The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Tagus, Captain W. B. Hall, with mails from
Lisbon of the 17th inst., Oporto and Vigo of the
18th, in charge of Lieutenant Bolton, R.N., Admi-
ralty agent, arrived at Southampton yesterday.
She brought 17 passengers (14 of whom were first
class), £2,710 13s. in specie, 948 half chests of
oranges, 85 packages and two cases of elephants'
teeth, 218 boxes and 100 baskets of potatoes, 154
boxes of eggs, and 20 packages of sundries.
The following ships were spoken with :—April
12, in lat. 43 5 N., long. 9 32 W., the Ringwood,
bound to Alicante; 18th, off Oporto bar, the steam-
ship Minho ; 21st, at 8.30 a.m., off Ushant, the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pera, outward
bound.

When the Tagus left Lisbon on the 17th the con-
tinued want of rains had greatly increased general
alarm respecting the harvest.
All descriptions of grain had risen considerably,
and although the admission of foreign wheat, maize,
barley, and beans had some time since been decreed
to the end of May, the Government was about to
apply to the Cortes for authority to keep the ports
open until the end of December. It was also about
to introduce a bill for the reduction of the duties on
foreign rice to one-third the actual rates.
The liberal modifications in the electoral law had
been submitted to the Ministers by the Committee
of Deputies, and, being approved, were likely to pass
the Cortes during the present session.

In consequence of the scarcity of bills the Lisbon
exchange for three months on London was effected
generally by this packet at 531, and something at
537,; Paris, at 532 to 536. Money offered on Am-
sterdam at 421; Hamburg, 471 ; and Genoa, 530.
Three per Cent, stock had. declined to 471 to 48,
registered ; Coupons, 47 to 471; and Deferred, 31
to 32. Bank shares remained unaltered.

THE SENTENCE ON TILE NA WAB OF

FURR UCKABAD.

The Nawab of Furruckabad has been found guilty
of the crimes laid to his charge. On the day the
sentence was delivered an anxious crowd of natives,
deeply excited, occupied every approach. Very
many of the civil and military officials, and other
residents of the station, were also present in court.
The president, having ordered the prisoner to be
placed at the bar, proceeded, amidst profound
silence, to pass sentence upon hith in the following

terms

" Prisoner at the bar,—Your trial has lasted one
month, and the fullest investigation that was possi-
ble has been made as to your guilt or innocence.
You have been defended by an able English gentle-
man, who, relying on your own statements, has
taken the greatest pains to prove you innocent of
the heinous crimes with the commission of which
you were charged, and he has also endeavoured to
procure your release by every argument of a legal
and technical nature which he thought would assist
your cause. Nevertheless we three judges, sitting.
calmly and deliberately to hear the case for and
against you, have unanimously decided that you are
guilty. In arriving at this judgment do not for an
instant believe that we have given implicit belief
to every word uttered by every witness for the pro-
secution, or that we have not allowed all the weight
that it was worth to the evidence for the defence.
" You yourself have never attempted to deny the
facts—i.e., the occurrence of those dreadful crimes
-which have conferred an historical infamy on
Futtygurh and Furruckabad, and which have led.
to your being brought to the bar of justice. And
now, prisoner at the bar, consider what are the
crimes with the commission of which we, your
judges, have convicted you. For what crimes, I
repeat, is it that, as far as we are concerned, we
have condemned you to suffer death ?
" Her Majesty the Queen's gracious amnesty has
saved you from that extreme punishment for the
crime of being a principal leader and instigator in
treason and rebellion which you so ungratefully
committed. But if you had committed only that
offence you would have to pass the remainder of
your life in a miserable exile. But you stand at
that bar convicted, first, of being accessory after
the fact to a wholesale massacre of English gentle-
men, ladies, and children, with most of whom you
had been living on terms of intimacy—that is, le
the language of the law, you received, comforted,
and assisted the perpetrators of this massacre, and
not only that, but honoured and rewarded some
amongst them.

" Secondly, you stand convicted of being acces-
sory both before and after the fact to the cold-
blooded slaughter of 22 Christians, including
amongst them women and children, who were
killed for no other cause than that they were
Christians ; that is, you not only received, com-
forted, and assisted the perpetrators of this crime,
but you previously procured, counselled, coal'
manded, and abetted those who took away these
unhappy victims from your own door. And, as if thin
were not enough, you have been convicted of this,
same double crime in regard to three poor natives (ails
there is reason to believe that others perished in s
similar manner), whose only fault was that one was
faithful to his salt, and that the others wera carry"
ing English letters.
" And what is your excuse for all these crimes ?

