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London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, sArURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1857.

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SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE

LATEST CITY BETTING.
ST. LIMICR.
7-to= 4 agst Blink Bonny `(offered)
7'to 4 eget Ignoranius (oftered)
10 to 1 opt Tournament (offered)
20 to 1 agst" Sir Colin.(offrned)"
25 to 1 agat Imperieuse (offered)
25 to. 1 agat Arsenal (offered).
33 to 1 apt A.nton (taken)
40.0 1 agat B,ashiTazonk (offered)

, GREAT YORKSTIIRE HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Tasmania (taken)
8 to .1 agst Warlock (taken)
10 to 1 aget General Boequet (off red)

CHAMPAGNE.
3to 1 agst Eclipse (taken)

The Subscription-Inal will be open this (Saturday)
afternoon.'

ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RACES.--FsmAi.
The West Kent Stakes of 2 sovs.each; with 25 added,
for three-year-olds and upwara's ; ' optional selling.
weight-3, &c. Once roubd. -''s. subs.
Mr.- Angell's -Paula Monti, .3 yrs, lat 6113 (M.)
(I.l`ordhatn)
Mr. Edwards Clara, 3 yrs, 7st (301.)1 ' (Dales)• 2
Mr. P. Bar;ing's Raffle, 3 yrsi 68t.5.1),(301 ) -(Coulter) 3
Mr. Allibone's Radulphus, aged, Bst 21b (301)
- (Parelow) '.4
Betting-7 to 4on Paula Monti and sto 2 agst
Rata.. Won by a length ; same distance between
the second and third ; moderate fouith •

The Members Plate (Handicap} of 5U sovs ; winners

'extra. One. mile.

Mr. Shrimpton's Madame Rachel, '3
irs,-13st 21b
(Bundy) 1
Mr.Tarber's Miss Harkaway, 4 yrs, B,t,lnclnding
51b extra - (Dales) 2
Mr. H. Lane's Brunswick' (lite Midakhoff), 3 yrs, 7st
Sib - (Fordharn) 3
Tle Baker and Adamant also ran. _

Buttirg-5 to 4 on, Miss IlArkaway, 3 to 1 agst Ada-
mant, and 5 to 1 each art Madame Rachel and The
Baker. Won by a neck ; two lengths between tho second
and third ; bad fourth, Adamant, White leading, bolted
at the far turn.

The New Stakes of 5 sos each, with 30 added, for two
' and three-year-old. 5 subs.
Mr. T. Stevens's Sister to Etfrida, 3 :yrs, B,t 5.b
(Prior) w. o.
The Ladies Plate of 25 sous, added to a Sweepstakes of
3 sews each, for three-yr-olds and upwards ; optional

;ailing weights, &c. Two miles.k 3 'subp.
Mr. Angclt's Paula Monti, 3 yrs, 7st 11Ib (2001.)
(Fon:ran) 1
Mr.. Newb9ld's Little Robin, 3 yrs, 7dt 71b (1501.)
(Bundy) 2
_ .

Betting-8 to 4on .Littleltobin (in the running 6to
4 was laid cn the mare); Pauli Monti made all the
running; and
.won by a length. -
Cup, value 20 guineas, added to a Sweepstakes of 2 nova
each, for hunters ; thorough'breds, 71b ; winners, 51b
exfra ; 12st each.- About two miles and a distance

over hurdles. 4 subs. •
&(r. J. Darling's Dillingham,- by Sweetmeat, 13at llb
(in. 15113 extra) .... (Owner) 1
Mr. P. Darling's Malmesbury, 13at lib (in. 151 b extra)
(Owner) 2
Mr. Lepton's Annie Laurie, 12st, slb (in. Sib extra)
(Mr. Mears) 3
Capt. Price's Romantic, l2et 51b (in. Sib, extra) (Owner). 4
Betting—Even on Malmesbury, 6 to 4 apt Annie
Laurie, 6 to 1 asst BillinghaM, and 10 to 1 agst Roman-
tic. Won by five lengths; three lengths between the
seconi and third, and ab3ut the same distance between
the third sind fourth.

