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CONQUEST OF SINDE.
(From the Times.)
The questions arising out of the conquest and an-
nexation of Sinde, which so deeply concern the past
policy of the Government of India and the future in-
terests of the British empire, have recently been
most fully and forcibly discussed, from private as
well as public sources of information, by writers
eminently qualified to give the strongest touches of
light and shade to the matters they treat of, and to
the personal considerations which they suggest. The
remarkable pamphlet entitled " India and Lord El-
lenborough, to which we have called our readers'
attention, as the most authentic record of the prin-
cipal charges of the East India Company against
Lord Ellenborough, has been immediately followed
by a more finished production of General William
Napier, especially designed to clear the fame of his
gallant relative in the East, and to rebut " the fac-
tious accusations made against a successful ge-
neral, in the hope of wounding through him the
nob!eman under whose auspices he conquered
a great and rich kingdom and relieved
a numerous people from a miserable state of
slavery." From the conflict of these two able
and vigorous attacks on different parts of the
same policy, a great deal of instruction may at least
be derived. The pamphlet and the book are as
different as Leadenhall-street and the Horse Guards :
in the former the world may behold the modesty and up-
rightness of Lord Auckland contrasted with the incom-
petency and swaggering of Lord Ellenborough ; whilst
the truthfulness, bravery, and vigour of Lord Ellen-
borough shine out in general Napier's pages as the only
remedy " for the confusion, the terror, and the danger,
necessarily flowing from the political immorality and
astounding incapacity which had marked Lord Auck-
land's mischievous career." In one point alone do
these sturdy disputants concur, and that unhappily is
the main point of interest to the British nation—.
namely, that at one time or another, and by one
Governor-General of India or the other, the Ameers
of Sinde were basely treated, and that by robbing
them of their dominions we have taken up an onerous
burden and a perilous task. We must be pardoned
if, without any desire to disparage the exploits of the
Governor of Sinde, or the style of the Governor of
Guernsey, we have sometimes been unable to repress
a smile at this grandiloquent memorial of the prowess
of the Napier race. It is true we live in an incredu-
lous and prosaic age, which hardly does justice to
contemporary achievements ; but there is a touch of
the burlesque in comparisons, however just in them-
selves, between the Roman General Paulus, or Han-
nibal, or Alexander, and Sir Charles Napier; and we
are not fully prepared to have the last overland mail
from India done into the style of Tacitus. General
:Copier's zeal in defending Lord Ellenborough ex-
tends almost to participation in that uncontrollable
passion for fine writing which proved (amongst other
things) fatal to the late Governor-General ; and though
it is impossible not to feel the originality of his meta-
phors and the fire of his descriptions, which give to
this book a most exciting interest, we are made some-
what uneasy by eloquence soaring so near the regions
of bombast, and a purer taste would have expunged
many of the General's most daring beauties. It is
superfluous even for a military writer to assume in
his compositions the trappings and the paces of a war.
horse.

NEW WORE BY MR. SERGEANT TAT,FOURD.
Just published, in 2 vols. post Bvo., price 18s. cloth,
VACA'T'ION' RAMBLES and THOUGHTS ;
comprising the Recollections of Three Continental Tours, in
the Vacations of 1841,_1842, and 1843.

By MR. SERGEANT TALFOURD.
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which cannot well be disputed, were well prepared for
him by his predecessor, by the same Governor-General
who sent an army to Cabul commanded by Elphin-
stone and Shelton :
" It always appeared to us that Lord Ellenborough
was appointed at a time when a course of victory was
clear before him ; that the light, not of safety only,
but of glory, was already visible through the gloom ;
that the day of signal retribution was then . evi-
dently near at hand. To have supposed that the un-
disciplined hordes of Affghanistan could have with-
stood the combined attack of two of our Anglo-Indian
armies was a notion that could only have orignated in
undue alarm. The doom of Cabul and Istalif might
already have been clearly read, by those whose judg-
ment was unaffected by fear, ere Lord Ellenborough
had landed in India."
Would that we could, in justice to Lord Ellen-
borough, recal to memory the feeling of this country,
and of India too, in the month of January, 1842 ;
that we could remind men of the indignant
despair with which promises of " a course of vic-
tory," suggestions of the rising of the "light, not of
safety only, but of glory," would have been then
received. What were the promises of the Times it-
self at that period we will not seek by examining
its file, for to prove the impudent inconsistency of
the Times were the most superfluous of all superfluous
works. We have little doubt, however, that the
Times made, in 1842, no promises of " success,"
" safety," and " glory." We are tempted to step
aside to another extract illustrative of the distortion
of facts by which the Times tries to justify its au-
dacious misrepresentation :
" While in England we were trembling for the
safety or our troops at Kandahar, the Gallant General
who commanded there was only eager for an oppor-
tunity, and fully confident in the ability of his gallant
army to retrieve the honour of the British name.
NVlrile we regarded the brave detachment of Sir R.
Sale as little better than lost men, they were daily
avenging on their enemy the slaughter of Cahul,
until the heaps of Affghan corpses around the im-
pregnable walls of Jellalabad began to vie with the
frozen masses of Tezeen and Jugdulluck."
The security of the army at Kandahar was, we
suppose, proved by General England's melancholy
repulse, and the " impregnable walls of Jellalabad"
were those of which an eye-witness speaks as fol-
lows :
"It will be remembered that Sir Robert Sale
reached Jellalabad with his brigade on the 12th of
November. He found the walls of the city in such
a state as might have justified a feeling of despair as
to the possibility of defending them. the extent was
so great, embracing a circumference of upwards of
2,300 yards, that his force was insufficient to man
them effectively, and there was no parapet, excepting
for a few hundred yards, and even there only two
feet high. Earth and rubbish had accumulated to
such an extent about the ramparts, that there were
roads in various directions across and over them into