What, but that you were afraidoil;;Wyoll,t
wretched life (which after all has been forfeited),
at the hands of the mutinous soldiery, and that
you were a puppet in the hands of their leaders,
some of
whom were of your own kith and lineage.
Even if it were true that you occupied this position,'
what a degraded one it was—how much 01
cowardice it showed in the descendant and repro"
s.entative of a family and race hitherto well knoll
Hindostan for courage and manly qualities'
But it is quite impossible to believe that this plea
of duress is true, even if there had not been pro'
duced ample and trustworthy evidence to refute
" You were able to save the lives of Christians,
and you twice did save such, once to appease the
anger of Heaven, when you were sick and though
yourself dying, and once to gratify your own feel'
ings and inclinations. You were not a close pry
soner, and you did exercise all the powers of a ruler
in this territory, and in their exercise you coo"
mitted the awful crimes which I have enumerated.
If for the innocent blood that is crying to us from
this river and this land we did not sentence you to
suffer death, which is mercy itself to the cruel death
inflicted under your sanction on so many victim°,
we should fail in our duty both to God and man.
" It is for the Government, which is our master
and your master, to decide finally as to your fate:
You may rely on the whole of your pleas of defence
being submitted to that authority. In the mall;
while I implore you to repent of your crimes, so,
to make your peace with that God whose laws you
have so ruthlessly violated."
" The prisoner," says the Bombay Telegraph,
"was not able wholly to maintain his uncoil;
cerned demeanour. Just as the enumeration 0
the fearful crimes of which the sentence of the
Court convicted him approached to a close:a change
passed over his countenance, and his look became
downcast. Soon he controlled his features, and:
recovered the usual expression of his face, except
that he continued to cast down his eyes. The
sentence of death by hanging did not produce any
further outward and visible sign. We need ye,'
add that no emotions of remorse were manifesto'.
The prisoner has been placed, for securer custody,
under a European guard in Fort Futteyghur."

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examination/
in Anatomy and Physiology at meetings of the court of 3
aminers on the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 20th inst.,
admitted to the pass examination when qualified—T',
Messrs. Samuel Meire Ward, T. C. Mitchell, Wall'',
Wickes IV. Andrew, G. M. Egles, Octavius C. Han%
Joseph Hocking, Harry Mead, Richard H. Hunter, Thomas
Leeds, Charles Gordon Sprague, Thomas James Schollec."
John Lovell Arnott, Alfred Catt, Evelyn Pocklingt°ll;
Thomas Smith Ellice, Alfred ‘Vinkfield, John Bonita
Collins, Thomas Mapleson Butler, Joseph Ridge Green/11 0
John Langton, Alfred Coleman, William Gimson Ginni°l4
and Edmund Strickland, students of St. Bartholoranw o
Hospital; Delamarc Freeman, Samuel Farrant, Thal ,
Drake, Thomas William Blake, R. Metcalfe, Charles 117,
Braddon, William Harling Sissons, J. A. Harding, 1° .0,
Harward Hooper, Charles Parker Ward, Samuel Mo."; 1,
and Benjamin George Everett, of St. Thomas's Hosp. d
John Francis Lovegrove, John Woodman, Edwin 1,1,1,4
Edgar Becket Truman, Allen L. Haynes, and Francis 11,,,
Cann, Walter Watkins, Edward tppelbee and Joseph ,turdtell, of Guy's Hospital; Wm. John Hunt, Wm.
King, Henry Tofts, John Palmer Gannon, Wm. Truinfrin
Harry Pedgrift, and Walter Harris, of the University L':"„..
lege; John Clayton Hodson, Edward Parker Young, 11°, 31'.
min Simmons, Alfred J. Belemore, George Henry Dar',.v's
Edward G. 'Hocking, and Fredk. J. Rogers, of St. In„%,''oll
Hospital ; John S. Cumming, Thos. Mitchell, Jas.
and William George Payne, of the London Hospital
Phillips Collins, Thomas Harbottle Muncaster ; and 11'„*.
James Horton, of the Middlesex Hospital ; James gac-of
mara, Francis Blake Hutchinson, and 'William E,dgiel?ota
King's College Thomas Rut Ik3rford Adams, John " 'ter
Middleton, and William Bruce Slayter, of the Wesbnins of
Hospital ; George Mayon, and William Charles Worlei:o,o
the Charing-cross Hospital ; Edmund Eccles, of St. Ogiloo
Hospital ; Peter Thomas Dean, Octavius Dean, ajoas
Hoyle, William Henry Barlow, David Taylor, and lv 'gar
Walls, of Manchester ; Morland Hocken ; Walter F r of
kenzie, John Lloyd Thomas, and Albany John Parer;ser
Dublin ; Francis Hamilton Homfray, and T. B. 9,„a
Seabrook, Edinburgh; George Murray Brumwe"o
h Ison,
Henry Wheeler, Newcastle; Robert Hicks B. Nic caw
Hull; William Copley Wodhead, Leeds; and John
bill, Birmingham,