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ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
(Limited) for the NAVIGATION of the RIVERS of
"Lula.. (Under Subsidy from the Indian Government.)
Capital—Z2so,ooo, in 25,000 Shares of £lO each.
' Now proposed to be increased to £500,000.

TRUSTEE.
Jaynes Allan, Esq., Managing Director of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company.

Chaff DIRECTORS.
airman—Colonel Grimes, Norwood, and Ampthill Lodge,
Southampton.
,win Bourne, Esq., 9, Billiter-street.
ePtain P. Vere Cotton, R.N., Alpert House, Whitchnrch.
Captain W. H. Hall, R.N., C. 8., Director of the Peninsular
Cap and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Jtain J. C. Hoseason, R.N., Highbeech, Essex.
sitri,es Kennedy, Esq., late of Bury, Curtis, and
'John Spencer Login, Director of the Oude Railway Com-
pany, Kew.

MANAGING DIRECTOR.
John Bourne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
John Glenny, Esq., Strand.
George May, Esq., Gresham House.
SOLICIRS.
Messrs. 11. R. Hill and Son,TO Throgmorton-street.
BANKERS.
Mews. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane.
SECRETARY.
John Mathewson, Esq.
Offices : 9, Billiter-street, London.
s,"
The Directors give notice that, in consequence of the greati
:` undiminished demand for Steam Vessels upon the Indian
,vers, and the wide field presenting itself for their profitable
PleYment, they have resolved to double the capital of the
rnila,pany.
The Directors have the satisfaction of announcing that the
steaniers and barges, consisting of twelve vessels in all, which
ZueY forwarded from this country in August last, have now
:Frived safely in India, and will commence plying upon the
',rivers without delay. An equal number of vessels of still
oueater power is at present in preparation, and will be sent
,t as soon as possible.
Before embarking. in the present undertaking. the Directors
had not only satisfied themselves of its eminently profitable
!ature but they had secured for it the marked co-operation
or the Indian Government, by the acquisition of a subsidy ;
and the Government, both by the gift of land for stations,
Workshops, and depots, of wood for fuel, and in every other
s 4,Y, has rendered every possible aid to the present under-
,l King. At the same time the Directors have insured com-
inete exemption from Government control and interference ;
and this is the only Company so distinguished which pos-
;lessee any Government support.
The Directors have the satisfaction of finding that not only
the
Reports of the Company's servants in India, but the
whole concurrent testimony of the advices received from that
7)411t17, through whatever channel, completely confirms the
able charade they long since formed of the profit-
:oe of the present undertaking. It would be im-
vussibk, however, within the limits of an advertisement, to
laaePitulate the numerous evidences of this truth which th
are constantly receiving ; and they content themertherefore, with giving the following quotation from a,
leading article Times," which shows that simi-
p J..nformation had been reaching that paper through its
Indian correspondents.
',hi From the 'Times,' Jan. 29, 1859.
a hot only Government but the whole nation that seems
,""s. Any day during the last year we might have filled
4r columns with the complaints of shipbuilders at the de-
me.of their trade owing in a great measure to the happy
termination Al the' Russian War. But what do we now hear
aVnI India ? 'They wonder there what our shipbuilders are
a._ out. Month after month they are expecting the steamers that
dreeeit° c°'ne• month Indian General Steam Navigation Company
",are this ,' says our correspondent, a dividend
luo and upwards per cent. The Home Government had
requested to send out six river steamers, and it had sent
", only one, which, it said, would be enough." Next month,'
continues our informant, 'the Indian Government had to en-
taZe all the freight of six for two trips at a price which would
ave bought the new vessels wanted twice over. There is
ore and work, we are told, for 300 steamers on the Ganges
voe, flowing, as it does, through a
anonterrity with a popula-
,l". of 350 to the square mile, with export trade of
*.16,000,0000, and an internal trade beyond human calculation.
Wet, with this vast opening- before us, there are found men in
asteme of life, neither schoolboys nor dotards, who "an
their time in holding meetings and memorialising Go-
lreStiment to find them customers for their shipping. Many
, time ere this has war ministered to peace, infusing a quicker
!Lenient into its idle, dreamy soul. To this Mutiny, perhaps,
'ye owe the real opening of the Indian navigation to British
evnterprise, and the railways which are certain to follow. But
tnerditillai sat ; we have said enough to start our shipbuilders
ei„ Powners, if they are Englis lt thathmen.'
-I.lle Directors have all alono- fe neither the vessels
t/Illich they have already sent to India, nor those which they
`,.,',•fite wantpresent in preparation, could do much to satisfy the
great of Inland Steam Navigation which exists in that
.I.lntr3r. But they have also all along felt that the only safe
cr'}Y of entering upon such an undertaking was not to rush
In:ll:twit!' sanguine precipitation, but to advance with gra-
and without being dazzled by the
r I d cautious steps,
sal
prospect of profits it holds out. The first steps, ?w-
-in r' aving been successfully taken, the whole of the exist-
ab g Shares in the Company having been allotted, and being
a premium in the market, and the field being so large as to
,equire a large capital to work it in an efficient manner, the
tl'V'ectors are of opinion that the time is come when the capi-
tof the Company may be advantageously increased, and
_ have, therefore, resolved to raise the capital to half a
...nylon sterling without delay.
-,-,APPlications for the new Shares must be forwarded to the
urectors, at the offices of the Company, 9, Billiter-street,
x; don, on or before the 28th day of February next ; anti
exring Shareholders will have a preference in the allotment.
Cation
deposit of two shillings per Share to be made on appli-

FOR3I OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Oriental Inland Steam Company

(Limid).
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me of the
hew issue of Shares in this Company ; and I hereby under-
take to accept the same or any less number that may be
allotted tp me, to pay the calls thereon when due, and to sign
the Articles of Association when required.
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE
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RIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RELAXA-
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entin the short space of three days, comploetietlsymainldd
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ft It with the insensible perspiration, through the medium
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?Pinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, 11:ce'rd'
pre-
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impediments from entering into the married state,
also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, 'gonorrhoea
and
syphilis and the benefits arising from the chemical tests
and the examination of the spermatoza by the newly-con-
structed microscope, with powerful lenses. The Author may
be consulted daily.for
according to the rules in the Book.
Sold
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um all agenps or the max 9f " Triennia...o

V.R.—SALE—HARNESS, SADDLERY, AND WOOD.
BY Order of the SECRETARY OF STATE
for WAR.—TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, on MON-
DAY, the 14th of February, 1859, at 11 o'clock in the fore-
noon, precisely, the following Stores, viz. :—HARNESS,
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Woolwich.

UNITED K,.TNGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COI PANY,

No. S, Waterloo-place,Fall-m'all, London, S.W.

The Fund's or Properly of 'the Company as at 31st Decem-
ber, 1857, amounted to £617,801, invested in Government or
other approved securities.
Annual Income, upwards of £lll,OOO from premiums alone.
CHAIRMAN.—The Hon. FRANCIS SCOTT. M.P.

