The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

The Legitimati,ts and parti pretre, by uniting
with the Mountain, mar aged yesterday to secure a
victory over the Ministers, and to defeat the progress
of a measure which they profess to have most.
sincerely at heart. M. Purrieu, the Minister of
Public ✓lnstruction, proposed that the law pre-
sented by the Ministers, giving to the prefects
the power of dismissing the schoolmasters of primary
tchools should be declared - unjust, and he went
through all the usual accusathms which have any
r line for the last six months been brought
forward by the parti pretre against these school-
no:sters ; but, strange. to say, he found him-
self opposed by M. Berryer aid the
parti pretre, on the growl(' that if the law presented
wt re pes,ed it might occa,ion the indefinite post,
pone meat of the discussion on the organic law. The
Mountain we re bus too glad to secure the co-operation
of the parti pretre, ard the strange sight was presented
of M.‘i. .13,-rryer and Jules Favre voting together
against MM. Varier and Mo'e —the result was a tie,
the numt.ers being on each side 312; the victory,
therefore, remains with the Mountain: and if there
be any truth in the cemplaints of M. Berryer
and his friends, that Socialism is on the
increase among the peasantry in consequence of the
propaganda carried on by the primary schoolmasters
he has now only himself to thank for its continuance.
The real victory is in this instance that of the Moun-
tain, who, by exploiting the hatred and bigotry of
the Legitimatists and parti pretre, have not only pre-
vented the dismissal of the Socialist schoolmasters,
but have succeeded in breaking up the majority.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six O'CLOCK,

LITERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Vain Hope
10 to 1 agst Proceed

CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Mahon
1000 to 15 agst Mounseer—taken
2000 to 25 agst Van Dif man—taken
2000 to 30 agst Rowland—ttiken
2000 to 25 agst Chantrey—taken

DEBBY.

20 to 1 agst Mayors—taken
5000 to 50 agst Yew Tree—taken

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.

25 to 1 agt Testator
30 to 1 aegst Borneo
30 to 1 agAt Black Eagle

THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS FOR 1850.—The fc

lowing n.re the days on which the scssions for the jurig-
diction of the Central Criminal Court will be held in the

current year:—Monday, Jan. 7 inst.; Monday, Feb. 4;
Monday, March 4; Monday, April 8; Monday, May 6;
Monday, June 10; Monday, July 8; Monday, Aug. 19;
Monday, Svpt. 16; and Monday, Oct. 21.

ATTEMFTFD HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Frl ay
night last, about one o'clock, Mr. Richard Fleet, land-
lord of the Rose Inn, Tovil, was returning from Far-
leigh, from a visit to his brother, when he met three
nr-n near Farleit.;ll Priory, whom he was about to wish
good night, when one of them seized him by the collar
nehind, tripped him up and fell upon him. The others
were about to assist in robbing him, when Mr. Fleet
calling his dog, the faithful animal rushed upon them
and quickly rut thi m to flight. The other villain, find-
ing this, attempted to follow tht m, but for some time
was unable to escape Mr. Fleet's grasp, who in his turn
became the assailant. Owing, however, to the latter
being somewhat disabled by a recent injury to his knee,
he was unable to hold his prisoner, who escaped.—Maid
stone Journal.