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Yesterday afternoon the Half-yearly General Meet•
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the George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, Mr. San.
Berson in the chair.

from Cabul ; but he carried to its full extent the
policy of Lord Auckland against the Ameers : that
policy was, moreover, rendered more inevitable, when
once the Government of India was embarked in it,
by the conduct of the Sindian Princes themselves,
and by the importance of restoring the self-confidence
of the army. This kind of recrimination leads to no
conclusion, but the old apology of the lawyers " fieri
non debet, factutn valet." The actual result to the
country and to our public interests is of far more im-
portance than the contemporary fame of the men en-
gaged in these transactions; and posterity will not
judge of the merits of Lord Auckland and Lord
Ellenhorough by their badges and earldoms; but
there is too much similarity in their errors, in spite of
the difference of their characters, for the one to he
safely defended at the expense of the other. Meanwhile
we remain comparative, and, we must add, in dan-
gerous ignorance, of the real condition of the con-
quered province : we only know that a large army is
needed there, and that this army requires perpetual
reinforcements. The same accounts which bring
these gloomy tidings of the health of the troops do,
indeed, add that the province will he eventually valu-
able, and that the revenue collected in the present year
has exceeded what was expected. Yet, in spite of
these more favourable additions to the picture,
heightened even by the fraternal enthusiasm of Gene•
ral William Napier, we can neither look hack on our
progress along the Indus with satisfaction, nor for-
ward with entire confidence. The remaining parts of
the " Conquest of Sinde," which are promised to us,
will, however, put us more fully in possession of the
military and administrative operations of Sir Charles
Napier.

The SECRETARY read the report of the Directors,
detailing the proceedings since the last meeting in the
Chancery suit instituted against the Company by Mr.
' Alderman Farncombe, Captain Farmer, and Mr.
Brown, all of whom were ex-Directors, and Mr.
Heppe!, the late Secretary to the Company. The re-
port stated that on the 3d inst. the appeal of the
plaintiffs, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, was dis-
missed with costs, and concluded by stating that, not-
withstanding the vexatious law proceedings, and the
consequent heavy costs to which the Company had
been subjected, the profits of the Company had still
continued to improve steadily.
The CHAIRMAN, after a few brief remarks explana-
tory of the report, and in support of the assertion re-
specting the growing prosperity of the Company,
stated that they had now three boats upon the sta-
tion, and that the incidental expenses had decreased
by nearly one-half.
The report was unanimously adopted ; and the
meeting separated, after passing a vote of thanks to
he Chairman.

the country, affording the greatest facilities to the
approach of the enemy. At one part of the works
there was a space of 400 yards together, on which
none of the garrison could show themselves, excepting
at a particular spot; the population within was dis-
affected, and the town was surrounded on every side
by ruined forts, walls, mosques, tombs, and gardens,
from which a fire could be opened on the defenders,
at a distance of only 20 or 30 yards."—History of
the War in Afghanistan ; published by Brooks,
Baker-street, p. 340.
It is very true that Lord Ellenborough had, when
he landed in India, "a course of victory before him,"
but it was a course to be shaped by himself—and just
such a course of victory had Sir Arthur Wellesley
before him, when he landed at Mondego Bay thirty-
six years ago—just such a course of victory before
him had Nelson, when he embarked a midshipman on
board the Raisonnable—such a course before him has
every man who has achieved great things had at the
very moment of his birth; but to assume that be-
cause a man has been successful, his course of suc-
cess has been prepared, independently of any merits ,
of his own, is a profession of fatalism that passes, we
believe, the folly of any other fatalism.
Let us, however, offer another testimony to the
actual condition of our Indian empire at the moment
of Lord Ellenborough's arrival, sketched by " a
soldier, and a ripe one," General Napier, from whose
beautiful sketches of the " Conquest of Sinde " we
make the following extracts; they are little more
than detached lines, and why we present them in
this mutilated form we will explain before we I
have done :