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN.—CHARLES BERWICK CURT IS,Esq.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons not in sound healthmay have
their lives insured at equitable rates.
ACCOMMODATION IN PAYMENT OF PREMIUM.—OnIy one-
half of the Annual Premium, when the insurance is for life,
requires to be paid for the first five years, simple interest bc-
ng charged on the balance. Such arrangement is equivalent
to an immediate advance of 50 per cent. upon the annual pre
mium, without the borrower having recourse to the unplea-
sant necessity of procuring sureties, or assigning and thereby
parting with his Policy, during the currency of the Loan,
Irrespective of the great attendant expenses in such arrange-
ment.

The above mode of insurance has been found most advan-
tageous when Policies have been required to cover monetary
transactions, or when incomes applicable for Insurance are at
present limited, as it only necessitates half the outlay formerly
required by other Companies before the present system was
instituted by this Office.
LOANS—Are granted likewise on real and personal Secu-
rities. • _ _

Forms of Proposals and every information afforded on ap-
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By order, E. LENNOX BOYD, Resident Director.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
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FOR GENTLEMEN,
Nos. 1, and 2, Brownlow-street, High-Holborn.
The Best Served Dinner in London for is. 6d.
A Succession of Joints, &c., from One till Seven o'Clock.
Henekeys, Abbott, and Co.'s Wines and Spirits.
Private and Smoking Rooms.

WILLIAIII and ALFRED PURSSELL, Con-
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and 4 and 5, Finch-lane, are and have been the SOLE pro-
prietors of the above business since 1857.

TO ENGINEERS, IRON FOUNDERS, &c.—
To be disposed of a first-class and thoroughly esta-
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machinery for carrying on a large and lucrative business.
None but principals or their solicitors treated with. For
further particulars, apply by letter, pre-paid, to Mr. S. N.
DRIVER, Solicitor, 13, Birchin-lane, E.C.

WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE
INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. An
export duty is to be levied, and then not even the East India
Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 61b. of
Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at ls. 101 per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry, at 101—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church-
yard, City.

WHITE AND SOUND TEETH are indispensable to PER-
SONAL ATTRACTION, and to health and longevity by
the proper mastication of food.
ROAVLANDS' ODONTO, or PEARL
DENTIFRICE, compounded of ORIENTAL IN-
GREDIENTS, is of inestimable value in IMPROVING and
BEAUTIFYNG the TEETH, STRENGTHENING the
GUMS, and in RENDERING the BREATH SWEET and
PURE. It eradicates Tartar from the Teeth, removes spots
of incipient decay, and polishes and preserves the enamel, to
which it imparts a PEARL-LIKE WHITENESS. As the
most efficient and fragrant aromatic purifier of the Breath,
Teeth. and Gums ever known, ROWLANDS' ODONTO has,
for a long series of years, occupied a distinguished place at
the Toilets of the Sovereigns and the Nobility throughout
Europe ; while the general demand for it at once announces
the favour in which it is universally held.—Price 2s. 9d. per
box.
CAUTION.—The words "ROWLANDS' ODONTO" are
on the Label, and "A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-
garden," engraved on the Government Stamp affixed on each
box.
Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers.

GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED.
WHEN YOU ASK FOR
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
SEE THAT YOU GET IT,
As inferior kinds are often substituted.
Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &c.
WOTHERSPOON & CO., GLASGOW AND LONDON.

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During the past year (1858) 40,403 received the benefits of
this Charity, either as out or in-door patients ; and since its
foundation to 31st December, 1858, the number relieved was
upwards of 649,000.
The Committee entreat AID, to enable them to continue
this great work of charity. S. S. SMITH, Sec.

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NERVOUS DEBILITY, ORGANIC WEAKNESS, &c.
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tracing the Origin of these distressing afflictions to causes
which vitiate the very fountains of Life and prematurely de-
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on the Cure of these Diseases, and on the extraordinary re-
storative power of LOCAL GALVANISM in Spermatorrheca,
Impotence, and Sterility, in which cases it is applied without
pain or danger, and is frequently successful without the aid
of medicine.
BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON,
ittaagaitedipecabllieSattl&eecm.
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DINNER of the FRIENDS of the BALLOT.—
A PUBLIC DINNER of the Friends of the Ballot
will be held at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, Lon-
don, on Wednesday, Feb. 16,1859, at half-past 6 p.m.
The Hon. F. HENRY F. BERKELEY, M.P., will preside.
Major-Gen. Thompson, M.P. lA. W. Young, Esq., M.P.
Sir Chas. Napier, M.P. John Locke, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Roupell, Esci., M.P. R. P. Collier, Esq., M.P.
Sir Rd. Bethell, M.P. Guildford Onslow, Esq., M.P,
SirJ. V. Shelley, Bart., M.P. Sir J. S. Lillie, G.C.B.
Sir Thos. E. Perry, 31. P. Mr. Serjeant Gaselee.
James Wyld, Esq., M.P. Mr. Serjeant Parry.
S. M. Greer, Esq., M.P. Mr. Serjeant Woolrych.
A. S. Ayrton, Esq., M.P. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq,.
James Pilkington, Esq., M.P. Robert Charles, jun., Esq.
Frank Crossley, Esq., M.P. Wm. Barnard, Esq.
Donald Nicoll, Esq., M.P. Edwd. Wilson, Esq., of Mel-
W. H. Sykes, Esq., M.P. bonnie (Victoria).
James White, Esq., M.P. E. C. Whitehurst, Esq.
And many other Members of Parliament and other gentle-
men are expected to attend.

Tickets, price £1 is., to be had of Mr. Wm. Wickham, Hon.
Secretary, Ballot Society's office, 5, Guildhall-chambers,
Basinghall-street, E.C.

OPERATIONS IN O UDE.

(From the Correspondent of the Times.)

