The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and an Investiture of the Most
Hon. Military Order of the Bath yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.
The following Knights' Grand Crosses of the Order of the
Bath assembled and were robed by Mr. Hunter in their Man-
tles and Collars, viz. :—The Duke of Wellington, Sir George
Cockburn, Lord Heytesbury, and Sir George Murray. The
Knights, preceded by the Officers, passed into the Picture
Gallery, where they were met by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex. Acting Grand Master of the Order, and having
been called over, proceeded to the presence of the Sovereign in
the Throne Room, with the usual reverences. Her Majesty
was accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, both
wearing the Collar and Mantle of the Order.
Then by her Majesty's command Lieut. General Sir Howard
Douglas, Bart., was introduced between the two Junior
Knights' Grand Crosses present, preceded by Bath King of
Arms, bearing the Riband, Badge, and Star of the Order
upon a crimson velvet cushion.
:Sir Howard kneeling, the Queen was graciously pleased to
put the Riband and Badge over the Lieutenant-General's
right shoulder. Sir Howard, rising, had the honour to kiss
the Sovereign's hand, and having received from her Majesty
the Star of a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the Order, withdrew.
Admiral the Hon. Sir John Talbot was introduced to the
Royal presence, and having been invested by the Queen with
the Riband and Badge, received from her Majesty the Star of
Military Knight Grand Cross of the Order.
Admit al Sir Henry Digby was introduced, and was invested
I.l}, her Majesty with the Riband, Badge, and Star of a Military
Knight Grand Cross of the Order.
The Officers of the Order assisting at the ceremony were
Bath King of Arms, Algernon Greville, Esq. ; and the Gen-
tleman Usher, Albert William Woods, Esq.
Liutenant.General Sir John Wilson was then conducted to
her Majesty by Albert William Woods, Esq. ( Gentleman
Usher), officiating for his father, Sir William Woods, K. H.,
Officer of Arms, attendant upon the Knights Commanders,
bearing upon a crimson velvet cushion the Star, Riband, and
Badge of the Second Class of the Order.
Mr. Woods, presenting on his knee to the Sovereign the
Riband and Badge of a Knight Commander, the Queen was
graciously pleased to invest Sir John therewith. The Lieut.-
General having had the honour to kiss the Sovereign's hand,
received from her Majesty the Star of a Knight Commander,
and retired.

Major-General Sir John George Woodford was invested
with the like ceremony, with the ensigns, as Knight Comman-
der of the Bath.

Vice-Admiral Sir John Chambers White was introduced to
the Royal presence. The Sword of State was thereupon de-
livered to her Majesty, and the Vice-Admiral kneeling, re-
ceived the honour of Knighthood, and, on rising, had the ho-
nour to kiss the Sovereign's hand. Sir John was afterwards
invested with the Star, Riband, and Badge of a Knight Com-
mander of the Order.

Hear-Admiral Sir Charles Richardson wag conducted to her
Majesty, and had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon
him with the Sword of State, an i was afterwards invested by the
Queen with the Star, Riband, and Badge of a Knight Com-
mander of the Order.

Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Farquhar was invested by her
Nlajesty with the Ensigns of a Knight Commander of the
Order.

The Knights Grand Crosses having been called over by
Bath King of Arms, retired together with the Officers of the
Order from the presence.
Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
lined the Throne Room at the ceremony, commanded by their
Lieutenant, the Hon. Sir Edvrard Butler,

At the Court the Hon. Mr. Bligh, Envoy Extraordinary,
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover, was
presented to the Queen at an audience by the Earl of Aberdeen,
her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Bishop of Barbadoes was presented to her Majesty at an
audience by Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Queen gave audience to Sir Robert Peel and the Lord
Chamberlain.

