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London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-
street.

E. Benassit, Limn-street, City, wine merchant, sid.,
on Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at tho office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman-street.

S. Blyly, Folkestone, grocer and cheesemonger, lid.,
on Thursday, June 26, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman-street. _

C. A. Harris, Bushey, Herefordshire, and Great
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, flax spinner, 3d., on Thursday,
June 20, and three following Thursdays, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
Elizabeth Mc Knott and J. Glass, Belvidere-road, and
Blackfriars-road, coal merchants, 2s. Id., on Thursday,
June 26, and three following Thursdays, between eleven
and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
G. Wheeler, Richmond, Surrey, grocer and cheese-
monger, July 16, at eleven—R. GudOn, Cople, Bed-
fordshire, licensed victualler, July 17, at eleven—J.
Marshall, Southampton, coal merchant, July 18, at half-
past one—W. L. Martin, Gravesend, Kent, ironmonger,
July 18 at two—J. Moores, jun., Aylesbury, Bucking-
hamshire, draper, July 18, at two.

,
In the Country.
11. D. Stevenson, Bishop Wearmouth, merchant, July
16, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J.
Mitchell, Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, shipowner,
July 16, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—W. Andrews, Liverpool, agent, July 15, at eleven,
at the Court, Liverpool—T. H. Butler, Lichfield,
ironmonger, July 17, at twelve, at the Court, Bir-
mingham.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 24.

The LORD OHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo:
sack at Five o'clock.

PETITIONS.

Lord STANLEY presented petitions against the
Sites of Churches Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, praying for a re-
form of the patent laws ; a petition from Kidder-
minster with a similar prayer; also a petition from the
members of the National Land Company, complaining
of the conduct of a Member of Parliament, in conse-
quence of which they had suffered grievous hardships;
and a petition against the Police of Towns Act.
APPRENTICES TO SEA SERVICE (IRELAND)
BILL.

On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
this Bill went through Committee.
PREVENTION OF OFFENCES BILL.

Lord CAWBELL said that this Bill had been sent
back by the Commons amended by the insertion of a
clause punishilg persons more effectually who placed
obstacles on railways. He moved that the amendments
be agreed to.
The amendments were agreed to accordingly.
SCHOOL SITES AMENDMENT BILL.

On the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE this
Bill was read t third time and passed.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Lord STANLEY gave notice that he should post-
pone his motion on this subject, until Monday, and that
he should moil that the papers be referred to a Select
Committee. I; was his intention to take the sense of
the House on the subject.
SOUTH-WESTERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY BILL.
Lord AIONTEAGLE presented a petition from the
landowners of the county of Kerry, praying that they
might be permitted to give a guarantee for money lent
to the railway ':ompany out of the county rates.
Lord REDESDALE was opposed to the principle of
landed proprietors being called on to guarantee railway
shareholders.
Lord BEAUMONT said that in this instance the
landowners prayed to be permitted to give the guarantee.
CAR OF JOTEE PERSHAUD.