THE RURAL POLICE AND AGRICUL-
TURAL DISTRESS.
GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAr.--=-The quarter-Sessions
for this county opened yesterday, and one of the
most crowded meetings of the county magistracy
ever brought together (numbering nearly 100)
assembled on the occasion, in consequence of notice
having been given that a proposal would be made for
reducing the county police force one-fifth, and for
reducing the salaries of the remainder of the force,
and also the salaries of all the other officers of the
county, in cons, quence of the existing distress in the
agricultural districts of the county, and also on ac-
count of the cheapness of provisions. Among the
magistrates present were the Duke of Beaufort, Earl
Fitzhardinge, Hon. Grantley... Berkeley, 11. P., lion.
Craven Berkeley, Mr. Mullings, M.P., Sir W. Co-
drington, M.P., Hon. Mr. Talbot, Sir M. H. Beach,
Sir John Guise, Mr. Ricardo, ALP., &c. Mr. Pur-
nell in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN read the report of the special com-
mittee appointed at the last quarter-sessions to consi-
der the practicability of reducing the police force and
diminishing the salaries of the county officers. The
report was a very long one, but it recommended that
the salaries of all th,, officers above 50/. per
annum should he reduced 5 per cent.; all salaries
above 100/. and less than 2001. to be reduced
10 per cent. ; and all above 2001. per annum 15
per c. nt. A revision of the dietaries of the county
prison was recommended, with the view of lower-
ing it, as it was considered too high, and as
affording a premium to crime. The Secretary of
State for the Home Department had sent down tables
of dietaries for adoption by the Court, but the Chair-
man said it was the duty of the courts of quarter
sessions to form the dietaries, and lay them before
the Secretary of State for approval. It was recom-
mended that in future there should be only one
chaplain to the county prison, instead of two ;
and that the salaries of the chaplains to the
various houses of correction should be reduced
from 1001. to 601., where they performed other clerical
duty. The clerk of the peace's fees were also recom-
mended to be reduced. As to the police force, the
present number of constables was 250, and it was
proposed to reduce it to 200 ; the second class con-
stables to be paid, as now, 15s. per week ; the first-
class to be reduced from 18s. to 17s. 61, and the ser-
geant* from 21s. to 205.; the officers of superior
grade to he subject to the per centage reduction of 5,
10. or 15 per cent. according to amount. This would
effect a total saving in the police force of 3 1601. per
annum. The county treasurer's salary was to be
reduced from 150/. to 60/. per annum.
The discussion s hich followed the reading of the
report occupied about three hours.
Mr. HooKtasoN moved the adoption of the report.
Sir W. CODRINGTON, ALP., seconded the motion.
lie hoped that at a time ot agriculturist distress like
the present, when wheat was 20s. per quarter lower
than Sir Hubert Peel had said it ought to be to give
the agriculturist any remuneration, the Court would
not call upon the ratepayers of the county to pay
snore than was actually necessary for the maintenance
of the peace and order of the county.
The Hen. GRANTLEY BERKELEY, M.P., said the
only way in which he would support the motion
before the Court was, with the understanding that at
the expiration of the present year the whole of the
rural police force should be discontinued altogether.
From the experience which he had had of other
counties, where there was no rural police establish.
ment, he was satisfied that the peace of the county
could be maintained and crime repressed without
their aid.

Earl Fierzuaanixon opposed the reduction of the
force and of the salaries. They would not get good
officers to remain in the force if they reduced their
pay and increased their work. As to the argument
that the police force was not fairly distributed, and
that Cheltenham had more than its fair share, his
Lordship pointed out that a large proportion of the
criminals came from the Cheltenham district. Out of
108 prisoners for trial at these sessions,26 were from
the Cheltenham district.
'the Hon. C. BERKELEY maintained that Chelten-
ham had only its fair proportion of the police.
The different recommendations of the committee
were put to the Court seriatim, and all adopted, with
the exception of that recommending reductions in the
police force and salaries, which was reserved for the
last. When it came on for discussion,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH addressed the Court at some
length. He blamed the committee for
not keeping a re-
c,,rd of the evidence received on their inquiry, to lay be-
fore the Secretary of State. For his part he regretted
.
that the Court had not gone to the utmost when
they established their police force. He was inclined
to thick that the County Constabulary Act was itt-
tended to be made compulsory. He was of opinion
that a large proportion of the expense of the rural po•
lice force should be defrayed out of the national ex-
chequer. That was the original intention of the
Metropolitan Police Act. The Irish police were
established on the same principle, and now the
whole of the cost of the Irish police force
was paid from the public revenue, and he
thought this principle should be carried out for all
the police. Without looking to the particular cir-
cumstances of the pressure on the agricultural interest,
which had been alluded to, and which to a certain
degree was to be attributed to the legislative measures
of the Government, there was sufficient to justify this
Court, instead of proceeding with the proposed plan of
reduction, to go at once to the Legislature and ask to
be relieved of one half the expense of the force, in
order to enable them to continue it in its efficiency.
lie had made such a proposition in his place in Par-
liament, feeling that the Government out to bear half
the expense of the rural police force. They dared
not make such a proposition for reducing the pay
of an armed force. The principle was not equitable;
it was a breach of agreement, and contrary to public
policy.
The Duke of BEAUFORT expressed his entire co

incidence with what had fallen from Lord El!echo-
rough ; but if he had not had the advantage of hrnring
his Lordship, he could not have voted for the reduction
proposed.

Earl FITZUARDINGE expressed similar sentiments.
After a good deal of discussion on the Fart of other
magistrates, the Court decided by 50 votes to 30
against. any reduction in the police force, or in the
officers' salaries, except that of the chief constable
(.550/ per annum), on which a reduction of 15 per
per cent. was to be made on 300/.

