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London, England, 1844-10-03 00:00:00

THE StIN, LONDOM TIIIIII,SDAY EVENING, OCTiBER .844„

street is rapidly progressing towards completion. A
sewer has been constructed for the whole distance, and
is now biting connected with the Oxford-street and Tot-
tvnharn-court-road sewers. It is about 1,800 feet in
length, and in depth from the surfoce fifteen feet, and
hats been about two months in execution. The workmen
are' row forming the footpaths on each side of the way,
and ni.,ortly the gravel which has been excavated in the
course of the formation of the sewer Rill be removed. It
is expo Act] that in a few weeks the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests will issue their proposals for the
erectiol i of the new houses, for which purpose the whole
distanoe will be divided into separate plots of ground.
The:improvements which have been commenced in Pic-
cadilly were authorised by an Act passed on the 9th of
August last, by which it is provided that the space be-
tween Bolton-street in the east, and Park-lane on tho
west, should we widened and improved, and that a por-
tion. of the Green Park should be appropriated for that
purpose. Power is given to the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests to obtain possession of any property re-
quired to carry out the intention of the Act, and in the
scheetule, the mansion occupied by Baron Rothschild,
and belonging to the Crown, is mentioned as requisite
for the improvements.
On Wednesday a Court of the Governors and Sub-
scribe rs to the Scottish Hospital was held at the Hall of
the S zottish Hospital, Crane-court, Fleet-street, to re-
ceive
;and confirm the by-laws, &c., Mr. Nisbet in the
Chair. A proposition, moved at the previous Court, to
insure the picture of King William the Fourth (by
Wilkie) for 300/., another of Mary Queen of Scots for
2001., and the whole of them for 6001., was agreed to.
Protester Donaldson moved that at a future Court they
should insure the pictures for seven years, which would
effect a great saving to the Hospital. The by-law were
confirmed and adopted.
The inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by the fatal
explosion at the Haswell colliery was resumed on Tues-
day, and again adjourned.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OE 'TIIIS DAT.
TIMES.—The probable invasion of the Punjaub
occupies a prominent place in our India news of this
month. Hostilities, it is said, are meditated. there,
and this invasion is one of self-defence on the side of
this country. Another statement of the case? is more
simple, and subjects the territory of the runjaub to
what is called the law of extension on the part of the
Indian empire. The two statements may probably
be combined. Want of order and government in a
native district takes the form of !anti-English out-
breaks ;. and the Indian empire outside is a pressure
always at hand to make its way through any channel
opened to it, as air rushes into a vacuum. The result
is the combination we mention—native States act the
assailant, and English empire extends. The case of
the Punjaub is one of a class. No new moral or
political hypothesis has to be invented for it. One
casuistical mould fits all the stages of our Indian
progress from the first. The mould was made
under Lord Clive and Warren Hastings; and it still
remains in the Government workshop, and forms
the . foreign policy of one Governor-General after
another. Lord Ellenborough and Sir Henry Her-
dinge aro individually as different men, perhaps, as
could be found to succeed each other; but their po-
licy is the tame. Their policy is the same, because it
is neither's own policy. Sir 11. Ussrding_e finds his
course cut out for him as soon es ever he gets to
India. lie hears as soon as he lands that he is to
invade the Punjaub, and has his lesson given him,
his line laid down for him—just as a soldier comes
to be drilled. The Governors-Generals act, in this
respect, one like another. The Indian policy is a
Procrustean one with respect to its conductors; and
requires spirit and activity rather than originality
in the latter. Here, in fact, is the old story again,
which recurs like a dream. We heard of Sinde two
years ago and Lord Ellenborough; now of the Pun-
snub and Sir Henry Hardinge. The internal con-
dition of this State has been one of the greatest
confusion and anarchy for a long time. The chiefs
live by plunder, and amuse themselves with perpetual
fends ; a weak minor of questionable legitimacy sits
on the throne, and cannot control them. The Sikhs,
a powerful military race, not unlike the Ma-
melukes of Egypt in position, are filled with
a spirit of hostility to the Indian Govern-
ment. Dost Mahomed and his son, Akbar Khan,
with a third, Yar Mahomet, the usurper of Herat,
have, it is said, formed an alliance, and made arrange-
ments with Isieera Singh and the Sikhs, in prepara-
tion for an attack on the English territories. These
intrigues are well known, and Sir Henry Hardinge,
it is thought, will make use of his knowledge, and
anticipate their invasion by an invasion of his own.
