iu April, 1789, as csptaia's seretat, on board
I the Biaeche frigate, Captain Hebert .I\turray, wi•h
whom he was for three years employed in the West
Indies, latterly in the cepacity of midshipman. Re-
turning to the came station (aLar he lant been for a
shun ticae attached on home service to the Juno, 32,
Captain Samuel Hood) in the Veteran, 64, Captain
Charles Edmond Nugent, he there co- operated in the
.reduction of the French islands, and afterwards joined
the Boyne, 98, flog-ship of Sir John Jervis. He was
made Lieutenant May 8, 1795, into the Shark sloop,
Captain John O'Brien, at Newfoundland ; and was
subsequently appointed, .TsTov.ll, 1795, to the Assist-
ance, 50, Captain H. Mowat, under whom he wit-
nessed the capture, August 28, 1796, of the French
36-gun frigate Elizabeth, off Cape Henry; April 21,
1791, to the Resolution, 74, bearing the flag at Ha-
lifax of Vice-Admiral Vandeput ; August 11 fol-
lowing to the Asia, 64, Captains Robert Murray and
John Dawson, employed until the peace on the same
station and in the Baltic and North Seas; Sept. 28,
1802, to the Ambuscade alias Seine, 36, Captains
lion. J. Colville and David Atkins, in one of whose
boats, on his return to the West Indies, he was se-
verely wounded in an attempt to cut a privateer out
from St. Jago ; and in 1805 6 to the acting com-
mand of the Shark, Drake, and Mignonne sloops on the
Jamaica station. While in the latter vessel, Mr.
Lennock was confirmed a commander by commission
dated August 6, 1806. He returned to England,
after having further had command of the Musette
and Moselle sloops, in February, 1809 ; and was next,
in October of that year, appointed to the Raven, 16,
attached to the force in the North Sea. On July 5,
1812, in face of the enemy's fleet at Flushing, and
under the very guns of that enemy's forts, Captain
Lennock made a dashing attack on fourteen brigs
(each armed with three or four long 24-pounders),
and drove three of them on shore. His quickness,
indeed, in deciding upon this exploit, and his skill and
s2irit in executing it, obtained him very nigh appro-
bation. His last appointment was Jan. 21, 1814, to
the Esk, corvette, of 20 guns, in which vessel we
find him continuously employed off the Canary
Islands, and in the Channel and South America,
until paid off in December, 1818. During the
earlier part of that period Captain Lennock (whose
post-commission bears date June 4, 1814) effected
the capture of the Sine-qua-non, American privateer,
of 7 guns and 81 men, and fought a smart action, off
Teneriffe, with two other American vessels, the
Grampus and Terpsichore. He accepted the retire-
ment, Oct. 1, 1846. Admiral Lennock married in
1829, Anna, eldest daughter of J. Walker, Esq., of
Crawford Town, by whom he has issue.
Lieut. R. 11. Wharton (1841) died at Torpoint,
Cornwall, on the 26th ult., aged 37.
Surgeon Dr. John Coulter (1834) died August 28,
at the Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, of paralysis ; he
was late surgeon of the Bellerophon.