The Court was attended by the First Lord of the Treasury,
the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Depart-
ments, the President of the Board of Control, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the ``ice.Chamberlain,
the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, %fr. Henry Robinson, Standard Bearer of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen-at• Arms ; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Wait-
ing on Prince Albert; Mr. James Bruce Curling, Clerk of the
Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; the
Groom of the Robes; Sir Benjamin Smith, Mr. Byng, and Mr.
Wilson, Pages of Honour in Waiting.
Ihe Dowager Lady Lyttelton was the Lady in Waiting,
the Earl of Warwick Lord in Waiting, and Sir Robert Otway
Groom in Waiting.
The Yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall, com-
manded by Captain Seymour Saddler, the Exon in Waiting.
'I he Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with the
Band of the Regiment, was on duty on the Palace Lawn.
The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager yesterday afternoon, at Marlborough House. Major-
General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie, the Equerries in
Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness, were in at-
ter dance.

The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken
an airing in a carriage.
Her Majesty, attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took an airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and
four. Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by
Colonel Bouverie and Major• General Wemyss.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liverpool. Lord George
Lennox, Hon. Caroline Lyttelton, Sir George
.Cowper, Bart.,
and Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The
Band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner.
The Duchess of Kent took an airing in a carriage yesterday.
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, transacted bus►ness
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
A deputation from the General Shipowners' Society, consist.
inn of Mr. Barry, Chairman, Mr. Ridley, Deputy •Chairman,
31r. Tindall, and Mr. G. F. Young, members of the Com-
mittee, and Mr. Oviatt, Secretary, had an interview with Sir
R. Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P., General the Hon. H. B. Lygon,
M.P., and a deputation from the glove trade of the city of
Worcester, had an interview with the Earl of Ripen yesterday,
at the Office of the Board of Trade.

The Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt,
had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. There were present
the Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy-Governor,
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General, attended
Despatches from the Governor of Barbados's were received
y.sterday at the Colonial-office.

PROTEST AGAINST THE INCOME
TAX.
DT A GENTLEMAN OF TWO HUNDRED• A YEAR AND

TWELVE SMALL CHILDREN.

DISSENTIENT :-1. Because, if I am compelled
to pay the Income-tax, some of my tradesmen must
go unpaid, to which I should not have the slightest
objection, provided they had none ; but on consulting
them on the subject, 1 find, to my inexpressible dis-
gust and astonishment, that they are unanimous in
their determination to be paid to the last farthing.
2.—Because, if the Income-tax be levied on me, it
is very clear that I cannot pay the church-rates; and
the clergyman of the parish assures me that the non-
payment of Mother Church's dues is the very worst
species of blasphemy which a respectable Christian
can be guilty of, and will shut me out from salvation
for ever.

3. Because having twelve small children, and
being in expectation of another, which will shortly be
forthcoming among the " novelties of the season," it '
is evident that those children must be provided with
clothes suited to their respective ages ; and as one
pair of corduroy breeches is the allowance I make
annually to the boys, they must (if the tax on my
slender income be persisted in) go without breeches
altogether, which will inflict a grievous shock on the
morals of my neighbourhood, who have an instinctive
disrelish of the Highland fashion, where to be non-
breeched is the rule, and to be breeched the exception.
4. Because, in the event of my giving way to my
parental sensibilities, and allowing the boys to con-
tinue their corduroys as usual, I must then go with-
out breeches myself, which, at this inclement period
of the year, and in the windy region in which I am
located, will be attended with serious inconvenience,
besides subjecting me to the tender mercies of the
police, and peradventure to a month at the treadmill—.
to say nothing of the probability of the old maid who
lives opposite me being thrown into strong hysterics.
5. Because my income being barely such as to
enable me to make both ends meet at the end of the
year, if three per cent. be levied on it, my children
must be put instantly on short commons, in which
case my eldest son, who is remarkable for his preco-
cious appetite, will very probably levant with a guar-
tern loaf from a baker's shop, and thereby saddle the
country with the expenses of a prosecution at the
Old Bailey for felony.
6. Because, even if the duty on foreign beef be re-
duced, it will not compensate me for the income tax,
inasmuch as I am a genuine John Bull, and hate every
thing foreign ; besides, Colonel Sibthorp proved to
my satisfaction in Parliament last night, that if I eat a
Dutch rump-steak (unless, indeed, I cut it from the
hind-quarters of the Dutchman himself) I shall in-
fallibly be poisoned—to which I beg respectfully to
state that I entertain an invincible repugnance.
7. Because the Income-tax will reduce me to the
condition of an Epic poet, and eventually cause me
to be shut up in a workhouse, and dieted on horse-leg
soup, and one pound of boiled cat's-meat daily.
8. Because, when the tax-gatherer comes up the
street to levy his three per cent., I am apprehensive
that, in the indignant paroxysm of the moment, I may
be tempted to pick him off at a long shot with a blun
derbuss, which will greatly wound my conscience,
and do him an irreparable injury.
For these, and other reasons too numerous to men-
tion, I beg to enter any most decided Protest against
the Income-tax.