TOTNES AND BRIDGETOWN RACES.
. . _WEDNESDAY. • , •

A few showers of rain fell, but notwithstanding this
drawback the races were well attended. The sports
were good.
The Totnes Free Steeplechase for a ;Plate cf 50 sove.
(The gift of his Grace the Duke of Somerset.) Free
for all hones., Over about three miles and a half of
fair hunting country.
Mr. 11 Deacon's Edgar, aged, 11st 101 b
1
Captain Firth's Tip-top, aged, list 71b 2
Mr. G. B. Debenham's ()rondos, aged, 114 71b 3
Mr. I. Sbaw's Fanny Kaye, aged, list 711? . .
Mr. Heath's Ironeides' 6 yre, 10:t 111 b
A neck-and-neck affair for upwards of three miles
and a quarter between Edgar and Tip-top ; a most ex-
ci,ing race.
The Town Plate of 35 sove. Free for all horses. About

two miles.
Mr. Waite's Phantom; aged, 9st 51b
Mr. J. Ilex's Primrose, 4 yrs, Bst 7113 2
Mr. Spurgeon's filly by Weatherbit, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b 3
The foll.4wing also ran :—lnkernian, Barrie, and
Smithrooor.

A fine race ; won cleverly.
The Hurdle Itace for a Parse of 15 sovs. Free for all
horses except the winner of the Town Plate. Heats.
About two miles, over four fights of hurdles.
Mr. Andrews's Smithmoor, 12st 10Ib 1 1
Mr. Debenbam'e ()rondos, aged, 123 t
Captain Firth's Tip-top, 12;1 ' 3 0
The Ladies' Plate of. 15 sovs. Hosts. About a mile
and a half. The winner of the Town Plate to carry
141ba extra,.
Mr. Waito,'s Phabtorn, aged, B,t 121 b
Mr. Jacobs's Madame Landau, aged, 9et 81b 4 2
Mr. Spurgeon's fil'y by Weatherbit, 3 yra, 7st Blb 2 3
Mr. Hex's Primrose, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b
Mr. Bond's Metal, 5 yrs, Bet 81b 5 0
First heat won by half a head ; second cleverly

THURSDAY.
The Grand South-Hams Steeplechase for a Plate of 50
soya, added to a stake of 2 soya each. The second
horse to receive 51. out of the stakes, and the third to
save his stake. About three and a-half miles of fair
hunting ouuntry. Three horses to start or no race.
Mr. H. Dimcion's Edgar, aged, 12it 716 1
Mr. H. Daacon's Egbert, 6 yrs, 12st
Capt. Firth's Tip-top, aged, list lib
Fanny Kaye alsb ran but 'fell at the first fence, and
Tip-toe also fell and threw his rider. -
The Tradesmen's Plate of 30 eovs. Handicap. Heats,

about two miles. Three horses to start or bo race.

Mr. J. Hex's Primrose, 4 yv, lat llb .. 2 2 1 1
Mr. W. Andrew's Smithmoor, 5 yra, I.oat 41b :. 4 1 2 2
Mr. Shapter's Sprig of Shellelah, a, sat 111 b... 1 3 3 0
Mr. Ward's Robgill, 6 yrs, Bst, 3 0 0 0
Four very good heats, each won by lees than half a
length.
Weatherbit also ran.
The Flying Steeplechase Handicap for 20 goys, out of.
which the second horse to receive 21., and the third 1/.
About two miles. Three horses to start or,no race..
Mr. I. Shaw'S Fanny Kaye, aged, list 71b 1
Mr. G. B. Delrenham's Orondos, aged, lOst 4lb 2
Smithmoor also ran. •
The Committee Plate of 15 sovs, out of which the second
horse is to receive 2/. and the third 1/. All ages.
Heats, about a mile and a half. Three horses to start
or no race.
Mr. J. Hex's Primrose, 4 yrs, Oat 111 b 3 1 1
Mr. E. Bond's Metal, 5 yrs, 7st 7th 1 4 2
Mr. Shapter's Sprig of Shellelagh, aged bat 81b... 6 8
mMiurrr.r. DDAeneabdrer'neshipßt:sizallsyo
dr_go.by.em,
Mr. H. D. Parrs' Inkerman aged, 7st'7lb 2 3 0
7 0 0.
'5. pre, 6st 7ib
Orondos,ithmoor, sagyrede: 10011711bb..
54
02
00
Three closely contested heats.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR' ENGAGE-
MENTS.
On'the sth inst., at .9 a.m., Aspasia out of all her en-
,
gagementg- ' • ,
On the 7th inst, at p,a.m.,'Barfleur out of the Thirsts
Handiaap.
Oa the 7th inst, at a a.m., Polly. out of all her en-
gagements..
On the 7th haat, at 9 a.m., Hunting Hata and Nougat
out of the St. Leger: . • 4
On the 7th IS at 9 a.ra:, Odd Trick out of his en-
gagements at Doncaster and Derby.

