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London, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

Noner's habeas ; but officers took as much as they
could get. She should like to go into the question
of fees, for it was a system of downright robbery
altogether. She denied that she had not paid any
fee. She had paid 7/., and that was o,notigh. But
if any fee was due, there was a ny of enforcing
its payment.

tensive hotel*. (LaUghtie.) fie t-the prisoner) had
been sent over folk the purpose of purchasing fur-
ni4iing ironmongery. When I asked him for
Union 13.?.dk of T.Jon4.on ZitkiltieS to
re-
ferences, he said find- power to &wail, upon the
Between 6,000 i.
and 1l A 00.. L prisoner then told me tO copy
the okaer I had given him, and said thg I could
have a cheque fcr 'dri the Union Bank the
next day. When I told him that I could not let
him haVe the samples without he paid for them, the
prisoner s dd, " Oh, we never pay for samples. I
have the samples sent to my house, and then I send
them out." The prisoner, after some further re-
marks, went away, and I did not see him until the
next day, when he said he had been to tha bank,
and could not see the manager. The same day I
communicated with the police.

other things had been taken from the rOdiii, In-
formation was given to the police, and Parsons,
182 D, after a long search, found the prisoner oc-
eupy!ng the situation of governess at Rosedale
Lodge, t school at Richmond. Her boxes were
searched, and some of the missing articlos found in
then.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Mr. Broughton highly commended the conduct
of Parsons.

The Chief Justice suggeste 1 that if the atneta-vit
could be amended as to that a sr,rit might be granted.
Mrs. Cobbett then moved to Ket aside a judgment
in an action to which her husband was a party,
The Chief Justice, when she had concluded, said
he could gee no ground for setting aside the judg-
ment, which had been regularly obtained.
Mrs. Cobbett—ln the other case you will let me
amend ?

OUR INDIAN POLICY.

