Star.
London, England, 1825-03-24 00:00:00

INDIAN ARMY.

Mr. HOME, in.a speech of considerable length, ad-
vetted to the recent mut;ny at Barrackpore, and con-
tended, that it was occasioned by the imbecility of the
present Indian Government. He also adverted to the
state of the Press in India, and argued, that the sub-
jection in which it was kept was one great cause of the
discontent which at present existed in that country. He
concluded•by moving for the Copy of a Dispatch from
the Ma,quis of Hastings, in 1819, addressed to the
Secret Department of the Court of Directors, relative

to the organization and allowances of the Bengal
Army—a Copy of the Direc•ors' Dispatch, in answer
thereto, in 1824—and also of a Dispatch sent from
India, stating how fir the object of the Court of Di-
rectors had been caiiied into effect.

Nir. BUCKINGHAM expatiated on the great benefit
which India had derived, and would derive, from the
freedom of the Press. He expressed his conviction that,
had the Press been open such communications would
have been made through that channel, as would have
prevented the recent mutiny.
Mr. THANT strongly censured the administration of
Lord Amherst. He really wondered that such an in.
dividual, who was not very remarkable for his talents
or his experience, should have been sent out tb India.
Sir C. Font's* expressed his regret, that the motion
of his Honourable Friend had not gone directly to the
recal of Lord Amherst from India.

The CHA IRMAN declared that he would, as far as lay
in his power, oppose the motion. It was true we had
met with some misfortunes in India, but things were
now going on well, and he had no doubt the ultimate
result would be complete success.
Mr..EDMONSTONE denied that the freedom of the
Press was necessary to the well.being of Icd4.—
During the most glorious period of their Indian history
—when the Marquis Wellesley, and afterwards the
Marquis of Hastings, ruled there—the restrictions on
the Press were in existence.
Mr. WASION.OI.IOII opposed the motion.
Mr. Hum, in reply, urged his former argument.
The motion was then negatived.
Sir C. FORBES made an inquiry relative to certain
papers connected with the administration of the Marquis
of Hastings in India, which had been ordered to be
printed, but had not yet been laid before the Proprietors?
A desultory conversation enured; in the coupe of which the
CMAISMAN expressed his opinion that the weak, for producing
the documents irr question no longer existed. They had, he observed,
been collected and sent to the printer; and as Gentlemen seemed
desirous of possessing them, the Court of Directors had but one
course to pursue, that of laying them before the Proprieton when
they were ready.—Adjourned.

The reduction of duties upon the import of various
articles of commerce, recently decreed by our Govern-
ment, appears to have had a beneficial influence upon
several branches of industry in the Netherlands. Al-
ready we learn that the iron foundries of the provinces
of Liege and Namur' have assumed great activity.
Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, a Boston and
Lincoln coach was upset at the foot of Highgate-hill,
and one of the passengers, a resident of Islington, had
his leg very much fractured, and he was conveyed to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a cart, and the other
passengers brought to town by a Holloway coach.
At the identical time when our Ministers were so
liberally reducing the duties on Wines, the Portuguese'
Wine Company, at Oporto, were busy in a very oppn•
site spirit. The vintage of 1824 is reported to contain
22,000 pipes of wine fit for the English market, of
which quantity the Company have portioned off 12 000
pipes to be exported to Great Britain, and previously
appropriating '-self

THEAk

Although not as yet, we believe, nacially announced, we can
state, front unquestionahle authority. that Major-Gleneial
Sir Gap.
bluaaa.s, Member for rerrhshire, has been appointed toteitofb7
:nand of the forces in Ireland. Its atiangement will not, drit
understand, cause my *kaki= it peewit in the representation of
the county. Major J. Buss* has gone off to join Sir Geoacte's
&Alf, as one of his Aids sit b reported tbat Lord JASISS
HAT is to hold a dastlai ARA canner.

appropriating to itself 3,000 pipes. The consequences
of this glaring monopoly are so obviously pernicious,
that we wonder the Portuguese Government can
suffer it longer to exist. 'There is little doubt that
Great Britain would consume from forty •to
.flfty
• thousand pipes annually, were our merchants enabled
to charge as low a price for their wines as they would do
were the market an open one ; but instead of this, Por-
tugal refuses to supply mote than twelve thousand pipes.
It appeals too that the privilege of selling wines to the
taverns in Portugal, which was takes frum the Com-
pany by the Cartes, bas been just restored to it, in direct
contradiction of the Treaty subsisting between this
country and Portugal.