(Signed) AIORTIMER PITZ-EUSTACE SNOOKS.

IscomE TAx.—The Town Council of Manchester
held a meeting on Monday, the Mayor in the chair, and
passed resolutions against the income tax, and in favour
of free trade, as a substitute for taxation. At the meet-
ing Mr. Alderman Brooks used such strong language
that the Mayor thought it necessary to take notice of it.
We think it worth while to give a specimen of the lan.
guage with which distress is inspiring even decorous
Aldermen :—" The tariff was as complete a robbery on
the people as was ever made, and
.the alterations were
made in the worst form: Thus, pigs were to come in at
ss. ; but cut up in two, a hundred weight a side, they
would each pay a duty of 28s. Could anything be con-
ceived more monstrous 1 This showed they were only
contriving to keep the monopolies ; and then they said,
' They ought to have an income tax.' If ever there
was a hell upon earth,; it was now. Lord John Russell
had turned the devil with his imps for a time, and he
peopleun; and now Sir Robert Peel had
turned s, and they would be kept, and
did not please
withe ehis p
we're kept, out of the They did rule, and would
rale, over us, till we could destroy them ; till we could
starve them, and put them to rights. If we would only
join together as men of business, and stick tp our prin-
ciples, we should have justice done us ; but we should
never have our rights till we took them."

LOSS OF THE VISCOUNT
MELBOURNE.