A singular unanimity is said to pervade the opera-
tions of the chiefs of the alliance ; and they exhibit
altogether a more formidable frontage than a native
attack has often presented. Lord Ellenborough
showed some acuteness, though an acuteness not con-
sistent with the rules of the Company's service,
in the undisguised and bold partiality with which
he treated the military department as opposed
to the civil. Lord Ellenborough seemed to
foresee the line which things were taking, and
saw that the military were the department to
he attended to and complimented. India was bright-
ening up a little from its grave commercial character
into the belligerent one; and foreign relations were
taking the place of internal. His Lordship took the
camp accordingly, and sank the:Hon. Company's ser-
vant in the gallant man of arms. He took a regular
taste fir a soldier's life, acted the comrade, and looked
forward to being the favourite and admired of the
Ire:tian army—their great man. We rather question
Whether, if his Lordship had had the veteran experi-
ence of a full-blown general, he would have found his
enthusiasm so great, and whether the charm of novelty
was not a considerable ingredient in the mixture of at-
tractions which connected Lord Ellenborough with the
military department. But so it was. "The only regret
I feel," says his Lordship in his farewell speech at
the dinner given him by the military society at Cal-
cutta, " the only regret I feel at leaving India, is that
of being separated from the army. The most agree-
able, the most interesting part of my life, has been
that which I have passed here, in cantonments and le
camp." According as Indian policy takes the foreign
direction, the military acquire more and more im-
portance. If they have a great deal to do, they must
be complimented, cheered, and courted. The late
Governor-General did thus; and though he did it in
a way invidious to the civil service, and contrary to
rule, there was some point in the adoption of the
line. Sir H. Hardinge has now a fair field before
him. He goes out with apparently fewer difficul-
ties than his predecessor; with a line well marked
out for him, and a thoroughly understood Indian
policy to carry out. According to the account
of our correspondent he has started well, and suc-
ceeded—though there is a disparaging proverb as to
such early successes—in creating a most favourable
impression of himself in the eyes especially of the na-
tive gentry. lie will not have the temptation of a
new soldier to set up the military above the civil, and
make invidious distinctions. With respect to the
Punjaub—there is no reason why he should wait
for a positive invasion from that quarter before com-
mencing proceedings, provided he can satis-
factorily make out that an invasion is threatened.
The ordinary rules of self-defence allow an anticipa-
tion of the attack, provided the intention of attack
can fairly be proved. But there should be this proof.
Even our Indian policy, not a very straightlaced
one, should have its evidence to bring forward on
this head. We have alluded to the subject of the
Indian army: we will mention one point—the prac-
tice of military flogging, which is, it is said, to be
revived there, having been dropped ever since Lord
William Bentinek's Governor-Generalship. The dis-
cipline in some of the native regiments seems bad
enough, certainly; but this is not the proper mode of
remedying it. Flogging never reclaimed a mutineer ;
and a recurrence to the practice will be a much more
odious thing than the original practice itself. The
fault in the native regiments seems to be the want of
officers, not of modes of punishment. With the
present inadequate establishment the routine work of
the army, on which so much depends, is necessarily
ill done. We shall be disappointed if the addition of
an extra captain to each regiment will not supersede
the proposed cat-o'-nine-tails. At all events, we hope
the experiment will be tried first.