THE KING OF DELHI

In our report of the proceedings at the hat Court of
the East India House, only a summary of the debate
with respr ct to the Royal Family of Delhi appeared in
this paper ; but as the subject is an important one,
we give be'ow a full report of the speech of Mr. Sul-
livan, the proprietor who brought the question before
the attention of the Court.
Mr. SULLIVAN rose to move for the production
of all the correspondence that had taken place
between the Marquis of Wellesley and the Emperor
of Delhi, and between the Government of India and
the Court of Directore, during the years 1803,
1804, and 1805, in relation to the recognition
of the rights of the Emperor of Delhi, as
the G-eat Mogul of Ilindoostan. Ile said
his attention had been attracted lately to sclera!
extracts from the hall's!' newspapers on the subject of
a meditated aggression on the rights of the li-trig of
Delhi. Among others was the following, which re-
vealed some curious particulars of the relations between
the King of that city and the British Government :
"It is asserted by the native papers, and we
b. Here on the whole with correctness, that the
King having applied to Government for a sum
sufficient to relieve him of his debts, and
fer the increase of stipend, sanctioned by the
home authorities, has been told in reply by the
Lieu'enant- Governor, N. W. P., that such increase
shall be paid him, and his debts discharged (they are
said to be tour and a half lass) on conditioes of whi.:h
the following are some :—That the King and all the
members of the Royal Family shall give up fur ever
all right and title in the lands, villages, houses, &c.,
he and they may respectively possess in and
about Delhi, including the Chandney Choke
Garden (a very hotbed of malaria in the town), Kote
Kassim, and other places. That the pensions of indi-
viduals, members of the family, shall cease on their
demise. That a specified number of the present inha-
bitants of the palace (including all collateral branches,
not the immediate descendants of Shah Alum), shall
quit its precincts, and reside elsewhere. That the King
shall send in quarterly to the agent a return of the
deaths that may have occurred among the pensioners.
That a school shall be established in the palace at the
expense of the King, for the benefit of the children.
That the place shall be repaired under the superin-
tendence of the agent, at the expense of the King.
That the pensions of all members of the family shall
be disbursed by the agent or his assistant ; and lastly,
that the King shall defray the expenses of the palace
guard. His Majesty is understool to have declined
compliance with those very reasonable terms."
Now I have heard, from what I consider undoubted
authority, that the Governor-General has actually
announced not only his intention of doing all me-
ditated in this dispatch, but also his determination
to deal with the property and rights of the Royal
FaMily of Delhi in much the same way in which, and
he was sorry to say with the sanction of that Court,
they had recently dealt with the rights of the Royal
Family of Sattara ; and he therefore thought it his duty
to take the earliest opportunity of raising up his hand
against what he conceived to be a second violation of
the sacred rights of the native princes of India, and
that without the least pretence at justification. That
this would be a violation of a sacred right he felt
persuaded would be proved by the production of the
papers for which he intended to move, and
he should show that all those papers ought
to be lard before the Court. He would now give a
rapid sketch of the relatiods between the Emperor of
Delhi and the British power in India, and for this
purpose he should refer to Lord Wellesley's dis-
patches, which had already been before the public,
and to other sources' of information of an equally in-
disputable character. In 1803 the Emperor of Delhi,
Shah Alum, placed himself under the protection of
Lord Wellesley, and that Noble Lord, as the repre-
sentative of the British Government, entered
into certain obligations with the then Mogul.
What was the nature of those obligations ? It was
to that point he desired the attention of the Court.
First, let him show them Lord Wellesley's opinion of
the Mogul as a political character. In writing to the
Secret Committee, on the lath of July, 1804, his
Lordship said—
" Notwithstanding his Majesty's total deprivation
of real poWer, dominion, and authority, almost
every state and every class of people in India
continue to acknowledge his nominal sovereignty
The current coin of every established state is struck
in the name of Shah Alum. Princes and persons of
the highest rank and family still bear the titles and
display the insignia of rank which they or their
ancestors derived from the throne of Delhi, under
the acknowledged authority of Shah Alum, and his
Majesty is still considered to be the only legitimate
fountain of similar honours. The pride of the
numerous class of Mussulretns in Indil
is gratified by a recognition of the nomi-
nal authority of the illustrious representa-
tive of the House of Timour over territories
which once constituted the extensive and