This, however, is not the place to discuss the lite-
rary merits of the work ; neither do we advert to it
for the purpose of adding fuel or intensity to the party
dispute between the respective colleagues or sup-
porters of Lord Auckland and Lord Ellenborough.
The main fact for the British public to know and re-
flect upon is not by whom these things were done,
but what things have been done ; for, rightly or
wrongfully, wisely or wickedly, the conquest and
annexation of Sinde are beyond all comparison
the most important occurrences which have occurred
in British Asia, even at a period when no mail has
arrived without some stirring intelligence. For the
other enterprises of the British or Indian Govern-
ments, however vast or remote, were directed to
temporary objects, which being attained, the stress of
eiTort and the hazards of war were terminated by
victory and peace. But in Sinde the task we have
undertaken is permanent—the frontier, of the British
dominions has been advanced ; we have as yet but
partially subdued the spirit, though we have once and
again broken the martial array of the native chiefs ;
we have assumed the rights of conquest and the duties
of Government; and it is only by conferring the prac-
tical benefits of a strong and just Administration on
the land, that we can palliate the equivocal and vio-
lent transactions by which we have expelled the
Ameers from their territories. It is vain to attempt
to, throw on any one man, or set of men, the burden
of disgrace which mars this triumph, and throws the
shadow of a just reproach over acts which, in them-
selves, may be described as brave and glorious.
The conquest of Sinde was no sudden achievement
of Sir C. Napier's, no bombastic edict of Lord
Ellenborough's ; it was the result of a series
of political events, over which neither their
original authors not the successors of those authors
had any firm control. Of these events the mostim-
portant were the Affghan expedition, and the treaties
instructions
of by Sir H. Pottinger under the
of Lord Auckland in 1836 and 1838. That was the
moment at which the Government adopted the prin-
ciple of making good the defence of India, and pro-
tecting the British power by a system of foreign war;
from that time we were drawn into closer relations
or more immediate conflicts with the hardy and in-
dependent natives of the Caucasian mountains and of
Central Asia ; we threw up the new outworks of the
Indian empire in a soil shaken by perpetual convul-
sions; and we finally appended to that great empire,
which we professed to govern in justice and peace,
a province, or rather a state, only to he held in
,I sub-
jection by the most vigorous military control. he
rest of India is governed by our authority, Sinde by
Our army.
To these striking and permanent considerations of
policy many local and temporary difficulties have
been added, which are in themselves of sufficient
weight to excite a constant and serious anxiety. The
sickness of the army has been and continues to be
terrific; at certain seasons of the year all access to
the country is virtually cut off, and the shifting sands
at the mouth of the Indus render all navigation ex-
ceedingly hazardous and uncertain. Exposed to
these peculiar hardships, conscious of the difficulty of
reinforcement and the impossibility of retreat, and
surrounded by all the restraints and dangers of a fo-
reign and hostile country, the native troops of the
Indian presidencies, and especially those of Bengal
and Madras, have exhibited symptoms of extreme dis-
content; and we are wholly at a loss to conceive
what apology can be made for the gross impolicy and
injustice of reducing these brave troops to their half-
batta, as allowed in garrison in Ilindostan, when they
are in fact performing the severest duties that can be
required of an army, namely, the occupation of an
iosalubrious and semi-independent country.
General Napier asserts, in his peculiar manner,
that "no Etruscan fecial ever cast his spear across
a boundary, invoking his gods to attest the justice
of a war, with a purer conscience than Charles Na-
pier marched (qu. with ?) to battle ;" and he assumes
the task of showing not only " how victoriously his
gallant relative bore the banner of England across
the bloody fields of Meeanee and Dubba; but how
widely he has since spread England's fame for justice
and gentleness by his administration ; the Beloochs
reverence, and the Sindians bless him, though the
Ameers mourn."