CHRONICLE.—From Lord Ellenborough's cha-
racter it might easily have been anticipated that he
could not quit the Indian stage without committing
some of those strange antics which must immortalise
him as a hero of political melodrame. Still, his
quiet retirement to private life, and the failure of all
attempts at Calcutta to get him the usual ovation paid
to departing Governors, led us to hope that the award
of such abrupt dismissal had recalled him to a sense
of dignity, and of the respect due to the high office
which he held, as well as to those from whom he de-
rived it ; and although a rumour reached us by the
last mail of his having sat and talked in solemn
banquet with the military chiefs whom he pa-
tronised, casting insult and defiance at the civil
authorities of the Indian Government, we did not
credit behaviour so marked with spite, disgrace, and
impolicy. If there is a country in the world in which
Europeans of all classes should be taught to hold ami-
cably and equally together, it is India, where they
are so insignificant in numbers and eminent in posi-
tion. If there is a country where civilian rule and
political prudence ought to be made to predominate
over brute ideas of violence and conquest, it is again
India, where the material force of the European is as
nothing compared with his moral predominance—
where wealth and revenue, instead of being co-existent
with empire, is found generally in the inverse propor-
tion of extent, and where glory is a dear and idle gain,
too distant to affect our character with our true rivals,
and calculated to awe merely the subject or semi-
subject races of Asia. Hence all the great men
who have ruled and conquered Hindostan,
gladly embraced every opportunity of sinking
the soldier in the statesman, considering
administrative reform and organization achieve-
ments more difficult and more glorious than
routing or crushing barbarian hordes. As to Lord
Ellenborough, if he was sent to India with any
specific views at all, it was as the representative of
these ideas. He went out enthusiastically, obstinately,
perversely civilian, and his first act was to " snub"
his predecessor, in a proclamation, for having sent
armies across the Indus. The smell of gunpowder
was, however, too much for the weak brains of the
new Governor, and no sooner did he taste of "pomp,
pride, circumstance of glorious war," than all his ideas
of India, of its wants, of his own duties, and of his
employers' wishes, changed as if by the touch of a
magician's wand. Whatever censure such unwarranted
and sudden change may deserve, it certainly is
matter of amazement that his Lordship should
not have been prepared for the strong di-ap•
probation which his whisk round to a war-
policy must have excited in England. We
are not now going to discuss the merit of the
achievement wrought under Lord Ellenborough. We
may merely remark, that the glories won in battle
are the greatest slurs upon his administration. They
were glories, because won over enemies equal or su-
perior to us in numbert, enraged and emboldened by
our own rashness and injustice. 'We Frilled success,
where a slight degree of prudence would have ren-
dered it so certain, that neither Scindia nor Mahratta
durst have offered resistance. They were battles
fought, not for the security of India or the mainte-
nance of rights, but for the glorification of Lord El-
lenborough, and the illustration of his military friends.
That these friends should have feted him excites
neither our surprise nor our censure. But no words
can convey condemnation strong enough upon an
individual, placed in the rank of the Queen's vice-
regent and representative in India, who would be
represented as exclusively delighted with all he
had seen in camps—who, having undertaken such
high, such immense administrative and political
duties, confesses that he never felt himself so happy

as in cantonments and camps and that he leaves
tehind him in India no thing or person worthy
his regret, save the military ! What a member of a
British cabinet, or of the Senate of a constitutional
ccuntry ! We exclaim loudly against Frenchmen,
' i even against Napoleon, for his changing France into
a barrack. We denounce the present admirals and
generals of France, who sacrifice the peace and inde-
pendence of nations to the hoisting of a flag, to the
shade of conquest, or to a bulletin recording a feat of
military success. But our Lord Ellenborough out-
Frenchifies any Frenchman that ever wore sabre.