powerful empire of the Mogul, and the Mussulmans
are still disposed to acknowledge the legitimacy of
pretensions or demands ostensibly proceeding trom
the authority of the imperial mandate. Under these
circumstances, the person and authority of his Ma
jt•sty Shah Alum might form a dangerous instru-
ment in the hands of any stare possessing
sufficient power, energy, and judgment to
employ it, in prosecuting views of aggrandizement
and ambition. The Mogul has never been an im-
portant or dangerous instrument in the hands of the
Mehrattai, but the augmentation of M. Perron's
influence and power, and the growth of a French
interest in Hindostan had given a new aspect
to the condition of the Mogul, and that unfor-
tunate Prince might have become a powerful
aid to the cause of France in India under the diree
lion of French agents."
The accomplishment of that object, viz., placing
the Mogul under the protection of the British Go-
vernment, was also considered by the Governor-
General " to be a principal object, though not a cause
of the v. ar, and an indispensable condition of the peace."
There they had Lord Itielleeley disclosing that such
was the importance of the Mogul's political character,
that on no account would he make peace with the
Mahrattas. Again, Lord Wellesley, in writing to
Lord Lake, evinces his extreme anxiety to have this
important political character in his own hands. Lord
IVellesley says, in writing to Lord Lake—" The
point of most urgent importance connected with the
destruction of R. Perron's force is, in my opinion,
the security of the person of the Mogul and of the
heir apparent, and it is therefore my earnest wish that
early measures should be taken for the purpose."
And then, under the date of the 27th July, 1803,
they had Lord Wellesley's urgent invitation to Shah
Alum to place himself under British protection, and
his Lordship's promise if he did so. " Should your
Majesty (says Lord Wellesley) be disposed to accept
this offer, you may be assured that every demonstration
of respect aryl every degree of attention which can con-
tribute to the ease and comfort of your Majesty and
the Royal Family will be manifested on the part of the
British Government, and that adequate provision will
be made for the support of your Majesty, and of your
family and household." Then let him (Mr. Sullivan)
call the attention of the Court to the instructions
given by Lord Wellesley as to the manner in which
his Majesty Shah Alum was to be received. " When
that event shall have taken place (says his Lordship,
writing to his representative,) it is my anxious desire
that his Majesty and the Royal Family should imme-
diately experience the benefit of the change, receiving
from your Excellency and from all persons acting under
your authority every demonstration of reverence, re-
spect, and attention. Then let the Court observe how
the instructions were observed by the representative of
the Governor- General. Writing to his Royal Highness
the Duke of "York, Lord Lake says, " In testimony
of the sentiments his Majesty entertained on this oc-
casion he conferred on me a title, the second in the
empire in rank and importance, and would have con-
ferred the first, had it not been previously bestowed
on Dowlut Rao Sindiah. On my part I paid every
deference, respect, and honour to the royal dignity,
and encouraged every hope of future comfort and
independence from the generous conduct and acknow-
ledged liberality of the British Government." Now
he (Mr. Sullivan) would point out to the Court Lord
Wellesley's distinct recognition of Shah Alum as
Emperor of Hindostan, with all the hereditary rights,
prerogatives, and privileges which belonged to that,
high office: On the 16th November, 1804, Lord
Wellesley wrote thus to Sir D. Ochterloney :
" It is not his Excellency's intention to solicit
any concession from the Emperor, or to interdict
or oppose any of those outward forms of sovereigrety
to which his Majesty has been accustomed. 'His
Excellency is desirous of leaving his Majesty iri the
unmolested exercise of all his usual privilege's and
prerogatives. The Governor- General, the'refore,
directs the Resident to continue to observe towards
his Majesty all the forms of respect considered to be
due to the Emperor of Hindostan, and upou all occa-
sions to employ his utmost efforts to ?remote the
ease and comfort of his Majesty and of the Royal
Family." Now, the next point to which Ise wished to
draw the attention of the Court was a, letter from
Shah Alum, in which he reminded Lorell Wellesley of
the obligation which he had voluntarily come under,
to provide an adequate support for himself and his
family. Writing to LordlEm
ellepsleeryo,rtsinaiddeL, tbßeedtahties
of the sth October, 1833, the
great victory and splendid success happy and
prosperous to us and to all the servants
of our illustrious Court, especially to your
Lordship. As the designs of our faithful
servants have happily succeeded, the tim,, has arrived
for your Lordship, in conformity to the distinct and
obligatory engagement described to us by your Lord- '
s 'eite into
yourselftheletter
happiness,which
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Imperial Court (meaning his Majlsty and family),

