The Sun. — 1851-09-19 (London, England)

THE COMMANDER-IN CHIEF. I respect the feeling which has prompted the Couri to put in its recommendation to mercy in this distress. ing case.  I trust the Court will appreciate my feeling while refraining, under a paramount sense of duty, from extending my support to the appeal so made on submitting the case for final adjudication to the Supreme Government.  W. M. GOMM, Genera]  Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. The most noble the Governor-General of India concurs in the confirmation by his Excellency the Corn• wander-in-Chief of the sentence of death passed on private John Rosney, of her Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot, and in the said sentence being carried into execution.  J. STUART, Colonel, Secretary to the Government of India, Military Department, with the Governor-General. Simla, July 14, 1851.  Head-quarters, Simla July 18. No. 53-1. The Commander-in-Chief feels' confident that the army at large will have been looking forward with a painful interest to the result of the proceedings of a general court-martial assembled at Govindgurh, for the trial of private John Rosney, of her Majesty's 10th Regiment of Foot, charged with wilful murder, on the 10th of June last, of Colonel Jeewan Sing, Commandant of the Shere Dil police battalion, stationed at Umritsir.  2. The crime charged has been fully proved against the prisoner; he has been sentenced by the Court to suffer the extreme penalty of the law—death by hanging; and the sentence has been ordered to be carried into execution. 3. These are the lamentable issues to which, with more or less of aggravation in the circumstances, the fatal propensity to drink, too prevalent in our European ranks, must ever, by too certain courses, lead. 4. In the present instance, a valuable and honourable life has been savagely sacrificed to the blind fury of a British soldier, naturally of excitable temper, inflamed by drink into a reckless desperado. The character of our arms and nation has, it is much to be feared, incurred a blight in the eyes of the gallant and generous people recently gathered under the shelter of our rule, and in the midst of whom we are living in the strictest bonds of amity and mutual trust. And the perpetrator of the crime has been promptly summoned—as promptly as circumstances would admit —to answer with his life to the aroused vengeance of the law and the sacred claims of British justice. 5. The Commander-in-Chief feels well assured that all good and sound-hearted British solders—whether of her Majesty's or of the East India Company's army— serving in India will mourn with him over the unworthy fate of the veteran and distinguished commandant, Jeewan Sing, and will join with the chief British authorities in India and with his kindred, with his faithful corps aed fellow-citizens and countrymen, in lamenting his loss. 6. They will also grieve with the Commander-inChief over the fate of the fair charactered young soldier who, by the besotted act of his own hands—those hands borne honourable witness to as having been strenuously employed in his country's cause on the field of victory— has miserably brought himself to this untimely end. 7. And they will unite with the Commander-in-Chief in an earnest and reiterated exhortation to such of their youthful comrades as may be found still addicted to, or in danger of falling into, the debasing habit of intemperance, to take timely warning from this sad example, and resolutely turn to courses far safer for themselves, and more honourable to our arms. W. M. Gomm, General, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. Head-quarters, Simla, July 17, 1851. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,