And, indeed, when we hear of his feats, read his pro.
elamations, and listen to his account of what he loves
best and alone, we cannot believe that he is an
Englishman; for sentiments and conduct so un-
English, so at variance with English reserve, English
taste, and English dignity, are not to be met with in
biography or history. It will be noted with pleasure
that Sir H. Hardinge declined attending the military
dinner at which his predecessor, made such an unseemly
display. Not the most unseemly part of that display
was the assurance given that Sir Henry Hardinge,
under the advice of the Duke of Wellington, would
" take a correct view of the real interests of
This "correct view his Lordship explained to be to
continue the system of liberality, kind consideration,
and favour towards the troops in India. High ex-
pctationsfare accordingly formed of what the mili-
tary intimate of the Duke of Wellington will do,
when his civilian protege did so much. New regi-
ments are spoken of as likely to be raised, one captain
to be added to each of the actual regiments. These,
and the re-establishment of military flogging for the
scpoys, are Announced as Sir Henry Hardinge's acts
of inauguration. Were such rumours as these to be
realised, then, indeed, Lord Ellenborough's threat,
conveyed through his old organ, the .Englishman,,
may not prove idle, via., that Sir Henry Hardinge's
sword,though more polished than Lord Ellenborough's,
would still cut as keenly against the policy and the
interest of the Indian Directors and of the civilian
service. We shall, however, not pass judgment on
Sir Henry Hardinge from hearsay.

CHURCH PREFERMENT.
THE ADVOWSON TO ST. NEOTS.
We called the attention of our readers a few days
since to the circumstance of the intended sale of a
valuable rectory in Suffolk, on the 17th inst. The
printed particulars are now in clue course of dis-
tribution. This has afforded us the opportunity to
glean a little from Mr. George Robins's original
remarks on Church property; but our present in-
tention is simply to notice an interesting record con-
nected with the living, which his research has
discovered in White's " History of Suffolk," and which
we annex to this short statement, observing that in
-lines like the present, when there is not the least
chance of war, it is not very easy to provide satisfac-
torily for a family; however profitable trade may be,
a man of family cannot sacrifice his son to become a
tradesman. " What then is open to him?" We rejoin,
nothing but the Church, and the natural consequence
that seems to arise is, that Church property is now in
the ascendant. The annual value is about 8801.
DESCRIPTION OF THE SITUATION WHEREIN
THE LIVING IS PLACED.
_ _

"Rattlesden is a large village, in a picturesque valley,
on one of the sources of the river Gipping, five miles
W. of Stowmarket, and nine miles E.S.E. of Bury
St. Edmund's, has in its parish 1,142 souls, and about
3,200 acres of land, generally having a fertile clayey
,oil, and including a small enclosed fen, several open
greens or commons, and the hamlet f Poy-street-
green and Hightown-green, from one to two miles
S., and Clopton-green, one mile N. of the village.
'the greater part of the open fields, &c., were enclosed
about ten years ago, and the fen bout seventy years
ago. Clopton Hall, with the estate attached to it, is
the seat and manor of Captain Windsor Parker, and
was long the residence of the Clopton family. John
Mosely, Esq., is Lord of the Manor of Rattlesden,
which was held by the Bishop of Ely until the
fourth of Elizabeth, and was granted, in the second
)f James the First to Philip Tyse and William
Blake. It passed to the Moseleys in the early
part of last century, together with the Acluowson of
the Rectory. The Cocksedge, Boldero, Mudd,
\Vinson, Canham, Eaton, Finnan, Pettit, and some
other families, have estates in the parish, and the soil
is mostly freehold. The chuich (St. Nicholas) is a
neat edifice, with a tower containing five hells, and
surmounted by a spire. The rectory, valued in K.B.
at 201. Os. 2id., has about 50 acres of glebe, and a
yearly modus of 7801. awarded, in 1840, in lieu of
tithes. 'The Rev. James Oakes is the incumbent, and
John Barney, Esq., is patron, and has the next pre-
ientation. The Baptists have a chapel here, built in
1808, and rebuilt in 1823." Vide "White's History
of Suffolk."

The glebe extends to 44 acres, and the land is
exceedingly good. There is a capital garden, and
all the auxiliaries essential to comfort. The incum-
bent is seventy-five, but the on dits affirm he is nearer
to eighty.