E ENING, JAN UARY 8, 1850

I and for the happiness of the people of God, through
the aid and services of the officers of the Company's
Government." Now let him (Mr. Sullivan) show
the Court the nature of the arrangement which Lord
Wellesley contemplated. In writing to the Em-
peror on the Bth October, 1803, his Lord-
ship said, " My attention is now directed with
great solicitude to the formation of a permanent
arrangement calculated to provide durable secuEty
for the happiness, dignity, and tranquillity of your
Majesty and Royal Family, conformable to the inti-
mation contained in my former address to your
Majesty. I trust that the testimony of my early
attention to your Majesty's service may be acceptable
to your Majesty, until his Excellency, General
Lake, under my orders, can be enabled to offer to
your Majesty's consideration the plan of a permanent
settlement of your affisirs, secured by the power of
the British Government." Agaip, two years after-
ward.;' namely on the 23d of May, 1805, Mr. Secre-
tary Ednaonstone, in addressing the Resident at
Delhi, communicated for his information and guid-
ance, " the final determination of his Excellency in
Council on the important question of the establish-
ment of a permanent arrangement for the support
of his Majesty Shah Alum and of the Royal Family
at Delhi." Mr. Secretary Edmonstone's consmuni
cation went on to say—" That in consequence of the
Emperor having at his instigation placed himself
under the protection of the British Government, hi,
titles, dignities, rights, and prerogatives should be
preserved to him, and that a permanent provision
should be made for his family of not less than thirty
lacs of rupees per annum, exclusive of the jagheers of
his family." That permanent arrangement was an-
nounced in the same letter to be " the assignment
to his Majesty of all that portion of the territory on
the right bank of the Jumps, ceded to the Company
under the treaty,of Serjie Anjengaum. The revenue
will be collected and justice administered in the name
of his Majesty, who is requested to appoint a dewan
and other officers, for the purpose of ascertaining
and reporting to his Majesty the amount
of revenue received, and to see that no
part of such revenue be misappropriated."
At the same time it was ordered that no capital sen-
tence should be carried into execution without the
previous sanction of his Majesty. In conformity
with these instructions, an agreement was delivered
by Sir D. Ochterloney, to the King, on the 23d of
June, 1805, the first article of which ran thus
" All the Mehals to the west of the Jumna, situate
between the west and north of Mowza Kabilpoor,
shall be considered the crown lands of his Majesty ;"
and the arrangement for the Mogul was not to be
of temporary importance. In 1804, the preceding
year, Lord Wellesley had sent instructions to the
Resident at Delhi for the instant recognition of the
heir apparent as the sovereign, in the event of the
King's death; and in writing to the Secret Committee
of the Court of Directors, in July, 1804, his Lordship
said he considered the arrangement he had made for
placing the Mogul under the protection of
the British Government to be a subject of
national and political importance. Now, there
the Court of Directors had Lord Wellesley's
distinct enunciation of his intention to make a
permanent arrangement for the support of the
Emperor of Delhi and the Royal Family, a perma-
nent, not only as contradistinguished from a tempo-
rary provision, which had been made for his support
when he first placed himself under the protection of the
British Government, but in point of duration. A
territory was ceded to him, the revenues of which were
to be administered in his name; his son was recog-
nised as the heir to that territory, and his grandson,
now on the throne, subsequently received the same
recognition. It was in Lord Wellesley's opinion an
object of national importance that the titular Emperor
of Delhi should be known to all the inhabitants of
Hindostan as living under the protection of the
British Government until he died. How could the
restoration of an old man, then 84 years of age, and
whose death was daily anticipated, be a question of
political and national importance ? That could not
be ; but the perpetuity of the title and honours
of Emperor of Hindostan in the family of
Shah Alum, under the protection of the
British Government, was, in the eye of Lord
Wellesley, an object of great national importance,
and it was for the accomplishment of that object that
Lord Wellesley made a permanent provision for the
support of the imperial dignity. It was Lord
Wellesley who made those promises to the Mogul.
The language of Lord Wellesley to the royal house
had been religiously observed. But had not Lord
Wellesley's successors frequently violated the pecu-
niary part of those obligations on the plea that there
was no specific contract in the case, and that it was a
mere intimation of an intention of doing cer-
tain things for the Mogul, but ,no formal deed.
Now certainly there was no formal deed ;
that was impossible. Equals treated with
equals, princes with princes, serfs with serfs,
but subjects did not treat with princes. The
Court of Directors had acknowledged in former times
the Mogul as their sovereign, and thsy did so when
