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82 Jay, W. T., Cornet, sth Madras Light Cavalry
85 Kensington, H. 8., Ensign, 32d Madras Native Infantry
86 Kerr, A. W. M., Captain, 39th Madras Native Infantry
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128 Redmond, J. J., Lieutenant, 7th Madras Native Infantry
134 A Ryan, P.. Deputy Commissary, Madras Sappers and Miners
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desirable. Recogaition of the Mexican Empire byus had been
deemed an offence against the Mexican R3public, and the
consequence was that they had thought it right to break
off communication with us on that ground. They
in England could not help such an arrange-
ment, as they had a perfect right to do so if
they chose. Of course it was a matter of regret that
such a state of things should exist, and he should only be
gratified if the peculiar state of affairs was removed, but
he thought the house would agree with him
that the first overture for reconciliation ought to come from
the Mexican Government. (Hear, hear.)
THE TROOPS AT ALDERSHOT.
_ _

Mr. B. OSBORNE begged to asked the right hon. baro-
net the Secretary of War whether it was true that
on one of the hottest days during the last week a flying
column was sent from the camp at Aldershot, and that
the result of such a proceeding was that a great
number of the men suffered extremely from executing
such an order, and that between nine and ten of the men
nearly lost their lives by sunstroke: 'He should like to
know whether such a statement was true, or not.
Mr. BUXTON said a friend of his had witnessed the
arrival of the men at Sandhurst, and a more deplorable
condition than they were in could not be imagined. Not the
slightest preparation had been made for them—there were
no tents or other shelterfrom the great heat of the sun, and
to such an extent was the condition of thOmen disregarded
that they were kept standing for a considerable time in
the sun instead of being marched into a wood close by,
which would have afforded them some protection from
the excessive heat under which all the men were suffering.
Sir J. PAKINOTON said he had received no infor-
mation on the subject, but he would make strict inquiry
into the matter, and if the hon. gentleman would repeat
theiquestion to-morrow he would give him all the infor-
mation in his power. (Hear.)
WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
Mr. CHILDERS. asked the Secretary of State for War
whether the Treasury had yet decided between the Admi-
ralty and the War-office as to the proposal to purchase
land and erect storehouses for the latter department at
Woolwich, while accommodation for that purpose could
be obtained at comparatively small cost in the naval pro-
perty at Deptford ?

Sir J. PAKINGTON said no such determination had
yet been come to on the subject._ _

THE INDIAN BUDGET.

The house then went into committee on the East India
Revenue Accounts, when

Sir S. NORTHOOTE proceeded to make the financial
statement with respect to India. He said that
the • gross revenue from all sourca amounted
to £42,012,000; and the expenditure, under all heads,
ordinary and extraordinary, amounted to £44,530,000;
showing a deficit of £2,517,000. He considered that Par-
liament ought to exercise control and criticism over the
expenditure, but that it ought not to take into its hands
the direction of the expenditure, or introduce a system of
voting the money that was to be expended. He believed
that any system of the kind would prove not only delusive
but pernicious. There was nothing in the financial con-
dition of India to excite enthusiasm eifner one way or the
other. Although there was nothing unsatisfactory, there
was at the same time nothing of which they could be very
proud. The Indian revenue undoubtedly kept up, but it
did not increase very largely. On the other hand,
although our expenditure did not increase rapidly, there
was somewhat of a tendency to creep up. At the same time
they were expending a good deal of money in the beneficial
introduction of public works and railways; but on the other
hand there were many works which they were unable
to undertake or carry on so vigorously as they could wish
from want of funds. The right hon. gentleman concluded
by moving a series of resolutions declaratory of the finan-
cial condition and requirements of India.
The statement of the right hon. gentleman was criticised
by Mr. Laing, Mr. Grant Duff, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Bazley,
Mr. Alderman Lusk, and others known in the house as
" old Indians." Ultimately the propositions were agreed
to. •

The Government of India Act Amendment Bill was
withdrawn, on the understanding that it should be in-
troduced early next year and referred to a select com-
mittee.

The Governor General of India Bill was also with-
drawn.

The Poor Relief Bill was further considered in com-
mittee.

The remaining orders were rapidly run through, and the
house adjourned.

BEHIND THE SCENES.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

We have now full details of the New York De-

mocratic Convention, which we elsewhere give as
fully as our space will allow. We were right in
our Conjecture that the programme had been
arranged by a compromise between the West and
East ; the repudiators, and those who desired to
maintain the national honour. PENDLETON fa-

voured SEYMOUR, whom he described in a letter
written from Cincinnati, June 25, addressed to
WASHINGTON APLEAN, of the Ohio delegation, " as
the foremost raan of the party, whose ability, culti-