(From the Timex,}
We have repeatedly asserted both the policy
and feasibility of maintaining in India such a
force of British troops as would at any time be
competent to overpower, and consequently at all
times to overawe, any native levies, whatever
might be their description or character. This we
believe to be the fundamental principle of sound
Indian administration. That the system would
be practicable enough can surely not admit of a
doubt in the face of the scenes before our eyes.
If a weak contingent of less :has 20,000 men,
aided only by about half as many more collected
from various quarters, could hold their own
against an organised body of 100,000 armed
rebels—men picked for their military aptitudes,
equipped with excellent weapons, and drilled by
•urselves—if a garrison of 500 or 600 Europeans
can maintain themselves for months together
against all the insurrectionary fury of one of the
chief provinces of Hindostan, 40w is it possibly
to be affirmed that we cannot keep in India a force
sufficient for its protection and control, when there
will be no such Sepoy army to oppose us 3 We
have resisted the worst conceivable expression of
Indian revolt with an unusually weak army. We
have but to strengthen that army on the one
hand, and demolish the chances of revolt—i.e.,
suppress the Sepoy battalions, on the other, and.
our rule will be secure.
Such a system, however, would require consi-
derable modifications in many departments of In-
dian administration, and especially in the regula-
tions touching military service in those parts. If
the European force in India is to be materially in-
creased, it must be upon conditions more favour-
able to those employed than have hitherto pre-
vailed. It is not probable that the necessary
changes, if well undertaken, would involve any
serious difficulty, for the tendency of things has
been for many years in the directior‘ to which we
refer. Sixty or seventy years since service in
India was almost equivalent to expatriation for
life. The voyage was so long and so costly as to be
accepted only once and for all : Indian habits were
so peculiar as to unfit men for a return to European
society, and Englishmen adopted permanently a
species of Asiatic character with an Eastern abode.
Furlough regulations were, perhaps, necessarily
rigorous, and nothing was so difficult as to revisit
England. Australia, the Cape, any place almost,
might be selected for a change at a less cost than
home, so that in the end military service in those
parts came to be regarded as something altogether
different from soldiering in general. A man would
go with his regiment to ether coutries in the natu-
raleecoursenmaerlembarking
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Experience has now shown us that there is no
real ground for any of these distinctions. Service
in India ought to be as agreeable as service anywhere
else—indeed, more so than on many stations. It is
only at particular spots and seasons that the heat is
excessive ; there need be no confinement or mono-
tony, and we have recently learnt by unexception-
able proof that the climate, even in the greatest
heats of summer, admits of laborious campaigning
without much prejudice to health. We have pro-
bably been over-apprehensive in that respect, and
thrown away our pains. It was stated in letters
from the Camp before Delhi that the men were not
only none the worse, but visibly and strikingly the
better, for the exertions they had undergone ; and
the percentage of sickness, after all their marches
and bivouacs, was considerably less than it used to
be in summer cantonments. Ner must it be for-
gotten that in future railroads will enable long
marches to be in a degree dispensed with, will
facilitate change of quarters, and gite easy ac-
cess to healthy stations. Add to this that the
soldier is now better cared for as regards
the adaptation of his accoutrements to his
duties and that all conditions conducive to his
robustness and efficiency are more scrupulously
observed than formerly. The precautions of our
awthorities would suffice against anything but an
irrosistible climate, and a climate can hardly be ir-
resistible where one groat complaint df the service
is that officers grow too old in it to be fit for work.
But there is one special consideration most im-
peratively suggestive of reform in the system of
which we speak. If Englishmen are kept too long
iu India not only does the efficiency of the force
suffer, but the individual character becomes im •
paired. A race which governs by virtue of its in-
herent superiority cannot be too tenacious of its
attributes. Englishmen in India should be purely
Englishmen, not Anglo-Indians. They should re-
tain all their national qualities, not merely half of
them, and it is manifest that this is not likely to
happen when England and India are brought most
effectually into communication with each other.
The old fable of Antaeus fits the case exactly. Our
countrymen should return as often as possible to
their country, and gather fresh vigour and na
tionality from the contact. As soon as the character
begins to yield the influences of life, life in Eng-
land should restore its tone. A very celebrated
Indian officer, Colonel John Jacob, appreciated so
keenly the desirability of this revivifying process
that he advocated the establishment of a " Sabba-
tical year"—i. e., the assignment of one year out of
seven to the work of reinvigoration. his opinion
was, that by such an observance the British officer
would be enabled to retain unimpaired and in full
activity those peculiar qualities to which Hindoo
and Mussulman paid the involuntary homage of po-
litical submission, and which must always and ne-
cessarily lie at the foundation of our rule in India.
We have said that things have recently been
tending in this direction, and it would be easy to
multiply illustrations of our remark. Service its the
East, even now; is not so protracted as formerly ;
transport is far more rapid, communication is
infinitely easier. This, however, is not all. A
variety of other circumstances has been com-
bining to bring the two countries together.
Indian affairs have been discussed in the press
with far greater ability and in Parliament with con-
siderably greater interest than of old—in fact, we
have now examples of statesmen who have actually
seen India without having been in the Company's
employ. A Ear)rt time, we may trust, will enable
us to establish telegraphic communication with our
Indian empire, and when that is accomplished, and
the overland route made more generally available,
there will really be no reason why service in India
should not be thought just as acceptable and iltst
as much a matter of routine as service in Canada
or Gibraltar. How, indeed, can a country to which
we have just dispatched 30,000 men in the course
of three months be regarded as beyond the sphere
of ordinary military duties ?
It would be very desirable also that the visits of
Hindoos to this country, of which we have already
had several examples, should be multiplied as much
as possible. One would think that when a Brah-
min finds himse;f entirely free from religious solici-
tation, though alone among 30,060,000 Christians,
he will cease to believe in our anxiety to destroy
his caste in his own land—not to mention that the
unmistakeable tone of public opinion greatly con-
duce to his tranquillity. A Hindoo in England
would learn that even among the most ardent pro-
pagators of the Gospel there did not and never
would exist the slightest desire to extend Chris
tianity by compulsion ; he would hear nothing but
wise and benevolent wishes expressed with respect
to • the destinies of his countrymen/
and could
scarcely fail of being convinced that he had nothing
to fear, though much to hope, from British domi-
nion. This, however, would probably be a work
of time, but we see nothing that need stand in the
way of a prompt and constant communication be-
tween Englishmen in India and their native land.
All furlough regulations should be revised, with
the object of stimulating intercourse with England
—ia A impeding it. Othcers serving in India should
be no more divested of their national characteristics
than officers serving elsewhere. Nor should they
in any greater degree regard themselves as detached
from their country. Service in India might easily
be rendered popular when it was found to entail
no disabilities, and to be productive son Bengal f no estrangea
-
dominant force of Europeans, if those Europeans
by
meas. It would never do to g
arris
were to lie under the restrictions prevailing thirty
years since. India requires,
beyond doubt, for its
administration special experience se well as general
ability ; we can never dispense with a school of
statesmen mainly, if not exclusively, Indian as re-
gards their information and their aptitudes ; but
these conditions do not extend to the military de-
partments of the Government. A. good soldier is a
soldier everywhere, in one place as well another ;
in fact, we have
just committed the pacification of
India to an army which is touching its shores for
the first time ; nor is there any probability that a
regiment arriving there at this moment would be
less efficient than one which may have been there
these ten years. What is required in our officers
is not Indian experience, but British character,
and that is most likely to be sustained by uninter-
nally conferred it.
rupted intercourse with the land which has origi-

The Chief Justice—ln the other case all I can
say is that the affidavit as at present framed does
not show any ground for iaterfereace.
Mrs. Cobbett—Then I will apply to your lord-
ships again to-morrow. (Laughter.)