he placed himself under their protection. Now, when
it wes contended there was no specific contract, it
was quite obvious that the instructions which Lord
Wellesley addressed to the Resident at Delhi, under
the date of the 231 May, 1805, were entirely over-
kioked. Ills Excellency in Council, in that docu-
ment had been pleased to say, " The territory to be
as•ignEd to his Majesty is to comprise all that portion
of the territory on the right bank of the Jumna,
ceded to the Honourable Company under the treaty
of Serjie Anjengaum, which is situated to the north-
west of a town or village named Kaboolpoor in the
map of the ceded and conquered provinces constructed
by Lieutenant Colebrooke." And so his Lordship
went on in express terms to assign that territory to the
Emperor of Delhi and his family. Well, now, he
(Mr. Sullivan) would leave the Court of Directors
to judge whether it was possible to be a more distinct
obligation to assign those Crown lands to the Empe-
ror of Delhi ? All those obligations were fulfilled
by Lord Wellesley; but the pecuniary part of them
had been violated by his successors, whilst those
which had reference to prerogatives and privileges
had, by the Marquis of Cornwallis, Lord
Amherst, Lord llastings, and others, been
respected. Those were so highly valued by the Mogul
that he had refused Lord Hastings to be seated in his
presence. In the time of Lord William Bentinck his
Lordship administered a rebuke to the President at
Delhi, wire proposed to discontinue the presentation
of Nuzzurs to the Mogul. " His Lordship in Coun-
cil (wrote Lord William. Bentinck) strongly disap-
proves of the proposition. submitted, as it would tend
to create alarm in the mind of his Majesty, and at
the same time throws down a long established custom
without any reasonable grounds whatever." Then
came a Governor-General of another mind who was
less tenacious of the national usages. Now that was
the story that the papers for which he (Mr. Sullivan)
moved would tell, but that was the least important
part of the story. Those papers would leave the
Court of Directors under the mischievous impression
that the Mogul was, to use a favourite expression of
their own, a creature of their bounty, that he received
everything from. them and they nothing from him ;
whereas the page of history would tell them that that
was the result, of their connexion with the family,
which had begun 50 or 60 years ago, and which had
continued feet 20 years almost without interruption;
and during all that time the Court of Directors had
received almost inestimable benefits. The nego-
tiation of 1803 was but a renewal of the connexion,
and did nut date its origin from that time. In the
year 1764 the Mogul granted the valuable Zeman-
dary of Benares to the British Government, and in
1765 he granted Dewaney; after that the Northern
Circars, Burd ware, and confirmed all the Company's
possessions in Bengal and the Climatic. Now, at
what time was it that the Mogul made all those con.
cessions ? It was when England was first emerging
from a desperate struggle with France for ascen-
dancy, and when it was considered that the Mogul
might be made a great means of offence in the hands
of France. The Mogul granted an empire to the East
India Company in 1765 ; and, in return for those
benefits, the Company, in 1805, settled a pittance
upon the Emperor, which they had since diminished,
little by little, till now it was proposed to an-
riihilate it altogether. New it would be said, and
said with truth, that the Mogul was no longer
of that political importance that he was in those days.
But tempera mutantur, and he (Mr. Sullivan)
might acid, et nos mutamur in illis. So long as the
Mogul could be of use to the Company, the Company
made use of him; and they promised to make a per-
manent provision for himself and his family. They
bad allowed his grandson to receive all; and now
because the Mogul had fallen into a state of com-
parative insignificance, they were about to break
their solemn engagements with him.—(Hear, hear.)
Now, let the Court listen to the acknowledgments
made by the Governor and Council of Bengal to the
Secret Committee of the benefits they received from
the Emperor. " His Majesty (said they) has been
pleased to bestow on the Company the most important
grants ever yet obtained by any European state from
the Mogul Court. Besides confirming to the
Company all their former possessions, and securing to
them in perpetuity of Lord Clive's Jagheer, he has
conferred on them the Dewaney of Bengal, Bsboe,
and Orissa, and ratified in the strongest terms an
agreement we prepared, concluding with the Nabob,
it the King's consent could be procured." Now it
was the grandfather of the present man who made
the Company all these splendid gifts. Were they
quite sure, although he had no longer the power he
once had, that he was really so insigniffcant that
they could trifle with his rights ? Now the way in
which the natives clung to every relic of their ancient
greatness was almost incredible. He found an
extraordinary instance of that related by Colonel
Todd. "I overheard (says Colonel Todd) the
following dialogue between two of my native sepoys.
The sovereignty is ours,' said one, which was
stoutly denied, by his antagonist, who called the