LORD CLYDE'S COLUMN CAMP, ONE MARCH
NORTM OF SECRORA, ec. 16.
Of actual operations I have little to tell you since my last
letter. We have marched 19 miles a-day for 19 days, and
we are now in hopes of bringing the enemy to an action, for
he is surrounded from Gorruckpore to Rohilcund by an
arc whose chord is the Terai. The Begum is ai Nanparah
with 12 or 14 guns and 8,000 men, of whom 2,000 are
cavalry. To-day we marched about 12 miles from Secrora,
and we hear that some of the enemy are at Buraech, which
they plundered the night before last. The great event is
the irruption of Feroze Shah across the Ganges and the
Jumna. Of this full particulars will doubtless havereached
England from Calcutta and Bombay.
CAMP BURAECH, Dec. 17.
The column marched at 6 30 a.m. The sky, which was
so overcast with clouds that we could not see the Snowy
Range, darkened as the morning advanced, and the signs
and tokens of the long-expected Christ..nas rains became
umnistakeably manifest. Whether it was owing to the
gloomy murky effects of such influences that the country
appeared uninteresting, I cannot say, but it certainly struck
me that the land as we approached Buraech was barren
and uncultivated, more like " the blasted heath" at Forres
than the rich plains covered with cornfields and groves
through which we have been marching now for nearly a
month. There were no villages on the road, which was a
mere cart-wheel track but little used. The trees were
scanty till we arrived close to Buraech, which stands
shredded completely brdense tomes. Before we approached
our camping ground the clouds fell, and the rain poured
down, to the evident discomfiture of the natives. It is
strange that people exposed to such heavy falls of rain as
the inhabitants of India should not prepare clothing better
adapted to protect them. I could scarcely resist a smile at
the appearance of Maun Sing as he rode ahead of us in a gay
tiara or high cap of gold and silver brocade, kid gloves, a
thin dressing gown, tight pantaloons, cotton socks, and
slippers. His brother, Rngber Sing, magnificent in the
richest shawls and stufs, is one whose appearance does not
excite mirth; it is easy to resist the inclination to laugh at
a man whose deeds are of the most atrocious character, if
the testimony of living and dead are to be credited. He is
a Torquemada in the art of torturing, and he has outdone
all that Colonel Sleeman records of him. In spite of his
height, delicate hands and feet, and splendid attire, Rug
ber Singh has a repulsive look, for in his face there is a
mingled expression of the sb ness, cunning, and cruelty
which are but too well evinced in his acts. The Rajah's
general is a fine fat Hindoo, whose aspect does not justify
one in supposing that if hostile he would be a very formid-
able strategical antagonist to Lord Clyde. Ho was well
mounted, and I said something to that effect to the officer
beside him, who translated the phrase to the General. He
immediately salaamed, and said, " If the Sahib likes the
horse, will he honour me by accepting it ?"—a peon de
parley which he would have been disgusted to have found
carried out literally and seriously. The camp was marked
on a large plain (close to the Serjoo, on the outskirts of the
town of Buraech), whereon stand the ruins of our old can-
tonments. A wing of an Oude regiment of cavalry and
some companies of Oude infantry were stationed here at the
time of the mutiny, and it is believed that two officers were
murdered in escaping from this neighbourhood. The
" lines," as the barracks are called in India, have been dis-
mantled, and the officers' bungalows are demolished. While
we were sheltering ourselves from the rain under some fine
trees and waiting for the tents to be pitched, a small force
of police cavalry advanced towards the town. Capt. Steele,
the Deputy-Commissioner, who had gone on alone, had
just returned, and had stated that he had seen some sowars
in one cf the streets About an hour afterwards, and a few
minutes ago, the officer in charge of the detachment (Lieu-
tenant Tweedie), with a few of his men, passed up the
avenue of our camp with a number of prisoners—perhaps
twenty in all—towards the tent of the Commissioner,
Major Barrow. The men's swords and lances were stained
with blood, and on going into the camp street I learnt that
a little engagement had taken place'close at hand while we
were breakfasting under a tree. On the detachment
of cavalry of which I have spoken above getting- to
the town,. some of the few inhabitants left there
came running out to tell them that there were " budmashes"
in the place. The sowars at once galloped into the choke,
or principal street, which is very narrow and tortuous.
Before them were a number of men armed with swords,
bucklers, and matchlocks, running towards the river. The
street was so crooked it was impossible for two horsemen to
charge or to ride abreast, but the leading sowar, seeing one
of the fugitives turn into a small walled enclosure, leaped
his horse over the wall and came upon the fellow, who,
though cut through the shoulder by the soldier as his horse
lighted on the ground, returned a fierce stroke, which laid
the horse's neck and shoulder open, and he was only brought
to.the ground by a tremendous sword cut which cut him
through the face to the collar bone. Pressing on as fast
as the ground would permit, the cavalry came upon the rear
of the fugitives jut as they emerged on the plain at the
other side of the town. A body of sowars, in full flight,
were seen in the distance, out of reach of pursuit, but the
police charged the foot men, most of whom were armed
with only tulwar or sabre, for they had thrown their
matchlocks in the river as they crossed, killed 8 on the spot,
and captured the 18 or 20 who have just been brought in.
Some among them were mere boys, and were at once set
free by Major Barrow's orders. The others, with their
arms tied behind their backs, looked miserable enough.
They are now under examination in the Commissioner's
tent. One is a sepoy of the 17th Native Infantry—the regi-
ment which murdered so many officers of the 22d Native
Infantry on their way from Fyzabad—a tall, fine-looking
fellow, who was taken with his musket in his hand warm
from a recent discharge, and who will probably be executed
in consequence this afternoon. Another fellow, who re-
sisted with determination, and did not surrender till he was
surrounded by horsemen, said ho was a lumberdar, or head
man of a neighbouring village. When the cavalry were
returning., they found the fellow who had been cut down
walking up and down the enclosure, flourishing his sword,
and challenging them to come. He was covered with blood
from his wounds. Lieutenant Tweedie took a carbine
from one of the 7th Hussars, who happened to be near the
place, and shot the desperado through the head. Maun
Singh, who was anxious to get out of the wet, and did not
know the column had halted, rode considerably past the
town, and had got near to a village called Bahadoor-gunge,
when one of the country people advised him not to go on,
as the village was full of the Begum's people. The Rajah,
who had only four or five matchlockmen with him, heard
the voices of many people inside the bamboo fence round
the fort and village, and he rode back to camp with the in-
formation. The enemy were evidently preparing for a start,
and most probably joined the main body at Nanparah,
where Baime Madhoo and some other chiefs are said to have
7,000 or 8,000 men assembled. The Begum is at Enchwa,
a fort in a dense jungle (nearly due west of Bankee) be-
tween the Gogra and Serjoo. Our next movement will be
to Nanparah, and, as the rebels there and at Enchwa will
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one march behind us. Rowcroft is guarding the Gorruck-
pore frontier close under the Nepaulese hills, and watches
the Raptee, so as to prevent the enemy doubling round, and
getting down into the Azimghur territory. Sir Hope Grant
must be by this time near to Burhampore, the Rajah of
which place has been menaced by the rebels for his active
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DEC. 18.
My last letter, dated this day, was sent to Lucknow by the
special commissioner's dak runner this evening, and ought
to reach in 24 hours, so as to be in time for the Calcutta
steamer of the 23d of December. The negotiations which are
in progress are conducted as secretly as possible, but enough
leaks out in camp to swell into rivers of rumour and absurd
report. The people of the town are returning to their
houses, often to find them gutted and empty. Plundered
by friends and foes, their lot is hard. Yesterday I rode
through the greater part of Bumech. On every tenement
is stamped decay. Outside the town the groves are so
dense that all one can see above and through the trees is a
mound crowned with masses of ruinous brickwork and the
fragments of a fort and mosque, beyond which there rise a
few small cupolas of Hindoo and Mahomedan temples.
The trees, mostly rich and umbrageous tamarinds, are
planted also in the thoroughfares of the town and in the
large open spaces devoted to bones, broken crockery, pariah
dogs, smashed water-jars and cooking utensils, bricks, and
such things as one usually sees in the places where rubbish
is shot in Oriental cities. The choke, or principal street,
where the bazaar is held under the circumstances, half the
sheds shut, the shops closed, and only the lowest sort of
traffic going on, looked very miserable, but it must have
been mean enough at the best. - It is narrow and dirty ;
the houses are one story high, of mud and brick, with the
squalid exception of ricketty two-storied edifices, of which,
be it observed, the upper parts are all pierced with recent
loopholes. Vain attempts have been made to conceal those
hostile indications by filling the apertures with mud and
plastering them over. The shops are open in front, win-
dowless and doorless, like those of Turkey; but there was
nothing to buy, except odd sweetmeats, sugar, atta, gram,
tobacco, and ill-conditioned vegetables' which the pro-
prietors sold with fear and trembling to Oude police camp
followers and fierce Beloocheee, whose notions as to the
course of trade very probably affected the market prices
materially. For one house inhabited ten were empty ; all
the larger buildings were going fast to ruin—shrines,
temples, mosques, semis, the brick walls of gardens, and
public offices, and the residences of the gentry; and yet I
am told that 15 years ago this was one of the finest towns
in Oudio, and that it was surrounded by fields of the finest
crops, so that it was described as one magnificent garden.
Its decay dates from the period when the Kings of Oude,
abandoning the policy of Sadut Ali Khan, began to let
out the Crown lands to the talookdars—in our hands its
descent has been precipitate. The general impression left
by the place is that you are wandering through the suburbs
of a great town, which you seem never to reach, and that
the inhabitants are all gone in to market. The most nunfo
rous and flourishing, as they certainly were the only gay
and active, population of the city were apes and monkeys.
They live in high esteem among the citizens, and treat
pariahs and Europeans with profound and contemptuous
indifference, till they become aware of the general propen-
sity of the latter to sby bricks at them. It is curious to
watch an old patriarchal baboon when he learns, for the
first time in his life, that he is exposed to personal outrage ;
projectile No. 1, which goes near him, he affects to believe
the result of some extraordinary accident, and continues
his examination of his person, or that of a friend's, with as
much dignity as the avocation will permit him to exhibit.
At the second brick or paving-stone, however, his faith in
the doctrine of probability is shaken ; he rouses himself,
stands up, and makes a menacing face at the aggressor;
but as the plan of attack developes itself, and brick No. 3
flies past, followed by 4 and 5, with a chatter of rage he
bounds up a tamarind tree, shakes the branches, puts on
the most hideous grimaces, and really behaves very much
as a noble savage would do in the same trying position.
They are now busy eating tamarinds. The roads are full
of them. They are on the tops of walls and houses, and in
the groves, and round the convoy, and by the tanks, always
in the best places, never shaggy or ragged, and universally
respected by their fellow-inhabitants. Buraech is famous
and happy in the possession of the tomb of a Mussulman
saint, who, like most of his profession, was a great man of
war and delighted in bloodshed. Synd Salar was nephew
of Mahomed of Ghuznee, and about 800 years ago he waged
a fierce war against the Hindoos, and was slain in battle at
Buraech. I met hundreds of our camp followers, Hindoos
as well as Mussulmans, coming back from his s'irine with
garlands of yellow flowers round their necks. He has the
good fortune to be in great esteem with both sects.
The Mahomedans worship him because he killed many
thousands of HindooA hundreds of years ago and died
for the faith ; the Hindoos worship him because they
think he' must have had great influence with Shiva to
be • permitted to slay so many of their co-religionists
and the Mussulman fakirs highly approve the logic of both
dialectics. The tomb is a simple brick and stone shrine in
a dark little mosque, but it is surrounded by the tombs of '
holy men, each in separate mosques, who have died while
in attendance at his shrine. In the city itself, off the main
road, there is another very large establishment of fakirs
which I visited. It is surrounded by a high wall, which
encloses eight or nine acres of ground thickly wooded. The
entrances are by handsome arched gates, with pillars
Moorish fashion, but wall and gates are going to rain. In-
side are numerous small mosques and shrines, and a long
low building with porticos open at the sides and supported
on columns. All the buildings are full of devotees at their
prayers, who look with unfriendly eyes at the stranger.
But they are not discourteous. They point out the tombs-
of the best saints, and take him to the ground tank built
by the piety of a Shah-fakir—a magnificent work rapidly
disappearing. I suppose it cannot be less than 200 yards
Jong by g/0 yards broAel ; its depth from the top of the
bank to the surface of Mt water is about 50 feet. The
banks are supported by walls of masonry or brick, which
are broken and falling into the tank, and the descent to the
water is effected by broadilights of steps, which are equally
dilapidated. There is a well of pure water also in the gar-
den, which is much prized. It must be 80 or 90 feet deep,
and the water is reached by flights of steps from the surface
of the ground down to the level of the well. When we
entered the town a number of matchlocks, muskets, spears,
and swords were found in the temples. The police seized
them, but the fakirs made a great outcry, appealed to the
proclamation, declared it was necessary for their religion to
have arms, and gave them up with' a very bad grace.
Hence the ill-favoured expression of the devout. As there
was reason to believe that some fanatics were lurking about
the place, the general orders last night contained the fol-
lowing ;prohibition :—" The Commander-in-Chief regrets
to be obliged to prohibit officers and others from going be-
yond the line of pickets." Three horses of sowers and some
arias were found in a thicket close to the town, and brought in
by a police patrol. As shooting was thus closed, and the river
yielded no fish in its flooded state, sportsmen were rather
disconsolate, except the happy few who hit on the expe-
dient of running a drag between the outline and inline
pickets for the hounds of Major Frazer of the 7th Hussars.
The Indian fox gives little sport ; he is small and scant of
breath ; but a good jackal is by no means to be despised by
the hardest rider or the stthichest dogs. He often runs
well, and long and strong, is cunning as the oldest denizen
of Aylesbury-vale, and dies game to the last—a very high
character for a jackal .
Spies aro going out and coming in continually to-day.
Two of the Begums have sent in: to say they are ready to
come in and submit ; but the fair ladies have not yet made
up their minds. It is supposed that the household of the
Nana, of the late Peishwa, of Bala Rao, of the Begum, and
of the Lucknow ladies, who are collected in front of us, con-
tain 230 or 240 women, who are all, no doubt, very anxious
to get back to comfortable quarters. The Nana is said to be
particularly desirous of securing the safety of his women
and children. No doubt—he remembers Cawnpore.
Colonel Christie's small column will be in camp to-mor-
row, consisting of part of her Majesty's 80th, the Kumaon
Battalion, and detachments of her Majesty's 53d and 79th
Regiments, under Captain Cox, 53d Regiment. When they
arrive the following changes will take effect :-
1. Brigadier R. Jones to command Cavalry Brigade,
consisting of her Majesty's Carabineers, 7th Hussars, de-
tachment of 6th Madras Cavalry, Hodson's Horse, to which
the F troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, and the 3d troop
of the Ist- Brigade of Bengal Horse Artillery are attached .
2. Brigadier Horsford to command her Majesty's 20th
(Head Quarters), her Majesty's 80th Regiment, 2d Batta-
lion Rifle Brigade, Kumaon Battalion, Ist Belooch Batta-
' lion, sth Punjab Rifles.
3. Police infantry and cavalry to continueunder orders of
Chief of Pollee, Major Bruce, C.B.
The Kumaon Battalion are very smart-looking fellows, of
the Ghoorka type in face and figure. They are dressed
like our riflemen in dark green, but have a distinguishing
band of red tartan on their caps. The Beloochees wear green
tunics with red facings, and chest stripes, turbans, and dark
green trousers. They are armed with the old regulation
musket. The Punjab Rifles are armed with the old rifle—
a most efficient weapon, though it may readily be con-
ceded it is not'equal to the Enfield when the bullets fit and
the bore is uniform.