every great race, and by using Mr. Davies's name I
doibt not reap a good harvest —Yours, tto
" Sept: 10, 1857," - " A VIOTIL
In giving publicity to the abOve letter (says the editor
of Bell's Life), the writer of which encloses his name and
icUress, we beg to repeat, for the thousandth time, that
Mr. Davies, the "Leviathan," nivel. advertises. It is
to be hoped that-thii eipos6 will have the effect of check-
ing the career of the set of impostors referred to, against
whose advertisements in tbe York paperi—aiMr. Davis,
Mr. Mather, Mr. T. Rushee, and other well-known re-
spectable bookmakers—we have on frequent occasions
cautioned the public, without, we regret to notice, being
seconded in our efforts- to put down such a swindling
system by the sporting portion of the provincial press,

THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN INDIA.

The foll Owing is a 'return to an order of the
time of Commons, dated August 18, 1857, for
copies of any despatch from the Governor-General
of India, stating his reasons for making the Act
No. 15, 1857, for, the restriction of the lib?rty of
the press, applicable to the European portion of
the population-as well as to the native : •
" T 6 the Hen. the Court of Directofe of the Eat India

Company.
" Hon. Sirse-4n oar despatch,. No. - 54,' dated the
11th ult.eyour hon. Court were informed that on the
13th idem the Legislative Council, on the motion of the
'Goverrior`General; Made With our fell. and unanimous
ooneurre(ce, after anxious deliberation,- passed without
a diesentient voice en act, No, 15 of 1857,' whereby the
,lkberty,of the press-of India is restricted for the period of
pas year from that dete. The effect of this )aw will beto
replace thee-Indian press during this year very much in
the position, in which it. wars permanently before Sir C.
Metcalfe's Goeernment in 1835 passed Act NQ. 11 of
that Year, whereby c plete liberty was given to .it,,
" No.. Of 1835 was Pearled in opposition to.
strong opinions of many eminent Indian officers, at the
head of wheal may be placed Sir Th3s. Munro, whose
well-knoWn minute, dated the 12th 'of April; 1832; con-
tains what we believe to be the most *eighty argument
against the grant in India of the Same absolute freedom
of Abe press,' which is oriaofthe-principst means of good
administration in a free. State, consisting of homogenous
elements under a popular-Government.- That act was
disapproved by the Home Government as being founded-
upon reasons which did net truly apply t a country in
the peculiar position of British India, and the Indian
Government of the day was severely censured for having
Liaised it by yourhon. Court, in your despatch-dated
the let of February, 136. Your hon. Court, although
abstaining. from the extreme measure of imtne-•
diate 'annulment, directed that thr; act --should be
reooneidered; in-Order to its repeal. Lord Auckland's
•Geveturnent, ho wever, =to whom thosainsarnetions were
-addressed,- represented what they conceived to be the
evils of a revocatien of the liberty Which, had been
vented, and thereupon the, lawswas silentleeallowed by
the home Government to remain in force. ,
3. We think that upon the preseat, eceasion the
arguments of Sir Thos: Memo andqf
,the home Govern-
ment of -1836 contain matter Worthy of consideration,
although we do not wholly go along with them. But
We 'desire yotirlon. Court to understand that it.is not
because of 'any concurrence in the opitions of which Sir
T. Munro may be, considered as' tire 'representative, or
in those by which'the home Goverinnentof 1836 was
actuated, that we thought it our 'duty to ask the Legis-
lative Ceuneil to pass 'the temporary- Act now alluded'
to. In taking this step-eve acted-in complete accordance
with the opinion of every- member of Sir C. Metealfe'S