The parsonage-house will afford the new purchaser
an opportunity to display his taste in alterations and
improvements. This will employ his leisure time when
he succeeds to the living, and try his pocket to the
extent of a few hundreds.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last evening, shortly before
five o'clock, the lucifer-match factory, belonging to Mr.
llyams, situate in Princes-square, Wilson-street, Fins-
bury, was discovered to be on fire. The factory is a
large one, and is surrounded by numerous other build-
ings. The fire originated in what is technically termed
the " stove," a building fitted up with wooden racks, and
used for drying the goods. When first perceived the
flames had obtained the complete possession of the entire
stock in the place. The parties connected with the
works endeavoured, as did also several of the neighbours,
to extinguish the flames by means of buckets of water,
but owing to the overpowering nature of the effluvium
emitted from the matches as they became ignited, the
persons were compelled to desist, and send fbr the as-
sistance of the fire-engines. Engines from Whitecross-
street, Jeffrey-square, and Watling-street brigade sta-
tions, were speedily at the scene, and being aided by
plenty of water, the firemen succeeded in putting the fire
out before it had done greater damage than consuming the
building in which it originated. The damage, notwith-
standing, is very considerable. The origin of tho fire
could not be explained, but there is no doubt it arose
from over heat. Unfortunately, Mr. Hyams is unin-
sured.

We understand a. somewhat interesting native of
India, " Mohem Lal," arrived in London by the last
overland mail. He is the same who travelled in Central
Asia in disguise, with the late Sir Alexander Burnes,
and subsequently published his journal in Calcutta. Since
that period he has been devoted to British interests, and
was greatly instrumental in effecting the deliverance of
our prisoners in Affghanistan. We hear he has been re-
ceived with marked attention by the Chairman of the East
India Company, who, after honouring him with a visit,
invited him to dinner at his residence. He will shortly
proceed to Scotland, to meet the parents of his late la-
mented friend Sir Alexander Burnes.—Post.
NEWLY-INVENTED SPECTACLES, TELESCOPES,
OPERA GLASSES, MICROSCOPES, &C.—Messrs. S. and
B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly, have succeeded in effecting a most scientific im-
provement in Spectacle and Telescope Lenses, &c., of
the greatest transparent power. The extraordinary
advantage derived from this invention is that vision
becomes preserved and strengthened and very aged per:
sons are enabled to employ their sight either by day or
candle light at the most minute occupation, and can see
with those Lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor
will ther require the frequent changes to further helps
as the Spectacles now in common use. Also newly-in-
vented Achromatic Waiscoat-pocket Telescopes and
Opera Glasses which aro invaluable at the sea-side and
on the race-course, as well as at the theatre, &c.—Every
kind of Telescope for Shooting, Sea purposes, and upon
stand for astronomical observations with the celebrated
Lenses of the most clear transparent brilliancy ; the
powers are so great and the Lenses so bright and bril-
liant that minute objects at an extraordinary distance
aro brought completely multr the eyes.—Sportsmen,
Tourists, and sea-side visitors will indeed here have a
great treat. Their invisible Voice Conductor gives im-
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BRIGHTON, OCT. §.—The Magnet steamer arrived
here yesterday from Dieppe, having made the passage in
seven hours. Among her numerous passengers was a
courier, the bearer of dispatches from M. Guizot, who,
immediately after landing, proceeded by a special train
to London. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have
taken ono of the largest mansions at the west end of
the town for the winter, but are not expected to arrive
till the latter end of the month. The Duke of St. Alban's
eaxtpeiciteedinptoToa the t lwsteekof.
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The Countess and the Ladies Cadogan took their de-
parture yesterday from the Marine-parade, for London.