other aan usurper of his rights.' On irquiry I found
the disputants were a Cholan and Juar:llajpoot, who
were thus contesting the claims of their respective
tribes to paramount power in India, which had been
settled seven centuries before." Now, whether that
was true or not, there was one thing patent to every
body, which was, that every Mussulman in India
clung with the greatest tenacity to every vestige of
their fallen greatness; and the British Government
could not wipe out those vestiges without inflicting
a deep injury on the feelings of the whole Mus-
sulman population,'including some seventy thousand
of the Company's native fiefs. Now, whether
the Court of Directors were in a condition to run
such a risk as that he would leave it to them to say.
What was is, he would ask, that induced the con-
querors and usurpers of Mysore and Sattara, among
other places, to uphold the ancient dynasties, but the
knowledge they possessed of the tenacity with which
the Mussulman chiefs clung to those vestiges of
power? 11'hat else was it that induced Lord Wel-
lesley to make this errangement for the Mogul ?
What else was it that induced Lord Hastings to re-
store the Raja of Sattara but the consideration that
in doing so he was censulting the feelings of the
native population ? lie (Mr. Sullivan) would put
this serious question to the Court of Directors—Who
was the present Governor-General, and Rho were
his present advisers, that they should taus
wantonly pull to pieces the fabric that was so
carefully put together by their predecessors ? lie
would ask whether the Court of Directors would give
their sanction to a proceeding of that kind ? It was
a serious, but it was a very pertinent question.
Where, he n)
would ask them, did they find a precedent
in the whole history of the civilized world for any
such proceedings as those? IVhat did they see the
other day, when Russia and Austria united together
in an attempt to exercise despotic power ? They saw
that the whole commonwealth of Europe rose as one
-voice against it. And what did those despotic
powers .do ? Why, they shrunk from their pur-
pose. When the East India Company were
totally unable to take a single rupee of the
property of one of the meanest subjects under
their dominion, could they strip the native princes
of India of their possessions without so much
as a hearing ?—(Hear, hear.) Why should not all
the native princes have an impartial tribunal in the
Court of Directors, before whom they could bring
their wrongs to be redressed ? He would say there
was a tribunal which, by infusing into it a little Indian
blood, could be made available for the redress of those
wrongs. Let the Court of Directors assimilate them
selves to a tribanal like that of the Judicial Com
mittee of the Privy Council. He (Mr. Sul-
livan) did sincerely hope that those members
of this Court who held up their hands against
the spoliation of Sattara would hold up their
bands against a similar spoliation in this case.
He did sincerely hope that the Court of Directors
would adhere to all their solemn engagements with
the Mogul, and that they would preserve to his suc-
cessors all his rights and prerogatives, such as were
conceded to him by the former Governors of India.—
(Applause.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by
moving that copies of all correspondence arising out
of the engagements which were contracted by the
Government of India with Shah Alum, the Emperor
of Hindostan, in the years 1803-4, and 5, be laid be-
fore the Court.

Lieutenant-General BRIGGS seconded the motion,
and expressed his regret that the Government of India
should make these repeated attempts to infringe upon
solemn treaties one after another. Their strength in
India depended upon public opinion. They had only
about 740 European civil servants, administering the
whole affairs of the social government of that coun-
try, while the population consisted of 150 millions.
Of those 740 persons, about one-third only were
invested with power; so that each individual had to
administer civil justice among no less than 600,000
inhabitants. lie hoped the Court would do all they
could to resist the strong anti-Indian spirit which
at present threatened to drive them out of the country.
Mr. LEWIN suggested that the natives in India
should be represented in Parliament.
The CHAIRMAN—The question which has been
raised by the Hon. Mover of this resolution, I have to
inform the Court, is under consideration by the
Government of India, and the authorities in this
country. The Court of Directors attach great im-
portance to the subject, and the Proprietors may feel
assured that they will give it their serious attention.
Under these circumstances, I hope the Court will not
insist upon the production of any papers of this
description, and I feel myself under the necessity of
negativing the motion.

After ashort conversation the motion was put, and
he Court divided. when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it
Majority
The motion was consequently lost.
The Court then adjourned.