Government, whiCh rased, , and of Lord Auckland's
Goiernmente which sap forted, the Act'for the freedom
of-the Press- which hasnow been temporarily suspended.
If the suspension of that law be objected to, we claim
no more than 'to be judged by the prinCiplia laid down
at the time by the members of the Indian Government
whe passed and supported it. •
" 4. In laying upon the council-table the draught of
the law in question Mr. Macaulay, who prepared_ it, re-
corded a minute containing the following passage :--
`One argument only has been urged in defence of the
present system. It is admitted that the press of Bengal
has leng been suffered to enjoy practieal liberty, and
that nothing but an extreme emergency could justify the
Government in curtailing that liberty ; -but it is said
that such an emergency may arise; and the GoVerntrient
ought to retain in its hands the power of 'adopting, in
that *vent, the sharp, prompt, and decisive measures
whin‘ may be necessary for the preservation of the empire.
But when we consider with what vast 'powers, extending
over all classes of people, Parliament has armed the Go-
vernor General in Council, and, in extreme cases, the
Governor-General alone, we shall probably be inclined to
allow little weight to this argument. It seems to be
acknowledged that licenses to print ought not to be re-
fused or withdrawn, except under very peculiar circum-
stances. And if peculiar circumetanoes should arise
there will be :aot She snakiest difficulty in providing
measures -ssiapted - to the-exigency. No --Government
in the world is-better provided with the means, of meet-
ing ex raordinary dangers by extraordinary precautions.
Five p!rsons, who may be brought together in half an__'
hcur, wilts) deliberations are secret, who are not
shackled by' any of those forms which elsewhere delay
Legislative measures, can in a single sitting make a law
for stopping every press iu India. Possessing, ?as we do,
the unquestionable power to interfere, whenever the
safety of the State may require it, with overwhelming
rapidity and energy, we surely eught not in quiet times
to be constantly keeping the cflensive form and cere-
monial of despotism before the eyes of those whom,
nevertheless, we permit to enjoy the substance of free-
dom. It is acknowledged that in reality liberty is, and
waght to be, the general rule, and reelraint the rare and
temporary exception, Why, then, should not the form
correspond with the reality ? Why should our laws be
so framed_as to make it appear that the ordinary practce
is in the highest degree oppressive, and that freedom
cap be enj- isted, only by occasional' connivance I'
"5. Sir Charles Metcalfe then Governor-General, by
whom the measure had, been proposed to the Council,
recorded a minute in *Which he expressed his entire agree- .
meat with Mr." Macaulay's reasoning: In this minute
he said, Ido not apprehend danger to the State from
a free press, but if the danger to- the State should arise
the Legislative Council has the power to apply a
remedy.'
"C. Mr. Priheep recorded a minute of a kill more
guarded character. He said, Tim Governor-General has
summed up so very clearly the argumews for'repealing
the existing' laws for licensing and restraining
ithe press
that I have only t 3 subscribe my entire concurrence in
them. But Ido not go quite so hr as to say broadly and
without reserve that I do not apprehend danger to the
State from the -press of India being free. I see no im-
mediate danger in the present-state of things, nor is the
futu • tenger such as the existmg laws would provide for
better than laws made .speina ly fur the purpose when the,
danger threatens, Therefore I cordially assent to tho
repeal of the laWs ; but I think the eye of the Govern-
