The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-18 00:00:00

HIGHLANDERS IN INDIA_

Seldom does the Indian mail arrive without bringing
sorrowful tidings to some of us; and we feel ourselves
called on, at present, to notice an event which is deeply
deplored in this place. This is not the first time we have
had to notice our brave townsman, Captain George G-
M. Cobban, of her Majesty's 50th regiment of Foot; bnl
we have now the melancholy task of recording his death..
He fell in one of the last charges which completed Gen.
Grey's brilliant victory at Punniar on the 29th Decem-
ber. While gallantly leading on his company to capture
some guns, which were keeping up a most destructive
fire, he received a grape shot in the chest, when close tcs
one of those guns ; and his commanding-officer, Lieut.-
Colonel Anderson, was severely wounded by the same:
ball. In the language of a friend (his intimate acquaint-
ance, Major Petit), it must be some consolation to his:
relations to know, that, "the service, by the death of
Captain Cobban, has lost an excellent officer and a gal-
lant soldier, and the regiment been deprived of a friend
universally beloved and sincerely regretted." His body
was carried into camp, and buried the next evening.
Among those mentioned with approbation by Sir
Hugh Gough, in his dispatch to the Governor-General,
is Lieutenant W. Fraser Tytler (son of Sheriff Tytler).
and who is Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General ;
Major Grant (also a native of this district), the Deputy-
Adjutant-General of the army; and Lietitenant Mac-
donald (son of our late respected townsman, Dr. Mac-
donald) of the 2d Madras Light Cavalry. From a private
letter, we learn that Lieutenant Macdonald behaved with -
great gallantry. In personal conflict he severely wounded
two of the enemy, and slew a third, whose sword he
secured as a trophy of his success. He acted as one of
the aides-de-camp to Sir Hugh Gough, and had the
honour of communicating the result of the battle to the
Governor-General, Lord Ellenborongh, whom he also
conducted to the tent occupied after the victory by Sir
Hugh Gough.—lnverness Courier.

FRIENDLY RELATIONS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
—The Moniteur publishes the following paragraph I—" In the
night of the 29th of January last the French corvette of war
Creole, commanded by Capt. Jam, on her way from the linens to
Smyrna, ran aground in the bay of Caristo, in the island of Negro..
pont. The weather was extremely tempestuous, and the night very
dark. On the first intimation of the event, Rear. Admiral Le Ray,
Commander of the Levant station, hastened to send to the assistance
of the Creole the war steamer Castor, of I 20. horse power, and
Capt. Sir C. Sullivan, Commander of her Britannic Majesty's ship
of war the Formidable, who was also at the Pirwus, placed at hie
disposal the Vesuvius, a steamer of the British navy, of 320. horse
power. On the 27th of the same month the latter steamer, com..
manded by Mr. Ommaney, brought back the Creole to the
Pincus. Rear. Admiral Le Ray speaks in high terms of the cor-
diality and readiness with which Captain Sir C. Sullivan
offered him the assistance of the Vesuvius, and of
the services rendered on that occasion to the French
navy by Captain Ominanney. He has further addressed the
expression of his gratitude to Admiral Owen, Commander.in.Chief
of the naval forces of her Britannic Majesty in the Mediterranean.
Admiral Owen hastened, in an order of the day, to make known
to the officers of his squadron the letter of Rear-Admiral Le Bay,
and, in expressing his satisfaction at the readiness with which
officers of the British navy had rendered assistance to a French
vessel in danger, he announced that he considered it his duty to
lay before the Lords of the Admiralty the honourable testimony
borne by the common 'er of the French station in favour of Captain
Ommanney." The Arnwricain de Brest of the 9th inst. contains
the following :—" It is known that the French and English Go-
vernments have adopted the generous principle of allowing the
widow or heirs of the subjects of either nation who have fallen vic.
tiros of accidents, occasioned by the servants of the other, a pen.
sion at least double that which they would have obtained from
their own country under similar circumstances. It is in virtue of
that praiseworthy reciprocity that the'British Government has just
granted a pension of 500 f. to Marie Perrinc Bedfort, the widow of
Pierre Jean Baudouard, accidentally tilled at Newfoundland in
July last lay a shot fired from one of the coast guard boats of the
English station."
A CHARTIST " LEADER."—Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
in his recent pamphlet, describes. the Rev. Win. Hill, the man
whom be so long employed to instruct and guide the people, as
" foolish,"" audacious," " base," " artful," " Vindictive," " tree.
cherous," " perfidious," _ •• revengeful," " horrible," " fiendish,"
" diabolical!" Charges him with " devilment," " duplicity."
conspiracy," " violation of solemn pledges," " unparalleled
meanness and baseness," " villainy in its blackest form i"--talks of
his " hideout grins," and calls him- the " veriest rascal," " the
most ungrateful and incomprehendble scoundrel on earth I"
Leeds Times.

VICTORIA PARK.—AII doubts of the commence-
ment of operations in the park during the present spring, are re-
moved by the Crown having given permission to the marke t
gardeners to resume possession of their property till Michaelmas.
day, and having rented all the pasture land to Mr. Ridge, a large
proprietor, till the End of October. The terms for the purchase
of Bonner's-hall, which was the property of Guy's Hospital, and has
been the subject of much litigation and delay between the Crown
and the hospital, have been finally arranged this week. It is, how-
ever, considered likely that workmen will be at once employed to
stake out the boundaries of the park, and that the excavations for
the drainage will immediately commence.
CONVERSION OF SCOTT MURRAY, ESQ., M.P. FOR
BUCKS, TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITIL—OxForp,MAscm
15.—A sensation has been produced in the University by let-
ters received among the Tractarians from Rome, with infor-
mation that Scott Murray, Esq., 8.A., of Christ Church, has
just conformed in that capital to the Romish faith. It is
anticipated that the Hon. Gentleman, who has sat in Par-
liament for Bucks since the commencement of the present
Parliament, will forthwith vacate his seat for that county.
Mr. Murray belonged to the Young England_ party, but had
paired off till after the Easter recess. His vote is of coursei
suspended until he has taken the oaths prescribed for Roman
Catholic Members. This conversion is stated in the Univer.
sity to be the 18th from among Mr. Newman's disciples whicti
has taken place since the year 1841. Other conversions are
spoken 4—.Evennzg Paper.