" 1842. —Sir Chas. Napier having reached Bombay,
was appointed to command at Poonah, and soon
attracted public notice by his professional activity,
and he quickly detected, and in his letters forcibly
depicted, the vices, civil and military, which had
ga►ned such strength under Lord Auckland's Govern-
ment, if they did not originate with it, that the total
destruction of the Indian army, and the ruin of the
Indian empire, seemed hastening on with giant
strides. To give his views at length, and in his own
nervous language, would be of little public service
now, and might be injurious; but those views were
at the same time shown to competent authority at
home, and returned to the author of this history with
this remark :—‘ Too true a picture, drawn by a
master hand;' but it was at this moment that, for the
salvation of India, Lord Ellenborough came.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE VER-
SAILLES RAILWAY,
The accident which happened on the Versailles
Railroad (left bank), on the 21st of July last, having
been made the ground of a prosecution before the
Correctional Tribunal of Versailles, it was brought to
trial on Wednesday. The parties accused were M.
Petiet, the chief engineer of the railroad ; and Schoor
and Dufresne, engineers. The Court was extremely
crowded on both days; and on the second day the
pressure occasioned so much disturbance, that the
President was obliged to call in a picket of gendarmes
to restore and keep order. All the persons injured by
the accident were present, except the unfortunate
conducteur, Dry, who, on his name being called, was
announced to be dead, from the new accident which
occurred on the same railroad on Monday last.
Another conducteur, who had his jaw broken,
appeared with his face in bandages, and excited
great interest and commiseration. M. Petiet was
charged with not having given sufficient notice of
sending off an extra train after eight o'clock at
night, it being the fete at Meudon, and from which
neglect the accident arose. Dufresne was accused of
having moved with his engine at an excessive degree
of speed, and thereby contributed to the disastrous
consequences; and Schoor of having neglected to
obey in due time the signals made of there being an
obstruction on the road, and continued the rapidity of
the motion of the engine till it was too late to prevent
it from coming in contact with the other train. After
hearing the witnesses, who were numerous, the plead-
ings of M. Rabou, the Procureur du Roi, in support of
the prosecution, and the counsel for the prisoners, the
Court retired to deliberate upon its judgment. On
its return the President pronounced the acquittal of
Dufresne, but declared M. Petiet and Schoor guilty ;
imposing upon the first a fine of 100 f. and 20 days'
imprisonment, and upon the second a fine of 16f. and
15 days' imprisonment.—French paper.

" Deeply impressed with the danger menacing
India from within and without, Sir Charles Napier
hastened to ofkr Lord Ellenborough his opinions
upon the military operations, and gave him a general
plan of campaign for the second Affghan invasion ;
the principal points of which were the relief of Sir
Robert Sale, the restoration of Dost Mohamed, the
evacuation of Affghanistan, and the occupation of the
left bank of the Indus
•
" What influence this memoir had on Lord Ellen-
borourgh's judgment, or whether it merely coincided
w:th his own previously formed opinions and plans,
is known only to himself, but the leading points were
in unison with the after operations of Nott and Pol-
lock."

RUNJEET SINGII.—The publication of a new work,
the scenes and events of which are laid in the dominions
of the late " Lion of Lahore," and the characters of
which include himself and some of the most remarkable
and conspicuous functionaries of his Court and Camp,
cannot fail to excite unusual interest—especially when
the volumes bear the name and authority of a British
Officer, who has passed a large portion of his military
life in the midst of the scenes and personages with which
the work busies itself. The production to which we
allude bears the title of "ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER
IN THE SERVICE OF RUNJEET SINGH," and comprises
personal sketches of all the foreign officers—Avitabili,
A'Court, and the rest—who were so long distinguished
both in the Court and Camp of that extraordinary chief.
The position of the author, Major 11. M. L. Lawrence,
as the British Resident at the Court of Nepali!, and late
Assistant to the Political Agent in relation with Lahore,
gives to this singular book a character of authenticity,
and of consequent interest and value, that it could have
attained by no other means.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY of PLATE.—The following
plate, belonging to the Duchess of Palmella, left on the
6th inst. at the Southampton Docks, has been since
stolen :-36 tea spoons, engraved with a P. and a crown;
72 table knives, a soup ladle, 32 spoons (soup spoons),
24 table forks, 28 ditto, hearing the Palmella arms, 36
dessert spoons, and the same number of dessert forks,
2 large gravy spoons, 2 other gravy or sauce spoons, a
sugar spoon and a pair of sugar tongs, 3 salt spoons,
2 salvers, a sugar basin, a teapot, a coffee-pot, a milk
jug, 30 knives, 29 forks, and 30 spoons, silver gilt; and a
large silver vase and salver, engraved with the Almito
arms. All the other articles were engraved either with
the Palmella arms, or the P. and crown.
MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—We understand that
Lord Ashley has remitted the sum of 32/. 10s. to the
Rev. Mr. Balfour, Clackmannan, to be distributed by
him, in the exercise of his own discretion, " among
these labouring. women, in the parish of Clackmannan,
and in the adjoining parishes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the operation of the Act to regulate
Mines and Collieries." Lord Ashley has likewise trans-
mitted the following sums to the undermentioned places-
Polmont, 42/. I.os. ; Tranent, 22/. 10s. ; Newton, near
Dalkeith, 12/. 108.—Fifeshire Journal.