We regret to learn that the Viscount Melbourne has been
totally lost on her passage to China. The particulars of this
melancholy affair have not reached us beyond the fact of the
I vessel's loss, and a statement that the whole cress took to the
boats, which bad all but one reached land, and in that one, for
which great fears were entertained, was, we are coneerned to
say, Lieut. -Colonel Campbell, en route to join the 37th N. I.
in China. A Malay praha had boarded ono of the boats and
fired into her, wounding one European, and plundered the poor
people.
We are indebted to the Madras Atheneum for the following
additional particulars from the Singapore Free Press, of
which we have not yet ourselves received a copy :
" Loss OF THE VISCOUNT ISIELBOURNE.—We regret
that it falls to our lot to announce the loss of the ship
ViscounttheShoal,Melbourne, Capt.theChinaSea.tookher.thesth Luconia
ture from this for Macao on the 25th ultimo, with the fol-
lowino o passeners on board—viz., Mrs. Dare and two children,
Lieut.- Col. 'Campbell, 37th regiment Madras native infantry,
and Scott, Esq., of Calcutta. On the sth inst., at 4 0 a.m.
during a calm, breakers were descried en the lee beam close
to the vessel, when she sounded in eighteen fathoms, and let
go both bower anchors, which, however, would not hold, and
the ship struck abaft and swung broadside to the reef, from
which it was found impossible to get her off ; and nothing re-
mained to be done but to get the boats out. This was stecom.
'dished with some difficulty ; and before they left the ship she
had begun, with the flow of the tide, to strike very heavily
abaft, threatening destruction to all the after part of the vessel,
al hough, in consequence of the anchors holding forward, she
was comparatively safe in that part. Having put provisions and
water on board, they left the vessel in five beats; the captain,
Sirs. Dare and children, Mr. Scott, and 23 of the crew went in
the launch ; in the first cutter, the chief and third officers,
with Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell with three European sea-
men and seven lascars ; in the second cutter, the second mate
and nine of the crew ; in the third cutter, 22 of the lascars ;
and in the jolly-boat, the fourth effacer and six of the crew—
in all 77 hands. Having left the vessel, the boats steered
towards the coast of Borneo, with the intention of making
Borneo Proper, arid on the 7th came in sight of the land on
the coast, but finding that the strength of the current would
prevent their reaching the capital, Captain lil'Kenzie di-
rected them to steer for Sambas; the twenty-two lascars in
third cutter, however, being apparently determined to shift
for themselves, went. off at once towards the shore. On the
same day they also parted company with the second cutter,
the chief officer having said that he would run in to look
at the land and return by sunset ; but apparently met
with some obstacle, as he did not afterwards join them.
On the 10th, a Malay .israha came alongside of the launch,
the nakhodah of which was permitted to come on board, and
endeavoured to persuade them to go on shore—but this invita-
tion being declined he went again on board of his own praha,
and getting alongside the jolly-boat, which was astern, boarded
her and plundered the men in her of everything they had. She
was doubtless a pirate, and Captain 11Plienzie supposes he was
wily prevented from attacking and plundering the launch by
seeing that they were well supplied with fire-arms on board.
As it was, the praha fired several shots at the launch, one of
ehieli wounded a European seaman in the head. Finding the
jolly beat the cause of detention, the people were taken out of
her and die ided between the launch and second cutter, the
boat herself being turned adrift. On the following night the
second cutter parted company with the launch, and seeing no
traces of her at daylight, although she had hove-to and fired
muskets during the nie lit; the second officer deter-
mined to steer in his boat for Singapore. Ile arrived here
early on the morning of Monday last; and Captain APKenzie,
having also adopted the same determination, after parting com-
p ny with the second cutter, his boat arrived about twelve
hours after, having be en thirteen days fsosa the ship. They
had all suffered much flora exposure, and in particular Mrs.
Dare, one of obese children was at the breast, and whose situ-
ation for such a period, in an open boat, was necessarily pain.
ful in the extreme.

"No further accounts having been received of the first cutter,
and having had experience of the dangers those on board of her
are exposed to on the coast of Borneo, the local authorities have
very properly chartered the Royalist to proceed to that coast is
quest of her. The Royalist is herself well-armed, and same
olandauze and sepoys having been shipped on board of her, she
w ill be in condition not only to protect herselfagairtstyirates, but
to operate effectually against them. Capt. Al'henzie says
that the first cutter cv..s an excellent boat, very well equipped,
and in every respect in an efficient state, anti well provided
with arms, besides those bJonging to Colonel Campbell. It
is not improbable that being prevented from joining her con-
sorts by contrary currents she may have steered for Sambas ;
but there is too much room for apprehension on that coast to
rely on any such probability, and we are happy to fin.l that
the local authorities base lost no time in desp Aching a vessel
for her relief.

" We ought rot to conclude this notice without mentioning
that Commodore Kearney, in the absence ofany of her NI ajes•y's
cruisers, very hands,mely proffered the services of the two
American ships o! war here under his command, to make in-
quiries in the course of their voyage to China, along the
Borneo coast, for the missing boat; an offer which has been
acknowledged, we have no doubt, by the local authorities in
becoming terms, although the despatch of the Royalist renders
it unnecessary to avail of it. "—Madras U.S. Gaztitte, Feb. 18.

STAI E OF TRADE.
(Froin the Manchester Guatdian.)
ALANCHESTER.—The market of yesterday presented no
change as comvared with those which immediately preceded
it. There was some d' nand for yarn fur export ; but the
market being overloaded by the quantity thrown upon it in
consequence of the inactivity of the home manufacturers prices
continued to recede. For goods there was very httle inquiry,
and prices are little better than nominal.