P.S.—A very heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by tor-
rents of rain and hail, raged over the camp for nearly two
hours this morning. The country is covered with sheets of
water in various places, and the Serjoo is much swollen.
The troops halt to-day, but if any certain information can
be obtained of the position of the enemy, cavalry and ar-
tillery will be despatched against them. It is said that
about 1,800 to 2,000 Sepoys are at Boundee, a place on the
Gogra, to the south-west of Buraech, and distant from it
about 18 miles. The Serjoo, however, divides us. A larger
assemblage of rebels is reported at Nanparah, 20 miles
north of Buraech, but it is probable that no movement will
take place against them till the various columns south of
the Gogra are warned of our advance, for, if they were
hard pressed from this side, the rebels could double round
or escape into the Terai. Few Sepoys are coming in here,
but it is hoped that our clemency yesterday towards the
men found with arms in their hands will produce its effect
when prisoners who have been liberated return to their
homes. Every native declares the Sepoys cannot bring
themselves to believe in our promises--they say that " ac-
cording to the articles of war" they are guilty of offences of
which the punishment is death, and that the British Go-
vernment always inflicts the penalties of the law when
offences against it has been clearly established.
TUESDAY, Dec. 21.
This morning, a column, consisting of four guns, 200
police cavalry, 50 Carabineers under Captain Batty, sth
Punjab Rifles, three companies of her Majesty's 20th Re-
giment, a wing of her Majesty's 80th Regiment, in all 599
British and 1,255 natives, moved out under the command
of Colonel Christie, who was directed to proceed to Oorahae
and Mass in the doab between the Gogra and the Serjoo, on
our left, and to advance thence towards Nanparah. The
force took 14 days' provisions with them, which is quite
necessary in the district. Buraech is very thinly inhabited.
and the upper part is altogether woodlands, pasture, and
swamp. Hindoos will not part with their cattle, or do so
unwillingly, for purposes of food. Captain Massy, her
Majesty's 61st Res;iment, the Political Agent in
charge of the column, is directed to demolish forts
on his way, and to settle the country as far as practicable.
The Chief Commissioner, Mr. Montgomery, has instituted
weekly returns of the statements sent every Saturday by
the Government officers to Lucknow, showing the progress
of operations for the disarmament and the demolition of
forts in Oude. In that circulated for the week ending
December 16th he states that he has brought especially to
the notice of Government the exertions of Assistant-Com-
missioner King in the Mullaon district, and remarks that
the district of Oonao shows well in the return, though in a
less degree than those of Seetapore, Sultanpore, and Salone.
Let us look at the return and see what has been done : in
Mullaon there were 16 forts demolished in the week ; in
Lucknow 10, Durriabad 4, Oonao 13, Sultanpore 4, Salone
4. There are undergoing demolition in Lucknow 14, in
Durriabad 2, in Oonao 6, in Fyzabad 4, in Sultanpore 41,