In another page, opened at random, we find the
following :
" Lord Ellenborough amidst these difficulties
steered the course becoming a brave man conscious
of danger and of his own resources to meet it. Ilis
first effort was to stay the spreading mischief of fear
on one side, and rising hopes on the other, by a mani-
festo of his views, in which a vigorous determination
was apparent. This proclamation of silence, as it
were, suppressed the general confusion, and gave time
to combine the military operations, to redeem the
character of the British arms, and to teach the exult-
ing natives on his frontier that England's strength
was not to be measured by recent misfortunes. * *
Lord Ellenborough saw clearly and struck boldly."
Such are the testimonies of a brave and expe-
rienced and able British soldier, and a political oppo-
nent. We suppose that they will preponderate against
the criticisms of that journal that charged the French
marine with cowardice.

Heaven grant that this be something more than
rhetoric, and that all this glory be of the true growth.
There can be no doubt that Sir Charles Napier is a
commander well fitted to inspire confidence to his
troops. In Cephalonia, at an earlier period of his
life, he is reported to have won the attachment of the
population at large. His military skill and intre-
pidity have already been acknowledged by Parlia-
ment and the people of England as they deserved ;
but if he lives fully to bear out the panegyrics passed
upon his talents for civil government, and to make
Sinde a tenable possession of the British empire, he
will deserve to be remembered as one of the men
most resolute in the conquest of dangers, if not in
the rank of those who have conferred great positive
benefits on the State.

The main distinction between Lord Auckland's
adherents and the panegyrist of Lord Ellenborongh
and Sir Charles Napier amounts to this : the former
censure the conduct of the Executive Government of
India in 1843 to the Ameers of Sinde ; the latter
retorts, that " the treaty of 1838, by which Lord
Auckland placed a loaded shell in the palace of the
Ameers, to explode at his pleasure for their destruc-

tion, was, abstractedly, an unjust, oppressive action ;"
and that the evil and wrong of interference was
of a much earlier date. Lord Auckland would
defend his treaties with the Ameers as a neces-
sary part of his Affghan policy to secure a line
of operations for his army through Sinde, leaving,
we presume, his Affghan policy to defend itself,
if it could. Lord Ellenborough repudiated the
Affghan policy, and made the most strenuous,
if not precipitate, exertions to withdraw the army

We have promised an explanation of the abrupt-
ness with which we have introduced our extracts
from General Napier's work. Our explanation is,
that we are the advocates of justice to Lord Ellen-
borough, not either by duty or by inclination the
accusers of the Court of Directors ; and the passages
which we have omitted might be interpreted as
charges against that highly-respectable, but we must
think, mistaken body. These passages prove for
Lord Ellenborough the difficulties of an administra-

tive class with which, in the judgment of an eve-
witness, he had to contend; but his Lordship's case
is strong enough to dispense with such proofs. As
we have said, we are not by duty the accusers of
the Court of Directors, and still less could we be by
inclination the accusers of twenty. four as respectable
gentlemen as can be found in England. We think
that in their conduct towards Lord Ellenborough
they were guilty of a serious error, but of an error
that had nothing sordid or dishonourable in it, and
that may be easily accounted for. The expense of
the future Government we have no doubt alarmed
them, and there were circumstances that contributed
to exaggerate enormously that expense in their eyes.
It is very certain, as the Times states, that the Direc-
tors have each and all a great pecuniary stake in the
prosperity of the Indian empire ; but it is a gross,
though a very common fallacy, to forget the distinc-
tion between a present and a remote pecuniary inte-
rest. Few men care for the fate of the grandchildren
Whom they have not seen ; none care for the fate of
the great grandchildren whom they will never see.
Men may excise their next heirs (as in the Thellusson
will case) to aggrandise a remote descendant (though
even this is not common), but we never heard of any
one who would excise himself for such a purpose ;
who would forego twenty per cent. of his income in
order to secure the income in its integrity to a great-
grandchild, or even to a grandchild. The sacrifice of
the future to the present is the rule, not the exception,
or there would be no such word as imprudence, a word
which, however, runs through all languages.
The India Directors, moreover, must think for
others besides themselves. There are many comp..