ment will require to be kept continually upon the press,
sal especially upon the native press, for it is capable of
being made an engine for dest, oying the respect in which
th Government is held, and soof uniermining its power.'
Again, Mr. Prinsep said, `lf there were doubts whether
upon the repeal of these laws the Government could ob-
tain the registration of newspapers when the occasion for
rfering might arise, I should 'be the last to consent.
to any abandonment of what hal been gained. But
none of these forme era necessary now, for, as is forcibly
put by Mr. Macaulay, the Legislative Council has but
to decide, and a law (suitable to any emergency can be
produced in a. day ; and finally- hesaid that he assented
without scruple to the repeat of the then existing press
laws; leasing future measures, so far is concerns the
security and protection of the Government against the
press to be determined hereafter as circumstances may
arise to call for legislative or other interference.'
"7. Mr. Rosa recorded his agreement in the reasons
Stated by 'Mt: Macaulay and the GOvernor-General,
aithough.he did no participate is certain apprehensions
felt by- Kee Prinsep. .
" 8. Colonel Morison went furtheethan his Colleagues,
in insisting upea
,the necessity of retaining the power
of controlling the press upon an emergency. He would
haver retained that power in the bench+, hot only of the
Legislatare, but also of the several local Governments ;
he said, could wish, however, that the, proposed
draught should provide some means of applyinga speedier
remedy to the abuse of the press in any emergency when
theGovernor-General might be absent from his Council,
or when- there might be an urgent' necessity for the Go-
vernment-or any of the presidencies •to act without the
'delay of a reference to the Governor-General of India in
Council,' Alluding to the minute of Sir Thothas Munro
above cited, Colesivlarrieon remarked that he was deeply
impressed with the wisdom end foresight of that eminent
person, that he thought his opieions en this subject de-
serving of
he (Sir T.' m
the gravest consideration.unro most
pCprolienModreisd as theonwwrote,
What
effect which would probably be gradually produced (by
free press) on the minds of the native army, :and I con-
fess I ain not free from the same apprehension.'
"9. On Col. Morison's suggestion :Sir C, ;Metoalfe's
wrote . as follows The poser of., providing for the
safety. of,the State i einherept in.-the Legislature and the
Government of every, country.. It is not: probable that,
the eafetyetthe:State would be endangered so suddenly
by ,any operatiocr.suen!etitteo pressapoy aas
riseledtoy, atffu-itrdif.etiti:nche
auto,
iniminent -dangbr. can be
etheciaLe.ei,:fi'v!ecidsel;a4s,tewivholimilddvteeriutinnedilt
would hesitate to.protect
itself until the Legislature, of India could provide for the
c&se • , ,
" 10.'When the law, in consequence of
,the strong di:.
approval of the Home Government, came to be reconsi-
dared, Lord Auckland recorded a minute, in which the
following passage occurs :---',The strong arm of authority
might before the .passing of, this act haVe been put for.
ward to check ally
exeei,s, and POW, ehould the gaiety of,
the State ever demand such a course, in a single hour a
law maybe
.paesed to stop or to control every press in.
TndUl nothing hie been lost of useful power.,
"11- Sir-Harry Pane, the Commander-in-Chief of that
day, recorded his full Concurrence in- the opinion ex-
pressed- by Lord Auckland in the paragraph from which
the above quotation is made.
" 12. In the course cif these discussions the opinion-of
Lord W. 13ertinck urea the question of the 'lndian press
-was alluded to with approval. That statesman, whose
libeiel Sentiments are welLknovon, in a minute upon this