The Earl of I',4LLENBOROUGII moved for the pro-
duction of the charges against Jotee Pershaud, an army
contractor in India, and of the verdict given on the trial.
Jotee Pershaud was no ordinary person. His
father had long been connected with the Indian
Government, and Jotee Pershaud had continued
to take contracts for the supply of the Indian
army. He had contracted to find the army
of the Satlej, and never had army been better provided,
and in the last war in the Punjaub he had contracted
to provide the army in provisions and horses, and that
army was always well supplied, whilst the enemy had
been compelled to surrender for want of provisions. He
was always at head. quarters and had agents in all parts
of India, over whose conduct of course he could not ex-
ercise any control. He was a man of gentlemanly
demeanour and had performed great services, yet at
the end of the war he had had charges
of the gravest character brought against him. Now,
nothing could be more dangerous than to bring grave
charges against a man who had performed great services
without being Tery certain that such charges could be
proved. Now hestated upon the most high authority, that
it would have ben very difficult to carry on operations
effectually if Jotee Pershaud had not had the manage-
ment of the commissariat. The charges against Jotee
Pershaud had been referred to the military authorities,
and they had reported that those charges were frivolous
and vexatious, tad had recommended that they should
not be followedlp. This report was sent to the military
board, and the military board was divided in opinion as
to its adoption. It was not, however, equally divided;
for two of the Members concurred with the conclusion of
Major Ramsey, while the other thought that the whole
matter should be referred to the President in Coun-
cil. On the 191 s January, 1850, accordingly, reference
was made of the matter to the president in council, and
on the 15th of February following the President in Coun-
cil referred the case to the Lieutenant-Governor of the
north-western provinces. On the 11th of March the
Lieutenant-Governor further referred it to the magistrate
of Agra, who nude his report on it on the 27th of
June. Other reports were also made, one on the 9th
and one on the 12th of July, by two other gentlemen,
civil agents, engaged in the investigation of parts of
the charge. After the first report was presented
it was withdrawn, and the report of one of
i these gen-
tlemen substituted in its place; because t had been
discovered in the meanwhile that, unfortunately, the ma-
gistrate of Agra, to whom it had been referred, was a
debtor in a large amount to Jotee Persaud. On that
account the farther prosecution of the inquiry was con-
fided to another person, who, on the 7th of November,
made a final report upon the case. The lieutenant-
governor thereupon directed the prosecution to proceed
as against Jotee Persaud, which was confirmed by the
Governor-General. All this while, however, the Go-
vernor-General of India appeared to be without any
cognizance of the early proceedings in this case. In
January and February, 1850, the Governor-General was
at sea, on his voyage from Bombay or to the eastern
islands, and he could not therefore have cognizance of
this part of the proceedings. In fact he only became so
when the final report was naade. The trial took place
on the 27th of March, and, after twenty days' trial, the
accused was acquitted. He (the Earl of Ellenborough)
should state that in September, 1850, after he had been
arraigned, Jotee Perabaud proceeded to Calcutta and
instituted a civil suit for 57a1,000/., the balance of his
claim against the Government. This was a proceeding
grounded on misapprehension and ill-advised. Because
if it had been brought at first it would not have been
competent for the Government to interpose a criminal
prosecution while a civil suit was pending. He (the
Earl of Ellenborough) did not think it very extraordi-
nary that Jotee Pershaud, seeing that he was to be tried
under the rew Act in the Mofussil court by a judge and
jury appointed by the Government, and seeing the way
in which the trial was to be got up, should prefer a
trial in the Supreme Court to a trial at bar. He thought
the President of the Council committed a great error
when he did not adhere to the opinion of the majority
of the military board, and not proceed further with the
inquiry. But he thought the proceedings from the first
founded in error as to the course the Government ought
to pursue. That course should have been to direct the
military accounts to be investigated, to pay to Jotee
Pershaud what they believed to be due to him, and leave
him to bring his action for whatever balance he might
deem due to himself: But undoubtedly they were grave
charges which were brought against the persons who
were concerned in those transactions. He understood
that the witnesses against Jotee Pershaud were per-
sons who had been concerned in the military con-
tracts, and that they had been brought by force under
the escort of the police to Agra; that at first their evi-
dence was in favour of Jotes Pershaud, that they were
then threstened with prosecution for their own mal-
practices, but were also told that if they made a full
confession they would be pardoned, and some of the wit-
nesses were kept in durance until the trial commenced.
The whole of the evidence, too, on which he was ar-
rainged was evidence taken in his absence. Jotee Per-
shaud in the meantime went to Calcutta, and not having
returned at the expiry of his term of bail his recog-
nizanoes were estreated, and Mr. Laing, who was his ad-
vocate and also his bailsman, instead of having his goods
seized, had an embargo laid upon his press—for ho was
the editor of a newspaper—the object being to stop the
mouth of the paper. In this country how great would
be the indignation excited if a party were to enter the
bedroom of a lady and seize her jewels; but in India to
violate the sanctity of the zenana of a Hindoo was cal-
culated to excite not merely the indignation of the
people, bat to raise a spirit of insurrection from one end
of the country to the other. It was an offence never
to be forgiven, and if they disregarded the opinions and
feelings of the people in matters of that kind they
might be sure their dominion in India would not be
worth a fortnight's purchase. He thought he bad es-
tablished sufficient grounds for the production of the
papers be had moved for.
Lord BROUGHTON said that the Noble Earl bad
given an accurate account of the early part of the pro-
ceedings to which be bad alluded. But there was this
inconvenience in discussing the subject in the presen
state of their information, that the official documen

which had reached him did not come down to the par-
ticular transactions to which the,Noble Earl had espe-
cially alluded, and which ho thought most worthy of
censure. Ho was happy to find that the charges which
in the first instance were brought against the Govern-
ment of India had not been repeated by the Noble
Lord; that, on the contrary, he had the candour and
straightforwardness to state, that the charge against the
Government of having instituted the criminal investiga-
tion for the purpose of putting a stop to the civil suit
was wholly without foundation. The contrary was the
fact; the civil suit was not instituted until a great part
of the criminal investigation bad been proceeded with.
The facts were shortly these:—On the 30th of March,

184 Q, a native contractor sent a communication
:o th© authorities, charging Jotee Pershaud with

fraud, embezzleaient, and forgery. A military
board, consisting of three members, was appointed
to investigate the matter, and two members of the
board reported that the charges were not sufficiently
well founded to be worthy of being further prosecuted;
the third officer, however, being of a contrary opinion,
and Sir John Littler, the Governor of the north-western
province, on receiving those two different opinions,
ordered the investigation to be pursued. The inquiry
was put into the hands of Mr. Denison, who, after ex-
amining the accounts, reported that he bad discovered a
false charge for 4,400 bullocks, which had never been
used, and also that another false charge for 2,500 bul-
locks had only been withdrawn on the announcement
of the inquiry having been instituted. Subsequently the
inquiry was put into the hands of Mr. Cumming, who
reported that he had examined all the proceedings and
all the witnesses, and that he was fully satisfied there

existed the most extensive frauds. It wins true that Mr.

Denison on a former occasion had borrowed a sum of money
from Jotee Pershaud, with which he purchased a house;
which, however, ho had subsequently mortgaged to him
for the money thus lent, and before the close of the
investigation the money was repaid. But when Lord
Dalhousie became acquainted with the affair he at once
ordered the investigation to be entrusted to other hands.
Two other magistrates also investigated the charges, and
reported that they had discovered frauds of great extent.
That was in July, 1850, and up to that time there had
been no hint, on the part of Joteo Pershaud or his ad-
visers, of an intention to proceed by civil suit to recover
in the Supreme Court balances alleged to be due to him.
It was not till after the commencement of the criminal
investigation that such an intention was announced.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH—After his arrest.
Lord BROUGHTON—The amount of those balances
was set down at 570,0001., and respecting them Colonel
Newbold, the assistant commissary-general, expressed
his surprise at such a demand, as no previous claim had
been made by Jotee Pershaud. But, to show the spirit
of fairness in vlid; the whole offoir wifris 00124licied, be 1