vation, and experience put him at the head of
American statesmen." "He commands my entire
confidence," added PENDLETON, "and I would rather
trust him than myself with the delicate duties of
the next four years. You know lam sincere ; see
him when you get to New York and make him feel
this, and that he can rely on me and my friends."
This letter was read on the 9th inst. to the Conven-
tion °by Mr. VALLANDIGHAM when SEYMOUR was
nominated. New York more than half preferred
CHASE, as did Massachusetts. It is a singular fact
that SEYMOUR so favoured the Chief Justice that he
was solemnly pledged to his support ; thus PENDLE-
TON favoured SEYMOUR, and SEYMOUR, who did not
desire the nomination, favoured CHASE—who, on his
knees begged for it ; yet the one got all the votes,
and the other half a vote from a wild Californian.
The explanation lies in the conflicting interests of
the East and West regarding the National Debt.
Whatever CHASE was prepared to concede, and in
this direction he has gone too far for his reputation,
he could not surrender the coin payment of the
Bonds. The West gave up a point to the East,
which was known to be in the highest degree in-
jurious to PENDLETON'S interest. They proposed
that the Convention should substitute a simple ma-
jority for its old custom of two-thirds for the
nomination of a candidate. Had they secured the
adoption of the rule they desired they would have
elected their candidate, but the East would not lis-
ten to a repudiation platform coupled with a repu-
diation ticket, and the West consented to abide by
the rule of two-thirds in consideration of the adop-
ion into the platform of the repudiation planks,
with the right of carrying their candidate if they
could by the two-thirds majority. After a vigor-
ous effort in PENDLETON'S favour, this proved, as all
anticipated, to be impossible, and then the wire-
pullers had to select between CHASE and SEYMOUR.
The Western delegates, however, settled the ques-
tion. They determined to throw plumpers for
SEYMOUR, and to push him in failing their own
candidate, having two reasons for this course.
In naming an Eastern man this year they would
strengthen their claim to a Western man in 1872. If
CHASE, of Ohio, were now successful, the odds were

greatly against PENDLETON, of the same State, in the
next election, and there might be some chance of
SEYmouR acting on the repudiation platform, while
in all respects more acceptable to them, but none
that CHASE would do so. Both the platform and
the candidates are hailed with an ominous satisfac-

tion by the Republican party. To have nominated
CHASE would have been chaos, the result not to be
predicted. He would have broken up the Demo-
cratic party, but he might have influenced
to an extent none could tell the 'Republican
party, and to them the platform is agree-
able, in divesting their opponents, as they
think, of the last vestige of a principle
upon which the party was formed, while the
only new one it has taken up is the design of
cherting the national creditors. Slavery and seces-
sion are abandoned; the restoration of the Southern
States demanded, as well as the withdrawal from
them of military despotism—but these are accom-
plished facts or in immediate course of completion ;
therefore, as the Tribune observes, they merely beat
the empty air. The " incidental protection" in re-
lation to the tariff, is not very encouraging to Free-
traders, and the declaration of the right of the seve-
ral States to regulate the suffrage is a mere repeti-
tion of the Republican doctrine as laid down at Clii-
cago.
The denunciation of the Reconstruction
Acts as " unconstitutional and void," coupled with
General BLAIR'S manifesto, is imprudent, ai!

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likely to rally against it all who fear a conflict as
the result of placing in power men so strongly pro-
nounced on this question. The Democrats have,
in short, committed their cause to Repudiation, and
it would be a surprising fact and a singular termi-
nation to the Civil War if they were triumphant on
such an appeal to the country. What makes the
Republicans so confident of success is that their
adversaries have shown themselves utterly unable
to take up a bold and dignified position worthy the
occasion. The adoption of certain planks would
have carried dismay into the Republican camp, but
the Democrats were more intent on Repudiation
and on suppressing poor SAMBO to see anything
else. As may readily bo supposed Mr. CIIASE is
bitterly disappointed, and will not support the
ticket. He brought every engine to bear. Even
his daughter, Mrs. SPRAGUE, worked hard in his
interest, canvassing the delegates. A movement is
now announced in his favour (and that of CHARLES
FRANCIS ADAMS) for an independent nomination,
as he is considered almost the only man who could
bring the Executive and Congress to work together.
Another gain to the party would have been the
strengthening the Democratic interest in the
Supreme Court, as the nomination of his successor
would have fallen to Mr. CHASE. But he was not
the only disappointed man, as the White House
could tell if able to speak. On the 2d inst. ANDREW
JoaNsoNreplied to a requisition of distinguished New
Yorkers, asking to allow his name to be presented as
a candidate. "I am not ambitious," said the
PRESIDENT, "of further services—l may say, in-
deed, of further endurance in that elevated and
responsible position, unless by a call so general and
unequivocal that it would be an endorsement by
the people of my endeavours to defend the Consti-
tution and the reserved rights of the several Com-
monwealths composing what was once, in fact, the
Federal Union." Although he does not anticipate
such general approval, he is now as ever in the
hands of the people and at their disposal. lle gives
the people a rap over the knuckles, observing that
" if the public servants find them careless of their
responsibility, if the people do not do their duty in
seeing that their Representatives perform theirs,
no Executive will ever have power successfully to
defend their rights." While on the subject of this
letter we may give a curious extract :—" When
from the public prints, or from some unusually
frank and outspoken friend, I have heard that I
' have no party,' the suggestion has only served to
remind me of a memorable rem Irk, uttered when
faction ruled high in Rome, that ' Cmsar had a
party, and Pompey and Crassus each a party, but
that the Conmunwealth had none.' Aiming
only, as the representative of the people, to stand
by the rights of the Commonwealth, may I not
pertinently make the application to my own case ?"
ANDY really thought that he was the favourite,
and at one time the wire-pullers were alarmed
at the running made by llANcocx, who was
strongly supported, and who might, had it not
been for the intriguing and caucas work, have
secured the nomination. The feelings of the Chief
Justice may be understood from his reply written
on the Ist instant in response to a distinguished
statesman of Ohio, addressed to a gentleman in
New York, predicting success for CHASE, and the
growing disposition of the Western Democracy to
accept him as their candidate. This letter was for-
warded to CHASE, and these were his words in re-
turn :—"Please, say to your friend that he is entirely
right as to my views of suffrage and State rights.
What I desire for the Southern States is peace and
prosperity, with all disfranchisements and disabili-
ties remove], and all rights restored to all citizens.
But the practical disposition of the question of
suffrage, as well as all other domestic questions, is
for the people of the States themselves ; not for out-
siders. On this question I adhere to my old State
rights doctrines. In the event of my nomination
and success, I trust I shall so act that neither the
great party which makes the nomination, nor the
great body of patriotic citizens whose co-operation
would insure success, would have any cause to
regret their action. It is an intense desire with me
to see the Democratic party meeting the questions
of the day in the spirit of the day, and assuring to
itself a long duration of ascendancy. It can do so
if it will." We can sympathize with the Chief
Justice, for at the bottom of his ambition we feel
sure lay the hope that he might regenerate the great
party and place it on a solid and lasting platform,
at the same time that he stepped to the supreme
power on its shoulders. lle has, however, only
met the fate of all who try to perform what we
fear is an impossible task, and his ambition blinded
him to the fact that the leaders of the party were
only using him as their tool.