nor shell, or they would have given us a taste of their
There have been, I believe, no iron guns ever cast in India,
and the natives cannot cast round shot or shell. Their
balls are of hammered iron, and their shells of brass. • At
this very place, inside the Terai, where Bala Rao, Nana
Sahib's brother,lived so long' there is a series of large
sheds, with bellows, forges, moulds, and ftirnaces for cast-
ing guns, as well as curious appliances for casting bullets
and grape shot. Near these sheds were some fragments of
a thick iron 24-pounder, with an inscription engraved on
the breech, to the effect that it belonged to some " Shah
Bahadoor," King of the world. It was curious to inquire
how it came there, and what use those fragments were in-
tended for. It is said the Portuguese made many iron guns
for the Indian rajahs and nawabs in times . gone by, and
this might have been one of them, though it is hard to say
for whatpurpose the fragments had been so recentlycollected.
In daggers and swords the natives are very skilful and
learned, and they will pay any price for a well-known and
approved blade. Their matchlocks are well made of ham-
mered iron, and:can be had for 30s. or X 2 new:and in perfect
.order. The passion of the, people of Oude for _arms is almost
a mania, but it had" its origin in the insecurity of life and
property and the disorders of Government as much as in
the martial spirit of the population, though the latter was,
no doubt, kept alive by our Bengal army, and the continual
tumults of the States. I think that those who advocate
the employment of a disarmed police, or of batoned con-
stables, after the manner of the metropolis; know little of
Oude, though they have lived all their lives in Calcutta, or
even in Bengal. The sepoys who come in are often with-
out arms. They declare that their comrades have taken
them, but unless their excuses are satisfactory the civil
officer withholds their pass for a day or two, till the men
make an effort to produce them. The lumberdars or vil-
lage headmen are the leversby which the civil officers gene-
rally lift the covers of secret hoards of arms. The nights
and mornings are cold and rather hazy, and the camp fol-
lowers lying out on the wet grass suffer considerably.
Coughs and colds are common, for the change of tempera-
ture between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. is very great, particularly
when the sun is bright.
CAMP, INTHA, BURAECH DISTRICT, DEC. 23.
After a halt of five days at Buraech, the Commander-in-
Chief, with a small column, marched 17 miles this forenoon
towards Nanparah, and pitched his tents at the hamlet from
which I date my letter. Between Buraech and Intha there
lies a great jungle through which ithere is no road. The
main road to Nanparah is on the right of the jungle, but
there is another which skirts the jungle on the left, less
used and known, and along the latter lay our route, as there
were some hopes entertained that we might by following it
come upon a body of rebels who were said to be encamped
to the south-west of Nanparah. The spies who came in
yesterday reported that the enemy had all left the last-
named place, and had moved to a mud-fort more north and
west, where they declared they would make a final stand
ere they fled to the dreaded Terai, from which they are
now separated by only a few miles of forest. As there will,
no doubt, be some carping in the press here, and possibly
at home, at the delay which took place at Buraech, it may
be as well to explain that there were political reasons for it.
Vakeels have come in. First there are two of the Begums
willing to surrender. Next Mummoo Khan makes over-
tures. Nay, the Begum herself and Birjeis Kuddr despatch
letters and emissaries to the Civil Commissioner, Major
Barrow. Old Hunwunt: Singh sets off to use his per-
suasive powers with his obstinate and gallant kinsman
Bainie Madhoo, and is sanguine of securing his submission. _
Major Barrow believes that if the chiefs are not pressed,
and if the Commander-in-Chief halts while delicate mani-
pulation and subtle diplomacy are at work, there is a great
probability that they will come in and lay down their arms,
but if they are not allowed time to consider our propositions
they will fly where we cannot follow them and cause
trouble, annoyance, and expenditure. Maun Singh thinks
they will come in too. The Commander-in-Chief is anxious
to press on the moment his columns are up. He insists that
Bernie Madhoo's followers must lay down their arms in
camp, and that a similar condition shall be attached to the
submission of all the other chiefs. But then there are the
express promises and the spirit and provisions of the pro-
clamation to be considered and respected ; Vakeels or
Karindas—emissaries paid and unpaid—the solicitudes and
offices of friendship, all are busy. Only some 25 miles
lie between us and our enemy, who are so friendly in
words and send us such pleasant messages. All this time
there is one further off whose name is seldom mentioned
except with bated breath and eager looks,—one of whom
there are more thoughts than words. The Nana is in the
jungle fort of Churda, living with the Rajah of the place,
which lies some eight or nine miles north of Nanparah. To
secure him is now actually the great object avowed by most
people except the authorities. But he must not be startled
from Ma lair—there must be no precipitate hasty move to
frighten the cowardly, sanguinary heart of Bithoor, till the
toils are around him. And it will be difficult indeed to set
them surely, for he is amid the jungles, where his nature
must be at home, and his capture will be effected probably
by treachery and stratagem rather than by force. Already
he is roused and away. Since I wrote the few lines above,
we hear that the Nana has moved from Churda to the
north-west, in denser jungle still. We shall see. There is
115,000 set on his person,—if it were on his dead body,
Nana Sahib's head might soon be in our camp. We can-
not secure the death even of the Nana by an offer for him
"dead or alive," though it is true we paid the Rajah of
Powayne the reward offered for the capture of the Moulvie
on account of the production of his dead body only. There
are, however, other means on which we may rely with more
confidence—the treachery and avarice of his own friends.
Already active brains are at work, and the spiders are spin-
ning their threads. Again we shall see the result. When
we were at Fyzabad Major Bruce, the chief of police in
Oude, made inquiries at Ajoodhia respecting the religious
instructor of the Buraech aristocracy when they visited the
shrines of the Holy City. A fakir of eminence was named
to him as the counsellor and adviser of the Rajah of Churda
and of other northern chiefs. Major Bruce sent for- the
fakir, and found him finely susceptible to the promptings of
self-interest; so that he not only readily agreed to use his
influence with the Rajah of Churda to deliver the Nana
into our hands, but offered to send his nephew, a priest of
the same temple, along with Major Bruce as an agent who
might go to the Rajah with more weight and address than
an ordinary messenger. The chief of police had already
endeavoured to communicate with the Rajah through other
channels, and he was well pleased to find that the latter, as
far as outward appearances went, was quite ready to betray the
Nana, if he was allowed to keep as many guns as Mann Singh,
as many armed followers as Maim Singh, and his fort, like
Maim Singh. Now, it is not very easy to see what this
equation with Maim Singh can have to do with the Rajah of
Churda, but the explanation is easy. The latter chief, of
whom probably no one in the world, except some obsolete
old East Indian, ever heard before, is an old rival of Maun
Singh, and he wishes now by our means to obtain as much
power as the wily Rajah of Fyzabad, against whose ability
and influence he has, no doubt, been long struggling in
vain. As Maun Singh's fort will soon be dismantled, his
guns destroyed, and his armed followers limited to a certain
number, there was no objection to promising the Rajah of
Churda that he should have the same privileges as his great
rival, but whether ho will not consider us guilty of keeping
the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope
remains to be seen. A strong letter has, at all events, been
addressed to him, assuring him that if he captures the Nana
he will not only receive all he asks, but secure the faVour
and rewards of the British Government. That letter pro-
bably arrives at Churda to-day, and at the same time the
priest from Fyzabad will present himself before the Rajah
to enforce from another quarter the representations and
arguments of the authorities. As to the means of the Rajah
to seize upon the Nana we know nothing. The latter is at
a remote fort in the Churda territory ; access to him on the
part of our spies is all but impossible. Accounts as to his
strength are different, but he is' believed to have an escort
of 300 or 400 well-mounted cavalry, and two Horse Artillery
guns. As he has never fought, it does not much matter how
many men he has, but the Nana rides fast, and has taken
care to have the best horses inlthe country; •his escort know
the passes; in fact, there is no chance of surprising one
whose every instinct is sharpened by the ever present fear
of well-deserved death ; who is on his guard night and day;
I who knows every movement in our camp, and the route of
every column. There is no doubt on my part that while
the Begum and her party are negotiating with us, they
and the Nana are also endeavouring to induce the Ne-
paulese Government to give them an asylum. The atti-
tude of Jung Bahadoor, as exhibited on one occasion
recently, proves that he is alive to the duties of an ally
on such occasions. It has been reported to us that a
body of 400 sepoys endeavoured to get into Nepaul
by one of the passes near tko Gorruckpore frontier. The
troops or police of the Nepaulese Government, which must
have been collected in considerable numbers, opposed their
passage, and a fight took place, in which the Sepoys were
beaten and compelled to retire with loss. It is to bo re-
gretted that the post of Neapaulese Agent or Minister,
owing apparently to the indecision in selection and the dis-
inclination to fill up appointments of the more important
kind, which aro charged with too much appearance of jus-
tice against Lord Canning, is still vacant. The presence of
an able British officer at Kutmandoo is now much required,
but, according to the latest information I have received, the
vacancy created by the refusal of Jung Bahadoor to allow
Col. Ramsay to continue at the King's Court still exists.
From the foregoing it will appear that there were military
reasons why the Commander-in-Chief should halt for a day
or two at Buraech, but that the causes for the longer delay
were for the most part civil or political. It was hoped that
the Begum would come in with her son; that Baime
Ma-
dhoo and Mummoo Khan, and other leaders, with all their
followers, would make their submission and lay down their
arms, and that possibly the Nana might be delivered into
our hands if an advance was suspended for two or three
days longer. As yet all these hopes have proved as delusive
as our negotiations have been abortive. Hunted to the
verge of the Terai, beaten on all sides, the 13egum still
boldly demands fixed terms for herself and her son, while
Bainie Madhoo declares he will adhere to the
_young- King
as long as the latter desires him to hold out. These people
will not trust our promises unless they are specific. To call
on them to " throw themselves on the mercy and clemency
of the Government of India" is to use a set of phrases which
to their minds convoys no ideas—for to the Oriental an ap-
peal of the sort has no answer in head or heart. It just
means as much as myfriend Maun Sink's general did when
he made me a present of the horse which I admired. And
so the Begum stands out. "Name the sum I am to receive
for the maintenance of myself and my son," says this reso-
lute lady, " I want you to write down how many rupees
a-year I am to get, for what is the use of living if we are
to bo in beggary, and you have taken from us the
whole kingdom of Oude ?" But neither Lord Clyde nor
Major Barrow can accede to the proposal. They are not
authorised by the Government to fix any sum as a pension
for the rebellious family, while by the direction of the Go-
vernment they are almost constrained to make vague offers