Lady Harley, Mr. and Lady Goding, Sir Samuel Clarke
Jervoise, Sir Charles Des Vamx' General Sir Arthur
Upton, Sir F. Hankey, and Mr. Blackstone, M.P., are
among our arrivals. Lord and Lady Lurgan have taken
their departure from the Norfolk Hotel, for Ireland.
Mr. Sergeant Goulburn has taken a house on the Ma-
rine-parade, where the Learned Sergeant has arrived
with his family. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Am-
bassador, after a short stay, has taken his departure for
London.

AN ENIGMA.—The Raja Moorshebadad once
asked what that was that did not happen last year, has
not happened this year, and will not happen next year?
And the chiefs and the merchants, the astrologers, and
the hakims, could give no answer; but a poor horseman
stepped forth, and, having kissed the ground, and put
his forehead to the earth, rose, and, folding his arms,
exclaimed, "May your Highness's shadow never be less,
and may you live a thousand years—as long as your
father, the sun, and your brother, the moon; but your
Highness did not pay your servants last year, you have
not paid them this year, and your Highness's people
cannot expect, therefore, to be paid next year ;" and,
with a low salaam, the man retired, expecting, doubtless,
to lose his ears ; but on the contrary, the Raja ordered
him a khelat (dress of honour), and that year he paid the
army its arrears.—Asiatic Journal.

OPENING OF THE SESSION Oi
THE GREEK CHAMBERS.
On the 19th of September the Greek Chambers
opened their session, when King
.otho proceeded in
state to the Chamber of Representatives, and read
the subjoined speech :
" Gentlemen of the Chamber of Representatives and
Senate,
" Through the joint exertions of the Crown and
nation the foundations of the constitution have been laid.
Through the same exertions the institutions of the
country will be lawfully developed and improved. May
Providence protect and defend our joint labours.
" The relations existing between Foreign Powers and
me are most amicable, and it is a great satisfaction to me
to he enabled to inform you of it ' • but we are particu-
larly indebted to the Powers that have zealously seconded
us in our struggles, that have afforded us real support,
and effected and protected our independence. My Mi-
nisters will lay before you a report upon the state of the
administration and finances ; and, whilst observing the
utmost economy, they will demand of you the means of
carrying on the public service, and of securing our future
welfare.
" We shall not neglect the claims of our glorious past.
We shall likewise duly provide for the splendour of our
holy religion. We shall uphold it, and develope it as
well as public instruction by a complete organisation.
We shall also bestow due attention on the completing
and improving the army in such a way as may best
insure the safety of the state, and the execution of the
laws.
" It will be your province, Gentlemen, to assist my
Government by affording it those lawful means, so that
the administration of the affairs of the State may not
encounter difficulties detrimental both to public and pri-
vate interests.
" Laws will be submitted to your consideration, the
object of which will be to render individual liberty invio-
late, and to confer en our flag the respect due to us. My
Ministers will also submit to your attentive considera-
tion laws calculated to improve agriculture, commerce,
and our shipping.
" The development of the code of laws, and the adap-
tation of them to the state of the nation, will be the first
object you will have to attend to in the present session.
" Believe me, Gentlemen, I feel the deepest and most
patriotic emotion on this solemn day, when I consider
the great importance of the questions that are about to
engage your attention, and the immense influence your
decisions will exercise over the welfare of Greece.
" Let us, therefore, by acting together with sincerity
and prudence, strive to maintain and improve that which
you have won by your heroin deeds and immense sa-
crifiees.
" Let us endeavour to obliterate all recollection of
past melancholy events; let only emulation, a laudable
and patriotic emulation, to promote the prosperity of
our country survive them, and, with a persevering will,
let us pursue the right and regular course, which can
alone lead our beloved country unto felicity and glory.
" Such is the ardent wish of my heart; my whole life
shall be devoted to the defence of our liberties, and the
advancement of the welfare of the nation; in the accom-
plishment of which exalted task I claim your co-epera-
tion. Let us all implore the Almighty to vouchsate his
support to our common efforts.
" I now declare the session of the Chambers for the
present year opened."