We are glad to learn that an arrangement has been made
between the Directors of the Bank of Manchester and the
shareholders of the Alliance Bank in this town, by which the
entire capital and business of the latter will be made over to the
Batik of Alanchestcr, on certain com.itions specified in the
subjoine3 resolutions, passed at a meeting of the shareholders
of the Alliance Bank, held on Saturday last :--
°• That this meeting do approve of the suggestion offered
by Mr. Smith, and recommended by the Board of Directory,
for t ro.ferring to the Bank of Manche:44'r the entire assets
and business of the Alliance Bank, in consideration of their
assuming all pending liabilities, and granting to the Share-
holders cf this Bank their engagement to pay the sum of twenty-
six pounds in three years, with interest thereon at five per cent.
per annum, payable half-yearly, in exchange for every share
transrerred to their Trustees.

" That this mecti•ng do further recommend this proposal to
the concurrence of their fellow- Shareholders, as the best means
of rendering available their property in the Alliance Bank,
and of relieving themselves from further responsibility as re-
gistered Shareholders."
Another condition of this arrangement is, that Mr. William
Smith, the manager of the Alliance Bank, will, for the future,
take an active part in the management of the Bask of Man.
chester. If we may judge from the effects of these arrange-
ments on the price of the stock of both the banks concerned in
them, they are likely to prove exceedingly tenefieial.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL
There has been but a very indifferent market to-day; prices
being low, and few goods sold. This last week there has been
a Government order for 12,000 pieces of flannel, which has
been divided amongst ten or twelve manufacturers. It is gene-
rally supposed there has beets great competition, and the or-
ders have been accepted at extremely low prices. The wool
market still remains heavy, and prices have undergone very
little change.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Aran. s.—The weather was
beautiful, ar.d a cheerful appearance was universal ; but we re-
gret still to communicate no improvement in the state of this
market to-day. Perhaps there was a little more activity in the
Cloth Hall; but business in the warehouses was as dull as ever.
Buyers evidently are at a loss what to do, and therefore mostly
only purchase from sheer necessity. Prices remain much the
same. There were more inquiries for wool, which indicates a
fair amount of orders in hand. Emigration still goes on: up-
wards of a hundred persons left this neighbourhood since the
last ieport ; and the bad news from India, and the dismal
prospect for trade, will stimulate others to follow.

MURDER of SIR W. M'NAGHTEN.

(From the Bombay Courier.)
The following extract of a letter from General Pollock's
camp bearing date the 23d ultimo, gives an account of tiur
fortunate Envoy's murder, on what we cannot help considering,
as far as the detail of the horrid act is concerned, to rest on
the best authority we have yet had—that.of an eye witness,
and one whorn-we think may be implicitly trusted to in such a
relation. However, we lay it bthre the reader for his own
appreciation :
" The following particulars of the death of Sir William
AltNaghten were communicated to several persons yesterday,
by Sir A. Burnes' Kafila 13ashee, who arrived in camp yester-
day evening, with his credentials, on his way to Ferozepore,
only twenty days from Cabool. The murder of Sir William
111‘Naghten did not take place in durbar, as generally sup-
posed, but at a conference in the plain, where this man was
present, and he states that Akbar Khan wanted Sir W. to
proclaim him King, which was refused, on which he seized
hold of Sir W. as if to pull him along with him, and was re-
sisted by Sir W. Akbar Khan finding threats useless, pulled
a pistol out from under his garment and shot him himself; in
the left breast ; he dial not fall but staggered back, when he
drew another and shot him again, upon which he fell, but still
alive, when a matchlock man was ordered to shoot him through
the head, which put an end to his sufferings—they then cut
his head ofT, and by Abkar Khan's order stuck it on a pole
and carried it all round the place. Lady 111`I'slaghten ran-
somed the body for 6,000 rupeei, and it was buried. This much
I heard related by the man myself, and no one entertains the
least doubt of its truth. The man called on the General, to
whom he made this statement."