to induce them to surrender. The Beg-ums do not come in
therefore • neither the spirited lady who has been the soul
of the rebellion in Oude, nor the two young ladies who
sent word that they were about to favour us with their
presence in camp. Deebee Bux, the Rajah of Gondah, has
sent in vakeels, but as long as the Begum holds out he,
like Bainie Madhoo, will not surrender. On the other hand,
it is to be zoted that there are now in all Oude but two or
three chiefs who have not made their submission. All the
country behind us is ours, and the talookdars having been
received in camp, have gone back to their estates, and are
aiding our newly reinstated authorities in pulling down
their own forts, and in establishing the machinery for police
and revenue purposes. Deebee Bux and Bainie Madhoo
are almost the only exceptions, for old Nurput Singh of
Rowea is not a landed proprietor of any consequence. Of
the two former a native chief predicated that they would
fight to the last. " Why so?" he was asked; " Because
Bainie Madhoo has said he will never desert Birjeis Kuddr,
and he never breaks his word ; And Deebee Bux will fight
because he is so fond of it,' and has been fighting all his
life." Nurput Singh is a cripple, and he is said to have
vowed "that as God had taken some of his members he would
give' the rest to his country." ' There is no doubt but that
Oude might be greatly disturbed if those chiefs should
succeed in getting to our rear into the settled districts.
What they mean by fighting is a troublesome guerilla, con-
tinual raids, and forays, and flights, the plunder of those
who are not their friends, surprises, long marches, feints,
outwitting their enemies, a life which has its charms, as it
Certainly has its excitement, particularly with the stimulus
of Enfield rifles, and shrapnel. This "chase au talookdar"
is weary work for officers and men. It is inglorious and
unprofitable, and the scent does not lie, so that the truest
dogs are at fault. Of course the Government at home and
out here find it more weary still.. " Why is it not finished
at once ?" is the cry. Simply because we cannot catch
Tantia Tepee, or force the Oude party to fight or submit.
"But why don't you do either ?" Because as yet it is a
physical impossibility, particularly when the action of arms
is suspended by diplomacy. Just consider where we are.
Our forces are within sight of Nepaul. The snowy range
rises above us, and on the pent-like slopes of the mountains,
towards the dead level of Oude, are forests of untold depths,
in which man has never set his foot. In the ravines formed
by the course of innumerable torrents are paths known by
a few who are unknown to us, which lead into the dreary
solitudes of the mountains between Nepaul and the Terai.
Here and there some forts are perched amid beetling preci-
pices, screened by densest forests. Between us and the
spurs of the great range, which rises like some giant wall
to shut Hindostan from the outer world, are the plains up
to the Terai. Those plains are to us terra incognitce. Maim
Singh, who is with us, has collected revenue here at the head
of his armies, and Capt. Orr, Capt. Bunbury, and one or
two European officers in the King of Oude's service, may
know a little of the district, but the more one knows the
more he can tell of the difficulty of operating rapidly in 'a
country which is a plain dotted with swamps, destitute of
roads, abounding in rivers and forests. See how painfully
;the Quartermaster-General and his assistants have to pick
;out their way from the villagers. Every step is to be
weighed beforehand. "How deep is the river there?"
" Sometimes up to the neck, at others up to the waist."
"Is the bottom soft or hard ?" "It is middling." "Is
there no ford ?" " Yes, five koss (i.e., 10 miles) lower
down there is a ford knee-deep." "Could guns get over
it ?" "I don't know; they might stick." "-What kind
of a road is it to the next village ?" " There are open plains,
jeels, or swamps, and streams to cross, then a thick belt of
trees, then jungle." " Can guns go through the jungle ?"
"The path is narrow, they had better go round." Between
Buraech and Intha in one march of 17 miles we skirted a
jungle the whole way; we passed over a plain without any
cultivation or inhabitants, except enormous herds of small
and semi-wild cattle and their few And frightened attend-
ants. I think there were only two hamlets of four or five
houses each to be seen, and around each was a small patch
of dall field and cultivated ground. The rest was a desert
covered with sharp prickly shrubs, or coarse tufted grass,
mango topes, tamarind and stinted banyan trees here and
there. Beyond these plains lies the belt of forest and jungle
at the foot of the hills which is known as (" the forest")
the Terai. Of this I shall tell you more when I see it, and
it is only too likely we shall have an opportunity of inspect-
ing a locality which the natives allude to very much as a
London pickpocket speaks prospectively of Millbank or
Bow-stteet.