NAVAL AND 1111LHARY INTELLIGENCE.

Lieut.-Col. Stewart, Royal Marines, has rejoined
head-quarters, Woolwich, from Ireland, the bat-
talion under his command having been conveyed
from Queenstown to England in her Majesty's
troopship Simoon, the Light Infantry companies,
under Lieut.-Col. Elliott, disembarked at Plymouth,
and the Artillery at Portsmouth.

A battery of the 11th brigade and a battery of
the 7th brigade Royal Artillery, having completed
a course of instruction at Shoeburyness in gun
practice, will return to head-quarters, Woolwich,
on Thursday next.

The Artillery Volunteer corps that are to take
part in the competition for prizes under the regu-
lations of the National Artillery Association will
assemble at Shoeburyness, and commence firing
on the 3d of August. The detachments will re-
main under canvas for a week, and be instructed in
regular camp duties. Every assistance will be given
to the Volunteers while under the command of Col.
Eardley Wilmot, of the Royal Artillery, Com-
mandant of the School of Gunnery at Shoebury-
ness, to afford instruction in the use of the different
kinds of guns now employed as garrison artillery.
A new ship battery has just been completed at the
Government range, Plumstead-marshes, for the use
of the men of the Royal Naval Reserve, attached to
her Majesty's ship President, for instruction in
carrying out gun practice.

Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh, R.N., K.T., em-
barked from Portsmouth yesterday in her Majesty's
yacht Elfin for Osborne.

The hired transport St. Lawrence, with upwards
of 200 Royal Artillery and cavalry troops on board,
under the command of Captain J. M. Macintyre,
Royal Artillery, havingbeen inspected at Gravesend
by Major-General Freeman Murray, sailed from
the Thames yesterday for Calcutta. The Gospatrick,
which has been taken up by the Hon. Council of
India for the conveyance of reinforcements to India,
via the Cape of Good Hope, is ordered to be in
readiness to embark her troops at Gravesend on
Thursday next.

The Porcupine, paddlewheel steamer, Staff-Com-
mander E. K. Calver, is engaged in making a
thorough survey of the Medway, and taking sound-
ings of the river from Garrison-point to Chatham
dockyard, preparatory to a revision of the charts of
the channel of the Medway.
The Wivern, 4, turret-ship, Capt. G. A. Brooker,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the westward.
Lord 11. Lennox, Secretary to the Admiralty,
crossed over from Portsmouth to Osborne yesterday
morning in her Majesty's paddle yacht Elfin, and
returned again in the Elfin later in the day.

THE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED —Horniman's Pare Tea is
sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fita will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand for these
choice, long-approved Teas. They aro not sold loose, but
only in Packets, signed " Horniman," London.

In conformity with the wish expressed by the
European Telegraph Conference, held at Vienna, the
Federal Council at Berne has consented to undertake the
establishment of an international telegraph office in
Switzerland. It is stated that negociations will shortly
be commenced for the conclusion of a commercial treaty
betweeia Switzerland and China.