LIST OF PERSONS ASCERTAINED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED
IN AFFGIIANISTAN SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE
INSURRECTION ON NOVEMBER 2,1841.
Sir W. H. M'Naghten, Bart.
Brigadier Anquetil, Commanding the Shah's force.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mackereil, her Majesty's 44th Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver, sth Regiment N.I.
Lieut.-Col. Sir A. Burnes, Bombay Army, Assistant to Envoy.
Major Ewart, 54th Regiment N.I.
Captain Bellew, Assistant Quarter-Master-General.
Captain Swayne, her Majesty's 44th Regiment.
Captain Robinson, ditto.
Captain Macrae, ditto.
Captai Codrington, Comrranding 4th Shah's Infantry.
CCaappttaaiinn
sßprootatdisfowl;o'djes,t Shah'sEußuaerr European
rms.:
inn; Regiment.:t
ct
Nee e n ral.
Captain'Westmacott, 37th N.I.
CaaCaptainppp
Captain
Captain P
ain lY,ra:ecovkdnoib,rriuDit:3denl,u'L4tsy4igttQhhht Cavalry.
N. 1., Commanding Shah's bth Regt.
Lieutenant Stunt, Engineers.
Lieutenant Raban, her Majesty's_ 44th Regiment.
Lieutenant R att ray, Political Department.
Lieutenant Golding, 2d European Regiinent, Jan Ras limo.
Local Lieutenant Wheeler, Shah's service.
Lieutenant Laing, 27th Regiment, N.I.
Lieutenant Lieutenant Walker,urnes Bombay Army.
Ensign
'hab'sCavalry.r
Ensign Sali:bury, Ist European Regiment. •
Ensign Gordon, 37th N.I.
Ensign St. George, 37th N.I.
Ensign Macartney, Madras Army, Shah's 2cl Infantry.
Doctor Duff, 54th N.I.
Doctor Brice, Hone Artillery.
Doctor Macgrath, 37th N.I.
Doctor E. R. Cardew.
Doctor Bird.—Englishman, Feb. C

GRATITUDE OF A FRENCH LADY.--Mademoiselle
de la Champagne a French lady_ of property, who recently died
in the town ,of Avranches, in Normandy, bequeathed 1,200 i.
in grateful acknowledgement of the libe-
ralityhich she had experienced front the Go-
Tel-meant and people of England during her residence there as
ta t
he
Bnrditkisihnd nation, on
a;
emigrant, at the time of the Revolution. The Mayor of
aAuvrauches solicited permission of Sir Robert Peel for the ap-
plication of the money towards building a ward in the Town
Hospital, to be a; propriated to the relief of British sailors
shipwrecked on the coast, or of other destitute English persons.
The Premier consented, and the Mayor has presented to the
Minister a work recently published by Dr. James Hairby, in
English, entitled " Historical and Des • ' mptave Sketches of
Avranches and its Vicinity," emblazoned with the civic arras..
This spirit we should ever wish to see cultivated by both nations.

INDIAN NEWS.
BENGAL.

ADDITION TO THE INDIAN ARMY.—The following
extract from the Calcutta Government Gazette Extra
indicates the intention of Government to-inake -a much
more substantial addition to the Indian army than
that intimated in . the proclamation noticed in
our last. There are seventy-four regular regiments
in the Bengal army. A company added to each will
be a virtual augmentation of nearly 8,000 men.
The addition in Bombay will amount to 2,600 ;
that of Madras, s,4oo—the total augmentation to
16,000 men. This is reckoned an economical method
of increasing the army as compared with an increase
of the number of regiments. It saves European
officers, but it makes a regiment of 1,200 strong a
most unwieldy mass of men. We axe already short
of European officers. In 15 royal regiments now in
Bengal, there are 580 officers; in 91 cavalry and in-
fantry, and 10 battalions of artillery—equal to 101
regiments of Company's troops--there are 1,500 offi-
.ders ; nearly 40 to each Queens regiment, and 15 for
each one of the Company's; or, in fact, the officers in
the Queen's, as compared with those in the Company's
regiments, are nearly as three to one.
FORT WILLIAM, FEB. 5.
No. 32 of 1842.—The Right Hon. the Governor-
General of India in Council has been pleased to resolve,
that a tenth company of the present strength shall, be
added to each native infantry regiment of the line of
t:ie Bengal, Madras, and Bombay armies.
The necessary communication has been made to the
Governments of Madras and Bombay, and his Excel-
lency the Commander-in-Chief in India has been
requested to issue such orders as may be necessary
for giving effect at this Presidency to the resolution
of Government.