question, written when the licensing law w, si in, force, oa
an occasion when he exercised the power of control given
by that law, wrote as follows I retain my former
opinion, that the liberty of the press is a most useful
engine in promoting the good 'administration of the
country, and in some respects supplies that lamentable
imperfection of_ control, which from heal position,
extensive territory, and other causes, tin Supreme
Council cannot adequately exercise. But 1 have always
said and thought that 'as well with the liberty of the
press as of the subject it is indispensable for the safety•
of the empire that the Governor-General in Council
should have the power -of suspending the one and of
transmitting. the other, whenever the safety of the State
shotild call for the exercise of such authOrity.'
"13 We apprehend that your hon. O,iurt will. per-
ceive, from the minates above cited that the possibility
of a time of danger occurring, when some measure giving
the Government a power of extraordinary control oter•
the press might become necessary for the safety of the
State, was steadily kept in sight by the framers and sup-
porters of Sir C. Metcalfe's law, and that those .gentle-
men, even when argniog to the best of their power in
favour of the liberty of the press in India, in the' ordi-
nary stataof things, were careful to recognize, not only
the right, but the boundeneltity. of -the .Government to
suspend that liberty on the occurrence of certain emer-
gencies.
" 14. We cannot doubt that your hen. Court will see in
the present critical state of affairs an emergency of the
nature-contemplated by the Governments 'of Sir Charles
Metcalfe and Left! Anckland and setae, it may be' con-
fidently assumed, very much graver than was tbettgh. in
1835 to be within the range of probability.
. • "15. Upon this point agreeing -entirely with Lord
William Bentinck, and the members of those Geyern-
manta anion whoa' were- statesmen or great eminence,
'remarkable for the liberality. of their general views, htid
others of long experience and high reputation in Indian
affairs ; believing that the `unregulated freedom of the
press at the present crisis was ,tending :strongly to-;the
extension, of revolt and the 'weakening.of the British
power ; and being confirmed 'in this belief by the opi-
nions of officers of the highest character engaged at the
moment in distant provinces in supporting the British
cause, we could not hesitate to ask for such a law as
had been in a manner preconcerted, when the Indian
press was freed, for extraordinary occasions, such as that
which has now too certainly arisen. \Ye are well aware
of the angry and unreasoning opposition which a restric-
tive measure of this sort will-always call forth ; but the
safety of the country is the one great object we have to
look to at present, and to this all other considerations
must give way. .
" 16. The conditions which we prescribed to the press,
while this temporary Ant is in force, are, we believe, as
mild as is possible consistently with the object ire view.
"17. We thought it right tOattempt no retake no die-
'Unction between the English and the native press. We
agree with Sir Charles Metcalfe, who in the course of
the discussion of the press question in 1835 wrote I
think that in all' our legislation we ought to be very care-
ful not to make invidious . distinctions between Euro-
rean and native subjects.' We do not deal ly see how
any distinction of the, sort could be really carried into
effect, for there are now, more than one newspaper iu
the English language 'written, owned, 'and published by
natives, almost exclusively for circulation among native
readers e and although we have no fear that treasonable
matter would be designedly published in - any English
newspaper, we have to guard in these times against
errors, indiscretion, and temper, as well al against in-
tentional selition. .
"18. Tire quarter of a century which has passed since
the Press Law of 1835, was enacted has made a remark-
able change in respect not only of the number of native
newspapers published, but also in the effect, direct and
indirect, upon the natives of matter published in the
English papers, when the subject interests their passions;
they make little or no distinction between sentiments
affecting teem published by independent Englishmen in
English papers, and the sentiments of the English
governors of their country. Where their fears are ex
cited or their feelings offended by cuch publications the
hatred thereby excited turns upon the English Govern-
ment : and even if it could lie right at any time to dis-
regard such results, it would bamadness to do so at this
moment. )
"19. The interest which matter published in English
-newspapers excites even in foreign native Courts is, per-
haps, not so fully known in EugLind as it is in India.
Our connexion with the Burmese Court is not of long
standing, and the King of Ave' would E:em to be as far
out of the way of the press as any potentate
with whom we ' have 'any _ relations at all. Yet
not many months ago a gentleman in our iinte-
rest at Ave complained that be had been compromised
by an article that had been published in a Calcutta news-
paper ; and it then appeared that his Burmese Majesty
had the Calcutta papers regularly examined, and matter
of interest therein contained regularly explained to him.
20. To show that the necessity of controlling the
English as well as the native press is nob merely imagi-
nary, it will be enough te state that the treasonable pro-
: e • • • •• • atettneXing andenetraineerref cutpaiiiigl7