Mr. Frost, jun., oilman and colourman, of 22,
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, said—At the latter
end of September or the beginning of October, the
prisoner called upon me, and stating that he was
a partner in a large firm in Brazil, ordered a quan-
tity of goods amounting in the aggregate to
4,3411. 6s. Amongst the items selected was soap
of various descriptions to the extent of 1,0001. ;
pickles in bottles, 4001. ; painters' brushes, 3601. ;
and numerous other articles, making up the above
total. He also told me that if he could be allowed
to take aw,iy two bottles of pickles, he could get
me an order from a gentleman who was buying
largely for the purpose of taking them to Constan-
tinople. He directed me to send a copy of the in-
voice to the Brazils, and by the next mail it was
sent out.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL.
Mr. Wordsworth, Mr. Huddleaton, Mr. Skinner,
Mr. Lock, Mr. Lush, Mr. Manisty, and Mr.
Monck were called within the bar.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Forsyth having re-
ceived patents of precedence, were also called to
take their seats accordingly.
CHILLING V. ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE
COMPANY.
Mr. Sergeant Shee moved for a rule for a new
trial on behalf of the defendants iu this action,
which was tried at Maidstone at the last assizes for
the county of Kent, and terminated in a ver-
dict for the plaintiff. It was stated by the learned
sergeant, that the plaintiff, Thomas Chilling, had
insured in the Accidental Company the life of his
father, an old man of 77 years, formerly a journey-
man shoemaker and the receipient of parochial re-
lief for 2,0001., in the month of June, 1855 ; that
in the same month his father made a will in favour
of the plaintiff • that on the 11th of July the
plaintiff left his father in a chaise, near some stone
works near Maidstone, at a spot bordered on one
side by the river Medway and on the other by the
railway, and that the next day the pony and the
old man were taken from the river drowned.
The Chief Baron acquiesced in the assertion of
council that he had not felt satisfied with the ver-
dict, and granted a rule to show cause.
PRICE V. BIRRAIL.
Mr. Hillward, on the part of the defendant,
moved (by leave) for a new trial in the action tried
by the Lord Chief Baron at Middlesex sittings, on
the 15th of June last, on the ground of misdirec-
tion. The question was a very narrow one—
whether the Chief Baron was right in directing
that there was evidence of payment of money when
a witness stated he had sent money, but did not
produce the letter or cheque.
Rule nisi granted.
Tne Court, having gone through the bar, rose at
10 minutes past three o'clock.

Sergeant Hill, 39 S, said he took the prisoner
into custody, and said he was one of the gang that
was sent from this court, and, being tried at the
Old Bailey, was sentenced to a lengthened term of
imprisonment for obtaining money under false pre-
tences: He had been to the Union Bank, and
found that no one of the name of Martin, of the
Brazils, had an account there. When he searched
the prisoner's residence, be found his wife and
children in a most deplorable state ; the room
had little or no furniture in it, and the children
were almost naked. The wife told him that the
prisoner had done no work for the last five years.
Since that period he had been abroad for about ten
months, and since his return he had pawned all
that he had got to support his family. The land-
lady also stated that Numerous persons called every
d9.y, some respectably attired, and others in the
garb of working men, who complained of. the pri-
soner having duped them under various pretences.
Understanding that there were other cases, he
trusted that his worship would grant him a remand
for the purpose of making further inquiries.
Mr. Corrie said he would grant a remand until
Monday next.
The prisoner asked to be admitted to bail.

Mr. borrie said that as the prisoner represented
himself as the owner of so large a number of slaves,
he shoull require him to put in heavy bail, which
ke had no doubt he could do. (Laughter.) After
some further remarks, the worthy magistrate said
he would accept bail—viz., two sureties in the sum
of 101. each.
The prisoner was then removed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Charles Brairey, 21,
was charged with stealing the property of his em-
ployer, David Chalcroft, a grocer, 97, Bethnal-
green-road.
From the testimony of the prosecutor it appeared
that the accused had been in his service as a porter
nine weeks, during the latter portion of which time
his conduct, in pursuance of his duties, occasioned
suspicion of dishonesty, but nothing could be proved
until Saturday evening, when some one apparently
belonging to his family calling for his linen to wash,
witness was struck by the appearance of the bundle,
on opening which a quantity of tea and sugar was
discovered therein. A constable was called, who
took him into custody, but there was not any wish
now to press the matter against him.
The prisoner, whose appearance and bearing
indicted a rather superior position in life than that
described, wept abundantly during the evidence
against him, and when called upon for an answer
to the charge, sobbed out, "I am guilty, sir ;
but may I never leave this bar if I ever committed
a dishonest act before. lam deeply ashamed and
sorry, and will sin no more. My position is very
different to what it has been."

THE SUN, LO.NRON'i TiItSDAY _tVgNiNG NOVEMBER 3, 1857