• J. STUART, Lieut.-Col.,
• Secretary to the Government of India,
Military Department.
MADRAS.
By this morning's tappal we have received the fol-
' lowing letter from a correspondent at Secunderabad,
dated the 10th instant :
" The 10th regiment native infantry arrived here
on _the 2d instant, and occupied the quarters on the
left of the Bowenpilly road on the sth. The 25th
regiment native infantry marched hence on the morn-
ing of the sth instant, en route to Cuddanah.
" Pay was drawn for the 7th regiment N. I. on
the 4th, and the bad effects of the ill-judged and nar-
row-minded policy of the Supreme Government were
immediately perceived in the refusal of the troops to
receive pay without batta 1 I cannot describe to you
the feelings which pervaded all ranks of society
in the cantonment on the sth, (and also up to the
present time) when the truth had spread abroad of
the 7th N. I. refusing to a man to receive their
pay (excepting, of course, the native commissioned,
non-commissioned naigues, drum and lance naigues)
who in every corps see the wisdom, nay, the neces-
sity, of accepting their pay quietly as good' and
, faithful soldiers. The 7th N. I. on the sth, having
positively refused to receive pay, the circumstance
was immediately reported to the Acting Adjutant-
General, Captain Grant, who proceeded to their bar-
racks, and with great difficulty succeeded in getting
them to take their pay.
" This corps was ordered to parade in heavy march-
ing order on the morning of the 7th by their Com-
manding Officer, but refused to turn out on the
bugles being sounded for their assembly. This resolu-
tion, it appears, was made known by the men on the
previous evening, and which was accordingly re-
ported to the authorities. .On the morning of the
7th, Major-General Fraser and Brigadier Riddell, at-
tended by the whole of the staff, proceeded to the
barracks of that corps and got the men assembled in
close columns ; they were asked by the Major-Gene-
ral two or three times whether they would return to
their duty, when they all replied that they were
willing to do duty provided they got their batta ; till
the batta was given to them they would attend no
more parades for drill, &c., but only do general and
regimental duties. The services of the Lambs were
in requisition for them, who did not approach to
them, though ready to act if called upon. The Gene-
ral and Brigadier and staff, after dismissing the 7th
N. 1., proceeded, about half-past eight, A,M., to the
barracks of the 48th native infantry, who were then
under arms awaiting their arrival, the corps - having
been previously out in heavy marching orddr. The
corps (right wing) was ordered to be formed in close
column of companies, when the Major-General
passed round and then addressed them through Cap-
tain Grant, Acting Adjutant-General. After express-
ing the Major-General's displeasure at their conduct
against the 7th N. I. (which that corps, it would
appear, complained about to the General of having
-received abuse from them, though the complaint was
more imaginable than real, and exaggerated in all
their variations of relating it), he trusted that there
would be no recurrence of the subject; should there
be any, that he would place sentries all round their
lines, and not let even a child out, and that every
.• hour there should be roll call for them ; also pro-
bably that they would draw pay this day or to-
morrow (the Bth), and, when issued to them, they
were to receive it, and should they refuse, that he
would get every one of them discharged the service;
but after having taken their pay quietly, he had no
objection to any proper representation being made of
any real or supposed grievance they laboured under—
that the, General never heard of such a thing as
mutiny' in the Madras forces. About nine, A.M.
the General proceeded from thence to the barracks of
the 32d NJ., who were also under arms awaiting
his arrival. After addressing them, they were asked
whether they would not receive their pay ; they one
and all (excepting the ranks above stated, as in the
7th N. 1., in which the musicians are to be in-
cluded) declared that they would not receive pay
without batta.' There seemed to be great con-
fusion and noise among them for some time.
Silence was ordered by the Assistant Adjutant-
General, who again addressed them by order of the