fronted; eo4ii to ii=friZecti4beisiStettivvelasin-prifireiow es'
much as possible against the British Government, and
cycling with the assurance -that -tire mirttipreation and
circulation of that document would be an act equal in
religious merit to drawing the sword against us, was
published in a respectable Bovlish newspaper of this
town vvithout comment. For a* ng the very rams thing,
with comments having the outw ird form of loyalty, the
publishers of three native Mahomedan papers in Cal.
cutta have been committed to the Supreme Court to
take their trial for seditious libel. _

"21. In connection with this subj set we have the
honour to request the attention of your hon. Court to
the communications from the Madras Government, em-
bracing minutes by Lord Harris and other members of
the Madras Government, touching, among other things,
upon the expediency of restricting the existing license
of the press in the Madras Presidency: both English
and native. •

" 22. Having taken this opportunity of explaining ge•
neragy and at leugth the reasons for which we think the
temporary Licensing Act necessary, the objects which
we had in. view when the Act was passed, and the spirit in
which we propose to carry it into execution, during the
present critical state of affairs, we proceed to report
two cases in which 'we have thought it our duty to act
under the authority which this Act gives u,.
"23. The first of these is the case of the Friend of
India newspaper. This paper, after the conditions im-
posed upon tae press had been promulgated and a license
subject to those conditions had been granted to it, pub-
lished an article which, in our opinion, infringed every
one of those conditions. The position of affairs at the
time was most anxious. The Bengal Native Army was
in mutiny ; the North-Western Provinces were for the
moment lost ; the King of Delhi and our treacherous
Sepoys were proclaiming a new empire small bodies of
gallant Englishmen were holding out for Government in
isolated stations against fearful odds ; the revolt was
still extending, and the hearts of all Englishmen in India
were daily torn by accounts of the massacre of their
brethren, and the massacre, and wove than massacre, of
their women and children. Of this disastrous and extra-
ordinary revolt the only one of the causes that is quite
certain is what appears to us almost an insane, bat what
is not the less a rooted and universal, persuasion in the
minds of the Sepoys and the people of the North-Westrn
Provinces that it is the fisted design of the British Go-
vernment to interfere by force with the religious liberty
of the people. In this position of affairs it Appeared to
us that we should fail in ourduty if we permitted& news-
paper to inflame men's minds against the British Go-
vernment, to excite suspicion and unfriendly feelings in
the minds cf native chiefs in relations with tie, and above
all to inter • ly the prevalent and fatal delusion as to de-
signs on the part of the British Government to destroy
caste'and to convert the natives of, India by ford(' and
fraud. We therefore warned the publisher of this
paper that a repetition of such breach of the con-
ditions would be followed by the revocation of his
license. Instead of profiting by this warning, the
next issue of the paper contained an article repeating,
but in offensive and defiant terms, the substance of the
article originally objected to. We were on the point
of recalling the license of this newspaper, when we
rec ived from the friends of the proprietor an assurance,
in which we placed. reliance, that arrangements had been
completed under which in future the paper would be
conducted in conformity with the prescribed conditions.
As our object is ,to obtain the necessary security with
the least possible injury to private interests, we
have on this assurance abstained front the withdrawal
of the license.
"24. We have revoked the license granted to the
proprietor of a lithographic press in Calcutti, and di-
rested the seizure of all the printing materials,-&c., be-
longing to it. Our reason for taking this, step is, that
in the Gulshuni Nau Behar, a Persian newspaper pub-
lished at, the press in question, there appeared on the
21-t ult. two articles of a grossly seditious character ob-
viously designed to excite disaffection towards the Go-
vernment and to encourage resistance to its authority.
A translation of these articles will be found in the col-
lection.

" We have, &c.,

"CANNING.
J. A. Donpr.
4.J. L9w.

"J. P; GRANT.
"13. PFACOCK.

" Fort-William, Jily 4, 1857."

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