DIPLOMATIC LETTER 8Y COUNT

CAVOUR.

The following circular has been addressed by
Count Cavour to the diplomatic agents of the Sar-
dinian Government at foreign courts :

TURIN, FEE. 4.
The Government of the King has asked the sanction of
Parliament to the contracting a loan of 50,000,000 lire, de-
signed to meet the exigency of events that might come to
pass in Italy, and the nature and extent of which it is yet
impossible to foresee. _
As this measure, which prudence has suggested to us,
may give rise to unjust comments, I have thougt fit clearly
to represent to you the idea that has dictated it, in order to
enable you to rectify any inaccuracies of judgment on the
part of politicians and of the organs of public opinion in the
country where you reside. Three years will soon have ex-
pired since the King's Government, while calling the atten-

lion of Europe, by the organ of its plenipotentiaries at the
Congress of Paris, to the grievous state of Italy, protested
against the extension of Austrian influence in the Peninsula
beyond the stipulations of the treaties, and announced that,
if a check were not put to it,-the 'result n..ight Le serious
dangers for the peace and tranquillity of the world. The
representations of Sardinia were favourably received by
France and England, and were reproduced in some sort in
a solemn manner in the congress itself. Italy then con-
ceived hopes, and men's minds seemed to calm down. But
the hopes to which this manifestation of interest on the
part of the Western Powers gave birth have little by little
been dissipated.

The state of Italy has undergone no modification. The
preponderating influence which Austria there exercises be-
yond the limits that treaties have assigned to her, and
which constitutes a perpetual menace to Sardinia, has rather
augmented than diminished.
On the other hand, the different states of the Peninsula
have persisted in a system of government the result of which
could but be the discontenting of the population and a pro-
vocation to disorder.