Major-General, and said that all those who were will-
ing to take their pay were to go on one side, and those
who declined to *tend still. On this the native com-
missioned, non-commissioned, naigues, drummers,
lance naigues, and private musicians fell out, and by
strong persuasion a very few privates (about twenty)
also fell out; but the remaining men were inflexible
in their refusal—every endeavour to bring them to
terms was tried, but in vain, when a staff officer was
sent off to bring two companies of the Lambs, and
an artillery officer for the artillery. Previous to
the arrival of the Lambs, the men were ordered to
ground arms, which they did, and shouted loudly,
" Dheen, dheen ;" they were ordered to face to the
right and march, when they again shouted, " Dheen,
dheen.'"The men who consented to take their pay were
paraded in line on their right flank ; the arms, &c.,
were put in the barracks ; afterwards they were ordered
to take off their accoutrements, which they did, and
which were also put in the barracks and locked up. The
Lambs having come up and halted in a street in rear
of the barracks, were ,ordered to march and form
round them, when they called out " kill-kill
maurrow-maurrow." The whole of the men, amount-
ing then to 280, (but since increased to about 360),
were marched off to the vacant barracks known as
the 21st to the left of the arsenal, and are kept there
in confinement, under a guard of the Lambs, fol whose
accommodation tents have been pitched. The Gene-
ral, Sr.c., proceeded home a little after 10 A.M.
" In the course of the morning, I heard that the 4th
light cavalry had also told their officers that they
would not on any account receive their pay without
batta. In the evening two or three companies of the
Lambs proceeded to Bowenpilly, and also the artillery,
with the General, Brigadier, and staff, but the whole
returned after three P.M., their visit proving unsuc-
cesful in bringing them .to terms. It appears also
that the men pelted the officers out of the lines with
currycombs and brushes. The next morning (Tues-
day the Bth) the General and staff proceeded again to
Bowenpilly, and directed the cavalry to prepare to
march on the following morning out of the Nizam's
dominions, which they agreed to do, provided they got
pay and batta for the period they were in Secunder-
abad, and a month's pay and batta in advance ; and
still not succeeding in quieting them, four companies
of the Lambs were ordered down, and also part of
the European native foot artillery, and a troop of
horse artillery, about 10 A.M. This corps, perhaps
one of the best of the mounted arm, turned quite
refractory (with the exception of the native commis-
sioned, non-commissioned, naigues, trumpeters, &c.,
and eleven troopers,- who consented to receive their
pay without batta) and severely ill-treated one of
their European officers, the junior Adjutant, and
a trooper (one of the eleven that agreed to
take his pay), who was obliged to be sent to
hospital immediately. They had possession of their
arms, and were in a state of open mutiny; the ar-
tillery foimed close upon them with their guns loaded
with canister grape,, and the Lambs with charged
bayonet. They were directed to ground arms, which
they refused to do, when the Lambs were closing
uponi ern' by degrees, and the Russell brigade, or
zam a lancers, from Bolarum, who had been sent
for, came tearing up to their lines ; on perceiving
thAn, they threw down their
ms, which were
taken possession of and lodgedar in the arsenal
after the affair was ended. On being ordered
to march as prisoners to Bolarum, they would
not Atir, but were obliged to move on, when the
Lambs brought down their Brown Bess to the charge,
and at the point of which they were escorted a short
distance and made over to the charge of the Nizam's
lancers, who escorted them lo Bolarum, where they
are.tiow in confinement. When the Lambs and arta-
le' proceeded to Bowenpilly on the morning of the
BthOtivo companies of the European regiment with a
portien of,the native horse artillery, European and
foot .aetiller3r were paraded in line in front of the
chitech. The European and native commissioned and
non-commissioned, naigues, drummers, and musicians
of eacireorps were all under arms in their respective
barracks ; the guns at the arsenal were manned by
the warrant and non-commissioned staff-officers, and