SCO'T'TISH HOSPITAL.
A quarterly court of the governors of this institution
was IR:11 in the Scottish Hall, Crane•court, Fleet•
street, yesterday afternoon ; Mr. Nesbitt in the chair.
The minutes of the last court having► been read and
confirmed,
The Hos. SECRETARY submitted a statement of
the accounts of the Kinloch Trust Fund for the year
ending Dec. 31, 1849. The receipts were :—Cash in
the Bank of England, 551. 10s. Bd.; dividends in
Stock, 1,6081. 15s. ; Stock sold, 409/. 18s 91—total,
2,0741. 4s. od. The payments were :—Pensioi.s
granted during the yt ar, 1,8221 ; salaries and ex-
penses, 1891. 9s 7d. ; which items, together with a
balance at the Bunk of England of 621. 14s. 101,
made up a total of 2,0741. 4s. sd. The total amount
of the stock of the trust is at present 53,750/.
These accounts having been unanimously adopted,
Dr. IVensTrsa rose to read an address of condolence 1
from the governors of the hospital to the family of the
late Sir Charles Forbes (formerly vice-president of
the
.charity), and which had been ordered to be
prepared by a committee appointed at the previous
mt eting.
The address was unanimously agreed to, and or-
dered to be presented to the family.
Dr. WEBSTER then rose to propose that an address
of condolence should be presented to her Majesty on
the Death of the late Queen Dowager, and warmly
eulogised the character and conduct of that illustrious
lady, the circumstances attending whose decease
and whose obsequies he considered to be among the
most remarkable events ever recorded in history.
The address was then read at length, and was as
follows :

" We, the president, vice presidents, treasurer, and
governors of the Scottish Hospital, humbly approach
your Majesty to offer our sincere condolence on the
demise of your Majesty's illustrious relative Adelaide,
the Queen Dowager—a bereavement which has oc-
casioned deep grief to all your Majesty's subjects of
the United Kingdom.
" W beg leave also to express the sorrow which
we share, in common with our fellow subjects, from
the patronage and liberal support which her late
Majesty was pleased to bestow on this ancient charity,
and the deep interest which that illustrious lady
always evinced for its prosperity, at the same time
that her late Majesty was a generous benefactor to
many other most useful charities of this country.
"It is a source of high gratification that this an-
cient charity, instituted for relieving the necessitous
and deserving portion of your Majesty's Scottish sub-
jects, has been long honoured, not only with the
favour and support of your Gracious Majesty, but
also with that of your Majesty's royal mother, and
we venture humbly to solicit that your Majesty will
be pleased to continue to the Scottish Corporation
that countenance and protection which it has now en-
joyed for more than two centuries from your Majesty's
royal predecessors.

We likewise beg permission to offer to your
Majesty our sincere and truly heartfelt wishes that
Providence may long preserve your Majesty to reign
over a loyal, united, and religious people, and that
all prosperity and happiness may be vouchsafed to
your Majesty, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and to all your Majesty's illustrious family."
This address was also adopted unanimously, and
having received the seal of the corporation, was ordered
to be forwarded to Sir George Grey, at the Home-
office, for presentation to her Majesty.
There being no further business to transact; the
court then broke up.

How TO CURE CORNS !—THE BAILERS U. THE
CHIROPODIST.—Some few day a ago our town was ho-
noured by the visit of an itinerant " professor " of the
art of removing corns from the feet of the afflicted
" without cutting or causing the slightest pain." No
sooner had he arrived than be issur.d his circulars, and
deluded by the specious promises set forth in the an-
nouncement, two respectable bakers of the town, martyrs
to corns, determined upon placing themselves under the
" professor's" hands. Accordingly they became patients
of the chiropodist—the operations were duty performed
—and the fees were paid. But, unfortunately, in the
course of a short time the men of dough became dissatie.
fled with their bargain. Their feet began to hired and
they hunted the corn-doctor from house to house, de-
manding a return of the money. To this application he
refused to accede, but they determined on obtaining
satisfaction by some means or other. They pursued him
all over the town, and pummelled him so severely in the
Arcade, that the fellow thought he should best consult
his own comfort by at once bidding adieu to Chelten
ham.—Cheltenham Journal.

THE UNITED STATES.—LIVERPOOL, TUESDAT,
MIDNIGHT.—The New York packet. ship Ashburton
arrived here to-nigbt, from New York. She was
expected to have brought the President's Message.
She left that city on the 11th ult.; and therefore, like
the other late arrivals, departed without it.
FOREIGN Cm-La.—The steamer Free Trade has
just arrived at the Brunswiek•wharf, illackwall, from
Oporto, bringing the large number of 139 bead of oxen,
c )nsigned to a metropolitan firm, as a portion of her
cage, the production of Portugal.