Notwithstanding that the dangers wherewith Sardinia
was menaced in consequence of such a state of things had
become more serious and more imminent, the conduct of
the King's government has always been regulated by a
spirit of propriety and reserve which men of good faith
cannot refuse to recognise.
If his Majesty's government proudly repelled the preten-
sions of Austria, which demanded modifications in the in-
stitutions of the country, it did not assume a hostile atti-
tude towards her, when the cabinet of Vienna thought
proper to seize a pretext, judged futile by almost all the
statesmen of Europe, to break off with eclat diplomatic re-
lations with Sardinia.

Sardinia limited her course of action to reminding, from
time to time, those governments with which she entertains
friendly relations, of the sad predictions which facts daily
verified, and to invoking their solicitude for the condition
of the peninsula.
She has never concealed the apprehensions and the sym •
pathy inspired in her by the state of the greater part of the
Italian provinces. But when she has deemed it her duty to
manifest them publicly, she has done it with as much
moderation as propriety. By her example, by her conduct
in the last war and in the congress of Paris, by the mani-
festation of her interest and commiseration towards the

Italian populations, Sardinia has striven to bring back hope,
patience, and calm in the midst of despair, impatience, and
agitation. She has abstained, with the greatest care, from
playing apart in any degree irritating, and if public right
has been infringed, it is certainly not Sardinia that can be
accused of the least infraction of existing treaties.
This spirit of moderation, of which all the acts of the
king's government have hitherto borne the stamp, has been
appreciated by all impartial men and by public opinion in
Europe.
But now the extraordinary military measures which the
Cabinet of Vienna has just taken, and which are evidently
directed against Sardinia, whose armaments are relatively
very weak, force the king's government, without abandon-
ing that reserve, to prepare itself against a danger which
may become imminent. Those measures are known to
Europe. I think it right, nevertheless, rapidly to recapitu-
late them.
In the first days of January, before the king had pro-
nounced the openuig speech of the new legislative session,
the Vienna Cabinet announced in its official journal the
there • in a
corps, added to three others which are established
permanent
manner, would increase strength of the thwith what the
Aus-
trian army to an extent very disproportionate_
..
maintenance of order and of internal tranquillity could
sending of a corps d' armee of 30,000 men into Italy. This
require. ..
At the same time that these troops were sent into Lom-
bardy and Venetia with extraordinary rapidity, frontier
falom which marks thetrpitss
battalions, which leave their country only in case of war,
were known to arrive. The garrisons of Bologna and An-
cona were reinforced. But, what is most serious, Austria,
concentrated considerable forces on our frontier; she col-
lectedbetween Cremona and Piacenza, and Pavia, a real corps of
between the Adda and the Ticino, and especially
operations,. which certainly could not be destined to main-
tain ordei in these towns, which are of quite secondary
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the ostentation with which vast preparations have been
occupying forts which were constructed
in defiance of treaties, and which the Austrians have ap-
pearedln ' presence of arrangements so menacing to us, the coun-
try has been much agitated. Confiding in the patriotism
of the King and of his Government, it remains calm; but it
' demands that thought should be given to putting it in a
position to confront the eventualities, of which such a dis-
play of forces on the part of Austria may be taken as a fore-
runner.

It is to this end that the ministry resolved to summon
into Piedmont the garrisons established in Sardinia and
beyond the Alps, and has asked the chambers for authority
to contract a loan.
This last request, which I expect will be adopted, while
proving to the nation that the Government has the con-
sciousness of what the security and honour of the country
impose upon it, will maintain tranquillity in tho public
mind, and will permit us calmly to await fatUre even
tualities. the poli-
I hope you will have no difficulty in convincing
tical persons with whom you aro in relation that the measure
above indicated has an exclusively defensive object—far
from containing a menace for the tranquillity of Europe, it
will have for result to calm the agitation in Italy and to
reassure men's minds by giving birth to the feeling of confi-
dence that Piedmont, strong in her good right, and aided by
the allies which the justice of her cause can alone proem',
her, is ready to combat every element of disorder in the

On Monday afternoon a young woman, named
Elizabeth Hall, about 24 years of age, died
at the house of her uncle, in Whessoe-street, Dar-
lington, and the result of a post mortem examina-
tion, together with the contents of several letters
which have been found, led to the belief that her
death has been caused by internal violence or the
administration of poisonous drugs, for the purpose
of precuring abortion.
An inquest was held on Wednesday, at Darling-
ton, before W. Trotter, Esq., coroner, and from the
evidence it appears that the parents of the deceased
reside at Winlaton, near Newcastle, and that so far
back as October suspicions were rife in the village
of an improper intimacy between the unfortunate
girl and Gloster Smith, a married man, who is
national schoolmaster and organist at Winlaton.
Subsequent circumstances tended to confirm this
conviction, and the parents of the girl charged her
with being enceinte, but she indignantly,Alesiied
that such was the case, and attempted to leave her
home. In order to break off the connection—the
girl's mind being constantly excited—the parents
induced her to go and stay a few weeks at Darling.
ton with an aunt. This was on the sth of last month,
and since that time she has made three visits to New-
castle, twice without her parents' knowledge. On
the last occasion of her returning from there, a fort-
night last Monday, she complained of fatigue, and
next day became seriously ill. Up to Sunday she •
persisted in not haying a doctor,but on that day Dr.
Fothergill was called in, and he was given to under-„, -'''-- -
stand she had had a miscarriage. Notwithstandi
his efforts to rally her, she died on Monday last. e
"g
d.
day previously a sealed packet of letters was u
in a work-box, on which was written in ncil,
" These arc only to be read by one perso in the
world upon my death." Only one of t letters
bears a signature, that being " Gr. ~ ut the
jury thought the others were in the • ;tine Nind-
-.-
writing although disguised. One letter particu-
larly, which can be distinctly traced to Smith, says,
It is utterly impossible for me to go with you to-
night, but don't fail in going yourself. . . . Do
implicitly as he tells you, and then all will go
right. . . . I have no tin by me to-day, but
whatever it costs you at R— I will pay you
again." The other letters tend to prove the sus-
picions long entertained of an improper connection
existing between the deceased and Smith. It was
in consequence of the contents of these letters that
the post mortenz examination was made, and Dr.
Fothergill stated at the inquest that he was firmly
of opinion death had been caused by internal vio-
lence. He had found mortification, which could
not be accounted for in auy other way than by the
introduction of instruments. He thought medi-
cines could not have produced the appearances he
saw, but, at the suggestion of the coroner, in order
to exhaust every other possible cause of death, he
proposed to inspect the stomach.
The inquisitioir was adjourned for a week.
The schoolmaster was arrested on Wednesday,
and was brought in custody to Darlington the next
day. He was remanded by the magistrates.